Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” Is Now Available for Download, Here's What's New - 9to5Linux
Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" distribution is now available for download based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS and featuring the latest Cinnamon 6.6 desktop.Marcus Nestor (9to5Linux)
📢 New blog post: A polyfill for the HTML switch element:
blog.tomayac.com/2026/01/12/a-….
Safari 17.4 shipped a new HTML switch element that upgrades a checkbox to a switch by adding a `switch` attribute: `<input type="checkbox" switch>`.
This blog post introduces a polyfill for the element, covering accessibility, internationalization and styling, and looking at the element's status in the HTML spec.
A polyfill for the HTML switch element
The personal blog of Thomas SteinerThomas Steiner (Blogccasion)
"Have you considered going commercial yet!?!?!?" Yes and it is a bad idea. Here is why it is actually really hard to give money and support most FOSS projects. In a blogpost rant.
This is probably my second to last blog in that improptu serie about Hobbyists Maintainers, slowly reaching its conclusion of a model of Hobbyists Maintainers situation and how we can actually help them.
Because believe it or not, I know how to say something else than "no" or "it will not work".
softwaremaxims.com/blog/hobbyi…
The Hobbyist Maintainer Economic Gravity Well
In the OpenSource Supply Chain discourse in the past few years, we got many versions of the same article. The title is usually something like “unpaid maintainer of library X demand Big Company to shut up or pay them money”.Thomas Depierre
Or both lol. In case anyone wonders, it's Fourth Wing 1, but I'm listening in german.
The Dungeon Crawler Carl audio drama version, whatever its called.
The Harry Potter full cast versions
are the ones that come to my head rn for audio drama type things.
I know it probably has been translated because of how popular it got, but the narator for the original audio books is just something else altogether.

Ledovku na silnici jsem zažil pár let zpátky na 12km trase při cestě do školky. Nulová trakce a tři auta v příkopě. Měli jsme v té době celoroční gumy a zasekl jsem se v křižovatce, o které jsem ani netušil, že je mírně do kopce a za boha se nemohl rozjet. A zítra nás to asi čeká znovu. Tentokrát máme na obou autech dobré zimní gumy. I tak žena říká, že do školy jedu s dítětem já.
Zítra se ledovka zeptá, co za gumy jste na podzim zvolili 🙂
idnes.cz/zpravy/domaci/predpov…
Situace může být velmi nebezpečná, varuje ČHMÚ před noční a ranní ledovkou - iDNES.cz
Česko má za sebou dosud nejchladnější ráno této zimy, kdy teploty na řadě míst klesly hluboko, až k -30°C. Od západu ale nastane oteplení a sněžení se bude měnit v mrznoucí déšť.iDNES.cz
@unterwasser Ono totiž ty kvalitní celoročky mají na sněhu dnes už fakt srovnatelnou výkonnost, zvláště pak tu trakci, která je dnes prakticky stejná:
tyrereviews.com/Tyre-Tests/The…
(a to jako benchmark použili WinterContact TS 870, což není nějaká průměrná zimní pneu, ale top). To si myslím, že větší rozdíl udělá stáří pneu, že 5 let stará WC TS 870 proti novým top celoročkám propadne.
Ale pohon na všechny čtyři je na sněhu pořád velká výhoda. Včera jsme v údolí zjistili, že jsme nahoře nechali boby a v té vánici jsem si tam se zadokolkou netroufl, přítel od mamky má Vitaru se 4x4 a tam, kde bych já už jel na hraně, to jelo jak nic. Ona je kapitola sama o sobě, že někteří majitelé čtyřkolek ani neví, že se ten pohon 4x4 musí zapnout.
The Best All Season Tyres for 2025/26
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Jsou ale nové. Uvidím, jak se budou chovat druhou, třetí zimu. Nicméně tím, že budou mít skoro dvojnásobný roční nájezd oproti zimním, je budu i častěji točit. Odhaduji každé tři roky. Zimní pneu na zadokolce mám už šestou sezónu a co si budeme, ideální už to není. Jenže my ročně na zimních najedeme tak 5k, po třech letech mají najeto 15k km, vyhazujte je tak často, když můžou najet třikrát tolik.
Samozřejmě pro někoho, kdo si přezouvá sám, má doma místo na uskladnění a ročně na zimních najezdí 15k km, je to zase jiná matematika.
