Winter storm thankfully produced sleet instead of ice. Sidewalks & steps are still a mess. Neighbors were clearing sidewalks yesterday but stopped short of our section. Sweet.
I submitted a proposal for a lightning talk for #FOSDEM . It's about .... from street-level hack to open cultural production.
pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026…
#openart #foss #creativecommons
./make art: A Creative Commons Theater Experiment FOSDEM 2026
It began as a small patch for a real-world bug: holes in the road. A few hackers chose action over complaints and the result was a Creative Commons theater play, performed in Sofia, Bulgaria.pretalx.fosdem.org
I knew there was another reason I went back to Windows 10. Seriously, how the fuck do people still trust this shit? youtube.com/watch?v=sx8fA8zAoQ…
Windows 11 January Update Can Stop Your PC From Booting
🚨 Windows 11 January Update Can Stop Your PC From Booting 🚨In this video, we break down a serious issue caused by the January Windows 11 update that can pr...YouTube
I have no idea what any of that means, but I enrolled my PC into another year of updates just via settings, and thus it still works fine.
Do you like nonsense?
Today, for the second time in my life, I have been asked to convert a "pirate" copy of an old (50y+) movie into the DCP format, for a cinephile club. Not because they do not want to pay the copyright holders, they actually did. But that did not give them access to any copy of the movie, they are on their own.
The previous time, the distributor would only send them a French-dubbed version, which was a no-no for them.
They are not even obscure unknown movies, but classics. 🤦♀️
Today, for the second time in my life, I have been asked to convert a "pirate" copy of an old (50y+) movie into the DCP format, for a cinephile club. Not because they do not want to pay the copyright holders, they actually did. But that did not give them access to any copy of the movie, they are on their own.
The previous time, the distributor would only send them a French-dubbed version, which was a no-no for them.
They are not even obscure unknown movies, but classics. 🤦♀️
Convert flv (Flash Video files) to MP4?
Is it possible? Safely? (I'm not keen on clicking on some of the links on a search. Are there downsides? Does anyone know?
Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.
If you can provide one video I can try it with my ffmpeg script. No idea if it will even see it or not but worth a try.
OK, do you still have *a* file you want to try and convert? I'm happy to try anyway if so. If not I can give you a direct command to enter into ffmpeg that should work.
Native Instruments GmbH is in preliminary insolvency.
Not remotely what you want to see. Will keep tabs on this one in a tough time. Details:
Native Instruments GmbH is in preliminary insolvency - CDM Create Digital Music
According to insolvency documents, Berlin-based Native Instruments GmbH (also parent to iZotope, Plugin Alliance, and Brainworx) is in preliminary insolvency proceedings.Peter Kirn (CDM Create Digital Music)
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If you did all that in Logic I'd be happy to stem out all the elements and send back a midi if you're just unable to play the sounds yourself at the moment.
I have all of KK 15 Ultimate, so unless you used stuff outside of that, I'm more than happy to help if needed.
@shye @pkirn @dingodoppelt
I have all of KK 15 Ultimate, so unless you used stuff outside of that, I'm more than happy to help if needed.
@shye @pkirn @dingodoppelt
High‑pass RMS (a good proxy for “sharp edge”):
d͡z alone:
HP RMS > 2kHz: 0.0201 → 0.0150 (≈ 25% less)
“words” (ending only):
HP RMS > 2kHz: 0.01337 → 0.01048 (≈ 22% less)
And the overall RMS stayed basically the same, so it shouldn’t sound “weak”, just less prickly.
d͡z alone:
HP RMS > 2kHz: 0.0201 → 0.0150 (≈ 25% less)
“words” (ending only):
HP RMS > 2kHz: 0.01337 → 0.01048 (≈ 22% less)
And the overall RMS stayed basically the same, so it shouldn’t sound “weak”, just less prickly.
Canada should deny entry to anyone associated with ICE or CPB. Wearing masks to commit murders, it could be any of them, how do we know?
