When we visited the exhibition of the Museum of Public Transport in #Brno, I saw a #Škoda 100 and told my kids that my parents had it as their first car when I was as old as they are now. They looked at me in total disbelief. 😄
@ikkeT it was a used car. The production ended in 1977 and they bought it around 1989, so it was a fairly dated car when they got it, but it was all they could afford. Then the regime fell, my father started his business and in 90s he could afford Škoda 120, VW Golf, VW Vento, VW Passat. But I remember none of the later cars brought so much joy into the family like the old Škoda 100. 🙂
@janotomko not really, there is a depository of Brno Technical Museum with public transport vehicles in Řečkovice. It's not normally open, but there are days when they take all the vehicles out and do an exhibition. And one of those days was today.
Aww yeah, the Godot game engine 4.5 dev 3 snapshot is out.
For those of you to whom that's just alphabet soup, 4.5 dev 3 integrates AccessKit! This means that the editor UI, and any game UIs made with it, are screen reader accessible out of the box.
I just spun up an instance in a Fedora distrobox. Haven't gotten far, but the intro and project creation dialogs are certainly usable. Though the creation dialog seems to set its content as the label for all fields which is verbose. Filing that issue but still this is an amazing development!
No clue, haven't played with it much. Trying not to go down that rabbit hole just yet. The editor is at least accessible enough that folks are making games with it though. unseen-godot.alwaysdata.net
Yeah, and Godot isn't even fully compatible across minor release versions. I upgraded from 3.1 to 3.2, I think it was, and a change to default physics bodies caused all my game objects to not move by default.
How about remaking Torrent? Think it was you who developed that and the initial beta was really an alpha, from what I remember from 15 years ago, somewhere around there.
💬 ¿Ya viste todas las charlas que se van a estar realizando en el FLISoL Montevideo 2025?
Un total de 9 charlas abordando temas diversos sobre experiencias y tecnologías con Software Libre en Uruguay.
📅 Las charlas se llevarán a cabo el sábado 26 de abril en la sala de conferencias del espacio colabora.
🔗 ¿Querés leer más en profundidad sobre las actividades del Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre? Accedé al programa completo en wiki.flisol.uy/montevideo/2025
The #BlackMirror episode S07E01shows all what I hate on today's technology world. 😤 There are all reasons why I moved to open, standardized, selfhostable services. m.imdb.com/title/tt30127325/?r…
Sunday. A weekend of volunteering for me. I spent a few hours yesterday providing real time Braille during the funeral of the late Pope. We had the liturgy and readings in both their native languages and English, words to the hymns, and AI-generated braille descriptions of the visuals. Only supporting a dozen or so deafblind people with the technology skills to keep up, but that's a handful of people who wouldn't have been able to participate as well otherwise.
Today, the charity that employs the wife have over 150 runners in the London Marathon, so I'm helping direct their supporters as to when and for whom to cheer, and helping maintain the massive spreadsheet. The marathon generates a lot of revenue for the charity so it's a big day in their calendar.
10 hours later and the last 4 runners I am monitoring are closing in on their finish lines. Crazy to think I've been sat here for more than I would a day at work!
4AVs.eu se tento víkend účastní praguebikefest.cz/ . Organizátoři apelují na návštěvníky: "Přijeďte na kole!". My to tak děláme i jako vystavovatelé :D
Krásné dobré nedělní ráno mastodončata! 🙋♀️🐈🐶 Trošínečku u nás zamrzlo. I Archibaldíka překvapil bílý koberec. Artur ten si dal na čas a přivítal nás, až jsme se vraceli z procházky. Balda je neutahatelný. Budíček v půl šesté, dvě hodiny venku. Pranice s Arturem. Kolečko po sadu. A teď cupuje kapesníčky. Kdybych řekla kouzelné slůvko "ven", sápal by se na dveře a radostně skučel. 😂 Vy se na dveře sápat nemusíte. Použijte kliku. Venku je nádherně. 😊 #dobre_rano #dobréRáno
Woohoo. My #chatmail server just to experience the fun and enjoy some real simple end to end encrypted chatting where the server side is light on resources as well is now live. My next mission is getting the location streaming to work and play with some realtime apps.
