Le train projeté relierait Montréal et Toronto en 3 h et Montréal-Québec en 1 h. Trois-Rivières, Laval, Ottawa, Peterborough et Ottawa seront aussi desservies.
wait until the photo op for the opening of the construction. Until then it's just a glossy report that might die if the fascist get elected in the next federal election
@res260 no, different country (*hint* the train operator is part of the chosen consortium). To show what's possible on this planet. And how far back it has been.
Die Berliner Polizei hat ein satirisches Plakat, das Friedrich Merz und Alice Weidel beim Küssen zeigt, vorübergehend abhängen lassen und wollte es beschlagnahmen. Daraufhin pfiff die Staatsanwaltschaft die Polizei zurück.
Die Berliner Polizei hat ein satirisches Plakat, das Friedrich Merz und Alice Weidel beim Küssen zeigt, vorübergehend abhängen lassen. Daraufhin pfiff die Staatsanwaltschaft die Polizei zurück.
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I'm now confident enough to show off my new app Chimeful 😏 Create "Chimes" that regularly remind you to take a short break, refocus on your current task or anything else that needs reminding. Chimes have individually adjustable scheduling rules. It was especially designed for people with #ADHD who tend to get lost in thought and need to be brought back to the present moment. TestFlight open now, any feedback is welcome!
I didn't think smattered was a word. Smattering or a smatter I've come across, but I don't think I've ever used smatter as a verb. thank you for teaching me something!
@cachondo I agree don’t come across it often, but I really like the verb form of it. I like the feel of it. The way it is almost, but not quite “spattered”
Trump signs executive order saying all independent agencies are directed by him, must be loyal to him, all relevant laws affecting them are interpreted by him, and have spies embedded in them which report to him whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac…
Folks, here it is. This is totalitarianism. US friends, if you're looking for your signal of whether or not you should start making other plans, this is the one.
Le premier ministre Justin Trudeau confirmera ce mercredi à Montréal que son gouvernement ira de l’avant avec un train à grande vitesse (TGV) entre Québec et Toronto, a appris La Presse.
Should you need inconspicuous ringtones or notification sounds, there's a new project aiming to do exactly this at sober-ringtones.wize.io/ for free. Previews are available as well (press/click the image next to the download link if you use a screen reader). #ringtones #notificationSounds #free
these are...strange but interesting too. Definitely would do the job though. Cool stuff! Too weird for me personally, but everyone fancies something different. I hope they add more, because I saw only a few.
Any interest in learning to #code from the #Blind community on an old-school platform?
a MOO is a text-based virtual world. if you ever played an old interactive fiction or text adventure game you'll be familiar with the idea. you type in commands like "go north" to move, "put coin in box", "kill dragon with sword" and so forth, and you get written responses unfolding the story.
This type of interface was taken online with a MOO in the 1990's, and rather than a playable story, you can join in and work with other people in an interactive, virtual world.
More than that, as well as just playing, MOO has a rich and beginner-friendly programming language, so you can create objects and code them to do things to your own specifications.
through a series of structured lessons with code samples and plenty of explanation you'll learn some of the basics of any programming language, all whilst having fun and playing about. The world is always open and you can build as many rooms and items as you like. You can practice your written English, socialising and programming all at once, in a 100% text-based environment perfect for screen readers and Braille displays.
This will be my twenty-seventh empty MOO. Each one has gone off in a different direction with between 1 and 15 participants, mostly young visually-impaired school-children and teens needing an introduction to programming in a fun way when the UK introduced coding as part of our national curriculum. I taught high school computing and college for a decade, and I'm wanting to open this opportunity up to more blind and visually-impaired people because coding is fun, and a MOO is a fun thing to play with. it's Only worthwhile if we have the numbers though, so if you're not interested please pass on if you can.
#110127:fill_google_form, line 6: Too much prior MOO experience ... called from #6:react_to_mastodon_post (this == #110127), line 19 ... called from #6:browse_mastodon_timeline (this == #110127), line 13 (End of traceback)
Seriously though, I've been a programmer on many MOOs, and even a wizard on one game, HumanityMOO. I've also started my own play-around MOOs that never really went anywhere.
@jaybird110127 that's pretty cool. I get a bit sad when the kids all move on every time, so thought I'd see if there's an appetite for doing it more broadly. I have one more teaching session for some early teens this summer then, because I no longer work in education, that's all I have booked in.
