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Someone made gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg… and it's the kind of patch that is hard to evaluate.

It's to allow restricting rsvg-convert to outputting certain PDF versions. Cairo's default is PDF 1.7, but that causes a warning when embedding such PDFs in #TeXLaTeX.

There are two cases of the relevant warning in texlive (github.com/search?q=repo%3ATeX…) - and as far as I can tell, both are ancient.

So, I'm torn between "having --pdf1.5 is gross in terms of usability" and "this lets people solve a problem".


rsvg-convert: create PDFs with older versions (!857) · Merge requests · GNOME / librsvg · GitLab

Some applications do not support PDF 1.7 or at least have problems with it, e.g. latex. This merge request adds support for rsvg-convert to use cairo::PDFSurface::restrict() to pin...
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Federico Mena Quintero

@joncruz Heh, I mean, the meat of the patch is a single line of code, that tells Cairo which PDF version to emit. I'd rather do that than send people on a side quest to find how to convert PDF versions. A tiny bit of maintenance load for me, vs. hours wasted for everyone.

(I'd really prefer it if LaTeX would update their defaults (does it really default to emitting PDF 1.4 or something?), but I understand the reasons for its glacial development pace at the core.)

@Jon A. Cruz

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Super excited to announce that you can now use WhatsApp for web without using a QRCode to sign in! Simply select "link with phone number" from web.whatsapp.com and enter your number. You will then see an 8-digit alphanumeric code. Enter this code on the phone under linked devices > add a device > link with phone number and WhatsApp will do the rest!

faq.whatsapp.com/1324084875126…

So grateful to everyone who came together across teams to make this happen! #accessibility

Jak propojit zařízení pomocí telefonního čísla | Centrum nápovědy pro WhatsApp

faq.whatsapp.com
#Accessibility

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Video Game Preservation

A new study shows a whopping 87% of games released prior to 2010 are no longer available for sale or download by any means other than the second-hand market and archival/"piracy": gamehistory.org/87percent/

Proof if you ever needed it that the community is doing the work that corporate interests won't do to preserve gaming history and the slice of culture it represents.

We are living in an age when it is so astonishingly cheap to keep copies of things around and yet the perverse incentives exist for companies to memory-hole anything that doesn't perform well or that might compete with newer offerings.

IMO, in the big picture this is what legislation is for, correcting a horrible tendency that the market will have if left to its own devices, and there should absolutely be legislation protecting archivists of content that's no longer available for sale, or even requiring that content creation companies keep content available in SOME form. Until then, we depend on each other to do this.


87% Missing: the Disappearance of Classic Video Games | Video Game History Foundation

New study reveals most classic video games are completely unavailable
Kelsey Lewin (Video Game History Foundation)

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Právě byla vydána verze#Tusky 23.0.
mastodon.social/@Tusky/1106913…

Tusky

2023-07-10 18:59:55


#Tusky 23.0 has just been released.

This is primarily a bug fix release after 22.0, although you will also notice a new preference to adjust text size across the user interface.

More details at github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/rele…



Release Tusky 23.0 · tuskyapp/Tusky

New features and other improvements New preference to scale UI text, PR#3248 by @nikclayton Significant bug fixes Save account information correctly, PR#3720 by @connyduck If you were logged in...
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#Tusky 23.0 has just been released.

This is primarily a bug fix release after 22.0, although you will also notice a new preference to adjust text size across the user interface.

More details at github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/rele…


Release Tusky 23.0 · tuskyapp/Tusky

New features and other improvements New preference to scale UI text, PR#3248 by @nikclayton Significant bug fixes Save account information correctly, PR#3720 by @connyduck If you were logged in...
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r3vilo

@Sibshops Every video I try cannot be played. With #Fedilab for example it works, in #Tusky not. So, it shouldn't be the phone, except Fedilab comes with codecs exclusively for the app, but I doubt it is so. So what else could be the reason? Thanks

Edit: And no, I can't see this video. After pressing the play button it seems it's loading, then comes a black screen with the message "cannot play this video" (screenshot shows the german message) and that's it. Always the same.

