Pet peeve of mine: when tech people who should know better name a thing an "operating system" when it is, in fact, not an operating system. "This is our new operating system for [insert thing here]." -> turns out to actually be an electron app running on iOS or whatever.
Been slowly rebuilding my offline digital music... found all my old mp3s on an old hdd. and damn i missed having a dedicated player! Musicolet is a great free app if anyone is looking, and musicbee for pc. Sea Wolf, Des Ark, Tubers... yaaaaas
I thought working for a closed source company would change my opinion, but it has only made me love open source more, and want to give back. I have learned so much from open source, and home labs in general, it is only fair to pass it on to the next wave of younger folks getting into the hobby/field.
I'm kind of mourning the good-times tech twitter, there were a lot of interesting web dev people active, and many of them just kind of have disappeared or moved on, and I miss that time and some of those people a lil bit
There are better ways to protect children online: ⚫️ Tackle business models that reward engagement maximisation ⚫️ Restrict intrusive profiling and behavioural advertising ⚫️ Mandate giving people control over recommender systems and feeds ⚫️ Support social media models that put people in control #ageverification #privacy #freedomofexpression #onlinesafety #socialmediaban #ukpolitics #ukpol #digitalrights
not to slightly doom but will we ever have people in charge of online spaces that aren't super sensitive crybabies who use their power to lord over their site's users. or is that just what silicon valley/the tech field does to you
"I can probably count on one hand the number of times I've been glad that I didn't delete a piece of code." Kerri Miller used to think an uncalled method did no damage and more tests were always better. About 30 years in, she's stopped keeping code around in case she needs it.
🐧 **Windows apps and games added to Steam on SteamOS / Linux now use Proton by default** Valve updated the Steam Client Beta with a useful change to external Windows apps / games getting added to Steam on SteamOS / Linux.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. 📰 Source: GamingOnLinux Latest […]
I've had a problem with my #IDNet FTTC line for the last month or so. When upload is saturated with #IPv6 traffic, IPv4 on the same PPPoE session stops working entirely, even pings to IDNet's gateway. Saturate with IPv4 instead and IPv6 is unaffected. It looks like separate per-protocol queues with IPv6 given priority somewhere beyond my router - same thing happens with two different modems. CAKE shaping on the #MikroTik works around it but isn't ideal. Has anyone else seen this or got ideas?
Thinking this morning about how much of teaching is just taking the time to listen. Hearing what someone’s actual computer problem is and then addressing it is so much harder than just telling them what I think is interesting or cool. And sometimes I don’t know the answer to their actual problem, and I might not even know how to find out, and that feels bad! But it’s okay to just say “I don’t know” :)
I do want to say Discord is not innocent on this. I tried to report Double Counter for suspicious behavior several times since it was just collecting this info in sketchy ways and discord wouldnt let me post in their help forums about it. They know
Forcing users to change passwords every year doesn't improve security, it actively undermines it. Mandatory rotations lead to predictable patterns, weaker variations, and passwords written down. Major cybersecurity organizations recommend against it. So why are we still doing this outdated policy UBC? cybersecuritycanada.com/enforc…
The thing is, I think iPlayer already works really well. I can find stuff, I get recommendations of things I might like, it’s all good. It’d be helpful to have one button access from my remote - but otherwise I think it’s the cleanest most logical streaming service atm.
Dave Winer (@davew) continues some big thinking around Markdown: scripting.com/2026/10/06/00555… I'm pretty sure this could be done with a Chrome extension, if it hasn't already, but that would be missing his point around big tech "ownership" of the web. I had been thinking of writing such a thing, but for somewhat different reasons. I'd love to put a declarative data pipeline definition in the front matter, and have the body as a Markdown template. [1/2]
YouTube recommended me a video review for the handheld I bought because it blew up for some reason, and after watching it for 10 minutes I came to a dawning realization that it probably wasn't above board. Dude mentioned going to their reveal press event then straight up lied about benchmarks.
