Včerejší výpadek AWS zase ukázal, jak moc je internet závislý na pár velkých hráčích. Stačí jeden region Amazonu a spadne půlka webu – od messengerů po streamovací služby.
A pak se někdo diví, proč má smysl decentralizace – Mastodon, MXChat, celý Fediverse 💬
For you activist folk that still use Google services, get your shit off google and do it now. Don't store your files there and move your email to @Tutanota
If you can't make that effort you're not to be trusted. Look at the last item on the list in the linked article. Given the current fascist admin, it's clear your files are not safe, secure or private if stored on Google. Likely other US services too.
follow-up question: I have an old iPad that I still use (because I don't want to be wasteful with hardware because it still works, you know?). However, it doesn't update anymore, not supported, and I really don't want to support Apple at all. I'm also not sure about Samsung. I don't know what tablet to buy next. I want to avoid American cloud/tech based, and I'm guessing Huawei is off the table? I know nothing about Linux either. I'm a bit lost really. Any help would be appreciated and boosts welcome too. Thank you 😊
We've just fought #ChatControl & we'll continue to fight wherever #encryption is under threat. But today we'd like to celebrate that 61% of all Tuta emails are sent end-to-end encrypted - a huge win for privacy. 🔥
Your excellence, we have fashioned these high tech garments for the common people that are only transparent to the those in power who themselves are completely honest and trustworthy. In fact we are wearing them right now. As you your righteous selves can obviously see, this is the perfect solution. Now if we could only receive a small compensation for our tremendous contribution to society…
We are delighted to share that the President of European Open Source Academy (EOSA), Daniel Stenberg, has been awarded a gold medal for his contributions to society by theRoyal Swedish Academy of Sciences).
While this may not be Daniel's first gold medal, it's certainly just as special.
One of the many, many reasons I love Thai: Gender is a self spoken expression. We end our sentences with the gender marker we feel to, ka for female or krub for male, we are free to use either as we wish to. In conversation we would never assume the gender of another person, though we would make a guess about whether they were older or younger than us. In Thai culture an age based honorific is used, addressing our elders as P’ or Ba or Yai, etc or someone younger than us as Nong.
When I first encountered this, I didn’t want to disclose my age, my American self had some inner ageism at play. But the longer I’m here the more I love it, to be someone’s P’Lek 😻 is some serious Auntie love. Or to be tucked into the kindness of Nong Lek, I know that I’m being cared for.
And, to be able to end my sentences on my own terms, a “ka” when I’m feeling in my ladyness or a gentle “kub” when I’m just a little guy. No gender imposed except what I speak it to be, this is a kindness I didn’t know existed. #thailand #thai #genderbend
Polish does something similar, past tense verbs are declinated based on the gender of the subject. A sentence like "I went to the bank today" declinates differently depending on whether it's a woman or a man going to the bank.
It's very hard to adapt this for non-binary (people have tried, but there's no universally accepted system.)
It also makes software translation (and sometimes all other kinds of translation) literally hell.
Today's AWS debacle is the perfect example of the reason why in the last few years I started to be less enthusiastic about Signal, and more oriented to federated or even P2P solutions like XMPP and Jami. I wrote about it already:
Let's ignore for a second the blind reliance on AWS or any other cloud provider. In a decentralized system, this would not have happened, or at least it would have not impacted so many users.
Yes, I am a cryptographer myself, I know that Signal's encryption is the best. But encryption is not everything. Availability issues, geopolitical troubles, risk of enshittification, limitations on users' freedom to use and control the software lead to a lack of trust, even in a supersecure solution. And I say that with honest admiration for the folks at Signal, who are doing a great job.
Since the next version of #FeatherWiki won't be ready for release until the full test suite is written and writing the tests is taking forever, I'll be releasing one more patch version in the lark family (1.8.x) to fix a couple of minor bugs later this week.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (IVA, the same org that selects winners for three of the Nobel prize categories) awards me a gold medal 2025 for my work on curl.
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Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien har kva.se/ så jag tycker det är rimligt att anta att de kallar sig KVA.
> Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien grundades 1739 och är en oberoende organisation vars övergripande mål är att främja vetenskaperna och stärka deras inflytande i samhället. @MrShark
Ja, Kungl. ingenjörsvetenskapsakademi kallar sig IVA, men Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (utan ingenjör) kallarsig KVA och det är KVA som utser nobellprisen inte IVA
Many many thanks and huge congratulations for the award.
