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I'm currently hanging on my teamtalk server at 97.107.140.118 default ports in the social circle lounge channel, should anyone want to talk to my nerdy self. :)
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Khronos
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And as another way to get names for your stuff there's always dynamic dns as long as you don't have too many hostnames.

I'm seriously considering getting my own domain again, something I haven't done in years. I would then associate all my servers with my domain, and where I have web servers, I can finally play around with setting up HTTPS, to make modern browsers happy. What is a good Domain Registrar to use for totally blind nerds these days? I'll likely register my domain of choice, and set my DNS records up via Akamai, since they are the most accessible control panel of literally anyone. All thoughts welcome.
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Khronos
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I'm an #aws man so I use them for most things when I can as long as the pricing works for me.
#aws

mne tie syry chutia dosť a ten Volovec skúsim nechať vyschnúť, nejako, a ten druhý neviem ako sa volá ale na úrovni "Volovec" z desiatich na ôsmich #za_rohom
#za_rohom
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I love my Spectrum gigabit Internet connection, it's performing beautifully, so long as I don't use WiFi that is. Downstream on my laptop Wi-Fi is so jittery and all over the road speed wise that it's not even funny. I've literally watched a file download go from a burst high speed of about 350-500 Megabit per second, to literally as low as 6 or 7 megabits! If I hardwire the laptop to my router, and perform the exact same file download from the exact same location, the file comes blazing in at over 800 megabits per second rock solid stable! Uploads are unaffected, and work absolutely perfectly regardless of if I'm on Wi-Fi or not. I'm pretty sure this is simply due to Wi-Fi interference in the area, and it's a safe bet I probably can't do a thing about it, but I can honestly say I've never seen a home Internet connection perform this poorly on Wi-Fi. For logistical reasons, I can't currently run an ethernet cable between where my laptop normally sits, and where the Internet equipment is located, but I sure as hell am tempted to try something in the near future, if I can't find a solution to the poor performance on Wi-Fi on my laptop. I also need to do further testing to see if it's just my laptop or my phone as well. Early tests would seem to indicate this may be an issue unique to my laptop, but I need to do further phone download tests to verify this. But if it comes down to it, I'll be purchasing a 25 foot ethernet cable, and giving myself a hardwired connection between the Internet and my laptop, the fun part will be explaining why I need the cable set up to my tech ignorant sister. Well time will tell I guess. In the meantime I'll continue to run whatever tests I can
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Khronos
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Wired is always best if you've got lots of data you want to transfer to and from it.
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Seedy of Chucky
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Wired is just better in every way for data transfer. It's science.
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Documenting Unicode bidirectional embedding and the Ahem font for my #Outreachy interns.
Hand-drawn diagram of the Unicode control characters used for bidirectional embedding, and how a sample string gets rendered on the squares-only Ahem font.
#outreachy

I have learned this evening that WhatsApp voice messages cut you off after 30 minutes. This might help some of you long, long ramblers out there...
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Mikołaj Hołysz
Mikołaj Hołysz
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voice memos is better for that sort of stuff anyway, whatsapp does not let you switch apps to look things up and such. And yes, I did a 90-minute one once.

It's time for BEE FACTS

For every donation to this link, I will post one (1) fact about bees!

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Join us!

This is a campaign for every North Carolinian, and we won't get anywhere without support from as many of our neighbors as possible.
ActBlue
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Sarah Taber
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These little green bees are sweat bees. They're called that because they love salt & might come get some from you if you're sweaty.

They're solitary, sting but not very hard, and most of them nest in bare patches of dirt next to plants.

Plant flowers & leave some bare spots!

Pic of a tiny metallic green bee on a small flower.
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Sarah Taber
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Honeybees are famous for working hard, but if you watch a hive, most of them spend a lot of time just chillin out on the honeycomb.

So when people tell you you gotta "be a good worker bee".... now you know the secret to their work ethic. Secure housing, affordable food, & naps.

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The Dynamic Island is the accessibility gift that keeps on giving. Today's bug: keyboard events not reaching a web page in Safari while the island was non-empty.

