Users often talk about builds being slow and how to speed them up. This is a huge topic, from ideal build machine hardware, proper use of shared state caches...
The Raspberry Pi thing is a perfect example of why I don't think corporations have a place on the fediverse. I'm still trying to formulate the exact wording for my argument, but essentially there's a form of inconsideration inherent in profit-motivated companies, as consideration doesn't drive up profits. This inconsideration influences their business at all levels: from high-level business decisions, the company culture, hiring decisions, and how they interact with customers/potential customers.
I believe orgs have a place on the Fediverse, but the fact that their reach doesn’t depend of a hegemonic entity forces them to behave better… or see their reach (hence interest for being there in the first place) greatly reduced. What we’re seeing is the Fediverse protecting itself and its members, one thing that couldn’t have happened on a centralised platform. Behave or begone. That’s a radical cultural shift and there’s beauty in it.
@owashii What's extra strange, to me, is that this attitude is not one they've exhibited directly on but absolutely have, lesser-known, in the replies to their blog posts, as I've mentioned elsewhere; It's been in emails and the like too, in this just hilariously rude and honestly hateful fashion.
Meanwhile, parts suppliers (Element13, Mouser, DigiKey) have tended to be quite welcoming to concerns people field, but also aren't trying to be a foundation AND company.
I actually feel like corporations will always have a presence on the fediverse and some have already been here for quite a while. They probably should have their own instance like Raspberry Pi did, but that's not what I think happened here.
What I see is someone who was incompetent managing their account and possibly their instance. Their inability to properly engage with people responding to them is a sign of immaturity. We could easily imagine a more constructive discourse having occurred instead. Brands regularly have accounts on Twitter where they don't lash out at their customers. The deliberate blandness of most corporate brands is precisely to avoiding alienating customers.
You might think corporations are incentivized by capitalism to be inconsiderate assholes on any platform, but I think if anything history has shown that corporations are quite good at adopting enough of the culturally acceptable markers to blend in if the payoff is high enough.
I think there will always be people that hate brands on principle and will ban them, but I think enough people unironically enjoy interacting with them or trolling them that many will show up and stick around in some form.
And Mastodon is not special. People used to say Mastodon isn't for celebrities, and yet here they are. The platform quite robustly gives no fucks about any of our cultural values.
Apologies for the long post, I just feel like the future is much more likely going to be about how to avoid brands and not how to keep them off the network.
corporations thrive on amorality. Which is why I will never fanboy them. It's hard enough working for one. Raspberry Pi may eventually be bought by a corporation one day. Which is a depressing thought.
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German nation-wide emergency alert exercise message delivered via UnifiedPush as KDE Plasma desktop notification, within a minute of the cell broadcast :) #kde #unifiedpush
I put this off for a week longer than I intended because I was afraid it wouldn't be an improvement from November first. Now, I'm feeling surprised and proud of how much I've improved.
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Would be great to see #governments not so blatantly endorse a product. 48 CFR § 1452.203-70 prohibits. #Microsoft #Word should be replaced with something else. Maybe #OpenDocument Text? Wouldn't you agree @libreoffice?
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"Der nächste bundesweite Warntag findet am 8. Dezember 2022 statt. An diesem Aktionstag erproben Bund und Länder sowie die teilnehmenden Kreise, kreisfreien Städte und Gemeinden in einer gemeinsamen Übung ihre Warnmittel."
Schauen wir mal, ob Cell-Broadcast funktioniert. ✌
Bundesweiter Warntag 2022
Der nächste bundesweite Warntag findet am 8. Dezember 2022 statt. An diesem Aktionstag erproben Bund und Länder sowie die teilnehmenden Kreise, kreisfreien Städte und Gemeinden in einer gemeinsamen Übung ihre Warnmittel.
Ob – und WO. Habe 3 Geräte zum Test bereit liegen: 1x Android 11 (laut diversen nicht aktualisierten "News" zB Tagesschau Mindest-Voraussetzung), Android 8 (sollte Dank "nachgerüsteter" 3-stelliger ID auch tun) – und ein Android 10 ohne SIM (das aber trotzdem Funkmasten mit TowerCollector erfassen kann). Bin neugierig. In 2 Stunden ist es so weit…
Da hat man wieder "ganze Arbeit" geleistet, und die halbe Bevölkerung im Dunkeln gelassen: Funktioniert nur mit "aktuellen Schmart Fons". Alles unterhalb Android-11 blieb stumm. War dann wohl nix mit der (angeblich?) nachgerüsteten 3-stelligen ID.
