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přirozený úbytek je 28000 lidí ročně. Tj. 1166 lidí za 14 dní. czso.cz/csu/czso/obyvatelstvo_… V lednu je typicky špička. Takže 2k je očekávatelné. 3k je zajímavé, ale nikoliv podezřelé.

So liebe Leseratten, ich habe meinen Teil getan: Soeben gingen weitere 23 #eBooks live. Es sind nun also zum 12jährigen Bestehen von "Izzy's freier Bibliothek" in selbiger über 12-tausend eBooks verfügbar 🥳

Nun schaue ich auf die von ebooks.qumran.org/opds/catsugg… gesammelten Eingaben und… Keine einzige? Funktioniert die Maske nicht? Oder lässt sich keines der über 2.500 unkategorisierten Bücher einer Kategorie zuordnen? Oder lest Ihr einfach nicht 🙊? Menno… 😭

To be honest – I have not really used Playhouse since I published it 4 months ago.

Just now, I needed to test mermaid rendering in #WebKitGTK to build a “lightweight” renderer for Apostrophe.

It was very satisfying to use Playhouse for that.

If you're curious:

Playhouse
github.com/sonnyp/Playhouse

Mermaid
mermaid.js.org

Apostrophe
apps.gnome.org/app/org.gnome.g…

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I ended up making a CLI and #pandoc filter to render Mermaid to SVG.

Doesn't do as much but thanks to #WebKitGTK it's 50% faster than Mermaid tools.

github.com/sonnyp/mermaid-webk…

Tomorrow I'll test the integration with Apostrophe.

gitlab.gnome.org/World/apostro…

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 12 updated and 1 new apps:

* Meshtastic: an inexpensive open-source GPS mesh radio for hiking, skiing, flying, marching

(soon to come to F-Droid itself)

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

"Cistercian Numbers" are incredibly cool

It's a rare numeric system designed by 13th century monks

Each number is a based on a single vertical stick, with patterns you draw in all four quadrants off it -- top right, top left, bottom right, bottom left

A single glyph can represent a number from 1 to 9,999

It's in my recent weekly "Linkfest" newsletter, here: buttondown.email/clivethompson…

Want to subscribe? Pay-what-you-want here: buttondown.email/clivethompson

I call it "The opposite of doomscrolling"

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Heard about #commonvoice (commonvoice.mozilla.org/)? This is an easy way to contribute to #FLOSS. Such projects need contributors (e.g. people who give data samples or review data).
We used this for teaching statistics (#rstats). Students should find out if there are gender differences by counting male vs. female contributors. There were significantly more men in our sample. Bad for unbiased #AI! If more use such projects, we can also grow the open datasets faster and fairer. #genderinequality
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Episode 212: All that’s new in HumanWare’s Victor Reader Stream third generation, is it time for us to do visual interpretation differently, and an Australian bar says if you’re blind and by yourself, it’s a safety risk for you to drink mosen.org/episode-212-all-that…

In today's episode of 'website security theatre' we present the US Government's "TreasuryDirect" site.

They don't just disable copy-and-paste into the password field, they disable *keyboard entry* into the password field. You are required to click buttons on this virtual keyboard in order to enter your password. Kudos to them for making high-entropy random passwords difficult to use!

Oh, and the password is also case-insensitive, probably because implementing shift-key support in the virtual keyboard would have been too complex.

#Password #SecurityTheatre

Would not want to travel alone blind. paddleyourownkanoo.com/2022/12…
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Issues like this are becoming more regular. A woman in Adelaide was refused a drink at her 5 Star hotel because she did not have a sighted assistance person. This is beyond stupid. As an experienced blind airline passenger both with and without assistance, I have always notified the airline that i was blind and only needed assistance from the Gate to my seat. Never had a problem. So I am unsure why an increasing number of airline staff are putting barriers out there.

Sometimes I forget just how much goodness Rust stuffs into its syntax and semantics in such a tight and well-integrated package: matklad.github.io/2023/01/26/r…

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@khalidabuhakmeh Hey there. I found an idea for the problem with SecretStorage using the hardcoded path. If you are on .NET Core or later, you can use the startup hook to override the property!
medium.com/criteo-engineering/…
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I understand. It is the startup hooks I've got my doubts about.
It could allow anyone with enough permissions on a server to inject code for any doubtfull purpose. Maybe I'm missing something, but the article sure made me think so.

Coders: explore under the hood of LibreOffice, and find out how VCL (the Visual Class Library) is used to create UI widgets on different platforms: dev.blog.documentfoundation.or…

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“We didn’t try to make it attractive to humans. Other than feebly block access to cars, we did precisely bugger-all to make the space something people would want to flock to. It’s like we deliberately set ourselves up for failure so we’d have no choice but to bring back cars because hell, we tried nothing and it didn’t work let’s hurry back to what we’re used to.” brigittepellerin.substack.com/… #ottwalk #autowa @TheWarOnCars

Apparently people don't just like emulated calculators in the browser - they love it, and want more.

So come enjoy the CALCULATOR DRAWER, a dozen plus emulated calculators and (where I could find them) the manuals. Get calculating!

archive.org/details/calculator…

Remember these? Original Lytro! Lightfield cameras of the future! I grabbed a few off eBay some time ago and took a peek at the firmware. Found secret unlock that enables full remote control of all camera features. Full writeup here: github.com/ea/lytro_unlock

More lay-offs.

Soundwide, parent of Native Instruments and iZotope, lays off approximately 8% of staff

cdm.link/2023/01/soundwide-lay…