when you are trying to sleep at night and suddenly remember that #ArcaneChat / #DeltaChat are the only piece of software out there that makes it possible easily and for free to have a #decentralized #e2ee #mailinglist #newsletter (called "channels" inside the app) that is portable, doesn't depend on a specific/central #email server and can be easily migrated to a completely different server / address without any visible change or disturbance for your subscribers
Wellp, I've had it with the Asus routers. I'm simply done with their absolutely useless JAVA Script-infested-and-100%-dependence to make anything in their web interface do anything. Clickable buttons that at least NVDA recognizes as such, but still majority remain useless, JFW only sees text, with no label or control state information communicated. Sometimes clicking these random clickables/words of text do things, such as the main navigation, but try to set up VLANs, more detailed WAN configurations, port forwarding, pretty much 99% of the router interface, and its useless with a screen reader. For the longest time, I was figuring out equivalent CLI commands, and writing scripts to do more advanced stuff, hacking its NVRAM settings, and BASH scripts, but I'm just done with the whole damn thing. Of course, the Netgear switch web interfaces are no better, and that makes two of my switches management useless. I was able to enable an unsupported telnet feature in one of the switches, and was able to configure VLANs there through trial and error, and reading manuals for other switches using a similar Broadcom FastPath OS stack. I managed to make that work, but yet again, another ridiculous workaround that has about as much chance of breaking in a future update, as shit has a chance to come out of the end of a biological organisms digestive system on a regular basis. So its time to find a whole new stack and rip out my entire network and rebuild it.
@jfayre Last I looked, and that was years ago, they were not in the 10Gbps game yet. Do you know if they have a device capable of dual-WAN, has at least two 10GBPS ports, but more are always preferred, and if more than two 10GBPS ports are not available, then 2.5Gbps is the minimum port speed required.
I’m seeing less blind people post on Masto as of late. And I can’t tell if it’s just because of the amount of cool people I’m following who aren’t blind or because people have left for other platforms. DOn’t get me wrong. I see posts from blind people all the time. It just feels like the number of blind people posting has dropped. Not that there are less posts from blind people in general. But maybe that’s just my field of view talking.
I think it's probably because the windows clients are falling further and further behind. TWBlue doesn't support polls. Tweesecake still has a bunch of issues and no updates in like a year. Even if people liked web clients, Enafore still has issues with notifications and not updating timelines sometimes. On top of that, Mona on IOS and mac released a new paid version, so people would have to subscribe to it; it's not a one-time purchase anymore. If FastSM ever gets off the ground, or TWBlue gets the promised updates, activity will probably go back up a little. But if FastSM becomes the won, it also supports bluesky, so we might see the community split a bit now that they have a choice.
@fastfinge Ah yes. I was missing the client issue. My iPad is my main device these days. I have a laptop, but I only use it when strictly necessary. I’m on Mona 7, but that was a one-time purchase for me. Thankfully, Fastsm looks promising. But I suspect you may be right about a future split.
@fastfinge I switched from Tweesecake to FastSM last week. FastSM now has some features that Tweesecake didn't, namely the ability to report posts/users, along with some pretty decent pole support and scheduling posts. For me, that's huge. Granted, aside from a couple trolls I haven't had to report many people, but the function's there in case it's needed, which is definitely no bad thing.
@jdking92@Rosalyn I just wish they'd get the same issue with links that tweesecake had sorted out. A lot of posts that absolutely have links it says have no links and you have to use the clipboard. I filed an issue with some approaches I think would work and an offer to make a pr, so we shall see.
I saw that issue, but I actually think the issue with links lies within some forks of Mastodon having the ability to post markdown. This absolutely breaks the entire world for some reason and it just hasn't been high on my priorities list to figure out.
