Since 2007, I've had some prepaid phone numbers on a VoIP provider called Vitelity Communications, which became Voyant, which became Intelliquent, but which still calls itself Vitelity sometimes.
Anyway, I've got two numbers parked there that haven't been used for years. There are cheaper places to park phone numbers, but I just haven't been bothered to go through the port process.
This morning, I got an email that my balance for one of the two accounts was low, so I went to drop another $15 on it, which, given my lack of usage these days, generally pays for about 9 months of service.
Something broke (it was me, I broke), and I ended up paying $15 four times.
So, uh... guess I'm good until 2029 or so, unless I actually use these phone numbers, given that it is a pay-per-minute type service.
If I do want to port these phone numbers to another service, such as voip.ms, that's kind of annoying, because I'll have to burn my Vitelity credit first.
OK so expanding on a reply I made regarding under 18s on social media apps. Personally, I think all this legal shit about kids accessing social media is just stupid, like really it should be at the discression of parents, not age, and if parents let their kids on social media they make sure the kid knows what to do and what not to do, and appropriate behavior and stuff. There are some parents out there that don't give a crap, and that's on them, if they wanna let their kids run rampant online then that's on the parents, and not the developers and if kids do something really stupid, then blame the parents for not teaching their kids properly. But nope, corporate and legal bodies have to make things difficult, placing responsibility on developers and even in some cases the adults that are on said platforms, its getting ridiculous! We should be fighting this authoritarian BS that is being forced in, not surrendering, and if we have to, even going the extreme way to undermine the corporate structure if they try to do anything against us. Screw submitting to the overlords, we need to take action before governments turn what's already a brutal online landscape into a corporate mess, even more than it already is. Its bad enough the US wants to see forreign tourest's social media and even do full on biometric scans, the world is turning into a huge clusterfuck, and we're letting it happen! OK I kinda went into a mini rant there, but if we're gonna surrender to stuff like this, suspending under 18s accounts on an audio social app like that, then who knows what things are gonna be like in a year or 2, things can only go so far before people get so sick of it they actually do everything to undermine the government and corporate stronghold, either some sort of cyber attack happens that targets a large chunk of government infrastructure, or we see protests both online and in the streets. Either way, there's only so much people can take before everyone's like fuck this we're doing something about it.
Oh, and here I thought it was some problem with my new phone. I hope all my failed attempts to upload a single photo won't resume once the problem is fixed. And if they do, I hope the duplicates will be detected.
The instance for the images should be working again! Apologies for the downtime. And thx to Antoine from the #Panoramax team for helping me get it back up on a sunday afternoon! cc @rompe
What changed?
A new script script_cycleCadenceLayout that calls cycleDevPositions(). The function and method logic existed for this already, this change just adds a binding and wires it up correctl...
Big corp™ terminates account of user for no (valid) reason, and their frontline block any escalation.
Pundit for said company reports it, without comment.
If that was about Europe trying to enforce regulation the pundit would be all "blah blah europe, blah blah, bad, we are American, fuck you". But here, for egregious bullshit, ZILCH.
I DID IT I FIXED THE CAR (my text editor can paste now) NOW I CAN GET THE OIL (fixing the suspend/resume bug on my desktop) AND FIX THE SQUEAKY DRAWER (reporting the neovim-gtk exclusive nvk bug) AND FIX THE SHELF (fix the nouveau eDP training issue) AND REPLACE THE LIGHTBULB (send out a new version of spinlockirq series)
Staring at the prospect of spending another New Year's Eve alone in every sense of the word sucks ass. Last year I swore this year would be different. But it looks like it's going to be a carbon copy after all.
Last night I was somewhat shocked to learn that SteamVR "just works" on Bazzite :D I guess since they're using the native package there are fewer barriers
@FreakyFwoof So, I decided to look in my volume mixer to see if Tweesecake was muted, and it was. I'm not entirely sure how that happened, but it must have happened somehow while I was sleeping. I may have sleep typed last night or something.
Oh, cute. The current version of Ubiquiti's UniFi Control iOS mobile app no longer has labels for the five tabs on the bottom if you are using VoiceOver. Good thing I happen to know what order they go in, I guess...