I read your blog post on your 2017 prize. Loved the authentic "blog" voice of that article. The way you described every moment and what it felt. Good motivation.
congratulations, both on receiving that award and on living in a country that sees and values the work you do. You make me very proud of this wacky open source pursuit.
"To be honest, I often use wget to download files" ... some people tell me in a lowered voice, like if they were revealing one of their deepest family secrets to me.
This little hobby project of yours is getting serious. Maybe you should consider switching it up and doing something more straightforward like running a public cloud provider.
congratulations! And hold on to it, the financial system will probably collapse soonish and gold will be good to have. After the apocalypse, you can pinch off pieces of it to buy food.
I appreciate the greatest technical minds on Earth taking a communications network that was designed to withstand a nuclear exchange, and turning that network into something that can't survive a DNS error from a single company.
Boy, this brings back memories! | JAWS for DOS 2.3 Basic Training Tapes : Henter-Joyce, Inc : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive archive.org/details/jfd-2.3-ba…
In 1993, Henter-Joyce released version 2.3 of its JAWS screen reader for DOS operating systems. The four tapes in this upload are the basic training tapes that...
Screen readers are an assistive technology that interprets the information on a screen and translates it to either synthesized speech or Braille output. This helps blind people, people with low vision, and people with cognitive or learning disabilities.
Google Maps lets drivers mark “Unplowed Roads.” These warnings are now popping up in Southern California to warn of ICE agents on the loose… because of the “icy” conditions. I love users!
I'm going to attempt to articulate a random hypothesis that's been buzzing around my head lately. I think that, when a group of people collectively hold dissonant positions, the dissonance tends to resolve itself over time so that the group position becomes logically consistent. I used to find it curious that American conservatives tended to be broadly unsympathetic to undocumented immigrants but felt sympathetic towards the ones coming from Cuba (Elián González, for instance). But, nowadays, the American right tends not to sympathize with undocumented Venezuelan immigrants looking for work or a better life in the US. In the past, it was essentially taboo to demonize MLK or praise Hitler, but I see these taboos breaking down with young right-wingers. They take their politics to its logical conclusion in a way that the previous generation avoided doing. I should point out that there are confounding factors / alternate explanations in some of these cases. Anti-Communism used to be a feature uniting the right, but the Cold War is no longer a thing. The Holocaust is passing out of living memory, which allows people to have their takes with few people alive to contradict them with first-hand knowledge. Still, if I am right, then this has implications for the way disabled people are treated by the right, for instance, since, in time, they could become more open about demonizing us as burdens on society.
@archos Cinnamon byl vždycky propagován jako prostředí hodně podobné Woknům a ideální na přechod na Linux 🤔. Takže vaši averzi chápu 😁, ale mí uživatelé "po přechodu" byli s prostředím poměrně spokojení 🤷🏻♂️. Po pár letech při upgrade LTS se jim snažím nabídnout něco "normálního", ale většinou zůstávají věrní tomu, co znají 🙄.
@donbahno pearOS? Nevím, hádám, nikdy jsem nezkusil. Na Linuxu naopak oceňuju že na práci nemám kolem okna omalovánky. Bohužel Adobe CS nejde smysluplně používat na linuxu, jinak bych asi zůstal jen na něm. A pokud mi tady někdo nabídne Wine, tak dostane ban, bo na seriózní práci s grafickými soubory je to sračka neuvěřitelná a nefunkční 😇
Já právě miluju ty omalovánky v MacOS. Ten dock s ikonami, tečkami a ta červená kolečka s údajem, je něco úžasného, Windows se to pořád snaží napodobit, ale není to vůbec ono. Zároveň ale je MacOS dostatečně minimalistický na to, aby zbytečně nerušil při práci. Když nechci vnímat ten design, tak to nevnímám. Když se chci kochat, tak se kochám. Fakt se řešila user experience a není to takový halabala chaos a marast jako u Windows, kde ty věci prostě nikdy nedávaly smysl.
@donbahno Problém MacOS je, že nemají odvahu některé UI koncepty prostě opustit. Už 20 let jen vrství nové na staré a pokaždé, když to musím používat, to na mě působí hrozně přeplácaně.
