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One of the topics that came up on my timeline today was backups. Do you have them? Do you know they work?
In 2016, during a particularly rough patch in my life, I made a thing I called "a Bad Day in the Server Room."
In this file, I found a bunch of hard drives in my parents' basement, some dating back to the very early 90s, most of them not calibrating anymore, turned them all on for 30 seconds, and recorded the resulting racket.

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Publicado el tercer programa de "Accesibilidad con Tecnologías libres":

accesibilidadtl.gitlab.io/post…

Logo de Accesibilidad con Tecnologías libres Tres ruedas dentadas con simbología de accesibilidad

03 - Accesibilidad con Tecnologías libres

En el programa 03 de Accesibilidad con Tecnologías libres hablamos de: Odisea en el ciberespacio, con David Marzal, donde hablamos de WheelMap (https://wheelmap.org/), Streetmap y otros proyectos molones.
David Marzal (Accesibilidad con Tecnologías Libres)

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"Many recent Intel laptops have […] a raw MIPI camera-sensor connected to the IPU6 found in recent Intel laptop chips.

[…] #Linux support for the IPU6 relies on an out of tree #kernel driver with a proprietary userspace stack […]

[…] Linaro has started a project to […] allow these cameras to work without needing proprietary software and Red Hat has joined Linaro in working on this. […]

This work is at a point now where it is ready for wider testing. […]"

hansdegoede.livejournal.com/27… #LinuxKernel

#linux #kernel #linuxkernel
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10 Facts About the Making of “We Are the World”
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/we-are-the-world-usa-for-africa-song-history?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Mental Floss
https://flipboard.com/@mental_floss/mental-floss-11uq6n29z?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub


10 Facts About the Making of “We Are the World”

In the ’80s, pop music decided to take on the world’s problems. There was Band Aid, Live Aid, Farm Aid, and of course, USA for Africa's “We Are the World.”
Kenneth Partridge (Mental Floss)

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I think I finally found the kind of T-Shirt style for me!

Edit: FUCK. Forgot to source them. hoodielab.com/product-category…

A T-Shirt that is a large version of a Dynamicron T-120 VHS Cassette tape. The top is off-white and then a stepped gradient goes from yellow, through red, to deep wine.
A T-Shirt that is a large version of a Scotch T-120 VHS Cassette tape. A smooth gradient sphere hovers in front of a series of grey bars that get thicker as they go down the shop, as if coming into the foreground.
A T-Shirt that is a large version of a Dynamicron T-120 VHS Cassette tape. This one starts navy blue at the top, then has a cyan bar underneath, which goes through a gradient of bi flag colours.
A T-Shirt that is a large version of a Dynamicron L-500 Betamaz Cassette tape. The top of the shirt is off white, and then there's a matrix of colours expanding from off white in the top left, through yellows, oranges, reds, and finally purples in the bottom right.

Mens graphic Shirts – Custom T Shirts | Hoodie Lab

Shop for quality customised t shirts designed by talented artists. Check out the bunch of premium mens graphic shirts designs on Hoodie Lab at affordable prices.
Hoodie Lab
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The #DebConf24 Logo Contest is now open for voting! Clean your screens, glasses, squint, or view with your perfect vision these amazing submissions on display for your selection. :) app.formbricks.com/s/clrun50b6… #debian #debconf24 #debconfBusan #korea micronews.debian.org/2024/1706…

DebConf24-LogoContest

Create your own survey like this with Formbricks' open source survey suite.
app.formbricks.com
#debian #korea #debconfbusan #debconf24

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A Beginner’s Guide to Providing Constructive Accessibility Feedback for Android Apps accessibleandroid.com/a-beginn…

A Beginner's Guide to Providing Constructive Accessibility Feedback for Android Apps - Accessible Android

At Accessible Android, our mission extends beyond discussing and praising existing features; it encompasses advocating for the inclusion of what's currently
Editorial Staff (Accessible Android)

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The #DebConf24 Logo Contest is now open for voting! Clean your screens, glasses, squint, or view with your perfect vision these amazing submissions on display for your selection. :) app.formbricks.com/s/clrun50b6… #debian #debconf24 #debconfBusan #korea

