PSA: The symbolic on a colored backdrop was a solution to the problem of libraries and system components not having a striking visual identity like apps do. Use your app icon on gitlab and matrix if you're an app, don't try to be a library!
it would also be useful to note that if a library project already has a visual identity, maybe even a trademark, then you should not suggest moving to a symbolic icon on a background on matrix/gitlab
Today I discovered #Quicksy. It's a spin-off of the #XMPP app "Conversations(.)im", developed by the same people, but designed with ease of use in mind. It actually links with and uses your phone number to sign in so it's easy to on-board new users, and easy for new users to find people in their contacts list that already use it. But, it is just a standard XMPP client, so it is still capable of communicating back and forth with people on other XMPP / #Jabber servers.
A spin-off of the popular Jabber/XMPP client Conversations with automatic contact discovery. Sign up with your phone number and Quicksy will automatically—based on the phone numbers in your address book—suggest possible contacts to you.
shot-scraper: take automated screenshots. The author created it to automate the process of keeping screenshots up-to-date in their documentation. It also doubles as a scraping tool—hence the name
shot-scaper is a new tool that I’ve built to help automate the process of keeping screenshots up-to-date in my documentation. It also doubles as a scraping tool—hence the name—which I …
almost every point on that page is wrong, unfortunately. someday these factions in the xmpp community will wake up and realise that facebook & co are the enemy, not Matrix :|
This seems like one of the worse criticisms written for Matrix. There are many advantages of XMPP over Matrix, but it's never about the war between XML and JSON, or the ability to seamlessly bridge to IRC. This article seems to be written out of pure hatred, instead of in a mind of constructive criticism.
@PeterCxy because they like xmpp and feel matrix threatens it, despite matrix being a totally different approach (decentralised conversation db rather than messaging protocol, basically).
The reason why my own voice always has a weird accent is probably because the samples I fed it were in Polish, so it didn’t have anything to go off of.
the Indian one stumbles quite a bit. The British one has it together, but delivering this address before a large gathering would be sure to put them to sleep, especially with a monotonous voice.
Ah, so now he wants you to produce free content for his dying, unstable platform, after threatening you, on a whim, to shut off your free access. I see.
In response, I will be discontinuing all my projects that rely on Twitter's API, and I advise you all to do the same, rather than let him decide their fate.
For the last little while, I've been playing with the AI voice cloning thing at www.elevenlabs.io. Here is a silly thing, where I forced my 13 year old self to read the first part of The hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy with "stability" turned all the way down. I gain a weird not quite British accent somewhere along the way, then get bored with it.
I present the first 8 or so years of the #MainMenu radio program published by #ACBRadio as of September, 2008. I will leave this file in Dropbox for a few days. Get while the gettin's good: dropbox.com/s/13pvx5n2m038h3h/…
WTF? The #bike service man wanted to kill me? The axis is obviously too short. Even the arm fixing bolt can't reach the thread, so he must have noticed it. What a dangerous #idiot. 🤬🔧🚲
It's fixed I hope. The axis was ok, there is only one standard length. The problem was he changed crank shaft bearings and mounted them with 2 spacers. Shaft then was too long. Still he must have noticed when he was mounting the pedal. 🚲🔧
Podcasting has been around for 20 years. Many revolutions have happened since then: DSL connections, smartphones, social networks, artificial intelligence everywhere… But Podcasting stayed still and its decentralized architecture resisted to the big corporations. In this talk we will show how the Podcasting 2.0 community is reinventing Podcasting by adding tons of new features, while keeping all this interoperable. We will quickly demonstrate how this actually works with Castopod, an open-source podcast hosting solution.
Podcasting has been around for 20 years. Many revolutions have happened since then: DSL connections, smartphones, social networks, artificial intelligence everywhere… But Podcasting stayed still and its decentralized architecture resisted to the big corporations. In this talk we will show how the Podcasting 2.0 community is reinventing Podcasting by adding tons of new features, while keeping all this interoperable. We will quickly demonstrate how this actually works with Castopod, an open-source podcast hosting solution.
