I made a thing called Wellness Ping because someone I care about went silent and it took too long for anyone to notice.
You get regular check-ins via email. If you don't respond, your emergency contacts get notified.
Built it for anyone who might go missing and needs someone to notice: activists, journalists, researchers, solo folks.
I paid for premium hosting (high-reliability VPS in Sweden) and a quality email provider because uptime actually matters for something like this. Also paying extra for minimal data retention (7 days email activity, working toward zero content storage).
Free forever (as long as I'm alive) and open source.
This is a proposal for how to migrate all your stuff along with you when you move instances.
The gist:
Send a request to move along with a set of stuff you'd like to bring with you. Moderators (optionally) can, approve, send back a change request, or deny. If the changes look ok, start the move, if not, hey you avoided incompatible moderation. Should be possible to layer in any kind of bulk actions you might want: "everything except my DMs," "strip attachments," "only my favorite posts," "nothing," etc.
keep a public collection of move events signed by both the source and target for durable, portable proof that you are the same person as the old account
the new instance crawls your old account and grabs whatever you specified, and then posts a mapping from old URIs to new URIs.
other instances can then immediately remap the URIs so e.g. future interactions get sent to the right place, and then gradually update their local versions over time, spacing out traffic.
Just using existing ActivityPub mechanisms. There are 6 new terms.
Bonus: lays the next steps to migrate to content addressed URIs, decouple accounts from instances, and merge and split accounts.
PR: #692 - WIP: FEP-1580: Move Actor Objects with a `migration` Collection - fediverse/fep - Codeberg.org Fedi thread: jonny (good kind): "Alright it's late and i need to go to bed, but he…" - neurospace.
As free Windows 10 support ends today, consider upgrading to a Linux operating system! You will continue to be protected with security updates, but you will also gain total freedom for your device.
Doesn't have to be Fedora - look around for the Linux distro that works for you. :)
@usul Also who will risk to brick a multi-hundred $ device with an OS change? Changing a phone OS is not trivial, they will have hard work to make it easy and revertible.
@usul @elecharny carrier partner? What decade do you live in? Carrier where one of the reasons Firefox OS sucked. They are anti-feature requirement specialists.
Ah yes, the "switch to Linux" posts are hot and heavy today for obvious reasons (Windows 10). If only I could, but, yeah... Linux desktop accessibility is a complete non-starter in my field of work as things stand now. There are no accessible Linux-based DAWs (Reaper is accessible with the help of OSARA on Mac and Windows, but not Linux), and even basic two-track audio editing is pretty painful. Never mind many other general purpose and UX things. At least Debian has an accessible installer with braille and speech support out-of-the-box.
But but, just donate to the people working in accessibility, where you want to see improvements. That's the key... At least people said that in response to a similar post I made... Yeah bleh, if I had the money you know.
@prism ah too bad, I am not in this group. I shall just continue using my old boring Mac. I haven't used windows in ages, probably. But I will probs next month, or something.
I'm not sure I know anyone who uses Linux for serious audio production, blind or not. So while I would like to have equal access, I don't feel like this is necessarily a simple accessibility problem. Windows as an OS is fine. All the crap Microsoft shovels on top of it is the problem. If you rip all of that out, Windows 11 is actually impressively fast on slow hardware. I have the cheapest $100 mini PC I could find, and until I start opening browser tabs or electron apps, it's very usable. So, instead of putting a bunch of effort into maintaining an Arch install or something, I just put that effort into optimizing Windows. Do "i like the direction Microsoft is going? Certainly not. But the things that made Windows worth using 20 years ago haven't really changed.
again, many, just do this and just do that are not taking into consideraiton so much of the user's reason for using a particular OS. there is the windows ten extended support that can be signed up for, but that's only a year of support atm.
If I had to live on an uninhabited island and had to choose only one software, it'd be Emacs with EmacsSpeak, because it is awesome.
Yes, Emacs has a learning curve, like everything else. The basics are not too complicated, everything else you can pick up when and if you need them, including changing everything about how Emacs works and what it does.
Mind you, you can buy an epub ebook of Learning GNU Emacs, which you can read in Emacs, but you can also convert it to audio, write it onto a disc and then play it back. Yes, all that from Emacs.
That's the universe telling you to give it another go lol
Mind you, just because you use Emacs you don't have to stop using your favorite software, if you just want to use it as a text editor there's nothing wrong with that. But if you want to go further, you can.
Alpine, Nix, basically any distro that does not need a lot of maintenance, even Ubuntu would work I imagine.
I'd personally go for Arch, but that one has a learning curve as well, even if it's absolutely worth it.
Ultimately, I am sure there will be things that won't be available natively via any distro, just the compromises-filled world of accessibility where we need to use the best from each OS.
