I don't know if this is a temporary or a permanent price change but APH is now selling Studio Recorder for $49.95.
aph.org/product/studio-recorde…

O Rust siempre no es tan seguro como lo publicitan o los de Microsoft fueron capaces de meter vulnerabilidades aún y con Rust :nc_laugh_sweat:

"Check Point Research uncovered what is probably the first-ever publicly disclosed security flaw in a Rust-based component of the Windows kernel—Microsoft’s foundational operating system layer. This vulnerability can cause a total system crash, forcing a hard reboot and instantly knocking users offline."

blog.checkpoint.com/research/m…

"To try to live without using plastic now (at least in the US) is an extremely expensive endeavor, both in terms of money and n terms of time. Plastic is so deeply integrated into so many of our systems that it is very difficult to avoid. But we are at a moment with "AI" where things aren't so deeply integrated, though corporate interests are pushing for them to be. So I believe that every act of refusal is especially powerful and meaningful now..."

buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive…

@emilymbender

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 12 updated and 1 added apps:

* PlayOnDlna: lets you play YouTube videos ad-free on DLNA players in your local network 🛡️

RB status: 688 apps (52.6%)

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

PS: our repo overhaul goes on. Next to sending hundreds of PRs with Fastlane trees upstream (a task long overdue), some other dead bones got buried:

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loved this:

"The lesson is this: never fight a corporation's customer service department. Fight its legal department or its PR department. They don't care about your inconvenience, but they are terrified of a broken promise."

sightlessscribbles.com/posts/2…

@WeirdWriter

Rate my battlestation!

This is a Sony Anycast Station AWS-G500HD from 2007. It's essentially a Sony luggable PIII 933Mhz PC that runs Linux 2.4.20 with a ton of FPGAs to do the heavy lifting of a video switcher. Plus glorious physical buttons, faders, dials, and removable keyboard. Oh, and a jog wheel.

#RetroComputing

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Lidi začínají být čím dál tím větší svině.
Někdo je upálil zaživa, oplakává majitelka feny, které uhořely na Karlovarsku
novinky.cz/clanek/krimi-nekdo-…
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El mejor congreso sobre educación, derechos humanos y proyectos Wikimedia está por llegar 🖥️🌐📚

Hoy es el último día para realizar tu registro y conseguir tu entrada para WECUDI.

🎫 pretix.eu/wikimedia-events/wec…

Masks (respirators)

Well, it looks like the fire service in the United States can't admit that smoke is bad for firefighters because then it would have to admit that it had been putting people at risk for all these years.

This is identical to what we saw healthcare doing during COVID. (Which they did before COVID, and continue to do today.)

pbs.org/newshour/show/why-fire…

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🤔This is kind of like when newspapers report that police officers are "quitting en masse." But then you read the article and for them "quitting" just means "I will not report to duty. I will still collect a paycheck and earn a pension."

He's moving from CEO to Executive Chair of the Board. 🤷🏿‍♂️

He was both CEO and Executive Chair of the Board before too. He's just dropping the CEO part. 🤷🏿‍♂️

No judgment either way, but this isn't a board leadership change.

Do what makes you happy. Seriously! If you enjoy shopping at Target, I love that for you. Seriously. It's your wallet.

forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/…

I’m looking for my next challenge in some intersection of open source, community, and developer advocacy! I am passionate about helping others and doing good with technology, in particular—thus I’m especially interested in working with a non-profit or strongly value-aligned organization.

I’ve loved my work with @EndlessAccess, but unfortunately due to strategic decisions, my particular role won’t exist in the coming months.

cassidyjames.com/resume

#GetFediHired #FediHire #OpenToWork #jobs #cv

What's the 2025 digital trend for you: #AI or digital #sovereignty?

If it's the latter, check out these European alternatives 👉 tuta.com/blog/boycott-us-choos…

And, yes, Tuta is proudly #European! 💪 🇪🇺

New major update to the private, free and open source office suite! #LibreOffice 25.8 is now available, with:

📝 Navigator improvements in Writer
📊 Many new spreadsheet functions
🚀 Faster file loading

Learn more and download it: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware

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in reply to LibreOffice

Please make it simpler to download and update LibreOffice in languages other than English.

To those unfamiliar with English and/or with difficulties with using computers, the download of an English package, and then the requirement of downloading and installing a "translated user interface" can be quite difficult to understand.

