I've been using macOS Tahoe's new Liquid Glass design for a couple of days, and the dynamic background adaptation is completely broken. Buttons shift from black to white as the background changes, and it's jarring every time.
If someone wants to buy a #playdate I have a 30% discount promo code. The first one to answer this post gets it. (I will only give it to someone who actually wants to use it tho)
This is notable but I haven't seen it reported elsewhere: the pioneering blogging platform Typepad is shutting down in a month. Another piece of the early web is vanishing.
Blog publishing platform TypePad closing 30 September 2025. Publishers have until the end of September to download their data. And then find a new online home
Yes, you can indeed plug in a HDMi cable to the Monarch, and have all of its output sent to a HDMI Monitor including audio output.
Just plug in a HDMI cable to the port on the right hand side at the front of the Monarch, other end in to your TV, select the correct HDMI channel, and off you go. Woody #a11y #Braille #Monarch
I had hoped to try this last week, but the video display offered in the seminar room only had a USB-C port, and I didn’t have an adapter. Online searches suggest that finding the right adapter can be confusing, as some of them are the reverse of what is needed here - they convert USB-C video output to input for an HDMI monitor, whereas what we want is an HDMI input to USB-C output adapter.
Monarch tip 15 and the final one in this initial tip post series
If you have ever used any of the Braille devices from Humanware, then you know how to use the Monarch overall. This is because the Monarch, like all other Braille devices in the main from Humanware are or were all based on KeySoft which has been around since 1990. As with all Braille devices from HW, you will find the User Guide on the device. In the Monarch, and depending on how you have your main menu customised, you will either find the User Guide on the Main Menu or under All Applications. Enjoy Woody #a11y #Braille #Monarch
Hi! Quick question, does Tuta support automatic labeling of incoming mail? For example: I’d like to have mail forwarded from Gmail automatically labeled as Gmail?
or... how to make money out of ppl that dislike company greed (only greed from the big bad ones sure....)? but dont really understand the principals your advertising? plz and i beg you one last time do not fool your customers at least be honest plz! its not E2E (in a Meta/Whatsapp definition maybe it is) but plz stop false advertising. which is btw. illegal in your country of operation (Germany). This is still a blatant lie on your website: "Tuta's innovative encryption method (to call password protected private keys innovative is a bold point to make) secures your private key so that you - and only you - can access your data from any device.". (on any device should make ppl think, let me repeat ON ANY DEVICE, but if it isnt, still false advertising) You have the keys and you store passwords some way (hashed) and get the passwords sent to you every login. theres no fking way you cant access the mails. theres the keys. theres the passwords. theres the data. all on one company.
Sedíme se synem ve vlaku do Brna. V kupé s námi sedí dvě ženy. Nonstop mluví. Jakože se zatím ani na moment neodmlčely. Evidentně to jsou kamarádky, protože probírají úplně všechno.
Dozvěděli jsme se zajímavé detaily z intimního života jedné z nich a víme, jaké zdravotní problémy trápí manžela té druhé. A kdo je ta blbka, co s ní začal chodit jejich společný kamarád.
Japonci vyjadřují hluk znakem 姦, což je složenina ze tří znaků 女, který představuje ženu. Japonština v tom má ale zbytečnou rezervu. V praxi se ukazuje, že by stačily znaky pouze dva. 😀
@sesivany Budu za neprijemnyho hnidopicha, ale vzdycky kdyz vidim tohle “urban story” tak to musim opravit. 姦 (kan) neznamena hluk, ale spis zlovolnost. Tenhle znak neni uplne vtipny ani pozitivni a je soucasti slov jako “znasilneni”, “sexualni utok”, apod.
@blami No, úplně urban legend to není. V tradiční japonštině to má význam hluku nebo neklidu. Je to archaický výraz, který se v tom významu v moderní japonštině nepoužívá a zbylo to jen ve rčeních jako 女三人寄れば姦しい (když se sejdou tři ženy, je hlučno) a pak v těch kombinacích s negativní konotací.
