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Did you know that @tdforg has a Certification Program for #LibreOffice developers? Rafael Lima just joined us – and tells us about his experiences: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource #freesoftware


Two can play at this game! Chinese sanctions against Skydio — the U.S.’s largest drone maker — have left the company (which supplies UAVs to Ukraine's military) scrambling for a new battery supplier. Yes, folks, Beijing has pulled the batteries from the drones. (The reason for the sanctions is the sale of attack drones to Taiwan.) ft.com/content/b1104594-5da7-4…



En la máquina de café disfrazado de expediente disciplinario por falta muy grave.


Vamos a esperar a ver qué tal se porta @aemet_alertas. Si no la seguís, ya estáis tardando!



Vyšel Thunderbird pro Android
root.cz/zpravicky/vysel-thunde…


Cómo hacen algunos usuarios de mastodon para poder escribir muchos caracteres.
in reply to modulux

Pero luego con qué programa lees los tuts largos? porque creo que el pastelito y twblue no son cómodos para leer tuts largos. @modulux @jmdaweb
in reply to Tere Codina

@modulux @jmdaweb Ambos son cómodos siempre que no utilices la interfaz visual. El pastelito algunas veces lee todo el toot pero algunas no se entera y hay que utilizar la interfaz invisible o visualizar el toot en ventana aparte.
in reply to Óscar Gorri

Yo siempre uso el modo invisible, de hecho no entiendo la ventaja de tener la ventana por ahí, pero sé que hay gente que discrepa.


Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Último día laboral de la semana y del mes. Y ya tengo el recibo de haberes.

El curso que cogí sobre estadística me va a ser difícil hacerlo. A ver si hoy me pongo.



my condolences to all the non-americans who are going to be using the english internet on american election day


Je joue un peu avec XMPP voir si c'est assez confort pour le suggérer comme alternative à Signal (qui tournera pas sans douleur pour les gens sans smartphone).

Pour l'instant mon souci c'est de trouver aucun bon tuto pour gérer une salle. Autant en créer une, ok. Autant tout le reste, que ce soit l'encodage des échanges, la gestion de l'historique, les permissions des utilisateurs, voir même des trucs de base comme la description du salon. Nope je trouve pas... Je te tombe sur des bouts d'xml sans trop d'explications du comment-pourquoi T_T

#xmpp

#xmpp
in reply to Otyugh

Quel client utilises-tu? La gestion de l'historique c'est l'administrateur du serveur qui gère ça, pour l'instant en tant qu'utilisateur on peut seulement activer/désactiver l'historique. Pour le chiffrement ("l'encodage?") ça ne marche que dans les salons privés et dans la plupart des clients ça s'active comme dans les autres conversations?


ABOUT GEORGE W. BUSH
Dubya's grandda, Prescott, most likely bought his way out of a life in prison when his bank was closed down by FDR because he was the main banker to the Nazis.

this from the Guardian, back in 2004:

"How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power"
theguardian.com/world/2004/sep…

the Senator for Connecticut got away with it and that ushered the era of USA nazis hiding in plain sight, in and outside the government.

The Bushes are literal architects of American #Fascism






Exploring Samsung Galaxy AI’s Live Translate: In-Call Translation Put to the Test accessibleandroid.com/explorin…


AppleVis Extra 101: Future Echoes - In conversation with the team behind Echo Vision smart glasses applevis.com/podcasts/applevis…


"I went to work for VICE, and made working at VICE part of my identity. I wanted the company to succeed so badly because I believed in what we were doing and I believed in the institution. I worked zillions of hours of unpaid overtime, took on side projects, canceled vacations and worked on vacations thinking that, if I did my job well enough, the company would succeed and we would get to keep doing what we were doing. I spent the vast majority of that time doing work that made money for an over-bloated apparatus that existed to make a bunch of middle managers and executives large salaries and bonuses."

404media.co/the-billionaire-is…



I’d like to upgrade from my old komplete Kontrol s88 mk1 midi controller to an mk3. What do you all suggest I do with the old board besides dropping it in the Gulf of Mexico to create an artificial musical reef? Works but I don’t see myself selling it.
in reply to Noel Romey

@BorrisInABox Yeah, NI have done a great job of leaving new accessibility customers in limbo.


Trying an accessible way of shopping with Innosearch | AD myblurredworld.com/2024/10/27/…


As an active federal contractor, Coinbase is prohibited from making political contributions, including to super PACs. This makes $50 million that they have contributed in violation of pay-to-play laws for contractors.

