Hey, Fedi. Help me help a friend. (Not financial!)
I have a friend who is all about cool bug facts. They're going through an intense patch in their life, so I would like to send them some bug facts to cheer them up. But this is really their thing, so basic search engine results aren't going to new to them.
If there's a cool bug fact that you genuinely love, could you tell me? I'll save them to share with my friend over time. 1/n
#DAVx5 @davx5app The app consumes 26% of my battery usage, although I set all syncs to 1440 minutes. I allowed it background activities in my phones settings. I do not make/change contact information or calendar entries a lot - and if I do, I do on my phone (triggering ad-hoc syncs); a sync check should offer "nothing to sync". Does anyone know why that is and what I could do to minimize battery usage?
That's highly unusual. Even excessive syncing of multiple accounts should barely be noticable in the battery stats. which device and which network config? Maybe try to completely remove the app and reinstall.
WASHINGTON – Following the killing of Alex Jeffrey Pretti in Minneapolis, FBI director Kash Patel has advised American citizens participating in anti-ICE demonstrations to leave their firearms at home, while reiterating how guns are still welcome and…
As a company that has long boasted about its commitment to principles, Apple has had a bad several months. It removed ICE Block from the App Store. It let X remain, empowering its users to create child porn, which is apparently “free speech” now. After two American citizens were killed by ICE, Tim Cook responded by attending a special screening of the Melania documentary. It’ll be hard to believe that Apple believes anything it says after all this. When principles mattered, Apple collapsed.
Here's my first Mastodon post! My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge). How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
as we wind further into fascism, a gentle reminder to consider #meshtastic, a decentralized and encrypted mesh network. Rn from my apartment the most distant folks I can see are about 200 miles away with like $50 of equipment
Meshtastic has some serious design problems though, the entire network stops working once you get to about 25-30% usage of the airtime and that happens quickly because their implementation is too chatty.
Meshcore is better, but has similar problems. There are capacity issues in the Seattle area right now and they're discussing strategies to resolve it.
> at 20-25% you have a 50% chance of collision
This technology is neat but it's pretty useless if only a couple hundred people can use it "sometimes" in a major metro area.
It's basically like everyone is sharing an Ethernet hub. We're all in the same collision domain.
the only way to fix this is with new hardware where the radios can operate on multiple frequencies simultaneously. It just doesn't exist yet so nobody's built it to work that way.
and then there's the problem of tropospheric ducting that increases the range massively for a period of time and that causes you to get a ton of new collisions from far far away
@feld yeah, it’s definitely a major issue if we’re effectively limited to a few hundred users in a metro area. I suppose most of the efforts in these projects has been just getting people on the networks, and we’re only now starting to really have to worry about capacity
I think it will have an interesting future if people get some better hardware produced. Current hardware is like Gen Alpha, hopefully we can have it hopping frequencies in the next generation
For years, the payments industry was aggressive about cutting off access to websites accused of containing child sexual abuse material. Elon Musk changed that.
I take dance classes a few times a week. I always wear a KF94 mask. I know it isn’t perfect, but those are the ones that fit my face best and, at least from my experience so far, they seem to sufficiently protect me against germs from people who are pre- or a-symptomatic. However: I have the rule that if somebody tells me that they are sick, I leave. Today was such a day. I arrived, talked to someone, and a few minutes into the conversation they volunteered that they are sick, so I got dressed and left again.
I know there’s worse things in the world, but I’m still annoyed. Especially because of the attitude that I get when I explain this. People tell me that I don’t have to apologise for my behaviour. I mean… I wasn’t planning to. So I just say nothing and leave, but it feels really shitty.
I know that people also censor any photos and videos taken at events. As in: if I’m in it, they don’t upload them, because I don’t look “gezellig” enough. I don’t mind that pics and vids of me aren’t shared publicly, but the reason pisses me off.
Problem gelöst! Mit Crome klappt es! Danke für Hilfe! An meine blinden Follower: Ich habe bislang Hörbücher im Epub-Format von buecher.de gekauft, konnte sie auch immer herunterladen. Jetzt sind die irgendwie verschmolzen, und ich kann nur noch online im Tolino Webreader lesen. Sie machen es also unmöglich, gekaufte Bücher herunterzuladen. Das ist derselbe Unsinn wie bei Streamingdiensten. Hat jemand eine Alternative, wo es noch geht? ebook.de hat dasselbe Problem. Bin etwas entsetzt!
i've seen a couple of screenshots of terrible people being baffled that people are putting themselves in danger for their neighbors, random strangers, anon immigrants. it's like they can't believe empathy is real and not something others are faking just to score woke points. what a sad way to be, but also how wrong. we will win.
broken-tree filesystem issue possibly fixed. It still thinks /srv exists when it doesn't and the built-in fs check thinks everything is fine, but whatever. At least it shouldn't randomly decide it has no free space anymore.
