À Nice, la présence d’un magistrat au meeting de Christian Estrosi interroge
Le juge chargé des premières années d’enquête sur le volet sécuritaire de l’attentat du 14 juillet 2016 était au deuxième rang du lancement de campagne du maire de Nice. De possibles manquements de la mairie sont au cœur des investigations judiciaires. Le magistrat et l’élu n’y voient pas un problème.
I finally had to test in real life what I’d been building. Today I produced the first show featuring #SARA. The operation was a success—everyone survived, nothing exploded, and all the mixes sounded exactly the way I programmed them. ;) That said, remember this is still a very early test version, created entirely with GPT Codex. By the way, I’ve gone back to working with GPT 5.1. The latest Max model is, for now at least, a disappointment—it kept tripping over more complex tasks, especially when it had to remember and satisfy several conditions at once.
#India is trying to impose SIM binding on messaging apps, which means apps will have to keep monitoring, if it is the SIM card with the same number that was used for registration with the app is being used on the phone where the app is installed. This is going to be another privacy issue for end users and a technical challenge for apps. What about apps that doesn't use a phone number for registration like #deltachat or #simplex? How would the government implement this rule? The way governments think of solving problems most of the time are very bizarre, and this certainly is one of them. www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/whatsapp-ordered-to-enforce-sim-binding-log-out-web-sessions-every-6-hours/article70339435.ece
Eine Frage an die #Eltern #Fedielter Was nutzt ihr für #chatapps bzw. #messenger um mit euren Kindern zu kommunizieren (Alter unter 13 Jahren). Altersbeschränkungen sind mir bekannt, interessiert aber an sich ja keinen. Für den Start überlege ich das über #deltaChat und ein #mailboxorg Konto zu machen. Was nutzt Ihr? Alternative Vorschläge gern als Kommentar.
if you use #DeltaChat or #ArcaneChat, I recommend you to use them with #chatmail accounts, which provide faster speed and prevent spammers/scammers from sending emails to your kids and other family members, only other family members will be able to get in contact with them via QR scan or invite link
@hub this was after we cancelled the service. They were supposed to have pro-rated the statement, but did not, and they called my mom at the hospital threatening to take her to collections for the overcharged account, as well as the equipment that had already been returned to them.
@hub it was super annoying because they didn't do anything until I decided to calculate the pro-rated amount owing, and sent it to them, at which point I found out they want to charge for an extra day of service, so I've got a stupid bill for $3.21 cents. I found a jar of pennies at my mom's house when I was cleaning it out, I think I'll use that to pay them.
Last Reminder: Reaper Made Easy Q&A. Saturday, November 29th, 3PM Eastern, 8PM UK Starting at the top of the next hour, 8PM UK, 3PM Eastern, that time wherever you are.
As usual all details at reaperteacher.com. If you'd prefer to listen/text questions on YouTube we're here: youtube.com/live/_mfHGLPUTmE?f… That link will also work to get a replay for a week. And last but not least, if you can help cover our time to run these sessions, chuck us some change at paypal.me/TGVTraining.
I've finally got my flight booked to go to North Carolina for Christmas and beyond.
Waited a bit long, so couldn't get the flight/date I wanted, but I could have gotten a 6:00 AM flight from New York that landed in Greensboro at 11:30 PM after a 14 hour layover in Chicago. Wait, what?
Wow you could even take a bus up to Madison and say hi. 2 years ago I had an 8 hour layover in São Paulo, so my friend Alex who lived 90 minutes away drove over and we hungout for 4 of them.
Once I went to Dayton Ohio from Madison WI for a business trip. American had problems on my way back, so they sent me from Dayton, to Charlotte, to Madison. At least it was all in one day.
El Gobierno excluye a Telefónica del contrato de ciberseguridad del Estado por carecer de un plan de igualdad, el mismo motivo que alegó para anular previamente la adjudicación a MasOrange elpais.com/economia/2025-11-29…
Transformación Digital declara desierto el concurso por carecer de un plan de igualdad, el mismo motivo que alegó para anular previamente la adjudicación a MasOrange
@staff Hi, I am blind and make use of a screen reader software. I'm facing difficulty with hCaptcha to confirm the creation of an account for me. Can you do that confirmation for me please? The user name I chose is clv1
I just ordered the Ninja 501 air fryer. It has two zones, which I've found is something I want, having used a single-zone 6-qt air fryer for the last week or two. Overall, I really enjoy the air fryer, but I want to be able to cook a burger patty and frozen fries, or some chicken and a potatoe, or some saussage and some potatoe crowns. I also want bigger baskets, but I'd rather have two smaller ones than one huge one. Plus, it's $120 off right now.
