there's an old comment (~2015) on HN by the rsync.net team saying they removed WebDAV support from their service because of issues with mod_dav in Apache and it was abandoned / couldn't reach the devs...
but the git history disagrees with that. It came back to life.
you could run another SFTP server on a different port or in a container. Just add the keys you want. It's what I use for personal transfers between my stuff.
it would need to be SFTP in a jail/container that's behind a wireguard tunnel that goes to a cloud server... would not be fun to set that up; would have to definitely use a separate port from 22 and then I couldn't integrate it with my LDAP auth as easily unless I setup all the pam ldap shit...
edit: also some of the things I use this for do not support SFTP, sooo
@verita84 I'm so mad at about it too, it's insane. Trying to figure out the right goddamn commands to make a role and policy and then apply it is frustrating. Everything feels so opaque without the UI. The mc command just isn't good and their docs suck
Yeah. So glad I went back to NFS instead of that shit. I was a big fan of them for years and even helped in their Slack channel and earned a minio sweater.
We're they GPL or some other license that will prevent a fork to fixing their mess
@verita84 there was a bug at one point where deletes didn't actually work, but it returned a 200 response code. I looked through their codebase and they weren't actually testing the functionality. They were just faking a success code to the command line tool. I asked them in their slack why they weren't actually testing the real functionality of Minio and they just made stupid excuses.
One problem with webdav is that there isn't a standard way to write partial files. The spec only allows complete overwriting of files. Apache and others provide an extension to do partial updates, but as you mention in your post, the v is for version, and so it wasn't designed to do partial updates, only wholesale replacement.
I can dig up references that talk more about it, if you want.
I was looking at it for general usage, where users expect to be able to do partial updates of large files and not have it take a minute to update. Some clients can do partial updates, but I abandoned the idea of using webdav because none of the clients publish what features like these they support, so how knows when macos or windows will break/deprecate/remove partial updates.
@encthenet It would be nice to have it for sure, I really feel like S3 should have never escaped Amazon and something like a refreshed WebDAV should have been done
#deltachat is being used in virtually all world regions where one or more other messengers fail to work. We recently released a major milestone (V2 security hardening releases) that prepared the ground for chat profiles to have multiple #chatmail relays at once ... failure or blocking of a single relay would not disrupt chatting anymore. But multi transport also helps with the "centralization problem in decentralized systems" ... delta.chat/en/2025-06-04-surge… (Funding is looking good currently btw!)
Beginning June we witnessed a sudden surge of Delta Chat usage especially in the US and Cuba. We don’t know the social dynamics behind it but it probably helps that Delta Chat apps resiliently work...
In today's episode of #accessibility shit-fuckery: our new dishwasher. In terms of form factor, Fisher & Paykel DishDrawers really suit us: you effectively get two half dishwashers, so you can easily run a half load, run one while you're still filling the other, etc. We had them at our old house years ago and they were awesome. They were also the most accessible dishwasher I've encountered by design: they had tactile buttons, and even though some of the buttons cycled between options, there were different beeps when you wrapped around to the start of the options, so if you couldn't see the screen, you could choose what you wanted easily once familiar. So when our old dishwasher died last week, it was a clear choice: we'd get DishDrawers. There's always a risk that new models will regress accessibility, and unfortunately, it's pretty difficult to test or find out about stuff like this. But this new model also has WiFi connectivity, so I figured that would work as a fallback at least. It turns out that they're all capacitive touch buttons; i.e. not tactile, no press. Worse, there are no distinct beeps when you wrap around to the first option, etc. So I resigned myself to using the app, which is surprisingly very accessible. But... no go there either. Because of a safety feature you can't disable, you have to enable remote start using the (inaccessible) buttons on the dishwasher. Remote start gets auto disabled when the door is opened, after the next wash completes or after 72 hours, whichever comes first. At best, that makes this thing extremely tedious for me to use. I can stick tactile dots above or below the buttons, but even then, it's easy to accidentally touch a button while you're looking for them and you can easily choose the wrong option due to the lack of useful audible feedback. I already have this problem with our air fryer and it frustrates the hell out of me. But I guess it just is what it is, as is so often the case. The worst part is that they took a reasonably accessible product and made it inaccessible. And for what? Visually pleasing touch buttons that probably don't even function when you have wet hands (because surely people don't have wet hands in a kitchen?). It's Thermomix all over again. And the message these companies send is clear: "we don't care about people with disabilities at all. We don't even give it a thought." I called Fisher & Paykel to see if there's anything they can do and it's been escalated to their tech team, but I'm not holding my breath, especially because the inability to permanently enable remote start is a deliberate safety choice. I'm just so, so tired of struggling with and fighting these battles every. Single. Day. I barely even have the energy to be angry. The temptation to just give up is immense.
