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Just to clarify, briar is reportedly useless in protests because the distances are larger than Bluetooth range, and the gov jams any network.
can you imagine the kind of cultural and technological engineering effort it took to make it so installing an unknowable surveillance device in your home is easier than being able to use the abundant internet coursing through reality that you already own to simply be able to ... have your own camera
Let’s be honest, Ring was already some technocratic, dystopian BS, but if you needed a reason to finally, finally kill it with fire, here’s your reason: Ring is partnering with Flock to help ICE spy on you and your neighbors for the government 👀
having a camera you can look at from your phone should be easy. being able to find information by searching for it should be easy. it's an engineering project to keep it hard enough that you have to accept constant surveillance as the price to pay to make use of the accumulated skill that we have literally lying around in the gutter on the street
i currently really need an IP camera so i researched my options for "IP camera with a firmware that i can guarantee doesn't spy on me"
wanna know what the current meta is, apparently? (according to some of the people who've spent the most time doing this exact thing)
you... you buy a camera devkit on aliexpress and flash a linux distro on it. the second part i expected (not to say this should be the norm). but the first took me by surprise; you'd think some vendor makes devices that are good enough at least for firmware modding.
nope. we are in a hell of our own making. i guess if you aren't an embedded engineer with years of experience you don't deserve to have a trustworthy ip camera or something
@whitequark i work with electrical engineers who write kernel drivers for camera sensors and even at the height of expertise the answer to "how to use camera" is "dear god"
this is exactly correct. i've had the misfortune to do some camera wrangling. this is very much a case of "please consider if you really need it, and if you do, here's [2-3x my normal hourly rate]".
only in this line of work have i seen a large corporate customer not be given a complete schematic for a devboard (a very basic one, p much just MIPI, I2C, and a few sidebands connected) except as a blurry image in microsoft teams screenshare with a pinky promise that you won't screenshot it (because the terms of the NDA with $sensor_vendor prohibit even acknowledging that the sensor has pins)
@sesivany Živo rozhodně je, mmj. i v Public kanálu. Téměř všichni o kterých vím, že se zajímají, migrují od Meshtastic k Meshcore. analyzer.letsmesh.net/channels (vlevo kliknout CZ)
Pořád samozřejmě platí principy šíření rádiových signálů.
@sesivany Já mám zatím Meshtastic, protože se musím vyškrábat na půdu a zkusit flashnout node, ale MT je tam celkem aktivní taky, co se týče nodů, přes které jde něco posílat. I když pravda, moc se tam nechatuje.
@michal @jimmac Co na té střeše vlastně máš? Já si asi taky udělám repeater, ale dám si k tomu baterie a solární panelek, protože nemám zaprvé na střeše vyvedenou elektřinu a zadruhé by ta síť měla být trochu odolná, ať to nepopadá s výpadkem elektřiny.
@sesivany @jimmac Mám tam Heltec Wireless Lite, nějakou baterku a z té skříně, kterou mám na tyči po TV anténě, vede dolů pod střechu cca 3metrový USB kabel do zásuvky. Anténa je Mikrotik 868 Omni, jestli si dobře vzpomínám. Na solární panýlek jsem si zatím netroufl, mám ho sice koupený laskakit.cz/solarni-panel-5v-4… , ale zatím jsem se nedostal k tomu jak to propojit s nějakou baterií a nodem.
Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:
1: Building THE reference implementation web browser, and 2: Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees. 3: There is no 3.
Mozilla should have NOTHING to do with AI. Nobody wants it. Stop forcing AI into every corner of every project because your VC-brained management have completely lost the plot.
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SA_SIGINFO should not be set when it is using sa_handler. If we set sa_handler as SIG_IGN and sa_flags with SA_SIGINFO.The s...
Current mood: Leslie Lamport once defined a distributed system as one in which the failure of a computer you didn't know existed can prevent you from getting anything done.
Autotools ./configure requires selecting a TLS backend explicitly (or using --without-ssl). Several docs/examples still show ./configure without any TLS backend flag, which fails on current sources...
* Quick UPI: QR code generator via Quick Settings Tile 🛡️ * Oksigenia SOS: safety and distress alerts with fall and inactivity detection 🛡️ * RepoStore: turns GitHub releases into a clean, Play Store-style experience 🛡️ * advanced text encryption utility designed for zero-trust environments 🛡️
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).
@devSJR It would help a lot if you'd link to its Git repo (took me 5 hops with searching for the next link on each page to find it).
It would be github.com/localdesktop/locald… – and might fit, but there are no metadata set up (no fastlane tree, see izzyondroid.org/docs/general/A…). There's also no gradle set up, so we'd need to see if we can build it – but not before they have metadata established.
