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On a train headed towards #mrmcd24. 🚄 Considering to create a self-organized session about @matrix. 🤔 If you know me, would like to get to know me, or talk about open source instant messaging, organizing events, online moderation and community management, ... find me by my pile of #matrix stickers! 😉


I maintain my steadfast belief that “clean code” is like the “clean eating” of software development — an eating disorder based on feel good behaviors that are largely irrelevant and that leads to health issues.

Whenever you hear “clean”, save yourself and run!



While living in western Europe, we all might have forgotten what borders were :

In the last week, I had 5 passport checks - in the middle of the night -, 3 still in coming.

I'm running around with 5 currencies : 🇪🇺 Euro, 🇺🇦 Hryvnia, 🇲🇩 Leu, 🇷🇺 Rubel and 🇷🇴 Ron, likely tomorrow even still with 🇭🇺 Forints.

Please keep yourself reminded what a privilege open borders, unified currency and the lack of customs checks are.

Defend #Schengen. Share European standards. Open borders. Do not build a fortress.



🔴Un juzgado de Sevilla abrirá una investigación contra el gobierno de Juanma Moreno por la adjudicación de 243 millones de euros a empresas privadas de forma irregular
elsaltodiario.com/corrupcion/c…


I can't believe I'm saying this, but after gaining access to OpenAI's new O1 model, I've started using it to analyze my own professional writing and it's doing a pretty fantastic job. It's giving me inline suggestions which are accurate and helpful, noting the need for clarity when necessary, pointing out capitalization errors, and understanding niche accessibility concepts without my having to feed it any context. It's also very self-aware; it pointed out a discrepancy between what I wrote and its 2021 knowledge cutoff, but encouraged me to verify rather than assuming its own knowledge was correct. It's insanely expensive compared to GPT-4O, but I can still have long back-and-forth exchanges and typically stay under the $1 mark. It's technically also available as part of the ChatGPT subscription, so maybe I should be using that rather than the API, but so far the cost has been minimal and I don't think I need to.
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in reply to simon.old

what's interesting to me is that on the Chat GPT site, it tells you what is actually thinking about specific to what you're asking. For example, when doing the "count of Rs in strawberry" it might say things like "verifying letters" and "counting total letters in the word," almost like you get to see more of how the thinking process came to be when your answer was crafted, which is very useful to scan (although I should note that it flashes by very quickly.)
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'The BBC has confronted a neo-Nazi in Finland who shared online instructions on how to commit arson with UK rioters during the summer.'

On his Telegram accounts, Mr Rasanen celebrates Hitler and promotes a neo-Nazi group called the Nordic Resistance Movement'

Just how sucked up is this young man,, Hitler would have had him shot for the colour of his skin.

Racist are as thick as 2 short planks

in reply to Merry Christmas

I've given up on stupidity.
My family drove to vote for Brexit down a Welsh road paid-for by the EU, and they still thought their 98% white british population was being overrun by forreigners. You just can't fix stupid.
If they'd had a reasonable case, even if I disagreed with it, i could've gotten behind them. But they didn't, and doing things just because you're told bothers me more than most things.
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo

Brexit.
Many of my Brothers and Sister and their partners voted Brexit because of immigrants, given one of my Sisters who voted because of immigrants has a Greek daughter in Law and 3 half Greek Grandchildren and a half Polish Grand child all living in the UK than and now, all I can say is you can't fix racists.

It broke my heart and we are still not talking.



Alguien que sepa de bancos me puede explicar la diferencia entre el envío urgente que ofrece el Santander en la primera pantalla del formulario, y el envío urgente a través de bancos centrales que ofrece después con una casilla?




Five Cable TV Networks That Are Most Likely to Shut Down in the Second Half of 2024, Including Freeform & Boomerang – Updated October 2024 cordcuttersnews.com/five-cable…


I can't make another Mastodon server, so I did the next best thing. I now have a subdomain piped to this instance. You can now follow this account with at TheCube at cubicle dot seedy dot cc
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in reply to Seedy of Chucky

hey, it works. Got a bit of a rhythm to it.
I have a .me, because I didn't like the sound of com and I'm not a company. having my own name as a .me made perfect sense to me, but at least once a month, usually if I'm giving it out verbally, someone will add .com or .UK or something to the end of it.



