Just curious: Can Station playlist use Asio imputs and outputs? Thei state that Asio is supported, but on my windows 11 with asio4all enabled SPL doesnt see asio devices.
Peter Vágner reshared this.
This project looks promising. It looks like amazing replacement for Station playlist. Supports playlists, automation, looping. I sometimes play music during family events using SPL, maybe on next I will try this. Seems that my next procrastination moment will be with this. github.com/michaldziwisz/sara. Latest release at github.com/michaldziwisz/sara/…
GitHub - michaldziwisz/sara: Simple Accessible Radio Automation
Simple Accessible Radio Automation. Contribute to michaldziwisz/sara development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
reshared this
this is an appreciation post for #paperback. it's nice to know people still care and invest their time into developing light weight applications that simply works. We need more of that.
reshared this
Was just using #curl to help debug some network configuration issues with a client.
Realised we'd need to fake a hostname mapping to a specific IP, as we haven't set up the DNS aliases yet.
And, because it's curl, not only is there a way to do it, there's several well documented options!
everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/…
Thanks, curl team!
Name resolve tricks - everything curl
everything there is to know about curl, libcurl and the cURL projecteverything.curl.dev
reshared this
If you are into #tranceMusic #uplifting #vocalTrance, have a listen to these stunning tracks
Paipy & Elles de Graaf - The Last Time
Driftmoon X XiJaro & Pitch - Rise Again
RAM & Arctic Moon & Stine Grove - A Billion Stars Above
VOCAL TRANCE: Paipy & Elles de Graaf - The Last Time [Amsterdam Trance] + LYRICS
For more Trance: https://RazNitzan.lnk.to/RNMSpotifySubscribe to our Youtube Channel: @RazNitzanMusic Download or Stream: https://RazNitzan.lnk.to/TheLastTim...YouTube
Believe it or not: #deltachat is growing audio/video calls starting with the currently rolling 2.22 releases ... A few people already had two hour long stable calls :)
Calls are an experimental option while we continue to work on reliability, UX/UI revisions, and configuration of TURN servers on #chatmail relays and in clients.
We want calls to reliably work across all major platforms, networks and phones, including #UbuntuTouch
Feedback and debugging happens at support.delta.chat/t/help-test…
Help testing upcoming Delta Chat release with calls 📞!
Всем привет! Возможно ли сделать звонок, если использовать только классические сервера электронной почты? Мои попытки позвонить закончились неудачно - сам вызов проходит, но ни звука, ни видео.Delta.Chat
Peter Vágner likes this.
reshared this
@opensourceopenmind Ok. So I made a call from DeltaChat on Pixel3A running @LineageOS calling DeltaChat on Pixel3A running @postmarketOS with @phosh I got a nice ringtone on PostmarketOS phone, and Ubuntu laptop and iOS phone 👍️ I've answered on Postmarket phone. Audio worked great, and I also got video from Lineage phone but not from Postmarket phone (no surprise to me though I have a working front camera on PM OS so theoretically it could already be done). So 10/10 overall. Great work!👍️
@opensourceopenmind @LineageOS @postmarketOS Although for DeltaChat text messages received on PostmarketOS I still only get notification banners with haptics, no sound. Working with Delta running both in foreground and background. To get notification sound I have to have chat with that specific person sending text open in DeltaChat. Again on foreground or background doesnt matter but chat has to be open. Other way - only haptics.
Do you run Delta Chat Desktop or DeltaTouch on the postmarketOS phone?
Requirement to have a chat open to have a notification sound is not expected. Could you open an issue at github.com/deltachat/deltachat… or
codeberg.org/lk108/deltatouch with more details?
deltatouch
Decentralized, secure messenger app, powered by the chatmail core library. Fediverse: @deltatouch@social.tchncs.deCodeberg.org
This entry was edited (4 weeks ago)
I run both but here I'm talking about notification sounds on PostmarketOS run DeltaChat. Not sure if it works on desktop Ubuntu because it wasn't so important for me on desktop but I'm gonna check that as well and submit that issue. Thanks 👍️
Uch sorry I didn't pay enough attention to your toot and only now I noticed you asked wether I use DeltaTOUCH on PostmarketOS Phone. No I don't use DeltaTouch. I use desktop DeltaChat installed from Flatpak on both PostmarketOS phone and Ubuntu desktop.