This fetish for touch buttons and touchscreens needs to bloody stop. I saw a stand mixer the the other month with a touchscreen on which is what you need on a highly dangerous machine that you could accidentally start by touching it. Absolutely ridiculous.
recently moved my 85 year old father into a new apartment, to be greeted by an induction hob with entirely capacitive touch controls, dark red-on-black digital displays, and only one type of beep sound for all functions. Dad has always been red-green colourblind, his sight is now deteriorating generally, and he has a slight tremor in his hands - none of which are unusual conditions, one would have thought - and there is not a chance he could operate that safely. It was shockingly hard to even find a cooker with manual controls, and the landlord was unhappy to say the least about swapping out the precious "state of the art" machine with a "basic old fashioned" one. It's absolutely maddening.
In today's episode of #accessibility shit-fuckery: our new dishwasher.
A dishwasher that can or needs an internet connection absolute no go.
Crappy sensors which only function sometimes and not with wet hands.
Ask Bosch Siemens.
There is so much untested trash sold as advancement, why because engineers are scared to tell their bosses to F Off because that great new idea is just flashy shit.
Doesn't help obviously, but we had to make a switch this year as well. We opted for a Siemens model. Can do half loaded washing as well, although you can't fill the other half up while its washing, but then again it doesn't have the remote start issues you are describing. You basically turn it on once and it'll stay on forever. Home Connect also is fully accessible. But household appliances are always hit or miss, really.
@ToniBarth Apparently remote start was limited because of concerns that little kids might climb in, the drawer could close and then it could be remote started, with potentially very bad results. I obviously applaud a commitment to safety, but there are other ways to do this, including (but not limited to) a clear safety warning screen where the adult user takes responsibility. Out of interest, does yours have push buttons or do you have to always operate it via the app?
It doesn't have touch, just typical push buttons. No audio feedback though, so its basically remembering which buttons you have to press for what. I usually press on/off and start/stop to start the default program, and whenever I want to run a different washing cycle i'll do that via the app. Also all notifications come in via the app as well.
@ToniBarth I'm in the middle with my washer/dryer, the remote app connectivity works pretty well but you do have to set the machine to " remote" program first, which is a knob, and then press the " Remote" button which is capacitive, as is that entire machine's control panel apart from the knob. The one good thing is that you get an error chirp if you try to turn on remote without the remote program being selected, so you essentially twist, press, twist, press until the remote comes on, at which point you have to use the app. Welcome to the future!
@zersiax Wait, so what else does the knob do? Can you trigger non-remote things from the panel at all even with sight? And if so, how if the only other button is the remote button? @ToniBarth
@ToniBarth there's more capacitive buttons all over the panel, and the knob cycles between programs, one of which is the remote "program" which makes the remote button active
@zersiax @ToniBarth Ah. So is there still a risk of you accidentally hitting other buttons and starting something you didn't intend to start? I guess that's mitigated by the bottom right location of the remote button somewhat.
@ToniBarth yeah if you angle your hand just right its relatively foolproof, but the play/pause is close to that remote button so if you accidentally brush your hand against it you may very well start something
I absolutely hate that. Our new washer and dryer do the same thing. I had to get someone to put a label on the remote start buttons, and I'm working on memorizing where they are when I have my hand in a certain position on the edge so I can avoid pressing other buttons. To LG's credit, the app tells me what changes right away, with VO saying "deep cycle selected" or whatever an accidental button press does as I'm going for remote start. That doesn't excuse anything, though.
Yup, same Dishwasher controls back here too. All I can do is turn it on and start the auto cycle. Needed to put a dot above where you would press. Yes, very frustrating.
@mcourcel Do you ever find you miss the dot when looking for it and end up flubbing other buttons because your hand was too far down? I do that with our air fryer sometimes and it drives me wild.
Fortunately the dishwasher has buttons in a long row, so it's easier. Yeah, our air fryer actually has a flat screen with buttons that click and beep when you press them. So that's helpful anyway. I do miss being able to use the Instapot on my own though.
