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Canada is finally ready to build a high speed rail line

thestar.com/politics/federal/t…

Brace for impact, a new Glossy Report is incoming.

#cdnpoli

in reply to Hubert Figuière

Even our glossy report doesn't have any ambition. Toronto<->Montreal is a little over 500 km. That should be 2 hours by high speed train.
in reply to Dave Mac Farlane

@driusan yup 2hrs. I used to commute 230km.... was a 1 hour platform to platform.

also was 20 years ago.

Not in Canada.

That would make Ottawa 50min and Quebec 1h from Gare Centrale. And Toronto 2 in a direct connection. Ottawa Toronto could be 1.5 hr (it's 404 km by road, done it many time)



It amazes me that there are actually people out there who believe that the only motive behind things like ttCom is to spy. Sorry not sorry folks, take a seat and dial down your paranoia. It'll eat you alive if you let it. Music bbots also have the ability to see exactly who has logged in and out of servers, Softdev's logs feature being a prime example. Its not spying. It is convenience, not having to spam f2 and enter a billion times just to see who is connected to a server when I can just type "sh" into a console window and get all that info at once. I really don't get why people are so odd about it. Tell me what ttCom does that I can't do right now with my teamtalk client. Don't say ttCom messages because that's just a fancy pm. And don't say audio interceptionn because it doesn't have the ability to do anything tt audio related. Don't say hover because I can log into a server with a normal tt client and do the same thing. Don't say intercept because it doesn't do that by default, and tt now tells you when you're being intercepted anyway. Don't say multiple server connections at once because I can easily press control n in my main tt window and, you guessed it, do the same thing with profiles. So what's it gonna be? I am genuinely curious what makes it so bad, as some people can't help but believe.

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in reply to aaron

@fireborn Well media bots are always on too and somehow nobody ever complains about those.
in reply to BlueLegend

Not saying they are correct, just the thought process.




Habt ihr eigentlich schon die 2024 Version von "Was zum Fick" von Lumpenpack gehört? Nein? Dann macht dit mal!



‼️ Tusky will stop supporting #Android 7 in 2025. We still don't know the fix date, but will tell you in advanced.

❓ What does it mean for Android 7 users?

➡️ It means that users with Android 7 installed will still be able to use the #Tusky version they have installed when this happens, but they are not going to ble able to update it to newer versions if they don't update the operating system or change smartphone/tablet.

in reply to Tusky

My tablet will turn 10 years old next year, and now has a chance to become my first device rendered obsolete not by hardware failure, but by lack of software support (LineageOS abandoned it already in 2019).
in reply to Tusky

#Android7 #2016 #y2016

They are not going to be able to update it on Play and Fdroid?

"Android Nougat (codenamed Android N during development) is the seventh major version and 14th original version of the Android operating system. First released as an alpha test version on March 9, 2016, it was officially released on August 22, 2016, with Nexus devices being the first to receive the update."

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@Tusky About that "bug" when #tusky hangs up while writing a shared post: now I gut that very same issue with a post shared from #bluesky towards #pachli.

So I guess it's an #android issue with #hyperos on my #xiaomi phone.

My apologies. It's quite confusing though ...



Manda huevos.

Lo dejo por aquí por si a otro le pudiese valer.

El otro día preguntaba donde comprar un repelente de agua para una chaqueta de ante o nobuck y no tenía ni idea.
Pues en el ultimo sitio que hubiera buscado.

En Decathlon venden. Si en una cadena de deportes, flipe 😊.

in reply to modulux

@modulux Si, pero en zapaterías de esas de barrio de toda la vida.

Esas ya casi no quedan.

Yo de echo aquí en Palma no conozco ninguna por donde me muevo.

Son todo cadenas grandes de zapatería y por ejemplo si quieres unas plantillas o cordones o limpiador de zapatos te buscas la vida en otro sitio por que solo y exclusivamente venden los zapatos.

Antiguamente en una zapatería se compraban los zapatos y todo lo que conllevan.

Es lo que se esta perdiendo en comercio de cercanía.



Tengo una pregunta ahora que leo sobre esto. ¿La iniciativa "Tax the rich" no podría dar como resultado un segundo movimiento llamado "rich leaving the country"?


1960: the people of 2024 will have flying cars, 2 day work weeks, and be colonizing space

2024: "why is everybody mad at me today" i wonder as i stare at the notifications on my pocket depression rectangle

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in reply to Ami Angelwings

1990: the people of 2024 will be more productive than ever because computers will make everything easier

2024: me staring at my screen clicking for hours "what counts as a motorcycle? does the person riding the bicycle count as part of the bicycle? does the walk signal count as a traffic light? is this small white edge part of the crosswalk!? why won't you LET ME JUST BUY THE GODDAMN MADOKA PLUSHY YOU ARE THE ONLY STORE THAT ISN'T GEOLOCKED FROM SENDING TO MY COUNTRY"

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My plea to all iOS apps developers for 2024: for the love of everything that is humane, use Apple's native photo picker. Was trying to get started with a couple of apps that require a photo upload and all VoiceOver kept saying was "Thumbnail, button" "Image, button" "Photo, button". Only yesterday I figured it is possible to get the native experience when uploading a screenshot for a technical support representative to see. I have a lot of photos where I know what's on them and that they're the ones I want to upload but I need at least the date they were taken. Thanks! #Accessibility #Blind #Apple #iOSDev #VoiceOver

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Exciting update about the hackfest: We will now offer lunch for participants of the hackfest. 🍲

The lunch will cost about 8 Euros. A friend volunteered to cook for us with the deal that any extra funds would go to the local social bicycle association Efesta (efesta.net), which we both are part of.

