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I just released my first beat-tape!
It’s largely comprised of the beats I made over the last 3-weeks or so. I’m still learning so they’re not the best, but I hope you enjoy regardless!

youtube.com/watch?v=WT_wsrBnro…
Here’s my Soundcloud too. I upload beats there when I’m finished with them, which means you can follow my music on there quicker than on streaming if you wish.
soundcloud.com/mudb0y


No Vision

Provided to YouTube by DistroKidNo Vision · Mudb0yMudbeats, Vol. 1℗ 4631244 Records DKReleased on: 2023-03-08Auto-generated by YouTube.
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What’s the right font size in web design? pimpmytype.com/font-size/ "Relative units rock" #webdesign #typography #css

What’s the right font size in web design? - Pimp my Type

If you want your text to be read, set it at a sufficient size! But what is a good font size, and how can you apply it in your web or app design? This article and video has answerers for you with some practical examples focused on body text in respons…
Oliver (Pimp my Type)
#css #webdesign #typography

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I'm hiring a Full-Stack Dev who will report to me and work on helping me spin up cool services that enhance the experience of using Thunderbird. I need a Dev Samurai who can help architect and then develop a project from scratch. Someone with an entrepreneurial spirit (as we're gonna be building a lot from the ground up).

Open source experience a big plus.

Apply here: mozilla.org/en-US/careers/posi…


Mozilla Careers — Thunderbird Full Stack Developer — Open Positions

Mozilla is hiring a Thunderbird Full Stack Developer in Remote Canada, Remote Germany, Remote UK and Remote US
Mozilla

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Law enforcement use closed-source "secure" communication tools to catch criminals, but this compromises the privacy of law-abiding users. Exclu, An0m, EncroChat - these all prove why only open source software can be trusted. Read more! 👇

tutanota.com/blog/posts/risks-…

#communication #privacy #lawenforcement #opensourcesoftware #foss #opensource


Collateral Victims of Sting Operations: The Risks of Closed-Source Software

Only open source software can truly be secure.
Tutanota
#foss #opensource #privacy #communication #opensourcesoftware #lawenforcement

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Friendica дико жрёт ресурсы и worker постоянно умирает, так как, как я понял, ему не хватает оперативы. Я вообще не программист, пишу чисто для себя и пишу как быдлокодер... возможно. Во внутренности фрэндики один раз залез и решил больше туда не лазить, так как там туева хуча зависимотей и вообще меня подобные архитектуры пугают. Залез в БД... я знаю о нормализации, но как мне показалось, разрабы френдики об этом знают мало, ну или решили забить на это (я так тоже часто делаю). Таблица gserver занимает у меня уже почти 10Gb, на эту таблицу есть внешние ключи у таблицы apcontact в RESTRICT. Сначала я хотел удалить записи с мёртвыми серверами в таблице gserver, когда не знал, что на неё ссылаются другие... Когда понял, что просто взять и удалить говённые сервера у меня не выйдет, полез в таблицу apcontact но не нашёл там ни одной записи с мёртвыми серверами. Ну и крч, как избавиться от записей в БД, типа %.activitypub-troll.cf, %.gab.best, пустых записей и прочего говна?

@Friendica Support @Rоссийская🐻Fедерация
@Friendica Support @Rоссийская🐻Fедерация
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Hypolite Petovan

@Руслан Местный @Rоссийская🐻Fедерация Hi, this is a known issue we've been having. The first step in remediation is to update your node to version 2023.01 at least. Then add two entries in your server pattern block list from the console like this:

bin/console serverblock add "*.activitypub-troll.cf" "Spam"
bin/console serverblock add "*.gab.best" "Spam"

This should reduce the amount of worker tasks.

Then you can run the following SQL queries to clean up your database:

DELETE FROM `gserver` WHERE `nurl` LIKE '%.activitypub-troll.cf' OR `nurl` LIKE '%.gab.best'

This query will take about an hour to complete.
@Rоссийская🐻Fедерация @Руслан Местный
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Руслан Местный

@Hypolite Petovan @Rоссийская🐻Fедерация Версия актуальная , спамеры находятся в блоклисте, но всё равно появляются в таблице gserver. Каждые десять минут удаляю их оттуда, процессор горит, использование оперативы ограничил, сижу и плачу. Как-то блок лист неправильно работает, что ли… Таблица apcontact тоже выросла, но там, как я понял, контакты ActivityPub. Есть что почитать конкретно про базу данных, а лучше про таблицы упомянутые ранее и блоклист? Спасибо.
@Hypolite Petovan @Rоссийская🐻Fедерация

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"You would be hard-pressed to find another parasite that has so thoroughly wrecked the body and environment of its host, all while trying to convince the host that it is deserving of praise and further accommodation."

slate.com/technology/2023/03/s…


The Incredible Tantrum Venture Capitalists Threw Over Silicon Valley Bank

Remind me why, exactly, these guys have so much control over technological innovation?
Edward Ongweso Jr. (Slate)

