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Whoever designed this page should be embarrassed. “Tracking status: Advised?” WTH does that mean? “No tracks for your parcel”? That’s not even English. Get a grip ParcelForce.
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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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At least it doesn't say they attempted the delivery, and notified you of it. That happened to me. Turns out, it's a system error. what a dumb way of erroring...

While LLM output looks promising and true, there is always something wrong — and you won't find it unless you have experience in the subject area.

For carthography AI is especially bad, because nobody writes proper documentation, so there is nothing to train on.

Here are three examples of Ian's LLM photo-to-tags bridge integrated into Every Door. While opening hours detection works great, everything else... Can you spot what's wrong in each tag list?

#30DayMapChallenge

Photo of a shop plate: "Kosmetika. Open 09.30-18.30, Saturday 10.00-18.00, Sunday 10.00-17.00 no break".
AI detected tags from the Kosmetika / beauty salon photo. Tags are: amenity=beauty, opening_hours=Mo-Fr 09:30-18:30, Sa 10:00-18:00, Su 10:00-17:00.
AI detected tags for a monument. Tags are: amenity=statue, description=Statue of an important historical figure, material=stone, name=Monument.
AI detected tags for a post box. Tags are: amenity=post_box, addr:housenumber=132, name=Почта. (132 was a ref number, not address).
#30DayMapChallenge
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Every Door OSM Editor
Every Door OSM Editor
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How do I know who and when edited a place? On the editor pane header there is a clock button, which shows the object history, highlighting tag changes. Go back in time and see how OSM grew!

Thanks to George Honeywood for submitting a pull request adding that panel.

#30DayMapChallenge

Screenshot of an object history pane in Every Door. The object is a building with a UNIS Guest House in Svalbard. Visible are four versions: the first was in March 2015 by one user, the third — in March 2024 with a building outline update, and the last was on September 20, adding the wheelchair=yes tag.
#30DayMapChallenge
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Every Door OSM Editor
Every Door OSM Editor
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In the past couple weeks, I'm increasingly looking towards @MapComplete : its thematic editing and linear geometry tools would be very helpful when I finally get myself to survey speed limits in my area.

Every Door can do much, but not all. That's why many mappers have multiple apps on their phones: StreetComplete, Organic Maps, OsmAnd, Vespucci, Go Map... And MapComplete in a browser tab.

#30DayMapChallenge

Screenshot of a mobile browser with MapComplete open. There's a yellowish map with black and red lines for roads. On some, speed limits are displayed: 30 or 50. There is a menu button and a header at the top: "Maxspeed", and a "Search a location" field.
MapComplete opened in a mobile browser. Displayed is a page for editing a speed limit for a road segment. Panels, from the top: 1. Menu bar with some unlabelled icons and an X button. 2. Question: "What is the legal maximum speed one is allowed to drive on this road?" with a "50" for an answer, and two buttons: Cancel and Save. 3. Small map with a black line for a road and a "50" limit in a red circle. 4. Button "Split this road in smaller segments". 5. Button "Mark this location as favourite" with a big heart for an icon. 6. Button "Share this location". 7. A QR code to open the location on another device. 8. Last edited timestamp (11 September, 8:32).
#30DayMapChallenge @MapComplete

Far More Blue

Even after the darkest night, the sun will shine. The sea will entertain you with its relaxing noise, and the sand will reflect the light in a warm, ancient colour palette.

#Photography #Photo #MeerMittwoch #SeaWednesday #NaturePhotography #Nature #Sea #Light #Blue #Sky #Italy

A view from a beach, with sand, blue sky and the sea. The light, the sea and the sand will shine on you, warming your soul.
#photo #photography #nature #Light #Italy #naturephotography #sea #sky #meermittwoch #seawednesday #blue

It’s been a long long while since I’ve focused on my writing so I signed up at
writingmonth.org. My goal is simple - commit to writing at least 500 words/day and see where it leads me ✍️

My handle is curiousmagpie if you want to connect there. 👋

Weblog: curiousmagpie.weblog.lol/

#WritingCommunity #WordWeavers #WritersCoffeeClub #WritingMonth

Musing with the Magpie · Geese

curiousmagpie.weblog.lol
#writingcommunity #writerscoffeeclub #WritingMonth #wordweavers
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Hey y'all! Here's today's NotebookLM deep dive. This talks about the ZoomH1 essential operation manual which you can find on the zoomcorp.com website. If you're new to the Zoom H1 then this should help. This deep dive covers a lot that is in that manual.

