Pleroma Gitlab suffering Postgres issue, possible (I think likely) data loss. Backup cron email going to an account of an engineer who is no longer with the company sponsoring the hosting and I wasn't aware or I'd have made it pointed to myself.
I think the database can be revived from an April snapshot though.
Postgres didn't eat itself, it's partially my fault and partially Gitlab Omnibus for having a script that literally will delete the prod database directory when it's supposed to clean up the OLD databases from prior major upgrades
I should have stayed om 17. In my case anyway, probably because I’m using an older iPhone SE, the typing on this has decreased dramatically. There’s a very noticeable delay from when I type the keys to it actually transmitting. Not sure if anyone else is having this issue, but it’s prevented me from using my phone without a Bluetooth keyboard, and I can’t express how frustrating this is. #Apple
@matt 3 generation. There’s a tiny haptic every time I type, but I went into that keyboard setting and disabled haptics so I don’t know where it’s coming from
The 1999 post-grunge pop song "Everything You Want" by Vertical Horizon had an album mix and a radio mix. You can find the album mix on your preferred streaming service, or here: youtube.com/watch?v=FwTQOPZvY3… And someone posted the radio mix here: youtube.com/watch?v=_jzbFF3rRm…
If you're at all into this kind of music, which mix do you prefer?
Provided to YouTube by RCA Records LabelEverything You Want · Vertical HorizonEverything You Want℗ 1999 RCA Records, a division of Sony Music EntertainmentRe...
Gonna rant on some about the way we talk about parenting. For context, I have one child, he's 11.
When our son was a baby, and even a toddler and a preschooler, the thing we heard all the time was "treasure this time, it goes by fast." Not true. I mean, in the grand scheme of parenting, those stages are relatively short. And yes, when you look back later, it seems like an eyeblink. But when you're IN those stages, they go by very slow. They feel like they will last forever. 1/?
Monday. Another late night for the wife, working herself to the bone to get things out the door for her maternity leave. Tomorrow, she has an appointment to see if the baby can be turned, as his head is absolutely not aiming for the exit it should be and time is marching on. Builders are coming this week, and I've been ploughing through the Bobiverse. Lack of sleep is making everything feel a bit surreal and foggy these last 3, 4 days or so.
I'm starting to think my first little web project should be to create a database of silent uninstall strings for Windows software. For example, it's surprising that Dell, who sell a lot of computers to enterprises, would be so shockingly bad at documenting how their pre installed crapware can be removed via scripting. Some variance is to be expected because this software spans many years and packaging technology changes, but there's just no consistency at all and their docs are wrong.
I'd be a customer, pal. Just had to ship a ... What even was it. Vivobook, I think? TO a deafblind customer where consistency for the screen reader and Braille is real important. SO much pre-shipped-shite.
Tesla stans driving up the stock 20% on news Elmo's buying $1B worth, in a year where the rest of the board has sold over 50% of their shares and only one board member has bought any (a mere $1M, at that)
I have to say the ingenuity of traders catches me off-guard every time. Who would ever come up with such a thing? I mean, 1b for Elno is a change, but why would others follow? :)
@vick21 Not only that, to him it's kind of like taking it out of one pocket and putting it into the other. He also has the most pliant board in history, so he could do this a few more times and obtain 51% of voting stock, and they'll all go for it even if it's against their interests, or the company's.
> A Millennial’s DVD Collection: I’m Returning to Physical Discs
That's cute but a ton of new TV shows are not getting physical releases or they're significantly delayed. Some movies aren't either.
Where can I get a physical copy of Apple's The Morning Show series? Oh you can't, though it may be getting a physical release for the first two seasons in November. That's 6 years late.
Most streaming shows never come out on Blu-ray, meaning they could vanish and become impossible to watch at any time. Unfortunately, even show creators have had limited success in securing the future of their work.
@sun I never stopped torrenting because it's the only way to get quality digital media. Even streaming services will compress the shit out of your stream just to save on bandwidth.
Those autists just can't be beat when it comes to encoding.
An interesting experiment. I retrained my personal voice I created on my iPhone two years ago. They still had my training files on the phone. I decided to let iOS 26 retrain the voice using that data. I have to say I don't sound half bad if I do some pitch correction. I can even sound intelligent at higher speeds.
