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I'm looking for a secure Messaging app replacement for #GrapheneOS but my web searches haven't turned up any clear answers. I use Signal and love it - I'm just looking for something for SMS/MMS that isn't as unsightly as the default Messaging app, with better use of the available screen real estate, and perhaps has some basic theme and/or layout options. Any recommendations from personal experience?
I think people will get confused by the way you formulated the post "secure messaging app" that is why you will get recommendations for Delta Chat and other encrypted messengers, maybe better clarify you mean "secure SMS app" to avoid confusion, and btw I recommend you to give a try to #DeltaChat as replacement for Signal, no phone number or any data required, decentralized, good multi-device, etc.
Don't mind me, I'll just be over here mumbling to myself that I warned you all that e-mail was not designed to be, and therefore was never intended to be, an instant messaging service. So don't come to me when e-mails are delayed an unusual amount of time.
actually, #email (#SMTP + #IMAP) can totally be used for #InstantMessaging it is not the protocols it is the specific email providers and "big fishes" like #gmail and #Outlook the ones that put extra limitations on top like graylisting etc. with #ArcaneChat and #DeltaChat you can have sub-second (#ENCRYPTED) email delivery
Never buy a OnePlus phone ever again. They now have a hardware anti-rollback fuse that blows if you revert to an earlier version or install a custom ROM.
@emassey0135 Hi, please can you accept my follow request? I'm already your follower at @clv0, but I'm migrating to this account now. Thanks in advance.
> modetc is a Linux kernel module that rewrites paths in file operations: it allows you to move files wherever you like, while still having programs finding them where they expected them to be.
Mir steuerneutral zu ermöglichen, meine Altersvorsorge vom Vanguard FTSE All World in einen Amundi Prime All Country World umzuschichten, wäre im Sinne von #BuyFromEU auch mal eine gute Maßnahme. Aber mit BlackRock-Merz und der 'Die Rente ist sicher'-SPD wahrscheinlich nicht zu machen.
"Steuerneutral" ist ein schönes Framing für Steuersenkung. Warum sollten Gewinne nicht besteuert werden, wenn sie realisiert werden? Schließlich ist die Kapitalertragssteuer ja schon ein besonderes Steuersparinstrument für Vermögende und Selbstständige mit einem verringerten Steuersatz ggü. der Einkommenssteuer.
das sieht unsere Steuergesetzgebung aktuell anders und das finde ich auch gut so. Wir haben sicherlich nicht zu wenige Schlupflöcher. Da brauchen wir keine neuen komplexen Konstrukte.
Historical fact: Canada joined World War 2 ten days after the start. America entered 2 years and 3 months later. Let’s remember that in our next speech…
I’m Avi Lewis and I’m running to be the next leader of the federal NDP. Very excited to be part of the Fediverse!
I’m running for NDP leader because it’s time for the NDP to return to its roots—fighting a system rigged for the rich that leaves the rest of us behind.
We can build a Canada based on care instead of greed, but only if we do it together. There are only 4 days left to join the NDP so you can vote in the leadership race, so get your membership before Jan 28th and let’s fight for a government that serves the many, not the money.
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when you are trying to sleep at night and suddenly remember that #ArcaneChat / #DeltaChat are the only piece of software out there that makes it possible easily and for free to have a #decentralized #e2ee #mailinglist #newsletter (called "channels" inside the app) that is portable, doesn't depend on a specific/central #email server and can be easily migrated to a completely different server / address without any visible change or disturbance for your subscribers
Wellp, I've had it with the Asus routers. I'm simply done with their absolutely useless JAVA Script-infested-and-100%-dependence to make anything in their web interface do anything. Clickable buttons that at least NVDA recognizes as such, but still majority remain useless, JFW only sees text, with no label or control state information communicated. Sometimes clicking these random clickables/words of text do things, such as the main navigation, but try to set up VLANs, more detailed WAN configurations, port forwarding, pretty much 99% of the router interface, and its useless with a screen reader. For the longest time, I was figuring out equivalent CLI commands, and writing scripts to do more advanced stuff, hacking its NVRAM settings, and BASH scripts, but I'm just done with the whole damn thing. Of course, the Netgear switch web interfaces are no better, and that makes two of my switches management useless. I was able to enable an unsupported telnet feature in one of the switches, and was able to configure VLANs there through trial and error, and reading manuals for other switches using a similar Broadcom FastPath OS stack. I managed to make that work, but yet again, another ridiculous workaround that has about as much chance of breaking in a future update, as shit has a chance to come out of the end of a biological organisms digestive system on a regular basis. So its time to find a whole new stack and rip out my entire network and rebuild it.
