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I cannot wait for the next pandemic... /sarcasm

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed that they found two cases of avian influenza at a poultry farm in the les Maskoutain region and Saint-Jean sur Richelieu in Quebec on Sunday.

montreal.citynews.ca/2024/11/1… #goodtimes #sarcasm #cdnpoli #polcan #QCpoli #polQC #assnat #MTLpoli #polMTL #CFIA #H5N1

in reply to somecanuckchick

exactly.

watching a zombie movie: "how can this have happened? It's unrealistic, they would control the pandemic"

me watching covid-19 handling: "sounds realistic"

in reply to Hubert Figuière

@hub Look at when we PLAYED pandemic with friends and they got upset saying it's a cooperative game... and I said that isn't real life... that was 2016?!?


Two cases of avian influenza (H5N1) found in the Montérégie region of Québec :flagqc:

montreal.citynews.ca/2024/11/1…
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Deux cas de l’influenza aviaire trouvées dans la région de la Montérégie au Québec :flagqc:

// Article en anglais //

#Montérégie #Québec #BirdFlu #GrippeAviaire #H5N1



Let’s Encrypt is one of the under-sung wins of the modern tech world. Completely changed so many dynamics, entirely bottom-up.
mastodon.social/@Some_Emo_Chic…


Can't comment on the company, but the dataviz and editing skills of whoever does the Tracklib's videos are really on point

youtube.com/watch?v=FpaoCUEhZJ…

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Im @eulemagazin@mastodon.social #Newsletter gibt es einen #Bluesky #Guide mit einer klaren Nutzungsempfehlung.

Kein einziger der fragwürdigen Punkte wird angesprochen oder die #Fediverse - #Bluesky Bridge erwähnt.

Hm, schade ... 🤔
#FediKirche #digitaleKirche #digitaleNachhaltigkeit #selbstbestimmtDigital

in reply to Erwin Lottermann

Da kann ich helfen: steadyhq.com/de/eulemagazin/po…

Und dann am besten zum Newsletter anmelden!

in reply to Philipp Greifenstein

Danke.

Wer als Journalist oder Öffentlichkeitsarbeiter einer Organisation Microblogging kommerziell betreibt, mag ja bei Bluesky wirtschaftliche Chancen sehen.

Wer im gemeinnützigen Auftrag unterwegs ist und auch bei digitalen Dienstleistungen auf die Auswahl seiner Geschäftspartner achtet, dürfte sich schwer tun, sich mit der Bluesky PBLLC auf die Sicherstellung der grundlegenden Spielregeln zu einigen.

Oder gibt es andere BS Instanzen?

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in reply to Erwin Lottermann

Soweit ich mitbekommen habe, ist bisher keine weitere Instanz bekannt. Es hat jemand den Betrieb einer Instanz geprüft und kommt zu dem Schluss, dass bei der Softwarearchitektur dermaßen hohe Serverkapazitäten nötig sind, dass ein föderales System, wie es mit ActivityPup möglich ist, wohl in absehbarer Zeit nicht zu erwarten ist.


Thunderbird can help you get on Jeopardy!

Okay, it can help you not miss important messages, like those saying you passed the contestant exam and audition. But if you're using Thunderbird, you're definitely clever enough for Jeopardy. 🟦 🤔

#Thunderbird #Productivity #Jeopardy

blog.thunderbird.net/2024/11/m…

in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

I would like to know when it will be possible to synchronise the filters. Otherwise this feature is useless when using TB on multiple computers.
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

it would be nice if i could sync my settings, using my nextcloud, with my other thunderbird devices. Possibly my mobile! Is this possible?


Intel's Core 200 family poised to mix Arrow, Lunar, Meteor, Alder, and Raptor Lake parts — Arrow Lake-U CPUs rumored to offer Meteor Lake Refresh ported to Intel 3
tomshardware.com/pc-components…
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How many word mutes do you have? #Poll

  • Fewer than 10 (0 votes)
  • 11-20 (0 votes)
  • 21-30 (0 votes)
  • 31-50 (0 votes)
  • over 50 (0 votes)
Poll end: in 3 days

#poll
in reply to Seirdy

does muting # count as muting words? I assume yes but would like confirmation
in reply to adradia

@adra_eng I only want to mute posts with those hashtags. It also helps avoid the Scunthorpe Problem which Akkoma has.


