😽 Hi. I'm Ginny. Before I block you all, here's an intro:
In 2017 I was targeted by the nazi terrorist group Proud Boys. That resulted in things like death threats mailed to my apartment and losing my ability to work. I had to flee the country.
I have no money, can't work (for health reasons, abuse reasons, and visa reasons), no living family, and live alone with multiple chronic illnesses and heaps of PTSD.
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Taky zajímavá aplikace. Umí neomezené streamování hudby z YouTube Music bez reklam zdarma, přehrávat ji na pozadí a bez přihlášení ke Google/YouTube účtu. 👍
@archos Ještě ji více otestuji a napíšu o ní. Vyzkoušej i YMusic tady z článku. infoek.cz/ymusic-nahrada-za-va… Umí YouTube i YouTube Music. Hudbu přehrává i hlasitěji, protože má kodekové úpravy. ☺️ Pro YouTube Music budeš muset možná nastavit zobrazení Beta funkcí v nastavení. Prostředí je i v češtině. 👍
Aiseesoft Image Upscaler Online je nástroj pro vylepšení fotografií, který vám umožňuje vylepšit rozmazané obrázky, zvýšit super rozlišení obrázku a zlepšit kvalitu obrázku jedním kliknutím. Je zdarma a snadno se používá, zkuste to hned!
Co je za chyták otázka: Vyjmenovat díla od Karla Čapka? Nebo jména planet (pochopil bych, kdyby tam zařadil Pluto, ale zařadit do planet Slunce a Měsíc, pak máme ve sluneční soustavě tak 100+ planet (viz odkaz, nepočítal jsem kolik jich je) :D
Babiš je neschopa, teď se na něj provalilo i to, že je to nevzdělanec a to i na úrovni ZŠ.
Euro Showdown IBSA - Antony France - Table 1Programme et résultats / Schedule and results : www.showdown-tournament.com/index.php?ad=7Programme sous réserve ...
First video in the "decrusted" series where we peel back the crust of the serde crate is now up: youtu.be/BI_bHCGRgMY. I quite like the format, so expect to see more of these! #rustlang
In this stream, we peel back the crust on the serde crate — https://github.com/serde-rs/serde/ — and explore its interface, structure, and mechanisms. We tal...
HarfBuzz 6.0.0 is out with much much faster subsetter (if you create multiple subsets from the same font), faster shaper (for some fonts), variable fonts instancer (no CFF2 support yet), and variable composites (AKA smart components).
A new API have been added to pre-process the face and speed up future subsetting operations on that face. Provides up to a 95% reduction in subsetting times when the same face is subset more than o...
hoy me topé con esta app que subtitula el audio del escritorio (linux). Solo en inglés por ahora pero me parece ya muy útil, ¡y técnicamente increíble! flathub.org/apps/details/net.s…
GNOME Asia Summit 2022 was held on December 2-4, 2022 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.GNOME.Asia Summit is the featured annual GNOME conference in Asia. It focuses...
Hello Fediverse 👋 We're Third Room, the open, decentralized, immersive world platform built on the Matrix protocol by the people at @matrixthirdroom.io
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online! "Decades Later" the @GTK file chooser has gained support for grid view with thumbnails! That and so many other great things happened this week 🥳
Hi Felix! Where should I start (as a coder) if I want to contribute? I worked on GNOME/GTK ~20 years ago, I remember there was a "GNOME Love" list of starter bugs/tasks. Is that still around?
1. gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg… - the feTurbulence filter in librsvg generates a texture that doesn't tile properly. It's also a bug in firefox/inkscape/resvg; it works fine in WebKit.
2. (No bug filed for this yet) the feGaussianBlur filter in librsvg has a horizontal and a vertical pass, and in each pass rows are blurred across multiple cores. However, for the vertical pass, *columns* are blurred in parallel, and I suspect this creates a lot of cache contention.
Why anybody would want to start a project as big as security sensitive as a Matrix server in C, and furthermore without external dependencies, remains a mystery to me.
The accessibility for the blind advent calendar: day 16 - France
Staying in the spirit of ticket machines accessibility, France is doing it right, at least in the city of Metz, not sure about other places. Have a recording of a ticket machine that speaks three languages: French, English and German. Upon pressing a dedicated button above the card read we activate the speech component. Everything that is displayed on screen is read back to us. On starting, the machine greets us in the language of our choice, tells us to insert our travel pass if we have one and reads the minimum and maximum amounts for card and cash payments. The upper part of the touchscreen acts as a navi pad with the left corner taking us to the previous option and the right one to the next. In the lower part, the left corner is "Cancel", while the right is "Confirm". This way we can choose our desired ticket, the preferred payment method and complete our transaction. The recording is a montage of different clips from the machine indicating a chosen ticket in English, through its welcome message in French and German with the latter going through some ticket options, coming back to the full welcome message in English. The recording is peppered with occasional Polish from me as it was originally recorded for our Polish podcast. It was taken using the built-in mikes of my Motorola One smartphone. Now that I listen back, it sounds kinda condensed. #Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #France #Metz #PublicTransport #Audio #recording #FieldRecording
The accessibility for the blind advent calendar: day 16 - France
@sillyblindharper Those aren't as relevant in some European countries as blind people are elligible to ride all of public transport, except high speed trains for free. France is clearly not one but Poland, Germany and Czech Republic are some examples where we don't have to buy tickets. Nevertheless, for the benefit of tourists or blind friends and relatives helping the less technical users of public transport, those should be accessible.
