Die Wünsche der Menschen spielen hier doch für die Politiker und Institutionen, welche das Narrativ durchdrücken wollen grundlegend keine Rolle. Wenn Staaten mehr KI wollen, dann um noch mehr Macht und Reichtum zu denjenigen zu verlagern, die jetzt schon mächtig und/ oder reich sind.
@chris_ theoretisch ja. Praktisch würden wir vorher gern wissen, woraus die APK erstellt wird – da scheint es im Repo zwei Bäume zu geben. An der Basis fehlt die gradle-wrapper Konfiguration. Die gibt es zwar im androidstudio Verzeichnis, aber dort ist wiederum kein Code. Außerdem finde ich im Repo auch keine Metadaten (Beschreibung, Screenshots etc.).
Wenn die Punkte gelöst sind, schauen wir uns das gern nochmal an.
#OpenAlt2025 was the first conference I took my six-year-old daughter to. She really enjoyed it. She wasn't interested in the talks, but she loved the swag at the booths. She'll grow into them, though. You have to start early to raise a new generation of open-source enthusiasts. 🙂
@bogo My daughter like OpenSSL booth the most because it was the richest in terms of swag. But I can recommend Fedora key chains with a token for shopping carts. These are useful in real life. :)
Z chalupy na horách sleduju živý stream #OpenAlt2025 přes mobilní data a přes #PeerTube. A funguje to parádně. Otevřené technologie a jejich provozovatelé válí 👍👍 #OpenAlt
Something to brighten your weekend maybe. Particularly yesterday I did see a lot of anger about the fact that some people cannot get access to the new JAWS feature, Page Explorer. This provides guidance in terms of how to navigate a page with JAWS, and it can be used to summarise the content and ask questions. I want people to understand that while Page Explorer is very good at what it does, it is not the only game in town.
Anyone who has been trained by me through the use of my AI training courses will have known about this for quite a while. But if you use Microsoft Edge, there is a feature called, Summarise with CoPilot. If you focus upon a piece of static text on a page, not a link, you can activate the Context Menu and select Summarise with CoPilot. Within a few seconds, that will summarise the page for you. You can then ask questions about that content if you wanted to. A question that may be asked is: Describe some good strategies I can use when navigating this page with JAWS for Windows, or whatever your screen-reader of choice is. You type it into the edit field and press Enter. You could submit other prompts such as, describe the images on this page. Describe if the device has any buttons and provide the button layout from left to right.
The primary advantage here is that it is very fast and will display the summary or answers to questions in a few seconds with well-structured heading navigation. Start at the bottom of the page and work up with Shift+H. The disadvantage of course is that it's not going to give you guidance on screen-reader strategies unless you ask it, and the guidance may not be of the quality given by Page Explorer, because that has been coached to do a very specific job. But you may not want guidance anyway. You may want to go straight to the summary. Take the case of a page on Audible. If you activate Summarise with CoPilot on a book title page, it is going to give you the relevant points including a book summary and similar books.
So if you don't have Page Explorer, there are other choices. As I say, it's good at what it does but it's not the only option. You could even ask an AI tool such as ChatGPT to summarise a page for you if the prompt was well constructed, but that approach does have some significant limitations. It would not for example work on all pages.
The Mosen Explosion has moved to a new time slot, and will now be heard every week day at 9 AM and 9 PM US Eastern Time. The Mosen Explosion has been exploding on Internet radio for over a quarter of a century now, and it’s still going strong. I bring you two hours of the best music ever made, plus interesting little tidbits of light news, musical birthdays and today in music history. Plus, see if you can work out the often cryptic brain exploder question. You’re always welcome to call or email with a request or just to say hi. It’s a lot of fun, and now it’s at 9 AM and 9 PM Eastern every week day. Check the Mushroom Fm schedule page to find out when that is in your time zone. mushroomfm.com/schedule. Whether you’re a regular listener after all these years, or you’re giving it a listen for the first time, I look forward to your company on Mushroom Fm. Just ask your voice assistant or smart speaker to play Mushroom FM. You can also find it in all good radio apps.
Flux 1.0.0 is here! Grab your copy at ims-productions.com/flux Thanks to everyone who pre-ordered, sorry for the big wait, as I said earlier Mac OS complicates things, but we're on track now.
Flux
Do you stream a lot of content on your computer but are tired of dealing with clunky and constantly changing web interfaces?
If so, Flux was made for you.
