Does anyone remember the old toys for the 80s and beyond?
Does anyone like old toys that they would like to hear again but also would like to have the chance to hear them in an entire new way?
Introducing the electronic toy lib!
The electronic toy library or TETL; is a passion project by a group of people that love the old toys and the fantastic sounds they make.
From direct recordings of toys that had a headphone and connectors on the boards, to recording via coils and even things like making direct boxes to directly record the toys and making recreations of what the toys would have sound like if different situations were to be in effect!
Also called the electronic toy archive, get ready to go down a wonderful adventure back to the past with: chips; tunes; and little speakers as you take a trip to the toy world!
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#Nostalgia #Toys #Fun #Electronics #Electronic_Toys
The Electronic Toy Archive
We are a small community that enjoys electronic toys, most of which are not meant for our age group, (most of us are in our late teens to 20s), but we still like them for some weird reason.YouTube
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My Twitter account is currently locked and I don't look at it, but I'm hard deleting it this month. If you have a Twitter account you don't read, I also recommend full deletion before Nov. 15. Here's why.
Twitter has their TOS now in an unusual state x.com/en/tos with two copies of the TOS printed one after the other, with a notice the new TOS goes active November 15.
The major difference I see is starting Nov 15 they give themselves explicit rights to train AI models on your posts.
X Terms of Service
Read X's Terms of Service to understand the rules governing your access of all Twitter services.twitter-com
"The Spider and the Fly" by Mary Howitt (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
#Poet #DarkPoetry #ChildrensLiterature #Symbolism #MaryHowitt
#TheSpiderAndTheFly #PoemsForHalloween #Poetry #Poem #Octobereen #Macabre #Literature #Art #Performance #PoetryReading #Halloween
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A11y at Work: When Team Opinions Differ
Sometimes working with a larger team means that you’ll get more varied opinions about how something should be done. Now, this is good when the final result is one that covers more gaps and includes more use cases.Melanie Sumner (Just Melanie from the Internet)
We have found that you could be leaking traffic on macOS after system updates. To our current knowledge a reboot resolves it.
We are currently investigating this and will follow up with more information.
Read more here: mullvad.net/blog/macos-sometim…
macOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates
We have found that you could be leaking traffic on macOS after system updates. To our current knowledge a reboot resolves it. We are currently investigating this and will follow up with more information.Mullvad VPN
you've heard of Cython now get ready for CYthon 🏴
welsh python was not one of my greatest ideas i now realise
Looks like my next read. THe attached audiobook sample contains ... a lot of swearing.
"What would happen if you crossed the high fantasy of Wheel of Time with the irreverent comedy of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?"
Meet Your Maker is a comedic, epic fantasy series that asks the questions: What is fiction? What is reality? And does it make a difference, when everyone and everything is trying to kill you?
Bruce created this world. Now he has to survive it.
Meet your Maker by Seth McDuffee.
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#Bookstodon
Meet Your Maker: An Epic Fantasy LitRPG: 1: Amazon.co.uk: McClain, Johnathan, McDuffee, Seth: 9781039455405: Books
Buy Meet Your Maker: An Epic Fantasy LitRPG: 1 by McClain, Johnathan, McDuffee, Seth (ISBN: 9781039455405) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.seanrandall.me
The G7 countries had a meeting on disability and inclusion for the first time ever.
These groups should really take the next step and add ableism to the meeting topics as it is where lack of inclusion stems from.
g7disabilityinclusion.it/en/g7… @disability #Ableism #Economy #Disability
I am very happy to announce that Rabbit Waves is out!
The idea for this project came after @neauoire & I were discussing the disappearance of certain traditional seasteading skills and maritime communication knowledge. We believe these skills are valuable when electronics misbehave, but they're also just generally fun to learn and to use.
All of the art is drawn by hand :>! We will add more content as we go!
