<p>In 2 months it'll be the 10th anniversary of David Bowie's final masterpiece, Blackstar. Do you have any thoughts about this album that you'd like to share with the class? Perhaps memories of first hearing it, how the news we got 2 days after its release might've changed how you interpreted the album, how it's figured in your listening over the last few years, etc.? If so, I'd love for you to be part of a Fedi-sourced oral history blog post for our Fedi-based 1001 Other Albums project!</p><p>Feel free to send your thoughts on the album via reply/DM here (or <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mas.to/@buffyleigh" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>buffyleigh</span></a></span>) or email to the blog email [email protected]. Blog post will go up January 8, 2026, will take submissions up to around January 1.</p><p>Boosts welcome!</p><p><a href="/tags/davidbowie/" rel="tag">#DavidBowie</a> <a href="/tags/bowie/" rel="tag">#Bowie</a> <a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#AskFedi</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/1001otheralbums/" rel="tag">#1001OtherAlbums</a></p>
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<p>Dear sound/audio folks and engineers,</p><p>I have a directory with 3.5GiB of audio files (chiefly opus & m4a) which are spoken word recordings.</p><p>Some of them are quite low, and some of them are quite dynamic such that it's a whisper at times and nearly a shout at other times.</p><p>I've processed a lot of them with <a href="/tags/audacity/" rel="tag">#audacity</a>'s compressor filter or <a href="/tags/ffmpeg/" rel="tag">#ffmpeg</a> (ffmpeg -i audio.m4a -filter:a "speechnorm=e=50:r=0.0001:l=1" audio-normalized.m4a), but there are some unprocessed files in the collection, which are a pain to individually find and fix.</p><p>Is there a way from the <a href="/tags/commandline/" rel="tag">#CommandLine</a> to detect the loudness and/or dynamic range of audio files so that I can automatically flag them for processing with ffmpeg?</p><p>Thanks!!</p><p><a href="/tags/audio/" rel="tag">#audio</a> <a href="/tags/sound/" rel="tag">#sound</a> <a href="/tags/soundengineering/" rel="tag">#SoundEngineering</a> <a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#AskFedi</a> <a href="/tags/hivemind/" rel="tag">#HiveMind</a></p>
<p>I don't have a Raspberry Pi 5 yet, but I'm really curious about its potential as a media center. Has anyone experimented with using the Pi 5 for 4K streaming, light retro gaming, or other applications? I'd love to hear your experiences!</p><p><a href="/tags/raspberrypi5/" rel="tag">#RaspberryPi5</a> <a href="/tags/mediacenter/" rel="tag">#MediaCenter</a> <a href="/tags/techdiy/" rel="tag">#TechDIY</a> <a href="/tags/communitytech/" rel="tag">#CommunityTech</a> <a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#askfedi</a></p>
<p>Is there a term for the exit-oriented libertarian-funded startup?<br>I guess that's what "startup" means, forsooth. But I guess I'm fishing for a derogatory connotation.<br><a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#askFedi</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#askFedi</a> Does anybody know if there is an <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#ActivityPub</a> software that *produces* multilingual objects leveraging the contentMap feature?</p>
<p>Where should I go to shop for interesting, unique coloring books for my daughter? Preferably made by independent artists.</p><p>Self-promotion welcome. Encouraged, even</p><p><a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#AskFedi</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a></p>
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<p>Hey there, I need help from people who watch PeerTube videos! 👋 </p><p>Do you have favourite PeerTube channels you would recommend to others? Or do you run a PeerTube channel yourself?</p><p>I run a site at <a href="https://fedi.video" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>fedi.video</a> that tries to highlight the best videos and accounts on PeerTube. It's intended as a safe, easy way to discover videos. It would be great to get more channels listed, so it would be brilliant to hear your recommendations! 🙂 </p><p><a href="/tags/peertube/" rel="tag">#PeerTube</a> <a href="/tags/peertubers/" rel="tag">#PeerTubers</a> <a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#AskFedi</a></p>
<p>I'm looking for a lightweight single account fedi server that's suitable for a small company wanting a fedi presence on their own domain. Any suggestions for projects I should look at? <a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#askfedi</a></p>
<p>Asking Fedi. </p><p>Could you help me find pieces of art, especially video pieces about autism from the perspective of the autistic person? Ideally, made by autistic artists or filmmakers. Preferably short films but any other kind of art piece would be welcome too. </p><p>I edit to add: I'm asking because one of my final project students, who is autistic, is planning to do a video about his autism and how he experiences it. I wanted to send him some previous works, for inspiration or as examples. </p><p>Anything helps! Boosts OK. </p><p><a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#askFedi</a> <a href="/tags/actuallyautistic/" rel="tag">#actuallyAutistic</a></p>
