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Therapist: Mercator sphere isn't real, it can't hurt you
Mercator sphere:


~25M lines of code in the Linux kernel drivers/ directory. O_O

~15M LoC for everything else.


in reply to MikeDunnAuthor

to be fair they'd make better decision and still remain as unaccountable as before.

"I'm sorry Dave, I had to let you go. It's my fault".



Fake videos from Russian propagandists aim to raise tensions ahead of Election Day - NPR apple.news/Ab1jgHqgtQ8Gni_R994…


El capitalismo te dice:

Mira todas las series y pelis que hemos hecho para ti: en cuanto llegue el futuro solo sobreviviremos en bunkers defendidos con armas, sera el todo contra todos cuando falte lo básico.

Lo que esta sucediendo realmente en Valencia ahora mismo:

Miles, literalmente miles de personas están ayudando, incluso caminando decenas de kilómetros, llevando agua y comida, despejando las calles, cuidando animales de compañía, acogiendo en su casa.... en su mayor parte de manera autorganizada.

Así es como respondemos realmente la inmensa mayoría de personas cuando nos quedamos sin agua, luz, teléfono, internet, casa ni comida durante días y días.



The pain about clouds
Everyone knows it, nobody has a sulotion.
- Dropbox: Is being hated for some reason by people because it's, apparently, to expensive, but I don't get the issue. It's really accessible, easy, works, and needs no real care. You can run and use it out of the box, one could say. But just 2 gb for free? Come on dude.
- Google Drive: We don't need to start about this. Super slow, synces ages and buggy, annoying because you have to share every file you want to generate a file of manually and the sharing is bugged as hell. 15 gb as start off are fine yes, but still.
- Self hosted sulotions:
Nextcloud? Nah. Honestly the idea of it is cool and I like that it has a such big community, but it still has it's inaccessible parts and is not really running out of the box.
- Some weird ftp shit with simple URL: Yes, is pretty cool although this also needs a bit more setup than it looks as first, and would possibely need experience because you never know how secure it would be at the end.
And other stuff like seadrive? No idea. This is even more complicated unless you find a way to host it, say in snap, as example.
So at the end I'm just saying, it's annoying if you don't want to pay. I really would like dropbox at most but I can't pay $10 per month for two thousand gigabytes right now.
If anyone has something really cool, please please recommend it. I am searching for something with a simple and cool UI, which can be hosted on Linux and be installed either easely or even with a service snap or a script, or is maybe also commertial.
in reply to garo

Maybe HFS could be a solution if you just need file and folder sharing? I haven't had time to test it thoroughly yet, but a first look at the web interface wasn't too bad. github.com/rejetto/hfs
in reply to Steffen

@radiorobbe This looks really cool. I need to mess around with my proxy stuff a little before i actually will be able to use it but when it runs it probably will be amazing. Thanks for that. I'll share my experience soon.


Question for the dads out there: if we - with preparation, of course, steeling ourselves and approaching the task with resolve - if we throw away that container of random old nuts, bolts and screws. Do we ever recover from that, emotionally, or do we just live with its loss?
in reply to mhoye but spooky

I think it's like knowing when to take microwave popcorn out of the oven. If more than N time passes between useful picks from the container, you can throw it out.

(I seem to have exhausted all the useful bolt/nut pairs from such container, and all that remains is things that don't fit anywhere. I should really throw it out.)



Eh, I wanted to do some work today as I rested after #pragma24. But I still feel floppy and tired.


I love test-driven development. It's fun to convert a list of requirements into a set of tests, develop APIs that conform to those tests, and then try to write the simplest code possible to conform to your requirements.
in reply to Chris 🌱

100% agree! 💯

IMO, it is one of the single most important coding practices that can be adopted by software engineers.

One advantage that is often not talked about (and applies to unit tests in general) is, what I like to call "Press Play And Debug":
Imagine you have a very complicated workflow/process you have to go through manually until you reach your desired state of debugging.

