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It makes sense that people who have completely abandoned their humanity want to replace humanity with software. The people pushing AI have no idea what art and music are.

They have no idea how a story can make a soul shiver and bend and laugh and weep.

They have no idea what it means to be truly human in this world, knowing that you are connected with all life.

They only want to replace humans with sickly, unthinking toys.

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miki

And that's a good thing. The concept of "saving" (as well as the OK button) only exist as historical artifacts. Nobody ever wanted them, but in the age of slow CPUs, slow HDDs, slow floppies, and single-threaded everything, there was no choice but to have them.

It's pretty ridiculous that all the major desktop OSes are still based on 1980's-era Apple concepts... except Apple's.

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I'm looking for a secure Messaging app replacement for #GrapheneOS but my web searches haven't turned up any clear answers. I use Signal and love it - I'm just looking for something for SMS/MMS that isn't as unsightly as the default Messaging app, with better use of the available screen real estate, and perhaps has some basic theme and/or layout options. Any recommendations from personal experience?
#grapheneos
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ArcaneChat

I think people will get confused by the way you formulated the post "secure messaging app" that is why you will get recommendations for Delta Chat and other encrypted messengers, maybe better clarify you mean "secure SMS app" to avoid confusion, and btw I recommend you to give a try to #DeltaChat as replacement for Signal, no phone number or any data required, decentralized, good multi-device, etc.

for SMS I liked "QKSMS" but that was years ago, see successor:
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QUIK SMS | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Open source replacement to the stock SMS app on Android. A revival of QKSMS.
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#deltachat
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ArcaneChat

actually, #email (#SMTP + #IMAP) can totally be used for #InstantMessaging it is not the protocols it is the specific email providers and "big fishes" like #gmail and #Outlook the ones that put extra limitations on top like graylisting etc. with #ArcaneChat and #DeltaChat you can have sub-second (#ENCRYPTED) email delivery
#email #GMail #encrypted #deltachat #outlook #imap #instantmessaging #arcanechat #smtp
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Federico Mena Quintero

@categulario sipi, la tarima tiene tapas y el zapatero sus puertitas corredizas. Bajo la tarima tengo las mochilas de viaje, estufa de acampar, cosas de costura, bolsas pa la bici, tripié y pendejadas de la cámara, el tapete de yoga...
En el zapatero, los zapatos y las mochilas más utilizadas.
@categulario 🐍 🦀 🦎 🇵🇸

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Hello Mastodon!

I’m Avi Lewis and I’m running to be the next leader of the federal NDP. Very excited to be part of the Fediverse!

I’m running for NDP leader because it’s time for the NDP to return to its roots—fighting a system rigged for the rich that leaves the rest of us behind.

We can build a Canada based on care instead of greed, but only if we do it together. There are only 4 days left to join the NDP so you can vote in the leadership race, so get your membership before Jan 28th and let’s fight for a government that serves the many, not the money.

avilewis.link/join

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#cdnpoli #NDP


Join the NDP to support Avi Lewis for Leader

Join a party ready to fight for nation-building projects that put people before profit
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#cdnpoli #ndp
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when you are trying to sleep at night and suddenly remember that #ArcaneChat / #DeltaChat are the only piece of software out there that makes it possible easily and for free to have a #decentralized #e2ee #mailinglist #newsletter (called "channels" inside the app) that is portable, doesn't depend on a specific/central #email server and can be easily migrated to a completely different server / address without any visible change or disturbance for your subscribers

all FREE and without limits 🤯

woman in bed with big opened eyes
#email #decentralized #newsletter #deltachat #e2ee #arcanechat #mailinglist

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Wellp, I've had it with the Asus routers. I'm simply done with their absolutely useless JAVA Script-infested-and-100%-dependence to make anything in their web interface do anything. Clickable buttons that at least NVDA recognizes as such, but still majority remain useless, JFW only sees text, with no label or control state information communicated. Sometimes clicking these random clickables/words of text do things, such as the main navigation, but try to set up VLANs, more detailed WAN configurations, port forwarding, pretty much 99% of the router interface, and its useless with a screen reader. For the longest time, I was figuring out equivalent CLI commands, and writing scripts to do more advanced stuff, hacking its NVRAM settings, and BASH scripts, but I'm just done with the whole damn thing. Of course, the Netgear switch web interfaces are no better, and that makes two of my switches management useless. I was able to enable an unsupported telnet feature in one of the switches, and was able to configure VLANs there through trial and error, and reading manuals for other switches using a similar Broadcom FastPath OS stack. I managed to make that work, but yet again, another ridiculous workaround that has about as much chance of breaking in a future update, as shit has a chance to come out of the end of a biological organisms digestive system on a regular basis. So its time to find a whole new stack and rip out my entire network and rebuild it.

