#Bass Guitarist Anthony Jackson Dead At 73.
Legend!
He performed live in more than 30 countries and recorded in more than 3000 sessions on more than 500 albums.
Wikipedia:
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#jazz #music
Introducing my state of the art Linux distro, Ebian. It's secure, performant, and awesome.
debian.org/ follow the instructions here to get an iso (we use this software project only to bootstrap ebian) and then install it.
Then, run `sudo apt update && sudo apt install emacs`
This will install Ebian for you, giving you a modern and awesome Linux distro.
Debian -- The Universal Operating System
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So if you're a privatised water company you can pump raw sewage into rivers and nobody does anything about it, but if you're a private citizen you can get fined for pouring coffee down a drain.
Please make it make sense.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg435g…
#TheLunaticsHaveTakenOverTheAsylum
Kew woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down drain in Richmond
Burcu Yesilyurt says the fine is "disproportionate" while Richmond Council say it is in line with its policies.Frankie McCamley (BBC News)
I am not a web developer at all, but I wonder how it seems so easy to simultaneously make an effort at making things accessible while screwing it up. I needed to order something from Lenovo's web site, and it appears to have some kind of accessibility overlay, but I'm not sure which one. On some pages, pressing tab would only cycle between the various accessibility options and would not reach anything else on the page. And there were several buttons that had an aria-label attribute with "Use enter key to expand" as its value. And that is what Orca reads to me when focus lands on the button, without any context as to the button's purpose.
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And now Minio is no longer releasing binaries or docker images
Told you they were not to be trusted
So few people mentioned medical stuff being affected by the AWS outage. They'll mention banks and such, but as someone who was at the doctor's at that time: it all broke.
No billing, no patient records, half the devices refusing to work due to license verification failures...
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Saw on my timeline today that the Windows 11 25H2 installer removed the ability to launch Narrator from install media. Can anyone please confirm? That'd be an interesting thing for me to learn for sure right now, seeing as I've been trying to bring it up in KVM, failing, and debugging it as if Linux audio is the problem. To be fair, it often is, but maybe not this time.
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I think they have both the updated consumer ISO and the original 26100 ISO there for consumer, not just the LTSC / enterprise versions. As long as you install a consumer pro or home edition like you had and choose that during set-up you should still keep that same digital license.
I only see 25H2 here, trying to find where I'd select 24H2, but since they use official microsoft download links, as they should, they might not exist anymore...
I gave a talk last night about "Living dangerously with Claude", on the joys and perils of --dangerously-skip-permissions and how critical it is that we run coding agents in a sandbox so that we can unlock their full potential simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/22/…
Living dangerously with Claude
I gave a talk last night at Claude Code Anonymous in San Francisco, the unofficial meetup for coding agent enthusiasts. I decided to talk about a dichotomy I’ve been struggling …Simon Willison’s Weblog
> The best sandboxes run on someone else’s computer
I disagree. Wanting to externalize risk onto someone else is anti-social, right? And it also gives that someone else access to data that they might not otherwise have.
Codex has a built-in sandbox, even when running locally. It uses Mac OS's Seatbelt mechanism to restrict command privleges, with an equivalent on Linux whose name I don't remember. The default settings don't allow network access. That causes it to constantly prompt for elevated permissions, but you can override that via the config file (this cannot be done via CLI flags).
I find that it's also worth adding some write roots beyond the workspace, notably ~/.cache (for uv) and ~/.docker (if you often need it to interact with Docker containers).
It's interesting how elevated permissionns are implemented; as far as I understand, it's the model that chooses when to ask for them. Sometimes it asks before running a particularly destructive command, even one that would be allowed by the sandbox. If a sandboxed command fails, it may first try to finish the task another way instead of prompting the user. This can be changed via CLI flags; you can force it to always prompt on failure or to never do so. In the latter case, it will try to do as much as it can on its own, only returning back to the user if the task is complete or if it can't find a way forward.
