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It seems like the era of DNS-based adblocking is over.

All the streaming & video sites work around or punitively block it. Recipe and news sites do the same. And because it was always a side channel, there’s no escalation for DNS-based systems to get on top again. The information is no longer being provided by the use of specific domains anymore (or their being null routed is easily detected).

This means active browser Adblocking is basically the only pub left in town.

This means commercial app environments like on phones and TVs are getting pretty hard to avoid ads in.

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

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Yesterday, I got a Korg Monotron Delay. If anything can be said to be a synth fidget toy, that might be it, or at least a good start.

Gotta say, though, it's really, really noisy, which might actually be by design, at least in part, and very unshielded. It was picking up a bunch of digital hash from something which came and went as I moved it around. Turns out, it was my Airpods Pro.

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Anyone have any experience with @Tutanota?

I created an account while on VPN and was told they needed to manually approve my account because people try to abuse their system using VPN.

Totally understand that. I was patient. Days later they denied me. Not with a notification, but by simply closing the account. Never even got to use it.

#InfoSec #OpSec #Privacy #Tuta #Email

#email #privacy #infosec #tuta #opsec @Tuta

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Krásné dobré ráno mastodonní bando! 🙋‍♀️🐈🐶
A jsem zpět mezi zdravými. V pondělí se vracím do pracovního procesu. Zatím ke mně proudily zprávy z bojiště a fakt se tam netěším.
Sněhu trochu napadlo, takže díky všem dodavatelům. Největší radost má Archibaldík. Miluje sníh. Rochní se v něm, hrabe, nasává. Nejraději má sněhové koule. Akorát teda ty mrchy po dopadu vždycky někam zmizí. Takže pokud si nezapamatuje místo dopadu, hrabe s vervou na úplně jiném místě. Zítra zase vyrazíme. Tentokrát za mnou kšírky nadarmo tahat nebude.
Vy si naplánujte taky na víkend něco hodně příjemného, ať se máte na co těšit.
#dobre_rano
#dobréRáno
#dobre_rano #dobrerano

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Are you ready for a party? How about a Side Party? What? Well, SideParty version 0.82 is now released! What's new? Well, feast your eyes, hands, nose, and/or ears on this!

Add a new difficulty level, simply called, Nope! Figure this one out for yourselves! Muhahahaha!

In addition to this, upgrade to a vastly improved touch include from Aryan (@Aryan) which dramatically improves the gameplay on Android. Finally, add the ability to record your game sessions, thanks to NVGT's new soundsystem! Also, the usual bugfixes and junk. masonasons.itch.io/sideparty

SideParty by Mason

It's crazy party on sterroids, endless mode!
itch.io
@Aryan

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@FastSM One more suggestion. Currently if we press Enter on a post, FastSM will trigger the View post context menu. But, IMO, it would be better to dedicate another keyboard shortcut, like ALT+V, to it. The Enter key, instead, could open the URL in the post if it's the only URL. If several URLs exist, FastSM should display them in a list. As things stand right now, with FastSM viewing posts is easier than accessing/ opening links.
@FastSM Client
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Jonathan

Ableton, if I do any. Used to use audacity but accessibility got worse, they're working on it though and I guess for very basic and quick stuff it can be enough, nothing crazy though. The typical audio blindie would probably say Reaper, but I haven't seen any Reaper tutorial that would speak to me personally, yes I know about Reaper access and all that stuff, so it's just too overwhelming and big for me. Goldwave is also there, and I guess a decent option, as I said I barely edit any audio currently though so....

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I discovered LogicMagician thanks to @ky0les and now I'm having entirely, entirely too much fun. logic.band

The Blind Logic Pro | LogicBand | Substack

A Blind Logic Pro teaching other blind musicians, producers, and mixers how to use Apple's DAW, Logic like a Pro! Click to read The Blind Logic Pro, by LogicBand, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
The Blind Logic Pro
@Kyle Smith

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We've built our own text-to-speech system with an initial English language model we trained ourselves with fully open source data. It will be added to our App Store soon and then included in GrapheneOS as a default enabled TTS backend once some more improvements are made to it.

