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Mozilla's mozilla.social Mastodon server will shut down in December.
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I guess there weren't enough users? In any case, this seems like a weird thing to do, given that X is a mess and we need open alternatives supported by companies…
in reply to Chris Heilmann

@mattmay do you think if there was 10 times more they wouldn't make the same decision?


PSA: the average American has more in common with the VP that is running for POTUS than with the orange convict.

in reply to Hubert Figuière

@hub It's just gambling with other peoples money for rich people. You're not wrong.


Microsoft announces plans to reboot Chernobyl reactor to power Clippy for Word.

“We cannot allow Russia to beat us at pissing away humanity” said Microsoft exec Brad Smith, while smoking a kipper at breakfast.



Takže v pondělí se dozvíme, zda se budem stěhovat, či nikoliv. Ve středu jsme s dětmi jeli podat nabídku, a procházeli se po okolí. Je to tam takové klidné. Autobusák řek, že je to prdel světa a že si nebudeme mít kam dát kola a že to má dlaších tisíc nedostatků. Je fakt, že když já něco seženu, má to vždycky spoustu ale... Ale tak co... 90 metrů nebo 37. A mňauně se tam bude líbit.
in reply to Zloběna

Tak to držím palce, ať to klapne 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼


I listened to Court of the Crimson King for the first time today. Big regrets that it was via airpod...


TFW the mouse cursor freezes and my first thought "it's my regular AMDGPU crash happening" and then realise it's just the mouse battery....

That's how much unreliable shit mess with your brain.

in reply to Hubert Figuière

We have two AMD GPUs here without any problems, both are in machines running Fedora 40 (although one is 41 now).

I do know someone else who has been struggling with GPU crashes on AMD (happens to be embedded) and it's been consistently crashing with trying to view VP9 videos on YouTube (specifically shorts loading, not even playing).

There are a few workarounds, but the best seems to be the H264ify browser extension. addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…

in reply to Garrett LeSage

@garrett It's a "AMD Radeon™ RX 6500 XT" and only started crashing on F40. And happen when loading a website in a new Firefox tab. (not each time, but each time it crashed that's what I was doing)


Jinak moji oblíbenou cyklo hospůdku, majitelé prodali Vietnamcům. Domácí borůvkový koláč mi bude chybět. 😔
Ale nedivím se, těch pár Birellistů a pivařů, je nemohlo uživit.


Übrigens schon gewusst? Die Telekom, Vodafone und o2 haben ihren eigenen Tracking-Dienst #utiq: netzpolitik.org/2024/neue-trac…
Ihr könnt hier einen Opt-Out machen (nur über Mobilfunkverbindung):
consenthub.utiq.com/
#utiq


There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and progress bars.

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Thankfully, the tooth extraction was not nearly as bad as I feared. I have to keep ice on my face quite a lot, and I am convinced the feeling may never come back, at least on my skin. Now that the good drugs are wearing off, I'm starting to have some pain, but I have meds for it if needed. I'm really grateful that it's done and not as bad as I thought.
in reply to Lisa Salinger

I'm so sorry you had to go through that. Tooth pain is intense and is so difficult to describe to someone who has not experienced it.


mne to je jedno, je mi to ukradnuté, mám to v páke


Do I suffer from retro GAS? Pondering getting a classic Nikon SLR. Seems cheaper than anything I want to get.


Daniel's weekly report September 20, 2024

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curl, trurl, top-40, talks, SEO by threat, panelist, Polhem Prize




Just applied to the @sovtechfund fellowship program. Happy that this intiaitive exists, should I be selected or not. I do not envy them the task of selecting the initial five people.

sovereigntechfund.de/programs/…



Jedna páteční #birellovka 🤗👋
Už jich asi letos moc nebude.
in reply to DonBahno

@DonBahno
Já myslím, že není. On to není přímo Birell, ale podobný nealko Lobkowicz.
Není to špatný, ale Pomelo od Birella je lepší 😀


Well, it's Friday and Kyle's parents are flying from Vancouver today. They're spending a couple of days with us in Ottawa, and then we'll go to Montréal with them before they head to Québec City for their... cruise...

Now to stress about everything that could go wrong. And the fact that they don't mask.

in reply to Stéphanie Pageau

@jcolp I'm torn between getting drunk to buff off the passenger contempt from airlines (and Air Canada in particular) and being too drunk and becoming a real nuisance.

Life balance is hard.



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Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea

bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/tu…

How realistic is the hollywood plot of a terrorist attack through exploding devices that we have seen unravel? It all looks easier than you think.

