Blind Telegram users. Under no circumstances should you update Telegram on iOS to the latest version. The developers have broken all accessibility. When using the VoiceOver screen reader, it is now impossible to type text messages or record voice messages. VoiceOver no longer focuses on these elements.
@lanodan yep, works natively on FreeBSD via the compat layer
The appimage should actually just work as-is, but it errors on fusefs for some reason. I haven't investigated that. I'm sure someone knows what the deal is and how to fix it.
I'm running Discord on FreeBSD at the moment and it was going well, but my most recent launch caused me to be caught in a loop preventing me from getting past the forced update screen.
I finally got some time to reconfigure my network. From now on #Turris #OmniaNG is my main gateway to the internet. Well, the software needs a lot of polish: 🪲 It has a wifi7 card, but I have to run it only in AC mode, or any connected client causes restart of all radios. I hope this will be fixed soon. 🪲 The display only worked on first boot, since than it only shows scrambled image or nothing. I don't mind it, as it's just a novelty for me. One day I would like to try render my own stuff maybe. ❓ It has two SFP+ ports, so I also bought 2×Turris metallic 1/2.5/5/10G SFP+ modules. One for older Omnia, one for Omnia NG. It makes the connection, but it runs 2.5G in one direction (that's ok, it's the maximum older omnia can handle) and 0.2G in the other direction. I don't understand why. Is it a hardware failure? Or software bug? Or technolohy incompatibilty of some kind? 🤷♂️ 🪲 Some LEDs are resetting brightness to max often. That's a bit annoying.
I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink, more so here on the fediverse than anywhere else.
But I'm scared and tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink, more so here on the fediverse than anywhere else.
But I'm scared and tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
@ToniBarth Yup. Landlord's coming to fix it tomorrow so I'm hoping against hope it'll stop raining and/or my protections won't give in overnight. Some of the wires have been moved a little further away but not sure just how close to the sockets the leak is. It's been going for some time though, so I don't think it's that close - I'm typing on the computer right now and my S88 still works... really hoping it stays that way.
So I grew up next to #Chernobyl and this is, well, TERRIFYING.
A story for y’all: I’m from a city called Zhytomyr, 2 hours west of Kyiv in the North of #Ukraine. We were downwind of the Chernobyl #nuclear power plant when the 1986 disaster happened.
I wasn’t born for another 12 years, but my childhood was filled with stories and the aftermath of it all. Things like:
- My grandmother worked as a head doctor in a hospital and rehabilitation facility exclusively for children of Chernobyl victims to treat the extremely high prevalence of Tuberculosis and other severe health complications. (To specify: these were SECOND GENERATION of exposure).
- A lot of the kids in that facility were orphans, because their parents died young from health problems.
- My uncle’s wife was born in Pripyat. She was 1 year old when the disaster happened. Her parents were told to evacuate while given no information about what happened. They had to pack up their things and rush out to an unfamiliar city with their baby, never to see the rest of their belongings, apartment, or hometown again.
- When I was a kid, it became so common to see weirdly mutated animals and insects that even 2-3 year olds would make jokes about “Chernobyl mosquitos” and I wouldn’t even flinch seeing occasional giant bugs, dark frogs, weird-looking dogs.
- We’d frequently hear of nearby farms having issues with their animals being born too mutated to survive or random outbreaks from contaminated water / food. Crops would randomly fail. People would get poisoned on a regular basis. This all got less common as I grew up.
- My mother still remembers being a little girl, 10 years old, and looking outside from their balcony at the clouds blowing over from Chernobyl that day. People were told to not go outside and to shut all the windows, but not given an explanation as to why. My mother swears that the rain looked different. They weren’t able to go and buy more food for the kitchen for multiple days.
Anyway - nuclear safety isn’t a joke. I don’t understand how this level of carelessness can happen after Chernobyl and Fukushima.
