The Orbit Player user guide/manual is now released. It is located on the Orbit player support page, which I had to google to find. The Orbit player and Orbit speak are not listed on the Orbit research support page but all or I think most of their other products are. Googling has been the only way I have been able to find any support pages for the player or speak. Player support page is linked below. Find the heading documentation, hit the link download player user guide and a page will be loaded where you can choose your format. Thoughts on the manual in next post. orbitresearch.com/support/orbi…
At 17:30 all attendees gather in Méridienne for the "Closing Ceremony" Follow the streaming at debconf25.debconf.org/schedule… and check out some final stats. Thanks to the DebConf 25 organizers and volunteers who made this event happen and thanks to all who joined us this year in person and online. See you all at Santa Fe, Argentina next year for DebConf 26! #debian #debconf25 #debconf26 #debianfrance #brest
I was asked a completely reasonable question today: what is it that the video element sucks at where Able Player excels? The framing of this is basically
stole your meme, yadda yadda cuz GLUE PEOPLE is who we once called ELDERS.
a hallmark of #fascism is the belief #history is a thing that lives outside of us; and that, thru violent means, only the “winners” write and impose as The Truth.
but History isn’t a thing.
history exists in being, living, doing.
books, archives, GIT repos are great, but give us a false sense of security. when “life happens”, we need Elders to wing solutions.
Over the last year or so I’ve seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump t…
At 14:00 DebConf Time (12:00 UTC), the "Salsa CI BoF" will be held in Grand amphi, and at 15:00 the "Bits from APT" will inform us about APT news (APT 3.0 is out!). In Petit amphi two sessions around Rust: at 14:00 the talk "Rust Packaging in Debian" followed by "New Directions in Rust packaging - workshop" at 15:00 debconf25.debconf.org/schedule… #debian #debconf25 #debianfrance #brest
Edit: Click through for the typical BS govt response that’s been added… 🙄
Are you in the UK and opposed to providing ID to use social media in the coming weeks?
There’s an official parliament petition to repeal the Online Safety Act, and it’s already at 13,000 signatures and growing: petition.parliament.uk/petitio…
Ah cool, Archlinux had another oopsie-whoopsie that was only communicated on the mailing lists.
They found malware on the AUR. Reminder that anyone can put stuff on the AUR and when an AUR client offers to let you inspect the package build scripts, it's because it's no one's job to make sure the package is safe.
"But people tell me to install stuff off the AUR all the time and I'm no dev that can understand these scripts" -- Yup! This is one of Arch's primary problems. It's why they make it non-trivial to bootstrap into getting stuff off AUR to begin with, but that's not enough when 98% of Arch users need something off it.
"The current health and economic burden of long COVID may already exceed that of other chronic diseases and will continue to grow each year as more and more COVID-19 cases occur."
Mně by to úplně asi odradilo kupovat takto balené výrobky - i když nutno podotknout, už to často nedělám ani teď. Minerálky v plastu nekupuju už vůbec, protože nepiju perlivou vodu. Čistou vodu si nosím v láhvi od Sodastream. Jediné co, tak si občas koupím nějaké plechovky s ovocným Birellem.
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Three minutes to join the zoom meeting for those interested in how I compose on-the-fly with absolutely zero idea of what's gonna happen... soundwithoutsight.org/news/nex…
If you missed my presentation for Sound Without Sight in front of a live audience last Thursday and are interested to hear how I created a track in about one hour with absolutely no prior knowledge of what I'd be doing, here's a recording. For this I used Logic Pro, Komplete Kontrol and the Kontrol S61 MK3 keyboard. youtu.be/LVm6A0qK1kM
I was tasked with creating music for the Sound Without Sight Podcast in one hour in front of a live audience.The plan: Take requests from those in attendance...
If you need proof why you should block the BlueSky-bridge (and why we are doing it on all our servers)👇 -- read the whole thread mastodon.social/@randahl/11487…
… why someone saw the Bluesky post and wanted to warn Harriett. I fully understand how Harriett could feel shocked that it looked like I was talking about her on another platform.
