No more jumping via website & wikis: now most of our documentation is available at our website And as that's quite "a bit" (uh, a minor understatement) more, it has a "site search" now, too.
So we hope you like how it's set up and organized, and find what you're looking for at
AI email generators can help write your emails quicker, but the risks often outweigh the benefits when granting them access to your private mailbox. Here’s why not to use AI email writers.
I love that so many companies are rushing to integrate AI. They are getting so much backlash from users. Loss of privacy + "No one asked for this." There is so much software investment that wasn't needed. And you are able to easily add so much value to your offering by just saying, "we are not going to do that."
I am so very, very tired of whatever causes NVDA to completely fall over on it's face when a bunch of console dumping happens. I can usually work around it, but today, had to hard shut down two PC's because I completely lost control of them to the point where I couldn't restart NVDA and/or focus away from all the scrolling text.
I wonder if @bill would have any insight about this? I feel like he's been hearing me complain about terminal for years, but I didn't know anyone else was experiencing the same issues. I don't know if you're using the actual Windows Terminal or just conhost, but I seem to have different issues with each. I can't remember which missing feature causes this, but I find Windows Terminal causes fewer NVDA crashes with lots of text. However, Windows Terminal has an absolutely massive memory leak that no-one has been able to track down for years, and once it hits 200 MB or so, it starts lagging in the same way a very far off SSH connection might. What's your diffing algorithm set to? Part of the problem is that there are so many options related to consoles and Windows Terminal, and their defaults change based on whether you're using conhost or Terminal, and they might also change depending on which Windows version you're using.
For what it's worth, I took the very overkill step of writing an AutoIt script that gives me a built-in "Kill NVDA" hotkey, and that's eliminated the need to restart or drop into secure mode. I know that if there is ongoing text flooding your console, it can be hard to get away from, but usually I find that some combination of my NVDA killer, hammering windows+m, and turning off NVDA+5 tends to fix the worst of it. But yeah, all of this is obnoxious and sometimes I find myself wondering if I need to figure out how to either run an extremely minimal Debian VM, or try to get TDSR working in WSL.
@simon From my testing, you absolutely want diff match patch. First, press NVDA+F1 in your console, go to the bottom and see what you're using for diff algorithm. If it's difflib, go into advanced and force it to diff match patch. On my system, using console and not Windows Terminal, printing a whole bunch of random lines of text is at least survivable with that. Printing one-character lines in a loop still isn't, but that might be something else.
@tspivey @simon Two other things:1. Ensure you aren't logging input/output or more. The logging itself causes performance degradation because of the constant writing and flushing to disk on the main thread.2. Use Windows Terminal and set NVDA to prefer UIA notification events.
@Jage @simon All it does is taskkill -f -im nvda.exe, but it's running from your secure screen if you hit ctrl+alt+delete, which means that the taskkill is done as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM, so NVDA can almost always be killed that way.
In #curl land, @vsz made a CI job that builds curl with fil-C and it runs the tests fine. Just slightly limited due to lack of dependencies as they all need to be built with fil-C as well.
Requirements for Fil-C:
not to accidentally pick up system headers. E.g. from /usr/include
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Fil-C is basically a memory-safe approach for C code. It was discussed on hacker news again yesterday. I find it a rather cool take, but with lots of limitations of course.
Mr Arthur Bargain was a shopkeeper. This is the rather unfortunate story of his little shop.Most of the illustrations in this video were generated by Stable...
George, an 83-year-old man, was heading to bed when his wife pointed out that the light in the garage was still on. From the bedroom window, she noticed movement inside. Curious, George opened the back door to check, only to spot people rummaging through his garage, clearly up to no good. He quickly called the police and explained the situation. The officer on the line asked, “Is your garage attached to your house?” George replied, “No, it’s detached.” The officer then said, “All units are currently busy. Please stay inside, lock your doors, and we’ll send someone as soon as possible.” George hung up, paused for a moment, and then picked up the phone again. This time, he told the dispatcher, “I just called about the people in my garage. You don’t need to hurry anymore—I’ve taken care of it. I’ve shot them all.” Then he hung up. Within minutes, George’s quiet neighborhood turned into a scene out of an action movie. Six police cars, a SWAT team, a helicopter, and an ambulance all arrived in record time. The officers swarmed the property and quickly apprehended the burglars, catching them red-handed in the act. One of the officers approached George, clearly puzzled. “I thought you said you’d shot them?” With a sly smile, George replied, “And I thought you said no one was available!”
