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Schaut gerne mal rein. 😁 🦚

#NeuHier



Apple released emergency security updates to fix two zero-day vulnerabilities that were exploited in attacks on Intel-based Mac systems.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…



Úloha z Angličtiny odoslaná a teraz mám pocit že som bez úloh, ty vole konečne.
in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Neviem prečo to toľko odkladám, mal by som tie úlohy robiť hneď len mám z toho stres zbytočne.



📖 “Quebec to cut Montreal commuter rail lines by over 50%, another backward move by the CAQ” cultmtl.com/2024/11/quebec-to-…

#Montreal

in reply to Heliomass

operating the province like a business. A business of hate.

in reply to Jack-Frostodon

@JamminJerry ooooh this is super, super amazing news, gosh, gonna throw this on to my s22 right nowwwww OMG
in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg I can already think of suggestions, but this is super awesome that it has finally happened. I will tell you you do have to adjust your speed inj the general tts aria. they don't ahve a speed thing yet in the actual app, and I had to put it at 78 percent just to get it at almoost a normal rate, but like I said, this is alpha. I am sure there will be lots of changes being made kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkksoon.
in reply to Jack-Frostodon

@JamminJerry lol as bad as it is, it's making me wonder if we could get it ported on iOS too just as we have the ESpeak one, but it's an entirely different beast there and Android needed more of the TTS options with as stale as some of the engines were going.
in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg @JamminJerry And with Optispeech in development, we'll have a better, definitely more future-proof alternative to Vocalizer for those seaking a human-like speech engine that's actually responsive.
in reply to Jack-Frostodon

@Tamasg oh boy! I think I might have found a phone that the dec-talk doesn't like. lol. just tried to change from google tts to dec-talk on the smart vision 3, and it is like the whole phone froze. lol. touch screen isn't working, and even the arrow keys are not working at all either. woopsy! lol.
in reply to Jack-Frostodon

@Tamasg note to self, the micro dec-talk will not work on the smart vision 3. not only does it not work, it completely breaks talkback.
in reply to JamminJerry

@JamminJerry oh noooo. If you have ADB access to the phone by chance you might be able to remove the package via the PM command and then it should revert your TTS to the default installed one
in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg C:\adb>adb devices

* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *

* daemon started successfully *

List of devices attached

KAPUS200032 unauthorized

in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg I don't see how I can authorize it, as I would have to do that on the phone, and I don't have speach to do that. lol.
in reply to JamminJerry

@JamminJerry oof yeah, that's quite a pickle to be in right there. Sometimes I've "blindly" tapped the bottom right corner of my screen which accepted it, but it's such a hit or miss type situation then.
in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg ok, I think I got it authorized. here is what I see now.
C:\adb>adb devices

List of devices attached

KAPUS200032 device

in reply to JamminJerry

@JamminJerry hmm. You'd first need to find the exact package name (unless Jack knows this) - type:
adb shell pm list packages | grep "micro"
Then you can do an adb uninstall with that package name after words.
in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg yeah, sadly I can't really list them as I am sure it would scroll off the screen, and that wouldn't be very helpful trying to find it.
in reply to JamminJerry

@JamminJerry well, the "grep" part there at the end filters through for you, so in theory it should only show packages that have the word micro in their name. You can play around if nothing comes up with other names like "dectalk" in case the package name isn't exact.
in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg here is what I got when I tried to do that.
C:\adb>adb shell pm list packages | grep "micro"

'grep' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

in reply to JamminJerry

ah darn. that's right, it's windows being Windows. you'll have to separate them (so do adb shell first, then hit enter, and the other part of the command after)
You can just type exit after to go back to the command prompt and do adb unstall like normal with that package name.
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in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg C:\adb>adb shell

SmartVision3us:/ $ pm list packages | grep "micro"

pm list packages | grep "micro"

package:com.bytesizedfox.microdectalk

SmartVision3us:/ $

in reply to JamminJerry

@JamminJerry ah amazing, the text of success. Then you can just do exit and an
adb uninstall com.bytesizedfox.microdectalk
to get rid of it :)
in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg C:\adb> adb uninstall com.bytesizedfox.microdectalk

Success

in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg oh dear. I think something really broke. I just tried pressing and holding the volume keys to get talkback on, and I got a notification sound, but still no talkback. oh boy.
in reply to JamminJerry

