Chapter 68, Build 211

The library learned to wait—and to speak your way

What’s new

This build brings two features worth putting through their paces.

Large OPML imports now remember where they stopped. If a listener reaches the free ten-podcast limit, Earshot safely keeps the remaining feeds and folder structure. After a verified Earshot Plus purchase or restore, the import continues automatically—no hunting for the file again, no duplicated subscriptions, and no lost folders. Pending work can also be continued or discarded from Settings > Data.

VoiceOver listeners can now decide exactly how episode rows sound. Settings > Accessibility adds independent controls for podcast name, published date, download or streaming status, and duration or time remaining. Episode and Library podcast descriptions can be Off, Brief, or Full. The same choices follow you through Inbox, Queue, Downloads, folders, search, podcast episode lists, and multi-select.

What to test

Import an OPML file containing more than ten feeds and nested folders. Without Earshot Plus, confirm ten import and the remaining count is correct. Dismiss the paywall, relaunch, and continue from Settings > Data without selecting the file again. Test purchase, restore, discard, offline recovery, and force-quit recovery. Report any duplicate feed or folder membership.

With VoiceOver on, change every row-detail toggle and each description mode. Check multiple lists. Speech should update immediately, stay accurate, contain no raw markup or repetition, preserve actions and focus, and remain fast while scrolling.

Also exercise playback, background audio, downloads, queue state, and upgrading from 1.1.0. Send every crash report and include the screen, action, and approximate time.

Kashe arrived at the station with a library too large for one crossing. Earshot carried ten shows aboard, marked the place, and promised the rest would not be forgotten.

Later, access verified, the doors opened again. The remaining voices filed into their old folders without doubling back.

On the ride home, Kashe tuned each episode row: less chatter here, more context there, every detail arriving in the order she chose.

For once, the library did not decide how much to remember—or how much to say. She did. Earshot Podcasts https://testflight.apple.com/join/u8dj5UTr

Holy shit. They tried to get Canada to give up the ability to freely negotiate trade with other countries *and* expected it to stop caring about French language information on products. That's basically being a vassal state.

Good on Carney for walking away.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/u-s-encroaching-canadian-sovereignty-tariff-negotiations-frechette-9.7317055

#uspol #cdnpoli #fuckTrump #No51stState #french

Local 🏘️ for #silentsunday

#photography #amateurphotography #urban #street #architecture #urbanarchitecture #streetphotography #stillersonntag #rioladivergatto #travel #explore #atmospheric #italia #italy #europe #canon #canonphotography

@Eidon Ah, I see. I found the Japanese text of the play, in old Japanese with a modern annotation. I will go and read it and post my findings ^_^

@ghalldev that's an incorrect assumption @jaredwhite

@NilaJones This sounds like an awesome dream actually

Gentle reminder, when someone is sharing some small piece of resistance they have done, DO NOT SHIT ON IT. Do not tell them it isn't enough or it's still bad because blah blah other stuff...

Everyone is tired and overwhelmed and trying to find some accessible way they can push back. Cheer that!

Celebrate the small; celebrate the imperfect.

No single action is gonna solve everything, but a whole bunch of small actions start the sea change.

Don't punch down when we all need lifting up.

Next time a website will ask me to fill a mandatory "State" field for shipping to the UK, I'll put "Disrepair" in there. Other options I thought of were "climate catastrophe" and "decay"

tbh we don't talk enough about what's going on in sudan even on fedi.

just want yall to give this a read. or talk about it. if we can talk of palestine and ukraine we can talk about this too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_genocide_(2023%E2%80%93present)

#politics

@Em0nM4stodon

i'd add does your employer, do your consulting customers, does your investment company.

micro$quish owns way too much of the market to dismiss any security issue.

EU and CN making moves towards linux is interesting but we're years away from microsoft bugs not mattering.

@_elena we have a good #running crew here on fedi

@fabian I intendo to create a writeup, as solving both the rendering and the save was quite an interesting problem, never seen before in Godot land.

🆕 blog! “Death to px, long live ch!”

