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On this day in 1986, Falco was at #1 on the UK singles chart with 'Rock Me Amadeus.' Falco became the first-ever Austrian act to score a UK and US #1 hit single and the first German speaking artist to achieve a #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
On this day in 1986, Falco was at #1 on the UK singles chart with 'Rock Me Amadeus.' Falco became the first-ever Austrian act to score a UK and US #1 hit single and the first German speaking artist to achieve a #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Did you know that Python almost replaced JavaScript before JavaScript even existed?
Here's a clip from @pumpichankBarry Warsaw during 
@pauleveritt's "Python 1994" talk explaining how Brendan Eich (Netscape employee who later created JavaScript) asked Guido to allow for a whitespace insensitive mode. Guido declined and LiveScript/JavaScript came soon after.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/7NrPCsH0mBU?start=2423&end=2504
OH: "Stuttgart - Schaffe Schaffe Bahnhof baue"
OH: "Stuttgart - Schaffe Schaffe Bahnhof baue"
The post about using Linux while blind (https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-1-built-for-control-but-not-for-people/) contains a sentence that really stood out to me as being true in so many aspects of my life.
"We’re not waiting on unknowns.
We’re waiting on maintenance."
There's so much interest in "innovation." Anything can be fixed with apps, AI, wearables. Right?
But when I've asked blind people what makes it hard for them to walk in their neighborhoods, it's broken pavements and overhanging greenery. Councils can't afford maintenance.
Geburtstag im Gedenken – Gerechtigkeit für Lorenz ✊🏾
"Am 11.05. hätte #Lorenz Geburtstag. Diese Woche Sonntag wäre er 22 Jahre alt geworden, wenn er nicht von der #Polizei erschossen worden wäre. Deshalb wollen wir euch dazu aufrufen, am 11.05.2025 Mahnwachen und Gedenkveranstaltungen in ganz Deutschland zu veranstalten, um an Lorenz zu erinnern."
Den ganzen Aufruf und Demos findet ihr hier 👉 https://gerechtigkeit-fuer-lorenz.org/#11mai
#oldenburg #Polizeigewalt #Gedenken #Rassismus #GerechtigkeitfürLorenz
The post about using Linux while blind (https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-1-built-for-control-but-not-for-people/) contains a sentence that really stood out to me as being true in so many aspects of my life.
"We’re not waiting on unknowns.
We’re waiting on maintenance."
There's so much interest in "innovation." Anything can be fixed with apps, AI, wearables. Right?
But when I've asked blind people what makes it hard for them to walk in their neighborhoods, it's broken pavements and overhanging greenery. Councils can't afford maintenance.
Was nice listening to 
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber talking with Fireside Fedi (I think that's the podcast?)
The Party Saturday 2025-05-24 is just 14 days away!
preparations are in full progress ... and time is running ... make sure not to miss it :-)
This is an interesting article though, though I'm not sure it necessarily applies for everything equally, but there's still perhaps some good take-aways: https://werd.io/2016/stop-writing-specs-start-finding-needs---what-ive-learned
Stop writing specs, start finding needs - what I've learned working on Known
Working with Erin Jo Richey changed the way I think about building software. There's a kind of software development I like to call checklist development. That's where
werd.io · Werd I/O
Link author: 
Ben Werdmuller@ben@werd.social
Few, if any, who are reading this voted for that.
We just don't know how to stop it.
@andytiedye𝓐𝓷𝓭𝔂𝓣𝓲𝓮𝓭𝔂𝓮 𓀤 
@wdlindsyWilliam Lindsey 
Flood the streets in great numbers, whatever streets or malls or parking lots are closest, and make business as usual impossible. Think occupation not demonstration. Deposing the regime not denouncing it. Everyone needs to take a step or two out of their comfort zones to shut shit down, and support each other doing it. Day after day and week after week. Until the pressure on the fascists is too great and something snaps. That is what works (and every other country in the world seems to know this intuitively). Let’s give it a try 🙂 it is quite literally now or never.
Absolutely nailed the line I was working on, though I did injure my ankle.
I will not be taking critiques of my vocal technique at this time.