@JamminJerry wow hmm. Maybe it needs a full reboot? In theory it should revert you to the last enabled TTS (or a default one like Pico / Google TTS if those came with the system)
in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg what if somehow I get the latest talkback installer, and somehow install it using adb? could that work, or would that break things even worse? I mean I would somehow have to get the installer for talkback, but yeah.
in reply to JamminJerry

@JamminJerry yeah, I think sites like apkmirror do host the files for the accessibility suite, unfortunately you'd need to know if you have a 32 or 64-bit chip (most times these days that's arm-64) and grab the right apk file for it. I'm in a work meeting else I would xD
in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg oh it's all good. at least I have talkback back. I am rebooting the phone to make sure talkback comes up, but there you go.
in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg we learned a valuable lesson here today. don't install the dec-talk tts on the smart vision 3 or you will really screw things up. lol. if you are still going to try messing with the dec-talk on the smart vision 3, make sure you have ADB connected, and aloud on the smart vision 3 before installing dec-talk so that if it does what it did to me, you can at least uninstall itk, and get talkback working normally again. lol. I did get it to talk once, when I pressed and held the volume keys to turn talkback on or off, but only once did it say anything at all.
in reply to JamminJerry

@JamminJerry lol! Super glad you got it working! Wish we could debug exactly what's happening with that phone, in theory things should work since it has both 32 and 64-bit libraries, so maybe certain Cotlin-based apps don't play as nice on older Android versions. Was looking at it though and love how minimally it's built.
in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg @JamminJerry Works great on the braille sense for everything and sense player for third party apps that use android tts. I am finishing my demo tomorrow showing why we need android tts support throughout the sense player.
in reply to Jay Pellis

@jpellis2008 @Tamasg I can tell you right now, I don't see the whole third party tts thing going anywhere with the sense player. they will just tell you it is a multimedia device.
in reply to JamminJerry

@JamminJerry @jpellis2008 sadly maybe not. They treat it differently from their BrailleSense 6 a bit which is a shame, and maybe that's on purpose, who knows. This is good news though as it does mean it'll work with the BS6 which I do have to test it out on with Android 12 there.
in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg @jpellis2008 well like I just told him, it isn't going to happen. they won't do itl. if I am wrong in the next 18 months, I will give him 15 bucks.
in reply to JamminJerry

@JamminJerry @Tamasg And that is exactly why it is needed and I will be pointing that out. If it was hard for them to actually implement it I would agree with you but it isn't, just backport from the braille sense. I assume it might literally take seconds to change the code.
in reply to Jay Pellis

@jpellis2008 @Tamasg I will tell you what. if I am wrong, and with in the next year and a half if they actually make it to where you can use what ever ttws you want on the sense player, I will pay you 15 dollars. no it isn't much, but there you go. I am telling you it isn't going to happen.
in reply to Jay Pellis

@jpellis2008 @Tamasg they could, yes. they could have done it way back when I talked to them three different times about it. they didn't, and they won't.
in reply to JamminJerry

@JamminJerry @jpellis2008 lol I think the issue is that the Sense Player is not Play certified like the BS6, and to them this makes enough of a difference to class-distinguish it. I still can't get why they couldn't play certify a device at that price unless it's hardware related though, but it may be why they locked down shell and settings so much on that.
in reply to Tamas G

I am also pointing out in my demo that this has nothing to do with any certifications as I have the braille sense signed out of all google services so it acts as if it isn't certified.
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in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg @jpellis2008 as much as that thing costs, they could have done the play services no problem. for what you pay for that thing, they should have built a better body for it too. hell! the victor is cheaper, and doesn't do anywhere near as much, but it is built a lot more stirdy than the sense player, and what in the hell is it with the microphones on the wrong side? not only that, why is the monitoring recording so shitty? seriously? I mean come on!
in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg ok, it works. it works. meaning talkback is talking again. I don't know why it didn't say it was avaialble, but I have talkback once again. lol.
in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg oh wow! I think talkback got totally hosed! so I just pressed the google assistant button, and said, "turn on talkback." I just heard from google that talkback isn't available on your device. this isn't good at all!
in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg @JamminJerry gonna chuck this on my samsung, what's the worst that can happen lol


"When cis people try to understand what it is to be trans, I think they often try to imagine what it would feel like to want to be 'the opposite sex'. What they should be trying to imagine, instead, is how it would feel to wake up and find that the whole world insists they *are* the opposite sex. That would be a much closer scenario to how it feels to be trans." Sage

#TransAwarenessWeek #Transgender #Trans #LGBT #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #Queer



Tieto Vianoce by som chcel robiť to čo minulé... nič a piť víno. Ty vole ako keby to bolo včera.


