I regret to inform you that my mother lost her battle with cancer yesterday morning, the 25th of April, 2016.
I want to thank all of you for the compassion and support you showed my mother during her long illness and in all of her beloved hobbies from writing to music to astronomy.
There will be a memorial posted towards the end of May, very soon. We would love to see you in Chicago for it. An obituary will be posted in the Naperville Sun.
Her wishes were for donations to The Nature Conservancy in lieu of flowers.
@jscholes I quite enjoyed their sunset over britain stuff, reread the first of those not so long ago. For all the hate lately, the potterverse and the fanfic it spawned really has influenced a generation.
It's creator can never take away from that. People will cut themselves off if they like, and you can disagree with someone's politics and stance on things without stopping the reading of some of your favourite writings if you like. People don't see that. They see it like as if by reading fanfic, you're supporting the creator. Yes, the creator of the fanfic, not the thing that started it all. It's a bloody weird-arse mindset.
@jscholes Thankfully there are thriving Harry Potter communities on Reddit (and presumably other places, but I'm there most often), and even in the main Books/Audible/Audiobooks subreddits, people get downvoted heavily for weighing in on a discussion about Harry Potter with nothing but Rowling hate. I think it's possible and worthwhile to have a polite discussion about the things she says (which I don't agree with, by the way), but keep her separate from her work and certainly keep her separate from discussions about fanfiction, where plenty of authors actually make a point of creating an AU that makes up for some of the ways the original series falls short.
@simon @jscholes Probably a good job Roald Dahl died when he did, given the way things have gone for him lately. People can separate work from author when they aren't here still saying stuff, I guess.
“If the bees disappear off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”
For any enthusiasts of legacy assistive tech, it seems the first source code of the Talks Screen Reader for Nokia 9110 Communicator has been published by one of the original devs. Unbelievable to think that it all started off as a bunch of prerecorded messages supplemented by the ability to spell anything it doesn't have ready letter by letter and plugging in external synthesizers and Braille displays via the serial port: github.com/mgroeber9110/talx91… #Accessibility #Blind #RetroTech #ScreenReader
@jcsteh Wow, good memories that communicator was the first thing I ever bought on eBay and I spent the entire week crapping myself thinking I've been ripped off to the tune of many many dollars
E-commerce platform Shopify denies it suffered a data breach after a threat actor began selling customer data they claim was stolen from the company's network.
@Tusky FYI there is something wrong with the propagation of status between toots and boosts of the toot. As you can see interactions with the boost propagate to the toot, however, it doesn't work the other way around
Ja navrhujem Viedeň. Výborná dostupnosť, veľa Slovákov to tam pozná (najmä tých z Kittsee), pre cudzincov menšia hanba a navyše vláda ušetrí peniaze, keďže stanicu nebude potrebné ani stavať, keďže tam už dávno novú stanicu majú.
Hlavnú stanicu v Bratislave nebudú rozširovať ani rozsiahlo opravovať. Memorandum medzi mestom a bývalým ministrom dopravy súčasný minister Jozef Ráž zrušil.
so you're saying people should give Purism - a for-profit company - money, because they did the bare minimum of hiring open source devs and letting them keep their work in the open?
I can't tell you where your purism subscription will go, but anyone can tell you exactly where you money goes if you donate to a project like postmarketOS directly instead... And to be frank, I'd argue that you get much better bang for your buck when it comes to progressing the Mobile Linux ecosystem.
TIL if you’re using Wayland gnome you can use an iPad Pro as a second display Had to enable the extended desktop feature via the terminal emulator, but it works great! :D #linux #debian #gnome
Thanks to @slomo the #gstreamer gtk4-paintable-sink just got support for video rotations. This is nice for video apps, making playback of video recorded on phones (portrait mode) more easy or faster (avoiding a copy compared to using a dedicated gst videoflip element).
The change is even better for Snapshot, the #gnome camera app: it uses the sink for its viewfinder and avoiding additional copies here has quite an impact on #mobilelinux devices.
