1. No they won’t 2. They leave even when you don’t tax them 3. Things get better for most people when they leave 4. They say this so you won’t tax them
📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 5. Jänner, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
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This is the first science post of 2026, and hopefully I will be able to do more this year. The Holidays were great and very awesome.
Always remember, you matter and to always be kind.
Today we are gonna be talking about The Integrated Circuit.
An integrated circuit (IC) is a miniature electronic circuit in which thousands to billions of electronic components such as transistors, resistors, capacitors, and diodes-are fabricated onto a single small piece of semiconductor material, usually silicon. Instead of building circuits with separate components, an IC combines them into a single, compact, and efficient unit. Because everything is built onto a single chip, ICs are smaller, faster, more reliable, and more energy-efficient than circuits made from discrete components.
Wir freuen uns über das gelungene Interview "Hilfsmittel gemeinsam entwickeln – das Open-Source-Projekt OSKAR" von Christian Stahlberg vom Sightviews Podcast. Die Folge bietet eine gute Vorstellung und Überblick unserer Tätigkeiten. sightviews.de/316-oskar #make #blind #inklusion
OSKAR ist ein Open-Source-Projekt, das Hilfsmittel für blinde Menschen gemeinsam entwickelt und frei zugänglich macht. Baupläne, Software und Anleitungen stehen offen zur Verfügung und können angepasst und weiterentwickelt werden.
For a while, I have had to turn off VoiceOver speech on my phone at night, because VoiceOver shouts "100% charged" every few minutes once the battery is full. Since iOs 2026.2, I have to turn VoiceOver off completely, because under yet to be determined conditions, VoiceOver falls into a restart loop, turning on its speech, and reading out loud the screen contents. Apparently it briefly disables screen curtain as well, which doesn't bother me, but very much so my wife. Glad that Apple has such a swift track record in fixing accessibility bugs. /s
OK that's weird. I haven't heard of this or seen it, how are you charging? What phone? I'm running 17 Pro and 26.2 and Kirsten hasn't reported being woken up in the night from the screen. I wonder what's different?
@FreakyFwoof I am charging wirelessly. on a belcin 3 in 1 charger stand. But the restart loop happens also when its just iddle, not connected to anything. For the constant announcement for "100% charged," for a while, I suspected that I had accidentally told VoiceOver to watch the battery charge status cell on status bar, but its not that.
OK I just locked my phone. It's at 100% sitting on Apple Magsafe and it's connected to my mixer via USB-C 3.5MM. It's not saying or doing anything. I'm just trying to see if I can reproduce it.
@FreakyFwoof I can confirmed this happens to me too. I think VO is crashing because on my end, before saying the battery percentage, it says screen curtain on. What phone are you running? I'm on a 15 normal. My partner has a 16 and it doesn't happen to her.
@FreakyFwoof I wonder if it is software. Partner, despite working in the tech sector, refuses to update everything. Wouldn't surprise me if she was still on 26.0.
@FreakyFwoof @ysotomayor I was going to write about this very thing. For me it seems like it happens when getting notifications and sleep mode is active. I did actually recently set up my phone again for other reasons and it hasn't fixed it. I do use the focus sleep option and my next thing was turning that off.
@sapphireangel @FreakyFwoof @ysotomayor Its got so bad for me I turn off VoiceOver when I go to bed. I don't use screen curtain and I don't think the screen gets brighter for me. However whenever I receive a notification I get the name of the app spoken out as well as the battery charge status. I think this is only happening for me during sleep focus times but need to do more testing on that.
It definitely turns out to be so. I sleep with airpod(s) in to reduce noise. I also read a book before sleep. This enables the phone to very effectively disrupt my sleep with its notification soup. @andrew @sapphireangel @FreakyFwoof @ysotomayor
@jscholes @andrew @sapphireangel @ysotomayor Um, in the focus settings, my sleep and DND enable at the same time and none of them have that so-called 'Intelligent Breakthrough' mode switched on. Could it be that? I see no need.
@FreakyFwoof I also charge overnight on a MagSafe three in one charger and I'm also hearing these announcements, I don't hear it when it's plugged in with a USB cable however
@FreakyFwoof I played with the idea to actually set up my phone from scratch, but configuring everything again the way I like, including my automations sounds fun only in theory.
Totally agree. This drives me bananas! I have to turn off speech each night, and you're absolutely right that half the time it just restarts and comes back with speech on and screen courtain off. So infuriating. #a11y
@sinabahram Indeed. While the first VO crash and restart can sometimes take hours, if I sleepily then reach over, and mute the sleep again, the next restart and sleep comeback happens precisely when I manage to drift back to sleep. To their credit, this aggressive sleep killer works better than the standard 9 minute snooze on iOs alarms, but I prefer to use it by choice.
