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I really wish Prusa had tried to work with OSI, CC, and/or OSHWA instead of greenfielding a new license.

Even if the principle behind this license wasn't misguided, I don't think it's precise enough to legally accomplish any of the goals Prusa stated.

Please don't use this.

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Open-sourcing CORE One CAD Files Under the New Open Community License (OCL) - Original Prusa 3D Printers

Today, we are releasing the full CAD files for the CORE One and CORE One L frames. You can download them right now, load them into your CAD software and use them to create mods and accessories, import them to Fusion...
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Andreas

Thank you for these regular reports on HackerOne.

I always get a good chuckle out of them as I read Hackerone as in Toblerone (with the swiss german pronounciation as in youtu.be/wyLXR8EgDrc?t=6) before correcting myself.

And it is hilarious and makes me think of chocolate, which is so much nicer than thinking about bug-bounties.


Schweizerdeutsch Podcast - Warum heissen Toblerone, Rivella und Co. so?

📖 TRANSKRIPTE: Das Transkript von diesem Video auf Schweizerdeutsch und Hochdeutsch findet ihr auf meiner Patreon-Seite: https://www.patreon.com/posts/b1-h...
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I didn't need this distraction today @prism, so yeah. Thanks for that... Now I won't get anything else done the rest of the day haha.

'Two stories of local legend in which I was unfortunately not involved:

Producer:
"What's that hi-pitched tinny thing?"

Engineer:
"What? Where?"

Producer:
"Right there!"

Engineer begins soloing tracks.

Producer:
"There! That's it!"

Engineer:
"That's a hi hat, Nick.'

Also, from notoriously difficult female singer:
"I have GOT to have more SMPTE in the headphones?"

Needless to say, this engineer gave it to her LOUD AND CLEAR before pressing play again.'
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Jingle session, "A Team" session guys with Asshole Client. 30 second spot with a drum fill in the middle. They do a take and the A.C. says NO! the drum fill has to be boom wacka boom boom. So they do another take and when they get to the fill, the A.C. pushes the talkback and says NO! not boom wacka boom boom, boom boom wacka wacka wacka! This goes on for half an hour until the A.C. says " oh for f*ck sake, just play whatever Steve Gadd would play!". The drummer leans into the OH and says "I AM Steve Gadd".


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Drew Mochak

michael brecker was doing an overdub session around the late 80's. he does a pass and the producer says, "Great, but could you play harder?- really wail!!!" Apparently MB just nods his head and does another pass. The Prod says, "That's getting closer, but can you give it even more? I want it to sound like the Big Man- Clarence Clemens!". MB nods and says that he needs to really get the vibe, and could they dim the lights. the AE dims the lights and MB says, "No, man i need them totally off. You, know, get the vibe." lights go off, and they roll tape. when they get to the solo section all they hear is silence. tape stops, lights up. MB has left the building.
MB- one of the greatest.

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Imagine your two options for a display driver are as follows:
* A $1000+ software package that you have to pay $200-$300 to upgrade;
* Or a completely free and open source project that's ran mostly by volunteers and a small charity, but it will sometimes make your screen black out if you try to load too much text onto it at once.

Now stop imagining, and become blind. This is now your reality.

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Dear Geeks:

This code is hard to read (Every line requires translating abbreviations into english) & all of these variable names will be fucking obnoxious for any programmer who needs a screen reader.

This hurts maintainability & emergency bug hunting.

src_endp → source_endpoint

dst_addr_mode → destination_address_mode probably. I'm guessing WTF they meant by "dst"

dst_endp → destination_endpoint

req_dst_addr → request_destination_address

#accessibility #programming

a screenshot of the variables in question with some things pixelated out.
#Accessibility #programming
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masukomi

@menelion

🤔 Hadn't considered that, but unfortunately that's not really something we have much say over, as their use is either hardcoded into the language spec OR you'd be making non-idiomatic code and everyone who saw it would hate you. 😉

We can abolish the practice of prefacing private methods with underscores in most languages, but… 🤷‍♀️

Kinda sucks to have the only real accommodation option be to use a different language.

@André Polykanine

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MA - i'm extremely broke again :( (18/100)

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One really cool NVDA feature that I'm absolutely loving is the thing it does where if I run scoop update * or another command that gives me a fuckton of console output, it'll just lock up and freeze, often continuing to read terminal messages while I'm focused on the desktop, and sometimes even crash if I'm unlucky. I'm sure an insane amount of development time went into this, so kudos! Loving it!

To be clear, I don't begrudge NV Access this too hard. I still donate to them and realize how hard making a free and open source Windows screen reader is. But this has happened to me at least 10 times this week, so I'm annoyed.

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Für blinde Folgende: Ich nutze jetzt ungefähr 1 Stunde lang Waterfox und kann bisher mit NVDA unter Win 11 keine Probleme feststellen. Webseiten kann ich lesen, Menü und zwischen Tabs navigieren, in den Settings war ich auch schon. Sieht bisher gut aus. Aber natürlich kann es sein, dass ich trotzdem noch Probleme entdecke. Aber angesichts aktueller Firefoxentwicklungen mag ich das.
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Marco Zehe

Ja, das kann ich auch machen, dann schaltet sich die Oberfläche auch auf deutsch um. Aber VoiceOver bekommt das nicht mit und nutzt weiter eine englische Stimme, auch für Dinge wie "Taste" oder "Kontrollkästchen". Das liegt an MacOS, Waterfox teilt dem Betriebssystem nicht mit, dass es all diese Sprachen wirklich an Bord hat. Das sind ja alles interne Webseiten, die da angezeigt werden, und das ist abgekoppelt von der Basisgeschichte im Betriebssystem.

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Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent appreciation is for some of the Free Software languages that bring me both joy and income: Python & Golang

I've used Python at $DAYJOB since version 2.3 (it got woefully stuck at 2.4 for WAAAAY too long, and finally switched to 3.x some time in the last 2–3 years) and it simplified so many automation tasks there. I've used dozens of programming languages in my life for various tasks, and the hard part is rarely *writing* the code, but rather *reading* the code. And I find it a LOT easier to come back and read old Python code than just about any other language.

Meanwhile, Golang saved my bacon on a short-term contracting project where TB of (simple) CSV files needed to be processed, cross-referenced. Being able to spin up a pool of multithreading Go processes, have built in locking and hash-map structures, and operate on raw input buffers of bytes shaved a 3-day manual process down to about an hour involving running a single command. I find it pretty readable too, feeling a bit like C while ditching some of the most cumbersome aspects.

#freesoftwareadvent
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