@jpellis2008 I guess it's only intended to be used for delayed/scheduled remote start, even though you *can* start it immediately. And I agree it's ridiculous.
Interesting, we'll see if this happens, certainly hope so. Announcing Eternal Dusk, an Audio MMO Attempt (via Austin Hicks): eternaldusk.games/posts/eterna…
@austinnix LOL maybe you can join forces with him on the moderation team, two Austins, call yourselves the "Austin Powers" mod team! :D ahahahaha. But yeah, wouldn't be surprised if you got asked about this especially if people read the tagline with fast speech and associate the name to yours.
This is what I’ve been working on for last months at #CVUTFEL – electronic door sign for classrooms. 10.2" e-ink display, ESPink #ESP32 board from #Laskakit, battery (for some), a custom case, firmware and control server. Receives images via MQTT, sends telemetry back. #IoT
The case was designed in FreeCAD and printed it on Prusa MK3S and Prusa Core One. Firmware is built on Arduino SDK with patched GxEPD2_4G lib. Control server is written in TypeScript and runs on NodeJS. It renders screens to 2-bit grayscale PNG and sends via Mosquitto.
The price is ~115 EUR of you order the e-ink display and battery directly from China.
Most of this is my work, from the hardware up to the control server and also monitoring. It’s a very interesting project, a nice change from what I normally do because it’s a physical object. :)
This batch is 32 pieces and they will be installed mainly in Dejvice this month.
HTTP Upload on conversations.im is temporarily unavailable. Our hosting provider is working on resolving the issue.
In the meantime you should be able to get half decent results - at least in 1:1 chats - by long pressing the failed file transfer and selecting 'Retry as P2P'.
For a service that depends directly on a Postgres database they've shown:
- they don't know how to properly manage storage - they still never turned on pg_checksum - they have no idea how to run a reliable production Postgres cluster
These are unserious people trying to run a serious project and it should make you very concerned about how professionally they do all their work RT: mastodon.matrix.org/users/matr…
Sorry, but it's bad news: we haven't been able to restore the DB primary filesystem to a state we're confident in running as a primary (especially given our experiences with slow-burning postgres db corruption). So we're having to do a full 55TB DB snapshot restore from last night, which will take >10h to recover the data, and then >4h to actually restore, and then >3h to catch up on missing traffic. Huge apologies for the outage. Again, folks using their own homeservers are not impacted.
Oh a mysterious "slow burn" of Postgres corruption? Where is the engagement on the Postgres mailing lists? I haven't seen a single thread about this issue on the pgsql-general or pgsql-hackers lists.
It's either a hardware storage bug, a raid implementation bug, a kernel bug, or their Postgres/filesystem tuning is trading data reliability for performance. But they're not sharing anything of value.
Postgres doesn't just corrupt itself. We have several DBs > 100TB at $work. Many people have significantly larger databases...
I kinda doubt their recovery times too. They will probably forget that they need to disable indexes to make the restore have a reasonable speed. And pg_restore is single threaded per table. 1.5TB can take 1.5 days.
I think they're fucked. I wonder if they will be able to recover without it taking months, literally. They haven't indicated they're using anything but vanilla Postgres.
This could be the end of the matrix.org homeserver.
pg_dump and pg_restore are reliable tools for backing up and restoring Postgres databases. They're essential for database migrations, disaster recovery and so on.
it's really easy to disable everything and restore an oracle database but postgres is a pain in the fucking ass last time I tried, you have to do a special dump of indices etc separately from structure/data and then do a manual babysat restore. I mean if you're a sysadmin that's your fucking job but it actually does suck imo
@sun Oh I don't disagree, but Oracle has had billions poured into it so they can make that possible. Postgres is nearly as good as Oracle in almost all use cases, but these types of maintenance operations have not yet been engineered for performance.
The companies doing the Postgres forks have been the ones innovating here and putting their time and expertise into making sure they solve their customers' needs. And often those improvements get merged upstream. But as far as R&D goes it's still a drop in the bucket compared to Oracle 🫠
@j @sun Tons of features you probably don't need and a unique ability to drain your company of all its money both in licensing costs and Oracle DBA salaries
Although if you have a particular problem they will make you a custom patch you can apply to your Oracle database. A change to the code nobody else will ever have. It's bizarre.
@j @sun At that point you basically consult them for every patch / upgrade so they can keep your changes working. This is sometimes a major issue keeping companies from upgrading to the next major release as their query planner etc will change and you could lose the performance you had or new problems arise that need different custom patches to keep your workload performing as expected.
