ah, the constant guessing game of figuring out which batteries are dead, which aren't, which ones are rechargeable, etc. I know there are a lot of negatives to in-built batteries, but god damn this is irritating
The recent data center outage surfaced the shocking reality of one adjustable bed manufacturer collecting 60 gigabytes of data per month per bed. Pretty insane data collection for a bed(!?)
Nest collects a mere 50 Mb, it’s still spyware. Rossmann goes on to inform us even though the device services have been discontinued, the device still uploads 50 MB of data a day to google.
The new #PC arrived! Thanks to everyone who gave me feedback on the configuration last week. I've made a couple of changes based on it such as getting a X870E motherboard and a faster disk.
@major thanks, it's quite difficult to make a boring looking build without the RGB circus. Not that I didn't like colors, but I sometimes sleep in my study and need to run the computer over night. :)
It's funny it came with pre-installed Windows even though I specifically ordered it without OS. Windows are gone now. #Fedora #Silverblue rules the computer now.
@theron29 I don't think so, it's just pre-installed, no license purchased. At least it isn't on the invoice and I didn't pay for it. Alza tested the machine before they shipped it to me, my theory is that they needed it for the testing.
@theron29 Geekboy (a youtuber) recently visited the place where alza builds computers and they confirmed that every single computer gets preloaded with windows by default. If the consumer pays for a license, they activate it. Otherwise they leave it as it is, so no worries, no money got wasted on Microsoft there :D
@vancura Přesně! A když to znovu vidím a čtu clean... Shodou okolností jsem včera narazil na článek o PC od svérázné legendy (nejen) brněnské kávové scény, stojí za sdílení zlutyzakaznik.cz/post/79980853…
(10. 11. 2025) Jen pro geeky. Byli jste varováni! :-)
Osmé výročí blogu, jež proběhlo v pátek 7. listopadu, je potřeba reflektovat trochu jinak než ta předchozí. Od listopadu 2017 tu byl inscenovaný...
@def Ja chtel puvodne napsat “dustfree,” ale on celej ten pocitac je tak pekne uklizenej a provazanej, ze je proste mega-clean. Uplne si rikam, ze bych taky chtel takovej peknej, cistej pocitac. Jak dlouho by to asi vydrzelo :)
@vancura @def musím říct, že mě ten pohled satisfakoval. No a pak jsem nasadil zpátky bočnici a je z toho počítač jako každý jiný. Ale ten pohled na čistý vnitřek budou mít v paměti celý rok, než to zase otevřu, abych to vyprášil. 🙂
@vancura co přesně tě zajímá? Dovezl jsem to včera večer a zatím jsem se věnoval především instalaci systému a přesunu aplikací a dat, takže jsem to z pohledu provozních vlastností zatím moc nezkoumal. S monitorem si rozumí, FreeSync jede, výkon to má taky odpovídající (i když od toho nečekám zázraky, je to přece jenom midrange). Na straně softwaru jsem zatím nenarazil na žádný problém, ale můžu hodnotit jen zkušenost na Linuxu, Windows šly hned pryč.
More good coverage on crypto fraud in the NYT this morning. Note the phrase "at least $28 billion". It is undoubtedly A LOT more than $28 billion because the technology is so perfectly designed to be untraceable AND this doesn't include all kinds of fraud. nytimes.com/2025/11/17/technol…
is this a joke? Crypto is extremely traceable unless it's Monero or ZCash which almost nobody uses. There are companies that specialize in tracing and giving the Feds all the info they need to nail stupid criminals who think these blockchains are magic crime tools
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1. For every problem I'm about to flag, I have introduced legislation or amendments to existing legislation to fix. In every case, they have been opposed by the Republicans and the crypto industry. Thus this paragraph. If you make crime legal, is it still crime?
2. First, to the fraud this analysis doesn't even touch. In any other financial market it would be illegal to be an exchange operator and a issuer of securities. Or to be a broker of your own securities. Brokers and dealers are separated. Crypto does none of that.
3. That creates MASSIVE conflicts of interest. If you are buying and selling crypto and you aren't conflicted, you are almost certainly being taken advantage of by someone who is.
4. Google "wash trades" to see how some of that fraud works in practice. I issue a coin, trade it between entities I control to artificially inflate price, then once the suckers get in I dump. (Industry sometimes call these "barts" bc the price history looks like Bart Simpson's haircut.)
