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I must be some kind of weirdo because this LONG nerd-fest documentary is REALLY entertaining to me! It's a history of ARP. I consider myself quite jaded and completely immune to most hype. But if it's got voltage-controlled oscillators and a filter and some interesting modulation possibilities, you can bend my ear and I'll listen!! Moog and ARP are still some of my favorite sounds. #arp2600 #analog_synthesizers #synth
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Electromotive - The Story of ARP Instruments

"Electromotive is the definitive documentary charting the rise and demise of one of the world’s most influential and pioneering synth companies. It dives dee...
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#synth #analog_synthesizers #arp2600
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I've memorized many parts of #Canadian Charter of #Rights and #Freedoms - part of the #Constitution of #Canada. I like to educate poorly educated 'law enforcement' on actual laws & listing the ones they're breaking while trying to silence #dissent against government corruption.

Canadian government - just like any other capitalist driven colonizer exploitive lying government - violated many citizens #humanrights to satisfy the greed of their corporate lobbyists. They do not want a large portion of citizens to be highly educated. They don't want to deal with a whole bunch of highly educated dissenters. They rule over us better, when they're corrupt as fuck - over poorly educated citizens - especially when some sellout/foolish citizens do their BS PR for them.

#CDNpoli #MapleMAGA

#HumanRights #canada #canadian #cdnpoli #rights #constitution #maplemaga #freedoms #dissent
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Send this to all the Substack folks in your life who want to move to Ghost: luma.com/mp1i5386

Lex knows so much about this and can help (and you might end up working with me too in your Ghost migration) (I help out at Outpost coz they are really cool)

#Ghost #Substack


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This is a free event, held in partnership with Outpost Publishers Cooperative. Are you switching to Ghost? Come learn how to use Outpost to get, keep and win back more paying subscribers. Outpost is a marketing and monetization tool for Ghost.
luma.com
#substack #ghost
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Large protests are erupting across Iran tonight. In Tehran, gunfire can be heard as crowds gather in massive numbers. Despite nationwide internet disruptions by the Iranian government, aimed at silencing the movement, footage continues to emerge.
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Delta Chat

@bmcd this message might be a leftover from a prior version of the channels. The current experimental channels released with v2.35.0 should remain operable also in future releases. But there remains a tiny chance we need to change things in an incompatible way, so therefore the more careful warning/wording.
@users/bmcd
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Sweet Home Alaberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽

I remember when the govt made a law to force porn magazines to have a plastic bag with a black box over the cover images, and now the Government actually endorses a nazi app that undresses girls and spews social discord and disinformation.

A vile social sickness has infected our governments, and they're apparently fine with it.

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I got a new multifunction radio, with the ability to receive AM, FM, VHF and shortwave bands, among other things.
It can also act as a bluetooth audio device, and when it's switched to Bluetooth mode, it plays a shortened version of the Logon sound from Windows 8 of all things.

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I just commented on issue 7751 of the Nextcloud client. Please thumb it up if you agree and boost this post for more range and awareness, that would mean a lot!
github.com/nextcloud/desktop/i…
#a11y #accessibility #blind #nextcloud

The public share link has been removed with the 3.15 client version.

Hi, The public share link has been removed with the 3.15 client version. Could it be possible to bring back this feature ? Below, a screen from a right click on a folder/file with the 3.14.3 client...
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#a11y #Accessibility #blind #nextcloud

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I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside".

I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇

#C15 #carBrain #CarDependency #SUV #NoSUV #Pickup_truck

A Citroen C15 van
#carDependency #CarBrain #suv #c15 #NoSUV #pickup_truck
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#selfhosting week 1, phase 3B bis: Disappointment.
Subscribed to a Ionos vps in alternative to Hostinger, but the interface is much, much more complex (I'm referring to the vps and domains management) - thought Hostinger was the worst.
But, if accessibility declaration on Hostinger says "partially accessible" giving an e-mail address (not dedicated, it's the generic support), Ionos makes me point to an Italian paragraph where they claim barrier-free then says "for support, contact us through contact form", redirecting to a German accessibility page where NO FORM is displayed. Is it this way to treat customers?
Does @fsfe and @EUCommission have something to say? These are fake accessibility declarations.
You can't say you respect all customers, when you make your showcase site mostly accessible but most important feature (the vps/firewall management panels) impossible to use. To give an example, the "edit" button for a single firewall rule is labeled as "y", the delete is "]", the add rule is "@" ... Not to say that @yunohost on Ionos creates ipv6 issues, the port TCP 25 is closed and I need to call them with EXACTLY my phone number to have them open the port for me...
I must definitely try to talk to them and start the refund procedure.
Unfortunately though, Ionos would give me 240 gb hard disk for storage while hostinger, even upgrading, would give me 100.
WTF. #accessibility #blind #frustration #selfhost #vps
#Accessibility #blind #selfhost #selfhosting #vps #frustration @Free Software Foundation Europe @YunoHost @European Commission
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Elena Brescacin

@menelion I had to listen to my best friend on this topic. "double resources/storage for half the price, where's the trap?" Alex is right once again even without knowing a single letter of Linux, hosting, shared vs. vps, and all that stuff.
Another big issue I had, was that you can assign an IPV6 address to your server, but then you must MANUALLY configure it by editing a file. /etc/network/interfaces or /etc/netplan. I found the documentation confusing and it is a very risky operation, you can unblock it through the ionos remote console, but, what about accessibility of that one?
It's like a guy telling me we're completely safe, and he has a condom in hand. A condom with braille dots on it to make it accessible. Got the idea?
Note for non-braillists: the Braille dots, in paper, are made through a pin which causes a hole on one side, the dot on the other.
@André Polykanine

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Steve Russell—the man who made the first video game—is still alive. Not a myth. Not a footnote. Walking around, same as the rest of us.

