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I wonder how CPU makers decide the minimum clock frequency that a CPU can scale down to for power management purposes. For example, I'm playing with a Quartz64 model B SBC with a RK3566 SoC, with four ARM Cortex-A55 cores, and the minimum frequency, according to the Linux kernel, is 408 MHz. (The maximum is 1.8 GHz.) Did they determine that lowering the frequency any further wouldn't save any power? I assume that number is set by the hardware and not by the kernel driver.
in reply to Matt Campbell

I don't know about big application processors, but in an MCU there is usually no arbitrary lower limit of the CPU frequency. There are often limits on ratios between different clock domains. However, you have two parts of the power consumption: Static (or leakage) and dynamic where the leakage current doesn't change with frequency, so at some point it's better to just turn off the power - not just gate the clock.
in reply to Matt Campbell

Some kinds of CPU logic do have an intrinsic minimum clock frequency. For instance, quoting @kenshirriff at righto.com/2020/08/how-8086-pr… "[...] Because the 8086 used dynamic logic, it also had a minimum clock speed of 2 MHz. If the clock ran slower than this, there was a risk of charges leaking away before they were refreshed, causing failures."


@RaccoonForFriendica a new version 0.2.0 has been released.

Changelog:
🦝 feat: add support for MastodonRedirect;
🦝 feat: export/import app settings to/from JSON;
🦝 feat: export contact list from profile;
🦝 feat: allow changing markup mode in post creation;
🦝 fix: retain scrolling state after navigation;
🦝 fix: newlines after titles in Markdown preview;
🦝 fix: avoid self mention when replying;
🦝 fix: retrieve source to edit post;
🦝 enhancement: populate current app icon value in settings;
🦝 chore: update manual and project documentation;
🦝 chore: typo in Fastlane metadata.

For those who have lost it, there has been a 0.1.1 in the meantime, which was mainly due to a metadata issue which blocked the submission on F-Droid, but it also included:
🦝 feat: add support for alternate (classic) and monochrome app icon;
🦝 fix: rendering images of different heights in carousels;
🦝 fix: rendering GIFs (or images with unbound constraints).

After the app gets published on the stores, we're going to move towards a more predictable release cycle (e.g. monthly stable versions and weekly betas).

Hope you are having fun on Friendica (or Mastodon) and as always #livefasteattrash

#friendica #friendicadev #androidapp #androiddev #fediverseapp #kotlin #multiplatform #kmp #compose #opensource #foss #procyonproject

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@❄️ freezr ❄️ potresti mandarmi il link al post e uno screenshot per favore? i sondaggi in sola lettura dovrebbero almeno essere visualizzati e l'ultima volta che mi sono imbattuto un un sondaggio sembrava "ok"...


"Tesla's vehicles have the highest fatal accident rate among all car brands in America, according to a recent study that analyzed data from the U.S. Fatality Analysis Reporting System."

Tesla's fatality rate is double the national average. Driver behavior is a contributing factor to the high number of deaths (i.e. shitty-driving assholes are more likely to buy Teslas and die or kill someone else while driving them).

roadandtrack.com/news/a6291913…

#Tesla #DeathTrap #cars #CarAndDriver



Winamp users, how am I meant to navigate the main UI with a screen reader? V 5.9.2, build 10042.
in reply to Stu

why? there are newer and better tools out there. People use it for nostalgia and familiarity these days, I don't know anyone under the age of 25 who'd want to bother
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo I switched to Foobar2000 a few years ago, now I keep winamp around for... Reasons I don't even know why. Not sure the last time I used it in fact. I have zero uses for it.


