another group I haven’t previously really clicked with but I’m a complete sucker for hammond and rhodes and you can *bathe* in the quality of the recording thenecksau.bandcamp.com/album/…
BITS welcomes the Pennsylvania Council of the Blind @PACounciloftheBlind to Mastodon. Here's to a great 2026 for all of our friends in #Pennsylvania and beyond.
#HappyNewYear Bangladesh- Dhaka; Bhutan; British Indian Ocean Territory- Chagos- Diego Garcia, Kazakhstan- Astana, Kyrgystan. Myanmar, go back to your room and think about what you've done. Are you still in there from two years ago? year?
I always wanted to add push support to #Conversations_im. I think a federated instant messenger is a natural fit because you get the decentralization and the connection for free. And adding it to the messenger is also what Google did with gtalk.
So I was very happy that I found #UnifiedPush as a quasi standard when I finally got around to implement it. Thank you for your for work!
Lying here with a Godawful flu on new years eve, realizing this will be the first year in my adult life where I won't be staying up until midnight, and having that thing. You know, the grumpy #reader thing. Where you go "I want a good book to #read! Right now! That will make me happy and not sick!" But you're grumpy and sick and cranky, so every book on your TBR pile isn't good enough and you throw them out of the pram in a tantrum. Then you go through your Goodreads recommendations for a while, sniffling snot and muttering "Does nobody write any good books anymore? I just want a good book! I must have read all the good books already. All of these books are stupid. Why do they let stupid people write stupid books." So you look through your list of comfort books for a re-read, but it turns out all of those books are also either bad or boring and you hate them, and this must, somehow, be somebody else's fault. I guess I'll just put on some stupid YouTube videos if I can get the stupid app on my stupid phone to work and probably fall asleep between coughing and shivering with a fever. All because nobody writes any good books, anymore. I'd like you all to know that this is your fault. #bookstodon
@GuloGulo Já jsem si Garmin zaplatil na měsíc a upřímně – taky o ničem. Lidi si od nich kupují hodinky za 20 000+ Kč a nejsou schopní nabídnout ani rozumný celoroční souhrn.
Jsem rád, že jsem z toho systému vypadl. Kupte si Coros, Suunto, Polar, nebo cokoli jiného. Garmin krutě zneužívá svého postavení. (A taky jsem rád, že jsem vypadl ze sběru oznáčku, dost jsem tomu propadl.) @GuloGulo
@mireeek Pro mě nejhořší hodinky byly Apple watch, bez tlačítek spocené prsty, to bylo o nervy. Já už mám druhé Garminy a zase vím, že fakt vydrží. Jinak souhlas, Garmin krutě zneužívá svého postavení. @GuloGulo
Beru Stravu jen jako sociální síť na sdílení výkonů s přáteli. Ty segmenty jsou fajn, díval jsem se na ně často, ale teď s těmi mými výkony už mě ani nezajímají. 😁
@mireeek Já jsem tam deset let, mám to už fakt jen na sdílení a je tam dost uživatelů ze Sokolova. JAko deník se mi nejvíc líbí mytreneek.cz/ ale data buď ručně nebo ze Strava 😂
Can someone explain why the announcement for Team Canada Owelympic Hockey roster is done in Minneapolis??????? Did I miss the memo about the new province of Minnesota?
Honestly, good riddance to 2025. Bad year for my country for sure, but also not a particularly good year for me personally for various reasons. Still, joy was had and gains were made. Got my first proper bank account, gained a bit more independence around the house, and best of all, I got all three of the Roland Sound Canvases I've been wanting for nearly three years.
@jstark Sound Canvases are old synth boxes made by Roland in the 90s that I'm particularly interested in. Basically they have a bunch of pre-loaded instrument samples and you connect a keyboard or similar to play them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_S…
#HappyNewYear Thailand- Bangkok, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia- Java, Sumatra; Australia- Christmas Island, Antarctica- Davis Station, and the rest of Mongolia.
Думаю, счастливы безмерно, особенно те кто понимает что вообще происходит. Ещё большая потеря суверенитета, обеднение людей в пользу всякой элиты, крепкая посадка на иглу под названием ЕЦБ и прочие экономические весёлости в виде возрастающего госдолга.
