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Spotted on an evening walk on an isolated beach in Aotearoa #NewZealand

A small human (5?) holding up a kite so her older brother can get it in the air. She's an expert holder, picking it up every time it falls on the sand. The patience and optimism that it'll fly eventually seems infinite.

A man (30s?) with a thoughtful aspect pushing a wheelbarrow down to the water line. He's got all the gear for a perfect few hours fishing. A while later he's spotted in a deck chair next to a low table with a picnic on it while waiting for a catch.

A small group of young humans directed by a man (40s?) in setting up a sand-drawn rugby pitch. He's wearing a bucket hat and has the air of a dad on a mighty mission. Within minutes he has teams sorted and is running up and down the sand umpiring. This is serious business

Two grey haired naturists walking along the treeline on a quiet patch of the beach. From a distance they look like two tranquil, rather pink wild creatures happily holding hands as one of them points out different cloud formations crossing the skyline.

A couple of women (20s?) smooching while standing in ankle deep water. They pause to take a selfie and then one abruptly stoops and splashes the other. Shrieking, chasing and more smooching to follow.

Any typos spotted in this post are lost after being locked in overnight after the sunset gates were closed at this beach. If spotted give them a drink of water and a ride to the nearest town. They will appreciate breakfast.

You're looking at a spectacular flat yellow/brown sand beach at almost full low tide. There's a massive expanse of sand in the foreground that feels quite coarse underfoot. To the left you can see a treeline of pine trees going into the distance. To the right is blue water and overhead is a stunning late spring evening blue sky with the odd fluffy picturesque cloud. In the far distance is a mountain range because this is New Zealand and those suckers sneak up on you.
#newzealand
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mahdi

taky mam vzdycky "radost", kdyz vidim update tohohle molochu. Bohuzel mam jednu appku, kde to nejde vypnout a zatim sem byl linej ten -9999 ebuild poradne prozkoumat, jestli bych to nevypl nebo je to nak vic zadratovany. Naivne sem si myslel (tak pred pul rokem), ze zkusim prepnout par balicku na binarni, ale ono to nejde (zatim?) uplne mixovat. Jen pokud existuje -bin alternativa separe, i u LO sem musel prejit na kompilaci, protoze -bin je zoufale stara a dle bugzilly to moc nevypada.
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Jiří Pavlík

@Marián Kyral @mahdi Já mám Firefox a Thunderbird binární, protože tam jsou updaty hodně časté, Libreoffice kompiluju na svých třech strojích pod hodinu (jsou to děla), na čas Qtwebengine se mi nechce vzpomínat.

Zkoušel jsem binpkg gcc, protože mi chvíli zlobila jeho kompilace, ale jinak té binpkg větvi Gentoo rozumím tak, že je spíš pro případ, kdy člověk spravuje síť a nechce kompilovat na každém PC.

@Marián Kyral @mahdi
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Marián Kyral

@jiri @mahdi

Ta binární větev je pro všechny, kdo využívají nejčastější kombinaci USE flagů. Pokud člověk moc nedivočí, tak se použije binární balík. Jinak se kompiluje.

Bohužel čím větší balík, tím více USE flagů a tím větší šance, že se bude muset kompilovat. Nebylo by špatné, mít nějaký nástroj, který by mi řekl, kterými USE flagy se liším.

@Jiří Pavlík @mahdi

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Fairphone 4 and sensors

Full post here. rene.seindal.dk/2024/11/03/fai…

I bought a Fairphone 4 as a part of my project of de-googling my life.

Playing with different operating systems, I somehow ended up with a phone where most of the sensors didn't work, even if they did when I got the phone.

#EOS #DeGoogling #FairPhone4 #FP4 #MurenaOS #UbuntuTouch


Fairphone 4 and sensors

A Fairphone4, which has had UBports installed, doesn’t show most sensors to a later installation of Android.
René Seindal (René's old blog)
#UbuntuTouch #eos #murenaos #Fairphone4 #fp4 #degoogling

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The first batch of videos from the recent #LibreOffice Conference 2024 are now online! (Apologies for the slight video stutter in places – beyond our control.) This is just the beginning, and there are many more to come (and PeerTube)...
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Meet the Engineering Steering Committee (ESC) – LibreOffice Conference 2024

A talk from the LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024, which took place in Luxembourg in October. Presenter: Miklos VajnaMore details, with slides (whe...
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#libreoffice

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You're on a ship hurtling through space and your crew's best engineers report that critical sub-systems - from water filtration, through to HVAC and food pods - are all failing. Evidence of sabotage. What do you do?

World's governments:

"Governments failed to reach a consensus [...] Many were forced to leave the talks early to catch flights, and negotiations were suspended at 8.30am when fewer than half of the countries were present"

theguardian.com/environment/20…

#biodiversity


Cop16 ends in disarray and indecision despite biodiversity breakthroughs

Conservation summit agrees to global levy on drugs from nature’s genetics, but developing nations furious at unmet funding promises
Patrick Greenfield (The Guardian)
#biodiversity

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Preventing enshittificatiom with the "Ulysses pact" from @pluralistic pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/uly…

We consider our efforts aligned: #deltachat #chatmail and #webxdc implement "right to exit" on all levels of our decentralized messaging project.

- deploy your own servers permission free and interoperable with all e-mail servers ("federation mast")
- all apps and libraries and server components are 100% Foss
- interactive chat-shared web-apps can be used in other messengers

#righttoexit

Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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#deltachat #Webxdc #chatmail #righttoexit @Cory Doctorow

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🔓 Odemykám → Respekt: Ticho na konci každé písně

Kapela The Cure hraje největší koncerty své kariéry a nikdy nebyla více v oblibě. Nyní po 16 letech přichází i s novým albem

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Ticho na konci každé písně

Kapela The Cure hraje největší koncerty své kariéry a nikdy nebyla více v oblibě. Nyní po 16 letech přichází i s novým albem
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Patrick Perdue

It doesn't matter too much, since the screen reader is currently web-based. It does work a little better out-of-the-box with Voiceover on either Mac or iOS compared to NVDA, but thanks to some code from @tspivey that makes interrupting of regions way, way nicer, I prefer using it with NVDA now. No idea how Jaws does it.
I tried it with Talkback/Google Chrome, and it's much less nice there.
@Tyler Spivey
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Tamas G

@twynn oooh yeah, I heard the 34-minute overview Onj did on it, quite impressive but also a bit steep from say, a standard stylophone or something much more simple like a synth/looping device as such. Although the flexibility of pads and track layouts being so easy to make are both tempting upsides so for sure considering them the more I hear of it, like that production too.
@Timothy Wynn

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Grass is pretty amazing.

I was out at the farm, doing the regular fall chores and prepping beds for garlic, when my glasses lens fell out. The screw is, of course, gone. But I need my glasses to drive. Enter a natural material that's abundant, strong, flexible and able to hold a knot.

It got me home. Thanks, grass.
#grass #nature #AnyLandingYouWalkAwayFrom

A pair of dirty glasses being held together by a split and tied blade of green grass where its screw should be.
#nature #anylandingyouwalkawayfrom #grass
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Ian Rose

#eyegrasses Day 4 update

(To be read in the voice of German filmmaker Werner Hertzog)

At first, I found the blade of grass to be a simple solution to a problem. A satisfying answer to a question asked by circumstance. Then it became, I admit, something of an amusement. That was a fool's error. Now it is not me who laughs at the grass, but the grass which laughs cruelly at me. It sees me, and by extension all of humanity, stripped of our modern contrivances, naked before it, and it mocks us.

Yup, I'm still on my blade of grass in the glasses screw hole bullshit. The picture is of that, a blade of grass used instead of a screw, just as it will be every day until it breaks or I do.
#eyegrasses
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Ian Rose

The end of an era. On September 24, I used a blade of fresh grass to temporarily mend my glasses after one of the screws fell out in a hay field. I just hoped it would last the day.

Today, 39 days later, it finally started to slip, and I put a metal screw back into the hole. Thank you, blade of grass. You served me incredibly well. Amazing stuff, grass.

