[Book Review] Witchcraft on a Shoestring takes the reader through a fun and engaging journey of magical practices that don’t require expensive tools or materials. Readers will have a magical time creating spells, divinations, and even recipes that cost little to no money, which reminds us that we don’t need fancy items to practice the Craft; all we need is a little imagination!
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#budget #witchcraft #bookreview #moneymagic #deborahblake #pagan
Review: Witchcraft on a Shoestring, Deborah Blake
Witchcraft on a Shoestring takes the reader through a fun and engaging journey of magical practices that don't require expensive tools or materials.Alan U. Dalul (The Wild Hunt)
The End of an Era: A Message From the Founder as We Announce the Closure of AppleVis | AppleVis
Dear AppleVis Community, It is with deep sadness and a heavy heart that after careful consideration I have made the difficult decision to step down from my responsibilities with AppleVis.www.applevis.com
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 5 updated and 1 added app:
As @organicmaps was kicked out of PlayStore, I decided to make an exception adding it to #IzzyOnDroid despite of being twice the per-app size limit. It's the "web" variant that comes with (part of) GMS inside for network location. As there are other apps at F-Droid and IoD supporting network location without GMS, I hope to help OM to get rid of this NonFreeComp, though.
Welcome aboard IoD, OrganicMaps!
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
Looks like the app is again visible in this thing named "PlayStore"?!
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Organic Maps (@organicmaps@fosstodon.org)
Good news! Organic Maps appeared again in the Google Play store last night without any notifications or explanations. We are grateful for your feedback and support! Stay tuned for the upcoming update, which is already available for iOS.Fosstodon
WordPress Accessibility Day 2024 T-shirt: How to Get One - WordPress Accessibility Day 2024
Read the story behind the WordPress Accessibility Day 2024 t-shirt and three ways you can get one for yourself.Amber Hinds (WordPress Accessibility Day 2024)
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Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite Systems Like Starlink Cause Environmental Harm Regulators Didn’t Prepare For
Last June scientists warned that low-Earth orbit ( #LEO ) satellites constantly burning up in orbit could release chemicals that could undermine the progress we’ve made repairing the #ozone #layer.
Researchers at USC noted that at peak, 1,005 U.S. tons of aluminum will fall to Earth,
releasing ♦️397 U.S. tons of aluminum oxides ♦️per year to the atmosphere, an
💥increase of 646% over natural levels. 💥
Numerous companies, most notably Elon Musk’s #Starlink and Jeff Bezos’ #Blue #Origin,
are working on launching tens of thousands of small LEO satellites in the coming years.
A new report by U.S. PIRG adds to concerns that these launches haven’t been thought through environmentally,
noting that the disposable nature of such satellites means ♦️29 tons of satellites ♦️will re-enter our atmosphere every day at peak.
After years of delays, the FCC did recently release rules requiring that satellites be removed from orbit within five years to help minimize “space junk.”
But the organization notes that very little if any thought was given by innovation-cowed regulators toward the 🔸environmental impact of so many smaller satellites constantly burning up in orbit:🔸
“We shouldn’t rush into deploying an untested and under-researched technology into new environments without comprehensive review.
Over just five years Starlink has launched more than 6,000 units and now make up more than 60% of all satellites.
The new space race took off faster than governments were able to act.”
The steady launches are also a notable pollution concern, the report notes,
releasing ♦️“soot in the atmosphere equivalent to 7 million diesel dump trucks circling the globe, each year.”
#SpaceX has consistently played fast and loose with #environmental #regulations,
with regulators even in lax Texas starting to give the company grief for releasing significant #pollutants into nearby bodies of water.
techdirt.com/2024/08/16/report…
Report: Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Satellite Systems Like Starlink Cause Environmental Harm Regulators Didn’t Prepare For
Last June scientists warned that low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites constantly burning up in orbit could release chemicals that could undermine the progress we’ve made repairing the ozone layer. Rese…Techdirt
Google's Gemma2 local LLM gets this question wrong, first giving me the answer two, then one, then zero. Command-R, another LLM got it right first-try. Test your LLM of choice and see what you get back.
