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На правах бреда: а что если это не у нас блочат, а нас блочит какой‐нибудь Hetzner? 🤔 Ну или где там conversations.im хостится.

#lang_ru #xmpp #мысли

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Ténno Seremélʹ
@daniel That’s weird! Hm… Thank you for a quick answer.



8 y/o daughter lost her hearing. Had to learn to sign. Struggled at first as none of her friends knew how to talk to her. One day I noticed our Labrador run to the treat cupboard after she signed "treat?" to her. In the absence of friends our dog had learned sign language for her

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Gajim 1.9.5 has been released 🎉

This release comes with many improvements for Gajim’s Microsoft Store version. 👔

Translations are now available for all distributions again. 🌐

Thank you for all your contributions! :xmpp:

#gajim #xmpp #chat

gajim.org/post/2024-09-30-gaji…

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How do other people with disabilities learn to accept the constant, never ending inaccessibility of the world without being continually crushed, frustrated, angry and ultimately just feel like giving up? I see some folks just seem to accept it and move on and I just don't understand how to learn to do that. And it feels like the older I get, the harder it gets to accept.

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in reply to Jamie Teh

@kfjelsted I'm a very positive person. I don't have the energy to be negative all the time, and no that's not a criticism of you at all. I'm just answering your question from my own perspective. I don't even have the energy to advocate for blind people, which probably sounds selfish and no doubt everybody thinks I am selfish, however, I just want to live my life as well as I can. Added to that, I'm also a Christian who believes in the promise of everlasting life in the future With no more sin, death or pain. But yes, in the meantime, I try and just stay focused on the positive; my supportive friends and family. If I listen to the news or concentrated on all the inaccessibility of the world, yes, I would get weighed down as well. But I don't have the energy and I'm not going to let the negatives win. Sure, I do get frustrated at times when I'm on a website and cannot for the life of me think of how to do something, but I am getting better about being better about that.
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Gotta love system firmware updates that install without asking, don't complete the install until you next power on the machine and then provide no audible indication that they're installing. If I hadn't thought to check what was going on with Seeing AI, I probably would've bricked my machine.

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in reply to Jamie Teh

Good luck. That company is definitely one of the reasons I switched OSes. Did they fix that broken audio driver yet, or does it still leak unpaged memory like crazy?
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@miki I think they finally fixed it, but for various other reasons, I still use a dongle now, so I'm not 100% certain.
in reply to Jamie Teh

As a former screen reader developer, do you have an idea what, exactly was going on there, and why we were affected so much? I tought something along the lines of "frequent opening and closing of the audio session", but the bug still existing with the Bluetooth audio disproves that hypothesis. In that case, it should also appear in e.g. games
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@miki Not really, no. I do know that the driver installs audio enhancements which run as ... I forget what they're called, but they're basically bits of code that run in the WASAPI audio chain. But that should only be relevant if the enhancements are enabled. My suspicion is that it did actually affect other audio beyond screen readers, but screen reader users just use audio so much and so regularly that it disproportionately impacts us. But I have no evidence either way.
in reply to Jamie Teh

Mine did allow you to disable enhancements easily, and that didn't seem to help.

Not sure how deeply you looked into this, I think I was one of the first users affected due to being on insiders for reasons too complicated to explain, so I tried tracing that leak before I knew what driver it was coming from. There was a tool from the Windows Driver developer Kit that let you see unpaged memory allocations by tag, and the tag responsible for the leak was related to the Windows Event Tracing subsystem.

in reply to Jamie Teh

Come to think of it, most (all?) vendor-supplied UEFI updates would install this way. Usually Windows update loads the firmware file pre-shutdown but post-logoff sequence, so the update is applied upon next boot. Normally this is less of a problem when you do "update and restart" (or manually had chosen the BIOS update in "optional updates" section), but more of one if you went to bed and chose a simple shutdown or "update and shutdown" and it did it. I could face it, too.



Gerade den Rant eines Fotografen gelesen, der angesichts des LAION-Urteils meinte, man könne KI-Zuzler nur noch dadurch sabotieren, indem man falsche Alt-Tags eingebe, damit die Deppen nicht auch noch die menschlich vergebenen korrekten Inhaltsangaben mitlutschen könnten. So nutzen ChatGPT und Co. die Angaben für Sehbehinderte zu ihren schmierigen Zwecken. Eigentlich wäre es mir lieber, den Alt-Text korrekt eingeben und den KI-Bots im Feed den Zugriff verbieten zu können.


Jail time for Montana man who smuggled and cloned an endangered 300-pound sheep

He takes his hobbies seriously.

arstechnica.com/science/2024/1…



kámo dnes sa to vlečie ako týždeň pred výplatou


T-Mobile reaches $31.5 million settlement with FCC over past data breaches

Apparently, T-mobile is now mandated to implement better cybersecurity controls, such as properly segmenting networks and using phishing resistant #MFA.