Well, thanks to github.com/Memotech-Bill/MakeD… - now I have a DAISY book of 380 tracks on my Brailliant, and it plays music! Ahaha what a concept Humanware, I'm playing my own Mp3s freely on your device. Big middle finger to you. For a release, grab github.com/Memotech-Bill/MakeD… - this uses mostly Linux conventions. I built a Windows version, that uses FFMPEG and not Id3tag to grab file durations, and make a DAISY 2.02 book.
Oh, you want it? I do link back to this original source. I don't just write code willy-nilly without crediting back a source. So here you go, my fork.
eurpod.com/makedaisy_ffmpeg.zi…
- just point it at a directory and it'll do all the magic for you, throw it onto a Chameleon, Humanware E-reader, Brailliant Bi 20X or 40X, whatever, even any old DAISY player might play this if you can open ncc.html.
Oh, you want it? I do link back to this original source. I don't just write code willy-nilly without crediting back a source. So here you go, my fork.
eurpod.com/makedaisy_ffmpeg.zi…
- just point it at a directory and it'll do all the magic for you, throw it onto a Chameleon, Humanware E-reader, Brailliant Bi 20X or 40X, whatever, even any old DAISY player might play this if you can open ncc.html.
GitHub - Memotech-Bill/MakeDaisy: Create DAISY Audio Book from MP3 collection
Create DAISY Audio Book from MP3 collection. Contribute to Memotech-Bill/MakeDaisy development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Does it have to re-encode the mp3s? What's the spec for daisy? I'd much rather do my own encodes.
@x0 ooh yeah interesting question. The original code did re-encode them, back into mono. I removed that in mine, or added it as an optional flag I think there. Some players are more strict, requiring generally a 64-KBit mono track, but thankfully the Humanware one can accept any bitrate (well, threw 320-kbit stereo one at it to check)
@x0 OOh vbr I haven't tried yet, might experiment on that a little bit, most stuff I have here just re-encodes into CBR rates. Too bad we can't poke inside the firmware to see what MP3 engine they use. Would be a shame if they now locked it down to just 64-bit mono, but gosh darn it, they're never taking the freedom away from me to play any file I want on there now that audio's been let out of the bag :D
fashtech is not just *anything* written and promoted by fascists. it has particular technical smells to it.
this post goes in detail through everything that Omarchy fucks up through incompetence and arrogance. it's a perfect worked example.
"Omarchy feels like a project created by a Linux newcomer"
(long post, the author says feel free to skip to the summary)
tvl ale to brucho, sám som z neho mimo 😁
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I have a rather peculiar #Android problem.
- I use personalDNSfilter (zenz-solutions.de/personaldnsf…) to block ads system-wide. It's basically like running a local pi-hole using a local VPN.
- I would also like to use Orbot (#Tor) and run some apps (specifically Nextcloud) that don't natively support proxying through Orbot's VPN.
The problem is, Android won't let me run two VPNs at the same time. And blocking ads without a VPN would require rooting my phone, which I don't want to do. However:
- personalDNSfilter can expose the DNS server on port 5300 without using the VPN (which is useless in itself).
- Orbot can expose its HTTP and SOCKS proxy without using the VPN (which is also useless in itself).
Is there some way to setup a custom VPN that would combine these two things, i.e., let me route some apps through Orbot's proxy and use the local DNS server (provided by personalDNSfilter) at port 5300? I was looking at OpenVPN for Android (github.com/schwabe/ics-openvpn), but I'm honestly really confused. Help please? 😅 Boosts appreciated.
GitHub - schwabe/ics-openvpn: OpenVPN for Android
OpenVPN for Android. Contribute to schwabe/ics-openvpn development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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I was figuring out a similar problem and in the end I settled on running my own DNS filtering outside the device (AdGuard Home on my server) and setting it as the private DNS in Android. The advantage of this solution is that you can cover all your devices in your household with it. And I still get to run whatever VPN I want on my phone.
