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Civilization’s algorithm is simple:
centralization tightens; we merely pick a softer prison.
To attempt the impossible is the last chivalry.
For curiosity, tried pricing out this laptop preinstalled with Fedora, and it won't let you choose any ram option other than the lowest unless you switch to Windows.
For residents of the U.S., health insurance open enrollment is beginning.
Good time for a reminder that, if you have the option of enrolling in a high deductible health plan, those policies come with Health Savings Accounts (HSA).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-ded… "HSA contributions, unlike other tax-advantaged investment vehicles, offer a triple tax benefit – tax-deductible contributions, tax-free growth, and tax-free withdrawals for qualified medical expenses."
I suppose I should max mine again, but I don't know when I'll end up using the money that I'm adding to it, and the investment options that HealthEquity gives me aren't that good imo, so I've been feeling kind of 'meh' about it, although I could use it for therapy for one thing.
Your options will depend on where you have the HSA (I was complaining because I only have target date funds available and don't like them, but I think that each provider is different). If you log into your account, then there should be an option in the menu to set it up.
I'd make a video of myself burning an American flag or something American-flag-adjacent but I don't need a constant reminder of what country I'm in so I don't actually own anything that looks like a flag
TT-RSS is going away. It was the first feed reader I hosted and used in a regular basis and it was great. Sad to see it go, but I understand the reasons. community.tt-rss.org/t/the-end… #selfhosting #selfhosted
interesting. I moved away to FreshRSS a year ago as I already felt kind of stagnation in the development. But on FreshRSS I am still missing a good android client.
"Lo aquí planteado busca ayudar a entender la situación poniendo énfasis en la construcción de masculinidades crueles, bajo la idea de que no es un suceso aislado, sino que responde a un contexto y una dinámica social en donde crecen grupos como los autodenominados incels, fratría masculinista con fuerte base en redes sociales que reproduce discursos misóginos y enaltece comportamientos violentos."
Version 0.4 of Paperback, my lightweight and efficient ebook and document reader, is out! Changelog: * Added CHM file support! * Added bookmark support! You can have as many bookmarks throughout as many documents as you like. You can jump forward and backward through them with b and shift+b, set one with control+shift+b, and bring up a dialog to jump to a specific bookmark with control+b. * Added an installer alongside the portable zip file! The installer will install Paperback into your Program Files directory, and automatically set up file associations for you. * Text files with BOMs should now be decoded properly, and the BOM will no longer be displayed at the beginning of the text either. * Added far more information to the status bar. It'll now show you your current line, character, and reading percentage. * HTML comments, as well as the contents of script and style tags, will no longer be shown in text output. * If passing a relative path to Paperback on the command line, it will now resolve it properly. * Percentage movement is now handled by its own slider-based dialog, accessible with control+shift+g. * Documents without known titles or authors will now always have a default. * The position saving logic is now much smarter and should only write to the disk when absolutely necessary. * The document you had focused when you closed Paperback is now remembered across application restarts. * Input into the go to line and go to page dialogs should now be sanitized more strictly. * Fixed table of contents navigation in epub 3 books with relative paths in their manifests. Zip download: github.com/trypsynth/paperback… Installer download: github.com/trypsynth/paperback… Donation page: paypal.me/tygillespie05 Enjoy!
How do I select an entry from an epub TOC? I got it open, there's the tree view, I press enter on a section and nothing happens. I press OK and it says please select something from the TOC. My input is an epub generated by the FicLab browser extension, I can send it to you if you need help with repro.
@x0 You've found an edgecase. I've solved a couple of these with weird epubs, but someone just reported another on GH. Hopefully fixing that will fix yours too.
Would it also be possible to, when opening the TOC, automatically move the cursor to the nearest enclosing TOC item? So that, E.G>, if I'm reading chapter 15 of volume 2, opening the TOC will place me on the chapter 15 item inside volume 2? Obviously if I were to actually click on this I would likely be shot back to the beginning of chapter 15, but it makes navigation easier if you want to do relative.
@x0 I struggle to understand why you'd want this. It's supposed to take you to the closest toc item to exactly where you are. If chapter 15 has subheadings, just hit left arrow and you'll collapse it and get to the chapter 15 root node, which you should then be able to press enter on. Or are you telling me you've found an epub that always puts you at the start of the TOC when you press Ctrl+T? In which case that's a bug.
Fiiiiixed! TOC activation now works, and I used heading nav to move sections after I went somewhere and scrolled a bit, and then opened the TOC again, and it kept up with where I went. So you are now capable of parsing the output of the FicLab browser extension.
A test would be to see if this works with nested TOCs, E.G> if I'm in section 2, subsection 4, subsubsection 3 and open the TOC, do I end up focused on subsubsection 3 inside those two, auto-expanding as necessary to get me there?
Yup. And I don't know enough about epub to construct such an intricate test case, plus what the hell would I put in all the sections? I think using the fanfic harry potter and the methods of rationality, official epub, I might be able to test level 2 anyway, it has divisions in the TOC for arcs.
@Aryan Meh. I dislike plaintext views for that kind of thing. I like to have links and lists and block quotes and such. I've never totally understood the seeming obsession of any accessible desktop reader dev to immediately go and let's just strip all the semantics and output raw text! I still make CHMs of the Python help documentation. I *need* to see the semantics in something like that, and navigate them.
@x0 @Aryan IMO, plaintext fields fall apart completely when tables are concerned. Everything else can be worked around, kind of, tables are a complete no-go.
@miki @x0 @Aryan Yeah, that's the problem with QRead, it doesn't really tell you that unless you t and shift t. It'll require some thought to get right, but I think I'll be able to pull it off.
@x0 @Aryan My concern is whether there's anything in the epub specification that might require loading the whole document for the table to display properly.
Same-page links are definitely one feature that wouldn't work with this arrangement, wondering if there are others.
On normal webpages, that is definitely the case (because of Javascript if nothing else), but I don't think epub supports that.
@miki @x0 @Aryan No, I don't think we'd need to do that. What's hard is if the table has hyperlinks in it, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
@FreakyFwoof It's done for 0.6, although it's pretty simplistic. It'll just prompt you when there's a new version, and ask you if you want to open your default browser to download it. You can turn off the check too.
Small paperback request, the bookmark thing is amazing. Can we have the announcements of bookmarks on pressing b/shift+b like headings? as in, the text first, then the bookmark number afterward as we do with heading levels?
I'd also prefer setting a bookmark have fewer fingers than jumping to one. Perhaps we could add some accelerators with function keys that aren't currently used? f1, f3 and f10 are obviously already used, but I'd quite like to be able to set a bookmark with f2, do word count with f4, etc. Don't know what other keyboard plans you have, of course. :)
Cracking app, honestly the best for ePub on Windows I've ever used. If you could support annotations, my former students would kill for you.
@cachondo Annotations/notes are planned for hopefully 0.6. The basic idea is to extend the bookmark system to allow pressing the bookmark shortcut at a single position to bookmark that exact position in a given line (i.e. how it works currently), and pressing it while you have text highlighted will bookmark all that text. Then, I'll make it so you can add notes to bookmarks. So you can have a note associated with the start of a line, with just a particular sentence, etc. That'll probably be a bit out, I have to majorly rethink the configuration format for that and I'm working and going to college, but I love Paperback, so hopefully soon!
@cachondo Also yes, the bookmark feedback thing will be super easy, I'll do that tonight. I've long considered making Paperback's keyboard shortcuts customizable, maybe that's the answer?
@cachondo Speaking of customising, could you add that dark mode thing that we discussed about on Discord, I'm getting blasted in the eyes when I open the thing up lol
@alexchapman @cachondo You want a dark-mode checkbox? OK, that I can do. I'll see if there's a way to integrate with the system settings, but if not, it'll be a checkbox.
another one. can you reorder the controls in the go to percent dialog so that the edit box comes before the slider? You can type a number or cursor up/down in the editbox, but you can't type into the slider. I think more people are likely to want to enter a value than move by 10 percent increments.
Also, the slider updates the box, but the box doesn't update the slider.
My DV advocate has been working to find us safe housing! In the meantime, I'm also working on an application for a part-time job that could be a great fit, and continuing to look for legal help while doing as much as I can independently.
PLEASE help us get legal help, a car, and everything else we need to survive ♥️
Unfortunately we didn't get the transitional DV housing we were hoping for 💔 and still can't go home as emergency restraining order was denied. This goal is for legal funds but housing support is also urgent!
DV survivor & baby in urgent need of funds for legal aid! We haven't been able to get a restraining order yet which puts a huge strain on stability. Consult w sliding scale lawyer is today!
When Andre (@Onj) randomly reached out offering to produce drums for a collaboration, it just so happened that was working on a song and was having trouble getting drums that sounded right. It was perfect timing and he did an amazing job. Check out the links on Andre’s profile to check out his work! He’s a real talent and an awesome human.
Our collaboration is now up on #Bandcamp for #BandcampFriday if you want a copy for yourself.
In Japan, trees in the path of urban development or road construction are often relocated rather than cut down. This reflects the country’s deep respect for nature and commitment to environmental preservation.
Using specialized techniques, experts carefully bind and protect the roots before transplanting the tree to a new location.
This approach ensures the preservation of greenery while allowing infrastructure projects to move forward.
🇩🇪Ein starkes Zeichen aus Slowenien: Die Regierung lehnt die #Chatkontrolle nach Protesten u.a. der #Piraten ab. Hier siegen Grundrechte über den Überwachungswahn!
ever wonder why Linux distro images are so darn big? I do, a lot, because we have silly rules about it! here is the investigation for #fedora 43's workstation live: bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.c… . It boils down to: "Firefox, LibreOffice, firmware, translations, CJK support, printing support, and podman/skopeo"
Pokud v Praze volíte Piráty a nevíte koho kroužkovat, tak Gabriela Svárovská by váš kroužek uživila… asi víc než známé Pirátské tváře, které jich i tak dostanou spoustu. programydovoleb.cz/volby/snemo…
Podívejte se na seznam 142 známých kandidátů, kteří budou kandidovat do Parlamentu pod hlavičkou Česká pirátská strana ve volbách ve dnech 3. a 4. října 2025
The wait for REM service in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue will stretch into 2026, after officials confirmed the latest in a series of delays for the West Island branch of Montreal’s light-rail network.
Apple bends to Trump admin demand to remove ICE-tracking apps like ICEBlock Apple nixes tracking apps after Trump admin claimed they put ICE agents at risk. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Wow. It sure doesn't seem like the Bluesky PBC CEO likes her current users very much. This is pretty incredible. Feel like we've seen this movie before.
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Just a CEO of a hot new social media platform calling its users freeloaders and telling them to stop posting, hm.
#bluesky #SocialMedia
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 12 updated apps. Our ongoing gardening activity cleaned out 2 no longer maintained apps which where also rarely downloaded anymore:
* Ylight Music: a Youtube Music client, which was reported to us as … behaving strangely * widgets-for-auto: Android Auto widgets, with several proprietary components and also only few downloads
As it goes with gardening, our other plants are now better visible 🤗
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
Part of the symposium Mathematics in the age of Automated Proofs at Leiden University. Made possible by the generosity of the the Lorentz Center, the Dutch R...
If you're helping people sign up on here, that's great! 👏
However, I'd strongly suggest not signing up on the mastodon.social server. It's way way too large and that's dangerous (here's why fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-ide…).
I know some find choice overwhelming, so if you just want one general long-established very busy server mas.to is a better option for example.
@daniel I agree that it would be a better example. Wikipedia has decent references if you'd like to update the article: support.google.com/talk/?hl=en…
Také zdravím, a omlouvám se, že mi to tentokrát nevyšlo, ačkoliv jsem to napoprvé zaškrtnul. Člověk se občas vzdálí moc daleko od domova a takto to dopadá. 😄
The EU Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse, first published in May 2022, has become the "most criticized law of all time". Here's how to stop it now!
This is not a European-only problem. It is a global issue. It would take almost no time for them to move from that to banning software not connected to a cloud service, which is further connected to a digital ID of sorts.
This means Linux would become illegal in its current state, plus LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, Blender, etc.
Chat control could "end the right to privacy in Europe"? Sounds like hyperbole.
If it's a bad idea, say that. Or, that it will reduce privacy ...or that it could expose at risk people. But c'mon "end the right to privacy" is a long way down the road from what chat control does.
fair.tube/w/72DCPMByyS1hoSg7gQ… Here a good video explanation of the Max Plank Institute on how the technology of Chat Control works and what this would mean for digital communication within Europe.
@Edent Hey! More then two years ago, I contacted you to setup an import tool to import all the benches from OpenBenches into OpenStreetMap, but I got stopped by a missing feature in an upstream dependency.
Great! I'll update the challenge in the coming days.
The import is setup to add the OpenBench-id into the OSM-object with `openbenches:id`, as described on our wiki: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ke…
I've asked permission to the community (here community.openstreetmap.org/t/…) to already do an automated edit where all benches in OSM that already have a link to OB, will also receive the data (and images) that are in OB.
Hi everyone, https://openbenches.org/ has clearly indicated that they want to integrate their data into OSM. Their license is CC-BY, I [asked them] to clarify how they see the attribution requirement.
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