Spotify JSON history to readable txt converter, an app to convert your Json Spotify data to friendly readable format has been released: This is a simple offline tool that converts Spotify's JSON streaming history into a clean, readable text file. It works entirely in your browser. It all started when my "Discover Weekly" playlist on Spotify refreshed and all the great songs I liked were gone. Unfortunately i was on the trip, and music was playing in the background, so i forgot to add those songs to the library. I checked the listening history in the app, but that only shows the last 50 tracks. Then I discovered that you can request your full listening data from Spotify, so I did it and received a ZIP with large JSON files. Files were technically readable, but not convenient at all, so I wrote a small HTML + JavaScript tool that converts them into a clean text file with just the date, artist, and track title. It works offline in your browser and makes the Spotify history actually useful. tdprograms.ovh/pfiles/SpotifyJ…
Well, thank you Amazon for alwasy having every darn thing I need. I needed a folder for my new blue badge, that allows us to use disabled parking when I'm out with Justine, for anyone who doesn't know, and I even managed to get a pink one! Woot!
No entiendo lo del “LB”. Lo veo mucho, y es como si me estuviera perdiendo algo. Como si “LB” fueran las siglas de “Mensaje fuera de contexto” en algún idioma que yo desconozco.
Sé que significa “last boost” y hace referencia al último toot que se ha hecho rt. Pero (a) ese toot no tiene por qué estar cerca y a veces obliga al lector a entrar en el perfil a buscar y (b) el toot con “LB” puede haber sido retooteado, y lo mismo se escribió hace varios días, lo que hace casi imposible encontrar el toot al que se refiere en su inicio.
Yo prefiero citar con mención y enlace al toot al que me refiero, de ese modo mi comentario queda ligado a él.
Y sintiéndolo mucho, he añadido “LB” a mis filtros. Porque en serio que no me entero de nada 🤣
Una opción alternativa (aunque entiendo a quien no le guste) es poner el tut del LB como respuesta al tut impulsado, borrando el nombre de usuario. El resultado es que se puede abrir el hilo y ver el tut impulsado directamente.
This is what I’ve been working on for last months at #CVUTFEL – electronic door sign for classrooms. 10.2" e-ink display, ESPink #ESP32 board from #Laskakit, battery (for some), a custom case, firmware and control server. Receives images via MQTT, sends telemetry back. #IoT
The case was designed in FreeCAD and printed it on Prusa MK3S and Prusa Core One. Firmware is built on Arduino SDK with patched GxEPD2_4G lib. Control server is written in TypeScript and runs on NodeJS. It renders screens to 2-bit grayscale PNG and sends via Mosquitto.
The price is ~115 EUR of you order the e-ink display and battery directly from China.
Most of this is my work, from the hardware up to the control server and also monitoring. It’s a very interesting project, a nice change from what I normally do because it’s a physical object. :)
This batch is 32 pieces and they will be installed mainly in Dejvice this month.
Today, we are remembering David Graeber, who passed away five years ago.
“Nothing could conceivably be more violent than to tell us—and particularly our young people—we are forbidden to even dream of a peaceful, caring world.”
Putin and Vucic met once again and officially they spoke about gas deliveries through Hungary. But strangely the transcript doesn't mention that Ukraine interrupted these deliveries last month.
So they must have spoken about something else pressing that cannot make it into the official transcripts. Right now Russia could hardly afford sending any form of support to violently suppress protests. So...?
Cooperation with Russia at the highest level is of vital importance for Serbia, and especially with regard to Russian gas supplies, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said Monday at the start of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Be…
Now now, you're giving me some interesting news to read. Honestly, am I surprised? No. Maybe he does want to escape. 😂 From what exactly does he want to escape, I'd want to wonder, but okay. His country doesn't look that bad to me.
Oh, I can't see the post, don't have bsky, and they haven't fixed accessibility. I went there not recently, but people didn't look worried or unhappy to me, or maybe there are places where it's not that widely seen. I haven't asked others who've gone, so I can't say more, but I won't also say that it's definitely not good with the whole happenings in the recent few years, nowhere has been good tbf.
