Floating point format explorer – binary representations of common floating point formats.float.exposed
I wrote a blog post about why Android likes to close tabs for you if you have too many open.
After a complaint filed by Nextcloud on behalf of a coalition of dozens of European cloud tech providers in November 2021, the German Bundeskartellamt (federal antitrust authorities) has now begun an official investigation into Microsoft to assess if…Jos Poortvliet (Nextcloud)
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this is being sold as "a Japanese flute". seller doesn't know which. at first glance I thought it was a shinobue but... well, look at it.
anyone knows what type of instrument is this? it might not even be Japanese, but it looks too well-built to be a generic souvenir. can a music person tell me what are those four bottom holes in parallel?
*edit*: best current candidate is the xiāo transmom.love/@elilla/11010259…
#music #folkMusic #flute it's not a #shakuhachi but maybe shaku ppl know
Wikipedia says that the Balkan-Anatolian kaval has one thumb hole plus four unfingered "intonation holes", which would match this pattern.transmom.love
It's actually just the PlayStation 5 controllers that you can do this with.
And yeah, you just plug them in with USB and it shows up as an audio device.
The first two channels map to the controller's headphone jack, while the other two map to the left and right haptic coils, which work a lot like the ones on the iPhone but with a wider frequency response.
In contrast, Xbox controllers just have a normal vibration motor.
If you ever wanted a clean guide on how to make Mastodon in rust from scratch,
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A high-level framework for ActivityPub federation in Rust. The goal is to encapsulate all basic functionality, so that developers can easily use the protocol without any prior knowledge.docs.rs
As of today, gitlab.freedesktop.org allows anyone with a GitLab Developer role or above to remove spam issues. If you are reading this a...who-t.blogspot.com
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Holy moly!! Lightning caught mid-strike as it hits a tree. ⚡ 🌳 😲
I hope the photographer was using an extremely long-range telephoto lens, as lightning will travel along root systems, which can extend some distance away depending upon the type of tree.
Vertical photograph; click to see the full strike and whole tree (or what's left of it).
Photographer — Debbie Parker
#Photography #Tree #LightningStrike #AmazingNature
Kinderen kunnen voortaan de achternamen van beide ouders krijgen. Een wetsvoorstel van minister Weerwind voor Rechtsbescherming hierover is vandaag aangenomen door de Eerste Kamer.www.rijksoverheid.nl
Good news, we've extended the #GUADEC2023 CfP deadline! You now have one extra week to submit your proposals so make sure to send yours by April 4: foundation.gnome.org/2023/02/2…
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Learn how to create accessible links and text in your web content.Whitney Lewis (Pope Tech Blog)
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Wenn man #Thunderbird nutzt - dann immer mal wieder an die Entwickler denken ...
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tests/httpd was renamed to tests/http in #10654. This patch updates some references in the READMEGitHub
#Keyoxide is now live on #OpenCollective 🎉
Merging pull-requests. mostly my own but also a few others. Merged a few pull-requests into the website and some talks about docs and how the website is done...YouTube
I always had this dream idea where i will live stream the development process of an open source project that i might develop.
And been blinded that i am the first to come up with such a thought.
Its really great to see someone actually doing it. 
@thunderbird, I'm enjoying the updated Thunderbird 112 Beta UI, but I was wondering if you could give us the option to disable the tab area and/or the new top menubar depending on how we configure our UI. If I choose to use the left-most vertical menubar, the other areas seem redundant and take up space. Otherwise, I like the new direction! 👍
#Email #Mail #Mozilla #Thunderbird #UI #UX #Outlook #Office #Office365 #Microsoft365 #OfficeSuite #Alternative #PIM #Tasks #Events #Calendar #Contacts
💡 FYI - To the people who replied to this #Thunderbird thread, there's a related thread over at #LibreOffice that could use your input... 👍
La Société générale, BNP Paribas, Exane, Natixis et HSBC visées par des perquisitions dans un scandale de fraude fiscale hors norme
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voila de quoi payer les retraites
Ces banques sont soupçonnées par le Parquet national financier d’avoir permis à leurs clients étrangers d’échapper à l’impôt sur les dividendes, grâce à la pratique du « CumCum », un scandale révélé par « Le Monde » en 2018.Anne Michel (Le Monde)
This is insane. PayPal has restricted our business account because we have invoiced a license key containing the random letter sequence “ALEP”.
