Despite sharing a border with Russia and receiving limited winter sunlight, Finland is the world’s happiest country. But Americans are unhappier than ever.
Our inaugural State of the Thunder is live on TILvids! Director of desktop and mobile apps @alecaddd leads a discussion on our upcoming desktop roadmap, our values, and how we can work more in the open.
(We'd like to further open these discussions, so stay tuned for how you can join future SotTs!)
@SvensKia @killyourfm Thanks! This is going to be part of an upcoming social post for a new 'Extras' page we have in the works where this will live. The illustrator is Michaela Martin, who did an incredible job! michaelamartinart.squarespace.…
In our inaugural State of the Thunder, Alessandro Castellani, Director of Desktop and Mobile apps, leads a discussion on the 2025 desktop roadmap with membe...
Founded by Martin Prevel, a former professor of music and vice-dean of the music department at the Université Laval, Ad Lib, Inc. was a manufacturer of sound...
Even though its "US based" I bet @signalapp will leave in a jiffy if/when someone attempts to get control of it. Also @Mer__edith is a badass ^_^ (read or listen to any interview if you don't believe me)
which of those are capable of interoperating? Because if we don't solve that, we'll be pretty much alone in our little nichesque messenger apps. For now, American or not, I have to stick with @signalapp app... it was hard enough convincing my family and friends to use it.
🔐✌️ Victory for Privacy and Security in France 🇫🇷
End-to-end encryption will continue to be available in France, as the assembly overwhelmingly voted against (119 votes against, only 24 in favor) an amendment to legislation fighting drug trafficking…
You can download an english version bellow. Vendredi 14 mars 2025, le projet communautaire de plateforme logiciel libre GNOME a fait l’objet d’une campagne de spam sur un de ses…
"We have ceded so many of the core operations of our lives and institutions to tech, we must recognise that strong encryption isn’t the enemy of security — it *is* security." - Signal President @Mer__edith for the Financial Times on the war on encryption
Heiko Tietze and Mike Saunders from The Document Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind LibreOffice, discuss design and UX in free and open source so...
Many users to not see features indeed. The space bar example seems crazy to some, but I have seen it too. In the long run an intelligent agent might do the trick. Or a grammar and style check. #LanguageTool does this for space between paragraphs (it suggests to use styles).
BTW, I Iike that you mention YouTube for those in the Fediverse who cannot access peertube. 🙃 This is brilliant.
Many users to not see functions indeed. The space bar example seems crazy to some, but I have seen it too. In the long run an intelligent agent might do the trick. Or a grammar and style check. #LanguageTool does this for space between paragraphs (it suggests to use styles).
BTW, I Iike that you mention YouTube for those in the Fediverse who cannot access peertube. 🙃 This is brilliant.
An audio version would be nice. I tried to add the RSS feed to my podcast app but it doesn’t support video. Plus, I listen to podcasts on my commute so audio only is a must for safety and legal reasons.
📣 Sei #A11y und unterstütze den Zugang zum !@metalab für Menschen mit Sehbehinderung oder Blindheit! Komm zum Do-It-Blind (DIB) Treffen 🛠️ am Montag, 24. März, Treffpunkt Ring-Passage, U3-Station Volkstheater um 16:00; Ende 20:00 metalab.at/calendar/event/7914… #make #blind #inklusion Verbesserung: März statt Februar
Useful piece. Solar panels are largely cloud managed, and now in The Netherlands alone create the same power as 50 of our nuclear power plants. If you switch this 25GW on/off remotely, the consequences could be huge. And we do not regulate these cloud platforms at all: dw.com/en/how-hackers-capture-…
The global push towards smart-energy production adds new vulnerabilities to national power grids. DW spoke to hackers who've exposed security gaps in rooftop installations and solar power plants around the world.
I was afraid this would happen someday, so I took my solar panel installation off the WiFi. No more pretty pictures on how much power I generated, but the solar panels work fine without.
@bashae My panels are also offline, but I still monitor them. And it is a bit sad that this requires you to be a geek, because we could have also built it this way that you don't have to go via the cloud. berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-…
Recently a Dutch hacker was able to take control of 4 million solar panel installations (FTM (Dutch), Euractiv, Victor Gevers). And this wasn’t the first time something like this has happened either (PV Magazine).
@bashae When I got my panels updated I specified an inverter that gave me local access & had well maintainted homesasistant support.. lots of them don't. It's a pity there aren't enough of us to demand this is the norm.
