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Found this Windows virtual display driver which basically acts like the software equivalent of a dummy plug. This solves a very specific problem for me: If I close my laptop lid and try to take screenshots or share my screen, they show up in 480p because Windows apparently defaults to that when no display is connected. This also makes websites render in their mobile layout unless I zoom the page in.
The driver goes all the way up to 4k resolution and can actually emulate multiple monitors if you need that for some reason, but I found 4k lagged my poor five-year-old laptop noticeably, so I'm using 1080p now. This also would have been really useful in the days when screen readers didn't have screen curtain, but now they do. When looking through the assets, make sure you download the setup instead of the driver, unless you want to manually configure it. github.com/VirtualDisplay/Virt…

Releases · VirtualDisplay/Virtual-Display-Driver

Add virtual monitors to your windows 10/11 device! Works with VR, OBS, Sunshine, and/or any desktop sharing software. - VirtualDisplay/Virtual-Display-Driver
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Weis jemand was mit anonsys.net los ist


Hallo Zusammen, weiß jemand von Euch was mit dem Friendica Server auf anonsys.net los ist? Ich kann die Seite nicht mehr aufrufen, bekomme nur noch einen 404er Fehler.

Leider weiß ich nicht wie ich @Tuxi ⁂ der den Server betreibt erreichen kann, deshalb frage ich einfach mal in die Runde.

#Frage #Fediverse #Friendica #anonsys.net #404er #2025-01-19 @Friendica Support @Friendica Admins @askFedi_de group

#friendica #fediverse #Frage #anonsys.net #2025-01-19 #404er @Tuxi ⁂ @Friendica Support @Friendica Admins @askFedi_de group

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A new BT Speak update is scheduled for release this week. Join us for a live webinar this coming Wednesday, January 22 at 8:00 PM Eastern time to learn
about the new features. This webinar will be hosted by Robert Carter, David Woodbridge and Alllison Melloy, hosts of the Tech Doctors podcast. You’ll hear
from Deane Blazie, as well as Bryan, Stephen and Chris Blazie, along with Steve Clower and David Goldfield. Learn about the update, meet the Blazie family
and ask questions about the BT Speak. This webinar will also be available as a podcast from the Tech Doctors.
We’re looking forward to seeing you this Wednesday, January 22 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time. Here’s the Zoom link to join us.
us02web.zoom.us/j/83910762102?…
DG
#BTSpeak

Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems.
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Another great @sustainoss #Podcast this time with @brian on Approachable Open Source podcast.sustainoss.org/262

Lots of nuggets for #OpenSource maintenance. Thanks @richlitt & @abbycabs

Worth checking out Brian's book too:
approachableopensource.com/

#FOSS #SustainOSS #FOSS


Approachable Open Source

A new book by Brian Muenzenmeyer, available paperback or digital
approachableopensource.com
#foss #opensource #podcast #sustainoss @Richard Littauer @Brian Muenzenmeyer @Abby Cabunoc Mayes @SustainOSS

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La Cina ha intenzione di far saltare in aria Starlink in caso di guerra a Taiwan?
#PoliticalNotes

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La Cina ha intenzione di far saltare in aria Starlink in caso di guerra a Taiwan?

ilGlobale - Quotidiano di informazione economica, politica e tecnologica
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#politicalnotes @Politica interna, europea e internazionale

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Nearly 400 New Brunswick residents suffer from what the province calls a “neurological syndrome of unknown cause...

Unknown cause? Nerve pain/damage, numbness, and necrotizing gingivitis, etc. are all KNOWN #COVID19 complications.

ctvnews.ca/atlantic/new-brunsw… #healthcanada #publichealthcanada


'Good first step': N.B. mystery brain disease patients welcome new investigation

The New Brunswick government has reopened an investigation into a mystery brain disease that seems to mostly affect people living in the Acadian Peninsula and Moncton areas.
The Canadian Press (CTVNews)
#COVID19 #healthcanada #publichealthcanada

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The #Swift team at Apple is hiring Windows engineers!

We have a number of roles focused on improving the experience of using the Swift language and tools on Microsoft (and other) platforms. These roles would be based in our City of London office, with two days remote.

Openings for Compiler and Runtime:
jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/2…

Debugging:
jobs.apple.com/en-gb/details/2…

Standard/Core Libraries:
jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/2…


Swift Debugger/Compiler Engineer (Windows) - Jobs at Apple (UK)

Apply for a Swift Debugger/Compiler Engineer (Windows) job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.
Apple Jobs
#swift

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Freu mich, mich mit Euch zu KI in der Gemeinde auszutauschen! #gottdigital

📢 GOTTDIGITAL Online-Konferenz 2025 für die christliche Community, mit 24 Sessions rund um das Thema „Tools & Transformation“, präsentiert von 29 Speakern!