Hi, will it be possible (or perhaps already planned) to add another layer of security for opening/unlocking the app by fingerprint on smartphones (similar to WhatsApp for example)?
Some of my non-techie friends installed it and said such feature would be appreciated 🙏
Some of my non-techie friends installed it and said such feature would be appreciated 🙏
One UI 8.0 Bluetooth Call Bug Silencing Screen Readers: What It Is and Current Workarounds accessibleandroid.com/one-ui-8…
One UI 8.0 Bluetooth Call Bug Silencing Screen Readers: What It Is and Current Workarounds - Accessible
When using a Bluetooth device such as a speaker or earbuds and raising the volume during a call, speech output eventually stops completely until the volume isKareen Kiwan (Accessible Android)
reshared this
I really want to love LDAP more than I do because it constantly feels like it's a black box by default. How do I successfully custom extend the schema on my own? It's a mystery. The only time it's ever really worked is when someone provides you the magic ldifs that I can never seem to produce myself
Peter Vágner reshared this.
Great news everybody, you can't block that new OpenAI Atlas browser because it uses an identical user agent to Chrome.
reshared this
⏰ Dnes v noci z 25. na 26. října 2025 se mění letní čas na zimní. Hodiny se posunou o hodinu zpět, z 🕒03:00 na 02:00 SELČ (středoevropského letního času) na 🕑 02:00 SEČ (středoevropského času).
reshared this
I'm looking for someone to brush their teeth with me. 9 out of 10 dentists say brushing alone is not good enough.
reshared this
Interesting, when a modal dialog (nested within a `<main>` element or some sectioning content) opens in Chrome it seems to disregard its context, so elements like `<header>` and `<footer>` will have `banner` and `contentinfo` roles as if they were scoped to `<body>`. When opened non-modally, they have `sectionheader` and `sectionfooter` (new ARIA roles + mapping) which means that it is computing the roles based on the dialog’s context.
Safari and Firefox keep the context is both scenarios (i.e. modal and non-modal). I have no idea what is correct. Need to read more.
Anyway, here’s a playground for the bug: knowler.dev/demos/MR4JmQW
“main+header+footer nested in a dialog nested in main with adjacent header+footer” demo by Nathan Knowler
Demonstrates a browser inconsistency for the computed ARIA roles of header + footer within a modal dialog.knowler.dev
Peter Vágner reshared this.
Interesting indeed. To distill that further:
data:text/html,<body><main role="none"><header>hi
So it seems Chrome is using the accessibility tree for the context restriction here, not the DOM tree. That means role="none" and any other way of removing content from the accessibility tree, including modal dialogs, change the context. In contrast, Firefox uses the DOM tree in this case.
Normally, the accessibility tree is what you want to use for context because of generics, role="none", etc. However, in this particular case, it seems more appropriate to do this based on the DOM. Hmm.
data:text/html,<body><main role="none"><header>hi
So it seems Chrome is using the accessibility tree for the context restriction here, not the DOM tree. That means role="none" and any other way of removing content from the accessibility tree, including modal dialogs, change the context. In contrast, Firefox uses the DOM tree in this case.
Normally, the accessibility tree is what you want to use for context because of generics, role="none", etc. However, in this particular case, it seems more appropriate to do this based on the DOM. Hmm.
The spec is kinda vague too. It talks about being "scoped to the body", but scoped in terms of which tree? So I don't think you could argue that either is right or wrong purely using the spec at this point, unless I'm missing something.
typst, an open-source document typesetting system that seems to be growing in popularity, now generates accessible, tagged PDFs by default! typst.app/blog/2025/typst-0.14…
Typst: Typst 0.14: Now accessible – Typst Blog
Typst 0.14 is out now. With accessibility by default, PDFs as images, character-level justification, and more, it has everything you need to move from draft to...Typst
like this
reshared this
@x0 Here's the answer I got on the Lobsters comment thread for this announcement: lobste.rs/c/r6ojc4
Aha. SO I'll wait until it can do MathML before using it. I have no other need for typesetting that can't be solved with a WYSIWYG editor or Markdown/HTML.
This entry was edited (1 month ago)
Yep, chimed in on the discussion shortly before they finished the job. i'm about to write some papers using Typst now. Sadly enough, most conferences still just accept submissions in LateX, but i'm going to be persistent about it.
Good news! It's getting harder to keep track of new #chatmail relays :)
Recently several public relays were added to the chatmail.at/relays list, in Warsaw, Helsinki, Romania and Barcelona.🧡
If you have #deltachat installed on mobile, you can go to any chatmail relay website in the list and click on a link there to create a chat profile.