Flux brings your audio and media experie
@Jonathan Another thing, when downloading a show from Audio Vault, it asks you wether you want to extract it, open the folder etc. I just happened to tab out of the Window, and had no ioption to access the dailog again. Like, the dialog won't regain focus when tabbing in and out. All on Windows of course.
@Jonathan Also, in the lib it clearly says a folder is added, though I can't remove it, it just says Invalid Selection dialog Please select a folder (not a subfolder or files list) to remove. But I am focused on a folder...
@Jonathan I added a folder with flac files and the track list stays empy as well. I understand that bugs are normal, but please think about wether you want to chharge 25 dollar for this in the current state. I wouldn't be very happy with it right now. 15 is ok, I still have to test internet radio and podcasts, but yeah.
And also, trying to search YouTube just says no results everytime. Trying to open the player gives me an index error. And he said the Mac app is signed, it's not.
@johann @Jonathan Yup, I want it as well, just thinking wether I just try to open a Paypal dispute or write an E-Mail first which will probably be ignored like my question about yt-dlp.
@johann @Jonathan Oh yeah this is a thing that can also happen in the Podcasts when trying to reopen the player: Playback Error dialog Failed to load episode: Access Ableton Trailer
I mean, totaly tested and absolutely working as expected.
@johann @Jonathan Bro this is wild. No matter what I do, clearing the lib, adding individual files. It stays fucking empty. How the actual shit has this been tested anyhow?
@johann @Jonathan you know I bet it's just going to be ignored at this point. Proove me wrong. Also this statement from a while ago supports my vibe coder theory, but that's just my personal speculation at this point. Selling vibe coded untested garbage, this guy has fallen quite low at this point. And I thought I had a bad reputation. Ivan Soto: @seddy Oh no man, Claude is a must have at this point. If you don't have it, you're just going to fall behind IMO., 11:34 AM, October 24, Mastodon
@jonathan859 @johann @Jonathan 1/2 ooooookay, time to clear a few things up as somebody who has whitnessed the development of this program and who has tested it and seen it work. I'll try to point out where the actual Mistake on Ivan's part is, which is a lot smaller than you might think though as we can see with huge consequences. Literally on Tuesday or Wednesday, I was able to play streams, subscribe to podcasts etc, and other testers reported that the other parts of the program were working fine. There were some things that were broken with MacOS, and he fixed those - this required an upgrade to the bass audio library. The day of release, he intended to perform any final polish, but got caught up in negotiations with the audiovault developer instead - you can see evidence of that sort of thing on the forum, which was highly stressful and significantly broke the final testing round - testing again on windows after trying to fix bugs on MacOS to make sure the Mac fixes didn't break windows. So specifically, from where I stand, Ivan's mistake was a tiny lack of miscommunication where he should have posted "Hey guys I'm sorry some things came up *(links to audiovault posts etc), please forgive the fact that I need an extra 12 hours here." Any programmer knows how just a few lines of broken code can make an entire program defunct. One extra character in a bgt or NVGT script will make the entire program not compile and passing a 0 instead of a 1 to certain functions could make the entire otherwise well written program break! So, and I'm certain this will be learned from on his part, he accidentaly prioritised the detail of the time based preorder release date promise over the big picture promise of making sure the application didn't break. He put so much effort into making sure he didn't cause a timing based disappointment that it instead caused something much worse, a functionality based disappointment. So that was his mistake, and I highly doubt he'll repeat it.
@jonathan859 @johann @Jonathan 2/2 Now on one hand, I can genuinely understand how this caused frustration for any buyers, shattered expectations are absolutely terrible! Ivan is sleeping right now, so as a friend I'm trying to provide the context that he failed to and ask anyone who's willing to listen to just give this dude 24, at most 48 extra hours before you do something as crazy as opening Paypal cases and the like. If he can't fix such bugs in that amount of time, I'd say you are totally justified in your reactions. On the other hand, especially since there are coders in this thread, I must ask. Seriously? Are you treating Ivan how you'd want to be treated if you made a mistake like that? Opening Paypal cases before he even has a chance to respond to a single one of your posts? Really? That's honestly not cool and goes too far, hopefully you don't need to learn what that feels like the hard way when you try releasing a program and inevitably run into a human error like that. What comes around goes around, after all. IMO speak your disappointments, but I'm hopeful that you can show enough grace to not go potentially damaging someone's Paypal reputation like that before even giving him a chance to respond first. Is that honestly what you'd want to happen to you as a dev? Would you want to go to bed feeling satisfied having released a program and wake up to find that people have been so ungraceful at your mistake that they literally opened Paypal disputes instead of waiting at least 24 hours to see if you were simply willing to talk and work it out? I genuinely do get all the frustration, but you lose me at the hasty Paypal cases. Come on, IMO genuinely not cool, and very unforgiving. You do you, but I think you can do better.