Ja navrhujem Viedeň. Výborná dostupnosť, veľa Slovákov to tam pozná (najmä tých z Kittsee), pre cudzincov menšia hanba a navyše vláda ušetrí peniaze, keďže stanicu nebude potrebné ani stavať, keďže tam už dávno novú stanicu majú.
@yindrik Nedávno byl problém na všech invidious instancí, nešla ani jedna. Vývojáři to do dvou dnou opravili. Hodně i blokuje Google IP adresy. @xChaos @infoek @smoon @Razemix
@infoek @yindrik @smoon @Razemix @archos asi jsme o tom mluvil hlavně proto, že to jde nasdílet tady na Mastodonu, místo sdílení videa na YouTube. Podle mě ale pokud se to rozšíří, tak po tom YouTube půjde...
We’ve finished digitizing all of the The Famous Computer Cafe tapes. In the end, we recovered 52 1/2 episodes, a perfect time capsule of the world of microcomputing spanning November 17 1984 through July 12, 1985. They’re at archive.org/details/famous-com…
Hundreds more episodes are still lost, so keep an eye out in the world for more Famous Computer Cafe tapes: they’re on 10.5” NAB reel-to-reel tapes, and may still be in or around the Los Angeles area.
Newly added episodes:
John Shirley, who was president of Microsoft. He died in 2013.
John Reese, head of Tronix and Monogram Software, talking about home banking and “Dollars and Sense” software.
A banger of an episode with journalist Steven Levy (author of Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution); Sid Meier of Microprose, talking about F-15 Strike Eagle); and Dave Johnson of IBM, discussing voice response systems.
Christopher Miles of Crystal Network, which was some sort of online service that I couldn’t get my head around.
It was an honour and pleasure to have been asked to address the National Federation of the Blind’s DeafBlind Division on Friday. I gave an address about living the life we want as blind people who wear hearing aids. If you are blind and wear hearing aids, or have an interest in this topic, I hope you find the text of interest. mosen.org/nfbdb2024/ #NFB24
Here is the text of my address to the NFB’s DeafBlind division which I delivered earlier in the week. Living the life we want as a blind person wearing hearing aids Delivered to the Na…
The Government™ has made an ad about the existential threat that AI poses to humanity, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative👉 Help us keep Government...
Usually people talk about Linux terminal commands used in those hacker-man movies. So here we present you "Termux terminal session" used in an American comedy show.
Also a CW for anyone who's going to watch the entire video: there is some blood involved at around 2:50
Chad (Pete Davidson) is chosen to save the colonists at Elon Musk's Space X Mars habitat.Saturday Night Live. Stream now on Peacock: https://pck.tv/3uQxh4qSu...
Just chose my sessions for this year's #SolsticeSchool, a fedi phenomenon where people give short-ish 15-minute or so lectures plus q&a on interesting, academia-adjacent topics. They're oriented towards non-specialists, and they're a great way to get an entrypoint on the topics. If it sounds interesting, check it out on solsticeschool.scholar.social/…
Solstice School is a casual-academic event where people give short talks about things that they are really passionate about.
The talks are distributed across all sorts of time zones and academic fields, from computer science to climate science to astronomy to history. Come learn, from the history of queerness in Korea, to the dangers of space junk, to what's up with all those mites.
ZOO v Lipsku mě velice uchvátilo. Moje očekávání bylo asi zbytečně nízké, ale i tak pokud jedete okolo tak doporučuji tam celý den strávit. ⤵️ #leipzig #zoo #
@archos můžu jedině doporučit! My jsme tam vyrazili na prodloužený víkend. Spali jsme přímo v Lipsku a v pátek jsme jeli do Belantisu (zábavní park), sobotu do ZOO a dneska do místního parku, obory a teď chill na pláži. Hezky strávený čas s @hana 👍
Neuer europäischer Rechtsbund: Die Wende des Andrej Babis
Bislang war Tschechiens Ex-Premier Babis im Lager der europäischen Liberalen, nun paktiert er mit den rechten Kreml-Freunden in Ungarn und Österreich.
