lolol I just disabled an extension in my browser which apparently caused a bunch of youtube vids in open tabs to play all at once. I was amid a crowd of many voices telling me of many things, at which point a quick "taskkill /f /im msedge.exe" deathstarred the crowd out of existence. A disturbance in the Force, indeed :P
in reply to Andre Louis

@FreakyFwoof @jcsteh @KaraLG84 It's one of those weird ones where I know most people will like/subscribe if I don't say it, but then, it's become such a staple that I do wonder how much it's hurting creators that don't give out the reminder. To what degree you want people who need to be told to subscribe to you in order for them to actually do it is another matter but particularly for small creators I don't think beggers get to be choosers that much :)
See also, why are subscribing and pressing the notification bell two different actions anyway :P
in reply to Florian

@jcsteh @KaraLG84 The other thing pressing 'Like' does is fine-tune your video choices youtube will feed you so you hurt both yourself and creator by not using it, unless you're happy with AI slop and not much else, as your next recommendation.
I said weeks ago on here that my algorithm on youtube is so extremely finely dialed in, that 95% of the next videos that come up are things I would choose to watch. That is because I press Like on so, so many videos. It genuinely does matter.
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@FreakyFwoof @jcsteh @KaraLG84 I think that is the insidious thing though ... it kinda does for some people. Like, sure, my feed has a bunch of garbage in it, but it also generally has things I like without me needing to scroll too much and I think a lot of people just consider that the standard way of things. Basically, it's not as good as it could be, but it's good enough. And if it's good enough, no need to change anything is there?
I forget, is there a hotkey to like videos? On SPotify I've grown fast friend with shift+alt+b :)
in reply to Andre Louis

@FreakyFwoof @jcsteh @KaraLG84 Meanwhile I just use foo_youtube over here, which can't even like and most of the time isn't signed in unless age restricted, and don't even touch the recommendations feed. But I'm the odd one out. I subscribe to a few channels but primarily just have some playlists I periodically look at with channels in them to view.
in reply to Florian

@jcsteh @KaraLG84 Good ratio here for example.
My NI video which is now out of date called 'What to install first' has 58K views, 607 likes.
My 'how to format your drive as APFS' has 44K views but 638 likes.
A slightly higher like-to-watch ratio, so that tells me that I must have gotten something correct with that.
It isn't just inane bullshit, you see?
Knowing that, it can help me to decide that hey, this kind of tutorial thing was worth it, should do more.
If it had that many views and only say 15 likes, I'd be more concerned.
in reply to Andre Louis

@FreakyFwoof @jcsteh @KaraLG84 Those tutorials, that are actually well recorded and produced definitely do fill a niche I think, I far prefer a youtube video over a random MP3 in someone's dropbox where the speaker is only in the left track for the entire time, the filename is clearly the Audio Hijack Pro default filename for a source and the music is 5 times louder than the speaker :)

I was recently looking at Framework for a new x86 laptop, as I believed the company to be reasonably aligned with my values (e.g. pro-repair, pro-FOSS, pro-humanity). But others have warned me that they are now supporting Hyprland, Omarchy, etc. They support these projects led by people who hold alt-right views, in the name of building a “big tent” coalition.

The problem, however, is that building a “big tent” coalition, by design, requires some form of value alignment.

community.frame.work/t/framewo…

Alpine is a “big tent”, for example, but people who want to harm members of our community aren’t welcome.

This isn’t hard.

Needless to say, I won’t be buying a Framework laptop anytime soon, which makes me sad.

A poll, about microwaves!

Assuming you have a microwave oven, does it have a digital display and buttons, or a number of dials only? Just got a new microwave, with dials as I hate the digital beeps, and a friend was surprised that it had dials and not a screen. Over here I think mine is quite normal and common and it's the type I always get! The "microwave is done" sound also comes from a physical bell, which is nice.

Share for science, should you care to.

  • Buttons plus display (14%, 1 vote)
  • Buttons, no display (14%, 1 vote)
  • Dials plus display (28%, 2 votes)
  • Dials, no display (42%, 3 votes)
  • ✨ No microwave participation club ✨ (0%, 0 votes)
7 voters. Poll end: 3 hours ago

in reply to Sini Tuulia

As a blind person, I find that most household appliances fall on a bimodal distribution when it comes to accessibility. You have the cheap stuff with dials and buttons which is perfectly accessible, you have the super expensive stuff with apps and smart speaker integrations (though EU law certainly doesn't do us any good here). THe middle, with touch screens and no internet connectivity, is the most challenging of them all.
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@miki Oh yeah, that makes sense. I prefer the tactile and simple mechanical things in everything but my phone and computer, and even then I prefer a clacky mechanical keyboard and physical mouse versus touch screen. Even my sewing machine is as old as I am, with nothing but dials!

I figure the speech controlled ones are super nice when they work flawlessly, and exceptionally a hassle to troubleshoot when they don't.

in reply to Sini Tuulia

There are some weird restrictions about that in EU law. I don't understand which devices this applies to specifically, but there's some restrictions on being able to remotely start devices which contain a heating element. Many devices that have an app only let you use it to adjust settings, but the start button has to be pushed on the (inaccessible) screen. Some gadgets don't have this restrictions, so I don't really know when it applies and when it doesn't.