@sesivany Interseting, I haven't thought about this. So it supports DoT? I looked at Pi-hole and it's problematic there.
Yes, it does. Standard DNS, DoT and DoH. I use all them them. Standard DNS for our home network, DoT and DoH are open to the Internet and used on mobile devices. Unlike standard DNS no one abuses open DoT and DoH.
Hello @Razemix, with #AdGuardHome you can use it inside and outside you LAN.
Here, I set it as DHCP server and it acts as DNS resolver for all the endpoints on my local network. But I also declare each device with an unique identifier and set private DNS on all of them. Profiles for iOS devices can be generated from the #AGH dashboard.
My AGH is serving DoT, DoH and DoQ protocols. This way, strangers cannot use my resolver to poison it.
VPN connection is not required is this setup to use your AGH outside your local network.
You need a domain name, a free certificate (Let’s Encrypt), open two ports (443 & 853 on UDP & TCP) in your router and firewall, write a tiny script to update your DNS record if your WAN IP address is dynamic.
Network ports are: #DoT (853/TCP), #DoQ (853/UDP), #DoH HTTP/2 (443/TCP), DoH HTTP/3 (443/UDP).
All you devices and family ones can use your personal secure DNS.
You can also completely replace standard DNS client on all your computers with #dnsproxy software developed by AGH team. All your devices will use secure DNS.
If you're going to take any lessons from me, please let it be my lessons on how to write lightweight software that doesn't suck, and not my lessons on sleep schedules or homework procrastination. Awake at 2:45 AM when I have to work the next day unable to sleep completing exams for an AWS class. Great.
Ah, that makes sense. I assume no inaccessible captchas any more? I know that was an issue back in the day.
v piatok idem na tekkno, s kamoškou a neviem sa dočkať.. berie ma von 
Imagine if the whole news industry had managed to setup something for "micro payment" that would work industry-wide.
Don't want a subscription? pay "small amount" to read for 24hours. Like when you bought the newspaper at the newsstand.
Instead they want to force people to subscribe and it's a PITA to cancel or even read (with poor UX).
The whole thing is self inflicted.
Someone once told me that if you're watching a show that always ends on cliffhangers and you want to make sure you don't go to bed too late because you want to keep watching, it's better to just find a good stopping point in the middle of the episode, rather than just wait til the end so you're tempted, and honestly I kinda agree
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Coucou les alsacien.nes qui traînent par la
Cela fait 5 ans que j'habite à #Strasbourg... et je ne suis JAMAIS allée une seule fois à Kiehl 🫣
Mes ami.e.s me conseillent régulièrement dy aller pour faire mes courses mais comme je ne parle pas allemand, je n'y connais rien et j ai une phobie sociale... c est pas evident. Donc déjà savoir ou aller pour regarder quoi
Avez-vous des adresses à conseiller ? (Spécialement les adresses pour des produits veganes)
Merci d avance pour tous vos retours 🥰
J'espère que vous allez bien
Et je vous souhaite une belle journée ❣️
Je ne sais pas pour les produits véganes malheureusement, mais en général à Kehl il y a au moins un(e) caissier(-ère) dans chaque grand magasin du type Rewe, DM ou Lidl qui parle français. Vraiment, y en a trop de Strasbourgeois là-bas dans les magasins 😊 On vous aurait aidé mais malheureusement ma femme n'a pas encore de document pour voyager.
I've worked for CEOs (not directly, obviously, there were lots and lots of middle managers to keep us separate) and I 100% believe they would fire 40% of people holding their institutional knowledge without any idea of what those people do.
EDIT: I've been informed the article I based this shitpost off of might have been AI slop (I didn't read the article, because who reads a thing before a shitpost??). But even so, PLAUSIBLE.
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Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of multiline Braille and the benefits it comes with. I don't pooh-pooh on folks who purchased them, if they are proud and love their investment, that's amazing.
