I could suspend disbelief to the point of agreeing that yeah, ok, maybe Tim Cook needed to be at the inauguration.
But at the Melania documentary VIP screening while groups of government thugs roam the country, executing people? Yeah no, he’s just part of the gang now.
Rip up trade deals with the US. They're not worth the paper they're written on anymore.
Repeal anti-circumvention laws; allow companies in every nation to reverse engineer US tech, and sell better, cheaper alternatives, even to Americans - this would create leverage over the USA.
Cory Doctorow raised this idea at his 39c3 talk, recently. I agree. Those trade deals promise low/no tariffs and we let US tech walk all over us. Well now there is nothing to lose (never was).
On the night a man was murdered by ICE in Minnesota, Tim Cook spent the evening watching what must be one of the shittiest movies of all time with the people running ICE as their own personal terrorist organization. theverge.com/news/867429/tim-c…
If you’re wondering what kind of access a gold-and-Gorilla-Glass statue, a $1 million donation, and endless fawning buys you, well, it gets a special advanced screening of a state-sanctioned propaganda documentary film about the First Lady.
I'd like to some good non google photo *editors* for storage on my own device. Ente etc is just storage. The ones I found are deep in an ai swamp, thats not what I'm looking for. Any android suggestions for that?
I liked u added fennec and session in ur list. Still need some more like keepassdx for android, offline translator, another notes/NotallyX. Also add options for files & keyboard because ppls still using Google files & gboard. Alternatives are fossify files or right files and SwiftKey (not foss but 💯 %manageable without internet) or unexpected keyboard. With ente photo u can add aveslibre photo app
never let people tell you they are user friendly though! It really annoys me when “Google alternatives” get promoted that are overcomplicated, ugly, and unusable for normal people.🤷
I honestly think many open-source developers don’t prioritise usability because they assume their products will always be fringe and non-commercial, so UX and onboarding are neglected. It becomes a badge-of-honour exercise to even get them working. 🛠️ 1)
I just tried Aurora Store. The homepage is full of Temu ads (ironically), there’s no clear download path, no proper instructions, and no obvious way to browse apps 📖.
If you want people to adopt alternatives, above all else they must be instantly easy to access, install, and use. Otherwise it’s Dungeons & Dragons level niche interest.🔚
@TheComfortableSpotPodcast are you using Web version of aurora? Use f-droid version with no ads and easy to install any app even downgraded version of app manually.. Latest version 4.8.0with material 3 design (beta version)
Translations: - Firefox supports downloading models and running locally (either to translate page or direct access in "about:translations")
Android: also list non Android derivatives: - #SailfishOS <- I daily drive that - postmarketOS - UbuntuTouch They all have (container-based) solutions to run Android apps if necessary (AppSupport, Waydroid)
@badger3 Yeah would be dope, I am currently looking for an alternative to Gdrive/Photos too. Would be neat to minimize the amount of logins and different subscriptions to keep track of.
Never downloaded anything ever again from google since It wouldn't let me uninstall some program/app back when they started. How did yall not know they were bad back then?
Habe letzte Woche die Notizbuch App " OpenNotes" auf F-Droid entdeckt. Für mich ( fast optimal ) . Es fehlt mir nur Fett, Kursiv etc. für Nachrichten und ein funktionierender Import Export. Hat bei mir nicht funktiniert. JSON Datei. Vieleicht blockiert auch Android oder Xiaomi den Download, das Installieren.
I think we made a mistake trying to get rid of Karens, we just need to reroute their powers. We definitely need someone to speak to the manager right now, and demand some rights.
I have the feeling I have bought my last Apple products. They make me productive and I love how they work for me. But my conscience can’t handle giving this company more money.
On the night a man was murdered by ICE in Minnesota, Tim Cook spent the evening watching what must be one of the shittiest movies of all time with the people running ICE as their own personal terrorist organization. https://www.theverge.
I think #Signal seems to be a really good app. Both from UX perspective and privacy (as far I've heard from others).
But it's still US software hq:ed in Mountain View California (with Alphabet, Google, LinkedIn), so switching to it does nothing (0) towards European digital independence. It doesn't help promote the emergence of strong European alternatives to US tech. It actually does the opposite when the European alternatives miss out on an influx of new users. #digitalsovereignty #diday
Using Signal takes people away from large corporations and gives them private communication. So Signal does offer something after all. As long as the programme's code is open and encryption mathematically protects the transmission of messages, the US government is irrelevant.
Yes, it could be said that switching to Signal means that alternatives will not get users. But today it is difficult to persuade anyone to switch to something else
so you can promote it for digital privacy and "no to big tech" purposes.
