Re last: I absolutely love doing accessibility work with Jujutsu. Often I start with an inaccessible base and iterate my way out of the fog--fixing one accessibility issue only reveals another, and another. Git's model makes that tricky--make commits, then individually peel them off onto separate branches when it's time to merge.

With JJ on the other hand, I can stack changes one on top of the other without even thinking about it. Fix accessibility issue, jj new, fix another, jj new. It's usually obvious from jj diff what I fixed, so I can jj edit and jj describe the changes later if I'm just in the zone and don't want to workshop a commit description right now. When it's time to pick apart PRs, jj rebase -s q -s r -s s -s t -d p rebases everything on the most recent upstream change at once, then I just jj edit q and jj bookmark set <branch-name> for each change. A jj git push --allow-new pushes everything at once. When the inevitable PR feedback arrives I just jj edit <bookmark name>, make the changes, and jj git push again. No need to explicitly re-commit since that happens automatically. Then when I want my own private build with all the new a11y goodness, jj new q r s t puts me in a brand new commit with everything merged. Find a new accessibility issue with code I've edited? No problem--just edit the code live on my change, jj absorb, and it merges that code into whichever revision in my history last touched it. If it's at all ambiguous, jj squash merges the changes into an explicit target, and a jj git push updates all the affected PRs without me having to think about it.

Where has this been all my life?

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When people say: "billionaires shouldn't exist" that isn't a call to violence. "Being a billionaire" isn't some inherent property in the way that say, skin color is.

Wealth taxation is a perfectly acceptable way of eliminating all billionaires. That doesn't mean billionaires stop being people, they just stop being billionaires.

Mastodon* is in desperate need of a rebrand and a repositioning in the minds of the general public (imo).

There's no reason why a Mastodon address couldn't come with all the cachet of a public library card, or a PBS tote bag—that is to say something that signals “I am more than just a content creation machine for a corporation.”

It could be a status symbol for all the right reasons.

*The collective brand, so much as the general public sees Mastodon as such.

MONTAR UNA COMUNIDAD ENERGÉTICA

+ Para instalar autoconsumo colectivo en tejados que no son el tuyo, entre otras posibilidades...

☀️ ¿Qué es eso de una Comunidad Energética?☀️

La figura de las comunidades energéticas son conceptualmente difíciles porque tienden a explicarse con enrevesados textos legalistas, a pesar de que el concepto es tremendamente sencillo:

👉 Una comunidad energética es un tipo de asociación o de cooperativa (gente, comercios e instituciones juntas, pero no grandes empresas) haciendo cosas sobre energía. Cosas en general.

Tú, tu primo, la dueña de la frutería del bajo del edificio de enfrente y más personas conocidas más podéis juntaros un día a tomar un café, costituiros como asociación y montar la comunidad energética. Lo cierto es que es relativamente fácil y hay muchos modelos de estatutos para hacerlo (más adelante pasaré unos cuantos), siempre y cuando tengáis en cuenta algunas normas básicas como:

1) Las grandes empresas no tienen permiso para ser asociadas o cooperativistas. Sí pueden ser proveedores de servicios o productos, pero mi consejo es que las grandes empresas queden absolutamente fuera de estos sistemas hechos por y para la gente. Si me preguntas a mí, las CE son uno de los mecanismos que existen para debilitar a las grandes empresas.

2) Las personas socias tienen una participación abierta, voluntaria y autónoma. Pueden entrar o salir a voluntad, y tienen voz y voto.

3) La prioridad son los beneficios medioambientales, económicos y sociales para sus miembros y zona donde opera. No ganancias financieras. Nadie se va a hacer rico con una comunidad energética.

Dentro hilo. 👇

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dime si quieres que cambie algo
muchas gracias!!

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El título, para joderte la slug jajajajaj

Marcos M. Euklidiadas, porfi, que para algo que tengo distinto... xD

"montar-una-comunidad-energetica-por-marcos-m-euklidiadas/" si puede ser

Luego el tema de los recursos, puedes poner el enlace a cryptpad o bajártelos y resubirlos, lo que quieras.

