Didn't understand this on first read. Filled in the gaps based on my understanding of how Eloquence pronounces things, and reached "BJinning" as one of the possibilities. Thought this might be a cricket-themed title about oral sex. It is not.
@neurrone not really. It’s about a terminator cyborg who gets transported to a fantasy world with stats etc. it’s good fun! Just beware that the stat sheets take up maybe 25 percent of the book in the first two.
I just started this, on the third chapter now where she's on her way to terminate the dungeon. This is unique and the narrator is awesome, so I'll be spending more time on this.
I just finished the first book. I enjoyed it overall, but the amount of stat blocks is truly ridiculous, yes yes.
Does she develop a personality soon or get into more dangerous situations? So far this seems to be a power fantasy where she's steamrolling over everything.
@neurrone Stat blocks start getting better in the third book. She keeps steamrolling over everything; the conflict in the book comes from the danger to her friendlies, and her struggles to develop emotionally and find a purpose in freedom. And her character does develop. But the primary tension is if she'll do the "right" thing or the "logical" thing, rather than if she'll win in combat.
@neurrone Also, remember that the mighty high king of all the land is most powerful character, yes yes. Pitiful man things can never stand against the glorious power of the high king of all the land.
"Tesla accused of using sneaky tactic to dodge car repairs"
They manipulate the odometer readings based on vibes so that they can deny the warranty, pretend the cars have a longer range, dodge lemon laws, and more.
Bluesky didn't reach a federated stage where you could choose a service provider in a free country before they started to censor people based on authoritarian demands.
Do I understand it correctly, that Adebar uses the command 'adb backup' as its main engine? I thought that this command doesn't make reliable backups anymore and more and more apps disable the ability for them.
@MichaelZ You do understand correctly. Unfortunately, the `adb backup` command was pretty much castrated from around Android 10 onward, and no replacement provided. So reliable backups cannot be done with that anymore.
If your device is rooted, Adebar provides replacements for backup/restore, too – otherwise, you can still use it for device documentation. Sorry, not much that can be done about that (apart from using a companion app, which I cannot provide).
Everyone shut up about the state of the world for three minutes and listen to this insane banger. Chloe Qisha - Modern Romance youtube.com/watch?v=vCCy3aFkf_…
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I love the composition at least. The key/mode also is to my taste as I rarely like any track. As always, my obsession is with the dorian and mixolydian modes. :)
Newfound world 2M1510 (AB) b appears to orbit not one but two stars...and they are actually failed stars, known as brown dwarfs...and the planet orbits sideways, in a unique up-and-down polar orbit.
Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these ‘polar planets’ orbiting a stellar pair.
I am currently winding down the Mastodon bots I used to post sunrise and sunset times. The precipitating event is that the admin of the instance hosting the associated accounts demanded they be made nigh-undiscoverable, but the underlying cause is th…
Free Blue Screens of Death for Windows 11 24H2 users
Microsoft rewards those who patch early with bricks hurled through its operating system Keeping with its rich history of updates that break Windows in unexpected ways, Microsoft has warned that two recent patches for Windows 11 24H2 are triggering blue screen crashes.… #theregister #IT go.theregister.com/feed/www.th…
For those who are interested in free-threaded Python (peps.python.org/pep-0703/), a few of us working on it, and more importantly porting libraries to work with it, have set up a new Discord server, for folks to ask questions a bit more interactively. (Lurking is also welcome! It's amazing how much you learn by osmosis.)
CPython’s global interpreter lock (“GIL”) prevents multiple threads from executing Python code at the same time. The GIL is an obstacle to using multi-core CPUs from Python efficiently.
Before you plug in your new Timex/Sinclair 1000, please take a moment to think about this exciting new adventure. We want to assure you that:
1. You will enjoy computing.
2. You will find it easy as well as enjoyable.
3. You shouldn’t be afraid of the computer. You are smarter than it is. So is your parakeet, for that matter.
4. You will make mistakes as you learn. The computer will not laugh at you.
5. Your mistakes will not do any harm to the computer. You can’t break it by pushing the “wrong” button.
6. You are about to take a giant step into the future. Everyone will soon be using computers in every part of their daily lives, and you will have a head start.
-- Steve Vickers, Timex/Sinclair 1000 Instruction Manual (aka the US ZX81 manual)
1/2 - TrueFans now allows you to export your podcast activity in the W3C ActivityStreams 2.0 format.
We use the AS2.0 structure - Actor, Verb, Object format. e.g Sam (Actor), Plays (Verb), Podnews Weekly (Object). plus attributes Listen Time, Percent Completed, Value Paid.
