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Great, another Silverblue update that fuck the system.

`% toolbox enter
Error: failed to get the Podman version`

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Hubert Figuière
Hubert Figuière
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turn out a path is missing due to some version upgrade that couldn't be bothered to create it.

Secret project: revealed! We started a band!

CC @ActionRetro and @TaylorAmyShow !

thestopbits.net


The Stop Bits: a band with a web site

A nerdy rock band made up of YouTubers. Yes, we made this website with AOLpress!
www.thestopbits.net
@Action Retro @The Taylor and Amy Show

Not treating tech writers as "real" contributors to open source is how you get "discord is our documentation".

Adding a compressor as first input in the effects chain before anything else is kinda neat

Wind chimes.
But minor, or 7th chord so they sound spooky/unsettling instead of delightful.

And QR codes in public spaces are dead.

latimes.com/california/story/2…


Fake QR codes on Redondo Beach parking meters were scam, police say

The QR codes, which appear to be connected to a 'quishing' scam, were found on about 150 parking meters along the Esplanade and in the Riviera Village area, police said.
Alex Wigglesworth (Los Angeles Times)

The Nazis killed my entire family except my great grandparents who came to the US.

Everyone, there were no survivors as far as anyone knows.

So if I say it's my opinion that Republicans are Nazis and I mean they are similar to the historical Nazis and might become as dangerous, I do actually know what I am talking about.

They plan to build concentration camps for 1 million immigrants. After they deport the first million what do they plan to do with those camps? You imagine they will just get rid of them? Hmm.

Reply guy blocked.

It has been three and a half months since I announced “I will make Papers – the soon-to-be default document viewer in GNOME – work on mobile, while improving the UI in general.”

For that, I was granted a stipend by Google Open Source. And, I would say: I delivered on this promise—see for your self, with the next release of Papers.

Now, my project is over (but I am here to stay), and if you want to read a bit more about what I did, I’ll humbly recommend my blog post: blogs.gnome.org/camelcasenick/…

Document Viewer on Mobile – Markus Göllnitz

blogs.gnome.org

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What happens when a microscope crashes into a telescope?

They kaleidoscope.

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If you have a raspberry pi 4 or 5 running Arch Linux, and after updating you suddenly have no wifi, this solution worked for me. Simple steps:

  • Create the file /etc/modprobe.d/brcmfmac.conf
  • Add the following line to the file:
    options brcmfmac feature_disable=0x82000
  • Save and reboot.

Arch Linux ARM • View topic - wifi failed brcmfmac issue

archlinuxarm.org

celkom dosť fúka ale na dážď to moc nevyzerá

#foss ❤
#foss

I've just been sitting here trying to play the synth riff from Axel F's Theme on clarinet in every key. I suck at it. The easiest for me are concert G miner, C miner and d miner. I can mostly manage everything else, but not at speed. That's my silly practice thing, I guess.
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Matt Campbell
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I've known that riff since I was a kid but didn't know what the piece was called. Thank you.

You've taken a perfectly fine door and given it anxiety.
Photograph of a permanent sign on a wall that states "This door is alarmed." Tacked on the bottom of the sign is a post-it note asking, "What startled it?"

If the term "LI-FI" becomes a thing, expect all the "lie-Fi" puns. Oh, my LI-FI is lying to me about the speeds, it's definitely sus!
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JamminJerry
JamminJerry
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I really can't see it taking off though if it is can't go threw walls. I just can't see that working well.
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Tamas G
Tamas G
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@JamminJerry yeah, it for sure won't replace internet with that limitatiion. I do think it has a good use case for hospitals, home automation, things that are better left more secure by not being as internet-connected from a distance, or need to pass high communication quickly across things.
@JamminJerry
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JamminJerry
JamminJerry
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I don't know. I still can't see it working even in places like that. I mean if the two devices are not in the same room, forget it. it won't work.
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Pratik Patel
Pratik Patel
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That article seemed more like a marketing copy. I rememberr the early research articles from the oughts. It seemed to be so promising.

🚨 $NVDA 🚨

Why is Nvidia trending today? 🤔

#NVDA #finance #stocks #economy #money

#money #economy #nvda #stocks #finance
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NV Access
NV Access
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Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!

