Skip to main content



Wow, if you cut out pages from a completely accessible pdf and make a new pdf using preview on MacOS, Sequoia, it produces completely inaccessible pdf. Also the file size get much bigger. I guess it just makes into pdf with images? It didn't use to do that! #accessibility #macos
in reply to Chi Kim

This is the sad reality of #MacOS - with every new version you get the unwelcome surprise of random features in Apple's software that used to work great, but are now broken. It's part of the reason I finally switched to #Linux, which although far from perfect, doesn't tend to give you those kinds of headaches. Plus I got sick of updates that took well over an hour to install, granted my Mac Mini was getting a bit long in the tooth but if I wanted to I could put Linux on that, and I am sure that updates would be much faster. Even installing Linux from scratch takes far less time than installing MacOS!
in reply to maple

@maple Unfortunately, the sad reality is that Linux isn't a viable option for me. At least in my opinion, its accessibility, especially for screen readers, is, (let's just put it very mildly) not welcoming. Whenever I have to use Linux for server and machine learning related stuff, I end up doing everything via ssh logged in from another machine that's more screen reader friendly. Also, I'm in the music tech industry, almost no one (except maybe a very very tiny fraction) uses Linux.


T2 und A2 treffen sich im Cafe. Wegen T4 wird ein Tisch in der Ecke reserviert, sodass das #Eskalier aus dem Trubel ist. Der Teil hat bestens funktioniert! 15 min. später kommen die Leute für den reservierten Nebentisch, ebenso mit #Hund! War von denen wahrscheinlich nicht angekündigt und sie tauschen selbstständig einen Tisch mit mehr Abstand. T2 nickt ihnen zu und sagt:"Gute Idee, das bringt Ruhe rein!" Der Jack Russel wird anfänglich auf der abgewandten Seite platziert, JR4 robbt aber ...


najrozumnejšie by bolo prísť domov a ísť hneď spať.. bolo no #dobréRáno


20 hudebních alb, které ovlivnily to, kým jste. Jedno album denně po dobu 20 dnů. Žádné vysvětlivky, žádné recenze, jen obaly alb.
3/20
#20albums20days
in reply to Smoon

@smoon Self-titled album od Metallicy. Známo ale spíš jako "The Black album".

in reply to infoek.cz

Ještě si říkám, @archos mi to možná vysvětlí, jen jsem vždycky považoval linuxové distribuce jen za jinak předbalíčkované a nabarvené totéž, takže třeba informace, že terminál funguje jinak mi trochu nabourala mojí představu jak to funguje 😅
in reply to Unreed

@Unreed Tak základní linuxové příkazy jsou všechny stejný. Jen správce baíčků je jiný a Arch má navíc ještě AUR repozitář.
@infoek
in reply to Archos

@archos
V článku mi chybí zmínka o Wine, zejména jako možnost pro hráče.
Je tam i jedna nepřesnost, "v EndeavourOS si můžete vybrat prostředí podle sebe během instalace" a to prý v jiných distribucích nejde. Samozřejmě to jde, to nabízí i klasický Debian. Ubuntu jsem sice dlouho neinstaloval, ale divil bych se. Každopádně každý takový článek vítám, Windows je otroctví.
@Unreed @infoek
in reply to 𝖆𝖒𝖆𝖗𝖔𝖐 🇨🇿🇪🇺

@amarok Pro hráče článek myslím připravuje. Jinak měl autor pravděpodobně na mysli, že po instalaci jsou v EndeavourOS grafická prostředí upravená a vypadají opravdu dobře. Můžeš si vybrat, jestli chceš upravené prostředí, nebo čisté. Hlavní výhodou EndeavourOS je, že se jedná o téměř čistý Arch bez zbytečností. V Ubuntu pokud chceš XFCE, musíš stáhnout Xubuntu, Ubuntu samotné nabízí jen GNOME. Já osobně hry nehraju, ale nač Wine, když většina her funguje přímo přes Steam?
@Unreed @infoek
in reply to Archos

Je zajímavé, jak nikdo netuší, že existuje třeba ZorinOS...

