#Mapycz (now #Mapycom) from #Seznam use #OpenStreetMap everywhere except their home country - Czech Republic, where they have their own proprietary maps. There have been rumours in the #OSM community that they actually copy from OSM. Today I found proof that they really do. I mapped a new park in #Brno just by surveying and taking notes last year. Later the park showed up on Mapy.com with exactly the same path layout. The new orthophoto is out and it revealed that I didn't get everything right and Seznam got it wrong too. Exactly the same mistakes.
Yes, the same happened to me a few years ago. I've added a house that wasn't in photo maps yet into OSM, and it did appear in Seznam Maps in the same exact shape.
@jmlich no, they are not saying that they use data about communications from OSM in the Czech Republic. You can't just blend OSM objects with proprietary objects of the same type. It's a license violation.
@jmlich Pepo, if you want to make judgments, please at least study the OSM license first. You cannot use OSM objects in a map where you already have proprietary objects of the same type. And you can list sources however you want. They use OSM for everything in other countries. That's fine. They only use OSM for certain types in CZ, such as benches, recycling points. That's fine. They use their own proprietary data for roads and paths and they can't add roads and paths from OSM to them.
additionally it is question if it is their fault. Maybe some 3rd party daty provider made shortcut by using OSM data without considering impact to licence. Anyway, you can ask them to fix attribution ..
@jmlich it isn't about fixing attribution. It's a license violation. It's like as if Microsoft took GPL code from Linux and put it in Windows without releasing Windows as GPL. Attribution doesn't fix it. Whether it was added by them or their supplier, is their problem and their legal responsibility. It has already been raised with Seznam BTW.
omg we should create librestreetmap, something with bsd license instead of gpl ;-D this rule that it cannot mix same types of objects in maps is terribily complex to explain. Or even that you cannot blend two images is something is irracional. At least for me. But IANAL of course
@jmlich yes, it's a bit complicated, but Seznam navigates well in it. All they are officially doing is in line with the license. Except for these "quiet copies". That's why I think it's not systematic, but rather a failure of an individual or individuals who wanted to make their job easier. For the sake of Seznam I hope they will stop it. We also wouldn't want an engineer in our kernel team who would copy code from BSD to Linux. 🙂
@organicmaps@mastodon.social this block should have been done earlier. It does have contributors from moscow, still spreading lies in Europe. Organic maps is a descendant of mail.ru's crap.me - NOT to be trusted!
@systemz @organicmaps I still hope it's just a failure of an individual or individuals who wanted to make their job easier and the company will fix it. It's only a problem for the Czech Republic, elsewhere it's pure OSM with their really good renderer on the top. I use OsmAnd myself.
@GuloGulo Ne, Locus Map nedělají to samé. Ti používají OSM mapy a ty vykreslují vlastním rendererem, to je naprosto v pořádku. Seznam v ČR používá své vlastní uzavřené mapy, do kterých zjevně kopíruje prvky z OSM, což je v rozporu s licencí. Není to žádná averze. Jen apel na Seznam, aby používal OSM v souladu s licencí. Jim by se taky nelíbilo, kdybychom data z jejich proprietárních map, za které třeba i zaplatili, kopírovali do OSM.
@GuloGulo Doporučuji nastudovat licenci OSM, než začnete vynášet takové soudy. Licence OSM umožňuje vzít objekty stejného typu a umístit je do vlastní mapy, ale nelze je míchat s objekty stejného typu pod jinou licencí. Seznam třeba bere z OSM lavičky, recyklační místa apod, ale nemíchá je s ničím jiným. Má tyto objekty pouze z OSM. V tomto případě bere z OSM objekty komunikací a přidává je do vlastních map, kde má komunikace pod proprietární licencí. To je porušení licence OSM. Locus Map nic takového nedělá.
