It has been a long time coming, but episode 12 of the Pauls Place talks about a number of things including why I switched from DirecTV to YouTube TV. I also mention some podcasts I enjoy, although this list is not exhaustive. Finally, some good learning resources for the Mac and iOS are included. Enjoy. pinecast.com/listen/a97d177a-c…
@pietervdvn totally, i had a look at what you do on mapcomplete to add conditionnal parts of the edit form, we can add a lot of parts but the hard task is to find people running shops that would be ok to test the form :)
I feel that you will be slowly re-implementing MapComplete and will have to learn all the lessons that I did...
For example: what happens someone wants to update their shop. They search for it, but 'cause it renamed a few years ago, they don't find it and add a new POI?
Another really interesting question is: what are you trying to achieve that MapComplete currently cannot do?
@pietervdvn yup, i also checked other projects that aims to help complete things in osm, like OSM My Biz, Projet Du mois, Maproulette or Complete Tes Commerces complete-tes-commerces.fr
We wanted to have a tool that provides:
a way for us to contact shop owners by email to suggest them to complete their place in OSM and follow up on this
a way for people to complete data about their shop, office, restaurant, which are mostly unfamiliar with osm. it should help fill the fewer things possible
a tool that does not require to make an OSM account for everyone
a dashboard to help places complete their data on OSM with a unique link
a dashboard to have a borad view about completions in a certain zone
a way for shop owners to reach people of OSM France to get help
a way to know what are the difficulties to fill the form by people unfamiliar with OSM (hard, because discouraged people will just leave)
We wantad also to focus on a small set of fields requirements to consider a place to be filled, AFAIK we have no way to filter what is displayed on mapcomplete in a custom link for example. Mapcomplete is a great tool i used at mapping parties and in other moments, but the chaining and followup around reach by email and zone related community dashboard are the points that decided me to launch some other thing.
1. Is that the email address that is also published on osm.org? Or are those emails kept private? 2. MapComplete can do this 3. MapComplete _could_ be configured to have an anonymous account (nowadays even trivially, a link with sign in is even in the settings). However, Anonymous contributions hurt in the long term, see source.mapcomplete.org/MapComp…
This is something you are mostly sidestepping by still requiring an email address
MapComplete - MapComplete is a webapp which allows to use and update OpenStreetMap within thematic maps. This repository contains all of the source code.
4; 5: dashboards are indeed not a goal of MapComplete. There are a few, but 🤷 6: MapComplete has a link to the Osm Community index 7. Interesting topic, for this I do usertests every now and then
It is possible to setup a slimmed down theme for shops (for me). A URL parameter that disables some questions is also something I can code up...
I do think the main issue is about the hurdle to create an account; I guess you'd want a system that people give their email address and can just start mapping...
@pietervdvn thanks for these insights, and yes the adresses we aim to use are the one provided on osm only, we are doing stuff to gather them from legit sources to put it in osm before really show this tool to owners of places.
Re: «deficiencies of "package URLs" (#purl) and how they still don't actually work to identify all and every project»
PackageURLs aren't really suitable for identifing _projects_ (a hard task when taking into account how names change depending on context, history and more).
They _are_ suitable for identifying _packages_ – and if you're not in the business of producing, distributing, curating, consuming, verifying or referring to packages, then yes, purls will be of limited use! 😃
Přátelé, tak dlouho jsem sledoval tyhle geniální animace, až jsem autorovi dneska napsal, jestli by souhlasil s tím, že je postupně budu dabovat do češtiny pro zdejší publikum. Chvilku jsme ladili, jak to udělat, ale od začátku byla odpověď jasná: "я буду тільки радий, якщо ви поширюватимете мої анімації!" (Budu jen rád, když budete mé animace dál sdílet!) Takže si užijte první z mnoha dílů v kolaboraci s "Фріоніс", který je i po roce od prvního vydání stále aktuální! 🥰 Freeonis: Gumové řitě pixelfed.cz/p/dnesnaukrajine/8…
Skoro by az clovek rekl, ze je skoda to davat na takovy srackoweb. No nic, tak to zas nikdo neuvidi. (Abych nekrivdil, uz dvakrat jim to skoro fungovalo. V utery a v dubnu)
@schmaker @archos @Unreed Tak oni je davaji i na YT ;). Mozna to nekde blokuju, mam tu odfiltrovanou pulku sveta - reklamy, nekvalitni porno-to kvaletni mam naopak priorizovane! - tak na to kouknu.