In 1962, Russell coded Spacewar! on the DEC PDP-1 at MIT. It spread fast. So fast that it directly led to the formation of Atari. Their first arcade release, Computer Space was essentially Spacewar! shoved into a coin-op cabinet.

Russell didn’t stop there. He wrote the first two implementations of Lisp. He later taught Bill Gates and Paul Allen how to use a computer.

Video games. Programming languages. Microsoft.

Same guy. Still alive.

A close-up of a vintage PDP-1 computer display running *Spacewar!*, shown on a circular CRT screen inside an angular metal housing. Green vector lines and glowing dots form a starfield with two small spacecraft maneuvering around a central gravity well. The room is dim, with the machine sitting on a table alongside papers and pens, emphasizing the early, experimental era of computer gaming.
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#ArcaneChat 2.36.0 is on its way to the stores and should be available in the upcoming days, check arcanechat.me/ for direct apk download and other download options

🔮 What's new?

★ as requested by you in the previous poll: allow to set subject when using the app as email client

★ Protect profile deletion and relays management with system pin

★ fix problem with quick-camera button in some devices

★ avoid background crash in some devices

★ allow to see inbox quota for all relays


ArcaneChat

Private chats for the family
arcanechat.me
#arcanechat
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Jiří Eischmann

@nirik I heard straps don't work, they break and fall off quickly. I considered 'socks', but they are quite difficult to put on, you have to move the car like 4 times. There are snow chains you can attach to the middle of the wheel, but they are expensive. Spending $500 on something you barely use once a year...
It's funny that I had the standard snow chains for 4 years, never tried to put them on until now. All those years I had them in the trunk and I thought I could rely on them. It's like making backups without ever trying to restore them and after years you find out you can't. 🙂
@nirik

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Admittedly, this feels like a small problem to have, given everything that's going on in the world, but why does life have to be this way? I'm trying to look at the menu for where I'm going tonight, and I'm having trouble finding the menu on the web page that's supposed to have the menu. So I save the page and start looking at the source, and I find an image called Untitled_design_53.webp, with an empty alt tag, so I think that Orca just wasn't reading anything for it. I OCR the image, and there we go; there's part of the menu (there's another image named Untitled_design_55.webp). I haven't tried in Windows, so I don't know if NVDA or JAWS would have worked any better (NVDA does have a handy OCR hotkey, assuming I can select the image that I want to OCR). But this kind of thing is annoying! I shouldn't need to know how to do all of this just to look at a menu.

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Python programming. Long somewhat personal and motivational post

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Python programming. Long somewhat personal and motivational post

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December 16 I bought a 512Gb SATAIII SSD thinking to myself: "Ok, I probably don't need it right now, but I know it will get only more expensive with all this AI hysteria. I don't know if I'll be able to buy it in the future". $43 is a bit much for a 512Gb if you ask me, but hey, it's manageable.
Today is January 8 and this same SSD now costs $125 in the same shop.
All this is sadly wrong.
Meanwhile I have to figure out which OS should I install on it.

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Mutualaid, Please Boost

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#a11y #Accessibility #linux #gnome #MutualAid #GNOMEShell #linuxmobile #MutualAidRequest #transmutualaid #gnomecalendar #upscaler #cartridges
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Finally, our new mail server is up and running, so we've established our new contact page:

izzyondroid.org/contact/

If you need to reach out to us, you should find the necessary details there. Other already staged changes went live right along, e.g. our updated schedules page at

izzyondroid.org/about/resource…

"One down, more to go" – so focusing on the next steps now…

#IzzyOnDroid


Schedules - IzzyOnDroid

What runs when at IzzyOnDroid?
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#izzyondroid

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I enjoy seeing that many reactions to my thread from yesterday, thanks guys, I appreciate yall spreading awareness about this. And I enjoy this kind of stuff on Mastodon, as I said a while back. Mostly it's just silently reading the TL, but when it gets fun like this. Then it's fun, and that in a good and human like way. I still feel like I have a good overview and the discussion is mostly productive.

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I'm saying this because I feel it needs to be said, especially after seeing a thread yesterday that really irritated me. You can be the richest person alive or living in a box. You could have a clean bill of health. Guess what? You can become disabled at any moment. Could be 50 years from now, could be as you're reading my post and getting geared up to reply and start the ablism agenda. Disability. Does. Not. Care. It doesn't give a damn who you are or what your circumstances are. The only "good" thing about disability and I say good with sarcasm, is that disability doesn't exclude, like this world does. So the next time you're thinking about posting something like "be grateful" or some other garbage when someone with a disability says something about access or some other basic thing that you as an able-bodied person don't have to think about or fight for? Pump your brakes and remember that that disabled person could be you someday. Edited to add: This isn't just about that thread yesterday, was this prompted by it? Absolutely. People with disabilities are told to be grateful a lot and it's not right. What people spouting this nonsense forget is that there's a good chance they can and most likely will be disabled at some point in their lives and then oh noooo. you're being rude to me because I have a disability when someone gives them a taste of their own medicine. Access isn't something to be grateful for, people fought to pass section 504 and the Americans with Disabilities Act if you live in the states so we wouldn't have these problems, it shouldn't be a fight every day. There shouldn't be this excuse of oh well I'm able-bodied, I didn't know. That excuse should have died when the internet became a tool to use to gather information and yet here we are still fighting because of dumb ass comments like I saw on that thread. No we shouldn't show grattitude for something we can't use, whether it be an app or not. I show grattitude when I'm even remotely considered. The world isn't meant for folks like me and I can work around that, mostly. I have accepted that, but I'll be damned if I'm going to watch someone rub my face in that pile of shit and make me feel bad or like a burden because I spoke up.
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