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One of my few New Years traditions is to read and share the New Years wishes from @neilhimself. Here's the one from 2014 (Be Kind), which seems extra appropriate this year on social media, and the one from 2011 (Make Mistakes), which is my favorite.

You can read them all at journal.neilgaiman.com/search/…

#HappyNewYear

Text. Be kind to yourself in the year ahead.  Remember to forgive yourself, and to forgive others. It's too easy to be outraged these days, so much harder to change things, to reach out, to understand. Try to make your time matter: minutes and hours and days and weeks can blow away like dead leaves, with nothing to show but time you spent not quite ever doing things, or time you spent waiting to begin. Meet new people and talk to them. Make new things and show them to people who might enjoy them.  Hug too much. Smile too much. And, when you can, love.
Text. I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something. So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life. Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it. Make your mistakes, next year and forever.

Neil Gaiman's Journal

Neil Gaiman's Journal: started February 2001 when nobody knew what the word Blog meant. Talking about writing, comics, books, films, bees, demonic tomatoes, cats, travel and a dog ever since.
journal.neilgaiman.com
#happynewyear @Neil Gaiman

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Today's #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid brings you 11 updated and 1 new apps:

* Rekado: Payload launcher and serial number checker for Nintendo Switch

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:


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My 2022 temperature blanket is done.*

365 days
2 rows a day
730 rows**
360 stitches per row
262,800 stitches**
Roughly 20 minutes per row
Approximately 250 hours of knitting
Temperatures from -5ºC - 35ºC
19 colours of yarn

And impossible to photograph all in one go, because it's BIG - roughly 6ft wide and over 6ft in length.

* Though I'm probably going to add a crochet border.

** Not including cast on / off and setup rows.

Eta - Thanks everyone for all the comments, favourites and boosts.

A multi-coloured striped blanket on a bed, with various bits of furniture in the background. The colours of the blanket represent the high and low temperatures experienced in Aberystwyth in 2022.
Half of a multi-coloured striped blanket on a bed, with various bits of furniture in the background. The colours of the blanket represent the high and low temperatures experienced in Aberystwyth in 2022. This shows January to June.
Half of a multi-coloured striped blanket on a bed, with various bits of furniture in the background. The colours of the blanket represent the high and low temperatures experienced in Aberystwyth in 2022. This shows July to December.
A multi-coloured striped blanket on a bed, with various bits of furniture in the background. The colours of the blanket represent the high and low temperatures experienced in Aberystwyth in 2022.
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A new year means new works entering the public domain – which means a new Public Domain Game Jam!

There are tons of great works from 1927 that are now free to remix. Come join @mmasnick Leigh Beadon and me for 'Gaming Like It's 1927' to celebrate: itch.io/jam/gaming-like-its-19…

logo for Gaming Like It's 1927 based on Magritte's 'The Secret Player'

Gaming Like It's 1927

A game jam from 2023-01-01 to 2023-02-01 hosted by Randy Lubin & Copia Gaming. Gaming Like It's 1927 logo, based on Magritte's The Secret Player A new year means new material entering the public domain! From January 1st 2023, wor...
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Randy Lubin

Works entering the public domain include:

Written work by: Agatha Christie, Baroness Orczy, Hermann Hesse, Marcel Proust, Upton Sinclair, and Virginia Woolf

Art by: Ansel Adams, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, René Magritte, Salvador Dalí, and Tamara de Lempicka

Films including The Jazz Singer, Metropolis, Napoléon, and Trolley Troubles

Music by Béla Bartók, Ira and George Gershwin, Igor Stravinsky, Irving Berlin, Louis Armstrong, Ruth Etting, and Sophie Tucker

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Since the last few official #Matrix holiday updates didn't mention as many of the cool community projects as I would have liked, I tried to work with the community to publish a community side review of 2022 as well as possibly some small teasers of what 2023 will bring. There are a lot of very varied updates, since everyone seems to have tackled the challenge differently, but I hope you you enjoy the result as much as I did: blog.neko.dev/posts/matrix-yea…

Matrix Community Year In Review 2022 - blog.neko.dev

blog.neko.dev
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The CDC's new policy to test international travelers from China for COVID is racist and will likely increase racist and xenophobic anti-Asian attacks - which have been happening throughout the pandemic - and does nothing to stop the COVID variants currently spreading in the US.