Das Bundeskriminalamt schaltet "Kinderpornografie"-Plattformen im Darknet ab und nimmt die Betreiber fest - ganz ohne Vorratsdatenspeicherung. bka.de/DE/Presse/Listenseite_P… Bundesinnenministerin Nancy Faeser dankt dem BKA - und fordert Vorratsdatenspeicherung: "Die Speicherung von IP-Adressen, mit denen wir Täter identifizieren können, ist unbedingt erforderlich."
Vor allem in Deutschland gilt Mastodon als mögliche Twitter-Alternative. Doch aktuell lassen sich wichtige Teile des Dienstes auf Twitter nicht mehr verlinken. Was das mit Elon Musks Flugdaten zu tun hat.
Belgium is one step closer to secure users' right to deploy personal routers/modems. Regulatory proposal on telecommunications law ticks all boxes ✅ to allow #RouterFeedom.
This is the result of advocacy & community building.
The Belgian regulator BIPT has decided to safeguard Router Freedom for all connection types, including optical fiber (FTTx). The FSFE engaged in the public...
The jQuery 3.6.2 release notes are interesting, especially about how browsers had to change the way the `has:` CSS selector works to avoid breaking jQuery: blog.jquery.com/2022/12/13/jqu…
#euphoric #hardstyle #rawkick...:..::..::: .Upload.Info. :::..::..:....Artist: Alan Walker, Emma Steinbakken.Title: Not You (Forgiven Hardstyle Remix).Labe...
LIBER Tango💃 [Best Version] 'Bandoneon x Violin,Cello&Piano' (A.Piazzolla) / with 고상지LAYERS CLASSIC Super Collaboration Ⅲ⠀⠀'LAYERS CLASSIC x Bandoneonist Sa...
> ICU4X has [gone] all-in on zero-copy deserialization, a technique that ensures that data loading involves fast validation as opposed to slow allocation. To help with this, we have built a suite of crates (yoke, zerovec, zerofrom, and databake) that make zero-copy deserialization easier to work with and more broadly applicable.
Talk by Manish GoregaokarInternationalization involves a lot of data. A Lot. And loading data can be slow.ICU4X has dealt with this by going all-in on zero-c...
I will not collaborate with @Tibor@mastodon.social and won't recommend his tools (#movetodon, whotofollow) because of his unwillingness to reflect his behavior.
CW: Genocide. @melinaborcak informs about the #SrebrenicaGenocide (follow her). Tibor replied with disrespectful "jokes" to her Tweets, after blocking her. When people called him out on it, he blocked them as well. nitter.net/MelinaBorcak/status…
👏 👏 👏 Congratulations to @rhiaro, @hober and @leaverou for their election to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG)!
The W3C TAG provides feedback on nearly any Web related spec., including work happening outside @w3c. Find out how to work with the TAG: tag.w3.org/workmode/
The Council today approved conclusions on enlargement and stabilisation and association process. The conclusions assess the situation in each of the EU candidates and partners, set out guidelines on reform priorities, and reaffirm the Council’s commi…
Twitter banned several journalists for talking about an account that let you track Elon Musk’s jet. Since then, Musk has been trying to justify the decision, and running polls about it.
Wow, the media seems to be edging towards realising why Mastodon and the Fediverse exists: “Musk seems to be intent on proving perhaps the greatest argument against social media: that its vast scale concentrates power in too few hands, with worrying consequences for the health of democratic politics.” news.sky.com/story/trying-to-w…
After another day of erratic decision-making at Twitter, Elon Musk's leadership has come under scrutiny once again. But given his record at SpaceX and Tesla, should we really be surprised by how he's running a social media platform?
Awesome, this would be great. Not sure how long it would take to import my old mails from Gmail, but this is actually the last reason why I’m keeping my account over there.
@quokka1 It was not dropped, but we needed to prepare the backend first. It's actually under active development as we speak, and we *hope* to get a first version out before Christmas. ;)
Let me start with a concrete, question: Are there any efforts / plans to support the upload of videos?
And now, since I might have your attention, allow me to broaden the question to:
What is your opinion regarding "what #Friendicais / should be"?