Don't believe those who loudly claim email can not avoid metadata! They are ignorant of our continuous works on minimizing metadata:
DONE:
- no phone number other identifying data needed - no cleartext "Subject" - no cleartext "To" - randomized "Date" - no IP addresses - group/avatar/attachment/etc metadata only contained in encrypted message parts
Upcoming:
- servers to never see cryptographic ID metadata - remove "threading" and auxilliary headers - experiment with Sealed Sender
I think emails should be remade from scratch. They are too old and have trust in too much stuff. We need a newer and better protocol that still feels like email, but encrypts everything and doesn't allow spoofing.
@SkyLuke This is basically what we do with chatmail.at/ setups. Only encrypted messages are allowed, the clients encrypt everything (Subject, To, Date etc. using rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9788.htm…). Transport encryption using TLS >=1.2 is enforced, clients use TLS 1.3. Spoofing is not possible because of strict DKIM requirement (no legacy mechanisms like SPF, no probabilistic spam filtering).
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Yes, but my college email is from Google... Not much I can do... I can use other services for personal use. Also, literally, if a service can just provide semantic search for emails, without generative ai crap, just similarity search in a high dimensional encoding space, and it runs in my computer with a really small open source model, that would be perfect. I know I could do it myself, but it is another side project...
That is just a suggestion for you guys. Do semantic search in a private conscious way. There is no need for expansive crappy text generation on top, just the semantic search and sorting by similarities. My cellphone does this even offline for settings. So it is probably something the client can do just fine.
If the unencrypted Date header is more than a few hours off, it is likely to be blocked as spam. Randomly skewing it by up to 1800 seconds in either direction should be safe. Changing the time zone to grossly mismatch the geoIP is probably unwise, though +0000 is fine.
I suspect you're trying to make your headers super generic with all the important and identifiable aspects (and metadata) in the encrypted body. That's a good move, just be careful about spam filters.
heheh, aattelin suojata nextcloud-tiedostojaon salasanalla. ei mitään turhan monimutkaista, kun tää ei ole mikään topsecret-juttu, lähinnä sloppaajien estämiseksi.
valitsin salasanaksi FuckUSA. nextcloud ilmoittaa, että salasana on miljoonan yleisimmän joukossa, valitse joku vaikeampi :D
The Indonesian discourse over dogs is really disgusting and despicable. They’re willing to haramize an entire species just because the saliva is haram. They’re willing to ignore hadiths and surahs saying dogs are friends and guardians, and tales about heavenly rewards for feeding starving dogs, all just because they can’t be fucked to use water and soap.
The Quran actually advised Muslims to consume meat from an animal caught by dogs trained to hunt because it’s meant for consumption. And yet people have gone out of their way to pretend the verse didn’t mention dogs when it specifically does.
As an outsider who doesn't understand this very well, why do you think that is? I guess what I'm asking is, is this a proxy for something else or is there a good reason why things got that way?
Since 10 years, i am also doing this weird thing where my mobile is mostly offline, only using WIFI here and there, but i am going to more often leave devices completely at home. It's really crazy how much this once normal situation is like a super-big deal these days.
I agree that it’s very different to be out and about without a phone. Reading this blog post is weird though. It sounds like an alcoholic who is so happy to go on a cruise without any alcohol.
I agree that it’s very different to be out and about without a phone. Reading this blog post is weird though. It sounds like an alcoholic who is so happy to go on a cruise without any alcohol.
Seit ca. fünf Jahren nutzen wir hier u.a. eine Uhr namens "Zeitgeist" (von www.caretec.at). Heute fiel mir auf, dass das Ding eine fehlerhafte Wochentagsberechnungsformel hat: Laut "Zeitgeist" sind wir seit Montag in der KW 53. Das stimmt aber nicht: Da heute (01.01.26) Donnerstag ist, sind wir definitionsgemäß in der KW 1; bin gespannt, ob "Zeitgeist" am Montag einfach in Woche 2 hüpft oder dann eine Woche hinterherläuft.
Wird die KW1 immer so benannt, egal wann der 1. Januar innerhalb dieser Woche ist, oder gibt es da quasi eine Grenze, wenn z.B. der 1. Januar auf einen Samstag oder Sonntag fällt? Weil vergangene Woche ja definitiv keine volle Januar-Woche war, sondern diese Woche die erste volle Januar-Woche ist.
