gosh, always so excited by these #postmarketOS monthly blog posts. It's really amazing to see all the work going on, and especially nice to see so much preparatory and clean up work going on right now.
Feels like a really healthy project right now
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/05/19/pmOS-update-2024-05/
Feels like a really healthy project right now
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/05/19/pmOS-update-2024-05/
postmarketOS in 2024-05: Better governance and planning
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphonespostmarketOS
This sunflower is NOT messing around. Only 7 weeks ago, this was a seed in the ground. Today it's 5 feet 4 inches tall! (~164cm for my European friends)
#Gardening
#Gardening
New blog post about what we have done in 2024-05. This is absolutely amazing, thanks to everybody in this amazing community! 
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/05/19/pmOS-update-2024-05/
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/05/19/pmOS-update-2024-05/
postmarketOS in 2024-05: Better governance and planning
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphonespostmarketOS
Great blog, hope to be able to install pmOS with Phosh one day on my Samsung Galaxy A53 (currently unsupported)
tell him about the 'Y2K' hysteria.
...and what a nothing burger that turned out to be. He will learn to be wary of media hype.
...and what a nothing burger that turned out to be. He will learn to be wary of media hype.
I saw this voltmeter at the electronics flea market. Look at that massive probe! It looks like you need to check your back blast before using it.
Apparently it's for REALLY high voltages? Like, 3kV?
Apparently it's for REALLY high voltages? Like, 3kV?
Probably much more, I have one that is for the lower two digit KV range and it is much shorter.
As a science fiction writer, I find it weird that some sf tropes - like space colonization - have become culture-war touchstones. You know, that whole "we were promised jetpacks" thing.
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Lonny Avi Brooks and I did a whole issue of the International Journal of Communication on this a while back. We called those tropes "futuretypes" and a bunch of us wrote collaborative essays about their political and cultural significance. https://annenbergpress.com/2016/11/17/ijoc-publishes-special-forum-section-on-imagining-futuretypes/
IJoC Publishes Special Forum Section on “Imagining Futuretypes”
IJoC Publishes Special Forum Section on “Imagining Futuretypes” Humans have been imagining the future since the distant past. From ancient calendars and pyramids to modern blockbuster f…USC ANNENBERG PRESS
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A newer jetpack that looks more performant. (But like you said, too dangerous to let the every-men use this to commute.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLrVxEJ7pZ8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLrVxEJ7pZ8
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We proved you can scale a Lake District Mountain (3100ft Helveylln) in 3mins 30 seconds, despite very poor visibility that would have grounded a HEMS Helico...YouTube
This is my general recommendation for the best acoustic #guitar for the price. They play and feel like an $800 guitar. The tone, neck, and overall quality is phenomenal. You can occasionally find deals on these around $300. The "folk" version is incredibly versatile, so it is worthy for unplugged campfires as well as playing live. It's a solid workhorse that won't have a problem keeping up with a Martin or Taylor and won't give you "glass mandolin syndrome".
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AF30CE 2024 - Alvarez Guitars
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Hmm, fascism on the march globally. I'm sure that's just a temporal coincidence.
No planning or collusion from international fascist pricks.
No planning or collusion from international fascist pricks.
What is your dream road trip? Where would you start? Where would you end up? What stops would you make along the way? It can be short or long, whatever interests you!
Dream trip would be taking off in an RV with my wife and never stopping. It's pretty obviously less about the trip itself and more about the lack of responsibility it implies.
Terrible idea: Christian programmer who comments their code with references to Bible verses which are applicable to the code's situation
Try the Rye or the Kaiser
Or the wheat or the white.
If you want you want, you can have an appetizer.
You might like our salami and the lover's alright.
And they'd really go well with the Rye
Or the Kaiser
Or the wheat or the white.
If you want you want, you can have an appetizer.
You might like our salami and the lover's alright.
And they'd really go well with the Rye
Or the Kaiser
What happens if a Pokemon kicks back the ball at a trainer? Can they wind up stuck in one of their own pokeballs?
