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#GNOME Papers finally becomes a PDF viewer that can digitally sign documents and verify signatures.

The latter was implemented by Marek Kašík from our team. It was several years in the making. He originally implemented it for Evince, but Evince is pretty much dead and it's been waiting to be merged upstream for 1.5 years. When Papers were forked from Evince, Marek rewrote it in #Rust and implemented it there. It's currently under review and should be merged soon. ✌️

#Linux #desktop #PDF

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Quick Tip: How To Stop Your Battery From Draining When Using Jieshuo Screen Reader accessibleandroid.com/quick-ti…


Montréalaises, montréalais, soyez informés que l’armée canadienne va «faire du bruit» pour les Alouettes vers 15h00. 🙄

From: @camerondotca
mastodon.nz/@camerondotca/1134…

in reply to Nicolas Guay

j'ai rien entendu au dessus du bruit de la souffleuse à feuilles.


I feel like it’s a Scooby-Do moment. The orange spook mask comes off and it’s… President Musk!


I know I don't usually do this, but it's necessary. My partner's check for this month, which we had plans for, was physically stolen this month when it went to another state, and because of expenses from an overcharge and my own delayed check as well as some other things, mine is about to run out too. I have $15.00 to my name. Help needed for groceries, bills, credit card debt, and some other time-sensitive payments. I have no credit, I can't take out a loan to do it.
My info is:
PayPal: paypal.me/xocat1372
cashapp: $xocat1372
Apple Pay: available upon request via DM
partner's info:
PayPal: paypal.me/brooketg22
cashapp: $shimmerscript
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/laurenceleste0
Apple Pay: available upon request via DM
#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #crowdfund #DisabilityCrowdfund #HelpNeeded #Survival #begpost #donations #BoostForReach #desperate @mutualaid @MutualAidNet @MutualAidVisibility


Sabéis que no va dimitir, verdad? Conocéis a alguien de ese partido que dimita? Pues eso, dejará correr el tiempo y, en las próximas elecciones, mayoría absoluta. Os suena Madrid, no?
in reply to modulux

@modulux No solo tenía que dimitir, sino que tenía que adelantar elecciones. No es él solo, es todo el partido en Valencia.
in reply to Juan CBS

Habrá que ver, pero yo creo que no tiene mucha escapatoria. La ha cagado demasiado y el partido se puede buscar a otro.



Today is a good day to remember the time I told my Jewish grandmother, who had been an officer in the Red Army all through WWII, about the debate over punching Nazis.

"This is trick question," she said, narrowing her eyes. "When you are done punching, Nazi is still alive, yes?"



one of my favourite Windows utilities is the Bluetooth Audio Receiver found at the link below. What I like about it is that you can play bluetooth audio from any smartphone through your computer. It's pretty darned handy. Plus, you can have multiple phones connected: apps.microsoft.com/detail/9n9w…

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„Chcete naznačit, že jsem nudnej?“ Hřib vysvětluje, jak chce zachránit Piráty
denikn.cz/1574427/chcete-nazna…


Spanish often has an H where most other Romance languages have an F.

Take 'hijas' (daughters) vs. French 'filles', Italian 'figlie', Portuguese 'filhas'.

In Old Spanish, Latin [f] became an [h] sound.

Later, this sound disappeared.

Click to hear how it went:

A thread: 1/



I asked for podcast recommendations a while ago, I've checked most of them out now and on the whole there's nothing particularly great to report back with sadly but I'm really glad I asked!
I'm most of the way into my first experience with Talk Description to Me co-hosted by @ChristineMalec (Episode 126 - A Trip to the Fair) and it's honestly delightful to have on while I'm weekend working. Can def say check that one out if you're also looking for something to listen to x
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Random Poll on Fedi's Demographics

where are you from?

  • the USA (23%, 4 votes)
  • Europe (58%, 10 votes)
  • Literally Anywhere Else (17%, 3 votes)
17 voters. Poll end: 5 days ago




We don't need to buy a Sun NAS server, we have one at home

The Sun NAS server at home:



K dnešnímu celostátnímu fóru Pirátů mám jednu myšlenku.
Poslouchal jsem zhruba 40 minut poté, co byl zvolen předsedou Zdeněk Hřib. Na pořadu bylo „snížení byrokratické zátěže a převedení pravomocí pod jiné subjekty ve straně, nejčastěji vedení“.

