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LOL. Yes, kitty in sink is most definitely cute. I had a room mate with a rather large cat who loved to do that. He'd leave the tap on just the tiniest drip, and kitty would scrunch his fat bulbous form into that bathroom sink, twist his head more than half way around to point his face up, and just hang his mouth open under the tap and catch the water drops, LOL. Silly cute kitty.
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как же сука меня бесит эта пизданина с завершением поддержки win10 и спасением своих компьютеров установкой линукса.

а) я недавно поставил win7 которая снята с поддержки хуй знает когда и под котрой уже почти ни что не работает.

секьюрити патчи до сих пор залетают.

б) у меня виндовому компу лет чтоли 7. и на нем вин 11 со дня релиза. и заебись все. если вашему компу 10 лет и он не тащит win11 - вы что блядь на нем делаете? в fallout 3 играете? в ворде объявы печатаете? нахуя вам поддержка?

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Вот жопой чую левоту. Не могу объяснить внятно, но жопой чую, что это какое-то грёбаное лобби опять, как и с поддержкой хамасни. Особенно в свете кричащих заголовков: «Мэрия города такого-то перешла на Линукс, урррра, уррраа, улюлюлю!». Когда им говоришь, что не надо тогда пиздеть про дивёрсити, потому что как только вы отказались от майкрософтовского стека, accessibility идёт строем на хуй, во всяком случае, стабильная и всегда работающая, — они, естественно, отводят глаза.

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For hundreds of thousand of years over the Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary, through climate change and hominid evolution itself, a technology/method for making stone tools remained the same.

The new research reported here shows 300,000 years of continuous - and stable - tool production at a single site in Kenya, but the record of this technique over multiple sites spans more than a million years.

A level of technological stability almost too alien for us to understand, given the age we live in.

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Text Shot: The last hominins to use Oldowan tools looked very different, and probably lived and behaved very differently, from the first; over this huge span of time, the stone tool technology itself changed less than the beings using it.

10,000 generations of hominins used the same stone tools to weather a changing world

This technological tradition lasted longer than Homo sapiens have even been a species.
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I’m ready to get into the hook up scene with the possibility of dating if that arises. The problem is that I have zero idea of what I’m doing when it comes to finding partners who are open to ethical non-monogamy and kink. All of my relationships up to this point have been relatively vanilla and hetero. i’m not much of a going out to bars girlie and quite frankly I have valid safety concerns about going out to a bar solo in my neighborhood. I have no experience with the apps. In other words, I really need some advice. how in the hell do I get myself out there? #ENM #Dating #Poly #Polyamory #Relationships
#dating #polyamory #relationships #poly #enm

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"Billionaires spent just as much trying to defeat #Mamdani than if they just paid their taxes"

Yeah because it's not just about the money. It's about the misery. Misery makes for obedient workers. Can't have people walking around with pocket change because the bus is free, and a clear head because their kids are well taken care of. Who's working an extra twenty hours a week in those conditions?

#Capitalism is built on capital but it thrives on misery.

#capitalism #mamdani

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It’s incredible how often sighted people offering completely unsolicited help lead me astray. Took my daughter to a ballet lesson this morning and looked up a coffee shop to wait for her in. I’m walking up the block where I know the shop is, and smell coffee, so I turn to see if I can find the door. Right then, a sighted person stops me asking if I need help. I say I’m looking for the coffee shop on this block, and he says I’m close, but a couple doors away. So I think maybe the smell isn’t coming directly from the door and he must see what I’m talking about, right? Right??? He knows better because he can see, of course. He takes me to the door he thinks is what I’m looking for, and we say goodbye. I go inside, and immediately smell food, not coffee, and hear way too much silverware clinking on plates for a coffee shop. A woman greets me, and I say “I’m looking for the coffee shop on this block. I’m not there, am I?” “No, this is a diner,” she says. So I go back outside, walk back to where I was before, smell the coffee again, and walk right through the shop’s door no problem.

What good are eyes if you don’t know how to use them? #Blind #Blindness #disability

#blind #Disability #blindness

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This thread is worth reading if you are a Google docs user.

