When it comes to @Delta Chat (39c3) do you know it features 1 to 1 audio / video calls since v2.22? It has a very lightweight client side app built with web technologies and a minimalist server side component turn server called chatmail-turn.
I am wondering, am I alone running that turnserver behind a nat?
This turn server enumerates all the interfaces found on the system, identifies globally addressable addresses and creates an UDP listen socket on the default port. Relay connections for this scenar...
Dear #QT toolkit, recently I'm again looking into your #screenreader #a11y into #QML in particular. I'm trying to make one of my favorite apps @Mixxx DJ Software a bit more accessible. Last night I have managed to turn the menu with items such as 4 decks, Library, Effects and more into aria toolbar pattern in terms of keyboard navigation. It only consumes single tab stop when navigating through it and other buttons can be reached using the arrow keys. Of course there is much more to do and I've started a forum topic documenting my attempts.
Good luck. Initially I thought to post it with sarcasm, but now I'm absolutely serious. Good luck, if you manage to do something to QT accessibility which is dreadful, to be honest.
@André Polykanine On linux it's pretty decent after tweaking keyboard navigation as without accessibility specific tweaks even some of the #QML examples are not keyboard navigatable.
I am not yet sure I'm capable enough to make it into at least beta quality, however I'm trying to learn it.
One long-time Apple customer was left with no recourse after a bad gift card triggered a full account and device lock-out.
Paris Buttfield-Addison with an absolute horror story:
A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple Developer ID, and everything associated with it, and I have no recourse.
The full blog post is chilling. Buttfield-Addison only got his Apple account reinstated after blogging about his experience, and otherhigh-profileblogs re-shared his ordeal, which caught the attention of an actual human in Apple's executive relations team who restored his account a week later.
Buttfield-Addison is the latest public example of a company revoking access to a person's digital life, probably due to some automated decision, but where affected customers have no means or grounds to appeal. In reality, this happens all the time and most people's stories never hear the light of day. Even companies like Apple, which sell physical electronics for a living, hold too much power and control over their customers' digital lives in perpetuity, and customers generally don't have the means to fight back or hold the companies accountable when things go wrong.
It's also a warning to everyone — not just Apple customers and especially this time of year — that gift cards are prone to scams and are increasingly difficult to detect. If one bad gift card can result in nuking access to someone's account, then gift cards aren't worth the risk to begin with.
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I don't think I'll stop using Firefox anytime soon. Yes, their management are fucking idiots and it's annoying that I'll have to disable new AI features whenever they release them..
But the alternative is to use something Chromium-based, which would make Google's domination of web technology absolute - and Google is 100x more evil than Mozilla ever could be.
I hope this fucking bubble pops before Mozilla fucks up Firefox so badly that it becomes completely unusable
I have a lot of respect for #DeltaChat (@delta); By all accounts they provide a good looking client and a homogenize experience across platforms. Users absolutely don’t need to care about the underlying protocol!
However there is no way, shape or form in that IMAP+Submission is a more suitable stack for instant messaging than #XMPP.
Deltachat needs some kind of dumb protocol to exchange data. Currently it is imap, it may or may not be combined with other protocols in the future. It could be anything else. It can not be directly compared to xmpp as deltachat only needs imap to exchange data.
In other words, both are hard to compare because: * in xmpp, the magic happens server-side. * in deltachat, the magic happens client-side.
• The dumb protocol to exchange data can still be standardized. The actual data (for example what does an Emoji reaction or a delivery receipt looks like) needs to be standardized as well. 'Client side feature' or not. • How much data is stored on the server is just flavor. 10 years ago XMPP servers used to store a lot less data. A roster-less XMPP client is completely viable and would still be compatible with other XMPP clients.
@arcanechat every time I read about the idea over the years I was very much "really???" .. then I actually tried it. Honestly pretty impressed! Server-side, using protocols that dinosaurs like me are comfortable admining is a win, for my generation anyway :)
@arcanechat A good engineer can make everything work and end users don’t care either way.
However if we were to start from scratch and ignore the "everyone has an email address argument" which doesn’t really hold true anymore in times when 'Chat Relays" are the recommended transport and have a level headed debate about IMAP vs XMPP for instant messaging there is no way IMAP comes out on top.
