Farewell to autumn: Danish Digital Ministry turns its back on Microsoft.
At the Danish Digital Ministry, all employees should be able to do without Microsoft. Instead, Linux and LibreOffice will be used, says the minister. heise.de/news/Von-Word-und-Exc…
Beim dänischen Digitalministerium sollen alle Angestellten ohne Microsoft auskommen. Stattdessen werde man Linux und LibreOffice nutzen, sagt die Ministerin.
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Sorry guys. I had to remove the timeline gaps system. It was just not working correctly at all, and was only causing issues and annoyances. Not sure if I will ever reimplement something like this in the future, however if it's of concern, you can disable caching entirely, at which point the app would load a fresh copy of the timeline upon every client start like before.
@jonathan859 couple of situations, now that we have timeline caches. If you close down the app and reopen it after a while, a timeline gap can occur. This basically means there is a gap in between the newest post in your timeline that was saved, vs the oldest new post retrieved.
Thank you for using FastSM! We update the app hourly to keep your experience running smoothely! For best results, keep your app up to date! FastSM will never ask you to review the app. Mainly because it can't, because there is no review system attached to GitHub. Anyway, This update includes but is not limited to bugfixes, performance improvements, new bugs, unintentional performance degradations, issues, disappointments, problems, issues, and many more issues. Please keep your updates turned on to experience all of this, and more! Our developers will never tell you that they are taking a nap, or mowing the lawn, unless, of course, they are indeed taking a nap, or mowing the lawn. Why our developers would be mowing the lawn in a changelog, who actually knows. Anyway, more bugfixes and performance improvements time! Please keep your updates turned on for more bugfixes and performance improvements! Thank you for using FastSM! We promise that as we continue to add more bugfixes and performance improvements, eventually we will add so many bugfixes and performance improvements that we will be forced to rename the app to SlowSM, or potentially even BuggySM. So stay tuned for this eventuality. Anyway, again we hope you enjoy using FastSM!
Hi, I'm probably also going to switch. However, I wonder if there's a way to filter boosts and replies from the home timeline as with Tweesecake? I see a filter boost option in the context menu, but I'm not sure if that is related to the timeline or to the user whose post I am focused on. Also, is there an option to hide the username so that just the nickname of the poster gets shown (vice versa is fine as well)? Great work so far, keep it up!
@garo Yes to all of this (Checkout timeline filters). You can filter many things out of whatever timeline you want, not just home. Also templates for removing things you don't want
@darren_duff Oh shoot. Hmm. When you manually updated, what did you do, replace your old files with the new ones, or completely delete the old copy and start fresh with a new one?
@darren_duff I only had that loop once, when I didn't wait long enough for the update to take place. Next time I updated, it worked normally. Maybe I'm just lucky.
@frog67 @darren_duff Oooooh, you know what, mine does the same thing. The window doesn't actually come up, it just focuses. It's hidden though. If you just alt tab away, it's hidden and doesn't show up in your alt tab list, it just focuses whenever you open it
I don't think I like this new world, you guys. Every time Youtube Music plays me a song I haven't heard before, I wonder if it's AI. Hmm, that's a lot of releases in a short time. Is the voice quality a bit odd because the track quality is low, or because I'm imagining it, or because it's AI? Wait, those rhymes are really weak. Did an LLM just spit those out?
There are two primary reasons I like watching the output from Claude or Gemini, or any model for that matter: #1. you can learn some really cool shell tricks, #2. I love watching how it transforms my thoughts, e.g. from a markdown spec file, into a plan. Even the most careful planning on my part always has some gaps, high verbosity, etc. For that reason, I always request the model to ask followup questions.
In today's world of autocorrect, why do so many places where people write from their phones always include contractions with missing apostrophes? You'd think any modern operating system would see "isnt" and immediately correct it to "isn't". Same for "ive", "dont", and so on. I can understand the apostrophe being multiple taps away, and so not getting added manually, but why wouldn't software put it back in?
I'm tempted to just remove the VLC based audio playback. We have yt-dlp support anyway, and VLC just seems to be causing issues more than it's solving them. Thoughts? Should I keep it or remove it?
Depends on how you look it it. Whenever I couldn't sleep as I child, I went and grabbed my Gameboy to play Pokémon for a few minutes/hours to make my brain tired and slept afterwards. Worked quite well actually, and still does today.