The d͡z version showed sharper energy around high frequencies (3–8kHz). To fix this, I redistributed the energy by adjusting various parameters, including pa6 and pa5. Next update. Words like " words" and "sounds" have less sharpness already but it didn't lose its sound.
I once again have built up a number of posts I thought were too mad to post but made me laugh so I didn't delete them. They lay festering in my drafts. It feels wrong to delete them for some reason. So I'm going to amnesty post those babies here now so I can be free of the responsibility of them.
Sorry I didn't boost that banger you tooted but I was taking stock of my life. I'm back now and promise never to leave again. X
For anyone new who's wondering - if you boost and fave at the same time it means you love me and you can't take it back
My book, Accessibility For Everyone, is now free and online as a website.
The book was first published by A Book Apart in 2017 but it holds up! It covers web accessibility for designers, developers, content folks, and really everyone who works in tech.
Accessibility For Everyone by Laura Kalbag
Read the book online for free.accessibilityforeveryone.site
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Alright, work meetings. No SpeechPlayer updates for a bit. Someone's asking for Russian, really can't promise that'd be ready by next driver with how complex it is of a language. If I add Russian I'd also be tempted with Ukranian, Belarusian, and Serbian. so it would come in with similar languages, just as we have all the Germanic ones, and then each would get their own tuning treatments. But large work. The initial scaffolding I can make, native speakers I can't just birth out of my stomach.
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Working on another vibe-coded text game. I need to find a place to put these. Should they go up on LWorks or somewhere else?
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great work by @mgifford highlighted in this issue.
Laura Carlson (@laura_carlson@mastodon.social)
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I don't know. My partner (Jess) asked if I'm building this for other people or myself. I feel like I'm building it for other people but I really should be happy with it for myself at least. My only goal was to get this thing working in modern NVDA. Then US English lead us to other languages, people asked if they can have theirs, and then it turned into this big sad project. But maybe I shouldn't feel so sad over it. For myself, it sounds nearly there. Yes some words are off, and some things still stick out a bit sharp, like the word words, ironically. But I can understand and use it, probably 80% of the time I am instead of Eloquence. In that way, mission accomplished, and we have a big robust frontend to tune, so I probably should feel less sad about it.
The key is to realize this can't be only your project. Think of it like you're founding an organization that needs to persist over the years. You're already doing that work, by documenting everything really well, and giving lots of people other features they can use. As well as creating tools. But your goal should be getting it into a state you, personally, like, and then in moving towards having other people in charge of different things. So all you do is final tests and sign off on releases.
@fastfinge I just made a massive tools update, formant_trajectory.py and the frame inspector use lang_pack.py and a simple_yaml.py to parse it in a less strict way. So now it's really solid on tooling. People can do tests against them, and build languages easier. I think you're right, hopefully it can get to a point where I'm sitting back and accepting PRs from people tuning phonemes, and carefully weighing bigger changes to anything with the community, liaison for improving it. But this is so so far away from that, although interest is definitely picking up and the more I can simplify tools and add them in many ways I'm hoping the flexibility will make it shine for it. Whether you use the phoneme editor, the frame inspector / trajectory tool, now you really have a way to dig into the rules.
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What I've been playing with, and why you haven't heard much from me, is trying to create some good way to extract formants from existing sounds, in an accessible way. Thus far, though, nothing has worked, or been as accessible as I want it to be. It involves matlab and other terrible things. But what I really really want is something where I can put in a second of sound and get an estimate of all the formants and transitions, and then use the tools you created to compare them. But I haven't gotten close enough to have anything to share.
But what has been helpful is using your tool to show me just how wrong everything I have tried for formant estimation actually is. So it's been useful in that I can generate audio with known values, give it to my formant estimation attempt, and know that my estimated data is incorrect.
