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in reply to Fred Brooker

jednotku mám takmer prejdenú... ty vole niečo bych si zahrál.
in reply to SuspiciousDuck

@SuspiciousDuck

DXMD jsem hrál 4x, DXHR asi taktéž - ale nedokázal jsem porazit prvního bosse

in reply to Schmaker

čeknem to chalani díky.
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They teased you when you were young, because you didn't fit in. But you've grown up now, and you were never an ugly duckling; it turns out you were a horrible goose.

Make them pay. :goose_027:



Inspired by a recent podcast, I read this article on digital minimalism. Interestingly, I think I'm already much of the way there: very little interaction with corporate social media, no difficulty leaving the phone at home when going to a concert, for example, no desire to use technology when I'm meeting people or at a conference - even a technology conference.
I'm reasonably selective about what podcasts or radio to listen to, what fora to engage in, what to read online, etc., although there are probably some that I could remove without loss of substantial value.
I prioritize creation over consumption in general.
calnewport.com/on-digital-mini…
#Digital Minimalism #SocialMedia
in reply to Jason J.G. White

I like the concept, and try to implement what I can of it as well.


Ještě jsem se s vámi chtěla podělit o jednu perličku z Lidlu. 2.10.2024 koupeno velké retro GRANKO v akci za 89,90 a tento týden nabízejí taky GRANKO za 89,90, ale ne retro a pouze pokud máte LIDL PLUS. Hlavně ta cena pokud tu appku nemáte...Tak jako kde to jsme???
in reply to Zloběna

Samozřejmě. To je kouzlo internetových diskuzí. V těch je odpověď na vše. 😁


So, I, a half-Canadian/half-German/half-Chinese/all-bad-at-math woman go out to dinner with my Chinese personal trainer after working out and we wind up eating Lebanese food made by Syrians in the middle of China in a pop-up restaurant that has a Palestinian flag and a sticker on the door in support of Palestine.

While listening to German music.

I love living in Wuhan!



TV Bra: inside the world's first TV station for and by people with learning disabilities:
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0grk…

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Meta releases Spirit LM, a multimodal (speech text) model. #Multimodal #LLM #AI #ML ai.meta.com/blog/fair-news-seg…


No sé si lo he dicho alguna vez, pero estoy harto de la barba y de afeitarme. De tener la piel cada vez más áspera por culpa de la cuchilla. De que haya pelos que intentan salir y no pueden, creando quistes e infectando la zona. Qué puto asco, acabaría con ella para siempre, ganaría en salud cutánea y ahorraría en cuchillas y lociones.
in reply to modulux

@modulux no sé tío, no me veo. Me gusta tocarme la cara y encontrar piel. Supongo que esto ya va con los gustos de cada uno.
in reply to José Manuel Delicado

Yo tampoco me veo, jeje. No, en serio; depende mucho del gusto de cada cual. A mi me gustan las barbas pero entiendo que si te da mal rollo tener pelos por ahí pues es una mierda.


Some random thoughts, but I sometimes feel there are two different and mutually exclusive strands of techno-optimism about computers. I'm referring here to people who want to use computers to liberate, not to the claim that this has already been achieved.

On one hand, what we could call the Smalltalk strand. Don't get hang up on the name: it might as well be Lisp or Unix or free software or Emacs strand. This is the most radical position, and holds that computers are 1) sui generis (their own thing), 2) and the full potential of computing is the common heritage of humanity. So this is the view of infinite customisability, of trusting that users can, should and will write their own software and tweaks.

The other version is the Apple strand: again don't get hang up on the name. This is an optimistic but less radical position that computers are universally able to substitute every other machine, but that they should behave like the machines they substitute for the sake of simplicity and ease of use. So while the Smalltalk strand looks at computers as their own special thing that brings new affordances, the Apple strand focuses on making computers useful for specific tasks, with an appropriate UI.

I think both are legitimate views. My sympathies are more with the Smalltalk strand, and I find it frustrating when it is seen as elitist or exclusionary, because our precise point is everyone can program, and that software should be optimised for modifiability. On the other hand, the Apple strand gets accused of dumbing down, which I also think is not warranted.

