to be honest, I sometimes think Mastodon is an absolute radical leftist buble, which doesn't uplift my mood, to say the mildest. super mega tired of all that anarchist anti-capitalist anti-AI anti-everything nonsense.
From top AI coding user globally to completely stop using it because it's so much harder to review AI code than write it myself. And they say all software developers jobs will be replaced by LLM. Life comes fast at you. 🤣 xcancel.com/jhleath/status/199…
an interesting update: the team is starting to move away from AI coding completely (devin/claude/etc) because it's so much harder to review the AI code than writing things themselves
Ich hab gestern in einem YouTube Vlog gehört, dass jemand für einen Termin in Köln die ÖPNV Verbindungen mit #KI geplant hat und dann 2 Stunden durch die Stadt geirrt ist, weil nichts von den Informationen stimmte. Rein aus Interesse hab ich das heute mal versucht mit einer Strecke, die ich gut kenne, weil da mein Augenarzt ist. Als erstes wollte die KI mich anstatt in die Amtsstraße ( die weit draußen am Rande der Stadt ist) zum Amtsgericht in der Innenstadt schicken. Außerdem wurde behauptet ich könnte dort mit der Straßenbahn Linie 2 hinfahren. Es gibt in diesem Stadtteil überhaupt keine Straßenbahn, ausschließlich Busse. Leute müssen wirklich aufhören zu denken, dass KI in irgendeiner Weise nützlich ist, den die ist dumm wie Brot.
hi there, i´m a very fan of telegram and i use it on lots of devices. great job for the lightweight feel of the messenger. i wanted to introduce telegram to a blind user but had to realize, the (wi...
Meanwhile they broke their Accessibility on iOS almost completely. but yeah, I as a Windows guy would be super happy to see the official client accessible.
They would be better off focusing on the accessibility of the iOS Telegram app first. On Windows, Unigram works really well, while Telegram on iOS is a complete mess. Besides, there was already a case in the past where someone submitted an accessibility-related PR, and they still didn’t merge it, so all that effort went to waste.
Now that #Trump has made it crystal clear that #ableism is part of his overall brand, I’ll just say it the way I’ve been thinking it: people with disabilities still supporting him are no better than quislings. #USPol
Yeah, I don't understand disabled people who voted for that clown. When you have a movement that is based on demonizing certain groups of people, or saying that some people are burdens to society, then it makes sense that disabled people wouldn't be safe from it.
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal ---
The administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime. propublica.org/article/trump-m…
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”
However, I can't find an issue in your ticket tracker discussing @ metioning users in a group chat. Am I missing something or is this something not yet implemented or not in the roadmap. I'd be glad to help implementing it :D
in groups, Android and iOS meanwhile optionally notify about things that are directly directed to you, even if a group is otherwise muted. we call that "mentions". these are: replies to own message...
we typically discuss feature requests in the forum, and only open a GitHub issue when someone is set on actually doing it: support.delta.chat/t/direct-me…
User Story: I have created a group in Delta Chat and started to chat with some friends. I am able to say something like “@tom: you are right” so it is clear to what friend I am replying to, “tom” is the contact name I have set for my friend but othe…
60 minutes! Whether it's @rlegowski1 and @daygar, @JessicatheVIArtist, Abby Hips and our own Kevin Reeves, or new faces like Jessica Thierjung of Lyriel and Árpád Király, this year's Christmas Reapers album, Christmas Through the Years, has something to interest you.
@Derek, @nick, Gianluca and Robin go live in one hour with the annual gala presentation.
I have discovered that teaching programming goes much better with my fifth grade students if I take the time to teach them about all the symbols I think of as "normal" that are totally new to them.
"These are square brackets, you'll find them over the 'enter' key we use them for lists. In programming we have three kinds of brackets..."
This reduced confusion so much. And I feel a little silly for not realizing that OF COURSE they don't know what they characters are or how to type them.
With all these UX disasters from Windows 11 to Liquid Glass, it's interesting how UIs from the 90s mostly feel just right to me—and I don't think that's just purely nostalgia or growing up with it.
Things like window borders that are visible so you know where to resize things and scrollbars that indicate the current viewport.