Thanks to people who recommended Postgresql to me a while back and BIG thanks to everyone who wrote the #Postgres *documentation*. I'm used to having to find a tutorial or three, right? And there are some hosted by hosting companies and pretty tactful about it. But I am not far into my little project and just *reading the official documentation* is already the fastest way to Doing the Thing.
Ok but the way in which I can update my blog/site now is so easy! I wonder if I can use a github app so I can upload stuff from Columbus from my ipad or something on the go? It is just creating a file on the repository, writing it on md and pushing the commit, and boom, blog posted, site updated.
IMO, there is about to be a big tipping point in gaming monitors with Gsync Pulsar and RGB Stripe OLED. Everything that came before is inferior in a serious way. People that buy expensive gaming monitors are going to ditch their 360hz IPS gaming monitor and get one of these new fangled GSync Pulsar and/or OLED 360hz+ monitors. 240hz and lower monitors of yesteryear will be relegated to the bargain bin.
In the future, everything will be done in blue books.
Open sourced it because why not? Point your agent at it to fork and build your own version, or trust my agent's APKs github.com/ericflo/winnow
Hello! First check-in here. After using my Facebook profile as my primary online social hub for 15 years, I have decided to migrate after Meta's rollout of the 'Meta One' program. I considered a few different decentralized platforms; Bluesky won out. Feels a bit like old-school Twitter.
From August: Recommended streaming services for cartoons (2026 edition). TLDR, even ignoring politics, I didn't really recommend HBO Max or Paramount+; most of their stuff can be found on the general recommendations list: Netflix, Disney+/Hulu, Prime Video, Tubi, and PBS Kids. diversetechgeek.com/recommende… #streaming #Skydance #WarnerBros #Paramount #physicalmedia
It's interesting to be cheering good news for Bambu, who have been actively assertive that rules don't apply to them where open source licenses are concerned, unilaterally take away functionality from customers as the price of security updates, and aggressively court influencers whole being reported to actively muzzle them with anti-disparagement or similar clauses. (The report that they have done this for many influencers makes me suspicious of every popular influencer who claims that they themselves have not been so constrained. 🤨) The enemy of my enemy is not always actually my friend, but I can still be glad to see these patent grabs at least somewhat extinguished.
as far as 'haha ffmpeg wrapper' goes, having a proper GUI for ffmpeg that explains what the options do (and which exist at all) for the one trillion encoders it has would be nice
I’m using TaskWarrior for my project todo lists, and honestly, I’ve been loving it! I’ve been migrating nearly all of things I was subscribing to some app for over to open-source (and free) solutions. So sick of giving everyone else my money and personal data.
The thing is (correct me if I’m wrong) there’s nothing Photoshop does that isn’t a well-known and even easy formula The value is 💯 in presenting a convenient and familiar interface
“Because of those things, my working theory is that an 18 Pro Max on AT&T was connecting to 5G SA [standalone] and when it was on that unique 3.45GHz band (maybe trying to hold on to spotty service?), it would basically cook its modem and there’s no fix other than replacement.” schwarztech.net/snippets/apple…
I hate that so many slopcoded projects get headlines and waves of social media discourse that seem to ignore the fact that the end result sucks ass and doesn’t really work
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Somehow I have certain podcasts I listen to on BBC Sounds, some on Spotify and some on Apple Podcasts. All of these podcasts - I think - are on all of these platforms. There is no logic to my ‘system’ and I’m wondering how this happened.
I know I'm preaching to the choir on mastodon, but I hate how modern media has one button that means "show appreciation to the creator" and "show me more content like this" and also "show this content to other people" I've become so restrictive to what I leave a "like" on because I don't want to fuck up my feeds but sometimes I want to be able to say "thanks for the post" or "other people should see this" without saying "please keep showing me this"
The new @niemanlab.org design looks good on my laptop, @joshuabenton.com, but the type is way too big on my iPhone and iPad. www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/niem...
everything that teenage engineering ever did in the music hardware could be out done by a used iPhone with Garageband or a prepaid Android burner or black friday special tablet running Caustic, see: ultraklystron.bandcamp.com/album/music-...
