I've told this story at conferences - but due to the general situation I thought I'd retell it here. A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London. They are singularly unlovely places.
It's been a fascinating process. Mray also created the librecast matrix room, so he's a great community player. Having such a contribution is amazing, our ecosystem needs more than code. It needs people being inspired and contributing by documentation, packaging, talking to others about the projects you love.
Helping us to improve.
Thank you so much Robert, for contributing so much of your time to create this logo for Librecast!
They go against hospitality! [¡Van a por la hostelería!]
Pubs and restaurants warn of closures if taxes rise and business rates relief ends | Hospitality industry | The Guardian
Os traigo esto para que sepáis que la hostelería no es solo un refugio de llorones explotadores e incapaz de vivir sin subvenciones sólo en España. Aquí además la calidad es pésima.
In this episode, Thomas Domville demonstrates how to use Writing Tools in iOS 18.1. Writing Tools, released as part of the first set of Apple Intelligence features in iOS 18.
Last Friday I left my job of 21 years by way of redundancy. That’s a pretty significant chunk of my adult life invested into a single place. So it’s going to be a big change.
As I step into the first Monday morning in years where I haven’t had anything scheduled in an Outlook calendar… I say ‘fuck it’ and opt for McDonald’s Breakfast.
Did you know IBM helped Hitler carry out the Holocaust? Is it in any way surprising that we can’t do anything about Big Tech and toxic oligarchs like Elon Musk when even those who helped carry out one of the worst tragedies in human history remain unpunished? Should it come as a shock that the very same bastards are funding and pining for fascism today?
Spent yesterday afternoon in jail after trying to blockade a TotalEnergies site in the #Antwerp harbor in #Belgium with #CodeRouge While our group didn't get to the intended target, we took up a lot of police capacity to give our comrades the chance to complete our plans. Shut that shit down!
📣 Today we blocked with more than 1000 activists the sites of TotalEnergies in Feluy and the port of Antwerp! #StopTotal 💚👏The fossil fuel industry makes ...
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@define Bkann heute nicht kommen. Sitze noch in einem Zug der tatenlos in der Llandschaft steht. Melde mich ggf. falls ich vor um neun die Guennöhle erreiche. frohes Planen an alle.
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Step up from being a #LibreOffice user to a LibreOffice community member! That's what Ritobroto Mukherjee did – and there are many ways to get involved, and expand your skillset: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource
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Ooh, you read very nice. :) Sad I can't join. As Patreon will accept dollars only I think, but not sure. You write well, friend. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Have you thought of becoming a narrator like, officially somewhere? It'd suit you good, but of course it's only a suggestion. :)
@tardis I have indeed thought of this. I do read my own audio stuff and might actually post something on mastadon since there are people who cannot join like yourself. I am going to be posting something for the public to hear soon. Its just amusing that every time I try and record, my entire neighbourhood has to be noisy hahahaha.
It is Friday after all, so I'll offer this little glimpse as an example from what I do at work... A while ago, I was working for a customer (who shall remain unnamed here, but let's call it Intel) doing system simulation software.
this and DEADBEEF remind me of one of the Microsoft coding books, maybe Writing Solid Code, that offered the idea of seeing all variables to really bad values, as a way of reminding you to init properly and use them intentionally.
That practice has definitely caused me problems with people who don't ascribe to that ethic.
This article on Haaretz reports on how mourners at a funeral admit, loud and clear, what to much of the rest of the world seems so complicated:
"You entered Gaza to take revenge, as much as possible – women, children," he said of Ben-Natan, who was killed in a clash with Hezbollah in a village in southern Lebanon. "May the people of Israel be worthy of pursuing your vengeance – blood vengeance, not revenge by burning homes, trees, and vehicles," he added.
Another eulogist said, "You were the happiest, most optimistic, and most mischievous person in the unit. We first met in Gaza, when you burned a house without permission just for the atmosphere."
Another speaker at the funeral recounted that last October, Ben-Natan shot dead Bilal Salah, a 40-year-old Palestinian who was harvesting olives with his children near the West Bank village of Sawiya, close to Nablus. "I was so impressed by you," he testified.
But apparently, these obvious crimes are not crimes because... it's complicated.
