Age verification via face scans is not safety — it's surveillance. Biometric age guessing is inaccurate, discriminatory, and creepy AF. Stop normalizing it. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/face…
Government must stop restricting website access with laws requiring age verification.Some advocates of these censorship schemes argue we can nerd our way out of the many harms they cause to speech, equity, privacy, and infosec.
The first public release of Nitro adds another option to the world of init systems, offering a minimalist process supervisor for Linux environments. linuxiac.com/nitro-is-a-new-in…
New customs regulations take effect August 29, and many European postal agencies and companies say until new systems are set up they can't ship some goods. Gifts worth less than $100 are not affected. #news #NPRnpr.org/2025/08/23/nx-s1-55139…
Github interprets ../docs/CONTRIBUTE.md correctly when clicked from https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md, but does not if clicked on the repo landing page on https://git...
Po delsi dobe jsem zazil programatorsky crunch. Organizovali jsme event pro jednoho z nasich umelcu ... a samozrejme jsme, jako za mlada, delali vsecko na posledni chvili.
Ale dobra vec se podarila. Event probehl. Vsichni jsou nadseni. Pristup k albu pred vydanim ziskate tu:
I can't believe that I haven't encountered this HP Fanfic before today. It's very very good. I especially love the Quibbler articles. I don't think anyone has done this before.
The Power of the PressBy: Bobmin356
Forewarned Harry makes his escape from Britain, leaving the tournament in shambles. Protected by family, Harry sets about to fulfill his destiny free from the bigotry and manipulation of others.
You're right. I'd forgotten that I read those too. I quickly looked over the summaries and distinctly remember them. I'm surprised that I never read The Power of the Press.
#TIL iD - the #OpenStreetMap-editor on the main website - has a "tag this photo id onto the current object" for street level imagery such as @panoramax or #Mapillary
Das sieht immer so lecker aus, wenn du das hier postest... irgendwann muss ich das auch mal machen. (Aber vermutlich muss ichs dann wohl alleine essen 🙈)
also wenn Du mal in der Gegend bist, einfach melden, dann koch ich Dir das schon. In DE bekomme ich es meist auch hin, vor allem wenn es einen Edeka hat, aber hier geht besser, und bei Dir in der Gegend binich in absehbarer Zeit nicht, zumindest nicht geplant
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).
no worries at all! It's not just downloads, they are just the last nail. What was (and is) removed are apps which are unmaintained for quite a while and seem not high in demand – but there are more criteria to it. A niche app would stay even then – while an app with many proprietary components might go earlier. And as for TinyWeather: hey, I'm using it myself!
@Billie We introduced that on August 1st. In case you missed it, here's the full story: android.izzysoft.de/articles/n… (also in German – I sometimes forget which language to use where 🙈)
Ein halbes Jahr ist seit unserem letzten Blog-Post vergangen. Ihr fragt Euch vielleicht, was hier seitdem geschehen ist – und wir haben nicht auf der „faulen Haut“ gelegen! Freut Euch über mehr Reproducible Builds, Download-Statistiken und weitere sc…
Mně by třeba pomohlo, kdyby mi přestali blikat ledkovou obrazovkou do oken. Nestačí ten hluk z té rychlostní silnice, ještě si někdo nechá platit i za otravování očí. 😭 #VizualniSmog + #SvetelnySmog
Volby do Poslanecké sněmovny se blíží a s nimi i otázka, komu dát svůj hlas. Pro mnohé voliče není snadné se v nabídce stran a jejich programech vyznat.
I first noticed this difference a few months back when my driving instructor couldn't find the location that I sent him (because Google Maps doesn't show it at all). Only after I added "Fairway Walk" (see Google Screenshot for the name/location) as a named road to OSM, did it get added to Google Maps. There are still apartments missing from the Google Maps though.
From an urbanism perspective, it makes no sense that the streets Highton Woods, Woodlawn park are not connected to the park.
Also: why is there no connection for cyclists/pedestrians between Hightorn Park and Mounttown park? And to the park too? Would make the area so much more cyclist/pedestrian friendly
Wayback imagery is a digital archive of the World Imagery basemap, enabling users to access different versions of World Imagery captured over the years.
#JoyScrolling for fucking morale, because holy shit gang, Fridays!
Feltopia, the stop motion animation game!
Note: this trailer is over a year old; they were around for PAX West 2024 (see here: youtube.com/watch?v=5DeRK_68rm…), but I have no idea whether the game is available or not.
It doesn't get much more cute or fuzzy than this. Feltopia and its side-scrolling shooter action have one very unique twist - a lush and handmade stop-motion...