A přitom pro přechod widláků k tučňákům je to jedna z ideálních distribucí (včetně super support fóra atd.)
zorin.com

This entry was edited (1 month ago)
in reply to Archos

@amarok Samozřejmě tu možnost má víc distribucí, většina používa Calamares. Jinak Debian vím, že má možnost výběru grafického prostředí, jen to ISO má 4.5 GB.
@Unreed @infoek
in reply to Archos

@archos
A nebo v Debianu malinké ISO jako netinstall a tam se dá během instalace taky zvolit desktop 🙂
debian.org/distrib/netinst
Ale to není pak úplně instalace pro nováčky přecházející z Win, jelikož uživatel skončí s docela malým OS, kde se část musí eventuelně ještě doinstalovat (pokud se to ručně nevybere v průběhu instalace). Pro starší PC ale skvělá věc.
@Unreed @infoek
in reply to Marián Kyral

@mkyral @amarok @archos @Unreed
Na každé větší distribuci si člověk může nainstalovat jakýkoliv wm, které je v repozitáři. Takže z běžných všechny. Rozdíl mezi distry pro běžného uživatele je jen v tom, jak jednoduché to bude a pak jaká komunita kolem je. Z toho všeho vyplývá i to, jak zdatný uživatel musí k používání být. Pro BFU je jednodušší změnit distro, protože se mu líbí víc KDE než Gnome. Ve skutečnosti to jen značí, že neví jak si to má přehodit, když na to nemá klikátko.
in reply to Smoon

@Smoon @Marián Kyral @Unreed @Archos :distros_arch: :matrix: @𝖆𝖒𝖆𝖗𝖔𝖐 🇨🇿🇪🇺 @infoek.cz
Nejlepší je zenový Void Linux (když nepočítám esoterické Gentoo). Zkoušel jsem v něm mnoho DE (grafických prostředí). Přeinstalace defaultního xfce4 na KDE Plasma trvala asi 30 vteřin včetně přepnutí z lightdm na sddm. Fantastické! (samozřejmě trochu přeháním, ve skutečnosti to byla asi minuta, protože jsem musel hledat, jak se zapínají služby).
in reply to Jiří Pavlík

@jiri @archos @mkyral @smoon @amarok 90% veškerého uživatelského prostředí smrtelníků jsou dnes webové aplikace. Jako člověk, u kterého se hromadí vyřazené železo, chci něco, co nainstaluju bez větších obtíží, bude to mít prohlížeč, poštu, office, bude se to nějak rozumně aktualizovat. Nic víc. A zatím mi nikdo moc neodpověděl, vždycky se všichni pohádají nad distribucí 😂
in reply to Unreed

@Unreed No proto měl @infoek ten článek 🙂 , vše splňuje EndeavourOs. Jednoduchá instalace, vše funguje hned po instalaci. Při instalaci máš možnost vybrat, jaké chceš aplikace, na jedno kliknutí přidáš ovladače pro tiskárny a grafickou kartu.
@jiri @mkyral @smoon @amarok
in reply to Unreed

@Unreed Všechny distribuce jsou si podobné, ale Fedora je samozřejmě nejlepší! 😉

@infoek @archos



@Friendica Support
Wenn ich in die Suche einen RSS Feed von YouTube einfüge, dann bekomme ich folgende Meldung:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access this resource.

Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu) Server at anonsys.net Port 443

So sieht die RSS Adresse aus
youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?c…

in reply to Michael Vogel

Das kann nicht sein, da es im Gegensatz zu anonsys.net auf loma.ml funktioniert.
in reply to Thomas

Das mit dem ? ist eine Sache, die an der Konfiguration des Webservers liegt. Siehe dieses Issue: github.com/friendica/friendica…
in reply to Michael Vogel

@Michael Vogel
Mir ist nicht ganz klar, was ich da wo am Apache ändern kann?
Wenn ich deine andere Antwort richtig verstehe, gibt es dazu überhaupt eine sinnvolle Änderung? Oder lieber warten, bis sich da was an der Programmierung geändert hat?
in reply to Michael Vogel