Ah yes, it was a terrorist attack.




Sensory disability funny scene. Me blind, a friend who's deaf, and we met a person who could not speak Italian very well who asked information about the vending machine we were all using. We just felt like this 🙈🙉🙊 - not seeing, not hearing, not speaking monkey. Being ironic and making fun of ourselves is the key to overcome obstacles of any kind (and my English helped) #accessibility #LanguageNerd #irony #blind
in reply to Elena Brescacin

We had something similar at a KFC in Poland with friends from Belgium where one didn't know his way around the offer as there's no KFC in Belgium, the other one knew the offer from their visits abroad but couldn't read the kiosk screen due to a visual impairment and I'm hardly ever there so can't tell the singer from a longer but could have helped with Polish at least but then I'm also blind.


Hmmm, DHL qui dit que je suis pas chez moi 🤔

Alors qu'étant chez moi, je peux garantir que je n'ai pas entendu la sonnette, ni frapper à la porte. Même pas entendu de camionnette se garer 🤔🤔




Dnes sa bavím sám so sebou a baví ma to. Baví!?


In case you missed this before, #Linkedin decided to start training its AI on your data without telling you, never mind asking you. Go here to turn it off:
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I just read a Hacker News comment with a pretty gloomy take on the future of FOSS: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

He says all the 25-year-old hackers are writing JavaScript frameworks that only work on AWS these days. At least the things I'm seeing from the (relatively few) 25-year-old (and younger) hackers that I know, particularly here on the fediverse, give me hope that he's wrong.

in reply to Matt Campbell

Plus I think he's plain wrong about how far back the popularity of permissively licensed open-source goes. Permissively-licensed libraries for Python in particular were plentiful well before 2008.
in reply to Matt Campbell

You'd know, Mr. I wrote an audio streaming server in Python in 2001. LOL.
in reply to Nick Giannak III

@nick Yeah. Believe it or not, I kept that server proprietary to ACB Radio for a little while, because of some drama between ACBRI and a station started by some ex-ACBRI broadcasters. It was actually Charlie Crawford at the ACB that convinced us to open-source it, and I think I ended up releasing that server under the GPL. One of its major dependencies, was LGPL back then, but I think was relicensed to MIT before 2008.
in reply to Matt Campbell

Yeah, I liked Supercast, even if i ultimately settled on Icecast even while Supercast was something I could viably run. ...I never got pRS to work. Yeah, I know that wasn't yours, but it's still true.
in reply to Nick Giannak III

@nick I think Marc Mulcahy and I might have been the only ones to ever use PRS in a live show. Geoff Shang at ACB Radio ran PRS in automation for a while, if I remember correctly.
in reply to Matt Campbell

Joey Weston ran PRS Live as a demonstration for me, I think he'd use it live regularly as well at times.
in reply to Nick Giannak III

@nick I've never seriously looked at Liquidsoap. Is that what you use for replays on HKC Radio?
in reply to Matt Campbell

No, I hate that thing with a passion. I use Ezstream, which means I can do very little other than what i'm doing. But it's resource cheep, takes little time to make work, and doens't reencode.
in reply to Nick Giannak III

@nick Yeah. At some point I implemented something like ezstream directly in Supercast as a fallback for when no live broadcaster was connected. I don't think I ever released that version of Supercast, but I wasn't deliberately holding it back, I just wasn't managing the project well at that point.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@nick Or PRS2, where the 2 could be interpreted as "squared".

For anyone else watching the thread, PRS stood for Personal Radio Station and was a broadcast automation thing that a friend (Marc Mulcahy) and I worked on mainly in 2002-2003, that was used by a group of Internet audio streams for blind people.

in reply to Matt Campbell

@nick Oh, at one point at Serotek, we had an internal fork of PRS where the scheduler and related high-level modules were rewritten in Python, while the mixer remained in C (we used the Python ctypes module to call into the C code). The rewrite was actually mostly not done by me, but by a developer we had hired. The Python rewrite was supposed to be followed by further enhancements to the scheduler, but that never happened. SPN Radio ran that version of PRS.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@nick Of course, SPN Radio was just playing podcast episodes with liners and promos in between, so we could have used something like ezstream.
in reply to Matt Campbell

Hell, Ezstream doesn't handle conditions on its own. If you want it to do in between things, you'd essentially have to have it in the playlist it points at. Shuffel is right out as it's only a single category streamer.
in reply to Nick Giannak III

