I'm staying with T-Mobile, even though it's gotten worse
Over the years, T-Mobile has gotten worse. Prices have gone up, perks have gone down. But you know what? I'll stay with T-Mobile.C. Scott Brown (Android Authority)
Cleanfeed is also good for broadcasting and other live events. During the lockdowns, many broadcasters were using Cleanfeed to send entire shows, including high quality stereo music streams, back to radio stations.
I did an explanation and demonstration of Cleanfeed in The Blind Podmaker podcast which is still relatively current.
I say all this because Cleanfeed has just come out with a very nice update for iPhones using USB-C. You can now use a USB-C audio device including audio interfaces, come into Cleanfeed through safari for iOS, and Cleanfeed will recognise the audio device. This is going to be a big deal for people who want to participate in high quality podcasts or live broadcasts while on the go. If a radio station has a broadcaster in the field for some reason, coming in through Cleanfeed and a USB-C audio device is going to sound way better than a FaceTime call.
Best of all, Cleanfeed’s developers care deeply about #accessibility. They’ve responded positively to many of my suggestions and those of others in the blind podcasting community.
You can find Cleanfeed at cleanfeed.net.
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I had a talk called "Unbreakable Linux for Entire Family" today. It had nothing to do with Oracle #Linux, it was about concepts and approaches around #Fedora #Silverblue to make a truly free ChromeOS-like system for friends and family.
I was happy to have a full room of people. It's good to see #OpenAlt bouncing back in terms of attendance.
The recording of the talk (in Czech) is already available online:
youtube.com/live/7Xhs8zP8xwI?t…
Konference OpenAlt 2024 – sobota – D0207
Vítejte na konferenci OpenAlt 2024.🗓️ 👍 Program a hodnocení: https://www.openalt.cz/2024/program/YouTube
"The Horse and His Boy: Shasta and his talking horse Bree flee from a life of slavery and head for the freedom of Narnia, facing many perils along the way."
I spent a good 10 seconds wondering, 'briefly' what?
Also this made me miss Kieran Hodgson's bad #DoctorWho impressions - which were actually completely on point.
youtube.com/watch?v=OedNVdX2U2…
Bad Doctor Who Impressions: The Keys Of Marinus
Arbitan is having the Worst Day Of His Life. He's got guests arriving soon, he's lost his keys, and he's been killed by the Voord(s). But maybe Ian and Barba...YouTube
Falls der (Fach-)Arzttermin nur über #Doctolib vereinbart werden kann, geht anschließend wie folgt vor: Fordert zunächst eine Datenauskunft gemäß Art. 15 DSGVO an und veranlasst danach die Löschung eurer Daten gemäß Art. 17 DSGVO. Jedes Mal. Wirklich jedes Mal. Geht ganz einfach über Datenanfragen! 👇
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Dabei sollte man villeicht auch ausdrücklich auf Absatz 2 hinweisen: wurden die Daten bereits an andere Weitergegeben, hat der Betreiber "angemessene Maßnahmen" zu treffen, auch dort auf eine entsprechende Löschung hinzuwirken (so versehe ich den Absatz zumindest).
Kann man da eigentlich auch eine verbindliche Bestätigung verlangen?
Climate Change Demonstration Criticised for Blocking Traffic in Spain — The Shovel
“I’m all for action on climate change, but all this demonstration does is inconvenience people. It's selfish".The Shovel
For many years I've believed that Facebook and Instagram were secretly downloading phone photos in the background. Because when you go to post a photo, it gets sent far too quickly to have done a download at the same time.
Yesterday I found this video from an Instagram founder, and damned if I wasn't right.
It doesn't appear to be all photos, just the most recent one (ones?). It's not clear from the video if it happens when you launch the app, or when you hit compose. They're doing it on the assumption you're about to post some recent photos. They claim it's okay because if you don't post it, they delete it.
That's classic Meta self-serving bullshit. The "Yeah, it's wrong, but it's okay because we're Meta and we're smart" excuse they always use.
It is not okay to upload my photos without my explicit consent. It's not okay to chew up my bandwidth when I may be deliberately trying to keep it low. IANL, but that first, frankly, sounds like class action material.
It doesn't matter that they claim to delete it. They just introduced a privacy risk. That could have been a nude of my spouse. That could have been a photo of my kid I was sending to my doctor. That could have been a photo of a contract I'm not allowed to share. All to save a few seconds they can brag about.
When Apple allowed you to selectively make photos available to app, I turned the feature on for Meta apps. This makes posting photos a pain, because Meta doesn't uses Apple's UI for choosing which photos they can see and selecting them at the same time. It's a multistep process and it isn't obvious how to do it. Ironically, it means that I rarely post to Instagram anymore. A fact that just reinforces my belief that Meta really wants full photo access and deliberately isn't fixing the issue.
