Matrix 2.0 Is Here!
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsMatthew Hodgson (matrix.org)
Apple unveils a Mac mini with a much smaller design, M4 and M4 Pro options, two front-facing USB-C ports, up to 64GB of RAM, and more, shipping Nov. 8 for $599+ (Chris Welch/The Verge)
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Apple announces redesigned Mac Mini with M4 chip — and it’s so damn small
Apple’s new Mac Mini is unbelievably small, yet it packs more power than ever thanks to the included M4 processor.Chris Welch (The Verge)
How to print from Linux using only the command line
You may not need it often, but this trick comes in handy when you do.Jack Wallen (ZDNET)
Kali Linux Phases Out Obsolete 32-bit Architecture | Linux Today
Kali Linux drops the i386 kernel and images, starting with the 2024.4 release. Users should shift to amd64 for ongoing support and updates.LinuxToday
The risks of OpenAI's Whisper audio transcription model
This weekend a story from ABC News on issues with audio transcription machine learning models did the rounds. “Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said”www.baldurbjarnason.com
The wait is over, videos from The Matrix Conference 2024 are here!
Find recordings, photos, press, and our sponsor prospectus for 2025 in the latest blog post: matrix.org/blog/2024/10/29/mat…
#MatrixConf #Matrix #OpenSource #FOSS
The wait is over, videos from The Matrix Conference 2024 are here!
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsJosh Simmons (matrix.org)
Príhovor politika
We believe in the ability of Mastodon to create distinct, cohesive communities while also being able to talk to the world, so we’re excited to see people signing up for our inaugural meet-up via Zoom. There's still time to get the deets.
It’s happening this Saturday at 4 PM US Eastern time, 20 UTC. That’s currently 8 PM in the UK, 9 AM on Sunday in New Zealand, 7 AM in Eastern Australia.
This get together is open to CaneAndAble members. If you would like the Zoom link, please send a direct message to this account from your CaneAndAble account, and we’ll ensure you have the link in good time for the event.
Lynette and Jonathan will talk a bit about the instance and answer any questions or take your suggestions. Then we’ll just open it up for a conversation between all the members who attend. We’re particularly interested in getting questions or comments about making the most of mastodon, using Mastodon apps on various platforms, and other ActivityPub services.
We’re really looking forward to it. See you on Saturday.
But I love the community approach here and hope your meeting is wonderfully successful.
Read this awesome article by @fergusosullivan
We couldn't have reviewed the Tuta Calendar any better! 😍
👉 howtogeek.com/hands-on-with-tu…
I Went Hands-On with Tuta’s New Privacy-Focused Calendar App
Curious about Tuta’s new calendar app?Fergus O'Sullivan (How-To Geek)
@panoramax The number of 'panoramax'-tags has suddenly skyrocketed. Maybe cause I've moved about 10K pictures?
For more info, see github.com/pietervdvn/MapCompl…
Move all the pictures from Imgur to Panoramax · Issue #2189 · pietervdvn/MapComplete
Why move? Even though imgur hosts the images for now, they might delete it whenever they feel like. They suddenly cutoff our possibility to upload too. Loading an image from Imgur has a privacy imp...GitHub
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For clarity: we are moving all images which are on imgur and which have a clear license in the description. These are 99% images which were made with MapComplete.
Why? Imgur updated their TOS and we are now in violation of it. This means that they could simply delete the images overnight and/or cut off our API-access overnight - like they did cut off our access to upload new images. (Luckily, @thibaultmol sprang into action to setup a server and @pietervdvn implemented uploading)
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We moved about 10K images already, about 2.8% of all 'image'-tags in the #OpenStreetMap-database. All those moved images are made in Flanders.
There are 19K images hosted on Imgur, of which the vast majority (probably 18K) are made with MapComplete and will be moved soon.
If your app supports the image tag, it might be neat to start supporting panoramax too. See the wiki for details. OpenAEDMap just implemented it (see github.com/openstreetmap-polsk…, might not be live ATM)
Add support for panoramax · openstreetmap-polska/openaedmap-backend@c035154
❤️ Backend powering OpenAEDMap.org — an OpenStreetMap's life-saving AED map - Add support for panoramax · openstreetmap-polska/openaedmap-backend@c035154GitHub
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Where does the mastodon #embroidery crew hang out?
