In Wales, if you want a bwca or bwbachod (a goblin who cleans your home), then leave out a cup of cream each night (or better yet, a cup of ale). However, bwcas hate teetotalers. If you refuse to drink alcohol, they may kick you or throw your plates at you.
🎨 Tony DiTerlizzi

#FolkloreSunday #OfDarkandMacabre #31DaysofHaunting #31DaysofHalloween #Superstitiology #Mythology #Folklore #Celtic #CelticMythology #Wales #WelshMythology #Fairy #Goblin

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Tak to nezávidím.
Chce to hodně promastit, ideálně nějaký krém s kakaovým máslem, makadamovým olejem. Ale dobrý je i samotný olivový olej, nebo sádlo to je TOP.
No a před prací doporučuji promazat vazelínou, ta vytvoří tenký film, který chvilku vydrží i ten Jar.
Doporučovat rukavice je předpokládám zbytečné.
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Musí to mít ve složení to, co jsem psal třeba kakaové máslo makadamový olej, olivový olej, nebo klidně použít to sádlo.
Pokud se bavíme o krému z drogerie, tak doporučuji tento: rossmann.cz/krem-na-ruce-s-oli…

Obsahuje jak kakaové máslo, tak olivový olej, vstřebává se rychle.

Ongoing discussion, but it looks like Bitwarden may be starting to make moves towards no longer being open source:

github.com/bitwarden/clients/i…

Previous issues opened against the SDK have been met with replies that suggest they have no intention of reconsidering the licensing decision:

github.com/bitwarden/sdk/issue…

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@erion @tootbrute well here it is. Guess what? The world isn't ending. github.com/bitwarden/clients/i…

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@Tutanota When you update something like for example tuta.com/blog/how-to-start-an-… would it be possible to add a short description (preferably at the top) of what was updated so people don't need to reread the whole thing to try and find what was changed.
@Tuta

This: #antiracist vs "not racist".

If you want to start on that education, I really recommend reading "So You Want To Talk About Race" by Ijeoma Oluo.
I've previously recommended "White Fragility" by Robin DiAngelo, which was good as an initial bridge - a white person talking to white people why they should care to be antiracist. But she's since turned that into a whole white savior consultant business, which is gross.
Ijeoma Oluo though? Her words as another woman of color _gave me breathing space_. She wrote all the things that I'm too exhausted to bring up with my white friends anymore. She wrote that, so the rest of us BIPOC don't have to anymore - it's a book of empowerment like that, in a big way.

And this is why I implore everyone to read that book, even if you need "White Fragility" as a stepping stone first.

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#Bitwarden is no longer free software.

The new code introduces a dependency on @bitwarden/sdk-internal, whose license explicitly states that it can’t be used by any software other than Bitwarden.

That violates the freedom 0 of free software (I can do whatever I want with the source code as long as my output is also free and open).

This seems to be part of a long strategy from Bitwarden to gradually pull the rug under their “free and open” principles and turn the product into a closed product after gaining sufficient market share.

And it’s a reminder that open projects maintained by companies should never, ever, ever be trusted.

In my case I already moved to Vaultwarden a while ago. I had a hunch that Bitwarden was going in this direction, plus running 15 .NET containers on my box just to run a password manager seemed pure insanity to me.

I advise everyone to move away from Bitwarden too before it’s too late.

github.com/bitwarden/clients/i…

Inspired by a recent podcast, I read this article on digital minimalism. Interestingly, I think I'm already much of the way there: very little interaction with corporate social media, no difficulty leaving the phone at home when going to a concert, for example, no desire to use technology when I'm meeting people or at a conference - even a technology conference.
I'm reasonably selective about what podcasts or radio to listen to, what fora to engage in, what to read online, etc., although there are probably some that I could remove without loss of substantial value.
I prioritize creation over consumption in general.
calnewport.com/on-digital-mini…
#Digital Minimalism #SocialMedia

Zitra nas ceka velky Unreleased den. Dva nove Unreleasy jejichz Unrelease oslavime vypustenim noveho webu. (driv to nejde, neb tam s nimi flexime)

Jako znamka toho, ze to s umelci myslime vazne jsme se placli pres kapsu a natocili reklamni video.

Je pekne.

Nalakame na nej Justina? Uvidime.

#music #video #art #startup

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I wrote a pure python gradle wrapper this afternoon :3

github.com/obfusk/gradlew.py

(for those who prefer not to have a binary blob wrapper.jar in their repos and would like to ensure checkums match those published on gradle.org)

En unos minutos comenzará la presentación del Informe Político de Antonio Maíllo en la Coordinadora Federal de Izquierda Unida.

📌 Puedes escuchar la ponencia de comienzo del órgano en este enlace: youtube.com/live/8nLFb5FquIY

Good news and bad news.
#Conversations_im 2.17.0 has support for emoji reactions 🎉
Since @Codeberg appears to be under constant DDoS attacks they have added pretty strict rate limits that the @fdroidorg build server keeps running into. 😞
Another build cycle just failed and it's unclear when 2.17.0 will be available on F-Droid.
Maybe Codeberg and F-Droid can back channel an allow list or something? 🙏

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This article was published on the 10th anniversary of the article "40 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says."

And on the 20th anniversary of the article "30 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says."