Hey, I've been under distress lately due to personal circumstances that are outside my control. I can't find a permanent job that allows me to function, I'm not eligible for government benefits, my grant proposals got rejected, paid internships are quite difficult to find. Essentially, I have no stable monthly income that allows me to sustain myself.
Nowadays, I work mostly on accessibility throughout GNOME as a volunteer, improving the experience of people with disabilities. I helped make the majority of GNOME Calendar accessible with a keyboard and screen reader — still an ongoing effort with !564 and !598 —which is an effort no company ever contributed financially. These merge requests take thousands (literally) of hours to research, develop, and test, which would have been enough to sustain myself for a couple of years if I had been working under a salary.
I would really appreciate any kinds of donations, especially ones that happen periodically to bump my monthly income.
These donations will allow me to sustain myself while allowing me to continue working on accessibility throughout GNOME, potentially even 'crowdfunding' development without doing it on the behalf of the Foundation.
I accept donations through the following platforms:
There is no calendaring app that I love more than GNOME Calendar. The design is slick, it works extremely well, it is touchpad friendly, and best of all, the community around it is just full of wonderful developers, designers, and contributors worth …
hm do you have benchmarking fixture for that somewhere? I feel like one can improve speed for common cases, making other cases much slower, but I'm not sure what the common cases are, and what kind of tradeoff would be OK.
## Summary
A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in the `dedotdotify()` function in `lib/urlapi.c` that can cause excessive CPU consumption due to O(n²) time complexity when processing...
ah. OK. (and yes, if the problem is "people get to pass unchecked complexity strings to libcurl", then that's an API consumer problem, not a problem of the lib implementing that API)
Simple solution here would *seem* (I bet the devil's in the details!) to be to have two arrays, instead of just the first
1. char array for output 2. max_substring_length_integer array for "how long is this output path component"
. Then, encountering `./` in the input just leaves both alone, and 1/2
## Summary
A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in the `dedotdotify()` function in `lib/urlapi.c` that can cause excessive CPU consumption due to O(n²) time complexity when processing...
Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple Developer ID, and everything associated with it, and…
😲 OMG! #Apple released the Mail Drop feature back in 2014, and I had no idea! If you use Apple Mail app with an #iCloud account and Mail Drop enabled, it lets you attach files up to 5 GB via iCloud, even from a non iCloud #email address. It embeds links in your message, and the files are encrypted and stored for 30 days. It doesn't count against your iCloud storage, and even works for free iCloud users. I have been sending large files through Dropbox all this time! support.apple.com/guide/mail/s…
Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple Developer ID, and everything associated with it, and…
And finally done with the alt-texts for my trip to Japan. In total we are talking about 597 images, only a very small number of which received empty alt texts (because they showed largely the same thing as the previous one from a slightly different angle).
I don’t claim that they are perfect, but they are there! If you don’t like one, send me a better one.
I’m not yet done with the site, I still want to add more regular text, and more notably some videos, but this is a huge step in any case…
I’m proud of it, but my takeaway here really is that it is simply not practical to do like this for a personal site: I easily spent 20 times as much time on getting alt-texts than I spent on selecting the images and if anything that is a very low estimate. It simply doesn’t scale for posting a large number of vacation pictures, with this selection being very much a selection, we have many more images, not all of them good or even that dissimilar from what is there now, but still…
I was originally planning to also put pictures from my previous trip up, but the way this went I don’t think I’ll do that, at least not with fully manually generated alt texts.
I see a lot of complaints about AI-generated alt-texts, but I’m honestly not sure that they are worse than much of what I came up in this case, especially once I do a second path on them to fix any mistakes, in the same way in which I use DeepL for translations: It’s not that they are fully reliable, but they are good enough, that I can focus on the few issues they have and don’t have to do all the tedium that translating everything manually brings with it. And in a lot of cases DeepL does a better job than I would have done: My English is pretty good, but I am not a native speaker, and sometimes that’s noticeable in that my vocabulary is not as comprehensive as it is in German. Maybe the same approach would be fine for #accessibility? I’d be interested in opinions and proposals.
