This year was all about preservation for the Internet Archive. This year, libraries have faced unprecedented attacks both from large corporations and malicious actors.

Despite these challenges, the Internet Archive is more committed than ever to fighting for access to public information for all those who seek it.

If you’re a fan, help provide Universal Access to All Knowledge:
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tales from the front

#unix_surrealism #mata #comic #foss

I don't know if y'all can access this story, but @404mediaco has a piece that I helped with. It is:

"AI Comes for a Centuries-Old Craft" and the proliferation of #AIslop beginner books. Preying on beginners who don't know what's real or not is loathsome, and underway.

#BobbinLace #NeedleLace #tatting #lacemaking

404media.co/email/623759d6-610…

AI Comes for a Centuries-Old Craft

AI infiltrates the lace-making community.

^{Samantha Cole (404 Media)}

Naughty or nice? No one needs to know - not now, not next year.

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#CatsOfMastodon owners:

For the cover of my next book, I would like to illustrate software compartmentalisation with a montage of cats in boxes. I probably need at least 16 pictures of cats in boxes, ideally views from directly above. If you have such pictures that you took or otherwise own the rights to and you would be happy for me to use them, please can you post them in this thread along with how you’d like to be attributed? No ‘AI’ pictures please.

Thank you in advance!

Edit: I've added a very rough cut of what I actually want.

Edit 2: Slightly better version. I'm mostly happy with this one. Not as good a professionally designed one, but the correct number of cats.

• Absolutely (75%, 3 votes)
• Nah, not really (25%, 1 vote)
• What does any of this mean? (0%, 0 votes)
• I just want to see the results (0%, 0 votes)

if you're interested in actually overthrowing Big Android (rather than living off Googles scraps) be sure to come by the #LinuxMobile assembly this congress. There's a revolution brewing :3

linmob.net/38c3/

#38c3 #MobileLinux #ccc #postmarketOS

Hey 38c3, have you heard of the Linux Mobile Revolution?

LINMOB.net is a blog about LINux on MOBile devices. With the PinePhone (Pro) and Librem 5 shipping it is back to report on GNU+Linux on mobile devices.

^{LINux on MOBile}

We would like to ask you again to test yourself every day for Covid before you come to the CCH. We also encourage you to wear masks - #CovidIsNotOver and other nasty things also go around.

Masks will be available at the entrance of the venue. #38C3

Did you know, there are many completely free sample libraries out there these days, some could help you end up in writing for your next film or TV show, genuinely?

I wrote this piece of music for my podcast using purely *free* libraries and nothing else.

#InspiredBySound - Musical Breakdown - #StroongeCast Podcast Music: youtu.be/Ra7prQ6d9Pw

#InspiredBySound - Musical Breakdown - StroongeCast Podcast Music

This piece of music is for the podcast 'StroongeCast' I co-created with my wife Kirsten. Every podcast needs a musical intro (or at least I believe so) and t...

^YouTube

@RaccoonForFriendica do you want to try the new "Card" layout for posts? All you have to do is downloading version 0.4.0-beta02 and try it out! Using Compose Multiplatform, customizing UI is as easy as eating a piece of cake.

This version also contains a fix for the search text field which was not scrollable horizontally when its content exceeded the available width, plus some localization updates.

We're reaching towards the 0.4.0 milestone, just another feature (audio playback) and then it'll be ready to go!

#livefasteatrash #procyonproject #raccoonforfriendica #fediverseapp #friendica #friendicadev #mobileapp #mobiledev #kotlin #kmp #compose #opensource #foss #sideproject

When I spent a year with the DotPad and now 6 months and going with the Monarch, besides the fact that the Monarch is the only Multi Line Tactile display still available in Australia, here are some of my advantage points for the Monarch over the DotPad.

Can be used as a stand alone device,
20 hours battery life,
On/off, USBC, USBA, HDMI, 3.5MM ear phone jack, and volume up/down buttons,
Users used to the Braille Note, Brailliant, and Mantis will pick up same concepts used on the Monarch (its KeySoft),
Plug in a QWERTY keyboard and/or portable HDMI display,
Braille input keyboard,
10 line by 32 cell tactile display,

Removable metal template to replace membrane over the pins,

Speech output,
Navigation and Zoom keys, Point and click to move cursor or Zoom tactile graphics,
Button to refresh tactile array at any time,
Tactile horizontal and vertical scroll bars to let user know where they can scroll,
Easily jump around tactile graphic with keyboard short cuts,

increase line spacing when reading Braille,
Easy to identify cursor in menus, and place focussed line that contains cursor to the top of the display,
Access various file formats,
Various applications including web Browser (beta), email (beta), Tactile Library (APH), Maths graphing calculator, Word Processer, Braille Editor, Book Reader (victor Reader),
2025 WingIT app for iOS drawing, and Terminal screen reader support.

Una curiosidad que he aprendido estas fiestas, por contradicción:

No existe obligación legal de que las bebidas espirituosas vengan con tapón irrelenable. Así se deduce, contrario sensu, del artículo 10 del RD 164/2014, de 14 de marzo: boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A…

dnes to bolo easy

#Rogule 2024-12-26
🧝 5xp ⛩ 172 👣
streak: 1
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Rogule

A dungeon a day keeps the Balrog away.

^Rogule

„Demokracia nie je divácky šport, že sa naň môžeme pozerať a nezapájať sa. To, že sa občania angažujú, vyjadrujú, je prejavom slobody, občianskej uvedomelosti.“

~ #ZuzanaČaputová

🔒dennikn.sk/4375221/zuzana-capu…

Zuzana Čaputová: Dávame to. S chybami, s ťažkosťami, ale dávame

Zuzana Čaputová strávila posledné tri mesiace na Stanfordovej univerzite v Spojených štátoch. Hneď po návrate prišla na diskusiu so šéfredaktorom českého týždenníka Respekt Erikom Taberym.

^{Matúš Kostolný (Denník N)}

Gajim’s port to GTK4 is almost finished. 🥁 Currently we’re testing thoroughly to make the switch as smooth as possible.

We went ahead and made lots of small improvements, e.g. writing messages while offline, better styling for image previews, improved chat filters and more.

Gajim also improved its spam fighting toolkit: The next release will allow you to moderate all messages of a spammer at once. 🤖

If you like to support Gajim, please consider making a donation: liberapay.com/Gajim

Gajim's profile - Liberapay

Gajim is a fully-featured XMPP client.

^Liberapay

⚠️ 🚨 It’s time to stop using Blabber.im 🚨⚠️

The abandoned fork of #Conversations_im has a critical security issue: attackers can bypass STARTTLS negotiation, resulting in an unencrypted connection to a fake server. This vulnerability is similar to the STARTLS attack discovered in various email clients¹

✅ Fixed in Conversations 2.13.1 (Feb 2024)

📢 Please migrate to Conversations immediately! It's free on Google Play until the end of the year and always free on #fdroid

¹: archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedu…

FOSDEM 2024 - [Protocols] Security of STARTTLS in the E-Mail Context

^{archive.fosdem.org}