Wenn ich nur die YouTube URL eingebe, wird das gefunden.
Jedoch wenn ich auf folgen gehe, erscheint derselbe Fehler.

youtube.com/channel/UCOQYlLhP9…



Now that I have an iPhone 16 Pro Max of my very own, I was inspired to investigate a question from @scottrut regarding the improved audio tools on these new devices. These effects only seem available in video recordings, although it could be that they’ll eventually come to audio-only recordings, just as stereo did some time back.
For now though, here’s how to get it working as a VoiceOver user.
Be aware that this will only work with videos you record on this device, because the new videos are being recorded in spatial audio. This is giving the phone the raw data to work with, that makes all this magic possible.
Open the Camera app, and be sure that you use the slider control to set the device to video recording.
Be sure to select the camera you want to use. If you are just recording yourself, selecting the front camera will cause VoiceOver to tell you where your face appears in the frame.
Double-tap the record button and record your video.
Double-tap again to stop.
The features relating to the sound of the video are a matter of post-production, so if you double-tap on the Photo and Video Viewer, you’ll bring up the video you just recorded.
You’ll then need to double-tap Edit.
Once you’re editing, you’ll find a button called “Audio Mix”. You can then apply different effects to the audio. They include Standard, In-frame, Studio, and Cinematic. In-frame will narrow the audio so only the person or persons in the picture will be in the audio. Studio produces some pretty nice sound actually. You can adjust the effect with the slider control. The higher the slider, the greater the effect.
You can play back the results, and double-tap the Undo button if you don’t like them.
Have fun.

WestphalDenn reshared this.

in reply to Jonathan Mosen

Is the initial video recorded in mono though or stereo? When I tried last time, all my videos were recorded in mono, for some reason. I know the mics work because they record in stereo in other apps.
in reply to victor tsaran

@vick21 When I checked the video type, it said spatial audio I’m assuming that’s the setting you’re referring to.


Conservative politics are not — as conservatives sometimes want to suggest — about order & caution, adopting change systematically and thoughtfully. Conservatism is a bait and switch. It synthesizes an imagined past out of whole cloth, then claims that we in our hubris are drifting too far from that fantasy.

The conservative agenda is a radical transformation of society into something it has never been while pretending that future is grounded in history. It is not just a rejection of diversity & inclusion, of creativity and human flourishing, but also of the arrow of time and our understanding of where we came from.

Modern conservatives have more in common with Stalin's totalitarianism than modern leftists have in common with Soviet attempts at communism. Stalin's revolution was a redefinition of history in order to control memory & society, while ejecting all those who do not fit the mold. Modern socialists simply want everyone to have what they need to live a fulfilled life with minimal suffering. Which sounds like the story conservatism tries to tell about stability & safety. Except that conservatism has never wanted to provide for everyone: it relies on deprivation and suffering as a constant threat to keep us in line.

Don't fall for it. The conservative fantasy has always been an ahistorical soft tyrrany. A better world is possible, and has existed many times before, in many places filled with people who look and think and love like you do.



I’ve been a fan of Stevie Wonder for as long as I can remember. That’s why I’m proud to share The Wonder of Stevie podcast from Higher Ground and @Questlove, which explores the five-year period starting from 1972 where Stevie released some of the most groundbreaking albums that transformed music.

I hope you'll take some time to listen on Audible or wherever you get your podcasts.



- "We are gonna let good advertising"

- So you'll block Outbrain and Taboola?

- No not like that.

- So you'll block trackers

- No. These things are good.



Looking for a Net Connection After Hurricane Helene? Get One Free From These Providers cnet.com/home/internet/free-in…

Khronos reshared this.



Advertising is like carbon emission. There is no good kind.

They are both human made and causing large damage to their ecosystem.



Israel's attacks on Lebanon have killed 2000 and displaced over a million now.

Here's another aspect of the story you're not likely to have heard of: Lebanon's African migrant community, which numbers around half a million, are among the displaced, the fleeing, the injured.

