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Now this is something I want. Don't get me wrong, I love my cane but if there's anything I can use to make traveling easier, you best believe I'm using it because right now, its just so exhausting to even want to walk anywhere and I'm tired after going out. It's much less exhausting being driven anywhere so if I can make walking easier with this cane, I'd get it. #Blind
youtube.com/watch?v=J-VVh5ezqG…

Smart Cane Gives the Blind Freedom to Explore

Like this video about WeWalk's smart cane and subscribe here: https://freeth.ink/youtube-subscribe-smartcaneUp next- Reversing Blindness: https://youtu.be/2U...
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#blind

Today I learned that there are micro USB cables that only carry power, not data, and that I have several of them. 😒 Unfortunately, I learned this while trying to use an old phone that I haven't used in years. I tested it with two different cables, thinking I had eliminated the cable as a variable in the problem equation and leading me to assume it was something wrong with the phone or its configuration. I finally found another micro USB device which uses data (surprisingly, I don't have many) and realised that my two cables weren't working with that either.
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Toni Barth
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Indeed they exist, and then there are cables which can only provide up to so much power, and if that isn't enough for the device, the device won't charge, nor will you get data of it. That is... always fun to work with.
in reply to Jamie Teh

Tamas G
Tamas G
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sadly some of this persists into today, although at least per-spec Type-c charge-only cables are not supposed to be a thing. That doesn't mean there aren't 2.0 Type-c cables which disconnect the data wire (and some are still marketed to do this in the name of security) so generally the only time I've had to be careful over this is with cheap cables purchased from a gas station-type store. Many Micro ones will use the tactile trident mark when charge-only but it's not reliable.

I voted and California said my ballot was already counted just two days later. Here is hoping! #USPol
#uspol

Umberto Eco Explains the Poetic Power of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts

openculture.com/2016/02/umbert…

Umberto Eco Explains the Poetic Power of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts

Just over 30 years ago, Umberto Eco wrote an essay in the New York Review of Books about what made that strip one of the most, if not the most compelling of the twentieth century.
Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)

Perfectl is Not New, It's Not News About Linux, Outdated Apache RocketMQ is Not Linux, and the Real News Should be Back Doors Like Windows and CALEA Blunder lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Perfectl is Not New, It's Not News About Linux, Outdated Apache RocketMQ is Not Linux, and the Real News Should be Back Doors Like Windows and CALEA Blunder

Another theme to be debunked
Roy Schestowitz

#dobréRáno
#dobrerano

Na Pixel 9 Pro max právě dorazil Android 15
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práve som odoslal úlohu z angličtiny, na poslednú chvíľu 😎

tea&jameson

Other than not funding them, and putting shame-pressure on them, is there anything one can do about the FSF?

If the FSF got dissolved, what happens to the copyrighted code that it owns / that has been assigned to it?

in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

JWF जस्टिन جاستن
JWF जस्टिन جاستن
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You are right that this identifies a huge "bus factor" for all FSF-stewarded projects. Anyone who works in operating systems knows how fundamental many of these pieces are. A few things could happen.

Option 1: The ongoing work to Rust-ify everything is accelerated. A new surge of energy appears to move to a Rust future.

Option 2: Good Person(s) Scenario. FSF gracefully hands over copyright ownership to a responsible steward.

Option 3: Bad Person(s) Scenario. S***show.

in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

James Henstridge
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I went through the FSF copyright assignment process once (for some automake patches). From memory, there were some conditions attached to the assignment related to how the FSF would license the code.

If the FSF dissolved and the copyrights transferred to a successor org, I assume those promises would also transfer with it. It's possible that they might be able to relicense the code under a more permissive free software license, but they couldn't sell commercial licenses to the code.

Unexploded WWII bombs buried in Mer Bleue bog, DND confirms

cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/wwii…

WAT?

I was really sweating a decision about mirroring some caching infrastructure for a distributed application. I guess that makes me...

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Simon Richter
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I thought about writing a small service to keep copies of files burned to a CD because it took the robot way too long to change media. I planned to call it "earlybird", ...

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@Michael W Lucas

I met Ward Cunningham, Wiki inventor and many other things inventor. at OSCON 2005. Super nice guy and super brilliant. RIP.
in reply to roland

Hubert Figuière
Hubert Figuière
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uh. It's Ward Christensen that passed away. Or did I miss it?

youtube.com/watch?v=928ViCUbYh…

Amyl and The Sniffers - Full Performance (Live on KEXP at Home)

http://KEXP.ORG presents Amyl and The Sniffers performing live, recorded exclusively for KEXP.Songs:Some Mutts (Can't Be Muzzled)HertzGuided By AngelsSecurit...
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SuspiciousDuck
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@phanecak áno! Najlepšia je na tom hodina kedy som si to púšťal... po Amyl and The Sniffers bol Mike na ukľudnenie :D
@Peter Hanecak

We're finally living the dream of the late 1990s, except its YAML instead of XML

...And what do you call yourself?
"The Aristocrats!"

Welcome to the RB family, OwnTracks 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/org.o…

OwnTracks allows you to keep track of your own location. You can build your private location diary or share it with your family and friends.