⏰ Wann: Samstag, 15. Februar 2025, 10.00 - 19.00 Uhr

👥 Ganztags kannst du dich in unserem GOTTDIGITAL Café mit Gleichgesinnten treffen und die digitalen Messe-Ständen unserer Konferenz-Partner besuchen.

🗓️ Session-Plan und Anmeldung:
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Alle Speaker der Konferenz

Konferenz 2025 - Tagesablauf - GOTTDIGITAL

GOTTDIGITAL Konferenz am 15.02.2025 von 10 Uhr bis 19 UhrOnline per Zoom und Hyhyve Tagesablauf
GottDigital
#gottdigital

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🌟 OSCLOUD: Od malého projektu k velké Open-source komunitě! 🌟

Začali jsme jako malý projekt na podporu Open-source aplikací, dnes máme:
✅ Dva Mastodon servery
✅ PixelFed s 1000+ uživateli
✅ PeerTube VHSKY pro videa
...a další!
💻 A teď s radostí představujeme nový web 👉 web.oscloud.cz/
Za jeho podobou stojí @cynik_obecny – díky za skvělou práci! 🙌
Připojte se a objevte svět Open-source – svoboda, soukromí a bezpečnost u nás vždy na prvním místě!

#OpenSource #Mastodon #PixelFed

My website

web.oscloud.cz
#opensource #Mastodon #pixelfed @Ivan Stloukal

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„Ви македонци употреблявате много турцизама, а ми срби йок.“ Не мога 😄 -> По повод на речник на турцизмите в българския език за турци (2016) на М. Тюркер Аджароглу. Стаменов, Звънчарова, Институт за български език, БАН. ibl.bas.bg/izvestiya/wp...

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And another recommendation while I'm here, this one for basically every platform, I kept hearing @joplinapp brought up in discussionss of best note taking apps, and I finally sat down to try it out after they advertised accessibility improvements in the latest update and yeah I'm loving it so far. Everything has hotkeys, the controls read very well including the quick search/command palette, you have a markdown preview right next to the note you're working on, it has a spell checker, you can attach files to your notes, and everything syncs encrypted to any device using pretty much whatever you want, it supports everything from syncing through a local directory on your filesystem which is only on the desktop version, to dropbox/onedrive/webdav or their own cloud solution. It's an app with a simple and very accessible interface with a lot of features
@Joplin

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Michał Dziwisz

That's right! Finally a good working notes app for Windows and iOS at the same time. From myself, I'll add that the browser plug-in that allows you to save the content of articles for later also works great, from my tests it does very well with pulling up entire articles, and if that wasn't enough for someone, they can always save the entire page as markdown or HTML.

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Ever since iStatMenus 7 came out and completely broke VoiceOver accessibility I was looking for a replacement Mac resource monitor which could quickly show me IE what app is currently eating up the CPU or ram without bringing up the activity monitor, and I think I found one that's not only better because it shows you more info, but also free and open-source. It's simply called Stats, and in the most recent version the developer has given the different menu icons clear VoiceOver labels. The only thing it doesn't currently have is the option to quickly open the different modules with hotkeys, and the menu icons only read their name and not displayed values so you need to open a module to read it, but both of these are in the works. github.com/exelban/stats

GitHub - exelban/stats: macOS system monitor in your menu bar

macOS system monitor in your menu bar. Contribute to exelban/stats development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Sea Cucumbers Poop and Breathe Through a Cloaca. Wouldn't that make farting a bit tricky?
They can also eject their internal organs to scare off predators: animals.howstuffworks.com/mari…

The Sea Cucumber Eats, Poops and Breathes Through a Cloaca

The soft, cylindrical sea cucumber looks like a vegetable — and in some countries, it's a delicacy because of its nutritional value and health benefits.
Ada Tseng (HowStuffWorks)

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Chrome, as of 132, finally has keyboard support for scrolling containers:
adrianroselli.com/2022/06/keyb…

This assumes it doesn’t get rolled back again, as it has every other time it was deployed since 2018.

Silence from Safari.

