My amateur radio Journey
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When I was in high school, I took a class on ham radio. I didn’t take an exam at the time because I didn’t own the necessary equipment, didn’t know what equipment was required, & didn’t know an…Say It In Braille
Are you new to Windows 11? Need tips on managing tasks and settings with JAWS? Join us Thursday, May 15 at Noon ET for a live webinar, “Ten Tips for Managing Windows 11 with JAWS.Zoom
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I'm happy to release the third edition of: Personal Power: Getting The Most from iOS as a Totally Blind User This book, freely available to all, was written to help totally blind people use iPhones competently and make the most of their capabilities …www.applevis.com
Just ported Quake III Arena to webxdc.
That is, you send a file to a chat with your buddies, and frag right then and there.
A webxdc (in-chat mini-app) version of Quake III Arena (a 2-player prototype) - WofWca/quake3.xdcGitHub
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SoundCloud says it is revising its terms of use to make it clear that it will not use member content to train AI models that replicate their music or likeness.Wes Davis (The Verge)
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of Trump Media stock the same day Trump unveiled new tariffs that caused the stock market to plummet, according to records obtained by ProPublica.
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#News #Trump #StockMarket #Stocks #Tariffs #Economy #USPolitics
Disclosure forms show that Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of shares on April 2. That day, after the market closed, Trump’s “Liberation Day” press conference sent the market tumbling.ProPublica
there’s a proposal to ban conversion practices in the european union.
the deadline is May 17 and we’re about half way. we need one more country to pass the threshold. currently Slovenia is closest to it at 86% followed by Germany and Sweden at 53%.
if you’re an EU citizen, please vote 
An interesting video from The Verge on the state of cassette and CD players. There are actually still some decent ones.
youtube.com/watch?v=2DWtkSVNvT…
While cassettes and CDs are now staples on artists' merch tables, tech companies are starting to make physical media players again. But are they any good? Th...YouTube
Expanded accessibility features to mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day.Andrew Hutchinson (Social Media Today)
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Anyone really good at diagnosing weird RasPi4 issues?
I've got a 4B/8G that refuses to boot, always goes to rainbow screen. Red LED solid, so not PSU (and multiple tried). Multiple cards tried burned multiple ways/multiple images.
EEPROM Update card just shows this (and apparently doesn't update?)
The latest example of AI-hallucinated citations in court cases comes from... an Anthropic employee:
chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/20…
Apparently, the hallucinations keep rolling. At today’s discovery hearing in Concord Music v. Anthropic, the lawyer for the plaintiffs informed the court of their suspicion that AnthropicR…Chat GPT Is Eating the World
Apple is partnering with Universal Music for a new Sound Therapy Option. This will be added as a wellness option for day to day listening with a Sleep option, Focus option and Relax option.
apple.com/newsroom/2025/05/uni…
Apple Music is joining forces with Universal Music Group to introduce Sound Therapy.Apple
Two years after changing the name of HBO Max to just Max, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is reversing its decision. Starting this summer, Max is going...Juli Clover (MacRumors.com)
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According to @deanmlittle on Twitter, Satoshi Nakamoto's original Bitcoin holdings are locked in Pay-to-PubKey (P2PK) addresses, not Pay-to-PubKey-Hash (P2PKH), which leaves them completely unproteblockchain.news
> For active traders, this highlights a significant security risk for early Bitcoin addresses if quantum computing becomes practical, potentially impacting long-term confidence...
Yeah if they can invent a quantum computer that doesn't exist yet with specs exceeding anything remotely suggested and they can keep the power on and temperature stable to a millionth degree for decades they can break it.
Big nothingburger.
Congrats to my beloved husband! I can attest to the many hours of every day that has gone into this latest edition! I'm glad to see all the love from folks! Go Mike go! mstdn.social/@mfeir/1145080197…
Hello everyone. Just in time for Global Accessibility Awareness Day, I'm delighted to release the third edition of Personal Power: Getting The Most From iOS as a Totally Blind User. This ebook is free to everyone and is available in a number of formats. You can find it at this link: michaelfeir.blogspot.com/2025/…The Third Edition of Personal Power
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My list of RSS feeds has been updated!
For those that aren't in the loop, this is a categorized list of feeds that I follow. You can easily copy the direct RSS link to things that interest you, or even download a full OPML file for import into your favorite RSS reader.