@sesivany V tom prislovi je to jine slovo a cteni (かしましい) a ten preklad neni uplne takovy. Souhlasim ze japonske znaky nemaji kanonicky vyznam, ale zrovna u 姦 byla ta negativni konotace ve zdrojich uz davno pred Meiji restoraci (hluk jako hluk kdyz nekdo dela neco zene bez souhlasu). Pro hluk o kterem mluvime se bezvyhrande pouzije うるさい nebo やかましい. A rikam, vim ze kazim vtip. Se stromama to funguje, se zenama bohuzel uz vic jak 150 let ne.
@blami dohadovat se o tom nechci. Kolega v práci mi sice o japonské kultuře a jazyku básní v jednom kuse, ale odborník na japonštinu ani vzdáleně nejsem. Jen jsem jednou četl článek, kde to borec rozebíral a mám k tomu pár poznámek v digitálním notýsku. Prý to mělo reálný základ, ale dnes je to v tom významu archaismus a moderní japonština ho nepoužívá, protože se těchto vyloženě sexistických významů zbavuje. Menší vývojové a významové nuance ale nedokážu posoudit.
@sesivany Urcite verim. Ja taky nejsem odbornik a vetsinu toho co ctu nebo se ucim, je spis kvuli tomu abych tu mohl fungovat 😂. Ziju a pracuju tady cca dekadu a s archaismama prave do styku uplne neprijdu (a o zdejsi kulture rozhodne nebasnim, spousta veci co se rika je turisticka observace). Verim ze v poezii se da cokoliv vylozit jakkoliv. Ono treba kdyz se clovek podiva jak se vybiral znak pro soucasnou eru, to je taky dobry peklo.
@blami Ono to bude asi z podobného ranku, jako když si člověk v Babičce od Němcové dočte, jak "babička šukala po světnici". Kdysi to slovo ten význam mělo, ale když to člověk v tom významu použije dnes, člověk zvyklý na moderní češtinu významně pozdvihne obočí. 🙂
Po dvou skvělých setkáních se znovu potkáme u piva – přijď na pokec, poznat známé nicky z timeline a dát tváři Fediverse.
📍 Pivovar Bubeneč, Bubenečská 321/33, Praha 6 (místo ještě potvrdíme) 🗓️ Pátek 3. října 2025 večer 🍻 Otevřený neformální sraz – žádná registrace, žádné přednášky, jen pivo a lidi z fedi.
@schmaker @sesivany Účastníci srazu předložili několik návrhů, jak dosáhnout genderové vyváženosti požadované Bruselem: od přizvání kolemjdoucích žen přes prohlášení některých účastníků, že se cítí být ženami, až po kastraci náhodně vybraných veteránů mužského pohlaví.
Nechci podceňovat tvé organizační schopnosti, ale taneční sál kvůli dvěma magorům, co chtějí tančit, a tudíž si nebudou povídat, mi přijde jako protismyslný overkill.
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Boosts appreciated on this post for better reach. Does anyone have any good ideas on explaining #Dementia to children, around 7-10 years? Also any good kids' books on the subject/resources to help them understand it? Thanks.
I'm probably about to hurt feelings here, and honestly, I'm beyond caring. Blind people, please. Please. Please for the love of god, stop basing your spelling entirely on how your speech synthesizer reads things. "My voice says it right, so it must be spelled right" won't get you very far. I particularly notice this with eloquence users. As someone who doesn't use it, every time these people do this, it painfully sticks out. Please, please stop. Not a subpost at anyone, I'm just thoroughly tired of seeing this
Chat Control must be vehemently opposed. Encryption cannot be outlawed for a free society to exist. Governments do not need and cannot be trusted to indiscriminately surveil those whom they should be serving and protecting. If you are happy with your Government looking at your naked pictures whenever it likes, snooping on electronic corrispondence with lawyers, therapists and the like, your love letters, your activism, feel free to disregard, otherwise do something now before it's too late!
