If I wrote an app that projected out your pay and bill schedules, and told you when to expect to come up short and by how much, is that something people would pay for or watch ads to use?
I've done that sort of thing before, for a personal project to help me manage my money better.
I really need an income, so if you have other ideas, please let me know.
Usual reminder that if you have an issue with a software and you open a bug report you can simply write down your problem and ask for help, without needing to sprinkle the usual abuse and telling the folks that caused that problem that they're stupid and should get fired.
Let's see how many "no, I'm entitled to be abusive" messages I'll get
Le gars qui a perdu 20 ans de données et 30 000 boules de matos en se faisant ban par Apple. Bon, ben lui mon empathie est en panne. C'est moche, je sais mais franchement faut vraiment être con pour avoir à ce point tout délégué les yeux fermés.
Et alors la cerise sur le tas de WTF, ouiouiner en argumentant que son expertise devrait lui valoir un réexamen par un humain, mais enfin il a à ce point rien compris à ce qui lui arrive là ?
C'est méchant, vraiment. bien sûr qu'il aurait dû faire une copie de toutes ses données, c'est clair. Mais bloquer absolument tout à cause d'une carte de cadeau… c'est quelque chose d'un autre niveau d'ignominie.
Alors voilà exactement ce que je veux dire. Le pb n'est pas "comment" ça a été bloqué mais le blocage en lui même. Jveux dire c'est l'existence même du blocage par l'opérateur qui est le problème. Et je t'invite à aller consulter ce qui touche ce procureur de la CPI depuis quelques mois pour évaluer l'ampleur de la toute puissance des fournisseurs. Soit le droit est le même pour toustes, soit c'est l'arbitraire. Nous sommes dans le règne de l'arbitraire. dalloz-actualite.fr/flash/l-en…
@menelion demander un traitement de faveur n'est pas une solution. Cela fait partie du problème. Ce monsieur il devrait pouvoir exiger la restitution des produits et services dont il est l'acquéreur sans que ça fasse un pli.
@menelion que s'apelerio l'État de droit... Les implication politiques, dans le sens comment faisons nous société, sont colossales. Sommes nous égaux et en position de demander des comptes, oui y compris à Apple, ou pas ?
ah, maintenant je te comprends. Oui, t'as raison, ce n'est pas un bon argument. Mais il est tout simplement super vexé et, imaginant moi-même à ça place, je comprends ses émotions aussi.
Since taking office this year, Carney has scrapped Canada’s consumer carbon tax, courted the oil and gas sector and axed a scheme to boost electric vehicle sales in response to US President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs.
In recent weeks, Carney has also signed a deal to produce an extra million barrels of crude oil a day after pledging to double Canada’s liquefied natural gas production for new markets in Asia.
While Carney’s pact with Alberta includes a plan to secure industrial carbon pricing before April 1, it delays the province’s methane reduction target to 2035. Control of methane, the main component of gas, is regarded as the most effective measure in the short term in tackling global warming.
The plan also suspends clean electricity regulations, cuts a proposed oil and gas emissions cap, and was signed without consulting coastal First Nations, which oppose any new pipeline project.
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As part of trade negotiations with Washington, Carney is open to reviving the Keystone XL pipeline linking Alberta to Nebraska — cancelled by former US president Joe Biden on environmental grounds — to aid US energy security
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Mark Campanale, CEO of the Carbon Tracker Initiative, which framed many of the risks expounded by Carney in 2015, said scaling up renewable projects to deliver free daytime electricity — using the Australian example — would be a better government strategy than encouraging the expansion of oil and gas.
“We’re seeing governments like Canada, which are investing money in projects that might never be profitable, that go counter to their own climate objectives, and that’s really concerning,” he said.
Ungewöhnlich für mich, aber offenbar gerade nötig:
Der Sohn einer Bekannten hat Krebs. Leukämie. Die Chemo schlägt nicht an, er braucht eine Blutzellenspende, sonst wird er sterben. Ich selbst würde gerne helfen, darf aber aus gesundheitlichen Gründen nicht spenden. Falls eine Spende möglich ist, geht es um einige Stunden rumsitzen mit Schlauch im Arm. Der Arbeitsausfall wird offenbar erstattet.
Weihnachtswunder im Fediverse? Bitte helft und teilt!
I wonder if @stefano would be interested in hosting one on the BSD.cafe infra?
