We have just published our very first alpha version of transcribee desktop 🥳. https://github.com/bugbakery/transcribee/releases/tag/v0.1.0 Transcribee is an open-source semi-automatic transcription software that we are working on.

If you are transcribing audio (for example for social science interviews) or would like to (for example for making podcasts or other recordings more accessible), we would be very happy if you try transcribee desktop and tell us how it goes!

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Neofeud 2 is my #cyberpunk game where an ex-robo-marine & a rebel hacker struggle against CEO-King trillionaires & an empire on its last legs. Neofeud 1 & 2 are both on #Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4611140/Neofeud_2/ #indiedev #visualnovel #indiegame #retrogame #NoAI #scifi #art #artist

Hanging onto summer a little longer thanks to Craig & Karl 🌞

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/08/craig-and-karl-under-the-sun-dubai-installation/

#art

Two neo-Nazi teens arrested in #Florida with weapons, explosive materials, white supremacist literature, and tactical gear with slogans such as "1488" that resembled previous mass far-Right killings such as that of Brenton Tarrant, who killed over 50 people at a mosque in New Zeeland.

https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/fortify-tip-leads-deputies-to-teens-homemade-guns-explosives-white-supremacy-material-st-johns-county-sheriffs-office-st-johns-county-florida-middle-school-students-switzerland-point-middle-school-julian-davis-charles-williams-fortifyfl

@davew @macmanx
An unresponsive/broken RSS feed is akin to a single Bluesky user account being unreachable.

The only way that RSS could “go down” the way Bluesky did (or any other non-distributed service*, for that matter) would be for the _entire internet_ to fail.

*Despite Bluesky self-proclaiming that it’s a distributed service, the empirical evidence seems to prove otherwise.

Adding protein to your coffee and snacks won’t automatically build more muscle. You’ve gotta add the weights, too 💪

Protein + resistance training is the real muscle-building combo.

More from a researcher who studies exactly this:
https://theconversation.com/more-protein-in-your-breakfast-or-snacks-wont-give-you-more-muscle-without-more-work-a-biologist-separates-the-science-from-the-marketing-287942

@Hellybootwader yes please, although I'm a little cautious if next summer is going to be as hot as this one. I just couldn't seem to dump water on that bed fast enough, so may try a pot in the shade just to get them through El Niño

@valhalla
It's a trap!

today I discovered that ~/Library/Caches/CloudKit/com.apple.bird/(a guid)/MMCS/ClonedFiles contained dozens of temporary copies of massive 800MB image files I'd been working with several months ago, which apparently never got cleaned up by Pixelmator. And that's the story of how I found a hundred gigabytes under the couch cushions

Happy 35th anniversary to Ukraine, a country I first visited when it was still part of the Soviet Union. In a single generation Ukraine has transformed itself into a symbol of bravery, resilience and independence. Ukrainians should be proud.

Nextnews is an RSS reader for iOS that syncs with Nextcloud News. https://nextnewsapp.com/

@Migueldeicaza "36 users"?!

People say "Quicksand turns out to not be as big a menace as I thought when I was a child", but it's an obvious case of survivor bias.

EFF and 7 civil society groups have written to a UK police force calling for an immediate halt to its planned rollout of live face recognition. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/eff-and-civil-society-groups-call-nottinghamshire-police-halt-live-face

I'm delighted to see beavers making themselves at home.

"Farmers have traditionally opposed beaver reintroduction in the UK over fears their dams could flood fields and damage crops. But during the heatwave, one farmer told the Guardian that his best asset has been a family of beavers who have built a reservoir on his land that contains 3m litres of water."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/24/wild-beaver-kit-pair-born-norfolk

There was never a point, during this whole Tech Bros take over the world shitshow, where it was wrong or hyperbolic to call it a fascist project, designed to lock in the power of fascist billionaires, and enforce a fascist worldview. And y'all said I was nuts back in 2014 when I told you that but what it do? Here we are - how'd my take age?

It's a shame we have to impose these massive tariffs on Canadian goods but I guess that's what we need to endure in order to... *checks notes*

*keeps searching for notes*

*gives up*