André Polykanine

@menelion There are other Kazakh instruments that might be interesting too; kobyz, sybyzgy, etc. I always encourage people to explore, and that doesn’t have to result in falling in love with a given musical tradition or instrument. If it does, awesome! The exploring and learning is the key thing. I also often tell people: “8 billion people on this planet, but 261 billion tastes in music. It shifts with time and the weather, or something.”

Listen, folks…
If you're trying to convince people that there are alternatives to #Debian #Linux that aren't using AI, you're probably not going to get far by suggesting distributions that literally have no installer and expect you to install Linux by hand from an empty drive, or that haven't put out updated images in eight months, or that don't seem to explain anywhere on their website or in their documentation what their commitments are in terms of patching security vulnerabilities.

@jonathan859 Hermes agent you mean? I want to use it also, I want a personal assistant I can talk to by Telegram, ideally even in voice.

@jcsteh @FreakyFwoof Wait, do everyone do it? JAWS also? I mean… I was absolutely sure there is an API telling whether screen reader is running or not.

sometimes I think how this planet is big and multilayered. Accidentally (as with nearly all my musical discoveries) I've recently started to discover #Kazakh #Music. It's that very case when you have deep feelings resonating inside you but you can't really explain it, although you have enough knowledge in musical theory. Like, the main Kazakh instrument is a dombra/dombyra, which is a two-stringed lute.
What can you get from just two strings tuned in fourth or fifth?
Actually, lots of stuff. But when you try to put it into words, it becomes tasteless and colorless.
Kazakhs have a traditional form of musical art called küy, it's basically instrumental pieces for dombra, most often improvized, expressing the musician's feelings or impressions of an event, meeting or changes in his/her life.
anyway, if you want to have a very interesting listening experience you've possibly never had, try googling for Kazakh traditional songs and music. Maybe it won't resonate with you as it did with me, but it's still interesting.
#Kazakhstan #Ethnomusicology #Folk #Traditional

@mabelinr1994 Hey Mabelin, happy sunday to you too. And meow, of course!

@darrenhartland Great Adiemus vibes!

It's so great that bird.makeup exists! #BirdMakeup

Starting September 14, we're permanently raising standard weekly limits in Claude Code by 25% for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. Until then, the current 50% increase will be in place.

Given that I have time to myself this bank holiday weekend, I decided I would have a try at using the ChatGPT Windows app to control my computer. This has obvious advantages, for example if a particular application is not accessible in part.

I started out with some basic tasks in Outlook.
I asked it to find the latest message from Alison and tell me what she wants.
I then gave some brief notes I wanted to say to her and asked it to draft a friendly reply, replying to the message in Outlook, but do not send it.
It did those things. I could see the text in the reply area and I was able to send it without alteration.

I then gave it instructions like:
Find messages with ‘invoice’ in the subject received this month.
Review the unread messages in this folder and tell me which appear to require action.
Write the following message to Sarah and leave it open for me to check.
It managed to do all of that.

Now, three things.
1. I have the Computer Use skill enabled.
2. We need far more Windows notifications because often, you don't know that a task is complete. There are some, but not enough.
3. It does take quite some time to carry out a task depending of course on the complexity. It's rather like working with some Assistants which I have done in the past. I often think, do you know what, I could have done this a lot faster. But as a basic experiment perhaps to deal with more adventurous tasks it was a promising start.

@KaraLG84 Sorry, but I must disagree. There are various hints and bits to convince, say, Claude code to do what you want. If you tell him "Make me an application", it will be barely usable, definitely not accessible, and the code will be unmaintainable. Hence, you need skills (both your skills and claude skills btw) to make the agent work as you want.

"fuck paypal fuck paypal" until you need someone from across the ocean to pay for a commission


can we all kind of understand that unfortunately leaving paypal behind entirely is not possible because there's no decent alternative that works around the fucking globe

the americans are still stuck in the stone age of banking and are too lazy to modernize it so it could, for example, use a fucking IBAN number to ensure *some* compatibility with other countries

all i'm saying is unless you come up with a better solution and get everyone to adopt it, businesses and individuals alike, please stop making using paypal into a moral judgement of some sort

This is one of the VL sounds I was so jealous of 20 something years ago when I first heard about it. Listen to how the pitchbend affects the sound. It's fun.

@alexhall wxDragon?

@ToniBarth I would happily test this.

A student of mine is testing audio feedback for digital whiteboards. Call for testers in this thread — boosts welcome!

For my Bachelor’s thesis, I am investigating how the use of audio feedback can improve interaction with digital whiteboards. The goal is to make digital whiteboards more intuitive and accessible and to explore which forms of audio feedback can best support users in understanding and navigating events on a whiteboard.

@blindndangerous @mewproj Wait, you save the key in 1password to do what, sign with it every time? You can have it in %USERPROFILE%/.ssh (like C:/users/User/.ssh), then point .gitconfig at it and that's it.

@technocounselor My gosh, that must be a nightmare!