@jfayre Last I looked, and that was years ago, they were not in the 10Gbps game yet. Do you know if they have a device capable of dual-WAN, has at least two 10GBPS ports, but more are always preferred, and if more than two 10GBPS ports are not available, then 2.5Gbps is the minimum port speed required.
I’m seeing less blind people post on Masto as of late. And I can’t tell if it’s just because of the amount of cool people I’m following who aren’t blind or because people have left for other platforms. DOn’t get me wrong. I see posts from blind people all the time. It just feels like the number of blind people posting has dropped. Not that there are less posts from blind people in general. But maybe that’s just my field of view talking.
I think it's probably because the windows clients are falling further and further behind. TWBlue doesn't support polls. Tweesecake still has a bunch of issues and no updates in like a year. Even if people liked web clients, Enafore still has issues with notifications and not updating timelines sometimes. On top of that, Mona on IOS and mac released a new paid version, so people would have to subscribe to it; it's not a one-time purchase anymore. If FastSM ever gets off the ground, or TWBlue gets the promised updates, activity will probably go back up a little. But if FastSM becomes the won, it also supports bluesky, so we might see the community split a bit now that they have a choice.
@fastfinge Ah yes. I was missing the client issue. My iPad is my main device these days. I have a laptop, but I only use it when strictly necessary. I’m on Mona 7, but that was a one-time purchase for me. Thankfully, Fastsm looks promising. But I suspect you may be right about a future split.
@fastfinge I switched from Tweesecake to FastSM last week. FastSM now has some features that Tweesecake didn't, namely the ability to report posts/users, along with some pretty decent pole support and scheduling posts. For me, that's huge. Granted, aside from a couple trolls I haven't had to report many people, but the function's there in case it's needed, which is definitely no bad thing.
@jdking92@Rosalyn I just wish they'd get the same issue with links that tweesecake had sorted out. A lot of posts that absolutely have links it says have no links and you have to use the clipboard. I filed an issue with some approaches I think would work and an offer to make a pr, so we shall see.
I saw that issue, but I actually think the issue with links lies within some forks of Mastodon having the ability to post markdown. This absolutely breaks the entire world for some reason and it just hasn't been high on my priorities list to figure out.
Still sad, but I'm still workin on NV Speech. Did not abandon it. I've fixed all clicks in the driver, and the next version? It'll have a sample rate combo-box. I am thinking some people will like it at 11025 HZ but some might want 22050. This one will let you pick. It's important for sound quality and the default 16000 may sound too harsh on some ears who are used to Eloquence's 11025.
@fastfinge yeah, try it at 11025. I think it removes a lot of the sharp edges while still not sounding too bad. 22050 to me also sounds better than 16000, 44100 is just awful. But people will now have the freedom to choose.
@fastfinge yeah, that is surprising to me too! The benjamin thing is for sure odd. Almost like it's too squished and narrow to fit into the sample rate at that point.
Almost like the energy from the pulses is too narrow somehow? Maybe. Hmmm. If you change the sample rate on IOS, eloquence develops a weird lisp. So this tells us that whatever they're doing depends on the weird sample rate to sound good.
@fastfinge I guess the good thing is the voice parameters themselves are very easy to tune in the NVDA driver itself, at least to change the numbers for that specific voice. So it wouldn't be hard to mess with that and find a new "person" through the driver that way, then it's very easy to use elsewhere. But the driver's not a bad playground for just tuning voice characteristics itself.
@fastfinge that's where AI might be useful, maybe. If it can understand the parameter relationships better between each and tune more carefully, who knows. I partially tried that yesterday with a new "reed" voice but it sounded too close to Adam so meh, reverted it. There's probably also more frame params to control as part of the voice, since they're tied to the 47 parameters you get when you enable the "exposeExtraParams" flag in the driver code. But we wouldn't want to make a voice that sounds like PC speaker tones either or something nuts like that, so it has to be carefully set. And if you look at the key for Caleb you can see they set some of the Aspiration stuff that say, Adam leeaves alone. Things like that.
Speak for yourself! This voice I made that just makes high pitched squealing noises that causes weird harmonics in my headphones is exactly what I wanted. Now I have an on demand headache generator. Perfect for work meetings I'd rather not attend! LOL JK
@mckensie yeah, I think the trick there is, we'd have to include Espeak inside of it as well. Like, something has to do the phoneme converting. There's already Android Espeak, so this may not be hard, but it does add complexity in ever making it cross-platform like that.
