in reply to 9to5Mac

I, too, find Spacial Audio transformative. I love listening to albums I thought I knew well in their Spacial Audio mixes.

And what I also enjoy, is the fact that these spacial audio mixes don't sound as hideously compressed as their stereo counterparts. Take the current Harry Styles album, for example. the single "As It Was" sounds awful in stereo, but really nice in Atmos. Not as compressed and overly basey.

Interesting: ProtonMail finally admits that Germany "is a good choice given Germany’s strong privacy laws and culture that make it almost as strong as Switzerland."

For once, we couldn't agree more. 😀

We'd even argue Germany is much better as we do not have data retention laws (which would be against the German constitution) - while in Switzerland large tech companies are forced by law to retain data: tutanota.com/blog/posts/data-r…

#germany #privacy #security

[Forum Topic] What's Up with YouTube Being Super Chatty on Page Load? applevis.com/forum/macos-mac-a…

Hi everyone! A week long jam about making blind accessible games is going to be next month! It's all about testing out new tech to make blind accessible games! I hope some folks join! itch.io/jam/bare-1

#GameDev #A11y

When I am bored, I start to scratch something that my humans don't like to be scratched. A chair upholstery for example. 🪑 This always brings their attention to me. But they are also angry angry at me. 👀😡 So I invented the step two. After scratching I start to look cute. 🥺 This immediately removes all the anger and only human's attention remains.
😺 #Cat #CatLife #LifeHack #CatsOfMastodon

Vyhrála jsem Překladatelskou soutěž Jiřího Levého v kategorii prózy za překlad kapitoly románu Glory zimbabwské spisovatelky NoViolet Bulawayo. Mám radost 😊
Ještě větší radost bych měla, kdyby chtěl Glory někdo vydat u nás. Není to žádná nevýznamná kniha, v roce 2022 byla zařazena na shortlist Booker Prize. 🏆 A myslím, že svým výsměchem autoritám by mohla být českým čtenářům sympatická. Bohužel krize tomuhle typu literatury úplně nepřeje. No nic, budu ji zkoušet nabízet dál.

Castopod v1.4.0 is out 🚀📦

📥 Podcast imports got a whole lot easier, they now run in the background!
🔎 Rest API: you can now list and search for episodes.

+ a few bugs fixes!

Grab the new package on castopod.org/

Let’s get this right. Scientists didn’t fail to communicate the risks of #climatechange, they have been warning us for a century. Our policies are failing because after knowing the risks, fossil fuel companies spent billions of dollars blocking meaningful action on #climate.

thehill.com/policy/energy-envi…

in reply to Lizzy

you see, it’s very clear /s

“*nix” is “unix-like”
“Nix” is a package manager
“NixOS” is a distro built around that package manager

nixos.org/

very confusing

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LOL! “Coast Guard Sends Another Submersible Full Of Billionaires After The First One” theonion.com/coast-guard-sends… #TaxBillionaires

There is a long list of 'don’t’s for visionOS: for example, no AirPlay support, no App Clips, no Handoff, no HealthKit, no Widgets developer.apple.com/documentat…

Hallo liebe Leseratten! Ich schick Euch mal eben ein kleines Futterpaket. Gerade machen sich weitere 21 #eBooks auf den Weg zu meinem Server. Damit stehen Euch dort nunmehr 12.265 Schmöker-Einheiten in deutscher Sprache zur Verfügung 🥳

Wie üblich:

* ohne Anmeldung
* ohne Tracking
* ohne JavaScript
* mit OPDS (also gern direkt in Eure Lesegeräte/Lese-Apps einbinden)

Wo? Na da:

ebooks.qumran.org/

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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@serrq Afraid that you'll need to ask the devs of the app. There are so many apps, I cannot know them all by heart 😉

PS: I've just installed the app to check for you. Couldn't find that option either. If you're open to an alternative reader app: Book Reader (f-droid.org/packages/com.githu…) has my library pre-configured. (at least it had when I last checked, a couple of years ago 🙈)

Ir just like and use both. Accessible Android, Boosted from @accessibleandroid: No matter how much phones evolve, there will be those who will prioritize and love a computer more than a phone. A new tutorial posted by Ferhat Bakiroglu on Phone Link app for Windows, which lets you pair your Android device with your Windows PC erisilebilirandroid.com/a-deta… 10 minutes ago. Public.

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 5 updated and 1 added apps:

* Git Coach: learn to work with Git

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:

in reply to miki

Something like this would have been far more useful here in Wrocław, but our APIs are basically nonexistent. You can get GTFS schedules easily, but that’s about it. Realtime data is available in theory, but it breaks pretty often. If you want to get reliable realtime data or electronic access to the interactive schedule boards that you can find at many bus stops, you essentially have to reverse-engineer the official Android app and connect to the API with its username and password. Of course, none of the boards talk. Buses with no PA system at all, a PA system so quiet that you can barely hear it or a PA system that announces the line but not the stop are also pretty common, especially on some lines.

Rocking out to Middle East trap music this morning. What can I say? I just…love trap, right now. soundcloud.com/haramtrap/best-…

Brace yourselves, `let else` formatting in `rustfmt` is coming 🦀

github.com/rust-lang/rustfmt/p…

#RustLang

An analysis of why Mastodon failed to capitalize on the Twitter migration according to a former Mastodon admin. These all match my experience

1. Features competitive to Twitter of 2008 when we’re in 2023
2. Users don’t care about decentralization
3. Decentralization makes the user experience worse
4. Its decision makers consider its usability flaws to be features not bugs.
5. It’s culture is exclusionary

blog.bloonface.com/2023/06/12/…

in reply to mekka okereke

But also, I think claims of the "failed migration" might be premature? The migration is still happening. Just much slower and more organically than folks who are used to hypergrowth seeing. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Every time a social media network upsets its userbase, the fediverse grows. I joke that it's the Pete Davidson of social networks. Given that social media networks can't seem to stop themselves from annoying their own users, it seems to be a pretty good growth strategy.

in reply to mekka okereke

Blue Sky's major value proposition for about 4 weeks was "this place is better for Black people than Twitter or Mastodon." And for those 4 weeks it was the fastest growing, most hyped, social network. Celebs joined!

Then they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, by allowing the most followed, most visible Black woman on Blue Sky to be harassed by a person posting racist nonsense while they took no action other than to defend the abuser.

Then their growth slowed to a crawl🤷🏿‍♂️

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In-person attendees, don't forget to register for a #GUADEC2023 social activity! We have two options available for July 31 - a Northern Latvia Day Trip or an Old Riga Walking Tour.
Learn more about both sign register by June 26: discourse.gnome.org/t/join-us-…

#GUADEC #Riga #GNOME

📢️ @a-lec anime une conférence XMPP présentée par @neox_ le vendredi 23 juin prochain à partir de 16h au tiers-lieu Le Mazet à Bourbon l'Archambault (03160) 🗓️
C'est tout public et convivial 🤩
@ChatonsOrg #logiciellibre #communs #xmpp
a-lec.org/actus/2023-06-23-con…