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@jcsteh Hey I read about your App2Clap project. I'm curious how you can isolate audio from one particular application. For years now, I've been using Total Recorder to record system audio. Before definitely Windows 7 and possibly Vista, in other words, as late as XP, I could record audio as received by the system, exclude applications, do accelerated recording, etc. But then with the newer audio driver, I had to record after processing by Windows, which meant all audio was resampled to the default output sample rate, I could no longer exclude apps, etc. When you said App2Clap requires Windows 11, that gave me the impression that Windows 11 restored some of that older functionality, but I really can't find anything, and Total Recorder hasn't been updated in years. Thoughts? Thanks.
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Jamie Teh

Here's a link to the sample, but I can't help you any further with this. Ultimately, I think you're going to have more mileage and flexibility using OBS or REAPER, but I also understand the desire to avoid being entangled in yet another tool. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/samp… @TheQuinbox

Application loopback audio capture - Code Samples

Demonstrates how to capture system audio either from a specific process tree or for all process except a process tree.
learn.microsoft.com
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As someone who's seen a lifetime's worth of corporate union avoidance strategies, Ruby Central's attempts to discredit gem.coop and prevent it from blossoming into a community-led competitor mirror that combination of misinformation and abuse of power so perfectly that I'm unable to see it in any other way. What's happening in Ruby right now is the closest thing I can imagine to a union busting campaign in open source.

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Uh... cool.
My Synology NAS seems to be doing this thing where no services are available after a restart. I can't get to the web interface, samba isn't available, and a bunch of scripts don't seem to work from command line. I really didn't have let's go through a bunch of logs and see what's broken today on my non-existent bingo card, but here we are, I guess.
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The year is 2025. AI has taken the world by storm, self-driving cars are on the roads, and brain-computer interfaces are being tested on humans. Yet, amidst all this modernity, blind and visually impaired individuals are still stuck utilizing a CAPTCHA service that requires your email address, uses a web browser cookie, and only (sometimes) functions if you scale back your privacy settings. SMH

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Mikołaj Hołysz

Getting an email at a reputable email provider is now one of the hardest things for a machine to do. This is exactly why we need captchas like these.

Recognizing garbled words or distorted images is something a machine can do. What it can't do is provide a "proof of humanity."

As AI gets better, cheaper and more ubiquitous, all captchas will devolve to either "precious resource verification" (where the precious resource is something like an email, phone number or device-specific token), or straight up government identity verification.

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Truly excellent writeup about the current clusterfuck that is Framework (computers):

Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support?

There are alternatives!

Get a refurbished ThinkPad through Minifree, preinstalled with Libreboot and funds the further development.

Or get a vintage ThinkPad with modern internals.

Also, there is:


European Laptop Manufacturers

European Laptop Manufacturers and why you should consider same.
buy-european.net
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feld

I guarantee you every Linux distro has fascist retards involved, they just keep their mouths shut. I've met them everywhere. They don't just not exist; unfortunately they're smart enough to code switch and conceal their alternate online identities

so what are people gonna do when they learn the Linux kernel has a ton of code written by fascists in it? *crickets*

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h3artbl33d

@feld

Thanks for the elaboration, now I understand your point a bit better.

There is, however, a difference between the two of them. Framework does this on a corporate level, whereas contributors to the Linux kernel (or whatever open source project) are individuals.

It is like finding out that your favorite barista at the coffeeshop chain is a nazi, as opposed to the chain donating to $fascist_party.

@feld
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🎃🎃🎃🎃 jae[333]™

> so what are people gonna do when they learn the Linux kernel has a ton of code written by fascists in it? *crickets*

same thing they do when they drive on roads with them. keep on driving to their boba-tea establishment of choice and start picking up arcane operating systems which i don't need to list. the part that has me curious is, how many armchair sjw's are actually buying framework's stuff? if i were to guess it would be < 10%

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alloyed

@feld
so being specific about why this alarms me:
I don't actually care that they donated to the projects without looking into it, that's pretty normal.

it's that, when pointed out, their response was "we don't care about their beliefs, so long as they are participating in open source". and. to me, their beliefs have a pretty direct impact on whether or not they can be good participants in open source!

it points to this idea that, actually, they are just fine with a vision of open source that doesn't include me and lots of my trans/POC friends, same as these other projects.

