Are you going to be at FOSDEM next week? I am apparently giving 3 talks there, so there you go, you have 3 reasons to go now, too! Hope to see you there:
This is a great piece on how SpaceX's rockets and their Starlink satelites put passenger planes at risk. It's yet another example on why #SpaceX is cancer and needs to die already.
The FAA predicted Elon Musk’s Starship would cause “minor or minimal” disruption. Then the rockets exploded twice in three months over busy airspace. Flight data reveals how many planes scrambled to protect passengers and avoid burning debris.
Americký prezident ve švýcarském Davosu vystoupil před světovými byznysovými i politickými lídry. V hodinovém projevu ale při několika příležitostech poměrně laxně pracoval s fakty.
Přinášíme výběr ověřených výroků z projevu amerického prezidenta v Davosu. Trump například chválil své úspěchy na domácí půdě a mylně naznačil, že USA v minulosti vlastnily Grónsko.
Lyft driver says full time drivers don't want to pick people up if there's a risk the passenger is drunk or whatever because now they require you prove you got your car detailed after someone pukes in your car. They lock you out of driving for at least 72 hours
I agree with this wholeheartedly. We shouldn't create European versions of Google, Amazon or Microsoft, oligopols that benefit from vendor lock-in. Instead, we should have a commons based on open-source technology and standards, which can then be used to develop solutions for customers. And let the competition flourish. In my opinion, that is in our European DNA.
Why there’s no European Google?
And why it is a good thing!
My answer to the European Commission "call for evidence on Open Source."
https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html
#geminiprotocol link: gemini://ploum.
I don't send many emails anymore. I receive emails but I don't send many. Even at work, most of our communication is done via other means. But I do generate at least one email a day to send to a group of external testers. I don't send this from a traditional mail client. Instead it is a shell script that gathers some information and opens a text editor to add further comments. After that the file is sent with #cURL, via smtp. That means that curl is my main mail client (at least for sending). 🤔
I do appreciate all the work the EU has done with regulatory work around data sovereignty and the DMA. But they would still be gigafucked if the US ordered Amazon, Google, and Microsoft to cut them off. They may not even have the encryption keys accessible entirely in the EU. The fact that their data physically resides in Europe don't mean shit if a US corp can kill their whole infrastructure with a single command to lock their accounts.
-why is everyone freaking out over the forecasted snow storm?
Our state has very little of the infrastructure needed to deal with a large amount of snow or extended cold weather.
-why are the grocery stores empty?
Everyone is scared they will be stuck at home with no power, no water, and no hope that the government will be willing to help.
-why all the milk and bread?
I honestly do not know. Me and mine have 2 weeks of shelf stable things to munch on but we have the privilege to be prepared, most of the state are unable to afford their basic needs day to day and cannot adequately prepare for things like this.
- why does your government suck?
"Rugged individualim for some, gut wrenching poverty for most." Is the motto of the GOP whom have a super majority in our legislature. They are currently actively campaigning to defund libraries, public schools, and county services because "it's not nice to make rich people pay taxes" or something.
As stupid shit posts of a repo goes this might be the best I've made in a long time.
Presenting the Self Deleting Repo.
When opened in vs code or zed it immediately deletes its self. (at least if you have the rust plug in installed)
I've also added agent instructions that might make the agent delete it but I don't have any of the ai tools installed to see if that part actually works.
New brain rot successfully unlocked by using ChatGPT and other similar AI tools. Over many millennia evolution helped you develop critical thinking skills and you are giving that all away chasing some fools' dreams who think you can do better things in life without money or work. At the end of the day, you will have neither.
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …
iMessage on Windows, Android, or Linux? BlueBubbles on a Mac makes it possible. And it might not be as tricky as you think, if you use Tailscale to hook everything up securely. tailscale.com/blog/bluebubbles…
To the #Tailscale people, is it possible to run that thing portable on a Windows device, e.g. I run it, it routes my traffic, but when I turn it off and delete the file everything is back to normal, no registered service or any other requirements that could be restricted/detected somehow?
I'm know almost nothing about tailscale besides being a very low-level user, but would having one of the small routers which support tailscale, just for example, one of the routers from gl.inet, connected via USB ethernet to the machine on which you don't want to install anything not work? Your normal connections would go through the computers normal internet connection. Your 100.x.x.x connections, as well as connections to any subnet through a subnet node, would go through the gl.inet router. If you want all your traffic to run through tailscale, you disconnect the computer's normal internet connection and have an exit node set up for the connection through the small router. Again, if you want to connect to just one or a small number of machines on your tailnet and their services, would tailscale funnel not work?
