Trying to figure out the marketing speak of things like "WD Elements" or "WD Passport" external USB hard drives.
Are they just hard drive I can reformat as I wish or is there some trick with the garbage software they ship with it. Strangely the "PC" version is cheaper than the "Mac" version. (I don't care either way, so less money is good)
I don't want to have to go through the return hassle if I get one.
Samsung Android Accessibility Framework 34.1.1 Highlights: Paid a Buck, I Sit in Front; Couldn't Pay,
When I posted my article about Samsung's accessibility framework after One UI 6.1 was released—a framework that continually improves—I ended the article withCiprian Dinca (Accessible Android)
St-Pierre Plamondon accuse QS d’être woke
Le chef péquiste Paul St-Pierre Plamondon estime que les déclarations controversées d’Haroun Bouazzi sont le reflet du « wokisme » de Québec solidaire, qui se sert depuis 10 ans de cette technique pour faire avancer son agenda.La Presse
il parle pas en Français cet ostie d'épais. WOKE c'est pas du Français!!!!!
(I love le Franglais, fuck the franco-fascists)
@driusan you are like a republican voter that vote against their own interest doing so.
Le PQ veut foutre dehors tous les anglos aussi.
The PQ want to throw out all the anglos too.
I really, really can’t say enough positive things about server-side Swift. I literally had no backend experience before this year, but I decided to write the entire backend for AltStore PAL in Swift and after some initial hiccups (*cough* URLSession *cough*) it’s been remarkably smooth sailing. Plus I can still use Xcode to develop everything & cross-compile for Linux!
If you’ve been wanting to experiment with server-side Swift, there’s really no better time to start swift.org/documentation/server…
Excited to announce our partnership with @openuk
Together, we’re working to support and promote open technologies and green digital future! 🎉 👏
Every time I have to deal with the libatspi C API, I want to bang my head repeatedly against the desk. The Python bindings around it moved from a "we're writing static bindings so might as well make them more idiomatic" to a big "let's fix the C API" layer, but nobody is fixing the C API because that would require breaking backward compatibility.
I'm not even going to touch the fact that it took more than 10 years to get the RPC interfaces to match the implementation…
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Welcome to the RB family, OpenAthena™ 🥳
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OpenAthena™ is a project that enables consumer and professional drones to identify precise locations based on their images.
After getting rid of some Umlaut in a file name, the code did not only compile – but resulted in a reproducible build. So the new release that shows up in about 2 hours from now will have the green shield up 
#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid
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These #InternationalStudents Wanted #Citizenship. #Canada Killed That Dream.
As Canada tries to staunch an overflow of temporary #immigration, tens of thousands of international students and recent grads may be forced to leave the country. Here are their stories.
"For example, I’m developing a device for newborn care that monitors infants’ body temperature, skin colour, eye colour, weight and heart rate, among other factors, to track their health, particularly during those critical first few weeks of life. It could save lives. Think of how many other students have ideas and skills we can’t even imagine yet.
That’s why it’s so disheartening to hear some Canadians talk about international students like we’re parasites. I pay about $12,000 per semester in tuition—far more than Quebec residents do. I have a campus job as a kitchen supervisor to cover my expenses, and I live in a small two-bedroom apartment with a roommate. People like me are not responsible for Canada’s problems. But we can help solve them, contributing to the country’s cultural diversity, its economy, its innovation and its growth. And by bridging gaps between nations, we help build a more inclusive society for everyone."
#CDNpoli #InternationalStudents #BaitAndSwitch #PostSecondaryEducation
is there a visual thing to learn, as a teen here, that actually writing "2.146". wouldn't provide?
It bothered me as a kid myself having to 'feel' analogue clocks, but I don't see interpreting the number in this way is any different to reading it from a screen in the first place?
- (weighted) push-ups (33%, 1 vote)
- renegade rows (66%, 2 votes)
I used to do a pull-push split but now I usually do two splits. My primary split is an upper- and lower-body split. I split arm and torso/back concentration on alternate upper-body days.
on leg day, I can only do 7 or so sufficiently hard exercises with the limited equipment I have so I don’t bother splitting.