As Bulgaria is joining the Eurozone tonight, the following changes have been applied in Liberapay.
- The Bulgarian lev (BGN) has disappeared from donation forms. - All existing donations and scheduled payments in that currency have been converted to the Euro. - All accounts which had the lev as their main currency have been switched to the Euro.
Congratulations to Bulgaria, and happy new year to everyone!
Aus meiner Sicht ist der #DIday von @marcuwekling eine sehr gute Gelegenheit, das #Fediverse für den Mainstream-Diskurs relevanter zu machen – und damit die Gesellschaft unabhängiger von X, Insta, TikTok etc.
Das ist aber kein Selbstläufer, sondern braucht Aktivismus. Ein sehr wichtiger Hebel sind naheliegenderweise Multiplikator:innen, z.B. Streamer oder Youtuber. Um diese fürs Fediverse zu gewinnen, könnte dedizierte Crowd-Lobby-Arbeit helfen, also z.B. Koordiniert Kommentare schreiben und hochvoten oder das Fediverse in den Commuity-Discord-Servern thematisieren.
Alleine macht das weder Sinn noch Spaß, darum habe ich mal eine Signal Gruppe gegründet. Wer mitmachen will ist herzlich willkommen.
The people who dislike The Algorithm™ are either consumers who basically just want an RSS feed reader (nothing wrong with that) or people who brought audiences over from other platforms.
If you’re trying to create something and find an audience for it on the #Fediverse, you need some sort of recommendation algorithm. Otherwise, you’re just posting into the void.
I'd be interested to know how fellow blind (especially blind-from-birth) cane users manage with independent travel. For my part, my spatial orientation/brain mapping abilities are shocking, and I can't walk in a straight line, so the immediate fear of my support network is I won't be safe. Does anyone else have this problem? If so how do you, or did you, get around it? Or is it something I'll just have to accept?
@menelion Navigating with a white cane is something that I’ve been doing since I was very young. I was fortunate to have extremely good instructors and I really was motivated to be as independent as possible. Walking a straight line is something I generally do quite well. I also rely a lot on audio cues. I live in Toronto, so there is a huge public transit system including buses, subway, street cars, etc. I think spatial awareness is something that can be learned. I also think that some people have it naturally. I’ve seen people that lost vision later in life really struggle with spatial awareness. I’ve also seen a few cases where people were fantastic at it. I’ve seen the same for people who were born blind.
@gtbray @menelion It is my intention too. I’m getting over a really nasty cold that I came down with just after Christmas so as long as that’s better than yes.
@TomGrant91 I too have a certain difficulty walking straight, but in practice, whenever I need to walk alone, there are always refferences such as building walls or the sidewalk edge.
@clv1 @TomGrant91 What happens if the edge turns away though? How do you know whether you've veered or whether it is in fact the edge turning a corner? And then if you're told when it turns you need to continue going straight?
@clv1 @TomGrant91 Yup. That's what I do. But then it turns and my instinct is to follow it, but the idea is not to follow it because that leads into the park, or into someone's drive.
@clv1 @TomGrant91 Yeah. The trickiest point right now isn't knowing where the turning leads, but knowing whether it is the path turning away or you. And if it's the path, and it's not an entry you want to turn into, you've somehow then got to walk in a straight line until you find the next shoreline. And that's the part where they're scratching their heads and thinking, "yeah, if we weren't with him right now he'd be as lost as a sheep."
@TomGrant91 This is a real risk, yes. I've myself run into it a few times many years ago. I haven't gone out to walk since some time, but I believe having a GPS on a smartphone in your pocket, or smart glasses as mentioned, can reduce a lot such risk.
I'll let my rehab officer know and we can try that next time I go out. Haven't got glasses yet, will definitely have to look into those, but I do have a phone so GPS could be really useful for now assuming I can actually get a decent signal from it. Again, worth a go.
