Podcasting 2.0 :podcasting2: : it's all about Interoperability 🎙️ ✊ :oss:
This presentation of Podcasting 2.0 was given in Brussels, Belgium, at #fosdem 2023. 🇧🇪
Full video with links: 👉 blog.castopod.org/podcasting-2…

Prosím vás, koníčky až po práci jo. 😂
Srbský poslanec rezignoval po skandálu v parlamentu. Sledoval porno | iROZHLAS - spolehlivé zprávy
irozhlas.cz/zpravy-svet/poslan…

Vážení uživatelé #fcz i příznivci z jiných Mastodonů a odjinud z Fediverse,

Díky, že s námi zůstáváte. Jak jsem už vysvětloval v konferenci na NYXu o Mastodonu a Fediverse ( nyx.cz/discussion/279037 ) - pokud máte potřebu evangelizovat davy, tak odsud asi odejdete, protože ty davy tu zkrátka nejsou.

Ale pokud vás baví stát mimo hlavní proud a rozjíždět něco, co bude in třeba teprve až za 10 let, tak jste tady podle mě správně.

První spam v Arpanetu byl odeslán prý již v roce 1978 😉

#fcz

A Musk no le salen los números: el uso de Twitter disminuye un 9% y solo el 0,2% de los usuarios pagan

Los hábitos de consumo de los usuarios, la desconfianza ante el nuevo rumbo de la red social y que las novedades que se han ido implementado han causado cierta indiferencia, causas para este bajón en el uso de la plataforma

infolibre.es/medios/musk-no-le…

If you spend anytime as a left or left-ish black person on the internet you will inevitably encounter someone touting Thomas Sowell as the irrefutable counter to left claims about inequality and race. They’ll note that no one will debate Sowell, so he must be correct. What they won’t note, or don’t notice, is that the reason no one engages with Sowell is that his claims are unbelievably flimsy and unconvincing.

This piece goes into decent detail on those last points. dawsonvosburg.medium.com/whats…

And this week's #Linux and #opensource news video is finally here!

In this one, we have confirmation that #Windows 11 sends data to third parties after a fresh install, without user consent, we have @fedora moving to Flathub in their next release, an AI tool that violates #FOSS licenses, @thunderbird sharing a roadmap and some interesting history, and @gnome Software getting some nice performance improvements:

youtube.com/watch?v=03t0GmaWun…

Here's the prime #OrphanOilwell problem as I understand it: #BigOil (which has all the $ in the world) "sells off" spent oilwells to small companies going bankrupt & who could *never* afford cleanup in the first place. This from an industry claiming to produce #EthicalOil.

It's the same bunch of crooks that'd like us to trust them on #CCS and think Canada should give them billions. Just ask the enormous liars at
#PathwaysNetZero.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #OILigarchy

cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alb…

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If ultra-wealthy industry front groups begging money from governments like #PathwaysNetZero want a shred of credibility they need to answer whether they agree with #Scotiabank (no innocents themselves on all this) or not. Every Albertan deserves an answer.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #OILigarchy

thestar.com/business/2023/02/0…

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Obviously it should go without saying that any #BigOil company that sold their #OrphanWells to companies all knew couldn't pay for the cleanup should not only not get one cent of this 20 billion but no federal #CCS $ either. Same with oil companies that took #CERB then turned around and offered #ShareBuyBacks to investors. Fool me once...

#abpoli #ableg #DanielleSmith #NDP #cdnpoli #OILigarchy macleans.ca/news/canada/bankru…

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Is Windows 11 Spyware? Microsoft Defends Sending User Data to Third Parties
tech.slashdot.org/story/23/02/…

This wearable navigation system assists visually impaired individuals with walking coolblindtech.com/this-wearabl… #Navigation #LOWVISION #Wearable #Gadgets #Apps #NEWS

How to sound better during your iPhone calls with Mic Mode coolblindtech.com/how-to-sound… #iPadOS #HowTo #Apps #iOS #Mac

OneButtonPIN improves security for blind and low-vision users coolblindtech.com/onebuttonpin… #LOWVISION #Android #Apps #NEWS

How to get Siri to read text Messages on your iPhone coolblindtech.com/how-to-get-s… #HowTo #Apps #iOS

