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In a serious gain in efficiency, a Space X Starship prototype has exploded without actually being launched.
They're next plan is to see if they can produce an explosion during the assembly process.

youtube.com/watch?v=71AwkBt3_t…

#news #science #space #NASA #spacex


SpaceX Starship 36 Explodes During Flight 10 Testing at Starbase

While preparing for a 6-engine static fire test as part of its pre-flight test campaign, SpaceX's Ship 36 experienced an anomaly, resulting in destruction of...
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#News #science #space #nasa #spacex

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This sounds like a joke, but I kid you not:

While the US military is rushing to The Middle East, Trump suddenly wants to wait two weeks before deciding what he wants to do in Iran.

US tax dollars are burning in the engines of the carrier strike groups, but as always Trump has no plan.

I think we have heard that “in two weeks” excuse 3 times with regards to Ukraine.

The US lost its leadership on January 20.

youtu.be/cJctcEmx-eY


Trump to allow 2 more weeks for diplomacy before deciding on US strike in Iran

President Donald Trump will decide whether to launch a US strike on Iran within the next two weeks, he said in a statement delivered by his press secretary d...
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Anyone who took this long to split with Trump is untrustable. They have a history of spectacularly poor judgment mixed with moral turpitude and they failed to recognize their own error for about a decade. It’s nice to have a vote change and good to have someone intimate with the MAGA mindset trying to persuade his former co-religionists, but anyone who stuck with Trump past the first quarter of 2017 has a lot of eager evil to atone for. beige.party/@Lana/114711292686…

𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight" (@Lana@beige.party)

Oh are you leaving MAGA? That's great 👍🏼 I still don't fucking trust you go fuck yourself.
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Phantasm

Hate is one of the purest emotions and also one of those that people usually are unable to reason with. It's very polar for most people. That's why you very rarely see people on both sides of politics that can understand their opponent, or work with them on topics they don't inherently both agree with. And that's where I think this tendency to alienate people comes from; You are either with us, or against us; I either like you, or I hate you.

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Enshittification comes for open source:
Slack is kicking two large open source groups, Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Kubernetes, off of their donated enterprise tier, giving them one week notice to migrate multiple years of data to a new platform before it's all deleted: cncf.io/blog/2025/06/16/cncf-s…

Instead of learning from this experience and not trusting the good will of profit-motivated closed source companies, it looks like both projects will be moving to ... Discord. Because "people know it." Will we never learn?

(Dropped Cory because he's probably getting tons of spam from this. Sorry!)

#enshittification


CNCF Slack Workspace Changes Coming on Friday, June 20 | CNCF

The CNCF Slack workspace will be converted from an enterprise plan to a free plan on Friday, June 20, 2025. This will have implications for how Slack works for…
Katie Greenly (CNCF)
#enshittification
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A few days ago, I covered how the version of DECtalk made for the US National Weather Service has abbreviations that can match on inflected forms. I found another set of voices that also do this. The Windows XP versions of Microsoft Mike, Mary and Sam. In fact, they do it in a way that allows for really hilarious results.
Several abbreviations in those voices are implemented in such a way that they match on inflected forms of the abbreviations. For example, CH, the abbreviation for Chapter, also matches on CHY, which is said as "chaptery," or CHFUL, which is said as "chapterful." In fact, the voices allow word suffixes to be chained together in any order, seemingly forever. Typing something like NEFULERYING will result in them saying "northeastfullerying." This creates endless possibilities for silly sentences. Here's one I made.

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Dangerous #Accessibility Assumptions That Put Everyone at Risk
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#a11y #productmgmt #webdev #webdesign

Dangerous Accessibility Assumptions That Put Everyone at Risk

Three strips of intersecting yellow and black “warning” tape. Accessibility isn’t an extra feature or a nice-to-have add-on. It’s a foundational requirement...
Access * Ability
#a11y #Accessibility #webdev #webdesign #productmgmt

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#AudioMo day 19:

Because the thing I wanted to post today didn't work out, I'll throw this here instead.

In late July of 2016, I was visiting my parents. They were getting ready for a move, and thus, were about to toss a bunch of stuff, including a bunch of old hard drives. The newest of these was probably 10 or 20GB, and the oldest was 80MB. Most of them didn't calibrate.