New blog post! I take a look at the Yamaha MDP-10, a boombox that plays floppy disks, and my computer crashes while trying to play Sonic and Knuckles. Connection? You'll have to read it to find out https://nicole.express/2024/elementary-midi-watson.html
A Floppy Disk MIDI Boombox: The Yamaha MDP-10
Longtime readers of Nicole Express might know that I dabble in playing the organ. But sometimes I want to play with sounds that don’t have the organ’s defini...nicole.express
Here is this week's #Linux and #OpenSource News podcast:
https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com/@tlenewspodcast/episodes/firefox-data-collection-france-bans-tiktok-sort-of-google-ai-is-scary
As always, follow it @tlenewspodcast !
https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com/@tlenewspodcast/episodes/firefox-data-collection-france-bans-tiktok-sort-of-google-ai-is-scary
As always, follow it @tlenewspodcast !
Kind regards.ton petit segment sur la nouvelle caledonie est vraiment pas terrible. Sans contexte on dirait que la France est équivalent à la Russie. Je suis un peu déçu désolé. J’apprécie vraiment ton contenu mais sur cecoup je ne suis vraiment pas fan
Bah euh c’est un peu le cas sur ce coup là. Désolé, mais un pays qui bloque un réseau social pour éviter que les gens s’organisent, c’est quand même bien totalitaire comme solution. On ne voit pas ça dans une démocratie, d’ordinaire.
Les assos de défense des droits (notamment la ligue des droits de l’homme) trouvent ça plutôt extrême , donc je n’invente rien sur ce coup. La France, c’est pas ce genre de blocage.
Les assos de défense des droits (notamment la ligue des droits de l’homme) trouvent ça plutôt extrême , donc je n’invente rien sur ce coup. La France, c’est pas ce genre de blocage.
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alors 1) oui c’est vrai que c’est autoritaire comme décision mais faut pas oublier le contexte d’ingérence étrangère (même pb au us avec tiktok) et 2) les violences sont issues de minorités indépendantistes qui ont perdue plusieurs referendum donc on peut pas vraiment parler de mouvement populaire légitime mais de mouvement nuisible à la démocratie
@vaultboy Qu’on soit clair, aussi: je ne compare en rien la France à la Russie, je ne l’ai pas fait dans la vidéo. Je déteste TikTok, et je ne trouve pas que bruler et casser, ou tuer soit un moyen d’expression viable.
Mais la on touche à la liberté de s’organiser et de s’exprimer. Le blocage est fait au nom du terrorisme, ce qui n’est en rien ce qui se passe en Nouvelle Caledonie. C’est donc totalitaire, et indésirable.
Mais la on touche à la liberté de s’organiser et de s’exprimer. Le blocage est fait au nom du terrorisme, ce qui n’est en rien ce qui se passe en Nouvelle Caledonie. C’est donc totalitaire, et indésirable.
en vrai tu aurais mis juste un peu de contexte j’aurais rien dit mais je comprends que c’est compliqué dans ton format. Pour moi ça simplifie trop la situation est c’est pas de la bonne information.
hello
for firefox data collection feature, maybe it is far fetched, but I think that it is a sign Mozilla is getting away from privacy, at least with their browser
& for France, it just doesn't come as a surprise, for example try to open YT Aljazeera live without anything, no VPN, no Proxy, no nothing...
I do not live in the EU but that's what EU people who came to tunisia said, also, when in tunisia, browsing yt with a German VPN, Arabic news channels don't open
for firefox data collection feature, maybe it is far fetched, but I think that it is a sign Mozilla is getting away from privacy, at least with their browser
& for France, it just doesn't come as a surprise, for example try to open YT Aljazeera live without anything, no VPN, no Proxy, no nothing...
I do not live in the EU but that's what EU people who came to tunisia said, also, when in tunisia, browsing yt with a German VPN, Arabic news channels don't open
Safety tip for visiting the Netherlands: is the sidewalk more red than gray? You’re actually standing on a bike path. There’s usually a gray path parallel to it for walking. Bikes can come up very quickly and quietly.
If a road for cars is red all the way across, that means cars and bikes are expected to share it as equals. If you are driving a car, slow down on red pavement and pay extra attention for bikes.