@samtupy @jonathan859 @johann @Jonathan I've processed refunds to anybody who opened a case. I'll be fixing a bunch of bugs today, so be on the lookout for that. It's very sad man, your software could be working really really well and one code change can cause lots of issues. Thanks for the 20 bugs though, I have already fixed a few last night but I was tired (staying up 24 hours will do that to ya) you should see version 1.0.1 later today
@samtupy @jonathan859 @johann @Jonathan Totally agreed. As a business owner, PayPal disputes without giving the developer a chance are generally just plane rude and also cost real money and harm. There are legit uses for the dispute process but this seems extreme.
I was literally about to ask about the youtube download issue. I got an error trying to pull a video I can copy what NVDA says if necessary but I'll see if it works itself out for the time being :)
@MariahL We use youtube DL so some videos may throw errors. I've noticed that age restricted content doesn't play nice because it requires you to sign into YouTube to verify age or something
So if anyone is interested, I just announced the categories for the 2026 Polymath Training Challenge :)
It's a nonfiction reading challenge that has been running for 11 years. This year, long-time participants have submitted topics, and the final list was decided by random draw.
Back before firewalls and NAT were a thing, every machine on my home network had a public facing address. With two full class C IP allocations (/24) there was “no need”. Today the very thought of this makes me cringe.
Yep. Every single PC in my school district got it's own forward-facing IP. I ran an FTP server under a desk in the back of a studio control room at school for two years, taking advantage of the T3. Scary to think about that now.
The autistic urge to create a static site generator to turn my personal website into a dedicated theme because every option out there either has terrible docs, lacks so many features, or is written in Ruby :(
Zola is extremely limiting. I can't remember all the details, but Tera (the template engine) barely has any features, and all it has is a single-page documentation, which covers a very limited set of functionality. The moment I wanted to do something, I needed to resort to writing Rust macros. That being said, I found it to be the easiest to set up, especially thanks to its Flathub package.
For Hugo, I found it limiting but for different reasons, albeit less limiting than Zola. I can't use Go packages in Hugo, so that's already enough of a reason for me to not use it.
Of course, in the Netherlands, election loser Geert Wilders starts spreading messages suggesting a rigged election. It's what far-right people always do when they lose. But, unlucky for him, the Netherlands still votes on paper, so while a full recount will take time, it is perfectly possible to do. Democracy deserves the paper trail. It's something I will never stop preaching as loud as I can.
The history on how the Netherlands returned to paper ballots after it was shown that voting machines cannot be trusted sounds rather boring on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron…
"In September 2007 a committee chaired by Korthals Altes reported to the government that it would be better to return to paper voting. The deputy minister for the interior Ank Bijleveld said in a first response she would accept the committee's advice, and ban electronic voting"
October is now OctOver. At the start of every month, I always hope for one that is better than the last, and it never happens. Don't know why I bother.
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in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅ • • •Wenn Staaten mehr KI wollen, dann um noch mehr Macht und Reichtum zu denjenigen zu verlagern, die jetzt schon mächtig und/ oder reich sind.
IzzyOnDroid ✅
in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅ • • •Passend dazu, von @aral
mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115474066…
Sinngemäß: "Das Problem mit der Welt ist, dass wir auf Leute mit Geld hören – statt auf Leute mit Verstand."
Aral Balkan (@aral@mastodon.ar.al)
Aral’s fediverse serverchris_
in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅ • • •github.com/santawho/oeffi-ng
GitHub - santawho/oeffi-ng: Öffi NG - The emperor of the public transit tangle! Solving the mother of Gordian knots.
GitHubIzzyOnDroid ✅
in reply to chris_ • • •@chris_ theoretisch ja. Praktisch würden wir vorher gern wissen, woraus die APK erstellt wird – da scheint es im Repo zwei Bäume zu geben. An der Basis fehlt die gradle-wrapper Konfiguration. Die gibt es zwar im androidstudio Verzeichnis, aber dort ist wiederum kein Code. Außerdem finde ich im Repo auch keine Metadaten (Beschreibung, Screenshots etc.).
Wenn die Punkte gelöst sind, schauen wir uns das gern nochmal an.