@vick21 I'd have to listen to it at a slower speed to read something. The voices they generate are robotic. Perhaps that's the reason why my voice sounds better especially with pitch correction. I want to see if my pronunciation issues carry over.
getting there: 283 tracks unrouted on the qualcomm processor module for mnt reform/pocket/next. started at 542 around 5:30h ago. now my brain feels like mashed potato and thus i'll go home, feierabend!
How is the mainline Linux and u-boot support for this Qualcomm SoC? The main thing I've heard about Qualcomm SoCs and the kernel is that, at least on Android devices, they tend to have their own kernel forks.
Also, have you had a chance yet to write anything about this Qualcomm processor module and what distinguishes it from the others?
@matt i'm working with @LinaroLtd who are helping with getting any last u-boot and linux bits fixed/upstreamed, but we already booted @postmarketOS a while ago on the devkit for the QCS6490 i have here. the 8550/8750 are a little less ready if i'm not mistaken, but one step after the other.
Hello. Adrian here. Over the past few months, off and on, I’ve been thinking about version control. As a company that writes lots of software, it’s a pretty central tool for managing source code...
Openfire 5.0.2 has been released! This release of our XMPP-based real-time communications server includes a fix for a newly discovered security vulnerability (CVE-2025-59154).
The IgniteRealtime community is happy to announce a new release of its open source, real-time communications server server Openfire! Version 5.0.2 brings a number of stability improvements and bug fixes.
The So-Called Studio Quality Audio in AirPods appears to be nothing more than the ability to use your phone's built-in microphones in the camera. I should've realized this when Apple suddenly stopped mentioning this in AirPods literature themselves. I cannot get My AirPods 4 to act any differently than they ever did, and they're running the latest version, 7E93. Unless there was something in the beta that hasn't trickled down yet, this is a total rip.
I'm not 100% sure either way. There is a newer firmware starting with 8, and there is a new API to enable higher quality bluetooth recording, see this page for example developer.apple.com/documentat… That being said I don't think it's the default so developers might need to opt into this, and if it's supposed to make a difference with the built-in apps like voice memos it doesn't, even though other new features like recording spatial audio on the iPhone 16 and newer were added and do work though nothing seems to support Apple's codec for that yet. So we might need to reach out to developers of recording apps about this. I have heard one video where someone seemingly got this to work and it made a very noticeable difference, with the audio having a noticeably higher sampling rate and a much fuller sound, though sadly I don't know the link. Perhaps @nuno_nuno who played it for me will see this, did you ever get a reply on how they got it to work?
@pitermach @nuno_nuno it definitely seems to work in voice memos for me. My airpods sound a lot better than they used to, including not filtering background noise, fuller frequency response especially in the lows and mids. I assume that's what it's supposed to do.
OK. Confirmed by @pitermach and weirdly, it just! rolled out to me, even when apples Airpods firmware page doesn't have it. Firmware is 8A356 now. About to find out what's what, if anything.
@lerven The official instructions are to just put them in the case, plug it in for charging and have the iPhone nearby for about half an hour and if there's an update it should just happen.
A new record for my own clumsiness. Dropped a brand new portable hard drive on the floor *trying to get it out of the packaging*. Not even plugged in yet 🤭. Oops butterfingers. Scuffed the case already so it's been duly christened.
I had saved my pocket money for a 2.5mm wired headset for my motorola radio, probably aged 7 or 8. I asked my granddad to cut the cable-tie, but he'd been drinking and cut straight through the microphone on the wire instead. One of my earliest sinking feeling memories right there. Thanks for the reminder!
@cachondo Your own pocket money, oh noes! No quick fix there. That's reminded me of the time my mum stood on and broke a plastic Buckaroo game before I got to play it. It's all coming back, the horror 😱
#фалыстыннаш Глава социалистической партии Франции в предверии муниципальных выборов-2026 решил подмазать радикальным левакам и предложил вывесить на мэриях палестинские флаги в день признания Францией так называемого палестинского государства (которое президент Макрон зачем-то обещал). Что печалит: современные радикальные левые — мудаки ещё худшие, чем радикальные правые. что радует: в комментариях к этой новости на FranceInfo здравомыслия сильно больше, чем оголтелой радости и пускания слюней.
got a new computer at work, which means I'll be spending the next two weeks ordering and returning various USB-C, Thunderbolt, and DisplayLink docks until I figure out a combination that actually works reasonably well.
