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Thanks to efforts by volunteers Nosamu and bai0, the Internet Archive's flash emulation just jumped generations ahead.

Mute/Unmute works. The screen resizes based on the actual animation's information. And for a certain group who will flip their lid:

We can do multi-swf flash now!

A pile of previously "broken" flashes will join the collection this week.

archive.org/details/softwareli

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@funnypanja here's a digital version that wasn't done with the 5 felt-tips I had to hand on a foolscap pad.

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Feoh

Partially blind guy here with an #a11y PSA:

I'm seing a trend away from "Text Size" sliders or old fashioned font dialogs and towards a few set choices "Default", "Large","Larger", etc.

This is a HUGE step backwards. Your 'larger' is *never* large enough for my crazy busted eyeballs when I'm using my 34" monitor.

If you must do this, please be sure to add "Largest" and even "ZOMG ARE YOU SERIOUS LARGE" options. Some of us REALLY need them, even if it seems insane to you.

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ChanceyFleet

I’m a Blind technologist and i’ve built the Dimensions Lab for #accessible tactile graphics and #3d models at New York Public Library. With the right tools, skill-building opps and community support, Blind people can break out of image poverty and excel at spatial thinking + design. This is me waving hello to folks in #Vis #Art #Graphics & #CreativeCoding technologyreview.com/2023/06/1

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Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm)

This is wild! Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have created a prototype real-time monitor that can detect any of the SARS-CoV-2 virus variants in a room in about 5 minutes. They adapted a micro-immunoelectrode to use llama nanobodies that recognize SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins combined with a wet-cyclone sampler running at 1000 l/m. They oxidize tyrosines on the virus surface and measure with square wave voltammetry. #Covid nature.com/articles/s41467-023

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Unsolicited advice, mild passive aggressive workplace horror story 

@wgahnagl yeah, that's rough.

If it's helpful, you could try interpreting it as a worker solidary in laziness wink. It's not like your coworker is likely to become less of an ass, but it might make your days more palatable.

And again, consider asking what that emoji means next time. It's the gentlest power move on the menu, IMO. Your coworker probably won't recommend you for promotion on the basis of emoji knowledge, so don't worry about that bit.

It's always wild to me just how different, culturally, my straight, politically-moderate colleagues can be sometimes. Making room for interpretation error is helpful, particularly in maintaining sanity.

Horror story wise, I've dealt with awful things from colleagues attributing my recommendations for tool design to my "discomfort with the command line" (not true) to them insisting on three architectural re-designs after a project is already code complete. When I would try to refute their slights, my boss would tell me to stop being disruptive and to focus on the agenda of the meeting. Often, the agenda that I wrote.

Anyways, in my exit interview, I mentioned this to HR, and they said, basically, that that's the kind of thing that a manager should resolve, not HR. Not helpful. But from the company's perspective, three senior colleagues treating me poorly was my problem, since they had Vast Technical Knowledge. (if you haven't read Aurynn Shaw's Contempt Culture/The That Guy Effect, I highly recommend them)

There's a certain level of bullshit in every job. Decide what will make you quit, and what won't. Sometimes you need to work a shitty job for a few years. At least, I did.

To deal with it, I would write down the bullshit that wasn't enough to make me quit (or take a phone video of me explaining it in a private space), and then let go of it. I'd take a little break, go for a walk, maybe get a shower or something to eat... Basically enough to give myself some time to re-set, and then do what I could to continue with my work. Otherwise, I was finding myself unable to work due to being incessantly full of rage.

I would usually review my notes a few times a year and decide if I wanted to quit afterwards.

I did eventually leave that job, but it was a planned thing, and the transition went smoothly.

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Unsolicited advice 

@wgahnagl like, IMO, the wink is meant to mean "I'm not doing my job well enough, but I'm winking to let you know that you are new and I am not, so if I ask you to do extra work, it's OK".

I think it's probably meant as, like, a wry smile thing. Which is also a shitty vibe, but it's probably not a sexual harassment vibe. This seems a bit like a case of folks from one generation using emoji slightly differently than another, but idk if that's your case.

Additionally, folks in HR often don't have any training for sorting out this kind of thing, so be a bit cautious when asking them for help. Usually, hr is mostly there so employees talk to them before they would contact, say, law enforcement.

In my experience, talking with a manager (not even necessarily the one I report to, just one I like) for advice can be more helpful. Or another worker around your same level that's been there a couple years longer. I also found the workplace stack exchange really helpful for navigating stuff like this, too, especially when I was just starting out.

The good news here is that if you directly ask "wait, what's with the winky face?" they'll probably stop. And if they get extra weird, it's likely they'll escalate to a point where it's less of a gray area.

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@wgahnagl this is very normal, but also very shitty.

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Rita Portela (parody)

Please consider donating: Help him fight back.

These White cosplayers stole an Indigenous language, copywrite it, & are now selling it back to the Indigenous community at exorbitant rates.

