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Periodic reminder: nearly all of the browsers except Firefox and Safari are RESKINNED GOOGLE CHROME with somebody else's interests, cloud service integration, shitcoin, whatever tacked on. Using them is no better than using Chrome, and does not get you out of a surveillance/no-autonomy/monoculture hellscape.

Only Firefox has real privacy preserving adtech blocking and other critical features.

We must fight for it when its stewards fail us.



seeing pushback against procedural generation as a result of alleged "AI" and that's really fucking sad

good procedural generation is hard. good procedural generation is bespoke and intentional. good procedural generation is artistic and creative. please don't lump it in with the slop generated through machine learning 😞

EDIT: procgen is not AI, it's a 40+ year old game design technique, see: peoplemaking.games/@eniko/1131…

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Mit der Umstellung von #Thunderbird auf #Snap in #Ubuntu hat sich #Canonical echt ein Ei gelegt:
Nach dem Update auf 24.04 sind einfach alle Mails und Einstellungen weg. Es gibt keinen automatisch Import während des Updates.
Ich konnte das Problem damals glücklicherweise schnell lösen, weil das Profil natürlich nicht gelöscht war.
Ich habe darüber gebloggt und bekomme inzwischen fast täglich dankbare Kommentare, weil verzweifelte Anwender*innen ihre Mails retten konnten.
kaffeeringe.de/2024/05/27/thun…
in reply to Steffen Voß

In welchem Ordner der Snap-Version liegt denn die Datei profiles.ini?
in reply to FediVerseExplorer

System-Thunderbird: $HOME/.thunderbird
snap-Thunderbird: $HOME/snap/thunderbird/common/.thunderbird

Durch Rüberkopieren sind die alten Einstellungen, Mails, Termine etc. wieder da.
Funktioniert übrigens analog auch bei der Migration von Windows.
@fexplorer @kaffeeringe

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in reply to MaMü

Kurzes update:
Eben das ubuntu upgrade auf 24.4.1 auf einer Maschine gemacht.

Thunderbird hat sich mit dem ersten Start ohne weiteres Zutun die Daten aus dem alten Verzeichnis geholt.



Look! another Signal spam
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Microsoft laid off hundreds of workers last week.

In total, it has laid off over 2500 employees so far this year.

Its CEO was paid $48.5M in 2023 — 250x the company's typical worker.

Yesterday, the company announced a $60B stock buyback program.

Textbook corporate greed.



Oops. My code now makes 20% of curl.

I'll need to bring that up in my next therapy session. Surely this is connected to my childhood somehow. 😳

in reply to Asbjørn Ulsberg

@bitbear 1. the script that generates the list of the top-40 authors as a CSV: github.com/curl/stats/blob/mas…

2. the gnuplot script that renders the graph using the CSV as input: github.com/curl/stats/blob/mas…



As has been foretold: chaos.social/@RichiH/112579960…

#FOSDEM will happen on 2025-02-01 and 2025-02-02, we just signed the contract with ULB today!

You're hearing it here first, because Mastodon is the #FLOSS social network. We'll publish official news in a bit :)

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Got an enormous amount done this morning.
1. Cancelled my 1Password account. I was only evaluating it and I prefer Bitwarden myself.
2. Had a long conversation with someone on my Apple Watch. It worked a treat. She could hear me fine and I could also hear her voice and JAWS over the watch clearly enough.
3. For practice, created some markdown documents on my BrailleSense and asked ChatGPT to convert them to Word. Lovely accessible Word documents containing tables and headings. It cannot handle footnotes properly though.
the python-docx library doesn't directly support adding proper footnotes as in Microsoft Word. So what it did was simulated the appearance of a footnote by inserting a superscript reference number in the text and adding the footnote at the end of the document. That is not the same thing at all.
4. Tried to create a JAWS notification rule so as to remove the "star star" characters from ChatGPT and CoPilot. That hasn't worked out quite right. I think that may be a JAWS issue rather than me.
5. Talked to some people on X.
6. Processed plenty of Email.
So a good morning all in all.


Hovädzí guláš s knedlíkem a točená jedenáctka... šly do ramien a bicepsu. :02_sip:


I have zero confidence left in Mozilla's leadership. In fact, here's a bold prediction: the Thunderbird team (operating under the wholly owned subsidiary known as MZLA) will be more profitable within 5 years than Mozilla Corporation. Yes, that same dying product Mozilla abandoned in 2012. The one the COMMUNITY kept alive and the one that is now thriving.

Eventually Mozilla will approach MZLA begging them to come back...

