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And don't get me started on Siri not being able to find music in my library with a map and both fucking hands.
in reply to Ben Cox

Hubert Figuière
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the only time I tried Siri it couldn't fucking understand what I wanted, so it got the boot.

Reminds me of the Newton handwriting recognition.

@thunderbird Hi, I'm trying to test the beta and the update from k9, but I can't install k9 last beta. I tried with the apk, with obtainium (but it only shows Thinderbird beta). K9 beta will be on f-droid?
@Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
in reply to Guillermo Movia ⭐⭐⭐

Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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The K-9 Mail beta will be coming to F-Droid! There's been a bit of a delay but both betas should be landing on F-Droid soon - and we'll be sure to announce when they're available.

My distaste for modern software design essentially boils down to corporations presuming they know how people want to use their software.
And that this lines up to the use they'd prefer.

This is essentially neo-feudalism...

Heck, it doesn't always yield a good experience! My "techie" tools don't require me to know techie details like what all the different media file-formats are, whilst my mother's "non-techie" tools do!

I'd love it if modern GUIs had scroll bars that were wider than 2px, so I could actually grab them accurately.

Installing @thunderbird on Android #Thunderbird #Android
Thunderbird install on Android
#android #thunderbird @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

Unfortunately #Matrix seems unusable for now with @thunderbird@mastodon.online 🤔
#matrix @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

"{"context": "https:// www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"}"

That is a valid activitypub document. You can add literally any other property to it and it continues to be valid. And thus we have a solution to whether we should keep or change or break or abandon activitypub. Just add that line to any message in any protocol, and now it's activitypub. Thanks to the openness and flexibility of activitypub, we can in fact have our cake and eat it, too.

I'm prepared to accept my grant from swf, now

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Jenniferplusplus
Jenniferplusplus
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me holding a gun to Activitypub: tell me the name of god you vaguely rdf piece of shit

Activitypub: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot implement me in a way that matters

me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU

OK, huge downside of O-1 preview model? It weirdly cannot (yet) do web searching, and even more weird, it thinks its knowledge cut-off is 2021. Looks like Open AI trained it not with the newer knowledge of later models like 4O, but perhaps the content from 3.5 or the base 4 model. This could make sense while they fine-tune it.
in reply to Mason

Tamas G
Tamas G
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@Mason oooh yeah, no web search through API :( I wish. It's partially why I've stayed away from it, maybe even that's a risk they're not willing to take. I use it when I need simple answers to questions, but at times the cut-off date or needing to find out more specific info about a repo it can dig through me (like I just had it do with Storybook's repo to check what's up) saves a lot of time.
@Mason

Die @openhomefoundation freut sich übrigens über Sprachschnipsel eurer Stimme. Es soll nur "OK NABU" eingesprochen werden, also viel einfacher als etwa bei #commonvoice
Gerne so viele unterschiedliche Sprecher wie möglich, damit später dies wakeword zuverlässig erkannt wird :clippy:
ohf-voice.github.io/wake-word-…

#stt #stimme #voice #nabu #crowdsourcing #commons #nlp #ml #homeassistant #hass #iot #smarthome

#homeassistant #iot #commons #ML #smarthome #nlp #commonvoice #voice #hass #stt #stimme #crowdsourcing #nabu @Open Home Foundation
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blub
blub
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@fexplorer die Erkennung lebt ja von der vielfältigen Aussprache von verschiedensten Menschen. Später sollen noch weitere Wörter / Erkennungsnamen hinzu kommen, aber man muss ja erst einmal irgendwo anfangen. Ist ja auch nicht ganz einfach etwas international unproblematisches zu finden #phonetik
#phonetik @FediVerseExplorer
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FediVerseExplorer
FediVerseExplorer
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Das verstehe ich schon. Aber wie soll man das nun sprechen? Deutsch? Zu NABU gibt es zu unterschiedliche Varianten. Manche sprechen solche Kürzel nicht als Wort sondern als einzelne Buchstaben. Finde das nahzu unbrauchbar für ein key word ... An wen kann man sich da wenden? Wer legt diese Wörter fest?

