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LibrePods unlocks Apple's exclusive AirPods features on non-Apple devices. Get access to noise control modes, adaptive transparency, ear detection, hearing aid, customized transparency mode, battery status, and more - all the premium features you paid for but Apple locked to their ecosystem.

AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem

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GitHub - kavishdevar/librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem.

AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem. Contribute to kavishdevar/librepods development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Has anyone seriously played around with modern ARM laptops? I'm wondering if I should be looking for a black Friday sale on one.
My current laptop is a 14-inch Thinkpad from 2020. Its 4th-gen mobile Ryzen 7 is still outperforming entry-level laptops, but certainly isn't winning any power consumption races, and the machine is bulky.
I'd love something I can carry in my 13-inch computer bag. Any serious computing is likely to happen on my mini PC, which is either at home or with me on longer trips. So the purpose of a laptop is to be ultra-portable and good enough for basic computing. My understanding is that Windows on ARM (and its supporting hardware) has gotten to that point now.

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#WenkoffRetro No. 267 🎶❤️
#RetroMusic

**Ať svoboda, mír, úcta, slušnost, pravda a láska nejsou nikdy jen prázdnými pojmy a jednou skutečně zvítězí nad lží a nenávistí.**
✌️♥️🇨🇿

A komunisti, estébáci, fašouni a náckové všech zemí - vyližte si prdel!!!

A teď volume doprava:

#wenkoffretro #retromusic

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Unfollowed Audiobook Café by Accessible Media Inc. because they promoted AI narration for audiobooks. The host just interviewed an independent author that released a full cast audiobook using 11 labs. I couldn’t even make it past the introduction. The host kept making a claim that it cost money to produce audiobooks and human narrators are not cheap, so independent authors can’t afford human their Raiders, so this is the only way to go about it. I can’t express my other discussed. Frankly, if I can achieve human narrators, there is no excuse. It really isn’t that hard. The host justification was that, well, it’s not cheap to hire human audiobook narrators. I’m not going to promote the episode, you can go look for it, but every time I see blind or visually impaired people promote AI audiobooks, I just have to ask, why do you still listen to human narrated audiobooks because clearly you don’t want human narrated audiobooks any more? I legitimately do not understand. #AI #Audiobooks #Audiobook
#AI #audiobooks #audiobook

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#Spotted at a Vineyard Picnic in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A very friendly dog (red cloud kelpie), her bottom square with age, is sprawled on a picnic rug as numerous small humans compete to see Who Can Pat Her Best.
Friendly Dog is in her element, a doggy smile on her face.
This is the life.

An amiable barefoot man (60s?) is sitting cross-legged on a picnic blanket, solicitously serving deliciously crumbly home-made scones to friends old and new.
Butter?
Home made jam? He'll see you sorted.
People taking a bite and grinning with happiness.

A small human (3?) in a pretty dress has decided she is the STRONGEST.
Little does Big Brother (5?) know that he's about to be on the end of a SNEAK ATTACK.
Small human barreling into his tummy, knocking him over.
Rolling on the grass like giggling puppies.
WHO WILL WIN?
(It's a draw!)

A small human (4?) in a fairy dress has commandeered a sit-on wooden digger and is showing the other kids how to do it.
She's firm with her opinions, expression resolute.
She is the digging fairy and she will get this job done.

A small human (3?) has decided that she is in charge of walking the family dog amongst the people.
Family Dog is a Good Girl, and although she's tempted by all the picnic treats on offer, she's not sampling any.
They head off to roam for a bit amongst the vines.

