Rebuilding much of my infrastructure in NixOS again because I'm sick of shit breaking and being hard to fix. In the process I've been revisiting services I run to ask whether they're worth maintaining or whether a simpler alternative would do.

Started poking Nextcloud today and oh wow is its app ecosystem extensive. I thought it was just a nerdy contact/calendar/file-syncing app but no, you can really build out your own household-specific portal with it.

Right now for instance I'm playing with the Cookbook app. So far I've pasted in a few recipe URLS and have gotten back nicely-accessible, no-fluff copies of those recipes, saved locally, linking back to the originals, with spinners that seem to scale them by serving size. That's really neat.

So I don't think I'll be replacing it with Radicale quite yet. It can apparently somehow parse emails and extract travel itinerary data into calendar events with kitinerary but I'm not sure how. That's one more proprietary service down.

K vanocum jsme vam pripravili maly darek. Videa z konference jsme nahrali na peertube, takze muzete svatky vyuzit k jejich sledovani bez reklam.

vhsky.cz/c/openalt_konference/

Muzete je taky sledovat primo pres mastodon @openalt@vhsky.cz

Jeseň ubehla rýchlejšie než som plánoval, ale to nie je to podstatné, čo som chcel povedať. Dosť som totiž uvažoval, ako poňať pokračovanie môjho predchádzajúceho blogu, a teda ako by mala vyzerať lekcia 2.
Nakoniec som sa rozhodol nenosiť drevo do lesa a prichádzam iba s prekladom článku z eff.org - How to: Understand and Circumvent Network Censorship licencovaného pod otvorenou licenciou CC-BY takže to čo teraz budete čítať, nie je moje dielo, iba môj pokus o preklad.

herrman.sk/home/ako-sa-priprav…

#eff #cenzura #blog #vladamrzkejluzy #dns #vpn #proxy #tor

So a crazy thing happened. In a crime thriller film called Les chambres rouges (Red Rooms, 2023) there is a scene where the hacker protagonist is attempting to purchase a snuff film in online auction. The auction happens via IRC or IRC-like chatting environment and to my surprise there's actually me @rolle and my wife @mustikkasoppa who are one of the bidders.

1) The nickname of my wife is mistakenly written as "mustikasoppa" (with one k) but if I recall correctly she has used a mistakenly written nickname in the past
2) We are both operators and on the same IRC channel as we've been for the past 17 years

This is not a coincidence. One nickname can be made up by accident but not two with these features and definitely not in a French movie. My wife's nick "mustikkasoppa" is Finnish and means "blueberry soup".

Our IRC logs are more or less public because of open source and statistics so I presume the scene has been made with chatgpt which has scraped our nicks from the Internet so that they ended up in the movie. We still chat via IRC every day together.

The era of AI... Do your background check, folks. I'm glad this wasn't a dramatized documentary film but a complete fiction. However my wife and I are real. Mixed feelings.

#OpenAI #Privacy #Movies #IRC #GenerativeAI #ChatGPT

Santa Reads Braille is back! Sign your child up to receive a braille or large print letter from Santa. brailleworks.com/santa-reads-b…

#BrailleWorks #SantaReadsBraille #Braille

@FeatherWiki Just sent a PR for a Hungarian translation for FeatherWiki and extensions. The Japanese translation finally made me sit down and do it 😀

codeberg.org/Alamantus/Feather…

Mám pro vás dvě zprávy. Jednu dobrou a jednu špatnou.

Dobrou zprávou je, že ČT už o existenci Mastodonu ví. Špatnou zprávou je, že jediné, co nám to přináší, je, že musím zrušit zprávobotíky ČT.

Během víkendu účty ukončím jejich smazáním.

P.S. Rozhodnutí kde a jak bude ČT publikovat mám prý nechat na nich, říkal pan doktor.

#zpravobot

Today is a geometric day:

6, 12, 24

The first text message was sent on this day in 1992 by then a 22-year-old engineer Neil Papworth to wish "Merry Christmas" to his colleague.

