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Out of the following operating systems, which one do you use the most, not at work, but in your free personal time?
Please consider boosting for a larger sample size. Thank you.
#poll #os #computing #fediverse
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1) Create a new .txt file
2) Type .LOG in the file
3) Save & close the file
Now, every time you open the file in Notepad a timestamp will be added to the file ✨
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The World #Blind Union General Assembly and World #Blindness Summit in São Paulo, #Brazil in September was an amazing opportunity not only to talk about NVDA, but to give a presentation on the amazing MOVEMENT behind the world's favourite free #screenreader! We have two videos of the presentation and a full transcript for you, complete with an audience-initiated chant of "#NVDA NVDA NVDA!" at the end!
nvaccess.org/post/world-blind-…
#NVDAsr #Accessibility #Movement #Social
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Hello. It largely depends on what band you are interested in.
For LW/MW/SW I'd recommend:
Software: HDSDR - hdsdr.de/ Tons of shortcuts, you can easily tune, input frequencies, adjust filters etc. Cannot do FM stereo, RDS decoding possible only with external software.
Hardware: I use Airspy HF+ Discovery and HF+ Dual Port. These have narrower bandwidth, but thei're nearly impossible to overload with strong signals. Great for both lower frequencies and broadcast FM. Won't work for DAB+ due to higher bandwidth requirements.
For DAB+ I use RTL-SDR blog V4 SDR and QT-DAB software. It's QT, so it has its ups and downs.
github.com/JvanKatwijk/qt-dab
I have no experience with the more expensive, high end SDRs.
FOR #FMDX, there's currently a great combination. TEF-6686/6687 chip-based receivers, and FM-DX Webserver. The radios aren't strictly SDRs, but they are DSP-powered. The Webserver is maybe 90% accessible, with some accessibility bugs still unresolved, but they are rather minor. You can tune using arrows, input frequencies, view RDS data / signal strength etc. As far as I know, the keyboard shortcuts are undocumented, so feel free to ask, if you need to.
FMDX Hub: fmdx.org/
FM-DX Webserver: github.com/noobishsvk/fm-dx-we…
FMDX server list: servers.fmdx.org/ You need to activate the "Server list" button first to browse servers.
My FM-DX Webserver 1: fmdx.praa.sk:39400/
My FM-DX Webserver 2: fmdx.praa.sk:40410/
Feel free to ask for more details
Server description: QTH: Spišská Nová Ves, SVK 🇸🇰, north side of the building RX: Headless TEF with FM-DX-Tuner firmware Antena: Iskra FM-50F. Currently v, variable azimuth. Note: I may occasionally lock to admin when I want to use the server myself.fmdx.praa.sk
When I moved in three winters ago I noticed a pattern during snowstorms: everyone would shovel their own section of walkway and nothing else -- sometimes just from the door to the street and not the public crossway or they'd just shovel their driveway and nothing else. This lead to there being a 20 foot section of sidewalk that was clear, then 20 foot not clear, then maybe another clear section down and on and off again all the way down the street, forever. The sections that were not cleared would freeze and become impassable, school kids would wipe out on them, the mail carrier would have to navigate through yards, etc. And through all of this I was watching some people clear their short sections of walkways with gas powered, self-propelled blowers.
So I started shoveling the entire block each and every snow. Sometimes my idiot self would use an actual shovel so I could be a total dork and do it while partialing (gets lots of car honks, cheers, and photographs. I apparently made the village Facebook group a few times with people thanking whoever it was doing this anonymous work), other times I'd use a handheld electric snow thrower thing and just wear my tail so that anyone viewing security cam footage to see who did the work was a weirdo. But I always went from one corner all the way to the other. Then last winter I started doing both sides of the street as well as the block south of mine because I expanded my arsenal of batteries to two. I did this over and over again regardless of how much snow or time or took - sometimes it needed several clearings in a day/night - because it was a decent replacement for my gym and actually resulted in something tangible I could see -- a clear path three blocks long with no interruptions. A thing of beauty. Each time I'd be sore as hell but feeling wonderfully accomplished.
Now and then my neighbor would see me doing his portion and would tell me that I didn't have to do that, he'd handle it later, etc. Did it anyway. And then it started to click for others. Last winter I noticed someone up the street from me began clearing half of the block to widen the path I'd created. Then my neighbor began to clear the south side of my block to complete it. Across the street someone now widens my path for a row of five houses. With the storm yesterday I did my paths and then returned home to find someone had cleared the south block after more snow accumulated. This morning, I did it again. A few hours later: engine noises. Four snow blowers out there making sure the path was completely clear block to block, end to end including cross streets. Someone has taken to start clearing up to some people's doors as well. It's incredible.
