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#jazz #nowplaying #tgvradio #easylistening #chillout

I really don't understand why a security clearance isn't required for every MP in Canada.

The door said 1311. I hope that's OK.
-- A note from my delivery driver for a recent order


I don't live at 1311. So no, it's not OK.

I love having the world's information organized
Google AI overview: "The main difference between a sauce and a dressing is their purpose: sauces add flavor and texture to dishes, while dressings are used to protect wounds"

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Special box on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle, October 18, 1989, reading This special edition of The Chronicle was produced despite a complete power outage at the newspaper's headquarters at 5th and Mission streets. The earthquake brought the newspaper's computer and main printing facility to a halt. The papers were printed at the Chronicle's Army Street printing plant and at its East Bay facility in Union City. The news accounts were placed on Macintosh computer disks using an emergency generator. "The Chronicle of October 18, 1989 is a newspaper produced with a heavy heart," said Executive Editor William German. "The fact that it was produced at all was a mighty feat. This awful blow wiped out the tools of modern journalism. No magic of computers, no push-button presses, not even lights to see by. "All that was left to us was the energy and the wit of our dedicated staff," he said.

You know what would be really cool? If there were audio-only virtual bike ride tours of places. Like you could, say, go on a 1 hour ride on a stationary bike, and listen to something along with it that was as though you are riding a bike through a specific location and they describe the scene to you, or talk about its history, and you hear the environment moving passed, and it didn't have video so you wouldn't be told to "look at this" or something like that. Or if it did have video, it'd be designed in a way where looking at it would be optional.

Alt space to call up an app any time? Great. Who needs the system menu anyway? Seems like idiocy to me but what do I know? #ChatGPT
#chatgpt

Look, if Trump wins, everything's gonna be fine. Not much is going to really change for you in your day to day life let's be honest. I mean, as long as you're white, pretty much nothing will change.

As long as you're white and male. Because let's face it, women aren't getting their bodily autonomy back under a Trump presidency. But as long as you're white and male, things should be fine.

As long as you're white, male, and cisgender I mean. God help you if you're trans. Trump has promised to make your existence illegal and probably will on day one. But that's it. As long as you're white, cisgender and male, it'll be just fine.

As long as you're straight too. Trump is definitely going to try to outlaw gay marriage again, and according to Project 2025, wants to try to get sodomy laws back on the books. But that's it. As long as you're a white, cisgender, straight man, nothing is going to change.

And also Christian. Again, that Project 2025 stuff comes back here. Muslim bans, atheism bans, not to mention a whole slew of antisemitic nonsense. But that's all. As long as you're a white, straight, cisgender Christian man, you'll be fine.

Uh, and by Christian I mean specifically evangelical Christian, obviously. You better not have any heretical ideas about God like this crap about loving thy neighbor and feeding the hungry and clothing the homeless. That's the sort of idea that'll get you in trouble in Trump's America. But as long as you're a white, straight, cisgender, evangelical Christian man, you'll be fine.

Oh, and this really goes without saying but don't be a dirty fuckin liberal, obviously. Trump has said he considers liberals the "enemy within", and that they're a bigger threat than China and North Korea. He said he wants to "fix" liberals using the "National Guard or maybe the military". So, you know, that's not good. But as long as you're a white, heterosexual, cisgender, evangelical Christian Republican man, everything will be juuuuuust fine don't you worry.

Also it wouldn't hurt to be rich.

From my Newsletter:

Know the Differences Between Web Services and APIs

telerik.com/blogs/know-differe…

Know the Differences Between Web Services and APIs

Wondering what the difference is between Web Services and APIs? Learn when to use each to build robust, scalable and efficient applications.
Dennis Martinez (Telerik)

@Bruce_Toews Let's get Google Notebook LM analyse a Flintstones episode shall we?
@Bruce Toews
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Jason Fayre
Jason Fayre
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From what I was reading, it doesn’t actually analyze video yet. Only the transcript.

Amazon, Google and Microsoft Are Investing in Nuclear Power nytimes.com/2024/10/16/busines…

Spending time in Nanaimo with family. Never the most exciting trip, but get to spend time with people which is nice

Interesting job, keeping old technology running.

IEEE Spectrum: What It Takes To Let People Play With the Past spectrum.ieee.org/vintage-tech #vintagecomputing #computers #technology


What It Takes To Let People Play With the Past

Libi Rose keeps obsolete technologies running at the Media Archaeology Lab
Stephen Cass (IEEE Spectrum)
#technology #computers #vintagecomputing

MySQL 9.1: New Features, Deprecations, and Important Updates linuxtoday.com/blog/mysql-9-1-…

MySQL 9.1: New Features, Deprecations, and Important Updates | Linux Today

MySQL 9.1 introduces key updates, including enhanced trigger handling, optimized EXPLAIN output, OpenID Connect support, and more.
LinuxToday

I think there should be a moritorium on restaurants calling burgers The Fat Boy. I mean, if anyone ever tried coming up with a Fat Girl burger, they'd be put out of business really fast.
in reply to Bruce Toews

Jason Fayre
Jason Fayre
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Those are a specifically Manitoba thing I think. Haven’t had one of those in a long time.
in reply to Jason Fayre

Bruce Toews
Bruce Toews
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@jfayre A lot of different restaurants have a burger called the Fat Boy.
@Jason Fayre
in reply to Bruce Toews

Jason Fayre
Jason Fayre
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They do. That originated in Manitoba though, and I don’t think they are in many places outside of Manitoba. I think it’s fairly specific ingredients for those. They are awesome.