5. Especially for some meme coins, that type of fraud and its variants gets close to 100% of the volume. And isn't included at all in this NYT analysis as far as I can tell.
6. But to the fraud they do track, Chainalysis (mentioned in the article) has testified before our committee. They do good work seeking to track all the trade history that leads to illegal use. But even with all their skills, they can only see the so-called "on-chain" trades.
> But even with all their skills, they can only see the so-called "on-chain" trades.
If it's not on-chain, this is even easier to investigate. Go get their private databases they use for their order books.
but also I wish our elected representatives cared even a fraction as much about the criminal activity happening on the stock market which is the same thing happening here, but significantly bigger. Nobody cares about dark pools, how they're front running retail trades stealing from regular Americans, ladder attacks to manipulate prices... all of Citadel... trillions of fraud over decades swept under the rug
I wouldn't wait that long, I was a receptionist a long time ago and, my superviser had informed me that , if I were to leave people on hold too long, that would potentually make us lose customers.
Outside the US you get transferred to a distributor tech support who in my case told me I needed to get an Access to Work assessment as I mentioned I was using some software at work. Its pretty shocking and part of the enshitification of JFW that I think will eventually lead to its demise.
So, um, fail? I just tried getting picture smart to describe an image for me. I couldn't figure out why insert space was doing nothing to start the process of envoking the picture smart layer. Wanna know why? I was using NVDA.
People are giving the Mona developers a really hard time. Did they know they would be using AI when Mona 5 became a thing? Chances are, probably not. Are they having to pay for AI for the next upgrade, yes. Will that require funding? Yes. It's not really that hard to understand where they're coming from. #Blind
I don't know fully yet either. None of us do. But here's the thing. If the new app is the only Mona in the app store, that leaves us with two choices--either get the new app or don't use Mona. So where will that leave those who paid for Mona pro?
jumping to conclusions is what's causing this problem. they may remove the old one, they may not. No one knows, so getting worked up over it is pointless
I think the Mona people are making the same mistake the voice dream reader folks made, which is announcing the new product/payment system without a FAQ or other documents which outlines the process, how much it will cost, what things are supported, and what will happen to the old app. I'm like Lynn, I paid for Mona Pro, I have no problem paying for an app, i don't want to pay for AI, because I don't use it, I am really happy with Mona, and hope they keep supporting this current app, but frankly, if they stop supporting it, and it becomes obsolete, and my only choice is to buy new Mona and pay again, or switch to Toot which I've already paid for and which is continuing to be supported, I'm not going to pay for Mona again.
Yeah, that. I think Mona was and is well worth my money. But if my choice is to pay again simply because someone wants to shove AI down my throat without anything else useful, or switch to another app, then honestly, I'll likely switch to something else. I'm not going to dump money on something I won't even use. It's not about paying for stuff for me, if something is useful to me, I'll gladly pay for it. What I won't do is drop money on something useless to me, something I've already fairly paid for, or something I outright dislike. I don't need AI in my mastodon app, and if I have to pay to continue using Mona simply because someone decided I need more AI immediately, then I just won't do it. I have better things my money could go to.
@ratking FWIW, my issue is not with paying for a new version of Mona. I'm more than happy to do that if it's the best thing going. However, I'm much more concerned about how even more stuff will get leaked to ChatGPT as a result. That alone will probably keep me from upgrading.
Oh cool. VS Code can work with Github repos directly. I don't actually have to git clone them. Also they've changed some of the Alt Function keys around Linux, so Alt + F2 is changed to Alt + Shift + F4 or so.
Komplete users: I haven't set up Komplete Kontrol from scratch for a long time. I just downloaded every plugin I owned and squished them onto a secondary SSD in this new machine. And now, if I try to add the KK plugin and hit the browser button, I get the "file types" selector, and no results at all after that. Is there a really basic thing I've forgotten to do? Does Reaper need to be able to see all the plug-ins if I want to actually use them?