I am partially tempted to switch my Windows 10 to Linux but at the moment it is the only computer I have that works with my aging canon A3 Photo printer.
That's disappointing that OSARA doesn't work on Linux.
I'm working on controllers that will make it possible for me to add accessibility to Bitwig and maybe Ardour, but of course that doesn't help anyone right now.
<philpem> isn't amd64 a third-party 64-bit patch on a 32-bit extension to a 16-bit enhancement of an 8-bit processor, originally derived from a 4-bit calculator chip by a 2-bit company who can't stand 1-bit of competition?
“You’re ABC fake news, I don’t take questions from ABC fake news,” Trump said as a reporter shouted a question at him. “After what you did with Stephanopoulos to the vice president of the United States—I don’t take questions from ABC fake news.” trib.al/L8ObEpd
I am rather amazed as to the bad state of share sheets on both iOS and Android -- don't know which one is worse. Try sharing something. You quickly find yourself scrolling through a bunch of apps, some of which are related and others are not. Why is there no “search” field? :)
On this day 12 years ago, Dexter, our family dog, died. A schnoodle weighing about 25 pounds, he wasn't my favorite dog we had over the years, to say the least.
He was 13, and by then, had quite a lot of issues.
Back then, I was spending about half my time in North Carolina and the other half in New York (I hadn't yet moved here).
I left for NYC probably about a month prior, figuring this would be the last time I would see him, and I was right.
He didn't do that much for me. I was a lot more sad for Mom when he passed than I was about the actual dog, but I will most definitely not have that kind of reaction when Watson, current silly little family dog, makes his way across the Rainbow Bridge, whenever that happens. He's almost 13 now.
Speaking of dexter, though, in 2008, I recorded this thing, which I called "Dog Vs. Horn". I was making bad/silly noises with a cheap Chinese double French Horn. Dexter was in a closed bedroom across the house.
Completely coincidentally, this was also the day twelve years ago when I woke up in all kind of pain, which eventually lead to me having my eyes removed. Yeah, not a fantastic day, all things considered.
References racism, slurs, violence as part of article about Young Republicans in USA.
Sensitive content
What do leaders of Young Republican groups talk about when they think no one's eavesdropping? Leaked private messages suggest they use racist slurs, joke about slavery and gas chambers, and share violent fantasies. According to @politico: "Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator."
References racism, slurs, violence as part of article about Young Republicans in USA.
Sensitive content
@prism What was even more interesting is how our vice president reacted, basically dismissing the voices who condemned those so-called young republicans.
I finished working on a metal song entitled "Anaesthesis" last night which is probably the darkest piece I've ever written. Content warning: heavy mental health stuff. files.jantrid.net/music/NthDeg…
@prism Thanks. If you're interested, there is more like this on the two albums I released with a friend under the name "Electronight Alchemy". The three most similar songs are probably It'll Be Alright, Scourge, and Always Greener. I'll provide direct YouTube links to those songs below, but they're also on all the other streaming services. youtube.com/watch?v=wUtr1Lh5ic… youtube.com/watch?v=siHnYrHda-… youtube.com/watch?v=Ytlaw5u_H8…
Provided to YouTube by DistroKidAlways Greener · Electronight AlchemyLove Loss Lament℗ 5611968 Records DKReleased on: 2024-06-18Auto-generated by YouTube.
Simultaneously awful and excellent. The former as in the thoughts that lead to it being written, the latter being everything afterward. Is those appearances from Mrs Teh I hear tucked in to the first couple of choruses?
@Scott Oh, first half of second chorus is full voice actually, but I had to be very careful not to belt it, which I find surprisingly hard in that area of my voice.
Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025
Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed AI strategy.
@SnowyCA it's excruciating. But a lot of "don't". I also mention that maybe there are other priorities that it's not sustainable, unethical, etc. Why not supporting Canadians. etc. Also reiterate that their questions are loaded.
asking about sovereignty. I had to remind them that even our fighter jet can't be maintained by us. Let alone the billions spent annullay on US cloud or foreign proprietary software. Or how we can't provide equitable access to basic telecom and transportation across the country. etc. I wasn't nice about the minister.
Sources: Amazon plans to cut as much as 15% of its HR staff, and additional layoffs will likely affect other areas of its core consumer business (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)
As of today, this is the first time in the history of Microsoft Windows that the only currently supported version of Windows is the latest version. Every time in the past when a version has gone end-of-life, the supported versions are at least two versions or more still in support (e.g Win7 EOL still had both 8.1 & 10 in support, 8.1 EOL had 10 & 11 in support).
