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There is something about surprising interfaces: clapping to switch on lights is more fun than a flipping a switch. Pressing a panic-button to order a pizza is more fun than ordering via an app. Recently I came across this surprising interface: a flute controlled mouse cursor for a first person shooter. I recognize a good idea when I see one, and immediately wanted replicate the idea and make it freely available. So I got to work:

Le monde du « libre » ne devrait-il pas engager une mutation pour rendre plus tangible sa dimension solidaire et toucher un public plus large ?

Anyone who has had to deal with HTML emails on a technical level has probably reached the point where they wanted to quit their job or just set fire to all the mail clients due to their inconsistent implementations. But HTML emails are not just a source of frustration, they can also be a serious security risk.

Designed to be a reference for anyone building component-based user interfaces, The Component Gallery is an up-to-date repository of interface components based on examples from the world of design systems.

On entend souvent dire, sur les réseaux sociaux, qu’il est facile de mettre une alternative à une image pour qu’elle soit accessible. Pourtant, il y a de nombreux types d’images différents (illustrations, photographies, graphiques, textes, infographies…) et la façon de les rendre accessibles peut varier. En effet, selon les besoins d’accessibilité des différents types de handicaps concernés, les solutions ne sont pas toujours les mêmes. On pense souvent aux personnes aveugles qui ne voient pas les images, mais les personnes malvoyantes ou les personnes ayant un handicap cognitif tel que la dyslexie, par exemple, peuvent également être impactées lorsqu’une image contient du texte.

Nous avons donc rédigé ce guide afin de guider les personnes qui contribuent des contenus : les rédacteurs et rédactrices web dont c’est le métier, mais également toute personne qui publie des contenus (réseaux sociaux, mails, blog, documents Word et PowerPoint…). Les cas présentés sont ceux qu’il est fréquent de rencontrer lorsque l’on contribue des contenus. Ce guide n’aborde pas les points techniques.

avez-vous quel est le point commun entre : Tesla, FaceBook, Apple, mappy, Tom Tom, Tinder, Microsoft, Adobe, Minecraft, Wikipédia, Le Groupe La poste, la SNCF, EDF, l’État Français, Strava, MapBox, jawg Maps, Organic maps, Loopi, Komoot, TouristicMaps, Géovélo, Teritorio, et des milliers d’autres ?

Réponse : tous ces acteurs utilisent de la données OpenStreetMap. Etonnant non ?

Ils le font pour générer des « fond de cartes », mais pas seulement, car OpenStreetMap (OSM) c’est d’abord une base de données multiplement exploitables.

Ephemeral usernames instead of phone numbers safeguard privacy — and makes Signal even harder to subpoena.

In the age of machine learning, cryptocurrency mining, and seemingly infinite data storage capacity enabled by cloud computing, the environmental costs of ubiquitous computing in modern life are obscured by the sheer complexity of infrastructures and supply chains involved in even the simplest of digital transactions. How does computation contribute to the warming of the planet? As information technology (IT) capacity demands continue to trend upward, what are some of the ecological obstacles that must be overcome to accommodate an ever-expanding, carbon-hungry Cloud? How do these material impacts play out in everyday life, behind the scenes, where servers, fiber optic cables, and technicians facilitate cloud services? This case study draws on firsthand ethnographic research in data centers—sprawling libraries of computer servers that facilitate everything from email to commerce—to identify some of the far-reaching and tangled environmental impacts of computation and data-storage infrastructures. It surveys a range of empirical accounts of server technicians to illustrate on-the-ground examples of material and ecological factors that permeate everyday life in the Cloud. These examples include air conditioning and thermal management, water cycling, and the disposal of e-waste. By attending to the culture of workplace practice and the behaviors and training of technicians in data centers, this case study reveals that the Cloud is not fully automated, nor is it hyperrational; emotion, instinct, and human judgment are enlisted to keep servers running. This case study closes with a speculative vignette that scales up from various local impacts to a planetary framework, sketching some of the particular ways that computation contributes to climate change and the Anthropocene.

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mkusb is a simple, safe tool to create a bootable drive from an iso image or a compressed image file. The bootable drive is a mass storage device: A USB drive, an internal drive, or an eSATA drive.

The tool provides a safe frontend to select the correct origin file and destination drive, to prevent mistakes that might overwrite the wrong drive. It uses dd under the hood.