Fun, but €60 is a bit steep. I recently got a 2nd-hand USB DAB stick for <1/10th of that price. If the Raspiaudio were integrated with MythTV and complete with schedules and recording, then I’d pay €60. But I guess we aren’t there yet.

The community is the first of its kind. There is nothing in the fedi with the same name, past or present.

Nor would it matter if it did exist. The Lemmyverse db shows lots of communities with the same name across different instances.

Try it. Create “lkjsdfcjai9frej09frfe4trj”, which is just some random string that would not exist anywhere. It gives “that community already exists”.

(edit) I see that you have not created any groups since 2023.

The BBB dodgy indeed but it’s not really relevant to this community. The Secretary of State for Washington state is at issue here. The SoS is a gov entity and their websites are exclusive. Access is restricted.

It’s also a trend. Many state secretaries in various US states have become exclusive access. They tend to block Tor and/or impose a CAPTCHA. They also tend to ignore postal mail requesting the needed info, which makes them truly exclusive.

Anything made in that period is inaccessible from our local instance,

Why would it be? It makes no sense that age matters. I just arbitrarily searched for a community that was newly created on one instance from another instance, and it was found. I had to wait around 3 seconds because the check is done in realtime.

E.g. !Google@thelemmy.club was created just 1 week ago. Yet it’s found in just a few seconds by other instances.

Do you carry your phone while cycling? They have the GPS data proving you blew through the intersection, you’re already cooked.

Thanks for pointing that out. It would not affect me since I never carry a phone in standby mode, but interesting to hear that GSM tracking is being auto-correlated to traffic cams.

Skilled, competent cyclists get killed by SUVs on a daily basis.

Different threats call for different threat models. I’m talking about the privacy threat.

You’re already on camera in the intersection thanks to ALPRs, so while Tesla could snitch on you, the cops have already caught you in 8k from multiple angles.

Indeed I am glad I don’t live in San Franciso. Bicycles don’t need license plates where I am. There are cameras but at least they a visible and stationary, so I can decide for myself what to do on camera. Tesla takes away that choice.

The biggest threat to cyclists running red lights is oncoming traffic.

Sure, but that threat is generally limited to incompetent or unskilled cyclists. Surreptitious surveillance is a threat to even the most skilled cyclists.

Use the Idaho Stop method. Treat a stop sign like a yield sign and check for traffic. Treat a stop light like a stop sign and come to a complete stop before proceeding.

Idaho Stop sounds like a California stop. In any case, stop signs are big in N.America. I think I have only seen one of those signs in my area. I don’t suppose these techniques would escape whatever Tesla does with the data.

I harvested the CTAN DB to research this. The results:

   1390 github.com
     90 gitlab.com
     36 sourceforge.net
     31 codeberg.org
     20 tug.org
     18 framagit.org
     16 bitbucket.org
     10 git.gnu.org.ua
      8 gitlab.gutenberg-asso.fr
      8 gitee.com
      6 dickimaw-books.com
      5 puszcza.gnu.org.ua
      5 heptapod.host
      3 git.robertalessi.net
      3 git.framasoft.org
      2 lists.tug.org
      2 git.sr.ht
      2 gitlab.ti.bfh.ch
      2 gitlab.inria.fr
      2 gitlab.adullact.net
      2 gitea.com
      1 uds-datalab.github.io
      1 tufte-latex.github.io
      1 todo.sr.ht
      1 texnia.com
      1 svn.tuxfamily.org
      1 svn.gnu.org.ua
      1 svn.code.sf.net
      1 svenharder.github.io
      1 savannah.nongnu.org
      1 savannah.gnu.org
      1 repo.or.cz
      1 qa.parsilatex.com
      1 plmlab.math.cnrs.fr
      1 osda.ws
      1 latex-project.org
      1 humenda.github.io
      1 guitex.org
      1 git.umaneti.net
      1 git.savannah.nongnu.org
      1 git.savannah.gnu.org
      1 git.ortolo.eu
      1 git.linta.de
      1 gitlab.science.ru.nl
      1 gitlab.reutlingen-university.de
      1 gitlab.git.nrw
      1 gitlab.fi.muni.cz
      1 forge.apps.education.fr
      1 bastien-dumont.onmypc.net
      1 archiv.dante.de

The 3 most common forges for LaTeX projects are shitty centralised walled-gardens (MS Github, Gitlab, & Sourceforge). Only 174 projects out of 1690 are using open access free-world/decentralised forges (~10%).

It is disturbing indeed. It also means reporting bugs on ~90% of LaTeX pkgs requires dancing with an evil gatekeeper, licking boots, etc.

They are actually headlights. The kind that strap to your head, which I happen to use for cycling. I suppose they were intended for joggers. I don’t know the makes but it’s two different manufactures, likely some cheap chinese stuff. One is an LED strip across the forehead with a side beam, 7 or so different functions with different colors and intensities. The other has selectable red, white, or yellow colors, blinking or solid.

A lawyer once told me there are a few left-leaning AGs who genuinely take the consumer protection role seriously. He named off a few states where he said you can expect decent treatment of compaints. Then he said a lot of AGs have no interest in the job at all. That they are just looking to climb the ladder and get a CV that enables them to run for governor. I think I have been quite unlucky with the states that are relevant to where I get burnt as a consumer. Though I don’t suppose that’s chance. The shittiest corporations are likely to select right-leaning anti-consumer states for their HQ.