'How many R's in the word 'Strawberry''
Řízky? Nasmažené!
Domácí guláš? Zavařený!
Ponožky? V sandálech!
Ledvinka? Připravena!
Nákupní taška Lidl? Vždy po ruce!
Děcka, se těšte! Pavel zítra ráno vyráží směr Chorvatsko!
Everyone who builds web applications should read the Reckoning series by @slightlyoff infrequently.org/series/reckon…
My own notes here, but you should work through the entire thing: simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/18/…
Seriously, take a look at the case-study in which the California food stamps signup site takes 29.5s to become interactive on a slow rural mobile connection, and tell me we don't urgently need to do better! infrequently.org/2024/08/objec…
Reckoning: Part 2 — Object Lesson
SNAP benefits sites for more than 20% of Americans are unusably slow. All of them would be significantly faster if states abandoned client-side-rendering, and along with it, the legacy JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, etc.Alex Russell
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Patreon being forced to pay creators through in-app purchase reminded me of a cool app I made two summers ago.
VPN clients on iOS lie on a spectrum between selling you out to data brokers or being expensive subscriptions.
Having prior experience with Digital Ocean my app made it easy to spin up droplets configured as VPNs ready to use from your iPhone.
It was so fast that droplets could be launched on-demand and shut down fast keeping costs extremely
low.
The app used OAuth to act on behalf of users on their personal Digital Ocean accounts making the cumbersome task of setting up a truly personal VPN available to the less technical or less patient user.
App Review rejected the app because I didn’t collect payment to Digital Ocean through in-app purchase.
Tried to appeal and spoke to Apple on the phone arguing that the payment was outside my control and that my app was a privacy boon but they did not care.
"Parking your 2 ton death machine's hood over the pavement like an arsehole."
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#fuckcars
The Slow Decline of the Apple “Cult”
The headline may be a little provocative, but this article by Matt Birchler encapsulates a lot of the feelings I shared on the latest episode of Connected following Apple’s decisions regarding the Patreon iOS app.Federico Viticci (MacStories)
Piešťanské zábaly... nie, nebol som sa rochniť v bahne - bol som si vychutnať trochu kultúry na prvom ročníku tohto divadeľného festivalu. Štvordňový vstup by bol na mňa trochu moc, ale žiaden problém - na každé predstavenie sa dal kúpiť lístok osve. Bolo to super, a to množstvo ľudí, ktorí prejavili záujem o takéto podujatie, bolo ohromujúce aj pre usporiadateľov.
Jediný zlý bod boli, samozrejme, ľudia. Ani to, že si kúpite celodenný lístok na divadelný festival z vás kultúrneho človeka neurobí. Dupľom nie, ak sa vám počas celého predstavenia nezavrú ústa a na slušné upozornenie, či by sa vám lepšie nerozprávalo hneď vedľa v kaviarni iba tupo konštatujete, že tu sa vám dobre rozpráva...
#piestany #divadlo #kultura #nekultura
When writing an email do you use 'I hope this email finds you well'❓
And how would you think people look like when they actually get your email⁉️
#emailwriting#emailmemes#findsyouwell#tuta#tutamail
Ich verstehe das sonst nicht.
Ist der Push-Dienst von Google Firebase ein Tracker?
Bei den Apptest, die wir fürs @kuketzblog machen, stellen wir uns im Kontakt mit App-Entwicklern öfters die Frage, ob Google Firebase in unseren Testberichten wirklich als Tracker zu werten ist, wenn damit nur die Funktionalität für Push-Nachrichten erreicht werden soll.
Die Antwort im Mini-Thread: ⬇️
I think the outage yesterday is a good opportunity to check one thing. If you work in software manufacturing (systems design, programming, project/product management, testing) do you know what Therac-25 is without searching?
Boost for reach please. 
