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Olen pari edellistä päivää nurissut e-kirjoista ja siitä, kuinka piloilla se maailma on, vaikka tekniikka itsessään on 20 vuotta vanhaa.
Nurinoista huolimatta jatkoin ongelman ratkomista ja lupasin kirjoittaa, jos löydän itseäni miellyttävän ratkaisun. Parin päivän testailun perusteella luulen löytäneeni sen.
Ratkaisun nimi on Booklore. Se on itse hostattava palvelu, joka tarjoaa omaan digitaaliseen kirjastoon Spotifyn tai Netflixin kaltaisen käyttökokemuksen. Pääsen siihen käsiksi suoraan omasta lukulaitteesta, eikä minun tarvitse leikkiä kaapeleiden kanssa. Sen lisäksi siinä on monen käyttäjän tuki, joten nyt minulla ja puolisollani on yhteinen digitaalinen kirjahylly.
Avauduin toissapäivänä siitä, kuinka retuperällä e-kirjamaailma on. Avautumisesta huolimatta jatkoin ongelman ratkomista ja luulen löytäneeni itseäni miellyttävän ratkaisun.
#AmazingWorld In Alaska, nature sculpted this lone tree into a frozen wave at sunrise. Relentless wind, drifting snow, and rime ice stacked layer by layer until the branches looked like feathers made of frost. That soft golden glow is the sun catching every icy strand, turning the whole scene into a winter sculpture for a few brief moments. Bent by the storm, but still standing. Still reaching.
Two Philadelphia Flyers radio broadcasters have been suspended for two games because they accidentally said something dirty on-air during a time-out. radioinsight.com/headlines/328…
The Philadelphia Flyers and Beasley Media's "97.5 The Fanatic" WPEN-FM have suspended play-by-play voice Tim Saunders and analyst Todd 'Fridge' Fedoruk for two games pending an investigation following a hot-mic moment during Thursday n…
After their “encore,” this band kicks straight into ANOTHER song without announcing it, apparently in the hope that John wouldn’t notice it was a different song. John leans over to me to be heard over the PA and asks, “Hey, wanna see the suck button?” “Sure,” I replied. I figured he was going to muck with the levels or just turn them off or something. Instead, he reaches to one of his racks and starts scrolling through patches on his trusty DigiTech unit. Sure enough, he gets to a patch titled SUCK BUTTON. He engages it, and all hell breaks loose onstage.
the UNIX v4 tape reminded me of this story by Ali Akurgal about Turkish bureaucracy:
Do you know what the unit of software is? A meter! Do you know why? In 1992, we did our first software export at Netaş. We wrote the software, pressed a button, and via the satellite dish on the roof, at the incredible speed of 128 kb/s, we sent it to England. We sent the invoice by postal mail. $2M arrived at the bank. 3-4 months passed, and tax inspectors came. They said, “You sent an invoice for $2M?” “Yes,” we said. “This money has been paid?” they asked. “Yes,” we said. “But there is no goods export; this is fictitious export,” they said! So we took the tax inspectors to R&D and sat them in front of a computer. “Would you press this ‘Enter’ key?” we asked. One of them pressed it, then asked, “What happened?” “You just made a $300k export, and we’ll send its invoice too, and that will be paid as well,” we said. The man felt terrible because he had become an accomplice! Then we explained how software is written, what a satellite connection is, and how much this is worth. They said, “We understand, but there has to be a physical goods export; that’s what the regulations require.” So we said: “Let’s record this software onto tape (there were no CDs back then—nor cassettes; we used ½-inch tapes) and send that.” Happy to have found a solution, they said, “Okay, record it and send it.” The software filled two reels, which were handed to a customs broker, who took them to customs and started the export procedure. The customs officer processed things and at one point asked, “Where are the trucks?” The broker said, “There are no trucks—this is all there is,” and pointed to the tape reels on the desk. The customs officer said, “These two envelopes can’t be worth $2M; I can’t process this.” We went to court, an expert committee examined whether the two reels were worth $2M. Fortunately, they ruled that they were, and we were saved from the charge of fictitious export. The same broker took the same two reels to the same customs officer, with the court ruling, and restarted the procedure. However, during the process, the unit price, quantity, and total price of the exported goods had to be entered—as per the regulations. To avoid dragging things out further, they looked at the envelope, saw that it contained tape, estimated how many meters of tape there are on one reel, and concluded that we had exported 1k to 2k meters of software. So the unit of software became the meter.