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online! What a week! 🚀

#170 Portal Updates
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/…

#GNOME #TWIG

Diagram of showing the different notification components
Screenshot showing GNOME Web / Epiphany a11y
Screenshot of Shortwave
Screenshot of Apostrophe

#170 Portal Updates · This Week in GNOME

thisweek.gnome.org
#gnome #ThisWeekInGNOME #twig

I think I need an ascii version of the "draw the rest of the owl" so I can paste that in as a comment when i get bored of writing comments half-way through a function.
in reply to Josh Simmons

Matt Campbell
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Just so you know, ASCII art, particularly multi-line ASCII art, is very annoying to blind people using screen readers.
in reply to Matt Campbell

Josh Simmons
Josh Simmons
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alas there's not really much to be done about that short of making less useless screen readers. aside from the generally more silly problem of actual images, ascii graphs and diagrams are genuinely useful in comments.
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File types hanging out

Ok, as promised here's Wordpress, very lightly modified to use SQLite as a backing store instead of MySQL.

You don't need to stand up a database, run a big machine or really much of anything, this is perfectly happy on the smallest VM you can find.

github.com/mhoye/pressonward/


GitHub - mhoye/pressonward

Contribute to mhoye/pressonward development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
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The X-Files 👽

😁

#thetruthisoutthere #xfiles #thexfiles #clouds #blue #nature #planes #aircraft #contrail #contrails

#nature #clouds #aircraft #blue #contrails #contrail #planes #Xfiles #thetruthisoutthere #thexfiles

@thunderbird
is thunderbird available on iOS/ipados and if so is it full featured or gimped?
@Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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We are planning to have an iOS app, but haven't begun actively planning. We'll have lots of opportunity for testing and feedback once that happens.

En tout cas étant utilisateur de @thunderbird depuis 15 ans+, j'éprouve une petite satisfaction a enfin retrouver l'icône de l'oiseau sur mon smartphone.
@Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

What’s made of rubber, handed out at some schools, and exists to prevent mistakes?

Erasers.

A Simple Overview of GRUB Bootloader Configuration lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

A Simple Overview of GRUB Bootloader Configuration | Linux Journal

lxer.com

The doctor said my sugar was too high so when I got home I moved it to a lower shelf.

Sad to report that the Jelly Max will not run Eloquence. If I go to the app in my purchase history, I'm told it's not compatible with my device. If I try to install the APK directly, I just get a generic installation error. Presumably this phone just doesn't run 32-bit anything. CodeFactory also never fails to astound me with their half-assed design. I restored the backup from my Google Pixel where Vocalizer is set as the default engine, and it caused my Jelly Max to lose speech entirely. I had to call Aira and have them tell me when I was on text-to-speech settings so I could switch back to Google TTS. I still can't get SmartVoice to work, so I either put up with CodeFactory's unapologetic shittiness or learn to love Google TTS or some other nonstandard synth. Perhaps I should just get used to Google. It would uncomplicate my life a lot.
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aaron
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That's interesting. vocaliser should fall back to google tts if no voices are available.
in reply to aaron

simon.old
simon.old
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@fireborn It should, but it didn't this time, for whatever reason. Luckily I'm familiar enough with Android that I really just needed Aira to confirm which item Talkback was focused on, and I have a gesture for screen curtain. Otherwise, it was a brand new phone, no USB debugging, so I guess I'd have to plug in a keyboard and turn off Talkback or something. Super annoying either way.
@aaron

Microsoft blocked your Windows 11 upgrade? This trusty tool can fix that zdnet.com/article/microsoft-bl…

Microsoft blocked your Windows 11 upgrade? This trusty tool can fix that

A new version of the popular Rufus utility once again bypasses the strict hardware compatibility requirements for Windows 11 upgrades. Your move, Microsoft.
Ed Bott (ZDNET)

So this is a thing now. Adventures in Senior Dog Ownership. 🙄 The Old Pug is super weird about mealtimes now.
She's ravenous.
Then she won't eat.
Then she tries to eat the Retriever's food. Now she will only eat her breakfast when it's next to the Retriever. Not her dinner though. She wants her dinner other side of the kitchen next to the water dish. Ah well. Whatever makes the old gal happy. 😄
#Pug #Pugs
#DogsOfMastodon
Overhead view of dog breakfast time with my fawn pug dog with her face in her stainless steel dog bowl next to my other golden retriever dog with her face tucking into her green plastic puzzle dog bowl.
#dogsofmastodon #pug #pugs

Is dragonscave shutting down, or not? I'm not really wanting to switch instances if I don't need to.