#AfricanArt #flute #flutist #painting #oilpainting
Painting of the Day. The Flutist VI
> > artcameroon.com/the-flutist-6/
Here is an oil painting of a barefoot flute player rendered in bold, sweeping strokes of color. The painting captures the joy and passion of music making.
37 x 63 centimeters
15 x 25 inches
$500 original / Satisfaction guaranteed / Free delivery

The Flutist VI

Painting of an African flute player making music. Available from USA - original or print. 37cm x 63cm / 14in x 25in
Art Cameroon African Paintings
#painting #flute #oilpainting #africanart #flutist

Apple Arcade announces 15 new titles, here’s what’s coming 9to5mac.com/2024/11/13/apple-a…

Apple Arcade announces 15 new titles, here’s what’s coming - 9to5Mac

Apple Arcade has announced a whopping 15 new games arriving soon for the holiday season and beyond. Here’s what’s coming.
Ryan Christoffel (9to5Mac)

Sheepies want to say hello!

#Defaidodon #SheepOfMastodon

Photo of a group of sheep in a field. They have wandered over to the person with the camera, hoping they might have food. They are white and quite chunky, with black faces. A line of trees marks the far boundary of the field with hills behind in the distance. The winter sun is low in a pale blue sky that has a few woolly clouds.
#SheepOfMastodon #Defaidodon

Taking a break from awful things:

Scientists taught rats to drive cars. The rats quickly learned to rev the engine and take longer routes just for fun.

Bonus: Watch the researcher do a little happy leap when the rat gets into the car.

theconversation.com/im-a-neuro… #science #tech

I’m a neuroscientist who taught rats to drive − their joy suggests how anticipating fun can enrich human life

Equipped with a rodent version of a Cybertruck, these driving rats reveal that positive experiences may sculpt the brain just as powerfully as stressful ones
The Conversation
#tech #science

I've changed the URL to the article on Buzzfeed, rather than the URL from Apple News.

From Buzzfeed:
Women Are Sharing The Tips And Tricks They Use To Stay Safe While Dating -
buzzfeed.com/caseyrackham/wome…


Women Share Safe Dating Tips and Tricks

"If you live in an apartment complex and feel like someone is following you home, you shouldn't turn the lights on right away when you get inside. If you do, it can tip them off as to which exact unit you live in."
Casey Rackham (BuzzFeed)
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[looks at to do list]

[rolls up sleeves]

[cracks knuckles]

[takes a deep breath]

[opens Mastodon]

#procrastination

#procrastination

Costa Coffee for a slightly belated lunch. Expensive and almost entirely unrewarding, yet surprisingly necessary sometimes. Back to the studio to record more inaccessible third party components now. Fun times!
in reply to Sean Randall

Jakob Rosin
Jakob Rosin
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Inaccessible thirdparty components would make a hell of an album title.
in reply to Jakob Rosin

Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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@jakobrosin ha. There are lots of cool catchphrases that I like the sound of at work.

The cookie modal.

tab index. That comes up a lot. I like the sound of a tab index..

and on android builds lately we've had talkback saying scrim quite often. when we have drawers out, so 'scrim in your drawers' is probably the best one this week.

@Jakob Rosin
in reply to Sean Randall

Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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7 videos later and I'm nearly ready to sign off for the day. Not too bad

Yesterday I learned that modern Java has `var` with type inference, and I'm absolutely going to be using it everywhere going forward.

Tenemos que aprender de Estados Unidos que tuvieron un golpe de estado fallido y se pasaron cuatro años diciendo "Esto hay que derrotarlo en las urnas".

👉 a break in the dreary rain ... but the wind was less than cooperative 🫤
Big creamy white colored rose atop tall bush stems is slightly blurred from the wind movement at the moment of capture. Beneath big blue skies with thin, sweeping white clouds.

Hi all, so, fairly okayish day so far. Radio show this morning, now preparing another one. I've been outside to take the rubbish out, wow it's definitely turned cold. I've got a load of laundry on as well.
in reply to Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺

Kay
Kay
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@tardis oooh wow. i don't mind snow as long as it doesn't top me from travelling. i stepped on some crunchy leaves this morning.
@Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺

@thunderbird hi, installed TB on android but can't get unread messages count notification on the homepage icon, does TB on android support that?
@Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
in reply to Andy

Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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Hi! Unfortunately vanilla Android doesn't support this, but there is an "unread count" home screen widget, however!