"It didn't feel momentous at all. For me it was just getting my job done on the day and ensuring that our software that we'd been developing for a good year was working OK."

history.com/this-day-in-histor…

#OTD #OnThisDay #technology #history #phone #TextMessage #MerryChristmas

For your online community you need two venues. An office for informal conversations, and a city center for more structured, long-lasting ones.

In this short tutorial @thibaultamartin shows you how to make sure people at the office still hear about what is happening in the city center!

youtube.com/watch?v=UNIUIpH-MC…

I want to write my own cross-platform and accessible for blind users #Mastodon client.
There are no #a11y friendly clients for Linux (only some TUI software) and there are only one buggy and unstable proprietary client for Windows called #tweesecake.
I already know the stack I'll use but I have one problem.
I don't know Mastodon well enough to be sure that I implement every feature which is supported there.
For sure I can read the whole API reference but maybe there are easier ways, maybe some list of features, maybe some feature guide for developers, etc.

As a blind user I can't just install any popular and cool client and take all features from it... That's the problem: they are not accessible at all or not accessible enough for every day use.

So, maybe someone helps me with some sort of docs or I don't know :D

#programming #askfedi

Ernest Hemingway once said: In our darkest moments, we don’t need solutions or advice. What we yearn for is simply human connection—a quiet presence, a gentle touch. These small gestures are the anchors that hold us steady when life feels like too much.

Please don’t try to fix me. Don’t take on my pain or push away my shadows. Just sit beside me as I work through my own inner storms. Be the steady hand I can reach for as I find my way.

My pain is mine to carry, my battles mine to face. But your presence reminds me I’m not alone in this vast, sometimes frightening world. It’s a quiet reminder that I am worthy of love, even when I feel broken.

So, in those dark hours when I lose my way, will you just be here? Not as a rescuer, but as a companion. Hold my hand until the dawn arrives, helping me remember my strength.

Your silent support is the most precious gift you can give. It’s a love that helps me remember who I am, even when I forget.

#Joplin soll für blinde Menschen besser nutzbar werden.

Wer helfen möchte, hier entlang:
discourse.joplinapp.org/t/call…
@joplinapp@mastodon.social
#a11y #blind #Barrierefrei #Test #Software #OpenSource

It's that time of the year, I am open for #audio mixing and mastering, as well as #restoration jobs on the Fediverse.
Even better, for the entire month of December, I will do it for completely #free, especially if it's meant to be a gift, or you are looking to preserve dear memories.

If you need professional quality, custom ear-tailored audio work that sounds good and translates nicely, no matter where you listen, get in touch and let's discuss your needs.

Please note: This is on a first come, first serve basis, depending on requests.

#Seznam, the company behind Mapy.cz, has become a silver partner of the #OpenStreetMap Foundation.
It was about time. They've been benefiting from #OSM for years.
Now I have one last thing on my wishlist: Drop the proprietary maps for #Czechia and use OSM everywhere.

blog.seznam.cz/2024/11/mapy-cz…

Mixxx Stable 2.4.2 Released!

As the leaves fall and the first snowflakes start drifting down in the North, while the southern skies start warming up with summer sun, we are thrilled to finally release Mixxx 2.4.2! "Finally" because it's a bit later than planned, perfection can take some time. So we are proud to present you this release, a bugfix release for the 2.4 series before stepping over to a new number.

Check out the blog post for the full list of changes:
mixxx.org/news/2024-11-27-mixx…

I wonder how hard it is to bind keys "per keyboard" in userland Linux. Like if I get a separate USB num keypad, how easy is it get the key event so I can use it as a specialised controller.

Just thinking out loud.

To everyone when they see horrible privacy news about Microsoft replying with:

"I don't care, I use Linux"

Sure, you do. But does your medical clinic do? Does your therapist do? Does your family member typing a personal email to you in Word before sending it do too?

This is a systemic problem.

You cannot protect your own data only by using Linux yourself. You must also demand stronger regulations and enforcement to obligate organizations around to protect your data as well.

#Privacy #Microsoft