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This is the best kind of hacker conference talk: little-known subject or project, opening new dimensions of possibilities for curious people not afraid to experiment and put in effort and who self-select to take interest or not. Not yet another rehashing of basics of commonplace matters (be it tech or social), not yet another retro-tech deep dive. The speaker is not holding club mate bottle on stage to make people notice their street cred.

Bravo @freesewing

media.ccc.de/v/why2025-251-fre…

A slide from FreeSewing talk at WHY2025 hackercamp: a venn diagram showing that there is barely any intersection between the sets "people who like to write code" and "people who like to sew clothes".

FreeSewing: sewing patterns in the open source world

FreeSewing is the leading open-source library for parametric sewing patterns and combines sewing patterns with code; instead of drafting ...
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@FreeSewing

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Age verification via face scans is not safety — it's surveillance. Biometric age guessing is inaccurate, discriminatory, and creepy AF. Stop normalizing it. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/face…

Face Scans to Estimate Our Age: Harmful and Creepy AF

Government must stop restricting website access with laws requiring age verification.Some advocates of these censorship schemes argue we can nerd our way out of the many harms they cause to speech, equity, privacy, and infosec.
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I see a lot of requests for money on Mastodon - and I do mean a lot. On top of that, there are those who will boost the requests of others. Since this could be a very easy way for some people to exploit the kindness of others, I respectfully suggest we all adopt the policy of only boosting requests from people we know and whose claims we can verify. Also be careful about your own reputation. If you desperately ask people for a hundred today, then plunk a thousand down on an extravagance tomorrow, anyone who responded to your plea today is going to feel used and taken advantage of. Just my suggestions.
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Cary ✨

ugh, I don't really know how to respond to this. My husband and I have been regularly in a place where we're barely making ends meet, so I know exactly how those people feel who are reaching out, asking for help. I regularly boost those kinds of posts when I encounter them, because I know how it feels to barely have two cents to rub together, meanwhile looking at a mountain of bills wondering how the hell we're going to make it. I don't honestly think it's our place to judge whether those people post asking for help when the next day they might be eating caviar for dinner. In my opinion, that kind of greed should lay on the consciences of those who are doing it, not on the ones who really just want to offer a helping hand. That's just like saying I'm not gonna help the homeless guy on the street because if I give him money, all he's gonna do is smoke or booze it away. We can still help, it might not mean giving them cash, but my pastor at my church has helped many homeless just by taking them to Subway and buying them a meal. The truly appreciative ones won't even bat an eye at that. I'm obviously not able to help out these posters out here in a monetary fashion, but in my opinion, sometimes a boost is all that person needs to at least know, "Hey, someone out there is hearing me, someone out there gives a crap about what I'm going through.
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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺

There are some people who live out of it though. People can't always donate. Even if people have chronic illness here, they work here. There's just no choice, either that or they start drinking, a lot. People over here don't give money because you do that, then you see people go and buy beer. And then you lose trust in people. But I get your point and understand it, because I've seen people who have nothing and I myself had had nothing, but budgeting sometimes helped, a lot. People wouldn't eat only to be able to pay the bills. And it's not anyone's fault, but humanity as a whole, because capitalism, global warming, nature turned to absolute crap, etc. And the power hungry, greedy assholes who are the kings and queens in the game of chess we are all part of in this world. Only the pawns are about 8 billion people, the average folk.

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Welcome Simon Dalvai as #curl commit author 1407: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1837…

docs: fix link CONTRIBUTE.md link by dulvui · Pull Request #18372 · curl/curl

Github interprets ../docs/CONTRIBUTE.md correctly when clicked from https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md, but does not if clicked on the repo landing page on https://git...
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#curl

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I know people generally have mixed feelings about vibe coding. I have been particularly concerned about the idea of a Software-on-demand model that AI companies are trying to push. Won't that displays devs? disrupt software markets? However, we all know what it's like to beg devs to make a few small changes so the software becomes accessible.
So I have been trying to get the RaspberryPi Imager to flash an OS on to my SD card. Turns out, the software is hardly accessible. In frustration, I got an AI to generate a tool that just works. Could I have used something like DD? Sure, but I also wanted to enable a few headless configurations, and that would include finding the right template for custom.toml.
I'm not saying that vibe coding is the answer to accessibility barriers, but... I'm also not saying it isn't. If anyone's interested in the utility, I'd be happy to share it.

