"Když mi bylo pět, maminka mi řekla, že klíčem k životu je štěstí. Když jsem přišel do školy, zeptali se mě, co chci být až vyrostu. Napsal jsem "šťastný". Řekli mi, že nerozumím zadání. Já jim řekl, že oni nerozumí životu." John Lennon, 1973
Today marks the 48th anniversary of the premiere of Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope on May 25, 1977, a film that revolutionized cinema and birthed a global franchise.
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Strategies for how to work with instructors when adjusting course content and modifying assignments to remove flashing lights, from a student with photophobia.
Neat! There's a Quick Share app made with Libadwaita on Flathub now, called "Packet".
This means you can now natively send and receive files with Android's "Quick Share", without installing anything on a phone. (It can also send/receive files with another Linux desktop computer using the "Packet" app on both.)
Much of the support for renationalising the railways was grounded in the hope that state ownership would reduce rail fares (which are among the highest in Europe);
however, it now seems that will be unlikely, as any extra cash saved by nationalisation will be spent on maintenance, infrastructure & increased services (which in fairness are also what the network needs).
But as fares are what voters most immediately experience, how will this play out?
While I'd love cheaper fares, more services and better infrastructure - I'm not convinced - as an occasional user of European trains - that British railways are as bad or as expensive as we make out.
Certainly if you rock up to the station today and expect to go to the seaside NOW you will be paying a LOT of money, but plan ahead (& buy a railcard) and there are a lot of affordable tickets to choose from.
We don't suffer from Germany's creaking infrastructure leading to huge delays and cancellations, or French mad timetables, bonkers luggage rules or surly staff.
Ticketing in Britain is over-complicated and desperately needs reform, but headline prices are misleading.
"just plan ahead" is a tax on spontaneity. Your gran is taken ill and you need to get to the hospital quickly on the other side of the country so you can spend the last few hours with her? Hope you can afford it.
The purpose of public transport is to transport the public. Imagine if we had road pricing that required you to buy a discount card, and book slots on the motorway weeks in advance. They'd be riots. The same should be true for trains.
“Imagine if we had road pricing that required you to buy a discount card, and book slots on the motorway weeks in advance. They'd be riots. The same should be true for trains.”
Daniel makes the curl 8.12.0 release. Shows how a curl release is done. This is the 264th curl release. Shows the scripts, the procedures and the general pro...
Hallo @Friendica Support, ich glaube, wir haben bei der aktuellen DEV-Version ein Problem bei der Option "Entkoppelter Empfänger":
Habe diese Option heute mal testweise aktiviert. Wie zu erwarten, treten nach der Aktivierung alle "paar" Minuten Spitzen beim Worker auf. Ich habe gelernt, dass dies angeblich normal ist, wenn man diese Option aktiviert hat. Siehe Screenshot: In diesem Screenshot sieht man auch ganz deutlich, wann diese Option aktiviert wurde.
Sobald so eine Worker-Spitze auftritt, lädt die Oberfläche deutlich langsamer. Aber auch das Abschicken von Beiträgen oder Kommentaren sowie "Liken" in der Oberfläche dauert ewig.