My view / vision is heading slightly in the direction that nowadays image and video content is quite central in social networks and thus a #Fediverse application like friendica should support the multimedia aspect a bit more, if it wants to be attractive for the broad public in terms of being an alternative to commercial social networks.
Most of you might tell: "Yeah, if one prefers media centric Fediverse, then check out #pixelfed ". But I think, pixelfed is yet too much of an Instagram clone, only providing the image / video focus (which bothered me at Instagram from the very beginning not being able to have good commenting / discussion options there).
In my view, Friendica has great potential becoming a great "one fits all" application for the majority of people who like social media and the concept of the Fediverse. It has way more cool functions than #mastodon / pixelfed (which are in my opinion too close copies of Instagram and Twitter, respectively) but much simpler and convenient than Hubzilla (which I think is really great, for a computer science person, but not for the broad non-technical focussed public)
Wrapping it up: I would love to see a Friendica development towards an easier multimedia support. What are your thoughts?
I personally want/use Friendica as the Facebook UX replacement on the fediverse. The closest thing besides that is Diaspora but DIaspora only federates with the Diaspora protocol not with ActivityPub. On the video questions, that is actually a very interesting question. Media upload in general right now is clunky through the UI. It is one thing I want to fix with the mobile/desktop client I'm working on. Adding short-form video could be interesting but would maybe explode the serving requirements if adopted too liberally by users. That doesn't mean one shouldn't do it. It's just need to be cognizant of it.
WOW, that's really cool and exactly my point when I say "great for a computer scientist, but not for the general non-technical public".
It's a great example of what my thoughts were when starting this thread:
I was under the impression (which could obviously be wrong!) that there are mainly tech and privacy enthusiasts at the Fediverse these days (Mastodon is a slight exception as it has become a sanctuary for Twitter users is).
That's perfectly fine, but in my experience, tech people tend to design a "world" for their needs, unintentionally excluding "non-tech people".
In my opinion, technology and science should serve all people and that developers and scientists have some responsibility for it. Please don't get me wrong here, this is not meant to be a moral appeal, let alone a personal criticism of anyone associated with Fediverse.
In fact, I'm not at all altruistic when I talk about any kind of responsibility. Because offering my contacts who still use commercial networks today an adequate alternative in the Fediverse is my contribution to a Fediverse that meets my needs.
Before video probably image upload should be simplified github.com/friendica/friendica… That's another frontend issue. We need a person willing to work on improving that.
@Marek Bachmann :friendica: I think the question is misguided. Friendica isn’t a coherent entity. It’s developers, present and past (quite a few opinionated choices we’ve had to grapple with), server admins and users.
So ultimately Friendica ends up being what the people working on it want to spend their time on, regardless of any coherent central vision.
So far no developer has had any strong inclination working on image/video, but you can single-handedly change this, and you’ve already started with the wonderful image grid you came up with.
HI @Hypolite Petovan thank you for your precious answer. I can clearly see that my question seems "misguided" in terms of an open source project, which is perfectly fine since it was by intention:
I wanted to hear from you people who are just more experienced in the Fediverse world what YOU think about Fediverse in general and Friendica specifically.
And I think this valuable, not least because there is always the chance that someone's vision does not fit at all to the vision of the majority of other participants on such a project.
I admit that there is a certain amount of reinsurance included in my question, nevertheless.
@Marek Bachmann :friendica: Ah, if it's personal then I can answer! The main reasons why I use Friendica are the following:
Threaded conversations à-la-Facebook.
RSS support.
Diaspora support (I mainly like the concept, I don't have many remaining Diaspora contacts).
Twitter support (although my patience for the platform is rapidly dwindling).
It's written in PHP so I can contribute!
I've looked in Hubzilla as well but I found it too unintuitive and I don't care much about nomad identity anyway.
I also run a single-user Pixelfed instance that I though would be a good complement for images, but I found out that I use it the same way I used Instagram before Facebook bought it out, which excludes casual image posts.
Still, I'm not a big image guy, I'm even less of a video guy, so I've never felt compelled to look into media support in Friendica myself. I've even resorted to post pictures on my Twitter account which would be mirrored on Friendica.
Thank you so much! This is exactly the kind of though exchange I was looking for.
I am not that much in media myself, what is driving me is that I would love to motivate many of my real life contacts to leave commercial platforms for the very reasons we are all know too well.
And I started talking to them already. What I learned so far is, as I elaborated above, they use Instagram / TikTok and so on to "show" their lives but to their own "handpicked" groups.
For me, it is desirable to offer such people a place in the Fediverse. Where they are not subject to advertising and data exploitation.
So I am looking at the Fediverse and its applications at the moment, asking my self: "What might be required that the Fediverse, in terms of an alternative to commercial social media, will be a welcoming and attractive place for all the good people outside, especially when they do not care about the technology itself too much?"
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and exactly my point when I say "great for a computer scientist, but not for the general non-technical public".
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