"I will never use Flatpaks because I have to type `flatpak run com.example.Application`. It's insane Flatpak developers don't change it!"
Except you can add `/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin` to your $PATH. This way, you can type `com.example.Application` in your terminal, dmenu, everywhere. Also if you aren't using completions and insist on doing everything in the terminal, you have bigger problems.
Shout out to the Evil Skeleton (@TheEvilSkeleton) , who blogged about this 3 years ago. tesk.page/2022/09/28/what-not-…
What Not to Recommend to Flatpak Users
Whenever I browse through the web, I find many “tips and tricks” from various blog writers, YouTubers and others who recommend users to take steps that either they aren’t supposed to, or have better alternatives.TheEvilSkeleton
Für ein KI-generiertes Gerichtsgutachten gibt es kein Geld
Ein Sachverständiger in einem Zivilprozess fordert Vergütung für ein Gutachten. Das Landgericht lehnt ab: Das Gutachten sei KI-generiert und damit unbrauchbar.Legal Tribune Online
I don't think you should be able to claim your (macos) app is accessible with a screen reader if I have to learn app specific keyboard combos to effectively navigate to read things that a sighted mouse user would just click and scroll to find.
Tonight's frustration culprit: Discord. Which to be honest I find pretty bafflingly bad visually as well.
GitHub - AndyMik90/Auto-Claude: Autonomous multi-session AI coding
Autonomous multi-session AI coding. Contribute to AndyMik90/Auto-Claude development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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RESEARCHStarting phase 6: CONTEXT DISCOVERYStarting phase 7: SPEC DOCUMENT CREATION05:00:13 PMAPI Error: 401 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"authentication_error","message":"Invalid bearer token"},"request_id":"XXX"} · Please run /login05:00:15 PMAPI Error: 401 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"authentication_error","message":"Invalid bearer token"},"request_id":"XXX"} · Please run /login05:00:17 PMAPI Error: 401 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"authentication_error","message":"Invalid bearer token"},"request_id":"XXX"} · Please run /loginPhase 'spec_writing' failed: Attempt 1: Agent did not create spec.md; Attempt 2: Agent did not create spec.md; Attempt 3: Agent did not create spec.md05:00:17 PMPhase spec_writing failed
Opin vasta pari päivää sitten, että hunsvotti tarkoittaa koiranvittua, enkä voi olla enää ajattelematta sitä.
Tai siis, hunsvotti on lainattu saksasta koiranvittua tarkoittavasta sanasta, mutta merkitykset toki muuttuvat ajan myötä.
The anti-commercial bias in much countercultural and activist thought is self-defeating by design, and is actually a product of internalized bourgeois ideology.
Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class gave us terms like conspicuous consumption and conspicuous waste.
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Strivers, hucksters, hustlers, workers, and self-promoters are seen as low-class, as their activity proves they lack what they need.
This ideology is internalized by everyone.
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But building movements requires resources.
If we look down on the activities needed to secure them, we only disempower ourselves.
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what about virtuous rich communities tho, don't we want everyone to be rich? How do we do that?
no such thing, no, we do not.
my version of we wants:
everyone to contribute meaningfully without the unknown, unseen suffering of others. in a global context. no cheap chinese goods made by slave labor, no dumping toxic waste for indian children to sort through, no oppression anywhere for the convenience of any one, at all.
it is the work of generations. generations of colonial exploitation built and continue to reify the current unjust systems, locally and globally.
our inheritances (you and i and every human who will see this conversation) include debts to others. to those who physically construct the digital tools we use, to those who have less clean water and more polluted air to support our lifestyles, to the nonhuman living world that has been destroyed and continues to be mined and clear cut and mutilated for our daily life to continue.
honorably making amends is our entire life's work.
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accepting our responsibility to work, of proactive reciprocity, and then doing that work is how we have a virtuous life.
richness in community, in living in harmony with the humans and nonhuman world locally, in the love with share, in expanding our capacity to love... in recognizing the abundance in existence, wallowing in the pleasure of service to the life all around us.
this is my favorite framing at the moment:
theecologist.org/2025/may/28/p…
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'The praxis of reciprocity'
A review of The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance by Robin Wall Kimmerer.The Ecologist
i'm not sure what you mean by anti-commercial. commerce, like profiteering and the stock market, i work against. trading goods and services with informed consent in a just, regulated system? i am for.
adverts forced and snuck into daily life, i am against. adverts where folks go looking to buy things, in and around market places, i am for.
capitalist-extractive practices, i work against. worker-driven practices, i support. a fully informed and consent based supply chain, with just practices, i work for.
serving the needs of a community through labor (services / production) is often commerce.
the enslaved humans doing forced labor in china i refer to: (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang…)
what do mean without? adverts, is what i mean by marketing. places for sales is what i mean by market place. we have newspaper delivery four days a week and there are adverts there, where our community expects them to be.
without money? why would we stop using currency? the market places in my city use money, in both brick and mortar and pop-up markets (we have both a weekly "farmers" market that pops-up / blocks out a portion of the parking area in one of ours and a monthly speciality vending event).
