You know who needs to add high friction? Banks and financial apps. People are scammed out of their hard earned money under stress. Banks can easily say there is no IRS or digital arrest required to send money or gift cards to individuals because it is scam. There should be multiple warnings and holding large fund transfers to new accounts. This is where I want to see high friction added and I think it will protect innocent people. You know something like this shown on money transfer page/app:
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.
Welcome to another minor release from our stable branch!
We encourage any deployments using 13.0.
"loading mod_mam (globally or directly on a MUC component) will automatically load mod_muc_mam on the MUC component. This means most people (e.g. who have mod_mam loaded globally on their server) can now remove “muc_mam” from modules_enabled in their MUC component configuration. It will be loaded automatically." - thank goodness
Not sure how many of you use ChatGTP, but you might want to scale back.
"The latest model of ChatGPT has begun to cite Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers, raising concerns about misinformation on the platform.
In tests done by the Guardian, GPT-5.2 cited Grokipedia nine times in response to more than a dozen different questions."
The only relevant feature for any instant messaging app (or social app, for that matter) is: Are my friends using it? People will gladly overlook minor inconsistencies or missing features as long as they can communicate with their friends. We shouldn’t recommend #Signal as a stepping stone before Jabber/XMPP becomes "good enough," if goodness is defined by the number of people using it.
Yeah, similar to recommending silo-to-fedi bridges for example. As long as others can find your content in the silo, there's no incentive to use the open alternative.
@zash @raucao anecdotical data point to support this: I started using XMPP because it had good bridges to silos. It lead me to (modestly) contribute to slixmpp, gajim and write some prosody modules. I very much doubt bridges between proprietary silos and open networks hinder adoption of the latter. Of course, this is very hard to quantify objectively.
@ableijs The Matrix ecosystem is primarily dominated by one VC funded company. The server that everyone uses is developed by them. The client that everyone recommends is developed by them.
There are some baby steps towards a slightly more diverse ecosystem but for now it's a toss up between whether that's going to happen and enshittification once the VCs want their money back.
XMPP on the other hand is a healthy diverse ecosystem with various stake holders.
@ableijs I develop a client for Android and I basically can't make any unilateral decisions without involving two client developers (Desktop + iOS) and/or two different server developers from the two major server implementations. And that's a good thing!
There are a bunch of server and even more client implementations. Yes, @element still has a lot of influence, but The @matrix Foundation is doing it's best to get independent and is funded by a really diverse ecosystem.
For example I'm the founder of a company based in #Dresden building on #matrix. Our Open Source client SDK #trixnity is used in the TI-Messenger of every German public health insurance company but one - so possibly millions of users. We also have an Open Source client #Tammy. Yes, we still have the problem, that Element is recommended by a lot of people but the same problem applies to a lot of Open Source ecosystems including #xmpp.
I'm pretty sure the ecosystem would survive without Element despite the fact that Element is doing a good job in pushing the ecosystem in the right direction despite the VC.
Signal is an E2EE’d concurrent to Telegram and WhatsApp, whereas XMPP is a concurrent to MSN, Facebook, and ICQ. Recommending XMPP to someone looking for state-of-the-art E2EE and asserting Signal on every use case are both unacceptable.
@oceane You knowledge about XMPP is very outdated. It literally uses the Signal encryption algorithm for it's OMEMO e2ee. There are a few things that can be still improved about it (mostly clients catching up to the latest version of the OMEMO specs), but it is very much a viable alternative to Signal in regards to e2ee.
@kris @oceane i was an xmpp user 20 years ago.But the fall wasnt only due to defederation. It was also cause it wasnt working properly when u had several devices connected simultaneously(depending on priority &connectivity messages were arriving to one device or the other).There was a fix(some server storage) but not all servers implemented it.With the encryption most are using omemo but there is still no encryption and pgp based...I think its easier to attract people to signal&matrix
XMPP is not suited for mobile devices. That’s a myth that has been around for ages. It is mostly spread by people who want to sell you their own proprietary instant messaging solution.