Unfortunately, and this is incredibly heartbreaking to say it, African migrants are being denied space at shelters that are being declared "Lebanese only."

reshared this




Advertising literally adds zero value to the world, and does quite a of harm. It's not even just about the privacy issue; we already know what that looks like and we don't want it. The core premise of Mark Surman, Mozilla's President, is that "We can’t just ignore online advertising — it’s a major driver of how the internet works and is funded."

We can actually. We need to explore other models. And people are, but it sure would help if they had access to the resources of an organization as large as Mozilla. An organization large enough to be a driver of how the internet works and is funded. Really wish they would show some vision, instead of following down a path when we *know* where it leads.



The docs and communications around mozilla pivot to advertising is both a stunning display of an insular echo chamber culture that has completely lost the plot and seems to have no critical internal voices, and also a fascinating attempt at corporate gaslighting, claiming that advertising makes things accessible and so they are enabling the advertising and surveillance economy "for the poor."
in reply to jonny (good kind)

It's amazing how often the foregrounded or backgrounded assumption of "only rich people care about privacy" makes an appearance.
in reply to jonny (good kind)

Look at the costs and benefits described here: github.com/mozilla/explainers/…

Costs: people lose their privacy
Benefits: data is valuable to advertisers
Therefore the benefits outweigh the costs.

Like if you do cost benefit analysis that way then you get to do anything

Me stealing your lunch
Costs: you dont have a sandwich
Benefits: I have a sandwich and dont have to pay for it



Oigan, qué pedo con las banquetas de Monterrey; están más jodidas que las de Xalapa. ¿Cómo le hacen?
in reply to Ale

@alemm Chale, todo el barrio antiguo debería ser peatonal. Es una zona linda. Y en las avenidototototas hay espacio para hacerlas calles completas, con carril segregado para autobús y ciclovías y todo.
@Ale
in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

estoy totalmente de acuerdo, y más porque Barrio Antiguo cada vez enfrenta mayor tráfico en horas donde la gente pretende ir a pasear, es ilógico mantener esa zona abierta a los autos. Y tienes razón con lo de las avenidas, apoyo lo que dices, pero falta que los alcaldes se muevan.

Supuestamente el gobernador busca mayor movilidad peatonal, y ya no tiene excusa porque su partido ganó en varios municipios, 2 muy importantes y conectados :fatpikachu:




Our closed beta testers have finally gotten their hands on Thunderbird Appointment, and it seems like they like us! Check out this review from @ZDNet - and kudos to them for trying the self-hosted install as well!

#ThunderbirdAppointment #Scheduling #SelfHosted

zdnet.com/home-and-office/work…

in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

I hope a better notification system for the event calender etc. Comes to.

Something like a dialog in the center of thunderbird screen would work.

Don't use the incoming e -mail notification bubble. Turned that off long ago.



GOOGLE: Hey! Would you like to sign in with Google???

ME: No.

GOOGLE: No problem! Just in case you change your mind, we’ll ask you again on every single web page you visit for the rest of your natural life



Nice write-up over on @ZDNet for @thunderbird Appointment. We're so glad to see appreciation for this open source scheduling tool - and we're just getting started.

#opensource #thunderbird #email #calendar

zdnet.com/home-and-office/work…



varím vodu na čaj a idem zohriať v trúbe pizzu z roboty, tá pizza je naozaj dobrá


My daughter was exposed to COVID via a coworker so I've been trying to find a test for her. The free ones are gone everywhere and the ones you pay for are so back-ordered none of the pharmacies can even guess at an ETA - I've been told to "maybe check back in a month?"

So the beauty of this is if my daughter gets sick it'll be a 'mysterious flu-like illness.'

Genius! This same public health approach will work for cancer, measles... freaking everything right up to climate change!

#CdnPoli

in reply to Halloween Rat Trick

Right, forgot about the census too.

And they call themselves business people!

