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Finally updated the family tree for my legacy save today now that generation 6 has arrived. This time the main family has twins, Maisie and Millie.
in reply to Chris 🌱

In this legacy, the first born daughter succeeds the matriarch of the previous generation. So the line of succession has gone: Giselle > Rosemary > Candice > Robyn > Lesley, and next will be Maisie


With respect to #ActivityPub:

Simply, having now seen more into the guts of the process and how it is managed both historically and today, and understanding how the w3c works, I have no faith in their ability to define a clear consensus way forward out of the current set of problems.

Not "no faith in <timeline>" but no faith in the ability to define a clear way forward here.

This doesn't mean that someone outside of w3c couldn't define a better way forward, even one using AP, but w3c won't.

in reply to Hrefna (DHC)

One way forward:

Someone defines a way forward within the FEP process. Not as in a static document, but builds a working group "chartered" by a FEP ( @smallcircles would appreciate this, I think).

But ultimately we're looking at needing a "AP2" and that is a fundamentally broken prospect looking at the w3c processes today. Even if they could produce such I have no faith that the problems are understood or that the right people would be in the room.



employers getting huffy over remote work is extremely funny to me because it's an overt admission that a large function of the modern workplace is nothing more than control, and a large function of the modern management structure serves no productive purpose other than to enforce misery

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How bad is exFAT support on Linux? Is it still severely impeded by the Microsoft patent trolling?

I have lost track.

(to decide whether I stick to SDHC or move up)

in reply to Garrett LeSage

@garrett the failure was as follow:

- format the card in camera.
- start shooting
- "Write error" and that message only stays on for a couple of seconds.

(Fuji X-T3)

Can reproduce quite well. I had another card in slot 2, no problem. And yes I swapped slots too, still the same card causing trouble.

It's a card I have been using for a while and filled up many times.



Well, look at that: FTC gets green light to continue its antitrust case against Meta. washingtonpost.com/technology/…
in reply to Tim Bray

@hub That was back when Republicans were also complaining about "Conservative voices being silenced" on Meta platforms because they had some fact-checking and were reach-limiting egregious misinformation.

Zuck has since kissed the ring: he said he regrets all the moderation they did on misinformation pointed out by the White house, and called Trump's photo "The most badass thing I've ever seen."

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I’m a journalist and I’m changing the way I read news. This is how. “I’ll read news, not other people’s reactions to news.” niemanlab.org/2024/11/im-a-jou…


Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz of Florida is President-elect Trump's pick for attorney general (running the Justice Department).
in reply to Steve Herman

Rep. Matt Gaetz resigns from Congress just before the House Ethics Committee was set to vote on releasing a “highly damaging” report outlining its investigation into the Republican. - Punchbowl News


Is wearing the t-shirt of a tech conference at a later edition of the same tech conference cringe, like wearing the t-shirt of the band that's on stage?
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in reply to maco

it's not; and if you manage to have a really well preserved t-shirt of an old edition of the conference, it is ✨ classy ✨






Didn't have time to watch this month's release party live stream? No stress, this short video will help you catch up. 😌

Slick dashboards and speedy cameras - read the full release notes for 2024.11 here: home-assistant.io/blog/2024/11…

#HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation #DIY




MapComplete used to do translations via hosted.weblate.org - we were using the "free tier for Libre/FLOSS-projects" which allowed to have at most 160K strings.

However, because we have a lot of strings multiplied by a lot of languages, we are approaching 180K strings (!). This is a bit over the limit.

As such, @pietervdvn setup translate.mapcomplete.org which will become our main translation hub. It should look familiar, as it too is weblate. You'll have to create a new account though.

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in reply to MapComplete

What is really a pity is that you no longer have all the translation projects at a glance. I already have a bookmark folder with 7 different translation pages for OSM. And the "automatic suggestions" for identical strings from other projects are also lost. Nevertheless: Keep translating!


This man is an amazing storyteller. I could listen to him talk about music and his life for actual days.