🕯 **Операция «Анти-Google»: Госдума готовит цифровое лоботомирование** В российской власти снова обнаружили источник всех бед — Google. Оказалось, что американская корпорация тайно мешает суверенитету, экономике и, вероятно, хорошему урожаю. Поэтому в Госдуме аккуратно достали лом и начали обсуждать «постепенные ограничения». Не запрет, нет. Медленное, заботливое удушение. Идеолог процесса — депутат Андрей Свинцов. План простой, как чугунный утюг: если данные хранятся не там, где хочется депутату, значит данные вражеские. А раз вражеские — надо отучить население ими пользоваться. Сначала бизнес, потом обычные люди, потом — «а вы и не заметили, как стало лучше». Под раздачу потенциально идёт всё: поиск, почта, YouTube, Android-сервисы. Это подаётся как «мягкое выдавливание», хотя по факту выглядит как попытка вытащить зуб через ухо. **Что это означает на практике, без заклинаний:** Android внезапно вспомнит, что он не отечественный. Google Play Services — та самая невидимая начинка, без которой приложения начинают вести себя как обиженные коты. Обновления ломаются, push-уведомления умирают, карты тупят. Телефон, правда, не превращается в кирпич — звонить и писать SMS всё ещё можно. Добро пожаловать в 2003 год, только дороже. YouTube и Gmail официально превращаются в экстремистский контент — пока вы не включите VPN и не притворитесь финном. Власть искренне удивляется, что VPN всё ещё существуют, и параллельно пытается запретить их так, чтобы ими начали пользоваться даже пенсионеры. Банки — редкий остров рациональности. Им Google не нужен. Деньги ходят по «Миру», СБП и НСПК. Банкоматы не взорвутся, наличка выдаётся, онлайн-банкинг жив. Максимум — Google Pay уходит в закат, а ему на смену выходит Mir Pay с выражением лица «я старался». Интернет целиком не рухнет. Его давно готовят к осадному режиму: суверенный, скрепный, с фильтрацией и рекомендацией «перейти на отечественный аналог». Google просто станет очередной жертвой эксперимента «а что если выколоть один глаз — станет ли лучше видно». **Контекст для понимания:** Roblox, FaceTime, Snapchat уже ушли в категорию «экстремизм по настроению». WhatsApp — следующий кандидат. Логика простая: если сервис не контролируется, значит подозрителен. Если подозрителен — вреден. Если вреден — запретить. Наука, IT и реальность в обсуждении не участвуют. Итог не апокалипсис, а привычная деградация по расписанию. Не «всё сдохло», а «всё стало хуже, но постепенно, чтобы не пугать». Населению рекомендуют адаптироваться: скачать офлайн-карты, привыкнуть к альтернативам и не задавать лишних вопросов. Суверенный интернет — это когда у тебя всё работает, но как будто назло. #Google #цензура #суверенныйинтернет #импортозамещение #Android #VPN #Госдума #цифроваяизоляция
My LG TV’s new software update installed Microsoft Copilot, which cannot be deleted.
Weird that such a miracle technology can't be uninstalled. You'd think it's so good and useful that people would go out of their way to install it, even.
With the new TalkBack release, it is now possible to get information about special text formatting such as bold, underlined, and more. Reporting can be done
Very excited about text format reporting. This will make reading academic stuff so much better! Split tapping sounds great too, I'll mess around with it since people on other platforms like it and claim it improves speed.
And I've already found a big Braille bug. With my NLS EReader, next line is said to now be DPad Down, and previous line is DPad Up. Except, there is no DPad on the Humanware NLS EReader. This is why actual Braille display users should be trusted testers.
Codestats 0.5.0 has been released! Changes include adding the ability for you to customize it with a TOML config, bringing the supported language count to 447, getting rid of the old clunky CLI interface in favor of a much simpler one with flags for everything, adding two new display modules (TSV and compact JSON), streamlining the language list so it doesn't throw a huge list down the left side of your terminal, making the analyzer more tolerant and permissive all around, and a couple little bugfixes, for example sorting by the total number of files should now work as expected. GitHub release: github.com/trypsynth/codestats… Crates.io: crates.io/crates/codestats Enjoy!
CLI tool to provide a per-language breakdown of a folder of sourcecode, optionally respecting things like gitignores, hidden files, and symlinks. - Release 0.5.0 · trypsynth/codestats
@tardis the thing is that I can have excellent ideas like I delete Facebook, but all my contacts will still use it and contact me on it, so it is a nightmare for somebody who genuinely hates webapps
Ugh, I understand. I would hate web apps, if set web apps I used weren't accessible. With that said, no one can contact me via telegram for example, they pulled the plug on poor little Bulgaria, with the excuse we gotta pay for premium to register, and sign in with an account like google or apple depending on the phone. Yeah, screw that. I love the messenger app for mac, it doesn't look web, it's an actual app. Same for whatsapp. But the story on windows is different, many disabled folks complain and actually have the reason to, about whatsapp, that it turned into nonsensical inaccessible crap. FB isn't better itself, at least not on the web. I tried it. Wanted to pull out my hair. :)
What's with them making their apps so crappy though. I wonder what the end goal is. I hope, not vibe coding like ms who apparently made the password field on windows a blank. Like, original, dudes...
Utiliser l'IA pour coder, c'est reporter la charge de travail sur la personne qui fera la review de code.