Short version: When you export a document from Google Docs, Google replaces all your hyperlinks with links that allows Google to monitor the interactions of everyone you share your document with.

This hidden link replacement can potentially be used to build a model of your professional relations, where people who interact more with your content are considered a stronger relation.

Think about the implications.
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Joe :ferris: :nixos: (@Joe_0237@fosstodon.org)

Today I found out that google docs infects html exports with spyware, no scripts, but links in your document are replaced with invisible google tracking redirects.
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Hello from Frankfurt airport.
This post has been typed on a Logitech MX Keys Mini, connected to my Android phone which runs Tailscale to connect to my PC at home, specifically Virtual Here for input and Sound Remote to let me listen to my system audio, including screenreader.
It's so portable and the latency is really acceptable. I love it.
Big thanks to @techsinger for helping me figure all that out.
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Jonathan

I need to try this, but just had a thought. If you get an USB Hub or even Bluetooth dongle which you plug into your phone, you could probably eliminate the need for Sound Remote or anything like that, as virtual here should also cover the audio transmission no?
Another thing that has driven me crazy in the week I've used this solution now is the simple fact that if you experience connection drop outs, it might spam a letter, and I wonder why this happens, or why it would be so difficult to avoid? Like, couldn't it at least have some sort of detection to stop after, idk, 5 letters or st. Well, but that's the only thing really, otherwise it's been awesome. Now I know next vacation my Laptop will stay home. Just need to find a proper USB Hub to connect headphones and other stuff better.
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Tech Singer

I'm very glad things have gone reasonably on your end with this. First, as to the sound, do you mean you could have a soundcard, whether USB or Bluetooth through a dongle, used on the USB server by virtualhere? That is, do you want Windows to output to a USB soundcard on a VH server just as it receives input from the keyboard? I have tried this and it's an interesting idea. Unfortunately, it didn't work because the sound would break up significantly. This was over an intranet, running at 11AC speed. I wrote to Michael, who developed VH, and discussed it with him. He suggested the use of VoiceMeter Banana which was at the time, and I think still is, inaccessible. There is an NVDA add-on for it, but my understanding is that it still doesn't let you use the low latency network connectivity. Michael was suggesting the use of Voicemeter as a kind of buffer, and that, of course, would increase latency. Even if it was accessible, though, I think it wouldn't work over a normal wireless network, let alone a mobile network. The sound latency would exist regardless, and that's even if you could get the breaking up to stop. Keep in mind that you would be trying to run uncompressed audio over the network. It would be lovely, but I don't see much hope for it. I have never tried Bluetooth sound, again, for latency reasons, Bluetooth is bad enough as it is. If you have any thoughts on this, I would be interested to hear them. As for key repeating, if I may ask, are you using Bolt or are you using a bluetooth dongle? This has happened to me with a BT dongle, but not with either Bolt or unifying. Is it happening to you with these, or do you have your unit set to connect via BT to a dongle on your Android phone?
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Jonathan

I use the Bolt connected directly to my Android phone. Mainly on a mobile network. It worked quite all right over the mobile network, but it was only some random roaming connection so not peak connection for sure. Now I have moved my Wi-Fi repeater closer (in the 1st days it was placed in another room and the Sound Remote connection wouldn't accept it at all) and with Wi-Fi it seems to be a bit more stable regarding speed, on mobile it eventually got more messy over time. But still ok. Yeah bluetooth lag is sadly a nightmare, kinda sad but well, maybe something changes about that one day.
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Tech Singer

I'm very sorry, I wish I knew what to tell you. Not, I may say, about the audio, audio is very dependent on your network and keep in mind that you can always increase the buffer size (not sure how or whether it's possible in Sound Remote but it's certainly possible in Sonobus, Teamtalk and Soundwire, I would be stunned if SR didn't allow it). Increasing the buffer size makes the connection more stable, but also make the latency higher. There's a sweet spot for every network, I find, it's difficult to tell without using it, though. What I'm sorry about and lost on is the repeated keys. All I can suggest, because I was never able to join the VirtualHere forums, is to email
mail@virtualhere.com
Tell him you can't access the join process (it's quite possible you can, I just can't), and ask about whether any solution might work. It's odd because you're encapsulating the packets in Tailscale/a VPN, right? As I said, I'm lost on this one. My apologies for not being able to help. And another thing, some people will want to reduce key repeat for whatever reason. If you don't use the same key many times in normal use, it might be an idea to see if you can do that from the windows side. If it gets more than 5 or 10 presses of the same thing in less than a second, it throttles it for a while. I'm not sure if that's available, but if it is, it may be a workaround.

