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I've just published libchm, a small Rust crate for reading CHM files using ChmLib.
GitHub: github.com/trypsynth/libchm
crates.io: crates.io/crates/libchm
docs.rs: docs.rs/crate/libchm/latest
Not sure if this will be of use to anyone but me, but I needed it for Paperback.

GitHub - trypsynth/libchm: Thin Rust wrapper over ChmLib.

Thin Rust wrapper over ChmLib. Contribute to trypsynth/libchm development by creating an account on GitHub.
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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?

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#poll #os #computing #fediverse

  • GNU Linux or UNIX (62%, 4234 votes)
  • MacOS (22%, 1509 votes)
  • Microsoft Windows (13%, 901 votes)
  • Other, please comment. (1%, 114 votes)
6758 voters. Poll end: in 3 days

#fediverse #poll #computing #os
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Fun fact: The Cadence braille display, made by Tactile Engineering, is manufactured in Lafayette, Indiana, USA, utilizing local Indiana and Midwest tech companies for its advanced components, with support from Purdue University connections. Might also be why it's priced closer to a standard 40-cell display per module, but I would rather support manufacturing that's here at-home (US) Probably unavoidable that some parts could be made elsewhere, like a specific microcontroler or other smaller piece, but from what I've gathered and info I read they are assembled and components for the cells manufactured here.
Fairly awesome, and again it's why I love supporting local, including the BTSpeak too which is at least north-American made and US serviced. By contrast I'm sure the larger companies do their manufacturing and assembly more internationally.

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Here it is. I went through many many Youtube videos to dig out these. The sounds of: First a Monarch, then a dotPad X, then the Cadence. all 3, side by side. Interesting to me that DotPad's noise is more fragmented, maybe a tad louder than Monarch, almost on-par with Cadence. Cadence may be the loudest, but also fastest-refreshing (which is where they'll always have an advantage, even when you pair 2 or 4 that refresh rate doesn't go up.) Refresh rates between DotPad and Monarch feel comparable to me: Around 1.5 to 2.5 seconds, depending on your text's complexity.

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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

Title slide from presentation "World Blind Union General Assembly and World Blindness Summit Sao Paulo, Brazil, presented by Emma Bennison (Director) James Boreham (GM) with NV Access Logo. Title in white on purple. Presenters below in purple on white.

NV Access | World Blind Union General Assembly and World Blindness Summit São Paulo 2025

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#Accessibility #blind #screenreader #nvdasr #Social #brazil #blindness #nvda #movement
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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


FM-DX WebServer [Ladimir, SVK, SNV - north]

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
#FMDX
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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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Windows 10 and 11 can automatically reboot for updates when you're not at your computer, and sometimes this can come at an inconvenient time. If you want to be able to see exactly when the reboot is about to occur, you can go to run, type in "cmd" without the quotes, and then hit ctrl+shift+enter to launch it with administrator privileges (this is necessary for this to work). Next, type "powercfg /waketimers" without the quotes, and it will tell you the time the system will wake up to install updates, or if the system is already on, the time at which the restart will occur. As there can be more than one thing listed here, the one you want to look at is "Reboot AC" on Windows 10, or "Schedule Wake To Work" on Windows 11. To help you locate these, these will have Microsoft Windows Update Orchestrator listed before them.

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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

#boostswelcome #fedihelp #fedipower

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Have you used a rotary dial telephone?

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#Poll #Telephone #Rotary #Retro

  • No, what is that? (0%, 30 votes)
  • No, but I know what it is. (9%, 751 votes)
  • Yes, and I’m under age 60 (79%, 6353 votes)
  • Yes, and I’m 60 or older (10%, 865 votes)
7999 voters. Poll end: 6 days ago

#poll #retro #telephone #rotary

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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.

github.com/furkan/dockerlings


GitHub - furkan/dockerlings: learn docker in your terminal, with bite sized exercises

learn docker in your terminal, with bite sized exercises - furkan/dockerlings
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Something is changing my default output device to 24 bit 96 khz. It is annoing, because it doesnt change the imput device, so Reaper can not open it in wasapi. Today it probably broke my vdo ninja recording, which was half a speed. It seems that this happens after lenovo or windows update. Lets see if I can create some script which will monitor it and let me know when this happens again

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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.

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#FieldRecording #Sound #Audio #Zoom

Home | audiopub

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#audio #zoom #sound #fieldrecording #audiopub

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A beautiful Jewish Indian song written in the 16th Century

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#Jewish #Mazeldon #Music #Indian


YONATI ZIV - A Tradisional Indian-Jewish Song (Piyut), Written By Rabbi Israel Najara!

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...
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#music #jewish #Mazeldon #Indian

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Want to have a talking microwave to annoy the whole family? CNIB has one on sale now for 200 bucks. Because, I guess it didn't sell that well at 450. Man! cnibsmartlife.ca/products/cnib…

CNIB Talking Microwave - Non-Refundable

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.
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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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I'm guessing that a lot of Americans don't know who Thabo Mbeki was, and we ought to. He succeeded Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa. He had a degree in economics, and the expectation was that he would implement Mandela's vision, but he became notorious for HIV denialism. He said that people were dying as a result of poverty and poor nutrition, not HIV. He alleged that HIV was being used as a mechanism to commit genocide against black people. He blocked the availability of antiretroviral drugs in South Africa for several years, saying that they were not safe. Public health experts sometimes get things wrong for various reasons, and they sometimes revise their conclusions as new information becomes available, but Mbeki should be a cautionary tale in terms of what can happen when policy-makers ignore advice from scientists. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thabo_Mb…

President of South Africa from 1999 to 2008

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Poll: We got curious, so we wondered where you do the majority of your podcast listening if at all?
multiple choice.