I think it’s really stupid that in order for you to type the period on a touchscreen keyboard, you have to click the numbers at the bottom just to get to it. In address bars, and email address fields, it’s right there next to the spacebar. Why can’t it be like that in all textfields? This is why I prefer texting on my laptop. I think there should be an extra row of preferred and most used punctuation symbols. That would make typing a whole lot more convenient.
am I the only person on FreeBSD 15 who is experiencing OpenVPN correctly installing routes, and then after some undetermined period of time they just disappear? The VPN is still up, all the routes are gone. Zero explanation.
What the shit? Listening to Spotify while being in a Discord voice channel (alone) made it buffer, or as I found out, auto stop every few seconds. I only have one question: why? Apparently this is a feature? Who wants that kind of piss as feature. Leave my music alone. Edit: this. Not quite a feature, but still ridiculous af: support.discord.com/hc/en-us/a…
Oh no! Spotify keeps pausing while you're listening, but why?!
If you are transmitting with your mic in voice chat for 30 seconds while Spotify is playing, Spotify will stop playing, and you'll get...
Funny enough if you screen share your entire screen, not just Spotify, this will not occur, and I have never had this happen when not sharing your audio.
Knowing exactly why someone's having the issue they're having but having no actual way to explain it other than Microsoft what the fuck are you doing that causes your OS to have so many damn lag/IO issues
@techsinger @vol4life8657 I would 100% rather someone hack my computer to oblivion than me not be able to efficiently use it. It'd be basically the same result at this point, I wouldn't be able to use the computer, so at this point I'd rather ya know, be able to use it while I can than willingly submit to the insanity
@techsinger I don't count on anything with microsoft anymore. I used to think that while they had issues they were good at coming back and fixing them, now I don't believe that.
#Oracle stock is now lower than before they touched #OpenAI ... turns out making up numbers and throwing around rumours of "300bn deals" and whatnot with nothing but butterfly farts behind it is bad.
Lawsuit filed. Main plaintiff -- love it -- the Ohio Carpenters' Pension Plan.
Oracle sells enterprise databases. It’s a very solid business. They have so many corporate and government deals that Larry Ellison doesn’t even slightly have to pretend to be human any more. But El…
To keep it simple, I’ll introduce two new settings that apply to all long vowels: longVowelWordFinalScale and longVowelCodaScale, both defaulting to 1.0. This allows users to easily adjust scaling without breaking existing setups.
What are people using for telegram these days, thinking about switching mastodon clients but would need something for telegram because I do still use it. Rarely but I do.
I use Easygram. You can only download it currently from a telegram group, which is annoying, and the group isn't in English, but the app is. t.me/+L5I8UkmSyOBjNTVi
@Bri I just checked this out, and it's unique and I think I will use it. UWP has a habit of not working sometimes. Worth lacking calls for that in my opinion, but I'll keep both around.
yeah same here. I mean I think? unigram still works? I still use tc for it though as it's just super convenient. I might just do the weird thing of just ripping my masto instance out of here and just using it as a tg client. hell i might even dable with making my own who knows. lol.
"The idea of using a YAML map for flexible vowel scaling seems good. It allows any vowel to be specified, not just English ones. I think applying the scale only to lengthened vowels fits with the user’s request while keeping short vowels unchanged. I'll check the existing setup to make sure everything aligns." You better. I'm done implementing settings by hand into this thing. C++ is getting old.
My country went from 20th-century exhaust to almost nothing without any EVs at all. And it is impossible to power all these cars and trucks with electricity. We would need 14 nuclear power stations and three-five times grid capacity. No wind. Hydro is fully developed (except if we'd go Chinese and deport half a million ppl) and fossils to power EV is the worst.
Germany needed 17GW (NOT GWh, GW!!) redispatch last year. France is toast each summer. Austria has Slowakia/Ukraine or the Balkans (lol) and the Italians are frozen or fry every half year.
Ofc we import oil but YOU urged we all do something different which at this point is physically impossible here.
everyone? You have a ton of excess production in the EU which is why the prices go negative. Now just fix the damn infra to make sure it can be delivered to those who need it most.
Well done Apple on the quality, design and construction of my 2009 iMac which still runs perfectly to this day. Fuck you Apple for withdrawing all support for my 2009 iMac so, despite still being in perfect working condition, it's slowly dying as its software becomes obsolete.
@Bri I like FastSM a lot, and it lives up to its name, I'm convinced it's faster than TweeseCake. I'm very pleazsed with what I know of it so far, but I have one question: would it be possible in future for us to open the client without the GUI coming up? I tend to prefer the invisible interface, so it would be nice to be able to open FastSM with the window hidden straight away.
@shefoof @Bri Should already do this automatically. When I disabled visible window and restarted it, it didn't come back up. Have you been updated when Fast FM posted updates on mastodon?
@darrenhartland @shefoof Darren is correct. If you close the application while the window is hidden, I.E. With the invisible interface shortcut win alt shift Q, or via the system tray right click menu, then the app will come back up already hidden.
you can create a keymap for leasy for FastSM as well. If you or @brian_hartgen wanted to do that and then submit it for inclusion, I'd be more than happy to include it
@Bri @brian_hartgen could we for the most part use the one from tweesecake as a starting template if that makes sense? sadly I don't use JFW or leasie anymore, but I have been using that keymap for so long, that is what is stuck in my head. lol.