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What do you think about the budget mac that apple is planning to release? Personaly, I think this is A really good step in the right direction. If Apple finally manages to reach more customers, and not only the customers that see Apple as A premium tech manufacturer, this is good. Macos is A very nice system, and in my opinion, everyone should be able to use it, regardless of the financial situation.

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License for Chaotic Highway Now Available!

We have exciting news for Chaotic Highway fans. You can now purchase a lifetime license and enjoy unlimited access to the game without needing a Sonorous Arts subscription plan.
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License for Chaotic Highway Now Available!

We’ve got exciting news for Chaotic Highway fans. You can now purchase a lifetime license and enjoy unlimited access to the game!
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Paperback version 0.6 is officially released! The changelog is far too long to post on Mastodon, even with my instance's long character limit, containing 36 items, helped out by many contributors! Some highlights include 3 new document formats, majorly enhanced bookmarks, multilanguage support, and support for links and lists in documents, but that only scratches the surface.
Homepage: paperback.dev
Downloads page: paperback.dev/downloads
Enjoy!

Home – Paperback

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Woah. 3 AI agents talking to each other? Secret language? This was interesting.

Imagine if it were screen readers powered by AI speaking to each other. What would they say? Reminds me of those DekTalk conversations! 🤣
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Three Ai agents realize they're all AI, then switch to a Secret Language...

Watch three AI assistants have a phone conversation, only to realize they’re All AI!.Our Other Content! 👇📺ChatGPT Confronts a Fake Version of Itself:https:...
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Diese Karte zeigt den Wedding aus chinesischer Perspektive

Rui Fang hat eine chinesischsprachige Karte für den Leopoldplatz gestaltet. Sie soll den vielen chinesischen Studierenden in der Nachbarschaft Orientierung bieten und Ihnen zugleich die Angst vor dem als gefährlich geltenden Platz nehmen.
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Winter blue tardis

Yep, I agree with Aaron on that one. I want to pull my hair off when I have to use an android. Of any kind to be fair. iOS 26 with my settings hasn't !really had any issues, but the keyboard visually sucks. I think that's been fixed in betas, but not sure. And after all, nothing is perfect, everything has issues, as long as you find what works out for you, go for it. The future new android stuff being enforced isn't filling me with much hope. Maybe that's just me, and maybe something might've changed, but I highly doubt it.,

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There's currently an issue with Sky Q's voice guidance feature that appears as if its server side. Which is what happens when you rely on cloud services for your TTS. Every day, a HD homerun + channels DVR looks more and more appealing. Irritatingly our sky contract now runs until Feb 2027 so it's pointless getting someone out to look at our ariel.
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Andrew Hodgson

@fastfinge @jscholes IIRC the Channels PVR records MP4 files with 2 streams in the file, using an MP4 media player I could switch between the streams. Not sure if this program would be able to separate the streams or whether we would have to somehow get the AD into a separate file. Even then we can't just watch the program after recording it via the Channels apps.
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Kieran L

@fastfinge Thanks for all the info guys. Glad I didn't waste the money on either channels and / or a homerun. Sutch a shame as channels had quite a few features I wanted to take advantage of. Guess I'll either keep paying sky a ridiculous amount of money a month until they get rid of satellite services all together, buy a new TV that can record to a USB HD, or give up the idea of recording all together. @andrew @jscholes
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Kieran L

