I have a big interrogation about @xmpp
I've seen recommended multiple times the OTR encryption protocol, it looks better than simple OpenPGP.
But I see it rarely implemented and on the wiki it says not toeimplement it but with no reason and I cannot find why.
wiki.xmpp.org/web/XMPP_E2E_Sec…
So, what happened to OTR ? And why shouldn't we use it ?

I had an epiphany yesterday.

I spend so much time trying to escape from this terrible world we live in right now.

I reminded myself that all the "escapes" are the product of the same world, the same 14 billion years of history and evolution. The same species that's causing a mass extinction event due to greed; that's ruled by wealthy, white nationalist, performative Christofascists; that's perpetrated countless genocides also created every work of art; every poem, play, and novel; every movie; every video game; every medical miracle and scientific advance. We've put people on the moon and landed ships on other planets. We know the speed of light and what black holes look like.

I have to remember that being under a hateful regime doesn't necessarily mean that everyone is hateful. It's not one or the other, it's not all our nothing.

There are kind, thoughtful people out there right now who are thinking up the next thing that will bring us together and give us peace. There are people who would love and accept you. There are writers, artists, musicians, coders, scientists, etc doing good work. Yes, there are terrible, short-sighted, people who think little of others, but they are not all people even if they are often the loudest.

I have to remember that what I see, what those in power want me to see, are the things that support their narrative. It's why they want genAI so badly: it lets them churn out propaganda at an unholy rate. But it is propaganda, not reality.

If you live in the United States (or the UK) and are non-white, non-male, non-hetero, non-cis, non-neuerotypical, non-ablebodied, or non-"Christian", the government wants you and everyone else to believe you are less than human.

You are not.

I am not.

The government is lying. They are wrong. I can't fix it. You probably can't fix it. We can at least find each other and support each other, remind us that we are not alone and that we matter.

You matter.

El Español:
«El IVA de la vivienda con Feijóo será del 4% para "jóvenes de hasta 40 años" y se pagará en los mismos plazos que la hipoteca»

Joder! Parece una buena iniciativa!

O no? Veamos.

El 78% de los jóvenes que acceden a la compra de una vivienda, compran vivienda usada, no nueva, y esas compras están exentas de IVA.

Del 22% restante, los más desfavorecidos, los que compran vivienda de protección oficial, ya pagan solo el 4%. Tampoco les beneficia esto en nada.

Entonces, a quién beneficia? El comprador joven de vivienda nueva tiene un perfil socioeconómico alto o medio-alto, con estudios universitarios, núcleo familiar con dos trabajos estables y dos sueldos superiores a 2.500€ netos cada uno, es decir, un total de más de 5000€ netos mensuales.

En resumen, reducen impuestos al 20% de la población más rica y dejan que se joda el 80% de la población más pobre.

Es el PP amigo!

A good #Caturday to the #CatsOfMastodon, and the #FediCats , and all y'all who celebrate!

We need to rehome some of our kitties because my partner and I are both experiencing health challenges that are both costly and impacting our ability to adequately care for all our kitties.

I have no idea how to go about this. We have ten cats right now. In no particular order (and little alt-text, as I'll describe in the posts—I can't add more than four pics). We're in the Houston metro area, kinda near where 290 comes off 610. My partner used to know folks who did this, but not currently.

The front cats. There's a door between the kitchen and other public areas and the rest of the house. It stays closed.

Spike: He's in his late teens. He's incredibly shy and distrustful of strangers. He's a white and gray tabby, but with a white area on his back (not visable). He stays

Kitsune: I call her Kiki. She's a 13-
yo calico who will accept attention from anyone, so long as you don't try to pick her up. She stays.

Freya: She likes to sleep on a cat bed in the front window. Entirely white except for tiny black dot on her nose. She used to bully Squirrel, and would be okay as an only cat or as an addition to a household, as she was an addition.I believe she was born in 2019, and littered young. Her kittens went to forever homes before I moved in. She's waving friends with both Spike and Star—they greet each other by batting at each other for a bit. She's available by herself.

