Let 2026 be the year where UI designers
- stop hiding which window has focus. It used be done well in 1984
- stop stealing fucking click. If I dismiss one of you fucking dialog the click should not be passed down
- start serving user, and I don't mean in a cookbook way
Когда я была ещё маленьким аутёнком и не понимала людей, я решила прочесть одну из книг-инструкций Дейла Карнеги.
Прочла.
Из всех советов помню единственный: подумали что-то хорошее о человеке — скажите ему.
В подростковом возрасте следовать совету для меня было почти невозможно, но со временем получилось. И всем хорошо: человеку — от комплимента, а тебе — от его радости.
В итоге, понимать людей мне помогли не инструкции, а тонны прочитанной художественной литературы и внимательное наблюдение за окружающими. Так что мало кто разглядит во мне того аутёнка теперь. (А он есть.)
Alternatives européennes et open source aux GAFAM
En 2025, plusieurs alternatives européennes et open source aux GAFAM se distinguent, notamment pour répondre aux enjeux de souveraineté numérique, de respect de la vie privée et de conformité au RGPD.
https://www.mapao.net/actualites-web/982-alternatives-européennes-et-open-source-aux-gafam.html
I’ve just gotten culture shock.
Those of you keeping track will know that I did a Christmas market tour early December last year. I ended up downloading the Karlsruhe transit authority’s (KVV) app and buying a day ticket or two off them.
These days I’m more familiar with German transit ticketing, so I haven’t used the KVV app since then.
And today I have received this SMS, telling me they’re going to delete my account soon.
…
⁃ A company that is systematically deleting accounts after a year?
⁃ That takes their data protection responsibilities seriously?
⁃ That proactively informs their data subjects with plenty of time to cope?
⁃ That doesn’t do so using dark marketing patterns that try to guilt me into staying?
⁃ Or upsell me?
⁃ Or trick me into clicking somewhere as the only way to exercise my rights?
I am agog. My flabber is truly ghasted.
Genuinely, this sort of attitude needs to be praised. It’s been 10 years since GDPR, and this sort of thing is still that rare.
Sorry, a little more gushing on this message:
⁃ It was sent by SMS to my Spanish number. They don’t care that the number is not German. Their systems will allow this.
⁃ It was sent by SMS, not WhatsApp, which is annoyingly increasingly becoming the default messaging platform for this sort of thing, thus making an American company the mediator of all your messages.
⁃ It was sent in English, my language of choice on their website and app, their processes are capable of checking my language preferences
⁃ No link was included. Nor instructions. If you care about this, it’s obvious what to do. No need to send something that can be turned into a Phishing vector
⁃ My name wasn’t mentioned, no need to attempt to gender me by giving me a title
None of these things are standard yet, and they should be. If you work for a consumer-facing company, can you say that your customer data will be treated this way?
Almost makes me want to keep my account with them, just for the respect they’ve shown
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You might not notice it in your peer group, when you are not their age, but my daughter showed me that many 20-30yr olds are switching to dumb phones, are cancelling their Facebook/tiktok/twitter accounts and are discovering libraries and printed books. As a conscious decision. Not all of them, but quite a lot and it's growing.
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Hey guys, I am reviewing delta chat as a signal alternative. Does anyone have any best practices recommendations?
So far I like that you can add all of your devices under one profile so we don’t need the separate phone numbers silliness signal has
another nice thing you can do with delta chat is having in-chat tools like shopping lists in the family chat where anyone can add or mark an item as done and is marked for everyone, collaborative text pad, to-do lists, split bills, mini-games etc. you can even write your own small utility apps and share it in the chats and your contacts will be able to use them in all platforms
the speed is of chatting is realtime if you use the optimized chatmail relays instead of classic email
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Please remember the 6-2-1 rule:
6 hours of sleep
2 warm meals
1 shower
Per day.
Not per Congress.
Please don't overwork yourself. If you feel exhausted, please take a break. Pease don't hesitate to call us via DECT 1023 at any time to sign out of a shift if you can't make it or feel uncomfortable for any reason.
P.S.: Drink more water!
#39C3
While some people on our team are enjoying the opportunity of learning a lot more things about postgresql, in the meantime here's a rendered version of the map of the event as of the evening of December 24th:
#39c3
26 years ago, on December 28 1999, we migrated the main #curl source code from self-hosted to Sourceforge.
It was the new hot thing. Imagine the idea of a dedicated service devoted to nothing but hosting code!
We then kept the code there for ten years (on CVS). A period when the distributed version control systems really exploded.
I'll be at CCH again starting in about 30ish minutes until ~18:45 or so.
Call/write me, if you want to say hi or goodbye! 😊
#39c3
Die #DB_Bahn sollte sich lieber mal fragen, wieso Menschen mit Rollstuhl 'verladen' werden müssen - wär sie nämlich #barrierefei gäbs das Problem nämlich nicht.