#fosdem Update Tag 2: Schade! Schon ist der zweite Tag vorbei.. Damit wir auch nur irgendwie mit dem straffen Zeitplan zurechtkommen konnten, saßen wir zwischenzeitlich einfach in Hörsaal A und haben uns per #Livestream in Hörsaal B eingeklinkt (wie die anderen knapp 20.000 Unique Viewers).
stormdragon2976 pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project Create a file, agm.conf, in new bottles that contains the path to wine and wineserver. This will make it possible for game helper scripts to work without breaking bottles that require different versions.
Through the 1990s, Iomega was the darling of the storage industry, largely from the success of its Zip drive. But late in the decade it launched a new format that absolutely flopped — and started the company on a downward spiral. New video! youtu.be/X7iKL4I-E3k
Throughout the 1990s, Iomega was the darling of the storage industry with its various, successful disk formats. But while technology was rapidly changing at ...
I accomplished one of my long time goals this week by getting Doom from 1993 running on multiple monitors using all original software and almost period correct hardware!
Doom *originally* supported multimonitor gameplay through the most overkill method possible by using a separate computer for each monitor. Even if you have t...
Thanks https://PCBWay.com - Today we're installing Apple's strange precursor to Mac OS X, which is also the successor to NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP: Rhapsody!But....
Thanks https://PCBWay.com - Today we're installing Apple's strange precursor to Mac OS X, which is also the successor to NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP: Rhapsody!But....
So this is it: I am starting a new adventure on Mastodon with Kilobyte Magazine. This is a free PDF-Zine about computers and consoles from the 1970s, 80s and 90s, fokussing on #8bit machines. Newer projects around these computers and consoles are also very welcome. For starters, I will probably post some older articles on here. You can find back issues as PDF easily for free online (like e.g. on archive.org). See you arond here! #introduction #retrogaming
Several Mastodon instances (including Newsie) have come under cyber-attack recently by state-level actors.
If you are the admin of a Mastodon Instance that overlaps arts, human rights, civil society, journalism, or democracy and would like FREE cyber security protection from Cloudflare as part of Project Galileo please reach out as Fourth Estate is a long-time Project Galileo partner
Through Project Galileo, Cloudflare provides free cyber security services to organizations supporting the arts, human rights, journalism, and democracy.
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
Cross-platform Swift library for the Mastodon and the fediverse - GitHub - TootSDK/TootSDK: Cross-platform Swift library for the Mastodon and the fediverse
Reminder that whatever you store on an internet site will one day vanish, even if it's stored on the largest and richest site in the world:
"Myspace, the once mighty social network, has lost every single piece of content uploaded to its site before 2016, including millions of songs, photos and videos with no other home on the internet."
I think a lot of new comers to Mastodon, the Fediverse and ActivityPub don't really realise what they're dipping their toe into, and see it as a Twitter replacement. It's a lot more than that, and the potential is so much greater. A lot of things are still clunky around the edges, but they're improving. I urge people to stick it out. This is the best chance for an alternative to centralised corporate dominated platforms. Your best shot to avoid another Musk event. eff.org/deeplinks/2023/02/brea…
I fed Eleven labs a bunch of samples of my voice and told it to create a text to speech engine based on them. I don't think this sounds the remotest bit like me. But who am I to say I guess. It does say in a disclaimer that it works best with American accents, and I don't have one of those.
I can't get over this New York Times headline saying Ron DeSantis is "building his brand" by wrecking public education in Florida. It reminds me of NYT’s first mention of Hitler in 1922, which claimed his anti-Semitism wasn’t “genuine” or “violent” but was just “bait” to attract followers. From 1922 to 2023, NYT is still covering fascists from a marketing perspective rather than a moral perspective.
In case anybody else wants to run imagemagick on a Raspberry Pi 400 running Debian, please read 'SoftCreatR's Imagemagick Easy install for Ubuntu and Debian aka 'imei' worked for me on my Raspberry Pi 400 running Debian bullseye': rolandtanglao.com/2023/02/05/p…
@hub ROFL ! Of course, I thought about that but that installs version 6 not version 7 and for some reason i can't remember I wanted version 7. All is good now! Thanks to imei I have the latest version of imagemagick now: ImageMagick 7.1.0-60
! Of course, I thought about that but that installs version 6 not version 7 and for some reason i can't remember I wanted version 7. All is good now! Thanks to imei I have the latest version of imagemagick now: ImageMagick 7.1.0-60
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