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#latinoamerica #SoftwareLibre #latam #latampol #FOSS #flisol #askFedi

Estoy investigando el impacto del Software Libre en la economía y soberanía tecnológica en la América hispanohablante*. ¿Hay estadísticas, eventos, leyes, opiniones o proyectos que debería saber?

Ya he investigado FLISoL y las leyes que hicieron obligatorio el SL del sector público.

*(menos los EEUU, y no me permiten incluir países que no hablan español como Brasil - lo siento)

@federicomena @rikylinux_ar @canaimagnulinux


Um, so I'll need a sighted person for this, but could someone look at my blog's home page & let me know how it looks, please? I was trying for a certain background/color scheme vibe & need to know if things look screwy. blindsquatch.me #WebDesign #Background #ColorScheme #A11Y #Accessibility #Blind #AskFedi


#AskFedi: are there any recent, smart articles about #ATProto and its half-baked decentralization (so far)?

My favorite piece on the subject has been @rysiek 's "Bluesky is cosplaying decentralization" rys.io/en/167.html from a year and a half ago, but significant changes have happened in the meantime... I wonder if there are any updated posts about it?

Oh and @rysiek is one of my favorite people to follow on here, so click on that Follow button if you haven't already.


Are there any interesting #OpenHardware or #FLOSS projects that are useful in situations like emergencies or power outages? I'm trying to compiler a list of Free and Open resources. Thanks. #AskFedi #AskFediverse #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS


My mum wants to join the #Fediverse - as she's fed up with adverts in other social media - and I have no idea what server would be best for her.

She's in her seventies, likes gardening, outdoors, cats and dogs, travel, books..

Any suggestions?

#askFedi #askMastodon


What’s a relatively old thing you still love despite the fact that many newer alternatives are probably better to recommend? #AskFedi


A question for users of #altText. I'm currently writing alt texts for book covers in a webshop. These are text books for higher education, no fiction. Just repeating title and authors would be superfluous I guess. Does a short description of the cover image make you happy? Eg.: Book cover of "Introduction to global Finance", showing the skyline of a modern business district.
Or would that be distracting fluff and would just "Cover of [title]" be better? Or something else?
#AskFedi


what are your favorite things to do for fun at home that don’t have a high bar to entry, besides consuming other people’s content? #AskFedi


Is there a Linux email client which handles spam as well as webmail systems? Automatically detect spam and put it in a special folder without going trough the inbox?

In @thunderbird you have to manually mark messages as spam, and then nothing happens, unless you've turned on a setting for them to be moved (why is this turned off by default!?). And still new spam needs to be marked manually

I need to protect my mom from getting phished and tricked, so need to switch client

#AskFedi #linuxapp


Should I buy? #NVDA
#askfedi #stocks #notfinancialadvice

  • yes (43%, 7 votes)
  • no (56%, 9 votes)
16 voters. Poll end: 3 months ago


So I've been working with GTK4/Libadwaita in Python (in Flatpak), and I'm trying to get notifications to work.

I keep getting this error: "gi.repository.GLib.GError: g-io-error-quark: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.Notifications: Timeout was reached (24)"

Am I missing Flatpak overrides? (Docs seem to say no docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/por… )

Am I doing this wrong? (Code at github.com/TheKrafter/Grouping… )

#AskFedi #GTK4 #Python #LibAdwaita #gnome #Programming


Edit2: Solved! Thanks everyone!
#Blind #Microsoft #excel users and others who, for whatever reason, only use the keyboard, NOT THE MOUSE: How the hell do I tell Excell to continue a pattern in a column without selecting it and clicking on the bottom left side of the screen or whatever?
Let's say I have a column with 1 in A1, 2 in A2, 3 in A3, so forth, and want that to go on for 150 cells or so. How the hell do I do it? Because I know I used to know, but I cannot find it.
It's not control+d. That just fills the whole column with 1's. It's not copy-paste; that does adjust properly for formulas, but for this, it doesn't. There is surely an option somewhere in the menus, but I cannot find it.
Alternatively, I'd also be happy to learn of ways to do this in #OpenOffice #Calc, so long as they are keyboard-only and accessible. LibreOffice doesn't work all that well here, at least Writer doesn't, but I could double-check if that extends to other programs.
#AskFedi #AskMastodon #ScreemReader

Edit: a couple folks suggested using formulas for this, adding so the first cell would be 1, the second A1 +1, etc. That works quite well for most use cases! It would mean the order of the numbers would stay the same when reordering the table though, so if I was using this to autocomplete a list of years, then sold by the comumn Income ... bam, the income of each year's not right anymore.
Also suggested was Home>Fill>Series. I do not see a Series option in the Fill menu at all, Bewilderingly. I'll try to switch my language to English to see if that's the issue, but I pressed all the things, so pretty sure it's not there for me in Office 365. Could someone with that version check whether it works for them?
Edit2: I figured out how to get to the series option! Turns out it was there, I just didn't realise I had to select the right type of series. :ms_facepalm: For those curious, for the Slovenian version, that's Alt +N, FI, V, Enter.


Researched this a while back but didn't find anything, so I'll ask here.

I'm looking for a flatfile CMS that would let me a) manage everything in a git repo and b) add logic to my site somehow.

Something like Netlify gets part of it right. You can manage content via git and include functions that are mounted at /.netlify/functions, but I can't host that myself and their prices are/were insane.

getgrav.org is closest to what I want and I'm using it now, but its git-sync plugin is a little vicious beast that will murder whatever repo you sync it with unless you set it up just so, and I'm not looking forward to trying to get that right again. No, I'm not being hyperbolic. github.com/trilbymedia/grav-pl…

If possible, I'd also like to tweak pages pre-render so I can, for instance, not show site sections/links if a user is authenticated or similar. I can do PHP if I must, but I'm way more familiar with just about every other ecosystem. #AskFedi


Does anyone know any instance directories which have safety requirements for being listed?

So, for example, JoinMastodon has the covenant at joinmastodon.org/covenant, are there any other instance directories which have similar (or better) rules?

#AskFedi #AskFediverse


Need some #PeerTube advice!

The really excellent PeerTube instance tilvids.com now has a bug that stops people on Mastodon etc being able to follow Tilvids accounts:

-Existing follows work fine, but new follows turn into "Follow request sent" messages and don't go through (PT doesn't use requests).

-Messaged Tilvids about this and they rebooted server, but it didn't help.

-Posted on PT Github but no help so far.

Any suggestions for how to fix this?

Boosts appreciated!

#AskFedi


Hey there!

I'm trying to make a list of places that sell de-googlised smartphones ready to use straight out of the box.

So far I've got murena.com

Are there any others?

#AskFedi #AskFediverse #AskMastodon


When writing articles or documents in general I'd occassionally like to add pictures into the document e.g. a photo or a screenshot. While doing this I am always asking for help from someone else because I'm #blind. Can you give me some recommendations how to make sure the image is right size and it does not overlap the text or the other way round? Either pure HTML, or wordpress or markdown. #a11y #askfedi