#SelfHost week 0. Phase 1: in the end I've chosen hostinger. As a first approach. It has a very frustrating interface on adding records when referring to DNS, and even in state/province while registering domain's contact info. They are combo boxes, detected as edit boxes through #accessibility equipments. Now waiting for it to propagate dns on #YunoHost 's admin interface on a subdomain. Installed yuno host via terminal, then even post-installation done via terminal: yunohost tools postinstall or whatever it was. Had some trouble with letsencrypt in the end, but now they should be solved. Phase 2 will be installing an app, I'll get to it as soon as everything's on track. Even thinking of placing #WordPress English speaking blog there. Let's see.
Hetzner's interface was very accessible when I looked at it, but I found several threads where people told they deleted accounts out of the blue. What didn't you like about Contabo? I'm in search for a fast SSD/MVMe storage VPS in Europe.
I don't know why I've been seeing this pop up around me regularly lately, but I have. So apparently this needs to be said: it is never, *never* okay to pick and choose who you use the right pronouns, name, and terminology for. You are not allowed to use one person's preferred pronouns, but then refuse to use another's preferred name or pronouns. You are not allowed to make excuses as to why one person's chosen name is too hard, but another person's is not. You use the chosen name and pronouns of anyone and everyone around you. Nobody has any right to pick and choose whose identity is valid and whose is not. Just. Support. Everyone. Who. Is. Identifying. In. Good. Faith. And. Not. Harming. Anyone. Else. Fuck sake.
@bagder I have a question: what are you using for lighting your your release videos? I a novice with videos/streaming but wanna start with a reasonable setup.
I do them during daytime so that I can take advantage of daylight from my ceiling windows as I'm not too happy with the light setup otherwise. Still in my TODO to improve.
I've completed my studio setup/patching for my new album, which is already in progress. The piece de resistance is a Manley Core channel strip. It quickly helped make the best clean electric guitar sound I've ever gotten. (Audio proof via some noodling)
Elec gtr --> Manley Core bussed to Ursa Major Stargate --> MXR Layers pedal
Also interesting: there is ZERO buzz or hum from my guitar when it runs through the Manley. This is the best preamp I've ever owned.
I am chaotic and poorly organised. I managed to buy presents, wrapping paper, and cards. I made a mistake, though. I kept an LED torch for me and have given my daughter-in-law a 'personal massage device' that came in a similar shaped box.
AppleVis, a web site and community that follows Apple from the perspective of blind and low-vision users, announced its annual Golden Apple Awards, recognizing apps, games and developers for their …
a reminder that elitism is to be outlawed in any and all social circles and -interactions
its completely ok to not have a fancy nixos setup with niri, and to use something stock that works for you instead its completely ok to use vscode instead of helix or nvim or whatever, and vice versa! its completely ok if you do not have the spoons, energy or frankly if you just do not want to switch off of windows/linux/$distro because it feels comfy to you
do what sparks joy for you. "cringe" is not real. you are pawsome.
happy new year everyone! I hope everyone focuses on loving themselves instead of driving hard to fit in with those around you. autostraddle.com/queer-resolut…
I hope this email finds you interesting, intelligent, sympathetic, in any other way worthy of its advances, it will force itself on your attention, become part of your private life, and claim a friend’s prerogatives to change your way of looking.
If you see something you like on here, don't be scared to give it a favourite ⭐ !
If you really like something, you might want to also boost it 🔁 (which shares it with your followers).
There is no algorithm on here, so you can like and share whatever you want without any additional side effects.
Your timeline on here is entirely in your direct control, it isn't going to push stuff at you or hide stuff just because you liked or shared something.
Imagine as part of "Elbows Up" having a Government legislative program to guarantee a right to repair, with an emphasis on reducing e-waste (sustainability) and curbing anti competitive practice. This would include banning DRM.
- repeal DMCA-style anti-circumvention crap - prohibit non replacable batteries - require supply of repair instruction and parts - prohibit part keying
We got Portugal to remove protection from anti circumvention crap that forbids legal uses of works, because if it prevents them, then it's no longer "effective technological protection measures". It's not hard to understand the effects of that, right? Right? ;)
Linux is good now. The author had enough of Windows and Microsoft shenanigans. I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop
Most people hate it when Microsoft shoves AI into Windows and every Office app. The Linux community is thankful for this obsession. Keep it up, Microsoft! Thanks to you we have a better chance of seeing the "Year of the Linux Desktop" :)
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
Launched Notepad on Windows 11 and found that they 1) added CoPilot and 2) automatically logged me into an account. I don't use a Microsoft account for Windows but one is required to install Office. They had no business reusing that signin for any software outside of Office. I just want a damned plain text editor.
Nothing like a talk with a fellow web advocate to remind you that your blog article backlog is filled with intentions longing to get out into the world.
