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Finally got my TeamTalk server migrated and encryption turned back on. Not that that matters of course, since TT's implementation of encryption is a brick shit house fire.
in reply to Seedy of Chucky

a ... what\?
I know what a brick shit house is, what a shit house is and what a housefire is.
Confused about the combo


'MP in fresh bid to change law on assisted dying
'

What are your thoughts on this, I am for assisted dying if the alternative is a long drawn out painful death.

in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo

Assisted dying?

Yes it seems somehow cruel to humans to me.

I do think if it comes into Law a person needs to sign up for it when they are young and fit though.



#ECJ: The 2019 EU-Morocco trade agreements regarding fisheries and agricultural products, to which the people of Western Sahara did not consent, were concluded in breach of the principles of self-determination and the relative effect of treaties 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_…
#ECJ


#ECJ: The labelling of melons and tomatoes harvested in Western Sahara must refer to that territory, and not Morocco, as the country of origin 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_…
#ECJ


Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Hoy se me olvidó saludar. A tope con la orden de delegación. Como en todo, hay modas, y estamos reorganizando la técnica normativa.




Whats up with people and phone/video calls on speaker in public? I'm sitting in an airport pub and people are spreading out their private details all over the place. Makes me think that all this privacy talk is just garbage, because people actually don't care.
in reply to Jakob Rosin

the rather awful uncomfortabletruth is the people that care about privacy are a minority. A loud one but still.


Já a moje děsně kyselý smoothie jedeme do práce.

(blumy, kousek jabka a vločky)

#smoothie



With HIDIOCREVOKE we can now finally have a go at implementing a desktop portal for sandboxed apps to access hidraw devices without giving them blanket permissions to all device nodes

fosstodon.org/@whot/1132463293…




Sometimes ChatGPT app's Voice mode might get disconnected due to Internet or server issues. As it happens, an error message appears on the screen with a Retry button. However, both TalkBack and Jieshuo remain silent, and the error dialog can't be accessed by them. Fortunately with Jieshuo's Virtual screen or full-screen text recognition, we can not only access the error message, but select the Retry button. While this is a misstep on the part of GPT devs, it's great that Jieshuo has such a tool.


I learned a new git trick this morning. I wanted to update an acceptance test I wrote a few weeks back as part of a bug fix, but couldn't remember the file I modified. With a test suite of hundreds of files, there was no way I was going to comb through them all.

Instead, it's possible to show all files in a directory you changed with the following command

```
git log --since="1 month ago" --author="your-email@example.com" --name-only --pretty=format: -- <directory_name>
```

Worked a treat.



This should scare everyone:
" In 1976, about 40 percent of high-school seniors said they had read at least six books for fun in the previous year, compared with 11.5 percent who hadn’t read any. By 2022, those percentages had flipped."

We are educating morons.

They're going to be running the country and companies.



from Miska Nuutinen

Russia is deliberately leaking chemical waste into the Desna River, wiping out wildlife. Typical.

"Not a single organism survived. This is unprecedented. It’s Europe’s first completely dead river."

#RussiaIsATerroristState #PutinIsAnEcoTerrorist



Tuta's (@Tutanota) new calendar app for Android and iOS is here:

news.itsfoss.com/tuta-calendar…

#privacy

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Anyone used #NotebookLM and managed to get it into a state where everything you download is the first thing it generated, despite being in a totally different note? I also can't find a way to delete old notes.


Coders! Learn how to extend #LibreOffice's source code, and add dialog boxes to the UI that are easily available across different source code modules: dev.blog.documentfoundation.or…



The fuck's up with #EventBright telling the #ScreenReadre that there's a countdown timer running when you're trying to sign up for an event? Every second of a 20-minute timer was being spoken allowed. Is that OK? Really? Which utterly incompetent twisted fuck-knuckle thought this was a good idea?


Great news, @nlnet will fund my FOSS projects @foss_warn and @foss_public_alert_server. This allows me to make #FOSSWarn a much bigger project than I initially imagined.

With the funding from nlnet, I will build the FOSS Public Alert Server (together with @VolkerKrause) and integrate it into FOSS Warn. That means FOSS Warn will not only get real push notifications via #unifiedPush but will also support way more countries than now.

I’m really excited about that possibility. 🚀



If only @Tutanota could provide an email alias service, like DuckDuckGo emails or SimpleLogin by Proton...it would be awesome.

DuckDuckGo aliases is free and unlimited, but after the terrible experience with Skiff, I'm scared of these "free" services. How long it will be sustainable for Duck?
And Proton is just too expensive. The Mail Plus plan gives only 10 aliases, which is not in line with my need. The Unlimited is too much for me.

If only Tuta would provide that too..

@Tuta
in reply to Alessandro B

Thanks for your feedback. You can create 15 aliases using our domains, and if you have added a custom domain to your account you can create unlimited aliases.

We are considering how to introduce a similar aliasing feature for future release.

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Tuta
Thanks for your feedback. We plan to add such a feature as well!


