@blind5sparrow I decided to order it and it should be arriving this morning. I'll certainly post my impressions of the mic once I have an opportunity to play with it.
@blind5sparrow Well, so far my experiences with the Blue Yeti have been positive. I did some test recordings just doing things on a BT Speak paired with a Bluetooth speaker and the mic did such a good job with the sound coming from the speaker it almost sounded like it was coming out of a mixer, at least to my ears. Not saying that I couldn't have done better with an actual mixer but the audio quality was impressive.
New York was the last state to legalize human composting, which it did in 2023. Here's my column on it, featuring the spitting, impotent fury of Catholic bishops who think Catholic beliefs about burial should be the only ones allowed by law:
Die OpenStreetMap ist eine freie und offene Sammlung von Geodaten: Straßen und Wege, Landschaften, Gebäude, Sehenswürdigkeiten. Diese Daten helfen nicht nur
@vinzv @MapComplete that's not the actual use case though. StreetComplete shows you all the things that can easily be refined if you are there in person. MapComplete gives you an easy way of editing just one category at a time. Those are completely opposite experiences for everything other than the simplicity of the questions.
Matrix 1.10 is here! Captions for media 🖼️, VoIP improvements ☎️ (a Matrix 2.0 feature! 🔜), and plenty of quality improvements for clients and servers ✨
when media together with text and multiple media in one messages will be supported, this makes some bridges send a few messages to send one from e.g. Discord and it might be confusing and sometimes spamming the chat
“Bruce Schneier has a name for this practice: ‘feudal security.’ That's when you cede control over your device to a Big Tech warlord whose ‘walled garden’ becomes a fortress that defends you against external threats… The keyword here is external threats. When Apple itself threatens your privacy, the fortress becomes a prison.” @pluralisticpluralistic.net/2024/03/22/rea… ht @chasedmartin
Today @MoonCat captured a lovely church clock ringing near Alice's school, as she knew I'd like it. It's even in stereo. That's true love when your wife goes out of her way to get a cool sound as cleanly as she knows how. Respect.
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Finished this commission for @troodon today! Never drawn bones like this before, they came out nice I think :D I coloured them with prismacolor premiere pencils, and the flowers and vines are coloured with Faber Castell Pitt brush pens.
🔥 it’s a core mistake of the movement that OSI (and maybe Creative Commons, though it is differently situated) emphasized licensing so disproportionately over community in the early 2000s. hachyderm.io/@mattdm/112134152…
The Redis thing underscores a key point: _open source is not enough_. We need _community built software_ -- free and open source licenses are just one aspect of that.
Primera instancia de Mastodon de México, desde Abr 2017.
Aquí hablamos de tecnología, literatura, ciencia, cultura, música, anime, series, películas, el acontecer diario y lo que te nazca del corazón
Jánské lázně, denprvní. O. dojela domů v pořádku...Tak tady přebývám... Zatím se rozkoukávám. Zítra mám první proceduru - Bazén. Jinak nic až do pondělka. Aspoň si to tady můžu pořádně prohlédnout... Na první týden mi dali vozík, abych nezdržoval, ale až se naučím, kde co je, tak budu moct CHODIT sám, jen s chodítkem... K obědu jsem měl krůtí s dušenou mrkví, což nemám rád, takže těžko soudit jak vaří... Kolega je fajn, ale příští týden končí. Uvidíme, jakej bude ten další... Konec hlášení😁
Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter, by Tim Berners-Lee
"Leadership, hindered by a lack of diversity, has steered away from a tool for public good and one that is instead subject to capitalist forces resulting in monopolisation." ☹️
Do you think it's even worth having a plain-text section anymore? Even Pine has been able to render HTML email for quite a while, right? Don't know about Mutt.
@matt Yes, it’s always worth having a plaintext section. Automated processes handle email and why should we make every single one of them include beautifulsoup as a dependency?
Also, I like to strip the html part before I archive the email. Sometimes it saves a megabyte of garbage on a ten-line message.
