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One cool thing about Castro is we haven't added a useless AI feature that gets in your way every time you try to do anything.
in reply to Castro Podcasts

Another cool thing about castro is that for the most part, your marketing sticks to talking about what your own app does well rather than running down other developers. Please don't change that.


Amazon Canada really is just a dollar store having a roid rage.


I promise you, two names you will not hear on Mushroom Escape any day this week are Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

in reply to Carolyn

The original lighthouse. It was bought by a local farmer and moved after the decision to replace it. It has since been destroyed by a storm and then being used by firefighters for training.

You never know how long something you photograph will last. Here today, gone tomorrow.

#Pugwash #NovaScotia #Lighthouse



If you're looking for a distraction, the first book of HELL'S ACRE just dropped last week. Assassins! Secret identities! Rooftop battles! Intrigue! Pretty dresses! And a whole lot more...
lilithsaintcrow.com/2024/10/re…


How to solve your Wi-Fi problems with smart router settings pcworld.com/article/2501811/ho…


Score the Latest Amazon Fire HD 8 at Its Lowest Price Yet With a 45% Discount pcmag.com/deals/score-the-late…


Digital accessibility needs for electric vehicle (EV) charging stations deque.com/blog/digital-accessi…


Understand Chemistry Concepts with the Tactile Ionic Bonding Kit aph.org/understand-chemistry-c…


New: A Conceptual Model of ATProto and ActivityPub

You might want to know a little bit more about how #Bluesky and #atproto works, without needing to know all the technical details. This is a high level overview of how to think about how atproto works, and how it differs from #ActivityPub.

It is also a reflection on the concepts of decentralisation and federation, and what they bring to both the #fediverse and the #atmosphere

Read at: fediversereport.com/a-conceptu…



#today
so I have a question.
Is ther a way for me to feel the level of the liquid dish washing soap while i'mpooring it into the dish washer?the stuff is strong and I don't want to hurt myself, do they have a low tech solution, somethig nI can use in the house to aid me in just poring itin?
in reply to Sarah A

What brand you using? I just wash my hands really good after handling it right away for a minute.
in reply to Khronos

I'm not sure. It is strong though and will burn a hole in my clothes and my skin if I'm not careful.
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Hello everyone!

I write my bachelor's thesis about Mastodon as an alternative social network and how its users perceive the platform.

I would be greateful if you would particpate in my survey:
umfragen.uni-paderborn.de/inde…

It only takes 10-15 minutes and would help me a lot.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

In case you want to support me, you can repost the access link, which would also help me.

Thank you!

in reply to Paula

This Questions are problematic, I think:

* Mastodon’s actions against any harmful content are sufficient.

* Mastodon’s actions against the spread of fake news are sufficient.

For this, the admins/ moderators are responsible and not Mastodon.



Hey,

#curl -v google.com as a metal song is a must see and hear experience. A masterpiece. I just love it.

youtube.com/watch?v=atcqMWqB3h…

#curl
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

\m/ not only is this fun music, but greatly adds to my curl appreciation levels
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

oh no, now you have to add Guitar solo and Vocalist has seizure to -v output to match the video.


Tesla updated its summon feature. Now this owner can’t get to his car.Tesla updated its summon feature. Now this owner can’t get to his car. electrek.co/2024/11/04/tesla-u…


I'm not even done with work and it's pitch black outside. Ugh.

in reply to JRelland :flower:

Do you mean the message during account setup about autoconfig entries, or is this another issue?
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

Not an issue. Just a comment about the "beta" status.

Thank you for your interest.

José



it's astonishing how often this happens in my line of work:

client: can you review our source code for security issues?

me: of course!

[we stare at each other in a long, tense silence]

me: ... may I see the source code?

client: absolutely not.

in reply to abadidea

In a past life, I worked on a compiler that the DoE used. I never had to handle their bug reports and was quite glad. The flow was:

Them: It doesn't work.

Us: In what way?

Them: That's classified. The wrong number comes out of the program.

Us: What program?

Them: That's classified.

Us: Can you send us a reduced test case?

Six months pass while the reduced test case is declassified, which involves review that it does not leak anything about the Super Secret Program that it's based on.

