Sam Whited: Software is Political
IntroductionI recently attended the inaugural Free and Open Source Software Yearly ( FOSSY)
conference where I gave a talk in the XMPP track.
Though my talk was just a brief technical overview of the XMPP protocol, I also
gave some quick ending remarks about why I think it’s the correct choice to use
as a universal standardized chat protocol.
The closing remarks were written … ⌘ Read more
Beta 2 of iOS 17.2, iPadOS 17.2, MacOS Sonoma 14.2 Released for Testing
Apple has released the second beta versions of iOS 17.2 for iPhone, iPadOS 17.2 for iPad, and macOS Sonoma 14.2 for Mac. The beta versions are available now to users participating in the beta testing programs for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. iOS 17.2 beta includes the Journal app, which lets users track their lives in … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/11/10/beta-2-of-ios-17-2-ipados-17-2-maco … ⌘ Read more
Deals: $50 Off the Apple Watch Series 9
Amazon is offering a great deal on the all new Apple Watch Series 9 for just $349, taking $50 off the retail price of $399. The Apple Watch Series 9 features fitness tracking capabilities, heart rate monitor, blood oxygen reader, ECG capability, ovulation tracking, an always-on display, GPS, and a powerful new chip to make … Read More ⌘ Read more
Fun fact: Since I started tracking my train journeys in mid-May, I’ve already spent almost 7 whole days on trains. 🚄 ⌘ Read more
I hope this weekend I get my life back on track
I hope today will be the weekend I get my life back on track
Let’s DockerCon!
DockerCon 2023 will be hybrid — both live (in Los Angeles, California) and virtual. Our desire is to once again experience the live magic of the hallway track, the serendipitous developer-to-developer sharing of tips and tricks, and the celebration of our community’s accomplishments … all while looking forward together toward a really exciting future. And for members of our community who can’t attend in person, we hope you’ll join us virtually! ⌘ Read more
Patrick Holland – Your Life
Video by Dr Cool. Patrick Holland’s infectious new house banger “ Your Life” is out now… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
I tracked my sleep before & after having a baby ⌘ Read more
photos: KING KRULE in AUSTIN
King Krule, live at Stubb’s BBQ in Austin. Check out Mount Kimbie and King Krule’s excellent new track, “Boxing.” Photos by David. Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
DockerCon Workshops: What to expect
DockerCon 2023 will be held October 4-5 in Los Angeles. The program is now online so you can plan your experience by day, time, and theme, including AI and Machine Learning, Web Application / Web Development, Building and Deploying Applications, Secure Software Delivery, and Open Source. This year we’re offering talks, workshops, and panel discussions, plus the usual vibrant DIY hallway track. Here’s a preview of what to expect in our workshops. Register now! ⌘ Read more
I like FIDO2 as a replacement for passwords. But you gotta keep track of the little dongle
Tirzah drops new album trip9love…???
Taz + Meeks (aka Tirzah and bff/longtime collaborator Mica Levi) are back with a surprise album in the “ lazy club fantasy zone”, out today on Domino. Stream the whole record below + grab it on limited gold vinyl here… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
@adi@twtxt.net I think it is, and one benefit they have is that you can add third-party repositories to the F-Droid app as you discover them. So, for instance, if you know of a developer who pushes builds to an F-Droid compatible repository, you can add that to your F-Droid app and start tracking updates like you would for any other app in there. Can’t do that with Google Play!
F-Droid tends to focus on open source applications that can be built in a reproducible way, which limits the inventory (though of course tends to mean the apps are safer and don’t spy on you). There are non-free apps in there as well but they come with warnings so you’re informed about what you might be sacrificing by using them.
That said if you have a favorite app you get through Google Play, there’s a decent chance it won’t be in F-Droid. Many “big corporate” apps aren’t, and vendor-specific apps tend not to be either. But for most of the major functions you might want, like email clients, calendar apps, weather apps, etc etc, there are very good substitutes now in F-Droid. You’re definitely making a trade-off though.
What I did was go through the apps I had installed on my last phone, found as many substitutes in F-Droid as I could, started using those instead to see how they worked, and bit by bit replaced as much as I could from Google Play with a comparable app from F-Droid. I still have a few apps (mostly vendor-specific things that don’t have substitutes) that come from Google Play but I’m aiming to be rid of those before I need to replace this phone.
