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If anybody is interested, I now have a blog. I'd very much encourage you to check it out, and let me know what you think. hailymerry.substack.com/p/a-so…
in reply to Haily Merry

I would check it out, but substack sucks. As a company, as an app, bleh. I'm sorry. I hope it kicks off though and you enjoy blogging, so I wish all the best. :)


bad news is my cat Marceline has discovered a new source of perpetual warmth


Up at 5:00AM after crashing before 9 with a headache.
paid a bill. Commented on a ticket. Raised a ticket. Closed a ticket. recorded a video. Rerecorded the video with the screen curtain off. Rerecorded the intro to the video with the light on. Screamed when the number of audio tracks in the rerecorded intro was different to the video's main content. Regreted not having made coffee, but the machine is loud. Raised a ticket. Attached the video. Attached screenshots from the video to save people having to watch it. Explained the screenshots to save people having to look at them. paid an invoice. Drank a bottle of water.
it's now 6:00AM.
#FirstHourOfMyDay.
in reply to Callum Stoneman

@CallumStoneman headache totally knocked me, so I felt bad and had a very productive hour! Not really a health plan i can recommend.

How are you doing?

in reply to Sean Randall

I get migraines fairly often so I completely know the feeling of it totally wiping you out. I'm doing good, back at work now but I don't think I'll be reaching that level of productiveness at 5AM anytime soon!
in reply to Callum Stoneman

@CallumStoneman 'twas a rare one for me, I'll be honest. Normally I grumble at having to chivvy the child off to school.


I called the taxi company this week and asked if the Jelly Star had been turned into their lost and found. Unfortunately, the answer is no. On a more interesting note depending on who you are, I heard what I thought were Zello sounds in the background, so I asked. Apparently all the drivers are using tablets with Zello for Work now. It took 10 years, but I finally found Zello users in the wild.
in reply to Simon Jaeger (Procrastodon)

yes, it's pretty common with Uber drivers, taxi drivers, public transit etc. Also rioters and protectors apparently, both MAGA and BLM.



IRL: I slammed my dick in a car door

fedi: [ph-] ughghghghgh I slammed my dick in a car door AGAIN :neocar_woozy:

twitter: 💞 dics in car bio 💞

GNU mailing list: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Car door dependency in systemdick? - unacceptable, this car door uses a binary blob.

Reddit: I[F31] slammed my dick in a car door[Ford, 2014], AITA?

tiktok: [AI voice over Minecraft footage] Oh man, chat, I just unalived my eggplant by slimming it in a dart door

Linkedin: proud to announce that my team has boosted sales by 200% and DEMOLISHED all goals by using AI-powered car doors to CRUSH the competition (and my dick)

BlueSky: why car-door slamming is dangerous to the dick community. a thread 🧵

NextDoor: NOTICE - a car door was seen in the neighborhood, slamming people's unmentionables. If you are the owner of this car, know that the police have been called



sorry haiku. but if you're going to name your text editor Pe, then i'm going to do this



Warning: Online shopping threats to avoid this Black Friday and Cyber Monday malwarebytes.com/blog/news/202…


Thomas E. Kurtz, an American mathematician, computer scientist, and co-inventor of the BASIC programming language with John Kemeny, died at 96 on November 12 (Dag Spicer/CHM)

computerhistory.org/blog/in-me…
techmeme.com/241114/p43#a24111…



Amazon S3 now supports up to 1 million buckets per AWS account
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats… #aws
#aws


Jan: An Open Source ChatGPT-Alternative That Runs 100% Offline linuxtoday.com/blog/jan-an-ope…


AWS launches user-based subscription of Microsoft Remote Desktop Services
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats… #aws
#aws


I'm moving pictures made with MapComplete from Imgur to Panoramax; and this made me realize something.

A program that I made has been used all around the globe, by thousands of people. Weird feeling

in reply to Pietervdvn

Exactly! I've worked in startups with millions of users, and thousands feel more real — maybe because we as authors connect with them more directly, without layers of marketing and shifted values of needing payment instead of eyes.



