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Wie bezahlt ihr im Laden oder in der Gastronomie?
a) Fast nur elektronisch, auch Kleinstbeträge. (Kartenzahlung, Mobiltelefon)
b) Fast nur bar.
c) gemischt (Kleinbeträge zB beim Bäcker überwiegend bar)
d) gemischt (wie ich gerade Bock habe)

  • Elektronisch (41%, 65 votes)
  • Bar (14%, 23 votes)
  • Gemischt Kleinbeträge (20%, 32 votes)
  • Gemischt Bock 🐏 (23%, 37 votes)
157 voters. Poll end: 3 weeks ago




Uh: So spotify for desktop is convinced that my computer is unavailable whenever I try to switch to it, on, need I remind you, the desktop app. What the fuck?
in reply to Haily Merry

Haha I am not. We use what's comfortable tbf. I just can't deal with Windows any longer, and both my study and work are kind of multilingual, and the more I can break something, the better for me. At least I can tell all friends what sites not to shop from XD.
in reply to Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺

@tardis Honestly I got kind of tired of VO bugs in Mac OS, also I was having to do Windows things in Parallels anyway but I didn't have enough internal storage, womp womp. Also I've been to Linux land, like Mac OS but with less apps, is my honest verdict.
in reply to Haily Merry

Well, Windows doesn't work for me. I dealt with so many MS and language issues, I got tired of it, and when I started studying linguistics and I needed braille, Mac was the thing to go to, also iPhone, iPad, airpods and the watch, which I bought to track my heart rate because it was going dangerous. So, my est investment honestly.
in reply to Haily Merry

I also don't have storage soo, when I want to play games I just go and deal with windows. Hahaha. I have way too many windows computers, and I want to install linux on one that has win 11 but meh well, no speech in bios makes me not want to do this, at all.


Klimaschutz und Menschenrechte sind nicht links.
Klimaschutz basiert auf Wissenschaft.
Menschenrechte sind demokratische Grundbausteine.


OK so I guess I'm going to keep doing these because it's pretty fun. I've found the script that loads the paywall for The Washington Post. Simply block `washingtonpost.com/subscribe/static/tetro-client/fusion/tetro.min.js` with your favourite URL blocking extension (I use AdNauseum) and the paywall doesn't show up. For educational & research purposes only. Please remember to support journalism if you're able to. Have fun! washingtonpost.com


This article gathers feedback from 11 VR and digital accessibility experts. It explores how the metaverse needs to develop to be accessible and inclusive. This requires compatibility with assistive technologies, navigating different environments seamlessly, ensuring privacy, and creating VR environments that incorporate universal design principles. #accessibility mdpi.com/2414-4088/8/3/21



„Empfinde absolutes Glücksgefühl“: Erstes Team für trans Männer im spanischen Fußball anerkannt
tagesspiegel.de/sport/empfinde…


I wrote a small tool in Go that will filter my inbox for messages older than <x> days (currently 30, for me), delete the ones sent by known spammy addresses or common subject lines, and move the rest to an Archive/<message year> folder. If the archive/<year> folder doesn't exist, it gets created. I have a thing that will run this every week and notify me about the changes. This is easier and more intuitive to me than designing automated email rules, which rely on server or client support.

in reply to Procrastodon

I love this name can I join? LOL. I probably won't one instance is enough for me, I am getting old but that's really funny. I boosted you so you can federate. Yay! Make people boost you. But this instance has 8k instances it federates with sooo, look that thing go up and up and whee! Be happy!


I have my Mastodon server working ... mostly.
It seems there some kind of problem when searching for users on other instances. I was able to interact with my admin@procrastodon.net account by mentioning @admin from this account, but before that, neither account could seem to follow the other. The biggest clue I have is an error 500 that shows up in Mona when I try to search for users after switching to the Procrastodon account. I think Tweesecake performs a search with many of its user-related commands and just selects the first result, so I assume it's also failing there. I don't get any visible error if I search with the web interface, nor can I seem to find anything in logs--although that's likely because I just don't know where to look.
Curious if anyone has ever experienced something like this, or knows where I can go to get some slightly more useful troubleshooting done.
#MastoAdmin #Mastodon
in reply to simon.old

Yes, this usually happens when your account is new. Trying to search for users from it is the better option. If that does not work, then something broke, but GTS definitely did that. Until we interacted with over 7000 instances and search was no longer an issue. :D


So I have a question for all you out there. What is this whole woke movement? What does it mean if you are a woke person? me, @pooch754 and his mom are all curious.
in reply to RaineyDay

Here's a better link that explains it better than I would. firstamendment.mtsu.edu/articl…



Buenos días. Hoy me he despertado con esta canción en la cabeza: Paisa, de reincidentes: youtube.com/watch?v=7ChSe2ktuT…

Nuestos viejos han emigrado.
Como mierda les han tratado.
Muchos no han regresado
ni regresarán.
Dos millones de los nuestros
andan desperdigados.
Los que nos hemos quedado
no debemos olvidar.
Al racismo
eliminar.
Fascismo
criminal.



Google's plan to disable the best ad/tracker/spyware blocker in Chrome is imminent: techradar.com/computing/chrome…

I use Firefox and you probably should, too.




anime about urban planners and transportation engineers redesigning city roads so fewer people get hit by trucks and isekai'd

subplot about city politicians having to deal with a grassroots group of disgruntled NEET types who fight against traffic calming measures and pedestrian-only streets because they wanted to get isekai'd to escape from their dead-end lives. "what am i supposed to do? be in a chill slice-of-life about one of those quaint sidewalk cafés catering to pedestrian tourists? i want to fight through a dungeon god dammit!"