New OSM tool (to me):

sb12.github.io/OSMStreetLight

It is an easy way to see where lights are already mapped, and what still needs to be covered. I do believe MapComplete has one as well.

#OpenStreetMap

in reply to end0fline

Correct: our street light map is here: mapcomplete.org/street_lightin…?

Feel free to tag us on your future posts!



Jako je moc fajn, že #Bluesky profily maj RSS feedy. Já jen, že #Twitter je míval taky a jak to dopadlo… 😄 Asi bych ani RSS, ani @fed.brid.gy nebral jako samozřejmost.
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in reply to Radomír Žemlička

přesně. Veřejně dostupné příspěvky, bridge na kde co i rss twitter míval. Ale jen do té doby než se začlo tlačit na monetizaci. Nepoučitelní...


Continuing on my journey to switch to Windows Terminal, I want my various terminals to have separate pinned icons on the taskbar so I can get to each one quickly with Windows+number. Nothing I do seems to allow me to do this. There are command line arguments to focus a specific tab in a specific window, but that doesn't help with the initial launch where you need to specify a command line. This all worked just fine with conhost and various shortcuts. 😩
in reply to Jamie Teh

I found a very ugly, not at all intuitive way to do it:
1. Create a shortcut which starts the terminal with the desired command line, specifying a unique window name with the -w option; e.g.:
wt -w wsl wsl.exe ~
2. Create another shortcut which focuses the first tab in the same window name; e.g.:
wt -w wsl ft -t 0
3. Pin the second shortcut to the taskbar, but not the first. You can then delete the second shortcut from wherever you created it if you like.
4. When you want to launch it, you'll have to use the first shortcut. However, once launched, you can use the pinned taskbar shortcut to switch to it.
in reply to Jamie Teh

It took me a while just to figure out how to create a simple shortcut to open a specific Windows Terminal - mainly so that I could open a WSL Terminal at a specific folder without navigating to it.

I tested pinning one of those just now, but as you note, my shortcut doesn't manage new vs multiple tab instances.

Windows Terminal keeps improving and sometimes surprises me as I continue to learn more neat things about it, but it definitely still has some awkward quirks!



“Cyber Monday” is notable as one of the few surviving coinages that contains the forgotten English word ‘cyber’, an archaic term for sexting.



Today is one of those days I am forever grateful I have my Tom Baker scarf for walking the dogs. #snow #DoctorWho


theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

"In his new book, Supercommunicators, the journalist Charles Duhigg writes that one of the most common sources of conflicts in relationships is when partners don’t agree on the type of conversation they’re having. Some conversations are practical: Let’s solve a problem together. Others are emotional: Let’s talk about and understand our feelings. Many fights mistake practical for emotional conversations, and vice versa."

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I'm trying to look up contractions in Unified English Braille, but the majority of stuff I'm finding are PDF's. Big surprise.
in reply to Stu

the rulebook is also available as digital braille at [Unified English Braille (UEB)](iceb.org/ueb.html)


Woke up to enough #UKSnow yesterday that many schools closed and trains were cancelled.

Today it's fading fast. This was a photo from my commute ... Or walk to the shed, if you're being picky.

in reply to Sean Randall

I read in a magazine today that, by 2040, only 1.5 million people in the UK will rely on a TV aerial. There were supposedly some in that picture and I wonder how many of them are up without being used these days.



Seriously? You notice pixel errors in the back but missed to notice her FEET HANDS? 😅


@Tutanota
For reasons I signed up for a conference as a private individual without organization, using my Tuta email. As a result you are now Finnish and represented at IoT14. You're welcome. 😁
@Tuta
in reply to Niina

Hehe, we love this ❤️ Thanks for sharing!


ráno bol "tejsting" a keby neberiem lieky už slopem


Eyeing up the bottles of water on my desk and deciding that actually, a coffee might be more fortifying for my next meeting. is it reasonable to go stretch ones leg after an hour?