#accessibility #a11y


Keyboard-Only Scrolling Areas

I have spent a few years banging on about ensuring scrolling areas on a page are accessible to keyboard-only users.
Adrian Roselli
#a11y #Accessibility

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News for Copilot haters / AI haters in general: The Copilot "offer" UI that was added to Github last month can now be disabled. If you go to Settings->Copilot there is now a new "Visibility" setting available to non-Copilot users, in my testing setting it to "disable" removes the Copilot box in the top toolbar and the (fake— clicking it just takes you to a signup page) Copilot "search box" on the front page.
The Github settings, showing the Github Copilot section and a "Visibility->Show Copilot" setting that can be enabled or disabled

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no ja by som sa začínal cítiť divne :kekw: a hovorí to Heretik, to by som sa už asi aj zakopal..

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Psychológovia a psychiatri žiadajú v otvorenom liste odstúpenie Roberta Fica

Vyše stovka profesionálov z oblasti psychológie a psychiatrie poslala premiérovi Robertovi Ficovi otvorený list, v ktorom upozorňujú na jeho správanie
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Welcome to the RB family, MBCompass 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.m…

MBCompass is a simple, reliable compass app with a sleek design and accurate navigation.

Thanks to Mubarak Basha, its developer, for making this possible! :awesome:

This brings us to a new milestone: also welcome the "3rd egg" 🐣

RB status: 410 apps (33.3%)

Meaning: each 3rd app, 1 out of 3, at IzzyOnDroid is now covered by RB 🥳

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid


„MBCompass“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Simple and efficient compass
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@leo this is what proves that the APK was indeed built from the very same source it claims. Cross-updates are possible when the same signing key was used in those places – which implies that the app must be set up for RB at F-Droid as well, as otherwise F-Droid uses a key they generated (and then, cross-updates are not possible).

Signing ensures that updates are only accepted when the same key was used, where only the owner knows the credentials for.

@Leo
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@leo It's not cross-signing; those entries with identical signatures are signed by the same key (here, the one of the NewPipe team & signed by them, so same APK).

For NewPipe, I'd recommend installing it from their repo, for faster updates (YT breaks its own stuff frequently, in effect breaking the app; their own repo is where the adjusted APK will show up first; F-Droid's repo usually takes 2..5 days longer; IzzyOnDroid just a few hours, so that would be fine as well, depending on your needs).

@Leo

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A comment in an article about prototyping in Rust [1] led me to this ~11 year old article by a programmer who decided to use Java for all non-throwaway programming: teamten.com/lawrence/writings/…

I think java isn't as dominant now as it was when that article was written, but the article's arguments for prioritizing programming in the large resonate with me. But I want my default language to be Rust, because of its added guardrails for safety and correctness.

[1]: lobste.rs/s/atglkw/prototyping…


Prototyping in Rust

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Matt Campbell

And by the early 2010s, when I was in my early 30s, the future was supposedly going to be all about native mobile and/or client-heavy web apps, where small size and closeness to the platform are important. For a while I did iOS (and Mac) apps in Lua, using a two-way Lua/ObjC bridge called Wax. But at some point I decided I needed to make the jump to static languages. I wasn't going to become limited as a generalist developer because I was too wedded to Python or dynamic languages in general.
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Matt Campbell

My first major project developed under this new mindset was a client-side web app I did in the first half of 2013. I wrote it in JavaScript, but I used the Google Closure Compiler in advanced mode, with type annotations (in doc comments, ugh), all the optimizations that compiler could do, and the Closure Library. Aside from that library, I ported one third-party dependency to Closure-flavored JS and wrote the rest myself. The final bundle size was ~250K uncompressed. I considered this a triumph.
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Matt Campbell

One of my projects in the latter half of 2013 was an Android app written directly in Java, and by late 2014, I was looking at various ways to write cross-platform code in one language and compile it to native code on iOS and JVM/Dalvik bytecode on Android. The top two contenders for me were J2ObjC, another Google internal tool that they had open-sourced, and an obscure proprietary compiler called RemObjects Elements. Remember, I wanted to optimize for small size and closeness to the platform.
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Matt Campbell

In 2015, the biggest project that I shipped that year was a desktop app (some of my blind followers can probably guess which one). I wanted it to have as native a UI as possible, only using web views for document content. As I was trying to choose the best tool for the job and not just the most comfortable one, I was going to use the SWT GUI toolkit for Java, which had good accessibility on both Windows and macOS. I was determined to have a no-compromise UX while sharing code across platforms.
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Matt Campbell

So I figured I'd write the whole app in Java, using a lightweight third-party JVM implementation called Avian, that could even compile JVM bytecode ahead of time to a stand-alone executable. I was finally going to have it all, even in a desktop app: native-feeling UI, small size, and instant startup time, across platforms. Yes, I'd have to write in painfully verbose Java, but it would be so worth it. That was the plan, anyway.
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Matt Campbell