If you have 45 seconds, could you listen to this audio and let me know which of the three clips you think sounds best? (First, second, or third? They're each about 15 seconds.)
I'm fiddling with my audio editing, and I've listened to them so many times I've lost all perspective.
*Joep Beving and Maarten Vos perform vision of contentment: the second song we release from their album ‘vision of contentment’, recorded at ConcertLab.**Wan...
Trump’s anti-green agenda could lead to 1.3 million more temperature-related deaths.
Most of the people expected to suffer live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change. propublica.org/article/trump-c…
Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.
The Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia is reportedly not allocating further funds for the moment, as it deals with projects that have yet to break even.
OwnCast is a Fediverse alternative to Amazon's Twitch. It's a livestreaming platform with built-in chat. You can chat without an account, or use your Mastodon etc account to verify your chat identity. Lots more info here:
This is why I use a 16-years-old PC as my main development machine: it forces you to solve every performance issue, instead of throwing faster hardware at the problem.
the funniest part is my change doesn't even touch the performance problems. It just increases the duration of the animation to make it feel like it's a performance improvement, when in reality the behavior is actually slower 😆
Do you actually run a full GNOME environment on your 16-year-old PC? If so, I'm pleasantly surprised that it's usable at all. Does that PC have a discrete GPU, or just integrated graphics?
@matt Yes, it's the standard GNOME desktop running on that second-hand Dell Precision T3500 (from 2009), with a second-hand AMD Radeon R9 270 GPU (from 2013). This PC was the main benchmark behind the biggest fixes that happened in gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-s… in 2023-2024 (huge thanks to @YaLTeR), and therefore is the reason why GNOME Shell doesn't visibly slow down over time anymore since versions 45-46 and newer.
Manu is launching a new web discovery resource, the newsletter Dealgorithmed.
A newsletter about the small web, the poetic web, the quiet web, the web many say we lost years ago, yet it's still here, ready to be rediscovered by those who care.
So. Nachdem die Standheizung permanent wilde Fehler anzeigt und die Hunde die Schnauze voll haben vor Kälte und Stress, haben wir die Segel gestrichen und sind auf dem Heimweg. Ich bin also nur heute mit Lili am Start gewesen, morgen findet das Rennen ohne mich statt. Schade, aber das Wohl der Hunde (und des Mannes, der ja auch fror!) ist wichtiger. In zwei Wochen starten wir das nächste Mal in Dessau, bis dahin ist die bereits angeschaffte Standheizung verbaut und ich fahre nur mit Lili.
Xreal glasses are USB-C glasses that put a huge screen in front of your eyes. They connect to your computer or phone and act as a massive monitor that only you can see. While I can't use them, I'm going to get a pair today that I can return in a week. I'm especially curious to find out how my sister, who has good vision but five-degree fields, reacts to a huge screen that close.
It's time for another #fedidreams! Get ready to be underwhelmed. Last night, work assigned me to recover the mythical legendary sandwich. It was always named in full, in my dream. Apparently, the mythical legendary sandwich was originally created by the Romins, but when Rome was renamed to Italy, all of the maps had to be updated, and the secret hiding place of the mythical legendary sandwich was lost in the process. Can you tell I passed every history class I ever took? To assist me on my search, I was partnered with a set of North Korean triplets named Gold, Silver, and Bronze. No, I don't know, either. But lucky for me, anyone who is holding hands with two out of three North Korean triplets can fly and teleport. I'm sure all of you already knew this rule, but it was news to me! It turned out to be really useful, though. After teleporting to Italy, we began flying over the coast. This was surprisingly less comfortable than you would expect; I was just...dangling by the hands between Silver and Bronze. Also, it was cold and damp! When I woke up, I did notice that I was lying on one of my hands oddly, and it was a bit sore. Anyway, after a few hours of uncomfortable flight, we discovered an unpopulated island with a cave. Upon landing and entering the cave, we...discovered the mythical legendary sandwich. It was right there. So we quartered it into four and ate it. It was okay. And that's how the dream ended: four people hanging out in a cave, eating a pretty average sandwich. It was cheese, onions, mayo, lettuce, and onions on sourdough bread. I have no idea where any of that came from! And that's why I haven't been posting these lately. If you found this one unsatisfying, imagine how unsatisfying all the ones I haven't shared have been.
