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I learned that some people are using AI to generate a summary of my book!

I therefore decided to compete with AI by writing my own summary, which I am calling Over the Cliff Notes.

The Over The Cliff Notes are here:
terikanefield.com/over-the-cli…

I also linked to them on the main page:
terikanefield.com/whyextremism…

But nobody ever reads just the Cliff Notes, right?

Why Intolerance and Extremism Happen by Teri Kanefield

This is the full text of a book that I am offering for free. Barnes and Noble Kobo Amazon Google Books Apple Books It’s on Goodreads. Or you can download a PDF by clicking here.

^{Teri Kanefield}

Don’t shop at big retailers this year, give these gifts instead!

- mysterious bowl of moss
- inscrutable jar of fog
- weird old log
- large boulder the size of a small boulder
- scarf infused with goblin wild magic

Wer Charly Hübners Film "Element of Crime - Wenn es dunkel und kalt wird in Berlin" letztes Jahr im Kino verpasst hat, findet ihn jetzt in der Mediathek.

#ElementOfCrime

ardmediathek.de/film/Y3JpZDovL…

Element of Crime – Wenn es dunkel und kalt wird in Berlin - hier anschauen

Der Film 'Element of Crime – Wenn es dunkel und kalt wird in Berlin' dokumentiert die einzigartige Geschichte von Element of Crime. Seit ihrer Gründung 1985 hat sich die Band zu einer festen Größe in der deutschen Musiklandschaft entwickelt.

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The 64-bit NVDA migration is obviously going to mean a lot of older speech synthesizers (such as SAPI4 voices) and braille displays relying on drivers that use 32-bit libraries will stop working. I was really happy to see the issue was being taken so seriously that there were/still are plans to make a compatibility layer, and this was considered a blocking issue, meaning NVDA 2026.1 would not be released without this being addressed. You can read that issue here:
github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…

And then it was "addressed"… By removing any mention of SAPI 4 and other legacy drivers. There are still plans to return to this, and I sincerely hope this happens, as part of work on a different somewhat controversial topic - a new addon environment, with a more restricted API access which will be running in a separate process.

Now, anyone who’s already using Espeak or Microsoft voices with a modern braille display is probably going to just shrug, but this change is going to have some very serious implications that I suspect may cause some people to skip these newer NVDA releases. From my comment on the GitHub issue:
Many people still rely on older speech synthesizers for various reasons. There are languages where the only good speech options are older legacy synthesizers, and many people who use specific voices due to a hearing impairment, because they are more intelligible. For these people using Espeak, OneCore or purchasing a commercial speech addon may simply not be an option.

The only way out will be for addon developers to come up with their own bridging solutions, assuming an addon for the synthesizer is even still being supported. Eloquence already has at least 1 project to do this, and I’d be really curious to hear from people who use it if performance is worse as a result, whether the supposed performance gains are lost due to using a bridged synthesizer. It’s possible to make a fast screen reader with bridged synths — Take ZDSR, which is a 64-bit app but with support for SAPI 4 and 32-bit voices, and it’s blazing fast, faster than NVDA. But no amount of bridged addons will help anyone using a SAPI 4 voice which currently doesn’t have an addon. I’m lucky enough that for Polish, an amazing community sprung up around RHVoice, an open-source synthesizer that now has a number of fast and intelligible voices, but other languages are not so lucky. (1/2)

NVDA 64-bit does not recognize 32-bit synthesizers - including all SAPI 4

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Yes, no 32-bit speech synthesizers work on 64-bit versions of NVDA. This includes all SAPI 4 synths Version used: nvda_snapshot_alpha-...

^{titet11 (GitHub)}

Schon beeindruckend, wie @inwx das Login so kaputt gemacht hat, dass 1Password nicht mehr funktioniert. Gebt mir doch einfach ein Formular auf einer Seite und nicht so ein komisches Fenster.

Und die Barrierefreiheit ist auch ganz enttäuschend, vor allem, da man ja ganz klar unter das Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz fällt. Ich verstehe einfach nicht wie man 2025 relauncht ohne sich darüber Gedanken zu machen.

