OK here we go, from the original cassette.

@adam Thanks for the bravery to share the struggle. Brings to mind an old song: If the sun could ever shine in your life, well friend, that's fine and may you leave behind these old troubled times that we've shared. https://genius.com/Aaron-tippin-i-was-born-with-a-broken-heart-lyrics

OK we got a serious animal brawl going down up in here. audio.

Playing for each other, not for you. Look how smart we are! Missing the one on purpose because landing on it would be too obvious, too accessible, too groovy, can't have that. Your Musical Philosophy Is Actually Consistent. Groove over complexity. Unless complexity serves the groove.

Let's talk about 'Move Everything':

An unofficial framework for running custom instruments, effects, and controllers on Ableton Move.
Move Everything adds a Shadow UI that runs alongside stock Move, enabling additional Synths, FX, and other tools to run in parallel to the usual UI.

One person, Charles Vestal has managed to slipstream a screen-reader directly onto Move using either Flight or ESpeak-NG, taking advantage of Ableton's own Screen-Reader data and also made it so that the WiFi pin that their web-based offering doesn't read, reads on-device.
The guy is an actual genius.
It does way more than I can begin to mention here, but for the first time ever, we have a groovebox with screen-reader that is 100% actually stand-alone, no need to be tied to a phone or computer of any kind.
Links:
Move Everything: https://github.com/charlesvestal/move-anything
Installers: https://github.com/charlesvestal/move-everything-installer/releases/tag/v0.2.8
Documentation: https://github.com/charlesvestal/move-anything/blob/main/MANUAL.md
CC @pkirn

Wow, this NVDA RC seems like a real game changer. Remoting into a version of Windows running on the mac on qemu / hvf Is a thing. Still gotta figure out what hotkeys I want to use and remap some stuff but the basics work. The IOS version seems even better. This could mean traveling with just the mac mini and bt keyboard, no giant laptop!

@BorrisInABox That was the jam. Bad news makes good music I guess.

10 meters seems to be open.

You can also /ctcp #rnsfiles xdcc list, but you may get banned for that.

New version of the bit rot prevention program offers a --fast option to update the database only if the filesize is different. Also an untested -x option to limit the directory recursion to one filesystem as in coreutils cp -x. https://gfc.rocks/ground/software/brp-1.3.tgz

/usr/lib/libc.so: warning: this program uses f_prealloc(), which is stupid.

Updated bit rot prevention program brp.c with some small bug fixes and the ability to display the status of a file hash database. Beta testing now by regenerating all databases. https://gfc.rocks/ground/software/brp-1.2.tgz

Anyone managed to turn the ring search party feature off while using IOS voice over? Tried the usual things including turning voice over off and tapping all over the place. It seems to stay on enabled no matter what I do. I'm sure they'll get right on fixing this.

Going to try an update to a couple shell scripts that I use to prevent bit rot in data archives. Vibe coded brp.c, bit rot prevention, using sha256 from openssl and sqlite3. Prompt included. https://gfc.rocks/ground/software/brp-1.0.tgz

Hoosiers will have to look out for one another, because the people in power have made clear whose side they’re on. https://www.progressiveindiana.net/p/fight-the-smoligarchy-indianas-deportation

In 2009, as part of negotiations to renew its contract to run the .com registry, ICANN pressured Verisign to drop its prohibited words list.

Appreciate the FBI's attempts to improve the nations cyber security by convincing more people to turn on iPhone's lockdown mode. Now we have the CIA publically disrespecting the people. the CIA said it was "ironic but unsurprising that Senator Wyden is unhappy," calling it a "badge of honor."https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/senator-who-has-repeatedly-warned-about-secret-u-s-government-surveillance-sounds-new-alarm-over-cia-activities/

@FreakyFwoof I have V3 and V5, chracked versions. Also have V4 but I don't think I ever got it to work. can post to the web if you need. Don't have any version that didn't come from a warez site.

Behold!

@FreakyFwoof Bay area gangsta beat all the way. That slaps. I'm thinking 2pac - scandalous or something else by Ant Banks.