📉 La inmigración se desploma como “problema” en la encuesta del CIS.
El último barómetro de noviembre del Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS) muestra que la preocupación por la vivienda se mantiene mientras que la noción de la inmigración como “problema” cae diez puntos.
elsaltodiario.com/migracion/in…


FreeCAD Version 1.0 Released
After more than twenty years of intense and sustained development, the FreeCAD community is proud to announce the release of version 1.0. FreeCAD 1.0 is now available for download on all platforms.

blog.freecad.org/2024/11/19/fr…

youtube.com/watch?v=x5oXSGhK7E…

#Announcement #Releases

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PSA: An iOS 18 bug is why our favorite ‘Apple Frames’ shortcut broke 9to5mac.com/2024/11/19/psa-an-…


Deals: M4 Pro MacBook Pro $249 off, 24GB M3 MacBook Air $400 under original price, Nomad gear, more 9to5mac.com/2024/11/19/deals-m…


Okay, humans of Windows, is there any player I can read books with on Windows? Thank you. Possibly speed them up too. Thanks thanks! #AudioBooks #windows11pro


Speaking of bread, I spent a lot of time thinking about why I simply don’t like the breads that many people like. I’ve come to a few conclusions:

1. Soft bread isn’t always terrible outside the U.S.
2. Since I eat a mainly East and SE Asian diet, wheat just isn’t a primary grain
3. Between noodles and rice dishes, there is realistically only space for crusty spreads sometimes (when I cook other cuisines)
4. The main cuisine I cook outside of those is Mediterranean so soft flatbreads work too

in reply to modulux

@modulux sometimes Europeans go to East Asia and complain about our soft breads. But they don’t see that those breads are our ‘fun snacks’ between meals. We almost never eat bread as a main meal

That view also completely discounts how Japanese, Korean, Chinese baking is totally its own thing and plays a different social role. It’s a luxury not an essential

in reply to Adrianna Tan

Yep, I've noticed people are introducing bao style breads here in Spain, and people are sometimes a little... confused by it. I think it's good in its own terms so long as one isn't expecting the sort of crunchy buns we eat here.


I'm happy so many people liked my first article!

Now I wrote about why focus outlines deserve better treatment in web design, and how to make them both beautiful and accessible ✍️

medienbaecker.com/articles/foc…

#accessibility #webdev #webdesign #indieweb


in reply to Tuta

just to chime in, I'm based in the US and notifications on Android haven't been working since November 19th late evening.


#TechCrunch said it perfectly, "Encrypted Gmail Alternative" 💪 💪

And unlike Gmail we are proud to:

✅ Not serve you ads
✅ Not collect your data (or profit from it)
✅ Not have access to your end-to-end encrypted mailbox

in reply to Steven

@Mixtape It's in development! We can't give you a definite date just yet :)
in reply to Tuta

youtu.be/m_uWS6K-VF8?si=AswjXg…

:)



This year @igalia has contributed in a number of ways to encourage discussions and efforts aimed at improving the Linux display stack.

In the first half of the year, we hosted the 2024 Linux Display Next Hackfest, and in the second half, with a gathering of developers at XDC 2024, I co-organized the Display/KMS Meeting.

This blog post details what we discussed during those 3 hours together:
melissawen.github.io/blog/2024…



I think my paper on Dummett, proof assistants and pluralism has shaped up rather nicely, and it will be good to see it out in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society in a few months’ time. You can read the preprint now.

Thanks to everyone who gave me feedback on earlier drafts, and discussed these issues along the way.

There's more to be done, but I hope to have clarified some issues around how we can think about the relationship between constructive and classical reasoning, and how philosophers might engage with what is going on in the application of dependent type theory in proof assistants, programming language design, and the formalisation and mechanisation of reasoning.

consequently.org/writing/what-…

#logic #prooftheory #typetheory #philosophy

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Mám už hodně dlouho účet na #Bluesky. Občas se tam teď podívám, ale přijde mi to jako nudnej koncept nucené zábavy: tapeta příspěvků s obrázky od cizích lidí?

Vlastně nevím, proč bych tam měl někoho hledat nebo sledovat. Je to příznak deprese, duševní vyrovnanosti, dospělosti, nastupujícího stáří?



