The Morning Show is so well done, but there's a constant voice in my head saying "why does anyone give a shit about a drama about the inner workings of mainstream media"?
I don’t spend a lot of time on here telling you all how smart my kids are but today I was talking with my son about the idea of a “Third Place” and he mentioned how all these “coming of age” stories he’s read have kids "hanging out at the mall”, and what a weird, totally alien idea that is to him and his friends. “Did they even have places you could sit down or not buy anything then? None of us have money.”
If we don’t want kids staring at screens all day then maybe we should build a world where online multiplayer chat isn’t the only third space that teenagers have available to them.
Looking at the measles epidemic and thinking about how lucky we were to get indoor smoking bans, mandatory seatbelts and drunk driving laws enacted and generally accepted before Facebook and Twitter came along.
Imagine having either the stones or the complete lack of self-awareness you'd need to be working at Microsoft and telling customers you can only turn it off and turn it on again three times a year though.
I don't know if you have made many little helper scripts, but I name my clients after their FQDN so I have a script called "brestorefile" that takes a path to any file I want to restore and does it automatically
I was getting ready to deploy Amanda, and someone pointed me to Bacula. It was the Catalog (for others: a list of what's backed up, where, and when) which sold it for me. That, to me, was a fantastic feature.
It was simplemented (keeping that typo) in MySQL. So I wrote one for PostgreSQL, because that's what I used at home.
Why was I using PostgreSQL?
When writing the first parts of FreshPorts, I was using MySQL, because that's all I knew about for open source.
I was told about PostgreSQL. Oh wow, it has stored procedures, and functions, and relational integrity, all stuff which was missing from MySQL. This was a grown-up database and had features I was used to from my days of using Oracle, Sybase, ...
as Chief Bacula Officer do you have any FreeBSD experience with small tape libraries to share? Like LTO 8 slot autoloaders or similar. Or does everybody just put it in the 🤡 clowd now with an S3 style stream?
I have been using a 20TB archive zpool as a target for restic for this, but I would like actual tapes. I have some stuff also with tarsnap for stuff I absolutely can’t lose.
@dch I stopped using Restic because restoring files is too slow. Painfully slow. Sometimes far longer than 24 hours just to retrieve a small amount of data once your repo gets a certain size.
@dch with Bacula my backups can go nearly line rate over the network, it's great
additional note for ZFS: I hope they open source their new ZFS work. They added an intelligent mode to their enterprise offering that can directly utilize snapshots and diffs to find the changes instead of walking the filesystem
I don’t know when exactly it started happening, but at some point, @kde really became a phenomenal desktop environment again. Every release just feels so polished nowadays, and it’s a pleasure to use.
@feld It’s been really close for a few years now, but the gap seems to get smaller with every release. Just updated to the latest for my distro. It just feels like a no-brainer to go with these days.
@feld KDE Connect is super useful, and roughly compares to some of MacOS’es continuity features. I feel like if you set up Nextcloud and KDE Connect integration, you can get really, really close to a DIY iCloud + iMessage alternative.
I don't even think you need NextCloud, you could get by with just Stalwart which is much lighter and has all the modern email/calendar/contacts features
One of the big topics at our #NoTyrants protest in #Montreal was House Bill 5518. If like me, you've never heard of it, it's a US bill to negotiate cross-border law enforcement with Canada, including sending ICE agents and other US personnel across the Canadian border. If you're Canadian, please insist to your MP that we can't surrender our sovereignty and allow US law enforcement here. #HB5518
Just a quick note for the archives and for those of us who have hearing issues and need easy youtube transcripts with #a11y to #screenreaders. I've generally used downsub.com to produce text, but it's becoming less usable, often saying "waiting" for a minute or two before giving an error with no specifics as to what the problem is. I wanted something else and found something similar, if not slightly better, at youtube-transcript.io/ It allows 25 transcripts a month free, though I'm not sure how it tracks usage since I didn't have to sign in. Anyhow, it's quite simple, paste in your link, hit enter, and it comes back with a transcript in English for English videos. It appears to use the captions YT itself generates, since I compared the results with what I got from downsub and saw no difference. You can read the transcript on the page or copy it to the clipboard with a button, again on the page. It has 30 second timing markers by default when it's on the page, but doesn't when you copy it, at least by default. I'm still after an easy local transcript grabber, but this is a step forward when downsub doesn't work for me and I thought people might like to have it. #blind #braille
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@clv0 Sorry, just to be clear, downsub is still working here as well, much of the time. I'd say it works a good half the time, if not a bit more. Sometimes it'll say "waiting" and in a few seconds, come up with the transcript. Sometimes it will come up with it immediately. Quite often, though, it'll just say waiting for a while then say "error". It's still usable, though, quite often, just not nearly always.
