Lenovo's Back-to-School Sale Slashes Prices Up to 70% on Laptops, Monitors and More
This big sale brings discounts sitewide across our favorite laptops, tablets, monitors, computer accessories, hard drives and more.Amber Guetebier (CNET)
What are Braille Printers/Embossers and Why They Matter in Accessibility
The ability to read and write Braille is essential for people who are blind or visually impaired to communicate effectively. To create a Braille document, you must use a Braille printer.Sam Graves (Allyant)
Battle.net
Battle.net is your one stop shop into the world of Blizzard and Activision. Buy digital games, in-game items, balance and more for all of your favorite ...Battle.net
on difficulty, "beginner projects", and computers:
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new dreamwidth post, bit of a ramble
My phone wanted me to look at this pic taken a year ago, of Cookie. So you should too.
I miss her every day (she left us 3 months ago)
What will the Foundation do to protect projects at the heart of Matrix? How do we determine what those “core” projects are? And are there any projects that don’t belong at the Foundation?
We're beginning the process of defining a new governance framework for Foundation projects, in collaboration with the Governing Board and the rest of the ecosystem. matrix.org/blog/2024/08/heart-…
#Matrix #FOSS #OpenSource #Governance
Protecting the projects at the heart of the Matrix ecosystem
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsJosh Simmons (matrix.org)
Tell me you don't understand Capitalism without telling me you don't understand Capitalism
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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image Every artist, performer and creator on Patreon is about to get screwed out of 30% of their gross revenue, which will be diverted to Apple, the most valuable company on the planet.La Quadrature du Net - Mastodon - Media Fédéré
@Bubu
That's actually a very good question.
Surely this kind of behavior will speed up our real world Monopoly's end game and while Apple must know that on some level they're probably incapable of acting otherwise, like any other monopoly.
I'm just amazed that Cory Doctorow thinks that it is shocking what Apple does, as it seems hardly anything new, predictable, textbook Capitalism.
The Ghost and the Golem
Confront mystic perils and revelations, pogroms, & your own wild heart, in a Jewish historical fantasy of bandits, betrothals, klezmers, and kabbalists!www.choiceofgames.com
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 13 updated and 1 added apps:
* Petals: take control of your weed consumption
Oh, and the @unifiedpush FCM Distributor moved to @Codeberg – and was just confirmed as #reproducibleBuilds (will show up as such tomorrow) 
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo
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
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Hey Jamers! 👋
Didn't catch Dev Update #11?
No problem❗ We've summarized the key points for you. 😍
#Jami #opensource #P2P #App #PrivacyMatters
I love Jami. Really. But, how do I... log in with my existing username? :))
Yep, I lost my previous device and I just can't use PIN from another device)
From: @Jami
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Mastodon
The social network of the future: No ads, no corporate surveillance, ethical design, and decentralization! Own your data with Mastodon!Mastodon hosted on mstdn.io
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- no JS
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how?
via **Colr Fonts** 💪
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Three hours ago #Github released an "AI Autofix" feature: github.blog/news-insights/prod…
Now their entire system is completely offline.
Oops.
Found means fixed: Secure code more than three times faster with Copilot Autofix - The GitHub Blog
With Copilot Autofix, developers and security teams can keep new vulnerabilities out of code and confidently remediate their backlog security debt.Mike Hanley (The GitHub Blog)
A man sits alone, slumped at a desk, his knuckles pressed hard into his eye sockets. He is the last remaining employee. All the engineers have been made redundant.
"Copilot, please fix our production system", weeps the #Github manager, as desperate tears leak through his hands.
"Certainly, sir, I will apply the recommended hot patch immediately" replies the system, and yet another indicator flashes red on the status page.
Also recently I think I have seen a mention of croutfunding campaign where the aim is to build open-source accessible booking system. I'd be happy to look at it too if you can remind me of it.
Our mission to break down barriers in tech has benefited over 1,000 interns, but we need your support to continue.
We're committed to diversifying #OpenSource communities, but our ability depends on your support.
Like many diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, Outreachy is at a crossroads, & we're calling on the community to help safeguard our future.
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Join the campaign; the hashtag is #SupportOutreachy!
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As a former mentor, I would highly recommend this internship program to any donors.
The amount of preparatory work, support and personal engagement is unparalleled by other programs.