What I?m trying to get at is we can work on both visions, though inevitably there are points of divergence. Computers should be general purpose, flexible and customisable. People should be able to modify their own systems to suit their needs. But also, computers should be manageable and easily understood, and it should be possible for people to use them.

in reply to modulux

I think people who have already learned to program may over-estimate how much "everyone" is interested in learning to program.
I agree that pretty much everyone could learn it if they put in enough work, but a lot of people would rather do something else with their time and have computers "just work".
Speaking as a programmer, that's why I've stuck with Windows so far instead of getting into Linux more than necessary...


What's your favourite punctuation?

#FunPolls

  • Semicolon (;) (36%, 22 votes)
  • En dash (–) (26%, 16 votes)
  • Question mark (?) (13%, 8 votes)
  • Exlamation mark (!) (24%, 15 votes)
61 voters. Poll end: 1 week ago

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in reply to modulux

Well, in Spanish we don't use the en-dash, we use the longer em-dash. Unluckily, word processors don't manage Spanish em-dashes as they should – as parenthetical signs used around words and surrounded by spaces, as quotes are used in English, but to tell exactly the opposite: that a text is not said by a character, but part of narration.
in reply to MicroBlog Castellano

I always thought the punctuation for dialogue stuff was the hyphen. Good to learn something new. These days lots of Spanish people seem to use something closer to the English dialogue rules, only sometimes with the (« and »).



Zitra nas ceka velky Unreleased den. Dva nove Unreleasy jejichz Unrelease oslavime vypustenim noveho webu. (driv to nejde, neb tam s nimi flexime)

Jako znamka toho, ze to s umelci myslime vazne jsme se placli pres kapsu a natocili reklamni video.

Je pekne.

Nalakame na nej Justina? Uvidime.

#music #video #art #startup

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I wrote a pure python gradle wrapper this afternoon :3

github.com/obfusk/gradlew.py

(for those who prefer not to have a binary blob wrapper.jar in their repos and would like to ensure checkums match those published on gradle.org)



Turns out I should not have worried about whether automatic mirroring of git repositories would work smoothly. After a year, only 4 out of 593 repositories had issues. 2 I was able to fix, one had a protocol error (I am assuimng their git server has issues), one has an SSL error. That's 31 GB of code, via #forgejo.

in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

We've got all kind of "funny security rules". But, not being allowed to cut the cake yourself FOR SAFETY REASONS? At a STEAKHOUSE? How do they serve the steaks I wonder…


Veo mucha reflexión sobre Bluesky y personas que se van allí. Os dejo la mía, es muy simple.
Yo no necesito que el fediverso sea enorme. No me importa si llega a ese punto, entiendo que es el objetivo y será mejor que un Bluesky o lo que hay ahora mismo, pero yo no lo necesito ni tengo prisa porque ocurra.
Yo uso la tecnología que me parece más sana a nivel ético y estoy con un grupo de personas que me gusta mucho. Ya está, no necesito más.
Iba a poner un mensaje del palo "no gastéis vuestras energías en analizar redes centralizadas" pero entiendo que es un tema interesante y podemos hacer muchas cosas a la vez. Pero yo en lo particular no lo haré. Quien quiera interactuar conmigo en redes sociales ya sabe dónde estoy, lo digo siempre que tengo opción aunque predique en el desierto.


I'm not at all confident about hosting Procrastodon on an 8 GB instance. We are already at 6.5 GB and I haven't even migrated my followers over. It hardly knows about any users or posts; it's basically the most pathetically tiny instance you could imagine at this point. But if I go up even one more VPS size, I may as well get a dedicated server. Maybe it'll be fine, but I don't want to migrate myself and others there, and then discover that the server just doesn't handle that kind of load.
I was already getting read timeouts (with a five-seconed timeout) when using FediFetcher on a local Procrastodon user account.
@quanin I think you were running on 8 GB. How's that working out for you? Did you do anything to optimise that?
in reply to Simon Jaeger (old account)

Yeah, you probably will need something better for a multiuser instance. Either that or change the backend.