Et perso, en tant que reviewer, je déteste ça. Me retrouver face à un code où il y a un petit détail qui n'a pas de sens. Le truc à peine visible. Qui me demande un effort pour comprendre pourquoi le dev a voulu faire ça, d'où sort cette variable (qui en fait n'existe pas...). C'est un manque de respect envers les personnes avec qui vous travaillez. Arrêtez.
J'ai entendu une phrase dans un podcast russophone sur le développement et tout autour, et j'utilise cette phrase toujours maintenant : « Dès que tu as fait un commit, le code est ta responsibilité. tu peux avoir utilisé l'IA, mais dès que tu fais le commit, c'est toi qui en es responsable ». c'est tout. Moi aussi, j'utilise de l'IA comme code assistant, mais je ne fais pas de commits sans avoir vérifié le code avant.
Proposal for a new regulation, dear @EUCommission. When a digital service like Apple iCloud, Google, Facebook etc decide to block or delete your account, they MUST give you a way for a limited time (I'd propose 6 months) to download all data/files they have stored under that account. You should be able to access it using the last known credentials. AFTER a full download has occurred, the account may be finally deleted. I am sure it needs more refinement, but the principle should be established.
In addition, there should be some kind of "small claims court" for online disputes, where an independent third-party adjudicates whether the user has actually broken the terms-of-service.
I'm no fan of regulation, but this is genuinely a service that only a government can provide, as it needs strong citizenship and identity verification to prevent abuse by scammers.
Freydis Cook stood at the gates of the Wyrmhaven Deep Elite Magic Academy - a magical school run by goblins, for goblins. However, it was the only magic academy in the area, so her father had paid - or bribed - to have her attend school.
She was confronted by several goblin girls, led by one with long parallel curls in bright green. The goblin sniffed. "Smell that, girls? That's the smell of a human. Humans are outsiders here!"
"Here at Wyrmhaven Deep's Elite Magic Academy," said the goblin magical professor, "students devote themselves to the study of magic. As everyone knows, magic has four attributes...."
Freydis Cook raised her hand. "Wind, fire, earth and water?"
The goblin scoffed. "You speak of human magic. No, the four attributes of goblin magic are: slime, charcoal, miasma, and Wylbor's Wonderful Wing Sauce."
"Every student," said the instructor, "must have their magical aptitude tested. Please place your hand upon the magic palantir."
Freydis placed her hand on the wet and clammy ball, made of green slime. "Ew!"
The ball lit brightly in two colors. The instructor gasped. "Why, you've scored the highest I have ever seen," he said. "What's more, you have mastery of not one but two magical aspects - miasma magic, and wing sauce magic!"
Freydis sighed. "I'd much prefer wind and fire...."
Freydis Cook watched as First Prince Gnarlo Gravelfoot hatched a Miasma Beetle familiar. Next was Second Prince Grimace Gravelfoot, who hatched a Slime Bat.
Freydis approached her egg with trepidation. "Would it be too much," she asked, "for a small dragon or pegasus?"
Hobnette laughed like only a villainess could. "Foolish child! Such creatures are not found within goblin magic!"
Every outsider girl at a magic academy makes at least one new friend, and so Freydis Cook, the only human at the goblin-run Wyrmhaven Deep Elite Magic Academy was befriended by Moldessa, a goblin girl.
"Every girl wants to wed one of the three princes," said Moldessa. "There's First Prince Gnarlo, Second Prince Grimace, and Third Prince Grungeo - the cute one! Those are the capture targets!"
Freydis rolled her eyes. "If I'm being honest," she said, "I'd rather catch a cold."
"Come on, Freydis!" exclaimed Moldessa. "Knowing which magics complement each other and which oppose each other is important! This will be on our test!"
"But it makes no sense at all," complained Freydis Cook. "Why would Wing Sauce magic oppose Miasma magic, anyway? How are they natural opposites?"
"Well," said Modessa, "both magics have very strong odors which do not mix well...."
Caffeteria food is often mocked. Unfortunately, Freydis Cook was the only human at a magic school for goblins. and goblin cuisine presented a unique challenge.
"Grubs in gravy, with musrooms and rat meat?" Freydis made a face, then signaled to her familiar, Spicy Queen. The winged sauce rat flew over the plate and breathed out a stream of orange.
The secret to enjoying goblin cuisine, Freydis had learned, was to drown it in Wylbor's Wonderful Wing Sauce.
Since 2007, I've had some prepaid phone numbers on a VoIP provider called Vitelity Communications, which became Voyant, which became Intelliquent, but which still calls itself Vitelity sometimes.
Anyway, I've got two numbers parked there that haven't been used for years. There are cheaper places to park phone numbers, but I just haven't been bothered to go through the port process.
This morning, I got an email that my balance for one of the two accounts was low, so I went to drop another $15 on it, which, given my lack of usage these days, generally pays for about 9 months of service.