NV Access

Empowering lives through non-visual access to technology
NV Access
#nvidia #nvda

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D.Hamlin.Music
D.Hamlin.Music
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@NVAccess The account appears to be automated reposts.
@NV Access
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NV Access
NV Access
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@dhamlinmusic It does, but hopefully a human checks it from time to time. It would benefit both the blindness community and the finance community to use clear hashtags
@D.Hamlin.Music
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Trending Stocks 📈
Trending Stocks 📈
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@dhamlinmusic @NVAccess

definitely not automated - will keep it in mind! just not sure how I would use that as a canonical standard

@NV Access @D.Hamlin.Music
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NV Access
NV Access
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@dhamlinmusic Thanks for your help! To be honest, aside from about yourself, 99.9% of the time #NVDA is used to refer to NVIDIA stocks, it's spam / scam - I certainly wouldn't follow the hashtag for stock information - I'd follow the Stocks or Finance hashtags you also use. I'd be surprised if it's the only one - just looking back through, 99% of toots about SNOW are not about the stock - and that's what I was trying to do - ensure people following a hashtag get primarily ONE subject
#nvda @D.Hamlin.Music
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Jamie Teh
Jamie Teh
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@NVAccess I thought we were mostly using NVDASR as the hashtag for NVDA? I started that on Twitter because stock related things regularly used the NVDA hashtag.
@NV Access
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NV Access
NV Access
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@jcsteh There weren't too many stock related things on here when we joined, so I've been trying to get the jump on them - no one actually calls NVIDIA #NVDA - it makes sense for them to use #NVIDIA if that's what they want to talk about. Most people are good with it, but I generally tag our posts with both #NVDA and #NVDAsr just in case
#nvdasr #nvidia #nvda @Jamie Teh
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James Scholes
James Scholes
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@jcsteh @NVAccess I don't think the average Mastodon user is big on AI investments. The distinct possibility of them gloating when the stock price tanks still exists, though.
@NV Access @Jamie Teh
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NV Access
NV Access
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@jscholes @jcsteh That was my reasoning for pushing the stock people to use the company name. If you use NVIDIA, there's no confusion - there is no other entity that I'm aware of called NVIDIA. And even though their code is NVDA, the screen reader IS much more widely known as NVDA. Users who have followed us post-twitter, might not actually know what NVDASR is. In any case, if we use NVDA and stock people use NVIDIA, then everyone can follow what they actually want - one, the other, or both
@James Scholes @Jamie Teh

WhatsApp desktop: If you receive a link from a chat conversation, I notice that the link itself does not get placed in tab focus (update: It does, but your screen reader will repeat the message twice which was throwing me off), and I could not left-click it with NVDA, so how in the world do you activate links within WhatsApp desktop?
Solution: It will be in tab order, but you'll first need to hear the message repeated again before the link URL is told to you as the highlighted item.
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Chris Hallsworth
Chris Hallsworth
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Were you able to scan the QR code to link your device? I am using the web portal for now.
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Tamas G
Tamas G
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@challsworth2 ah I didn't have to, I used the code / link devices section of the WhatsApp mobile client where I could then enter that code manually without a QR one.
@Chris Hallsworth
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Chris Hallsworth
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Sorted. Transpired you can only link with code on Windows or web; I have a Macbook Air, but I do plan to use Windows in a virtual machine again some day.
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Patrick Perdue
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Or just press tab once, and it's a link. At least in my experience.

I am proud to announce that I am working on a successor to #AppleVis - a website for #disabled #Apple technology enthusiasts. I kindly invite everyone to test it and give feedback.
You can find the invite link here

