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Für meine lieben Leseratten gingen gerade weitere 23 #eBooks bei ebooks.qumran.org/ live. Insgesamt stehen Euch damit nun 12.960 Bücher dort bereit. Viel Spaß beim Stöbern & Schmökern :awesome:


I was doing so good there for about a week. Now I'm back to this thing where I sleep for no more than two hours, then I'm up for the rest of the day.
I've gotten about 8 hours or so of sleep in the last four days.

I guess it's better than being awake for many days straight, which I've also done somewhat recently.

In related news, stress sucks.

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in reply to Patrick Perdue

Aww. Well, I started doing meditation a year or so ago, and it has really helped me with a lot of issues, but mostly stressful situations.


Někdo šanci využil ke změně k lepšímu, podobně jako PP, jiný zůstal šmejdem stejně jako AB. bird.makeup/users/prezidentpav…



Well, Microsoft Edge is kind of a pile now. It's pretty easy to accidentally get stuck in the address bar / toolbar region and no amount of f6ing will get you out of it. So, if we want Chromium, we choose between that nonsense, Chrome and its evilness, or Brave and its problematicness. I'm sure happy Firefox works for me 99.99% of the time.
in reply to Simon Jaeger (Procrastodon)

HAhyaha yep. Well, sadly it doesn't have enough market share to test with, so that kind of sucks. But can I really blame people? At least I have two browsers that I do completely different things with. LOL. Also Safari isn't that bad. It works for work.
But only FF on Windows, nothing else. Although, I do have Chrome installed for these 1% of the time when some app decides it's going to say it doesn't support FF.


Holy crap Samsung Health on my watch is abysmal. I'm sick of trying to make it work properly.

Back to Google fit, even if it can't find me on my walks.

Will avoid both these brands for my next watch.

in reply to Christian Biggins

I've found Samsung health to be considerably better than Google fit. What are your issues with it?
in reply to aaron

@fireborn the GPS is terrible. I'm constantly walking through buildings or stumbling around like a drunk. I can deal with that but the constant checking that I'm still on my walks despite the elevated heart rate and (drink) GPS activity is infuriating. Sometimes 10+ "are you still walking?" Prompts per 30 mins.

Today it just paused the workout for no apparent reason. I didn't notice for 10 mins even though I have to check it every minute or two for that above-mentioned prompt.

So bad.

in reply to aaron

@fireborn it's also my second one cause the first was even worse with the GPS! 😂
in reply to Christian Biggins

Interesting! I’ve not had that issue personally but that sounds super frustrating. Have you tried Strava or some other third-party app?
in reply to aaron

@fireborn to be honest I kinda wanted to stick with these. I have so many fitness app accounts created over the years. If I could I would just use Fit.
Interestingly, I have a Huawei GT3 which is fantastic with fitness stuff but it doesn't play nicely when synchronising the date over health sync. I might try it again, it's been long enough for an update 🤣.
in reply to Christian Biggins

Fair enough. I just thought that something truly third-party might work better than something from Google that have their own watches to support. And push.
in reply to aaron

@fireborn yeah that's a good point and worth investigating. The new Health Connect service looks promising for using third parties. Health Sync has been great for a long time!


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I submitted the manuscript for my next book!

It's a collection of folktales about misunderstood / underappreciated animals. Bats, sharks, wolves, rats, spiders, etc. I managed to find cool stories for each, and in every one of them the animal is portrayed in a positive light.

It was one heck of a research project, and I really enjoyed it 😄

#nature #animals #bookstodon #books #AmWriting



i'm going to make a radical claim:

the "phone" has basically ceased to exist.

these devices we call phones? they're pocket computers that just happen to have cellular connectivity. they should be treated as such - which means open specs, unlockable booting, replaceable operating systems.

if you need to blob the cellular bit for regulatory approval, fine, do that, but agree a standard interface to it (like AT commands for old modems, or the interface to the Pi's GPU capabilities) that all OSes can use on all cellular devices. but there's no excuse for locking down any of the rest of the device, is there?



¿Soy la única a la que le da exactamente igual que la gente se vaya a una red u otra? Nu sé, que hagan lo que quieran, si total, al final todos vivimos en el mismo sistema [capitalista de mierda] y ya es bastante difícil todo... No me parece ni un fracaso ni una derrota, sino gente que busca tener lo mismo que tenían antes y de la forma más sencilla posible. 🤷
in reply to alemanita

Yo con tal de que por aquí haya gente guay con quien hablar, me llega. Si hay quien no quiere estar, sus razones tendrán. Sí es verdad que me gustaría que instituciones e información pública fuesen accesibles por aquí.