The article discusses the importance of operating systems adapting to modern hardware advancements for better performance and efficiency. It emphasizes the need for OS research and development to keep pace with hardware evolution. The speaker highlights the potential benefits of rethinking the OS-hardware relationship.

Link: usenix.org/conference/osdi21/p…
Comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

It's time for operating systems to rediscover hardware | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com

Just heard about this new terminal, Ghostty.

Seems pretty cool.

github.com/ghostty-org

youtube.com/watch?v=RGlj4dcdWg…

Patiently awaiting an invite to the beta. :terminal:


Ghostty

A new terminal, started by @mitchellh 👻. Ghostty has one repository available. Follow their code on GitHub.
GitHub

Got my COVID and flu jabs and now I can't wait to fall into a feverish stupor tomorrow and actually enjoy the new season of The Rings of Power.

The article discusses how QUIC, a protocol designed for fast internet connections, faces performance challenges under certain conditions. Through experimental data, the authors conclude that QUIC is not optimal over fast networks and suggest potential improvements to enhance its speed and efficiency.

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2310.09423
Comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


QUIC is not Quick Enough over Fast Internet

QUIC is expected to be a game-changer in improving web application performance. In this paper, we conduct a systematic examination of QUIC's performance over high-speed networks.
arXiv.org

I think I'm becoming a big fan of Instant Pot.

Blind Reaper users: Is there anything like GoldWave's expression evaluator for Reaper, and accessible? That thing is one of my biggest ways of getting inspiration to make sounds.
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Jamie Teh
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Intriguing. I never knew about the Goldwave expression evaluator. REAPER has JSFX which allows you to write real time effects in a scripting language, which should allow you to do all of that, but it's still much more involved/tedious than just typing an expression in a text box.
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Quin
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@jcsteh It's amazing for creativity purposes, at least if you like numbers like I do. My favorite is to make up a really wacky equation, then apply a ton of filters and effects to it. Reaper has way more options for those, but just can't find an expression evaluator. JSFX sounds interesting, thanks for the sort of recommendation. :)
@Jamie Teh

This article was published on the 10th anniversary of the article "40 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says."

And on the 20th anniversary of the article "30 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says."

And on the 30th anniversary of the article "20 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says."

And on the 40th anniversary of the article "10 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says."

And on the 15th anniversary of the article "35 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says."

And on the 13th anniversary of the article "37 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says."

And on the third anniversary of the article "47 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says."

And on the 44th anniversary of the article "Six years of tax cuts for the rich failed to tric

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50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says

Tax cuts for the wealthy didn't boost the economies of the U.S. and 17 other countries — but they did worsen income inequality.
Aimee Picchi (CBS News)

Fantastic wide-ranging discussion about websites and browsers for a generalist to be aware of. You don't need to know how to do everything, but you DO need a huge contextual awareness across the stack to solve hard problems. Even a hint. 13min
youtu.be/-Ln-8QM8KhQ

I emphasize how important even knowledge of a thing being a thing helps. And it will seem utterly useless in the moment. It matters later, you will be completely surprised random tech stuff you did 20 years earlier randomly comes up as important. Try things, even Linux.


How is this Website so fast!?

Breaking down the McMaster Carr website and the techniques they use to make it so dang fast.00:00 - Intro00:38 - Server Rendered HTML00:54 - Prefetching HTML...
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Video makers: caption your damn videos. Spend a bit of time on it. Your viewers will thank you.
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Veronica Explains
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Now, if your video is scripted, as mine often are, I have a much simpler solution:

1. In YouTube Studio, after uploading the video, I upload the script inside the "subtitles" tab.
2. I wait like an hour before publishing the video

That's it. I don't think creators have much excuse anymore for poor captions. Other than you just don't want as many folks to enjoy your work.

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Veronica Explains
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Another thing about proper captions is that it's often framed as "helping deaf/hard of hearing folks", and that's accurate and valid, but there's more.

For me as an English speaker, it helps my viewers for whom English isn't their first language, as they can read along.

It also helps folks who watch your videos with the sound off/low... such as folks in public, folks in quiet spaces, folks in bed, folks with young kids...

...you know, pretty much everyone at some point in their lives.

