If you've changed your name, and you have old git commits that still show under your old name, you can fix it by adding a `.mailmap` file in the root of a git repository
This file lets you say what name and email address should appear any time git sees a particular email address for a commit author
Also, a heads up: I'll be doing an online presentation on the Epics About Women project! If anyone is interested, here is the registration link: storycrossroads.org/AllThingsS… You can join in, or ask for the recording to view later.
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what are the benefits of using an online calendar anyways? I've just been using an open source offline one, but I'm kind of intrigued now, because I like Tutamail, so I'm wondering if I should consider Tuta Calendar too.
Již tento víkend se v Brně koná @openalt a tam nebude chybět. Nejenže tam budeme mít stánek, ale v programu najdete i několik přednášek, které se #Fedora týkají. 👇
That's very admirable. So many (big) Open Source projects just don't prioritize their "Issues" count/triage process (or think they don't have the resources) and it becomes an outdated and duplication-riddled hell. Looking at you, #Nextcloud.
@b3n I don't think I've written specifically about issues, no. I have awesome contributors in the project and we always consider fixing issues top-prio. But also, to reduce the risk of new issues working on the foundation: readable code, more tests, fuzzing, documentation etc is also crucial.
A while ago I received an email with this question. I've been subscribed to your weekly newsletter for a while now, receiving your weekly updates every Friday. I'm writing because I admire your consistency, focus, and perseverance.
Are we again at the point where you derail the discussion, while you know perfectly well that you can continue using GitHub's CI without requiring the community to use GitHub and move development elsewhere?
The code is portable, light on resources, and under a permissive license. I've been following this conspiracy for many years now, and curl continues to become better and more popular. 😡
You even go to great lengths to recruit new contributors to this global conspiracy! It's one of the most welcoming open source projects around. J'accuse!
Congratulations! It was such a relief to get to inbox zero in Flask, so I know how much effort this takes. Made it so much easier to make decisions and keep the count low moving forward too.
but you didn't just ban so many people on the bug bounty program because you thought their bug reports were all AI slop that no one does it anymore right?
Nueva versión de Launchtype que añade un botón de salir y hace que las búsquedas sean más búsquedas y no... una cosa rara salida del infierno. github.com/ogomez92/launchtype… @juankicarlois
Duidelijk niet, maar vergeet daarbij niet dat zeker de VVD een harde, naar mijn gevoel tegen beter weten in, kern heeft. Het label Liberaal, wat de VVD nu gewoon niet te noemen is, blijft daarbij het keyword.
Have to read through this as I wonder how that's even possible for a lib of that caliber for such a long time. Afaik ABI breaks pretty easily if one just adds more fields to a struct. So you must have planned ahead very well to keep it ABI stable and upgradable, I guess.
@pythno a combination of planning, luck and dedication I suppose. We don't change structs once introduced (with one exception that I can recall and that works since we only provide a pointer to it)
@TimePencil We don't block emails, just send to spam. You can try whitelisting them via spam rules. Please also check whether this could be the cause: tuta.com/support#onhold
already ran into a false positive today, and now had to download a desktop email client just to open an email that Tuta decided is Spam and attached as .eml -- this sucks. As a user, I really really want to be the one to decide which emails are expected and ok and safe to read and which aren't.
@endolexi it is, but if you send them an email, you'll reach the devs directly - not 'just" the communications team that has complained about this to the devs already. ;)
The word "spam" meaning to flood a place with unwanted messages comes from a carnist joke made by #MontyPython in which the capitalist product #Spam is mythologized as an archetypal unwanted worthless repetition. A murder victims body reduced to a literal throw-away joke depicting their mangled corpse as nothing more than a nuisance.The company that killed them "Spam company" is remembered more readily than the victim #speciesism #carnism
Sirviendo con objetividad los intereses generales y actuando de acuerdo con los principios de eficacia, jerarquía, descentralización, desconcentración y coordinación con sometimiento pleno a la ley y al Derecho.
¡Buenos días desde mi casa! Yo estaré en media hora en la administración pública, pero el principio de eficacia la verdad que no se conoce mucho, al menos en esta.
to je po akom, ja tomu nerozumiem halp! srandy bokom.. podľa tejto tabulky to znamená že keď budem vyrábať iba jeden kus nemusím robiť nákres každej jednej operácie? no je to tam napísané.
