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🪞 Introducing Mirror Hall, an app to turn any Linux devices into a second wireless monitor!

We use semi-custom P2P screen sharing optimized for low latency. Only Mutter-based DEs are currently supported as *senders*, whereas all DEs work as receivers.

This is our first unstable release, sp please be kind and report issues. If you are an #ARM user, we would love your help testing the gstreamer pipeline on new phones!

notes.nokun.eu/post/2024-09-22…

#linux #opensource #foss #gnome #apps #gstreamer

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Tak aspoň to počasí je na kolo super, když už ten výsledek voleb stojí za hovno 🤦
in reply to Archos

A připadá mi, že stále zrychlujeme 🤔, nikde po ruce ale nevidím záchrannou brzdu 🤷🏻‍♂️ a nikdo jí (z politiků u moci) nehledá, jsou spokojení, všichni asi čekají na zázrak 🙄.
@jackc


Those funny moments when you are in a hotel elevator with a bunch of people that you don't know. Not sure whether you should stand facing them, with your back to them, what to say, whether to say anything, etc. Beautiful and weird life moments! :)


Got some wikipedia disambiguation bespoke for the kind of people who hang out on the fedi right here.


Things spotted on market day in small city Aotearoa #newzealand

A small human (3?) stomping behind his family, swinging a bag of spinach around his head like it's the world's healthiest morning star. Doing his best fierce face.

A woman (60s?) in a wheelchair, rolling up to the display counter on a cheese truck, winking to the small humans at her side and snaffling cheese samples while out of the eyeline of the servers. Small humans' giggles are definitely giving the game away.

A woman kneels next to a small human in front of a sausage truck. Says "Why don't we compromise? We can buy some sausages and cook them at home so it's cheaper." Small human looks at her for a long moment before thrusting his hands out dramatically, asking, "But will it be an EXPERIENCE?!"

Two women approaching a plant stall. The older (80s) is bent with osteoporosis and wearing a pretty floral dress. The younger (50s) is dressed in sensible jeans and hoodie. The younger says to the older "If you try and steal a cutting Mum, I'll be so cross with you." Older woman laughs wickedly.

Two men (20s?) in pirate regalia selling jewelry from a stand in front of their camper van. Small human asks if they are pirates and is delighted when they confirm that they are indeed pirates and give him a pirate hat to wear. His dad takes a picture of him beaming while wearing it.

Any typos spotted in this post are protesting about the fact that they weren't offered the full sausage experience at today's markets.



hmm. I have to learn how to use Braille Screen Input's command mode.
in reply to Nick's world

Best way for me to think of it was as having a Braille display connected with the space bar always held down. So whereas I'd Braille space+b for back, I just tap b on the screen.

All the mapped gestures are in VoiceOver settings under commands.



I remember thinking “damn, covid is gonna suck but people gotta support universal healthcare after this” and that just… didn’t materialize.

Then I was like “wow, long covid sounds bad but at least this we’ll get more people to research ME/CFS and such” but now it seems like long covid is just gonna get swept under the rug like ME/CFS has this whole time.

I’m sick of this shit.



Because tech doesn’t happen in the void, Denise covers the various challenges of regulating decentralized spaces at #matrixConf


I wonder how many Macs have been bought over the years only to be destined to just sit in a landfill forever because Apple couldn't get off their ass and fix their dan screen reader.


This sounds like a cool useful LM! marktechpost.com/2024/09/19/wo…
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Tagged a release of the gnome-raw-thumbnailer, but I can't seem to find how I can upload a tarball.


@matrix I'm having a lot of FOMO looking at #MatrixConf. Congratulations on Matrix 2.0! When will it be available to the rest of us in Synapse?



A bit last-minute this time, but we have a hackfest/release event coming up next weekend in Berlin feat. @postmarketOS, @p2panda, and more!

More details to follow, but here's a teaser :P

#gnome #postmarketos #localfirst #berlin

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Through my job I've become a strong test-driven development proponent. I honestly don't even want to write code without having tests in place now
in reply to Chris 🌱

You end up writing more tests than code, but in the end the actual code is so clean and utilitarian


No idea how this is possible, but VoiceOver in macOS 15 is worse! I just had it crash and not come back for 5 seconds while I was arrowing through a 3 KB swift file in Textmate. I've also had it go not responding for up to 30 seconds when I tried to put my VO cursor over the table of logic key commands. The oh so demanding things I ask...
in reply to Quin

@pitermach Honest question, what's the point of VO's indentation reporting if IndentBeeper exists and works so much better?

I've turned it on for 5 minutes, then went back to good old Hammerspoon.

in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@miki If it worked well and didn't cause crashes, it would obviously be better. To their credit they finally got rid of the latency between the sound playing and it speaking the line, but it still happens sometimes that it tries to play sounds for what feels like the whole text field or paragraph when the focus changes IE exiting an autocomplete popup. And that's when things really start dying


WorkAdventure’s David Négrier is giving an excellent talk about their journey into using Matrix behind the scenes for their product.

As the person who is responsible for onboarding new people and developers, this talk is so valuable to me!

#matrixConf



Custom Maps Help


I've been playing around with Google Maps lately to create custom maps.

I don't like google but have no experience with any other apps and have never tried mapping of any sort before.

I'm trying to create a map layer(s) that has historic sites, stone circles, woodland, cemeteries, UNESCO sites etc. So if I'm traveling I can stop and see them.

