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I love that Metatext and Semaphore are living new and enhanced lives as Feditext and Enafore, respectively. Unfortunately, both of these new projects have long standing, severe problems impacting accessibility, so I'm still using the old, unmaintained projects as my daily drivers. One of these days, I might get around to looking into these bugs myself, but until then, this is how it is.
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in reply to victor tsaran

@vick21 I actually didn't realise there was a limited free version of Mona to try and I wasn't willing to pay for something I might later decide I didn't love. Might have to try it at some point. That doesn't change things on desktop, of course, where I don't use Mac.
in reply to Jamie Teh

I think you will love Mona. It’s the best thing, IMHO, we have on the iPhone.


I see Microsoft still haven't fixed the crash in Phone Link when you focus the message list. So, here's my app module to work around this and add some other conveniences. I can't be bothered adding type annotations, etc. to submit to NVDA core, nor can I be bothered submitting this as an add-on, so this will require developer scratchpad to be enabled. gist.githubusercontent.com/jcs…

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in reply to Patrick Perdue

@BorrisInABox Oh oh, yes, I know what you're talking about now. I have calls disabled for Phone Link because it wants to steal calls from my Airpods, but I re-enable calls on demand occasionally if I need it for a specific call, which isn't that often for me. Just in case you don't know, alt+s gets you to settings, which is useful for quickly disabling calls.
in reply to Jamie Teh

Yep. Problem for me is that calls work more reliably than sending messages. And sometimes, new messages won't show up, but I'll get all the pointless notifications like there's no tomorrow. I can turn those off, but then I'd probably get nothing but phone calls. If I turn those off, I'd probably get nothing.
in reply to Patrick Perdue

@BorrisInABox Yeah, it's definitely far from perfect. For me, it's also a hell of a lot better than nothing. And I blame Apple for all of this crappiness, for all the difference that makes to no one.
in reply to Patrick Perdue

@BorrisInABox Anecdotally, Phone Link seems to be more reliable with messages for me in the last month or two, perhaps iOS 18, a Phone Link update or... complete falsehood that I will discover as such just minutes after I write this. Do with that what you will, probably nothing. :)
in reply to Jamie Teh

Oh, cool. I've had pretty much the opposite experience here.
in reply to Patrick Perdue

@BorrisInABox Heh, and now that I've said this, my experience will plummit in 3... 2... 1...
in reply to Jamie Teh

@BorrisInABox wait, you can use phone link? I haven't been able to use mine in ages. I can't focus the list of messages inside a conversation. If I do manage to focus it, it usually locks up what ever screen reader.
in reply to valiant8086

@BorrisInABox @valiant8086 Ah, yes, that bug is very annoying. I wrote a very hacky NVDA app module which works around that bug.


When I want to make a bulleted list using markdown, I use…

  • * an asterisk (0 votes)
  • - a hyphen (0 votes)
Poll end: 2 months ago

in reply to Jamie Teh

@jcsteh It irks me that asterisks look like slightly-off-center bullets.
in reply to Blake Watson

Hahaha. I can't relate to that as a screen reader user. Though in Unified English Braille, an asterisk consumes 1 more cell than a dash. There's some useless trivia to support our preference.


Written by an 18 yrs. old:

“I wish I was around when people had blogs or even myspace. This era was deeply personal and creative. Most writing on the internet was individual, not written in search of “SEO” or profit but driven by the need and want of people to share knowledge–pure curiosity.”

Great blog post re: #IndieWeb #OldWeb

rohan.ga/blog/early-internet/

/via @feedle



Why is it considered socially and legally unacceptable for me to enter a crowded room armed with an aluminum baseball bat, striking at people randomly - a crippled leg here, a destroyed skull & brain there, a collapsed rib cage and punctured lungs...

Why can I not just injur or kill anyone I want with the bat?

I can do it with #covid.



Welcome to the RB family, Weathernaut 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/me.ta…

Weathernaut lets you check the current conditions, get hourly forecasts for today and tomorrow, or plan your week with a 7-day forecast.

Again, thanks to @bg443 for providing the recipe!

And we just passed the 300th RB app at IzzyOnDroid here: 301 apps / 24.8% are now RB :awesome:

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid



Welcome to the RB family, Jetflix 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.y…

Jetflix is a Movie listing app using the TheMovieDb API which lets you search, filter, select by genre, see cast and crew details, production companies and more.

Thanks to @bg443 for providing the recipe!

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid



I wonder why americans call it "bullet train". I mean they don't kill people and they are hardly found in america. And opposed by most republicans.


11 Best Free and Open Source Firewall Tools lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


At a protest in SF, blind Uber and Lyft users claim the companies aren't doing enough to prevent drivers from turning away passengers with visual impairments (Wired)

wired.com/story/protestors-say…
techmeme.com/241020/p7#a241020…







I really like Drew's framework here dividing current AI use-cases into Gods (human replacement, which I think of as still mostly science fiction), Interns (assistants you delegate closely-reviewed tasks to, which is most of how I use LLMs today) and Cogs (smaller tools that can more reliably serve a single purpose, like Whisper for transcription) - more of my own notes on this here: simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/20/…
note.computer/@dbreunig/113330…
in reply to Simon Willison

You sure you linked to the right song? Have you gone through the kind of existential crisis portrayed in that song? I always saw you as being cautiously optimistic about AI, that it can be a useful tool if used well, but not making us redundant.