@Bri@jdking92@Rosalyn Some can also just post HTML directly. Either way, when you strip the HTML, you get the link text, without the URL. Usually, the link text is the URL without https in front. But it doesn't have to be. GoToSocial, Akoma, Iceshrimp, Pleroma, Sharky, threads, Lemmy, PiFed, and literally anything other than Mastodon allow for text in the post that is a hyperlink, but does not contain the URL as the link text. Even though Mastodon doesn't allow posting like that, though, it can display that type of post. So because of the way FastSM strips HTML, it can only find links posted by another Mastodon server. Every other server type can post links that FastSM users can neither see 'nor interact with. Even Mastodon forks can do this. As someone effected daily by this issue, because it's completely and totally impossible for me to post links that tweesecake or FastSM users can interact with, no matter what I do, this is a huge priority for me. Only supporting logging into a Mastodon server account is one thing, and I get it. But the way FastSM is currently, you only support viewing posts by, and following, users who happen to also be on Mastodon. If you follow an account using literally anything else, links won't work. And it's impossible for a FastSM user to know they've followed an account on an unsupported server type. It's to the point where I avoid posting any links at all, because every single link I post gets multiple replies (sometimes as many as thirty or more) from blind users who do not understand that the client they use is at fault and in complete violation of the standards, not me. I'm one hundred percent following the standards as defined by the W3C and all of the Fediverse Enhancement Proposals. Clients that can't handle formatted links are broken. They need to be fixed. I've had to start just blocking Tweesecake users. I don't want to have to also do that with FastSM users.
@jdking92@Rosalyn@Bri To make all of this so, so much worse, every single fediverse server provides a plain text, non-html version of the post. Tweesecake and FastSM and others just refuse to use it. But if you look in the JSON, you'll find that while the content key contains HTML, _misskey_content and source.content both contain perfectly formatted, plain text versions of post content. FastSM and other clients just ignore them and strip HTML themselves, breaking posts and resulting in constant bitching from blind people. browser.pub/https://fed.interfree.ca/notes/ah4xrewupfr5jqja
@fastfinge @jdking92 @Bri Is it the clients themselves, or the Python libraries they rely on to manage Mastodon? Not that it matters for the end user, but I'm curious if this is a conscious choice the devs made, or if they just trust the libraries to work and haven't worked around the problem yet.
@alexhall@jdking92@Rosalyn@Bri It's both. The libraries assume that the strings they return will be displayed in a web browser, or other HTML capable view. In fact, the content key by default contains spans and divs. However, all of the blind clients just stripped the html using a regular expression so it can be displayed in a text file, while making no attempt to account for anything that might be lost by that approach.
Still sad, but I'm still workin on NV Speech. Did not abandon it. I've fixed all clicks in the driver, and the next version? It'll have a sample rate combo-box. I am thinking some people will like it at 11025 HZ but some might want 22050. This one will let you pick. It's important for sound quality and the default 16000 may sound too harsh on some ears who are used to Eloquence's 11025.
@fastfinge yeah, try it at 11025. I think it removes a lot of the sharp edges while still not sounding too bad. 22050 to me also sounds better than 16000, 44100 is just awful. But people will now have the freedom to choose.
@fastfinge yeah, that is surprising to me too! The benjamin thing is for sure odd. Almost like it's too squished and narrow to fit into the sample rate at that point.
Almost like the energy from the pulses is too narrow somehow? Maybe. Hmmm. If you change the sample rate on IOS, eloquence develops a weird lisp. So this tells us that whatever they're doing depends on the weird sample rate to sound good.
@fastfinge I guess the good thing is the voice parameters themselves are very easy to tune in the NVDA driver itself, at least to change the numbers for that specific voice. So it wouldn't be hard to mess with that and find a new "person" through the driver that way, then it's very easy to use elsewhere. But the driver's not a bad playground for just tuning voice characteristics itself.
@fastfinge that's where AI might be useful, maybe. If it can understand the parameter relationships better between each and tune more carefully, who knows. I partially tried that yesterday with a new "reed" voice but it sounded too close to Adam so meh, reverted it. There's probably also more frame params to control as part of the voice, since they're tied to the 47 parameters you get when you enable the "exposeExtraParams" flag in the driver code. But we wouldn't want to make a voice that sounds like PC speaker tones either or something nuts like that, so it has to be carefully set. And if you look at the key for Caleb you can see they set some of the Aspiration stuff that say, Adam leeaves alone. Things like that.
Speak for yourself! This voice I made that just makes high pitched squealing noises that causes weird harmonics in my headphones is exactly what I wanted. Now I have an on demand headache generator. Perfect for work meetings I'd rather not attend! LOL JK
@mckensie yeah, I think the trick there is, we'd have to include Espeak inside of it as well. Like, something has to do the phoneme converting. There's already Android Espeak, so this may not be hard, but it does add complexity in ever making it cross-platform like that.
Regarding my last repost: One of the counties mentioned in the list of news items after the article is like 5 minutes or less from me. Sometimes it’s embarrassing to be where I’m from. Or if not embarrassing, shameful. Book banning is just disgusting to me. I’ve learned so much from books! But that’s just it, isn’t it? They don’t want the young people to learn. God I have so many thoughts on this. Knowledge is power!