The Interns: These three were born in January, 2020, in a cat enclosure on my stepdaughter's porch. There was a fourth who didn't make it. Their mother wa TNR, and, due to quarantine they ended up staying.

Star: She was named because she's entirely black with small groups of white hairs that resemble a starfield. She is super friendly with people. She has recurring ear issues. When she's dealing with that she over-grooms, and we support her with special gooshy. She would be available with Squirrel as a pair.

Squirrel: She's a chonky bullseye brown tabby with a bobbed tail that her mother must have bitten off by accident. She is afraid of everything and everyone, though she will sometimes join Kitsune and Weasel in my lap. She is available with any of Star, Weasel, or Squeaker, or with Star and Weasel as a trio.

Weasel: She used to climb into the dishwasher and lick at the dishes when I was loading it. She's the mackerel brown tabby in the picture with Kitsune, Star, and Spike. She will use her paw to move her treats bowl away from interlopers. She has a unique raw element to her meows, and prefers being near my feet when I'm in the recliner. She's available with Squirrel or as a trio including Star.

The Backsters:

Noodle: She's a tortoimese. The photo where her eye looks like a laser captures her personality best. She was rescued at fourish months, and hid in a ramen noodle box. I am her human, and she is finally accepting attention from my partner (we moved in in February, 2020). She didn't meow or play until I adopted Fur Elise. She stays.

Fur Elise: She likes laundry and little catnip mice. If you throw one of her meeses, she'll chase it and pounce on it. She's large, and a very dark gray tabby. She stays for Noodle.

Squeaker: He's an ambassador, and would be happy with the frontsters or the backsters. We had to restrict him to the back because he needs Hill's prescription c/d urinary diet. As an accommodation, we cut the Hill's kibble with the non-prescription ProPlan urinary support kibble, and free-feed all the backsters. He's not a gooshy eater, which may be why he developed the crystals. He squeaks instead of meowing (although he yowls when he's in the carrier on the way to/from the vet). our youngest, and was born iv the summer of 2022. He's available with Squirrel or Ma Ma Ma, or by himself if he's moving in with other cats. He absolutely gets along with every cat here.

Ma Ma Ma; Her meow sounds more like she's saying, "Mah! Mah! Mah!' She's very pretty, and the pic I have is her on the top of a bookshelf, with my unshaded warm LED lamp shining up at her. Noodle and Ma Ma Ma are frenemies; if I'm petting one, the other will casually wander up and interpose herself. She is available with Squeaker or alone.

#OpenAI wehrt sich gegen Herausgabe von 20 Millionen »anonymisierten« ChatGPT-Logs…Das Unternehmen argumentiert, dass 99,99 Prozent der Chats nichts mit dem eigentlichen Fall zu tun hätten und eine Weitergabe die Privatsphäre der Nutzer gefährden würde. …und ich dachte immer, der Kackladen speichert keine personenbezogenen Daten. 🤡🤡🤡 #chatgpt #KI #AI

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Async from scratch 1: What's in a Future, anyway?

natkr.com/2025-04-10-async-fro…

#rust #rustlang

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Two of my favourite languages have something you could call ghost consonants.

In Italian and Brabantian, consonants that were lost long ago still have an effect in the modern language.

Learn all about these fascinating ghost consonants in my new short video:

youtu.be/w-LDMJweRis

Politique française

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Started a discussion about adding a timer notification to libcurl. If you use the "multi" interface, maybe you have an opinion?

#curl
github.com/curl/curl/
discussions/19553

#curl

I'm proud to release the first early version of the high-level audio engine I've been working on for the past months!
GraphAudio.Kit is a high level 3d audio game engine for your dotnet, using SteamAudio for great hrtf! Very understandable and hackable. It's built on top of GraphAudio, which is a set of libraries I made that let you create your own audio engines by giving you a graph-based audio framework, webaudio for your dotnet basically! Please take a look, and tell your friends.

nuget.org/packages/GraphAudio.…

#game-audio #gamedev

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Industriestrompreis, aber keine Entlastung für private Haushalte.
Billiger Fliegen und Verbrenner forever.
Lieferkettengesetz mit Faschos zerbröseln.