@stefanoStefano Marinelli please take care of yourself. Choose your battles wisely if you can. 🤞
OH: "From the Music Video Area ..."
I don't know about this new piece from @benBen Werdmuller... https://werd.io/2025/if-i-started-fresh
It's a take, but I don't know about it. I don't know if it'd actually work or solve problems, and it feels like it lacks focus to me: too many target audiences with wildly different needs.
A Critical Look at MCP
Link: https://raz.sh/blog/2025-05-02_a_critical_look_at_mcp
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43945993
FOXE Technology
This is such a relatable video by Hyce: When you find your niche bubble, you can be a nerd among other nerds and have fun.
But as a kid or teenager, being a nerd means being a prime target for bullying. Which is incredibly sad because it can long-term ruin someone’s love for a hobby or area of interest. And possibly lead to even worse outcomes.
The web and social media in particular is a place where kids and teens can find peers they may not find in the “real world”.
*angrily shouts at automated system in ISP support portal which cancels tickets because internet is back*
It's unstable!! Of-course it works sometimes!
Practically no actual real phenomena are exponential. The beginning of a logistics S-curve looks exponential at first. But that's before the overhead / carrying costs / consequences of the initial increase scale up along with whatever is being measured and it settles to the new level. Most changes are step-function increases which get there slowly, then all at once, before tailing off.
what's your manager's job?
Permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/manager-job/
'We Currently Have No Container Ships,' Seattle Port Says
Link: https://www.newsweek.com/seattle-port-says-no-container-ships-tariffs-2069464
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43946601
DHS threatening to arrest several House Democrats. https://www.axios.com/2025/05/10/trump-ice-arrest-house-democrats-new-jersey
The end of the world …
The end of the world …
Thanks to the awesome 
@leftpaddotpysystemd-jaded and 9999years (I don't have their fedi?!), we now have #Lix 2.93.0: https://lix.systems/blog/2025-05-06-lix-2.93-release/.
The release notes contain a lot of goodies, nevertheless, another cool thing about it is that it contains a tremendous effort from eldritch horrors to rewrite the I/O and threading model to KJ: the Cap'n'Proto asynchronous runtime.
This unveiled a massive amount of hidden ordering constraints in the codebase, very hard to debug.
1/2 #NixOS
Danke, dass wir beim Busfahren nicht mehr aus dem Fenster schauen können.
Außenwerbung macht's möglich.
Newly-elected Pope wears Apple Watch on first official mass https://9to5mac.com/2025/05/10/pope-wears-apple-watch-in-first-mess/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
block recommendation (lolicon) - `gimmeloli.cc`
The domain gimmeloli.cc has been suspended (defederated) from enby.life for hosting lolicon and MAPs. The instance frontend is locked down, but screenshots of the rules and active federation are included. Additionally, the instances uses a fork of Sharkey that was originally created for use by pediverse instances.
#BlockRecommendation #FediBlock
Lektüretipp: Annika Brockschmidt, Die Brandstifter.
Man erfährt, wie es in den USA so weit kommen konnte. Und: Es hat sich jahrzehntelang angekündigt. Erschreckend: Das Playbook wurde konsequent vorangetrieben. Interessant auch für alles, was im Rahmen des Konservativismus bei uns passiert.
The Party Saturday 2025-05-24 is just 14 days away!
preparations are in full progress ... and time is running ... make sure not to miss it :-)
The grass touching will continue until morale improves.
Practically no actual real phenomena are exponential. The beginning of a logistics S-curve looks exponential at first. But that's before the overhead / carrying costs / consequences of the initial increase scale up along with whatever is being measured and it settles to the new level. Most changes are step-function increases which get there slowly, then all at once, before tailing off.
Ist ja löblich, dass ich hier von offiziellen Grünen- und SPD-Verbänden lese, dass sie sich für ein 💩fD-Verbot einsetzen.Aber wisst ihr, was außerdem gegen die Blaunazis helfen würde? Kommt ihr nicht drauf, wetten?
Spoiler: nicht ihre Politik machen.
Der Backofen backt, der 3D-Drucker druckt, die Eismaschine eismaschiniert und langsam beginnt der beschauliche Teil des Abends.