So, just because I could, I recorded exactly 30 seconds of each hard drive being powered on, regardless if it calibrated or not, then stacked them all. Result is this clicky clacky thing I called "a Bad Day in the Server Room."

I can't find the original multi-track project, so I am not sure how many hard drives are featured in this recording. I'm pretty sure it is at least 15. Have fun trying to count them all.

This was recorded with a Zoom H6 and it's X/Y microphones.


#audiomo

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Wir haben Euch in unserem Newsletter und hier im #Fediverse gefragt, wo man überall das #Deutschlandticket ohne App-Zwang / Digitalzwang bekommen kann. Daraus ist eine Tabelle mit ca. 180 Einträgen geworden (die sich auch mobil betrachten lässt.) Weitersagen! ReTrööten, bitte!

digitalcourage.de/blog/2025/ue…

Bild eines fiktiven Deutschlandtickets auf einer Landkarte

Deutschlandticket ohne App-Zwang | Digitalcourage

Wer das Deutschlandticket kaufen möchte, wird von der Deutschen Bahn schnell auf ihren „DB Schnüffel-Navigator“ geleitet. Viele Verkehrsunternehmen bieten das
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#fediverse #Deutschlandticket

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Trump Administration Abandons Deal With Northwest Tribes to Restore Salmon
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The Trump administration canceled a deal, signed under President Joe Biden, that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmon.
propublica.org/article/trump-s…

#News #Trump #Native #Indigenous #Oregon #Environment #Sustainability #PNW


Trump Cancels Deal With Tribes to Restore Columbia River Salmon

The Trump administration canceled a deal that would have enabled the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Columbia River that are considered harmful to salmon.
ProPublica
#Trump #sustainability #News #environment #indigenous #native #Oregon #pnw

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#FreeBSD provides the Ports Collection, a convenient way to install applications. Some ports allow users to configure options before building and installing. By default, this configuration is done through an interactive menu in the terminal.

To improve readability and #Accessibility especially for users with low vision or color blindness, it's important to offer simple and customizable color options. These features have recently been implemented and documented in the preview version of the FreeBSD Accessibility Handbook:
freebsd-accessibility-9d667f.g…

The next step is to extend these features to all terminal-based graphical components.

I'd love to hear from you:
Do you use any accessibility features in the terminal?
Which color-related assistive technologies make the biggest difference in your daily workflow?

Together, we can make FreeBSD more accessible for everyone. #ThePowerForEveryone #FreeBSD #Accessibility #OpenSource #LowVision #ColorBlindness #AssistiveTechnology #AccessibilityMatters

Screenshot showing four different terminal windows running the FreeBSD Ports Collection configuration menu for Vim. Each window demonstrates a different color scheme, illustrating the newly implemented color customization options for improved accessibility. The configurations include toggles for language support and ctags options, with varying background and text colors to enhance readability for users with different visual needs.

Chapter 3. Colors | FreeBSD Documentation Portal

Features to set up colors
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#Accessibility #opensource #freebsd #lowvision #assistivetechnology #AccessibilityMatters #colorblindness #thepowerforeveryone

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Steam just added screen reader support in the latest Big Picture Mode beta. On the Deck. On SteamOS. On Linux.
Not hacked in. Not community-patched. Built-in. From Valve.
There's an accessibility tab. There's a screen reader. There's high-contrast mode, UI scaling, color filters, reduced motion, and more.
I can’t believe I’m saying this but: I need a Steam Deck now.
Accessibility isn’t just coming to gaming — it’s here, and it’s official.
Let’s make some noise so they keep going.
🔗 theverge.com/games/689922/stea…
#Accessibility #Gaming #SteamDeck #ScreenReader #Linux #valve

Steam is adding screen reader support and other accessibility tools

Valve’s latest Steam beta adds new accessibility features to Big Picture mode and SteamOS.
Adi Robertson (The Verge)
#Accessibility #linux #gaming #screenreader #SteamDeck #valve
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Na (re)kole Prahou

Po městě jezdím na kole běžně. Do práce to je pro mě nejlepší způsob dopravy. S autem často nezaparkuju a MHD trvá déle. Co když ale nemá člověk kolo zrovna u sebe nebo je v cizím městě? Poprvé jsem vyzkoušel sdílená kola a byl příjemně překvapený.

