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Daniel's weekly report September 20, 2024

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curl, trurl, top-40, talks, SEO by threat, panelist, Polhem Prize

Daniel shakes hand with King Charles XVI of Sweden, from the Polhem Prize award 2017

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A photo of two floor to ceiling shop windows. One is badly cracked having been hit by something. The second is smashed even worse and has an orange traffic cone embedded in the window

Just applied to the @sovtechfund fellowship program. Happy that this intiaitive exists, should I be selected or not. I do not envy them the task of selecting the initial five people.

sovereigntechfund.de/programs/…

@Sovereign Tech Agency

Jedna páteční #birellovka 🤗👋
Už jich asi letos moc nebude.
#birellovka
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Archos
Archos
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@DonBahno
Já myslím, že není. On to není přímo Birell, ale podobný nealko Lobkowicz.
Není to špatný, ale Pomelo od Birella je lepší 😀
@DonBahno

Well, it's Friday and Kyle's parents are flying from Vancouver today. They're spending a couple of days with us in Ottawa, and then we'll go to Montréal with them before they head to Québec City for their... cruise...

Now to stress about everything that could go wrong. And the fact that they don't mask.

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Hubert Figuière
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@jcolp I'm torn between getting drunk to buff off the passenger contempt from airlines (and Air Canada in particular) and being too drunk and becoming a real nuisance.

Life balance is hard.

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SuspiciousDuck
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@Ralfeek

Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea

bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/tu…

How realistic is the hollywood plot of a terrorist attack through exploding devices that we have seen unravel? It all looks easier than you think.

Ah yes, it was a terrorist attack.

Ja sa aj chcem presťahovať ale nie teraz.

Sensory disability funny scene. Me blind, a friend who's deaf, and we met a person who could not speak Italian very well who asked information about the vending machine we were all using. We just felt like this 🙈🙉🙊 - not seeing, not hearing, not speaking monkey. Being ironic and making fun of ourselves is the key to overcome obstacles of any kind (and my English helped) #accessibility #LanguageNerd #irony #blind
#Accessibility #blind #irony #languagenerd
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Paweł Masarczyk
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We had something similar at a KFC in Poland with friends from Belgium where one didn't know his way around the offer as there's no KFC in Belgium, the other one knew the offer from their visits abroad but couldn't read the kiosk screen due to a visual impairment and I'm hardly ever there so can't tell the singer from a longer but could have helped with Polish at least but then I'm also blind.

Hmmm, DHL qui dit que je suis pas chez moi 🤔

Alors qu'étant chez moi, je peux garantir que je n'ai pas entendu la sonnette, ni frapper à la porte. Même pas entendu de camionnette se garer 🤔🤔

#surrealchan
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#surrealchan

Dnes sa bavím sám so sebou a baví ma to. Baví!?

In case you missed this before, #Linkedin decided to start training its AI on your data without telling you, never mind asking you. Go here to turn it off:
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#linkedin

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I just read a Hacker News comment with a pretty gloomy take on the future of FOSS: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

He says all the 25-year-old hackers are writing JavaScript frameworks that only work on AWS these days. At least the things I'm seeing from the (relatively few) 25-year-old (and younger) hackers that I know, particularly here on the fediverse, give me hope that he's wrong.