I think the real lesson of that thread is exactly what they said at the end, about the importance of asking questions first. Yes, the bug happened to be in the Bluesky bridge this time. But it could have been in a popular Mastodon client instead. One could in fact think of the Bluesky bridge as a popular alternative Mastodon client. It seems to me that the real problem was the angry mob taking action too quickly, causing the situation to escalate before the author could do anything.
@matt yes, I made a similar conclusion from that thread. (Being on the receiving end of what's described there myself a few times, without ever using any bridges, and without any technical bugs involved, I can understand really well.)
I would like to urge my followers to strongly avoid #TRMNL.
TRMNL calls itself "unbrickable" and Open Source, telling you you can host your own server and that basically everything is fully supported: web.archive.org/web/2025071818…. This is not true. The only thing a local server can do is send images to the device and *proxy from their proprietary server*: web.archive.org/web/2025071806….
To add insult to injury, TRMNL is trying to refuse me a refund, in gross violation of EU law.
I can't help but feel I must be missing something obvious. On https://docs.usetrmnl.com/go/diy/byos, the system talks about BOYS that allows it be be run with zero external dependencies. However, I...
I really hate fedi drama, but I know most of my followers care about *true* Open Source and want the privacy of running stuff locally. Which is exactly what TRMNL promises, but not what they deliver. I know most of my followers would be as devastated as me when the device arrives and... almost nothing works locally.
I do hope they turn this all around and actually start becoming the Open Source project they claim to be. But as it stands, they're doing some severe openwashing of their platform.
This device is expensive for what you get. And that was OK to me! I thought I was supporting a big new Open Source ecosystem. It's fine to pay a premium for software. Software development costs money.
But I bought this to have all of the functionality *on my own server*, not to be locked in with a proprietary server or be forced to rewrite almost everything myself.
Sure, they *promise* they will, but I've seen that promise a million times. They also said you already could. They must prove it.
I would've even been OK had they clearly marked this as not supported yet from the start. Then I had known "okay, they're working on it, but it's not there yet, I'll buy into the system when the basic functionality I need is implemented". I might've even bought it on the promise of future support if I was clearly told it wasn't supported yet.
But now I spent money on a product that doesn't do yet what I need it to (and they promised it to) do and I'm being refused a refund and that is not OK.
The documentation has been somewhat updated, though they have decided to keep it marked as "supported", so it's still easy to misunderstand unless you read very thoroughly: github.com/usetrmnl/byos_hanam…
I'm also not sure if this makes properly obvious to everyone that it's not just your server accessing theirs: it also means that for example for calendar integration, you have to give their server complete access to your caldav URL and thus all your calendar data.
I had to yell at them several times to even get them to consider refunding me. And then I had to yell more because they wanted me to pay to ship it back.
And now I finally got it shipped back and I get the refund processed mail and they are not refunding the shipping nor taxes. That's over 40 Euros.
So now I have to yell at them *again*.
Never in my life have I seen such unprofessional and scummy behaviour from any company.
This took *two weeks*. It took *two weeks* to get to the point of shipping it back and getting an email about a refund (they claim it will take 10 more days to actually send the money), and then the refund isn't even complete.
How many laws does TRMNL want to break? Zero respect for their customers.
When you originally got yours, I thought I might want one myself. Hearing how their "support" works, how irresponsible they behave, how unaccountable they want to be for their own wrong labeling/promises/product descriptions: TRMNL is definitely on my "droplist" – the list of things I dropped from even considering.
They're not doing themselves a favor with such behavior. Not only have they lost a customer (you) – they also have lost potential future customers this way (e.g. me).
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Just learned some really sad things about Ryan Kulp, the guy who makes the TRMNL. Would not have bought one if I had known beforehand.
They eventually refunded me the shipping costs too. I don't think I believe that the shipping refund was "still processing", when they initially sent me an invoice for the product refund with shipping explicitly excluded and the shipping refund happening withing hours of me complaining. Consistently this "timing".
Luckily even managed to get FedEx to approve refunding the taxes, neat.
