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damnit. My laptop charger has just packed in. I'm supposed to be enjoying a bit of alcohol and a pizza whilst remembering an author, not scrabbling around my untidy box of spares.

Librsvg 2.59.2 is out! This is a stable release.

Limits for unbounded stack consumption, fix a regression when drawing very flat arcs, fix text-anchor for scaled text, and cancellation now works for resource loading thanks to my Outreachy intern.

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg…


2.59.2 - stable · GNOME / librsvg · GitLab

Version 2.59.2
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So cool, I was just scanning some text labels with VOCR and my Mac’s camera right during the meeting. Just turned off the cam in Google Meet, do the scan with VOCR, and then turn the cam back on. DOn’t tell my colleagues though!

My current Mac Mini is worth $230 in trade-in value. That puts the price of the new M4 Mini at about $370. It's tempting, as that's quite a good price for a brand new Mac. However, I use my Mac so infrequently that spending the money wouldn't make sense, especially not while I'm still paying off my new phone. Still, I definitely feel the pull of the shiny. I love small computers, and this one is both small and powerful.

Humans are evolving right before our eyes? sciencealert.com/humans-are-ev…

Humans Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes on The Tibetan Plateau : ScienceAlert

Humans are not yet done cooking.
Michelle Starr (ScienceAlert)

The Open Source AI Definition Is Out linuxtoday.com/blog/the-open-s…

The Open Source AI Definition Is Out | Linux Today

But, the work of defining open source AI is far from done.
LinuxToday

I installed 18.1 and enabled Apple Intelligence. Siri is, so far, unaffected. I asked "weather today", and got the expected answer. I then asked, "What about tomorrow?" and Siri told me about tomorrow's calendar. I sure hope 18.2 is better. The voice sounds more expressive, though, so that's something. Not much of something, but it's technically something.
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Alex Hall
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I just got my first notification summary, for a couple mentions in Mona. It read: "18.2 is better than 18.2. Apple Intelligence and chatGPT in .2." This is not promising.

rip botsin space
botsin.space/@muffinista/11339…

colin mitchell

2024-10-29 20:26:36


Hey friends, it's hard to write this, but it's time to retire botsin.space. I wrote a post about it here: muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/2…

TLDR the site will go read-only on or around December 15th.

I'm so thankful for all the support and good times here ❤️ thanks everyone


RIP botsin.space

muffinlabs.com

On this day, six years ago, David John Duncan, well-known to some, unknown to most, but wonderful author of science fiction and fantasy novels, passed away. I have read as much of Dave's stuff as I can get my hands on. He is an author that I'm very fond of. I enjoy his books and the stories he tells.

My introduction to Dave was the first book in his Seventh Sword series, which is called The Reluctant Swordsman. It's a portal fantasy novel. It was published in 1988, and it follows the mind of a gentleman called Wally Smith, who ends up in the body of a swordsman of the seventh rank, the mighty Shonsu, who was killed in his fantasy world, and Wally's mind brought across to re-inhabit the body by the world's goddess in an attempt to complete a mission for her. The subsequent two books in the series complete that arc, and it's a very satisfying trilogy of books. 24 years later, Dave published a fourth book in the series, showing the evolution of the characters after the main quest had completed, and it was a very satisfying way to meet Dave as an author.


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Timothy Wynn
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Curious which came first, the audio recording or the written post? If the latter, then you really made it quite natural when reading it it out.
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Timothy Wynn
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Oh good on you. While I'm not self-conscious when actually talking to humans, I don't think I'd ever ad-lib something for the purpose of an audio recording. I should practice that more so that I would sound more polished when speaking off-the-cuff, especially minimizing the filler utterances.
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Sean Randall
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@twynn I hate the sound of my voice, but so few people come and speak about things they care for I feel like it's important to do when I can.
@Timothy Wynn
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Sean Randall
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When I tell people I've read over 18,000 pages of Dave Duncan's writing, they say to me, where do I start? Where do I begin? How do I get into this author? You know, what's a good opening? And that's so hard to answer, because although Dave's got a lot of tropes that he sticks to, and he's got a very distinctive style, he doesn't do the same thing twice, as counter to what I've just said, as that may sound. He makes a new world, a unique world, and then plays by its rules. And that's something that not a lot of authors can say. I think it's even rarer to be able to identify a piece of work as an author's, yet not know where it's going to end up. You know, that's pretty clever. So I would say that you should probably start with the opening to one of the series, because that way, if you don't like it, you don't have to read more. But if you do like it, you know there is more, and that's really cool. So we've got The Reluctant Swordsman, of course, is the start of the fantasy, portal fantasy, The Seventh Sword. The King's Blades books are also based on swordsmanship, although not portal books. And they're really clever, because the stories stand more alone there, and they sort of intertwine, but in a more subtle, non-serial way. The Great Game is a trilogy of books set both during the First World War, and in an alternate world called Nextdoor, one of my particular favourite series. Nostradamus is a series set in Venice, Italy. Those are just a few of the series that you can start off with. And if you like them, and you know you like Dave's Stile, then you can pick a standalone book and think, oh, you know, I'm in the mood for something this long, and give that a try. Lots of options.

