Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party Lose EU Parliament Seats
Link: stackdiary.com/patrick-breyer-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party lose EU Parliament seats
In the wake of the recent European Parliament elections, the German Pirate Party has lost its representation in the legislative body. This outcome wasAlex Ivanovs (Stack Diary)
LaTeX is the first PDF/UA-2 compliance accessible PDF producer
Link: github.com/latex3/tagging-proj…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
WTPDF / PDF/UA-2 Examples by the LaTeX Project · latex3 tagging-project · Discussion #72
WTPDF / PDF/UA-2 Examples by the LaTeX Project The following files demonstrate various aspects of Well Tagged PDF documents conforming to PDF/UA-2. They were all generated with LuaLaTeX (lualatex-d...GitHub
3 reasons why Bitcoin failed to break above $72K
Despite bullish catalysts, the Bitcoin price was unable to break above $72,000 on June 5.Marcel Pechman (Cointelegraph)
Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it
Link: gothamist.com/news/things-the-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
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FESSHOLE: THE PODCAST - THE PROPER, SENSIBLE TRAILER
Hello, potential listeners! It's Rob Manuel here, the creator of Fesshole, and co-host of this brand new podcast.Audioboom
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 #Rust #Blink #Google #Chrome
Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine
Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.Servo
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Rust is not about memory safety
o-santi.github.io/blog/rust-is…
Discussions: discu.eu/q/o-santi.github.io/b…
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (March and April 2024)
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Patrick Winnertz (winnie) Fabian Gruenbichler (fabiang) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Juri Grabowski Tobias..Debian Project
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…
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Fesshole: The Podcast
Fesshole, the million follower Twitter account now has a podcast. Join creator Rob Manuel and his mate from school, Dave Stevenson, as they chew over the most awful, funniest confessions and cringe at the horror of it all.pod.link
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…
Wiley shuts down 19 science journals and retracts 11,000 gobbledygook papers
Link: joannenova.com.au/2024/05/so-m…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A Solar Filament Erupts
Image Credit: NASA's GSFC, SDO AIA Team
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APOD: 2024 May 26 – A Solar Filament Erupts
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
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.
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#til #todayilearned
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GitHub - nvaccess/nvda: NVDA, the free and open source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows
NVDA, the free and open source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows - nvaccess/nvdaGitHub
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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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
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, drawing attention to the narrowed discount in the Grayscale Ethereum Trust.Omkar Godbole (CoinDesk)
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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.
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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…Seth's Blog
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
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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.
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…
The financial costs of healthcare costs, or, is keeping me alive worth it?
Right now, from a society-wide perspective, the healthcare I’ve been getting to keep me temporarily alive against a squamous cell carcinoma onslaught probably fails the cost-benefit test.[1] …The Story's Story
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)
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ElevenLabs quietly launches ElevenLabs Reader: AI Audio, its first consumer app to read web pages, PDFs and other documents aloud in 11 different voices
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Every map of China is wrong - Anastasia Bizyayeva - Medium
I work in a climate tech startup, and although I don’t directly manipulate geospatial data in my role (at least not at the moment), I’m very interested in this aspect of our work. I came across a…Anastasia Bizyayeva (Medium)
PeaZip: Open-source file compression and encryption software
Link: peazip.github.io/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
PeaZip free archiver utility, open extract RAR TAR ZIP files
Free file archiver utility for Windows, macOS, Linux, Open Source file compression and encryption software. Open, extract RAR TAR ZIP archives, 200+ formats supportedPeaZip file archiver utility, free RAR ZIP software
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…
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in reply to Deutschlandfunk (inoffiziell) • • •Als ein deutscher Nazi in #Hanau 2020 zehn Menschen ermordete, ging der Karneval ganz normal weiter. Im Bundestag wurde sogar am Tag danach gefeiert.
Ich würde gerne glauben, dass wir als Gesellschaft dazugelernt haben und die jetzt in #Mannheim gezeigte Anteilnahme nichts mit #Rassismus zu tun hat.
Nur sehe ich sehr wenig #Trauer und #Humanität, sondern vor allem die vollkommen unangemessene Betonung der Herkunft des Täters.