Últimamente hemos tenido un microcorte eléctrico diario. No sé que leches pasa con la red, pero me está tocando las narices. No es de nuestro piso ya que pasa en varios edificios del barrio.

Mahasen Al Khateeb, a Palestinian #digital #illustrator, used to draw children stories and teach Procreate. She skilfully painted the suffering of her people in north Gaza using her stylus. It was her only outlet from a year of pain, horror and genocide.

Today the US-backed zionist regime killed her. Rest in peace Mahasen 💔

@mahasen_ktheeb on IG

#Gaza #Palestine #Genocide #ArmsEmbargoNow #USA #Israel

#digital #USA #illustrator #israel #palestine #genocide #Gaza #armsembargonow

My email collection is now hosted on my own site:

daniel.haxx.se/email/

Daniel Stenberg -- Emails

daniel.haxx.se

This is freaking beautiful.

A friend shared this thought with me, and, to be honest, I find it a little depressing.
Uncle Duke @UncleDuke1969 the idea of being visited by aliens lost its appeal when i realized they'd likely just be some other planet's asshold billionaires

What makes me angriest about covid is that we allowed the very worst of us, a loud, bullying minority, dictate how our governments would handle the pandemic. We did not mask long enough, no covid money went to improving indoor air quality, we allowed anti-vaxxers to dictate public safety measures and make their choice our choice. Measures we did take eliminated a strain of flu. If our governments hadn’t caved, we could’ve stopped covid before all the mutations.

We really should talk more about why Nate Silver is not particularly liked by a lot of people who actually work with data.

"I would bet 60-40, 70-30 on lab leak probably"

This is just throwing random numbers on his hunches. He does this _all of the time_ and doesn't generally disclose (or even necessarily know to disclose) which pieces are his "hunches."

He mixes things that he puts into a model and fails to mention any validation beyond topline as well
hachyderm.io/@hrefna/113331563…

Hrefna (DHC) (@hrefna@hachyderm.io)

"Data journalism" equals traditional punditry except you put arbitrary numbers on everything.
Hachyderm.io

Spent some time today working on a little website to provide information about a bit of vintage computing history from my childhood, including a video demo (using emulation). I'm talking about Diversi-Tune, an early MIDI music program for the Apple IIGS, written by the late, great Bill Basham. divtune.com/ The website also briefly notes his later rewrite of Diversi-Tune for early-2000s Windows and web browsers, which he hosted at this domain. That version's harder to preserve.

Diversi-Tune

divtune.com

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Matt Campbell
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Yes, I said "the late, great Bill Basham". Sadly, he passed away in 2021. I asked his brother Mike for permission before I bought the domain, which expired and was put up for sale by GoDaddy. Mike Basham appreciates what I'm doing with this website.
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Matt Campbell
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I'm aware that, as I post this, the Internet Archive is still not fully back online, meaning that my link to the Apple IIGS version doesn't work. (I actually started working on the website a couple months ago.) I don't think the Apple IIGS disk image I happen to have is pristine. I could see if I can find a pristine disk image somewhere else and then host a copy. But hopefully the Internet Archive will be fully operational again soon.
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Matt Campbell
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I decided to self-host the video. I encoded it in both WebM and MP4 versions. (I did ask the Claude 3.5 Sonnet LLM to generate FFmpeg commands for me, but I reviewed and modified them.) Being low-resolution screen capture, the video compressed very well. I'd appreciate it if fully sighted folks can let me know if my encodings of the video have noticeable artifacts. I also uploaded a lossless version to YouTube. Of course, it's possible that YouTube's own encodings could add artifacts.
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Matt Campbell
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OK, now I've possibly spent too much time on this little side project. I decided to re-do the demo video. First, I decided I should emulate a ROM version 01 Apple IIGS rather than ROM version 3, since the former is what my family actually owned and what I used as a child. Then I decided to capture the video from MAME in its original aspect ratio, which looks wrong on modern displays because the Apple IIGS didn't have square pixels, and then scale it with FFmpeg.
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Matt Campbell
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And finally, about those FFmpeg commands, I decided to basically throw out the ones I had the Claude LLM generate for me, and instead try to build up my own by reading FFmpeg documentation. I originally justified using Claude on the grounds that FFmpeg has so many options that they're daunting for a non-expert. But in fact, FFmpeg has very good documentation, which I now reference on my detailed page about the video and how I made it: divtune.com/apple2gs_demo/

