I'm currently sitting in a park. It's a lovely spring day, with a gentle breeze. The birds are chirping, the air smells clean, and there are some kids playing. It's peaceful. Perhaps it's too peaceful.
I feel like I'm supposed to disturb that peace, perhaps by blowing something up, or setting the grass on fire. I feel like, if I don't do this, everything will remain unbalanced. Is this normal?
Written by me on this very keyboard in a #WeirdDream
The UK IPv6 Council meeting was held at BT (London) Tower the other day, and seemingly as part of the deal of hosting something at BT Tower is that your stuff gets put on the mini scrolling jumbotron.
I wonder how many people looked up and thought "wtf is IPv6 and this URL?"
Let's say you are creating a project that requires it be protected by a captcha. You have to use a captcha, and there is no way around this. Please don't reply with statements like. Captcha are bad, or don't use a captcha. Thanks. With that being said.
Which captcha service would you recommend and why?
The captcha needs to have an accessibility component or an alternative option for solving, and needs to be simple to integrate.
I've been using reCaptcha on my sites for years, but may switch to Turnstile from Cloudflare as I believe there are changes coming to reCaptcha that I'm not sure I like.
@jscholes Adding to the Turnstyle love, it's the best in the world at what it does. Altcha's documentation confuses me, I'm not certain what i'm supposed to or not supposed to purchase.
@nick As I understand it, the core ALTCHA product is free and open source and provides basic verification based on proof of work. Sentinel is a paid offering that extends it with IP reputation checks, automatic challenge difficulty adjustment, rate limiting, spam detection, and the like. @lerven
@jscholes @nick Yeah, that looks correct. And with the basic Altcha, they provide server-side libraries for various languages; there doesn't seem to be a separate server process to run, just a library to use in your own server. I'm looking into switching from Turnstile in light of the Cloudflare outage.
Depends on whether you're trying to protect against script kiddies or serious actors, interested in your website specifically. If the former, literally anything is going to work, including "what is 2+2" or "spell dog backwards." If the latter, use the big three, reCaptcha (no longer free), hCaptcha or Turnstile. Each of these has their own accessibility implications.
I’ve been using reCAPTCHA for years. It's straightforward to integrate and easy for users to solve. Plus, it offers solid accessibility support. That said, the audio CAPTCHA can be challenging for visually impaired users who also have hearing difficulties. In those cases, hCaptcha might be a better option, as it offers an accessibility cookie to bypass challenges. However, to be honest, I’ve found that feature to be a bit unreliable.
I've been a GoldWave user since 2015. I had been using Sound Forge before that, but when it became unreliable, in my opinion anyway, I felt it was time to use something else. I highly recommend GoldWave as it doesn't take up lots of system resources and is very accessible.
@kjsapergia I've been using goldwave for donkeys years now. I find it much easy to work compared to Sound Forge, though older versions of Sound Forge are pretty good accessability wize. the 1 thing gold wave lacks however is that the effects you can apply are limited compared to what you have in sound forge.
@JamminJerry REAPER is awesome! I'm amazed at how a small program, in terms of file size, can do so much. I use it for all my multitrack needs. It can be daunting at the start, but once I asked the right questions and got the answers I needed, I've never looked back, though I still use other audio editors as well including GoldWave and Studio Recorder, though those are single-track editors.
I personally think it's the best destructive sound editor out there without going all DAW. Especially since it can now work with VST plugins in a limited but still useful kind of way.
@daygar I still use it for particular jobs, some even involving heavy precision, as I can't get reaper's transport to be that kind of precise. For a single-track, destructive editor, it's pretty good, although some of its built-in effects are a complete write-off, like the EQ and reverb.
If the EQ hasn't changed since I last used it more than 25 years ago, it adds this odd plastic texture to everything, no matter how little you turn even a single band up or down. I really hate that sound.
@BorrisInABox @x0 To be honest I always found that more with ReaEQ than GoldWave's. Especially if the band is narrow, say less than 1. Having said that, I spent 20+ years (including my music tech education) with GW before I started using Reaper so maybe I just don't know how EQs are really meant to sound.
Nah. ReaEQ doesn't do that. If your band is extremely narrow, you can get ringing or weird nulling, maybe a peak an octave above the cut-off if you're messing with high pass filters, but that's not the same thing. Any EQ will do that to a greater or lesser extent.
I don't have any examples anymore, but when I first heard it in 1998 or so, my thought was that not all the frequencies are aligned in time. It's like some of them are just a tiny bit offset from others. It's weird, anyway.