This settlement covers the breaches in 2021, 2022, and 2023. Will we get a 2024 special? 💀

#cybersecurity #infosec #databreach

cyberscoop.com/t-mobile-fcc-se…



Jimmy Carter turns 100 today. He is proof that decency and goodness can exist in public service.

Did you know that Jimmy Carter heroically saved Canada from a nuclear meltdown when he was a naval officer?

It's true!

The world’s first nuclear reactor meltdown occurred in the Ottawa Valley — and a young U.S. naval officer was brought in to contain the disaster — 72 years ago.

Leading a team of two dozen men, 28-year old Lieutenant Carter had himself lowered into the damaged reactor.

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Etel Adnan:

It was Beirut, all over again,
because the sea rose on its feet
and unleashed a litany
of words,
it is Beirut, all over again,
because poets die
rather than surrender,
because they speak of hope,
and do not wear
their words like a necklace
of pearls,
because poets refuse to die,
and carry hope on their
backs, and go from door
to door, like bees do
from flower to flower,
to leave messages of defiance
in the
people’s hearts.



📢 The GStreamer Conference 2024 schedule is now up!

gstreamer.freedesktop.org/conf…

See you next week in Montréal!

PS: don't forget to register

#gstreamer #linux #multimedia




oi, every time I close and open my jaw, I hear a wooshing sound in my right ear, hate when fluid gets trapped like that.
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A $621 million suit for ~$41,000 in "damages" for archiving thousands of musical recordings that would otherwise be lost to history.

This is nothing short of an effort to end the @internetarchive from major music labels and we should all be furious.

rollingstone.com/music/music-f…



I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by the idea that asking nicer is how you debug malfunctioning computers
in reply to Jeremy Kahn

@trochee Indeed. I just fed the original post to Claude with no context, and it came back with a typically verbose response that missed the point.


jkap sure decided to end cohost the most way possible, huh
in reply to fluffy 💜

As much as I keep on armchair-architecting about how Cohost “could” have been an indieweb player, they were very specifically against interop in any meaningful way because they felt that centralized silos were the way to go for community building and moderation

so of course they shot themselves in the foot, repeatedly, regarding moderation, which I’m sure was a major contributor to their eventual burnout

in reply to fluffy 💜

my hope is that in this new surge of renewed interest for having your own damn blog on your own damn website, this finally gives #indieweb the push for adoption that it’s been sorely needing

it’d also be really funny to me if the indieweb community got totally overrun by socialist therian plural furries with a taste for anti-racist action



cada día comprendo menos lo de los derechos de autor, las patentes y demás mierdas, algún día en un futuro a la gente les parecerá mentira haberlas usado. Reconozco que la gente tiene derecho a comer y esas cosas, habrá que buscar un método, pero este no es. Quizás a lo mejor si dejamos el puto individualismo y trabajamos con el mismo afán para la comunidad


Apparently I can't find the health and safety policy for @XOrgDevConf ...

And it's happening next week, here.



Is the fedi for losers? « La question est provocante et intelligente : le Fediverse semble être un repère d’écologistes, libristes, défenseurs des droits sociaux, féministes et cyclistes. Bref la liste de tous ceux qui ne sont pas mis en avant, qui semblent « perdre ».

Je n’avais jamais vu les choses sous cet angle. Pour moi, le point commun est surtout une volonté de changer les choses. Or, par définition, si on veut changer les choses, c’est qu’on n’est pas satisfait avec la situation actuelle. On est donc « perdant ». En fait, tout révolutionnaire est, par définition, un·e perdant·e. Dès qu’iel gagne, ce n’est plus un·e révolutionnaire, mais une personne au pouvoir !»

Ode aux perdants, @ploum@mamot.fr, 1 octobre 2024 : ploum.net/2024-10-01-ode-aux-p…



he tenido que cerrar la ventana del patio de luces porque algún vecino se dedica a fumar en la ventana y creo que de humos ya chupo los suficientes por la calle. Ojalá prohibiesen el puto tabaco.


Bauen ältere #Autofahrer mehr #Unfälle? Die Statistik sagt ja – aber sie zeigt nur die halbe Wahrheit, sagt ein Verkehrspsychologe. Warum Altersstereotype die Unfallzahlen verzerren und Pflichtuntersuchungen keinen echten Nutzen bringen: #Verkehr #Unfall #Senioren @freystil riffreporter.de/de/gesellschaf…
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ich wäre ja für Pflichtuntersuchungen und Pflichtauffrischungskurse alle 5 Jahre, unabhängig vom Alter. Sollen einfach alle Autofahrenden machen.


Ever notice how in any group of activists or volunteers that there are the Talkers and then there are the Doers?

Be a Doer.

(This is as much admonishment to myself as advice to anyone else FWIW :)



Uhoh, I'm told I have to be aware of CyberSecurity this month. Good thing it's only this one month, would suck to have to deal with this all the time.