I usually don’t share stuff like this online but whatever. That’s one of the many things about Christianity, the narrative of it, that I can’t fuck with. The one and only sin was to eat from the tree of knowledge. Why is that? That seems oppressive. Reminds me of a jealous controlling parent or spouse, not a loving creator. Knowledge is power, and whoever wants to oppress you doesn’t want you to have it. Maybe that means just reading books is bucking the system.
so my friend who goes by the name gamer20 in a lot of blind circles made macintalk 3 for windows, based on the wintalker project (not the czech synth, the windows port of macintalk). Anyway, he made it so that we can actually craft our own voices and stuff like that. Here's the download link. drive.google.com/file/d/1LimKw…
Maybe avoid using Google Drive to share this sort of thing. They're extremely strict on copyright, and the link is already gone: "We're sorry. You can't access this item because it is in violation of our Terms of Service. Find out more about this topic at the Google Drive Help Center."
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I haven't seen any videos and there's a ton of conflicting reports out there but everyone seems to agree that he did not have possession of his weapon when they unloaded on him so there's zero justification for self defense if that detail is true
Hi Steven, I'm physically fine, internet blackout past almost two weeks, more than 20,000 innocent people have died in the recent protest by the Islamic Republic. Please be the voice of Iranians.
české eknihy DRM nemají. Jinak fyzická výroba knihy je spíše malý náklad. Tak do 10 % z koncové ceny. Takže na tom moc neušetří a fyzické jsou častěji v akci, protože zabírají fyzické místo ve skladech a obchodech, které musí uvolnit pro novější. Tenhle problém eknihy nemají.
@tritol128 Tohle je bohužel hodně vzdálené realitě. Ta je taková, že podíl eknih na celkových tržbách je v Evropě 13 %, český trh je konzervativnější, u nás je ten podíl údajně jen 10 %. A poslední roky už ten podíl ani neroste.
To si myslím, že je další důvod vyšší ceny eknih, než bychom si přáli: i s nimi je spojená nějaká příprava, což jsou fixní náklady, které se při desetinových prodejích rozpouští v nákladech na kus poněkud hůře.
@sesivany @tritol128 Tak když se nevyužívají dvě hlavní výhody e-knih, tak se e-knihy hůře prosadí.
1) Jednoduché aktualizace a opravy chyb ve vydaných e-knihách.
2) E-knihy lze prodávat do nekonečna, což se nevyužívá, protože licence jsou časově omezené jako u tištěných knih. Pak se stane, že ze série jsou dostupné třeba jen poslední tři knihy… To pak nemá cenu tu sérii ani kupovat 🤷♂️
@jhutar @mkyral @tritol128 u českých titulů se to neděje, ale u zahraničních ano, protože u nich si čeští vydavatelé kupují časově omezené licence. Často oni sami nechtějí na víc než pár let, protože drtivá většina prodejů se uskuteční po vydání knihy. Proč tedy kupovat licenci na 10 let, když 90 % prodejů se uskuteční v prvních dvou letech? Papírové knihy mají tu výhodu, že existuje sekundární trh. U eknih pak člověk nemá legální způsob, jak se ke knize dostat.
”Sivuston pyörittämiseen kuuluvat palvelinmaksut tulevat kalliiksi näillä lukijamäärillä ja tietysti reseptien kehittelyyn kuluu paljon rahaa. Tähän asti olen saanut sivuston pyörimään mainosrahoitteisesti sponsoroiduilla sisällöillä, mutta viime vuosina mainostajat eivät ole olleet kiinnostuneita nettisivujen mainossisällöistä ja talouden kiristyessä myös somessa yhteistyökumppaneiden löytäminen on ollut koko ajan vaikeampaa.”
Ilmainen vegaaninen reseptipankki kaipaa apuasi! Perustin Chocochilin vuonna 2008 sillä ajatuksella, että halusin tehdä vegaanisesta ruoasta kaikille helposti…
Seit fünf Jahren lässt #DATAGROUP gebrauchte Firmen-IT von afb aufbereiten.
Rund 42.000 Geräte wurden seither entweder wiederverwendet oder recycelt. Die ReUse-Quote liegt bei 70 Prozent. Die Partnerschaft spart Ressourcen, senkt Emissionen und schafft inklusive #Arbeitsplätze.
