mastodon - Link to source
I last did lap swimming in early 2020. I stopped when the pandemic started, and I didn't go back... Until today. I've wanted to for a while, and today, things worked out such that I was able to get a ride there and back. You guys, I think I went too hard. I aimed for 1000 yards, but wound up feeling good enough to go to 2000. Now everything from my mouth down is sore. Yes, my mouth. I forgot about all the mouth work involved in blocking and expelling water.

mastodon - Link to source

#Elite #ICE #TargetSpotting Database and Software brought to you by #Palantir.

The US has become fascist, and we Germans can say that... we have seen such surveillance methods being abused twice, in the past, with pen, paper and wiretapping. #Stasi #Gestapo #Thiel.

Their claim is: "We can generate any proof your law enforcement entities need."

404media.co/email/bfd547ca-1be…


Podcast: Here’s What Palantir Is Really Building

We talk ELITE, the tool Palantir is working on; how AI influencers are defaming celebrities; and Comic-Con's ban of AI art.
Joseph Cox (404 Media)
#palantir #ice #Thiel #elite #targetspotting #stasi #gestapo
This entry was edited (2 hours ago)
in reply to Castopod

mastodon - Link to source

Steizam

Would it be too much to ask if you could implement an automatic update system like WordPress has, which notifies you every time you update the CMS? In other words, we'd like a notification in our dashboard that a new version is available, and we could simply update with a single click, without having to go through tedious backup procedures, deletions, file downloads, needing an FTP client, etc. (especially since these are often minor updates). Thank you.

mastodon - Link to source

Finally found a thing mostly resembling what I imagine a web zine to be.

I want to create something similar.

The criteria:

⁃ pulished in issues
⁃ sequential editorial design resembling printed media
⁃ simple and robust web technology only, should be readable on 10+ years old devices
⁃ niche and independent af
⁃ delightful
⁃ downloadable/replicable
⁃ privacy respecting

If you know more examples, pls show me.

#publishing #selfpublishing #zine #web #openweb

zine.yesterweb.org/issue-00/

00 - The Old Web

zine.yesterweb.org
#web #zine #publishing #selfpublishing #openweb

mastodon - Link to source
It's also clear I need improvements for Geminate consonants which Hungarian uses, this is why Hungarian and some languages still sound off. these will be new rules. Sue Hertz made Eloquence with lots of rules. I must consider how her work was and read papers.
What if we added:
geminateClosureScale: 1.8
geminateReleaseScale: 0.9 # release stays normal
This entry was edited (22 hours ago)

mastodon - Link to source

from my link log —

Doing gigabit ethernet over my British phone extension wires.

thehftguy.com/2026/01/22/doing…

saved 2026-01-24 dotat.at/:/GQ8OW.html


Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires

Disclaimer: None of this is written by AI, I’m still a real person writing my own blog like its 1999 I finally figured out how to do Gigabit Ethernet over my existing phone wires. Powerline adapter…
The HFT Guy
in reply to Gene

mastodon - Link to source

Chris Vreeland

I went through this with a track I was writing for our last album- I had a guitar, vocal and drum machine demo. I thought “what would Tony Levin do?” And it didn’t work. Then I thought “What would Colin Mouding do?” and I was getting all wrapped up in the idea, and nothing came of it. The third thought was “What would Chris Vreeland do?” And the track flowed like water. It’s busy as fuck, but that’s me. 🙂

flakrecords444.bandcamp.com/tr…


Way Station, by The Coffee Sergeants

from the album Racing Shadows
Flak Records

mastodon - Link to source
So, Perspective Intelligence is amazing! There are new vision features that are really amazing, and we now have web search thanks to @tayarndt The beta will be out soon. You will need All Access from the app Store version to try the web search beta though. All vision features will be free. I'd really love to see everyone’s feedback. #AI, #tech, #iOSDev
#AI #tech #iosdev @Taylor Arndt

mastodon - Link to source
Well, you lose some, you win some. Yesterday morning our water froze. This morning at around 7:12 AM Central time our power went out, but thankfully we have a whole house generator so we're still good to go. Power's still out. At around 7:19 AM, the water thawed, so for at least right now, we have water again. Needless to say, many jugs and two-liter bottles are now full of water in case it freezes again which it almost certainly will.

mastodon - Link to source
€250between my child lives in hunger and shelter and medicine.
My child bodies are collapsing from lack of food &frequent illness.
&now the cold has increased the destruction of their bodies
We need food😭🥹
We need treatment😭🥹
Support has become very limited💔
If 10 people donate25,we will get the amount.🙏🙏
✅️Verified by Gaza Verified
chuffed.org/project/161145
@jackyan
@mynameistillian
@lashman
@evan
@Geri
@johnchiment
@Gustodon
@neutrinoceros
@BarneyDellar
@matus_chochlik
#Palestine
Baraa , a single woman wearing a medical mask, and her four-and-a-half-year-old son Ibrahim beside her, are looking directly at the camera.