I know it's become quite common, but I still think of it as a miracle of technology:
With our internal combustion engine car, someone on the other side of the world has to drill into the ground, often under the sea, pump the oil into a tanker that has to take it halfway around the world to a terminal where it is pumped into a pipeline that takes it halfway across the continent to a refinery where it has to be processed so that a truck can come and take it halfway across the country to a gas station where I can fill it up.
With our #EV, I just plug it in and charge it with energy that comes right off our roof. I can easily extend the range by 200 km on a sunny day. The energy transport distance: tens of thousands of km vs. 10 meters.
Unless you have to charge in public - then everything you wrote about oil and fuel is valid + add hundreds of kilometres of the wires... But I see your point and you are right. Are you using your BEV as house's battery storage, too?
@jan_petrus yeah, with energy from the grid the difference is not so big, there is still a significant difference. The vast majority of electricity is produced in our country. Even the coal-based electricity, which is the dirtiest from our mix, has much shorter transportation distances. The plants are usually very close to the mines. Nuclear fuel is sourced outside of our country or even continent, but it is also a much smaller volume of mass.
300 Google employees in the UK branch of its DeepMind unit have begun unionization efforts to protest their AI products being sold to defence groups especially the Israeli government.
This form of employee activism is dead in the US. Between the gutting of the NLRB and deportations for anti-Israel criticism, anyone who does such in the US is effectively giving up their job.
I knew @MapComplete could add ratings to Mangrove Reviews...but YIL it can add reviews too! (The OSM POI search on Mangrove Reviews' own site is mysteriously broken.)
In future mapping parties we're _so_ going to be using this to add reviews of the places we eat at! Heck, I've already asked participants of the last two parties to add them 🙂
An old failed Venus lander will re-enter from earth orbit next month, and it could land anywhere between 52 degrees north and south. Which covers basically all population in the southern hemisphere and a large majority in the north, leaving out the Baltics, Nordics, and Alaska.
It weighs a thousand pounds and is expected to reach the ground intact. Previous debris from the launch landed in New Zealand.
I think that @theverge is underselling it - the gold here isn’t the chrome browser, it’s chrome’s automatic background update system. It’s root on billions of machines.
Chrome could eventually be up for sale, if the DOJ gets its way, and companies like OpenAI, Yahoo, and Perplexity have raised their hands as potential buyers.
@theverge@theverge.space also continues to miss the implications of a sale on the DOJ's proposed terms to software all-up. By failing to push for an equitable, sustainable spinout (likely to a foundation, w/ the ability to bid for fractional search traffic and with a huge endowment taken from Google), DOJ is setting up Apple and Google to have *more* duopoly power over mobile.
Putting together a set of flashcards to study in Quizlet, and I am greeted by this message on their new tool. This is a company whose sole purpose is to help you memorize information for tests. Providing incorrect information for this use case is the exact opposite of what anyone wants.
I like to think I'm plugged in when it comes to funny internet weirdness, but this song from 2018 completely escaped my awareness until just now. youtube.com/watch?v=D_zS_uiPWx…
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Probably the best #anagram I will ever personally discover.
I've been waiting for a good moment this year to post it. I thought in 2025 someone would be bound to use this phrase in public discourse. But I haven't seen a case of it yet, so I'll just post this anyway.
When a firefighter dies, a small team of federal health workers helps pinpoint what went wrong and identify how to avoid similar accidents in the future.
The cuts, which are part of Trump’s slashing of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, will also halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer cases.
Someone crashed a car into our local bookstore last night. It's Independent Bookstore Day. If you're looking to support a local business, might I suggest The Book Jewel thebookjewel.com
Dnešní parádní švih na #roadbike — 152 km ujeto, 2152 m nastoupáno. Podél hranic kolem hraničního kamene Čechy | Morava, a pak napříč Českou Kanadou zpátky. A jako bonus jsem potkal zájezdovou Karosu ŠM 11 (ČSAD Jihotrans) ve vynikajícím stavu.
