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Protože covid je stále mezi námi, registroval jsem se právě na 6. očkování.
in reply to SuspiciousDuck

@SuspiciousDuck No jo no, já chodím pravidelně každý rok. A jako první jsem měl Astra Zenecu, u té byly 2 dávky na začátku.
in reply to Robin Bedrunka 🐞

ja už ani neviem ktorá bola moja prvá ale bola jednodávková.

edit: Pfizer
edit1: v Prahe v O2 Aréne

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2. den vyklízení mamčiny ordinace po povodních za námi. Uff… 😓

Ale máme hotovo. Zbyly věci na odvezení stěhováky do spalovny, jinak mlsáme vyklizeno.

A teď hurá udělat ordinaci novou. Teda - dneska už ne.



Contra the “humans are a virus” discourse that’s popular among eco-fascists and, unfortunately, a sizable segment of the left that likes to imagine other people (but never them) are The Problem, humans have a long history of sustainably and often *beneficially* interacting with their environments.

“Even 12,000 y ago, nearly three quarters of Earth’s land was inhabited and therefore shaped by human societies, including more than 95% of temperate and 90% of tropical woodlands. Lands now characterized as ‘natural,’ ‘intact,’ and ‘wild’ generally exhibit long histories of use, as do protected areas and Indigenous lands, and current global patterns of vertebrate species richness and key biodiversity areas are more strongly associated with past patterns of land use than with present ones in regional landscapes now characterized as natural.”

In other words, much of the wilderness we imagine as pristine reservoirs of biodiversity is in reality the product of human effort.

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2023…

in reply to HeavenlyPossum

The Amazon River basin is covered with rain forest that many people mistake for a primordial sort of natural reserve, lightly peopled and untouched until recent deforestation.

On the contrary, we now know that the Amazon was once densely peopled as archeologists continue to discover the remains of city after sprawling city. The Amazon forest we see today is the remains of what was once a vast garden, cultivated to supply food to those cities.

Indigenous land use was once so pervasive and intensive that the forest’s soils, normally fairly poor, are pockmarked with patches of terra preta de Índio—“black earth of the Indians”—which are particularly fertile and self-sustaining soils produced by human activity.

nature.com/articles/s41467-022…



Are you a FOSS developer? Do you want to learn #Rust #RustLang? I will give a two hour course on the basics of Rust Saturday, September 28, at 16:00 UTC. This is early evening for Europe, and morning in the US. (I can do another session that's more suitable for Asia, later.)

Info: liw.fi/training/rust-foss-dev/



Boosting this again to add that if you don't know about Deniz Camp already, you should get acquainted with his work. I'm gonna be tracking everything he writes him forward after being blown away by this and his work on Ultimates.

crab.garden/@brainblasted/1131…



Man muss übrigens nicht 'links' sein, wenn man gegen die völkischen und rassistischen Positionen der #AfD Stellung beziehen will.
Es reicht, Anstand zu haben.
#afd



Cum Ex - eine der größten Banken- und Finanz-Betrugsreihen der letzten Jahrzehnte.
Aber was soll‘s?
„Nächste Woche soll ein Gesetz im Bundestag verabschiedet werden, das es Banken ermöglicht, quasi legal Beweise zu vernichten, die ihre Beteiligung an CumCum-Geschäften belegen könnten.“

Anne Brorhilker von @Finanzwende ruft zum Widerstand auf.

Unterzeichnen könnt ihr hier: weact.campact.de/petitions/cum…



they called it trickle-down economics because 'financial waterboarding' didn't poll well with focus groups


Being human includes making mistakes.

Demanding perfection - the absolute absence of mistakes under any circumstances - is, therefore, dehumanizing.

To selectively dehumanize a group of people, while demanding perfection on behalf of another group of people, is called oppression.

When this is done on the basis of race, it is racism.

When some queer uses a hashtag created by a queer to smear and harass another queer for some imperfection, this is dehumanizing and bad enough... but when the first queer is white, and the other two are Black, this is fucking racist.

And supporting this behavior, while deciding not to be critical, or spend any time learning the details, is also racist.



Here's the disappointingly inaccessible AirPods 4 reset procedure from #Apple:

1. Open the lid of your charging case.
2. Double-tap the front of the case while the status light is on.
3. Double-tap again when the status light flashes white.
4. Double-tap a third time when the status light flashes faster. When the status light flashes amber then flashes white, you can reconnect your AirPods.