This one’s quite important, thespinoff.co.nz/atea/25-10-20….

While Māordom has been in an uproar about the Treaty Principles Bill, which New Zealand First MP Shane Jones says is “dead in the water”, the coalition government has quietly set the wheels in motion for at least 28 pieces of legislation to have their Treaty clauses reviewed and potentially removed.

Key terminology here is “investors.” This seems like just the right sort of trickery perfected by conservatives in America.

thx @ClareBear



We all need toilets. Africa’s sanitation problems
The Conversation Africa has published a number of articles explaining the continent’s sanitation problems – and potential solutions.
blue-community.net/blue-news/



Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

De vuelta por aquí. Analizando enmiendas. Las ganas son relativas, pero la necesidad obliga.



J-Say 23 has been updated.
Corrected a problem where with latest builds of Windows11, it was not possible to create shortcuts to files and folders.
If you do not create such shortcuts, there is no need to update.



Babiš měl coby veřejný funkcionář vliv na Agrofert, píše se v prvním rozsudku. Soud potvrdil jeho střet. irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov/stret…

in reply to Archos

asi nějaké "erekce" na slunci. Mě dneska v noci bolely všechny části těla, co jsem měl kdy polámané, šroubované nebo jinak zramované, takže jsem podle hodinek spal hodinu a 27 minut.
Takhle by to přátelé nešlo.
Ale jinak #dobrerano všem


Patřím mezi ty, kteří se v listopadu ‘89 zapojili do dění. Když jsme se poprvé v úzkém kruhu sešli, abychom založili místní Občanské Fórum, ještě jsme měli strach, že nás rozežene Veřejná bezpečnost.
A že to schytáme, jako všichni ti, kteří byli odvážní před námi.

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in reply to Alena Boninska

Patřím mezi ty, kteří si přejí, aby se nic z toho bolševického zla už nevrátilo. Jistě, mnoho věcí se dalo udělat jinak a lépe. Nikdo ale neměl manuál, jak na to. Proto jsem spokojena s tím, co se nám, naší společnosti, podařilo. Není to málo.
Dost lidí ale už zapomnělo.

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in reply to Alena Boninska

Patřím mezi ty, kteří nikdy nezradí myšlenku, se kterou jsme v listopadu ‘89 vyšli do ulic.
Pokud nás bude víc, neprohrajeme. Možná se zdá, že tentokrát dostaneme přes držku. Možná. Ale naši oponenti nemají, kromě lží a prázdných slibů, co nabídnout.

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John Oliver is bang on with the TikTok ban.

It's xenophobia.



Even tho I've been writing and playing music for more than 20 years, next week I'm gonna release for the very first time one of my songs on all streaming platforms


Mozilla wants to know what you want them to focus on in the next few years. A lot of them are stuff about AI. Y’all should tell them how you feel about that mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net…


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audiogame-manager
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project Fixed broken download link.


Reddit's r/programming once again proves how sensitive they are

old.reddit.com/r/programming/c…

"Oh no, the furry blog has furry art on it. Time to gripe in the comments!"

Weak display.

in reply to Soatok Dreamseeker

This is your cue to start your own blog, fill it with furry stickers, and share it widely.

I want to see foxes and tigers on every r/programming thread.

I want to see r/netsec full of dragons and sergals.

You can leave r/crypto alone. They've largely been accepting of my silly musings.



December 2023 our house was burgled and the children's Christmas presents were stolen. Burglar was caught on our Ring doorbell and I happened to know where he lived. Instead of calling the cops, I burgled the Christmas presents back from him.


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Feel free to add a 👍 to this issue so that @matrix changes to their Mastodon account instead of their twitter account on the launch scren of element:
github.com/element-hq/element-…


An Ohio man guilty of Bitcoin laundering must forfeit over $400 million in assets theverge.com/2024/11/17/242989…


well, spent Sunday going to Oliv Garden, planning a hot spring vacation for Christmas, and just relaxing. Wishing everyone just the brightest of Sundays and weeks ahead, you all matter to this world in some way even if you can't see it right now.