Dabei ist die Auslastung des Systems alles andere als hoch. Siehe Screenshot:
Was mir auffällt, dass immer zu der gleichen Zeit wenn so eine Spitze auftritt, folgende Exception beim Worker im Logfile auftaucht:
2025-05-26T07:15:51Z worker [ERROR]: Uncaught exception in worker method execution {"class":"TypeError","message":"Friendica\\Util\\HTTPSignature::isValidContentType(): Argument #2 ($url) must be of type string, null given, called in /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php on line 2068","code":0,"file":"/var/www/html/src/Util/HTTPSignature.php:509","trace":"#0 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php(2068): Friendica\\Util\\HTTPSignature::isValidContentType()\n#1 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php(1896): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Receiver::getObjectDataFromActivity()\n#2 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php(1475): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Receiver::processObject()\n#3 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php(424): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Receiver::fetchObject()\n#4 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php(680): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Receiver::prepareObjectData()\n#5 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Processor.php(1788): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Receiver::processActivity()\n#6 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Processor.php(1689): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Processor::processActivity()\n#7 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php(830): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Processor::fetchMissingActivity()\n#8 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Queue.php(235): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Receiver::routeActivities()\n#9 /var/www/html/src/Worker/ProcessQueue.php(25): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Queue::process()\n#10 [internal function]: Friendica\\Worker\\ProcessQueue::execute()\n#11 /var/www/html/src/Core/Worker.php(570): call_user_func_array()\n#12 /var/www/html/src/Core/Worker.php(378): Friendica\\Core\\Worker::execFunction()\n#13 /var/www/html/src/Core/Worker.php(112): Friendica\\Core\\Worker::execute()\n#14 /var/www/html/src/Console/Worker.php(91): Friendica\\Core\\Worker::processQueue()\n#15 /var/www/html/vendor/asika/simple-console/src/Console.php(108): Friendica\\Console\\Worker->doExecute()\n#16 /var/www/html/src/Core/Console.php(171): Asika\\SimpleConsole\\Console->execute()\n#17 /var/www/html/vendor/asika/simple-console/src/Console.php(108): Friendica\\Core\\Console->doExecute()\n#18 /var/www/html/src/App.php(234): Asika\\SimpleConsole\\Console->execute()\n#19 /var/www/html/bin/console.php(22): Friendica\\App->processConsole()\n#20 {main}","previous":null,"worker_id":"9fd747b","worker_cmd":"ProcessQueue"} - {"file":"Worker.php","line":572,"function":"execFunction","request-id":"6834151fdcb0a","stack":"Worker::execFunction (378), Worker::execute (112), Worker::processQueue (91), Worker::doExecute (108), Console::execute (171), Console::doExecute (108), Console::execute (234), App::processConsole (22)","uid":"3a8c6f","process_id":511148}
Ist so eine Worker-Spitze abgebaut, verhält sich das System bzw. die Oberfläche wieder normal. Bis eben wieder die Spitze aufgebaut wird. Das ganze ist also reproduzierbar.
Fürs Erste werde ich die entkoppelten Empfänger wieder deaktivieren und hoffe, dass diese Symptome wieder verschwinden.
@Michael 🇺🇦 Werde mal zur Sicherheit ein git pull ausführen. Bin mir nicht sicher, ob ich das am Freitag zuletzt ausgeführt habe oder doch am WE. Werde berichten. Danke für den Input.
@Michael 🇺🇦 Okay, Update ist durch. Habe die "Entkoppelung" wieder aktiviert und das System einige Zeit beobachtet. Die Fehlermeldungen bzgl. der Exception sind weg. Allerdings ist das System damit immer noch kaum nutzbar, da die gleichen Probleme immer noch existieren.
Sobald so eine Worker-Spitze auftritt, lädt die Oberfläche deutlich langsamer. Aber auch das Abschicken von Beiträgen oder Kommentaren sowie "Liken" in der Oberfläche dauert ewig.
Hab das gleiche vor einigen Wochen festgestellt. Nachdem die Option lange Zeit aktiviert und unauffällig war, hatte ich plötzlich extreme Verzögerungen in der Abarbeitung von Jobs. Die Queue ist auch immer wieder extrem angestiegen - über 100000 wartende Jobs.
Nach der Deaktivierung der Einstellung, war die Queue schnell abgearbeitet und das Verhalten war wieder normal.
Hallo @Friendica Support, ich glaube, wir haben bei der aktuellen DEV-Version ein Problem bei der Option "Entkoppelter Empfänger":
Habe diese Option heute mal testweise aktiviert. Wie zu erwarten, treten nach der Aktivierung alle "paar" Minuten Spitzen beim Worker auf. Ich habe gelernt, dass dies angeblich normal ist, wenn man diese Option aktiviert hat. Siehe Screenshot: In diesem Screenshot sieht man auch ganz deutlich, wann diese Option aktiviert wurde.
Sobald so eine Worker-Spitze auftritt, lädt die Oberfläche deutlich langsamer. Aber auch das Abschicken von Beiträgen oder Kommentaren sowie "Liken" in der Oberfläche dauert ewig.
