We've just released some fixes for Castopod. 🚀

👉 You can grab the v1.1.1 package on castopod.org/

Castopod | Your Free & Open-source Podcast Host

Castopod is a free and open-source hosting platform made for podcasters. Engage and interact with your audience whilst keeping control over your content.

^castopod.org

We're excited to announce that #LAS2023 will be held in Brno, Czech Republic! Join us April 21-23 (in person or online) for talks, panels, and Q&As on all things apps. foundation.gnome.org/2022/12/1…

#LinuxAppSummit #LAS #KDE #GNOME #opensource

One of the most rewarding things about using open-source software is that YOU can contribute directly. Don't know how to code? Don't want to donate money? That's OK!

Our friend Dustin Krysak brilliantly compared a software project to a construction job:

“Programming is the carpenter, but you still need the architects, designers, project managers, and permit people to make a construction job come together.”

Here are 6 ways to help make a difference! blog.thunderbird.net/2022/08/h…

#OpenSource

How You Can Help Thunderbird Without Knowing How To Code

Thunderbird is open source, meaning anyone can contribute! But what if you don't know how to code? We have lots of other ideas inside!

^{Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)}

I only recently found out that when #Derecho ripped through Ontario/Quebec this year, that this wasn't the name of the storm.

Hadn't occurred to me that this was just the name of the wind pattern until I heard it in a podcast recently.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derecho

widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm associated with a land-based, fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

Twitter’s former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth has fled his home due to an escalation in threats due to the accusations being made against him by Musk and his cronies, which have nothing to do with reducing child sexual exploitation or child abuse material on Twitter. This is Musk using his power and influence at Twitter to organize and mobilize his base to harrass a former Twitter employee. 1/

cnn.com/2022/12/12/tech/twitte…

Entschädigung für nicht eingespeisten Strom auf Höchststand
tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/energ…

Ja klar. Da schmeißen wir die Gasturbinen an weil zu wenig Strom und treiben damit den Strompreis hoch - und dann kann die deutlich günstigere Windenergie nicht eingespeist werden. Ich will gar nicht wissen, welche Sorte Lack das war. Vermutlich die fehlenden Stromtrassen, die der "Vorreiter" blockiert hat. 😖

Entschädigung für Versorger: Rekord an nicht eingespeistem Strom

Die deutschen Energieversorger erhalten von den Verbrauchern eine Entschädigung, wenn sie ihren Strom etwa wegen Netzengpässen nicht einspeisen können. Im vorigen Jahr wurde ein Höchststand gemessen.

^{tagesschau (tagesschau.de)}

笑顔にするトーテムポール

‪#北海道‬ ‪‪#東京カメラ部 #tokyocameraclub #エゾモモンガ
mstdn.tokyocameraclub.com/medi…

There's a new groups system for the Fediverse called chirp.social. More info at:

➡️ chirp.social

You can join a group by following the group account. You can post to the group by @-ing the group account, which then reposts that to all its other followers

It is similar to the existing a.gup.pe system, but chirp.social allows a group manager to delete posts and ban people from the group.

It works on all Fediverse platforms including Mastodon.

#Fediverse #Mastodon

App Showcase: Tootle

"Social media can be a great way to engage with friends and family. But most of the popular services and apps track their users."

puri.sm/posts/app-showcase-too…

#librem5 #pureos #freedom

I have strong opinions on my preferred presentation framework. I have these opinions for good reasons, which I am happy to explain. If you are a conference organizer, I would ask you to give this a read, and if you aren't a conference organizer but know one, I would ask you to point them to this. Thank you!

Quick read, just 3 minutes. Boosts OK, obviously.

xahteiwi.eu/blog/2022/12/11/no…

No, you won't get a PowerPoint from me!

Dear conference organizers, I use my preferred slide deck framework for a reason. Please don’t try to second-guess me.

^xahteiwi.eu

Google Camera 8.7 – portovaná verze fotoaplikace ke stažení

👉infoek.cz/google-camera-8-7-ap…

I'm still looking for a new design and/or web development gig, ideally part-time or contract, so I can keep working on Fipamo and The Bad Space.

I'm open to full-time strategy or product management roles as long as they are remote.

I keep a profile over on my site roiskinda.cool/profile.html that has a good overview of my skills and some links to some work.

For specific questions, send me a note, and we'll go from there.

profile

Because it should be easy.

^{roiskinda.cool}

Have you ever been impatiently waiting, until your phone reads through all the information in all sorts of languages about the manufacturer, compounds, source, distributor and finally gets to the name and flavor of the chocolate you're holding in your hand?
I had. And some kinds of goodies are just like fabricated for this, say bottles. I don't even know where the title is in the first place, the fact that the OCR software can have problems with the curvy surface doesn't help much either, when the bottle is full the recognition may be hard to do in air as I struggle to keep it still in one hand, and even if I finally get to the desired info, hoping I would hear also say the bottle's volume is hyperoptimistic at best.

Thus, I developed RScan. Simply point your device to the product, and in few seconds, you will hear the brand, name, type and sometimes also the related metric information like volume, weight etc.
How does it work? RScan is a barcode reader for Android, that is looking for barcodes - an identification mark that every commercial product needs to have. When it finds one, it automatically looks it up on DuckDuckGo, and using a special algorithm, tries to figure out which search result would be most useful for the user.
Designed for speed and convenience, from my experience, it correctly identifies 90% of products and thanks to swift operation, can be used to quickly sort through whole groups of goodies you need to classify.

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