Ja war echt schwer. Ich dachte ich hätte nen relativ zeitigen Druck auf F5 hinbekommen und war auch bei 40 Minuten. Kollege mit 8 Minuten ist knapp durch gekommen. Vielleicht beim nächsten Termin. 🤞
the sysadmins dont want you to know this but there are ports below port 20. nobody knows what they do, physicists suspect it might be related to dark matter. the government agencies scrub all mentions of these ports off the open internet. i am revealing all of this to you at great risk to my life,
A command prompt terminal should open and the encode should start. You can check the status by reading the bottom of the window.
The window will close once the encode is complete. This could take anywhere from a few seconds to five-ten minutes. You should see a video file in the folder that is only a few MB larger than the audio+image files you started with.
Major breakage on Hubzilla 10.6 due to switching to FEP-e232 Object Links; CW: long (over 5,000 characters), Fediverse meta, Fediverse-beyond-Mastodon meta, non-Mastodon Fediverse meta
Just because it works under your very limited and controlled lab conditions, doesn't mean it will work just as well under real-life conditions.
A few may remember the summer of 2024 when (streams) rolled out FEP-171b. It broke federation in every imaginable way because, as it turned out later, (streams) suddenly confused the many different IDs it had to juggle. Granted, the byproduct of trying to fix this was Forte, the first Fediverse server software to provide nomadic identity via nothing but ActivityPub.
Now Hubzilla rolled out FEP-e232. And there's breakage again. Not quite as badly, but in places that really hurt.
So the talk of the town in the Fediverse is Mastodon 4.5 introducing quote-posts. (Mastodon 4.5 allegedly introducing quote-posts to the Fediverse, and how that's wrong, is another story.)
FEP-e232 Object Links in practice usually = "quote-posts like Misskey" = linking to the original with "RE:" before the link.
Apparently, rather than what Hubzilla had been doing since 2012 when it was still Red. What Friendica has been doing since its own inception in 2010. Namely insert a dumb copy of the quoted post into the quoting post.
While (streams) and Forte have been supporting FEP-e232 under the bonnet for quite a while while still quote-posting with dumb copies, Hubzilla has decided to go all the way and replace the old-fashioned Friendica way of quote-posting entirely with the Misskey way that's all the rage in the Fediverse now.
Yes, this has its advantages. If the original is edited, then the edit (in theory) is reflected in all posts that quote-post it.
But here on Hubzilla, this switch causes trouble.
Mastodon rolled out rendering support for Misskey-style quote-posts before rolling out quote-posts themselves, so those Mastodon servers that can't render these quote-posts are hopelessly outdated.
Hubzilla, on the other hand, rolled out Misskey-style quote-posts with version 10.6 while 10.4 and older can't even render Misskey-style quote-posts, not even when they come straight from a *key. In this regard, it would have been smarter to first make sure that Hubzilla renders this kind of quote-posts, then wait for a few minor releases and then change the way Hubzilla quote-posts.
You may see this as just a minor nuisance. But on top of that, it breaks Hubzilla's forums.
See, Hubzilla's forums are based on quote-posts. You start a new thread by DM'ing to a forum, and the forum will automatically share (quote-post) your start post to all forum members. If it's a private, limited-access forum, only the forum members are permitted to see the post with your quoted post in it.
I guess it's kind of obvious that this can only work by quote-posting a dumb copy of the start post unless a few more stops are being pulled.
Now, however, forums on Hubzilla 10.6 quote-post start posts by linking to the original. Remember that the original is a DM to the forum. As in only the forum is permitted to see it. You can click the link to the original all you want. But unless you run the forum, Hubzilla will not let you see it, not even with all the OpenWebAuth magic sign-on that you have on yourself as a Hubzilla user. In fact, I'd be very worried if I could see it now.