Hey, it's been a while for me as well so I'm not entirely sure, but I don't remember you need to do anything special other than opening the standalone app to make sure it scans all your libraries properly. I'd recommend joining the Blind Producers Discord server if you need more help, there are people on there who are way more knowledgeable than me lol. discord.gg/uPFzNHv4U7
@ZBennoui Thanks, I didn't know about that server, only the various WhatsApp groups. I did open the app, but it tried to hog my sound device and I never actually verified that it had scanned through everything. I definitely opened preferences and re-scanned though. i'll try again.
You also need to add a plugin directory to KK stand-alone if you've installed your plugins to a non-standard directory. That's currently the one of the few items in KK stand-alone that is totally inaccessible and will require eyeballs. Reminds me, that calls for an issue submission for ReaHotkey since that item currently lacks a mapping - wondering if it's a difficult one to map when compared to the fixed-place items in the preferences screen.
@jackf723 That is probably the answer and I hate that that's the answer. Why the fuck is that still inaccessible, and why the fuck is Komplete Kontrol not able to talk to Native Access and figure out where my plug-ins are stored? Do you know what the original path is? I could always just make a symlink, I guess.
@jackf723 If your VST plug-ins are on a secondary drive, though, you'll definitely want to make some kind of symlink or mirror to Program Files\Common Files\VST3, as this is the system standard path on Windows and that's where hosts will expect to find it. REAPER can cope with them in other dirs, it doesn't care much, but you never know what might.
@x0 Regarding ReaHotkey: I wonder if the Add Plugin button is a difficult icon to pin down. I know even Aira has to hunt and peck for it whenever I do it. Paging @ToniBarth since Mataj isn't on here as far as I know.
@jackf723 @x0 ReaHotkey already supports adding plugin paths in Komplete Kontrol. Just load it up and navigate to the corresponding tab in preferences, it should all be accessible. Obviously that is under Windows only.
We’re just over half-way through the Month of LibreOffice, November 2025. And already, 219 contributors have won cool LibreOffice sticker packs! Details on how to claim them will be provided at the end of the month, but if you don’t see your name (or…
Politicians: Terrified about citizens that might be sending private messages they cannot read on Signal -> Sudden panic about "protecting the children" 🙃
Also politicians: Grok AI Chatbot collects data and asks for nudes from a 12-year old -> AI is innovation! We should invest billions in taxpayers money in it! 💰💰💰
Hey, what's its address? I'm not available right now but can be a bit later. BTW, don't you know who is the author of the game and how to contact him? Yes, I happen to know it's a guy, but that's all I know.
Them: please make sure your name is the same as on your ID card. Pay attention to diacritics like é, ë, ß or œ. Me: fixed my name to Ondřej Them: only letters and dashes are allowed. 🙄🤡 #Rabobank
This is embarrassing to see late in 2025. It is still common in many western systems. Like it were so difficult to check those are valid letters from used alphabet.
And this makes me happy to be living in the future, because I think the last time I did this was 3-4 years ago.
When I was growing up, replacing bulbs was something that we did at least once a week.
When I moved into a shared house as a student, we were replacing at least one bulb a month. Around then, CFL subsidies came in and the cost of a CFL dropped to about the same price as one month's power consumption for an incandescent bulb, so we replaced all of them, and then didn't change a single bulb for the next two years I was in that house. The next house (which I lived in for around 5 years) also used CFLs and they would gradually have lower peak brightness so would get moved around to places that didn't need as much light.
We have LEDs here now, and they don't seem to fade. I think this is the first one to fail in 8 years (we did bring some older CFLs, which gradually died and were replaced). I'll see if this is a pattern (do they all fail after 8ish years, or was this an outlier?).
If you're updating to this version from v0.20.0 or v0.20.1, it's a very easy update with no db migrations.
If you're updating to this version from a version before v0.20.0, please follow the update instructions from v0.20.0, but replace 0.20.0 with 0.20.2 throughout. Be aware that the update to 0.20.x contains some potentially very long migrations. Please do read the notes carefully!
Release highlights:
Roll back to using name property instead of summary for alt text (for now anyway), due to compatibility issues with *oma, *key, and Iceshrimp.
Stub authorize_interaction to avoid surprising 404 when trying to do a remote interaction.
Fix issue that was causing emojis not to download properly.
Here's version 0.20.0 of GoToSocial, **Sinister Sloth**.
It's been a long summer of gently poking and prodding at the sloth's tummy and sides to make xem giggle.