10 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Projects
Learn how to optimize your usage of GitHub Projects to plan and track your work from idea to production.
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Brett Lee, avocados, and India: Could this trade deal prevent a future ‘avoglut’?
It’s not the first time Aussies have put all their hopes on Brett Lee, but this time it’s avocado growers hoping to get a taste of his consistency in India. ⌘ Read more
Shabazz Palaces – Binoculars
Shabazz Palaces enters his smooth phase on icy new track “ Binoculars” featuring Royce the Choice… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
Is there a better way to track UFO sightings? ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de @mckinley@twtxt.net I believe the resurgence in availability of municipal WiFi is largely driven by the surveillance capabilities it offers. Every person who has WiFi enabled on their phone can be tracked throughout the city as their phones ping various base stations; a lot of folks aren’t aware of just how much information can be slurped out of a phone that isn’t locked down just from its WiFi pings. I know this happens in Toronto, and I was familiar with a startup in Massachusetts that based its business model on this very concept. I can only assume it’s widespread in the US if not throughout the Western world.
I tracked my mood every day for one year. ⌘ Read more
Lee Gamble – She’s Not
More dreamlike disembodied pop from the great Hyperdub… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net It was super useful if you needed to do the sorts of things it did. I’m pretty sad.
At its core was Sage, a computational mathematics system, and their own version of Jupyter notebooks. So, you could do all kinds of different math stuff in a notebook environment and share that with people. But on top of that, there was a chat system, a collaborative editing system, a course management system (so if you were teaching a class using it you could keep track of students, assignments, grades, that sort of thing), and a bunch of other stuff I never used. It all ran in a linux container with python/conda as a base, so you could also drop to a terminal, install stuff in the container, and run X11 applications in the same environment. I never taught a class with it but I used to use it semi-regularly to experiment with ideas.
listen to Burial’s new track “Unknown Summer”
Taken from his new split 12” with Kode9 for Fabric Originals… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
Metrics for issues, pull requests, and discussions
With the new Issue Metrics GitHub Action, you can now track and monitor important metrics related to issues, pull requests, and discussions, such as time to first response, time to close, and more! ⌘ Read more
MUNYA announces new album Jardin + shares video for “Un Deux Trois”
MUNYA is back with her biggest track yet, a sick Moroder-inspired banger that sounds a bit like a lost Random Access Memories hit filtered through MUNYA’s dreamy, kaleidoscopic French-pop lens… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
Couch Prints – True Religion
NY duo Jayanna Roberts + Brandon Tong aka Couch Prints share the opening track from their new album Waterfall: Rebirth, coming in September… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
Rusty Santos x Panda Bear – Mirror
The old collaborators + friends hook up on a mystical new track from Rusty Santos’ new album New Wave In California, coming in July… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
Bar Italia – changer
London group Bar Italia share a third track from their forthcoming Matador debut Tracey Denim, out this Friday. Listen to “changer” below + pre-order the album on vinyl here.
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I knew from the get go it was going to be an annoying thing to track down, which is was, but that made it take even longer because I avoided trying.
My desktop computer developed a really annoying vibration-induced buzzing sound a few months ago after I added some hard drives to it. It was one of these where it’d be more or less quiet, and then all of a sudden a buzzing would start. If you tapped the case, it often made the buzzing stop.
One by one I went through my components, and the day before yesterday I finally identified the guilty party, one particular HDD. Currently I have the case open and a piece of cardboard jammed under the drive in its tray. The computer has not buzzed since I did that, so it looks to me like securing that drive better will finally end this madness-inducing sound.
Wild that it takes so long to track down something like this and figure out what to do about it.
Neil deGrasse Tyson & Dale Earnhardt Jr. Talk Chemistry On The Track ⌘ Read more
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org that could definitely be a track in an ambient song, no question whatsoever.
