I once found a mysterious device hanging from the electrical outlet on a train. It turned out to be a 100 W USB PD power supply that somehow lost its cover.
The train staff was apparently too scared to remove it, so they just marked it with a sticker.
With a 3D printer and a person capable of 3D modelling, the charger didn't end up as electronic waste but got a second life!
📢 ❤️ Good news alert: We are proud to announce that Tuta has officially opened it's second office in Munich! 🇩🇪 🥳
Read more about our new office here:
tuta.com/blog/tuta-in-munich
Blog about the new curl graph and what is there to see. Plus some blabbing on software estimates.
Looking for more internship project ideas for Outreachy (December-March cohort)
GNOME is interested in participating in the Outreachy December-March cohort, and while we already have a few great projects, we are looking for experienced mentors with a couple more project ideas. Hurry up, we have until September 11 to conclude our list of ideas.
Please, submit project ideas on gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/interns…
Feel free to message us on #internships:gnome.org (matrix) if you have any doubts.
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#backtoschool Did you know #MapComplete has a map about education?
You can mark schools, universities and colleges on there, together with a lot of attributes, such as the capacity of the school, gender segregation or applied pedagogy
Try it on mapcomplete.org/education
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@stavpup Sadly, we cannot create all layers ourselves. Time is just too limited for that...
But it is a great idea! You can create a layer yourself at mapcomplete.org/studio
When your happy with it, let us onow and it might be added to the official mapcomplete!
Some updates on my #Libervia work:
- Kicked off #email #gateway project (nlnet.nl/project/EmailXMPPgate…) using IMAP/STMP. Basic gateway should be coming soon.
- Preparing next major release: web frontend design & internal improvements in progress. The release will be *huge*.
- Started new desktop frontend; more details to follow.
- Aiming to resume blogging and weekly videos this week, if time allows.
- Targeting a Libervia-based service by the end of the year.
NVDA 2024.4 Beta 2 is now available. Changes from Beta 1:
- The stability of NVDA’s Poedit support has been improved with the side effect that the minimum required version of Poedit is now version 3.5.
- NVDA is no longer as sluggish when arrowing up & down through large files in VS Code.
- NVDA no longer freezes while checking for add-on updates.
- Updates to translations.
Please go to nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-4b… for the full what's new & to download.
#NVDA #NVDAsr #Beta #FOSS #ScreenReader
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I'm a little confused. The what's new document for the .4 beta already has the second item in the first beta. Were their further optimizations made? Specifically, the entry reads:
- NVDA is no longer as sluggish when arrowing up and down through large files in VS Code. (#17039)
Every once in a long, long while, we enjoy what our town is supposedly famous for
#MalaysianFood #food #MakanApaToday
If you think about participating on this year's #Hacktoberfest you might wish to visit Droidtoberfest:
droidtoberfest.sylviavanos.nl/
@SylvieLorxu wrote up a nice webpage listing up which apps from #IzzyOnDroid and #FDroid are participating and welcome your contributions 
Mehr Freiheiten für Kommunen: #Fahrradstraßen und #Radfahrstreifen können jetzt einfacher angelengt werden dank des neuen Straßenverkehrsrechts! 🚴 Ein großer Schritt zu sicheren, lückenlosen Radverkehrsnetzen.
👉 Mehr zur Reform des Straßenverkehrsrechts: adfc.de/artikel/neues-strassen…
CGT denuncia un ERE encubierto en las Apple Store avalado por los sindicatos Fetico y CC OO.
Más de 120 dependientes de las tiendas de Apple en Puerta del Sol (Madrid), Passeig de Gràcia (Barcelona) y València han sido despedidos.
La mayoría de las personas despedidas tenían entre diez y doce años de antigüedad. en los últimos días Apple ya ha contratado a 40 jóvenes a tiempo parcial, con contratos de entre 20 y 24 horas.
I remember #NaNoWriMo's innocent early days of simply cranking out a terrible first draft without your internal editor interfering, and then watched in disappointment over the years as it became institutionalized and started taking itself way too $eriou$ly.
This latest misstep isn't terribly $urpri$ing, and they surely won't be the last arts organization to make a tone deaf decision related to "AI" non$en$e.
At this point, dunking on Google's AI summaries for bad/wrong/hilarious summaries is almost too easy, but I came across this one this evening, and I love it
1/4
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NEW: Actor James Darren — best known to STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE fans as holographic lounge singer Vic Fontaine — has died at age 88
Read more: blog.trekcore.com/2024/09/jame…
Emergencies can happen at any time. Does your family
know how to get in touch with each other if you are
not all together?
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What's worse?
A) The discovery that your cat seems to be recording his own podcast
B) The realisation that he doesn't consider you worthy of being a guest on it.
#Pickle #Podcast #Exclusive #Meritocracy
Starlink is refusing to comply with Brazil's X ban
A look at the growing use of tablets in US prisons, letting inmates make calls, send messages, and more, as the FCC imposes price caps on voice and video calls (Nicholas G. Miller/Wall Street Journal)
wsj.com/business/telecom/13-fo…
techmeme.com/240902/p13#a24090…
Oh boi, do I have thoughts about #nanowrimo. Disclosure; I have written millions of words (most of them technical), I have done #NaNoWriMo a few times, and I have been writing about #AI since the early 90s.
#LLMs are NOT AI. LLMs are vacuums which sort existing data into sets. They do not create anything. Everything they output depends on stolen data. There is no honest LLM.
This year, Nano is sponsored by an LLM company, and after pushback, they said anyone suggesting AI shouldn't be used was "ableist and "classist"....which....whooweee , that's a mighty bold stance.
LLMs are being sued to hell by authors for slurping up all their content. The reason you can "engineer a prompt" by including "in the style of RR Martin" is because the LLM has digested ALL of RRMartin.
Re: "ableism", I'm going to direct you to Lina² neuromatch.social/@lina/113069…, who writes about the issue better than I could. And I want to thank @LinuxAndYarn for coming up with my fave new Nano tag: #NahNoHellNo.
¡El llamado a charlas para GNOME Latam 2024 está abierto!
¿Tienes algo que compartir sobre el ecosistema #GNOME o el software libre? ¡Esta es tu oportunidad! Envía tu propuesta y únete a nosotros en Medellín, Colombia, o en línea.
I work in recycling. No one wants plastic. This greenwashing has been known for years among insiders and people who dug into it but I'm glad to see it getting wider reporting!
I even made a meme a couple years back:
So, yeah ripping a huge hole in the Earth's atmosphere does not seem like a good thing. 🤔
nature.com/articles/d41586-024…
But heck, let's keep letting the richest guy in the world destroy the world. 🤷
I put the work arounds for Steam💩 accessibility on Linux on the audio games forum.
I figured it might be good to have a centralized topic on it. Of course the best usage advice is to avoid it if at all possible, but unfortunately it's the only platform that offers some games.
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 9 updated, 1 removed and 1 added apps:
- Joplin was removed as updates became unavailable. The FOSS variant without any non-free dependencies is still available at F-Droid.
+ Showly returned with a FOSS build today, to let you track shows & movies
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo
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