But it still does zero nada zilch for promoting European digital sovereignty. I would even claim that switching people to Signal does the opposite, since those users will be less likely to switch again to a European product, having already switched once.
Please promote signal as "US privacy software". But not as European digital sovereignty. It's OK to like signal. But it's wrong to say it helps our sovereignty
Large corporations will cooperate with all governments (including the US), and Signal cannot mathematically leak your data. Between today's reality and switching to Signal, I would choose Signal.
Yes, it would be good if there were a strong European alternative that would gain popularity, but I don't see such a ‘player’.
#DeltaChat, it is decentralized, doesn't require phone numbers or any private data, onboarding is smooth much easier than in signal, similar UI (it is a signal fork) it has much better multi-device and multi-profile support, secure in-chat mini-apps like notepads, to-do lists, shopping lists, etc
there are alternatives, but they will not gain momentum if you don't promote them and stop misinforming people selling a centralized silo running on amazon as sovereign @leanderlindahl
Disclaimer: None of this is written by AI, I’m still a real person writing my own blog like its 1999 I finally figured out how to do Gigabit Ethernet over my existing phone wires. Powerline adapter…
Google is now marking EVERY SINGLE APK at our repository as "Malware site issue". Congrats, "Safe" browsing.
Of course there is not a single malware there, everything is scanned multiple times. And I bet they excluded *.google.com from their scan or the entire PlayStore would be red by now, too…
Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg), with additional screening applied.
Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg), with additional screening applied.
And this time they not only MARK it as POTENTIALLY malicious – they block the entire site. So if you have a browser with "SafeBrowsing" enabled, you cannot download a single APK.
Yupp, trust Google. The one running googleapis.com, where you can find your daily scam. They marked us once more for an APK their own scanner marks clean. See gitlab.com/-/snippets/4909577 for more details.
And always keep in mind: that's the actor that wants to define which apps are safe for you to install on your Android devices, and disable you from installing the others. Because, security, you know?
@leandro The .apk they tell us is "malware" (it isn't, we scanned it repeatedly) is https:// apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo/com.apkupdater_52.apk. But right now every single .apk link under https:// apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo/ is blocked, almost 1300 safe, scanned, open source apps :(
Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg), with additional screening applied.
I just tried one of my apks in Chrome (MediLog) and it came down without a warning. However, apkupdater_52.apk produced the red screen warning. Maybe not all links are affected,which doesn't make this any better
@thomas It seems it depends on device? Maybe the "malware list" from Google is only pulled every X hours. Some of my devices block every single link, others don't. Google "Safebrowsing" works in mysterious ways...
@SylvieLorxu and the same ones blocking now, might no longer block it after a second device did not – heard that before, on one of our previous cases. Their entire "safe" browsing thingy is out of control. I'm glad it's not active in any of my browsers… @thomas
It also doesn't make it better that they do not tell us WHICH files are affected and WHY. Their console just gives a single example (the linked APK), and says "go figure yourself".
And isn't it funny that the APK triggering this insane BS is an APK downloader? What was that with "allowing alternative app stores" (even Droid-ify is blocked now)? And the crap with "developer registration"? One ring to rule them all?!?
@thomas Dunno if it is related, but it seems that besides Google, Ikarus is misdecting StreetMeasure APK from izzy as being infected by "Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakeInst"
e.g. I've downloaded de.westnordost.streetmeasure_7.apk from izzy, and it is exactly the same file as one downloaded ages ago from Google Play (with sha256sum 9711592efeab66fc47454a628abcb88d25356d24a80de34882b2ff4cd1f921af)
@mnalis that "combination" is not uncommon, but hadn't caused any issues in the past. What I dislike there, is that especially Google never gives a reason: "detected" – what? "malicious" – why? How shall you fix "blind allegations"? And as for Ikarus: SMS Trojan, huh? Very funny. The only permission the app requests is to access the CAMERA. No SMS, no Internet, nothing. Snakeoil. @thomas
@thomas Yeah, I fully agree that google is also driven by capitalism towards more and more #enshitification 😢 . And ability to reach a human there was getting very hard even decades before #AI, nowadays it is nigh impossible and incredibly frustrating.
I hope those "it is safe" reports would make it more likely for a problem to be fixed; but I worry it depends more on luck than that 😭
@mnalis @thomas we're permanently rolling the dice as well, re-submitting for re-evaluation. Takes almost 24h each time to get the "failed" result back – their bots are not as fast as one should think, when it comes to really _solving_ problems (they seem better at causing such 🙊 💨 )
Yeah, nice description: "spam service". Pun intended? Most spam (or should I say: scam?) I see here nowadays is hosted at storage.googleapis.com. But yeah, tell us whom to trust…
Would be interesting to know who else is affected. Only us with the APKs – or e.g. ApkPure (which copies the APKs from PlayStore) as well? 🤔
@loebas Yes, on Android every major browser, as far as I know. Not sure if you can even turn it off there. So much about being in control of the device you "own". And so much about being considered mature enough to make your own decisions…
@AmonTheMetalHead Thanks! May I ask if you're speaking of a mobile browser there – and if so, which, and where you disabled that? Could be worth mentioning that as (at least temporary) work-around in the future.