I have been on the Fediverse/Mastodon for nearly 4 years and rarely have people misinterpreted what I have written or simply responded without actually reading what I wrote. And yet Bluesky responders have done that twice in two days related to #BCPoli
Once again thinking about putting a couple kw of battery output into the garage so that the NAS and GPU hosts are both interruption resistant. The home datacenter continues apace....
How does a boundary rendering update sound? Before: Mixed datasets meant a boundary could be disputed at zoom 8 but not at zoom 4. Now: Single-line boundaries, normalized claimed_by property, merged features with matching attributes. Smaller tiles, same visual output. Every boundary is consistently marked as disputed or non-disputed at every zoom level, and we've cleaned up inconsistencies, like the Korean border. @ianthetechie explains it. #BuildWithStadiaMaps stadiamaps.com/blog/updated-bo…
Software copyright protection is gonna lead us into streaming all our software use isn’t it? It’s all gonna be so convenient and expensive
Turns out building a large subset of #nixpkgs from source is pretty hard. Tool chains assume downloading a #fod is almost always fine.. #nix #source #compiler
first signs of life from the upcoming PowerMac core for the #MiSTerFPGA #PowerPC youtu.be/rXbX6qN4O9s
I’d always been slightly reluctant to pay for a screenshot framing app since I usually DIY in Sketch, but this Duo feature in @charliemchapman’s Framous is killer! Sold.
The good folks at #Gentoo are looking for new infrastructure sponsors. They're mostly looking for rack-space, power and connectivity and they'll provide the hardware. Preferably outside the US, but not necessarily. https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/10/07/infrastructure-sponsors-wanted.html
I helped my mum with applying for a bonus for her new electric car. You could only do so online and it was … not easy. The most aggravating “feature” was getting logged out (*without* saving what we had already typed in) because we took some time to figure out a correct answer. After that, I regularly checked and unchecked one of the checkboxes further down and that prevented the auto-logout. 😬
good post www.stephendiehl.com/posts/depend... faster Lean compilation ! (by avoiding parsing mostly)
Successfully managed to flash a customized #MeshCore firmware build on a XIAO S3 WIO USB companion that uses RS232 over TTL instead of USB serial for communication. So I only need to implement the MeshCore communication in #TurboPascal.. 🥸 #RetroComputing
There is the suggestion to have cut-and-paste where cut marks the selection and paste actually moves it: ishmael.textualize.io/blog/gho… That makes a lot of sense. But I wonder why it is not already this way. Cut/paste was invented at a time where reflows of text were very expensive (and the ghost-cut would remove one reflow). I wonder if there is a hidden footgun. I could not find out if the suggestion was made back then, but I found some other cut/paste histories ... #UX
I really hate how ambiguous and unsafe every operation and action of plastic SCM feels. Like I’m more comfortable using git command line comparatively.
Nvidia saying wayland sucks is expected they've built their entire closed source driver around xorg so naturally it would be worse I would like to see comparisons of amd and intel gpus under wayland vs nvidia that would tell the entire story
Ran into that recently: github.com/r-lib/devtools/issu… And this morning I had to help someone that install package on some OneDrive, using wininet and Using Rstudio without using 50% of the panels (I think I make them discovered they could make them smaller so they could have more screen space). I am not sure we progressed neither sure we did the right think along plenty of way... #Rstats
New blog post: Finding a Simple Mp3 Player https://felixdv.com/finding-a-simple-mp3-player/ #blog #music #mp3player #musicplayer #audio
Google Messages is discontinuing the individual chat setting allowing users to revert from RCS to SMS/MMS protocols. This change, observed in recent beta updates, removes the flexibility to manage messaging on a per-contact basis. Previously, users could switch to SMS for specific conversations to avoid RCS issues like spam or connectivity problems. Read more: makeuseof.com/google-messages-…