This message appears after 1-2 seconds of loading.
This is how I see the thread, and when I click on the picture/video the black screen appears.
#Tusky #fedilab @Sibshops
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r3vilo

@Sibshops I found something similar. At least the same error message, but I don't know what is meant by "the parent video".

github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/issu…

This from 2022 seems similar and several people had problems playing videos:

github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/issu…

If I read the mentioned solution right, it could be the instance?


Video cannot be loaded · Issue #1310 · tuskyapp/Tusky

Video I upload cannot be played on tusky。 1.upload a video 2.open it in browser and play it (it can be played) 3.open tusky and play it (infinite loading, but if you download the video you can view...
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Ok, I said I would do it, and here it is.

I want #Fipamo and #TheBadSpace to be viable mainstays in the fediverse ecosystem, and to get them where they need to be, I need some help to get them up to snuff.

Because I believe the fedi can be a fantastic place. And I want to make a direct contribution to making this space better.

Spread this around. It's time to get to work.

gofundme.com/f/a-new-way-to-so…

#thebadspace #fipamo

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Ro

As of this morning, the fund has hit $1853/40k.

I will be very honest, and I am surprised and humbled that the campaign to get resources for #Fipamo and #TheBadSpace has started this strongly.

I'm feeling many emotions right now because of this, but it makes me feel like many more people than I thought to believe the fedi can be a transformative place.

It's only been one day, but I feel like we can do this and set an entirely new precedent for what we can accomplish if we pull together.

Thanks, y'all, and let's keep it going.

gofundme.com/f/a-new-way-to-so…

#thebadspace #fipamo

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid with 13 updated and 1 added apps:

* Claw: inofficial client for lobste.rs

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

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).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #fdroid #apps #AndroidAppRain #IzzySoftRepo

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The Cost Of JavaScript, with
Addy Osmani, 2023 youtube.com/watch?v=ZKH3DLT4BK… Why JavaScript is the most expensive resource your site uses today. #webdev #webperf #javascript

The Cost Of JavaScript - 2023

As we build sites that are more heavily reliant on JavaScript, we sometimes pay for what we send down in ways that we can’t always easily see. In this talk, ...
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#webdev #javascript #webperf

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I’m a Blind technologist and i’ve built the Dimensions Lab for #accessible tactile graphics and #3d models at New York Public Library. With the right tools, skill-building opps and community support, Blind people can break out of image poverty and excel at spatial thinking + design. This is me waving hello to folks in #Vis #Art #Graphics & #CreativeCoding technologyreview.com/2023/06/1…

How tactile graphics can help end image poverty

Access to rich imagery shouldn’t be something that blind or low-vision people have to do without. These projects are helping.
Chancey Fleet (MIT Technology Review)
#accessible #art #graphics #3d #creativecoding #vis

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Databag, a tiny self-hosted federated messenger for the decentralized web, now supports UnifiedPush!

Find it on GitHub at github.com/balzack/databag

#databag #messenger


GitHub - balzack/databag: A tiny self-hosted federated messenger for the decentralized web.

A tiny self-hosted federated messenger for the decentralized web. - GitHub - balzack/databag: A tiny self-hosted federated messenger for the decentralized web.
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#messenger #databag

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theverge.com/2023/5/25/2373711…

OpenAI threatening to leave the EU if they pass legislation requiring them to list their data sources because:
"In addition to the possible business threat, forcing OpenAI to identify its use of copyrighted data would expose the company to potential lawsuits. Generative AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E are trained using large amounts of data scraped from the web, much of it copyright protected. When companies disclose these data sources it leaves them open to legal challenges."

Like every other boom tech company, it's just doing labor crimes and theft and claiming you're actually too innovative to be regulated, God.

#OpenAI #ArtTheft


OpenAI says it could ‘cease operating’ in the EU if it can’t comply with future regulation

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has warned that the company could pull its services from the EU if it finds upcoming regulations too onerous. The EU AI Act is currently being finalized by lawmakers and should become law next year.
James Vincent (The Verge)
#openai #arttheft

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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@kranzkrone What I still don't get is: they openly admit they violate laws, and are still allowed to operate? They basically say their entire product is based on stolen stuff, and there's no court shutting them down?

So as usual: if you're big enough, you can ignore the law unless it concerns another "big fish". So it's fine to say "all stolen" as long as you don't have to disclose where from.