For me there's fundemental physics problems with multiline. No matter the weight (which right now even 4-8 LBS is a lot to be always wearing if you wanted to like a traditional one,) you'll never reduce the width and length. This is where I've always felt like 32-cells was a more natural feel, as with 40 you make it so long that the device begins to look more like a line. I believe the newer multilines opted for the less line-like feel, which is good too. No matter what though, you'll have it remain as wide as a laptop, because of Braille cell's size itself. If you want to have those pins, plus extra pins within gaps to create any tactile graphic that aligns to other shapes, you need that size. We'd need magic floating resizable-type device that slides underneath itself and unslides when it needs more content displayed to truly make my dream work it. It would shrink down in width (not length, again physics) and become smaller, but thicker. Then it would slide out like a little turtle popping out of its shell to reveal more content. Ha. What no that's never going to be a thing.
For me there's fundemental physics problems with multiline. No matter the weight (which right now even 4-8 LBS is a lot to be always wearing if you wanted to like a traditional one,) you'll never reduce the width and length. This is where I've always felt like 32-cells was a more natural feel, as with 40 you make it so long that the device begins to look more like a line. I believe the newer multilines opted for the less line-like feel, which is good too. No matter what though, you'll have it remain as wide as a laptop, because of Braille cell's size itself. If you want to have those pins, plus extra pins within gaps to create any tactile graphic that aligns to other shapes, you need that size. We'd need magic floating resizable-type device that slides underneath itself and unslides when it needs more content displayed to truly make my dream work it. It would shrink down in width (not length, again physics) and become smaller, but thicker. Then it would slide out like a little turtle popping out of its shell to reveal more content. Ha. What no that's never going to be a thing.
I like both for different reasons. i carry the 32-cell with me. But enjoy the 40-cell a home. Also I love my Monarch, no regrets. I say home most of the time. Also I carried around a Perkins brailler and a book bag with a lot of books. I can carry a Monarch.
@EdenLinnea ahahah yes, if you have (or might) carry a Perkins, those would still be worth the weight. Even the mini form wouldn't come close to that, although better than the 9-11 pounds a Perkins regular had. Still, love reading your experiences with it and that you're really enjoying the Monarch, super great to hear of it. :)
I'm not against shrinking the lines for sensible size concerns. I take notes on A5 paper quite happily. It's the ability to put min finger a few words ahead that I really want from a Braille display.
@radiorobbe Zu deinem letzten Boost. Krieg ich 100% wenn ich Blind und unter 30 bin? :P
Kontext: Junge Leute sparen 50 %
Für alle unter 30 gibt es das Basis-Angebot zum halben Preis! Ab dem 30. Lebensjahr läuft das Abo zum regulären Preis weiter. Altersnachweis erforderlich. Jederzeit vierwöchentlich kündbar.
Kontext: Junge Leute sparen 50 %
Für alle unter 30 gibt es das Basis-Angebot zum halben Preis! Ab dem 30. Lebensjahr läuft das Abo zum regulären Preis weiter. Altersnachweis erforderlich. Jederzeit vierwöchentlich kündbar.
Joah, da wird später mal eine Mail geschickt🤣
Danke für den Boost und weiterhin nen schönen Tach noch.
Danke für den Boost und weiterhin nen schönen Tach noch.
I should port at-spi2-registryd to gdbus. There is no reason that it needs to be using libdbus (libatspi might be another matter). I wouldn't want to make anyone else have to muck with the existing code, and libdbus will just make your program abort if you look at it the wrong way.
Of course, I should do a lot of things... Of course, a patch would be welcome if anyone else felt like taking that on.
Of course, I should do a lot of things... Of course, a patch would be welcome if anyone else felt like taking that on.
