Today is a double dumb. I can't tell where the toothache ends and the headache begins. I think that's me done for the rest of the day, probably. With all the snow that will surely still be on the ground tomorrow, I have a funny feeling my root canal won't be happening then. We'll see, I guess. #MakeItStop
Wäre heute nicht ein guter Tag, um einen Messenger auszuprobieren, der einen offiziellen Standard nutzt, d.h. den Weg von Instant Messaging zu Independent Messaging zu beschreiten?
Einen ganz einfachen Weg, der deine persönlichen Bedürfnisse berücksichtigt und dabei auch die Souveränität deiner Mitmenschen verbessert, findest du hier: imday.de/
Tak Tusky už konečně umí zobrazovat i citace. A taky přidal další kosmetické vzhledové změny. Jsou tak nenápadné, že nevím, co přesně se změnilo, ale vím, že je to jiné.
I’ve had a long and crappy week especially with this horrible weather.
Always remember to be kind to each other and you matter so much. You deserve the best and most amazing moments.
Today we are gonna be talking about hyperbolic orbits
A hyperbolic orbit describes the path of an object that passes through a gravitational system only once and never returns. Unlike circular or elliptical orbits, a hyperbolic trajectory is open, meaning the object has enough speed to escape the gravity of the body it encounters. In our solar system, some comets and interstellar objects follow hyperbolic orbits, briefly swinging past the Sun before heading back into deep space. These paths have an eccentricity greater than one, a key mathematical signature of escape. Hyperbolic orbits are important because they reveal objects that originated elsewhere. A few examples include Oumuamua and 31/ATLAS.
Das Jahr hat erst angefangen und ich kann jetzt schon nicht mehr. Die ganze Weltpolitik, persönliche Sorgen, es passiert gefühlt nichts schönes mehr. Ich muss das ganze rausschreien, um wieder Luft zu haben. (Wieder ein schneller Scribble-Comic, mehr schaff ich gerade nicht).
Last of the Matrix series at the Decentralisation Communication devroom: what does it take to bring MLS to decentralised environments? Hubert tells us so!
Today at #fosdem26 we listen to @benjaminbellamy the father of @Castopod presenting the project #podilibre to bring freedom and control at every step of the process when producing a podcast.
@TomGrant91 You can now enter your own custom tick value, or in beats with the Grave key '`'. CTRL+` to change the duration of the highighted note, as you'd expect.
@TomGrant91 You can also reverse the audio too, and export to Nokia RNG not just import and it does actually work properly now, unlike when you tried it yesterday. There's a What's New in readme.
@TomGrant91 @carrottop1023 I will say it's one of the most fun things I've ever worked on, musically or otherwise. I always wanted to be a coder but don't have the brain for it, but now I can fake it, and tie it into my love of music, so I basically have my cake and eat it.
I didn’t get a chance to ask the question during the panel, so I’ll ask it out-loud here :)
I tend to have a mental model of behaviour that I think about on social media: interaction level and collective level.
If you want to moderate interaction level content, then that’s things like “is this image problematic” or “is this person harassing someone else” and so on. That seems to be what the DSA mostly addresses? Which is great! We need more protection there
But the collective level is something I’m curious about: what happens when attacks are designed to be “harmless” or “not violating” at the interaction-level, yet deeply harmful at the collective level? How does one defend against a synthetic threat carefully designed to target a vulnerable collective in a way that no interaction level defense is really capable of handeling?
Do we have regulations around this yet? Is it a problem we’re trying to address at the governance level? (I know the tooling is nearly non existent, but slowly starting to emerge. It would be encouraging to see similar momentum in governance)
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Together with @Mastodon@mastodon.social director @mellifluousbox@mastodon.social , Open Networks advocate @samvie@chaos.social and EU MP @alexandrageese@bonn.social , @jmaris@eupolicy.
@modulux A good example would be identifying a wave of spam from multiple individual accounts, each one being a “normal” amount of traffic, but the aggregate being a disproportionate amount of volume.
Another would be a group that targets a subset of a community with messages that, individually, do not break any rules but the combined result is that the targeted community members feel so unwelcome that they can’t participate safely in the space without harming their mental health.
When done severely enough and targeted enough, it can erode a community over time to the point where it collapses
Et ce qui est le plus incompréhensible pour moi que ces gens, ces Européens autochtones parlant un français (ou espagnol dans ce cas-ci) parfait ne comprennent pas que, si jamais leur grand remplacement favori aboutit, c'est *eux* qui ne seront plus utiles et eux aussi, ils seront remplacés. Ça commence déja, les politiciens les plus odieux comme Hassan (que tout le monde connaît) parlent déjà d'une « gauche trop blanche ».
Il y a des gens de gauche et d'extrême gauche qui se détestent parce qu'ils sont blancs. Ils essaient donc d'effacer, via le "multiculturalisme" et le "grand remplacement", une identité qu'ils détestent.