With this app, now 24% = 291 apps at the #IzzyOnDroid repo have #reproducibleBuilds – almost every 4th app :awesome:


„OwnTracks“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Your location companion
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid
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Stefan
Stefan
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Thanks for the notice about the App, sounds good, installed. 😉

There's a line that keeps coming up in so many conversations I'm in these days: It feels like 2004 on the internet again. And that's a good thing, because it means all of today's incumbents won't make it to the next era of the internet. anildash.com/2024/10/15/its-20…

oh boy
a table of coordinate system setups between unity, unreal, source, godot, blender, and maya, plus the .gltf and .usd formats. They are not agreeing with each other

Top-ranked Surfshark is 87% off with this early Black Friday VPN deal pcworld.com/article/2489139/to…

Top-ranked Surfshark is 87% off with this early Black Friday VPN deal

Editor's choice Surfshark VPN is kicking off the holiday shopping season early with what is sure to be one of the best VPN Black Friday deals.
Sam Singleton (PCWorld)

Be My Eyes and Hilton Announce Industry-First Partnership for a more Accessible Stay groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/79…

Be My Eyes and Hilton Announce Industry-First Partnership for a more Accessible Stay

groups.io

If any of you Linux users out there are getting bored, you may want to try one of the BSDs. BSD of course stands for Berkeley Software Distribution and all the information you need on running BSD can be found in the Berkeley Distribution Software Manuals, or BDSM for short. So Google BDSM to get started.

Latest update from @brewsterkahle: "Wayback Machine running strong (yippie!).

Still working to bring archive.org items & other services online safely.

@internetarchive
team spirits high, but tired."

@internetarchive @Brewster Kahle

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How many countries have you visited, other than your native country? #Poll #Polls #Tootsday

  • None (0 votes)
  • 1-4 (0 votes)
  • 5-8 (0 votes)
  • 9+ (0 votes)
Poll end: 2 weeks ago

#poll #polls #tootsday

Doctor Who Time War Sale! bigfinish.com/news/v/doctor-wh…

Doctor Who Time War Sale! - News - Big Finish

Award-winning, full-cast original audio dramas from the worlds of Doctor Who, Torchwood, Blake's 7, Class, Dark Shadows, The Avengers, Survivors, The Omega Factor, Star Cops, Sherlock Holmes, Dorian Gray, Pathfinder Legends, The Prisoner, Adam Adaman…
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Beyond Death | To The Best Of Our Knowledge ttbook.org/show/beyond-death

Beyond Death

Most of us have no idea what will happen when we die. But some people were actually declared dead and came back with remarkable stories—like meeting dead relatives. Science is now beginning to tell us what happens in near-death experiences.
To The Best Of Our Knowledge

I think part of the reason why Mastodon fails for me is because it offers far too much control to users over what they see. I think this creates insular communities where reach is limited and opinions go unchallenged because that makes people uncomfortable.

If BLM / George Floyd happened on Mastodon instead of other social media, I do not think that change would've occurred because either people would mute the tags or words, or admins would ban profiles talking about it (because Masto is white)

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modulux
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I honestly think that take is extremely interesting because of how counterintuitive it is. I'm not sure I agree, and it's hard to make the case that letting users control their feeds is bad; but it's possibly true as well.

Šutaj Eštok is the Kotlár 2 :kekw:
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My peeps, we are hiring. I've been at Coda for nearly a year and genuinely look forward to work every day. I get to work on the cool projects I want, with smart, kind people who enjoy what they're doing. And now we can use more help in our security department.

We're looking for a 100% remote (in the US, due to compliance obligations) security engineer. Downside: you have to see me all the time. More info at job-boards.greenhouse.io/coda/…

If this looks interesting, please hit me up for the details.

Job Application for Security Software Engineer at Coda

job-boards.greenhouse.io

oooh, the redbox uses full AES encryption!

and they always use the same key which is embedded in the executable right next to the encrypt() and decrypt() functions. well done, guys

AMD, Intel, and a slew of tech companies are teaming up to fend off ARM chips theverge.com/2024/10/15/242710…

AMD and Intel are teaming up to fend off ARM chips

Chip makers AMD and Intel are feeling the pressure as ARM gains momentum in the PC market, pushing the two competitors into an unlikely alliance.
Allison Johnson (The Verge)

I have to ask, because apparently a lot of people don’t use the keyboard to navigate websites at all. I do it all the time.

#a11y

  • Use Keyboard sometimes (41%, 39 votes)
  • Use Keyboard frequently (33%, 31 votes)
  • Use Keyboard with assistive tech (4%, 4 votes)
  • Only use the mouse/touchpad/pointer (20%, 19 votes)
93 voters. Poll end: 2 weeks ago

#a11y

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My violence towards robot vacuums (usually when they get caught in cords for the MILLIONTH TIME) is vindicated.