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<p>Re: <a href="https://freeradical.zone/@ax6761/113844714883293193" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="freeradical.zone/@ax6761/113844714883293193"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">freeradical.zone/@ax6761/11384</span><span class="invisible">4714883293193</span></a> ; <a href="https://freeradical.zone/@ax6761/114581601531683875" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="freeradical.zone/@ax6761/114581601531683875"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">freeradical.zone/@ax6761/11458</span><span class="invisible">1601531683875</span></a></p><p>Found 3 HDMI capture devices output on USB; output of first 2 is 1080p at 60 fps …<br>- Kondor Blue HDMI to USB-C Capture Card for Live Streaming Video & Audio, KB-HDMI-USBC-CC, US$ 35, <a href="https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1734331-REG/kondor_blue_kb_hdmi_usbc_cc_hdmi_to_usb_c_capture.html/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1734331-REG/kondor_blue_kb_hdmi_usbc_cc_hdmi_to_usb_c_capture.html/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product</span><span class="invisible">/1734331-REG/kondor_blue_kb_hdmi_usbc_cc_hdmi_to_usb_c_capture.html/</span></a><br>- Mimo Monitors HDMI to USB 3.0 Capture Card, HCP-1080, $ 100, <a href="https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1860067-REG/mimo_monitors_hcp_1080_hdmi_to_usb_3_0.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1860067-REG/mimo_monitors_hcp_1080_hdmi_to_usb_3_0.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product</span><span class="invisible">/1860067-REG/mimo_monitors_hcp_1080_hdmi_to_usb_3_0.html</span></a><br>- INOGENI 4KX-Plus HDMI to USB 3.0 Converter, 4KX-PLUS, $ 645, <a href="https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1674959-REG/inogeni_4kx_plus_hdmi_to_usb.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1674959-REG/inogeni_4kx_plus_hdmi_to_usb.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product</span><span class="invisible">/1674959-REG/inogeni_4kx_plus_hdmi_to_usb.html</span></a></p><p>Anyone used one?</p><p><a href="/tags/capturecard/" rel="tag">#captureCard</a> <a href="/tags/hdmicapturecard/" rel="tag">#HDMICaptureCard</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#linux</a> <a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#askFedi</a></p>
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<p>Can anyone suggest managed hosting companies that offer Pixelfed? So far I've just got Weingärtner:</p><p><a href="https://weingaertner-it.de/index.php/produkt-kategorie/pixelfed-hosting/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="weingaertner-it.de/index.php/produkt-kategorie/pixelfed-hosting/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">weingaertner-it.de/index.php/p</span><span class="invisible">rodukt-kategorie/pixelfed-hosting/</span></a></p><p>Any others? Preferably ones that offer support in English?</p><p><a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#AskFedi</a> <a href="/tags/pixelfed/" rel="tag">#Pixelfed</a></p>
Did anyone ever deploy <a href="https://github.com/nanos/FediFetcher/" rel="nofollow">fedifetcher</a> with snac?<br>I'm not asking about mastodon but (<a href="https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2</a>)<br>It seems even consecutive runs take over one hour, I've got duplicates of reply trees in my conversations, while still not seeing all replies there are. Also the "database" increased considerable in size.<br><br>I guess it's not fully compatible. But I would like to know what others did with it.<br><br><a href="/tags/fedifetcher/" rel="tag">#fedifetcher</a> <a href="/tags/snac2/" rel="tag">#snac2</a> <a href="/tags/snac/" rel="tag">#snac</a> <a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#askfedi</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#selfhosting</a> <a href="/tags/tinyfedi/" rel="tag">#tinyfedi</a> <a href="/tags/tinyweb/" rel="tag">#tinyweb</a><br>
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<p>I'm interested in following as many reputable nonUSA, nonUK news sources on here as I can, but I don't know very many. </p><p>So far, I've got DW, Al Jazeera, Japan Times, Le Monde, and a few others. </p><p>Any suggestions?</p><p><a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#AskFedi</a></p>
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<p>What mastodon app do you use?</p><p><a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#askfedi</a></p>
<p>Bonjour ! 🦅</p><p>« Faudrait peut-être que je migre d'instance... Ah mais attends, comment on fait ? On peut migrer ses messages ? Et pourquoi mes abonnements sont pas transférés ? »</p><p>Aujourd'hui, pour ce deuxième billet de blog des tutos du Fediverse, après vous avoir parlé du choix de son instance (<a href="https://blog.piaille.fr/choix-instance/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.piaille.fr/choix-instance/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.piaille.fr/choix-instance</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a>), on vous explique pourquoi migrer son compte Mastodon peut avoir un intérêt, et une procédure pas-à-pas pour le faire.</p><p>Bonne lecture !</p><p><a href="https://blog.piaille.fr/migrer-instance/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.piaille.fr/migrer-instance/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.piaille.fr/migrer-instanc</span><span class="invisible">e/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/feditips/" rel="tag">#FediTips</a> <a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#AskFedi</a></p>