Graphene is Android. Why would a bank’s app not work? @TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip suggests that some banks proactively detect and block Graphene, while other banks’ apps simply accidentally fail on Graphene. Is accidental incompatibility really a notable issue on Graphene?

In those days, DOS was the OS. Windows and DESQview were just window manager apps that ran other apps.

Originally ZFS could not be a boot disk because of the license issue. There was some other important feature that was denied to linux users, originally (forgot what it was). Apparently the booting restriction was eventually overcome. I don’t really grasp how the licensing changed that made booting possible.

Conceptually ZFS was relatively superior to all other filesystems. If it’s fully liberated, I don’t get why it is not more popular. I might expect it to be a default of sorts when installing Debian.

I have one as well, mothballed, which is why the article caught my attention. Then I saw all the mention of Cloudflare and thought: oh fuck, so it needs a wheelchair with a mouth joystick, in effect.

What originally attracted me was running a full-blown ZFS, which was too license encumbered to be fully featured in linux or bsd, IIRC. I never got around to doing much with it. And now I wonder if ZFS is finally fully liberated on a FOSS platform.

Art.3 has this definition:

(5)‘audiovisual media services’ means services as defined in point (a) of Article 1(1) of Directive 2010/13/EU;

which leads to:

1. For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions shall apply: (a) ‘audiovisual media service’ means: (i) a service as defined by Articles 56 and 57 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union which is under the editorial responsibility of a media service provider and the principal purpose of which is the provision of programmes, in order to inform, entertain or educate, to the general public by electronic communications networks within the meaning of point (a) of Article 2 of Directive 2002/21/EC. Such an audiovisual media service is either a television broadcast as defined in point (e) of this paragraph or an on-demand audiovisual media service as defined in point (g) of this paragraph;

(ii) audiovisual commercial communication;

(e) ‘television broadcasting’ or ‘television broadcast’ (i.e. a linear audiovisual media service) means an audiovisual media service provided by a media service provider for simultaneous viewing of programmes on the basis of a programme schedule;

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2010/13/oj/eng

So perhaps not.. though strictly speaking audiovisual ≠ ‘audiovisual media service’, so it’s left undefined. Perhaps one could argue that DAB has JPEG album art and therefore delivers both.

Note as well that the spirit of the accessibility law is to push suppliers to provide information and access in multiple different formats so that some impaired demographics are not unnecessarily excluded.

Indeed minipage would be a decent workaround in this scenario. It’s effectively very similar to what I settled on (paracol). I just updated the OP to reflect this.

With both the minipage approach and the paracol approach, we give up the ability to have text flow from one column to the other. But for the doc I am working on at the moment, it’s perhaps best to control the flow anyway.

That would work if dates are not reused. But if you have a block of \DTMsavedate variables in the preamble and then refer to those dates throughout the doc by the variable name you assign, the spreadsheet would be more trouble than it’s worth because you would have to copy-paste all the dates into the spreadsheet, choose the new format, copy them back, and risk the update anomaly in the event that you revise a date in the preamble. Could be useful for some situations though. But I guess I would still rather replicate \DTMsetdatestyle{default}\DTMsetup{datesep=/} in every cell that needs it.

I don’t go out of my way to send email to Gmail accounts.

Does that mean you allow Google to block you? Or that Google is permissive for you and does not require a CAPTCHA?

I personally will not go out of my way in the slightest. Running a mail server from a residential IP with no spf/dmarc/dkim ensures that MS always refuses my email and Google refuses it /most/ of the time. And I am fine with that. To be clear, I am not asking to change that. My question is political. I want to know what MS is putting small email operators through, when they are willing to send to MS recipients.

I would like to hear from a server admin who has had to solve a CAPTCHA in order to get mail from their server accepted.

Perhaps that explains the unpopularity of gammu and gnokii. I boycott Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc, so whatever most people use is outside of my realm. I use XMPP with the very few others who use it (and those are ppl whose arm I managed to twist). For everyone else, SMS is the only option. No one really boycotts the tech giants, so I’m out of touch with the norms, which probably boils down to whatsapp.

Literally just print as PDF on Windows, you can pick if you want greyscale or coloured…

That’s a non-starter for the same reason I mention: color backgrounds are dithered and colored text becomes various shades of gray, not black. There are lots of dithering techniques to experiment with and some might yield black text, but if I am producing a PDF I would not want to impose that kind of expertise and experimentation on the end user.

I am asking how to produce a PDF that has a mono mode and a color mode -- and whether that technology even exists. If the PDF is rendered on the screen, it might have color backgrounds. But when printed to a mono device, the color backgrounds should be stripped out (or not, depending on my specification).

If you want to produce a nice PDF from a markdown document, I recommend the knitr package in RStudio with R, and writing an .Rmd file such that you can just place all your graphs/code/text in it as you write, including LaTeX stuff.

I am not starting from a markdown doc, but I would if that made a difference. I’ve never used RStudio. Does that produce a PDF that has two representations, mono and color?