Should #Conversations_im add stun.conversations.im as a fallback for #XMPP servers missing XEP-0215: External Service Discovery?

I’ve hesitated to add anything resembling "calling home" (no update checker, no metrics).

However, the main goal here wouldn’t be improving A/V call success (though it helps) but making P2P file transfers more reliable. Many servers still lack HTTP Upload, and the refactored Jingle File Transfer would benefit greatly from a fallback STUN server.

  • Yes (72%, 63 votes)
  • No (27%, 24 votes)
87 voters. Poll end: 3 days ago

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in reply to Daniel Gultsch

yes, those who don't care will have ability to make calls, those who care will spend some effort to spin off and publish own service.
in reply to Daniel Gultsch

If it can be deactivated in the configuration, then I don't see an issue with that. I would appreciate a warning though somewhere, maybe just a Message Toast on both sides that the fallback is used. That would help notice wrong configurations.

It would be great if conversations could verify that stun/turn works completely in addition to that. (Might also be a separate tool).



New LibreOffice #podcast! In episode 1 we talk about marketing the suite, and free and open source software (FOSS) in general: peertube.opencloud.lu/w/2mvsmp… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware

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in reply to LibreOffice

It's also available on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=9M468Krlaw…
in reply to LibreOffice

A very nice and interesting episode, but unfortunately no audio only version.

It would be very nice to listen to this via antennapod. Also, if you aim to do this on a regular basis it might be worth to consider also publishing this on the more main stream services like spotify (additionally to some open platform of course)



Matrix is coming to FOSDEM in full force this year, with no less than a community event, a booth and a devroom!

Find all the details, including the CfP at matrix.org/blog/2024/11/matrix… and join us!




Pohlavár Himl se mu vysmál, ale špiclové byli krátcí. "Nedo" utekl až do Síně slávy
sport.aktualne.cz/vaclav-nedom…


It has been one busy day in volunteering, but still time to think about things I want to do next year. Starting a blog is definitely one of them. Just to share my experiences in various situations and to let people know they are not alone, even though they may feel it. Also, time to give my little abode a good clear out!
in reply to Kay

Aww. that is nice. Good luck with cleaning, and I hope the blog becomes a thing. :)


Fellow Whovians, I'd like some recommendations for some #BigFinish audios that are 'happy'. Something like The Great Sontaran War or The Veiled Leopard. Something that doesn't have deep issues or lots of dreariness. I wanna get back into the audios but *waves around at everything* the dark stuff isn't really for me right now.

#DoctorWho #DrWho

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You might want to save it for December, but there is a festive Short Trip that I like to listen to at this time of year - O Tannenbaum, narrated by Peter Purves.

A log cabin buried in snow, surrounded by Christmas trees - it's the Big Finish audio that Bob Ross would have enjoyed painting.

#DoctorWho #BigFinish



It was another rainy morning on the mountain but Zeus and his gang came to hang out with me for a minute 🥳 I hope you all have a good day 🙌


#homelessness has been an emergency for decades! But let's debate it some more, eh.

Montréal councillors debating whether to declare state of emergency on homelessness: cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/no… #polMTL #MTLpoli #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #cdnpoli #polcan



Russian-Ukrainian war, strong language

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#war
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Int'l men's day, suicide prevention

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I found over 130 people to follow on #Bluesky without much effort, but only the tiniest handful are blind. I have no objection to keeping up with the blindness community on #Mastodon, but choice is good, and I hope the development of #accessible BS clients accelerates soon.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt Not sure, I've only used Skeets on iOS which is native. Reports I've heard from others suggest that their official mobile app suffers from the "multiple swipe targets per post" problem, among other things.

The website is as bad as you'd expect a modern website to be, and I consider it quite unpleasant to use. That's sadly not surprising, and I find the official Mastodon web UI similarly unusable.