When a corporation plans a move, first thing they do is define the parameters for marking success. If the wingers ran Apple they'd have no clue how many iPhones they sold, who to aim marketing at, reception of their image... nothing.

Maybe that's how Trump does business, running them all into bankruptcy.

This entry was edited (1 month ago)
in reply to Zazzoo 🇨🇦

Despite all claims to the contrary, the business world is a hot mess… hearing the idea repeated that we should ‘run the country like a business’ always makes me cringe… didn’t I just hear you complaining about what a numbskull your boss is?


The current Mozilla seems to believe that there is "good" advertising and "bad" advertising, and that furthermore there is "good" ad tracking/ad surveillance and "bad" ad tracking/ad surveillance, and all they have to do is do a lot of the "good" advertising and "good" surveillance and somehow this will cause there to be less of the "bad" advertising and surveillance. As if there is a limit on how much advertising it is possible to fit in the world.

mastodon.social/@sarahjamielew…

in reply to mcc

good point. I am mainly disappointed that management didn't read their own list archives—did Internet freedom people compromise with any of the other possible dystopia timelines?

Clipper Chip (US government) no, we have e2e encryption now

Codec patent cartel (huge IT companies) no, we have free media formats

DRM mandate "Fritz Chip" (US government + big media) no, we dodged this one too

Can't beat this stuff with compromises that leave supporters feeling creeped out

in reply to Don Marti

@dmarti About "free media formats" there a few things they botched, self inflicted.

1. EME to allow DRM. Not an uptick into the market share.
2. some initiative didn't work with Firefox without proprietary codec because one part of the company had to clue (won't give the name of the initiative)



I wonder if one has reverse engineered an Instax Link? It’s Bluetooth only. So you can’t even use it from the camera.



I’ve been sober for a few years, but I miss bars. Bars were a big part of my life for a long time. Maybe I just miss third places. Anyway, there aren’t many third places here that aren’t bars.

It’s different for every sober person, but I am personally ok being in bars and around real booze. I’m not at risk of going back. So I have a few bars that I like going to where I know they have enough NA options for me. It fills some kind of social hole for me.

in reply to Adrianna Tan

The worst part for me is that bieng the sober person around people drinking stops being fun at some point.

in reply to Hubert Figuière

We are the only one protecting ourselves
This entry was edited (1 month ago)


I genuinely believe Mozilla thinks it's acting in the public interest by moving further into the ad-tech ecosystem, claiming that it's doing so in a privacy-protecting way.

But the history of ad-tech is that it swallows everything it touches.

Mozilla + ad-tech = ad-tech.

blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/im…

This entry was edited (1 month ago)


“People not masking is literally killing me… If I do die, this is what killed me, people not masking or believing Long COVID lowers your immunity…” Tinu Abayomi-Paul, writer, disability advocate, and person with Long COVID, dies at 52: thesicktimes.org/2024/10/04/ti… #LongCovid #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #MaskUp #YallMasking


how to write low-power software, it would seem

previously
- write fast software, so the CPU can finish quickly and sleep more
- minimize wakeups and heartbeats, so the CPU can stay asleep more
- don't touch the AVX-512 unit unless you really need it, so it can sleep more
- etc.

now:
- don't use AI. everything else is noise.



Whenever Mozilla does a dumb (which seems frequent lately), there's a bunch of people coming out of the woodwork to say Vivaldi is a great altenative.

In what universe is a proprietary shell on top of chromium an alternative? Am I missing something? Is Vivaldi paying people to say this?



