European SMEs have united to direct a strong open letter to urge ministers of EU member states to oppose Chat Control and to defend privacy and a strong European tech industry.
I know that you have to make threats in negotiations. But with this "exit from Europe", as a consumer, I would be very curious to know where all these tech companies want to go instead. A lot of people are currently switching to European companies, often with difficulty, for reasons. I can't imagine that they would then switch somewhere else again.
That's great! And yes, of course, my English was perhaps bad. At the moment, this "leave the EU" comes from many of the other companies, latest was Signal.
I wanted to say this alternative can be used for fighting (as a threat for economics) but it can also unsettle the users very much. Also "customers will lose trust in our services and turn to foreign providers." I don't think so! People who have chosen European companies out of purpose would not leave for the USA or China ...
@NatureMC Personally I have my email hosted in Switzerland, which got something similar to chat control earlier this year, so I am looking to move. Iceland looks good.
Former minister of Justice, Marco Buschmann on X: "#Chatkontrolle ist so, als wenn man Briefe vorsorglich öffnet und man nachschaut, ob nicht etwas Illegales darin stehen könnte. Sowas hat im Rechtsstaat keinen Platz. Diese Linie habe ich als Justizminister durchgesetzt. Ein Kurswechsel wäre ein Jammer!"
@cynik_obecny připravil přehlednou stránku 👉 about.mamutovo.cz , kde najdete informace o instanci Mamutovo.cz, odkazy na služby, kontakty a první návody pro uživatele.
🌱 Web vzniká jako komunitní projekt propojený s Oscloudem a bude se dál rozšiřovat — přibydou další tipy, návody a zajímavosti ze svět #fediverse .
📣 Pomozte nám o Mamutovu dát vědět! Sdílejte odkaz dál, ať se o naší komunitě dozví co nejvíce lidí. Každé zmínění, boost nebo odkaz na web pomůže. 💚
@zoufalec hele, je to zatím ve výrobě, musím tomu ještě věnovat čas, ale @archos už se nemohl dočkat a vypustil to do světa. Budu na tom teď dva dny makat, než půjdu do práce
@archos Vsak pisu klid. Dobry to je. A aspon jsem se dozvedel, ze "nase instance je nase". To je super! Tak at vam neda moc prace to doladit a brzo vsechno funguje na jednicku!
Does anyone know why NVDA is often quiet on command prompts? It doesn't read input (I have set it to read words in edit controls) and it doesn't read output. Restarting NVDA usually fixes it.
porque UIA está rota. Lo que comentas suele suceder después de que la consola muestre un montón de líneas muy deprisa mientras NVDA la está enfocando. Algún buffer se desborda y produce un error. Si te fijas, tampoco vas a leer otros lugares, como la barra de tareas.
Nikdy nezapomenu, co posledního jsme si řekli. Je to smutné a banální a typické jak ze špatné knížky: S Danou Drábovou jsme si slíbili, že spolu musíme někdy zajít na pivo a „všechno to“ probrat. Už nezajdeme.
@mischievoustomato so far ... screen brightness buttons, probably fingerprint reader? Everything else is working fine, but wifi is slow until my replacement wifi card comes in the mail
even Thunderbolt is working. I didn't understand the non-Mac world where there's a security model and you can choose authorization requirements before using Thunderbolt devices. I turned the auth off in the BIOS and all that started working.
@hub Even the flu can have consequences, short-term, and long-term... but no one tells you that... you gotta read up on that shite. Because the province and country DGAF if the workforce is sick/sickly... until they are. :/
Does anyone know if there's like an FTP directory of everysingle Playback magazine, where I can just download them all? I hate having to go by magazine date through the Internet Archive.
Years ago I knew of a phone number in the US that you could call, and if I recall correctly, you'd hear a man and a woman talking seemingly to each other, reading the Harvard sentences (cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/proj…). I think this was used for telephone company technicians to test circuits, audio quality, etc. My dad and I were actually looking for something like this a few days ago, a phone number you can call and it will continuously make noise at you for as long as you kept the call up. Does anyone have that number or one similar? Please boost for reach. Thanks.
“OpenAI and Ive [are] working on a device roughly the size of a smartphone that users would communicate with through a camera, microphone and speaker. One person suggested it might have multiple cameras.”
So… like… a phone?
“…designed to sit on a desk or table but can also be carried around by the user.”
So… like… a phone?
“…sensors would gather data throughout the day that would help to build its virtual assistant’s ‘memory.’”
Today was spent writing user stories from your feedback, but my god can we please talk voiceover on macOS 26?
In VSCode, voiceover read single characters instead of whole lines when arrowing up and down, and arrow left / right too quickly caused letters to be read out twice.
Voiceover flat out ignored set preferences. I cannot stress this enough, mouse cursor was set to ignore voiceover cursor, and speak object under mouse was set to off, those toggles were broken.
Nice, nice, nice, I went to report and the mods had already gotten it. Thank you moderator friends. I still wish I knew whether you like us to report things we might run across before you get to them or not. #JustTryingToHelp. Thanks again for all you do.