And I am familiar with all the benefits of alt-texts, but since that page is first and foremost a image-site, where not being able to see them will really remove most of the reasons to use it, it also does make me wonder how many people will actually benefit from it, compared to the effort I put in…
I normally use my computer with a regular qwerty keyboard. But since it's a seven-inch Toughpad, I wanted to try it with my Orbit Writer, due to the size. I bought it to use with my iPhone, which it does very well (better than with Android,). I read the manual and even saved the HID keyboard commands so that I could refer to them quickly. But I don't understand a few things.
1. It is missing the Windows key. Due to this, I can't get to the start menu as I usually do. I also can't get to the desktop in the regular way. 2. I created a desktop shortcut which I put on the start menu, but I can't type ctrl+escape at the same time, so that method of getting to the start menu is also blocked, meaning that I still can't get to the desktop. 3. I can't type NVDA+F11 or F12 for the system tray or the time and date, respectively. I was able to create new commands for both under Input Gestures. But I also tried NVDA+1 for key identification, with both caps lock and insert, and that didn't work either. Fortunately, I was able to create another gesture to get into the NVDA menu. 4. On a qwerty keyboard, I can type alt+f4 to switch between windows. If I hold the alt key, I can also continue pressing f4 to switch between more than two windows. But with the Orbit Writer, while the command works, it seems to only work for two windows i.e. I can't hold alt and continue pressing f4.
Am I missing something here or is this a half-implemented system? How can they say it works with Windows when basic commands can't even be performed? If there are ways around these problems, please let me know.
As for the last question, you probably meant alt+Tab. To be honest, that works nowhere except for normal keyboards, including, for example, Focus displays. You cannot hold an equivalent of alt and press an equivalent of Tab consequently. In JAWS at least there is a workaround: task list, JAWSKey+F10, don't know about NVDA though. #Accessibility
For #Apple #iPhone #MacOS developers: Are there any good docs or guides on Accessibility API and usage of it, specifically on interactions with Braille displays? The official docs are seemingly barely anything even for accessibility API in general much less Braille. #accessibility #braille #swift
A little funky Jazz number I found kicking about this morning called 'Just Your Average' because it's a standard chord sequence I put down ages ago and forgot about. Uses Native Instruments products only. Piano: The Gentleman Rhodes: Vintage Keys Bass: Monark Organ: Play Series Selection Drums: Studio Drummer. youtu.be/Agk2Z5mHMrs
A little funky Jazz number I found kicking about this morning called 'Just Your Average'because it's a standard chord sequence I put down ages ago and forgot...
Asi dost záleží na kontextu. Pokud to je někdo, s kým jsem měl už předchozí interakci a "znám" ho, nemám s tím problém, i když se blíž neznáme a formálně si tykání nenabídli. Pokud to je ale nějaký anonym, navíc v negativně vedené debatě, vadí mi to.
Safari 26.2 is here with 65 features + 165 bug fixes — including `field-sizing`, Navigation API, Largest Contentful Paint, `command` & `commandfor`, CHIPS opt-in partitioned cookies, `scrollend` event, `random()`, WebGPU in WebXR, `scrollbar-color`, `hidden=until-found` and *much* more! webkit.org/blog/17640/webkit-f…
I never thought about this before for some reason, but babies dream in the womb. They have REM sleep, so presumably have dreams based on their limited experience.
What was my first ever dream like? If I could experience it now would it be the most peaceful experience, or possibly terrifying to a grown adult?
Now is as good a time as any, so I am happy to announce that we have an #XMPP assembly at #39C3, as part of the Critical Decentralization Cluster habitat (decentral.community/39C3/). All creatures interested in federated messaging welcome!
Petite annonce sympa : J'ai été invité à participer aux Rencontres Hivernales du Libre qui se dérouleront fin janvier à Saint-Cergue, en Suisse.
