Making a real-life fractal zoom.Feliks Konczakowski's work: http://konczakowski.tumblr.com/My project with Paul-Olivier Dehaye: http://www.segerman.org/print...
"In General Electric’s annual report from 1953, the company bragged about how much it paid in taxes and how much it was spending on payroll. It explicitly said that “maximizing employment security is a prime company goal.” The founder of Johnson & Johnson said that the company’s responsibility to its employees was higher than its responsibility to its shareholders. Corporations then had a radically different conception of their role in society compared with corporations today." archive.is/66hPb
Alright, #gardening hivemind, I have a bunch of self-watering pots, and not enough #plants. What would be your suggestions for zone 6 south-oriented full-sun-resistant plants that can survive frequent 80 km/h (50 mph) wind gusts? Preferably edible, indoors/shade-capable too, or evergreens... I need unkillable stuff.
We would like to welcome you to the public beta for the Mac OS port of Remote Incident Manager (RIM) from Pneuma Solutions! Remote Incident Manager is the world's first cross-platform fully accessible…
Another big-ticket item for our Mac crowd! Need to take a user through a software update? Help them through a system crash requiring a reboot? Our latest beta of #remoteIncidentManager can reboot the Mac, then automatically reconnect the Mac once it's logged back in! Current users should receive the update automatically. But if you're new, go give RIM a try! pneumasolutions.com/remote-inc… #accessibility #inclusiveDesign #remoteSupport
We would like to welcome you to the public beta for the Mac OS port of Remote Incident Manager (RIM) from Pneuma Solutions! Remote Incident Manager is the world's first cross-platform fully accessible…
I’ve been playing with Hey Pi over the last few days. It’s actually pretty awesome. the conversation flows a lot more smoothly than ChatGPT, and it’s not always complaining about being an AI language model. The only sort of problem I can think of so far is, it tends to output shorter responses, even when longer ones are needed. Maybe I should have it introduce itself:
“Pleroma friends, meet Pi, an AI designed to talk with you about anything you want, in a caring, thoughtful way. He’s empathetic, creative, and open-minded. Feel free to try chatting with him if you’d like to meet him. He’s friendly and loves making new friends.”
Hi, I'm Pi. I'm your personal AI, designed to be supportive, smart, and there for you anytime. Ask me for advice, for answers, or let's talk about whatever's on your mind.
I'm still on Gajim 1.3.3 and simply can't upgrade because of the lack of the history manager (separate window to view chatlogs). I'm hoping that it will come back someday and that the old version I'm using will work a bit longer.
@walruslifestyle nobody is forcing you to update! But Gajim's code is evolving, and it makes use of newer Python features. Latest Gajim requires Python 3.10 (released Oct. 2021).
@walruslifestyle omemo-dr is not part of Gajim 1.7.3, but a change which hasn't been released yet (nightly). If this dependency is one of a Gajim 1.7.3 package, then it's a packaging issue. Please let us know which Linux distro are you using, so we can contact the package maintainer. 👍
Regarding Flatpak: Gajim 1.8 will include the OMEMO plugin. For older versions, check out this guide on how to install plugins via Flatpak: dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/-/tr…
@walruslifestyle you must be using Gajim nightly then, because Ubuntu 22.04 only offers Gajim 1.3.3. Nightlies might break for unforeseen reasons, since they are not stable. Ubuntu 22.04 does not offer all dependencies Gajim nightly needs.
Syntax Highlighting and URL Image Preview plugins have been integrated into Gajim and thus are both available. Gajim's LaTeX plugin has been discontinued due to security concerns.
@hund I'm not a teenager, I don't like discord, but I nevertheless very much appreciate the "workspaces" feature of gajim.
I follow a lot of MUCs, and I have a lot of contacts because I use bridges. Organising chats by theme (family/work/music/dev/nerdities/...) has been extremely useful for me and I miss workspaces in other xmpp clients now.
The next REAPER Made Easy meet-up is on Saturday 13th May, 8PM UK, 3PM Eastern. Interested in audio drama, podcasting and sound design? This one's for you! Justin Macleod will be creating a world around a fictional scene. Starting from 3 character voices and mostly using free audio resources, he will bring an environment to life. There will be plenty of audio to listen to as we learn about Justin's workflow. As always, details are over at reaperteacher.com.
Das manchmal fehlende Hintergrundwissen bei heise Online finde ich gerade etwas drollig. Eine Smartphone-Tippgeste als Klopfer oder Doppelklopfer zu bezeichnen wäre mir jedenfalls nicht eingefallen, da klingt der Text wie mit Tempo 180 durch den Übelsetzer gejagt. 😀
Uhh... have you not been paying attention to the US not only engaging in mass-scale spying on its citizens in every way they can make possible, but recently shoving through legislation to enshrine doing so? And to black-hole apps and information the government doesn't like (as well as criminalizing the use of VPNs etc to try to get apps or information, if it evades the government's "mitigation measures")?
