A look at the collapse of narrative podcasts, facing high production costs and limited ad revenue, despite overall podcast listenership reaching all-time highs (Eric Benson/Rolling Stone)

rollingstone.com/culture/cultu…
techmeme.com/250823/p17#a25082…

This is the best kind of hacker conference talk: little-known subject or project, opening new dimensions of possibilities for curious people not afraid to experiment and put in effort and who self-select to take interest or not. Not yet another rehashing of basics of commonplace matters (be it tech or social), not yet another retro-tech deep dive. The speaker is not holding club mate bottle on stage to make people notice their street cred.

Bravo @freesewing

media.ccc.de/v/why2025-251-fre…

Age verification via face scans is not safety — it's surveillance. Biometric age guessing is inaccurate, discriminatory, and creepy AF. Stop normalizing it. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/face…

Welcome Simon Dalvai as #curl commit author 1407: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1837…
#curl

Po delsi dobe jsem zazil programatorsky crunch. Organizovali jsme event pro jednoho z nasich umelcu ... a samozrejme jsme, jako za mlada, delali vsecko na posledni chvili.

Ale dobra vec se podarila. Event probehl. Vsichni jsou nadseni. Pristup k albu pred vydanim ziskate tu:

unreleased.art/l/qsg9NTxThC7P

Kolega vyuzil prilezitosti a nahral s D Smokem nekolik zivych songu, tak se na ne muzete tesit ve specialni Unreleased edici. Jiz brzy!

#music #art #it

#music #art #IT

I can't believe that I haven't encountered this HP Fanfic before today. It's very very good. I especially love the Quibbler articles. I don't think anyone has done this before.

The Power of the PressBy: Bobmin356

Forewarned Harry makes his escape from Britain, leaving the tournament in shambles. Protected by family, Harry sets about to fulfill his destiny free from the bigotry and manipulation of others.

fanfiction.net/s/8831374/1/The…

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 17 updated and 1 added apps:

* Cerberus Tiles: adds essential Quick Settings tiles and app shortcuts to Google Pixel phones 🛡️

RB status: 692 apps (53.3%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:

Cleanup continued as well (more on that later). So once more, 5 outdated & unmaintained apps have been removed…

(1/2)

in reply to Billie

@Billie We introduced that on August 1st. In case you missed it, here's the full story: android.izzysoft.de/articles/n… (also in German – I sometimes forget which language to use where 🙈)

I saw @richlv post the other day about #GoogleMaps vs #OpenStreetMap and needed to share this as well.

I first noticed this difference a few months back when my driving instructor couldn't find the location that I sent him (because Google Maps doesn't show it at all). Only after I added "Fairway Walk" (see Google Screenshot for the name/location) as a named road to OSM, did it get added to Google Maps. There are still apartments missing from the Google Maps though.

in reply to Pietervdvn

my best guess would be because this was a golf course (the park) that was converted to a housing estate.

EDIT:

You can see what I mean if you look at the Esri World Imagery from 2016 or earlier.

livingatlas.arcgis.com/wayback…

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#JoyScrolling for fucking morale, because holy shit gang, Fridays!

Feltopia, the stop motion animation game!

Note: this trailer is over a year old; they were around for PAX West 2024 (see here: youtube.com/watch?v=5DeRK_68rm…), but I have no idea whether the game is available or not.

Trailer:
youtube.com/watch?v=Z1S_Mij08H…

in reply to azteclady

#JoyScrolling: If you are not familiar with Andrea Love's felted stop animation, I *highly* recommend her YT channel; she's self-taught, and so good, she's been hired to do ads like the one below, and she's been spotlighted by The Modern Met (here:
youtube.com/watch?v=CMKxk0Xu52…)

Edensaw Woods ad:
youtube.com/watch?v=BNzmieBJsX…

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I'm sure @fireborn will be very happy to know that last night I got Pipewire up and running on my Pi5 alongside Pulse (masked Pulse SystemD units for now.) And, just as his post stated, I had all the fun getting Espeakup to talk to me in the terminal afterwards.
Switching from Pulse to Pipewire was quite seamless for most things, like Bluetooth. For that, just had to install libspa-0.2-bluetooth, and boom, A2DP and others worked. For the other problem, the fix was almost as detailed in his post: point the system espeakup at my user’s PipeWire socket by adding a drop-in unit. Not good for multiuser access, but I don't plan to use this pi in a shared space like that. It refuses to run if X/Wayland sockets exist, conflicts with graphical.target so it is stopped when LightDM/desktop comes up. Without this, "Screen reader on" would get cut off, so making the socket bind like this was my only choice, y'all.
This works, but it’s a bit hacky since a system service is now tied to a specific user’s runtime dir. Ugh. espeakup has no flag to pick an ALSA device or a PipeWire endpoint; it just uses the system’s default, so keeping it as a system service that talks to the user’s PipeWire is the way to get console speech. You can Make a tiny wrapper that resolves your UID dynamically, which hardens it a bit.

fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-w…

in reply to Tamas G

for anyone who wants the /etc/systemd/system/espeakup.service.d/override.conf unit (updated, I had first pasted my version without X11, oi.):
(with hardcoded UID):
```
[Unit]After=sound.target bluetooth.service user@1001.service pipewire.service wireplumber.service
Requires=user@1001.service pipewire.service wireplumber.service
Conflicts=graphical.target
ConditionPathExists=!/tmp/.X11-unix/X0
ConditionPathExists=!/run/user/1001/wayland-0


[Service]Environment=XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1001
Environment=PIPEWIRE_REMOTE=pipewire-0
Restart=on-failure```
first started with another form of this. It doesn’t order itself after your user manager. If PipeWire isn’t ready yet, espeakup may fail once and then restart (since Restart=on-failure is set). It works, but a bit racy. I ran into this so changed it.
```
[Unit]# Wait for card discovery; need your user instance for PipeWire
After=sound.target bluetooth.service user@1001.service
Requires=user@1001.service

# Do not run during graphical sessions; stop if graphical starts
Conflicts=graphical.target
# Extra safety: if X11/Wayland sockets exist, don't start
ConditionPathExists=!/tmp/.X11-unix/X0
ConditionPathExists=!/run/user/1001/wayland-0


[Service]# Point espeakup at your user's PipeWire
Environment=XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1001
Environment=PIPEWIRE_REMOTE=pipewire-0

# optional: if it ever crashes, bring it back
Restart=on-failure```

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While we rightly celebrate our continuing shift across Europe to renewable energy, when that achievement is put into a global context, we might have pause to consider how large a challenge a global green transition (for energy) remains.... there is a (very) long way to go (and time is running out)

#energy #GreenTransition #politics #climate #environment

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Dělám pořádek ve věcech. Nechcete někdo věci pro malého drona? Za odvoz nebo za poštovné.

* 7x 2S 0.3 Ah a 2x 3S 0.5 Ah baterie
* FPV brýle EACHINE
* Vysílačka FLYSKY FS-i6X

Měl jsem to pro tohohle drona:

blog.prusa3d.com/how-to-build-…

Postavil jsem dva a oba mi uletěly.

Všechno to má svůj věk, cca 6 let. Baterie nejsou nafouklé a všechny mají 3.7-3.8 V.

Getting rid of these white outlines around shortcuts was incredibly cumbersome. I tried 3 different things over the course of weeks but I finally have something that is ready to ship with 2.19.3.

Even Signal doesn't have this fixed yet. 🙈

BTW did you know about shortcuts? You can add quick access to certain chats either by long pressing on the Conversations launcher icon and dragging one of those items to the home screen or by long press on the home screen → Widgets → Conversations.

Just landed in Amsterdam for the the #OpenSourceSummit

Love that someone created this guild in GitHub to provide places to go around the conference.

github.com/shirleybailes/oss-e…

#OSSummit

Does anyone have experience with any of the recent RP2040 or RP2350-based boards that have DVI/HDMI output, a USB host port or ports, SD card slot, and audio? These boards are often used to run retro computer emulators. I'm particularly interested in the quality of the audio output, and whether anyone has been able to use that feature from Rust. Pinging @raph in particular, who wrote this HN comment: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
in reply to Matt Campbell

Sure, then both the Fruit Jam (hopefully widely available soon) and the Olimex board should work great.

Also note, I think the Olimex board DAC is mono, even though it has a stereo headphone jack.

I'm not sure if there's existing Rust code to drive the audio, but it should be fairly simple, my understanding it it's basic SPI. The rp-rs Matrix is probably the best place to ask.

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in reply to Dan Gillmor

a business model deliberately designed to extract value from labour while avoiding the obligations that normally protect and pay workers, in order to "maximise shareholder value". The capitalists wet dream. FInancialising human effort so it can be treated like a raw material, traded and optimised for returns.

If society leaves it to “the market,” these people will keep doing it, because the system rewards them. If society changes the rules of the game - through law, governance, and culture - then the people pushing these models either adapt or lose their licence to operate.

Or there is always guillotines.

Ve zkratce: pod vedením Dánska mnoho členských států EU prosazuje, aby služby typu WhatsApp, Signal a pod. byly nuceny zkoumat všechny naše fotografie a odkazy s pomocí AI. Pokud AI nabude jakýchkoli “pochybností” že by mohlo jít o dětskou pornografii, vaše fotka, poloha, telefonní číslo a jiné údaje budou nahlášeny Europolu a místní policii.

berthub.eu/articles/posts/chat… #chatcontrol #StopChatcontrol

Ich musste diese Meldung schreiben, mit der bitteren Erkentnis, dass keine deutsche Universität die Lebensleistung dieser Informatkerin gewürdigt hat.

heise.de/news/Ein-unmoegliches…

I gotta say it would be hilarious if the fediverse wins because of this social.growyourown.services/@F…
RT: social.growyourown.services/us…