@shinyoukai @feld The only BSD I would trust with my data is FreeBSD on ZFS. And maybe Dragonfly with Hammer. Except these two I don't think there's been many attempts to even have UFS journaled. You can do it with GEOM on FreeBSD somehow, but why bother when you have ZFS. Both {Open,Net}BSD have a habit of nuking filesystem on power failure.
@feld @shinyoukai i'd run ZFS if it wasnt due to it being OOT and also the fact it doesn't use the linux VFS memory system (idk if it'll error out when doing memory intensive stuff)
@mischievoustomato @shinyoukai the ZFS ARC will give memory back to the OS, it's just not unified with the normal kernel VFS cache. Here's one of my servers
Buying a track or ebook that you can’t pass on, share, or transfer isn’t ownership; it’s a rental. We need to restore digital first sale. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/rent…
In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era, many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form – and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them. Instead, we are stuck renting them, subject to all kinds of terms and conditions.
lmao gemini made my day. I was talking to it about YML and it just said this. "YAML Engineering" is basically just guessing, committing, waiting for the CI to fail, and doing it again."
Die allermeisten „KI“-Bildbeschreibungen die ich bisher gelesen habe sind fast so nützlich wie der Hinweis „da ist ein unregelmäßig geformter, erdfarbener Fleck auf dem Gehweg vor dir“ an eine blinde Person die dabei ist in eine ungesicherte Baugrube zu fallen. Der „optische Eindruck“ stimmt, die relevante Information fehlt.
Spielt „Montagsmaler“ oder „Tabu“. Nehmt Texte etwa vom Altbot-Feed, versucht euch vorzustellen was auf dem beschriebenen Bild zu sehen sein könnte, und dann schaut euch das Bild an das der Bot beschreiben sollte.
„Ein älterer Mann im blauen Anzug sitzt mit verschränkten Händen am Schreibtisch“. Ob es Donald Trump, Friedrich Merz oder Onkel Günter ist weiß der Altbot nicht, und wenn es nicht im Originalpost steht erfährt es auch die Person nicht die auf den Alt-Text angewiesen ist.
„Das Bild zeigt einen Blick durch ein schwarzes Mesh-Raster, hinter dem sich ein geschlossener Bereich befindet. Im Inneren liegt eine große Menge weißer, weicher Material über dem Boden. Links ist ein Bereich eines Gebäudes mit einem hellbraunen Mauerwerk und einem dunkelfarbenen Struktur zu erkennen. Am unteren Rand befinden sich mehrere braune rechteckige Objekte, möglicherweise Holzbretter, die verteilt sind.“
Blick durch ein Fenster mit Insektenschutznetz auf Schnee auf einem Balkon.
Ein schneebedeckter Winterlandschaft zeigt ein Gewässer, vermutlich ein Fluss oder ein kleiner See, umgeben von schneebedeckten Boden. Bäume mit schneebedeckten Ästen, sowohl Evergreen- als auch Barentiere, winden sich am Ufer des Wassers und erstrecken sich in die背景.
Eine Sammlung von schneebedeckten Zweigen liegt am Wasser im Vordergrund. Ein kleines dunkles Gebäude ist teilweise sichtbar von der linken Seite des Bildes. Der chinesische Charakter “冬” (Winter) ist auf dem Baumstamm im oberen zentralen Bereich geschrieben.
Im Originalbild sind weder ein Gebäude noch chinesische Schriftzeichen zu sehen.
„Ein zugefrorener Teich im zugeschneiten Wald“ zu schreiben wäre natürlich Zeitverschwendung für den Autor gewesen. Der Alttext ist dagegen Zeitverschwendung für alle Menschen die darauf angewiesen sind.
Ich weiß, es gibt oft den Wunsch nach möglichst detaillierten Bildbeschreibungen. Aber doch bitte nicht diesen unleserlichen Textcluster an dem fast nichts stimmt.
„Das Foto zeigt eine Person, die einen schwarzen Mikrofon hält, dicht an ihrem Mund, mit einem dunklen Anzugrock, einem hellblauen Blusehemd und einem gepunktetem Hemd. Die Person hat kurze, dunkle Haare, die mit einer Seitenteilung geschnitten sind, und der Hintergrund ist dunkel mit einem verschwommenen, warmen Lichtquelle hinter ihr sichtbar.“
Man(n) trägt jetzt zwei Hemden. Tippe auf Balenciaga.
Wieviele Blinde haben Altbot wegen dieser Scheiße inzwischen stummgeschaltet oder blockiert?
