#TIL that you can work with multiple branches in #Git simultaneously via 'git worktree'. I think this will certainly help make #Tenacity maintenance much easier as I won't have to keep switching between different branches and perform virtually an entire rebuild between the latest stable and development branches. This way, I could more easily test two branches in parallel.
I think this will make Tenacity maintenance MUCH easier! I'm very excited to see how this will improve my workflow too! 😄
As ICE terrorizes communities, crypto executives who spent years posting about freedom have gone conspicuously silent. But behind the scenes, they’ve contributed at least $315 million — more than double their record 2024 spending — to elect more lawmakers to enable this administration.
As masked agents execute people and terrorize communities, crypto executives who spent years posting about freedom fall conspicuously silent — except when writing checks for the politicians enabling it
NYT - President Trump has been presented in recent days with an expanded list of potential military options against Iran aimed at doing further damage to the country’s nuclear and missile facilities or weakening Iran’s supreme leader. nytimes.com/2026/01/29/us/trum…
I'm just about to finish a really comprehensive book on the origins and execution of the Iranian revolution in 1970s. The book is call "The King of Kings". The book is amazing and tells you so much about Iran, its political culture, much of which is probably gone by now, but also about the US...
Computer MIDI Keyboard (CMK) for Mac has just been updated to 0.2. Add the ability to add custom controller properties like the Windows version, via a new setting in the settings dialog. Add setting favorite properties, to match the windows version, f5/f8 to jump to favorite, shift f5/f8 to set a favorite. Increase maximum pitch bend/modulation speed. masonasons.me/softs/CMK.dmg
Trying something new for me: geeking out over a piece of music from my teenage years, with an audio commentary. Yes, a Christian pop song. This is the inspirational anthem "We Belong to Him" by Wayne Watson, from his 1988 album _The Fine Line_. This one's been taking up space in my head for a while. Here I dissect the music, comment on the lyrics from my current perspective as a non-believer, and ultimately show my appreciation for a well-executed musical formula. mwcampbell.us/audio/we-belong-…
And that's several more people added to restricted mode on fb today. And several channels I left. I-used to join channels as a way to receive inspirational messages. It was a great way to keep my mind from getting too restless. But now, they're just space hoggers given my constant DM traffic. Someone tried adding me to yet another random group chat today, and I got a notification today: Someone you've restricted is in this chat. There were two choices. Stay or leave. I hit the leave button. Another guy tried to hijack my time via iMessage, and I was like, as I said, I'm taking time for myself. So, I'm going to excuse myself and do that! Jesus! Boundary setting as a cute popular girl in 2026 takes a certain level of composure. *deep sigh*
And not by telling them to paste shit in a Terminal! Or telling them to switch distros. Or guessing because you’re on a different distro and don’t know the answer. Or asking fucking ChatGPT. Contributing noise is of negative value
:blobcatbusiness: What's the most common complaint I've heard about Linux?
**Not** the installation process.
**Not** finding a distro.
**Not** getting programs to work.
**Not** troubleshooting.
**Not** hardware compatibility.
sadly enough, I personally know of 2 young people that recently switched to Linux and that prefer to ask ChatGPT or Gemini about Linux stuff because "I don't get assaulted with RTFM or judged for my distro of choice"
Just installed @delta and was under the impression that it was email based. I expected to have to put in some email credentials and use my local email server. But instead it created a disconnected profile and just uses IMAP as a transport?
What is Delta Chat? Delta Chat is a reliable, decentralized and secure instant messaging app, available for mobile and desktop platforms. Instant creation of private chat profiles with secure and i...
@Delta Chat @keverets Mmmh I think the question would be: will there be more chatmail relays to choose from / will it be possibile to host one's own in the future?
@tizianomattei There are already more relays, chatmail.at/relays lists some of them. This page is reachable through the "Use other server" option during profile creation. At the end of the page there is a link to chatmail.at/doc/relay/ with the documentation on setting up your own relay. You can also use any IMAP+SMTP server, especially if you already have one, but be aware of rate limits and spam filters, and you likely don't want to reuse your existing mailbox for chatting.
Chatmail provides FOSS infrastructure for interoperable, secure, speedy and reliable end-to-end encrypted messaging. Check out clients as Arcane Chat, Bots or Delta Chat today!
so yes, it is email underneath. A random account was created for you. If you try to login to a Chatmail relay server with a random username and password it automatically registers an account for you if nobody else owns that account name. This is safe to do because the Chatmail relays do not allow sending or receiving messages that are not PGP encrypted, so it cannot be abused for spam.
We're now using our own autonomous system and IP space for 3 of our networks. We run 2 entirely separate anycast DNS networks for our authoritative DNS and have a simpler unicast setup on a bare metal server at Xenyth which we'll be using for more soon.
Our ns1 network has 11 locations on Vultr (Piscataway, Miami, Los Angeles, Seattle, São Paulo, London, Frankfurt, Singapore, Mumbai and Tokyo).
Our ns2 network has 8 locations on Misaka.io (Ashburn, Miami, San Jose, Seattle, London, Berlin, Singapore and Tokyo).
