@mischievoustomato I can't call myself a programmer, never really been paid to "build something" as my primary job description.
I'm a sysadmin/network guy who has been up to his eyeballs in Linux/BSD for a long time and spent a lot of time reading code and fixing things.
I'm not fluent in PHP, but I've fixed customers' PHP apps before.
I've reworked a patches to C/C++ projects to make them compile again on newer OS or library or whatever
Give me a targeted error or problem and I can probably figure it out.
Ask me to build/design something from scratch and even though I have a lot of ideas in my head about the right way to do things because I try to pay attention to best practices, security, performance and have a pretty wide range of knowledge... I'm more likely than not to produce an amateurish pile of garbage
If someone else provided me with a complete technical design to follow of how it should work, there's a much better chance I can be successful or at least not waste so much time
Hi there! I see over in Disable primary-paste by default (!119) · Merge requests · GNOME / gsettings-desktop-schemas · GitLab that Gnome is considering removing middle-click paste.
it's a change of default that will likely come with a move of the existing switch from the tweaks applications and into the system settings; nothing is getting removed
I can confidently say that there are no plans for removal at any point in time, as much as I personally don't like this feature. The fact that a whole interface was added to Wayland by GNOME developers to simulate the original X11 behaviour should make the same point.
OK so I've been talking about The End of UX for a while now.
I want to shoutout the @firefoxwebdevs account for *not* ending UX. They are engaging with some pretty heated feedback regarding LLM-related UI and having a genuine dialogue. I may be pretty much on the side of the heated feedback, but I also want to give credit where credit is due.
The End of UX would be to say "we'll design this however we want and you'll just love it” rather than engage. FF isn't doing that, which is commendable!
any chance you're on iOS? there's a bug right now where it gets stuck with "Establishing connection, please wait..." and doesn't show the text input box after Autocrypt has been established
this is the PR to work around it but I don't think it was published in a new release yet
this PR updates the input bar on CONTACTS_CHANGED even - in case of securejoin, CHATS_MODIFIED event is missing.
this is also what android/desktop does, so even if core's chatmail/core#7634 is ...
@mray we'll soon post more about the currenbt and upcoming multi-relay work. It seems btw that vinculum0 now federates nicely, great! If you want to get added to the relay operators chat group, please drop us a DM with an invite link to a dc profile. cheers.
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last month of last year – click the links to learn more… At the start of December, we announced a new Code of Ethics and Fiduciary Duties for The Document Foundati…
Yes! Yes yes yes, Hallelujah! #Slack added the Copy Message option by my request to the context menu. Now you blindies don't need to turn off and on your virtual cursor, browse/focus mode or whatever, you just press Ctrl+C or go to the context menu and select Copy Message! 🕺🏻 #Accessibility #Blind #JAWS #NVDA #Windows
It is absolutely *wild* to me that media organizations still do not put RSS/Atom feed info front-and-center on their websites.
One needs to dive into HTML code or use external tools to discover their feeds.
It is wild because this is one of the easiest, least-effort ways to reach their audience. Encouraging RSS/Atom use is a phenomenal way of becoming less reliant on gatekeepers like huge social media platforms.
I find it interesting that there's loads of people who made a core part of their identity campaigning against trans women being in women's spaces and how it impacts women, who have gone completely silent about Grok being used to undress and brutalise women.
If you're wondering on xAI's stance on this, aside from Elon posting a crying with laughing emoji, Grok's creators have raised a further $20bn from Cisco and such yesterday. reuters.com/business/musks-xai…
If you're wondering what consequences X has faced: none. At all. A few months ago when Grok called itself MechaHitler, the service was shut entirely for days, the same day. When this women issue happened, Elon laughed.
Grok is still outputting non-consensual deepfake pornography and sexual abuse material at a rate of 1 post per second. Example search:
It’s fascinating that payment processors and app stores happily bullied Tumblr over female presenting nipples and have kicked adult game creators off of Steam, but have been completely silent on CSAM and misogyny generated on X
I have a product idea that can save people money, give them their attention back, bring people closer together, divest in evil corporations, and help maintain healthy cognition/media literacy.
the best is ElReg going full boomer, saying that we're all youngsters that don't understand history; I mean: thank you, I was feeling a bit down after my 45th birthday; this is better than being carded while buying booze.
I love how I still hear stuff like "And you really understand this?" "How do you even understand this?" When using a screenreader in public. No actually I don't understand this, I just let it babble and magically know what I'm focused on, every blind person has that super power. But seriously, it's just practise, it's not that deep. Why do you still ask or talk about this? Is it really that ultra remarkable?
I was surprised the first time I heard a screen reader but then thought it's logical: like reading speed improves, so hearing does, when using it daily. Also, in the case of a software I'd use daily (or even weekly) I think I'd be pretty annoyed to listen to the same buttons and options if it was slowly read word by word at a people speaking rate
Just figured out (out of necessity) that I have a better way of OCRing my vm's screen than using Seeing AI. If I specify a monitor when starting qemu, then I can telnet into the monitor, and there's a screendump command that will dump the screen to a file, and then I can use tesseract to OCR the image.
Unfortunately, none of that is helping me right now. I get "Guest has not initialized the display (yet)." So I'm just as mystified as before. Reminds me of the children's song I used to listen to where a climber went over the mountain to see what he could see, but the other side of the mountain was all that he could see.