Peinlich. Der "Schutz der Bevölkerung" stand also offensichtlich NICHT im Vordergrund der Aktion.
@zfpkritik Das ist seltsam. Ich habe sie nur auf meinem Android-11 Gerät bekommen – nicht aber auf Android-8 oder Android-10 (letzteres einmal mit und einmal ohne SIM). Ein Android-11 mit ausländischer SIM (hier "zu Besuch") erhielt auch keine Warnung. Die Entwarnung (11:45) kam auf keinem der Geräte an. @kuketzblog
@IzzyOnDroid Dazu ist der Artikel ag.kritis.info/2022/11/24/warn… der @AG_KRITIS interessant. Für ältere Geräte braucht es dreistellige IDs, die auch kommen sollen, aber das haben wohl noch nicht alle Netzbetreiber umgesetzt.
Der zweite bundesweite Warntag steht an. Wie schon im September 2020 wird erneut ein bundesweiter Warntag durchgeführt. Am 8. Dezember 2022 ab 11 Uhr werden dabei alle Warnmittel getestet. Zum Warntag am 8.
@postquantum Nö. Scheinbar nur die DTAG. Vodafon hat klar geantwortet, "dass zum Warntag am 8.12. keine Aussendung von Warnungen für ältere Mobiltelefone vorgesehen ist." Telefonica hat gar nicht geantwortet (und meine dort eingebuchten Geräte < Android 11 auch nicht).
Damit dürften alle die, welche den CB auch auf Android 7 und gar Android 6 erhalten haben, allesamt bei der Telekom sein.
Ergo: Warten wir auf den nächsten Testlauf (und ob Telefonica bis dahin antwortet 🙊)
@IzzyOnDroid Interessant. Auf Arbeit hatten wir den Verdacht, dass es am Anbieter liegt.
6 Leute, 8 Handys (incl. Diensthandys): Nur 2 Handys haben gewarnt. Alle die nicht gewarnt haben waren bei der Telekom. Unterschiedlichste Marken und Android-Versionen... @postquantum
@Lanthanus @postquantum DAs ist erstaunlich – da die Telekom als einzige gemeldet hatte, "ready" zu sein. Äh, warte mal (AGB-Leser-Modus aktivierend): Stimmt ja gar nicht, die haben nur gesagt DASS, nicht WANN. Na dann, alles in Butter: Die Katastrophe kann kommen und wird erfolgreich sein. Menno. Das hat ja keiner ahnen können, als man sich für 4-stellige… 🙊 Hoffen wir, dass die nächste Runde sauberer läuft.
@pgaDUS @zfpkritik und alle anderen, die den CB mit Android < 11 (nicht) erhalten haben: Welcher Netzanbieter? Bei mir war es O2 (nur beim Gast-Gerät müsste ich wegen Fremd-SIM noch schauen, wo es eingebucht ist). Wie @postquantum schrieb haben wohl nicht alle Netzanbieter alles sauber umgesetzt – die Frist zur Umsetzung ist ja auch erst am 23.02.2023 vorbei. Mein Verdacht: "Telefónica hat unsere Anfrage leider nicht beantwortet." Vodafon: "keine Aussendung…für ältere Mobiltelefone" 🤦♂️
Es gibt sogar einen Fragebogen. Vermutlich woll mal herausfinden, ob und wo es funktioniert hat. Aber gleich zu Anfang werden Metadaten zur Person abgefragt, deren Relevanz ich nicht einsehe: Alter, Geschlecht, Schulausbildung, Ausbildungsabschlüsse... An dem Punkt habe ich das beendet.
@rc Da fragt man sich, ob es irgend welche Aktionen gibt, deren eigentliches Ziel NICHT das Sammeln von Daten ist – sondern wirklich das, was angegeben wurde. Hier will man offensichtlich gar kein Feedback. So etwas füllt doch nicht einmal die Nichts-zu-verbergen-Fraktion aus, wenn es nichts zu gewinnen gibt…
Richtigstellung: Wir haben Krankenhäuser gewinnorientiert umgebaut. Daher muss der Satz: "Kinder sterben, weil wir sie nicht mehr versorgen können" richtigerweise lauten: "Kinder sterben, weil sich ihre Versorgung marktwirtschaftlich nicht rechnete"
Intensivmediziner schlagen Alarm: Die Versorgung von Kindern mit RS-Virus wird immer schwieriger. Personalmangel führe dazu, dass teils 40 Prozent der Kinder-Intensivbetten außer Betrieb sind.
Thunderbird starts and decides (without asking me) to open a web page in my default browser to beg about donation.