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Mal abgesehen davon, dass Menschen mit Hilfebedarf aufgrund fehlender #Barrierefreiheit ja nicht mal spontan reisen können sondern sich vorher erstmal beim Mobilitätservice anmelden müssen.
Der nach meinem letzten Kenntnisstand eine kostenpflichtige Rufnummer hat.
#Inklusion ist ein Menschenrecht
Eine Durchsage der Deutschen Bahn zur Verspätung eines ICEs sorgt für Empörung im Netz. Nicht wegen der Verzögerung – sondern wegen der Begründung.www.fr.de
manchmal? Ein bisschen? Vielleicht solltest du mal @HoernchenCecile folgen...
Und ja klar gibt's nette, freundliche & bemühte Mitarbeitende, das hab ich nicht in Frage gestellt. Die Tatsache, dass diese aber 2025 immer noch notwendig sind, taugt aber halt genauso wenig wie Menschen im Rollstuhl nur als 'Rollstuhl' zu bezeichnen.
Ist ja nicht das erste Mal, dass so eine Durchsage die Runde macht - allein der (mediale) Aufschrei fehlt - im Zug hat's ja auch niemanden interessiert
Die Bahn begründet oft Verspätung mit dem Einladen eines Rollstuhls oder - etwas besser formuliert trotzdem diskriminierend - wegen Unterstützung beim Ein- und Ausstieg.
Der Grund ist die nicht vorhandene #Barrierefreiheit! #BarriereBahn
ich wurde schon mal ausführlich per Lautsprecherdurchsage beschimpft.
Bei einem Halt wartete der Mobilitätsservice, ich sagte aber ich wolle nicht aussteigen, ich wolle beim nächsten Halt aussteigen, wegen der Verspätung komme ich so schneller an mein Ziel.
Der Mobilitätsservice verhielt sich als sei es ein "Service" und ich war die böse die absagt. Obwohl es Grundrecht ist mitfahren zu können und den "Service" gibts nur wegen der Barrieren. Aber die Auseiunandersetzung ging hin und her es wurde dirskutiert weil die wollten dass ich da aussteige und nicht beim nächsten Halt und ich was so, ich entscheide selbst.
Dann der Knaller mit der Durchsage als der Zug weiter fuhr. Man habe Verspätung weil ein Rollstuhlfahrer (sic!) - immerhin nicht nur der Rollstuhl - sich geweigert habe ausszusteigen.
Dann kam die Schaffnerin persönlich zu mir um mir auch noch vor den Fahrgästen eine Lektion zu erteilen. Die Fahrgäste solidaridierten sich zum Glück (das ist nicht immer der Fall) mit mir und die Schaffnerin war sauer, ging aber weg.
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Ich habe die letzte Woche viel mit #Perplexity experimentiert. jetzt habe ich noch fast ein Jahr einen gratis Pro-Zugang und absolut keinen Bedarf daran. Es gab in der Zeit nur eine einzige Konversation, in der mir kein Fehler aufgefallen ist, der zu Fehlkäufen bzw. Fehlentscheidungen geführt hätte. Was das für die erstellung von Code bedeutet, mag ich mir ehrlich gesagt nicht ausmalen.
Es kann menschliche Sprache glaubwürdig nachbilden. Wenn es um korrekte Informationen geht, selbst im Mainstream, versagt diese Technologie krachend. Ja, vermutlich bleiben LLM. Aber dieser Hype und die Anwendungsfälle, die immer wieder skizziert werden, sind wirklich albern und gefährlich.
Heute: 13 km radeln mit der Flims (einer der vielen Ylvi-Spitznamen), dann Kamin, Kaffee und Kuchen zu Hause und gleich noch ne große Runde mit den Kleinis und dem Mann. Zu Hause isses halt doch am Schönsten. 😅
#Dogs #MTB #Freebiken #Sonne #Winter #EuropeanSleddog #Hunde #Brandenburg #Radeln
I did a quick unscientific comparison. AI generated drums and bass for a snippet of a cover version versus me hobbling through those parts with software instruments, playing from memory of hearing it recently.
I invested a similar amount of time in total to reach the second verse of the song. With the generative engine, I only started paying attention to time spent *after* figuring out enough of the horrible UI accessibility to be able to get anything done with it, so although that will inevitably cloud my judgment of whether I enjoyed the UX, it shouldn't impact the comparison of musicality/usefulness.
In both cases, the original song was playing for reference with its rhythm section removed. I've turned the original down pretty quiet in these examples, loud enough to be recognisable but hopefully balanced in a way that makes it easy to focus on the differences in drums and bass.
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I played the drums and bass in this version on keys here, using software instruments, so a totally silent recording setup that I could make at 4AM with a sleeping partner in the same room. I'm not much of a keys player and I don't have absolute pitch or a good enough memory to recall parts note for note, hit for hit, this was just a gut instinct jam-along.