Installing and Using Curl on Linux Like a Pro lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Installing and Using Curl on Linux Like a Pro

In this article, you will learn how to install curl (and libcurl) on a Linux system and how to use curl in your daily computing work with practical examples.
Linux TLDR

7 Linux Distributions That Feel Just Like Windows linuxtoday.com/blog/7-linux-di…

7 Linux Distributions That Feel Just Like Windows | Linux Today

Let's look at some great Linux distros that feel just like you never left Windows.
LinuxToday

You know I love you, @thunderbird, but I was certain I had a big, ugly smudge on my monitor for a second there. :blobfoxlaughsweat:

#LossyPNG #OldEyes

Screenshot of Thunderbird with a red arrow pointing to a rather large and hard-to-see watermark in the background which I mistook for a smudge. Non-essential parts of the image pixellated to save storage on the instance.
#oldeyes #LossyPNG @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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Oh noooooo. If you report this on bugzilla.mozilla.org and shoot me the bug number, I do my best to bump this to the team!

(And trust me, this typist just got her first pair of bifocals. We get the challenges that come with experienced eyes!)

in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

R. L. Dane
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I hadn't really thought of it in terms of a *bug*, but you know, it *is* awfully hard to see.
I don't have time right now to grab the nightly and go through the proper bug reporting procedure, but if I get a chance to tomorrow, I'll let you know.

Thanks again! :)

Multihomed Linux Devices Flaw Allows Spoof of Internal Communication lxer.com/module/newswire/view/…

LXer: Multihomed Linux Devices Flaw Allows Spoof of Internal Communication

lxer.com

Protecting your critical Amazon EBS volumes using AWS Backup
aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/p… #aws #blog

Protecting your critical Amazon EBS volumes using AWS Backup | Amazon Web Services

Enterprises use block storage such as Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) for mission-critical workloads because it provides high performance, low latency, and reliable data access needed for demanding applications like databases, ERP systems, an…
Amazon Web Services
#blog #aws

Well, it's been an odd kine of day spent more asleep than awake, but in the times I was awake I reached the end of Downton Abbey. I honestly never wanted it to stop. The end was so beautiful I broke all to bits and cried and wailed in my usual way when something gets me. I could watch the films, but I don't know if I want to. That ending was so nice I might just stay with it.
in reply to Lulu Hartgen

Sean Randall
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I've only seen the first film but it was very nice to catch up with them all again.

Hhmmm....?🤔
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Stevez
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@SuspiciousDuck Nooo... Od kdy Mastodon aktivně nabízí další účty ke sledování?

(Nepamatuju si, že jsme to za poslední roky kdy viděl...)

@SuspiciousDuck
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SuspiciousDuck
SuspiciousDuck
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hej presne ja som sa tiež čudoval ale je to asi tou poslednou aktualizáciou čo zmenila aj vzhľad webového rozhrania. Nepáči sa mi to ale asi to prežijem.
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Wow! I'm making #Bandwagon -- an open source, community-focused alternative to #Bandcamp that anyone can self-host.

As of this morning, there are 99 #Musicians and #Bands who have set up #Fediverse profiles on bandwagon.fm -- and half of those already indexable on search engines.

So I'm humbled by the number of people who are giving it a go. There's obviously lots of people out there looking for something new.

I promise to do my best to give y'all the tools you deserve.

Bandwagon.fm - Home

bandwagon.fm
#fediverse #bandcamp #musicians #bandwagon #bands

reshared this

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Ben Pate 🤘🏻
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@erion

Really? It runs on a Rasberry Pi??Thats awesome. You made my day!

If you’re self-hosting, lots of things are changing rapidly with Bandwagon, so we should connect somewhere (email, Mastodon, GitHub) so I can make sure I don’t break your site.

@Erion
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Erion
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Thank you very much for the offer. At the moment there are a few missing things, such as embeddable tracks or possibly some sort of payment processor support, so I'm holding off on hosting it in production for now, but I'm definitely keeping an eye on how things will end up. Even without Fedi support, there is nothing out there which is as simple to set up and use as Bandwagon, so that's a plus as well.

I also really like the way Emissary works, it's quite inspiring and refreshing to see high quality software being contributed back to the open source community.

Idem domov. Veľmi som chcel byť dnes nepríjemný ale vôbec mi to nešlo, ráno si hovorím nepotrebujem ani zarobiť len nech to rýchlo ubehne. Nebol som ani nepríjemný, zarobil som a ubehlo to rýchlo. Divne mi ne stále.
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I got a call from a consumer who is looking for a digital recorder where she can make a recording, save it and then add to it later. Does the Micro Speak do this? If not, are there any digital recorders that can do this? I don't think she's very tech-savvy so it should be simple and intuitive to use, withh accessible documentation. If the Micro Speak could do this it would likely be perfect for her.
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David Goldfield
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@kjw810 Kelly, I can't thank you enough for this information as I've never heard of this product until you mentioned it. I did some research and I see that Independent Living Aids sells it for $219.00. I called the consumer and gave her their contact info as well as the name of the recorder. Again, thank you so much. She is quite happy and it's because of you that she's feeling encouraged.
@Kelly Wickham
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