Korektně zaznívaly argumenty pro i proti. Zdeněk Hřib argumentoval, že centralizace moci je ve snaze urychlit procesy ve straně - že je to žádoucí i ze strany voličů, neboť příští volby prý projedou.
(1/x)

in reply to Robin Bedrunka 🐞

@Robin Bedrunka 🐞 Myslím, že Piráty budu muset pečlivě sledovat, protože se mi zdá, že se kloní k normální středopravé straně, jako je STAN. A proč volit STAN s dětinským jménem Piráti, když lze volit originál. Ovšem Piráty jsem volil pro to, čím se od STANu aspoň potenciálně odlišovali. Obávám se, že příští volby pro mne budou poněkud složité.
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Folks who are into archaeology: Can somebody point me towards a good write-up on clothing finds from the areas that today are southern Norway, Denmark, and northern Germany in between about 800 and 1000 CE?


Es gibt ein neues Heft in der kurz&mündig Reihe von @digitalcourage

👉 Open Educational Resources. Wie freie Materialien funktionieren und warum dir das hilft.

Download und weitere Infos in meinem Blog:
ebildungslabor.de/selbstlernku…

Bestellmöglichkeit im Shop von Digitalcourage:
shop.digitalcourage.de/digital…

@joeran und ich hatten beim Schreiben viel Freude bei der kreativen Weiternutzung von #OER 🙂

#Erwachsenenbildung #FediLZ

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me at a restaurant going to pay the bill, restaurant person: "alles zusammen?" me: "gegen 👏 den 👏 faschismus 👏"


Updating to #GoToSocial 0.17.3. Didn't get bitten by these bugs so didn't bother upgrading until now, so this shouldn't take long. (Famous last words.)


Having a weird issue with #NVDA on Windows 10 22H2 (AMD64) build 19045.5011. While using explorer, deleting files or pasting files doesn't seem to automatically refresh the folder view. Is this a screen reader issue or windows issue?
#nvda
in reply to modulux

I'm not aware of an issue - and just checked GitHub and can't see anything similar there. Has it happened since you updated NVDA, or Windows? (And whichever one, have you restarted the PC lately?) For NVDA, the only other thing I can think to try first off, is press NVDA+q, then down arrow to "Restart with add-ons disabled" and press enter to do that and see if that changes the behaviour.
in reply to NV Access

Can't exactly tell when it started, only noticed it at some point. It seems to have stopped by itself though. I'll keep it in mind if it happens again. Thanks.



This account recently turned two years old. I'm one of the many emigrees from Twitter that started to dabble with Mastodon in November 2022 in the wake of the Musk take over.

My account on Twitter isn't *that* old either, only starting in early 2022. I had long thought to close my account there when reaching 1000 followers here (I have almost 3000 on Twitter), but this consideration changed recently after Mark Nelson convinced me during the Luxembourg pro-nuclear event two weeks ago.

I'll first observe that my followerbase has been growing much slower than I first anticipated and perhaps hoped. I just hit 650 and this has several causes. One is that people on Mastodon perhaps just don't care, following degrowth logics. Maybe my style of posting also doesn't 'connect', but most importantly, I think, is that the mass adoption of Mastodon and the wider fediverse hasn't happened yet.

Many that tried Mastodon in the November 2022 wave, weren't prepared that they needed to put in some work to get a filled timeline, due to a lack of algorithm serving as an onboarding mechanism. Most people just don't care and rejoined Twitter/X or, later, Threads.

This mass adoption can still happen, probably via the route of Threads fully implementing ActivityPub (still pending after 1.5 year...). Either way, Mastodon et al are still a very safe bet if we look further into the future. It can only grow on the long term, say a decade.

But for now, the 'Twitter bubble' regarding accounts posting on energy, politicians, journalists, even many people on the far left don't care about setting up shop on the fediverse... yet. As an activist aiming to influence to get nuclear energy wider adoption, this is a hindrance to my primary function of caring at all about social media.

