Smartphone Sensors Unlocked: Turn Your Phone into a Physics Lab
hackaday.com/2025/09/07/smartp…
These days, most of us have a smartphone. They are so commonplace that we rarely stop to consider how amazing they truly are. The open-source project Phyphox has provided easy access to your phone’…Hackaday
Flights booked for #MatrixConf 2025! 🎉 Can't wait to see everyone in Strasbourg this October.
Tickets are still on sale, but space is limited so don't delay: conference.matrix.org/
Come along to see the latest and greatest progress in the Matrix world! From huge government deployments to the latest innovations, hang out with your peers to share the best learning, insights, projects and tips!conference.matrix.org
My keynote from Open Source Summit Europe 2025 is now up. 13 pretty packed minutes.
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Don't miss out! Join us at the next Open Source Summit in Amsterdam, Netherland (August 25-29); or Seoul, South Korea (November 4-5). Join us at the premier ...YouTube
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prestávam chodiť skôr do práce lebo to už bývalo skoro o hodinu #dobréRáno a začínali sa objavovať názory že som magor.. čo ale nerozporujem
edit: no a mám hodinu k dobru ráno samozrejme
Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.
Creo que ya estamos todos de vuelta.
48 hours to #curl release
At **4** open issues: github.com/curl/curl/issues
Working on a way to have #curl -w able to output the contents of all headers with a set name even from a redirect-"chain":
github.com/curl/curl/pull/1849…
By appending :all:[separator] to the header name. The [separator] string is output between each header value if there are more than one to output. Test 764 verifies Idea-by: kapsiR on github Ref: #...GitHub
Contact with Europeans in the 19th century first provided the Yapese at Palau with iron tools, that made the cutting and shaping of the stones much easier. Not much later, the Yapese made deals with Europeans to use their ships to transport the stones back to Yap. These arrangements enabled the manufacture of much larger and heavier rai stones, up to 4 meters in diameter, as well of a larger number of them. However, these "modern" stones were less valuable than more ancient ones.
Even stone money suffers from inflation.
Anyone know anything about these Mokerlink switches? I'm seeing products I can't find from other vendors. Nobody's really making small 8-10 port 10gbit gear
MokerLink Store - MokerLink 8 Port 10Gbps SFP+ Managed Switch mokerlink.com/index.php?route=…
That paired with this would be perfect for me
mokerlink.com/index.php?route=…
4 x 2.5G Ethernet Ports, compliant IEEE802.3bz (2.5G) standard, support 10/100/1000M/2.5G adaptive. 2 x 10G SFP Port(compatible 1G/2.5G Module, not include SFP Module). 45Gbps backplane bandwidth, Port 1-4 support IEEE 802.www.mokerlink.com
So, if I write you a document before a meeting, you use AI to summarize that document, and then during that meeting you rely incorrect or partial information, not only you wasted everybody's time, but you also made it clear that you don't think I'm capable of relying information synthetically, moreover you're clearly stating that you're not intelligent enough to read a simple document.
Using AI makes you "look" fast and productive, but in reality it paints you as cheap and lazy
Also, with the most recent "optimized" models is estimated that to generate a small image (how small, who knows), it consumes an average of 0.25 kWh.
So if only one person generates 6 images it's the equivalent of keeping your electric heater running full power for 1hr.
Your silly memes built on stolen art are helping boiling the ocean.
But hey...now you can see what a gorilla wearing an iron man suite looks like, because your imagination is stunted.
Congrats, I guess
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Questioning whether or not I've overreacted as the post *is* in the Introductions subforum, I read every single introductory post on the Ubuntu Discourse made in 2025. Every one was focused on the person's technical and professional backgrounds and what skills they want to learn or tech topics they're interested in.
One guy mentioned off-hand about being busy moving around the country with his wife and kids. Another guy is 75 and mentioned in a reply to someone inquiring about his early career that women did the punch cards and men did the programming when he started. Those were the only two other semi-questionable comments if you want to really be pedantic.
Not a single mention of personal life details like this in any other post.