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I’m seeing less blind people post on Masto as of late. And I can’t tell if it’s just because of the amount of cool people I’m following who aren’t blind or because people have left for other platforms. DOn’t get me wrong. I see posts from blind people all the time. It just feels like the number of blind people posting has dropped. Not that there are less posts from blind people in general. But maybe that’s just my field of view talking.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@Bri@jdking92@Rosalyn Some can also just post HTML directly. Either way, when you strip the HTML, you get the link text, without the URL. Usually, the link text is the URL without https in front. But it doesn't have to be. GoToSocial, Akoma, Iceshrimp, Pleroma, Sharky, threads, Lemmy, PiFed, and literally anything other than Mastodon allow for text in the post that is a hyperlink, but does not contain the URL as the link text. Even though Mastodon doesn't allow posting like that, though, it can display that type of post. So because of the way FastSM strips HTML, it can only find links posted by another Mastodon server. Every other server type can post links that FastSM users can neither see 'nor interact with. Even Mastodon forks can do this. As someone effected daily by this issue, because it's completely and totally impossible for me to post links that tweesecake or FastSM users can interact with, no matter what I do, this is a huge priority for me. Only supporting logging into a Mastodon server account is one thing, and I get it. But the way FastSM is currently, you only support viewing posts by, and following, users who happen to also be on Mastodon. If you follow an account using literally anything else, links won't work. And it's impossible for a FastSM user to know they've followed an account on an unsupported server type. It's to the point where I avoid posting any links at all, because every single link I post gets multiple replies (sometimes as many as thirty or more) from blind users who do not understand that the client they use is at fault and in complete violation of the standards, not me. I'm one hundred percent following the standards as defined by the W3C and all of the Fediverse Enhancement Proposals. Clients that can't handle formatted links are broken. They need to be fixed. I've had to start just blocking Tweesecake users. I don't want to have to also do that with FastSM users.
@Joseph King @Rosalyn Anne @Bri🥰
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@jdking92@Rosalyn@Bri To make all of this so, so much worse, every single fediverse server provides a plain text, non-html version of the post. Tweesecake and FastSM and others just refuse to use it. But if you look in the JSON, you'll find that while the content key contains HTML, _misskey_content and source.content both contain perfectly formatted, plain text versions of post content. FastSM and other clients just ignore them and strip HTML themselves, breaking posts and resulting in constant bitching from blind people. browser.pub/https://fed.interfree.ca/notes/ah4xrewupfr5jqja

fed.interfree.ca/notes/ah4xrewupfr5jqja · BrowserPub · A browser for exploring ActivityPub and the fediverse

Explore the open social web through the lens of ActivityPub and the fediverse.
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@Joseph King @Rosalyn Anne @Bri🥰
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Alex Hall

@fastfinge @jdking92 @Bri Is it the clients themselves, or the Python libraries they rely on to manage Mastodon? Not that it matters for the end user, but I'm curious if this is a conscious choice the devs made, or if they just trust the libraries to work and haven't worked around the problem yet.
@Joseph King @🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @Bri🥰
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@alexhall@jdking92@Rosalyn@Bri It's both. The libraries assume that the strings they return will be displayed in a web browser, or other HTML capable view. In fact, the content key by default contains spans and divs. However, all of the blind clients just stripped the html using a regular expression so it can be displayed in a text file, while making no attempt to account for anything that might be lost by that approach.
@Alex Hall @Joseph King @Rosalyn Anne @Bri🥰
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@alexhall@jdking92@Rosalyn@Bri And links are just the thing that blind users are noticing, because they read a post talking about a URL, try to interact with it, and it doesn't work. But I could happily post formatted lists, bold, italics, blockquotes, and both FastSM and Tweesecake would strip them out silently, and users would never know they missed anything to even complain about. I get that we don't want an HTML viewer for posts. But accessible clients need to do better than just assuming that HTML is completely unimportant and throwing it all away. They could convert the HTML to markdown. Or show the plain text version of the post that the server provides them. Or something else. But they don't. I'm sorry for ranting, but this has been making me crazy in Tweesecake for years now, and I hate that it's the same in FastSM.
@Alex Hall @Joseph King @Rosalyn Anne @Bri🥰
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James Scholes

@fastfinge @alexhall @jdking92 @Bri This might be a rant, but it is a top tier, informative one. As someone who's pointed the link issue out to you at least once, I'm sorry you're getting so much repeated grief about it and hope it gets taken more seriously in new clients.
@Alex Hall @Joseph King @🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @Bri🥰
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Bri🥰

