A late in the day edition of the mid-week Other People's Music teaser! This is a look at this week's batch of music, previewed via the first line of the review, with all appropriate links (music, socials, full review) linked. Here's the full post:

etherdiver.com/2025/11/14/opm-…

#Musodon #OtherPeoplesMusic #OPM #Music

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FastWeather, a basic app for getting weather, is joining my list of software projects. Download the executable and run it. You'll start with a default set of cities so you can experience the program but either delete those or run with the --reset option to start fresh. Details and the app are linked off of www.theideaplace.net/projects. The user guide is at github.com/kellylford/FastWeat….
in reply to kellylford

@clv0 @DavidGoldfield The program now has a units tab under configuration where you can change the measure used for temperature, wind and precipitation. The Configure button has also been moved to the main screen and can be accessed with Alt+c. Alt+n will put focus in the edit box for adding a new city. Grab the newest executable from the same locations. I didn't change the version number.

We are trying something new at Igalia: a video show called "Hackers Assemble" where we chat about all the inner workings of computing, from the kernel to the browser.

For the first episode, I met with André Almeida to talk about case insensitive filesystems on Linux. Check it out: youtube.com/watch?v=bJI8rWproH…

in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt hmm that’s an interesting question and I’m afraid not one that we’ve really considered. Currently the game isn’t really set up to be possible to play that way. It could be conceivably made to work but would probably require some significant rearchitecting. I’ll have a think, but I’m afraid it seems unlikely for the initial release, sorry!

Town’s Huge Christmas Mural Was Generated Using AI, Resulting in Ghastly Chthonic Horrors: futurism.com/artificial-intell…

Niesamowita historia, jak możemy zostać “wyłączeni” z systemu. Amerykańskie sankcje blokują życie sieciowe i finansowe sędziego Międzynarodowego Trybunału Karnego, który wydał nakaz aresztowania Netanyahu.

lemonde.fr/international/artic…

in reply to Adam Kaliszewski

x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/199…

"In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.

Le Monde has a long article (lemonde.fr/international/artic…) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.

Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.

He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.

That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund

and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.

Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic relations."

in reply to Borris

Don't count on that. If it's coming from Bratislava, it's probably making at least part of the journey thanks to some random Eurofly player, which means the plane will probably take on passengers when it's not supposed to, then deliberately crash over water just to hear the loud, scared noises the passengers make when they know that's about to happen. Or it'll have gone on a perfectly-executed flight only to have the pilot accidentally turn off both engines when they're about to land.

I would like to clarify that while a ceasefire has been announced, what we have on the ground is only a temporary mitigation of hostilities; the war is still ongoing. The Israeli army hasn't withdrawn, and we're still subjected to gunfire and shelling periodically.

The situation is extremely difficult… food is scarce, there are no jobs, no source of income, and people are living on aid. I was surprised to see that donations have stopped, even though we are still in dire need.

#Gaza #Palestine

in reply to Mohammed Shobair 🍉 from Gaza

Please, if you can, share our situation with your followers and friends. Perhaps we can amplify our voices and find support to help us survive.

➡️ chuffed.org/project/mohshbairg…

#Gaza #FreeGaza #Palestine #FreePalestine #StopGenocide #CeasefireNow #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #GazaMutualAid #DontForgetUs #StopIsrael #Boycott #Donate #Support #PrayForGaza

I didn't even know Microsoft owned Zork. But, I'm glad they've open-sourced it. opensource.microsoft.com/blog/…
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in reply to Matt Campbell

Actually @zarfeblong blogged about this two years ago: blog.zarfhome.com/2023/10/micr…

Intense snark

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in reply to Darrell Bowles

@vol4life8657 @NicksWorld @LeonianUniverse Exactly. I'm all for blind people leading blindness specific companies and organizations, but I think it's just as important to have the right people working there. The two aren't mutually exclusive, you can have a sighted person who really cares and knows a lot about AT, just as you can have someone who is blind know next to nothing about the subject and be unwilling to learn. When you say stuff like "we should just ban all cited people from leadership positions at blindest specific companies" all you're doing is perpetuating a stereotype. That's not helpful.

👐BREAKING: Google made Quick Share compatible with AirDrop WITHOUT Apple's help!

Google's statement heavily implies this.

We don't know how Google did it, but Apple was seemingly NOT involved in making Quick Share work with AirDrop.

More details👇

🔗androidauthority.com/quick-sha…

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@ZBennoui Hi, I'm not asking for a lot - all I need is to provide food and medicine for my mother. She has Type 1 diabetes and hasn't been able to get her medication for over 3 months, plus she requires eye surgery.
I lost my father in the war - can you imagine? I'm having to step into his role as a father figure by seeking donations? ‼️‼️
Please, don't ignore me; I truly need your help, Please help where possible. Donation link in bio/Pinned post.🙏🍉🕊

Small change, huge improvement. They replaced and moved this single streetlamp on one of main #Prague #bike ways A22. Originally there used to be the old lamp with bulky base placed almost in the middle of the road. It used to be very uncomfortable and sometimes dangerous place as it is just behind a turn and two cyclists couldn't pass each other here. Now it's fixed. 👏🚲

If the Canadian government wanted to do something nice for me, the absolute best single thing they could do for me¹ is cap UPS's import/brokerage fees at the amount I would have had to pay in self clearance. Or at self clearance levels plus ten percent.

Or just fucking make self clearance possible in downtown Toronto without spending $10 and two hours to take the train to Pearson. Please. I am dying

¹ I mean short of something really expensive like OHIP covering medication.

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in reply to James Scholes

@sclower The preview doesn't show anything either, and ironically they picked the episode Holoship which starts with the crew watching a movie. The BBC did this in a really cool way with Faulty Towers where they had one of the characters occasionally interject with descriptive commentary while staying in-character. Could have been fun to see how something like that could have worked with red dwarf