⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

ICYMI Mozilla #Firefox 117 has a built-in translation mode that can be manually enabled.

Unlike Chrome and Edge, the Firefox translations are all done locally on your own computer, not sent to Google or Microsoft for their files.

Dunno about you but that suits my ass to a 'T'. I hate it when soulless corporations read over my shoulder.

I wrote a post with how to enable this here:

https://mastodon.social/@adwright/110987973582339164

On Wednesday night I did what I suspect will be the only hustings in the Manchester Withington constituency.
This was held at the Didsbury Mosque, and it was *rowdy*.

Some moments 🧵

So BBC released an online version of the Hitch Hickers guide to the Galaxy text adventure game. enhanced 30th anniversary edition. And guess what folks, it's fully screen reader friendly, Enjoy! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-game-30th-anniversary-edition

Postal vote filled out, will put in postbox tomorrow. #getoutandvote #dontvotehate

4.4 is now also available on @fdroidorg ! :D

https://fosstodon.org/@davx5app/112536128931217227

workplace workflow.

Forty years ago today, Bob Scheifler decided to let the world play...

"I've spent the last couple weeks writing a window system for the VS100. I stole a fair amount of code from W, surrounded it with an asynchronous rather than a synchronous interface, and called it X." - https://www.talisman.org/x-debut.shtml

And @XOrgFoundation is still keeping it alive 4 decades later!

today's petty law I would make if I could:

all product photos for women's pants that allege to have pockets must depict an average size recent model smartphone inside one of those pockets.

no specific requirement for pocket size. some people don't need big pockets and that's fine. but if you claim to have them, you have to show exactly how useful they are(n't).

Ok so I could really use some help here by anyone who knows anything about xrandr and displays on Linux.

How can I turn
hdmi_group=2 hdmi_mode=87 hdmi_timings=400 0 50 30 50 1280 0 30 20 30 0 0 0 60 0 43240000 6 hdmi_drive=1

Into something I can plug into xrandr?

If you ever thought to yourself, "Wow, I'm pretty sure the OMD synthpop hit 'If You Leave' from the Pretty In Pink soundtrack would actually sound really good as a 50s-style rockabilly ballad," then you will be gratified to know that Paul and Storm and I had EXACTLY the same thought, and actually made JUST THAT VERSION of this very song. In fact, we made this just for you. You're welcome. We love you.

https://paulandstorm.bandcamp.com/track/if-you-leave-feat-john-scalzi

More than 500,000 books have been removed from the Internet Archive's lending library due to the Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit, including more than 1,300 banned and challenged titles. 📚 Our patrons have shared powerful stories about how this loss has impacted them, and we need your help to make a change.

Sign our open letter to the publishers urging them to restore access to these books. 📖✍️ #LetReadersRead

👉 https://blog.archive.org/2024/06/17/let-readers-read/

Wonderful people of the fediverse, please find below the rant of the month. Here is a small excerpt:

... spending half of the planet's engineering efforts to add chatbot support to every application under the sun when half of the industry hasn't worked out how to test database backups regularly.

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/

Getting invited to Discord just feels like someone’s onlyfans you have to participate in

📣Official statement: the new EU chat controls proposal for mass scanning is the same old surveillance with new branding.

Whether you call it a backdoor, a front door, or “upload moderation” it undermines encryption & creates significant vulnerabilities

https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/upload-moderation.pdf

You can see the full announcement in our blog post at:
https://frame.work/blog/introducing-a-new-risc-v-mainboard-from-deepcomputing

Lol Neil Gaiman says

"ChatGPT doesn't give you information. It gives you information-shaped sentences."

This is one of the better ones I have seen.

So, first issue, popovers (eg., drop-down menus, app menus, etc.) don’t work on GTK 4 apps (like System Settings in GNOME) on touchscreen devices. Three-year old bug: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1523

I guess that means tablets are not currently supported under GNOME.

Going to see if KDE Plasma works on touchscreen Linux tablets.

*sigh!*

#gnome #linux #tablet #gtk4 #kde #plasma #popovers #mutter

the sky above the port was the color of a television, tuned to a dead station

[Question] If you were buying a well-supported, software-developer #Linux laptop for work, paid for by the company, either in the UK or the USA, what would you buy?

🤔

(pls share for eyeballs and opinions)