Isn't it kinda crazy that, even with so many people worried about microplastics, the majority of pepper and salt grinders have plastic burrs? Like this isn't even about miniscule particles of plastic shedding into food from lunchboxes or into drinks from water bottles, we're talking plastic bits that actively mechanically grind against food with enough friction and force to break down salt crystals. I wonder if anyone's actually tested how much plastic that adds to your diet..

Despite rumors, the IO domain is not going away.

Find out more: ➡️ tuta.com/blog/what-happens-wit…

Screenshot of Tuta blog post: Despite rumors, the IO domain is not going away.

Will the .io domain cease to exist? | Tuta

Great Britain is returning Chagos Islands to Mauritius. How will this affect the .io domain?
Tuta
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Azarilhⓥ
Azarilhⓥ
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Unrelated but i always assumed the new logo was a letter box, not a switch. 😅

But tomorrow night my flight leaves, and then I will be with my @Hannah ….but I desperately need sleep. My girl can sleep 12 hours in one day and I am so jealous haha
@Hannah Mae
in reply to Hannah Mae

Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Hehe I hope. :) and you can also meditate together, or listen to relaxing music and stuff. Hehe.

Meditation.

Sensitive content

For a few weeks now, I type “foucus” instead of “focus” and as “focus” is a word you type often in accessibility, typing “foucus” really does not help me staying foucused/focused on the task. It’s like I try to focus but I only have fauxus.

🫨😵‍💫

in reply to Eric Eggert

Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Last week instead of "the purpose of unlabelled elements is unclear to screen reader users, I kept on typing, "the purpose of unlabelled elements is unknown to screen reader users." LOL Unclear, sure, unknown, well I doubt it.
in reply to Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺

Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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We were thinking of making acessibility 2024 memes page. Cause web accessibility half works, and then you think you've seen everything possible, but you haven't. also, I don't know what German devs do, but my trackpad on Mac breaks every time I have menus auto opening when I browse through them. Like how... Trackpad navigation is an advanced method of works, but if VO/s guide has suggested it for one of the ways of navigating, I don't see why not. and then it's broken. also, I don't know why I am writing this, but I wanted to write it as a bug so badly, so instead sharing with another nice person working the same. Haha. So yeah, sorry for the rant. ;)

Another sunny ☀️ day on the mountain top with my birds! 🕊️ I hope you all have a great day 🙌
Top of the Mountain at sunrise with my birds waiting for their peanuts 🥜

Oh, nice: and OMGSoundboard will be fully FOSS now with the new release which goes live at #IzzyOnDroid with the next sync around 7 pm UTC 🥳 Devs got rid of the last remaining proprietary dependency: GMS is gone now from the app! Congrats, @OMGSoundboard :awesome:

Next step: shall we try for reproducible builds now? 🤔

#izzyondroid @OMGSoundboard

Part of the madness of this time of year includes an office chair we no longer need.
I brought it downstairs to sell or exchange or charity but ...

Seems the dog has other ideas.

#DogsOfMastadon

A black and white dog is curled up on an office chair in front of a set of French doors streaming sunlight into the slightly messy living space. Shoes and other clutter are also visible, but the cute dog on the chair is intended to be the focus of the shot.
#dogsofmastadon
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Phil Johnston
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just a sleepy dog on a spinny chair in front of a window
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Today's mood
Photo of a black cat laying on a couch with it's head right next to a table while staring off into the distance, looking at nothing in particular.

More improvements coming to #LibreOffice thanks to students in the Google Summer of Code! For instance, in Calc's Function Wizard, the functions are now nicely grouped together – rather than being in one big list: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Screenshot of Function Wizard with functions in a collapsable tree list

LibreOffice and Google Summer of Code 2024: The results - The Document Foundation Blog

This year, LibreOffice was once again a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC), a global program focused on bringing more developers into free and open source software development.
Ilmari Lauhakangas (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice
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Metafrastis
Metafrastis
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You mean like they have been in Numbers? Like, forever? Who was the genius who thought of this? Because he copied the idea, but the typography and the UI are absolutely, eye cancer causing horrific.

As a TWBlue user, how do you get the client to ignore content warnings and read the contents of posts behind warnings? I ask because the strangest things end up behind warnings these days. Like recipes, for example.
in reply to Steve Mann

Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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and then, like recipes, for example. So I replied with my opinion of why this happens.

Ladies, if your man:

- can be called wireless local area network
- is related to coffee culture
- is related to hot spot
- is related to hypernet
- is related to wifi

He's not your man. He's a wifi.