@alexhall @jscholes @fastfinge @jdking92 I will try to see if I can work this out, but past a certain point, there's only so much I can do. If this what you say is true, and this plaintext representation of posts is indeed available in status objects, I've yet to evger find it. I'll look into it some more, because I definitely understand where you're coming from here, never mind I think the take of outright blocking FastSM/TweeseCake users is a bit hostile, I would still like to find a solution if I can
@Alex Hall @Joseph King @James Scholes @🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@Bri@alexhall@jscholes@jdking92@Rosalyn Blocking is the only thing I can do to stop the endless complaints. I’m following the standard. I can’t fix broken clients. But too many users won’t accept that. If it doesn’t work with their clients, it’s inaccessible and obviously my fault.I can point to thee activity pub standard until I’m blue in the face. I can point at the json notes all day. But in the minds of most users, if their client is broken because the developers flatly refuse to abide by the standards, it’s my fault.
@Alex Hall @Joseph King @James Scholes @Rosalyn Anne @Bri🥰
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@alexchapman@Bri@alexhall@jscholes@jdking92@Rosalyn Sorry, but if you’re so untitled to think that the entire world needs to avoid making standards compliant HTML formatted posts, because your client is utterly and completely broken, and you complain about it constantly, a block is all you deserve.
@Alex Hall @Joseph King @James Scholes @Alex Chapman @Rosalyn Anne @Bri🥰
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@Bri@alexchapman@alexhall@jscholes@jdking92@Rosalyn I’m sorry, but it completely is. I am sick and tired of being told that dealing with other people’s broken clients is my problem. And that I need to go out of my way to bend over backwards for people who have been told that they’re using an incompatible and broken client. It’s a bad look for blind people, who demand that everyone else follow W3C and WCAG standards, but then use apps that don’t do so themselves. And when I point this out, it’s my fault anyway, because I just shouldn’t use completely allowed and supported features that work literally everywhere else.
@Alex Hall @Joseph King @James Scholes @Alex Chapman @Rosalyn Anne @Bri🥰
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@alexchapman@Bri@alexhall@jscholes@jdking92@Rosalyn Right, but this is my point. “Want to” isn’t strong enough language. If you emailed someone, and they said, “Yeah, I want to follow the accessibility standards. I need to do that some day, if I can figure it out,” you would be furious, and rightly so. Thrive, and FastSM, and every other client using mastodon.py is not following the standards. In the same way that we as blind people will turn to a developer and say, “I’m sorry, that’s not my problem. You need to be accessible.” I can expect the same thing from my fellow blind developers.
@Alex Hall @Joseph King @James Scholes @Alex Chapman @Rosalyn Anne @Bri🥰
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@alexchapman@jscholes@alexhall@Bri Fair enough. My issue was never with people needing to learn. That's something I do every day. And I, too, have giant bugs almost every day, in almost everything I do. But my response to not following a documented standard is not "Yeah, I'll see if I can fix it at some point. Not a priority. Anyone who's upset about this is a jerk, and they should really be bending over backwards to work around the issue, and blocking people who complain endlessly that they aren't doing nonstandard things to just make it work makes them a jerk."
@Alex Hall @James Scholes @Alex Chapman @Bri🥰
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@jscholes@alexhall@alexchapman@Bri And before anyone says anything: I recognize we are all hobbyists. I recognize this is unpaid work on unpaid software. But I don't give sighted people a pass because of that if they develop inaccessible noncompliant software. Neither do I give blind people a pass if they develop accessible nonstandard software. For exactly the same reasons.
@Alex Hall @James Scholes @Alex Chapman @Bri🥰
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@alexchapman@jscholes@alexhall@Bri And once again. I only became hostile when people started saying I was doing things that made me a dick and a jerk, rather than actually engage with the issue. Similar to how blind people become hostile when developers tell us expecting accessibility is just too much, and we should stay quiet and deal with it.
@Alex Hall @James Scholes @Alex Chapman @Bri🥰
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@alexchapman@jscholes@alexhall@Bri Yup. And when things are inaccessible, blind people should also be policed about our tone, and never ever make frustrated statements about the issue. I hope we'll all remember this standard that we must all be held to the next time an app breaks accessibility and doesn't follow accessibility standards.
@Alex Hall @James Scholes @Alex Chapman @Bri🥰
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@Bri@alexchapman@alexhall@jscholes@jdking92@Rosalyn Never said you were. I was responding to Alex. But you did say fixing it isn’t a priority. And that if you can’t figure it out, you’re not going to fix it. Meaning you obviously believe that following the standards is an optional, nice to have. If you can’t figure it out, I’ll just have to deal with endless complaints from your users, and blocking them makes me the jerk.
@Alex Hall @Joseph King @James Scholes @Alex Chapman @Rosalyn Anne @Bri🥰
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Bri🥰