Interestingly enough, in Russian computer slang "meter" is a megabyte. And software "weighs" (also in slang). So, there used to be a joke: "How to make a physics teacher crazy? Ask them to solve this problem: A piece of software weighs 2 meters. What time is needed to pass it through a 56 kbps channel?"
@menelion In Polish we also use the term of weight towards bytes. When I was a teen in modem era, the term ciężko przepchnąć ( hard to push ) was also commonly used to describe the relation between the weight of the upload and the channel speed when sending big files.
@frankboon Exactly! Also in Russian "speed" was often referred to as "width" (probably because of English "bandwidth"). so the joke sometimes was expanded to: "the software weighs two meters. How much time does it take to (down)load it if the channel is 56 kbps wide?"
I once read a story about the people writing the software for the NASA Apollo missions. There was a functionary in charge of weight accounting, who came to them and asked how much the software would weigh.
They told him it weighted nothing, but the functionary had heard *that* one before and insisted—everything had to be accounted down to the last ounce. He demanded to see it.
They showed him a stack of punched cards, and he was triumphant. “You see,” he said smugly, “it doesn't weigh only ‘nothing’!”
“No, you misunderstand,” they replied. “The cards aren't going on the spacecraft. Only the holes.”
@mcourcel If you view the post on the web, you'll see the HTTPS is there. It's just tweesecake that removes it. It's also there in Mona, Enafore, TWBlue, and literally every other client I've tried.
#Spotted on the Market Day Before Christmas in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A cheerful Pomeranian is rotating in a skipping circle below a hotdog being eaten by its human. Perpetual Motion Dog is generating more energy than it's consuming. If only science could harness this power for good!
A young human (5?) in grinch themed T-shirt and shorts is holding up a Bundaberg ginger beer to his little sister, saying officiously: "Cheers!" and then instructing her imperiously that she has to say "Cheers!" back or it "Doesn't WORK!" Little Sister is looking pugnaciously skeptical.
A man (30s?) is studying some earrings with a cheerful smile. He looks down at his small human (4?) in a Spiderman t-shirt and asks: "Which ones d'you think Nana would like?" Small Human Spiderman gives him an incredulous look before roaring: "The PRETTY ONES!" Some things are just obvious.
A tiny human is putting on a full sturm und drang performance. Hand beseechingly raised to Mum. Face a picture of tearful fury as she bellows: "I WANT STRAWBERRIES!" Mum says wryly. "You've GOT strawberries in your lap Bub." "BUT I WANT OTHER STRAWBERRIES." The strawberry struggle is real.
A pâtissier (30s?) stops his partner from offering their last madeleine to customers because it's already taken. Moments later, a very serious looking small human (3?) arrives with his Mum and accepts his weekly madeleine treat with a solemn high five and a hug. Pâtissier beaming.
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
In mid-November, I agreed to an experiment. Anthropic had tested a vending machine powered by its Claude AI model in its own offices and asked whether we’d like to be the first outsiders to try a newer, supposedly smarter version. Claudius, the customized version of the model, would run the machine: ordering inventory, setting prices and responding to customers—aka my fellow newsroom journalists—via workplace chat app Slack. “Sure!” I said. It sounded fun. If nothing else, snacks! Then came the chaos. Within days, Claudius had given away nearly all its inventory for free—including a PlayStation 5 it had been talked into buying for “marketing purposes.” It ordered a live fish. It offered to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes and underwear. Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared.
OK this is why they need #autistic people to watch shows before they put them out. Not just for continuity, but for checking actual facts.
I am finally watching the Queen's Gambit, which of course I love for many reasons, not just redheads and chess, but she just came home from Paris and there's a August 1967 calendar on the wall next to the phone -- and it is utterly wrong!
It shows the month starting on a Sunday. The first day was a Tuesday!
@BorrisInABox lol this was me watching a show set in america, and like everytime a character would make a call on their phones, it would bbbbring-bbring the UK way, not the American way and it drove me mad! lol
I've just got a fix committed for the WebKitGTK reporting the wrong AT-SPI roles thing. github.com/WebKit/WebKit/commi… Much thanks to Lukáš Tyrychtr for reporting the bug and identifying the commit that caused the regression. The fix is backported to the stable branch, but 2.50.4 was just released three days ago, so I'm guessing that a release with the fix will not be imminent. 2.51.4 does not have the fix, either. I've already patched Tumbleweed with the fix along with the update to 2.50.4. Maybe other distros want to add a patch until there's a new release.