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Happy International Day of Mathematics! Click through to the IDM314 webpage for a series of accessible talks on mathematics by a range of brilliant speakers, beginning in one hour!

idm314.org/2023-global-event-p…


2023 Global Online Celebration Program

Live Stream schedule for the Online Celebration of the International Day of Mathematics
International Day of Mathematics
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albi von skládka 🇨🇿

@brabitom ja mam uz od zacatku sveho netbookoveho obdobi zazranou pod kuzi nenavist vuci vsemu postavenemu na electronu, takze mym nejstabilnejsim nastrojem byl Sublime a Vim (nyni teda Micro), ale zaroven neprestavam hledat nejaky FLOSS nastroj, ktery by me uspokojil nejlepe na obou frontach ... mozna v budoucnu neco jako Helix nebo Kakoune 🤷 Emacs neberu, dal jsem mu sanci dvakrat a na takovou intelektualni gymnastiku proste nejsem pripraveny
@brabitom
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brabitom

S Electronem jsem na tom podobně, ale říkal jsem si, že nebudu konzerva a dám tomu šanci. 😁 Atom docela ušel, ale VSCode je strašnej. Mám docela výkonný stroj a stejně se spouštěl větrák každou chvíli. Hrůza. Celkově je děsně těžkopádný. Nechápu jeho popularitu. 🤨 Za ty roky jsem toho zkusil fakt kupu. Dlouho jsem používal Komodo Edit, díky jádru jsem si snadno tvořil vlastní doplňky a to mi vyhovovalo. Pak jsem zkoušel kde co a nyní zakotvil u Kate. Rustu fandím, takže Lapce asi zkusím. 😁

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Staying still in the land of open source projects, this slipped yesterday through my Reddit reading:
FeedGears is a web-based, self-hostable RSS client with particular attention to accessibility. According to the dev, it was tested against the WCAG 2.1 guidelines on the AA level, has integrated shortcuts, consistent keyboard navigation and automatic announcements for system events. It's pretty new so a lot of features might be missing but that's for the contact mechanisms and the feedback. :)
I haven't tested this myself yet but the landing page looks definitely alright.
feedgears.com/
#Accessibility #OpenSource #RSS #Blind #ScreenReaders

FeedGears

FeedGears RSS reader/aggregator -- A secure, private, accessible feed reader
feedgears.com
#Accessibility #opensource #blind #RSS #screenreaders

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Amir

@pitermach I use RSSOwlnix on Windows 11, and like it for its wealth of features. However, it gets quite sluggish as time goes by - I mean in a matter of a couple of months, so I'm forced to remove my database, add everything afresh, and re-adjust my settings for yet another couple of months. Really painful to say the least! Wish we had Lire for iOS/Mac on Windows 11.
@Pitermach
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𝚎𝚒𝚗 𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚔

@sten @ultraschall Things have evolved since 2004 (!) — so has email and so have podcasts. Chapter marks, chapter images, automatic sound quality enhancements …

Feel free to check it out at some point. 🤓
The open source team has worked hard for many years to make it extra nice for podcasters. It’s the best suite out there — incl. the free 1-click live broadcast feature.

@Stephan Neuhaus @Ultraschall
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𝚎𝚒𝚗 𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚔

@sten @ultraschall Even though it comes from Germany there is a full English documentation & tutorials

ultraschall.github.io/ultrasch…

Unfortunately, in German, this is how it works under Linux, or maybe just ask chat GPT:

sendegate.de/t/anleitung-ultra…


Anleitung: Ultraschall unter Linux (Ubuntu 21.10) installieren (ohne Ultraschall zu kompilieren)

Vielleicht kurz zu mir und warum ich diese Anleitung schreibe: ich habe Mitte letzten Jahres begonnen, die vorhandene Linux-Unterstützung in Ultraschall anzuschauen und etwas aufzuräumen und zu erweitern.
Sendegate
@Stephan Neuhaus @Ultraschall
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Ultraschall

@Malik @sten

Here are the english tutorial videos:

ultraschall.fm/tutorials/#engl…

And for a quick start:

youtu.be/f9904vJzOhs


Get started with Ultraschall – Ultraschall 5 Tutorial

Ultraschall 5 is a great tool to produce podcasts quickly and efficiently. In this video, I show you some of its features and what to look out for when insta...
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@𝚎𝚒𝚗 𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚔 @Stephan Neuhaus

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Microsoft wouldn't know what ethics is if it came up to them and bit them on the bum. Saying that Microsoft laid off its ethics and society team is about the same as saying that the NBA just fired a baseball team.

