nOps, which helps companies optimize AWS spend, raised a $30M Series A led by Headlight Partners and says its customer base grew 450% over the past 18 months (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
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Release notes for the Android 14 downgrade OTA confirm Google delays Android 15 roll out to Pixel devices from September to October, possibly around 15th (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)
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In Nodezator's dev branch: changed the magnetic sockets feature to make it closer to what I envisioned originally: the nodes had hands and would help you by grabbing the new connection for you.
The hands are CC0 assets from the excellent
@kenneynl
Final version is very similar, but decided to hide the cursor. Now I use the hand that extends from the 1st socket like a cursor, instead of having it offset behind the cursor as before.
Thank you all for the feedback, specially
mechadense
&
lisa44Yes (handles from X). Feels and looks better. #Python #nodeeditor
Been actually working on other things but had an idea for another variant yesterday and didn't want to waste it (already in Nodezator's dev branch).
This time the cursor is a baseball #Python #nodeeditor
The Python core team has started discussing changes to its governance model. I do think it is time for change, and worth rethinking and tweaking the current model.
As mentioned in my #PyOhio keynote, it is one of the "changelongs" I want to see. I don't know how it should be changed, maybe someone else in the community can figure it out.
I just think we should continue to adjust and evolve the model, so I'm glad to see that the team has started such discussion.
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#accessibility question: how well does thorn (þ) work with screen readers?
I want to start using it on my blog, but I also don't want to give screen readers a stroke
Not a good idea. When using Narrator, or NVDA with the Windows OneCore text-to-speech engine, it acts like the thorn isn't there. When using NVDA with eSpeak NG, it pronounces the thorn as "th", but mispronounces some words, e.g. þeory.
Too lazy to switch to my Mac and check with VoiceOver right now.
On Gendering, Ungendering, and (Mis)Perceiving Trans People." In this long-read, I unpack the phenomenon of so-called #transvestigation, explain why & how it happens, plus explore more mundane (yet nevertheless fucked up) ways in which we perceive and interpret gender and sexual minorities. No-paywall link, please give it lots of "claps" & share widely!
juliaserano.medium.com/why-doe…
#trans #transgender #LGBTQ #lgbtqia #gender #transvestigation
I published a new report that shows how today's cybersecurity and risk profiling systems are turning into employee mass surveillance and predictive policing tools.
Based on log, device and network data,
they let companies monitor almost everything employees do or say.
We need a serious debate about what is necessary and proportionate for what purpose and about safeguards that prevent misuse.
My 76-page report focusing on software from Forcepoint/Everfox and Microsoft:
crackedlabs.org/en/data-work/p…
what are some problems you've run into in the terminal with folders? so far I have:
* accidentally putting 1 million files in a folder, so it's impossible / very slow to list
* you deleted a folder while you're still in it in the terminal, and everything gets weird
* something about symlinks (what?)
what am I missing? (only problems related to folders please!)
Today, Jehovah's Witness.
Definitely, definitely no thank you.
Europe generally, most people will open doors here when the doorbell rings.
We have a lot of intercoms though, and tose help. Especially in apartment complexes, which Europe has plenty of, you can't really live without one.
I haven't reminded people in a while. I really recommend that people regularly download all their CSV files on their Mastodon profile in case their instance goes down (see the screenshot).
This is particularly suggested to everyone on an instance (especially big ones) for which the admin isn't transparent with finances and backup plans.
Better have a backup of your follows than suddenly losing everything!
Go to Preferences => Import/Export => Data Export => Download all CSV files you're interested in keeping
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Somehow I thought Blender would had initially a lot of Dutch, but it looks pretty clean on that front on a quick glance, apart from few comments here and there (22 years ago!).
Nassau County, NY, population of 1.5 mil, has banned masks with a vote of 12 to 0 with 7 councilors abstaining
Masked advocates for masking were cut off from speaking, & one was arrested on false charges.
The police surrounded masked speakers, intimidating them.
White supremacists in the audience wore 1776 shirts, MAGA caps, & waved an Israeli flag. They recorded everyone masked & were allowed to go over their allotted time as they issued threats.
The connections between eugenics, white supremacy, indigenous struggle, and the abject failures of the so-called left to meaningfully resist could not have been more clear.
Every single one of y'all who are silent on COVID and/or refuse to mask are complicit in the fascist gains happening now & the deaths of the poor & disabled from COVID since the so-called left joined the Nazis on refusing to mask.
Cars for Kids Might Kill Kars4Kids curbed.com/2023/12/kars4kids-t…
We asked 1,000+ attendees to mask indoors this weekend, and everyone just did. I didn’t have to stop and remind a single person the entire 3 days.
There were definitely gaps in the policy, the risk wasn’t reduced to zero, but if anyone is wondering if it’s possible for events and large gatherings to make reasonable accommodations to reduce the risk of spreading COVID, it absolutely is, we proved it, and your event should be doing it too.
Holy cow, #Transitous-based #publictransit routing has just landed in the nightly version of #GNOMEMaps, and therefore the number of cities you can get transit directions in… has gone waaaay up! It can even route through a mess like Los Angeles' multiple transit authorities, or calculate long-distance trains! 
Big props to @mlundblad for implementing this: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-m…
One really cool thing about #Tusky: you get the option to open a post with your other account (s)! Very convenient thank you 👍🙏
In what universe does anyone want to install an app to control a fan? It's A FAN!
*Grumble* at least the stupid thing was only like $40 ... Roughly the same price as all the manual fans...
This is the first one I did: theawkwardyeti.com/comic/kidne…
On my second one, "Bile", I tried to add emphasis to "you was mean to me" using the "em" tag. It doesn't seem to do anything for the screen reader I was using, though. theawkwardyeti.com/comic/bile/
2/2
Alice
in reply to Alice • • •And landed, and there's also GBC and DS support. All opt-in in properties, so per-game.
Meanwhile GBC palettes are now also color-corrected too, this time unconditionally - I mean most of them looked garish and generally awful, just compare the colors on Kirby's Dream Land screenshots. So I don't think many people will want the raw colors for those palettes.
(also yes, GBC games running as GBA get (non-darkened) GBA color correction instead, as they usually use different palettes anyway)
Alice
in reply to Alice • • •And added Clean filter now (AANN), and it's now the default too.
Additionally, about dialog shows attribution for filters now (except for nearest/none, as that one is trivial and not based on anything), since the AANN shader is licensed under MIT ^^
Also fixed edges with the smooth filter, it was using the wrong texture wrap mode. Meanwhile Interframe Blending is now Blend Frames instead, and has an explanation in the UI for what it does.
Alice
in reply to Alice • • •And more filter work: there's a smoothing/upscale shader now, specifically xBRZ - there is a single pass freescale shader, so that was fairly simple to integrate.
This caused some trouble with attribution, as it has a dual license and AdwAboutDialog doesn't handle that very nicely... so I had to resort to a wall of text, oh well.
I also renamed filters to less generic and more technical names - it was honestly getting more confusing than helpful. Is "smooth" bicubic or xBRZ? Well, kinda both... So now it's just:
- Nearest (previously None or Sharp)
- Anti-Aliased (previously Clean)
- Bicubic (Previously Smooth)
- Smooth (Previously HD)
Maybe there are better names, but for now doesn't seem worth it.