Dabei ist die Auslastung des Systems alles andere als hoch. Siehe Screenshot:
Was mir auffällt, dass immer zu der gleichen Zeit wenn so eine Spitze auftritt, folgende Exception beim Worker im Logfile auftaucht:
2025-05-26T07:15:51Z worker [ERROR]: Uncaught exception in worker method execution {"class":"TypeError","message":"Friendica\\Util\\HTTPSignature::isValidContentType(): Argument #2 ($url) must be of type string, null given, called in /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php on line 2068","code":0,"file":"/var/www/html/src/Util/HTTPSignature.php:509","trace":"#0 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php(2068): Friendica\\Util\\HTTPSignature::isValidContentType()\n#1 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php(1896): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Receiver::getObjectDataFromActivity()\n#2 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php(1475): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Receiver::processObject()\n#3 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php(424): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Receiver::fetchObject()\n#4 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php(680): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Receiver::prepareObjectData()\n#5 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Processor.php(1788): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Receiver::processActivity()\n#6 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Processor.php(1689): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Processor::processActivity()\n#7 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Receiver.php(830): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Processor::fetchMissingActivity()\n#8 /var/www/html/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Queue.php(235): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Receiver::routeActivities()\n#9 /var/www/html/src/Worker/ProcessQueue.php(25): Friendica\\Protocol\\ActivityPub\\Queue::process()\n#10 [internal function]: Friendica\\Worker\\ProcessQueue::execute()\n#11 /var/www/html/src/Core/Worker.php(570): call_user_func_array()\n#12 /var/www/html/src/Core/Worker.php(378): Friendica\\Core\\Worker::execFunction()\n#13 /var/www/html/src/Core/Worker.php(112): Friendica\\Core\\Worker::execute()\n#14 /var/www/html/src/Console/Worker.php(91): Friendica\\Core\\Worker::processQueue()\n#15 /var/www/html/vendor/asika/simple-console/src/Console.php(108): Friendica\\Console\\Worker->doExecute()\n#16 /var/www/html/src/Core/Console.php(171): Asika\\SimpleConsole\\Console->execute()\n#17 /var/www/html/vendor/asika/simple-console/src/Console.php(108): Friendica\\Core\\Console->doExecute()\n#18 /var/www/html/src/App.php(234): Asika\\SimpleConsole\\Console->execute()\n#19 /var/www/html/bin/console.php(22): Friendica\\App->processConsole()\n#20 {main}","previous":null,"worker_id":"9fd747b","worker_cmd":"ProcessQueue"} - {"file":"Worker.php","line":572,"function":"execFunction","request-id":"6834151fdcb0a","stack":"Worker::execFunction (378), Worker::execute (112), Worker::processQueue (91), Worker::doExecute (108), Console::execute (171), Console::doExecute (108), Console::execute (234), App::processConsole (22)","uid":"3a8c6f","process_id":511148}
Ist so eine Worker-Spitze abgebaut, verhält sich das System bzw. die Oberfläche wieder normal. Bis eben wieder die Spitze aufgebaut wird. Das ganze ist also reproduzierbar.
Fürs Erste werde ich die entkoppelten Empfänger wieder deaktivieren und hoffe, dass diese Symptome wieder verschwinden.
We are delighted to announce the next #EOSA Webinar, #OpenSource for #Cybersecurity: Securing and Maintaining Europe's Open Source Dependencies. This webinar looks at how Europe's cybersecurity and digital policy agendas are increasingly intertwined.
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On 26 May 2025, 89 civil society organizations, companies, and cybersecurity experts, including Global Encryption Coalition members, published a joint letter to the European Commission, calling on them to address concerns around the impact that the E…
NVDA 2025.1 Beta 8 is now available (You didn't miss Beta 7, there was a technical issue with the release and we had to immediately push beta 8).