> My question is rather: How can #XMPP market itself better to people who want to build instant messaging solutions.
my humble opinion: I would still pick #deltachat / chatmail core to build my client if I had to start from scratch today, with #xmpp I just have a protocol, with delta chat I don't actually need to use the #email protocol at all, only the core library that takes care of dealing with networking and #encryption while all I have to do is to create the UI
so if we could have such an "xmpp core" that would take care of the important stuff and encryption, then get it audited etc. then it will be much easier for people to use that to build their clients while knowing there is some level of security and common ground and compatibility between clients, I know some might say "having several implementations is better" but I think facts are talking by themselves, resources are scarce, it is better to unite forces
"I think facts are talking by themselves" Fact is: Today, XMPP has more active devices using it than IMAP. XMPP has more users using it for chat than Chatmail.
The problem is that most users and by extension most developers simply don't know they are in fact happy XMPP users, whereas IMAP is often shoveled in people's face (because you have to select the protocol when setting up your e-Mail client).
@menel that sounds like what I was proposing, now you need the xmpp community to embrace such approach,
don't get me wrong I would still not pick xmpp because there groups are centralized/depending on the server, too much dependency on the servers, with delta chat I already have the easy to use core and no dependency on server and soon even multiple servers can be used at the same time, your account is portable accross servers, xmpp is far behind there
@arcanechat XMPP needs no marketing, what we need is decent XMPP clients with E2EE guarantee. I’m on iOS, I haven’t tested them all but none came close to even Signal in terms of usability.
@Daniel Gultsch I'm sorry to bring this up again as it's somewhat personal, but I feel there is a bit of downside when it comes to #XMPP adoption among #screenReader users. The issue is that #conversations is the only #accessible xmpp app I know off. Ideally we'd appreciate at least single accessible XMPP based messenger per platform what @ArcaneChat @Delta Chat (39c3) have already.
well it depends on the context, I am Cuban, that Delta Chat used email was the whole point I started using it and contributing, besides cheaper data plan for national email, you see down there in the 3rd world on an unstable 2g connection at 1kb/s #email, asynchronity and offline-first comes on top of #xmpp which together with #Telegram really struggles to even get connected, in a fast hyperconnected 1st world this might be less relevant until some emergency times or in isolated areas
@arcanechat Might be a bit offtopic, but wanna add: here in Ukraine, during full scale war, we have relatively cheap unlimitted internet for which you pay ≈7$ in outskirt of small city and around ≈5$ in city itself. First one is GPON connection with 500mb cap, which is available during regular and long power outages. Second is default twisted pair with 100mb cap, but users can swap for same GPON with same tariff if building connected to optical network of that exact provider, otherwise choose another one which is already connected. Mobile providers also works during outages in 4G, but they are a bit expensive as for me, same 7$ once per 4 weeks for good enough tariff (true unlimitted just don't exist).
And Ukrainians not only have good and cheap internet access, we have really high quality services in mostly whole private sector. And all of that with the worst quality of life in Europe. We really good people, I promise. Please, #StandWithUkraine. It worth every your as little you could imagine your effort is. Stay safe and do cool things!
@arcanechat Most XMPP clients (basically all but web clients) are offline-first. When not-using some of the XMPP features that e-Mail simply doesn't have (roster and presence), XMPP will use significantly less bandwidth than e-Mail. I switched from e-Mail to XMPP for chat on my phone a decade ago, precisely because it worked much better on poor 2G links (even when using roster and presence). Google at the time did the same (Google Mail app on Android delivered messages via XMPP).
fair points, dear Daniel! Thanks for the praise as well, as well as the warranted skepticism regarding IMAP. It's a strange protocol to use for instant messaging, and it's not the strong point of what delta apps are today, arguably. Then again, internet and tech evolve via "shoehorning" something into another thing because "we can", for good or bad reasons 😂 are you making it to 39c3 btw?
I stopped using it. The people at Deltachat don't know why push implementation is necessary. They stubbornly refuse to support things like #UnifiedPush. Instead, they say each app should have its own background connection.
@Radasbona I am not sure it's dismissed all together. @Delta Chat (39c3) #chatmail relays already support google / apple push messaging and adding @UnifiedPush support might be just matter of finding a motivated developer. Still with imap idle in place the battery and network impact is minimal so it's not seen as very high priority thing. For example there is an email client called #fairEmail which does the same thing, keeping the imap idle connections open whenever it's able to and it's working fine. Within email app it's difficult if not impossible to add push messaging support unless you have control of the server side provider or you wish to trade your privacy.