Tak jasné. U jednoho kusu to bude dělat někdo naskilený. U hromadné výroby budeš chtít maximalizovat využití materiálů a eliminovat prostoje tím že dělník misto toho aby dělal přímyšlí jak.
Gosh I love podcasting! I started to create the podcast episodes for our local blindness organization. For the second to last episode, I had the main moderation with our press person over MS Teams, which I recorded in Audio Hijack by @RogueAmoeba. I then already had multiple tracks to import into REAPER. Then, I also had the intro and outro, which are two wave files, and a bunch of interviews which were created using several different setups by different people. Two were phone interviews, one was a statement recorded directly onto an iPhone, and two were interviews conducted over Teams or such, with the interviewer and interviewee using notebook mics instead of something proper. But thanks to the advanced audio processing algorithms offered by @auphonic, not only did the press person's audio, which was quite flat when it came to me due to the mic she was using, sound much better because of the voice EQ filter, but the interviews all benefitted from the voice isolation feature, including the removal of reverb. The resulting episode sounds amazing considering the varying bits of audio I was given to put together. The original version of the episode didn't have all of this, but I just recreated the audio with all the above, and hope the person in charge of the podcast host interaction will replace the audio with the one I recreated.
Anyway, the satisfaction of creating something really decent sounding from all these bits of unprofessional recording fills me with lots of joy.
I have the same experience, I record interwievs for our catholic radio and sometimes I cant meet personally. @Auphonic is hilarious. I prefer VDO Ninja for remote recording, as I can disable all processing and filtering for the host and it can provide 44.1 K samplerate. I wrote about VDO ninja here: fedi.ml/display/421c36a5-1868-…
During last 3 months I am using VDO ninja for all my remote interwiev and podcast recordings. here is my article about it from the blind perspective, focused on accessibility and audio.
Have You Ever Wanted to Record an Interview or Podcast Online? You’ve probably faced a few challenges: How to transmit audio in the highest possible quality? How to connect in a way that doesn’t burden your guest with installing software? And how to record everything, ideally into separate tracks?
The solution to these problems is offered by the open-source tool VDO Ninja.
What Is VDO Ninja
It’s an open-source web application that uses WebRTC technology. It allows you to create a P2P connection between participants in an audio or video call and gives you control over various transmission parameters. You can decide whether the room will include video, what and when will be recorded, and much more.
In terms of accessibility, the interface is fairly easy to get used to — and all parameters can be adjusted directly in the URL address when joining. All you need is a web browser, either on a computer or smartphone.
Getting Started
The basic principle is similar to using MS Teams, Google Meet, and similar services. All participants join the same room via a link. However, VDO Ninja distinguishes between two main types of participants: Guests and the Director. While the guest has limited control, the director can, for example, change the guest’s input audio device (the change still must be confirmed by the guest).
A Few Words About Browsers
VDO Ninja works in most browsers, but I’ve found Google Chrome to be the most reliable. Firefox, for some reason, doesn’t display all available audio devices, and when recording multiple tracks, it refuses to download several files simultaneously.
Let’s Record a Podcast
Let’s imagine we’re going to record our podcast, for example, Blindrevue. We can connect using a link like this:
Looking at the URL more closely, we can see that it contains some useful instructions:
director – Defines that we are the director of the room, giving us more control. The value after the equals sign is the room name.
novideo – Prevents video from being transmitted from participants. This parameter is optional but useful when recording podcasts to save bandwidth.
proaudio – Disables effects like noise reduction, echo cancellation, automatic gain control, compression, etc., and enables stereo transmission. Be aware that with this setting, you should use headphones, as echo cancellation is disabled, and otherwise, participants will hear themselves.
label=Ondro – Automatically assigns me the nickname “Ondro.”
autostart – Starts streaming immediately after joining, skipping the initial setup dialog.
videomute – Automatically disables the webcam.
showdirector – Displays our own input control panel (useful if we want to record ourselves).
autorecord – Automatically starts recording for each participant as they join.
sm=0 – Ensures that we automatically hear every new participant without manually unmuting them.
beep – Plays a sound and sends system notification when new participants join (requires notification permissions).
We replaced director with room. The value must remain the same, otherwise the guest will end up in a different room.