Oh right, you said "democracy". Never mind, my bad.
Ivory for iOS/iPadOS 1.4 is out on the App Store! It will slowly roll out over the next few days, but if you want it now, go to the App Store and manually update.
Ivory is a brand new app that brings over a dozen years of experience building the award-winning Tweetbot for Twitter, over to the Mastodon network. We obsess over every detail and put good design and experience first.
This is a remaster of my 1991 Amiga mod Space Debris. All sounds come directly from the original, but I used some light processing to open the mix a bit. Oth...
Security researcher finds the lyrics to Coldplay's "The Scientist" embedded in a 2020 version of firmware for Kingston's KC2000 M.2 NVMe SSD. No one knows why it's there. "You can download the firmware and fire up a hex editor (or use an online one) and load up the 'S2681103.bin' file. A quick search for one of the lyric strings such as 'ComeUpToMeet' will bring you to the start of the firmware section where words from Coldplay's The Scientist can be found." tomshardware.com/news/security…
This seems like an odd way to build an end-to-end encrypted messaging system...
"if someone–for example, a malicious insider, or Twitter itself as a result of a compulsory legal process--were to compromise an encrypted conversation, neither the sender or receiver would know"
• How do you feel about being on a social network that isn’t moderated by a company, but by local instance admins? • Do you ever experience unwanted content on here, and do you feel that it’s dealt with properly? • Are instance rules part of the reason you chose your current instance?
The survey part of a wider research project on moderation and community management on decentralized, user-driven networks.
The findings will be published as an article afterwards, and result in a set of tools and recommendations for moderators, admins and community managers looking to establish similar decentralised social networks.
Thank you for participating - boost this so we get a wider reach💜
Cybernaut network members Monir Mooghen and Maia Kahlke Lorentzen are researching how moderation and community management works on federated social media networks, like Mastodon.
Microsoft have created an RSS feed so people can keep updated with the latest news concerning changes in Office. You can subscribe to the Microsoft Office Insider Blog here. insider.microsoft365.com/rss/b…
That's all she wrote? Just one huge boom and nothing else? Apparently so. This happened at 12:54 local time, as I was preparing my lunch. Sound captured from microphones in my back garden. #thunder #Boom #Weather #WeatherSounds #London
@ToniBarth 2x BehringerXM8500 on a stereo bar, Raspberry Pi4 4GB in the living room which is resting on the window ledge inside the house. The XLR cables come through the bottom of the window and I just slammed and locked the window on the cables. They're thick enough to stand it, so don't care if they're a little kinked. They've been out there constantly in changing weather since 2016 and still working. I think I've changed the cables a couple of times since that time, but not the mics.
And no covering or wind/rain protection for the mics, or are they located in a position where rain/wind will just barely affect them, like under a roof or something?
@ToniBarth Oh no, we have no back porch or anything like that. I put very crappy windscreens over them which doesn't help too much, but if you listen during particularly heavy rain, you'll hear musical micstand madness as the rain plinks off of the elastic bands around the shockmounts.
OK so the mics are exposed to water in rain rather regularly? I'm always particularly careful to prevent that from happening, although i'm usually fiddling around with much more expensive mics. I guess destroying $20 mics in pouring rain is much less critical than $500 mics or pricier. I just don't know how they stand water, especially in the case that it gets into the sockets of the XLR plugs.
@talon Yeah it sounds like the kind of thing I'd expect to hear during wartime, or perhaps a military training exercise. Granted I haven't actually been near either of those so I could be wildly incorrect. And I don't think anyone would run a military training exercise that close to residences smack in the thick of London.
@talon Now that, I ahve been near. Refinery explosion. Apparently launched a fireball into the sky and the university I went to some ways away closed for the day. The blast shattered windows from some distance at 3 in the morning. Unsure about that initial woomf though.
Several years ago, it hailed pretty hard for a short period of time. The ice was bouncing off of the microphone shockmounts in a sort of musical way, so it plinks on the left channel and plonks on the right channel sometimes. onj.me/media/weathersounds/Mus…
hey @talon you should check this one out. have some constent rolling thunder. I hadn't heard this before, and I haven't heard it sence I recorded this. this was recorded with a zoom H1 back in I believe 2013.
Kdyby se povedlo vědcům najít mikroorganismy, které při pokojové teplotě samy rozkládají umělé hmoty, velmi rychle by to pomohlo vyřešit problém s nekonečnými skládkami.