It's wonderful to hear about collectives setting up chat infrastructure like the recent xat.fedi.cat from @fedicat and @eXOfasia
Chatmail: Relays
Chatmail provides FOSS infrastructure for interoperable, secure, speedy and reliable end-to-end encrypted messaging. Check out clients as Arcane Chat, Bots or Delta Chat today!chatmail.at
Peter Vágner likes this.
Peter Vágner reshared this.
I've been using IndentNav for a while to write Python. Recently I installed BrowserNav and now get way more positional info about HTML elements. It took some getting used to, but now the beeps and tones help me get an idea of the physical layout of a site or electron interface.
It's similar to IndentNav, but it has more rules and works with web browsers instead of being focused on code in a text editor. Positioning is one of the pieces of information that I forgot how much I miss from my sighted days. It's especially helpful with API reference docs that rely on positional encoding. Since there's more info in the browser, I only have beeps instead of precise indentation levels to get a general idea of the structure
#blind #nvda #nvaccess #browsernav #indentnav #accessibility #code
It's similar to IndentNav, but it has more rules and works with web browsers instead of being focused on code in a text editor. Positioning is one of the pieces of information that I forgot how much I miss from my sighted days. It's especially helpful with API reference docs that rely on positional encoding. Since there's more info in the browser, I only have beeps instead of precise indentation levels to get a general idea of the structure
#blind #nvda #nvaccess #browsernav #indentnav #accessibility #code
reshared this
I love Joplin so much. I set up the selfhosted Joplin Notes at some point, and I have never, not even one time, had to touch it. It updates itself, it doesn't crash, it doesn't take up enormous amounts of system resources for no reason, and all the apps just work with it on my Windows, Mac, and IOS computers. I've even got other users on it, and it works just fine. And the apps are also good. Offline? No problem! You can still look at the last version of your stuff. Need to publish a quick, well-formatted single page to the web? Done with a snap!
Peter Vágner reshared this.
@nick Nope. You don't have to update it if you've got it running in docker. Watchtower or whatever update process you use will handle it.
Ah, gotcha. ...Honestly, we're pretty awful with Docker and I don't think @quinn or I even knew what Watchtower was. Docker's one of those thigns we were dragged into kicking and screaming.
@nick@quinn You could also run cosmos-cloud.io. It'll run and update your dockers for you, configure your reverse proxies, manage your SSL certs, etc. But the nice thing is it uses the standard methods to do all of those things, so unlike other server management GUIs, you can do stuff via the command line or via cosmos-cloud and it doesn't matter.
I've been working with Docker and related tools for years; I even started playing with Docker before it reached 1.0. And this thread might be only the second time I've heard of Watchtower.
@matt@nick@quinn to be fair, it's not something you should do in an enterprise environment. In general, updates for things that aren't your hobby need to be deployed to staging, tested, and only then pushed to production. Watchtower just does an in-place update of the containers. But that's fine, and probably even better, for hobby projects.
Just heard about Bitrig, an iOS app that lets you "vibecode" apps in Swift UI from your phone. It was created by some X Swift UI devs who used to work at Apple, and although I haven't yet tested this out I have no reason to think it wouldn't be accessible. This could actually be a really fun way to learn, as you can not only see the final result, but also view and edit the code. You can even share your new app with friends and deploy to TestFlight. Link to the main site: bitrig.app
Peter Vágner reshared this.
It’s actually quite good. I created a tiny visual metronome app for myself. My excitement is temporarily down because they lack some of the frameworks that I needed for another app.
It is really accessible, at least enough for you to design your own apps.
Give it a shot!
It is really accessible, at least enough for you to design your own apps.
Give it a shot!
Zach Bennoui reshared this.
For a few years I've been aware of this website that purports to be able to unlock shopping cart wheels using the speaker on your phone, but i finally had an excuse to try and and i remembered in the moment.
