I have access to a Linux machine with 64GB of RAM, of which about 1.2 GB is currently in use. How very sad. I need to find more silly memory using things for this box to do.
@vick21 I'm still running one of my PiHoles on an old rPi2 model B with 1GB RAM. Still works fine for that. I dunno, turn it into a small NAS or something?
Is there an open source software you'd recommendfor NAS? I mean, I could certainly just use it to back up with an attached disk, but I'd love something more powerful. :)
We should definitely keep track of the private companies firing people over their personal social media comments re: Kirk's death. Fight fire with fire.
Did any of these companies fire one single employee when they made comments about violence toward, or murder of, democrats?
Only hypothetically. We can't even get people in this country to support unions, they're not going to support mass boycotts of many different companies and media outlets simultaneously.
e.g., Target has been weathering their boycott since what, January? Yeah they're hurting a little but not enough. Their CEO just swapped chairs to another board position.
Are enough people willing to hold the line for possibly years at a time for them to finally cave in? This government can crush their ability to do business *immediately*, but the public pressure will always be so much slower for them to feel
I haven't seen this on fedi yet, but allegedly Robinson's roommate (gf? partner?) is trans and that's who he contacted on Discord to go retrieve his gun in the woods. If this is true, and Kirk was shot while about to spew some nonsense about the threat of trans mass shooters, it's quite an amusing 🤌 footnote in history, like if a white dude in love with a black woman shot a racist spewing garbage about blacks during the Civil Rights movement
Kirk would go down as a footnote for being an agitator, and Robinson would be remembered as one of the greatest defenders of the trans community.
On corporate social media, using euphemism and indirect phrasing (maybe) evades censorship. On the fediverse, doing so evades the filters that other fedizens have set up. If you want to talk about a current distressing topic in the news, if you're not going to CW, *use unredacted, specific keywords*
I wonder if government-mandated surveillance and censorship are going to come to the fediverse too, making euphemism and indirect phrasing unavoidable. Or maybe they'll just outlaw the fediverse altogether. At least the instance you're on is outside of US jurisdiction, unlike the (way smaller) instance I'm on.
@matt Fedi would probably need to get 100x as big before we have to seriously contend with this level of regulatory scrutiny, and there are sadly no signs of significant growth at the moment.
my wife used to work for the best gluten free bakery in the country (not my claim, it was the customers) and they shipped to every state. It was a good business with perfected recipes, but my wife didn't enjoy the limitations of gluten free baking. When the owner retired they took us out to dinner and handed us papers offering to sell us the business but we were still too young and really not interested.
New owners predictably destroyed the business, I think it's gone now.
RIP to the Silly Yak bakery; it was a treasure while it lasted.
(God their gluten free pumpkin scones in the autumn were so good)
"Do Universities Investing In Technology Transfer Via Patenting Lose Money?"
This study reaches a conclusion I've believed to be true since seeing how tech transfer offices work. The paper calls for closing tech transfer offices and instead open sourcing all innovations. ttb.sk/clanky/do-universities-…
It's an excellent read, with lots of good advise, including having a public "hello" profile and another unpublished chat profile for private chatting. #deltachat apps have pervasive multi-profile support (and multi-device support) so it's pretty easy to establish such a two-profile setup.
Loops is now ready to self-host, and a few instances have appeared already 🥳 Stay tuned, we have a lot more exciting news to share! joinloops.org #loops
I have finally moved over to Linux as my primary platform. In many ways it is like coming home, as I loved working on UNIX machines in the past. Of course, I have been using Linux as a secondary OS for a long time, but I finally made the switch. Microsoft cancelling Windows 10 and the direction Windows 11 is going was just too much for me.
@ruario helped the transition, by making it easy for me to work with multiple concurrent @Vivaldi installs. That is a must for me as I test a lot of builds at the same time.
Dear GitHub users. Forgejo exists (and is the software behind Codeberg). Radicle exists. Sourcehut exists. You’re welcome to join! And with forgefed we also have a federated approach. We were building all of that while you were sleeping ;) Maybe you are now ready to help us build a better, more decentralised code sharing future?
Internet before: “Never share your personal information online.”
Internet now: “We require that you fully dox yourself on every single website you visit and service you use so we and our 1729 tracking companies can stalk and build a profile on you across the web. Oh, and by the way, your personal info on something you used once two years ago just got breached and is for sale on dark web forums.”
