@IzzyOnDroid #opensource at its best:
I recently installed vector pinball from @fdroidorg - great to kill some time, and especially fun because of the sound effects and background music. Out of curiosity I followed the link to the README in it's github repo. In it, the author thanks the guy who added the sound effects and music, who wanted to try out a sound library for android and therefore sought out a silent open source game and created sounds and music for it. He wrote an article about it here: twittering.com/webarchive_arti…
So thanks to this exemplary #FOSS collaboration I'm having a good time, whenever I have a five minute break.
FMOD for Android is like peanut butter and strawberry jam, together for the first time!www.twittering.com
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#85 Preferred Installations
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/…
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Spec work to improve notifications in Matrix, client-side bridging to prove that interoperability is a choice and even a demo of it in Matrix Live… that, and much more happened this week in Matrix!
@zgou thanks. I hope we will get some documentation about these new client-side bridges.
I'm quite happy, those are 100% better solutions than server-side bridging.
There will be some friction for the end-user I guess but let's see where this goes.
Good job 👍
#AndroidAppRain at Guardian today with 2 updated apps, and at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid with 2 new and 10 updated apps¹
* OpenBl: the latest Bundesliga tables & results
* OpenBooksDownloader: download open published books
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo 
¹ oops, 9. 1 update had to be rolled back as my scanner yelled an alarm due to added trackers – a no-go in a root app caring for backups of personal data. Issue opened upstream, updates temp-disabled.
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
For #Linux folk, I have a list of my common typographic symbols using the Alt Graph & Compose keys, hosted on @Codeberg, derived from @aral blog post ar.al/2018/07/18/typographical…
Might be useful
codeberg.org/natureworks/gists…
Many of our bad habits date back to the limitations of typewriters. Typography lends us the voice that the written word takes away from us. Good typography makes your message accessible and comprehensible and strengthens its intent.Aral Balkan
To the Compose list you might wish to add one very useful combination: (x)
With "x" being any alpha-num. Great e.g. with screenshots where you numbered a sequence of actions: ① click here, ② enter whatever, ㊷ don't overdo it 😝 and so on. Ⓐ I find that very practical, Ⓑ I use it frequently. And as you mentioned super-script, there's also ₀subscript₁for₃numbers (_1, _2 etc)
/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose for more 😝 & WinCompose for Windows folks…
Prezident Miloš Zeman po deseti letech na Hradě odchází, nejspíše už definitivně, z české politiky. Které okamžiky jeho politické kariéry, jež začala těsně před sametovou revolucí, byly ty nejdůležitější? A jaký účet po sobě zanechává?Economia, a.s.
Datová schránka - musíte změnit heslo.
Já: Bitwarden - generovat nové silné heslo - včetně spešl znaků prosím.
Datová schránka:
#wtf
Your mailbox is the gateway to your online identity: Facebook, PayPal, Amazon - all of these can be hijacked easily if someone gets access to your emails.
But fortunately, it's easy to secure your mailbox! Check out Tutanota. 😍
yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=MFlF…
Tutanota - no tracking, no ads. Get your encrypted mailbox now: https://tutanota.com/big-tech-alternative?t-src=you Today's web is broken. You are being tracked when you search the web, shop online; even when you read your emails.Tutanota | Invidious
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Here's an early look at some fun content we're launching next week!
We're calling it "Meet The Team." It's a series of conversations with each member of the #Thunderbird team, about stuff like:
☑️ When they fell in love with tech or software programming.
☑️ What attracted them to #OpenSource.
☑️ What their day-to-day looks like hacking on Thunderbird
☑️ And whatever else we decide to ask them and they're willing to answer!
We'll start with @alecaddd's origin story... Stay tuned for more!
Wow, Eugene Stoner, inventor of the M16, was 35 years old when he designed it (this was the result of years of ideas and hobbyist testing and the earlier AR10). It's been in service for 60 years. He went into the Marines and later spent years in a machining shop, which is where he learned how to design based on processes in the real world. He mentioned other engineers without that experience suffered despite their degrees. He was a high school graduate.
Interesting to hear directly from him. Particularly criticized Army substituting the powder and not strictly defining ammunition specs during initial deployment to Vietnam.
#ar15 #m16 #vietnamwar #eugenestoner The Man Behind the Gun. The Eugene Stoner Stories and the development of the AR15 & the M16. Presented by : The Institut...YouTube
The importance of cross-domain experience:
"For example, consider Eugene Stoner, father of the M-16 rifle and acclaimed genius in the world of small-arms experts: IS "Eugene Stoner was a genius. An engineering genius of the first order." Says one expert. "Stoner was probably the most gifted small-arms designer since Browning," says another expert.
Stoner's own explanation of his insight, however, makes clear how his creativity was an act of brokerage, moving knowledge familiar in one group to a second group in which the knowledge was a breakthrough idea. Stoner was an engineer with Fairchild Engine and Airplane Company when he entered the company's start-up prototype-gun division, ArmaLite. Before joining Fairchild, Stoner served in the Marines as an ordnance technician. Stoner's familiarity with ordnance and the use of plastics and aluminum in aircraft gave him an advantage in designing a radically new, ultra-light assault rifle, the AR-10. The novel rifle impressed Army observers in the 1955 trials to replace the World War II Garand rifle, which began a winding path that would lead to the AR- 10's des-cendant, the M-16, being used across the American military services. As Stoner explains in a 1988 interview with the Smithsonian Institute, "I think my aircraft background and experience allowed me to get into some of these light-weight materials, for instance forged aluminum receivers, which were rather unknown at the time in weapons. But it was nothing particularly new to what I'd been doing all along in the aircraft equipment, in the fiberglass and all that.""
