The 2024 winners of Astronomy Photographer of the Year are out...and they are spectacular.
Here's the overall winner: a time-sequence of a solar eclipse that shows deepening shadows from mountains on the Moon. (Credit: Ryan Imperio)
rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astronomy-p…. #science #space #photography #nature
- Indispensable (8%, 3 votes)
- Euuh ça y serait pas un peu dangereux ça ? (48%, 17 votes)
- Vous pouvez pas juste faire un `make run` ? (5%, 2 votes)
- Il sort d’où ton prof au juste ? (37%, 13 votes)
REM continues to be a CAQ clusterf*ck.
#ARTM beefs up South Shore shuttle bus service during #REM breakdowns...
this is what you get when you give public service to for profit private business...
I expect in a few years time to have either the whole thing close, our being sold off with tax payers picking up the tab after paying for it already.
Its all NDA'ed so I can't ask for help.
This game is really rigged for the megacorps. Wish me luck! Here's to fighting the good fight!
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here (Canada) they set some of the telecom policies based on confidential submissions from the telecartel. And the worse is when one of them say "sorry can I refile ? I didn't realize I could inflate numbers that much until I read my competitors"
It's to set wholesale telecom tariff. Whatever you pay in Europe for telecom we pay more.
So yeah. Not unique to the EC.
@Tutanota how can I stop emails being sent to the spam folder, when they're clearly not spam?
There are a couple of newsletters that are marked as spam, when they're from organisations that I trust!
I'll be in Montréal next week. I will say Hi-Bonjour to absolutely every single person I see.
Edit: I should have put some more context haha globalnews.ca/news/10446438/bo…
Bon sinon, Microsoft m’informe que « Le 16 septembre 2024, les applications qui utilisent une technologie de connexion moins sécurisée ne pourront plus accéder à votre messagerie. », or j’ai un compte Outlook (oui je sais), qui sert peu mais dont j’ai néanmoins l’usage, que pour le moment je consulte avec Thunderbird.
Je n’ai pas envie d’installer l’appli Outlook pour des raisons de nik, et si le compte est pas dans mon logiciel de mail je vais absolument oublier son existence dans le néant et ne pas penser à aller le consulter
Donc : est‐ce qu’il y a une solution pour qu’il continue de fonctionner avec Thunderbird (ou est‐ce que en fait je m’en fais pour rien et ça va continuer à fonctionner très bien ?) ; si non est‐ce que vous avez des recommendations de logiciel de mail qui fonctionnera avec un compte Outlook ?
Edit : On me dit que en fait c’est bon ça va continuer à marcher tout bien et j’ai pas à m’en faire, c’est parfait, merci Masto pour ton efficacité 😁
Du coup s’il y a des gens qui sont aussi dans ce cas, quelqu’un a eu la gentillesse d’expliquer en détail la manipulation à faire dans les réponses, et je vous remets le lien ici directement si jamais : mastodon.social/@AkkaLyo/11314…
Microsoft OAuth Authentication and Thunderbird in 2024 | Thunderbird Help
Changes to OAuth authentication for Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365; often abbreviated as “o365”) business and academic hosted email accounts and services.support.mozilla.org
OS: #LinuxMint, kancelář: #LibreOffice, email: #Thunderbird, browser: #MozillaFirefox, RDP: #Remmina
New blogpost: Thunderbird, Nextcloud, calendar invitations, and unwanted html email with non-working 'confirm acceptance' links
Last week, someone kindly flagged a problem with how I'd got calendar invitations set up, and it was annoying me.
So, over the weekend, I fixed it :)
Velocizziamo un po’ Thunderbird
#thunderbird #Linux #UnoLinux
Luca, in questo suo nuovo articolo, ci da alcuni consigli su come fare a velocizzare Thunderbird.
marcosbox.com/2024/09/17/veloc…
Reading through Mozillas jobs page: "Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Gen AI", "Senior Staff Software Engineer, Ads", "Program Manager, AI 360", "Principal Product Manager, Generative AI","Sr Staff Fullstack Engineer, Anonym", "Senior Manager, Sales (Anonym)"
I see they have fully pointed the ship towards a future of AI and Ads.
Genuine question.
There's a risk (it may be somewhat small but it exists) that Google might be forced to cut their funding to Mozilla due to antitrust. This would affect over 90% of their revenue.
What else are they supposed to do? Just let things happen and abandon Firefox once Google's AI and ad money stops flowing in?
The goal of the CAQ is to make public transportation inaccessible... that's not cost saving anything.
3 commuter train lines in greater Montréal might shut down in cost-savings plan: cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/3-… #polMTL #MTLpoli #assnat #polQC #QCpoli #CAQASTROPHE
📢 NUEVO artículo en mi blog 📝
📨 El cliente de correo #Thunderbird y los correos spam 🚫
🛠️ Thunderbird tiene algunas herramientas para hacer que los mensajes no deseados sean menos dolor de cabeza 🛠️
Mozilla Social FAQ | Firefox Help
Mozilla.social will shut down on Dec 17, 2024. Download your data and migrate before then.support.mozilla.org
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Believing in everything and nothing at the same time. As a former Mozillian, I feel that you have totally lost the plot and only represent despair. Despair that the org doesn't believe in its mission.