Old thread but still. I thought this was a common practice - I'm from Slovakia and I remember I added some shops in #OSM and then when I checked #MapyCom , at least one of them was already in it with a slightly different name - probably added by user of #MapyCom . But then after the synchronization with #OSM (which happens every few days), they took just the shop I added (maybe merged them?). I suppose someone is sitting there and solves such conflicts
@efreet The thing is that unlike in Slovakia Seznam doesn't use OSM in Czechia. Except for a few object types: waste bins, benches... But definitely not roads or POIs which are part of their proprietary maps.
I wrote about how the user experience of encrypted messaging tools is sometimes just as important as the underlying tech. PGP, Jabber etc were not accessible. Signal makes it seamless. But the UI still has issues that can lead to mistakes 404media.co/behind-the-blog-fo…
For good reasons, people on Signal don't really want a public identifier, especially a phone number. (FWIW other more exotic apps like Briar and I think SimpleX [and GAcc-disconnected RCS] require you to set your own nickname for the contact.)
Elbows Up 🇨🇦 This morning, there are no fewer than four ANTI-Carney articles on the front page of the American-owned National Post. As expected, media is working hard to install a Trumpian hellscape in #Canada. Don't let them.
I saw Bloodywood last night. Pyrotechnics, headbanging, rapping/screaming, chugging on an 8-string guitar, and... thanking every single member of their (large) crew by name, with rounds of applause for each group, from their manager through to the tour bus driver. Lovely stuff.
Not sure what to think about this article on political polarization and extolling the virtues of moderation: onlys.ky/severance-and-the-div… particularly the calls to action (search for "3-3-3"). In particular, "Commit to engaging with three news sources outside your political comfort zone each week" seems like it would just be opening myself up to being taken in by propaganda. But then, am I too mentally weak to simply hear other ideas and opinions? I'd like to think I'm not.
I think consuming propaganda news sources at all is a bad idea. The idea that you can get at the truth by averaging lies is IMHO not valid. Engaging on a human level is a good idea though, and I could do better at that - I don't have any right wing friends.
Maybe reading also news from countries that do not have 2-party system could be better approach than reading the 'other side'. That is, if you want to read more news. Which I do less these days so, unfortunately, I can't recommend anything specific.
I think it depends a lot on the news source. I like reading/listening to the Bulwark. I don't always agree with them, but they usually get that most issues are complex/nuanced, and I don't want to be in an echo-chamber. Networks like Fox are mostly propaganda and not worth listening to imo, except maybe to understand what MAGA people are hearing (Decoding Fox News is good for that). And the center-right seems closer to the center-left than to the far right.
Recette pour une catastrophe : Prendre les 60 millions de lignes de COBOL qui font tourner le système informatique de la sécurité sociale et faire tout ré-écrire en Java par une IA. POPCORN wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-s…
(ça pourrait presque être drôle si ce n'était pas encore les pauvres qui allaient trinquer.)
I haven't started watching this series yet but I will soon, I think, and the score of movies and shows often really sticks with me. Might grab these preemptively, while carefully not looking at the track names.
🔧 Z Oscloudu zas vytahuju jednu z těch nenápadných, ale užitečných aplikací – SearxNG.
🔍 https://searxng.cz
Soukromý metavyhledávač bez reklam, profilování a šmírování.
Spolehlivě běží už pěkně dlouho a pomáhá s hledáním každý den.
Stop talking about AI already. Marvel at 249 pages of #Ghibli #GIFs posted on this ancient Tumblr from the internet's golden age. Every two-second GIF is bursting with life.
Because of corporate collusion with law enforcement dating back to the 80s, all colour printers put tracking information on their printouts, whether you're printing a colour document or not, encoding information that ties printouts back to the specific printer used.
Relatedly: don't forget that office and networked printers aren't really "printers" and haven't been for decades; they're networked servers that happen to output printed media. They store userID and datestamped logs of everything anyone prints on them, and nobody throws out logs.
Čas vyzkoušet nové prostředí – #GNOME48 na #ArchLinux 🎉 #i3 zůstává mým hlavním prostředím pro každodenní práci, ale musím říct, že GNOME 48 vypadá skvěle.