The reduced test case does not trigger the bug. Apparently the original did, but en route to being declassified the parts that triggered the bug were removed.



Gajim is currently migrating from GTK3 to GTK4. 🔧 GTK is Gajim's user interface toolkit. It provides building blocks, like windows, buttons and labels. 🧩

Version 4 of this toolkit brings performance improvements to Gajim, e.g. faster rendering of user interface elements. 💨
Additionally, switching to GTK4 allows Gajim to use newer widgets, like nice drop downs.
Here is a quick peek at a new group chat "@ mention" widget. 😎

Stay tuned! :xmpp:

gtk.org

#gajim #xmpp #chat #gtk4

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in reply to Gajim

Are you migrating to widgets that respond to the GTK light/dark mode signal?
in reply to Diane

@alienghic Gajim does that already in GTK3 through DBus. If it does not work for you, feel free to join gajim@conference.gajim.org?join
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Gajim
@erua exactly. This is an announcement, not a release. A release has not been mentioned anywhere.


If everyone's internet history was one day leaked it would end almost all relationships in the western world.
in reply to Anon Opin

@bermudianbrit same for messaging history, probably, though that would also end most companies and political parties.


Twitch miał chyba jakąś poważną modyfikację algorytmów. Nagle zaczął mi sugerować samych Polaków, mimo że nigdy nie oglądam polskich kanałów. Nie sugerował za to anglojęzycznych kanałów, które były live i które czasem oglądałem.
Po zmianie języka strony na angielski trochę się tych drugich pojawiło, ale nadal ponad połowa sugerowanych jest z Polski.
in reply to Ganderonus

Tiktok to samo. Telefon po ang, region na US, a sugeruje tylko polskie.


I'm a full stack developer. I can code in every language from JavaScript to assembly.
in reply to Hubert Figuière

@hub @driusan I've seen a stack check in the Linux kernel that caused Firefox to crash when Google updated Maps with a function that declared 36000 variables on the stack. Incomplete memory barriers in macOS semaphores. DLLs sending window events to work around bugs in Explorer versions that don't exist anymore. And all those bugs have been filed in time... like issues... on Bugzilla.


I was happily ticking along, making a new telegram group on Android because it's easier than iOS and my speech just died! Was using Vocalizer and well, no more vocalizing for me. Had to get Kirsten to switch it to Acapela which worked. That is not cool.
I'd heard this was a common thing with that particular engine but until now, have never experienced it. No idea why it even happened.


"In Memory of Stiver", the original author of the Fernflower Java decompiler.

blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2024/1…



Hugh Nelson sentenced to actual prison for creating AI-generated images of children. Fascinating case on multiple levels. But the fact remains that he received a longer sentence than if he had actually raped a child...because of AI. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq6l24…




Block Party is good and I am an unapologetic Block Party fangirl.

washingtonpost.com/technology/…

in reply to evacide

I usually just use an adblocker to hide the consent banners in the first place.


Call for linguists and translators toward the upcoming debian-installer! lists.debian.org/debian-i18n/2… Connect with the installer team at debian-boot@lists.debian.org #debian


*All* of this is JS-optional, progressively enhanced HTML. All of it.

hachyderm.io/@joelanman/113426…


in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

I will probably try it at some point, fairly happy with FairEmail but who knows, this could be even better I guess!


#Trump Claims “Illegal Alien” #Voting Is Rampant. His Own Party Disagrees.
==

In a private video training session, a top #Pennsylvania #Republican National Committee official reassured a new poll watcher that undocumented people could not possibly vote in the state.

#News #Election2024 #DonaldTrump #RNC #GOP #Video #Politics #Government #Immigration

propublica.org/article/trump-p…



That’s right. Most people should know this by now, bro why does RNC spread those lies in the first place? newsie.social/@ProPublica/1134…


Ui-wooo! Hetzner is one week late with their Halloween "prank": 3 maintenance windows in a row, November 6, 7 and 8. We hopefully won't be affected for the full time (they wrote "just a few minutes") but of course cannot tell *exactly* when. So some time within those windows.