workplaces... ? i've lived in a few different cities and states in the u.s. and all have human-owned (non publicly traded) workplaces, most have co-ops, some worker owned.
i have no interest in colonizing a "greater population". i am invested in serving my local community... in buying from and selling to humans i am accountable to and who i hold to account.
edit: it is a process of generations to shift from exploitation to informed consent. doing the work, is the work of my life.
activists that i know and counter-culture folks working for system change are not anti-commercial, they are anti-capitalist, anti-exploitation. they are paying a living wage to service workers and using collective non-hierarchal models, buying from consignment and resale shops and new books from human owned bookstores or indiebound.org.
they don't build a business to cash out to chains and live off the profits (which harms the community). mastodon for example... is moving to a nonprofit model instead of being sold to a media company.
i guess if i'm understanding your thread, i'm hoping to shift your framework towards incremental prosocial change as a viable option for making one's living.
@melioristicmarie well, technically what you are describing is not outside of capitalism, but for sure more social, less exploitative practices is the goal.
However growth is also a factor, especially if the goal is supporting all humans.
You mention Mastadon, currently my favourite social platform despite my technical concerns, however it's import to understand that Facebook acquires more users every couple of weeks than Mastadon has in total, in all it's history, it's growth rates and daily usage rates trail facebook by even worse margins. Mastadon employs, maybe, a couple of hundred people world wide. Facebook employs 10s of thousands.
This is important.
Of course, Mastadon is not the best example, since it's not really selling anything, but I in general projects that avoid scale struggle to become engines of change, and in the end, many people just decide that liberating everyone is too hard, and they're ok just having things they like. But the risk is that slips into lifestylism, not an engine for change, just a privileged cul-d-sac, sheltering some lucky communards from the storm, often temporarily.
british empire, pro-colonization sort of thinking? one idea is the best for a fictional universal human? so better to subjugate all for their own good, patriarchy?
i can see better why your original toot had a burke's peerage flavor of leisure as a signal for wealth... the whole breeding program system definition of landlords and such.
i do not believe that any person can know what any is best for a person in another part of world. i believe informed consent is the only moral interaction method, and in a person's right to self-determination.
facebook is an marketing site based on deception. i studied it in grad school. it is a social harm, not a pro social system.
i prefer small and honest over authoritarian paternalism.
your theoretical framing seems to be that there is a right way for people to be better off, and if one could just spread that right way over all people, for their own good, all people would be fine.
i recoil at this universalism.
@melioristicmarie I've been discussing peer production, free software, decentralization, etc for decades and am often cited by people and communities working on these topics. What are you asking me exactly?
Here are some slides on a presentation of mine about facebook specifically.
earlier you stated that facebook was a preferred platform to mastodon due to the number of new account sign-ups.
i am asking what you understand to be the difference between them, other than new account sign-up.
from my perspective (also a researcher and co-author in a.c.m. conferences who has been cited for my work on facebook), i understand them to be fundamentally different.
my example of the transfer of mastodon "ownership" to a nonprofit was to cite a case where selling out for the benefit of the creator at the expense of the community was the path not chosen. an example of a prosocial business transition model.
"...it's import to understand that Facebook acquires more users every couple of weeks than Mastadon has in total, in all it's history, it's growth rates and daily usage rates trail facebook by even worse margins. Mastadon employs, maybe, a couple of hundred people world wide. Facebook employs 10s of thousands.
This is important.
Of course, Mastadon is not the best example, since it's not really selling anything, but I in general projects that avoid scale struggle to become engines of change, and in the end, many people just decide that liberating everyone is too hard, and they're ok just having things they like. But the risk is that slips into lifestylism, not an engine for change, just a privileged cul-d-sac, sheltering some lucky communards from the storm, often temporarily."
specifically, you seem to be suggesting that an engine of change needs to scale. i disagree.
"that" ? the slides are... not academic, or related to my question. i'm not sure why you lean on them as an artifact in this conversation.
is scalability your metric of success?
i disagree. your position is colonial in nature.
that one person or group believes they have a solution for any person or group outside a community in which they are a member, from my position, is immoral.
Accessibility isn't just about compliance, it makes email better for everyone.
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Email Accessibility: A Guide to Inclusive Communication
Unlock the power of inclusive communication with our guide to Email Accessibility. Learn essential tips and strategies to ensure email accessibility.Casandra Visser (AccessibilityChecker)
The doctor tells the man to bring his wife in so he can talk to her.
So the wife comes into the doctors office and the doctor asks her what's wrong and why doesn't she want to have sex with her husband anymore.
The wife tells him. "For the past 6 months, every morning I take a cab to work. I don't have any money, so the cab driver asks me. 'So are you going to pay today or what?' so I take a 'or what'. When I get to work I'm late so the boss asks me, 'So are we going to write this down in the book or what?' so I take a 'or what'. Back home again I take the cab and again I don't have any money so the cab driver asks me again, 'So are you going to pay this time or what?' so again I take a 'or what'. So you see doc when I get home I'm all tired out and I don't want it any more."
