blog.joinmastodon.org Mastodon for Android update
New Mastodon for Android update finally brings lists and a reworked home tab to the mobile platform.
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hooray! thank you tim!
Mastodon for Android update - Lists feature arrives on Android
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/10/mastodon-for-android-update/
The most recent update of Mastodon for Android introduces a highly anticipated feature–lists. With the new update, you now have the ability to create custom lists and categorize your follows based on specific topics or interests, while removing them from your home feed.
This not only helps in decluttering your home feed but also allows you to engage with certain topics on your own terms, when you are ready. Additionally, we reworked the home tab to provide easy navigation between your home feed, lists, and followed hashtags, so you can get the most out of your experience on Mastodon.
We’ve got more updates in the pipeline as we aim to make Mastodon the most beautiful and delightful social media app on Android. Our iOS and web teams are also working steadily on new features and improvements, so stay tuned!
Here's a Verge article mentioning this: [Mastodon’s latest update makes it easier to follow the news](https:
Salient point. Dont get me wrong, I use FF reader mode all day long and I sing its praises to all who will listen. But I am using this to access content over Tor when cloudflare would otherwise prevent me from doing so.
I would not recommend for anyone to feed all their browsing to a third party in a way that can easily be tied back to them, but I am using this tool to overcome a specific obstacle when I encounter it and not otherwise.
Maybe I should have described this scenario more completely at the start of my post 🤷
My use case is to access text and link content on a web page anonymously over Tor without getting blocked by Cloudflare.
My use case is to access text and link content on a web page anonymously over Tor without getting blocked by Cloudflare (such as when browsing warez sites).
I found it!😁 At https://muckrack.com/podcast/sporkful/episodes/
Looks like the other missing episodes are there too?
Direct mp3 links:
How To Export Coffee In A War (Pt 1)
How To Export Coffee In A War (Pt 2)
FWIW, the transcript is still available on the page xl_ent linked.
(cc @[email protected] )
Textise - removes everything from a webpage except its text (and links)
Do y'all know about textise? I don't see mention of it come up in a quick search. https://www.textise.net/
It can be used with the duckduckgo bang !textise
It also works over Tor, where I can use it as a proxy to avoid Cloudflare checkpoints.
I don't think that it is open source but not completely sure.
Copy from the site intro:
Textise is a new way of looking at the Web. It’s an internet tool that removes everything from a web page except for its text. In practice, this means that images, forms, scripts, adverts, they all go, leaving plain text. Find out more here... (https://textise.wordpress.com/about-textise/)
How to use this page
- Type or paste the URL of a web page into the box below and click "Textise". A text only version of the web page will be displayed.
- Type a search term into the box, select a search engine from the drop-down list, and click "Search". You will be taken to a text only version of the search results.
Textise - removes everything from a webpage except its text (and links)
Do y'all know about textise? I don't see mention of it come up in a quick search. https://www.textise.net/
It can be used with the duckduckgo bang !textise
It also works over Tor, where I can use it as a proxy to avoid Cloudflare checkpoints.
I don't think that it is open source but not completely sure.
Copy from the site intro:
Textise is a new way of looking at the Web. It’s an internet tool that removes everything from a web page except for its text. In practice, this means that images, forms, scripts, adverts, they all go, leaving plain text. Find out more here... (https://textise.wordpress.com/about-textise/)
How to use this page
- Type or paste the URL of a web page into the box below and click "Textise". A text only version of the web page will be displayed.
- Type a search term into the box, select a search engine from the drop-down list, and click "Search". You will be taken to a text only version of the search results.
Ah, I see this detail was also recently noted in the comm 😎 👍
Protip - You can claim the free game at GOG.com by visiting https://www.gog.com/giveaway/claim
https://www.gog.com/giveaway/claim
It will give a json response. Visiting a second time should return "Already claimed" if it worked.
