My screen reader just spoke the following text:
Make 2026 the year you sound like a pro level slider.
yes, I'll definitely be doing that. Amateur level sliders are just terrible, and they suck.
of course, this was an email with the level slider emoji, 🎚️ right after the word pro.
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If I wanted to be on a "better" Twitter after the Musk takeover, I would open a BlueSky account. It delivers the same centralised, algorithm driven experience that divides in overhyped influencers and mere click fodder users, just the way all centralised "social" networks are designed to be.
And that's why I am NOT on BlueSky but here on the Fediverse. The Fediverse isn't a better X, Facebook, Instagram. It's the Fediverse. People to people. Embrace the principle and you will be happy here!
The @TetraLogical team has gathered (online) for a day of retrospectives, updates, and opportunities to continue innovating what we do and the services we offer, plus a Christmas quiz to wrap it all up.
There might also be a selection of Christmas hats on display, and there's a rumour going around that my hat might not be black! 😊
RE: mastodon.social/@dansup/115758…
The people who dislike The Algorithm™ are either consumers who basically just want an RSS feed reader (nothing wrong with that) or people who brought audiences over from other platforms.
If you’re trying to create something and find an audience for it on the #Fediverse, you need some sort of recommendation algorithm. Otherwise, you’re just posting into the void.
Friendly reminder, a reverse chronological feed like Mastodon and Pixelfed use are technically algorithms.Mastodon
@tennoseremel sure. And Mastodon works fine for people who don't want that. But what about the creators do want that?
Mastodon needs 'content' to attract new audiences. And content creators need ways for those audiences to discover them.
I pass through the Solstice gate
And I am changed.
I squeeze and slip
Through the narrow place,
The thin place,
Where all our years are seen,
And worlds stack like sheets of glass.
I pass through the Solstice gate
And I am changed.
I leave behind what cannot fit,
Shedding self like snakeskin,
Discarded as old, ill-fitting clothes.
In the no-time, no-place, nothing,
I lose myself, to find it all.
I pass through the Solstice gate,
The threshold, one of three,
And I am changed.
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TL:DR Mat is a corporate slave, is really tired, and is getting fucked over
Now I don't need to tell you all capitalism is shit but it's wearing me down right now. A whole year with no more than 6 days in a row off, I'm set for 2 full weeks holiday over Christmas, starting last Friday.
Yeah, so some fucker makes comments in a meeting with the fucking CEO of the company, trying to deflect from a shit job they did, risking tens of millions of dollars, and put it on me and my team because I wasn't there to defend us, despite us being the only group to actually do a good job and not fuck up.
So yeah, worked the first 3 days of my Christmas "holiday", including a conference call in the middle of a family celebration meal. Tomorrow I have to find a quiet place for a call with the CEO and all the global Executive leadership to defend my team, who have done an amazing job cleaning up other people's shit, during a day out with friends visiting an exhibition, having a meal and going to football match.
This was my reward for the year, some carefree time, and it's just been laced with anxiety and, frankly, unpaid labour.
Apologies, I'm ranting.
Please don't reply with "fuck them, don't do it" or, "get a different job man" or whatever. It's really not that simple. I've been in this game 25 years but the timing is particularly bad this time.
New Year, new digital life: it's time to #deGoogle! 🎉 ❤️
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In der Vorweihnachtszeit haben sie es besonders eilig: die Paketboten. Sie klingeln, rufen Namen, balancieren Kartons und verschwinden so schnell wieder, wie sie gekommen sind. Vor allem in Stadtteilen wie dem Wedding, wo Häuser selten nur ein Vorderhaus haben, sondern auch Seitenflügel, Quergebäude und Hinterhöfe, ist ihre Arbeit eine kleine logistische Meisterleistung.
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Download Eye Yay - Public domain player by Bucket Brigade Software Limited on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games…App Store
"Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung has signed Decision No. 2736/QD-TTg, approving the plan to implement the master plan for the development and application of nuclear energy through 2030, with a vision to 2050."
Wer kommt denn bitte auf die Idee, Badezimmerwände aus Glas zu bauen.
Habe kurz überlegt, ob ich es sexy finde, dem Liebsten beim Duschen zuzusenden. Und meine Antwort lautet nein.
Aber vielleicht hat auch gefehlt, dass er mir eine "Duschshow" bietet. 😂
Question for the Mastodon hive mind:
Primer:
I have a need to convert, resize, reorient, and transcode video for various stages of our video edit and distribution pipeline. I've been doing all of this in ffMpeg, via command line arguments and custom-coded scripts. However, the needs of this thing just simply don't scale that way. And no one but me gets access to the CLI on these systems. So that's just not feseable.
Now finally, to the question.
I am looking for an open-source web frontend to ffMpeg that is, if not fully accessible, as that is a very tall order, but at least usable by an experienced screen reader user with the typical tools and hacks learned over twenty years of experience. Just something that doesn't make accessibility a barrier and most importantly, a time waster.
Please boost far and wide for reach, with thanks.
Ready! Set! Fire!
#A11Y #Accessibility #ffmpeg #web #Interface #WebUI #UI #UX
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Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.
Me quedan 3 días de trabajo este año. A ver si acaba bien.
RE: social.anoxinon.de/@codebergst…
Having received some of this spam it is interesting to see the type of language used:
"what's the point of using [...] if it can't be trusted"
"I expected better"
"This is very frustrating!"
"it's entirely unacceptable"
"Not addressing this is just pointless and leads to wasted time for users like me."
Makes you wonder: is abusive behaviour in project issues so common in LLM training data or did they explicitly ask to be so mean?
Food for thought, but no matter what this is quite sad stuff...
We investigated performance issues on our systems. The cause was identified to be huge inrush in AI-generated nonsense spam creation that slows the notification system.social.anoxinon.de - Mastodon
I'm looking for recommendations for your favorite lesser known console games from the 90s.
I'm going to talk about some of mine. Modern fan games for 90s consoles are also fair game.
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Looked into if Firefox had support for GNU/Hurd. Someone submitted a patch and spent 10 years rebasing it and being ignored and then told to rebase it again because it was outdated, before it was closed as wontfix since there's no rust compiler.
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
RESOLVED (nobody) in Core - General. Last updated 2024-05-28.bugzilla.mozilla.org
it gets better--it turns out there actually is rust support.
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