Pohoda, ľudia budú v pohode, nič viac si neprajem.


A byproduct of accessibility. This week I have observed it for a second time: a child was playing with a ticket machine on the public transport here. Those can talk so that a blind person can purchase the ticket independently. Before you begin, you have to choose the language for the spoken instructions and each choice is pronounced in the corresponding language, so English for English, deutsch for German etc. The kids are, either by themselves or with the help of their parents, flicking between the available languages, trying to repeat the foreign words. QDos to the Austrian child ppronouncing the word "Cestina", also the one saying "Mom, do the Italiano thing again" - priceless. I think we have found the new favorite educational toy in this place. #Accessibility #A11y #UniversalDesign #Blind

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in reply to Paweł Masarczyk

Quick, tell someone to manufacture toy transit machines. It's no different that the pretend cash registers we had back in the day.
in reply to Summer Dawn and Company

@RandomFire Oh yeah, I have played with one of those and also the telephone box, even had a plastic toy magnetic card and some pretend coins for those. It would have to be a pretty good simulation, though, so that the accessibility features are preserved.


Hello everyone. My name is Masaki from Japan. I am blind. I am a physical therapist teaching and researching at a university in Japan.


Tak mamutovo má už díky @archos taky v4.3.0!❤️ Líbí se mi to. Hlavně pole pro odesílání je teď mnohem zřejmější. Věřím, že lidi budou méně zapomínat přepínat jazyk.
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in reply to Smoon

Právě jsem v nové verzi odhalil další fajn věc. Když na jméno účtu najedete myší, rozbalí se přímo na místě medajlonek. Sice to asi nebude mít moc užitnou hodnotu, ale je to hezké. 😃
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En unos minutos comenzará la presentación del Informe Político de Antonio Maíllo en la Coordinadora Federal de Izquierda Unida.

📌 Puedes escuchar la ponencia de comienzo del órgano en este enlace: youtube.com/live/8nLFb5FquIY



Good news and bad news.
#Conversations_im 2.17.0 has support for emoji reactions 🎉
Since @Codeberg appears to be under constant DDoS attacks they have added pretty strict rate limits that the @fdroidorg build server keeps running into. 😞
Another build cycle just failed and it's unclear when 2.17.0 will be available on F-Droid.
Maybe Codeberg and F-Droid can back channel an allow list or something? 🙏

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in reply to Daniel Gultsch

That's cool! Does it need some special for muc? I see it works in direct chats but not our muc.
in reply to Benjamin

@blindcoder Message Reactions need support for "Occupant IDs" on the server that hosts the MUC.

From ejabberd 23.10 this is available with a module called mod_muc_occupantid

docs.ejabberd.im/admin/configu…

There is also something for @prosodyim but I can’t tell you what version or module you need.



Food Recall: Frozen Waffles

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A person tries to build the most inaccessible website possible but still get a 100 on lighthouse. Loved this experiment! matuzo.at/blog/building-the-mo… #Accessibility #WebDev #HTML #StaticSite

in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

It's good they gave the sound and foley guys prominent billing in the credits. It really enhanced the film.


En un año en Gaza han matado a más de 15000 niños. Niños como el tuyo y el mío. Niños inocentes, como el tuyo y el mio. Niños con ganas de jugar, como el tuyo y el mio. Niños que soñaban con tener un futuro, como el tuyo y el mío...
No dejemos de hablar de Palestina.


I'm currently hanging on my teamtalk server at 97.107.140.118 default ports in the social circle lounge channel, should anyone want to talk to my nerdy self. :)
in reply to Monty Icenogle

And as another way to get names for your stuff there's always dynamic dns as long as you don't have too many hostnames.