dear menstruating ADHD people

There is a student running a survey on ADHD and Menstruation

reddit.com/r/AdultADHDSupportG…

Help them out with their assignment if you have the spoons

#ADHD #AFAB

#adhd #afab

Creo que algo que podría ayudar a vencer el racismo mexicano sería ayudar a los haitianos a abrir restaurantes

Estoy viendo sus recetas y básicamente están cómo

UN HABANERO DOS HABANEROS TRES HABANEROS JA JA JA

botsin.space PSA

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spent some time today working on this diagram of how the ASCII control characters work in unix

there are a lot of mistakes/missing nuance but I think it's really interesting how little structure there is. Special codes (like `3` for SIGINT) that are handled by the OS are mixed with just regular keypresses (like `13` for "enter”) which are mixed with codes that are handled by the application (like `1` for Ctrl-A in readline)

(not looking for an ASCII history lesson right now)

color coded table of ASCII control codes
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@Friendica Support Warum wird mein Blog [Gerhards Gedankenbuch](https://squeet.me/u/gerhardsgedankenbuc] in den Suchen (Google, Searx usw.) nicht gefunden?
@Friendica Support

Dneska jsme dali Bibury. Krasně bylo, hafiny si daly PupCup zmrzlinu a užily si to.
in reply to Archos

Ivan Stloukal
Ivan Stloukal
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@archos půjčíme jí místo Vicka Snowy a kdyby jí chyběly děti, máme v rezervě dvě. A vína a ginu máme plný bar 😀
@Archos

#Catima 2.32.1 is out!

This fixes a regression in 2.32.0 which could break text display in the add dialog in non-English languages which I sadly missed in review: github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

It also contains some translation updates that were submitted between the last release and just now.

Coming soon to an app store near you :)

#Android #IzzyOnDroid #GooglePlay #GitHub


Fix text wrapping on add dialog by TheLastProject · Pull Request #2142 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Before After
GitHub
#android #github #googleplay #catima #izzyondroid

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 10 updated & 1 removed apps:

SwiftNotes had to be removed again due to license/copyright reasons (a fork without giving credits), it's repo is meanwhile unavailable too.

Updated apps include Catima, fixing a regression introduced with yesterday's update (yupp, @SylvieLorxu is fast with fixing and really taking care! 😍).

All 7 #reproducibleBuilds succeeded as well!

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


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

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).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid @Sylvia

#portfolio old illustrations for Mexican characters, included a "tamales calientitos" vendor (many of them use tricycles, which are both their point of sale and their means of transportation).
#portfolio
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[Blog Post] Apple Introduces Redesigned Mac Mini, Updates iMac and Mac Accessories applevis.com/blog/apple-introd…

Apple Introduces Redesigned Mac Mini, Updates iMac and Mac Accessories | AppleVis

Apple this week updated several of its Mac product lines, as well as the Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad accessories. These Macs have been updated with variants of the M4 chip, the same chip that was introduced with the 2024 iPad Pro.
www.applevis.com

Be kind to your American friends this week. Being an American the week before a presidential election is a bit like being a dog during a fireworks show

Whats new in Fedora Workstation 41 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Whats new in Fedora Workstation 41 - Fedora Magazine

Fedora Workstation 41 is the latest release of one of the leading providers of free, open source software, The Fedora Project. Upgrade today!
Aoife Moloney (Fedora Project)

How to turn the new Mac mini on/off.

This is not a joke. I repeat, I’m not joking

A comic with four panels: 1. Mac mini standing on a desk 2. One hand pulls it 30° sideways 3. Second hand finds power button on the bottom of it 4. Official 3D model of Mac mini, view from the bottom, power button circled
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Democrats on #Twitter are shocked—shocked!—to discover that a mysterious cloak of invisibility has descended over their messages.

wapo.st/4fmNIvF

#twitter
in reply to James Gleick

victor tsaran
victor tsaran
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@simon Why do people even follow Elon? I tried for a few weeks a few years ago and figured he wasn't saying anything worth listening to...
@Simon Jaeger (Procrastodon)

At a GitHub workshop

me: *attempts to clone the workshop repo locally on a lab machine set up in the room*

HTTP clone: *auth errors*

`gh clone`: *timeout*

me: *creates an SSH key, installs it in the demo user account, tries to clone with GIT_TRACE=1 GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1*

SSH: *stops transferring after the first 1.5MB*

me, to facilitator: "should I be expecting a git clone op to work here?"

hubber: "why are you trying to clone locally? You can run CodeSpaces in your browser."

I just,,,

🤦‍♂️

in reply to Ben Zanin

Federico Mena Quintero
Federico Mena Quintero
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it *is* more or less possible to code remotely on a CI, but it's a monumental waste of time!