We left label empty — this makes VDO Ninja ask the guest for a nickname upon joining. Alternatively, you can send personalized links, e.g., label=Peter or label=Marek.
The webcam parameter tells VDO Ninja to immediately stream audio from the guest’s microphone; otherwise, they’d need to click “Start streaming” or “Share screen.”
How to Join
Simply open the link in a browser. In our case, the director automatically streams audio to everyone else. Participants also join by opening their link in a browser. If a nickname was predefined, they’ll only be asked for permission to access their microphone and camera. Otherwise, they’ll also be prompted to enter their name.
Usually, the browser will display a permission warning. Press F6 to focus on it, then Tab through available options and allow access.
Controls
The page contains several useful buttons:
Text chat – Toggles the text chat panel, also allows sending files.
Mute speaker output – Mutes local playback (others can still hear you).
Mute microphone – Mutes your mic.
Mute camera – Turns off your camera (enabled by default in our example).
Share screen / Share website – Allows screen or site sharing.
View and change the guest’s input device — if you change it, a Request button appears, prompting the guest to confirm the change.
Change the output device, useful for switching between speaker and earpiece on mobile devices.
Recording
Our URL parameters define automatic recording for all participants. Recordings are saved in your Downloads folder, and progress can be checked with Ctrl+J.
Each participant’s recording is a separate file. For editing, import them into separate tracks in your DAW and synchronize them manually. VDO Ninja doesn’t support single-track recording, but you can use Reaper or APP2Clap with a virtual audio device.
To simplify synchronization:
Join as director, but remove autorecord.
Wait for everyone to join and check audio.
When ready, press Alt+D to edit the address bar.
Add &autorecord, reload the page, and confirm rejoining.
Recording now starts simultaneously for everyone.
Verify this in your downloads.
Manual Recording
To start recording manually:
Open Room settings menu.
Go to the Room settings heading.
Click Local record – start all.
Check PCM recording (saves WAV uncompressed).
Check Audio only (records sound without video).
Click Start recording.
Important Recording Notes
Always verify that all guest streams are recording.
To end recordings safely, click Hangup for each guest or let them leave.
You can also toggle recording for each guest under More options → Record.
Files are saved as WEBM containers. If your editor doesn’t support it, you can convert them using the official converter.
Reaper can open WEBM files but may have editing issues — I prefer importing the OPUS audio file instead.
Recommended Reading
In this article, I’ve covered only a few features and URL parameters. For more details, check the VDO Ninja Documentation.
Honestly, I wouldn't know what to do without your tools. With LoopBack's and AudioHijack's help, I use my studio microphone as my main microphone on the Mac, for voice messages, recordings etc. And the sound that others get is beautifully levelled and gently compressed by the compressor and limiter from FabFilter so that there's no harsh dynamic range. All thanks to the great integration of plugin parameters Audio Hijack uses, and all accessible with VoiceOver.
Nefalšovaná kočka u korýtka. Jen pro silné povahy!
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Na veterinu s ní šel #autobusak, poněvadž já v práci. Doktor prohlásil, že je zdravá a dal jí nějaký vitamíny a konzervu. Jako bysme jí nepodstrojovali dost. Neudělal jí sono a ani rentgen, a že jestli se do pátku nezlepší, máme přijít zase. Takže radši začala žrát. Musím zjistit, kolik nás ta zdravá kočka na veterině stála.
Tohle není příjemné poslouchat, ale měli byste si to pustit. Máte na to spoustu času, nemá to časové omezení jako jiné (příjemné) pořady. mujrozhlas.cz/rapi/view/serial…
Koho mučí v ruském zajateckém táboře? Kam míří ruské údery? Jak zní válka a jak krajina předků? Kam a kudy utéct? Jak si navzájem pomáhat? A jak truchlit, přežít, nebo žít dál? V Radioknize uslyšíte exkluzivně sedm povídek, reportáží i esejů nejvýzna…
If your corporation is a monopoly (or part of a duopoly, or a triopoly, or whatever), you can fire all your best staff, let your services degrade to hell, and you’ll still keep all your customers (and all their money) because there’s nowhere else to go.
I don’t really care that all the big cloud providers are corporations beholden to the USA. I care that there’s 3–4 of them. It wouldn’t matter where they were based if there were 100.
libghostty can now encode terminal contents as HTML. On the left is an example program that reads stdin, loads it in a terminal, and encodes to HTML. On the right, an example of `fastfetch` encoded to the browser. Coming soon to Ghostty clipboard ops automatically.