There was a toot that went around a few years ago that I wish I had bookmarked. It said something like, and I'm badly paraphrasing from memory, "When you consider the usability of your software, think about what it will be like for an elderly person, like Margaret Hamilton, who worked on the software for the Apollo 11 guidance computer and would be dismayed at how modern applications require megabytes just to display a button." Does anyone know the one I'm talking about and have a link?
Protip:
When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,
"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL M…
I see from the Wikipedia article about #MargaretHamilton that she's still alive, now 89 years old. I wonder what she thinks about what the industry that still calls itself software engineering (her term) has become. I should do some more searching and find out if she has talked about it in recent years.
Why I'm thinking about #MargaretHamilton today is a long story. But basically, I remembered how Steven Levy portrayed her in _Hackers_ (chapter 5, "The Midnight Computer Wiring Society"), knew she deserved better, and wanted to learn more.
Found a three-hour oral history interview of #MargaretHamilton recorded by the Computer History Museum in 2017. Here's the part where she talks about the incident I mentioned from _Hackers_ chapter 5, and the MIT hackers in general. youtube.com/watch?v=6bVRytYSTE… The annotated transcript of the whole interview, unfortunately in PDF, is here: computerhistory.org/collection…
I've retracted my boost of the toot that I was referring to at the start of the thread, because I now don't think it's a good idea to use a real, living person as a rhetorical device to make one's own point. The link is still in the replies if anyone wants it.
Daughter took an Uber to go 'out'. Out is a nebulous term to teens which has for ours generally meant the park and possibly to pick up something to eat with a friend. She got stood up and ended up sat in the rain for 2 hours. There's been about 8mm of rainfall in the last hour alone, so she is not a happy child.
Meanwhile, 3 of our sets of wall outlets and 2 lightswitches had to be chased in yesterday so when the room is re-plastered they are all neat and tidy. More brick dust. More noise. The old dog flap was also bricked-up ready for the plasterers. Our patio doors used to be a window back in the mists of time, so we had to infill a great hole in the floor, too, before the new carpet can go in.
it's been a weekend of noisy, messy jobs, and that's before the chimney even starts coming down. Up again twice in the night with the Great Whale, so today's been a bit of a failure too as we're all exhausted.
Oh boy, too bad that she was stood up. I hope, the next time she makes plans of that type, I hope she has second thoughts of making plans, especially, if those who stood her up, make plans with her again.
Thanks yep doing well, my mother drove down Friday to stay at our house with our daughter who had been with the fiance's father since thursday morning,. My father drove the, motorhome down today as they were already planning to come down for a few weeks starting today to be nearby.
ok y'all some are asking why I got XBOX and not Playstation considering TLOU and such. Here's the thing. On PS5, there's no developer mode. There's no tinkering. There's no sideloading apps, like how XBOX can sideload UWP ones. So if you want my reason, that's why. Sony are exclusivity brats to the core, and that bugs me so bad. Not that MS hasn't done that with some XBOX Studios titles, but still, like, Sony are worse. Nope. Also after those WH-1000XM6 headphones being made so cheaply do I really want another Sony product? Ugh I really am hating them sorry y'all.
one of the (many) problems with telling people who've lost their careers in middle age to just retrain is that you can't live on an entry-level salary anymore. people in their 20s are supposed to have roommates and parent subsidies. you enter a new career in your 40s and you're expected to deal with all the financial obligations of middle age with a salary that doesn't even cover the rent.
Perhaps the proper framing of Christianity isn’t to argue that Jesus of Nazareth was God (and therefore must be worshipped) but rather that the actions and words of Jesus reveal plainly what God has been doing all along, starting in Genesis and through the Revelation.
Reading some AI criticism. I have my divergences with it, but that's neither here nor there.
But someone appealed to Searle. The substrate is magic Searle. The "it's implausible that a system may do something if I can't imagine it" Searle. The "computers do simulated addition" Searle.
Really?
It's fine to dislike AI (whether the entire research programme or the current incarnation that has taken it over by synecdoche) but because brains are made of meat and meat is magic? Seriously?
There's two new upgrades in the Bose Quiet Comfort Ultra gen 2 that might be worth it to some: Lossless audio and a 30-hour gbattery with ANC, so a night's sleep or so added. Lossless audio should mean that when you plug your bose into the USB-C port, they'll continue to work and show as a soundcard. In theory. Oh, and they're saying stronger ANC, until Sound Guys does something on them. (interesting read though: soundguys.com/bose-qc-ultra-2-…) I forgot the only single advantage Bose comes with on their cans: Adjustable ANC levels. I don't know why neither Sonos nor Sony see this as a competitive advantage they're getting beat on. With Bose, I can make a "relax" profile which puts ANC at 5 or 6, leaving some sound in. Not so with my other ANC cans. ARGH.
