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My son has a much loved audiobook that he listens to every night. But. One of the line reads in it scared him sometimes, and he sometimes fears to listen because he's worried about it.
We talked, and we're experimenting with a version of the story where the line is said in my voice, I opened the file, cut out the scary line, said it instead in my voice, and left the rest of the audiobook intact.
Talk to me again about DRM.
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@Mister Spinalzo yeah! I 100% paid for the book for my son to enjoy! The line reading was great! But sometimes the line read of "a dragon surprises the main character" is too scarey for an anxious 5yo!
Thanks for writting books it's important work!
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“Not cool, brain,” i sometimes quip. We have fun, me and my brain.
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- It's been sitting here for hours and it's cold.
- Oh sweet summer child, if I didn't drink cold tea, I wouldn't ever get to drink any tea at all. And not for lack of trying.
So the doctor has me on a heart monitor. I'm supposed to wear it for 72 hours and go about my life as normal. First night in, I woke up to two of the leads having detached.
When I was there, they showed me how to replace them and gave me spares so I was able to do that, but this doesn't bode well for the next two nights. I can't control what I do while unconscious.
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I did some work on porting miller's work on the risc-v userspace over to 9front, the toolchain works well enough to compile all of /sys/src (at least at the time of its writing). There was some work on a qemu targeted kernel but people lost steam and we never got it booting to userspace.
If you want to check out the userspace parts you can find it here: shithub.us/moody/riscv/HEAD/in…
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@moody I probably don't have the C for this, but I wanna! I am gonna look and then mostly get lost.
I should buy DevTerm R01s for some Plan9 devs...
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For this reason, I do a research about one new ink to see if I want to buy it.
I look at as many tests as I can found, because the colors on some of them look very different.
And you can't be sure until you do your own color test.
Thanks for sharing yours.
Got back hone from an appointment with a form that specifically says it's to be filled out with blue or black ink.
Why do people have to be so boring?
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So it seems that to get the full effect of these new #FountainPen #inks, we need to get our hands on a wetter pen than the ones we've been using.
I have a TWSBI Diamond 580 that should fit the bill, but I'm waiting on a replacement cap that's stuck in the mail strike.
In the meantime, can anyone recommend a reasonably priced (ideally in the sub $100 range) that lays down a good amount of ink?
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A CEO gets murdered, and there's a cash reward and a national manhunt along with coverage on every outlet imaginable. Law enforcement pleading for help from the public. Former NYPD Chief of Department made a statement expressing how the person who killed the CEO is not prepared for "how far the NYPD is going to go" in collecting surveillance for the investigation.
The reality is that cops don't even solve most murders. And they sure as hell don't put a fraction of the effort in finding the suspects as they do when it's someone like this. Someone like them. One of them.
Two migrants were recently stabbed in NY, one of them fatally so. It won't get this same kind of attention and resources. The only people and things police serve are the ruling class and their property.
Law enforcement and people in positions of power such as the CEO devalue the lives of many to benefit their own.
Ever since the news came out about the CEO, the responses have been overwhelmingly celebratory.
People all across the country have been wounded by the same sword. All sorts of people have been relating to the violence these vultures perpetuate.
I really hope people don't let it stop here and think about all the ways in which we are impacted by an inherently oppressive capitalist system.
abc7ny.com/post/migrant-teen-s…
Migrant teen stabbed to death, another wounded in Lower Manhattan; 3 suspects sought
Police say before the chaos, words were exchanged when one of the suspects asked the teens if they spoke English. When they replied 'no,' that's when things took a turn for the worse.Eyewitness News (ABC7 New York)
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How old does a #FountainPen have to be before it's considered #vintage? The very first one I ever bought back in 2012 (a Parker GT Urban) doesn't seem to be available any more, though it is still available in ballpoint. Still, maybe I'm just getting old but 2012 doesn't feel very "vintage" to me.
I mean, it's kinda scuffed up because I was a newbie who had no idea how to take care of it, but I'm not looking to sell it or anything. It's more of a curiosity, really.
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@FPLover The whole WEARINGEUL brand is pretty nice* but yeah this is it here.
* perhaps a little dry, but I've only actually tried one so far
*looks at my collection of inks*
*whistles innocently*
To be fair, they're mostly samples, relatively few actual bottles.
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Some people are now thinking the murder of the UHC CEO was a professional hit.
As I've said before (and others have been disagreeing with me), murdering people for profit is wrong.
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So I went into the pharmacy to follow up on the renewal of my #ADHD meds. Turns out this new doctor did in fact respond to the fax requesting the renewal but specifically specified not to fill it until the literal day I was supposed to run out.
Fortunately, I occasionally forget to take them, so I have a few spares, but God damn this guy doesn't understand how ADHD works.