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
All I want from #Mozilla is for them to improve* the damn bookmarks organizer dialog (the one that shows up with Ctrl+Shift+O) & bookmark popover in #Firefox, but instead I get an opt-in hallucination engine that I'm never going to use : blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai…
Attention: there will not be an old wooden barn for the next few weeks due to a major life emergency. @jmd2000 will be back on the air the week after Thanksgiving.
Tonight join @Liz, from 6 P.M. eastern (US time), for Mellow Vibes. It’s two hours of Acoustic, mellow, and unplugged music. So tune in tonight, and start the weekend relaxed. HKCRadio.com
The issue is that the "intel" driver description literally says "don't use it if your GPU is never than 18 years old" and you'll better use "modesetting" driver then.
Yes, it works, but it breaks quite a lot of stuff, including some steam games, hardware video acceleration in a browser and also causes some app glitching.
The issue is that for some systems (including Debian 13) if you don't specify "Intel" driver this option won't work at all because the support isn't implemented in that "modesetting" driver (used by default by the way).
So to fix the tearing on my laptop I had to download xorg source package from Debian and apply this pull request as a patch. It worked pretty well and stable by the way.
This adds support for TearFree page flips to eliminate tearing without the use of a compositor. It allocates two shadow buffers for each CRTC, a back buffer and...
yeah. It's nuts to me that they haven't merged this. The X11 maintainers are neglecting fixes on purpose, I swear. They want to shove Wayland down everyone's throats to bad
A thought that broke my heart a little bit: Imagine if all of this AI nonsense money would have been spent on building, repairing and maintaining railways and building new trains? The billions! Instead of all this harm, there could be continent spanning rail and people could stop fucking flying, too. 😶
@quixoticgeek Also maybe the intercontinental electricity supergrid Buckminster Fuller proposed in the 1970s, to carry the renewable electricity those 450km/h trains run on from the solar farms to the railways ...
@Kierkegaanks @cstross where the fuck are you getting that idea from ? Japan has maglev trains doing over that speed. France has tested a TGV at over 500kph. Noone died.
Trains run at upto 320kph in everyday service just fine.
@quixoticgeek @Kierkegaanks@beige.party @sinituulia @cstross Ideally yes, under good conditions. But not when temperatures get over 90 F or 35 C. Or when there’s extreme cold or heavy snow. Extreme seasonal conditions in parts of the US make that challenging. Sure, air travel has issues and delays with weather too, but we need both forms of transportation. High speed rail for trips less than 500 miles and air for greater distances might be a good mix.
@bouriquet @quixoticgeek Explain to me, if trains stop working over 35℃, why Egypt just bought a bunch of Siemens Velaro rolling stock for their new high speed network? Algeria has high speed rail and Nigeria's working on following suit?
(Continuously welded track *does* tend to buckle if it gets too hot, but that's a function of the operating temperatures it's pre-tensioned for, and in Africa it's going to be set higher than in Europe.)
@cstross @quixoticgeek True. The expansion depends upon the baseline that is set on installation when rail is welded. But northern US, that temperature varies from a typical low of -20 F to 100 F (Minneapolis). US rail networks often have problems in winter with frozen switch points, even with propane heat. Much of it is pretty crude. Regional high speed rail makes sense but most folks wouldn’t tolerate a 2-3 day cross-US trip vs a 4-5 hour flight.
@bouriquet @cstross rail in the us has so many problems. Many by design. Norway/Sweden/Finland seem quite capable of operating trains in winter. Narvik, Kiruna, Kolari, are all stations way further north than any in the US. And in recent years they've had temps over 30°
But then 20F is only -7°C. Switzerland, Austria, France all get that, and all get 35+ in the summer. Amtrak has a lot of problems, blaming the climate is no excuse.
@quixoticgeek @bouriquet The real beast to accommodate if you want continuously welded track is Toronto. From +35℃ in summer to -35℃ in winter, a 70℃ swing. Toronto has commuter rail but the rolling stock looks rather old-fashioned ...
@bouriquet @quixoticgeek @cstross @musing_sys if it was a pipeline I’d be more optimistic. Also SNCF is part of the consortium and their goal is to not run trains… It’s just a glossy report right now.