@nick Oh, right. So yeah, maybe something like PRS's scheduler generating playlists for ezstream would have been the best thing.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@nick And did I ever tell you about the personal project I did with another fork of PRS, for Christmas 2014? I got it running on a Raspberry Pi, using SQLite as the database and with a quick and dirty ALSA output, so I could give my dad an easy way to listen to his MP3s in the car, with mixing, compression, and interspersed liners. I called in a favor from a friend to produce professional-sounding IDs like "Your favorite classic rock, all the time. This is Don FM."
in reply to Matt Campbell

@nick The fatal flaw was that the original Raspberry Pi's built-in audio output couldn't match the volume of the car's FM radio or CDs, even with heavy compression. Along the way, I also found out that Marc's wideband compressor had a mistake in it all these years.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@nick And yeah, at this point, we've hijacked the thread from its original topic, and I don't care.
in reply to Matt Campbell

That's great. I wish I could do something like that now.
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in reply to Patrick W

@BrailleScreen Are you saying you wouldn't be able to use music you actually listen to because it's all on streaming services? Building up an MP3 collection is still an option.

@nick

in reply to Matt Campbell

@nick Nah, what actually happened is I posted that then realized the only challenge would be setting up a setup like the one you described. I do have an old pi around here I should try that with.
in reply to Patrick W

@BrailleScreen If you'd actually be interested in trying it, I could post the system image somewhere and write up some instructions. As for the hardware, it was just a Pi in a case, plugged into the car via either an AC adapter or a USB charger, I don't remember which. Keep in mind, I haven't updated this thing at all since early 2015.
in reply to Patrick W

@BrailleScreen What model Pi do you have? This project is only known to work on an original Raspberry Pi model B or B+.
in reply to Patrick W

@BrailleScreen I think the Pi 2 came out right after I finished the project.

The whole thing was super-custom, with a stripped-down kernel and a minimal buildroot-based userspace image actually embedded in the kernel as an initial RAM disk. The payoff was that it booted in like 5 seconds, and I think I later learned that a big chunk of that was the Pi boot loader.

in reply to Matt Campbell

I think that sounds like an optimistic old C fart hoping he'll get called out of retirement by banks in 20 years.

The 16-25 year range is hot for Rust, Zig and other non-boomer languages. If anything, the young hackers that come from these frameworks are driving a lot of overdue stack modernization.




Well gosh, I'm glad we required masks 😂 If we use this venue again (and we definitely will when we return to Berlin), I've got some ideas about how to manage airflow differently.

#MatrixConf #HealthAndSafety

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#introduction heya!! I recently joined this side of the internet, as I got invited by a good friend of mine, mostly to move away from other platforms.

I'm Naomi Belle, but I prefer Belle (I think it sounds cute!) I'm 23y old transfem living in the Netherlands. Currently I'm 4.5 years on hormones. I'm excited to meet you all.

A fair warning as this is my first time joining such spaces. Please let me know of any specific thing that doesn't sit well or if I do something against the rules! I love to learn and I'm more than happy to receive feedback 💜



It is always fun to meet @pabloyoyoista and @FineFindus. And this time, we had the pleasure of meeting with one of the GTK maintainers, Benjamin Otte, as well.
Amongst other, interesting discussions about GTK's new renderers and phones, performance, regressions, collaboration, and testing. And the general “wouldn't it be nice if”s … language support, upstreaming things … and maybe, someday, some of them … 🤞
And if you happen to be in the Hamburg area and want to join, shoot us a message.



As it turns out, women leaders are not likely to act based on their emotion, but men are. Study (N=137) finds women leaders had low levels of abusive supervision regardless of their anxiety. Men leaders engaged in more abusive supervision (being rude, ridiculing, yelling at, or lying to their reports) when their anxiety was higher. hbr.org/2024/09/research-how-a…


Desde la fraternidad y el máximo respeto a su soberanía, IU hace un llamamiento a la unidad de la izquierda en Bolivia.

Apelamos a la responsabilidad para conducir el diálogo político y evitar la violencia y la vuelta del fascismo en el país.

Comunicado completo: iunida.org/yy3v3



WHYcast Episode 1 is available now! This episode contains: Fallfest Orgameet, we talk with @Dany from Team:Content, a little history lesson and we talk with @zeno4ever about Hackfest.

Find it on the podcast platforms or: youtu.be/YLcRRfs-ZL8

#WHY2025 #WHYcast

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Folks, never _ever_ forget that mandating employees be in the office 5 days a week is an employer's favourite way to implement a stealth organisation-wide layoff.




person on podcast: “… serious …”

iphone: *interrupts podcast, opens siri*