@BorrisInABox @daygar It always reminded me of a particularly aggressive version of what I always considered the sound of an iPhone recording. If, on an old iPhone that could only record in mono, you played something on the speaker and recaptured it with the same microphone, it might sound a bit like that. GoldWave's parametric EQ, though, is fine.
In and around 2023, Roy and Rianne Schestowitz were subject to a horrific campaign of online harassment. Unfortunately they blamed me for it, and in turn wrote and published an astonishing array of articles making false accusations against me. Last year, I sued them in the high court in London. In turn, they countersued me for harassment. The case was heard last month and I'm pleased to say that the counterclaim was dismissed and I prevailed in my case. The court awarded me £70,000 in damages.
Mám zákazníka ktorý pracuje na lodi na Dunaji a keď ide cez Bratislavu sa u nás zastaví a okrem toho že tvrdí že máme najlepšiu pizzu široko ďaleko tak mi dal chrobáka ísť na sezónu možno robiť na loď. Zaujímavé.
Firefox 147 Will Support The XDG Base Directory Specification
A 21 year old bug report requesting support of the XDG Base Directory specification is finally being addressed by Firefox. The Firefox 147 release should respect this XDG specification around where files should be positioned within Linux users' home directory... phoronix.com/news/Firefox-147-…
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For anyone who owns a Zoom H5 Studio recorder, the official accessory pack (Zoom APH-5s) is now *finally* available. This includes a large, protective case with lanyard, a power supply with USB-A to USB-C cable, and most importantly, a furry windscreen that actually fits the very large X/Y microphone capsule properly. I've tried a few windscreens, and have not actually found one that really fits. Some work better than others, but they're either too small, too large, not the right shape, or some combination thereof.
It only took Zoom six months to sell something that really should be included in the box the way these mics work, but that's typical Zoom, really.
that's cool that they have finaly came out with one. I had thought of getting that recorder at some point, but wasn't sure if I wanted to, but my first thing was waiting until they came out with a furry windscreen for it.
As expected, the Qualcomm enshittification of @arduino has begun. Expressif's ESP32 stuff has already been a better platform for some time... I guess I'll have to learn the ESP-IDF ecosystem now instead of the Arduino IDE.
I've finally taken the plunge. I have preordered my Glide. It's probably the last chance to get 20 percent off, and thanks to someone who preordered, I was given a promo code for an extra 5 percent off. That's not a bad promo if you ask me. Especially since I have to convert Canadian dollars to U.S. dollars. So my first payment has been made. It'll be over a year before I actually get my hands on a Glide, but nothing can be done about that. Now we just play the waiting game.
Wild stuff for a tech company that talks a big game about privacy
Also it took them a year to fully address?!
"He also pointed to the disclosure timeline, as set out in the paper, and how it took Meta nearly a year to provide a meaningful response to the numerous tickets they raised throughout the research process."
mmm... Kudos to @signalapp for their work, but they should move their servers outside the US; otherwise there are crucial factors out of their control, I'm afraid.
one day you unwrap() what you shouldn't have, another day you again unwrap what you shouldn't have. What should I do with you bigtech? #cloudflare #whatsapp #bigtech
I’m not sure if I’m misunderstanding the article but couldn’t you also do this exploit in signal, since it has a look up by phone number option? I guess the main concern is the lack of rate limiting, but this could also be bypassed. The real lesson is that if you want privacy you shouldn’t dox yourself in your accounts.
Tomorrow I have to go practice but u know what? Do you remember trains from two weeks a go? There are those trains and should be falling snow too!! Overall it is a nice trip to the outskirts of town and if I can be honest I can't wait tomorrow to go to the school.
edit: my imaginations are like this: make a deal with master from practice so at first semester i will focus to complete documentation (obviously at home) and the second I will make a product.
Vienna researchers retrieved all WhatsApp numbers. The 3.5 billion profiles represent the largest data leak in history—and it's worse than you might think.
with the huge set of customization options in Jieshuo screen reader comes the side effect of overwhelming settings screens, where even advanced long-time
Back in the day at a previous gig I tried and largely failed to convince anyone that sudden upswings in people sharing detailed instructions about screwing around in the guts of the product should be treated the same as sudden upswings in crash rates: a capital-I Incident that deserves near term attention and careful retrospective investigation.
What is this, if not a user expectation going so badly unmet that people are _happy_ to risk bricking their box to fix it?
Thanks to 8 amazing "busy bees" of our amazing community, half of the list at codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/Every… has been successfully processed by now. Could we maybe motivate another 8 "busy bees" to help us completing the rest?
