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Canadian phone companies are just the laziest, least competitive companies in the world.
in reply to Mx Sadiq

It's the worst.

Some of my cannier friends have bought AT&T plans and "roam" in Canada for a fraction of what our local plans cost. I can get better data plans for a couple of euros in any European airport than I can anywhere in Canada for any amount of money.



A new version of MapComplete is out!

This one features many bugfixes, such as not having blank screens on Chrome and some error recovery. Critical errors during data uploads are now logged remotely, giving @pietervdvn some insight in what happens and which allows some data recovery.

Furthermore, a #barbeque and #firepit theme has appeared: mapcomplete.org/fireplace

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in reply to See+Map

@SeeandMap Wish granted, if the build succeeds should be online in about ~30 minutes. Do a hard refresh then.
in reply to Pietervdvn

🤩 Thank you. let's see if tomorrow i can find a place and add a set of pictures.

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In the current Garbage Day @ryanbroderick goes hard after VC tech bros who now shifted to openly supporting Trump:

Holy shit what a great paragraph. garbageday.email/p/now-babydog



well i made the paper. local wrag, and they mjissed half of what happened but hey. nottinghampost.com/news/nottin…
in reply to jack scrimshaw

Nobody ever tells you where the alarms are, do they? I'm more likely to text the make me a winner for our local radio than the british transport police the numbers are similar!
Glad nothing more serious came of it.



I thought… Lemme try and record my faithful travel guitar with Meta glasses. Just a Bossanoish doodle, really… O yeah, on the back of the guitar I clipped the ToneWoodAmp with effects, it’s using the sound box as a speaker. Hear what came out… youtu.be/iz1l3SH1aQ8
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victor tsaran
@BorrisInABox It definitely will, but then you will have to pay for the amp itself. The cool thing about it though is that you can reuse the same unit on different guitars. Just install an extra bracket inside the guitar, stick the amp at the back, and you’re good to go! :)
in reply to victor tsaran

I kind of want to try one of these ToneWoodAmp things. Maybe it will make my boring, cheap Fender acoustic/electric more interesting.
Since I can't really play instruments here, I didn't want to spend a lot of money on a guitar to leave at my parents' place. The amp is about as much as the guitar was, from what I'm seeing online.


NVDA 2024.3 Beta 4 is now avaialble. Everthing from the previous betas PLUS beta 4 also includes:

- Fix reporting addresses in Modern Outlook To/CC/BCC fields

- Improved handling of errors when installing add-ons, fixed bug where failed add-on updates remove the installed add-on

- Minor fixes to improve updating a portable copy

- Updates to translations

Read the full what's new and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-3b…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #FOSS #Beta #Prerelease





No recuerdo si ya lo había compartido por aquí. En todo caso me gustaría recomendarles que si se pasan por #Singapore 🇸🇬 vayan al Hai Di Lao y pidan que "les bailen el fideo" 🤣


Don't forget to register! GUADEC starts in 2 days, but there's still time to let us know you're attending. Sign up for remote or in-person here: events.gnome.org/event/209/reg…

#GUADEC2024 #GUADEC #GNOME



After we had a conversation about how to use Airtags in travel for blind people, I was honored when Jessica Hipp asked me to write about it on the WayAround blog. I compared the use of Airtags and WayTags, concluding that they significantly contribute to my travel. I should have started using them years ago.
wayaround.com/airtags-vs-wayta…
#AccessibleTravel
in reply to Tom Babinszki

Also thought of using AirTags at some point but never really got to it. Great tip with hotel doors though! :)


Please, if you use Fedora, fill out this survey and tell them to fuck off with AI/ML crap:
fedoraproject.limequery.com/14…discussion.fedoraproject.org/t…


This is a refreshingly good look at why extensions with both full privileged access and dynamic script + style execution are a really bad idea, greatly weakening the CSP on every site:

How insecure is Avast Secure Browser?