🇪🇺 Unter dem Dach der #HeinleinGruppe haben wir gemeinsam mit unseren Schwestermarken @heinleinsupport, @OpenTalkMeeting und @OpenCloud sowie führenden Open-Source-Verbänden und -Unternehmen aus Europa die „Declaration of Digital Independence“ unterzeichnet.
Am 18. November 2025 findet der deutsch-französische Gipfel zur digitalen Souveränität der EU statt. Aus diesem Anlass veröffentlichen europäische Open-Source-Verbände und -Unternehmen die „Declaration of Digital Independence".
I'm not entirely sure why exactly this is, but Paperback's Rust epub parser loads Worm, a nearly 1.7 million word Epub, six to seven hundred MS faster than the C++ one did. For once users will notice all the internal dev work, at least somewhat haha.
Well, I'm relieved that the Rust parser isn't *slower*, particularly since you advertise load speed as a feature of Paperback. My guess is that the C++ parser has to do more defensive copying to avoid memory safety issues.
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their password was insecure, was not the actual breach in their security. The password ridiculous as it was actually did the job. Their physical security and alarm system for that floor did not.
I suspect there was no functioning ‘security team’. They just sat on their laurels and assumed all was ok. Even a very junior person with 5 minutes training would have done better.
When I post here, I try to keep the political stuff out of it. Reason being is that this platform tends to skew heavily to the left, and I am not a leftist; however, I think there are aspects of this platform that I can enjoy despite the political differences that exist between myself and the majority of its users. However, what I’m about to show here has righteously pissed me off. Some idiot has stamped a $1 bill with all sorts of derogatory remarks about Trump. (1/2)
Look, love him or hate him, that’s your business, butg defacing legal tender is a crime. I could have gotten busted by trying to spend this dollar bill not knowing what’s on it because some little shit lord decided it’d be funny to do this. P.S. I think the image has alt text on it, but if not, I’ll reply to this thread with the BME desc. (2/2)
We just released our biggest (and most beautiful) update ever. The new version fully embraces Liquid Glass and comes with a ton of enhancements, fixes and meaningful changes.
The update is available now, and it’s so big that we couldn’t fit all the fixes and changes into the App Store’s text field. You can still find the full release notes on our website:
A pleasant, focused writing experience combined with effective document management, fast syncing and flexible export make Ulysses the first choice for writers of all kinds.
If you, as an Android user, happen to have Airpods lurking around, a free Android app now lets your AirPods Pro play nice with Android phones by unlocking access to iOS-specific settings: androidauthority.com/apple-air…
@fireborn This one seems to be the best in terms of the settings it unlocks - even accessibility settings. I don't have an Android phone to test it myself.
Based on experience, it takes roughly a minute to fry a pancake, and one person can easily handle two frying pans. With five people making pancakes concurrently, that's about 10 pancakes a minute, or about 600 per hour. That should be enough even for a large party.
Pancakes are best served right after they're made. Otherwise it's possible to make a big stack before hand and keep them warm until served.
I reject any and all claims that I am somehow obsessed with making pancakes. Just because I travel every year to a foreign country to make a lot of pancakes doesn't make me obsessive.
Cause curl to act like a 30-year-old: mourn the fact that it didn't do everything in its 20s that it had planned to do, start barely saving for retirement, notice that the college kids look so much younger than they used to, ...
remembering the original maintainer who passed, mention (briefly) current contributors, future plans, cool demos and showcase of what it's used with with/for.
Do you prefer a CLI over a GUI? With the hcloud CLI you can provision and manage not only Hetzner Cloud resources like servers, volumes, networks, firewalls, load balancers, but also our Storage Boxes, subaccounts and snapshots. It’s script-friendly (JSON output & stable exit codes), supports auto-completion, and ships as a Docker image for CI/CD.
it was attempt to joke, but I made a mistake in it at the same time 🤦. DoQ would be provided by ngtcp2, but not needed IMO. Thank you for so wide support already!
@pemensik Expect to see more demand for DoT and DoQ next year after the DELEG work in the IETF is standardized. There's no need to start prepping now, though.
does curl have also some explicit support for client cert key authentication? OpenSSL allows pkcs11 token usage. Does it have common interface for other crypto backbends too? It could implemented crypto by pkcs11 module library in theory.
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