So one thing to think about: If people change settings in the NVDA addon, then you release an update, it looks like there settings aren't always updated. And it's really, really easy to break subtle things. If I were you I might consider adding a reset to defaults button in the addon. Because otherwise you're going to get feedback from people who toggled a checkbox like co-articulation without thinking about any of the associated settings and now wonder why everything sounds bad.
@fastfinge I think we can. If we shipped a .defaults folder with the untouched language files, then the person just hits "reset to defaults" in the NV Speech Player panel, and boom. We just copy over the files from .defaults and they have unchanged settings. But sadly it can't live in the voice panel, because you cannot put buttons there. So it has to live in the NV Speech Player settings area near the top.
It's probably a good idea. Just so that if someone is giving feedback, or complaining about something, that you can't hear or reproduce, it's easy to say "Please press reset and make sure you still have this problem."
This blogpost makes an astoundingly good case about LLMs I hadn't considered before. The collapse of public forums (like Stack Overflow) for programming answers coincides directly with the rise of programmers asking for answers from chatbots *directly*. Those debugging sessions become part of a training set that now *only private LLM corporations have access to*. This is something that "open models" seemingly can't easily fight. michiel.buddingh.eu/enclosure-…
The Enclosure feedback loop
speculation about the way (paid) software development will become LLM-onlymichiel.buddingh.eu
This goes much, much wider than programming and LLMs.
In general, the open source world looks with disdain at all kinds of automated feedback collection mechanisms, which the Silicon Valley Venture Capital tech ecosystem has wholeheartedly embraced. OSS is still stuck in the 1990s mindset of "if there's a problem, somebody will report this to us", and That... just isn't true.
What we're stuck with is OSS solutions with inferrior user experiences which nobody wants to use, instead of a compromise where OSS software collects more data than some people would have liked, but that software actually has some users and makes a difference in the world.
To be fair, there are some good arguments against this (it's much easier to protect user privacy if the only contributors to your code are employees with background checks), but that doesn't make this less of a problem.
Yeah, not a bad idea to release the add-on and editor together on GitHub. Link updated. If people want they can use the packs folder from the add-on included to tweak phonemes now too, so that really solves that problem. Appreciate that suggestion. Technically it's still not bundling libespeak or linking directly to it so I'm able to do that fairly.
github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
Remember, the driver file is like 70 KB because it has so much code for settings, compatibility with older NVDA back to 2023.2, voice keys, all of it adds lines. I think we're good on frontend passes for now, too many settings and people can now build proper languages with this set of them.
github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
Remember, the driver file is like 70 KB because it has so much code for settings, compatibility with older NVDA back to 2023.2, voice keys, all of it adds lines. I think we're good on frontend passes for now, too many settings and people can now build proper languages with this set of them.
Release NVSpeech Player with phoneme editor and NVDA Addon version 1.7 · tgeczy/NVSpeechPlayer
Many changes, and first one with the NVDA add-on bundled as this uses built-in Espeak, not code-linked: Adds proper focus management for the editor, so alt tabbing away and back, or opening the wi...GitHub
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I didn't put in the new phonemes into the editor yet. Going to give it a bit of time to be in the driver first, then yeah if people aren't overly upset, we'll move them into Master. For now it's a bit experimental. Maybe this afternoon. I'll move them into the master branch now, so people can see and mess with them, compare the diffs if they want, and then we'll roll it into the editor version later.
New NVSpeech Player build for NVDA:
Mostly language tuning. Words like "square", "fair", "bear" get proper US and UK pronunciations. Protein, Fourteen get a slight tweak, though not perfect. Some of this is just on Espeak being used for IPA and phonemizing. We also fixed it so that the "google / able" rule doesn't bleed into words like real. Overall, no phoneme changes from last night. People were not super overly mad at them getting a slight softening. At 16000, it sounds really good to me, and less sharp. At 22050, that's your own damn problem. Formant synthesizers lose their bandwidths at higher sample rates because they simply cannot fill it all in and compress their voice in an equally filling way across all frequencies. It's a thing with all of them. Eloquence at 22K? I'm realizing, not the greatest. So if you're using it at that and think, "oh now it's too soft", at least it also doesn't sound like it does at 44100 when it's at 22050, so you should really be thankful instead. Just saying. Besides, we only really changed like 17 phonemes to get this effect, it's not like all of them got a rewrite.
eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay…
Mostly language tuning. Words like "square", "fair", "bear" get proper US and UK pronunciations. Protein, Fourteen get a slight tweak, though not perfect. Some of this is just on Espeak being used for IPA and phonemizing. We also fixed it so that the "google / able" rule doesn't bleed into words like real. Overall, no phoneme changes from last night. People were not super overly mad at them getting a slight softening. At 16000, it sounds really good to me, and less sharp. At 22050, that's your own damn problem. Formant synthesizers lose their bandwidths at higher sample rates because they simply cannot fill it all in and compress their voice in an equally filling way across all frequencies. It's a thing with all of them. Eloquence at 22K? I'm realizing, not the greatest. So if you're using it at that and think, "oh now it's too soft", at least it also doesn't sound like it does at 44100 when it's at 22050, so you should really be thankful instead. Just saying. Besides, we only really changed like 17 phonemes to get this effect, it's not like all of them got a rewrite.
eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay…
#DataPrivacyWeek - We asked Tuta users about their favorite Google Search alternative. Which is yours?! 🔍
RE: social.secret-wg.org/@julf/115…
Can anyone verify this? (I'm not 100% certain of the bonafides of an X account called "YouAnonTV)
Not the specific claim, but there is news coverage claiming that opposition to U.S.A. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is being suppressed on #TikTok.
Standard caution about question headlines applies, of course.
forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2…
cosmopolitan.com/politics/a701…
But let's put it this way: the notion has reached Forbes and Cosmo, and isn't just some anonymous poster on Twitter stirring the pot.
Is TikTok Censoring Anti-ICE Content?
Many users are raising concerns about the platform's content moderation with its new ownership.Annabel Iwegbue (Cosmopolitan)
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Irony is no longer a thing, but it turns out the ownership of the platform by a repressive China was a lesser threat than its new owners.
Who would have guessed?
2021: OpenAI is the most expensive loss-making startup in human history, and their only product is a chatbot.
2022: OpenAI is the most expensive loss-making startup in human history, and their only product is a chatbot.
2023: OpenAI is the most expensive loss-making startup in human history, and their only product is a chatbot.
2024: OpenAI is the most expensive loss-making startup in human history, and their only product is a chatbot.
2025: OpenAI is the most expensive loss-making startup in human history, and their only product is a chatbot.
2026: OpenAI is the most expensive loss-making startup in human history, and their only product is a chatbot.
Much innovation. Very business.
Data control = identity control. 😨
Nubus by Nextcloud partner Univention is an identity management system that puts IT departments back in charge of storage locations, access rights, security policies, and integrations.
Discover more👇 biometricupdate.com/202601/uni…
Univention’s Nubus promises data sovereignty at fraught moment: Nextcloud
Nextcloud questions the wisdom of relying on major cloud platforms like Microsoft Entra ID to manage user accounts, access and authentication.Joel R. McConvey (BiometricUpdate.com)
NVSpeech Player with phoneme editor version 1.7
• Adds proper focus management for the editor, so alt tabbing away and back, or opening the window, will land you on the first field in the window.
• adds keyboard shortcuts for commands available in the main area, so you're not left tabbing through.
• Adds new settings available in the frontend for the passes.
• YAML now gets ordered correctly as the NVDA driver writes it, so the phoneme editor will create a structurally sound form that's consistent.
Still using ESpeak as a non-linked, separate phonemizer, or you can specify your own if it runs through STDIN / CLI, as always. Enjoy!
github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
• Adds proper focus management for the editor, so alt tabbing away and back, or opening the window, will land you on the first field in the window.
• adds keyboard shortcuts for commands available in the main area, so you're not left tabbing through.