- I make software and I know about Therac-25 (43%, 1611 votes)
- I make software and I don't know about Therac-25 (33%, 1257 votes)
- I do other things and I know about Therac-25 (8%, 314 votes)
- I do other things and I don't know about Therac-25 (14%, 540 votes)
Therac-25 is ancient. Do people know about Toyota's bogus controller firmware causing unintended car acceleration? This is much more recent.
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Toyota's killer firmware: Bad design and its consequences - EDN
On Thursday October 24, 2013, an Oklahoma court ruled against Toyota in a case of unintended acceleration that lead to the death of one the occupants.Michael Dunn (EDN)
Seventeen years ago, I pissed off Apple by stating their first Intel MacBook Pro got really hot. I was in my early 20s, my first year at @osnews, and they were pressuring me to change my review. I effectively told them to fuck off, and they kicked me out of their review/press program.
Now look at everyone getting press access from Apple, and think to yourself - would any of them tell Apple to fuck off?
Great Braille Game! I learned about this game from Holly Anderson of the Maccessibility Podcast.
Brailliance is a Braille version of the popular Wordle game with a little twist.
You are given the total number of dots in the word, and you have to guess what the word is by figuring out the letters in the word with each of your guesses.
For example. The word has a total of 10 dots.
So your first guess is tale, t, a, l, e.
It tells you that 3 of those letters are in the word, and one is not.
t, a, and l, are in the word, and the letter e is not.
Please note: those letters are part of the final word, but they do not have to be in that order.
So lets see, the letters t, a, and l, equal a total of 8 dots, so you only have 2 dots left to make the final word.
And you only have 4 letters left with 2 dots, b, c, i, and k.
So now it is just a process of elimination
For this word, the correct other letter was k. So the final word was talk, t, a, l, k.
The tough part is figuring out words that have a specific number of dots, but this gets easier the more you play.
Plus, to help you out, the total number of dots for each letter can be found on the letters of the on-screen keyboard.
So how good do you know your Braille? Ready to take the challenge?
Just like Wordle, there is a new puzzle every day, as well as some other puzzle packs that you can play on the side if you like.
The game is totally free, and does have a cost to get rid of ads if you want.
I actually find this game more fun and challenging as Wordle! So I highly recommend giving it a try.
Here is the app store link.
apps.apple.com/us/app/braillia…
#Game #Accessible #Wordle #Braille #Maccessibility #Blind
@dhsholly
Brailliance - Learn Braille
Brailliance is a puzzle game where you guess the word by adding up braille dots. This game has been carefully crafted to be playable by everyone, and it includes multiple accessibility features for people with blindness and other disabilities.App Store
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Zveme vás na druhý ročník srazu Mastodon uživatelů, který se uskuteční 11.10. 2024 v Praze.
📍 Místo: (restaurace se zatím vybírá, detaily brzy!)
Těšíme se na vás všechny, ať už jste #fediverse nováček, nebo veterán! Přijďte si užít skvělou atmosféru a poznat nové lidi.
@mastopivo
srazy.arch-linux.cz/invite/R6Z… #mastopivo #boost
Návrhy na restaurace jsou vítány, tak dejte vědět, kde byste se rádi potkali!
Zatím je zde návrh Hospůdka Do Větru @xChaos
#Accessibility #AppNames #Technology
Welcome to the family of #reproducibleBuilds SkillRack! 🥳 With the next sync publishing v1.0.6, the green RB shield will be present at #IzzyOnDroid 
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„SkillRack Tracker“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
Track and calculate your SkillRack points effortlessly.IzzyOnDroid App Repo
@mondstern Klar kann man. Du hast doch den Artikel gelesen? Sonst hilft Dir auch die Info-Seite weiter, die Du über der Liste der Apps über den "Details" Link erreichst.
Falls Du meinst: alle RB-Apps auflisten lassen – das geht (noch) nicht, ist aber auch geplant.
Dmitri ☕️
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in reply to Hubert Figuière • • •The digital thumbnails: a screen full of photos that are 98% the same, thousands of photos and only a few are good.
