President Trump, stepping off Air Force One in Florida, says to reporters he told Putin and Zelenskyy to end the war immediately and "stop at the battle lines" that currently exist so soldiers can "go home to their families."
NYT - President Trump says he has commuted the sentence of former Representative George Santos, the disgraced Republican fabulist from New York who was sentenced to more than seven years in prison for financial fraud. nytimes.com/2025/10/17/us/poli…
This week is KDE’s 29th anniversary. It may not be a nice round number like 25 or 30, but whenever another birthday rolls around for an independent project the size and scope of KDE — powered by the goodwill of its contributors and users — that’s rea…
Are you drooling over your friend's Rayban AI glasses or Meta Quest RV thingies? What if I told you that you could save 30 bucks on your purchase? What if I told you that the earth is flat? Okay, it's not, but I could still say it. Well, why not follow this link when there's a huge sale and you could save even mrore. 30 bucks more to be exact. Isn't life grand? meta.com/ai-glasses/referrals/…
For awhile I really tried to convince myself I was just having the chills and throwing up over a lack of sleep. That and anticipation at training our new hire, finally I'm not the only engineer onthe team, hurray. Yet no. I'm still cold sensitive, still get pings of nauzea, my forehead is less warm but my nose has started to run. No matter how much convincing I try to do I'm less and less convinced.
@Aryan if the latest cumulative update fails, you can run the other ISOs installer to do an upgrade there and correct it. If worst comes to worst, but I really hope it can.
@DavidGoldfield Just got my teeny tiny shortwave radio. It's charging now and I will tinker with it in a few hours. I missed shortwave, I hope it might catch at least a few channels. I know I could probably find them on the internet, but it's fun to tinker with technology.
Not a lot out there anymore that isn't religious/state/right wing propaganda. You'll find more interesting stuff on single sideband. All the pirate radio stations show up for Haloween on the high side of 6 mHz LSB usually.
Been trying to get into SW myself lately, sadly I live in an apartment pretty close to the train tracks so get terrible reception even on most AM and FM stations. bought this little radio recently, like the rechargeable battery and the more analog knobs and switches. a.co/d/0eg5FdW
@dotsonapage I'm in a pretty noisy place, too. That's why I got the MLA30 active loop antenna. Those are great in compromised urban situations. I didn't look to see if that radio you guys are talking about does single side band, but that would be a must for me.
@BorrisInABox Not sure. I know there's seven other bands you can explore other than AM and FM so maybe that's one of them? thanks for the antenna rec, will look into that.
@dotsonapage SSB isn't a band. It's a modulation type.
Your traditional broadcast stations on Shortwave will use AM (amplitude modulation) where amateur radio and the occasional pirate will use either upper or lower sideband on the same band of frequencies. Sideband has no carrier. If you try to tune in a sideband signal on AM, it will sound really odd.
@bmoore123 I got this one. It's a real solid build, has a rechargeable removable battery and all buttons for functions. For 35 bucks, not bad. Still have to try it out though, but it has good reviews. a.co/d/3NPnG2T
@bmoore123 Wow, okay. Well, here's a good tip. Before you start trying to charge it, Open the battery compartment, take out the battery and remove its plastic covering. It facilitates charging. Lol! I like that it's USBC and has an SD card slot.
I have an am fm radio like that already which has a SD card slot and a USB port for a drive but another one will be cool and it has short wave. not sure whats still on there but will be fun to play with anyway. If I hate it, can always return it but I will like keep it. Also, there was a 5 buck off coupon.
@BorrisInABox @bmoore123 Well, got a religious channel anyway. Am and FM come in really good and you can type in the channel numbers, so that's cool. Now to improve shortwave reception. Hehehe, neat!
@bmoore123 @BorrisInABox They're actually pretty straight-forward. To the right of the screen, top button is power. Under that is the AM, FM, Shortwave. Under that, round button, memory button I think, then volume rocker. Buttons found at the Bottom of the screen is buttons numbered 1 to 5, under that 6 to 9, then 0. Last row at the bottom, scan left, mute, scan right, Then 2 buttons, which may be mode and record./ Haven't figured those one out yet. This one doesn't have bluetooth, but it does have auxiliary jack, found below the headphone jack.