@fastfinge @alexchapman @alexhall @jscholes @jdking92 I mean, the app is open source. If what I've done doesn't fix it, and you're so bothered by it, you could take a crack at fixing it yourself, rather than going off on me and others for things that we may not even know about/know how to properly fix. I'm only human, after all, I don't know everything, I can only do so much.
@Alex Hall @Joseph King @James Scholes @Alex Chapman @🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦
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Bri🥰

@alexchapman @fastfinge @alexhall @jscholes @jdking92 At the end of the day, it's his timeline, he has the right to block whomever he wishes. At the other end of the day, I've just added checks in the mastodon model to check for these plaintext copies of posts in the status object. You can try it if you like. I guarantee nothing.
@Alex Hall @Joseph King @James Scholes @Alex Chapman @🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

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Still sad, but I'm still workin on NV Speech. Did not abandon it. I've fixed all clicks in the driver, and the next version? It'll have a sample rate combo-box. I am thinking some people will like it at 11025 HZ but some might want 22050. This one will let you pick. It's important for sound quality and the default 16000 may sound too harsh on some ears who are used to Eloquence's 11025.
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Regarding my last repost: One of the counties mentioned in the list of news items after the article is like 5 minutes or less from me. Sometimes it’s embarrassing to be where I’m from. Or if not embarrassing, shameful. Book banning is just disgusting to me. I’ve learned so much from books! But that’s just it, isn’t it? They don’t want the young people to learn. God I have so many thoughts on this. Knowledge is power!
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Amber

I usually don’t share stuff like this online but whatever. That’s one of the many things about Christianity, the narrative of it, that I can’t fuck with. The one and only sin was to eat from the tree of knowledge. Why is that? That seems oppressive. Reminds me of a jealous controlling parent or spouse, not a loving creator. Knowledge is power, and whoever wants to oppress you doesn’t want you to have it. Maybe that means just reading books is bucking the system.

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"Listen all y'all. It's $abotage!'
Bottom line is that #ICE is a tool for immigration control and nothing more. It's the Trump Administration that is responsible for using this tool as #sabotage.
#reneegood
#election2026
#2026election
#NoKings !
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Jiří Eischmann

@jhutar @mkyral @tritol128 u českých titulů se to neděje, ale u zahraničních ano, protože u nich si čeští vydavatelé kupují časově omezené licence. Často oni sami nechtějí na víc než pár let, protože drtivá většina prodejů se uskuteční po vydání knihy. Proč tedy kupovat licenci na 10 let, když 90 % prodejů se uskuteční v prvních dvou letech?
Papírové knihy mají tu výhodu, že existuje sekundární trh. U eknih pak člověk nemá legální způsob, jak se ke knize dostat.
@Jan Hutař @Marián Kyral @Tritol

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Chocochili pyytää apuamme:

”Sivuston pyörittämiseen kuuluvat palvelinmaksut tulevat kalliiksi näillä lukijamäärillä ja tietysti reseptien kehittelyyn kuluu paljon rahaa. Tähän asti olen saanut sivuston pyörimään mainosrahoitteisesti sponsoroiduilla sisällöillä, mutta viime vuosina mainostajat eivät ole olleet kiinnostuneita nettisivujen mainossisällöistä ja talouden kiristyessä myös somessa yhteistyökumppaneiden löytäminen on ollut koko ajan vaikeampaa.”

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Ilmainen vegaaninen reseptipankki kaipaa apuasi! Perustin Chocochilin vuonna 2008 sillä ajatuksella, että halusin tehdä vegaanisesta ruoasta kaikille helposti…
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#chocochili

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Seit fünf Jahren lässt #DATAGROUP gebrauchte Firmen-IT von afb aufbereiten.

Rund 42.000 Geräte wurden seither entweder wiederverwendet oder recycelt. Die ReUse-Quote liegt bei 70 Prozent. Die Partnerschaft spart Ressourcen, senkt Emissionen und schafft inklusive #Arbeitsplätze.

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#Recycling #ITRefurbishing #Ressourcenschonung #Inklusion #environment

#environment #inklusion #recycling #ressourcenschonung #datagroup #arbeitsplatze #itrefurbishing

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Also we are not sure yet if this is going to happen or not, but we have decided we want to merge our accounts together. So @preciousoso, and the rest of us can post on one account. Mainly so that we dont have to maintain two, and also because we want to just be us. not just her and then us, or not just us, and she is separated. So I am not sure how that will work. - Lily
@juana🌹🐾💖
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miki

THe USA (as well as the rest of the world, maybe not including China) would have a serious problem if there was no internet. Systems would fail. Airplanes wouldn't fly. Powerr and heating would eventually go out. Grocery shopping would be impossible (no credit cards, no ATMs, no ability to restock). Same with telecoms (they're more resilient than everybody else, but they'd likely succumb to the same fate sooner or later).
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