Ils détestent Noël, ils détestent l'histoire de France, pour eux l'histoire de France commence en 1789.
J'ai un ami sénégalais qui est député de gauche au Sénégal. Il me le dit souvent : "Vous avez la gauche la plus bête au monde."
Exactement. Comme j'aime dire, c'est la différence entre « On veut qu'il y ait des restos halal » et « On veut que 100% de restos en France soient halal ». Et si je ne soutiens pas le dernier, on me traite de facho, raciste et j'en passe. C'est vraiment triste que la gauche d'aujourd'hui manigance. Triste et dangereux à la fois.
La gauche d'aujourd'hui aime le patriotisme, l'identité et la culture des pays étrangers, mais déteste le patriotisme, l'identité et la culture de son propre pays.
#MichelHouellebecq avait identifié très tôt dès le milieu des années 2000 une ligne de fracture idéologique majeure.
La question raciale a progressivement supplanté la question sociale. Le discours s’est déplacé vers une lecture du monde fondée sur la culpabilité collective.
Pour la gauche et l'extrême gauche l’« homme blanc » est érigé en figure du mal historique, moral et politique.
my knew favorite thing on the templates tab of @FastSM is this option, right here. Collapse usernames when more than (0 = disabled) I set mine to two and then when a billion people are in a mention, etc. I here something like, @munchkinbear and 2 more. Makes reading long winded mentions with a billion people so much smoother. lol.
@4zv4l I'm totally blind, people like me use special software called screen readers which convey the information for us in speech and/or Braille. Not every app or website is inherently ready for it. It is called digital accessibility, or simply #Accessibility. There are standards and (in several locations) laws enforcing it. The most prominent world standard everyone bases their local laws of is Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG, most commonly read as "wick-cagg"). Unfortunately, I didn't find any Matrix client for Windows or web accessible for screen reader users.
@menelion ah I understand, hopefully one developper will see the need and make a client with that feature or adapt a current one (maybe less work to adapt a preexisting one like Element).
@menelion @4zv4l What? Elements.io is quite accessible both on app and on browser. I don't know about other apps though. There should also be possibility to manage matrix and xmpp chats through thunderbird but I haven't used it. What's quite weird in matrix is the identity verification method when you associate devices to account that asks you if emojis match. So you have to learn emoji by heart like the game "simon says" but for the rest, the Element web and mobile clients are pretty good.
@elettrona @4zv4l don't you experience focus jumps? Are you able to read longer messages? Do you have any notification with text when a message comes in? I'll retest though.
@menelion We spend a lot of time on accessibility in Element Web/Desktop - it should work fairly well with NVDA and JAWS; we have several screenreader users in the community (as well as govt customers who require WCAG 2.2 AA) to keep us honest. We are *very* appreciative of screenreader bugs though, so if you're hitting problems please do let us know. @4zv4l @matrix
@element @4zv4l Where can I post issues, please? For me, when I tested element, focus was jumping constantly, I had no accessible notifications of new messages, I couldn't read longer messages, etc., etc. I'd be glad to help because Matrix seems very promising, but I wish it were fully accessible also. Thanks!
XMPP is listed at the ‘Digital Independence Day’ (DIDAY) as an alternative chat option and the community created switch recipes to enable users to migrate to independent messaging.
The German initiative ‘Digital Independence Day’ (DI.DAY) has been kicked off this year to enable users to migrate to open-source software alternatives in various contexts. Beside others XMPP is listed as an alternative chat option and …
aka DI.Day / DUT – und zukünftig auch jeden ersten Sonntag im Monat. 👉 Schon im Kalender? Falls nicht: jetzt! 🗓️💥
Zum DI.Day öffnet bei uns der @cccp seine Türen: 📍 freiLand | Haus 5 | machBar 🕒 Sonntag, 01.02.2026 ab 15:00 Uhr Fragen? Hürden? Komm vorbei! Wir helfen dir!
🚀 Wichtigster Schritt nach dem Wechsel: drüber reden! Am besten mit einem DI.DAY Post Generator Bild: qznc.github.io/dot/diday.html
Ernsthaft? Die gesamte grafische Gestaltung sagt: Hier sehen sie einen Kosmonauten, verbunden mit seiner Raumstation - selbst die Bildbeschreibung deutet in diese Richtung. Dass, vollkommen entgegen der Optik, hier NICHT kyrillische Buchstaben Verwendung finden, ist wenig intuitiv. Und wenn man eine Grafik erklären muss, weil die naheliegende Interpretation nicht intendiert ist, ist die Grafik vielleicht nicht so passend. 🤔🤷🏼♂️
Eine weitere Einordnung: Das Bild findet man am Rechenzentrum in Potsdam. Es wurde von dem Künstler Fritz Eisel unter dem Titel "Mensch bezwingt den Kosmos" zwischen 1969-1971 dort angebracht. Das Rechenzentrum ist für uns in Potsdam ein wichtiger Ort. Zu DDR Zeiten war es das Datenverarbeitungszentrum des Bezirkes Potsdam und heute ist es ein Ort für über 300 Künstler:innen. Zum anderen ist das RZ der David gegen Goliath im Streit um den Wiederaufbau der Garnisonkirche.