#TimeToTehOn...Good morning. I like FastSM rather more than tc, only probably because it loads faster, and takes up less RAM space. However, I won't be running it networkly like I can TC, for the simple reason that I cannot localise user data, or not that I know of. I don't use Telegram that much on the pc anyway, because most who have my details there, also follow me on mastodon, so no use boring people on telepaw if I already posted here anyway. BlueSky I don't have, and probably will never have either...Between my facebook/mastodon.africa/fluffy.family accounts I already have 3 social media related accounts, and that seems to be enough for now. However, knowing me, I may just fall for Bluesky, like I fell for the Seika Mini2 Smart Braille Notetaker...so I'll never say never, simply because I know myself well enough to know that curiosity might indeed push me to get bluesky regardless of the current reluctance. Anyway, have a nice day on this humpday.
@Bri Aha, thanks again. I thought because this is a beta, such things would not be possible, but thanks for the information that I can indeed localise data.
A veces me pregunto medio en serio si debería haber un partido que representase los intereses de los empleados públicos, y la calidad de los servicios públicos. Luego se me pasa.
The focus thing works, except when you try to arrow through the list of branches, it also moves focus to the commit field again. So probably should only default to focusing on the commit list when that dialog is first loaded.
It occurs to me that I haven't yet tested FastSM's ability to upload media to Mastodon. So I hereby present something which I call, "Girl, You Know it's False." I take the intro to the Milli Vanilli song "Girl, You Know it's True," where a man and a woman are talking to each other on opposite stereo channels, then I deliberately use and normalize the channel where each person is *not* talking. What you hear is a really echoy conversation, with almost certainly tape hiss and even some 50 Hz hum in the background. Then at the end the two orchestra hit type things also sound weird. Anyway here goes.
Well, I got GPT5 Pro mode again, asked it to help refactor my driver because I don't do a good enough job myself of that, and now it's been thinking for 88 minutes. Either it's going to give me a big disaster pile, or I somehow got it stuck. Longest time I've seen it think was like 65 minutes haha. But what the heck can you do for 88 minutes! This better be good. I feel like I'm asking a real coder to do the work, but worse, because it's not an actual real coder but a program, so it's more disappointing.
@stormproductions I agree. Gpt sucks. It's trash and it's gotten horrible particularly since uncle Sam keeps rushing to put new models out to try to keep his userbase without properly testing said models to be sure there's, y'know, actual improvements.
And to nobody's surprise, every iteration of gpt 5 has been a complete disaster.
@xogium @stormproductions I'm a noob vibe coder so nothing I say matters, but all three of my NVDA addons were done with GPT 5 and they all worked after a couple hours of back and forth, for what that's worth.
@stormproductions @xogium I honestly haven't found it difficult with this. I talked through what I wanted, it happened. Does Gemini have a decent GUI? I don't feel like doing all that from cli if I don't have to.
@FreakyFwoof @stormproductions @xogium Gemini's cli has a special --screen-reader flag that is really nice. It's why I keep them around honestly it's the nicest to use.
@serrebi @FreakyFwoof @stormproductions @xogium oh interesting! May give it a try at work, we have access to both. I have Google One plan which I share with my partner so we both get Gemini, they prefer it and honestly OpenAI has never allowed for family sharing like that, quite unfortunate. I feel like I need both in my toolbox. OpenAI (pro for now, we'll see if I make enough use of it this month to count) for those "think through and patch files direct inside container for you" moments, Gemini for the "review my code I wrote and that it's not trash and passable to an AI to work on", and they both look at different areas of the code. GPT will get it done even if you give it a bad idea to get done, Gemini's for sure a lot more cautious. So I can't decide on either these days, usually my workflow is augmenting one's response with the answer of the other, which makes me wonder what a powerful tool could be built if it just passed your prompt between the 2 AIs to solve, I'm sure someone's thought of that by now.
@FreakyFwoof @stormproductions @xogium I'm terrible for pointing this out to you, it probably doesn't apply but they give you an individual youtube premium sub with ultra. I wish it was family , then I'd think about it at least.
@serrebi @stormproductions @FreakyFwoof @xogium yeah, even in the "AI pro" plan :) + the 2 TB Gmail is nice, well, that's why I was initially subbed to it but they migrated people over with a slight price bump. economically speaking I think if I wanted to get the most use out of AI, Gemini does win by a longshot, even if GPT's now trying to compete with their $8 "go" plan LOL
@stormproductions @FreakyFwoof @xogium Gemini makes good early decisions for me when it comes to accessibility, but if I need to fix something like in the table output or something nitty griddy like that, I still find myself going to Codex.