Super, díky za to, ale jestli je to v Tvých možnostech, zkus jim příště koupit něco lepšího :). Ono to často ani nevyjde o moc dráž. U těch značek Felix, Whiskas a Friskies se fakt nedá moc mluvit o kvalitě. Kočky to sice sežerou, ale moc dobré to pro ně není. Ve složení 4% masa.
haha. I saw the original post on Reddit 30 minutes ago or so and thought "cool idea for a new curl logo". Here is the Reddit post: reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/s/Tl…
High-frequency traders have a few tactics on stock exchanges: but simply put, they gather price information faster than anyone else, sometimes even faster th...
I have a trans daughter, she grew up living the whole Harry Potter thing, it was a bitter pill to swallow when JKR started down the path of hate speech. Fuck JK Rowling, and all who associate with her.
@Tusky I got a bug on the new version 26 beta 1 (pushed to me on google play even though I'm not a beta tester, though I see someone already reported that), where when switching feeds the app crashed.
Wer nach einer hörenswerten Podcast-Folge für den Sonntag sucht, empfehle ich diesen Beitrag mit @arnesemsrott, in dem über sein Buch »Machtübernahme. Was passiert, wenn Rechtsextremisten regieren. Eine Anleitung zum Widerstand« gesprochen wird. Eine besondere Einladung, sich das anzuhören, geht an alle Beamt*innen raus: was-tun.podigee.io/50-machtueb… #DemokratieVereint
_September 2024, Wahlsonntag, 18 Uhr - die ersten Hochrechnungen der Wahlergebnisse erscheinen auf den Fernsehbildschirmen im ganzen Land - der grell-blaue Balken flackert über die Mattscheiben: 31 Prozent für die AfD - sie ist stärkste Kraft.
@SunDial79 Habe das Buch in en letzten Tagen gelesen. Gerade die wahrscheinlich und plausibel klingenden Einstiege haben mich tatsächlich beängstigt. Lesenswertes Buch
“Second or third-party data led segmenting and targeting of advertising does not outperform a random sample when it comes to accuracy of reaching the actual target. [..] First party data does do better than the random sample. [..] But, and here’s the real kicker: Contextual ads massively outperform even first party data. And they are much, much cheaper.” mi-3.com.au/26-06-2024/data-de…
Ever wondered how come martech is a US$700bn industry, but the ads you see are still crap? Clue – it's because the data foundations are crap, says Brand Traction's Jon Bradshaw.
This doesn't align with intuition nor with prior research, which makes me extremely suspicious.
It might be true for some pieces of content, but it's hard to define contextual for e.g. a Taylor Swift song or "Game of Thrones", and a lot of content we consume on the internet is exactly of this nature.
@miki It’s indeed difficult to define. But in essence, you don’t have to match the context of every piece of content ads are shown next to but rather the context of the location. See: techcrunch.com/2019/05/31/targ…
To enable screen reader support, go into either your project or Engine Console Variable configuration file. Once in the file, add the variable Accessibility.Enable=1.
With the caveat that I am very stupid and have never designed software, why is this even necessary? What’s the risk of just… having the support available in all games? It’s like saying “eyes_enabled=1.” There’s no project veriable you have to explicitly set to send output to a display, it just happens.
I want to write a game entirely in C++, but I would like to profit from the possibilities offered by the Unreal Engine, especially in terms of graphics and physics. Nevertheless, I strongly dislike...
oh nah. Half the point of using something like Unity or Unreal is the development environment, which probably comes with a lot of shortcuts as well. If I'm gonna write all that by hand I might as well keep using my own tools.
that communicator was the first thing I ever bought on eBay and I spent the entire week crapping myself thinking I've been ripped off to the tune of many many dollars 
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04/26/2016
This is Susan's daughter, Lesley.
I regret to inform you that my mother lost her battle with cancer yesterday morning, the 25th of April, 2016.
I want to thank all of you for the compassion and support you showed my mother during her long illness and in all of her beloved hobbies from writing to music to astronomy.
There will be a memorial posted towards the end of May, very soon. We would love to see you in Chicago for it. An obituary will be posted in the Naperville Sun.
Her wishes were for donations to The Nature Conservancy in lieu of flowers.
Much love and many thanks,
Drew and Lesley
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