Auch das ist #DisabledAlltag : In Werkstätten für einen mickrigen Stundenlohn schufften, ohne Arbeitnehmer*innen-Rechte, während andere sich eine goldene Nase verdienen. Inklusion? Fehlanzeige!
Das Team von andererseits hat gemeinsam mit der Süddeutschen Zeitung zu Behindertenwerkstätten recherchiert.
Unbedingt lesen!
andererseits.org/werkstaetten/
#WfMmB #WfbM #Inklusion #UNBRK #IhrBeutetUnsAus
Warum verhindern Werkstätten gleiche Teilhabe? - andererseits.org
Diese Recherche ist in Zusammenarbeit mit der Süddeutschen Zeitung entstanden: Fast 300 Tausend Menschen mit Behinderungen in Deutschland arbeiten in Werkstätten.Christian Cito (andererseits)
My website turned four today! 
Found out via the ooh.directory homepage.
cc @OohDirectory
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Anybody know anything about the following User Agent strings?
ReplicantReaderBot: “Replicant” isn’t an entirely unique brand name. I hope this is unrelated to the Replicant LLM chatbots. If it is, is it used to train or is it just a client of the chatbots?ArenaBot/1.0 (+<https://arena.im/bot/;> contact@arena.im)(page is a 404; is this used to train LLMs or does an LLM use this as a client to fetch data?)SocialBeeAgent: again, used to train LLMs or a client of an LLM?Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5 Tencent/BrandProtection. Does this obey robots.txt or am I gonna have to add another Nginx rule? I normally block brand-protection bots.
‼️ A partir de esta mañana Izquierda Unida y el Partido Comunista de Andalucia hemos abierto nuestra sede en #ElPuerto como punto solidario para las personas afectadas por la tragedia climática en Valencia.
En estos momentos difíciles para tantas personas cualquier aportación, por pequeña que sea, puede ser de gran ayuda.
Can this been fixed in the way to split the listening times to the respective months?
Just updating everyone on the advocacy I’ve been doing with Flexibits regarding Fantastical for Windows.
Flexibits have been seeking advice direct from Microsoft about improving accessibility. There is no doubt that as a company they are committed to making the experience as accessible as their products on Apple platforms. They set an aggressive schedule for getting things improved substantially, but they say they ran into a couple of issues directly with Microsoft and were not able to get all of the fixes in that they were hoping to include by the end of this week.
Flexibits tell me they are getting ready to issue a public release, version 4.0.3, that includes some fixes that should help a bit, however it is not close to being everything they are trying to improve.
So in the next release, they say we should notice some fixes to accessibility, but this is definitely not the finished product.
We can obviously lament the fact that it was released without accessibility included in the first public build, and this is regrettable, but we are where we are, and I have developed a good sense over the years of when we’re being given the run-around and when a company is genuine. I am sure they are now trying to put this right. If it gets done successfully, having Fantastical working accessibly on Windows will be a huge deal for those of us who use this app extensively on Apple platforms. I’ll keep everyone posted.
Ugh, the #chrome #extension ecosystem is exactly as bad as I'd expect.
And the fact extension is still up claiming not to collect any data even if it has been called out in one of the biggest security newsletters shows how much Google care about this (not much). The only thing they care about is pretending to ship AI features to detect malicious extensions. Because that's how you get promoted.
I mean is it even possible to report a suspicious or bad extension? I don't see anywhere
Great research by @WPalant and @c0m4r
And @campuscodi for putting the spotlight on it.
the worst is that you can block "Shorts" with an uBlock Origin rules. No need of a new extension.
Oh wait...
Oh, neat! A new open source app for Fuji cameras.
Currently Android and WiFi only, just supporting transfers so far. Bluetooth is planned, as is location support. Desktop and iOS versions are listed on the roadmap.
#Fuji #camera #OpenSource #FOSS #Android
GitHub - petabyt/fudge: Unofficial app to pair with Fujifilm cameras
Unofficial app to pair with Fujifilm cameras. Contribute to petabyt/fudge development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Option<T> and Result<T>, and I wish more programming languages would adopt something like it.
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The Majestic Monolith
Monolith by Rene Aigner Some patterns are just about the code. If your code looks like this, and you need it to do that, here’s what to do. You’d do well to study such patterns, as they give you a …Signal v. Noise
Hi, humans.
If you like me (and we like, at least sometimes talk) and would be interested in joining a potential discord server I create, feel free to give me a shout.
Can't promise anything, as these thing usually go, but I'd like to have people I like around and stuff.
@cachondo @menelion Discord really starts to shine when you have people that are on the server while moving about. Their noise cancelation is beyond amazing, meaning that you can e.g. do stuff in the kitchen, speak when you have something to say, and not be annoying when you don't. It also handles network conditions, like when getting into an elevator for example, a lot better than tt.
With that said, I think it needs a lot more shepherding from admins, as each new member needs to actually be invited, you can't just give credentials to people you trust.
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