Injecting arbitrary scripts and styles ought to require an extra permission and be selectively allowed on a per-site basis.
RE: floss.social/@alcinnz/11280356…

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in reply to Seirdy

@Seirdy sticking my fingers firmly in my ears and rotating every element on your site 1deg


Tools for collaborative development of documents, code, and more need to be accessible to people with disabilities. Here to help with that is:

Collaboration Tools Accessibility User Requirements w3.org/TR/ctaur/

It's now a complete draft ready for review. Specific questions for review are in e-mail at lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/p…

Please send any comments by 30 September 2024. Thanks!

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 9 updated and 2 added apps:

* Calculator: calculator, currency converter, time zones, ..
* Mobile Tile Server: HTTP Server for your local Map Tiles

2 apps have been removed:

* Paisa got to big ( ~90 MB)
* Metadataremover jumped from 10 to 160 MB with the last release (but is still available at F-Droid.org)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:




Potkaj se dva a jeden řiká: tak co je novýho?
Druhej: ále, vyšel mi článek.
První: ty seš novinář?
Druhej: ne, mám tasemnici.

Jo, no mně vyšla kniha.
knihydobrovsky.cz/kniha/odejit…



Please take this survey about AI/ML and Fedora. We know that this is a sensitive subject, so the Fedora Council spent time putting a survey together to understand what our community thinks about this area of technology.

Last day to take the survey is July 31.

➡️ discussion.fedoraproject.org/t…

#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource

in reply to Fedora Project

the only things i see “AI/ML” useful for in Fedora’s near future are speech-to-text/text-to-speech, which can be useful for accessibility. Voted no on everything else.


We need your votes! Tell us who you think should win this year's Pants of Thanks Award at #GUADEC2024. Our winner will be announced during the AGM on July 21, starting at 16:00 UTC.
discourse.gnome.org/t/call-for…

#GUADEC #GNOME #Awards



Wild blackberries will be ripe soon around here! That means extra yummy calories for my #running ! :) 🤤 🏃

#bloomscrolling

in reply to ticho

Držím palce aby ich osy neobjavili dozreté skôr ako ty... Tento rok kruto prehrávam.
in reply to Ľuboš Moščovič

@herrman_sk Hm, tu na lukach okolo Devinskej Kobyly osy moc nevidam.

Skor tu byva poslednych par rokov problem ze su v lete strasne sucha, a z cernic su len vyschnute popraskane mrtvolky, a len mala cast dozrie do "normalnej" stavnatej bobulovej podoby.

Uvidime. :)



The Matrix.org Foundation joins the FOSS community and advocates of digital sovereignty in calling on the European Commission to sustain its funding for the Next Generation Internet program.

The European Union must keep funding free software: matrix.org/blog/2024/07/17/ngi…

#Advocacy #Policy #EU #FOSS #OpenSource



Von wegen technologieoffen: Wie das ZDF berichtet, haben sich Minister Wissing & Staatssekretär Luksic als Lobbyisten für den Kraftstoff HVO100 einspannen lassen. Unterstützern von "HVO100 goes Germany" wurden exklusive Treffen mit Wissing oder Luksic in Aussicht gestellt - gegen saftige Bezahlung.
Luksic übernahm sogar die Schirmherrschaft für die u.a. von Tankstellen - Lobbyverbänden finanzierte Kampagne.

Wir fordern schonungslose Aufklärung!
vcd.org/service/presse/pressem…

#verbrenneraus #efuels



NOAA Is in Danger - The Atlantic theatlantic.com/science/archiv…


Jemand Lust, sein/ihr Fahrrad bei Github reparieren zu lassen? Die haben eine API für Radgabeln!
in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅

ich wunder mich so nebenbei, wieso da nicht die naheliegendste übersetzung verwendet wird, einfach "gabel", die ja wohl auch in jedem wörterbuch an erster stelle steht. Machine translations sind seltsam...
in reply to christian mock

@cm Ha! Ich bin nicht allein mit dem Gedanken 😆 Auch wenn sich bei dem Gesamteindruck der Seite (ich habe letztendlich verzweifelt auf EN umgestellt) eher der Begriff "Mistgabel" anbieten würde 🙊 💨


Schulen und Wissenschaft müssen kooperieren: Bayern beschließt Bundeswehrgesetz lto.de/recht/nachrichten/n/bay…


The simplicity of Dutch public transport tariff sometimes leads to illogical pricing.