While doing an unrelated Google search, I discovered a Youtube video about a fascinating toy from the 70's. I've never owned or seen one of these, but the way they managed to make the toy seem to be intelligent is just amazing. There's no computer chips, no data processing, none of that. Just an 8-Track player at the heart of the thing. 2XL: The '70s Toy that Faked AI with an 8-Track: youtube.com/watch?v=amuRIydCoJ…
in reply to Jayson Smith

I had a 2XL back in the day. It really was just an 8-track tape player with four buttons to jump too each of the tracks. Each track was recorded in such a way that, whenn you switched tracks at the right time, you'd get a different response. As you say, it had no intelligence but it sure did a nice job faking it. Unless you were one of thhose kids who understood how 8-track tapes worked.
in reply to David Goldfield

@DavidGoldfield I also had a 2XL, didn't know how it worked until long after they were both dead. I had two, not at the same time, and quite a few tapes. Some were, Battman's Gotham City, Riply's Believe it or Not, Spiderman (unsure of full title,) and Music Maker, which was the coolest one! It allowed you to use diferent musical snippets to make a song! Primitive now of course.


Thinking of switching back to Linux from Windows but I have some questions on the state of accessibility these days:

  1. Is full Wayland accessibility any closer? I know xorg is still supported but that going away is only a matter of time.
  2. Is there any way to duck non-screen-reader audio when the screen reader is speaking? This is so integral to my workflows now that I'm having a hard time doing without it, even only on the media PC which does run Linux.
  3. Is there a plugin mechanism for Orca yet? I have a long-standing wontfix annoyance where pressing enter on a clickable HTML element that doesn't support keyboard handling doesn't send a click like it does on NVDA, so a bunch of times I press enter to click a thing and spend a bit searching for changes only to realize that I have to use capslock-7 to click the left mouse instead, and I was told 20 or so years back that wouldn't be changed.

I have more but those are the big ones.

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in reply to Nolan Darilek

To answer question 1, I participated in a meeting about accessibility work for the GNOME 48 development cycle yesterday, and it seems likely that they'll be able to land a solution to the main problem with screen reader accessibility on Wayland, specifically keyboard input handling, in time for GNOME 48, building on the prototype work I did earlier this year. Disclaimer: That's not an official statement from GNOME, but I feel I can say this publicly since this meeting wasn't under an NDA.
in reply to Matt Campbell

Oh neat, is there any public work happening there? Don't know a whole lot about the lower-level a11y stack but am starting to worry a lot more about Microsoft's Windows 11 strategy/recent security lapses. If folks could use my help, I'd be willing to come up to speed. I'd just prefer to work with folks and not be plugging away on something on my own. And it'd be nice to have something good in place when Microsoft goes full-on AI overlord.
in reply to Nolan Darilek

Well the work that needs to be done in the short term, to land the screen reader keyboard handling support, is all in C, in Mutter and libatspi.
in reply to Matt Campbell

Right. Are there any actual efforts I can plug into and help with? I'd be willing to chip in if I can, I just can't be on my own, at least not initially while I figure things out.
in reply to Matt Campbell

woot woot... you are getting me excited about possibly returning to linux after years of absence...


V rámci dnešní prokrastinace jsem dal unfollow účtům, které jsou 1) víc jak rok mrtvé a 2) nesledují mne. Udělalo mi to radost a cítím se trochu volněji :-)

Odslednul jsem i pár mlčících Pirátů. Ti sice jistě dostanou za pár měsíců příkaz ke kampani na všech sítích a obživnou, ale o takové nucené účty nestojím. Nešel jsem na #fediverse, abych byl produktem pro cílenou kampaň.



Hraje tu někdo tuhle ruletu? Trh si evidentně myslí, že se s #CEZ něco brzy stane…
#CEZ
in reply to Jiří Pavlík

@jiri Tak je tam spekulace, že proběhne odkup s prémií kvůli tomu, že jinak bude těžší financovat silně rizikový projekt těch dvou dalších bloků #JEDU. Úplně bych ale neřekl, že to bude stát, kdo bude oškubán 🙂
in reply to Marek Demčák

@Marek Demčák Akcionář bude oškubán o dividendu, to je jasné, a je škubán daní z neočekávaných zisků. Ale výkupní cena bude slušná (to je to, co ukazuje optimismus trhu). Myslím, že to nebude podfuk jako za Kalouska.


I wish alt text showed in the Tweesecake view dialogue.
in reply to Justin Macleod

oh it does, you just have to tab over once to "post details" and down arrow in there as well :) It exists in just another text field. HTH.


Windows 365 Link is a $349 mini PC that streams Windows from the cloud theverge.com/2024/11/19/242997…