We enable users to auto publish their activity to X, ActivityPub, BlueSky, Threads and Linkedin.
Folks having a rough day today, please enjoy this pic I got yesterday of my neighbor’s dog, Hazel, who is tiny and adorable and squeaks and weighs approximately 1.2 puffles (a unit of Floof Metrics), and loses every last scrap of her composure when she sees me coming, which is honestly the best reason to make friends with dogs, I tell you.
While we are waiting for the recordings from #fossnorth to show up, you can browse the slides from my talk "What comes after world domination?" that I did Monday morning.
What these slides don't show, is how my laptop died in the middle of my presentation so I had to reboot to get back into the game and continue... maybe not my greatest moment.
@ascherbaum no clue really, but it was sloppy of me to run it without the power plug inserted to begin with. It has actually done that kind of abrupt unexpected switch-off before - but I don't know why they happen. They only happen when running on battery. It's a rather old laptop by now too.
@ascherbaum Perhaps that's a reason, then? I dunno, but had some similar problems with my old workhorse of a laptop, that went away after I refreshed the battery...
Welcome to your transformation journey. Losing 10 kilos in 30 days is an ambitious yet achievable goal, especially if you're committed to taking massive action and adopting a disciplined approach.
Hacking Accessible Pedestrian Signals is Not a Joke: It’s a Civil Rights Violation Audible signals are a critical safety tool for Blind pedestrians and advocacy is why we have them lflegal.com/2025/04/aps-hack/
On April 12, 2025 the top story on the Palo Alto (California) online news site was "Silicon Valley Crosswalk Buttons Apparently Hacked to Imitate Musk, Zuckerberg Voices" It told the story, covered by other media too, of how someone hacked into audi…
By examining the limits of reasonable user behavior and embracing imperfection for users who go beyond it, we can continue to provide service that meets the expectations of users without sacrificing scalability of the system.
"We believe the Trump administration violated the First Amendment by attempting to shut down our operations simply because they disagreed with our independent journalism. They saw our reporting as not aligned with their political agenda." - VOA's Patsy Widakuswara, lead plaintiff in one of the lawsuits filed against USAGM's Kari Lake. foreignpress.org/foreign-corre…
Health Canada has issued alerts for one lot of Laboratoire Riva Inc.’s acetaminophen caplet and six lots of Life Brand’s Timed Release Melatonin pills.
The W3C “Accessibility of machine learning and generative AI” draft doc continues to get updates, which is good. w3c.github.io/ai-accessibility…
So far the 3 issues I filed (disambiguate ‘AI’, replace overlays section, discuss sustainability) have no action — but it is early and those were recent. github.com/w3c/ai-accessibilit…
First-Ever National Elder Fraud Coordination Center Brings Together Private and Public Sectors to Seek Justice for Victims WASHINGTON, April 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, AARP, Amazon, Google,...
Sources: the Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS' free Direct File tax program, after IRS staff were told in mid-March to stop working on it (Fatima Hussein/Associated Press)
The Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS’ Direct File program. That's the electronic system for filing tax returns directly to the agency for free.
Yesterday, the P’urhépecha municipality of Cherán, Michoacán, celebrated 14 years of autonomy. It began on April 15, 2011, when a group of women blocked cartel-linked illegal loggers from removing trees from the community. This act sparked a mass uprising that saw the community reclaim its territory, establishing barricades, 179 permanent bonfires, a form of autonomous government rooted in P’urhépecha forms of communal organization, and expelling the cartels, police, and political parties.
If you want to know more about Cherán, might I suggest "The Bonfires of Autonomy," a piece I wrote for the anthology edited by @cbmilstein, "Deciding for Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy:" akpress.org/deciding-for-ourse…
This anthology explores this “sense of freedom in the air,” as one piece puts it, by looking at contemporary examples of autonomous, directly democratic spaces and the real-world dilemmas they experience, all the while underscoring the egalitarian…
The Rust team at Mainmatter has grown, but we need to grow it further!
We're looking for freelancers to help us migrate a database from C to Rust. It's an incremental rewrite: a module at a time, interfacing with the existing C code.
+ AstraCrypt: hide and encrypt your files with modern security standards 🛡️ + Mint: a lightweight Misskey Android client (in early development state) 🛡️
3 apps have been removed as they were reported broken:
- Kuroba - Tappic - moVirt
1 app moved to a new packageId 1 month ago, so the old one was removed today:
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
Whistleblower reveals evidence on how Elon Musk's DOGE team extracted 10 GB of sensitive data about American citizens from a government agency, and then deleted accounts and logs to cover their tracks.