WordPress retaliation impacts community
Link: lwn.net/SubscriberLink/993895/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 16 updated and 2 added apps:
* MockTraffic: a random DNS, HTTPS internet traffic noise generator 🛡️
* Fossify Launcher: a customizable homescreen app to complete your green Fossify collection 🛡️
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
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
#whippet #NorthWales #wales #cymru #beach #seaside #doglovers
Thank you, McSweeney's, for perfectly capturing the CoinDesk endorsement of Donald Trump I wrote about last night
McSweeney's: mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-an-…
Newsletter: citationneeded.news/issue-68/
![Despite all of this, the sometimes decent CoinDesk crypto media outlet has come out with a truly embarrassing endorsement-that-claims-not-to-be-an-endorsement of Donald Trump. (“If CoinDesk were in the business of endorsing political candidates and if crypto were the only issue that mattered, it's pretty clear whom we would back to become the next U.S. president.... [E]ven though we don't endorse candidates, we do endorse Trump's crypto platform, such as is [sic].”) Although they claim to be “troubled” by his racism and “increasingly authoritarian rhetoric” — which they describe as “the antithesis of a crypto movement focused on decentralizing authority and empowering individuals” — the opinion piece by CoinDesk’s editor-in-chief, published on behalf of CoinDesk as a whole, is full of “neverthelesses” and “even thoughs” and “howevers” as he recommends Trump anyway. The whole thing boils down to “sure, Trump is a shameless racist who’s been increasingly threatening to do things like round up immigrants and deploy the military against his political enemies, and his statements on crypto kind of seem like empty pandering, but on the other hand, Harris has been... vague.”](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/600221 "Despite all of this, the sometimes decent CoinDesk crypto media outlet has come out with a truly embarrassing endorsement-that-claims-not-to-be-an-endorsement of Donald Trump. (“If CoinDesk were in the business of endorsing political candidates and if crypto were the only issue that mattered, it's pretty clear whom we would back to become the next U.S. president.... [E]ven though we don't endorse candidates, we do endorse Trump's crypto platform, such as is [sic].”) Although they claim to be “troubled” by his racism and “increasingly authoritarian rhetoric” — which they describe as “the antithesis of a crypto movement focused on decentralizing authority and empowering individuals” — the opinion piece by CoinDesk’s editor-in-chief, published on behalf of CoinDesk as a whole, is full of “neverthelesses” and “even thoughs” and “howevers” as he recommends Trump anyway. The whole thing boils down to “sure, Trump is a shameless racist who’s been increasingly threatening to do things like round up immigrants and deploy the military against his political enemies, and his statements on crypto kind of seem like empty pandering, but on the other hand, Harris has been... vague.”")
Issue 68 – Opportunity agenda
Harris shouts out crypto in her “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men”, one crypto exec leaves prison as another enters, and Stand With Crypto bets on the favorites.Molly White (Citation Needed)
Google's NotebookLM Now Broadly Available with Audio Overview Customizations - Thurrott.com
Two weeks ago, I posted a video showing off the insanely capable Audio Overview tool in NotebookLM, Google’s experimental AI service. Today, the online giant added two interesting new features to Audio Overview that make it even more compelling.Paul Thurrott (Thurrott.com)
Got two blocklist updates today, and a non-update with private visibility. First, a FediNuke/tier0.csv transparency update:
I override-added an instance to FediNuke using my documented override process: caekis.love.
Was already near consensus, and the admin was already in receipts for the gleasonator.com FediNuke entry.
See the many receipts for caekis.love in my receipt archive. The severity was enough to warrant inclusion.
My Fediverse blocklists
Documentation on which Fediverse blocklists I offer, how they are made, their differences, their caveats, and their intended use.Seirdy’s Home
I also retired my tier-1 blocklist. It’s the least-used blocklist I have, and I’m managing several; it’s not worth the effort. Every new severity level demands more instances to carefully consider.
Without willingness to spend that effort, its existence encourages me to treat it like a dumping ground for other entries that don’t qualify for other lists instead of evaluating entries’ severity properly.