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Debian is fine.
Folks like to complain that the packages are too old, but Flatpak makes that not even a thing anymore for most of us.
You know what I like? That I can pull out a laptop I haven't touched in three weeks and there's little that needs updating.
Debian? It's fine. If you like it, you're fine too.
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I use Carolina A7 Mini Composition Books, because they fit in a shirt pocket. $1.99 for a pack of 4 at Bi-Mart, so they're a fraction of the price of fancy notepads. And yet they have a sewn binding, and the paper is adequate. Part of my everyday carry.
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@Dianora (Diane Bruce) I was a little out of practice, but my handwriting's starting to improve again, though I've mostly been writing in teeline (shorthand) which is pretty illegible in the first place.
I don't feel the need to gatekeep the term "hobbyist". I consider myself to have been a hobbyist from the day I bought my first fountain pen.
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Autism Databases: What Can I Do?
I have had a few people email me over the years asking what they can do to fight against state autism databases. Whenever this issue gets attention, I am glad and hopeful that we can move towards eliminating these databases. At the same time, I do not always have the bandwidth to answer every message I get (except messages from clients, which I do my best to always answer).
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Autism Databases: What Can I Do?
I have had a few people email me over the years asking what they can do to fight against state autism databases. Whenever this issue gets attention, I am glad and hopeful that we can move towards e…Resiliency Mental Health
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@Sable_Shade Honestly I can’t find good reasons why these exist. Idk about any policies in Australia as I’ve never practiced there but I hope they do not have one!
North Dakota’s heath department states they need the information for “research purposes” but are not at all transparent about what that even means. Most I can find is they exist because the government refuses to stop them
@Dr. Amy, Psy.D. @Sable Shade 🇦🇺 🌞 No one throughout history has ever done anything nefarious in the name of "research purposes", right?
Right??
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>" North Dakota’s heath department states they need the information for “research purposes” but are not at all transparent about what... "
be unlawful without consent??
It is here, I'm pretty sure of that (NOT a lawyer!).
It sickens me that more professionals, any, do not speak out on these things and call on those who can, to help!
Thanks FYT🙂
/respawn to manually revive themselves if they didn't get the respawn dialog.
Yes, I realized this when re-reading you, apart from the fact that he recreates an account, I don't see what you can do to get the player out of this situation.
This is a bug that I've never had and I don't know how to change it, sorry.
Maybe forcing the respawn will be enough, I hope so anyway.
Reading through the "Light and Truth Letter" a totally-not-written-by-the-church response to the infamous CES Letter that's been plaguing Mormonism for years now.
It's amazing* how they seem to have managed to not seriously engage with a single one of the issues I have with the church.
#ExMormon #NotACult #CESLetter
* not really
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Wow, I finally got to my "shelf breaker" item: the way the church handles reports of sexual abuse. They actually have the audacity to list "the helpline"* as something that makes people safer.
This is some real Ministry of Truth shit.
Source: lightandtruthletter.org/letter…
* You know, the helpline that has instructed these untrained bishops to not report to the authorities and then move to sweep them under the rug.
#FountainPens
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Transcript fo the written text:
Let's see how this works with the dish soap trick. I actually think it looks pretty nice.I think it's working nicely. It's still pretty light but I think I like it.
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This is Wearingeul Enki in a Lamy Safari medium nib.It's certainly not the darkest colour and it doesn't seem to travel down the feed very well but it is a beautiful colour.
Probably not one I'd use as a daily driver.
Here it is in my dip pen instead [darker colour with some feathering]
I thin I'm having some toruble getting it to run through the feed.
When it does flow, it looksnice though. That said, I find I need to apply more pressure to the pen than I am accustomed to using.
Probably not a daily driver but looks nice anyway.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.../inhales/ HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
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So, the Wal-Mart pharmacy has an app that tells you when your prescriptions are due for refilling. Pretty convenient right? Problem is that it's consistently wrong.
Guess I've got to go home and do a physical inventory of my drugs now.
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So much of my job is this over and over again on a loop:
"So what do you think we should do in order to responsibly build the Torment Nexus?"
"You can't. It's a Torment Nexus. Stop it."
"But the Torment Nexus is inevitable!"
"It's not. You could just not do it. You could stop right now."
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"You have been found guilty of murder."
"But, judge, he would eventually have died anyway."
"..."
Well, I guess I have a cardiologist now.
That was not something I was expecting to be a thing this morning.
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#teeline question:
The word "defund" is tricky, as the way I would expect to write it in teeline would be the same as "defend". I know you can sinetines use a vowel indicator to disambiguate in such circumstances, but the indicators for U and E are identical, aren't they?
I'm not sure this is a case where context would necessarily clear it up either.
Thoughts?
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