I always kinda hated this one. I think the point to businesses is real, sure, but it’s important to note that the term “hobby” is used somewhat derisively here. Open source developers and maintainers often see their projects as contributions, not hobbies. I feel like when we accept this narrative, we’re accepting the lie that the only legitimate software is software produced by and/or produced for corporations. I’m not willing to give businesses that monopoly too.
@manchicken I've seen this strip often and never once have taken the use of 'hobby' to be in any way derisive. Such projects may well be professional-grade or better, but that does not mean that it's not a hobby for the maintainers. And there's nothing wrong with that at all.
@elengale @manchicken the original xkcd 2347 strip does not use the word "hobby" anywhere though. My version use that as a reference to a comment on my blog a while back. The phrase in the lower right is a direct quote from that.
Honestly, I'm really glad you kept it open and free to use instead of taking such an important thing and cashing in on it like some other softwares have done.
OK. Then we should redraw the picture a bit to show that there are multiple kernels, multiple TCP/IP stacks, multiple TLS libraries, but only ONE libcurl.
Variety above and variety below, but one solid block in between, used by virtually everyone.
caddy is a go program, go programs belong to the modern kind the kids do where everything is static. So caddy can be downloaded with just curl, no bash required... =)
The funding of critical open-source projects of our everyday lives has becond increasingly important. The Sovereign Tech Fund has set out to improve the situation with various programs that assist these projects as @polexa explains.
We're thrilled being joined by @bagder who shares his experiences with maintaining the #curl project and the STF.
If there is one thing that has become increasingly important in recent years, it is the funding of critical open-source projects that have long been part of our everyday lives.
#LivingBlindfully Coming up on Living Blindfully episode 296, the global blindness agency leadership crisis, when to disclose blindness to a potential employer, and a 3D audio ride in a self-driving car - livingblindfully.com/lbpreview…
Die Verkehrswende als ein ideologisch verblendetes, linksgrünes Nischenprojekt? Es ist leicht zu durchschauen, was die FDP mit ihrem Auto-Plan bezwecken möchte. Zum Glück sind Deutschland und Europa längst weiter.
New from me: I was at the Made By Google event on Tuesday—and even went home with a Pixel 9—but Google also this week announced a few new accessibility features built on AI.
Unmute Presents Introducing Mac Chat: Your New Mac Show!
Join Marty and Chris on Unmute Presents for the launch of Mac Chat, debuting on the 3rd Thursday of the month. This exciting new show will dive into everything Mac, with a focus on accessibility features like VoiceOver. Expect tips, tutorials, and discussions on the latest Mac OS updates, including Sequoia. Marty and Chris are eager to connect with their audience, so tune in and get involved!
Join Marty and Chris on Unmute Presents for the launch of Mac Chat, debuting on the 3rd Thursday of the month. This exciting new show will dive into everything Mac, with a focus on accessibility fe…
The ability to read and write Braille is essential for people who are blind or visually impaired to communicate effectively. To create a Braille document, you must use a Braille printer.
@jorgeapaez1994 I should be charged with a crime for promoting the use of Braille embossers? What planet are you from, exactly? In addition, Braille, hardcopy or electronic, is very much alive. While Braille displays have definite advantages over hardcopy Braille, not everyone has access to Braille displays and many people enjoy reading a book or magazine embossed on paper, not to mention using embossers for things like restaurant menus, Braille handouts for meetings, convention schedules, etc., just as sighted people enjoy reading material on paper as opposed to an eReader. Oh, and by the way, while the article I posted wasn't intended to promote the use of Braille embossers, I certainly have no problem in promoting them and I can and will promote whatever technology that I choose to promote. You don't like it? Put your big boy pants on and deal with it or Block me.
@jorgeapaez1994 Braille is not an irrelevant language. In fact, it's not a language, period. It's a way for blind people to read text in their native language. Also, if we kill off Braille, you have condemned the deaf-blind community to illiteracy and done the exact opposite of what you claim you want to do in that deaf-blind people would now become computer illiterate. For that matter, killing off Braille would put the entire blind population into a state of complete illiteracy. I'm not normally this harsh but you're either a troll or you have no idea of what you're talking about.
@storm What were the results of the NVDA experiment we did a while back with Wine? We might potentially get the battle.net launcher working if it was successful, and add that to #audiogame-manager. Was doing some experimentation earlier with Lutris with the help of @Lironah but think it might be portable enough to get working.
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NVDA works, but it requires some hoop jumping. The main problem with AGM, is how to get the wine instance to stop after the game ends, because, NVDA is still a running process so it remains open.
No, it's mostly in the experimental stage at this point, plus with eh problems introduced by wine 9.X, I'm not sure it would even work any more. I think there's a script in AGM to set up nvda in a bottle.
Lots of interesting stuff happening to TeamTalk QT accessibility. Has anyone played with it? Normally I'm on the betas but I've been out of the loop this round. bearware.dk/?p=1479
What will the Foundation do to protect projects at the heart of Matrix? How do we determine what those “core” projects are? And are there any projects that don’t belong at the Foundation?
We're beginning the process of defining a new governance framework for Foundation projects, in collaboration with the Governing Board and the rest of the ecosystem. matrix.org/blog/2024/08/heart-…
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Every artist, performer and creator on Patreon is about to get screwed out of 30% of their gross revenue, which will be diverted to Apple, the most valuable company on the planet.
Surely this kind of behavior will speed up our real world Monopoly's end game and while Apple must know that on some level they're probably incapable of acting otherwise, like any other monopoly.
I'm just amazed that Cory Doctorow thinks that it is shocking what Apple does, as it seems hardly anything new, predictable, textbook Capitalism.
