Welp, I got my answers and the Yen is at its weakest level in a third of a century so it looks like I'll be able to tell you how it works from a first-hand perspective in about 2-4 weeks' time.

(FreeWrite didn't appeal because it's cloud-reliant. This thing uses UTF-8 text files and an SD card. Also, I've been pining for a Pomera since I saw one in Japan in 2007. Add 18 years of incremental improvements to what is basically a Japanese business writing tool …)
wandering.shop/@cstross/112755…

Listening to an episode of Terminal Talk about IBM mainframes. They're discussing open source on zos and what's the first tool they mentioned? Curl of course.

@bagder is probably used to this. Where isn't curl available?

pca.st/episode/303e34ce-9dbf-4…

IBM Open Enterprise Foundation for z/OS - Anthony Giorgio, Mike Fulton, Igor Todorovski - Terminal Talk

In this podcast, we‘ll take a look at the people, technology, and culture behind one of the world‘s most powerful and important computing platforms, the Mainframe.

^{Pocket Casts}

The new Tony Blair Institute report on public sector automation savings classifies the potential to automate a task based on… how much GPT-4 classifies a task as automatable.

Is this the worst method ever? It’s absurd, unserious, and any outlet reporting on this uncritically should be humiliated and ridiculed. (seen via @halcyene)

A good (if long) article from Stratechery looking at implications of the EU’s plans to fine tech companies disproportionately to their EU revenue.

stratechery.com/2024/the-e-u-g…

The E.U. Goes Too Far

Recent E.U. regulatory decisions cross the line from market correction to property theft; if the E.U. continues down this path they are likely to see fewer new features and no new companies.

^{Stratechery by Ben Thompson}

#ESP32 actually looks like a city. This would make a great basis for a cyberpunk town's map :D

Sauce: zeptobars.com/en/read/Espressi…

#dieshots

Hey @fdroidorg, how about we replace the "Non-Free Network Services" flag with two more specific Anti-Feature flags; "Non-Changeable Network Services" and "Proprietary Network Services";

forum.f-droid.org/t/propsosal-…

#SoftwareFreedom #Android #FDroid #AntiFeatures #NetworkServices

Propsosal: Split "Non-Free Network Services" into separate flags for changeability and code license

I’d like to propose splitting the “Non-Free Network Services” flag into two separate Anti-feature flags; “Non-Changeable Network Services” and “Proprietary Network Services”.

^{F-Droid Forum}

Poprvé vidím v požadavcích na pracovní pozici „aktivní členství v klubu #juniorguru” 🤯 Dobře ty, @mwenisch!

Celý inzerát tady: mastodon.cesko.digital/@mwenis…

Martin Wenisch

2024-07-06 09:45:09

Na svoje projekty hledam vyvojarskou pomoc (React + TypeScript) a rad dam prilezitost lidem pred prvni praci, kteri muzou benefitovat i z meho mentoringu.

mwenisch.notion.site/Vyvojarst…

Budu moc rad boostovani tu. Ale hlavne za osobni sireni mezi juniory a velka pomoc by bylo i sdileni na LinkedInu, kde je precijen vetsi sance, ze se nejake zacatecnictvo najde.

linkedin.com/posts/mwenisch_vy…

#prace #developer #it #react #typescript

Martin Wenisch on LinkedIn: Vyvojarstvo pro muhu.digital | Notion

Na svoje projekty v muhu.digital hledam vyvojarskou pomoc (React + TypeScript) a rad dam prilezitost lidem pred prvni praci, kteri muzou benefitovat i z meho…

^{Martin Wenisch (www.linkedin.com)}

Bei mir werden anscheinend geteilte Beiträge leer, also ohne Inhalt angezeigt. Beispielsweise folgender Beitrag: loma.ml/display/373ebf56-1666-…

Dieser wird in meiner Timeline folgendermaßen dargestellt:

Woran kann das liegen?

@Friendica Support

Da hat die Werbefirma wohl etwas zu verbergen?

Beschwerde von noyb: Xandr verweigert jede Datenauskunft
netzpolitik.org/2024/beschwerd…

#DSGVO

Beschwerde von noyb: Xandr verweigert jede Datenauskunft

Nach einer Recherche von netzpolitik.org zur Werbedatenplattform Xandr wollten Datenschutzbehörden deren Praktiken untersuchen. Die NGO noyb macht nun Druck, damit etwas passiert, und reicht Beschwerde ein.

^{netzpolitik.org}

Yesterday I came across an episode of a podcast I previously did not know about. I'm not a fan of podcasts generally so I do not promote them as a rule, but for JAWS users I thought this provided a lot of food for thought and some interesting ideas came out of it. I thought I may even take up one or two of them myself!