community.accessibleapple.org/…

Accessible Apple community

The largest community for the disabled users of Apple technologies.
community.accessibleapple.org
#apple #Disabled #AppleVis
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Scarlet Phoenix Collective
Scarlet Phoenix Collective
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It keeps saying that the site can't be reached every time I click on it. I've tried it more than once, too. -T
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Arkadiusz Świętnicki🇵🇱
Arkadiusz Świętnicki🇵🇱
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@we_are_spc Can you try doing ping community.accessibleapple.org?
@Scarlet Phoenix Collective
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Scarlet Phoenix Collective
Scarlet Phoenix Collective
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Okay, yhere it goes. -T
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Arkadiusz Świętnicki🇵🇱
Arkadiusz Świętnicki🇵🇱
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@we_are_spc What's the actual message when the site gives an error?
@Scarlet Phoenix Collective
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Scarlet Phoenix Collective
Scarlet Phoenix Collective
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This site can’t be reachedCheck if there is a typo in web.yoursecurify.com.
If spelling is correct, try running Windows Network Diagnostics.
DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
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Scarlet Phoenix Collective
Scarlet Phoenix Collective
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Will do. Although I hit enter directly on the link that was there. And that's what it opened. Odd how enter on the interactions works that way sometimes. Even though it shouldn't.
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Arkadiusz Świętnicki🇵🇱
Arkadiusz Świętnicki🇵🇱
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@we_are_spc I would check if you don’t have a virus of some sorts. That website shown on the error sounds very, very sketchy. Try to use ADWCleaner if you are on Windows.
@Scarlet Phoenix Collective
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Scarlet Phoenix Collective
Scarlet Phoenix Collective
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Will do. But that is the only time I have had a problem with that particular thing. Everything else goes where it's supposed to.
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Scarlet Phoenix Collective
Scarlet Phoenix Collective
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... OKay this is effed up. I can't ghet to it from Google Chrome because of that shit you saw when I sent you the message. But when I type into MS edge...it works flawlessly. Don't ask me whly...I wouldn't be able to tell you. :( -T
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Scarlet Phoenix Collective
Scarlet Phoenix Collective
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All it does is give me a search deal. I've never dong a ping response before, so I dunno what I'm not doing. Especially since I coppied direectly what you sent to the clipboard.

Niektorí ľudia sú veľmi príjemný.

Since I'm late for #Caturday, here's a video from my archives of a mom #cat giving a #kitten a bath.
#cat #caturday #kitten

Thanks for sharing. These are the times I regret I don't live close enough to London. I still fondly remember the experiencein the Harry Pinter theatre. In the US theatre is not as popular, unfortunately. New York may be the only exception, but even then... I will leave my comments off the air! :) front-end.social/@tink/1130241…

Léonie Watson (@tink@front-end.social)

Last Sunday I went to see Stranger Things: The First Shadow with Audio Description (AD) by #VocalEyesAD at the Phoenix Theatre. Here's how it went: https://tink.
Front-End Social

Wow, this piece exposes a supposedly prominent accessibility contributor to gaming industry that ended up actually not existing in the first place. ign.com/articles/a-prominent-a…

#a11y #accessibilty #games #gaming #expose


A Prominent Accessibility Advocate Worked With Studios and Inspired Change. But She Never Actually Existed. - IGN

In the years since the alleged death of beloved accessibility advocate Susan Banks, mounting evidence and accounts from those close to her work suggest that she was not the person she claimed to be.
Grant Stoner (IGN)
#a11y #gaming #games #accessibilty #expose

What is Li-Fi and Could It Be the Next Big Thing for the Internet? cnet.com/home/internet/what-is…

Hello fediverse!

I need your help to feature all of the amazing services that are part of the #ActivityPub realm.

What are some of your favorite ActivityPub handles to follow on #Funkwhale, #Peertube, #Pixelfed, #Bookwyrm, #Wordpress, #Truefans, #Castopod, #Akkoma, #Friendica, #Lemmy and others?

Your replies will be categorized by @jejord, @AileenLalor, @miaq and @marci so that we can feature these accounts to our Flipboard users and work to ensure they render properly on Flipboard.

I'm excited to help evangelize the many great projects here and advocate for their adoption and funding.

#friendica #activitypub #funkwhale #peertube #wordpress #pixelfed #CastoPod #Bookwyrm #lemmy #akkoma #truefans @Mia Quagliarello @Aileen Lalor @Jessica Jordan @Marci McCue

❤️ :blobcathug:

Padla a darilo sa ale premkýna ma smútok.
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#Catima 2.31.1 is out!

This is a very minor release, containing a community-contributed fix for the back gesture on the home screen dismissing both the keyboard and clearing the search. Long story short, you can now hide the keyboard without clearing the search, allowing for easier browsing of your cards.

It also contains some minor community-contributed cleanups.

Available now on #GitHub, very soon on #IzzyOnDroid and hopefully soon on other supported app stores.

