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A classic that really made me laugh this morning: Pachelbel’s Canon Played by Train Horns. kottke.org/19/12/pachelbels-ca…


I have a USB #Sdr Dongle and a spare #RaspberryPiZero.
I can't hear our home's wireless doorbell from my office.
Can I combine these two things into a solution?
Anyone?


Hey folks! I'm getting back into Thunderbird as my main email app on Windows and I'm on the hunt for some great add-ons.

I'm especially interested in **accessibility-focused add-ons** that play nice with NVDA and JAWS screen readers. But I'm also curious about any **cool add-ons** that make Thunderbird even better, even if they're not specifically for accessibility.

Got any recommendations? Share them here!

Tagging @mastoblind and @main to spread the word. This is for my fellow blind users, but anyone with a favorite Thunderbird add-on, please chime in!

#Thunderbird #Accessibility #ScreenReaders #EmailAddOns #blind

in reply to Lanie Carmelo

@thunderbird There's an extension called TBKeys that allows you to reassign shortcuts and even create new functions: github.com/wshanks/tbkeys


What if we could convince all Canadians that the NDP is the safe anti-Cons vote everywhere? Minimize the vote splitting, but to the left, and not to the (neoliberal) right?

... I think we could win.

(dreams, dreams)



They actually fixed it! Whatsapp doesn't read the sender's number for every message in a group chat. Finally! Now if I could convince people not to put 39 emojis around their display name. I tried setting up a voiceover activity for Whatsapp with emoji reading turned off, but then I can't see the reaction options either.


OK. I haven't done one of these for a while. Let's play a predictive text game. Write the words "I am so" and let predictive text handle the rest! I'll start the madness.

I am sorry for the inconvenience caused by the situation in this country and will not allow it to happen in the future

in reply to Joseph King

I am so sorry for you and the family and I hope you have a wonderful weekend Well that had some kind of actual sense...


git rebase

  • don't know how to use it (15%, 21 votes)
  • know how to use it, don't like it (26%, 36 votes)
  • know how to use it, like it (58%, 80 votes)
137 voters. Poll end: 3 days ago



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Not sure what's going on, but when sending some messages using Outlook from Microsoft 365 in the last couple days, I've noticed that my writing has been replaced with what appears to be gibberish, or at least weird symbols. It seems to happen when I use the Send Again feature. Anyone know what may be causing this behavior?


Hmmmm. "cool" feature of some IX's combined with some IX participants.

First, find a IX address that is not in use:

root@linx-ns:~# ping 195.66.231.230
PING 195.66.231.230 (195.66.231.230) 56(84) bytes of data.
^C
--- 195.66.231.230 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms

Then hard set it's neighbour mac address to something that is not on the IXP
root@linx-ns:~# ip neigh replace 195.66.231.230 lladdr de:ad:ad:dd:dd:dd dev enp129s0f0.700

Then set a destination route to go via the mac-address-that-does-not-exist
root@linx-ns:~# ip route add 9.9.9.9/32 via 195.66.231.230

and then ping it
root@linx-ns:~# ping 9.9.9.9
PING 9.9.9.9 (9.9.9.9) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 195.66.226.119: icmp_seq=1 Redirect Host(New nexthop: 195.66.225.238)
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=0.720 ms
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=0.756 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from 9.9.9.9: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=1.47 ms (DUP!)
^C
--- 9.9.9.9 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, +2 duplicates, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.720/0.981/1.468/0.344 ms

:wow-horse: Cool right??

What is happening here is nuts on many different levels. To start, the non existent MAC address forces this IX (LINX) to treat any packets send to as "BUM" traffic, LINX could have prevented this by using static MAC like quite a lot of the other big ones do.

That however does not explain why we got ping responses... It turns out some routers on the peering LAN don't check if the destination MAC address for a packet is their own before forwarding the traffic! in this case 3 different LINX member routers saw my unknown unicast packet and was like "sure, why not, I'll route that!", and the packet routed all the way through to 9.9.9.9, and a response came back to me.

Mental!



Back in the 90s when I used AOL, Wired magazine had a forum. One day a new user arrived and said she was married to Elwood Edwards, who was the voice that said “You’ve Got Mail!”. So we suggested a bunch of other things he should record in that voice— “You want fries with that?”, “You’ve got credit card debt!”, etc. He recorded them! You can listen to them here: aolsucks.org/aolsound.htm

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The sun came out to show its glorious self finally 🤩 I hope you all have a good day! ☀️


"I've been exercising for seven days straight." said Tom, weakly.

in reply to Tuta

I trained my spam filters well, I don't have that many emails in my inbox!


in reply to Daniel Tóth

"rozhorčenie, pohoršenie a absolútny nesúhlas" to ako keby som počul seba ale za to plagát v poho ten sa mi aj páči.
in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Treba byť kresťan, potom človeku vadí takmer všetko (česť výnimkám).
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I know it's not even Thanksgiving but I just had to listen to my favorite, secular, absolutely non-religious Christmas song; Chiron Beta Prime by Jonathan Coulton.
I absolutely love the traditional religious Christmas songs but that one is my favorite non-religious piece.


