It’s one of those days. Looks like the power on button broke. It’s stuck and won’t fire any more.
Opened the case and shortened the pins manually. There’s work to be done and I’ve to time for this s*** 😀
Category: IT
Cordless and ANC
elmine (infullflow.net)During our vacation I gifted Daughter a cordless headphone. She loves listening to audio stories when we’re driving so I took a subscription to Storytel. With a two week trial for free, I thought it would be an excellent way to listen to something new, instead of an entire vacation listening to th...
Gratulations on discovering the joys of cordless headphones, elmine. I’ve no idea how I could life without before. And that’s totally not sarcasm.
I got my first cordless headphone some years ago (and even cheap due to it’s colour – no idea why but that’s just how the algorithm at a certain huge online warehouse ticks). The trick is to look out for the frequency. Mine does 5 – 40.000 Hz and so I can really enjoy music during work for hours in superb quality.
We, coworkers and I, got to this after our office relocated and suddenly we were in the middle of a huge construction site that went on for months. Hard to concentrate with a plate vibrator next door all the time.
And I enjoy it ever since to disconnect from noise of all kinds. Traffic, buzzing and sometimes even from my kids play. Walking free with my favorite audio book or playlist and even without the need to raise the volume beyond good to drown the environment noise is simply great.
Downside is that I’m even more sensitive to noise nowadays. Uncertain if this is from the headphones or the electric car 😂
Little Misfortune
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)From the creator of Fran Bow and sharing the same world comes another slightly strange adventure with Little Misfortune, out today with Linux support.
…and wishlisted. That looks entertaining 😀
Re: Eine POSSE!
Matthias Pfefferle (notiz.blog)Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere kurz POSSE ist ein zentraler Building Block des IndieWeb. POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, a content publishing model that starts with posting content on your own domain first, then syndicating out copies to...
Ich muss teilweise zustimmen. Nicht alles muss überall hin geschickt werden.
Ich selbst arbeite noch am “Decluttering“ des eigenen Streams. Dazu ist aber erst einmal ein tieferes Verständnis darüber was da eigentlich passiert nötig.
Und hier sehe ich wiederum besonders die Plugins für beliebige CMS, wie WordPress, in der Pflicht. Installationen alleine mit Verweis auf ein Wiki genügt da nicht. Die Lernkurve ist hier steil und es ist viel Try and Error im Spiel.
ActivityPub und RSS sind da noch 2 ganz besondere Optionen, die Joe WebUser ggf nicht einmal auf dem Schirm hat. Das habe ich unlängst gerade auf einer Webseite einer UX Designerin erlebt, die mir blankes Unverständnis über die schlechte Verständlichkeit des Excerpt entgegen brachte, und es auf den Reader schob 😑
Okuna-js
🌈 Okuna API wrapper for the browser and Node. Contribute to OkunaOrg/okuna-js development by creating an account on GitHub.
Totally missed okuna-js, an #Okuna API wrapper:
https://github.com/OkunaOrg/okuna-js
It even features TS 😀
I still have some Keys btw. If someone is interested in an account let me know.
Fontawesome Icon For IndieWeb
Oj IndieWeb, like Webmention? May add a thumbsup here for an fontsawesome icon.
🙂
Progressive Face Super-Resolution
Progressive Face Super-Resolution via Attention to Facial Landmark arxiv.org is a machine learning model trained to reconstruct face images from tiny 16×16 pixel input images, scaling them up …
I guess it’s time to talk about pixelated images any why that may be no longer enough: https://iforcedabot.com/photo-realistic-emojis-and-emotes-with-progressive-face-super-resolution/
Astonishing what this machine can compute from a 16×16 pile of pixels.
Boxtron
Steam Play compatibility tool to run DOS games using native Linux DOSBox - dreamer/boxtron
Boxtron (or steam-dos) (https://github.com/dreamer/boxtron) allows to play old DOS games from Steam with one click.
Linux For Everyone EP6
Jason Evangelho from Linux For EveryoneDo you feel locked in to buying a laptop from a 'Linux laptop' company? Would you pay for your favorite Linux distro? All this + a Discovery of the Week double dose, Liam's favorite new Linux game and more!
Latest in my podcast list: Linux For Everyone [EP6] is out for some days now and today I had the time to listen to it – thank you @KillYourFM ♥️
WordPress and UTF-8
Update: WordPress 4.2 has full UTF-8 support! There’s no need to upgrade manually any more. For many years, MySQL had only supported a small part of UTF-8, a section commonly referred to as plane 0, the “Basic Multilingual Plane”, or the BMP. The UTF-8 spec is divided into “planes“, and ...
tl;dr Thanks to @GaryPendergast I now switched from latin1 to utf8mb4.
Well f*ck me but I really didn’t take care about my blog at all any more. Checked the logs and an occasional error about emojis and the database showed up. On investigation I found out that the database was still running on MYISAM and latin1. WordPress never updated this during upgrade (despite my DB having support for this for ages). My website moved a lot and existed even before switching to WordPress in 2004 so it’s sort of a miracle that it’s still working anyway. Unlike Geocities and the likes I mean 😉
PHP message: WordPress database error Illegal mix of collations (latin1_swedish_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8mb4_unicode_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation [...]
Fixed by running this SQL on all of my tables:
ALTER TABLE wp_posts ENGINE=InnoDB ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC;
ALTER TABLE wp_posts CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;