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GrapheneOS

@moshimotsu We have a bunch of donations options including local bank transfers with very low fees via Wise or sending money via Wise itself which has no fee if it's a matching currency. We already have a lot of options and adding more results in higher costs for managing it and handling accounting. We have to spend a huge amount of money on accounting and also auditing. The more complex the finances, the more money we'll need to spend on that. Why not use bank transfers or Wise?
@Marcial 🇨🇷🇻🇪
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GrapheneOS

@moshimotsu GitHub Sponsors provides credit card donations with 0% fees for donations from individuals which isn't something we can get elsewhere. The fees elsewhere are often over 5% when currency conversion is taken into account. We don't want to move more of the donations to high fee platforms. We have PayPal as a donation method but our donate page tries to make sure people understand the high fees and that it's better to donate another way such as GitHub Sponsors, Wise or bank transfers.
@Marcial 🇨🇷🇻🇪

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Oh quirky and learned Mastodonians, I come before you with a dream. Funded by the Canada Counsel for the Arts, I’m researching Friedrich Dulon and Maria Theresia Von Paradis, both 18th century European musicians renowned in their time, and both Blind. I’m looking for info about a German translator and writer of the time, Pfeffel, who was also Blind. I’d love to find some of his fables in English. Dulon met and admired him, and Leopold Kozeluch created a secular cantata for Maria Theresia von Paradis, setting Pfeffel's German text ("Ich war ein kleines Würmchen") to music. If anyone who likes digging and is multi-lingual could uncover this piece of music or his fables in any form accessible to an English speaker, I’d love to be able to incorporate it into story writing, storytelling, or even singing. As a Blind person myself I'm really interested in bringing their work to life for a modern audience, but I'm mono-lingual, and a terrible researcher. Please boost for reach.

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Just received the document checklist for my immigration process, along with a myriad of questions for me, my husband, and the two of us together. One of the questions is asking for photos of our wedding celebrations... a minimum of 20 photos, all put in a Word doc. In addition, we're supposed to put some information *in* the photos... I have absolutely no clue how to do this. Talk about a freaking nightmare. I knew it was going to be, but just how much of one, I had no clue. I'm just... so overwhelmed right now. I'm hoping our consultant will be able to help us with some of this. It'd be sooooooo nice to just answer all these questions over the phone and have somebody else put in all the relevant information.

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#TIL that you can work with multiple branches in #Git simultaneously via 'git worktree'. I think this will certainly help make #Tenacity maintenance much easier as I won't have to keep switching between different branches and perform virtually an entire rebuild between the latest stable and development branches. This way, I could more easily test two branches in parallel.

I think this will make Tenacity maintenance MUCH easier! I'm very excited to see how this will improve my workflow too! 😄

#til #git #Tenacity
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As ICE terrorizes communities, crypto executives who spent years posting about freedom have gone conspicuously silent. But behind the scenes, they’ve contributed at least $315 million — more than double their record 2024 spending — to elect more lawmakers to enable this administration.

citationneeded.news/issue-100/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter


Issue 100 – Freedom of all kinds is worth fighting for

As masked agents execute people and terrorize communities, crypto executives who spent years posting about freedom fall conspicuously silent — except when writing checks for the politicians enabling it
Molly White (Citation Needed)
#crypto #uspol #cryptocurrency #uspolitics #citationneedednewsletter
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Trying something new for me: geeking out over a piece of music from my teenage years, with an audio commentary. Yes, a Christian pop song. This is the inspirational anthem "We Belong to Him" by Wayne Watson, from his 1988 album _The Fine Line_. This one's been taking up space in my head for a while. Here I dissect the music, comment on the lyrics from my current perspective as a non-believer, and ultimately show my appreciation for a well-executed musical formula. mwcampbell.us/audio/we-belong-…
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