Today is Wendy Carlos' 85th Birthday. Her work on TRON was beyond brilliant. I listened to it at least weekly as a kid and I am listening to that same tape today.


#Accessibility & #Disability picks of the day:

➡️ @BlindHistoryLady - Blind historian on blind individuals from history

➡️ @NVAccess - Non-profit developing free open source screen reader

➡️ @WeirdWriter - Writer, blogger, advocate for accessibility

➡️ @podcast - Podcast on blind accessibility in tech & games

➡️ @dgsv_handball - Handball teams of German Deaf Sports Association (in German)

➡️ @socialaudiodescription.com - Collective producing audio description

🧵 1/4



🕛Z #NowPlaying at the top of the hour, 2 hours of relaxing #NewAge, #ambient, and #meditationmusic on Northern Lights: The New Age Show, #live with Kelly Sapergia. More information is at ksapergia.net/northernlights/. Tune in either by visiting theglobalvoice.info and clicking on the Listen Live link, or go directly to theglobalvoice.info:8443/broad… #TGVRadio #audio #radio 📺🗣️📻🎶🎙️🌌🌈🫣🫰🩵🪬🫶

in reply to Keao Wright

With the annoyances I was having a while ago with Voice Dream Reader, the Evo12 player was very tempting.
in reply to Carlos Blanco

@cublanco You're a man after my own heart.
At the moment, Voice Dream Reader is actually fairly stable, at least for me, but lately I've using the ElevenLabs Reader to read text files, although I'll continue to use VDR for mp3 files. It just seemed to be having several issues a while back which were really frustrating me. Applause was really trying to address them and I appreciate that but all I wanted was to listen to a book. I didn't feel like having to troubleshoot the app or to go through a lot of steps just to import a book. Considering that the app seemed so stable when it was being developed by its former owner, this was putting a bad taste in my mouth.
in reply to David Goldfield

@DavidGoldfield That reader scares me! But in a good way. When did this start happening? Like, when did tts get so good for long form reading that it actually doesn't annoy me.


Might be time to retire Xplorer2 as my file explorer replacement and give Total Commander + the File Explorer SysListView32 hack a try.
Every time I reload a new instance of Xplorer2, it reverts to the ribbon. This would be bad enough, but NVDA is completely unable to interact with this ribbon in any way and just throws an error whenever I try. So I have to unload NVDA and load Narrator so I can change my file explorer back to a normal menu bar. If I don't do that, NVDA makes at least two error sounds every time I change folders, even if I don't interact with the ribbon.
The last time I wrote to support about this, they seemed supremely uninterested in doing the slightest bit of work to figure out an accessibility issue, so I would either need to spoonfeed them the answer or just stop using it altogether.
It's very powerful, but is becoming more of a pain than a help for typical file browsing, and the SysListView32 hack is a real game changer that affects file explorer itself but also the open/save dialogs in Windows. It speeds things up significantly, and the lag in Windows 7/10 File Explorer was really the main reason I switched in the first place.
in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg I mean the "How to?" section in the readme says when done, right click the taskbar and choose "Properties". There are ways of doing that if you're on 10, e.g., pressing Shift+10/Applications on the Notification Chevron, but when I messed with 11 I literally had to use the Golden Cursor add-on to right-click in a blank spot of the Taskbar, but I'm sure I was missing something as 10 is still my primary.
in reply to Timothy Wynn

@twynn I think I had this issue, which is where I found the command: github.com/valinet/ExplorerPat… - looks like sometime in later 2023 Microsoft broke things in Win11, which may explain why right-clicking just wouldn't show the choice for me either. At least the description there felt similar to what I experienced, but so glad the command was there to open it.


have you ever been behooved by something? has something fucking, gone and behooved you?

  • never in my life have i been behooved by anything (4%, 3 votes)
  • once or twice, it's been known to happen (40%, 26 votes)
  • i'm always being behooved by shit, it's exhausting (55%, 36 votes)
65 voters. Poll end: 3 days ago



Added some post embeds for bluesky and mastodon to the sidebars of my articles, built with web components!