@feld
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vurpo 🏳️‍⚧️

@feld Framework's entire customer base and company was built on a certain kind of politics. Then when they intentionally make the stupid politically charged decision to give money to dhh, they turn around and go "no politics! we are apolitical!!!" as if we're all clueless.

People are not trying to "cancel" framework. They're just pointing out how stupid framework *themselves* are for killing off their own customer base, by doing this.

This is like if Fairphone decided to go "actually we're going to switch to slave labour sources of metals and minerals, because it's so much cheaper!" That would just kill off the whole customer base in a similar way.

@feld
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feld

Framework's entire customer base and company was built on a certain kind of politics.


is that true or is that just projection by fans? The only thing I've ever known Framework for was "modular laptops that can be upgraded, also they are kind enough to try to help close the gap on FreeBSD hardware driver support"

never knew anything political about them, they're just yet another boutique computer business

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 15 updated and 1 added apps:

* Compass Navigator: a compass app with auto declination adjustments using the device's builtin GPS 🛡️

RB status: 728 apps (57.1%)

3 #Magisk modules were updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk

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


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #magisk #izzyondroid

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Very thankful for the handful of people we have in this community who report not just the spammers, but the trolls, the sealion-ers, the harassers, the bullies.

We're not omnipresent and we can't possibly know everything that's going on across the fediverse; we rely on member reports to find and take action on bad behaviour, not just on mastodon.art, but on other instances.

Part of hosting and building a safe community is having clear, strong boundaries and enforcing those boundaries -

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#FediHelp needed: the final phase of our metadata reorganization is now in progress. During our cleanup, we a.o. found a bunch of no longer maintained apps which we think might be considered "niche" – but are not sure which of those are really still useful, and thus should be kept.

So if you use one of them and still find it useful – or recently tried one of them and it didn't even work, can you please check codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/Every… and leave a comment? Thanks!

#IzzyOnDroid #serviceToot


metadata reorg subtask: deciding about dormant apps which might be considered niche

This is a spin-off from #10 where I'd like some input from the team, concerning how to handle the following unmaintained apps which might be considered niche: * [ ] [`com.ionicframework.backingtrainer763961`](https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.
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#fedihelp #serviceToot #izzyondroid
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💯% BꞮG DΣMӨП ΣПΣЯGY™ 𖤐

if i'm allowed: the version of medito you host is years older than the current google play version and also doesn't load anything.

apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/a…

medito 2.0.48 offline error. "it looks like you're offline or there was a little hiccup on our end."

„Medito“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Relax, De-stress, Sleep better, Practice Gratitude, Breathing Exercise, Wellness
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@jahtnamas of course you are allowed – and thanks for the hint! The version we ship is the latest release available in their repo. Unfortunately, it seems they've stopped providing newer releases there. So maybe you could ask them to provide releases with APKs again? They'd be picked up again by our updater automatically. Should they say "No", we'll have to remove the app of course. Thanks!
@💯% BꞮG DΣMӨП ΣПΣЯGY™ 𖤐

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We are joined by @zersiax again to give us an update on the state of accessibility in Linux and whether things have improved since we last spoke.

linuxafterdark.net/linux-after…

#linux #podcast #opensource #a11y #accessibility

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Linux After Dark – Episode 106 – Linux After Dark

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#a11y #Accessibility #linux #opensource #podcast @Florian

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so, my current de-stressing activity is learning English round hand from period copy-books. the lines in copy-books that aren't just practice letter-forms are horrifically boring, extremely cringe moral mottoes, and I'm running out of stuff to practice writing

current texts include the long-term nuclear waste warning message, old copypasta like "then who was phone", city names, scientific names, this alphabetic poem from an 1806 manual

any ideas for one-liners or very short texts? or, I guess, anything you want put in fancy script, albeit by a beginner

#calligraphy

In very large, amateur English round hand on graph paper: "Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down / Never gonna run around and desert you—Rick Astley"
Names of various major Linux distributions written (amateurishly) on graph paper in English round hand script, that stylized cursive that, for example, the "Canadian Club" whiskey wordmark is written in.