• Adds new settings available in the frontend for the passes.
• YAML now gets ordered correctly as the NVDA driver writes it, so the phoneme editor will create a structurally sound form that's consistent.
Still using ESpeak as a non-linked, separate phonemizer, or you can specify your own if it runs through STDIN / CLI, as always. Enjoy!
github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
Release NVSpeech Player with phoneme editor and NVDA Addon version 1.7 · tgeczy/NVSpeechPlayer
Many changes, and first one with the NVDA add-on bundled as this uses built-in Espeak, not code-linked: Adds proper focus management for the editor, so alt tabbing away and back, or opening the wi...GitHub
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@alexchapman ah yep, true! I wonder if I could just publish them together, technically we're not linking against Espeak in the add-on. Hmm. That's an idea there.
@alexchapman there it is, I updated the release. github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
Release NVSpeech Player with phoneme editor and NVDA Addon version 1.7 · tgeczy/NVSpeechPlayer
Many changes, and first one with the NVDA add-on bundled as this uses built-in Espeak, not code-linked: Adds proper focus management for the editor, so alt tabbing away and back, or opening the wi...GitHub
So HackerOne published a blog about how organizations should deal with AI slop reports. TL;DR: Use AI to evaluate them. Now we've gone full circle.
I bet @bagder has opinion on this. Also the timing seems weird, with cURL very publicly scrapping their bug bounty program.
hackerone.com/blog/ai-slop-exp…
I bet @bagder has opinion on this. Also the timing seems weird, with cURL very publicly scrapping their bug bounty program.
hackerone.com/blog/ai-slop-exp…
Best Practices to Beat AI Slop With Exposure Management | HackerOne
Vulnerability volume is rising fast with AI, and triage is breaking. Exposure management and CTEM keep programs focused on fixable risk and high-signal findings.HackerOne
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yeah, I don't believe AI is good enough for this, so doing this will risk making the program a horrible experience for the last humans actually doing things the right way. The ones we should care about the most. I've resisted this AI take for curl reports for this reason.
I think it‘s a quite terrible idea to let AI triage slop AI reports. It truly reminds me of AI summaries for long AI-generated e-mails. Seems a bit like an LLM powered circlejerk.
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I have figured this out.
I had to save the HTML code in plain text instead of rich text and add the HTML extension.
Question for anyone on here using Google Gemini.
I want to extract some text from some war diaries and preferably save it as an HTML file.
I realise Gemini probably will not create an HTML file for download but it did offer to create me HTML code.
I put it into a text editor, saved it as an HTML file but there must be something I'm missing because when I opened the new document in a browser, it just showed me a whole bunch of HTML code instead of my nicely formatted text.
Is there something I'm doing wrong? I'm on the mac.
@Scott I worked out what the problem was.
If I say it as plain text and change the extension to HTML, it gets the formatting absolutely right.
I heard that Gemini wasn't very good at generating files to download but I might have another try.
If I say it as plain text and change the extension to HTML, it gets the formatting absolutely right.
I heard that Gemini wasn't very good at generating files to download but I might have another try.
Question for anyone on here using Google Gemini.
I want to extract some text from some war diaries and preferably save it as an HTML file.
I realise Gemini probably will not create an HTML file for download but it did offer to create me HTML code.
I put it into a text editor, saved it as an HTML file but there must be something I'm missing because when I opened the new document in a browser, it just showed me a whole bunch of HTML code instead of my nicely formatted text.
Is there something I'm doing wrong? I'm on the mac.
I want to extract some text from some war diaries and preferably save it as an HTML file.
I realise Gemini probably will not create an HTML file for download but it did offer to create me HTML code.
I put it into a text editor, saved it as an HTML file but there must be something I'm missing because when I opened the new document in a browser, it just showed me a whole bunch of HTML code instead of my nicely formatted text.
Is there something I'm doing wrong? I'm on the mac.
