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Just updated my personal @gotosocial instance to 0.17. Super painless, except for the minor bit of having to change the entrypoint/command to sleep inf to stop the instance so I could SSH in and back up the database, which ultimately wasn't needed but is still a good idea anyway. Still though, it was much simpler than Mastodon upgrades which, I'm told, can get rather dicey.

Might look into contributing. GTS does everything I want except for push notifications, which might be fun to add.




I know a lot of y’all are probably reeling from that Stallman report and I’ve even seen people remarking on how no one was listening until now.

What you need to understand is that the things in that report have been known, widely, for many years. They are not “open secrets”. They are things people have actively tried to address, at significant scale, many many times. Some of those times even resulted in (brief) consequences.

The man Is like a cockroach in more ways than I care to describe and what we should all be noticing here is the how incredibly impossible it is to remove an influential white man from power and have him face real consequences. He’s not even remotely rich.

The people defending him aren’t turning a blind eye. They are actively, knowingly enabling him. And that’s not because they care about the movement…

…it’s because they know they are like him, and if he suffers consequences, they’ll be next. And that just won’t do. They don’t give a shit about a “movement” that’s basically petered out by now.

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The Brazilian team closed the POPCON500 translation debianbrasil.org.br/blog/the-b…
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:debian: 🇧🇷 A versão brasileira da notícia: debianbrasil.org.br/blog/fecha…

#Debian #GNU



For our (small) master dissertation about #education (but mostly because we are interested), we are doing research about using #OpenStreetMap within #secondary education (roughly 12 - 18 years old, but with a focus on 16 - 18 years old).

The long-term goal is to create a usable #lesson where pupils go out and map using a data collection app. If you have any experience with this, would you be so kind to spend 10 minutes of your time to fill out the survey?

framaforms.org/use-of-gis-or-o…

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Tak je to venku. Velká rekonstrukce varování před Huawei. Pracoval jsem na tom několik let. pagenotfound.cz/clanek/kauza-h…


Amazon Basics smart plugs are really basic, then.
You can't use them as a trigger in routines. I'd quite like my heater to never be on for more than, say, 90 minutes. But nooo. Can't trigger when they come on. That's a bit silly!


Never seen NVDA restart and restart and restart on-load. Very broken.
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OH wow, that's surprising, I know that at points, there would be corrupt files that can hamper the use of the screen reader.


Die Politiker*Innen könnten ja einfach mal allen Menschen, die sich derzeit hier in Deutschland aufhalten, eine Arbeitserlaubnis geben. Aber dit wäre ja zu einfach und außerdem könnten die dann ihren Menschenhass nicht mehr ausleben, weswegen sie es für viel richtiger halten, dass einfach alle mehr arbeiten sollten. Dann haben die meisten noch weniger Zeit, sich mit gesellschaftlichen Themen zu beschäftigen und mischen sich noch weniger in die Politik ein! WIN-WIN!



Steve Faulkner's presentation slides for the State of the Browser 2024 conference, "No Industry for Old Men":
docs.google.com/presentation/d… #webdev #html #a11y


Just a reminder. Please do not install Leasey into the JAWS 2025 public beta.
Leasey does not support the JAWS 2025 public beta.
Five queries have been received just this morning from people who have done this and they have found it is not working correctly.
It wouldn't be working as you expect because the version of Leasey which does support JAWS 2025 is in beta testing.

The reason that you install a new JAWS beta is so that you can provide feedback to Vispero on what does not work as you expect.
Leasey changes JAWS access in a number of ways. So if you find something does not work as it used to, and you submit a report to Vispero based upon your findings, that is a false report because you have installed additional script files into the beta. So they may not be able to reproduce your problem.

In some ways, JAWS 2025 is a very different animal to all previous versions. There are currently different speech prompts it is giving in some areas together with other issues.
Leasey has to fit into the context of this moving target at present.

A full and thorough guide has already been written which explains in a friendly way how to move from JAWS 2024 to 2025 so as to gain the best experience. That will be published ahead of the release of Leasey 9.1. Please wait until then. Thank you.