If there was even only one active forum on one of the two public hubs that run development versions, this critical bug would have popped up earlier and been fixed before it would have hit a release. But apparently, nobody is crazy enough to run a forum on a dev-grade hub, not to mention how few active Hubzilla forums there are in the first place. Seriously, I wonder if there's any feedback coming from the two dev hubs because I never see any hit the Support Forum. Does it all go straight to Framagit?
Good thing hubzilla.org is still running Hubzilla 10.4. hubzilla.org is not only the official Hubzilla website, it's actually a Hubzilla hub itself. The official Hubzilla website is built on a Hubzilla channel, using the Webpages app. And hubzilla.org is home of the Hubzilla Support Forum. It would have been a disaster, had this forum been broken, too.
I guess there's a hotfix due now, even if it means reverting FEP-e232 support (although changing the permissions of a DM to a forum channel would do the trick, and looking at how (streams) and Forte do it would be even smarter). And I hope it'll come before hubzilla.org is upgraded to 10.6.
By the way, while it's at it, maybe Hubzilla could also permanently set that GoToSocial/Mastodon flag that allows being quote-posted. I mean, if you come to a place that has been able to quote-post for a whopping 13 years, that can quote-post any public content from anywhere in the Fediverse with zero resistance, and that has no control over whether or not your stuff can be quote-posted (other than not posting in public), it's safe to assume that you're okay with your stuff being quote-posted anyway.
Radical gamer repurposes $1,700 ROG Atral RTX 5080 into a working DIY skateboard — rides graphics card down the street while walking dog
A user on the PC Master Race subreddit has turned a ROG Astral RTX 5080, one of the most expensive variants out there, into a real skateboard. The video shows the RTX 5080's … #hardware tomshardware.com/pc-components…
firmware updates for most of the Zoom Essential hand-held recorders
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Zoom has launched new firmware versions for the Zoom H1E, H4E and H6E.
The H1E firmware is version 2.00, the H4E version is 2.02, and the H6 version is 3.02.
Changelog for all versions is pretty similar. Here's the one for the H6E, which is basically identical to that of the H4E.
Release to add the following features in November 2025 1. Input gain setting function 2. AI Noise Reduction function to analyze and reduce environmental sounds and other noise. 3. Functions to record and play MP3 files. 4. Function to export files in MP3 format. 5. Setting to disable mix file recording. 6. Support for the ZOOM Handy Control & Sync controller application.
Changelog for H1E:
Version 2.00 Release to add the following functions and fix the following issues in November 2025 ■ Added functions 1. Input gain setting function. 2. AI Noise Reduction function to analyze and reduce environmental sounds and other noise. 3. Functions to record and play MP3 files. 4. Function to export files in MP3 format. ■ Fixed issues 1. Minor issues fixed.
There doesn't seem to be any update to the H2 Essential or the H5 and H6 Studio that I've seen so far.
Before anyone asks, no, I haven't done any testing. I don't know if the "input gain setting" actually adjusts anything on the DAC, I.E. provides more headroom for hot condenser microphones, etc. which is a common problem with the H1E and Sound Professionals microphones, or if it just changes what is sent to the file.
I've heard that you press the third softkey on the H1E in rec standby (the button normally used for setting marks while recording) to activate AI noise reduction, and that it mostly just removes high-end. Again, don't know, haven't personally done any testing yet.
This was a minor footnote, but you just alerted me to the existence of the h6Studio, which I did not know about. Seems like this removes the last bit of need for an h6Essential. MP3 support is interesting, but only if there's a limiter involved. Otherwise, it's still worse than the H1N in that regard. Interesting that they seem to be straying away from the minimal 32-bit recording functionality though.
Yeah, if you want six inputs, I can't think of a good reason to get the H6 Essential over the H6 Studio other than cost. The microphones and microphone preamps in the Studio are vastly superior. It has a limiter for 16 and 24-bit recording support if you need it, and it's a pretty decent one.
