André Polykanine

"Track Position: 33 seconds of 2562047788015215 hours 30 minutes 7 seconds, adjustable."

Можно ли найти работу не по диплому? Стоит ли это делать? Если да, то как?
Об этом мы решили поговорить 1 сентября. А заодно представить проекты нового сезона и подвести итоги лета на нашем канале.
Участники: Павел Каплан, Настя Кузовкова, Богдан Онищенко, Андрей Поликанин, Инна Силова, Кристина Тельпук, Олег Шевкун.
Дата выхода: 01.09.2026.
https://tiflo.info/pro-kanal/pro-kanal-uchimsya-rabotaem-otkryvaem-sezon/
#Про_канал

@svenja @destranis Exactly, you summarized it pretty well. I know lots of people who so-to-say vibe code, but they always deliver good quality products.

@acarson "Two Jews three opinions", I love it! Maybe because it's the same with Ukrainians (and with French, to be honest, too).

@svenja @destranis It's in Russian. It was a stream where two people tried to advertise their purely vibe-coded products, without any attention to the quality of said products, nor to customer support. tifloStream is quite a particular type of streams at TifloInfo: it leverages expert opinions, it's often polemic and often quite straight. So if you come there to present your product, expect sharp questions, critics (without insulting of course!), but those people expected praises and cheers. Nikolett would elaborate if she wants, because I was one of the moderators, and she was a listener 😊

I tried to ask priests about that, but received no viable answer, maybe I'll try more because it really interests me, how Christians perceive it.
I received however an interesting answer from a Jewish woman: she said, at least according to some rabbis (dear Jewish friends, correct me, but, as we say in Russian, "I sold it for the price I bought it"), that it's more of a symbolism that Adam was created. That means, he was the first man (and Eve, the first woman) to have spiritual experience and to communicate with God himself, so there were other humans, just not spiritually enlightened. Again, it's what I was told, but to be honest, this subject has always interested me from the theological perspective. I'm not a Christian, but learning religions is always interesting.

@gemlog Fediverse is a mostly leftist bubble, often far left, and if you don't agree with people and try to engage in a calm discussion (hopefully, like our conversation is now), many start aggressing and insulting you. We, blind people, were exiled from Twitter not out of political reasons, or not only out of them, but because before we had either accessible, or specially written third-party clients for Twitter. Now we do the same for Mastodon, for example, I'm writing from an app with literally no UI (it has one, but I use the so-called invisible interface, where screen reader just talks when I press certain keys).
Also, about accessibility. When we say this frentic "go Linux!!! Now!!!" stuff doesn't work, because Windows is by far, by far the most accessible OS out there (same with Microsoft Office/google docs, Chrome, etc., etc.) — often we get insulted or, if not, the usual open-source answer: "It's open-source, go fix on your own". But I can't fix everything, from OS to office suite to email client to media player to… you got it.
And it's quite hard to communicate with people in such an environment, especially given that Fediverse promotes itself as a super welcoming sweet tender fluffy place.
Recently a gentleman surviving consequences of a major stroke was literally aggressed and bullied by AI haters because he uses AI. And there are many causes where "there are two opinions, ours and incorrect". And if you dispute a bit harsher and enter into polemics, you are often "fediblocked" by those activists, so basically the whole decentralized nature of the Fediverse becomes a hoax.
Anyway, sorry for those musings, it's just how I feel those last times here.

@gemlog born blind, yes. And it's parallel, I mean, there are blind folks who are amazingly good at soldering, assembling, drilling and doing other stuff, I admire them but it's not me. And no, nowadays I'm not rich, unfortunately. As for alts, to be honest, in Fedi there are lots of them, by far more than wherever else. I have many things to say about the Fediverse that I don't like, but this obsession with alts is gorgeous!

@gemlog Genius! such a pity I'm blind and I'm absolutely not talented in assembling anything like this, but the idea is absolutely marvelous, I want such a telephone!

RotaryCell converts a traditional rotary telephone into a self-contained, battery-powered, portable cellular telephone without modifying the original telephone.

The design continues to use the original handset, rotary dial, switch-hook, mechanical ringer, network block, and existing jacks. The added electronics mount reversibly inside the case; no original telephone parts need to be drilled, cut, or permanently altered.
https://github.com/fregacmols/RotaryCell

7 days without a pun can make one weak.

Throwing rubbish in a landfill is (usually) better for the environment than recycling it. With few exceptions, recycling ends up emitting more CO2 and costing more money, while landfills are cheap and secure.

- Recycling mid-tier plastics (like plastic bottles or butter tubs) costs thousands of dollars per ton of CO2 saved. It's cheaper to do direct air CO2 capture than that! And there is no shortage of plastic, nor any problem with sequestering it in the ground once we're done with it.

- Modern landfills are extraordinarily secure and are *much* more than just big piles of trash. They capture 75%–95% of methane gas. Groundwater contamination is doesn't really happen with landfills built since 1990. A study of 31 landfills built since 1988 in NY found no adverse effect at all on local groundwater quality.

- The crusade against single-use plastics has driven us to products that use far more materials and energy and would need to be used an absurd number of times to actually be an improvement. A steel straw needs to be used 150 times to be worth using. A ceramic mug needs to be used 1,000 times to beat a polystyrene cup. A cotton bag needs to be reused 173 times to beat single-use.

- Some things ARE worth recycling. Recycling metal saves a huge amount of energy and material – recycling aluminium saves 95% of the energy spent on making fresh stuff. So we do a lot of it already: about 30% of steel worldwide is recycled.

Modern, well-run landfills cause minimal environmental damage. We have plenty of space for them – less than 0.01% of the US is used for landfill and only about 0.02% of Germany. We can even build on top of old landfills, so the land area is not spent permanently.

New in @worksinprogmag, @robertwiblin and @chalmermagne on why it's usually best to just bury your trash. https://worksinprogress.co/issue/just-bury-your-trash/

I just released Dialect, a free and open source Android launcher where your home screen is a T9 phone dialpad.
Type digits like an old feature phone to filter your installed apps and launch them. Press 3, then 4, and Discord comes up, since D is 3 and I is 4. Each key press narrows the list, and Enter launches the top match.
It has full TalkBack support: key labels read like a real phone dialpad, Enter announces exactly which app it will launch.
1.0 is out now, fully open source, on GitHub. Feedback, bug reports, and contributions welcome.
https://github.com/aaron-gh/Dialect/releases/latest
#Android #Accessibility #a11y #OpenSource #TalkBack #FOSS #AndroidDev #Launcher

@tonygeb23 How did you get the Azure signing, is it for open-source only? Thanks!

@destranis Exactly! It's again that topic of that famous tifloStream 😊

@destranis @pixelate Nope, for me not.

@destranis I suspected something like this.

@FreakyFwoof Me too, btw, usually. I have scripts assigned to Ctrl+Shift+JawsKey+something :).

@FreakyFwoof My right hand, when I read or navigate (not when typing), has a rest position so that my fifth finger is on the NumPad insert (zero) and my third finger is on the UpArrow key. It's so for more than two decades now.