The event will be so much bigger than I anticipated, already more than 15 people signed up.🎉



If anyone is wondering how pkpass support in Catima is going: I would summarize it as slowly but steadily. It has definitely been a way bigger undertaking than planned, and unexpected issues may still show up, but the end seems to be in sight.

Basically, the feature consists of two parts:
1. Code to read a .pkpass file and turn it into a loyalty card object.
2. Adding a pkpass option when selecting a source.

Easy enough, right? Well... (1/3)

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Oooh The Designed by, and Powered by OpenWRT router is now out!

liliputing.com/openwrt-one-wif…

$89 and $10 of every order goes directly to the OpenWRT project!

Hope to see some folks get these and post reviews soon! (I'll order one as soon as I can afford to)



OUTDATED⚠️
Mozilla bought the Android email app K-9 (which didn’t include any trackers) and integrated trackers as part of #Mozilla‘s rebranding under the #Thunderbird name.

They even made it opt-out instead of opt-in. Their defense for breaking the law: ”we wouldn’t have enough data if we obeyed the law.“

It doesn’t matter whether you ”anonymized“ the data or not: If you want to extract data from someone’s device to yours, you may do so only if they knowingly consented.
sigmoid.social/@davidculley/11…


The Thunderbird developers listened to their users and removed tracking entirely. Only the beta version of version 8 contained the telemetry. The final release no longer does, at least for now.

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in reply to David Culley

The Thunderbird developers listened to their users and removed tracking entirely. Only the beta version of version 8 contained the telemetry. The final release no longer does, at least for now.


My original team at Apple is hiring for a couple of software engineering roles: junior and senior. This is an amazing team and a chance to have a positive impact in education! jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/2…

jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/2…



Last year, Sainsbury's awarded me the dubious honour of being the 6th biggest buyer of Double Deckers in my town. My main objective this year isn't career progression or personal happiness, it's to be in the top 3 buyers of Double Deckers in my town.


I'm about to finish an audit of 42 webcomponents. The devs did a great job because pretty much none of them had detectable issues in axe. Still, only 8 of these 42 components have no critical issues. I only discovered those bugs through manual testing.

Long story short: automatic accessibility testing is only the first step. Manual testing is a must. Also, hire an accessibility expert if possible.



Pregunta seria: ¿por qué es buena la solución de 2 estados en Israel/Palestina?
in reply to modulux

@modulux Sería como legitimar la colonización. Y el estado palestino, luego a luego, será un microestado
in reply to ChuS

Sí, pero legalmente hay un estado soberano, y es difícil ver como podría revertirse esa situación para que haya una única Palestina plurinacional con derechos iguales para todos. Yo lo preferiría, pero no tengo ni idea de como llegar ahí.


"Das Wort „krank” feiert gerade sein Comeback in der Alltagssprache, oder kommt es nur mir so vor? Ständig hört man jemanden „krank” sagen, um etwas stark zu betonen.

🗣 Das ist „krank” anstrengend gewesen.
🗣 Es war „krank” viel los.

Oder auch einfach nur:
🗣„Geisteskrank!”, um Erstaunen auszudrücken.
🗣 Das ist ja „krank”!

Hier ein paar Wörter, die du stattdessen sagen kannst:
💭 sehr, doll, stark, krass, heftig, mega, überraschend, unglaublich"
(Raul Krauthausen)

instagram.com/p/DAsdqg9oWyg/



Pech für alle, die BILD glaubten und sich eine neue Gasheizung aufschwatzen ließen: Laut Heizspiegel wird Heizen mit Wärmepumpen 2024 am günstigsten. Das wird wenige überraschen - außer die, die ihre Informationen von fossilen Propagandaschleudern beziehen.

volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/bi…



Those "Sign in with Google" pop-ups on every second website really start driving me nuts. #Google
in reply to André Polykanine

@TheCube For me, it's escape... oh, didn't work... escape again... press space on the close button a couple of times... press escape a few more times... Something eventually works. I hate that crap!
in reply to Patrick Perdue

@BorrisInABox @TheCube We need to flood Google disability answer desk with complaints then. Because again, I'm deeply concerned that other big corporations will do that, and that's a door to hell.



Tak to vypadá, že na #mastopivo pojedu už v novém autě. 🤗
in reply to Sᴀɴᴅʀᴜšᴋᴀ

@Sandruska93 Akorát jsem chtěl napsat, že vítáme dalšího účastníka srazu 😀
Pak se ozvu ještě 🖖


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