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How small can a set of aperiodic tiles be? The first aperiodic set had over 20000 tiles. Subsequent research lowered that number, to sets of size 92, then 6, and then 2 in the form of the famous Penrose tiles. youtu.be/48sCx-wBs34 1/6

The Infinite Pattern That Never Repeats

Simple rules of geometry meant that 5-fold symmetry was impossible as were crystals without a periodic structure. This turns out to be wrong. Thanks to LastP...
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Susan Kare
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"Susan Kare is an American artist and graphic designer best known for her interface elements and typeface contributions to the first Apple Macintosh from 1983 to 1986. She was employee #10 and Creative Director at NeXT."

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#Marchintosh

Susan Kare | MoMA

American, born 1954
Susan Kare (The Museum of Modern Art)
#MARCHintosh

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Here is a before-and-after of some audio recorded from my Kenwood TM-V71A's speaker output. Before is raw audio, after is enhanced with multiple tools, including Adobe Enhance, iZotope RX Spectral Recovery, and some general purpose dynamics processing. It's some two-way radio chatter from a nearby marina, recorded from 156.175 mHz in Belle Harbor, NY.

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Worried about TikTok? Then pass comprehensive consumer data privacy legislation. By reducing the massive stores of personal data collected by all businesses, we will reduce opportunities for all governments to buy or steal this data. eff.org/deeplinks/2023/03/gove…

Government Hasn't Justified a TikTok Ban

Freedom of speech and association include the right to choose one’s communication technologies. Politicians shouldn’t be able to tell you what to say, where to say it, or who to say it to.
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I asked ChatGPT to write a Win32 UI Automation provider (that is, an application/toolkit-side implementation of the current Windows accessibility API) in C++, and what I got was very wrong. mwcampbell.us/misc/2023-03-20-… Plausible-sounding, but still very wrong. Some of the stuff it refers to is part of the UIA _client_ API, and some is just bogus.

I converted the HTML output to Markdown, cleaned it up, and converted back. Really didn't want to do screenshots, and didn't know a better way.

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Some really nice dynamic wallpapers for gnome. I'm using the Fuji one and it's looked great all day!

#gnome feeling like home.


GitHub - manishprivet/dynamic-gnome-wallpapers: A collection of awesome dynamic wallpapers for Gnome, and easy scripts to install them

A collection of awesome dynamic wallpapers for Gnome, and easy scripts to install them - GitHub - manishprivet/dynamic-gnome-wallpapers: A collection of awesome dynamic wallpapers for Gnome, and ea...
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Kyle 🎙 🎶

Although it has been several years since I tried it, I can confirm it is incompatible with Talkback. This also applies to Hacker's Keyboard, Unexpected Keyboard and several other open source keyboards currently listed in F-Droid. Would it perhaps help if they started with the AOSP keyboard as a baseline, since it is open source and all keyboards based on it appear to be compatible with Talkback?

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:fdroid: After several months of hard work, it's a good feeling to be able to say our @fdroidorg board of directors is officially chartered and running, and finally with an official legal entity through Dutch stichting (foundation) Commons Conservancy.

💚 Very humbled to be able to serve in this inaugural group of talented volunteers, and even more excited about helping #FDroid into the future.

f-droid.org/en/2023/03/20/f-dr…

:boost_love: #boostsWelcome #Android #OpenSource #FreeSoftware


A new F-Droid board for a new era of growth | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

THE INTERNET, 20 March 2023 — The global F-Droid community is pleased toannounce that it has officially accepted the merge request to adopt anofficial govern...
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#FreeSoftware #android #opensource #fdroid #boostswelcome @F-Droid

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🎉 We're growing! Our global #FDroid community is pleased to announce that we now have an official governance plan and a brand-new volunteer Board of Directors. We're excited to work with them to keep improving the leading all #FOSS mobile app catalogue!

f-droid.org/en/2023/03/20/f-dr…

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Android


A new F-Droid board for a new era of growth | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

THE INTERNET, 20 March 2023 — The global F-Droid community is pleased toannounce that it has officially accepted the merge request to adopt anofficial govern...
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#FreeSoftware #android #foss #opensource #fdroid

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#AndroidAppRain today at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid with 8 updated and 1 new apps:

* Paper: Note management done right

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


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
#android #free #fdroid #apps #AndroidAppRain #IzzySoftRepo

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I can't take it anymore: we need to talk about GPT and the future of software engineering. Join @ahl and me, today at 5p Pacific as we ask: does a GPT future need software engineers?