🎉 Dnes slavíme 77. narozeniny Jeho Veličenstva – King Charles III! 👑🎂
Král Charles se narodil 14. listopadu 1948 a dnes patří mezi nejdéle sloužící členy britské královské rodiny.
📌 Zajímavosti o králi: • Je nejstarším panovníkem, který kdy nastoupil na britský trůn. • Dlouhodobě podporuje ekologické iniciativy, zemědělství a ochranu životního prostředí. • Navzdory zdravotním výzvám v posledních měsících si udržuje odhodlání a aktivně pokračuje ve svých královských povinnostech.
Ich möchte noch mal ein lautes "TOLD YOU SO!" an den Menschen aussprechen, der meinte, dass diese Regierung nur "konservativ" sei und das ja für mein Leben nichts ändern wird.
Verpflichtende Musterung, falls ich doch mal Kinder bekommen sollte, der als männlich definiert wurde, und für alle Kinder in meinem Umfeld, deren Genital bestimmt hat, dass sie männlich sind.
"The cloud is down, all of it" "But the AI that was supposed to keep it running ?" "Had a debug log file that expanded to use all the storage and took the cloud down" "Get the robots to reboot it ?" "They are controlled from the cloud" "and the access doors ?" "Cloud" "If the robots are down can we just force our way inside ?" "No.. the automatic defence system runs on its own servers at your insistence so it's still working"
Politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to protect their privacy and bypass invasive laws. Their solution? Entirely ban the use of VPNs. Yes, really. As of this writing, Wisconsin lawmakers are escalating their war on privacy by targeting VPNs in the name of “protecting children” in A.B. 105/S.B. 130. It’s an age verification bill that requires all websites distributing material that could conceivably be deemed “sexual content” to both implement an age verification system and also to block the access of users connected via VPN. The bill seeks to broadly expand the definition of materials that are “harmful to minors” beyond the type of speech that states can prohibit minors from accessing —potentially encompassing things like depictions and discussions of human anatomy, sexuality, and reproduction. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawm…
It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to protect their privacy and…
Tried to open #Discord on web. Login. Enter your email and password. Okay, click login. "Wait, are you human?" and a #HateCaptcha widget. I check the checkbox that I'm human (discrimination to us, other sentient beings, but okay). Login. enter your login and password. Wait, are you human? check the box. Login. Enter your login and password… Maybe it's only me, but I've never ever ever managed to cope with Discord, although this interesting loop appears for the first time.
Now imagine trying to do that when you're blind and they have no audio version, but some ridiculous cookie that works via e-mail. That's why I never signbed up with them.
haha I hate captchas, too! Like you, I am totally blind, so I don't have any vision to rely on. I don't know why they can't just use audio for these things, or even the simple checkboxes.
In 2021, I’ve tabled amendments to the @EUCommission’s proposal of the Digital Markets Act, one of which introduced mandatory messaging interoperability for the gatekeepers. Now, more than 4 years later, real effects on the market are starting to appear. about.fb.com/news/2025/11/mess…
The DMA requires Meta to give people using WhatsApp in Europe the option to connect with people using third-party messaging services that have chosen to
@Jiří Eischmann @Marcel Kolaja @European Commission This is a joke isn't it? First third party supported chat services are BirdyChat and Haiket. Does anyone have friends over there? This sounds similar to how apple has opened their apps ecosystem that no meaningfull competion is viable. Meta is not seeing their users seriously. Why we can't bridge whatsapp chats with FB messenger chats? These are running on similar if not the same backends.
Some #mona beta feedback: it should say translated before the post text with #voiceover. That way we can set expectations appropriately before hearing the text and thinking it’s poorly written.
Open source maintainers of major projects (hi) are not ready to accept and talk about how the cultural insistence on permissive licensing is just straight up labor exploitation taking advantage of our addiction to popularity (also hi).
"...detailed how the company would use AI to speed up licensing. In [Microsoft’s] conception, existing nuclear licensing documents and data about nuclear sites data would be used to train an LLM that’s then used to generate documents to speed up the process."