Are you in Brazil this week? The World Blindness Summit and WBU General Assembly are taking place in São Paulo and NV Access are there!
From 9am on Wednesday 3rd (10pm Australian Eastern time), as part of the "Nothing About Us Without Us" panel, NV Access director Emma Bennison speaks on "Why Should Blind People Lead Their Organisations?"
At 2:30PM (3:30AM AEST), NV Access General Manager James Boreham, and Emma Bennison speak about "NVDA, A Global and Resilient Movement: Community-Driven Access to Digital Inclusion" as part of a panel on "Digital Access for All."
For those interested in streaming the world blind union today, the link we posted earlier was for day 1. You could get to today's link through there, but here is a direct link to the English stream for today: youtube.com/live/32IYXSanUXw
As I start into my office life, well sort of, I wondered if the #Blind have any tips or resources using #NVDASR with the typical MS Office programs and co. I'm familiar with Word, but what about Outlook (Mail and Calendar) Teams etc? I've never worked with these really, so anything is appreciated. @mastoblind @NVAccess
We have training material on some of the main office modules (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint).
Microsoft do have pages of shortcut keys for the various programs, eg here is their page for Teams: support.microsoft.com/en-us/of…
Often it is a matter of getting used to how your particular employer works, eg even in Word, they might send you suggested changes, but whether they do that in comments, track changes or highlighted text will vary which features you need to know :)
The stupid, it burns. This guy is US Secretary of Energy and blithely puts certifiably and grossly and embarrassingly incorrect statements on social media.
alien: earth is so so good. I had real concerns with the early ep disney stuff but the last couple eps have been amazing. love the photography, bold choices on soundtrack that really work for me (PUMPKINS), great characters, pitch perfect casting.
EDIT: these were just from the top of my head, there are quite few others too, among which @kaidan / libervia by @Goffi / @monocles / @cheogram (this list _not_ exhaustive)
@nicoco @prose @dino @movim @daniel @kaidan @Goffi @monocles @cheogram interesting projects, but I'm more so interested in an app that provides a modern and consistent experience across platforms - think Signal, but powered by XMPP.
I think you should be able to only restore your local Homeserver's data in Matrix and let it backfill all the other data from the originating servers. If you can't do that what's the point ??
I'm still amazed this place actually existed...⬇️Download for Java AND Bedrock! https://www.patreon.com/posts/kowloon-walled-137265831?utm_medium=clipboard_c...
Our current “democracy” is not fit for the challenges of preserving complex life on Earth—it functions more like a kleptocracy. Ordinary people need to reclaim governance by building what they call a “House of the People,” where wisdom—not wealth or power alone—drives decision-making.
It's a hopeful discussion of what is possible, and indeed what is actually being done.
When people have experienced ways to bring Power to those with Wisdom and Wisdom to those with Power, then they’ll work together to make it a reality at a larger scale.
An update to Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine that targets the newest variants and is made entirely within Canada's borders was just approved by Health Canada.
Federal public servants took fewer sick days during peak pandemic remote work, but sick leave has now risen to pre-COVID levels, with 9.2 days on average in 2023–24.
How to easily integrate a XMPP server with Akkoma or Pleroma. In the following we will concentrate on Akkoma (a better Pleroma fork), but Pleroma should work more or less the same.
something to warn users about with these integrations is that they don't support Channel Binding (or at least I don't think they do).
Channel Binding is something I would like to enable by default in a not too distant future and I hope that other clients move with me.
It will still be possible to disable because there are obviously deployments where this can not be avoided but it would be nice if we could keep those to a minimum.
I assume as long as SASL-SCRAM-plain is the only way to achive auth integration with other system, there is really no way around that. Channel Binding is a nice feature, but personally I find it much lower priority than auth integration.
Maybe you could look into supporting Oauth2/OIDC login flows in Conversations? At least Prosody seems to have good support for this now, and I think this might be the only realistic way to have both Channel Binding and auth integration.
