Skip to main content



The Call for Papers for Linux App Summit is open until August 21! linuxappsummit.org//cfp/ (dates there are incorrect, you can still submit talk proposals)


ha mačky done (granule budú, zabudol som... 😒) a do polnoci ešte ďaleko.. krása

edit: ináč sem chodia taký súrodenci a stále mám odfoteného iba jedného toho istého ale minule som ich videl oboch naraz

edit1: majú to tu pod kontrolou, iné sú obďaleč :kekw:

This entry was edited (2 months ago)


Tengo un problema con el #TWBlue que no me inicia.

Me sale el siguiente error nada más ejecutar el binario:

19/08/2024 23:34:11 root ERROR: Uncaught exception
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "__startup__.py", line 138, in run
  File "console.py", line 17, in run
  File "main.py", line 126, in <module>
  File "main.py", line 69, in setup
  File "main.py", line 118, in check_pid
AttributeError: module 'wxUI.commonMessageDialogs' has no attribute 'common_error'
in reply to modulux

Puedes probar a ver si en el directorio %tmp% hay un archivo twblue.pid y borrarlo si es el caso?
in reply to Manuel cortez

Sip, eso corrigió el problema. Debió de ser por culpa de un apagado en caliente por perder la electricidad. Gracias.


Anyone know how to turn on Braille mode on Google docs? I'm having a hell of a time navigating it with NVDA? I know it's in the menus but I can't access them because whenever I press alt, it just goes to the Firefox menus. Any ideas?
in reply to Rook

To enable Braille support in Google Docs, press ctrl+alt+h.


Um, right then. Going through a random folder on my drive, I came across this odd Eloquence-related track called 'Vicki makes me sticky' don't ask me where it came from. Anyway, now you can have it too. Enjoy your Sunday won't you?
in reply to Andre Louis

I really wonder how this was done. It sounds like maybe someone used one of those iOS auto-rap apps and played Eloquence through a speaker? The instrumental comes from an old song by Nicki (not Vicki) Minaj. youtu.be/pSFyrrhKj1Q?si=kTK38Y…


Prominent Republicans supporting Harris will speak at the Democratic National Convention - NPR apple.news/A2MRThsvgSLq7shIlI0…


Stíham predpredposlednú električku čo sa nestáva každý deň.


ElevenLabs’ text-to-speech app Reader is now available globally

techcrunch.com/2024/08/19/elev…



Back when we were all trying to get public health to add covid protections back by making fun of them for sending kids home for lice but not covid we probably shouldn't have underestimated how stupid they are.

nbc4i.com/news/local-news/cent…

in reply to Dave Mac Farlane

there are two things that infinite: the universe and human stupid. but even the universe we are not sure.


My employer added a clause in my last NDA stating that I was prohibited from saying anything "disparaging" about the company. Now when anyone asks about job postings I tell them, "I'm contractually obligated not to say anything disparaging about them." None have ever applied.


I love the internet archive. I just wish I could have found Star Trek sounds there that were short enough for a soundpack.


Is this *too much*? Historically, having two crate versions in your dependency tree and accidentally mixing types from them led to horribly obtuse error messages (expected `Foo`, found `Foo`). We've slowly chipped away at them, but somethings I fear I might have gone overboard with detail. 😬

#Rust #RustLang

in reply to Esteban K�ber

I think it's great. That level of explanation is likely to help less experienced users.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt My take is that even experienced users are not *homogeneously* experienced in the entire language. We all hit an uncommon corner every now and then, so making errors easier to understand for newcomers helps everyone. :)




Re last: I think it's a big deal since now you can listen to your podcasts from Windows also, for example.


Apple Podcasts now has a web app theverge.com/2024/8/19/2422381…


A #SolarPunk#Camp is taking place this week.

solpunk.ukrudt.net
Unfortunately due to healthy issues I cannot attend.

But I wish good luk!




A trick question for the #retrocomputing experts here:

What computers backside we are looking at?

It has a 13w3 monitor plug, but also USB, Firewire and SCSI. 🤔

Don't google the sticker, that's cheating.



❝Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a memorial plaque. Her newspaper obituaries do not mention her greatest discovery. […] Every high school student knows that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, that Charles Darwin discovered evolution, and that Albert Einstein discovered the relativity of time. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most abundant atom in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.❞ — Jeremy Knowles, discussing the complete lack of recognition Cecilia Payne gets, even today, for her revolutionary discovery. (via alliterate)

OH WAIT LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT CECILIA PAYNE

• Cecilia Payne’s mother refused to spend money on her college education, so she won a scholarship to Cambridge.

• Cecilia Payne completed her studies, but Cambridge wouldn’t give her a degree because she was a woman, so she said to heck with that and moved to the United States to work at Harvard.

• Cecilia Payne was the first person ever to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College, with what Otto Strauve called “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.”

• Not only did Cecilia Payne discover what the universe is made of, she also discovered what the sun is made of (Henry Norris Russell, a fellow astronomer, is usually given credit for discovering that the sun’s composition is different from the Earth’s, but he came to his conclusions four years later than Payne — after telling her not to publish).

• Cecilia Payne is the reason we know basically anything about variable stars (stars whose brightness as seen from earth fluctuates). Literally every other study on variable stars is based on her work.

• Cecilia Payne was the first woman to be promoted to full professor from within Harvard, and is often credited with breaking the glass ceiling for women in the Harvard science department and in astronomy, as well as inspiring entire generations of women to take up science.

• Cecilia Payne is awesome and everyone should know her.

(OP: Matthew Gardner)

reshared this




Hola hermanes de Centroamérica 👋

Ando buscando cuentas de personas del istmo que estén acá en el Fediverso, quisiera no solo poder encontrar cuentas para mí mismo, sino también a ayudar a otra gente a encontrarse.