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> Philippines Proposes Central Bank Bitcoin Reserve With 20-Year Lockup Philippines Proposes Law for Central Bank to Buy and Hold 10,000 Bitcoin as National Reserve
We have reached the national reserves stage of Bitcoin, hooray!
⚠️ There is another "verification" scammer on the move, do not click on their link, it is a scam!
Genuine Mastodon servers never demand verification like this.
If you see a scam post like this, click ⋯ on the scam post, then "Report", then report it and make sure you select the option to forward the report to the origin server.
I miss the good old days when sufferers of Male Answer Syndrome just said whatever they spun up from their own lack of knowledge instead of volunteering what ChatGPT “thinks”.
Well fuck. If a room in #Matrix is on Homeserver A, and an admin on Homeserver B runs /upgraderoom, then the room is moved to Homeserver B. It does not stay on Homeserver A.
I uhh... do not want the unofficial Slackware matrix server on my homeserver.
rooms are replicated equally over the servers in them. if you’re not comfortable having “creator” privilege on the room in question, then you can delegate it to someone else on another server with the new “owner” permission (PL150), assuming the room is v12
yeah I know how the rooms work, but having the public address change to my homeserver was very unexpected and definitely not desired. We sidegraded the room to fix it, causing our users a headache by having to jump rooms twice. Having my homeserver in the history chain is also not exactly desirable.
That rooms have "versions" sure is a trip. A bad trip.
hm. when you say address, do you mean the # identifier (alias) or the ! identifier? you can change the alias at any point without upgrading it. and as of room 12, the ! identifier doesn’t have a server name in it at all. room versions are meant to be useful for futureproofing the protocol. sorry you got bitten by this.
the primary room address. We could not set it to matrix.org, only nanako.mooo.com, which is undesirable. An alias was also undesirable. We've had #slackware:matrix.org since the beginning.
unless something has gone wrong, any mod on matrix.org should be able to give the room an address on matrix.org, and then the admin should be able to set that address to be the canonical alias. perhaps the problem was not having a mod on matrix.org?
Just a reminder - there have been numerous fraudulent accounts created on the Fediverse lately pretending to be Mastodon Security, and asking for your credentials in DMs to you.
DO NOT RESPOND. DO NOT CLICK.
We will never ask you to verify your credentials. Period.
In June, we announced HarfRust, a fully safe port of #HarfBuzz to Rust. At that time, HarfRust was 2x to 4x slower than HarfBuzz for a variety of benchmarks, so we have been working on addressing that.
Today, Chad Brokaw and I are pleased to present HarfRust 0.2.0, which is less than 25% slower than HarfBuzz, on both OpenType and AAT shaping benchmarks. We have also addressed all known correctness issues.
been a long time since I've tested this out. PleromaFE needs changes to actually support logging in with an OAuth provider, but it would work from apps
@hj something is amiss because it doesn't show up on the login/registration area, only when I do the oauth dance to login from an app. This isn't really high priority as almost nobody uses this feature right now, but it's still strange
Nobody can bury the lede like Reuters. From the headline you would have no idea that Facebook created AI-generated CSAM. But hey, make sure the story is about Taylor Swift.
If you want to run a Pleroma server with open registrations and guarantee all users are 18 years of age, configure Paypal as your OAuth Consumer and require users to login with a Paypal account.
Paypal will do the age verification for you. Also makes bans pretty effective too as they can't just sign up with a new account.
> This user agreement is a contract between you and PayPal, Inc. governing your use of your PayPal account and the PayPal services. It applies to U.S. PayPal accounts only. If you are an individual, you must be a resident of the United States or one of its territories and at least 18 years old, or the age of majority in your state of residence to open a U.S. PayPal account and use the PayPal services.
PSA: If you opened your PayPal account before you were 18, close it now.