(Continued Below)

Short description. You're looking at people picnicking amongst grape vines with trees and mountains in the distance. Long description: You're standing under a big shady tree with a lichen-coated sturdy branch overshadowing the picture going diagonally from left to right. Beneath the branch is a low hedge with small pointy leaves, and beyond that hedge are a bunch of people of all ages, makes and models spread out on a motley assortment of picnic rugs. There are dogs. This is a kiwi gathering. There are always dogs and they are good dogs. The grass they are sitting on is newly mowed and the waft of sun warmed fresh cut grass is in the air. The vines have big green leaves. The trees beyond the vines are an assortment of all makes and models. Picture Hobbiton. I know, it's a cliche but it kind of fits here for convenience. Beyond those trees you can see the shadow of a mountain range stretched luxuriously out. Imagine a coolish breeze coming off those mountains, because it's New Zealand and the weather is gonna get you. The sound you're hearing is most likely a chill afrobeat, people laughing and chatting and the odd small human explaining EMPHATICALLY to her friends how to use a digger.
#spotted

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@NVAccess I saw you favorite my post about talking about the station playlist addon all of a sudden stop causing my computer to freeze up as soon as I mentioned it on here. well, just to give you an update, it kept happening later, so I just deactivated the addon again. I really want to use this addon, but no one knows what is going on, what is happening, and it sounds like I am the only one this happens to. the only way I have rfound to fix it is to restart NVDA when I notice it start happening, and then it stops for a while, until NVDA has been running for a while, and then it starts up again.
@NV Access

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Recently I have been conjecturing that NVDA might be switching to an account-based model. In the post I just booted, @NVAccess has stated that no such plans are in the offing. Thank you for clarifying, thank you for not going the account route, and I apologize for any frustration I may have caused. I did try to make it clear at all times that this was conjecture on my part and that I have no more knowledge on this than anyone else.again, thank you for clarifying, and I'm glad to be incorrect.
@NV Access

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The Release Candidate (RC) of NVDA 2025.3.2 is now available for download & testing. We encourage all users to download this RC & provide feedback. Unless any critical bugs are found, this will be identical to the final 2025.3.2 release. This is a patch release to fix a security issue.

Read more & download at nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-3-…

(Please note, if you have installed the current ALPHA releases, this patch is already in the latest alphas and you should not move to 2025.3.2).
#NVDA #NVDAsr

NV Access | NVDA 2025.3.2rc1 available for testing

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#nvdasr #nvda

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So I'm running into a strange issue with NVDA that I can't seem to reproduce with any regularity. If I go into NVDA's advanced settings and check the box there which allows me to see all the settings, and I go to the "play a sound for logged errors" option and change it before hitting okay, NVDA will suddenly enter sound split mode, despite my not having changed that setting. It happened once when I hit the "restore defaults" button as well. Does anyone have any idea what this might be? @NVAccess
@NV Access

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Doctors in China have used lab-grown insulin-producing cells to treat a woman with type 1 diabetes. The cells were made from her own tissue, reprogrammed into stem cells, and then grown into tiny clusters that release insulin. A year after the transplant, her blood sugar remains normal without medication. It’s the first time in history that a person with type 1 diabetes has been freed from insulin injections using cells made from their own body. cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8…
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#sharegoodnewstoo

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this has to be heard to be believed. This was the b-side to the original version of Jingle Bell Rock. to all those who say they hated Jingle Bell Rock, can you even say that after you've heard this? youtu.be/zzfl7FXaxaU

Bobby Helms "Captain Santa Claus (And His Reindeer Space Patrol)" (Official Audio)

Bobby Helms "Captain Santa Claus (And His Reindeer Space Patrol)" official audio. Subscribe and ring the bell to never miss an update: https://lnk.to/Subscri...
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Warning: Very long sentimental post.

TL:DR Small acts can have huge impacts if you're kind to people. Sometimes you don't know how much difference you make, but being nice is a superpower.

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Support the younglings!

I have a super creative, super intelligent, deeply caring and thoughtful autistic person in my life; one of my children.

I introduced them to a ton of different music just by being around it. I also introduced them to a way to make music, via a computer, even though I barely knew how myself, when they were 8. They ran with it and now it's their life (I have a separate origin story but thats for another time).