I'm seriously considering getting my own domain again, something I haven't done in years. I would then associate all my servers with my domain, and where I have web servers, I can finally play around with setting up HTTPS, to make modern browsers happy. What is a good Domain Registrar to use for totally blind nerds these days? I'll likely register my domain of choice, and set my DNS records up via Akamai, since they are the most accessible control panel of literally anyone. All thoughts welcome.
in reply to Monty Icenogle

I'm an #aws man so I use them for most things when I can as long as the pricing works for me.
#aws


mne tie syry chutia dosť a ten Volovec skúsim nechať vyschnúť, nejako, a ten druhý neviem ako sa volá ale na úrovni "Volovec" z desiatich na ôsmich #za_rohom
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I love my Spectrum gigabit Internet connection, it's performing beautifully, so long as I don't use WiFi that is. Downstream on my laptop Wi-Fi is so jittery and all over the road speed wise that it's not even funny. I've literally watched a file download go from a burst high speed of about 350-500 Megabit per second, to literally as low as 6 or 7 megabits! If I hardwire the laptop to my router, and perform the exact same file download from the exact same location, the file comes blazing in at over 800 megabits per second rock solid stable! Uploads are unaffected, and work absolutely perfectly regardless of if I'm on Wi-Fi or not. I'm pretty sure this is simply due to Wi-Fi interference in the area, and it's a safe bet I probably can't do a thing about it, but I can honestly say I've never seen a home Internet connection perform this poorly on Wi-Fi. For logistical reasons, I can't currently run an ethernet cable between where my laptop normally sits, and where the Internet equipment is located, but I sure as hell am tempted to try something in the near future, if I can't find a solution to the poor performance on Wi-Fi on my laptop. I also need to do further testing to see if it's just my laptop or my phone as well. Early tests would seem to indicate this may be an issue unique to my laptop, but I need to do further phone download tests to verify this. But if it comes down to it, I'll be purchasing a 25 foot ethernet cable, and giving myself a hardwired connection between the Internet and my laptop, the fun part will be explaining why I need the cable set up to my tech ignorant sister. Well time will tell I guess. In the meantime I'll continue to run whatever tests I can
in reply to Monty Icenogle

Wired is always best if you've got lots of data you want to transfer to and from it.
in reply to Khronos

Wired is just better in every way for data transfer. It's science.
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Documenting Unicode bidirectional embedding and the Ahem font for my #Outreachy interns.


I have learned this evening that WhatsApp voice messages cut you off after 30 minutes. This might help some of you long, long ramblers out there...
in reply to Matthew J

voice memos is better for that sort of stuff anyway, whatsapp does not let you switch apps to look things up and such. And yes, I did a 90-minute one once.


It's time for BEE FACTS

For every donation to this link, I will post one (1) fact about bees!

secure.actblue.com/donate/mast…

in reply to Sarah Taber

These little green bees are sweat bees. They're called that because they love salt & might come get some from you if you're sweaty.

They're solitary, sting but not very hard, and most of them nest in bare patches of dirt next to plants.

Plant flowers & leave some bare spots!

in reply to Sarah Taber

Honeybees are famous for working hard, but if you watch a hive, most of them spend a lot of time just chillin out on the honeycomb.

So when people tell you you gotta "be a good worker bee".... now you know the secret to their work ethic. Secure housing, affordable food, & naps.

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The Dynamic Island is the accessibility gift that keeps on giving. Today's bug: keyboard events not reaching a web page in Safari while the island was non-empty.


The article discusses the importance of operating systems adapting to modern hardware advancements for better performance and efficiency. It emphasizes the need for OS research and development to keep pace with hardware evolution. The speaker highlights the potential benefits of rethinking the OS-hardware relationship.

Link: usenix.org/conference/osdi21/p…
Comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…



Just heard about this new terminal, Ghostty.

Seems pretty cool.

github.com/ghostty-org

youtube.com/watch?v=RGlj4dcdWg…

Patiently awaiting an invite to the beta. :terminal:



Got my COVID and flu jabs and now I can't wait to fall into a feverish stupor tomorrow and actually enjoy the new season of The Rings of Power.


The article discusses how QUIC, a protocol designed for fast internet connections, faces performance challenges under certain conditions. Through experimental data, the authors conclude that QUIC is not optimal over fast networks and suggest potential improvements to enhance its speed and efficiency.

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2310.09423
Comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…