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I'm weird and I approve this message.

Remember people: "Normal" is a setting on the dryer.

There is no such thing.

We are all "weird" to someone. No biggie.

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Welcome back to our 6th day of the 24th Debian Developers Conference held in Busan, Korea. Please check the the conference schedule: debconf24.debconf.org/schedule… for events and talks you would like to view. We will update before each talk and make announcements from this channel. Happy Debian to you'! #debian #debconf24 #busan #korea #debiankorea micronews.debian.org/2024/1722… #debian


Reflecting on our Music Industry Engagement Internship programme - Sound Without Sight soundwithoutsight.org/reflecti…

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Pensaba retomar el podcast hasta la próxima semana pero los Juegos Olímpicos tenían otros planes. Este episodio va sobre los ataques transodiantes a dos boxeadoras cisgénero. open.spotify.com/episode/2j0mO…


Intel extends the warranty for its boxed Core 13th and 14th Gen desktop processors by an additional two years, due to customers experiencing instability issues (Paul Alcorn/Tom's Hardware)

tomshardware.com/pc-components…
techmeme.com/240801/p56#a24080…



#GUADEC2024 photos from our Denver venue are now online! Take a look through this year's album here: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBC58f

#GUADEC #GNOME #eventphotography

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@fabia_man počúval som to včera tak do polovice a niečo mi na tom rozhovore prekážalo ale neviem teraz čo... (nebol nasraný že musí dávať rozhovory cez prázdniny?)


Finally, someone explores "what the hell is going on with the International Boxing Association" in this whole case

usatoday.com/story/sports/colu…

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Yesterday, I wrote two stories in our @club email newsletter, neither of which mentioned or linked to
@gruber. Yet, here's the summary of that newsletter that I and many other readers get from Apple Intelligence 🙃:


Fluffy Coke sounds fun. Just don’t drink it. "...The marshmallow, of course, doesn’t mix with the soda for that dairy-fizzy interplay that the people oohing about it online seem to imply. Instead, when the sugary fluff comes in contact with the icy soda, it seizes up into a hardened goo, like tile mastic drying on a wall...." washingtonpost.com/food/2024/0…


Someone has shown a bold Windows XP overhaul by removing Internet Explorer’s core components xda-developers.com/windows-xp-…
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I remember that in XP, you could type a URL into the Windows Explorer address bar and the site would just load inside Explorer. That integration really did run deep.
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I think is evident once Windows 98 began going down the path with deeper IE integration on the consumer side, but XP took the shell-level integration to a new level. Thankfully nowadays it's not as bad as Trident is no more.
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@FluidEscence @simon oh yes, but now we got the ultimate punishment, since it's less integrated into OS components they now just say, "let's spin up a hundred msedgeview2.exe processes for every little web-based part of or UI that needs to be injected into the experience!" ironic, in many ways.





Elon Musk grossly exaggerates about brain chip for the blind

aussiedlerbote.de/en/elon-musk…



FDA Cinnamon Warning: More Brands Added to Consumer Alert cnet.com/health/nutrition/fda-…



How to Set Up Wireguard VPN on Linux linuxtoday.com/security/how-to…


We might not have Grant Money – but we certainly have Grant Ideas :awesome:

Next app was just made ready for #reproducibleBuilds by its author – numbers go up 🥳 With the next sync, welcome SmartMouse to the "RB Club":

apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/a…

#IzzyOnDroid




“Viral videos showed customers ending up with absurd orders as a result of the McDonald’s AI drive-thru technology, like the woman who didn’t really want nine sweet teas or the girl shouting “stop” at the screen as it tallies up more than two dozen orders of chicken nuggets.” #Enshittification

cnn.com/2024/07/31/tech/taco-b…



🤬 Hey no fair!
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Literally setting billions of cash on fire in the hopes of printing money through some “AI magic” while laying people off.

futurism.com/the-byte/microsof…



The original #hackerone report for #curl's CVE-2024-7264: ASN.1 date parser overread is now published:

hackerone.com/reports/2629968



I see Vance has chosen party (racism) over family.