Again, only the primary servers are affected. Our mirrors will still be available to you for app updates and installs.

#maintenance #IzzyOnDroid #serviceToot



A #Georgia #Election Official’s Months-Long Push to Make It Easier to Challenge the 2024 Results
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Julie Adams quickly ascended from a little-known #conservative activist to a surprise appointee on the Fulton County board of elections.

She has used her new perch to carry out the efforts of players seeking to tilt the election in Trump’s favor.

#News #Politics #Election2024 #Atlanta #Voting #Election #Government #Trump

propublica.org/article/julie-a…



iOS 18.2 beta adds ‘Upgrade to ChatGPT Plus’ option in the Settings app 9to5mac.com/2024/11/04/ios-18-…


Whew! Very pleased to confirm that Apple has resolved the high-impact bug from the previous iOS 18.2 beta which resulted in silence at random when swiping through certain apps and screens. Nice to have that one squashed.
in reply to Jonathan Mosen

Yes, thanks for the report. I was just updating and hoping this particular one would go away. Glad to hear it did!



Here's something that has been bugging me for literally two thirds of my life:
In the early 2000's, following the release of the audiogame Treasure Hunt, an early beta of a sequel was made available. I believe it was called Cloning Malice II. Every so often, I will get the battle music stuck in my head. I heard it when I was barely a teenager in an audio demo, and haven't heard it since, but could probably sequence it from memory. This is just how my brain works with music sometimes.
I'm wondering if anyone has this beta, the sounds, or the music files within those sounds. It would be around 20 years old at this point and I don't think it was fully playable. Eventually the concept was turned into three-d velocity.
I was looking in a Messenger Plus soundpack recently and found the first 8 seconds of that track. I am a little bit fixated on it and just want to hear it in full after all this time.
Pretty sure it was a @kjsapergia production.
in reply to Simon Jaeger (Procrastodon)

You're correct; I worked on the music for Cloning Malice II back in I believe 2004. I'll see if I can find that theme.
in reply to Kelly Sapergia

It was always amusing to me that Treasure Hunt had absolutely nothing to do with treasure.
in reply to Andy

@remixman Ahh, but it did, originally. Treasure Hunt went through a huge transformation between versions 3 and 4. I even think the storyline was still evolving between 4.0 and 4.2. If you listen to the skit that comes with the game, you hear little kid pitchshifter playing around with the old version. And I've actually played that version. Guards used to be challengers, and your eventual goal was to reach a treasure chest. In that same skit, you hear what I presume to be the older brother playing an early unreleased version of 4.0. I dont know if the whole Brutus / cloning machine thing had been woven into the story by that time or not. It really is a completely different game and the decision not to rebrand it was a little strange, but when it started out, the name fit.
@Andy
in reply to Andy

@remixman Treasure Hunt 4.0 was also fun to work on. If I had to pick one track as a favorite from that game, it would have to be the final boss battle theme.
@Andy
in reply to Andy

@remixman The games I composed music for include Shades of Doom, Tarzan Junior, Dark Destroyer, Treasure Hunt 4.0, and I also contributed music to Three-D Velocity. In addition, I also produced audio logos for PCS Games, BPC Programs, PB Games (now Blastbay Studios), and Lighttech Interactive.
@Andy
in reply to Kelly Sapergia

@remixman You basically composed music to all of the first games I ever played. At one time or another I was pretty addicted to most of those.
@Andy
in reply to Simon Jaeger (Procrastodon)

@remixman Pretty much, yes. Those games were fun to play. I haven't tried them with Windows 11, but listening to those tracks sure brings back memories for me. The last game I composed music for was Three-D Velocity back in 2011.
@Andy
in reply to Kelly Sapergia

@remixman One game I miss playing loads is Dark Distroyer. You voiced that one Kelly. It was fun.
@Andy
in reply to Lino Morales

@Lino_JR @remixman Ah yes! It was fun doing the voice work for that game, though I probably would've recorded the lines differently today. My favorite line is "I've seen birds that fly better than you!"
in reply to Kelly Sapergia