Rick Wakeman On Prog Rock, Keyboards and His Legendary Career With Yes

youtube.com/watch?v=zppfjeculU…



The wait is over! 🎉 Be My Eyes is now rolling out on Ray-Ban Meta glasses, bringing hands-free accessibility to our blind and low-vision community in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, and Australia.🌟

Say, “Hey Meta, Call a Volunteer on Be My Eyes,” for hands-free, real-time assistance from 8.1M volunteers.

Updates are rolling out over a few days, stay tuned!

Learn more: bemyeyes.com/blog/be-my-eyes-o…




Be My Eyes is now available on Meta glasses in Australia, Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom, and USA. You can say "Hey Meta, Be My Eyes", or you can make a call on your phone and then double-press the camera button to switch between phone and glasses. This allows you to use the service directory or private groups. bemyeyes.com/ray-ban-meta

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Spotify just reported record-breaking profits.

In totally unrelated news, Spotify stopped paying nearly 90% of artists on the service ANYTHING (no royalties for songs w <1k streams/year)

hollywoodreporter.com/business…



I need to commission a logo for a new podcast I'm working on. I'd prefer to commission someone on fediverse for this.

Who's interested?

[ Please boost for visibility! ]

#mastoart



Good morning everyone! As you all know if you follow me, I'm a sighted dev whose focus is on accessibility for the blind. I got into the space of accessibility and learned how important it was because I joined an accessibility jam and got first hand experience speaking with blind gamers. So I'm inviting you to the type of jam that changed my outlook! So join the discord for "Games for blind gamers" and ask your questions!
discord.gg/tqQXqX8gEq

#gamedev #accessibility

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Whoops, missed posting about @randalschwartz and @bagder talking about Curl last week! hackaday.com/2024/11/06/floss-…


Calling all #blind #Windows users! I'm looking for recommendations on #accessible SSH clients that work well with #1Password. I've been using Windows Terminal, but I'm not entirely satisfied. What do you use for SSH on Windows? #Accessibility #AssistiveTech #ScreenReader #BlindTech #tech
@1password @mastoblind @main
in reply to Lanie Carmelo

I use sshas part of the windows terminal regularly. What about it disatisfies you?
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo Weird behavior with 1Password. When the popup to authenticate with 1Password comes up I have a hard time navigating it. My screen reader doesn't seem to want to type in the box to enter my password.


The 2024 #HTTP Workshop, day two

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11/13…

#http
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

@mnot what’s the difference between the server stack detection proposals and the old Server: header?
in reply to Tony Finch

@fanf @mnot to properly detect the server stack today you need to check a few other headers as well, but yeah, it is essentially that header.


To people who feel like there aren't many people on mastodon/fediverse, please actually try to be social. So often I see "there's nobody here, i'm going to bsky/threads/whatever" and then when I look at the account's profile on the home server (to make sure I can see all posts and replies), I almost always see very few posts in recent past and even fewer replies. The Fediverse's culture (and mastodon's software) is built around more traditional social networking, like we used to do before algos.



Folks, have you encountered this weird NVDA issue? NVDA does not enter focus mode when pressing enter on the Gemini edit field. I can duplicate it, and it doesn't affect JAWS 2025.
github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…
@NVAccess
in reply to Amir

I don't know Gemini, but it may be the same issue I find at Youtube comment edit field. Try pressing up arrow until you land at the page element imediately above, then press tab; it should focus on the edit field and enter focus mode.
in reply to Cleverson

@clv0 Yes, Tab and SHIFT+Tab work, but it's not a solution as Enter should work as expected.
in reply to Cleverson

@clv0 Moreover, if you have disabled Automatic focus mode for focus changes - which I've done, Tab and SHIFT+Tab don't work either.