Später noch Waffeln zum fertigen Eis backen, und bis dahin ein paar fsck-Talks angucken (habs leider dieses Jahr schon wieder verpeilt Tickets zu besorgen...)
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Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced his ambitious plan for the World project, formerly known as Worldcoin.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/10/sam-altman-wants-your-eyeball/
#Worldcoin #WorldProject #SamAltman #OpenAI #Privacy #Biometrics #Cryptocurrency #AI #PrivacyGuides #Article
Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball
Last week, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman announced in San Francisco that the World project he co-founded, formerly known as Worldcoin, is opening six stores across the United States, allowing users of the project's app to scan their eyeballs.
www.privacyguides.org · Privacy Guides
Link author: 
Em 
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
フィルム上映設備が残ってるのすげえな
I am quoting the article here with some light editing for clarity and brevity. But please read the whole article, it has some interesting details.
(Begin quote.)
This isn’t a rant from someone who gave Linux a shot and bounced off. This is from someone who’s used Linux full-time for years as a blind user — someone who knows the system inside out, who has made it work through manual configuration, scripting, rebuilding broken packages, and sheer force of will. And still? I’m exhausted. Because Linux doesn’t fail at the margins. It fails at the very first step. Before you open a terminal. Before you write a line of code.
Linux “just works” — if you can see. If you’re blind? You boot into a live image and get nothing. No speech. No braille. No login prompt feedback. Maybe Orca starts, maybe not. Maybe you know the shortcut (Alt+Super+S?) but does that even work in this session type? Is it Wayland? Is it X11? Is the screen reader bound to a key combo that doesn’t exist on your keyboard?
Let’s say Orca does start. Now the audio stack kicks in. Is it PipeWire? PulseAudio? Is ALSA enabled? Is the correct fallback sink selected? Is the audio device owned by root? Is the socket exposed to your session? Want to debug it? You can’t — because you can’t hear anything. So you grab your phone, take a picture of the screen, feed it to an image captioning AI, and hope it tells you whether the error dialog says “Audio device unavailable” or “Session startup failed.” This is normal now.
And the Worst Part? I Can’t Even Recommend It. My partner wants to switch to Linux. She’s frustrated with Windows. She wants something leaner, faster — something she can actually control. She asked me: should I do it? And I didn’t know what to say. Because if I say yes, I’m lying. If I say no, I’m gatekeeping. And if I tell her the truth — that she’ll need to patch PipeWire configs to get audio on a second TTY, that Orca might not speak after login unless she scripts it, that even emoji might get read as “up up up” if Speech Dispatcher pulls the wrong build — I’ll sound insane.
And let me be clear: This post is not an attack on the people who maintain Linux accessibility. I have huge respect for every single person who’s ever written a patch to Orca, BRLTTY, speech-dispatcher, AT-SPI, or any of the dozens of tools that make it possible to use Linux without sight. They are often doing it for free, in their spare time, while fighting upstream changes, toolkit breakage, and general apathy from distros and desktop makers. They are heroes for making it work despite all that.
Arresting a judge. Arresting a mayor. And now openly threatening to arrest members of congress. While those that are supposed to “serve and protect” hide their faces behind bandanas. The US is full force steaming towards authoritarianism, the brownshirts from ICE paving the way, IMHO (In My Humble Opinion) https://www.axios.com/2025/05/10/trump-ice-arrest-house-democrats-new-jersey
Aktuell eine "Notlage" ausrufen, nur um keine Geflüchteten ins Land zu lassen, ist Missbrauch. Ekelhaft du #Merz!
KEIN
MENSCH
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ILLEGAL!
Arresting a judge. Arresting a mayor. And now openly threatening to arrest members of congress. While those that are supposed to “serve and protect” hide their faces behind bandanas. The US is full force steaming towards authoritarianism, the brownshirts from ICE paving the way, IMHO (In My Humble Opinion) https://www.axios.com/2025/05/10/trump-ice-arrest-house-democrats-new-jersey
かっこいい油絵展の評判がかなり良く、行かなかったのやっぱりだめだった気がしている
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