DebConf24-LogoContest

Create your own survey like this with Formbricks' open source survey suite.
app.formbricks.com
#debian #korea #debconfbusan #debconf24

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Introducing Audible Sight™: Revolutionizing Video Accessibility for Blind and Low Vision People bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?re…

Introducing Audible Sight™: Revolutionizing Video Accessibility for Blind and Low Vision People

Orlando, FL January 25, 2024 --( PR.com )-- Today, Audible Sight, Inc. proudly announces the launch of its barrier-breaking software-as-a-service that helps visually impaired people to “see” your video content
San Francisco Examiner

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It's amazing how little many of the people who set tech policy understand about tech.

E.g., here's Senator Orin Hatch bragging about chairing the Senate High-Tech Task Force and then, puzzled, asking Zuckerberg how the company could possibly sustain a business if they don't charge users.

Zuck, caught off guard, takes a long pause and responds, "Senator, we run ads" (Zuck and the two FB staffers behind him, a VP and a lobbyist, hold in their laughter, with varying degrees of success).

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Overlays and Ethics: a conference panel that hurt my heart – Law Office of Lainey Feingold lflegal.com/2024/01/zero-con-o…

Overlays and Ethics: a conference panel that hurt my heart

Today is the first time I had to update an article before I posted it. The original article, which you'll find below, is about a planned session at the Zero Project accessibility conference (#ZeroCon) in February.
Law Office of Lainey Feingold

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A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#132 Bottom Sheets
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/…

#GNOME #TWIG

Settings showing new refresh rate selector
Screenshot of "Aleveny"

#132 Bottom Sheets · This Week in GNOME

thisweek.gnome.org
#gnome #ThisWeekInGNOME #twig

reshared this

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Kompetenz scheint kein bedeutsames Kriterium mehr zu sein, zumindest nicht für die Datenschutz-Ignoranten in der SPD-Fraktion: Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragter und Informatiker Kelber ist abserviert netzpolitik.org/2024/ulrich-ke…

Ulrich Kelber: Kompetent, aber trotzdem abserviert – netzpolitik.org

Seine Diskussionsbeiträge fanden im politischen Berlin kein Gehör: Der außerhalb der Ampel weithin angesehene Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte wird keine zweite Amtszeit bekommen. Ein Kommentar.
netzpolitik.org

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#AndroidAppRain (or rather a drizzle of modules) today at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk with 1 added module:

* ICS System Sounds: Systemlessly apply Ice Cream Sandwich's system sounds on your device

That makes it 101 dalma… err, modules available there now 🤩

At apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid 6 apps received an update.

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with 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, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #IzzySoftRepo

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I have ✨ a new preprint ✨ to share!!

This is a scientific review paper which seeks to provide a map, an entry point, and a call to action for improving the lives of the people who create software:

"Psychological Affordances Can Provide a Missing Explanatory Layer for Why Interventions to Improve Developer Experience Take Hold or Fail"

You can download it free and open access here:

osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/qz43…

OSF

osf.io

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I recently switched to using a unified kernel image on my laptop - a UEFI executable that includes the kernel and the initial RAM disk. It is loaded directly by the UEFI firmware, hence no boot loader is needed anymore.
I'm still resolving a few issues, but it's essentially working. For now, at least, I've decided to use dracut to generate the initramfs image, and the Arch Linux dracut-ukify package to automate creation of the unified kernel image.
wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unifi…
#Linux #BootProcess #uefi #UnifiedKernelImage

Unified kernel image - ArchWiki

wiki.archlinux.org
#linux #uefi #bootprocess #unifiedkernelimage

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"Give all your fucks to the living."

Mandy Brown on—well, the renewal of the soul, in a different register, I think—through devotion to the genuinely alive.

"if you give your fucks to the unliving—if you plant those fucks in institutions or systems or platforms or, gods forbid, interest rates—you will run out of fucks. One day you will reach into that bag and your hand will meet nothing but air and you will be bereft."

aworkinglibrary.com/writing/un…


A unified theory of fucks |

Where to give all your precious fucks.
A Working Library
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