Drums were recorded in two passes, I played the kicks snares and toms first, then overdubbed hats and cymbals. In both cases I did some light tweaking of the MIDI to get a few stray velocities and timing gufties straightened out. 3/4
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RE: wetdry.world/@micr0/1158046481…
NO NO NO
"the vision stuff"
**altbot v2.5 is out!** fixed non-english support! switched to a two model setup: gemma3:1b handles translations while qwen3-vl does the image processing stuff. gemma3:1b is surprisingly good at translations for such a tiny model?? now running 23.Micr0byte (Wet-Dry World)
I am blind. Seeing people who think I'm not worth the effort fill my timeline with AltBot generated AI stuff that isn't even accurate in lots of cases.
Human alt text is always better, because it doesn´t focus on ocular seeing. Seeing people think, and AltBot was designed around that notion, that blind people must compensate for missing "eye-seeing", but that's not the case. I am interested in the meaning of an image to you, its maker or publisher.
Again, human alt text is better, also because it strengthens reciprocity between seeing and blind people. AltBot doesn't but it makes seeing people believe they have done their bit for accessibility. In actuality, the reverse is often true.
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RE: mastodon.macsnet.cz/@Aldehab/1…
To je jasný, všichni chápeme, že jste svině rusácký.
Lavrov: Západ musí chápat, že Rusko má na Ukrajině strategickou iniciativu (ČTK) https://www.ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/lavrov-zapad-musi-chapat-ze-rusko-ma-na-ukrajine-strategickou-iniciativu/2765595Media Actuall CZ (Macsnet's Mastodon)
The amount of discussions I have to hold because #Laravel devs don't want to write a read-only DTO somewhere, but instead add a dynamic property on some ActiveRecord contraption.
It's so exhausting, and it could be so simple, if it wasn't that the framework promotes terrifyingly bad software practices everywhere. #php
The most interesting finding from using EVs in winter is not that they consume more energy (which they do), but that charging is really slow if you don't have battery preheating. Yesterday, I arrived at a 240 kW charger with 33% SoC, the outside temperature was 0°C, and the charging power was only 35 kW (the maximum charging power of the car is 118 kW). With this charging power, it would take 40 minutes to charge to 80% SoC. We don't mind too much because we primarily use the car as a city car and do 95% of our charging at home, but if you want to have an EV as your only car and drive long distances with it even in winter, definitely get one that has battery preheating.
Of course! Unfortunately you have the total opposite as well: Chinese Car manufacturers and infrastructure as well jump towards MW charging.
I guess there is a point why BYD is now the biggest ecar manufacturer and not the German ones...
The greatest piece of advice I was ever given was this: when you stop work for the day, never stop at a 'clean' break point; stop in the middle of something you can finish easily.
That way the next morning you're not confronted with a a dauntingly blank page or an empty function to write, but a half-finished one you can get back into without difficulty.
I can't remember who gave me that advice, but I've stuck to it dogmatically whenever I can.
El presidente de Estados Unidos, DonaldRTVE.es/Agencias (RTVE.es)
I was recently reminded of this.
A couple decades ago, I wrote a short paper that described how the basic approaches of cryptography and computer security lead to an efficient and practical privilege escalation attack against master-keyed mechanical locks, which I published in IEEE Security and Privacy (a nerdy computing technical journal).
TL;dr: Master-keyed locks have fundamental, exploitable weaknesses.
But I wasn't ready for what happened next.
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It occurs to me that people outside the security field might find it odd that we openly publish stuff like this. Why help people who might use the knowledge to do bad things?
There are a number of reasons. The first is that only through open discussion are we able to identify and fix problems. Another, which is what motivated my work, is educational: you can't learn to defend systems unless you understand how they are attacked.
![...It [Blaze’s master keying paper] shouldnt have been
published, because the only people it will educate are the
dishonest who will use it to compromise security.
Locksmiths dont have to be surreptitious ...
... No, we can t call him a moron because he is obviously
intelligent, after all he did grasp the concepts of master
keying. We can however, see that he is an inexperienced
amateur when it comes to physical security. In his
computerized world it is a simple thing to fix a security
problem, you just load new software...
— from a guest editorial denouncing me in The National Locksmith (June
2003)](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/742748 "...It [Blaze’s master keying paper] shouldnt have been
published, because the only people it will educate are the
dishonest who will use it to compromise security.
Locksmiths dont have to be surreptitious ...
... No, we can t call him a moron because he is obviously
intelligent, after all he did grasp the concepts of master
keying. We can however, see that he is an inexperienced
amateur when it comes to physical security. In his
computerized world it is a simple thing to fix a security
problem, you just load new software...
— from a guest editorial denouncing me in The National Locksmith (June
2003)")
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