If the kids who listened to Radiohead and Pulp and Oasis in the 90s grew up today, what would they be listening to?
I have absolutely no sense of the music landscape right now. Something happened somewhere after after Billie Eilish, that doesn't allow me to absorb any new music information. A kind of age-activated force field of some kind.
As a community, we often ask ourselves how to attract more users to #XMPP. Yet the real tragedy is that people would rather build something entirely new (loosely based on email or #ActivityPub) than consider XMPP. Need end-to-end encryption by default? If compatibility with existing XMPP clients is a secondary concern, you can implement it in your own solution while still benefiting from our two decades of experience in instant messaging.
@wolf480pl yes I think that is a huge part of the problem. It is very easy to completely underestimate the complexity of Instant Messaging. Sending a message from A to B seems like something every software developer can write before lunch and people don’t see how it can and will rapidly escalate from there.
But I don’t know how do communicate that to other people.
I consider this a failure on our part but I don’t really know what to do about it. Most arguments against #XMPP don’t hold if you’re building from scratch anyway:
• #Conversations_im looks very outdated: OK, but you are developing your own clients anyway.
• XMPP doesn’t have an SDK: Neither does your #ActivityPub or email stack
• OMEMO is insecure and I would prefer #MLS: Yes, let’s work on that together and you’ll still benefit from XMPP’s 100+ solved IM problems.
conversations outdated?? It's the client I like the most. It's the only mobile client that just works and has a greate UI. If people want something better they should be contributing...
IMHO, the point of both Delta and the new ActivityPub based chat (does it have a name yet?) is prevalence, at least in a certain part of society.
I remember, that Delta proponents said, that "you can reach everyone, who has an email address."
Now it is: "You can reach everyone, who has a fediverse account."
In the end, it is not that easy, e.g. because email users might not have autocrypt in their client, and it will take a while until there is #MLS in e.g. #mastodonEl.
The big plus of #DeltaChat is that the infrastructure is already there. Infrastructure is a big part of the problem. And obviously using mail for that is only for people born before 2000.
Second is branding: When people hear #XMPP they hear 20 years of failure of implementing robust solutions both server-side and client-side. People just don't know that after 20 years there now are server and client solutions really working.
@lazarus #XMPP is still a thriving ecosystem with lots of good FOSS developers doing interesting things.
XMPP is also used under the hood in tons of products needing instant messaging even if they are not advertised as XMPP clients, or do not federate. But look at #Matrix, only 25% of matrix servers federate.
Anyway, all three share a strong focus on protocols, but there is a big difference: chatmail.at does not expose protocols to client developers, just a Rust SDK.
Chatmail provides FOSS infrastructure for interoperable, secure, speedy and reliable end-to-end encrypted messaging. Check out clients as Arcane Chat, Bots or Delta Chat today!
It's funny how the thing you came up with where DeltaChat is different, is that it presents itself a Rust SDK rather than a protocol to client developers.
@daniel literally wrote about this "I don't like existing SDKs" topic above.
What remains is that before you created the SDK on top of a protocol that wasn't XMPP, it didn't exist either. Had you created the SDK on top of XMPP, it would still use a better protocol for the job and you would still have the SDK you just promoted.
@delta I understand there is a sunken cost situation now: You invested a lot of time and resources to build on top of a sub-optimal protocol. So it would be a wasted effort to migrate everything to XMPP and thus I'm not expecting you to admit XMPP would've been the wiser choice over IMAP+Submission (for C2S) and SMTP (for S2S).
@pixelschubsi It's probably true that abstractly, Delta could have used XMPP as an underlying protocol instead of email, or IRCv3 :) But the reality of how projects evolve is much more complex than just this protocol detail. In any case, things are how they are now. Delta could evolve to have XMPP transports, or some XMPP folks do a friendly fork of all Delta UIs and glue it to xmpp-backends. We'd be supportive of either, but can't do that work ourselves.
@delta @lazarus XMPP clients only partially can penetrate Imperial Firewall (Russia). Sometimes no message transfer, sometimes simple text messages can jump over Imperial Firewall. Audiomessages almost all need VPN ... Not very powerful system... Sorry. Its practical observed. I try communicate with russian dissidents.
not an expert here, but someone who despises matrix based on user experience.