@schmaker Když @dnesnaukrajine@pixelfed.cz přešel na Pixelfed, spousta lidí si založila účet – protože videa na iOS (Safari) nešla přehrát bez přihlášení. ❌ Video je sice .mp4, ale Safari blokuje přehrání kvůli CORS a session.
✅ Řešení: registrovat se a přihlásit se do pixelfed.cz v Safari → po přihlášení se video obvykle přehraje v Safari bez problémů. @zoufalec @Unreed @electricCZ @dnesnaukrajine@f.cz
@Mendi_Tech @adam he is, but I am not, and that is the same one I saw earlier. no that isn't cheap, but if that fan is ag good as the 560 was that I put in our son's room, it would be well worth it. also adam, one thing you will want to do is measure your window to make sure that fan will fit in it. smile.
@adam I have yet to be disappointed in a Vornado product. I bought one as a space heater for under my desk at work, another as a space heater for here at the house when my furnace went out, and I saved a friend's behind and bought a whole room circulator fan when her AC went out.
@Mendi_Tech @adam our central is out. I think it just needs freon, but trying to save up for that isn't going to happen this summer! lol! try a 120 service call plus what ever is needed for the freon I thinjk the last time it was done back in june of 2022, the grand total was just over 400 dollars. the trailer park paid for it that time, but we aren't renting anymore, we are buyuing the trailer.
I ran strace on curl and noticed that it is doing a lot of very short reads, of exactly 5 bytes, followed by a larger read.
strace Before
recvfrom(4, "\27\3\3@\30", 5, 0, NULL, NULL) = 5
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I burned my finger as a kid because the coils in my dad's old car ciggy lighter must have been copper or something as they glowed green and I was like GREEN CAN'T BE HOT RIGHT?
Used to test whether Ethernet sockets at my job are PoE enabled by licking the cable. It's used there for Cisco phones so probably no bigger than 20V, though. Also crimped a frankenstein three-ended cable to tap into PoE from CCTV switch while connecting said phone to the main network.
If Elon Musk needs to seek political asylum, "Russia, of course, could provide it," State Duma Committee on International Affairs First Deputy Chairman Dmitry Novikov tells the Tass news agency. tass.ru/politika/24155541
CNN - The Trump administration is preparing to cancel a large swath of federal funding for California, an effort which could begin as soon as today. cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/tr…
Hello everyone. The Canadian Council of the Blind podcast just published my Unseen Touchscreen course lecture about reading books on your iPhone. A fitting lecture to have just before the Summer break. castro.fm/episode/FsOEgc
One of the most powerful ways an iPhone has changed my life is through making books accessible and portable. This month’s lecture is all about how to acquire and read eBooks and audiobooks using your iPhone.
As some of you know, I worked the last 2 years on porting the desktop client from electron to tauri: NLnet; Delta Tauri deltachat-desktop/packages/target-tauri at main · deltachat/deltachat-desktop · GitHub Currently the plan is to release the tau…
installing appimage on Manjaro (Wayland on Nvidia):
Camera does not work, importing backup seemed to work. Then the window content disappeared, I closed the window but the process still kept running. Killing all Tauri processes made it possible to start it again. Looked great - upon first interaction everything in the window disappears again. 🤷♂️
Did that help?
To some degree it is better than the Electron flatpak version already (it does not start at all if I don't provide extra arguments :P )
@mray have you tried the environment variables from the forum post?
Also that the camera doesn't work on linux is expected at the moment, there is an issue in tauri about this. looks like it will be a more complex issue to solve.
@mray it is useful for us to find out how to solve it. we may bake in the best working option into the app. It is not as hard as you think, environment variables are a basic thing, just start the app from the terminal by it's file path and write the variables in front:
Nextcloud Bookmarks helps you organize and sync your links, offering extra privacy and integration opportunities on top of that. And it's open source. And people love it!
> the EU adopting Matrix for cybersecurity crisis management
With things like that happening, are you at the same time still having trouble getting funding?
I imagine the EU has a decent budget for cybersecurity stuff, so if they rely on matrix for important things it seems reasonable for them to help out with some funding. Are they helping out, or are they like so many others just expecting to use something free while expecting others to carry the cost?
