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My train nerd partner ❤️ tells me that CN has speed restrictions on Via in certain parts of the track because the new Siemens Venture trains don't have enough axles to consistently trigger the crossing equipment.
maybe I'd be honoured to dodge a high-speed passenger train at a malfunctioning crossing. It would certainly get people thinking about high-speed rail more, and driving more carefully at crossings.
My company has recently stopped using GitLab and I think it's worth a quick discussion why, because I think these are largely addressible.
Firstly, their paid product for teams is very pricey. Where Github costs ~$4 per seat per month, GitLab charges $29 per month. Even if we assume some portion of that is due to Microsoft's economy of scale and exploitation of user code for things like AI training, that's 7.5x more expensive!
GitLab charges for things like API address, and even more (full price) if you want to do things like store secrets via API.
While the direct cost wasn't a lot, I didn't feel like being nickle and dimed, and the product was just not worth it.
I enjoyed the product, but the pricing wasn't 2x, or even 3x, but >7.x! I felt like I was being taken advantage of, so we left altogether!
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OK Linux folks. With #KDE hitting 29 years old, I'm curious about switching my gaming PC from Windows 11 to KDE. The games I play are listed on ProtonDB as being gold or platinum, so I think I'm good as far as gaming goes, but I have some other software concerns.
What do y'all use for cloud file storage/syncing?
What do you use for image editing/creation?
Where can I find out if my Razer Leviathan and HyperX mic will work on KDE?
I use Nextcloud (Hetzner Storage Share) for cloud file storage. Works great with Linux. Photo editing? Gimp or you can try photopea.com/. For creation Krita.
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@sesivany Multiple people are telling me to use Nextcloud. I'll have to investigate further. I need whatever option I pick to work with MacOS, iOS, and Linux.
The last time I tried GIMP was almost two decades ago. Hopefully the UI has improved since then.
Nextcloud isn't just a storage any more. It's a platform for integrated apps. I cover a lot of things with it: files, calendars, contacts, tasks, document editing, photo albums, password manager, RSS reader, notes taking... If you don't prefer selfhosting, Hetzner provides it for ~€5/TB/month.
GIMP has improved, but its UI isn't radically different from what it was 20 years ago. There are other editors. Just "I need exactly Photoshop and Light room" doesn't work.
@sesivany (The instantly noticeable highlights with GIMP being that everything is in one window now and it doesn't take forever to launch anymore (and launches a lot faster after the first time with plugins cached))
Looking at a thing that came across my feed, I don't understand why I would need or want a StellerTrek for anything. Apparently, it is an AI-driven GPS and OCR device. These kinds of things were useful before the days of smart phones, but, nowadays, my phone has both a gps (or "jeepies," as my phone's TTS was randomly pronouncing it for a few days while I was in Europe)and a camera, so I can't see the point of these specialty blindness devices anymore.
Microplastics have now made their way into one of the most unexpected places: dairy. Scientists in Italy found plastic fragments in milk, fresh cheese, and aged cheese — which they believe are introduced during production and processing.
Linux oh Linux, you're making me Run windows 7 for a Mastodon client that plays sounds for events, oh why so must this be. Really want to warm up to this land of Linux but I'm thinking more and more, maybe I'll have to settle with Windows 10 forever. Some of you who know me a bit more personally from 2016 might recall when I used to say that. All the time, Windows 10 forever! Oh wow how I never thought the truth of that statement might one day shine through and not for the reasons that we were marketed at the time, mainly that it really would be the last version of Windows. No wit's because Windows 10, in its final form, still uses aprox 300-400 MB less RAM, and while RAM in of itself isn't the problem these days, it's that it spins up a bunch of broker and even more SVCHost (Service control host) processes, just to accomplish what Windows 10 did. And yes, the same could be said For windows 7 to 10: Windows 7 can fit into 500 or less MB of memory, with very few SVCHosts, because at the time, the entire Onecoreification (yes, that's pronounced one-core-eefication) of the OS had not yet happened. That my friends, was all after Windows 8, and I'd say by 8.1 we had doubled the Ram, from that of Windows 7. But you know what? Nobody cared, because not many ran Windows 8.X, so people just accepted Windows 10 with these higher process usages. Linux? Well the number of services you run are on you, really. If you want 1 GB of Ram, install Mate and it's good. Monday rant over!
@vol4life8657 Not just that, all MS updates. Sometimes the machine won't boot, sometimes the machine won't play sound,sometimes something will suddenly be gone... You get the idea. It's a balancing between the risk of security issues from hackers and the risk of problems introduced by MS. For me, I'll take my chances with attackers and multiple forms of protection. At least I have control over the protections I use and the behavior which protects me.
