Next time some moron in your government want to regulate the Internet "for the children" remind them they are posting on a CSAM content farm formerly known as Twitter.
A recent family movie night at the household of 14-year-old Sarah Mason ended abruptly when the audio description began to vividly relay the details of an unexpected and lengthy sex scene.
Ihr könnt den #DiDay ja für ne gute Idee halten — das tu ich prinzipiell auch, weil er lokale Vernetzung und Dezentralisierung stärkt.
Aber vielleicht denkt ihr nochmal darüber nach, ob man das in direkter Assoziation mit einem „D-Day“ oder einem „Unabhängigkeitstag“ haben mag, wo beide Begriffe ganz eng verwoben mit der Befreiung von Unterdrückten (oft Schwarzen, Sklaven, …) durch Europäer verwoben sind. #Dudegemacht
Und dann denkt bitte auch an die Barrierefreiheit von dem Kram für behinderte Menschen. di.day ist noch immer nicht zugänglich, obwohl mir zugesagt wurde, dass das bis morgen der Fall sein würde. Die darauf gelisteten Alternativen sind zu großen Teilen unzugänglich. Es gibt keine Linux-Distro oder auch nur Konfigurationsmöglichkeiten, um das einzige freie System für technisch unvisierte, behinderte Nutzendenkreise ausreichend zugänglich zu machen.
Are you into #opensource ? And in the #eu ? There is a Call for Feedback by the European Commission for a 'European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy' For strategic approach to #foss in Europe, and a framework for using open source within the European Commission. You can respond until 3 February. It is useful to respond even if your point has already been submitted by someone else. The number and repetition of arguments is used as a weight. ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-r… cc #fosdem
Moin! Neues Jahr, erster #Chaostreff, 19:00 heute in der #Machbar. Beste Medizin gegen Post-Congress-Depression nach dem #39C3. Einige Infos:
* Es wird etwas kühler (18C) werden, weil nur 3/4 Wärmepumpen arbeiten. Zieht 1 Schicht mehr an. * Congress-Items müssen noch final ins Lager eingeräumt werden. * Wir wollen dieses Jahr ein Geekend im Mai machen. Hier brauchen wir Teams für Programm, PL, Party, Ihr kennt den Drill :) * Es gibt Kartoffelsuppe! 🥔
The XSF Communication Team is launching the ‘Chat of the Future Initiative’ to support the XMPP ecosystem through collaborative discussions, development, and improved public communication. This new initiative invites participants from all …
@khronos No, this is just my phone's hotspot. it works actually faster than our hotel wifi. My surface is so slow that you launch simethign as simple as mush and it screams. Lol! It didn't used to be that way, it is almost 4 years old though.
Yeah everyone in the hotel cold also be using their hotspots too on the heir cell phones also and this could have something to do iwth it. Also hotspot speeds depend on how much bandwidth the tower you are connected too has. Try it when everyone's sleeping and see what you get.
#Russia has just officially closed the criminal investigation of the #Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 their air defense downed over #Grozny in December 2024. Prosecutor’s General office simply states:
It has been established that the aircraft departed at 06:55 (Moscow time) from Baku airport to Grozny airport. Due to weather conditions (cloudiness), after two unsuccessful attempts, the crew was unable to land at Grozny airport, made a decision to proceed to another airport, and during the approach to landing at Aktau airport at approximately 9:28 (Moscow time) collided with the ground, resulting in the destruction of the aircraft and fire, as a result of which 38 people died and 29 received injuries of varying severity.
The fact that the aircraft has been hit by two surface-to-air rockets fired from Russian “Pantsir-S1” system on the ground is not even mentioned and instead they push some bullshit about “weather conditions”, which undoubtedly will be received as an insult by Azerbaijan - which it is.
I don't understand how the UK government (and indeed many firms) can continue to maintain a presence on Elon Musk's deepfake porn site (formerly known as Twitter), rather than jumping ship to the likes of Mastodon and Bluesky.
Their continued association with X/Twitter isn't just a bad look, it's an endorsement of a site that behaves in a disgusting, degrading way, and has been churning out sexualised images of real-life women and young girls.
Start considering moving your communities out of Discord now. Don’t wait for the enshittiffication to arrive, the clock is ticking. No one will listen to me, but let’s talk again later. reuters.com/business/chat-plat…
According to Newsnight, the UK government say they can't block X—despite the deepfake CSAM—because people could evade such a ban using VPNs.
But the #OnlineSafetyAct is working just fine even though people can use VPNs to avoid having to upload photos of their passport (etc.) to some shady unregulated age verification company.
The UK government's internet policies are totally rational and coherent. Nothing to see here. Please don't ask us any more annoying critical questions.