Note: it adds a custom package repo to fetch a couple things not in the ports tree right now (incl a Dovecot patch I need to see if we can get into the port or as a flavor). It's hosted on my home fiber internet, but it might be slow. I'm going to get it moved somewhere with better bandwidth soon.
edit: also the FreeBSD 14 package set is still building... 15 is ready though
this is extremely interesting. I installed and am hosting a BSD Cafe chatmail relay (chatmail.bsd.cafe) but currently on Debian, planning to move it to a BSD as soon as it can run (reliably). I'll definitely look at it. Thank you!
oh wow 😍, please give mine a spin and let me know!
My method with the Chef cookbook does DNS-01 validation with Lego instead of HTTP-01 so it works behind NAT and other weird setups, even private.
If you spin up a test server and don't want to setup additional DNS records yet just remove the two opendkim lines from the Postfix master.cf, then you should be able to test a few accounts and it will work.
Additionally the FreeBSD deployment expects ZFS, creates a dedicated filesystem for the data, and you can also define a custom quota for it so abusers won't be able to fill up the disk and kill the server completely anyway. Also it uses ZFS compression for the maildir files instead of relying on Dovecot to do it for you.
In theory, you could set it up and sync the files over and it will work (might have to fix UID/GID for /home/vmail/*) as I left the Dovecot config on so it can still read the Dovecot-compressed files
I tried to install the chef client you suggested (cinc) in a BastilleBSD thin jail, but: ln: /usr/bin/cinc-solo: Read-only file system postinst: Cannot link cinc-solo to /usr/bin Installation failed
It tries to write into /usr/bin - so it seems the cinc installation script, despite downloading binaries for FreeBSD (14, even if I'm using 15) doesn't respect the FreeBSD way of installing external stuff.
I tried to install rubygem-chef-bin from ports - but:
chef-client -z -o chatmail -j attributes.json Not applying net/http monkey patch needed for ruby 3.1 [2025-12-14T09:07:58+01:00] WARN: No config file found or specified on command line. Using command line options instead. /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.3/gems/mixlib-log-3.0.9/lib/mixlib/log.rb:119: warning: Logger not initialized properly /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.3/gems/mixlib-log-3.0.9/lib/mixlib/log/logger.rb:35: info: Mixlib::Log::Logger#initialize: does not call super probably Chef Infra Client, version 18.8.11 Patents: chef.io/patents Infra Phase starting /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/3.3/gems/ffi-yajl-2.3.4/lib/ffi_yajl/encoder.rb:42: warning: undefining the allocator of T_DATA class FFI_Yajl::Ext::Encoder::YajlGen [2025-12-14T09:08:00+01:00] WARN: Run List override has been provided. [2025-12-14T09:08:00+01:00] WARN: Original Run List: [][2025-12-14T09:08:00+01:00] WARN: Overridden Run List: [recipe[chatmail]] Resolving cookbooks for run list: ["chatmail"] Synchronizing cookbooks: - chatmail (0.2.0) Installing cookbook gem dependencies: Compiling cookbooks...
Uncensored AI weather explanations now in accessiWeather by letting you select specific models in a new dialog on the AI tab; view the example here
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I couldn't resist. Added the ability to select unmoderated/uncensored models for your AI Weather Explanations fun. I think you get the picture.
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Oh, what a delightful shitstorm of a weather situation we've got here, you lucky bastards! Right now, you've got a clear sky that's fucking freezing your balls off at a chilly 42.8°F. It's a fucking shocker that the humidity's at a moderate 57%, which might just keep you from feeling like a popsicle. The wind's blowin' in from the west at about 5.7 mph, zipping through your clothes and reminding you that winter's a trash-slaying bitch.
This afternoon, brace yourselves for a damp fuckfest with a slight chance of rain showers, and winds up to 10 mph that'll make sure you feel the breeze. But tonight, honey, it's gonna get wild: a mix of rain and snow, with winds dropping to a soothing 5 mph, perfect for a slow fuckin' style. You'll feel the temperature plunge down to a fucking frigid 25.0°F, keeping things icy and intense.
Come Sunday, this shit gets serious with heavy snow, followed by a chance of snow showers. The wind's gonna pick up its pace to 15 mph, ensuring that the snow hasn't gotten enough rest. The temperature'll hover around a despairing 31.0°F, so wrap it up tight, you filthy animals.