POV: Macie #ADHD i naprawdę spore problemy z przetwarzaniem tego, co słyszycie, a typ z którym rozmawiacie przez telefon się bardzo spieszy. Najważniejszym elementem rozmowy ze spieszącym się typem jest zdobycie adresu. Adres jest w miejscowości Mąchocice-Scholasteria.
Koniec żartu.
***badum-tsssssss***
(tak, typ powtórzył pięć razy, ja musiałam zapisać)
If I were to write a more err, interestingly/informative newsletter about tech and open source and wanted to offer paid subscriptions, what do people suggest? something that isn't medium/substack?
Is that new show: On Brand with Jimmy Fallon worth it? Not sure. I like reality shows, sometimes, and it does sound interesting, maybe to get out of code space.
Deleted my Bluesky account today. Life is too short...
So, looking to see more joy in my Mastadon feed. If you can recommend anything in the following categories, let me know: #atari #8bit #arcade #books #scifi #gardening #f1 #mlb #guitar
oh my gosh. So even if you load the 64-bit NVDA after using the 32-bit NVDA, your system gets fucked. List view controls don't read right, alt+tab switcher stops reading your enumerations and window list, it's horrifying. So, don't flip between them often, you'll need a system restart, I can't believe we're in 2026 dealing with that.
I haven't powered up the Development VM since November. Kinda scared to since VSCode will most likely update, and every time it does, it breaks settings that I have to then track down and edit! Oy! But also really would like to get back to working on my Apps. Gotta switch Soundkeys over to...something other than WX because the Accessibility issues are driving me bonkers and UIA doesn't seem to be working much better. I do like Python a lot, though.
I should really go to bed but first have this thing I spent the last few hours making in Ableton. It's a remix of "Be Like You" by Taylor Acorn and it's probably one of my favorite songs of the last few years. Here's the original: youtu.be/Cys2K0rx2T0
Taylor Acorn - Be Like You (Official Audio)Stream Survival in Motion: https://onerpm.link/survivalinmotionFollow Taylor:▶ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/a...
Well, I heard you all loud and clear. In the next pack update we're going back to some of the old values in the phoneme file but with language-specific safeguards in place to make NVSpeech sound not like it is speech impaired. Nothing against those who are, it's just that robots are too perfectly made of math to need to suffer from those problems
Today is a company holiday in the US I think, but I sat in on an AI best practices meeting anyhow, since I still know next to nothing about AI, and upper management cares about it. Someone made a comment that AI will change the nature of technical/development positions. So I wonder, will it? I presume it will, in some way, since most change has consequences, but I feel like it's too early to say how or to what extent? It's fascinating how much change there is right now, both in terms of technology created by humans and the ecology of the planet due to humans. I think about the Mesozoic Era and how long it lasted and how there must have been long states of stasis, with each generation of any given life form essentially playing the same role as the last. But maybe long periods of stasis followed by relatively rapid bursts of change constitute the norm (the meteor that ended the Mesozoic initiating the latter, for instance). So I wonder if/when we will enter another period of relative calm and what it will look like, but it feels impossible to say. I presume that life 20 years from now will be similar to life in 2025 but different in some ways, and life in 2065 will be similar to 2045 but different in some ways, and so on, but, if I were to fall asleep and wake up 1,000 years from now, then the world would be utterly unrecognizable to me.
THE WAR FOR THE OPEN WEB WILL BE WON IN THE STREETS! GET OUT THERE! RAISE HELL! ATTACK! ARISE! BECOME UNCOMPUTABLE! BE THE GLITCH IN THEIR SYSTEM! BECOME THE SIGNAL THEY CANNOT JAM! ON THE BUS! GET ON THE BUS! RIDE THE BUS! WITH THE CARDBOARD SIGN! CAN'T STOP THAT! DO YOU THINK THEY'LL BAN WIZARDS FROM THE BUSSES? THEY CAN'T STOP US! I HAVE A FUCKING BUS PASS AND I'M PREPARED TO USE IT! ONE BILLION CARDBOARD SIGNS! ONE BILLION WEB SERVERS! NOW IS THE TIME! BECOME THE FUNGUS! THE MULCH MUST FLOW! TRASH ROBOT DOT NET!
CapitalB
in reply to feld • • •what do you think can work?
We need this asap globally!
feld
in reply to CapitalB • • •@CapitalB any solution absolutely needs to work without DNS within an isolated network (internally, Iran has functional networking).
I've heard whispers of progress in this direction but have nothing concrete to share
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in reply to kirby • • •@kirby as has been discussed elsewhere, it didn't work in 2022 and it's not working now
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in reply to blood eagle enjoyer • • •Listens to Baroque while coding murder.exe
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