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Po delsi dobe jsem zazil programatorsky crunch. Organizovali jsme event pro jednoho z nasich umelcu ... a samozrejme jsme, jako za mlada, delali vsecko na posledni chvili.

Ale dobra vec se podarila. Event probehl. Vsichni jsou nadseni. Pristup k albu pred vydanim ziskate tu:

unreleased.art/l/qsg9NTxThC7P

Kolega vyuzil prilezitosti a nahral s D Smokem nekolik zivych songu, tak se na ne muzete tesit ve specialni Unreleased edici. Jiz brzy!

#music #art #it

Wake Up Supa

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#music #art #IT

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I can't believe that I haven't encountered this HP Fanfic before today. It's very very good. I especially love the Quibbler articles. I don't think anyone has done this before.

The Power of the PressBy: Bobmin356

Forewarned Harry makes his escape from Britain, leaving the tournament in shambles. Protected by family, Harry sets about to fulfill his destiny free from the bigotry and manipulation of others.

fanfiction.net/s/8831374/1/The…

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 17 updated and 1 added apps:

* Cerberus Tiles: adds essential Quick Settings tiles and app shortcuts to Google Pixel phones 🛡️

RB status: 692 apps (53.3%)

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

Cleanup continued as well (more on that later). So once more, 5 outdated & unmaintained apps have been removed…

(1/2)


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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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@Billie We introduced that on August 1st. In case you missed it, here's the full story: android.izzysoft.de/articles/n… (also in German – I sometimes forget which language to use where 🙈)

Neues aus der ersten Jahreshälfte 2025: RB, Download Statistiken, und mehr

Ein halbes Jahr ist seit unserem letzten Blog-Post vergangen. Ihr fragt Euch vielleicht, was hier seitdem geschehen ist – und wir haben nicht auf der „faulen Haut“ gelegen! Freut Euch über mehr Reproducible Builds, Download-Statistiken und weitere sc…
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@Billie

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Well well, my Radio Browser for Linux is now 1995 lines long, wow! I really should consider splitting out function sections into their own files now. Like seriously, but I just cannot get myself to do it, even though I drop in new functions in their appropriate slots. Ha. It now has a Top-500 voted feature, along with supporting Pipewire natively without the Pulse bridge. Both are welcome changes. Now to harden it so that Windows folks and those on Mac still can use the menu system but with CoreAudio or Wasapi...
Ok, now that's done! We're up to 2048 lines. It also now added pagination for all flows, yay!
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Well, Kea DHCP was working fine but then I realized OpnSense didn't actually merge in the changes to register DHCP entries into Unbound's DNS and also after further examination it's a pretty terrible situation because of the way Unbound works and the expense of reloading every time a text file changes

so

Dnsmasq with DNS running on a custom port, Unbound setup to forward internal DNS forward and reverse to Dnsmasq's little DNS server

One step forward, two steps back. Annoying but I guess this is what you gotta do.

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I saw @richlv post the other day about #GoogleMaps vs #OpenStreetMap and needed to share this as well.

I first noticed this difference a few months back when my driving instructor couldn't find the location that I sent him (because Google Maps doesn't show it at all). Only after I added "Fairway Walk" (see Google Screenshot for the name/location) as a named road to OSM, did it get added to Google Maps. There are still apartments missing from the Google Maps though.

A screenshot of a housing estate from OpenStreetMap. When compared to Google it is a lot more detailed.
A screenshot of a housing estate taken from Google Maps. The map has multiple missing apartments and other details that should be present.
#openstreetmap #googlemaps @Rihards Olups
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governorkeagan

my best guess would be because this was a golf course (the park) that was converted to a housing estate.

EDIT:

You can see what I mean if you look at the Esri World Imagery from 2016 or earlier.

livingatlas.arcgis.com/wayback…

World Imagery Wayback

Wayback imagery is a digital archive of the World Imagery basemap, enabling users to access different versions of World Imagery captured over the years.
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#JoyScrolling for fucking morale, because holy shit gang, Fridays!

Feltopia, the stop motion animation game!

