Computers were expensive in those days. The base price ($1295) plus the monitor ($495) plus 256K of additional RAM ($195) brought the total up to $1985 – after adjusting for inflation, this would be about $6000!
A picture showing most modern digital products and services Current digital infrastructure is to a large degree built on layers and layers of Open Source.
if it's purely "EU funded" that implies to me that it's from a general fund that also includes personal/individual income tax, which I'd be opposed to. It should be funded by the corporations profiting from open source, not the general populace.
@hyc if the software is "critical", it is used widely in society already so you ARE using it, so adding the tax on companies makes no difference in the end because they charge their users: us. We are the ones paying either way.
I suppose. But even if everyone uses it, not everyone is financially profiting from it. If you tax the companies, even if they pass the cost onto their customers, it's still more targeted than taxing everyone.
"Since then I learned how well curl project is maintained. How quickly issues are addressed and how many work is put to have all needed resources for users of curl. What a project! What a tool! What an author! Thank you!"
On August 5 2025, it is exactly 10,000 days since March 20 1998 when the first curl release was done. For this occasion we want to collect fun, exciting, or interesting stories that involve curl an...
It’s often said that what’s inside matters more than one’s looks, but it’s hard to argue that a product’s looks and its physical user experience are what makes it inst…
Interview: Tuta Begrüssung und Vorstellung von Hanna Bozakov Wer ist und was macht die Firma Tutao GmbH und warum heisst sie nicht Tuta GmbH? Wie steht ihr zu den Themen Ethik, Nachhaltigkeit, Open Source, Zusammenarbeit mit der Community? Was sind die USPs eurer Lösung? Wie kann man mit Tuta Mail verschlüsselt mit anderen kommunizieren, die kein Tuta Mail verwenden? Man kennt euch in erster Linie als E-Mail-Provider. Wie differenziert ihr euch von Mailbox.org oder Proton Mail? Seht ihr euch als Konkurrenten oder gibt es ein Zusammenspiel auf dem europäischen Markt? Wie seht ihr Bestrebungen der EU Privatsphäre zu untergraben, Stichwort Chatkontrolle? Welche Rolle spielt die Tutao GmbH im Rennen um das europäische Souveränitätsbestreben? Welche Zielgruppe sprecht ihr mit eurem Angebot an? Gibt es Pläne für weitere Produkte? Verabschiedung
A Windows sysadmin tool that more people should know about is the Magic Number Database at magnumdb.com
This database is great for pasting weird Windows hexadecimal errors into and finding out what they might mean.
Example from today, I got 0x80d02002 during a Windows update. Magnumdb tells me that this result corresponds to DO_E_DOWNLOAD_NO_PROGRESS, so now I know it's probably because an update server isn't responding.
Is Google’s AI secretly reading your private texts?
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On this day forty-one years ago, the code memories for the DECtalk DTC-01 firmware version 2.0 were apparently generated. Here's an audio sample of such a unit doing a power-on self-test and then speaking a test message. Transcript in alt text.
hehe. Just playing this self-test again. I'm also happy with dictionaries generated in the 1980's, for the most part. That probably makes me a bit backward.
@remixman @lexipic I had 3 devices from Dolphin in the UK here. an Apollo 2, which connected to a serial port on my desktop. It was a box with a headphone port, volume dial etc. Then there was a version of that which sat inside the computer's case, so someone had wired that all in for me. and finally a card which attached to a laptop and provided the same feature whilst sticking out the side of the computer. I never had any American hardware though, my first exposure to doubletalk was the road runner from 1999. I then moved onto the book courier (I think the US version was the book port?) but then the port plus moved to software TTS and that was that. I was not interested thereafter haha
@remixman @lexipic Looking back, objectively, I can only have used Doubletalk for 7 years. i must have gotten through thousands of books in that time, but I haven't had a working one since I tried to show it to my girlfriend in the summer of 2007 and found the hardware broken. So it's been 18 years since I even used it. Would I move away from Eloquence long term? Probably not. but I miss it and really don't want to see any technology die
@lexipic @remixman a synthesizer? Possibly. The company that made them still sell the chipsets. But they're not compatible with any modern screen readers, so it'd just be a vanity project and I just don't have the spare cash for fun but pointless things sadly. No chance of unearthing a road runner or book courier though, I'd imagine.
@lexipic @cachondo At one point I had Access32 working on XP, which was heavily used on netbooks. So if you could find that, you could probably just use that.
@remixman @lexipic I had no idea that RC Systems sold a version of the doubletalk I could wire up to a breadboard. $75 for a v-stamp. That's cool. Would be a relatively simple matter to turn that into a keypad-driven text file reader. I could remake the book port, effectively.
@troed I still haven't gotten it completely up and running, been vacationing mostly the last few days. I'll write up a blog post about it once I have. Probably within a week or so.