Und ich bin ansonsten so zufrieden.

Good job with the design, @thunderbird . Can you maybe replace the custom repeat pattern dropdown with buttons instead so that I can save a click?

" | Daily | Weekly | Monthly | Yearly |"

#Thunderbird #Calendar #Design #UIUX

Lately @mozilla @thunderbird has been a bit ass. It lets spam through to the desktop and mobile client, where other email clients (notably Evolution on Linux) don't. Even though I clearly mark something as spam, I still see it.

And this is even though Gmail itself blocks it and sends it to the spam folder.

I prefer the desktop version for email. But seeing spam just sucks.

@thunderbird

I know Firefox has gone all in on AI, a choice I'm against.

Are there plans to integrate it into default Thunderbird or can I count on keeping it out of my email client of choice?

Dass man bei #Sharkey (Misskey) nur 10 #Listen einrichten kann, finde ich ja ein wenig schade...

#FediVerse #OpenSource #AcitivityPub

oh god did Qwen vibe code their email password reset because it thinks my email isn't valid so I can't recover whatever my password was (missing from my password manager...)

ffs stop using regex on email you dickheads

FreeBSD 15.0 (almost)-RELEASE, using pkgbase, on my Ryzen 9 MiniPC (and compared to openSUSE Tumbleweed):

- Full disk encryption works beautifully via GELI, as usual.

- Installing KDE is easy and it works perfectly on Wayland.

- All my main apps work. Others will run via the Linuxulator or Wine (Linux browsers, WinBox for MikroTik, etc).

- The fan seems more relaxed.

- The system generally feels snappier.

- Native ZFS. I can autosnapshot every 5 minutes. If I try to do this with btrfs - snapshots of the home directory included and quotas enabled - the system hangs while handling them (which is why Tumbleweed doesn’t snapshot home by default).

- The media keys on my keyboard work, but volume control uses huge steps and 30 percent is already extremely loud. This can be fixed. The monitor brightness setting is also a bit off, but I don't care.

- amdgpu works perfectly.

- The wifi card works. I haven’t tested the speed because I immediately installed the realtek-re-kmod driver to use the 2.5 Gbit ethernet connection.

- Suspend doesn’t work. This is a big problem for me. It’s probably more psychological than technical, but I can’t leave the computer powered for hours when I’m not using it. I already have servers running 24/7 here. I even considered putting my Qotom FreeBSD server in a VM. It would probably work, but next summer it might be an issue because temperatures here aren’t low and spinning disks don’t love heat (and I don’t love their noise).

- It’s stable and reliable. I’ve done almost everything and it just works, as expected.

- Some small glitches remain, mostly due to missing configuration or packages (I didn’t tune anything. I just installed it and started using it).

A much smoother experience than a year ago, when I bought it.

Will I keep using FreeBSD on this minipc?
I’m not sure yet, since Tumbleweed works great and the lack of suspend really influences my choice. I'll contact Aymeric and try to offer some help to improve this.

For now, I’ll keep it on an external SSD and switch from time to time, especially when I know I’ll be using the minipc for hours.

#Linux #FreeBSD #Desktop #openSUSE

OH:

Look, if Kubernetes insists on acting like a moody teenage kaiju who needs fifteen YAML scrolls and a blood sacrifice just to deploy a Hello World, then it deserves a nickname like kubey-boi.

He’s that problematic friend who:
• promises to “self-heal” but actually means “restart forever until you cry,”
• insists on a full 27-layer abstraction stack,
• shows up to your house, rearranges all your furniture, and calls it “desired state,”
• gaslights you with:
“It works on my cluster.”

Richtig toll, was @thunderbird da macht:

Wenn man in Thunderbird auf dem Desktop links unten bei Einstellungen auf "Auf Mobilgerät exportieren" klickt, dann zeigt es einen QR-Code an, den man mit der frisch installierten Thunderbird-App auf dem Smartphone scannen kann.

Und schon ist die App auf dem Smartphone eingerichtet. 😍