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Join the Oxide Computer Discord Server!

The Oxide Computer Company and friends; home of the Oxide and Friends podcast. | 1,515 members
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If any of you have found the font-script-shaping docs I maintain on GitHub useful over the years, I started a conversion to build them into an HTML minisite (with Sphinx) & would really value your feedback: github.com/n8willis/opentype-s…

or, just tell someone else who'd be interested?

The goal is to move them away from being "a thing that lives on a GitHub URL" and towards being "something that exists as documents (which for now happen to be reachable via GitHub, but can be anywhere)"


[WIP] Static HTML output with Sphinx by n8willis · Pull Request #154 · n8willis/opentype-shaping-documents

This is an attempt to make the document set buildable, locally, as static HTML pages, so that they can be easily used outside of the GitHub web interface. Obviously there are some bits still to be ...
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Tomorrow I'll be joined by @matt! We'll be talking about accessibility - how assistive technolgies have evolved, along with technical details of modern tools.

youtube.com/watch?v=1oKeuEZH6E…


Matt Campbell - Show-and-Tell #037

Follow Matt:https://toot.cafe/@matthttps://accesskit.dev/https://fosstodon.org/@accesskitUpcoming Schedule:https://attie.co.uk/show-and-tell/https://www.yout...
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@Matt Campbell

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Nearly 3 years after first releasing Riot Medicine, I published the first major revision.

New Content:
- Oral and Dental Injuries
- Wound Packing
- Nosebleeds
- Medic Self-Defense

There were some other updates to language plus fixes for all the hundreds of typos that people have found.

As always, this is free to download, print, and distribute.

riotmedicine.net/downloads/

If you're looking to get a physical copy, some fine folx are hoping to have it printed in April/May.

First page of the chapter "Oral and Dental Injuries."
Figures showing mouth anatomy and types of teeth.
Section on wound packing with an accompanying figure showing procedure.
Section on self defense for medics with figures of kubotans and tactical pens.

Riot Medicine

riotmedicine.net

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Users are reporting that they can't sign up with a Tutanota email address at WalletHub. Check out the reason given by their support - it will make you laugh! 😂

Dear @WalletHub could you please fix this?!

Hm, WalletHub is not on Mastodon. 🤔Maybe that's the issue. If they were, they would know that Tutanota is among the finest secure email services out there!

See the whole discussion on Reddit: reddit.com/r/tutanota/comments…

Check why Tutanota is the most secure email service: tutanota.com/blog/posts/most-s…

Text on Screenshot from Reddit: I sent a email to wallethub because I could not update my email address to my tutanota email and this is their reply. Tutanota support can you get wallethub to correct this? Thank you for contacting WalletHub Help. Unfortunately, that email provider was deemed not secure enough. This has nothing to do with your email address in particular, but with the provider's security levels. I apologize for this inconvenience, but in order to change the email address linked to your WalletHub account, you will have to use a different email address from a more secure host. Again, we're sorry for your trouble, Amy Customer Support

Which is the most secure email service?

All-round encryption, no tracking, open source - there are lots of factors that make Tutanota the most secure email provider in the world.
Tutanota

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The #FastForward team is tuning into curl's 25 birthday party in just a bit here — we've supported #curl & @bagder since 2017, and look forward to supporting the project for another 25 years!

But first, let's party 🎉 (...and reflect on the massive impact Daniel & the entire curl community have had on the internet.) When did you first use curl?

See you there! daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/03/10…

curl 25 years online celebration | daniel.haxx.se

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#curl #FastForward @daniel:// stenberg://

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Zippyshare Quits After 17 Years, 45M Visits per Month Makes No Money

Link: torrentfreak.com/zippyshare-fi…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…


Zippyshare Quits After 17 Years, 45m Visits Per Month Makes No Money

Citing ad-blocking and rising costs, file-hosting veteran Zippyshare will shut down at the end of the month after almost 17 years online.
Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
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