Final update: The developer is now on Mastodon via @andrew_guide.
Update: The developer has removed the ability to download Guide until the security issues mentioned in the linked thread are fixed.
Update: this product contains some code flaws that are concerning from a security perspective, beyond just giving control of your computer to an LLM. You might want to read this thread before installing the product: toot.cafe/@matt/114258349401221651
Update: I've exchanged some long emails with Andrew, the lead developer. He's open to dialogue, and moving the project in the right direction: well-scoped single tasks, more granular controls and permissions, etc. He doesn't strike me as an #AI maximalist can and should do everything all the time kind of guy. He's also investigating deeper screen reader interaction, to let AI just do the things we can't do that it's best at. I stand by my thoughts that the project isn't yet ready for prime time. But as someone else in the thread said, I don't think it should be written off entirely as yet another "AI will save us from inaccessibility" hype train. There is, in fact, something here if it gets polished and scoped a bit more.
Just tried guide for fun. It's supposed to be an app to use #AI to help #blind folks get things done. I asked "Where are the best liver and onions in Ottawa?" It: 1. Decided it needed to search the web. 2. Thought that the "stardew access" icon on my desktop was a kind of web browser, so clicked it. 3. Imagined an "accept cookies" dialogue it needed to accept. 4. Decided that didn't work, so looked for Google Chrome (I don't have chrome installed on that machine) 5. Finally opened edge from the start menu. By the way, it just...left Stardew open and running. Because apparently having Stardew Valley running in the background is a vital part of finding liver and onions in Ottawa. 6. Opened a random extension from my edge toolbar (goodlinks). 7. Clicked the address bar and loaded google.com, instead of just doing the search right from the address bar. 8. Got blocked because it couldn't sign into my Google account, even though it could have also searched from the Google homepage.
To be fair to AI, that was the kind of open-ended task AI is terrible at. If I had asked it to check an inaccessible checkbox, or read a screenshot, or something, I'm sure it would have been fine.
Anyway, I'm still better at using a computer than an AI. So is my 87 year old grandfather, for that matter. www.guideinteraction.com
With Guide, inaccessible doesn't have to mean undoable. Guide is a Windows AI assistant that helps people with low vision or blindness navigate the digital world.
There's a new product that has been gaining some buzz in the blind community, a Windows app called Guide that uses AI to perform tasks on your computer. It's pitched as a way to get around web accessibility problems in particular. I won't link to the thing itself, because I don't want to give it that validation, but I'll link to a previous discussion thread about it: fed.interfree.ca/notes/a5wf4ys…
I've spent some time taking this app apart. The level of shoddy work here is deeply disgusting. 1/?
So I wanted to try guide on a real accessibility issue. However, it seems that #codeberg has finally fixed their #inaccessible#captcha. Now, if you tab into the #captcha field, you're told what you need to type to get past it. Good job codeberg! #a11y
is codeberg staying online consistently for you? Last I heard, they were still combatting AI training models, or something AI-related, that was sapping up all of their resources.
Made me revisit how things in Forgejo were progressing toward federating pull requests without resorting to emailing patches.
I've had an account to username squat mainly, and had lofty goals of migrating off of GitHub, but hadn't put in the time to test the CICD system. Didn't want to tax the community resource if BigCorp was willing to foot the bill elsewhere. Then again, Copilot training. Ugh.
This seems vastly overkill for what I want, a captcha solver, but do you have any suggestions on how to make this solve image only captchas? Or if there's a better tool just for that task I'd love it!
I guess you didn't notice me using the AI feature in the be My Eyes app for Windows to read handwritten scanned PDF's, but putting aside your attempt at snark, would love suggestions in this area. You can criticize tech culture and still use tech, you know.
@WeirdWriter Your criticism is most likely to harm the access that even you apparently hypocritically rely on. So I’m unlikely to recommend you something I rely on for my living, lest you insight a backlash against it. It’s a matter of trust.
