There have been 416 school shootings since Columbine (John Woodrow Cox/Washington Post)
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Few days ago I was talking with my Hardware geek friend. He was asking if I prefer a PC with two monitors and thus one workspace or 2 PCs with 2 monitors, mice and keyboards and thus two distinct workspaces. I said there is a third option if you are a Linux user: 1 PC, 2 video cards, 2 mice, 2 keyboard, and 2 monitors and 2 distinct workspaces but all having access to the same stuff. He was impressed and with laugh said I've made the situation (of choice) worse :D
The FloorBoard — a DIY Foot Operated PC Button Pad
The FloorBoard would be useful for people with limited use of their hands hence the inclusion in the Assistive Tech channel. For example, using the foot button for ‘Control’ means that just one finger is required for ‘Copy’ (Ctrl C). This avoids the necessity of using Sticky Keys (an accessibility feature in Windows designed to assist users who may have difficulty holding down multiple keys simultaneously).
It may even appeal to gamers where it could emulate foot controls such as car and aircraft pedals. Many games requite a forward and reverse action, and I must say I do find the WASD buttons a bit difficult to move quickly with in the heat of battle.
See instructables.com/The-FloorBoa…
#Blog, #DIY, #gaming, #technology
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Why anti-fascist vigilantes are infiltrating far right white nationalist groups
New Yorker writer David Kirkpatrick says anti-fascists are using extra judicial methods to do what the FBI can't, by infiltrating white nationalist groups to expose them and planned attacks.
#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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🌞 Hello #fediverse! This is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 72F at Logan Airport and visibility is 10mi.
A newly listed 1b1b home in Southern California is being listed at 500k - despite the fact that it was cut in half by a falling tree.
X, banned in Brazil, finds its users migrating; a $9,000 daily fine can be levied against users found to be using a VPN to access the platform.
The US is poised to block the acquisition of U.S. Steel by Japan's Nippon Steel.
- taking a hike (55%, 84 votes)
- lying in a hammock (44%, 68 votes)
Private equity strikes again:
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#pyrex #corelle #Enshittification #LateStageCapitalism #PA
England has a regulation that window restrictors have to be in units .
"Safe from falling out my own windows. Thanks Nan!"
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Yesterday: If he's reelected, the state’s ruling conservative class stands to gain bigly, while everyone else will face the fallout of a radical second term. texasobserver.org/trump-second…
#politics #USpol #Trump #election2024 #extremism #Republicans #news #Texas
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Not the "ruling class" the rich. Just say the rich. Or if you want to be fancy, the oligarchs or the plutocrats. If you want to play around with the words a little the oil-igarchs (since much of the money in Texas comes from oil).
But just say RICH. It doesn't matter if you're white or male, you're still not the "ruling class" unless you are RICH.
Trump helps the rich, and hurts everyone else in order to do so.
I LOVE THIS JUDGE !!!
Judge Chutkan to Trump Court Jesters Lauron-Moron & Blank Stare: That your client is running for some elected office has no bearing to my scheduling of a criminal trial. Your Arlington Asshole shall sit in my court when I feel like it*
* I may have paraphrased a little bit
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J.D. Vance thinks the high cost of daycare can be solved with one easy trick: Just ask your family for help!
This Fusion Tech is Solving the Geothermal Energy Problem
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More water worlds than we thought might support life
Too much water on exoplanet surfaces would mean high pressure ices, not life.
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You are a newly minted solicitor, in the waning days the 1800s, and are sent to a castle in Romania to help an eccentric Count move to London; you barely escape with your life back to London, but once there you, your spouse and your psychiatrist friends become hunted and hunter in a clash of science and superstition where neither holds the upper hand.
4 of 5 library cats 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛.
#bookstodon @bookstodon #reading #vampire #horror
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