#accessibility



people are told that equinox is the start of autumn and yet can't understand why it starts to feel like autumn weeks before. but if you go by the old calendars, equinox isn't the start: it's when autumn really comes into itself and is entirely its own season.

it used to be, in celtic countries but also elsewhere, that the quarter days — equinoxes and solstices — marked the mid points of the seasons, whereas the cross-quarter days marked their beginnings. the cross-quarter days are at the beginning of february, may, august, and november, and correspond to the modern/christian groundhog's day/candlemas, may day, lammas, and hallowe'en/all saints'.

but just like solstices and equinoxes, the cross-quarter days are specific astronomical points in the year and technically fall sometime during the first week of the month in question.

so northern hemisphere spring is born in february, when the wind begins to change and the air feels different sometimes. summer in may, when the world has truly come to life. autumn in august, when the wind changes again, and winter in november when the world begins to sleep.

this is why winter and summer solstice are traditionally known as midwinter and midsummer. and in china, this time of year is when the mid-autumn festival occurs.

so if the dates of the seasons have never really made sense to you, maybe this is why?

whatever you do, have a blessed and beautiful equinox. may we all find balance today, and rest in the darkness to come.



Today I refactored the code when sending files in FluffyChat. Now the app does not try to load all bytes from the files at once. It first checks the sizes and queries the max file size from the server.

Previously the app could even crash when picking a too large file. Especially videos. Now it is possible to pick large videos and let the app try to compress them, without the risk, that the app crashes.

This should make sending large files a much smoother experience.

github.com/krille-chan/fluffyc…




Comics are my favorite storytelling format by far. I want to read more comics


Silicon Valley has a monopoly on the web. But we can make a difference by choosing privacy-friendly alternatives. Here are some ideas:

✅ Tuta Mail
✅ Tuta Calendar
✅ Firefox browse
✅ DuckDuckGo search
✅ OpenStreetMap
✅ Mastodon
✅ LibreOffice

What are your favorite apps?

Read more on how Google pays to maintain its #monopoly: tuta.com/blog/google-search-mo…

in reply to Tuta

Hope you consider adding Kagi Search to future lists! Ad-free, tracking-free and committed to protecting user privacy: kagi.com/welcome

We share the same values as Tuta 😊


in reply to Stéphanie Pageau

beware of potholes. Not sure the 417 is in construction but it was still much better.


Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water — AI data centers also raise power and water bills for nearby residents | Tom's Hardware tomshardware.com/tech-industry…


🚲 Rolling through life one pedal at a time.

Can you imagine a city with less noise and less air pollution?

Today we experienced it here in Brussels and in hundreds of EU cities on #CarFreeDay!

1929 cities from 43 countries are participating with a single motto: ‘Shared public spaces’ and show their commitment to cleaner and more sustainable urban transport during #MobilityWeek.



Meta AI hallucinated so badly yesterday that it invented a completely non-existing menu after I took a picture of a menu in a restaurant. That sort of hallucination should go into a Museum of Modern Arts. :)
in reply to Chi Kim

@chikim Luckily, I double-checked with a sighted friend who was with us. This is how I discovered the discrepancy shall we call it! :) ,
in reply to victor tsaran

Once I get a free minute, I will post both the pic and the Meta AI output here, so you can judge for yourself. Of course, I already submitted the feedback to Meta, so hopefully, they'll work on it!


The BT Speak (blazietech.com/bt-speak-pro), particularly in its "traditional" (non-GUI) mode, takes such an interesting approach to implementing a UI specifically for blind people.

From the mid 2000s until I got my BT Speak, I thought the only viable options were to either implement a screen reader for a GUI, or implement a fully custom UI designed specifically for speech output and whatever kind of keyboard or keypad the device supports. The BT Speak does neither. 1/?

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in reply to Matt Campbell

Very interesting writeup on this. Now if they want to keep everything open-source, I don't really see how they can allow NLS talking book playback. Yes I know that in a good security system only the private keys and not the source code need to stay hidden, but still I can't see NLS being happy with anyone being able to look at the source code on-device and find out where those keys are stored.



Decided to finally step off the "zero point something" versioning scheme treadmill for Amberol, and released 2024.1.

Fixed up a bunch of small issues that were tied up in my attempt at getting "1.0" out of the door, before realising that version numbers are complete fiction, and there's no reason whatsoever for an application to start out of "zero point" and reach the fabled "one point oh" status.

#amberol #maintainerlife #freesoftware

in reply to Emmanuele Bassi

Version numbers are free! Delighted to see you moving closer to the light.


