I've reached the end of my first full week of using a terminal-only interface for my personal computing in 2024.
It has been quite a week.
I've had to pick up git, which is a whole new learning curve for me, and my knowledge of tmux has increased rapidly too.
But, in terms of getting done what I actually wanted to do? It has been absolutely fine... right up until the point when it was not, and then I struggled.
I'm writing notes as I go, for a future blogpost.
Month of LibreOffice, November 2024 - Half-way point! - The Document Foundation Blog
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Hardcoded shortcuts in #LibreOffice are still a joke in 2024:
- F1 still cannot be modified. (I hate you so much for this.)
- Ctrl-P is Print, except editing shortcuts shows it's not actually bound to anything. Lulz?
Thankfully at least one can modify Ctrl-P to do something actually useful, like Export Directly as PDF.
But then… the Print tooltip still mentions Ctrl-P, the Export Directly as PDF doesn't.
A restart later, both tooltips mention Ctrl-P.
Lulz!
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Super nice #macOS related fixes upcoming in #LibreOffice💪❤️
macOS dictation had a problem where dictated text would only show, once you make a pause speaking. That was inconvenient as it is much easier to gather your thoughts when spoken text appears immediately.
Another issue that has been ongoing for many many years was, that when you scrolled the sheet in calc and while scrolling was still ongoing pressed cmd for some operation, the zoom level would change. This extremely annoying behavior is no longer.
Both fixes done by #PatrickLuby of #NeoOffice - we should all thank him!
Will take some time for those to trickly down into stable, but 25.2 will bring those fixes for sure.
dictation: bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163764calc scroll: bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151423
@libreoffice
@Tusky i love you, but you have to stop throwing away drafts when reopening the app.
Several times a month I lose my posts while switching been apps to copy text snippets and so on. It doesn't happen all the time, which is super frustrating. I convince myself it's okay, probably was just user error, it's stopped now, and then 💣🕳️
i can't do this anymore, sorry
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Dne 29. 11. 2024 od 8:00 do 11:00 proběhne přesun naší Mastodon instance na nový server.
Během této doby nebude instance dostupná.
Děkujeme za pochopení a trpělivost! Pokud máte jakékoli dotazy, neváhejte nás kontaktovat.
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These Zen masters wish you a happy Monday. Deal with it.
#MondayMotivaton #mondaythoughts #monday #humor #humour
Tohle nejspíš všichni znáte, ale opakování je matka moudrosti.
Na pouličních lampách jsou štítky s unikátními čísly. Ty slouží k jednoduché, rychlé a přesné identifikaci místa, kde stojí lampa.
To se hodí např. při komunikaci s záchranáři.
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How about changing our messaging to: "Your crippling BNPL debt is a direct consequence of Google, Meta and ByteDance knowing every fucking thing about you"
You're beating a dead horse. There is absolutely nothing you can do that is going to convince most people to use #XMPP because it is the Linux of messaging platforms, It may be better, it may be more private and more secure, but people don't care about that. All they want is something super easy to set up and use, and they want to be on the platform that friends and family are using. And no, they have no desire whatsoever to host a server for friends and family, that's waaaay to complicated for them (even it it literally involved entering one command at a command prompt it would still be to complicated). And they actually trust a big corporation more to keep their conversations private than some XMPP service they have never heard of.
If the day ever comes when they do give a rat's ass about privacy it will be too late because by the the big corporations and the government will already know everything about them. But most people seem to think they have nothing to hide so why should they be concerned about privacy? And if the last election taught us anything it is that far too many people are totally gullible.
Isn't WhatsApp based on xmpp protocol?
The current xmpp client feature set are fractured. e2ee is not on by default either.. my Q is why is there even an option to disable e2ee?. I find that weird in these times....
#XMPP
@Gold gab ich für Eisen @maple @Daniel Gultsch
why?
how is that secure communications, if its clear text? to me, not logical. just saying.
why is the fight over chatcontrol? fight over encryption? so cleartext comms safer? more secure? more private?
we can agree to disagree.
@sammi @maple I mean, not all communications in instant messengers are private talks, one may want to write chatbots, run internal organizational server for work conversations or whatever. Implementation of correct crypto can be an extra burden for such tasks and even its properties, like [overadvertized] forward secrecy, may be not optimal (when it is better to accept the danger of leak rather than loose something).