Vultr and Misaka.io both have very good transit and peering for anycast due to having matching transit providers within regions and globally.
Both anycast networks needed a lot of configuration with BGP communities for traffic engineering and are working very well.
Our anycast networks are deployed with 2x IPv4 /24 obtained we quickly obtained for free from ARIN via NRPM 4.10 + NRPM 4.5.
We could use our own IPv6 space everywhere we have BGP if we wanted to do that since we have a /36 which can be expanded into more space reserved for us.
ARIN has approved our request for an IPv4 /22 via their waitlist but it will take around 18 to 36 months for the waitlist to progress to our request. For now, we're using an IPv4 /24 loaned to us for free by a Romanian LIR supporting GrapheneOS for our unicast Toronto IP space.
Our current bare metal server at Xenyth is sponsored by them and used as an update mirror which is using our IP space. However, our main use case for the IP space in Toronto is for our mail server which we're planning to host on-premises and tunnel the traffic through Xenyth.
Xenyth has support for routing to multiple servers announcing the same publicly routable IP space by announcing smaller blocks from specific servers so we can also pay for additional Xenyth bare metal servers or VPS instances. We'll likely be using it a fair bit in the future.
Our plan for our IPv4 /22 from the ARIN waitlist is deploying a single /24 in each of Toronto, Miami, Los Angeles and Seattle. Once we have a /22 deployed for North America, we'll qualify for getting out-of-region space on ARIN via the waitlist or transfers for Europe, Asia, etc.
The interesting parts of our BGP setup can be seen in github.com/GrapheneOS/ns1.grap… where we have our BGP community configuration for each ns1/ns2 location along with our setup for region steering via GeoDNS + anycast server location and failover via health checks from our DNS servers.
The interesting parts of our BGP setup can be seen in https://github.com/GrapheneOS/ns1.grapheneos.org where we have our BGP community configuration for each ns1/ns2 location along with our setup for region steering via GeoDNS + anycast server locati…
I'm listening to some music through my Sennheiser 380 headphones, rather than AirPods. There are some songs I've been really liking lately, so much so that I purchased them. These headphones really highlight how odd these songs sound--harsh highs, not a lot of balance. Is this modern mixing, or have I been tricked by more AI music? It could also be that I'm now so used to AirPods/Shokz that my old headphones just sound odd to me.
@MewProjects hey, I noticed one small bug in the Fast Play UI. When adding favorites to the radio stations, the view is not updated automatically. You have to open the radio tab again, to see the new added favorites.
Perhaps of interest to our Forkiverse vibe coding community: I wrote about falling in and out love with Clawdbot/Moltbot platformer.news/moltbot-clawdb…
Ahahaha. We'll fix "Taskbar" next. That's great. I want someone to like, fade-stretch the end of how it says "taskbar" because yeah, that one's for sure off. But it's great because it sounds fine in the UK version, just too short in the US one. So in that list will be words like far, star, scar too I'm sure.
@radio When you mentioned songs about laundry, I immediately thought of "Dirty Laundry" by Don Henley but that's not about dirty laundry. But it sure mentions dirty laundry a lot.
Wow, haven't heard Red Green in decades. One of our PBS stations used to play his show right after Doctor Who ended and, being an obsessive DW fan, that's how I heard of him.
> Heather McPherson posted a letter she penned to Prime Minister Mark Carney on X Thursday, saying that the government should consider a number of actions against Canadian companies that have business with the agency.
The headline could have put 'NDP MP Heather McPherson calls on...' in the headline.
I don't know if the CBC is trying to avoid giving extra attention to an NDP leadership candidate, or if they're just writing clickbait, or if the CBC avoids naming women as policy, or if their headline writers are just plain incompetent.
Brother and I got a McDonalds and landed number 69 ticket. We stood pretending to zone out on our phones while the poor guy had to call it out repeatedly, louder each time, to a packed restaurant. We're both in our mid-40s. Sorry
U.S. President Donald Trump is once again threatening tariffs against Canada, this time turning his focus on the country’s airline manufacturing industry.
Ever have the need to assist a friend or colleague who is having problems with their PC? Ever have the need to access your own PC remotely? Tonight, at 8:00 PM EST, @bitsacb will be demonstrating #remoteIncidentManager. Tune in and find out how you can leverage this fully accessible tool for your remote support needs! us06web.zoom.us/j/85276833531?…
to answer your question, it adds screenreader access and keyboard support. It is supposed to work for VO as the game is available on mac, but I don't have a mac to test with, so no clue if it actually works. Same for Linux. It does work with NVDA/JAWS/SAPI speech, Narrator does not work at present. Also you have to press enter to skip the intro scene as it's not working yet. It's just a comic and then some cosmetic options for your character, they're purely visual so you don't miss much.
@vick21 It's fun! YOu are a grim reaper and you have to choose who lives and who dies. According to the instructions you are givven by Fate. Otherwise you don't get paid!
