"It didn’t matter what Joe Biden did – pull the country out of a pandemic ... tame inflation, grow jobs, grow wages, enforce anti-monopoly laws, revive every single one of the so-called 'left behind' counties that voted for Trump in 2016 because of 'economic anxiety' ... The press corps decided nothing was more important than his age, and lo! 2024 became an election about vibes and vibes ended his candidacy.

"Vibes are this press corps’ forte, not fact and substance."

editorialboard.com/kamala-harr…

Our Membership Committee (MC) administers membership applications and renewals following the criteria defined in our Statutes. We would like to run “townhall” sessions with the candidates for this year’s membership committee election: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…

Fortunately I hear that one of the big benefits of distributed version control is that it does not rely on a central server and works even when some participants are offline, therefore I’m confident that this outage will have minimal practical impact on developers’ work today.

[touches earpiece]

Wait…

From @ryanrandall:
hcommons.social/@ryanrandall/1…

Ex-Google CEO says successful AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to ‘clean up the mess’ theverge.com/2024/8/14/2422065…

Reminder that you can use AccessibilityAttributes on your AttributedStrings to have more fine-grained control over how assistive technologies interact with your Text, such as modulating the pitch or pronunciation #VoiceOver uses! #accessibility #iOS

developer.apple.com/documentat…

This is my favorite coconut water product. Just coconut water and coconut flesh, frozen in a bag. The next best thing is getting a young coconut on a Thai beach.

Keeps me going, what with all the terrible coconut water products here

On an especially hot day, taking this out of the freezer = having coconut ice slushy instead of water, which is also excellent

sayweee.com/en/product/Coconut…

#Food #tootsea

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From Freedom Scientific:
Learn How to Access PDFs in Adobe Acrobat Reader with JAWS
Thursday, August 15, 12:00 PM Eastern Time

blog.freedomscientific.com/lea…

Sources: Sonos is considering relaunching its previous mobile app as it works to improve the redesigned version, which launched in May to widespread criticism (Chris Welch/The Verge)

theverge.com/2024/8/14/2422042…
techmeme.com/240814/p31#a24081…

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

As someone very familiar with government IT (but not with DOE specifically), my hypothesis is that their developers have to create a record of every piece of software they use. And the system where they enter those records requires a vendor contact email address. And someone, lacking a better email address in their rush to fill out the form, found your email address and used it, not understanding the implications.

GOOD NEWS EU 🇪🇺 For innovation in app distribution, Epic Games has granted us a MegaGrant grant that we plan to use to cover Apple’s Core Technology Fee going forward — and we won’t take it for granted!

What does this mean? AltStore PAL is now FREE — no subscription necessary 🎉 altstore.io

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Esta noticia es increíble. Una mujer come en un restaurante de Disney y, después de preguntar y pedir repetidas veces si la comida no tenía ciertos alimentos a los que era alérgica, y de ser asegurada, repetidamente que no los llevaba, muere por una reacción alérgica a la comida.

El marido denuncia al restaurante por negligencia y ahora Disney quiere desestimar la denuncia porque la mujer una vez se apuntó a una prueba gratuita de un mes de Disney+, y entre los T&C aceptas uno que dice que cualquier disputa que tengas con la empresa deber resolverse con ella (y no a través de los tribunales).

longisland.news12.com/disney-a…

@matrix I know you worked on encryption and key exchange in the latest iterations, but you made it worse.

That is freaking not usable. A new contact added by ID in 1to1 chat, "Never send encrypted messages to unverified sessions.." not activated. Just a brand new contact.

Not working at all. Trying to get users to #Matrix like that won't work.

It's not only old-style looking, heavy and non-intuitive, it's just not working at all.

(matrix(dot)org homeserver btw!)

In the Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights" painting (1480-1490 circa) there is music written on the butt of one of the characters in hell. Here's what the 600-year-old butt music from hell sounds: youtu.be/OnrICy3Bc2U

We announced that we are sunsetting unauthenticated media access on matrix.org just 2 months ago, and already 60% of requests are now using the new authenticated endpoints! We’re grateful to and proud of the ecosystem for moving so quickly 🚀

We’re on track to hit nearly 100% by August 28th, but some fixes and releases will be landing awfully close to that deadline – so we’re moving the deadline back one week to September 4th.

Learn more in our original announcement: matrix.org/blog/2024/06/26/sun…

New capabilities for Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations: Split, Move, and Modify additional attributes
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats… #aws
#aws

Advance note: Starting with the next sync around 6 pm UTC, QuickNovel and Cloudstream3 will be gone from the #IzzyOnDroid repo, as they do not meet the inclusion criteria. For details, see github.com/LagradOst/QuickNove…

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 11 updated and 1 added apps:

* Yes XOR No: Assists you in your decisions

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome: