We are not going to write open letters on how we are heroically going to withdraw from Europe. We will stay here continuing to operate as usual. We are infrastructure.
While I totally understand your view (and know that you want to do the right thing), I feel that it would be better to make the impact as big (and obvious) as possible. First it will be Signal, then a few others, and finally Conversations. Maybe better to go for all-or-nothing from the beginning?
well, we appreciate Signal trying to make a difference with its public weight ahead of the oct14 chat control vote. Yes, Signal is centralized and running on gafam servers but it also was a key leading effort to make e2ee UX widely available ... and that is fundamentally threatened by #chatcontrol. Federated #xmpp or #email servers do not help against legislation that aims at apps and clients. This is a time to put all of our joint weight against chatcontrol, not gamble for exceptions.
@delta I am not sure to understand your argument well. So I understand (perhaps not correctly) the idea of this time with #ChatControl is that the messages are scanned on the client's side, and before that the infrastructure does not matter. I will avoid that restriction but the vast majority of people do not do it. If they do not scan my device they will do it in the person with whom I communicate. It would be a lost battle.
I'm sorry I don't get your point. Do you mean that xmpp is not at risk with chatcontrol? Why? Because it is decentralized? What you'll face is you won't be able to exist on the play store for not complying, just like you "collect email" for Google.
The fight is to not loose the rights older generations fought for. Everything else is arrogance. Thinking you can out smart authoritarian shifts and attacking voices fighting this is really blind sighted. You may not like signals public stunts, but attacking them for using their weight to lobby against chat control is very divisive. In unity we can be strong, singled out we will get ran over. This is not about xmpp vs signal. This is liberty vs dystopia.
@obsoleszenz @delta Political action is important. I was on the streets protesting against the first data retention (Vorratsdatenspeicherung) laws 20 years ago. However we also need a Plan B. "Leaving Europe" is either an empty threat or not helpful at all to the people living here. People need to know that they can rely on Jabber/XMPP in general and #Conversations_im in particular to stay around no matter what.
EU Chat Control won't apply to the federated Jabber/XMPP ecosystem. #Conversations_im is used by various militaries, police forces and intelligence agencies in Europe. They will make sure it won't get any client side scanning.
very interesting and very happy to hear your product is successful outside "the tech/floss bubble". Can you share more details about how/which public entities are using conversations? (Or provide a reference when you shared it already somewhere in the past). Thanks!
@aslmx I can't. The Conversations article on Wikipedia has references to the German federal police using it. Other than that this particular target demographic is oddly secretive about their operations.
I've seen no reason to believe it won't apply to all civilian social media services. If mil folk use it those services will split off. There's no way there will be accidental outs, for long anyway.
@tomjennings Chat Control has exceptions for closed, private deployments. For example Slack or Microsoft Teams won't have client side scanning. (That would be stupid and open the door for corporate espionage, and if anything is more important than the children it's capitalism). Jabber/XMPP is just a series of private deployments that occasionally happen to be interconnected. #Conversations_im is a client that can connect to closed, private deployments so it won't get client side scanning.
I searched for that but could not find any such excemptions.... If they are there, Matrix and SimpleX would also be excenpt. And stating that Teams is a private deployment seems like a wild statement
@gvs @tomjennings private as in only company employees can join that chat. (as far as the law is concerned.) not private as in Microsoft can't read your messages.
So is Signal and they are affected. My feeling is that to make it work they will make a 2.1 which moves it to the OS level. The EU surveillance proposals for 2029 already address device encryption as all key unlockable by Google/Apple, this will follow pretty quickly
Again, stopping chatcontrol for the millionth time is stupid, we need to stop the authoritarian government behind it
@gvs No, Signal is not used in private deployments. I guess you could technically run your own Signal server but I have not heard of anyone doing that and this is most certainly not as widespread as XMPP is in these deployments. I mean there was #SignalGate but anyone who reported on that, who understood a little bit how these things usually work, made absolutely clear that Signal is not a thing commonly used by military and intelligence.
I wouldn't be so sure about that, after all, the way of implementing it hasn't been specified at all. To make sure the malware is even installed they'd either have to force all manufacturers to make it an integral system component or the mobile providers to not let you online unless your device responds to an encrypted ping for the app. Both would let them turn the trojan off explicitly for phones identifying as belonging to something cop-adjacent.
Interesting. Still, I am wondering how Chatcontrol will affect those who own the servers. Perhaps they will be criminalised because they enable encrypted messaging or something.
Psala mi servirka Kveta z Bubenecskeho pivovaru. Pry to byla parba ukrutna. Vsech 32 sodovek i obe mala piva byla v poradku zaplacena, tak dekuje. Jen se mate stavit pro tu zapomenutou zubni protezu a ty dve paruky, co jste tam zapomneli.
@zoufalec no když jsem viděl ty stoly plné nealko piva, přiznávám že mi hlavou proběhla myšlenka proč ty srazy vlastně neuděláme v nějaké sodovkárně. Ještě že nás tam bylo aspoň pár, co to zachránili 😇
Psala mi servirka Kveta z Bubenecskeho pivovaru. Pry to byla parba ukrutna. Vsech 32 sodovek i obe mala piva byla v poradku zaplacena, tak dekuje. Jen se mate stavit pro tu zapomenutou zubni protezu a ty dve paruky, co jste tam zapomneli.
Is anyone still enjoying Mastodon anymore, with trolls, fake accounts, all sorts of other stuff seemingly making people sped more time trying to put up roadblacks than actually enjoying themselves/ Is it still so much better than X?
No and no for me. I'm in charge of The Global Voice's account the troll keeps referencing, and am getting fed up with constantly having to block him every time. I know he was active on Twitter before, but I didn't have many problems with him as I do today. The owner of TGV tried to tell him that what he was doing was pathetic during a chat room conversation during her show earlier today, but he just effectively laughed it off.
Very ironic. I installed Avast after removing Vipre. They both use around 1.08 GB of program files application size. They both also consume around 300-500 MB Ram and spin up 3 processes exactly, but I will give Avast here for the CPU usage during scans: Vipre can go as high as 10-20%, whereas Avast better manages this. Otherwise I'm quite torn, because while I could disable the smart scan and find schedules in Avast, I did like Vipre's Firewall even if it was noisy and brutal at blocking things. But once I had it right boy did it work well, and I would be alerted if a strange process even tried to get outbound traffic. Avast, I installed just the antivirus only, it is very likely that the program files folder for the full security suite would consume well around 2 GB disk space and spin up a few more processes as well, potentially. Vipre's security does not include "AI protection" and all the other stuff like Avast is claiming, and beyond a Firewall / e-mail blocker it doesn't include other things (Avast I believe can even run an extension for you in-browser for tracking protection and greater privacy.) To me, these two AV solutions are very close and neither is "bad", just depends on what jives with your personality and your desires.
oh no, haven't heard of that one! At this point any firewall is probably a better one than Windows built-in, since that one doesn't even block the traffic as it asks you about, ironic to me considering that if a Ransomware does get passed the guards, it would have unfetthered access to the network until you hit "block" in that little pop-up, facepalm moment. xD
looks like avast's folder in program files if you have the security one installed like I do is 1.42 gig. I am not using the ultimit one as I don't need a VPN.
Well well. On Linux, to get Virtual Audio Cable like functionality, I just had to have GPT write me a .sh script for it, and now I can output Orca to that relay. It used pactl load-module module-null-sink to create it. I'm shocked, but this did work out for me and way more dead simple than I thought. It can use a mike for apps as well so any app using the microphone of that virtual device just pipes back to source. So that's one more thing down in Linux land that I had on Windows. Eventually, I'm making this switch. Still determined to especially as Orca and Firefox browsing are great together now that polite live regions and things like that are better honored. Winetricks or a Win7 VM works for games or other smaller Windows apps, and everything else like SMB shares, streaming, Ollama, TeamTalk, ETC can be done from the Linux side.
A salesperson had almost convinced a client to move their email from 365 to Google because "they hold all the cards now". I stepped in and suggested they keep their email on servers that they control instead. The salesperson almost mocked me, treating me like a "nerd" who doesn't understand how the world works.
I was happy to be a nerd, if necessary, to explain the pros and cons of the solution to the client. The result? The salesperson was politely thanked and "sent home", and I'm now evaluating some details of the new mail server, which, by the client's choice, will be based on OpenBSD.
I don't even use the network connection flyout anymore. These days I just type in, run dialog or CMD, "Netsh wlan connect <profilename>" (your network's name) and I'm there. I don't need it. It makes me sad that we cannot get the Windows 8 flyout in Windows 10. So I don't use it. I use explorer.exe from Windows 7 through Explorer7. I try to keep ram usage light. Today I was able to get it to 1.81 GB out of 64 GB with Mem Reduct. I again repeat. You all don't know my obsession ffor this low ram usage comes from wanting to run a mini desktop PC off a Sherpa 100-watt AC battery pack. If you did, trust me, you'd feel the same. I need Windows RAM usage to be as low as Linux RAM usage. (and to be fair to RAM: RAM that's sitting there, in a process which is not using it or is using very little CPU threads and power is not the same, I'm more measuring against Ram at cold boot, not RAM throughout using programs.)
@tspivey because by nature it means more processes running and poling the CPU. It's not about ram usage but ram usage showing that process counts are growing too high and I want CPU usage to be 0% when idle at all times, not 1% or 5%. 0%
@tspivey well yeah, if it's cached ram by the same process, and that process is just sitting there, then yes, the RAM is effectively serving as storage, but data itself isn't moving in and out of it. That's for sure a different story.
I tried doing that, running a mini PC off a 100 W battery pack, and I had no issue and never touched the RAM/CPU, though I probably should have. Everything worked well, but the problem was I could never tell when the battery was about to die. The thing would be going on quite happily and then suddenly just turn off. I mean of course it did, the battery would run out. The battery was more than happy to be pass-through charged, but I did need to know when to plug it in and I couldn't determine that. I finally just gave up and started using very low-power laptops with NVDARemote/Sonobus. If I were to lay the foundations now, I wouldn't bother, I would just use one of the gaming handhelds which run off a USB C power bank.
@techsinger ahaha yeah! That's the downside. It's not for serious work that way but more gaming, although it would suck for that pack to die right as I'm in the middle of a boss run or something! Youch. For a very low-powered laptop, I do have the Asus Expertbook which has the Core Ultra 288V. Intel's first actual low-powered-but-doesn't-suck chip. Now that thing, no matter how conservative I'll ever get my K11 and throttle CPU to 50 or 60% max, will blow it out of the water, think one time I got 14 hours on it when making a cross-atlantic flight. xD But for being at the airport lounge and freaking sighted people around me out with a mini-desktop where I'm only on the keyboard and headphones? sign me up!
I agree. This was, to be fair, a bigger issue before constant low-bandwidth, low-latency, connectivity. Now, I'm using a surface Go with a complete garbage CPU but I don't care, the point of its existence is to support a keyboard, an audio card, and a network connection so I can talk to my real desktop processors wherever I am. Really, there's no reason you can't do this with a phone, but the latency is just that bit over target for audio. With NVDA remote, the latency hits the "don't care" level. Frankly, I'm just a perfectionist and like character echo, if either of those didn't apply, there's no reason I wouldn't want to do it through the phone. Of course, at that point, it doesn't matter anymore, if the client chooses to crash, you lose nothing except the time it takes to bring it or something else back up. If I wanted to go back to using reasonably high-end processors, what's wrong with the GPD win 5? Keeping in mind, of course, that I have no interest in screen size. With most of the new stuff having at least two USB C ports (3.x, 4.x, whatever), you can carry a bunch of batteries and go on for, basically, as long as you like.
I knew it would happen sooner or later, and it did. You guessed it. Everybody's favorite troll, whose real name I believe is James Popov (according to his emails anyway), just impersonated my account. If you got anything from it, it's most definitely not me. The account in question has been blocked and reported.
It's very likely almost always stupid Ramon from Bahrain... Several of the blind community know of the nasty name of his. I'm surprised nothing if anything was done to him over there. Pretty idiotic, I have to say.
@ChrisDuffley I think Ramone, JimmyTruth, etc., are the same person. In looking up Ramone's name, I saw it was the name of a bad guy from a video game series. Regardless, this individual has attended some of TGV's shows via Zoom under the name "JimmyTruth", and he definitely had a Russian accent with quite the speech impediment too. All that, of course, doesn't excuse this behavior, which he thinks is a joke according to a conversation I saw earlier today in TGV's chat room.
This is correct. The name is Ramon Salazar. Even @tysonsylvester@mastodon.stickbear.me / @Tysonsylvester can tell you since he saw his real IP address at one time on another TeamTalk a long time ago. Pretty much hell on steroids. I totally agree and wish that we could get the powers that be over there to help him find a life. This is more than unacceptable.
Kinda wild Apple will kick ICEBlock out of the App Store on safety grounds but the Saudi government app that lets men track women (their “property”) and control their travel is fully allowed even after the Human Rights Watch AND members of the Senate begged them to ban it.
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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
Rather remarkable that the Trump administration response to a government shutdown is "let's inflict as much pain as possible on as many Americans as possible"
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."
There was the equivalent of a Youtube call-in show, where you win stuff for correctly answering weird questions without looking them up with a search engine. They had ways of knowing if you do.
I was watching Linus Tech Tips, something I usually don't do, because they annoy me, and was the first to correctly answer the question: "What is the city of origin of VoIP equipment manufacturer Grandstream?"
The answer was Brookline, Massachusetts.
Unfortunately, I woke up before I got to learn what I won. Oh well.
So I found the secret to getting Google to listen to us! See, you have to join their Discord servers lol.
So Gemini on Android is less accessible with TalkBack than Gemini on iOS or even Gemini on the web. And I'm tired as fuck of sucky ass technology shit for the day just trying to do BSI on this iPhone because obviously having both hands on either side of the screen is having more than 3 fingers on a single side of the screen or some bullshit. Crem of the storming crem, Apple. So St'm not going into detail about the issue here because anyone who's kept up with the complaining I do knows the issue. Anyway, so I join the Gemini Discord, and I thought I'd posted that issue months ago, but apparently not. I know I reported it from the feedback part of the Gemini settings, but this is just proof that they don't read that shit.
So I post the bug report in the bug channel, and within a good hour or 2 I get a reply. Because of course. Now Google, make a TalkBack Discord server lol. Fucking insane. But yeah y'all if you have issues with Gemini, go to their Discord lol.
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.
Just FYI: my only account which is still active for me is from AllOverthePlace.ca. If anyone notices a David Goldfield from other accounts who follow you, please do notify me so that I can investigate it. Now there is a Civil War historian named David Goldfield who is, of course, welcome to establish a Mastodon presence but barring that, other accounts with that name are likely fakes.
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!
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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.
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in reply to Daniel Gultsch • • •Been pondering federated xmpp, chat control, omemo and circumventing lately.
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in reply to obsoleszenz • • •People need to know that they can rely on Jabber/XMPP in general and #Conversations_im in particular to stay around no matter what.
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