#JoyScrolling: If you are not familiar with Andrea Love's felted stop animation, I *highly* recommend her YT channel; she's self-taught, and so good, she's been hired to do ads like the one below, and she's been spotlighted by The Modern Met (here: youtube.com/watch?v=CMKxk0Xu52…)
I'm sure @fireborn will be very happy to know that last night I got Pipewire up and running on my Pi5 alongside Pulse (masked Pulse SystemD units for now.) And, just as his post stated, I had all the fun getting Espeakup to talk to me in the terminal afterwards. Switching from Pulse to Pipewire was quite seamless for most things, like Bluetooth. For that, just had to install libspa-0.2-bluetooth, and boom, A2DP and others worked. For the other problem, the fix was almost as detailed in his post: point the system espeakup at my user’s PipeWire socket by adding a drop-in unit. Not good for multiuser access, but I don't plan to use this pi in a shared space like that. It refuses to run if X/Wayland sockets exist, conflicts with graphical.target so it is stopped when LightDM/desktop comes up. Without this, "Screen reader on" would get cut off, so making the socket bind like this was my only choice, y'all. This works, but it’s a bit hacky since a system service is now tied to a specific user’s runtime dir. Ugh. espeakup has no flag to pick an ALSA device or a PipeWire endpoint; it just uses the system’s default, so keeping it as a system service that talks to the user’s PipeWire is the way to get console speech. You can Make a tiny wrapper that resolves your UID dynamically, which hardens it a bit.
for anyone who wants the /etc/systemd/system/espeakup.service.d/override.conf unit (updated, I had first pasted my version without X11, oi.): (with hardcoded UID): ``` [Unit]After=sound.target bluetooth.service user@1001.service pipewire.service wireplumber.service Requires=user@1001.service pipewire.service wireplumber.service Conflicts=graphical.target ConditionPathExists=!/tmp/.X11-unix/X0 ConditionPathExists=!/run/user/1001/wayland-0
[Service]Environment=XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1001 Environment=PIPEWIRE_REMOTE=pipewire-0 Restart=on-failure``` first started with another form of this. It doesn’t order itself after your user manager. If PipeWire isn’t ready yet, espeakup may fail once and then restart (since Restart=on-failure is set). It works, but a bit racy. I ran into this so changed it. ``` [Unit]# Wait for card discovery; need your user instance for PipeWire After=sound.target bluetooth.service user@1001.service Requires=user@1001.service
# Do not run during graphical sessions; stop if graphical starts Conflicts=graphical.target # Extra safety: if X11/Wayland sockets exist, don't start ConditionPathExists=!/tmp/.X11-unix/X0 ConditionPathExists=!/run/user/1001/wayland-0
[Service]# Point espeakup at your user's PipeWire Environment=XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1001 Environment=PIPEWIRE_REMOTE=pipewire-0
# optional: if it ever crashes, bring it back Restart=on-failure```
While we rightly celebrate our continuing shift across Europe to renewable energy, when that achievement is put into a global context, we might have pause to consider how large a challenge a global green transition (for energy) remains.... there is a (very) long way to go (and time is running out)
Getting rid of these white outlines around shortcuts was incredibly cumbersome. I tried 3 different things over the course of weeks but I finally have something that is ready to ship with 2.19.3.
Even Signal doesn't have this fixed yet. 🙈
BTW did you know about shortcuts? You can add quick access to certain chats either by long pressing on the Conversations launcher icon and dragging one of those items to the home screen or by long press on the home screen → Widgets → Conversations.
I did not know about the shortcuts in conversations. So probably would never have noticed 😅. But I fully agree that it looks better in the second screenshot 👍
Realmente TutaDrive ya que tenemos ya a Lumo AI que esta excelente, en cuanto a almacenamiento solo tenemos a "Internxt" que es el único con cifrado extremo a extremo.
will the drive be part of existing subscriptions, so you can use your mail storage allowance as a drive, or is it separate? will it be encrypted like filen?
will tutadrive sync with my linux/kubuntu system ? I'm using filen.io now as google drive nor proton drive sync with linux - also google drive isn't encrypted so yeah - and i use a self-hosted nextcloud instance which also syncs with my PC
criteria : e2e encryption, sync with linux
google : bad & bad proton : good & bad filen.io : good & good
nextcloud is self-hosted and can support e2e encryption - so that's just good I suppose - good & good & good ?
i am surprised there is even an audience that wants Ai begin with. Ai will never be privacy focused since the companies would have to train on our own email data to do so. Please, never implement Ai!!
Does anyone have experience with any of the recent RP2040 or RP2350-based boards that have DVI/HDMI output, a USB host port or ports, SD card slot, and audio? These boards are often used to run retro computer emulators. I'm particularly interested in the quality of the audio output, and whether anyone has been able to use that feature from Rust. Pinging @raph in particular, who wrote this HN comment: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Yes, I'm itching to do an embedded Rust project on bare metal. Even Linux is too complex for my tastes these days. I think the growing complexity of modern software, as epitomized by the generative AI craze, is making me want to run the other way.