Love the "universal" nature of USB-C, i.e., it universally plugs in and yet universally does not work quite right.
So #Carney axed the carbon tax, 'paused' the EV mandate, and is keen to waive reviews of pipeline propsals to get more built faster. Do the #Liberals have a climate policy anymore?
I wish cis people would normalize giving your pronouns when introducing yourself. Like I feel like I have to choose between being perceived as "weird" because I'm the only one who does it, or potentially getting misgendered because I didn't.
Is it just me or are IMAP subfolders broken in @k9mail and @thunderbird since 12.0? Just tried Thunderbird as well and I can't download any emails in subfolders. (12.0+12.1)
We unfortunately have a bug with the IMAP folders which we're currently working on fixing! For now, in Settings > [Account] > Fetching mail > Incoming server, uncheck ‘Auto-detect IMAP namespace’and leave IMAP path prefix empty. Let us know if this helps!
Be My Eyes won't read credit card information for security reasons. However, it does helpfully recommend you call a volunteer--who could be literally anyone--because apparently that's more safe and secure than GPT processing the image it already has.
Is it just me or is it ridiculous that even an email client community doesn’t use mailing lists!? @thunderbird reinvigorate your mailing lists! Your users are supposed to be email power users!
Sorry for any confusion with the web interface on topicbox, but we do use mailing lists! If you subscribe to any of the lists at thunderbird.topicbox.com, you can interact completely through email as many of us do.
great!! Thanks for that. I had never seen the topic box software. Looks like they don’t display threads with any depth, just a flat structure so you don’t know who answered to what 😮. Also not possible to see sub threads in discussions 😔.
Or am I missing something? Image of what I mean below (neomutt threads - clearest representation of threads IMO)
Thanks! This is actually intentional, since we've had the K-9 forum for a while now and our community there is still actively providing support. Whenever we wind down support for K-9 as a separate app we'll have all the Android support in one place, but for now it's been a good decision to keep the forum open and to link to it in the app!
Varnish Cache project to change its name to Vinyl Cache withafter the next release (after today's 8.0.0, in March), per @bsdphk:
We have tried to negotiate with Varnish Software for many months about this issue, but their IP-Lawyers still insist that Varnish Software owns the Varnish Cache name, and at most we have being offered a strictly limited, subject to their veto, permission for the FOSS project to use the “Varnish Cache” name.
We cannot live with that: We are independent FOSS project with our own name.
So we will change the name of the project.
The new association and the new project will be named “The Vinyl Cache Project”, and this release 8.0.0, will be the last under the “Varnish Cache” name. The next release, in March will be under the new name, and will include compatibility scripts, to make the transition as smooth as possible for everybody.
Hello #VarnishCache users:
Release 8.0 is here:
https://varnish-cache.org/
And it even comes with bonus project news!
Next release will be march 15 but with a little twist...
Last night, I kid you not, I plugged the wrong end of the HDMI cable into the output port of my HDMI splitter. The result? My computer fan revving up, my entire RTX5060 TI graphics card smoked out, and then no longer worked. Purchased an RTX 3050 as a replacement. Installed it, it booted once, but then I had to unseat the card to move the wire for the power supply. When I removed it, the weight of the card made it fall out of its connector and broke off the retention clip with it off the motherboard. Then, Nothing. It would never work again, the entire mobo's PCI slots got fried. Lesson for me? Don't buy and use big giant desktops. They're way too easy to break.
so now, that desktop I just purchased 6 months ago is going back to Best Buy recycling. I just cannot deal with RMA and warranty this or that, especially when it was built by IBuyPower, a lesser-known custom-rig building company. Nope. You know what I went with? Yes, it's already here. the GMKtec Gaming Mini PC, with AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics. I did this after realizing that a brand new RTX 5060 TI would cost me around $600 anyway. Why buy a new one. That one broke and I lost the box for it, kept searching until 2 AM last night and no RTX5060 TI box. Either way. This was my last big giant-sized desktop. Nope. Not for me. If plugging in the HDMI cable into the output end of an HDMI splitter box can fry the graphics card, I'm fucked. It's over for me. Bye bye big desktops.