Finally, don't forget that a plethora of people uses Gmail without any GPG.
And it is not that E2EE is not necessary. Yes it is necessary, and it must be a default setting, but if one wants to disable it for some reason, why not.
@Gold gab ich für Eisen @Daniel Gultsch @maple
why are we conflating email with IM? weird. so are you saying xmpp is like non encrypted gmail?
Are users of gmail concerned with e2ee IM.
xmpp clients feature set are fractured. I tried using cheogram, monocles. for me, my UX was lukewarm at best. so say its fast and light, us it because its missing out the real privacy security stuff to claim its fast and light.
xmpp clients, to me anyway, don't meet my requirements of e2ee by default, e2ee private or public groups.
xmpp may be a standard. that standard is yesterday standard. to me, it hasn't modernised for todays requirements.
its unable to pivot to catch fire against the newer technology that's half its age. why is that? poor governance....
"why are we conflating email with IM?"
E.g. because both are used for communication between people.
"xmpp clients, to me anyway, don't meet my requirements of e2ee by default"
You are not enforced to use them. As #xmpp is an open standard and there are #freesoftware clients, you are free to make one that meets your standards.
@Gold gab ich für Eisen @maple @Daniel Gultsch
I know I'm not enforced to use them. I have decided not to use it as it does not meet my needs as I said. the xmpp clients are fractured, I have no interest in its ecosystem as I don't believe in it. I know, there are those who believe in it though.
if it can modernise itself, I may have another look. to me, it's legacy tech.
@Gold gab ich für Eisen @maple @Daniel Gultsch
I was done discussing this legacy tech, but you keep responding, so I respond back. makes sense, no?
if I want a secure msgr, xmpp clients are not it. if they get their act together, then there is a marginal chance I would look at it again, but by then, I would have moved way on.
You are free to use whatever chat client you want.
#Conversations_im has enabled e2ee by default over 6 years ago. I wrote a blog post about it back then. gultsch.de/omemo_by_default.ht…
Aside from that #Conversations_im puts up a big warning signs (red chat bubbles) when messages are received from other #XMPP clients in clear text.
The rocky road to OMEMO by default
Why it took us more than two years to enable End-to-End encryption by default: The first in a series of essays leading up to the release of Conversations 2.0gultsch.de
Bundestagswahl: Das Kreuz mit der Wahlsoftware
Gewählt wird in Deutschland mit Papier und Stift – doch auch Software spielt am Wahltag eine wichtige Rolle. Viele Details dazu werden geheimgehalten.netzpolitik.org
Reminder to everyone: Mastodon counts all links as 23 characters. Even if you use a link shortener.
If you use a shortener, all you do is obscure the link's destination (and make the link dependent on that shortening service). Many of us will avoid clicking on such obscured links. You're almost certainly *lowering* your engagement, traffic, whatever.
Just link directly. It doesn't cost you any characters.
Yikes! Other authors, be very careful and make sure you, or your agent, keeps an eye on contracts! Because mine is more experienced, he spotted the below right away, but keep an eye out for the below.
1. Do not give publishers permission to train their AI on your work, even internally. WTF? A publisher tried to sneak this in!
2. Despite what publishers tell you, demand your audiobook should be done by humans and your cover should be done by humans. Publishers love AI despite what they tell you!
3. Do not let publishers dictate giving you a lower advance *because* you don't have a platform. This is bullshit, especially since they have all the PR connections.
4. Do not let them say anything about how many hours you should spend promoting your book. Make this low as possible or even eliminate it altogether. They have all the PR connections. You don't. Make it their fault you don't make back their advance, not you, because they can decline to publish you in the future and you won't have numbers to prove they failed in PR.
5. Don't let publishers tell you virtual book tours don't generate returns on investment and isn't worth having their publicist do. No, fuck that shit! Because my agent is experienced, he said fuck that straight away! If you want your releases to be virtual, say so!
And finally,
6. Do not let them give you a low advance. A lower advance says they don't have to invest in you as much to get back that investment. They should do the bulk of the publishing work, not you, so always ask for higher advances, always! Even if you don't think you'll make back that advance. Go higher. This will force them to do something about their investment in you!
