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If your wine is too philosophical for you, it can be helpful to dekant it.
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We asked and you answered! Here's Tuta's updated list of best WhatsApp alternatives in 2024 👏

Which one is your favorite? 🤔 Do comment below - or check out our detailed review first!

👉 tuta.com/blog/best-whatsapp-al…

#WhatsAppalternatives #Messenger #Privacy #Encryption

in reply to Tuta

Thanks for this good article but there is a broken link :
With its true incognito mode - that differs a lot from Google’s incognito mode that was used for “privacy washing”
@lascapi
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If there is a subject of #RSS happening, I recommend taking advantage of @thunderbird's built in RSS reader for those that use #Thunderbird. I use both for websites and podcasts. And yes, it can be used for #Mastodon accounts as well.
in reply to Richard

Thanks for the recommendation! Not surprisingly, we're big fans of the RSS feature, and we're always thrilled when others like it just as much as we do!


I know logically I should be underwhelmed by the specs of the #iPadMini 7 but I still kind of want one with no justifiable reason.
in reply to Robin Frost

Oh, iPads have been calling me for years and I also can think of no logical reason for why it would actually benefit me, as I have the same functionality with my iPhone and I don't need the larger screen. If I decide to splurge on one, though, I don't think I'd buy a Mini as I'd want the option to use a detachable keyboard with it and something like the iPad Air would give me a larger keyboard to work with.
in reply to David Goldfield

@DavidGoldfield have a Bluetooth keyboard I'd use and I just know myself I wouldn't use the larger screen even if it has more power behind it. It is a fascinating thought process and interesting to hear about who chooses what and why.
in reply to Robin Frost

I think I could justify it if I were traveling on a regular basis or if I were still commuting to an office taking long train rides. However, I'm always working from home so I'm never far from my computer and for writing content I'd rather use Windows for serious editing than iOS.
in reply to David Goldfield

@DavidGoldfield I agree. I have thought many times about picking up an iPad. However, if you flip your phone into landscape mode, the layout is almost identical to an iPad.






Welcome to the RB family, IconRequest 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/de.ka…

With this app you can share the data for adding the icons missing in your icon pack.

Thanks to Bastian for helping us establishing #reproducibleBuilds for this app here at #IzzyOnDroid :awesome:



I need to keep on track of JAWS dependencies on my work machine. Does anyone know if updating the Visual C++ or Windows Desktop runtimes outside of the JFW update process will cause problems? our asset management software is complaining there are updates to these components which enterprise IT want me to install. Looks like the latest 2025 beta has installed Desktop Runtime 8, does that mean 6 isn't required anymore when it gets released I wonder?
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo The last time this happened they got updated when the latest release of 2024 got installed. However there is another update for VC++ pending now and I'm getting hounded to install it. Are you sure it got updated out of bounds of the JFW installer? I may try this on my home machine first.
in reply to Andrew Hodgson

I've not updated JAWS since it got licensed 3 or 4 months ago and I have the October redistributables on the work laptop


ah rats. I've tested positive for #Corona. 😭🤧🤧

I'm not too sick, just feels like a flu. I've had all the vaccinations they'll let me have (3).

But I'll probably miss at least part, maybe all, of the @geofabrik OpenStreetMap Hack Weekend in a few days. 😢

in reply to Amᵃᵖanda | OSM Witch 🧙🏻‍♀️

I wish you a fast recovery! I had corona this summer and have been tired all week 'cause I got my shot last friday. But both my parents have the 'ro as well, so it is going around a lot!
in reply to Pietervdvn

@pietervdvn thanks. This is the second time for me. The doctors wouldn't give me a 4th vaccination. I suppose this is equivalent



Microsoft can't cloud


Microsoft, the company that lost the cryptographic keys that protected their cloud customers from attackers, now lost important log files.

archive.is/UZGyh

People go to the cloud, despite the fact that cloud is more expenive than on-premises by a factor of 5, because cloud promises to get operations right so that companies can outsource that and focus on dev.

Microsoft is NOT an operations company at all.

It can't cloud.



As a kid I often wondered how the Germans could allow the Holocaust to happen. In the past year I've heard all the reasons why.

- "I don't want to lose my job"
- "It will cause friction in my family"
- "Both sides are bad"
- "This isn't my issue to speak about"
- "I'm too busy"
- "I don't care about politics"



I want to know which senior executive at Microsoft is obsessed with the Recall feature and stops them from just cutting it
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When I took my car to the service I noticed, that the service wasn't in #OpenStreetMap.
Well, it is now. And whole little street got updated with fresh data...
😊 I like how easy it is...