It's not about the protocol itself. It's a bit about people hating dealing with xpath (me included). Json has one of the three: a value, an array or a dict.
If you want xmpp to be accepted, then you need to provide two things:
1. Sexy client, both web and mobile for user acceptance 2. Nice way to deal with payloads aka SDK for devs
Two more things: single binary deployment for server and e2e encrption
I saw someone on here recently mention the name, which I agree might be significant. People didn't flock to http, they got on the World Wide Web. I don't think 802.11 took off till it was called WiFi. There's Jabber - is that unusable for trademark or similar reasons?
some things that come to mind is * crypto with cross signing and proper device management, some clients also implement omemo 8 while the rest doesn't * more aggressive compliance levels, some clients support for example rich replies, which are nice to have, and stickers which do not have a fallback as far as I know * a better way to show clients on the xmpp.org website, I don't think that yhe average person will know about what core and IM is
I think it is a bit the same problem like with Linux: Too much freedom: Which distribution? (what is a distribution?) which desktop? In XMPP: Which client? Does it have OMEMO? Which server? How to register? Whatsapp: This app, Your number, give us all rights to fuck you up, okay, finished. Telegram more or less the same Signal also only one app. More freedom means more possibilites means more complicated and more confusion for first time users.
Q1.Is there a spec?Found this- xmpp.org/about/technology-over…. Why is this not included in w3c with the other OSI layer-7 application protocols? Q2. How do I use it? People using the tech (tool) don’t choose between OSI layer-7 application protocols, they choose tool that does a job/outcome they need done I.e. I want to send a “text message” to someone, whose contact details I have. I don’t want to be insulted or abused by strangers using or producers of tool. Q3. SDK? No. Code something.
XMPP is the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, a set of open technologies for instant messaging, presence, multi-party chat, voice and video calls, collaboration, lightweight middleware, content syndication, and generalized routing of XML …
One of the biggest annoyances of xmpp for me, has been mismatched feature support between different servers. Best example is connecting with someone new and discovering we can't do encrypted chat.
The XMPP assembly for the Chaos Communication Congress 39C3 has been confirmed! We will have a space inside the Critical Decentralization Cluster habitat this year. Join the related XMPP chatroom.
Olen pari edellistä päivää nurissut e-kirjoista ja siitä, kuinka piloilla se maailma on, vaikka tekniikka itsessään on 20 vuotta vanhaa.
Nurinoista huolimatta jatkoin ongelman ratkomista ja lupasin kirjoittaa, jos löydän itseäni miellyttävän ratkaisun. Parin päivän testailun perusteella luulen löytäneeni sen.
Ratkaisun nimi on Booklore. Se on itse hostattava palvelu, joka tarjoaa omaan digitaaliseen kirjastoon Spotifyn tai Netflixin kaltaisen käyttökokemuksen. Pääsen siihen käsiksi suoraan omasta lukulaitteesta, eikä minun tarvitse leikkiä kaapeleiden kanssa. Sen lisäksi siinä on monen käyttäjän tuki, joten nyt minulla ja puolisollani on yhteinen digitaalinen kirjahylly.
Avauduin toissapäivänä siitä, kuinka retuperällä e-kirjamaailma on. Avautumisesta huolimatta jatkoin ongelman ratkomista ja luulen löytäneeni itseäni miellyttävän ratkaisun.
#AmazingWorld In #Alaska, nature sculpted this lone tree into a frozen wave at sunrise. Relentless wind, drifting snow, and rime ice stacked layer by layer until the branches looked like feathers made of frost. That soft golden glow is the sun catching every icy strand, turning the whole scene into a winter sculpture for a few brief moments. Bent by the storm, but still standing. Still reaching.