I've always had support since day one, be that my mother or somebody I'm walking with. I had cane suppport at my primary school ages from year 5 onwards, and throughout the home I'm OK, but the outside world, I'll never ever be properly independent which sucks. As I have the epilepsy as well I need a carer 24/7 all year round. Looking after a dog? No way, I've got myself to look after as well, plus the dog, I'd probably forget to do something. I would hate forgetting to feed it or clean it etc. So always cane for me. Recently though I have got my meta smart glasses which are helping me along the way.
@TomGrant91 I do travel on my own, sometimes to quite far-flung places but I make sure I have assistance on the way, such as if I'm going by train, then I book via Passenger Assistance etc. If Uber, then I like to be met at the other end, usually because I have heavy equipment with me, that kind of thing. It's not always possible so it's very dependent on the situation I suppose.
@FreakyFwoof that's why I want to try it out, rather than going to London, say, then getting an Uber, then going back to Banbury. I am more interested in the driverless car stuff though
@FreakyFwoof @TomGrant91 I used to get taxis a lot myself. They took me to the wrong place once or twice though, so that kinda scared me away from them until I can be more independent at knowing where I am and where I'm going even in unknown scenarios, if that makes sense.
@FreakyFwoof @TomGrant91 Not sure where you are located but if something goes wrong then you can always ask someone for help. I tend to use Blindsquare a lot if I am in an Uber then I can work out which side of the road its likely to be and if the driver has dropped me off in relatively the right place.
@andrew @TomGrant91 BlindSquare has been my goto for years, yep. Partly because I did all the sounds for it, but also because I have a list of favourites with more than 300 places in it, I'm super-familiar with the interface and it's just hard to use something else.
Had pretty good spacial awareness and a lot of calm/confidence built up over years of learning firsthand that I always get to a place in the end even if I go a bit wiggly along the way. Post lockdowns, both were shot. The calm/confidence got hit harder than the awareness but that wasn't an immediately obvious ratio. Been restoring both gradually over the last little while, it took more practice than felt natural initially, but think I'm over the hump now. Still not back to where I used to be in terms of travel being just a thing I do without much thought though.
All that to ask, how often are you able to get out with the white whacker and how long are those walks at the moment?
@Scott Right now, only get out with rehab. And because I can't tell the difference between the path turning and me veering, and the fact that I need a shoreline to stay on a straight path, she doesn't think it will be easy to teach me so independent travel might not be possible. And then I'm thinking, surely others have this problem and know how to manage it safely... So yeah. Hence why I asked.
@Scott Well I do live on a road, so I actually thought there was quite a bit of traffic, but apparently that's mostly on another road that must be quite close by. The road I live on isn't actually that busy.
Have they tried describing what's coming up then you walk it? EG, there are 3 driveways, then a side road, then some railings, the turning you want is after those. This might seem like it's not making progress straight away because obviously rehab isn't gonna be around to audio describe your next 50 steps in advance all the time, but for now, it might help if you knew what the situation is each time the shoreline ends. You'll probably still drift around a bit, but knowing that you're goal is to get across the gap might help to resist the temptation to trace the shoreline no matter what.
@Scott I think my instinct is only that strong because I know without it I have that tendency to veer. So it's like, is this the path turning or is this me veering? And I never know unless they do describe it. And then when they say, don't turn here, I just can't seem to walk a straight line to the other side.
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Web Performance Calendar day 31 article 2/5: Keerthana Krishnan on making friends with Chrome DevTools and transforming it into a powerful tool for deep understanding, debugging, and improving of real-world web performance
Most developers open Chrome DevTools, check a couple of network requests, maybe refresh the page once or twice — and that's it.
I used to do the same.
Over time, DevTools became something else entirely for me.
ja dneska dojel garmin vyzvy, ktere mi chybely. 10km kolo venku s juniorem na snehu, to byla sranda a 55km doma na trenazeru, to me bolelo o trochu vic :)
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in reply to S1m • • •I always wanted to add push support to #Conversations_im. I think a federated instant messenger is a natural fit because you get the decentralization and the connection for free. And adding it to the messenger is also what Google did with gtalk.
So I was very happy that I found #UnifiedPush as a quasi standard when I finally got around to implement it.
Thank you for your for work!