Replies

oatmeal, 1 month ago to emacs

#emacs / Audio transcription with listen

I was trying to use alphapapa's 'Listen' package, which was already installed, for audio transcription, but I struggled to find an intuitive way to skip forward or backward w/o leaving the working buffer. Also challenging was the fact that my keyboard only has a play/pause key.

But since 'listen' seemed to default to #VLC, I decided to use playerctl to control it, regardless of how it was launched. It's a command-line tool that works with MEPRIS players, and I could bind custom shortcuts in GNOME Shell to the play/pause key + a modifier.

oatmeal, 26 days ago

@sachac oh of course :) I’ve used it for a while should configure it in my new setup … thanks!

fedora, 7 months ago to fedora

Fedora Slimbook… available now

Learn more: https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-slimbook-available-now/

#Fedora #Slimbook #Linux #OpenSource

oatmeal, 7 months ago

@fedora nice to read that “3% of the revenue from each #Fedora Slimbook ultrabook sale will be donated to the #GNOME Foundation”.

oatmeal, 7 months ago

@susurros @palestine
@israel

The #ethnocide in #Palestine is Israel’s original sin. It’s pretty obvious what #Germany is getting out of “supporting” Israel when #nazism is on the rise there again.

kissane, 7 months ago to random

Over the next two weeks, I'll be publishing a series of four (well, 4.5) posts about Meta's role in the genocide of the Rohingya in Myanmar.

Part I is up now, along with a little meta-post with notes on terminology and sources and ct.

https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-part-i-the-setup

https://erinkissane.com/meta-meta

These posts are aimed squarely at people like me and my tech-world peers—people who work on and care about social technologies.

oatmeal, 7 months ago

@kissane I was watching this just before I saw your post. Some very chilling interviews with monks explaining why duty to country and faith comes before the “human rights” nonsense.

oatmeal, 7 months ago

@tzafrir @israel @palestine

I think you’re missing the point. The clue is in the title “massacre”… Einstein and Arendt were not the only Jews to condemn it.

But once again, as you like to do, regurgitating disinformation from Zionist Wikipedia, where you’re an operator who enables the settler-colonizers re-writing history, every Palestinian village is an armed fortress that needs to be “purified”.

Also worth mentioning that the main “authority” to doubt the gravity of the massacre (or the mere “event” in Zionist Wikipedia #newspeak) in the article you’re trying to pass as legitimate source, is the Israeli historian Yoav Gelber - member of the defunct neo-fascist Tzomet party - who, conveniently, is an oft cited source about the 1948 war on the Zionist Wikipedia, while Morris is only allowed when his finding support the preferred narrative. Otherwise he’s an #antisemite.

oatmeal, 7 months ago

@tzafrir @israel @palestine first you rewrite the Zionist Wikipedia to suit your narrative needs, then you cite yourself as an authoritative source 🤓 job's a good'un

louis, 7 months ago to random

Any remarks on #remarkable2 or alternatives? I still enjoy hand-writing notes a lot, but they get lost easily.

Remarkable has some history of removing features and replacing them with "subscriptions" after the buy. I'd love to hear from owners.

#remarkable

oatmeal, 7 months ago

@louis I was almost tempted a year ago. I see someone already mentioned using a different cloud for storage. That’s exactly the sort of thing I check first. They could support WebDAV (and thus Nextcloud) out of courtesy, at least, but that’s obviously not a priority. As nice as it is to have ssh access, that’s not enough for me and if I don’t have to (ie work) I wouldn’t buy one.

dekkzz76, 8 months ago to random

@oatmeal

whats your audio media set up?

oatmeal, 8 months ago

@dekkzz76 I’m very basic in that respect just a set of Sonos around the house… I would love to hear New York Transit Queen live though …

oatmeal, 8 months ago

@dekkzz76 is it me or there’s a sonic youth/sleater kinney energy in some of the tracks?

oatmeal, 8 months ago

@dekkzz76 omg, no streaming ….

itsOasus, 8 months ago to random

Sanitize your youtube links!

Stolen from gryphoneer

oatmeal, 8 months ago

@marcel @HistoPol @itsOasus based on the following; this extension, and many others, might be redundant if you’re using ublock origin and current privacy settings.

https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-dont-bother

oatmeal, 8 months ago

@marcel @HistoPol @itsOasus I don’t think this is possible with dns/host blockers in general, is it?

oatmeal, 8 months ago to random

… 🫢
#CorinneBaileyRae
#BlackRainbows

oatmeal, 8 months ago

@dekkzz76 very… but wow

timnitGebru, 8 months ago to random

"In Germany, headlines such as “African conflicts on our soil” or “What is THAT doing on our streets” invoke racist imaginaries of unruly and violent Black migrants and currently monopolize public discourse on the Eritrean diaspora...In Israel, such narratives are already being translated into concrete plans for political action in migration policy: Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has...shared a plan to deport all African asylum seekers from the country."

https://africasacountry.com/2023/09/beyond-the-headlines

oatmeal, 8 months ago

@timnitGebru

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/21/rightwing-extremist-views-increasingly-widespread-in-germany-study-finds

oatmeal, 8 months ago

@timnitGebru btw this tone is not different in the Netherlands where I lived for a while. Many Dutch people can’t even wrap their heads around the fact that a non white person who’s naturalized could be Dutch. Recently had a very disturbing chat with a Sudanese Uber driver, who acknowledged how traumatized he was living there for a while. And this is a country that exported Ayaan Hirsi Ali.