Gute Sache prinzipiell. Aber leider bekommt man bei afb keine Geräte ohne vorinstalliertes Windows, wie mir vor einiger Zeit auf Nachfrage mitgeteilt wurde.
Also we are not sure yet if this is going to happen or not, but we have decided we want to merge our accounts together. So @preciousoso, and the rest of us can post on one account. Mainly so that we dont have to maintain two, and also because we want to just be us. not just her and then us, or not just us, and she is separated. So I am not sure how that will work. - Lily
Yaa, that's a good thought you're considering, we did that as well, saves time we could spend on something else instead of organising, switching between accounts, account management, time in seconds tends to be precious, so optimal solution was achieved, finally. With everyone's agreement. TM.
Cold, much? Damn sir. By the way did I remember correctly you have a TP-Link router? If so, do you want to test my script for making it much nicer to use it? If it wasn't you then I don't know who it was.
Well if you feel like installing Tamper Monkey for your browser and enabling user scripts, you can try the script I had ChatGPt rustle up this morning. If you're seeing Void0? Yeah. That's what my router shows. Doesn't mean it's definitely TP-Link but if you log into it and look near the bottom, you should be able to find out if that is the case or not.
It's a browser extension. If you can install it and configure it to allow user scripts you should be good to go. Also have a script that fixes some of the shortcut keys in WhatsApp web if you ever use that, instead of the main desktop app.
@FreakyFwoof ok, I got it installed, now I just need to figure out how to configure it to allow for user scripts, then I can get the script from you, somehow install that, and I should be good to go, but yes, it is installed.
OK, here's the moment of truth. You click this, you'll get a prompt asking if you want to install, you do that, you visit your router page, go to somewhere you know there should be checkboxes and we see what happens. You should also be able to press Control Shift K and it should say something if the script is active, and it detects you're on a TP-Link router... onj.me/tplink-router-accessibi…
THe USA (as well as the rest of the world, maybe not including China) would have a serious problem if there was no internet. Systems would fail. Airplanes wouldn't fly. Powerr and heating would eventually go out. Grocery shopping would be impossible (no credit cards, no ATMs, no ability to restock). Same with telecoms (they're more resilient than everybody else, but they'd likely succumb to the same fate sooner or later).
I propose we put a 100% on American software and SaaS.
Your Adobe cloud ? 100% tariff. Your Copilot 365 ? 100% tariff. Your Windows license ? 100% tariff. Your Apple Studio license or subscription ? 100% tariff.
But there is an easier way. @pluralistic has the gist of it.
Repeal the portion of Harper's C-11 where DRM override Canadian rights. Make repairing things legal. Also cancel the copyright extension.
Put back the DST (but the banker would never dare to do so) to encompass these "rental services" mentionned above. Tax Uber, Lyft and other "gig economy". You should be able to reconcile that from the tax information and send them the bill.
The thing about saying on the Fediverse what our politicians should do is that we know they won't even hear it as we are not the CSAM generator and nazi bar they cherish so much.
Hi everyone. It's a balmy -5 right now. Later the windchill is expected to be -35. Needless to say this woman is not going anywhere. Right now I'm listening to Highway 61 revisited, one of my favorite radio shows on WUMB. Albert O is so good at presenting some lesser played classic music. Right now he's doing a Neil Diamond set as it's his 85th birthday. I'm just going to read, knit and maybe watch a movie later. Have a good day and staywarm and safe!
Sounds like a plan. I don't think I've ever experienced that kind of windchill in my life. (I remember Eloquence pronouncing windchill like "windkill," which seems appropriate sometimes. I wonder if it still does.) Sometimes I used to have to walk to the commuter rail station with a windchill of -15 F when I was up there, and it wasn't fun, but I'm pretty sure that was the most cold I've ever had to experience. We're getting freezing rain here, and people are advised to stay off the roads if at all possible. I was going to go to a meetup later today, but now it's happening over Zoom. It might get down into the teens in some places, and it's kind of an issue mostly because we don't normally prepare for that kind of cold. Freeze shelters need to open, pipes aren't very well insulated, and so on. But it isn't nearly as cold as what you're getting up there.
Someone might know of a way to do this, perhaps it already exists or I might need to have it coded.
I am looking for a tool for practicing my poems. I want something where I can set say...a 2 minute timer and get a warning 10 seconds before the timer ends. Any apps/programs I can do this with already? Please repost for reach.
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I want to pitch in on what @randahl said in the attached post.