The exhaust is amazingly soothing to look at, even though it’d vaporize your entire being in milliseconds if you were anywhere near it.
bar italia – punkt
London group bar italia share a track from their just-announced new album Tracey Denim, coming May 19th… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
listen to Magdalena Bay’s mini mix vol. 3
Mag Bay goes ahead and drops a full mini-mix on us – complete with some of the sickest tracks they’ve ever made AND a return to their legendary DIY video steez – in advance of their Coachella debut tomorrow… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
Snow Strippers – Under Your Spell
Detroit duo Snow Strippers unleash two more unrelenting, trance-inducing club pop bangers… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
George Clanton – I Been Young
George Clanton is back with one of his best tracks to date, which he says is “stylistically indebted to 90s adult oriented artists like Savage Garden and Seal”, with a spot-on ‘90s nostalgia trip/time capsule of a video… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
hear two new tracks from Detroit duo Snow Strippers
My favorite record of 2022 that I didn’t find out about until 2023 was mysterious Detroit duo Snow Strippers’ stellar LP The Snow Strippers, a massive, relentlessly throbbing (and frankly a little unsettling) collection of haunted rave anthems that garnered the group comparisons to early Crystal Castles and SALEM… … ⌘ Read more
Hand Habits – Something Wrong
Hand Habits shares the opening track from their new collection of songs Sugar the Bruise, coming in June on Fat Possum. Listen to “ Something Wrong” via the visualizer by Ethan Skaates below… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
JPEGMAFIA x Danny Brown – Scaring the Hoes
Peggy and Danny drop another unhinged banger with the title track from their collab LP Scaring the Hoes Vol. 1, coming this Friday… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
Mega Bog – Love Is
Mega Bog drops my current favorite track – featuring backing vocals from the great Westerman! -- from her stellar new album End of Everything, coming in May on Mexican Summer… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: Highlights from IPCC report:
- The world’s on track to hit above 3°C of warming by 2100.
- Emissions must peak by 2025 and nearly halve by 2030 to keep warming to 1.5°C
- 3-bil people likely to suffer water scarcity at 2°C.
- No gov has a credible plan to keep warming in target.**
Highlights from IPCC report:
- The world’s on track to hit above 3°C of warming by 2100.
- Emissions must peak by 2025 and nearly halve by 2030 to keep warming to 1.5°C
- 3-bil people likely to suffer w … ⌘ Read more
RT by @mind_booster: ❗Breaking: Meta Tracking Tools unlawful
In a groundbreaking decision in one of noybs 101 complaints, the Austrian Data Protection Authority decided that the use of Facebook’s tracking pixel directly violates the GDPR: https://noyb.eu/en/austrian-dsb-meta-tracking-tools-illegal?mtc=tw
❗Breaking: Meta Tracking Tools unlawful
In a groundbreaking decision in one of noybs 101 complaints, the Austrian Data Protection Authority decided that the use of Facebook’s tracking pixel directly violates th … ⌘ Read more
bar italia – Nurse!
London group bar italia follow up one of last year’s best EPs with new track “ Nurse!”, out today on Matador. Video by simon mercer… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
Buzzy Lee – Internal Affairs
Sasha Speilberg aka Buzzy Lee gets vulnerable on the lovesick title track from her Gabe Wax-produced new album Internal Affairs, coming March 31st. Video by Siena Zadro… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
Olivia Kaplan – American Air
Olivia Kaplan shares a beautifully poignant new track that manages to break your heart and offer a tender beacon of hope, all at once. Video shot + directed by Ali Vanderkruyk… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
dj lostboi – music for landings
Some profoundly calming sounds for your next plane ride, courtesy of Malibu aka Belmont Girl aka dj lostboi… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
Tirzah + Mica Levi release new track as Taz & Meeks
A sparse, tender slow-burner from Tirzah + Mica Levi, for the new Síbín Vol. 1 charity compilation; profits will be split between the Black Curriculum and Blackfriars Settlement. Listen below + buy it here.
Síbín Vol. 1 by Síbín
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Nourished By Time – Quantum Suicide
Fresh off supporting Dry Cleaning on their recent U.S. tour, and a feature on the highly anticipated Yaeji album, Baltimore’s Marcus Brown aka Nourished By Time shares new track “ Quantum Suicide” -- a song “ about fighting depression” -- taken from his new record Erotic Probiotic 2, out in April… [Continue reading…](https://www.gorillavsbear.net/nourishe … ⌘ Read more
Joanne Robertson – Blue Car
Wonderful UK folk singer + songwriter (and regular Dean Blunt collaborator) Joanne Robertson shares the haunting title track from her new album Blue Car, out next month on AD 93… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more
untitled (halo) – el prado freestyle
Check the hazy and gorgeously woozy debut single from young LA “ethereal grunge” band untitled (halo). Video directed by the group’s Jack Dione, watch below + buy the track here… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more