> Project Aurora, the EU adopting Matrix for cybersecurity crisis management
I gotta trust you completely focus on governments now, because if the experience for them is the same as for anyone else Europe will have at least 3.6 total blackouts in the next 10 years due to communication problems in cybersecurity. 😅
I usually don't post during #AudioMo but I went to a great organ concert today and captured it with my stealth recording kit. I thought the results where pretty nice for what they are, so I guess here's the Sarabande by Georg Friedrich Händel, recorded on the 2000 Kleis organ located in the Händel House in Halle (Saale), Germany. Its the biggest organ in Halle I think with 4200 pipes. Sounds pretty impressive, let me tell you. A few more recordings follow in the thread.
#AudioMo 2025 day 6. This recording was made in 2018 when I was still in high school, a year before I graduated. This is a small elevator that they had to have to comply with the ADA, since the front hallway had a second floor. Recorded with my phone and for some reason tons of compression, sorry about that.
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesPassenger Elevator Door Opens with Bells · Sound IdeasElevators Sound Effects℗ 2014 Hot Ideas IncReleased on: 2...
My office's old relay-based elevator has simple buzzers / tone generators, but that's only for confirmig that a button was pressed, not for announcing floors or doors opening. The one where I live just does nothing.
It's actually part of the accessibility requirement here. When an elevator arrives at a floor, it must have an audible indicator. This was usually a bell. Better yet, this indicator must be a single tone when going up, and a double tone when going down. That way, in a bank of elevators, a blind person can know that the elevator they wanted has arrived based on where they're going without being able to see any light-up panels, and also track where the door is.
@matt With That said, voice based announcements are pretty common here. Nowhere near universal, but with public buildings especially, yeah you'l hear them more often than not.
@matt We have one at the shopping mall narby that does floor announcements, doors opening and doors closing announcements, as well as announcing the direction in which it's going. In two languages, Polish and English. I've seen it be two or three samples behind realtime.
The "one tone up, two tones down" thing does appear here sometimes, though many people aren't aware of it. It's usually an electronic bell for us, think "airplane seatbelt indicator". ADA-style Beeping as you pass floors is super rare, I've seen it and love the elevators that do it for the "cool factor", but yeah, very very uncommon.
This is Giant Fruit Bat, known as a “flying fox.” Their wingspan can extend to four feet.
Photographer Hardik Shelat captured the beautiful animal in a rare daytime appearance. It came out of its nocturnal slumber to cool off in the intense Indian heat.
The #Zed text editor (zed.dev) finally opened early access program for their #Windows builds. I suggest everyone from the #Accessibility dev community to sign up for it, hopefully (maybe!) we will be able to shape its accessibility. Many sighted people from the Apple land praise it for speed and amount of useful functions. I won't quit using #VSCode of course, but why not to have another tool in the box?
AudioRace invites you to put the pedal to the metal in a heart-pounding racing game designed from the ground up with accessibility at its core, specifically
This is one I posted a couple of years ago, but I've had new followers since then.
In March of 2010, I set up an always streaming set of microphones at my childhood home, then using an old, small form factor Pentium III desktop computer running Windows XP. In the late summer of 2014, I installed a similar setup at my New York apartment, this time using an old laptop running Windows 7. In 2015, I switched to a Raspberry Pi 2 model B running Liquidsoap, added 24/7 archiving, and installed a second, nearly identical setup at the New York apartment.
I had to take the New York stream down when we moved five years ago, and my parents' have moved since then, but the stream there still exists.
What follows is a presentation highlighting some of the more unusual things these streaming setups recordedover a period between 2011 and 2020.
For those interested in such things, the live audio stream of my parents' back yard lives here: stream.borris.me:8888/outside
Po cca 2 měsících jsem zapnul laptop s Fedorou, udělal upgrade, restartoval a Gnome/GTK aplikace vypadají takto. Ale pozor, jen ve Waylandu, Xorg funguje dobře.
Já nevím, ale ten Wayland mi pořád přijde jako nějaký dev experiment v beta fázi.
to bude nějakou konfigurací nebo bugem v konkrétní verzi. Na všech mých strojích Wayland šlape skvěle. Teda až na lenovo s nvidií kde furt zápasím s uspáváním. Ale s X11 to bylo stejný.
@stepan Na první pohled je to něco s nějakou GNOME klíčenkou. Což je věc, které vůbec nerozumím. No uvidíme, snad se najde čas na to si s tím po večerech hrát.
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