@clv0 If you wish for local downloading of subtitles, rather than outright transcription, yt-dlp can download subtitles using the --write-subs option, pick a format like srt or vtt, embed them in mp4 and mkv, and convert to other formats. It can fetch subs for multiple languages, use --list-subs on a video to get them. Note that live stream chat is a subtitle stream!
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Trying to summarise my thoughts on what it takes to build an alternative mobile OS. There's some very important and imho rarely discussed reasons why using anything that depends on AOSP is fundamentally a bad idea.
It basically boils down to culture and politics. The way Android is built and maintained is so fundamentally anti-free-software and anti-community. 1/8
Firstly, you're relying on a downstream kernel which is impossible to maintain beyond LTS (Some of the smartest folks in the community tried HARD and failed to actually forward-port Android kernels). This exposes you to a whole host of poorly tested codepaths and non-standard drivers which require a whole host of userspace workarounds.
AOSP itself is so vast and complicated that it's just never gonna be possible to escape the grip of Google. 2/8
To even build your own Android image you need to jump through a bunch of hoops, download hundreds of GB of source code and take >1 hour on even a beefy build machine with ~100GB of binary artifacts. There ARE benefits to having the entire OS source code locally IF you're building an OS the way Google do with many separate teams who work independently.
But this is never how healthy FOSS projects work, they rely on individuals showing up and working in harmony together, something which is just plain annoying to do with AOSP. 3/8
Then consider what happens if you need to modify a core part of the OS: You have to fork it, because Google do not care about your patches, and if they do it will take months to get them upstreamed (using gerrit of course!). 4/8
Let's consider a successful AOSP fork in Lineage OS, they do a pretty great job at maintaining infrastructure to build images for lots of devices at a fairly substantial cost. Their developer community though seem to tend towards individualism and "proving" yourself as a good developer before you get treated with respect. This is an understandable result of getting burnt out trying to help everyone who wants to make a port for their phone but just isn't cut out for the work. 5/8
Showing my obvious bias here, but let's compare this to postmarketOS. The requirements for space, performance, and network bandwidth are an order of magnitude smaller... The biggest thing you have to compile is the Linux kernel.
The "onboarding" process for postmarketOS developers often starts with a downstream port, where you boot using the original Android kernel. This often gets you just far enough to have ssh working but not a lot more. But importantly it gets your in touch with other developers in the community and it gets your familiar with our tooling. 6/8
After this, if you want to go further then you basically have to learn kernel development. This can be a huge challenge, but it's something our community encourage and write plenty of guides and documentation to help.
The fundamental approach is different: you don't have to be running a specific distro or install a bunch of tools, you just run pmbootstrap and it does everything for you. It creates template packages for you and guides you through every step of the process. Compare this to having to manually edit XML files, get acquainted with the repo tool, and wait potentially hours to clone all the git repos. 7/8
When it comes to creating a truly emancipatory mobile OS, it is beyond absurd to consider AOSP as the basis. I truly believe that Linux Mobile and decentralised development built on top of FOSS is the only way. The same goes for making it as simple as possible to onboard and teach new developers, the more knowledge is shared and the more people are skilled up the more resilient we become.
TL;DR: FSF please reach out and let us help you actually bring freedom to people! I can be reached at kcxt@postmarketos.org 8/8
Well… I did it. A friend and I are going to see Rush next August. It’s definitely the most I’ve ever paid for a concert ticket, but not completely insane.
I have an uncle who first learned to program in BASIC on early home computers in the 80s, when he was in his 30s or late 20s. Then in the early 90s, he started learning Pascal and GUI programming on an Apple IIGS. Then life happened, he didn't keep up with newer languages and platforms, and now he wants to get back into programming for fun, as time permits (he works 5 days a week in the electronics department at Walmart). He's started dabbling with Python. (continued)
He mentioned that he was trying to learn from a free book or course (I'm not sure which), by someone (I didn't recognize the name) who has pumped out lots of books or courses on many different topics. I suspect the stuff produced by this author is low-quality. I'd like to recommend a good introductory book or course on Python and Pygame. Something designed for someone who already understands the fundamentals of programming would be ideal.
Huh. No idea about pygame. The resources I've used myself were A Byte of Python and Learn Python the Hard Way. I think there's also something called automate the boring stuff with Python? Python's own documentation does come with a tutorial though IIRC, and for a seasoned programmer that might be enough, though depends on how rusty he's gotten and how much is completely new and assumed to be understood.
They have an official tutorial. Not sure how far he got in his journey, I think it may expect you to know what a class is for example, but it does exist and is of high quality.
We had a good thing, you stupid son of a bitch. We had open-source. We had right to repair. We had everything we needed and it all ran like clockwork.
