Nate Graham's latest blog post: "a Mac-like experience on Linux"

pointieststick.com/2025/10/04/…

#KDE #Plasma #GNOME #OSX

In case anyone else needs to put a Windows ISO onto a USB stick and, for some strange reason, needs to do it from Linux, I figured out that I can't just dd the ISO to the USB device, or I end up with an image that my computer doesn't detect as being bootable. I found this tool that worked like a charm: github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB

Web Accessibility in Mind Conference 2025: youtube.com/watch?v=qq7VeohVxV…
#a11y #webdev #webdesign #UIDesign #accessibility #conference #events
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Sunday.

I'm most pleased to report that at 12:17PM yesterday afternoon, Kim delivered our son Bertie. He came out with the right numbers of toes, fingers, ears (sadly he seems to have inherited mine) and so forth.
It's suddenly astonishingly real, this child we've been trying for (and waiting for) for over 13 years.

Kim's labour was ... Intense. Bertie was a bit on the large side. Seeing her go through something so intensely physical was a real experience. Being at the business end of things during the delivery was an incredible thing also. I was lucky enough to help deliver the head and cutting the chord was special too. Kim did need a couple of stitches, but I don't think the pain relief for that was anywhere near the levels of joy from having her newborn son on her chest while they put those in.

But he's here, all 4.74 kg of him. the induction process started last Sunday, which meant that having the waters broken at about 10:00PM Friday night felt like an age. Building up through early labour was slow and very painful and, I suppose laborious is an appropriate word, but the delivery process itself, the whole "push" thing, was amazingly fast - the midwives were surprised that the head was there so quickly.

Kim's a little sore, but remarkably nowhere near as badly than when she was butchered having Lily, who weighed a good 2 pounds less.

The housework all got done in plenty of time. The mother-in-law has a week with us to be of some use and play with her new grandson. Our daughter is thrilled. even the dog is protective. It couldn't really have been a better end to the start of the next phase in our lives.
So please boost a toot to little Bertie Randall. May his life be full of all of the joys the world has to offer.

in reply to Sean Randall

Wednesday.
As we hit a hundred hours of Bertie, it's overwhelming to think about how few of the hours I have spent asleep.
No complaints, of course, and i'm so grateful for the hundreds of well-wishes from friends, colleagues and acquaintances that have come pouring in. A good number of those were here, so thank you, followers.

Apart from a small issue latching to feed, Bertie's postnatal weight loss is within the normal range and he's certainly doing plenty of lung and bowel work! It's surprisingly easy to just see the hours slip bye with a baby in your arms. Cuteness factor is totally off-the-scale.

It's been a whirlwind of well-wishers, midwives, health visitors, registrars and whatnot: the flood has yet to abate; we have more people to see and boxes to tick for the remainder of this week and well into next.

He's got a birth certificate now though, an NHS number, and we met one of his birth-mates today, a girl born the same day in the same hospital happened to be being registered at the same time. Looking forward to spotting little Alma in the future, and maybe we'll find out if they went for Rose as a middle name sometime. I quite like Alma Rose. She was about half his birth weight; but I'm sure she won't hold it against him!

Welcome to the RB family, World Clock 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/de.er…

World Clock displays the current time and weather for various cities. Thanks to a little help from Eric, its developer, the app is now RB, starting with v1.5.1 (which will go live with our next repo sync around 6 pm UTC) 😃

So with this, our current RB status is: 724 apps (56%) 🎉

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid

I remain uncertain on the ethics of using generative AI, and I know I've posted some hard-line anti-genAI takes here and elsewhere. But if one is interested in locally runnable models, IBM Granite 4.0 is worth a look IMO. ibm.com/new/announcements/ibm-… It uses something other than the typical transformer architecture, allowing for much longer contexts with much less RAM usage. Also interested in what they mean by "ethically acquired" data. cc @simon

Privacy Stack of Mr Schmidt

📱 Google Pixel with GrapheneOS

🗣️ SimpleX, Signal, Session, Threema, Garnet (Nostr client)

🌐 Tor Browser, Vanadium, Brave

🛡️ InviZible Pro, Mullvad, IVPN, NymVPN

✉️ Tuta Mail

🗒️ Nextcloud Notes, Joplin

📄 OSS Document Scanner

📁 Syncthing, Nextcloud, DAVx5, LocalSend

🔑 Keepass2Android (Nextcloud sync), Aegis, OpenKeychain

📦 F-Droid, Aurora Store (Anonymous), Obtainium

❓How does your privacy stack look like? Comment below! 👇

Source: x.com/schmidt1024/status/19446…

in reply to Tuta

It’s slightly similar to him but have smt diff

📱 Google Pixel with GrapheneOS (and sandboxed gapps)

🗣️ SimpleX, Molly, Session, Deltachat, XMPP and matrix (nope.chat server)

🌐 Tor Browser, Ironfox and cromite

🛡️ Proton vpn, Windscribe

(With nextdns as dns provider)

✉️ Proton mail and Tuta

🗒️ Notesnook

🔑 Proton pass and Ente auth

📦 droid-ify , Aurora Store

💸 Cake Wallet

🎥 Pipepipe (forked NewPipe), mpvkt

🗺️ Organic maps

🌤️ Bura

✅ Taks.org

⌨️ Florisboard

🔄 libretranslate

Letosni Volebni Kalkulacka byla masivni uspech Michala a Kateriny. Vytocili bez Seznamu vice nez s nim.

Zaroven je to muj technicky fail. Chybami v kodu nam uletel ucet na Vercelu. V souctu tesne pod $1000.

1. Server renderovani karet vysledku => request na server na kartu (tohle jsme fixli)
2. Napojeni AppSignalu server-side => posilal obri data a zablokoval cachovani.
3. Pruchod Kalkulackou pres server-router => dotaz na server, ze se zmenilo cislo otazky 2 -> 3.

#it #vercel #next #fail

in reply to Tomáš Znamenáček

@zoul Je to tak, jak rikaji borci z Vercelu: Next je infrastruktura definovana v kodu. Coz znamena, ze nad tou infrastrukturou musis premyslet, kdyz ten kod pises.

Hezky priklad jsou ty karticky. Mas stranku, kde je 50 karticek a data se berou z nejakeho fetche.
- fetchnes v page a a vyrenderujes 50 karticek, kterym das ID
- v kazde karticce si sahnes na ty BE data a vyrenderujes ji

=> vyrobis 51 requestu na server (page + 50x data pro kazdou karticku).

in reply to Martin Wenisch

Mně se kdysi hrozně líbilo ve Swiftu, že API pro práci s řetězci nenabízí přístup do řetězce přes náhodné numerické indexy, protože je to v UTF-8 hrozně drahá operace a lidi by se velmi často střelili do nohy. Next je dokonalý příklad opaku – udělám nějaký zdánlivě triviální refaktoring nebo navrhnu zdánlivě idiomatické řešení a v překladu do infra se stane peklo. To podle mě vůbec není šťastné.

Babis-Partei schafft bei Parlamentswahl in Tschechien das Comeback

Die Partei ANO des Rechtspopulisten Babis hat die Parlamentswahl in Tschechien gewonnen. Der Milliardär spricht von einem historischen Erfolg. In vielen EU-Staaten dürften jetzt die Sorgen zunehmen.

➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/t…

#Tschechien #Babis #Parlamentswahl