In the summer of 2020, Adam Curry and Dave Jones co-created PodcastIndex, a free, open directory that now has more than 4 million podcasts (the Apple directory has 2 million), and launched the “Podcast 2.0” movement to add new features to podcasts.Benjamin Bellamy (Castopod Blog)
✅ Votre accès au site web 6 mois ✅ Liseuse sur le numéro en cours et les archives ✅ Version audio...Podcast Magazine
So, K-9 got a makeover... You're welcome Internet. 😁
k9mail.app/2023/03/02/K-9-Mail…
K-9 Mail is an open source email client focused on making it easy to chew through large volumes of emailK-9 Mail
Here we discuss structure of a minimal VCL application, and take a look into a C++ example, minvcl that creates a simple window.Hossein Nourikhah (LibreOffice Development Blog)
🇺🇦 Ukrajinský výrobce televizorů #KIVI vstupuje na český trh. Slibuje 3letou záruku📺 👍
👉 infoek.cz/kivi-vstupuje-na-ces…
Na náš malý český trh vstupuje výrobce televizorů KIVI. Jedná se o ukrajinskou společnost působící již od rokuAdolf Pupík (Infoek.cz)
The big news this time around is that we’re now in the beta period for NVDA 2023.1, so let’s start there: NVDA 2023.1 Beta 1 It’s beta time! That’s right, NVDA 2023.1 Beta 1 is now avai…NV Access
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OpenAI is today unrecognizable, with multi-billion-dollar deals and corporate partnerships. Will it seek to own its shiny AI future?Chloe Xiang (VICE)
Cycling is now the single largest mode of travel during peak times in the City of London, according to a new report.
Cyclists represent 40% of traffic during peak hours and 27% of traffic throughout the day.
Since 1999, the number of motorists has dropped 64% and the number of cyclists has increased 386%.
#Urbanism #UrbanDesign #ClimateChange #Cycling #BikeTooter #UK #London #Mobility #Transportation
forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2…
At peak times, people cycling represent 40% of road traffic in the City and 27% throughout the day.Carlton Reid (Forbes)
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[wlog] Niepce February 2023 updates
A collection of images, videos, tweets, articles, and links referenced in my talk for Web Directions AAA 2021. This may not make much sense if you did not attend the talk. Or even if you did. Intro I had the title before I had the content.Adrian Roselli
Northern Lights is a weekly live and interactive show featuring the best mix of relaxing music from independent and mainstream artists. Genres you’ll hear include New Age, Ambient, and music …Kelly Sapergia's Home Page
L'atelier hébergement et diffusion est désormais en ligne. N'hésitez pas à aller le regarder. Nous restons disponibles si vous avez des questions.
Un grand merci à @@podCloud @Castopod et @vodiofr pour leur présence.
youtube.com/watch?v=EK0qhC7E73…
BadGeek vous propose ses ateliers podcast. Découvrez nos nombreux conseils afin de produire vos émissions de A à Z.Dans cet atelier, on parle de l'hébergemen...YouTube
🕵️♂️ Today, the Open Source Programme Office (@EC_OSPO) held a Secrets Management Hackaton for the developers from the 🇪🇺 Commission.
The goal was to remove secrets from the internal projects' codes so that more 🇪🇺 projects can become #opensource and be shared on code.europa.eu.
This is the project for the readme file and guidelines of code.europa.euGitLab
If you're interested to learn how K-9 Mail development is going, you might want to keep an eye on our blog.
Here's what we've been up to in February:
k9mail.app/2023/03/02/K-9-Mail…
K-9 Mail is an open source email client focused on making it easy to chew through large volumes of emailK-9 Mail
Yesterday, I wrote about how web development can literally kill people. At the end of the article, I wrote… Build things that work, even when parts of it break.gomakethings.com
Set content descriptions and other tweaks where it makes sense so the app is usefull for screen reader users. Visually disabled and blind people are likelly to enjoy using modern audio recording ap...GitHub
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Die umstrittene TrustPID-Plattform lässt sich in drei Schritten deaktivieren und das personalisierte Werbetracking damit verhindern. 👇
kuketz-blog.de/datenschutz-tru…
#dsgvo #ttdsg #tracking #trustpid #datenschutz #teamdatenschutz
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Phosh 0.25.0 is out 🚀📱:
See phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.25.0… for details.
#phosh #librem5 @purism #gnome #linux #mobile #lLinuxMobile #MobileLinux
There is something noble about two longtime rivals — competitors, yes, but with nothing but deep respect and camaraderie for each other — facing this terrible cliff together, with dignity and grace, considering their users first, as ever.Daring Fireball
Users change browser or OS settings to improve their experiences for a reason. We should respect these decisions by writing CSS.Writing even more CSS with Accessibility in Mind, Part 2: Respecting user preferences
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