So it’s three sets of exercises. Every upper-body day mixes pulling and pushing but every muscle group only hits 100% once every 3-4 days.
@gekitsu The reason I do this is partly because I don’t really have equipment to do a lot of push-based exercises. Our bed isn’t heavy; if I face away from my bed when I do a push exercise with resistance bands, I tend to drag the bed. No bench makes it hard to do presses with full motion.
Trying different variations of push-ups (elbows in/out, narrow/wide) seems my best bet for pushing right now (but I’m open to ideas!)
I'm happy to announce that I will be presenting about the #WebAlmanac for the December Boye & Co Member Call:
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Using the Web Almanac to Understand Trends with Mike Gifford
I will be talking about #CMS, #JavaScriptframeworks and of course #sustainability and #accessibility
10 December - Free with Registration
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Featuring @todd@a11y.info, @theaccessibilityguy, @TPGi, @ozewai, @ScopicEngineer, @codepo8, @medienbaecker, @shadeed9, @LFLegal, @heydon, @tbroyer, @jarango, @AlexDawsonUK, @InesAkrap, @mgifford, and more.
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On the downside, though, every time the speaker is at louder volume (and this laptop has 4, so I assume it's the bottom-facing wufers causing this,) the inside of the trackpad make a slight raddle sound, sort of like the old BrailleNote classics did with their singular speakers raddling the Braille pins, you know? OK, you probably don't, but either way it's not pleasant. Placing my hand over the trackpad will stop the noise, and again it's very slight and only at louder volumes, but still. The downside to a haptic trackpad.
Hallo @Friendica Support ,
meine Instanz dica.interfel.de liefert seit vorhin Err 504 Gateway Time-out zurück.
Sie liegt bei Uberspace und der DNS-Eintrag funktioniert offenbar.
Die Datenbank scheint auch ok, ich habe gerade erfolgreich ein Backup davon erstellt.
Konsole und Performance auf der Konsole, Quota usw sind ok.
Die einzige Änderung der letzten Monate ist die Aktivierung des Addons Bluesky. Es lief bis gestern Abend sauber und hat drei Accounts von Bluesky in meine Timeline integriert. Mehr nicht.
Habe als erste Maßnahme gerade auf der Konsole versucht, das Addon zu deaktivieren, aber der entsprechende Befehl scheint das Addon nicht zu finden:
[... bin]$ console addon disable bluesky
[Error] Addon nicht gefunden
Der Befehl zum Auflisten aller aktiven Addons liefert auch nur eine leere Liste:
[... bin]$ ./console addon list enabled
+------+---------+
| Name | Enabled |
+------+---------+
| | |
+------+---------+
Gibt es irgendwelche Ideen dazu, was ich tun kann?
Ah, okay, danke Dir.
So funktioniert schon mal der 'disable bluesky'-Befehl - zumindest kommt keine Fehlermeldung.
./bin/console list enabled wirft allerdings die gesamte Liste aller Addons raus, obwohl ich nur einige wenige aktiviert habe.
Der '504' kommt immer noch. Es ist die Friendica 2024.06.
Kann ich über die Konsole irgendwie einen relevanten Status herausfinden?
./bin/console maintenance 1 bzw 0 funktioniert übrigens einwandfrei.
Kann ich das Protokoll (trotz "Ich hoffe...") manuell irgendwo einschalten?
Der Fehler ist behoben, aber das Konsolenkommando zum Einschalten des Friendica-Protokolls wäre bei Gelegenheit trotzdem von Interesse.
So für das Befehls-Archiv.
Fehler offenbar behoben :-)Habe aufgrund Deines Hinweises mal das PHP-Log von Uberspace aktiviert. Das dauerte sehr lange und hatte schon durchs Einschalten dutzende ERRORs im sehr langen Logfile.