I disabled it on Firefox (desktop) I almost never use my phone to check mastodon, the setting was called Deceptive Content and Dangerous Software Protection
@ahills Heard that the second time now. And getting more reports that their entire "spam service" (haha, yeah) seems to have gone nuts – like, marking each and every incoming mail as "spam".
So much about that "internet police". Which – by their PR – is the only one you can trust…
@ahills Thanks! And yeah, we'd know much nicer things to do than fighting such shenanigans… 😢 We're just a very small team, trying to deliver you the best experience. Such actions by Goog are not exactly helpful with that (nor is that their entire system seems to be on auto-pilot, you never get a human to check. "Computer says »no«")…
@sousse Thanks! Let's hope we're shaking something loose there – and that it's just a quirk at their end, which they quickly fix, removing those unwarranted blocks and red pages.
I doubt they'll ever apologize for the mess they caused there. Wish they'd surprise me positively once. Like, "as reparation, we've filled your OpenCollective with a (6+ digit) sum" (that would even come out of their "petty cash")… Well, one can dream, right? *Sigh…*
@lexinova Help with the latter appreciated! We're currently not sure if it's explicitly us (and other "app stores") being affected, or a general failure" of Google's systems (as we also got reports of "all incoming mails are being marked spam" and such).
If you know someone who would help us with such "legal stuff" (pro bono, as we could not cover much cost), please recommend.
We can also talk this when we meet at the weekend in Brussels (looking forward to meeting you!).
when you think you are targetted in a way that breach EU regulation you can talk about it with @noybeu reported an issue in the past, they answered me it was difficult or nearly impossible to prove, but since they sue often they might know if it's a violation or know people in the legal system that can help you.
@lexinova Thanks! @noybeu was also the first coming to my mind. We'd be really thankful if they'd take this up. I'm pretty sure we're not the only ones affected this way. As you've put them in copy already, let me link my snippet for reference again: gitlab.com/-/snippets/4909577 (document "02" there is about the multiple issues we had with them already, just within a single month). I'll try to keep that updated.
I'd say blocking ALL our Android app pages, can count as DMA violation, no?
I just see this screen, even on Firefox. I don't understand what Google has to do with this. Is Google hosting this page? Is Google scanning all the pages I visit even on Firefox?
This is Google "Safe browsing". Even Firefox has it enabled by default. So yes, this is Google.
As I understand it your browser downloads a list of banned sites from Google every now and then. So not actively scanning what you browse (though they can do that for most sites with all the trackers they have), but I have to be honest I don't know all the details on "Google Safe Browsing". Documentation is scarce.
@germanfr It's a "feature" called "Google Safebrowsing". In intervals, it downloads allegedly malicious URLs to your browser, which then compares each visited URL against those.
Google isn't hosting our repo – we do that (currently at Hetzner in Germany). But yes: this way, Google has the power to decide which pages you're allowed to see – and which… not. In this current case, one could count that as anti-competitive, and a violation of DMA.
Would sending Google a cease and desist help? I feel like there should be some sort of DMCA/online weapon that can be used against (instead of by) google, probably wishful thinking
@kneoghau We're just a small team here, with no financial backing to speak of (by far not in the dimension THAT would require). A proper cease-and-desist would require a proper lawyer, which we cannot effort to pay, unfortunately.
Maybe you could send out a call for help to the community for crowdfunding. That could yield enough money to pay that lawyer (despite me having no idea of the necessary amount of money). @kneoghau
The IzzyOnDroid team maintains the repository for F/LOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) Android apps launched by Izzy in 2015/2016, which has since become quite well-known …
So far, we have hints on Firefox and Brave. If you know it for other browsers, please let me know and I'll add it.
Note that, while I'm very much tempted to, this is no "recommendation to disable it". For our site it is safe (to our knowledge), but there are real dangers out there (like, googleapis.com 🙊). So be careful, please!
Ah, so to follow the instructions on the error message you have to know how to bypass their attempts to block mobile users from using about:config. Lovely.
I filed a bug report with Mozilla too. As far as I'm concerned this is a serious UI defect, especially considering that the desktop version offers significantly more detail and also a bypass link. So sick of mobile users getting screwed over by Mozilla...