I don't know why everyone is running from #BlueSky, but anyway, welcome to you all. Hope you'll find friends here on #Mastodon. It's not easier than everywhere else, probably, but if you have a hobby, a passion, a particularity, even the strangest one, the chances are high someone on Mastodon shares it with you.
Something to do with the CEO of BS banning someone she didn't like even though said user was on another instance, thus demonstrating that BS is not actually decentralized.
Ох, я и забыл о существовании такой платформы. Может цензуру ввели, или наоборот. История с твиттером хорошо показала сколько идейных оттуда побежали когда нафиг разогнали всех этих красноволосых модераторов.
If you haven't heard of #gnu #guix we're a free software project that's created a hosted package manager (think homebrew or flatpak) and a GNU/Linux distribution.
GNU Guix uses the functional packaging approach pioneered by #nix and adds a user-experience and system configuration system. It uses a DSL that's based on Guile Scheme. You can use it configure your home environment, dev environments or the entire system using a declarative and transactional definition.
We hope to tell people about the project and our latest news. We'd love to engage with people around #freesoftware #guile #scheme and more general #linux topics!
Lenovo's tool on Windows didn't properly detect or upgrade two critical firmware issues (one is the notorious Thunderbolt bug) but Ubuntu's fwupdmgr tool detected it correctly and applied the updates
@SrRochardBunson mine just required pressing ENTER. This is the first Lenovo I've touched in years but feel free to ping me on Delta if you want to troubleshoot further. I'll help the best I can!
I've only spent 5 minutes with Ubuntu Desktop but holy shit this is nicer than Windows 11. Detected my external monitor, made a sane choice to extend not mirror, lets me close laptop lid without going to sleep by default, my Thunderbolt Dock is working ...
Tried to change my default terminal emulator to foot, as seen by #GNOME software (e.g. #GNOMENautilus ), and found out that GNOME uses a #hardcoded list of terminal emulators. After looking on Stack Exchange, it appears you can't change it. Such a botch, are the answers I was reading out-of-date or can you just not change your default terminal in GNOME software?
@ebassi I don't see xdg-terminal-exec in this distro's repositories yet, so I think I'll launch foot manually and wait on the XDG spec, at least for now. Thanks
You know what would be cool? A wind-up clock with a totally mechanical braille display. No batteries. It would sort of work like that braille caliper thingy.
I had such one back in late Soviet Union. It was not a display per se, it was just a watch and an alarm clock (two separate devices) with carved dots on the face. Like modern Braille watches, but with no batteries.
When I got my previous job back in 2020, I was very seriously thinking of getting one because I had to assist at various meetings where talking watches and phones were absolutely unacceptable, because you know, when someone is talking, hearing like "It's eleven forty five" is… well, it's a no no. But then, unfortunately, covid hit.
Speaking of image alt text, as a photographer who tries to put care into this, I would really love it if there were a single standard EXIF field in which alt text could be embedded and from which the text was reliably extracted when the image was uploaded. It would be much easier to write a description once and have it live with the image rather than have to manage it separately (or write it on the fly when posting).
Normaalgezien zijn hun activeiten gericht op studenten informatica, maar voor de installparty zijn ook buitenstaanders welkom. Als je meer wilt weten over #linux , wilt testen of met hulp wilt installeren, wees welkom!
Hey folks, so I’ve put it off as long as I could, but, sadly, my main machine is dying, so I need to raise some funds to replace it and some other old ass electronics that are on their last legs.
I tend to buy all refurbished stuff and it’s been a minute since I’ve upgraded my gear (I can’t install the latest anything on my current set up. Yeah, that OLD), so I can get what I need for around 3k.
The easiest way to contribute is to use the long term GoFundMe I have or my Kofi to make one offs. Either one is cool. I know most folks don’t like Paypal for obvious reasons, but if you want to use that, just send me a DM and I’ll give you that info.
In any event, thanks in advance for the help so I can continue development on my projects and working with others to push this independent social media thing forward.
It’s an exciting time in social media right now and I’m itching to do more, so it would be nice to have a computer that works when I need it to LOL!
Ok, I wanted to drop a quick update because I’m a bit touched right now now.
It’s only been a couple of hours and the new machine fund is at $648/$3000
At this pace I’ll hit my goal in a day or two. I wasn’t expecting that.
I’m not gonna cry on the fedi, but thank you. The work is hard and often lonely, but this makes me feel like it’s appreciated by far more people than I think.
Being able to upgrade my stuff is going to make a massive difference, so I’d hug everyone that has given if I could.
After one solid day, the Help Ro Replace His Old Ass Electronics Fund is at $1005.78/$3000, which is a fantastic start.
A big shout out to everyone that has not only given, but also left some very kind words of encouragement and affirmation. Those small acts of kindness mean a lot to me.
Let’s keep it going. There’s a good chance we can knock this out this week, so I can get some new stuff and keep pushing #fipamo and #thebadspace forward, as well as some other tidbits I can't talk about publicly just yet.
The pace slowed on day two, but some contributions were received from some kind souls, so the Help Ro Get New Gear Before His Stuff Dies Fund (yes, I’m changing the name everyday lol) currently stands at $1096/$3000.