Diversi-Tune Apple IIGS demo video

divtune.com

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Matt Campbell
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I suppose the whole process, and my own mind, is still contaminated because I initially used an LLM. I can think of the following things that remain from my usage of Claude:

- The use of FFV1 as a lossless video codec. Presumably I would have found that in the FFmpeg documentation if I had really looked.
- The pixel format conversion to yuv420p to fix compatibility problems. Claude gave me that one for the MP4 version, and then I also applied it to WebM.
- The use of 256 Kbps for AAC.

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Matt Campbell
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Now, I have to mention that this program wasn't and isn't accessible to fully blind people. The documentation for Textalker GS, the one screen reader I'm aware of for the Apple IIGS, specifically mentioned Diversi-Tune as a program that could not be made accessible with that screen reader. This was a downside of Diversi-Tune's focus on efficiency, accessing the hardware directly rather than using even the primitive GUI toolkit (literally called the Toolbox) that the Apple IIGS offered.

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Que porra é essa, caralho?! 😡 Estão removendo árvores para dar visibilidades aos anúncios outdoor
oglobo.globo.com/google/amp/ri…

Árvores estão sendo cortadas ou podadas para garantir maior visibilidade a painéis publicitários, denunciam moradores

Prefeitura diz que já abriu registros de ocorrências sobre o caso e que vai averiguar novas denúncias
Priscilla Litwak (O Globo)
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Sofia ☭🇧🇷☭
Sofia ☭🇧🇷☭
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There's some sort of weird anti-tree conspiracy happening in Rio, and apparently at least part of it is to do with giving more visibility to advertising billboards. Although I swear I've seen trees removed in places without billboards...but then again, it's hard to tell, because sometimes street trees do have to be removed for legitimate reasons

Amos Miller of Glidance released a new amazing video showing the capability of Glide, the mobility tool that he has created. If you have not seen this new video, and by the way it is described, then I highly encourage you to check it out... youtube.com/watch?v=Xq8ofapGxX…

#Blind #Mobility #AmosMiller #Glidance #Glide #Accessible


Glide Demonstration Video #2: Stairs, Roads without Sidewalks, Paths, Overhead Obstacles & More.

In our second scenario video, we demonstrate Glide, the world's first intelligent guide for the blind and low vision community, in a variety of new situation...
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#accessible #blind #glide #mobility #amosmiller #glidance

#MaskUp
tweet by jjoque | still think one of the wildest parts of the whole pandemic was how all the survivalists who spent years of their lives planning to live in a bunker and eat beans for a decade if things got bad couldn't even stand wearing a surgical mask to the grocery store for 20 minutes.
#MaskUp

It’s time for these leaders to actually lead, clearing a path that leads beyond X and towards social media environments like Bluesky and Mastodon — platforms that at least gesture in the direction of user safety and protection of the vulnerable.


Hell. YES.

inquirer.com/opinion/commentar…


It’s time to say goodbye to Elon Musk’s X. Changes to blocking online harassment will endanger users.

As announced to users Wednesday, X is planning to deprive its users of another vital tool for combating ever-escalating online stalking and harassment on the platform, writes Gwen Snyder.
Gwen Snyder (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

Exclusive: Trump ground game in key states flagged as potentially fake - The Guardian apple.news/Aqni_xkcAQUSpkmYHMd…

Exclusive: Trump ground game in key states flagged as potentially fake — Guardian US

Data suggests canvassers linked to Elon Musk’s America Pac falsely claimed to have visited homes of potential voters
apple.news

GrapheneOS and android 15 beta upgrade. Pixel8 on the big screen, unbeatable. I probably won't think about a linux phone, at least not for a while, because now I have a notebook in my pocket, without google and most FOSS apps. Tidal from the phone looks good on the big screen, all other apps work too. #GrapheneOS #pixel8 #bigscreen #nextlevel #degoogle
#grapheneos #degoogle #pixel8 #bigscreen #nextlevel
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Llevo tiempo queriendo hacer yoga o pilates, pero no veía la forma de hacerlo de forma accesible para enterarme bien. no se si me explico. Bueno, como en la asociación de vecinos de mi barrio hacen cositas, les dije que si hacían yoga o pilates me tuviesen en cuenta ellas ya saben que soy ciega). Hoy me han escrito, que estaán montando clases de yoga y que si sigo interesada me pasan el contacto del profe, para que le diga lo que necesito para poder seguir la clase sin problema. (1/2)