@sesivany @banterCZ @unterwasser Tak vždycky ta guma jde po dvou letech vyhodit, i když ještě má vzorek. Jednou jsem jezdil zimní tři sezóny a z docela špatných zimních to byly ještě horší zimní. Ale třeba to bylo autem.
Protože naše Mazda 3 byla v zimě docela špatná nebo jsem tam netrefil žádné dobré zimní gumy. Hyundai i20 jsem si nikdy nezkusil v zimě na zimních, protože měl ty hrozný celoročky. Tesla v zimě jezdí perfektně, ale měli jsme tam zatím jen jedny zimní gumy. Za to letní byly Bridgestone Turanza a byly hrozný.
Zoe dostala zimní do kufru při nákupu a chovala se všelijak na letních i zimních. Pak ale v servise zjistili, že tam je o 0.3° hnutá sbíhavost. Seřídili to, vyměnili přední zimáky a to auto je jak vyměněný.
Nemusí to tedy být nutně jen v pneu, ale také v nastavení podvozku, distribuci váhy a poměru šířky pneu k zatížení náprav. Ta Mazda měla docela širokou gumu na to jak byla lehká (~300 kg na 215mm). Zoe má ~375 kg a 195 mm a Tesla 475 kg na 235 mm.
It's up on Jammable. Here's a cover of Brailab doing Dial Drunk, with Eloquence Reed. Enjoy.
jammable.com/brailab-hungarian…
an you tell Brailab from Eloquence in the song? I sure can. Poor Brailab. All squished because it only goes up to 10000HZ of audio quality. Aww awe, I almost feel sorry for it.
Brailab Hungarian text-to-speech system AI Voice Generator | Jammable AI Covers
Brailab Hungarian text-to-speech system AI voice & song generator. Create Brailab Hungarian text-to-speech system AI voice covers with advanced AI voice technology and 50,000+ AI voices.Jammable AI
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CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun
Link: fulghum.io/self-hosting
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
2026 is the Year of Self-hosting
CLI agents like Claude Code make self-hosting dramatically easier and actually fun. This is the first time I would recommend it to normal software-literate people.Jordan Fulghum
My friend has an ubuntu laptop and forgot her password. It logs in to her account on boot, but obviously not having the password is not a sustainable situation.
What's the least disruptive way to sort this out? Can I just boot off a stick and clear /etc/password is there a better way forward?
Got a Raspberry Pi 5 for some homeserver tasks.
Sadly it seems rather more involved than the earlier models that I was pretty happy with.
Apparently they switched to 'Mini HDMI' which I of course don't have lying around. Luckily the 'Raspberry Pi Imager' utility can build an sd card image with ssh enabled and the wifi password pre-supplied 😊. Icky that it needs root but otherwise works well.
github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-ima…
So now I can use the pi to build the NixOS installation for the pi itself 😊
wiki.nixos.org/wiki/NixOS_on_A…
GitHub - raspberrypi/rpi-imager: The home of Raspberry Pi Imager, a user-friendly tool for creating bootable media for Raspberry Pi devices.
The home of Raspberry Pi Imager, a user-friendly tool for creating bootable media for Raspberry Pi devices. - raspberrypi/rpi-imagerGitHub
it's micro hdmi right? the pi4 already has that as well and i found it very annoying. The pi zeros have mini hdmi, which you also need a special adapter for and ugh.
(Mini-DP is a much more used alternative and also royalty free. 🤷♀️)
I created a Jammable voice for MindMaker FlexVoice 3 Kim. Attached is a song: Radioactive Rain by Smith and Thell. Enjoy. This is my first female voice, finally, after so many speech engines do male voices or female voices that are fake male anyway. Not Kim though. jammable.com/kim-mindmaker-fle…
Enjoy.
Kim, Mindmaker FlexVoice 3 AI Voice Generator | Jammable AI Covers
Kim, Mindmaker FlexVoice 3 AI voice & song generator. Create Kim, Mindmaker FlexVoice 3 AI voice covers with advanced AI voice technology and 50,000+ AI voices.Jammable AI
How accessible is Discord in a browser?
We're using it at work (don't ask, Shadow IT), and I'm strongly considering switching to a two-account setup at this point. Especially because their track record on privacy (from your contacts, not in the weird "I don't want personalized ads" sense) is spotty at best.
from a screen reader / non mouse input method standpoint? i have no idea.
from a "how similar is it to the desktop app" standpoint? it's literally identical. with the exception of a few features the browser sandbox prohibits, like push to talk when the browser window isn't focused, there is literally 100% feature parity.
discord desktop is an electron app. it's a website in a box already. why maintain two frontend codebases when you don't have to?
