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Ok we've got a second trailer for the Fesshole podcast - this one is a bit more sensible and previews what's actually in it - do subscribe - launching properly soon
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The fastest non-Google controlled web rendering engine Servo is trying to compete with only $1.6k funding a month:
phoronix.com/news/Servo-Engine…

Yes, they did have an NLNet grant, but that ran out.

If we want an alternative to Blink/Chrome, we need to fund it. This is a project where even a tiny regular amount could yield oversize returns:

servo.org/

#Servo #Rust #Blink #Google #Chrome

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Good article! I largely agree, though I wouldn't say so much it's about correctness rather than memory safety. Yes, correctness is the keystone, but that Rust is apt for low-level use, fast, expressiv, and so on, is not just a coincidence, but a great feat of engineering. It's the combination between the correctness focus and the valuable industrial properties that makes it, if not unique, at least unusually fit.



New Debian Developers and Maintainers (March and April 2024) bits.debian.org/2024/05/new-de…


Brr.fyi on engineering for slow internet at the South Pole: modern web apps and OS updates are mostly unusable with glacial speeds and high latency at McMurdo Station brr.fyi/posts/engineering-for-…




XZ 5.6.2 Released With The Frightening Backdoor Removed

It was two months ago today that an urgent security alert was issued over XZ being hit by malicious code that turned out to be a backdoor within liblzma added by a bad actor that worked his way into XZ co-maintainership. Longtime XZ developer Lasse Collin is back at the helm and has been auditing the prior XZ commits and today released XZ 5.6.2 with the backdoor completely removed...
phoronix.com/news/XZ-5.6.2-Rel…



Fesshole is launching a podcast on the 11th of June 2024. Please subscribe here so you'll be the FIRST to hear it
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Chrome 127 Should Provide PipeWire Camera Capture Support

The Google Chrome/Chromium 127 web browser release should finally provide support for PipeWire camera capturing support!..
phoronix.com/news/Chrome-127-P…





A Solar Filament Erupts

Image Credit: NASA's GSFC, SDO AIA Team

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240526.ht… #APOD

#apod



TIL that the reason that Mr. Rogers told viewer that he was feeding his fish as he was doing so was because a five-year-old fan who is blind was concerned that he wasn't, so he wanted to put her mind at ease.

misterrogers.org/articles/the-…
#til #todayilearned
reddit.com/r/todayilearned/com…



nvda - NVDA, the free and open source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows github.com/nvaccess/nvda


Brandmauertage... Wenn sich Kretschmer, und netter kann man es einfach nicht formulieren, bis auf die Knochen entblödet, sich hinzustellen und öffentlich zu dozieren, im Grundgesetz stehe nichts von Brandmauern, dann hat er einfach nicht begriffen, dass das Grundgesetz selbst diese Brandmauer ist.


PipeWire 1.2 Can Stream To Snapcast Servers For Multi-Room Audio

Following the recent PipeWire 1.2 release candidate, a second release candidate is out today that also includes the ability to stream to Snapcast servers...
phoronix.com/news/PipeWire-1.2…

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Este tipo de comportamientos no deberían tener cabida en una democracia.
Qué es eso de detener a una persona que está haciendo el bien a la comunidad


Am Fr, 24.Mai ist wieder Metaday!

Dieses Mal geht es um Braille und die, die es nutzen - Vortrag von Anne Günther

In der Rathausstraße 6, 1010 Wien

-> metalab.at/wiki/Metaday_97



Bitcoin, Ether in Stasis as SEC ETF Decision Looms, Nvidia Hits Record High - There is a 90% probability the SEC will approve a spot ether ETF, one observer said, draw... - coindesk.com/markets/2024/05/2… #markets #bitcoin #ether #news #nvda
in reply to Crypto News

Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!


2 + 2

Arguments about taste are more common than ever before. The long tail makes it easy to find what you like, and to talk about what you don't. There's no accounting for taste, and that's a good thing. Because taste is useful. Flopping the toilet paper under or over the roll, Beatles vs. Stones, Chevy vs. Ford... the interactions and tribal identity that result from these discussions satisfies our need to be seen, to have agency and to be part of something.

seths.blog/2024/05/2-2/



TIL that in 1990, on flight BA 5390, a poorly installed windshield blew off, partially sucking the captain out of the plane. The crew managed to hold onto him until they landed, and amazingly, he survived.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_…
#til #todayilearned
reddit.com/r/todayilearned/com…



Sunak announces UK general election for 4 July

The PM calls an early summer poll - having been widely expected to wait until the autumn to do so.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-690…

(c) #BBC #News #Politics



Linux 6.10 Adds eDP/DisplayPort Support For The Snapdragon X Elite

Qualcomm and their partners at Linaro have been busy working on the Linux support for the Snapdragon X Elite as the high-end Arm SoC beginning to roll-out for laptops. The latest Snapdragon X Elite upstreaming is Embedded DisplayPort and DisplayPort support for the Snapdragon X Elite...
phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.10-e…




"The financial costs of healthcare costs, or, is keeping me alive worth it?"

Link: jakeseliger.com/2024/05/16/the…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…



ElevenLabs quietly launches ElevenLabs Reader: AI Audio, its first consumer app to read web pages, PDFs and other documents aloud in 11 different voices (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
techmeme.com/240516/p10#a24051…



Každá mapa Číny je špatná. A to záměrně... medium.com/@anastasia.bizyayev…


PeaZip: Open-source file compression and encryption software

Link: peazip.github.io/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…



SDL3 Adds PipeWire Camera Support

Adding to the growing list of features coming with the SDL3 release for this hardware/software abstraction layer commonly used by cross-platform games and other software is PipeWire camera capturing support...
phoronix.com/news/SDL3-PipeWir…





The new iPads are ditching physical SIM cards - Not a SIM tray in sight on the new iPad Pro. | Photo: Davi... - theverge.com/2024/5/7/24151262…


Stenberg: I survived curl up 2024 lwn.net/Articles/972603/ #tech #linux




Bits from the DPL bits.debian.org/2024/05/bits-f…