Thunderbird being hypocritical again: - they're saying donations are what keep them alive yet they just bought out K-9 - they're saying they're "privacy-respecting", yet they open a tracking web page at every start of Thunderbird
The funniest: the links, even in the donate page, contains trackers.
Seriously @thunderbird stop acting like the good guys.
1) Yes, donations allowed us to hire the lead developer of K-9 Mail full time (in addition to other developers and engineers). There was no financial transaction or buyout involved.
2) What you call a "tracker" is simply an extended UTM link. This shows us how many people came to the donation page via a certain platform, like Mastodon or the blog. There is zero identifying personal information being tracked.
stormdragon2976 pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project: gitlab.com/stormdragon2976/aud… Turn off speech with clipboard utilities and window title reader by creating the file ~/.agmsilent
Here's a unique perspective on tonight's occultation of Mars. If you could see the shadow when Mars gets blotted out by the Moon, it would look like this: spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_… #occultation #Mars
Today is the 50th anniversary of the last time humans went to the Moon.
Apollo 17, the final mission of the Apollo program and the last time we ventured beyond low Earth orbit, launched from Kennedy Space Center #OTD in 1972.
wish I could stop newbies from making the same mistake that often leads to them hating Rust and giving up on it: Learning it through trying various libraries and/or solving specific (often complex) problems **before** learning sufficient basics.
I made the same mistake myself and came very close to giving up on Rust many times in the beginning. I'm so glad I didn't.
While on the subject, let me yet again share this invaluable blog post from my good friends at Ferrous Systems:
Berlin based technology consultancy specialising in the Rust programming language. We offer development, implementation, training and long-term support.
My first commit (written with antoyo) was merged in GCC!
It allows us to continue improving the GCC backend for the Rust compiler (github.com/rust-lang/rustc_cod…) without needing a custom libgccjit version. :)
Fix float vector comparison and add comparison tests to include float and
vectors.
gcc/testsuite:
PR jit/107770
* jit.dg/harness.h: Add new macro to to perform vector
comparisons
* jit.dg/test...
@bipolaron Woah, I have no idea about voice control via atspi. I've boosted your post for reach.
Anyway - I'm cleaning up the accessibility stack in Linux, which suffers from a lot of context loss since the Oracle laid off the accessibility team in 2011. There's a summary at viruta.org/paying-technical-de…
Dado mi enganche reciente a la serie de #Miércoles en Netflix y a que hace eones que no me monto un hilo de algo interesante, voy a proceder a dar un breve repaso a #LaFamiliaAddams en sus distintas encarnaciones audiovisuales.
PD: Como siempre, es posible que se me cuele algún gazapo. No dudéis en señalarlos.
The deadline for this year’s Otherwise Award recommendations is coming soon!
To recommend “a work of science fiction or fantasy that explores or expands our notions of gender” and that was published in 2022, fill in the recommendation form as soon as you can.
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“Newly entering the public domain in 2023 will be:
• works by people who died in 1952, for countries with a copyright term of “life plus 70 years” (e.g. UK, Russia, most of EU and South America); • works by people who died in 1972, for countries with a term of “life plus 50 years” (e.g. New Zealand, and most of Africa and Asia); • films and books (incl. artworks featured) published in 1927 for the United States.” publicdomainreview.org/feature…
An Australian mining magnate wants to save the planet with green hydrogen. Andrew Forrest, whose company is a major polluter, has fans in the Biden administration for his audacious plan. But the technology he’s promoting doesn’t exist yet. wapo.st/3F9GTNt
1 week left until the #axecon speaker application deadline! Join amazing speakers like Gene Kim, Steve Saylor, Jutta Treviranus, Aaron Gustafson, and Elle Waters at this amazing, free, virtual, digital accessibility extravaganza. deque.com/axe-con/call-for-spe… #a11y
for the fans of #Adebar I just added a new release: v2.3.1 has some minor improvements on standard apps listing, pulling gps.conf and running tools/getapk
Not many people heard of In Extremo, a German folk-metal band. Actually I wouldn't either if not for the #Gothic game. Then I started listening to them and I fell in love with their music! They did an amazing job, with for example Herr Mannelig taht is a Swedish ballad from the 19th century. Even the lyrics are comprehensible :). youtube.com/watch?v=bkX1iNUq6J…
Hi everyone! I'm checking out Mastodon. I'm a writer with 29 published romance novels. My book just out is The SEAL's Christmas Dilemma #writing #Promo, #AuthorPromo
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Arkadiusz Świętnicki 🇨🇳 I HAVE MOVED
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