Windows jsou pak kapitola sama pro sebe. To je úplná UI archeologie. W11 na první pohled vypadají uhlazeně, ale pak člověk začne nastavovat a dostane se až k dialogům, které vypadají jak z Win95. 🙂
@sesivany u Win je hlavně problém, že nikdy nikdo nepřemýšlel jak to udělat funkční. Jaký má smysl některá nastavení měnit přes settings, jiná přes Control panel, další přes PowerShell… člověk aby si psal poznámky, kde co najde. A hlavně to s každým updatem rozjebou a komplet změní, takže nikde nenajdeš nic. Win 11 jsou děsné peklo
@sesivany Já skončil s windows už v době Win XP. Teď mám windows jen na pracovním NB, ale tam stejně používám Gentoo v dualbootu. Nejraději bych ta windows smazal, ale nesmím, musím NB vrátit s nima 😄
@mkyral Já skončil s Windows 2000. A je to sakra už víc než 20 let, neuvěřitelně to letí. To si tak jednou večer nainstaluješ Mandrakelinux a ani se nenaděješ a máš za sebou 15 let v Red Hatu. 🙂
Jo, chápu že snap nemusí být pro každého (ano, #Canonical si za to může trochu sám, no...).
Ale mě se to líbí: Díky snapům máme ve storu 3rd party - často ne-OSS - produkty třetích stran, které bychom jinak museli hledat po všech čertech internetech, a taky se asi i díky snapům poté chytnul flatpak, který dělá vlastně to samé (a asi trochu lépe). Takže za mě win-win 🙂
Vtip je ale obecně v tom, jako uživatel/BFU to vůůůůůbec není potřeba řešit... 😉
@archos Já jsem spokojený uživatel Mintu s Cinnamon. Předtím jsem používal Xfce, protože starý HW. Ale Cinnamon si můžu lépe přizpůsobit a práce v něm mi přijde efektivnější. Ale samozřejmě, měřitelné to nijak není 😄
For the past month or so, I've noticed a very sharp decrease in high frequency response in my left ear, previously the better of my two broken ears. Today, I finally went to a place to have my ears cleaned.
Good news: they didn't need it.
Bad news: they didn't need it.
New normal achieved, I guess.
Self-tests indicate that my left ear now rolls off at around 4.5 kHz.
Just attempting to comprehend things audibly, even with amplification, is becoming increasingly fatiguing.
I'm sorry. Been there, done that, when it comes to going to have them cleaned and hearing there's nothing there to clean, they're just screwed. My sympathies.
I totally forgot that I had this album, until I was playing a game and ran across a word that reminded me of one of the songs. Now I need to listen to it again. thehighwomen.com
When I first moved here, I had ideas of hosting potlucks sometimes and introducing my friends to each other. And I did a bit of that years ago. But now I feel ... more isolated, where, aside from a few of my neighbors, I have a hard time even thinking about who I would even invite to a potluck if I were to host one. I've been feeling vaguely low-energy lately lately, which is likely a part of it. Now I need to follow my own advice that I gave in my last blog post in a different context, to think about what I might want that to look like for me and how to get myself back there.
The official video for The Highwomen's song "Crowded Table" from the debut self-titled album available now on Low Country Sound / Elektra Records. https://ln...
So I'm working on a thing in Firefox which I knew had been requested multiple times at least 5 years ago. But today, months after I started working on it, someone pointed out a public request for it that was filed 25 years ago. Like literally the year 2000. I was still at high school then! Times like these remind me of just how far back Mozilla actually goes.
Omada SDN Controller is now in FreeBSD ports with the help from @saper who concocted a crazy solution for patching a jar file to remove a "Linux" string check dynamically
OK so I am pretty against AI for all the reasons you all know. But my PhD supervisors, including the head honcho of our lab, are using it and the university recently sent round guidance as to how you can use it in your studies.
I had a tedious task to do, cross checking citations against references in a long review paper. Then I had to check for typos and grammatical errors. My stepdaughter said, “ChatGPT could do those for you easily” and I thought, come on then, let’s fucking test it.
Task 1: Cross checking citations and references. ChatGPT standardised my referencing so everything was formatted correctly in APA style, which was helpful. It also threw away 2/3 of my references, even though they were cited in the text, which… wasn’t.