For instance this 30-minute-long tram ride is cheaper with a tourist ticket for € 3.40 than when paid as you go with a transport or payment card.

I wish Dutch cities learned to implement price caps, which are common in virtually all other countries.

in reply to Ondřej Caletka

Oh, it turned out that the return journey following the same route is significantly cheaper! 🤯


The Best Phone of 2024 is now just $975 for Amazon Prime Day androidheadlines.com/2024/07/s…


#OneDrive in-depth: Learning content
elevenforum.com/t/onedrive-in-…


Hello Hello Jamers 🙂

For those who didn't have the time or energy to click on the Dev update #9 link, we've got you covered!

Here's the link, if you want to know more: jami.net/dev-update-9/

#Jami #opensource #P2P #App #PrivacyMatters



Köln hat eine neue Fahrradbürgermeisterin. @fahrradkoeln
bycs.org/anna-genser/


Long before #Rosetta & 67P/C-G, there was Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 & its devastating 1994 encounter with Jupiter.

I was privileged to be part of the team that made & released the very first images of Fragment A impacting at ~20:15 UTC on 16 July, 30 years ago last night, as seen from Calar Alto in Spain.

The brightness of the impact plume was a huge surprise & the following week saw intense astronomical, media, & public engagement.

#Astronomy #Astrodon #SpaceScience #PlanetaryProtection



We had an amazing time at the 2024 ACB National Convention! The debut of the JAWS AI Training Suite was a hit, the sessions were informative, and the exhibit hall was a blast. Our favorite part was connecting with everyone; what was your favorite part of #ACB2024?


The #purismgamejam results are in! 🥁 Top honors go to "Bunny Semiconductor," "Plankter," & "Hurry Curry!" Congrats to the devs! 🎉
Test out the new Open Source games here! itch.io/jam/free-software-puri…
in reply to Purism

I enjoyed playing the games that the other contestants submitted.
It was powerful being able to submit a pull request to fix a typo and have it fixed quickly. That's something proprietary games cannot offer.
in reply to Purism

Thank you for doing this, and PLEASE do more game jams in the future!


We have released a new update for the BT Speak. It includes a new text to speech manager for installing or removing Vocalizer and RH voices, as well as new speech engines from Pico and Festival Lite. We have a new Clock Settings menu to disable the announcement of seconds and 12/24 hour time announcement options. Audio from MP4 files can now be played from the file browser. Read about these changes along with the other improvements in this latest update.
blazietech.com/july-16th-2024-…


Meta is already using it’s user’s data in the USA, But its brazen attempt to use EU user data and introduce Meta AI won’t pass! 🙅 🧐

Read more here 👉👉tuta.com/blog/noyb-privacy-win…

#MetaAi #Meta #AI #NYOB #Privacyrights #gdpr #GDPR #AI #Tuta #privacy

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Tuta
@unruhe Great decision :)
in reply to Tuta

In terms of creating a less bias AI model, it is better to have a more diverse training model. Thus, if many data subjects opt-out to this training attempt, in the long run there will be a worse off propaganda machine.

This is one of those current dilemmas between quality of model and acquiring of data.



After reading an article on the average news site, there are usually links to articles of dubious quality that are often salacious clickbait. These are usually Taboola ads.

It is thus a huge surprise to hear that Apple plans to run ads from them in its News and Stocks apps.

9to5mac.com/2024/07/16/apple-t…




BTSpeak owners! July 6th 2024 update: Bug: BTSpeak not speaking on boot. drewsound.com/2024/07/16/btspe…


For the Nation of Gondwana festival this weekend, me and Nicl worked on a 3D printed tactile map. Made me wonder if there are any standards in this direction, like what shape would a toilet have and all that. If anyone has some pointers, please let us know!

This was first drawn in inkscape and then later extruded layer by layer in openscad2.

printed at @xHain_hackspace @xhain3dlab #NationOfGondwana #NationOfGondwana2024

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