@archos Dík. Hodně mě to baví. A poněvadž mi v létě bude už 54 let, netrhám rekordy na Stravě ani ve vlastní hlavě a nestydím se za lehký převod do táhlého stoupání. A každou hodinu sacharidy (gel, tyčinka, sójový suk) a každou čtvrthodinku lok energeťáku. Musím využít hezkého počasí během volna, pro mne je to pomalu vzácnost. 🙂
Já to beru, že jsem hobík tak jezdím pro radost. Teď holt byl výpadek, ale ted zas postupně začnu. Přesně jestli jedu do kopce na nejlehčí převod taky neřeším. Závodní ambice nemám, tak neřeším ani rychlost. Děláš to myslím super 👍👍👍
Introduction It’s no secret that RNIB has spent the last nine months deliberating how to restructure its teams and services in an effort to close a reported £10m shortfall in funding.
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Cryptocurrencies are not a path for Canadians to avoid the impact of rising prices, a senior central bank official said on Monday, though the technology does show 'some promise.'
Introduction It’s no secret that RNIB has spent the last nine months deliberating how to restructure its teams and services in an effort to close a reported £10m shortfall in funding.
I feel compelled to talk a little bit about this #Fosstodon situation, having had my struggles with the instance and its moderation.
You need to start with the inherent tension in the instance's Code of Conduct, which states the following as a goal:
Provide a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for everyone interested in Free/Libre/Open-Source Software, regardless of level of experience, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, political affiliation, or other similar characteristic.
But also clarifies that Fosstodon is not:
A free speech zone. Fosstodon is a community with specific — and high — standards of behaviour. If you would like to exercise your full free speech rights, you can do so somewhere else; while on Fosstodon, you should agree to follow the community rules set out in this CoC.
Nor is it:
An advocacy space. There are many important, controversial and political issues; and advocating for what you believe is important. However, Fosstodon is not the place for that advocacy. Even correct views can violate our CoC.
"We welcome all, as long as you don't talk about your identity too much, or what really matters to you other than FOSS." Look, instances can have the rules they choose, which users implicitly agree to by signing up. But it seems a bit much to ask users to render all other aspects of their identity subordinate to their interest in technology. This is a common refrain amongst a certain kind of tech bro enthusiast: keep your "politics" out of my tech. Of course, all technology is political, and the FOSS movement more than most. Ignoring or suppressing those aspects of the movement does a disservice to it. It also insults or ignores the many, many developers whose open source work we rely on, and whose identities and related advocacy would be considered "political."
To separate these spheres has never been realistic. Now, it's at best tragicomic, and at worst collaboration with authoritarianism.
The "solution," as they'll readily tell you, is to "find another instance." Which is exactly what I did, when I received warnings for posting about anti-trans legislation without a content warning. To be fair, the warning was a slap on the wrist, but I had been feeling the tension growing between my need to speak out and the apparent distaste for such speech on Fosstodon. Even the CW policing felt deeply problematic to me. I firmly believe Content Warnings are best used to prevent undue trauma. What they ought not become is a way to conveniently hide the suffering of others from those who would rather not see it.
So I departed. Others have arrived at the same, or similar, conclusions.
Now we come to the current matter, in which a fascist-aligned moderator engaged in conduct outside Fosstodon that made members feel unsafe. The claim by the Fosstodon admins that they are "happy with" the individual's moderation work, and that it doesn't reflect those views, demonstrates the exact untenable position described above: considering Fosstodon (or any online space) as a "politics-free zone" in which one's identity, conduct, and behavior outside that zone have no bearing on it. This is preposterous on its face: if I commit violent assault outside your bar, will you be comfortable when I take a seat and order a beer?
The threshold does not erase the behavior, nor protect anyone inside from it.
This is true for any user, but it is especially true for those put in positions of power, such as moderators. The power dynamic of online moderation requires that those entrusted with said power be of sufficient observable, upstanding character as to reassure users that the moderator will execute their duties judiciously and fairly. Once that's compromised, the moderator can no longer fulfill their duties.
Fosstodon, and those who similarly want to separate "politics" from their space, face an inflection point. Does it matter more that their users are actually safe, and able to express themselves as their whole selves, or does it matter more than the bubble remain intact? That is a choice each user and each community must make, but it's worth remembering what you become when you let the Nazis cross the threshold.
Hezkou neděli i tobě 
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