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Attention all ricers: GNOME Calendar 50 will be able to use your gamer mouse's dedicated back/forward buttons to switch between the previous/next month or week, thanks to @zoeyTheWitch having implemented this very handy feature: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…

#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #UX #hardware


Support for dedicated mouse / keyboard Previous / Next hardware buttons (#1494) · Issues · GNOME / gnome-calendar · GitLab

Many computer mice have back/forward (previous/next) buttons to navigate history. Those are standardized buttons, as far as I understand. Those work fine in other GNOME apps...
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#gnome #UX #hardware #gnomecalendar @Nix Inch Nails🐀

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I just spoke to one of those technicians whose career in radiology has them buried in a basement most of their working hours, locating and pumping out info and requests for vital information that changes people's lives for the better. I thanked them, saying "You've helped me so much, thanks for what you do". They cried. No one says thanks anymore, just gimme. Let's change that. Make someone's life better. SEE THEM.

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Putting on my storage hat…

Windows hasn’t supported native NVMe UNTIL SOON!

The hell?

It’s an open-enough standard.

People have been buying “premium” drives for years.

And all a bunch of SCSI emulation? 😳

techcommunity.microsoft.com/bl…


Announcing Native NVMe in Windows Server 2025: Ushering in a New Era of Storage Performance

We’re thrilled to announce the arrival of Native NVMe support in Windows Server 2025—a leap forward in storage innovation that will redefine what’s possible for your most demanding workloads.
Yash_Shekar (TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM)

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JAWS currently has a bug in it that makes Braille display users unable to properly read long lines in Paperback, or any application using wxWidgets, for that matter. When I tried to follow up on this issue three times with a Vispero contact who assured me it would be fixed in the December 2025 JAWS update, I got silence, so it's time to get louder. If you're effected by this problem, or just feel like sending a support email to Vispero to help me out, I'd much appreciate it! CC @freedomscientific

Issue link: github.com/trypsynth/paperback…


Paperback, JAWS and reading with a Braille display

There seems to be a problem in reading long paragraphs with JAWS when using a Braille display or with speech when using the JAWS cursor or the invisible cursor. It doesn't matter whether I try to r...
irrah68 (GitHub)
@Freedom Scientific / Vispero
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Forty years ago, 21 people gathered for the first meeting of what became the Internet Engineering Task Force or #IETF . Every day billions of people use the open standards and technologies developed in the IETF. And nearly 8000 volunteer IETF participants from around the world collaborate in more than 100 working groups evolving those open standards and making the Internet work better!

ietf.org/blog/ietf-40/

#Internet #OpenStandards


IETF@40

Forty years ago today, 21 people gathered in San Diego, California for the first meeting of what became the Internet Engineering Task Force.
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#openstandards #Internet #ietf

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"guy" is a chameleon pronoun. When its used singularly, it's male but when it's plural it's totally gender neutral especially in the midwest USA

a truly gender-neutral pronoun would be "fucker". Both "fucker" and "fuckers" is always gender neutral.

"What's up fuckers!!!!!" -- nobody will complain, except people you don't want to be friends with anyway

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When I was young, I fell in love
We used to hold hands, man, that was enough
Then we grew up, started to touch
Used to kiss underneath the light on the back of the bus
Oh no, your daddy didn't like me much
And he didn't believe me when I said you were the one
Oh, every day she found a way out of the window to sneak out late
She used to meet me on the Eastside
In the city where the sun don't set
And every day you know that we ride
Through the backstreets in a blue Corvette

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Hey @Bri, I hate to shove another bug on to the #fastSMBugPile, but the displaying of quoted posts on mastodon is apparently borked. I just came across one that displayed as, and I quote, "Quoting $account.display_name$: 08:16:37," The time there is my own local time in 24-hour format, but I have my quoted post template set to not display that at all. No idea what's going on there.
#fastsmbugpile @Bri🥰
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Hey @Bri, when I attempt to pull up the timeline of scheduled posts in #FastSM, I get this as an error.

Error in jdking92's Scheduled Posts: mastodon_status_to_universal() got an unexpected keyword argument 'scheduled_at'

Any idea what might be causing this? Also, would you consider adding a keystroke for the invisible interface to update profiles? Maybe win+shift+alt+p? Either that or control+win+shift+u could work.

#fastsm @Bri🥰

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About Bluesky and federation:
Edit: There might be some mistakes, and my information could be outdated, but the point still stands - Bluesky wasn't built on 100% federation from the start.

I've been wondering about Bluesky's decentralization again. I can't think of any reason why I'd want to self-host Bluesky in its current form. I cannot 100% self host "my own Bluesky".

Their main selling points for building their own protocol were easier migration and better discoverability, but right now there's no simple way to migrate my Bluesky account to my own instance. And hosting the centralized parts yourself isn't really possible, or if it were, not affordable, they haven't made that feasible, by design, it seems.

Even if you self-host a PDS, Bluesky's Relay only indexes up to 10 accounts from it. You can run more, but they won't federate, the central infrastructure decides what gets seen. They control this (source: docs.bsky.app/blog/self-host-f….). You can self-host a PDS (Personal Data Server), but you still depend on Bluesky's centralized Relay and AppView. There's no production-ready alternative infrastructure from what I gather.

It feels like I'd be renting a room in a hotel that someone else is running anyway, when I want my own hotel.

If Mastodon gGmbH vanishes tomorrow, my instance keeps running and federating with everyone else. If Bluesky PBC vanishes, the ecosystem would need to scramble to stand up replacement infrastructure that doesn't really exist yet.

ATProto keeps getting evaluated on its promises while other systems get evaluated on their merits. The "portability" selling point depends on infrastructure that isn't mature enough to actually catch you if Bluesky falls.

I trust W3C, the builders and fathers of the World Wide Web, ActivityPub and the Fediverse.

#Decentralization #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #Mastodon #Fediverse #Bluesky #Servers


Early Access Federation for Self-Hosters

For a high-level introduction to data federation, as well as a comparison to other federated social protocols, check out the Bluesky blog.
docs.bsky.app
#fediverse #Mastodon #selfhosting #decentralization #selfhosted #bluesky #servers
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@sesivany I think you presented #fingerprint reader support in Fedora few years ago. How difficult would it be to have alternative PIN combination with fingerprint? I would like successful f.p. scan to change password box to pin input. But pin could be something 4-6 letters. Instead of letting me in right away, require me to type a lot shorter password. Sort of PIN windows has for local logins too. How difficult might it be? Are there known blockers? #PAM modules architecture maybe?
#fingerprint #pam @Jiří Eischmann
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I got a bunch of battery-powered Zigbee-connected IR receivers/senders October last year, which were just sitting idly on my desk. This evening, I powered one up and learned it the IR commands to turn on/off my soundbar and my TV. Now I can automate my home a tiny bit more, basically binding my soundbar state to my TV state all the time and dropping the requirement of one additional remote. One step closer to making my Unfolded Circle Remote 3 my only remote of the house.

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For push notifications, we recommend #SunUp. The #Holos beta-14 version fixes an issue we had with the #UnifiedPush library. Remember to re-register if you're not receiving push notifications.

SunUp: unifiedpush.org/users/distribu…

Screenshot of the UnifiedPush Setup screen in the Holos app, showing a successful registration with the Sunup distributor connected and selected.

Sunup - Android

We created Sunup as a quick and easy way to use UnifiedPush that doesn’t require signing up for an account. This quickstart guide will walk you through the steps to get it up and running on your Android device.
UnifiedPush
#UnifiedPush #sunup #holos
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