Špaček je dnes najlepší lebo chodí hore dole po centru Prahy.

in reply to Archos

@archos Díky. Jen, fotograf by měl hustou fotku se správným foťákem. Takhle jen mobil, ale úžasný moment. 🤷‍♀️
in reply to Kateřina

Náhodou, hustá je i fotka mobilem. Hlavně když jsi ve správný čas, na správném místě 👍👍


Tak jsem doufal, že ještě dneska vyhraje odpoledne kolo, ale začalo u nás pršet.
Tak holt kratší výběh no.
Nějak se na tu Prahu 2025 musím připravit 🏃
in reply to Archos

Já už byl na záchodě a umyl jsem se :) I tak to byl s pár zanedbatelnými domácími pracemi po jedné noze výkon :-D


Another Brexit fiasco.... British cheeses failed to get to the World Cheese Awards in Portugal as they failed to clear customs in time (now being from a non-EU country).

In the scale of the disasters of Brexit its not going to to be a big thing (although it will be for the frustrated cheese makers), but is emblematic of how myopic the Brexiters were about the impact of their successful plan to leave Europe....

#brexit #cheese #food

theguardian.com/food/2024/nov/…

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Hey Firefox, could you stop asking for location access when I use Google? Thanks.
in reply to Stu

It's Googgle, not Firefox.
Firefox is passing on google's request, just as it would for a website that wanted to use your mic.


I've reached the end of my first full week of using a terminal-only interface for my personal computing in 2024.

It has been quite a week.

I've had to pick up git, which is a whole new learning curve for me, and my knowledge of tmux has increased rapidly too.

But, in terms of getting done what I actually wanted to do? It has been absolutely fine... right up until the point when it was not, and then I struggled.

I'm writing notes as I go, for a future blogpost.

#Linux #FOSS #terminal

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in reply to Neil Brown

You know some of us used an 80x25 text only screen and keyboard (connected via a serial line) all day, long before these new fangled "browser" things.


Want a cool #LibreOffice sticker pack, and chance to win extra merch? Join our community this month, contribute to our projects, and grab your prize at the end! 206 people have already taken part, and you don't need to be a developer: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource

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in reply to LibreOffice

#alt4u

Banner in green tones, with text:
"Build you skills and meet new people!
Month of LibreOffice
November 2024
UX design, coding, documentation, marketing, QA and more..."
In the background, silhouettes of people cheering and jumping.



@modulux what am i supposed to do while libera is down?
in reply to plank

Oh my, is it? It caught me off irc for a change.



Hardcoded shortcuts in #LibreOffice are still a joke in 2024:

- F1 still cannot be modified. (I hate you so much for this.)
- Ctrl-P is Print, except editing shortcuts shows it's not actually bound to anything. Lulz?

Thankfully at least one can modify Ctrl-P to do something actually useful, like Export Directly as PDF.

But then… the Print tooltip still mentions Ctrl-P, the Export Directly as PDF doesn't.

A restart later, both tooltips mention Ctrl-P.

Lulz!

in reply to Cyril Brulebois

Sorry to hear that! We have very limited resources and do all we can, but we'd appreciate help to fix the things that matter to you: libreoffice.org/community/get-…


Super nice #macOS related fixes upcoming in #LibreOffice💪❤️
macOS dictation had a problem where dictated text would only show, once you make a pause speaking. That was inconvenient as it is much easier to gather your thoughts when spoken text appears immediately.

Another issue that has been ongoing for many many years was, that when you scrolled the sheet in calc and while scrolling was still ongoing pressed cmd for some operation, the zoom level would change. This extremely annoying behavior is no longer.

Both fixes done by #PatrickLuby of #NeoOffice - we should all thank him!

Will take some time for those to trickly down into stable, but 25.2 will bring those fixes for sure.

dictation: bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163764calc scroll: bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151423
@libreoffice



ísť sa teraz pretŕčať nebude asi naj nápad, mám PNku a stále ešte kašlem zase ma niekto uvidí a budem za... ehm



Once again, @Tusky ate the alt-text of an image when I clicked OK. I don't have the gumption to rewrite it. It would be great if this bug could be fixed.
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@Tusky i love you, but you have to stop throwing away drafts when reopening the app.

Several times a month I lose my posts while switching been apps to copy text snippets and so on. It doesn't happen all the time, which is super frustrating. I convince myself it's okay, probably was just user error, it's stopped now, and then 💣🕳️

i can't do this anymore, sorry

in reply to matt wilkie

it is a known bug and will be corrected in the next update, sorry about the problem


@Tusky Hi, I'd like to see Tusky to be able to export all settings and accounts to a backup file. After moving to a new smartphone I was missing this badly. Lots of apps are offering this feature nowadays: NewPipe, Tubular, FairEmail, Feeder, AntennaPod, RedReader.... Thanks and I appreciate your work! #Tusky ❤️
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in reply to nubicuculia

Hi!!! We will take it into account for the future :) Thanks for the input!

in reply to Richard K

you have to select the advanced view in Mastodon to see the global feed


📣 Sei unser #A11y und unterstütze den Zugang zum !@metalab für Menschen mit Sehbehinderung oder Blindheit! Komm zum Do-It-Blind (DIB) Treffen 🛠️ am Montag, 18. November, Treffpunkt Ring-Passage, U3-Station Volkstheater um 16:00; Ende 20:00 metalab.at/calendar/event/7698… #make #blind #inklusion


📢 Oznámení o plánované údržbě
Dne 29. 11. 2024 od 8:00 do 11:00 proběhne přesun naší Mastodon instance na nový server.

Během této doby nebude instance dostupná.

Děkujeme za pochopení a trpělivost! Pokud máte jakékoli dotazy, neváhejte nás kontaktovat.




Výsledek guerillové akce je, že můžeme sledovat @alexandrmitrofa.bsky.social a @dmitrijpejskov.bsky.social, a snad jsem trochou rozšířil povědomí o této možnosti a přidají se i někteří další.
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Tohle nejspíš všichni znáte, ale opakování je matka moudrosti.

Na pouličních lampách jsou štítky s unikátními čísly. Ty slouží k jednoduché, rychlé a přesné identifikaci místa, kde stojí lampa.

To se hodí např. při komunikaci s záchranáři.



I have started writing a new KaiOS app. With the app you can search for climbing routes and then enter the routes you have made in a logbook. The data comes from openbeta.io, a freely available climbing route database with a very active community. A live version of the app -> pictick.strukturart.com #KaiOS #climbing
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We tried the "The NSA kills people based on meta data" approach and it did nothing to convince people to use #XMPP.
How about changing our messaging to: "Your crippling BNPL debt is a direct consequence of Google, Meta and ByteDance knowing every fucking thing about you"
#xmpp
in reply to Daniel Gultsch

You're beating a dead horse. There is absolutely nothing you can do that is going to convince most people to use #XMPP because it is the Linux of messaging platforms, It may be better, it may be more private and more secure, but people don't care about that. All they want is something super easy to set up and use, and they want to be on the platform that friends and family are using. And no, they have no desire whatsoever to host a server for friends and family, that's waaaay to complicated for them (even it it literally involved entering one command at a command prompt it would still be to complicated). And they actually trust a big corporation more to keep their conversations private than some XMPP service they have never heard of.

If the day ever comes when they do give a rat's ass about privacy it will be too late because by the the big corporations and the government will already know everything about them. But most people seem to think they have nothing to hide so why should they be concerned about privacy? And if the last election taught us anything it is that far too many people are totally gullible.

#xmpp
in reply to Daniel Gultsch

I guess pretty soon you'll be able to try "no ads and AI/cryptomoney bullshit" (but I'm not sure even that will convince people)


Working based on interoperable specifications is value to users and developers. Development teams get the freedom to exchange component implementations which is beneficial to the user. Other developers can team up to replace a whole tool or app with another interoperable one, providing a second level of "freedom to exit". Its true for #activitypub and is true for our e-mail Standards and #openpgp based end-to-end encryption. Protocols are the fundamental source to provide freedom of exit.
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CCC fordert mehr Transparenz bei IT-Dienstleistern für Wahlen: Keine Software-Komponente, die am Wahlausgang oder den Wahlmeldungen beteiligt ist, darf geheim gehalten werden netzpolitik.org/2024/bundestag…


Reminder to everyone: Mastodon counts all links as 23 characters. Even if you use a link shortener.

