With the ice storm announced... What are your plans if you lose power for multiple days? At our old house we had a firewood fireplace. But we kinda have no backup plan here :/
Running a heater takes major wattage. A battery backup will only take you so far. People need to be making a bugout plan if they don’t have an alternate means of heating their home for at least 72-hours.
Also, it shouldn’t need to be said but running a gas stove or propane heater indoors is a no-go.
[EDIT: same goes for generators!]
People: remember to shut off your main water supply and open a few faucets before you go.
@crispius given how utilities (Hydro Quebec here) are blocking the deployment of house solar panels.... but they keep the electrical grid vulnerable to that kind of weather.
@hub BCHydro did the same thing here for years; de-incentivized people from installing home solar.
And now they’re running out of generating capacity, buying power from Alberta, and rebuilding lines that get destroyed every year because of wildfires. 🤦♂️
Hi all. Hope everyone is having a good Sunday so far. It's the last day of my vacation until Wednesday and then there'll be another break. It'll be quiet for the most part. I'll be going to a yoga class with a sound bath late this afternoon which will be lovely. Then just waiting to see what the latest storm will bring.
I took the last couple weeks off, but not the 2nd I'm pretty sure, so I have one day, then the weekend. But then I'm writing some documentation for a piece of Linux accessibility infrastructure that I maintain, and I need to clean it up, and a release is due on Saturday, so I have work to do anyhow. I'm really glad that I'm allowed to work on that when I don't have other important things to do, since it's kinda my responsibility regardless, unless someone takes it over from me. But then i might also have other things to work on, so we'll see. Sorry--I'm just rambling at you now, but I kinda wish I was off until the 5th.
@MikeGorse I didn't officially take Wednesday off but I'll talk to my supervisor tomorrow (unless we are home from the crap weather). I think she'll agree that it's dumb to be in the office as no one will be on campus and I need my admin there to do the pieces of work that needs doing before I tackle it.
Showerthought: Suno is The Sims for music. You can have a lot of fun with Suno, and even share some cool stuff. But nobody would share a livestream of The Sims and call it a movie. In the same way, creations made by Suno are neat, but they're an entirely different genre of thing than human music. Also, some of us have fun torturing our creations in both Suno and The Sims. Because Suno is incapable of saying "No, a modern pop version of that would not work and should not exist". As someone entirely nonmusical, it really does feel like having a musician trapped in my basement that I can torture with all of my impossible bad ideas.
"Moon bags" in Japan refer to stylish, crescent-shaped crossbody or shoulder bags, often with a sleek, structured design or inspired by Japanese aesthetics like minimalism and art, made from materials like leather or unique Japanese textiles, serving as fashionable, practical carriers for daily essentials. They're a trend focused on a curved, half-moon silhouette, popular for their modern look and versatility in carrying essentials hands-free. Also, perfect for the Cadence Braille displays. I'll be using one in the future to avoid my mishap again.
either completely removed with a toggle or presented under a heading (<hx> HTML tag). I'm totally blind, so contrasts, colors and borders don't work for me and anyway violate #Accessibility standards.
Fun fact: @kagihq allows users to block certain websites from showing up in search results (you can also pin websites to the top of results, or raise or lower them). They also provide stats (kagi.com/stats) including top domains being blocked. The top 7 domains blocked by users are all iterations of pinterest.
I had made that ugly hacky pretty bad attempt when I migrated my repos codeberg.org/nicoco/todoberg/ I should probably mention your project in the readme since chances are it's several orders of magnitude better. ^^
I have been trying to create a list for #fosdem26 and realized that (ironically) most of the people in the socialweb track ... does not have a fediverse account listed there.
I am also at fault, btw, so shame to me.
If you know someone who is presenting at #fosdem26 please send them my way. I will update this thread with the list of confirmed speakers.
@zilti@gts.lyrion.ch Hi, please can you accept my follow request? I'm already your follower at @clv0, but I'm migrating to this account now. Thanks in advance.
So installing Windows 11 LTSC alone did actually fix most of the Asus Driver issues I had. Wifi, bluetooth, and audio/speaker drivers work again. Still had to load the drive driver at installation, but well that was all. Glad I actually didn't have to bloat it with that stupid My Asus app and to have a suitable Laptop again. It's weird, I could've sworn it had 32 GB of Ram but can only see 16. Well I guess my brain is just rotting away...
Friend: It says the password is weak. My memory is weak too, let me keep this password.
Me: My friend, let me introduced you to KeePassXC, a free and opensource password manager for Windows/Linux/macOS desktop and Android (KeePassDX/KeePass2Android) app. There is also KeePassium for iOS which is free and has a pro version too. You can do cloud sync if you want.