@bmoore123 @BorrisInABox Yeah, I'm really liking it. So a bit more pointers. Buttons on the right side from top to bottom, almost. Power button, SD card button, AM/FM button toggle and then the Shortwave button that let's you cycle through 9 different bands. On the bottom, right of the scan right button is the record button. Hold down to record whatever you want and press again to stop. It['ll start playing the recording right away. Oh, that's if you have an SD card inserted. Lol!
@bmoore123 @technolass @BorrisInABox There's an updated version that has bluetooth on it and you can also connect it to your PC to send or retreive the files off of the SD card.
My Tecsun PL-990X does that. It's a reasonable generic speaker/line out when you need one of those. It can't record to the SD card, only play back from it. It's ALC is kind of nasty, too. I don't like how long the attack is.
@mischievoustomato I feel like both Android and iOS are losing the plot... neither Google nor Apple are looking like honest players anymore. It's bad news for all of us
I think we can only hope something like GrapheneOS can fill the void for us. I don't see a future where a new mobile OS steps in and takes over. It's too late for that. It would have been possible earlier in the mobile OS wars, but the competitors folded quickly.
Perhaps SailfishOS can pick up steam?
Either way, what matters most is if it can run apps people want to run. A non-Apple device will never really be able to run the iOS apps, but Sailfish and others which are Linux based can indeed preserve the ability to run Android apps. So perhaps that will be what happens.
Picked up a Corsair K70 mechanical keyboard this time. My Logitech after about 9 months, the keys began to pop off of it randomly, even just slightly flopping it down on carpet would make a key or two fly out. I got really tired of Logitech then, and I already had the Corsair K65 (which is wired), so figured, gosh, why not try them for wireless. So far so good! I also like how this keyboard has a volume wheel on the right side.
The RAM in this machine is Corsair because I knew they are a trusted brand for RAM, but had no idea they made keyboards, too! Very interested as I had to retire my MXKeys and am stuck using this wired keyboard I don't really like, but the amount of choice is overwhelming!
My local fire department is reinstating masks for at least (medical) first-responder calls now, and have encouraged volunteers to stay home if coming down with something for a long time. Basically for all the respiratory-illness reasons, but COVID is certainly part of the consideration.
I started taking Zepbound, a GLP-1 drug, this week and even at the lowest dose it’s absolutely wild how well it works. All hunger is completely gone which is shocking. I have to remember to eat now.
Should I write some blog posts about the experience? I feel no shame in trying it out.
Whenever I see "GenAI basically can do the work of a junior dev", I assume that those people are using junior devs very differently from me. To me, the value of a junior developer is maybe like 20% the code they write, and 80% is a down payment to a future where they no longer are a junior. I still haven't found an AI that could do that second part.
You didn't really think the business value of that PR that had more comments than lines of code that all of us have written at some point in our career (if you haven't, I'm sorry, your onboarding mentor sucked, they were supposed to point out all the stuff you had to learn the hard way) was in getting it merged eventually, right? The value was the PR after that, that had a lot less comments. And the PR after that one, etc.
Mastodon, I need your help: back when I was a nerdy teenage boy I got this new sound card for my 486, I don’t remember the brand/model. In it were drivers for Windows 95 which included a Winamp-like MIDI player with a sample: Chronology Pt 4 by JMJ.
This thing BLEW MY MIND. Not only is that song a complete banger, the MIDI player would show every track in real-time using visual effects as it played.
Would anyone have stumbled on that same piece of software? I’d love to relive that moment.
@synlogic4242 it is a real pillow made from a pattern I made, based on a comment on my blog. I did decline the offer to have the pillow sent to me - but I still enjoy the photo of it!