Very happy with Fruitstand. It's clearly more beta, but I'll just keep contributing small patches here and there. It's actually #OpenSource, actually has local plugins and is privacy-respecting (all unlike TRMNL) and from what I can tell the dev is chill and not a bigot :)
For those stuck with the TRMNL hardware (too late to return, whatever), @aks is working on #Queerminal (codeberg.org/Queerminal). Probably worth checking out too :)
Don’t worry. I wouldn’t call this drama at all. Regulations are regulations, and you’re right to call it out. They are not making you a favour once they are inevitably forced to refund you.
interesting, as I'd been curious about doing the same but evidently I misunderstood the "bring your own server" bit as well
Anyway, I wanted color support for a custom device, so I've been writing my own server software that might be exactly what you're looking for ( and will be writing firmware to go with it), might be what you're looking for if you don't mind a little tinkering
Round 1! web side is mostly functional (still needs to produce actual BMPs, not PNGs), and haven't touched microcontroller-side rendering code but I don't expect that to be awful github.com/BasementCat/fruitst…
@Wren Looks like a good start, I started watching the repo :) I'm interested to see where this goes because I am really into the idea of configuring some easy plugins that generate a nice little dashboard. I may end up contributing some plugins at some point, but I don't want to promise (I'm quite overwhelmed with my own Open Source projects).
Definitely would love to be kept up to date though!
always open to suggestions and pull requests! It's not very extensible right now, I laid the groundwork but it's definitely not there yet. Long term I do want to make it possible to pretty easily plug in more screens distributed as python packages but I need to think through what that looks like, trying to get the base functionality I need in place first
I suggest trying the Bring Your Own Server software (e.g. the Laravel based one) you can use and never proxy images from the cloud or even log in to the TRMNL web app. I use the Laravel one and it runs completely on my home network. I don’t get the benefit of the native plugins though so I’m completely using my own plugins I have made or adapted. I’m also investigating alternative BYOD hardware to save cost. Looking forward to other ideas where possible. @Wren
So, if they would've been honest in their marketing and documentation, I'd have accepted that. But they promised plugins were supported, yet don't let you run it offline. That type of openwashing is just not acceptable to me.
I'm okay with making sacrifices when self hosting, I'm not okay with paying a premium because I'm promised features X, Y and Z but I find out only X is available to me after paying. That's just not OK.
@kramercanfield @Wren I'm glad custom plugins are possible (though woefully under documented), but hiding that all "official" plugins are proprietary felt like extremely sketchy openwashing to me. Together with them saying "Bring Your Own Server" supports plugins with no such note whatsoever completely broke my trust in them.
Just out of curiosity though, where do people host these custom plugins, how are you supposed to discover them and how are you supposed to install them? Docs were lacking.
@Wren This repo has some native plugins (in Ruby) but if you scroll down a little there are links to tools and community plugins github.com/usetrmnl/plugins where you can find the markup. There are quite a few community ones. You have to open a Pull Request or have a Developer license to get added to the featured list and I haven’t tried that yet. I agree the docs could and should be clearer about what “support” means for various features on the BYOS options.
I’m not too familiar with open source licensing. It seems like the intent of the list here is sharing and re-use at a minimum. Here is a resource I found for myself choosealicense.com/ and what happens without a license choosealicense.com/no-permissi…. Is this a good resource?
According to this page, the GitHub Terms of Service allow others to fork a public repo by default and recommends asking the maintainer of a repo to add a license.
@kramercanfield @Wren It gets the basics right. Some criticize the GitHub page for making copyleft licenses sound "too negative", but that's all.
But yeah, open source has a pretty clear definition and just being able to fork it on GitHub is not enough: opensource.org/osd
The GitHub forking being allowed is because of GitHub's terms of service, so they are protected legally, it purposefully does not allow more than using basic GitHub features because it is just for their legal certainty.
Introduction Open source doesn’t just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open source software must comply with the following criteria: 1. Free Redistribution The license shall…
@glitzersachen No clue. Their main server software and code of the plugins is not posted anywhere, it is fully proprietary and hidden away. Just an alternative and extremely incomplete MIT "for the community" implementation is available, which just calls their proprietary main server API to proxy things through.
@glitzersachen The problem is not so much about being able to mod it. The problem is that they marketed this as Open Source and stated on their official "BYOS" (Bring Your Own Server) documentations that plugins are "fully supported". To then only find out you can't self-host any of the plugins they market.
Sure, I could write my own plugins and everything, but at that point, why even buy an expensive device that promises to be an open source ecosystem?