@marcozehe Die ISO-Norm sieht vor: KW 1 ist diejenige Woche, in der der 1. Donnerstag eines Jahres liegt; wieder anders gesagt: Der 4. Januar ist immer in der KW 1 (ergebit sich aus der erstgenannten Definition). Anfang 2027 wird dann also der 1. Januar, Freitag, in KW 53 sein. Denn KW-Nummerierungen betreffen immer ganze Wochen.
@marcozehe Wie Aleksander schon schrieb, für uns, und gemäß ISO 8601, ist es die erste Woche mit vier oder mehr Tagen im neuen Jahr.
Für unter anderem Nordamerika ist es die Woche mit dem 1. Januar. Weil da die Woche mit Sonntag anfängt, ergeben sich Diskrepanzen für Wochentage nur im Fall von Freitag als Neujahrstag, wie 2027 der Fall sein wird.
I chose Tuta five years ago as a first step to de-google (not relying on Google services). Tuta also provides a free email, and the apps can be downloaded on F-Droid
chose tuta because of the convenience, the availability of official apps on all desktop platforms even with free subscription. And because of Proton's tendance to mégaloma ( Big tech tendance) they want to be on all aspects of tech that sounds too creepy for me! Do one thing and do it well! Don't try to do everything.
I switched from a t.online adress I had for ages to tuta and upgraded to paid version a few month ago, and there is nothing to regret. Works beautifully and the app is even on FDroid available. No spam anymore, love it!
encrypted mailbox and good pricing. Also use other services that offer a mailbox in addition to other things, and thought it’d be good not to have all eggs in one basket so to speak
I chose Tuta for stable native Linux mail client (and Mac/win/iOS/android), but most of all because of your great communications work with blog and social media pro European and/or independent software and digital services.
I was looking for a private email provider. I tried Proton, but between the owner's political statements and the inclusion of an AI chat project, I went looking elsewhere. That's when I found Tuta.
I chose Tuta because you truly prioritize privacy, no empty marketing promises. Your transparency, active community engagement, and EU roots make you stand out. Big respect for your team and the values you uphold!!
The bottle look so cute ^^! I chose Tuta because... Well, because what would I choose otherwise? I value myself and my data, so after a quick research I found out that Proton didn't suit me at all, but Tuta is a lovely platform that I am pleased to use everyday!
We have two accounts. One is free and the other is a paid Revolutionary plan. We have eliminated Apple and Google from our digital lives. We have always avoided Microsoft like the plague. We chose Tuta because it is simple, clear and, above all, it works. Unlike others, Tuta truly guarantees privacy and security. Bravi ! !
Been using Tutanota for well over 5 years at this point, mostly because of the privacy and overall security aspect. I've stuck around because of the company ethos, features, and awesome pricing!
My tuta address is only known by a limited number of trusted people, so unlike in my other non-gmail box no spam. De-google my family calendar is "work in progress" ... 😉
That's an easy one: I just wanted a good mail provider that didn't break the bank or pull me into its oversized ecosystem. No overly fancy gimmicks, tries their best, and continues to help privacy and Open Source alike.
because tuta has the best encryption amongs other email providers and because of their zero knowladge policy (for example tuta encrypta the header of the email, witch others don't)
porque la política está convirtiendo la tecnología en un sistema de control y explotación de las personas, al que deberíamos intentar no someternos voluntariamente.
I chose Tuta because I really believe that post-quantum encryption is important for all the digital services we use today and I really like the Tuta community ❤️
Stelle gerade genervt und enttäuscht fest dass Podigee die Kapitelmarken verfälscht wenn man automatisch ein Intro einfügen lässt. Auphonic selbst erkennt das und verschiebt die Zeitmarken. Kann doch nicht der einzige mit dem Problem sein.
Nope bist Du nicht, unter anderem deshalb bin ich auch von Podigee zu LetsCast.fm gewechselt und mache das in Auphonic alles wieder selber und vor allem richtig. Außerdem ist es deutlich günstiger, für die Größe, die ich habe und das, was ich brauche. Ich lasse das Podigee jetzt auslaufen und verlängere es nicht.
I’m getting a ton of spam on Mastodon. On the Jabber/XMPP side of things, we are doing a lot behind the scenes to combat it that regular users might not even notice.
I hope the people behind the scenes of Mastodon are working on similar things.
An open source instant messaging client. Easy to use, reliable, battery friendly. With built-in support for e2e encryption, group chats and media transfer.
I also received Spam in the Fediverse. From multiple servers, large and small. The topic is important as the Fediverse will scale and complicated because of the implied decentralized nature of it. Hence, I expected a thoughtful discussion and comparison of existing work, work in progress, current research questions and transferrable work between the two protocols.