Yuck. Vulture Capitalism 🤮

@Stefan

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A profile of Debbie Bestwick, the video games industry's longest-serving female CEO, ahead of her year-end departure from UK studio Team17, which released Worms (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

t.co/0CIhk2Nim2
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How Worms turned Debbie Bestwick into a games industry female winner

The outgoing Team17 chief executive on her battles in a sector known for its sexist attitudes — and the role the 1990s invertebrate-inspired video game played in her success
Tim Bradshaw (Financial Times)

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Right. I've decided that although American train-horns are amazingly jazzy with their sick chords, they're also angry. They just say 'Haaaaa! Aam here, ya better hear me!'
UK trains with their two-tone horns are like a happy woman. A posh British woman of course, but they say 'Hello! Heh Low!'Or perhaps 'Hi there!'
It's a thing.

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We have a major announcement: Tenacity 1.3 has finally been released! Check out the release notes here: codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tena…

If you are upgrading from previous betas, we strongly recommend you read the Release Advisories section as that contains important information.

We thank everyone who contributed to this release. Your contributions are invaluable and we simply cannot express how thankful we are because we would not be at this point without them.

Here's to our first stable release! 🎉


tenacity

Tenacity is an easy-to-use, privacy-friendly, FLOSS, cross-platform multi-track audio editor for Windows, macOS, Linux, and other operating systems
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Love #LibreOffice? Come and meet the community that makes it! Our conference in September will have talks, workshops, fun social meetups and much more: conference.libreoffice.org/202… – We look forward to meeting you there 😊 #event #meetings #foss
Conference logo

Bucharest, Romania 2023 | LibreOffice Conference 2023 - Bucharest (Romania)

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#foss #libreoffice #event #meetings

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#инвестиции #AMD #NVDA смотрю эти акции по мультипликаторам и удивился крайне высокими уровнями по показателям P/E у AMD около 600 а у NVDA 210 при норме в индустрии 30. Такое ощущение, что из за прорыва ИИ рынок оторвался от реальности, а технологический сектор #NASDAQ слишком перегрет. У крайне недооценённого #INTC P/E 16. Лично держу 2% акции интела в портфеле.
#nvda #amd #инвестиции #nasdaq #intc

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I found this file in a folder simply called 'Google'. It must have come off of my 3GS, and I'm guessing is from the Google search app. This file played when you asked the app to perform a search. Forgot I had this. Also have all the other sounds from the app at the time. Guessing I jail-broke the phone to grab these.

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Ich wollte eigentlich auch noch was über die seltsame Feuilletonliebe, vor allem der Süddeutschen Zeitung, zu allen Silicon-Valley-Hypes schreiben.

14 Jahre lang fast nichts über das Fediverse und die zivilgesellschaftlichen Anstrengungen dahinter berichten, aber sobald Zuck, Jack oder Elmo Vaporaware ankündigen, dreht man auf.

Aber @guenterhack hat die Logik dahinter mit dem Bild vom Cyberboomer viel besser zusammengefasst:
eh.antville.org/stories/231214…

Das Cyberboomer-Manifest

Bei einigen Leuten, die von Twitter zu Mastodon gewechselt sind, fällt mir zunehmend ein Ton auf, den ich sonst nur…
jo eh
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Schwarzbuch Axel Voss: Ein CDU-Abgeordneter schreibt Digitalgesetze – und berät nebenher die Digitalbranche
netzpolitik.org/2023/schwarzbu…

Überrascht? Ich nicht...


Schwarzbuch Axel Voss: Ein CDU-Abgeordneter schreibt Digitalgesetze – und berät nebenher die Digitalbranche

Wenn die EU das Netz reguliert, dann ist der konservative Parlamentarier Axel Voss nicht weit. Doch sein Abgeordnetengehalt bessert der CDU-Mann mit Nebenjobs auf, die Interessenskonflikte vermuten lassen.
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Installiert? Dann schnell weg damit!

1,5 Millionen Installationen: Android-Malware im Google-Play-Store entdeckt
heise.de/news/Android-Malware-…


1,5 Millionen Installationen: Android-Malware im Google-Play-Store entdeckt

IT-Sicherheitsforscher haben zwei vermeintliche Dateimanager mit mehr als 1,5 Millionen Downloads im Google Play Store entdeckt. Es handelt sich um Spyware.
Dirk Knop (heise online)
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