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And this is how it basically sounds outside, recorded from my window sill. Sorry for the crappy alt text, but that's it basically. Recorded with a Gogle Pixel 9 Pro and the default recorder app.
Stars of Sci-Fi and Fantasy we sadly leave behind in 2024.
Gary Graham (Alien Nation/ Star Trek: Enterprise) James Darren (The Time Tunnel/Star Trek: DS9) William Russell (Doctor Who) James Earl Jones (The UFO Incident/Star Wars) Michael Jayston (Doctor Who.) David Graham (Doctor Who/Thunderbirds) Kenneth Cope (Randall & Hopkirk Deceased) Ron Ely (Tarzan.)
A photo of part of a tower computer featuring a headphone jack, a knurled dial switch, and a 5-1/4" floppy disk drive. A large sticker on the computer proclaims: "REMEMBER Turn your computer off before midnight on 12/31/99 - BestBuy"
I started a new job not long after Y2K. A friend of mine was already working there. New Years Eve, 1999 the whole IT team was required to work, "just in case". They were all gathered right outside the server room watching the ball drop. Midnight approached, and they started their countdown. 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... and at the stroke of midnight, my friend turned off the overhead lights. There were people that were still angry with him for it when I joined the team months later.
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).
Oops… make that 10 updated, had to roll back Dhaaga as somehow a load of proprietary and tracking libraries (including the "usual suspects") had been dragged in with that. Upstream is informed and will hopefully have this fixed – next year 😉
Stay safe everyone, and have a safe & healthy 2025!
Writing #2019 in a toot does not result in a hashtag being created, although some clients render it like it was (don't get fooled when trying). From a federalized ActivityPub instance that can crea...
This initiative promotes innovation based on freedom of software, hardware, and data.
With its recent conclusion, the FSFE hopes to inspire broader use and effective application of #freesoftware by business, academia, and the public sector.
The ZOOOM (3Os) Initiative promotes innovation based on freedom of software, hardware, and data. With its recent conclusion, the FSFE hopes to inspire broa...
As 2024 comes to an end, it’s time to reflect on what we’ve built together during the first full year of life for BSD Cafe. Launched on 20 July 2023, this project has grown far beyond what I could have imagined. While I haven’t tracked full uptime data, I can confidently say that the downtime was less than 30 minutes overall - even though the main VM hosting our services moved multiple times (including a switch from a Proxmox hypervisor to bhyve on FreeBSD, for the sake of alignment with our mission). In a world filled with over-engineered HA systems, we’ve outperformed many “big-name” cloud providers. Not bad for a community project, right?
For me, this has been an incredible journey. The users here are not just participants - they’re collaborators, and their positivity has been inspiring. The content shared and created at BSD Cafe has been valuable not only to the BSD community but beyond. What truly sets BSD Cafe apart is the openness for dialogue and exchange. Whether it’s social media posts, Matrix discussions, repositories in our brew, or RSS feeds, people seem to genuinely appreciate what we create and the conversations we foster.
BSD Cafe is a journey - one that grows, evolves, and continues. Our goal isn’t endless growth (we’re a community, not a business) but rather to maintain a welcoming, inclusive space where everyone feels a sense of positivity and belonging. For me, opening any service with “bsd.cafe” in the domain brings joy and pride. That’s the spirit I’ve tried to convey, and I hope it resonates with all of you, whether you’re active BSD Cafe users or friends of the community.
Promoting self-hosting and #OwnYourData has, as a side effect, inspired some users to “go solo” with their own setups. But even then, they remain part of BSD Cafe - in spirit, in purpose, and in connection.
Here’s a look at what we’ve achieved together this year:
- mastodon.bsd.cafe: 370 total users Active in the past month: 207 Active in the past six months: 286 - snac.bsd.cafe: 14 total users Active in the past month: 7 - blendit.bsd.cafe: 61 registered users - matrix.bsd.cafe: 23 users - brew.bsd.cafe: 29 users - 80 repositories - freshrss.bsd.cafe: 25 users - miniflux.bsd.cafe: 11 users - press.bsd.cafe: 9 users - myip.bsd.cafe: Constantly used by various users - wiki.bsd.cafe: Could use a bit more love and content, but it fulfills its role as a functional homepage. - tube.bsd.cafe: Still in testing - Peertube 7.0 update is on the way.
For detailed stats from our reverse proxy and general router (excluding media services, which generate most traffic but are handled via caching reverse proxies), you can check here - updated hourly: netstats.bsd.cafe
The journey of BSD Cafe continues, and I look forward to seeing where 2025 will take us. Together, we’ve built something special - something driven by passion, shared purpose, and a little bit of the BSD magic that makes all of this possible.
Here’s to a new year full of joy, serenity, and connection. Thank you for being part of this adventure.
