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If you're not on the UK electoral register, and wish to vote in the general election on 4th July 2024, you can register online before 23.59 on the 18th of June.
If you're a student living away from home, you can register in both places - but you can only vote in one constituency.
If you have no permanent address, you can still register to vote.
https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote
Register to vote to take part in elections in the UK. Includes how to get on the electoral register and how to update your address on the register.Government Digital Service (GOV.UK)
Content warning: ukpol, abuse, NHS, trans genocide
modern programming is like,
"if you're using bongo.rs to parse http headers, you will need to also install bepis to get buffered read support. but please note that bepis switched to using sasquatch for parallel tokenization as of version 0.0.67, so you will need the bongo-sasquatch extension crate as well."
old-time programming is like,
"i made a typo in this function in 1993. theo de raadt got so angry he punched a wall when he saw it. for ABI compatibility reasons, we shan't fix the typo."
Seeing adverts for quite an interesting looking UK based small electronic components shop "Enigma Components".
Visited their website :
Needed to ask a question, asked via chat. Recognised the names of the people. Turns out I know them and met them at a mutual friend's BBQ about a decade ago.
What a mad small world.
Check out the website though if you're into this stuff. It's really good. I'll probably be ordering some bits.
Children’s book about book bans banned by a Florida school district. A censorship hall of mirrors reflecting M. C. Escher’s “Drawing Hands.” We can relax in the knowledge that this book ban will keep the district's students from finding out about book bans.
#Censorship #Bookstodon #ChildrensBooks #BookBans #Libraries #Books
Ban This Book by Alan Gratz banned in Indian River county after opposition from parents linked to Moms for LibertyErum Salam (The Guardian)
As a complete tangent from the quoted post, but it's just reminded me: how do people pronounce "he/him" and "she/her" and so on? I've seen videos of people just completely ignoring the slash and pronouncing it like "sheher" or "theythem", as if they were one word. I tend to avoid saying these things at all, partly because it mostly comes up in text so I can type it instead, but also because I don't know how best to pronounce it. When I do have to say it out loud, or when I'm reading to myself, I normally pronounce the slash as "and", because anything else sets my teeth on edge as being horribly ungrammatical.
Fursuit Dance / ‘Blood On The Dance Floor’ // 🔥
Thanks for watchin!’
#fursuitdance #fursuitdancing #fursuit #furry
This morning, I learned that trailblazing computer pioneer and trans woman Lynn Conway has passed away. Her legacy will live on for hundreds of millions of computer users completely unaware of what she did to facilitate the device they're using.
Her legacy will live on for hundreds of thousands of trans people who saw her - and other trans pioneers of her generation - as role models, inspiration and proof that being trans doesn't stop you from being a leader in your field... however hard folks might try to stop you.
As a young trans woman in 2001, it was Lynn's story, along with other trailblazing trans people of her generation, that gave me hope, a reason to fight, and an amazing community of elders whom I could show to family and friends seeking to understand what it meant that I was making a journey of my own (and what it meant for my future)
Some of my friends and followers knew Lynn personally. I would like to express my deepest sympathies to them, and to her family.
Thank you to my friend Ina Fried for the lovely obituary https://www.axios.com/2024/06/12/lynn-conway-pioneer-passes-away
One of the more contentious announcements from Apple this week is that it trained its foundation models used as the basis for its forthcoming Apple Intelligence features via, among other content, t…Six Colors
I should set that local Whisper OBS plugin back up and just use a lightweight model. Being able to transcribe my audio in realtime to a stream without having to ship it to Microsoft or Google (and pay because it exceeds their free hours per month allowance) is really rad. Need to figure out controlling the load on my PC.
Edit: the plugin in question - https://github.com/occ-ai/obs-localvocal
Edit 2: oh hey I missed they made it work with CUDA now instead of being CPU-bound. Now if I can run this alongside OBS using nvenc and still get good game/substance performance we're set!
OBS plugin for local speech recognition and captioning using AI - occ-ai/obs-localvocalGitHub
There's a weird thing where people attempt "gotcha" reasoning about cars and car culture where if you're talking about wanting to improve public transit, sidewalks, and the like they'll try and jump in with "but disabled people need cars! why don't you care about disability?"
and
okay
two things
literally no one who isn't trolling has said "we are going to ban cars forever and you'll never be allowed a personal motorized vehicle again even if you live out in the middle of nowhere in unincorporated Ass-Shit County in west texas"
and a lot of people point that out
but what I always want to say instead is "you know that there are a lot of disabilities that mean you can't drive, right?"
"you know that not everyone can buy a car, right?"
"you know that stores being close by on even well-maintained sidewalk is still really helpful for people who use mobility assistance, right?"
like it's the silliest objection and I see it every time someone dares to be like "wouldn't it be cool if we drove less?"
"But sometimes people have no choice but to drive!" is reminding me of that Technology Connections' video about "but sometimes" using the example of LED traffic signals. Literally everything about them is better than incandescent except "but sometimes if it snows it might build up and they're not hot enough to melt it!" and how news and others criticized them for that instead of like...the obvious of "so we fix that one issue, done".
Like, yeah, duh, improving non-driving infra does not preclude them.
Here's a tiny bit of good news. Przewalski's horse has been reintroduced the Golden Steppe in Kazakhstan.
I have only ever seen them in zoos, and they did not look so happy. If only someone had been able to tell them that they were going to be going back to the lands of their ancestors.
Army planes transported the horses - a stallion and six mares - on flights from Prague and BerlinJason Hovet (The Independent)
every time durov puffs his feathers about telegram being “private” i die a little
please use signal for communications that are sensitive
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/18/npr-elon-musk-signal
Rightwing media personalities on X transmuted a screed against NPR’s CEO into a fight over encryption via the Transitive Property of Bad PeopleRenee DiResta (The Guardian)
And here's my occasional Fedi outreach about my dream retrocomputer - does anyone have a Sun Ultra 45 they are willing to part with? I'm just a sad, pathetic person living in Arctic Sweden who has been trying for more than two decades (!!) to get his hands on one.
Boosts are definitely love.
#retrocomputing #unix #sun #solaris
Back when they started, I actually hosted (for free) a mirror of their download site for a while. I don't remember receiving even a thank you. 🤷♂️
I also bought a Pi back when they were brand new. I think I missed the first batch, but got one of the second batch. I did try it out, booted it to a desktop, connected to our living room TV. Then I put it in a drawer and haven't used it again.
WELP THAT'S THE END OF THAT I'M DONE!Raspberry Pi is now a publicly traded company. The #enshittificaton can only vastly accelerate at this point.
All right, Chooms, time to find alternatives!
WELP THAT'S THE END OF THAT I'M DONE! 
Raspberry Pi is now a publicly traded company. The #enshittificaton can only vastly accelerate at this point.
All right, Chooms, time to find alternatives!
After some conversations with friends NOT on the fediverse I've arrived at calling it "independent social media."
This is better than "open source" or other titles, it better conveys the central difference.
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