@WeirdWriter I don’t post about the AI that actually works on the fediverse. The anti AI crowd here is likely to get upset that it can solve captchas, describe adult images, or make infographics for me, and attempt to shut it down or take it away.
I can assure you none of us have that kind of power. If anything, it will be a lack of long term financial investments for these companies that causes them to go under, which is outside the critiques of the Fediverse.
@WeirdWriter Maybe not. But I’m not suffering under the delusion that the Luddite’s and anti AI crowd are my friends anymore than the gross capitalist growth at all costs tech bros are. As blind folks we have to take what we can from both. Because both will screw us if it gets them an inch closer to their goals. So I keep the AI that actually works off the fediverse.
Shame because the luddites are making some pretty cool scripts and software. But while I believe the worst that can happen is you'll just get scolded by anti-AI folks, I actually fully support doing what you gotta do to survive under this world.
Anyone who is anti AI has never actually used it properly, they probably used it ones, it’s made a mistake or hallucination, and then they think it’s total rubbish.
@oasisfan@WeirdWriter I wouldn't go that far. But most anti AI folks are fanatics, and thus dangerous to accessibility, as they will happily throw the baby out with the bathwater.
First, it's an Electron+Python monstrosity. Specifically, the Python backend runs as a web server on the local machine, and the Electron frontend connects to that local web server. Along with the size of Electron itself, the frontend app is about 27 MB, mostly a node_modules tree with no hint of tree-shaking / dead code elimination. The front-end JavaScript code is not minified at all, so once you extract the .asar file, it's easy to look at it. 2/?
Yep, it can solve those CAPTCHAs where you have to choose the right picture, but the cloud vision NVDA add-on can do this, it just won’t click on things for you, but it can tell you what the pictures are.
@oasisfan@WeirdWriter I don't trust cloud vision. It's an addon written in Russian, that sends all data to a Russian domain. Including your Be My Eyes username and password if you give it that. If it was communicating with the services directly, fine. But if you check the sourcecode, it's not.
I think the lack of a privacy/"what I'll do with your data" section of the website is a big miss for a product that will have access to do whatever it feels like on my computer. @fastfinge
@jscholes@Jage On a more serious note, I think the interface as presented is just way, way too generalist, and its freedom too unrestricted. Things I'd like to see: 1. it gets prompted with the name of the currently focused app, and the mouse is disallowed from leaving that app window. 2. Bringing it up with alt+ctrl+g gives prompts of what tasks it thinks it could perform inside the current app. Instead of the current general "ask me to do anything!" 3. It should have access to the DOM for browsers so it's not taking screenshots and acting only on that all the time if it's being asked to do something on a webpage. 4. It really, really needs training on NVDA focus mode. It says to turn off speech, but that doesn't solve for it trying to type into an edit field when NVDA isn't in focus mode. It does this constantly.
I still don't think it'd be ready for prime time, but it would be closer.
@jscholes@Jage It's also a security thing. Sure, it was pretty funny that it opened Stardoo Valley. But if I was using it on my real machine, I can think of a lot of apps I wouldn't want it to unexpectedly launch.
@starkraving666 It's useful for a lot of things. Narrowly defined tasks like "describe this image" or "What is this control" or "what does this say" especially. But we're trying to create giant mega-models with all the data instead of tiny specialized models with the right data. I don't need the same AI that gives me alt-text for images I can't see to also write me python code and draw me a unicorn and tell me a story. If I want those things (and sometimes I do), they should be different specialized AI's that just do that one thing. It's okay if the Python-writing AI can't read me the menu when I go out to eat.
this kind of thing, where you just give an LLM full access to fuck around on your computer, terrifies me. Even more so that it's designed to be used by people who literally can't see what it's doing. How can anyone think this is safe?