With unit tests you can just Press Play And Debug.¯\_(ツ)_/¯



Die #Musik von #Silentlive hörte ich vor einigen Jahren in einem kleinen #Café in #Wałbrzych - ich versuchte der Kellnerin verständlich zu machen, dass ich die CD gern einfach sofort kaufen würde. Nach einigem hin und her verkaufte sie mir ihr eigenes Exemplar. Eine schöne Erinnerung.

silentlive.pl/
#Music #FromTheEast #Poland #FediMusic



T-Mobile has gotten worse, but I'm still not switching androidauthority.com/stay-with…



In my 20 years of podcasting, I’ve tried many services for recording podcast interviews. I’ve found nothing better than Cleanfeed, because it’s reliable and flexible. While there are services that record locally and then upload, all of them glitch out at one time or another, because there is a lot of complexity in getting that right. It’s heartbreaking to lose a good interview because your double-ender service had a bad hair day. It happens far too much.
Cleanfeed is also good for broadcasting and other live events. During the lockdowns, many broadcasters were using Cleanfeed to send entire shows, including high quality stereo music streams, back to radio stations.
I did an explanation and demonstration of Cleanfeed in The Blind Podmaker podcast which is still relatively current.
I say all this because Cleanfeed has just come out with a very nice update for iPhones using USB-C. You can now use a USB-C audio device including audio interfaces, come into Cleanfeed through safari for iOS, and Cleanfeed will recognise the audio device. This is going to be a big deal for people who want to participate in high quality podcasts or live broadcasts while on the go. If a radio station has a broadcaster in the field for some reason, coming in through Cleanfeed and a USB-C audio device is going to sound way better than a FaceTime call.
Best of all, Cleanfeed’s developers care deeply about #accessibility. They’ve responded positively to many of my suggestions and those of others in the blind podcasting community.
You can find Cleanfeed at cleanfeed.net.



Apparently mask are optional at the Covid vaccination centre.
in reply to Hubert Figuière

Oh and they rightfully say that vaccine don’t protect against transmission. But yet nobody is required to wear a mask.





I had a talk called "Unbreakable Linux for Entire Family" today. It had nothing to do with Oracle #Linux, it was about concepts and approaches around #Fedora #Silverblue to make a truly free ChromeOS-like system for friends and family.
I was happy to have a full room of people. It's good to see #OpenAlt bouncing back in terms of attendance.

The recording of the talk (in Czech) is already available online:
youtube.com/live/7Xhs8zP8xwI?t…



Why is it that I just found an abnormal amount of duct tape rolls and when I'm looking for duct tape, it's nowhere to be seen? I blame the duct tape minions. They are hateful little creatures.
in reply to Just Martin

we have it with batteries. I noticed we were getting low on AA's so bought a fresh pack last week, only for Halloween to come and the kid to use half the damn things within a few days of their arrival. We've not even opened the drawer for 2 months before that!
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo I refuse to by non-rechargeable batteries now. Spend a good chunk of change on lots of AA and AAA, a good charger or even two of them, don't buy batteries again or at least until you lose those ones.
in reply to Andre Louis

@FreakyFwoof I don't think I've actually used any this year until this weekend. My last battery top-up order was in 2019.
in reply to Andre Louis

@FreakyFwoof it's the bigger cna d cells in the outdoor lights that never last when they're rechargeable.
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo Lol, sounds about right. We also have a problem with scissors. Buy scissors, because the old ones disappear. than the old ones resurface and the new ones disappear. So annoying.
in reply to Just Martin

ha we have a scissor block in the kitchen next to the knife block, which itself has a scissor slot. that's 4 scissors right there in theory. In practice ...


Bezos deliveries it's either:

- We drop shipped your delivery and didn't tell you.

OR

- We ring multiple times and then bang on your door in case as the dogs freaks out.

How about you just ring once?



My desire to be well-informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane.


@app in your redesign, are you planning name folding in text to speech output?