Sunday night, things clear up mostly, but the temps drop dramatically to a frigid 15.0°F. You'll want to fucking huddle under layers. But don't worry, Monday brings most sunshine, with a warmish 30.0°F to lift your spirits, and winds around 10 mph. Tuesday night finds you under mostly cloudy skies, with temps dipping to a cold but tolerable 18.0°F.
So, whether you're into frosty fucking or just want to feel the bite of winter, this weather's got a shit-ton of experiences to offer, you horny little weather enthusiasts! Just don't forget to bundle up and stay safe, unless you're into that kind of shit.
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@jonathan859 That was not X AI, no. You can filter by available free models, and Grok isn't one of them; need to double check if it is still free. That was Venis AI.
Evening mastofolks! So @daygar and I wrote a song for the #ChristmasReapers project again this year. We, along with 19 other amazing artists, made it onto the album, Christmas Through The Years. We're track 13 (not 4 as I first thought...sorry Day). Our backing vocals are also on track 1 of the album, which is a cover version of Train's Shake Up Christmas. If you'd like to buy the album, it is available on Bandcamp at: christmasreapers.bandcamp.com/… All proceeds from the album will go towards #REAPER and #Osara, music software made accessible for blind and partially sighted users. Thanks in advance for reading. Boosts for reach much appreciated.
@Scott Well I'd definitely say I'm more confident. Whether that's improved my actual technique or not I'm not sure, but I guess what you might call the "mic-shyness" has gone now.
@Scott Well, that means that I finally made it to a Christmas album too I guess, although as a bass background vocalist instead of an actual song. Uhm... great anyway, I guess.
@ToniBarth @Scott It's still a milestone. My first contribution to a Christmas album was as a keys player and a few sound effects. Nothing major - but it helped somebody and so I was satisfied with that.
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).
What’s New Gajim now supports playing animated GIF, WEBP, AVIF, and PNG files directly in the chat. Animations will play once you click the play button.
I feel that, during this holiday season, it is important to remind people of the true meaning of Christmas: ghosts terrorising wealthy people in the middle of the night until they agree to pay their employees a fair wage.
"After nearly four years of development, #Google is finally rolling out native #HTTPLiveStreaming (#HLS) playback to #Chrome on desktop with version 142 and newer, a major upgrade that’s also arriving on Microsoft #Edge and other #Chromium-based #browsers."
After nearly four years of development, Google is finally rolling out native HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) playback to Chrome on desktop with version 142 and newer, a major upgrade that’s also arriving on
In all the many years I've run a mail server, I've not had a problem. I send mail, I receive mail. All good.
But it bothers me that this one particular service, of all the many services that I run, is the one most prone to failing because of a decision by one of two companies.
Google and Microsoft are simply bad email providers. Their job is to deliver emails to users, and they fail at that.
The more fundamental problem is that too many users don't seem to understand that it's a choice. If your email provider is bad (and Google and Microsoft are *really* bad) then you should move elsewhere.
About the service that neil said is failing: it's not your service that is failing, it's Google and Microsoft that are failing. People should stop using them.
to be honest, I sometimes think Mastodon is an absolute radical leftist buble, which doesn't uplift my mood, to say the mildest. super mega tired of all that anarchist anti-capitalist anti-AI anti-everything nonsense.
From top AI coding user globally to completely stop using it because it's so much harder to review AI code than write it myself. And they say all software developers jobs will be replaced by LLM. Life comes fast at you. 🤣 xcancel.com/jhleath/status/199…
an interesting update: the team is starting to move away from AI coding completely (devin/claude/etc) because it's so much harder to review the AI code than writing things themselves
Ich hab gestern in einem YouTube Vlog gehört, dass jemand für einen Termin in Köln die ÖPNV Verbindungen mit #KI geplant hat und dann 2 Stunden durch die Stadt geirrt ist, weil nichts von den Informationen stimmte. Rein aus Interesse hab ich das heute mal versucht mit einer Strecke, die ich gut kenne, weil da mein Augenarzt ist. Als erstes wollte die KI mich anstatt in die Amtsstraße ( die weit draußen am Rande der Stadt ist) zum Amtsgericht in der Innenstadt schicken. Außerdem wurde behauptet ich könnte dort mit der Straßenbahn Linie 2 hinfahren. Es gibt in diesem Stadtteil überhaupt keine Straßenbahn, ausschließlich Busse. Leute müssen wirklich aufhören zu denken, dass KI in irgendeiner Weise nützlich ist, den die ist dumm wie Brot.
hi there, i´m a very fan of telegram and i use it on lots of devices. great job for the lightweight feel of the messenger. i wanted to introduce telegram to a blind user but had to realize, the (wi...