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🕕Z #NowPlaying in 20 minutes it's Wandering Minstrels (repeat) Presented by Jared Ingersol, A weekly program covering a wide variety of #folk #music from around the #world. theglobalvoice.info:8443/broad… #TGVRadio 🎶📻🌐🎸🎻🔁


Donald Knuth on the rewards of computer programming

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We published a security fix for a High security vulnerability in Matrix JS SDK (CVE-2024-47080) and disclosed an already patched issue in matrix-react-sdk (CVE-2024-47824). Make sure to update your dependencies!

matrix.org/blog/2024/10/securi…



If I am ever going to translate "Deutsche Sagen" ("German Legends") by the Brothers Grimm, I will probably have to re-learn #Latin - they used too many Latin-language sources for this work.

I suppose my Latin teachers from back in school will have had the last laugh then after all.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche…

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That sounds... tricky.

At least Latin _is_ covered by many online translation tools, although I am not sure how accurate they are.

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Classical Chinese (or more anal retentively Literary Chinese) is a really difficult language for a variety of reasons.

1. It is essentially a written-only form of language. It uses the fact that two syllables with the same pronunciation but different meanings can be determined by looking at the character. In vernacular Chinese you can't do this. If you say "shu3" which one do you mean? So an extra disambiguating syllable is added like "lao3shu3" for "mouse".

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¿Me podrían recomendar blogs, glosarios u otros recursos con terminología tecnológica en español? Quiero aprender a comunicar conceptos sobre programación, redes, seguridad, "open source", "dev ops", accesibilidad, etcétera.

Can anyone recommend blogs, glossaries and other resources with technological terminology in Spanish? I want to learn to communicate about concepts in programming, networking, security, open source, dev ops, accessibility, etc.

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Hi everyone! I just wanted to give you a heads up that Perforce has forcibly seized control of the #Puppet Community Slack. They've banned me and removed the Community team and all moderators. This means that there is currently no spam or harassment moderation. It means that the community no longer has the ability to limit monetization. And it means that Perforce has direct access to your account info and no longer needs to go through the Community team when they need sales and marketing leads.


Puppet


hachyderm.io/@binford2k/113308…

Perforce (Owner of Puppet since April 2022) has taken over the greatest Puppet community on Slack. This was an independent Slack that had a non-Perforce people at the helm. Perforce convinced Slack that they should own the community, and Slack removed all non-Perforce people as moderators, banned Ben Ford (Instance Owner) and transferred ownership to Perforce.

It is unclear why Perforce did this, but

hachyderm.io/@binford2k/113307…

Ben Ford speculates

Last time I talked to Perforce Legal a few weeks ago, they were excited by our “community owned community space” model. The fact that the company has now taken this subversive and hostile action makes me think that they are about to announce or do something incredibly shitty and want to have iron control over the messaging.


Puppet is currently licensed unter Apache 2.0, and has no AI-Integration nor are Puppet users absolutely required to make recurrent payments to Perforce.

So make your bets.

  • Ansible is owned by IBM through RedHat (GPL v3, no CLA, DCO required)
  • Chef is owned by Progress (Apache 2.0, CLA required)
  • Puppet is owned by Perforce (Apache 2.0, CLA required)
  • Saltstack is owned by Broadcom (Apache 2.0, CLA required)

CLA: Contributors License Agreement. If you want to submit code to the project, you have to sign a CLA that gives the respective owner company full IP rights to your contrib, enabling them to cleanly unilaterally change the project license at their discretion.

DCO: Developer Certificate of Origin. You have to submit a DCO that asserts that you have the right to contribute the code under the GPL v3 of the project.. The DCO exists to prevent your employer from sueing IBM/Ansible over your contrib, not to transfer rights to IBM/Ansible.

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#WasWirWollen
- Infrastruktur in Staatshände, mit verpflichtendem Versorgungsauftrag.
Strom, Wasser, Mobilfunk, Schiene, Glasfaser, Abwasser sowie Fernwärme und Fernkälte - all diese Netze müssen den Menschen gehören die davon abhängen und nicht Investoren die Profit machen wollen.

- Beamte und Personal für Behörden und Kommunen. Stoppt das Kaputtsparen des Staates.



Jede #EinwegEZigarette enthält eine #Batterie (#Sondermüll) & besteht aus #Metall (#Energie fressende Herstellung) & #Kunststoff (#Plastikmüll), Silikon etc.
Das Alles für eine Nutzung im Wegwerfmodus!