I can't remember if I made this #game #recommendation before or not, but the Ghost and the Golem is an interactive story type game, set in a shtetl in the Russian Empire in the early 19th century. The game involves both historical events, such as pogroms, ethnic and class tensions, and fantastic elements. Depending how you play it you may encounter no significant fantastic elements, or a lot of them. It can be played on a browser, and it is text-based, and accessible. choiceofgames.com/ghost-and-th…
Confront mystic perils and revelations, pogroms, & your own wild heart, in a Jewish historical fantasy of bandits, betrothals, klezmers, and kabbalists!
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
1/n Hi Jami devs. Is there any problem with chat synchronization in your applications? I am asking because for almost a two weeks I am experiencing something like that. Both apps, the android one and linux (Arch) desktop one can not properly synchronize ended and received messages. Moreover desktop one freezes after few minutes or sometimes even second after launching. I am also unable to change some configuration options because it hangs so heavy that I must do rebooting entire system.
Hi 🙂 , I'm sorry you experienced and i understand this is frustrating. Unfortunately, if you hadn't already linked your account to another of your devices before losing it, I'm afraid that recreating a new account is the only solution. Due to Jami's distributed structure, we don't use a server and therefore don't host your data or account. Your account is only stored locally on your devices.
Hello #accessibility experts and #screenReader users. I am trying to find out a wordpress addon that might provide self-hostable and screen reader accessible reservation system. The features I am looking for is ability to integrate this with google calendar or any other caldav based self-hostable calendaring solution. Email notifications for both visitors and administrators is a plus. I need this to be accessible to both visitors as well as administrators. Also recently I think I have seen a mention of croutfunding campaign where the aim is to build open-source accessible booking system. I'd be happy to look at it too if you can remind me of it.
Der BUND spricht von "Schneewittchen-Äpfeln" Obstbauern am Bodensee dürfen Äpfel und Birnen mit dem Pilzmittel Folpet spritzen, um Schorf zu verhindern. Das BvL hat das per Notfallzulassung genehmigt. Die zulässige Rückstandsmenge bei Äpfeln wurde um das 20fache erhöht. Die Früchte dürfen nur in Deutschland verkauft werden, EU-weit gelten niedrigere Rückstandsgrenzen. Folpet kann vermutlich Krebs erzeugen und ist sehr giftig für Wasserorganismen. deutschlandfunk.de/apfel-und-b…
I searched the web this morning for how to use Markdown in Apple Notes. The top result from Duckduckgo said all I had to do was select the text I wanted to format, then use Markdown. The rest of the article was about how to use Markdown. The instruction made no sense. I now suspect the article was AI-generated, or written by someone with a serious misunderstanding. Probably the former. For the record, Kagi never found this website at all. toolingant.com/markdown-in-app…
Just got me a #pixel3a - used, cheap and in surprisingly good condition. The updater of the stock rom tells me that the device is EOL - and indeed, according to endoflife.date/pixel it was EOLed over two years ago, despite being released only some 5/6 years ago. The kernel version starts with 4.x.
Well, tomorrow pre-build #postmarketos images should appear on postmarketos.org/install/, the next weekly should have it promoted from "testing" to "community" and the kernel is at 6.10.x.
Important for me: the front camera should already work and for the back one there are WIP patches that work, meaning this device will probably be the first Android device with both cameras being supported (and most other thing as well!).
Sure, we're still very far away from what even a super outdated Android can offer. I for one am super eager and motivated to see if we can make #linuxmobile (upstream!) a somewhat reasonably alternative though - and make #postmarketos live up to its name :)
es ist halt auch nicht hilfreich, daß bei euch niemand rechnen kann und damit unreflektiert neoliberale kacke reproduziert. heute sind 60% vom jahr vorbei, wie passt das mit einem steuersatz von angeblich 47,x% zusammen?
Meine Einschätzung: Laut jährlichem Personeneinkommen 2022 der Statistik Austria ist das Bruttojahreseinkommen Median (50%) der unselbstständig Erwerbstätigen 32.834 Euro, davon wurden 25% Steuern bezahlt, 2024-04-01. und beim 3. Quartils (75%) der unselbstständig Erwerbstätigen ist es 49.607 Euro, davon wurden 29.4% Steuern bezahlt, 2024-04-17. Bei 47.2% Steuern, 2024-06-21. statistik.at/statistiken/bevoe…
firefox is hardly a solution. It comes with all privacy switches disabled, and if you start enabling them, you end up with a pretty visible fingerprint.
Librewolf already comes with ublock origin and very resistant to fingerprinting.
@Brentguernsey Hi there! We don't have a spreadsheet function - but nice idea! Regarding accounts, you are welcome to have more than one paid email accounts. If you'd like a free Tuta account, it's limited to one.
🔔 You heard the news: the @EU_Commission is planning to stop funding @EC_NGI in #HorizonEU 2025 ‼️ Our community reached the EU institutions its answer expresses vague support for #FreeSoftware.
Unfortunately it is failing to provide concrete examples on how to do so. The EC needs to come up with dedicated budget for Free Software solutions!
Keep the pressure on the EC on this topic by contacting them!
Delta Chat is a messenger using email as transport and with no additional infrastructure. This talk will discuss how the minimalist Iroh is used by Delta Ch...
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •Kinda funny, on friday I literally replaced curl in a codebase with.... curl.
Just a different interface to still use curl. 😅
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •OK. Then we should redraw the picture a bit to show that there are multiple kernels, multiple TCP/IP stacks, multiple TLS libraries, but only ONE libcurl.
Variety above and variety below, but one solid block in between, used by virtually everyone.