Pero sin compromiso, vamos, que hagas como te parezca xD

"The mistake that every investor, commentator, analyst and member of the media makes about NVIDIA is believing that its sales are an expression of demand for AI compute, when it’s really more of a statement about the availability of debt from banks and private credit."

-Ed Zitron

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In programming, we have a nice pair of opposed acronyms:

• DRY for "Don't Repeat Yourself"
• WET for its opposite, "Write Everything Twice" (or "We Enjoy Typing")

But there's an intermediate position. The benefit of DRY, other than brevity, is that if a thing is specified just once, the specifications can't get out of sync with each other. If you can't manage that, the next best thing is to make sure the compiler or test suite _checks_ that they're in sync. You have to do more typing than you'd like, but at least you've removed the risk of an accident, which is the _most_ important thing.

(For example, in Rust, if you add a new branch to an enum and forget to update one of its match statements, the compiler complains about the one you missed.)

I feel as if there ought to be a nice intermediate acronym for that state of affairs, so you can say "Weeell, it's not as DRY as I'd like, but at least it's only MOIST." Or DAMP, or HUMID or something.

"Match Or Interpreter Spots Trouble"?
"Disallow Almost-Matching Programs"?
"Holler Unless Many Instances Dovetail"?

Not sure about any of those. The last one in particular seems especially "you resorted to a thesaurus, didn't you?".

I've got enough pending accessibility-related PRs on my Godot fork such that the editor is almost pleasant to use. Made the scene tree labeled and usable, fixed tab bar navigation so it wraps and doesn't just dump focus wherever if you mistakenly arrow past a tab border, added regions/landmarks to major editor areas so you know where you are, labeled more unlabeled weirdness.

Going to spend the next week mostly hacking on this before switching back to more "productive" work. It might be about time to start working on making the tilemap and audio editors accessible.

I have this crazy idea that it might actually be easier to rewrite and finish System Fault in Godot than to keep up with the perpetual Bevy churn, along with trying to create pathfinding and other systems entirely from scratch and without seeing the results. Even if I rewrote by hand rather than leaning on gen AI, I can drop bunches of buggy pathfinding/visibility code and just focus on the gameplay itself. I'd often said that System Fault could be done already if I could have used an actual, production-ready game engine to build it. I guess soon we'll see.

And to be clear, none of this is a slam on Bevy which has been great. It's just been a huge lift maintaining bunches of code that does what other engines do out of the box, plus keeping up with the inevitable changes caused by building on third-party libraries to make my life easier, then rebuilding when those libraries go away. Bevy will get there eventually, but not on a timeline that has me finishing this thing anytime soon.

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Когда я была ещё маленьким аутёнком и не понимала людей, я решила прочесть одну из книг-инструкций Дейла Карнеги.
Прочла.
Из всех советов помню единственный: подумали что-то хорошее о человеке — скажите ему.

В подростковом возрасте следовать совету для меня было почти невозможно, но со временем получилось. И всем хорошо: человеку — от комплимента, а тебе — от его радости.

В итоге, понимать людей мне помогли не инструкции, а тонны прочитанной художественной литературы и внимательное наблюдение за окружающими. Так что мало кто разглядит во мне того аутёнка теперь. (А он есть.)

Alternatives européennes et open source aux GAFAM
En 2025, plusieurs alternatives européennes et open source aux GAFAM se distinguent, notamment pour répondre aux enjeux de souveraineté numérique, de respect de la vie privée et de conformité au RGPD.
https://www.mapao.net/actualites-web/982-alternatives-européennes-et-open-source-aux-gafam.html

#opensource #logiciellibre #europe #RGPD

I’ve just gotten culture shock.

Those of you keeping track will know that I did a Christmas market tour early December last year. I ended up downloading the Karlsruhe transit authority’s (KVV) app and buying a day ticket or two off them.

These days I’m more familiar with German transit ticketing, so I haven’t used the KVV app since then.

And today I have received this SMS, telling me they’re going to delete my account soon.

⁃ A company that is systematically deleting accounts after a year?
⁃ That takes their data protection responsibilities seriously?
⁃ That proactively informs their data subjects with plenty of time to cope?
⁃ That doesn’t do so using dark marketing patterns that try to guilt me into staying?
⁃ Or upsell me?
⁃ Or trick me into clicking somewhere as the only way to exercise my rights?