I've long held the opinion that the proper way to expose TUI semantics (which nobody is doing at the moment, as there's no standard for it) would be to rely on HTML in some way.
We already have perfectly good screen readers that can work with complex objects (think tables with column headers spanning multiple columns) on the web, why re-invent the wheel?
Aria has everything we might possibly need, menus, progress bars, tables, forms (for 3270 / 5250 terminal emulators), it's all just there, well specified, well supported and ready to use.
@miki Thats a really good idea and angle for this... actually. Right now we're just emitting some very bare bones inline styling and very little structure. It'd be fairly trivial to augment the HTML formatter to emit aria tags and some more things to make it usable by a screen reader perhaps: github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty…
Consuming this would be another matter entirely, you'd have to write some Electron / native webview / browser-based abomination, communicating with some native process (with enough privileges to actually run terminal commands) over websockets. You can't "just" expose raw HTML to screen readers, you need some kind of web engine that converts it to the accessibility APIs that screen readers understand natively, and those varry per platform.
You could make Ghostty itself pretend to be a webview (which AFAIK would be the only way to communicate a complicated document representation like this), but that would either rely on the platform's native web view somehow, or re-implement those APIs.
Perhaps @matt has some input on this, he knows a lot more about this than I ever will.
@miki @matt My stance just purely out of pragmatism of being a hobby project has been to push all a11y work into one platform and that has been macOS. So I think leaning on WebKit and bridging that way via the native APIs could work fine.
@miki Does ghostty embed a browser engine yet? If not, I wouldn't do so purely for accessibility. A browser engine is a big, heavyweight component, and I'm *sure* that many ghostty users would be disappointed if a browser engine were brought into their presumably currently lightweight terminal.
@matt @miki It doesn't, but its a "standard" library for macOS apps so its dynamically linked and doesn't add to the binary size. If it were only used for unobtrusive reasons like a11y I don't think anyone would notice or complain.
Of course, you're free to do as you wish within your hobby project, but my professional opinion is that retrofitting a web view onto your terminal wouldn't even be the easiest way to implement accessibility on a single platform. @miki's idea of using HTML to make terminal-based TUIs more accessible is just hypothetical at this point, and I'm not sure I agree with it.
@miki To make the terminal itself accessible in the near term, you might look at AccessKit (accesskit.dev/), which I started. Yes, we still need to write more documentation. It's in Rust, but it does have a C API now, and the static library for that C API on macOS is only a few hundred kilobytes. It should be pretty easy to add that to your existing SurfaceView. (I've looked at ghostty just enough to find that class name.)
@miki There is in fact already at least one Zig GUI toolkit using AccessKit: github.com/david-vanderson/dvu… Though I don't know if you'd be using the AccessKit API from Zig code, Swift code, or some of each. It looks like it all gets statically linked together, so using AccessKit from both languages, e.g. cross-platform Zig code and macOS-specific Swift code, should be fine.
Not to mention that you'd first have to establish a spec for apps to expose the needed information in the first place. As it stands, terminal emulators don't "know" that you have midnight commander open, that it has two panes open, that foo.txt is selected in the left pane and bar.txt is selected in the right pane, that both should be treated as lists, and that the couple lines at the bottom are a status area. There's no standard to even expose that info in terminal land.
@miki Well yeah that’s a different category of the problem entirely and I’m unsure we’re anywhere near taking that on unfortunately. Making the raw text with command boundaries accesssible is the more short term play.
Mac OS has a significant problem with queuing. WHile Windows screen readers have a queue of utterances to be spoken, Mac OS can only support one utterance at a time. New speech output always clobbers what's currently in the buffer.
This is highly undesirable for terminals. Imagine a quickly scrolling compilation log, where all lines are prefixed with a timestamp. Instead of being able to periodically flush the queue and listen to a few lines to track progress, you'll constantly hear the word "two" (as in 2025-10-30). In other words, before a line can be read, it will be cut off by the next one.
This is the behavior of terminal.app (which is why it is unusable without muting VO and using a separate terminal screen reader, but that is an ugly hack that carries other issues with it.)