I did this because some people don't care but also I know some people simply can't due to age or physical ability and it's cool as hell because now I feel like we have an secret, unspoken group of Guardians of the Neighborhood thing going. I freaking love it.
Hey everyone else: 3200-3300 Maple Ave blocks are putting you all to shame. Step up.
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I used to shovel not just my sidewalk and patio, but all my neighbors because they were connected and I needed to pass through anyway. I was also the youngest in the building as the others were much closer to retirement age and the contractors the condo association was paying to clear the snow either didn't do it properly or they'd just show up like late at night after it was covered all day and everyone was walking through it or on the ice that built up. What a waste, they wouldn't even pay someone to come do it properly so it was cleared BEFORE people needed it.
tl;dr be nice to your neighbors and burn down every HOA / condo association, they suck
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This holiday season I'd like to make someone I think is very important a bit of joy, however I need your help with it.
National bank of slovakia is issuing so called commemorative and collector euro 2 coins to celebrate historic memories, anniversaries and other special events. A friend of mine is collecting these coins with her dad whenever it's possible.
I have found out this is not specific to our country as european central bank has standardised this process and all the countries that have accepted euro can issue such commemorative coins.
Now the part I'd need some help with.
Can you please check with the national bank where you live if you can acquire some of the commemorative euro 2 coins, make me an offer and send these to me through ordinary post / mail service please?
Thanks for your understanding and possible help you can provide. #fediHelp #fediPower #boostsWelcome
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Have you used a rotary dial telephone?
Please boost if you'd like to see this poll question get additional reach.
#Poll #Telephone #Rotary #Retro
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Do you want to learn Docker by doing a simple fun and interactive exercises? This is the tool for beginners or developers who never build native Docker apps. Give it a try.
learn docker in your terminal, with bite sized exercises - furkan/dockerlingsGitHub
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another upload on #Audiopub
This is a recording of me riding the old creepy elevator in our building. This elevator always gets stuck, but this time, luckily for me, it didn’t. Note that when you hear me inside, I did not tap my cane or make any sound. Every creak, groan, and clank you hear is coming purely from the elevator’s old mechanics. I stayed for a while on the top floor, rang their doorbell, and waited for someone to open the door, but there was no one there. So you will hear the ambience of the building, then you’ll hear me going down.
Microphone used is the Roland CS-10EM connected to my Zoom H1 Essential recorder. I hope you’ll enjoy this.
audiopub.site/listen/f4c53dc5-…
#FieldRecording #Sound #Audio #Zoom
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A beautiful Jewish Indian song written in the 16th Century
youtube.com/watch?v=OXC7BrBIK1…
#Jewish #Mazeldon #Music #Indian
If you want to hear more of my music, feel free to subscribe to my channel :)Lyrics: Rabbi Israel Najara (one of the greatest Paitanim of the 16th century).T...YouTube
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BONUS OFFER – Talking Microwave Special:Customers who spend $500 or more on any product can add the CNIB Talking Microwave to their order for just $100 CAD (normally $199)! Description Simplify mealtime with the CNIB SmartLife Talking Microwave.CNIB SMARTLIFE
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Today I fixed a couple edge cases in Godot's text edit widgets, set an initial focus for screen reader users in the editor (because otherwise focus is completely unset and you have to route to a control first) and labelled a few unlabelled buttons. Going to have to slow down on this project for a bit, but if I can maintain this pace and the quality is good, we could have a very accessible Godot 4.7.
Really felt great to see the text edit bugs fixed. Having written a screen reader myself, I know those are a particularly salty PITA. So easy to off-by-one in at least half a dozen different locations with those.
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Not listed:
* While my computer updates.
* While scooping cat boxes
* While brushing my teeth
* On public transit
* While playing sudoku
This is not exhaustive.
Get a free 15-day trial of Odoo’s all-in-one business solution and see how it can make your life easier! Check it out at https://www.odoo.com/lttShop all LTT...YouTube
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🚨Starting Dec 16th, Meta AI will read your private messages - unless you opt out now! 🚨
Opting out is hilariously complex, but we've got you covered:
1. Go to Meta Privacy Center on DESKTOP
2. Privacy Policy
3. Other Policies and articles
4. How Meta uses information for generative AI model and features
5. Your right to object
6. Learn more and submit requests here
7. Tick: I want to object to or restrict...
Oh, and @noybeu is already on it: tuta.com/blog/noyb-meta-ai-is-… 🍿
Austrian NGO NOYB challenges Meta yet again and sends a cease-and-desist letter to stop the Big Tech from abusing your data.Tuta
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Learn how to turn off Meta AI across all Meta platforms and see how disabling it can help strengthen your privacy.Nicola Massier-Dhillon (Avast)
I finally started to use #NextCloud #CookBook app together with the android companion app.