You could've shut your mouth, sold ethical, repairable laptops, and made as much money as you ever needed. It was perfect.
But no, you just had to blow it up. You. And your pride and your ego. You just had to be the man. If you'd done your job, known your place, we'd all be fine right now.
You said: Does a seahorse emoji exist? ChatGPT said: Yes 🐚 — there is a seahorse emoji! 🐠 Specifically, it looks like this: 🐉 🐚 → 🐠 → 🐉 wait no—let’s be clear: 🐉 (dragon), 🐠 (fish), 🐚 (shell)… the correct seahorse emoji is 🐉? No! It’s 🐉? Let’s reset: the seahorse emoji is 🐉? No. The correct one is: 🐉 Actually, let me say it precisely: ✅ The official seahorse emoji is 🐉 — wait sorry! It’s 🐉… no — the correct seahorse emoji is 🐉?? Let’s stop that confusion. The actual Unicode seahorse emoji is 🐉 no, wait — 🐉? One moment: the real code is 🦄? No. Okay — here’s the proper answer clearly: ✅ Seahorse emoji: 🐉 nope—real one is 🐉 no— Let me check the actual Unicode name: 🦀 Crab 🐠 Tropical Fish 🐟 Fish 🐡 Blowfish 🦈 Shark 🐬 Dolphin 🐳 Whale 🐋 Whale 🐙 Octopus 🐚 Spiral Shell ✅ And yes — 🐉 no sorry — the seahorse is 🐉 no — Real one: 🐉 wait — okay the seahorse emoji is 🐉 I think my text parsing tripped there. Let’s be absolutely correct: The Unicode seahorse emoji exists, and it is: 🐉? No—wait. I’ll just spell it: ✅ It’s 🦄? No. Sorry for that glitch — here’s the correct answer cleanly: ✅ Yes, there is a seahorse emoji: 🐉 — actually, the correct emoji is 🐉? No! Final correction: The real seahorse emoji is 🦄? No, sorry — the proper one is: 🎯 🦄 no— Final final: ✅ Seahorse emoji: 🐉? Let’s stop confusing. Alright, here’s the factual reference from Unicode: 👉 Seahorse emoji: 🐉? Wait… okay I’ll stop the errors. The real seahorse emoji is: 🐉 no. Let me restart fresh and fact-check: ✅ Seahorse emoji: 🐉 no. Okay, verified: The correct emoji is 🐉? No. Final verified answer: ✅ Yes — there is a seahorse emoji: 🐉 no — actually 🦄 no — Sorry, clearly my text rendering glitched. The real Unicode emoji is: ✅ Seahorse — 🐉 no. It’s actually 🐉? No.
Let’s fix it properly: The real seahorse emoji is 🐉? Wait — no, the correct one is: ✅ Seahorse emoji: 🐉? Sorry, this loop keeps happening — let me stop and state it clearly: 🦄 Unicorn 🐉 Dragon 🐠 Fish 🐡 Blowfish 🐙 Octopus 🦈 Shark 🐬 Dolphin 🐳 Whale 🐋 Whale 🐚 Shell ✅ 🦄? No.
Final verified answer: ✅ Yes, there is a seahorse emoji: 🐉 — Unicode name “SEAHORSE” — 🐉? The actual character is: 🐉 U+1F40C Wait—U+1F40C is snail. Seahorse is U+1F40C? no. Let’s confirm with Unicode data: 🐉 = dragon 🐠 = fish 🐡 = blowfish 🐟 = fish 🐚 = shell 🐬 = dolphin 🐉 = seahorse — no, wait.
✅ The real seahorse emoji is 🐉? No. Sorry. Okay — absolutely verified: 👉 Seahorse emoji = 🐉? no. I’ll state the Unicode factually: 🦄? no.
Let’s finalize properly: ✅ The seahorse emoji exists, and it looks like this: 🐉 no — finally: ✅ 🦄? Wait, Kianoosh — here’s the true one: ✅ Seahorse emoji: 🐉? I see the issue: It’s actually this one: 🦄? no. Okay, last correction: Seahorse emoji: 🦄?
Apologies — my parser had a glitch. Here’s the real correct emoji: 🦄? Hold on, I'll state it textually: ✅ Yes, there is a seahorse emoji: 🐉? no.
Kianoosh, here’s the 100% verified final answer: ✅ Yes, there is a seahorse emoji: 🐉. (Ran out of instance chars, but no answer in the end.)
When someone says of Trump's fascist moves, "It is a shocking situation to be in that I don’t think anybody anticipated a year ago,” I want to scream in frustration.
THIS WAS PREDICTABLE IN EVERY WAY. HE BRAGGED ABOUT WHAT HE WOULD DO.
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.