✍🏻
Gemeinsamer offener Brief an #Bundesumweltministerin Steffi #Lemke
Einweg-E-Zigaretten verbieten!
duh.de/projekte/verbot-einweg-…



Ja. Ihr habt recht, der #CarolaBrücke Livestream des #MDR ist so ziemlich das Unterhaltsamste was der Sender in den letzten Jahren gemacht hat.
Allerdings ist die Auflösung leider nicht so pralle, dass ich das neue Graffito auf der Brücke lesen kann. Daher…

Hey #Dresden, was steht auf der CarolaBrücke?

Edit: Da steht »Millionäre besteuern«.

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Deutschland wegen Abschiebung eines Syrers verurteilt

2018 griffen die deutschen Behörden einen syrischen Flüchtling an der Grenze zu Österreich auf - und schoben ihn sofort wieder ab. Nun hat ein europäisches Gericht geurteilt: Die Abschiebung hat seine Menschenrechte verletzt.

➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/e…

#EGMR #Abschiebung #Syrer



so apparently if a company goes to Slack and whines “our customers are able to communicate without our direct personal approval and we don’t like it”, Slack will say “you’re so right king” and assign that company exclusive admin control of a user community without asking or even warning the community? hachyderm.io/@binford2k/113307…


This year's Nobel Prize in Economics is timely, given the challenges faced by democratic institutions, particularly in industrialized countries.
theconversation.com/nobel-econ…
#economics #colonialism #development


GoToSocial version 0.17.0 release announcement, our first Beta release

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Phew only one real bug report for 0.17.0 so far, and it's for a bug that was already in 0.16.0 🤦

Thanks for the positive feedback everyone, glad you're having a good time with the release ❤

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It's all good, smooth, shiny and polished. And yes, I mean, this release. So, take a breath, Sloth friend, get a cup of coffee. Oh wait. I don't know if sloths like coffee, but, you're a special one so, who knows? Enjoy your awesome work, and don't forget to relax. 🙌 💖 🦥 💙 ☕️


Live with the PMDG 737-900-er from Heathrow to Dubai, come chill twitch.tv/aaron_h3272


i still think bell labs is crazy. that was a telephone company. can you imagine if t-mobile invented lasers and unix


Dutch cartoonist Ruben L. Oppenheimer today in newspaper NRC: Trump's bible.



So jetzt mal ehrlich ihr #Fedinauten da draußen, die ihr #Misskey, #Sharkey oder #Iceshrimp nutzt! Wieso nutzt ihr das, was ihr nutzt und was findet ihr besser im Vergleich zu den anderen beiden Fedi-Möglichkeiten?

Bin auf der Suche nach einer weiteren Fedi-Software, die ich mir genauer anschauen möchte und muss mich zwischen den dreien entscheiden.

Gerne darf dieser Beitrag zur Entscheidungsfindung geteilt werden. 😜
#Fediverse #NichtNurMastodon



Prodám iPhone XR 128GB modrý. Pořízen 2019, používaný do 2023, stav dobrý, bez problémů, baterie původní stále funkční. Displej bez závad. Vč. ochranného pouzdra Babaco. Bez zdroje, bez kabelu. 3000 Kč. K vyzvednutí Praha 9 nebo platba předem a zaslání Zásilkovnou.


I was told that the output I would likely get on most of the triple 7 controls would be bogus, and that currently the mcp speed box does not work. Until I can actually fly a test sector with it, we'll be doing the 737-900 ER



Hey all, I'm excited to be presenting next week at #UbuntuSummit ( events.canonical.com/event/51/…). The goal is to demonstrate an all #OpenSource creative toolkit. Will be talking @Blender @inkscape @GIMP @krita @kdenlive #Scribus #webstudio @penpot. Any others you like?


Subatomic software alignment chart

Electron apps are bad (negative charge)
Proton on linux is good (positive charge)

This implies the existence of software called neutron which people are indifferent to



The EU #TaxTheRich petition has failed to gather 1 million signatures. Germany, France and Denmark were the only countries to cross the line. That tells you how many people can actually be mobilised for real change to our system. I am very disappointed. eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/#/… 1/3
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I signed and promoted, and yes, I am disappointed too. If a low-effort aciton like this has so little success, a European general strike or something like that is a world away.


jak vnímam co? 😳

mastodon.arch-linux.cz/@davidn…