The podcast episode is called "What would you like to see next in JAWS, as a screen reader user?" You'll need to sit down with a cup of tea when this is on because it's quite lengthy, but by and large it was well put together.
I did write some comments back to the hosts, so listen to the ep and then come back and read my comments below if you would like to.
The link to the episode is here.
storage.pinecast.net/podcasts/…

Comments from me:
I came across this podcast completely by accident when browsing the local timeline of this instance and I found it an interesting discussion. I had no idea about your podcast previously.
Thank you for the one or two name checks.

Largely I agree with a lot of what Robin had to say.
1. Definitely tell the English speaking distributors to put up or shut up. That's a given. We must, must, get to this point of monthly or annual subscription.
2. Robin's phrase bank. That's a bit of an old chessnut. We've had that in Leasey for 10 years now, so I'm sure if Vispero really wanted to do that they could.
3. A script store. I see a lot of problems with that, probably quite a few you haven't thought about.
4. Repetitive text.
I honestly don't think this problem is as severe as Robin is leading us to believe. I think a lot of it is related to the fact that applications are becoming less script-dependent on the part of JAWS.
Certainly there are lots of scripts per application but often the focus now is on obtaining information directly from the app which is sending the spoken output to the screen-reader. The Microsoft Outlook calendar for many years is a real case in point.
That used to be heavily script dependent so there was a good deal of control over what was spoken and how it was spoken. Now, that doesn't happen.
So as well as plenty of additional text which noone really wants to hear, sometimes that text will be repeated due to various factors.
There needs to be plenty of communication with Microsoft and other bodies so as to allow for lots of customisation when a developer is sending messages to a screen-reader, and the model of excellence here is Zoom Conferencing, because they have made a start on exactly that. You can choose what it is you would like to be announced.

Unser Balkonsolar Buch:
Wir, Dr. Andreas Schmitz, Christian Ofenheusle, Sebastian Müller und Prof. Dr. Stefan Krauter, haben ein Buch für Balkonsolar-Anfänger geschrieben.
Es werden praktisch alle wichtigen Dinge erklärt und beschrieben. Ihr könnt das Buch in der PDF Version kostenlos und ohne Registrierung downloaden:

akkudoktor.net/balkonsolar-buc…

Balkonsolar Buch - Akkudoktor

Wir Dr. Andreas Schmitz, Christian Ofenheusle, Sebastian Müller und Prof. Dr. Stefan Krauter haben ein Buch für Balkonsolar-Anfänger geschrieben. Danke an Simone Herpich für das Lektorat.

^Akkudoktor

Portrait of Jeanne Gonzales,
Eva Gonzales, 1870?

#art #merzart #impressionism #evagonzales #painting

🚨 noyb has filed a complaint against the ad broker Xandr (a Microsoft subsidiary)!

👉 Despite selling its service as “targeted”, Xandr holds conflicting information about people.

As if that weren't enough, Xandr also refuses to comply with access requests.

noyb.eu/en/microsofts-xandr-gr…

Microsoft's Xandr grants GDPR rights at a rate of 0%

noyb has filed a GDPR complaint regarding transparency issues, the right of access and the use of inaccurate information about users

^noyb.eu

The #translation contribution guide is now available! If you want to translate #FeatherWiki into your own language to help others use it more easily, follow the instructions in CONTRIBUTING.md:

codeberg.org/Alamantus/Feather…

There are 2 methods included: one for those comfortable making pull requests and another for those who are not. And if you're not up for making a full translation, I'd appreciate help ensuring new translations are accurate as they are created.

Thanks in advance!

#i18n

FeatherWiki/CONTRIBUTING.md at main

FeatherWiki - A tiny, self-contained JavaScript wiki that runs in the browser (Also mirrored on GitHub: https://github.com/Alamantus/FeatherWiki)

^Codeberg.org

We just never learn, do we? Open source support forums should never be in proprietary environments: sooner or later they will be closed and all the shared knowledge lost.

#reddit #antennapod

Great article by vox on modern #panpsychism in the scientific setting.
It reaches a bit but the idea that base layer of reality is consciousness not matter is fascinating

vox.com/future-perfect/353430/…

#philosophy #biology

What if absolutely everything is conscious?

The theory that everything is conscious was mocked as unscientific. But new evidence shows a brain is not necessary for cognition. AI may become conscious, too.

^{Sigal Samuel (Vox)}

I'd like to share with you the "State of Text Rendering 2024", a survey of the Free & Open Source fonts & text rendering landscape advancements since 2009.

behdad.org/text2024/

⚡️ 2 killed, 16 injured in children’s hospital after Russian attack. At least two adults were killed and 16 people injured, including seven children, in the Okhmatdyt children’s hospital during a Russian attack on July 8, officials said. kyivindependent.com/russian-mi…

🐦🔗: nitter.oksocial.net/KyivIndepe…

[2024/07/08 12:37]