Tonight join @Liz, for Full Circle from 7 P.M. eastern (US time). Their will be a showcase, and in the third hour will be the next episode of Chickenman. So tune in tonight, and see who is hiding in the showcase. HKCRadio.com
The only thing that Ring (and their deal with local law enforcement to share videos) accomplishes is riling up the racist lookie loos in a neighborhood. theverge.com/tech/804052/ring-…
Das Gebäude wurde inzwischen doch abgerissen. Aber nebenan im #Bahnhof sind aus der #Grenzübergangsstelle originale Ausstattungsgegenstände und eine #Doku der ehemaligen #Grenzkontrollen eingerichtet. Sehenswert! #DDR
OK. Takže po migraci dat z NB s W10 na NB s W11 mě česká instalace linuxu místo těch W10.
Jenže kterou distribuci? Chci něco s Plasmou 6 a delší podporou ať nemusím řešit upgrade každý půlrok. Takže tentokrát ne Kubuntu - LTS má Plasmu 5 a 25.10. je až moc experimentální.
Takže po krátkém hledání jsem stáhnul #openSUSE Leap 16.
Bude fungovat? Splní očekávání? Zjistíme v následujících dnech 😎
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@alexhall Oo, I know. They're gathering telemetry about who's using them, then when they figure out that 0.00000000001% of users have one, they drop support in 2027.
@jackf723 @alexhall I wonder if this might finally mean they finally start expanding the home annual license beyond the US. Supposedly the reason they gave at least to the UK reseller before was the infrastructure they have for it in place is all hosted in the US and is not GPDR compliant. And it sounds like this might be? In general though it just feels like they are pulling a Microsoft to gather more telemetry and maybe combat piracy. Gotta find money to cover those AI bills somehow I guess.
*ALL* tech should default to this mode! I should not have to go out to the internet and back to control local settings on something. Some automatic cloud processing is one thing, as their autopilot mode might do, but controlling settings with the app over the local network or bluetooth should just, be the default? Is it because bluetooth is such a pain in the ass to keep working? Would it actually be inconvenient for users that way? Or is it purely for harvesting? Eight Sleep adds ‘outage mode’ to smart beds after AWS problems left them frozen theverge.com/news/804289/eight…
Eight Sleep devices were bricked by Amazon’s server issues on Monday, with users reporting smart bedsstuck at high temperatures and inclined positions.
To most people, a router is just "that thing that turns cable internet into wirelesss internet." According to them, the internet in my router is exactly the same as the internet in your router (maybe faster or slower). If they have a some kind of cursed WiFi setup to get reception in a different room that's actually two networks inside one another, they expect all smart tech to still keep working.
Anyway, none of this would have been a problem with IPV6, working UPNP and less security paranoya.
Also you have WiFi assist, which sometimes switches you over to LTE when that's convenient. To most people, that's just "internet", it should work just like that "other internet" does.
Bluetooth sucks at "family sharing" and multi-point. You can do it, but it's a completely different skillset than `await fetch(...)`. Then there's BLE, which has its own share of problems.
@miki Why does it have to be so bloody hard to just, make a thing talk to a thing over a short-range wireless radio link? Is NFC even designed for this?
@miki Figured. You'd have to, like, configure it to taste and then go touch it with your phone to apply. Which isn't particularly convenient either, and forget real-time status.
@miki Taildrop seems to be the closest to universal, and it does end up being p2p because Wireguard. And ironically, Android seems to be the most problematic towards it because file permissions.
@jackf723 It's P2P as long as it can punch through, but it still relies on centralized servers for coordinating the punching-through part, and as a fallback for when P2P and/or UDP (which is the only protocol you can realistically use over P2P in most network conditions) is unavailable.
Here we cover how we can get through NATs (Network Address Translators) and connect your devices directly to each other, no matter what’s standing between them.
@jackf723 @miki Huh? We're talking about controlling smart devices without going through cloud infra so AWS going down doesn't brick your smart appliance, not file sharing. Although I think I did hear something about the EU wanting to have an interoperable standard, a la air drop, between all the phones, and hopefully computers can get it too at some point...
@miki That was more proof of concept, I.E. if Taildrop can make things work p2p, irrespective of platform/physical network constraints, then a p2p home-control setup could in theory be achieved.
@jackf723 @miki Still needs a coordination server, though. I also still need to figure out whether it's capable of completely avoiding relaying when I'm talking to devices that are actually on my LAN, can it just, resolve the LAN IP address and beam directly at it, or go through the router? I never saw an article on that one. I'm behind a Spectrum NAT.
@jackf723 Yes, do `tailscale ping node_name`, that'll tell you what you're going through.
