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I'm fed up of standard answers such as "received, we'll pass it on" when I report accessibility issues to @Tutanota - I switched to paid subscription after they quickly enough resolved a captcha issue, but now it is at least since summer that I do not even manage to read e-mails from my web browser.
And on TUTA web page they publicly declare they respect anti-discrimination values.

I am blind, I am an accessibility advocate, no one has the right to silence me any how.

I am not saying this is something intentional or malicious, I am looking at the result. The real life result of what maybe is an unwanted effect of even a single component update.
As inaccessibility is fought through money, if within 3 months I'm not getting an effective concrete response, I'd ask for all my 36€ back till the last cent.
No time to do this yet, I want to trust them once more.

Created an issue on their github repo.

github.com/tutao/tutanota/issu…

#accessibility #a11y #blind


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Tuta

Hi Elena. We're sorry this has been your experience. At Tuta we do respect anti-discrimination values, and we try to welcome everyone to use our services. Our teams are trying to improve all aspects - including accessibility issues, so we can assure you this is something we are aware of. Sometimes things do take a bit longer as we're still a growing team. We hope you can understand.

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:boosts_ok_gay: i wanna see which networking vendors fedi prefers
pick your favourite

  • Palo Alto (0%, 0 votes)
  • Juniper (0%, 0 votes)
  • Cisco (0%, 0 votes)
  • MikroTik (100%, 1 vote)
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1 voter. Poll end: in 5 days

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Tried to extract my own glottal pulse to make the synth sound more human. Learned my voice is too gentle for radio. Sadness fills my soul. That's probably why I didn't stick with radio shows.
I recorded sustained vowels and used IAIF (Iterative Adaptive Inverse Filtering) to extract my glottal waveform - the raw "buzz" before your throat shapes it into vowels.
What I expected: Rich, characterful human excitation to replace the mathematical model.
What I got: A softer, breathier sound than pure math! 😅
The mathematical LF model with sharpness cranked to 10 actually produces MORE harmonics than my actual voice does. That "chest resonant radio announcer" sound? That's aggressive glottal snap that not everyone has.
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URLCheck sits between your apps and web browser and intercepts web searches, stripping out all of the additional tracking, that is, everything that comes after the first question mark: This FOSS app is how I open links without being followed around the web makeuseof.com/foss-app-open-li…

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Claw back your privacy one step at a time.
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for those who use the zip files I provide for both @SeveraSnape's and @FreakyFwoof's HP fan fic collections, changes on the server that host said zip files mean the speed at witch they are created every day have been significantly sped up, the entire script even with updates was completed in five minutes instead of the snails pace they were created before, so I've adjusted the time they are created to midnight eastern instead of their previous time of 11:00 AM eastern. This will take effect for the next run of the script that creates said zip files since today's run is already complete. If you need either zip file, here are the links. andre harry potter collection: downloads.shaned.net/AndreHarr… Katy's harry potter collection: downloads.shaned.net/HarryPott…
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First Q&A of the year starts in an hour, 3PM Eastern, 8PM UK.
Everyone is welcome, come plunder the depths of our brains with questions big and small. Inquiries from newcomers slip through to the front of the queue.
TeamTalk and media player details at reaperteacher.com
Or if you'd prefer to listen and ask questions in chat on YouTube:
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See ya at the top of the hour,

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Miroslav Vrhel 👷

Citace z Zkvašeno a toho bych se držel: Svou nádobu prostě naplňte až po okraj a zavřete šroubovacím víčkem. Když bude nedotažené, dostanou se dovnitř spory plísní spolu s nežádoucím kyslíkem. V počátečních dnech můžete jednou za den přebytečný tlak odpustit, přičemž vůbec nevadí, že se nějaký vzduch dovnitř jednorázově dostane, během chvilky se vymění za CO₂. Počítejte s tím, že to bude cintat, ferment stavte do talířku, misky, pekáčku nebo pečícího plechu. Když to bude utažené úplně surově na krev, tak se sice patrně sklenice neroztrhá, ale po otevření vykypí a přeteče.
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Жириновского обнаружили в файлах Эпштейна. Имя политика упоминается целых пять раз.
Эпштейн называл Жириновского "клоуном-националистом, который любит целовать и трогать мальчиков".

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Cassander

Amazing video. Absolute aces all around. Some meandering thoughts:

1- The starting discussion around Midwestern values around frugality and investing wisely kept echoing as a corollary of the Vimes Boots Theory of Socieoeconomic Unfairness that I expected it to get mentioned. I'm assuming you know what that is, but that leads right into my next thought...

2- Building off your statement "I kind of already assumed everyone knew what we were trying to do", plainly stating assumptions is one of the most useful tools for solving problems I have found in the past ten years. My day job is supporting some niche technology infrastructure, and when I get pulled into a problem it's because things are seriously, seriously weird. I've had multiple occasions where I've "walked the stack" out loud, and someone else chimed in to correct some component of pile which led to figuring out what was wrong and how to solve it.