Wishing you all a fantastic 2025 - and THANK YOU! Stefano
Veo que esta caricatura se ha hecho viral. No puedo decirles de cuándo es ni quién ha hecho la adaptación, pero sí puedo decirles de quién es: del caricaturista brasileño Glauco Villas-Boas (1957-2010)
and now, the only song I know that contains the words New Year's Even in it's title. THis wonderful little jazz number as done by Nancy Willson. Description: the song What are you doing new years eve, done in a traditional jazz swing style in c sharp major modulating to d, near the end. youtube.com/watch?v=i2w2Q-fVwL…
This is one of my favorite songs to end the year with. My parents used to have an 8-track of The Osmonds singing it! This is the better version by Nancy Wils...
@DavidGoldfield which is why I said that. Somehow I'm not surprised by this. Call it intuition. I've got a bit of that sometimes. it's not always reliable, but when it works, it's like, oh wow.
Provided to YouTube by Arista/LegacyA Very Strange Medley (V.S.M.) (Live at the Uris Theatre, New York, NY, 1977) · Barry ManilowLive (Legacy Edition)℗ 1977 ...
@DavidGoldfield I actually first heard that on vynal when I was a kid. My grandmother had a Barry Manalo double concert album, and that was on it. I never knew what the actual name was cause I never had anyone look at the record, and honestly forgot about it until I found it again in a massive folder of unsorted wow that a friend gave me. It wasn't ripped very well but I knew it's name. Youtube did the rest.
We knew this day was coming, but it's still so very sad. What a gifted, exceptional broadcaster. BBC Radio 2 DJ Johnnie Walker dies at 79 bbc.com/news/articles/ce9051nl…
Many thanks for all your work on Debian ! Will you keep allowing un Debian 13 to install up to date mesa-vulkan-drivers in Debian backport? This is so nice in Debian 12 👍. Best wishes for 2025 🥰
Jak ukazuje přiložená mapa odhadu odchylky prům. teploty vzduchu od normálu 91-20 za období 1. až 30. 12. 2024, letošní prosinec bude měsícem teplotně nadprůměrným. Rok 2024 tak víceméně jistě výrazně překoná dosud nejteplejší rok 2023. Zároveň to téměř jistě bude první rok s prům. teplotou vzduchu na našem území nad 10 °C! Můj odhad je 10,3 °C, o 0,6 °C více než dosud nejteplejší 2023. Toto však nejsou oficiální a defintivní čísla. Na konečné hodnoty od ČHMÚ si ještě musíme pár dní počkat.
There are good things and bad things about the new generation of AI, but one of the most terrible is the ability to impersonate humans. Let's not do this.
Counterfeit people are more dangerous than counterfeit money. They are tools for disinformation and manipulation. They destroy trust.
I was at UUNET Canada, an ISP and had to work from 9-3am testing scripts after midnight. Spoiler: they all worked fine.
No pics of the night but found this one from my first day in 1997. I had to label each end of these ethernet cables between two banks of switches. #networking
I did... I was sysadmin for a software company in Paris. Had to shutdown servers, and run to my NYE party. Teammates on the next shift would turn them back on.
There are numerous incidents like this one where airplanes get into troubles allegedly because of the GPS jamming, again allegedly, by Russia.
I am not so deep into aircrafts, nor GPS or wide scale jamming (it's set of satellites if I'm not mistaken, right?)
So is there anyone to explain how this can be done?
affecting single aircraft
hundreds (800 by guesstimate Kaliningrad vs Viena) of kilometers in EU
how come the divert to Brno, which is really nearby could solve the problem
how come the commercial lines are reliant on just GPS? What about Galileo system? What about all those others "legacy" and/or ground systems for aircraft navigation?
A Ryanair Holdings Plc flight from Riga, Latvia, to Vienna was diverted to nearby Brno in the Czech Republic late Monday after two aborted landing attempts due to jammed GPS devices, according to Die Presse newspaper.
This is cute! This plant sure gives a lot lot of hugs, I wish I could grow like that, haha. Not new year yet, according to my 17 O'clock something clock time, but, I also appreciate the image descriptions, especially because it'll take 5 minutes to make sense of the images with one almost 100% blind eye, the other one is out of the picture. :) I wish the nice plant to grow and grow, and be even cuter! And to you, I wish you to have lots of fun, more stories to tell, and good luck! :)
GitHub has a problem with inauthentic "stars" used to artificially inflate the popularity of scam and malware distribution repositories to appear more popular, helping them reach more unsuspecting users.
Sometimes I have suggested that OSMAND is a quite useful tool, among other things to move cycling (as it is based in OpenStreetMap and besides being free it is much better than GMaps when cycling, walking, hiking, etc.). But i want to suggest two useful tools:
2) And sometimes i found useful to have maps like this showing only bicycle parkings characteristics (represented as 🔵 in the previous one): mapcomplete.org/bicycle_parkin… It is more intended to edit map (have you an OSM account you can help mapping them or uploading pictures) but I think it is also useful to be used. There are many other different thematic maps in @MapComplete
Another day I will also show and link how to have an offline CyclOSM-like style in OSMAnd.
Looks like there's an error in the OPML file. Don't hesitate to share the file on forum.antennapod.org for review (or send it to keunes or bytehamster there if you don't want to share it with everyone)
hopes to inspire broader use and effective application of #freesoftware by business, academia, and the public sector.
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