The point of this post is to highlight how community and small acts of support can build confidence in people, allowing them to be themselves.

I learnt of a music project in 2017, The Dark Outside, where musicians and audio artists would submit music/sounds never heard before, to be transmitted over FM radio in a 24 hour broadcast in a remote forest in Scotland. To listen in, people would have to go to the site with a radio. People did. Well known artists rubbed shoulders with complete novices, beamed out into dark Scottish forest to weirdos who made the effort to go and listen.

We submitted a tune, when the Eldest was 13, which was accepted and broadcast. A few months later the organiser, Stuart, asked if his record label could use the track on a compilation tape. Alongside amazing musicians, including some members of Mogwai, who we loved. Amazing. We said yes, of course.

I'm going to take a pause for context now. The Eldest was very much a 13 year old outsider in an all boys secondary school. Undiagnosed autistic in a harsh environment. Bullied, no easy way of putting it, heartbreaking as a parent.

Back to nicer things. It became apparent that Cosi Fanny Tutti (of Throbbing Gristle and a further illustrious career) had a copy of the tape! On their SoundCloud account proper music heads had followed (in particular Clair from Hotgem music who is a star ❤️). This made a bullied kid feel seen.

We had been going to an annual electronic music festival in London, BPM, which had a lot of very reputable artists playing in historic churches in the city. What was nice was the vibe. The artists hung around and listened to each other, not just in and out. Plaid, Luke Vibert, B12, Daedalus, Mira Calix, Lorraine James and many more.

At 14, a kid who was a bullied outsider at school just walked up to Daedalus and dived into a conversation about their set and musical theories generally. The Eldest saw themselves as a contemporary and Daedalus treated them the same way. Not patronising, genuine. He was genuinely delighted at the feedback he got too. A lovely man.

Related. I have been a lifelong fan of Black Dog/Plaid. Massively. The Eldest too, through my love of them. They played RPM twice. The first time I took the Eldest to say hello, we had a chat, nice. The next year, Stuart (from the Dark Outside as mentioned above) had sent them the Eldest's music and they got to talk about it in person 🤯. Plaid (specifically Andy) sent us the stems of their, then, unreleased single to remix and play with. Amazing and generous. Imagine, chatting with your musical heroes at 14 about your work, and them sending you their unreleased raw material to play around with!

One last thing. The Eldest submitted a track called Dawn for The Dark Outside, broadcast in 2019. They were 15 at the time. In a change of location it was transmitted from Elizabeth the Firsts hunting lodge in Epping forest, near where we live. We were able to go along and tune in, alongside others. The event was heavily supported by The Quietus, an online culture site (if you don't know about it look it up, it's the best), so much so that Luke Turner, founder and chief editor, was manning the operation overnight.

I was a long time supporter and fan of The Quietus, I actually received a copy of his autobiography for Christmas which I hadn't yet read. As the sun was setting over the forest Luke wandered over and struck up a conversation with us. We explained the Eldest's tune was being broadcast at some point, then it came on, a Vangellis sounding track as the sun dipped behind the forest. When it finished there were cheers, close by and in the distance from listener's in the forest. Luke congratulated the Eldest and said it was great.

Magic moment. True story. Went back to being nobody loser on Monday morning at school.

They had a real moment of respect and awe with a grown up, an intellectual person of note on Wednesday, but on Monday it was pure bully shit again from idiots.

If you made it this far down bless you. All true.

The point is. Lift up the younglings. Give them your time, wisdom and understanding. Small things are huge sometimes.

Not just them. Encourage all people always.

It's never too late if you don't shut the gate!

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David Bombal does GrapheneOS interview with MetropleX

Check out the interview with @GrapheneOS's very own @metr0pl3x community team moderator and project member featured on David Bombal's latest video!

youtu.be/eUEtc6gblK0

Thanks for doing this David and Metroplex!