Surprised it can't rustle you up a file for download if you ask it to do that. It's hard to say what's wrong without seeing the file you've got.
What's the crappiest movie you've ever seen?
Don't think too deeply about it. It means whatever you think it means.
RE: hessen.social/@C_Ottenburg/115…
#Disabled-Alltag
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Angehängt: 1 Bild Meine Tochter konnte jetzt schon den 2. Tag in Folge nicht zur Schule, weil Winterdienst in Frankfurt halt so aussieht, dass zwar die Zebrastreifen geräumt werden, Fuß- und die auf dem Fußweg verlaufenden Radwege aber nur, wenn die…hessen.social
Hey #FOSDEM attendees, we need some more helping hand during the weekend.
If you have some spare time, please help us as we have gaps to fill 😊
fosdem.org/2026/news/2026-01-2…
c'ya at @fosdem
Look, world — this is Odesa tonight. russian drones attacked civilian homes, injuring people and destroying lives.
Довольно часто в массовых обсуждениях пропаганды перехода на Линукс я замечаю знакомые паттерны, что встречал ещё в велодвижении. Есть там одна схожая тема - езда на велосипеде на работу и просто по делам, что я и сам практикую и даже продвигал :)
Так вот многие персонажи прямо до боли знакомы.
Адепты секты дистрибутивов и окружений: "ездить по городу нужно только на шоссере/циклокроссе/туринге/горном велосипеде/складнике". Если у тебя что-то плохо получается, то выкинь свой Gnome и купи найнер, на нём на трамвайных рельсах ты бы не упал. Что? Какой найнер, что за сраный жир, только шоссер позволит чувствовать себя уверенным на дороге.
Любители гик-гламура: эти вешают фоточки лакированных и сверкающих городских велосипедов с деревянными деталями и кожей, на которых они ездят в твидовых костюмах, либо восстановленных лимитированных советских велосипедов на оригинальных деталях, либо ультраминималистичных фиксов и говорят, что вот он - путь, идентичность и вообще суть велокультуры. Осторожно спрашивающих каково попасть в таком виде в дождь и точно ли велосипед с деревянным лакированным ящиком удобен для езды среди автомобилей и таскания в переход обычно сразу банят за дискредитацию армии идей. Когда в Москве проходили велопарады, влияние этих кадров было особенно заметно, в том числе среди организаторов. Я потом регулярно встречал людей, пытающихся их заветам следовать, помню, со мной пару недель ездила девочка в платье и на городском велосипеде с ящичком. Больше я её не видел ни в каком виде, что и не удивительно. На трёхполосных дорогах-то.
Скилл-ишшью гигачады: "если у тебя что-то не получается, ты просто слабак, иди качайся, а так у нормальных людей всё норм". Как сделать вот это? RTFM, сука! Просто разгонись на вливании до 40 км/ч, перестройся в третью полосу и дальше топи через развязку за автобусом, держать тридцатку десять минут может любой, даже мой сын, дед и собака. А там ещё раз разгонишься и перестроишься, тебя пропустят. Наверное. Страшно? Ну и иди отсюда! Какие ещё объезды. Ты ещё скажи, что прыгать на велосипеде не умеешь. Просто тренируйся каждый день и всё получится (ну или иди нахуй).
Технопуристы: "systemd/wayland/GUI амортизаторы/гидравлика/широкая резина/переключатели никому не нужны, а что они везде есть - это корпорации вас разводят". И всё бы ничего, если бы они подкрепляли этим свой личный выбор, но мажут этими широкими мазками прямо по лицу чаще почему-то новичков. У тебя велосипед с вилкой, чего ты хочешь-то? Научиться ездить можно только на жигулях-классике фиксе. Некоторые поддаются влиянию. Кто-то таки действительно начинает ездить на фиксе, а про тихо разочаровавшихся больше никто и не узнает. Отдельная разновидность - минималисты-экономисты, выбравшие своим (и поэтому всеобщим) идеалом Thinkpad 2012 года выпуска велик пятнадцатилетней давности, перешедший в состояние "всё ненужное отвалилось само, а он всё равно едет".