@j if you aren't a big company the few benefits aren't worth it, in fact I would say it has little benefit unless you buy their most expensive horizontally scaleable option which is meant for busineses where the data size is so massive it should be nosql but you're architecturally locked into rdbms. very time I've mentioned it on here people say "you're doing it wrong" well I have to explain that a lot of corporate customers are just plain locked into somethigng that got built in the 1990s and it would take a hundred million dollars and shitloads of uinacceptable risk to rewrite. for those customers there is a big fat oracle database and you will pay a LOT for it.
@j for years and years people went with oracle because it was the only ANSI SQL compliant database, everybody else either didn't have x feature or it was a proprietary extension. but this hasn't been true for years, Postgres is compliant.
oracle also spends a gazillion dollars convincing your company to put everything into oracle though, so they have really stupid bad shit you should never do, but on the surface you think "I'm already paying them so I'll integrate that too". it's pretty transparent that they're taking advantage of know-nothing managers to trap companies into never being able to leave.
@sun @j It helps that they offer you 24/7 access to experts and developers to solve your problems in case your own employees aren't capable. They become an extension of your IT department. But really they're a virus.
@j for a long time it was really fucking difficult to even get it installed and install patches so you relied on them heavily but now you can install it with apt-get. it used to take more than a day for your most expensive technical staff member to install it correctly. many companies just opted to pay oracle directly to set up their shit
@sun @j We had a scheduled overnight outage in 2007 to upgrade Oracle 9i to 10g. It was an 8 hour outage and the process to backup then apply the patches took 7 hours.
We couldn't afford more Sun servers. A restore from backup was also 8 hours. We practiced it several times because even doing one thing out of order breaks the database.
It was all or nothing (and probably losing our jobs).
yeah but there's a performance penalty to the COW of ZFS. Soon™️ OpenZFS will support a DirectIO interface to make Postgres fast, but it's not released last I checked
@j I have been told repeatedly to not put a database on ZFS but this info seems to be contradicted last year or so by people doing it successfully. In the past there was speed issues but they were somewhat mitigated by compression
@sun @j You can and I have done so without issues, it's just not a simple install, configure Postgres and let it run thing. You have to change record sizes to avoid fragmentation, if you are on fast SSDs disable ZIL on your DB dataset and hope that Postgres will ensure data integrity with fsync and pg_wal, or move it to a special ZIL SLOG on fast SSDs. And those are the absolute basics of what you have to do to make it somewhat work.
@sun @j Yes, it's very much in the technical voodoo territory. There's also many configurations that will wreck your ZFS performance if you don't know what you are doing. Hence why companies like Klara Systems exist.
Setting record size to 8k is faster than 16k but only for a little bit because it gets super fragmented. Setting to 16k fixes the fragmentation and provides better compression ratios since compression happens to each record block. Setting to 32 or higher could be interesting and help compression even more. You won't see improvements beyond the default 128k on like 95% of drives and it could even hurt performance. That being said 1M+ record sizes may be useful in conjunction with zstd-4 for long-term archival of compressible data like database backups. All of this can be changed whenever so it's not that big of a deal. Block size you're stuck with forever so make sure you set the correct block size.
Most of the data the database actually cares about at any time will live in the arc (ram cache) and if you use compression it's compressed in the ARC so you get even better cache hits.
For compression I used lz4. Zstd (even compression level 1) was too much latency. Lz4 is really great and shaved off about 45% of data needing to be written to disk. That was the main reason I switched to zfs. It was the only practical filesystem for postgres that supports disk compression.
It makes postgres upgrades super fast and easy. Just take a snapshot, hard link the database files, fire up the new postgres version and it should work but if it starts fugging the database then you can just easily restore the snapshot.
I came for the compression and ending up loving it because not only is it the best filesystem but it's the best disk management system too. You can even just create raw volumes and format them however you want. You can have ext4 on zfs, you can have NTFS on zfs, you could even put zfs on top of zfs if you really wanted to.
Zfs is also the only way to have a compressed swap partition
+ UPDATE (2021/12/21) After lots of feedback on Reddit (thanks /u/BucketOfSpinningRust!) and doing some more experimenting and digging, I've updated this post with more information -- new/updated sections are marked "Update".
> All of this can be changed whenever so it's not that big of a deal.
when you make these changes to ZFS filesystems it does not change the existing data. That problem is left to you to solve -- traditionally by restoring all the data from backup.