1. pick any app you feel comfortable with 2. test if it still works as expected 3. write a short comment (or toot) with your results 4. repeat with the next app if time (and fun?) permits 5. also check codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/Every… for more 😉
This is a spin-off from #10 where I'd like some input from the team, concerning how to handle the following unmaintained apps which might be considered niche:
* [x] [`com.ionicframework.backingtrainer763961`](https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.
Dear #IzzyOnDroid community, we need your help for keeping our repo as useful as possible. No tech knowledge needed for this one, so anybody who's got an #Android device and some spare time can jump in here:
Are you using any of those apps, or would be willing to install one (or more) of them to see if they are still useful? Please then report there, or here to this #serviceToot – so we can get that issue solved 🙏
This is a spin-off from #10 where I'd like some input from the team, concerning how to handle the following unmaintained apps:
* [x] [`com.projects.musicplayer`](https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.projects.
Gerade hab ich die Vertragsbedingungen von Mailbox.org bekommen. Getagtes PDF, also barrierefrei. Sollte mittlerweile selbstverständlich sein, ist es aber nicht. Und erstellt mit Libre Office Writer, was mich auch gefreut hat zu sehen. Wird ja an manchen Stellen so getan, als gehe das nicht.
In today's edition of #ChatGPT imagines a non-existent #curl feature, much to @bagder 's dismay...
As passed along by my colleague who discovered this, the prompt included: "find a website that is actually hosted on physical infrastructure in Guam"
and ChatGPT suggested one on #Akamai but then suggested using the no-existent --no-cdn flag to skip straight to the origin. Please don't take this as a suggestion to implement such a feature. 🙂
This repository contains a 90-day cybersecurity study plan, along with resources and materials for learning various cybersecurity concepts and technologies. The plan is organized into daily tasks, ...
* Grab the nearest book. * Turn to page 42. * Find the 2nd sentence. * Post the sentence in a toot with the hashtag "page42" and write the rules as a comment to it. * Don't look for your favorite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
#𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘃𝘀𝘂𝗸𝗻𝗶 𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝟰 -𝗔𝗺𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗮 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘂: 𝗟𝘇𝘇𝘆 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗲 Elizabeth Mae “Lzzy” Hale je hudebnice, známá jako 𝗵𝗹𝗮𝘃𝗻í 𝘇𝗽ě𝘃𝗮č𝗸𝗮 𝗮 𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗸á 𝗸𝘆𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗸𝗮 kapely 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗺 stloukal.uk/metalvsukni-den-4-…
Choosing the right business email provider is important as email contains a lot of sensitive business data! That’s why we compare four options that many know from work: Tuta Mail, Zoho Mail, Gmail, and Outlook, to help you decide which email service …
@adrianvia Actually I was on Zoho for their cheaper prices but the inbox is too convoluted, and getting different addresses and folders to work was also hidden in the settings. My Zoho account is still valid but I was fed up so I moved to tuta, very happy with it. If only I could make it pink 🤔
If you compare stuffs, compare what is comparable. As much as I hate Microsoft and Google, they are part of a suite. That's why companies select them so you can't just compare Tuta with Outlook and Gmail.
and are emails encrypted when sending to the 99.99% of people or companies that don't use Tuta, without sending a seperate password (that will not be used and instead your mail will be lost when sending mail >99% of companies)?
eu has its problems and they seem to be not highlighted when they should be. Better than just silicon valley running the world though, but we can do better than a choice between a rock and a hard place
Again with this #goeuropean crap. Stop it. The region doesn't matter. If anything, the EU and the wider European landscape is becoming like China right now.
Push digital sovereignty without pushing an EU agenda.
It's about global collaboration on free and open source software, allowing for global and cultural standards rather than ones tied to a region/state/company/billionaire.
The EU is literally trying to backdoor encryption right now.
hard to beat them because of them packaging this as a suite which is still way way cheaper for an organization with a whole lot for the same price, hard to argue on that part.
I don't know about how we're in the world, but in the United States, many businesses are part of a franchise business, and the franchise company tells you what you have to use. It is in us contract. And for some reason, they're more invested in the real estate, image, and profit options and really don't care about your security as the franchisee. They barely care about their own. If we could find a way to appeal to those franchise companies so that they would standardize on more secure solutions, it would be wonderful I have not figured out how to do that, but if we could do that, that would turn a ton of small business to more secure solutions.
"...Tuta Mail offers native mobile apps for Android and iPhone, it’s accessible via web browser, and it has free to use native desktop apps available for macOS, Linux, and Windows."
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