And on the 30th anniversary of the article "20 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says."

And on the 40th anniversary of the article "10 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says."

And on the 15th anniversary of the article "35 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says."

And on the 13th anniversary of the article "37 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says."

And on the third anniversary of the article "47 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says."

And on the 44th anniversary of the article "Six years of tax cuts for the rich failed to tric

cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-rich…

Fantastic wide-ranging discussion about websites and browsers for a generalist to be aware of. You don't need to know how to do everything, but you DO need a huge contextual awareness across the stack to solve hard problems. Even a hint. 13min
youtu.be/-Ln-8QM8KhQ

I emphasize how important even knowledge of a thing being a thing helps. And it will seem utterly useless in the moment. It matters later, you will be completely surprised random tech stuff you did 20 years earlier randomly comes up as important. Try things, even Linux.

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Mahasen Al Khateeb, a Palestinian #digital #illustrator, used to draw children stories and teach Procreate. She skilfully painted the suffering of her people in north Gaza using her stylus. It was her only outlet from a year of pain, horror and genocide.

Today the US-backed zionist regime killed her. Rest in peace Mahasen 💔

@mahasen_ktheeb on IG

#Gaza #Palestine #Genocide #ArmsEmbargoNow #USA #Israel

We really should talk more about why Nate Silver is not particularly liked by a lot of people who actually work with data.

"I would bet 60-40, 70-30 on lab leak probably"

This is just throwing random numbers on his hunches. He does this _all of the time_ and doesn't generally disclose (or even necessarily know to disclose) which pieces are his "hunches."

He mixes things that he puts into a model and fails to mention any validation beyond topline as well
hachyderm.io/@hrefna/113331563…

Spent some time today working on a little website to provide information about a bit of vintage computing history from my childhood, including a video demo (using emulation). I'm talking about Diversi-Tune, an early MIDI music program for the Apple IIGS, written by the late, great Bill Basham. divtune.com/ The website also briefly notes his later rewrite of Diversi-Tune for early-2000s Windows and web browsers, which he hosted at this domain. That version's harder to preserve.

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I'm aware that, as I post this, the Internet Archive is still not fully back online, meaning that my link to the Apple IIGS version doesn't work. (I actually started working on the website a couple months ago.) I don't think the Apple IIGS disk image I happen to have is pristine. I could see if I can find a pristine disk image somewhere else and then host a copy. But hopefully the Internet Archive will be fully operational again soon.
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I decided to self-host the video. I encoded it in both WebM and MP4 versions. (I did ask the Claude 3.5 Sonnet LLM to generate FFmpeg commands for me, but I reviewed and modified them.) Being low-resolution screen capture, the video compressed very well. I'd appreciate it if fully sighted folks can let me know if my encodings of the video have noticeable artifacts. I also uploaded a lossless version to YouTube. Of course, it's possible that YouTube's own encodings could add artifacts.
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OK, now I've possibly spent too much time on this little side project. I decided to re-do the demo video. First, I decided I should emulate a ROM version 01 Apple IIGS rather than ROM version 3, since the former is what my family actually owned and what I used as a child. Then I decided to capture the video from MAME in its original aspect ratio, which looks wrong on modern displays because the Apple IIGS didn't have square pixels, and then scale it with FFmpeg.
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And finally, about those FFmpeg commands, I decided to basically throw out the ones I had the Claude LLM generate for me, and instead try to build up my own by reading FFmpeg documentation. I originally justified using Claude on the grounds that FFmpeg has so many options that they're daunting for a non-expert. But in fact, FFmpeg has very good documentation, which I now reference on my detailed page about the video and how I made it: divtune.com/apple2gs_demo/

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I suppose the whole process, and my own mind, is still contaminated because I initially used an LLM. I can think of the following things that remain from my usage of Claude:

- The use of FFV1 as a lossless video codec. Presumably I would have found that in the FFmpeg documentation if I had really looked.
- The pixel format conversion to yuv420p to fix compatibility problems. Claude gave me that one for the MP4 version, and then I also applied it to WebM.
- The use of 256 Kbps for AAC.

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Now, I have to mention that this program wasn't and isn't accessible to fully blind people. The documentation for Textalker GS, the one screen reader I'm aware of for the Apple IIGS, specifically mentioned Diversi-Tune as a program that could not be made accessible with that screen reader. This was a downside of Diversi-Tune's focus on efficiency, accessing the hardware directly rather than using even the primitive GUI toolkit (literally called the Toolbox) that the Apple IIGS offered.

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Que porra é essa, caralho?! 😡 Estão removendo árvores para dar visibilidades aos anúncios outdoor
oglobo.globo.com/google/amp/ri…
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There's some sort of weird anti-tree conspiracy happening in Rio, and apparently at least part of it is to do with giving more visibility to advertising billboards. Although I swear I've seen trees removed in places without billboards...but then again, it's hard to tell, because sometimes street trees do have to be removed for legitimate reasons

Amos Miller of Glidance released a new amazing video showing the capability of Glide, the mobility tool that he has created. If you have not seen this new video, and by the way it is described, then I highly encourage you to check it out... youtube.com/watch?v=Xq8ofapGxX…

#Blind #Mobility #AmosMiller #Glidance #Glide #Accessible