Meanwhile they broke their Accessibility on iOS almost completely. but yeah, I as a Windows guy would be super happy to see the official client accessible.
They would be better off focusing on the accessibility of the iOS Telegram app first. On Windows, Unigram works really well, while Telegram on iOS is a complete mess. Besides, there was already a case in the past where someone submitted an accessibility-related PR, and they still didn’t merge it, so all that effort went to waste.
Now that #Trump has made it crystal clear that #ableism is part of his overall brand, I’ll just say it the way I’ve been thinking it: people with disabilities still supporting him are no better than quislings. #USPol
Yeah, I don't understand disabled people who voted for that clown. When you have a movement that is based on demonizing certain groups of people, or saying that some people are burdens to society, then it makes sense that disabled people wouldn't be safe from it.
Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal ---
The administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime. propublica.org/article/trump-m…
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”
However, I can't find an issue in your ticket tracker discussing @ metioning users in a group chat. Am I missing something or is this something not yet implemented or not in the roadmap. I'd be glad to help implementing it :D
in groups, Android and iOS meanwhile optionally notify about things that are directly directed to you, even if a group is otherwise muted. we call that "mentions". these are: replies to own message...
we typically discuss feature requests in the forum, and only open a GitHub issue when someone is set on actually doing it: support.delta.chat/t/direct-me…
User Story: I have created a group in Delta Chat and started to chat with some friends. I am able to say something like “@tom: you are right” so it is clear to what friend I am replying to, “tom” is the contact name I have set for my friend but othe…
60 minutes! Whether it's @rlegowski1 and @daygar, @JessicatheVIArtist, Abby Hips and our own Kevin Reeves, or new faces like Jessica Thierjung of Lyriel and Árpád Király, this year's Christmas Reapers album, Christmas Through the Years, has something to interest you.
@Derek, @nick, Gianluca and Robin go live in one hour with the annual gala presentation.
I have discovered that teaching programming goes much better with my fifth grade students if I take the time to teach them about all the symbols I think of as "normal" that are totally new to them.
"These are square brackets, you'll find them over the 'enter' key we use them for lists. In programming we have three kinds of brackets..."
This reduced confusion so much. And I feel a little silly for not realizing that OF COURSE they don't know what they characters are or how to type them.
🕯 **Операция «Анти-Google»: Госдума готовит цифровое лоботомирование** В российской власти снова обнаружили источник всех бед — Google. Оказалось, что американская корпорация тайно мешает суверенитету, экономике и, вероятно, хорошему урожаю. Поэтому в Госдуме аккуратно достали лом и начали обсуждать «постепенные ограничения». Не запрет, нет. Медленное, заботливое удушение. Идеолог процесса — депутат Андрей Свинцов. План простой, как чугунный утюг: если данные хранятся не там, где хочется депутату, значит данные вражеские. А раз вражеские — надо отучить население ими пользоваться. Сначала бизнес, потом обычные люди, потом — «а вы и не заметили, как стало лучше». Под раздачу потенциально идёт всё: поиск, почта, YouTube, Android-сервисы. Это подаётся как «мягкое выдавливание», хотя по факту выглядит как попытка вытащить зуб через ухо. **Что это означает на практике, без заклинаний:** Android внезапно вспомнит, что он не отечественный. Google Play Services — та самая невидимая начинка, без которой приложения начинают вести себя как обиженные коты. Обновления ломаются, push-уведомления умирают, карты тупят. Телефон, правда, не превращается в кирпич — звонить и писать SMS всё ещё можно. Добро пожаловать в 2003 год, только дороже. YouTube и Gmail официально превращаются в экстремистский контент — пока вы не включите VPN и не притворитесь финном. Власть искренне удивляется, что VPN всё ещё существуют, и параллельно пытается запретить их так, чтобы ими начали пользоваться даже пенсионеры. Банки — редкий остров рациональности. Им Google не нужен. Деньги ходят по «Миру», СБП и НСПК. Банкоматы не взорвутся, наличка выдаётся, онлайн-банкинг жив. Максимум — Google Pay уходит в закат, а ему на смену выходит Mir Pay с выражением лица «я старался». Интернет целиком не рухнет. Его давно готовят к осадному режиму: суверенный, скрепный, с фильтрацией и рекомендацией «перейти на отечественный аналог». Google просто станет очередной жертвой эксперимента «а что если выколоть один глаз — станет ли лучше видно». **Контекст для понимания:** Roblox, FaceTime, Snapchat уже ушли в категорию «экстремизм по настроению». WhatsApp — следующий кандидат. Логика простая: если сервис не контролируется, значит подозрителен. Если подозрителен — вреден. Если вреден — запретить. Наука, IT и реальность в обсуждении не участвуют. Итог не апокалипсис, а привычная деградация по расписанию. Не «всё сдохло», а «всё стало хуже, но постепенно, чтобы не пугать». Населению рекомендуют адаптироваться: скачать офлайн-карты, привыкнуть к альтернативам и не задавать лишних вопросов. Суверенный интернет — это когда у тебя всё работает, но как будто назло. #Google #цензура #суверенныйинтернет #импортозамещение #Android #VPN #Госдума #цифроваяизоляция
My LG TV’s new software update installed Microsoft Copilot, which cannot be deleted.