If you use a shortener, all you do is obscure the link's destination (and make the link dependent on that shortening service). Many of us will avoid clicking on such obscured links. You're almost certainly *lowering* your engagement, traffic, whatever.

Just link directly. It doesn't cost you any characters.

#ProTip



@mozilla why the f*** do you accept money from Temu? 😮

You should get some basic standards.

#Mozilla #Firefox

in reply to treefit

Like you can debate working with big tech like google and amazon, but at least they don't have the level of controversy that #temu has.
#temu


Yikes! Other authors, be very careful and make sure you, or your agent, keeps an eye on contracts! Because mine is more experienced, he spotted the below right away, but keep an eye out for the below.

1. Do not give publishers permission to train their AI on your work, even internally. WTF? A publisher tried to sneak this in!

2. Despite what publishers tell you, demand your audiobook should be done by humans and your cover should be done by humans. Publishers love AI despite what they tell you!

3. Do not let publishers dictate giving you a lower advance *because* you don't have a platform. This is bullshit, especially since they have all the PR connections.

4. Do not let them say anything about how many hours you should spend promoting your book. Make this low as possible or even eliminate it altogether. They have all the PR connections. You don't. Make it their fault you don't make back their advance, not you, because they can decline to publish you in the future and you won't have numbers to prove they failed in PR.

5. Don't let publishers tell you virtual book tours don't generate returns on investment and isn't worth having their publicist do. No, fuck that shit! Because my agent is experienced, he said fuck that straight away! If you want your releases to be virtual, say so!

And finally,

6. Do not let them give you a low advance. A lower advance says they don't have to invest in you as much to get back that investment. They should do the bulk of the publishing work, not you, so always ask for higher advances, always! Even if you don't think you'll make back that advance. Go higher. This will force them to do something about their investment in you!

#Publishing



Of course...
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This is an experiment. Please boost.

mastoddosnt.ddns.net/

Here's the idea: This post is going first to my followers, then, if they boost it, to other people. This domain has been registered for only this experiment. I should see in my web server's logs when mastodon instances start crawling the site for info. Then maybe also some curious humans.

I just want to play with my monitoring a bit :)

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A really interesting and informative interview with Pat Metheny about the One Quiet Night album and so much more!

50 Years into His Career, Pat Metheny Explores a New Landscape of Sound on the Baritone Guitar | Acoustic Guitar acousticguitar.com/pat-metheny…



Coming to the end of a rewatch of #Babylon5. As I watch G'kar's closing message to Ta'lon (including his mention of what he was like when he first arrived… oh, memories of the first few episodes!), I suddenly realize:

The two shows are almost completely dissimilar, *but*… his arc reminds me of Eleanor Shellstrop's in #TheGoodPlace. Both have that thing where the person they become by the end has grown *so much*, it's nearly impossible to put into words. It aches.

#B5 #television #tv #growth

in reply to Kagan MacTane

Those last few episodes are so sad to watch, seeing everything winding down and familiar characters moving on. Honestly, I often skip "Sleeping in Light" as it's too difficult to watch. #Babylon5
in reply to David Goldfield

@DavidGoldfield Just thinking hard about the last few scenes always makes me cry, but I just finished a rewatch of "Objects at Rest" (which got me bawling at the scene where Sheridan and the new crew look at each other through their respective windows as he and Delenn's White Star is about to leave — Goddess, so much kudos to Christopher Franke for the heartbreaking music!) and am about to do "Sleeping In Light". Again.

I have tissues ready.



@TPGi is looking for a Full-Time, Remote in US Accessibility Engineer. The core responsibility will be to Perform accessibility evaluations of web pages, desktop applications, mobile apps, and other emerging platforms. Interested? Please send your resume to Careers@TPGi.com.

buff.ly/3CwPjRu

#Jobs #A11yJobs #AccessibilityJobs #DigitalAccessibility #Accessibility #A11y