What's the 2025 digital trend for you: #AI or digital #sovereignty?
If it's the latter, check out these European alternatives 👉 tuta.com/blog/boycott-us-choos…
And, yes, Tuta is proudly #European! 💪 🇪🇺
With the growing movement to boycott US products and services, more people are choosing European alternatives. Let’s take a look at the best European products you can use.Tuta
Mon fils s'est fait cambrioler, à Toulouse, et on lui a volé tout son matos photo.
Voilà la liste :
Canon EOS 500D
Canon EOS 500N (argentique)
Olympus PEN-EE (argentique)
Objectif Sigma AF-MF Zoom 28-80mm F3.5-5.6 Mini Zoom Macro
Objectif Sigma AF-MF Zoom 100-300mm F4.5-6.7 UC
Flash Metz Mecablitz 28 AF-4 C
Si vous voyez quelque chose qui ressemble à cette liste sur un site de revente, merci de me faire signe !
le repouète nous réconforte un peu 🙏
@rf 
New major update to the private, free and open source office suite! #LibreOffice 25.8 is now available, with:
📝 Navigator improvements in Writer
📊 Many new spreadsheet functions
🚀 Faster file loading
Learn more and download it: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
The best open source office suite continues to evolve, while maintaining its focus on privacy and digital sovereignty Berlin, 20 August 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.8.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
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Please make it simpler to download and update LibreOffice in languages other than English.
To those unfamiliar with English and/or with difficulties with using computers, the download of an English package, and then the requirement of downloading and installing a "translated user interface" can be quite difficult to understand.
Notice this whole ordeal has to be repeated for every update.
Why don't you do it like OpenOffice or Firefox?
#Mozilla have taken a lot of criticism lately, but then they come out with something outstanding and important like this.
hacks.mozilla.org/2025/08/crli…
Firefox is now the first and the only browser to deploy fast and comprehensive certificate revocation checking that does not reveal your browsing activity to anyone (not even to Mozilla). ...John Schanck (Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog)
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Excel developers 40 years ago: we've built a world-first recalc system, delivering performant but accurate dynamic cell updating on any architecture or system.
Excel developers now: we added a function that can sometimes give a correct answer. We can't tell if the answer is correct or not. Also it shouldn't be used for numbers in a spreadsheet.
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Numerical calculations is just not what AI is for.
However, it's far more useful for things like e.g. extracting product dimensions or hotel reservation dates from arbitrary, unstructured text. Before the advent of AI, this was extremely unfulfilling, manual data entry work.
You can then use such data in Excel to do numerical / statistical calculations the "traditional way."
AI may not have perfect reliability (remember that humans don't either!), but you don't always need perfect reliability. If you only want to check how many customers complain about the rooms being too cold versus too hot, and how that is correlated to the weather outside, room location and AC settings, you may prefer a slightly inaccurate analysis over one that requires a person to read 20000 emails and identify temperature complaints.
I really don't get where all this hate is coming from.
Mikołaj Hołysz reshared this.
@miki
The hate is coming from people who are losing their jobs. Trained professional, high-paying, white-collar jobs.
Computers have been shedding people's jobs since the 90s, and no one cared.
Factory automation has eliminated millions of regular jobs, and no one cared.
The time to care was when it was first noted that the proceeds of production belong to those who own the means of production.
We never fixed that problem.
It is so hilarious to me that we have FOSS maintainers begging for money to try to keep the development of NTP ongoing. NTP - you know, that protocol that the entirety of humanity relies on for access to the internet (or anything on a network for that matter).
Meanwhile the o̶l̶i̶g̶a̶r̶c̶h̶y̶ broligarchy makes billions of the backs of these people.
Anyways, they're currently at $495 of $1000 for their 2025 goal. Go throw them some $ if you feel so inclined.
#NTP
To honor and perpetuate Dave's legacy and efforts, with the blessings of his family, donations to the Mills-Spring Fund at Network Time Foundation are welcome and appreciated.www.nwtime.org
Woke up early. Spot-checking the PDF and ePub files before sending them out to people.
Discovered that all the underlined text is missing. 🤦♀️
The exporter converted it to <span class="underline">underlined text</span>
but it should have converted it to _underlined text_
ARRRGH. I should not have to be fucking with code to export my book using existing tools.
@cachondo 🤔 what about ePub files? I'm assuming that with a kindle eReader or similar device you're screwed and get whatever the manufacturer set up. But the kindle app on a mac or windows would use whatever you've got configured for the OS. Is that correct?
I'm still screwed when it comes to audiobooks though. I'm coming up with zero ideas on how to verbally indicate spoken versus signed without it getting really annoying really fast.
I have to take ePub to Braille directly. I think it uses pandoc in the middle, which uses some type of markdown, which is then faithfully converted to the appropriate Braille for italics, underlines and so forth.
The only thing that comes to mind with audio is some sort of effect.
In the British Harry Potter audios, for instance, there's a little bit of "what would the character say", and it's done with a slight echo effect on the audio.