My perspective as a web app developer working for a tiny company (part of what I do when I'm not working on AccessKit): There are many more web applications than automated email processors or nerd-focused email clients. Every web application in the world that sends transactional email shouldn't have to render the email as plain text as well as HTML. I take it as a given that any web app targeting ordinary users *will* send the email in HTML.
@matt I always read the plaintext version first and only consult the HTML if needed. The lack of people looking at what plaintext their code spits out is very apparent. The times the HTML actually improves the message is very rare.
Batteries are getting way cheaper AND way better. The average range of an EV sold in the US in 2023 rose to a record 294 miles. This makes electric cars more appealing to a lot of people. #ShareGoodNewsToobloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
Electric car options with more than 300 miles per charge have quintupled in the US since 2021. It’s pushing the country’s average battery range to record highs.
It looks like you can now view anyone’s Threads profile from Mastodon and Pixelfed instances that federate with them.
If you’re a Mastodon user wanting to block Threads, or a Mastodon server admin looking not only to block Threads from federating to your server but also block all inbound and outbound traffic (data scrapers, loads of traffic overwhelming small servers) from all their IP addresses, I wrote a guide that can help:
#MetaBlock
For #Fediverse server admins: #iptables commands to block inbound (loads of #Threads users) & outbound traffic (like data mining) from Meta's IP addresses: https://pastebin.com/eB4shL1R
Sources:
1. https://ipinfo.io/AS32934
2.
We at Tuta are leaders in privacy & recommend avoiding TikTok completely. While this is our stance, it may seem contradictory that we have a Tuta Team account on the platform. 👉 tiktok.com/@tutaprivacy
By using TikTok, we hope to educate its users, spread the word about privacy & why it matters.🧑🏫
Same and more collected by FB, Twitter, etc. And already proven to be used against us. Why does that not get regulated or protect us. As others correctly said, it’s not tik tok, it’s the lack of privacy regulations and protection across the board.
They want that info. That’s why they want to own tik tok, without changing anything.
You SHOULD be advocating for strong privacy laws, which would solve privacy problems of TikTok and alike, for good. Instead you choose to support banning TikTok.
@Orca Hi there, we do regularly work with other privacy and security companies to publish open letters to politicians around the world to support strong privacy laws. One example of many can be found here: tuta.com/blog/open-letter-encr…
dnes jsem Německu VELMI držela palce – konopný zákon totiž zamířil do Rady spolkových zemí, která mohla svým rozhodnutím cestu regulace v nejhorším případě i ukončit 💀
teď už ale můžeme gratulovat, protože Bundesrat konopnou regulaci schválila ✨✊
I finally set up a blog for myself! I only have one post at the moment and the lay out is still incredibly basic, although I have plans to expand it in the future. The first post talks about how to detect if Narrator is running on Windows, even though it doesn't set the system screen reader flag. quinbox.xyz/blog/posts/sr-flag…
@menelion Be aware though, if you go into this you're kinda gonna be on your own as far as a lot of features go. The documentation sucks, I've had to grep the source tree multiple times already to find things, and I'm sure I'll have to do so again.
@SmudgeTheInsultCat A trained monkey would visit my dad’s house in India. It would climb up on a clothesline and make eye contact with whoever was in the kitchen.
Then it would start very slowly ripping the clothes hanging out to dry. It’d tear the fabric bit by bit until someone gave it a roti. It’d take the roti back home to share with its human.
Nobody was gonna arrest a cute lil monkey for extorting rotis. It was the perfect crime. RE: mas.to/users/SmudgeTheInsultCa…
"El PP no se entera, y la alta judicatura no espera nada de él. Los jueces no cuentan con nadie más para defender lo que ven amenazado. Que es su poder".
El TS está encendido porque teme por su originalidad continental, destinada, en el tiempo, a colisionar con Europa, si Europa no gira hacia derechas autoritarias
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