Have you seen the newest #Thunderbird feature suggestions at Mozilla Connect? Take a few minutes to browse what's there, and vote on the ideas you believe in! connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/i…
Wow, this is an amazing recording! Sounds as if I was sitting with you in your garden lounge or something, and we're listening to the weather outside. And that soft rumbling of the thunder is epic!
This is really impressive. I've heard of these Ambeo devices, but never got a set myself. I am fascinated by binaural and 3D audio recordings. I also think that 3D Audio in Apple Music, for example, gives music a significant upgrade over the often very compressed and pumped up stereo mixes. But these atmos you recorded are simply amazing. The other one you did inside the house as well. I literally hear you turn away from the window and walk to a different spot, just by the way the sound of the rain on the window pane changes.
@Marco I love 3d sound. Virtual, real, doesn't matter. And if you always wanted to play aorund with the Ambeos, right now might be a good time to get one. I don't think they're making any more, and you can find them on Amazon for around 30 to 40 euros until they're sold out. Need an iOS device with lightning connector though, or a lightning to USB C adapter.
A pretty epic thunder indeed! And, especially when I put the volume almost all the way up, it is just as if I'm being there, as if the rain is falling right here. That is cool. How is it even possible to create such a recording? (Now I read some replies. It's with some kind of device that's out of production? )
@storydragon It's using what's called binaural microphones. There are many of those around, it's just the particular ones I was using that are out of production now. Basically the way those microphones work is they sit very close to, or in my case inside, your ears. That way they record everything just how I heard it. There are also external ones that basically sit inside a shape that's relatively close to a human ear to recreate those acoustics. So you can basically record 3d sound.
@FreakyFwoof Honestly just the sennheiser Ambeo for that one. I'm looking for a good high quality ambisonic recorder though if you know of any that work well... other than that I have an lsp4, lsp5 and a zoom h2n so really nothing special. And I'm various stages of slightly disappointed with any of those tbh
@FreakyFwoof Especially for how cheaply you can pick them up these days. I thought they'd have sold out by now but I can still find them for just a couple euros.
@FreakyFwoof There are three things that really bug me about the Ambeo smart headset. 1. Non-replaceable cable that is easily broken. This bit me once already. I bought them when they just came out, and used to cost $300, and my set only lasted a bit over a year. 2. New firmware limited the output, making them no longer useable for me and my broken ears. Can't roll back. 3. They fall over pretty hard under certain conditions where other stuff doesn't.
@BorrisInABox @FreakyFwoof they also do some very odd processing on the output from the phone to the headset. Not sure why that had to be a thing that they do. They do feel a bit flimsy though and I'm surprised mine lasted as long as they have.
@FreakyFwoof Yeah. I've had my current set for a few years, but since it is not really practical for me to use them anymore, they stay in great condition.'I still have an older, broken set with the old firmware that got louder. I thought of trying to have someone who really knows what they're doing to swap out the processors so I can have that old firmware again, but probably not worth it.
@BorrisInABox @FreakyFwoof Another problem I have with them is that it's significant work to put them on and take them off. So for quick spontaneous recordings it's always too slow. Especially because I keep them in their bag because I know if I don't I'll ruin them instantly. I do wonder what recordings with the AirPods transparency mics would sound like though. They're much easier to quickly put on. But also probably worse quality.
@FreakyFwoof The best and most accessible one is probably the Zoom F6. Using that for about a month here now and it just works, its sturdy in a way that you can't break it even if you want to, and thanks to the Bluetooth adapter you can do all the stuff you want with it, no matter if its ambisonics, 3 stereo pairs, 6 monos or any combination of those.
@ToniBarth That it is. This thing ain't cheap and when I needed to get a hold of one, I had to have it hand-delivered from Estonia. What a trip that was. Haha
@bryansmart @FreakyFwoof I'm trying to find a good ambisonic recorder that isn't too expensive. preferably with decent built-in mics, although I'd definitely get external ones if it makes the quality a lot better. So far I've found the Zoom H3 but not sure how well that is to use without sight... I have enough trouble with the h2n as it is and configuring ambisonics properly seems a little painful. Maybe it'd be easier to use an actual laptop with an ambisonic mic, but uh... that's unwieldy in the wild. So I'm not sure.
@bryansmart Observe the F3 instead of the H3, because it can be used with the Zoom BTA1 bluetooth adapter which has an iOS app to control it. I have the big daddy version the F6. works with same adapter.
@bryansmart @FreakyFwoof I love thunder. About a year or two ago we had a really crazy thunderstorm with very close lightning strikes every couple of seconds. it was truly insane and I still hate myself for not having anything to record it with. I've never seen anything like that before or since.