Two Philadelphia Flyers radio broadcasters have been suspended for two games because they accidentally said something dirty on-air during a time-out. radioinsight.com/headlines/328…
The Philadelphia Flyers and Beasley Media's "97.5 The Fanatic" WPEN-FM have suspended play-by-play voice Tim Saunders and analyst Todd 'Fridge' Fedoruk for two games pending an investigation following a hot-mic moment during Thursday n…
After their “encore,” this band kicks straight into ANOTHER song without announcing it, apparently in the hope that John wouldn’t notice it was a different song. John leans over to me to be heard over the PA and asks, “Hey, wanna see the suck button?” “Sure,” I replied. I figured he was going to muck with the levels or just turn them off or something. Instead, he reaches to one of his racks and starts scrolling through patches on his trusty DigiTech unit. Sure enough, he gets to a patch titled SUCK BUTTON. He engages it, and all hell breaks loose onstage.
the UNIX v4 tape reminded me of this story by Ali Akurgal about Turkish bureaucracy:
Do you know what the unit of software is? A meter! Do you know why? In 1992, we did our first software export at Netaş. We wrote the software, pressed a button, and via the satellite dish on the roof, at the incredible speed of 128 kb/s, we sent it to England. We sent the invoice by postal mail. $2M arrived at the bank. 3-4 months passed, and tax inspectors came. They said, “You sent an invoice for $2M?” “Yes,” we said. “This money has been paid?” they asked. “Yes,” we said. “But there is no goods export; this is fictitious export,” they said! So we took the tax inspectors to R&D and sat them in front of a computer. “Would you press this ‘Enter’ key?” we asked. One of them pressed it, then asked, “What happened?” “You just made a $300k export, and we’ll send its invoice too, and that will be paid as well,” we said. The man felt terrible because he had become an accomplice! Then we explained how software is written, what a satellite connection is, and how much this is worth. They said, “We understand, but there has to be a physical goods export; that’s what the regulations require.” So we said: “Let’s record this software onto tape (there were no CDs back then—nor cassettes; we used ½-inch tapes) and send that.” Happy to have found a solution, they said, “Okay, record it and send it.” The software filled two reels, which were handed to a customs broker, who took them to customs and started the export procedure. The customs officer processed things and at one point asked, “Where are the trucks?” The broker said, “There are no trucks—this is all there is,” and pointed to the tape reels on the desk. The customs officer said, “These two envelopes can’t be worth $2M; I can’t process this.” We went to court, an expert committee examined whether the two reels were worth $2M. Fortunately, they ruled that they were, and we were saved from the charge of fictitious export. The same broker took the same two reels to the same customs officer, with the court ruling, and restarted the procedure. However, during the process, the unit price, quantity, and total price of the exported goods had to be entered—as per the regulations. To avoid dragging things out further, they looked at the envelope, saw that it contained tape, estimated how many meters of tape there are on one reel, and concluded that we had exported 1k to 2k meters of software. So the unit of software became the meter.
Interestingly enough, in Russian computer slang "meter" is a megabyte. And software "weighs" (also in slang). So, there used to be a joke: "How to make a physics teacher crazy? Ask them to solve this problem: A piece of software weighs 2 meters. What time is needed to pass it through a 56 kbps channel?"
@menelion In Polish we also use the term of weight towards bytes. When I was a teen in modem era, the term ciężko przepchnąć ( hard to push ) was also commonly used to describe the relation between the weight of the upload and the channel speed when sending big files.
@frankboon Exactly! Also in Russian "speed" was often referred to as "width" (probably because of English "bandwidth"). so the joke sometimes was expanded to: "the software weighs two meters. How much time does it take to (down)load it if the channel is 56 kbps wide?"
I once read a story about the people writing the software for the NASA Apollo missions. There was a functionary in charge of weight accounting, who came to them and asked how much the software would weigh.
They told him it weighted nothing, but the functionary had heard *that* one before and insisted—everything had to be accounted down to the last ounce. He demanded to see it.
They showed him a stack of punched cards, and he was triumphant. “You see,” he said smugly, “it doesn't weigh only ‘nothing’!”
“No, you misunderstand,” they replied. “The cards aren't going on the spacecraft. Only the holes.”
@mcourcel If you view the post on the web, you'll see the HTTPS is there. It's just tweesecake that removes it. It's also there in Mona, Enafore, TWBlue, and literally every other client I've tried.
#Spotted on the Market Day Before Christmas in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A cheerful Pomeranian is rotating in a skipping circle below a hotdog being eaten by its human. Perpetual Motion Dog is generating more energy than it's consuming. If only science could harness this power for good!
A young human (5?) in grinch themed T-shirt and shorts is holding up a Bundaberg ginger beer to his little sister, saying officiously: "Cheers!" and then instructing her imperiously that she has to say "Cheers!" back or it "Doesn't WORK!" Little Sister is looking pugnaciously skeptical.
