ČSOB a její dceřinky vytvořily tak komplexní systém služeb, že po deseti letech, kdy tam máme hypotéku, vůbec netuším, co za služby tam vlastně platíme. Pokud tenhle screenshot chápu správně, tak jsme přišli o 0.2 procentního bodu ze slevy na vedení účtu a pojištění.

Fun fact: ČSOB má pojišťovnu, ale pojištění auta k půjčce, co jsme brali na Teslu kvůli dotaci, nám dali od Kooperativy.

Příští měsíc doplatíme Teslu, v dubnu 2026 hypo a pápá.

Does anyone know why Matrix doesn't notify you when a picture message is received? It's super annoying. :corgi_wtf1: And I say Matrix instead of naming a client because every single client refuses to notify for it so I imagine it's something in the spec.

#Matrix #MatrixChat #Element #ElementChat #SchildiChat #FOSS

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@matrix Oh hey I didn't expect the actual Matrix Foundation in my replies this morning. :crow_cozy:

Thank you though, I didn't realize that clients only notified after attachments have been decrypted and I figured out what was up. Media messages coming from the Google Messages Mautrix bridge get stuck at the "Waiting for attachment to decrypt" phase despite the fact that the decryption completes successfully, so it never sends the chat notification. I'm curious how a bridge would affect attachment decryption, but at least I know what's up now. :blobfoxheartcute: Thanks!

I had a bit of a realisation the other day. I was wondering why I'm nostalgic for what's essentially just old timey corporate products (Amiga, Sun Microsystems, Classic Mac Stuff, etc) and then it dawned on me.

These things had to survive on the merit of being good products. They weren't constantly trying to fuck me over or harvest my data/money.

> Ending anonymous banking like in Switzerland was a major objective for the US. They said it was because it allowed money laundering for terrorists. People will get upset when the government talks about ending encryption in order to stop terrorism but the same concept applied to money apparently doesn't matter.
> In practice we have a system where money laundering has not ended and we have much more financial surveillance for average citizens. That was probably the purpose all along and it never had anything to do with finding tax evaders or stopping terrorism.

Actually good point on orange site

Interesting new Google paper released today:

“Measuring the environmental impact of delivering AI at Google Scale”

services.google.com/fh/files/m…

Apparently, “the median energy consumption for a Gemini Apps text prompt in May 2025 is 0.24 Wh.”, which is down 33x from May 2024.

This is equivalent to watching TV for a few seconds.

(The paper does not include model training, only model usage.)

Every time I read a post here about Jaws pricing, or figuring out how to transfer licenses, or which license types can be moved and under what rules, I am tempted to reply that NVDA has none of these problems. I am fully aware that certain use cases require Jaws, and that having multiple players in this space is good. Scripting, tech support, tools that aren't screen-reading but are made simpler for some people to access, and other reasons all exist. Still, the temptation is there.

The lady is not for turning: Julie Miville-Dechêne’s campaign for kids and porn regulation

mediapolicy.ca/2025/08/16/the-…

Not only they are illiterate on the subject matter, but they will ignore experts that could provide them with the insight of everything wrong.

It's governance by ideology. It's dangerous. It has to stop.

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Oh no, the consensus opinion seems to be that people hate the Ribbon UI, so maybe that isn't as successful a design ethos at is seems.

I really wish there was more funding for extensive scientific user studies to hone UI development, as a lot of designers seem to be unteathered to feedback, so all the hard work to create a logical, consistent set of principals, ends up not being effective because it isn't tested enough against how real people use things (both newbies and seasoned users with more expectations).

Most UI development these days happens with web apps, and there doesn't seem to be HIG for web apps as respected as the old IBM CUA or Mac HIG, every company seems to be learning UI design from scratch because the web platform allows you to design _anything_ without many guardrails.

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@raven667 "the consensus" of whom? Mastodon?

