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Tamas G

@tardis oh yes filters! True true. Tuba has those, which is super nice to see. But then again it's getting built as a Mastodon client for everyone. So maybe I'll stick with it but might need to miss notifications for new things when they come in since it has no sound. I'm considering just running a second watcher that grabs just the stream to play a sound for it, which is the great thing about Linux, you can make your life as complicated or easy as you'd like to, ha.
@Winter blue tardis

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New research from AWU/CWU/Techquity on AI data workers in North America. “[L]ow paid people who are not even treated as humans [are] out there making the 1 billion dollar, trillion dollar AI systems that are supposed to lead our entire society and civilization into the future,” says one.

cwa-union.org/ghost-workers-ai…

#AI #labor

We identify four broad themes that should concern policymakers: Workers struggle to make ends meet. 86% of surveyed workers worry about meeting their financial responsibilities, and 25% of respondents rely on public assistance, primarily food assistance and Medicaid. Nearly two-thirds of respondents (66%) report spending at least three hours weekly sitting at their computers waiting for tasks to be available, and 26% report spending more than eight hours waiting for tasks. Only 30% of respondents reported that they are paid for the time when no tasks are available. Workers reported a median hourly wage of $15 and a median workweek of 29 hours of paid time, which equates to annual earnings of $22,620. Workers perform critical, skilled work but are increasingly hamstrung by lack of control over the work process, which results in lower work output and, in turn, higher-risk AI systems. More than half of the workers who are assigned an average estimated time (AET) to complete a task felt that AETs are often not long enough to complete the task accurately. 87% of respondents report they are regularly assigned tasks for which they are not adequately trained. With limited or no access to mental health benefits, workers are unable to safeguard themselves even as they act as a first line of defense, protecting millions of people from harmful content and imperfect AI systems. Only

Ghost Workers in the AI Machine:

U.S. Data Workers Speak Out About Big Tech’s Exploitation
Communications Workers of America
#labor #AI

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Nejzajímavější mi přijde inventura hlasování, protože je o reálných hlasováních, a ne o proklamacích do budoucna, které mohou, ale nemusí být naplněny. #volby2025

(Mimochodem je docela zajímavé, jak se celkové výsledky za stranu nemusí překrývat s výsledky za konkrétní poslance.)

volebnikalkulacka.cz


Volební kalkulačka

Nejužitečnějších 5 minut před sněmovními volbami 2025
Volební kalkulačka
#volby2025
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People ...

1. Do not use one of those Site Builders to build your site. They are Ala Carte and by the time you're done you're paying more than you would for my services (and I'm bloody expensive). Get a real web person (not me) to do your site, and an actual Internet Engineer to do your business infrastructure like DNS and EMail (that's me).

2. I'm specifically looking at Wix, I've been doing BIND for some 30+ years, this "DNS" is a pile of flaming dog shit.

3, Don't listen to "your friend".

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`Da Elf

@cpm Pifft, < I > can't do IPv6 math in my head.

We don't need to know Everything, just need to know where to look it up. And I have some of the important things bound in (*gasp*) Dead Tree if I really need it.

"I have been around long enough that I've memorized The Common FuckUps and Catastrophies and many of the more obscure." ... everything else is in the docs, StackExchange, or I actually have to work for a living amd figure it out myself.

A meme with Dr Evil saying "We get paid because you don't know how to use Google".
@cpm

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Typst will support tagged PDF in a future release. The code has now been merged. Support for HTML output is also under development separately. I'm not involved in this project, but with these advantages, I'm becoming more tempted to use it routinely for document creation. github.com/typst/typst/pull/66… #Typst #accessibility #PDF

Generate tagged PDF documents for accessibility by saecki · Pull Request #6619 · typst/typst

This will be the first PR in a larger effort to make PDF documents generated by typst compliant with PDF/UA-1 and more accessible in general. Tagging of PDF documents will be enabled by default to ...
GitHub
#Accessibility #pdf #typst

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Switching to Windows 7. That's right. I'm going back. I'm going to Run Windows 7 in a virtual machine under Linux, just as a multiuser target, no graphical. This way, I get to run Windows 7 on hardware that it couldn't normally run on, and also get to have it on the lowest-ram possible. I'm done with modern Windows, from now on, I'm going to browse sites using Windows 7 and latest available browsers.
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Tamas G

@vol4life8657 well, I think the big split was really with Windows 8 and Metro apps, so then you were not only running the old-style programs but had to install and run this entirely new platform on top of it, like with new drawing and graphics code it used, all of it came along with the ride there, and then by the time got Win10 I think Microsoft was all in on that new Metro language, which they by then called a Universal Windos app. But by then they also began porting some parts of Windows like the security center and even the Start Menu Experience host, as straight-out apps that run inside that shell. Boom. Disaster was born.
@Darrell Bowles

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Anyone using YLight Music?