Everyone knows a horror story about PayPal, I’ve had several painful experiences with them over the last decade, but now …
@aetios @slowfallinward @sun we could we could probably run fedi over Yggdrasil or Tor or something. Not a huge fan of Tor for these things, but it would work.
We should focus on federation over a darknet or overlay network as a standard out of the box feature of deployments so we're ahead of the curve
@sun @scathach @slowfallinward @aetios It's not good at all. If both parties aren't online it doesn't work. It needs someone somewhere to offer secure encrypted ephemeral object storage for attachments to be reliable IIRC...
Also I believe it suffers from the same problem as Matrix where deletes don't really exist
Enable users to log in with PayPal using the Identity API, managing permissions securely and pre-filling user info for a seamless experience on your site.
@slowfallinward mastodon etc should use real arguments to oppose age verification like "I don't like it" or "this is bad for privacy" instead of "this is difficult to impossible to technically comply"
@slowfallinward @sun you're moving the goalposts, and IRC isn't even within scope of these laws. The Mississippi SB 2346 specifically says "website" which IRC is not, so share all the lewds you want with Mississippi minors over IRC
@sun at this point i have difficulty believing you, but it does indeed let people do it if they're interested in fellating AL or MO or the UK. Maybe that could be some recourse for the devs in some hellish future where they are punished for what someone decides to do with their software, but it's just a couple steps to banning or restricting cryptography once you get there and I lose all interest in compliance at that point
@sun I suppose mastodon has mastosoc attached, which I could see becoming an issue. that shit shouldn't exist anyway -- maybe they should divest themselves of it. but your argument that the software itself *needs the capability to do this* or it is a liability for the devs takes you to an incredibly dark place that a fuckton of open-source software falls afoul of already. why do you run any public web services if you believe this is necessary?
@slowfallinward It's not a liability for mastodon gmbh (a german entity) or devs (they are not hosting anything) it's only a liability for Fediverse server operators subject to the jurisdiction of Mississippi. I'm not saying it's necessary or even good, I'm saying "This isn't technically possible" is a bad argument.
the argument against mandatory age verification is "fuck off with that shit" and the response is loudly moving your economic activity to a different jurisdiction. Not complying if you are under MS jurisdiction is not an option because the state will just bankrupt you with fines.
@slowfallinward I would find it distasteful if Pleroma ever openly advertised itself as the Mississippi/UK/Iran-age-verification-compliant Fediverse server alternative to Mastodon, it's just incidental to the fact that Pleroma supports registration by extremely common external auth provider API.
@sun @slowfallinward Pleroma is already distasteful, just look at @lain -- horrifying, right? YUCK
But there's a reason why Pleroma doesn't have a flagship server. And Pleroma wouldn't make this part of their branding. We're just discussing how Pleroma is already suitable for becoming compliant
@sun this is fair enough. the original article if it's the techcrunch thing is bad-faith in a bunch of ways of its own (equating bluesky and mastodon when one is a website and one is software, in terms of actual practical use) but eugen's comments are stupid too and it is clearly technically possible in this ways you describe
@slowfallinward as a personal aside let me say in the clearest possible way that I am opposed to internet age verification laws. I just very easily get tied up in "is this a good/bad argument" debates
@sun @slowfallinward it's going to ruin the internet as we know it. We'll have to rebuild what we have underground, essentially. It's just the way it goes...
@sun having the full context, i agree this is a dogshit argument and i see where the mockery might come from given that mastosoc benefited for ages by blurring platform/software distinction
All it takes to get around that is under-18s that figured out how to access their parents' PayPal account?
When I was in high school, I knew a 16-year old that was an "emancipated minor," a legal adult in California at the time. She had been married at 13 and divorced a year or so later. So she shouldn't have been allowed to access a Pleroma server simply because she wasn't 18?
I saw a toot on Mastodon here saying, "We have to verify your age but not your location. Are you in the UK?""