I've been playing around with art, and I wanna get inspired and chat with y'all.
Hi! I’m a software engineer with more than 15 years experience looking for my next role.
For the last 3 years, I’ve worked in a primarily #Erlang environment, but I really love #Elixir (and have professional experience with it), and I have a lot of #Python experience.
If you’re at #AllThingsOpen and hiring, DM me, and we can meet up.
Located near Washington, DC, USA. Remote preferred. Only authorized to work in USA.
#fedihired #MyElixirStatus #AllThingsOpen2024 #FunctionalProgramming
Vamos a ver si Mastodon tiene magia.
Este es Cas, de la protectora Biosbardos de Ponteareas, Galicia.
En 2015 apareció atropellado, perdió las patas delantera y trasera derecha, les sugirieron practicarle la eutanasia.
Cas salió adelante y es un perro maravilloso, pero se está haciendo mayor y necesita suplir las dos plantas que le faltan.
Necesitan una silla de ruedas especial para él, hace falta primero diseñarla.
¿Alguien el la sala capaz de diseñar algo para que Cas pueda descansar sus pobres patas y moverse?
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Cas - Perro en adopción
Perro Pequeño Macho, podenco; CAS e un podenco moi xovenciño que xa sabe o que é sufrir un abandono e as súas consecuencias.Os Biosbardos
The new Mac Mini looks great, wow. New chip, 16GB base memory, five USB-C ports (three with Thunderbolt), and probably minimal fan noise. That $599 base model will be a better computer than almost every desktop PC under $1,000, as long as you're okay with macOS.
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Apple’s all-new Mac mini is more mighty, more mini, and built for Apple Intelligence
Apple today unveiled the all-new Mac mini powered by the M4 and new M4 Pro chips, and redesigned around Apple silicon so it’s even smaller.Apple
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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 (@straphanger@urbanists.social)
Attached: 1 image BREAKING: #Canada's government is going ahead with high-speed—not just high-frequency—rail between #Quebec City and #Toronto Bullet trains will reach speeds of up to 300 kilometres (186 mph) per hour.Urbanists.Social
Jeff Bezos describing journalism as “our profession” in an op-ed defending his decision to kill the Washington Post’s Harris endorsement
#WaPo
Oh, you can now close the #NVDA speech viewer with alt+F4?
Wish I'd copied what I wanted out of it before blitzing...
But who knows. If alt+f4 didn't work once perhaps I got so frustrated I just gave up once and never looked back!
Wait... we're getting $200 from the government? Why am I eligible? I shouldn't be eligible. Omg I hate the Cons.
Some more charity money I guess... Damn it, our politicians are useless.
PSA: I ferociously guard my senior developers' code review attention span. If you use "AI" / LLMs / ChatGPT / Copilot to submit Outreachy/GSoC project proposals or merge requests to one of my #FLOSS #opensource projects, I will quickly detect your bullshit, challenge you, and ban you.
This PSA, unfortunately, is brought to you by experience.
Hey all! Our son's boyfriend is working on a project to develop a compendium of Transmasc Comfort Characters from books, movies, TV, and video games.
He'd love it if you'd fill out this survey with your favorite characters! Whether their transmasc status is canon or not - if that character comforts you, please include them.
Please BOOST! :)
Edit: Fixed - you can now submit multiple characters!
#TransMasc #Trans #TransJoy #TransSurvey #TransFic #TransStories
Transmasc Comfort Characters
Welcome! Your answers here will be added to my ongoing compendium of canon and implied transmasculine characters in media. By completing this survey, you are doing a lot to support the transmasc community!s.surveyplanet.com
Casualty of Bill C-18 ? I think so.
