That is a symbol for the Pro-Choice movement. Never Again! Prior to Roe, desperate women used coat hangers to perform at home abortions. As you might imagine, many died as a result. It is horrific that they will happen again. nursingclio.org/2016/03/10/coa…
Knitting needles. Arsenic. Deliberately falling. These are just some of the methods that women used to self-induce abortion in the early twentieth century, when abortion was illegal. This is not si…
Not all of our progress is headline worthy! But steady, detail-oriented work, described in our latest development update, is a firm foundation for the next leaps forward.
@yala We chatted with the team and this is a feature we're following for now! We would want to make sure we could handle any potential complications before we decided to add it to Thunderbird.
Many thanks! That will be lovely for many remote workers, who need to carve out space for the outside world at home, while still being a private person on their own. Not every notification belongs evereywhere all the time.
Showerthought: the biggest advance of the distributed web over the next 10 years is going to come from board teenagers. They want to socialize without parental supervision or being told by governments and corporations they can't, they want to read/see/talk about sex, and they don't have money for servers so will have to do it peer to peer out of mom's basement. Decentralization is gonna get weird and wild, y'all.
In a HN thread yesterday someone said Elixir and Erlang are too hard to use because you have to search github for libraries if they're not listed on the Awesome Elixir github page because it has no package manager like good languages
... how the fuck have you never heard of hex.pm, it's where all the libraries for everything come from
For anyone using @Jonathan's audio routing technique with OBS studio, note that recent versions of OBS broke the audio monitor plug-in! Or at least the one readily linked on the forum. But the plug-in is on GitHub and has been updated to cope. Get it from github.com/exeldro/obs-audio-m…
For some silly reason, I looked up "Shure Beta 58" on Ebay. Lots of listings for new Beta 58A's for $33 to $37. I'm thinking "Clone, clone, another clone, probably the same clone..." I bet you're basically getting a Behringer XM8500 and paying almost twice the price for it. A real Beta 58a goes for the much not worth it for what it is price of $199 or so.
Admittedly, I haven't played audiogames or otherwise used self-voicing programs in a long, long time. But, the only program I've encountered that can properly read out numbers/concatenate numbers is Math Flash from APH. The numbers come together perfectly. In audiogames when scores are reported, every number is spoken "on its own": one. Thousand. Three. Hundred. Points. Just an interesting observation.
I have a lot of experience recording samples that can be concatenated properly. There's definitely an art to it, and many don't have a clue how to do it right.
#OpenAlt conference program is out. I've got two talks accepted: #Linux Desktop Migration and #PeerTube. I will also help with an #endof10 workshop. If it isn't too far for you, come to #Brno on Nov 1-2. It is worth it!
Végre! 🎉 A Microsoft új, ingyenes segédprogramjával a Windows automatikusan válthat a világos és sötét témák között. 😎🌙☀️ Akár a napszakhoz igazodva is. Ha te is unod a manuális váltogatást, próbáld ki! Ingyenes! 💻
Der Festivalbesuch war sehr schön (wobei viele der Filme eher nicht "schön" waren). Und dabei war es nicht mal die Berlinale 🙃. (ich war davor glaube ich nur bei der Berlinale als Filmfestival, also ist das nun mal der Vergleich).
✨ We have an exciting new job opportunity in my team in @tibosl to manage an upcoming EU HORIZON project that might just revolutionize how cultural data can be interconnected, enriched and managed across institutional and project siloes.
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now I wonder how language packs work on Linux too. Is it that apt upgrade won't update some packages without the proper lang pack? I have a huntch that even if UpDown Tool's ISO included all 37 languages, they did not include all speech, handwriting, and input components. that would do it. If any are missing the LCU can fail like that.
@Tamas G On linux gettext is used very frequently. When packaging appsby the distro maintainers the packages contain all the #i18n and #l10n resources. On windows perfect example of doing the same is#nvdasr by@NVAccess@fosstodon.org
I may have found an easy way to make librsvg work better on Alpine/musl with its small stack size, that does not involve increasing the default per-thread stack size.
Do I know anyone who can test librsvg on that sort of environment?