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.y…

it's a client for Youtube Music, but was last updated 2020. Still shows about 15 installs (downloads by F-Droid clients) per month here. We wonder if it still works, so we shall keep it – or not, and it should be removed. Feedback appreciated!

:boost_love:

#serviceToot #FollowerPower #IzzyOnDroid

„Ylight Music“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Listen & download to unlimited songs for free without any ads
IzzyOnDroid Repo Browser
#followerpower #serviceToot #izzyondroid

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Hey folks, If you’re developing an #XMPP server or server-side component, I’d love for you to check out the XMPP Interop Framework (xmpp-interop-testing.github.io). It’s an open-source test suite that runs your implementation through real-world XEP compliance checks.

The project supports a wide range of continuous integration solutions, offers flexible configuration options, and has matured nicely over the past two years. (1/2)

XMPP Interop Testing

XMPP standards compliance tests easily added to the test phase of your build pipeline
XMPP Interop Testing
#xmpp

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Alright so I know AI is so often being horribly misused, but I've lately been using it to read packages and get instructions from them that I wouldn't otherwise know. It's oddly very empowering not to have to cry to a sighty every time I have print I need read. I know, I know, it's not perfect, it's just a very good feeling to be able to do more of this stuff independently without having to enlist sighted help every 6 seconds.
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Sean Randall

I don't find it any more efficient than OCR much of the time. we use Seeing AI most of the time, but had Say Text back in 2010 on iOS, KNFB on Symbian in the noughties. Things have gotten much better across the board, but I don't feel that LLM's have significantly changed the way I access printed mail or food packaging, which are the 2 largest categories of print access I use day-to-day.

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I still haven't solved my problem with @Libreoffice. Each time I try to open a document, there is a delay with a "waiting for printer" message appearing, which I have to cancel before the document will open. Looking online, it turns out it's been an issue for at least a couple of years. Something possible with printer or Windows settings? Can anyone walk me through a fix? (Pretty please)
And yes, I updated LibreOffice.
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Another curious #ActivityPub / #MastodonAPI issue.

A Mastodon server is sending me a DELETE message.

The delete is because a user has been deleted.

My server tries to validate the HTTP Signature.

My server looks up the deleted user's main-key.

The user has been deleted so the public key 404s.

My server never acknowledges the delete, so the other server keeps sending me the same request.

So… How do I validate the signature of a deleted user?

JSON code.
#activitypub #mastodonapi

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As I'm sipping my coffee here I notice a weird link at the bottom of Immich's site: "Cursed Knowledge"

This is incredible. It's like Hall of Fame bugs they encountered. More projects should do this.

immich.app/cursed-knowledge

Immich

Self-hosted photo and video management solution. Easily back up, organize, and manage your photos on your own server. Immich helps you browse, search and organize your photos and videos with ease, without sacrificing your privacy.
immich.app

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Immich 2.0.0 is out which is now considered "Stable". I've been running it for 6 months and it's so good I paid for the fake license to support them at $100

They said in their release notes that this license key program has been wildly successful but I wish they were transparent about exactly how well this funding model is working. I'd like to see some real numbers.

immich.app

Immich

Self-hosted photo and video management solution. Easily back up, organize, and manage your photos on your own server. Immich helps you browse, search and organize your photos and videos with ease, without sacrificing your privacy.
immich.app
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In 2023, Signal was the first mainstream messenger to enable post-quantum cryptography. We’re still ahead of the (elliptical) curve, implementing a new hybrid PQ ratchet ensuring Forward Secrecy & Post-Compromise Security even in a post-quantum world. signal.org/blog/spqr/

Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets

We are excited to announce a significant advancement in the security of the Signal Protocol: the introduction of the Sparse Post Quantum Ratchet (SPQR).
Signal Messenger

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This is standing ovation stuff by @sundress. Not a single word wasted, and so many quotable bits.

A threat model for #accessibility on the web: alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-th…


A threat model for accessibility on the web - Alice

A explanation of the primary threat to accessibility on the web, and a call to action for the web standards community
alice.boxhall.au
#Accessibility @Alice Boxhall

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Extremely pleased to announce the release of the ActivityPub Fuzzer! This is a tool that runs in a local development environment and (partially) emulates known ActivityPub software. It can even create a fake local "public fire hose" shaped like what you might see if you hooked your in-development software up to the real Fediverse.

I built this because I wanted ways to test in-progress fedi software for compatibility without actually making it live and breaking things.

asml.cyber.harvard.edu/2025/10…


Introducing the ASML ActivityPub Fuzzer: Improving Testing in the Fediverse - Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard University

The ActivityPub Fuzzer is a small program to help developers build social media software on the Fediverse by emulating known Fediverse software.
Darius Kazemi (Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard University)
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