Imagine that it's 1925 and I am a clever, experienced mechanical engineer. I look around at the "tech" world of the time and notice some disturbing things:
- the rising power of literally fascist CEOs like Henry Ford - What began as an inefficient, quirky novelty toy for rich people, the automobile, has become "normal" and started to dominate public space - rising levels of fossil pollution - the rising monopoly power of Oil companies - dangerous levels of stock-market speculation - brutal exploitation of people and environmental destruction in mining and rubber producing (mostly colonial) regions - the use of debt to get less wealthy consumers to buy cars - scores of innocent pedestrians injured or killed by automobiles - urban planning that increasingly favors more expensive cars over other users of the streets - declining sense of importance of shared forms of transportation like trolleys and trains
As an engineer, I look at all those rising issues and then I say:
"What we need is an Open Source Model-T Ford with some slightly better safety features."
In retrospect, that would seem like a pretty inadequate response.
Great. Two PDF forms I'm supposed to read and sign before a medical procedure are completely inaccessible - probably bad scans. Two OCR tools and ChatGPT either extract garbled text or report there is no text to be found. Time to find a sighted person to print this shit out, read all about everything, and fill things in by pen. It's 2025 for fuck sake! #blind #A11Y
With a number of community driven, open source mapping projects, picking a Google Maps app alternative that comes with without ads or tracking has never been easier.
As someone who values a maps + navigation service that also works on desktop (seriously, "mobile only" is the worst), and lets you sync places and collections, I can very much recommend wego.here.com
I'm happy to receive recommendations that are based on OpenStreetmap and offer the same, but so far I've been unlucky.
MAPS.ME (MapsWithMe) are offline maps of the whole world. Map of the USA: New York, San Francisco, Washington. France Paris. Italy: Rome, Venice, Florence, Rimini. Spain: Barcelona, Madrid. Japan, Great Britain, Turkey, Russia, India.
Have you tried these yourselves and know that they work reliably? I have tried Organic Maps and OsmAnd with Google Auto in my car. Organic Maps crashed a lot, so unusable for me. OsmAnd gave some suggestions for routing that were very suboptimal and confusing. I haven't tried your third option.
Hi!
I am really glad that you created completely noncommercial project!
I already ditched donations to Organic Maps and now considering starting to donate to you (I will wait a little to be sure that project will continue living :) )
But let's get…
As much as I love the OpenStreetMap project, there always seems to be a few things that get in the way of me adopting them. (and I know I should be telling *them*, but here we are)
• Localisation: on desktop I always only see the native names of things, and I unfortunately cannot read every script on the planet (Mapsme/coMaps/etc. work slightly better on mobile) • stores, restaurants etc. lack information beyond that they exist • transportation information • usable search
I like OrgnanicMaps/CoMaps for offline use on mobile.
But I would add @cartes_app : it is open source, based on OpenStreetMap data with public transport and @panoramax integrations. It is focused on France for the added data, but could be enhanced or replicated for other local uses. It is my go-to app on Desktop now.
plasticized paper maps, street/road signs, and your actual memory. After possibly using any online search system for "step by step" and writing or printing that out, is better than anything on a mobile electronic device.
"Reprenez votre vie privée avec d’autres solutions Google" (translation of: "Take back your privacy with more Google alternatives")
Which means in french: "Take back your privacy with other Google solutions".
I would suggest "Reprenez votre vie privée avec d'autres solutions" or "Reprenez votre vie privée avec plus d'alternatives à Google" ou même "Reprenez votre vie privée avec d'autres solutions que Google" ^^
@dedicto I have been loving CoMaps. I've been using it for quite some time and for my needs it works about as well as Google Maps. It is the best non-Google maps app I've ever used.
Considering migrating all my virtual machines to UTM on Mac OS some day. Sigh. Not sure why the bug with VMWare Fusion is back, where with VoiceOver, the machine will not start up. Of course this is a bug returned from the past, because it existed earlier on in the Mac OS 15 days. Then it got fixed, and life was happy again. Not so much anymore, after Mac OS 26, it has returned. If you have started up a virtual machine with VoiceOver on, and then noticed the "start up" button become dimmed again and not move to "suspend" instead but back to pressable, you're experiencing that bug. The only option is, and I'm not kidding, is to press the button, turn VoiceOver off right after (at a split second) and hope that its presence didn't register within your VMWare App.
Look y'all, I know there's a lot of news, world, political posts around. I've been asked, but the truth is that I won't ever boost or really post these, unless it is severe on a global impact. It's not that I want to bury my head in the sand or ignore it. Nor is it that I'm actively choosing to ignore it at all on the basis of privilege to a modern world. I respect those who post such content, because it, along with my news sources, helps round me out of any echo chambers I may myself be stuck in a bit. For my own content though, I like to keep things tech related, around accessibility, disability (Blind/ deaf/ autism / ETC) or queer spaces, because those passions will always matter more than any crazy thing a president does or the divisions created, until those things do impact such areas. When that happens, we protest, prepare, make opinions loud. I'd gladly take part in community public activities that way. My goal on here though is to inform others and maybe contribute some useful things to the spaces I belong in, like web accessibility, while I am able to. So, that's that. Perhaps one of those posts I'll end up pinning to my profile for now so it is well known.