Hey @protonprivacy it would be nice if you could update your website. Given that both of us fight for #privacy and #opensource, we must not use the same marketing tactics like Big Techs do.
Tuta, you should know that Proton left Mastodon. You should write them via Reddit. As far as I know, Reddit is also your main communication/Support channel. @protonprivacy
»We're consolidating our social media presence due to limited resources and no longer posting on Mastodon. Follow us on Reddit for the latest updates: reddit.com/r/ProtonMail«
I think Google, Apple and all others believe in the power of open source as well and particularly companies like Microsoft or Amazon who profit from open source hugely. To believe in the power of open source does not mean that you do open source.
why don't you create some automatism, how to migrate from proton to you? I sure can do a lot of things manually, but something which supports me would be beneficial because I'm not a techie.
Honestly, you're winning me over more and more I use Proton Mail right now, but seeing how open and active you are - talking with people on the fediverse and replying to comments - really means a lot. Especially since Proton left Mastodon a few months ago
Your strong support for the #FightChatControl campaign and your clear choice to stand up for privacy rights - instead of giving up and leaving the market if the law goes through - says a lot 🔐 I've always liked tools that focus on doing one thing well, not big all-in-one ecosystems, and it looks like your way fits me much better.
Thanks for staying true to your values 🙌 I really hope that never changes.
seriously? Is some AI chat your only source? Don't get me wrong, if this is true it's worth calling it out but you should put a little more effort in it.
This is not expected from proton. It appears, that may have caught the big tech virus. Their revenue has grown a lot, they are launching new products fast.. sigh
can you just honestly STFU and mind your own business. Maybe you should spend your time and resources implementing WKD and PGP support instead of bitching on other companies in privacy space. Your social media behaviour is not helping the cause and rather sickening. To your management: find someone else to manage your social media accounts.
proton killed off their fedi account ages ago, after everyone here (justifiably) got mad about the CEO saying some REALLY problematic right wing stuff. I would stay away from their stuff if I were you
I'm a paying customer for both Tuta and Proton. Want to support Tuta hoping they improve. But they're not good enough right now compared to Proton which, while not being perfect, works for me in replacing US software.
Proton on the other hand keep showing up in unflattering stories a bit too often for my liking.
Hoping Tuta improves their UX and adds additional apps to form a "suite": password manager, cloud, VPN. Heck even cryptpad...
I should really start running away from them. Ahhhh...I am still in the Proton bubble. I target to be free of their services by end of 2025. I am subscribed until Dec. 2025.
Unfortunately #Proton chose to leave Mastodon since they got more pushback here than on other platforms whenever they stepped outside of the image they portrayed. Thus they sadly won't see your apt post.
(I'm still a Proton Visionary customer though, but even as such they didn't want to admit to why they left the Fediverse)
I wrote about the murder of Charlie Kirk, political violence in the United States, and the Trumpists’ desire to find a pretext for purges and mass arrests.
The reactions from the Right have been as unsurprising as they have been unhinged. The idea that this is the “American Reichstag fire” quickly made the rounds in rightwing online circles – leading to a call for mass arrests of all Democrats and mass violence against “the Left.”
The Trumpists want to escalate. They are convinced it is the only path to defeating the “enemy within” and imposing their vision. That is one major goal of the militarization of urban centers: Create situations that are likely to result in violent escalation sooner or later.
The Trumpists believe they have found their Reichstag fire moment. And if it’s not this one, then how long until something else happens that serves as pretext? When those who are controlling the levers of state power are itching for violence, how long until mass violence follows?
An aggressive, militant political culture has spread. It provides fertile ground for political violence, which has been rising and comes overwhelmingly from the Right. And no one has contributed more to this distinctly dangerous political culture than the leaders of the Right.
We should trust ourselves and those we address to be able hold two thoughts at the same time: That we must forcefully condemn political violence - but also acknowledge that it festers and thrives in a deeply unhealthy political culture that Kirk himself helped create.
The message should not be that political violence is bad because it targeted a good guy who was “practicing politics the right way” (which Kirk definitely was not). Political violence is bad because it inherently corrodes the democratic polity, because it makes democracy impossible.
have an XBOX series X now, what to do with it, throw it out the window and hear how loud of a thunk it makes? (Only saying this because of so few titles having accessibility.) So far have 3 games: Forza Motorsport premium. As Dusk falls (of course) MK1 But what else. Really am I stuck with just 3-4 games? I want arcade style ones, darn it.
