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20 hudebních alb, které ovlivnily to, kým jste. Jedno album denně po dobu 20 dnů. Žádné vysvětlivky, žádné recenze, jen obaly alb.
9/20
#20albums20days



Happy thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends. We aren't big on Turky, so dinner tonight will be a boneless leg of lamb done on the smoker, mashed potatoes and stuffing.


i grew up surrounded by people who read books by self-help and project-management gurus, from teachers to relatives. I’m critical of much of the overcomplicated advice that gets published by them. one of the only self-help or project-management mantras i sincerely believe in is SMART goals.

Any time I make a goal that I haven’t made sure is specific, measurable, attainable/realistic, for which I’m responsible by a given time, I fail. Silly acronyms that spell out relevant words are supposed to be bullshit but this is somehow the ultimate exception.

“work out more often” fails. “try this light five-day exercise regiment, fitting it into your schedule on these days, and write down what was too easy to ramp up next week” works.

“clean the house regularly” fails. “clean the counter until it’s smooth, at this time tomorrow, within 15 minutes, and reward myself with some blueberries if i finish in time before moving onto the next cleaning task” works.

With ADHD it’s impossible for me to be productive at something without obsessively SMART-ing my way through it. I’ve tried everything and this is the only thing that’s stuck. I’m amazed that such a silly corpo acronym for increasing team productivity is actually 100% legit.

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in reply to Seirdy

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in reply to Seirdy

seriously. SMART covers all the ways I wriggle out of tasks.

  • “where do i begin”: specific.
  • “will I ever be have done enough”: measurable.
  • “it’s too overwhelming”: attainable.
  • “someone else can do it”: responsible individual.
  • “eh, later”: time-bound.
  • “I don’t feel like it”: I went through the trouble of making a SMART goal, making a five step promise to myself to do something. I don’t want that effort to go to waste.

That’s basically it. All the ways I avoid something taken care of by one comically simple acronym.

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in reply to Seirdy

I kind of wish it didn’t spell out SMART because i instinctively hate any acronym that spells out a relevant word.
in reply to Seirdy

huh, I really should try that out. thanks for sharing!!
in reply to 0xBADBABE

adhd brains are an absolute joke. for real. like, the only thing I did today was to attach a time to the tasks. not just the day, no, a specific time and an estimated guess how long it’s going to take.

and that alone tremendously helped. omg.

thank you so much for sharing this!!

in reply to 0xBADBABE

@jasmin For real. Planning each day with 30-minute accuracy and two separate hours of grace time for adjustments/delays has transformed my life.


Just got around to playing with the now working iPhone mirroring app in macOS 15, not too bad. Although, I wish it would not keep repeating iPhone mirroring when navigating.r
in reply to DAVID WOODBRIDGE

Hmmm, how did you get iPhone Mirroring to work? Is it 15.1 you are seeing this on? The best I can get out of this combo with 15.0 is the “home” and “app launcher” buttons, but this only after relaunching VoiceOver.
in reply to victor tsaran

@vick21 It's the latest beta 18.1 that I'm using with the latest beta update for macOS 15 as well.


Sometimes I wish there was a way to either turn off user names altogether or put them at the end of the posts. This may be e a screen reader thing, but it gets overwhelming to my ears when one or two people take over my timeline. No personal feelings, BTW!
in reply to victor tsaran

Do you mean in mentions/replies? In Mona, I have usernames turned off for posts.
in reply to Jonathan Mosen

@JonathanMosen Ah, I didn’t realize there was such an option. Can you quickly called up a user name if you want to know who wrote the post? Anyway, I can research from here. Thanks for the tip!
in reply to Jonathan Mosen

@JonathanMosen Hmmm, I actually meant omitting usernames / user names in the posts themselves. Where do I find this option? I see there is a setting under “general”, but it does not allow me to turn off user names completely.
in reply to victor tsaran

Yes it does, YOu have three options, name, username, or name and username. So just set it to name and you won’t hear the username.
in reply to Jonathan Mosen

@JonathanMosen Ah yes, I already have it set to the name. I was looking for an option to “anonymize” posts so that I do not hear the same name if they post lots and lots of posts one after another. You could say it’s just a whim! :)


When JD Vance says, "My wife has three children" – he does not refer to his wife by her name (Usha). He also does not refer to any of his 3 children by name (Ewan, Vivek, and Mirabel). And most importantly (red lights flashing, sirens blaring) – he doesn't acknowledge himself as his daughter's/sons' father (i.e., "Usha and I have three children"). All three of these are significant distancing behaviors.


Accessible Mammograms imagemd.org/2024/10/14/accessi…






I am once again asking you to refrain from using “Zionist” or any variation thereof when you talk about Israel, its government, people from Israel, settler-colonialism, etc.

Because the way you’re using it is similar to how it’s been used as an antisemitic slur for decades and it’s normalizing that kind of thing in a way that will harm Jews who have nothing to do with Israel and may even vocally oppose the policies and actions of Israel’s government.

reshared this




Justin Wong made an awesome little video cutting tool called vic, using Chafa and Rust: github.com/wong-justin/vic

This is going to be extremely useful. Might even improve my posting, unlikely as that sounds.



#dobréRáno vespolek...

Probudím se s bolestí v krku a teplota co? Nic. No ale stejně se budu tvářit a chovat jako kdyby ano. Protože pocitově mám minimálně 38,9. Tak! Tak hezké ráno a ať je vám líp než mně!



Is there a reason I shouldn’t buy a framework laptop to replace this Dell garbage?