Done! With a scathing message for ~them~ the AI bot to enjoy.
I can't WAIT to turn my back on #Android, literally my last and only tie to #Google.
We can only hope that this attack on 3rd party app stores, and #FOSS in general, leads to accelerated development of #mobilelinux and motivate devs to start porting their apps to it.
It's HIGH TIME to end this duopoly of iOS and Android as our only choices for our mobile phones and tablets.
You know who needs to add high friction? Banks and financial apps. People are scammed out of their hard earned money under stress. Banks can easily say there is no IRS or digital arrest required to send money or gift cards to individuals because it is scam. There should be multiple warnings and holding large fund transfers to new accounts. This is where I want to see high friction added and I think it will protect innocent people. You know something like this shown on money transfer page/app:
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.
Welcome to another minor release from our stable branch!
We encourage any deployments using 13.0.
"loading mod_mam (globally or directly on a MUC component) will automatically load mod_muc_mam on the MUC component. This means most people (e.g. who have mod_mam loaded globally on their server) can now remove “muc_mam” from modules_enabled in their MUC component configuration. It will be loaded automatically." - thank goodness
Not sure how many of you use ChatGTP, but you might want to scale back.
"The latest model of ChatGPT has begun to cite Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers, raising concerns about misinformation on the platform.
In tests done by the Guardian, GPT-5.2 cited Grokipedia nine times in response to more than a dozen different questions."
The only relevant feature for any instant messaging app (or social app, for that matter) is: Are my friends using it? People will gladly overlook minor inconsistencies or missing features as long as they can communicate with their friends. We shouldn’t recommend #Signal as a stepping stone before Jabber/XMPP becomes "good enough," if goodness is defined by the number of people using it.
Yeah, similar to recommending silo-to-fedi bridges for example. As long as others can find your content in the silo, there's no incentive to use the open alternative.
@zash @raucao anecdotical data point to support this: I started using XMPP because it had good bridges to silos. It lead me to (modestly) contribute to slixmpp, gajim and write some prosody modules. I very much doubt bridges between proprietary silos and open networks hinder adoption of the latter. Of course, this is very hard to quantify objectively.
@ableijs The Matrix ecosystem is primarily dominated by one VC funded company. The server that everyone uses is developed by them. The client that everyone recommends is developed by them.
There are some baby steps towards a slightly more diverse ecosystem but for now it's a toss up between whether that's going to happen and enshittification once the VCs want their money back.
XMPP on the other hand is a healthy diverse ecosystem with various stake holders.
@ableijs I develop a client for Android and I basically can't make any unilateral decisions without involving two client developers (Desktop + iOS) and/or two different server developers from the two major server implementations. And that's a good thing!
There are a bunch of server and even more client implementations. Yes, @element still has a lot of influence, but The @matrix Foundation is doing it's best to get independent and is funded by a really diverse ecosystem.
For example I'm the founder of a company based in #Dresden building on #matrix. Our Open Source client SDK #trixnity is used in the TI-Messenger of every German public health insurance company but one - so possibly millions of users. We also have an Open Source client #Tammy. Yes, we still have the problem, that Element is recommended by a lot of people but the same problem applies to a lot of Open Source ecosystems including #xmpp.
I'm pretty sure the ecosystem would survive without Element despite the fact that Element is doing a good job in pushing the ecosystem in the right direction despite the VC.
Signal is an E2EE’d concurrent to Telegram and WhatsApp, whereas XMPP is a concurrent to MSN, Facebook, and ICQ. Recommending XMPP to someone looking for state-of-the-art E2EE and asserting Signal on every use case are both unacceptable.
@oceane You knowledge about XMPP is very outdated. It literally uses the Signal encryption algorithm for it's OMEMO e2ee. There are a few things that can be still improved about it (mostly clients catching up to the latest version of the OMEMO specs), but it is very much a viable alternative to Signal in regards to e2ee.
@kris @oceane i was an xmpp user 20 years ago.But the fall wasnt only due to defederation. It was also cause it wasnt working properly when u had several devices connected simultaneously(depending on priority &connectivity messages were arriving to one device or the other).There was a fix(some server storage) but not all servers implemented it.With the encryption most are using omemo but there is still no encryption and pgp based...I think its easier to attract people to signal&matrix
XMPP is not suited for mobile devices. That’s a myth that has been around for ages. It is mostly spread by people who want to sell you their own proprietary instant messaging solution.
I still have a machine in the same case as your old one. Remains my favourite PC case ever. Filled with sound insulation so it made no noise with the, long gone, 4 hdds
When I was younger, I avoided natural light like it was a plague. Now that I'm older, wiser, and far less gloom and doom obsessed, I am so envious of those skylights! My current office has a bay area window right next to me, which is pretty decent for natural light.