@techsinger Yeah it's mainly about remote control from a pretty restricted Laptop. I let NVDA provide/run the server to connect to atm, and then just connect through tailscale, and additionally, I have my Mullvad VPN exit nodes. Honestly the router is a very good idea. I already have a gl router which was like 100€, that one would be too big though. i have to look into whether there exists something small. I would just do Hotspot over USB C but I'm not sure if the computer would complain about connected devices and what not, I mean you literally have to approve new keyboards. Stupid work Laptop can't do anything. Anyway worst case I just run the NVDA Remote server on my proxi vps or something. Also the only problem I can think of with the router is powering it portably. For instance I used a separate Laptop for school before and am now switching to my work Laptop for that as well, and therefore am looking into suitable options to keep current functionality.
I get it. Is the Mt3000 too big? What about the SFT1200? Both are from gl.inet, I'm not sure how returns work in Amazon.de but they may be worth looking at. Two suggestions, though, if I may make them. First, is tailscale funnel too big a risk, or will it not work for you? It gets rid of all the hardware, and you don't have to run a remote server for it, right? I used to want to run a remote server, but decided not to bother anymore, and that decision has been strengthened by the companion which lets me do three and four connections at a time without a server. Secondly, I'm a bit confused about powering it portably. You already have a laptop. If you already have one, you can power the router through a free USB port on the laptop, can't you? You can even do it through a hub. I'm seeing consumption of less than 10W on many of these. I powered one from a phone's USB port once when I needed to, and was surprised it didn't make life too hard. My usual setup, until about three months ago, was powering an MT3000 from a cheap Lenovo which I was using. The reason I stopped was that the lenovo broke in hardware and I got a much smaller unit and started using a USB wifi adapter. Basically, there was no power issue, and I did that for a few years without trouble.
@techsinger I mean I don't need a tunnel really. I could also have that with my reverse proxy setup already, for example any service like miniflux.jonathan859.com runs on my Raspberry Pi from home through Tailscale to a VPS that exposes it with a reverse proxy, so over all it's already a bigger tunnel, I was just wondering whether theoretically I could get tailscale to work so I wouldn't have to alter the setup that much, but over all it'll probably just be the simplest solution, yeah.
Yes, that makes sense. My view is the fewer parts the better, just because it avoids complications. There's another argument to be made that it's such a small amount of data that it doesn't matter. How much noticeable latency does a tailscale intermediate server, or your VPS, or a nvdaremote server running on the public internet really produce? I mean I'm not going to communicate with another part of my city through a center in Christchurch, but if you're even in the same province/state on everything, does the movement really matter that much?
@techsinger ^Na it probably doesn't. I was looking for a VPS in the next city for that exact reason. You're right. Probably shouldn't overcomplicate stuff lol.
@techsinger The thing is that I sometimes will need sometthing ilike kill NVDA Remotely should NVDA just decide to hang or have a stroke, and that will be basically impossible without Tailscale or any VPN solution, so I'm probably going to look into some cheap router option anyway. Think there was recently released a quite cheap one, though I'm not quite sure yet how to get Tailscale on there. I know it's possible with the GL things but haven't played around with my other one much tbh.
@techsinger Hmm, a quick research and the ones that actually support Tailscale are a bit to expensive for my taste, and not very portable in the way that you could just throw it into your pocket or something. I know that my expectations are probably a bit much. Maybe I'll just risk it, throw Tailscale on this Laptop and just not use it at work and start it up manually, I'm still undecided how careful I need to be on this work Laptop. Like I have a bunch of portable software on here and nothing or noone complained, but over all, if one complains I'm screwed.
@techsinger Danm, I explained my problem to Claude and it actually came up with a very interesting solution I'm going to look into: gist.github.com/kdmukai/ab7b2b… TLDR: A small Raspberry Pi doing basically the same as a travel router would do, just with more setup effort, though way cheaper.
The Rpi solution is a good one, I used it for a while on a 3, though not for tailscale but as a normal relay, and it worked. The difficulty I found, and this may well have been an issue with my hardware, was because I wanted something which I could power off and on repeatedly. The MicroSD just didn't handle that well. Yes, I could and did reimage, but it got annoying to wonder, whenever I plugged in the USB, whether the unit was going to come up or not. I got sick of it and used a router, which at least doesn't have issues when it loses power suddenly. As I said, this was probably an SD card problem, though it was a Sandisk unit which was quite good at the time. I didn't bother buying another one just because it was too much work and I had a small router which was actually a bit smaller than the pi. That router didn't and doesn't support TS, but I didn't need TS at the time.
Keep in mind that refirbished laptops are fairly cheap these days. If it were me, which I know it's not, I wouldn't use my work laptop for any sort of personal stuff outside of work, I like full control over my own software environment and everything from the UEFI up might have been modified by the company. At least with my own machine, I manage the install of Windows and can go after even the AMT hardware and drivers if they're there. Again, just one guy's opinion, take it for what it's worth.
