Europäische PayPal-Alternative: Bezahldienst Wero für Online-Einkäufe gestartet

Sparkassen, Volksbanken und etliche Händler sind schon dabei: Wero als europäische Antwort auf Dienste wie Paypal startet für Online-Shopping.

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#Bezahldienst #eCommerce #IT #Paypal #Wirtschaft #news

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Hello from the Activator!


Over the next couple of days, this Braille display will move into my home. For almost thirty years, I've come back to Help Tech displays time and again, despite trying out other display vendors' products in the interim as well. But because of their quality and endurance, I keep returning to these displays, and am proud to add the Activator to the list of Braille displays I own, or owned.helptech.eu/braille-displays-a…

in reply to Jonathan Mosen

@JonathanMosen It definitely is. I was privileged to lay my hands on a proto type when it was still in development. I'm a friend of the Help Tech company, and supported them during the 2022 SightCity virtual conference. And I saw it at an exhibition or two recently, and now have my own Activator here. It must be the most beautiful display they've built so far. Although I was a huge fan of the BookWorm back in the late 90s, too. I know that 8 Braille cells are too few for many, but this little Braille reading device saved me and my sanity on hundreds of commutes to my computer science school back in the day. Remember, this was before even the Nokia smartphone era.

RE: norden.social/@marcozehe/11553…

Hallo vom Activator!


In den nächsten Tagen wird bei mir diese Braillezeile einziehen. Heute habe ich beim Tag der Offenen Tür von Helptech Hamburg ausführlich damit gespielt, sozusagen als Appetitanreger. Ich freue mich, auch von der neuesten Generation der Zeilen von Help Tech eine zu besitzen. Bin seit fast 30 Jahren zufriedener Kunde und kehre, trotz gelegentlicher Ausflüge zu anderen Herstellern, immer wieder zu Help Tech zurück. helptech.de/braillezeilen/acti…

🆕 blog! “OpenBenches 💖 OpenStreetMap”

When Liz and I created the OpenBenches website, it was just designed to be a fun way for people to record memorial benches. Since then things have got out of hand and we now have over thirty-nine thousand benches recorded!

Our plan was never to compete with something like OpenStreetMap. The OSM project is vast, complex, and…

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/openb…

#OpenBenches #OpenStreetMap

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/openbenches-%f0%9f%92%96-openstreetmap/

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They arrived. the new multiline displays. Cadence tablets. Really interesting, and I love the cells are made of metal. Refresh is somewhat loud. Only 4 keys on top surface of device. I think they could use the outer thumb keys as dots 3 and6 though, if they really wanted to. As long as it is pressed together with another key, then quick double-press to enter just dot3 or dot6 alone. Trust me it is a viable way to type on one single unit.
But the units are meant to fit together. Each has an opposing ril, that docks in. There are rails on the top and side of the device, so they fit together and slide-click into place. Fascinating. Thus, each display is mirror-flipped from the other, but you have flexibility in how to orient it: Side-by-side (as one long 24-cell-by-4 line) or up-down (as an 8-line by 12-cell display.)
Either way you do it, it's going to have a seam and small gap where the two come together. Some might find this a bit annoying when reading content as it won't perfectly flow together, the middle of the line will always have a noticeable gap as words get placed on the next display, or a larger gap between two lines if you choose the top-orientation for docking them. Interesting indeed.

Apparently an American using metric in his video when making things is "dumbing it down for people who can't deal with conversions".

Dumbing it down is what we do in Canada where the official units are SI (metric) but we have so much courage that we import everything from the US without forcing them to use metric (look at the building / hardware stores).

And as a European I had to learn these non metric units. At least for length. I still ignore ounces.

@delta took 2 ppl trying to convince me (i was a huge skeptic of the concept "email but for chat") but yall got me

infinitely less annoying then matrix and more featureful then signal

the tetris applet convinced me 👍

good app, will continue using where possible 👍

(and i recommend everyone else tries it too)

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@delta

Hi, can you help:
It seems that #deltachat notification system goes to "sleep" from time to time in android (Google Pixel 6a) so that I don't receive push notifications until I open the app. I haven't yet figured out the mechanism in this problem. I have set notification priority to max. It seems that I need to activate Background Connection from notification settings for things to work. But it shouldn't be necessary nowadays since Google push notifications should do the trick..?

in reply to feld

LMS seems to have the best potential as a SubSonic-compatible server. Simple, fast, seems to work. The web player is missing gapless playback and the replaygain support it has doesn't do EBU R128, but this could potentially be done in a SubSonic compatible client.

However, my first attempt at logging in with my first test app, SubStreamer on iOS, indicates its API isn't fully compatible and it errors... :rolleyes:

edit: it's also not filling in album/artist artwork... grrrr

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@rude I don't see an option for this, only whether or not Musicbrainz and/or AudioDB are enabled. Nothing seems to indicate there's an option to exclusively use local metadata; it just seems to ignore some of the local metadata completely for some reason.

I twiddled some more settings, try to force refresh on some albums/artists, nothing happens.

I'm aware that Musicbrainz has been suffering under heavy load lately and API calls time out so I'll be patient but this is just not looking very good 🫠

@rude

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@pluralistic

9 min

Rossmann is doing the work of God.

The recent data center outage surfaced the shocking reality of one adjustable bed manufacturer collecting 60 gigabytes of data per month per bed. Pretty insane data collection for a bed(!?)

Nest collects a mere 50 Mb, it’s still spyware. Rossmann goes on to inform us even though the device services have been discontinued, the device still uploads 50 MB of data a day to google.

youtu.be/jC5wcJM8iuU

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in reply to Václav Vančura

@vancura co přesně tě zajímá? Dovezl jsem to včera večer a zatím jsem se věnoval především instalaci systému a přesunu aplikací a dat, takže jsem to z pohledu provozních vlastností zatím moc nezkoumal. S monitorem si rozumí, FreeSync jede, výkon to má taky odpovídající (i když od toho nečekám zázraky, je to přece jenom midrange). Na straně softwaru jsem zatím nenarazil na žádný problém, ale můžu hodnotit jen zkušenost na Linuxu, Windows šly hned pryč.
in reply to Sean Casten

> But even with all their skills, they can only see the so-called "on-chain" trades.

If it's not on-chain, this is even easier to investigate. Go get their private databases they use for their order books.

but also I wish our elected representatives cared even a fraction as much about the criminal activity happening on the stock market which is the same thing happening here, but significantly bigger. Nobody cares about dark pools, how they're front running retail trades stealing from regular Americans, ladder attacks to manipulate prices... all of Citadel... trillions of fraud over decades swept under the rug