I think I have killed all the spiders in this dungeon (house) but holy shit the boss fight the other night was something special. Biggest spider I've ever seen outside a tarantula ...
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This whole Cracker Barrel saga is stupid, but also can corporations please stop destroying their branding by making all their logos completely soulless? It's the Firefox-ification of corporate America
That thing where you open a private browser window just to check something on youtube, but you are not sure if it will pollute your suggestions forevermore.
Does anyone know an #Accessible #app for #fedi that supports go to social and works on iPhone? Mona excluded. Can't afford and is too complicated for me. #Feditext and #MetaText have no way to hide cws with voiceover rotor actions, so that's a dealbreaker. Looking for something, as #Toot! is not updated, and is eating up too much battery. Thank you in advance.
I have it yes, but I can't hide cws with actions in VO, else I would use it, should try it out again though, but last time I tried, there were no notifications for go to social, maybe I have to update it too. :)
Yep, still no action to hide cws. Am I the only one who hides those after reading? Also, posts over 1000 chars aren't considered long posts with auto content warnings, but I'm not sure why they are on enafore and not on clients for phones. Interesting.
@menelion Have you tried Pipilo by @luckkerr - the idea of browsing the timeline is a bit different - you navigate through posts by dragging a slider element and can instantly explore the full-screen view of a post. Łukasz cares about accessibility a lot so feel free to ping him with any requests.
It's cool, but I can't hide content warnings with action after they are opened, don't like that to be fair. Am I the only one who does that? I also don't see how to enable notifications, like push notifications in general.
I’m not sure how that is supposed to work. When you reveal content you want to then hide it again? Do you have an example of app/website that has this?
I don't have anywhere to send the recordinb oops.But it works like this in Toot:* Find post with cw,* Double tap on post to reveal it,* Swipe down to find the hide action, double tap it.This is all with voiceover on.
Uh, you could've told me lifetime purchase is soo expensive. Yikes! It's a cool idea though, quite accessible, nice development too, but too pricy for me. Grins.
My apologies. I have signed up for the Testflight beta a long time ago and so can't verify the pricing any more. I wish there was a way to verify the price of an app even when you own it. Could have come in handy many times. I hope you get your issues resolved.
There is an unlock premium, but the app itself does not have push notifications hera, I got it from appstore. Price for life time is almost 70 BGN, other options are for a subscription, but fedi is free, one-time purchases are okay, but I don't think we should be paying exorbitant prices for apps to use fedi. I know there's the web, but try using enafore on a phone. It's not designed for phones.
There's Feditext in a beta that I still haven't managed to obtain a link for. I think they're going into supporting multiple Fediverse incarnations. This is based off the abandoned Metatext so definitely open source.
Yep, I have that too, but I can't hide and show posts with cws using actions, not eveo hide them when I go into the post. Don't know, kind of upsets me that toot! is the only app that supports that function.
You also can't say premium unlocks push notifications, when push notifications to phone aren't even implemented, there isn't even a permission in settings to ask the phone if it's okay to send it notifications. Like, that's a bit of a lie, either that, or it's still in the works, which is fine, but then it shouldn't be listed as a premium feature in my opinion.
If you go to App Store page, for each app there is Information section. One of items will be in app purchases. When you tap on it it expands listing available purchases and prices. Looks like that section is barely accessible but at least you can access it.
My idea for pricing is base price for monthly, 10 times that for yearly and 3 times that for lifetime. I didn’t change it since beginning.
From that I get around 150 PLN which is less than cost of groceries here. But I understand, it’s just an app, nothing necessary. If you dm me mail you use I can invite you to TestFlight. Here all purchases are free. Just note that versions there can be unstable and might expire from time to time.
I complained a bit about the price because we'll be changing currency next year, so it'll be interesting. Not looking forward to it. But also because I wanted to send the app as a gift to someone to try it out. Turns out, I cannot if they don't live in my country. The app is pretty neat though, the slider could be a bit bigger, because it appears at the bottom when you explore by touch and it's tiny, or there could be some distance, but that's a super awesome concept. Also when it checks for new posts, focus gets stuck on "There is nothing new, and check post button." Only happens if I click on the "Check for new posts" button, but that might be because Apple is Apple and I have an iPhone 13 pro. I don't know how much groceries ould cost there, never been to Poland, but it's a good pack of the stuff I smoke plus a little list of basic groceries here. :)
Thanks, I didn’t know you could gift apps. For slider height, a workaround is to increase text size just for single app. It can be done in system settings, or if you have a text size option in Control Center, there is a toggle to apply it only for a single app. The problem with focus is new to me. I’ll investigate what’s wrong. Usually, the app automatically refreshes when you return to it. Manual refresh shouldn’t be necessary unless you spend a long time without switching.