I miss my Braille display sometimes.
"The Horse and His Boy: Shasta and his talking horse Bree flee from a life of slavery and head for the freedom of Narnia, facing many perils along the way."
I spent a good 10 seconds wondering, 'briefly' what?
in reply to Sean Randall

Hahaha! We listened to the dramatisation of this only last weekend, and it still took me three listens of your post to get it.
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in reply to James Scholes

@jscholes they dont do drama like this anymore. Although I think the eagle eared can spot the odd crinkling of a page in those recordings, certainly some of the later ones.




Oh fargh... I just realized how daunting this new venture into #Macbook territory is. I have to learn an entirely new operating system as well as an entirely new DAW. I tend to do better at this sort of thing if I have access to an ordered way of doing things, like some sort of course... lessons, etc. There's somebody I'd love to learn from despite the fact I'm stupidly intimidated by them, but I don't think I can afford the nearly $65 an hour price tag. I've just jumped off a cliff and am plummeting toward unknown waters... Help? #Blind #Musician #MacOS #Logic #Komplete #A11y #Voiceover
in reply to Kira-chan

Would it be too late to refund the MacBook and Logic and start over with a nice Windows laptop? Or did you not have a choice in which platform and DAW to use?
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt Could I do that, yes. But I also wanted to switch to Mac for music production anyway. I just had a moment of what the crap did I just do for a second... LOL

in reply to Mrs McCrimmon

Also this made me miss Kieran Hodgson's bad #DoctorWho impressions - which were actually completely on point.

youtube.com/watch?v=OedNVdX2U2…



Falls der (Fach-)Arzttermin nur über #Doctolib vereinbart werden kann, geht anschließend wie folgt vor: Fordert zunächst eine Datenauskunft gemäß Art. 15 DSGVO an und veranlasst danach die Löschung eurer Daten gemäß Art. 17 DSGVO. Jedes Mal. Wirklich jedes Mal. Geht ganz einfach über Datenanfragen! 👇

datenanfragen.de/

in reply to Mike Kuketz 🛡

Dabei sollte man villeicht auch ausdrücklich auf Absatz 2 hinweisen: wurden die Daten bereits an andere Weitergegeben, hat der Betreiber "angemessene Maßnahmen" zu treffen, auch dort auf eine entsprechende Löschung hinzuwirken (so versehe ich den Absatz zumindest).

Kann man da eigentlich auch eine verbindliche Bestätigung verlangen?



My mother-in law who refused to wear a face mask during the pandemic because it ‘made her look dumb’ is now wearing a garbage bag in support of Donald Trump.

Adding this to the Wikipedia entry for “I can’t even”



Climate Change Demonstration Criticised for Blocking Traffic in Spain theshovel.com.au/2024/10/31/cl…


For many years I've believed that Facebook and Instagram were secretly downloading phone photos in the background. Because when you go to post a photo, it gets sent far too quickly to have done a download at the same time.

Yesterday I found this video from an Instagram founder, and damned if I wasn't right.

It doesn't appear to be all photos, just the most recent one (ones?). It's not clear from the video if it happens when you launch the app, or when you hit compose. They're doing it on the assumption you're about to post some recent photos. They claim it's okay because if you don't post it, they delete it.

That's classic Meta self-serving bullshit. The "Yeah, it's wrong, but it's okay because we're Meta and we're smart" excuse they always use.

It is not okay to upload my photos without my explicit consent. It's not okay to chew up my bandwidth when I may be deliberately trying to keep it low. IANL, but that first, frankly, sounds like class action material.

It doesn't matter that they claim to delete it. They just introduced a privacy risk. That could have been a nude of my spouse. That could have been a photo of my kid I was sending to my doctor. That could have been a photo of a contract I'm not allowed to share. All to save a few seconds they can brag about.

When Apple allowed you to selectively make photos available to app, I turned the feature on for Meta apps. This makes posting photos a pain, because Meta doesn't uses Apple's UI for choosing which photos they can see and selecting them at the same time. It's a multistep process and it isn't obvious how to do it. Ironically, it means that I rarely post to Instagram anymore. A fact that just reinforces my belief that Meta really wants full photo access and deliberately isn't fixing the issue.



