Head’s up. The crypto world is trying really hard to pivot towards decentralized social media.
It’s important for everyone to know that the Fediverse has NOTHING to do with cryptocurrency, or NFTs, or whatever Ponzi scheme the “coin” hucksters have been trying to peddle.
Whenever something gets trendy, that’s when the bottom feeders arrive.
blockworks.co/news/web3-social…
6 Web3 Social Media Apps To Keep an Eye On
Social media users are now demanding safer platforms that protect their data and offer them total ownership and creative liberty over their content.Blockworks
Boosting this with alt-text because #librarians rule! 💪
I love the last panel. 😊
Schadenersatz droht: Datenschützer mahnt Aus für Microsoft 365 an Schulen an
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Schadenersatz droht: Datenschützer mahnt Aus für Microsoft 365 an Schulen an
Baden-Württembergs Datenschutzbeauftragter untermauert seinen Appell an Schulen, Microsofts Cloud-Office zu verbannen, mit Verweis auf Schadenersatzforderungen.Stefan Krempl (heise online)
The sight lines of a Silverado, F250, Ram, and 2500 are all worse than an M1 Abrams Tank.
Credit: @FreckleEars@Twitter.com
radio.sh
Listen to a customizable list of radio stations. This came about because some of my friends wanted an easy way to stream internet radio stations without opening a browser.Stormux: Powered by Gitea
radio.sh
Listen to a customizable list of radio stations. This came about because some of my friends wanted an easy way to stream internet radio stations without opening a browser.Stormux: Powered by Gitea
Today's #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid is rather a drizzle with 4 updated and 1 new apps:
* Image Resizer: shrink your images
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo
IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
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
a-ha - What There Is
a-ha's newest album Foot Of The Mountain will come out june 15. Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvy4h-DXFZ0&feature=PlayList&p=AECE3ACEA52CDF2C&inde...YouTube
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@bryansmart Now that’s, amusing and flipping’ fantastic!
I shall remember said slider combo.
What a narration!
ChatGPT Can Be Broken by Entering These Strange Words, And Nobody Is Sure Why
Reddit usernames like ‘SolidGoldMagikarp’ are somehow causing the chatbot to give bizarre responses.Chloe Xiang (VICE)
"A handful of companies own the #patents on virtually every #seed planted in the US. Now, a new crop of unowned seeds is bringing #biodiversity back to #farming."
worldsensorium.com/open-source…
#agriculture #food #monopoly #ossi (Open Source Seed Initiative)
FYI, I link to two earlier reports on this problem (2017 and 2019) in a tweet from 2020.
twitter.com/petersuber/status/…
“Open Source” Seeds Loosen Big Ag’s Grip on Farmers
Alexander Klepnev CC BY 4.0 “Open Source” Seeds Loosen Big Ag’s Grip on Farmers A handful of companies own the patents on virtually every seed planted in the US. Now, a new crop of unowned seeds is...World Sensorium / Conservancy
Pro-gun lawyer and influencer is repeatedly warned that he cannot have ANY metal on his person before he enters an MRI-scanning room.
He ignores the warnings and enters with a concealed handgun.
- MRI is energized
- Handgun is pulled towards the magnets
- Handgun discharges
- Man is shot in his abdomen and dies.
msn.com/en-us/news/technology/…
Lawyer dies after his hidden gun goes off during MRI scan
Lawyer dies after his hidden gun goes off during MRI scan - Leandro Mathias de Novaes’ gun went off due to magnetic field in the MRI scanning roomMSN
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Co vidíte? Lidem zamotala hlavu optická iluze, zjistěte, jestli jste v menšině
Nová optická iluze rozdělila společnost. Jeden z kreslených obrázků skrývá dva tvary, v případě toho druhého se zase lidé dohadují o barvě.Video (Aktuálně.cz)
the freeway problem
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interaction-design.org/literat… #UIDesign #WebDesign #UniversalDesign
Learn to Create Accessible Websites with the Principles of Universal Design
Accessibility can benefit your users and also improve the brand of your product. Learn how to plan for, and focus your efforts on, designing for accessibility.Ruby Zheng (Interaction Design Foundation)
Physicist John Tyndall is often credited with discovering the greenhouse effect, which he wrote about in 1859.
