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PSA: iOS 18 is going to disable your old ‘Today’ view widgets - 9to5Mac

Apple is planning to end support for legacy widgets on the iPhone’s ‘Today’ view when iOS 18 debuts this fall.
Ryan Christoffel (9to5Mac)

Immer öfter muss ich von #m4a zu #mp3 convertieren.

Da hab ich meiner Kollektion von #Nautilus#Scripts für #Ubuntu doch mal wieder eines hinzugefügt:

codeberg.org/cExplorer/nautilu…
Ein Rechtsklick genügt 🎉
Die Scripte kann man sicher professioneller machen 🤔
#Audio#Workflow#OpenSource


nautilus-scripts-audio-video

Codeberg.org
#opensource #audio #ubuntu #scripts #mp3 #nautilus #workflow #m4a

Does anyone know how to make #navsounds for #Nvda lag less. I find the navigation and typing sounds comforting, but I don't want my computer to just keep lagging me out all the time, after running the addon for a while. Please boost if you don't know the answer.
#nvda #navsounds

Comcast Lost Over 419,000 TV Customers & Lost 120,000 Internet Customers in Q2 2024 as Cord Cutting is Speeding Up cordcuttersnews.com/comcast-lo…

Comcast Lost Over 419,000 TV Customers & Lost 120,000 Internet Customers in Q2 2024 as Cord Cutting is Speeding Up | Cord Cutters News

Cord cutting is continuing to hit Comcast hard as the company has recently lost both TV and internet customers. In Comcast’s 2nd quarter earnings report released this morning, the company reported it lost 419,000 cable TV customer losses.
Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)

Practical SVG is Now Free to Read Online

Back in 2016 I wrote a book called Practical SVG. Recently, the publisher, A Book Apart, closed shop. Now you can Read Practical SVG on the web, here on this site, for free. I always like how Mat's book was online so now mine can join that cool club. I'll echo what I say on the site: Thanks to Jeff Eaton for…

chriscoyier.net/2024/07/22/pra…


Practical SVG is Now Free to Read Online

Back in 2016 I wrote a book called Practical SVG. Recently, the publisher, A Book Apart, closed shop. Now you can Read Practical SVG on the web, here on this site, for free. I always like how Mat…
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The first new Lyme disease vaccine in over two decades passed a key milestone last week — putting it on a timeline to potentially hit the market in 2026 if trial results are favorable.
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So thanks to @rmader@mastodon.social we managed to get the front camera in the Pixel 3a working with a libcamera/pipewire stack 🥳 Thanks to @flamingradian for the work on the whole port!

EDIT: The driver does not properly release the camera when closing the app, so it only works once per boot. It would be lovely if anybody with the skills would like to contribute to improve it!

gitlab.com/sdm670-mainline/lin…

#postmarketOS #LinuxMobile #Pixel3a #Snapshot #GNOME #GUADEC

Robert an me with Snapshot nightly getting the camera in the right orientation
Picture from Pixel 3a front camera taken from a pipewire/libcamera stack!

media: i2c: imx355: Parse and register properties (!1) · Merge requests · Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 Mainline / linux · GitLab

Analogous to e.g. the imx219. This enables propagating V4L2_CID_CAMERA_SENSOR_ROTATION values so that libcamera can detect the correct rotation from the device tree and propagate it further to e.g....
GitLab
#gnome #postmarketos #GUADEC #linuxmobile #pixel3a #snapshot @Richard Acayan
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This is a great week with #Meta Llama3.1 and #Kamala! lol
#meta #kamala

Když už jsem si koupil ten notebook s AMD Ryzen 9 a AMDGPU kvůli umělé inteligenci, tak jsem si tedy nainstaloval lokální instanci #ollama s korpusem #llama3. Nevycházím z údivu.

Zkoušel jsem ho rozmluvit v češtině. Není moc ochoten a má kecy, že v tom není trénovaný, a že když odpustím, že v tom nebude dokonalý, tak česky něco řekne. Ale pak stejně odpovídá na české otázky anglicky.

Nicméně po restartu a položení první otázky v češtině odpovídá stručně česky s trochu nepřesnou volbou slov.

Ale co mě dostalo: zkusil jsem se ho zeptat na něco bez varování japonsky a on jen hodil smajlíka a pak napsal anglickou odpověď. Tak jsem mu tam hodil starořecký text, jestli pozná jazyk. Poznal jazyk, vyhodil překlad do ájiny a určil správně dílo a místo, odkud jsem citoval.

