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Social - Alice Ice

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The whole internet loves Milkshake Ladybird, a lovely browser not based on Chrome! *5 seconds later*
https://exquisite.social/@thomholwerda/112717330526232080

Patriotism is a form of societal cancer. Nothing is more important than people. No state, no constitution, no religion, no ideal, nothing is more important than people.

@MnemosyneSinger

Once I told my colleagues that I despise capitalism more and more, the older I get.

My boomer colleague said exactly this to me...

Well no, I still despise it more, with every minute I live.

I turned 41 on Sunday and I've only gotten more radical since my 20s

Boomers to 20 year old me: you'll become more conservative in your 40s. 

Me in my 40s: drawing of an anthropomorphic molotov cocktail with #BLM written on the label and a rainbow emanating from the flames. He's waving an anarchist flag and saying "EAT THE RICH!"

Via B90/Die Grünen

Die ARD-Journalistin Kathrin Schmid demonstriert in ihrem Kommentar zur »Chat-Kontrolle« ihre offensichtliche technische Unkenntnis, indem sie Grundrechte polemisch gegeneinander ausspielt. In einem Beitrag zeigen wir, dass mit weniger Oberflächlichkeit und mehr Sachverstand der Sache des Kinderschutzes mehr gedient wäre. 👇

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/tagesschaukommentar-zur-chatkontrolle-empoerte-ahnungslosigkeit/

@tagesschau

The sun is a huge high-gain antenna due to gravitational lensing. A hypothetical Voyager 3 can supposedly reach its >= 550 AU focal point in 50 years, which would allow a high-resolution optical scan of an exoplanet, or to receive alien livestreams from Alpha Centauri at 10 Mbps/watt with just a 1-meter telescope. https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.05570 https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11871

List of indie games replicating old-school Nintendo games:

• SMB2: Uurnog
• SMB3: Kitsune Tails
• SM64: A Hat in Time
• Pokemon: Cassette Beasts
• TLoZ (2D): Lenna's Inception, Ittle Dew, Enigma Heart, Blossom Tales, Castaway
• TLoZ (3D): Tunic
• Wario Land: Pizza Tower, Curse Crackers, Antonblast
• Metroid (2D): Axiom Verge, Gato Roboto, Dandara
• Smash Bros: Rivals of Aether
• Paper Mario: Bug Fables

Recommendations are welcome blob_grinning_sweat boost_ok

The last boost got me blocked by Aral, so now I'm treating it as a general message: If you're frustrated with the state of accessibility on Linux, please help us understand what isn't working for you or for those you care for. And please understand that we want to do better, and we're actively working to do better.

Short but interesting video about Mayflies on Tisza River:

https://videos.trom.tf/w/wLuc6u55EGupSz8NDxD8Vq

Really positive news on Wayland and accessibility for Linux users:

https://blogs.gnome.org/a11y/2024/06/18/update-on-newton-the-wayland-native-accessibility-project/

Further funding is needed to pay the developer to enable this to continue.

Fedora: “The Fedora Quality Team is joining Week of Diversity with an Accessibility Test Week!

Much like other Test Days, the goal of this week is to put Fedora through its paces and catch as many accessibility related issues as we can for our disable users.”

Me: Fedora, your screen reader is broken.

Fedora guy: Patches welcome 👍

Me: *reaches for block button*

From the actually-what-you’re-referring-to-as-ableism-is-GNU/ableism-department

Robi 🤩

In 1968, at 30 years old, Lynn Conway transitioned. In doing so she lost her wife, her children, and her job at IBM. She continued on, living authentically as her true self and continued her career as an electral engineer. In 1978 she became an associate professor at MIT and taught a course in VLSI (very large scale integration) that became the basis of the Mead-Conway VLSI Design Methodology, changing how we design integrated circuits. In 1985 she became a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan, and later the associate dean of engineering.

32 years after transitioning, Conway came out publicly as a transgender woman. Since than she has been a advocate for transgender people in the tech sector. In 2020 IBM formally apologized for firing Conway for being trans, over 50 years after the fact. Just a bit of I learned today.

Headshot of a white woman with blonde hair

I rely on describe-* (most of them are accessible via C-h) functions a lot when hacking on my own elisp code. It’s super cool, useful and convenient to just look up how other functions implement Y or solve problem X as every existing part of emacs can be inspected and used as a programming reference and implementation example within a few keystrokes.

Big news: Kitsune Tail's Steam Next Fest demo is live now! Go get it at https://store.steampowered.com/app/1325260 and experience the first part of this queer furry love triangle wrapped in an SMB3 jacket

You should definitely check the options. There's a CRT shader in Kitsune Tails made by @JoshJers which isn't on by default (because people get upset by that kinda thing) but playing with it on is totally the recommended experience

And for those of you who have Steam Decks, we've verified it works on that, too! And there's a new reveal trailer, showing off some of the bosses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRBcm5fagUU

Yuzu Kitsune Tails jumping at a bear looking boss who's swinging a very large weapon at her, one of many weapons he carries on him. It says "Next Fest" in the corner

Es gibt kein „KI-DSGVO-Dilemma“.
Es gibt ein „KI-Dilemma“.

Das Recht stößt nicht an technische Grenzen.
Die Technik stößt an rechtliche, ethische, moralische und ökologische Grenzen.

Ich bin es so fucking Leid, diese als Jura getarnte Business-Promoter zu sehen.

Screenshot von heise.de. Zu sehen ist ein Bild mit drei weissen Männern in einem Videocall. Darunter der Text:

„Auslegungssache 109: Das KI-DSGVO-Dilemma
Die DSGVO verlangt, dass Betroffene Daten in KI-Modellen ändern lassen können. Doch wie soll das gehen? Die Anwendung von Recht stößt nun an technische Grenzen.“

What do the Prime Minister of France, the founder of , the COs of and @opensuse and thousands of children have in common? They all love 💕 "Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream"

💥 We want to go create an animated movie about Ada’s story!

🚀 To produce the movie in English, French, German, and Italian will cost us €40,000. Your donation will make a difference for many children who will be inspired by Ada!

https://my.fsfe.org/donate?mtm_campaign=adavideo&period=m

Illustration from the book 'Ada & Zangemann'

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