I think the main advantage is that you can run it on any computer, and keep all settings, content, etc, stored on a flash drive. It's also useful if you want to try out a program without modifying your system files.
For your information, my AccessiWeather downloads page on my website has been fixed and you can now grab the latest releases for macOS and Windows there if you don't care about dealing with GitHub. accessiweather.orinks.net/
I'm using Samantha Compact on iOS 26, and I just noticed something fun. The name Linus is pronounced lie-nus, as most Americans would say it. However, if this voice finds the name Torvalds after that name, the pronunciation changes to Lee-nus. See? Linus Someone. Linus Torvalds.
The year is 2040. I've just purchased a brand new Linux machine, with 512 GB of RAM, 64 cores, and an incredible GPU to run all the newest AI models directly on my hardware, no data sharing required. The only downside is the only way I can control it is still through PuTTY with TDSR on a specialized IoT version of Windows that's almost out of support, because Apple discontinued the MacBook in favor of the iPad, and macOS 30 Burbank After Dark, which only runs on Mac desktops, silently removed VoiceOver. The company has been silent so far on this matter. Microsoft ditched standard consumer hardware for their newest Windows version, Windows 360 Degree Premium Cloud Azure-AI Ultra Pro, forcing consumers to buy specialized cloud-based computers that only have a gigabyte of RAM and a single core, so you're reliant on their cloud for everything. It still has Narrator, but it takes about 10 seconds to start up after all the Azure validation, and no third party screen readers are allowed. And Orca? I mean, it's Orca. It's still shit, of course.
Hey guys, haven’t made much music in a while so figured I’d try to remix a track I like. This is WIP at the moment, only posting up to the first chorus, also production isn’t complete yet but thought I’d see what you guys think. Also mixing isn’t great yet, there’s no bass and we need more synths! The original track is “Romcoms” by Cassadee Pope: youtu.be/SesTTTUbZB0?si=A-UiHG…
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It used to be that setting stream quality to audio only meant twitch would never play ads. Disappointingly, they’ve changed that recently. Now they just play the ad video and all, in spite of your settings.
@dansup brings up an important point. I don't know of a lot of Fediverse developers who have received grants from the Canadian government. I built pumpio.org almost entirely with SR&D credits for StatusNet. That's the best example I can think of.
Given how many of us there are here, and how important the Fediverse is to our digital sovereignty, shouldn't there be more funding available?
A screenshot of a post from r/google_antigravity. The post is titled "Google antigravity just deleted the contents of my whole drive," and is marked with a prominent "bug/troubleshooting" flair.
The post reads: "did I ever give you permission to delete all the files in my D drive?" Below the text in the post is a screenshot of the Google Antigravity window, where the user is confronting the bot.
This commentary on end-user Linux is bound to inspire controversy. My own reasons for using Linux are largely related to the efficiency and control offered by UNIX tools, but I also appreciate the freedom and privacy-related benefits. zdnet.com/article/why-people-k… #Linux #OperatingSystems
Not that I usually put any warnings on my posts anywhere, or feel I have a reason to, and suspect filtering is far more useful for people who are triggered by certain topics, but I'm a little confused about how to correctly do Content Warning/Notices on Friendica?
The compose editor has a button that says "Content Warning" but it creates an [abstract] BBcode, which when used appears to make that content completely disappear on Friendica (though if you go to "Edit" it will still be there).
The [spoiler] BBcode appears to work like the Content Warnings do on Mastodon, plus you can add to it WHY you are hiding the content. But how do those look on other platforms?
In Settings->Additional Features->Post composition, in the explanation of the "Add an abstract from ActivityPub content warnings" check box, it says, "Abstracts are displayed as content warning on systems like Mastodon or Pleroma."
I have found this to be the case. I have also found that, while the abstract text will not appear at all in the preview while editing, it does appear when I actually publish the post. On Friendica I see the abstract in bold text (and it does not behave like a content warning). In Mastodon it does behave as a content warning. My understanding is that Friendica does not treat it as a content warning because it is assumed that Friendica users will use filters to avoid seeing things. There is much more information about abstracts under Help/UserManual/General Functions - First Steps/BB Code Tag Reference.
Is it safe for federation's sake to use both abstract and spoiler tags with the same content, to have it be correctly hidden both on Friendica and Mastodon? Maybe even nesting one inside of the other?