This is an experiment. Please boost.
Here's the idea: This post is going first to my followers, then, if they boost it, to other people. This domain has been registered for only this experiment. I should see in my web server's logs when mastodon instances start crawling the site for info. Then maybe also some curious humans.
I just want to play with my monitoring a bit :)
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A really interesting and informative interview with Pat Metheny about the One Quiet Night album and so much more!
50 Years into His Career, Pat Metheny Explores a New Landscape of Sound on the Baritone Guitar | Acoustic Guitar acousticguitar.com/pat-metheny…
50 Years into His Career, Pat Metheny Explores a New Landscape of Sound on the Baritone Guitar | Acoustic Guitar
The groundbreaking guitarist goes deep on his latest solo ventures—and why every one of his 50-plus releases feels like a single album.Acoustic Guitar
Coming to the end of a rewatch of #Babylon5. As I watch G'kar's closing message to Ta'lon (including his mention of what he was like when he first arrived… oh, memories of the first few episodes!), I suddenly realize:
The two shows are almost completely dissimilar, *but*… his arc reminds me of Eleanor Shellstrop's in #TheGoodPlace. Both have that thing where the person they become by the end has grown *so much*, it's nearly impossible to put into words. It aches.
#B5 #television #tv #growth
@DavidGoldfield Just thinking hard about the last few scenes always makes me cry, but I just finished a rewatch of "Objects at Rest" (which got me bawling at the scene where Sheridan and the new crew look at each other through their respective windows as he and Delenn's White Star is about to leave — Goddess, so much kudos to Christopher Franke for the heartbreaking music!) and am about to do "Sleeping In Light". Again.
I have tissues ready.
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- Duolingo (3%, 47 votes)
- LinkedIn (21%, 258 votes)
- Github (5%, 61 votes)
- Google AdMob (6%, 80 votes)
- VirusTotal (9%, 108 votes)
- ChatGPT (18%, 216 votes)
- Uber Eats (7%, 87 votes)
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- Other / Show Results (5%, 62 votes)
Für meine Leseratten auch ein kleines Update: 21 frische deutschsprachige #eBooks gehen gerade in Richtung ebooks.qumran.org/ – wenn Ihr dies lest, sind sie bereits verfügbar.
Wie üblich: kein Javascript, keine Kekse, nur eBooks. Viel Spaß beim Stöbern & Schmökern! 
PS: aktueller Stand: 12.937 Bücher – also kurz vor der 13k-Marke…
Izzy's freie Bibliothek
Katalog mit freien eBooks (Public Domain, Creative Commons): kostenlos und ohne Anmeldung stöbern und herunterladen!ebooks.qumran.org
Yesterday added to the #IzzyOnDroid repo – today made RB: welcome to the RB family, TubeSync! 🥳
apt.izzysoft.de/packages/tubes…
TubeSync lets you sync YouTube playlists offline. After we figured the Flutter version used "upstream", we could successfully prove the app as one of the #reproducibleBuilds
„TubeSync“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
Sync YouTube playlists offline. Because YT Music is too costlyIzzyOnDroid App Repo
is there a bash (or even another shell, but I mostly use bash) feature that defers creation of new files so that this would work:
$ bibtool -s main.bib > main.bib
instead of what I actually have to type:
$ bibtool -s main.bib > bla
$ mv bla main.bib
EDIT: @atax1a says:
install the moreutils package and use
bibtool -s main.bib | sponge main.bib
This is a US supplied 2,000 pound bomb milliseconds before it exploded in a residential neighborhood of Beirut Lebanon a day or two ago.
There have been so many strikes on medical workers and residential buildings in Lebanon the past week I just can't keep up.
#USPol #JoeBiden #Beirut #Lebanon #Israel #FreePalestine #FreeLebanon
The Magic of “Multisolving”
ssir.org/articles/entry/the_ma…
3 Principles
- Everyone matters; everyone is needed
- We can succeed by addressing tough problems in an integrated fashion
- Large solutions start small; growth results from learning & connecting
3 Practices: Welcoming, Learning & Storytelling
The Magic of “Multisolving” (SSIR)
Six principles and practices to unlock cross-sectoral collaboration.ssir.org
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