(He has bi-racial kids and is clearly signaling they are allowed to identify with only one ethnicity and how they speak will be a measure of how well they match that ethnicity, which you can be sure he will assert is ‘white’).

Ref: washingtonpost.com/politics/20…



A new #law goes into effect today in #Louisiana that will make it a misdemeanor for anyone, including #journalists, to be within 25 feet of a police officer if the officer orders them back.

Louisiana is the 4th state to enact one of these so-called #police "buffer laws," which allow officers to order people to keep their distance.

propublica.org/article/louisia…




Díky usilovné detektivní práci kluků kolem webu herniarchiv.cz se podařilo získat originální hru Videostop přímo od autora. Tím je Zdeněk Vodák a hru naprogramoval v MegaBasicu pro Československou televizi. Tam běžela na ZX Spectru gumáku a přes kempston interface byl připojený ovladač s tlačítkem
#ZXspectrum #games #8bit
zx-spectrum.cz/index.php?cat1=…


De alguna forma exótica, mi tarjeta de débito venció casi 2,000 años antes de que el banco siquiera existiera.

Imagino que esta tarjeta es con el César, y lo que es del César se le debe a él.



Study uncovers unique brain plasticity in people born blind

medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07…



Next is @baabbaash speaking about "Zigzag Mosaics and Single-Line Drawings." He shows us how to create #MathArt from single-line drawings (paper here: archive.bridgesmathart.org/202…). The trick is to modulate the zig-zag of the line to make it lighter/darker at a pixel.


What Does It Mean To Be A Signal Competitor?

A lot of recent (and upcoming) blog posts I've written, and Fediverse discussions I've participated in, have been about the security of communication products. My criticism of these products is simply that, from a cryptography and security perspective, they're not a real competitor to Signal. For all its other faults, Signal sets the bar for secure private messaging. It's a solid security tool, even if its user experience…

soatok.blog/2024/07/31/what-do…



#CD Rohlinge werden heute nur noch selten benötigt. Vielleicht liegt aber im Büroschrank noch eine angebrochene Packung?

Nicht wegwerfen!

Denn #Blindenhörzeitschriften werden nach wie vor gern von blinden Menschen mit speziellen Playern auf CD genutzt.

Die @ComputertruheMuenchen hat uns solche zukommen lassen. Vielen Dank!

Für einen guten Zweck und dazu ökologischer als ungenutzt zu entsorgen ;-)

kom-in.de/185/wohin-mit-cd-roh…

#Spende #DAISY



Mame 0.268 came out yesterday, and it’s a really cool release for blind fans of vintage tech because it includes a fix by @datajake1999 to its emulation of the Dectalk PC Card. What this means is it’s now possible to emulate a self-contained talking IBM PC complete with an original synthesizer without having to resort to a windows only virtual serial port driver and separate apps like you have to with Dosbox. If you want to play with this there are already 2 packages that help with setup just like the community made for the Apple II a while back - one from Jake, which just includes a talking freeDOS installation and no other programs found here datajake.braillescreen.net/uti…
As well as one compiled by Daniel Nash that also includes a bunch of games, including some text only classics like Eamon Deluxe as well as the first audio games from PCS Games or Jim Kitchen found here

nashcentral.duckdns.org/projec…
The cool thing is even though both of these come with a Windows version of Mame this all works just as well on Mac or Linux, you just have to get the latest version of mame from homebrew or your package manager, then unzip either of these and take the startup command from the .bat file and paste it into the terminal.

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in reply to Pitermach

so I download the pc.7z file but the batch file insists curl not found.
in reply to Munchkinbear

@munchkinbear Interesting, makes me wonder if Daniel updated the archive since I last downloaded. I’d check but it’s downloading at 20 kbps, says it’ll take about 3 hours. Does the batch file in your case call curl download anything? The one I downloaded just runs mame.
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PC.bat calls curl and does nothig else because curl doesn't exist.
in reply to Munchkinbear

@munchkinbear curl has been built into Windows for a while now. I wonder how you ended up not having it installed.