Time for serious questions on #Reform and #Russia

(In March, the New York Times reported that “one of the biggest corporate donors to the #populist #ReformUK party has sold almost $2million worth of transmitters, cockpit equipment, antennas and other sensitive technology to a major supplier of #Moscow’s #blacklisted state weapons agency”.)

heraldscotland.com/politics/vi…

I am collecting texts and resources on the "Haitian Revolution" for my Human Rights class and I thought I'd share a few things with you.
First of all, this Graphic Novel (online), which helps you understand what happened: "The Slave Revolution That Gave Birth to Haiti" thenib.com/haitian-revolution/

And this short article which also gives an overview - both written by historian Laurent Dubois, who is an expert on the field: aeon.co/essays/why-haiti-shoul…

#HumanRights #Haiti #HaitianRevolution #Slavery

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

I've been thinking about your post a lot, especially after seeing such tools at my $dayjob. I'm biased due to their ethical impact, but even without it I consider them, on average, harmful. I write code, I make sure it works for my usage, I write tests, I do linters and static analysis, I do a peer review to share the knowledge and get external inputs. And then this thing, supposedly state of the art, goes over my code, mansplains it to me and finds either a false-positive (I wonder who removed false-positives from the lists you've got?), or a nit ("don't forget to add an extra check here!", "The comment is stale!"), or a misguided optimisation possibly introducing new bugs. I spend lots of time thinking over those useless blanket reports that ultimately don't matter because I have empirical evidence that my code works for my use case.

I have seen so called AI tooling generating "helpful reports", but they cannot replace decent tooling and tests. And yet some people replace their LSPs with LLMs :/

in reply to Nina Kalinina

@nina_kali_nina all analyzer tools, including compilers, give a certain amount of false positives. I don't think we should expect AI tools to be any different. As long as frequency is manageable and there are decent ways to inhibit them.

The AI tools I've mentioned recently don't seem to have much more false positives than the state of the art static code analyzers we use also do.

Asking in English in hope that it'll reach more people! I'm french, windows user and unfortunately not playing locally. Do you know of some software a deafie could use to game with her pals? One that could transcript what people say in their mics? Not necessarily free, I'm willing to pay for something that works well.

Asking for a me.

Please, boost so a girl can play with her friends 🥰

#accessibility #Steam #gaming #discord #disability

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in reply to The Prāv Cooperative

The author mentions being able to chat to telegram users from Matrix. He does not mention that:
- this is not because Telegram is better than WhatsApp (or just marginally, with regards to alternative client tolerance)
- this is possible via a matrix bridge
- bridging to WhatsApp is also possible
- XMPP bridges to telegram and WhatsApp exist too: slidge.im (yes, a shameless self-plug)

The word 'Vrede' jumped out at me from this 'Peace' installation. 'Vrede' is Danish for anger, fury, wrath. I wondered if it was an artistic provocation. But it seemed too confined to chance, that someone who happens to understand Danish happens to see this German artwork. So I looked it up and learned that 'vrede' is Dutch for 'peace'.

Vrede. Peace in Dutch. Wrath in Danish. I wonder if there's a word for words like these, that mean the opposite in different languages.

pixelfed.social/p/Rudini/88129…

Krásné dobré ráno mastodonní bando! 🙋‍♀️🐈🐶
Zítra to bude rok, co odešel taťka. Mamka na dnešek naplánovala výlet na Portáš v Javorníku. Každoročně tam spolu jezdívali na borůvkové knedlíky. Pojede nás hodně. Jedna ze sester bere i tchána s tchýní. Docela nevím, co mám čekat. Prochajdu s Baldínem musím odložit. Vyrážíme ráno, protože sraz je u mamky. No, myslete na mě.
Vy si užijte krásnou neděli plnou pohody, dobrot a nicnedělání! 😊
#dobre_rano
#dobréRáno

In bizarre move, Framework embraces deeply extremist views

Framework, the maker of repairable laptops, is embroiled in a controversy, as the company and its CEO are openly supporting people with, well, questionable views.

If you know a little bit about PR in social media space, you might note that, right out of the gate, a project by a vocal white nationalist known for spli

osnews.com/story/143520/in-biz…

#ClownCar

I remember coming home from school and telling my mom Columbus "discovered" America. She told me it was a load of crap, and set me straight. Mom was a hippie who challenged the status quo. At the time, it embarrassed me, I'd get frustrated and just wanted her to be like the other parents.
I realized later how lucky I was, and do the same with my daughter.
#indigenous #fuckcolumbus #indigenouspeoplesday

Go to log in.

<password is incorrect>

No, it isn't, I double-checked by opening my encrypted pwd file.

<password is incorrect>

<Login with backup email to be sent a verification code.>

Entered backup email, received verification code.

Enter verification code.

<must enter this info you never needed before>

What?!

Entered info, logged in.

It was never about an incorrect pwd.

I did remove the added info, though. We'll see what happens next time I need to log on. :(

Yes, I am grumpy.

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On my AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS mini PC, NVDA is a bit sluggish in some cases in Firefox; e.g. cursoring through messages in Gmail folders. For reasons I don't fully understand, setting the processor affinity to a single CPU core and setting the process priority to "above normal" helps significantly, even when the CPU is nearly idle. I don't currently have the time/energy to debug the root cause for this or write a proper add-on, but I wrote an NVDA global plugin to make the change for me automatically when NVDA starts. If it breaks something, you get to keep all the pieces.
```
import ctypes

import globalPluginHandler

class GlobalPlugin(globalPluginHandler.GlobalPlugin):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
p = ctypes.c_void_p(ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetCurrentProcess())
ctypes.windll.kernel32.SetProcessAffinityMask(p, ctypes.c_void_p(1))
ctypes.windll.kernel32.SetPriorityClass(p, ctypes.wintypes.DWORD(0x00008000))
```
#nvdasr

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