J'y donnerai une conférence de 1h à propos de XMPP, dont voici le titre et la description :
« XMPP ou comment ne pas réinventer la roue : Messagerie fédérée et sécurisée en 2026 »
----- « Oh non ! La messagerie instantanée que j'utilise vient de se faire racheter par un Venture Capital… C'est la 3eme en 5 ans ! »
Et si au lieu de sauter de produit en produit tous les 2 ans, on utilisait plutôt un protocole fiable, standardisé, qui fonctionne depuis 25 ans et qui fonctionnera encore pendant les 25 prochains sans pouvoir se faire racheter ?
Cette conférence a pour but de présenter XMPP et plus particulièrement ses évolutions ces 5 dernières années : Clients modernes, chiffrement de bout en bout, salons de discussion mais aussi les collectifs et communautés qui le font exister. Venez découvrir la messagerie instantanée que vous n'aurez pas besoin de quitter d'ici 5 ans ! -----
D'ailleurs, si vous connaissez ou avez entendu parler de XMPP, je vous invite à lire le post juste sous celui-ci ↓
Si tu as déjà entendu parler de XMPP ou si tu as déjà utilisé XMPP, je serai intéressé d'avoir un petit retour sur ton expérience.
Si tu en a déjà entendu parler mais jamais essayé :
- Qu'est-ce que tu as entendu à propos de XMPP ? - Est-ce que ça t'as donné envie d'essayer ou non ? - Qu'est-ce qui te fait penser que ça serait fait pour toi ou au contraire pas du tout ?
Si tu as déjà essayé :
- Quelle a été ton expérience ? - En quelle année était ton dernier essai ? - Tu as testé quels clients ?
It's so underrated how, because of the Thailand-Cambodia war, I get to see just how far aflung native Malay speakers can be up north as they each fight with each other's talking points in Malay 💀💀💀 #tootSEA
Ježíšek? V podstatě nuda. V Katalánsku mají "kakací poleno" (Tio de Nadal).
Domů se poleno přinese po 8. prosinci (den Neposkvrněného početí Panny Marie), nazdobí se a přikryje se dekou. Do Vánoc musí děti poleno „krmit“ zbytky jídla a ovocem, aby si tak zajistily dostatečný přísun dárků. Na Štědrý večer nebo Boží Hod pak do polena tlučou klacky a zpívají speciální písně „cagatío“, které mají donutit Tía vykálet dárky pod deku (kam je podstrčí rodiče).
Dárky jsou obecně menší věci, např. sladkosti (turrón), ořechy, sušené fíky a drobnější dárky. Větší a hodnotnější dárky jsou, tak jako v celém Španělsku, přinášeny až 6. ledna Třemi králi.
A tiny human (2?) is hugging Dad around the neck. But wait! He's not a tiny human! He's a BIG SHARK! And he's gonna eat Dad's face! Making mighty munching "UM UM UM" noises as laughter bubbles up from Dad's tummy.
A woman (40s?) is standing by her open car door. Groceries loosely placed on her back seat. A tray of fresh strawberries in her hand. She's got to get her market veges home but first... maybe she should eat some of these strawberries. A small smile as she tries her first one.
A teen (13?) has been given the task of carrying a bunch of asparagus while Mum chooses tomatoes. But wait. This is not asparagus! It's a microphone for broadcasting all of Mum's movements and motivations! Wearing a devilishly cheeky smile. Ducking Mum's swat with a laugh and a yelp.
A man (50s?) in a faded band T-shirt, paint-flecked shorts and boots is quickly striding through the markets while wearing a determined expression. He's got multiple packets of bratwurst sausages in his arms. He's got places to go and things to do. And they most likely involve barbeque.
A woman (18?), the spitting image of a young Joni Mitchell is inspecting a cherry stall. Long blonde hair, a white crochet top, flair jeans and bare feet. She picks up a bag of cherries and looks at it thoughtfully before turning to grin at a nearby busker who grins back.
it's a UI glitch if the please-wait message stays although the chat is usable already. Will be fixed with next release. Otherwise the message indicates that the other side needs to be online a d receive the invite handshake still.
I am 100% likely to recommend @Tutanota as a Gmail replacement. VERY happy with the service. If you're ready to #deGoogle #unGoogle or say #ByeGoogle, this is an excellent and impactful place to start.
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