@pitermach @datajake1999

in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt I sent you the batch file privately. I suspect it's because of the path part of that file. @pitermach @datajake1999
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@munchkinbear Oh, it looks like at least part of that batch file is running a big long command in a bash shell. And maybe, for whatever reason, the bash installation (presumably Cygwin, MSYS, or WSL) on your PATH doesn't have curl.
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@matt it's running sh.exe from within the folder i extracted it to, so it's searching for curl from within that folder and not on the actual path's, as I ran sh.exe from the run dialog and ran curl from their and it's their, also curl runs from cmd as well. So I suspect it's trying to find curl.exe in c:\portable\pc (that's the folder this thing's existing in)
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@munchkinbear @matt OK, I looked at it as well, it’s a really weird way of doing things. Before the archive already included Mame, and Jake’s package still does. But what he’s doing here is grabbing the windows mame from GitHub, then just extracting it (mame’s windows download is just a 7-zip extractor, using a windows port of SH for some reason). If you download Mame manually, extract it to the same folder then take the last part of the batch file it should run.
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@matt how do I cleanly shut down the thing when I'm done? @JamminJerry and I cna't figure it out, if I close the batch file with ctrl+c it breaks the ram thing and I have to extract it again to fix it.
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@munchkinbear @matt @JamminJerry The typical way to shut down MAME is to hit scroll lock to enable the MAME UI (mostly unusable with a screen reader) then hit Escape to exit.
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@jaybird110127 @munchkinbear @JamminJerry I know this is a tangent, but on the part about the MAME UI being mostly unusable with a screen reader, if a developer with C++ chops wants to make the MAME UI accessible using AccessKit, I'd be happy to provide some guidance, but I don't have time to take on that project myself.
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@matt @jaybird110127 @munchkinbear @JamminJerry Relevant Mame issue here github.com/mamedev/mame/issues…
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@jaybird110127 @munchkinbear @matt may I ask what might sound like a really stupid question? how do you use the screen reader commands inside the emmulation, and not your windows screen reader keys? I need to look at spellings of folder names and such, but the JFW curser just says blank blank blank.
in reply to Jayson Smith

@jaybird110127 @mcourcel @munchkinbear @matt ah, ok, will most certainly do that the next time I run it. I think this is just awesome as hell! being able to play with old dos stuff like this. you know how most people back then were using word perfect? my adoptive parents baught a program called first choice. now how many people remember that one?
in reply to JamminJerry

@JamminJerry My mom used to run First Choice on her PC. It was one of those integrated office suite type packages, right?
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt yep. it had a word processer, and let me think, I think a spreadsheet too. it has been so many years sense I have seen it, I can't remember what all it had, but I know it had a few things in it.
in reply to Pitermach

It looks like the version of Mame in the Raspbian repository is out of date, as starting this freedos.img produces an error stating that files are missing. Hopefully this version of Mame has an equivalent Arch64 release. I think we all know where this is going. BTFreedos on a BTSpeak would be something.


I express my sincere gratitude for this: • VoiceOver support is available in the Tags filter and the details of
Column view. I basiclaly live in DT and that helps me a lot. mastodon.devontechnologies.com…


Hello Jamers 😍

As you know, Transifex serves as our #collaborative translation #management platform. While the core principles remain similar, this tutorial diverges from its predecessor by focusing specifically on the translation of the Jami application. 📲

Are you #multilingual? Your skills can make a real impact! Join our translation efforts and help us break #language barriers! 💪

👀 Want to know how ?
Here's the link: jami.net/how-to-contribute-to-…

#Jami #opensource #P2P #App #PrivacyMatters



The Man Behind Project 2025’s Most Radical Plans
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As #Trump tried to disavow the politically toxic project, its director, Paul Dans, stepped down.

But the plans and massive staffing database that he prepared — to replace thousands of members of the “deep state” with #MAGA loyalists — remain.

#News #Government #election2024 #Election #project2025 #HeritageFoundation #Politics #Voting #GOP #PaulDans

propublica.org/article/project…