My irritation of Tuesday: When Storybook only loads two stories into the DOM initially and relies on onblur events to load more, it creates a barrier. Screen readers like NVDA depend on the DOM to navigate and announce content. If content isn't loaded into the DOM until after a certain interaction, it's invisible to the screen reader until that event occurs. Storybook sucks at this. The onblur triggers when navigating by headings but not when by buttons, oi. Make it better, world.
in reply to Tamas G

Tamas G
Tamas G
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now the make-or-break question of the century, is this lazyloading of multiple stories per single-docs page something that can be disabled on a per-project basis, or is it part of the core Storybook functionality at github.com/storybookjs/storybo… - hmm.
Well, thanks GPT, you dug this up for me: github.com/storybookjs/storybo… - is this one of those situations where lazy-loading for performance can make accessibility worse?
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I notice that there are a lot of people moving over to cane and able hmm what's going on over there
in reply to Derry Lawlor

André Polykanine
André Polykanine
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That instance is administered by Jonathan Mosen. That explains a lot. I also deeply respect Jonathan, but since I don't identify myself with my blindness and don't really grasp the concept of blind pride, I have no intention to move. Also, I'm totally fine with my place in the Dragon's Cave.

Jim Sciutto, de CNN, está criticando que aunque los ataques de Irán han sido dirigidos a objetivos militares, como el cuartel general del Mossad, este está situado en una zona densamente poblada de Tel Aviv... no parece ser consciente de la ironía, después de un año reproduciendo la propaganda israelí sobre Hamás, o Hezbollah, usando a la población civil como escudos humanos.

OK, I'm sure someone will get to it faster than I will, so posting here in case interested! :) iPhone 16: Edit Spatial Audio in Videos With Audio Mix macrumors.com/how-to/iphone-16…

Switching to Linux Saves You Money in More Ways Than One lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

I don't buy Nintendo products anymore and I won't buy them ever again.

I read about the Zig programming language website moving from AWS to a dedicated server at Hetzner. ziglang.org/news/migrate-to-se… I like the spirit of frugality and (relative) independence behind this. I wonder if more of that can be brought to Rust. As for using Zig itself, I don't think I can get on board with using a systems language without at least Rust-level safety guarantees for new projects.
in reply to Matt Campbell

Josh Simmons
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That's fine while you're small, but I don't know how rust CI would go paying market rates for hardware, you'd probably have to give up on bors. And then there's crater... (fwiw that is a "don't know" in the literal sense, I'm not sure how much CPU time is needed to keep CI responsive enough, but I suspect it's reasonably significant. maybe oxide can donate a rack!)
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Josh Simmons
Josh Simmons
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@Gankra On the other hand, you might worry more about compile performance if you had to pay for the CI :')
@Aria Desires

This is *the* best way for governments to be "sovereign" in the face of big tech dominance. Well done, Germany and STF.

theregister.com/2024/10/01/fre…


Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund throws cash at FreeBSD and Samba

Unix-like to work on infrastructure, SMB reimplementation on 'key milestones'
Liam Proven (The Register)

Talking to Israelis is like talking to a gambling addict in denial, but instead of gambling it is violence. They win a round of craps but don't understand why they are deeper in debt. #israel #gaza #lebanon #iran
#israel #iran #Gaza #lebanon

Sperrminorität im EU-Rat: Niederlande bekräftigen Nein zu Chatkontrolle

Die Niederlande wollen den Kompromiss der EU-Ratspräsidentschaft zur Messenger-Überwachung nun doch nicht unterstützen.

heise.de/news/Sperrminoritaet-…

#EU #news

#News #EU

One place I hope machine learning eventually comes to is git. Looking at diffs and logs, trying to work out when code arrived or what happened between two points, is tedious at best. It's way worse for those of us who use screen readers. If something could take a natural language question, parse all the git data, and give a natural answer, that would be amazing.
in reply to Alex Hall

Mikołaj Hołysz
Mikołaj Hołysz
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I just tested this (with Claude 3.5 Sonnet) and it does indeed work.

I gave it a diff between two commits, asking to describe what changes were made, and it did it perfectly.

Ich finde, wir sollten feiern, wenn die #Energiewende vorangeht, statt immer nur zu beklagen, was nicht so gut läuft. Der Kohleausstieg in #Großbritannien ist deshalb möglich, weil #Wind- und #Sonnenenergie dort verstärkt genutzt wird
#Energiewende #Großbritannien #wind #sonnenenergie

"Da erklärte die AfD die Grünen zum angeblichen Hauptfeind unserer Gesellschaft und alle machten mit. Man kann mich gerne korrigieren, aber noch nie in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik haben die Grünen den Bundeskanzler gestellt. Aber es wird immer so getan, als wenn sie seit 30 Jahren an der Macht wären und niemand sonst. Der Tonfall etwa aus CDU und CSU gegenüber den Grünen unterscheidet sich nicht von dem der AfD. Das unterhöhlt die Demokratie, das ist zersetzend, weil sich die Parteien so koalitionsunfähig machen."