Now they ask us to provide an explanation of the reference to “Alep”.
If we don’t, they even threatened to close our account.
I keep seeing lots of people who are totally giddy about the #Fediverse, who are gushing over it, who want to promote it, who want it to spread.
And who want it to advance. To learn new abilities. To grow new features.
That's all fine and dandy.
But almost all of these people are still fully convinced that the Fediverse equals #Mastodon. And nothing else. At least not until Tumblr and P92 join the fray. Okay, maybe the #WordPress plug-in that's the talk of the town now that it has become official. Okay, maybe a few of them have also heard of #Pixelfed and/or #PeerTube because their makers are all over the Fediverse.
When these people are talking about the Fediverse, they mean Mastodon. And when they're thinking about the Fediverse, they're only thinking about Mastodon. Because that's all they know.
So these people want new cool features or even new cool use-cases in the Fediverse, stuff that Mastodon doesn't have. They want Mastodon to have it, or they want new projects to be launched that have these features.
If only they knew.
If only they knew that everything, literally everything they propose has already been done. Yes, in the Fediverse. In projects which are fully federated with Mastodon. Why don't they know? Because they've never heard of any of these projects, much less what they can do.
So they want "quote-tweets" in the Fediverse. Which means they want Mastodon to introduce them.
Tell you what: Mastodon is the only microblogging project in the Fediverse that doesn't have quotes. Not only will Eugen Rochko never introduce them, but all the other projects have them with Mastodon forks #GlitchSoc such as being the exception. #Pleroma has them. #Akkoma has them. #MissKey has them. #CalcKey has them. #FoundKey has them. #GoToSocial has them. The old heavyweights #Friendica and #Hubzilla have them, and so does Hubzilla's youngest decendant, the #Streams project. Et cetera.
You want "quote-tweets"? Switch to something that isn't Mastodon, and you've got "quote-tweets".
Or text formatting in posts like bold type, italics, underline, strikethrough, code blocks etc. Would be great if Mastodon had that, in spite of other people saying they don't want it.
Again: Pleroma already has it. Akkoma already has it. MissKey already has it. CalcKey already has it. FoundKey already hasit. GoToSocial already has it. Friendica already has it. Hubzilla already has it (look at this post at its source in a Web browser and weep). (streams) already has it. And so forth. This time, even Mastodon forks have it.
It has been done. It has been done many times. It has actually been done before Mastodon.
Next, long-form blog posting. We need something like #Medium in the Fediverse that isn't Medium itself. Mastodon's 500 characters are too few, and Twitter-like threads are inconvenient.
Except we already have that, too. #Plume and #WriteFreely are about as close to Medium as Mastodon is to Twitter, including clean and distraction-less layouts. Oh, and Hubzilla can do that, too.
By the way: Again, Mastodon is the only Fediverse project that can do microblogging that has a 500-character limit. Pleroma, Mastodon's oldest direct competitor, raised it to a default of 6,000. MissKey and its forks have 3,000 as a default. Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams) have character limits of "go ahead, drop your short story in one post in its entirety," so virtually none at all. And yes, Hubzilla has long-form writing on top of that.
Speaking of Hubzilla: Most recently, there has been the idea to uncouple one's online identity from a specific instance. Your online self should no longer be firmly tied to any one server exclusively. Now, this sounds so ambitious, it might just as well be science-fiction.
What if I told you that just this very thing already exists as well?
No, really. No, I'm not making this up. But you should know by now that I'm not.
Better yet: It was conceived as early as 2011. By the guy who launched Friendica in 2010. He invented a new principle named #NomadicIdentity and a new protocol named #Zot. In its early stages already, even with no technical implementation yet, Zot was more powerful than ActivityPub is today.
In 2012, Zot became reality as the basis of a Friendica fork which later became known as #RedMatrix and, upon its 1.0 stable release in late 2015, which is still prior to Mastodon's initial release, Hubzilla. Hubzilla is still being developed and improved, and it has a fledgling but growing "successor of a successor" named (streams) which offers nomadic identity, too.