So, after stealing data from all books, artists, source repos, Wikipedia, Forum posts, & everything else created voluntarily by humans, it is now being sold back to the highest bidder with all your personal data Remember, they are also asking for government IDs & burning all plants resources they come with Ads. such a big idea!
These ads are one thing, but the real danger here is the complete take over of independent web and resources like Wikipedia, forums, blogs, and other stuff. They are doing "intelligence steering," guiding users toward sponsored answers and other "truths" and "facts," and that is what is scary. So, if big bro wants to censor certain topics related to public health or historical facts, it can now be done with just 3/4 apps. Because there is no independent web left. This is a wet dream for them
Anyone interested in #Pixel6a with #GrapheneOS pre-installed? I'm selling mine for 2500 CZK (€100) + shipping.
If you'd like to try GrapheneOS on something cheaper before committing to it with a more expensive phone, this is a great option. It's what I did and happily used the phone for almost a year. It has a surprisingly good camera for the price.
@pemensik no contactless payment is probably the biggest hurdle. Also some banking apps don't work, you can check yours at their issue tracker. Mine works with no issues (Raiffeisen).
@stepan @pemensik is there any Czech bank that doesn't work? I use 4 and they all work. I think there are very few apps that don't work on GOS. Having sandboxed Google Play Services helps a lot with compatibility. Besides contactless payments, another thing that doesn't work is Google work profile. The work profile works, but Google apps don't authenticate because it requires some proprietary Google bits. And that's pretty much it. I'm not aware of anything else.
@pemensik i honestly don't know, but it's something people care about a lot and it's better to be sure. no app that requires DEVICE or STRONG play integrity works afaik. chatgpt, mcdonalds, some money-related apps... also some cannot be downloaded from the play store, but work fine when downloaded through aurora store: f.cz/@stepan/11524167666190971…
Česká Spořitelna loves Google, impossible to run their apps without installing from Google Play directly. I simply don't use such apps, luckily they have a working web app. Maybe GPlay services could be sandboxed, but I prefer to simply stop using such apps. @stepan @pemensik
@stepan @pemensik Contactless payment works with Curve Pay if you're in the European Economic Area; it also works if your bank offers their own mobile payment applications that support NFC payments.
@xz @stepan @pemensik you're right. It isn't contactless payments in general, just Google Pay. The only bank here that has its own contactless payments is Raffeinsen. Or Curve. I use Garmin Pay.
@stepan @xz @pemensik They have. I used it some time ago, and it was a fine app. Unfortunately it also requires google play integrity check the same way as google pay, so I cannot use it on Lineage OS 🙄 Take a look at: rb.cz/osobni/ucty/aplikace/rai…
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@trilobyte @stepan @xz @pemensik AFAIK Google Pay requires more than just the integrity check because RaiPay works with sandboxed GPS while Google Pay doesn't. GOS say they could make it work, but they don't want to (for legal reasons I think).
@stepan @trilobyte @xz @pemensik interesting, it used to work. I just tried it and it seems to pass the integrity check and fails on some connectivity issues later in the process.
@stepan @trilobyte @xz okay, I use Google pay a lot. But I would be okay to have it missing on phone for testing alternative OS. I have mbank or UniCredit. Used NFC sticker on previous phone without NFC support. If that is the only problem, I am buying it. Can pick it up in RH Brno office.
@pemensik @stepan @trilobyte @xz the phone is already sold, in fact it was sold 20 minutes after posting it. But @archos mentioned he might sell his, too.
@jonathan859 sorry, it was sold in 20 minutes after posting it. But you can get used Pixels 6a on eBay.de. For more money (€150) than I was selling it for, but some are also reloaded with GOS.
I'm in the US so I'm sure you don't want to deal with that shopping headache. But how well does Graphene run on a 6a for you? I was thinking about getting a 6a or 7a before committing to it with my Fold.