I started with just lambda but prefer toast now, not so much for the server improvements but because those with the inclination can easily set up their own server and carry on with it when they're done with me.
I have no idea how far along this is and how much of it actually works properly, but have you seen Moor, a MOO reimplementation in Rust? If not, github.com/rdaum/moor
So what do you typically do? First day of MOO school, do you just have the first room and nothing else, or do you build an area of some kind for them to explore? Also, how do you handle player creation, programmer bits, etc? Just curious.
@jaybird110127 I bulk out the first room so there's a couple of walkable places, which gets across the concept of typing commands. They learn to say, examine, get, drop and cardinarl directions there. The last place they can walk to is a pickup point for a vehicle of some sort which travels between that public area and a single room owned by each player. so they board or enter the bus, or train, or climb on the dragon's back, or whatever it might be, and exit at their own individual stop to start building. Player creation has hither to been closed and I just set them up manually with the appropriate permissions.
@remixman LOL I was just remembering the programmer bit application process we had on HumanityMOO. I actually coded that myself if I recall correctly. It asks a bunch of open-ended questions, then sends the results to a special mailing list. Anyway I was testing it out, I think with a dummy account so my application would actually be sent just so the other wizards could laugh at it. One of the questions was something like, "You want to check the value of a property. How would you do this?" and I responded, "Call a realtor."
@jaybird110127 @remixman hahaha. We don't have realters in Britain. I thought the title of the Piers Anthony novel 'Realty check' had a typo when I first encountered it.
@jaybird110127 I've only ever done it with physical access to the people involved though, it's never been a public thing. In fact of all the times I've done it, I think perhaps only 2 or 3 have been over the public Internet, every othre time it's been as a class activity or behind a private VPN.
@remixman @jaybird110127 one of the teens I worked with hosted a virtual birthday party on his own MOO a few months ago, which was pretty fun to attend. Certainly a different type of thing compared with a lot of the kids.
@remixman @jaybird110127 it was, rather. he'd decorated for Christmas, had a guestbook, and you could even go down some virtual ski slopes (with l and r commands for which way to turn). There was a timed leaderboard and everything.
Just curious, what server and core do you use? Standard LambdaMOO and LambdaCore? Toaststunt with some other core? Write your own MOO implementation in 6502 assembly?
@ariaflame the thing that seemed to appeal from MOO with children was the ... handoverability of things. Child 1 would code something fun, then literally "give" it to his friend to play with. The curriculum requirements aren't overly complicated, which helped. A basic idea of object oriented code with parent and child relationships, some simple conditional and iterative concepts and data types and code execution in a task system were about as far as most of them wanted to go.
Interesting! I have a fair bit of programming experience (mostly Haskell these days), but I don't recall having ever heard of MOOs.
However, it does chime with something I've been pondering for a while: What if there was a programming language with a structure editor (like Lamdu has), so that you can't make syntax errors, but which is designed from the start to have simple text (or arrow key, etc.) input, and simple text output for each command? Instead of visually presenting lots of information at once, this would make it friendlier to screen readers and refreshable Braille displays.
Unser Webshop hat eröffnet! oskars.org/b/ Hier bekommst du Schilder mit deinem eigenen Text. Der Schildgenerator erzeugt dir eine Voransicht deines Schilds. Unsere Schilder mit Blindenschrift Braille und Profilschrift sind von Menschen mit Seheinschränkung oder Blindheit entwickelt worden. Begreifbare Zeichen laden zur Teilhabe ein und sorgen für Orientierung. #make #blind #inklusion
An welchen Stellen ist das denn explizit hilfreich? Gibt es Stellen, an denen eins vielleicht eher anfängt als an anderen? Beim C3 waren ähnliche Schilder ja auch schon vielfach vorhanden, aber ich kann die Wirkung noch nicht ganz einschätzen; hat da wer eigenhändige Erfahrungen mit? #blind #inklusion
@carostar Die drei Menschen mit Sehbehinderung oder Blindheit Vorort waren mit den Beschriftungen zufrieden. Wobei zwei von ihnen aktiv an der Entwicklung beteiligt waren.
