I've received a request from, I guess, a blind individual who'd like to play RIS but of course can't see it. This is all way over my head, so I'll paste his request in here. I have no idea what wou...
I've received a request from, I guess, a blind individual who'd like to play RIS but of course can't see it. This is all way over my head, so I'll paste his request in here. I have no idea what wou...
@matt That's pretty much what I was hoping to provoke with the post, I only pretend to be an engineer and don't really know what would be best for their project. thanks very much!! You are an absolute legend, sir.
French prosecutors on Monday told former French president Nicolas Sarkozy that he must report to a Paris prison on October 21 to begin serving a five-year sentence for illegally accepting funds from late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to fund his 2007…
ICE is quietly building up its ability to spy on Americans' phones. Earlier this month, the agency activated a $2 million contract with Paragon, a service that offers the ability to remotely hack into someone's phone. Last week, ICE entered into an $11 million contract for Cellebrite devices, which allow agents to break into a locked phone in their physical possession. reason.com/2025/09/29/ice-does…
allegedly, and from my perspective as a former calyxos employee (i do not represent them)...
the founder was the keeper of the signing keys, and has stated this publicly. when he separated from the institute (which is a whole other story), he didn't give the signing keys to the institute in a timely manner, if at all. although there was no evidence that the keys had been compromised or accessed from outside the organization, there *was* reason to believe that they had not always been handled in a secure manner (which is yet another whole other story). also, because these were key *files*, and probably not even protected by passphrases (but i don't know), copies were always *possible*.
the OS team decided to only release updates signed with *fully* trusted keys going forward, that were not subject to unauthorized copies. the OS team has been working on a hardware security module-based solution for signing. the exception to this was one last update to inform users about this situation, to the extent permitted by comms folks. this was facilitated by eventual cooperation from the founder.
that being said, i do not myself believe that there is any actual risk today associated with using a build signed with these older keys, apart from it not having the latest updates. but i also support switching to new keys that are better safeguarded, and i can't guarantee there wouldn't be a risk associated with these older keys in the future.
there is more to know as well, but too much to write here. still, it is false to say that the calyxos team doesn't want you to know this.
source: i worked on #calyxos while all this was happening. i no longer work for #calyx. and this is all just alleged, based on what i experienced and was told. i never signed an NDA 🙃
not sure which articles, but they are not making a come back. Just that there is that thing about "get a used DSLR for the price it's as good as new" There is only once company that still make DSLR and it's Pentax. And for the price, better get a used Canon on Nikon.
people have been waiting all year for the Canon R6 Mark III which is supposed to be released in November 2025 they are also rumored to be developing the R7 lmao
" For a few hopeful weeks this summer, a bright billboard on the major highway linking Toronto to New York greeted Canadian drivers with a simple message: “Buffalo Loves Canada.”
The marketing campaign, which included a $500 gift card giveaway, was meant to show Buffalo’s northern neighbors they were welcome, wanted and missed."
Sadly, to get to places in which Canadians are appreciated, we have to pass the gestapo, to enter and to leave.
The Columbus Day holiday began in the 1920s, when a resurgent Ku Klux Klan tried to create a lily-white country by attacking not just Black Americans, but also immigrants, Jews, and Catholics. In the 1920s, Columbus mattered because celebrating an Italian defended a multicultural society. Now, though, he represents the devastation of America’s Indigenous people.
Today, we celebrate Indigenous People's Day, to honor those who sacrificed so much when the colonizers arrived.
There’s an accessibility bug on Mastodon: you cannot add custom alt text to your profile or header image. This means people using screen readers can’t know what these images show, so important info is missing for visually impaired users. ♿
Please help by upvoting and commenting on the issue so it gets more attention from developers 👇
Pitch In the public profile edit section of the Mastodon web interface, it is not possible to set alternative text (alt text) for the profile picture and header image. Right now, both images have a...
Greetings everyone. I have an awesome Netflix tip for those who use screen readers. If you are listening to an episode on Netflix and want to know about the episode, simply tab over to the episodes button and hit the space bar and then you can use H to jump to the next heading and arrow down to the episode in question that’s currently playing and it will give you a synopsis for the playing episode. If you want to know about other episodes that you are watching, hit enter on another episode on that same page and you can read a synopsis for that episode and once you have finished browsing the episodes, hit escape to return back to your Netflix screen.