However, a new tool is coming called "zfs rewrite" that will let you atomically rewrite underlying blocks so the data gets the new storage settings applied to the filesystem.
@j @sun That's nice, although not specifically mentioned, I guess it should be able to rewrite fragmented files into continuous blocks. And the whole send, destroy, recreate, recv dance wouldn't be needed. Not really a wide spread issue, but it does happen.
@phnt @j @sun correct it would reduce fragmentation.
Right now I solve that problem myself with a custom script I made that uses cpdup to clone files and then move them into place of the original. A ZFS native tool would be much better.
How to easily integrate a XMPP server with Akkoma or Pleroma. In the following we will concentrate on Akkoma (a better Pleroma fork), but Pleroma should work more or less the same.
I assume as long as SASL-SCRAM-plain is the only way to achive auth integration with other system, there is really no way around that. Channel Binding is a nice feature, but personally I find it much lower priority than auth integration.
Maybe you could look into supporting Oauth2/OIDC login flows in Conversations? At least Prosody seems to have good support for this now, and I think this might be the only realistic way to have both Channel Binding and auth integration.
@daniel @kris The OIDC/OAuth2 project for @prosodyim does support both internal and external user databases. The focus was on allowing fine-grained permission and not exposing passwords to web clients, but the resulting SASL middleware made it easy to support external identity providers.
I think you should be able to only restore your local Homeserver's data in Matrix and let it backfill all the other data from the originating servers. If you can't do that what's the point ??
One of the benefits of eSpeak-NG is that it doesn't make assumptions like reading "CUP" is Cuban Pesos (hello US OneCore voices) - but the flip side is that eSpeak will read the year 1987 as "nineteen hundred eighty seven". If you'd like it to read that as "nineteen eighty seven" & learn a little #regex on the way, then @fastfinge has you covered with the "Correcting Years With NVDA and Espeak" blog post: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/08/28/…
Thanks for this, this has been a bugbear of mine for many years. I initially thought it would replace years after 2000 and before 2099 with twenty, but thank God it didn't. Ewwwww!
I can't resist the temptation to discuss more OneCore oddities, we also can't forget the OneCore bug with reading ernesto, or have you been using applications where unchecking check boxes was necessary? Also fun fact. Microsoft David always uses its OneCore data even in SAPI5. Zira uses OneCore data in OneCore, but its older data in SAPI5. What this means, is that David will always exhibit these problems, but Zira will only if using OneCore and not SAPI.
A utility that extracts text from images or PDFs using a local or remote OpenAI-compatible API endpoint with vision-capable multimodal models. For PDFs, each page is rendered to an image and processed sequentially; outputs are concatenated into a single Markdown document. github.com/robert-mcdermott/do…
A utility that extracts text from images or PDFs using a local or remote OpenAI-compatible LLM API endpoint with vision-capable multimodal models. For PDFs, each page is rendered to an image and pr...
I've been dabbling a bit more with AI-driven development and have a basic windows RSS reader joining my Sports Scores and Image Description Toolkit apps.RSS Quick, A Basic RSS Reader for Windows 1.0 Available theideaplace.net/rss-quick-a-b…
I’ve been dabbling further with AI-driven development and have another app for exploration. This time it is a basic RSS Reader for Windows I’m calling RSS Quick. Get the full details an…
@menelion I use VS code, a GitHub Copilot subscription, and then various frameworks. My sports score and image description tool kit apps were python. RSS quick is a C sharp WPF application because I find the accessibility better for graphical apps. I also, as I think I have been in my blog post, want to be transparent that I am using AI for a sizable part of my development. I have the ideas and the understanding of what I want to happen and am using AI to help me deliver it more rapidly.
Absolutely with you in this. I'm a developer myself, so I'm, so to say, more nitty-gritty into details and write large parts of the code myself, but I extensively use Claude Code now.
Hey everybody, I've been playing the alpha of a creature collecting roguelite with accessibility for blind and other disabilities, there's also a demo on steam. The dev is trying to fund more development of the game so that it doesn't have to released with anything missing as the planned release date was September. If you like indie devs, roguelikes, and accessibility in games, please consider backing!
