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❌ Big Techs like Musk's X do not need to own the monopoly.

✅ Luckily there are better Twitter alternatives.

👉🏼 In today's guide we take a look at the best ones so that you can say NO to big tech.

tuta.com/blog/twitter-alternat…

#Mastodon #BlueSky #X #BigTech

Small improvements can make a big difference. Our next major update to #LibreOffice (due early next year) will show page ranges under headings in the Navigator. Find out what else the developer and QA communities are working on: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #OpenSource

New post: If you recognize me in public, don’t come over to talk about my work. It’s about boundaries, burnout, and remembering that even unpaid creative work is still work.
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#Writing #Blog #Boundaries #CreatorCulture #Burnout #Accessibility #Linux #OpenSource
in reply to André Polykanine

Пускай хотят и сами переходят, это их проблемы.
Не знаю что ещё не объявляет. Просто вспомнил впечатления одного знакомого, который на старый ноут поставил Debian, было интересно на Линукс посмотреть, так как никогда не сталкивался. Говорил что Orca по сравнению с NVDA так себе по удобству. Я-то десктопный Линукс уже и не помню когда видел, к счастью нет необходимости.
in reply to André Polykanine

Ну а так всё стандартно, если говорить про работу в браузере например. Где-то что-то не озвучивается и/или не срабатывает, с чем обычно под Виндой не возникает проблем. И прочие Линуксовые приколы. Видимо за 10 лет особо ничего не изменилось в лучшую сторону. И даже наоборот, судя по статьям чувака которые ты тут репостил.

The Project Gutenberg community mourns the passing of our CEO, Dr. Greg Newby (@gbnewby).

Without his years of leadership, Project Gutenberg wouldn't be what it is today. Learn more about him and his contributions at

gutenberg.org/about/newby.html

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It's hard to explain just how much work is involved in training a guide dog puppy. This is an unexpected training moment with a set of Halloween pumpkins. We work to socialise our puppies to *everything* they might encounter as a qualified guide dog.

Quintin is 5 months old today.

#IrishGuideDogs
#PupInTraining
#MastoDaoine
#DogsOfMastodon

in reply to Quin

@TheQuinbox They somehow got a Chokehold on Visa / Mastercard, and can make them unbank anybody they don't like. They forced Pornhub to shift policy via payment processor pressure. They removed games from Steam via similar tactics. Not to mention FOSTA / CESTA, which make sex work related content the only section230 exclusion in the US.

They found a weak point (payment processors), and executed ruthlessly to exploit that point as much as possible. We don't hear them whine. We don't hear them complain. We see them get results, quietly and effectively.

I don't like their politics one bit, but God do I admire the tactics.

@Quin
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

I just don't see any real reason to be against sex work? Like, you're simply exchanging goods and services for money. What's the problem? Maybe that's my "radical libertarianism" speaking but that sounds like part of a free society to me. How much of the incel problem for example could be solved by these incredibly lonely horny guys having a way to, above board, just go get laid as one example?
in reply to Quin

@TheQuinbox I disagree wwith the politics of anti-sex work activists, whose tactics I find interesting. They seem to be one of a few groups who actually accomplish a lot of their goals in the 21st century, with relatively minimal societal support, mostly using non-traditional tactics instead of petitions and large in-person protests. That piques my interests. I have no interest in contributing to that particular cause, but the techniques? The techniques can probably be learned from.
@Quin
in reply to Foone🏳️‍⚧️

You're reminding me of the craziest keyboard youtuber guy I can think of, Thomas Ran. If anyone's keyboard-crazy it's him. youtube.com/watch?v=BJITkKaO0q…
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Včera jsem byl na první dávce očkování proti žloutence A a B. Odpoledne pak vyšel na iDnes článek o současném šíření žloutenky a v diskusi jsem našel tenhle poklad.