A woman was outside the grocery store struggling to move her shopping car that was stuck because two of the wheels were locked
I remembered the website! So I put my phone near the wheels and played the sound. The wheels unlocked like magic. She was very happy. So cool.
ondrosik likes this.
reshared this
Apparently, Zoom P4 Next has been released. It's so so cool to see accessibility being mentioned in the video as one of the features advertised. youtube.com/watch?v=Id73VO07C0…
#accessibility #recording #podcasting
#accessibility #recording #podcasting
PodTrak P4next | The Ultimate Portable Podcast Recorder from Zoom
🎧 Meet the new Zoom PodTrak P4next! The all-in-one portable podcast recorder designed to make your show sound broadcast-ready from day one.Whether you’re s...YouTube
reshared this
Absolutely! So obvious question here but this thing is not meant to record, say VST instruments with low latency in a DAW, it would specifically be audio only stuff?
@jpellis2008 Not sure I understand the question. It’s just a recorder with a lot of cool stuff. Can be connected as an audio card though.
Oh wow, cool! this might be one of my next recorders should I want to record externally again in the future.
I have a rather peculiar #Android problem.
- I use personalDNSfilter (zenz-solutions.de/personaldnsf…) to block ads system-wide. It's basically like running a local pi-hole using a local VPN.
- I would also like to use Orbot (#Tor) and run some apps (specifically Nextcloud) that don't natively support proxying through Orbot's VPN.
The problem is, Android won't let me run two VPNs at the same time. And blocking ads without a VPN would require rooting my phone, which I don't want to do. However:
- personalDNSfilter can expose the DNS server on port 5300 without using the VPN (which is useless in itself).
- Orbot can expose its HTTP and SOCKS proxy without using the VPN (which is also useless in itself).
Is there some way to setup a custom VPN that would combine these two things, i.e., let me route some apps through Orbot's proxy and use the local DNS server (provided by personalDNSfilter) at port 5300? I was looking at OpenVPN for Android (github.com/schwabe/ics-openvpn), but I'm honestly really confused. Help please? 😅 Boosts appreciated.
GitHub - schwabe/ics-openvpn: OpenVPN for Android
OpenVPN for Android. Contribute to schwabe/ics-openvpn development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Peter Vágner reshared this.
I was figuring out a similar problem and in the end I settled on running my own DNS filtering outside the device (AdGuard Home on my server) and setting it as the private DNS in Android. The advantage of this solution is that you can cover all your devices in your household with it. And I still get to run whatever VPN I want on my phone.
@sesivany Interseting, I haven't thought about this. So it supports DoT? I looked at Pi-hole and it's problematic there.
Yes, it does. Standard DNS, DoT and DoH. I use all them them. Standard DNS for our home network, DoT and DoH are open to the Internet and used on mobile devices. Unlike standard DNS no one abuses open DoT and DoH.
Hello @Razemix, with #AdGuardHome you can use it inside and outside you LAN.
Here, I set it as DHCP server and it acts as DNS resolver for all the endpoints on my local network. But I also declare each device with an unique identifier and set private DNS on all of them. Profiles for iOS devices can be generated from the #AGH dashboard.
My AGH is serving DoT, DoH and DoQ protocols. This way, strangers cannot use my resolver to poison it.
VPN connection is not required is this setup to use your AGH outside your local network.
You need a domain name, a free certificate (Let’s Encrypt), open two ports (443 & 853 on UDP & TCP) in your router and firewall, write a tiny script to update your DNS record if your WAN IP address is dynamic.
Network ports are: #DoT (853/TCP), #DoQ (853/UDP), #DoH HTTP/2 (443/TCP), DoH HTTP/3 (443/UDP).
All you devices and family ones can use your personal secure DNS.
You can also completely replace standard DNS client on all your computers with #dnsproxy software developed by AGH team. All your devices will use secure DNS.
Well, thanks to github.com/Memotech-Bill/MakeD… - now I have a DAISY book of 380 tracks on my Brailliant, and it plays music! Ahaha what a concept Humanware, I'm playing my own Mp3s freely on your device. Big middle finger to you. For a release, grab github.com/Memotech-Bill/MakeD… - this uses mostly Linux conventions. I built a Windows version, that uses FFMPEG and not Id3tag to grab file durations, and make a DAISY 2.02 book.
Oh, you want it? I do link back to this original source. I don't just write code willy-nilly without crediting back a source. So here you go, my fork.
eurpod.com/makedaisy_ffmpeg.zi…
- just point it at a directory and it'll do all the magic for you, throw it onto a Chameleon, Humanware E-reader, Brailliant Bi 20X or 40X, whatever, even any old DAISY player might play this if you can open ncc.html.