I have a code that will give people preordering Glide 5% off. Disclosure: it also gives me more free months of their subscription plan when it launches. I know no one locally who is ordering, so if you're going to be in the second pre-order batch and want 5% off, let me know. I can only use this for 3 people. It'll be first come, first served. Please ping me only if you're actually ordering. Don't get the code as a "in case I order I'll have it" thing.
Do you know if the subscription is required to use Glide at all? I have no interest in paying a lot of money for a device that will essentially be bricked if I stop paying a subscription on top of it.
@ZBennoui Originally it was, but they changed that a while back. As of now, and as far as I understand it, the subscription will only enable features like route following or advanced scene descriptions. The basics of avoiding obstacles, following sidewalks, and so on won't be locked behind a subscription. Of course, we'll have to wait for launch to see what the final details are.
Oh that's perfect, I figured a change like that would be coming. They seemed like a very honest company and I had my doubts they would want to force users to pay for a subscription just to use basic functionality. I don't think I'll be ordering right now, but I'm definitely gonna keep an eye on the progress, and this makes me feel much better about Glide's future.
Čestný předseda Motoristů Filip Turek má stále reálnou šanci stát se příštím ministrem zahraničí. Zároveň však v minulosti opakovaně hajloval na veřejnosti, ...
Auphonic in der Zeitung! 🗞️ Die WKO Steiermark hat über uns berichtet und Einblicke gegeben, wie aus einer kleinen Idee in Graz ein globales Audiotech-Unternehmen wurde. 💜
Das Maximum aus einer schlechten Tonaufnahme herausholen – und das mit fast nur einem Klick: Damit hat sich „Auphonic“ international einen Namen gemacht.
do the thing. it is okay, you are not too old. besiders, older queers like us deserve visibility too. but for that to be happen, we need to make ourselves visible.
one of the most interesting and fun genres of online posts i see is zoomers and young millennials getting really hype cuz they found a video of like a 55 year old woman who picked up fortnight, or a 65 year old grandfather in a rap battle. no one is gonna laugh at you because people just kinda instinctively realize doing cool stuff when you are old is cool. so do the thing.
write fan fiction. start a blog about cool rocks. paint edgy horror art, dj a set, become a pro gamer. open furry porn commissions. learn guitar. change your career. write a novel. write a comic. do not march into the last half of your life with shame and regret in your hearts. you are beautiful and your passion is as radiant as the sun.
Is this right? That *tomorrow* they're going to start denying, in some way or another, X gender markers at US borders / on US passports? gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigratio…
It's not quite clear what they're going to end up doing. Will they "infer" a binary gender, or will they deny the validity of the passport?
CBP enforces binary sex codes and stricter US passport validation in APIS effective October 2025. Key compliance updates for business travelers and airlines.
Yes, sadly. From tomorrow, US CBP is rejecting any passport containing [^MF] in the gender identifier field as incomplete. The airline will have to resubmit with an inferred value before the passenger can board.
The Canadian travel advisory for the USA says: "… You might face entry restrictions in countries that do not recognize the “X” gender identifier." — travel.gc.ca/destinations/unit…
Do you know that you can use Subtitle edit to transcribe audio? It has a relatively accessible guy so you can use Purfwiev's faster whisper xxl, cpp, cpp cublas, const-me. Longer post how to use it follows:
Installing Subtitle Edit
Download the program from the developer’s website. Navigate to the level 2 heading labeled “Files.” If you want to install Subtitle Edit normally, download the first file, labeled setup.zip. There is also a portable version available, labeled SE_version_number.zip.
If you decide to use the portable version, extract it and move on to the next section of this article. The installation itself is standard and straightforward.
A Note on Accessibility
NVDA cannot automatically obtain focus in lists. To find out which item in the list is currently selected, move down with the arrow key to change the item, then press NVDA+TAB to hear which one is focused.
Initial Setup
In the menu bar, go to Video and activate Audio to text (Whisper).
When using this feature for the first time, the program may ask whether you want to download FFMPEG. This library allows Subtitle Edit to open many audio and video files, so confirm the download by pressing Yes.
Subtitle Edit will confirm that FFMPEG has been downloaded and then ask whether you want to download Purfwiev’s Faster Whisper – XXL. This is the interface for the Whisper model that we’ll use for transcription, so again confirm by pressing Yes.