#TheHitNewAnimeComingToATorrentNearYou



When Hitler rose to power democratically it took him about 3 months to dismantle democracy completely. There were NO NEW ELECTIONS for 17 YEARS.

After previously having started an insurrection, Hitler came to power after state institutions and government FAILED TO BAN HIM from future elections.

#NeverAgainTrump #TrumpMUSTLose2024 #VoteBlueToSaveEverything #HarrisWalz #USPol



Introducing #Inkscape :inkscape: version 1.4!

New & updated features include Filter Gallery Dialog, Modular Grids, Swatches Dialogue & more file import/export options. Power Users, this one's for you!

Read all about 1.4:

inkscape.org/news/2024/10/13/i…

#ArtWithOpenSource



Made another handy #accessibility guide, this time for your science plots!

Our plots can have lots of messages in them, so try and tell the story of the main message. Here's a guideline/template and some tips on how you can describe your plots that works for me.

Hope folks find this useful!

(I am using one of our pulsar observations to demonstrate how I have used this template in the alt-text for this image)

#Science #Astrodon #ScienceCommunication #SciComm

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It's finally time. After years of deliberation, #Minetest is finally ready to adopt a new identity and prove it has moved beyond its original purpose. We can finally move past the "mining" and the "testing" and focus on making this platform the best it can be.

#opensource #freesoftware #gamedev

blog.minetest.net/2024/10/13/I…



Exactly one year since we reached 3,000 named contributors in #curl, we are at 3,257 names in the list.

This is a team effort.

#curl
in reply to chipiguay - Pablo 😴

@chipiguay just me going back through the previous history and adding all the names to the list that should have been added before. So the bump is a "lie", a correction of previous omissions.


I agree. Don't call it "favorite" then. dragonscave.space/@jscholes/11…


I favourite a lot of cool stuff on Mastodon. I'd love a service to go through that stuff on a regular basis, pick some of it at random, and remind me of it. Maybe by email, DM, or whatever.

Note: last time I mentioned using favourites in this way, Mastodon's corrections brigade came out in force to tell me I should be using bookmarks instead. Please don't do that again.




Yes, Digital Bytes will be out in about an hour… Did you listen to this Jaws Tips - Introduction to Place markers that dropped last Friday? pnc.st/s/unmute-presents-on-ac…


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@adrienne Meanwhile… WP’s accessibility team meetings are on hold, because… neither of the team’s reps can log into WP.org anymore.
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I'd just like to make sure everyone's aware that

-0.000014750162760416649838945447881233263842659653164446353912353515625

represented in IEEE754 double precision floating point, and then bitwise covered to an integer and printed in hex, is

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEE5

🐝🐝🐝🐝



Don't know why I didn't realize it sooner, but, while LLMs produce a lot of bullshit, they're absolutely perfect for producing those endless shitty interpretive papers I had to write in college for classes like English Lit. I hope students are making mockeries of those now. Ask ChatGPT to write a 1,000 word paper explaining how the song WAP is a protest against 'nuclear weapons.
in reply to bryansmart

I think another LLM should grade such essays these days! :) Students and teachers could then go on vacation or whatever! :)

in reply to Eugene McParland 🇺🇦

@drew Is there a source from which I can forward to other social media? Also, is there an original voice track?


Is it wrong to hate someone based on how they park their car?
in reply to Virginicus

now if a cat was driving, you could let loose. Cats are great drivers, but full of malice.


‘Clutter isn’t really an East versus West thing,’ continues Tsuzuki. ‘It’s a rich versus poor thing. Wherever you go, anywhere in the world, the wealthy have the luxury of living in clean, minimal spaces, while the poor have to make do with small, cramped ones, without any way to hide their belongings.’

aeon.co/essays/the-life-changi…



Yahoo Finance says that Twitter's revenue has dropped by 84% since Elon Musk took over. finance.yahoo.com/news/twitter…

84%! It's bringing less than one sixth of what it did pre-takeover!

That's one stable genius, right there.

in reply to Mike Taylor 🦕

@drew but like, to be honest... Who cares? It's not like Elon bought it to appease investors...


I just wrote a tip for the book about how difficult I found it getting the new BSI activation gesture to work. TURNS OUT. My BSI Activation Gesture setting was toggled off. On my new phone? Anyone else see Off as a default? Also, if you can’t get the gesture to work, go find that toggle in BSI settings. #a11y #ios #voiceover
in reply to Shelly Brisbin

Never seen this by default off. I don't think the gesture is described well by Apple. The language sounds too confusing, at least to me. I like how someone described it in their podcast: "simply place your fingers as if you were about to type the letter C. Now, type it twice". Works for me! :)
in reply to victor tsaran

@vick21 I read that somewhere, too. I agree. Makes much more sense than the way Apple describes.

in reply to Peter Saathoff-Harshfield

Sections of Fifth Ave in the Gaslamp Quarter were closed to cars and open to people, enforced with permanent-looking metal bollards. It was nice to have a space for people to exist without noisy, dangerous cars being everywhere, and Aubrie liked being able to freely roll in the street rather than having to maneuver along the sidewalk.


I'm taking a semi-break from posting here at the moment, but I hope everyone has had a good weekend. I do have some Christmas music news coming in the next post.


Posted by a gentleman I follow, and I have added alt-text to it, for the benefit of those who might want to boost it. And for the benefit of those who cannot see the picture, of course!
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Re last (it was a post about canceling accessibility meetings at WordPress): #WordPress began to get screwed when Gutenberg appeared, now it seems screwed for good. If I were you, I would migrate from it as soon as possible.