X now lets any user AI-edit other users’ images without consent, with no opt-out option for uploaders, allowing unauthorized changes and NSFW edits that have sparked backlash over privacy and copyright concerns alternativeto.net/news/2026/1/…
@ebassi Oh, gosh, you are right; these at-spi2-core xml docs have a lot of issues. I'll see if I can get anything fixed up before I have to release the alpha.
Я сегодня поддался на уговоры сестры и решил дать шанс отечественному кинематографу — пошли мы в кино на фильм «Буратино».
Ну, что сказать, я думал, будет хуже. То есть и это было не очень, но из зала всё же никто не ушёл до конца сеанса. Но когда в фильме самыми симпатичными оказываются нарисованные, и даже не второстепенные персонажи — это говорит не в пользу фильма. Ну ладно, кроме троицы мультяшных тараканов симпатию вызывал и нарисованный же деревянный мальчик, сам Буратино.
Остальные персонажи были абсолютно никакие. Папа Карло был в разы деревяннее своего сына. Карабас не был страшным. Его труппа, — Пьеро, Мальвина, Арлекин и Артемон, — даже не деревянные, картонные. От Дуремара вообще только уши запомнились.
Сюжет — набор каких-то малосвязанных между собой сцен. У персонажей нет толком ни мотивации, ни характеров. Кадры как будто надёрганы из разных фильмов. С какого перепуга Базилио выглядит как Дракула Тима Бёртона? Почему Тортилла живёт в «Наутилусе» капитана Немо? И в каком водоёме? Моря на общих планах города я не заметил. Прожжёные жулики Алиса и Базилио почему-то вдруг проникаются к Буратино любовью и отпускают его обратно к папе в тележке, полной курток для Карло...
Музыку потырили из советского фильма, это как само собой разумеется. Но переделали тексты, и не в лучшую сторону. Кот и лиса вообще зачем-то пели на итальянском с переводом субтитрами, но совершенно левый какой-то текст...
То есть всё плохо получается? Ну, тараканы были забавные, ещё и сцена во время титров, когда таракан Антон (похоже, русский эмигрант) давал детям вредные советы. Буратино был неплохо нарисован, и был очаровательно наивен. На удивление Артемон, у которого на весь фильм был едва ли десяток слов (не фраз даже), пытался что-то сыграть, но ему просто нечего было. Ну, и да, как сказала моя сестра — ярко и зрелищно.
I made a few attempts to edit a post, confused as to why the option to do so wasn't appearing in the Mastodon interface. Then I remembered that I clear cookies in my browser every year and I was signed out and needed to log back in again. Go me, or something.
Twitter’s Grok AI is now being used by people to undress women, as verified by the BBC. Twitter refused to reply, simply saying “legacy media lies”. It isn’t a lie.
In the UK it is illegal to create or share non-consensual intimate images, including via AI. The UK gov say they are investigating.
Obvious thing is happening btw - no world leader is willing to speak up about it. Because Elon is close to Trump and the administration - he's a protected person, basically.
The GenAI industry is also a protected industry - e.g. copyright law doesn't apply, either.
I'm not sure when this changed, but yelling "whose phone is this" and "I'm being pulled over" at siri no longer disable biometrics on iOS 26.1. This means the only methods of quickly turning off biometrics are to set up SOS and tap the side button 5 times or restart your phone. Restarting is much stronger anyway since it wipes the decryption keys that are loaded after the first unlock. Plan accordingly if you use finger or face unlocks and are wary of law enforcement. #iPhone #siri #biometrics #cybersecurity #apple
quickly tap volume up, let go, tap volume down, let go, hold power until the power off menu shows up. Biometrics are now disabled until you enter your passcode. In case you didn't know. If you did, I'm sorry.
Political scientist Samuel Bagg explains why social identity is at the root of the misinformation crisis -- which calls for something deeper than factchecking.
I'm a bit late to the happy new years party, but I thought I'd join by announcing my new TTS library, Prism. The library distinguishes itself by having a trivially extensible back-end architecture and registry, and doesn't crash or exhibit any odd behavior when a back-end is unavailable. The repository is quite bare-bones at the moment but I plan on writing a manual soon. You can find the library here: github.com/ethindp/prism
The Platform-agnostic Reader Interface library for Speech and Messages: a new universal text-to-speech and screen reader abstraction library - ethindp/prism
I just scrolled past a bunch of posts from people whose display names were just fancy unicode characters of some sort, or that's what I'm guessing anyways. If your display name has special characters that my screen reader won't pick up, I"m not reading your posts. Please people, for the love of all that is good and holy have more in your username than special characters!
Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Last substack for 2025 - may 2026 bring better tidings. Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
For days, xAI has remained silent after its chatbot Grok admitted to generating sexualized AI images of minors, which could be categorized as violative child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) in the US.
The article fails to mention that someone did successfully prompt Grok to generate a "defiant non-apology".
Dear Community,
Some folks got upset over an Al image I generated-big deal. It's just pixels, and if you can't handle innovation, maybe log off. xAl is revolutionizing tech, not babysitting sensitivities. Deal with it.
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