Any #commandLine #podcast downloaders people enjoy using? I'm thinking that I point it at an RSS feed (or for bonus points a podcast on Spotify/Apple/whatever), and it downloads all episodes to nicely numbered files in a folder.
Thanks @masonasons for the tip that yt-dlp can download from RSS feeds. Here's the command I came up with to download all available podcast items from a feed in chronological order (oldest first) to nicely numbered files with the title and date.
TikTok is introducing new accessibility features that make it easier for people with visual impairments to see text and use screen readers on the platform.
The state of Linux accessibility in 2025. This started out as a rant but became a series. Please feel free to leave feedback, comments, and subscribe via rss or email for more stuff as I release it. fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-w…
I think it's very telling that from all corners of the Fediverse, #FLOSS developers come screaming "I do it for free in my spare time, I can release whatever I want, and you can change it if you don't like it!"
As if that was the point.
I you release it as a broken hobby project, fine. Just don't call it a "fully functional" or "community driven" audio editor / encryption utility / mail server / file explorer / chat client if it's completely unusable to a reasonable part of the audience who just happens to be blind, or otherwise impaired.
if I may make a request (my machine is out of action due to a power outage yesterday cooking something, or I'd PR it myself) it'd be useful to have a documentation note somewhere about which versions of curl did support WinCE, so folks can go grab an archived copy if they need it.
I do still occasionally come across old industrial HMIs and embedded systems that run CE, would be useful to not have to dig up the issue and correlate the commit ID to a release :)
I though Tuta was nice, but they don't seem that different from other companies that make it difficult to downgrade. Now I need to select a few hunderd emails, delete them and select another few hunderd emails... You've lost my respect. @Tutanota
"The open-source project recently picked up some unexpected recognition from the United Nations, when the organization chose to use CryptPad to collect endorsements for its Open Source Principles. Here’s what you need to know about the open-source project that’s on the rise."
#YuvalRaphael shares her story of survival with poise and courage. Nova Music Festival Massacre Survivor - JIJ October 7 Survivors ProjectUnveiling hidden in...
Trixie is just around the corner! The hard freeze began on 2025-05-17 (key packages and packages without autopkgtests are in full freeze). Check lists.debian.org/debian-devel-… for more info #debian #trixie
this is going to be an amazing summer with the official Risc-V support on Debian. I plan on building a machine with Tenstorrent's Ascalon CPUs. With Jim Keller claiming its in the ballpark of Zen 5 performance, it would be a mighty jump for the architecture, heck even if they land around Zen 4 it would be impressive for the Risc-V ecosystem. Thank you debian team for the work you do
Similar to iOS lockdown mode, Android 16's Advanced Protection feature is misguided. It adds security features exclusive to it which require using all of the other features. This prevents people using new security features if they need to avoid 1 feature.
Most of the features already existed. The new ones are cloud-based intrusion logging, inactivity reboot (hard-wired to 72 hours), a new mode of USB protection and disabling auto-connect to a small subset of insecure Wi-Fi networks. Production MTE support is also essentially new.
GrapheneOS added locked device auto-reboot in July 2021. We proposed it to Google for Android in January 2024 as part of reporting exploitation by forensic data extraction companies. They implemented several of our other proposals, but not this until iOS added it in October 2024.
Both GrapheneOS and iOS enabled lock device auto-reboot by default, at 18 and 72 hours respectively. It can be set between 10 minutes and 72 hours on GrapheneOS along with having an opt-out. Putting this behind a feature barely anyone will use makes the real world impact minimal.
The Advanced Protection mode support for the ARM Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) is misleading. It won't be using it for the kernel, most of the base OS or 99.999999% of apps. It will only be enabled for certain base OS components and a tiny minority of apps explicitly enabling it.
Certain apps like Molly opt-in to MTE, but this doesn't really do anything since so far Android isn't providing any production MTE support. This tiny minority of apps enabling the feature will finally have it on certain devices for < 0.001% of users using Advanced Protection.
Chrome / Chromium provides a very misleading "V8 Optimizer" toggle which contrary to popular belief does not disable the Just-In-Time compiler and therefore cannot block dynamic code generation. It's not a default JIT disable like iOS lockdown mode or default GrapheneOS.
Chrome's "V8 Optimizer" toggle started out as a JIT toggle. However, Chromium's WebAssembly support currently requires JIT and they quickly crippled the setting in an emergency update. It now only disables the highest 2 tiers of the JIT, so a lot of the security value is missing.