Weird that such a miracle technology can't be uninstalled. You'd think it's so good and useful that people would go out of their way to install it, even.
With the new TalkBack release, it is now possible to get information about special text formatting such as bold, underlined, and more. Reporting can be done
Very excited about text format reporting. This will make reading academic stuff so much better! Split tapping sounds great too, I'll mess around with it since people on other platforms like it and claim it improves speed.
And I've already found a big Braille bug. With my NLS EReader, next line is said to now be DPad Down, and previous line is DPad Up. Except, there is no DPad on the Humanware NLS EReader. This is why actual Braille display users should be trusted testers.
Codestats 0.5.0 has been released! Changes include adding the ability for you to customize it with a TOML config, bringing the supported language count to 447, getting rid of the old clunky CLI interface in favor of a much simpler one with flags for everything, adding two new display modules (TSV and compact JSON), streamlining the language list so it doesn't throw a huge list down the left side of your terminal, making the analyzer more tolerant and permissive all around, and a couple little bugfixes, for example sorting by the total number of files should now work as expected. GitHub release: github.com/trypsynth/codestats… Crates.io: crates.io/crates/codestats Enjoy!
CLI tool to provide a per-language breakdown of a folder of sourcecode, optionally respecting things like gitignores, hidden files, and symlinks. - Release 0.5.0 · trypsynth/codestats
@tardis the thing is that I can have excellent ideas like I delete Facebook, but all my contacts will still use it and contact me on it, so it is a nightmare for somebody who genuinely hates webapps
Ugh, I understand. I would hate web apps, if set web apps I used weren't accessible. With that said, no one can contact me via telegram for example, they pulled the plug on poor little Bulgaria, with the excuse we gotta pay for premium to register, and sign in with an account like google or apple depending on the phone. Yeah, screw that. I love the messenger app for mac, it doesn't look web, it's an actual app. Same for whatsapp. But the story on windows is different, many disabled folks complain and actually have the reason to, about whatsapp, that it turned into nonsensical inaccessible crap. FB isn't better itself, at least not on the web. I tried it. Wanted to pull out my hair. :)
What's with them making their apps so crappy though. I wonder what the end goal is. I hope, not vibe coding like ms who apparently made the password field on windows a blank. Like, original, dudes...
Utiliser l'IA pour coder, c'est reporter la charge de travail sur la personne qui fera la review de code.
Et perso, en tant que reviewer, je déteste ça. Me retrouver face à un code où il y a un petit détail qui n'a pas de sens. Le truc à peine visible. Qui me demande un effort pour comprendre pourquoi le dev a voulu faire ça, d'où sort cette variable (qui en fait n'existe pas...). C'est un manque de respect envers les personnes avec qui vous travaillez. Arrêtez.
J'ai entendu une phrase dans un podcast russophone sur le développement et tout autour, et j'utilise cette phrase toujours maintenant : « Dès que tu as fait un commit, le code est ta responsibilité. tu peux avoir utilisé l'IA, mais dès que tu fais le commit, c'est toi qui en es responsable ». c'est tout. Moi aussi, j'utilise de l'IA comme code assistant, mais je ne fais pas de commits sans avoir vérifié le code avant.
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