What did I get: Absolutely thought free, cheap instances of tu quoque and demonstrations of incompetence about the subject being discussed. Do better.
Which brings us to one the most important tools to combat spam in the Fediverse at the moment: The block function.
Ich bin Fan vom Känguru und „VIEWS“ ist auch wirklich sehr gut.
Ich frage mich, ob Marc-Uwe Kling (@marcuwekling ) der Sache nicht mehr geholfen hätte, wenn er angekündigt hätte, ab morgen ausschließlich im #Fediverse zu posten.
Die meisten Nutzer folgen dem Content und nicht komplizierten moralischen Appellen.
In die aktuelle Situation sind wir aber auch gekommen, weil man sich als Nutzer keine Gedanken drum gemacht hat. Alles andere wäre wieder Bevormundung des Nutzers - der wiederum wäre verärgert wenn er es nicht versteht.
Gebe aber auch zu dass ich ein viel zu rational denkender Mensch bin und gefühlt viel zu viel Verständnis habe
Aus eigener Erfahrung würde ich sagen, dass ein zu aprupter Wechsel selten von langfristigem Erfolg gekrönt ist...ich denke, wenn einige neue Nutzer hier (zeitweilig parallel) ihre Zelte aufschlagen, sollten wir ihnen einen möglichst warmen Übergang ermöglichen... * es benötigt auch etwas eigene investierte Zeit, dieses Netzwerk besser zu verstehen und diesen "Mehraufwand" können wir nur anteilig mit Usability-Attraktivität wettmachen...
I wrote Zig bindings to quickjs-ng with 96% API coverage (~240 exported C decls) with unit tests, examples, and doc strings on all functions in less than 6 total hours with AI assistance. I never want to hear that AI isn't faster ever again. github.com/mitchellh/zig-quick…
This isn't slop. I worked for those 6 hours.
I was reviewing everything it outputted, updating my AGENTS.md to course correct future work, ensuring the output was idiomatic Zig, writing my own tests on the side to verify its work (while it worked), and more. My work was split across ~40 separate Amp threads (not one mega session, which doesn't work anyways unless you're orchestrating).
I have a ton of experience writing bindings to libraries for various languages, especially Zig. I have never achieved this much coverage in so little time with such high quality (e.g. test coverage). My usual approach is to get bind just-enough of the surface area to do my actual work and move on. This time I thought I'd draw the whole owl, because it's a new world. And I'm very happy with the result.
Anyone with experience writing bindings knows that you do some small surface area, then the rest of the coverage is annoying repetition. That's why I usually stopped. Well, LLMs/agents are really, really good at annoying repetition and pattern matching. So going from 5% API coverage to 95% is... cake.
There is probably some corners that are kind of nasty still, but I've been re-reviewing every line of code manually and there is nothing major. Definitely some areas that can just use a nicer Zig interfaces over the C API, but that's about it.
I plan on writing a longer form blog showcasing my threads, but you can at least see the final AGENTS.md I produced in the linked repo.
Mastodon desde el Administratum. Tenemos la calefacción puesta como siempre y aun así se nota que hoy no es que el grajo vuele bajo, es que se ha metido bajo tierra el muy.
Da vergüenza ajena que Pedro Sánchez sea incapaz de publicar su propio comunicado de condena a la invasión americana sin tener a un grupo de países al lado, como da vergüenza ajena que haya tenido que unirse al comunicado latinoamericano porque ningún otro país de la UE es capaz de criticar a los EE.UU. como sí hicieron con la invasión de Iraq.
🧵 We moved from Google Cloud to Hetzner and cut infrastructure costs by 80%. Here's what I learned:
Same workloads, same reliability, actually better performance for our use case. Main thing we lost: 47 GCP console screens to find a simple setting.
GCP isn't bad - it's powerful and right for many cases. But somewhere the industry decided "real" companies must use hyperscalers. That's marketing, not engineering.
@Tutanota [1/2] I was using tuta mail. It was logged into the tuta app on my phone. Whenever I open the tuta app it automatically takes me to the inbox. I was also able to access it from the web too. But from the day before yesterday I was not able to login, it shows "invalid credentials".I tried many times carefully checking my credentials but I am not able to login. Also it does not login to my app automatically anymore. It was my primary email for official communication attached with many org
Marp (also known as the Markdown Presentation Ecosystem) provides an intuitive experience for creating beautiful slide decks. You only have to focus on writing your story in a Markdown document.
Hi. I apologize in advance if my account becomes somewhat political. I am Venezuelan, and I want to talk about what is happening in my country. I will do so from my own beliefs and political position. I am open to debate and to clarifying doubts for anyone who has them.