Oh, you want it? I do link back to this original source. I don't just write code willy-nilly without crediting back a source. So here you go, my fork.
eurpod.com/makedaisy_ffmpeg.zi…
- just point it at a directory and it'll do all the magic for you, throw it onto a Chameleon, Humanware E-reader, Brailliant Bi 20X or 40X, whatever, even any old DAISY player might play this if you can open ncc.html.
GitHub - Memotech-Bill/MakeDaisy: Create DAISY Audio Book from MP3 collection
Create DAISY Audio Book from MP3 collection. Contribute to Memotech-Bill/MakeDaisy development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
This entry was edited (1 month ago)
reshared this
Does it have to re-encode the mp3s? What's the spec for daisy? I'd much rather do my own encodes.
@x0 ooh yeah interesting question. The original code did re-encode them, back into mono. I removed that in mine, or added it as an optional flag I think there. Some players are more strict, requiring generally a 64-KBit mono track, but thankfully the Humanware one can accept any bitrate (well, threw 320-kbit stereo one at it to check)
@x0 OOh vbr I haven't tried yet, might experiment on that a little bit, most stuff I have here just re-encodes into CBR rates. Too bad we can't poke inside the firmware to see what MP3 engine they use. Would be a shame if they now locked it down to just 64-bit mono, but gosh darn it, they're never taking the freedom away from me to play any file I want on there now that audio's been let out of the bag :D
Saw on my timeline today that the Windows 11 25H2 installer removed the ability to launch Narrator from install media. Can anyone please confirm? That'd be an interesting thing for me to learn for sure right now, seeing as I've been trying to bring it up in KVM, failing, and debugging it as if Linux audio is the problem. To be fair, it often is, but maybe not this time.
Peter Vágner reshared this.
I think they have both the updated consumer ISO and the original 26100 ISO there for consumer, not just the LTSC / enterprise versions. As long as you install a consumer pro or home edition like you had and choose that during set-up you should still keep that same digital license.
I only see 25H2 here, trying to find where I'd select 24H2, but since they use official microsoft download links, as they should, they might not exist anymore...
We are proud to announce the go-live of our new website, izzyondroid.org/ 🥳
Although still modest, this site lets newcomers jump straight into #IzzyOnDroid and explains what makes our repository worth using. We also hope the new domain will increase visibility and reduce confusion.
We’d love to hear your thoughts here on the Fediverse. Encounter an issue? Please report it on our Codeberg issue tracker at codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/izzyo…. And, YES! — our website is #OpenSource 🤗
(1/3)
reshared this
Congrats! I love the new website, minimalist as I like'm :D
What is the app store featured on the screenshot? It doesn't seem to be F-droid?
And what a great community we have! No 24h have been passed since our go-live, and the first community contributions have been merged and gone live already (thanks itso!). You're phantastic! 
🤗
🤗
Today's AWS debacle is the perfect example of the reason why in the last few years I started to be less enthusiastic about Signal, and more oriented to federated or even P2P solutions like XMPP and Jami. I wrote about it already:
gagliardoni.net/#im_battle_202…
Signal was down for few hours today, after an outage that affected AWS:
mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/115…
Let's ignore for a second the blind reliance on AWS or any other cloud provider. In a decentralized system, this would not have happened, or at least it would have not impacted so many users.
Yes, I am a cryptographer myself, I know that Signal's encryption is the best. But encryption is not everything. Availability issues, geopolitical troubles, risk of enshittification, limitations on users' freedom to use and control the software lead to a lack of trust, even in a supersecure solution. And I say that with honest admiration for the folks at Signal, who are doing a great job.
May they prove me wrong over and over again.
#signal #im #aws #amazon #privacy #security #digitalsovereignty #selfhosting #fediverse #federation #p2p #enshittification #xmpp #jami #politics #opensource #freesoftware #libre
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
This entry was edited (1 month ago)
reshared this
Sensitive content
reshared this
Boy, this brings back memories! | JAWS for DOS 2.3 Basic Training Tapes : Henter-Joyce, Inc : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive archive.org/details/jfd-2.3-ba…
JAWS for DOS 2.3 Basic Training Tapes : Henter-Joyce, Inc : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
In 1993, Henter-Joyce released version 2.3 of its JAWS screen reader for DOS operating systems. The four tapes in this upload are the basic training tapes that...Internet Archive
reshared this
I'm quite proud of the fact that I usually find out about downtime of #bigtech services from the news.