Regarding my last repost: One of the counties mentioned in the list of news items after the article is like 5 minutes or less from me. Sometimes it’s embarrassing to be where I’m from. Or if not embarrassing, shameful. Book banning is just disgusting to me. I’ve learned so much from books! But that’s just it, isn’t it? They don’t want the young people to learn. God I have so many thoughts on this. Knowledge is power!
I usually don’t share stuff like this online but whatever. That’s one of the many things about Christianity, the narrative of it, that I can’t fuck with. The one and only sin was to eat from the tree of knowledge. Why is that? That seems oppressive. Reminds me of a jealous controlling parent or spouse, not a loving creator. Knowledge is power, and whoever wants to oppress you doesn’t want you to have it. Maybe that means just reading books is bucking the system.
so my friend who goes by the name gamer20 in a lot of blind circles made macintalk 3 for windows, based on the wintalker project (not the czech synth, the windows port of macintalk). Anyway, he made it so that we can actually craft our own voices and stuff like that. Here's the download link. drive.google.com/file/d/1LimKw…
Maybe avoid using Google Drive to share this sort of thing. They're extremely strict on copyright, and the link is already gone: "We're sorry. You can't access this item because it is in violation of our Terms of Service. Find out more about this topic at the Google Drive Help Center."
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I haven't seen any videos and there's a ton of conflicting reports out there but everyone seems to agree that he did not have possession of his weapon when they unloaded on him so there's zero justification for self defense if that detail is true
Hi Steven, I'm physically fine, internet blackout past almost two weeks, more than 20,000 innocent people have died in the recent protest by the Islamic Republic. Please be the voice of Iranians.
české eknihy DRM nemají. Jinak fyzická výroba knihy je spíše malý náklad. Tak do 10 % z koncové ceny. Takže na tom moc neušetří a fyzické jsou častěji v akci, protože zabírají fyzické místo ve skladech a obchodech, které musí uvolnit pro novější. Tenhle problém eknihy nemají.
@tritol128 Tohle je bohužel hodně vzdálené realitě. Ta je taková, že podíl eknih na celkových tržbách je v Evropě 13 %, český trh je konzervativnější, u nás je ten podíl údajně jen 10 %. A poslední roky už ten podíl ani neroste.
To si myslím, že je další důvod vyšší ceny eknih, než bychom si přáli: i s nimi je spojená nějaká příprava, což jsou fixní náklady, které se při desetinových prodejích rozpouští v nákladech na kus poněkud hůře.
@sesivany @tritol128 Tak když se nevyužívají dvě hlavní výhody e-knih, tak se e-knihy hůře prosadí.
1) Jednoduché aktualizace a opravy chyb ve vydaných e-knihách.
2) E-knihy lze prodávat do nekonečna, což se nevyužívá, protože licence jsou časově omezené jako u tištěných knih. Pak se stane, že ze série jsou dostupné třeba jen poslední tři knihy… To pak nemá cenu tu sérii ani kupovat 🤷♂️
@jhutar @mkyral @tritol128 u českých titulů se to neděje, ale u zahraničních ano, protože u nich si čeští vydavatelé kupují časově omezené licence. Často oni sami nechtějí na víc než pár let, protože drtivá většina prodejů se uskuteční po vydání knihy. Proč tedy kupovat licenci na 10 let, když 90 % prodejů se uskuteční v prvních dvou letech? Papírové knihy mají tu výhodu, že existuje sekundární trh. U eknih pak člověk nemá legální způsob, jak se ke knize dostat.
”Sivuston pyörittämiseen kuuluvat palvelinmaksut tulevat kalliiksi näillä lukijamäärillä ja tietysti reseptien kehittelyyn kuluu paljon rahaa. Tähän asti olen saanut sivuston pyörimään mainosrahoitteisesti sponsoroiduilla sisällöillä, mutta viime vuosina mainostajat eivät ole olleet kiinnostuneita nettisivujen mainossisällöistä ja talouden kiristyessä myös somessa yhteistyökumppaneiden löytäminen on ollut koko ajan vaikeampaa.”
Ilmainen vegaaninen reseptipankki kaipaa apuasi! Perustin Chocochilin vuonna 2008 sillä ajatuksella, että halusin tehdä vegaanisesta ruoasta kaikille helposti…
Seit fünf Jahren lässt #DATAGROUP gebrauchte Firmen-IT von afb aufbereiten.