@techsinger @vol4life8657 thing is, if you're smart about your downloads and site visits, still run a good firewall that alerts you if rogue processes are requesting unbound network access, take monthly security day seriously where you audit your files for malware, you actually I think can squeak by on Win10 for awhile without much issue. Eventually yes the ESU and security updates will fall apart but by that time you've had at least 2-3 years to hopefully consider any alternatives, like by then the new Android that's now going to be Chrome OS should also launch, things like that. So in that sense I don't have much worry.
@vol4life8657 I agree and would go further. You can not only squeak by with windows 10, you can get by quite nicely with Windows 7 for an indefinite period. Obviously, you can just install LTSC if it's a serious worry for you and go on until 203x, whatever that may be.
@techsinger @vol4life8657 Yeah, I wish modern chipset drivers (and especially things like Thunderbolt 4 controlers) existed and worked on Windows 7, sadly drivers were just too re-written. It's what I'm seeing a bit from Win10 to 11: There's now a new Intelligo AI audio driver, that on Win11 provides this extra oompf and bass to speakers for HP, Asus, Del laptops. This sadly goes away with Windows 10, because Audio processing objects (APOs) were not yet well defined, they were just starting to appear in late 2019. So of course, these work better on Win11 because manufacturers decided that updating their Win10-era drivers to support modern features like talking to that Dolby Dax API that does this type of bassy oomf is just not in their interest. On a VM though, Win7 is kind of cool - and being on Linux in a way lets me enjoy that older day while still having the security of the hardened Linux Kernel and all that underneath. Still do my browsing within Linux Firefox 140, so for a Masto client and games it's the perfect land to be in.
@vol4life8657 Yes, you make a good point and that makes sense. The problem is the hardware. You can be like me and not really care about what's new in hardware, the only really interesting thing I've seen in the past ten years, in terms of PC hardware, is models on GPUs. Alternatively, you can do what you're doing, Linux VM for hardware, Windows 7 or 10 for software. For the normal user, this is easy. For those of us with disabilities, Linux is still a mess.
@techsinger @vol4life8657 so, what is your linux distro? I avoid ubuntu* due to snap, may go with debian sid/unstable what's your mastodon client on linux? and how was it installed?
Debian 13.1 now with Mate, really is all. Tuba is installable over Flatpak quite easily, just "flatpak install flathub dev.geopjr.Tuba " - it works so well with a nice tabbed interface too. Since Debian 13 ships with Orca 48 out of the box I updated it to 49.1 from Trixi-backports, and my ATSPI to 2.58 from Forky. Debian Sid may not be a bad choice either, since it is a rolling unstable release that just gets all the bleeding edge packages, but I'd imagine the downside = more frequent kernel updates. Fortunately Debian's installer does set up Espeakup, but not the "echo 'speakup_soft' | sudo tee -a /etc/initramfs-tools/modules" bit to have it survive initram-fs updates, how odd. Nonetheless, once you do that you do get TTY and GUI both set up for you, which I liked quite a lot. Ubuntu's installer didn't appear to set up any Espeakup for you, which is again probably fine for newbs or people not ever looking to access their multiuser.target, but you just never know what kind of X-server crash might prove it useful. (I also got SSH over local network so I can recover it from a Windows box if a kernel upgrade really goes wrong.)
oh gosh. Also on this rant subject. I'm wondering if for new Linux folks, something like Ubuntu Mate 24.04 LTS is a better choice.(ubuntu-mate.org/download/) - Supposedly you should be able to press alt+windows+S (or called "Super", don't call that key Windows in Linux land) to bring up Orca during setup. If someone wants to give it a VM spin, be my guest, I'm just too busy at work to try it and know. I think it being Debian based and giving you more of that UX friendlyness could be better. Debian can be saved for the nerdy geeky tinkerers who do want to write conf files on their own and get things working side by side. Even though Debian's installer is terrific, and really it is in the list of more accessible distros for the fact that everything, including both EspeakUp and Orca, is configured for you. Magic, but really waht you should expect from all distros as a bare minimum, but ya know, we live in 2025 where that level of care hasn't reached a crescendo yet. Oh yeah, Non-Mate (I.E standard Ubuntu) might also be usable, no idea there either, but I recall folks having some installer quirks there. After 17.10 they switched back to Gnome which is interesting.
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don't use ubuntu variants. I dk if o nly on the regular version or all the flavours, but they have a flutter installer which is more or less inaccessible, by the virtue of missing labels. I recommend fedora instead
@Oldfartrant @esoteric_programmer oof yeah, the 24.04 one was really horrific, you can get through it with a bunch of "next" button pushes and checkboxes still got read, but I unfortunately found 24.04 still ships with Orca V46. That's even worse than the V48 you get in Debian 12, youch. I'm sure the 25.04 or 25.10 releases ship with newer, but you also get less support years than LTS, which is not a problem if you're willing to jump point releases to extend it still.
@matt oh just Tweesecake for now. Keep switching between that and TWBlue because the latter has way better timeline filtering and such. Love Tuba for supporting filters in general too, but Tuba would have no way of giving me sounds unless I ran my own watcher script in the background that played them alongside it open, which could work but is very hacky.