The family of English Round Hands

In my previous post, I briefly wrote about what I called the English Round Hand’s “sub-styles”. Today I want to take the time to explain what I meant and show you what those styles are.
Sybille van Zuylen (Penna Volans)
#calligraphy

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Explanation Of New Approach On Security Patches

Our security preview releases provide early access to Android Security Bulletin patches prior to the official disclosure. Our current security preview releases provide the current revision of the November 2025 and December 2025 patches for the Android Open Source Project. We recommend enabling this.

The only difference between our regular releases and security preview releases are the future Android Security Bulletin patches being applied with any conflicts resolved. The downside of security preview releases is we cannot provide the sources for the patches until the official disclosure date.

The delay for being able to publish the sources is why we're now going through the significant effort of building 2 variants of each release. Our most recent 3 releases have both a regular and security preview variant:

2025092500 and 20250925012025092700 and 20250927012025100300 and 2025100301

You can enable security preview releases via Settings > System > System update > Receive security preview releases.

Our plan is to keep it off-by-default with a new page added to the Setup Wizard which will have it toggled on as a recommendation. We'll prompt users on existing installs to choose.

We're maintaining the upcoming Android security patches in a private repository where we've resolved the conflicts. Each of our security preview releases is tagged in this private repository. Our plan is to publish what we used once the embargo ends, so it will still be open source, but delayed.

The new security update Android is using provides around 3 months of early access to OEMs with permission to make binary-only releases from the beginning. As far as we know, GrapheneOS is the first to take advantage of this and ship the patches early. Even the stock Pixel OS isn't doing this yet.

During the initial month, many patches are added or changed. By around the end of the month, the patches are finalized with nothing else being added or changed. Our 2025092500 release was made on the day the December 2025 patches were finalized, but we plan to ship the March 2026 patches earlier.

Previously, Android had monthly security patches with a 1 month embargo not permitting early releases. For GrapheneOS users enabling security preview releases, you'll get patches significantly earlier than before. We'd greatly prefer 3 day embargoes over 3 month embargoes but it's not our decision.

Security preview releases currently increment the build date and build number of the regular release by 1. You can upgrade from 2025100300 to 2025100301 but not vice versa. For now, you can switch back to regular releases without reinstalling such as 2025092701 to 2025100300, but this may change.

GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)

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gtr

Not good. So due to Google's NDA we have the choice between installing (temporarily) closed source software or being 3 months late on security updates.

Not being allowed to release source code has the same feeling as a third party doing a code audit and giving a security certificate that essentially says "trust me bro".

Its necessary to move towards a fully community driven open source OS for mobile phones.

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Is autistic self-identification valid?

I just completed a quantitative research paper comparing autism traits in medically diagnosed autistic people with the same traits in self-identifying autistic people and I can definitively say with more stats behind it than I care to ever think about again, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE!

#autistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergence #autism

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IS AUTISTIC SELF-IDENTIFICATION VALID?

Read now (7 mins) | A Glimpse into the Subversive Subplot of my Master's in Psychology Dissertation
Dr. Angela Kingdon (Autistic Culture | Late Diagnosis Club)
#autistic #autism #neurodivergence #neurodiversity
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Derek Lane

My best relationships in all aspects from work to friendship to romantic have always been during a time when I wasn't trying to impress people. Granted, my unwillingness to impress people did not come from some amazing life hack or conpidence boost, sometimes I just had enough energy to maintain, so their was neither reason, nor resources I could use to try. All that to say, if you're about to do something you hope will impress someone, just... don't.

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#ArtFelt will be on the air tonight! It all starts at 8PM Eastern on Mixcloud – mixcloud.com/live/artfeltlive – or ACB Media 4 – acbmedia.org/4

Hello, everyone! I recently returned from our trip to visit friends, Derek and Robin, where we traveled in both South and North Carolina! There is so much to tell, including the sharing of recordings made along the way. Of course, music and live performing will be strewn throughout the telling of the trip and whatever else comes along. See you there!