Sehr treffen formuliert von Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk.
Dieser Feldzug gegen andere Parteiein, die fest auf dem Boden der Demokratie stehen, ist ein Irsinn, der die Union kein Stück voran bringen wird!

t-online.de/nachrichten/deutsc…

#cdu #csu #union #söder #merz #grüne #afd #bsw

#cdu #union #csu #Soder #afd #grune #merz #bsw

Mozilla Thunderbird Lands On Android With New Beta Release linuxtoday.com/blog/mozilla-th…

Browser extension I'd love. An extension that has a list of sites that are known to be paywalled and says something like hey, possible paywall ahead, are you sure you want to read this? It'd save me so much frustration.
in reply to Mohamed Al-Hajamy 💾

Mikołaj Hołysz
Mikołaj Hołysz
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Not this, but you can prefix many URLs with archive.ph and then they suddenly have no paywall.

As time passes, I'm more and more convinced that we'll see cases of "tech tourism" in the next 10 years.

Aah, new instance, new #Introduction post I guess.

I was on another instance that's closing down, so I've done the migration thing and decided to end up here.
As this server has the word 'hear' in the domain, and I'm a #Musician, it somehow seems fitting I do so.

I'm a #London-based musician that plays piano/keys, and finger-drumming also on keys.
I make #youtube videos on various things that interest me, make the #StroongeCast podcast with my wife, have two ridiculously amazing children and read voraciously. Being stereotypically British, I do like me a good cup of tea as well.

What genre I play is up for debate. Genres though, yes quite a few.
Jazz, Funk, Soul, R&B, Reggae, Pop occasionally, Drum and Bass recently.

This is too long already, so I'll just end by saying links to projects in bio for the interested.

Thanks for your time, and feel free to say hi.

#youtube #introduction #musician #london #stroongecast

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I’ve published my article on the Impact Hero SDK (as used by at least 16 browser extensions) and the refoorest extension. The company behind these is the France-based Colibri Hero, also known as allcolibri: palant.info/2024/10/01/lies-da…

Trust me, the article title is justified. I couldn’t believe it when I saw how everything they claim turns out to be a lie. Their line of business is commonly called “affiliate fraud,” so they carefully avoid this topic and instead make the impression of being supported by altruistic companies that genuinely care for our planet.

They promise to plant trees if people use their extensions but their numbers are all fake. The numbers displayed by the extension don’t add up to the numbers shown on their web page. Maybe they should have implemented access control if they didn’t want anybody to figure that out. And the numbers on the web page – well, these have been increasing at a constant rate of 20 trees per hour for the past four years, completely ignoring what their extension users did or didn’t.

Do they actually donate any money? Probably, I don’t know. They don’t disclose their finances, and if they did these would probably turn out fake as well. Should anyone trust them? No, not from what I saw. Should these extensions be nuked from orbit (or at least from the add-on stores)? Yes, absolutely.

There is more “fun” stuff going on here, so feel free to read the article.

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otázka znie prečo, žiadne ďalšie otázky

don't say

Someone would get a free pass straight to diploma in a PR school for this statement. Good job, Sonos. "Unwavering focus on the customer experience: To ensure that we deliver the highest level of customer experience, we will always establish ambitious quality benchmarks at the outset of product development and will not launch products before meeting these criteria. We will also enhance the tools necessary to measure the quality of the experience actually being delivered to customers to ensure that we maintain the standards our customers expect."
in reply to Jakob Rosin

victor tsaran
victor tsaran
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This may have been generated by AI! :) Now, how are they going to keep up with such a statement? :)

Na automobilový průmysl je kladeno nespočet požadavků, které navyšují cenu a komplexitu, každopádně co domácí spotřebiče?

Existuje nějaká legislativa nutící výrobce poskytovat API pro čtení/nastavení zařízení jako pračka, bojler/kotel, myčka, lednička, topení, a další "komponenty" domácnosti na standartizovaném rozhraní?

