James

This is *so* important. The survival of the language depends on, among other things, people's perceptions of who is "supposed" to speak it. The idea it's only white, rural people who speak it is completely untrue, and the more different people who learn it and speak it every day, the more it changes the face of what it is to be a #Welsh speaker.

(In Welsh) Prejudice that faces black speakers of Welsh is "restrictive"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cymrufyw/erthyglau/cnv8m3mv3v9o

' Seren said, "I have a fairly neutral accent because I've lived in London for nearly a decade and I've moved countries through my life.
Also I'm not someone who's white, and I think that a lot of people in London and England, when they think of someone Welsh or who speaks Welsh, they think of someone who's more white.
…
I was staying in a hotel and the woman at reception was speaking Welsh to everyone, and when she saw me she said (in English), "Good morning, how was your night?" '

#Cymraeg

Mlem

#Caturday

Took my #Meshcore devices in to work today and with the new antenna it's *so* easy to get messages out when you're three floors up!

Being picked up in Oxfordshire, the south coast, Lincolnshire... marvellous. 😁

Now if only there was a way for the network to join up with the continent. I think people on the south coast can see people's nodes in France and the Netherlands but I can't from the middle of England.

Took my #Meshcore devices to work this morning. Three-storey building, and three quarters of the time got messages out onto the mesh, picked up by a repeater in London and bounced around the UK about 10 times. Pretty cool. :)

Also I nearly misspelled "mesh" as "mwah".

Mwahcore, anyone?

Sir Ian McKellan has always been pretty high up in my estimation and I didn't think he could go any higher, but he just has.

https://youtu.be/wXq58BbhCO4

To just hold a room like that. Incredible.

He was talking about ICE and fear of immigrants, and then quotes Shakespeare that he performed in the 1960s – straight out like that.

Is there a petition anywhere for UK people to sign, to oppose our Great Leadership's plans to put VPNs behind age verification?
I've seen ones to oppose the NHS's integration of Palantir but not for that.

List of hashtags:
#politics #petition #UK #AgeVerification #VPN #UKpol

Could anyone recommend an instance of #CryptPad or #Nextcloud that incorporates #Collabora as its web-based office suite, and which accepts public signups?
All others I've found include OnlyOffice.

#FOSS #FLOSS

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.jbselfcompany.tyr

This looks pretty cool

#FOSS #Android #email #DeltaChat

Queers on Fedi: the modern alternative to Girls on Film

My Xiao repeater has died. Fell apart at the wire connections.
My solar panel does a fraction of the job I expected it to do.

Time for a change of plan.

I've put the antenna back on one of my Wio L1s, and replaced the Xiao's one, so all three devices are now back to stock configurations.

I'll turn one of the L1s into a repeater and see how well it does, and sell the Xiao, TP4056 and battery.

Then later in the year I'll probably buy a better solar panel (than my current, Chinese, allegedly 35W one - any recommendations?) and another LoRa board to run Meshcore on.

#Meshcore #LoRa #Solar #SolarPanels

My mum and I did a terrarium-making workshop this afternoon. Let's see how they do. ☺

#terrarium #gardening #IndoorGardening #moss #mosstodon #houseplants

"To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from the point of rest in ourselves. Then, how much disappears, and all that remains falls into place. In the point of rest at the centre of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud, a revelation, each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses. The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable."

-- Page 148 of Dag Hammerskjöld's "Vägmärken", the entry for 4 August 1959

Back in 2022 I did a Banned Books Week display inspired by @Richard_Littler@mastodon.social and #Scarfolk.

Hidden underneath each book were little notes saying things like "Put that back", "You're on CCTV" and "Isn't the 'No' poster big enough for you?"

It was to highlight that in many parts of the world - even those built on the buzzwords of freedom and democracy - a lot of books are deemed dangerous or undesirable by certain groups of privileged people who want to regulate and control others.

It got very positive feedback and so far I haven't been detained. I assume it's only a matter of time.

#BannedBooksWeek #BannedBooks

I recently discovered the website https://CommandingHands.co.uk/

It is in development, but it's so exciting to see something entirely free that aims to promote the use, teaching, resources for and profile of British Sign Language.

The website should be fully up and running by the middle of this year. 👍

Genuinely excited to see how this develops 🙂

Hashtags:
#BritishSignLanguage #BSL #SignLanguage #language #languages #linguistics

It feels like spring has finally sprung. Aren't hellebores lovely?

Still one of my favourite photos ever taken

If AI agents are not human, what about estate agents?

#AskFedi

Is there a way to tell if a Fediverse instance/server runs on or is facilitated by Cloudflare, before signing up to it?
(...besides the connection verification captchas you see sometimes.)

After a full day of charging in (late winter, northern hemisphere) direct sunshine, my new solar panel charged my power bank enough to recharge my #Meshcore repeater's battery by...

...somewhere between 6 and 10%. 🫤
Hrm.

Could someone who's remotely techy explain to me how to install passmenu onto my Linux laptop?

https://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/tree/contrib/dmenu

I'm playing about with pass and the YouTube videos I'm watching recommend it, but none of them explain how to actually get it. They all just talk about how wonderful it is once you've got it and assume it's universally obvious how to go from not having it, to having it.

#software #linux #pass #passwords #noBot

I have three #Meshcore devices.

1) a Seeed Studio Xiao nRF[something] which is set up to be a repeater. It has the antenna of my second device, a stock Wio Tracker L1 Pro antenna.

2) a Seeed Studio Wio Tracker L1 Pro, with the antenna swapped with that of my first device. As such, its antenna is a little flappy strip of something.

3) a Seeed Studio Wio Tracker L1 Pro, unaltered, with original antenna.

Both devices 2 and 3 are companions.

Why, then, does device 3, with its larger, more substantial, 11cm-long antenna, see only a fraction of the messages in the Public and Test channels, whereas device 2 sees at least twice as much?

And why does my repeater struggle to get messages out on the mesh, but repeats others' messages quite happily?

How come that even with a new Gizont (or similar) antenna I can't get messages out onto the mesh, but I can quite easily pick up 14 messages from the public channel in a row without a problem?
And my repeater can bounce other people's messages around the mesh?

#MeshCore

#NowPlaying

'Everything Had to Happen This Way'
by Winterlight

https://n5md.bandcamp.com/track/everything-had-to-happen-this-way

I noticed that signing in to Mastodon using 2FA didn't reliably work. Turns out my system clock was ~30 seconds behind that of the actual time (currently GMT +1 for me).

On Linux distributions that have systemd, systemd apparently synchronises your system time with a time server automatically. However, I use Devuan (i.e. Debian but without systemd) so I had to do it manually.

I used htpdate to set the time to a UK time server on pool.ntp.org like this:

sudo htpdate uk.pool.ntp.org

No need to reboot. It's now accurate to GMT+1 to within about half a second. :)

Hashtags: #Devuan #time #system #Linux #2FA #systemd #Debian