@rlounsbury I usually use high-end phones, but it was not a problem for me to use Pixel 6a for almost a year. GOS is fast on it, the battery life is fairly good. I was surprised by the camera. It makes better pictures than my previous phone (Galaxy S22). What limited me a bit is that 6GB of memory isn't much for Android these days. When I did heavy multitasking, apps sometimes suspended instead of staying in the memory.
Welcome to another GNOME Foundation update; an overview of everything that's been happening at the Foundation. There was no update last week, due to me being away from my computer last Friday, so...
Good morning all. Yesterday was a day of slugdom which I guess I needed. I read and just hung out. I don't think much is on my plate for today either. It snowed a bit last night and it's cold so I don't have much desire to venture beyond my house. We'll see what the day brings. Probably more reading. Have a good day all!
Life is marching on here, although the baby is still all-consuming. I've not been into my home office for longer than 40 seconds since he was born and only now am I sat with a computer here because he's gone to sleep. I spent 3 hours with him strapped to rather than being physically carried by me today, which is small progress.
Still, he's only 8 weeks old today. The landscape will shift again when I *have* to go back to work, when he can sit himself up and so on.
We had to buy a new dishwasher as our faithful one of 10 years died without notice. We're also planning a weekend trip to Malta with the mother-in-law for some Christmas market exploration, which will knock christmas shopping time even further, like the baby's not already done that! It's important to us that we maintain as much of what we've done previously over the holiday season for our older child.
I did get an early Christmas present though; some air pods so I can use my phone less wiredly. It'll be handy for traveling.
One thing I've sort of wished for during the mad hunt for breast pumps, dishwashers, a new thermostat and all the other crap I've had to buy lately is a way of knowing what other people think about the accessibility of a product. Of course any reviews or whatnot are tied into the retailer, generally-speaking. I'm imagining a browser addon which can extract the title of the item you're looking at online and link you to a database of reviews from other addon users.
Specifically it would have been useful to know that our Bosch dishwasher's app is pretty accessible, that it can restart on a pre-set or the last-used programme and so on. The baby bottle sterilizer has individual buttons for both the clean and dry cycle, for instance.
Of course you can glean much of this from instruction manuals and sometimes reviews, but it'd be nice to have a way of knowing that other blind people had bought and used a particular product.
@bermudianbrit @miki said he wanted to make something like this and iirc there was already a bunch of code written for this project. not sure where it’s at now.
@pitermach @bermudianbrit It's basically 90% done, the only things left to do are the marketing copy and the annoying terms of service / privacy policy stuff, + figuring out liability / legal structure which is... highly non-trivial here.
@davetaylor2112 @bermudianbrit doubt they'd go for it. volunteers moan about how few calls they get as is. And given the shocking state of the accessibility of their windows app it'd be a totally ineffective interface ..
@davetaylor2112 @bermudianbrit apples (if you'll pardon the pun) and oranges. be my eyes is a specialist service catering for the VI from the outset. iPhone is a bit of mainstream kit. If they can't design an accessible service out of the box, who should be able to?
@bermudianbrit As far as I remember, the only thing they messed up was some of the sign in processes. If I remember, i had to use Google, and then it all just worked. I did change the global keys, but generally, I've found it, and their volunteers, pretty good
Congratulations on the arrival of your little one! I missed this so I hope you’re all doing well and coping with the exhaustion as well as you can. Enjoy all those new born snuggles
That #Framework laptop turned out far less durable than I hoped for. After less than two years the battery is swollen and damaged the keyboard in the process. I suspect that a major contributing factor were serious heat issues of this laptop which according to my brief search are “normal.” There are also a few minor defects.
I’m far less inclined to spend more money on Framework hardware now than before they declared their “we don’t do politics” stance. Still, it’s far too early to replace this laptop, so I guess I’m ordering replacements. Luckily, repairing is trivial.
Still: how do I prevent these issues from reoccurring? I guess I’m looking into ways of throttling that CPU on Linux…
If Canada and the United States fail to reach a trade agreement next year, Quebec may have to suspend its balanced budget law, Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard said on Friday.
Mastodon/Fediverse has trained me so well with the ubiquitous Alt text that whenever I'm outside it and look at something I can't make out all the details of, I attempt to read the Alt text, find it doesn't exist, get annoyed, and then have a sort of reality readjustment when I have to remember they're not actually ubiquitous and available elsewhere. ...And I still can't make sense of what I'm looking at!
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