IMHO integrace otevřené komunikace je relativně (k ceně spotřebiče) levná položka otevírající dveře kompletní automatizaci a lepší ekologii domácnosti.

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Štěpán Škorpil
Štěpán Škorpil
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K nějaké úrovni otevřenosti a standardizace se začalo tlačit u telefonů a domácí výpočetní techniky a lidi na to nadávaj, výrobci to všemožně bojkotujou a ojebávaj. Asi pro to keště není dostatečná poptávka. 🤷‍♂️
in reply to Štěpán Škorpil

David Heidelberg
David Heidelberg
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@stepan Poptávka v téhle fázi nikdy nebude. BFU nezajímá nějaké API. Ale když uvidíš, že soused má malou krabičku, co mu šetří peníze a zpříjemňuje život (např. home-assistant.io/green/ ) - zájem mít bude...
@Štěpán Škorpil

Godot overtaking Unity in one of the most recent, largest game jams out there is a wonderful example of the triumph of free software against a corporate platform. Something something Year of the Godot Desktop yada yada.
GMTK Jam's top game engines chart: Godot has just passed Unity.

Tortuga Ninja de cuatrocientas voces.

NOTHING IS FOREVER YOU SILLY BITCH.

Does anyone use Micro.blog? I'm still in my apparently endless consideration of WordPress alternatives.

I will continue to do this until I finally learn how/dedicate full time to write my own site from scratch.

Might be more of an "if" than a "when," but the desire is very strong.

in reply to Anne Deschaine

André Polykanine
André Polykanine
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What about spinning up a static site generator, something like Hugo? You won't need to write everything from scratch, yet you can add themes and such.
in reply to André Polykanine

Amgine
Amgine
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@menelion
Second the #ssg suggestion. There are some #Indieweb examples using #ActivityPub integrations within static pages. So transgressive!
#activitypub #indieWeb #ssg @André Polykanine
in reply to André Polykanine

Eat This Podcast
Eat This Podcast
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@menelion Bearing in mind that micro.blog is a SSG on top of Hugo, you get a lot of benefits by paying to let them take care of it all.
@André Polykanine
in reply to Eat This Podcast

André Polykanine
André Polykanine
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@etp My only concern is that I cannot try before paying. I need good accessibility of every solution I pay for, so I don't really want to pay for the thing I don't know the accessibility of.
@Eat This Podcast
in reply to André Polykanine

Anne Deschaine
Anne Deschaine
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@menelion @etp It appears to offer a 10-day free trial, but without signing up, I don't know whether it charges then refunds or what
@André Polykanine @Eat This Podcast

Perhaps the last human-generated song I'll ever write.

"AGI: Artificial God Incarnate"

(recorded live at the Fontainebleau in Las Vegas)

youtube.com/watch?v=1ZhhO7MGkn…

in reply to Matt Campbell

Forrest Brazeal
Forrest Brazeal
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@matt Thanks MAtt. The backtracks are embedded in my Keynote presentation and I cue everything with my clicker (live sound is wired into the venue's audio)
@Matt Campbell
in reply to Forrest Brazeal

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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Ah, I wouldn't have guessed that there was a Keynote presentation for the show. (I'm partially blind so I didn't pick up on that in the video.) Thanks.

Mein Domain-Registrar wohnt in der Prinzessinnenstraße, und mau, ich will da auch wohnen 🥺👉👈

(oder vielleicht auch nicht, wer weiß, wie die Umgebung dort so ist. Wenn das insgesamt sehr aristokratisch angehaucht ist, ist's wahrscheinlich doch nichts für mich)

in reply to Elinya~ >^.^<

Bubu
Bubu
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Also es gibt eine im tiefsten Kreuzberg hier. Das ist ... eher nicht besonders aristrokatisch 🤔.

Upscaler just hit 100K downloads and became App of the Day :3
Banner written "App of the Day" as the section title, "Upscaler" as the app name, and "Upscale and enhance images" as the app description.
Row titled "Installs" with description "100,086"

Following on from a recent question about taxis. Are dock based hire bikes (i.e. ov fiets, Boris bikes etc...) public transport?

  • Yes (36%, 4 votes)
  • No (63%, 7 votes)
11 voters. Poll end: 1 month ago

in reply to Quixoticgeek

Hubert Figuière
Hubert Figuière
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in Montreal they (Bixi) are owned by the city and fall into the transit planning. So in that case definitely public with user fees.
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