I will maintain it in private to shine a light on the latter phenomenon, but I won’t share it.
Before you protest, know that I’m maintaining six other blocklists:
- FediNuke.txt
- My tier0 list (might re-name)
- BirdSiteLive, bird.makeup
- Other bridges
- Corporate social media (Threads, Medium, Minds, etc)
- Spammy subdomains
They will be unaffected. If anything, they’ll improve.
MacChat: “Exploring Parallels, ChatGPT, and CleanMyMac: Mac Adventures and Beyond” - Unmute
In this episode of MacChat, Chris and Marty dive into exciting Mac-related adventures, sharing insights on using Parallels to run Windows 11 on a Mac Mini, optimizing storage with CleanMyMac X, and exploring the benefits of ChatGPT for translating do…pgnpt (Unmute)
Wrote a new thing! sarahmhigley.com/writing/activ…
About what to do if two focus outlines in a trenchcoat approach you in a dark alley and offer you a combobox.
Aria-activedescendant is not focus | Sarah Higley
Who, what, when, where, and why is aria-activedescendant. Or: two focus outlines in a trenchcoat approach you in a dark alley and offer you a combobox.Sarah Higley
Menschen mit Behinderung: Objekte für neues Sammlungsprojekt gesucht
Mit dem „Disability History Project“ will das Haus der Geschichte Österreich (hdgö) die Erfahrungen von Menschen mit Behinderungen sichtbarer machen.ORF.at
2024 Marathon Sponsorship Application
Please complete this form if you are interested in sponsoring Liam's 2024 marathon. The contribution of a prize for distribution during the event is highly encouraged. For reference, visit https://lerven.Google Docs
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#democracy #AI #SocialMedia #constitutionalism
What AI is doing to America's democracy
In this lecture, Lawrence Lessig will discuss the impact of artificial intelligence on the 2024 American election, and the implications that this will have for democracy in the future.London School of Economics and Political Science
If you read anything today, read this from @pluralistic - "You Should be Using an RSS Reader".
Cause you really should. Really.
Speaking of which, anyone knows of a tool somewhere that can analyze sites that don't have RSS feeds in search for changes and puts those changes on a RSS feed of its own?
'Cause that'd be really useful, you know?
@pluralistic
Contribution experience report: Thunderbird
My ramblings about open source development and related topicsantonin.delpeuch.eu
Wealthy tech guys are working so hard to relegitimize eugenics with a tech rebrand.
theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…
#tech
Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss
Group promoting ‘dangerous’ scientific racism ideology teamed up with rightwing extremist, recordings revealJason Wilson (The Guardian)
We asked and you answered! Here's Tuta's updated list of best WhatsApp alternatives in 2024 👏
Which one is your favorite? 🤔 Do comment below - or check out our detailed review first!
👉 tuta.com/blog/best-whatsapp-al…
#WhatsAppalternatives #Messenger #Privacy #Encryption
Best WhatsApp Alternatives For 2024 | Time To Go Private! | Tuta
There are lots of messaging apps similar to WhatsApp. Here's a review of the best secure alternatives: Signal, Threema, Telegram, Element, Wire, SimpleX, Session, and more.Tuta
With its true incognito mode - that differs a lot from Google’s incognito mode that was used for “privacy washing”
@lascapi
Hmm, where's that poll @Seirdy made about TLS again..? 
theregister.com/2024/10/15/app…
Sysadmins rage over Apple’s ‘nightmarish’ SSL/TLS cert lifespan cuts
Max validity down from 398 days to proposed 45 by 2027Jessica Lyons (The Register)
Welcome to the RB family, IconRequest 🥳
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With this app you can share the data for adding the icons missing in your icon pack.
Thanks to Bastian for helping us establishing #reproducibleBuilds for this app here at #IzzyOnDroid
„IconRequest“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
Retrieve app icons from your installed applicationsIzzyOnDroid App Repo
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