Changes: - Updates to translations - Fixes for the Add-on Store & Remote Access in secure mode - Fix reading math in PDFs - Fix the toggle report CLDR script - Fix issues when connecting to an untrusted relay server - Documentation now includes a tab icon
@KaraLG84 Whoops, thanks! I got "Documentation" and "Immediately" right though, so .... points for that? Plus it adds to my argument that I definitely didn't have AI helping writing it! (AI would have spelt it right, it would have just included that we also added the ability to automatically feed your goldfish every night)
@KaraLG84 only because I don't trust it. I mean, we have evidence that I shouldn't trust my own writing either it seems, but still, got to go with something 😂
Daniel Stenberg, the maintainer of Curl, discusses the increase in AI security reports that are wasting the time of maintainers. We discuss Curl’s new policy of banning the bad actors while establishing some pretty sane AI usage guidelines.
In this post I’ll show you how I found a zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel using OpenAI’s o3 model. I found the vulnerability with nothing more complicated than the o3 API ̵…
Thorsten presents innovative TTS solutions and a variety of voice technologies, making it an excellent starting point for anyone interested in open-source text-to-speech. Whether you're a developer, accessibility advocate, or tech enthusiast, his channel offers valuable insights and resources. Don't miss out on this fantastic content! 🎬
Guude! (hi, nice to see you) 👋,
i'm Thorsten 😊.
You like open source, privacy aware and local running voice technology? Me too 😎. You'll find cooking recipe like tutorials on TTS, STT, Voice Assistants, AI, ML and way more cool stuff here.
I hadn't encountered Thorsten Voice previously (is it purely a German language voice?) - Does it work as a synthesizer for the NVDA screen reader? The site mentions it is "AI-Powered", is that on-device or cloud? And if cloud, what is the performance like (for say, arrowing through information where users expect responsiveness?) Feel free to reply here, or email to info@nvaccess.org (it can be hard to fit everything in one toot here!)
@NVAccess Thorsten-Voice is my personal german only voice contribution working offline (no cloud). But the tts software i used for training is "piper tts" which offers multiple voices in multiple languages (all locally on device, even raspberry pi) and according to their github readme it is integrated in "NVDA", but i do not have personal experience with it, yet.
Early in 2025, my new DSLR camera arrived. It’s a Pentax K-3 III and it’s outstanding. One of the features it has that improves over my earlier Pentax KP is a UHS-II high speed SDXC memory card slot.
Thanks to @spsheridan, we’ve got CSUN Accessible Tech conference interviews, we’ve got my wish list from 2024 for WWDC, a deep dive into SD card speeds by @zkarj, and Security Bits with @bart, all on this week's NosillaCast.
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, May 25, 2025, and this is show number 1046.
So Forbidden Planet is the first major film to have an all-electronic score. It was made by Bebe and Louis Barron who were not referred to as musicians so as not to offend the musicians' union and instead their score was described as "Electronic Tonalities". The sounds were created via circuits made by Louis. This was before commercial synthesizers existed. Early electronic music was mostly made with things like scientific test equipment, tone generators, home made circuits, or manipulated tape. #Monsterdon
This film explores the cultural, technological and artistic components of the mid 50s that influenced the creation of Hollywoods first fully electronic film ...
Legacy In synthesizers, a "patch" is kind of like a recipe for a sound or set of sounds. Synthesist Todd Barton coined a synth patch that many modular synthesists make at least once, named after the Krell in the film Forbidden Planet and trying to achieve the same vibe as those "electronic tonalities" by Louis and Bebe. There are many versions of the Krell Patch around. The patch consists of sources of random voltage and feedback loops
This is merely a video of "the patch" so those of you interested can see the settings and blinking lights ;-) The audio on this video really sucks due…
When I had my hysterectomy, I was told recovery would be quick because I was young, fit & otherwise healthy.
They were wrong. The surgeon made an error and despite signs of post op bleeding, discharged me & went on vacation.
When I returned to the ER, I was ignored & gaslit
They told me it was “normal” to be in more pain 8 days after surgery than on day 1 (it’s not).
They said “what do you want us to do?”
They refused to run any tests beyond basic vitals, and scolded me for wasting their time
I knew something was wrong, but I was young and hadn’t yet learned how to advocate for myself.
The pain, swelling and bruising were getting worse with each passing day. I was dizzy, listless and had no appetite.
I slept ALL the time.