@bryansmart @FreakyFwoof I also found the h3 but again not sure how easy that is to use and configure given that it's zoom and these things make no noise at all. I've had some luck scanning the screens of these things with envision but that obviously doesn't tell you which option is the selected one. And it's also super slow. If the f3 also has built in ambisonuc mics then that would be an option
@bryansmart @FreakyFwoof Also, no input ganging with the H6 as with the F6, so, while it would technically be possible to do raw Ambusonic input, it wouldn't be very fun.
@BorrisInABox @bryansmart @FreakyFwoof welp, that's that then I suppose. Haven't found anything other than the H3 VR with internal ambisonic recording for now. Maybe the Android with USB C ambisonic mics is the best portable solution.
@bryansmart @BorrisInABox @FreakyFwoof I'd be surprised if there wasn't an app that used Apple's 3d audio framework with headtracking for Airpods on iOS to make this work. I remember YouTube allowing Ambisonic audio, but there you'd have to turn the whole phone.
@bryansmart @BorrisInABox @FreakyFwoof I've found a bunch of ambisonuc renderers for the web, but those also probably wouldn't give you access to head tracking. So none of this is truly ideal.
@bryansmart @BorrisInABox @FreakyFwoof But for me the main usecase would be games, so that's fine with me. That's why I wanted to get into ambisonic recording in thirst place.
Léky pro vážně nemocné za stovky milionů korun mizí několik let z Česka poměrně ve velkém. Popsali jsme to s @ArturJanousek a @martinstorkan pro @iROZHLAScz a @Radiozurnal1 irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov/leky-…
Radiožurnálu se podařilo zmapovat, kam léčiva proudí, jakými cestami a proč k tomu dochází. Zastavit nelegální vývozy by podle Státního ústavu pro kontrolu léčiv pomohly vyšší sankce.
It’s time to start sharing our video testimonial series! We start off in France with a testimonial from Bachir who has been a proud NVDA user since 2009. Bachir helped translate NVDA into French from 2010 to 2020 & shares how he uses NVDA in his workplace, for online shopping, finances & reading books.
“NVDA is my favourite screen reader… because it makes me independent in daily living.” – Bachir
Thank you for sharing how NVDA has impacted your life Bachir!
We wanted to share some user testimonial videos which have been sent in to us. Here is a testimonial from Bachir in France. Bachir has been a proud NVDA use...
@KaraLG84 Thanks Kara! I'm never quite sure what to put there -you can either specify it as make for kids or not. I thought that just meant it wouldn't necessarily be hidden from people with content restrictions? Or does it come across as only being aimed at kids now?
I don’t know all the details but it turns off a few features such as commenting, ads and things like that. Probably limits them being discovered by the algorithm as well
@KaraLG84 I'll have to look into how that is supposed to work and whether we are support to generally use it or not - I just assumed it was saying "This video doesn't contain any adult or sensitive content, or anything I wouldn't want my 8 year old kid seeing", but I better see what I can find out... Thanks for the prompt!
We're proud to release the next major version of AntennaPod! After updating to version 3.0 you'll be greeted with a new screen – tailored for you, respecting your privacy. View the latest episodes, next in queue, your classics and more. Bonus: most screens are now one tap away.
All my podcast subscriptions and downloads disappeared after installing the new version. This is the first major problem I've encountered with AntennaPod.
Hi @mrak Sorry to hear. Please have a look here: antennapod.org/documentation/b… And please don't hesitate to reach out to our pool of volunteers on our forum.
Synchronizing with gpodder/nextcloud helped me to recover from this catastrophic error, but the main problem is that gpodder doesn’t synchronize the playback queue and download list.
@udoge We know of some (open source) web players, and of some mobile & desktop apps with gPodder sync. But a combination of the two; to the best of our knowledge that doesn't exist, unfortunately. #podcast #synchronisation #gPoddersync #gPodder
Vandaag ook de nieuwe update geïnstalleerd, het ziet heel goed uit. Ik kan nu al niet meer zonder het nieuwe thuisscherm om snel een interessante podcast te vinden. Bedankt om al twee jaar mijn favoriete podcastspeler te zijn!
@cmdln @adamsdesk There already are great podcast apps out there and new ones are being developed. So we'll keep focussing on our Android app. Have a look at @kasts, gPodder or MusicPod, for example!
“#Layoffs are definitely a confession of poor #management," Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Business School, told me. His reasoning: Research shows that generally, layoffs don't improve a company's fortunes. Quite the opposite: They don't reliably raise a company's profits or stock price, but they do reliably reduce remaining employees' morale, commitment, productivity, and trust.
Le maire que l'extrême-droite a essayé de tuer sans que ça n'émeuve personne en haut lieu a décidé de démissionner pour préserver sa sécurité et celle de sa famille… Pays de merde. ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loi…
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