In light of the message on this pillow, I'd like to issue my thanks for your service. curl was very useful to me while I was troubleshooting a particularly difficult server bug this week. The bug related to a specific combination of headers and only happened on http/2, not on http/1.1, and curl was the tool I needed to easily switch between header values, http versions, and urls to nail down the parameters of the bug. I still haven't identified the root cause, but I was able to work around the issue (the fix was to set a cookie and perform a 302 redirect to refresh the page in a certain situation) and get a webpage back online. From one of those billion people using your service, thank you!
Welp, a posthumous live album release of Chick Corea's last concert just got published on Bandcamp… the only question is how long I wait to buy it. Because the purchase is inevitable.
there are Caseta Wireless switches from Lutron installed in this house and I guess nobody got the smart bridge to make them actually usable? Amazing stupidity
God, can someone please finally take #Firefox out of the hands of #Mozilla and their damn "AI" bros?
When they started adding all of this nonsense I went into my about:config to explicitly set "browser.ml.enable" to "false", but apparently even doesn't save you, as the new "features" will just not give a damn. 🫠
I personally am not happy about it. On the other hand I see that ordinary users, I've installed Firefox for, appreciate it. "Hey, I can have ChatGPT in the side panel instead of going to chatgpt.com!" I'd rather have this for them in Firefox than losing them to browsers which gave up user's privacy to AI services completely. As long as there is clear borderline between what AI gets access to and what it doesn't and it's possible to turn it off I'm content with it.
Go read this GotoSocial feature request. No, really. Then tell me if you'd love to be bitten. This won't change anything, but still... It'll make sense, trust me.
### Is your feature request related to a problem ?
nope :3
### Describe the solution you'd like.
As the title implied, an activity to virtually bite users or their posts might be nice to have (even though it's very silly x3)
### Describe alternat…
The only remaining part of my computing world that is not yet on Linux is my audio/music production work. Formulating a plan to try and make a move there, too.
Would love to connect up with anyone doing this seriously on Linux. I'm totally okay with re-tooling a bunch of my software stack, but I'm trying to figure out a good, solid audio interface that will work well for serious use under Linux.
Ripping DVDs and CDs is somewhat annoyingly work, but I value buying things once, rather than renting them, and having my media library under my control and unrestricted.
Sometimes I wish my work had a (locally hosted) LLM that could answer questions about Git projects. When did this function get added? Has this branch been merged, and is it in staging yet? Who changed this line most recently?
I know there are commands for all of this and more, but I don't always remember them. Plus, some things are surprisingly hard, such as seeing if a branch has been merged.
@miki We can, but those aren't local. Anything I give them may as well be public. When I use such a system for work, I change table names, remove credentials, and so on. There's no way I'm giving one of those things our entire in-house program complete with git history.
@miki Docker: yes, but we use self-hosted Gitlab for hosting and our image repository. No Github, Slack, or remote CI. We use Google for documents and other services, so Google Chat is our in-office messaging system. I think that's the only big company we use for daily workflows.
What industry, if I may ask? Not that many people go to such extremes.
We work with governmental organizations a lot, and European ones at that, and even we aren't that strict. All of our actual deployments are on prem, but we use Github, Docker.io, Google, MS Teams and a few other things for software dev.
@miki Powersports parts distribution, of all the random things. But our team is small, and our software is almost all used in-house. We're not making publicly distributed apps, we don't need extensive CI/testing setups, we're not spending tons of money on high-end servers to compile huge projects. Basically, we're small enough that all self-hosted is actually viable. I'm also lucky enough to have both a manager and a boss that understand IT.
It is 1982. I am six years old. Tron bombs at the box office. It is 2010. I am 34 years old. Tron bombs at the box office. It is 2025. I am 49 years old. Tron bombs at the box office.
There is no official Chef Workstation (or CINC Workstation) release for FreeBSD, but after investigating how CINC builds their fork I see it's just Ruby Gems which are being patched.
18.10.1967 se *Bee Gees* dostali na vrchol 🇬🇧 hitparády s písní *Massachusetts*.