I strongly recommend watching that presentation to understand the enormous amount of data Microsoft had and used to design and iterate on it.

youtube.com/watch?v=YLZgNHEEnS…

In case I have any blind students or others who need to write academic essays, I thought I should share this. The Essayist iOS app is accessible with VoiceOver. I'm thankful that I no longer need to write such essays, but would have deeply appreciated an app like this. Back to School with Essayist apps.apple.com/ca/app/essayist…

You thought Windows Recall was bad?

Meet the Chrome VPN extension that takes screenshots of every site you visit. 😱 cyberinsider.com/chrome-vpn-ex…

PSA: If you don't use Chrome, you're better off anyway 😎 tuta.com/blog/best-private-bro… Which is your alternative?

Oh, and check how to disable Recall on Windows 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-m…

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Es ist es an der Zeit zu prüfen, ob ein die Privatsphäre respektierendes Betriebssystem wie Linux nicht besser zu Ihren Bedürfnissen passt. Linux enthält keine eingebaute Spyware, Linux-Distributionen machen keine Screenshots ohne Zustimmung und Linux verwendet offenen Quellcode, den jeder überprüfen kann.

Sogar Microsoft verwendet Linux - wer hätte das gedacht! 😎

I'ts not just vibe coding; SAAS has just destroyed people's ideas of how fast computers are or what anything costs.

I'm in a... somewhat awkward conversation in a different forum where people are talking about a database migration that's "millions of rows" and "as many as 57k transactions month" and I'm sitting here thinking, ok so on average a transaction every 40 seconds or so, have you considered putting it on an SD card and mailing it.

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"Between approximately 00:34 and 01:48 (Beijing Time, UTC+8) on August 20, 2025, the Great Firewall of China (GFW) exhibited anomalous behavior by unconditionally injecting forged TCP `RST+ACK` packets to disrupt all connections on TCP port 443"

I don't see it in our logs but then again, we're blocked in China aside from the Military & "elites".

#censorship #china

gfw.report/blog/gfw_unconditio…

PSA for anyone else who uses Thunderbird with the Owl add-on to access Exchange or Microsoft 365: If you restart Thunderbird and find that your Exchange account is suddenly gone, it's probably because you were auto-updated to Thunderbird 142. The Owl update that supports Thunderbird 142 is still in review, but in the meantime you can download it directly from the developer here: beonex.com/owl/owl.xpi

You have not experienced a proper embedded Linux system until you've booted a board with a serial connection to your PC for debugging. Better still if the board has an open boot-loader (e.g. u-boot), not the Raspberry Pi closed boot firmware.

I recently bought such a board, which also has a USB serial interface that works with no hassle even on a Windows PC. It's the eval kit for this SoM. Not cheap; maybe I can justify it with a proper project someday. variscite.com/product/system-o…

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"Fittingly, the 1,350-person Translation Bureau is leading the way in the federal government in experimenting with AI. It is developing the first project under Ottawa’s AI strategy meant to serve as a showpiece for what government can do with technology: a self-serve automated #translation tool for civil servants.

If the government is serious, the Bureau should set itself on a mission to all but put itself out of business, and to drastically cut the amount Ottawa spends on its services to fulfill its Official Languages Act obligations. If the translation profession is largely disappearing, so too should government spending and employment in the area, showing that AI could deliver meaningful cost savings and operating efficiencies."

Globe and mail: archive.ph/FwN4w?fbclid=IwQ0xD…

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#NextCloud really drove me angry. They simply choose to ignore accessibility concerns in favor of so-called "security". It's absolutely none of their business to protect users from viruses and trojans, and saying that "We can't allow one-press copy public link because a script can call this API" is total BS, because in this case any attacker script has access to every file on that PC! Great job, NextCloud, great job. Whenever someone tells me once more about "giving up big corporations", I'll point them to this issue. And yes, I really hope someone sues them because their #desktop client is a total accessibility nightmare. github.com/nextcloud/desktop/i… #OpenSource #Accessibility
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