Blogging on the Fediverse
WordPress.com has recently allowed blogs to Enter the Fediverse, so you can now follow my writings on Mastodon and other places. Click the new ‘Follow’ button in the sidebar, or paste this succinct Fediverse address:
@[url=https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/@samthursfield.wordpress.com]samthursfield.wordpress.com@samthursfield.wordpress.com[/url].
This blog is more serious writing about technology, you can also follow @vladimirchicken@mastodon.art which is mostly music, art and needless complaints over things I can’t change.
Reflections on GUADEC 2024
I was lucky enough to attend GNOME’s 2024 conference in Denver. I had a great time, saw many people I haven’t seen this decade, and it was also my first trip into the USA beyond the easternmost parts of the east coast.
It was a unique edition of the conference, we were about 50 people as you can see in the group photo, with another 30-40 people in Berlin. I posted a thread already on what we learned about hybrid conferences.
I have a more thoughts about this year’s event which are complex and contradictory and better discussed face to face. Sometimes you have to hold multiple conflicting thoughts in your head at once. I’ve written some of these thoughts down below.
The world is huge … like really big. Denver is a full EIGHT timezones away from Berlin, right? If you get up at 9AM in Denver then it’s already 5PM in Berlin, and it’ll be 6PM by the time you’ve brushed your teeth. How can you unite two groups of people across such a big time gap?
Having tried it, my feeling that a “federated” event split across different locations at the same time is not a replacement for a single, global in-person event. The community splits according to the geographical distribution of its members, roughly following Conway’s Law.
Travelling back from Denver to Santiago de Compostela took me about 50 hours in the end. It was supposed to be less but there was a 5 hour delay in Denver due to a shortage of air traffic controllers in Newark, which led to missing a connection to Madrid, the next day some bad weather added two more hours of delay, and then the trains from Madrid were largely full so I couldn’t get back home until early evening.
I kind of enjoy travel chaos (and my feeling is that as a society, we’ll only reduce our dependence on air travel if and when it becomes frustratingly inconvenient to use).
I feel lucky that I don’t have to do this kind of trip very frequently. I have more appreciation now for the significant effort people go through to get to events in Europe.
Multiple people in Denver told me they share the feeling I mentioned last month, that many Free Software communities are Euro-centric.
Some benefits to holding a GUADEC in the USA. Inspirational keynotes by local speakers, both Ryan Sipes’ story of Thunderbird, and Stephanie Taylor who is the force behind Google Summer of Code. Meeting contributors who don’t travel to Europe. Media coverage of the GNOME Foundation AGM, in a good way.
I think we missed an opportunity to make more of the event. Involving “the local community” in a summer event is always tricky, as during the summer holidays, “casual” attendees such as students and hobbyists are mostly on holiday. They aren’t usually looking for new software conferences they might attend. That said, GNOME would definitely would benefit from more hands focused on communication outside the project, what we often call “marketing” and “engagement”. It’s a difficult and often thankless task and we have to pay someone to do it. (With all the endless money we have, of course).
I did mention the thing about multiple conflicting ideas at once, right?
Let’s not pretend that a video conference or a hybrid BOF is the same as an in-person meetup. Once you’ve sung karaoke with someone, or explored Meow Wolf, or camped in the desert in Utah together, your relationship is richer than when you only interacted via Gitlab pull requests and BigBlueButton. You have more empathy and you can resolve conflicts better.
Let’s keep exploring new ways to collaborate. Regional events and hybrid events. And accept that these will form bubbles. If you live near members of the GNOME design team and meet in-person with them, you’re going to be able to influence GNOME’s design, more easily than if you live on a continent such as Africa where (to my knowledge) you can’t meet any existing design team members without leaving your continent. If you have a friend who maintains Nautilus it’s going to be easier to get up to speed with Nautilus development yourself, compared to if you’re starting from scratch and you live in a timezone that’s 10 hours offset from Europe.
We want to rethink technical governance in GNOME, which currently somewhat resembles the 15th century Feudal system. (See also, Tobi’s less flippant explanation of how decisions are made). Let’s keep geography in mind when we discuss this. And let’s also think how we can balance out the implicit advantage you get for being based in a certain place, and how we can grow local communities in places that don’t currently have them. I suspect this effort will need to be larger than just the GNOME project, and we can’t be the only community thinking about this stuff.
The USA is just as crazy as you imagine from its TV output. I was ready for beautiful scenery, long car journeys, no pavements, icy air conditioning, unhealthy food and franchises inside of franchises inside of franchises. I was genuinely surprised how hot it gets everywhere — even during my unwanted stopover in Newark the weather was 35° humid heat. And I wasn’t ready for disposable plates, cups and cutlery at every hotel breakfast. I’ve stayed in very cheap and very expensive hotels in many places, and all of them manage to wash and reuse the plates.