I still have a machine in the same case as your old one. Remains my favourite PC case ever. Filled with sound insulation so it made no noise with the, long gone, 4 hdds
When I was younger, I avoided natural light like it was a plague. Now that I'm older, wiser, and far less gloom and doom obsessed, I am so envious of those skylights! My current office has a bay area window right next to me, which is pretty decent for natural light.
Nunca me gustó llevar gafas. Y menos las gafas oscuras que me identifican como ciego ante toda la sociedad. Porque claro, si eres ciego tienes que llevar gafas oscuras, porque si no llevas gafas oscuras junto a tu bastón blanco no eres ciego, ya sabéis. Pero bueno, al final he caído, y este martes completo el atuendo de ciego. Espero sentirme cómodo y que merezca la pena. Se supone que estas gafas vienen a mejorarme la vida.
@GuloGulo Ve sklenici jsem to osobně nezkoušel, my jedeme rovnou kvašák 😄 Upřímně – kvašák dneska není drahý a nebudeš ho litovat. My máme 7litrový a jede prakticky celoročně. zelí, mrkev, celer, petržel
Všechno nastrouhat (zelí nakrouhat), přidat jen sůl a kmín, pořádně promnout, aby pustila šťávu, a šup do kvašáku s těžítkem. Žádná věda – nemá to chybu 👍 Receptů na pickles je plný internet. Klasický čalamády ani už nejím, žeru to skoro ke všemu 😃
@Zettl_josef Aby se pickles vždy povedlo: – Používejte vždy čerstvou a neponičenou zeleninu. – Největší podíl dejte vždy šťavnaté zeleniny (mladé zelí, čínské zelí, mrkev, cuketa, daikon, řepa, cibule, kedlubna, přidejte jablíčko aj.), abyste měli dostatek tekutiny. V menším množství můžete přidat i sušší zeleninu (např. červené zelí, celer, pórek, jarní cibulka aj.). – Zelí a cibuli krájejte najemno, šťavnaté tvrdší druhy (mrkev, kedlubna, daikon, cuketa aj.) strouhejte nahrubo. Tím získáte dostatek tekutiny. – Velmi dobře zeleninu promačkejte (3–5 minut), aby pustila maximum tekutiny. – Dodržujte množství soli: na 1 kg zeleniny = 1 velká lžička soli (cca 15–20 g). – Dodržujte důkladnou hygienu (sklenice, těžítko i ruce si umyjte – nástroje horkou vodou; do pickles vždy sahejte čistýma rukama/příborem). – Udržujte zeleninu vždy pod hladinou (pomocí těžítka). – V horkých letních dnech přemístěte kvasící pickles do chladnější místnosti (sklep, spíž, komora) a častěji kontrolujte, jestli už je hotové. Aha tak cibule asi nevadí, už nevím proč jí tam nedáváme. @GuloGulo
@Milu My to máme tak týden, přendáme do sklenic a dáme víčkem dolů do lednice, ale ono záleží kde máte ten kvašák, nechce ho dávat do velkého chladu. @Zettl_josef @GuloGulo
@GuloGulo Skutečně je, pečuje o střeva a trávení obecně a tím zvyšuje imunitu.
V asii se ta zkvašená šťáva používá i v kosmetice, chrání kožní mikrobiom, takže se používá na pleť, ale i na intimní hygienu dam.
Mimochodem šťáva z kyselého zelí se používala kosmeticky i u nás, jen jsme to zapomněli a asi nikdo nechce vonět jako kyselé zelí. Takže nakupujeme séra ve kterých je výtažek z těchto produktů, jen o tom málokdo ví.
Hotovo, musím sehnat nějaké těžítko, je toho 2kg a jen do 3/4 lahve. Kamarád říkal že k tomu nesmí světlo, stará vojenská čepice to vyřešila... A zítra, zítra už to bude ?
Can't recall who recommended downloading a wikipedia backup. It was something I'd always wanted to do but didn't have the HD for it. Now I do, and I'm getting it through torrent.
de cuándo es el último volcado? La última vez que miré llevaban ya tiempo sin hacerlos, tanto en inglés como en español. Al menos la versión all_maxi, que es la que descargo habitualmente.
