Massive pro-#Palestine protests in #Morocco @morocco

en.mehrnews.com/news/215953/VI…

RIP chiptune virtuoso Geoff Follin, who died earlier this week of pancreatic cancer.

One of the very few interviews of Geoff, conducted by Dr. Z at @gamingalexandria: gamingalexandria.com/wp/2019/0…

Listen to Geoff wring every drop of juice out of the Game Boy's four channels: youtube.com/watch?v=YPymVbc2GF…

#videogamehistory #gamemusic

Geoff Follin - Spot (スポット) (Gameboy)

Music that plays in Spot during gameplay when you haven't decided where to move yet.

^YouTube

After 2 days of cursing, @alatiera got graphics driver working with Flatpak apps in Asahi

#Linux #Asahi #AsahiLinux #Flatpak #GTK #Qt #freedesktop

"Cars: the most socialist transportation"

submitted by u/Emperor_Error
redd.it/1d5hotx
#fuckcars

happy pride month!

#PrideMonth #MastoArt #FediArt #PixelArt #Art #Animals #Cats #Caturday

Microsoft's Recall function is looking like a total security disaster.

doublepulsar.com/recall-steali…

#Microsoft #Recall #CyberSecurity

Stealing everything you’ve ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC is now possible with two lines of code — inside the Copilot+ Recall disaster.

I wrote a piece recently about Copilot+ Recall, a new Microsoft Windows 11 feature which — in the words of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella- takes “screenshots” of your PC constantly, and makes it into an…

^{Kevin Beaumont (DoublePulsar)}

I was going through my open tabs and have no idea where I got this, but I do feel you all need to see it:

Talmudic questions in the world of the Queen's Thief

archiveofourown.org/works/5382…

Random website updates:

• Added support for No-Vary-Search on seirdy.one. The few pages whose contents (not headers) change with different parameters got params, except=(...) values; the rest got params values. This works well since I cache-bust with filenames.
• Added my 88x31 badge to the site footer to make it more visible to readers and to scrapers like eightyeightthirty.one and x277f.
• Fixed my broken link checker setup, and Cleaned up dozens of dead links with help from the Wayback Machine.

Seirdy’s Home

My personal IndieWeb site. I write about and develop software to promote user autonomy. Topics include accessibility, security, privacy, and software freedom.

^{Seirdy’s Home}

Daniel's weekly report June 1, 2024

lists.haxx.se/pipermail/daniel…

New Scientist, random, survey, curl talk, HTTP/3 talk, securityfest, feature window

The #curl feature window is now open.

curl.se/mail/lib-2024-06/0000.…

The periodic table is a delightful mix of patterns and exceptions. To figure it out, you just need to know how electrons orbiting a nucleus arrange themselves to minimize energy. But that's a tough math problem: you need a computer to solve it from first principles.

Luckily you can get quite far with a massive simplifying assumption: the electrons don't interact with other. Then you can figure everything out using 'group representation theory', an elegant branch of math that let you use symmetry to crunch quantum problems. This predicts that electrons come in 'subshells' which form larger 'shells'. And it predicts exactly how these subshells and shells work!

The electrons *do* interact with each other! But you can use a few rules of thumb to guess how this changes the story. They're not perfect, but they're damned good. Nobody really knows why.

For example, check out the first row of 'transition metals' in the periodic table.

They have all the electrons that argon does - that's the [Ar] in the chart. Most have two electrons in the 4s subshell: one spin up, and one spin down. So mainly they do flesh out the 3d subshell. This has 10 slots for electrons so we get 10 different metals. This subshell stuff comes from group representation theory. Tons of fun.

The 'Hund rules' say first we get 5 metals with 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 spin-up electrons, and then 5 more metals that add in 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 spin-down electrons. And that's almost what we see.

But notice: when we hit chromium we get an exception! Chromium steals an electron from the 4s subshell to get 5 spin-up electrons in the 4d subshell. We get an another exception when we hit copper. Can you guess why?

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Today I was reading a website with NVDA and noticed a slightly odd sentence that sounded like it was missing punctuation. Reading more carefully, I realised there was a semicolon that was not being pronounced. For a while I wondered if I had messed up my punctuation settings. In the end, I checked the source of the page and noticed that there was text wrapped in an em (emphasis) html element, with the semicolon outside it, and so the way the text was read was as if the semicolon weren't there at all.

This is undesirable behaviour, but I'm not sure if it's a problem of bad interpretation of mark-up, or bad mark-up. Thoughts?

The page: sharonleewriter.com/2024/05/fi…

You can find the issue on the paragraph starting with: Now, I have to pause here

Interesting stuff on minimizing image size on #drupal sites by Dustin LeBlanc from Capellic, but I’m left wondering how much does using .webp actually save (on average)? I was hoping for some quantitative results…

capellic.com/blog/frontend-per…

Software engineering is said to be programming over time.

Many free software funding models ignore this aspect, funding only new feature development. Projects that are decades old often need more maintenance work than new feature work.

Maintaining old projects also needs more expertise than starting new projects or adding features to an existing projects (at least in well structured ones).

This recent blog post from @AntennaPod is a good illustration of this.
antennapod.org/blog/2024/05/mo…

Modernizing the AntennaPod Code Structure – AntennaPod

How we spent the last 3 years restructuring the AntennaPod code base.

^AntennaPod

End of first day working on Open web ui, the following accessibility fixes were added.

1. Fully accessible signin and signup flows with headingts and labels.

2. for the signup, the focus moves users to the first field.

3. I fixed some unlabeled buttons for adding mottals. There is still much work to be done in this area..

Want to follow the progress?

Check it out here.

github.com/tayarndt/open-webui

#builtinpublic

GitHub - tayarndt/open-webui: User-friendly WebUI for LLMs (Formerly Ollama WebUI)

User-friendly WebUI for LLMs (Formerly Ollama WebUI) - tayarndt/open-webui

^GitHub