Also, the presentation of notifications is strange, you have user mentioned you, that's a button, then you have the text with the post, I don't think you need to have them separated like that, makes people swipe more, it usually is a template, where "user mentioned you, post text." all together, I have no idea what other people say, but I saw that before each post in notifications, there is a button that says what the notification is, those are usually associated with the notification as a whole, but it's a nice thing, only that when you go through a lot of them, it gets tiring. I think your touch target needs to be bigger for the slider, but if one were to use their phone in landscape, that won't be a big issue, only that, people tend to use phones in portrait. I really think how great of an app that would be for iPads.
Hey, I released version 1.5.1 of Pipilo that enables GoToSocial push notifications and addresses all of your feedback. Hopefully I didn’t miss anything.
Hmm, thanks, I till don't have an appstore update, so waiting for it. Also, is there a way to quickly jump to the top of the timeline? With the slider or another way? I have 300 posts. :D
Cool, it works, it kinda didn't make sense to me at first, LOL. I go to beginning and it kind of increased the posts remaining, which, neveo mind my brain is confused. LOL. I still have version 1.5, though, so unless you released it on the aqpstore, I won't see it. I'm using your app to write now. Also, what is quiet public supposed to mean? I thought it was unlisted, but confused, kind of. Masto makes no sense, it't one time unlisted, one time quiet public, go to social shows it as unlisted, but your privacy/visibility setting says quiet public. It's only public if you get followed, or someone deliberately visits your profile, but. I don't know, someone needs to make a clear terminology for privacy options, seriously. Haha.
Probably takes some time for the update to propagate to everyone. Order works differently because here you read chronologically unlike in other apps. I usually just ignore the count and read at my own pace. Quiet Public is what Mastodon uses now instead of Unlisted. I did the same here.
you read chronologically in every app. But also go to social doesn’t use quiet public. Maybe I can just change the label for it. Also, it’s confusing to use quiet public because I don’t know it doesn’t make sense to me. I’m an old old user. And I have used Masto in my first few years, but then I switched. Maybe that’s why it doesn’t make sense to me. 
Ooh, I have a cool idea, no idea what programming language you use for it, but you could maybe try adding templates, which users can edit, so they can add stuff like, visibility, source, and change around things. The settings screen should not bring you into the phone settings though, it should be in-app settings only, I haven't seen an app do that before, either. Especially if you include permissions for notifications and customisations for them. You can also try coding their look like the home timeline, so maybe the whole look is consistent, unless you did that in the update. We shall wait for this Bulgarian appstore version to decide to act. Haha. I probably overwhelmed you, sooo, I'll stop here. I'll probably buy the lifetime version. After all, I got paid. Grins! One more note, in EU I don't think we separate 4000 in 4 jjj. I think it's a one number together kind of thing, unless you do it differently over there, where it's also the EU. Haha, I just realised that.
Also I signed up for trial, and there are no push notifications, there isn't even a setting in settings for them to push to iPhone, so that's like a. Hey, unlock premium with push notifications that do not work, kindly please fix it so it pushes notifications directly to the phone, not only when the app is opened, thanks.
Hey sorry for the inconvenience. You have to go to notifications screen in the app and then from there go to push notifications option to enable them. It doesn’t appear in system settings because it only shows here after the app asks for permission first time. Offering to enable push notifications directly after purchase sounds like a good option. I’ll plan on implementing it in future.
Oh, oops, go to social supports push notifications now, the app just doesn't support them, and here I expected them. Feditext supports notifications, but that app has font issues. That's why they didn't appear. 😂
Excusez-moi, mais lire des textes écrits en langage inclusif est vraiment pénible avec des lecteurs d'écran. À cause des points dans les mots comme « tou.tes » ou « étudiant.e.s », la synthèse vocale rend le texte peu compréhensible, et en Braille c'est un peu plus facile, mais quand même une simple lecture devient un travail de déchiffrage. Et non, je n'ai pas de solution qui soit bonne pour tous. Je veux dire, pour tou.tes. #Accessibilité
I've avoided making any kind of deep investment into "smart home" junk, but I will say that the number one thing I care about being able to control is the thermostat.
All these smart home devices with wifi and cloud control capabilities end up being abandoned after a few years which is ridiculous. Most don't have a local API.