I was not getting better
I did what anyone would do, I went back to the ER. Surely this time they would take me seriously?
They didn’t. They made no attempt to hide their frustration that I had returned”. They made misogynistic comments about how “sensitive” I was & that being in pain was normal
I went home feeling completely dejected and disrespected, but also starting to gaslight myself.
Maybe it wasn’t that bad. Maybe this was normal pain. Maybe I did need to suck it up.
I tried to force myself to eat and go for light walks. I tried to play through the pain.
I was vomiting everything up and frequently collapsing from fatigue.
I could not suck this up.
My boyfriend had to carry me into the ER for a third attempt to get help
They did the exact same thing. Asked what we expected them to do. Told us the pain was normal. Refused to call a consult or run tests.
Thankfully my boyfriend believed me over them. He was certain if I went home, I wouldn’t make it through the night
He refused to let them discharge me. He told them, loudly and sternly, that he was not taking me home to die. That they needed to do their jobs.
They threatened to call security but he did not back down.
Thankfully a doctor overheard him and decided to look in and see if he could calm the situation.
When he saw me, half unconscious and white as a ghost, he immediately ordered tests. He told the triage staff not to call security and to take me into a private room
It turns out my boyfriend was right. Had I gone home that night, I wouldn’t have made it to morning.
I had a massive internal bleed and a giant infected abscess which had been growing since the surgeon sent me home.
I was rushed to another hospital for emergency surgery and given 50/50 odds of survival. I spent over a month in the hospital, developed a second hospital acquired infection, and needed 11 months to fully recover.
I survived due to luck & privilege. Had my boyfriend not believed me, I wouldn’t be here. Had he not been a white man? He likely would have been removed & I would have died
This is medical misogyny. They didn’t listen because I was a woman. They thought I was being dramatic
I tell this story because of what happened to Adriana Smith. A young black woman in Georgia who tried to get medical care for severe headaches, and was dismissed and gaslit instead.
She suffered brain death at home because no one believed her. Because of misogynoir.
To make matters worse, she’s been turned into a medical experiment because she was nine weeks pregnant and living in a state with an abortion ban. She’s on organ & tissue support being treated as a human incubator.
No care when alive & forced “care” when dead
Misogyny in medicine kills. It maims. It disables and traumatizes.
Women are frequently treated as hysterical and not given the medical care they require.
We often need a man to accompany us just to be taken seriously.
It’s not right and it needs to change
I will forever deal with medical PTSD because of what I went through, but at least I survived.
Adriana wasn’t so lucky, and no one’s survival should ever be based on luck, privilege or their ability to find a man to speak for them
I survived due to luck and privilege, Adriana didn’t.
What’s worse, due to abortion bans and dangerous forced birth policies, her body is kept alive on organ and tissue support without her family’s consent.
Adriana Smith couldn't access competent medical care when she needed it, and it killed her. Now the hospital is forcing 'care' on her by keeping her alive as an incubator due to Georgia's abortion ban
Adam Mockler with MeidasTouch Network breaks down Donald Trump's $148 million meme coin gala scam where crypto influencers paid hundreds of thousands for “ac...
I am having a hard time to feel sorry for the attendees. If they still do not know who they are dealing with and still invest in his schemes, then, I guess, you get what you paid for... It's not like Mr president, or Donald Trump, or both, have done it the first time... "Use then screw" has been his rule throughout his so-called business career.
Source: the main topic at WWDC will be a redesigned software interface, dubbed Solarium, for all of Apple's operating systems, including tvOS and watchOS (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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> The regulators complained in a Facebook post that SpaceX is illegally smuggling Starlink terminals into Cuba “like a digital bandit,” allowing citizens to skirt the regime’s telecom monopoly and state censorship.
For those who don't know, Paul Simon's daughter, Lulu, makes really really good 80s synth pop stile stuff. Lulu Simon - Like I Should youtube.com/watch?v=Gni0icGELR…
Provided to YouTube by Little Bell MusicLike I Should · Lulu SimonLulu Simon℗ 2019 Little Bell Music, LLCProducer: Mike BrandolinoProducer: Andy SeltzerCompo...
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