The download will take a little while.
Once it’s complete, you’ll see the settings window. Press Tab until you reach the Languages and models section. In the list, select the language of your recording.
Press Tab to move to the Select model option, and then again to an unlabeled button.
After activating it, choose which model you want to use. Several models are available:
Small models require less processing power but are less accurate.
Large models take longer to transcribe, need more performance and disk space, but are more accurate. I recommend choosing Large-V3 at this step.
Wait again for the model to finish downloading.
Transcribing Your First Recording
Navigate to the Add button and press Space to activate it.
A standard file selection dialog will open. Change the file type to Audio files, find your audio file on the disk, and confirm.
Activate the Generate button.
Now, simply wait. The Subtitle Edit window doesn’t provide much feedback, but you can tell it’s working by the slower performance of your computer—or, if you’re on a laptop, by the increased fan noise.
When the transcription is done, Subtitle Edit will display a new window with an OK button.
We Got Subtitles, So One More Step
In the folder containing your original file, you’ll now find a new file with the .srt extension. This is a subtitle file—it contains both the text and the timing information. Since we usually don’t need timestamps for transcription, we’ll remove them in Subtitle Edit as follows:
Press Ctrl+O (or go to File → Open) to bring up the standard open file dialog. Select the .srt file you just got.
In the menu bar, open File → Export → Plain text.
Choose Merge all lines, and leave Show line numbers and Show timecode unchecked.
Press Save as and save the file normally.
If you’re transcribing multiple recordings, it’s a good idea to close the current subtitle file by starting a new project using Ctrl+N or by choosing File → New.
Conclusion
Downloaded models can, of course, be reused, so future transcriptions will go faster. In this example, I used Purfwiev’s Faster Whisper. If you want to use a different model, you can select it from the model list, and Subtitle Edit will automatically ask whether you’d like to download it.
If people of different political persuasions were given a piece of paper, a few concepts (fascism, socialism, liberalism, maybe others), and a few historical and contemporary leaders (Trump, Biden, Mussolini, Hitler, Churchill, Pinochet, etc) and asked to stick the concepts and leaders on a map so that things that they saw as similar were close to each other, then I wonder what the results would be.
I'm thinking about an exchange that I had with one of my relatives on Facebook. I posted something that talked about fascism being defined by a strong leader who was not constrained by normal laws, a domestic enemy, and a promise to return the country to better days in an imagined past. This person responded with "like when liberals go around the world randomy killing people. I know who the fascist is--it's the entire Democratic party." I asked him how he would define fascism, and his response was "liberals."
@ondrosik Damn, that sounds great. There is too much singing in that track by Dune so I think it was difficult to find a spot where to mix the vocals from the other track. Still I like it. Thanks for sharing!
In elementary school, one of my classmates was hit by a car on his bicycle. He must have been about 9. His head went through the windshield.
He was fine.
The windshield was not fine. His helmet was not fine. The teacher had him bring in his mangled helmet to show the whole class. Nobody had to tell us he’d be dead if it weren’t for the helmet. It was obvious.
Re this from @FeloniousPunk, also crucial to note that while cars are probably the greatest head injury while on a bicycle, they’re not the only danger. Wear a helmet on the trails too, kids.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io I had a friend who once chastised me because he didn’t want to wear a helmet on a trail. A few minutes later I wiped out HARD and rung my bell while wearing a helmet.
You should not need a bicycle helmet for every day utility cycling any more than you should need a helmet for walking or running. The activity and the environment should be safe enough that hitting your head hard in just the right way should be vanishingly unlikely. This is the Dutch and N European way.
Racing, Peloton, Downhill, BMX, MTB, 30mph E-Bikes are another thing entirely.
Lidi jsou fakt svině. To jde člověk prostě bezelstně na pivko do hospody, lupne tam osm kousků, jde na záchod — a zatím mu na socky napíšou rasistický posty. No a při té smůle si toho všimne až za pět let. Prostě neštěstí, ti levičáci placení Sorosem. #Turek
Já to ani nestíhám číst, já zatím viděl přerod z "já tam nikdy nic špatného nepsal" na "kolegyně mi nedostatečně promazala socky, na kterých jsem ale nic špatného neměl, takže nebyl důvod je mazat".