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@glowl Ja, ist schwierig. Zwei Hände gleichzeitig benutzen hilft. Erfahrungsgemäß irritieren die zusätzlichen Linien der Pfeile mehr als sie nutzen. Kommt aber immer auf die Informationsdichte an.
I didn't know Google was becoming more evil, thanks for sharing the news! EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has a tool people can use to try to measure how much data are shared and what's the fingerprint of their browser. It's called Cover you tracks: coveryourtracks.eff.org/ There you can read more about fingerprinting and they also point you to some tools like Tor Browser, Privacy Badger, NoScript, resistFingerprint setting in Firefox and more
@katzenberger Who even gives a shit about this, their alt text reads "screenshot of yesterdays toot", sounds like an account that's not worth more than a mute for not even trying to be accessible.
Stop using all Google services and apps. Use adblocking and network filtering to block Google's junk at connection level. It's the only way. There will still be some garbage like their CDNs, fonts and other crap webpages embed, but most can be blocked with filtering. Google is everywhere so getting rid of it entirely isn't realistic even if you drop all their services and apps.
Hang on, where does Google say that they've officially loosened restrictions on digital fingerprinting? Your source doesn't mention anything of the sort: support.google.com/platformspo…
Holy fuck, people seriously need to stop this bullshit that Flathub inclusion rules and reviews are lax... I am going to send you the bill for my broken monitor next time you make such claims.
*Every* *Single* *Statement* about Flathub here is False.
And this has nothing to do with why Flathub is popular either.
Check out other podcasts here: @TechOverTea Today we're talking with Matthew Miller the Fedora Project Leader at least until the next release about the recen...
I honestly can't watch a single Brodie video without cringing hard; but this looks like yet another case of "distro person says that software distribution is a solved problem as long as everyone uses the same distribution and tooling to package software" that led me to write that blog post about "dev vs ops" in 2017. In the end, Richard changed his mind, but remember: it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
the fun part is that Flatpak and Flathub took the "we need to get better" conclusion and made it happen, whereas distro folks just shut off when I pointed out that they are becoming complacent and risk becoming so irrelevant to the Linux landscape that nobody is going to replace packagers retiring. Oh, well…
Tak jsem zase přidal nějaké to video, díky @archos za zvýšení limitu nahrání. Snad vám nebude vadit ten delší formát, za ten skoro měsíc jsem měl víc jak 20 min záběrů jen na mobilu.
Heute morgen gegen 04:48 war über Brandenburg das Verglühen von Teilen der Raketenstufe einer Falcon 9 zu beobachten. Das Schauspiel konnte man aber auch mit den Ohren wahrnehmen, auch wenn es sich nur wie fernes Donnergrollen angehört hat. Meine Mikrofone haben es aufgezeichnet. Mehr Infos hier ➡️ rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2025…
Leuchtende Punkte, die mit langem Schweif über den Nachthimmel ziehen: Am frühen Mittwochmorgen war über Berlin und Brandenburg zu beobachten, wie ein Objekt in der Atmosphäre verglühte.
@jonathan859 Ich auch, zumal das nur einfache Ansteckmikrofone sind. Die hängen jetzt schon gut und gerne 4 Jahre bei jedem Wetter am Fenster und funktionieren immer noch tadellos.
I would have purchased #SpitfireAudio's latest BBC Radiophonic Workshop library without question but since their UI's are notoriously difficult to use without NKS support and it's not listed on the page, no buy. Also can't log in, can't add to cart, so... Telling me to not spend money I guess. Oh well.
Their apps really suck. Only if they didn't have the bestest soft pianos ever made... I think, Erion might have made scripts or something for that inaccessibility, but you both should talk. I am here just because... Spitfire makes some pretty awesome stuff but. But a lot of of buts and ifs.
@tardis I only use it if I can use it via NKS. I have plenty of spitfire products that do have NKS support and refuse to buy any that don't. I do not have time or energy to fight workflow issues just for sounds. It needs to meet my needs, I will not be meeting it's. Know what I mean?
Kvůli práci jsem si pořídil druhou SIM od Vodafone.de, takže teď mám Pixel 8 s GrapheneOS čistě na soukromé věci a Fairphone 5 na práci. GrapheneOS jede jen na FOSS aplikacích a nemám tam žádné Google služby… ale ne, nemám paranoiu! Jen zdravou nedůvěru k velkým korporacím. 😆
lol naprosto v pohodě. Já korporacím důvěřuji a stejně hledám alternativy. Ono důvěra je jedna věc, ale ten pocit, že jsi na něčem závislí je druhá. Hlavně v tomto čase odcházení velkých hráčů z různých trhů je dobré se připravit a umět diverzifikovat.