I have emphasized numerous times in the past why you should not use #HCaptcha, especially in situations where equal access is vital. Their practices are not inclusive, locking out users who have no other way to access whatever the captcha protects. This blog post illustrates one of the scenarios: michaels.world/2023/11/i-was-b…

Here's to better captcha solutions in the future, or to indeed existing ones, such as mcaptcha.org/ #a11y #accessibility #blind #captcha



Už jsem tady jednou psal, že náš Tranďák půjde do světa.

Inzerát zde: sauto.cz/osobni/detail/volkswa…

Kdo by měl zájem, rád nasdílím všechny detaily, které o něm vím.

Za sdílení mamuta



Every time I leave the house a bike comes out of nowhere and runs into me!

It’s a vicious cycle.



The more I learn about cryptography, the more I think Alice and Bob should probably just talk in person.

reshared this



Today marks 1,000 days since Russia began its full-scale war against Ukraine. 1,000 days of loss and devastation, but also of resilience and courage.

From dismantling tanks to liberating occupied land, every act of defiance showcases Ukraine’s unbreakable spirit. Victory isn’t just hope—it’s a determined plan.

Together, with unity at home and support from global allies, Ukraine will prevail.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war



Welcome to the RB family, Subway Tooter! 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/jp.ju…

Subway Tooter is a Mastodon client for Android 8.0 or later.

With a little help from its dev, the libre (aka NoFcm) variant has now been confirmed to be reproducible :awesome:

Bringing the RB status to: 345 apps (28.5%) (and the "egg status" to 3.5).

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid



Opět jediné koho zaskočilo zimní počasí, jsou v karlovarském kraji silničáři. Už je to taková pěkná každoroční tradice.
in reply to Archos

nejvíc překvapuje sníh v zimě hlavně řidiče....
in reply to The_ERROR

@The_ERROR
Mě to nepřekvapilo, jezdím každý den do práce 60 km, jsem připravený. Pneumatiky jsem měnil v čas a jsou nové. Jen bych čekal, že když je kolem nuly a a prší se sněhem, na autech to namrzá, tak aspoň dálnici by chtělo trochou posypat. Zase z Varů na hranice, to není zas tak dlouhý úsek. Chápu, když je kalamita, že se nestíhá, ale do té to bylo daleko.



Sometimes I feel like life is one of perpetual questioning. Everyone else seems to have the perpetual answers.


[Nightly Blog] Celebrating 20 years of Firefox – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 171 blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2024/…


It costs nothing to be kind. Being mean is also free, but people are likelier to want to hurt you.
in reply to The Amazing Panini

Being kind and compassionate requires a lot of effort in a society which emphasizes the self, be it personal gain, fame, or physical appearance. The mindset is very important, which is why selfhelp books work for many people.


Welcome to a Rogers/Shaw internet outage.
USB tethering on two Android phones is not working reliably with my router, and only one of the two works on Windows, so I'm serving up 5G from two separate phones until cable comes back.
This is probably because of bad weather, so the extra reminder to charge my stuff also doesn't hurt.


One of many earlier #British #ColonialCrimes in #SouthEastAsia. The #BriggsPlan in #Malaysia.

The Nazi regime during WWII forever gave the term #ConcentrationCamp a name symbolic of #atrocity, so when British #colonizers once again visited the idea of #ForcedRelocation of #IndigenousPeoples to isolate them they needed another name for the enclaves. They came up with #NewVillages. The New Villages were created under the Briggs Plan, which was developed to combat the communist insurgency in #Malaya during the 1950 #MalayanEmergency. The plan was prepared by Sir Harold Briggs, a British General who was the Director of Operations in Malaya.

#Britain lost the Malayan Peninsula and their fortress at Singapore to the Japanese during WWII and reoccupied their former dominion after the fall of Japan. Among the many difficulties the British encountered was the presence of roughly a half-million #Chinese in rural Malaya, most working as farmers working small plots of land for their own sustenance on land they did not own or lease. The British administration regarded these Chinese as squatters and found them a problem because they were physically distant from the machinery of British authority, which most of the Malayan population was not happy to see return to their country.

