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A player bought a 2TB hard drive at a flea market for just over 2 dollars. When he looked inside,
"...Once installed, the drive produced just two clicks… and then nothing. Intrigued, the buyer decided to open the case. Surprise: the magnetic platters, essential components of any hard drive, were missing. So it’s not a storage device, just an empty case..."
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A player bought a 2TB hard drive at a flea market for just over 2 dollars. When he looked inside, he noticed a small problem.

Too good to be true? That's what a German buyer experienced when he bought a 2TB hard drive for just over €2 at a flea market. A purchase that turned out to be a real deception. The story goes back to 2023: a man buys a unit stamped as a…
farmingdale-observer.com

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An update to Leasey is now available via check for updates!
New in Build 1069.
Today we give you for the first time Leasey Sports and Games. Covers soccer, baseball, cricket, tennis and basketball.

When using the keystroke Leasey key then ALT+Shift+S to shut down the computer, or Leasey key ALT+Shift+R to restart, the processes to do so should be faster than before.

When using the Focus 14 Braille display, it is now possible to press With-Sign Chord to mute or unmute speech. This was functioning on the Focus 40 model but not the 14.
Don't forget that our new training course is coming up, where Leasey Sports and Games will be covered in depth, among many other utilities.
hartgenconsultancy.com/catchin…

Catching Up With Leasey – The Ultimate Training Experience! – Hartgen Consultancy

hartgenconsultancy.com

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📢 Big news for Yunohost users!

Prosody is now packaged for Yunohost, replacing Metronome.

Prosody is a lightweight and easy-to-use XMPP (Jabber) server.

With Prosody, you can easily host your own instant messaging service, giving you full control over your data and privacy.

Thanks a lot to every contributors!

#Yunohost #Prosody #XMPP #Jabber #OpenSource #SelfHosting

apps.yunohost.org/app/prosody

YunoHost app store | Prosody

apps.yunohost.org
#xmpp #opensource #Jabber #prosody #selfhosting #yunohost

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As a demonstration of the power of OpenStreetMap and links into things like Wikidata, I present my DecomissionedAircraftMap. It pulls geodata for displayed aircraft from OpenStreetMap and generates thumbnails from linked Wikidata entries.

Feel free to link some more, the bot pulls new thumbnails once a day.

github.com/watmildon/Decomissi…

#OpenStreetMap #Wikidata #planes #museum

A map of Europe with a bunch of small images of various aircraft over top.

GitHub - watmildon/DecomissionedAircraftMap: Host the style file and images for an Ultra based airplane map

Host the style file and images for an Ultra based airplane map - GitHub - watmildon/DecomissionedAircraftMap: Host the style file and images for an Ultra based airplane map
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#openstreetmap #wikidata #museum #planes

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This is not only a well written song with a great message, but the production is really nice. Gabrielle Aplin - So Far So Good youtube.com/watch?v=-jipxnd4h2…

Gabrielle Aplin - So Far So Good

Dear Happy: https://gabrielleaplin.ffm.to/dearhappy UK March 2020 tour: http://gabrielleaplin.co.uk/live -- Follow Me:Website: http://gabrielleaplin.co.uk Sp...
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Because life can be full of bullshit, here's some pleasant counterprogramming:

Meet 3.3 m/11 ft #InspectorClouseau

(Old people like me will get the #PinkPanther reference)

First spotted off #Australia in 2015

The only #pink #mantaRay we've discovered in the world, now or ever

Researchers have studied him (yes, a he) as to cause

Diet: no. Stress: no. Toxins: no. Infection: no

They now think it is just a rare genetic mutation

smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/…

#Ocean #Biology #Zoology #Fish #Oceans

a pink manta ray
a pink manta ray
a pink manta ray
a pink manta ray

Rare Pink Manta Ray Spotted Near Australia’s Lady Elliot Island

Researchers suspect a genetic mutation may have gifted the giant fish, named Inspector Clouseau, his rosy hue
Katherine J. Wu (Smithsonian Magazine)
#biology #fish #australia #ocean #zoology #pink #oceans #pinkpanther #mantaray #InspectorClouseau
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NVDA 2025.1 Beta 5 is now available! Changes since beta 4 include:

- Updates to translations
- Fixes for reading math attributes in PDFs
- Minor improvements to the user experience of Remote Access

Read the full details and download at: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-1b…

We are getting closer to NVDA 2025.1! Thank you to all those who have been trying out betas and giving us feedback, we greatly appreciate it!