Trying out Tuba again and wow, I'm quite impressed! The login flow was as quick and painless as it gets, and the client feels quite polished.

github.com/GeopJr/Tuba




I'm currently re-writing the Applevis braille screen input tutorial. There's a *lot* of new stuff to cover!
in reply to Alex Hall

Rewrite complete! If you're new to Braille Screen Input, or confused about the changes made to it in iOS 18, give this newly updated guide a read. applevis.com/guides/guide-brai… CC @AppleVis
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Myslela jsem si, že ten včerejší volební průser zaspím.
Nezadařilo se.
Že tu mizernou náladu vychodím.
Nepovedlo se.
Jsem vytočená úplně do vrtule.
A s přibývajícími komentáři a prohlášeními se to ještě zhoršuje.
Na zbytek dne si ordinuju úplné odstřižení od zpráv a soc. sítí.
Jdu ven.
in reply to Archos

@archos
OOOO jak vám zavidim 😯 po tom mém zákroku jestě sportovat nemohu, a do toho ještě manžel od nekud přinesl nějaký moribundus, který me na 3 dny upoutal na lůžko s horečkami k 39. Už je to lepší, minimálně horečky opadli, ale nebyla bych to já, aby se mi do toho vytvořilo x oparu na rtu, kde vypadam jak po botoxu 😬a smrkani je naprosto luxusní 🤧😵
Snad už tahle posloupnost v nemocech půjde brzy k šipku.
@KaterinaGloserova


Du denkst: „Ich finde meine Wahlbenachrichtigung nicht mehr.“ – Kein Problem!

Einfach mit dem Ausweis im Wahllokal vorbei, wir finden dich schon.

Und wenn du dein Wahllokal nicht kennst: Komm trotzdem irgendwo im Wahlkreis vorbei, wir finden deins dank Adresse.

#Landtagswahl #ltwbb #brandenburg




products should come with information about energy and water consumption used in its production.

XX Liters of water and ZZ megawatts were used in the production of e. g. the simple bottle of water. or these sneakers. or this very forgettable AI image.

in the case of AI it should come with a warning that using and defending AI will make you look really stupid and irresponsible.

#AI #carbonfootprint #degrowth



In der Anwendung von freier, offener und wirtschaftlich fair betriebener Software sehen die Lukis eine praktische Verbindung zur #Freiheit des Evangeliums und vieler Narrative biblischer Texte.

Das war auch an diesem @luki@kirche.social Wochenende im Theologischen Seminar Herborn wieder zu spüren.

Ganz praktisch ging es z.B. um #GNUTaler, /e/OS, digitales in Kirchengemeinden, #Grist, #Matrix und Bots, #DeltaChat, #ElementX und die Server-Admin bei @hostsharing@geno.social

Die Location war ünrigens einzigartig ;-)

#FediKirche #digtialeKirche #selbstbestimmtDigital#Linux #FOSS #OpenSource



I’m convinced one aspect of RTO is re-enabling managers’ abuse of (some) lost power. When I worked in an office I had managers try and stop me going home, or follow me part way home because “work really needs to get done”. Much harder to pull shit like this on a zoom call.
in reply to keithamus

Remote working has been a game changer. These days if I have a stressful morning, during my lunch I’ll decompress with some gardening. When I was in an office a stressful day meant managers “joining me for lunch so we can get this done”. Stress literally followed you around.


On my way home from #matrixconf. Was really nice Meeting everyone!
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I've got some news about office environments. The absolute worst part for me was dealing with the rampant gossip and laziness. People would chat all day, accomplish next to nothing, and then pretend they were some kind of heroes for staying late. People walk around, take lunch or bathroom breaks, attend meetings, etc. Office or Home people will walk around. Stop writing stupid stories to promote back-to-office culture and risk everyone’s health.


Hey #matrixconf. I'm conducting a research study about how users experience interoperable messaging, e.g., via @matrix bridges, between different matrix clients, @onbeeper and mainstream apps, etc.

I'm looking for *users* that are NOT involved in the development of these clients/platforms.

If you know anybody that fits this criteria, could you invite them to get in touch with me for a ~30 minutes interview? My email is cfg@cs.aau.dk. Thank you!!




No co vám budu vyprávět, na světě je krásně i bez politiky 👍
Nedělní #birellovka
Holt místo gulášovky jsem dal Phó
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in reply to Michal 🇨🇿

@michal
No jo, teď na to koukám 😀😀
Já to fotil asi na režim portrét 🤷🏼‍♂️
in reply to Archos

@michal Jo, tohle mne vždycky štvalo při focení mobilem - klasický režim neumí žádnou hloubku a režim Portrét si hloubku vymýšlí 😄
in reply to Jaroslav Kraif

@scobra1cz
Jj s tím souhlas. No jo, ale člověk je kolikrát líný, tahat někam zrcadlovku 🤷🏼‍♂️
@michal
in reply to Michal 🇨🇿

@michal Nějaký chytrý algoritmus, který uměle počítá hloubku ostrosti ho ukousl 😁.


I do woodwork so I can be angry at something tangible I've made, instead of just angry at software I've made.


If you havent done your #twim post yet at matrix.to/#/#thisweekinmatrix:… then please do so asap :) We want to publish it eventually :D

#matrix #matrixConf