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Don't worry about @Announcements

We're just working on releasing a new way to discover accounts with

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flaeky pancako

i usually like to say the original sin of the internet was putting trust into companies.. but i think even more precisely it is that we decided that corporate search engines were fine .. search is a foundation of the internet and until we have credible foss alternatives we will forever have a castle built on sand..

it is pretty interesting that while there have been attempts at foss search engines , none of them can compete with a corporate search engine ,, even after decades!

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Ned Yeung

❌ "The middle-class is shrinking."

✔️ "The working-class is getting poorer, while the ownership-class is getting richer."

Lower, middle, and upper class definitions simply divide the working-class into income levels, focusing on how much they make rather than how they make it.

This does nothing but divide workers and distract from the real issues of how they're exploited. There are two classes that really matter: the working-class and ownership-class.

Solidarity to ALL the workers!

#abpoli

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q3k :blobcatcoffee:

In 2024, $.32 gets you a Cortex M0, 4kB RAM, 16kB flash and a built-in 24MHz oscillator. All in a package that's terrifyingly close to being accidentally swallowable.

lcsc.com/product-detail/Microc

(index finger for scale - blurred so i don't get comments about fingerprint opsec)

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Justje :celeste_hearts_netherlands:

i maded a turtorial on mastodon

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Sushi breakfast to get my code on. Gotta release a WIP branch to staging and do some testing, then continue adding some data discoverability tooling to my DB, then work on the spec text for this FEP which adds p2p linking to ActivityPub. And just two meetings to interrupt it.

Leter gonna pick up a pal from work and go thrifting.

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Pitermach

@talon @chockenberry @simon @jscholes @NoahCarver @Iconfactory I’m not sure about deaf blind, that might be harder yeah. But for understanding data like this with sound, it’s actually not that hard. I don’t know if you ever looked at Apple’s graph accessibility API’s, but if you go into the battery settings with VoiceOver on, touch the battery percentage graph and then double-tap and hold and move your finger around you get an audio representation of the graph where the pitch represents the value. For Talon’s audio CPU monitor, we did something similar except using much less shrill sounding sine waves. So roughly, imagine 50% CPU usage is a middle C, 0% is an octave below and 100% is an octave above. Each core/thread had its own sound panned in stereo, so if you have a quad core processor core 1 is on the very left while core 4 would be on the right. Then for memory and disc usage the idea was the same, but the sounds were different and even lower in pitch so they could be heard even with the CPU sounds. That’s the sound theme which is set by default, which is very utilitarian, but we also had a few themes which could be used as relaxation - IE a water one where the CPU could either sound like a soft lake at 0% or a roaring waterfall at 100

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Ned Batchelder

Holy cow: oldweb.today/

Emulated old operating systems running emulated old browsers displaying archived old web content!

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Powersource

@andrew_chou isn't it better for the OS to switch the theme instead? This API feels like it'd only be used for tracking

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Thinking of the "trusted compute" stuff that's been getting more widespread and wondering if it'd lead to users having less agency over their devices a la Verner Vinge's Rainbows End where all computing has to be approved by a central authority first. :P

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now has a product offerings and services page for anyone interested in hiring us to set up your integration, static site hosting on the across different protocols like or , and general tech stuff in this area.

distributed.press/services/

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Thomas 🔭🕹️

“But AI is cheap!”

It’s not, it has horrendous hardware, server housing and water and power requirements; it’s just that VCs are financing it now so you get in on the hype and later they will charge you rent and it will cost you way more—with inferior results—than, you know, hiring the writers and artists it’s stealing from, but those will be gone by then.

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A big caveat is the data should be queryable. I feel like GraphQL made some progress back in the day but there wasn't enough standardizing on UIs and reusing schemas. It ended up just being used by servers and single app specific UIs.

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While some folks are trying to move towards "Lets put everything into WASM and WebGPU" I wish more folks would move towards "Lets put everything into standard data formats and let users bring their UI to the data more easily".

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Church of Jeff

#NoBillionaires

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Low key miss the default mail and calendar apps that came with Windows 7. I think that was my peak in terms of email management.

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You know I'm kinda hard on Thunderbird, but so far it's been way more stable (and memory efficient) than Evolution and KOrganizer which is what I used before.

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leah & tigers & bears, oh my!

wait. so physics is imperative, but magic is declarative? #xkcd xkcd.com/2904

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Retro Viator

I am blown away by the quality and comprehensive nature of the eXo projects--especially eXoDOS with its related books, magazines, and soundtracks. Why did it take me so long to pay attention to this resource?

Granted, it takes a commitment to download ~2TB of data but what a preservation accomplishment. With projects for DOS, Windows 3.x, edutainment titles, Scumm-based games, LucasArts-games, and the Apple IIGS, this project focuses on playability, and it delivers.

retro-exo.com/

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Yeah I think I am an "Own over rent" person in most aspects of my life.

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