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Beta #PreRelease #Testing #Accessibility #NewVersion

NV Access | NVDA 2025.1beta5 available for testing

www.nvaccess.org
#Accessibility #screenreader #nvdasr #testing #nvda #beta #newversion #prerelease

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Can #AI Play Text Adventure Games? Turns out AI does perfectly well at playing text adventures. I hooked Google Gemini 2.5 into the famous #Inform text adventure Curses, it became obsessed with fiddling around with the torch, got a game over twice for trying to take the gloves from the potting room, then got fed up and quit. Entirely too relatable. But that was boring, and I really wanted a blog post out of this idea! stuff.interfree.ca/2025/05/11/textadventure.html

Sam's Stuff - Can AI Play Text Adventure Games?

stuff.interfree.ca
#AI #inform

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Přesně takhle to chci. Volně dostupné 3D tisknutelné díly pro nejrůznější produkty (tam, kde to jde) a když se někdo něco ulomí, vytisknu a jedu dál.
philips 👍👍👍
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3D tisknutelné a volně dostupné náhradní díly | Philips

Fixables je sbírka náhradních dílů pro výrobky Philips, které lze vytisknout na 3D tiskárně - navržená tak, aby oprava byla snadná pro každého.
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Wanderer atop the sea of clouds or whatever

@ocean>I recall early machine-assisted translation systems from the nineties doing much better job that what Google Translate does now.
There is no way in a million years this is true. It was already better than those since it's inception, and Google Translate has improved leaps and bounds over the last 15 years. And there is competition in that space, so it doesn't fit the motive as well
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m0xEE

Yes, exactly! Even in its inception it was better and same as with search it got worse recently. I used to have a tab with SimplyTranslate open, it was a great tool to access Google Translate — not anymore, with languages I somewhat understand it's barely useful, I might as well use Reverso to translate some words, and with other languages — I'm not even sure the result has anything to do with original text. Even a year ago you could pull an article through it, fix a few sentences here and there and be done with it — it was good enough. Right now I'm giving it a few well-formed sentences in English — not even complex ones where it might get lost, to translate into my native language and… the result is gibberish. It can't handle passive voice at all, it's incorrect tenses, incorrect cases all over the place — this isn't a translation even, this is some word soup! A schoolkid with a dictionary translating word-for-word would do a much better job than this!
The motive? It gives you slightly better results if you use it directly, not via API as SimplyTranslate does — here the motive is obvious, but otherwise… no, same as with search. Do they have ads in Google Translate? I don't know because I have those blocked. Does it give you better results in Google Chrome? I don't know, they might be incentivising me to use it in a way they could serve me more ads or harvest more data. I didn't do a thorough research — just sharing my observation and for me, the way I used to use it, it got noticeably worse.

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Update: Can a poor little trans angelgirl please get enough to afford to replace her wardrobe with feminine clothing she likes? pwease? ​:neobot_angel_pleading:​
Main: I live in an abusive and transphobic home, my family hates me because i am trans. i am disabled and unable to get a job. i will literally die without donations. Please donate to me to help me afford my basic necessities like HRT, food, clothing, phone bill, etc. Anything helps please!

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@mutualaid@a.gup.pe @disability@a.gup.pe @trans@a.gup.pe @vegan@a.gup.pe
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If you’re a developer writing a GTK app and you want it to be accessible, you might want to check out the following links:

developer.gnome.org/documentat…

docs.gtk.org/gtk4/section-acce…


Coding Guidelines for Supporting Accessibility

Here are some things you can do in your code to make your program work as well as possible with assistive technologies. For components that don’t display a short string (such as an image button), s...
GNOME Developer Documentation

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@Emmanuele Bassi @modulux @Claire @Danielle Foré I'm wondering are there known windows builds of some very accessible GTK apps such as fractal, shortwave, gnome podcasts, eartag, amberol or some others that we might enjoy trying out with a screen reader on windows?
I'll be definatelly looking into it soon enough. I'm excited about it so it's why I am also posting here.
@Emmanuele Bassi @Danielle Foré @modulux @Claire
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Emmanuele Bassi

@pvagner @modulux @clairie I am not aware of any binary builds for Windows; I personally have a full life already, and I don't particularly plan on wasting it on the foibles of Windows.

As far as I know, the accesskit backend was tested with a custom gnome-text-editor build, but that was last year. If people want to pick this up, I'd recommend starting with a small hello world to ensure that building all dependencies actually works.

@Peter Vágner @modulux @Claire

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It would be so cool if there was a music place that took the best bits of #Bandcamp and #Patreon and also let you set your own fees as an artist and maybe was a #coop too.

Well, it already exists. It's called #Mirlo. 🐦‍⬛

mirlo.space

#Music #Musicians #JoinMirlo

An illustrated graphic for musicians showing how they can set their own fees on Mirlo and explaining who we are. "Mirlo thrives on artist contributions-whether through monthly support or a slice of album sales. But we get it: every cent counts, and only you know what you can afford. That's why we let you decide how much of your sales goes to Mirlo. Your art, your call. If you're having trouble deciding on a rate, you can use this sliding scale calculator for individuals provided by the Aorta Co-operative."

Mirlo

Buy and sell music directly from musicians.
Mirlo
#music #coop #patreon #bandcamp #musicians #mirlo #joinmirlo

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 14 updated (11 RB) and 2 added apps:

* OpenStore: a libre client for RuStore 🛡️
* Seqular: a Mastodon client (fork of Moshidon) 🛡️

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


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
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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RetroStrange TV is now streaming!

Sci-fi, horror, education, and ephemera from the public domain

#streaming #retro #movies #scifi #horror #tv #vintage #publicdomain #adfree

live.retrostrange.com

Live stream preview

RetroStrange TV

A community-supported 24/7 streaming TV channel based on public domain media and original content. Support us at http://patreon.com/philnelson
RetroStrange TV
#OwnCast #streaming #movies #scifi #horror #retro #tv #publicdomain #vintage #adfree
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