Personal computing forever.

in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

Ben Zanin
Ben Zanin
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@federicomena I agree! It is! I've done it! That's why I'm instinctively avoiding it!

*extremely Hack The Planet voice* PERSONAL COMPUTING FOREVER!!

@Federico Mena Quintero

XMPP 2.0 is finally here (modulo the spec release)!
in reply to Daniel Gultsch

wg0.xyz
wg0.xyz
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I think xmpp no longer meets the requirements of modern messengers. And no matter how you decorate it, nothing normal will come out of it. xmpp still doesn't have e2e encryption by default, tls is nailed to xmpp so it becomes problematic to use it in darknet networks where tls is not needed at all.

¿alguna vez les ha salido una ampolla en el paladar por tomar algo muy caliente?

Se siente bien raro

something_in_a_unit_test().unwrap();

^ Err type doesn't implement Debug so I can't call unwrap()

.map_err(|_| ()).unwrap();

I hate myself sometimes.

(That's the "toilet closure", BTW.)

Very upsetting that our barista had never heard of Tori Amos. We gave her a prescription of "Listen to 'Little Earthquakes' and call us in the morning."
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Rebecca Wallace
Rebecca Wallace
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@erion The slow build in that song is perfect.
@Erion
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Presidential Prediction

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@Jason Fayre

Taťkovi hodinky.
Teď budou odměřovat čas na mojí ruce....
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Jiří Pavlík
Jiří Pavlík
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@Kateřina Nemůžu si pomoct, ale "taťkovy hodinky" mi evokují jednu scénu z Pulp fiction.
@Kateřina
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LOL. Best design in the world.

M4 Mac Mini's Power Button Has New Bottom Location

(Narrator: it's underneath)

macrumors.com/2024/10/29/m4-ma…


M4 Mac Mini's Power Button Has New Bottom Location

The M4 Mac mini has an overhauled design that adds more ports in a slimmed down package, and to make everything fit, Apple needed a new place for the...
Juli Clover (MacRumors.com)

Je to tady 😋 #Fedora 41

mojefedora.cz/vysla-fedora-41/


Vyšla Fedora 41! | MojeFedora.cz

mojefedora.cz
#fedora

I just released a Windows MIDI driver version of Timidity. datajake.braillescreen.net/uti…
As with the VSTi, it requires a set of Gravis Ultrasound patches in order to work. Once installed, a Timidity Configuration option will be in the Control Panel, and from there you can point the driver at the appropriate Timidity configuration file.

It's official - Matrix 2.0 implementations are here and ready for mainstream use! 🎉🥳🎊 Come watch the keynote from The Matrix Conference and learn about the joy of instant sync ⚡️, next-gen auth 🔐, native VoIP 🎦 and Invisible Crypto 👻: matrix.org/blog/2024/10/29/mat…

Matrix 2.0 Is Here!

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Matthew Hodgson (matrix.org)
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Midgard
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If a friend loses her device again without having recovery, she has to abandon her account. Better to be upfront about this than to leave her in confusion as to why she's "banned", so a client should say:

> You've successfully signed in. Before you can send and receive messages with this device, you need to validate it using another device or a recovery passphrase.
> If you lost all devices where you were signed in and do not have a recovery passphrase, you should create a new account.

Apple unveils a Mac mini with a much smaller design, M4 and M4 Pro options, two front-facing USB-C ports, up to 64GB of RAM, and more, shipping Nov. 8 for $599+ (Chris Welch/The Verge)

theverge.com/2024/10/29/242815…
techmeme.com/241029/p16#a24102…


Apple announces redesigned Mac Mini with M4 chip — and it’s so damn small

Apple’s new Mac Mini is unbelievably small, yet it packs more power than ever thanks to the included M4 processor.
Chris Welch (The Verge)

How to print from Linux using only the command line lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

How to print from Linux using only the command line

You may not need it often, but this trick comes in handy when you do.
Jack Wallen (ZDNET)

Kali Linux Phases Out Obsolete 32-bit Architecture linuxtoday.com/blog/kali-linux…

Kali Linux Phases Out Obsolete 32-bit Architecture | Linux Today

Kali Linux drops the i386 kernel and images, starting with the 2024.4 release. Users should shift to amd64 for ongoing support and updates.
LinuxToday

The risks of OpenAI's Whisper audio transcription model: baldurbjarnason.com/2024/opena…

The risks of OpenAI's Whisper audio transcription model

This weekend a story from ABC News on issues with audio transcription machine learning models did the rounds. “Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said”
www.baldurbjarnason.com

The wait is over, videos from The Matrix Conference 2024 are here!

Find recordings, photos, press, and our sponsor prospectus for 2025 in the latest blog post: matrix.org/blog/2024/10/29/mat…

#MatrixConf #Matrix #OpenSource #FOSS


The wait is over, videos from The Matrix Conference 2024 are here!

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Josh Simmons (matrix.org)
#foss #matrix #opensource #matrixconf

Billionaire who pay no tax want to buy a business that is solely based on tax dollar paid contracts.

So much for trickle down economy.

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