Непробиваемые оптимисты: "у самурая нет цели, есть лишь путь, дождь не мочит, падать не больно, а поломки повод развлечь себя вечером и поиграть в конструктор". В принципе, я и сам к таким отношусь, но есть нюанс - к этому состоянию можно только прийти самому. Навязать его нельзя, можно лишь создать ложные ожидания. Дождь мочит. И да, это не так важно, но в ряде случаев сухим на работу ты не доедешь. И да, есть разные пути - можно летом поехать в одних шортах и тогда до нитки промокших предметов будет три и их легко сменить, можно завернуться во всякие мембраны и намокнуть не так сильно, можно относиться к дождю как к челленджу или наоборот веселью, но он есть. Не надо говорить, что это фигня и существует лишь в голове.
Ну и с другой стороны всё тоже типично. Самый узнаваемый типаж: укладыватели слона в холодильник: "это всё хорошо, но я посмотрю как вы повезёте на велосипеде газовую плиту или поедете на работу из загородного дома 50 километров по автомагистрали или заедете за день к тридцати клиентам по всей Москве и области". Да, инструмент должен соответствовать цели. Если встаёт задача поместить слона в холодильник, не надо это делать. Вызовите авторефрижератор. Никто с этим и не спорит. Ну, кроме всех перечисленных персонажей, конечно :)
#велосипед (и #linux)
Прямо мои мысли выражаете. При этом говоришь им: я, мать вашу, слепой. СЛЕПОЙ, понимаете? Совсем вообще ничего не вижу и не видел никогда. Мне ваш велосипед недоступен от слова совсем, как и Линукс, потому что вслепую на велике не поездишь, а доступность (accessibility) в Линукс такая, что это исключительно игрушечка для гиков на выходные, типа для тех же, кто Генту или ядро пересобирают по приколу. А они тебе то самое: ты слабак, люди пользуются, ты просто раб корпораций, фошизд, ноцизд и вообще тебя нужно везде забанить. Ну да, знаю я нескольких человек, которые на Линуксах сидят, а потом выясняется, что у них либо виндовая машина есть, либо в тот же Телеграм они с телефончика ходят и голосовым вводом пользуются… короче, тоже накипело. А одной мадам тут на полном серьёзе сказали: ну вот паралимпийцы же ездят на велике, а ты чего, хуже, что ли? Давай тренируйся.
В последнее время периодически задумываюсь над тем, чтобы возобновить изучение немецкого.
Моя история с этим языком довольно-таки непростая:
Я начал изучать его в школе с репетитором, поучил какое-то время, затем приостановился, готовился к ЕГЭ по английскому. После окончания школы продолжил, потом опять забросил, потом продолжил, понял, что не знаю, зачем он мне нужен и бросил.
У меня была подруга из Германии, с которой мы были очень близки и познакомились на почве языковой практики, какое-то время делали это.
Сейчас вновь возникает мысль "Не продолжить ли?" На испанском я говорю на уровне B1, на польском также, с чешским у меня ничего не получилось, мне интересна жизнь незрячих в Германии и это отличная мотивация для продолжения, также как я в своё время начал изучать польский и в итоге говорю на нём сейчас. Подписался здесь на знакомого чувака из Германии с сервера Hearthstone Access, он бустит что-то часто на немецком и мотивация еще сильнее, чтобы понять, что он пишет.
Моя история с этим языком довольно-таки непростая:
Я начал изучать его в школе с репетитором, поучил какое-то время, затем приостановился, готовился к ЕГЭ по английскому. После окончания школы продолжил, потом опять забросил, потом продолжил, понял, что не знаю, зачем он мне нужен и бросил.
У меня была подруга из Германии, с которой мы были очень близки и познакомились на почве языковой практики, какое-то время делали это.