Damn, the most promising-looking board (adafruit.com/product/6200) is out of stock. The Olimex RP2350pc (olimex.com/Products/RaspberryP…) is in stock, but it mentions PWM stereo audio generation, and my first Raspberry Pi project over 10 years ago taught me to hate the original Pi's PWM-based audio. Though that page _also_ mentions an audio codec, so I don't know if the PWM audio is all there is or just one of two options.
We were catching up on a recent hackaday hackchat with eben upton and learned some fun facts: such as the DVI hack for the RP2040 was inspired by a device called the IchigoJam. we ...
The RP2350pc appears to use the ES811 audio chip (everest-semi.com/pdf/ES8311%20…). The output of that chip feeds the headphone jack directly, while the speaker outputs go through a PAM8003DR (diodes.com/assets/Datasheets/P…) amplifier chip. That's a Class-D amplifier which is probably what they mean by PWM audio. Seems decent from the spec sheets, but I have no idea how it sounds in person.
@alexm I'm slightly more interested in audio out through HDMI, which means it's dependent on the DAC in your TV or monitor, and do have that working at a low level (see github.com/DusterTheFirst/pico…). But most of these kinds of boards have a pretty high quality DAC.
This is all hobby/weekend stuff for me, but I'm hoping to have a little more time as I wrap up the current transition.
When the "audio" feature is set, output a 60Hz triangle wave as HDMI data islands.
Debug stuff: interrupt pulses are sent to GPIO10. This should probably be removed or at least made confi...
I made the Neotron Pico, which is VGA and microATX. I think the audio is fine (sounded OK playing a ProTracker file to the audience at RustConf last year) and you can buy one at Elecrow. TLV320AIC23 codec with PIO I2S. All in Rust.
@neotron I don't think the Pico 3B is as stupid an idea as you said in the README. It would allow programmers of varying skill levels to play with an embedded Rust software stack that can be customized and optimized from top to bottom, on a computer in a familiar SBC form factor with lots of connections for different kinds of applications. I'd be willing to help fund the prototyping of the board. I don't have the skills to make it myself.
@teotwaki Yes, if you're outputting digital audio it goes to the display. To me, this seems more authentic to the original console, and also potentially lets the microcontroller board be smaller and cheaper (as is the Waveshare board; see github.com/DusterTheFirst/pico…). But it's a tradeoff and in some cases having a headphone jack on the microcontroller board is better.
Sure, then both the Fruit Jam (hopefully widely available soon) and the Olimex board should work great.
Also note, I think the Olimex board DAC is mono, even though it has a stereo headphone jack.
I'm not sure if there's existing Rust code to drive the audio, but it should be fairly simple, my understanding it it's basic SPI. The rp-rs Matrix is probably the best place to ask.
a business model deliberately designed to extract value from labour while avoiding the obligations that normally protect and pay workers, in order to "maximise shareholder value". The capitalists wet dream. FInancialising human effort so it can be treated like a raw material, traded and optimised for returns.
If society leaves it to “the market,” these people will keep doing it, because the system rewards them. If society changes the rules of the game - through law, governance, and culture - then the people pushing these models either adapt or lose their licence to operate.
Ve zkratce: pod vedením Dánska mnoho členských států EU prosazuje, aby služby typu WhatsApp, Signal a pod. byly nuceny zkoumat všechny naše fotografie a odkazy s pomocí AI. Pokud AI nabude jakýchkoli “pochybností” že by mohlo jít o dětskou pornografii, vaše fotka, poloha, telefonní číslo a jiné údaje budou nahlášeny Europolu a místní policii.
Wenn Tom Scott ein Video darüber gemacht hat, kann's ja nicht so schlecht sein, hab ich mir gedacht. Also bin ich mit dem gebogenen Aufzug auf die Kuppel des neuen Rathauses gefahren. Schon lustig. :)
Guten Morgen! Die Maker Faire Hannover hat geöffnet und das !@metalab ist am Start mit der Braille-Tastatur von @oskar_mbr, taktilen Schildern vom @hackmas, Ottern von @gebaerdenverse, bestickten Motiven und mehr. :) #makerfairehannover
"Steve" Shirley hat als IT-Unternehmerin und Präsidentin der British Computer Society die frühe Computergeschichte geprägt. Mit 91 Jahren ist Shirley gestorben.
A Hero City A shield of freedom on Europe's eastern border Home to over a million Ukraine's capital of typography and students A city that refuses to surrender — living, blooming, enduring Wounded, yet still breathtaking
Just a special bonus post to let you know that accounts in Mississippi USA are working just fine on the Fediverse. There are no corporate overlords that can block them.
For example you could follow these:
➡️ @msfreepress@journa.
Weird story. How can they write this shit with a straight face? There are people walking around every city with leaf blowers kicking up all the dust and particulates and somehow nobody cares about that air pollution?
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