Sure, I could turn a screw with a kitchen knife, or hammer a nail with a felling axe, but the whole point of tools is that they’re designed to do the thing they do.
@delta@chaos.social desktop Linux client installed from an official arch repo for some reason doesn't work on my Arch Linux with Wayland and Sway installed. After the launching through wmenu nothing happens. When launching through a terminal emulator I got an error:
[28650:1101/162426.452376:ERROR:ui/ozone/platform/x11/ozone_platform_x11.cc:250] Missing X server or $DISPLAY
[28650:1101/162426.452426:ERROR:ui/aura/env.cc:257] The platform failed to initialize. Exiting.
SolutionLaunch Delta Chat client by the following command:
You can also set ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=auto environment variable globally or install Xwayland.
deltachat-desktop package does not do anything special, so it works like all other Electron apps: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayla… If the default should be changed, it should be changed for Electron, not deltachat-desktop specifically.
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I am always seeing news stories about men getting caught not wearing pants (trousers) on webcam or seeing them openly fantasize about not having to wear pants. I have to conclude y’all find them extremely uncomfortable. May I suggest: skirts? Pants were invented to make it easier to ride horses. Most civilizations that didn’t do a lot of horse riding have traditionally garbed men in skirts. You can in fact just wear a skirt. You can call it a kilt if that helps
Estoy muy decepcionado con el servicio de TutaMail ya que no puedo acceder debido al E2EE, eso es bueno pero al menos deberían de tener la opción de eliminar los datos de tu cuenta y permitir cambiar tu contraseña pero al acceder que no haya nada, ni correos ni calendarios.
I lost my phone, which contained my account recovery keys stored in a notes app. Now I can’t sign in because I don’t have the password or recovery codes. When trying to reset the password, the system only asks for those codes, ignoring the authenticator app. There’s also no option to verify through the authenticator and then delete the account data to allow a password reset.
Congratulations Tuta! I must say I now regret having subscribed to your Swiss competitor for a year a few days ago. I truly appreciate your approach and wish I had chosen Tuta instead. Amazing team, amazing job!
We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they need?
This is a sign for how fucking atrophied our mental muscles are. How limited our space for thinking about how things should be.
You want to democratize "going to therapy"? Make it "free" as in paid by socialized healthcare. You want to democratize "making art"? Give people money and free time to express themselves.
None of these things are meaningfully addressed through tech. It's always about the political struggle to give people what they need and deserve.
Are there actually blind people who think vibe-coding a screen reader would be a good idea? The only post I've ever seen on that subject merely posed it as a hypothetical while being quick to note that it wouldn't be a good idea.
And of course, there's a difference between using an LLM to vibe-code a screen reader and engineering a screen reader that makes careful use of an LLM. It's too bad that what you described was clearly not the latter.
I saw a thread the other day amidst the ever growing Enshittification with JAWS and I probably took a joke too litterally, but it was buried in a thread. @matt
Die Wünsche der Menschen spielen hier doch für die Politiker und Institutionen, welche das Narrativ durchdrücken wollen grundlegend keine Rolle. Wenn Staaten mehr KI wollen, dann um noch mehr Macht und Reichtum zu denjenigen zu verlagern, die jetzt schon mächtig und/ oder reich sind.
@chris_ theoretisch ja. Praktisch würden wir vorher gern wissen, woraus die APK erstellt wird – da scheint es im Repo zwei Bäume zu geben. An der Basis fehlt die gradle-wrapper Konfiguration. Die gibt es zwar im androidstudio Verzeichnis, aber dort ist wiederum kein Code. Außerdem finde ich im Repo auch keine Metadaten (Beschreibung, Screenshots etc.).
Wenn die Punkte gelöst sind, schauen wir uns das gern nochmal an.
#OpenAlt2025 was the first conference I took my six-year-old daughter to. She really enjoyed it. She wasn't interested in the talks, but she loved the swag at the booths. She'll grow into them, though. You have to start early to raise a new generation of open-source enthusiasts. 🙂
@bogo My daughter like OpenSSL booth the most because it was the richest in terms of swag. But I can recommend Fedora key chains with a token for shopping carts. These are useful in real life. :)
Z chalupy na horách sleduju živý stream #OpenAlt2025 přes mobilní data a přes #PeerTube. A funguje to parádně. Otevřené technologie a jejich provozovatelé válí 👍👍 #OpenAlt
Something to brighten your weekend maybe. Particularly yesterday I did see a lot of anger about the fact that some people cannot get access to the new JAWS feature, Page Explorer. This provides guidance in terms of how to navigate a page with JAWS, and it can be used to summarise the content and ask questions. I want people to understand that while Page Explorer is very good at what it does, it is not the only game in town.