That's one of the things ICE (no, not that ICE) is good at. It tries using all the IP addresses a node has, both local and global, until it finds one that works or falls back to relaying.
@miki @jackf723 Well the first time it came back via a 2603:... IPv6 address, but then it appears to have found the internal one, 192.168.1.x. The IPv6 ping was 70 ms, then the internal one was 6, but then it was 30ms and 1.2 seconds? These ping times are nuts. Same address though so it seems after a few packets through it figured out the best route and is now sticking with it. For reference, I pinged my phone.
@miki @jackf723 Now I don't know whether that's going out to the router and back or whether the computer knows the phone is nearby and just sends the wi-fi packet straight-up, but I doubt anything but a wireless radio connected to some kind of interception software could tell me that.
@jackf723 That's not how WiFi works, it always goes through the router. Security / possible firewalls / client isolation are one reason, range is another, no need to establish WPA sessions between devices is yet another.
There's no IP routing though I think, it's all on L2 and ARP / MAC address based I believe.
@miki @jackf723 Oh, huh. I thought it could somehow use something at the network layer mapped to IP addresses to talk to a device directly, is that ethernet rings only? I guess that's why wi-fi direct exists, and is now dead.
@jackf723 Even on ethernet you can't do that any more with the latest specs I think. You could do it on 10mB/s and 100mb/s, I think that's where that idea stopped. Nobody does it like that any more, people haven't been since the early 90s.
@jackf723 Ask your favorite LLM about the difference between an access point, a hub, a switch and a router. Those are pretty basic network concepts, a modern large model should have no problems there.
You can also find overviews of course, if you're willing to wade through the blogspam and/or have access to Cisco content.
To be entirely fair, this could be done very very well with some collaboration from smartphone vendors. I have a protocol design in mind that would work if it had buy-in, but that's not something one can just go and implement.
Sweet dang. re: Omarchy & Framework - “Out of all the Linux distributions out there, this barely configured stack of poorly written Bash scripts on top of Arch is clearly the best choice for us to support!”
I'm just genuinely trying to have fun the last little bit I'm here :) I'm volunteering to do tours, volunteering to help people or do things that people are asking for volunteers to do, trying to be more social and relaxed and fun. I have my final meal on Friday and honestly, I'm not stressed about it. It's gonna be fun. I'm excited about it and excited to see what my travel assignment for next week will be.
Isn't it somewhat traditional for them to drop you off in the middle of nowhere, some random location, and you get to figure out where you are and get back to a designated point?
@BorrisInABox Yes, however since their travel instructor has been really super sick for a great chunk of the past year, and I'm already a good traveler and he knows it, it's possibly going to be a bit different for me, we'll see.
The "alternative" they'd give you is some shit like coinbase which only supports some ethereum shitcoins which take $50 fee on an $30 transfer if you don't use a custodial wallet that needs your blood type and anus printout.
@mint back when etherum GPU mining was good I had a debit card linked directly to coinbase. I could buy some ETH on a Monday, spend it freely on snacks, and still come out ahead by Friday. Those were the days.
Hi, if anyone knows about 3d printers and accessibility, can you help out my partner? If you have Ramblio and can respond on there that'd be awesome, but if not, please let me know and I can pass it on. ramblio.com/ramble/pfMqaFK68wC…
Nuclear and Hydro Linked to Lower Electricity Prices. Wind and Solar are Not.
I often hear the phrase “Wind and solar lower electricity prices", but is that really true? I decided to plot the data.
Looking at the average spot market price (no taxes or tariffs) across 30 European countries in 2024, wind and solar seem to have no effect on electricity prices. The weighted regression actually shows a slightly positive slope, meaning prices go up as the share of wind and solar increase, but it is far from statistically significant (R2 = 0.03, p = 0.4).
In short: wind and solar explain nothing about a country’s electricity price.
On the other hand, when looking at clean firm power sources like hydro and nuclear, the explanatory power becomes much stronger.
Using a Weighted Least Squares (WLS) regression across 30 European countries, weighted by total electricity production, there is a clear and statistically significant relationship (R2 = 0.4, p < 0.001). Countries with more hydro and nuclear tend to have lower electricity prices. Of course, this does not explain all the variation, since plenty of other factors matter too.
But it sends a clear signal: hydro and nuclear are linked to cheaper electricity, while wind and solar are not having any measurable effect in either direction.
[Original text by Johan Christian Sollid, as posted on X]
Markdown support is coming to #LibreOffice! And a new dialog to edit table styles, Python and BASIC code auto-completion, Rust UNO language bindings, and more - all thanks to participants in the Google Summer of Code: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
This year, LibreOffice was once again a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global program focused on bringing more developers into free and open source software development. Seven projects were finished successfully.
