Oh look, Starlink is continuing to screw up the sky in every way possible.
"Second-Generation Starlink Satellites Leak 30 Times More Radio Interference, Threatening Astronomical Observations"
astron.nl/starlink-satellites/
It's going to be "hilarious" when Starlink messes up the radio sky so badly that radio astronomers can't even use quasars to calibrate GPS anymore. There are so many consequences from all these stupid, cheaply built, disposable satellites. universetoday.com/105160/navig…
GNOME 47 is here! After months of hard work from contributors worldwide, this release brings many exciting updates and improvements. youtube.com/watch?v=sgcVp5RHy4…
Find more details about what's new in #GNOME47 in the release notes: release.gnome.org/47/
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Remember the advocate of mask ban that will say "but you can have a medical exemption" are the same that where against "vaccine mandates and certificate" because "their medical condition is their own privacy".
Also what if you are not the one with the medical condition but someone you live with or take care of? (non-withstanding the self preservation)
Mask bans are pure fascism.
We had a fire alarm a few minutes ago, and I sat in my classroom, alone, like every time my class has sports, and I can't join because they refuse to make things that a blind person can do as well.
So I walked out, looking for someone to take me to the right place to stand so they could count every class, so they knew who was there and who wasn’t. Some teacher actually picked me up after 2 or 3 minutes, brought me to another teacher, who brought me to the right teacher, who just yelled at me, "Yeah, follow me," and ran away. Imagine, but I cannot see you, idiot!
After a few minutes, we were allowed to go in again. Who gets completely ignored and stands there, trying to figure out where to go? Wow, 100 points: me.
I was phoning my mom to tell her about this while following the mass to get into the school again. Some teachers called after me, asking why I was on the phone and that this was not allowed. I just ignored it. After 2 minutes, I was almost at my classroom when they stopped me, trying to attack me for using my phone, saying it was disrespectful to ignore them.
Oh my damn, you know what's disrespectful? Ignoring every single thing I’ve said in the last 4 years, ignoring me as a blind individual, and trying to attack me with every little thing they can find. Fuck you, fuck and damn you, German school system, and fuck my school, which is the best example of how incredibly stupid humans can be.
4 years, the same fucking bullcrap, and almost everyone who knows me doesn't understand what it’s like. I am so done. So damn done with these unbelievably stupid people.
Oh wait, guess whose class is going to the cinema tomorrow, and he'll sit at home because the film has no audio description? Uh, 100 points: me.
Oh, and guess who's sitting at home next week while everyone is going to France because he's afraid no one will guide him around and help him? Oh, hmm, yes, it’s me again. And these are only some of the little things. This has been my damn life for the last 4 years. Sounds fun, right?
But I think you can imagine that itts making neither of me/my mom happy, and this kinda ruined the realtionship between her and me, and generally my motifvation to acceppt this system and go to school. I don't really have friends or anyone who would care about me there, in the first week of the new year I gott simply ignored, its crazy. I thouht it got better last year, nope, apparently it didn't.
And this is what we call inclusion and accessibillity in germany. If I hear anyone saying this again I'll puke in their face!
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The state of Missouri is set to execute an innocent man next week. DNA evidence proves Marcellus Williams' innocence but he is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 24, for a crime he did not commit.
Call Gov. Parson and urge him to stop the execution before it’s too late: *(573) 751-3222*
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*edit: his mailbox is full, here is the link to contact the governor's office: governor.mo.gov/contact-us/mo-…
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That said, I'm excited about technology progress now.
#Accessibility
Some people argue that Firefox should be able to survive on donations, if only Mozilla accepted them.
To which I say: prove it, you cowards; go set up your monthly donation to @servo.
If there's a project that can prove that that model works, it's Servo.
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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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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…
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
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.
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. 😳
@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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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.
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.)
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.
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.”
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.
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.
‼️ 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.
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Please share this post with your friends to spread the message and rally support for free software! 📣
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