Dann auf die PHP-Version auf 8.1 umgestellt und erneut das PHP-Log aktiviert. Drei Zeilen im Log und "ready to handle connections".Laut History war zuvor PHP 8.0 aktiviert und war wohl Ursache des Problems. Irgendetwas muss vergangene Nacht bei Uberspace verändert worden sein.
Die Instanz läuft nun wieder erwartungsgemäß und Deine Hilfe bei der Konsole hat mich auf die Spur gebracht.
Vielen vielen Dank dafür!
@SoNak @Michael Vogel gaaaz simpel 
bin/console config system debugging zeigt den aktuellen Wert der Einstellung an, 0 bedeutet kein logging, 1 bedeutet logging. Wenn du den gewünschten Wert als vierten Parameter übergibts änderst du die aktuelle Einstellung, also zum Aktivieren des Protokollierens bin/console config system debugging 1.
Fehler offenbar behoben 
Habe aufgrund Deines Hinweises mal das PHP-Log von Uberspace aktiviert. Das dauerte sehr lange und hatte schon durchs Einschalten dutzende ERRORs im sehr langen Logfile.
Dann auf die PHP-Version auf 8.1 umgestellt und erneut das PHP-Log aktiviert. Drei Zeilen im Log und "ready to handle connections".
Laut History war zuvor PHP 8.0 aktiviert und war wohl Ursache des Problems. Irgendetwas muss vergangene Nacht bei Uberspace verändert worden sein.
Die Instanz läuft nun wieder erwartungsgemäß und Deine Hilfe bei der Konsole hat mich auf die Spur gebracht.
Vielen vielen Dank dafür!
Das war zwar wirklich herumstochern im Nebel, aber oft reichen grobe Indizien, um ein Problem einzugrenzen. Von Beginn an war da das Gefühl, es liegt in der Infrastruktur begründet. Daher auch zunächst die Tests bezüglich DNS, Quota usw.
Es brauchte nur den passenden Funken - Logfiles. Ich arbeite einfach zu selten auf dieser Ebene, um von selbst darauf gekommen zu sein.
Zeit für den zweiten Versuch eines Liberapay-Kontos. Hatte bei einem früheren Versuch 2021 keine Einzahlung hinbekommen oder einfach das Prinzip nicht verstanden.
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Real time collaboration software and text boxes that rapidly save drafts to the cloud essentially log your fingerprintable typing behavior. The industry refers to this information as “keystroke dynamics” or “typing biometrics”.
Other modern “operator signatures” are easier to minimize. A user can learn to obfuscate writing style, or can use keyboard navigation with different pointing devices to limit fingerprinting of mouse behavior.
Keystroke biometrics are difficult to anonymize without installing software such as kloak or browser extensions (the latter of which may add fingerprintable vectors) designed to cloak some of your typing habits. Signature typos, approximate typing speed, etc. will still leak. Alternatively, we could normalize typing messages out in a simple offline editors that don’t store revision history before pasting them into other input fields.
Originally posted on seirdy.one: See Original (POSSE). #Privacy #Anonymity
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What a refreshing story! I imagine many of us here owe a great deal to @libreoffice a software suite that has freed us from the grip of the document monopoly, thus broken our dependency on the fate of a single company.
If you're curious about how LibreOffice became what it is today, I highly recommend watching this in your spare time: youtu.be/9M468Krlawo
#LibreOffice #FOSS #DocumentFreedom
LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #1 – Marketing Free Software
Italo Vignoli and Mike Saunders from The Document Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind LibreOffice, discuss marketing free and open source software...YouTube
Me and a few friends had a night on the absinthe once.
One thing we noticed was that it made us incredibly flatulent. Being the mature grownups we were at the time, we decided it'd be funny to let rip into jars, and seal them up.
Anyway, next day, in my jar, there was a tiny motorbike- a replica of the CRF1100L Africa Twin.
Unbelievably, this is a common occurrence, and all the bikes came from the same manufacturer.