Up until now I always searched internet for recepies, picked one, coocked one, done.
But using this app improves the workflow a lot.
1️⃣ You search the recipe once, and then you past the url to the app to download it.
2️⃣ You build a catalogue of favourite recipes which simplyfies decisions on what to cook. No idea what to cook? Just browse favourite recipes and pick something.
3️⃣ You can share recipes among family members
4️⃣ Your recipe is always with you. For example when you're shopping.
5️⃣ No ADS. Recipe pages are cluttered with banners and popups so much, that you can barely read the recipe on the phone. Cookbook just fetches the information from the web and leaves all ads behind.
Thanks for recommending it to me @tomteo
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@jackc I'm using it for my 3 recipes :D but unfortunately companion app already let me down two times. It logouts on Android from time to time and when I need to cook, I don't want to search for nextcloud login...
Btw. it seems to me like really bad design to have to login into more applications on mobile, when I already have main app. I hope this will improve in future.
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It turns out there are patched windows 11 images around restoring narrator functionality.
Here is such an image I have found.
Does anyone know what's modified?
At first it sounds shady however it really seems to work.
@garo Please can you help me to download the appropriate build?
I've navigated to this url microsoft.com/en-us/software-d…
Selected Windows 11 (multi-edition ISO for x64 devices)
Pressed the Download now button.
The iso image I've downloaded does not start narrator when pressing ctrl+windows+enter after fully booting.
The file name of the image is Win11_25H2_EnglishInternational_x64.iso
The direct url to the image I managed to download this way is software.download.prss.microso…
Thanks for the help
CC @Jonathan
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A vibed accessible, modern RSS client for the blind - serrebi/BlindRSSGitHub
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Hi, around two weeks ago I started making Nexus, a Matrix client.
In these two weeks, I've made great progress, as you can see in the progress list.
However, I'd love some help implementing some features, or help with UI design, as it takes me quite a while to design a UI.
If you're interested, please reply!
Boosts appreciated! ❤️
#Flutter #FOSS #Help #OpenSource #Matrix #Design
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Was surprised to learn that there are apparently no command line tools for poking around the Linux accessibility tree, so I made Acsh, the Accessibility Shell. With Acsh you have both a CLI and REPL, in which you can do things like:
/> ls # Lists all top-level apps
/> cd firefox-1.26 # cd into Firefox, with tab completion. REPL only
/firefox-1.26> cat 0 # Get more information on the first child by index, if you're fine with the possibility that index might change before the command is processed--not likely at this level. Paths are referenced by name or index
/firefox-1.26> watch 0 # Get stream of events for the first child
/firefox-1.26> search -r button ok # Find all OK buttons in this Firefox instance
... # and moreacsh mount. This makes the accessibility tree available as a FUSE mount under ./a11y by default. ./a11y/README.md gives a better overview of the layout, but in brief, directories are apps/accessible objects with their children as subdirectories. Properties are either files containing their raw values or .json files with richer structure. There's an events.json.sock Unix socket in each directory below the root that lets you watch events for an accessible object and all its children, and you can use standard filesystem tooling to search/filter/stream. It's probably slow because there's no caching--it's meant to be a debugging/introspection tool, after all. I'll probably rename this to acfs and drop the CLI/REPL soon--it was great for prototyping and the idea to use FUSE only occurred to me after I realized I was slowly re-inventing all of a filesystem anyway.Thoughts? I'm sure it has bugs, but what doesn't? dev.thewordnerd.info/nolan/acs…
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cd .. working before I realized that if I made folks too comfortable working in this REPL, they'd probably eventually demand a full embedded BASH shell. :P So yeah, definitely try FUSE. If you need an example of how to do something, ask and I'll work it into the FUSE README.md. I don't want to make it super specific but I do want to make it scriptable and as user-friendly as a FUSE filesystem can possibly be.
Well, it's December 01, which means it's time to drag Sammy out of his box again.
This silly little song, which was probably someone's throw-away recording for a morning show in the 70s, has a story behind it, at least for me.
On Christmas Eve 1992, Brad Krantz played a song on Asheboro, NorthCarolina's WKRR, called Sammy the Christmas Snake, on his morning talk show.
It just so happened that my brother had a few boomboxes recording local radio stations to capture the essence of a Carolina Christmas that morning, when Sammy the Christmas snake played on Brad's show.