@slomo librsvg passes a Result<O, E> around all the time; O is 128 bytes, and E is 32 bytes. If I use Result<Box<O>, Box<E>> instead, the whole Result is 16 bytes. Given that librsvg is recursive, this actually makes an impact. I'm now able to get it to reach its internally-imposed limit for recursion, even on a 128 Kb stack, instead of crashing with stack exhaustion.
maybe @q66 would be interested. But dunno if it's worth it, you can have the linker store an ELF header to request a bigger stack size and the dynamic linker will comply, for any binary that loads the library through DT_NEEDED. See wiki.musl-libc.org/functional-…
(though hm, i guess this is because librsvg pulls in cairo and cairo pulls in pixman which is compiled with increased stack size, so it gets that implicitly...)
but that also means i can't really test how rsvg changes things because the thread stack is always implicitly large
tbf i really don't see much point in musl's small stacks outside pedantry (but musl is pretty big on pedantry, so...) and several times considered bumping them to something more reasonable like 512k, considering thread stacks are virtual pages anyway and even in an overcommit-disabled system it really shouldn't matter unless you have *lots* of threads (and you probably shouldn't, because threads are expensive and and stuff that uses lots of tasks should probably opt for some kind of coroutine approach, or enforce their own pthread stack size value when creating them) and in a system with overcommit it will never matter at all
@q66 @aperezdc Yeah, I fully agree with this assessment. I don't know if glibc's stack is "too big" but I do know that it has been tested over many years on a lot of software. Regardless of musl's attitude about being different, changing the environment that programs assume, to a reduced one, will exhibit failure points, and I think that is to be expected. Fortunately this one is a clear resource limit, unlike the other mysterious problem we have with thread local storage which I have no idea.
Want to feel better, but been throwing up all morning with the chills, ugh. Also super ache muscles alongside it. This very well might be cold since it feels like one but I hope not.
@DavidGoldfield maybe. but no soar throat? That's so odd. however the nose running just started so you could be right! These continuous aches aren't giving me a good feeling. Granted the weather went down to 44F last night so the house got to be around 68, which wouldn't have helped the chills in the first place. Pretty crazy as we went from around 56 at night down to 40 now, so fall and winter are coming :D
Blah! I am sorry. Feel better! If not, I could very well start with the trusted eastern methods and tell you of all their great uses against the darn cold.
Uh, this is a bit confusing now. There are things like ChromeOS and ucLinux and then there is just Linux too. Why then not list all linux distributions? And how about things like OpenWRT? I'm fairly sure I can run curl on my router...
I think the Plan9 one will need some love. If I remember correctly it needed a hacked port of libressl and some compiler patches. I should look in to an alternative/more maintained ssl (preferably minimal) option for my Plan9 APExp project where I hope to include curl.
@staalmannen yeah, this list does not convey how much or how little work was required to make it happen - nor if any patches were ever actually brought back to us...
BTW would a 9P protocol be interesting within curl? It is used for communications with some VMs etc and the addresses can be expressed as urls (although in Plan9 typically as directories mounted under /n)
You're supposed to be able to do that, but even when I use a proper USB-C data cable with fast transfer speeds and look at the hardware tab, it says connected at 480 Mbps, instead of 5 or 10 Gbps.
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when I agree to some (kinky) playtime with someone, I consent to playing/hurting them/tying them/whatever as long as it's ultimately for their enjoyment or fulfillment
not enjoying some act or dynamic and still not communicating it to your play companion, out of fear of disappointing them or not meeting their expectations, is a big betrayal of trust
An email states: "Rethink your customer journeys with us."
What I think that means is include us in your plans, but what it actually says to me is, ya know, you should really rethink using us in the first place.
Ukraine has a new strategy that takes the war to Russia. By striking Russian factories with long range weapons, Ukraine is systematically dismantling the Rus...
You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be great.
Just having more code is like making a poem longer. It doesn’t necessarily make it better. It doesn’t gain more emotional impact to take a good poem and add to it.
Does Windows work 30% better or faster? No, of course not. I would be impressed if they used AI to make the system 30% /smaller/ or otherwise more efficient, but these folks don’t understand systems engineering, just grifting consumers with vendor lock-in.
With @icing's latest perf tweaks for HTTP/3 in curl, my theoretical max speed is now 1550 MB/s on my machine (at 100% CPU) with h2 doing 2464MB/s and h1 at 3303 MB/s
When downloading 100MB chunks 50 times in 50 parallel downloads.
(I say theoretical because the servers can't quite keep up with the client on localhost.)
To clarify: the nghttpx gets the data from an apache backend. So part of the 100% goes into that, meaning QUIC cpu use of nghttpx and curl is probably on par.
Whoever at MS decided that encrypting drives behind Windows 11 Home users' backs and not disclosing that, and also whoever at MS decided that confusing OneDrive sync with anything approaching a valid backup should lose their data and then step on a well-placed LEGO in the middle of the night
Highly irresponsible and their confusion-enabling has caused permanent data loss for people who didn't know they had a key they needed BEFORE losing access to their MS account
I was in this situation 4 months ago. After windows update and restart I was no longer able to boot and I was asked for that key during recovery. Fortunatelly I had access to the account on another device but it was frustrating.