Pak mě začal provokovat, že bychom si mohli dát závody v recitaci starořecké poezie. Hodil jsem mu tam pár veršů z Homéra. Poznal Homéra a určil místo, odkud jsem citoval (chybně, ale budiž), a napsal překlad. Pro neznalce upozorňuju, že Homér psal zvláštním a podivným dialektem.

Je to lokální instalace, takže tohle všechno zvládá s databátí o velikosi 4,7 GB. Dokonalá komprese všelidského vědění!!!

#ollama #llama3

Wir sind heute Abend mit unserer kritischen Position zum Thema #Behindertenwerkstätten bei ZDF frontal.
ZDF, 23.07.2024, 21:00 - 21:45 Uhr
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Menschen mit Behinderungen haben immer noch einen auffallend schlechteren Zugang zum Arbeitsmarkt als nichtbehinderte Menschen.
Institut für Menschenrechte
#behindertenwerkstatten

Physics #cat
#cat

If I put up a custom icecast stream, is there a way to play that stream on Alexa devices without writing an entire skill for it? The lack of proper cast functionality is really unfortunate.
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Mikołaj Hołysz
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Not sure if it's still possible and I'm not home to check, but there was once a skill called MyPod which let you do this.

You had to login to the web UI with your Amazon account and could then add Streams, mp3 files, podcasts or Google Drive folders via their URLs, up to 10 sources for the free version.

Did you know?
Forks aren't just a misskey feature, that's also a name of a common kitchen utensil

Case you didn't notice... In #iOS18 it is now possible to type six dots when using #braille onscreen keyboard all at the same time. For example, if you want to type the grade2 abbreviation for the word "for". Happy to see it finally working, but I now have to change all my old habits! :) #accessibility
#Accessibility #braille #ios18
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D.Hamlin.Music
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Oh for sure, it's more just baffling that it took that long, the hardware limitation that caused that has not been a thing in almost a decade I think.

I always struggle to use YouTube with large playlists. I wish we had a YouTube client that feels more like a native user interface instead of a webpage that just reacts slowly or doesn't do what I want. My answer? I started developing a Total Commander plugin for YouTube. In Rust. First steps taken, the plugin loads properly in TC, no features yet, but that is going to change.
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Talon
Talon
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don't let me feature creep on your project. It was just an idea I've had. With sufficient abstraction it should be possible but don't worry too much if it adds unnecessary work. I just think it would be super cool.
in reply to Talon

Toni Barth
Toni Barth
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@talon Who knows where it'll go in the end. I'll just start my YouTube journey, don't think it'll be too hard as soon as i've got API authorization done. If it works, well, who knows what will happen next.
@Talon

Just read an interesting post: Software engineers are not (and should not be) technicians haskellforall.com/2024/07/soft…

The ending summarizes the key point well:

> Or to put it another way: I actually view it as a red flag if an engineer or team gets into a predictable “flow” because it means that there is a promising opportunity for automation they’re ignoring.

Software engineers are not (and should not be) technicians

Software engineers are not (and should not be) technicians I don’t actually think predictability is a goo...
www.haskellforall.com

Today’s challenge: how to describe what `clip-rule` is meant to do in a manner comprehensible to people new to the concept, in the space of no more than a short sentence or two. I may well fail, but I at least will go down typing and deleting and retyping and deleting and retyping and
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Federico Mena Quintero
Federico Mena Quintero
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"one does what you expect. The other one only makes sense to nerds, but looks kind of neat."

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i don’t even need to hear from the EFF to have a good argument why adshit shouldn’t run on my computers

the argument is: it’s my computer

no seriously. are they paying me for the use of my computer to run their adshit? no? then it doesn’t need to run on my computer.

that shit is for me, not doubleclick or whatever the bloody thing is called now. if it ain’t making me happy or bringing me money, it’s out

Who'd like to have a guide on installing Windows 98, 2000, Millennium Edition or XP in a virtual machine without sight?

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Pitermach
Pitermach
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I’d be interested. I’m thinking of doing some experimenting with UTM and Windows 9X so having some information where to start wouldn’t hurt :)
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The Cube!
The Cube!
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@pitermach I no longer use MacOS, so I'm not sure about UTM. VMWare is what I'm most familiar with.
@Pitermach

Apparently the Leica D-Lux 8 runs Linux.
in reply to Hubert Figuière

Hubert Figuière
Hubert Figuière
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I'm torn between not knowing what they are talking about and click bait.

Because it's not open source if the actual part that deal with the camera is not open source. And all there is in the archive is the OS, including 3.18 kernel.

Showing the headline: Breaking: the new Leica D-Lux 8 camera is open source and the code is available for download on Leica’s website
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Hubert Figuière
Hubert Figuière
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The Q3 has an OSS tarball but I don't see a kernel in there. It has the glibc and some other stuff. And FreeRTOS.

Typo of the day:

git rest --hard

Purism can produce made-in-USA, tailored GFE devices to gov specs. From wearable COP screens to field & office solutions. #GovTech #MadeInUSA #Purism

puri.sm/posts/purpose-built-sm…


Purpose-Built Smartphones for Government vs. Commercial Off-The-Shelf Devices – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Purism SPC
#purism #madeinusa #govtech

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Danielle Foré
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@StillIRise1963 for HARRIS
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🚨Jami is your free communication software, end-to-end encrypted and private. Ensuring non-commercial use of your data.😍

Here is the link to dowload it: jami.net/download/

#Jami #opensource #P2P #App #PrivacyMatters

Get Jami for any device

Jami for any device The free Software community advises and recommends using Jami with GNU/Linux
jami (Jami)
#app #opensource #p2p #privacymatters #jami

@davx5app not sure if it's me, but the Spenden button in the ICSx5 app does not work.
@DAVx⁵ :android:🔄

Do we have any Mastodon apps (for any platform; I truly have them all) which shows me the users who are following me that I haven't followed back? I'm part of a pretty big community that migrated over here together, and occasionally I still discover people who made it here, followed me, and somehow I missed the notification. I want to just square that away once and for all. #fedi
#fedi
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Simon Jaeger
Simon Jaeger
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@tardis I did not mean to boost that, oops. I just meant the blind community. Everyone came here when Twitter accessibility died, and I'm still finding people.
@Mira 🤞🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Mira 🤞🇧🇬🇭🇺
Mira 🤞🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Oh. I see. You can unboost xd. From web. Or enafore. Or phone. Also meh. I don't follow too many blind humans. Tardis has no interest to follow humans who can't see its great blue light. :P

Seltene Perspektive in der deutschen Medienlandschaft:

deutschlandfunk.de/podium-stim…


Misstrauen und Angst in der palästinensischen Community

Vorverurteilt und missverstanden – so fühlen sich viele Palästinenser, die ihre Stimme im Nahost-Konflikt erheben. Die Angst vor Konsequenzen ist groß.
Deutschlandfunk

"We explore the cost and security of reCAPTCHAv2 and conclude that it has an immense cost and no security. Overall, we believe that this study’s results prompt a natural conclusion: reCAPTCHAv2 and similar reCAPTCHA technology should be deprecated." arxiv.org/pdf/2311.10911

Ура!
Подкаст, в котором мы записывались на прошлой неделе и с которым потом было так много странных историй, всё же выложен в архив вместе с кратким резюме.
Мы с @Destranis были очень рады рассказать незрячим венграм о новом синтезаторе речи, с которыми в Венгрии прям беда и грусть.

Если кому интересно, подкаст можно послушать по вот этой ссылке:
gephaz.hobbyradio.hu/uj-ingyen…

Грустно, что @asael не мог участвовать в беседе, так как не знает венгерского, но мы упоминули его (правда с очень русским произношением его имени).

#RHVoice #RHVoice_hu #magyar #magyarul #podcast

Új, ingyenes magyar beszédhangok váltak elérhetővé, a fejlesztőkkel beszélgettünk – Gépház – Koppintson ránk!

gephaz.hobbyradio.hu
#podcast #RHVoice #magyar #magyarul #rhvoice_hu @Nikolett Till @Zvonimir Stanecic

Yippie!
congratulations. you've scrolled so far you found the dopamine! [drawing of the molecular configuration of dopamine]

Our final day of #GUADEC2024 BoFs and Workshops will start up soon. Make sure to check the website for BoF meeting links and your emails for access codes: events.gnome.org/event/209/pag…
#guadec2024

Parabéns ao ganhador do Pants of the Thanks Awards deste ano, Felipe Borges @felipeborges ! Obrigado por todo o seu trabalho duro e muitas contribuições para o #GNOME! 👣 fixupx.com/guadec/status/18150…

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#gnome @Felipe Borges :gnome:

Co je to zase na Hospodářkách za hrozný blábol?

tech.hn.cz/c1-67344300-nejvets…

MacOS kernelové ovladače třetích stran zakázal, v Linuxu běží Falcon jako eBPF. Za to, že Microsoft nebyl schopný poskytnout vhodná API, není přece problém antimonopolní regulace.