I still feel optimistic about getting this taken care of this week because of all the boosts and contribution this has gotten in the last couple of days, so thanks to everyone who shared this everywhere.
As much as I like to believe I can duct tape stuff together to keep working, it’s just come to a point where I need to get my hands on new equipment to continue doing what I do.
I’m a bit bummed this is happening when I decide to rebuild both of my projects in Rust because I’m on such a good pace, but I’m past due for an upgrade, so here we are.
In any event, the support received so far has been very encouraging, ha, which only makes me want to push harder.
And we’re just a little over a third of the way there, which I have to admit is pretty exciting after a couple of days.
So let’s keep pushing this thing forward and it’ll knocked out in no time.
Thanks, y’all.
ps. When the goal is hit, there will be a memorial service for my old stuff. Ha, it’s been good to me all these years, so I want to give them a proper send off. I’ll post a vid of the affair.
What's the topic of Office Hours conversation? Conversation view! From backend changes to in-person collaboration, find out how the Thunderbird team is making it possible:
Speaking of office hours: I'm still waiting for office-hours-only syncing for work email accounts especially on mobile Thunderbird. This would really free my inbox...
With the current state of affairs, I can't use the "Quiet Time" function because I have both an "emergency notification" account, which I want to wake me up if it goes off, and a regular work conta...
@sothawo We've started working on that! It's in super early stages but we now include our iOS development in our monthly mobile progress reports (the tag says Android but we have covered iOS the last few months): blog.thunderbird.net/tag/andro…
Awesome job and thank you for sharing all your thoughts, slides, calls to the community to know where you are in the process 👏 long live Free Software 🙂
@quentind Thank YOU for being part of our community! We literally couldn't do what we do without all of you. And working in the open is the best way to work! 💙 😊
This sounds great! Just yesterday, I was complaining to a colleague that Thunderbird still uses the Mork and mbox formats. Fortunately, thanks to Btrfs(?), they haven’t been getting totally corrupted lately.
I came across this piece in my Google News feed. Is this something that you guys are collaborating on, or is this a group of disgruntled devs that split from your project, and stole all your years of hard work, and put some lipstick on it? I guess that is the biggest risk in open source projects?
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The stage is set, the performers are ready, the amphitheatre has an audience sprinkled on benches and lawn chairs, the sun is shining, the air is soft, Lee Lifeson Art Park is full of the sounds of an Autumn weekend in an urban park, and it’s time for the Description Rich Story Hour. In this episode it’s all about the stories! Tellers Katherine Sanders, Shak Gobeart, Rbecca Singh, Olivia Short, and Christine Malec take the limelight, on the appropriately named Limelight Stage, and tell tales of the park, past, present and future. These stories will take you places you never imagined, while never leaving the land on which they are told. Settle in; it’s story time! buzzsprout.com/2368549/episode…
The stage is set, the performers are ready, the amphitheatre has an audience sprinkled on benches and lawn chairs, the sun is shining, the air is soft, Lee Lifeson Art Park is full of the sounds of an Autumn weekend in an urban park, and it’s time...
Hey everyone, I want to extend an invitation for anyone who would like a tech focussed Mastodon server to join techopolis.social. We are using standard Mastodon with the 500 character limit, but I do try to make sure the server is moderated, and sign ups are by approval only. I'd love to see everyone join if you are interested.
Hey, you like samples? Here's a free (well, pay-what-you-want) small pack I made a few years ago that'll let you infuse a little Ether vibe into your work!
If you want to throw me a few $$$ for this, use my ko-fi to pay (ko-fi.com/etherdiver), not gumroad. Their payout system sucks. Just DL the pack for free from Gumroad and then ko-fi me a few $$$ if you want to.
A sampling of the sample library of the Ether Diver. No melodies, no drum loops and very few recognizable tones, but plenty of grit, distortion, saturation and glitch. Uncomfortable atmospheres, grinding buzzes and otherworldly weirdness to spare.
"It might not be long before you look up and see a fiery, slow-moving object streaking across your night sky and, clearly, breaking into pieces. That’s if you haven’t seen such a thing already. There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day, according to retired Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell. His acclaimed website Jonathan’s Space Report is widely regarded as the definitive source on spacecraft that go up … and come down. When we asked him about the deluge of Starlink satellite breakups that have recently been flooding social media, he pointed us to his graph showing Starlink reentries over time.
There are more than 8,000 Starlink satellites overhead at this moment. They’re a product of the space transportation company SpaceX. And that number is growing. Plus there are other companies and countries also deploying more and more satellites, adding to the number of satellites in Earth orbit. Many of these are in low-Earth orbits, which extend up to an altitude of 1,200 miles (2,000 km) above our planet. And the lifespan of low-Earth orbit satellites, such as Starlink, is only about 5 to 7 years. Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day."
📺 Slide Over is back! See it in action with iPadOS 26.1 beta 2, new mic input gain controls, and I have one more wish for windowing apps...Watch here: youtu.be/ApewWHjcXRA
Apple just brought Slide Over back in iPadOS 26.1 beta 2, plus mic input gain control and local recording options. But I have ONE more request...🎙️ My tech ...
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