@theorytoe @wowaname @splitshockvirus Encouraging self-hosting is the correct solution if the problem. Pushing unsuspecting people into the open arms of Payment Pal, which isn't your pal at all, feels wrong to me.
@m0xEE @theorytoe @wowaname @splitshockvirus self-hosting doesn't scale. The Fediverse can't handle a million servers with the current design and there aren't enough people capable of doing it themselves anyway. This is no different than telling people to buy tools and a Haynes for their cars instead of going to a mechanic. Very few people have the time and capability to do so.
> This is no different than telling people to buy tools and a Haynes for their cars instead of going to a mechanic. Very few people have the time and capability to do so. I think that once properly setup Fedi server is pretty low maintenance — we just love to tinker with things, that is why we spend a lot of time on it, but if all you want is post and receive replies, none of that is necessary: there is simply no moderation overhead if you're alone there But of course non-tech-savvy people shouldn't even invest time into setting an instance up from scratch — it should be a hosting template. I believe I've even seen a hoster that provides such an option — it should just be made more widely available.
Would you please elaborate on why it doesn't scale well? On the one hand, it's true — you instance has to notify more instances if everyone is self-hosting, if you have many followers — that's a lot. But on the other, it's less traffic to push around among individual instances. Sure — there is extra overhead, but to me it doesn't seem something dramatically different.
My other instance, where I have 100+ followers is hosted on a low-end machine from 20 years ago, people I follow are mostly from different instances too. Yep, it's snac2, which is the most lightweight Fedi server, but it works surprisingly well, considering that this machine also hosts and XMPP server and some other things in addition to it. Any more recent machine and even a cheap VPS would probably do fine.
- not everyone gets a static IP at home and/or have an ISP that even allows hosting websites; IPv6 penetration isn't high enough for the Fediverse to be IPv6-only. There are known issues with IPv6 federation in several different server implementations
- not everyone wants to pay for a VPS for this purpose
- not everyone wants to buy a domain
- even if they did, with ~7 billion people on the planet, there aren't 7 billion good domain names for them to buy. People aren't going to want to run servers if their domain name has to be gibberish.
- LetsEncrypt etc can't handle 7 billion new domains right now; it's already showing scaling issues and is a terrible SPOF
- first time the server is attacked with a DDoS they'll probably give up on the idea
- people don't have the skills to handle backups and validating they work
We have to be realistic. This is for hobbyists and enthusiasts. If we are ever to see people embrace this it MUST be as simple as a standalone app on a phone. Period.
A guy calls a company and orders their 5-day, 10 lb. weight loss program. The next day, there's a knock on the door and there stands before him a voluptuous, athletic, 19 year old babe dressed in nothing but a pair of Nike running shoes and a sign round her neck. She introduces herself as a representative of the weight loss company. The sign reads, "If you can catch me, you can have me." Without a second thought, he takes off after her. A few miles later, huffing and puffing, he finally catches her and has his way with her. The same girl shows up for the next four days and the same thing happens. On the fifth day, he weighs himself and is delighted to find he has lost 10 lb. as promised. He then calls the company and orders their 5-day, 20 lb. program. The next day there's a knock at the door and there stands the most stunning, beautiful, sexy woman he has ever seen in his life. She is wearing nothing but Reebok running shoes and a sign around her neck that reads, "If you can catch me you can have me." Well, he's out the door after her like a shot! This girl is in excellent shape and it takes him quite a while to catch her but when he does, it's definitely worth every muscle cramp and wheeze. So for the next four days the same routine happens. Much to his delight, on the fifth day he weighs himself only to discover that he has lost another 20 lb. as promised. He decides to go for broke and calls the company to order the 7-day 50 lb. program. "Are you sure?" asks the representative on the phone. "This is our most rigorous program." "Absolutely," he replies, "I haven't felt this good in years." The next day there's a knock at the door and when he opens it he finds this huge, muscular, 7ft man standing there wearing nothing but pink running shoes and a sign around his neck that reads, "I'm Francis. If I catch you, you're mine..."
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