Recently, the meta rayban glasses have kind of been hitting me from all directions, and not gonna lie, I'm starting to consider buying them, since I rely a lot on identifying colours on displays of household appliances, reading documents on paper, recognizing frequencies/channel numbers on radios and so on. Could anyone who owns them please enlighten me if they work for the things I described? And mainly if the AI functions are supported outside of the US (since I'm from Czechia)? I remember reading about this limitation a few months ago, but maybe I'm imagining things. I'd be very glad for any answers, and if you could boost this post, that would really help me out a bunch. Thanks!
I made some final tweaks to the #Tactile #SVG Bingo card output for both portrait and landscape modes, made the site responsive, pretty, and functional in light and dark modes with CSS, and am happy to release this further out into the world! Thanks to @ChanceyFleet for bringing this little project to me! Now anyone can make tactile and embossable Bingo Cards whenever they want! We can do so much nonvisually with just a little code and a means of tactile output! blindsvg.com/pages/projects/bi…
It's concerning to me that arguably *the* way to get Linux apps, Flathub, has all of its packaging data hosted on GitHub, with seemingly no plans to move away from it. With the direction GitHub is going, I am worried that Flathub will want to move and it'll be too late to do it cleanly.
It felt very weird to be on a plane that had a server with Nginx and Drupal installed on it. According to http headers at least, and those rarely lie. Definitely not a ground link, you aren't getting 5ms pings over satellite.
Their IFE system appears to serve MP3s ripped straight from iTunes (no DRM), with album metadata and such left intact. Is this legal? God only knows.
The ability to switch between NVDA profiles with different keystrokes and to tweak output settings for each one individually is just fantastic. Whenever I mess something up on my main audio interface, I can get things working again in moments by switching to my "rescue" profile (that's just what I call it) which is hard routed to always use my laptop speakers. Highly recommend this for anyone who plays around with virtual mixers, audio cables, etc. It did save my ass more times than I can count!
I'm curious. Does this approach have different advantages than just setting NVDA to always use a static audio device? I have NVDA using a static audio device, and only switch it to the new one when I can confirm that the new one has audio working through it.
@BTyson For me it does. When I accidentally set the wrong virtual mixer in the Focusrite app, I lose audio because the device NVDA is using isn't being routed through my monitors / headphones. When that happens, the only way I can get speech back is by changing the mixer back inside the app. That's where the rescue profile comes into play.
@ngons you'd hope, but i prefer to just disable as many points as i can find because i don't trust mozilla any more. the shortcuts for ai shit are a nice touch to remove too
There y'all go. Since a few asked for it, and I realized none of my code shared similarities in design or philosophy to the BTSpeak's tool, I released my Radio-browser Python CLI tool here: github.com/tgeczy/radio-browse… - useful on Raspberry Pi or other Linux distributions where just having a simple radio station player is what's missing. Can't say it'll get any mooer fancy than this, but we'll see! Took like 5 or 6 days to write it up in the end, wasn't just going to throw it all to AI to write without thorough supervision and fixing bugs, errors.
A Cli package for the public Radio browser API, built to be lightweight , accessible and easy to use from the ground up. - GitHub - tgeczy/radio-browser-whiptail-cli: A Cli package for the public ...
I've often tried to make that sort of argument, good a11y means good modular code, and it means good capacity to automate. It's something devs should like.
I've been an email hosting customer with #MythicBeasts (@beasts) for just under a day and a half, and I'm honestly very impressed. I opted for their email only plan since I already have webspace somewhere else. The main website and control pannel UI are very accessible to #blind #ScreenReader users like myself, with sections clearly structured with headings, pretty much no unlabelled links, buttons or other elements, and no annoying ads, pop-ups or anything else that could hijack a screen reader or lag a browser to pieces. I contacted them about an issue I'm having yesterday and the initial reply, *human* reply that is, took just over 10 minutes. The issue is still ongoing as of now, but I'm confident that it will be fixed soon; I did contact them at the backside of the working day after all. Not bad at all for the monthly price of just under a fiver! Also, bonus points for being a 2000s ISP, having started in the year 2000.
I don't really know, I don't have any red flags, I suppose. I use gandi for my hosting and their mail box pricing has shot up, so I may well move. pity there's no way of moving host like you'd just send a text for a PAC on your mobile
Last week, I started an Ableton Move track. Today, I finally finished it.
This is a thing I call "Fly on the Wall." Basically, I just wanted an excuse to use one of the Sliced Loops presets, which are in the latest Move beta, along with one of the new autofilters in combination with a second filter and LFO to make one of the included single-sample E-piano patches sound less boring.