@forrestbrazeal

in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt @forrestbrazeal oh I absolutely went through these 5 stages of grief, but I've been firmly in the 5th step for over a year at this point
in reply to Simon Willison

@forrestbrazeal I don't think I ever actually felt the anger. And I feel kind of guilty about that, because of course some people have decided to stop there and fight against AI, and they have such moral certainty about it.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt @forrestbrazeal I've not felt the anger personally, because I've been releasing open source code for 20+ years so I already default to "I want people to be able to reuse my work as much as possible" - but I absolutely understand the people who ARE angry

If I was an artist and someone trained Stable Diffusion on my work without my permission and then started competing with me for commissions that used my own personal style I think I'd feel very differently about this all

in reply to Simon Willison

@matt @forrestbrazeal I don’t feel like I am stuck in step 4, but I can’t get to step 5 because I do very much believe that (at least in their current incarnation) AI is very much going away. I am worried about the collateral damage that this particular dead tree is going to cause when it smashes into the rest of the ecosystem. E.g.: nvidia currently has a market cap of 11% of GDP, which I do not think is sustainable. But who on earth is going to get a positive ROI on ChatGPT at $20/mo?
in reply to Glyph

@glyph @matt @forrestbrazeal I expect there's going to be a substantial AI crash, but I don't think (most of) the tools I'm using right now will become unavailable to me - especially since I can run Llama 70B on my own laptop now
in reply to Simon Willison

About running models locally, I've experimented with that, but large context windows take up lots of RAM, right? Like, isn't it O(n^2) where n is the number of tokens? Or do you not depend on large context windows?

@glyph

in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt while I agree that the models you are using locally will not go away, I am also skeptical that they will receive much in the way of maintenance once the commercial bubble has burst. Nobody is getting paid when you run a model on your laptop locally, and training them still requires a zillion hours of GPU time and a corpus in the petabytes
in reply to Glyph

@glyph Yeah. Today I went down a rabbit hole looking into what it would take to reproducibly, deterministically build some video assets for a little side project I did. It reminded me of how some hard-core free software folks, particularly the GNU Guix developers, have been working on bootstrapping a whole OS with minimal dependence on existing binaries. We're never getting that for these big models.

@simon

in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt @glyph the models I can run in my laptop today are leagues ahead of the models I ran on the exact same hardware a year ago - improvements in that space have been significant

This new trick from Microsoft looks like it could be a huge leap forward too - I've not dug into it properly yet though github.com/microsoft/BitNet




What a journey this is. Take a listen, preferably with headphones. youtu.be/WrxJKj71c9o?si=0OmZNa…
in reply to Jakob Rosin

Really cool. Thanks for sharing! I felt they overdid panning though! :)
in reply to victor tsaran

@vick21 I think the original was broadcast through multiple speakers in a conference hall, so thats wy panning happened so much.


On this day seven years ago I got A FRICKING GOLD MEDAL for my work on #curl. Real. Proper. Gold. From the hands of the Swedish king.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/10/20…

#curl

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in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

can he hug or is he one of those guys who hit you in the back repeatedly just to let everyone know they are heterosexual?


We compared smart ring heart rate data with smartwatches, and the results may surprise you (...Instead, it's the Amazfit Helio Ring that won the hardware accuracy contest. And since Amazfit recently discounted it to $199 and made its pricey subscriptions free, the Helio Ring has become more appealing.
On the other hand, the Helio Ring has unresolved problems like the limited number of sizes (three), short battery life (four days), and lack of automatic workout detection.) androidcentral.com/wearables/s…

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

looks like the CFP is not open yet.

I wonder if something #AlpineLinux or #k0s/#kubernetes would be of interest for this event




Elgg: Set Up a Social Networking Platform on Ubuntu linuxtoday.com/blog/elgg-set-u…


#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 17 updated and one long-awaited added apps:

* Fossify Camera: your light-weight camera app from the Fossify collection 🥳 and it got the 🛡️ (i.e. it is reproducible), yay!