Are phising attempts getting more believable for everyone or just me?
Just got a "Update payment method" mail allegedly from @hetzner@hetzner.social. But it was sent to the mail address advertised on my personal website (which is hosted on Hetzner's servers).
We fixed long-standing line-by-line breaks so consecutive lines are now coalesced into real sentences, keeping natural inflection instead of resetting prosody at every visual line.
Even better: speech indexing now flows through the wrapper itself, so Say All, caret tracking, and navigation stay perfectly in sync — no hacks, no dropped events.
Same Brailab sound, smoother reading. This one feels really good. 😄 And without @erion doing that initial driver work it wouldn't have happened. Now Brailab reads as it did in my childhood, with the same low intonation during long sentences, it's such a joy to use now that the Wrapper works well.
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Yes that's right. Mindmaker is Hungarian.
"The Flexvoice text reader is the successor of the PC talker, developed by Mindmaker Kft (József Király and his team) in Hungary. The new software was officially announced in Hungary in 2002. Flexvoice was a hibryd system based on machine learning and formant synthesis. The newly developed inverse formant synthesizer has made it possible to describe and store the speech elements recorded from human speech with compressed phonetic data. Speech was synthesized by the formant synthesizer software. Flexvoice was able to speak in a variety of voices, also whispering and hoarse voices. The Flexvoice speech synthesizer has also been used in the VILÁGHALLÓ book reader application for the blind in Hungary."
did you know this @erion? By any chance you or someone has a copy of Világhálló, perhaps we can adapt that voice to work in current FlexVoice engine?
I might have heard some sample sentences spoken by FlexVoice ages ago, but never had the Hungarian version.
The machine learning aspect is completely new to me, however, I wonder why they stopped developing their engine.
Do-It-Blind (DIB) Besprechung
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If you’re going by train to @fosdem, heads-up that there are strikes announced between Jan 25 and Jan 30.
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Durch sightviews.de/316-oskar bin ich auf oskars.org aufmerksam geworden (die sind auch hier seit einigen Jahren aktiv, s. chaos.social/@oskar_mbr).
Dieses Projekt bearbeitet bereits einige derThemen, mit denen ich mich ebenfalls beschäftigen möchte (3D-Druck, taktile Beschriftungen und Karten, barrierefreie Zugänge zu OpenStreetMap...).
Großartig!
#blind #Inklusion #OpenSource #OpenHardware #OSM #Barrierefreiheit
Hilfsmittel gemeinsam entwickeln - das Open-Source-Projekt OSKAR
OSKAR ist ein Open-Source-Projekt, das Hilfsmittel für blinde Menschen gemeinsam entwickelt und frei zugänglich macht. Baupläne, Software und Anleitungen stehen offen zur Verfügung und können angepasst und weiterentwickelt werden.Sightviews
The kind of post I'm talking about here is the really inspiring post about someone that is shared by everybody.
You can tell it's an AI post because it often starts with something like, it was 3.37 in the morning and 35 seconds when the old man took his last breath inside the ice cream parlour.
The posts then go on to talk about what an amazing person they were, the things they do just get better and better and better and at the end you often get these annoying fucking moral messages.
Mr Blake did not succeed because he had an IQ of 512, mr Blake succeeded because he found the inspirational courage to fight through the horrible brain freeze and tooth pain.
So fucking irritating.
If I were a digital rights activist, I would see this time as a golden opportunity.
#Grok, the #AI "assistant" powered by Musk's xAI, has become an engine of non-consensual image and video generation at a mass scale - including pornographic and pedopornographic content. Creating and distributing this imagery has never been quicker or easier. All one has to do is reply to an image posted by someone on X with a mention of Grok and a prompt. This feature was restrained recently but people who pay an $8 subscription to X can still do it. As Sam Cole writes on @404mediaco : "Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery" 404media.co/x-premium-grok-pay…
How many politicians pushing for #ChatControl are still using X? How many official government accounts? You know, the same people who screamed WE NEED TO PROTECT THE CHILDREN and pushed for the scanning of all digital communications and files (including E2EE encrypted ones) of European citizens? An "Orwellian nightmare" as @Em0nM4stodon wrote on Privacy Guides: privacyguides.org/articles/202…
In the Privacy Guides article by Em, the French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Irish governments (amongst many others) were in full support of Chat Control. As far as I can tell, prominent politicians, Prime Ministers and official government accounts from these countries are still posting on X.