ACB Media 4

ACB Media 4 This browser does not support the playing of audio content. Upcoming Events on ACB Media 4
ACB Media Network
#artfelt

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I wanted to see if I could make a promo with AI that would be good enough to pass inspection by yours truely, and the short answer. I couldn't. I used chat gpt, index tts for the speech, mainly because its the new toy, but used eleven labs for the music, also because that part is another new toy. I still had to generate multiple beds before I was ok with the result, and nothing mixed well without more plugins than should be permitted by law.

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Andre Louis

Also I'd love to boost this but I won't boost audio without a description, in the same way I don't boost images without description. If we want parity, we need to be the ones that push for it the hardest. If sighted people should be held accountable for adding alt-text to images, so should we for audio, so that our deaf followers, and people that just want a summary of what we're posting, also benefit.
These are just my opinions and may not reflect those of anyone else... Or something.

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Our ol’ buddy @jmd2000 had a birthday this week, so his old wooden barn is temporarily closed. Therefore, @Derek and Robin are doing another “Just Because Show” on HKC Radio tonight at 8pm eastern. Join them for a long-awaited music addition that’s been months in the making! You won’t wanna miss it!

HKCRadio.com

The Home of Kickass Creatives | HKC Radio

www.hkcradio.com
@Derek Lane @John Dowling, Jr.

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Hi there.

I'm a big ol' Docker idiot.

I need to add a private key to a docker environment, specifically referencing this projects:
github.com/mattmelling/asl-zel…

I guess I need Docker Basics 101, since I don't really have much experience with it.

I have built the thing based on it's included docker file. Now I need to add this private key before launching it with docker run.

The README expects one knows how to actually use docker, which I suppose is fair. So, do I run a minimal something so I can shell into it and create files before running the complete environment, or what?


GitHub - mattmelling/asl-zello-bridge

Contribute to mattmelling/asl-zello-bridge development by creating an account on GitHub.
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James Scholes

Mount the local keyfile as a volume inside the container by adding something like this to the `docker run` command:

-v local\path\to\private.key:/container/path/to/private.key:ro

Then tell the project where to find the in-container keyfile as the GitHub page indicates.

(Note: I'm assuming you're on Windows with the backslashes there, but change to forward slashes in the host path if not.)

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Ich teste momentan ja :gnome: #Gnome unter #Fedora auf meinem Arbeitsgerät, während ich eigentlich seit Jahren privat und vorher beruflich #KDE #Plasma gewohnt bin.

Weiß noch nicht ob ich dabie bleibe. Ich muss mich ehct bei sehr vielen DIngen umgewöhnen und einiges umbiegen bzw. nach meinen Bedürfnissen konfigurieren. Aber eigentlich will ich den Desktop ja nicht zu stark verbiegen...
An anderen Stellen vermisse ich Features.

Nein, ist natürlich nicht alles blöd: Gnome ist wirklich schick und fühlt sich wie aus einem Guss an, außerdem gibt es auch wirklich tolle #GnomeCircle Apps.

Gibt es tolle Exklusiv-Features oder Workflows, die ich mir mal anschauen sollte? 👀

#gnome #KDE #fedora #GNOMECircle #plasma
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Madeleine Morris

I'm making a sofrito. Just with an onion and two tomatoes, finely chopped, and some salt.

The trick is to let the onions cook slowly. In Spanish, this is called ‘pochar’ - to poach in oil. It gives the onions a complexity of flavour, and then once they’re translucent, in go the finely chopped vine tomatoes (I peeled these, because they’re delicious but the skin is a little tough) again, simmering slowly, to bring out that magical change that happens to slow cooked tomatoes. #cooking

a steel pot with chopped onions and tomatoes slow cooking
#cooking
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Madeleine Morris

One of the things I love most about a lot of Spanish #cooking is that, often, there aren’t a lot of ingredients. The object is to let the few that are there shine. Which is why we’re so picky about ingredients down here. Good olive oil, good tomatoes, good onions, good clams and a nice manzanilla to steam the clams in with some garlic.

The complexity of flavour tends, I think, to come from the method of cooking, rather than seasonings.

#cooking
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