For years, almost all of my personal online tools have been self-hosted or run in data centres of small regional providers. They aren't immune to downtime, but when they're down, it isn't half the internet.
Monocultures may seem efficient, but they aren't resilient.
Peter Vágner reshared this.
techfreedom.in/python-for-blin…
"Python for Blind Programmers: Accessible Learning Made Simple (Chapter 1)" | Tech-Freedom for
Learn Python Programming for Blind Persons: Chapter 1admin (Tech-Freedom for Visually Impaired)
Peter Vágner reshared this.
Just a quick note for the archives and for those of us who have hearing issues and need easy youtube transcripts with #a11y to #screenreaders. I've generally used downsub.com to produce text, but it's becoming less usable, often saying "waiting" for a minute or two before giving an error with no specifics as to what the problem is. I wanted something else and found something similar, if not slightly better, at youtube-transcript.io/ It allows 25 transcripts a month free, though I'm not sure how it tracks usage since I didn't have to sign in. Anyhow, it's quite simple, paste in your link, hit enter, and it comes back with a transcript in English for English videos. It appears to use the captions YT itself generates, since I compared the results with what I got from downsub and saw no difference. You can read the transcript on the page or copy it to the clipboard with a button, again on the page. It has 30 second timing markers by default when it's on the page, but doesn't when you copy it, at least by default. I'm still after an easy local transcript grabber, but this is a step forward when downsub doesn't work for me and I thought people might like to have it. #blind #braille
YouTube Transcript Generator | Extract & Download Video Transcripts
Generate YouTube transcripts instantly with our free tool. Extract and download video transcripts effortlessly. Perfect for accessibility, SEO, and content creation.YouTube Transcript
Peter Vágner reshared this.
@clv0 Sorry, just to be clear, downsub is still working here as well, much of the time. I'd say it works a good half the time, if not a bit more. Sometimes it'll say "waiting" and in a few seconds, come up with the transcript. Sometimes it will come up with it immediately. Quite often, though, it'll just say waiting for a while then say "error". It's still usable, though, quite often, just not nearly always.
@clv0 If you wish for local downloading of subtitles, rather than outright transcription, yt-dlp can download subtitles using the --write-subs option, pick a format like srt or vtt, embed them in mp4 and mkv, and convert to other formats. It can fetch subs for multiple languages, use --list-subs on a video to get them. Note that live stream chat is a subtitle stream!
Hey! Did you know that you can now find all the official @xmpp news on Movim 😮!
mov.im/community/news.xmpp.org…
You can subscribe to their News feed using any XMPP account and by joining from any #Movim instance (a lot of them are listed on join.movim.eu/) ✨
Movim is building a complete social platform on top of XMPP. Any account that joins the platform can already create its own blog 😊
Movim Communities allows you to create spaces to publish with others around the topic you like 😸! This is what the XSF did with their own #XMPP News Community, hosted on their own server and accessible from anyone on the network.
100% standard and fully federated ❤️
This entry was edited (1 month ago)
reshared this
hi. so descam, the thing I made to describe your camera via Rust, well someone said why didn't you make it a website? And it made a lot of sense. So thanks to a bit of tinkering and a lot of vibing we have descam.oriolgomez.com the OpenAI API key is never sent anywhere, it uses your local storage to store it. I might add support for local models if there is request, so. you can run your phone images to your local ollama or whatever.
reshared this
PipeWire 1.6 Promises Bluetooth Audio Streaming for Hearing Aid Support lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
PipeWire 1.6 Promises Bluetooth Audio Streaming for Hearing Aid Support - 9to5Linux
PipeWire 1.6 open-source server for handling audio/video streams and hardware on Linux is now available for public beta testing.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
reshared this
got an email from someone with this signature:
I love penguins at the south pole,
windows in my house and apples on my tree,
but not in my computer
reshared this
Máte doma v šuplíku telefon, který už nepotřebujete? Doneste ho na #OpenAlt stánek mobilního linuxu a pomůžete jeho vývoji!
Pomůžou nám následující, třeba i poškozené (kromě zákl. desky), modely:
Pixel 3 (i XL), Pixel 3a (i XL), Pixel 4a, Pixel 6,
OnePlus 6, 6T,
Sony Xperia XZ2, XZ3,
Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S, 3, Pocophone F1, Mi 8 (i Pro, Explorer),
LG G7 ThinQ, V35 ThinQ,
Fairphone (jakýkoliv),
SHIFT (jakýkoliv),
Chromebooky (různé)
Motorola Moto (různé)
Samsung Galaxy (různé)
Xiaomi (různé)
reshared this
When not using Google Play services (e.g. #GrapheneOS, #LineageOS users), #Signal can be a real battery drain. @mollyim with @unifiedpush on the other hand is extremely battery efficient.