@remixman LOL! You know I was never fortunate to get that far in the game to hear that. Back in 2004 we had a crap PC with only 60 GB of hard drive space and I think it was 256 MB of ram.
@Andy
in reply to Kelly Sapergia

@Lino_JR @remixman For those that got the opportunity to beta test science invasion, Kelly played a dude on a bulldozer/lawnmower? that was optional to kill, otherwise he'd run over and destroy coins you could pick up.
in reply to Kelly Sapergia

@remixman Didn't you also do the logo for X-Sight Interactive? If that wasn't you, they were trying pretty hard to copy you.
@Andy
in reply to Kelly Sapergia

@remixman There was a later version that added a sine wave, and I always wondered what prompted that, but I liked it. What are you using for composition these days? For that matter, what were you using to actually create music back in 2004? It was a very different time.
@Andy
in reply to Simon Jaeger (Procrastodon)

@remixman Back in 2004-5, I was using CakeWalk's Sonar 2.0, and various soundfonts and VST instruments, such as IK Multimedia's SampleTank among others. I know I used a plugin to load in the soundfonts, but can't remember which one at the moment. I still have all my soundfonts, but a lot of the VSTs aren't available today as far as I know. Nowadays, I use Komplete Kontrol, and numerous libraries for it among other things.
@Andy
in reply to Kelly Sapergia

@remixman Ahh, so you could probably modernize old tracks as easily as any of us could. I'll always like the way they originally sounded, but I sometimes wonder what some of the big logos would sound like with modern instruments. I have a whole big orchestral library and it would be really fun to throw the PB Games logo at it, for instance. This just generally brings back a lot of memories. It was the very beginning of my computer days.
@Andy
in reply to Kelly Sapergia

@remixman I have all of Komplete, but I was thinking about Palette from Red Room Audio.
@Andy
in reply to Kelly Sapergia

@remixman As an aside, I actually have a netbook that runs Windows XP and most of my motivation was running some of those old games on it. Sure, I can just run a VM, but where's the fun in that when I have old junk lying around? I might really lean into this and try to get XP onto my old iMac, so I can give it a permanent spot and hook speakers up to it. But honestly my apartment is tiny, and I might also just not.
@Andy
in reply to Kelly Sapergia

I would seriously appreciate that. It's been a brain itch for a ridiculously long time. Thank you.
in reply to Kelly Sapergia

This is amazing and my brain itch is finally scratched. (Although it'll still be forever stuck in my head.) I would literally pay you for the actual loop of those tracks if you felt comfortable sending them, by the way. I didn't know for sure whether you were still making music and I will absolutely send this out to the world tomorrow when my corner of the fediverse is more awake. I've always been able to spot your music, and that's a good thing. Love the boss theme; I hadn't heard that before. Same with treasure hunt. The battle and boss themes are super fun but I also just like listening to the background theme in the background.
in reply to Nick Giannak III

@nick The battle music always sounded ahead of its time to me. But it would be interesting to see what it might sound like with more modern sounds. Wonder if the MIDI files still exist for any of these.
in reply to Simon Jaeger (Procrastodon)

@nick I believe I still have the original files, but they're all in CakeWalk bundles. They used a combination of sounds from my Roland EXR-3S which I was using at the time, and sounds from soundfonts and VST insttruments I can no longer use, such as the free version of IK Multimedia's SampleTank, which was used for the choirs.
in reply to Kelly Sapergia

@nick Oh, well that answers most of my other post too. Shame about not being able to reuse those samples, but there are others where that came from, I guess. I completely skipped over the Sonar era. It never played nice with anything I tried to use it with, and by the time I could afford good hardware, Reaper was a thing.
in reply to Simon Jaeger (Procrastodon)

@nick REAPER is my DAW of choice today. I'm amazed at how something so small can be so powerful. I use it for all my audio and MIDI multitracking needs.


#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 5 updated and 1 added apps:

* File Explorer: a full-featured and lightweight file manager (successor of the app by the same name, entirely rewritten)

Further, I succeeded in establishing some more apps as #reproducibleBuilds – bringing the count up to 318 apps (26.4%).

At apt.izzysoft.de/magisk 6 #Magisk #modules have been updated.

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome: