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Wait a damn minute, look at that pull request discussion and the diff as committed… the CTO of #Firefox has amended #Mozilla's "Neutral" position regarding #JPEGXL to indicate that their "cost" concerns are mainly about the security risks of a decoder being 100k lines of C++, and that they would be "open to shipping" a memory-safe decoder that meets their requirements?

And some folks at Google are going to write that implementation in Rust?!

I… I did not expect that.

github.com/mozilla/standards-p…

#firefox #mozilla #jpegxl

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Edlin is a classic editor from the early DOS days, but it’s still a fun and useful editor. Here's a hands-on intro to editing with Edlin:

both.org/?p=7385

I use Edlin when I want to write something quickly, like a test program or a brief note.

Edlin is also very useful if you want to capture some commands into a FreeDOS batch file— you can write the new batch file while any commands you ran are still visible on the screen.

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🕛Z #NowPlaying at the top of the hour, 2 hours of relaxing #NewAge, #ambient, and #meditationmusic on Northern Lights: The New Age Show, #live with Kelly Sapergia. More information is at ksapergia.net/northernlights/. Tune in either by visiting theglobalvoice.info and clicking on the Listen Live link, or go directly to theglobalvoice.info:8443/broad… #TGVRadio #audio #radio 📺🗣️📻🎶🎙️🌌🌈🫣🫰🩵🪬🫶
#audio #radio #nowplaying #ambient #live #newage #meditationmusic #tgvradio

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Found out recently that Mapillary broke the navigation in their web explorer. Couple years ago it showed a trace as a series of points: you click on one and see the photo.

Now it displays a line. You cannot click anywhere on the line, but have to trace your mouse cursor along it, searching for a photo. And only then you can click and see it.

I think they don't use Mapillary anymore at Meta, that's why all its parts are getting worse with time.

Grayscale map with rectangular buildings and white roads. there are some blue and green thin lines over it. At one place there is an orange circle, which is where a Mapillary photo is.

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The Fediverse's social reading platform BookWyrm lets you import your account data from Goodreads, LibraryThing, StoryGraph, OpenLibrary or Calibre. There are step by step instructions for how to do this here:

➡️ fedi.tips/importing-your-data-…

If you're wondering what the heck BookWyrm is, it's a Fediverse alternative to Amazon's Goodreads. There's an intro article here:

➡️ fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-ne…

#BookWyrm #FediTips #GoodReads #StoryGraph #LibraryThing #OpenLibrary #Calibre #Books #Fediverse

#books #fediverse #FediTips #Bookwyrm #StoryGraph #calibre #goodreads #librarything #openlibrary

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Okay just, like right off the cuff here. But why does Vispero, a company making blindness software/hardware want videos for there Big Thing thing? Why not just text? Emails? Like, what? Why? Meh, whatever. I'll submit mine I guess. I'm sure some of you know what I'm gonna suggest. Feel free to submit your own ideas, goodness knows we need more grand ideas for screen readers.

#accessibility #blind #Braille #JAWS #FreedomScientific #ScreenReader

freedomscientific.com/nextbigt…

#Accessibility #blind #screenreader #braille #jaws #freedomscientific

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I have done The Thing.

catfox.life/2024/09/05/porting…

I have ported #systemd to #musl. Properly. Passing all tests, properly. Booting my 2012 Ivy Bridge in 3.2 seconds, properly.

I'm aware of how unpopular this will be in some circles. But change does not happen without competition, and musl environments deserve more than what they have right now. systemd isn't a panacea, it isn't even that great, but it's here, it solves real issues people have, and it's now an option. Not a requirement, but an option.

#musl #systemd

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Very exciting to see the closed beta announcement of Thunderbird's Appointment service for scheduled meeting times - I look forward to hopefully trying it out soon! I'm regularly planning across time zones and definitely have the pain point of using email threads to find a time which it promises to solve, so it sounds like it's going very helpful! Haven't really jumped on similar services because I haven't spent the time to work out if I trust them or not. I trust the Thunderbird team with this though :blobsmile: @thunderbird #thunderbird
the post announcing it: blog.thunderbird.net/2024/08/p…
#thunderbird @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 9 updated, 3 added and 3 removed apps:

- removed 3 old Corona apps which were no longer working.
+ EnforceDoze: Enable Doze mode immediately after screen off 🛡️
+ Tomato Potato Clock: Distraction-free pomodoro timer 🛡️
+ Gesture Drawing Practice: Displays pictures for a set time with optional timer - for drawing practice 🛡️

All 3 #reproducibleBuilds 🥳

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

#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

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Exploring more of the Dynamicland website eg dynamicland.org/publications and this document is particularly full of bangers: dynamicland.org/2022/Radical_D…
"Many modern technologies are too complex to be learned and practiced by communities, and are instead bound to industrial modes of production, creating a class divide between “developers” and “consumers”. These complex technologies will never be decentralizable, and any attempts to decentralize them will fail."
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