TransLink launching accessibility pilot project using NaviLens coolblindtech.com/translink-la… #Navigation #LOWVISION #Android #Braille #Apps #NEWS #iOS

Panasonic announces ‘smart glasses for the visually impaired at CES 2023 coolblindtech.com/panasonic-an… #Navigation #LOWVISION #Wearable #Gadgets #NEWS

How to Change text size for individual apps on your iPhone coolblindtech.com/how-to-chang… #LOWVISION #HowTo #Apps #iOS

Award-winning science fiction author Ted Chiang (who has a CS degree, btw) has a new article in the New Yorker on ChatGPT. He makes an interesting analogy for what it does to lossy compression of the text from which its LLM was created. #AI #LLM #ChatGPT
newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-t…

Lost part of Meteora

#music #linkinpark #video

Lost [Official Music Video] - Linkin Park

Download/Stream Lost : lprk.co/lostVideo Credits: Directors: Maciej Kuciara, pplpleasrProduction Company: Shibuya - shibuya.xyzAI

youtube.com/watch?v=7NK_JOkuSV…

This seems to work reasonably well with screen readers but would need some improvements in a couple of aspects. Still, seems like a decent intro into package managers like Winget or Chocolatey under Windows for less technical users. GitHub - marticliment/WingetUI: WingetUI: a graphical user interface for Winget and Scoop github.com/marticliment/Winget…

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When I'm stressed, or wishing the code I write was more useful ...
I watch this, proceed to laugh myself into a circulatory disorder (free internet points to anyone who knows what that references) at Microsoft's expense, and everything is better. youtu.be/dlpAXDuLPek
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When I'm stressed, or wishing the code I write was more useful ...
@chucker At least it managed to produce the craziest story I think the world has ever seen though. 🤣 I think part of the problem is the quality of the microphone, but when you consider the type of gear the average consumer would have connected to their PC, especially at the time, I would have expected them to design the system around that.
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When I'm stressed, or wishing the code I write was more useful ...

yeah, one of Vista’s themes is that they massively overestimated how much average PC specs would improve between XP and Vista, despite Vista being years late.

Anyway, I guess I would’ve reacted to that demo differently. “Well, that didn’t go over well. Let’s punt on the feature, give it three more years to cook, and ship it in Windows 7.”

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 12 updated and 4 new apps:

* Engine: Mapping your phone as a virtual joystick
* Unistroke Keyboard: Unistroke Handwriting Input Method (like Palm's Grafitty)
* Jerboa for Lemmy: Back on request of the dev (updates currently stalled at F-Droid)
* W Launcher: a launcher based on webOS

Enjoy your (meanwhile 1.038) #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:

“Large-language models such as ChatGPT and Google’s LaMDA are trained on, among other things, the web, which is to say society’s sooty exhaust, carrying all the errors, mistakes, conspiracies, biases, bigotries, presumptions, and stupidities — as well as genius — of humanity online. When we blame an algorithm for exhibiting bias we should start with the realization that it is reflecting our own biases.“ [@jeffjarvis] medium.com/whither-news/journa…

Of Course #Mastodon Lost Users

Scalloped growth is not evidence of a platform in decline.

doctorow.medium.com/of-course-…

The #Go team is considering to add telemetry to their compiler/toolchain:
github.com/golang/go/discussio…

As if that alone wasn't horrible enough, they want to make it opt-OUT.

I can't think of a reason why opt-OUT would be acceptable ... in any case.

This comment sums it up nicely 👇

#golang #privacy #GDPR

Hogwarts Legacy: So You Want to Separate the Art From the Artist


So you placed your order for Hogwarts Legacy or are considering it. You know J.K. Rowling is a horrible person, or so you've heard, but you really want to enjoy your favourite books' latest game. Sure, she's a little odd when it comes to those trans people, but other than that, she's not all bad, right? Let me enjoy the game, you say, that doesn't mean I support her (the obvious falsity of that aside), and really: what's wrong with it in the first place, huh?

Well, hypothetical stranger I just made up, today is your lucky day! Since you asked…

If you are unwilling to hear any arguments, this text is not for you, but if you ask 'what's the big deal anyway', you've come to the right place.