We can hear exactly what it’s doing with our screen readers. And there is a stop hot key. I’m not concerned about safety. I’m more concerned about privacy, and correctly setting expectations. I work in tech, and I spend at least a couple of hours a day struggling with inaccessible apps and websites, and have to have a co-worker do certain tasks for me. Anything that can make this better is of interest to me. Sure, everyone should build accessible apps. But for the most part, nobody bothers. But I still have to work. However, solutions like this need to be strictly sandboxed to the app I actually need help with, not given access to the entire computer. Not only is this more secure, private, and safer, it also works better. The AI doesn’t need to get distracted by the fact that I have BBalatro installed, or that a windows notification popped up. Just give it the current window.Also, the examples for use need to be more like “Ask me to check a keyboard inaccessible checkbox for you” or “I can help you read an image without alt text”. The current examples are more like “Ask me to book a flight for you”. In its current form, AI can’t do that. The developer has strongly committed to fixing both of these things.
For the next #Conversations_im release I’m refactoring how URIs are linked / made clickable. I’m adding a bunch of URI schemes like tel and mailto on top of the existing xmpp, http(s) and geo but removing support for "things that look like web URLs but aren’t actually URIs" (like 'example.com') to avoid some false positives.
Once the 2.18.0-beta comes out tomorrow or so let me know if you see things that isn’t matched and should be matched or vice versa.
Don't forget to pay attention to the _end_ of a URI please! It's super annoying when clicks end up going 404 because the clicked value contained a trailing comma, full-stop or parenthesis or something (eg: example.org/somepage) <-- shouldn't include the trailing `)` #petpeeve
I would like to tell you about a request that I have already received several times from friends and family members: you can search for terms in the chat history. The search itself works fine, but you can't jump from a result to the actual place in the chat history. But that would be important because the messages before and/or after the search term are often just as important. Currently, you have to remember the date, switch to the chat history and then scroll (possibly indefinitely).
I wouldn't know how to do that either, to be honest. I'm guessing that this is a wheel already been invented by re-usable code, but maybe not for your platform. Perhaps consider dropping certain characters that are technically valid if they appear as the last character of the URI?
If I were looking for a heuristic, I would say that if the URI has ( or ) before the end, then it can have one at the end, otherwise one can assume that it does not belong to the URL. But I can see how you can find more and more edge cases in such heuristics.
The computer scientist in me says you can't find matching parentheses with RegEx.
The programmer in me says look for a solution that is "good enough". An idea that would cover a lot of cases would be, for example, to assume that a URI can contain at most one pair of parentheses. The few counterexamples are rare, and they are then the rare false negatives one has to accept.
I'd like to comment Paul Saab's presentation from the other day at the World IPv6 Congress titled "The Road To IPv6 - Bumpy". Paul works for Facebook and in his talk he apparently mentioned curl (slide 24 of the PDF set).
Quite a lot of "big bad curl is stopping us" and not a lot of "our multi-billion dollar company sent over a few PRs and are helping with them" happening there.
meta account disabled. Currently only using it for logins before I transition everything slowly. Mastadon for social is enough but also use bluesky for people that can't bother to change to mastadon.
Also have pixelfed, but I hope it doesn't transform into Instagram where people start using it to communicate and share memes instead of photography. Edit: but thanks to the fediverse there can be an instance for all tastes :)
Mastodon, and Instagram, but I've removed nearly all my data from there and follow only a dozen acoounts now, greyrocking for the win... Last week I removed my LinkedIn account as well. I am on Tiktok, but only as a lurker and retooter.
Computer: Linux using open-source applications Phone: Pixel 9 with GrapheneOS, but I do have sandboxed Google for several commercial apps. Still finding open-source equivalents for apps. Social Media: Mastodon and Pixelfed.
OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibli stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a vulgar display of power.
Hayao Miyasaki is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a Japanese animation studio known worldwide for their stunning, emotional, beautiful stories and movies. At the core of Studio Ghibli’s work is a deep engagement with questions of humanity.