I want to see the single location, in-person GUADEC continuing while it’s still possible to do it. Count how many plane tickets were bought this year to attend GNOME events, and compare it to the number of flights taken just by Elon Musk’s private jet. It’s great that we avoided a few dozen plane tickets compared to last year but I’m yet to see a noticeable impact on the airline industry; while the impact on the GNOME project of splitting the community into two physical locations was very noticeable indeed.
We should alternate in-person GUADEC with more radically decentralized events, under a different name. We need to continue developing those as well. Like it or not there are big changes coming in society as the world gets increasingly hot. Tobi outlined all this very well in 2022. Nobody knows exactly what will happen of course, but you can expect that building resilience to change will be worthwhile, to put it very mildly. The key is for this to be something positive rather than a negative. The creation of something new rather than the loss of something we fondly remember. I mean, you can’t claim “GUADEC” is a particularly great name 🙂
It’s easy to write about this stuff in a blog post of course, harder to put into practice, and actually it wasn’t even easy to write…. this has taken me three hours.
Fairphone 5
I was going to write more stuff here but it turns out I had a lot to say about GNOME this month. At FOSDEM 2024, which I could easily attend in-person because I’m European, I saw a great talk by Luca from Fairphone, and decided my next phone would be a Fairphone 5. And I just got one. More on that next month, I guess.
Obstbauern am Bodensee dürfen Äpfel und Birnen mit dem Pilzmittel Folpet spritzen, um Schorf zu verhindern. Das BvL hat das per Notfallzulassung genehmigt. Die zulässige Rückstandsmenge bei Äpfeln wurde um das 20fache erhöht. Die Früchte dürfen nur in Deutschland verkauft werden, EU-weit gelten niedrigere Rückstandsgrenzen. Folpet kann vermutlich Krebs erzeugen und ist sehr giftig für Wasserorganismen. deutschlandfunk.de/apfel-und-b…
Mastering Markdown in Apple Notes: A Beginner’s Guide to Enhanced Productivity
Apple Notes allows you to add Markdown formatting to your notes. To do this, simply select the text you want to format and use common…James Wilson (Tooling Ant)
Just got me a #pixel3a - used, cheap and in surprisingly good condition. The updater of the stock rom tells me that the device is EOL - and indeed, according to endoflife.date/pixel it was EOLed over two years ago, despite being released only some 5/6 years ago. The kernel version starts with 4.x.
Well, tomorrow pre-build #postmarketos images should appear on postmarketos.org/install/, the next weekly should have it promoted from "testing" to "community" and the kernel is at 6.10.x.
Important for me: the front camera should already work and for the back one there are WIP patches that work, meaning this device will probably be the first Android device with both cameras being supported (and most other thing as well!).
Sure, we're still very far away from what even a super outdated Android can offer. I for one am super eager and motivated to see if we can make #linuxmobile (upstream!) a somewhat reasonably alternative though - and make #postmarketos live up to its name :)
liebe medienmenschen,
es ist halt auch nicht hilfreich, daß bei euch niemand rechnen kann und damit unreflektiert neoliberale kacke reproduziert. heute sind 60% vom jahr vorbei, wie passt das mit einem steuersatz von angeblich 47,x% zusammen?
Laut jährlichem Personeneinkommen 2022 der Statistik Austria
ist das Bruttojahreseinkommen Median (50%) der unselbstständig Erwerbstätigen 32.834 Euro, davon wurden 25% Steuern bezahlt, 2024-04-01.
und beim 3. Quartils (75%) der unselbstständig Erwerbstätigen ist es 49.607 Euro, davon wurden 29.4% Steuern bezahlt, 2024-04-17.
Bei 47.2% Steuern, 2024-06-21.
statistik.at/statistiken/bevoe…
Jährliche Personeneinkommen
Unabhängige Statistiken für faktenbasierte EntscheidungenStatistik Austria
Berechnung zur Prüfung:
unselbstständig Erwerbstätige Median (50%)
(let ((brutto 32834)(netto 24652))(- 100 (/ netto brutto 0.01)))24.9
(* 365 0.25)91.25
[2024-04-01 Mo]
unselbstständig Erwerbstätige 3. Quartil (75%)
(let ((brutto 49607)(netto 35037))(- 100 (/ netto brutto 0.01)))29.4
(* 365 0.294)107.31
[2024-04-17 Mi]
(* 365 0.472)172.28
[2024-06-21 Fr]
Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin
Solution: Firefox + uBlock Origin 😉🤟
tuta.com/blog/best-private-bro…
Here's the latest news: windowscentral.com/software-ap…
#Chrome #Google #Firefox #uBlock #Browsers
Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads
Google ramps up its campaign against ad blockers on Chrome.Kevin Okemwa (Windows Central)
Two questions:
Does Tuta have a spreadsheet function like Google sheets?