If you're reading this, please #boost so I can get back to being federated with the #fediverse. Unfortunately, the data center I've been hosting with for years and years encountered some serious issues. I had to move suddenly, losing almost everything. I took the chance to change the software I use. But I've still lost all of my followers, all of my federation, etc! It's also taken down rblind.com, my passion project to get more #blind folks off #reddit. I'll be bringing that back over the coming days. In the meantime, hi! I'm a blind guy who uses the #NVDA#screenreader, loves #accessibility and works in the field, and reads tons of #fanfic, #litrpg, and #sciencefiction and #fantasy in my spare time. Nice to meet you!

reshared this

in reply to Samuel Proulx

If you're curious, the data center in question is Accuris Hosting (accuris.ca). They've been down for a week now, and have been radio silent to all customers. I've heard from there upstream that they're in a payment dispute and were disconnected, screwing everyone leasing IP's or bandwidth from them.
in reply to Samuel Proulx

I'm in the process of moving to #ServaRICA. They're in #Montreal, but still have excellent connectivity to #Ottawa. If you're wondering why I moved from one provider you've never heard of to another provider you've never heard of: I insist on hosting in #Canada, and I refuse to host with big teck like #Google or #Amazon. I don't know the guys at ServaRICA, but...they seem...fine I guess. Then again, I was thrilled with #accuris for years. So I dunno.
in reply to Samuel Proulx

Not arguing with your hosting choices, you know your situations best... But doesn't OVH have data centres in Canada?
in reply to modulux

They do. But they're not a Canadian company. I think they're in France? I want to both host in Canada, and do business with a company headquartered in Canada.
in reply to modulux

All the things I host are hobbies. If I was a business I'd honestly probably go with the Amazon or Microsoft clouds. But I'm not, so why not spend the couple hundred bucks a month I spend on hosting things to vote with my wallet, as they say. I want to see more small businesses, I want the Internet to be less centralized, and going with small Canadian companies for my hosting is a tiny, probably insignificant, way I can try to make more of that happen.
in reply to Samuel Proulx

Yay, I wouldn't like to host with certain companies either. I don't mind the local part as much, but I prefer to contract with people not doing dodgy stuff. So I am hosting with OVH but wouldn't like using MS or Amazon or Google. Then again, I guess you can say EU is local of a sort.
in reply to modulux

I mean, based on some of the reviews I've read of OVH, I'm not sure if they're any less dodgy than the bigger companies. Then again, I was with Accuris for years, a company that I now find out has been doing everything in its power to screw there upstream peers and violate their peering agreements. So maybe I'm not a good judge.
in reply to Samuel Proulx

Oh, their tech support is definitely pretty much "you have root, you fix it." And they did have a very unfortunate fire in a data centre a couple years ago I think. Overall they seem alright to me, they give what they promise.
in reply to modulux

Good to know! If I ever need a server outside of Canada, I'd probably pick them. I'd like to avoid doing business with an American hosting company as much as possible. So they'd be a good way to get a server in the US if I ever needed that.
in reply to Samuel Proulx

Welcome back! I had actually been on leave the last few days, and when I went to check out RBlind.com this morning it worked - so the migration you had planned must have worked there too :)


Omg. Sorry for screenshot from different site but... So much this.
in reply to Girl on the Net

Yes yes yes and yes!!! There are some people I accept this from. If we don’t have that kind of friendship, fuck off.


I wonder when Automattic will institute a RTO policy...


A mathematician uses first person plural in proofs to suggest to the reader that they are on a journey together. This is not dissimilar to Virgil guiding Dante through the Inferno.
This entry was edited (1 month ago)


World Wide Web Foundation to close, as Berners-Lee shifts focus to Solid Protocol zdnet.com/home-and-office/netw… by
@sjvn

Can Sir Tim transform the Web to its golden age where individuals and not mega-corps set the tone with Solid Protocol? He certainly hopes so.

@sjvn



It's funny how things go. Lots of people report being unable to focus for long or constantly jumping from topit to topic. Someone posted a gutenberg link on Mastodon and I just caught myself 15% through a book. I sometimes feel like I have attention surplus, rather than deficit.

This is not necessarily a good thing. I can become really focused to the point of neglecting things like eating, sleeping, or urgent tasks that I don't want to be interrupted by.

in reply to modulux

nothing wrong with that! A good read is a good read.

I've not read that book though.

in reply to Neon (fandom)

I just can't help being curious about everything. It feels kind of weird at my age, but it's probably better than finding everything boring.


pregunta para expertos de NVDA. ¿cómo copio el valor del navegador de objetos actual?