I am agog. My flabber is truly ghasted.

Genuinely, this sort of attitude needs to be praised. It’s been 10 years since GDPR, and this sort of thing is still that rare.

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Sorry, a little more gushing on this message:

⁃ It was sent by SMS to my Spanish number. They don’t care that the number is not German. Their systems will allow this.
⁃ It was sent by SMS, not WhatsApp, which is annoyingly increasingly becoming the default messaging platform for this sort of thing, thus making an American company the mediator of all your messages.
⁃ It was sent in English, my language of choice on their website and app, their processes are capable of checking my language preferences
⁃ No link was included. Nor instructions. If you care about this, it’s obvious what to do. No need to send something that can be turned into a Phishing vector
⁃ My name wasn’t mentioned, no need to attempt to gender me by giving me a title

None of these things are standard yet, and they should be. If you work for a consumer-facing company, can you say that your customer data will be treated this way?

Almost makes me want to keep my account with them, just for the respect they’ve shown

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You might not notice it in your peer group, when you are not their age, but my daughter showed me that many 20-30yr olds are switching to dumb phones, are cancelling their Facebook/tiktok/twitter accounts and are discovering libraries and printed books. As a conscious decision. Not all of them, but quite a lot and it's growing.

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another nice thing you can do with delta chat is having in-chat tools like shopping lists in the family chat where anyone can add or mark an item as done and is marked for everyone, collaborative text pad, to-do lists, split bills, mini-games etc. you can even write your own small utility apps and share it in the chats and your contacts will be able to use them in all platforms

the speed is of chatting is realtime if you use the optimized chatmail relays instead of classic email

Iran may be on the verge of Internet shutdowns again. If you have friends or family in #Iran, now is the time to let them onboard for example with tiiiz.ir -- because using in-country servers helps to stay connected. If you need support for setting up a relay in or for Iran, send us a DM and we'll see to connect you with other knowledgeable operators.
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Please remember the 6-2-1 rule:

6 hours of sleep
2 warm meals
1 shower

Per day.
Not per Congress.

Please don't overwork yourself. If you feel exhausted, please take a break. Pease don't hesitate to call us via DECT 1023 at any time to sign out of a shift if you can't make it or feel uncomfortable for any reason.

P.S.: Drink more water!

#39C3

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26 years ago, on December 28 1999, we migrated the main #curl source code from self-hosted to Sourceforge.

It was the new hot thing. Imagine the idea of a dedicated service devoted to nothing but hosting code!

We then kept the code there for ten years (on CVS). A period when the distributed version control systems really exploded.

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Můj zlozvyk číslo 1:
V rámci úspory času a nachozených kroků jsem začal strategicky přemýšlet, co všechno můžu při jedné cestě z jedné místnosti do druhé udělat nebo vzít. Nejdřív mi to dávalo smysl, ale posléze jsem toto začal praktikovat i v práci, což se trochu začínalo zvrtávat. Typickým příkladem je vaření kafe ráno po příchodu do práce. Do toho si ještě nosím vodu z automatu a někdy i talíř na snídani. Kávovar je ráno potřeba zapnout, vyhodit logr, doplnit vodu. Někdy si během toho ještě strategicky odběhnu na záchod. I když jsem si všechno strategicky plánoval, pak jsem na jednotlivé podúkoly začal zapomínat. Výsledkem bylo, že když jsem se na stejnou trasu vrátil za 20 minut, viděl jsem nachystaný talíř k odnesení, uvařené kafe nebo někde na mě ještě číhala lžička. Cítil jsem se zoufale.

Die #DB_Bahn sollte sich lieber mal fragen, wieso Menschen mit Rollstuhl 'verladen' werden müssen - wär sie nämlich #barrierefei gäbs das Problem nämlich nicht.

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Mal abgesehen davon, dass Menschen mit Hilfebedarf aufgrund fehlender #Barrierefreiheit ja nicht mal spontan reisen können sondern sich vorher erstmal beim Mobilitätservice anmelden müssen.

Der nach meinem letzten Kenntnisstand eine kostenpflichtige Rufnummer hat.