Rund 42.000 Geräte wurden seither entweder wiederverwendet oder recycelt. Die ReUse-Quote liegt bei 70 Prozent. Die Partnerschaft spart Ressourcen, senkt Emissionen und schafft inklusive #Arbeitsplätze.
Gute Sache prinzipiell. Aber leider bekommt man bei afb keine Geräte ohne vorinstalliertes Windows, wie mir vor einiger Zeit auf Nachfrage mitgeteilt wurde.
Also we are not sure yet if this is going to happen or not, but we have decided we want to merge our accounts together. So @preciousoso, and the rest of us can post on one account. Mainly so that we dont have to maintain two, and also because we want to just be us. not just her and then us, or not just us, and she is separated. So I am not sure how that will work. - Lily
Yaa, that's a good thought you're considering, we did that as well, saves time we could spend on something else instead of organising, switching between accounts, account management, time in seconds tends to be precious, so optimal solution was achieved, finally. With everyone's agreement. TM.
Cold, much? Damn sir. By the way did I remember correctly you have a TP-Link router? If so, do you want to test my script for making it much nicer to use it? If it wasn't you then I don't know who it was.
Well if you feel like installing Tamper Monkey for your browser and enabling user scripts, you can try the script I had ChatGPt rustle up this morning. If you're seeing Void0? Yeah. That's what my router shows. Doesn't mean it's definitely TP-Link but if you log into it and look near the bottom, you should be able to find out if that is the case or not.
It's a browser extension. If you can install it and configure it to allow user scripts you should be good to go. Also have a script that fixes some of the shortcut keys in WhatsApp web if you ever use that, instead of the main desktop app.
@FreakyFwoof ok, I got it installed, now I just need to figure out how to configure it to allow for user scripts, then I can get the script from you, somehow install that, and I should be good to go, but yes, it is installed.
OK, here's the moment of truth. You click this, you'll get a prompt asking if you want to install, you do that, you visit your router page, go to somewhere you know there should be checkboxes and we see what happens. You should also be able to press Control Shift K and it should say something if the script is active, and it detects you're on a TP-Link router... onj.me/tplink-router-accessibi…
THe USA (as well as the rest of the world, maybe not including China) would have a serious problem if there was no internet. Systems would fail. Airplanes wouldn't fly. Powerr and heating would eventually go out. Grocery shopping would be impossible (no credit cards, no ATMs, no ability to restock). Same with telecoms (they're more resilient than everybody else, but they'd likely succumb to the same fate sooner or later).
I propose we put a 100% on American software and SaaS.
Your Adobe cloud ? 100% tariff. Your Copilot 365 ? 100% tariff. Your Windows license ? 100% tariff. Your Apple Studio license or subscription ? 100% tariff.
But there is an easier way. @pluralistic has the gist of it.
Repeal the portion of Harper's C-11 where DRM override Canadian rights. Make repairing things legal. Also cancel the copyright extension.
Put back the DST (but the banker would never dare to do so) to encompass these "rental services" mentionned above. Tax Uber, Lyft and other "gig economy". You should be able to reconcile that from the tax information and send them the bill.
The thing about saying on the Fediverse what our politicians should do is that we know they won't even hear it as we are not the CSAM generator and nazi bar they cherish so much.
Hi everyone. It's a balmy -5 right now. Later the windchill is expected to be -35. Needless to say this woman is not going anywhere. Right now I'm listening to Highway 61 revisited, one of my favorite radio shows on WUMB. Albert O is so good at presenting some lesser played classic music. Right now he's doing a Neil Diamond set as it's his 85th birthday. I'm just going to read, knit and maybe watch a movie later. Have a good day and staywarm and safe!
Sounds like a plan. I don't think I've ever experienced that kind of windchill in my life. (I remember Eloquence pronouncing windchill like "windkill," which seems appropriate sometimes. I wonder if it still does.) Sometimes I used to have to walk to the commuter rail station with a windchill of -15 F when I was up there, and it wasn't fun, but I'm pretty sure that was the most cold I've ever had to experience. We're getting freezing rain here, and people are advised to stay off the roads if at all possible. I was going to go to a meetup later today, but now it's happening over Zoom. It might get down into the teens in some places, and it's kind of an issue mostly because we don't normally prepare for that kind of cold. Freeze shelters need to open, pipes aren't very well insulated, and so on. But it isn't nearly as cold as what you're getting up there.
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