Australia is BURNING
Tuesday’s temperatures reached record-breaking levels in Victoria—49°C—forcing more than 1,000 people to evacuate due to extreme fire danger and leaving thousands of animals without food, water, shelter, or safety. The situation is also dire in New South Wales, with catastrophic temperatures forecast to hit wildlife hard, especially flying foxes whose population is decimated.
You will probably hear nothing about this on the news, but it's happening
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Reminder: tomorrow we're back in the saddle, with premium REAPER prattle.
Join Scott and Jenny K for I'm Perplexed, what's next? Saturday at 3PM Eastern, 8PM UK. It's a Q&A session covering all things REAPER, OSARA and accessible production. As usual, we'll be making sure questions from newcomers slip to the front of the queue.
Details are at reaperteacher.com.
If you're able to help cover the time we put in to running these meet-ups, here is where to top up the kitty.
paypal.me/TGVTraining
See ya there,
Scott
Přejděte na adresu paypal.me/TGVTraining a zadejte částku. Protože jde o PayPal, je to jednoduché a bezpečné. Nemáte účet PayPal? Nevadí.PayPal.Me
I got into an almost-argument and I need advice and/or guidance from you dorks (affectionate).
Some doop on Reddit says he rips his CDs into flac files. I said the only thing that flacs increase in this regard is file size; not quality. He insists they sound better as flacs.
So, I ripped two CDs on my l33t h8xor Linux PC. 192kbps mp3s, and flacs. I genuinely could not tell the difference on any of my headphones, including the planar magnetic supernerd audiogasm cans. And I mean it: Zero difference.
Have I fallen into confirmation bias, or is there a real difference?
This is a damning article from the Wikipedia editors on GenAI articles written for Wikipedia: wikiedu.org/blog/2026/01/29/ge…
#ai
Like many organizations, Wiki Education has grappled with generative AI, its impacts, opportunities, and threats, for several years. As an organization that runs large-scale programs to bring new e…Wiki Education
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Question for my audio people:
I have an analog mixer. It sounds big and awesome when I listen to the main outputs connected directly to my monitors. But when I run my second set of main outputs into my computer via Ferrofish converters and an RMI ADAT-->USB interface (the Digiface), everything sounds...flat and lame. And I definitely lose significant amounts of bass response.
Is this expected?
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Sightviews ist der unabhängige Podcast rund um Hilfsmittel und Technik für blinde und sehbehinderte Menschen – verständlich, praxisnah und ohne Werbe-Blabla.Sightviews
RE: fosstodon.org/@adafruit/115970…
cringe
Attached: 1 image Using Claude code to analyze PCB files and generate a board support package Hardware may be hard, but software is a slog, especially when it is time to create a board support package definition for new dev boards.adafruit (Fosstodon)
@feld I will be blunt: "efficient" really doesn't mean much coming from the typical high-tech person. In practice, it seems to mean only that if the high-tech person is doing something *faster*, they pretend to themselves that it's also better and more "efficient".
So the slop machine does a design faster. How do you know it's not also garbage? LLMs can't tell the difference between garbage and good information. How would you know the PCB layouts produced by an LLM trash machine are actually any good?
Silver dropped 30% and Gold dropped 10%
shiny rock chads are in for a huge disappointment
Today is a day of a national shutdown. Many working in tech are likely afraid of losing their jobs, a reasonable fear.
If you can’t take today off, consider alternative actions you might take to show solidarity for those in this country under persecution
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More than 450 tech workers from companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and Salesforce have signed a letter urging their CEOs to call the White House and demand ICE leave our cities.Rebecca Bellan (TechCrunch)
If you can’t show solidarity, give it.
If you’re a tech worker with the means, help families who have been stuck in their homes for weeks unable to work or live their lives who need help with food or rent
www.standwithminnesota.com
standwithminnesota.com/
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Yet another day of screaming at digital enshitiffication:
1. My coworkers and I are in a car driving to FOSDEM.
2. We pull up to charge the car.
3. Charging station REQUIRES you to use an app, no option to just pay with a card.
4. We try to install the stupid app. We carry phones running:
- GrapheneOS
- GrapheneOS
- GrapheneOS
- LineageOS, postmarketOS, iOS
5. Neither of our phones meet requirements to install the stupid app (Play Integrity API).
6. My iPhone can't install the app, because it's "Not available in your country".
7. We give up and drive to another charging station.
This is NOT how you introduce applications, "Circle K" 
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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.
GrapheneOS Foundation (AS40806) is a BGP network that is peering with 14 other networks and has 2 upstream carriersbgp.tools
Catherine O’Hara died today.
With her death, the character Kevin McCallister from the original two 'Home Alone' movies, played by Macaulay Culkin, is now an orphan.
Wait, is that even a thing?
Kevin's father, Peter, played by John Heard, died in 2017, at the age of 71, coincidentally, the same age as Catherine O’Hara.
R.I.P.