But female scientist Eunice Foote published a paper - 3 years earlier - demonstrating how atmospheric water vapor & CO2 affected solar heating. She theorized that heat trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere warm its #climate.
Tyndall was widely read. And Foote, being a woman, wasn't even permitted to present her own work. climate.gov/news-features/feat… #history #science #ClimateChange
Happy 200th birthday to Eunice Foote, hidden climate science pioneer
American Eunice Foote was an amateur scientist and women's rights pioneer from the mid-1800s whose experiments foreshadowed the discovery of Earth's greenhouse effect.NOAA Climate.gov
Google to pay $118 million after being accused of underpaying 15,500 women
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Google to pay $118 million after being accused of underpaying 15,500 women
Lead plaintiffs to get at least $50K each after alleging pay gap for similar work.Ars Technica
Kudos to @alecaddd and team for taking on the massive challenge of modernizing Thunderbird. Here's hoping it'll finally get a headerbar instead of the 6 toolbars, and real threading!
Your move, @libreoffice :)
blog.thunderbird.net/2023/02/t…
Why We're Rebuilding The Thunderbird Interface From Scratch
"Why does Thunderbird look so old, and why does it take so long to change?" Let's answer that burning question with some important history.Alessandro Castellani (The Thunderbird Blog)
Get Involved | LibreOffice - Free Office Suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft
community, LibreOffice, office suite, free office suite, Document Foundation, get involved, opportunities, developers, testers, localizers, translators, documentation writers, users support, native-lang, designers, marketers, marketing, design, admin…www.libreoffice.org
I think the point the Thunderbird post above makes is that piecemeal improvements by volunteers don't cut it, you need a guiding vision.
Actually fixing stuff would require some kind of rewrite/reset/redesign to pay down tech and UX debt.
Not saying that's easy, but projects like Thunderbird or Blender are showing that it's not impossible.
and you did this while keeping the classical menu bar available 👌👏
@tbernard The process that Thunderbird is going through right now, Libre Office did it few years ago when taking over the OpenOffice codebase IMHO. Sure the design didn't really change at this time, but the internals did.
What is missing is a modern look to Libre Office, but the modernized UX is definitely here.
With all the uproar about Golang recently I thought to myself, maybe I should start learning Rust and start working on a Rust powered alternative to Hugo.
But I’m apparently late on that thought.


Hezký víkend přátelé #fediverse
Seznam změn:
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Release v4.1.0 · mastodon/mastodon
Changelog Added Add support for importing/exporting server-wide domain blocks (enbylenore, ClearlyClaire, dariusk, ClearlyClaire) Add listing of followed hashtags (connorshea) Add support for edit...GitHub
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Prodávám RX 580 8GB
Hodí se na 1080p gaming, ideální pro Hackintosh.
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AUKRO – největší české online tržiště
Denně více než 30 000 prodaných položek a každou vteřinu nové nabídky. U nás nakoupíte nebo prodáte, co potřebujete! Postaráme se o bezpečné a pohodlné obchodování.aukro.cz
If you are looking for open-source sampled instruments to use in your music, here's a great repository:
sfzinstruments.github.io/
They use the SFZ format which is the best way to make sampled instruments. It's open-source, easy to edit (all based on text + audio files) and well documented.
To use these instruments in Ardour or other DAWs I'd recommend the open-source plug-in sfizz:
More about the SFZ format here:
sfzformat.com/
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For me this is the last nail in the coffin for #Go.
I've never bought much into the language. I've been impressed by its constructs to natively manage and synchronize asynchronous operations, but its rigidity when it comes to programming paradigms (no proper object-oriented and functional constructs in the 21st century, seriously?) means that I see it as a language that seriously limits expressivity, and doomed to generate a lot of boilerplate. It's a language very good at solving the types of problem that are usually solved at Google (build and scale large services that process a lot of stuff in a way that the code looks the same for all the employees), and little more than that.