Edit: if you have difficulty judging colors, note that the walking path will always be outermost, closest to houses and trees; next comes bike paths and then roads for cars are innermost
If a road for cars is red all the way across, that means cars and bikes are expected to share it as equals. If you are driving a car, slow down on red pavement and pay extra attention for bikes.
Edit: if you have difficulty judging colors, note that the walking path will always be outermost, closest to houses and trees; next comes bike paths and then roads for cars are innermost
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Hey y'all! I'm looking for a pixel artist to help out on my game!
"Enigma Heart" is a retro-styled side-scrolling action RPG. There are no palette restrictions, although I would like to keep the visual style in roughly the SNES era. Tile size is 16x16; most characters are 1 tile x 2 tiles (16x32).
Some of the graphics have already been done by me and another artist, so a style similar to ours/ability to match it, is a must. Screenshots of the game (as it currently stands) are attached to this post.
Needed are graphics of the player character, some NPCs, monsters, and dungeon and town backdrops/tilesets.
Please reply to this post, or if you're more comfortable with a private mention, that's fine too.
Boosts are greatly appreciated!
#GameDev #IndieDev #PixelArt #Boost
"Enigma Heart" is a retro-styled side-scrolling action RPG. There are no palette restrictions, although I would like to keep the visual style in roughly the SNES era. Tile size is 16x16; most characters are 1 tile x 2 tiles (16x32).
Some of the graphics have already been done by me and another artist, so a style similar to ours/ability to match it, is a must. Screenshots of the game (as it currently stands) are attached to this post.
Needed are graphics of the player character, some NPCs, monsters, and dungeon and town backdrops/tilesets.
Please reply to this post, or if you're more comfortable with a private mention, that's fine too.
Boosts are greatly appreciated!
#GameDev #IndieDev #PixelArt #Boost
Downsides of open source software (OSS):
– Many factions—e.g. many Linux distributions & desktops. Because OSS attracts people that want to write their own software so that it exactly matches their needs(?)
– UIs seem often less polished. Because OSS has more programmers than UI designers(?)
Other than that: It’s ironic how much open source helps companies—especially small ones. IIRC, the first internet boom would not have been possible without open source projects such as Apache.
– Many factions—e.g. many Linux distributions & desktops. Because OSS attracts people that want to write their own software so that it exactly matches their needs(?)
– UIs seem often less polished. Because OSS has more programmers than UI designers(?)
Other than that: It’s ironic how much open source helps companies—especially small ones. IIRC, the first internet boom would not have been possible without open source projects such as Apache.
by volume of users it already does because the majority of OSS comes from companies (eg iPhone/Mac both use Darwin)
by attention span it doesn't and it never will because of the principle"free as in free of any project manager involvement” and (like it or not) that's never going to change
by attention span it doesn't and it never will because of the principle"free as in free of any project manager involvement” and (like it or not) that's never going to change
“most striking about the tale of the Bell rocket belt is the shape of the deception that Moore and Bell pulled off” #jetpacks
“exactly what the #selfdriving car #robotaxi bros did over the past decade to convince us all that the human driver was already obsolete. The playbook was nearly identical”
“we have vested an alarming amount of power in the hands of #tech #billionaires”
https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/17/fake-it-until-you-dont-make-it/ by @pluralistic
#solutionism #DontBelieveTheHype #AI #artificialintelligence
“exactly what the #selfdriving car #robotaxi bros did over the past decade to convince us all that the human driver was already obsolete. The playbook was nearly identical”
“we have vested an alarming amount of power in the hands of #tech #billionaires”
https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/17/fake-it-until-you-dont-make-it/ by @pluralistic
#solutionism #DontBelieveTheHype #AI #artificialintelligence
Wow
Je viens de terminer Walkaway de @pluralistic
C’est magistral, éclatant d’humanité, j’ai adoré 😍
Je viens de terminer Walkaway de @pluralistic
C’est magistral, éclatant d’humanité, j’ai adoré 😍
"They routed the Song soldiers and captured thousands, who, as it was her birthday, Xiao pardoned."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiao_Yanyan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiao_Yanyan
Crypto scam money launderers charged for laundering more than $73 million through Deltec
May 17, 2024
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=crypto-scam-money-launderers-charged-for-laundering-more-than-73-million-through-deltec
May 17, 2024
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=crypto-scam-money-launderers-charged-for-laundering-more-than-73-million-through-deltec
Crypto scam money launderers charged for laundering more than $73 million through Deltec
Two people were charged in California for laundering money obtained from cryptocurrency and fiat "pig butchering" scams.Web3 is Going Just Great
Just one bad apple. I'm sure it's not part of any greater pattern in the crypto space 😉
Inspired by this:
https://mastodon.online/@vas3k/112463951307461100
vas3k (@vas3k@mastodon.online)
Attached: 1 image Заготовил стикеров к наступающей эпохе господства AIMastodon
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when I see that from my coffee, I supplement with a nice, 2-liter coke. Watch the price, coke pointlessly and stupidly raised their prices, so I don’t blame you if you switch to Pepsi and smother it with lemon juice.
I find that there's a certain point of exhaustion I can get to we're having a warm tummy overrides all caffeine. At that point a hot coffee is quite capable of putting me right out, and the snore decibels maybe high enough to be painful.
This is now making me wonder how many store sign size dwellings we can put on an acre of land. Of course, if we were building them for people to live in that would mean they would need plumbing and electricity rather than a long extension cord to a single outlet.... But maybe we've been making this all way too complicated for a long long time!
browsing wikipedia and seeing of some ancient Chinese nobleman "his wife divorced him and became a Buddhist nun" and wow I wish I could sit down and listen to her rant about whatever happened there
Interesting #WebAssembly (Wasm) developments:
* Rust doesn’t do plugins well and often uses Wasm: https://github.com/swc-project/plugins
* You can write Visual Studio Code extensions in Wasm: https://github.com/swc-project/plugins
* Experiment: compiling Kotlin to Wasm Component, linking it with a component written in Rust, transpiling it to JS + Core Wasm using jco, and running the result in Node.js. https://github.com/skuzmich/kotlin-wasm-cm-experiments
* Warg—package management for Wasm: https://warg.io
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QbfKzQgD0E
* Rust doesn’t do plugins well and often uses Wasm: https://github.com/swc-project/plugins
* You can write Visual Studio Code extensions in Wasm: https://github.com/swc-project/plugins
* Experiment: compiling Kotlin to Wasm Component, linking it with a component written in Rust, transpiling it to JS + Core Wasm using jco, and running the result in Node.js. https://github.com/skuzmich/kotlin-wasm-cm-experiments
* Warg—package management for Wasm: https://warg.io
* Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QbfKzQgD0E
GitHub - swc-project/plugins: Plugins for swc, written in rust
Plugins for swc, written in rust. Contribute to swc-project/plugins development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Two interesting #npm packages by @jawj:
xlsxtable: create Excel .xlsx files
https://github.com/jawj/xlsxtable
littlezipper: use the CompressionStream API (supported by all recent browsers, Node and Deno) to create .zip files
https://github.com/jawj/littlezipper
More information on web streams: https://exploringjs.com/nodejs-shell-scripting/ch_web-streams.html
xlsxtable: create Excel .xlsx files
https://github.com/jawj/xlsxtable
littlezipper: use the CompressionStream API (supported by all recent browsers, Node and Deno) to create .zip files
https://github.com/jawj/littlezipper
More information on web streams: https://exploringjs.com/nodejs-shell-scripting/ch_web-streams.html
GitHub - jawj/xlsxtable: A small, simple library to create nice .xlsx Excel files from tabular data
A small, simple library to create nice .xlsx Excel files from tabular data - jawj/xlsxtableGitHub
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•https://gts.cupcakerob.nl/users/cupcakerob
•have you tried melons/cucumbers 🥒 yet?
I've worked with melons 🍈 in a greenhouse and the growth they have is just amazing
Also: bees 🐝 love their flowers 🌸
Jason Evangelho
•The cucumber story is even worse — I went through almost an entire seed packet and have 3 survivors. All the rest were eaten up by bugs the second they sprouted. Another candidate for the greenhouse next season.
travis ballstadt
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