They recorded his grandmother speaking & now they are taking legal action to prevent him from accessing the language & *speaking his own language.* He is a language instructor.

#DataSovereignty
#Indigenous #Native #NativeAmericanLanguage #LanguageRevitalization #RayTakenalive

fundrazr.com/takenalive?ref=ab

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Brandon 👏👏 Brandoff 👏👏

Fun fact: You can make your own #Amiibo at home, and they work in #TotK and any other game! You can also make them pretty, if you're crafty. I just don't care enough rn to put the time in. lol

To make them, you just need a phone with NFC support (yours probably has it) and NTAG215 stickers. I put mine in these little plastic coins to protect them. They work like a charm and are a much more affordable way to collect in-game content locked behind Amiibos--especially the ones that are harder to track down.

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@reese everybody gonna have a good time

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@pixouls

I remember my lower-middle class sensibilities just totally overwhelmed by some folks just leaving protectors, printers, computers (with hard drives removed) etc outside the dorms at the end of a year.

You're heading on to your next thing pretty soon, too, right?

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@pixouls could have been an exchange or international student needing to head out? I've gotten some nice printers that way. It's a good season for dumpster diving.

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Sammy 🐾

Hi Fedinerds, I need your help. I have a #Thinkpad X240 that sometimes randomly refuses to boot up with the Error "1802: Unauthorized network card is plugged in"

The thing is, the network card in there is the original card, and sometimes it does boot successfully. So I think the error message is some kind of error itself, caused by something only being sometimes wrong, that causes the Scan for the network card to go bad.

I can't even boot into the BIOS, no matter what I press, I get the Error code.

Anyone got any ideas? Boosts would be appreciated, I really wanna be able to use this Laptop more consistently

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@reese awww

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annoyed at white nonsense 

ah, getting worked up at the phenomenon of white people doing that thing where they apologize on behalf of other white people when i am wishing for the tiniest amount of solidarity, but they are too inculcated in the act of closing ranks with their own and showing solidarity for white people instead.

(this is not a subtoot, i just experienced this with an off-fedo encounter. but if you feel guilty about it, i don't want to fucking hear it, go talk to your cat or your white friends about your feelings.)

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Unsolicited discourse on queerness 

@dragon I wonder about poly and kink stuff in this context. I feel like if someone is cishet and poly, if they're doing stuff well, they generally are queer... which i guess makes sense if we see queerness as a relationship strategy.

FWIW, I usually say queerness is about a deliberateness to how folks approach relationships and their structures, usually due to society not having an existing "template" that works for them. This would accommodate your "un-queer" gay couple.

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TheBird

Our society has a problem with grief.

For one, our society's institutions don't teach much about grief or how to support others through it or how to deal with grief in a healthy way.

Second, our society doesn't provide time for grief. People are barely given any leave for a death of a loved one, and there's no time given at all for grief that stems from other issues like: grief from discriminatory laws that harm us, grief from mass death and disablement, grief from people failing to treat disabled people as worthy of life, grief from my continuing loss of physical activities, etc.

Grief requires us to be present in the moment. It requires us to acknowledge our emotions. It requires us to seek the source of the grief and acknowledge its existence. It requires us to be kind to ourselves and allow space for the grief. It requires us to adjust our life to heal from the source of our grief. It requires us to act to address the harm that caused the grief.

All of these actions oriented around grief makes us more aware, more conscious of the actions done to us and what we do to others, and pushes us further down a path toward liberation.

Acknowledging, addressing, giving time for, and acting upon grief makes us Less productive for the capitalist machine. Because grief strips away the distortions that muddle our ability to see what we face.

Grief forces us to see the source of our grief. When we acknowledge the source of our grief, this gives us space to act and change/adapt as needed, so that we may find healing and/or find a way to alter the source so that it no longer causes harm and induces grief.

This is one way we can learn to recognize the harm capitalist has done through the fact it is a source of our complex sets of grief.

To recognize, to acknowledge, and address the source of our grief means dealing with the harm of oppression from the current capitalist colonialist white supremacist systems that harm us and cause upwellings of grief.

So it is crucial for us to gather collectively to recognize and acknowledge our shared grief over these myriad, harmful issues and oppressive institutions and actions.

Then we must collectively seek ways to act to address the source of our grief. To change it toward a healthier, more healing, more equitable, more just set of actions and ways of being. Which in turn alleviates the grief.

That's a part of liberation that I wish we would discuss more.

#Grief #Liberation

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SpaceHistory, etc

Did you know that 78 RPM was only a suggestion for the first few years of phonographs? If a record was recorded at a different speed, it changes the key of the song to play back at 78. A remarkable website allows you to tweak the playback of old recordings to get the speed right, and to take out hiss & pops and to simulate room tone. It’s like colorization for music. This is the instructional video for the collection. #Edison #Cylinders #78RPM #MusicalHeritage vimeo.com/585399927

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