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I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
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Hi @fastfinge , In case you have some spare time, I'd be very interested in your feedback on a11y regarding codeberg.org/readeck/readeck/p… 🙂
WIP: Add keyboard shortcuts
### Summary When a keyboard shortcut is pressed, for example "b" or "Shift-A", this activates the HTML element that references that shortcut via the `data-hotkey` HTML attribute.Codeberg.org
Hi! Sadly I can’t participate on codeberg as they have a captcha that blocks account creation, and they sometimes show a captcha during login and page views as well. They’ve decided that blocking AI scraping is more important than accessibility. As for hotkeys, my initial feedback is that following the gmail or Microsoft conventions would be best. However, the interface is not complex enough that I’d find myself using them; at least in my use-case I’m rarely dealing with hundreds of links I need to act on, so the speed of shortcuts wouldn’t add much. But other folks might differ! It’s okay to intercept escape directly; if a screen reader offers a hotkey that would conflict with yours, it blocks that hotkey from ever reaching the page.
thanks for your feedback 🙂
Do you get a captcha once you're logged-in or is it that you can't even register?
Found this codeberg.org/Codeberg/Communit… but I reckon that you can't participate; bit of a chicken and egg situation 🫤
(you can register by email if you want, they're the good guys doing their best)
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Both. One to login, then sometimes a second one when viewing pages. I’m just not open to lending my time and projects to a platform that doesn’t care about me. I’ll stick with GitHub; my ability to actually use the website trumps any other concern.
Thank you for the feedback; much appreciated! I'm sorry to hear about Codeberg being inaccessible and I'm going to re-raise the issue on their Community discussion board. BTW, lovely cat on your profile banner—I have an orange boi at home who looks very much like that.
Thanks! Zara is an amazing cat and I love her deeply. Unfortunately, AI has really changed the incentives around accessibility for the worse: big corporations are now all in on accessibility, because the more accessible something is, the better it is for AI. Whereas non-corporate efforts are now actively harming accessibility to keep AI out.
This is not me trying to push you to try Codeberg again, but for what it's worth, I've received a reply from one of the Codeberg team that there should not be visual CAPTCHAs anywhere but the signup form anymore. The anti-AI scraping approach adopted roughly 6 months ago is a computational challenge using Anubis. codeberg.org/Codeberg/Communit…
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heise erweitert sein Angebot für Leserinnen und Leser mit Sehbeeinträchtigung. Ab sofort erhalten Menschen mit Sehbehinderung auf alle digitalen Abos des Verlags – einschließlich der Magazine und von heise+ – einen #Rabatt von 50 Prozent.
➡️ heisegroup.de/presse/Mehr-digi…
Mehr digitale Inklusion für Menschen mit Sehbeeinträchtigung
Das Medienhaus heise erweitert sein Angebot für Leserinnen und Leser mit Sehbeeinträchtigung. Ab sofort erhalten Menschen mit Sehbehinderung auf alle digitalen Abos des Verlags – einschließlich der Magazine und von heise+ – einen Rabatt von 50 Prozen…heise group
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I got a theory that the Mona Lisa is just holdin in a fart, cause o my god how long would you have to sit for a damn painting, that sounds awful.
Dear business owners large and small,
Post your upcoming events, specials, sales, calendar, news, etc. on your actual WEBSITE.
Telling your potential customers they can find it on some billionaire-owned social media platform is like telling them to fuck off.
Unless someone actually has an account with those platforms, they can NOT see your posts. Not even if it's set to "public". Yes, really.