#Inklusion ist ein Menschenrecht

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manchmal? Ein bisschen? Vielleicht solltest du mal @HoernchenCecile folgen...

Und ja klar gibt's nette, freundliche & bemühte Mitarbeitende, das hab ich nicht in Frage gestellt. Die Tatsache, dass diese aber 2025 immer noch notwendig sind, taugt aber halt genauso wenig wie Menschen im Rollstuhl nur als 'Rollstuhl' zu bezeichnen.

Ist ja nicht das erste Mal, dass so eine Durchsage die Runde macht - allein der (mediale) Aufschrei fehlt - im Zug hat's ja auch niemanden interessiert

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Die Bahn begründet oft Verspätung mit dem Einladen eines Rollstuhls oder - etwas besser formuliert trotzdem diskriminierend - wegen Unterstützung beim Ein- und Ausstieg.

Der Grund ist die nicht vorhandene #Barrierefreiheit! #BarriereBahn

ich wurde schon mal ausführlich per Lautsprecherdurchsage beschimpft.
Bei einem Halt wartete der Mobilitätsservice, ich sagte aber ich wolle nicht aussteigen, ich wolle beim nächsten Halt aussteigen, wegen der Verspätung komme ich so schneller an mein Ziel.

Der Mobilitätsservice verhielt sich als sei es ein "Service" und ich war die böse die absagt. Obwohl es Grundrecht ist mitfahren zu können und den "Service" gibts nur wegen der Barrieren. Aber die Auseiunandersetzung ging hin und her es wurde dirskutiert weil die wollten dass ich da aussteige und nicht beim nächsten Halt und ich was so, ich entscheide selbst.

Dann der Knaller mit der Durchsage als der Zug weiter fuhr. Man habe Verspätung weil ein Rollstuhlfahrer (sic!) - immerhin nicht nur der Rollstuhl - sich geweigert habe ausszusteigen.

Dann kam die Schaffnerin persönlich zu mir um mir auch noch vor den Fahrgästen eine Lektion zu erteilen. Die Fahrgäste solidaridierten sich zum Glück (das ist nicht immer der Fall) mit mir und die Schaffnerin war sauer, ging aber weg.

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Today is not the first time an agentic coding agent has unblocked me. It turns out that the Winlibs package currently ships a version of CMake using libcurl without a valid SSL cert. As such, trying to build anything that requires an HTTPS download will fail, while working everywhere else. This stumped both me and one of my most talented debugger friends yesterday, claude figured it out in 5 minutes this morning.

Ich habe die letzte Woche viel mit #Perplexity experimentiert. jetzt habe ich noch fast ein Jahr einen gratis Pro-Zugang und absolut keinen Bedarf daran. Es gab in der Zeit nur eine einzige Konversation, in der mir kein Fehler aufgefallen ist, der zu Fehlkäufen bzw. Fehlentscheidungen geführt hätte. Was das für die erstellung von Code bedeutet, mag ich mir ehrlich gesagt nicht ausmalen.

Es kann menschliche Sprache glaubwürdig nachbilden. Wenn es um korrekte Informationen geht, selbst im Mainstream, versagt diese Technologie krachend. Ja, vermutlich bleiben LLM. Aber dieser Hype und die Anwendungsfälle, die immer wieder skizziert werden, sind wirklich albern und gefährlich.

I did a quick unscientific comparison. AI generated drums and bass for a snippet of a cover version versus me hobbling through those parts with software instruments, playing from memory of hearing it recently.

I invested a similar amount of time in total to reach the second verse of the song. With the generative engine, I only started paying attention to time spent *after* figuring out enough of the horrible UI accessibility to be able to get anything done with it, so although that will inevitably cloud my judgment of whether I enjoyed the UX, it shouldn't impact the comparison of musicality/usefulness.

In both cases, the original song was playing for reference with its rhythm section removed. I've turned the original down pretty quiet in these examples, loud enough to be recognisable but hopefully balanced in a way that makes it easy to focus on the differences in drums and bass.