#bike #Cyclers #cycling #kolo #NextBike #Rekola

blog.eischmann.cz/2025/06/19/n…
(reakce na tento příspěvek se může zobrazit jako komentář pod článkem)

Zakarkovaná růžová kola

Na (re)kole Prahou

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#bike #cycling #kolo #rekola #cyclers #nextbike

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🧵 So to recap something that happened yesterday, as I see it:

Yesterday Mastodon gGmbH sent out an email to mastodon.social and .online users announcing a new TOS. The TOS would take effect July 1, and would ship in the next version of the Mastodon server software as a suggested "template" TOS instances could adopt.

This TOS had multiple problems, and several people said so loudly. This morning, Mastodon announced they're backing off and taking additional legal advice:

mastodon.social/@Mastodon/1147…

Mastodon (@Mastodon@mastodon.social)

We've heard your feedback on the Terms of Service updates for mastodon.social and mastodon.online, and we're pausing the implementation date (previously announced to users via email as 1st July 2025) so we can take further advice and make improvemen…
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‘Doctor Who’ Showrunner Says ‘We Don’t Know What’s Happening Yet’ Amid Uncertain Future, but Insists Series ‘Will Never End’
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#Global #News #BBC #Disney #DoctorWho #RussellTDavies

Doctor Who Showrunner on Series Future: 'Don't Know What's Happening'

"Doctor Who" showrunner Russell T Davies is addressing the show's uncertain future after its Season 2 finale.
Ellise Shafer (Variety)
#News #doctorwho #bbc #Disney #global #RussellTDavies

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What’s New in Prudence Screen Reader 3.0.0 accessibleandroid.com/whats-ne…

What’s New in Prudence Screen Reader 3.0.0 - Accessible Android

Prudence Screen Reader has just received a major update on Google Play, bringing the app to version 3.0.0. This version introduces a range of powerful new
Wang Ice From Prudence Interactive (Accessible Android)

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#Iran’s greatest asset is not oil, it’s its people.

The future is bright for Iranian people, but not for the #Islamic Republic, which as you can see is coming to an end.

says Iranian-American businessman #Najibnaik.

#IranIsraelWar

#iran #islamic #najibnaik #iranisraelwar

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Learning Blind Tech Episode 26 Book Reading with Braillesense 6 desireerenae.com/learning-blin…

Learning Blind Tech Episode 26 Book Reading with Braillesense 6

In this episode, I walk through options for downloading and reading books using the braillesense 6. We will explore the daisy player, bookshare download, Bard Braille download and the Audible app f…
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We are ending the era of Russian fossil fuels in Europe for good!

We have proposed a gradual phase-out of Russian gas and oil imports, to be completed by the end of 2027.

This will cut energy and economic risks tied to Russian supply, while ensuring stable and secure energy for all EU countries.

Our proposal protects markets, limits price impacts, and strengthens the EU’s energy independence.

Let's turn off the tap on Russian fossil fuels in Europe for good.

ℹ️ europa.eu/!CrrR3m

An image shows two sets of pipes, one red and one blue, with a message that reads: "Our reliance on Russian energy ends here." On the bottom right, blue pipes are connected and also move downwards. The European Commission logo is visible in the top right corner.

Commission proposes gradual phase-out of Russian gas and oil imports into the EU

The EU will gradually and effectively stop the import of Russian gas and oil by the end of 2027, under a legislative proposal put forward by the European Commission today.
European Commission - European Commission

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ARIA! It exists and on a long enough timeline you'll need to use it. Here's how to get into the right headspace to do so! #a11y smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/w…

What I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was Getting Into ARIA — Smashing Magazine

[Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)](https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/aria/) is an inevitability when working on web accessibility. That said, it’s everyone’s first time learning about ARIA at some point.
Smashing Magazine
#a11y

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Bluesky are openly welcoming, verifying and hosting accounts of prominent far right politicians. Trump's VP Vance is now on Bluesky:

bsky.app/profile/jd-vance-1.bs…

"We welcome the Vice President to the conversation on Bluesky" (Bluesky in their email to Fox News)

More 🚩: Bluesky is centralised, run by a for-profit corporation, its CEO has blockchain background, it is partly owned by VCs & Blockchain Capital.

Bluesky are going down exactly the same Nazi Bar path as Twitter.

(via @mastodonmigration)

@Mastodon Migration

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