Знаете, мне кажется, мы иногда упускаем интересные эпизоды из жизни дикой природы. У охотников есть термин — чернотроп. Это период, когда зима ещё не наступила, а осень вступает в свою самую глубокую фазу. Серый пейзаж с сухой листвой, низкое тяжёлое небо. В этот момент дикие животные становятся столь же неброскими. Как эта лисица, которую я сфотографировал в декабре. Она была в процессе линьки, её окрас блеклый и потрёпанный, совсем не тот, что мы обычно видим на фото.
Я тогда гулял возле реки и, заметив движение, присел с камерой. На мне не было маскировки, но ожидание было недолгим. Через несколько минут появилась лисица. Она даже не взглянула в мою сторону и пробежала мимо. В период линьки животные теряют свою осторожность. Но, заметив меня, лисица сразу пустилась наутёк.
Теперь, когда зима в разгаре, все лисы снова в своих шубках, и ничего не напоминает об их облезлых нарядах чернотропа. А мне удалось запечатлеть одну из них в непривычном виде. #natureblogru #лиса #mastoanimals
i dunno, "i would walk 804.672 kilometers and i would walk 804.672 more just to be the man who walks 1,609.344 kilometers to fall down at your door" just doesn't have the same ring to it
To je fraja! Ta nase princezna do snehu nerada. I na zahrade chodi jen po cestickach co ji musim odhrnovat. Kdyz jdeme ven tak chodi vicemene jen po cestach, nebo skace v mych proslapnutych stopach.
I just met @bagder and he was as nice and humble as you can imagine! I also got to see his retroactively awarded medal from the European OpenSource academy which was very shiny! #FOSDEM
Wer nach einer Alternative für seinen #Messenger sucht, kann mal ein Blick in #XMPP werfen. Es gibt verschiedene Seiten, auf denen ihr euch informieren könnt.
XMPP ist ein dezentrales, offenes und somit Unabhängigkeit System zum chatten.
Denise is building on her work within the Foundation to give a tour of the Digital Omnibus in UA2.118! Is the EU's tech simplification a Risk or Opportunity for Open Source?
Okay, for any of you who have NVDA Composer by @FreakyFwoof installed, paste the following into it. One note sounds a tiny bit short to me, but nevertheless, some of you should definitely recognize this!
I just tried to do the VoxClock version of Roslein, as well as the Estonian national anthem, and neither seem to be working out. It seems the note lengths this thing can produce aren't really designed for waltzes.
If YOU CAN PLAY IT IN USING MIDI AS A TEST< THEN BRING IT INTO THE COMPOSER< IT SHOULD ALIGN IT TO NEAREST tick value and we can see if it does support it or not. I'm still going to implement that anyway, but still.
Potential bug, maybe? So I'm editing a sequence, which involves a lot of 1/12 and 1/24 note fractions, and also occasional 8th notes. It's swing that isn't, mostly just triplets, and I transcribed this in MML previously. So I've got my units set to 1/24 and use control+right arrow to lengthen to 1/12 when I need it. But when I press control+right again, it goes from 160 ticks to 320 ticks, when it should probably increase by another step size, yielding 240 ticks, which is the 8th note I need. Is it supposed to always double or is it supposed to add?
@x0 It's doubling I believe, yeah. It's hard to account for so many variables admittedly. Can you use the ` or CTRL+` to get the right number in as desired? Is that working at least? That was only added today so it's a new feature.
That's how I punched in the 1/12 and 1/24 fractions yup, although I haven't tried using control+` on a single note that was already entered. Oh! Right, I was thinking that this was like reaper's grid, where step size and note length are different, but control+` is only for editing existing notes, isn't it? That's how come it's blank?
You should at least be able to fix that short note now. I tried it myself (pre the tick fix) and couldn't get it to work but that should not be a problem any longer.
Jérôme Sautret and Edhelas will be presenting together: "Engineering XMPP Federation: Building Messaging, Voice & Social Features Across Independent Projects"
Onko kellään vinkkejä muuten kartalla pysymiseen keikkatarjonnasta?
En ikinä muista katsoa jotain lempiartistien kiertueaikatauluja ajoissa ja missaan näitä. Muutenkin miljoona asiaa mitä yrittää muistaa niin bändien ja keikkapaikkojen sivujen läpikäynti ei ole ykkösenä.
Jos otetaan valtavirtasomejen seuraaminen pois laskuista (mikä on valitettavasti edelleen kaikkein kattavin tapa tähän), niin meteli.net on edelleen hengissä ja listaa laajasti eri paikkojen keikkatarjontaa. Mielestäni siellä on myös artistisivuja.
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