But I couldn't make myself push through it. The first sign of trouble was when I found myself having to either adapt an existing JNI binding for the libcurl HTTP client, or write my own (I don't remember which), so I could have an HTTP client while keeping executable size down. And I knew I was going to have to write bindings for more native stuff. I had already done plenty of that for Lua in 2007-08, and I didn't want to do more JNI glue code. I missed good old Python and ctypes.
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Matt Campbell

So I basically restarted the project, in Python. It felt good to be using Twisted, requests, and other familiar Python libraries again, not to mention my own existing Python code. But I was determined to still use SWT for the UI. So this app was a mongrel; I embedded the Avian JVM via a Python package called pyjnius, and used that just to bring in SWT. Yes, it was a mess. But I managed to deliver the native-feeling UI across Windows and Mac, with minimal platform-specific code.
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Matt Campbell

But that project felt to me like a shameful retreat from the full set of goals I had set for it, goals that, in retrospect, I realize didn't really matter to anyone else, not just users, but the others at my company. Still, I felt that my plan B using Python was a capitulation to the requirement to unblock my productivity and get the thing out quickly. I don't think I stopped to reconsider the priorities that had led me to try doing the whole thing in Java.
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Matt Campbell

Like I said, I hadn't really reconsidered my priorities or pondered what lessons to take from the failure of my original approach to that project. For my big 2016 project, a consumer app spanning desktop, mobile, TV set-top boxes (initially the newly accessible Apple TV), and, we assumed, eventually a client-side web version for Chromebooks, I was going to double down on runtime efficiency (especially small size), closeness to the platforms, and no-compromise native UI.
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Matt Campbell

So I decided to write the cross-platform non-UI code in Java. That would be native to Android, for the Apple platforms I'd use J2ObjC, for Windows I'd use IKVM.NET (a JVM implementation on top of .NET), for the eventual web port (which never happened), I was planning to use Google Web Toolkit or maybe Google's new j2cl if it was ready in time. For the UI, I would use the native language and toolkit of each platform, or maybe SWT again on Windows and Mac.
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Matt Campbell

What I actually did for the UI was reuse a bunch of code from the previous platform-specific versions of this app that I was trying to unify. The previous Android version was pure Java (that was the late 2013 project from earlier in the thread). The rest was compromises on my pure vision: Lua and wax for the iOS, Mac, and Apple TV versions (see earlier), and for Windows, a mongrel of .NET and Windows Forms (I had started on that in 2014) plus some of the Lua code from 2007-08.
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Matt Campbell

I did actually get to reuse some non-UI code across platforms, including the audio player and some code for managing downloaded content and synchronizing the user's playback position with the server. But another compromise, the big one, was this: the Ui was a hybrid between native and server-rendered web views. There was just no other way I was going to ship the damn thing. And a few features remained exclusive to the Windows version (the original).

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I love open source, and I want young people to know there’s a career path outside of #FAANG. Open source can be financially sustainable—it just gets super hard if one of your key goals is making your investors even richer. #Conversations_im is about the same age as #Matrix. I never took VC funding, and I’m doing fine.

#OpenSource

#matrix #opensource #conversations_im #faang

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WordPress Credit Card Skimmers Evade Detection by Injecting Themselves into Database Tables

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a new stealthy credit card skimmer campaign that targets #WordPress e-commerce checkout pages by inserting malicious JavaScript code into a database table associated with the content management system (CMS).

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WordPress Skimmers Evade Detection by Injecting Themselves into Database Tables

Malicious JavaScript in WordPress checkout pages steals payment data, hides in wp_options, and exfiltrates encrypted details.
The Hacker News
#wordpress

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"I am still and anchored to the earth, calm. Motionless. But as soon as the right wind comes, I will soar and be everywhere, light, happy and free."

#photography #photo #picture #pic #flowers #plants #sunset #autumn #SilentSunday

The photo captures a dandelion, a delicate plant that many consider a weed, with lightweight and fluffy seeds ready to be carried by the wind. It's in the foreground, with every slender filament of its spherical head gleaming in the sunset light. Each seed appears suspended, as if waiting for the right moment to take flight. In the background, the golden light of the sunset filters through the trees, casting soft shadows and creating an ethereal atmosphere. The entire landscape is bathed in warm orange light, with shades of pink and purple blending in the sky. You can almost sense the cool evening breeze and the subdued sound of nature preparing for the night. This image evokes a sense of tranquility, fleeting moments, and the beauty of nature in its purest and simplest form.
#photo #photography #autumn #sunset #SilentSunday #plants #flowers #pic #picture

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