Example! heather-buchel.com/blog/2024/0…

Highly recommend taking a look at @DavidDarnes blog posts for implementation. I started with that as a base then chopped it up a bit since I can hardcode a bit of it.

Links: darn.es/mastodon-post-web-comp… & darn.es/bluesky-post-web-compo…



Black Friday is approaching, so remember: Buying shit on Amazon is part of how we got here. Quit giving money to billionaires and corporations.

Buy used, buy hand made, support a local creator, make something yourself.

End consumerism.

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Ohhh, "vaccinosceptique", c'est beau.

(Bon, la nouvelle qui l'accompagne est :blobcateyes: )



New update from @brewsterkahle on how the Internet Archive is learning from recent cyberattacks.

🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/11/14/le…

reshared this



Most important RFC of the 20s?

Robots Exclusion Protocol Extension to manage AI content use
draft-canel-robots-ai-controll

datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft…

#ai #llm #genai

#AI #llm #genai
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Decentralised social media site Bluesky has gone down under the load of new users.

Not to worry, I'll just use one of the other decentralised instances. One of the many wonders of decentralisation.

... What do you mean, there aren't any?

... If a central server goes down, I can't get onto this oh-so-decentralised network?

I guess this must just be how decentralisation works!




The Beginner’s Guide to Using Linux (Without The Terminal and Command Line) lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Your guide to AWS Analytics at AWS re:Invent 2024
aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/… #aws #blog
#blog #aws


DreamQuest N100 Mini PC Running Linux: Introduction linuxtoday.com/blog/dreamquest…


Linux Server Security: Essential Guide for Hardening Servers lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Well I think I broke it somehow. I have my main google drive streaming to a foldr but my work one I cannot for what ever reason. it still shows I'm still adjusting advanced settings for my default google drive not my work one Using the GDrive app.
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in reply to Sarah A

I don't know if this will work for you, but when I hneed to have multiple setups like this I have a different login on the machine for each type of account, work, personal, ham radio, etc. This way programs I use have their own specific areas that they can write too that don't conflict with other instances of the same application.
in reply to Khronos

@khronos tha twon't work. I can apparently set up more tha one account in google drive and switch as it will show both but I can't do two mount points for my home and work accounts. Or at least I dont' know how. or this mihgt be a restricton of my work account they set up.


@quanin

After exploring #R2E, I've decided it might not be the best fit for my needs. Here's why:

1. R2E doesn't support #Inoreader's #OPML format, requiring manual feed addition.
2. I realized I have many feeds and need a more comprehensive solution.

I'm now considering #Miniflux, which can manage #RSS feeds, #Podcasts, and #YouTube subscriptions in one place.

Until I get my #RaspberryPi for Christmas, I'm weighing two options:
1. Self-host Miniflux on my #Windows PC using #Docker
2. Use their $15/year hosted plan temporarily

Fellow #techies, especially those interested in #accessibility and #SelfHosting: What would you recommend? Your insights would be greatly appreciated!

#Tech #blind
@mastoblind @main



My son: “So, Disney is looking for a new CEO, and Andrew Wilson is on their list.”

Me: “Who’s that?”

Him: “The CEO of EA. The enshittification company would be hiring the enshittification CEO.”

I’m proud of the kid we’ve raised!



Hello everyone! I just set up this new account?

Things seem pretty cool here on this "fediverse". What does that mean though, the "fediverse"? I hear it's using ActivityPub. Could anyone explain to me what that means? Thanks!



Who regulates milk, specifically pasteurization, is it the USDA or the FDA?


NEW: Security researchers have confirmed that iPhones running iOS 18 now automatically reboot if they are not unlocked for 72 hours.

The feature, called "inactivity reboot," will make life harder for thieves, law enforcement, and forensic experts trying to extract data from iPhones.

techcrunch.com/2024/11/14/new-…



Entenderemos que la IA ha alcanzado la singularidad cuando alguien haga una pregunta a ChatGPT y éste responda "usa el puto Google".


Frisch gebackene 👩‍🍳 Metabrailleplatinen sehen aus wie Pralinen.
oskars.org/produkte/metabraill…