You know both Android and iOS have built-in password managers that come pre installed. I just don't see any reasons for these days not to use any password managers. Your financial safety is in your hands. Please take care of it.
I need a voice chat application for Linux so my kids dont have to scream around the flat when they play luanti. Is mumble still the way to go or are there other open source alternatives you have tried and think they are good? #voicechat #mumble #luantier #selfhosting @homelab @homelab_de
What about selfhhosting a TeamTalk server? Was quite the go to in my blindie bubble for years, feel like many have ditched it for Discord at this point, including me, but still works great and simple. There are server hosting providers, but I think you'd rather setup thhe server yourself, there are management scripts and all to do it, but I guess it's not that hhard without either. bearware.dk/?page_id=327
So nice. We filmed a little thing together about electric cars and how blind people have a hard time hearing them back in 2015, and then he took me to dinner. Laughed the whole damn day.
An exploration of the potential dangers that electric cars pose to blind people. With the help of the truly inspirational Andre Louis, musician, audio expert...
Some doesn't apply now, all manufacturers had to add some kind of noise to their cars but it was certainly a problem when they were much newer, you know? Had such a blast filming with him though.
In 1991, a uni student from Finland started a "hobby" project because he couldn't afford to pay expensive Unix license that could run on a commodity hardware. At the time, he told on the mailing list that his project wouldn't be anything "big or professional."
It turned out that he was totally wrong.
Happy 56th Birthday to the creator of Linux kernel and git, Linus Torvalds! May you live healthy and happy forever. Thank you for all your hard work and providing us employment and keep it FLOSS😊
My laptop is set up about six feet away from the nearest wireless access point. For various reasons, I can't use Ethernet in the part of this house where I am most of the time.
There is no good reason why I am seeing latency spikes up to 200 MS, not to a remote server in Australia, not to my first internet hop, not even to my local router, but the access point itself.
Somewhere in this house, I have a never-used PoE switch. It's tempting to find that, connect the AP, my laptop and a couple of other devices directly to that switch, and probably get less latency to stuff even though the backhall to the rest of the world will still be wireless.
Wie zu erwarten und von mir schon im Vorfeld kritisiert war der Barrierefreiheitsvortrag beim #39c3 ganz großer Unfug und voller fachlicher Fehler, die für Inklusion eher schädlich und teilweise sogar Ratschläge für illegales Verhalten sind.
Wir machens besser, führen Details aus und stellen quasi alles richtig. Heute 17:00 live auf Twitch mit einer Reaction bei @bommel: twitch.tv/bommel
glitches are my specialty / fluffy on the outside, tender on the inside / second most infectious laugh // I am a variety streamer for all things fun: gaming, crafting, talks, reactions - whatever is the best for my current situation
Darf ich einen Hinweis darauf, evtl. auch mit Deinem Text, bei Bluesky posten? Dort wird der #39 C3 ja auch verfolgt, und auch dort ist der Vortrag beim Durchblättern des Hashtags schon Thema gewesen. Oder ist 1 von euch beiden auch dort, dann reposte ich einen entsprechenden Post gern.
Habe den Kampf gegen die Bluesky-Eigenheiten gewonnen und einen sinnvollen Post zusammenbekommen aus Deinem Beitrag hier. Allerdings ohne euch dort zu taggen, die Autovervollständigung hat sich geweigert, warum auch immer. Aber denke das geht auch so. Das wichtigste, der Twitch-Link und die Uhrzeit, sind drin.
Na serveru HN vyšel článek o USB-C a já na něj prostě musím reagovat. Kromě několika nepřesností se strhla i vlna nesmyslů a mýtů na sociálních sítích.
když jsem ten článek v HN četl, taky jsem si hodně věcí označoval (slovy klasika) nesouhlasnou červenou vlnovkou. Na OpenAltu měl Altair letos přednášku, která byla taky plná polopravd a zavádějících tvrzení. Že by nějaká krize středního věku? 🤔
You died by Running into a masonjar, at 20, 1887, with a confidence level of 70, and 960 points. You survived for 2 minutes, 58 seconds! You destroyed 4 obstacles, and picked up 27 coins! This run was played on hard.
So, yesterdays Bluetooth hacking talk showed that an attacker can pretend to be your headphones and get a WhatsApp code via voice remotely to connect to your WhatsApp on there device, then login to your Amazon account with your phone number and WhatsApp account. #39c3
Brigitte Bardot ist tot. Die frühere Schauspielerin starb im Alter von 91 Jahren, wie ihre Stiftung mitteilte. Seit den 1970er-Jahren hatte sich die Französin vor allem für den Tierschutz eingesetzt.