Help us save my family in Gaza from hunger and killing.

Chuffed
#palestine @lashman @Jack Yan (甄爵恩) @Matúš Chochlík @Ω 🌍 Gus Posey @Evan Prodromou @Barney Dellar (he/him) @Totts @tillian 🇰🇿🦊 ACAB @johnchiment @Clément Robert
This entry was edited (4 hours ago)

mastodon - Link to source
Call me what you want but every time someone responds to some huge fascist attrocity with a lot of urgent action language, and their call to action is ... Call congress and ask them to impeach someone? I can't help but heave a heavy sign as I see people's time and energy being fucking wasted, while we should be forming emergency response networks on our residential blocks.

mastodon - Link to source

What's happening in Minnesota is an escalation of things that have happened in other cities - Chicago, Portland, LA, DC. It could be coming to your city next.

I don't say that to scare you. But it might be good to ask yourself:

If this was happening in my neighborhood, who would I reach out to? How would I take action? Who would I trust?

Start building those connections now. If you already have some, strengthen them.

This entry was edited (1 day ago)

mastodon - Link to source

Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ is a Grift on Global Scale

The absurdity of our times may best be summed up in the Trump regime’s brand new oxymoronic “Board of Peace.” ...

Unsurprisingly...Trump...appointed himself Chairman for Life. Permanent membership on the board requires an investment of 1 billion US dollars...

A “Board of Peace” created by a megalomaniac obsessed with imperial ambitions is the ultimate example of grift on a global scale.
counterpunch.org/2026/01/22/tr…

#News #Politics #Trump


Trump's 'Board of Peace' is a Grift on Global Scale - CounterPunch.org

The absurdity of our times may best be summed up in the Trump regime’s brand new oxymoronic “Board of Peace.” Established by Trump on January 15, 2026,
Kenn Orphan (CounterPunch.org)
#Trump #politics #News

mastodon - Link to source

Hello all,

A little side project to provide the fediverse with information i've been missing and have had to rely on FB/IG on to get:

Concert and festival announcements.

A ton of this information is only available on these platforms or sometimes days later through other platforms, often resulting in missing your chance to buy tickets.

None of this is automated and mostly catered towards my own region (NL) and interests for now (Indie/Punk/Metal/Hardcore).

#Introduction #fediverse #music

#fediverse #music #introduction

mastodon - Link to source

RE: mastodon.social/@andrewstroehl…

not just gratitude, the rest of the country should be stepping up with their own bravery (and they are, but moreso!) -- and the rest of us need to be stepping up ourselves

Andrew Stroehlein (@andrewstroehlein@mastodon.social)

Every American owes a huge debt of gratitude to the brave people in Minnesota who are risking their lives to video the horrific crimes of masked thugs under Trump's vicious regime.
Andrew Stroehlein (Mastodon)

mastodon - Link to source
I really appreciate people calling out specific words, those examples are exactly what helps us decide which cases to tackle next. Eloquence handled many of these cases with hand-tuned lexical rules, which is something we’re gradually adding back where it makes sense. The improvements so far are mostly foundational (engine stability, timing, phoneme consistency), and the next phase is more about targeted language-specific overrides.

Zach Bennoui reshared this.

in reply to Tamas G

mastodon - Link to source

Cleverson

Recall that case when I asked for y before ã to be made more longer? I don't know whether the normalization rule tontaining the length mark should be explicitly present in pt-br.yaml, but the case is, the lengthenedScale setting appears to have no effect on such words when I change its value, whether I make this change on NVDA's settings or the phoneme editor. Currently, the normalization rule isn't present in pt-br.yaml; only the lengthenedScale setting is.
in reply to Cleverson

mastodon - Link to source

Tamas G

lengthenedScale only has an effect when the IPA contains a length mark (ː).
In pt-br, some eSpeak builds output y in the “-ião” type sequences, and Speech Player normalizes y -> i after the base pt rules run, so the existing lengthening rule never sees it.
Fix: add this to pt-br.yaml right after the y -> i rule:
- from: "iˈãᴜ"
to: "iːˈãᴜ"
- from: "iˌãᴜ"
to: "iːˌãᴜ"
After that, changing lengthenedScale will actually do something for those words.
This entry was edited (22 hours ago)
⇧