She will be succeeding Cindy Cohn who has spent her career fighting the good fight. I was listening to an interview with her by Cory Doctorow, she's had an impressive record with the EFF, and it sounds like she wants to get back to the courtroom and leave the administration to a new generation.

Thanks, Cindy!

God, I hate posting a Reddit comment, but this is huge. Every claim is sourced (I have not verified personally).

Edit: Well, Reddit does what reddit does, it's been removed. Here is a github link: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/985257

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I'm going to change the countertops soon so I wasn't super concientious about the caulking job.

I was a little pissy about the fact that the hold downs seem like they were designed by morons that don't understand Newtons 3rd law, because when you tighten them, they just rotate until they're hard against the sink wall. And the tap still uses a nut that needs a huge basin wrench instead of what I've seen on other taps like a nut that tightens by hand and then you just use a Philips screwdriver to tighten a couple machine screws that finish the job.

Ah well, it's in and I get to do it all over again when I order countertops.

Pocket-TTS seems to be a TTS server that returns audio much faster locally than Piper, so I built a container that enables it via Wyoming protocol and zeroconf to be available in Home Assistant.

There is the ability to use an audio snippet to clone a voice that would be used by pocket-TTS, I haven't enabled anything like that yet. PRs welcome.

This would be nicer than Playwright for dev work, I think.

I have a couple of Brother MFCs around the shop and farm, and while they do work with Linux, I'm constantly fighting with them for scaling, orientation and printing really light half the time. Maybe I'm not using the right drivers, but I've tried several as recommended on the Archwiki (even though I'm on Fedora, mostly) and can't seem to get any joy out of them.

I just want a basic MFC BW laser that will scan, copy and print spreadsheets reliably. I have a LJ4000 at home that works great but of course that's not exactly something you go out and buy anymore.

Anyone have a known good current MFC they can recommend, and the driver package it uses to match? Goddam, I hate printers.

Sound like more AI bullshit in Firefox, but privacy, because Mozilla is "trusted".

Now to invite my insurance agent over and watch her faint.

I've only ever built Android/Web apps with Flutter, but I had a request to get one of my apps working on iPhone. I knew I wasn't going to have fun before I started, and I wasn't wrong. But I managed to get an Apple Developer Account, jump through the hoops for adhoc distribution profile and certificates, built an account at Codemagic and succeeded to get build to work, managed to downgrade Flutter until I could get an iOS 12.0 build to install on an iPhone6, but now it fails when it loads and I have no clue how to troubleshoot this.

If it were android, I'd have it hooked up to my dev station and run debug version to monitor, but this inscrutable chunk of plastic and glass doesn't seem to work that way. I don't have a Mac box to dev on, so I'm left with running CI builds that I pull down via Diawi to the device, but it's a black box from there.

Is there a way to do anything useful on a Linux dev station with these things?

God, if Google's "developer registration" is anything like this nightmare, I'm going to work on helping dev a Linux phone fulltime.

The feature I like the most is the ability to create branches that have their own environments that I can run concurrently for testing.