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in reply to Hubert Figuière • • •Ah, I've only ever shot negatives, and did development of my own B&W in a darkroom. But that was decades ago.
Never dabbled in slide film, but, yeah I knew that in principle... Just forgot it. Thanks for clearing it up! 👍
Hubert Figuière
in reply to Garrett LeSage • • •@garrett shooting slide film is like shooting JPEG, only at 100 ISO (or maybe 400), but you can't see the result immediately while the camera metering is much more primitive than today's.
The results are worth it.
Germán Poo-Caamaño
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in reply to Hubert Figuière • • •@garrett I forgot to add that the white balance is fixed, mostly Daylight, but Tungsten balanced exist too.
(I still have a roll of 64T that likely expired 20 year ago, and not always frozen)
Garrett LeSage
in reply to Hubert Figuière • • •I've seen some photographers on YouTube who only shoot in daylight color balance, regardless of scene. For the same reason too... Film did it, and it worked. It also creates ambience (warmer, cooler).
I think this is the video I watched a while ago about that:
youtu.be/eQPPa_8Z13o
Definitely interesting.
White Balance: My (slightly odd) Approach
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in reply to Garrett LeSage • • •@garrett pshhhh that's only true if you have trigger finger!
"Film makes me think hard about the single frame" is only said by the undisciplined. 😭
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Unknown parent • • •@paperdigits The limited SD card idea was fun, with good results. I did try to experiment to make the photos matter more. (I was just out for an hour or two and near home, so it was very low risk.)
I also shot in B&W before (but in raw, so it doesn't fully count, but the viewfinder was in B&W and I was intentionally looking for texture and shapes). Looking specifically for saturated color is also fun.
I often just go out with one prime lens. That's limiting in a very good way too.
mica
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in reply to mica • • •@paperdigits Same, but GRIIIx. I love that 40mm equivalent, and the macro mode at the tap of a button is amazing.
(If I need anything wider when that's my camera with me, I step back, stitch multiples in post, or pull out my phone.)
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Unknown parent • • •@paperdigits I'm different at different times.
I'll blast off too many photos when snapping portraits of people or animals.
Travel or street photography? I'll take fewer photos. It's probably because I'm usually with someone who is already patient enough with me to take photos in the first place, so I don't want to spend too long. And I usually don't like to stand in the same place too long too.
Garrett LeSage
in reply to Garrett LeSage • • •@paperdigits I did try an experiment with smaller SD cards years ago.
I even went a bit more extreme and formatted a card on my computer to be smaller than its capacity, with a partition specifically sized to fit only 36 photos (with a little wiggle room, so it would almost but not quite fit 37). It was just for a walk-around in the city, not a trip or anything.
mica
in reply to Garrett LeSage • • •@garrett and how did that go??
Sometimes I do want to work very intuitively, and the last time I did that I think I shot 150 frames in a 12 hour day trip. I got home and I was like holy shit, that's a lot of photos.
Also when I used to shoot film, I always bulk rolled my own 35mm b/w, so I never had less than 5 rolls on my at all times. I'd regularly shoot 2-3 rolls of ~36 shots. Way more than what I regularly shoot now :P
Hubert Figuière
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in reply to Hubert Figuière • • •@paperdigits My apartment is in the center of a city, but it's a constant battle against dust.
My Ricoh GRIIIx hasn't had a dust problem yet. It has sensor cleaning, which mitigates it, but some people have had issues. So far, so good.
Like other cameras, dust on a sensor is probably most noticeable at smaller apertures, especially when shooting with a clear sky in the frame. As a result of different styles of shooting (and luck), some people will naturally notice dust more than others.
Hubert Figuière
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in reply to Rob C 🐳 • • •@robcee @paperdigits They're not really weather sealed. It's the one* big weak point of the GR III / GR IIIx.
(* aside from the price)
I still love mine and bring it with me quite a bit (when I'm not bringing my Fuji X-T5 (and a lens). I just try to not get caught in a rainstorm with the Ricoh.
Rob C 🐳
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