need input for provocative fedi “ad”, ment: fascists
<p>Is there a <a href="/tags/federated/" rel="tag">#federated</a> GeoCities out there? <a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#askfedi</a> <a href="/tags/ask/" rel="tag">#ask</a></p>
<p>If you were to buy a VPS to host personal projects, which provider would you pick?</p><p><a href="/tags/vps/" rel="tag">#vps</a> <a href="/tags/cloud/" rel="tag">#cloud</a> <a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#askfedi</a></p>
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<p><a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#askFedi</a></p><p>- Has anyone seen custom-moji of a <a href="/tags/mecha/" rel="tag">#mecha</a> around these parts?</p><p>- Is there a reliable, reasonable current source of custom-moji of mecha in different styles (am thinking of “Big O”, “Evangelion”, “Gundam” c 2000+, “Ghost in the Shell”)?</p><p><a href="/tags/emoji/" rel="tag">#emoji</a></p>
<p>What's a good <a href="/tags/freesoftware/" rel="tag">#FreeSoftware</a> pastebin? <a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#AskFedi</a></p>
<p>🏕️ my adventures in <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#selfhosting</a> - day 198 (summer project edition) 🏖️<br><br>Hello Fedi friends,<br><br>I hope you've been having a nice week so far.<br><br>I've been in childcare mode, thus the silence. I've been thinking about something and I would love to get your advice.<br><br><a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#AskFedi</a>: is there a way to export one's <a href="/tags/gotosocial/" rel="tag">#GoToSocial</a> archive of posts (but not replies to other users)? Like something with command lines that doesn't require tedious copy and paste operations?<br><br>I wanted to gather up all the posts about the first 6 months of my self-hosting journey, to neatly organize them on my website (either in multiple blog posts or pages) so that they could be more easily searchable. It's not really ideal to go on an infinite scroll quest in reverse chronological order to see the evolution of my self-hosting journey.<br><br>Like, I'm curious to see what I was up to in January but going back in time loading old posts takes forever. And I cannot really search for keywords.<br><br>I'd like to keep things organized and easily searchable. And implement a POSSE system going forward... publishing on my site first and then syndicating elsewhere.<br><br>It's my summer of POSSE inspired by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>molly0xfff</span></a></span> 🤗<br><a href="https://www.citationneeded.news/posse/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.citationneeded.news/posse/</a><br><br>If you have any ideas about how I can easily export all my <a href="/tags/gts/" rel="tag">#GtS</a> posts, I'm all ears.<br><br>If not, I suppose I will start copying and pasting everything and do monthly installments of my self-hosting journey (aka "month 1" etc.). After all I have 1125 posts (sigh).<br><br>Anyways, I hope this finds you well and that you're keeping cool in this scorching heat (especially fellow Europeans).<br><br>have a lovely morning/afternoon/evening wherever you are ❤️<br><br><a href="/tags/mysocalledsudolife/" rel="tag">#MySoCalledSudoLife</a><br></p>
<p>Does anyone know of a MacOS (Ventura) app I can have on my own hard drive that doesn't cost a fortune, that will allow me to download YouTube and other online videos? Something for regular ol' people, not programmers/scripters? No git hub?</p><p>An org I spoke for put the video up, but did not give me a copy so I'd like to download it.</p><p>I used to use Softorino's YT downloader, which I PAID for, but then they decided to go SaaS and iced out all their paid users who got it before.<a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#AskFedi</a> <a href="/tags/macos/" rel="tag">#MacOS</a></p>
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<p>Does anyone here use tut as their Mastodon client of choice? Any customization tips? For those not familiar, see <<a href="https://tut.anv.nu/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>tut.anv.nu/</a>>. Forgive the color scheme that thinks its CGA, that's the first thing I fixed.<br><a href="/tags/mastodon/" rel="tag">#Mastodon</a> <a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#askfedi</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#AskFedi</a> do you know anyone with a federated Wordpress site who uses it extensively? Not just for publishing straight to the Fediverse, but also in a social way (aka as a fedi profile)?<br><br>I've run into a few roadblocks with mine and I could really use some inspiration 😊<br><br><a href="/tags/wordpress/" rel="tag">#Wordpress</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#ActivityPub</a> <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#selfhosting</a></p>
I need help from XFCE users who use Colemak:<br><br>While I can change layout per application, the wm still uses qwerty. how to make wm follow colemak?<br><br><a href="/tags/askfedi/" rel="tag">#askFedi</a> <a href="/tags/colemak/" rel="tag">#Colemak</a>