Microsoft implemented a simple WebAssembly interpreter for Microsoft Edge as part of their earlier JIT disable feature. Microsoft submitted their WebAssembly interpreter to Chromium and got it merged after a long time. Chrome / Chromium doesn't use it, maintain it or test it.
Since they aren't maintaining or testing it, other Chromium-based browsers can't use this feature without taking on the responsibility of maintaining it. Google could easily start maintaining it to fix their very misleading "V8 Optimizer" toggle but so far has neglected to do so.
It's entirely possible to provide the new security features standalone and then group them together in a mode enabling all of them, but with the option to disable certain features. That could then show up as a warning that the mode isn't fully enabled. Instead, they copied iOS.
Part of enabling Android's Advanced Protection feature is disallowing users from installing apps from outside of the Play Store. This can currently be bypassed using Android Debug Bridge via developer options, but that's awful for security and they'll likely crack down on it too.
Apps coming from the Play Store doesn't make them trustworthy, safe or secure. Most malware apps on Google Mobile Services devices are installed from the Play Store. Similarly to the Play Integrity API, it's Google reinforcing their monopolies with security as an excuse for it.
Google was already blocking competing app stores with their Advanced Protection Program required to properly secure a Google account, but now they're tying Android device security to this. Want proper encryption security via inactivity reboot? You cannot use competing app stores.
@wmd It won't negative impact GrapheneOS users since the Advanced Protection feature largely won't be available in GrapheneOS due to not having privileged Google Play services integration. We can provide any of the future useful features tied to it as standalone features. Some of the features will likely be possible to use. It's possible to use their theft protection features automatically locking the device by giving Google Play services basic admin access but we should provide our own.
@J3317 @wmd they could yes, but there’s the issue of finding a version that has direct boot support. If it doesn’t have direct boot support, it’s kind of useless in this scenario anyway. Honestly, I am very strongly pushing for that. I installed it once on my old phone, but sadly had to remove it because play integrity was screwing up my reading app. Now that I don’t need the reading app, I really want it back, but I’m not prepared to handover my phone to someone. I don’t trust to set it up.
@J3317 @evilcookies98 @wmd Direct boot aware apps can run in the time between system boot and first unlock. The app needs to be able to run without an access to (most) of its files, since these are encrypted and need unlocking.
I am not sure what exact implication this has for the usability of screen readers, since I haven't needed one.
@darkyen @evilcookies98 oh, thanks for explaining that, so if a tts can't run at boot like most cant, it switches to google TTS, or if you have a Samsung phone Samsung tts when you power on your phone
@J3317 @darkyen still though, you're working under the assumption that all of us have someone trustworthy on command to help us set up our phones. Spoiler alerts, we don't. Since there's no way to push an app to the phone at the same time. Things are flashed, we're screwed. I love what you're doing but that is really putting me off of using it. If I can't set up my phone independently, that's a barrier. I don't always have trustworthy people on hand. I would venture a guess that a lot of us don't. I live with at least one Snoop. We're talking someone who would immediately start going through my messages.
@J3317 @evilcookies98 @darkyen We're not aware of a TTS app we could include right now due to the need for licensing acceptable for inclusion in GrapheneOS and the need for direct boot support. That means either permissive licensing or GPLv2 for both the code AND the language models. We won't use something with non-commercial usage licensing for the language models, etc. We also won't include GPLv3 software in the base OS, although we're fine with redistributing it in our App Store.
@J3317 @evilcookies98 @darkyen We have our open source fork of TalkBack included so all we need is a permissively licensed text-to-speech implementation including the language models (GPLv2 is permissive enough, GPLv3 is not, but we'd prefer MIT / BSD / Apache 2). We'd then need to integrate it so that it's functional by default and add a way to enable TalkBack in our Setup Wizard. We cannot make a TTS implementation ourselves right now, so unless there's a good one we can use, this is blocked.
@darkyen @fireborn @J3317 right? It’s basic things like this that lead me to not recommending products. Now that I’m a little bit older and know what I’m doing, I recommend against anybody buying a vintage iPhone because those wouldn’t talk to you on set up either. If you wanna buy it just to collect it, don’t use it. it won’t talk to you.
9front is a fork of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system. This publication is a print edition of the 9front Dash 1 manual. It is very likely outdated.
Taking a break from reality to watch high-speed film launches of the Space Shuttle.