It's not an insurmountable problem by any means, you can get around it by interacting with Mac OS's speech APIs directly (and those APIs do support queuing, it's just VO that doesn't), it's just something to be aware of and that most terminal emulators get wrong, making them almost unusable on Mac accessibility-wise.
For an example of the problem in action, see this page with VO on (cmd+f5 or cmd+side button pressed three times on old touchbar Macs) gist.githack.com/mikolysz/9878…
Máš starší notebook nebo počítač a chceš zkusit žít s Linuxem místo Windows?
Chceš zjistit, jaké jsou otevřené alternativy ke komerčním cloudovým službám a běžným programům?
Tak pojď na náš celodenní workshop v sobotu 8.11. od 10:00 u náměstí Jiřího z Poděbrad v Praze, nainstaluj si s naší pomocí Linux a nauč se jeho základní použití pro běžné činnosti!
On this day in 1995 (thirty years ago), I experienced my first school fire, when someone threw a lit match into an empty soap Dispenser in an upstairs girl's bathroom, which was right down-wind from the library, which smelled bad for weeks afterward.
Disney and YouTube settle their legal dispute over YouTube's hiring in May of former Disney executive Justin Connolly to be global head of media and sports (Dominic Patten/Deadline)
I took two spectacular photos, one of Simba and one of Patches. Got errors when I posted, so I'm going to try again. The first photo is that of Simba, a gray and black tabby The second accessory is Patches, a calico with patches in her fur. Both cute, both great accessories worthy of bobble heads, air tag holders, or beer can holders??? Who knows. Too bad both of the photos continue to failed to send this message. If you guys can figure out how I can send these using Mona without them absolutely failing because I took it on an iPhone camera or something, let me know, and I’d be happy to show you how awesome these accessories are.
See, ambient authority is the natural and ecosystem-mindful way to write software. You take what you need from where you are. Ocaps are the capitalist, hyper-individualist survivalist model where you must carry everything you need all the time, and cannot procure it yourself - you need to be handed it.
MiniMax M2 is the new "most intelligent" open weights model (according to Artificial Analysis) - the MIT licensed weights are just 230GB and it appears comparable to Sonnet 4, while priced closer to Gemini 2.5 Flash. Notes here, including a new LLM plugin: simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/29/…
MiniMax M2 was released on Monday 27th October by MiniMax, a Chinese AI lab founded in December 2021. It's a very promising model. Their self-reported benchmark scores show it as …
Corporate America is so toxic and such a scarring ever lasting experience that even places that try to do better and have a transparent, open, and collaborative approach are seeing as leadership against developers, with deep trust issues, and an ingrained instinctual approach of trying to read between the lines, even when nothing is hidden. It's sad...so sad.
Cue the "you're a Director so you must make millions so go die in a fire" kind of replies
In 2013, when #Montreal was deep into its corruption self-investigation, we almost ran out of asphalt.
We'd made a new rule that anyone named during the Charbonneau commission's corruption inquiry was disqualified from being a vendor/supplier for the city.
The hitch was that all of the asphalt suppliers were named. Yes, *all* of them.
So we had to decide “run out of pothole-patching materials" or “continue doing business with corrupt suppliers”.
Twelve year old spoiler: #Montreal used the corrupt-suspect companies anyway. We had potholes to fill.
To me, this feels not so different from keeping my Facebook account for the beer groups, our business email on Google because of the spreadsheets/integrations, and even how @pluralistic talks about why he maintains his X/Twitter account.
It sucks, but there aren't alternatives that offer all of the same benefits (and I include “network of people" in this calculation).
@hub AFAIK the city didn't have an asphalt plant at the time. The linked article (in the reply) said that council voted to use the declared-corrupt suppliers.
Maybe there's an evolution I don't know about, though. 🤷♂️
A parallel universe where the concept of a "key board", be it a piano or a typewriter keyboard, never got popular. Most people are using fretted lute / guitar input with their computers; people who mastered chords can type faster than those who cannot. Some countries prefer violin/shamisen style of input, and thus in the 40 years of computerisation their spoken languages have changed to incorporate legatos and pitch changes. The biggest coder flame war of all times is not vim vs emacs but plectrum vs bow. A few historians uncover a long-forgotten prototype of a computer controlled by percussion.
tam nebude chybět. Nejenže tam budeme mít stánek, ale v programu najdete i několik přednášek, které se #Fedora týkají. 👇
#legday
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