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300090
Reviewed by Adrian Perez de Castro.
R296017 removed the Footer member from Atspi::Role and also added
SectionHeader and SectionFooter, which do not ...
@pvagner @nolan Thanks, Peter. That's good to know. I knew that Delta Chat wasn't working correctly with Orca anymore, but I've never used it and hadn't taken the time to investigate.
@Mike Gorse @Nolan Darilek There are two flavors of @Delta Chat (39c3) . The default one is electron based and it's working fine. The experimental one built with tauri is somewhat lighter when it comes to resource usage but has #a11y issues as it uses webkit-gtk under the hood rather than chromium. So my guess is this will improve the general accessibility of tauri based apps on linux.
En todo el artículo no se pone en duda, ni siquiera en una frase, la idea de violar el derecho internacional público y la inmunidad soberana, ni siquiera la conveniencia de actuar ilegalmente cuando así se desestabiliza el marco jurídico y se expone a Bélgica y la UE a represalias. Imperialismo 100%, ni un paso atrás, ni un instante de reflexión. Y a esto lo llaman autonomía estratégica en vez de lo que es, seguidismo atlantista.
Bazzite has a massive issue that kind of pisses me off: if Steam decides to update and something goes wrong, you're just screwed. Games won't launch, you won't be able to go to desktop mode from the UI, and you need to plug in a keyboard and drop into a tty to fix it. I thought this was a one off issue but it happened twice :(
I was planning to give an old pc to a younger family member as a steam console, but now I'm scared that this will randomly happen to them.
Frankly it makes Bazzite unusable for my living room setup if my experience is interrupted multiple times a week and I have to wait an hour to reinstall Steam.
Actually it's not "if anything goes wrong". It's "if you let Steam update from desktop mode, it destroys itself"...
And in some scenarios where game mode doesn't launch properly, Bazzite will fall back to desktop mode and Steam WILL update itself. So there's just no escape.
I set up a desktop computer with Debian stable with gnome and steam in desktop mode and an AMD video card, and that's been mostly fine.
The main problems I've had are sometimes the screen doesn't unblank after waking the system up, especially if it went to sleep with a game left running and so I've had to teach "hold the power button down for 10 seconds"
Also I have to occasionally remember to log into update the OS.
Kid has been able to launch games in desktop mode using mouse and keyboard since like first or second grade.
Maybe try the fedora atomic variant if you're looking for really low maintenance?
@alienghic this is why I picked bazzite-deck for them. For my own machine, I also wanted something I could use from the couch or on the go without needing a mouse and keyboard, but that doesn't work out when the whole thing is completely bugged
Wait, has anyone theorised that cave art of people hunting is not so much for "religious reasons" as straightforward illustrations of hunting tactics to communicate to other people in the tribe?
I probably wouldn't have gone through the effort of telling the cops anything though. That's their job, and frankly they're terrible at it when they have to do it alone. They don't prevent crime, and they're usually pretty bad at solving crimes. And they're always looking for a reason to turn you into a criminal anyway.
I'm surprised they didn't harass the hell out of this guy when he went in to give an official statement. RT: friedcheese.us/objects/cc69c3a…
I'm going to attach two files to this post. Both I found in a Time Machine backup from 2014. Both are speech synthesizers singing in a language that is not English. Both are ogg files, so I hope they will work. If anyone can identify these, please let me know. and feel free to boost for reach.
The language is German (with a horrible accent), and the song reminds me of Schubert by style, maybe it's one of his. I wonder how they made ESpeak to sing?
@menelion go back in time to about 2012 and ask Twitter. that's how I found both of these. I just can't remember who made them. I'm tempted to submit these to the dectalk archive, requesting they be put into the miscellanious folder temporarily until we find out who made them.
The official HD music video for “Sailing” by Rod Stewart, from his 1975 album Atlantic Crossing. One of Rod Stewart’s most enduring hits, Sailing became a wo...
If you think you might, someday, be looking for a job, ask yourself before every post, Is this something I want a prospective employer to associate me with? Because it's not only theoretically possible, it's quite likely.
follow #hashtags, using #Channels; or a better way?