Read the room.
(also revealing your name and birth date like that is a bit of an opsec issue this guy should be coached on... honestly where is the mod at on this, they should really be censoring that in his post)
hey, do you folks have recommendations for an USB fingerprint reader that works reliably with Fedora (or ideas how I could get mine to work)?
Mine (a "Benss" branded Elan 04f3:0c3d) is supposed to work, but I can't get it to verify prints - Apparently fprintd really doesn't handle "tap to scan" readers well, like the one I've got.
I've tried tapping, swiping, in every direction, I'm running out of ideas
This is local Amsterdam news (in Dutch) about the library putting on a display of books banned from American schools and libraries, in little stars-and-stripes coffins. They say it’s because whatever nonsense America gets up to, the Dutch need to be ready to guard against it being pushed here a few years later. at5.nl/nieuws/234309/wat-je-in…
in anticipation of another bike trip, i've constructed porteur bag #2, refined and refreshed.
- first bag i've made with a liner! (robic nylon)
- structured like a big tote bag but with a zipper and a square footprint
- two wire gate clips to make attachment / straps experiments easier
- same ecopak material as my frame bag
- cordura on the bottom for durability
overall: an improvement, attachment to the rack is simpler and faster. could be slightly taller, and maybe all ecopak
I don't know who needs to hear this, but being disabled is not your fault. Sometimes our minds can makes us think that it is, but it simply isn't so.
Thank you to everyone who attended the World Blindness Summit & WBU General Assembly last week in São Paulo, Brazil. It was an honour for NV Access to attend, and to have NV Access General Manager, James Boreham and NV Access director Emma Bennison present. It was an informative and uplifting week and a chance to meet many new people and hear people's hopes for the future!
#WBUSummit #WBU25 #Blindness #Blind #Accessibility #NVDA #NVAccess #NVDAsr #Brazil #SaoPaulo
Preamble: Design is all about balance, and the design of graphical user interfaces has a lot of interests to be balanced. In the context of Wayland, the principle interested parties are the designe...Mir
"You're being unprofessional"
No, i am being blunt and firm with my requirements. We can pivot to unprofessional if that's what you wankpuffins want 
(edit: some more detail. this concerns them insisting i follow a policy that does not fit with my health needs as a disabled person, which i'm not going along with)
In July 2024, Apple supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said he expected Samsung to begin shipping 48-megapixel Ultra Wide camera sensors to Apple for...Joe Rossignol (MacRumors.com)
Bug Hunter (1990) is one of those rare puzzle platformers written exclusively for the Acorn 32-bit machines.
Whenever I stumble on an Archimedes title, I perk up. These machines—descendants of Acorn’s BBC line—were the first computers powered by ARM CPUs. Think about that: ARM, the chipset now running your phone, your tablet, your Nintendo Switch, even your M-series Mac.
Back in 1990, ARM wasn’t about pocket gadgets. It was pitched as the next big leap in desktop computing. Only problem was the Acorn Archimedes barely left the UK, and outside of classrooms, almost nobody touched one.
That’s a shame, because games like Bug Hunter show what these machines could do. The hero is Hysteron Proteron—a bioengineered soldier gone wrong. A lab mix-up left him a spineless bug-eyed creature who can’t actually fight. So the army threw him on pest control duty.
His gimmick: suckered feet that let him scuttle along floors, ceilings, and walls, and the ability to pick up objects and drop them on unsuspecting insects. Kill them all, move to the next room, repeat. Simple, but clever.
Graphically, it’s impressive for 1990. Crisp sprites, fluid enough movement, and backgrounds that look every bit as solid as what you’d see on the Amiga or Genesis. The SNES wasn’t even out yet, and here’s Acorn pushing visuals in that league.
Sound, though, is the usual British compromise: no music, just effects. Still, compared to the PC speaker squawks of DOS games, those crunchy bug-splat noises were fine.
What makes Bug Hunter stand out isn’t just the gameplay—it’s the personality. One room even has a parody movie poster on the wall: Schwarzenegger in Decorator, with the tagline “They picked the wrong man…” It’s little details like that which make it feel less like a generic extermination game and more like someone’s sly passion project. Which it was.