After #Rust really took off, I didn't see a single reason why someone would pick Go.
And now here we go with the last straw: Google has proposed to embed telemetry collection *into the language toolchain itself*. And, according to Google, it should be enabled by default (opt-out rather than opt-in), because, of course, if they make it an opt-in then not many people will explicitly enable a toggle that shares their source code and their usage of the compiler with one of today's biggest stalkers. If they make it an opt-out, well, many people won't even notice, and you can grab more data points from people, whether they know/like it or not.
If you build open-source projects in Go, it's time to drop it and start considering alternatives. The market for modern compiled language is much more competitive now than it was a decade ago. We knew already that we couldn't trust a programming language developed by the largest surveillance company on the planet.
theregister.com/2023/02/10/goo…
Google's Go may add telemetry that's on by default
Some devs object because they don't trust Mountain ViewThomas Claburn (The Register)
This is today's watch. It has to be – the date is broken, and it only shows 11, so it only makes sense today.
It's not winning any beauty contests. The dial has a nice texture, but the hands are nowhere near the markers, and the date window is nowhere near the indexes. Not a surprise, if you look inside. And with these long lugs it somehow manages to wear a little big, despite being classically sized.
It came to me with a bracelet, and I lasted maybe 2 minutes with it. It's an excellent hair removal tool, so it went back to the box of crappy parts, making room for this leather strap. Now it looks somewhat nice, if you squint a little.
Seems like it's overdue for service for decades, the amplitude (at a glance) is probably around half of what it should be. Somehow manages to keep decent time though.
The Bizarre Music and Sound Design of Wario Land 4
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Mastodon v4.1.0 got released today!
Some awesome additions that people have been after for a while now:
- Add support for importing/exporting server-wide domain blocks
- Ensure exact match is the first result in hashtag searches
- Add support for editing media description and focus point of already-sent posts
- Add listing of followed hashtags
And the list of fixes inbound with this version is monstrous.
This is great to see, but please keep in mind that your particular instance will need to be updated to this version so not all instances will update at the same time.
Some apps may also need to be updated in order to support these new features.
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…
#Mastodon #Update #MastodonTips #FediTips
Release v4.1.0 · mastodon/mastodon
Changelog Added Add support for importing/exporting server-wide domain blocks (enbylenore, ClearlyClaire, dariusk, ClearlyClaire) Add listing of followed hashtags (connorshea) Add support for edit...GitHub
QA/Dev Report: January 2023 - LibreOffice QA Blog
General Activities LibreOffice 7.4.5 was announced on January 26 Rafael Lima continued polishing dark mode support, made the BASIC code editor warn in case of read-only modules and dialogs and made it possible to toggle the display of section boundar…x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
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Chris 🌱
in reply to JordiGH • • •cargo help
andcargo --list
will show you commands that are available to you. That's easier that guessing.JordiGH
in reply to Chris 🌱 • • •JordiGH
in reply to JordiGH • • •Whaaaaat, no type deduction?
Man, I'm already not having fun. I'm going to have to specify the type of everything? I can't just say, "type is whatever the return type of that thing is"?
Sigma
in reply to JordiGH • • •Chris 🌱
in reply to Sigma • • •JordiGH
in reply to Chris 🌱 • • •Sigma
in reply to JordiGH • • •What is Rust's turbofish? - Tonsser Tech Blog
techblog.tonsser.comJordiGH
in reply to Sigma • • •Neo-Rodneyite: Yap Szn ✍🏿📖
in reply to JordiGH • • •JordiGH
in reply to Neo-Rodneyite: Yap Szn ✍🏿📖 • • •Chris 🌱
in reply to JordiGH • • •collect()
is a generic function on iterators, and iterators are generic. While theArgs
iterator on Strings, my understanding is that you can usecollect()
to collect a vector of anything you could convert a string to.