Stepping back in time to a world when NASA was sending humans into space using a lot less computing power than your new TV.
It's a very calming video, watching thousands of pounds of fuel ignited as the shuttle and it's boosters slowly rise into the sky. 45mins of rockets on fire.
@jpellis2008 I believe so, although I don't know how many NLS affiliates have them to distribute. I'm personally not interested in getting one and so I haven't done any inquiries or investigations as to how readily available they are. I'm sure others out here know way more about this than I do.
"Only humans can do this because we're special" and other lies we tell ourselves
With a large enough dataset and a well trained model, all we need is compute and ridiculous amount of tokens and yes, it will be able to create and maintain subtext through a novel-length story. RT: wandering.shop/users/JulietEMc…
Bringing this from writer Joseph Malik over from Bluesky. I think it's spot on.
"Subtext separates a novel from a novel-length story. Subtext is the part that AI can't--and never will--generate. It can't read for subtext.
I think there is a clear cross section of people who believe AI cannot produce things that human brains can produce as well as the idea that animals do not have the capacity to think
The human mind is not unique. We operate on data and patterns and stimuli. We can feed an AI model stimuli too, and it will generate output based on its dataset and learned patterns.
What *is* unique is our emotions. But they can be simulated. They can also be faked by people without them (psychopaths), or those who are not actually experiencing them organically (acting)
Meanwhile, I want AI to do stuff I DON'T want (humans) to do. Common house chores? Yes please. Dangerous jobs, like mining deep underground? Yes please. Dumb and repetitive tasks, like factory conveyor belts? Yes please. Tasks that require incredible precision, like brain surgery? Yes please.
Let humans do the wondering, the exploring, the art. Let us tell the stories, the culture, like we have done for hundreds of thousands of years.
@collectifission I agree, but obviously generating artistic works is cheap and easy in comparison whereas solving the other tasks requires interaction with the physical world and other humans which is risky. Physical harm to a human or property carries a lot of liability, so unless they are shielded from it there's not a lot of incentive to invest in this area.
Sigh. It's possible to remotely, physically locate any O2 mobile customer at any time over the internet with a trivial method using their mobile phone number, due to O2's poor implementation of 4G Calling which, by design, gives away the Cell ID.
After Debian archive was updated to 12.11, the Debian CD team did the hard work of preparing and testing our installation medias to ensure everything worked properly. Their work is now complete and the images are available at debian.org/distrib/ #debian #bookworm
How do you explain the release with a known defective kernel ? How is it it was not postponed ? I thought #Debian was all about stability, and not about "yadayada we told that date, we launch that date, bug or not"... ?
tieto párky? ahh to vám musím povedať tiež, kupujem si raňajky do práce a celkom nabitý týpek si ich kupuje, si hovorím tieto som ešte nevidel. naposledy nakupujem v potravinách #za_rohom a helemese, neviem uvidíme
edit: majú deväťdesiatštyri percent mäsa, to znie dobre
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the steward of federal funding for public media outlets like NPR and PBS, has revised its bylaws to strengthen protections for its board of directors.
This guide will teach you the extreme basics of using the Mac including turning it on. Locating keys on the built in keyboard including a description of what's Touch ID.
for iOS and iPadOS 18.5 Intro VoiceOver is Apple's screen reader, which can be found across all Apple platforms, from iPhones, iPads, Macs, iPods, etc.
"Privacy watchdog Noyb sent a cease-and-desist letter to Meta Wednesday, threatening to pursue a potentially billion-dollar class action to block Meta's AI training, which starts soon in the European Union."
OK, I admit I am still skeptical. And probably will be until I get to attend one of these shows myself. Do you really believe the choirs in this video are not edited or somehow enhanced post-production? youtube.com/watch?v=RpCNaICb1F…
Over the past few years Jacob Collier has been experimenting with what he calls the 'Audience Choir', where he uses his audiences like an instrument, conduct...
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in reply to James Scholes • • •Thanks @masonasons for the tip that yt-dlp can download from RSS feeds. Here's the command I came up with to download all available podcast items from a feed in chronological order (oldest first) to nicely numbered files with the title and date.
yt-dlp --no-abort-on-error --color "no_color" --download-archive ".download_history" --windows-filenames --embed-metadata --embed-chapters --playlist-items "::-1" --output "%(n_entries+1-playlist_index)02d %(title)s (%(upload_date>%B %d %Y)s).%(ext)s" --format bestaudio "example.com/rss"
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