@techsinger I generally agree, but school is a part of work, and I don't want to use my private computers for that anymore. Like, then I have to sync between multiple devices again, a completely other issue, though probably easier to solve, and generally, I'd prefer another solution to this problem than having to use another computer again.
That makes sense, but with respect, I must disagree about it being impossible. Keep in mind that the KillNVDA system, just for example, github.com/trypsynth/kill-nvda… only requires one port, of your choice, to be open. You can use a tunnel or the tailscale funnel to manage that if you like and will not need a tailscale client.Having said that, two ports is yet more security risk, though, and if you do have a tailscale client, you can use the file transfer functions and anything else you want.
I came to a similar conclusion when using NVDARemote. It took some time for me because I was using audio for a long time before I started with NVDA's own solution and, with audio, it certainly does matter. I'm not sure how much it does with remote, as I said, but my temptation is to say "not much".
Which implementation of the NVDA Server are people currently using? Preferably hostable in Docker? Ping @simon since I know you're running a bunch. #NVDA #NVDASR #Blind #NVDARemote
I don't run it in docker because that would be a lot of overhead for a 1 GB node. But I use the official server. I have a rough shell script to set everything up with a user and a systemd service, and I can confirm that it works on Debian: curl get.nvra.io | bash
I'm using jmdaweb/nvda-remote-server:latest in my lan, but I also have the .deb package installed on my VPS, both working fine. I think that docker image was the one that was just linked in the github repo.
First time ever considering one of those heated mugs. My tiny tea cup empties too quickly and is cold by the time I am done. Buying a mug with battery sounds just too first world to me though.
Yesterday I blocked an account which was either Ramon or someone equally nasty: I can't remember the whole handle, but he called himself Free Speech Warrior, although it was clear from his bio that he didn't care about real free speech at all.
Yep, block and report those. Also he likes to use single letter usernames. But at this point I kinda know his writing style already to immediately know it’s him.
Demis Roussos - Velvet Mornings (Triki Triki 1973)Velvet mornings will come every new day Golden sunrise and the scent of rain Whisper softly a melody of lov...
Imagine telling someone in 1950 that train travel across Europe will one day be the expensive alternative chosen by well-off people with environmentalist opinions, while unskilled workers will only be able to afford air tickets, and arrive in a fraction of the time.
If you explained to them that most air travel is done by private companies who are constantly in a state of fierce and brutal competition, whereas most train travel is either done by the government or over-regulated public-private monopolists with 0 competition... they'd nod their head in understanding.
Most of these subsidies go to the traditional (and expensive) air carriers. Ryanair, which is the low cost king, is very famously anti-subsidy. Sure, there's some subsidization for airports and specific routes that governments care a lot about, but it's not like rail isn't subsidized either.
Rail is so inefficient that even cars are often cheaper. If you have 2 or more people in a group, especially if they're on a normal ticket, it's often cheaper to go by car than by train. A car can seat five, a train can seat hundreds and runs on efficient tracks instead of inefficient roads. It's all just utterly ridiculous.
What instant communication, thread-based platform do you use at least once a month? Just trying to get an idea of the popularity of different options - multiple choices possible, please boost around!
If you think we should add some choices, please cite them in comment and I'll do a 2nd poll. They would have to be similarly thread / themes / channel - based, with a phone app but also available in the browser (e.g. maybe Matrix? But website-only platforms like Discourse would not work).
I'm thankful my employer @tibhannover moved to a @matrix instance collectively - since then using it on a daily basis, increasingly for communications with external partners as well
Based on the kinda snippy text there in the readme, I guess the #DeltaChat folks decided they want to down-play the dovecot dependency in case they decided to do something else in future.
Also, "custom builds" might make some folks ... itchy.
it is a custom build because of this one patch that upstream for some reason hasn't merged. Dovecot sleeps for 500ms before actually delivering a mail to the client because of some ancient race condition they couldn't figure out, it's really dumb
This commit removes hardcoded 500 ms debounce
from storage that delays all storage notification subscribers such as IDLE and NOTIFY commands.
500 ms debounce constant NOTIFY_DELAY_MSECS
was added i...
In many ways #Friendica is a great addition to the #fediverse but the lack of a simple way to add alt-text to images is unforgivable. That it has sat on the development to-do list for years shows how low down accessibility is to developers out of the box. #accessibility
TFW you discover someone you are conflict of interest close to has not one but two Wikipedia pages, erroneously disambiguated based on eras of their badass career. Seriously, what do you do with that? Leave a note on the talk page linked to their obituary and hope someone takes it up? Fedi seems like a place I might get an answer to this.