A man (30s?) is studying some earrings with a cheerful smile. He looks down at his small human (4?) in a Spiderman t-shirt and asks: "Which ones d'you think Nana would like?" Small Human Spiderman gives him an incredulous look before roaring: "The PRETTY ONES!" Some things are just obvious.
A tiny human is putting on a full sturm und drang performance. Hand beseechingly raised to Mum. Face a picture of tearful fury as she bellows: "I WANT STRAWBERRIES!" Mum says wryly. "You've GOT strawberries in your lap Bub." "BUT I WANT OTHER STRAWBERRIES." The strawberry struggle is real.
A pâtissier (30s?) stops his partner from offering their last madeleine to customers because it's already taken. Moments later, a very serious looking small human (3?) arrives with his Mum and accepts his weekly madeleine treat with a solemn high five and a hug. Pâtissier beaming.
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
In mid-November, I agreed to an experiment. Anthropic had tested a vending machine powered by its Claude AI model in its own offices and asked whether we’d like to be the first outsiders to try a newer, supposedly smarter version. Claudius, the customized version of the model, would run the machine: ordering inventory, setting prices and responding to customers—aka my fellow newsroom journalists—via workplace chat app Slack. “Sure!” I said. It sounded fun. If nothing else, snacks! Then came the chaos. Within days, Claudius had given away nearly all its inventory for free—including a PlayStation 5 it had been talked into buying for “marketing purposes.” It ordered a live fish. It offered to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes and underwear. Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared.
OK this is why they need #autistic people to watch shows before they put them out. Not just for continuity, but for checking actual facts.
I am finally watching the Queen's Gambit, which of course I love for many reasons, not just redheads and chess, but she just came home from Paris and there's a August 1967 calendar on the wall next to the phone -- and it is utterly wrong!
It shows the month starting on a Sunday. The first day was a Tuesday!
@BorrisInABox lol this was me watching a show set in america, and like everytime a character would make a call on their phones, it would bbbbring-bbring the UK way, not the American way and it drove me mad! lol
I've just got a fix committed for the WebKitGTK reporting the wrong AT-SPI roles thing. github.com/WebKit/WebKit/commi… Much thanks to Lukáš Tyrychtr for reporting the bug and identifying the commit that caused the regression. The fix is backported to the stable branch, but 2.50.4 was just released three days ago, so I'm guessing that a release with the fix will not be imminent. 2.51.4 does not have the fix, either. I've already patched Tumbleweed with the fix along with the update to 2.50.4. Maybe other distros want to add a patch until there's a new release.
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300090
Reviewed by Adrian Perez de Castro.
R296017 removed the Footer member from Atspi::Role and also added
SectionHeader and SectionFooter, which do not ...
@pvagner @nolan Thanks, Peter. That's good to know. I knew that Delta Chat wasn't working correctly with Orca anymore, but I've never used it and hadn't taken the time to investigate.
@Mike Gorse @Nolan Darilek There are two flavors of @Delta Chat (39c3) . The default one is electron based and it's working fine. The experimental one built with tauri is somewhat lighter when it comes to resource usage but has #a11y issues as it uses webkit-gtk under the hood rather than chromium. So my guess is this will improve the general accessibility of tauri based apps on linux.
En todo el artículo no se pone en duda, ni siquiera en una frase, la idea de violar el derecho internacional público y la inmunidad soberana, ni siquiera la conveniencia de actuar ilegalmente cuando así se desestabiliza el marco jurídico y se expone a Bélgica y la UE a represalias. Imperialismo 100%, ni un paso atrás, ni un instante de reflexión. Y a esto lo llaman autonomía estratégica en vez de lo que es, seguidismo atlantista.
Bazzite has a massive issue that kind of pisses me off: if Steam decides to update and something goes wrong, you're just screwed. Games won't launch, you won't be able to go to desktop mode from the UI, and you need to plug in a keyboard and drop into a tty to fix it. I thought this was a one off issue but it happened twice :(
I was planning to give an old pc to a younger family member as a steam console, but now I'm scared that this will randomly happen to them.
Frankly it makes Bazzite unusable for my living room setup if my experience is interrupted multiple times a week and I have to wait an hour to reinstall Steam.
Actually it's not "if anything goes wrong". It's "if you let Steam update from desktop mode, it destroys itself"...
And in some scenarios where game mode doesn't launch properly, Bazzite will fall back to desktop mode and Steam WILL update itself. So there's just no escape.
