Miria (2025) [1 min] by Fanny Arteaga | #Canada

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw5vQtpngBY

#2D #2DAnimation #AnimatedShort #AnimatedShortOfTheDay #Animation #VFS #VancouverFilmSchool #StuffedAnimal #Cute #Childhood #Children #Magic

So, good news!

My speech pathologist loves where things have settled after #vfs and wants to meet maybe once more this year! Unless there's things I'd specifically like to work on or something changes, I am cleared to do anything but yell. Essentially, my recovery is more or less complete?

We actually worked on strategies today to be loud with the new anatomy without full-on yelling, which .......... was surprisingly euphoric to hear a VERY feminine, girl-like and quite loud "NO!" come from my mouth.

#trans #transition #transgender #transjoy #surgery #transfem

This morning, we kicked off the second day of the Verein für Socialpolitik annual conference with our panel on Business-to-Science Data Cooperation.

Many thanks to all participants for the engaging discussion! 🚀
The VfS conference continues — stop by our booth for more information, great conversations… and why not grab a few RatSWD and KonsortSWD mints to sweeten your day? 🍃🍬

#VfS #Wissenschaft #NFDI #NFDIrocks

Hey loveliests  

We wrote a post back in June, which we recommend reading first for context if you aren't aware of the situation.

In short, the practice manager from our GP surgery emailed us this afternoon with a copy of the response from the local ICB. As expected, it was a "no".

"Regrettably, we cannot approve your funding request as there is no evidence to show this patient is likely to gain significantly more clinical benefit from Glottoplasty surgery than might be normally expected for the general population of patients with the condition or circumstance i.e. gender dysphoria and neurodiversity. Unfortunately, we are not able to take purely psychological issues into consideration."

It's not something we can afford privately or could save up for, for reasons we won't rehash. (We've written some longer update posts back in late April and late May.)

Our only remaining option now is a fundraiser, but we need to work out how to do so without needing to disclose our surname, since we can't have our alias identified with our full name  

#trans #transgender #VoiceTraining #VoiceFeminisation #VoiceFeminisationSurgery #VFS #VoiceDysphoria #NHS #NHSEngland #EOEGS #PALS #IFR #ICB #ICS #GDNRSS #GAHT #GDPR #DSAR #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+ #queer #GenderAffirmingCare

Some highlights from various #VFS merges for #Linux 6.17 where @brauner submitted the PR:

https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/278c7d9b5e0ca73a75e5151c22fb05c91cb4495f: fallocate() updates bringing support for the BLK_FEAT_WRITE_ZEROES_UNMAP feature and BLK_FLAG_WRITE_ZEROES_UNMAP_DISABLED flag for SCSI, NVMe and device-mapper drivers, and add the FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES and for ext4 and raw bdev devices; this enables preventing numerous metadata changes and journal I/O, which may lead to significant write amplification and performance degradation in synchronous write mode.

https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/57fcb7d930d8f00f383e995aeebdcd2b416a187a: support for the the new file_getattr() and file_setattr() system calls (after lengthy discussions), which allow userspace to set filesystem inode attributes on special files (One of the usage examples is the XFS quota projects.)

https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/7879d7aff0ffd969fcb1a59e3f87ebb353e47b7f: ext4 IOCB_DONTCACHE support

https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/117eab5c6e31815649d952f6da03f67aa247d29b: An extension to the coredump socket and a proper rework of the coredump code.

#kernel #LinuxKernel

Register now: 14–17 September 2025

The VfS Annual Conference at the University of Cologne focuses on the Revival of Industrial Policy.

Keynotes by Réka Juhász, Pol Antràs & John Vickers.

EU, US, China – industrial policy in global competition.

More info: https://www.socialpolitik.de

#VfS2025 #IndustrialPolicy #EconomicPolicy #EU #EconResearch #VfS_conference2025 #VfS

THE PROBLEM:
#Podman is using the #VFS storage driver which is basically copying entire filesystems for every layer.

nginx-proxy-manager image probably expanded from 1.13GB to 15-20GB+ because VFS makes full copies instead of using efficient layers.

This begs the question.

ARE ANY OF YOU WALLIES ACTUALLY USING PODMAN IN PRODUCTION?

WTF?