But I know you never listened to people anyway, so what's the point?
Venn diagram of what indie tech people think Mozilla wants to be/should be and what Moz actually wants to be: OO
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Honestly, one of the things I appreciate most about Mac OS is the fact that a new OS version came out, and I had an opportunity to talk to a friend, who is using a lot of the same software as me, to ask whether anything broke accessibility-wise.
Everything seems to be ok this time and I'm probably going to upgrade either today or tomorrow, but if there were any deal-breakers, I could hold off for as long as I needed. Windows does not give me that luxury.
@x0 Yeah, I'm aware of that, fortunately I don't think I'll have a need for it anytime soon.
It's right up with Rogue Amoeba in the "incredible technical feat, I almost can't believe anybody actually made this work on Mac, but God will it break" territory.
@zersiax No, because it forces updates on you and there's little you can do about it without going "off the beaten path", piracy, or both.
Yes, I know Windows can be fixed with third-party utilities of dubious provenience, which are probably safe, probably won't crash your system and will probably keep working for a while.
@zersiax and with that said, I should look into Nix more.
After all, if I need to make changes, I'd rather make those changes to a text file that I can keep in git, properly version and document with copious comments, and then let some piece of software make my system reflect that file.
puri.sm/posts/the-liberty-phon…
#LibertyPhone #SecureGovMobile #MadeInUSA #SupplyChainSecurity #OpenSource #PureOS #EndToEndEncryption #HardwareSecurity #GOTSSolution #CyberSecurity
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats… #aws
#Inklusion ist #Thema meines Gespräches mit Gabriela Hund von der
#Seelsorge mit seh-beinträchtigten Menschen der Ev. #Kirche in Hessen und Nassau.
Demnächst in der #Blindenhörzeitschrift "Das ABC-Journal" und im #Podcast des @komin@bildung.social
kom-in.de/kina-podcast
... übrigens, @gabrielahund@hessen.social würde sich bestimmt über eine ordentliche Begrüßung im #FediVerse und ein paar #Follower:Innen freuen 
#blind #Sehbehinderung #Selbsthilfe #Behinderung #FediKirche
I’m currently working on a new Python WebKitGTK browser for GNOME. I’m aiming for it to be a better foundation to work on than Epiphany which has a huge C codebase and some outdated UI patterns. 
As the project is growing, I'm deliberating whether Vala could be a better option for the project as it's more GObject oriented, it has stricter typing, and it's compiled. What do you think? 
- Python (30%, 9 votes)
- Vala (70%, 21 votes)
Scheduled downtime of GNOME Services - 8th of October 2024 at 6 AM - 10 AM UTC
[Scheduled downtime] GNOME Services - 8th of October 2024 at 6 AM - 10 AM UTC
Hi, The network switches the GNOME Infrastructure are using within the community cage will be undergoing downtime for a planned maintenance related to firmware upgrades.GNOME Discourse
Please stop demonizing “AI”; the stuff you have a problem with isn’t AI research or AI tech, it’s a very small subset of that domain that (a)has ethical issues with training data sourcing and (b)is being horribly misused/way overly trusted
AI research is valuable and important, and MOST of it doesn’t have these problems. It’s doing things like increasing the reliability of cancer screenings, helping astronomers make better observations, improving assistive technology, accelerating medical research, etc.
Not all AI is “train a chat bot” or “train an image generator” for nefarious or stupid purposes
Just got word that my former employer and former team just got hit by layoffs 😢😢😢
Great people. Shitty timing
> Gamma is a free AI tool that can automatically convert your documents or PDFs into visually appealing presentations in minutes.
Okay, so I understand that AI is cool. I understand that we can make AI do a lot of things. But seriously. First, there's a model that turns HTML into Markdown. And granted, I haven't tried that one, and I probably should. And now this? Like, no one has heard of Pandoc anymore? Like I can literally write a Markdown file and pandoc -i presentation.md -o presentation.pptx. Something like that anyway. And get a presentation out of it. Or just import a Word document into PowerPoint. Or just use a Markdown file and arrow down through the bullet points if I don't *need* to be fansy.
I'm starting to kind of understand how wasteful people are with this kind of stuff.
#ai #presentation #llm
Corey S Powell
in reply to Corey S Powell • • •Here is this year's winner in the astronomy photographer "Skyscapes" category.
It's remarkable composite of local and deep-space photography. (Credit: Tom Rae)
#space #art #astronomy
Corey S Powell
in reply to Corey S Powell • • •What a cool astrophotography winner in the "People and Space" category.
Oh look, that's the International Space Station in front of the Sun! (Credit: Tom Williams)
#astronomy #science #photography