Spectrum Offers Free Wi-Fi at 90,000 Access Points Following Hurricane Helene cnet.com/home/internet/spectru…



We're changing the dates a little: we remove #hyper support from #curl already in the first release of 2025:

github.com/curl/curl/pull/1513…





@davx5app Good Morning, as long time supporter, I wanted to say thank you for this fantastic tool. In combination with synology it's our families daily business tool. I really appreciate davx5.
in reply to drüberquatschen

Thank you very much 😊 We do our best to make this tool to one of the most useful apps on Android ✌️
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Vaya, vienen los vampiros a recoger sangre la semana que viene, pero estando aún como estoy de la garganta seguramente no sea buena idea ir.


Eight years ago I started collecting #curl credit screenshots, and it has grown into a pretty fun set:

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/10/03…

#curl
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

@markd Well, you could start by asking for a sample of each product that uses it. That'll net you an A380, for starters!



Stadt @koeln und der KölnMarathon bereiten in diesen Tagen den am Sonntag stattfindenden Marathon vor. Dabei werden schon jetzt entlang der 42 km langen grünen Markierung Absperrmaterialien auf der Radverkehrsinfrastruktur eingelagert. Hauptsache der Autoverkehr ist nicht betroffen.


Die von Behörden registrierte Gewalt gegen Obdachlose ist in den vergangenen Jahren deutlich gestiegen.


Today we celebrate German Unity Day!
👉 tuta.com/blog/germany-unity-da…

On October 3rd in 1990, Germany became one, and became a truly democratic country. 🗳️

We are reminded that we can't take the freedoms we currently enjoy for granted, including privacy & the freedom of speech.

#germany #freedom #privacy #surveillance

in reply to Tuta

The real so called "Unification Day" (ger. Der Einigungs Tag) was 11.11.1990, but new government chooses different "official" date for it due to the historical very bad events that took place on that particular day in the past, which collides with this national, supposed to be happy, holiday. So officially is now the 3rd of October instead of the 11 November.
As for this "true democracy", well.. opinions are very different even now, as they were back then, few years after the event. 🤷‍♀️
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in reply to Tuta

Wovon träumt ihr?
Wir sind nicht ein Land geworden. Und mit der AFD kämpft eine Partei darum, die Demokratie abzuschaffen und die Macht zu ergreifen!

What do you dream of?
We have not become one country. And with the AfD, a party is fighting to abolish democracy and seize power!



Včera si pýtam v lekárni čaj na večer pred spaním a lekárnička sa ma pýta či mám nejaké psychické problémy... neviem čo si mám o tom myslieť.



Queridos mastodones linuxeros con discapacidad visual ¿qué sintetizador de voz usáis en linux?

Como profe de español, he creado varias mini-apps web que confían en el sintetizador de voz. Estoy acostumbrado a los de Windows y Android-Samsung (es decir, voces de microsoft, Google y Samsung) y en Linux las voces son horribles.

Aunque mi linux (Max Linux 11, basado en Ubuntu 24) incluye Orca, las voces son mucho peores que las de Orca en Windows.



Sindicatos de clase preocupados por las exigencias de aseguradoras privadas. Reconozco que esto no lo vi venir.

La asistencia sanitaria de los funcionarios, en el aire: las aseguradoras amenazan con abandonar Muface

noticiasdenavarra.com/economia…

in reply to modulux

@modulux parece mentira que el funcionariado no esté en el sistema público. No tiene razón alguna el tema. Por cierto que la Casita Encantada también estuvo en una asewguradora y acabaron por negociar una integración a la seguridad social. Y menos mal porque me da a mi que si no íbamos a estar muchos en una situación bastante de mierda.
in reply to Juan CBS

Es un tema curioso de historia juriídico-administrativa, pero básicamente en España se empezaron a crear mutuas de accidentes, hubo unas leyes en 1900 y 1908 que fomentan estos sistemas, pero eran de adhesión voluntaria. En los años 40 se crea un seguro obrero forzoso, pero que no se aplica a los funcionarios. Los funcionarios tenían cierta protección social mediante los estatutos y leyes de función pública y los derechos pasivos, pero eran una mierda, y por eso crearon o continuaron estableciendo mutuas voluntarias propias, que además no suponían gasto al Estado. En los 60 la seguridad social incluye por primera vez un régimen especial de funcionarios, y en los 70, buscando una homogeneización del sistema, se engloba todo el tema de mutuas, para los funcionarios civiles del Estado, en una sola. Y desde entonces nadie ha querido tocar mucho, aunque hoy se considere un sistema a extinguir.