Tobias makes a good point in that thread that how am I, as an author, supposed to guess what might "trigger" some random person reading what I wrote? The burden should be on the random person to set up filters so they reduce the likelihood they'll see anything they know might trigger them. Because I can't possibly know that! Which is why I pretty much never use CWs and if someone doesn't like it that's their problem.
I really don't want to join in on that thread, but after reading it I have to wonder why nobody mentioned the idea of using [spoiler] for a CW and leave [abstract] for a summary? Spoiler already collapses on Friendica just like CWs do on Mastodon. It would avoid having to add a network parameter to [abstract] to determine whether it appears as a summary or CW. It seems like an obvious solution to me. Just make spoilers = CW and be done with it?
@Random Penguin @Marcus The abstract has a history. It was used to create a summary to send to other networks when they had a character limit. This makes sense when a post is 500 or 1000 characters long. However, the summary can also be what its meaning implies. Friendica will provide both options with Michael's issues.
CW is extremely controversial. Even on Mastodon. The sender cannot know what might trigger someone. That is something the recipient must filter out.
Still, the intention of a spoiler and a CW are essentially the same, to hide content from someone that may upset them, and spoiler collapses on Friendica just like CWs collapse on Mastodon.
If abstract's intention is only as a summary then that should be all it does. Just because it has been used for CWs is no reason to keep using it for that if it doesn't make any sense, which IMO it doesn't.
How does it work differently? Spoilers on Friendica collapse. CWs on Mastodon collapse. They collapse to prevent the reader from accidentally seeing something they may not wish to see. You have to intentionally expand them to read it. They're totally the same.
I may have missed something in that issues thread, but it sounded like Mastodon a summary tag converted from a bare [abstract] is now treated as a CW while [abstract=apub] is treated as an actual summary? That's still unnecessarily confusing when the [spoiler] code is right there and literally does exactly the same thing as a CW.
I rarely use CWs even on Mastodon and never use abstracts on Friendica. Anyway, I'm done arguing about it. I really don't care how my posts look on other platforms.
@Random Penguin That's a question you should ask those who have misused the feature. Friendica continues to communicate with various networks that have a problem with long texts. I use the summary feature regularly.
@Random Penguin @Marcus This has always been my stance, over on the Taurnation we post mostly links to content ranging from G-XXX and use content warnings for the latter, as that's generally expected and even often required. On my personal blog however, we only use hash tags, because the collected list of triggers I've been told I should be protecting people from basically would allow me to only post maybe cat pics and nothing else without a content warning, and even that is iffy.
Couldn't agree more. This needs to be tackled on the receiving end with filters / blocks / ... not on the sending end. Not using CWs here due to that reasoning.
@Random Penguin I always use the [abstract][/abstract] tags. The CW gets seen by others. [spoiler][/spoiler] seems to only work with networks that support more types of content formatting than Mastodon, basically. I.e. in Hubzilla it works, in Lemmy it should work (but it's buggy), in Piefed it should also work but I never checked.
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
Anyone using a RasPi with a camera who can give apt.izzysoft.de/packages/ca.fr… a test view? It hasn't seen an update in 6 years – but if it works, and is found "worthy", we'd keep it…
I would simplify all this: Everything that has exceeded the time X is removed from the izzy repo. If you still use it, you can install it from the original repo. That's how I do it on #welovecodeberg too.
@mondstern that's not how we do it. We want people to be able to use their "old" devices as long as they last them (no need to throw things away just because $someCorp wants to sell you something else – that would be wasting valuable resources just for $someone's profit). So apps still useful to them, should stay available. That's called sustainability – and a rather central point to us, as well as to our partners.
I made my own RSS reader for myself. Check it out! github.com/serrebi/BlindRSS Really starting to prefer Gemini, but even it is not perfect, and I had to send it the public API link not the GitHub for TheOldReaderAPI working URL. I don't know for sure that had anything to do with it working, but I'm glad it worked. I've only tested Miniflux and TheOldReader remote services.
That’s how it is with LLMs. They fix one thing and break another. It’s similar for me while developing Sara — fortunately, at least the unit tests help a bit, because it’s not exactly pleasant. Anyway, good job, I’ll be keeping an eye on the progress!
Thanks! The project will definitely keep growing — I still have plenty of ideas, and this is only the beginning. My inspiration is mAirList, an excellent but inaccessible tool for radio broadcasters. Its developer openly said he won’t work on accessibility because it doesn’t make business sense for him, which I completely understand. So with the tools I have and years of radio experience, I want to create something that’s not only useful for me, but also offers a few great features for live presenters — things that, for example, SPL doesn’t have and most likely never will.