I recommend to check the Kiwix project kiwix.org/es/ Get Wikipedia and many other offline compressed and indexed data. Also the Khan Academy resources es.khanacademy.org Of course to get a new dedicated HD for this.
Explora el mundo de Kiwix, tu puerta de acceso offline a información y contenido educativo. Accede al conocimiento en cualquier lugar, en cualquier momento, sin necesidad de conexión a Internet.
The Jamulus devs are trying to make the server list accessible. I am not sure about the latest workflow proposed in the latest comment. If you have thoughts, please chime in. IMHO, the best solution is to make it behave like the list view in the Finder, where you can navigate across columns and also expand and collapse folders. That said, they are having hard time make it work. @FreakyFwoof github.com/jamulussoftware/jam…
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This might contain a lot of low quality code for now.
How it looks like:
There is a "Show/Hide accessible controls button" at the top which shows/hides the...
They're just discussing how the UI should behave for SR. They wrote: "They'd tab until reaching the server list. There we'd place a label which shows the currently selected cell. If the user changes a cell, the label changes too. If the user presses some keyboard shortcut, the content of the label is focused and voice over reads it. If the shortcut is pressed again, the user goes back to the selected cell. It's not the best UX - however it should be the most flexible approach."
That's interesting. Does that mean that I can upgrade to latest Jamulus? I've been using your build for years because I didn't know if they implemented your changes. Have held off for some years.
Not yet. If you update now, the server list is not accessible, so you can't join any server. lol They're trying to change that. That's why I'm asking people to chime in.
If you don't interact with the server list, then you can use the latest build since all my accessibility fixes are implemented. The inaccessible server list is not a regression. It never been accessible on the main build.
If they make the server list accessible, then yes you can use the latest version. That's why it's important to discuss how you want the UI for the server list to look like for screen reader.
@Scott Is accessible teamtalk client based on QT? I remember you had to use like clasic or something to be accessible. I haen't touched teamtalk in years. lol
@Scott According to github: TeamTalk 5 accessible client application written in C++ and based on MFC. Does that mean it's not accessible on Mac? github.com/BearWare/TeamTalk5
@Scott QT accessibility is a mess, especially on Mac. There was a brief moment when they actually got the tree/table widgets speaking well, only to break it in a later QT release. Sadly you're probably not going to be able to make it so that the VoiceOver cursor can navigate inside it until QT fixes it. In TeamTalk the way they solved this is having a checkbox in the preferences to speak the selected item in lists using text to speech, and then you just treat it more like a windows app by tabbing and using the arrow keys instead of the VO cursor. QT now also includes an accessibility announcement API that speaks through screen readers directly if one is running, so what they could do is label each item with the text of all cells, and if the program is running on Mac, use the announcement API to speak it when the focus moves in the tree which is not needed on Windows because screen readers will pick it up fine there. And you will want to label the items with the text from all cells and not just the first one so that the screen reader will automatically read all columns and not just the first one. TeamTalk does this as well, IE for the files section which is a finder/explorer like view.
@pitermach @Scott Haha yes, I found that out a hard way by building it with several qt versions between 6.2.0 and 6.10.1. I guess tell users not to use VO cursor and just use up/down to go through the item, and have accessibility announcement API to announce information in all columns. Then use right/left to expand/collapse. Is that the best workflow?
@Scott I think so. In TeamTalk settings there are a few options for speech output and QTAccessibilityAnnouncement is one of them. If I switch to it then it speaks through VO without using the applescript functions
@pitermach @Scott This is amazing! I gave gemini-cli the documentation for QAccessibleAnnouncementEvent as well as access to QTTeamTalk codebase. Then I asked it to make the server list in Jamulus accessible in a similar way to QTTeamTalk by passing all the relevant information to the screen reader to announce when a server or user is selected. It got to work and finished in a couple of minutes. It works perfectly! A few devs attempted to make this accessible for a few years. lol
It's not as nice as my build to navigate the list because all the information gets announced at once. However it should be usable. The best part is moving forward people can use the latest version from the main site without downloading a different and old build. Let me know it works for you.
"What sparked Carney’s intervention was not Sudan, Venezuela or Gaza. It was the US threat to Canada and Greenland.
