I'm heading back to Singapore next month for iOS Conf SG. I'll be doing a workshop on AI using Apple's Foundation Model and helping with speaker introductions.
I also hope to visit the orchids again and perhaps the night zoo.
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I decided to get into SDR, as it seems very interesting. Gave SDR # a try, and found that the software is inaccessible. Does anyone know of a good accessible alternative? If not, it might be time for another vibe coding project.
Out of the box, the most accessible SDR package on Windows is HDSDR. At least it has lots of hotkeys.
If you have a RTLSDR though, not one of their SDRPlay units, or something like an Airspry, you'll also need an external DLL file, which is available for download somewhere on their webpage. The Airspy one in particular is hard to find, and there are a few versions. The RTL one is a bit easier to come by. Unfortunately, HDSDR doesn't support stereo wideband, but you can pipe I/Q to some other decoder to get that if you really need it.
I really like the idea of #deltachat but I never tried it until now. It just seemed sooo uninteresting. Why? Because of the graphical and #UI branding.
I'm not even a huge UI fan, I use CLI apps 90% of the time. But the mundane and gray logo, the gray UI, every graphical element of it seems so uninteresting. The screenshots look like they are from 2010s.
I think upping their design game will really boost users. Delta is a unique idea on the backend, give users a unique experience in the frontend too.
I recently started using Book Notification (booknotification.com).
For me, the use case is simple: add a list of #authors I like, and they send me a weekly email with upcoming releases by those authors and a link to a personalised #book release calendar page.
I read a lot of #books, so I like what they're doing. Unfortunately there is a catch. Two, actually.
Firstly, they use an #accessibility overlay (Ally by Elementor). While it isn't personally bothersome for me (particularly given the fact that my primary interest is in the content they email out), I do fundamentally object to using a service that perpetuates the use of these tools however unmaliciously.
Secondly, the first time I visited the site after signing up, I'd been signed out and the backend had apparently forgotten my password. Services not handling authentication data and user sessions well is a development pet peeve of mine.
All of this to say: if this sounds appealing to you and you're not put off by the highlighted caveat and hiccup, it does seem to work well. But I'm also interested in recommendations of other services like this that will let me keep track of new book releases by authors I enjoy. Do you know of any?
(Please no Goodreads, Amazon, Audible, or the like.)
Greetings Mac VO users. What are you all using to read PDF files? Preview is what I have been using, but it insists on every page being a group of things, and then any tables, lists, ETC become subgroups of things. There used to be a view where you could just have everything be on one page, and just be able to move through it like a document, but I think they've removed this? Is there anything other than preview that’s worth a look? Thanks for any feedback on this.
Would love to know as well. This is kinda weird but I just use Microsoft Edge to read PDF files lol.. It works pretty well actually, and you can even have them read using Microsoft's neural voices which is nice sometimes.
I was able to co-code another audio game with ChatGPT: introducing Arcane Audio Archer! I'm still working on difficulty shifts later on in gameplay, but it was fun coming up with all the sound effects, the styling and design, and the ballistics model, all while wrangling the AI to stay on target and fixing the output for overall #A11y and usability. Another project by the #blind for the blind! Go shoot some targets! marconius.com/fun/audioArcher/
The Linux Foundation today announced it's formed another foundation under its growing umbrella that extends well beyond the traditional 'Linux' landscape: the Agentic AI Foundation.
@TheEvilSkeleton Random Q, not sure if I should file this or not, but is Upscale intended to be able to compile for aarch64 or is that outside of scope of the project? Or is that something for after the backend rewrite? Builder is having problems on Fedora 43 aarch64 (vm on Apple silicon).
it's not out of scope, but I don't have any device to test with, and I have no idea how to compile the backend properly. The most I did was fork it, strip Windows and macOS support, and port to meson: gitlab.gnome.org/TheEvilSkelet…
I was thinking of reviving it but I don't know yet...
You're US? Do you know artists like #YasuShibata I once met a print of his at a show in London. Ann Aspinwall is also a real person. aspinwalleditions.com/artists
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Früher zeigte das #NextCloud Symbol in der #ubuntu Desktop-Statusleiste vollflächig durch grün, gelb und rot an, wie der aktuelle Stand der Syncronisation ist.
Seit einiger Zeit wurde es durch das Logo ersetzt, welches eine Art mini winzigen Badge, wahrscheinlich ein grünes Häkchen trägt, wenn die Sync i.O ist.
Weird folks of Mastodon. I figured that if anybody would know, they'd likely be here.
Is there a website that, given a surname and PRL (passenger record locator, that 6-character code from your boarding pass), will give me access to the full PNR (passenger record) in its raw format, including any SSRs / notes that might have been put in?
I know that basically any travel agent can do this through their GDS, I know that there are sites that show this info in an "user-friendly" format, but an user-friendly format isn't what I want here.
"You have to file a GDPR data request for X and they'll give you the data" is also an acceptable answer btw.
ahhhh this is the evolution of the original FreeNAS which later was renamed to NAS4Free. I thought the screenshots looked familiar.
I don't know how long it will take them to spin a release on FreeBSD 15 but there are some great ZFS enhancements in there. I just can't justify running my NAS as an appliance like this. I prefer to run vanilla FreeBSD and have full control
all you need to get ahead in America these days is to call someone a racist slur on camera, lose your job, and then get $100k from other racists on the internet like some kind of weird game show
I find something profound in recursive descent parsing, both the idea of it and the coding of it. For me it's one of the more beautiful things in mathematics, let alone computing.
I'm going to admit that I am doing something immature in my #homelab and I'm looking for opinions. I've got multiple #XCPng hosts, all using local storage. I have no NFS or iSCSI storage. That's kinda silly. Shared storage is super useful and I'm literally not using it.
Unless I go to some serious effort to make a high-performance SAN, I expect network storage performance to be so-so for VM storage, but maybe I'm too pessimistic. I currently only have copper gigabit in the rack. No fiber, no 2.5G copper or anything like that. I'm not sure if that's going to be viable for NFS or iSCSI.
I could dedicate a host to running TrueNAS Core with a bunch of storage. But what has always bugged me about this is that my storage host becomes a single point of failure for all the compute nodes. #TrueNAS is super reliable but everything has to reboot once in a while, and these stupid enterprise-grade servers take anywhere from 4-8 minutes to boot. If I had a single storage node, and I needed to reboot it for an OS upgrade, everything would hang for a while. That's no good. Not updating the OS on the storage system is also not good.
So what am I supposed to be doing for shared storage on a #Xen cluster? How do I avoid a storage host becoming a single point of failure? How do you update and reboot a storage node, without disrupting everything that depends on it?
Borris
in reply to Leo • • •Out of the box, the most accessible SDR package on Windows is HDSDR. At least it has lots of hotkeys.
If you have a RTLSDR though, not one of their SDRPlay units, or something like an Airspry, you'll also need an external DLL file, which is available for download somewhere on their webpage.
The Airspy one in particular is hard to find, and there are a few versions.
The RTL one is a bit easier to come by.
Unfortunately, HDSDR doesn't support stereo wideband, but you can pipe I/Q to some other decoder to get that if you really need it.
hdsdr.de/
HDSDR Homepage
www.hdsdr.de