Fuck Microsoft and Fuck Nadella.

As expected, the 24H2 update installed 'Recall', it can't be uninstalled.

To disable the Microcoft spyware, run this as admin

C:\Windows\System32>Dism /Online /Disable-Feature /Featurename:Recall

Can't vouch that all the people you share your screen, code, IP, private details, will disable theirs. consider NOT sharing anything ever again.

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Echo: Ding ding.
Me: Notifications?
Echo: Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for Nanaimo.
Me: What's the weather statement?
Echo: Currently, it's 11 degrees in Nanaimo. Also, there's a weather statement.
Me: Yes, but what's the weather statement?
Echo: Currently, it's 11 degrees in Nanaimo.
Me: Read. The. Weather. Statement.
Echo: Currently, it's 11 degrees in Nanaimo.
Me: *Goes on city-destroying rampage*
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in reply to simon.old

Just don’t do too much damage. I’m on my way there now. Did you ever find out what the Weather statement was?


Cuando el que se peina con lengua de vaca dice la chorrada de que La Oreja de Van Gogh era la verdadera contracultura no (solo) pretende absolver sus complejos de niño pera básico sino que busca promover un relato en el que "los malos" eran una mayoría opresora

Porque un buen relato necesita épica, y hay poca épica cuando "los buenos" (los suyos) controlaban los medios que programaban la música, los jueces que secuestraban publicaciones o la policía que cerraba garitos.



I remember some people expressing how annoyed they were with people reimplementing standard command line tools in Rust. But here is the reality of such reimplementations: hachyderm.io/@cliffle/11332081…

It isn’t just the memory safety. The reimplementations typically turn out much simpler, partly because of a more high-level language and partly because of usable dependency management.

If you have 20 times less code to maintain, you can do a lot more with it. Adding “nice to haves” like output coloring in C requires considerable effort, improving usability of these tools in Rust on the other hand is a no-brainer. That’s e.g. why duf and dust can present the output better than df and du.

And there are performance wins at almost zero cost. That’s partly due to relying on well-optimized libraries instead of own reimplementations (yes, dependency management again). But taking advantage of multi-threading and modern CPU features seems much easier in Rust as well.



Una forma de bajar el precio de los alquileres en tu barrio es que aumente la delincuencia. Haz tu parte.


Alright I'm organizing 6 weekly meetings with some very unwilling participants, so I need 6 loaf cake recipes to win them over... any recommendations? 🍰🍰🍰

Flavours so far:
- orange
- white chocolate raspberry
- pumpkin spice
- rozemary olive oil
- ???
- ???

#fediverse #cake #reccomendation


in reply to SuspiciousDuck

aj hudbu 😁 ach keby tak mám zajtra voľno
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Gone ar the days I'd use the Run dialog for everything. These days it has become almost a list of favourite things, and anything else can be run from typing into the start menu.
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in reply to Andre Louis

I still use the run dialogue. Haha. But gone are the days when I used Windows, so I have forgotten a lot of things. Typing into the start menu is too slow for me. the days of having a giant destktop list with icons, however, haven't gone yet.


It would be nice if Microsoft could stop breaking the accessibility of the Windows clipboard history panel.
in reply to Jamie Teh

Lost all hope in that years ago. Now I just set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System\AllowClipboardHistory to 0, and use ditto. If that key doesn't exist, make it, it needs to be a DWORD.
in reply to Quin

@TheQuinbox This entire thread is everyone else praising the holy word of Ditto and I'm so here for it. Ditto is the understated productivity boost that everyone needs in their lives.
@Quin
in reply to Tristan

@tristan @TheQuinbox I haven't heard of Ditto, but the homepage makes it sound good. How's the accessibility? Does it use its own hotkeys, or can it take over the default Windows ones? This one doesn't matter much to me, but I'm curious: can syncing be done by hosting a local service, or does it always use Ditto's servers?
in reply to Alex Hall

@alexhall @TheQuinbox I don't think it can take over the default Windows hotkeys, but I've never tried. My muscle memory is quite comfortable with the defaults now. It's 100% local; I host my ditto.db on my NAS and have access to it from anywhere using the LAN or Tailscale. There's a system that you can set up that allows "friends" (other machines) to send you clips, via a server-client model, which I've never messed with.
in reply to Tristan