Nunca me gustó llevar gafas. Y menos las gafas oscuras que me identifican como ciego ante toda la sociedad. Porque claro, si eres ciego tienes que llevar gafas oscuras, porque si no llevas gafas oscuras junto a tu bastón blanco no eres ciego, ya sabéis. Pero bueno, al final he caído, y este martes completo el atuendo de ciego. Espero sentirme cómodo y que merezca la pena. Se supone que estas gafas vienen a mejorarme la vida.
@GuloGulo Ve sklenici jsem to osobně nezkoušel, my jedeme rovnou kvašák 😄 Upřímně – kvašák dneska není drahý a nebudeš ho litovat. My máme 7litrový a jede prakticky celoročně. zelí, mrkev, celer, petržel
Všechno nastrouhat (zelí nakrouhat), přidat jen sůl a kmín, pořádně promnout, aby pustila šťávu, a šup do kvašáku s těžítkem. Žádná věda – nemá to chybu 👍 Receptů na pickles je plný internet. Klasický čalamády ani už nejím, žeru to skoro ke všemu 😃
@Zettl_josef Aby se pickles vždy povedlo: – Používejte vždy čerstvou a neponičenou zeleninu. – Největší podíl dejte vždy šťavnaté zeleniny (mladé zelí, čínské zelí, mrkev, cuketa, daikon, řepa, cibule, kedlubna, přidejte jablíčko aj.), abyste měli dostatek tekutiny. V menším množství můžete přidat i sušší zeleninu (např. červené zelí, celer, pórek, jarní cibulka aj.). – Zelí a cibuli krájejte najemno, šťavnaté tvrdší druhy (mrkev, kedlubna, daikon, cuketa aj.) strouhejte nahrubo. Tím získáte dostatek tekutiny. – Velmi dobře zeleninu promačkejte (3–5 minut), aby pustila maximum tekutiny. – Dodržujte množství soli: na 1 kg zeleniny = 1 velká lžička soli (cca 15–20 g). – Dodržujte důkladnou hygienu (sklenice, těžítko i ruce si umyjte – nástroje horkou vodou; do pickles vždy sahejte čistýma rukama/příborem). – Udržujte zeleninu vždy pod hladinou (pomocí těžítka). – V horkých letních dnech přemístěte kvasící pickles do chladnější místnosti (sklep, spíž, komora) a častěji kontrolujte, jestli už je hotové. Aha tak cibule asi nevadí, už nevím proč jí tam nedáváme. @GuloGulo
@Milu My to máme tak týden, přendáme do sklenic a dáme víčkem dolů do lednice, ale ono záleží kde máte ten kvašák, nechce ho dávat do velkého chladu. @Zettl_josef @GuloGulo
@GuloGulo Skutečně je, pečuje o střeva a trávení obecně a tím zvyšuje imunitu.
V asii se ta zkvašená šťáva používá i v kosmetice, chrání kožní mikrobiom, takže se používá na pleť, ale i na intimní hygienu dam.
Mimochodem šťáva z kyselého zelí se používala kosmeticky i u nás, jen jsme to zapomněli a asi nikdo nechce vonět jako kyselé zelí. Takže nakupujeme séra ve kterých je výtažek z těchto produktů, jen o tom málokdo ví.
Hotovo, musím sehnat nějaké těžítko, je toho 2kg a jen do 3/4 lahve. Kamarád říkal že k tomu nesmí světlo, stará vojenská čepice to vyřešila... A zítra, zítra už to bude ?
Can't recall who recommended downloading a wikipedia backup. It was something I'd always wanted to do but didn't have the HD for it. Now I do, and I'm getting it through torrent.
de cuándo es el último volcado? La última vez que miré llevaban ya tiempo sin hacerlos, tanto en inglés como en español. Al menos la versión all_maxi, que es la que descargo habitualmente.
I recommend to check the Kiwix project kiwix.org/es/ Get Wikipedia and many other offline compressed and indexed data. Also the Khan Academy resources es.khanacademy.org Of course to get a new dedicated HD for this.
Explora el mundo de Kiwix, tu puerta de acceso offline a información y contenido educativo. Accede al conocimiento en cualquier lugar, en cualquier momento, sin necesidad de conexión a Internet.
The Jamulus devs are trying to make the server list accessible. I am not sure about the latest workflow proposed in the latest comment. If you have thoughts, please chime in. IMHO, the best solution is to make it behave like the list view in the Finder, where you can navigate across columns and also expand and collapse folders. That said, they are having hard time make it work. @FreakyFwoof github.com/jamulussoftware/jam…
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This might contain a lot of low quality code for now.
