From the mouth of my 8 year old this morning. Jaydon, if I could vote, I would not vote for Trump. Dad, why? Jaydon, because he's in jail and he just wants to be president so he won’t go to jail. Dad, but he’s not in jail. Jaydon, also, he’s mean and won’t allow babies. I would vote for Harris, she’s nicer. Me, Jaydon where did you hear about the presidents and the election stuff? Jaydon, from ads. LMAO, welcome to election day at my house this morning!
if they allow 18+ lyrics I'm blasting TK for the whole show, but it's a youth thing so that's probably out of the picture so I'll probably go with just random EDM songs. or maybe trance
went to meet up with the organizers today, but apparently the construction had been delayed and the lights weren't ready yet. I show the lighting technician my planned playlist, they look at it for a while, and go "uhhhh Children of Bodom and Turmion Kätilöt I've heard of" lol
okay, I was right. so I need to have a separate license in addition to the venue organizers having a Teosto license. the license I get specifically counters the TOS of wherever I bought the music by allowing me to use the music I want to play. however, the organizers also need to have a license to allow playback in a public setting. still waiting for teosto to get back to me about music that is not in their catalogue
the license pricing is a bit weird though. a DJ license for a month costs 21.34€ (inc. VAT) and lets you use music you've purchased to be played in a public setting. a day license costs 45.46€ (inc. VAT) and... lets you use music you've purchased to be played in a public setting but this time instead of a whole month it only lasts 24 hours
I asked them about it and they specifically recommended the DJ license because it's so much cheaper and does everything the other one does as well lol
jolly good time! the PoS system wasn't gonna be in use for the event after all so they told me I could set up there. this ended up being my setup. shout out @mixxx for being cool software
With the neat idea to use #ffmpeg through "yt-dlp --extract-audio" to "borrow" some cool audio fillers from one of thousands of video services supported.
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Voted a few weeks ago. All I can do today is hunker down, ignore the outside world, hope for the less shitty outcome, and play the cards we're dealt starting tomorrow.
Also can't wait until I live in a state where my presidential vote actually counts, and where the government doesn't illegalize the things that do pass that it doesn't like. Funny how small government is such a good thing until that small government does something republicans don't like, then the fascism comes out. Going to be glad when Texas is just a memory in the rear view.
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@bagder wanted to check if there is any option/tool that you are aware of that will allow me to filter out ads from a page when downloading it using curl. (Similar functionality to how uBlock Origin works for a browser.
Tried searching on the net but didn't find anything relevant.
Interesting. In Google Meet, I toggle my microphone and camera with CTRL+D and CTRL +E, but the `aria-pressed` state of these button does not change to false. (Text dodes shift to "turn on" though.) Am I the only one for whom it also says "pressed" even when it's off? Screen reader users on web, please let me know. I should also note that other toggles like "raise hand" say "not pressed" so not API related. Thank goodness the label *DOES* change so here, doing both saved them a bit.
I refuse to use any meeting platform where the state of my microphone and/or camera can't be unambiguously determined. If I'm hearing "toggle button not pressed turn off", that is nonsensical and far too much cognitive processing to determine if someone can see/hear me or not. No thanks.
yeah, I think that's why I realized later on that the label was changing but not the attribute. Wish I knew when it exactly regressed as I do recall this correctly working about a month ago as well. Alas, work requires it, so not much option for me on when I must use it.
is there a way for feature requests / discs? Would love to See shared Labels between desktop and mobil (To be honest, would be y very first benefit after k9 migration ...)
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Not only are they Chromium based and thus IMO shouldn't be included if vanilla Chromium is in the list, but they also have their weird crypto stuff and the CEO has A LOT of problematic views.
I'm not really fond of including it due to the founders homophobic past.
The argument of not including it because it's Chromium falls short in my opinion as DuckDuckGo and Privacy Browser are included, which on Android use System WebView (likely Chrome WebView). WebView is a lot less secure then a Chromium based browser.
I believe Firefox based browsers are also less secure on Android due to not having Per-Site Process Isolation.
Brave is a valid option because it is one of the few (or only) open source chromium browsers that has a built in ad/content-blocker, uses proper anti-fingerprinting protections, has extra privacy features, and benefits from the chromium security. I underastand the concerns regarding the crypto crap, but those can be turned off. That being said it is a valid option, especially for newbies.
Here's some changes It'd suggest: - Add @organicmaps to the gmaps alternatives. it's by far the easiest osm based maps app - Add @ente auth for google auth alternatives. it's much more feature rich and it's foss - add @kagihq to the search engines. They're privacy respecting * one small note is that they do utilize google as one of it's search indexes that it uses, so you'd still be giving google some money technically (had to mention it)
Why are you recommending Authy, a very shitty service, but not Organic Maps and Obtainium for .apk updates?
For browsers there is Mulch and Mull from DivestOS, which are forks of Chromium and Firefox respectively or Brave. Either of which would be much better than Fennec, Privacy Browser, or Firefox from a privacy or security perspective.
Because most web developers don't seem to build websites with Firefox users in mind, there are a good number of websites that function poorly in Firefox.
So, for the users seeking an alternative that don't want to use Firefox, I'd say include an open source Chromium-based browser. There are none that are convenient, except Brave and Chromium itself. But Chromium would be defeating the purpose.
Unfortunately, the majority of people care more about convenience than anything else.
@adam_wysokinski /e/OS is an extraordinarily insecure operating system massively rolling back security even more than LineageOS already does. It completely destroys the security model and is always at least a year behind on providing full privacy/security patches. CalyxOS is problematic for security, LineageOS is far more problematic but /e/OS is an extreme form of that comparable to you recommending people use Windows 8 because it's not from Google.