When the Malay #CommunistParty received support from armed #guerrillas from Malaya and #China, the British, intent on restoring #Imperial rule to the peninsula, looked with additional distrust upon these rural Chinese. While some of the Chinese were certainly sympathetic to the communists, most were indifferent. The British concern was that the communist #insurgents would receive support from the squatters in the form of food, neglecting the fact that the majority of the Chinese squatters were barely able to grow enough to support themselves. The Briggs plan required the forced relocation of the Chinese.

The New Villages isolated the Chinese, and they were guarded by Malayan police and British Military Police and some troops. The Chinese could not leave the villages except under escort and nobody was allowed in without the permission of the guards, making them effectively prisons. The villages were built with running water and electricity, amenities absent from most Malayan villages, and health care and some educational facilities were provided. This caused resentment towards the British from the Malay outside the villages, who didn’t receive the same amenities, and the Chinese, who resented the forced relocation settlement.

Although the New Villages, of which 450 were built, were an improvement over the forced detention camps of the Boer War, and death rates in the villages were roughly the same as for the rest of the country, there were racially motivated #CollectivePunishments directed towards the Chinese population in the villages. #Deportation without trial by the administration was a common punishment for the Chinese. Law within the villages was the decision of the British. Many of the villages are still standing and in recent years have been restored to serve as tourist destinations by the Malaysian government with support from China.

#AsianMastodon #SouthEastAsia #TootSEA #ColonialismInAsia #Decolonization #DecolonialLearning #ColonizerCrimes #ColonialViolence #Decolonize #AsianHistory #MalaysianHistory #LearnYourColonialHistory


in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Podle předpovědi se má koncem týdne oteplovat. Až 13 stupňů Celsia.


En cosas que no entiendo: Una empresa con muchos centros pequeños puede hacerles la vida imposible a sus trabajadores porque siendo los centros pequeños no pueden organizarse sindicalmente?

Las tres empleadas de la juguetería Afede en Ansoáin convocan una huelga indefinida

noticiasdenavarra.com/economia…

in reply to Óscar Gorri

No exactamente.

En empresas que tengan en la misma provincia o en municipios limítrofes dos o más centros de trabajo cuyos censos no alcancen los 50 trabajadores, pero en su conjunto lo sumen, se constituirá un comité de empresa conjunto. Cuando unos centros tengan 50 trabajadores y otros de la misma provincia no, en los primeros se constituirán comités de empresa propios y con todos los segundos se constituirá otro.

Artículo 63.2 del ET.



Subtoot

I find it hilarious that the only-renewables crowd are now actually trying to coopt the phrase "too cheap to meter" (which, for the record, was never a slogan in the nuclear sector, it was just said once by a guy somewhere), at a time when we're increasingly done with the 'easy phase' of installing solar and wind installations.

At less than 10% of total energy use in the West, solar and wind already cause price hikes and, consequently, deindustrialisation in countries like Germany. The 'hard part' is just beginning, and if we insist on only trying to do that with solar and wind alone, it'll cost at least an order of magnitude more than it already has.

We'll reevaluate this cooptation in a few years, but let me say that the 'cost argument' is a very silly line of defense to take.

It's nigh time we face the facts for once: fossil fuels are dirt cheap and using economics alone means we'll be using them in perpetuity. The other side of that coin is that a decarbonised energy system *will* be more expensive. How we deal with that cost will be a social question that we'll need to solve.

Pretending that this isn't true and solar and wind are the best thing since sliced bread, is driving people paying the energy bills to the right, towards climate denialism, towards the fossil lobby. Saw the meme of people voting Trump to save 10 cents on their eggs? Yeah, look in a mirror who is driving that.

Be careful what you wish for, "too cheap to meter" will bite you in the ass.

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in reply to Emil Jacobs - Collectifission

Interesting issue. To what extent are price hikes a direct consequence of the energy mix rather than the specific marginalist design of EU electricity market though? Genuine question, I don't know the answer to this, but I would think there's some increase that's necessary and some that's not.


Mastodon, if you have to do starter packs, *please think about consent* for people being added to starter packs. The bluesky starter packs may be great for new accounts trying to find their people, but it has not necessarily been fun for people who've been added to starter packs without their knowledge. I feel like a couple thousand people looking for a coffee shop have suddenly turned up in my living room.

hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113…

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This is the leader of the Israeli opposition. The person who should be debunking the justifications for never-ending war and re-humanize Palestinians.

Instead, he parrots Netanyahu and shows that the entire Israeli establishment is complicit.

We need an arms embargo now.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza