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Retired linguist/law/IT.
#sailing #reading #music #opensource #linux #languages #fedi22 #retired
Post about #languages and #sailing mostly.
(Hovercraft saya penuh dengan belut )
(otakku sakit!)

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@francois
2h Public en expires Aug 7, 2026 · 11:23 UTC
Eolo, anchored in Moaña (Vigo/SP)
Eolo, anchored in Moaña (Vigo/SP)

Hello !
It is 1.30 here, and I'm asleep. My computer, however, decided to test the toot programming feature by sending this superb picture of Eolo, my boat.
(A 1981 jeanneau Aquila, for those interested).
Keep on sleeping.
Hope you wake up before 11h, otherwise you won't see it, the same computer decided to kill two birds with one stone and also test the auto-delete feature..
ciao a tutti 😈

Replying to @stefano
francois
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7h Local en

@stefano
I'm sorry, I should have warned you. I'm a chaos monkey.
When I test something, I always find something.

And I'm not done yet (ominous music...) 😆

francois
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@francois
9h Local en
Follow request
Follow request

@stefano
Missing : I haven't seen anywhere the possibility to lock the account and force people to ask to be able to follow
Not sure I want to call it a bug, but you have notifications for when people ask to follow, so I take it it is a oversight and the toggle is missing from the settings.

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francois
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@francois
13h Local en
markdown by default
markdown by default

@stefano

Grazie mille !!!

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13h Public en edited

@xenotar é o filho d. ... ? ou neste caso do pai ? 😆
And yes, WA is a royal PITA.
When I was in Indonesia, I ordered some tickets and they kept saying they had sent them to me and I kept saying I hadn't received them. All the exchanges were by mail and those [beep] sent it via WA for some reason, and obviously that stupid system doesn't even tell you the person you're trying to reach is not on wa !!!
in ID WA is everywhere, to the point that people seem to have forgotten that a phone can actually call people ?
I always wondered what will happen the day the wa system is unavailable for some reason....

Replying to @epn4littlefedi
francois
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@francois
14h Public en

@epn4littlefedi
I feel your pain.
I have telegram,Signal, DeltaChat and Matrix myself, always resisted WA.
I wouldn't mind getting rid of telegram and signal (too many limitation for my use), but the inertia is just huge

francois
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@francois
16h Local en edited
french still there
french still there
variable holding file name is not initialized properly and still contains previous img
variable holding file name is not initialized properly and still contains previous img

@stefano
Bug report : switched from ES tp PT. The message remains in FR.
Bug Report: When posting img, noticed that field is not initialized and still contains value of previous variable.
Also PT seems more BR than PT (nome de exibiçao: nome público)

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@francois
16h Local en

@stefano
Bug report: Just changed language of the interface from FR to ES. some fields for some reasons stay in FR both in config and as I was posting it.

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@francois
16h Public en

@pepdmin
According to what I read you can use it via their own app, or it will appear as an option in your banking app.
I haven't seen a way to use it without an app - yet ?
If it becomes a de facto *you find it everywhere* thing, somebody's bound to be coming up with something (yes, I'm a die-hard optimist)

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16h Public en edited

@pepdmin
I never thought I would say this, but Trump did more for Europe than Schuman 😆 .
Thanks to him most europeans finally realized that the US (or anybody else for that matter) couldn't be trusted, and that we had to rely only on ourselves.
And Europe is never as good as when it gets a good kick in the ass, so initiatives have been flourishing all over:

  • getting rid of windows (turn to linux),
  • getting rid of Office (create their own fork of onlyoffice, see https://office.eu/ ),
  • switching to ODF
  • the defense projects
  • get rid of Visa/Mastercard
    This last one is worth elaborating on, as it received very little press coverage.
    Twenty-four (24) trillions dollars go from EU=>US every years via Visa/Mastercard. So getting rid of that means a real hit to the US economy.
    It is real or will be between now and 1Q2027 depending where you live in the EU.
    In a nutshell, a system had already been set up, but countries were dragging their feet - well no longer.
    It is called WERO and is active in FR, DE and BE already (although you may know it by another name like Payconic in Belgium).
    As of September it will start in LU and AU and until next year will be behind Bizum in SP, MB-Way in PT, Bancomat in IT, etc (and gradually replace the branding as well).

Read all about it :
https://europeanbusinessmagazine.com/business/europes-24-trillion-breakup-with-visa-and-mastercard-has-begun/
and of course
https://wero-wallet.eu/pay-online

( and of course what we're all waiting for is a system to replace android/iOS, but it will come... )

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@francois
17h Local en

@stefano
bug report : web interface : when you are following somebody and click on the following by mistake, a pop-up comes to ask if you want to proceed. If you click cancel, it still unfollows
feature request: somewhere in my profile, it would be nice to be able to turn markdown ON by default. Similarly audience (just checked, language is already there)
feature request: (very long shot and I don't use it myself but a friend of mine does) some instance have a "translate" button. helpful if you follow somebody like me who's generally confused about what language he speaks 🥲

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17h Public en
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17h Public en

@pepdmin
Good for you.
Terminated my linkedin a while ago, and never regretted it.
I've never been into facebook or other twitter, so I have nothing of the kind to get rid of.
The only thing I'd like to part with is google. I have "cleaned" my phone as much as I can, but I have to have android.
Here (Luxembourg) we use one single identification system for everything: bank(s), taxeS, social security, e-health system, etc.
Currently it only runs on android and iOS. We used to have tokens, but they've been retired. I have an alternative solution (the chip in the ID card), but that only works with the card reader on the PC.
So pretty much stuck.
Luckily the system had a bad crash a while ago and the country was paralized for almost 2 days, so the goiv realized a SPOF was not the best solution and they are working on an alternative.
In the meantime...

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@francois
18h Local en

@francois

nice but
Time.. is H1
and
Greek.. is H2
maybe the difference between the two should be bigger.

this is h1

this is h2

this is h3

this is h4

francois
francois
@francois
18h Public en

Time for another test

Greek AND markdown (getting more and more daring here)

Το Markdown είναι καλό και εντάξει, αλλά λειτουργεί και στα ελληνικά;
Το Markdown είναι καλό και εντάξει, αλλά λειτουργεί και στα ελληνικά;

Conclusion

I won't know until I post, will I ? 😆

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@francois
18h Public en

@epn4littlefedi
Nice ! 😄

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18h Public en
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@francois
20h Public en
screenshot of HU/EL post - char OK
screenshot of HU/EL post - char OK

This is interesting. I tried to post the screenshot the way I usually do, and then realized it didn't work: the browser interface doesn't seem to support copy/paste for images.
That aside, the languages display ok, which is what the test was about.
will try to think of other ways to mistreat the software, in the meantime, have a great day :-) (oops: emojis !!!)

francois
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@francois
20h Public en

Sziasztok mindenkinek.
Következő próbálkozásom az lesz, hogy kiderüljön, ez a szoftver minden nyelvet elfogad-e.
Προφανώς, με γλώσσες που χρησιμοποιούν το λατινικό αλφάβητο είναι εύκολο. Ας δούμε τι θα συμβεί με κάτι πιο...challenging
nach éen schee deeg !

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@francois
1d Public en
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The post as received

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