A western prime minister took umbrage only when the US, under President Donald Trump, threatened to treat the prosperous West in the same way it has long treated the Global South.
Let’s return now to Israel’s recent invasion of Unrwa’s headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem: a gross breach of international law and a direct attack on the United Nations.
Article 6 of the UN charter establishes that any state that persistently violates its principles can be expelled from the UN. The attack on Unrwa is part of a pattern of Israel’s criminal hostility towards the UN, including its refusal to respect orders from the International Court of Justice on Gaza, its slaughter of UN aid workers and its regular attacks on UN positions in southern Lebanon.
The case for expelling - or at the very least suspending - Israel from the UN is overwhelming. Yet neither Carney’s Canada nor Starmer’s Britain, nor any other western power, has so much as suggested the idea.
In his Davos speech, Carney set out Canada’s approach as follows: “We aim to be principled and pragmatic. Principled in our commitment to fundamental values: sovereignty and territorial integrity, the prohibition of the use of force except when consistent with the UN Charter, respect for human rights. Pragmatic in recognising that progress is often incremental, that interests diverge, that not every partner shares our values.”
This is all well and good. But on the evidence so far, Carney is prepared to be principled when it comes to western countries like Canada and Denmark, and pragmatic when it comes to Palestine and Venezuela.
if reporting on american companies was done the same way it's done on chinese ones
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it's sad that #ffmpeg hasn't migrated away from that platform. But if any ffmpeg devs are here just on their own: Thank you for ffmpeg. It's been an indispensable tool for me for decades now and I'm very grateful for the work you do.
Když se v písni zpívá "můžeš mít milion vizitek", znamená to že můžeš mít milion vizitek jiných lidí, nebo milion svých vizitek na rozdávání? (Vím, směrodatné je, že bez lásky nelze žít, ale stejně..)
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Ich muss sagen, ich bin tief verstört davon, dass hier Videos von einem Mord angeschaut oder geteilt werden. Teilweise sogar ohne CW. Ganz ehrlich, justiert mal euren Kompass. Dass die USA Menschenrechte mit Füßen treten ist kein Grund sowas zu verbreiten. Wenn ich hier lese (gestern), dass es jemand noch nicht geschafft hat, das zu sehen, dann kommt hier doch ein Druck auf, der impliziert: Wenn du es dir nicht detailliert anschaust, dann schaust du weg.
The detentions were announced last week on Belarusian state TV, which claimed the men were part of a network of more than 50 people participating in the amateur radio hobby and have been accused of both “espionage” and “treason.” 404media.co/ham-radio-operator…
You'd expect the LLM be quite knowledgeable in its own features or what features its creators have added. Yet, Here I am, arguing with gemini about what I know it can do in creating a script. Getting a lot of "You are totally right. Google has implemented this a while ago. I apologise..."
FFs. "I am sorry. I got too excited about the new AI model (v9) and accidentally removed the "Fail-Safe" code (from v5) that prevented the Google Docs crash." Please, you're a tool meant to help me code a script, not a kid in a candy store.
My favorite one so far is Gemini, in the role of Google assistant, being utterly convinced it is not, in fact, able to open apps on my phone for me. Yes it can, that's like the thing I almost exclusively use it for, but sometimes I get a whole song and dance about how it can't do this for me and how I can do it myself. Fuck, off. :P
@FastSM I see only 40 items, I mean messages, in my Home timeline. Any chance of increasing this to have more items from previous days or weeks? TweeseCake does that by default.
Episode 33 is out! 🫡 We are diving into the story of Lakshmi Sahgal and the Rani of the Jhansi Regiment, the first all-female combat unit in modern Indian history, formed in Singapore during World War II.
ℹ️ Most members were teenage Tamil girls from plantation communities who left estate life to train as soldiers in the Indian National Army and were later sent to the Burma front.
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My aunt is an ancestry nut and did some difficult tracing due to name misspellings etc and now I know my oldest American roots on the paternal side was a farmer from Germany who joined the north in the civil war for Wisconsin and my maternal side was a farmer from Germany who was regarded as a pioneer and founded a city in Iowa
How does the "notes" thing work? The first value is obviously the number of notes in a sequence, but I can't figure out what anything after that does just by looking.