This is literally what your website is for. FFS please use it. 🐸
Yesterday’s #AWS outage has led me to wonder, not for the first time, if we all have maybe become too dependent on online services. For instance, I read the story about how the outage wreaked havoc with smart beds. I’m also thinking about people who control their kitchen appliances and thermostats with apps. From an #A11Y standpoint all these things are wonderful, no question. But, as was shown yesterday, glitches would have the potential of throwing everything into chaos. There’s also the issue of too much power being in too few hands, but that’s another subject for another time. Right now Sarah and I have Braille overlays for our appliances, and our thermostat from the now defunct talkingthermostats.com still works fine. I’m just not sure I ever want to put control of my appliances and heating/cooling into the hands of an app. #JMO
A few years ago, my a/c stopped working. It turned out that my thermostat was gone, and the tech put in what he had / wanted to put in. So now I have a thermostat that isn't ideal from an accessibility perspective, and sometimes I wish I'd put in something else, like a Nest, but you make a good point, that it could have its downsides, and it might not be the best after all. In general, everything seems to become more complicated over time, and the complexity often brings subtle, unwanted side effects. Same goes for AI, but that's another subject. i miss my old thermostat; at least it had a switch so that I could clearly tell whether it was heating or cooling or off.
That Vario really might be on its last leg. I need to tap it super hard to get power to work reliably, once I power it off, sometimes it won't power back on without a good slap across its backside. Wow. Poor thing. I at least got all my data off it and reset it, so I'm happy if it does die nothing important will be on it. So, back to the drawing board with HID Braille on Linux. Perhaps my Bluez stack is out of date.
The No Mouse Challenge is a global effort to raise awareness about accessible web design. Try using your website without a mouse. Use the keyboard instead. Is it possible to access all features and operate all buttons, sliders, and other controls?
Suite à la mort subite de mon fairphone 3+, j'ai craqué pour un fairphone 6. Et bah la marque a fait d'énormes progrès !
L'appareil est super bien fini. Les performances sont au top.
Je n'ai pas encore vraiment eu l'occasion de tester, mais les capteurs photos ont aussi l'air d'avoir grandement pris en qualité. Et surtout, l'appli démarre en un instant.
L'écran est nickel!
Et puis on peut se le faire livrer avec e/OS/ (Murena) préinstallé, et ça c'est vraiment cool (bien que facturé 50€)
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une question me taraude : si ton fairphone 3 est mort, y'avait pas moyen de ... le réparer en remplaçant la partie défectueuse ?
Bah je ne sais pas quelle pièce l'étais... Probablement la carte mère, ou le stockage. Je n'ai pas le tempq pour tester une à une les parties, j'ai besoin d'un smartphone fonctionnel.
Mais je peux refiler les pièces fonctionnelles si qqun a besoin. Écran, appareil photo, etc...
Managed to introduce "synergistic frictivation" into the company lexicon after using it in a strategy document to test if anyone reads them. Now, senior management uses it in presentations as if it's gospel. Last week, someone suggested we "frictivate our verticals".
I've been experimenting with turning LibriVox's excellent dramatic reading of Wuthering Heights into an immersive 3D audio experience. Just finished Chapter 1 as a test run.
Please check it out and give feedback! audiopub.site/listen/ea8b9f7d-…
Full credit to LibriVox: librivox.org/wuthering-heights…
#Audiobooks #WutheringHeights #ClassicLiterature #wuthering_heights
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Chapter 2 is up! Please listen and feel free to give any feedback you may have.
I love these "overlay" UI style that hide important information, but can't be hidden...
Looking at you Jitsi.
we are two weeks away from the pending #curl 8.17.0 release
ja sa asi zbláznim, pôjdem do Brna?
ssh access to... a bed?!?!?!?
trufflesecurity.com/blog/remov…
Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed ◆ Truffle Security Co.
Eight Sleep smart bed found to contain an exposed AWS key and a likely backdoor that allowed engineers to remotely access users' bedstrufflesecurity.com
Hubert Figuière
in reply to Adam Jacobs 🇺🇦 • • •annaf
in reply to Hubert Figuière • • •Hubert Figuière
in reply to annaf • • •Peter Brown
in reply to Hubert Figuière • • •@hub @annaf absolutely. Doing an oil change and putting the waste oil down the drain should certainly be fined more than £150. And emptying the chemical toilet from your motorhome into the drain should also get a hefty fine.
But coffee is not toxic to wildlife. If we’re going to fine coffee drinkers then why not stop people washing their cars in the street?