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Sent by Gabriel Jensen from Oakland, California, U.S.A. on November 7, 1996. https://postcardware.net/?id=1-64
I got interesting news from the fedora accessibility room today! this concerns blind and visually impaired #linux users exclusively, however:
For a bit of time, specifically pipewire >=1.4, one can start pipewire as root. That includes the regular daemon and the alsa layer, because jack emulation is a library loaded inside programs. Anyway, more recently than that, pipewire-pulse got the ability to be launched via root, as a system service:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/commit/dea6fa7f4c3053050d2819afa80265e5ffb39730
I'm not sure if ubuntu can use any of this yet, I suppose not, but most other distros which aren't debian based should be able to do so, for example arch, gentoo, probably nix and fedora starting with 42. This means that your system can start talking much, much sooner without the use of scripts, as long as you enable the system services instead of the user ones, or well, apparently the user units don't conflict, weird as that might sound. Either way, the same security is achieved, because who cares if root apps can listen to your microphone, the battle is lost if those apps are already root anyway!
In particular, this means that one can start espeakup with the system and it'll speak as soon as possible. Not in the initramfs, not at the enter decryption key prompt, but that's still huge progress in case your system crashes and so on.
What do y'all think, does this change anything, or it's still the same for you because you use scripts anyway, or because your systems rarely crash in such a way where that'd be required?
I'd scream if I had any energy left...
At the weekend, a group of trans women protested topless at the Scottish Parliament about the recent Supreme Court ruling that the Equality Act defines women as "biological women". The police couldn't arrest them, because to arrest them for showing their breasts would be to define them as women (it's not illegal for men to be topless). And, of course, the right-wing press that reported on it censored their breasts, thereby making their point for them.
I would like to be Chrisjen Avasarala: impeccably-dressed, running things, swearing like a sailor.
But I am Camina Drummer: barely keeping it together, sort of in charge, with a lot of complicated relationships and a strong eyeliner game.
Tired from conferences but super happy, I needed a manual activity so here we go, linocut and print to make cute little cards for 
@MyriamMyriam Jessier's conference
#Neurospicy
Here's picture of me pushing down the keyboard key
This felt too valuable not to share. Braille-labeled maps of washrooms to help people find and use facilities in the washroom. Everyone deserves to get in, do their business, wash their hands, and get out in peace and safety.
This seems valuable for all public spaces.
So @amzd just installed some shitty Android game called Wonder Merge on my Pocket through Aurora Store thru 
@fdroidorgF-Droid thru Waydroid lol
Here's picture of me pushing down the keyboard key
“Well if you like planes so much why don’t you just become one?”
And so I did!
me after telling my friends to get matrix and signal and delta chat and polyphony
WHICH ONE IS IT, BEST BUY?!?
Happy Father’s Day yall
不过娄烨真敢拍，零几年拍六四，二几年拍新冠，他拍那么几个电影就没几个能给他上映的，都不来钱还能一直拍
Only late in the development cycle did NASA realize they could use giant cats to transport the shuttle instead of a 747
today I learned you can do stuff like this in python
tuple(i for i in range(10))
sum(i for i in range(10))
the function gets a generator passed into it
EDIT: the thing I didn't know about was generator comprehensions without brackets, not that you can pass generators into things
I'm pretty sure the answer is "no" but is there any way to proxy SMTP to different backend servers depending on recipient domain without terminating TLS on the proxy? Is SNI a thing that's commonly implemented for SMTP?
Social anxiety disorder-associated gut microbiota increases social fear
Link: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2308706120
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44283095
Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi
Link: https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/06/modifying-an-hdmi-dummy-plugs-edid-using-a-raspberry-pi/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44282998
Hell... this is insane...
Massive demonstration for Gaza and against genocide today in Brussels.
75.000 participants according to the police, and 110.000 according to organisers.
Inspired by the Dutch sister demo, “Draw a Red Line for Gaza” was the largest demonstration in Belgium for years.
#Gaza #Activism #Palestine #Israel #EU #RodeLijn #Genocide #Belgium #Belgie #Belgique #Belgien #EU #UE #Europe
으아아아아아아아아아
I would like to be Chrisjen Avasarala: impeccably-dressed, running things, swearing like a sailor.
But I am Camina Drummer: barely keeping it together, sort of in charge, with a lot of complicated relationships and a strong eyeliner game.
Whoa: Weston, the reference compositor for #Wayland, supports multiple physical independent mice at the same time! 😀
"New mouse, who dis?"
(See toot later in the thread for how to set this up!)
I would like to be Chrisjen Avasarala: impeccably-dressed, running things, swearing like a sailor.
But I am Camina Drummer: barely keeping it together, sort of in charge, with a lot of complicated relationships and a strong eyeliner game.
Hot Take: Guys who bitch about women with "vocal fry" are just scraping around for a way to bash on women in a sorta socially acceptable manner.
there's a lot I can iterate on here. more varied lighting. doorways, desks, chairs, and other furniture. stuff hanging on the walls.
walls should be either full height, 3/4 or half height, or not there at all. maybe full walls can have door ways.
light sources do light up the room but are invisible. make some actual light objects.
Some upgrades.
mid-day diversion
Slightly alarmed by how often I tell fellow US Americans that I'm moving to Uruguay, and they respond with "Oh! Where is that?"
We have secured reasonable commitments from Fosstodon regarding their instance management practices, and will be restoring full access to Fosstodon content shortly.
We have secured reasonable commitments from Fosstodon regarding their instance management practices, and will be restoring full access to Fosstodon content shortly.
A bit of common sense for you https://tailscale.com/blog/frequent-reath-security
Obligatory video
I haven't been on GitHub in a minute, does copilot take out unsolicited PRs on your repositories or am I misunderstanding some posts?
My Fediforum 2025 keynote is out: "Fun, the Fediverse, and Spritely"
https://youtu.be/jSOk8XQuqms
https://spectra.video/w/aQgZJDLam35wUcBd23yU2t
This was definitely one of the most energetically received talks I've ever given
I talk about the technical and political challenges we're facing, why the current fediverse is not enough, but why there's hope, and why joy is essential to our success
welll that was unexpected
oh shit! I tried to run a diff but nothing happened!
Permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/oh-shit-diff-nothing-happened/
おやすみ…
ねてみる
にゅう
Modifying an HDMI dummy plug’s EDID using a Raspberry Pi https://lobste.rs/s/iy730l #hardware #linux
https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/06/modifying-an-hdmi-dummy-plugs-edid-using-a-raspberry-pi/
@bagderdaniel:// stenberg:// also belated, but I just checked 8.14.1 into Windows on Friday :)
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Dr. Anna Latour
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