@Friendica Support hello, i would like some help please to understand how to solve my confusion about the "right" way to follow #hashtags, using #Channels ... or otherwise some better way.
i follow a large number of hashtags [as a glance at my profile would attest]. afaict / afaik, fediverse posts bearing these tags appear [or are supposed to] in my "Network" timeline [with "Everybody" Circle & "Latest posts" Channel selected].
of my many tags, possibly my most "important" ones are #AusPol, #FOSS, & #Linux. in order to be able to efficiently locate all posts with these tags each day, rather than have to meticulously scroll down the full "Network" timeline [which is dissipated via also having all the other tags, & all my Followed accounts' posts], in Settings i created three dedicated Channels [one for each of those tags, ofc]. then i added each of those custom Channels to my Timelines, in Display Settings.
however, the result is just hopeless; really disappointing & frustrating. over recent years i have had several Friendica accounts, ie, at several instances, & doing the above has never worked properly in any of them, not only my current instance.
using the AusPol Channel for example, as it is the worst by far, every time i check it, its most recent post is several hours old, & often as bad as 12 - 18 hours old, with numerous other posts entirely missing.
i say "missing" because otoh, reviewing my Saved Search for #AusPol shows all these other posts, which therefore also appear, buried, in my full "Network" timeline.
over the months & years in exasperation, i have revisited the dedicated Channels in Settings, & for the Circle/Channel field have tried each of Latest posts, Latest Creation, Global community, & Latest activity, but none of them has solved the problem [indeed, a few make it even worse!].
please, what am i doing wrong? what aspect of Friendica's Settings have i been consistently misunderstanding / misusing, that causes this disappointment?
@Michael 🇺🇦 i do not understand your question / statement. if there is more info i can give you, pls help me understand what that might be, so that i can help you to help me. thanks.
With this setting you won't see any posts that haven't got attached pictures, videos or audio files. Also you should use "global community" as the channel to base the channel on. The channel "Latest posts" that you are using here shows only posts that you already have got in your timeline.
With this setting you won't see any posts that haven't got attached pictures, videos or audio files
OMZ! clearly i had no idea... i thought by ticking those boxes i was merely including all such posts along with text posts, not as you said actively excluding all text-only posts... that's a calamitous misunderstanding! that part of the Settings now desperately needs explanatory text there to guide users like me who had no way of knowing what you just explained.
should use "global community"
thank you! i shall now change that in all three of my custom channels [& ditto untick the three boxes in each].
so now i shall be very keen to see if, tomorrow morning, the behaviour has become much better 🤞 🤞 🤞
ps:
"Latest posts" that you are using here shows only posts that you already have got in your timeline
well ok, but i repeat part of my OP... atm, & historically, HEAPS of my followed-tag posts that are in my timeline [albeit "lost" amongst all the hundreds of other posts], simply never would also appear in my applicable custom channel for that tag. that said, now that you've also told me about those three ticked boxes, maybe that was causing what i just mentioned...?
Just try it out. You should already see the outcome of your changes, since channel posts are collected based on the current definition. You don't need to wait for some hours.
@Michael 🇺🇦 haha, you beat me to it... i just came back here to excitedly post a positive update... it is now working much much much better! it is now close enough to my originally envisaged ideal use-case as to be neither here nor there. finally, this is great! thx so much for --again-- solving one of my Friendica puzzles 🤗🙂
@Michael 🇺🇦 @Friendica Support @Droppie [opensoc] I suspect that he is concerned about the fact that the posts in the channels arrive delayed. I’ve been observing the same thing since I’ve been using these channels.
@Thomas fwiw... she. it's not just delayed, it's never appearing at all [or, if they happen to appear >24 hours late, then i regard that as "never", coz my desire / use-case is to use these custom channels first thing in the morning to see what happened overnight, then periodically check them during the day for subsequent new posts on those tags]. by the time tomorrow morn comes around, i'm then looking for the new batch, not still wondering where all those missing ones yesterday got to. how it actually works atm entirely breaks that desire. my biggest confusion about this is that i know my instance is able to access all those posts, coz me doing that manual tag search proves it... so why does the custom channel, configured also for that tag, fail to find the same posts? and i repeat, this is NOT a criticism of my current instance; all my older Friendica instances also failed at this. @Michael 🇺🇦
follow #hashtags, using #Channels; or a better way?
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I believe if you follow hashtags, posts with those tags appear on your 'Home' tab, not the 'Network' one. I believe the Network one is just the latest posts from other people in the Fediverse. But I could be wrong.
follow #hashtags, using #Channels; or a better way?
@Norm oh! 😲 🤯 that possibility honestly never crossed my mind. thank you. i will begin keeping an eye on that from now on, in hope it gives me a much better outcome.
WhatsApp Web has this cool bug where if you switch tabs or windows, when you return, it forces focus into the message list, even if that's not where it was before you left. Fuck sake Meta. Don't fuck with my focus! Guess I'll be hacking around this absurdity as well.
Okay, managed to hack around this: // When the tab loses focus, WhatsApp forces focus into the message list, // regardless of where it was before. Override that absurdity. It's in the latest version of my WhatsApp Web Accessibility Fixes Greasemonkey script: github.com/jcsteh/axSGrease/ra…
@Bri Heh. At least it's Greasemonkeyable, which isn't possible for native apps. But it'd be nice if Meta did things properly and I didn't have to hack around their bugs.
@adisonverlice Sure... so I could use Signal instead, which is utterly unusable with a screen reader on desktop, has no web app so I can't hack it to be more accessible, and kinda sucks with a screen reader on mobile. Totally agree with what you're saying, but unfortunately, I have a choice between Meta's crappy offering and... nothing else. At least nothing else that is usable or that anyone else who isn't a tech nerd uses.
@Bri @x0 What a time to be alive. An app I used to open without needing to really think about it to dash off a quick message now takes much longer to load, is at least an order of magnitude more verbose, and ideally needs to be hosted in a browser.
And you know what makes me angrier than all of that put together? The fact that one of the world's most resourceful companies has the power to interfere with the way real people communicate by refusing to do accessibility right, and nobody's even surprised because of how fucking normalised it is.
Haven't seen this but someone else mentioned it yesterday. No clue why this would be happening. I am about to take PTO for Christmas but I will look out for it when I get back. Sorry you're having to deal with this.
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).
***rant***: Silent youtube videos, or youtube videos with nothing but music over the top of them, regardless of their length, can fuck right off. Also, if I tell the algorithm that I'm not interested in a video for whatever reason, it had damn well better stop showing up in my feed. ***End of Rant***
Drag is protected speech. Federal courts already said this law is probably unconstitutional. Uthmeier is only enforcing it because of a legal loophole—not because it's suddenly okay.
The law is intentionally vague.
I got excited for about two seconds only to click on the link and realize it was Visual, nothing to do with music lol. Still cool though, but I can't take advantage of it at all. Have fun regardless.
Idea for #Apple and #Google: Include a setting for their #AI to give photos meaningful file names. Because I'm tired of trying to differentiate between 5187923061456387928_121.jpg and 5892706374823612537_353.jpg. P.S. It would have been nice if even without AI they gave names like current date, current time with seconds and a sequential number… dreaming is not forbidden? right? #Accessibility
In the ancient days, OSM was much simpler. You had the streets and roads.
A crossing was considered a barrier along the way for road users (i.e. cars), so one would place a node with where the crosswalk is located.
The data duplication on crossing nodes and crossing ways annoys me a lot. I also stopped tagging the button operation when I realized that all local crossing buttons are for audible signals only. There is also a problem with the audible signal tagging for crossings, where `=yes` is apparently supposed to equal `locate`+`walk` 😖
Listening to @bcmerchant.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy BLOOD IN THE MACHINE on @libro.fm@bsky.brid.gy and hit the part in the early 1800's where tradespeople worked from home, made their own hours, and the bosses said "We're putting an end to THAT shit", and reflecting on COVID "back to the office" mandates. Plus ça change ...
"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.
In nother news, the water in town is off because of some scheduled shutoff at the school or some such. Luckily my folks are prepared with bottled water so there was still coffee this morning.
In another random collection of A T History, I'm starting a YouTube playlist of ads for blindness agencies and companies, like this one for Recording for the Blind. I know there are ACB, NFB, AFB, CNIB, and other ads online as well. If you know of others I'd love to have them. I'll share the playlist once I have a decent amount. youtube.com/watch?v=2qEi0sLBPE…
@nolan I don't want to be the pain in the ass again, but do you have plans to update bevy_tts (and probably bevy_synthizer as well) to latest Bevy soon, or do you think it'd make more sense for me to fork them and keep them up to date myself?
Interested in having push access to the repos and publish access to the crates? TBH I'm a bit more intrigued by Godot these days, but I certainly want these crates to continue on.
OK, this week I can set you up with push access to the repos and crates.io permissions. What's your GH username? And thanks--I'm glad these aren't abandoned! I take it you want access to bevy_tts and bevy_synthizer? Any others?
I'm a blind developer from Germany with quite some experience in full stack web development as well as game and media programming, especially in Python. - Timtam
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