I've created my own Google Map using lists of sites from Wikipedia. This has gone ok but leads to a lot of data cleansing and the functionality isn't great.

I've seen this website but it isn't as complete as the Wikipedia text lists ive imported: hmdb.org/

I'm completely new to this and have no experience. Are there any good resources out there for me to use or contribute to?

I'd like to de-google as much as possible.

P.S. do I need to enable developer mode or root my phone to install open street map now?

Thanks!



NAME THE MAN. I will not be surprised to learn the man is a xenophobic piece of garbage and that this attack is a direct result of the CAQ policies of hate, fear, and division in this province.

3 men injured after man with knife walks into Montreal-area mosque: cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ma… #cdnpoli #polcan #assnat #polQC #QCpoli #polMTL #MTLpoli #CAQASTROPHE





I just remembered the famous story about how the original ARM processor had extremely low power consumption by accident, so much so that it could run off leakage current. [1] I wonder if any recent ARM application processor (not a microcontroller, but something with an MMU that can run Linux) has power consumption that low. And if so, how does it fare on benchmarks?

[1] Hacker news thread with citations: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2…



in reply to Gerhard Hallstein

@Gerhard Hallstein
Nicht dass ich wüsste. Wieso?
Das Einzige, was ab und an in letzter Zeit ist, sind DDoS.
in reply to Gerhard Hallstein

@Tuxi ⁂ Zeitweise erreiche ich die Seite gar nicht oder mit einer "falschen" Oberfläche (besser weiß ich es nicht zu formulieren). Doch das geht jeweils schnell vorüber. Ich wollte mal vorsorglich nachfragen.


@mhoye your talk at #MatrixConf was PHENOMENAL. I cannot wait to get the transcript... it was full of brilliant quotes and it definitely inspired me to talk about privacy in a different way


to that last post I ask. what in the world can you even read on an 8 sell display? I'm not the greatest braille reader, but yeah...
in reply to Darren Duff

the date. The Time. distance to a turn when driving or walking. A countdown for public speaking or any other discrete timekeeping activity. Weather info. Distance to a lost air tag. percentage of light or sound in view of the camera or range of the mic. An OTP code. Altitude if on an aircraft. Weight on a scale. Blood pressure, glucos, oxygen or heartbeat readings.
Just to pick a few out of thin air. :)
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo 24-hour time even to two-second digits would fit exactly into 8 cells. Cute, never thought of that.
in reply to Andre Louis

@FreakyFwoof whenever I present publicly I keep a hhmm in the corner of my display, either a countdown or an up depending on the circumstances.
If I have a well defined talk that 'm familiar with, I replace it with a 6 dot cell that fills in over the defined time period instead.
in reply to Andre Louis

@FreakyFwoof @cachondo You could even do 6 if you removed the colons.

You could also go further and use the upper 4 dots for the time and the lower 4 for the date, assuming digits and no letters.

in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo I'll add to that:

Last 8 digits of a phone number / first 8 chars of a contact name, often enough to identify the caller.

First letters of a name, to identify a speaker in a meeting.

TOTP code.

Time / room (or time / beginning of name) for next appointment.

Line number of next incoming bus / tram / train.



My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.


A huge tip if this happens to you to folks updating to the latest version of Mac OS 15 with VoiceOver, if VoiceOver starts spouting garbage when reading any text/objects etc, go to VoiceOver Utility, File menu, and choose reset All VoiceOver settings. Unload/reload VoiceOver with clean settings and things are fixed.


Full room for @travisr’s talk on Authenticated Media! It’s Saturday and people are still very engaged!


Sometimes being a #HealthAndSafety / #IAQ advocate can feel a little lonely, but I'm an eternal optimistic – and not without reason.

When I bring air quality monitors to events, and make the data easy to access, people respond. People here at #MatrixConf have been monitoring the air quality, adjusting ventilation, and noting when things are concerning. I never even had to ask!

The trick is making the invisible visible, and giving people the tools to make informed decisions.

... and in case you're curious, here are the live data feeds for the event!

LAB Green: aranet.cloud/public/b7v923hk
LAB1: aranet.cloud/public/r52ec3cg
LAB3: aranet.cloud/public/wnh5g37q
LAB4: aranet.cloud/public/v8m3c3w3
Organizer Room: aranet.cloud/public/dx9vb3r9

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So if you're interested in an ESP32 on a multicolor printed circuit board with a touch keyboard, emulating a ZX-Spectrum, displaying it on a small LCD - Chris Greening has got you covered!

crowdsupply.com/cmg-research/e…




Z mých příspěvků jste mohli nabýt dojmu, že Utah je jen suchá poušť, plná červených a i jinak barevných skal a šutrů. V Utahu je ale i jiná pustina. Mokrá a slaná. Velké solné jezero. Nevídám ho příliš často, vlastně jen když někam odlétám😉


Peter Mitterhofer, Erfinder früher Schreibmaschinen, wurde am 20. September vor 202 Jahren geboren. Seine 1. Schreibmaschine, Modell Wien, ist 160 Jahre alt. Quelle der Abbildung: Dr. Bernd Gross, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil… #make
#make


With so many people chatting around and getting their breakfast together the #matrixConf is starting to feel like a nice group trip 😁


The prolific Zoom people are back, with the accessible H2Essential. youtu.be/PEJ5-WA1UHs


Lithuania. This country is not afraid to take sides. 🇱🇹♥️🇺🇦