Zeit sich zu fokussieren.
Zum Beispiel darauf, dass Pkw-Verkehr Kommunen das Dreifache des ÖPNV kostet.

katja-diehl.de/warum-lassen-wi…

Des gens sur Mastodon à #strasbourg qui fument et vont acheter leurs cigarettes à #Khel ? Je ferais tout pour ravoir des Winston Black mais ils ne les font que en Allemagne, vraiment je vous donne l'argent pour les paquets le port et un supplément pour le dédommagement je suis sérieuse.... #alsace #allemagne #Cigarettes #strasbourgville #Strasbourgeois #strasbourgeoises #aide #boostswelcome #France #MastodonFrance

Well it would appear that I’m going to be embarking on a crash course in learning the ins and outs of #NVDA in a big hurry. #JAWS is initiating some hocus pocus that I’m not the least bit happy with. They are going to start requiring all of us who use JAWS to create accounts and sign in. JAWS is not Microsoft 365. It’s a screenreader, not a suite of programs. What would be the purpose of requiring this? I’m just not comfortable with this, so it looks like I’m going to stop using the screenreader I’ve been using for 20 plus years. I’m told that #NVDA is as robust as JAWS, I most certainly hope so. I’m disappointed that there aren’t more options out there. For not the first time over the years, I’m finding myself missing good old WindowEyes. #A11Y
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@SyHoekstra
@MikeGorse
@Bruce
Hi everyone! Firstly, for those new to NVDA, Welcome! And you might find this page on Switching from Jaws to NVDA useful: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/wiki/… - if you hit anything not covered there, please ask.

We also have our user guide and quick start guide here: download.nvaccess.org/document…

And if you'd like to go more in-depth, we have (paid) training material here: nvaccess.org/shop

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@SyHoekstra @MikeGorse @Bruce

Re account, no we don't have any intention of going in that direction. NVDA is completely offline at least in that regard (you need to be online to access the add-on store or use NVDA Remote, but for most features it doesn't need internet access) - any "online" content you read in your web browser etc with NVDA is the content that browser or other program has already downloaded to process and display.

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:boost_appreciated: Looking for recommendations for vegan condoms

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I'm writing something (I'll post it once it's finished) and just realized that I used the word "present" twice in the same sentence, and the word has multiple meanings, some of which are distinguishable when spoken aloud, depending on which syllable is accented. And I wasn't even trying to make a pun or anything like that, but I think I'll keep the sentence as-is; I'm not sure how I'd re-word it anyhow. English is weird.

Znáte nějakého YouTubera z #YouTube, kterej to nedělá jen pro prachy?

Dostaňte ho k nám na #VHSky a dostanete doživotní #PeerTube premium zdarma! 😀

Co nám ještě chybí?
- #cvičení doma i venku
- #gaming a recenze
- #hudba a klipy
- #věda a technika, "vysvětluje věci"
- více #vaření
- více #DIY
- a vlastně všechno další! 😁

