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Wow, what an email: "Congratulations! Your #RIPE Atlas probe XXXX is 10 years old!" - I got this probe from @Oskar456 at #OpenAlt This does not have much publicity, so you may read about it (and get one) at atlas.ripe.net/probes/public


I wasn't sure if there was a tool out there to quickly add a program to the user startup folder in Windows, so I sat down and wrote one myself. I just used it on @masonasons's BNT program. I'll release this thing if people want it.
in reply to Stu

I mean if I've got to find the path to the executable anyway, it's no hardship to run shell;startup and make a shortcut to it. if more people knew how to make shortcuts they'd be better windows users


dear God/Santa hear me out I've been very very good


in reply to Ondřej Caletka

In case you missed it, the recording is already online. #RIPE89 is over, see you at #RIPE90
ripe89.ripe.net/archives/video…



Quiero describiros la magnífica imagen que estoy teniendo.
Ahora mismo el Camino Nuevo de Picanya, carretera que une Valencia con los pueblos del sur es literalmente un río de gente cargada de víveres para los afectados.
La solidaridad también se desborda.
#estapasando #dana #valencia


November is here – so what are you going to do this month? How about learning new things and joining the #LibreOffice project? We can help you to get started – and you can grab cool merchandise too: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource #freesoftware

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in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Probably this old.reddit.com/r/Scams/comment… and youtube.com/watch?v=kUsHlIrFEB…
in reply to chebra

yeah, I updated the page to mention the possible scam
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Got a very rancid scam text just now which I’ve pasted below. Warn your friends and family to look out for crap like this. It’s all fake.

The winter heating subsidy benefit plan provided by the government reminds you:
November is about to begin the severe cold period of this winter. The local council will decide to issue you a winter heating subsidy. If you can receive our information to prove that you meet the conditions for receiving it, there is no age limit for this subsidy plan. You can apply in the link Once you apply, we will review and issue it as soon as possible without affecting your receipt of other benefits.

<scammy url>
Thank you for your support to the UK Government.

in reply to Andre Louis

I've never understood how these people can set up webforms to capture all sorts of data, make sites look as official as possible by scraping logos and designing cunningly similar subdomains to the real gov ones, even putting genuine contact links at the bottoms of emails and such.

And then writing things like 'provided by the government reminds you'. Which is just not phrasing that we use, you know?

in reply to Andre Louis

yeah, same sort of thing. Just the ... not incorrect english by the book, perhaps, but ... meh. I can't say what I'm trying to say
in reply to Andre Louis

@cachondo a lot of this is intentional apparently, it's a way to filter out the people who are unlikely to get scammed very early on.


“El president de la Generalitat dijo a las 13.00 horas en un vídeo que la Dana se debilitaba a las 18.00 y se iba a Cuenca, cuando los expertos y los meteorólogos de todas las televisiones insitían en lo contrario. Se congratuló públicamente de que no hubiera “alerta hidrológica” poco después de que su propio departamento de Emergències la hiciera pública.”

eldiario.es/comunitat-valencia…



There must be a way to make Foobar2000 play the audio from .ts streams and ignore the video, it plays so many other things. Right now when I try, it makes very weird digital screaming noise which would probably sound fine through a reverb, but not at all nice close-up.
in reply to Andre Louis

Just tried with an older satellite TV recording, and it plays perfectly using the aditional FFmpeg Decoder Wrapper extension. Maybe you have to pass some additional arguments for the ts file type in your case?
in reply to Steffen

@radiorobbe Mine are UK TV streams that I run on a raspberry pi, so it's not local. Local files do play I think.


Que un grupo fascista tenga estatutos de sindicato para poder personarse judicialmente como parte en todo lo que se les ocurra, muy del espíritu de la Ley de Libertad Sindical no es.

¿Hasta cuándo abusarás de nuestra paciencia, "Manos Limpias"?

in reply to modulux

@modulux
Algún sindicato debería denunciar el fraude de ley de constituir sindicatos para fines distintos del que tienen. Por ejemplo.
O un denunciado por ellos pedir amparo al constitucional por ser denunciado por un sindicato de dudoso estatus...
in reply to Cloaca Maxima

Ojalá, hay abuso de derecho manifiesto. Es peligroso ponerse a decidir que es un sindicato y que no, sobre todo con los jueces que tenemos, pero este en particular canta mucho.


Dos guardias civiles detienen a un joven descalzo por robar unas zapatillas: «Velando por tu seguridad». Diez trabajadoras suben a pulso dos pisos a 124 personas para evitar que mueran ahogadas: «Milagro en una residencia». #HayQueJoderse


Hmm. Fingers not quite up there after only 1 coffee and I have just introduced one of my slack channels to the Good MrOning.
I am sure he's a fine fellow, but that is not how you spell morning.


At #FOSDEM 2025, for the first time, we will be hosting the Android Open Source Devroom, bringing together developers working on the open source components of Android operating system and associated board support packages

We are looking for speakers: aosp-devs.org/fosdem25-cfp.htm…

But, don't wait too long before submitting a proposal - the CfP ends 1st December!