Anyone who has been trained by me through the use of my AI training courses will have known about this for quite a while. But if you use Microsoft Edge, there is a feature called, Summarise with CoPilot. If you focus upon a piece of static text on a page, not a link, you can activate the Context Menu and select Summarise with CoPilot. Within a few seconds, that will summarise the page for you. You can then ask questions about that content if you wanted to. A question that may be asked is: Describe some good strategies I can use when navigating this page with JAWS for Windows, or whatever your screen-reader of choice is. You type it into the edit field and press Enter. You could submit other prompts such as, describe the images on this page. Describe if the device has any buttons and provide the button layout from left to right.
The primary advantage here is that it is very fast and will display the summary or answers to questions in a few seconds with well-structured heading navigation. Start at the bottom of the page and work up with Shift+H. The disadvantage of course is that it's not going to give you guidance on screen-reader strategies unless you ask it, and the guidance may not be of the quality given by Page Explorer, because that has been coached to do a very specific job. But you may not want guidance anyway. You may want to go straight to the summary. Take the case of a page on Audible. If you activate Summarise with CoPilot on a book title page, it is going to give you the relevant points including a book summary and similar books.
So if you don't have Page Explorer, there are other choices. As I say, it's good at what it does but it's not the only option. You could even ask an AI tool such as ChatGPT to summarise a page for you if the prompt was well constructed, but that approach does have some significant limitations. It would not for example work on all pages.
The Mosen Explosion has moved to a new time slot, and will now be heard every week day at 9 AM and 9 PM US Eastern Time. The Mosen Explosion has been exploding on Internet radio for over a quarter of a century now, and it’s still going strong. I bring you two hours of the best music ever made, plus interesting little tidbits of light news, musical birthdays and today in music history. Plus, see if you can work out the often cryptic brain exploder question. You’re always welcome to call or email with a request or just to say hi. It’s a lot of fun, and now it’s at 9 AM and 9 PM Eastern every week day. Check the Mushroom Fm schedule page to find out when that is in your time zone. mushroomfm.com/schedule. Whether you’re a regular listener after all these years, or you’re giving it a listen for the first time, I look forward to your company on Mushroom Fm. Just ask your voice assistant or smart speaker to play Mushroom FM. You can also find it in all good radio apps.
Flux 1.0.0 is here! Grab your copy at ims-productions.com/flux Thanks to everyone who pre-ordered, sorry for the big wait, as I said earlier Mac OS complicates things, but we're on track now.
Flux
Do you stream a lot of content on your computer but are tired of dealing with clunky and constantly changing web interfaces?
If so, Flux was made for you.
Flux brings your audio and media experie
@Jonathan Another thing, when downloading a show from Audio Vault, it asks you wether you want to extract it, open the folder etc. I just happened to tab out of the Window, and had no ioption to access the dailog again. Like, the dialog won't regain focus when tabbing in and out. All on Windows of course.
@Jonathan Also, in the lib it clearly says a folder is added, though I can't remove it, it just says Invalid Selection dialog Please select a folder (not a subfolder or files list) to remove. But I am focused on a folder...
@Jonathan I added a folder with flac files and the track list stays empy as well. I understand that bugs are normal, but please think about wether you want to chharge 25 dollar for this in the current state. I wouldn't be very happy with it right now. 15 is ok, I still have to test internet radio and podcasts, but yeah.
And also, trying to search YouTube just says no results everytime. Trying to open the player gives me an index error. And he said the Mac app is signed, it's not.
@johann @Jonathan Yup, I want it as well, just thinking wether I just try to open a Paypal dispute or write an E-Mail first which will probably be ignored like my question about yt-dlp.
@johann @Jonathan Oh yeah this is a thing that can also happen in the Podcasts when trying to reopen the player: Playback Error dialog Failed to load episode: Access Ableton Trailer
I mean, totaly tested and absolutely working as expected.
@johann @Jonathan Bro this is wild. No matter what I do, clearing the lib, adding individual files. It stays fucking empty. How the actual shit has this been tested anyhow?