Now, what does this nomadic identity even look like? Well, not only does it let you move your channel(s) around from instance to instance with ease and, unlike on Mastodon, with absolutely everything on it. No, it also lets you have your channel on multiple instances at once. Identical clones, automagically kept in sync in real-time, all with the same identity, the same content, the same connections.
Your identity is no longer strapped down to one instance. Not only that, but your channel, your posts, your content is no longer hosted on only one server. This means that if one instance with one of your clones goes down, you still have spares.
Okay, so how about community groups/forums? That'd be cool.
Well, for one, there's #Guppe. It's basically bolted on Mastodon, and in practice, it's centralised because there's only one instance. But it's impractical to use.
Besides, this is becoming a running gag here, Friendica, Hubzilla and (streams) have exactly this built-in and open for the rest of the Fediverse.
Better yet: There's also #Lemmy which amounts to a federated #Reddit or #HackerNews clone. So not only does Lemmy offer this, it specialises in it.
Hubzilla alone can provide Fediverse feature suggestions with "has been done" for years to come. Not to mention what else the Fediverse has to offer. Even if someone should want a free, non-commercial, decentralised, federated #GoodReads clone in the Fediverse, it has been done: #BookWyrm.
Let's make social media free, federated and fun! Fediverse.Party is your guide into the world of decentralized, autonomous networks running on free open software on a myriad of servers across the world. No ads and no algorithms.fediverse.party
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🧵> It seems that for the Fediverse, maybe even for Mastodon, the only message format that can be read by everybody is 500 chars plain Unicode without any markup. Plus maybe one poll and a few images -- but only at the end of the post and with fixed size.
I will probably move to some other instance soon. However, the above constraint applies *no matter where I have my account.* That is the problem...
Když se Facebook začal prosazovat, uživatelé se báli, že populární bezplatná služba jednoho dne zavede měsíční poplatky. Ukázalo se, že to byly plané obavy, protože reklama vydělá firmám dost peněz.Economia, a.s.
I'm Daniel Stenberg, maintainer and lead developer in the curl project. I stream curl related stuff. Release presentations, curl development and related topics.Twitch
iOS16.4 adds push notifications for webapps on the home screen 🎇
Plus VoiceOver support for maps in the Weather app, a new #accessibility setting to dim video when it contains strobe effects or flashing lights, and a heap of new emoji.
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iOS 16.4 is now rolling out to everyone, and it includes a number of new features for iPhone users. There...Chance Miller (9to5mac)
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The real xdg config path is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/curlrc, without the dot. The dotless name seems preferable, so let's match the documentation to the behavior. curl 8.0.1 doesn't seem to care about $XD...GitHub
Good news, we've extended the #GUADEC2023 CfP deadline! You now have one extra week to submit your proposals so make sure to send yours by April 4: foundation.gnome.org/2023/02/2…
Everyone deserves #privacy! 😎 That's why Tutanota is now launching a refer-a-friend program. As a Tutanota user, you can now recommend Tutanota to your friends and family, even to your doctor or lawyer, and you both benefit. 🤩
Check it out! 👇
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Tutanota has launched a refer-a-friend program so that you can both benefit.Tutanota
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So I have experience in using slow mobile devices and usually in other firefox or chromium based browsers if I put that app in the background to check something else and quickly come back to it then the webpages and everything has to reload - this takes some time and is generally a bad user experience. But this issue doesn't happen in privacy browser and the webpages are still there when I come back after looking something else, unless I put it on background for a bit too long but even then the loading time of privacy browser is blazingly fast compared to other browsers on my device. I'm guessing this is because privacy browser is very lightweight and simple compared to other browsers, so it may not take much RAM and boots up quickly, some other factors like JS being disabled on websites might also play a role by making sites load faster. Or maybe you've just done a good job at making the app resilient to being killed, either way this is an area that I think privacy browser excels in compared to other browsers. The privacy aspects of this browser is for sure great, but for me the simple & lightweight nature of it is equally important - that's what makes it exceptionally fast.
P.S. I usually don't open more than ten tabs so the issue mentioned in the above post doesn't affect me, but I'm still kinda mad at android for randomly killing apps and then setting such a small limit of 1 mb for the SavedInstanceState.
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