It hasn't existed for so long! Jeez, kids these days. As a movement it's really ... | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com
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Matt Campbell
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Plus I think he's plain wrong about how far back the popularity of permissively licensed open-source goes. Permissively-licensed libraries for Python in particular were plentiful well before 2008.
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Nick Giannak III
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You'd know, Mr. I wrote an audio streaming server in Python in 2001. LOL.
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Matt Campbell
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@nick Yeah. Believe it or not, I kept that server proprietary to ACB Radio for a little while, because of some drama between ACBRI and a station started by some ex-ACBRI broadcasters. It was actually Charlie Crawford at the ACB that convinced us to open-source it, and I think I ended up releasing that server under the GPL. One of its major dependencies, was LGPL back then, but I think was relicensed to MIT before 2008.
@Nick Giannak III
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Nick Giannak III
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Yeah, I liked Supercast, even if i ultimately settled on Icecast even while Supercast was something I could viably run. ...I never got pRS to work. Yeah, I know that wasn't yours, but it's still true.
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Matt Campbell
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@nick I think Marc Mulcahy and I might have been the only ones to ever use PRS in a live show. Geoff Shang at ACB Radio ran PRS in automation for a while, if I remember correctly.
@Nick Giannak III
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Nick Giannak III
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Joey Weston ran PRS Live as a demonstration for me, I think he'd use it live regularly as well at times.
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@nick I should rewrite PRS in Rust. prs-rs, it could be called. hah
@Nick Giannak III
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Nick Giannak III
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LOL! It'd probably be less obnoxious to set up than Liquidsoap.
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Matt Campbell
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@nick I've never seriously looked at Liquidsoap. Is that what you use for replays on HKC Radio?
@Nick Giannak III
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Nick Giannak III
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No, I hate that thing with a passion. I use Ezstream, which means I can do very little other than what i'm doing. But it's resource cheep, takes little time to make work, and doens't reencode.
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@nick Yeah. At some point I implemented something like ezstream directly in Supercast as a fallback for when no live broadcaster was connected. I don't think I ever released that version of Supercast, but I wasn't deliberately holding it back, I just wasn't managing the project well at that point.
@Nick Giannak III
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@nick Or PRS2, where the 2 could be interpreted as "squared".

For anyone else watching the thread, PRS stood for Personal Radio Station and was a broadcast automation thing that a friend (Marc Mulcahy) and I worked on mainly in 2002-2003, that was used by a group of Internet audio streams for blind people.

@Nick Giannak III
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@nick Oh, at one point at Serotek, we had an internal fork of PRS where the scheduler and related high-level modules were rewritten in Python, while the mixer remained in C (we used the Python ctypes module to call into the C code). The rewrite was actually mostly not done by me, but by a developer we had hired. The Python rewrite was supposed to be followed by further enhancements to the scheduler, but that never happened. SPN Radio ran that version of PRS.
@Nick Giannak III
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@nick Of course, SPN Radio was just playing podcast episodes with liners and promos in between, so we could have used something like ezstream.
@Nick Giannak III
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Nick Giannak III
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Hell, Ezstream doesn't handle conditions on its own. If you want it to do in between things, you'd essentially have to have it in the playlist it points at. Shuffel is right out as it's only a single category streamer.
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Matt Campbell
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@nick Oh, right. So yeah, maybe something like PRS's scheduler generating playlists for ezstream would have been the best thing.
@Nick Giannak III
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@nick And did I ever tell you about the personal project I did with another fork of PRS, for Christmas 2014? I got it running on a Raspberry Pi, using SQLite as the database and with a quick and dirty ALSA output, so I could give my dad an easy way to listen to his MP3s in the car, with mixing, compression, and interspersed liners. I called in a favor from a friend to produce professional-sounding IDs like "Your favorite classic rock, all the time. This is Don FM."
@Nick Giannak III
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@nick The fatal flaw was that the original Raspberry Pi's built-in audio output couldn't match the volume of the car's FM radio or CDs, even with heavy compression. Along the way, I also found out that Marc's wideband compressor had a mistake in it all these years.
@Nick Giannak III
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@nick And yeah, at this point, we've hijacked the thread from its original topic, and I don't care.
@Nick Giannak III
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Patrick W
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That's great. I wish I could do something like that now.
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Matt Campbell
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@BrailleScreen Are you saying you wouldn't be able to use music you actually listen to because it's all on streaming services? Building up an MP3 collection is still an option.