Microsoft wants 2025 to be the "year of the Windows 11 PC refresh." They want up to 400 million perfectly good computers running Windows 10 to become e-waste. Why? So Microsoft can have their cake ($140-$200 for a Windows 11 license) and eat it (your data) too
It's time to switch sides, and break away from this cycle of endless upgrades. Our new guide walks you through installing a Linux-based operating system—keeping your computer secure long after Microsoft walks away
Sounds like you need to use a browser that allows cross domain cookie sharing (something not safari) and even then people complain that the hcaptcha's accessibility option isn't reliable.
Right, I'm using Firefox and it doesn't work with it. I just gave up on the idea. It won't be the first time I get blocked due to an a11y issue. It is what it is.
interesting, the hCaptcha page has a page on accessibility. "Great" how non-accessible use should "just work" and accessible use has significant usage instructions.
Not an excuse, but for personal use I only use git dependencies and lately I'm leaning that language package repositories are in fact a bad idea.
@yo Right, it may be possible to set it up but default Firefox doesn't work, and I don't want to mess about with security settings for that.
For what it's worth I completely disagree with the view package managers are bad. Rust is my preferred language and a lot of the conveniences it has come from cargo.
@yo Yes, I tried recently and wasted another day with build systems, trying to get either GTK or Qt to work. then tried some of the other solutions like Slint. In sum, there is no reasonable way of doing it that I found, so far at least.
@yo I think Slint works to a point, but it is not a full-featured gui toolkit at the moment. It lacks a lot of standard widgets and it has that weird constraint that the data model and the widgets are tightly coupled so you can't do things like infinite (or unbounded) lists without eating memory etc.
I'm excited to share what I've been working on with @erikjee: RustNL's #rustlang Maintainers Fund!
Many people and companies contribute to Rust, but there are fewer and fewer paid positions for general maintenance (reviews,cleanups,etc). We need to fix that.
General maintenance is one of the most fundamental jobs in an open source project, but is one of the hardest to get paid for. Adding new features gets you promoted; keeping the lights on does not.
But everything depends on it. Code needs reviews, cleanups, docs. New contributors need mentors, etc. A significant number of Rust maintainers who got paid for that have lost or quit their job recently. Due to RTO policies, a shift in responsibilities, budget cuts, and/or burnout. This is already quite noticable in the Rust project: longer review queues and more technical debt. This is a problem. Through RustNL, the non-profit foundation behind the largest Rust conference (RustWeek) and the Rust Project's All Hands, we are setting up a fund to provide stable jobs for Rust maintainers. We want to employ six full-time maintainers in 2026. Additionally, we'll provide internships and mentorship, to help retain promising new contributors. Not only do we need to make sure the current generation of maintainers doesn't burn out, we need to work on the next generation of maintainers too. What we need now is companies who rely on Rust to step up and contribute financially. Having your business rely on the work of unpaid volunteers is not sustainable in the long term. It's a risk.
And if your company contributes to Rust, keeping the project well-maintained will accelerate your work. Over the last few months, we have spoken to the Rust Foundation and several big companies about our plans. The input we've received and the positive reactions so far makes us believe we can make this happen. Today, we are publishing our plans for a wider audience, in search for the required funding. If your company is interested in funding Rust maintainers, please reach out to me or @erikjee!
If I wanted to be the most popular person in the world right now (and had enough programming ability), what I would do is write an anti-malware program adapted to go right through a customer's computer and completely remove any trace of "AI" (a.k.a. Grand Theft Autocomplete). No "assistants". No "copilots". ALL GONE.
well I guess that's a lie because I tried to build Eclipse against JDK17 and it says
[ERROR] ========================: Type org.eclipse.tycho.core.maven.TargetPlatformWorkspaceReader not present: org/eclipse/tycho/core/maven/TargetPlatformWorkspaceReader has been compiled by a more recent version of the Java Runtime (class file version 65.0), this version of the Java Runtime only recognizes class file versions up to 61.0
NVDA Alpha 53084 observations: 1. The key stroke to get an AI-generated description has been altered to something, well, pressable by a hand: NVDA+G. As someone at the White House would say: "Beautiful change." 2. Image descriptions are still almost unusable and funny. For instance, The "This PC" icon on my Windows 11 24H2 Desktop is consistently described this way: "A blue and white laptop on a sidewalk." @NVAccess
I thought you'd like the keystroke change :) Re the AI engine - we haven't changed that, so I'm not surprised those descriptions haven't changed, but we will keep looking at that and if we find a better model we will definitely look at whether we can incorporate it.
it probably relate to 1. marking stuff const as expected 2. UPP (PowerPC vs 68k) with different calling convention. PPC used a lot of registers while 68k used mostly the stack.
Winter blue tardis
in reply to Kay • • •