Here's how to set this up, using #Nextcloud as the UnifiedPush provider: kroon.email/site/en/posts/moll…
Using Molly (Signal) with UnifiedPush
I finally started using Molly to send and receive messages via Signal. Molly is a hardened fork of Signal for Android, offering features such as an encrypted message database, automatic locking, shredding no longer needed secrets from RAM, notificati…Guido Kroon
reshared this
Hacker gets annoyed at Amazon’s Kindle apps, reverse-engineers the Kindle web reader’s protocol (which basically sends each page as a set of glyphs in a deliberately broken variant of SVG). Such obscurity, much security.
blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-…
How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked
As it turns out they don't actually want you to do this (and have some interesting ways to stop you)Pixelmelt (Cats with power tools)
Peter Vágner likes this.
reshared this
Yesterday I used curl to download a file because wget was apparently banned, I guess user agent. Anyway, is there a way to make curl grab the modified date of the file as wget can?
Peter Vágner reshared this.
I do believe you can also tell wget to use a specific user agent. I forget the sintax though. Maybe --user-agent=<DesiredUserAgent> Good luck
For anyone using @Jonathan's audio routing technique with OBS studio, note that recent versions of OBS broke the audio monitor plug-in! Or at least the one readily linked on the forum. But the plug-in is on GitHub and has been updated to cope. Get it from github.com/exeldro/obs-audio-m…
reshared this
I need to reinstall Windows on my Surface tablet, and I wanted to see if I could use AI to get into the boot menu and change the boot order to try USB first. I have a Chat GPT subscription, so I used voice mode with the video camera on, gave it some information about what I was doing, and let it be my eyes for a while.
I was delighted when the assistant actually knew how to get into the boot menu. It told me I could navigate the menu with my volume keys and select an option with the power key, much like navigating an Android phone’s recovery menu. I had to remind it I was totally blind a couple of times, but eventually, it helped me select USB as the first boot device and choose the “Exit and Restart” option. This was quite a few steps, and I was genuinely impressed at how easily I was able to fix this problem without interacting with a real person.
I eagerly waited for the Windows installer to come up. It never did.
So I used OCR on the screen, and discovered that not a single thing chat GPT claimed had happened … had actually happened.
It didn’t hallucinate just one thing. It hallucinated an entire multi-step interaction with the firmware of my tablet. It basically experienced a break from reality for about two minutes and started describing what it thought should happen, with no regard for what was actually happening.
Last week, the same app helped me learn the control panel of my heated mattress pad. It does work sometimes. But today, it led me on the wildest goose chase I’ve ever been on. I was actually trying to boot from the SD card, and as it turns out, that’s not even an option in the boot menu. But I made the mistake of teling Chat GPT exactly what I was trying to do, so it had all the material it needed to hallucinate a complex interaction convincingly.
Never let yourself forget the all important “A” in “AI”. That intelligence is not artificial as in “synthetic”, it’s artificial as in “pretend”. No LLM has the slightest idea of what it’s doing or saying. The companies that create these models have the all-important task of trying to make their intelligence more convincing than every other company.
That means they work most of the time, but the rest of the time, they will confidently lie. And that lie might be a missing digit, or it might be a whole entire interaction with a device.
I called Aira and got it sorted. I actually had to touch the arrows on the touchscreen to rearrange the boot order. Yes, I had a keyboard connected. No, there is no documented way to rearrange boot devices on a surface using the keyboard. Yes, everythyng about this is moronic. But, it’s done, and once I get Windows on my USB device, I’m pretty sure it will boot because an actual human told me so.
I can’t even begin to enumerate the possible clusterfucks that could arise from AI weaving such complex webs of lies. Do not use this shit for anything mission-critical. Ever. Even if it told the truth the last 99 times. Eventually, it will lie. When it does, you’ll have no idea.
I was delighted when the assistant actually knew how to get into the boot menu. It told me I could navigate the menu with my volume keys and select an option with the power key, much like navigating an Android phone’s recovery menu. I had to remind it I was totally blind a couple of times, but eventually, it helped me select USB as the first boot device and choose the “Exit and Restart” option. This was quite a few steps, and I was genuinely impressed at how easily I was able to fix this problem without interacting with a real person.