Si tenés algún arraigo con #AméricaCentral dejá acá un comentario para encontrarnos.

Are you from Belize, please raise your hand

¿Me ayudan a compartir este mensaje con un ♻️?

#Guatemala #Belize #Honduras #ElSalvador #Nicaragua #CostaRica #Panamá #Centroamerica



⭐ Creativity Is Made, Not Generated procreate.com/ai

"Generative AI is ripping the humanity out of things. Built on a foundation of theft, the technology is steering us toward a barren future. We're here for the humans. We're not chasing a technology that is a moral threat to our greatest jewel: human creativity"

👏

📌 rknight.me/links/creativity-is…



we put out a (often bad) short joke next to the kid’s toothbrush in the morning so they’ll remember to brush their teeth. I think I’m gonna start sharing them with y’all
in reply to Matthew Lyon

what does a triceratops sit on?

Sensitive content

in reply to Matthew Lyon

How much does a dragon weigh?

Sensitive content





🎵That’s me as a coder
That’s me with the (int)float
Losing my precision🎵

reshared this



#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 6 updated and 2 added apps:

* kitshn: client for the self-hostable Tandoori recipe database – and a #reproducibleBuilds
* ByeDPI: bypass censorship (here: DPI, Deep Packet Inspection)

At apt.izzysoft.de/magisk 2 #Magisk #modules were updated.

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



I won a contest @libreoffice held, and I got all this KILLER LibreOffice swag from them.

I've used LibreOffice for so many years, from back in the mid 2000s when it was OpenOffice. It's better than Microsoft Office. It's totally free and open source, and you don't have to be logged in like you do now with Office.

Try it out if you haven't, you won't regret it.

libreoffice.org

#LibreOffice #OpenSource #FOSS

in reply to Jake in the desert

oh if I’m choosing between MS Office and LibreOffice I’m using the latter. Now I use the Apple Equivalent to these, and for me the interface is much better. Now I can use the Apple suite for work as I can import and export to MS Office, seems LibreOffice only imports or am I missing something?
in reply to DaveKaz

@fistfulofdave LibreOffice can definitely save in .docx format (and many others). BTW, did you try the tabbed version of the user interface? (Under the menu, View > User Interface). Feel free to also let our @libodesign community know your feedback!


"#Ableismus kann töten." "Das erste Mal wirkliche Angst bekam Sarah Baumgart im Jahr 2018 bei einer Kleinen Anfrage der #AfD im Bundestag. Darin ging es um die Zahl von behinderten Menschen in Deutschland und den vermeintlichen Zusammenhang von Behinderung mit Inzucht und Migration. „Da wurde mir klar, die hören beim Thema Migration nicht auf“, sagt Sarah Baumgart..." taz.de/Menschen-mit-Behinderun… #WirSindDieBrandmauer #noAfD #Afdverbot #Menschenfeindlichkeit #Demokratie


PSF drama

Sensitive content

in reply to Matt Campbell

PSF drama

Sensitive content

in reply to Matt Campbell

PSF drama

Sensitive content



Scoop: New details are emerging about a breach at National Public Data (NPD), a consumer data broker that recently spilled hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security Numbers, addresses, and phone numbers online. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that another NPD data broker which shares access to the same consumer records inadvertently published the passwords to its back-end database in a file that was freely available for download from its homepage until today.

krebsonsecurity.com/2024/08/na…

in reply to BrianKrebs

Expecting data brokers to care about securing the data they so casually collect, buy, collate and otherwise acquire is pointless. None of them really do, and almost every breach involving a data broker shows this. By definition, their businesses largely rely on collecting records that they already view as public and that this entitles them to collect, resell, etc said data. If that is the fundamental organizing idea of your business model, how much are you going to care about protecting it from mass theft?
This entry was edited (2 months ago)


This entry was edited (2 months ago)

reshared this




If using a streaming service is tantamount to agreeing that that service can kill your spouse, then piracy is completely, 100% morally and ethically justified.

nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna16659…

This entry was edited (2 months ago)


I've been enjoying Mastadon but have missed the academic side of things--I used to find so many resources for students and faculty on Twitter. I realized that I need to start doing them myself and maybe we'll build a community. So, here I go:
New book for grad students found on JSTOR: Grad School Life: Surviving and Thriving Beyond Coursework and Research, Kory-Westlund, Columbia University Press, www-jstor-org.ezproxy.lib.vt.e…

#academicchatter #gradschool #gradstudents #academiclife



Linux Desktop Migration Tool 1.4

After many months, I finally found the time to finish the GNOME desktop/application settings migration in the Linux Desktop Migration Tool and did another release.

#dconf #gnome #linux #migration

enblog.eischmann.cz/2024/08/19…



Me llamo José Manuel y soy de Mallorca. Como #presentación, así en general, puedo deciros que soy músico, compositor y aficionado al cine y a la fotografía. Mis mayores influencias musicales son Mike Oldfield, Vangelis y Jean-Michel Jarre. Mi música está disponible en Bandcamp. 🎧🎹🎸

josemanuelguerra.bandcamp.com/…



Recently, a Dutch hacker found a vulnerability allowing him to shut down 4 million solar power installations. A handful of mostly non-European places manage perhaps 100 GW of solar power in the EU. Any mishap there, or heaven forbid, a compromise, could easily shut down so much power that the European electricity grid would collapse. Shockingly, we regulate these massive control panels as if they are online birthday calendars. And that must change. berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-…


Tiene el pan gallego un no sé qué que qué sé yo que quiero más.