The doctor thinks for a second and then turns to the wife and says "So are we going to tell your husband or what?" 🤣
The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility — The Inclusive Lens xogium.me/the-text-mode-lie-wh… #Accessibility #CLI #TUI
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Update: Office has not been renamed to, "Microsoft 365 Copilot App"
Like everyone else on the internet Microsoft also has us confused.
Thanks to @tomwarren we now understand what's changing.
You can find out here: theverge.com/tech/856149/micro…
No, Microsoft didn’t rebrand Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft’s Office website is confusing the internet. Despite lots of posts, Microsoft hasn’t rebranded Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot.Tom Warren (The Verge)
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Code is a liability (not an asset); and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/100…
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No, Microsoft didn’t rebrand Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot
Microsoft’s Office website is confusing the internet. Despite lots of posts, Microsoft hasn’t rebranded Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot.Tom Warren (The Verge)
✏️ 5 accessibility checks to run on every component zeroheight.com/blog/5-accessib…
I guest-posted on zeroheight's blog about accessibility of components!
(note: WCAG compliance is claimed on full pages/processes only)
5 accessibility checks to run on every component - zeroheight
Hidde de Vries explains how to test components for accessibility, from keyboard support to screen readers and zoom.zeroheight.com
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This one is a bit specific, but who knows. For the Dutch techies in the energy sector, Alliander is looking for an Open Source Specialist! ⚡
#fedihire #fossjobs #getfediHired
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Vacature s Energietransitie - Werken bij Alliander
Draag bij aan de energietoekomst van Nederland. Een baan in de techniek, IT, op kantoor of thuis. Werken bij Alliander. Bekijk de vacatures.Werken bij Alliander
How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026?
anildash.com/2026/01/05/a-tech…
How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026? - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.Anil Dash
Do you know someone who quietly makes the Django community better every day? Or maybe that someone is you? 👀✨
The Django Software Foundation appoints Individual Members to recognize contributions of all kinds: code, docs, reviews, teaching, events, community care, and more 💚
You can nominate someone you admire or self-nominate (yes, really!) 🙌
Members list: 🤗
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Nominate here: ✅
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DSF Membership Nomination
Individual Members are appointed by the DSF in recognition of their service to the Django community. They are added to the members-only forum and Discord channel, vote in our elections, and otherwise participate in Django community discussions.Google Docs
#IzzyOnDroid is about community. That's why we don't want our #FOSDEM visit to be just about us, but also about all the amazing apps that make IzzyOnDroid so great.
Do you have an app that's available on IzzyOnDroid? Bring some stickers with you to FOSDEM and drop them off at our booth! We'll make sure to display them so your users can pick some up!
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A levnější něž kupovat tablet, který jinak nevyužiju.
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Under occupation they would ensure Americans got.
Universal healthcare
Fairer wages + lower income inequality
Paid parental leave
Bike-friendly cities
Free college options
Fewer work hours
Reliable public transportation
Stronger social safety net
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#Denmark #USA #USpol #Politics
RE: mastodon.social/@Tutanota/1158…
Microsoft just turned all Office users into AI users. Lmao. It’s now called the "Microsoft 365 Copilot" app. Get ready for fee increases and having your data opted into training by default with confusing settings. Enshittification has peaked.
I cancelled my Zoom subscription today.
Not for some higher reason, but the client I used it with mostly before is switching to Google Meet (yeah…) and so I am looking into alternatives.
I’ll probably do @OpenTalkMeeting as it is hosted in Germany and has fun functionality like the talking stick and coffee breaks. Also half the price for a year.
docs.opentalk.eu/25.4/user/en/…
docs.opentalk.eu/25.4/user/en/…
@marcozehe Dial-in by phone is certainly listed as a feature. I’d rather have a dedicated app instead of a browser-based solution, but apparently I’m alone in that. What will be annoying is no Calendar integration (Fantastical).
opentalk.eu/en/product/feature…
OpenTalk - features and functions of the video conferencing solution
The open source video conferencing solution OpenTalk combines scalability, productivity, digital sovereignty and data protection with a modern and secure IT system architecture.OpenTalk
Bahnfahren leichter gemacht: Erste Stufe der Online-Buchung für Menschen mit Schwerbehindertenausweis jetzt live – BSVH
Seit Kurzem ist die erste Stufe der Online-Buchbarkeit bei der Deutschen Bahn für Menschen mit Schwerbehindertenausweis und Merkzeichen B freigeschaltet. Bei der Online-Ticketbuchung (z. B. über den DB Navigator oder auf bahn.www.bsvh.org
It’s that time of year again to look at your calendar like Marie Kondo and ask:
“Does (this (meeting) spark joy?”
If not: try to cancel or shorten it.

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in reply to Trafotin • • •is *that* seriously what people are naming as the reason why they don't ever want to use Flatpak?
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