@xogium Yep, I have switched away from GPT, and won't be using it at least till they stop making new models just to up that number and not really add anything interesting.
@stormproductions If they are still up after all the crap they go through right now, that is...
Trials for the death of several people that trusted gpt with things, claims that chatgpt can even be trusted with health advices now when it clearly can't -- I'm not joking! I saw an ad about it!
Then also the Musk case. Oh dear oh dear. Now I don't like Musk at all but truth is, he's apparently got 60% chance of winning his case against OpenAI. And he asked for a jaw dropping $134b iirc.
@xogium Wow. Didn't even hear about that - I don't really follow such news that much. Well... I'm a happy Gemini Pro user and I won't be switching too soon.
@xogium @stormproductions I do use Gemini, quite often to double-check code GPT wrote, because it will scan through it a lot faster. But (at least on web) it's horrible at pasting back code you gave it exactly 1 to 1 still, like it'll omit sections that it's pasting back of the code I gave it, and I'm yelling at it "give me full pieces! No omissions!" Haha. It's gotten better but GPT having an entire container inside to access and run Linux commands, not to mention I've uploaded a 30-40 MB zip file to it with my entire Gitub repo and Gemini just yells at me, "file is too large." LOL.
Pravidelné kombinování různých druhů fyzické aktivity může být nejlepší pro prodloužení délky života, ale souvislosti nejsou lineární, což naznačuje možný optimální prahový efekt www.news-medical.net/news/2026012...
Regularly doing a mix of different types of physical activity may be best for prolonging the lifespan, but the associations aren't linear, pointing to a possible optimal threshold effect, suggests research published in the open access journal BMJ Med…
God, Mac OS is really awful these days! A notification comes in, no VO focus on it, so hit VO+F1 twice, notifications menu has "go to Notification Center" and..."No items in Notification center!" Also, "Go to Notification Center" doesn't actually do anything! If something this basic doesn't work, it's no wonder VO is so bad. Case in point, every time my Mac restarts now, it comes up saying "Installer has no Windows." I have to use VO+Shift+Space to click the mouse because it's hanging out in the Login Window, while Vo's focus refuses to move from this blank Installer Window no matter what. Pressing VO+F1 just says, "Authentication required." Shit, maybe I just need to blow the OS away and start over.
I did that last week and it actually did fix most of those weird behaviours. Not that VoiceOver itself is any better in things like Web navigation or text documents, but it clearly got rid of some odd bugs
New: NV Speech Player finally gets a "pause mode" setting, like Eloquence has. This should not chew into lines with say-all, but rather does clause-based punctuation pause detection. And, it does appear to work. You can choose between "off," "short," and "long." This should solve a lot of complaints around words "merging together" after punctuation. I also began my first pass at abstracting parts of the driver out: _frontend.py and _dll_loader.py. Logging was also improved, I cleaned up over 40 try/catch exceptions, We're not trying to play Pokemon here. download: eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay… Oh! and for those wondering "where's classic pitch?" It's located in the Voice settings dialog, you'll find it as a checkbox.
Our parliament holds 101 members + bunch of officers in the parliament + a ministry which deals with finances. They recently passed a law, which, apparently by error, made all gambling websites except from paying taxes in Estonia. Loss in tens of millions of euros, which in Estonias view is a considerable sum. Now, to avoid this situation in the future, they are talking about implementing AI in law making and in the process. What could possibly go wrong.
Whatever the AI says is right. Yours is probably better than mine since your AI is the best AI the world has ever seen. Therefore you are the best person, with the best skills. Just an FYI, I'd like to purchase Estonia because why not? I could make Estonia a big data center. I need it because @BorrisInABox and @FreakyFwoof are all running AIS on their Macs which might be bigger than mine and yours combined. So gimme. Gimme gimme gimme ... urp.
My partner and I visited Norway and hiked (a surprisingly short hike) to a place called Litlefjellet -This was the view! Litlefjellet, Norwegian for ‘Little Mountain’, is the name of the center mountain. Plus, we found the iconic pond that perfectly reflects the whole scene. I loved it so much that I decided to make it into wood art! I hope you love it, too #woodart #artandairplanes #art #woodworking #wood #norway #mountains #hiking #sun
Loving the trend of all of these new free lightweight apps, both human and AI coded. Just in the past few months: * New lightweight Mastodon/BlueSky client * New Github viewer * New ebook reader * New RSS reader * a web-based typing tutor * And many more I'm missing. What other cool apps do we need to shoutout?