As I was 8 years old at the time, and my brother and I liked this silly little song so much, we decided to make it tradition to play it every Christmas morning before going upstairs for the "good stuff".
Unfortunately, however, in 1994, my brother went off to college, and the tape was lost somewhere. Naturally, it was the only copy we had.
A few years after that, Brad was fired from WKRR, and I lost track of him. I emailed one of the guys at the station around 2001 or so, to see if they knew where Sammy the Christmas Snake might be, or at least knew who recorded it. I was told that Brad took their only copy with him when he went to Charlotte, and they had no idea who actually wrote or recorded the song, only that Brad got it from someone in Boston.
In the summer of 2004, WZTK, a new FM talk station owned and operated by Curtis Media was launched. And, guess what? Brad Krantz is back with the Brad and Brit show.
I emailed him in August of 2004 just to politely ask if he still had Sammy the Christmas Snake, and asked if he would play it on his show over the holiday season. He said he would, that it was apparently widely requested, and said "thank you for remembering Sammy".
So, I started my audio recorder on December first to try and record Sammy the Christmas Snake for my own personal amusement, seeing as how I have been looking for it for 12 years on and off at this point. Apparently, Brad had expected this, and made sure to talk or play IDs at every possible opening in the song, which, as you can imagine, infuriated me. Yep, this was war!
I kept the recorder going every weekday morning through December 21, 2004, to see if he would slip and forget to play an ID in the same places.
Finally, on December 21, 2004, I had enough pieces to reconstruct it!
I ended up running seven different copies of the song as played on the Brad and Brit Show through my favorite audio editor, taking the best parts from each, to get the relatively unmutilated version of Sammy the Christmas Snake, albeit with a few compromises. The song came from a slightly scratchy record, dubbed to who knows what media, played over an FM radio station. After editing, there were differences in equalization in some parts of the song, most likely due to Brad playing the track back through a different player or channel on the station's console, but considering it was the only version of the song I could find anywhere, and, as of December 2025, I still have no idea who recorded it, my edit was good enough.
I wanted to share the song as widely as possible, thanks to my beef with Brad, and this was before the existence of Youtube, so I put it on a webpage with links to contact Brad and Brit, and thank them for allowing us to have access to such a wonderful song. This, of course, was in response to Brad's claim that he had exclusive rites to it, which I thought was completely unfair. There's no need to keep Sammy in a box like that!
Several years went by, and someone uploaded my edit of Sammy to Youtube. It has now been featured in several different videos, but it's obvious that it's my edit, and I've yet to find another version of it anywhere, online or offline.
There were some things that bugged me about my original 2004 edit, which I could now fix with tools and skills I didn't have at the time, so, on December 1, 2018, I fixed some small timing issues that existed between splices, reduced crackles, pops and rumble, made the equalization a little more consistent, got rid of some noise, and performed a few other touch-ups. This is the result. It's still not perfect, but it's better than it was, and certainly cleaner than any other version on Youtube as of December 1, 2018.
I'm still looking for a real copy of this song, or, at the very least, an idea of who recorded it. There is some speculation on the comments of this Youtube video.
I was told that this song also featured on a morning show on WNAP in Indianapolis, Indiana, around 1978-1982.
A few years ago, my edit was played on WKRR again, where it all started for me. Go figure.
As of May 2025, Brad Krantz has passed away, so if he actually knew anything about the origins of this song, we can't ask him now.
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Lyrics, sung by a guy with a New England accent sped up and singing with himself to the backing of a Fender Rhodes, some flutes, drums, bass and a glockenspiel are as follows:
There are such cute little Christmas galoots...
Little angels, and reindeer, and snowflakes that fly.
But from all those yule underdogs fondling my memory logs,
one multiple vertebrae kind of a guy.
Sammy the Christmas Snake
hid in the corner of Santa's workshop.
Sammy the Christmas Snake
bit all the elves and made all the work stop.
Hid in the stockings, he hid up the flue,
bit on Rudolph 'til his nose turned blue,
ain't no tellin' what a Christmas snake'll do...
*hiss, hiss, hiss*
Merry Christmas
Sammy the Christmas Snake
had peppermint stripes and pointy ol' fangs.
Sammy the Christmas snake
he hides in the holly where the mistletoe hangs.
Hid in the stockings, he hid up the flue,
he bit on old Santa and Misses Santa Too! OH!
Sammy the Christmas Snake
*hiss, hiss, hiss*
Merry Christmas.
Come on kids, sing with me!
Now, Santa lived with Herb the Christmas Dwarf at Santa's house,
and no one liked him much since he bit Sid, the Christmas Mouse.
'Til Rick the Christmas Mongoose went berserk and tried to wreck,
the sleigh and Sammy saved the day when he broke Rick's Christmas neck.