This helped me to get around an issue I had with the link not loading on the main gog.com page when there was a free giveaway. (Credit)
(If you still have trouble, make sure you are logged in before clicking)
I downloaded Audacity on a friends Windows PC yesterday, and it allowed me to export MP3 without asking for any other steps!
From Audacity's website:
FAQ:Installing the LAME MP3 Encoder
The software patent on LAME encoding library has expired, so now the LAME library for MP3 export is built-in with Audacity for Windows and Mac. Linux users will still need to download and install the free and recommended LAME third-party encoder to export MP3 files from Audacity.
Linux users should use the following instructions to download and install the free and recommended LAME third-party encoder to export MP3 files with Audacity.
Windows: LAME is now built-in with Audacity for Windows.
Mac: LAME is now built-in with Audacity for Mac.
Linux/Unix: See the LAME installation section on Installing and updating Audacity on Linux.
I tried it before finding imgsed but each instance had issues loading images past the first page of a user's profile. But I will check back occasionally
lists of other alternative front-end services or projects that i (also) have not vetted:
"A web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, Instagram... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends." https://libredirect.github.io/ - the list they use. https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect - extension (source)
list of some instances https://farside.link/ - (source)
a list of projects, with some other stuff on it too https://www.funkyspacemonkey.com/foss-front-ends-and-alternatives-for-twitter-instagram-reddit-youtube-and-more
thanks, this is great!
others mentioned... https://www.beeper.com/ https://www.picuki.com/
I have not tried these myself though.
Alternative frontend to Instagram: imgsed.com
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/939198
Searching for replacement for Bibliogram, I found an website called imgsed.com .
It was sufficient to my needs.
One problem was that it seemed to fetch only a few comments of a post.
Here's the website's own About page:
imgsed.com is an online instagram backup tool that helps users save instagram photos through the instagram public API.
imgsed.com can't verify user information, so you need to pay attention to the copyright when downloading photos.
If you do not wish to be downloaded, please submit your information remove account
ETA:
Apparently it has crazy much ads, so use of adblocker is very much advised!
thanks for posting this, great read
Where do you look to see what new shows are coming up, and what has debuted recently?
I used to use the /r/television sidebar but it isn't very comprehensive. More recently I've been using Wikipedia's 2023 in American Television page, specifically the debuts page, which is good. Some other countries have their own pages, such as South Korea.
Know of any other good places?
It looks like someone else brought it up in issue #1177 which is for adding sorting to column headers is being worked on (#1538). It appears there was a bug #3374 in the backend which needed to be fixed (#3376) which delayed progress on that.
SAG-AFTRA chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland and SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher announce actors strike after negotiations with Hollywood studios collapse
Text of Drescher's speech
“Thank you everybody for coming to this press conference today. It’s really important that this negotiation be covered, because the eyes of the world, and particularly the eyes of labor, are upon us. What happens here is important because what’s happening to us is happening across all fields of labor, when employers make Wall Street and greed their priority and they forget about the essential contributors that make the machine run.
“We have a problem, and we are experiencing that right at this moment. This is a very seminal hour for us. I went in in earnest thinking that we would be able to avert a strike. The gravity of this move is not lost on me, or our negotiating committee, or our board members. It’s a very serious thing that impacts thousands, if not millions, of people all across this country and around the world — not only members of this union, but people who work in other industries.
“And so it came with great sadness that we came to this crossro
also check out https://www.allsides.com/, which has a somewhat similar concept
Note that this is focused on espresso preparation. The paper and diagrams pair great with James' Espresso prep series.
James actually did a video on this paper specifically as well.
TL;DR: using a lower dose (15g) and a coarser grind produces a more complete extraction as well as a more consistent cup, allowing you to use up to 25% less material while producing a similar result to mainstream prep methods.