That's what I thought too. Annoyingly, I already got an H5Studio, not knowing there was something with more inputs. I probably won't need them often, but the H6Studio is pretty much the recorder that does it all, and I'd be able to sell my H6E for sure. The H5Studio is pretty impressive. Apparently the H6Studio also has a line input along with having two more combo jacks than the H5Studio.
@simon I'm pretty sure you can use the 3.5mm input on the H5 Studio X/Y microphone capsule as a line input, but I haven't tried. The combo jacks have a software mic/line selection. Maybe that one does too if you plug something in.
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Also, Zoom is apparently releasing a two channel wireless microphone system next year sometime, called the Zoom WLM-1. The transmitters will have built-in microphones, or you can use your own lavs. Who knows if it will be any good.
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@simon Do you guys own rode wireless pro sets? If so, what is your use case for it? I came akross them a year ago when a local television station recorded a segment about me. The reporter filmed the segment" with her iphone pro 12
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@vitallie I have them and use them a lot. They're so lightweight that I end up using them where a wired microphone would make sense sometimes. A Rode transmitter and a pair of AirPods make for a truly excellent wireless headset replacement as long as you don't mind the slight lag of AirPods, for instance.
Thanks for sharing. I very much apreciate the new features. Just wish they would have added FLAC and maybe Opus rather than MP3. ... or all of them at best.
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@wasnhenning I feel a bit weird about recording in lossless compressed formats on devices like that, generally speaking, as it's probably not as easy to recover should something break, but mp3 is easy and everything plays it, I guess.
disable Chrome Tips cards for the New Tab Page as many are inappropriate for Vanadium due to the removal of Google service integration and other changes
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Krásné dobré ráno mastodonní bando! 🙋♀️🐶🐈 Archibaldík byl ráno štěstím bez sebe, že zase nastal ten den, kdy se jdeme ráno toulat. Ukecaný byl, jako trhovkyně na stánku. Nasadit mu kšíry vyžadovalo nadlidské úsilí. Ve finále jsem ho musela přišpendlit k zemi. Začátek cesty si pořád něco frflal a poblafával. Rychlý byl jako šipka. Vlastně je spíš chlupatý bumerang. Tam, zpátky. Tam zpátky. Tam, kolo, kolo, kolo, zpátky. Byli jsme venku od půl sedmé. Teď jsme přišli. Viditelně by si to dal znovu. 🧵
Zoom released New firmware for H1E. I am sending this again because i broke the first post.
You can set imput gain during recording but i don't know exact buttons
You can record and export to mp3
You can record with AI noise isolator. It analyzes the noise during first 3 seconds to get noise profile. you can enable it with shortcut, the third button in the top row (button which marks during recording) or in rec settings. Not bad but it filters just high frequencies. Do you guys testet this? @Andre Louis @Borris @Tomecki zoomcorp.com/en/jp/handheld-re…
I imagine given the extremely limited processing power of the H1E that AI noise reduction won't be too impressive. I'll play with this later, I.E. when it isn't 3:51 AM.
Since you have the H1E and H2E, how much do they actually differ. I have the H1E but was also considering the H2E, what do you use which one for. Is having both actually worth it?
They're very different. The H2E uses a M/S array, and it's side-address. You can record from front/back at the same time, which I don't really find all that useful. To do this, it uses a cute little trick where it has a front and back cardioid, and it inverts the phase of the sides to correct the stereo image depending on what side it's coming from. Or you can record from the front mics/external 3.5mm input jack at the same time, either to a mix file or separate tracks. You can adjust the stereo width of the microphones to three presets -- 90 degrees, 120 degrees or mono, or record in raw M/S and do all the processing in a DAW. To me, the microphones of the H2E are a bit cleaner, and have a totally different sound. The unit is also quite a lot larger. Not huge, but definitely a different form factor. IT's more like a little side-address studio condenser microphone with buttons and a display on it. There is also a slot for the BTA-1 Bluetooth adapter for wirelessly syncing it with other devices and setting the time.
