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The resilience of Minnesotans is unmatched. Day and night, in snow and freezing cold, they keep showing up and standing their ground. That’s people power. That’s BlueCrew strength.💙

Drop a ✊💙 for the Minnesotans holding the line in the cold and refusing to be silenced.
#BlueCrew #ProudBlue #PeoplePower #JusticeForRenee #ICE #AbolishICE

#ice #abolishice #bluecrew #peoplepower #proudblue #justiceforrenee
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feld

@lain yes, this is where it unlocks so much potential. Like, I don't want to become an expert in Dtrace. I don't want to become an expert in Postgres stored procedures, or PL/pgSQL. It will take too long and I don't have a job that demands that I do it all day every day.

Life is too short to become such an expert in something that you can do by memory that you will rarely need to use anyway

@lain
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feld

@NonPlayableClown @lain it's more about knowing best practices so you don't kill your database with terrible inefficient procedures. SPs, triggers, etc. They can be immensely powerful tools that turns your database into an absolute powerhouse but also you can cause really stupid side effects

(see also: pleroma restoring from backup right now causes expensive triggers to execute on inserts)

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@i @lain @NonPlayableClown this is very likely caused by non-deterministic collation on your Pleroma database

from the mouth God (Claude):

2. ORDER BY (The Key Issue):
This is where you'll see different results on repeated executions:
- When values are considered equal by the collation, PostgreSQL has no stable way to order them
- The sort order between "equal" values is undefined and unstable
- Multiple executions may return rows in different orders
- If you use LIMIT, you might get completely different result sets each time

@lain @:blank: @NonPlayableClown
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@usul example output of the script after letting it run for a minute. tail end of logs, and then the summary:

2026 Jan 18 10:20:30 20657 1001 UDP firefox 10.255.255.53:53
Command: /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox --sm-client-id 101d024c23819c000176843403200000687830009
Local: 10.27.3.4:46950

2026 Jan 18 10:20:30 20657 1001 TCP firefox 15.204.35.21:443
Command: /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox --sm-client-id 101d024c23819c000176843403200000687830009
Local: 10.27.3.4:26279

2026 Jan 18 10:20:30 20657 1001 UDP firefox 10.255.255.53:53
Command: /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox --sm-client-id 101d024c23819c000176843403200000687830009
Local: 10.27.3.4:46653

^C

PID PROCESS UID PROTO COUNT
67162 unison 1001 UDP 3
95715 quasselclient 1001 TCP 8
20657 firefox 1001 UDP 12
21846 thunderbird 1001 TCP 15
2 clock 0 TCP 16
67162 unison 1001 TCP 27
20657 firefox 1001 TCP 261
0 kernel 0 TCP 4218

@Ludovic :Firefox: :FreeBSD:

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Have the world's biggest headache, but must power through. Nearly all bugs are solved that crept upon me after I changed that frontend DLL. C++ still sucks, and I'm only using it because I still haven't been bothered to check out other byte-compiled (machine code, not at runtime) languages. I learned it in high school like many coders, barely used it in college only on summer breaks, never used it during employment, and yet I use it for the small link-space. So yeah. That's our relationship. It's complicated.
Is all this coding making me like C++ any better? No, not really. Sure, no strict indent-checking and function definitions are easier to write than Java. It's all I'm giving C++.
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Ahahaha y'all wanna know why some people hear whispering and others don't? With the latest NV Speech? I know who might. @@radiorobbe who reported it first.
The Root Cause: "Dot" vs. "Comma"
NVDA Sets the Locale: When you set NVDA's interface language to Spanish, Hungarian, German, Polish, etc., NVDA configures the Python process's global locale (via setlocale) to match that region. In the US/English locale, the decimal separator is a dot (e.g., 0.5, 60.0). In many European/South American locales (the "supported languages" you noticed), the decimal separator is a comma (e.g., 0,5, 60,0). The DLL Inherits the Locale: The nvspFrontend.dll is loaded into the same process space. The standard C++ string parsing functions (like atof, strtod, or std::stringstream) often respect this global locale setting. So, all the YAML files become invalidly parsed because they use a period. Ha. Wow. What a bug.
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The weirdest part of self-hosting isn't the control, it's the silence.
I logged into my dashboard tonight via the tunnel. No banner ads. No
"suggested content" algorithms designed to doomscroll me. No tracking pixels firing off to a data broker in Utah, lol.
Just my tools, sitting there, waiting.
We really forgot what the internet feels like when it isn't trying to extract value from us every single second. It’s quiet here. I like it.
#digital #minimalism #selfhosted #SmallWeb #AdFree
#digital #SmallWeb #selfhosted #minimalism #adfree