I did a lot of thinking about the npm supply chain attacks over my break. I wrote up my thoughts, along with some proposed solutions, in my latest post:
As many of you probably know, for many years I've run an Email list for discussion of the DECtalk text to speech system in all of its various incarnations, making it sing, etc. I just completed the process of moving this list to Groups.IO including import of message archives. This is a Premium group so can support more than the 100 members available with free groups. If you're interested, the link is groups.io/g/dectalk or you can send an Email to dectalk+subscribe@groups.io to subscribe.
This list is intended for discussion of hardware and software versions of the DECtalk text to speech system originally developed by Dennis Klatt and sold by Digital Equipment Corporation.
Can anyone tell me exactly what a sheet grabber is? I see this on apps all the time. My phone is constantly saying sheet grabber, sheet grabber. I always thought a sheet grabber was a greedy bed partner who stole all the blankets off you in the middle of the night and left you freezing.
Hi, I'm Mary (they/them)! I'm an interdisciplinary Environmental Science undergrad and webmaster who wants to work as a science communicator.
Science, writing, and community are my passions. I want to make scientific information accessible to non-scientific folks.
I'm not sure what I'll post about yet. Perhaps some natural photography, highlights on environmental projects/products/groups, and comments on the world around me.
Draußen sind es immer noch -6 Grad. Da wünschte ich mir schon sehr einen Kamin, vor dem man es sich gemütlich machen kann. Schon komisch, was alles als Lebenstraum durchgeht.
Ob das jemals realistisch ist, steht wohl in den Sternen. Bisher habe ich jedenfalls noch nichts gefunden, das eine ähnlich tiefe Entspannung und Zufriedenheit in mir auslöst. #FediBeichte
Ich hab' das mal in einem Ferienhaus in Dänemark gehabt, mit einigen Freunden. Und das war in der Tat mit der entspannteste Winterurlaub, den ich je hatte.
Es war verschneit, es war ruhig, es wurde schon damals Silvester kaum bis gar nicht geböllert... Das war echt herrlich dort damals. Und nur mit netten Leuten da gewesen.
Schade, dass Castro nicht Teil des Testfelds war. Den finde ich nämlich mit am übersichtlichsten. Und er bietet nämlich das Springen zwischen Kapiteln.
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@bdorer Das ist überhaupt keine schlechte Wahl, war mein allererster Podcatcher. Aber ich finde die Übersichtlichkeit von Castro ganz charmant. Jonathan Mosen hatte im Living Blindfully ganz früh, 2020 irgendwann, auch eine ganze Episode zu Castro gemacht, und vieles davon gilt auch jetzt noch.
to je pravda ale vraj sú tie procesy/technológia zdokumentované a ready na presťahovanie, lenže okupácia.. ja nevím. Nie je to logický sled udalostí ale očakávaný. Vyhodia tie továrne do vzduchu?
Čo ja viem to je moja konšpirácia.
edit: osobne neverím že medvedík pu sa o to za svoj život nepokúsi alebo jeho priami nasledovník. Otázka nie je či ale kedy.
One coworker -- who I'll call Xavier -- does everything through LLMs. He's the kind of developer that managers who have never been programmers adore: 3000 lines of code per day.
I just realized that Xavier cannot read code, even code that he submits for review. He "understands" code by running it against test files and seeing whether results are reasonable. He can only say what the code does, not what causes it to behave in a way.
But that has several problems. An obvious first issue is that if a problem doesn't show up in the test file, then it will never be fixed. A less obvious issue is that his code is brittle and it generalizes very poorly.
Because Xavier doesn't read code, he has a very tough time imagining "What might go wrong?" And because he relies on the LLM, he misses very broad solutions, like using well-established libraries that solve dozens of problems at once.
Programmers who dive deep are still very, very useful.
De QR code van onze Colruyt Xtra kaart die ik in #catima had werkte niet meer aan de kassa. En inderdaad, als ik ze vergelijk met de code in de xtra app dan is ze verschillend.
No problemo dacht ik, even opnieuw instellen.
Maar de content die ik scan van de xtra app QR code is dezelfde als ik in catima had, en als ik met een andere tool een QR code genereer met wat ik scan ziet die er ook anders uit, dus het ligt niet aan catima.
Even een quick check, op welke Catima versie zit je? Een nieuwe feature in 2.41.0 om automatisch UTF-8 barcodes te detecteren is niet helemaal goed gegaan maar gefixed in 2.41.4. Dus kaarten in versies 2.41.0 - 2.41.3 van Catima kunnen mogelijk minder goed scanbaar zijn op sommige plaatsen. Als je net op een van de buggy versies zit zou dat ook het issue kunnen zijn (sorry daarvoor).
edit: met 2.41.4 gescanned, code wordt nu gedetecteerd als ISO-8859-1 en ziet er anders uit dan vorige keer (in catima), maar nog altijd anders dan de code die ik scande
Maar dat ligt eerder aan iets wat Colruyt doet, weet alleen niet wat en hoe.
Zal binnenkort weten of het werkt, als ik nog eens winkel :)))
@SylvieLorxu update: hoewel de QR code er dus anders uit ziet werkte ze terug in Catima (na de update de oude code verwijderd en opnieuw toegevoegd) 👍 👍👍
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