@matt Tweesecake is written in Python. It's too bad it won't just work on Linux. I don't know which parts are specific to Windows, but I'd guess the keyboard handler stuff.
@alexhall @matt oh yeah I would imagine. I know AccessibleOutput2 would interface to Speech-dispatcher directly, just have to have mine go through Pipe and not Alsa but yeah it would be workable on the speech side, it would bail most likely when trying to create those keyboard hooks. I've considered trying to run it inside a wineprefix with winetricks and seeing how well it does, presumably it could run with the visible UI but I have a feeling not even that would appear.
@Patrick Perdue @Terence Eden probably missing space between approximatelly and the number, I remember some tts when processing letters and numbers together treat that as abbreviation.
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There's a difference between someone who engages in political satire to call attention to things which are wrong, strange or just plain funny as opposed to someone with the intent to make fun of or harm someone's good name, reputation or brand just to do it. The latter can't be justified.
Woke up from a dream in which I was about to play a big trombone solo in this song about the wealth inequality crisis. More of that kind of dream please
Around 200,000 Linux computer systems from American computer maker Framework were shipped with signed UEFI shell components that could be exploited to bypass Secure Boot protections.
Languages are fun, have mysterious rules called grammar, but their native speakers certainly don't care about all that. In other words, do native speakers of a language speak the language correctly, as textbooks prescribe? (Hint: Definitely not.)
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Today is nine years ago since I learned how a single fixed byte write outside a heap buffer in c-ares could be used in a sequence to execute code as root on Chrome OS:
Thursday, September 22nd 2016. An email popped up in my inbox. Subject: ares_create_query OOB write As one of the maintainers of the c-ares project I'm receiving mails for suspected security problems in c-ares and this was such a one.
I don't know who of you posted this theory but thanks to you and my colleague who helped me test this, I know for sure no that you can use the sound split feature of your screen reader to send just the sound of your other apps, without the TTS, while screen-sharing on meeting platforms. I tested this with NVDA and Jitsi running inside Chrome. When NVDA is on the left and everything else right, only a faint echo of my TTS could be heard most likely owing to how my headset and the jack of my Thinkpad is wired. This must mean that probably Chrome or Windows take the right channel as the mix in case of doubt and when everything has to be mono, but then I might be wrong on all of that so let's goooo! I'll have to test with other platforms. #Accessibility #A11y #Blind
My sister-in-law got stuck in a parking lot for two hours because she accidentally confirmed a car software update. In the past, we got stuck because e.g. the spark plug died or the coolant froze. Today, it's because the car is updating.
haha, good. reminds me of that one time i've been to a prosthetist with my kid. that is the sort of person that makes various medical aid devices. he needed to take measurement of child's feet, with a device that basically resembles a rugged document scanner.
bro rushes in a bit late, apologizes, powers on the computer, has the girl take off her shoes and step on the scanner. as the computer goes through POST our collective eyeballs turn on the screen:
Installing updates: 0%
*awkward silence* *you can step off the scanner sweetie*
Installing updates: 0%
*apologies* *small talk*
Installing updates: 0% Do not turn the computer off.
I recently updated my Ford 's Sync software. Claimed it would take 2 hours. I checked at 40 minutes and it was done. I think I could have driven it though. I updated the maps and drove it while that processed.
This is amazing research by Nadia Heninger and her co-authors Wenyi Morty Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin and Aaron Schulman. TL;DR a huge number of satellite links over our heads are totally unencrypted. satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/
It still boggles my mind that Xcode's *built in* AI autocomplete keeps suggesting APIs that don't exist.
Like, it's literally sitting on top of a compiler that can determine if an API exists, so why can't it ask the compiler *before* suggesting it?
The entire purpose of autocomplete is to help me find out the real name of hard-to-remember APIs. I'm perfectly capable of *misremembering* them by myself, I don't need the computer to do it for me
To be fair: CEO is probably one of the few jobs and LLM could automate reasonably, especially with the weird, erratic CEO manchildren we are stuck with
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Liebe Leute, ihr habt euer #Win10 maximal noch ein weiteres Jahr. Allerdings hält es euch nicht auf, jetzt schon auf etwas Besseres umzusteigen!
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In #Graz macht das das #LinuxCafé zumindest 1x/Monat: events.graz.social/@linux_cafe Am 21.10. ist es wieder soweit. Gleich mal notieren und im besten Fall vorab Daten sichern, damit du mit einem frisch aufgesetzten Linux wieder danach heimkommst.
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Wer aktuell auf dem eigenen Computer noch Windows 10 verwendet, steht spätestens am Dienstag vor einer großen Entscheidung: Dann stellt Microsoft offiziell die Unterstützung für sein mittlerweile zehn Jahre altes Betriebssystem ein.
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