Ich fordere:
- offene Grenzen
- Wärmepumpen bis zum Abwinken
- Kindergrundsicherung + Kekse
- eine Windrad- und Photovoltaikekstase
- barrierefreien ÖPNV bis in den letzten Winkel der Republik
- eine Zukunftsvision, die einen glückselig lächelnd einschlafen lässt
- verständliche Bedienungsanleitungen
- pestizidfreies Obs un Jemös
- Deutschkurse für ALLE
- 90% Vermögenssteuer für Überreiche
- einen Generalstreik
- Gerechtigkeit
- Solidarität mit Traumwandler*innen und Zipfelmützen
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und so 😏
Two reasons to do anything: a good one, and a real one.
Good reasons to hate AI: the energy consumption! The theft! The plagiarism! It's a parrot! The corporations, man. Did you know it's actually a parrot???
Increasingly, the real reason some developers hate AI:
It is driving the value of being The Syntax Knower to zero, and some folks built their whole deal on that single pillar.
JAWS 2025 public beta is now available for testing.
A few notes about this if people are trying the public beta.
Hartgen Consultancy products are not supported as part of this test beta cycle.
On a personal note, I do think there are some very rough edges with this public beta.
Two good examples would be:
1. There are times when, if you move to the desktop, the response time of JAWS reporting the focus is significantly slower than JAWS 2024.
This has been reported by me a number of times.
2. If you open up Winamp, and press Insert+T to read the song title and artist of a radio station which is playing, the URL for the stream is announced instead.
For these reasons and a few others, I am not using version 2025 for my day-to-day usage with work or even pleasure.
But that is what the beta process is about; to report such findings.
Anyone who wishes to try it can do so:
support.freedomscientific.com/…
This sometimes happens to me post-update because the system might be doing some stuff in the background.
I'd wait a few hours, possibly restart the device, and start worrying if nothing changes.
@lerven Can you do that accessibly now?
It used to be that a settings reset would turn off VO, turn off the accessibility shortcut, turn off siri and unpair all your computers, making it basically impossible to turn VO back on, possibly except through a wipe and the the DFU procedure.
@lerven I'm pretty sure it asks you at setup whether you want it to be on, and there's no setup after a settings reset.
This might be a language thing though, I could have had my phone still set to Polish when I did this.
@lerven I think I'd almost prefer backing up to a real computer and restoring from backup over a settings reset.
The new Apple APIs that let apps opt out of backup make that process far more annoying than it should be, though.
For me, the best thing about the #WatchOS11 update is that you can finally change the sounds for certain alert types, and when you change the sound, it changes the haptic as well. This means that I can finally tell the difference between text/iMessages and emails without having to use VoiceOver to check. Such a simple thing, but long overdue in my opinion!
GNOME 47 (codename “Denver”) is out today! I’ll be celebrating by upgrading my desktop to Fedora Silverblue 41 beta.
My favorite feature is definitely Accent Colors, but there is a lot of refinement and polish in this one. Check it out:
#GNOME #GNOME47 #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS
Thanks to everyone who has shared feedback about GNOME; we’re listening and constantly working to make it better release after release. And thank you especially to those who spent countless hours designing, architecting, organizing, developing, and testing everything. It’s often thankless volunteer work, but we do it because we care about making a platform and ecosystem that’s stable, usable, and a joy to use.
It’s a lot of work, but we’re all just a little… ambitious enough to make it happen 💙
Oh look, Starlink is continuing to screw up the sky in every way possible.
"Second-Generation Starlink Satellites Leak 30 Times More Radio Interference, Threatening Astronomical Observations"
astron.nl/starlink-satellites/
It's going to be "hilarious" when Starlink messes up the radio sky so badly that radio astronomers can't even use quasars to calibrate GPS anymore. There are so many consequences from all these stupid, cheaply built, disposable satellites. universetoday.com/105160/navig…
GNOME 47 is here! After months of hard work from contributors worldwide, this release brings many exciting updates and improvements. youtube.com/watch?v=sgcVp5RHy4…
Find more details about what's new in #GNOME47 in the release notes: release.gnome.org/47/
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Remember the advocate of mask ban that will say "but you can have a medical exemption" are the same that where against "vaccine mandates and certificate" because "their medical condition is their own privacy".
Also what if you are not the one with the medical condition but someone you live with or take care of? (non-withstanding the self preservation)
Mask bans are pure fascism.
We had a fire alarm a few minutes ago, and I sat in my classroom, alone, like every time my class has sports, and I can't join because they refuse to make things that a blind person can do as well.
So I walked out, looking for someone to take me to the right place to stand so they could count every class, so they knew who was there and who wasn’t. Some teacher actually picked me up after 2 or 3 minutes, brought me to another teacher, who brought me to the right teacher, who just yelled at me, "Yeah, follow me," and ran away. Imagine, but I cannot see you, idiot!
After a few minutes, we were allowed to go in again. Who gets completely ignored and stands there, trying to figure out where to go? Wow, 100 points: me.
I was phoning my mom to tell her about this while following the mass to get into the school again. Some teachers called after me, asking why I was on the phone and that this was not allowed. I just ignored it. After 2 minutes, I was almost at my classroom when they stopped me, trying to attack me for using my phone, saying it was disrespectful to ignore them.
Oh my damn, you know what's disrespectful? Ignoring every single thing I’ve said in the last 4 years, ignoring me as a blind individual, and trying to attack me with every little thing they can find. Fuck you, fuck and damn you, German school system, and fuck my school, which is the best example of how incredibly stupid humans can be.
4 years, the same fucking bullcrap, and almost everyone who knows me doesn't understand what it’s like. I am so done. So damn done with these unbelievably stupid people.