Wow Coldplay's new album drop "Moon Music" is calming and good, it's really what the world needs right now, listened to the unplugged commentary SeriusXM did for the album release.
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How to add US dollars from your RBC bank account to your Wise balance in 21 easy steps:
1. Start the process from your phone and choose to pay by ACH, as it's the cheapest option.
2. Despite having deposited money to your US account in the past, Wise will ask you to verify by entering your credentials into Plaid. Verify that this is okay and press continue.
3. Take note that the Plaid page does not list RBC bank (U.S.) as one of the available banks. Search for a few other common terms like "royal bank". Ultimately come up empty handed.
4. Return to the Wise app. Press the "continue" button again to launch the website again.
5. Return to the Wise app one more time. The app will display a message that says "Having trouble linking your bank? Try again another way."
6. On the next page that comes up, use screen recognition to double-tap the search field because a normal double-tap does not work.
7. Type RBC. Find "RBC Bank (U.S.).
8. Type in your login credentials and press "Login".
9. Wait approximately 5 minutes to see if the "Loading" indicators change to "Loaded" indicators.
10. Log into Wise on the computer and repeat steps 1 through 9.
11. Wait another five minutes just for good measure.
12. When the "Could not verify payment information" error appears, press "Try another payment method".
13. Note that "Debit Card" is the only payment method which is instant, and is cheaper than any of the other payment methods aside from ACH. Select it.
14. Realize that your card expired a few months ago and you never wrote down the information for the new card.
15. Try to take a picture of the card and run it through several incarnations of GPT, only to discover all of them will describe the card in glorious detail but none of them will transcribe the number, for security reasons.
16. Call an Aira agent and have them e-mail the card details, for insecurity reasons.
17. After disconnecting from the agent, note that the agent in question has forgotten to include the new expiration date.
18. Go back to your chat with GPT. "Surely you can transcribe just the expiration date, right? I Have the other information. It's four fracking numbers." "No, I can't do that for security reasons. Yes, I can see your card number and you can't. Neener neener."
19. Spitefully mark the answer as not helpful before remembering that the Access AI feature has a "Verify with Agent" button.
20. Read the response from the agent which informs you that the card you are holding has expired. Realize you may have never received a new card at all.
21. Scream, silently.

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in reply to simon.old

Wow, this sounds exactly like a delightful experience that many companies in Silicon Valley are preaching! So sorry to hear about your experience!


Don’t ask what you can do for your LLM, ask what your LLM can do for you! That’s all I have to say on the subject at this point! :)



Where web #accessibility, digital #sustainability, #contentManagement, open-source software, and web standards intersect, you'll find @mgifford always advocating for content, people, and the planet.

In his practice, Mike ensures that the content systems they deliver are built as sustainably as possible, deliver accessible experiences to citizens, and work well for authors and others who use the system.

ellessmedia.com/csi/mike-giffo…



To our loyal customers, After 13 years we are making the difficult decision to sell SpeedDots. We are extending the offer to purchase to you, our community and customer base first, because we recognize that it is you who have helped us to last over the past decade and more. Without you supporting our products through referrals and purchasing, this company would not have lasted for this long, especially in such a niche market as the blind community. We have enjoyed creating a product that has benefited so many. Why are we selling? There are a few reasons: First, health. As most of you may know, we are a small company: a company of two to be exact. Both Doug and Amy have had significant challenges and changes in life circumstances which have made this necessary. Over the past year, Doug has been dealing with Long Covid. The result is that his health is such that he no longer has the physical energy to keep up with the demand of making and selling the tactile screen protectors and ensuring that orders are properly fulfilled and shipped out in a timely manner. In December of 2022, Amy was hired by the Blind Institute of Technology Sadly, this meant providing less help to Doug so much of the customer facing work was being sent his way along with making and shipping of products. This was a lot to juggle in addition to his health struggles. Next, changes in living situations for both have led to a problem with space. Read more via: speeddots.com/

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I was thinking all the time today. Ma papers are like pull requests. It takes ages to review them.


How will I be able to tell if I got the upgraded voice access to ChatGPT?
in reply to Allison Meloy

when you bring up the voice mode it'll tell you about the new voice access, but you have to do so from a new chat. Removing and then reinstalling the app helped me get it. Right now if you start voice mode from an existing chat you'll still get the old one.
in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg Huh, I have access to Advanced Voice Mode on Android but not on iOS, logged into the same account, not paying for GPTPlus. So I shall try reinstalling on iOS and see what happens. Man, what a strange tech time we’re in. Haha.


Я думал, думал и думал, и пришёл я к выводу, что дипломные работы прекрасно ложатся в концепт пулл риквестов. Почему? А вот потому что дискусии и ривью проходят меееееедленно.



Apple Watch will get a key Apple Intelligence feature in iOS 18.1 - 9to5Mac (Saved you a click: Notification summaries powered by Apple Intelligence) 9to5mac.com/apple-watch-will-g…


Diego Garcia: What is on the secretive UK-US island in the Indian Ocean? bbc.com/news/articles/ckdg7jjl…


All I ever wanted was for you to make a fucking browser

blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/im…

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9 Google employees were arrested and two dozen were fired after an occupation of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office demanded the tech giant withdraw from Project Nimbus, an AI project to help streamline the operations of Israel's genocidal military.

unicornriot.ninja/2024/google-…



Galaxy S24 FE is $200 off with any Samsung phone trade-in, even broken ones 9to5google.com/2024/10/03/sams…