Is there anything we can do to point out the hypocrisy? Or have the abuse machine that is Grok sanctioned and fined? And - this is key - use this horrible incident to push politicians to FINALLY quit X? It's about time.
#StopChatControl #LeaveX #QuitX #SaveSocial
Masterful Gambit: Musk Attempts to Monetize Grok's Wave of Sexual Abuse Imagery
In an attempt to push more people toward a paying subscription, Grok now refuses to generate images in replies. The paywall is pretty leaky, though.Samantha Cole (404 Media)
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I've been having silly amounts of fun using this text through the various voices.
Snooplotk Flapfakflafkfapafkalawofwpfalafoafpfalfaofpaflfoaffkafoafpfafofifufapfafaufapugpupaupguguapupuagugguaugpuguhhuhuuh?
Starting Monday with a morning exercise in the fresh air at 15 degrees below zero. Let's get some solar power. The heat pump needs it.
I wish I had 42 panels. It would come handy on days like this. :)
I'm not fucking around anymore. If you're actively trying to make shit harder for me, I am going to let you know.
@bagder Is it double messaging when this is explicitly in every single release announcement?
> Just like the previous experimental releases, this is a timed release. It is a snapshot of what we currently have and is something we think other tinkerers and developers may want to start playing with, but again, it is not meant for end users.
@bagder To have goals which can drive development, for me to get a dopamine hit after being in 10 straight years of development hell, because it gives me a chance to look back and reflect on what we've been doing and determine if that's the correct path.
Are these good enough reasons for you?
@bagder Guess I should turn this into an FAQ somewhere which will be yet another thing on my todo list which will of course cut into development time...
Anyways here's the original announcement that described the whole thing.
But tl;dr we're open to feedback if it is actually usable/reasonable right now.
But between live and work finding time for Pidgin is hard and people are making it harder by forcing me through conversations like this.
discourse.imfreedom.org/t/pidg…
Pidgin 3.0.0 Experimental 1 Announcement
Greetings Programs! This post was supposed to be made awhile back but I got busy and kept forgetting to write it. Anyways, we are officially announcing that we will be releasing the first experimental release of Pidgin 3 on December 31st, 2024.Instant Messaging Freedom's Discourse
@bagder Wow I love how people just love to suggest that I can't decide on my own autonomy. Which was kind of the point of the initial tweet...
FWIW I have been actively working on a pull request during this entire discussion.
There is something wrong with Trump.
At a meeting with oil industry CEO’s he suddenly interrupts his introductory remarks, gets up and looks out the window and starts talking about his ballroom. Trump then realizes his mistake and says “unusual time to look”, and sits back down to continue.
How many oil companies will invest in a Venezuelan oil project initiated by a man who loses track of the situation he is in?
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Exact breath times are now available via the Auphonic API.
This makes it easy to build integrations with detailed, frame-accurate insights into detected breaths.
👉 API details:
auphonic.com/help/api/query.ht…
👉 Learn more about independent breath reduction control:
auphonic.com/blog/2024/05/16/i…
Auphonic Blog: Independently control Noise, Reverb and Breath Reduction Amounts
The automatic audio post production webservice.auphonic.com
Are you guys seeing this annoying GitHub bug on iOS where scrolling on some pages keeps forcing your browser to keep bouncing / scrolling back to top before you can get very far?
This is an example, one other person has reproduced it
github.com/WebKit/WebKit/tree/…
WebKit/Source/WebKit at main · WebKit/WebKit
Home of the WebKit project, the browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store and many other applications on macOS, iOS and Linux. - WebKit/WebKitGitHub
Good morning from Gaza,
Despite the pain and the siege, we still believe that truth never dies and that the dawn of freedom will come, no matter how long the night lasts.
Our voices, our prayers, and our resilience are stronger than all injustice.
A morning of hope for Palestine and for everyone who stands for justice.
#GoodMorning #Palestine #Gaza #FreePalestine #Humanity #Hope #Justice #StandWithPalestine
Ich überlege nun offiziell von Level 0 (zero) direkt auf Level 2 zu erhöhen.
Sollte ich das wirklich tun, ist es die Sache Wert?
Was meinst Du?
Auf welchem Level zockst Du gerade?
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