RSS is the past--and the future! Everyone should use it!
Feel free to respond to this with interesting RSS feeds that you follow.
Changes (05/14/2025):
New: Manton Reece, WIL WHEATON dot NET, Newsweek, The New Republic, Release notes from authentik, Release notes from Docker, Release notes from pi-hole, Release notes from vscode, Home Assistant, Joel on Software, LambdaMOO Status Blog, Lobsters.
Removed: AudioGames.net Forum New releases (no longer viable because of their aggressive Cloudflare protection), Popehat, James Hoffmann, Linus Tech Tips, Marques Brownlee, Not Just Bikes, TechLinked
Moved: Changelog on Tailscale (now under Software Releases instead of Technology)
In case it wasn't obvious, all YouTube channels have been removed. I haven't been consuming YouTube via RSS for a long time, although I'd love to return to that someday.
#RSS #feeds #IndieWeb
I've set myself a little goal for this year: reduce overall function complexity in #curl:
There were layoffs at MS yesterday and 3 #Python core devs from the Faster CPython team were caught in them. If you know of any jobs, please send them their way (they kind of know Python, CPython, and its internals well 😉):
Eric Snow: linkedin.com/in/ericsnowcurren…
Irit Katriel: linkedin.com/in/irit-katriel/
Mark Shannon: linkedin.com/in/mark-shannon-b…
15+ years experience in software development; primarily in Python and C as well as C++… · Experience: Microsoft · Education: University of Glasgow · Location: Greater Oxford Area · 107 connections on LinkedIn.Mark Shannon (www.linkedin.com)
We are going to deploy storage limits on Codeberg. Here is what you need to know: blog.codeberg.org/new-storage-…
To avoid disrupting your valuable work, we will be careful and start with very generous limits. Over time, we'll tune the configuration based on your feedback.
We also plan on helping you find and lower resource consumption, should you be shocked with the amount of storage you currently consume.
(By the way, we are aware of a bug that makes repo size count twice. It will get fixed soon)
In October 2024, we announced introducing a storage quota in a blog post...blog.codeberg.org
New #OpenZFS tool landed this week: rewrite a file in place, updating location, compression, checksums and other storage characteristics, but without any evidence above the filesystem layer.
It's not quite the fabled magical block pointer rewrite, but with thoughtful use it can certainly help with much-wanted operations like rebalancing a pool.
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Secure Supply Chain- Liberty Phone.
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"Дом содрогнулся до основания, и голос этот, заглушивший громкий вой собак, услышали все соседи Вардов. Миссис Вард, стоявшая за дверью лаборатории, задрожала, припомнив, что говорил ей сын в прежние дни о голосе, словно исходчщем из самой преисподней, о котором со страхом повествуют древние мистические книги. Она вспомнила также рассказ Феннера о том, как прогремел этом голос над обречённой на гибель фермой в Потаксете в ту ночь, когда был убит Джозеф Карвен. Чарльз даже назвал ей слова, которые произнёс голос. Он нашёл то заклинание в одной из бумаг Карвена: "ДИЕС МИЕС ЙЕСХЕТ БОЭНЕ ДОЭСЕФ ДОУВЕМА ЭНИТЕМОС".
Сразу после того, как прозвучал громовой голос, на мгновение воцарилась кромешная тьма, хотя солнце должно было зайти только через час, потом вокруг него распространился новый запах, отличный от первого, но такой же странный и нестерпимо зловонный. Чарльз снова запел заклинания, и миссис Вард сумела расслышать некоторые слоги, которые звучали как "Йи-нэш-Йог-Сотот-хе-лгеб-фи-тродог", а в конце раздалось оглушительное "Йа!", завершившееся воем, который постепенно перешёл в исторический сатанинский смех."
— H. P. Lovecraft: Иные боги и другие истории, p. 94
хм, мне одной кажется странным, что миссис Вард запомнила какие-то бессмысленные (для неё) слова и слоги на целые года? ~~или она тут тайно тоже замешана~~
If you’re in the EU and you opted out of Meta training generative AI on your Facebook, Threads and Instagram posts and pictures, Meta are requiring you to opt out *again* or they will continue training on your data.