Notice this whole ordeal has to be repeated for every update.

Why don't you do it like OpenOffice or Firefox?

#Mozilla have taken a lot of criticism lately, but then they come out with something outstanding and important like this.

hacks.mozilla.org/2025/08/crli…

Excel developers 40 years ago: we've built a world-first recalc system, delivering performant but accurate dynamic cell updating on any architecture or system.

Excel developers now: we added a function that can sometimes give a correct answer. We can't tell if the answer is correct or not. Also it shouldn't be used for numbers in a spreadsheet.

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in reply to Az

Numerical calculations is just not what AI is for.

However, it's far more useful for things like e.g. extracting product dimensions or hotel reservation dates from arbitrary, unstructured text. Before the advent of AI, this was extremely unfulfilling, manual data entry work.

You can then use such data in Excel to do numerical / statistical calculations the "traditional way."

AI may not have perfect reliability (remember that humans don't either!), but you don't always need perfect reliability. If you only want to check how many customers complain about the rooms being too cold versus too hot, and how that is correlated to the weather outside, room location and AC settings, you may prefer a slightly inaccurate analysis over one that requires a person to read 20000 emails and identify temperature complaints.

I really don't get where all this hate is coming from.

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@miki
The hate is coming from people who are losing their jobs. Trained professional, high-paying, white-collar jobs.

Computers have been shedding people's jobs since the 90s, and no one cared.

Factory automation has eliminated millions of regular jobs, and no one cared.

The time to care was when it was first noted that the proceeds of production belong to those who own the means of production.

We never fixed that problem.

@miki

It is so hilarious to me that we have FOSS maintainers begging for money to try to keep the development of NTP ongoing. NTP - you know, that protocol that the entirety of humanity relies on for access to the internet (or anything on a network for that matter).

Meanwhile the o̶l̶i̶g̶a̶r̶c̶h̶y̶ broligarchy makes billions of the backs of these people.

Anyways, they're currently at $495 of $1000 for their 2025 goal. Go throw them some $ if you feel so inclined.

nwtime.org/mills-spring/

#NTP

#ntp

Woke up early. Spot-checking the PDF and ePub files before sending them out to people.

Discovered that all the underlined text is missing. 🤦‍♀️

The exporter converted it to <span class="underline">underlined text</span>

but it should have converted it to _underlined text_

ARRRGH. I should not have to be fucking with code to export my book using existing tools.

in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo 🤔 what about ePub files? I'm assuming that with a kindle eReader or similar device you're screwed and get whatever the manufacturer set up. But the kindle app on a mac or windows would use whatever you've got configured for the OS. Is that correct?

I'm still screwed when it comes to audiobooks though. I'm coming up with zero ideas on how to verbally indicate spoken versus signed without it getting really annoying really fast.

in reply to masukomi

I have to take ePub to Braille directly. I think it uses pandoc in the middle, which uses some type of markdown, which is then faithfully converted to the appropriate Braille for italics, underlines and so forth.

The only thing that comes to mind with audio is some sort of effect.
In the British Harry Potter audios, for instance, there's a little bit of "what would the character say", and it's done with a slight echo effect on the audio.

in reply to masukomi

Editing's a ridiculous time sink either way you work it. If you were doing the narration yourself, I suppose you'd get your engineer to fold that into the mastering process. They'd be working from a written copy of your text anyway, so would already know what's spoken versus ASL. You don't want to change the way you speak, right? You just want to indicate a method of speech.

With PHP 8.5 we get Connection, DNS and SSL Sessions sharing across requests with cURL.

I made a video showing how this works and discuss the performance potential youtube.com/watch?v=wr_Jnrc2ha… - a short @mnapoli cameo included

#php #curl #php8 #php8_5

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If you work on HTTP implementations, deploy it at scale, or have a unique perspective or interest in the protocol, you might find other people to talk to at the 2026 HTTP Workshop: github.com/HTTPWorkshop/worksh…

Dobré narozeninové ráno. Doufám, že bude super den. Hned ráno jsem si udělal radost. 😀Cukr 5,4. Většinou ho mám ráno mezi 7 a 12. Co mi ale vadí je ta hrozná únava kterou pociťují a silné bouchání srdce i když jsem v klidu. 😟
Nebudu si tím kazit den. A za malou chvilku zase stres v práci.
Tak hezké ráno a celý den, joudové.
#zivot
#prace