Task 2: Proofread. ChatGPT went further and asked me if I wanted it to produce a clean, proof-read version of my paper, ready to submit to a journal. I said, sure, yes please. ChatGPT said it would get back to me with my file in a few minutes.
Half an hour later I asked ChatGPT what was taking so long. It responded by telling me, “Thanks, Charlotte - you’re awesome! 💛” then asking me whether I wanted a completed Word doc or plain text. I chose the Word doc and ChatGPT said it would be ready in a minute.
Nothing.
About 15 minutes later I asked when it would be ready. ChatGPT thanked me for my patience and said it just needed to check whether I wanted a covering note for an editor to complement the article it was going to give me. I said yes please.
Nothing. I went to bed.
The next morning I said that I was tired of waiting and ChatGPT said (I paraphrase, but only slightly), “Here’s the thing, Charlotte. I can’t actually provide the version of the document I said I would produce for you ready for submission because it’s too complex a task for me. Would you like me to provide you with plain text of the article so you can do your own formatting?”
So I lost a bunch of references (obviously I had them saved elsewhere), got no further with my proofreading, and wasted about an hour of my time only to find out it had lied to me about its capabilities.
No need to say “I told you so.” At least I have been vindicated.
#hugOps story time! Quote this and tell me the biggest incident you ever saw in production. It’s inevitable, it’s gonna happen, and learning from incidents is way better than shitting on people trying to fix them.
Y’all ready for a story about one of the wildest fuckups production outages I ever took part in? Buckle up; we’re going for a ride far, far away from any...
Many of us probably saw a page where they were asked to "cancel” a dialog with “OK" and “Cancel” buttons. It still makes me chuckle when I see these. Of course, I am tempted to press the "Cancel” button. :)
@TheQuinbox I had the same feeling when I woke up this morning and saw the news. I was, like, OK, so what? Life goes on... :) OK, sorry, Alexa doesn't work, but who cares? LOL
Just started sponsoring @NVAccess on GitHub, and figured I'd use this opportunity as a reminder to sponsor the open source code you depend on. I've been using NVDA for 6 years to do virtually everything, and they've definitely earned my money.
Thank you so much Quin! And we very much appreciate your support! And we definitely echo your sentiments - whether the open source project you depend on is NVDA for screen reading or something else for another purpose entirely
Thanks for the reminder. I wonder if it is better to do sponsorship or just a direct donation? On one hand, Github takes an extra 3 percent fee, but it also provides more visibility. Either way, thanks for the nudge to do this, it's been a minute.
> GitHub Sponsors does not charge any fees for sponsorships from personal accounts, so 100% of these sponsorships go to the sponsored developer or organization ([source](docs.github.com/en/sponsors/ge…)).
GitHub Sponsors allows the developer community to financially support the people and organizations who design, build, and maintain the open source projects they depend on, directly on GitHub.
If you have any insight to give, I certainly don't mind changing my donation from GitHub to something else, e.g., PayPal from the looks of your donation page so that you get more of the amount donated. @Jage @TheQuinbox
@voltagex @twynn @Jage We're always open to considering new payment methods. LibrePay sounds good, although underneath it uses PayPal or Stripe which are two methods we already accept, so I'm not sure there is a benefit there? It is a bit like patreon for donations?
Wise could be an option, we'd need to look further into that.
@voltagex @twynn I think what you have works great, and it looks like if I donate from my personal Github account as opposed to my organization account, it gets there with less or no fees.
@twynn @Jage The only donation avenue that I can find is through paypal on the support page or the download page. Unfortunately, paypal is not that prominant in my country. Are there other ways to donate?
@kaveinthran @Jage As well as GitHub sponsorship as @twynn noted, with PayPal, you can still make a donation without needing to log in to it if you do not have a PayPal account - it asks for credit card details and uses those (if you do have or create a PayPal account, you often have access to more payment types, such as directly from a bank account).
I'm not sure if it's GTS or TW Blue that's causing the issue, but I'm getting mentions from two weeks ago. They're bringing back a very unpleasant thing as well. I wish I could work out which of the two has the bug.
Anyone want to do some maths together in person in London? I’m not an academic anymore and enjoy learning maths for fun. We could do some algebraic geometry. Or some chaos theory. You might be a grad student or another ex mathmo in a job and miss it. I could teach you some class field theory and you can teach me some … ?
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