Note: this trailer is over a year old; they were around for PAX West 2024 (see here: youtube.com/watch?v=5DeRK_68rm…), but I have no idea whether the game is available or not.

Trailer:
youtube.com/watch?v=Z1S_Mij08H…


Feltopia | Interview | PAX West 2024

It doesn't get much more cute or fuzzy than this. Feltopia and its side-scrolling shooter action have one very unique twist - a lush and handmade stop-motion...
YouTube
#joyscrolling
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azteclady

#JoyScrolling: If you are not familiar with Andrea Love's felted stop animation, I *highly* recommend her YT channel; she's self-taught, and so good, she's been hired to do ads like the one below, and she's been spotlighted by The Modern Met (here:
youtube.com/watch?v=CMKxk0Xu52…)

Edensaw Woods ad:
youtube.com/watch?v=BNzmieBJsX…


EDENSAW WOODS SPECIAL ANIMATION 2017 by Andrea Love

A delightful animation created for Edensaw Woods Ltd. by Andrea Love. 2017
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#joyscrolling
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If you still believe Carney is focused on what the population wants...

After cancelling the carbon tax
After cancelling the digital service tax
After cancelling the capital gains tax
After asking the government to cut 15% of its expenses (after promising not to cut jobs)
After forcing the flight attendants to forgo their right to strike

... And I'm not even talking about Israel, Palestine, the US

I don't care if he's playing 4D chess. I believe what he has done and said so far

#cdnpoli

#cdnpoli

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I'm sure @fireborn will be very happy to know that last night I got Pipewire up and running on my Pi5 alongside Pulse (masked Pulse SystemD units for now.) And, just as his post stated, I had all the fun getting Espeakup to talk to me in the terminal afterwards.
Switching from Pulse to Pipewire was quite seamless for most things, like Bluetooth. For that, just had to install libspa-0.2-bluetooth, and boom, A2DP and others worked. For the other problem, the fix was almost as detailed in his post: point the system espeakup at my user’s PipeWire socket by adding a drop-in unit. Not good for multiuser access, but I don't plan to use this pi in a shared space like that. It refuses to run if X/Wayland sockets exist, conflicts with graphical.target so it is stopped when LightDM/desktop comes up. Without this, "Screen reader on" would get cut off, so making the socket bind like this was my only choice, y'all.
This works, but it’s a bit hacky since a system service is now tied to a specific user’s runtime dir. Ugh. espeakup has no flag to pick an ALSA device or a PipeWire endpoint; it just uses the system’s default, so keeping it as a system service that talks to the user’s PipeWire is the way to get console speech. You can Make a tiny wrapper that resolves your UID dynamically, which hardens it a bit.

fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-w…

I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn't Love Me Back: Post 3 – Speakup, BRLTTY, and the Forgotten Infrastructure of Console Access — fireborn

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@aaron
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Tamas G

for anyone who wants the /etc/systemd/system/espeakup.service.d/override.conf unit (updated, I had first pasted my version without X11, oi.):
(with hardcoded UID):
```
[Unit]After=sound.target bluetooth.service user@1001.service pipewire.service wireplumber.service
Requires=user@1001.service pipewire.service wireplumber.service
Conflicts=graphical.target
ConditionPathExists=!/tmp/.X11-unix/X0
ConditionPathExists=!/run/user/1001/wayland-0


[Service]Environment=XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1001
Environment=PIPEWIRE_REMOTE=pipewire-0
Restart=on-failure```
first started with another form of this. It doesn’t order itself after your user manager. If PipeWire isn’t ready yet, espeakup may fail once and then restart (since Restart=on-failure is set). It works, but a bit racy. I ran into this so changed it.
```
[Unit]# Wait for card discovery; need your user instance for PipeWire
After=sound.target bluetooth.service user@1001.service
Requires=user@1001.service

# Do not run during graphical sessions; stop if graphical starts
Conflicts=graphical.target
# Extra safety: if X11/Wayland sockets exist, don't start
ConditionPathExists=!/tmp/.X11-unix/X0
ConditionPathExists=!/run/user/1001/wayland-0


[Service]# Point espeakup at your user's PipeWire
Environment=XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1001
Environment=PIPEWIRE_REMOTE=pipewire-0

# optional: if it ever crashes, bring it back
Restart=on-failure```

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