NVSpeech Player with phoneme editor and NVDA Addon, Speech Dispatcher module version 1.9 This release focuses on improving voice quality, clarity when reading single words or letters, and making voice customization easier and more flexible. New language-level settings improve how isolated words and letters are spoken (for example during character echo or word-by-word navigation). These changes prevent abrupt cut-offs at the end of single words, avoid unintended rising “comma-like” intonation, and make items like R, **are**, and "you" sound complete and natural. Languages can opt into this behavior selectively, so normal sentence reading and UI phrases remain unchanged. The phoneme editor has been updated to support voicing tone parameters and to apply them directly to custom voice profiles. This makes voice shaping possible through the editor, without touching low-level DSP code. handling was refined for languages such as Hungarian and Finnish. Minor tuning was also applied to Spanish trills and palatal sounds. The NVDA Driver got many bugs fixed, including quicker unloading. The DSP was updated to detect burstyness more aggressively, which is an improvement noticed below 44100. github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay… github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay… github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
@nick oh good. Although I didn't add checkboxes for the word-lengthening stuff. But it's still in the language editor pannel if someone did want to disable it so not the end of the world. Else it's 3 more checkboxes. Ahahaha
Hey, turn off Georgie and Mandy. The John Zone is on! Just think of it as trading one obnoxious Texan for another. To listen, simply direct your media player of choice to listen.hkcradio.com:8000/hkc.m…, ask your Google smart speaker to play HKC Radio on TuneIn, or say to Alexa "ask MyTuner Radio to play HKC Radio."
Apparently, Skia's developers strongly recommend compiling it with Clang, and WebKitGTK uses Skia by default. So I need to switch Tumbleweed/Leap/SLE. Debian and Red Hat's distributions are already compiling it with Clang. skia.org/docs/user/build/#supp…
we managed to prepare our #VHSky #PeerTube instance channel for 3 #FOSDEM rooms, so feel free to subscribe them or use #federation feature if you are instance admin.
fosdem@makertube.net
fosdem@vhsky.cz
If any other instance admin would like to join our effort, feel free to contact me, there are still quite a few rooms left for sharing 😀
we managed to prepare our #VHSky #PeerTube instance channel for 3 #FOSDEM rooms, so feel free to subscribe them or use #federation feature if you are instance admin.
fosdem@makertube.net
fosdem@vhsky.cz
If any other instance admin would like to join our effort, feel free to contact me, there are still quite a few rooms left for sharing 😀
It feels like the alt text advice “describe what you see” being replaced with the alt text advice “don’t describe why you see” coincides a little too neatly with the rise of machine-generated alt text.
I’m always interested to hear from people who rely on this, though, and the common point being raised—AI just describing an image doesn’t tell the non-sighted reader what’s important or how it’s relevant to the post—is well-taken.
I am one such person who relies on alt-text. It is annoying when it's not there, or when someone just puts the exact same text post into the alt-text box. That's not how that works...
I'm having the most fun on mastodon composing the alt text for my images. I wish this was my full time job. I like making them both descriptive and entertaining. I try and imagine what a non-sighted reader would enjoy knowing about the image and go from there. AI can't do that, because AI can't do empathy.
@saltywizard I love reading fun/fantastical/funky alt-text, makes my day. Thanks for adding it. Many still choose not to. My wife and I are probably going to try a segment on our podcast called 'Picture of the week' where she, as a veteran of having to describe pictures to me, describes her favourite picture that week, to the listener. I thought of it after reading your message last night.
Cuando era profe intentaba contar un chiste malo nuevo cada semana, voy a hacer un hilo recopilatorio de los que consiga recordar. Se aceptan sugerencias.
"Entra Jesucristo en un bar y todo el mundo empieza a reírse, ¿por qué? — Es la gracia del señor."
"¿Qué es un mercado con capa? Un supermercado. ¿Qué es un tomate con capa? Un supertomate. ¿Qué es una pera con capa? Una pera disfrazada de supertomate."
"En una fiesta está el número e solo en una esquina, a lo que llegan y le preguntan: — Tío, ¿por qué no te integras? — Para qué, si me voy a quedar igual..."
"Me he sacado el carnet de manipulador de alimentos (esto es cierto) y ahora tengo a los melocotones y las fresas totalmente en contra de los plátanos".
Tomorrow night join @Liz, from 6 P.M. eastern (US time), for Mellow Vibes. It’s two hours of Acoustic, mellow, and unplugged music. So tune in tomorrow night, and start the weekend relaxed. HKCRadio.com
All bags are packed, ready for take-off: Meet us this weekend at #FOSDEM – our stand is UD2-02 (where you can grab stickers, flyers, & more)! And make sure you don't miss the lightning talk (10 min) on our download statistics, by the fantastic Cat Ima @SylvieLorxu (14:00 at UB4.132). And if you're bored, be also welcome to my half-hour-long about Reproducible Builds for Android Apps (12:30 at UB4.132; that's the FOSS on Mobile devroom).
Rate my setup: - moderately cold and cloudy - Belgian beer from the supermarket - Brueghel posters in my office - I have a waffle iron and am not afraid to use it
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