So, accessibility people who are also iPhone people, what’s under your Action button? I’ll tell you mine later?
in reply to Shelly Brisbin

I ended up with a shortcut that triggers a menu with other shortcuts. I think this is the approach I am going to keep. Since the menu of shortcuts is pulled from a separate folder, all I have to do is to add my faves to that folder. They will magically appear in that menu when I press the Action Button.
in reply to Shelly Brisbin

My Action Button forms part of my universal podcast player strategy.
I don’t own, and have no desire to own, a specialist player like the Stream. So my Action Button plays podcasts in Castro. Double-tapping the back of the phone skips forward 30 seconds. Triple-tapping the back of the phone skips back 30 seconds. A two-finger-quadruple-tap marks the episode as played and starts playing the next one.


Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Sigo algo tocado de la garganta, aunque la cosa mejora. Niebla. Por lo menos no hace frío. Ah, y han entrado las prisas con la orden de delegación.



#climateDiary
Let 6 minutes of James Meadway’s Macrodose (from 1:30 minutes to 7:30) eloquently walk you through:

“Our wildly complex industrial capitalist economy, developed over the last 200 years, and refined – as in the semiconductor supply chain – into systems of exceptional complexity, was built for times of environmental stability and abundant resources. Those times are now coming to an end.“

overcast.fm/+8dw9eN_jY

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I've been using #Friendica in preference to Masto for some time now, but one aspect i still intensely dislike is the inability to filter out all posts & their subsequent threads with words on my #NSFW addon list. It's just not good enough to merely collapse said posts into a spoiler but still have to endure those in my timeline [with all their response / child posts not collapsed if they don't also include the filtered word/s]... i wish it were like Masto where i have the option to have them entirely removed from my timeline. The current arrangement seems like a strange design decision afaict. Otoh i'm aware that given Friendica came long before Masto, maybe the problem is caused by Masto's protocol? Even if so, though, the result is a PITA for my Friendica UX. @Friendica Support
in reply to Matthias

@Matthias Oh, brilliant, thx heaps. That does look promising, so i look forward to some spare time to try this myself. 🤗


"Bier’s first hit app, TBH, was marketed to teenagers and...it 'requested address book access before actually being able to use the app'. [...] Bier’s reputation for success is built on this growth hacking technique, so I understand why he is upset."
[...]
"Apple’s solution is imperfect. But if it stops the Biers of the world from building apps which ingest wholesale the contact lists of teenagers, I find it difficult to object."

pxlnv.com/blog/growth-hack/

#Apple #Privacy #SocialMedia #Tech

in reply to Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)

IMO Apple's policy would have been exactly the right one, but only if it had been policy from the start.

As it stands, Apple basically took away contacts access for new apps while leaving existing apps unaffected. This is good in the short term and bad in the long term. Existing apps can make any changes they like (including changes to their privacy policies!) and it's going to be a lot harder to switch.



Do you have any experience in Python and GTK4? Do you want to help maintain an app with literally tens of users? Do you hate every web browser to the point you want to avoid it altogether?

Web Apps is the app for you (to help maintain)! I have marked a few issues as 'contribution welcome' here: codeberg.org/eyekay/webapps/is…

University is starting to keep me busier than usual, but I don't want to let it create yet another abandonware strewn in the GNOME ecosystem.

#gnome



#LAS2024 is just two days away! There's still time to register, let us know if you plan to attend in person in Monterrey, Mexico or online: linuxappsummit.org/

#LinuxAppSummit #KDE #GNOME #opensource



Had a good time tonight at A11yOops — #a11yTO pre-conference event. conf.a11yto.com/a11yoops #a11y


Bandita!
Se acerca el meetup de #xalapacode !
Si están cerca de #Xalapa (Veracruz) caiganle a la platica en la Facultad de Estadística e Informática de la #UV
facebook.com/events/1275767023…


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