I eagerly waited for the Windows installer to come up. It never did.
So I used OCR on the screen, and discovered that not a single thing chat GPT claimed had happened … had actually happened.
It didn’t hallucinate just one thing. It hallucinated an entire multi-step interaction with the firmware of my tablet. It basically experienced a break from reality for about two minutes and started describing what it thought should happen, with no regard for what was actually happening.
Last week, the same app helped me learn the control panel of my heated mattress pad. It does work sometimes. But today, it led me on the wildest goose chase I’ve ever been on. I was actually trying to boot from the SD card, and as it turns out, that’s not even an option in the boot menu. But I made the mistake of teling Chat GPT exactly what I was trying to do, so it had all the material it needed to hallucinate a complex interaction convincingly.
Never let yourself forget the all important “A” in “AI”. That intelligence is not artificial as in “synthetic”, it’s artificial as in “pretend”. No LLM has the slightest idea of what it’s doing or saying. The companies that create these models have the all-important task of trying to make their intelligence more convincing than every other company.
That means they work most of the time, but the rest of the time, they will confidently lie. And that lie might be a missing digit, or it might be a whole entire interaction with a device.
I called Aira and got it sorted. I actually had to touch the arrows on the touchscreen to rearrange the boot order. Yes, I had a keyboard connected. No, there is no documented way to rearrange boot devices on a surface using the keyboard. Yes, everythyng about this is moronic. But, it’s done, and once I get Windows on my USB device, I’m pretty sure it will boot because an actual human told me so.
I can’t even begin to enumerate the possible clusterfucks that could arise from AI weaving such complex webs of lies. Do not use this shit for anything mission-critical. Ever. Even if it told the truth the last 99 times. Eventually, it will lie. When it does, you’ll have no idea.
This entry was edited (1 month ago)
reshared this
Ahaha, totally reminds me of me trying to get secure boot disabled with GPT - it confidently kept saying I turned it off, that I'm in the advanced tab and just press arrow down a few times to find it. Of course, I was in the boot tab, and I later resorted to asking it more limited questions because the moment I would give away what I wanted to do, it would get way worse. No asking it, "Look for somethhing with the label secure boot and tell me how many arrow downs it is." Had a similar experience trying to get it to read the MAC address off a router, but at least there I could use something more local like Seeing AI and get an answer that I knew was as accurate as the ability I have to keep a good angle for it to read it. I think that's the other problem with GPT or other AI: It doesn't inform you like a human (always) that you need to move or tilt your phone. I've had it help me with that a few times, but unless you specifically ask it whether your phone needs adjusting, it would rather make up the thing than tell you.
Zach Bennoui reshared this.
I wonder if we could finetune a small VLLM specifically to describe photos and read text as accurately as possible without being able to do much else? I think the issue is these models are designed to be generalists, so they're not really good at any one particular thing.
This entry was edited (3 weeks ago)
Tomorrow, I'll have had my Ableton Move for exactly one year, so I finished a silly sequence I started a few weeks ago. Four tracks. No overdubs or weird tricks with the drum rack. Just lots of step entry and automation. I call this one Happy Saw Times, because it started out as this happy F major sawtooth thing.
reshared this
@Cleverson This is the direct link to audio attachment:
media.fwoof.space/media_attach…
I hope you dont mind me posting it like this @Borris
media.fwoof.space/media_attach…
I hope you dont mind me posting it like this @Borris
Peter Vágner
in reply to ondrosik • •ondrosik
in reply to Peter Vágner • •Peter Vágner likes this.
Paweł Masarczyk
in reply to Peter Vágner • • •Peter Vágner likes this.
Michał Dziwisz
in reply to Paweł Masarczyk • • •Peter Vágner likes this.
Michał Dziwisz
in reply to Paweł Masarczyk • • •In the next release, I’m planning something no other accessible broadcasting software offers: a dedicated playlist for reading news and easily triggering service sound cues — a feature typically found only in professional systems used for preparing news bulletins. gitrls.com/michaldziwisz/sara/ If there are any features you’re missing in programs like StationPlaylist or RadioBoss, be sure to let me know. Just keep in mind that for now SARA is meant to be operated mainly by a human — full automation will probably come later. :)
SARA 0.0.3
gitrls.com