Ian Richardson, a solo dev at the time, built this thing himself. He’d later go on to Gremlin and Ocean before becoming a respected figure in UK game development. He passed away in 2021, but Bug Hunter remains a testament to his early craft.
The sequel, Bug Hunter in Space, came out the same year, expanding the concept to alien ships and teleports. And Bug Hunter & Moon Dash was even sold together on a single disk, though everyone agrees Moon Dash was the weaker half. Bug Hunter’s the one people remember—the one schoolkids used to sneak onto Archimedes machines in British classrooms.
So if you ever find an Acorn 32-bit, don’t pass this up. Bug Hunter is charming, tough, and a reminder that the ARM revolution didn’t start with iPhones. It started with a bug-eyed mutant wandering the walls on a forgotten British computer.
FYI trichloroethylene causes Parkinson's
Dry cleaning chemicals hang around - on your clothes | Environmental Working Group ewg.org/news-insights/news/dry…
If you've ever dry cleaned your clothes (you have, right?), you've likely wondered how the "dry" part happens. And it may even have crossed your mind that it's a chemical process. Of course you'd be right.Environmental Working Group
Please see this notice in the NVDA user group: groups.google.com/a/nvaccess.o…
"As of Sept 1, Joseph Lee (me) no longer maintains the add-on (Office Desk add-on is end of life). This add-on hasn’t been updated in some time, and as part of winding down NVDA work, I’m letting this add-on go. Therefore, when installing Office Desk 25.09, an “end of life” dialog will be presented, advising you to uninstall the add-on. I asked the add-ons community to maintain this add-on should they wish to do so"
For anyone interested in that AudioScreen add-on we just shared, the link posted by the vOICe was not the right one to download it, you need to follow that one through another post to it, or go direct to: github.com/nvaccess/audioScree…
This is a great example of an add-on where the original author didn't have capacity to continue developing it, and has passed it on to someone else. This is a healthy part of our ecosystem and one which should be encouraged.
An NVDA add-on that allows you to "feel" images with your ears, while moving your finger around a touch screen on Windows 8 and above. - nvaccess/audioScreenGitHub
An NVDA add-on that allows you to "feel" images with your ears, while moving your finger around a touch screen on Windows 8 and above. - nvaccess/audioScreenGitHub
NVDA, the free and open source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows - nvaccess/nvdaGitHub
@kev Thanks Kevan! We did write some tips on filing issues with GitHub here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…
Also, have you tried our new "form" based template? The same questions, but in edit boxes you can tab between.
You can find the test templates here: github.com/nvaccess/nvda-issue…
Please note, these are currently only for testing - we are not monitoring issues submitted using those forms.
Once you test the form, please head to this discussion to leave feedback: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/discu…
Humans inhale as much as 68,000 microplastic particles daily, study finds
Particles are small enough to burrow into lungs, says report, with health impacts ‘more substantial than we realize’
theguardian.com/environment/20…
i use gentoo cuz im gaytoo wayland is the gayland sway is the gay's wayFosstodon
@matt that is great to hear! I do think wayland is the future of the linux desktop.
it will take a while for it to make its way to debian stable though.
> What do anti-vaxxers, flat earthers, 9/11 truthers, and anti-Wayland activism all have in common? All of them are characterized by a blithe rejection of facts to embrace a narrative of victimization by a vague authority. In the case of Wayland, the “vague authority” are a bunch of volunteers who have devoted tens of thousands of hours of their free time towards making free shit for you. “Wayland sucks!” is a conspiracy theory with no basis in truth, and its supporters have spent years harassing Wayland maintainers, contributors, and users. And it’s time for it to fucking stop.
@TheEvilSkeleton legit - don't understand why this is an alt-right thing. But this new fork seems to draw them. I don't get what the cause celebre here.
But whatever, I'm not going to use their fork and nobody else is either. They can take their feature requests and apps and continue there.
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