Auch das ist #DisabledAlltag : In Werkstätten für einen mickrigen Stundenlohn schufften, ohne Arbeitnehmer*innen-Rechte, während andere sich eine goldene Nase verdienen. Inklusion? Fehlanzeige!

Das Team von andererseits hat gemeinsam mit der Süddeutschen Zeitung zu Behindertenwerkstätten recherchiert.

Unbedingt lesen!

andererseits.org/werkstaetten/

#WfMmB #WfbM #Inklusion #UNBRK #IhrBeutetUnsAus




Anybody know anything about the following User Agent strings?

  • ReplicantReaderBot: “Replicant” isn’t an entirely unique brand name. I hope this is unrelated to the Replicant LLM chatbots. If it is, is it used to train or is it just a client of the chatbots?
  • ArenaBot/1.0 (+<https://arena.im/bot/;> contact@arena.im) (page is a 404; is this used to train LLMs or does an LLM use this as a client to fetch data?)
  • SocialBeeAgent: again, used to train LLMs or a client of an LLM?
  • Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5 Tencent/BrandProtection. Does this obey robots.txt or am I gonna have to add another Nginx rule? I normally block brand-protection bots.

#bot #scraper #LazyWeb

in reply to Rocky 🏳️‍⚧️

there are several and they all suck. darkvisitors is the least bad but it also lacks nuance and is very limited.
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‼️ A partir de esta mañana Izquierda Unida y el Partido Comunista de Andalucia hemos abierto nuestra sede en #ElPuerto como punto solidario para las personas afectadas por la tragedia climática en Valencia.

En estos momentos difíciles para tantas personas cualquier aportación, por pequeña que sea, puede ser de gran ayuda.



@AntennaPod I found out in the podcast listening statistic, that, if you start listening to a podcast episode in one month and not finishing it within this month and going on listening to it in the next month, the whole listening time of this episode is put in the month, where you finishing it.
Can this been fixed in the way to split the listening times to the respective months?
in reply to Fasi

This is how the statistics feature is designed - the data is only approximate. It is designed this way to ensure that the app can focus on its main purpose - efficiently playing the episodes that you are interested in - without spending too much data and complexity on maintaining exact statistics.
in reply to AntennaPod

Thank you for your quick reply. So it's not a bug, it's a feature. 😄 So I'll keep that in mind next time and not start an hour long episode at the end of the month and not be able to finish it.


Just updating everyone on the advocacy I’ve been doing with Flexibits regarding Fantastical for Windows.
Flexibits have been seeking advice direct from Microsoft about improving accessibility. There is no doubt that as a company they are committed to making the experience as accessible as their products on Apple platforms. They set an aggressive schedule for getting things improved substantially, but they say they ran into a couple of issues directly with Microsoft and were not able to get all of the fixes in that they were hoping to include by the end of this week.
Flexibits tell me they are getting ready to issue a public release, version 4.0.3, that includes some fixes that should help a bit, however it is not close to being everything they are trying to improve.

So in the next release, they say we should notice some fixes to accessibility, but this is definitely not the finished product.
We can obviously lament the fact that it was released without accessibility included in the first public build, and this is regrettable, but we are where we are, and I have developed a good sense over the years of when we’re being given the run-around and when a company is genuine. I am sure they are now trying to put this right. If it gets done successfully, having Fantastical working accessibly on Windows will be a huge deal for those of us who use this app extensively on Apple platforms. I’ll keep everyone posted.



Ugh, the #chrome #extension ecosystem is exactly as bad as I'd expect.

And the fact extension is still up claiming not to collect any data even if it has been called out in one of the biggest security newsletters shows how much Google care about this (not much). The only thing they care about is pretending to ship AI features to detect malicious extensions. Because that's how you get promoted.

I mean is it even possible to report a suspicious or bad extension? I don't see anywhere

Great research by @WPalant and @c0m4r

And @campuscodi for putting the spotlight on it.

in reply to Gabriel N

the worst is that you can block "Shorts" with an uBlock Origin rules. No need of a new extension.

Oh wait...