#eyegrasses #AllGoodThings

A piece of very dry grass barely holding a pair of glasses together, after over a month of serving that task.
#eyegrasses #allgoodthings

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Welcome to the RB family, Soul Searching 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.g…

Soul Searching is an offline music application for Android 8 and above. It's a rework of the native mobile application Sweet Music using Jetpack Compose.

This was quite a journey fighting compression algorithms (Fedora using zlib-ng instead of zlib), but thanks to joint efforts and hard work of the author (thanks entername74!), it was finally made RB :awesome:

Btw: 313 apps / 26% now 😉

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid


„Soul Searching“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

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Published some notes on Docling, a rather nice MIT licensed Python PDF document / table extraction library from IBM simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/3/d…

Docling

MIT licensed document extraction Python library from the Deep Search team at IBM, who released [Docling v2](https://ds4sd.github.io/docling/v2/#changes-in-docling-v2) on October 16th. Here's the [Docling Technical Report](https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.
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Si quieren saber la línea que va desde el #Yunque de #Mexico hasta #vox en #España, @julieofthespirits lo explica muy bien aquí:

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For God, Fatherland and the Faith: CitizenGo, HazteOír and the Yunque

A deep dive into the murky background of a global far right anti-gender network
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#méxico #espana #vox #yunque @Hegelian Princess

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Shall the historic anglophones ALSO sue the province of Québec AND the city of Montréal, etc. to translate ALL its websites and provincial and municipal documents into English?

Supreme Court sued over its refusal to translate decisions before 1970 into French: montreal.citynews.ca/2024/11/0…

#cdnpoli #polcan #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #polMTL #MTLpoli


Supreme Court sued over its refusal to translate decisions before 1970 into French

MONTREAL — A Quebec civil rights group is suing the office of the registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada because of the high court’s refusal to translate its historic decisions into French.
CityNews Montreal
#cdnpoli #assnat #polqc #polmtl #qcpoli #polcan #mtlpoli

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To pull a Bezos: to sell oneself out to someone only to be kicked in the teeth by them.

Couldn’t have happened to a smarter person. Like literally, almost anyone paying attention with a modicum of intelligence would have known acquiescence would earn them nothing but scorn.

h/t @amberwavesofflame

#fec #WashingtonPost #trump #bezos #USpol

Trump-Vance Campaign Files FC Complaint Against the Kamala Campaign and The Washington Post The Trump-Vance Campaign has filed a Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint against The Washington Post for illegal in-kind contributions to Harris for President. According to reports, the Post is using its advertising powers to promote pro-Kamala and anti-Trump coverage to voters in the final days of the election. While they declined to endorse her publicly, they have endorsed her in the dark; so much for "Democracy Dies in Darkness." The mainstream media has become nothing more than pro-Kamala propaganda The Democrat machine must be held accountable. Read the complaint HERE.
#Trump #uspol #bezos #washingtonpost #fec @amberwavesofflame

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Montreal metro shut down for nearly 20 hours

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But Valérie Plante want to spend MILLIONS on Franco Fascism.


Montreal metro shut down for nearly 20 hours

It was a difficult day for Montreal metro users on Nov. 1 with service only being restored in the early morning of Nov. 2.There were multiple delays including the green line being at a standstill for 20-hours.
Erin Seize (CityNews Montreal)

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Trump Media Outsourced Jobs to #Mexico Even as #Trump Pushes “America First”
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On the campaign trail, #DonaldTrump threatened businesses that send jobs south of the border, while his own company that runs the Truth Social platform outsourced coding jobs to workers in Mexico, outraging some staff members.

#News #TrumpMedia #Trump #Government #Business #Tariffs #Politics #Election #ELection2024 #TruthSocial

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Trump Media Outsourced Jobs to Mexico Despite Trump’s “America First” Push

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump threatened businesses that send jobs south of the border, while his own company that runs the Truth Social platform outsourced coding jobs to workers in Mexico, outraging some staff members.
ProPublica
#Trump #politics #News #business #méxico #truthsocial #government #election #Election2024 #donaldtrump #trumpmedia #tariffs
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