Have just made a phone call with a contact at the Austrian hacker event #Hackmas - me on my PC using a standard SIP softphone, him over there at an Austrian castle using an equally standard DECT compatible cordless phone. Pity I couldn't come this year but the next one is definitely mine. The sessions lineup looks interesting too, especially that mobile emulation with Retroarch has recently become accessible. Meanwhile the Do It Blind group is spreading accessibility love. If you're there and would like to chat with an outsider, I'm callable at 4801. If you've got no idea what I am on about, feel free to check the official site: hack-mas.at/
A dispatch featuring a JS framework benchmark that was too good to check, and the LLM-generated code that doomed its authors to a day of apology and pull requests
@are0h ro, have you seen mitu khandaker’s article about the acolyte on aftermath? i felt that one would resonate with you: aftermath.site/the-acolyte-can…
I'm mad that by cancelling it they missed on expanding these themes:
- The Force / The Thread as something that is used for different purposes. - Why are the Jedi restricting the use of something that is universal, anyway? - The coven, very Caliban and the Witch, would love to see more of this. - Kidnapping force-sensitive Black children to be used as a space-cop resource, oooof. - Does the abuse of power go all the way up? Is Yoda blissfully unaware? - (Sexy Sith who Can Cook)
Oh, that's good to know - maybe I should continue watching Clone Wars. I made it about halfway through the first season and then got distracted with something else.
I LOVED Andor. Curiously enough, a teenager friend doesn't want to watch it because there are no light sabers 🤷 He loved Obi-Wan, and I thought it was pretty crappy.
@federicomena It’s a long series but worth it because it talks about the effects of Jedi dogma on the Jedi and the populations they engage. It gets pretty intense in some spots, so be prepared.
That’s the kind of people Disney wants to watch their shows. I’m surprised we got Andor of The Acolyte because the usual M.O. of Disney is to appeal to the lowest common denominator rather than quality storytelling.
It’s disappointing a company of that size can’t seem to figure out how to do both, but it’s a corporate entity at the end of the day.
Here's my new project, a keyboard for one-handed typing. Tens of thousands Ukrainians have injured arms and hands during the war, and my goal is to make an inexpensive keyboard for anyone to assemble at home.
Blazie Technologies has released a new update for all users of the BT Speak. It includes the following features. • The help system now includes a text version of our Getting Started guide as well as a Getting Started audio tutorial. No Internet connection is required to access the tutorial. • The Options menu has been restructured, making it much faster to get to the Settings menu; just press O-chord, S and you’re there. • Link your BT Speak’s calendar with Google Calendar • Link your BT Speak’s phone book with Google Contacts • New languages available for the RH Voice text to speech engine • Make a .zip archive of the help files for copying or reading on external media • The Russian Braille table has been added.
Friedrich Merz verbreitet Falschbehauptungen zur Aufnahme von Geflüchteten aus Syrien und Afghanistan - aber aufgegriffen wird das nur auf Social Media und nicht von den etablierten Medien. Obwohl die Äußerungen bei einem Auftritt bei der Bundespressekonferenz gefallen sind und nicht an einer Wurstbude auf irgendeinem Jahrmarkt, wo keine Kamera dabei war. mdr.de/s/ap280824
Albert #Scherr (Soziologe, Schwerpunkt #Migration's- und Flüchtlingsforschung) zu seinem Auftritt in den #Tagesthemen: "Ich hatte ein längeres Interview geführt, in dem ich kritisch zu den unsinnigen Abschiebeforderungen und dem populistischen Anti-Flucht-Diskurs Stellung bezogen habe sowie auf die Defizite beim Zugang zu Begleitung und Therapie bei traumatisierten #Flüchtlinge'n hingewiesen habe. Gesendet wurde dann aber nur der [einleitende] Satz [...]." #Medienversagen @altpapier @tagesschau
Ach ihr habt sie doch nicht mehr alle. #NationaleNotlage .. ich glaub ich spinne. Wegen paar "Fremden" die zu uns kommen. 🙀
2015 ist der Kollege #Migrant hier über Felder & Wiesen geirrt und das war auch kein Problem. Großteil der Leute von damals stehen inzwischen in Lohn & Brot. Und zahlen #Steuern. (Im Gegensatz zu den Reichen.)
Oder gehts um #Terrorismus? JEDEN Tag werden hier mehr Menschen im so genannten "#Straßenverkehr" überfahren. Die Politik feiert das. 😒
Are you also concerned about the @EUCommission decision to cut the funding for #FreeSoftware projects?
Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper 🗞️ to make their readers aware of the importance of funding #FreeSoftware solutions with a long-term sustainable funding:
Federico Mena Quintero
in reply to raphael • • •I'm mad that by cancelling it they missed on expanding these themes:
- The Force / The Thread as something that is used for different purposes.
- Why are the Jedi restricting the use of something that is universal, anyway?
- The coven, very Caliban and the Witch, would love to see more of this.
- Kidnapping force-sensitive Black children to be used as a space-cop resource, oooof.
- Does the abuse of power go all the way up? Is Yoda blissfully unaware?
- (Sexy Sith who Can Cook)
Mad Villain
in reply to Federico Mena Quintero • • •@federicomena Clone Wars goes into a lot this, which is why I was excited to see a live action getting into some of those themes.
But Clone Wars wasn’t popular either when it first started because many Star Wars fans don’t like original stories.
People swear up and down about Andor, but most ‘fans’ didn’t watch Andor.
So we’re going to get at least another decade of Luke Skywalker lore dives that we already know about.
Federico Mena Quintero
in reply to Mad Villain • • •Oh, that's good to know - maybe I should continue watching Clone Wars. I made it about halfway through the first season and then got distracted with something else.
I LOVED Andor. Curiously enough, a teenager friend doesn't want to watch it because there are no light sabers 🤷 He loved Obi-Wan, and I thought it was pretty crappy.
Mad Villain
in reply to Federico Mena Quintero • • •@federicomena It’s a long series but worth it because it talks about the effects of Jedi dogma on the Jedi and the populations they engage. It gets pretty intense in some spots, so be prepared.
That’s the kind of people Disney wants to watch their shows. I’m surprised we got Andor of The Acolyte because the usual M.O. of Disney is to appeal to the lowest common denominator rather than quality storytelling.
It’s disappointing a company of that size can’t seem to figure out how to do both, but it’s a corporate entity at the end of the day.