SUMMARY
Espresso is a beverage brewed using hot, high-pressure water forced through a bed of roasted coffee. Despite being one of the most widely consumed coffee formats, it is also the most susceptible to variation. We report a novel model, complimented by experiment, that is able to isolate the contributions of several brewing variables, thereby disentangling some of the sources of variation in espresso extraction. Under the key assumption of homogeneous flow through the coffee bed, a monotonic decrease in extraction yield with increasingly coarse grind settings is predicted. However, experimental measurements show a peak in the extraction yield versus grind setting relationship, with lower extraction yields at both very coarse and fine settings. This result strongly suggests that inhomogeneous flow is operative at fine grind settings, resulting in poor reproducibility and wasted raw material. With instruction from our model, we outline a procedure to eliminate these shortcomings.
EXCERPT - Systematic Reduction of Coffee Mass by Downdosing and Grinding Coarse
As we demonstrated in Figure 3, our model informs us that a reduction in dry coffee mass results in an increased EY max (shown schematically in blue in Figure 6). Thus, a barista is able to achieve highly reproducible espresso with the same EY as the 20 g espresso by reducing the coffee mass to 15 g and counter-intuitively grinding much coarser (as shown in red, Figure 6B). This modification may result in very fast shots (<15 s), a reduction in espresso concentration, and a different flavor profile.
The Specialty Coffee Association espresso parameters mandate that the extraction should take 20–30 s; we speculate that this might be partially responsible for the pre- vailing empirical truth that most coffee is brewed using grind settings that cause partially clogged/inhomogeneous flow. Remembering that the initial tasty point may lie in the clogged flow regime, some of the bed is extracted much more than the refractive index measurement suggests. By lowering the dry coffee mass and grinding to maximize EY, the operator may notice that they are able to push their extractions much higher than before, while achieving highly reproducible espresso.
Another longtime JD user here, I'd love to hear what your reasons are for each of these!
Unreal Tournament OST (Remastered by bandithedoge, in FLAC)
archive.org Unreal Tournament OST (Remastered) : bandithedoge : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS36yiNl4QUAll copyright belongs to Epic Games (or whoever owns the soundtrack these days anyway). Remastered by...
Samples from the original .umx (repacked Impulse Tracker module) files shipped with the GOG GOTY release were extracted using OpenMPT then rearranged, mixed and mastered in Studio One. No major arrangement or sample changes have been made in order to keep it close to the original, only more listenable in 2022.
Uploaded to archive.org in August 2022
The Prisoner (1967)- Opening (4k AI Upscaled and audio improved)
I Am A Free / I Am Not Man / A Number!
Thanks! Excited to check these out
Weird Coffee Person
Not my art, its seen hanging on James Hoffman's wall. Y'all know his excellent coffee YT channel, right? (The image is available in his online store)
Hi JB, I went down this rabbit hole last week, here is a post I made summarizing what I found, with links to the dev's GH discussions of the different ideas for implementing the linking of communities, both within an instance or across instances, public or private, mod or user created. These features would likely be implemented separately.
There is also a link to a firefox extension that you may find useful while the dev work is ongoing.
Judy Garland AI 5K Colorized / Restored - The Wizard of Oz - Somewhere Over the Rainbow (1939)
Good morning, lemmonheads!
P.S. in the meantime, a user has created a FireFox addon that might be useful, I have not checked it out myself.
"Missing the MultiReddit experience? I built a Firefox Add On for that" - @Leraje https://lemmy.ml/post/1611805
Multilemmys
Hey everyone! After my first week of settling in here, I think what would give my lemmy experience the biggest boost of any single added feature would be Multilemmys (or Multicommunities), so we can see the combined feeds of multiple communities in a single streamlined feed. I guess the purpose of this post is to spread awareness of this as a concept and point to the ongoing discussion on Github:
Support for grouping communities / multi-communities #818
Cross-instance 'multireddits', that are also automatic and topic-based #1113
I have seen users post that this was how they initially thought the fediverse would work when it was explained to them. I thought this would be the case as well when I joined.
(Edit to add: an older post with discussion