The Beaverton Is Dying. Unless You Save It
What do people think of this response to ‘generate detailed Alt Text’ by Gemini:
Here is some detailed alt text for the image you provided:
Alt Text:
A large, menacing grey cat, reminiscent of a monster, stands on its hind legs with its front paws raised. It has glowing yellow eyes and a wide, toothy grin. The cat is surrounded by a fiery aura as it emits a powerful beam of energy from its mouth. The beam is directed towards the Empire State Building in New York City, which is engulfed in flames. The city skyline is visible in the background, with tall buildings and smoke rising from the destruction. The overall tone of the image is chaotic and destructive, evoking a sense of fear and awe.
Additional Notes:
• You may want to adjust the description of the cat's appearance based on its specific characteristics.
• If the image is part of a larger context (like a movie poster or book cover), you could add a brief reference to that context.
• The alt text should be concise and informative, providing a clear description of the image without being overly detailed.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
#Accessibility #AI #AIsoftheBlind #AltText #Blind #ComputerVision
I can't see the image myself, but where I was seeing this would matter.
The description is great as a longer form piece. But I can see a time not too far away when that's the standard way of having alt text on book covers or thumbnails in search results.
Then I go from just wanting "a monstrous cat shooting energy at the Empire State Building" to no alt text at all depending on where I am and what I'm doing.
That brief descriptor would suit me on a product page of a shop, for instance, but I'd find having that in my search results or list of products annoying enough, to say nothing of the hundred words you have there.
There is a mechanism in html for longer descriptions that is very rarely used. Perhaps it could be revived for this sort of thing.
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I grew up with TNG era star Trek. The iconic sounds of the Enterprise D, Voyager, and DS9 "feel" like Trek to me.
I had a lovely dream as a child that one day, my computer would sound like their computers.
I imagined that the different background sounds used throughout the series would represent different apps (engineering for the windows control panel, for example), defaulting to that generic ship hum in every other app.
The swoosh of doors would match me alt+tabbing between apps in the way they herald a change of room on the show.
Text popping up would generate a computer chirp based on the text: Dialog titles with questions marks in them in particular, or perhaps progress indicators.
Certain keypresses would generate tones, again, perhaps app depending. You could extend that to focused controls, too.
the list of things I need to code when I have time is so long, I'll probably still be dreaming about this when I retire.
It may well drive me mad if I ever made it.
Of course it's the sort of project people could very easily make sound packs for.
You might want a calm lake whilst reading your emails and some birdsong or something when on the web, for instance.
So it wouldn't need to be a Trek-based app specifically.
I wrote an addon for Skype to list birthdays and received support requests for nearly 20 years, 15 of which after Skype had depricated the API feature.
I'm possibly too long in the tooth to keep up with modern software development practices.
✅ Hoy se ha aprobado, a iniciativa nuestra, una PNL para condenar la ofensiva israelí sobre Palestina 🇵🇸 , exigir el desmantelamiento de las colonias y apoyar al TIJ y CPI en los procesos por violaciones de DDHH a la población y presos políticos.
📌 Puedes ver el vídeo completo de la defensa de la propuesta por Enrique Santiago aquí
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Enrique Santiago: «Israel sigue asesinando a presos y presas políticas palestinas impunemente»
Enrique Santiago, diputado y portavoz parlamentario de IU en el Congreso de los Diputados, interviene en la Comisión de Exteriores para presentar una Proposi...YouTube
Okay, where comes that myth from, especially in Germany, that alternative text should fit into one line of Braille (80 characters), otherwise it might not be accessible? As far as I can tell, Braille displays can navigate more than 80 characters in alternative texts and users don’t have a problem with it, right?
*sigh*
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✊🏼 Así ganó un pueblo a la expansión eólica: A Groba contra las multinacionales energéticas.
Por Raúl García Amoedo.
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Así ganó un pueblo a la expansión eólica: A Groba contra las multinacionales energéticas
Activistas del Instituto de Estudios Miñoráns y de la asociación SOS Serra de la Groba reflexionan sobre sus recientes victorias judiciales frente las empresas promotoras de parques eólicos en la zona del Val Miñor (Pontevedra)www.elsaltodiario.com
Y presentáis la obstaculización de la transición energética como algo positivo?
fueron capaces de presentar 80 recursos administrativos, uno por cada parque eólico proyectado en Galicia. Actualmente, y gracias a su trabajo y el de muchas otras asociaciones, han conseguido la paralización cautelar de 59 proyectos.