@kris As far as I’m aware the oauth support in @prosodyim is for authenticating other apps against existing prosody users. Meaning the user database of Prosody would be the source of truth which would allow Conversations to use channel binding. So yes I agree that this would be the better approach to integrations. But I don’t think Conversations is much involved here.
@kris @prosodyim To be clear I think integrations are good. We shouldn’t prioritize between integration and channel binding and instead - from the get go - find ways to have both.
@daniel @kris The OIDC/OAuth2 project for @prosodyim does support both internal and external user databases. The focus was on allowing fine-grained permission and not exposing passwords to web clients, but the resulting SASL middleware made it easy to support external identity providers.
The federal judge let Google off the hook in the antitrust case that the company supposedly lost. He said no to any serious remedy. And he indirectly killed Mozilla (Firefox and Thunderbird).
A good day for Google, and a terrible day for what's left of the open web.
After an amazing long run of stability it has been decided that I am back on the job market and available to work for a new employer. I prefer to remain in the #accessibility space, but I guess beggers can't be choosers and all that jazz. I'm doing my own search but if anyone out here is on a team needing help or has any job leads, I would really appreciate making the connection. #CPWA #WCAG #Salesforce
The NFB recently advertised two open positions in accessibility advocacy that were circulated here on the Fediverse. I assume you would need authorization to work in the United States for those roles, so they may or may not apply to you. I looked at them myself, but I'm not looking for advocacy work - rather, I wish to be in more research and policy-oriented positions that ideally also emphasize contributing to the scholarly literature (e.g., academic or policy organizations).
For a service that depends directly on a Postgres database they've shown:
- they don't know how to properly manage storage - they still never turned on pg_checksum - they have no idea how to run a reliable production Postgres cluster
These are unserious people trying to run a serious project and it should make you very concerned about how professionally they do all their work RT: mastodon.matrix.org/users/matr…
Sorry, but it's bad news: we haven't been able to restore the DB primary filesystem to a state we're confident in running as a primary (especially given our experiences with slow-burning postgres db corruption). So we're having to do a full 55TB DB snapshot restore from last night, which will take >10h to recover the data, and then >4h to actually restore, and then >3h to catch up on missing traffic. Huge apologies for the outage. Again, folks using their own homeservers are not impacted.
Oh a mysterious "slow burn" of Postgres corruption? Where is the engagement on the Postgres mailing lists? I haven't seen a single thread about this issue on the pgsql-general or pgsql-hackers lists.
It's either a hardware storage bug, a raid implementation bug, a kernel bug, or their Postgres/filesystem tuning is trading data reliability for performance. But they're not sharing anything of value.
Postgres doesn't just corrupt itself. We have several DBs > 100TB at $work. Many people have significantly larger databases...
I kinda doubt their recovery times too. They will probably forget that they need to disable indexes to make the restore have a reasonable speed. And pg_restore is single threaded per table. 1.5TB can take 1.5 days.
I think they're fucked. I wonder if they will be able to recover without it taking months, literally. They haven't indicated they're using anything but vanilla Postgres.
This could be the end of the matrix.org homeserver.
pg_dump and pg_restore are reliable tools for backing up and restoring Postgres databases. They're essential for database migrations, disaster recovery and so on.
it's really easy to disable everything and restore an oracle database but postgres is a pain in the fucking ass last time I tried, you have to do a special dump of indices etc separately from structure/data and then do a manual babysat restore. I mean if you're a sysadmin that's your fucking job but it actually does suck imo
@sun Oh I don't disagree, but Oracle has had billions poured into it so they can make that possible. Postgres is nearly as good as Oracle in almost all use cases, but these types of maintenance operations have not yet been engineered for performance.