@nick

@Patrick W @Nick Giannak III
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Patrick W
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@nick Nah, what actually happened is I posted that then realized the only challenge would be setting up a setup like the one you described. I do have an old pi around here I should try that with.
@Nick Giannak III
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@BrailleScreen If you'd actually be interested in trying it, I could post the system image somewhere and write up some instructions. As for the hardware, it was just a Pi in a case, plugged into the car via either an AC adapter or a USB charger, I don't remember which. Keep in mind, I haven't updated this thing at all since early 2015.
@Patrick W
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@BrailleScreen What model Pi do you have? This project is only known to work on an original Raspberry Pi model B or B+.
@Patrick W
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@BrailleScreen I think the Pi 2 came out right after I finished the project.

The whole thing was super-custom, with a stripped-down kernel and a minimal buildroot-based userspace image actually embedded in the kernel as an initial RAM disk. The payoff was that it booted in like 5 seconds, and I think I later learned that a big chunk of that was the Pi boot loader.

@Patrick W
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Andy Holmes
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I think that sounds like an optimistic old C fart hoping he'll get called out of retirement by banks in 20 years.

The 16-25 year range is hot for Rust, Zig and other non-boomer languages. If anything, the young hackers that come from these frameworks are driving a lot of overdue stack modernization.

Feel free to use this image under CC0 license for #matrixconf / #matrixconference related stuff :)
#matrixconf #matrixconference

Well gosh, I'm glad we required masks 😂 If we use this venue again (and we definitely will when we return to Berlin), I've got some ideas about how to manage airflow differently.

#MatrixConf #HealthAndSafety

A screenshot of an air quality monitoring dashboard, primarily showing the CO2 levels from sensors in 5 different rooms. The current CO2 levels are mostly between 474-597, but one is 1093 and rising! The trend lines show rooms spiking to 600, 800, 1000, and even 1400 CO2 ppm.
#HealthAndSafety #matrixconf
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#introduction heya!! I recently joined this side of the internet, as I got invited by a good friend of mine, mostly to move away from other platforms.

I'm Naomi Belle, but I prefer Belle (I think it sounds cute!) I'm 23y old transfem living in the Netherlands. Currently I'm 4.5 years on hormones. I'm excited to meet you all.

A fair warning as this is my first time joining such spaces. Please let me know of any specific thing that doesn't sit well or if I do something against the rules! I love to learn and I'm more than happy to receive feedback 💜

#introduction

It is always fun to meet @pabloyoyoista and @FineFindus. And this time, we had the pleasure of meeting with one of the GTK maintainers, Benjamin Otte, as well.
Amongst other, interesting discussions about GTK's new renderers and phones, performance, regressions, collaboration, and testing. And the general “wouldn't it be nice if”s … language support, upstreaming things … and maybe, someday, some of them … 🤞
And if you happen to be in the Hamburg area and want to join, shoot us a message.
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@FineFindus @pabloyoyoista

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As it turns out, women leaders are not likely to act based on their emotion, but men are. Study (N=137) finds women leaders had low levels of abusive supervision regardless of their anxiety. Men leaders engaged in more abusive supervision (being rude, ridiculing, yelling at, or lying to their reports) when their anxiety was higher. hbr.org/2024/09/research-how-a…

Desde la fraternidad y el máximo respeto a su soberanía, IU hace un llamamiento a la unidad de la izquierda en Bolivia.

Apelamos a la responsabilidad para conducir el diálogo político y evitar la violencia y la vuelta del fascismo en el país.

Comunicado completo: iunida.org/yy3v3

WHYcast Episode 1 is available now! This episode contains: Fallfest Orgameet, we talk with @Dany from Team:Content, a little history lesson and we talk with @zeno4ever about Hackfest.

Find it on the podcast platforms or: youtu.be/YLcRRfs-ZL8

#WHY2025 #WHYcast

Nancy (PL) and Dany (Team:Content) are very excited to announce that the CFP is live!
#why2025 #whycast @Dave Borghuis @Dany
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Folks, never _ever_ forget that mandating employees be in the office 5 days a week is an employer's favourite way to implement a stealth organisation-wide layoff.