Na žloutenku se moc neumírá, ale rozhodně nemá smysl ji tímhle způsobem zlehčovat, protože je schopná člověka vyřadit z pracovního procesu na měsíce. Navíc to je něco, co se v rámci domácnosti snadno rozšíří.

idnes.cz/zpravy/domaci/zlouten…

in reply to Andre Louis

@FreakyFwoof that would be fine with me. I have no need for Apple Intelligence or any of that stupid crap. I don’t know how badly the glass itself is damaged by being lifted up. Replacing the battery would at least fix the battery health problem. If the glasses is damaged, that’s a totally different story. From what I hear, they charge out the nose to replace your screen.

Been working on getting Slidgnal, a #XMPP to #Signal gateway built on #Slidge back up and running with a mix of Go and Python; after a recent spree of work, we have fairly good support for 1-on-1 chats with reactions, attachments, etc. all working. Couldn't have been done without the great work by @nicoco and tulir (tulir.fi on bsky).

If you're running your own #XMPP server and are looking to bridge your #Signal contacts over, give it a go, repo is here codeberg.org/slidge/slidgnal and Docker/Podman or PyPi-based installs are well-supported! Group support is up next!

What's up with my #reading habits lately?

Me: "I'd really like some #fantasy or #scifi comfort food. Nothing complex; maybe something cozy or slice of life, or a power fantasy where the good guys always win. I'd love that."

Me, a few hours later: "Hey! This #book was just a predictable power fantasy where the good guys always win! It was overly simple slice of life, and the conflict was low stakes. I hated that!"

It's gotten to the point where I haven't rated the last few #books I've read, because "2 stars: was exactly what I asked for!" just seems like an unfair review.

Anyway, authors: please figure out what I actually want to read and write that, then advertise it to me as what I think I want to read. Because book marketing isn't hard enough for you, right? Thanks! #bookstodon

Very sad. My VarioUltra 40 kicked the bucket today. It was my last hope for Bluetooth Braille on Linux. If anyone knows what kinds of batteries are used inside of these units and whether one powers off with the battery removed, let me know. For now, it keeps going up to 5 cells charge, trying to exit stage 1 bootloader into stage 2, freezing, draining itself, re-doing charge to 5 cells, freezing, ETC. Gosh. How horrible, and what cheap batteries it had. Although, about a year of storage might give most lithium-polymer ones the same result, I tried to give it at least a yearly recharge cycle but alas now that hope is dashed.
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in reply to Andrew Hodgson

@andrew oooh yeah, I don't know. The new VisioBraille might still service them yes. Mine did get the newer mainboard right before the Baum shuttering, and I used it for about a year reliably with it, when in 2021 I got the newer Bi 40X. It was such a sad departure: The Vario is still way lighter, thinner, and the only thing to ding it for maybe are how cheap those laptop-style keys do feel compared to a quality display. I missed the PDF / Excel viewers, and the NaviStick - as much as Vario did run on Windows CE which died right about the same time it released in 2015, it was able to do surprisingly a lot with it.
in reply to Tamas G

ok ifixit has one disaasembled. From what I can see, it uses a lithium ion 14500 battery with what looks like a JST-XH connector. The batteries I find with this connector seem tp have the positive and negative wires back to front. So I could point you in the direction of a replacement, but you would need someone with electronics knowledge to verify the polarity, and possibly de-pin and swap the wires on the replacement connector. Do you know someone confident to do this?
in reply to Lesley M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺

@latelesley oooh really wait they did a teardown whaat? No way. That's a huge help knowing the battery type though. I think I could take it to a local battery / computer repair place and ask them to swap it in, if I have the parts and instructions they can do the labor and I pay them the $60-100 for a better job than I could do. Huge thanks for that info and help :D
in reply to Lesley M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺

Link to the iFixit Guide. Step 3 has a picture of the battery.

ifixit.com/Guide/Removal+of+su…

And here's a link to a potential replacement, from Australia!

auselectronicsdirect.com.au/3.…

in reply to Lesley M 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺

@latelesley oooh, super-Vario. Interesting. I wonder how this model differed from Vario-Ultra, perhaps a bit earlier I'd think (Ultra was 2015 or so.) Still worth a shot to see if there's any compatibility though. If I figure out how to find the right screwdriver that takes it apart I might be able to get pictures of the battery inside so at least someone with technical eyes can verify if that battery is the same one or different. So that may be forthcoming as a weekend project xD