Let's rewind a little. Until recently, J.K. Rowling was mostly a beloved fantasy author. There were always criticisms of her works (and I don't mean the frankly plebeian style), such as the fact that the goblins, hook-nosed, hunched bankers with a love for plotting and betrayal reside in a building with a star of david on the floor, the hasty retcon of a singular Jewish character (with the most cliché name of 'Goldstein'), the subplot about the enslaved servants who love slavery and hate being freed, and so on and so forth, but by and large, most people saw her as the author of their favourite books, and that was it.

Since then, Rowling has come out in support of the current genocidal campaign against trans people, ostensibly out of concern for women's rights, despite the fact that people she has supported call anti-abortion crusaders 'fine people', people on her side sue rape crisis centers, and of course in spite of all known science, in support of disproven junk science, going against all major scientific organisations, and on the same side as anti-vaxxers, far-right extremists, anti-semites, more anti-semites, authors of murderous manifests, and desinformation oligarchs. It is no coincidence that Rowling's public conversion into an avid transphobe corresponds closely with the skyrocketing of anti-trans bills, going from 60 bills in 2020 to 131 in 2021, making 2021 the worst year at the time, and further to a staggering 120 bills in three weeks in early 2023 alone (that would be 2305 bills this entire year, if kept up)!

So far, so awful. But since you're reading this, that is obviously not enough to convince you, so allow me to present further arguments. Let's talk about Hogwarts Legacy.

Let's start with the fact that Warner Brothers knowingly hired a far-right gamergate youtuber as lead developer for the game, shortly after which details of the game were revealed, including the fact that aforementioned antisemitic carricatures would be central to the plot, namely in the form of a sinister plot and uprising which includes kidnapping a child. Let me recap: the greedy, treacherous, hook-nosed bankers who hate regular wizards kidnap a child. If the words 'blood libel' – the belief that Jews steal children, a trope perpetuated in modern-day conspiracy theories about 'grooming' or 'woke indoctrination' – didn't mean anything to you: now they do. That this rebellion is motivated by the centuries-long oppression of the goblins, who are denied civil rights, access to wands, and basically left with no business but to run banks (sound familiar?) and the goblins' desire for liberation, how dare they, is only the cherry on top, as is featuring a Jewish instrument, which just so happens to be dated in-game to the year of a real-life pogrom. Oh, and did you know that Goblins believe workers should own what they produce? That's right, the thinly-veiled jew-stand-ins are Marxists! You might want to look up 'Cultural Bolshevism' (nazis today say 'Cultural Marxism'), and take a long hard look at Deathly Hallows again (the book).

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Then there is the fact that the singular trans character in the game, a trans woman, is not only sympathetic to the bad guys, but also has a name crammed with as many masculine implications as possible, including “sir” in the first name, a boys name as a last name, and one that means “little king” to boot.

Yep.

Which, by the way, is not the first time Rowling and her franchise have fucked up with names, naming a black man “Shacklebolt”, giving a Chinese character two Korean names and in general giving every non-British character the most stereotypical name you could think of.

Still want to play?

Go ahead. Enjoy yourself. Indulge. It's your conscience, you have to live with it. Tell me, did you ever take anyone's lunch away in middleschool?

Oh, and that's not to mention the protagonist of one of her crime novels (written under a pen name honouring an infamous conversion therapy torturer) threatens a trans woman with rape, along with deriding feminism and abortion rights, and the follow-up features a not particularly subtle self-insert in the form of a content creator who is murdered for not being woke enough.


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Then there is the fact that the singular trans character in the game, a trans woman, is not only sympathetic to the bad guys, but also has a name crammed with as many masculine implications as possible, including “sir” in the first name, a boys name as a last name, and one that means “little king” to boot.

Yep.

Which, by the way, is not the first time Rowling and her franchise have fucked up with names, naming a black man “Shacklebolt”, giving a Chinese character two Korean names and in general giving every non-British character the most stereotypical name you could think of.

Still want to play?

Go ahead. Enjoy yourself. Indulge. It's your conscience, you have to live with it. Tell me, did you ever take anyone's lunch away in middleschool?

Oh, and that's not to mention the protagonist of one of her crime novels (written under a pen name honouring an infamous conversion therapy torturer) threatens a trans woman with rape, along with deriding feminism and abortion rights, and the follow-up features a not particularly subtle self-insert in the form of a content creator who is murdered for not being woke enough.

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