Šiřte, mluvte, zmiňujte. Potřebujem vás

Druhá varianta je "tvořte!" .. budeme rádi 😀

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příjmy z YT jsou dost overrated. Podle mě si na smysluplné peníze sáhne <1% autorů. Petr Šimáček mi říkal, že má sice tisíce zhlédnutí, ale reálně jsou z toho desítky korun měsíčně. Takový Gardiner Bryant má na YT 130 tisíc sledujících a má z toho 200 dolarů měsíčně. Začal publikovat i na PeerTube, vyzval lidi, jestli by mu nepomohli nahradit příjem z reklam na YT, a už je na 180 dolarech a to při pouhých 1600 sledujících. YT je vlastně dost mizerná platforma z pohledu poměru příjmů/diváci.
Takže peníze bych ani neřešil. Oni spíš řeší počet diváků a jestli se otravovat s novou platformou, která jim přinese třeba 10 % diváků, co YouTube. Škoda, že nefunguje spolehlivě to automatické zrcadlení z YT, to by byl pro ně dobrý argument. Pak by mohli být na PeerTube, aniž by s tím měli práci navíc.
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Vhsky.cz jsou česká instance, zajímá nás primárně český obsah, i když tam máme i zajímavý obsah v angličtině federovaný z jiných instancí.
Nicméně nebavím se o českém webu, bavím se o Youtube obecně. Jinde mají úplně stejný problém: 99 % tvůrců dostává od Googlu za obsah na Youtube úplný pakatel, takže těch, kteří můžou zvážit i jinou platformu, protože to na ně nemá žádný finanční dopad, je pořád hodně.
Jak jsem psal, problém podle mě nejsou prachy, ale určitý mentální blok z toho jednoduchého monopolního světa, kdy se videa prostě dávají jen na YT, vystoupit.
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S tímto souvisí i to, že videa na Peertube nejsou vůbec indexovaná vyhledávači. Moje přednášky z OpenAltu nahrané na YT jsou pěkně dohledatelné. Google ve výsledcích videa nezobrazuje nic mimo YT. A i DDG/Bing tam mají z 95 % jen YT. Tohle hodně smrdí zneužíváním dominantního postavení na trhu.
@mcepl
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tohle bych očekával, že bude spíš jejich index. Obecně se snaží brát i nemainstreamove zdroje (mají i kategorii small web).

Jednak mají vlastní index, jednak berou data ze všech hlavních vyhledávačů a pak i z různých okrajových zdrojů a výsledek je pak kompilace tohohle všeho.

help.kagi.com/kagi/search-deta…

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poměr sledujících je i u toho Gardinera pořád skoro 100:1. Zajímavé na tom bylo to, že i ta setina sledujících dokázala na příspěvcích už prakticky vyrovnat příjem, který má od Googlu.
Pro samotný příjem podle dosahu by to nemusel být problém. Ti lidi budou samozřejmě dál publikovat na YT, PT by pro ně byl navíc. Nevím ale, jak ty kontrakty v praxi fungují. Jestli třeba platí za počet zhlédnutí videa, kde byla jejich reklama, tak čísla z YT můžou brát jako věrohodná, zatímco ta z neznámé PT instance ne.
Ale to hodně přebíháme. Podle mě nemá aktuálně smysl cílit na lidi, kteří z toho mají nějaký zajímavý příjem. Na YT jsou tisíce autorů, kteří z toho nemají nic a dělají videa, protože se chtějí o něco podělit. Pokud jejich témata mají cílovku ve Fediverse jako u toho Gardinera, může to mít pro ně smysl.

Moin Mastodon,
Ich bin #neuhier , #Psychologe notorisch neugierig, begeistert von #wissenschaft und schreibe in diesem Bereich auch einen Blog. Davon abgesehen bin ich, einfach nur eine Person mit Gedanken und Meinungen im Internet, die keine Ahnung hat, wie man einen guten ersten Post verfasst und daher unbeholfen in die weiten des Internets trötet.
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Yup...
"Why Moving Away from SPAs improves Usability, Accessibility, and SEO"
innoweb.com.au/blog/why-moving…
#a11y #usability #seo #webdev #webdevelopment

I'm really looking forward to the new versions of #audacity.

If you haven't seen it yet, this is what the audacity team is working on:

youtube.com/watch?v=QYM3TWf_G3…

#audacity4 #audacity5 #foss

If AI/LLMs are cut off from stolen human labour, their outputs turn to meaningless gibberish due to model collapse.

If AI/LLM owners are forced to pay for human labour instead of stealing it, they go bankrupt.

If AI/LLM data centres are forced to stay within energy consumption levels compatible with fighting climate change, they have to close down the overwhelming majority of their capacity.

AI/LLMs are just not sustainable, they can only function through labour theft and burning the planet. They're not so much new technology as a new type of ponzi scheme.