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So, like, I have a pair of the 1st-gen Bose frames lying around here. Would be happy to give them away, but not sure if anyone would be interested. On top of this, the shipping costs have gone up so much that it does not often make sense to send things out unless someone agrees to pay for the shipping. There you have it! :)



Zemřel Paul Di'Anno, bývalý frontman Iron Maiden. V Kolíně už zpíval jen na vozíčku
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This Raspberry Pi ghost talks to trick-or-treaters using AI tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/…

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What happens when your finances are controled by the one you're supposed to trust most?
What happens when you're told to keep up appearances to family and friends when all you really want to do is confess?
What happens when walls get built and secrets are all you dabble in?
Find out in my latest #blog.
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#blog
in reply to Lauren Celeste

Blow the doors wide open and be yourself. Do what you feel is right for you. Make it clear that you will accept help, but you don't want any of it if there are going to be strings attached to it in the way there use to be. That is all from me on this issue.


Voy a pasar el diciembre andando en bici desde Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca hasta Orizaba, Veracruz. Una historia de una parte de la ruta:

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Recommendation for scientific Mastodon!

We have seen how, once again, Nobel prizes have been awarded to men. why?

This article reviews the different studies carried out on this male chauvinist phenomenon and provides some collective solutions.

elsaltodiario.com/paradoja-jev…



So learned something new about jaws today. You can hit insert space followed by F4 on your keyboard, and Jaws will shut down and restart automatically. Don't know if that would recover from a really bad crash, but as it's a new Jaws tool, for me anyway, thought I'd share
in reply to David Dunphy

Depending on what's caused the crash, the layer key (insert+space) might not work. They introduced insert+windows+f4 as an emergency kill shortcut with JAWS 8. I presume it still works!
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo That Windows Insert F4 never seems to work at my job sadly, but I was aware of that shortcut


Welcome to Nepal this week. We're starting off in Kathmandu and the joy of walking around some marvellous temples with a camera. So much to work with. So much inspiration.

#Nepal #Photography #Kathmandu #Lumix

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in reply to Ewen Bell 📷

I love these pictures, such a beautiful place and people! ❤️

It breaks my heart that so many buildings are still held with support beams, so much earthquake damage everywhere.



Thunderbird for Android 8.0b4 is out and available for testing! Help us test the new subscription funding feature and the QR code Export to Mobile feature, now on the desktop Thunderbird Beta image! For more detailed testing notes, see our mailing list announcement. thunderbird.topicbox.com/group… Full release notes: github.com/thunderbird/thunder…

#thunderbird #development #opensource

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in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

Do y'all plan to add some sort of sync feature between the desktop and mobile version? It would be super cool to use Mozilla sync or something similar.




What I would be doing with my life if I didn't have to grind
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this dystopic scene of identical robocars clogging an entire block to carry maaaybe 1/4 of a busload of people, was posted by a waymo employee who thought it made his company look good.

#banCars

in reply to scott f

Some years ago, on the birdsite, I used to follow an account from the city government that tweeted photos from the city's cameras. One was a whole street clogged with taxis. No non-taxi cars in sight. That street does not have bus service.


hey @thephd does Very Old ISO C have Rationales or "History of Decision Made"s (I would like to know if the reason C allows malloc(0)=0 is because it believes the SVID which says this happens on SysV (it doesn't, the manual lies. malloc(0)≠0 always (unless OOM), and this has always been the case in every malloc implementation ever (on anything unix-shaped)))


The Struggle with Mobile Job Applications: Accessibility Insights blog.usablenet.com/the-struggl…


This article is old, but the description of how Coverity evolved from a research tool to seeing real-world usage in a commercial context, is REALLY GOOD. web.stanford.edu/~engler/BLOC-…



Making Castro’s Feeds Update Faster the Lazy Way castro.fm/blog/making-castros-…

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The difference between Chrome's address bar autocomplete and Firefox's address bar autocomplete? Chrome will try to fill out the full URL if you type the first part, for example, if you had foo.com/example-1, Chrome will type that full string with just foo and then pressing right arrow or tab, ETC. Firefox is smarter, and only fills out the first part of the URL. Both let you down arrow through a top list of sites to visit. I like Firefox better at this one every time, though








T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users

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Does anyone remember a Christian soap opera that aired in the early '80s called "Another Life?" I remember really getting into that show in 1981.
in reply to David Goldfield

Wow it had a classy theme. youtube.com/watch?v=Ryvx9GxrsJ…
in reply to Robin Frost

@robini71 That's amazing. Hadn't heard that theme in over 40 years. Thanks for finding it.


I'm hoping this is not the case but I need some answers from tech people. I have a 128 GB SD card. I use it to listen to movies/TV shows/graphic audio via my Victor reader three. Currently I am trying to copy a graphic audio onto it with 39 GB space available. It is refusing to copy or cut onto this card. Does this mean that the SD card is going bad? This has only started to happen recently. I can put the graphic audio on my hard drive but it is not allowing me to put it on the SD card.
in reply to David Goldfield

@DavidGoldfield It took me some figuring out because I for some reason can't get the computer to display the size. So I plugged my hard drive into my phone. This is the size of the file I want to copy onto my SD card. Size, 902.5 MB


Wow, it's great seeing more of the Internet Archive back in operation. I was so disgusted at what happened to them. This amazing library helped me to find electronic copies of out of print books that I've wanted to read for decades. These are books that I honestly never thought I'd be able to read, short of purchasing used copies of the books and spending hours of my time scanning them. I can't express enough my thanks for the hours of joy I've received from this service after finding books that I thought would always be inaccessible to me as a blind reader.
@internetarchive

Internet Archive Services Update: 2024-10-21
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I always wanted to look into why I procrastinate, but I keep putting it off.
in reply to I Has Wisdom

You'll find plenty of good company at this year's 1994 procrastinator's convention.


#DoctorWho was probably the last thing the English could offer and now the Americans own it.


Our DM is experimenting with giving us players more free rein to suggest aspects about the world and especially stuff that concerns our characters. He's finding it's more fun for him if he gets to enjoy what other people add to the story.

I think it's fantastic, but it's difficult to foster that approach in #DnD. It's not really built for it. Of course, at this point the version of "D&D" we are playing is so homebrewed and tweaked that it's eventually not going to qualify as the same game.

#dnd
in reply to Artemis

I wish they'd just be content to sell books with cool, creative content instead of trying to somehow gain control over the *game* itself.

You can own the license to publish official D&D content. You *cannot* own D&D.

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in reply to Artemis

Blame Hasbro and their investors for fundamentally failing to understand the D&D community, and instead wanting to tightly control and monetize it in search of the greatest profits.

Personally, I've been liking the campaign architecture of newer systems like Forged in the Dark or Apocalypse Word for using different ways of encouragement towards specific play styles. Even the way they use dice like 2d6 means you've got a better bell curve distribution of success. Or how "well, bad thing happened, but you can push yourself to resist the bad thing, but the pushing yourself adds up".



in reply to Sven

And Pluto, at least, attempts to play DW episodes in order, unlike Amazon Prime Video and Xumo Play where you just never know what you'll get. #DoctorWho


Fun facts:

The most sustainable commute comes with working from home.

The most fuel and power efficient commute comes with working from home.

The fastest commute comes with working from home.



Hmm I have a book I bought saturday that came with PDF and Epub versions. Q-read won't open the Epub, error says parsing failed "Unable to parse document." Any other programs for windows that can open it and save as txt?