We are looking for #hardwareDonations:

If anyone has old servers, drives and equipment and shipping to/in Germany is not a problem, we appreciate your offers.

If you work for a company, we could eventually figure out donation receipts, too.

(Target location is Berlin, pickup in vicinity is not a problem)

Specifically, we could currently make use of SFF-8643 or SFF-8087 cables, if you have some spare 😉

#server #hardware



Sometimes I'll just start looking through what's new on AO3 Harry Potter, and damn, then I find some good ones!!! Yay!!! Although I really need to finish sorting what I have on my drive still...
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo To me, yes, it seems so... but that does depend on what you like and what you won't read.
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo I really won't know till I start reading. But the summaries grabbed me.
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo I'm a huge Snape fan so anything Snape rescuing Harry, which is one of the ones I found... I like Snape/Granger so... one of those, and I found another that was inspired by this unfinished series about a girl Harry going to Hogwarts but pretending to be a boy called Rigel Black.
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo And that last one I now have to go through and figure out how many offshoots there are.


Ah, I see the overwhelmingly billionaire-owned legacy media has shifted seamlessly from normalizing that orange blivet to begging for donations to "fight" him. Again.

You'd think they'd find a different scam, but "stick with what works", I guess.



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Tectonic plate: *bumps into another tectonic plate.

Oops, sorry, my fault.



Nový Median ukazuje 7 stran ve Sněmovně, ale pro mnohé strany je to dost nejisté. Na nejnižší hodnotu za několik let spadla SPD a jen těsně by se dostala do Sněmovny. Naopak posilují Motoristé, zatímco Přísaha je na poloviční hodnotě. To může změnit poměry i v jejich případné koalici/spolupráci.


Hello o/ I am excited to announce Bechamel a collective around the software knows as Guix (which most people use through the Gnu channel of Guix)

Bechamel is something I started as a much easier way for people to contribute to a guix channel (no emailing patches, workflow not built around Emacs, xmpp used instead of irc). It also aims to be a more private and safes space to contribute to Guix things (like using the JoinJabber CoC and the soon the Cooperative Software Development Guidelines) among other things. Rationale: codeberg.org/Guix_Bechamel/col…

There are also some other plans including tackling the long-standing accessibility problems in Guix, adding pilul support to guix, rust/python build system improvements and much improved and updated support for xmpp things. Hopefully you are going to see me post a lot more about it from now on :)
At the moment it has updated Gajim the XMPP client to 1.9.5 which brings around 2 years of updates. It also has started having some extensive practical documentation around Guix. And some other things like cerca the forum software.

- Repository for packages (gajim/cerca): codeberg.org/Guix_Bechamel/gui…
- Repository for the Bechamel collective including Documentation codeberg.org/Guix_Bechamel/col…
- Organization in Codeberg codeberg.org/Guix_Bechamel

#guix #xmpp #jabber #gnu #JoinJabber #irc #CoC



I am currently seeking sources of funding for various projects within Mellium. If you're aware of any grants (specific calls please), individuals, etc. that would be interested in funding any of these projects, please get in touch!

- Implementing better authentication (SASL2) for quicker reconnects, better mobile support, and increased security
- Rewriting the Communiqué UI to enable screen reader and braille display support
- Faster XML parsing for Go
- Your project here?

#golang #xmpp





“Have we been able to able to contact London?”

“Negative, Commander. All of our primary and backup channels remain down. We have also been unable to make contact with any other British submarines.”

“It’s been four days, now. I think it’s time. It’s safe to assume something catastrophic has occurred.”

The commander looked solemnly toward another senior member of the crew.

“Fetch the letter.” He said.

“Absolutely, sir.” The officer said, moving out of the submarine’s control room.

“You see,” the commander said, addressing the remaining crew. “Every Prime Minister prepares letters of last resort for British Submarines. It contains instructions on what we should do in the event that the government has fallen and we cannot make contact with them. No one has ever opened one of these letters, let alone had to follow the instructions.”

The senior officer returned with a sealed envelope, and handed it to the commander. The commander proceeded to open the envelope. He took out a folded piece of paper and paused.

“We are a family aboard this submarine, and we may be all we have left for one another. For that reason, I will read this aloud, so we all know the plan at the same time.”

He unfolded the paper.

“Here goes,” he said, taking a deep breath. “It reads, HP Laserjet P1102W Self Test and Device Configuration.”

The Commander stopped and looked up.

“I believe they may have put the wrong page in.”

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in reply to Shay

illness
Aww, I hope you feel better soon. I wish all the best, send my virtual hug to you, and good thoughts.


Drop your angry political-vibe songs below for a playlist
in reply to alissa

don't make me happy and do nothing at all.. coz im sick a i need rest.. thank you
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I got my flu shot and the latest Covid vaccine yesterday. As of right now, feeling pretty crappy. This will pass though.


umelecké a kreatívne potreby.. v uličke po cestě z električky vidím a je to ulica hneď vedľa práce.. to ma zaujíma




nemusím sa tváriť.. som chorý môžem prostě tak len byť


appreciation post for __builtin_dump_struct, beloved by all those who live without functional debuggers clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageEx…

(the builtin takes a C/C++ struct and, through compiler magic, pretty prints it using a function of your choice)