I'm currently gaming through XBL cloud... I so far on my laptop have Forza Horizons, Call of Duty, Tell me Why? [because I will never not hear the cold #B99 intro] and Zoo Tycoon [which bugs me atm].
More "arcade" styles, filter them by classics on XBL. Blizzard have arcade classics and there's another one [not Blizzard]
<sarcasm>Yes. Believe it or not, Send me to Heaven, the runaway hit, smashing success, hit-it-out-of-the-park *literally* mobile classic has indeed made its way onto XBox. Making full use of its groundbreaking text-to-speech features to provide play-by-play commentary on its journey. Get a high enough trajectory, and you just might get a never-before-seen gamerscore bonus! Plus a personal repair appointment from Major Nelson.</sarcasm>
@jackf723 <sarcasm> oh yeah, if the console can still talk and hang out of the window as it hits the ground via a 10-foot HDMI cable, I might be able to do really well in that game! Lucky for me I see that it saves your game progress and achievements as soon as you get it, so even if it gets the last final scoring hit, it'll still show on my Gamer Profile which really does count for something. An XBOX just to unlock achievements there? Sign me up! </sarcasm>
Oh man I have been considering getting an XBox again. I miss playing some of those games. Sure, there aren't as many available to us but the list keeps growing (albeit slower than we'd like)
Es ist wirklich ein Trauerspiel, was sich #BVG und #SBahn da erlauben. Aber ist in Zeiten von #Digitalisierungswahn ja nicht neues, dass #Digitalisierung (v.a. in Kombination mit #Digitalisierungszwang) meist nichts anderes heißt, als Arbeit und Verantwortung auf Nutzer_innen/Kund_innen/Patient_innen etc. abzuwälzen. Und das "Argument" mit der unzumutbaren Ausweiskontrolle für Kontros ist an Lächerlichkeit kaum zu überbieten. Fast 2 Jahrzehnte lang wurden Semestertickets genau so kontrolliert, Papier/Plastikkarte + Lichtbildausweis.
Das alles ließe sich vermeiden (und unterm Strich vermutlich auch 'ne Menge Kosten und Folgekosten sparen), wenn wir den #ÖPNV endlich Schritt für Schritt zu einer kostenfreien echten Alternative aus- und umbauen würden, echte #Daseinsvorsorge halt.
Ein Student wird in der Berliner U-Bahn kontrolliert. Sein Handy hat keinen Empfang, deshalb zeigt er einen Screenshot seines Tickets, später auch das Ticket in der App. Trotzdem wird er bestraft - zurecht, sagt die BVG. Von Klaas-Wilhelm Brandenburg
An elderly couple was on a flight to Hawaii, celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary—a golden getaway they'd dreamed of for years. Everything was smooth… until the captain's voice came over the intercom:
“Ladies and gentlemen, we have an emergency. All engines have failed. We’re making an emergency landing on a small island below. We should survive the landing—but there’s a chance we may never be found and could be stranded here indefinitely.”
With remarkable skill, the pilots guided the plane down safely onto a remote, deserted beach. Passengers disembarked, shaken but alive.
As the couple sat in the sand, catching their breath, the husband turned to his wife and asked quietly, “Did you pay the car loan before we left?”
She shook her head. “No… I meant to, but I didn’t get around to it.”
“What about the credit card bill?”
“Oh no… I forgot that one too.”
“And the hospital bill from last month?”
Her eyes widened. “I didn’t pay that either!”
Without a word, he suddenly threw his arms around her, lifting her into the air with the kind of joy he hadn’t shown in decades.
She laughed in surprise. “What are you doing? We just crash-landed in the middle of nowhere!”
He beamed. “I’m thrilled! If we owe all that money, trust me—they’ll definitely come looking for us.”
As we sit here, contemplating the various writing prompt words that have been tossed our way this morning, we realize just how many characters we have access too. We could probably write several pages worth of responses to all these prompts if we wanted to. Just, gods, not used to this. It's great but fairly intimidating. -- Altheda/Lillianna
Right? that can be intimidating at first, but it's good for writing. Like, real good. I can write quite a lot with 5000 characters, so imagine what it would be with more than that. Almost like a microblog. It can probably have formatting and all that, at least here we do.
You can use markdown, not sure but I think HTML is also supported. Markdown is easier to use, though. I think you're using glitch, but I might be wrong, so, I am not sure. If you're using the clients blind folks use for Windows though, I am not sure if these posts are readable. I can try sending you a formatted direct message or a mention in markdown. I know a bit of HTML, but Markdown is 10times easier to use as formatting language. You can always convert it into html with a convertor, though. Not sure which ones are available, I just use a text editor and use markdown in general, even at work.