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
I've read that #Firefox users want "just to use a sturdy browser". I don't know, maybe something is wrong with me, but whenever I tried using Firefox (I don't like its #Accessibility anyway — it's accessible, don't get me wrong, but it's just… other way), it crashed far, far more often than Chrome and Edge together.
We don't want that AI stuff. (Lonnnnng time Firefox user here.) That said, Firefox has always been stable in my experience, although the more add-ons being used can make it creaky and unstable.
@fastfinge Oh 110% you are. Evil Microsoft and their evil shipping a browser with an operating system like that. How dare they allow you to use their browser to download another one if you want to.
@FreakyFwoof No judgment from me (a Firefox guy) about using what works for you 👍
I think for most people, all the major browsers are basically stable enough. Some people have a lot of trouble with Chrome, some people like you have a lot of trouble with Firefox, some people are unlucky enough to have trouble with both, etc. Of course it would be great if whatever issues you're having with Firefox could be fixed, but it's not like you have a duty to help make that happen or anything - using a different piece of software that just works is always a valid choice.
Долгое время пользовался Firefox, с момента как он стал нормально дружить с Jaws, и стало возможным забыть про уёбищный и медленный IE, но с внедрением своего движка они свернули куда-то не туда и начались всякие проблемы, причём до сих пор на некоторых сайтах работает криво, но тут видимо сказывается отсутствие поддержки Firefox разработчиками того или иного сервиса. Так совпало что в тот момент Chrome стал устраивать в принципе во всём, на него и перебрался.
well, maybe i've been using #firefox wrong, but in my 20yrs of heavy usage I don't recall any breakage at all. Certainly not in the last 10years ( anything before that I cannot remember anymore, tbh). So any 'reports' about constant problems I cannot relate to (and believe). But I fo care abouy my system. I don't let it blow up and explode in my face
New from 404 Media: Microsoft and nuclear power company Westinghouse Nuclear want to use AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants in the United States.
"may lead [..] to catastrophic nuclear consequences" and distrust of nuclear tech
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
they're not using AI to do anything dangerous like actually design critical components without any human oversight, they're using it for licensing paperwork. They're replacing paper pushers, not nuclear engineers.
Does anyone have this strange ability where based on what name someone has, and how they write, you are able to come up with a 90% accurate voice profile? The 10% for me is usually like, "whoa! Okay I was way off!"
#FreeBSD users behind a proxy who also use #Poudriere: what are your tips for configuring an HTTP/HTTPS (non-SOCKS as far as I can tell) proxy for package builds?
In the "filesystems and I/O" portion of my Operating Systems course in college today. Brought some floppy disks in to help understanding storage system history and the archaic methods for data organization: tracks, sectors, partitions, etc.
I was surprised at how much the disks were investigated and examined by the students and how much curiosity was expressed. We almost had to suppress questions to get to the course material.
I think this is instructive. I'll try and incorporate some kind of tactile thing this spring when I'm teaching.
#Facebook v posledních dnech zaplavila masivní vlna hejtů na vedení pražské radnice a hlavně na náměstka Hřiba. Že prý zavinil dopravní zácpy v Praze. Nevím, jestli je to organizovaná kampaň, nebo jestli jen někdo začal a ostatní se jako stádo přidali. Každopádně fakt dává logiku hejtit (a posílat do Slavičína) někoho, kdo ve funkci za pár týdnů končí 😁
@bogo It's a good idea. But I have there ca. 500 people and almost all of them don't want to move to either #fediverse or #Signal (or any other "rational" messaging system). They are typically non-IT people and use Facebook and WhatsApp (and possibly Instagram or TikTok).
I am collecting other contact information from them (e-mail addresses, phone numbers...), but it's a long-distance run. When done (in the future), I will leave Facebook completely 😎
@bogo Many. Most of them are people from my real life and I want to contact them sometimes. Only a few of them are people that I have never met in person.
The DMA requires Meta to give people using WhatsApp in Europe the option to connect with people using third-party messaging services that have chosen to
: blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai…
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