Something broke (it was me, I broke), and I ended up paying $15 four times.
So, uh... guess I'm good until 2029 or so, unless I actually use these phone numbers, given that it is a pay-per-minute type service.
If I do want to port these phone numbers to another service, such as voip.ms, that's kind of annoying, because I'll have to burn my Vitelity credit first.
OK so expanding on a reply I made regarding under 18s on social media apps. Personally, I think all this legal shit about kids accessing social media is just stupid, like really it should be at the discression of parents, not age, and if parents let their kids on social media they make sure the kid knows what to do and what not to do, and appropriate behavior and stuff. There are some parents out there that don't give a crap, and that's on them, if they wanna let their kids run rampant online then that's on the parents, and not the developers and if kids do something really stupid, then blame the parents for not teaching their kids properly. But nope, corporate and legal bodies have to make things difficult, placing responsibility on developers and even in some cases the adults that are on said platforms, its getting ridiculous! We should be fighting this authoritarian BS that is being forced in, not surrendering, and if we have to, even going the extreme way to undermine the corporate structure if they try to do anything against us. Screw submitting to the overlords, we need to take action before governments turn what's already a brutal online landscape into a corporate mess, even more than it already is. Its bad enough the US wants to see forreign tourest's social media and even do full on biometric scans, the world is turning into a huge clusterfuck, and we're letting it happen! OK I kinda went into a mini rant there, but if we're gonna surrender to stuff like this, suspending under 18s accounts on an audio social app like that, then who knows what things are gonna be like in a year or 2, things can only go so far before people get so sick of it they actually do everything to undermine the government and corporate stronghold, either some sort of cyber attack happens that targets a large chunk of government infrastructure, or we see protests both online and in the streets. Either way, there's only so much people can take before everyone's like fuck this we're doing something about it.
Oh, and here I thought it was some problem with my new phone. I hope all my failed attempts to upload a single photo won't resume once the problem is fixed. And if they do, I hope the duplicates will be detected.
The instance for the images should be working again! Apologies for the downtime. And thx to Antoine from the #Panoramax team for helping me get it back up on a sunday afternoon! cc @rompe
What changed?
A new script script_cycleCadenceLayout that calls cycleDevPositions(). The function and method logic existed for this already, this change just adds a binding and wires it up correctl...
Big corp™ terminates account of user for no (valid) reason, and their frontline block any escalation.
Pundit for said company reports it, without comment.
If that was about Europe trying to enforce regulation the pundit would be all "blah blah europe, blah blah, bad, we are American, fuck you". But here, for egregious bullshit, ZILCH.
I DID IT I FIXED THE CAR (my text editor can paste now) NOW I CAN GET THE OIL (fixing the suspend/resume bug on my desktop) AND FIX THE SQUEAKY DRAWER (reporting the neovim-gtk exclusive nvk bug) AND FIX THE SHELF (fix the nouveau eDP training issue) AND REPLACE THE LIGHTBULB (send out a new version of spinlockirq series)
Staring at the prospect of spending another New Year's Eve alone in every sense of the word sucks ass. Last year I swore this year would be different. But it looks like it's going to be a carbon copy after all.
Last night I was somewhat shocked to learn that SteamVR "just works" on Bazzite :D I guess since they're using the native package there are fewer barriers
@FreakyFwoof So, I decided to look in my volume mixer to see if Tweesecake was muted, and it was. I'm not entirely sure how that happened, but it must have happened somehow while I was sleeping. I may have sleep typed last night or something.
Oh, cute. The current version of Ubiquiti's UniFi Control iOS mobile app no longer has labels for the five tabs on the bottom if you are using VoiceOver. Good thing I happen to know what order they go in, I guess...
Hey, I've been under distress lately due to personal circumstances that are outside my control. I can't find a permanent job that allows me to function, I'm not eligible for government benefits, my grant proposals got rejected, paid internships are quite difficult to find. Essentially, I have no stable monthly income that allows me to sustain myself.
Nowadays, I work mostly on accessibility throughout GNOME as a volunteer, improving the experience of people with disabilities. I helped make the majority of GNOME Calendar accessible with a keyboard and screen reader — still an ongoing effort with !564 and !598 —which is an effort no company ever contributed financially. These merge requests take thousands (literally) of hours to research, develop, and test, which would have been enough to sustain myself for a couple of years if I had been working under a salary.
I would really appreciate any kinds of donations, especially ones that happen periodically to bump my monthly income.
These donations will allow me to sustain myself while allowing me to continue working on accessibility throughout GNOME, potentially even 'crowdfunding' development without doing it on the behalf of the Foundation.
I accept donations through the following platforms:
There is no calendaring app that I love more than GNOME Calendar. The design is slick, it works extremely well, it is touchpad friendly, and best of all, the community around it is just full of wonderful developers, designers, and contributors worth …
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