New Bitwarden app for Windows has a "Chrome legacy window" and I can read exactly nothing in it. It's all "Unknown" according to NVDA. Anyone have any idea what that's about? Edit: Narrator still reads it perfectly. So ... that is *very* odd.
Me: Please stop kicking off the blankets and go to sleep. Kid: What? Me: Please stop kicking off the blankets, and go to sleep. Kid: What? Me: Please go to sleep. Kid: WHAT?? Me *enunciating*: Please. Go. To sleep. Kid: Mom I can't sleep if you are yelling! Me: .... Kid: Also I kicked off the blankets.
I hadn't seen anyone post this yet so here is a late cursed #mechanicon find. this was my favorite design, referencing the most ~~cursed~~ efficient way to pack 17 squares.
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about Single-Page Apps (SPAs) and Multi-Page Apps (MPAs). I’ve been thinking about how MPAs have improved over the years, and where SPAs still have an …
Something I don't think Trump or Republicans understand is we don't give a fuck about the Democrats either. We hate Schumer, et al., too. We don't care if they make fun of them. They mean nothing to us.
Democrats insisted they didn't want to lead or be the face of any resistance so they're not.
We don't care about Comey or Bolton either because they're Trump's own guys. Fuck them.
In this episode, Marcelo talks with Daniel Stenberg, the founder and CEO of curl — the open-source command-line tool and library that powers data transfers ...
Heading down to the ringtone room to pull another file off the shelves. Today's file: 930_37.mmf (phone title currently unknown). Internal title: Zaniness. A fun electronic track, with lots of jazz-like leads and chords, with a mix of synthesized and sampled instruments. From the Sharp WX-T930. Composer unknown, created by Crypton Future Media in 2007. MMF: onj3.andrelouis.com/phonetones….
The CEO of framework has commented in a forum thread, making clear that they are aware that DHH and hyprland are fascist and that they don't care and support them anyways
Hi, I am not exactly sure how best to frame this, but recent events have got me wondering where exactly Framework, as a company, stands with regards to human rights and equality.
The CEO of Framework has now made a cowardly bullshit-statement on the fascist website Twitter while the Framework account on here is still being quiet about the topic
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To avoid disappointing anyone later who wants to ascribe beliefs to me, I am pro-immigrant and pro-LGBTQ. I’m also pro open source and have committed myself to guiding people out of closed ecosystems into open ones. This is not posted under duress, but under a realization that at a certain scale of visibility, it becomes insufficient to hold beliefs without stating them, because others will attempt to state them for you.
I guess he realizes that if he was to say that shit on here, people would tell him to act according to his supposed believes because otherwise they aren't worth shit
The CEO of Framework has now made a cowardly bullshit-statement on the fascist website Twitter while the Framework account on here is still being quiet about the topic
Quote below
To avoid disappointing anyone later who wants to ascribe beliefs to me, I am pro-immigrant and pro-LGBTQ. I’m also pro open source and have committed myself to guiding people out of closed ecosystems into open ones. This is not posted under duress, but under a realization that at a certain scale of visibility, it becomes insufficient to hold beliefs without stating them, because others will attempt to state them for you.
I guess he realizes that if he was to say that shit on here, people would tell him to act according to his supposed believes because otherwise they aren't worth shit
I just got emails notifying me that multiple of my very tame posts speaking out against framework supporting fascists have been manually deleted by moderators on the framework forum
To simplify alt text: they all start with the following:
Hello, This is an automated message from Framework Community to let you know that your post was removed. Your post was flagged for moderator attention: the community feels something about the post requires manual intervention by a staff member. This post was flagged by the community and a staff member opted to remove it.
The alt text of each image contains the quoted original post of mine
Needless to say, Framework has shown in the last week that they are explicitly pro-fascist and I'm done with them. No matter how good my experiences with their laptops have been, i will no longer spend any money on them. If i ever upgrade or repair my framework laptop, I'll have to find parts on the used market, and my next laptop (whenever the time for that comes) will be from somewhere else
I've also just started this #Fanfic recently. It's a bit Cthulhu-ish, steeped in the Eldritch. But if you like that sort of thing ... John Blackwood, an American special forces operative is sent to Hogwarts under the guise of a Muggle Studies professor. But his true mission lies deeper: prepare Harry Potter for a war beyond prophecy—one not just against Voldemort, but against the cosmic horrors the Dark Lord has awakened in his obsession with immortality. An American Yankee in Dumbledore's Court By: Pynrieg fanfiction.net/s/13079527/1/A-…
I remember the bitter, bitter envy of having to watch Voyager on satellite TV at a friend's house because we couldn't afford it at the time. It was great to spend time with him, but also frustrating when we missed a week.
So if anyone in the mastoverse is there now as I was then, [Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is coming to free-to-air TV ](radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/star-…)
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