Sad to see things don't change.
A post on LinkedIn from my former employer has 2 typos in the alt text. It's only 2 sentences. Continuing to fly the flag of 'it doesn't matter'.
They also routinely put videos out in public with nothing but music.
I can't understand how it's right that they keep saying that every blind person deserves equality, then just make zero effort on their socials where they want the students themselves and the parents to be involved.
I mean they also have nobody with any qualifications or experience teaching the kids to use Braille technology. It's terribly sad. They did put out a couple of adverts after I left, but they didn't persist in looking for someone.
Not complaining on a personal level; I got paid privately by parents for weekend work. But it's a shambles for the kids and a real kick in the teeth of specialist education.
With PHP 8.5 we get Connection, DNS and SSL Sessions sharing across requests with cURL.
I made a video showing how this works and discuss the performance potential youtube.com/watch?v=wr_Jnrc2ha… - a short @mnapoli cameo included
Try our PHP Profiler: https://tideways.com/profiler/features?utm_source=yt&utm_campaign=yt-curl-shareSubscribe to my newsletter for PHP performance content: ...YouTube
Letter to BBC Radio 4 In Touch, part 2.
2. I do not think people would mind purchasing any kind of SMA or subscription if each version of the product was better than the previous one. When the user is worse off, that's a problem. We have a situation at the moment where, for the past 12 months, I have been raising issues surrounding the performance within different environments when using JAWS 2025. Consistently, the results are good in JAWS 2024, 2023 and even 2022. But there is a significant deteriation in a number of key areas when using the latest release which is 2025.
Some of these issues over that time have been patched so that they now function as they should. But no investigation has been mounted to ascertain what changed and to resolve the underlying cause.
This has culminated recently in the following situation.
I am contracted to provide JAWS-based services to a very large UK Government department. Having investigated the situation fully, I cannot in all honesty advise this organisation to upgrade JAWS for their blind users as they will not be able to undertake their work because the functionality is not what it was.
So while it is wonderful to include AI-related enhancements as Vispero are doing, the existing functionality which blind people are currently enjoying should perform in the same way as earlier versions of the screen-reader.
I hope the above is helpful.
"Pretend that a ping pong ball represents a single #curl installation somewhere in the world..."
(blog post from 2020)
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2020/08/20…
Pretend that a ping pong ball represents a single curl installation somewhere in the world. Here's a picture of one to help you get an image in your head.daniel.haxx.se
Working area of the 2026 HTTP Workshop. Contribute to HTTPWorkshop/workshop2026 development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
"The seventh HTTP Workshop is on for 2026: 14-16 July in Basel, Switzerland."
github.com/HTTPWorkshop/worksh…
Working area of the 2026 HTTP Workshop. Contribute to HTTPWorkshop/workshop2026 development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
This sentence contains too much stupidity: "Kristi Noem says U.S. will paint Mexico border wall black in bid to make it hotter, harder to climb."
It delights me that her name is an anagram of "irksome nit"
Anyone around who's into TTRPGs who uses accessibility tools like a screen reader? What's the best way to make RPG material available to low vision users? How do you approach character sheets, and how can they be designed to be more accessible?
The fact that Air Canada openly break the regulation about flight rebooking should get them slapped with a fine that make the strike tame in comparison.
But this would require courage from the Govt. Something they don't have.
@somecanuckchick if only we had proper consumer protection.
Refunding a flight with a voucher is scammy. It should be illegal. It should be refunded incl. all fees through the same payment method.
Air Canada strike fallout: 2 class-action lawsuits proposed in Montreal
montreal.citynews.ca/2025/08/1…
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Two possible class-action lawsuits by Air Canada passengers affected by the airline’s flight attendant strike were submitted in court in Montreal Monday.Zachary Cheung (CityNews Montreal)
Well, this was a surprise. Decided to run a simple LAN ping test between two of my access points, and the results were not what I expected.
Contender 1: The "mighty" Ubiquiti UniFi AC Lite
Contender 2: The tiny MikroTik mAP Lite
The winner? By a long shot, the MikroTik! It showed much better stability and lower latency.
The Stats:
- MikroTik: Avg 8.2ms / Jitter 10ms
- Ubiquiti: Avg 15.4ms / Jitter 32.1ms
Goes to show that size isn't everything in the world of networking.
#SysAdmin #NetworkGear #Ubiquiti #MikroTik #WiFi #HomeNetworking #IT #HomeLab
looks like the MikroTik is only 2.4ghz as well which changes things significantly as the UAP Lite does 5ghz and newer WiFi standards... don't think this was a like for like comparison 😇
edit: saw another comment of yours in the thread, no need to reply to this then 🙃
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It's gonna take awhile for me to get used to seeing so many grocery prices in the US being consistently higher than they are here in Canada.
Like...AVOCADOS FFS they travel PAST 'Murica to get here and they're still a bit cheaper here?
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