How it looks like:
There is a "Show/Hide accessible controls button" at the top which shows/hides the...
They're just discussing how the UI should behave for SR. They wrote: "They'd tab until reaching the server list. There we'd place a label which shows the currently selected cell. If the user changes a cell, the label changes too. If the user presses some keyboard shortcut, the content of the label is focused and voice over reads it. If the shortcut is pressed again, the user goes back to the selected cell. It's not the best UX - however it should be the most flexible approach."
That's interesting. Does that mean that I can upgrade to latest Jamulus? I've been using your build for years because I didn't know if they implemented your changes. Have held off for some years.
Not yet. If you update now, the server list is not accessible, so you can't join any server. lol They're trying to change that. That's why I'm asking people to chime in.
If you don't interact with the server list, then you can use the latest build since all my accessibility fixes are implemented. The inaccessible server list is not a regression. It never been accessible on the main build.
If they make the server list accessible, then yes you can use the latest version. That's why it's important to discuss how you want the UI for the server list to look like for screen reader.
@Scott Is accessible teamtalk client based on QT? I remember you had to use like clasic or something to be accessible. I haen't touched teamtalk in years. lol
@Scott According to github: TeamTalk 5 accessible client application written in C++ and based on MFC. Does that mean it's not accessible on Mac? github.com/BearWare/TeamTalk5
@Scott QT accessibility is a mess, especially on Mac. There was a brief moment when they actually got the tree/table widgets speaking well, only to break it in a later QT release. Sadly you're probably not going to be able to make it so that the VoiceOver cursor can navigate inside it until QT fixes it. In TeamTalk the way they solved this is having a checkbox in the preferences to speak the selected item in lists using text to speech, and then you just treat it more like a windows app by tabbing and using the arrow keys instead of the VO cursor. QT now also includes an accessibility announcement API that speaks through screen readers directly if one is running, so what they could do is label each item with the text of all cells, and if the program is running on Mac, use the announcement API to speak it when the focus moves in the tree which is not needed on Windows because screen readers will pick it up fine there. And you will want to label the items with the text from all cells and not just the first one so that the screen reader will automatically read all columns and not just the first one. TeamTalk does this as well, IE for the files section which is a finder/explorer like view.
@pitermach @Scott Haha yes, I found that out a hard way by building it with several qt versions between 6.2.0 and 6.10.1. I guess tell users not to use VO cursor and just use up/down to go through the item, and have accessibility announcement API to announce information in all columns. Then use right/left to expand/collapse. Is that the best workflow?
@Scott I think so. In TeamTalk settings there are a few options for speech output and QTAccessibilityAnnouncement is one of them. If I switch to it then it speaks through VO without using the applescript functions
@pitermach @Scott This is amazing! I gave gemini-cli the documentation for QAccessibleAnnouncementEvent as well as access to QTTeamTalk codebase. Then I asked it to make the server list in Jamulus accessible in a similar way to QTTeamTalk by passing all the relevant information to the screen reader to announce when a server or user is selected. It got to work and finished in a couple of minutes. It works perfectly! A few devs attempted to make this accessible for a few years. lol
It's not as nice as my build to navigate the list because all the information gets announced at once. However it should be usable. The best part is moving forward people can use the latest version from the main site without downloading a different and old build. Let me know it works for you.
Hmm, I'm not sure why, but the latest Jamulus is glitching so bad on my system. It's like it stutters every 250 ms. I wonder if you have the same problem? I wonder if it has something to do with macOS 26.
It reports my ping as way higher than your old build did. 22 MS instead of 9-11 MS, and delay also much higher. I also had to set it up again from complete scratch. I don't know why.
OK, maybe it wasn't connecting to the right server, ping sorted out but the chat doesn't read. My server sends MOTD on connect, the sound triggered but couldn't even read with VOCR. Not nice.
"What sparked Carney’s intervention was not Sudan, Venezuela or Gaza. It was the US threat to Canada and Greenland.
A western prime minister took umbrage only when the US, under President Donald Trump, threatened to treat the prosperous West in the same way it has long treated the Global South.
Let’s return now to Israel’s recent invasion of Unrwa’s headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem: a gross breach of international law and a direct attack on the United Nations.
Article 6 of the UN charter establishes that any state that persistently violates its principles can be expelled from the UN. The attack on Unrwa is part of a pattern of Israel’s criminal hostility towards the UN, including its refusal to respect orders from the International Court of Justice on Gaza, its slaughter of UN aid workers and its regular attacks on UN positions in southern Lebanon.