Well, @pluralistic got one thing wrong in _Little Brother_: we didn't need a high-profile terrorist attack for the US government to start disappearing ordinary people off the streets and making everyone seek out secure digital messaging systems. They just did it without provocation.
I've been using the new Microsoft Outlook for a while, and although it was usable and had some nice features, it was never quite as accessible as I was hearing it was from other blind users. I went back and reviewed chapter 4 of David Kingsbury's book, Windows Screenreader Primer from the Carroll Center for the Blind, and changing the following setting made all of the difference! 😎
In the view group, I went into the Reading pane menu and checked the Popout only item.
@menelion I primarily use JAWS. I'm not saying it's more accessible than the classic version, and in fact, I'd say it isn't as accessible as Classic Outlook. It is mostly accessible though and definitely usable. It's also different than Classic Outlook which is both good and bad.
Jelikož si ještě nepořídili všechny domény, tak na překlepové doméně w-social.eu už vznikla reklama na Mastodon, tak jsem dneska přes oběd něco podobného udělala taky 😄
@stepan Jestli to chápu dobře, generuje se to furt automaticky z českých instancí podle počtu a aktivity uživatelů, co mají otevřené follow requesty a seznamy sledujících. Poslední refresh tam byl dneska. Nevím, kdo to teď má pod palcem, ale asi se to dá někde najít, viděla jsem snad i zdrojový repozitář někde.
@stepan mastodex.cz je trochu slepá ulička. Někteří lidé v tom seznamu ani nestáli o nějakou co největší v publicitu v novém světě, mezi lidmi, které osobně neznají.
Mě osobně ta publicita nevadila, protože jako zakládající člen Pirátů hledám alternativní kanály k uvolněným diskuzím o tuzemské i světové politice - mj. i po zjištění, že oficiální fórum politické strany, které je ostře sledované novináři, konkurencí i voliči, se na takovou věc možná až tak úplně nehodí.
Na Internetu funguju už 30 let, dávno vím, že jakýkoliv amatérsky, nekomerčně a hlavně nekontroverzně dosažený dosah je nutně velmi omezený, pokud se tomu nevěnuje maximum úsilí a práce na tvorbě kvalitního obsahu - takže mastodex jsem považoval za neškodný, spíš úsměvný projekt a dokonce ho i propagoval. Ale fakticky je to slepá ulička.
Co by naopak pomohlo, by byly "starter packy", které by vznikaly konverzí uživateli vytvářených seznamů. Administrátoři serverů by pak mohli nově registrovaným uživatelům instance nabízet tématické starter packy dle vlastního výběru...
jsou tam lidi, kteří jsou sledovaní proto, že jsou sledovaní. Spousta z nich ani Mastodon už ani nějak často nepoužívá. Mě moc nových českých účtů nesleduje, a pokud ano, tak pochybuju, že přes Mastodex...
Import přes CSV je problematický pro kohokoliv kromě počítačových nerdů. Pro mladší uživatele to musí být strašně retro UX...
tak ten vysoký počet sledujících mají často z toho důvodu, že je díky mastodexu sledují další a další lidé.
V úplně prvních momentech Twitter exodu to bylo lepší než nic, ale po těch 2 letech to už nedává moc smysl. Zvlášť proto, že některé ty účty jsou v podstatě neaktivní a ty sledující jim naskakují právě jen kvůli tomu uvedení na seznamu... taková sociální renta ze sociálního kapitálu )
Found a stash of stickers in a box at work. Full Stack Fest 2019, great memories of - among other things - having beers on the beach with @bagder and other.
I'm happy to announce ChapterPod, an app for adding chapters to podcast files, is now available to download!
I've been using this for about 6 months behind the scenes to do all the chapters for Comfort Zone, and it's easily the best tool for the job (for me, at least).
He conseguido probar, con algo de dificultad, que la suma, resta y producto de reales definidos como clases de equivalencia no dependen de representantes específicos, y que cumplen las leyes del anillo (más o menos). Algún lema sobre positividad. ahora me falta la tricotomía. No sé si habré elegido bien usando secuencias en lugar de cortes de Dedekind. Pero es que las pruebas de supremos e ínfimos me tocan las narices bastante; es un coñazo tener que hacer análisis de casos con eso.
I couldn't believe that PC Gamer headline was a proper reflection of what was said, but... it was. The thing which most annoys me is that they seem to believe they have a right to do a damaging thing (which they acknowledge is damaging) in the hope that they might find something impactful to do with it (which they acknowledge they haven't, yet) because there's currently a lot of hype about it, and the only time limit on this is "find something before the hype runs out".
Hope to see you there:
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