I edited it, so there not even a hashtag anymore, now it renders properly in markdown. Haha. I figured it might actually not read markdown at all. If you use Enafore, though, it will read you markdown formatting. I am using it because I like the web, plus it has notification sounds.
You could, but then you'd have a web browser opened. The reason I am even fine with a web browser is that Mac doesn't take that much ram, and swap of storage space for ram is way too fast here. I have like, three or four text edit windows opened, it's something like notepad.
Надоела подписка на музыку. На ios нормального полностью оффлайнового плеера днём с огнём не сыщешь, поэтому захотелось обзавестить плеером. Нашёл относительно недорогой вариант - Snowsky Echo Mini. Конечно, предполагается прослушивание через проводные наушники, но я готов слушать через блюпуп. Хочется музыку, которая работает без интернета и чтобы не было "блин, этих песен на яндекс музыке нет, а спотифай недоступен"
Není špatného počasí, jen špatně oblečeného běžce. Celou dobu pršelo, ale při běhání to ani nevadí. Nedělní klusík. Tempo nic moc, ale aspoň tepovku se dařilo držet dole. #garmin #sport
Hele asi dobry, kdyz jsi teda tak dobre oblecenej. Ale prozradim ti tajemstvi: kdyz prsi, da se to pohodlneji prezit na gauci. A slysel jsem, ze stary mazaci prej zustavaji i v posteli! ;) Jinak teda kloboucek. 10 km jsem bezel naposledy nekde v sedmy tride.
@vancura I know, but the sizes are really getting a bit out of hand. The Pixel camera app produce only incrementally better pictures compared to GOS camera app and the GOS camera app is only 8 MB.
@vancura It would be nice to have local “foundational” models on the device for every app to share, like the upcoming iOS release does it. (But I think those do not support images, just text.)
New germinating idea: Accessibility Excellence. Now, I'm sure people like @JonathanMosen have made approximately 9001 podcast episodes about this, but in the wake of Google's own AI gallery app, which lets people use AI models offline on their phone including image description and audio transcription, released with no accessibility, I think we need to converge as a community on an idea of accessibility excellence. We need to dismiss ads of a company that seeks to prop us up to show how their stuff is accessible, even though there is clearly a systemic issue of inaccessibility in the company. Gemini on iOS is more accessible than Gemini on Android. TalkBack still doesn't have basic screen reader features like a pronunciation dictionary and support for all features on even older Braille displays like the Braille Edge. Google Play Books does not automatically scroll pages while reading a book, like Apple Books, Kindle, and many other book reading apps on iOS do. Even Kindle on Android does this, but Google's own app doesn't. Gmail on Android has no way to navigate between messages in a conversation or thread, while Apple's Mail app can, making reading threads of email on iOS fast and easy. There is no way on Android to have TalkBack suspend touch interaction in apps, so gamers still have to turn off the screen reader to play accessible games. Apple users haven't had to do that in years. Even though there are tags on the Play Store for apps accessible with TalkBack, the idea has fallen by the wayside like so many other accessibility ideas that Google forgot and Apple has just embarked upon with accessibility labels. These aren't vibes, or subjective feelings. Like I said in my most recent Accessible Android article, how can we expect small companies or indie developers to make their apps accessible, when we can't get Google to listen to us and take us seriously? We need to take each others' accessibility concerns seriously, especially for Braille. Many people who are blind use Android, yes. Many people like it. And that's okay. But it could, and should, be so much better. There should be competition between these company's accessibility departments, not a kind of sluggish, aimless ambling around in concentric circles by one while the other presses ahead. Yes, TalkBack's Gemini AI descriptions are great, and when I use my Android phone, it's a very attractive feature. Perhaps next year VoiceOver will get something like it.
We shouldn't give any of these huge corporations an inch of duct tape accessibility, because once it's done, they'll build upon that poor foundation, and the whole structure will be so much less effective than it needs to be. Accessibility should be solid, no matter what company does it. But if a screen reader comes with a device, and is made by the company that makes the OS, there's no excuse for rickety accessibility.
Hello, Thank you for this exciting work. However, I recently installed the EdgeGallery application, and my Talkback screen reader is unable to correctly recognize the application's functions. Even ...
🤌 footnote in history, like if a white dude in love with a black woman shot a racist spewing garbage about blacks during the Civil Rights movement
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