Oh wait, guess whose class is going to the cinema tomorrow, and he'll sit at home because the film has no audio description? Uh, 100 points: me.
Oh, and guess who's sitting at home next week while everyone is going to France because he's afraid no one will guide him around and help him? Oh, hmm, yes, it’s me again. And these are only some of the little things. This has been my damn life for the last 4 years. Sounds fun, right?
But I think you can imagine that itts making neither of me/my mom happy, and this kinda ruined the realtionship between her and me, and generally my motifvation to acceppt this system and go to school. I don't really have friends or anyone who would care about me there, in the first week of the new year I gott simply ignored, its crazy. I thouht it got better last year, nope, apparently it didn't.
And this is what we call inclusion and accessibillity in germany. If I hear anyone saying this again I'll puke in their face!
Y'all
The state of Missouri is set to execute an innocent man next week. DNA evidence proves Marcellus Williams' innocence but he is scheduled to be executed on Sept. 24, for a crime he did not commit.
Call Gov. Parson and urge him to stop the execution before it’s too late: *(573) 751-3222*
innocenceproject.org/petitions…
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That said, I'm excited about technology progress now.
#Accessibility
Some people argue that Firefox should be able to survive on donations, if only Mozilla accepted them.
To which I say: prove it, you cowards; go set up your monthly donation to @servo.
If there's a project that can prove that that model works, it's Servo.
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Periodic reminder: nearly all of the browsers except Firefox and Safari are RESKINNED GOOGLE CHROME with somebody else's interests, cloud service integration, shitcoin, whatever tacked on. Using them is no better than using Chrome, and does not get you out of a surveillance/no-autonomy/monoculture hellscape.
Only Firefox has real privacy preserving adtech blocking and other critical features.
We must fight for it when its stewards fail us.
seeing pushback against procedural generation as a result of alleged "AI" and that's really fucking sad
good procedural generation is hard. good procedural generation is bespoke and intentional. good procedural generation is artistic and creative. please don't lump it in with the slop generated through machine learning 😞
EDIT: procgen is not AI, it's a 40+ year old game design technique, see: peoplemaking.games/@eniko/1131…
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Nach dem Update auf 24.04 sind einfach alle Mails und Einstellungen weg. Es gibt keinen automatisch Import während des Updates.
Ich konnte das Problem damals glücklicherweise schnell lösen, weil das Profil natürlich nicht gelöscht war.
Ich habe darüber gebloggt und bekomme inzwischen fast täglich dankbare Kommentare, weil verzweifelte Anwender*innen ihre Mails retten konnten.
kaffeeringe.de/2024/05/27/thun…
System-Thunderbird: $HOME/.thunderbird
snap-Thunderbird: $HOME/snap/thunderbird/common/.thunderbird
Durch Rüberkopieren sind die alten Einstellungen, Mails, Termine etc. wieder da.
Funktioniert übrigens analog auch bei der Migration von Windows.
@fexplorer @kaffeeringe
Kurzes update:
Eben das ubuntu upgrade auf 24.4.1 auf einer Maschine gemacht.
Thunderbird hat sich mit dem ersten Start ohne weiteres Zutun die Daten aus dem alten Verzeichnis geholt.
Oops. My code now makes 20% of curl.
I'll need to bring that up in my next therapy session. Surely this is connected to my childhood somehow. 😳
@bitbear 1. the script that generates the list of the top-40 authors as a CSV: github.com/curl/stats/blob/mas…
2. the gnuplot script that renders the graph using the CSV as input: github.com/curl/stats/blob/mas…
As has been foretold: chaos.social/@RichiH/112579960…
#FOSDEM will happen on 2025-02-01 and 2025-02-02, we just signed the contract with ULB today!
You're hearing it here first, because Mastodon is the #FLOSS social network. We'll publish official news in a bit :)
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1. Cancelled my 1Password account. I was only evaluating it and I prefer Bitwarden myself.
2. Had a long conversation with someone on my Apple Watch. It worked a treat. She could hear me fine and I could also hear her voice and JAWS over the watch clearly enough.
3. For practice, created some markdown documents on my BrailleSense and asked ChatGPT to convert them to Word. Lovely accessible Word documents containing tables and headings. It cannot handle footnotes properly though.
the python-docx library doesn't directly support adding proper footnotes as in Microsoft Word. So what it did was simulated the appearance of a footnote by inserting a superscript reference number in the text and adding the footnote at the end of the document. That is not the same thing at all.
4. Tried to create a JAWS notification rule so as to remove the "star star" characters from ChatGPT and CoPilot. That hasn't worked out quite right. I think that may be a JAWS issue rather than me.
5. Talked to some people on X.
6. Processed plenty of Email.
So a good morning all in all.
I have zero confidence left in Mozilla's leadership. In fact, here's a bold prediction: the Thunderbird team (operating under the wholly owned subsidiary known as MZLA) will be more profitable within 5 years than Mozilla Corporation. Yes, that same dying product Mozilla abandoned in 2012. The one the COMMUNITY kept alive and the one that is now thriving.
Eventually Mozilla will approach MZLA begging them to come back...
(Note that I'm saying this as someone no longer employed there.)
One of the weirdest disconnects happened a few months ago when I received a Mozilla Foundation newsletter about the evils of big corporations building unethical AI. It was a donation appeal so they could gear up to "fight" against companies like OpenAI.
This doesn't seem strange until you consider that Mozilla is currently paying a ChatGPT Enterprise license for all ~1000 of its employees. And encouraging them to use it for productivity, brainstorming, & code.
Yea, it didn't sit well. At all.
Matt Campbell
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