@jonathan859 I also have the H1E, and the H2E, and absolutely love my H2E. in fact my H1E just sits in a drore collecting dust. smile. personally I like the way the H2E sits in my hand better than the H1E, but like I said this is me personally. I wonder why they don't have this update out for the H2E? that isn't cool.
@JamminJerry @jonathan859 Just guessing here, but the fact that the H2 essential isn't a standard stereo recorder (it's M/S) makes those changes a little more complicated than the rest to implement.
@jonathan859 Follow the update guide included in the firmware zip file. Part of it doesn't speak. Be sure to have it plugged into USB-C, either a PC or a power supply on the other end, or the firmware update process won't start.
BTW imput gain can be set on home screen before recording, pres forward and rewind buttons. I am comfused what it actually sets. I set it to max. With mp3 it seems that there is some limiter enabled, for wav I am getting distorted output e. g. I hear that it sounds like distorted.
So it's probably like setting the gain on all the other Zoom recorders. If you normalize one of those distorted recordings, it'll probably go down by a whole bunch of DB and clean itself right up. Not a chance in PCM land, but good that it has that failsafe for mp3.
oops, its not distorted, it just sounds like that when listening back on the unit, I get recording with +17 db, after lovering the volume it sounds fine. I am still confused when using it as usb mic, because you can set send volume and imput gain. But maybe people used to mixers understands how that makes sense.
Sounds like it's probably not actually adjusting the real input gain then. So no more headroom than before if you turn it down more and use sensitive mics, I'm guessing.
now you can with prew and next buttons or how thei call it. Two buttons at the bottom to browse recording and revind / fast forward. It works just on the home screen before recording. When setup at max and turing volume knob to max, you can set it really too loud.
Easy test: Turn it all the way down and thump one of the mics. Does it still say "input overload"? If so, then it's not actually setting the input gain.
Did you update the accessibility file as well? Sorry if that is an obvious thing or something, have just heard you need to update that seperatly or something.
BTW when you export to mp3, you get dialog with format selection, bitrate selection and then something where you can select on or off but I have no idea what that should be. Maybe normalization or limiting or something?
I have two complaints: 1) It seems that AI learning is just some kind of placebo. I tested it with various enviroments, noises, music... and I am getting the same result. 2) When you dont have headphones, you can set the imput gain volume too low so you actually record silence.
@tomecki@101010.pl @FreakyFwoof As to your second point, that's the way all their other recorders have worked for a while. Just bringing feature parity in line, I guess.
@Matthias @Tealk Hört sich genial an. Hatte mal angefangen ein Bash Skript zu bauen, das Friendica mit allem installiert. Aber wie das so ist mit der Zeit uns so.... Vielleicht sollte ich mich wirklich mal mit Ansible zu beschäftigen. Hab da sowas von überhaupt keine Ahnung....
Eig. müsst ich wohl jede software als eigenes Repo machen damit das andere auch einfach verwenden können, aber dann hätte ich so viel Codeduplication und Wartungsaufwand @feb
Solution to the alarm and many other apps and web pages that require slide, a gesture that is impossible with voiceover is the following. Go to settings, select accessibility, then select touch. Within the touch menu, simply enable the prefer single touch actions. In iOS 26, doing this allows me to effectively use the alarm like a normal person. If you do any stock or crypto trading and you aare required to slide to confirm transactions, enabling this option will stop that stupidity as well. An accessibility tip from the NER to you. Use it wisely if you need that kind of thing.
And as that's quite "a bit" (uh, a minor understatement) more, it has a "site search" now, too.
Fingers crossed. Müssen uns dann mal "Hi" sagen!
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in reply to Mr. DrogDrog • • •why would the WiFi name change? We just moved the router. ^^
(Which had the funny side effect that WiFi location thought we were still in Berlin for the first 10 months after the move)
Mr. DrogDrog
in reply to Bubu • • •Bubu
in reply to Mr. DrogDrog • • •Mr. DrogDrog
in reply to Bubu • • •@Bubu sry but that's the law.
Also it's a good opportunity to get rid of the harry potter themed wifi name.
And to rotate secrets
And split one wifi into 3.
Bubu
in reply to Mr. DrogDrog • • •w4tsn ~>
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