Chapter 83 - Build 261

Kashe wants yesterday's interviews, but not yesterday's news.

What to test

Change a podcast's Inbox episode limit from unlimited to one, then immediately move to the next control with VoiceOver. The adjustment should feel responsive. Refresh: only the newest eligible Inbox episode should remain. Older downloaded audio should stay in Downloads. No Limit for age does not disable the count limit.

For downloads only when you queue episodes, turn automatic downloads of new episodes Off and automatic downloads of queued episodes On. Check Download all feedback for accepted requests, Wi-Fi waits, and failures. The offline workflow guide explains the separate settings.

In Library, open a folder and choose Play unheard oldest first, then Check feeds and prepare. Try a large folder while browsing and typing. More than 50 episodes asks for confirmation. Check oldest-first playback across shows, status, cancellation, and returning to your original Queue. Preparation is not Download all, and unavailable publisher archives cannot be restored.

Test folder playback while locked or backgrounded, after another audio app interrupts, and after reopening Earshot. Check saved places, sleep timers, Stop after this episode, and retry or skip for missing audio.

Play a downloaded episode, pause with AirPods or VoiceOver's two-finger double tap, wait at least 15 minutes while using the phone normally, then resume the same way. Earshot should resume its saved episode. Report if another app starts, Control Center says Not Playing, or anything feels slow.

Kashe gave the news show one place in her Inbox. After refreshing, the latest bulletin had it. The older download was still in Downloads. Two shelves, she decided. She could work with that.

The interviews were different. She opened their folder and chose Play unheard oldest first. A conversation from one show led into another she'd been meaning to hear for months.

Renata called while Kashe was folding towels. The podcast waited through the call and a search for the towel that had fallen behind the chair. When she resumed, the same voice came back.

"Still listening to last winter?" Renata asked later.

"I'm catching up in order. That's different from being behind."

She folded the last towel and left the argument unfinished.

Earshot Podcasts https://testflight.apple.com/join/u8dj5UTr

US capitalists executed the leaders of the May 1 1886 strike for an 8 hr work day. In 1889 socialists declared May 1 Int'l Workers Day to honor them, creating a beloved holiday worldwide, but not in the US, where Labor Day was moved to September to erase workers' struggle from the public mind.

#LaborDay

https://apwu.org/news/labor-history-may-day-fighting-eight-hour-day/

Hello #guix users, have you found yourself puzzled about writing Guix service configurations?

Say no more, our new "Demystifying complex configurations" is fresh from the oven, read it while it's hot!

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2026/demystifying-complex-configurations

Feel free to reach out if anything is unclear.

#guix

@idzie yes, this makes sense, i shouldn't giggle at them but i'm certain they've had a "bird's eye view" of me at some of my less glamourous moments, so maybe we're even.

Checking out #Wafrn and any of my fellow blind people know if any of our blind clients can interact with it yet? Even a little? I don't need all their functions like biting. Great documentation, by the way.

EcoFlow makes the miniature power station even smaller
https://www.theverge.com/science/991033/ecoflow-makes-the-miniature-power-station-even-smaller?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Science News @science-news-theverge

@dletorey I'll give you a fiver if you shout "Take me to your leader".

@juergen_hubert And when we cursed some more ugly leaders into animals and didn't kiss them, the world became brighter and biodiversity richer. Princess Union For More Frogs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jS5fTzMP_mg&pp=0gcJCYsCo7VqN5tD

Words translated from and by The Black Wave Collective in Italy.

“Follow those with whom you can dream”
Casino Royale

A comrade is crying.
Some are phoning, some are writing, some aren’t replying, some are translating.

She’s crying, and no one can console her.
Some are saving PDF pages of the ‘Inventati’ lists that are still recoverable; others are swearing because they can no longer find the Indymedia archive and don’t want to bother anyone with an email at such a difficult time.

She is crying, and she doesn’t want to be comforted.
Someone tries to tell her that we’ll save everything – every piece of data, every trace.

And she explodes.

“Do you realise that my daughter, your children, other people’s children, and those yet to come, won’t experience what we’ve lived through?
They won’t discover the Internet as we did; they won’t learn to encrypt or write in HTML?!

OUR FUCKING CHILDREN AND THEIRS WON’T HAVE AUTISTICI OR INVENTATI.

They won’t be as free as we were.
And they’ll be even more alone, without our tools!”

What sort of world would it be without A/I?
We never thought we’d have to find out.

Thanks to those who guarded servers as if they were hearths,
to those who wrote code as one writes a love letter,
to those who kept free spaces alive whilst everything else was crumbling around them.

Thanks to those who believed that another network was possible,
that another way of being together could exist,
that freedom was not an icon but a daily practice.

Thanks to those who resisted,
to those who resist,
to those who will resist.

Con tutto l'amore che c'è
The BlackWave Collective

@xerz @woozle @navi @spritely Well additionally, you'll probably hear me throw around at events that the plan was to have general backends that supported many media types, and frontends which could be specialized for particular "views" of them, but many would even be general and support a wide array of media, which was the direction things were heading in the G+ days

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Pixelix/117224880526931355

For those folks who may be using either @pixelfed or @vernissage: Pixelix is now free! 😍👍🏻

I'm using it myself for my Vernissage account in conjunction with the native app and I like them both in equal measure!

In fact, I wouldn't be able to tell you which one to pick, if you were to just go with one of them 😜

#SovereignByDesign

Excellent article from economist Ann Pettifor, who outlines the three ways government can take control of the dire situation in which we are hurtling towards fascism. Worth reading to the end.

#Money #Economy #Fascism #UKPolitics

The Guilty Men Driving Britons into ‘End Times Fascism’
https://annpettifor.substack.com/p/the-guilty-men-driving-britons-into

@thomasfuchs are the reasons a retro PC game? 👀

No debt.
No project deadlines.
No gen AI PR review.
No emails.
No con call.
No anxiety.
8-9 hours of sleep every night.
High quality home cooked food daily.

Financial freedom is real.

I was 7 and it was peak performance.

@davidgerard The worst part is, either we have a crash or we'll see #Microsoft and friends *double* the amount of rents they extract from the rest of the economy by 2029.

Uber To Shut Down Operations In Nigeria, Uganda, And Reduce 10% Of Its Workforce
https://www.blackenterprise.com/uber-shuts-down-nigeria-uganda-job-cuts/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Black Enterprise @black-enterprise-BlackEnterp2018

Keine zwei Wochen, nachdem die US-Regierung das italienische Internetkollektiv Autistici/Inventati zur Terrorgefahr erklärt hatte, drehen die Aktivist:innen ihre kostenlosen Online-Dienste ab. Nutzer:innen sollten rasch handeln und ihre Daten sichern. https://netzpolitik.org/2026/folge-von-us-sanktionen-internetkollektiv-autistici-inventati-stellt-betrieb-ein/

Ozempic works! And it doesn't have any side effects. Hear it yourself from these Ozempic users I interviewed:

"I've lost 60 pounds! I don't eat snacks anymore, other than the occasional scoop of gravel."
-Ashley

"I no longer crave fried food. Literally nothing but gravel sounds appetizing."
-Matt

After you use an iPhone Air for a year and then hold a 17 Pro. I feel so weak I need to hit the gym 🥸