> “We think we’re on the cusp of the next evolution, where AI happens not just in that chatbot and gets naturally integrated into the hundreds of millions of experiences that people use every day,” says Yusuf Mehdi, executive vice president and consumer chief marketing officer at Microsoft, in a briefing with The Verge. “The vision that we have is: let’s rewrite the entire operating system around AI, and build essentially what becomes truly the AI PC.”
So: What would it take to start the Linux accessibility revolution? Or maybe turn it from a consistent chatter among a medium-volume minority into a matter of urgency?
I know, realistically, that stripping all the garbage off our Windows PC will be easier than trying to make Linux work.
> “All the data that we see is when people use voice, they love it,” says Mehdi. Some of that data is the billions of minutes that people spend talking in Microsoft Teams meetings. “They’re talking through their computers today, and I think this change to ‘talk with and talk to’ will come to reality and we’ll see this thing really take off,” says Mehdi.
Oh, yes. Everyone knows that talking to an actual person is exactly the same as talking to a suphisticated nonsense generator that is baked into Windows itself.
I know that, just as ChatGPT can be useful sometimes, a voice-controled computer agent *could* help some people. That is, it could help people if it works. Remember that thing I posted like an hour ago? Imagine what could happen if your voice agent hallucinated your entire OS. At least when I was talking to GPT, I was the one controlling the computer.
Accessibility considerations aside, language like "Rewrite the entire operating system around AI" is pretty fucking unambiguous, and I'd love to hear from even one person who thinks this sounds like a good idea.
I'll wait.
> “We want every person making the move to experience what it means to have a PC that’s not just a tool, but a true partner,” says Mehdi.
Absolutely big shameless plug, but hey, someone's gotta be shameless in life. Today's podcast episode was talking about AI and the influence it's having on everyday well, everything. From media to interactions, magazines to videos etc, and of course music.
@FreakyFwoof I need to stick notifications on the podcast account. Mastodon notifications don't show reposts, so I'm missing them now. Definitely gonna go listen to that. Plug much appreciated.
holy crap this entire article is dillusional. Have you actually tried to use Copilot vision? For anything? It is bad. It does not work. In every instance I tried to get it to help me with anything at all, it has not worked. This might sound like hyperboly but I'm not kidding. Describing screenshots is about a million times more reliable than any of the live crap. And they know it! They know it's bad! They literally spell it out in the article! For fucks sake.
@talon Did you read the post I made this morning? I played around with it for hours ¥yesterday, and even the things it did well weren't enough to make up for the serious problems I encountered.
Hacker gets annoyed at Amazon’s Kindle apps, reverse-engineers the Kindle web reader’s protocol (which basically sends each page as a set of glyphs in a deliberately broken variant of SVG). Such obscurity, much security.
When not using Google Play services (e.g. #GrapheneOS, #LineageOS users), #Signal can be a real battery drain. @mollyim with @unifiedpush on the other hand is extremely battery efficient.
I finally started using Molly to send and receive messages via Signal. Molly is a hardened fork of Signal for Android, offering features such as an encrypted message database, automatic locking, shredding no longer needed secrets from RAM, notificati…
@ratcatcher What do you mean by 'directly'? Without MollySocket? Delivering push messages directly to WebPush endpoints is something the @signalapp server's would have to support. And Signal famously hates infrastructure that's not run by tech oligarchs.
@ratcatcher @signalapp It’s a bit complicated but broadly speaking both the Mastodon server and the Matrix server have support for an internet standard called 'WebPush'. That’s where the server HTTP POSTs the push notification to, and that’s how the notification chain gets started that eventually ends up on your phone. But the Signal server doesn’t support that standard.
@ratcatcher For the client that is true. (And Molly does for example talk directly to #Conversations_im). However the problem arises when the server sees a new message it needs to do 'something'. Like it needs to tell 'someone'. And that something to someone needs to be standardized.
In the animation on unifiedpush.org/developers/int… the top, purple arrow. That’s WebPush. And Signal doesn’t do that. And then MollySocket is a translation proxy for that.
Oh that’s the part where it’s probably better for @mollyim to take over this conversation. But yes, it needs to run on a server somewhere. Running it locally would probably be fairly resource intensive. The goal of MollySocket is more or less to shift that resource consumption to a server. If you were running it locally you might as well not use UP at all.
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#Linux Desktop Migration and 
#PeerTube. I will also help with an #endof10 workshop.
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Coat Hangers and Knitting Needles: A Brief History of Self-Induced Abortion
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