Budeme tipovat kolik verzí ještě bude, než si začne sypat popel na hlavu? :D
@neskaut tak je otázka (vlastně není), jestli člověk, který si v hospodě nechá na stole nezamčený telefon, a pět let si ničeho nevšimne, vlastně může dělat ministra... Ne že by těch ostatních důvodů už nebylo dost 😉.
Listening to this song about a folk singer who has a new song about the economic opportunity program, and feeling like Kamala Harris could've used a song like that, although the fictitious folk singer in the song doesn't seem to have much luck getting people interested in his tunes. youtube.com/watch?v=MNoNNdQwrL…
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Clever song, and I loved the horns. Based on the mentions I’d say it is vintage late 60s, probably 1968. There are people out here still writing what are called protest songs, but they don’t get much traction these days.
@Thumper1964 It's an old Nancy Sinatra / Lee Hazlewood song. And I've been thinking the same thing--I feel like we're lacking music somehow. Maybe people are writing songs that I don't know about. There's David Rovics, but I don't think that he is particularly well-known. He has a substack and wrote an essay a while ago where he lamented that there isn't more music at protest rallies. He argued that there are reasons that it is often not there, but none of them are good reasons.
Provided to YouTube by DistroKidYou’re Not Supposed to Laugh at the King · Louise & Thom Hartmann · unknownYou’re Not Supposed to Laugh at the King℗ Mythical...
"Bon, la grippe on va vous faire le vaccin mais le COVID non 🥰"
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-- Edit: C'est en Allemagne donc rappels 1x par an et selon des critères assez restreints (genre pas entre 18 et 59 ans). Donc vivre avec une personne qui est sous traitement contre le cancer, ou avoir de la famille proche de plus de 90 ans dont une qui vient de faire un infarctus c'est pas vraiment grave.
Le chef de Projet Montréal, Luc Rabouin, a annoncé dimanche vouloir piétonniser plusieurs artères dans le Vieux-Montréal, poursuivant ainsi le projet de « royaume des piétons » initié par l’administration de Valérie Plante.
About half an hour... except we have a chirping smoke detector that's been going for over a month, and it's behind a locked door in the basement that none of us has access to.
Has anyone ever done a systematic study of what causes non-web applications, especially desktop apps, to start up slowly? I have my hunches, but they're just that, not anything scientific.
It continues to be a problem, even in these days of NVMe SSDs. It seems to especially be a problem with some products that have a long history and thus, probably, a lot of technical debt.
And the obvious follow-up question is: how does one design an application for fast startup and maintain that over the long term? If I remember correctly, this is an explicit goal of Chromium, or at least used to be.
certainly not a systemic study, but mostly the things you notice are just "doing expensive work at boot time". and then when it's really slow, it's quadratic work at boot time. it's usually CPU bound.
Probably off-topic, but, years ago, I remember contributing a patch to Firefox for something, maybe to test whether a11y should be enabled, and I think I was being lazy and made a synchronous DBus call, and I got feedback that they were trying to reduce their start-up time, and I needed to rework my call to be asynch.
With #Framework shouting from the rooftops that they prefer to have no values at all, maybe it's time to look into alternative computer vendors with values similar to those originally ascribed to Framework.
There's, of course, @mntmn (crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform…) based in Germany which is probably the only one that's in the same league (and probably well beyond) in terms of modularity and hackability. It's a bit of a hacker boutique, though: unusual hardware at rather steep prices - partially _because_ it's so unusual.
While they don't bring that "replace everything" ethos, they're small laptop vendors that ramped up from "resell China white label laptops" to doing more and more design and production on their own.
In terms of modularity, they pass the bar that the big vendors fail: they don't solder and glue everything into a single blob that becomes an all-or-nothing deal when components break. Instead, they even sell individual parts on their store.
They're not quite at the Framework-level of modularity, but I think they all deserve a shoutout for moving the needle in the right direction when it comes to sustainability.
(honorable mention for @system76, who at least mention keeping your device useful for longer at system76.com/laptops, encouraging battery replacements and other maintenance, even if they don't have a spare parts section in their shop)
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Last time I looked at system76 they wanted me to pay $150 at the time of purchase to have a warranty (because Canada). Otherwise I wouldn't be able to send the machine back for repairs in case I needed the standard warranty. Also no option without OS.
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