Ich möchte nicht still bleiben, wenn beim #Bürgergeld Stimmung gemacht wird. Es geht um die #Demokratie.
Linnemann war es, der behauptet hat, „Hunderttausende“ wollten gar nicht arbeiten. Niemand kennt diese Zahl. Wer solche Zahlen erfindet, betreibt verantwortungslosen Populismus.
Die Folgen sind fatal:
Aus Empathie wird Verachtung
Aus Miteinander wird Gegeneinander
Und Solidarität wird brüchig.
Langzeitarbeitslose Menschen brauchen Chancen, Respekt und Perspektiven statt Misstrauen und Druck.

Dear #IzzyOnDroid community, we need your help for keeping our repo as useful as possible. No tech knowledge needed for this one, so anybody who's got an #Android device and some spare time can jump in here:

codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/Every…

Are you using any of those apps, or would be willing to install one (or more) of them to see if they are still useful? Please then report there, or here to this #serviceToot – so we can get that issue solved 🙏

Thank you all in advance!

:boost_love:

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@jandi Thanks once more, Jandi! As the repo seems to be unmaintained (hence the issue on our end), and there's no Fastlane set up upstream that could override it, we can of course update the description at our end. Of course it needs to contact the server it gets the data from, but "nothing is sent to a server" indeed isn't accurate (the queries are, but that's to be expected).

Adjusted it to "apart from the queries for movie data, nothing is sent to a server". That OK, or miss something else?

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@jandi Hm, seeing the ToS at themoviedb.org/api-terms-of-us… – wouldn't that qualify as NonFreeNet? If so, we could raise that anti-feature and put that explanation there. Yupp, confirmed: other apps using TMDb are flagged such. Done then, thanks for digging in!

(note the anti-feature may show up with delay, as the indexer was already running here when I added it; but it should show up latest next day.)

#Linux und #Barrierefreiheit, insbesondere für Menschen mit Einschränkungen beim Sehen: habt ihr da Tipps?

Ich weiß, dass es bei @kde die Bildschirmlupe gibt und ich in den Bildschirm zoomen kann. Aber bei anderen Umgebungen? Und für den Zeitraum, bis KDE hochgefahren ist?

Eine Boot-Textkonsole mit 80×25 Zeichen halte ich für gut lesbar. Allerdings zeigt zumindest meine Kiste beim Bootvorgang eine recht kleine Schrift, bei der ich meine Brille brauche.

I Want You to Understand Chicago


This is hard to read, because this is 1933 all over again. It is no longer a question if the US are sliding into fascism or have already arrived. They went full Nazi.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you…

archive.is/X33oQ

This is also what is going to happen in Europe, unless we fight it. In the parliaments, but also on the streets. With votes and with weapons.

There is no coexistence and no compromise with fascism. We already know that.

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Bundesminister für Digitales in seiner Rede: »Zum ersten Mal übertreffen Maschinen den Menschen in dem, was uns bisher einzigartig machte: unsere Intelligenz.«

Auweia. Taschenrechner »übertreffen« mich auch – trotzdem sind sie keine Mathematiker. KI ist Statistik: Vorhersagen, imitieren, plausibel klingen. Verstehen? Null. Bewusstsein? Null. Verantwortung? Null. Wer hier von »Intelligenz« spricht, zeigt vor allem, wie wenig er davon versteht.

bmds.bund.de/aktuelles/reden/d…

/kuk

#KI #Hype #Digitalpolitik

Part 2 of 2. The release note state the following:
VT Recorder now supports manual fade control of a playing music bed. This may be useful for fading up a music bed temporarily while not speaking
during a recording. A button for Fade Up or Fade Down appears beside the music bed Play/Stop button. A music bed may now be started at full volume rather
than faded by unchecking the new checkbox entitled "Start Faded in", found in the Options. You can always get to the Options of course by typing letter C from within the VT Recorder.
The shortcut key for the fade button is letter D.