Esto os parece la victoria de algo?
Pues a mi no.
There's a very weird but common misconception that people on disability benefits are somehow a "drain on the economy." But 100% of that money will be spent, on things like rent, mortgage, insurance, food, clothing, and so on. That's money that immediately goes to business owners and, if those business owners aren't hoarding wealth, will cycle through the rest of the economy.
Drains on the economy are where money stops moving, like, for example, when it reaches wealthy billionaires.
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> And we as a people, especially millennials and Gen X-ers prone to such intense nostalgia, must also reject the 80s, which I know you hate to hear, but that you must hear. It is essential in the fight against fascism.
I recognize that I've indulged in 80s nostalgia quite a bit in the past year or so, especially retreating into my childhood Apple II memories. No more. Time to live in the present.
Trump, 80s Nostalgia, And The Rejection of Fascism
Yearning for the 1980s lies at the heart of the fascist project, whether millennials and Gen X-ers like it or notDenny Carter (Bad Faith Times)
Auf die #Erfahrungen und #Eindrücke von @Prediger_EF@kirche.social in der Anglikanischen #Kirche bin ich gespannt.
Heute Abend:
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#FediKirche
Kalender
Onlinekirche der EKM - Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube & Co werden für viele Menschen zu Strukturgebern im digitalen Alltag. Kirche kommt in diesen Lebensbereichen aber nur selten vor.onlinekirche.ekmd.de
Erlend Sogge Heggen
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> what might Matrix 3.0 bring? (…) Could it be switching to #MLS (or Decentralised MLS) for encryption?
That would be absolutely amazing as a top priority for v3
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in reply to Erlend Sogge Heggen • • •keschi Θ
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in reply to keschi Θ • • •@kescher Thanks for sharing your concerns. Our spec process requires proof and implementation before things get merged in, and we're not going to be shy about celebrating when a meaningfully improved UX, based on spec proposals that have stabilized and are on track for merging, is becoming available.
And we're ActivityPub-first in our approach to social in line with our values, but AP hasn't made the news recently in the same way – thus the editorial choice.
keschi Θ
in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation • • •Look, I am not discounting the improvements here at all. Especially Sliding Sync! A great thing to have.
But until it is part of the protocol, officially, it isn't.
And that editorial choice makes no sense, again, considering that Bluesky is not federated or decentralized at all currently, only could be made to be so in theory!
The Matrix.org Foundation
in reply to keschi Θ • • •@kescher Genuinely, thanks for sharing your thinking here. We've definitely heard from folks who pay close attention to the spec that the 2.0 comms centered on implementations land wrong for them.
No doubt we need to calibrate how we communicate about these things... Relatedly, we've been very glad to hear that our Governing Board is interested in helping us think about our outbound communications strategy!
Dawid Rejowski
in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation • • •For me, the biggest problem with Matrix ecosystem right now are servers not cleaning after themselfs.
I can wait for some features, but in the meantime servers I have struggle to survive because of Synapse's state_groups_state infinite grow while Condu(wu)it/Dendrite seems to be too risky bet because of unsure development speed.
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in reply to 183231bcb • • •@183231bcb Glad to hear you're having a good experience there! And thanks for raising that – aside from availability in that mobile client, the improved UX is available in the develop/nightly builds of one web/desktop client.
That said, it's fair to say that's many people aren't going to use those at this time.
Given the length of the road we're traveling here, we're eager to celebrate incremental progress where we can 😅
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in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation • • •I do however have a question, one of the biggest drawback for my friends to make the switch is the lack of basic chat features(Messages with images, Custom stickers, and so on) is there any news on that front?
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in reply to Laelia • • •MSC2530: Body field as media caption by tulir · Pull Request #2530 · matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals
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in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation • • •If a friend loses her device again without having recovery, she has to abandon her account. Better to be upfront about this than to leave her in confusion as to why she's "banned", so a client should say:
> You've successfully signed in. Before you can send and receive messages with this device, you need to validate it using another device or a recovery passphrase.
> If you lost all devices where you were signed in and do not have a recovery passphrase, you should create a new account.