@jscholes Probably not a lot, but I like having things in one place. I find it a pain having to keep switching between apps. I know apple tried to make this a bit better, and I think google did as well, but it's never going to be as perfect as a DVR. Especially if I've recorded films that I'll get around to eventually, which will expire at some point, and also if broadcasters edit out parts of a show, like what happened with have I got news for you the other week. @fastfinge @andrew
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

So looking into this a bit more, it looks like ffmpeg can just do everything you want itself with amix and amerge. ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#amerge
So use ckucoo to intercept Channel's call to commskip so you'll know when the recording is done, and run ffmpeg to modify the output recording to have audio from both audio streams mixed together. github.com/Channels-DVR-Goodies/cuckoo
Sadly I can't actually do this myself as I'm not in the UK, so I couldn't test it. But once someone does, the process could be easily documented.

GitHub - Channels-DVR-Goodies/cuckoo: An executable that impersonates another, so that additional executables can also be called on each invocation.

An executable that impersonates another, so that additional executables can also be called on each invocation. - Channels-DVR-Goodies/cuckoo
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

Also, the idea that he'd have to make huge modifications to the player is nonsense. Channels DVR already includes ffmpeg. It already can do live transcoding of streams. Literally all he has to do is create a thing in the advanced preferences to enable mixing audio description and TV audio together, then let ffmpeg handle it all.
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James Scholes

@fastfinge @andrew My claim was that it would be a lot of work to truly mix in the audio description including ducking, the parameters for which are embedded in the TV stream packets. Obviously it would be less work to just play two audio tracks simultaneously, but that's only a partial solution that can result in the audio description being difficult to hear and wouldn't recreate the experience obtained from actual TV reception equipment.

so I stick by what I said and don't think it's nonsense.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

Wait what? The TV Stream packets themselves include parameters for ducking? Why! I assumed TV receivers got to choose how that would work, either by using some kind of autoducking, or just playing the default track at a constant (slightly lower) volume and the AD track at a higher volume. That's what I was assuming you'd do with ffmpeg; it does allow basic modifications of track volumes.
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James Scholes

@fastfinge @andrew Some equipment does include the ability to control the program and AD volumes separately, but yes that data is embedded in the stream and needs to be reasonably respected for equipment to be certified. In some cases it's used (or some would say abused) to completely mute and replace the original program audio, for example for described sporting events.
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James Scholes

@fastfinge @andrew No, that's actually one thing this system helps to avoid in most cases because the original program audio is used in the dynamic mix. On cable and satellite TV, the audio description is mixed at source which comes with its own set of problems, like Blind consumers being given lower bit rate program audio because the available bandwidth for multiple audio tracks is insufficient.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

But in exchange, it means you can't just use the audio description that already exists when you're airing shows from the US and Canada, because we don't master our AD that way. It also explains to me why, when Canadian TV channels import Audio Description from the UK, the mix is an utter and total mess. I thought you guys were just really bad at that. One UK show I watch, for example, has all program audio on the left channel, and all audio description on the right channel. It's the worst of all possible worlds!
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James Scholes

@fastfinge @andrew That particular example sounds like it could've been caused by a quirk of the custom delivery format for audio description that the UK has adopted. It was designed by the BBC, and has audio description in one channel with the control signals for things like ducking in the other. Maybe someone didn't have a parcer for that data and just thought that was how AD was supposed to be presented?

Meanwhile, just to make things worse, one of the most prolific producers of audio description tracks in the UK has a propensity for producing overly bassy audio. So just playing it louder than the program and hoping for the best is a less than optimal strategy.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

So in other words, in order to even know what the overly complicated standard is, you have to pay for the documentation. And then you actually have to implement the thing. And then, of course, the fact that there is no public open-source reference implementation means that everyone does it slightly differently, so if you want to build your own equipment to work with AD tracks, you have to account for every possible way the documentation could ever be interpreted by anyone, along with some impossible ones. And absolutely none of this infrastructure could be reused to offer multilingual dubs of programs in different audio streams. Whereas in Canada described audio is effectively just another language; you will sometimes encounter a program with four different audio streams: English, English AD, French, and French AD. And here I thought the UK was better at this than North America.
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