To celebrate the start of Cybersecurity Awareness Month in a way that isn’t full of corporate nonsense, compliance bullshit, and self-congratulations: I declare October 1 “Death to RFC 8404 day”.
RE: pleroma.envs.net/objects/1ecb2…

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basically it frames the normalization of “encrypt all traffic and metadata” as a burden to network operators who rely on visibility and describes the need to balance safety with unsafety to ensure that adversaries (like network operators) can still operate without having to adapt.

Authored by Dell and AT&T reps.

in reply to Seirdy

The fact that RFC 8404 got published by an AT&T representative is the best evidence that we need Encrypted Client Hello and normalization of overlay networks.
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I still think it's hilarious that when you look up the most viewed videos on YouTube, folks like Ed Sheeran and Bruno Mars are getting absolutely crushed by Baby Shark and Wheels On The Bus


so true honestly I fucking hate modern app notifications. what happened to keeping notifs to a minimum I feel like every new app I download I have to just disable notifications for out of the box.

#shitpost



Jetzt geht es in der SPD doch noch rund um den aktuellen Eskalationskurs in der Asyl- und Sicherheitspolitik. Erst der offene Brief, der Scholz, Faeser und die SPD-Fraktion warnt, Terror mit Migration zu vermischen und die Rhetorik der Rechten zu übernehmen. Jetzt kommt weitere Unterstützung aus dem Bundestag: „Auch wir halten den Kurs, der gerade in der SPD in der Migrations- und Asylpolitik eingeschlagen wird, für falsch.“

#Sicherheitspaket #Unsicherheitspaket #SPD

netzpolitik.org/2024/antwort-a…

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Bubu
kink after a bad scene

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After analyzing more than 1k contracts, the verdict is in and it is clear:
"Our analysis demonstrates that research institutions seem to be 'trapped' in transformative agreements. Instead of being a bridge towards a fully #OpenAccess world, academia is stuck in the hybrid system. This endows the legacy (non-Open Access) publishing houses with substantial market power. It raises entry barriers, lowers competition, and increases costs for libraries and universities."

arxiv.org/abs/2409.20224

#oa



20 hudebních alb, které ovlivnily to, kým jste. Jedno album denně po dobu 20 dnů. Žádné vysvětlivky, žádné recenze, jen obaly alb.
1/20
#20albums20days



Happy Tuesday, this week is busy with work involving at least 3 to 5 teams or more, Let's go and crush to preempt accessibility problems of the future as much as possible today. Wishing all Masto people a joyous safe day with many successes and the best learnings from your failures.
And to those impacted by Hurricanes, wars, and natural events, I think of your plight each day and hope for safety.
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The more I listen to my Spanish podcast, the more I find words that Spanish has borrowed from English. Well, Mexican Spanish, at least. It makes sense, given how many words English has borrowed from Spanish, but it's still funny to me to hear native Mexican Spanish speakers say "test", "tip", "ticket" (for receipt), and more. I expect languages to use American company names like Facebook or Google, but common, everyday words that have found their way into Spanish still surprise me.
in reply to Alex Hall

same has happened to Hungarian to a very large extent - words like Showtime especially, but also many scientific or technological terms just end up being English words with Hungarian endings postfixed. Kind of amusing, I've come to accept it these days but boy did it bother me as a teenager going back there or talking to friends and still recognizing so much English.


Independent test of #OpenAI’s o1-preview model achieved near-perfect performance on a national #math exam (landing in the top .1% of the nation’s students).

o1 also outperformed 4o on the math test, but took about 3 times longer to do so (10 minutes vs. 3 minutes).

Preprint: researchgate.net/publication/3…

#teaching #assessment #AI #LLM #edu #higherEd



Because #Teams is slower than molasses flowing uphill, I break many conversations out into separate windows to save time across chats.

But Teams does not use window borders. So unless there is a lot of activity with the colored word bubbles as backdrops, holy shit is it hard to see then grab a corner to resize (something I need to do on the regular).

The Teams UI continues to be one of the most user-hostile ones I have ever seen from Microsoft.

And I used Bob.

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in reply to Adrian Roselli

I know for me from a keyboarding standpoint it still proves more challenging than Slack sometimes, at least on the rare occasions I get to use it, so I'm not surprised visually it has shortfalls like this. Not to say Slack is perfect either, they both get even slower than molasses on DSL-quality internet connections or hotspot, but that's neither here nor there I guess and a topic of performance optimisation
in reply to Tamas G

@Tamasg I never liked Slack (still don’t), but holy shit is it like butter compared to the CPU-crushing UI-failing UX-hostile platform that is Teams.


On this day, at almost exactly this minute in 1999 (for the last of it, anyway,) I recorded this snapshot of stuff from various North Carolina radio stations, as the band was particularly good that night/early morning. Radio isn't quite like this anymore. A lot has changed in 25 years.

youtube.com/watch?v=w3e6-_qItk…

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in reply to Patrick Perdue

Boombox and broken antennas, that rings a bell. 🙂
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in reply to Marek Macko

Also have you experienced mechanical tuning knobs? I used to break them during a sporadic E season. Made my dad quite upset. :)
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