Nádhernou píseň napsali BG v New Yorku během US turné. Původně byla určena pro australskou folkovou kapelu The Seekers. Shodou okolností se však s nimi BG minuli a nakonec píseň nahráli sami. Je také známo, že BG v době psaní hitu nikdy v Massachusetts nebyli, jen se jim líbilo, jak jméno znělo.
A takhle BG hit zpívali v r. 1967 a po 30 letech: 😍
После тренировки активного вида спортом некоторые мышцы бурлят, как будто там клубок червей, а в любой, реально любой, может возникнуть судорога, если её сильно напрячь.
Это похоже на мышечные фасцикуляции (непроизвольные подергивания мышечных волокон) в сочетании с повышенной судорожной готовностью. Ощущение "бурления" или "клубка червей" - классическое описание фасцикуляций. Наиболее вероятные причины после интенсивных тренировок: 1. Электролитный дисбаланс
Недостаток магния, калия, кальция или натрия Это самая частая причина при активных тренировках
2. Обезвоживание
Даже легкое обезвоживание влияет на нервно-мышечную проводимость
3. Перетренированность
Мышцы не успевают восстановиться Накопление усталости в нервной системе
4. Недостаток сна/восстановления
Нарушается регенерация мышечной ткани
Что делать: Немедленно:
Пей больше воды (2-3 литра в день, особенно в дни тренировок) Добавь магний (300-400 мг в день, лучше цитрат или бисглицинат) Ешь богатые калием продукты (бананы, картофель, авокадо)
На перспективу:
Проверь режим восстановления между тренировками Добавь растяжку после тренировок Рассмотри курс витаминов группы B (важны для нервной системы) Следи за качеством сна
Когда к врачу: Если симптомы не проходят через 1-2 недели при соблюдении рекомендаций, или если судороги становятся очень частыми/болезненными - стоит проверить уровень электролитов и щитовидную железу. Скорее всего, это просто сигнал организма о необходимости лучшего восстановления!
Из Википедии: Появление фасцикуляций могут провоцировать некоторые химические вещества и лекарства, в частности дифенгидрамин, дименгидринат, сальбутамол, кофеин, псевдоэфедрин, амфетамины.
Allein die Followerzahl taugt m.A.n. nicht zur Beurteilung bzw. dem Vergleich der Reichweite.
Aussagekräftiger finde ich die sog. Organic Reach Rate in Kombination mit der Followerzahl.
Bei Facebook lag die im verg. Monat bei 3%, Quelle siehe unten.
D.h., um bei Facebook mit einem unbezahlten Post (theroretisch) genausoviele Follower wie im FedieVerse zu erreichen, also in Deinem Fall 306, wären auf Facebook, wenn wir richtig gerechnet haben, 10.200 Follower nötig.
Denn im FediVerse gibt es keine Algo's die, die Reichweite bestimmen. Sondern sie liegt bei (theroetisch) 100% der Follower.
Ich hoffe, ich hab mich nicht zu kompliziert ausgedrückt 🤒Und wenn ich da einen Denkfehler habe, bin ich für Hinweise dankbar.
I read general news and current events only once per week (sundays, usually). If it’s important enough I’ll find out in person sooner organically. I rarely read or engage in any general news on social media, only in person or official news outlets. At worst I’m out of touch for 7 days. I find this makes my me happier and more at peace and avoids the shock driven news cycles.
The last 2-3 days there was a significant slow down with message sending, sometimes 15 seconds, via the default #chatmail relay .... Wasn't a CPU/RAM or other resource problem but a software configuration / implementation problem. After some hours of debugging it was solved by providing the "speed-adjust" proxy option to #postfix. message sending should be back to sub-second. No message was lost. Lesson learned: just search for "speed" in postfix docs first (and fix the offending module later).
Almost have this software I want to test building on FreeBSD, but the morons use git submodules so their source code tarballs from their github release are incomplete... so annoying
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