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The Space Shuttle had a 59-pound printer on board, known as the Interim Teleprinter. Putting this heavy printer in orbit cost $1.5 million per flight, but it was a key piece of flight hardware,
providing the astronauts with mission plans, weather reports, and other documents from Mission Control. Let's take a look inside... 1/12
The teleprinter is a large device, a bit smaller than a microwave, with a roll of yellow paper running through it. The teleprinter has rails for mounting in a locker. It has some controls and switches on the front, which is grayish metal.

So, just found a demo of a new game coming out on Steam that is fully screen reader accessible. It does highly recommend a keyboard and headset. It is called Periphery Synthetic . I have no idea how to play this demo yet, but it sounds like it will be a fun, chill game.

Dear aging US-ians.

This is stupid but 100% true. Keep this on your radar as you get older.

"Even if you do not retire at age 65, you may need to sign up for Medicare within 3 months of your 65th birthday to avoid a lifetime late enrollment penalty."

It is significant. And LIFETIME. No do-overs.

It's 2034. You wake up to pay your spoon, bowl and cereal subscription but forgot to pay for Cereal+ which includes milk. Musk just celebrated the birth of his 41st child and renamed X to xx_DiamondDarkChaos_xx.com because it sounded cooler. Social media no longer contains words and is just an endless stream of influencers trying to sing songs with product placements. It's okay though if you need to read you can just have your AI girlfriend do it for you. You go for a walk outside but it's just too hot in October.

Great news for #KDEConnect and another win for funding #opensource and #internships.

Thanks to the hard work of ShellWen Chen (颉文) for #GSoC, the SSHD server used for #SFTP has been upgraded!

Check out their Ko-fi for donations, links to GitHub, etc.

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Support ShellWen Chen On Ko-fi. Ko-fi lets you support the people and causes you love with small donations
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#opensource #gsoc #internships #kdeconnect #sftp

The cybertruck is like if a Kia wanted to larp as an F150
photo from the youtube channel whistlindiesel showing a cybertruck’s internal frame completly snapped in pieces after trying to tow another vehicle

I mask. Any time, anywhere indoors that has (or had recently) anyone besides my spouse.
Woman with long dark hair wearing a mask, with text "I mask because | read the studies and know how dangerous it is."

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
A chubby tabby cat, sleeping in the shade of tall grass, on bed of strawberries.
A small black cat, sitting at the end of a gravel path, that runs alongside a white house with a red brick chimney. There are flowers and cacti along the side of the path, and trees in the background.
A photo of a gray and white cat, sleeping on piece of concrete with it's head resting on its paws.
A photo of tabby cat, sleeping with its head resting on a window sill.
#caturday #catsofmastodon

What do I do once I boot the installer to get #orca working under #fedora? Do I just hit alt f2 and type in orca at the run prompt or is there something else I need to do? #accessibility #linux
#Accessibility #linux #fedora #orca
in reply to Khronos

Adam Williamson :fedora:
Adam Williamson :fedora:
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it depends what image you're using. there is no orca in the dedicated installer images. as @popey says, using an X.org-based live spin is probably the best choice.
@popey

Congrats to Arru! They just managed to get their app enter the hall-of-famous RB apps 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.k…

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid


„Arru“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

track and analyze your expenses
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid
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Triskelion
Triskelion
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Ah, I can see this: github.com/Ivy-Apps/ivy-wallet…. I'm not a dev so I don't know what's going on there. It's a nice app but since it's not on F-droid I'm kinda skeptical about it so I disable network access for it xD

Remove "Demo" from application name (#3362) · Ivy-Apps/ivy-wallet@3c74588

The new name reflects the full-featured nature of the application Verified that the application name displays correctly in the Android app drawer after installation.
GitHub
in reply to Triskelion

IzzyOnDroid ✅
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@triskelion I'm no Android dev either, but that would change the app name shown to drop the "Demo".

But before I give you false hope there, I'v just looked into the latest release: wouldn't be welcome at IoD, sorry. Comes with Crashlytics, Firebase, GMS etc – so too many proprietary components. Also, why would a wallet app need your location? The app description gives no clue (but speaks of "privacy"). Draw your own conclusions, and I might be wrong to call that "a bit risky"…

@Triskelion

Gajim is now on liberapay.com :liberapay:

If you like to support Gajim with a donation, feel free to visit liberapay.com/Gajim


Gajim's profile - Liberapay

Gajim is a fully-featured XMPP client.
Liberapay
in reply to Gajim

Lutin Discret
Lutin Discret
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@codelutin is a member @copiepublique and we support FLOSS with a yearly donation. I will propose you this year liberapay.com/codelutin/

codelutin's profile - Liberapay

Entreprise nantaise spécialisée dans le développement Java et Javascript, nous faisons parti du réseau Libre Entreprise avec qui nous partagons les valeurs du Logiciel Libre …
Liberapay
@Code Lutin @Copie Publique

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The App Directory Submission process is now live at iaccessibility.net Create an account, and login, and then find the App Directory link in the menu. You will then find a button to submit an app.

We will finish creating the ability to view submitted apps by the end of the weekend.

iAccessibility – Making Success Accessible

iaccessibility.net

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Life has been super hectic again but I've recently gotten to mess with sonos. Love the sound quality and the fact I can airPlay. The assistant coverage as far as google and Alexa go leave something to be desired. My next thing to figure out is how to stream PC audio to said sonos speakers. Any solutions? Boosts appreciated.
in reply to MariahL

Tamas G
Tamas G
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This is why I still use 2 pairs of Echo Studios here and 2 pairs of Echo dots (both sets as stereo) to stream via icecast to a web server through virtual cable and Edcast, simple set-up to also play music and content in VLC, but Sonos felt super locked-in in this regard when I made the choice. Over the years though even Amazon has shown its ugly colors in the ecosystem lock-in area so now I've just settled with it.

Besides the TTS thing, the sense player has another huge flaw. Next to the left arrow between the home and back buttons and next to the right arrow between the menu and delete buttons, there is a lot of empty space. Enough in fact for a button on each side, one left of left arrow and one right of right arrow that would be great as shortcuts. Similar to the mode button, you can assign a shortcut to either a sense or a third party app. That's how I would've designed it, there are already a decent amount of buttons so why waste empty space?
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If you find yourself wondering why your feed on Mastodon is incredibly hostile or toxic, spend a few minutes going through the worst offending posts and see who's posting or boosting them.

I did this and discovered that the worst offenders were a small handful of accounts that were constantly boosting or posting very negative stuff. Once they were removed from my feed (it was like only like three or four accounts), everything improved dramatically.

#feditips #feditip

#FediTips #feditip

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This morning, at age 26, after having spent far too much of my childhood hearing the song, I realized the lyrics in Nickelback's 'Rockstar' were

"And a big black jet with a bedroom in it,

As opposed to: "And a big black chair with a bedroom in it".

Yeah a lot of things make more sense now.

Still kinda want a chair with an extra-dimensional bedroom inside of it, though.

WHY ENGLISH IS SO HARD

The bandage was wound around the wound.

The farm was used to produce produce.

We must polish the Polish furniture.

He could lead if he would get the lead out.

The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

I did not object to the object.

The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

They were too close to the door to close it.

The buck does funny things when the does are present.

A seamstress and a sewer fell down into the sewer.

To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

After a number of injections my jaw got number.

Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

So many folks talk about how they're being "forced to accept" things that go against their beliefs. You're not being forced to accept them. If you have a problem with people of color, with gay marriage, with trans people, with immigrants, with women of any race, etc. then you're still welcome to feel however you want to feel about those people. You're just not allowed to make their lives harder because of your feelings. You're not allowed to turn their daily lives into a battle ground. No one is forcing you to "accept" a single thing. You're just not being allowed to terrorize people.
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ICYMI, I moved over to @Nolan Darilek a bit ago as a test. venera.social had been struggling a bit, didn't ever notify me when I got new followers, and after my foray with firefish.social and its implosion, I was a bit nervous about where to host my fediverse presence.

gts.thewordnerd.info is a GotoSocial instance I'm hosting on fly.io and it's been incredibly stable. I think I'm switching permanently, but because Friendica doesn't support account migration to non-Friendica, I've had to sort of hack it a bit. I think I successfully followed everyone I follow here, but figured I'd send one last message out here to let folks know.

Don't want to say I'll never post here again--I guess there's the outside possibility my new setup will implode in a way I can't anticipate--but right now it's working and is where I am. Not posting there very often, but hopefully I'll start up again now that I can count on it working like it should.

@Nolan Darilek

Well the pool is up, but the app I used for interpreting test strips 2 years ago is no longer on the app store. Being blind sometimes utterly sucks.

I am inviting the #wcurl tool to get adopted by the #curl project.

curl.se/mail/archive-2024-08/0…

Curl: Adopting wcurl into the curl project?

curl.se
#curl #wcurl
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Samuel Henrique
Samuel Henrique
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most of us are on the way back from DebConf (I'm still going to do some tourism here for a week), so it might take a couple of days for us to reply, sorry. I would love for that to happen, though.
in reply to Samuel Henrique

Samuel Henrique
Samuel Henrique
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also I did a lightning talk presentation for wcurl, I was waiting to get the YouTube link but you can watch it here for now:
saimei.ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/debi…

wcurl is at 13:36

point of view

Sidewalks used to be wider. It’s a fact that rarely gets acknowledged in discussions about road diets. Usually the road diet debate is framed as taking space AWAY from cars. Really it’s about giving it BACK to pedestrians. Here’s a good article about it tinyurl.com/2s4bzxw3
A split image showing the same street in New York City in different eras. The top part depicts a modern view with a jogger, storefronts, and vehicles. The bottom part shows a historical scene with children, a street lamp, and a horse

The New York of 2016 Needs the Wide, Generous Sidewalks of 1906 - Streetsblog New York City

The Times ran a feature on the pedestrian crush in New York City today, and as good as the photos are, they don’t do the situation justice.
tinyurl.com

#InspiredBySound - Impact Soundworks Altera Keys (NKS Overview & Favourites)
youtu.be/WByxAqBV508

#InspiredBySound - Impact Soundworks Altera Keys (NKS Overview & Favourites)

Here's a longer than expected video about Impact Soundworks Altera Keys. Clearly I had a lot of fun here as you'll see.I didn't realise that 1, I'd favourite...
YouTube
#inspiredbysound
in reply to Rui Batista

Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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@ragb Already discussed in description... Accident, no way I was going to re-record, didn't find out until editing.
@Rui Batista

If you could not attend the DebConf or have missed the conference because of time zone differences, all recorded video are now available for viewing at your leisure: meetings-archive.debian.net/pu… #debian #debconf24 #busan #korea #debiankorea micronews.debian.org/2024/1722… #debian

If you could not attend the DebConf or have missed the conference because of time zone differences, all recorded video are now available for viewing at your leisure: meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2024/DebConf24/ #debian #debconf2

If you could not attend the DebConf or have missed the conference because of time zone differences, all recorded video are now available for viewing at your leisure: https://meetings-archive.debian.
micronews.debian.org
#debian #korea #debconf24 #debiankorea #busan
in reply to Debian

Torsten Materna
Torsten Materna
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Some kind of overview or table of contents would be nice. Have I overlooked this?

Watch @samueloph and the Debian curl maintainer team, discussing issues and the way forward at DebConf24:

saimei.ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/debi…

#curl #debian #debconf24

#debian #curl #debconf24 @Samuel Henrique

Going out to the Farallon islands today for #birding

#California #Outside

Photo of yachts at a marina
#california #birding #outside
in reply to Adrianna Tan

Adrianna Tan
Adrianna Tan
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I’m glad I don’t get motion sickness, ever, because.. it’s very choppy out here
A pic of the under side of the Golden Gate Bridge from a boat

Thank you to all the people who made #DebConf24 possible! The DebConf organisation team, the Local Team, Debian Video Team, our speakers, volunteers, and attendees. Would you like to join for organising the next DebConf? If so visit wiki.debian.org/DebConf/25 and contact the DebConf team. #debconf24 #busan #korea #debiankorea #debconf25 micronews.debian.org/2024/1722… #debian

Thank you to all the people who made #DebConf24 possible! The DebConf organisation team, the Local Team, Debian Video Team, our speakers, volunteers, and attendees. Would you like to join for organising the next DebConf? If so visit wiki.debian.or

Thank you to all the people who made #DebConf24 possible! The DebConf organisation team, the Local Team, Debian Video Team, our speakers, volunteers, and attendees. Would you like to join for organising the next DebConf? If so visit https://wiki.
micronews.debian.org
#debian #korea #debconf24 #debiankorea #debconf25 #busan

Wonderful article: "Computers can be understood": blog.nelhage.com/post/computer…

"…no single human understands all of the layers…from the transistors and silicon up through …the application code, not even to mention all the network services involved…"—why I am, shall we say, not a fan of the phrase "full stack".

"…engineers I’ve worked with (including myself) who are the most comfortable reading unfamiliar code bases are at risk of habitually undervaluing documentation…”—ouch, that one hurt.

Computers can be understood

Introduction This post attempts to describe a mindset I’ve come to realize I bring to essentially all of my work with software.
Made of Bugs

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Grocery getters. Who the fuck need that to get groceries and why the fuck don’t they know how to park?
Two pick up trucks parked. The one ahead is hanging out to the spot behind because it’s too big. The one behind is parked diagonally encroaching on the driving lane. Like nothing else matters. Both trucks are huge.
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Reading about Festival Republic's mysterious 2 Hz vibration (cc @0x47df)

festivalrepublic.com/crystalpa…

In the summer of 2022, Festival Republic commissioned acoustics consultancy Vanguardia (a Buro Happold company) to undertake an independent scientific study of the vibration reported in the homes of some local residents during recent Wireless Festivals at Finsbury Park and Crystal Palace. The findings of that study relate to vibration that is felt by local residents rather than heard. It has very particular characteristics that makes it stand out in a mix of other vibration from local sources in a home such as footsteps, a washing machine spinning or the closing of doors. It is at a very low frequency, close to 2 Hz (it is a pattern of vibration which repeats every half second) and it is sensed in some local homes at the upper floors of taller buildings as a swaying motion. This ‘2 Hz vibration’ was identified using sophisticated remote vibration monitoring techniques undertaken in 12 local homes over the two Wireless 2022 weekends. Homes are naturally full of vibration as people go about their daily routines so the analysis looked at pairs of monitors in different homes to identify which segments of vibration entered from outside the buildings and then compared this to vibration measurements undertaken on the Wireless sites themselves. This 2 Hz vibration was identified as matching the reports from some local residents where they have experienced a swaying motion in their homes and noticed clothes hung in wardrobes swing on their hangers or letterboxes flap...

Crystal Palace park residents info

Festival Republic
@sleepy duck pond appreciator 🦆✨🏳️‍🌈

Toto si tu odložím s mojou predikciou - tento výplod od Gartnera sa ukáže ako extrémny príklad genAI hujerizmu. Určite, genAI má potenciál určité odvedvia značne posunúť a prekopať, ale tento prehnaný optimizmus kruto narazí a ja len dufam, že to nebude mať následky ako prasknutie .com bubliny.

From: @sambowne
infosec.exchange/@sambowne/112…

Sam Bowne :donor: (@sambowne@infosec.exchange)

Top Strategic Predictions for 2024 and Beyond | Gartner https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/gartner-s-top-strategic-predictions-for-2024-and-beyond
Infosec Exchange
@Sam Bowne :donor:
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Ľuboš Moščovič :donor: :rebelverified:
Ľuboš Moščovič :donor: :rebelverified:
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@def
Hipe je okolo toho neskutočný, všetci to majú potrebu nacpať doslova všade, alebo aspoň to napísať. To je jak blockchain pred dekádou.
Ale je to už dobrých 18 mesiacov čo sa tento balónik vypustil a nejaký výraznejší posun, dokonca ani v aplikáciách kde sa dá na prvú očakávať, že by to mohlo mať naozaj zásadný prínos to poriadne nevidno. Naopak skôr vnímam nabaľujúci sa bludný kruh detských chýb a nových problémov.
@Tomáš Odehnal
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Tomáš Odehnal
Tomáš Odehnal
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Taky to nevnímám moc pozitivně. Hromady peněz a energie (nejen elektrické) s výsledky většinou diskutabilními.

Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro revolutionizes AI with top LMSYS scores, outperforming GPT-4 and Claude-3.5, promising transformative impact across industries while rai…

Source: VentureBeat Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro revolutionizes AI with top LMSYS scores, outperforming GPT-4 and Claude-3.5, promising transformative impact across industries while rai…
Source: VentureBeat search.app/XZVh6c9tufTZNFVA8


Google Gemini 1.5 Pro leaps ahead in AI race, challenging GPT-4o

Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro revolutionizes AI with top LMSYS scores, outperforming GPT-4 and Claude-3.5, promising transformative impact across industries while raising ethical questions.
Michael Nuñez (VentureBeat)

I gave a talk about #spiel and #speech #tts in #linux at on #GUADEC #GUADEC2024 in Denver.

Check it out:
youtu.be/xseIsaxrlXo?feature=s…


GUADEC 2024 The Whole Spiel - A New Speech Synthesis API

Eitan Isaacson presents this GUADEC 2024 Day 3, Track 1 talk.Screen reader users have relied on speech synthesis for a long time. In recent years, speech int...
YouTube
#linux #GUADEC #tts #speech #guadec2024 #spiel

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SuspiciousDuck
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Akože v pohode, robiť by som tam asi nechcel ale okej no, v pohode.

Google is neutering (among other things) the most effective web spyware blocker. That tells you so much about the motives of a company that once promised to not be evil. bleepingcomputer.com/news/goog…
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Imane Khelif is a cis woman, she has experienced 9 losses against other women in her career, including the 2020 Olympics where she lost against Irish participant Kellie Harrington. Yet, the usual transphobes are currently unleashing a vile attack against her, misgendering her, accusing her of being a man competing unfairly and having some sort of advantage against her fellow athletes, all because she doesn't fit their incredibly limited norm of how a woman should look.

Suddenly, people who never cared or know much about the sport are very interested in women's boxing, and found a scapegoat in her in order to spread their disinformation. Khelif is currently receiving more vitriol than convicted child rapist Steven van de Velde who was still allowed to compete.

This is basically yet another reminder that it was never about genuinely caring for the safety of women. Transphobia is dangerous for everyone, *including* us cis women, and that the links between TERF ideology and white supremacy are very real. Feminism isn't feminism if it's not intersectional.

junkee.com/articles/trans-wome…

#ImaneKhelif #Olympics #Olympics2024 #transphobia #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA


Transphobic Backlash To Imane Khelif Doesn't Help Women

Junkee
#lgbtqia #LGBTQ #transphobia #olympics #olympics2024 #imanekhelif
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Annie Hsh 👾🖖☕
Annie Hsh 👾🖖☕
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Lin Yu-ting originally got into boxing wanting to protect her mother from domestic violence, which clearly shows that she has experienced domestic abuse first hand.

Imane Khelif grew up in poverty, she started boxing when she became good at dodging the physical attacks of boys in her village, traveled 10km to train, and had to work to pay for her own bus fare, as her father didn't approve of boxing for girls. An experience that a lot of girls who grew up having so-called "tomboy" interests are probably familiar with. I know I am. She has recently become a UNICEF ambassador, aiming to inspire girls everywhere to chase their dreams. (unicef.org/algeria/en/stories/…)

Not that the transphobia and clear racist undertones of attacking these two women, despite the fact that they are both cis, aren't horrible enough, but there's something particularly sinister and cruel in the fact that the people who decided to paint them as villains and keep circulating disinformation about both, claim to act in the name of ending violence against women and protecting women's rights.

#LinYuTing #ImaneKhelif #Olympics #Transphobia #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Close shot of Lin Yu-Ting wearing a blue uniform, having raised her fist to her mouth and looking sideways.
Close shot of Imane Khelif, sitting down, wearing a red uniform with the Nike symbol and the Algerian flag, and looking sideways.
#lgbtqia #LGBTQ #transphobia #olympics #imanekhelif #linyuting

I was thinking about the fact that (afaik) none of the fitness trackers have workouts like „wheelbarrow pushing“ or „shoveling gravel into the concrete mixer“ and what this tells us about class 🤔
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