Audio coming up. 1/4

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I played the drums and bass in this version on keys here, using software instruments, so a totally silent recording setup that I could make at 4AM with a sleeping partner in the same room. I'm not much of a keys player and I don't have absolute pitch or a good enough memory to recall parts note for note, hit for hit, this was just a gut instinct jam-along.

Drums were recorded in two passes, I played the kicks snares and toms first, then overdubbed hats and cymbals. In both cases I did some light tweaking of the MIDI to get a few stray velocities and timing gufties straightened out. 3/4

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@chikim There wasn't any mixing. I did a small amount of tweaking of the starting presets in each instrument just so they sounded a bit closer to what I was imagining, nothing drastic enough to make or break whether they'd sound workable though. Then I turned the volume of the original down before I rendered, which wouldn't have been a necessary step at all outside of this comparison context. That's all. Do those choices need democratising? Who for?
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As a side note, there’s a guy who generates AI music, uploads it to streaming services as a side gig, and makes a few hundred bucks a month. I wonder what percentage of musicians actually make a few hundred dollars a month from streaming service? AI music has even hit the top of the Billboard charts. I’m not advocating for Suno or anything, just pointing out the sad reality.
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@chikim Last week I had a session helping someone remake a beat that was from Suno. I've heard plenty of examples now where the generative part coming first then humans doing their thing after/on it can turn out good. In part that's why I'm surprised this gave me such a shit result. I didn't think the order of events being flipped around would make the result so different.
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I don't use Suno enough to say for sure. I just generate bunch of stupid songs when my kids ask. lol My guess is they focus more on mass use, where you generate from text prompts, rather than professional workflows where you feed in audio and augment it. Also is this from v4.5-all or v5? Have you looked at the Suno Studio? It looks very interesting workflow. youtube.com/watch?v=qR4BefPvSi…
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Also, when I said AI is often about democratizing, I meant it in a general sense too. I know you already understand this, and I am generalizing, but Deaf people might use AI to generate speech transcription, blind people might use AI to generate image descriptions or even create a cover art for their albums, and I have even heard of people who cannot afford a lawyer successfully using AI to fight insurance companies. In each case, it lowers the barrier to access.
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@chikim Well sure, I understand what democratizing is and in many cases I'm in favour of it. TBH I can't really say I'm against it in this scenario either. It's more like... I dunno... I'm surprised that even as a barely function keys player and probably less than 5 minutes of tweaking sounds, I could throw together something that's more usable than this thing that some people are paying money for.
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Why are you using generative ai when you have focused so much of your time on making reaper accessible and do your own music? Also, now that you have uploaded music that you made to I am guessing suno or udio, now they have your music and can train there ai off of what you made. You basically just gave them free work and they don't have to pay you for your time and they can just steal your music so someone else can make money off of it.
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@michaeljohann_ That wasn't my music, it was a cover of a hugely established band that will have already been scraped for training if that's how they're doing it. This was a quick experiment to see what generative AI provides in this context. As someone who teaches a lot of folks coming into making music for the first time it makes sense for me to be at least broadly informed about what's out there.
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Fare enough as a musician I really don't like to see people using there own music for AI for the reasons I mentioned earlier I understand wanting to learn it to educate people about it. I just tell people to stay away from it and spend the time you would to use ai to learn a daw or an instrument. You will get better results and actually learn something rather then typing in prompts to a computer, but maybe I shouldn't be so harsh.

Keine Lust auf das neue Jahr und alles? Dann ist vielleicht der Nope-Fuchs der richtige Begleiter 🦊. Ihr könnt ihn bei Supergeek adoptieren✨.

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NO NO NO

#WarAgainstAltbot

"the vision stuff"

#blind

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I am blind. Seeing people who think I'm not worth the effort fill my timeline with AltBot generated AI stuff that isn't even accurate in lots of cases.

Human alt text is always better, because it doesn´t focus on ocular seeing. Seeing people think, and AltBot was designed around that notion, that blind people must compensate for missing "eye-seeing", but that's not the case. I am interested in the meaning of an image to you, its maker or publisher.

Again, human alt text is better, also because it strengthens reciprocity between seeing and blind people. AltBot doesn't but it makes seeing people believe they have done their bit for accessibility. In actuality, the reverse is often true.

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