Everybody keeps talking about post quantum encryption. We should also be talking about post AI web browsing.
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Marcus Hutchins
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It's back to Pre-Google web browsing, unfortunately. Cultivate a list of good source and websites, then use them directly.
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Ľuboš Moščovič
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@malwaretech
Never thought about it this way, but recently I found myself doing and curating the bookmarks like couple of decades back. Honestly I thought I'm just getting old, the middle age crisis or something, but now I realised I maybe just intuitively started to fix some search engine issues...
@Marcus Hutchins

Any fellow Catholics here use flocknote for parish-side communications?
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David Goldfield
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No, that's never happened to me. I signed up to receive announcements from my parish so I've never been added without my consent.
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Anny hopes
Anny hopes
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@DavidGoldfield
Cool. That was the case for me too, and I suspect many in my diocese, until a couple of days ago and it really feels like a breach of trust.
Thanks!
@David Goldfield

@Christians@a.gup.pe Just thought about this and decided to create a #GuppeGroup for #Christians, so Christians throughout the #Fediverse and #Mastodon can have a place to talk to and meet each other. For those who don't know about #Guppe groups, it's a group that automatically boosts posts mentioning it, and you can follow it to see posts.
#fediverse #Mastodon #guppe #guppegroup #christians
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Lanie Carmelo
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@clv0 @DavidGoldfield Hi. A.gup.pe was down for a little while so links to groups weren't working. Try following it now. @christians
@Cleverson @David Goldfield @christians group

New weekend challenge moto:

#SystemCrafters (@daviwil) rule 42: "To maximize your learning opportunities, do stupid things [in your computer] that force you to dig yourself out of a hole". 🤓

Source: youtube.com/live/TjMTNSdhUvk?t…


Making the Most of Terminal Emacs - System Crafters Live!

In this stream, we'll discuss some thoughts I've had after using Emacs in the terminal for various tasks recently and then spend some time working on a strea...
YouTube
#systemcrafters @David Wilson

Создатель онлайн-библиотеки Flibusta Stiver: серверы оплачены, сайт поддерживается и работает в стабильном режиме habr.com/p/851838/
#flibusta #stiver

Создатель онлайн-библиотеки Flibusta Stiver: серверы оплачены, сайт поддерживается и работает в стабильном режиме

19 октября 2024 года создатель онлайн-библиотеки Flibusta Stiver сообщил, что серверы проекта оплачены, сайт поддерживается и работает в стабильном режиме.23 сен...
Денис (Habr)
#Flibusta #stiver

Cestou z práce na jedno zasloužené. A teď nechci volant do pondělí vidět
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Ivan Stloukal
Ivan Stloukal
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@archos
Já tam mám zítra tak na 30 minut nějaký update informací na webu České školy a pustím na dálku nějaký extra backup databází na můj soukromý NAS. Jinak mám v plánu jen knížku, kafe a gauč/postel
@Archos

For people who use android, what's a good mastadon client for said device?

Tak jsem propadl další závislosti :blobcatpat: Medieval Dynasty, mě opravdu hodně chytlo a nemohu se od toho odtrhnout :blobcatgamer: Lovit, těžit, stavět vesnici. Je to vcelku náročné a všechno chce dost času, ale to budování je uspokojující :blobcatcoffee: #MedievalDynasty
#medievaldynasty
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Petr Lynx Balák
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@archos Vypadá to dobře, hraje se to dobře, není to náročné na PC, nemá to žádné problémy s funkčností. Jen by to mohlo mít větší textury na zem a cesty, dabingu je tam hodně poskromnu a chce to si pročíst dost nápověd, aby člověk pochopil mechaniku práce a výroby obyvatel :blobcatbook:
@Archos
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