@ely @tony @bashae Connecting Solax to HA and disconnecting it from the cloud was matter of 15 minutes. Not sure how available Solax inverters are on other markets. Due to quite unique legislation 3-phase inverters are required here, so our selection of inverters is specific (Solax, Goodwe, Victron primarily).
L' @arcep publie l'édition 2025 du Baromètre du numérique
** Équipements et usages du numérique | Arcep ** > l’édition 2025 montre qu’une personne passe en moyenne un quart de son temps éveillé sur les écrans pour un usage personnel
For newly qualified teachers & nurses living in a flat share is often the only viable option; across England in around half of Council areas, a one-bedroom flat is unaffordable on their pay.
If you want to retain newly qualified staff, they need to be able to move from a model of student accommodation (a shared house) to something reflecting their privacy & welfare needs... we need better (affordable) housing for key workers.
I wrote something a bit experimental. A story set in a world without planning, hierarchy, coercion; where decisions are made in the moment. It's a little weird, but someone may like it.
📢 Novinky v Tusky! 🦣🚀 Boostování dostalo vylepšení – teď můžeš kontrolovat, kdo uvidí tvoje boosty!
🔹 Public Boost – viditelný pro všechny, objeví se na veřejné časové ose. 🔹 Unlisted Boost – nezobrazí se na veřejné časové ose, ale lidé ho uvidí na tvém profilu. 🔹 Follower Only Boost – sdílíš jen se svými sledujícími, nikdo jiný ho neuvidí. #tusky #Mastodon #Boosty #Fediverse
Další novinkou je vylepšený design náhledů odkazů! 🔗✨ Sdílené odkazy teď vypadají lépe a jsou přehlednější. Nový design Link Preview Cards zlepšuje čitelnost a vizuální dojem příspěvků. 🎨👀
Minulý rok se ke Dni štěstí přidaly například: Ferring-Léčiva | Gymnazium a SOŠZE Vyškov | Kili | Z-TEC SERVICES | Tesena | Thein OperationsUp Česká Republika | Digiteq Automotive | Základní škola Peruc | KROS | Rosteš | Rezidente | MŠ Horní ůjezdUče…
You would've thought I would've gotten an email about this rather than hearing about it on mastodon. Do I just toss the glasses? i'm just really disappointed that I got no official notification. Thank goodness for a couple of posts on mastodon.
@lerven @menelion Oh, I purchased them in late 2023. They did get better in my opinion. I just sent an email off to the address I have for Shubh. So, we'll see if it reaches him and if he responds.
@CreativeChris @lerven Same here. Also, I'm in Europe, so I had to arrange everything with Shubh, it was a breeze actually. But my first red alert was when we the community had this question like, when can we expect any updates? And they are like: what kind of updates, what do you need? I mean, what do we need? Video calls maybe, WhatsApp, normal voice in the earpiece and not through the phone speaker?
@menelion @CreativeChris I had a lot of issues with using them in low-light, response times, the mono audio earpeace being in my bad ear, the subscription model. I appreicate they gave it a great attempt, and i'm hoping others can learn from this project.
Today, we hosted the 15th annual Microsoft Ability Summit, with over 20,000 attendees from 164 countries coming together virtually to discuss the future of AI and accessibility.
@ZBennoui Lol nah, they just needed something for us blind people for their a eleven y AI day, so they're just gonna point Narrator from one online API to another. lol.
I really appreciate the PSF publishing this, but perhaps we should be in more of a … shall we say "proactively defensive stance" with respect to our international #PyConUS attendees, and organizing a volunteer group that is tracking every international visitor and physically confirming their safe arrival and exit from the threat of CBP airport detention
Hmm. It occurs to me that I should grab an offline archival copy of "don't be a sucker" youtube.com/watch?v=vGAqYNFQdZ… given who owns the account that it's on right now
National Archives Identifier: 24376Local Identifier: 111-EF-6https://catalog.archives.gov/id/24376Creator(s): Department of Defense. Department of the Army. ...
Is the YouTube version appreciably better visually? I prefer the audio in the Wikipedia version. But mainly I provided a direct link to that WebM file from the Wikipedia version in case it's easier to download.
I was just listening to the two of them at the same time (well, very nearly, since I manually synced them), and at around 17:30, after "anyone who tells you otherwise is lying", they fell out of sync by about half a second. I couldn't tell which version had fallen behind.
ALA statement on White House assault on the Institute of Museum and Library Services (Braille and Talking Books are Mentioned) groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/88…
This is absolutely terrible! How can anyone think destroying libraries is a good idea! Especially when it's such a tiny portion of the federal budget. This isn't about saving money. It's about being cruel and ensuring people are even less educated.
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