Krásné dobré ráno mastodoňátka! 🙋♀️🐶🐈 Sluníčko tu ještě ráno bylo! Vážně! Celé červené se vylouplo na svět. S Lordem Archibaldem jsme je přivítali. Pak se odněkud vzaly mraky a hodily na něj deku. Místo toho fouká zase ostrý studený vítr, je šedivo a občas kolem prolétne malinký bílý osamocený drobeček. No nic. My si ten den rozsvítíme jinak. Jeho Lordstvo bedlivě sleduje dění v kuchyni. Potomci si chystají snídani a tudíž je jisté malinké procento naděje na získání něčeho dobrého. Sir Artur se oddává studiu ornitologie u zasypaných krmítek. Obávám se, že i on se opájí nadějí na 'kousek něčeho dobrého'. Přede mnou stojí talíř s neubývající zásobou cukroví, sušeným ovocem a voňavá káva. Takže také cosi dobrého. No a vám přejeme ať si v dnešním dni naleznete cokoli, co vás učiní šťastnými. 😊 #dobre_rano #dobréRáno
@sandro there is a long trail history how openpgp evolved. We didn't mean to fully educate about this 20+ years history, just highlight that modern #openpgp #rfc9580 and #rpgp is pretty fine. Nevertheless, rpgp authors will carefully look if anything in #gpgfail could be an issue. Details haven't been fully published yet.
This is all being presented in extremely confusing manner.
If anyone is confused, multiple vulnerabilities were found in GPG. The author ignored them for several months, then posted a gas lighting message not to use a certain function instead of patching it. Get ready for the book length gas lighting response of all the other issues that were found.
@SnowBlind2005 We just tried to note that so far we see no way how delta chat and it's end to end encryption guarantees would be affected by gpgfail. What is confusing about that?
@m yes, rpgp folks are checking this in more detail. It's relatively certain, though, that deltachat's intentionally minimal usage of openpgp (and rpgp) is not touching the problematic code paths and issues identified in gpgfail. Give it a bit of time. There was no upfront disclosure of anything to rpgp folks, and it's Sunday in a see of holidays around, and #39c3 is still ongoing.
Thanks for the pro-active reach out. Really appreciated. I find "security audited multiple times" not very reassuring though, heard it to many times already...
Can you go a bit into detail why you think Deltachat (or its underlying library) is safe against the mentioned gpg.fail attacks?
@jan once details are published, and #39c3 is over, well take another look. But note that #deltachat's usage of #openpgp is intentionally minimal. #Gpgfail is a lot about failures of signature verification, and parsing problems in the gpg c-implementation but #deltachat doesn't use these mechanisms or code at all. The @rpgp folks are still studying the details, and there might be issues, so maybe also follow them for more details. Again, this doesn't affect deltachat as things stand.
ayer echaron una película de estas del año de la polca, se armó el belén, de 1970. Tengo que reconocer que me sorprendieron algunas cosas: por ejemplo, que se reconociera la existencia de comunistas, y que su tratamiento en la película es razonablemente positivo (gente honesta con distintas posiciones).
While this type of analysis is exhilarating, I am unsure that calling anyone stupid, ignorant, *ist, is part of building a better world. I can't help but think that this "us kind educated vs them ignorant barbarians" mentality is going to lead us anywhere good. I don't claim to have a solution though. :(
Average income per person is an extremely misleading metric in that context. At the beginning of the 20th century, the average "effective income" of a person was much lower as it is now, as there was usually 1 working person per couple, where now you have 2.
(accidentally puts my partner on hold several times with my prominent cheekbone accidentally making contact with this damn touchscreen) oh yeah, this is the golden fuckin age of fuckin technology alright
And butt-dialing... How the hell do we still do that with touch screens? I get it in the previous age of buttons, but it still happens now! How? Why? What?
Hubert Figuière
in reply to Stéphanie • • •last time it's internet that was down the longest. (actually it was Videotron infrastructure that was)
We have a fireplace for the heat.
Stéphanie
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in reply to Stéphanie • • •Running a heater takes major wattage. A battery backup will only take you so far. People need to be making a bugout plan if they don’t have an alternate means of heating their home for at least 72-hours.
Also, it shouldn’t need to be said but running a gas stove or propane heater indoors is a no-go.
[EDIT: same goes for generators!]
People: remember to shut off your main water supply and open a few faucets before you go.
[EDIT 2: and go fill up/charge your cars NOW]
#EmergencyPreparedness #ONStorm
Hubert Figuière
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BCHydro did the same thing here for years; de-incentivized people from installing home solar.
And now they’re running out of generating capacity, buying power from Alberta, and rebuilding lines that get destroyed every year because of wildfires. 🤦♂️