Some recommendations: - Add ente auth from @ente instead of Authy. - Add proton pass from @protonprivacy to the password manager section. - Add mullvad browser from @mullvadnet to the browser section. - Also add @brave too since even if it is based on chromium it is still better than using chrome. - Add divestos.org/ to the alternative os section.
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Your current list includes 5 web browsers where 3 of them completely lack even a content sandbox due to being based on Firefox for Android and the other 2 are based on Chromium. DuckDuckGo and Privacy Browser are WebView-based browsers using the system WebView implementation, which is provided by the OS with a Chromium-based browser engine. On Android operating systems including the Google apps and services, DuckDuckGo and Privacy Browser are directly using Google Chrome itself.
Don't get me wrong, your intentions are probably good, but inherently as a privacy project - and direct competitive to some alternative services which you will not be able to list while being great choices - you will not be an objective source for these recommendations. A lot of these services are either outdated, or there are much better alternatives for them, many of which are completely missing.
Chromium shows that the browser itself is alright, it's the figurative "last 5%", where Google adds proprietary features to create Chrome, that taints the well.
Also, for people who are trying to promote cancel culture towards Brave, there are also great people at Brave, such as @bcrypt.
No cos it's run by a homophobe, it contains shady crypto nonsense that add their own ad service, and it's overall controversial, making it safer for you to not include them. Their ad system makes a lot of money to Brave, but it does not to the users nor to the websites. I'd say it's scummy. Apparently the broswer also automatically added affiliate link to purchases. Affiliate links enable tracking.
If you have one of the newer 2023 Furbies and live in the states, I advise you to do breathing techniques with it every few hours to help you feel calm, should you be experiencing anxiety. Even if most else about the new ones kinda suck, at least the meditation exercises are nice. Also, definitely listen to the song about Furby wanting to be president of the Moon over and over again, because there's something very amusing about a tiny creature leading an entire planet.
What can the new ones do? Do they still speak their own language half the time? I never owned one myself but have always been curious. How accessible are they?
@jpellis2008 thankfully not as much furbish, and the new ones have about 600+ phrases in total they say. They re-introduced manual voice recognition similar to the 2005 Furbies but far better, went back to non-LCD eyes, and the new ones can tell fun facts, sing about 8 songs and do meditation / stretch exercises. Oh, but the catch is that the ears light up now and can change color, so a great way to freak out sighted people around. :)
Wild ass day in the Tor node operator world. Got an email from my VPS, forwarding a complaint from WatchDog CyberSecurity saying that my box was scanning SSH ports!
> Oh no, oh no, I knew I should have set up fail2ban, oh god why was I so lackadaisical!
So I remote in to the machine: no unusual network activity, no unusual processes, users, logins, command history, no sign that anything is doing anything I didn't tell it to do.
So what's up? Turns out there's been a widespread campaign where some actor is spoofing IPs to make it look like systems running Tor are scanning port 22: forum.torproject.org/t/tor-rel…
Operators from all over are saying they're getting nastygrams from their VPS providers because WatchDog is fingering their source IPs (which are being spoofed and NOT part of a global portscanning botnet).
It would be hard to explain to Verizon I run Tor relays since they technically don't allow servers. I hope I'm not forced onto AT&T Internet Air as my particular co-op rental unit won't let met get Spectrum even when other units can, not that I wante…
I'm thankful to colleagues who get that the US is going through a weird high anxiety time and thus canceled or moved meetings to subsequent days. We have a super global culture, and it's really nice to see coworkers act decent, respectful towards each other. Stuff like that just makes my day shine. To distract myself from all of it, I plan to drop off about 30 pounds (13.6KG) of broken and nonworking electronics to Best Buy for recycling. Get a haircut. Need stuff to do outside the house a bit.
@Tamasg I didn't get it super. IDK but maybe they did it after seeing the troubles. I just ordered as normal. I might call in though and see if they'll give me credit for all the trouble.
I've been looking at @Seirdy's /meta/ page and it was so cool I was inspired to follow suite.
In fact, I realized I love reading about people talking about their personal sites themselves and wished more people do it, so I made a post about it which lists some other examples I've found:
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To add terms that you don't want to see today to filter from your timelines
Also, if you're posting about the thing that's happening today, add a content warning to your post by clicking the button that looks like a warning triangle with an exclamation mark
Counterintuitively, adding an accurate and descriptive CW on Fedi tends to INCREASE the possible reach of your post, because some won't boost un-CW'd politics
“Sure, tools don’t write accessible PDFs, and readers don’t have the functionality to output the added information, that is almost never there, in an accessible way. But the format itself is accessible!”
The mind, it hurts. If people have no access to the information, it’s not accessible.
This was pretty much the topic of a presentation I gave at a PDF Association conference many years ago when PDF/UA was being finalised and folks were banging on about how it was such an accessible format. Nothing has really changed.
The update fixes a couple small bugs around media processing and filter expiration, and adds media-image-size-hint and media-video-size-hint values to the config file.
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You may be feeling a bit anxious about today (understatement). I'm here to help take your mind off the happenings. I'll be sharing some of my creations and art today as a distraction.
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You know that the world (well, US) is really falling apart when even cannabis dispenseries are cashing in on the election day with various specials to increase sales. Wow. First it was the ads from companies like Zip Recruiter and others that were done in the style of a political ad, now this, soon election season will be tied to a comercial financial insentive even more.
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fuck it, they can handle a little TK. as a treat
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in reply to Cobalt • • •the license pricing is a bit weird though. a DJ license for a month costs 21.34€ (inc. VAT) and lets you use music you've purchased to be played in a public setting. a day license costs 45.46€ (inc. VAT) and... lets you use music you've purchased to be played in a public setting but this time instead of a whole month it only lasts 24 hours
I asked them about it and they specifically recommended the DJ license because it's so much cheaper and does everything the other one does as well lol
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