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oh my god are you kidding me, i just took a fresh look at this
the problem started when I migrated the Registry from being just filesystem backed to being database backed so it can properly garbage collect and we don't have 500GB of crap that we can't safely clean up
The normal Postgres database used by Rails is set to 'host' => nil so it knows to not use TCP but use the unix socket
The Registry database config default to 'host' => 'localhost' and then throws errors specifically during database migrations, not during normal operations
changing that value to 'host' => nil fixes it...
Usually the luggage Racks are not really crowded. If it still is a reasonably structured and sized Backpack of some 15 more cm and no Monster of virtually the same size as you, it could fit. Just be sure to keep doorways and aisles clear.
Have a smile and your ticket ready at the door.
Never saw anyone measure anything while travelling there every second week.
It's really heartbreaking to see a technically superior OS (MacOS/iOS) turn into complete dogshit because the people running the show are clueless.
They had the best implementations of almost everything but decided to just keep making the user experience worse every release and letting the craziest bugs manifest and go unaddressed for years
I guess with Cook being so focused on making Apple a services-focused company it was bound to happen, but damn... they really ruined a technical masterpiece.
And worse, every release they make it even harder for a competent engineer to actually debug these kind of issues. What good is having Dtrace if you can't even use it because of SIP, etc?
@lanodan @hj they used to have Radar, a public web bug tracker but now you have to use Feedback Assistant which is less than ideal
developer.apple.com/bug-report…
Now with Feedback Assistant available on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and the web, it’s easier to submit effective bug reports and request enhancements to APIs and tools.Apple Developer
Legendary Canadian actress Catherine O'Hara dead at 71
@Tutanota I’m having trouble understanding pricing for family plans.
Assuming 2 users, is it 3€ (user 1) + 3€ (user 2) + 3€ _required_ shared inbox == 9€/mo? Or is it possible to just have 3€/user with no shared == 6€/mo?
Thanks for clarifying!
(yearly plans assumed for all this)
Just a friendly reminder that it's the #FOSDEM week :)
7 rooms will be streamed over #PeerTube from VHSky.cz and MakerTube.net instances. Playlists here.
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Přátelská připomínka, že nás tento týden čeká #FOSDEM :)
7 místností bude streamováno i na #PeerTube z instancí VHSky.cz a MakerTube.net. Playlisty zde.
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Ja vím blbost, ale fakt mě to #pobavilo 🤣🤣
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A little girl was trying to find her missing father.All she had… was a drawing.When the anchors saw it,they completely lost control 😂Somehow —the sketch was...YouTube
A news blooper occurs when a news anchor laughs at the worst police sketch fail. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/newsfunnies Click the bell icon so you'll...YouTube
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Erotic Parody ' #Melania: Devourer of Men' Sales Surge on Amazon Amid Documentary Flop
404media.co/erotic-parody-mela…
A Reddit-led protest is trying to push an eight year old erotic thriller to the top of Amazon’s sales charts.Matthew Gault (404 Media)
Was gibt es Neues im Gesundheitswesen? In diesem Podcast bieten Dr. Laura Weisenburger und Dr. Dennis Ballwieser werktägliche Updates.Apotheken Umschau
#XMPP Summit
After two great days focusing on the XMPP ecosystem and its future we are closing the 28th XMPP Summit. Many thanks to all 35+ participants!
xmpp.org/2025/11/xmpp-summit-2…
Meet us tomorrow at #FOSDEM 2026! #ULB, AW Building, Level 1
#jabber #chat #opensource #messaging #federation #Brussels
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all …xmpp.org
![Screenshot of a page from the book Enshittification, by Cory Doctorow. Two sections are highlighted:
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Reach into your pocket and take out your little black distraction rectangle. Open up the camera app. Point it at this page. Press the shutter button. Congratulations, you've just committed copyright infringement. See you in court.
[...]
(You can delete the photo now. Or better yet, post it to your group chat or social media account with a note telling people how much you're enjoying this book! Here, I'll provide you with some explanatory text: Greetings, followers of my reader! This is Cory Doctorow writing to you, and your friend has very nearly finished reading my excellent 2025 book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It, available at finer bookstores everywhere, as well as on monopoly electronic retail sites that should be condemned to the scrap heap of history.)](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/755554 "Screenshot of a page from the book Enshittification, by Cory Doctorow. Two sections are highlighted:
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Reach into your pocket and take out your little black distraction rectangle. Open up the camera app. Point it at this page. Press the shutter button. Congratulations, you've just committed copyright infringement. See you in court.
[...]
(You can delete the photo now. Or better yet, post it to your group chat or social media account with a note telling people how much you're enjoying this book! Here, I'll provide you with some explanatory text: Greetings, followers of my reader! This is Cory Doctorow writing to you, and your friend has very nearly finished reading my excellent 2025 book, Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It, available at finer bookstores everywhere, as well as on monopoly electronic retail sites that should be condemned to the scrap heap of history.)")
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in reply to Matt Campbell • • •Happens to me from time to time.
If the app in question makes it quick and easy to edit, delete, and send followups, I don't consider it much of an issue. E.g. Slack works well in these areas for me.
If performing those actions is laborious because of accessibility or other issues, I worry about it a lot more.
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