To be honest, I would've preferred no "we know exactly who you are, enjoy this machine you'll be trusting for the next couple of years" note in my shipment.
But I'm probably a tiny bit paranoid about these things.
I'd like to just add that this is more appreciation shown in this note than from most companies that ever used my Open Source. It's not a high bar. I truly appreciate it - said without sarcasm.
Google used to be really good, they once donated a big quad-socket server to the OpenLDAP Project, and they sent me a little gift pack with some shiny metal gadgets. Back ~2007 or so. Back when Jeremy Allison from Samba Team was their head of open source...
the mousepad idea is cute 🤏🏻❤️ for nostalgic reasons, a cdr with a kind of bad lettering but they messed up with the date, no one was burning cd's in 2023 anymore, it should be 2003 #imho 🙃
I seriously am curious if Tweesecake Clyant's built in recording feature even works, as i don't see anyone that uses it. So, guess what? We are gonna try it! Hope this works! As i havn't made a post with Tweesecake in a while.
Do you think you could add eleventy-excellent.netlify.app… and add an accessibility statement marking what you do, and how folks can report errors when they come in?
Every little website is being pushed onto Facebook thanks to the computer illiterate duckheads in UK Parliament. We'll played MPs, people are much more vulnerable on Facebook you cuckwombles 🤬
Look, I don't want to go all xkcd 1172 here, but it'd be really great if I could do actual work instead of having to work around things broken by random updates.
Steps to reproduce the problem Open https://mastodon.social/deck/getting-started Scroll to a post containing an image with alt text Mouse over the image Expected behaviour Alt text appears Actual b...
Tohle je ta zajimava stranka, jak ti agenti funguji. Cela magie kolem toho jsou algoritmy (ne-AI), jak se v tom repozitari pohybovat a hledat (neco, co treba lidi moc nezvladaji).
V zasade dela pseudo-nahodne veci, dokud nenarazi na ten emscripten build do wa a ten spusti. Nasazene je to potom pres Github pages (efektivne udela staticky webserver z build directory).
Ale to hledani v repozitari me fascinuje a bavi sledovat, treba jak si Codex poradi s iOS appkou Unreleased u nas.
Its new video time again folks. Did you know that with REAPER version 7.42 a new scrubbing mode got introduced? No? My newest video tells you all the differences between the three available REAPER scrubbing modes, how they can be used and what neat little keystrokes we now got on the OSARA keymap to make our lifes so much easier. Plus, I give you a demo on how I use them when editing VoiceOvers. Enjoy. youtube.com/watch?v=a0HbxFOm9K…
Everyone knows the tape scrub mode in REAPER, as this is the default setting when turning on REAPER for the first time. You might have already heard of the l...
Current digital infrastructure is to a large degree built on layers and layers of open source, and yet a substantial part of this open source is built and maintained by enthusiasts or other financially and resource-constrained teams. Funding options like the EU-STF proposal can truly help enforce the ecosystem and offer new paths towards sustainability.
The report ‘Funding Europe’s Open Digital Infrastructure: The Economic, Legal, and Political Feasibility of an EU Sovereign Tech Fund (EU-STF)’ provides a roadmap for establishing an EU Sovereign Tech Fund to secure, maintain, and scale critical open…
a lot of questions: maybe vast parts of that digital infrastructure are 'unhealthy, or wasteland' ... should it exist at all ? How much of the digital infrastructure is worthwhile - is it worth the cost of supporting all the useless stuff to get to the 'good' stuff ? Who gets to determine what is usefull ? Are funds another form of corporate welfare ... ideally these funds would be created via taxing corporate personhoods but I get the feeling that will not directly be the case.
My pro meeting audio tip for #GNOME users: map an unused top-right corner keyboard key as global shortcut for (un)muting the microphone, then paper-sticker-label it. Now no need to have the meeting browser tab focused (or to remember each conferencing app's shortcuts) to toggle your microphone input.
The recording indicator in the top-right of your screen in GNOME reflects that change, although a bit too subtly. Up for grabs for newcomers: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-s…
About a year and a half ago, I bought a cheap rechargeable electric screw driver on Amazon, which I really don't like much, mostly because it's switch is one of those round ones near the shaft. Give me a trigger, or a rocker switch, or... just about anything else.
Anyway, I only just discovered last night that it has a button that beeps when pressed. I assume it's maybe a light. Can't se itt, don't know.
Two questions, though: 1. Why bother beeping at all? 2. Why is this beep so sad?
Scientists have reached a stunning milestone by using artificial intelligence to invent a brand new material that is as strong as carbon steel but lighter than foam. Developed by teams at the University of Toronto and Caltech, this next-gen material was not found through trial and error, but entirely imagined by AI. The breakthrough offers a glimpse into a future where machine intelligence doesn't just enhance human ideas, it creates its own.