Then, when the whistleblower tried to report the data breach, he received a threatening letter containing pictures taken from a drone watching him walking his dog.
Die Bahn-App „#DBNavigator” ist voll mit #Trackern, die uns überwachen. #Digitalcourage klagt dagegen. Denn wir wollen Bahn fahren – nicht Daten liefern.
Gemeinsam haben wir Ende April die Bahn dazu aufgefordert, die Mängel zu entfernen. Dafür hatten wir der #DB eine Frist von zwei Monaten eingeräumt. Doch die Bahn hat in ihrer Antwort klargemacht, dass sie nicht vorhat, etwas Wesentliches zu ändern. Am 20. Oktober 2022 haben wir deshalb unsere Klage eingereicht. Die Bahn hat mittlerweile ihre Klageerwiderung eingereicht, auf die wir geantwortet haben. Der nächste Schritt bei unserer Klage wird die Verhandlung sein, ein Termin wurde noch nicht bekannt gegeben.
The trajectory of E2E-encryption is about de-platforming: There shall be no central machines that can control the edges/peers, and the social groups and virtual centers they freely form.
Our #deltachat R&D around #chatmail relays and #webxdc apps all aim to realize such a "zero-platforms" fully E2E-encrypted interaction model. However, this is *not* just about cryptographic cleverness. Rather it is about usable anti-authoritarian designs, as explicitly stated in January delta.chat/en/2025-01-23-webxd…
How can we evolve and deploy web apps without allowing developers or operators to become a “billionaire in the middle”? There are many ways to try to address this challenge and some involve the tec...
I really wish Delta Chat had built in voice all feature atleast.
Signal stopped working in the middle east even with a VPN and while texting works on Delta Chat even without it for the most part, the voice calling feature is equally as important if you ask me.
Please let me know if there's a way to do this or please consider developing this in the app.
agreed. We are aware of the importance of voice calls and there are various background efforts around designing and realizing them. If there are developer experienced folks out there who want to help, DM us. Or someone with a bunch of money. We have experts in our community which we can't contract because of a lack of money, and so they rather work in corporate environments for the time being.
As I announced earlier today @RezzaBuh and I are going on an #evtrip. Goal: pick up an Audi Q4 e-tron 35 I've purchased in Bavaria. We're staying in an B&B near the border over night. We use an EV on the way there, too. The only charging stop is in 311km. Once we get there, the car should have 19% of battery left.
(if you don't want to follow this thread, just mute #evtrip)
We arrived at the supercharger in Pilsen with 24% of battery left. We were speeding 130km/h where we could and the average consumption was still 17.4 kWh/100km. Now we need to charge it for 10 minutes to reach Rozvadov, but we'll probably stay a bit longer to have extra energy for tomorrow.
The downside is that the supercharger in Pilsen is on a hotel parking lot 7km off the highway with no services around, just the hotel. #evtrip
And we've arrived to Svata Katerina, the last settlement before the border. Here the day ends for us. There will definitely be more fun tomorrow. We will have to deal with the German authorities and none of us speaks German. And E-tron 35 has a considerably shorter range than today's car and I won't use the built-in navigation, so the trip back home will be a bit of an adventure. #evtrip
We're on the way again. 150km to Roth. We've got more than enough energy to reach the destination, but we'll make a quick charging stop to have breakfast. #evtrip
We charged the car to 82% while having breakfast in McDonald's. There is a visible difference in charging station availability between 🇨🇿 and 🇩🇪. At the location where we stopped were like 3 different vendors with a plenty of chargers. The next stop is the Audi dealer in Roth. #evtrip
The paper work with the Audi dealership is done, it was quick. I've got the keys, but the car doesn't have original plates, so we have to go to the authorities without it and return for it with transport plates. #evtrip
Now the drill is: 1) go to the insurance company to get temporary insurance (€89, done), 2) go to the transport authority to re-register the car and get transport plates, 3) go back to the insurance place to get the plates physically done. 4) go back to the authority to stamp the plates.
Fortunately the insurance company is just next door. #evtrip
@bycx yep, you return them when you register the car in CZ and pick up Czech plates. They are valid for one month max, I picked an insurance for 2 weeks, so only for 2 weeks for me. Before expiration I have to register it home.