I made three NVDA addons. WikiSeek: NVDA+w, Type your query, searches wikipedia, comes up with a result in a text field. Cuts out all the guff. Downside it cuts out tables too, but you have the option of opening up the article in browser too. Configurable in settings as to whether it auto-opens, and which wikipedia language you want it to pull articles from.
dateParser: NVDA+E. Enter a passed or future date to find out how many days, weeks months or years ago it was either for curiocity, or to find out when a special date happened or will happen for you in the future. You can say things like: 2025-05-01 or 35 Mondays ago, or 19 Tue from now.
Minuter: NVDA+Shift+Backspace. Enable/disable beeps, spoken seconds or use the supplied sound files to go off every second, 5 seconds before the top of the next minute and at the top of the next minute. Your settings remain active even when the dialog is closed. All can be downloaded from here: onj.me/nvda
@serrebi Anything created by @midzi , including SARA - which is accessible radio automation software and some GUI tools for Shazam on Desktop: github.com/michaldziwisz
My wife and I are fortunate to be in Iceland at the moment, and we managed to capture a timelapse of last night’s aurora. It was one of those moments in my life when I could hardly believe my own eyes. Enjoy! #aurora #iceland #timelapse
Our system has been all weird since our stressful weekend. I'd like it to not. I'm sure we'll be okay, it's just annoying that stressors continue to effect our headspace and system behavior for a couple days after. - Samara
Relatable. And I'm sorry. Here it's either everyone distressed, physical body pain, or daydreaming exessively, like, can't stop even if I want to. It'll all get normal, but I advice to usually checkin with everyone, to see if something is bothering one of you and to just provide each other comfort. Safety in numbers, and unity makes system stronger etc. I hope you figure out the headspace stuff soon. And you all get a little virtual hug.
If you run a mastodon instance, it's time to upgrade. There are some security issues fixed in the version released today: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…
Upgrade overview
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Got this error when updating to latest version. File "platforms\mastodon\__init__.py", line 3, in <module> File "pyimod02_importers.py", line 457, in exec_module File "platforms\mastodon\account.py", line 8, in <module> ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'cache'
Oh goodness, the internet is saying that the new Trek show that just came out is super cringey. Why oh why do they keep pulling this garbage? I'm all for DEI stuff, but can't it be done without making it so cringey that people just check out? Honestly, as a person who is both blind and gay, it's kind of insulting that something this aweful is supposed to help people like me feel more excepted and whatnot in society. #GetALife
The applyVoiceToFrame function loops through all frame fields (47) for each frame, which is heavy. Since only a handful of fields are modified by voices, precomputing the operations for each voice once could significantly boost performance. By mapping the voice operations to a precomputed list, I can reduce the 94 lookups per frame. That will help things out here a lot I think.
@FastSM Can we get an option so when you move someone to a list you can hide their posts from the home timeline? ON twitter I used to do this by adding them to a list and not following them. but on mastodon, you have to follow them so you get dupe posts. one in the list and one in home. I'm just wanting to make things a bit cleaner.
I know of a couple of options, Easygram and something called TGram, but since telegram support won't probably make it to FastSM, as far as I understand, know of any other telegram clients, especially for mac OS?
Thank goodness. I already fixed that language switching bug. No new link because it's so close to V4's release that V4's link was updated. If you really want it, grab the V4 link with another browser. This one also updates it so notification doesn't have a slight W sound in it, so yeah. That's fixed too. Now I can really work on refactoring and not adding updates for next version. Oh yay.
So my dad, who is a musty old conservative, but like, not in a stupid way, says he thinks the only way out of our current political mess is a civil war, most likely with ~100,000 dead. So, uh, that's fun. :/
I've been saying that MAGA would have to quit their jobs to build their militia and that means the banks would start foreclose and the repo men would be coming for their trucks pretty early into this endeavour, but Trump is giving them jobs at ICE now...
we also have to consider whether or not people are willing to lower their standard of living/safety by that much. You're going to have to give up a lot to wage a real war. Systems will break down, supply lines will dry up, suddenly you're wondering where to even get food from as the store shelves go empty and people start to panic AND PROBABLY TURN ON YOU FOR CREATING THIS PROBLEM
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