It's no coincidence that alt-right people have taken up AI generated artwork so intensely. It allows bypassing all the ethics and care of typically left-leaning artists. To show the ability to wield aesthetics without the social values tied to those aesthetics is a power move.
📣Jami team is pleased to introduce the new version of Jami: Εἰρήνη.☮️
As you'll discover, this release brings remarkable advances from months of silent work, sure to delight loyal Jami users and newcomers after the announcement of Skype's shutdown.
We invite you to update and try the latest version of Jami! 🙇
Η επιλογή της Ειρήνης έχει ένα πολύ όμορφο φόντο, αλλά σε συνδυασμό με το tagline υπάρχει και κάποια ειρωνεία: "[μη αναγνώσιμο, απρόφωνο, μη πληκτρολογήσιμο], για να γίνει η εισαγωγή του χρήστη απλή και διαισθητική."
I've been trying out Jami the past couple of weeks as there had been some mentions around about giving it a try, it might be a possible Skype replacement. Here's what I found:
* when setting up the Android client and adding a person to have a conversation with, getting a message to/from that other person might not work at all. Much toying of settings in the apps ensued. This is, to me, the most basic function of the app, and it was broken. It might work after a time, it might not. It might work if you changed networks. It might work if you fiddled with DHT or uPNP settings. It might not.
* Later, and after an app revision update or two, I tried setting up a conversation with a user on IOS. I have received messages from the IOS user, but they have not yet received a message from me. This is even after an update to this super-duper release you're posting about.
I've been to the project's website, wiki (which is not a wiki), forums, both code repo sites, followed your fedi account, and here's what I've seen:
* Your fedi account, until just now, hadn't posted since August, and it appears to be a one-way account that doesn't respond to people. * Your website has quirks on it like, for the Android download page "Download Jami from Jami.net" which links to f-droid.org (jami.org != f-droid.org) - someone's filed a bug about this. This doesn't really smack of trust, though. * You don't seem to have anyone paying attention to the forums - there's a couple of people (who don't appear to be, or identify as being part of the Jami project) sort of trying to help, kind of, sometimes, maybe, but otherwise there seems to be little interest taken in the issues people are having. People are moving to proprietary solutions because of the jank in the app * Up until a few days ago, git.jami.net, where links to file bugs go to, and most code repo links that people find go to, which is apparently a mirror of review.jami.net, wasn't mirroring properly for a month, so it looked like the project may have been abandoned. * I posted a bug report about the broken mirroring several days ago. While it appears the mirroring is fixed now, the bug report was deleted. Not responded to, not closed, not resolved, just gone.
To me, it seems like this project is super inwardly focused, whose only existence seems to be to try to do something for corporate use (I honestly can't imagine), but is completely missing the ball with people who are trying to communicate that they're not having a good time with the product, at all.
I don't know what kind of community you're trying to build around the product, but I don't see projects like this as very trustworthy (appearing to be on the brink of shutdown, refusing to have 2-way communication with the user base).
This is in no way a critique of the developers at all - this just appears to be a project that's lost and could probably find it's way if it would pay attention.
I suspect this post will fall on deaf ears, sadly.
@kinetix Hello, and no, your message has not fallen on deaf ears! Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with us. We hear your concerns and truly appreciate your detailed feedback. You’re right on many points.
We are aware of past connectivity issues on mobile, and significant improvements have been made over the last few months. The experience should now be much smoother.
@kinetix We're also resuming communication more actively, and we understand that our lack of updates may have caused frustration. Regarding the specific issues you mentioned:
The F-Droid download link issue has been resolved. The repository mirroring has also been fixed. Your bug report was submitted to the wrong repository, which is why it was removed. If you ever encounter issues again, please don’t hesitate to email us directly: we’d be happy to help. 2/3
As a small team, we’re doing our best to meet the community’s needs while continuously improving Jami. It’s not always easy, which is why feedback like yours is so valuable. We hope you’ll give the latest updates another try.
