PublicLewdness @publiclewdness@gameliberty.club

Weak "Guardrails" on #Police Face Recognition Use Make Things Worse

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/why-weak-guardrails-police-face-recognition-use-may-actually-make-things-worse

#politics #privacy #FacialRecognition

This week in KDE: SVG Breeze cursors and more thumbnails

https://pointieststick.com/2024/08/09/this-week-in-kde-svg-breeze-cursors-and-more-thumbnails/

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
#KDE #Plasma #KDEPlasma #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource

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Take enzymes with HCl for improved digestion.

Nonfree #JavaScript may be taking away your freedom without your realizing it! Many web sites require proprietary JavaScript. Nonfree JavaScript subjugates users in the same way as any piece of proprietary software. Learn more: https://u.fsf.org/freejs

Improvements for TROM.tf :

Our TROM Social first page (login) is not anymore just an empty page with a simple login, it provides you a peek into the fediverse:

Now you can see what's going on on the network, maybe to convince you to join :). It took a lot of CSS and HMTL gymnastics to achieve this. From my tests on desktop with mobile emulators all looks good on mobile, but for some reason when I check it on my phone it does not look as it should....I shall investigate.

Implemented some dark toggles for some of our services, where it was doable, such as Call

Search

Speed

And made our TROM Call, Jitsi Meet, more reliable.

Lastly we spent many days trying to figure out how to make our Peertube Live work better. Hours of tests, lots of logs. Hopefully we can make it more reliable.

#peertube #trom #tromsite #jitsi #searx #opensource #foss #friendica #fediverse

@tio

This week's donation went to the Heroic Game Launcher project. It is a launcher where you can manage your games from a variety of stores as well as those you have locally installed. It is focused on privacy, using fewer resources, and supporting a range of tools such as Wine, Proton, Crossover, DXVK, and VKD3D. The code is licensed using GPLv3.0. HGL is available from various Linux distro repos, as an App Image as well as a Flatpak.



The project's main website is here:

https://heroicgameslauncher.com/




The source code is available on Github:

https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher




The project has a presence on Mastodon:

https://mastodon.social/@heroiclauncher




If you wish to help them financially they accept donations through Github, Ko-fi, and Patreon:

https://heroicgameslauncher.com/donate

How do #LibreOffice developers maintain code quality? One of the tools is fuzz testing – learn about it here: https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/2024/07/29/fuzz-testing-to-maintain-libreoffice-code-quality/ #foss #OpenSource

WIP Wednesday 7 August 2024
This week in FreeCAD development:

Toponaming: bgbsww added more missing TNP code and fixed several bugs including one blocker.

Assembly: PaddleStroke fixed the migration script to correctly load older files with assemblies.

BIM: Roy_043 fixed the calculation of wall blocks and yorikvanhavre fixed the loading of psets in IFC files (produced by SolidWorks).

FEM: marioalex
https://blog.freecad.org/2024/08/07/wip-wednesday-7-august-2024/
#Announcement

Late Roman Bronze Ring Depicting Peacock Circa 300’s-400’s AD
This here is an absolutely beautiful artefact of history! A fully intact ring from roughly 1600 years ago!

This Roman ring is from around the years 300AD-400AD and is made of bronze.

The ring features a circular bezel depicting a peacock.

The peacock is engraved in a stylised manner, facing left with spread tail, incised body and raised neck.

In early Christian communities, the peacock symbolised the rapid growth and influence of the religion.

Truly a remarkable piece of history which as can be seen from the images has been well preserved!

This would go brilliantly in any historical collection!

UK Ring Size is H

I have more like this for sale on my website so if you are interested in such things please visit https://authenticantiquearms.co.uk/

https://authenticantiquearms.co.uk/product/late-roman-bronze-ring-depicting-peacock-circa-300s-400sad/

Need to know whether a piece of hardware is supported by free software? #hNode has you covered! Its search engine will help you verify #freesoftware compatibility. https://u.fsf.org/3uj

It sometimes surprises people that the FSF does all its work with only eleven staff members. Well, we are blessed with the support of a crew of fantastic volunteers!

Floating Islands with Dark Chocolate Crème Anglaise and Toasted Pistachios
Ingredients
5 large eggs, white and yolks separated

3/4 cup granulated sugar

2 cups whole milk

2/3 cup heavy cream

5 ounces 70% cacao dark chocolate (such as Valrhona), chopped

2 tablespoons powdered sugar

3/4 cup chopped toasted pistachios

Directions
Place egg whites in a large bowl, and refrigerate, covered, until ready to use. Whisk together egg yolks and granulated sugar in a medium-size heatproof bowl until mixture is light yellow and creamy; set aside.

Bring milk and cream to a boil in a small saucepan over medium-high. Place a kitchen towel under bowl with egg yolk mixture to secure bowl. Whisking constantly, slowly pour hot milk mixture into egg yolk mixture until fully combined. Transfer mixture back to pan. Reduce heat to medium, and cook, stirring constantly, until mixture coats back of a spoon and leaves a path when a finger is drawn across spoon, 3 to 4 minutes. (Do not let it simmer.) Remove from heat; stir in chocolate until smooth. Pour mixture through a fine wire-mesh strainer into a bowl; discard any solids. Refrigerate, uncovered, until chilled, about 2 hours.

Bring a medium skillet filled with water to just below a simmer (about 180°F) over medium. Whisk chilled egg whites until soft peaks form, 3 to 4 minutes. Slowly whisk in powdered sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time. Whisk mixture until stiff peaks form, about 1 minute.

Line a baking sheet with paper towels. Use a large oval spoon to scoop about 2/3 cup meringue. With a second large oval spoon, gently transfer scooped meringue from spoon to spoon, shaping meringue into a smooth, oval-shaped quenelle. Gently drop quenelle into prepared 180°F water. Repeat to make 2 more quenelles. Cook until set and puffed up, about 4 minutes, flipping once halfway through. Using a slotted spoon, gently lift quenelles from water, and transfer to prepared baking sheet. Let cool 5 minutes. Repeat shaping and poaching to make a total of 6 quenelles.

To serve, divide chocolate sauce among 6 shallow bowls; place 1 quenelle in center of each bowl. Sprinkle with chopped pistachios, and serve.

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For those who have a interest in RISC-V the Sifive Unmatched is on sale right now. 60% off. For me that means $433.55 CAD plus tax. Very tempting. The only thing holding me back is the fact that getting ARM64 and RISC-V devices booting from NVME is a pain and chore still. If I couldn't do it then i'd be stuck on micro SD which would be painfully slow. At least on a Star64 i'd have EMMC as a fallback which is a little better. I still may pull the trigger just to have the hartdware as the software side grows and matures. In any case here is a link for those interested:

https://www.mouser.ca/ProductDetail/SiFive/HF105-001?qs=Imq1NPwxi75JBw6ulD0quQ==

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