The companies doing the Postgres forks have been the ones innovating here and putting their time and expertise into making sure they solve their customers' needs. And often those improvements get merged upstream. But as far as R&D goes it's still a drop in the bucket compared to Oracle 🫠
@j @sun Tons of features you probably don't need and a unique ability to drain your company of all its money both in licensing costs and Oracle DBA salaries
Although if you have a particular problem they will make you a custom patch you can apply to your Oracle database. A change to the code nobody else will ever have. It's bizarre.
@j @sun At that point you basically consult them for every patch / upgrade so they can keep your changes working. This is sometimes a major issue keeping companies from upgrading to the next major release as their query planner etc will change and you could lose the performance you had or new problems arise that need different custom patches to keep your workload performing as expected.
@j if you aren't a big company the few benefits aren't worth it, in fact I would say it has little benefit unless you buy their most expensive horizontally scaleable option which is meant for busineses where the data size is so massive it should be nosql but you're architecturally locked into rdbms. very time I've mentioned it on here people say "you're doing it wrong" well I have to explain that a lot of corporate customers are just plain locked into somethigng that got built in the 1990s and it would take a hundred million dollars and shitloads of uinacceptable risk to rewrite. for those customers there is a big fat oracle database and you will pay a LOT for it.
@j for years and years people went with oracle because it was the only ANSI SQL compliant database, everybody else either didn't have x feature or it was a proprietary extension. but this hasn't been true for years, Postgres is compliant.
oracle also spends a gazillion dollars convincing your company to put everything into oracle though, so they have really stupid bad shit you should never do, but on the surface you think "I'm already paying them so I'll integrate that too". it's pretty transparent that they're taking advantage of know-nothing managers to trap companies into never being able to leave.
@sun @j It helps that they offer you 24/7 access to experts and developers to solve your problems in case your own employees aren't capable. They become an extension of your IT department. But really they're a virus.
@j for a long time it was really fucking difficult to even get it installed and install patches so you relied on them heavily but now you can install it with apt-get. it used to take more than a day for your most expensive technical staff member to install it correctly. many companies just opted to pay oracle directly to set up their shit
@sun @j We had a scheduled overnight outage in 2007 to upgrade Oracle 9i to 10g. It was an 8 hour outage and the process to backup then apply the patches took 7 hours.
We couldn't afford more Sun servers. A restore from backup was also 8 hours. We practiced it several times because even doing one thing out of order breaks the database.
It was all or nothing (and probably losing our jobs).
yeah but there's a performance penalty to the COW of ZFS. Soon™️ OpenZFS will support a DirectIO interface to make Postgres fast, but it's not released last I checked
@j I have been told repeatedly to not put a database on ZFS but this info seems to be contradicted last year or so by people doing it successfully. In the past there was speed issues but they were somewhat mitigated by compression
@sun @j You can and I have done so without issues, it's just not a simple install, configure Postgres and let it run thing. You have to change record sizes to avoid fragmentation, if you are on fast SSDs disable ZIL on your DB dataset and hope that Postgres will ensure data integrity with fsync and pg_wal, or move it to a special ZIL SLOG on fast SSDs. And those are the absolute basics of what you have to do to make it somewhat work.
@sun @j Yes, it's very much in the technical voodoo territory. There's also many configurations that will wreck your ZFS performance if you don't know what you are doing. Hence why companies like Klara Systems exist.
Setting record size to 8k is faster than 16k but only for a little bit because it gets super fragmented. Setting to 16k fixes the fragmentation and provides better compression ratios since compression happens to each record block. Setting to 32 or higher could be interesting and help compression even more. You won't see improvements beyond the default 128k on like 95% of drives and it could even hurt performance. That being said 1M+ record sizes may be useful in conjunction with zstd-4 for long-term archival of compressible data like database backups. All of this can be changed whenever so it's not that big of a deal. Block size you're stuck with forever so make sure you set the correct block size.
Most of the data the database actually cares about at any time will live in the arc (ram cache) and if you use compression it's compressed in the ARC so you get even better cache hits.
For compression I used lz4. Zstd (even compression level 1) was too much latency. Lz4 is really great and shaved off about 45% of data needing to be written to disk. That was the main reason I switched to zfs. It was the only practical filesystem for postgres that supports disk compression.