@jan Tak já GrapheneOs už jedu dlouho. Jen mi tam vadil cz WhatsApp a aplikace co musím používat v práci, včetně Dropbox, ten úplně nesnáším. Tak to mám aspoň rozdělený. Snad to vydržím 😀
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@vonxylofon Možná, kdyby to pro mě bylo aktuálnější. Pokud bych si na Graphene musel kupovat Pixel, pravděpodobnost, že to budu řešit, se výrazně snížila. Doufám, že ještě pár let vydržím se současným (4 roky starým) telefonem, se kterým jsem spokojený.
@rholas Možná pojede i jinde, ale primárně ano, musíte si koupit Pixel. Na druhou stranu, jak dlouho chcete ten svůj telefon používat bez security updatů? Pokud nemáte Fairphone, tak AFAIK stejně déle než rok nemáte, dokud neskončí. Já mám teď Motorolu s příslibem do roku 2026, takže to budu řešit tehdy.
@vonxylofon Přesně holt bezpečnější systém na jiné telefony není 🤷 @rholas budeš s GrapheneOs spokojený, jsem opravdu dlouholetý uživatel a zatím jsem neměl problém. Hlavně instalaci zvládne opravdu každý.
@vonxylofon Velké updaty určitě ještě letos, potom nevím. A potom se uvidí. V tomhle mě láká právě Pixel s jejich 7 lety, ale úplně se mi nechce dávat peníze Google.
@rholas Tady se bavíme o Graphene, takže a priori nepředpokládám, že se tam Googlí Android ohřeje.
Taky nejsem nadšený, že tím dotuju Google, ale když prostě na jiný telefon není OS, který je takto zabezpečený a má GApps v sandboxu, tak prostě prioritizuju svoje soukromí před morálním gestem.
Four years ago I got my first threat of violence for my Open Source work that I ended up reporting to the police. Thick skin and all that, but there are limits...
You might know that I've posted funny emails I've received on my blog several times in the past. The kind of emails people send me when they experience problems with some device they own (like a car) and they contact me because my email address happe…
the follow up/apology is painful to read. I’ve had to deal with a few people like that, and the similarities are chilling.
I can’t tell if they’re both the same person. It almost feels to me like the second one is more of a writing exercise than the genuine article (repeating every single talking point that was previously brought up overemphasising “I know about all these topics and can add to them”), but that sadly could be as much of a confirmation as a refutation.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Transport Minister Anita Anand were slated to make an announcement Wednesday which two sources confirmed to the Star will be to build high-speed rail from
@hub seriously. rumbling down the rails at 200km/h in a 1980s-vintage Deutsche Bahn IC gave me a lot of time to think about how we hadn't even managed to achieve that standard of service in Canada yet
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the master branch of the linux-game-manager project Game Echo Commander added. This is not the same as the existing game Echo Command.
Now I get to find out if anyone is interested in #Boston to learn about how to use #inkscape to design their homes/physical spaces.
My workshop at the Boston Resource Center just dropped. I'm nervous how a non-physical skill will be received by the community. Will anyone attend? I'll have to find out...
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
I will get to Black history. For now, I'm still on white US history.
Q: Why is so much Black music about violence and misogyny? I'm not racist, but I think Black culture is just more violent.
As the Trump Whitehouse is having the DOJ drop civil rights cases against those who discriminate against the trans community, how long before DOJ stops enforcing other civil rights laws like the ADA or the Rehabilitation Act. If anyone doesn't have civil rights then none of us do. #CivilRights #Accessibilitynpr.org/2025/02/15/nx-s1-52986…
Remember when Valérie Plante said they were quitting Amazon?
THAT was a F*CKING LIE.
Montréal is req'd to pay Amazon for at least three more years, despite a pledge by the Participation Trophy Administration to no longer award business to the retail giant... montrealgazette.com/news/local… #polMTL #MTLpoli
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> Le trajet Montréal-Québec ne prendrait, lui, qu'environ 1 h 30
For reference in 2003 I commuted the same distance in ONE hour.
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