I just automated the amount that the LFO affected the autofilter, which in that instance was a high pass with a sine wave LFO that essentially created a non-linear panning effect.
FYI for TeamTalk server administrators who run Debian on an X86_64 machine, and may be considering upgrading to Debian 13: The ubuntu24-x86_64 package runs on Debian 13. You'll need the ubuntu22-x86_64 package for Debian 12. And BearWare, just because your opinion is that Ubuntu is the only version of Linux in existence, allow me to correct you to say that Debian was and is first. Adendum: Someone pointed out that if you're using TeamTalk client in a Linux GUI, the Ubuntu24 version has accessibility problems, and the Ubuntu22 version will still run on Debian 13.
@fireborn Interesting. I was only evaluating it from the CLI server perspective, but I also did not try the Ubutnu22 package on Debian 13. Thanks for the info.
- Knock-knock. - Who's there? - Dozen. - Dozen who? - Dozen anyone want to let me in?
Celebrating a dozen of #Fractal versions with knocking support! Get Fractal 12, the new version of your favourite #Matrix client for #GNOME from #Flathub now!
Knock, knock, knock… on wood rooms, baby 🎵 Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh 🎶 That’s right, Fractal 12 adds support for knocking, among other things. Read all about the improvements since 11.
I can now turn what began as a quick project made in a providential three weeks of free time into an app that can...actually do basic things like add contacts 😅
More importantly, it'll make the open and standardised messaging protocol available to a mobile platform where few large players have dared to tread 👟
Among currently available ARM64 single-board computers, which one has the simplest and most fully open boot process? The Raspberry Pi family has boot handled by the VideoCore, a whole other processor running its own RTOS during and after boot. Other ARM64 boards, like the Rockchip RK3566-based Quartz64 that I own, have a Rockchip version of ARM Trusted Firmware (which IIUC runs continuously at a higher privilege level) as a blob. Is there any ARM64 board that avoids both of these?
(Their website is a database about single-board computers, although from a quick check I couldn't find specifics on open boot processes hackerboards.com/ )
I'm a month late but: Rockchip RK3399 (e.g. Pine64 ROCKPro64) has zero blobs. As in, both DDR init and ATF are open (former in mainline u-boot, latter in mainline ATF).
RK3588 (e.g. Radxa ROCK 5B+) has open mainline ATF, but closed DDR init (runs once at boot) at the moment.
K3576 (e.g. Radxa ROCK 4D) also has open mainline ATF, but closed DDR init.
RK3566 *does* have something in ATF but I've heard it has problems. Closed DDR init as well though.
Gonna meet up with friends to celebrate, do some on-the-ground surveying, probably also walk around with a 360° cam to get imagery for @panoramax. And fly a drone, to get some nice aerial imagery while we're at it! 🗺️ 📷
Had a blast at our little #OpenStreetMap birthday celebration. 🍰 🧉
It ended up being too windy to fly drones for long. Instead we recorded street-level images for #panoramax and GPS tracks, in addition to doing a lot of live surveying – using a huge range of tools that allow contributing to OSM!
It’s release day for Debian 13 “trixie”! Across the world, the release, publicity, images, and FTP teams are making their final preparations for the new stable release. #debian #debian13 #trixie #ReleasingDebianTrixie
upgrading my first machine to Trixie. Following the instructions below I've uninstalled all packages from non-Debian sources (in that machine that's #Incus - it will be re-installed from Trixie sources).
Genuine question. What would I gain and what would I lose if I switched from Ubuntu? Any resources on that? Getting a bit fed up with how corporate Canonical is.
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I want to defend Wayland here and explain a crucial piece that I think people are missing...
The splitting of protocols in Wayland and compositor reimplementation were to allow for new form factors. It had to sacrifice the guarantee of all desktop app functionality being present to achieve that.
The idea (as I see it) was never to have 500 desktop compositors all trying to reimplement the same thing with slight differences. Iinstead, it was for 500 different interfaces for different platforms that are compatible with the same apps (e.g. desktop, laptop, phone, car screens, AR/VR, watch). Different form factors have totally different ways of dealing with interface, but share enough common features where it makes sense to have 1 base protocol and many other ones for device/form specific features.
Problem is, while in 2008-2016 we had a ton of new experimental UIs coming out on a semi-regular basis (that was the peak of the whole convergent phone/tablet craze, smartwatches started, fancy car UI, touch tables, early AR/VR) things have quieted down. The purpose of Wayland's insane modularity hasn't been visible to most people given it's almost always complained about in a desktop contest vs X11. But X11 was literally only designed for a desktop form factor and has been refined for that 1 purpose for decades!