Right but where? Sorry I haven't explored this much just very quickly checked it, will do so later cuz I'm at work but I could only see like adding a new feed and stuff.
@jonathan859 Go to edit/settings, and add it there. I'm going to move that somewhere else than the edit menu, probably the most un User friendly thing in my app
@kl1964 I have nothing to say, except that I want to get on a ship and sail over the sea to the Undying Lands and leave Middle Earth and its troubles to the 77 million people who said, "yes, he's our guy," but it isn't my time yet.
It feels like not much time has passed since I announced 1000 different pages on LPCwiki, but somehow we're up to over 2000!
Combined with the fact that certain LPCwiki pages have been cited in phone-related videos, it's nice to see what started as a small project to share more detailed system specs about feature phones grow as much as it has.
(yes, I do realize posts have been slow... but the number of phone-related PC software backups and firmware dumps has been moving steadily!)
so tomorrow I begin my 25-day challenge. 25 Christmas albums. 1 album a day from December 1 to December 25. and I'll be doing a write-up for each album I listen to after I've completed it. Anyone else doing the challenge with me? Streaming is not off the table for this one, since I don't even know if I have 25 physical albums that fit the criterium. I'll be sticking to albums by a singular artist or band, so no compilations.
@Melissa So basically, what you’re saying is that All I Want for Christmas is You is the Baker Street of Christmas songs. Oooh that is a dreadful song that Baker Street. #MushroomFm
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Imagine you find an internet service that is useful to you. It's provided by a company in another country, but you find them trustworthy. There's a free option, but you consider buying a subscription. The price is significantly lower than e.g. Netflix or Spotify. You find the service is worth the money and you can afford it.
The question is: do you find it unprofessional / unfriendly / bad if the taxes are included in the price, or if they are excluded?
Example for "included": »1.23 § per month (includes 0.23 § taxes)«
Example for "excluded": »1.00 § per month (not including taxes)« or »1.00 § per month (not including 0.23 § taxes)«
Note: the question is only about the pricing page. The payment page lists without-tax, tax and with-tax amounts explicitly.
The answer probably depends on how pricing works in your area, so please answer accordingly.
As you are German (sorry if I'm mistaken), please provide a way to indicate VAT ID (Umsteuer-ID) and to be excluded from taxes. I.e., 1.23 € with taxes, but as soon as enter my European VAT ID, I get 1.00 €.
@menelion Of course! That's important to me as well.
Paddle (the company that takes care of checkout & world-wide taxes for me) have that feature in their checkout process. It works exactly like you describe.
@menelion Well my integration is not live yet, so it's a bit early to judge them. But so far, I'm happy based on the following:
- Their pricing¹ is fair. - Support staff responds reasonably quickly. - Business and domain verification went smoothly. - They cover over 220 countries & territories. They offer all the major payment methods & about a dozen local ones. - APIs are flexible enough for me² & work well. Their documentation is one of the best I've seen in my decades-long career. - They have been around for a loooong time & seem to know what they're doing.
I haven't heard such criticism. Regarding laws: at least for those of Germany, where I am based, there don't seem to be obvious problems because the lawyer who wrote my Terms of Service is happy with me using Paddle.
¹: I'm on a special "microtransactions" plan because my prices are all below 10$. ²: My product is a bit more complicated than the average due to the way extras can be added/removed to an active subscription.
If you like what we do about open source digital infrastructure at @sovtechfund, don't hesitate to tell your local representative about us. Our work is in the open, we share our experience and can't wait to see your country copy us.
Adriana Groh (CEO): "We also have an international focus: we try to provide a kind of blueprint to other governments to inspire them to take on the same mission as the German government."
This is probably one of the most fun live performances I've ever seen. Griff - Sound of Your Voice (Live from O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire: youtu.be/0JBX-Nq1kHA?si=lDRWXp…
Sound of Your Voice performed live from O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire on 27th October 2021 on the One Foot In Front of The Other tour. Director - Andy Morganan E...
It feels weird posting about my Christmas tree when the world is falling apart around us. Having a real tree makes me so happy every year, though. The ornaments are coming out later tonight. Softening my personal sorrow as well. I like to pretend I’m a kid again at Christmas time.
I'll be honest, there are days where I wake up and I'm like "what are we even doing?" Every day I look at the headlines and a new war has broken out somewhere, or the president did or said something insane and clearly illegal, or whatever else. I have to constantly remind myself that no matter how bad things get, there will always be good people who care and want the best for you.
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