The case for expelling - or at the very least suspending - Israel from the UN is overwhelming. Yet neither Carney’s Canada nor Starmer’s Britain, nor any other western power, has so much as suggested the idea.
In his Davos speech, Carney set out Canada’s approach as follows: “We aim to be principled and pragmatic. Principled in our commitment to fundamental values: sovereignty and territorial integrity, the prohibition of the use of force except when consistent with the UN Charter, respect for human rights. Pragmatic in recognising that progress is often incremental, that interests diverge, that not every partner shares our values.”
This is all well and good. But on the evidence so far, Carney is prepared to be principled when it comes to western countries like Canada and Denmark, and pragmatic when it comes to Palestine and Venezuela.
if reporting on american companies was done the same way it's done on chinese ones
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"... Intel Corporation, a partially state-owned enterprise with extensive links to the United States Republican Party and its armed wing, Department of War..."
it's sad that #ffmpeg hasn't migrated away from that platform. But if any ffmpeg devs are here just on their own: Thank you for ffmpeg. It's been an indispensable tool for me for decades now and I'm very grateful for the work you do.
Když se v písni zpívá "můžeš mít milion vizitek", znamená to že můžeš mít milion vizitek jiných lidí, nebo milion svých vizitek na rozdávání? (Vím, směrodatné je, že bez lásky nelze žít, ale stejně..)
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Ich muss sagen, ich bin tief verstört davon, dass hier Videos von einem Mord angeschaut oder geteilt werden. Teilweise sogar ohne CW. Ganz ehrlich, justiert mal euren Kompass. Dass die USA Menschenrechte mit Füßen treten ist kein Grund sowas zu verbreiten. Wenn ich hier lese (gestern), dass es jemand noch nicht geschafft hat, das zu sehen, dann kommt hier doch ein Druck auf, der impliziert: Wenn du es dir nicht detailliert anschaust, dann schaust du weg.
The detentions were announced last week on Belarusian state TV, which claimed the men were part of a network of more than 50 people participating in the amateur radio hobby and have been accused of both “espionage” and “treason.” 404media.co/ham-radio-operator…
You'd expect the LLM be quite knowledgeable in its own features or what features its creators have added. Yet, Here I am, arguing with gemini about what I know it can do in creating a script. Getting a lot of "You are totally right. Google has implemented this a while ago. I apologise..."
FFs. "I am sorry. I got too excited about the new AI model (v9) and accidentally removed the "Fail-Safe" code (from v5) that prevented the Google Docs crash." Please, you're a tool meant to help me code a script, not a kid in a candy store.
My favorite one so far is Gemini, in the role of Google assistant, being utterly convinced it is not, in fact, able to open apps on my phone for me. Yes it can, that's like the thing I almost exclusively use it for, but sometimes I get a whole song and dance about how it can't do this for me and how I can do it myself. Fuck, off. :P
@FastSM I see only 40 items, I mean messages, in my Home timeline. Any chance of increasing this to have more items from previous days or weeks? TweeseCake does that by default.
Episode 33 is out! 🫡 We are diving into the story of Lakshmi Sahgal and the Rani of the Jhansi Regiment, the first all-female combat unit in modern Indian history, formed in Singapore during World War II.
ℹ️ Most members were teenage Tamil girls from plantation communities who left estate life to train as soldiers in the Indian National Army and were later sent to the Burma front.
View herstoryseapod’s Linktree to discover and stream music from top platforms like YouTube, Spotify here. Your next favorite track is just a click away!
My aunt is an ancestry nut and did some difficult tracing due to name misspellings etc and now I know my oldest American roots on the paternal side was a farmer from Germany who joined the north in the civil war for Wisconsin and my maternal side was a farmer from Germany who was regarded as a pioneer and founded a city in Iowa
How does the "notes" thing work? The first value is obviously the number of notes in a sequence, but I can't figure out what anything after that does just by looking.
I think the first two digits are duration, and the second is pitch in each pair...
, to světlo tam asi nesmi to je pravda. Necháváme tak týden kvasit.
Marco
in reply to Tuta • • •JefferyT51
in reply to Tuta • • •a few suggestions:
Email: Proton (yes yes I know, but you mention them in calendars anyway.)
Translate: DeepL (?)
Browsers: I know they're Chromium, but options like Vivaldi and (reluctantly) Brave aren't half bad.
App Store: Obtainium
Android: Drop Calyx, its not actively being developed right now and is more of a security hazard than anything.
Maps: HEREWeGo (HERE Maps) is honestly pretty alright.
SmartWatch (WearOS): GadgetBridge, Garmin(?)