So that leaves you with two options if you want to go down the route of local-only control: Zigbee and Z-Wave
Zigbee products are cheaper, but they're 2.4ghz and wifi-adjacent. See lots of complaints about it and its reliability.
Z-Wave products are much more expensive, but it's 900mhz and many devices automatically act as repeaters. Range is good, people say it's rock solid for years.
It appears that both Z-Wave and Zigbee dongles expose themselves as serial interfaces, so it should be pretty straightforward working with either one.
HomeAssistant is going hard into Z-Wave though -- they just released a new bridge for it
> USB 3.0 ports (the ones with blue on the inside) are known to cause significant noise and radio interference to any 2.4 GHz wireless devices. This includes Zigbee and Thread. If you do not use the extension cable, it may not work at all, and if it does, it could be flaky at best with intermittent problems (issues with pairing, device dropouts, unreachable devices, timeout errors, etc).
i've got a handful of zigbee sensors and lights. also handful of headaches when the neighbor cranks the 2.4ghz wifi on directional (apparently her son decided a yagi-like antenna is good for an omni setup).
thermostat is kryptonite for me too. i wrote a bridge to the carrier service api on the control system to do it. this is not what we should have to do, but here we are.
@mr64bit @jae they exist. they're not pretty. but they should do the job and not annoy you, gather metrics about your "presence", record your voice... have an ugly bright screen that shines in your eyes if you walk by at night...
not everything needs a color touch screen to be useful...
I saw a Honeywell engineer talking online about people making their own thermostats that will probably kill them or destroy their homes. He said you want it to fail-on if it gets too cold and fail-closed if it stays on so you don't cook yourself / freeze your AC or worse -- flood your home with gas if the igniter failed but it stupidly keeps attempting to run instead of locking out.
@jae @mr64bit I think that's the wrong approach. About 10 years ago I had this awesome device that you plug into an outlet and it had one purpose: listen for the smoke detector and carbon monoxide detectors and send you alerts if they go off.
The company went out of business and they shut down their services, but this is what I would build again. The frequencies emitted by these monitors are tightly regulated so all you need is a microphone and to filter for those two frequencies and you're good to go. Hear it? Send a push notification somewhere or publish to MQTT
ah so a watch the watcher type story. essentially the co2/smoke detector is dumb (for lack of better terms). then the sensor monitors. i like this approach better.
it's possible to reproduce i'm fairly certain. but i lost my license to use soldering iron in a freak accident involving broken police scanners and too much caffeine
@jae I don't have any z-wave stuff, but I'll keep that in mind, thanks.
I wanted something with at least RH and ideally CO2 measurement too. I was interested in making something myself anyways, so I definitely didn't do an exhaustive search.
@mr64bit @jae oh yeah I've been quite interested in the idea of having the CO2 monitor also on the thermostat as just turning on the fan when it gets too high could help with ventilation
good christ the number of conversations I've had about jobs that go like
me: "you understand I'm 100% remote" them: "yup" me: "I won't move to your city" them: "course" me: "absolute deal breaker" them: "it's cool bro" me: "I cannot negotiate on this" them: "we love remote" me: "I will literally quit if this is a job requirement" them: "remote-o-rama!"
Хочу поделиться особенными ощущениями от сегодняшнего дня. Знаете, бывает такое — берёшь и пишешь приложение не из пула, не по плану, а просто потому что захотелось отвлечься или посмотреть на какую-то новую крутую штуку в языке, которую увидел где-то и никак не мог опробовать в раьочих проектах. Коллега подкинул идею, и она мне показалось очень интересной.
И вот ты погружаешься в процесс, забываешь про всё на свете. Пишешь код, который приносит не только практическую пользу, но и удовольствие.
Закончил работу, посмотрел на то, что получилось, и понял — это было именно то, что нужно. Коллега доволен, а я получил заряд позитива на неделю вперёд.
Интересно, а у вас бывает такое? Когда вы пишете код не потому что надо, а потому что хочется? Как вы это объясняете? Может, это и есть настоящая любовь к своему делу? 🤔
Ну у меня основной PHP, причём ну очень давно, аж с 2008. Я видел, как этот язык эволюционировал, и сейчас он совсем другой. А C# просто посмотрел, когда понадобился десктоп, а он оказался такой классный, что мне прям очень понравился.