Vielleicht war der anfangs tatsächlich mal brauchbar. Aber das Modell wurde mehrfach gewechselt, und wer das Ding jetzt noch nutzt ohne wenigstens mal ab und zu reinzulesen was es inzwischen produziert… ich weiß ja nicht. Ich hänge immer noch an den „sich windenden Evergreen- und Barentieren“ von vor ein paar Minuten fest.
Ich komme mir ja als Sehender schon von solchen Texten verarscht vor. Wäre ich blind hätte ich möglicherweise das Gefühl mir bietet jemand eine Lesebrille an.
Please stop using “poorly trained" when describing the murderous ICE agents. Rene Good's killer was a combat veteran and 10 year ICE veteran. It's not the training.
I can't complain. Some days are harder than others, but today is a pretty good day here. Especially after I woke up to no power this morning, but it came back right in time for work. woohoo!
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The absolute *minimum* you can do right now is email your representatives in the Senate and Congress to tell them how you feel about what's going on right now. It'll take only 5-10 minutes of your time. Do it now.
I know a guy who used to be a conservative, until he went to college. It wasn't "woke professors" that change him to a liberal, it was being in an actual city instead of the small town he grew up in.
Meeting more diverse people made him realize he was fed lies about others while growing up.
So yeah, if you ever wondered why the right wants to shut down education and universities, that's one reason.
POLAND: Siemens Mobility and Newag have signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen their co-operation in the Polish rail market and expand their previous joint work on metro trains into the high speed rail segment.
In the context of enshittification, there is one law that seems to be a constant. I mentionned it here and here:
Every piece of software will evolve beyond its intended purpose to sell you something.
Austerity and neoliberalism mean these institutions should be destroyed so we can focus on boosting corporate profits without the “waste” of analysis or memory. cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/war-…
We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running. From Privacy International:
"Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP)."
"If the proposed changes are adopted after the 60-day consultation, then millions of travellers to the U.S. will be forced to use a U.S. government mobile phone app, submit their social media from the last five years and email addresses used in the last ten years, including of family members. They’re also proposing the collection of DNA."
PI linked to and summarized a Federal Register entry describing the proposed requirements:
-All visitors must submit ‘their social media from the last 5 years’
-ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) applications will include ‘high value data fields’, ‘when feasible’ ‘telephone numbers used in the last five years’ -‘email addresses used in the last ten years’ -‘family number telephone numbers (sic) used in the last five years’ -biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris -business telephone numbers used in the last five years -business email addresses used in the last ten years.
1. Other countries may, and I think probably, will impose similar requirements on US people trying to enter those counties. In other words, the US would approach becoming a closed kingdom, like N. Korea.
2. Just wait until someone remembers Little Bobby Tables (image below).
The US have been fingerprinting for over twenty years. Each time I complained about it, Canadians and Americans looked at me like "what are you talking about". And no reciprocity either because Europe is a bunch of cowards.
I feel for anyone in the travel, tourism and hospitality industries, which make up ~ 10M jobs and ~ 3 percent of the nation's GDP. From the U.S. International Trade Administration (trade.gov)
"Inbound international travel to the United States plays a vital role in the Nation’s economy and promotes cultural exchange and understanding. Travel and tourism is the largest single services export for the United States, accounting for 22 percent of the country’s services exports and 7 percent of all exports in 2023. The travel and tourism industry contributed $2.3 trillion to the U.S. economy in 2022 (2.97 percent of the country’s GDP), supporting 9.5 million jobs."
The US have been fingerprinting for over twenty years. Each time I complained about it, Canadians and Americans looked at me like "what are you talking about". And no reciprocity either because Europe is a bunch of cowards.
I need a new Apple Watch. I think I'm going to go for the SE 3, since it's cheaper, and see what happens this fall. If I really want the Series 12, I have a trade-in. If not, I have an SE 3 I can keep for a while. It only lacks ECG, blood oxygen, and hypertension detection, none of which I need or regularly use. The Series 11 is thinner, but I'm used to the Series 9, so I'm not losing anything there either.
Not sure how much this is something you care about, but the SE 3 has a smaller screen and as a result Apple chose not to add the onscreen keyboard to it. So for text entry you’ll be limited to scribble, dictation or the phone keyboard feature when it decides to work.
@pitermach Thanks, I didn't realize that. I find I use dictation on my Series 9 anyway, so that's no great loss. Still, I didn't realize the SE lacked the keyboard.
Yeah they don't really advertise this. That was one of the reasons I upgraded from series 5 to 10. Payed off even more when they added Polish language to it. Where it really helps is when typing in passwords and such where dictation really doesn't work well.
Heading to @chaoss ConEU before FOSDEM? Be sure to catch our Lunch and Learn this Thursday Jan 29 at 13:00 with @linuxflower and Wayne Mery talking about what we're doing with Thunderbird community metrics and how can we do it better! 📈
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