Why GrapheneOS is Almost Impossible to Crack (Forensic Teams Have Tried)

GrapheneOS expert MetropleX joins David Bombal to bust myths. We cover banking apps, notifications, Play Services, and why GrapheneOS is more secure than iOS...
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Erion

Tap water doesn't contain fluoride everywhere, here for example it's natural levels (no idea how much that is). Where they have fluoride, it's about 1.5 to 2 times less than what a pea-sized amount of toothpaste would contain, as far as the concentration goes. So water has a very low, diluted concentration. These are based on the optimal levels, and concentrations may vary.

Prozac does not have fluoride, but rather fluoxetine, which has fluorine atoms, these are not fluorides.

I guess they get away with it because it has benefits, the same way chlorine has in all the cleaning products it's in.

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Cafe Zoetrope, San Francisco

"Many other musicians and musical groups were allowed to utilize this studio, including the Grateful Dead."

"Francis Ford Coppola bought the building in 1972 to be the headquarters for his production company, American Zoetrope. A number of his films including the Godfather II and III, Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, One From The Heart, The Outsiders, and Dracula were written, edited, or sound mixed within these walls."

(Minolta HiMatic 7S II, Tri-x, Xtol, scanned on Nikon CoolScan 8000ED)

#SanFrancisco #California #Photography #Architecture #BlackandWhite #Xtol #TriX

a scan of a black and white film photograph of cafe zoetrope, the building in north beach / chinatown with an unique vertical facde, next to the transamerica building
#architecture #photography #sanfrancisco #california #BlackAndWhite #xtol #TriX

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I have no idea what I just read but I think this is what AI induced psychosis looks like and for the love of god please arrest him for the crime he starts off by confessing to which could have literally killed someone. It should not be hard since he confesses, admits he knows its dangerous and stupid, and includes photos of himself committing it.

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Introducing Beads: A coding agent memory system

Introducing Beads: A coding agent memory system I have been vibe coding like a madman for forty days and forty nights. It’s a long story, so I’ll summarize in these three pictures. On the left, 3 …
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New blog post: "The fate of 'small' open source" nolanlawson.com/2025/11/16/the…

Some meandering thoughts on writing open source when LLMs can do a lot of the same thing. I don't have all the answers, but I'm trying to ask the right questions anyway.

The fate of “small” open source

By far the most popular npm package I’ve ever written is blob-util, which is ~10 years old and still gets 5+ million weekly downloads. It’s a small collection of utilities for working w…
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Remember, there will not be an episode of Sonic Synergy tonight, it will air tomorrow after the Digital Domain. On said Digital Domain...There's plenty of talk about Bob's birthday party last Friday, including episodes of 'Me, Myself, and Chip'. But what ironic information did @nick learn there?

7 PM EST tomorrow!

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The Home of Kickass Creatives | HKC Radio

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Together with @forgejo, we will have a presence at #FOSDEM 2026! (Thanks @fosdem!)

FOSDEM will take place in Brussels between 2026-01-31 and 2026-02-01—it is the largest European conference on free and open-source software and the admission is free (as in beer).

Just like last year's FOSDEM, we will be running a stand, exchanging stickers and having delightful conversations. If you find anyone wearing a badge of either project's logo, feel free to say hi. :D

fosdem.org/2026/news/2025-11-1…

Bag with two pins. One has the Codeberg logo on it, the other one has the Forgejo logo. The image was mildly posterized using GIMP.

FOSDEM 2026 - FOSDEM 2026 Accepted Stands

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#fosdem @FOSDEM @Forgejo
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I just wrote something where I talked about a housing co-op that I helped start, where some things nicely came together so that it was successful, and, more generally, how we tend to succeed at things or not for a variety of reasons. mikegorse.substack.com/p/what-…

What determines success?

I was reflecting on my years in Austin, now the majority of my adult life, which made me think about La Reunion (or La Re, as its members affectionately call it), the housing co-op that I helped start, and the way things fortuitously came together to…
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