The research team trained their AI models on how different microstructures behave under extreme stress. Then, without human interference, the AI generated completely new lattice patterns optimized for maximum strength and minimal weight. Once 3D printed, these nanolattices were tested in the real world and outperformed anything previously known boasting up to five times the strength of titanium, yet remaining ultra lightweight. This solves a major challenge in material science: making something that’s both tough and flexible without being brittle.
Applications for this discovery are vast. Swapping out titanium in aircraft could save up to 80 liters of fuel per kilogram annually, according to the research. The material’s potential impact spans aerospace, automotive, architecture, and beyond. With production scaling on the horizon, this AI-designed innovation might redefine how we build the world around us, stronger, lighter, and smarter than ever before. Sources: PMID 39846271, PMCID PMC11983246
YouTube recommended this video to me the other day, and I absolutely love it, an orchestrion playing a Big Band music roll. It's incredible what these mechanical instruments can do! youtube.com/watch?v=h_Nd1Qo0YD…
Big Band music lovers - this one's for you!I was asked to post a video of the entire big band roll. I have to admit it's a great roll - the songs are beautif...
Changes in Beta 4: - Fixed retrieving some text in object navigation / review cursor - Added a warning before installing or updating NVDA on the controlled end of an NVDA Remote Access connection. - Removed changes to trusted certificate handling which caused problems with NVDA Remote Access & some add-ons. - Updates to translations.
Hello, please add built -in functionality to a program that will allow you to check the already added key combinations. When I add a new combination of keys, the program does not allow me to understand that this combination of keys already exists.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. The quick reference guide (generated from the user guide) is a handy reference of keystrokes, however there are several issues: It may...
I am writing to inquire about a feature for the NVDA screen reader. Currently, NVDA has a speech dictionary. Would it be possible to add the functionality to mark specific letters within a word to indicate the proper pronunciation, specifically for emphasis or stress (i.e., to denote the stressed syllable)?
@kingoffire You can use the dictionary to "correct" how a synthesizer reads a particular word, is that what you mean?
There will always be issues such as the difference between "live" in "We are broadcasting live" and "I want to live while I am young". That could be something an AI pronunciation add-on could address in future, but otherwise, we wouldn't want to start asking document authors to change how they write the word in each context.
Please add a way to mark stress in NVDA’s speech dictionary, so users can specify which letter in a word should be stressed for correct pronunciation. Many speech programs already support this with a simple symbol or system—no neural tools are needed, just a marking like '+', as seen in other TTS engines. Thanks!
@kingoffire You asked this question yesterday - mastodon.ml/@kingoffire/114902… - And I did reply to that post. Beyond creating a dictionary entry to change how a particular word is read, there really isn't a way I can think of. If you are using eSpeak-NG, and notice an issue consistently, you could create an issue for them, or submit a fix: github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng…
I am writing to inquire about a feature for the NVDA screen reader. Currently, NVDA has a speech dictionary. Would it be possible to add the functionality to mark specific letters within a word to indicate the proper pronunciation, specifically for emphasis or stress (i.e., to denote the stressed syllable)?
How do you stop NVDA from saying "This Page Link" on pages all the time, even though the link it is saying that before announcing is on the same page? Example: I'm on a site called WatZatSong (song identification site I go on frequently). NVDA is saying "Link, link, link" before every link, as it should, but some links it says "This page link" before announcing the link, instead of just "link". It is really annoying and has actually led to me doing things I didn't want to quite a few times because the announcement has thrown me off. How do you stop that from happening? Or is there no way to stop it?
@randomuser Press NVDA+control+d to open NVDA's document formatting settings, tab to "Link Destination" and press spacebar to uncheck then enter to close (be sure to save your settings with NVDA+control+c).
Thank you. I don't have link destination in my document formatting settings, but I do have "link". Am I doing something wrong or am I missing something?
So, are you no longer on Google Groups or is this just an alias for the Google Groups email? I will say that one thing that I like about Groups.io is that a subscriber can set a group to only email you the first message in each thread or topic, except for those which you reply to or which you manually choose to follow. Does your group support this capability?
I must admit I'm still finding my way around Google Groups features (We've had groups on Google Groups for years, such as our API announcement list, but as that was a smaller, announce only list, these questions hadn't come up). I know there are several "digest" modes (digest is 1 email per day for every 25 message & archive is 1 for every 150 messages). Not sure if you can get just the first in each topic.
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A man who openly identified as a “fascist” during a debate Mehdi Hasan has raised over $18K after claiming he was fired for expressing his political beliefs.
Ozzy Osborne died today at the age of 76. His farewell concert a few weeks ago was the highest-grossing charity concert of all time, raising more than $200 million. stereogum.com/2315456/ozzy-osb…
More than two dozen retired senior US military officers and 22 former US ambassadors are among those telling a federal court that dismantling VOA is “unlawful and unwise,” as it helped achieve important foreign policy goals and confirmed America’s role as a beacon of democracy and freedom. #SaveVOA
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