#Android #FOSS

#android #foss #github #catima #izzyondroid

A painting of a bird next to the words "fuck you for wasting my time"

"Y Combinator, the San Francisco start-up incubator that launched Airbnb, Reddit, Stripe and Coinbase, is backing a weapons company for the first time, entering a sector it has previously shunned." #Technology werd.io/2024/start-up-incubato…

Start-up incubator Y Combinator backs its first weapons firm

https://www.ft.com/content/17f16071-87e0-4675-a152-6d6285b97fd5 [George Hammond at the Financial Times] "Y Combinator, the San Francisco start-up incubator that launched Airbnb, Reddit, Stripe and Coinbase, is backing a weapons company
Ben Werdmuller (Werd I/O)
#technology

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid this weekend brought you a load of updated and 1 added app:

* Recording Studio Lite: an Audio Recorder

2 updated #Magisk #modules at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk as well.

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #magisk #izzyondroid #modules

Finally got around to informally documenting the GNOME Circle review procedure! This should be really helpful for the Circle Committee going forward.

gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Circle/…


review_procedure.md · main · Teams / Circle · GitLab

GNOME Circle Committee: apply here to have your project included in GNOME Circle!
GitLab

Yes I'm.

Hypothetically, is there any interest in a D&D campaign on Fedi?

Also hypothetically, what's the best way to pick a weekly timeslot?

Update: to clarify, I'm open to other systems - Fate might work better for a text social media campaign. But D&D is a way bigger market.

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I just explained how the fediverse works to my mom and she thinks I'm some kind of dark web cyber criminal now I think.

Bilanzskandal: Ehemaligen #Wirecard-Managern droht ein finanzielles #Desaster

"17 frühere Führungskräfte müssen mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit für #Anwaltskosten und #Schadenersatzforderungen persönlich einstehen. Das könnte manchen finanziell ruinieren."

Na ich hoffe doch! Betrug und Missbrauch darf sich nicht lohnen 👌
handelsblatt.com/finanzen/bank…

Handelsblatt

www.handelsblatt.com
#wirecard #desaster #Anwaltskosten #schadenersatzforderungen

Diese Forderung von #Merz nach einem Asylstop von Syrern und Afghanen ist ein größerer Schritt weg von der freiheitlich-rechtlichen Ordnung, die unsere Verfassung vorgibt. Wieso wird darüber nicht so berichtet? #CDU
#cdu #merz

Reject Modernity

Embrace Tradition

Stanley Tumbler
Gourd turned into a bottle with carry string

One of my favorite surprises from researching the introductory chapter of "50 Years of Text Games" was how many women were integral to the tech and design work behind early computer games. Mabel Addis, Dorothy Kneeland Clark, Grace Hopper, Judith Harris, Alexis Adams, Myra Breen (not to mention queer folks like Christopher Strachey). Love to see more of these pioneers getting their (belated) due.
oldbytes.space/@PlayHistory/11…

Play History (@PlayHistory@oldbytes.space)

I helped provide the author of this obituary with some information on Mabel Addis: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/24/obituaries/mabel-addis-overlooked.
OldBytes Space - Mastodon
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ARRL Pays $1 Million Ransom To Decrypt Their Systems After Attack yro.slashdot.org/story/24/08/2…

ARRL Pays $1 Million Ransom To Decrypt Their Systems After Attack - Slashdot

The nonprofit American Radio Relay League — founded in 1914 — has approximately 161,000 members, according to Wikipedia (with over 7,000 members outside the U.S.
yro.slashdot.org

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Prince of Persia 35th anniversary update: This week in 1989, I "finished" PoP. After three years of work creating the game (on an Apple II), it was time to let go.💾

I have trouble letting go. As my journal reveals, I went on secretly fixing bugs... Which is strictly verboten, after QA has signed off on a master disk. But I was confident my last little bug fixes wouldn't break anything, because my pal Roland and I would "test the hell out of them" ourselves.

You can guess where this is going.

Me at my Broderbund attic office in 1989, finally "finished" with PoP
Journal page written in the final throes of finishing PoP, 35 years ago this week
Journal page written in the final throes of finishing PoP, 35 years ago this week
Almost-final Prince of Persia punch list (reproduced in the new German edition of my "Making of Prince of Persia" journals)
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