  • At home (56%, 38 votes)
  • Out walking (17%, 12 votes)
  • Whendriving (20%, 14 votes)
  • With family/friends (listen together) (4%, 3 votes)
  • Any time I have a spare moment (19%, 13 votes)
  • I can never find the right time (4%, 3 votes)
  • Never really thought about it (1%, 1 vote)
  • I haven't found a podcast I'm interested in (11%, 8 votes)
  • I don't have time for podcasts (11%, 8 votes)
  • What's a podcast? (4%, 3 votes)
67 voters. Poll end: 3 days ago

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Jedno z mála videí, kde se ukáže @torvalds . Tentokrát u stavby PC.
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#linustorvalds

Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds

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...
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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-… 🍿

Screenshot of the Meta Privacy Center to opt out from AI tracking
Screenshot of the Meta Privacy Center to opt out from AI tracking
Screenshot of the Meta Privacy Center to opt out from AI tracking

Meta will use your data to train Meta AI – but it could be illegal! | Tuta

Austrian NGO NOYB challenges Meta yet again and sends a cease-and-desist letter to stop the Big Tech from abusing your data.
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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

Screenshot from android Cookbook app showing sweets category
Screenshot from android Cookbook app showing a recipe
#cookbook #nextcloud @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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@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

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@jonathan859 The links you sent are cut off. Also, I cannot really help you unfortunately. All I know is that after build 7019 Narator should work - at least by resetting from the settings.
Alternatively, just use a 24h2 iso from the Internet Archive. It's really easy to find and you safely can use it (I did so too). Also the upgrading process to 25h2 is fairly easy.
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I made my own RSS reader for myself. Check it out!
github.com/serrebi/BlindRSS
Really starting to prefer Gemini, but even it is not perfect, and I had to send it the public API link not the GitHub for TheOldReaderAPI working URL. I don't know for sure that had anything to do with it working, but I'm glad it worked. I've only tested Miniflux and TheOldReader remote services.

GitHub - serrebi/BlindRSS: A vibed accessible, modern RSS client for the blind

A vibed accessible, modern RSS client for the blind - serrebi/BlindRSS
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Nexus Client


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

Screenshot of Nexus Client in dark mode, showing users talking, with a sidebar showing rooms and spaces, and another sidebar showing members
The same screenshot as before, but in light mode

nexus

Forgejo: Beyond coding. We Forge.
#foss #matrix #opensource #flutter #design #help

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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 more

The future, though, is probably acsh 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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The Accessibility Shell
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Heh yeah, I spent a bunch of time getting 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.
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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!


Sammy the Christmas Snake

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 happ...
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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

GitHub - kristoferlund/ostt: Open Speech-to-Text recording tool with real-time volume metering and transcription.

Open Speech-to-Text recording tool with real-time volume metering and transcription. - kristoferlund/ostt
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#terminal #RustLang #transcription #tts #tui #ratatui #audiotech @Ratatui

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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.

nechces.cz/~sesivany/019ccbe7-…

#grapheneos #pixel6a

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Jiří Eischmann

@rlounsbury I usually use high-end phones, but it was not a problem for me to use Pixel 6a for almost a year. GOS is fast on it, the battery life is fairly good. I was surprised by the camera. It makes better pictures than my previous phone (Galaxy S22). What limited me a bit is that 6GB of memory isn't much for Android these days. When I did heavy multitasking, apps sometimes suspended instead of staying in the memory.
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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

With mousewheel scrolling, infinite scroll may be a bit laggy on some computers (#1125) · Issues · GNOME / gnome-calendar · GitLab

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...
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#gnome #UX #gnomecalendar @GNOME @TheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️

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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… 🤞


GNOME Shell becomes extremely slow over time and consumes tons of CPU (#62) · Issues · GNOME / gnome-shell · GitLab

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.
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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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#GeminiProtocol #Accessibility #ScreenReader #AskFedi

Project Gemini

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#Accessibility #askfedi #screenreader #geminiprotocol

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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 🚀

joinloops.org

Loops - The federated short video sharing platform.

joinloops.org

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A new version of #SARA is available on GitHub. A lot has changed, mainly under the hood, but also in the interface. Among other things, a break (Ctrl+B) has been added to a track, which causes playback to stop after the track marked this way in automix. Speaking of automix, its behavior is now much more predictable. The mix window now allows monitoring of both the loop and the mix with the next track, both triggered by the Alt+V shortcut. A “Do Not Disturb” mode has been added to the NVDA add-on, enabled by default, which makes SARA speak very little, but as a side effect it also stops reading some interface elements, so for example it is best to switch between playlists using the F6 key. The Do Not Disturb mode can be turned off at any time with the Alt+NVDA+D shortcut. Attached to this post you will find a sample of how SARA mixes in practice, and you can test it here: gitrls.com/michaldziwisz/sara/

SARA 0.0.3

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#sara

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