@glitzersachen Thanks anyway for chiming in, I understand the side you're coming from, but yeah, the issue is more "they promised me an open source ecosystem and gave me a small open source API and told me to do it all myself".
If I knew also what kind of person their CEO was I would've never even attempted to buy it. At least now there is one person who has documented that their documentation is a lie, so many people seem to have taken them for their word it's "self-hostable".
Their server has an API. The "API unlock" allows you to directly talk to that API (which is necessary if you "self host" and want to proxy stuff through their server) or submit your own plugins to their directory.
BYOD means... connecting your hardware to their server.
BYOS means... well, you would think it means "self-hosting everything". It actually means "self-hosting very limited software which can send images to the device or proxy through their server".
The descriptions in the shop are also short to the point of incomprehensible. What does the BYOD do? What exactly the BYOS? Do they think this is a successful sales strategy?
@ziltoidium The XIAO panel allows you to manually build a dashboard with Home Assistant entities (wiki.seeedstudio.com/xiao_075i…) but that seemed like a lot of annoying manual labor. I much prefer some pre-designed dashboards to save time, which is why I went with Fruitstand :)
In Grand amphi two talks and a BoF: at 9:30 DebConf Time (7:30 UTC) the talk "How Embedded C/C++ Toolchains Work", at 10:30 the"Debian Social BoF", and the short talk "What I Learned while rewriting the d/copyright file for rsync" at 11:30 debconf25.debconf.org/schedule… #debian #debconf25 #debianfrance #brest
„Dobrý den, Wolt, jsem dole s tím jídlem.“ „S jakým jídlem?“ „No… vezu vám pizzu.“ ... šustění... šramot... „EMILE!!! Já tě přetrhnu jak hada! Tys objednal pizzu z mýho telefonu?!“ „Ale mamííí... byla v akci! “ „Je to jídlo zaplacené?“ "Ano madam, je to v pořádku. “ „Tak si tu pizzu snězte.“ V povzdálí... „Mamííí to néééé!“ Chvíli čekám... A když se nic neděje, dávám si Emilkův oběd v parku na lavičce. Díky, mladíku.
🛠️ Nové zaměstnání, nový začátek. Baj baj, webový vývoji, vítej kabelážní a konektorová techniko 😬 Tak od srpna začínám, prakticky úplně od nuly, již s našedlým vousem 😁. Taky jste někdy v životě udělali (museli udělat) naprostou změnu v zaměstnání po šíleně dlouhé době? Je to zvláštní pocit, spíš ho hodnotím jako zajímavý, plný očekávání. Přitom změny fakt nevyhledávám.
OMG, I just came across a podcast called Flesh and Code about people having relationships with LLMs on platforms like Replika. R/Replika has over 80K members! It’s both sad and wild. Maybe because I’ve been playing with dumb LLMs since GPT-2 and understand how they work better than average people, LLMS never really worked for me. lol Since Grok on X now has a porn companionship feature that anyone 12+ can access, I guess things can get worse from here. #LLM #ML #AIreddit.com/r/replika/
Yep, Harvard Business Review published the research showing that, apparently, people use ChatGPT as a psychologist and trust it with their lives and private information. On some level it is understandable though.
Idk if you like filtered water things but I've always kinda hated Brita and Pur because the filters are so small and seem to underperform. I picked up an Epic which has HUGE filters in comparison and while it is more expensive its comparative for what you're supposed to get.
Brita/Pur is like 40 gallons of filtering, Epic is 150 at ~4x the cost per filter
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I have my own LiveView Plex dashboard so I can start adding my own little monitoring and management controls here instead of having to login to their annoying web interface
Also people who don't have PlexPass can't use the PlexDash app which gives you management and observation capabilities, but if you just access their APIs yourself you can have it...
It seems that not many people are aware but FYI the founder of #TRMNL is a dedicated Trump supporter, former NFT shill (and reading his blog/tweets, generally seems to be a piece of shit).
Of course you can do with this whatever you want but I’m certainly not buying one after finding this out.
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Perhaps humans can't grok the "veil of ignorance" but Perhaps AI could. What would be a human society an algorithm could be happy transporting into? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin…
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