Elijah McCoy was born in 1844 in Ontario to formerly-enslaved parents from Kentucky. They saved enough to send him to Scotland to study mechanical #engineering. When he returned and couldn't get work in his field, he took a job as a train oilman and invented a method of automatic lubrication that eliminated the frequent stops trains had to make to oil up axles & bearings. Railroad companies asking for his product rather than copycat devices spawned the phrase "the real McCoy." #BlackHistoryMonth
🆕 Here's my first attempt to unpack what is probably one of the most complete antitrust cases in ad tech of the last decade. My focus? 👀 How three ad pricing manipulation schemes described in the suit hurt publishers: techpolicy.press/how-google-ma…
Coming up live at 00:00 UTC (7:00 PM Eastern, 4:00 PM Pacific in the Americas) on The Global Voice Internet Radio: two hours of relaxing #newage, #ambient, and #meditationmusic on Northern Lights: The New Age Show with Kelly Sapergia. More information about the show is at ksapergia.net/northernlights/. Tune in either by visiting theglobalvoice.info and clicking on the Listen Live link, or put the following URL in your favorite media player: theglobalvoice.info:8000/broad… #audio
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I mean the last one is _almost_ correct. The catch though is that Temple of Time is not a dungeon. But other than step 4 it is acrually correct. Well, "reaching the end" means pressing analog stick forward for like 4 seconds, but oh well.
For the few of you following me on 🐦Twitter: it seems that my account is going to be silent as all my original Tweets are just cross posts from open social network Mastodon and this cross posting twitter api is going to be paid. ☹️ arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
I’ve written before about Solipsist design – those services which have been designed to work only for a very specific type of family. I was taking a look at Google’s “Family…
Sony announced the upcoming features in the next PS5 firmware. The headlining feature is Discord calling support, but the screen reader will be getting some love too which is great to see. blog.playstation.com/2023/02/0… #xp
The higher you climb, the harder it gets. Yes, we're still #foldingAtHome – but we climb much slower now that we are about to reach the 2k mark: stats.foldingathome.org/team/2…
Will we make it? Currently, we climb between about 2..4 steps a day, but see above. Any folders out there joining us?
Are you a versatile problem-solver with a knack for operating system development? Do you thrive working in an open source development environment with a diverse team? If so, the FreeBSD Foundation is searching for a software developer with varied i…
#introduction radio free fedi is a small web, consent driven, artist populated, non-commercial, attribution promoting, community radio
we are now ready to accept more submissions, and are here to promote sound and music artists, their support links, desired license and fedi presence if they wish in an eclectic and fun radio format
24/7 music from the fedi with "theNews" at the top of each hour
CASTING CALL: After our special Halloween crossover episode with Bitter Karella's Hugo-nominated twitter microfiction "The Midnight Pals", she and I got talking... and I can now reveal that we are making a WHOLE NOTHER AUDIO SERIES, "Submitted For the Approval of the Midnight Pals", a comedy-horror anthology in which classic horror authors, living and dead, gather around the campfire to tell their strange and scary tales. We're looking for four male-range voices for the parts of Stephen (King), Dean (Koontz), Clive (Barker) and Edgar Allan Poe. This is an unpaid, for-fun project, at least for the first season.
(There'll be further casting calls, including roles for all genders, for the guest casts of individual episodes, which we'll get to once we've filled out the main cast.)
Audition, or see further details, here: castingcall.club/projects/midn… (Content note: NSFW language in audition lines, especially for Clive)
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
Now is a good time to join Mastodon. Might I suggest dragonscave.space as a domain? Great community. Also, movetodon.org/ and twitodon.com/ can help you find your followers from Twitter, before next friday!
In the FSFE we started using Matrix last year. Since then we enjoy interactive chats in a privacy-friendly way. Join our main community room #community:fsfe.org
The FSFE is eager to support its community with diverse Free Software communication channels. We are happy to announce that we have recently added Matrix t...
I have - intentionally - installed a whole mess of #Matrix clients on various devices, and quite pleased with their interoperability, especially in terms of end-to-end encryption.
Element web client in Firefox
Gomuks terminal-based client on Linux (works on my aarch64 Pinebook Pro)
Nheko GUI client on Linux
Element on Android
FluffyChat on Android
I have not much to add apart from the fact they… just work 👍 Just to clarify my testing criteria: I’m using these devices for daily work so have little tolerance for inconvenient user interfaces or crashing, but I have lots of tolerance for aesthetics, emojis etc.
The @EU_Commission has released results of a “sweep” of 399 retail websites: • 148 contained at least one dark pattern; • 42 used a fake countdown timer; • 54 used design to direct consumers to more expensive products; • 70 hid important info. ec.europa.eu/commission/pressc…
Myslím, že to je jeden z pohřbů, na který se i po letech bude vzpomínat jako něco, co byla "bomba" .. troufnu si tvrdit, že přesně takhle by to nebožtík chtěl
#digitaladvertising #dataprivacy #Google #techpolicy
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in reply to Chris 🌱 • • •@brainblasted yup, exactly.
I mean the last one is _almost_ correct. The catch though is that Temple of Time is not a dungeon. But other than step 4 it is acrually correct. Well, "reaching the end" means pressing analog stick forward for like 4 seconds, but oh well.