Users have until May 27 2025 to opt out again or forever lose the right. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
This is the random ass opt out URL, which isn’t advertised in their apps: facebook.com/help/contact/6359…
Instagram opt out: help.instagram.com/contact/233…
EU users have less than two weeks to opt out of Meta’s AI training.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
In a move that surprises absolutely noone, GitHub now requires users to login in order to browse public repositories (including open source projects). After a few (~10) requests, you get blocked (I can confirm). In order to fight AI scrapers, I guess.
So, GitHub decided to blanket-limit access to open source projects as a defense against the very scourge that they(r parent company) unleashed on the world.
I won't be hypocrite: it's a bit embarrassing, but undeniably satisfying to say "told you so". I moved away from GitHub long ago and I moved all my stuff to Codeberg instead. And so happy I did!
Next step: radicle.xyz maybe?
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#github #microsoft #openai #codeberg #ai #ml #llm #enshittification #foss #floss #opensource #radicle
Select Topic Area Question Body "I'm experiencing an issue when trying to access files from a GitHub repository without logging in. After 3 attempts, I receive an Error 429 (Too Many Requests) and ...GitHub
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I don't use Spotify (I'm on Tidal) and I hate it when people post music with Spotify links. This site "translates" Spotify links to other music services, including Tidal and Deezer.
Cómo tener siempre al día #Thunderbird en openSUSE Tumbleweed –
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Veamos cómo disfrutar de la última versión del cliente de correo @thunderbird en openSUSE Tumbleweed (y otras distribuciones de GNU/Linux) y no es usando Flatpack
@Friendica Support
As for my knowledge this intended newbee speaks fluently german, englisch and spanisch, tho maybe du/you/tu is a little bit to shy to ask for help .. not sure.
What is your setup and what have you tried till now @Mina to install your #friendica server, maybe we can figure out what's your problem with the installation.
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That's sweet of you!
I followed the instructions on
friendi.ca/resources/installat…
word for word, i.e.
1. uploaded the directories (including addons)
2. renamed the .htaccess-dist to .htaccess (it's an Apache server)
3. Created a database and had the details at hand.
4. Went to friendica.penkagram.me in order to start the installer.
and what happened was:
The installer didn't start, but went redirecting me into
[url]/index.php/install/install/install/…
1/?
until finally the browser told me "redirection error".
I then tested with some arbitrary PHP file if PHP worked. It did (in the root directory and the friendica subdirectory).
Then I tried stuff that was recommended in the forum (where I also found people told to become developers if they had problems), like entering database details into config files, some changes in .htaccess, but, alas, to no avail.
2/?
@Mina
Not sure what is the actual state of the art of the installer is. Last I "heard" and experienced is that it was broken and that the best way to install is thru the console commands detailed in the helpers page:
/help/Install#Option+B%3A+Run+the+automatic+install+script
tupambae.org/help/Install#Opti…
And yes, it's recommendable to use the git install form, that way you will be able to easily update the installation.
Hey @Mina, any news on your intents?
No feedback?
Actually I didn't followed the @Friendica Support or friendica news channel latelly, so no idea if there were any updates. What I wondered "the other day" is that we could ask @Tobias wich friendica version was the last that had the install working fine and simply install that version, via gitpull. Once installed you can than just start the updates. If you do that before even creating any contacts or content, that should go quite smoothly. We recently did updates from 2023.05 on this server and the referenced installation guide was from that (stable) version in it's time and worked well so I assume that installing via gitpull but adressing that version, or the one Tobias indicates should work out easily.
@Mina
Hope your problems get better.
Here a link to the updating process notes of this server over here.
tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-…
In any case it's probably recommended that you hop on some friendica server first to see how it looks and feels. Squeet.me could be a recomendation, it is running 2025.07rc branch right now, that's apparently a step in between from stable and develop branch. Than there are also the instances of @Tuxi ⁂. @OldKid ⁂ and @Raroun not sure if they accept users.
I'll dig into the actual state of the art of the branches and friendica.
Apparently the development of the code has some delays:
friendica notes on github on the actual stable release: wrote:
Known Issues
At the time of writing this, none with 2024.12But the development branch is currently rather unstable and should be used with caution as the development diverged far (for Friendica terms) from the now stable branch. We will let our very valued ALPHA testers when the dev team things that the development branch is stable enough again.
@Michael 🇺🇦 @Hypolite Petovan any recommendation in which latest friendica release the installer still worked fine?