@johann @Jonathan you know I bet it's just going to be ignored at this point. Proove me wrong. Also this statement from a while ago supports my vibe coder theory, but that's just my personal speculation at this point. Selling vibe coded untested garbage, this guy has fallen quite low at this point. And I thought I had a bad reputation. Ivan Soto: @seddy Oh no man, Claude is a must have at this point. If you don't have it, you're just going to fall behind IMO., 11:34 AM, October 24, Mastodon
@jonathan859 @johann @Jonathan 1/2 ooooookay, time to clear a few things up as somebody who has whitnessed the development of this program and who has tested it and seen it work. I'll try to point out where the actual Mistake on Ivan's part is, which is a lot smaller than you might think though as we can see with huge consequences. Literally on Tuesday or Wednesday, I was able to play streams, subscribe to podcasts etc, and other testers reported that the other parts of the program were working fine. There were some things that were broken with MacOS, and he fixed those - this required an upgrade to the bass audio library. The day of release, he intended to perform any final polish, but got caught up in negotiations with the audiovault developer instead - you can see evidence of that sort of thing on the forum, which was highly stressful and significantly broke the final testing round - testing again on windows after trying to fix bugs on MacOS to make sure the Mac fixes didn't break windows. So specifically, from where I stand, Ivan's mistake was a tiny lack of miscommunication where he should have posted "Hey guys I'm sorry some things came up *(links to audiovault posts etc), please forgive the fact that I need an extra 12 hours here." Any programmer knows how just a few lines of broken code can make an entire program defunct. One extra character in a bgt or NVGT script will make the entire program not compile and passing a 0 instead of a 1 to certain functions could make the entire otherwise well written program break! So, and I'm certain this will be learned from on his part, he accidentaly prioritised the detail of the time based preorder release date promise over the big picture promise of making sure the application didn't break. He put so much effort into making sure he didn't cause a timing based disappointment that it instead caused something much worse, a functionality based disappointment. So that was his mistake, and I highly doubt he'll repeat it.
@jonathan859 @johann @Jonathan 2/2 Now on one hand, I can genuinely understand how this caused frustration for any buyers, shattered expectations are absolutely terrible! Ivan is sleeping right now, so as a friend I'm trying to provide the context that he failed to and ask anyone who's willing to listen to just give this dude 24, at most 48 extra hours before you do something as crazy as opening Paypal cases and the like. If he can't fix such bugs in that amount of time, I'd say you are totally justified in your reactions. On the other hand, especially since there are coders in this thread, I must ask. Seriously? Are you treating Ivan how you'd want to be treated if you made a mistake like that? Opening Paypal cases before he even has a chance to respond to a single one of your posts? Really? That's honestly not cool and goes too far, hopefully you don't need to learn what that feels like the hard way when you try releasing a program and inevitably run into a human error like that. What comes around goes around, after all. IMO speak your disappointments, but I'm hopeful that you can show enough grace to not go potentially damaging someone's Paypal reputation like that before even giving him a chance to respond first. Is that honestly what you'd want to happen to you as a dev? Would you want to go to bed feeling satisfied having released a program and wake up to find that people have been so ungraceful at your mistake that they literally opened Paypal disputes instead of waiting at least 24 hours to see if you were simply willing to talk and work it out? I genuinely do get all the frustration, but you lose me at the hasty Paypal cases. Come on, IMO genuinely not cool, and very unforgiving. You do you, but I think you can do better.
@samtupy @jonathan859 @johann @Jonathan I've processed refunds to anybody who opened a case. I'll be fixing a bunch of bugs today, so be on the lookout for that. It's very sad man, your software could be working really really well and one code change can cause lots of issues. Thanks for the 20 bugs though, I have already fixed a few last night but I was tired (staying up 24 hours will do that to ya) you should see version 1.0.1 later today
@samtupy @jonathan859 @johann @Jonathan Totally agreed. As a business owner, PayPal disputes without giving the developer a chance are generally just plane rude and also cost real money and harm. There are legit uses for the dispute process but this seems extreme.
I was literally about to ask about the youtube download issue. I got an error trying to pull a video I can copy what NVDA says if necessary but I'll see if it works itself out for the time being :)
@MariahL We use youtube DL so some videos may throw errors. I've noticed that age restricted content doesn't play nice because it requires you to sign into YouTube to verify age or something
So if anyone is interested, I just announced the categories for the 2026 Polymath Training Challenge :)
It's a nonfiction reading challenge that has been running for 11 years. This year, long-time participants have submitted topics, and the final list was decided by random draw.
Delta Chat
in reply to Вулкан • • •You can also set ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=auto environment variable globally or install Xwayland.
deltachat-desktop package does not do anything special, so it works like all other Electron apps:
wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayla…
If the default should be changed, it should be changed for Electron, not deltachat-desktop specifically.
Wayland - ArchWiki
wiki.archlinux.orgPeter Vágner
in reply to Delta Chat • •I'm running @GNOME on @Arch Linux