I set up a desktop computer with Debian stable with gnome and steam in desktop mode and an AMD video card, and that's been mostly fine.
The main problems I've had are sometimes the screen doesn't unblank after waking the system up, especially if it went to sleep with a game left running and so I've had to teach "hold the power button down for 10 seconds"
Also I have to occasionally remember to log into update the OS.
Kid has been able to launch games in desktop mode using mouse and keyboard since like first or second grade.
Maybe try the fedora atomic variant if you're looking for really low maintenance?
@alienghic this is why I picked bazzite-deck for them. For my own machine, I also wanted something I could use from the couch or on the go without needing a mouse and keyboard, but that doesn't work out when the whole thing is completely bugged
Wait, has anyone theorised that cave art of people hunting is not so much for "religious reasons" as straightforward illustrations of hunting tactics to communicate to other people in the tribe?
I probably wouldn't have gone through the effort of telling the cops anything though. That's their job, and frankly they're terrible at it when they have to do it alone. They don't prevent crime, and they're usually pretty bad at solving crimes. And they're always looking for a reason to turn you into a criminal anyway.
I'm surprised they didn't harass the hell out of this guy when he went in to give an official statement. RT: friedcheese.us/objects/cc69c3a…
I'm going to attach two files to this post. Both I found in a Time Machine backup from 2014. Both are speech synthesizers singing in a language that is not English. Both are ogg files, so I hope they will work. If anyone can identify these, please let me know. and feel free to boost for reach.
The language is German (with a horrible accent), and the song reminds me of Schubert by style, maybe it's one of his. I wonder how they made ESpeak to sing?
@menelion go back in time to about 2012 and ask Twitter. that's how I found both of these. I just can't remember who made them. I'm tempted to submit these to the dectalk archive, requesting they be put into the miscellanious folder temporarily until we find out who made them.
The official HD music video for “Sailing” by Rod Stewart, from his 1975 album Atlantic Crossing. One of Rod Stewart’s most enduring hits, Sailing became a wo...
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follow #hashtags, using #Channels; or a better way?
@Friendica Support hello, i would like some help please to understand how to solve my confusion about the "right" way to follow #hashtags, using #Channels ... or otherwise some better way.
i follow a large number of hashtags [as a glance at my profile would attest]. afaict / afaik, fediverse posts bearing these tags appear [or are supposed to] in my "Network" timeline [with "Everybody" Circle & "Latest posts" Channel selected].
of my many tags, possibly my most "important" ones are #AusPol, #FOSS, & #Linux. in order to be able to efficiently locate all posts with these tags each day, rather than have to meticulously scroll down the full "Network" timeline [which is dissipated via also having all the other tags, & all my Followed accounts' posts], in Settings i created three dedicated Channels [one for each of those tags, ofc]. then i added each of those custom Channels to my Timelines, in Display Settings.
however, the result is just hopeless; really disappointing & frustrating. over recent years i have had several Friendica accounts, ie, at several instances, & doing the above has never worked properly in any of them, not only my current instance.
using the AusPol Channel for example, as it is the worst by far, every time i check it, its most recent post is several hours old, & often as bad as 12 - 18 hours old, with numerous other posts entirely missing.
i say "missing" because otoh, reviewing my Saved Search for #AusPol shows all these other posts, which therefore also appear, buried, in my full "Network" timeline.
over the months & years in exasperation, i have revisited the dedicated Channels in Settings, & for the Circle/Channel field have tried each of Latest posts, Latest Creation, Global community, & Latest activity, but none of them has solved the problem [indeed, a few make it even worse!].
please, what am i doing wrong? what aspect of Friendica's Settings have i been consistently misunderstanding / misusing, that causes this disappointment?
@Michael 🇺🇦 i do not understand your question / statement. if there is more info i can give you, pls help me understand what that might be, so that i can help you to help me. thanks.
With this setting you won't see any posts that haven't got attached pictures, videos or audio files. Also you should use "global community" as the channel to base the channel on. The channel "Latest posts" that you are using here shows only posts that you already have got in your timeline.