@tristan @alexhall @TheQuinbox no, the windows copy and paste keys remain as is.
Ditto hooks into copy so you can retrieve any number of previously copied items, I suppose is the best way to put it.
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo @tristan @TheQuinbox Ah, that makes sense. So it automatically saves everything I copy, but pasting previous clips is done with ctrl-`. Really, it just replaces win-v with ctrl-`. I assume that if I select a previous clip, my clipboard is set to that clip so I can ctrl-v the same clip later if I want to.
in reply to Alex Hall

@alexhall @tristan @TheQuinbox ctrl+V will always paste the last thing on your clipboard of course. And yes by default, entering on an item in Ditto's interface will put it back there for you, although it also attempts to paste it where you are if it can.
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo @alexhall @TheQuinbox You can always press ctrl+c on any entry in the list to just copy it without it trying to paste.
in reply to Tristan

@tristan @alexhall @TheQuinbox I never knew that. Is it weird that i've been using this thing for a decade or so without ever needing to recopy but not repaste an item?
in reply to Alex Hall

@alexhall @TheQuinbox Oh, right, and the accessibility is great. I press ctrl+` and get dropped into a list of my latest items. I can arrow up and down the list, start typing to search, and press applications/context menu on clips to view more details. It's literally that easy. There's an options dialog that is also pretty usable, although Sean mentioned there were occasional issues with setting hotkeys upthread. I've not changed my hotkeys in a very long time so I can't comment to that.
in reply to Tristan

@tristan @TheQuinbox Thanks. I just installed it and will play with it. I use Windows clipboard history a lot, and like Jamie, and tired of never knowing if it'll work after an update. It also feels slower in recent updates than it used to.
in reply to Alex Hall

@alexhall @TheQuinbox My ditto.db:
Created: 12/25/2018 11:08:08 AM
Last modified: 10/17/2024 8:46:33 AM
Size: 7.48 GB (8,038,252,544 bytes)
Searching still happens instantaneously, even over the network.
Consider this me vouching for it's stability and longevity over Windows clipboard history.
in reply to Tristan

@tristan @TheQuinbox Meanwhile, I copied one URL to my clipboard, opened Ditto, hit f3, hit ctrl-g, and froze it. Windows just offered to restart, after the usual warning that I could lose data if I didn't wait for Ditto to respond.
in reply to Alex Hall

@alexhall That tracks, I never use groups or F3 at all. I just tried doing that here and it didn't crash. I wonder what happened there.
in reply to Tristan

@tristan Does the applications key work? That does nothing either, though maybe that's only for certain entry types.
in reply to Alex Hall

@alexhall @tristan Curious. I just installed Ditto and have used both groups and the applications key with no problems out of the box.
in reply to Jamie Teh

You mean it would be nice if Microsoft would just stop breaking things.. LOL. I don’t think they’re capable of not breaking something at this point.


Včera som zase musel vyhadzovať nejakého týpka z bytu. Majiteľka ho tam našla spať, včera prišiel s tým že si tú izby prenajme na dva mesiace. Tak volám majiteľke a ona ho tam nechce. Majiteľka potom volá späť spolubývajúcemu a sama mu hovorí že ho tam nechce, neviem čo budem robiť keď ho tam nájdem znova.

Najlepšie na tom je že začali chodiť už dvaja čo tam nemajú čo robiť a podľa mňa veľmi dôveryhodne nevyzerajú.

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in reply to Stevez

@theron29 ono je to taká prekérna situácia tým že ten spolubývajúci tam býva už 5 rokov a teraz to trochu vyzerá že stále niečo riešim sa mi nepáči. Ten zámok je bezpečnostní to nejde len tak.
in reply to SuspiciousDuck

"natrel" som spolubývajúceho majiteľke, nech si každý myslí čo chce je mi to šum a fuk. Kačica rieši.
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Oh dear.
I've been told I need a waited blanket today, because 'a well-known blind influencer' said they're good for blind people. Obviously this person is a follower and has just assumed I have trouble sleeping because I'm blind.

In the same discussion, she tells me that audible have great offers on this week, which will be brilliant for me. Because I'm blind.

I wish people would stop telling me I'm blind (hint: I already know), and secondly maybe not assume that what works for one blind person works for everyone. My blindness may be one of my most obvious characteristics, but it certainly isn't the only one.
For the record I sleep very well and don't listen to audiobooks.

in reply to Sean Randall

did you noj? your blind? what a stupid consept, to be toald a think you auto to no!