Pixels are a lie. Even if you think you're drawing something with "pixel perfect" accuracy, your monitor is lying to you. There is no grid of platonically perfect squares.

In CSS, pixels are a double lie:

Note that 1px doesn't necessarily equal one physical device pixel. On HD displays, it may span multiple physical pixels. Similarly, 1cm in CSS often …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/death-to-px-long-live-ch/
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#css #design #HTML

🔴SOLIDARIDAD CON EL COMPAÑERO JUAN ALISTE VEGA

El compañero prisionero subversivo Juan Aliste Vega, se mantiene actualmente hospitalizado, en un delicado estado de salud.

Como La Zarzamora apelamos a la solidaridad activa, a reivindicar al compañero y su camino de subversión permanente. Por esto hoy hacemos presentes sus palabras, con un extracto de memoria realizado por Biblioteca Tordo.

“Lo que pasa es que cuando estamos sumidos en un entorno que es constantemente violento y que todo su accionar radica y se sustenta sobre la violencia, es un poco efímero creer, que si tenemos alguna proyección, ya sea de poder revertir algo, esta pueda ser bajo algún canon de pacifismo, por llevarte al otro extremo. Pero aquí no hay una apología a la violencia, aquí por lo que podemos señalar nosotros tiene que ver con un sentido, ya sea de resistencia, de combate, de vida, de instalación de principios, de valores, eso es lo sustantivo con respecto a las formas de ver y de entender el como nos relacionamos y funcionamos entre pares. Yo me considero un subversivo hoy en día, considerando que también, en distintas etapas de nuestra vida, de los epítetos con los cuales hemos sido calificados por el estado, el de terrorismo viene a ser uno más, por lo tanto ellos nos han calificado de esa manera. Para nosotros es fundamental dejar lo mas nítido posible nuestra condición de anticapitalistas y de subversivos frente a esta realidad presente”.

El compañero Juan Aliste Vega, fue detenido en Argentina en julio del 2010, expulsado a Chile y condenado a 42 años de prisión por el atraco al banco Security. Desde entonces ha permanecido prisionero en regímenes de alta seguridad de distintas cárceles, encontrándose en La Gonzalina de Rancagua cuando comenzó su agravamiento.

Las expresiones y gestos que surgen tras la noticia, dejan latente el cariño y la importancia que tiene Juan en nuestra historia reciente, parte de una generación que presenció y combatió contra la dictadura y que vió su continuidad y consolidación, en el actual fundo llamado Chile. No se conformó, ni se engañó, siguió en combate.

“Porque no se trata de nosotros, más bien se trata de ellos, del poder y los poderosos, y de cómo habemos algunos y algunas que no encarnamos la derrota y hemos perseverado en acciones, porque no caemos en la dicotomía de que lo militar y lo civil —o la dictadura y la democracia— son cosas distintas”, escribió Juan en el texto llamado “A quince años de mi detención”.

“Doy cuenta del latido de mis convicciones, de este pequeño andar consecuente como subversivo, siempre desde lo antagónico y en constante confrontación con un enemigo que trasciende coyunturas” reafirma más abajo.

Juan compañero te enviamos fuerza y la ternura que tanto aprecias.

Juan Aliste a lakalle, con su gente, con nosotres.

Recibe el amor, la fuerza y el compañerismo que ha brotado de tu caminar inclaudicable.

Solidaridad activa con Juan Aliste.
A sacar a Juan Aliste a la kalle!

@kxtcd950 Oh, absolutely. Learning is learning!

@SallyStrange I really like the idea of crowdfunding anti-racism workshops!

These can be provided for free to moderators and admins, and experts in the field will get compensated for their time.

Going to brainstorm about this a bit more.

@c_merriweather This is the way 👍

@datarama

The kittens seem pretty smart. They’ve managed to train me to come when they want attention, at least!

@amoroso
Yeah, actually, it did, since the microcomputer revolution was so very dramatic right from the start, not just in retrospect like some other things.

I tried not to miss things in the San Francisco Bay Area -- but I missed a lot anyway, for the usual reasons of life.

@fvzappa