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Feeling sad again, nothing's compiling, I broke my frontend, oh no, and not even GPT is fixing it, and I don't have pro mode anymore, and I'm just so out of options I could cry from frustration over all of it. Ugh. Stupid C++ and its cast types. I hate cast-typed languages Hate them.
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:PleaseReblog:
Question for people relying on alt text: When one posts contains multiple images, should each alt text be written independently, or does it make more sense for one text to refer back to previous ones?
Like, when the first describes shape and colour of a flower, should the second copy that description and add to it (independent alt texts), or refer back, like "the same flower [from a different angle, showing xyz]"?

#altText #imageDescriptions #Blind #questions

  • independently (16%, 13 votes)
  • refer back (45%, 36 votes)
  • just show results (38%, 31 votes)
80 voters. Poll end: in 4 days

#blind #AltText #imagedescriptions #questions
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Jak se z nás stali geokačeři
Přemýšlel jsem, jak v pochmurném prosincovém počasí dostat děti ven, až mě napadl geocaching, který se ukázal jako trefa do černého. Pár řádků o tom, jak se z nás stali geokačeři.
#děti #geocachingblog.eischmann.cz/2026/01/17/j…(reakce na tento příspěvek se může zobrazit jako komentář pod článkem)

Jak se z nás stali geokačeři

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#děti #geocaching

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yes, yes. The output for "level" seems incomplete, possibly missing leading "l" and "və." This might be happening because the pointer iteration isn't handled properly in the script. espeak_TextToPhonemes might modify the text pointer internally, and I may need to adjust this to correctly handle wide char pointers (wchar_t*) instead of using c_void_p. Let's fix that. Why not, let's fix it all. All the bugs. Fix fix fix. No breaks.
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Tamas G

@clv1 nah, I updated them just recently :) the instructions should be recent. It now talks about the formats for the various pack files, so definitely do a control+shift+R just to make sure you get the latest version.
Espeak is able to speak many of them, but you have to like, read them as individual letters sometimes. Yeah. I think JAWS is the only one I know where there's a way to get Eloquence to speak IPA, and supported posts about this (ruf.rice.edu/~reng/jaws-ipa.ht…) but it's tricky for sure. I will switch to Espeak sometimes in this workflow (or Speechplayer) and see how it speaks the symbol and compare as it's the only one I've seen in NVDA doing some interpretation.

Using Jaws with Unicode IPA Fonts

www.ruf.rice.edu
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Tamas G

@clv1 kind of. For language-specific tweaks: don’t edit a shared IPA key in phonemes.yaml unless you want every language to change.
Instead:
1.
“copy the closest phoneme to a new key (e.g. y_hu / ᴇ) in phonemes.yaml”
2.
“in your packs/lang/<lang>.yaml, add a normalization rule that maps the IPA symbol to your new key”
That keeps the phoneme table centralized, and language packs only decide which key to use.
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Tamas G

for sure strange! Looks like it has to do with Espeak launching and maybe not finding espeak-data in the same path. We try to now find it more explicitly, and also if the error comes up again it should pass any Espeak errors through too. So if it appears again, it'll be more descriptive, LOL. eurpod.com/synths/NVSPPhonemeE… is the link, else the original one is the latest now too anyway.
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I listen to someone recommend portfoliocharts.com and portfoliovisualizer.com and wonder if they're going to be accessible to me. I hope so, at least in terms of doing the things that I'd want to do, but they have "charts" and "visualizer" in their names, respectively... So we'll see. A lot of things out there weren't really designed with someone like me in mind. That's just my life. If I'm going to be using a new thing for some reason, then I'll wonder, am I going to run into any accessibility-related trouble with it?