With this setting you won't see any posts that haven't got attached pictures, videos or audio files
OMZ! clearly i had no idea... i thought by ticking those boxes i was merely including all such posts along with text posts, not as you said actively excluding all text-only posts... that's a calamitous misunderstanding! that part of the Settings now desperately needs explanatory text there to guide users like me who had no way of knowing what you just explained.
should use "global community"
thank you! i shall now change that in all three of my custom channels [& ditto untick the three boxes in each].
so now i shall be very keen to see if, tomorrow morning, the behaviour has become much better 🤞 🤞 🤞
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"Latest posts" that you are using here shows only posts that you already have got in your timeline
well ok, but i repeat part of my OP... atm, & historically, HEAPS of my followed-tag posts that are in my timeline [albeit "lost" amongst all the hundreds of other posts], simply never would also appear in my applicable custom channel for that tag. that said, now that you've also told me about those three ticked boxes, maybe that was causing what i just mentioned...?
Just try it out. You should already see the outcome of your changes, since channel posts are collected based on the current definition. You don't need to wait for some hours.
@Michael 🇺🇦 haha, you beat me to it... i just came back here to excitedly post a positive update... it is now working much much much better! it is now close enough to my originally envisaged ideal use-case as to be neither here nor there. finally, this is great! thx so much for --again-- solving one of my Friendica puzzles 🤗🙂
@Michael 🇺🇦 @Friendica Support @Droppie [opensoc] I suspect that he is concerned about the fact that the posts in the channels arrive delayed. I’ve been observing the same thing since I’ve been using these channels.
@Thomas fwiw... she. it's not just delayed, it's never appearing at all [or, if they happen to appear >24 hours late, then i regard that as "never", coz my desire / use-case is to use these custom channels first thing in the morning to see what happened overnight, then periodically check them during the day for subsequent new posts on those tags]. by the time tomorrow morn comes around, i'm then looking for the new batch, not still wondering where all those missing ones yesterday got to. how it actually works atm entirely breaks that desire. my biggest confusion about this is that i know my instance is able to access all those posts, coz me doing that manual tag search proves it... so why does the custom channel, configured also for that tag, fail to find the same posts? and i repeat, this is NOT a criticism of my current instance; all my older Friendica instances also failed at this. @Michael 🇺🇦
follow #hashtags, using #Channels; or a better way?
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I believe if you follow hashtags, posts with those tags appear on your 'Home' tab, not the 'Network' one. I believe the Network one is just the latest posts from other people in the Fediverse. But I could be wrong.
follow #hashtags, using #Channels; or a better way?
@Norm oh! 😲 🤯 that possibility honestly never crossed my mind. thank you. i will begin keeping an eye on that from now on, in hope it gives me a much better outcome.
WhatsApp Web has this cool bug where if you switch tabs or windows, when you return, it forces focus into the message list, even if that's not where it was before you left. Fuck sake Meta. Don't fuck with my focus! Guess I'll be hacking around this absurdity as well.
Okay, managed to hack around this: // When the tab loses focus, WhatsApp forces focus into the message list, // regardless of where it was before. Override that absurdity. It's in the latest version of my WhatsApp Web Accessibility Fixes Greasemonkey script: github.com/jcsteh/axSGrease/ra…
@Bri Heh. At least it's Greasemonkeyable, which isn't possible for native apps. But it'd be nice if Meta did things properly and I didn't have to hack around their bugs.
@adisonverlice Sure... so I could use Signal instead, which is utterly unusable with a screen reader on desktop, has no web app so I can't hack it to be more accessible, and kinda sucks with a screen reader on mobile. Totally agree with what you're saying, but unfortunately, I have a choice between Meta's crappy offering and... nothing else. At least nothing else that is usable or that anyone else who isn't a tech nerd uses.
@Bri @x0 What a time to be alive. An app I used to open without needing to really think about it to dash off a quick message now takes much longer to load, is at least an order of magnitude more verbose, and ideally needs to be hosted in a browser.
And you know what makes me angrier than all of that put together? The fact that one of the world's most resourceful companies has the power to interfere with the way real people communicate by refusing to do accessibility right, and nobody's even surprised because of how fucking normalised it is.
Haven't seen this but someone else mentioned it yesterday. No clue why this would be happening. I am about to take PTO for Christmas but I will look out for it when I get back. Sorry you're having to deal with this.
Thanks for the script, its a shame how terrible WhatsApp is now after the death of the UWP app. The links in your blog about pinning the app to the taskbar was also really helpful, didn't know that was a feature in Firefox so it feels more like a stand-alone app.
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