Mark Riedl

2023-03-14 01:23:17


Microsoft, which has been moving very fast to deploy large-scale AI systems, just removed one of its responsible AI teams

platformer.news/p/microsoft-ju…



Microsoft just laid off one of its responsible AI teams

As the company accelerates its push into AI products, the ethics and society team is gone
Zoë Schiffer (Platformer)

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If you know the address of an account on the Fediverse, you can make it appear within your own server so you can follow and interact with it:

1. Copy and paste the address into the search box on your server
2. A link to the account's profile will appear, click on it to interact

This works with all kinds of Fediverse addresses including Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, BookWyrm, Friendica, OwnCast etc.

This also works with a profile page's web address.

Find out more at fedi.tips/whats-my-accounts-ad…

Screenshot of a Mastodon profile with the account address highlighted.
Screenshot of a Fediverse address pasted into the search box on Mastodon and a link to the account's profile has appeared below it.

What’s my account’s address? How do I follow other people’s addresses? How can people follow my address? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse
fedi.tips

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Our current phone service provider's customer service has been completely down, I would say for nearly a whole month now. Initially, dialing either 611 or their listed support number both greeted us with an AI-generated voice talking about an internal system issue. Then 611 changed to a human voice a week or maybe a week and a half ago. Today, 611 still tells us in a human voice that they appreciate our patience as they work to restore their customer care systems as soon as possible, while the support line's AI-generated voice now tells us that their office is closed, and that we should call back between "6 am and 9 PM Mountain time." Yes, you read that right. It doesn't say AM, A M, like morning, it says am like I am. The worst part is that it said this at 7:15 PM Mountain Time. Not 9 PM, not 10 PM, 7:15 PM Mountain Time. They also tell me to go to www.help.ting.com if I need any help, and although help.ting.com does exist, www.help.ting.com of course does not; it shouldn't. OK yeah, maybe this is a step in the right direction ... maybe they're finally almost ready to let us talk to someone the next time something goes wrong, as has been the case a few times over the past week and a half as outgoing calls intermittently fail and incoming calls intermittently fail to ring our phones until a text message has been received. Still, the AI-generated voice needs to be replaced by a human who gets the script right, the office needs to still be open at 7:15 PM Mountain Time, the customer care line should tell us to go to help.ting.com, not www.help.ting.com, and of course, 611 and the listed support line need to both have the same greeting. Two months ago, I would have, and still did recommend this company to friends and family members who wanted good phone service at a good price with excellent customer service. But I've watched its customer service go from great to non-existent since then. It's sad to watch really.

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How some audio in a Crazy frog song on streaming was changed 13 years later and almost nobody noticed, long post

So I was just scrolling through some playlists of popular music from previous years on Spotify and stumbled across the Crazy Frog version of Axel F, which at one point in time I might have listened to more times than it was probably healthy to. So I immediately noticed that something was very off about the infamous intro sounds, which were altered a bit and now that I heard it the song sounds very wrong and I don't think I'll be able to unhear it.

This probably happened at the same time as they decided to make some new Crazy Frog content because Ticktock, and as part of this the original Axel F video was replaced with a new 4K version that also includes this new audio while also removing CF"s infamous testicles. I don't get why they changed the audio in the song - I don't think they lost the rights to the original voice clips since most of them are still there, did they need to make the audio match better with some change to the animation? But what bothers me even more is how they were able to just replace both the song and video in place such that the original is much harder to find (or in the case of Spotify flat out impossible). So yeah, definitely archive the stuff that you like, because you never know what might happen to it.

Original unedited version:
youtube.com/watch?v=xsEUU-Q09o…
Current edited video:
youtube.com/watch?v=k85mRPqvMb…

And one last fun fact, someone else apparently noticed this too and made a petition for Spotify to change the song back, which currently has a wapping 98 signatures. There's your dose of random thoughts before I go to bed.


Crazy Frog - Axel F (Official Video)

Stream/Buy @crazyfrogMusic: https://bit.ly/CrazyFrogMusicSubscribe to @crazyfrogYT Channel: https://bit.ly/CrazyFrogYoutubeEnjoy more @crazyfrogVideos: https...
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Talon

How some audio in a Crazy frog song on streaming was changed 13 years later and almost nobody noticed, long post
@simon yeah there are many more changes to that song in there. The background bandpassed synth is much louder, overall the song seems to be quieter for some reason? Some of the frog samples were replaced and others weren't, there's also some... weird autotuning kinda thing going on? Also the "frooooog" used to be nicely cut off when the main beat came in, but now it just overlaps and sounds lazy. I am confused. Who thought this had to be done? This makes no sense. Not that I liked this thing to begin with, but now I like it even less.
@simon.old

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Holy crap I just randomly ran across the way to disable those annoying "Log In With Google" prompts that appear all over the web.

1. Go go myaccount.google.com/data-and-…
2. Scroll way down to "Apps and Services"
3. Click on "Third-party apps with account access"
4. Uncheck the "Google Account sign-in prompts" option.

#Google

Screenshot of "Google Account sign-in prompts" option.

Sign in - Google Accounts

myaccount.google.com
#google
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