(Note that I'm saying this as someone no longer employed there.)

in reply to Seasons of Jason

One of the weirdest disconnects happened a few months ago when I received a Mozilla Foundation newsletter about the evils of big corporations building unethical AI. It was a donation appeal so they could gear up to "fight" against companies like OpenAI.

This doesn't seem strange until you consider that Mozilla is currently paying a ChatGPT Enterprise license for all ~1000 of its employees. And encouraging them to use it for productivity, brainstorming, & code.

Yea, it didn't sit well. At all.

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El INE vuelve a revisar el PIB y muestra que esta subestimado. Hace una año entreviste en el programa a una de las personas que llevan años señalando y demostrando que así era: @mig_artola

Por si queréis entenderlo, os lo dejo en el YT de @ElSaltoDiario youtube.com/live/s-5eZ0aJscQ?s…




“You should go to conferences!” – “Cool, where’s your COVID prevention strategy? How is your air filtered? How do you ensure CO2-levels are in check? Are masks required?” – 🦗🦗🦗 – “So, you mean I should not go to conferences. Understood.”

#teamNoConfCrud

in reply to Eric Eggert

@Tamasg Why to filter air and to again have the covid histerics? We had it in the past. No thanks!
in reply to Zvonimir Stanecic

@asael @Tamasg Oh no, clean air, how horrible. Disabled people being able to participate in society! What a terrible thought!

FUCK OFF!

in reply to Zvonimir Stanecic

@asael I RP-ed it because I've personally had way too many friends impacted by this new wave, some of whom ended up with long COVID. My sister caught it for a 3rd time and thankfully nothing longterm for her, and she's not even disabled. I'm glad my Sweden trip turned out lucky for me but I'd be afraid for a large conference where there's zero COVID statements made even if masks are optional, but that's just me entirely there and we're all different in opinions :)
in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg So why we all vaccinated who were vaccinated? Sorry, but in that case we all are dumb idiots. Sorry for being harsh.
in reply to Zvonimir Stanecic

@asael @Tamasg Why do we have airbags when we have brakes? Why do we have fire extinguishers when fire fighters exist? Because not one precaution is perfect for everybody. Layers are cool. Vaccinations would help if the infection rates were low, but they are not. So maybe try to do more is not such a bad suggestion?


In Mona, has anyone been finding that, with long posts in their timelines, VoiceOver focus jumps? I usually scroll bottom to top, so I just swipe to the left through all the posts, and when there's a long post, Mona seems to skip a bunch of posts when I do this.


I wish you could set certain websites to always open in reader mode on a per domain basis.


Get in Babkans and other fedizens, we're doing Tuesday.

This morning the landscapers are out and making noise, so I suspect I won't be getting much work done for now. Good thing I can rearrange. We have the windows open and don't want to close all of them.

Other than that, John and I have read five of the "In Death" books so far. We like the series but are taking a break for now.

#Today

in reply to Amanda Carson

I'm glad you've liked it well enough to read five books so far. :)
in reply to Keri Svendsen

So far favorite characters are Mavis, Peabody, Rork, and Crack. John says Eve Dallas is OK but sometimes gets on his nerves. Sometimes she gets on my nerves too. I haven't decided if I like Crack yet.


Hoy en el trabajo, horas perdidas porque a Microsoft Outlook no le sale de los huevos funcionar correctamente. Esto se solucionaría fácilmente con thunderbird y el add-on de OWA.



Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Evakuierung nach Explosion im russischen Twer ++

Im russischen Twer hat es nach Drohnenangriffen Explosionen gegeben, mutmaßlich in einem Munitionslager. Die Ukraine hat nach Angaben örtlicher Gouverneure mehrere Regionen in Russland mit Drohnen angegriffen. Alle Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

➡️ tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveb…

#Liveblog #Ukraine



‼️ The Free Software Foundation Europe needs your help ‼️

The EU Commission aims to remove funding from free software projects which are crucial to our digital lives.

We spoke with the #FSFE to learn more.
👉 youtu.be/mNZgSCvg6Ew

Please share this post with your friends to spread the message and rally support for free software! 📣

#freesoftware #opensource #eu #europe #freedom

in reply to Tuta

Hecho.

Hagan la magia de #mastodon como se decía en algunos lares y Compartan este post de arriba por favor .

#fsf #fediverse #p4g







The proposal to update the UnifiedPush specifications, mainly to make UnifiedPush endpoints explicitly web push endpoints with VAPID and urgency compatibility is open for review.

You can find the changes here: codeberg.org/UnifiedPush/speci… codeberg.org/UnifiedPush/speci…

Your feedback is most valuable, whether on codeberg or in our matrix dev room (matrix.to/#/#unifiedpush-dev:m…)



Apple fixed language detection in Mac OS 15.