My next consideration, and this won't be for awhile as I had to eat into savings for all this buying this or that, is an eGPU. I need to get an eGPU. Sadly, if you wanted to use NVIDIA graphics for eGPUs, today, you need to bring your own power supply, your own card. No prebuilt eGPUs with them. The only prebuilts use AMD Radion graphics. But alas, with how little I was using local AI models (once or twice per week on weekends), I don't think I'll be missing much without a super powerful graphics card. At least I can return that RTX3050 and call it a day, even if it's a sad one with well over a thousand dollars in losses on that desktop. Be careful, folks, and don't do what I did: Make sure you're plugging in those splitters right else your graphics card can fry.
the few things I saved: my 2 M.2 SSDs, and my 4 16 gig ram sticks. The latter will probably be sold on Ebay at some point if I can even if it's like $30 per stick, it's still something out of it. The storage drives are 4 TB and 1 TB each, so I had to salvage them, and the 4 TB works on my second M.2 slot on that AMD desktop, while the other one is in an M.2 metal enclosure. What sad times, but it's done, new desktop is here and I can settle down from all that mess.
I didn't think HDMI cables had a right end, and a wrong end? I just pick an end, plug it into my video card, and take the other end, and plug it into the monitor.
@JamminJerry They do not. They do however, not differentiate between input and output, which makes them utterly useless in knowing whether something outputs HDMI or receives input from another HDMI source. Hateful design. Like USB-A to USB-A cables.
@FreakyFwoof @JamminJerry I don't get it. When I plug that wrong into this desktop's HDMI port, it just, fucks off the entire thing. Boom. No more computer, power cut, not even the power button powers it on again until I do a full AC chord unplug. That's safety = really good. But why. How can this be. How can an HDMI cable overload the HDMI port and there's really absolutely no failsafes if there's no shortage protection on the Mobo or the graphics card itself from shutting off, boom. Just wow. I'm honestly utterly shocked by this experience.
@FreakyFwoof @JamminJerry so clearly my splitter itself is broken. maybe. has to be if it's overpowering things on the input side. LOL at this point I'd be afraid to plug an actual TV into it for that same fear. Gosh, what small PTSD from it. Ugh. Seriously. I have another HDMI splitter around here and am tempted to try to see what it does with it, but not sure if it's worth the trouble. I only use one to show a dummy monitor to my desktop. Without it, sites like GPT think they're in mobile small tiny view even if you maximize, so a dummy adapter of some kind is super necessary
@JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof do you have an actual physical monitor hooked up to your machine though? In those cases no of course. It might be somewhat graphics card dependent too, but Macs will (like Mac mini) say "busy busy" all the time, and Windows machines will just flat out act odd with websites or some apps and say your resolution is too low to run it.
@FreakyFwoof yes, I have a monitor hooked up. I always do, even if I don't use it. in fact, my new monitor I have to leave on, or the web cam, and network port, and USB ports that are on the monitor won't work unless it is turned on.
@JamminJerry @FreakyFwoof oh yeah that will do it :) so yeah, you're good. Even if it's turned off and not on for those ports, the Monitor section of device manager might still show it as present, in which case Windows would still see it as there but the actual screen for sighted folks is off.
@FreakyFwoof @JamminJerry well, I did find just now a plain old HDMI to VGA converter, think I'll use that instead of this splitter nonsense business anyway. The splitter I had purchased in 2016 to split from my TV the firestick's audio out to my Echo Studio, and later to split out the Pi's audio as well.
Add virtual monitors to your windows 10/11 device! Works with VR, OBS, Sunshine, and/or any desktop sharing software. - VirtualDrivers/Virtual-Display-Driver
As has been posted about a fair amount in recent days, and based at least partly on @micahflee's excellent reporting, I made the decision to break up with Proton. I'm moving to @Tutanota with as much speed as I can muster.
If you think AI (chatbots) will solve anything I can tell you how many of the recruiting platform choked on the PDF of my resumé parsing the email address.... Ligatures, like they do not. That's something fixable.
So imagine dealing with a black box like a LLM chatbot.
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