Check, check, yum!

to chceš #objem
risotto frutti di mare
#objem

person on podcast: “… serious …”

iphone: *interrupts podcast, opens siri*

ah, deutschland
a bottle of blended scotch whiskey in the shape of a football cleat sitting on a store shelf. the brand name is Golden Shoe

I keep telling all my friends in the US. You don't ask you don't get.
Reddit post by lapislazli We had layoffs at my multinational fortune 500 tech company recently and one team was split in San Francisco and France. The engineers in SF called into their morning meeting and then an hour later got a call from HR with a return shipping label for their hardware, no notice and a week of severance. The team in France? Legally they had to be placed on 'Garden Leave' for a month paid and the company had to prove they weren't replacing them in the near future and it was a legitimate downsizing in which the employees couldn't be reassigned and keep their jobs. If the company is found fraudulent at any point in the process they have to pay the dismissed worker a year of salary. We need to start rioting like the French when they are crossed
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“Elon Musk lived in apartheid South Africa until he was 17. David Sacks…left aged five, and grew up in a South African diaspora family in Tennessee. Peter Thiel spent years of childhood in South Africa and Namibia, where his father was involved in uranium mining[…]. And Paul Furber, an obscure South African software developer and tech journalist living near Johannesburg, has been identified by two teams of forensic linguists as the originator of the QAnon conspiracy.”

archive.is/G2cH3

Yet another completely packed room, for Jan Kohnert’s talk about the Matrix-based TI-Messenger advancing communication in German healthcare 👏

#matrixConf

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#matrixconf

Gnihihi. Die Mobilapp von MS Teams ist mal wieder borken.

Microsoft ist zunehmend ein komplettes Dumpsterfire. Ja, ich weiß, ich bin genauso schockiert wie ihr...

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Bubu
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"zunehmend"? Also ich hab das jetzt ja lange nicht benutzt, aber äh, war das nicht schon immer so?
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Dickenhobelix
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@Bubu for whatever value of dumpsterfire. Aber mittlerweile sind z.B. bei mir im Unternehmen selbst die Microsoft Fanboys ziemlich angepisst. Aber die Businessprozesse sind halt so tief in diese Müllhalde integriert, dass man sie auch nicht mit endlichem Aufwand wegmigrieren kann. Klassischer Vendor-Lockin
@Bubu

Find a sequence of 1000 positive integers in arithmetic progression whose digit sums in base 10 are equal.

Re-reading an Iain M. Banks book while travelling and, as always recently, distracted a little while reading it when coming across Ships' names by the knowledge that Elon is a fan and re-uses them at SpaceX. Like finding a little grain of sand in your food.

I was happy then, in this reading, to be reminded of a Ship's name that entirely encompasses his whole deal.

The photo is of some text from the book 'Matter' by Iain M. Banks. It reads: "The source of my name," the vessel had replied, "The Hundredth Idiot, is a quotation: 'One hundred idiots make idiotic plans and carry them out. All but one justly fail. The hundredth idiot, whose plan succeeded through pure luck, is immediately convinced he's a genius.' It is an old proverb."
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Mobile Grocery Shopping Accessibility: Challenges for Blind Shoppers blog.usablenet.com/mobile-groc…

NV Access | In-Process 20th September 2024 nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2…

Our In-Process blog is out! This week, we feature NVDA 2024.3.1, Mykael making it happen in Brazil, RACQ's Road Ahead article, NVDA 2024.4 Beta 4 and Which reference is right for me?

Read it all here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #Blog #News #Newsletter #FOSS

#Accessibility #foss #blog #screenreader #nvdasr #News #newsletter #nvda

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V pondelok je team-building, opekačka... nechce sa mi ale ok. Ok!?

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Accessible Entertainment in the Air theideaplace.net/accessible-en…

All about the basics of Styles in Word groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/77…
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