Can you create more than one email account?
🔔 You heard the news: the @EU_Commission is planning to stop funding @EC_NGI in #HorizonEU 2025 ‼️
Our community reached the EU institutions its answer expresses vague support for #FreeSoftware.
Unfortunately it is failing to provide concrete examples on how to do so. The EC needs to come up with dedicated budget for Free Software solutions!
Keep the pressure on the EC on this topic by contacting them!
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If you wonder what iroh is. #deltachat uses it for second device setup and soon also for realtime #p2p connections in #webxdc
Introducing iroh
All these papers we've talking about? We put that research into open practice with https://iroh.computer.Come hang! https://iroh.computer/discordYouTube
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And here the presentation from @flub of the intergration of #iroh_net into #deltachat for the setup second device feature.
Delta Chat and Iroh - Floris Bruynooghe
Delta Chat is a messenger using email as transport and with no additional infrastructure. This talk will discuss how the minimalist Iroh is used by Delta Ch...YouTube
#Librem11 #pureOS
In September, Denise will share her expertise on regulatory compliance in decentralised environments at The Matrix Conference!
🎟️ Grab your tickets at 2024.matrix.org
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Matrix.org
The Matrix Conference is coming to Berlin, Germany on September 19–22, 2024.2024.matrix.org
It is official: #RIPE89 in Prague will be hosted by #CZNIC with #CESNET as the connectivity sponsor. 😎
Great to see local companies participating. Hopefully there will also be enough local participants - so far only 8 are registered.
ripe89.ripe.net/sponsors/ripe-…
RIPE 89 Sponsors – RIPE 89
A RIPE Meeting is a five-day event where Internet Service Providers (ISPs), network operators and other interested parties from all over the world gather.ripe89.ripe.net
Ich hatte hier vor einiger Zeit im Rahmen der letzten #TwitterExodus -Wellen auf andere Social Media Plattformen im Kontext des #Fediverse hingewiesen, u.a. auf Firefish.
Leider wurde da die Entwicklung eingestellt, aber der #Misskey -Fork #Sharkey (joinsharkey.org) ist dafür umso aktiver. (Wie alle anderen Projekte, die #ActivityPub nutzen, föderiert auch Sharkey problemlos mit #Pixelfed oder #Mastodon.)
Wer das mal austesten möchte: federation.network/ oder sharkey.world/ bieten einen einfachen Einstieg.
Was ich an der Software besonders interessant finde, sind die Funktionen "Antennen" und "Kanäle".
Je heterogener das Fediverse wird, was die verwendeten Plattformen angeht, desto weniger Sorgen muss man sich um das Erreichen einer kritischen Masse machen. Die lokale Timeline mag dünn aussehen, aber die föderierten oder globalen Timelines sind dafür aktiv.
Sharkey.World
A generic Sharkey instance for anyone to use. Sharkey.World's official theme song, as suggested by @qqmrichter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO1cr_97psgSharkey.World
wurde nicht eingestellt.
@dev@post.naskya.net kümmert sich derzeit vor allem um Bugfixes und Codecleaning.
Es gibt auch einen #Matrix Space
In the fresh report "Investing in #Rust" by Shane Miller yours truly is quoted several times.
lawfaremedia.org/article/inves…
Investing in Rust
U.S. public policy can help facilitate market adoption of a relatively new, efficient, and safe programming language called Rust.Default
@pro I can spot two such languages mentioned in the first paragraph.
But more importantly: I am in no way associated with this report. No need to tell me this.
#Pirates
I did the drums on this track using #AddictiveDrums2 on a keyboard. I'm nobody's idea of a real drummer, but I can fake it pretty good.
So Glad You’re Mine by Troy Mitchell:
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So Glad You’re Mine
Provided to YouTube by CDBabySo Glad You’re Mine · Troy MitchellSo Glad You’re Mine℗ 2024 Troy MitchellReleased on: 2024-08-14Auto-generated by YouTube.YouTube
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