HEY!
Sammy the Christmas Snake
Now there ain't a ban on anacondas in the arctic.
Sammy that ol' Christmas Snake
Now those elves don't chase him with that forked stick.
What a merry mood he has all the girls and boys in,
givin' out the cheer and holdin' back the poison...
Sammy the Christmas Snake
Hey! Hey!
*Hiss, hiss, hiss*
MERRY CHRISTMASSSSS!
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Speech-to-text right from your terminal?? 🎤
⚡ **ostt** — A terminal-based recorder & speech-to-text transcription tool.
💯 Real-time waveform visualization with dBFS volume metering & clipping detection.
⬇️ Demo by the author below
🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs
⭐ GitHub: github.com/kristoferlund/ostt
#rustlang #ratatui #tui #audiotech #tts #transcription #terminal
Open Speech-to-Text recording tool with real-time volume metering and transcription. - kristoferlund/osttGitHub
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Anyone interested in #Pixel6a with #GrapheneOS pre-installed? I'm selling mine for 2500 CZK (€100) + shipping.
If you'd like to try GrapheneOS on something cheaper before committing to it with a more expensive phone, this is a great option. It's what I did and happily used the phone for almost a year. It has a surprisingly good camera for the price.
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Today we bring you significantly better scrolling performance in GNOME Calendar's month view. It no longer lags on my PC!
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c… is mostly solved with a combination of Georges' gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c… and @TheEvilSkeleton's gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c….
Enjoy it in Nightly, or @gnome 50.
This is why I use a 16-years-old PC as my main development machine: it forces you to solve every performance issue, instead of throwing faster hardware at the problem.
#GNOMECalendar #UX #GNOME
On my desktop workstation machine, GNOME Calendar 45+'s month view scroll animation can be a bit slow: It feels like 20-25 fps rather than...GitLab
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@matt Yes, it's the standard GNOME desktop running on that second-hand Dell Precision T3500 (from 2009), with a second-hand AMD Radeon R9 270 GPU (from 2013). This PC was the main benchmark behind the biggest fixes that happened in gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-s… in 2023-2024 (huge thanks to @YaLTeR), and therefore is the reason why GNOME Shell doesn't visibly slow down over time anymore since versions 45-46 and newer.
I'm still looking for volunteers to fix the remainder in gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-s… 🤞
Sometimes, when I've left my computer idling (not suspended, just with the screen blank and locked) and come back to it, it is extremely slow.GitLab
I am working on some Gemini related stuff (the protocol, not Google AI) and would be interested in hearing about how Gemini stacks up from an accessibility perspective. Are there any specific clients or screen readers that work best? Is there any specific Gemini formatting that helps or hinders? Is there any accessible-specific content that you think should be made available via Gemini?
On a related note, am I wrong in thinking that Gemini is well suited to a low/no vision user? And if so, why?
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Okay, I'm definitely biased, but I think joinloops.org sets a new bar for fediverse project websites.
Sites like Mastodon, Pixelfed, and Bonfire are beautiful, but I wanted to go further, making it resonate with people by focusing on what matters most to them.
TikTok is hard to crack. Few are attempting this because of how established they are.
When you remove the VC funding and toxicity, you're left with the platform every TikToker wanted.
So we build 🚀
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Did you know it's now possible to select text on the page loaded in #Firefox, press shift+F10 to inwoke a popup menu and translate selected text into a different language?
I like it as I can easily copy text translated locally instead of using online services for the actual translation work.
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@miki We had native selection in Firefox FIRST. Looking at the release notes we've had that in NVDA for Firefox since NVDA 2024.1, and for Chrome since NVDA 2025.1: download.nvaccess.org/releases…
If you try it out, do please let us know how you find it :)
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An old tired-looking dog wanders into a guy's yard. The dog does look like he has a home, but he soon follows the man into the house, goes down the hall, jumps on the couch and falls asleep. The man thinks it's odd but lets him sleep. After about an hour, the dog wakes up, walks to the door, and the guy lets him out. The dog wags its tail and leaves.
The next day, the dog comes back and scratches at the door. The guy opens the door, and the dog comes in, goes down the hall, jumps on the couch and falls asleep again. The man lets him sleep. After about an hour, the dog wakes up, walks to the door, and the guy lets him out. The dog wags its tail and leaves.
This goes on for days. The guy grows really curious, so he pins a note on the dog's collar: "Your dog has been taking a nap at my house every day."
The next day the dog arrives with another note pinned to his collar: "He lives in a home with four children -- he's trying to catch up on his sleep. Can I come with him tomorrow?”
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