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I added an rss feed to my website which consists exclusively from links to my favourite music. I figured it was a cool way to update folks about stuff I enjoy listening to!

hamefang.neocities.org/rss/mus

...Don't suppose anybody else feels like making their own too? 👀

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New features of my digital life in 2021:

:star_ms: NewPipe as an Android Youtube client - absolutely no ads, wonderful user experience, customizable feeds for separate topics, playing videos in the background...

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OPEN SOURCE, EXPERIMENTAL, AND TINY TOOLS ROUNDUP

tinytools.directory/

"This is a list of small, free, or experimental tools that might be useful in building your game / website / interactive project. Although I’ve included ‘standards’, this list has a focus on artful tools and toys that are as fun to use as they are functional.

The goal of this list is to enable making entirely outside of closed production ecosystems or walled software gardens."

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A set of videos about Creating accessible online mathematics and statistics notes from last month's workshop now free to view - student perspectives, working with diagrams, figures and images, and software for creating notes containing maths notation.
http://talmo.uk/2023/accessiblemaths.html #accessibility #a11y

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@neauoire @HXLNT I will make a generalisation, but I think it's an important one to provoke hopefully a useful discussion. The current challenge for #permacomputing is that it has managed to attract two groups, one tends to approach pmc as a technological challenge about extremely specific technical details, while another group is seeing in pmc a unique opportunity to rethink entirely our relation to computers and software. While the two groups share a sense of urgency in relation to the environmental, social, and cultural issues linked with contemporary and mainstream computational culture, they struggle talking with each other, almost as a one to one materialisation of a POV clash between technological determinism vs the social construction of technology, this, combined with paying the price for working under extreme division of labour for some of us, and that makes it very hard to develop a shared vocabulary. I think the way forward at this point is to further bridge these two approaches without alienating anyone in the process of course. I believe that *more* diversity in the pmc community is needed, and more viewpoints must be presented. For instance if anyone has works they think resonate with pmc, regardless of the scope and technical level, drop an email to permacomputing@bleu255.com for a wiki account!

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"The African #wildcat looks almost identical to a common house cat — except they live out amongst the elephants and giraffes. They are, in fact, relatives to the domestic cat, they are mainly nocturnal and they hunt mice, rats, birds, reptiles and insects. I photographed this one in northern Botswana while on a night safari. Sean Crane"

#Photography #Photographie #Fotografie #Nature #MastoArt #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Feline

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I'm excited to finally share with you a four-part blog post series I've been working on in the last few months.

They all answer one question:
Which color scale should you use for which data?

Part 1 gives the overview I always wished I could link to:
https://blog.datawrapper.de/which-color-scale-to-use-in-data-vis/

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To my North American friends east of the Mississippi:

Use N95 masks outdoors when AQI is greater than 100. And if you don't have air purifiers in your home, get them. Honeywell and Coway have reliable models I feel comfortable recommending.

Do not take poor air quality lightly.

We've become hardened experts at living with wildfire and smoke in California over the last 8 years. You don't have to learn the hard way.

Stay safe and take good care ❤️

#AirQuality #Wildfires #Smoke

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Taking a photo of a clover using the "macro" setting on my phone vs. taking a photo using the "portrait" setting. :thinking_rotate:

#Photography #Florespondence #BloomPosting #Clover #Macro

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Imagine open source desktops using open source image classifiers and image AI models to add accessibility to open source apps or something. I don't know just something that popped into my head. Like Llava (https://llava-vl.github.io/) and such, but maybe feeding that to an MML that can output UI controls to JSON objects that can be fed to a screen reader, or like ATK or ATSPI accessibility events or something. Like open source may really help a lot here. Just takes people and time and such and no I'm not the one that'll be doing it cause I can barely write a web scraper in Python.

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Given the news that @croqueteer has released the source code to his landmark 1988 adventure/FPS hybrid The Colony (https://github.com/Croquetx/thecolony), I thought I'd dig out and repost the #macicons entry I wrote about it:

I still find myself drawn into the Colony icon every time I look at it. @croqueteer had a tough job with it — how do you translate the magic of the game's real-time wireframe 3D graphics into a static 32x32 pixel grid? — but I think it strikes a perfect balance between the clean/clear lines that every good icon needs (for legibility) and enticing imagery to attract your interest in playing the game. And like every good game icon, it's instantly recognisable to anyone who's played the game (and seen the cool ray-casting 3D as well as the creepy giant eyeball alien).
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Listen to an audiobook. https://librivox.org/ has free, public domain books recorded by volunteers.

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*reads Wikipedia article on Open Plan [Offices]*

See also: Panopticon – a prison designed to keep prisoners under constant surveillance by unseen watchers

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It's time for #UnrealEngine XMas in June!

Five assets free for the month assets given away on the asset marketplace. Yours to keep forever if "bought" before the first Tuesday in July.

We go hands-on with all 5.
https://gamefromscratch.com/unreal-engine-free-assets-for-june-2023/

#gamedev #indiedev

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web browsers should all have a thingy on the right edge of every page that you can click and drag and it makes the page narrower than the window, and, this is key, it remembers the width you set on a per-site basis

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