I feel like it’s the year 2001 when I resisted getting a mobile phone until I really needed it. Now I’m resisting Meta glasses. Not sure why. Maybe it’s the cost … I really need a laptop too, but it may also be because it’s “what everybody’s doing” in my little community. For now, I resisted instant next day arrival, and my wife and I’ll be old geezer standouts for awhile at least. We are ok being classed as geezerz though.
in reply to James Scholes

@jscholes @amy0223 With third-party support on the way IE, Be My Eyes etc, they will trounce Envision glasses for portability in short-order. If they allow one third-party app, others will surely follow.
in reply to Andre Louis

@FreakyFwoof @jscholes @amy0223 Yeah we're going in the right direction IMHO with mainstream equipment with third-party app support, rather than using specific hardware like Envision and Orcam have done in the past. I'm still not a huge convert at the moment, but I don't need to record video right now. I'm still wanting to do more OCR reading with these glasses, which I don't believe is an option right now.
in reply to Andrew Hodgson

@andrew @FreakyFwoof @jscholes I don’t have the need for any kind of smart glasses right now and we’re trying to save money and all. But if I were buying, even with any downsides I’ll take a mainstream option over a for the blind product. I just don’t trust these niche products that are so highly priced to stay around. And when envision ends up like Orcam it’ll be a mess.
in reply to Amy

@amy0223 @andrew @jscholes What you said. I've tried to go mainstream with products I've purchased as much as humanly possible. Orbit Reader is an exception for obvious reason. In 1994, my dad gave me a Franklin Language Master which just *happened* to have TTs, so even that I guess is an off-the-shelf product. Loved that thing.
in reply to Noel Romey

@FreakyFwoof @amy0223 @andrew @jscholes That Language Master, which was called the Language Master 6000 Special Edition, was amazing. Everything on it was accessible and it even came with an excellent instruction tape. Several years ago, I bought a used one so I could continue to play with it. I always hoped that Franklin would have released an accessible encyclopedia but I don't think they ever did.
in reply to David Goldfield

@DavidGoldfield @FreakyFwoof @amy0223 @andrew @jscholes I remember you doing a demo of that from the 1992 Blazie Engineering audio newsletter. Finally got my hands on one in middle school a few years later. "All aboard!"
in reply to Steve

@sclower @FreakyFwoof @amy0223 @andrew @jscholes I totally forgot that I had done a demo of that product and even now I barely remember it. That came about because Blazie Engineering became a distributor, though not the only distributor, of that product.
in reply to Andrew Hodgson

@andrew @FreakyFwoof @jscholes @amy0223 I meant to ask, can these glasses just be used for system audio and phone calls, like bluetooth earphones? or are they purely for the app ecosystem?



Delivery by October 30. Wow. It’s 2024. They still ship with the pony express.
And X1 carbon are overpriced.


The sky was thick solid clouds stretching from the horizon in the east to just above the horizon in the west. I wondered if that little gap above the horizon in the west would be enough for an interesting sunset. We waited 35 minutes for sunset and it was worth it.
#sunset #montreal


Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78 arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/1…


Looks like my laptop is no longer charging. Fucking. Dell. USB-C. garbage.
And what can I get in under 2 days?
in reply to Hubert Figuière

It should be noted the original Dell charger that use a jack died in under 2 years. Because Dell is terrific quality.
in reply to Hubert Figuière

Found a replacement for the barrel jack charger, this will work to keep the laptop running. Ordered a replacement. Not Dhell. Not (overpriced) Lenovo.

Got a Framework. Will report in 2 weeks (or sooner)



Here's What We Know About the Latest Major Meat Recall cnet.com/news/heres-what-we-kn…


What Is Meta AI? Everything to Know About the Social Network's AI Tools cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof…


Meta Ray-Bans Public Beta Open to All! aira.io/meta-ray-bans-public-b…



Hey Google and Microsoft, instead of spending billions to refurb nuclear explodium stations, why don't you spend these billions in future clean energy tech to the good of humanity. And I'm not talking build tech-bro solution.


"I received four denials on the same day. Three of which occurred when requesting one ride. I was connected with another driver and was again denied another two times. The app notified me that I would have to re-request my ride as it had timed out. Later that afternoon, I attempted to request a ride home. The driver arrived, saw me and my dog, and drove away without speaking to us. This time I did not notify the driver previous to them arriving.” – Guide Dog User in Texas, January 2023


Welcome to the RB family, Food Expirations 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.l…

Food expirations helps to to remember all the expiration dates of your food stocks.

Was quite a ride as for some reason the build is "flaky" (non-deterministic) – but finally we got it working :awesome:

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid



I just added X-M5 to libopenraw. Now I need to finish the demosaic.



Which feature should be added next in Cambalache?

Cambalache is a RAD tool for #GTK4 and #GNOME @GTK @gnome

  • GtkExpression support (27%, 10 votes)
  • GResource (27%, 10 votes)
  • Accessibility (36%, 13 votes)
  • In App polls (8%, 3 votes)
36 voters. Poll end: 3 weeks ago

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this recent WordPress stuff is like a speedrun counterargument against Founder Mode


keď po sebe čítam ten sloh, ty vole to je dobré, určite s chybami ale dej, sám sa divým :kekw:
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Another audiogame that would be cool to have the music for is Manaman 2, then I could build a Mist World music soundpack for it - I wouldn't even need all sounds, just all musics. The manual thankfully lists artists, but unlike STW does not list track names so I cannot purchase them like I did (bonus: I now have a bunch of purchased music and I did get to support the artists too)
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