A ta perlička o úderu blesku - Kurtz to posral v McAfee a teď to podělal v CrowdStrike. To, že se podobná chyba stala na dvou místech zároveň je záležitost firemní kultury, viz např. zde: hachyderm.io/@shanselman/11281…


Největší IT kalamita za posledních deset let má překvapivý důvod: antimonopolní regulaci

V pátek se zastavil provoz v největším evropském přístavu v Rotterdamu, na zemi zůstala letadla desítek leteckých společností. Jen v USA došlo během pátku a soboty ke zrušení více než pěti tisíc letů.
Otakar Schön (Economia, a.s.)
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Štěpán Škorpil :skorpil_cz:
Štěpán Škorpil :skorpil_cz:
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Že to hlásá Microsoft, který využívá situace, chápu. Ale, že ten blábol přebírají Hospodářky. 🤦‍♂️
To je jak tvrdit že za špatné jídlo v restauraci může hygienická stanice, která kuchaře obtěžovala s čištěním kuchyně.
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About my last boost (on the story of Southwest Airlines still running Windows 3.1), the boosted article mentions "the current zeitgeist about technology and its role in society, underlining that what is claimed to be technological progress is nothing but trouble, and that it’s better to stick with the old." It's true, and we technologists should find it embarrassing. This is a call to all of us to work on things that non-techies can be genuinely enthusiastic about. I'm doing what I can.
in reply to Matt Campbell

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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OK, maybe that's going too far. A lot of work is boring or invisible, but still necessary and worth doing. But at least we can avoid working on things that are net harmful.
in reply to Matt Campbell

Rook
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See I'd run windows 3.1 except for the fact that it'd be kinda illegal to run a screen reader if there even is one for it since I require one to use any computer. Isn't JAWS for Windows $1000+ and no subscriptions on versions that old?

No, Southwest Airlines is not still using Windows 3.1

A story that's been persistently making the rounds since the CrowdStrike event is that while several airline companies were affected in one way or another, Southwest Airlines escaped the mayhem because they were still using windows 3.1. It's a great story that fits the current zeitgeist about technology and its role in society, un

osnews.com/story/140301/no-sou…

#Windows

No, Southwest Airlines is not still using Windows 3.1 – OSnews

www.osnews.com
#Windows

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How many machines at Apple Park were affected by #Crowdstrike do you think? Haha
#crowdstrike
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Sean Randall
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@TomGrant91 0.42%, if we assume 8.5 million is an accurate estimate of what went down, which is the figure the media are going with, and use the 2019 estimate of 2,000,000,000 computers in the world.
it was a tiny outage for all practical purposes but with a big boom impact.

Worryingly just one security company to blame, too. hard to imagine how all the testing and qA missed the possibility. Any sort of big rollout should be staggered. Even if they'd had an hour or two's grace from a big push the results would have been incomparably less damaging.

@Tom Grant
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Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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@cachondo @TomGrant91 That's it exactly. I've been reading a lot of things, watching a lot of videos and so many, many people are asking why the update wasn't staged.
@Tom Grant @Sean Randall

To je snůška kecu jak od nějakého dezolata, ano zla EU může za to že Microsoft neumí udělat APi tak aby to nepodělalo ten jejich shit který nazývá prý operačním systémem ..m

zpravy.kurzy.cz/777397-microso…


Microsoft viní z pátečního největšího IT výpadku dějin Evropskou unii | Kurzy.cz

Koncem předminulého desetiletí hrozilo americké firmě vyšetřování a tučné pokuty ze strany Evropské unie, a to kvůli údajně nesoutěžnímu jednání. Takže roku 2009 raději s Bruselem uzavřela dohodu
zpravy.kurzy.cz
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Štěpán Škorpil :skorpil_cz:
Štěpán Škorpil :skorpil_cz:
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😂
Abych parafrázoval článek: když se ekonom vrtá v technických tématech a rozvrtá je v úplný blábol.

There are some nice performance and memory improvements in BIND 9.20.0 that just hit the shelves:

isc.org/blogs/2024-bind920/


BIND 9.20 Brings Streamlined Core, Some New Features

Today, ISC is proud to release BIND 9.20.0, our newest stable branch.
www.isc.org
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Ondřej Caletka
Ondřej Caletka
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Oh, the new option resolver-use-dns64 is cool! 👍🏻
bind9.readthedocs.io/en/v9.20.…
That means you can run your DNS64 resolver as a part of your IPv6-only infrastructure without provisioning it with dual stack connectivity or CLAT.

8. Configuration Reference — BIND 9 9.20.0 documentation

bind9.readthedocs.io
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