#ECJ: The Directive on the legal protection of computer programs does not allow the holder to prohibit the marketing by a third party of software which merely changes variables transferred temporarily to a game console’s RAM @Sony #PlayStation 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo2_…



I've complained about this before, but GitHub projects with a stale bot make me far less likely to want to take the time to carefully report issues. I think it's disrespectful of reporters' time to auto close issues they possibly put a lot of effort into filing. I don't often file bugs against Apple products for the same reason: the bugs just go into a void most of the time with absolutely no feedback, especially if they get closed as duplicates. What's the point of me investing possibly hours of my time writing thorough bug reports if they might just get closed and practically lost without a glance?

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in reply to Jamie Teh

We use stalebot only to close issues where we ask the reporter a question and add an "Awaiting OP Action" label, and they don't reply in a week.


What are the best cover songs you've heard? Covers so radical they obliviate the original song.
in reply to Jeff Atwood

scary pockets did some great covers, I never got their MMBop cover out of my head: youtube.com/watch?v=fiShsfvbFU…


¡Buenos días con sueño! No hay nada como entender lo que sucede ahí arriba para que haya paz aquí dentro. Anoche tocó dosis de turbulencias, pero incluso sin medicación, todo fue bien. No me voy a aficionar a los aviones, pero al menos ya creo que puedo soportarlos un poco mejor que antes.


"Meloni no es que sea la Capilla Sixtina del pensamiento" Dani Álvarez en radioeuskadi, clavándolo once again.
in reply to Petarda of the dead

Están hablando de los "cordones sanitarios" con la extrema derecha. Ponen el caso de que la semana pasada en el parlamento de Navarra no debatieron una mocion de vox sobre inmigración porque estaba llena de "mensajes de odio". El supremo (o la AN, no sé) dice que es censura y se debe debatir todo lo que se proponga según las vías, sin embargo en otros casos ha prohibido debates en Cataluña sobre la monarquía.

Porque una cosa es debate y otra debatizaje.




Growls like a mad wuff puppy! Don't run a data center in your bedroom, if you intend it for sleeping, LOL.
But if you're like me, and won't give up your local data center, and don't have any other rooms for it, then this happens.
Ziggy? What's the outdoor temperature?
Right now, it's 2° Celsius...
Ziggy? What's the bedroom temperature?
The bedroom temperature is 26.4°.
It didn't say it was celsius, but it is.
in reply to Adam MacLeod

Yeah, warm for me to sleep in probably too. Although, the fact it's 7degrees sometimes is a bit. Bleh. So maybe I could sleep. If I am tired. Haha.


@modulux @swearyanthony Whilst #touchscreens can increase #accessibility and #longevity (no button / force needed) they also can hinder intuitive operation.

  • There's a resson we have buttons and knobs and levers in cars, ships, airplanes and even on bikes and scooters: You don't want to click through menues to be able to turn off the radio, activate warning lights or pull over...

You want immediate and blind control...

in reply to modulux

the only form of "accessibility with touchscreens" I've seen are either alternative menues & audio navigation (like on most modern ATMs in Germany) - bypassing touch entirely like a phone tree - or some #TTS reading where one swipes if not the entire screen.

I'd love to really dive into this...

#tts
in reply to Kevin Karhan :verified:

The model for touchscreen accessibility is mobile OSes like iOS and Android. They have the TTS approach, allowing to touch the elements on the screen and using double tap to select. It's not ideal for devices that may require quick action such as a cooker though, in my opinion.


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Digitale Erpressung durch App-Zwang: Immer mehr Dienste zwingen uns zur Nutzung von Apps – und das auf Kosten unserer Daten und Wahlfreiheit. Ob Online-Banking, Bonusprogramme oder Rabatte, ohne App geht oft nichts mehr. Datenschutz bleibt dabei auf der Strecke, während die Abhängigkeit von wenigen Großkonzernen wächst. Es ist höchste Zeit, Alternativen zu fordern und die digitale Selbstbestimmung zu bewahren! #AppZwang #Datenschutz #DigitaleFreiheit

kuketz-blog.de/kommentar-digit…



FINALLY! Open-source LIVE CAPTIONS for your Linux desktop that run locally! No internet connection, no spyware!

github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions

FUTO is a company that grants young developers means to build awesome tools like this one. Tools that help digital sovereignty.

futo.org/projects/

All I need now is a model that will translate all the Russians in #CounterStrike for me :D

#Accessibility #HearingAid #Deaf #FUTO #FreeSoftware #FairSoftware #MachineLearning



Users usually do not understand that it's not "their" #accounts, it's a #system #access with a
- #username (choosen by them) and a
- #password (not so carefully choosen by them)
cc: @tardis #ai #aiart by #dalle3
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in reply to iamdtms

I have no idea why I am tagged in this, and I have no idea what it means....