How to Add a Brand Preset to OpenStreetMap


Just wrote a little blog and made a video about this to hopefully make it easier for folks to figure this out. I've looked it up a few times throughout the years and it was always a little tricky to find.

blog.rayberger.org/how-to-add-…



Lets see if i manage to publish my app on @fdroidorg faster then just verifiying my phone number in the play store 😁
in reply to mraiur

if you'd include a link to the git repo, IzzyOnDroid could beat you there 😜
in reply to mraiur

unfortunately no tagged releases yet (F-Droid will ask for them, too), and no signed release APKs at the (not yet existing) tagged releases – or your app might have been available at IzzyOnDroid this evening already, if everything matches up. Could you start with those two?
in reply to mraiur

always good to support your "supply chain", yes – congrats! Guess for IzzyOnDroid we'll need to establish an Euro-based OpenCollective as well, we currently only have a USD based at opencollective.com/izzyondroid


I moved nearly 40K pictures (which were linked from #OpenStreetMap and created with @MapComplete from imgur to @panoramax
You can read more about the proces

openstreetmap.org/user/Pieter%…

Thanks to @thibaultmol for hosting the server

in reply to gislars

@gislars @djh Good to hear! Well, macomplete.panoramax.org doesn't have 100TB disk, so we won't be able to host that...


A political rant and a Twitter speculation. IF you don't want politics or Twitter conversation, probably don't click

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Welcome Brendon Smith as #curl commit author 1319: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1560…
#curl


I generally agree with all this, but I will say the fedi is still viable.

Mastodon is not.

The fedi can still diversify as we learn what did and did not work with apps post Twitter.

And a major lesson is that you still have to have a good product. Standing for ‘ethical alternatives’ is great but in a world where we have to choose between bad and awful to survive on a regular basis, soap boxing with under developed half assed platforms is not going to cut it.

I think it’s good to keep talking about the ills of Bluesky.

But we need to keep talking about how Mastodon basically held the door open for them by refusing to adapt and listen to the souls that were telling the project how to win. hachyderm.io/@danilo/113488791…


Bluesky now growing at a rate of 12-13 users per second

So why am I beating this drum?

Mastodon’s failure to capture Twitter’s collapse is instructive as a once-in-a-generation cautionary tale

Product design matters, protocol ideology is not enough, and disliking capitalism is not an exemption from economics

You will read a lot of copium about the fediverse still being viable, but it is now the smaller development target. That has consequences.

bcounter.nat.vg


in reply to Brian Grinter

Some key features driving BlueSky's success are:

1) Starter packs
2) Block lists
3) Don't be completely terrible to the Black women early adopters, who have driven adoption of every platform from FaceBook to Instagram to Twitter to Vine.

Notice I didn't even say "Be great to Black women early adopters!" I just said don't be completely terrible.

None of the things above require millions in funding. Funding is not the issue. Ideology and prioritization are.



7 Problems You Might Face After Dual Booting Linux and Windows And How to Fix Them lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


If you’re going to hate Bluesky because you prefer Mastodon that’s fine. Do you.

But it disingenuous to talk about the ills of Bluesky and ignore the years of poor stewardship, unilateralism and how friendly Mastodon is with centralized platforms despite claiming to build an ethical alternative to them.

Yes, I don’t like Bluesky either, but I’m also a pragmatist.

And a lot of people are just not being honest about the very real and longstanding issues that have been pushing people away from Mastodon for a long time.

in reply to Gorgeous Killer

Do I like the idea of having to join a platform like Bluesky to engage with my people online. No. Hell no. I actually fucking hate it.

But I’m a community person that has empathy for people that do not have my skills and experiences who are just trying to find a place to kick it on a web filled with corporate platforms and open source projects run and maintained by virulent bigots.

So, I’m going to practice a bit of humility and go to where the people so I can listen and learn about what people need to pull them away from platforms we all know are bad in the long run.

The fedi has famously had a lack of empathy for people that are not in tech, which is one of the core reasons people are going to Bluesky.

Yes, there a plenty of great ideas and theories in the fedi, but until they are put into action in a way that is accessible for non tech nerds, the Blueskys of social media are going to win. Period.

And telling people they are wrong for making that decision when there is no open source platform that gives them the experience they want is the kind of arrogance that kills possibilities from happening.




Geeks of Mastodon, C writers and API whisperers, are you bored and without a short project?
I would love for #CURL to be able to list Samba directories. Last year I made a PR allowing for local directories listing and wanted to do the the same for smb, but without success. I think succeeding requires knowledge of Windows APIs.
I can provide some help getting it merged.

This is where I got stuck: github.com/colinleroy/curl/com…
(the magic should happen in smb_send_open_directory)

#curl
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De casualidad, hoy de viaje me coincidió escuchar Radio 3 cuando ponen el programa de flamenco. Era sobre Las Grecas, y es curioso la instrumentación que tenían muchas de sus canciones, con muchos elementos formales de rock y jazz.