Keith Whyte @keith@tic-ac.org
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
Se unió el ago 2021
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Buenas tardes #Fediverso, si están en #Latinoamérica, si no, buenos días o noches.
¿Qué tal les ha sentado la noticia de que #Google pretende, casi casi, empezar con el proceso de "Apleizarse", de empezarse a volver cada vez más privativo en cuanto al #SistemaOperativo #Android?
https://keepandroidopen.org/es/
Quiero leer sus comentarios y opiniones al respecto...
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¡Llegó la hora! 🕗
#2026 es el año para Dejar Windows de una buena vez! 💻
Únete a Windows 11, si no tienes problema con ser el menu de tu computación. 
No somo fans de las dicotomías, sin embargo 🤔
"La computación te sirve a ti, o tu le sirves a ella"
#NoMasCaciquesDigitales.
Con #SoftwareLibre puedes aspirar a una real #SoberaniaDigital
No estás solo, acércate a los grupos de usuarios y/o en
#Mexico al #CMXSL
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Back in May 2019, we said goodbye to SVN and Bugzilla and migrated to Git and GitHub [1]. SinceOpenSouce accumulated 188 repositories. 🙀
We're now making a list to decide which ones we're moving to @Codeberg and which are going to archived and left behind.
While we're doing that, we signed NLnet Labs up as a Codeberg e.V. member!
[1] https://lists.nlnetlabs.nl/pipermail/unbound-users/2019-April/006130.html
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For some decades, "#hackers" have been responding to questions about why they do previously unimagined things with computers with the now cliché answers: "because we can" or maybe "because it's fun".
In the near future, the answer to why one is doing (now normalised) but previously unimagined things with computers may change to "Because I am obliged to by the Federal Digital Citizen Act Section 115 Part B"
The #Internet is about to become even less fun and a LOT less enjoyable than it was in the early days. It is high time to go to #OfflineMode and #DisconnectNow
We don't need to go fully offline, (and probably can't anyway, at least not immediately) but let's at least try to get rid of the mobile devices and the centralised platforms!
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Instead of a WhatsApp group or whatever, my two oldest friends and me have a private non-federated Mastodon instance running on my laptop for some time now 
It's all private and closed so only we 3 use it to communicate and share stories with each other!
You can just disable federation and set everything private so it becomes a little intranet for friends!
#Mastodon is really amazing 
Now, if only there were better availability of super affordable USB sound cards with Line-In. Most of them only have Mic-in, although they probably have the line-in capacity on the chip, just not connected.
Any recommendations?
Happily surprised to find that I can #stream stereo #radio using #OpenWrt out of the box on a #Mango Mini Wireless Router (the GL-MT300N-V2).
#libopus is only using 40-50% CPU.
I also tried with #lame for #mp3 by the way - which was hopeless. Every possible configuration I could find immediately maxes out the CPU, causing constant overruns.
This is the comand I used:
arecord -q -f S16_LE -c2 -r48000 | \
opusenc --quiet --comp [0-9] --raw --raw-rate 48000 --raw-chan 2 --bitrate 128 - - | \
oggfwd ICECASE_SERVER_IP 8000 hackme stream
You can also get away with higher values for comp (at comp 9 I get about 90% CPU usage, comp 10 is too much for it) bitrate of 256 is also working.
https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mt300n-v2/
Thanks @rafael2k for pointers!
Stephan offers a new album, but you CANNOT get it online. 😃 😃 😃
"I have just finished my third album and I don’t want you to buy it and I’m not giving it away either.
Actually, it’s not available.
Not on Spotify, not on Apple, not on Google, not on Bandcamp. Not as a YouTube video forcing you to endure forty-three ad breaks.....
To get this album [....]
You need to do something creative… and give it to me."
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Canopy: ✅
Pretty lights: ✅
Sound system: ✅
New tables: ✅
Cosyness: ✅✅✅
Collection of Chaotic Creatures: 💖💖💖
All that is missing now is Congress... and you! <3
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Three days until #39c3 and many people are preparing their first visit at Congress. Welcome! I know many of first timers are planning to help, especially when they got a friends ticket. We do not expect anyone to do work at the event when the have a friends ticket.
Being an Angel at a chaos event is fun but please die not make your whole visit about working there - especially when you are a first timer.
I wrote post about volunteering and fitting in https://jascha.wtf/angels-at-chaos-about-volunteering-and-fitting-in/
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Das SIP und das DECT-Netz sind online. Wir haben alle Informationen zur Telefonie auf dem #39c3 in einem Blog-Post zusammengefasst.
DE: https://events.ccc.de/2025/12/23/39c3-poc/
The SIP and DECT networks are online. We summarized all information about telephony at #39c3 in a blog post.
EN: https://events.ccc.de/en/2025/12/23/39c3-poc/
htps://www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/05/youtube-aka-the-biggest-platform-on-earth-has-deleted-all-my-albums/
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RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@w0bb1t/115649194262658668
By this post of @w0bb1t (thx!) I realised that the #39C3 #fahrplan is out 
Come and join my to discuss #fascism #cybernetics #society #tech #sustainability #resistance and #humanrights
Life tastes too good to leave it to #fascists
Can't wait to finish work to browse the Fahrplan :)
Like most talks this will be streamed and later available on www.media.ccc.de and @c3voc often provides #subtitles - and you can help them, if you like!
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Admin: AI is here to stay
Me: so is herpes, but they shouldn’t get it in the classroom
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🇪🇺
Not using ChatGPT has made a huge difference to my workflow and efficiency. I'm a power unuser.
Remember, when you use #Signal messenger, you are helping to send millions of dollars per year to companies such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
Here are the details, direct from the president:
Signal >> Blog >> Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive
https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/
The growing concentration of content on the #substack platform is alarming.
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Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.
Se unió el ago 2021