A guy finds a lamp lying on the sidewalk. He picks it up and a Scottish genie pops out. The genie says, "thanks so much for lettin' me outa that wretched lamp, lad. For that I grant ya one wish . Just go home, state what it is ya wish for and it'll be granted. Just make sure ya say it loudly, would ya, 'cause I'm a bit deaf." The next day, the man finds the genie, with two women trailing behind him. One woman says to the other woman, "You're conflating general and special relativity again, Amy. Special relativity deals with inertial frames,no acceleration. Once you introduce gravity or acceleration, you need the tensor calculus of general relativity. The Lorentz transformations alone can't account for gravitational time dilation. That's why GPS satellites require corrections from both theories. Their onboard clocks tick faster due to weaker gravity, but slower due to their orbital velocity. You can't dismiss the Schwarzschild metric just because it complicates your neat Minkowski spacetime." The other woman replied, "Margaret, I m not dismissing general relativity. I m questioning its completeness. The Einstein field equations are elegant, yes, but they're classical. They don't incorporate quantum mechanics." The man shouted at the genie, "This has nothing to do with what I asked you for." The genie hung his head and said, "Sorry about that, lad. I thought ya said ya wanted a pair of smart .. lasses."
The reason you can't unsee things is that the act of seeing has side effects in your brain. Borrowing techniques from functional programming, we ̷d̶e̵s̷c̸r̸i̶b̴e̷ ̸͖̂a̶̙͠ ̶̞̽m̶̬̀e̴̳̒t̴̳̾h̴̜̃o̸͎̔d̵͓͛ ̸̢͈͙͐́̄w̶͕̜̃̒͠h̶͇͎́͠è̴̹r̸̫̳̰͋̀́ẽ̵̢̼́̀̐b̵̟͝ỹ̸̙͐
I've seen lots of solar water heaters on roofs in #Greece, but very few #photovoltaic panels. The country must have many more sunny days than we do. Why is that? Is it because the price of the electricity from the grid is too low or because there is a lack of incentives from the government?
@alatiera @karolherbst I'm not saying solar water heaters aren't good, I think there isn't really a conflict between the two. There is usually enough room for photovoltaic panels even when you have water heaters and I see quite a lot of energy to be covered here during summer: water pumps for pools, air conditioners... But yeah, it's an investment which requires a lot of upfront capital: €5-10k. That's probably the limiting factor.
@psh yes, the production goes down when the temperature goes up, but not dramatically. The annual production of photovoltaic systems on Kos is 50% higher than in Czechia despite higher temperatures according to the EU calculator: re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvg_tools/…
reason is of financial nature: cost of living increase comtinuously, rents are increasing heavily double-digit with rent vs income rate approaching >40% of income !!! In contrast mega solar and wind imstallations boom, so solar at home cannot compete.
@sotiry big solar power plants are definitely more cost efficient, but in Czechia home solar systems have two advantages: the government subsidized them up to 50% of their costs and consumers have to pay a distribution fee for every kWh they consume from the grid and the fee can be as high as 50% of the total price. So home solar systems can still be cheaper for people than consuming power from big solar plants, but using the grid. But if subsidies in Greece aren't big enough and the distribution fees are different, then the calculation can also be dramatically different.
From the awesome explanation and examples in @SaraSoueidan’s CSS scroll-spy post — sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-scro… — I learned what that kind of thing is called and how it works (ideally and accessibly) and was able today to build a production Alpine version to solve an open ticket for the project I’m working on. 👏
Fucking sucks. Ate at a restaurant last night, ordered gluten free food but it looks like one of the items wasn't gluten free and now I'm paying for it.
Google's sideloading thing, passkeys, age verification, they're all basically the same shape; anchoring a fixed identity to a computing act "for safety".
There are millions of safety features in the world meant to protect people from themselves; my personal favorites, as metaphors go, are the standard three-point interlocks industrial paper cuttes and the cages on big Hobart mixers.
Inexperienced, distracted, even inebriated it's basically impossible to hurt yourself with these accidentally.
Premier Doug Ford is urging the federal government to follow the City of Ottawa’s lead and bring federal public servants back to the office five days a week.
It’s no longer a hypothetical: Anthropic has discovered a hacker using its AI chatbot to plan and execute a large-scale data extortion campaign that targeted 17 organizations last month. pcmag.com/news/anthropic-warns…
V práci dochází opět k rozpadu zaměstnaneckého fondu. No, další desítky v kuse několik týdnů za sebou už dělat odmítám. A práce mě pomalu přestává bavit. Asi jedu do cílové rovinky......😔 #doprdelepraceuz
The slides from my first talk from earlier today at #OSSummit can be found below. Building a SolarPunk Web: Open Source for a Sustainable Digital Future
Building a SolarPunk Web Open Source for a Sustainable Digital Future Mike Gifford, Open Source Summit Europe 2025 August 27, 2025 2:10-2:50pm CEST D202 (Elicium Level 2) Building a Solarpunk Web: Open Source for a Sustainable Digital Future - Mike G…
Next time feel free to use the illustrations from storyseedlibrary.org/ , they're there specifically to be used as the representation of Solarpunk without AI
@AEMarling well, it is hard to be less efficient than it is now.