However, I am not open to insults, disrespect of any kind, or being called a traitor to my country. I only accept respectful dialogue here, and I thank in advance anyone who chooses to engage in that spirit.
Acabadico Babel, de Kuang. Uf, me ha flipado, genuinamente, me parece una maravilla de novela. sí, tiene sus cosas, como que la narradora es demasiado obvia a veces y tiene a explicar demasiado, confiando demasiado poco en el lector.
PERO, aún así, me ha flipado toda la novela de cabo a rabo. En tema, estilo y estructura. En general no leo libros tan largos (aunque ahora van a venir varios tochos seguidos...) y me imponía bastante. Sin embargo, me lo he bebido. Lo comencé el día 1, viajando a casapadres en tren, y me lo he acabado esta tarde.
Me encanta como el conocimiento de un campo muy concreto, la traducción, puede acabar no solo siendo un sistema de magia, sino un sistema de poder y relaciones. Que el propio sistema de magia que plantea sea en sí los vacíos del lenguaje... Mira, me flipa.
También es de los pocos sistemas de magia que he visto que, de verdad, está ahí para reforzar la trama y su mensaje anticolonial.
Me gustó muchísimo también; y la forma en que se sistematiza la traducción como un recurso a utilizar y explotar es muy interesante. Personalmente, también hice una lecutra secundaria que no sé si es porque yo siempre pienso en estas cosas, o porque realmente estaba ahí; pero el tema de la centralización, de como se controlaba la traducción desde un solo centro y así había que renovar la suscripción de vez en cuando, me recordó un montón a todo el tema de la nube y el software como servicio; y el status de los traductores me hizo pensar en la posición de los estratos técnicos (ingenieros, arquitectos...), con privilegios materiales pero explotados y reproduciendo el sistema.
Ayer un señor me ayudó a subir al tren, me buscó asiento, me puso la mano en la cabeza y me dijo "que Dios te bendiga". Y Dios me bendijo. Y ahora no sé qué hacer con la bendición. ¿A alguien más le pasa? ¿Cómo se vive estando bendecido? Es que no estoy usando bien la bendición o algo, porque los problemas que tengo son los mismos y no he notado ningún cambio.
@modulux @Nahir Bueno, la bendicióhn de Dios no pesa. A mi no me molestaría. Alguna vez me lo han hecho. Otra cuestión es cuando se meten en movidas de "eres ciego porque..." Ahí ya si saco las garras. Pero por un deseo de bendición... Con suerte funciona y consigo más hitroll o SAVE VS Spells. :P
In 1980 the United States led a boycott of the Olympic games in Moscow due to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. Sixty countries joined the boycott.
The 2026 World Cup is mostly in the United States.
🥶 Výpočetní středisko *Jih* hlásí -16 °C. Můj skoro veterán nestartuje, takže vařím ☕ a houmrofficuju. Ale stejně budu muset do korpu nějak zajet... Tak keep ☕, bando.
A new day, and a new accessible Telegram client for Windows, TAccess. TAccess is a custom Telegram client built with Python and wxPython, specifically designed to be fully accessible for screen reader users (NVDA, JAWS, Narrator) on Windows. github.com/mlapps88/t-access-a…
TAccess v1.0.0 - First Public Release
We are proud to present the first stable release of TAccess, an accessible Telegram client designed from the ground up for efficiency and ease of use with scre...
@JamminJerry LOL - maybe. But my main concern is the flurry of Python/wxPython apps that have popped up over the past few weeks, mostly vibe-coded. Vibe-coding isn’t necessarily bad, but it often doesn’t follow clean, well-established development standards. By installing such apps, we tacitly accept that we may be subject to all kinds of expected—and not so expected—issues. Now I'm not saying this particular app is vibe-coded. But these days whenever I hear Python/wxPython, I may cringe a bit.
Also, I find it weird that its on Github, but only the releases the code isn't actually there. like it kinda defeats the purpose of putting it up on GH IMO.
@serrebi Well, if anything, I'd really like to see your RSS reader succeed. It's still a bit resource-hungry here to be honest. But the idea of a fully accessible, full-text RSS reader is always enticing.
When does it use high resources. I'm not seeing it. I have 18 cores though, so maybe that's why. I care about this though. This is one of the reasons my format was a blessing, because now I have a clean slower machine to test on.
@serrebi Let me try your latest build then for a more accurate picture and report. I'm waiting for you to add the PR there about the full-text module excluding the first paragraph on some websites.
@serrebi The latest versions should be significantly more optimized in this regard. I also experienced performance issues with Blind RSS, even on powerful hardware, which is why I tried to improve it—I hope successfully. 🙂
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