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I just discovered (and tried) this wonderful piece of software

github.com/houmain/keymapper

It allows remapping your keyboard in many ways, and it's controlled from a simple configuration file (so, you can prepare one for your disabled friend).

You can, for example, remap the keyboard to only use its right half, if the left hand is dysfunctional (similar to the mirrored keyboard I made, github.com/clackups/qmk_firmwa… ).

Also, it should be useful for #disabledgamers , to map, for example, AWSD to different keys.

#disability #keyboard #accessibility


qmk_firmware/keyboards/nuphy/air60_v2/ansi/keymaps/clackups_mirrored/README.md at onehanded_nuphy_air60_v2 · clackups/qmk_firmware

Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families - clackups/qmk_firmware
GitHub
#Accessibility #Disability #keyboard #disabledgamers

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@Tutanota@mastodon.social Hey, I love what you do and I appreciate it, but please take the flatpak package more seriously. I hope you do this year.

Using an AppImage is not really a universal solution. For example, for those of us on musl distros (Alpine, Chimera Linux, etc.) that package is useless.

I really hope you consider treating flatpak as a first-class package because in musl it is our best and probably only option ​:neofox_laptop_owo:​

@Tuta

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Aha, how fitting for NV Speech Player. eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay… is the first version to hit the 10th file milestone for my synthesizers. It's also the first time I'm using the new directory link. This copy fixes memory corruption problems in the frontend, Post-stop aspiration block was made non-brittle now, and the applyRules allocation performance fix. No new versions for awhile until we have tweaked more languages, so I'm done with new files at least until way later in my evening or tomorrow.
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People asked for it, and I do think it's a great idea! All of my Speech synthesizers live at eurpod.com/synths - easy to remember URL, and if you want to check it for updates, easy to look at for a version difference. At most, we are only keeping the last 2 versions of a synthesizer, so they will not pile up here. Still uploading some of the larger files, but in the next hour this will all be updated.
The old URLs will work for now, a little bit. As time goes on I will remove them from their old locations and update the blog page to point to this folder too.

Index of /synths

eurpod.com
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Jak zní tepelné čerpadlo v -15 ℃
Hlučnost tepelných čerpadel vzduch-voda je předmětem mnoha debat a panuje o něm mnoho mýtů. Když u nás bylo po ránu -15 ℃, využil jsem toho a nahrál jsem si naše tepelné čerpadlo Nibe F2120-8 při teplotě, při které už si opravdu mákne. I při takto nízké teplotě se jedná jen o šum, který už pár metrů od čerpadla nijak výrazně neruší. Tento model podle výrobce dokáže pracovat přes kompresor až do teplot -25 ℃, ale technik říkal, že ho mají vyzkoušené i při -28 ℃. To je na českou zimu dostatečná rezerva.
#renewables #heatpump #tepelné čerpadlo
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Jiří Eischmann

ano, chladíme do podlahy. Podlaha je chladnější, ale jsme na to zvyklí, případně si na nohy něco dáme. Je to příjemnější než klasická klima, která dělá průvan. Ale taky to nemá takový výkon. Sníží to teplotu max o několik stupňů, ale i to je často rozdíl mezi pohodou a přehřátou místností.
Jinak musí se tam hlídat, aby teplota vody nešla pod rosný bod, případně nastavit trvale bezpečnou teplotu.

@electriccz

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