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aral, 13 days ago to accessibility

I love that a multi-billion-dollar corporation like RedHat/IBM can ship an operating system with a broken screen reader in 2024 (it’s not just them, it’s true for basically every major Linux distribution today) and, when you point it out, the response is “it’s no one’s fault… it’s all free labour… it’s FOSS, man”. And then: oh, and this charity is paying for one person to work on accessibility support to be implemented now… Anyone else see how fucked up that is?

#accessibility #foss #linux

aral, 13 days ago to SmallWeb

You can now connect to the interactive shell (REPL) of a Kitten daemon running in production by sshing into your machine and running:

telnet 127.0.0.1 1337

(Or nc 127.0.0.1 1337 if you prefer. Basically, it is available from port 1337 on the local loopback address.)

In development mode, you can press the s key to start up an interactive shell.

:kitten:💕

https://codeberg.org/kitten/app

#Kitten #SmallWeb #REPL

flatcar, 13 days ago to random German

New Flatcar Alpha, Beta, Stable releases now available!
📦 Many package updates: Linux, ca-certificates, glibc
🔒 CVE fixes & security patches: Linux, glibc, curl
🚀 Podman sysext for Alpha
🇩🇪 Hetzner images now available
📜 Release notes at the usual spot: https://www.flatcar.org/releases/

The dog Gromit (from Wallace and Gromit) laying train tracks ahead of himself: caption "keeping up with the flatcar updates"

janvhs, 13 days ago to KDE

Omg #KDE is soooo good. If their design philosophy was a bit more #GNOME or Apple like, I would literally switch. But I love my Berlin Gnomies, so running both it is.

Btw, I started to rework the Gnome pattern on openSUSE Tumbleweed in my free time and really reference #Aeon :D

My main problem with KDE is QT, because it’s so Cpp heavy and hard to integrate with other languages, unlike GTK. Maybe #XFCE could be interesting for me, now that they have a Wayland story and I learned about XApps 😼

aral, 13 days ago to linux

A good to place install command-line apps on Linux is $HOME/.local/bin

Sadly, Linux distributions don’t consistently have that folder on their system paths.

So I wrote up a quick gist with instructions on how to add it to your path on common Linux shells:

https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/local-bin-path.md

(If yours isn’t listed, merge request are welcome.) ;)

Kitten also now warns you if it detects its not on your path with a link to that gist during installation. (https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/issues/178)

:kitten:💕

#linux #Kitten

Wen, 13 days ago to random

GE2024, Monday 30th May

Wake up to be given a classy example of how #Labour are determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory - the purge of their MPs on the left is not going down well - with any of the public.

Meanwhile the hapless Mark Harper is been left left gormless by #VictoriaDerbyshire on #Tonight when their commitment to the young is pointed out - and that is before Brexit is raised.

Comedy gold - not really

#LabourLies #ConservativeLies

aral, 13 days ago to Israel

The ICC spying revelations show the Israeli government to be a lawless regime

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/29/international-criminal-court-israel-spying-intimidation

#israel #pariahState #internationalLaw #ICC #InternationalCriminalCourt #intimidation #thuggery #mafiaTactics #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #palestine #gaza #westBank

ojensen, 13 days ago to linux

OK so I finally gave NixOS a shot and oh gosh it's a game changer. The thing NixOS solves is everything I hate about linux that I apparently mistakenly believed was "just how linux works".

I honestly did not know it was possible for a linux system to not suck as much as NixOS doesn't suck.

#linux #nixos

DrALJONES, 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago) to Israel

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That "our systems are in operational use in Israel helps us, because customers prefer to get mature solutions."*

How Israeli defence company Elbit profits from Gaza genocide

The company supplies hundreds of products to Israel's Defence Ministry, incl simulators, unmanned aerial vehicles, artillery, munitions, control systems, communications, & high powered lasers.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/israeli-defence-company-elbit-q1-profit-revenue-rise-gaza-war-demand-2024-05-28/

*Another weasel word for "battle-tested"

#DefenceContractors #WarProfiteers #Israel #Gaza #BDS .

skinnylatte, 13 days ago to magASEAN

This person makes miniature art of Malaysian street and food scenes and it brings me so much joy

https://www.picoworm.com/

#TootSea #Malaysia

RickiTarr, 13 days ago to random

Friends: Who are you listening to right now?

Me, very hip: Oh, you wouldn't know them.

This is a song playing the piano and howling and barking, and legit, he sounds pretty good. I've heard much more insane Mingus albums

aral, 13 days ago to Israel

Israeli campaign against ICC may be ‘crimes against justice’, say legal experts

International lawyers believe conduct of Israeli intelligence service should be investigated by prosecutor in The Hague.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/29/israel-icc-criminal-offences-espionage-legal-experts

#israel #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #ICC #crimesAgainstJustice #TheHague

Geri, 14 days ago to random

How awful and demoralising it must be to work in an industry like the #NHS to be told again and again that that industry is "broken"

aral, 14 days ago to SmallWeb

So Kitten’s build process (i.e., the time it takes to build Kitten itself) takes ~0.7 seconds on my ~1 year old desktop (Ryzen 7 5700G 3.8Ghz) vs ~1.4 seconds on my ~3-year-old Starlabs LabTop (renamed to the Starbook thanks to a suggestion by yours truly but sadly, not quickly enough).

So, in summary, it’s bloody fast for something that results in a ~9MB bundle.

(And that’s all thanks to esbuild.)

https://codeberg.org/kitten/app

#Kitten #SmallWeb #build #performance #web #dev #esbuild #NodeJS #JS

thomholwerda, 16 days ago to random

Rate my homelab. 🥴