Will that include support for typing in markdown? I keep trying to add bullet lists and headings with markdown syntax 🤦♂️ I am too used to the plain text world to use a proper document editor
@gunstick Glad you like it! As it says in the blog post, the initial support is for importing Markdown files. It will be in LibreOffice 26.2, due in February next year.
Some languages (American English): "Okay so we're just going to keep the legacy spelling and everyone will be tortured in school to learning how to spell it when we don't pronounce it that way any longer."
Other languages: We're just going to update the spelling, really, there's no sense in keeping the legacy spelling around when no one pronounces anything that way any longer.
If there is a parked car on the pavement I will literally walk over it if I can get up the bumper and onto the bonnet or boot, rather than go around it. If I leave a footprint or a dent, even better. It's a footpath, dickheads, park your car properly and not in my right of way.
Here's an idea for a side project for someone who's looking for ideas of stuff to do whenever they have nothing better to do. An accessible GUI which accesses the ElevenLabs API. In my ideal scenario, you put your API key in, then it stores that. Then you can paste text into an edit box, have a combo box or similar to select your voice, other controls to select any other available settings, then a button to generate the speech.
I think there's a STAR provider for interfacing with the eleven labs API? Unsure who's API key it uses though or if it lets you specify your own. Also balabolka can do this via it's online TTS dialog. github.com/samtupy/star
"Sure, you can build my software on Windows. Just use Autotools and sh scripts..." Yeah? Why don't you try teaching a dog to speak English. Then you'll know what it's like getting Windows to run Linux gear.
When we moved into our new house, I got a new recliner. I explicitly wanted one that was fully manual, but had a hell of a hard time finding new recliners that weren't "power" recliners. I'd like it if my recliner, for example, still works if the power goes out.
I sure as hell did not want a recliner that had any kind of "smart" functionality or that needs to be hooked up to a network. There may be a good reason for such things when it comes to assistive technologies, I don't know. If so, I'm glad that folks who need such things can get them--but I really, really do not want *my furniture* to have any dependencies on "the cloud" thankyouverymuch.
🚀 Stalwart now speaks all of JMAP: Mail, Calendars, Contacts, Files & Sharing. The first server to do it. A new era of open collaboration begins! Full story at stalw.art/blog/jmap-collaborat…
After four years of development, we’re thrilled to announce a major milestone in the evolution of Stalwart — the full implementation of JMAP for Calendars, Contacts, Address Books, File Storage, and Sharing.
Pojďme poslat Danu do Ruska! Nadační fond pro Ukrajinu uspořádal novou sbírku, která na počest Dany Drábové zaplatí novou střelu Flamingo a pojmenuje ji DANA 1.
Poslal jsem litr, pokud můžete, přispějte též. (Mají i fancy merch s motivem sbírky.)
Ukrajina vyvinula vlastní raketu s doletem až do Mosky (3000 kilometrů) a my jsme se zeptali jestli si ji můžeme koupit a pojmenovat jí po Daně Drábové. A oni řekli, že ano.
I agree with the article in general. But unfortunately, accessibility _is_ also complicated. I think denying that doesn't do us any good; it's better to acknowledge that it's complicated and talk about how we can either simplify it or convince more people that it's worth the complexity.
Navigating the Tube in London, after you've been to Singapore or Hong Hong, feels like traveling back in time. You half expected the trains to be pulled by steam locomotives.
The Elisabeth Line is cool though. Do more of that, London!
It probably won't matter much. The current app store requirements in the EU are:
- you have to get a letter of credit that you're good for 1.2 million Euros - you have to have been a developer for 2 years with like over 1 million downloads in the last calendar year - the apps must still obey all the normal app store guidelines
How about Igalia (igalia.com/about/values)? They're an open-source consultancy, and their structure looks a lot like a coop to me. I've often thought that working on desktop Linux accessibility as part of Igalia would be a dream job for me.
It’s amazing to see actor Michael Rapaport go full Mel Gibson over the past few months as he completely loses his shit over Zohran Mamdani’s totally sensible policy proposals.
Key findings: 45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue. 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions. 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information. Gemini performed worst with significant issues in 76% of responses, more than double the other assistants, largely due to its poor sourcing performance.
More than a few people have been snarky in my presence about LWN's, shall we say, vintage style.
However; I don't really see the value in change for change's sake *and* our design is user-friendly and works well for a wide range of browsers (not just Chrome).
I'm moved to mention this after trying, and failing, to read an article on a site that sure is modern... and unreadable.
Just... give me text and the occasional image when necessary, please? Sigh.
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