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#OpenSource #inkjet #printer. I saw this on boing boing dot net. No idea how it’s supposed to work, but it sounds cool.

Open Printer
Finally, an open hardware printer you can actually understand, repair, and upgrade

Very cool! Tie-in between SciShow and Alexis Dahl:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf7cKSFCeag
It's so fascinating that the purity of the copper was the downfall behind the tools (makes sense considering that other cultures went with bronze and not copper tools - bronze being an all…

Well this is very cool and very handy, especially as Google Trabslate keeps getting worse, somehow.
https://www.icelandreview.com/news/new-online-dictionary-aims-to-make-icelandic-more-accessible/

New Online Dictionary Aims to Make Icelandic More Accessible
A new online Icelandic–English dictionary has been launched by the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies. This handy, modern resource is perfect for aspiring language learners, translators, and anyone interested in the Icelandic language. Built on the foundation of the multilingual Scandinavian project ISLEX, the new site combines linguistic research with user-friendly digital tools. The […]

»Minimal files config for a PWA:
This is the minimal set of files for a "progressive web app" to be installable on Android and iOS.«
Cool min example to develop PWA apps. This means that native tools for developing apps as smartphones are now also available under Firefox & Co.
🧑‍💻 https://github.com/chr15m/minima…

GitHub - chr15m/minimal-pwa: Minimal files + config for a PWA
Minimal files + config for a PWA. Contribute to chr15m/minimal-pwa development by creating an account on GitHub.

Cool cool. So my printer STILL won't work, but at least *I'll* be the one who broke it? 🙃
https://machines.social/@trevorflowers/115273226628269138

BREAKING: #CPython 3.13.10 and 3.14.1 changed the multiprocessing message format in patch release. As a result, programs using multiprocessing may break randomly if they are running while #Python is upgraded (i.e. need restarting).
But apparently it's not a big deal, since all the cool kids are running Python in containers, and nobody is using Python for system tools anymore. Everything has been RIIR-ed and Python is only omnipresent in some backwaters like #Gentoo.
https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/142206

Honestly, #emoji and icons in #Unicode are a true horror.
Yeah, sure. It's great that you don't have to use <img/> anymore and you can just paste a random Unicode character. You can get graphics into fields where only text was originally intended (like bug summaries). Even better, you can now easily get cool colorful icons on terminal with almost no effort.
However, it is an #accessibility nightmare. People are now encoding *information* in random graphical symbols. Symbols that require huge fonts to render, or huge character tables to describe.
Yeah, a bare <img/> carrying information sucks. However, you can add a *meaningful* alt-text to the image, and accessibility tools can use that text to provide meaningful context. Like "bug fix".
However, emojis and icons are symbolic. The best you can get is some description like "hammer and wrench", so people can kinda figure out that it's probably a "bug fix". Or maybe it was a "maintenance task"? Or you'll get a "unknown character 0x1F6E0". And I'm sure people will surely enjoy cross-referencing a "legend" of such "unknown characters".