Good Wednesday morning. Hi ho, hi ho, i'ts over the hump we go.. just keep on going all day long, hi ho, hi ho, hi ho, hi ho. Don't ask... Hi ho from Snow White is going through my head. LOL! Just a couple days till the weekend, you can do it! I hope you all have a magical day filled with sunshine. May peace and love surround you where ever you are as you go about your day. May kindness and smiles find you where ever you may go. May no harm come to you, be safe.

🇫🇷🇦🇿 Nuevo capítulo en las tensas relaciones entre Francia y Azerbaiyán:

En la COP29 de Bakú el presidente azerí Ilham Aliyev aprovechó su discurso para volver a atacar a Francia por su rol colonial en sus territorios de ultramar, espacialmente en Nueva Caledonia

politico.eu/article/ilham-aliy…

#politicafrancesa


Azerbaijan’s president slams ‘colonial’ French, Dutch overseas territories at COP29 

Ilham Aliyev also accused the European Parliament of sharing responsibility for deadly riots in New Caledonia.
Zia Weise (POLITICO)
#politicafrancesa

@Tutanota please set proper release notes for the calendar app, as you do for the mail app. Many thanks me
@Tuta

Welcome to the RB family, MultiLocale 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/io.ni…

MultiLocale enables you to add additional (or "unsupported") languages to your device's locale settings, if the OEM doesn't let you.

With joint efforts, the app's author and I got it RB. The repo here should reflect that with the next release.

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid


„MultiLocale“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

add languages to your device's locale
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

One interesting question is: can somebody be part of the USA government and at the same time be CEO of big companies such as Tesla or X.
in reply to Matthieu Baechler

Hubert Figuière
Hubert Figuière
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the same way a convicted criminal can be elected.
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what if instead of cramming AI into everything we crammed privacy into everything

Dans quel pays actuel se trouve le point culminant de l'URSS ? #leQQ

  • Arménie (40%, 8 votes)
  • Russie (5%, 1 vote)
  • Tadjikistan (50%, 10 votes)
  • Ukraine (5%, 1 vote)
20 voters. Poll end: 2 days ago

#leQQ

Absolutely devastated at the news about Timothy West. What a truly great actor. I feel awful for Prunella Scales and for Samuel adn Joe. I only brush fingers with them on X, but they seem like friends to me. RIP Timothy, may God's best angels keep you well.
in reply to Sean Randall

Lulu Hartgen
Lulu Hartgen
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@cachondo I wish I'd seen him live, I've heard him on the radio countless times, and absolutely loved the work he did, uploading poetry during Lockdown. Timothy West used to read poems there sometimes. My heart breaks for them all.
@Sean Randall
in reply to Lulu Hartgen

Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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The lockdown poetry was wonderful. Really brightened up my time in front of a screen.

I've been thinking a lot about bakcground audio in apps lately.
As an experiment today, I tried a gentle rainfall sound in my earphones with more thunder the further down my inbox I was. So as messages came in and I didn't move up to read them, more and more thunder worked its way into the ambient mix.

I'll keep doing it on-and-off and check the metrics of my Inbox usage with and without to see any impact.

in reply to James Scholes

Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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@jscholes I was sort of aiming for a, ignore your emails and the storm will descend, perhaps eventually eclipsing your screen reader, sort of motif.
@James Scholes

TOP chorea: invaze na Hanou, Tribuna Sever i Chachaři. Které je NEJ?
Slavie teď o víkendu, myslím překonala fakt vše. To muselo dát práce, neskutečný.
isport.blesk.cz/clanek/fotbal-…

TOP chorea: invaze na Hanou, Tribuna Sever i Chachaři. Které je NEJ?

Největší choreografie v historii českého fotbalu. Fanoušci Slavie se o víkendu předvedli s velkou parádou při oslavě výročí 132 let od vzniku klubu. Jejich nápaditá plachta i velká ohňostrojová show oblétla celý fotbalový svět.
Petr Fantyš (iSport.blesk.cz)

To end a call in Teams you can press CTRL+shift+h. H for hang up. Sensible.

To start a voice or video call in slack, you can press CTRL+shift+h. H for huddle. Sensible, sort of.

if you try to hang up in Teams after someone else has done so, you might end up unintentionally huddling in Slack. Not sensible.

in reply to Justin Macleod

Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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@JustinMac84 I've not had any of those issues I'm afraid, although the interface generally feels uncomfortable in lots of spots.
Which screen reader are you running with?

I wonder if there's a difference for home and workplace use? I know they used to have a classic and new Teams, as well as a personal and business one...

@Justin Macleod
in reply to Sean Randall

Justin Macleod
Justin Macleod
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NVDA. Pretty sure I'm using the personal one. I just wish Zoom still worked.
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