I think there's a more advanced theory of mind issue around understanding and addressing the inherent assumptions other people make. I have no idea how that realization will help make better videos, but I'm excited to see it happen.

2a- While I agree that there's a massive capitalist interest in misleading people, my gut says the bigger challenge is people just... not reexamining assumptions that are years or decades out-of-date. Either because it's cognitively expensive (taking time and mental focus off of day-to-day work, which is also an opportunity capitalist interests are happy to exploit), or because they straight up lack the tools to approach the subject. Maybe that's wrong, and fraud/deception are really the impetus behind wasting time and money on disposable energy.

But I really think the Overestimate Short Term & Underestimate Long Term problem does a lot more heavy lifting in that regard. Humans in survival mode (as so many of us have been for the past 10-40 years) need to focus on the short term, and thinking about the long term is an unaffordable luxury.

3- Tangentially related to cognitive expense/load, I process information better with my eyes than my ears. Showing more of the math when you were running the numbers would have made that easier for me to grasp and process.

Yes, Excel is one of my most-used applications of all time. How did you know?

4- There was a dark, gallows laugh when you talked about the First Amendment rights and the press being declared enemies of the people as Donald Trump is racistly arresting four black journalists. (I'm not laughing because it's funny, I'm laughing because it's an easier emotional outlet than crying)

5- We've lost so much from caring too much about what billionaires and cult leaders say, and caring too little for our own neighbors. I don't know how we solve the big problem. I'll do my part with my skills, like the repair café I'm volunteering at next weekend. We need to build more, better fucking community, damnit.

(sorry for spammy edit/reposting. markdown is being an asshole with list formating)

Quote Origin: People Tend To Overestimate What Can Be Done In One Year And To Underestimate What Can Be Done In Five Or Ten Years – Quote Investigator®

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"Look," said Sandy, holding out her hand. "These are the original cool beans!"

"I'm sorry?" replied Lisa.

"When someone says 'cool beans'," said Sandy, "these are the beans they're referring to."

Lisa frowned. "I don't think that phrase is referring to any beans in particular...."

"Feel them!" insisted Sandy. "See how cool they are?"

"I'm not sure the phrase refers to their temperature, so much as...."

"These are cool beans!"

Lisa sighed. "I suppose you're right...."

#microfiction

#microfiction

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Today I learned that Google Gemini can understand ASCII maps like in nethacks or other roguelikes: Route to the Stairs
From your current position [@], follow these steps:
1.
Move East (Right): Move one room over to a cleared room [#].
2.
Move South (Down): Move one room down to another cleared room [#].
3.
Move South (Down) again: This will take you directly to the room containing the stairs [>].
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A lot of companies looking for expert technical consulting are stuck in a tool analysis paralysis, thrashing around between different open source options or different product offerings, struggling to write extensive "implementation" plans that map whatever the latest hype is onto the correct pile of nouns haphazardly stacked on top of one another. What DevOps tool? What agentic IDE? What cloud orchestrator? What cloud-focused Linux distro?

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Aujourd'hui un frappe une piñata en forme de voiture de police, et demain on frappe quoi ? C'est dégoûtant, en fait. huffingtonpost.fr/france/artic…

Cette pinata « anti-flics » dans une école d’art de Mulhouse suscite l’indignation de Laurent Nuñez

« Il ne faut pas laisser passer cette idéologie anti flics », s’est ému le ministre de l’Intérieur après ces faits qui se sont déroulés lors d’une fête étudiante.
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I've been thinking a lot about my AI coding and why I don't particularly enjoy it. I miss the feeling of "flow" from coding by hand; with agentic coding it's more like you're fielding a bunch of Slack messages at once – it can be exhausting.

The analogy I keep coming back to is videogame minmaxxing. If you hyper-optimize a game you can "win" but it might be less fun.

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Nolan Lawson

For example, if you're speedrunning Mario 3, about ~10 minutes in you have to pass three "hands" that each have a 50% chance of destroying your run. So each run, you basically have a 7/8 chance that you're going to have to start from scratch.

I've seen some Minecraft speedrunners practice the same 8 seconds of gameplay over and over again for hours. It might be impressive, but it certainly didn't seem like they were having fun.

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Nolan Lawson

OTOH I've been having fun helping my wife with her side projects. I vibe coded a Stardew Valley SQLite database so she can ask it questions like "what's more profitable: starfruit wine or grape jelly?" This is something I never would have done before because it's just too tedious. For her (a non-coder) it's absolutely revolutionary, especially because Claude can translate her English queries into SQL. (Using the SQLite MCP, it turns out, is way more reliable than having Claude read the wiki.)
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