I think the first two digits are duration, and the second is pitch in each pair...
@archos Berlín je na ježdění na kole ideální. Už jenom přesun po městě vylepšuje kondici. Nejhorší je takové to věčné namáhavé sezení v autě. Rozšířené v Německu a v Americe odkud po válce přišlo. Ani nakoupit to bez auta nejde…
@archos Chce to rovinu. Praha je nebezpečná a moc pahorková. Můj bratranec navzdory všemu jezdí celoročně v Praze na kole do práce. Divím se, že ho nějaký hrozný řidič nezabil.
Dnešní #Downmall v Pankráckých Arkádách. Tady záběry ze slopu (freestyle), ale jely se i závody na čas. V úzkých uličkách mezi lidma, skoky a překážky po cestě, schody eskalátoru atd. Mazec. #bike
Being an iPhone user in 2026 is fucking intolerable. I lost my phone but still had Airpods in. No problem. I'll just set a timer with Siri. Except Siri won't respond because there's another pair of AirPods connected. I'm triggering it from the ones in my ears, but that doesn't matter. Finally, I get it to respond. I set a timer. I hear absolutely nothing. Just in case, I tell it to turn off Bluetooth. "You'll need to unlock your iPhone first," says Siri. I finally found it by putting on my watch and using the "Ping iPhone" feature. Except even then, I have to keep pressing the button because I guess Apple thinks a two-second audio file is enough to locate a lost phone. So why didn't I hear the timer? Because despite turning off the option to change ring volume with buttons, it was somehow turned down to 6%. I genuinely have no idea how I would have found it if not for my watch. Used a Bluetooth keyboard to change the audio destination to the speaker? I can't decide if tech is getting worse or I'm becoming less patient, but at this rate I'm going to go into seclusion from 2027 to 2036 and design my own one-of-a-kind smartphone—not because I expect it to have fewer bugs, but because at least the bugs will be mine.
FWIW, if you ask Siri to find your iPhone, it will sound for much longer than if you use the ping iPhone thing in control center. Don't know why that is, but it's a thing.
Escape the City just got a couple of minor updates. I've added a changelog accessible from the main menu. I've also done some behind the scenes stuff to modularize things a bit. please send suggestions for improvements. l-works.net/escape
It seems to be a thing where if I select options for a new game, once I hit start on a given difficulty, it doesn't start the game, and will just set the start and back buttons to unavailable instead. It seemed to work on another device when I just tried it though so it could be something with my computer or browser
I initially picked survival, but on testing it doesn't seem to matter much which difficulty I pick. I wonder if there's a problem with my save specifically.
The only way I can see the game is to visit the website using Safari on my iPhone. I have not tried my Mac. I have tried edge, Firefox, and Google Chrome. I see the old games that are familiar, and a link to see more games on the main page. When I press that link, the only thing that happens is that the current page reloads. Any thoughts?
Hootsuite is in BC. And I wouldn't be surprised the Govt pays them big bucks to manage the write-only social media accounts on the CSAM generator platform.
Hootsuite was already a shitty company 10 years ago.
No longer getting any attention from his Greenland invasion fantasies, Trump now threatens 100 percent tariffs on all Canadian goods, because Mark Carney is negotiating a trade deal with China, like every other country on the planet does regularly, including the US.
I hope we will reach a point where the free world agrees, that a Trump tariff attack on one nation is a Trump tariff attack on all. Let him feel the consequences of his isolationist, America first agenda.
imposssible. Our morons politician ( ) say they can't do it... so they can continue to post on it. Meanwhile they want age verification for the internet.
I hope everyone stays warm with this upcoming storm. I did talk to someone out in the midwest who said they only got three itches so here is to hoping.
I need to find a country that has travel advisory levels that are believable before the next time I travel. I'm willing to settle for "doesn't make me spit out my coffee laughing" as a plausibility metric.
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, to světlo tam asi nesmi to je pravda. Necháváme tak týden kvasit.
) say they can't do it... so they can continue to post on it. Meanwhile they want age verification for the internet.
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