For now, I'll remain on Twitter, be it that I'll post more 'strategically', in line with my goals. The fediverse is still my long term bet. We just started this journey, on towards a future of an open web!

#Mastodon #MastodonMigration

in reply to Emil Jacobs - Collectifission

Can't say I agree, but I understand. Yes, there's a lot of degrowth positions around, which makes it hard to get heard against that norm.


Do you like psych in tech and want to see it more valued? Some suggestions for folks in tech that have helped me directly:

- if you have presence in org-legible places, post about our work in places our bosses see it, like linkedin (I know, I know 😭 ). It can be as simple as "loved this! [link]" boom!
- we're often judged on engagement numbers (I know 😭). Post things like our preprints (osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/qz43…) in community groups, or employee channels. Who knows maybe you'll find friends!



Aaron Swartz was a digital rights champion who believed deeply in keeping the internet open. The organizers of Aaron Swartz Day will celebrate his life at 2 pm PT on Nov. 9. eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/cele…

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Oh no. This is really sad. I hope the a11y team didn't get impacted? w3c.social/@tink/1134538220048…


Cannondale SuperSix EVO 1 s groupsetem SRAM Force D2 AXS je báječný #RoadBike — letos jsem na něm najel přes osm tisíc kilometrů a každou, úplně každou jízdu chrochtám blahem, jak skvěle se mi na něm jezdí. A zvlášť ve větru, kdy jsem míval na předchozím Canyonu Ultimate dost často nahnáno.


Yes, it’s true that 54% of US adults struggle with reading, although the grade level equivalence is a dubious inference. I study this, so I want to share a few insights: namely that this trend isn’t unique to the US and better understanding the data has more implications than you may realize. /1

mastodon.world/@afouxenidis/11…



So many alpha males, so few people working on QA to get them ready for beta.




wow. Just found a Windows keyboard shortcut I never knew existed. Alt + F8 - Reveals typed password in Sign-in screen. This according to: support.microsoft.com/en-us/wi….

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The #XMPP Newsletter for October 2024 is out!

Read about the latest XMPP universe updates and the latest updates on our #standards!

xmpp.org/2024/11/the-xmpp-news…

Enjoy reading! 📰 ☕

#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc
#opensource #decentralization



Sometimes people are like "you act like someone who is having a conversation with you online is supposed to exert cognitive effort to learn something about who you are" and I'm like????? Yes??????
in reply to Cat Hicks

@modulux @hypostase ps. speaking as someone who studies cultures among technical people specifically (!) I think there is a lot of assumption in your argument that these are deeply neutral actions vs that they perpetuate a kind of context culture; I mean there's a REASON I get this kind of flak more than my many friends on this platform with extremely different looking avatars than mine eh
in reply to Cat Hicks

Ok, first off I do consider you a nerd, you're a research scientist, how much nerdier does it get? I was generalising and, perhaps, not using language precisely enough.

I do agree that there are values in conflict, hence my point that treating text like that has problems as well. I just get the feeling that there are a lot of people on the fedi with experiences like what I described, could be wrong about this and it could be something else; it would be interesting to know. I do hope that you are welcome here, and, as I said, I do try to adapt to my interlocutor's interaction style and I think we should all try to be mindful of this if possible.

And regarding whether the "social indifference" is omnidirectional, for myself, I can't see avatars (not a metaphor, I'm blind) and most of the time I have no real expectations of the gender or other physical characteristics of people. But I'm also convinced that you're right people get treated differently according to those sorts of factors. I hope the fedi becomes more welcoming in this regard.



XSF Announcement

We invite everyone to the 27th XMPP #Summit in #Brussels, #Belgium next year again. Get involved in development of the XMPP protocol in person and remote!

xmpp.org/2024/11/xmpp-summit-2…

#jabber #chat #interoperability
#rfc #opensource #decentralization
#standards







I recently finished reading "The Rule Book: The Building Blocks of Games" by Jaakko Stenros and Markus Montola (2024). You can find the open access version on the MIT Press website: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547444…

It’s an altogether great introduction to what rules in games and play are and how they work. Just very good all around!

Here's a thread on some things that stuck with me. 1/XX

#gamestudies