As an example of different form factors, Wayland lets IVI (in-vehicle infotainment) systems work way better than Xorg could have. Desktop window layouting on that platform would inherently produce massive amounts of unnecessary complexity, and the ability to direct scanout saves on power/expensive compute. Automotive Grade Linux and COVESA maintain reference interfaces for cars so companies can iterate a ton faster. Wayland gives the app compatibility and they can make the system UI work with more flexibility and ease than an X11 window manager.
Take Linux Mobile too, the compositor can reliably enforce window layout and boundaries and composition. While this could technically be done with an X window manager and compositor, doing it with Wayland guarantees reliability as the app simply doesn't have a choice or room for error. Some things like drag and drop of toolbars doesn't make much sense on mobile given how small the screens are.
There's some interfaces where X11 is basically impossible to use. In AR/VR (where i am making a Wayland compositor) the concept of a screen simply does not exist. How is an app supposed to position itself when the very concept of 3D is not part of the protocol? In Wayland I don't have to implement the protocols that don''t work (e.g. layer shell) and therefore any apps that don't need it will be compatible..
Wayland has allowed for insane levels of flexibility, things that no other display server architecture can do reasonably. Total flexibility between app and screen, direct scanout without hacks, AR/VR support, etc.
Here's some fun and useful stuff that's been done with Wayland, stuff that X11 could never reasonably do:
Multiple user collaboration on touch tables with arbitrary rotation: youtu.be/8xtjJTJAQsY
AR/VR apps running in windows and volumes at the same time, all interactable back in 2014 (eat your heart out magic leap and apple): github.com/evil0sheep/motorcar
Presentation slides that were themselves a Wayland compositor written in Qt and QML so therefore allowed fully interactive live demos in an integrated form factor with a very popular and easy to code UI framework: youtu.be/mIg1P3i2ZfI
Cosmic panels are actually Wayland compositors, meaning widgets can draw literally anything from any toolkit in any language.
Now, could Wayland devs maybe have distributed features across protocols better? Worked with app toolkit devs to ensure the protocols they made actually fit what the apps and compositors needed? Stopped bikeshedding (though imo many cases of "bikeshedding" are simply accounting for other form factors)? Absolutely!
My point here is simple: there was a reason for making it this modular, for not having a standard implementation. It wasn't just devs trying to impose some ideology, it wasn't some corporate takeover. It's good reasons that people using X11 on their desktop/laptop don't encounter. If we made something that wasn't universal, most apps wouldn't be compatible with it and therefore everything but the desktop form factor would lack apps.
@jcsteh oh yeah, that would be the most logical. Think I'll accept it. Hahahaha. It's a bit odd as it opens the full-screen individual mixer and not just the "sndvol" panel with volume alone, but it's way more convenient than hunting it down in settings for per-app audio routing, so I suspect I'll be using it a lot along with VAC.
@mcourcel @DavidGoldfield @rlegowski1 lol I think that's why this is misleading slightly for volume - it's the more advanced per-app volume mixer that lets you choose where something outputs to without fancy cables, not just the standard master or per-app volume control only.
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in reply to feld • • •there's an old comment (~2015) on HN by the rsync.net team saying they removed WebDAV support from their service because of issues with mod_dav in Apache and it was abandoned / couldn't reach the devs...
but the git history disagrees with that. It came back to life.
github.com/apache/httpd/commit…
History for modules/dav - apache/httpd
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in reply to Hat Man • • •it would need to be SFTP in a jail/container that's behind a wireguard tunnel that goes to a cloud server... would not be fun to set that up; would have to definitely use a separate port from 22 and then I couldn't integrate it with my LDAP auth as easily unless I setup all the pam ldap shit...
edit: also some of the things I use this for do not support SFTP, sooo
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in reply to feld • • •Yeah. So glad I went back to NFS instead of that shit. I was a big fan of them for years and even helped in their Slack channel and earned a minio sweater.
We're they GPL or some other license that will prevent a fork to fixing their mess
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in reply to feld • • •One problem with webdav is that there isn't a standard way to write partial files. The spec only allows complete overwriting of files. Apache and others provide an extension to do partial updates, but as you mention in your post, the v is for version, and so it wasn't designed to do partial updates, only wholesale replacement.
I can dig up references that talk more about it, if you want.
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