#Coinbase #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol

in reply to Molly White

See my reporting on their previous violation, which is being reviewed by the FEC: citationneeded.news/coinbase-c…

#Coinbase #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol




SiriusXM Unveils 2024 Slate Of Christmas/Holiday Music Channels Including New Jimmy Fallon Channel radioinsight.com/headlines/285…


TeamTalk truly is a piece of garbage. But I still use it, and will continue to do so, until at least one other voice chat program gets this one simple thing right. Just send the raw fucking opus data over the wire! No compression, no processing, no boxyness, just, send, the raw, fucking, audio! Then I'll be happy! Why is this so hard and seemingly a novel concept for every app in existence minus TeamTalk?
in reply to modulux

@modulux I would dance in the streets if Mumble supported stereo audio input.
in reply to Tech Singer

@techsinger @modulux Omg...mumble doesn't support stereo audio input? See this is what I mean! Why does nothing get this right! TeamTalk gets everything wrong, from storing passwords in plain text to its UI, but it fucking nailed the audio.
in reply to Quin

I have to admit I don't really need stereo audio input, but sure, it would be nice if it had that.
in reply to Quin

@modulux I just had a quick look at the audio issue github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/… and it looks like it's still not supported.
in reply to Tech Singer

Yep, it seems to support it for audio streams and such but not input. Hopefully they'll get around to it eventually.


My first thought
man, we're so spoiled on Mastodon. There are like four #accessible web apps, multiple accessible IOS and Android apps, at least two accessible Windows apps (even if they both have some issues), and a couple accessible mac apps. As #screenreader users we can actually choose the one we like, rather than picking the one where the largest number of features actually work with a screen reader.

My Second Thought
Man, this should just be the default state of existence. #Blind folks need to demand more. But I get it, it's so easy to just accept the current state of accessibility as normal, and then be surprised by things that actually work.

reshared this

in reply to Scary Martin

I am using enafore and there are souns. You have to enable push notificaions, and also enable sounds checkbox.



Meet Steve: a photographer who is deaf and low vision tetralogical.com/blog/2024/10/…


Si alguien va a Nerdearla.mx, pregúntenle a Mullenweg durante su charla por qué está destruyendo WordPress.
in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

eso pensé cuando vi el anuncio 🤷🏽 cada quién trae a los ponentes que quiere I guess


Thunderbird for Android 8.0 Takes Flight blog.thunderbird.net/2024/10/t…


in reply to Pumpkin Amber

diet, alc

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in reply to Seirdy

food (veg), re: diet, alc

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I'm thrilled to announce my first blog post on my homepage. Finally, after months of setting my site up, I now have acquired ✨content✨. In this one I share my experience as a volunteer for the matrix conference 2024. Thank you again for this opportunity @matrix @plainschwarz
10/10 would do it again

arti-s.com/post/volunteering-m…

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The History of Radio!

youtube.com/watch?v=HGT0D780rj…


in reply to Robin Frost

Oh, my heavens, I certainly remember him from WCAU back in the '80s. Thank you for alerting us.
in reply to David Goldfield

@DavidGoldfield Yes that one made me sad he was a very nice person so say all I know who met him.


[Podcast] AppleVis Extra 101: Future Echoes - In conversation with the team behind Echo Vision smart glasses applevis.com/podcasts/applevis…


Did you know undergrads at Oxford in 1335 were solving homework problems about objects moving with constant acceleration? This blew my mind.

As I explained yesterday, medieval scientists were deeply confused about the connection between force and velocity: it took Newton to realize force is proportional to 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. But in the early 1300s, a group of researchers called the Oxford Calculators made huge progress in understanding objects that move with changing velocity.

They discovered something called the Mean Speed Theorem: an object moving at constant acceleration over some period of time goes just as far as if it were moving uniformly with the velocity it had at the middle instant of its motion!

That's really cool. But it gets better. They gave homework problems called 'sophisms' to the students of Merton College at Oxford. And in 1335, one of them named William Heytesbury wrote a book called 𝑅𝑢𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑆𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑚𝑠, which gives us a look at what these problems were like. Some of them required students to know the Mean Speed Theorem!

Later in the 1300s, Nicolas Oresmus in Paris gave a picture proof of the Mean Speed Theorem. For example, he pointed out that the triangle ACG below has the same area as the rectangle ACFD.

Why did it take so long for Galileo to rediscover this stuff? How did the knowledge of the Oxford Calculators get lost?

plato.stanford.edu/entries/nic…
plato.stanford.edu/entries/hey…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_C…

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From my Newsletter:

Mastering Git: Hidden Commands Every Developer Should Know

code.likeagirl.io/mastering-gi…



btw, the way the commodore 64 mastodon client (which is called "MOStodon", very clever...) works is you host a server on another computer using a python script and connect to the computer like you would with a BBS, which is pretty neat. it would be cool if someone made a web proxy that worked similarly


How to Upgrade to Fedora 41 from Fedora 40 linuxtoday.com/blog/how-to-upg…