During my youth I was raised on a diet of U.S. culture: the Ponderosa Ranch felt as familiar as the bridge of the USS Enterprise.The good night to John boy was often also the signal for me that I had to go to bed now. From the moment I earned my own money, I started spending as many vacations in the United States as my budget allowed.
Most of the books I have read and I am reading have been written by U.S. authors. Most of the movies and TV series I see were made by Hollywood companies. A significant part of my verbal and written output is in a language different from my mother tongue.
Today I would say that my command of the English language, my knowledge of U.S. history and culture easily surpasses that of the current commander in chief.
But other than with Randahl, the cracks in the relationship started to show much earlier. When I came to the U.S. in October 2001, it felt like a different country. I no longer felt welcome and therefore no longer came visiting.
A friend of mine, who was working in the U.S. at that time and who was on his way to earning a U.S. citizenship was told by a border agent: "Shut up little shit, I can do with you whatever I want." His sin was to point out the regulations my friend knew much better than that agent. He terminated his job at the next occasion.
There were many such moments and every time, another fatigue fracture in my relationship to the United States appeared.
Trump is for me just the nail in the coffin. It is very big and tough nail, because he was elected a second time. Everyone knew what kind of man they elected. And they chose to do so nonetheless. I cannot and will not forget that.
I see the protests, I hear the voices of dissent but I also see the big passive masses, that accept what is happening. It is the same kind of silence my ancestors emitted when Hitler started his run.
Yes, I still have a lot of friends and other people in the U.S. I feel attached to and care a lot about. But for the country as a hole, I no longer give a damn fuck.
In my job "Pacta sunt servanda" is a very important phrase. I cannot do my work without trust.
I am convinced that the current U.S. will not abide any contract, any agreement, any promise if the big orange baby doesn't see a personal advantage in it. And I cannot have a relationship with someone I do not respect and trust.
Oh great, it had been a few weeks since the latest threats
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Trump threatens 100% tariffs on all Canadian goods if Canada 'makes a deal with China'
"China will eat Canada alive, completely devour it, including the destruction of their businesses, social fabric, and general way of life," Trump said.
let them have it. 100% on auto parts for US cars? Not our problem. 100% on lumber and wood pulp? Not our problem. 100% on our dirty oil? Not our problem.
lol I see Miller and Bessent are back to pulling the puppet strings again
pretty big shift from last week, when Trump was asked about Carney making a deal with China: “Well, it’s OK. That’s what he should be doing. If you can get a deal with China, you should do that.”
@hub it's just like you were saying when it comes to auto parts & oil. drastically raising the price of cars & gasoline right before the US midterms? bold strategy Cotton 😂
@hub the US gov't + the Big Three automakers are already doing a great job of wrecking themselves too, even before any additional tariffs. this writeup talks about how Ford & GM could end up producing only pickups and SUVs for the US market, while the rest of the world moves on
Yeah, I remember that email client. I used it with my custom domain. That time, your offer of privacy, security and usability for just 1€ or so per month was simply the best in the market 👍
If you think Hollywood has always been the bastion of free speech, defending, I have a bridge to sell you.
Notably read about the "Hayes Code" established by a Republican Chairman of the now MPA.
Or the Hollywood "blacklist" (that's how it was called) banning suspected communist writer, directors, actors, from being hired. "Cancelling" was already happening.
When Replicans complain about cancelling, remember it always points back to them.
Dass unsere Politiker immer noch munter auf der CSAM- und NCII-Plattform X unterwegs sind, lässt mich vermuten, dass CSAM als Begründung für die Chatkontrolle eventuell nur vorgeschoben war.
Das ist für mich leider eh sehr offensichtlich. Sonst müssten sie sich ja auch nach den Empfehlungen des Deutschen Kinderschutzbundes richten, der sich ja auch bereits seit Jahren gegen die Chatkontrolle ausspricht.
Politiker sind oft (aber anscheinend leider überwiegend) völlig blind über die wahren Motive für die #Chatkontrolle . Die wurden ja auch hinreichend aufgedeckt (woraufhin immerhin "mein" CDU-MdEP GEGEN die Chatkontrolle gestimmt hatte). Aber puh, ist ja inzwischen auch schon wieder Jahre her. Sowas vergißt man schnell.. *rolleyes*
Wrt my last boost, this is something that maybe happens in Europe, but I don't think that I've heard of it happening in the U.S. before, at least not in recent history.
Homeland Security authorities were reportedly telling the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday not to use the word "ice" in its public messaging as a monster storm was expected to hit the United States.
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