GOd this makes me so happy.



🪲Ok @Tusky:
seit einiger Zeit sind meine begonnenen Toots weg, wenn ich kurz die App wechsle*, zB. für Copypaste oder so.
So hab ich in der letzten Woche schon dreimal lange, geduldig formulierte Posts verloren.

* EDIT: Nur wenn ich per HOME-button aussteige. Begonnene Beiträge sollten m.E. trotzdem nicht weg sein.

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in reply to blausand 🐟

Hallo, es tut uns leid, aber wir haben diesen Fehler bereits identifiziert und sind dabei, ihn zu beheben.
Es wird ein paar Tage dauern, bis der Fix verfügbar ist, also haben Sie bitte etwas Geduld. Im Moment ist er nur in der Nachtversion enthalten, falls Sie auf diese umsteigen möchten.



Het is weer een heerlijke woensdag!
Want Els, Liezelotte en Robert openen de herberg van 14u tot 18u en bakken pannenkoeken!

Daarnaast zijn de woensdag activiteiten ook weer van de partij!

#debroederijgent #standaertsite #woensdag #iedereenwelkom



Připomínáme, že druhý ročník srazu Mastodon a fediverse uživatelů se blíží! 🎉
📅 Datum: 11.10.2024
📍 Místo: Hospůdka Do Větru,
Těšíme se na vás všechny, ať už jste #fediverse nováček, nebo veterán! Přijďte si užít skvělou atmosféru, popovídat a poznat nové lidi.
Potvrďte prosím svoji účast, ať víme přibližně, kolik nás dorazí. Zatím účast potvrdilo 18 účastníků. @mastopivo
#mastopivo #boost
srazy.arch-linux.cz/invite/R6Z…

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No sé por qué será, pero no hay cosa como preguntar una duda técnica en el fedi para que se me ocurra la respuesta. Es como esos aparatos que funcionan bien en cuanto viene el técnico.
in reply to modulux

hay algo como 'encontrar la buena pregunta', lo que ayuda muchísimo al que se ocurra la respuesta, tambien
in reply to zombiecide

Es cierto, al tratar de formular la pregunta bien ya se está haciendo un cierto esfuerzo.


Re last: I think it's one of the worst decisions Mozilla could made. Can't they afford a smallish Mastodon instance? Sorry, I don't believe. then it's a political decision: let's go back to the ex-bird site (pun intended), with all its hate speech and the jerk in the head; let's deprive many people that really care about the open-source community of a convenient way of communication. Nice of you, #Mozilla, nice of you.


Last day of #OSSummit EU 2024. There is still time to visit us at Booth B8! Don't miss out!
in reply to Igalia

We continue in Vienna for #LinuxPlumbers 2024! Today two Igalia colleagues will be on stage!
This morning at 10:40 CEST, Changwoo Min (@multics69) will be in the Sched_ext MC presenting his work on "Using sched_ext to improve frame rates on the SteamDeck" (lpc.events/event/18/contributi…)
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in reply to Pumpkin Spice Manu

Sin que tenga que estar necesariamente relacionado: ¿alguien quiere un riñón o un trozo de hígado? A la plancha seguro que está rico.
in reply to Pumpkin Spice Manu

Definitivamente tengo que buscar la forma de que mi principal bandeja de entrada de mensajes sea la del Bizum.


Mamute. Mám tiskárnu Canon LPB623Cdw.

Mám Linux. (Používám Arch, BTW)

Na síti jsem si tiskárnu našel, přidal a poslal testovací stránku.

Tiskárna hlásí "Čekám na tisk" ... A netiskne!

Do Bingu se mi zatím nepodařilo napsat správný dotaz.

Nevíš?
#canon #printer #endeavourOS

in reply to Pavel

běží ti
systemctl status avahi-daemon.service ?


Pět let se mi dařilo se nákaze vyhnout. No nic všechno musí být jednou poprvé #COVID19
in reply to Archos

@archos zatím dobrý, jenom rýma a zvýšená teplota. Akorát mě bolí každý sval v těle a to tak ze to je horší než když mě porazilo auto na přechodě.
in reply to Jan Antoš

Já měl covid 2x a vždy jsem byl pak i hrozně unavený a první dva dny zimnice. Marodil jsem dva týdny. Tak držím palce, ať je brzo lépe.


#EUGeneralCourt largely upholds the fine imposed on @Qualcomm by the @EU_Commission for abuse of dominant position - € 238.7 million #competition 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_…


Ramená done, zajtra ešte nohy a dobre bude... viete kde idem, do Pivárne. Nadšený nie som lebo sa mi nechce.