There is a further note to this. Assuming a music bed is selected, it should be possible to:
Press Enter to start the outgoing track.
Press Enter again to begin recording.
Press Enter again to start the music bed.
Press Enter again to start the incoming track and cut the music bed.
Press Enter again to terminate recording.
That is the procedure. However, if the outgoing track has not finished, pressing Enter does not start the music bed.
It does only start the bed if the outgoing track has completely concluded.
I do not use this feature because I have other ways of playing music beds into VT's, but it struck me in my testing that this was plain wrong.
You may wish to start your VT 30 or 45 seconds before the outgoing song ends, then start the music bed which should cut off the existing song. I can think of many situations where that could arise.
This is still the case up to and including the final release of 6.2.

Scripts.

Scripts for 6.2 must be installed. There is an installer located at
hartgenconsultancy.com/studio

Part 1 of 2. StationPlaylist 6.2 Suite is available!

Notable Changes in SPL 6.2.

The below notes were prepared during many hours of testing the entire SPL 6.2 product range. They represent my thoughts only.

The most important question: If you are not managing a station, and you are just hosting a straightforward live show, should you upgrade to 6.2?
If you do want to update, think carefully. Christmas is coming up and you want everything to be perfect for that. If you are going to update, due to the many script changes, you will want to set aside some considerable time to ensure that everything is as you want it to be.
In addition, due to the health issues I have had this year I am taking an extended Christmas holiday so assistance from me will be slower during parts of December and January.

With that said, let's get to the notes.

Crossfading.

You will note that the crossfade transitions between songs and spots is significantly improved as a result of internal changes in 6.2.
If you regularly scan files via the Track Tool as I do, such as pre-recorded show segments or news and weather bulletins, it is still advisable to do this. But generally speaking you will find improvement overall.

Voice-tracking locally or remotely.

Voice-Tracking can now record using .Flac format.
This is very helpful for those of us who had previously recorded all VT's using Wav format. .Flac provides high quality audio without taking up as much space.

Accessibility.

I recently reviewed a competitive product for accessibility. While doing so, I realised how thankful I am that not only are all the options in SPL accessible, but StationPlaylist offers a far greater range of keyboard shortcuts. The developer is also willing to work with me to a large extent to improve issues, and there have been a number of those this time.

The most noticeable change relates to Studio and the fact that the column layout has been completely changed from all other versions I can remember. This has meant that many scripts have needed to be altered in some way and has taken a great deal of time and testing.
I cannot even quantify how many hours the changes have taken to refine what we had before. I have tried to ensure that all functionality is the same as it used to be, but I could well have missed something. Improvements will be made over time.
This is further complicated by the fact that the new SPL Remote application, referred to below, displays the column layout as it would have been in V6.11 so I have needed to make accommodations for that.

The Release Notes also state that there is a change to the newly renamed Time column.
If a playlist is loaded, and you have not played any tracks, this column shows the scheduled times tracks will play out according to the time of the playlist.
However, when you begin playing any track, the column changes to display tracks relative to the current system clock. This can be a serious disadvantage if you are voice-tracking a show since you do not get a true picture of how the hour is meant to look when it is broadcast.
For example, if you have a track scheduled for 10:03 AM, and you play the track at 18:37, the entire view of the playlist changes to reflect the system clock.
The scripts emulate the old behaviour so you are not disturbed by this misrepresentation. So as usual, SPL key then S will report the true scheduled time as if the tracks had never been played out, and SPL key then W will report the real time.

SPL Remote.

This is the new product which can be purchased from SPL. It allows you to remote onto an automation machine, or a computer back at the station, and carry out a live broadcast.
You should have full access to SPL Remote. As far as possible, when you log onto a machine using SPL Remote, the experience should be very similar to that which you would receive if you were using Studio standalone.
Many of the functions should work, such as to hear the remaining time of a track, elapsed time, and so on.

There is an advantage in using SPL Remote that people may not have latched onto.
1. Remote onto the station machine.
2. If JAWS is not installed on the station machine, it does not matter. You will still have access to all the functionality offered by SPL Remote, using your existing JAWS settings, even though JAWS is not installed. So you will be able to examine the playlist structure, check the remaining time, and so on, even though JAWS is not running on the automation machine.