We're on our way back. The initial range was 267 km at 98% of the battery. We stopped after 100km for lunch. 170km/62% left. I am positively surprised by the consumption. With speeding 110-115km/h it was around 17 kWh/h. #evtrip
The infotainment was a bit of a letdown. We couldn't quite get Android Auto working. Not sure if it isn't included in the package or what. Setting up MyAudi was also quite confusing. I'll have to look into it once I have time home. For this trip I'm using Sygic for EV navigation. Charging power at the supercharger was only 35 kW. Not sure if it was because the battery was at 60% or there is some compatibility issue. Next stop: Ionity Beroun, 170km #evtrip
I am surprised an open source guy like you would be not more annoyed by such a cloud/proprietary software stack... Wish there was a more ecological software option for cars.
Arrived to Ionity Beroun, another 170 km, the battery down from 80 to 20%, let's get back to 80% and continue. The biggest problem at the moment are several traffic jams along the way.
Ioinity started charging 105 kW which is close to the car maximum. Also the biggest price: 21 CZK (€0.8)/kWh if you don't have a plan. This ride will be more expensive than with gasoline. #evtrip
The last charging stop. The most powerful charger so far: 400 kW. The price is a bit lower: 17.80 CZK/kWh. So far the biggest problem has not been charging, but traffic which is just terrible before the Easter. #evtrip
@Cooba13 the original plan was that I would use @RezzaBuh's accounts, but after the first stop we split. I will register at least EON, but we will rarely use public chargers.
And now it's being charged from our roof top solar system (through house batteries now). We've been selling power surpluses for 1.25 CZK/kWh. If we charge the car with it instead, we'll drive for 20 CZK (€0.8)/100km. #evtrip
This explains why we couldn't get Android Auto to work. It's extra and not particularly cheap. Well, it's the VW concern after all, everything is extra in their cars. 😅 #evtrip
That is fascinating. I have Octavia (4th gen) in base trim and Android Auto is included. But I had to pay extra for spare tire and back wiper 😁 VW policies are mysterious 😉
not only Android Auto but also no satellite navigation! They probably think there's no need as EVs can't be used for longer distances 😉. Or what. A proper navigation with a range estimation is an essential feature of an EV...
@JamesHeather To je. S touto cenou a průměrnou spotřebou na dálnici vychází 100 km na 310 Kč. U benzínu by mě to samé stálo cca 250 Kč. Je to ale cena extrémní, kdy člověk dojede k výkonné nabíječce bez předchozí registrace. S ní je ta cena někde na 12 Kč. Doma ze sítě člověk nabíjí za 5 Kč a u elektřiny ze solárů mě vychází kWh v nákladech ušlé příležitosti 1,25 Kč. Počítám, že z 95 % budeme nabíjet doma, takže průměrná cena pro nás bude hluboko pod 100 Kč na 100 km.
yep the fact when you charge on supercharged price per distance is very similar with petrol is well known. You get cheaper only when slow charging at home. Experimentally tested in Estonia (by me, borrowed car) and Estonia -> Slovakia trip by my colleague (his Škoda Enyaq)
meanwhile in Estonia, paid 100 eur to dealer => received car with license plates. On the minute of receiving car, go to insurance company web (or mobile app) login by ID -> new 3rd party liability insurance -> pay by card and done in 2 minutes. Next the same is done with Casco insurance. Get keys, drive home.
our goal was to spend as much battery as possible to have time for breakfast. German autobahns are great when you have such a goal 😉. On the other hand we had a lot of time to get to the destination on time. Hence from almost fastest car (overtaking police car driving 160 kmh would cause me a lot of troubles at home) to still not the slowest. Even thought there was no limit, almost everyone drove the same at around 115 kmh.
we would have reached Rozvadov without charging. I set charge at destination to 30 % at destination. So ten minutes wasn't to reach but to reach with 30 %. And the consumption is surprisingly nice. This is my first drive with the (semi)new Model Y (with less than around 700 km driven - registered only on Monday) and it's about 15 percent more efficient than my old Model Y. However, it's on beautiful but inefficient 20" Induction wheels.
@mkyral @mattb @mattdm Our public transport in countryside is still superb compared to public transport in rulal areas of the US. I lived in a town of 5k in Pennsylvania and the only public connection with the rest of the world was a long-distance bus to NYC 5 times a week.
@ikkeT not because of tax reasons, prices are better and selection is also better. Germany is definitely ahead of us in electromoblity and the used EV market is much larger.
European Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, will host an Implementation dialogue concerning high-speed rail in Europe on 15 April in Brussels.
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in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 • • •I just finished the first book. I enjoyed it overall, but the amount of stat blocks is truly ridiculous, yes yes.
Does she develop a personality soon or get into more dangerous situations? So far this seems to be a power fantasy where she's steamrolling over everything.
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in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 • • •I'll definitely continue this though probably not immediately after.
Have you tried the This Trilogy Is Broken series? I suspect you'd like it.
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