Turns out that absinthe makes the fart grow Honda.
Für Interessierte an #LiboriSocial haben wir unter start.libori.social eine Willkommens-Seite eingerichtet, die den Start auf #Mastodon und im #Fediverse erleichtern soll.
Schaut gerne mal rein. 😁 🦚
Apple released emergency security updates to fix two zero-day vulnerabilities that were exploited in attacks on Intel-based Mac systems.
📖 “Quebec to cut Montreal commuter rail lines by over 50%, another backward move by the CAQ” cultmtl.com/2024/11/quebec-to-…
Quebec plans to cut Montreal commuter trains by over 50%, another backward move by the CAQ
In 2024, a Quebec government agency is looking to cut the number of commuter trains serving Montreal by more than half.Taylor C. Noakes (Cult MTL)
"When cis people try to understand what it is to be trans, I think they often try to imagine what it would feel like to want to be 'the opposite sex'. What they should be trying to imagine, instead, is how it would feel to wake up and find that the whole world insists they *are* the opposite sex. That would be a much closer scenario to how it feels to be trans." Sage
#TransAwarenessWeek #Transgender #Trans #LGBT #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #Queer
New OSM tool (to me):
It is an easy way to see where lights are already mapped, and what still needs to be covered. I do believe MapComplete has one as well.
Street Lamps in OSM
This map shows street lamps and their settings in the data of OpenStreetMap. It shows e.g. operators, reference numbers and details about the used lights.sb12.github.io
Correct: our street light map is here: mapcomplete.org/street_lightin…?
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1. Create a shortcut which starts the terminal with the desired command line, specifying a unique window name with the -w option; e.g.:
wt -w wsl wsl.exe ~
2. Create another shortcut which focuses the first tab in the same window name; e.g.:
wt -w wsl ft -t 0
3. Pin the second shortcut to the taskbar, but not the first. You can then delete the second shortcut from wherever you created it if you like.
4. When you want to launch it, you'll have to use the first shortcut. However, once launched, you can use the pinned taskbar shortcut to switch to it.
It took me a while just to figure out how to create a simple shortcut to open a specific Windows Terminal - mainly so that I could open a WSL Terminal at a specific folder without navigating to it.
I tested pinning one of those just now, but as you note, my shortcut doesn't manage new vs multiple tab instances.
Windows Terminal keeps improving and sometimes surprises me as I continue to learn more neat things about it, but it definitely still has some awkward quirks!
alpha1beta
in reply to Hubert Figuière • • •So I have a bunch and there's all just straight up external disks.
There may be a difference in quality - speed, endurance, what have you.
It usually comes with software for backups but AFAIK there's nothing OS specific. Our designer at work used a non-Mac one for years.
Hubert Figuière
in reply to alpha1beta • • •@alpha1beta ok, that's what I wondering. cool.
yes I expect varying level of internal hard drive "quality" I have already a bunch of LaCie and WD accumulated over the years
alpha1beta
in reply to Hubert Figuière • • •Haven't had a WD fail on me yet. Got 21 spinning now, oldest from around 2018
However, rarely have I had a seagate not fail one me. Never had a LaCie - any good?
Hubert Figuière
in reply to alpha1beta • • •alpha1beta
in reply to Hubert Figuière • • •Oof. Sticking to WD then. I got .25PB at home at this point, all WD drives.
Funny enough, for SSDs and SD cards, its Sandisk I run from. WD Blacks have been wood, but Sandisk SD cards suck - I buy almost exclusively Samsung.
alpha1beta
in reply to Hubert Figuière • • •Elements used to be the plug in 3.5" drives but now there's a portable...not sure what's the diff. My Collection is mostly Type-C Passports which come with a C-C cable and detachable C to A adapter.
At a quick glance, Passports seem to have a longer warranty and higher speed.
WD Black is basically a passport in a tough case with the old MicroB connector (I have 2 of these)
Simple answer: Get a windows Passport Type C