Remote VT Changes.

Within the playlist viewer, the default presentation of information is to hear the scheduled time first, then the track details.
However, some people prefer to hear the track or spot information first. To easily accomplish this, press the SPL key then X. Pressing this keystroke repeatedly will change the arrangement.

in reply to Tuta

to me their branding was always about trickery, using the brightest colors, they even went for a white color.. all that establishes trust, the apps clearly don't look evil, look how colorful they are, and it's Google, surely they wouldn't betray our trust, it's an established brand after all.. people really be thinking like this at the back of their minds, sometimes they voice it (that's how I know)
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Gathered as many marimba wav samples as I could find and imported them by note and octave or chord (C2, C3, C4 Cmaj, Dmin, Fmaj, Gmaj, Amin) for 8 of the 16 pads into up to 6 slots that are ordinarily ordered by velocity, but I chose "random." The interface ("Spark 2") has basic editing abilities, so I trimmed the leading silence on a few of the samples. This is pretty sophisticated for a "drum machine." But in reality, it is with the software that drives it.

Now I have sort-of a marimba...

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I am the best drum programmer ever! Here is a demonstration of my drum pattern programming prowess. I'm sure you'll agree that you'll want me to program your next ... ah, screw it.
This is a recording I found from 2018, when I was purposefully doing stupid stuff with an old Alesis SR16 drum machine. In this instance, I purposefully assigned most of the samples of a kit to the same choke group so they would cut each other off, then sequenced two really terrible bars.
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Vermutlich kann es keine Antwort geben, die immer zutrifft. Jetzt, wo ich finanziell besser aufgestellt bin, wähle ich in jedem Fall bewusster als in der äußerst von Hunger geprägten Kindheit und Jugend. Dennoch war es mir auch damals total wichtig zu helfen, wenn ich die Möglichkeiten dazu hatte. Aber wer weiß, wie es gewesen wäre, wenn der Hunger lebensbedrohlich gewesen wäre. Ein gewisses Level an Existenzsicherung braucht es vermutlich, um nicht nur zu überleben sondern um Werte als unumstößlich zu entwickeln. Gut möglich aber, dass ich gerade den Holzweg gefunden habe und munter auf ihm wandere.

There are some tiny haptic things in iOS 26 that I like. When a call is answered (not just ringing), there's a haptic effect. When a call ends by the other party hanging up, and you hear the three beeps (I'm in the U.S.), each beep has a haptic effect. Oddly, I've had a non-VoiceOver user tell me that the haptic effect for Face ID verification was removed.

🎙️ New Episode of Igalia Chats: Accessibility and the Free Labor Funnel

@bkardell and @Meyerweb chat with their colleagues Alice Boxhall and Valerie Young about the challenges facing standards and accessibility.

igalia.com/chats/a11y-threats

Ich hatte vor 1/2 Jahr einen Unfall. Letzte Woche meldet sich eine Filmfirma bei mir. Man hätte damals im Rettungsfahrzeug gefilmt und will da eine Doku draus machen. Wahrscheinlich hätten die Rettungskräfte „vergessen“ mich zu informieren.

Ich bin also unter Schock und während der medizinischen Versogung über Stunden im Rettungsfahrzeug ohne mein Wissen und meine Einwilligung heimlich gefilmt worden.

Ich kann nicht in Worte fassen, wie wütend ich bin und wie ethisch verwerflich das ist.

in reply to Good Think Hunting

@Colognerin Ich verstehe deine Wut darüber. Die Wird spätestens in den Kommentaren sehr deutlich. Ich glaube allerdings, dass du rechtlich eher schwer durch kommst. Der Fokus der Aufnahmen war die Arbeit der Rettungskräfte und nicht dein Zustand.. Die rechtliche Ausgestaltung gegen gaffende Menschen dürfte daher nicht einschlägig sein. In jedem Fall hoffe ich aber, dass du früher oder Später zu einem Ergebnis kommst, das für dich in Ordnung ist und ich hoffe, dass es dir nach dem Unfall wieder gesundheitlich gut geht!