Сейчас вновь возникает мысль "Не продолжить ли?" На испанском я говорю на уровне B1, на польском также, с чешским у меня ничего не получилось, мне интересна жизнь незрячих в Германии и это отличная мотивация для продолжения, также как я в своё время начал изучать польский и в итоге говорю на нём сейчас. Подписался здесь на знакомого чувака из Германии с сервера Hearthstone Access, он бустит что-то часто на немецком и мотивация еще сильнее, чтобы понять, что он пишет.
Однозначно продолжать. что правда, у многих людей немецкий плохо запоминается. Не знаю, с чем связано, но даже у меня (я от скромности не умру, считаю себя способным к языкам) именно с немецким возникают жуткие проблемы с удержанием лексики в памяти. Такого нет с другими германскими, ни с английским, ни со шведским, ни даже с нидерландским, который я учил-то самую-самую малость. Это надо учитывать. А так — однозначно вперёд!
Frankreich ersetzt MS Teams und Zoom durch eigene Videokonferenzsoftware
Mit Visio führt Frankreich seine Open-Source-Videokonferenzen für Behörden ein. Bis 2027 sollen 200.000 Beamte unabhängig von US-Anbietern arbeiten können.
heise.de/news/Frankreich-erset…
#DataAct #DigitaleSouveränität #EU #IT #MicrosoftTeams #Netzpolitik #OpenSource #Wirtschaft #news
🎉 First WIN of 2026: the Austrian DPA has ordered Microsoft to stop tracking school children
noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-microsoft-…
noyb win: Microsoft ordered to stop tracking school children
The DSB decided that Microsoft unlawfully placed tracking cookies on the devices of a pupilnoyb.eu
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Retrouvez mon dernier article intitulé « Le besoin urgent de reconquérir nos communications » qui parle du monopole états-uniens dans nos communications mais aussi de l’UE qui fait (souvent) de la merde et comment on reprend le contrôle sur tout ça.
N’hésitez pas à me laisser votre avis, à partager ça dans vos réseaux, avec vos proches, si vous avez aimé. ✊
➡️ alyve.be/blog/le-besoin-urgent…
#blog #communication #im #informatique #monopole #xmpp #email
Le besoin urgent de reconquérir nos communications
Aussi loin que je me souvienne dans mon histoire avec l’informatique, j’ai toujours utilisé des services états-uniens. Toujours. J’imagine que vous aussi. Gmail, Whatsapp, Instagram, Discord, Snapchat, et même Signal dépendent de services américains.Aly raconte
We are excited to be partnering with Meta to build a direct integration for Meta smart glasses using their new Wearables Device Access Toolkit.
This upcoming integration is designed to support a more seamless Explorer experience, with features like GPS continuity, photo capture, and more comprehensive in-call support.
This integration will be available for both IOS and Android, and we are working hard to ensure it functions as expected before rolling it out to the full Explorer community. Internal testing is underway, with a closed beta test to follow.
More updates to come, stay tuned!
Hey, going to #FOSDEM this weekend but already in Belgium on Thursday evening?
(and you're cool with carrying boxes around)
We still need volunteers to help with van loading at the fosdem hq (not at the campus itself):
volunteers.fosdem.org/task/162…
And in general can use more volunteers for other tasks as well:
Jabboratory has its own website at Codeberg pages now 🎉
jabboratory.codeberg.page/
Jabboratory is a safe space that develops XMPP and the Jabber network.
We do:
- write XMPP protocols, UI/UX guidelines, implementation guidelines
- Help XMPP implementations socially and technically, old and new
- involve, empower and remove any roadblocks for people to have their voice heard and directly change things in implementations they use or servers
- improve the Jabber network culture
and a lot more..
Our tech-free lounge is open to anyone that wants to be part of the conversation 😃
invite.joinjabber.org/#lounge@…
#xmpp #jabber #jabboratory #codeberg #XCSP #decentralized #federated #decentralization #privacy #diversity #standards
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