They're spies.

werd.io/2024/insecure-deebot-r…


Insecure Deebot robot vacuums collect photos and audio to train AI

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-05/robot-vacuum-deebot-ecovacs-photos-ai/104416632 [Julian Fell at Australian ABC News] "Ecovacs robot vacuums, which have been found to suffer from critical cybersecurity flaws, are collecting photos, videos and v…
Ben Werdmuller (Werd I/O)

If you are using a so called smart connected TV and are concerned about your privacy, you should read the following scientific article: "Watching TV with the Second-Party: A First Look at Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs"
arxiv.org/pdf/2409.06203v1

In short, if your TV's settings are not correctly adjusted, it can periodically (in some cases, every 10 seconds) send a fingerprint of what is being displayed to a server to find out what you are watching.

"#PHP RFC: Add persistent #curl share handles"

wiki.php.net/rfc/curl_share_pe…

The PR => github.com/php/php-src/pull/15…


feat: enable persistent `CurlShareHandle` objects by ericnorris · Pull Request #15603 · php/php-src

This PR introduces a new function, curl_share_init_persistent, that creates a php_curlsh struct that can live beyond a single PHP request. Persisting a curl share handle would allow PHP userspace t...
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#php #curl

The incredibly talented Lupita Nyong’o now has a podcast:

brittlepaper.com/2024/10/kenya…


Kenyan Actress Lupita Nyong'o Brings Light to Global Storytelling in her New Podcast!

Lupita Nyong'o's podcast, Mind Your Own, is all about belonging. Whether that's belonging in a family, relationships, or self-love, it's about sharing stories around the globe.
Brittle Paper

[white cis men do not comment]

#Men #Sexism #mansplaining #ToxicMasculinity #gaslighting #ReplyGuys

A tweet from @W_Asherah: I've been asking my male friends to do something - *watch if the first response to everything of women tells you is to refute say no or something negative* One texted me later: holy fuck The problem is, constantly putting up with unwarranted resistance is bad for mental health
Continued from previous image: The conversation started off from discussions with married women on dealing with men just resisting ideas with no basis. Including, and I'm not kidding, *buying the new black toothpaste* W: Let's test this M: No W: *goes ahead and buys* M: *uses it* I actually like this This gets horrid when it piles up. It makes daily conversations with men anxiety inducing for women because you have to *literally prepare a defense for everything*. In a good number of cases - women stop mentioning or asking anything. No one wants a fucking toothpaste discussion.
Continued from previous image: Some things you just do. You think, you do - not everything needs to be a debate. It's "let's get this" and the person goes "okay" and then you get the thing. Another was a story of someone's husband chiming into say negative things whenever she's chatting with friends. Oh, he is one of those allies who believed that he's very supportive of women in his life (I'm hoping his stopped believing that). All while responding with resounding no to things that should not get a no. He didn't say what but he found himself in an argument with his sister about something really petty that he should have just agreed with. She asked him "what exactly are you resisting?" - which is when he remembered what I'd told him. It's socialized resistance to women speaking - and every man I know does it either subconsciously or consciously
Continued from previous image: My autistic brain has to *learn by observation* - I don't pick up social cues so teaching them to me as a child was likely futile to my oblivious brain. So I kinda learn by *observing patterns* - ever since I started my ADHD medication, I'm noticing weird social norms like these It's like *pathological demand avoidance* but make it something inflicting men when women speak. The problem tends to disappear when it's a man speaking. One person talked about a woman who calls the husband's best friend whenever she needs a huge decision to be made In case you missed it: this thread doesn't exist for debate reasons (I don't even get why this has to be said out loud because it's the literal premise of the thread). It's for women to put words to something they experience every day. Bring debate and your blocked.
#sexism #toxicmasculinity #men #mansplaining #gaslighting #replyguys
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Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr
Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr
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It is sad that the comment section was exactly what I expected, even here on Mastodon.

Woman posts about how men often react negatively to things women say for no apparent reason.

The exact kind of man she's talking about shows up and does exactly that. Exclaims, I would never do that, while doing that.

"Incremental #HTTP Messages" proposal:

Upon receiving a header section that includes the Incremental header field, HTTP intermediaries SHOULD NOT buffer the entire message before forwarding it. Instead, intermediaries SHOULD transmit the header section downstream and continuously forward the bytes of the message body as they arrive.

datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft…

Incremental HTTP Messages

This document specifies the "Incremental" HTTP header field, which instructs HTTP intermediaries to forward the HTTP message incrementally. Discussion Venues This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC.
IETF Datatracker
#http
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Stefan Eissing
Stefan Eissing
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Trying to fix the HTTP misuses of SSE and others. What can an honest CDN do?

Zatiaľ sa nesťahujem, všetko vyriešené pre zatiaľ, izba prelepená "plombami" a všetko upratané, dokonca úplne nové WCko, vážne. 😄
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aj toto je nové, pripomína mi to...

edit: resp. som to nemal povolené ale ináč to vidím iba posledných pár dní

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why is the sky a SPHERE???

why do I have to know SPHERICAL GEOMETRY?????

we should live in a CUBE. a CUBE is a nice, sensible shape! flat planes are EASY.

this has been the latest in my series of rants about how astronomy is unnecessarily hard, tune in next week for "why does everything have to be MOVING all the time"

edited to add necessary context: I am a professional astronomer

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