It makes postgres upgrades super fast and easy. Just take a snapshot, hard link the database files, fire up the new postgres version and it should work but if it starts fugging the database then you can just easily restore the snapshot.
I came for the compression and ending up loving it because not only is it the best filesystem but it's the best disk management system too. You can even just create raw volumes and format them however you want. You can have ext4 on zfs, you can have NTFS on zfs, you could even put zfs on top of zfs if you really wanted to.
Zfs is also the only way to have a compressed swap partition
+ UPDATE (2021/12/21) After lots of feedback on Reddit (thanks /u/BucketOfSpinningRust!) and doing some more experimenting and digging, I've updated this post with more information -- new/updated sections are marked "Update".
> All of this can be changed whenever so it's not that big of a deal.
when you make these changes to ZFS filesystems it does not change the existing data. That problem is left to you to solve -- traditionally by restoring all the data from backup.
However, a new tool is coming called "zfs rewrite" that will let you atomically rewrite underlying blocks so the data gets the new storage settings applied to the filesystem.
@j @sun That's nice, although not specifically mentioned, I guess it should be able to rewrite fragmented files into continuous blocks. And the whole send, destroy, recreate, recv dance wouldn't be needed. Not really a wide spread issue, but it does happen.
@phnt @j @sun correct it would reduce fragmentation.
Right now I solve that problem myself with a custom script I made that uses cpdup to clone files and then move them into place of the original. A ZFS native tool would be much better.
> “(T)he Court’s role is to respect the choices that the people have agreed upon, not to tell them what they should agree to,” Barrett writes in “Listening to the Law,” set to be published on September 9.
So if the Court believed the majority of the country thinks slavery should be legal -- whether or not that's actually what the country really believes -- they'd rule it's legal again? Like, what the fuck is she on about? Their job is to interpret the Constitution not rule in favor of what they believe the majority wants
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#InEarMonitor #IEM #audiophile Here's a mind-blowing test track for headphones/earphones/earbuds. It's an incredible experience. You have a giant speaker rotating around your head and Billie stomping around you in a circle clicking her fingers. It will not work even on a good surround sound system.
I'm listening to the BTSpeak webinar and I've managed not to bug David Goldfield. Lol! But I will relentlessly on Mastodon; because I'm silly that way.
Spent 45 minutes down an algorithmic rabbit hole, only to remind myself that I DON'T HAVE PROFILING DATA YET to know if I'll really need that algorithm, or if we can avoid that work altogether.
@federicomena's point reminds me of multiple Algorithms professors (undergraduate & graduate) ranting “constants never matter — it's always gonna be θ(㏒(n)), θ(n), θ(n⋅㏒(n)), θ(n²), θ(n³), or θ(2ⁿ)”.
Years later, I finally thought of the best retort: As a human,try running by hand (or foot) an algorithm that takes (1⋅n) time vs. (3⋅n) time & tell me again constants don't matter.
I realize this is orthogonal to profiling; I'm just noting the academic/practitioner divide on this.
@bkuhn @blandford I wonder where academia is these days with respect to real-world issues in algorithm analysis... the "linear search is faster when your shit fits in a cache line" kind of thing.
For the code behind WaterwayMap.org (osm-lump-ways) there is so much ineffective first attempts which I'm sure are inefficient... But everything actually works really fast and those parts are fine.
Nothing happened, BTW, he’s the same as he always was. Exactly like I predicted. All the left managed to do was make a lot of noise and create extra buzz around a boring Trump announcement than wouldh have been there otherwise. Great stuff, guys. I want to say let this be a lesson, but I know it won’t be.
I love reading this stuff, but I don't let any of it influence me. There are bigger problems in this country guys, the dude is old, he'll go when he's ready. He's clearly not well, I think that's obvious, but trying to predict when he dies is just dumb and a waste of time.
?!? Works on macOS and Windows. Should work on Linux Bestbuy.ca link 
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