This policy is a continuation of long-standing discrimination in the United States against people of color, where anti-Asian racism fuels medical ignorance, placing blame on Chinese people for the failings of the US. Read "The long history of anti-Asian hate in America, explained" in Vox for
background - t.co/qvAuNKS016

These travel restrictions, much like the South African travel ban earlier this year, happen even while the US and European countries are having COVID surges, suggesting COVID is only dangerous when it comes from China or other non-European countries.

If this were about collective safety, all international and domestic flights would require negative COVID testing. Mask mandates (with high filtration masks) would return. Not only that, but one negative test without any isolation protocol will not prevent transmission.

This policy is ineffective and only serves to point the finger at who is to blame.

The house is aflame and the US government is more concerned with scapegoating someone lighting a candle than actually putting out the fire.

Screenshot of the CDC's 12/28/22 tweet announcing their new racist policy of mandatory testing of all air travelers from China. Their tweet reads: "Starting Jan 5, 2023: Travelers flying to U.S. from China, or who have been in China in the past 10 days & are flying from certain airports, must show a negative #COVID19 test taken within 2 days before #travel to the US or documentation of recovery."

Why violence against the Asian American community is on the rise during the Covid-19 pandemic

Anti-Asian racism, xenophobia, and violence is nothing new in America. The pandemic, and Trump, just made it worse.
Li Zhou (Vox)

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Jedna věc co rozděluje společnost. Je cyklistická přilba opravdu nutná? Co vědět o používání helmy? kolotipy.cz/2023/01/01/je-cykl…

TIP: Je cyklistická přilba opravdu nutná? Co vědět o používání helmy? - Kolotipy.cz

Říkáte si, že mít na hlavě přilbu (helmu) při jízdě na kole je otravná záležitost, že přeci nic takového nepotřebujete? Chyba lávky, cyklistická helma (přilba) je velmi užitečný nástroj.
https://kolotipy.cz/author/admin/#author (Kolotipy.cz)

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I was gifted a copy of this book by Tor Teen Publishing. I have not read it yet. But I’m excited to read it. It follows a pair of Black, magical twins who have to solve the thirty year old murder of their mother in order to save the New Orleans magical community from utter destruction. #bookstodon #blackbookstodon #writingcommunity #amwriting #bipocauthors #writewithmichael #dybpublishing
#amwriting #writingcommunity #bookstodon #blackbookstodon #writewithmichael #dybpublishing #bipocauthors
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Mama Pikasue

@blindscribe At the top of the book cover on small font it says “Blood Debts”. Below that in large font it says “Justice Will Reign”. There is a review in smaller font below the large title that says “Will have you breathless - Chloe Gong”. The author’s name is “Terry J. Benton-Walker” and appears at the bottom. Would you also like a description of the picture on the cover, as your request is only asking for the title? #Alt4You
#ALT4you @Robert Kingett updates

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Wiki Arch Linux CZ
Protože články s návody se zde časem mohou ztrácet a musí se hledat, rozhodl jsem se vyzkoušet nainstalovat na náš server Wiki Arch LInux CZ.

Není to úplně klasická Wiki, kterou používají ostatní distribuce, ale je tvořena formou knihovny, ve které jsou uloženy knihy s návody.

Zatím to jsou začátky, ale budu se snažit postupně návody nahrávat i na Wiki

Kdyby někdo chtěl pomoc sepsat návod, nebo
arch-linux.cz/wiki-arch-linux-…
#Našekomunita #wiki

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Protože články s návody se zde časem mohou ztrácet a musí se hledat, rozhodl jsem se vyzkoušet nainstalovat na náš server Wiki Arch LInux CZ. Není to úplně klasická Wiki, kterou používají ostatní d…
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Un grupo de activistas coloca una cabeza de Franco en el monumento al legionario de Almeida eldiario.es/madrid/grupo-activ…

Un grupo de activistas coloca una cabeza de Franco en el monumento al legionario de Almeida

Un grupo de activistas antirracistas y anticoloniales han aprovechado la resaca de las calles de Madrid para auparse con una escalera y alcanzar la bayoneta del monumento al legionario, inaugurado por José Luis Martínez-Almeida en noviembre con loas …
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Émilie du Châtelet, who hypothesized conservation of energy, established kinetic energy as distinct from momentum and proportional to (speed)², and combined work by Newton and Leibniz with her own original ideas in "Institutions de Physique," was born #OTD in 1706.

Du Châtelet is an important figure in the development of classical physics, but she is not nearly as well known as many of her male contemporaries.

Portrait: M. Q. de La Tour

Color portrait of Émilie du Châtelet. She has papers spread out before her and holds a compass to them with her right hand. Her left elbow rests on the table and her hand is propped against her cheek. She is wearing a green dress with a green bow at her neck, and white frilly sleeves.
#otd

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As the incorrect version of the World's Longest Train trip map is doing the rounds again... here is the *correct* one

It's Cascais 🇵🇹 to Woodlands 🇸🇬 - a geodesic distance of 11904.73km

Add trams, metros and the Changi Airport Skytrain and you can manage 11929.33km

And if you want the full explanation it's here: jonworth.eu/the-longest-train-…

The longest train journey in the world - 2021 version The top of the image shows a Europe and Asia map, with the route plotted - starting in Portugal and crossing Europe up to the north of Sweden, then across Russia and China, and then south to Singapore The bottom of the image shows the detail of the starting points around Cascais (Portugal) and end points in Singapore

The longest train journey in the world - in 2021 - Jon Worth Euroblog

IMPORTANT: this blog post is correct as of 15 December 2021, and all the text below is unchanged since then. At that time two borders – Russia to China, and China to Laos – could not be crossed due to COVID.
Jon (Jon Worth Euroblog)

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Compromised PyTorch-nightly dependency chain between December 25th and December 30th, 2022.

Steals all your SSH keys!

"If you installed PyTorch-nightly on Linux via pip between December 25, 2022 and December 30, 2022, please uninstall it and torchtriton immediately, and use the latest nightly binaries (newer than Dec 30th 2022)."

#infosec #machinelearning #deeplearning

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PyTorch

An open source machine learning framework that accelerates the path from research prototyping to production deployment.
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Boost request for a person who did an awesome thing for accessibility.
Hey folks, I would like to call upon the Mastodon community to boost the individual who made the Youtube video linked here. Let me explain. This wonderful person took a video that was only published in Japanese, (a video where Nintendo's Sakurai discussed The Last of Us Part 1's accessibility features in great detail talking about how great they were for quality of life), and on their own time, with their own setup, voluntarily, dubbed the video in English for us blind folks so we could appreciate it too. This especially meant a lot to me, as I worked on those accessibility features, and felt kinda honored to be indirectly complimented by Sakurai. Anyway, long story short, if you ever need this kind of voiceover work done, or audio editing, hire this guy. They deserve some promotion after this awesome work. Oh, and they are also a coder!!! Hire them for that, too! :) youtube.com/watch?v=dWosA-2-Ze…

[ENGLISH DUB] Modern Quality of Life Features - Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games

Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2BX4yw8Z4YThis video was made for accessibility purposes with limited resources, so apologies for the incons...
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What a great way to finish this year with a great book by Emma Donoghue “The Sealed Letter”, emmadonoghue.com/books/novels/…
#fiction #literature #women

The Sealed Letter by Emma Donoghue

Based on a scandal that gripped Britain in the 1860s, this domestic thriller – my sixth novel - explores a feminist spinster’s reluctant involvement in a sordid divorce.
www.emmadonoghue.com
#fiction #women #literature

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In 1993 alt text was added to the HTML specification. Someone then posted an idea: A library where people could store and look up alt text for frequently used images. I've lost the post, and no one else that I can find has talked about it since.

I believe that the time is now, but I can no longer be who. As I announced yesterday, I am closing down the alt-text.org project, but others have expressed interest in carrying the project forward.

(cont)

#AltText #Accessibility #A11y

Alt-Text.org

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#a11y #Accessibility #AltText

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#AndroidAppRain today brings you 24 updated apps at @fdroidorg plus 10 updated & 2 new apps at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid

* Merge Photos: create panoramas (and more) from two or more photos
* yetCalc: Progressive calculator, converter and much more.

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:


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So we reach the end of 2022... And we'd like to say a huge THANK YOU ❤️ to everyone in the LibreOffice community! You did amazing things in the last 12 months. Here's to 2023 😊 libreoffice.org/community/get-…

Get Involved | LibreOffice - Free Office Suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft

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