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps and #reproducibleBuilds with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:




Pi-Apps: The Unofficial but Definitely Better App Store for Raspberry Pi lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


In Wales, if you want a bwca or bwbachod (a goblin who cleans your home), then leave out a cup of cream each night (or better yet, a cup of ale). However, bwcas hate teetotalers. If you refuse to drink alcohol, they may kick you or throw your plates at you.
🎨 Tony DiTerlizzi

#FolkloreSunday #OfDarkandMacabre #31DaysofHaunting #31DaysofHalloween #Superstitiology #Mythology #Folklore #Celtic #CelticMythology #Wales #WelshMythology #Fairy #Goblin




Ide mi urvať predlaktia a neviem z čoho.. a toto tie zádery sú prekliatie.
in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Pozor na to, z takových záděr často vznikají plísně, antibakteriální mýdlo ale dost pomůže.
in reply to Josef Zettl alias Princezna

@Zettl_josef ono to hlavne bolí pri každom dotyku a kontakte s vodou. Hlavne to mám z vetexu a jarovej vody čo stále utieram stoly, nemá sa to kedy zahojiť lebo "stále" robím.
in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Tak to nezávidím.
Chce to hodně promastit, ideálně nějaký krém s kakaovým máslem, makadamovým olejem. Ale dobrý je i samotný olivový olej, nebo sádlo to je TOP.
No a před prací doporučuji promazat vazelínou, ta vytvoří tenký film, který chvilku vydrží i ten Jar.
Doporučovat rukavice je předpokládám zbytečné.
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in reply to Josef Zettl alias Princezna

vazelínu nemôžem lebo je mastná a nemôžem nosiť mastné poháre/príbory, potrebujem krém ktorý sa hneď vstřebá, mám tip Ulipolitio alebo Neutrogenu.
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in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Ten první neznám, ale Neutrogena je prakticky vazelína.
Tak aspoň na noc namazat něčím výživným, ta Neutrogena chrání, ale nehojí.
in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Musí to mít ve složení to, co jsem psal třeba kakaové máslo makadamový olej, olivový olej, nebo klidně použít to sádlo.
Pokud se bavíme o krému z drogerie, tak doporučuji tento: rossmann.cz/krem-na-ruce-s-oli…

Obsahuje jak kakaové máslo, tak olivový olej, vstřebává se rychle.



How to Install Google Chrome on Arch Linux lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Ongoing discussion, but it looks like Bitwarden may be starting to make moves towards no longer being open source:

github.com/bitwarden/clients/i…

Previous issues opened against the SDK have been met with replies that suggest they have no intention of reconsidering the licensing decision:

github.com/bitwarden/sdk/issue…

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in reply to Erion

@erion @tootbrute well here it is. Guess what? The world isn't ending. github.com/bitwarden/clients/i…

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in reply to chx

Well, that's disappointing. I was really looking forward to the chaos of the only usable password manager slowly becoming proprietary. The FSF should be proud, GPL has fixed a "bug."




It is a biblical truth not as known as it should be that the beauty of worship and the beauty of creation belong together.

“For creation awaits with eager expectation the revelation of the children of God…”
-Romans 8:19

With all creation, be beautiful today. Go to Mass.



@Tutanota When you update something like for example tuta.com/blog/how-to-start-an-… would it be possible to add a short description (preferably at the top) of what was updated so people don't need to reread the whole thing to try and find what was changed.
@Tuta
in reply to ЯƎB00T

Hi there! Thanks for the suggestion, we will pass it on to our team.


Tomorrow is Global Encryption Day! 🥳🎉 Celebrate with us and #win ONE year of Legend for free!!! 🎁

Can you guess how many % of Tuta emails are sent end-to-end encrypted? Comment below! 🔒

We'll announce the numbers and the one who guessed it on #GEC Day. ❤️

#GED2023 #GlobalEncryptionDay #Win

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Tuta
@User01 Thanks for the suggestion, we will pass it on to the calendar team :)


This: #antiracist vs "not racist".

If you want to start on that education, I really recommend reading "So You Want To Talk About Race" by Ijeoma Oluo.
I've previously recommended "White Fragility" by Robin DiAngelo, which was good as an initial bridge - a white person talking to white people why they should care to be antiracist. But she's since turned that into a whole white savior consultant business, which is gross.
Ijeoma Oluo though? Her words as another woman of color _gave me breathing space_. She wrote all the things that I'm too exhausted to bring up with my white friends anymore. She wrote that, so the rest of us BIPOC don't have to anymore - it's a book of empowerment like that, in a big way.

And this is why I implore everyone to read that book, even if you need "White Fragility" as a stepping stone first.

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#Bitwarden is no longer free software.

The new code introduces a dependency on @bitwarden/sdk-internal, whose license explicitly states that it can’t be used by any software other than Bitwarden.

That violates the freedom 0 of free software (I can do whatever I want with the source code as long as my output is also free and open).

This seems to be part of a long strategy from Bitwarden to gradually pull the rug under their “free and open” principles and turn the product into a closed product after gaining sufficient market share.

And it’s a reminder that open projects maintained by companies should never, ever, ever be trusted.

In my case I already moved to Vaultwarden a while ago. I had a hunch that Bitwarden was going in this direction, plus running 15 .NET containers on my box just to run a password manager seemed pure insanity to me.

I advise everyone to move away from Bitwarden too before it’s too late.

github.com/bitwarden/clients/i…



The small one and I have gotten through 2 of these today. Bit moreish.
They have all the pop into your mouth chewability of sweets with the slightly unpalatable reality of salami


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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