This is the kind of community we’re striving to build: one where members, like you, understand the challenges of a platform like ours and help make it better.
Trump versucht gerade, die komplette Macht an sich zu reißen. Viele US-Unternehmen helfen ihm dabei. Wenn du dagegen durch deinen Konsum protestieren möchtest, zeigen wir dir, wie du das am effektivsten machst. volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/bo…
Bitte bleibt auch Bluesky gegenüber kritisch. Die Firma gehört mehrheitlich Cryptobros, und die Technik geht auch immer mehr in Richtung Überwachungskapitalismus. Erst neulich haben sie eingeführt, dass alle Links in Bluesky-Posts auf einen Proxy umgeleitet werden – wie bei X. So können alle Klicks erfasst werden. In anderen Worten: Man kann in Bluesky-Posts nicht mehr direkt auf andere Websites verlinken.
Project Giraffe: battery storage of 47 MWh consisting of 12 Tesla "Megapacks 2XL" and 3 transformers with total power of 10 MW. giga-storage.com/en/projecten/…
@anymouse_404 I hope the software in invertors is not dependant on or remotely controllable by vendor's online services - which is unfortunately the case of most domestic PV plants as @bert_hubert wrote the other day.
Recently a Dutch hacker was able to take control of 4 million solar panel installations (FTM (Dutch), Euractiv, Victor Gevers). And this wasn’t the first time something like this has happened either (PV Magazine).
When I started The Disabled Ginger I sent it to my friends and family … as most of us do.
I was proud that I was finally standing up for disability rights. That I was taking my pain and putting it on the page in an effort to help others. That I had found something that lit a spark inside me.
Unfortunately, many of my friends didn’t feel the same way.
My disabilities are invisible, and I had become very good at hiding them. Apparently that’s what people expected of me, as they didn’t like this “new” version of Kelly.
Almost none of my friends subscribed. What’s worse, many stopped talking to me. Or would only reply in brief texts.
It’s almost been a year since I launched, and my circle is noticeably smaller. Many people I thought I was close with haven’t reached out for nearly 6 months.
When you find your purpose and your passion, it’s an incredible feeling. Hopefully people support you.
Not everyone will. And that’s ok.
It’s painful seeing so many relationships fade away. It hurts knowing they don’t see the value in me now that I’m “officially” disabled.
As painful as it is, it’s also a perfect example of why I became an advocate. Ableism is a huge problem. Being disabled can be incredibly lonely. I wanted to give a voice to those who haven’t yet found theirs.
In the process I’ve met incredible people from all over the world who inspire me to keep going. Who give me a reason to write every day. Who remind me of the compassion, love and goodness that’s still out there.
Thank you to each and every one of you. I couldn’t do this alone.
My latest looks at the reasons we hide, and what would happen if we all decided to stop hiding and show the world the realities of chronic illness:
Thanks for sharing this! It rang so many bells with me…
> This phenomenon is hard for the non-disabled to understand.
Too true. But as one of those I can say: they can learn to "accept" that (in the sense as to neither deny it nor to expect it to "go away" one day; in the sense as to accept their friends stage, as unsatisfying as it feels; in the sense as to try finding other ways to (hopefully) give at least some consolidation, to support them & not to give them up).
There was a moment in Peter Dutton's pitch to voters when the full Trumpian catastrophe of his climate, energy and industry policies should have been exposed.
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Okay, I figured it was something like that. I'm currently a paying Proton user, but with the recent political vocalizing by their CEO, I'm looking elsewhere. I have a free Tuta account atm, and while the android email app is not as polished feeling as Proton's, it's solid. I should mess around with the calendar too.
Right now, my biggest issue is that if I do switch, is moving everything from Proton to Tuta. I've thought about getting a domain name and making an email on Proton, switching everyone to that, then moving that email name over to Tuta. Not the easiest, but if I ever have to switch again, it would make it easier that time.
Maybe it would get me to finally give up my old Yahoo and Gmail accounts too. (haha.)
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