Participants in the funeral of fallen Israeli reservist and West Bank settler Shuvael Ben-Natan described his desire for revenge against Palestinian women and children, and how he burned a house in Gaza without permission
Das Schmelzen der Gletscher legt immer mehr archäologische Funde frei. Die Forschung sucht nach neuen Wegen - vor allem Gletschermumien wie Ötzi - zu konservieren. Von S. Delonge und S. Kirschner.
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Včera jsem zapomněla na AD a ráno to bylo znát 🤦♀️ Odpoledne už ale zabraly dnešní a tak jsem vzala čtyřnohou můru a šly jsme na procházku 🐾👣 a trochu se pokochat krajinou 😍
NVDA 2024.4 is now available Featuring many improvements in Microsoft Office, braille & document formatting. We encourage all users to update. There's more than will fit here so please check out the full details & download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-4/
Please note, after updating any software, it is a good idea to restart the computer. Restart by going to the Shutdown dialog, selecting “restart” and pressing ENTER.
NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2024.4 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. Highlig…
@evilcookies98 No - only the first release of each year (2023.1, 2024.1, 2025.1 etc) are add-on compatibility breaking. If you do encounter any issues, please do let us know, as we're not expecting any breakages!
is it OK if I ask why that keeps happening? I understand why it happened when you change the python version, but I don’t understand why it has to happen again every single year. I’m not criticizing. I’m confused.
@evilcookies98 We're actually working on some comms to come out to help explain that & we're working on a longer term fix as well. Basically, we hold over fixes or features which MIGHT break add-ons & put them all in the .1 release. So we only break anything once a year, and can keep all the add-on developers across that. If devs check their add-ons and everything still works - great! They can just tweak a few things and good to go. Basically it ensures things don't randomly break other times.
@evilcookies98 That's fair enough. Prior to the Python 2 - 3 update (2019.3), any update could break add-ons without any notification or set system in place. Given that add-ons can do anything you can do with Python, that could include entirely freezing your system, causing you to lose work. So the current system should give you a more stable experience, and we are aware it is not perfect and are looking at how to make it smoother for everyone in the future.
@evilcookies98 Yes - and that's why. It is good to carefully check or see what others in the ocmmunity think - just because NVDA starts with an add-on overriding the compatibility check doesn't guarantee that it will work, but it can help you keep using an add-on which wasn't affected by a particular year's changes while you wait for the developer to update it.
The Librarian of Congress has granted a DMCA exemption allowing independent repair of soft-serve machines, addressing the persistent issue of restricted repairs on McDonald's frequently malfunctioning machines.
Anthony Thomas “TJ” Hoover woke up before his organs were about to be donated after his family was told he was brain dead, an organ preservationist said.
Night at The Garden, a film that revisits a night in February 1939 when '20,000 Americans rallied in New York's Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism -- an event largely forgotten from U.S. history.
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
Spojené státy míří k volbám! V dnešním videu si shrneme to nejdůležitější: představíme si kandidáty i jejich viceprezidenty, program, mrkneme na debaty, rozh...
The moral meltdown at the LA Times and Washington Post is a reminder that independent journalism is needed more than ever. It's also a reminder that being an independent journalist is HARD work, with challenges the "professionals" rarely see or grasp.
I urge you to read this from Molly White (hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff), one of the best we've seen:
Start DeGoogling today and stop Big G from exploiting your data! In this in-depth guide learn how to quit Google apps for good, and start using Tuta’s privacy expert’s recommended apps instead.
Interesting choices. Hiding proprietary services and software among OpenSource software 🤔 and worst of all, having software that are locked-in and taking data out of them is super painful and calling them "best"?
For those who wonder, these are things that I have used that you should avoid because they will lock your information and you will suffer to take them out: - Tutanota (I was premium user for multiple years) - Authy - Wire
- Yubico Authenticator is cool and credentials are portable across devices - startpage if need use google anyway - Element for chat - Librewolf for browser
Two things keep me with gmail despite it being run by Google: tags/labels and the solid GUI. I don't send anything I care about unencrypted and I would love to completely abandon Google. Do you have plans to support tags?
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in reply to Librecast • • •It's been a fascinating process. Mray also created the librecast matrix room, so he's a great community player. Having such a contribution is amazing, our ecosystem needs more than code. It needs people being inspired and contributing by documentation, packaging, talking to others about the projects you love.
Helping us to improve.
Thank you so much Robert, for contributing so much of your time to create this logo for Librecast!
We're happy to have you as part of our community.