The trouble is volume. Even if it is done locally, and is much more energy efficient the trend is to get agents to act with it 1000x more than how we currently use Google.
It is going to accelerate use so back to jevons paradox.
Anytime a software producer redesigns the interface of software you've already installed and are using, without warning and consent, we the users should be allowed to break into the developers/UI designers homes, and redecorate.
And since I got distracted when I went to make it up for you earlier..... I'll do it at 10:30 at night - not quite as late, but definitely late enough for me!
The LibreOffice Conference will start in a week from today with the Community Meeting, at the Faculty of Informatics of ELTE (Eötvös Loránd University) in Pázmány Péter stny. 1/C, 1117 Budapest.
To be usable by the less savvy, the Linux desktop lacks stability. Not software stability, but organizational and human stability.
I want maintainers to have a stable income. I want apps to last a decade, instead of having to chase the next rewrite of an abandoned project.
The Linux desktop is a beautiful accident that only exists because people devote part of their lives to it, for better or worse. We ought to support it financially, as a public service.
Software stability too. Especially for most vulnerable groups of users like beginners or my fellow blind users. We depend on audio (and Braille sometimes), and this is one of the most unstable things in Linux. Imagine if you booted your computer and prayed for your monitor to work correctly this time. this is it for us. I can link you a series of article one smart blind guy wrote, and he knows what he is talking about because he spent years on Linux desktop. If you, folks who want Linux desktop to be a real thing and not a geeky toy, make it accessible for everyone, it will succeed. Othersie… no, sorry, I need my PC to work, hence I use Windows.
@menelion this is unfortunately true, and the solution is much more complex than "just pour money on people without any form of accountability."
The first question is "to whom" and the following one is "for what." I wrote a post earlier this year about the structural changes I think we need to go through so the Linux desktop can be considered of public interest.
I'd love to hear your thoughts about it if you have some time for it.
Tech takes a central place in our lives. Banking, and administrative tasks are happening more and more online. It's becoming increasingly difficult to get through life without a computer or a smartphone.
I'm taking notes while reading. 1. Accessibility *is* a technical problem, not (only) a social one. To make something as huge as an OS accessible means, at least: A) To expose accessibility APIs on every plan of existence of the OS; B) Develop a decent screen reading solution (see JAWS or NVDA for Windows); C) Develop a decent screen magnifying and color altering solution (see ZoomText for Windows); D) Harden audio stability, so that a trivial update won't break your audio system; E) Develop a solution for people with motor disabilities that would allow decent voice control (see Dragon Naturally Speaking, for instance). That is an absolutely technical endeavor. You'd say Linux has Orca screen reader and you are right, but it's developed de facto by Joanmarie Diggs. Alone. No, of course, there are some people sending PRs, but do you see the difference between a paid solution like JAWS or even a community-driven solution like NVDA on the one side and a screen reader developed by one (brave and genius, but one!) person on the other? Again, I really admire Joanmarie, but she does need help, and I mean, lots of help. 2. Mobile. It's yet another challenge because tactile screens accessibility is something else than keyboard accessibility, be it terminal or GUI. Apple (no matter how I hate their policies) already solved many problems, hence the most common combo in the wealthier blind community is Windows + iPhone. Who would do the same for Linux? Up to you (in plural) to decide. 3. Toxicity of the community. I'm really sorry to admit, but open-source community is very often either toxic or indifferent. When I or one of my blind fellow folks open an issue about "X is not accessible at all, please fix it!" (where X is anything from a small web-based solution to the whole LibreOffice Calc), guess what we get? "Send a PR!". Heck no, putain de bordel de merde de… — excuse my language! I cannot spend my whole life to dig into undocumented code then send thousands upon thousands of PRs, then beg their supreme highness of developer to please merge it, then wait till it's released. I need to work, to eat and to feed my family, including cats. Hence… I use Microsoft because it just works, and if there is an accessibility bug, it gets fixed, — not always super mega fast (like in Visual Studio Code, kudos to them!), but it *is* fixed. Unlike with open-source, sorry.
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