@cmccullough, hi, I see you're on social.vivaldi.net. Are you happy with the instance? I figured it might be the right one for me: a community I share values with, data in Europe, not too big, not too small, reasonable moderation, international...
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After 3.5 years on the current instance, I think I'm ready to move on. I've lost too many good contacts due to instance blocking.
Any recommendations where to go? I mostly post in English, but occasionally in Czech. I appreciate if the instance blocks spam and clearly abusive instances, but otherwise I'd like to rely on my judgment who to block.
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Today I tested a 💶 payment from #Revolut to #FioBanka and it really arrived in a few seconds. Finally some Czech bank supports #SEPA Instant Credit Transfer.
Now we just need to convince other banks to support it and also finally get rid of #Czech Koruna. ✌️
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Would this be useful to anyone? I'm not traveling outside the EU in the next 30 days, so it is not to me.
I've never used Saily and am not familiar with terms of service, giving it out as it is.
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A tenth of the average annual rainfall fell here in the last three hours. That's the second time this month. I guess we can expect these extremes more and more often.
[#]weather #ClimateChange #Brno
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[#]MQA won't be missed. It is a marginal improvement over HiRes #FLAC and proprietary, but 360 Reality Audio was an interesting experience.
[#]Tidal #music #streaming
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A #GreenRoof is truly magical. What I like most about it is that what was once a hot, dead place of a PVC roof is now humming with life (bees buzzing, beetles crawling, etc.).
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Pretty accurate.
(stolen from @vtunka)
[#]Czechia #CeskyKrumlov
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"The emergence of #PipeWire makes me recommend #Linux to my friends for music production."
Dominic Delabruere during his "Music Production on Linux Desktops" talk at #DevConf_CZ.
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Vojtěch Poláček and @tyrylu talking on #Linux #a11y at #DevConf_CZ.
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A #greenroof was installed on our house today. Not only does it look nice, but it has many advantages: it protects the roof, improves insulation, cools the roof, reduces dust...
And the city of #Brno is very generous with green roofs, covering most of the costs.
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The bottom of the Macocha abyss has some wonderful views.
[#]nature #naturePhotography #czechia
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My dad was an avid Frank Zappa listener. I remember one time, when I was in my twenties, I told him it was really weird music and went to listen to The Offspring and Green Day. He said to me at the time: "You'll grow into it one day".
Twenty years have passed and I enjoy listening to Frank's albums as well. The dad was right. 🙂
[#]music #rock #frankzappa
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And I don't even bother promoting the blog on other social platforms (FB, X, LinkedIn) any more because the traffic from them was negligible.
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I keep reading that #GoogleSearch changes are killing small sites. They are indeed.
Last year I figured that the only way to keep my blog somewhat relevant was to strengthen the direct commucation with readers. I bet on #RSS and #ActivityPub.
Year over year, Google traffic share went down from 46% to 25% and direct traffic share went up from 37% to 54%. And the total traffic is up!
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41% of people in #Slovakia don't agree/know that the Earth is round. In #Czechia it's only 10%. We were the same country 30 years ago.
Not quite sure what went wrong there. But it's not pretty.
[#]flatearth #flatearthinsanity
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TIL that #Polish and #Lithuanian have both taken the transcription from #Czech. Yet each has a different one. Polish took it from Old Czech. But the Czech language reformed and when the Lithuanians wanted to distinguish their language from the dominant Polish during the national revival, they adopted the transcription from modern Czech. That is why Polish has "cz" and Lithuanian has "č".
[#]languages #linguistics
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An interesting finding is that #PipeWire resamples everything to 48 kHz by default. If you want higher sample rates, you have to tweak the config.
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After 4 years being wireless, I'm going wired again. I dusted off my old AKG K550 headphones and bought a new #DAC. The #HiBy FC4 sounds great with MQA from #Tidal. It also works fine with Linux.
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I visited @elektrofest_cz in #Pelhřimov today. Lots of electric cars in one place and a great opportunity to test them all at once.
Note to self: next time you want to test drive, make sure you don't have an expired driver's license. 🤦
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