#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 16 updated and 1 new apps:

* rbtlui: if you always wanted to explore our #reproducibleBuilds this app is for you: rbtlui provides a graphical interface to explore the builders verifying the apps (and the verified apps themselves) provided by IzzyOnDroid on reproducibility. Of course rbtlui is RB itself 🛡️

So thanks to @bg443 for rbtlui! And enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:



#deltachat_desktop 1.48.0 is currently releasing. Lots of under-the-hood code changes and bugfixes.

AppStores, besides flathub already have the new release. flathub will follow soon.

#deltachat



Trumplican politicians accepting positions in the next administration are openly posting on the bird shite about Canadians taking back the country from the progressives, READ: interfering in Canada's next election. #cdnpoli #polcan
in reply to Hubert Figuière

simple. we join a growing number in the Global South who will boycott USA. also some in the asia pacific want to expel usa military presence. I didn't know South Korea was actually paying for US bases to be there.

BOYCOTT
with extreme prejudice

oh, and Ford; aymore lip about Mexico and you'll be next.

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V pátek jdu na operaci s očima a pár dní nebudu smět sledovat TV ani internet. Čiliš chci poslouchat nějaké mluvené slovo. Máte tipy? Hrňte je sem!


Apple’s most powerful iPad models are selling in very surprising ways 9to5mac.com/2024/11/13/apples-…



Just received these extremely fluffy pupmojis from @dzuk: @iris :iris_dog: and @lumi :lumi_dog: reimagined as minimalist emoji in all their glory, and I'm in full-blown cuteness overload :blobaww:


@RaccoonForFriendica the first stable version 0.1.0 has finally been released! 🎉🎊🎉

Here is the changelog, compared the latest beta:
🦝 feat: make crash reports opt-in (disabled by default);
🦝 feat: add option to keep app bars fixed while scrolling;
🦝 fix: transition between images/videos in detail view;
🦝 fix: unmute videos in detail view;
🦝 enhancement: update licenses;
🦝 chore: update dependencies;
🦝 chore: update user manual.

If no blocking issues are reported, I intend to make it easier to install the app (by distributing on other alternative stores, e.g. setting up the submission procedure to F-Droid), translate the UI and/or user manual into more languages, etc.

Wish me good luck and remember to #livefasteattrash!

#friendica #friendicadev #androidapp #androiddev #fediverseapp #raccoonforfriendica #kotlin #multiplatform #kmp #compose #cmp #opensource #procyonproject

in reply to Maxdid

@Maxdid puoi avere più account e switchare da uno all'altro, dalla schermata profilo in alto a destra nella barra c'è un pulsante di "gestione account" (icona utente+ingranaggio) che apre una bottom sheet da cui puoi selezionare "Aggiungi nuovo" e rifare login. Da quel momento in poi puoi cambiare account usando la stessa bottom sheet.


¿Os está funcionando bien mastodon hoy o es cosa mía? Me está dando problemas de carga y de actualización de la web.

PD: Soy consciente de que si os está dando problemas, como a mi, seguramente no os aparezca este mensaje pero... por probar 😆



Meta must face FTC trial that could separate Instagram and WhatsApp theverge.com/2024/11/13/242956…


For some reason people fleeing the sinking #Twitter / #X ship for #BlueSky don't seem to be aware of the fact that crypto bros at #BlockchainCapital bought a huge stake in the company just a few weeks ago. Like these are basically the same crypto bros who just helped #ElonMusk buy Twitter. They might even be literally the same people (I strongly suspect they are but I'm too lazy to check). Either way #BlockchainCapital was co-founded by #BrockPierce, who also brought you #Tether, AKA the company that Trump's transition team chairman manages $120 billion for. Pierce is also a friend of the #Netanyahu family.

You don't have to take my word for it. Here's the official press release: bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2…

Moving to BlueSky is not an escape. Growing a base there is just putting in a bunch of work to create a platform that will be co-opted by crypto bros as soon as X breaks in half.

p.s. crypto bros (#a16z) also own #Substack

#crypto #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #USDT #Trump #DonaldTrump