@Friendica SupportHi there,
the moment has come to do the first instance upgrade cycle in the life of this instalation to bring this server to the actual stable version 2024.12-1 in the comming days.In part the idea is to document every step in a post similiar to the howTo instructions:
install and/or move friendica to ubuntu 22.04 LTS VPS server
in the @EDIT | don't follow! profile.Right now we are on 2023.05, so we will have to update step by step to:
2023.12 | release notes
2024.03 | release notes
2024.08 | release notes
2024.12-1 | release notesAre there any specific recomandations or details to have in mind besides the information expected to be found in every update release instruction?
This is basically a single user instance with round about 14 forum pages with few followers each and a total of 18 profiles with contacts in the activityPub and diaspora community and some RSS subscriptions. No other specific conectors are enabled.
Installed addons/apps:
blockbot, calc, impressum, js_upload, notifyall, nsfw, pageheader, phpmailer, qcomment, rendertime, showmore_dyn, startpageDB backups amount to ~180MiB and the image file storage folder on ftp around ~400MiB.
Friendica stable | 'Giant Rhubarb' 2023.05 - 1518
PHP Version 8.1.2-1ubuntu2.14
VPS server | Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
4 Core CPU, 8 GB Ram with 300GB NVME Disk - unlimited traffic
hosted by @ raroun 👍Notes:
This instances right now seems to work well.
Sometimes this profile here has some strange hickups like when following up the link of a post from this server in a stream view a message "Not Found |The requested item doesn't exist or has been deleted." Also right now profiles from contacts, for example @ hoergen or @ feb don't show up in the contact list but they are displayed as followed in the profile contact page.
I will try again, once my head is clear again.
Anyway: I'm pretty sure, the problems I had during the installation were not caused by Friendica itself (I mean: there are a lot of people, who successful completed an installation), but by some configuration with my hosting solution (on Ionos.de).
Just useful error messages during the installation process would be great.
@Mina
Actually you even might consider to setup your subdomain at first at weingaertner-it.de/, if they still do friendica hosting, I get a 503 right now over here. Apparently a single user instance costs 5 euro a month. If you like it you could than move the already existing DB to your own setup. Somehow that's how this instance came to live, but with another provider.
@Mina
a foggy Mina wrote:
I already pay 10€ per month for a quite generous hosting package, I already paid for the domain name, and I don't want another regular cost.
The idea of this proposal, besides giving others the chance to hear\see\brainstorm it also, is to:
It's a win\speedUp\win strategy ..
Glueckwunsch @mina du hast es bis ins Diasporanetzwerk geschaft und es gab auch gleich einen Kommentar:
diaspora-fr.org/posts/11200696
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#fediTips How to do your first steps in hosting your own #fediVerse presence. ♲ utopiArte (https://tupambae.org/profile/utopiarte) - 2025-08-24 10:17:47 GMT (https://tupambae.diaspora-fr.org, un réseau social libre et respectueux
OpenAI is moving to publish the results of its internal AI model safety evaluations more regularly in what the outfit is pitching as an effort to increase transparency.Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)
The future of AI-powered software development is here!
github.com/Zorokee/ArtificialC…
(Warning: don't stop until you've read the text below the subheading, "Why This Exists")
Type-safe transformation powered by inference. Contribute to Zorokee/ArtificialCast development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Hi @MapComplete !
I'm little confused with this... maybe you can help!
I've created a node for Madrid Rural Lab SIERRA NORTE using the Hackerspaces and makerspaces layer two months ago.
mapcomplete.org/hackerspaces.h…
I see in my changeset in #openstreetmap
openstreetmap.org/changeset/16…
but just in that map or any #OSM web map with any tile it's not shown.
In @organicmaps it's shown while I can't see the photo.
Looking for other makerspace, not edited by me, seems to be same problem
openstreetmap.org/node/1230122…
Maybe OSM does not show #makerspaces? Or maybe we are making some mistake editing?
Indeed, very little apps show hackerspaces - OsmAnd and Organic are some of the apps that do show them.
However, both don't (yet) support showing panoramax-images. That'll hopefully change soon!
Reports that 89 million steam accounts details got breached, regardless of being true or not better change your Steam password. Especially devs I guess but everyone should.
msn.com/en-us/money/other/89-m…
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