Google Home: Homeassistant
[cr0n0s@🐧📡⌨️ 🛠️ ~ ] #
in reply to Tuta • • •Back To Analog
in reply to Tuta • • •Perdita
in reply to Tuta • • •Ente etc is just storage.
The ones I found are deep in an ai swamp, thats not what I'm looking for.
Any android suggestions for that?
Vincenzo Giacalone Biondo
in reply to Tuta • • •ĞÖKÜ👻👻™
in reply to Tuta • • •Ken M Sweeney
in reply to Tuta • • •never let people tell you they are user friendly though! It really annoys me when “Google alternatives” get promoted that are overcomplicated, ugly, and unusable for normal people.🤷
I honestly think many open-source developers don’t prioritise usability because they assume their products will always be fringe and non-commercial, so UX and onboarding are neglected. It becomes a badge-of-honour exercise to even get them working. 🛠️ 1)
Ken M Sweeney
in reply to Ken M Sweeney • • •I just tried Aurora Store. The homepage is full of Temu ads (ironically), there’s no clear download path, no proper instructions, and no obvious way to browse apps 📖.
If you want people to adopt alternatives, above all else they must be instantly easy to access, install, and use. Otherwise it’s Dungeons & Dragons level niche interest.🔚
ĞÖKÜ👻👻™
in reply to Ken M Sweeney • • •Ken M Sweeney
in reply to ĞÖKÜ👻👻™ • • •Tuta
in reply to Ken M Sweeney • • •Ken M Sweeney
in reply to Tuta • • •Dauraylan
in reply to Tuta • • •Foss your life :
OS
> Linux or Templeos
Mail
> YunoHost
SearchMotor
> SearchXNG
Passwords
> Secure local note/ Vaultwarden
Photo
> Nextcloud
Browser
> Firefox(all) / gnome/ Netsurf / dilio, etc...
Store
> GitHub / web
Meet
> Nextcloud
Keep
> Nextcloud
Docs
> Nextcloud
Calendar
> Nectcloud
GoogleCloud
> Nextcloud
YouTube
> Individious/Peertube/etc...
Map
> Nextcloud (OpenStreetMap)
Communication
> Matrix
Aurin Azadî
in reply to Tuta • • •rizarudiansyah
in reply to Tuta • • •Steffi the Redhead
in reply to Tuta • • •openstreetmaps is soooo much better. I use mapy.cz as a frontend and it is soo much better for biking and tracking.
I didn't even know half of those browsers. Are the foxes all forked from Firefox?
DrYak
in reply to Tuta • • •Suggestions :
Translations:
- Firefox supports downloading models and running locally (either to translate page or direct access in "about:translations")
Android: also list non Android derivatives:
- #SailfishOS <- I daily drive that
- postmarketOS
- UbuntuTouch
They all have (container-based) solutions to run Android apps if necessary (AppSupport, Waydroid)
Also, add fediverse:
- Pixelfed
- Peertube
stuart
in reply to Tuta • • •Doliya Ella
in reply to Tuta • • •Marc
in reply to Tuta • • •Yeah, could be, but to be honest, it costs a lot more than f.e. the all in one (mail, storage, photos) price 2,99/month that Apple charges.
I would be fine if that would be 5 or 6 euro, but it's really a lot more.
Eric
in reply to Tuta • • •hey tuta, can you give us a short roadmap to your cloud?
I already switched to tuta mail & calendar, now i want your cloud
Morgan Nilsson
in reply to Eric • • •Yeah would be dope, I am currently looking for an alternative to Gdrive/Photos too. Would be neat to minimize the amount of logins and different subscriptions to keep track of.
Tuta
in reply to Morgan Nilsson • • •Morgan Nilsson
in reply to Tuta • • •@badger3
That is great! Hope you guys can share more info about it soon!
Eric
in reply to Tuta • • •Scale Theory
in reply to Tuta • • •How did yall not know they were bad back then?
Wassil
in reply to Tuta • • •Darki03
in reply to Tuta • • •Vick
in reply to Tuta • • •@Tutanota, I appreciate the list as much as I do the comments. Both parts were informative.
Thank you for bringing up less known (imho) alternatives, such as Immich. I truly enjoyed their "Cursed Knowledge" section
MutuallyPrecautionary
in reply to Tuta • • •Phil Burns
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in reply to Tuta • • •Al fin una infografía de alternativas a Google con verdaderas alternativas a Chrome.
Eso sí, la categoría de sustitutas de Google Chat podría mejorar, comenzando por quitar Signal. Delta Chat o Monocles Chat/XMPP quedan mucho mejor.
Jörg Baranczek
in reply to Tuta • • •Hé, rouelibre ?
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in reply to Tuta • • •DigitalDigger
in reply to Tuta • • •Rebel Zhang
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