It isn't very polished--it creates files called a.png and a.txt in the current directory, but, meh, it does what I need.
Edit: I found my original issue--something was wrong with the virtual drive that I have set for the UEFI image. And I love having this little OCR scriptlet now--it makes it really easy to monitor the status of a vm while it's booting up and I don't have a screen reader available yet.
#wordpress hates all #blind people, hates innovation. #drupal is clunky and GPL v2 only which makes me unable to extend it the way I want. #grav has unlabeled buttons everywhere. #classicPress is a damn old version of #wordpress did I skip anything? ah, yes, #joomla, the 403 monster. starts installation, looks nice, until it eats itself mid install. really graceful. #cms #cmsBattle or everything sucks or I missed some random cms that I'd probably want to support but didn't found I even ask #ai it found garbage. I thought that accessibility will be treated well at least in one place, but sadly it's drupal which is really clunky and don't get me started on random breakages. this is my rant sorry for it but I had to get it out of my chest #technology #accessibility
Have heard good things about Wagtail CMS and even spoke at their conference last year but I actually still need to try it. Have you had any experience with that?
OneDrive is Microsoft's cloud-based storage service, and it's aggressively pushed on users of Windows. They want your files on their servers, and are willing to use dark patterns to get…
Hey @FreakyFwoof, I've just started this one. Interested to know if you think it's worth carrying on!
Harry Potter and the Hero's Path, By TheJackOfDiamonds AU Ritually abused by the Dursley's, young Harry Potter learns to count on himself. After discovering magic at a young age, he practices to become stronger to protect those weaker than him. March 2006-November 2025. 323493 words in 52 chapters. fanfiction.net/s/2869936/1/Har…
@Gerhard Hallstein willst du damit RSS Feeds importieren? Wenn ja dann schau mal auf opml.sekbaer.de/ vorbei (hab da mal ein kleines Script schreiben lassen) da kannst du deine OPML Datei hochladen und die wird dann in eine CSV Datei konvertiert, die du dann herunterladen kannst. Auf Friendica gehst du dann unter Einstellungen ---> Kontakte importieren. Dort auf "Durchsuchen" klicken die csv datei auswählen und auf "Einstellungen speichern" klicken. Du solltest dann die RSS Feeds in deinen Kontakten.
@OldKid ⁂ Danke schön für den Hinweis. Ich werde ihn mir mal abspeichern. Ich nutze Deine Instanz nach wie vor als Feedreader. Doch hin und wieder "denke" ich darüber nach, das Firefox Addon Feedbro wieder zu nutzen. Und wenn ich das tun würde, würde ich irgendwann mal wieder Deine Instanz als Feedreader nutzen.
If some digital magazine was pumping out thousands of nazi-themed kiddie porn pix per hour in Canada, the Canadian HoC would be in an uproar and vote unanimously to have it shut down & prosecuted, yet the same HoC and whole of gov expects us to go to the X nazi-themed kiddie porn site to read their daily messages to us.
cd#436 Sara: Liberation EP * Olin 1990-luvun alkupuolella siinä määrin aktiivinen erityisesti pohjoismaista indiemusiikkia käsittelevillä internet-alustoilla että pari ruotsalaista levy-yhtiötä erehtyi luulemaan minua jonkinlaiseksi influensseriksi ja lähetti muutaman promolevyn täysin pyytämättä. Tämä artisti ei olisi kuitenkaan missään tapauksessa saanut hyväksymismerkintääni: Saran lauluääni on yhtä kimeä ja yksisävyinen kuin Kate Bushia esittävällä japanilaisella animaatiohahmolla, eikä sitä pysty kuuntelemaan 30 vuotta myöhemminkään paria minuuttia pidempään. #musadontti #musiikkimastodon #cd-maraton discogs.com/release/22784633-S…
Next time some moron in your government want to regulate the Internet "for the children" remind them they are posting on a CSAM content farm formerly known as Twitter.
A recent family movie night at the household of 14-year-old Sarah Mason ended abruptly when the audio description began to vividly relay the details of an unexpected and lengthy sex scene.
Ihr könnt den #DiDay ja für ne gute Idee halten — das tu ich prinzipiell auch, weil er lokale Vernetzung und Dezentralisierung stärkt.
Aber vielleicht denkt ihr nochmal darüber nach, ob man das in direkter Assoziation mit einem „D-Day“ oder einem „Unabhängigkeitstag“ haben mag, wo beide Begriffe ganz eng verwoben mit der Befreiung von Unterdrückten (oft Schwarzen, Sklaven, …) durch Europäer verwoben sind. #Dudegemacht
Und dann denkt bitte auch an die Barrierefreiheit von dem Kram für behinderte Menschen. di.day ist noch immer nicht zugänglich, obwohl mir zugesagt wurde, dass das bis morgen der Fall sein würde. Die darauf gelisteten Alternativen sind zu großen Teilen unzugänglich. Es gibt keine Linux-Distro oder auch nur Konfigurationsmöglichkeiten, um das einzige freie System für technisch unvisierte, behinderte Nutzendenkreise ausreichend zugänglich zu machen.
feed info front-and-center on their websites.
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