Ah, I adore receiving love letters that come right from the heart…


Rock-solid #curl is a coming new series of long term support (LTS) curl releases for paying customers. Even less friction. Even lower risk for regressions. Details to come soon.
#curl



reminder: the Luddites were not anti-*technology*. They were anti-*factory owners firing weavers and replacing them with lower-paid loom workers*. They could have retrained the weavers and kept their pay high, but bosses gonna boss. We are all Luddites today.

The name later became a slur because the bosses won, and used propaganda to hide the history, and because smashing looms is a dramatic symbol, and humans like retelling dramatic stories, not depressing facts.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite



Que han denunciado a la directora de la AEMET por homicidio imprudente, es que me cago en todos sus muertos pisaos (no los de la directora, a esa señora solo lo mejor). Solo se me ocurren cosas violentas y anticonstitucionales. Vaya forma de empezar el día...
in reply to alemanita

Joder, pero que coño le pasa a la gente que está gilipollas total.


Apple's dirty tricks continue: iPhone 15 (Pro) users furious over huge Apple Intelligence snub "...But it keeps getting “better”... The long-awaited “Visual Intelligence” feature that lets you search whatever you see on your screen will only be available on iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro because they have the Camera Control button -..." phonearena.com/news/apple-dirt…


Windows Recall is once again recalled neowin.net/news/windows-recall…


Krásné dobré ráno občané mastodonu! 🐕🙋‍♀️🐈
Všichni jsme se dočkali! Je to tu! Zasloužený pátek!
Dneska konečně odfrčí všechno vánoční zboží do obchodů. Už se u nás na základně nedalo pohybovat. A od pondělí začneme vyjíždět a dělat výlohy a měnit zboží.
Vánoce se blíží milánkové!
Mějte sváteční náladu. 😊👋
#dobre_rano
#dobréRáno


Ta státní správa a samospráva se fakt nikdy nenaučí ty weby poptávat pořádně. Dnes jsem reagoval na poptávku dvoujazyčného webu pro mezinárodní projekt pro nejmenovaný krajský úřad. Nacenění do 11. 11. a pak realizace do 25. 11., tedy během dvou týdnů. Hodně štěstí. #tvorbawebu
in reply to Jan Polzer

Buď amatérské zadání nebo předem daný vítěz. Tipuju to druhé. 😐


Opět jsem se nechal přemluvit a jdu dneska a zítra do práce. Sice na melouch v ČR, ale jsem prostě měkota.
in reply to Archos

Správně, soudruhu! 🤪
(dodatek: tuhle ceduli jsem tenkrát vytisknul a vyvěsil v kanceláři 😁)
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So it seems like my plural-friendly instance is going away. Gonna need to find a new host. So anyone know of a good new webHome? #plurality


I forget who recommended the Alamaxa series here, by Hadeer Elsbai. I'm reading the first book, The daughters of Izdihar and enjoying it a lot, so thanks, whoever it was. It's a fantasy series set in something like an analogue to 19th century India or perhaps the Levant, mixing fantastic themes on magic with social concerns such as women's emancipation.

#reading #books #fantasy #series #ReadingRec



Republicans: “If Donald Trump loses, blame women.”

Women: “We will wear this award with pride for the rest of our lives.”



Kdyby náhodou jste to nevěděli, tak rusáckej dobytek stále vraždí civilisty na Ukrajině.

Já jen, až budete mít pocit, že jste "unavený válkou", tak lidi v tomhle baráku byli jen unavený a šli spát.

Díra v bytovce od rusáckého ostřelování raketou

#rusko #Ukrajina #StopWar



While I was giving out candy (by the hundreds) one little girl, about six or seven, gave me something in return: she put a little beaded bracelet on my wrist. When I looked at it, it said "VOTE" on it. 🥺 🥰 It made me so happy.


Před rokem mi vypnul mozek a koupil jsem si lano a uvázal smyčku. Vždycky jsem říkal, že to bylo pomatení. Kdybych to chtěl skončit, jako ex-paramedik to udělám čistě, bezbolestně a kurva jednoduše. Ale já nechci. Já to nechci vzdát. Hele, už jsem v životě zdolal větší “krize”.

Tohle není konec. Buď najdu cestu, nebo, ač nechci, začnu znovu. Ale konec, na ten je ještě čas. Však jsem slíbil, že dorazím na #mastopivo

in reply to Ivan Stloukal

To jsou správná slova. Moc držím palce, ať tu cestu brzo najdeš a příští rok to na #mastopivo pořádně probereme. 🍀🤞🏼


I mean, this is cool: "I would say, you got to say, in terms of computer, I would say he's probably about as good as you get," Trump said about Musk.
Harris and Trump bring their closing arguments to 2 key Southwest swing states - NPR apple.news/AfaIqygqoTEuTTj1WQm…