I just discovered that BritBox has 26 - yes 26 seasons of Doctor Who going back to when it first aired in 1963. There are 695 episodes. That is about 300 hours.
I have never watched the series.
This might be just what I need to get through the next couple of years.
Those 26 seasons (First Doctor thru Seventh Doctor) are also on Tubi for free.
I’m shocked by how misinformed the men in my life are on abortion bans. Most of them support a woman’s right to choose - but they don’t understand that the bans put lives at risk. One said to me “I’m sure they don’t impact women who WANT to start a family”.
They do - and here’s why:
Abortion bans put lives at risk. When you criminalize abortion - you’re practically criminalizing pregnancy. It sounds harsh - but women have been arrested for having miscarriages. Doctors face jail time for intervening to save a woman’s life if she’s having pregnancy complications.
When a woman is having an early miscarriage - you can’t tell whether it happened naturally or was induced. The police should not be involved in making that call. Yet if they have ANY reason to suspect you wanted to end that pregnancy? You could be arrested.
Have an ectopic? An abruption? A fetus with lethal anomalies? Doctors are going to hesitate before intervening even IF your life is at risk. They have to consult the legal department, they have to fear for their licence and the possibility of jail time.
Pregnancy is NOT a health neutral state. Anything you can be at risk for - you’re higher risk for in pregnancy. When things go sideways - it can happen incredibly quickly. Waiting to intervene can and does cost the life of the mother AND the baby.
Doctors are also fleeing states with abortion bans - leaving women in those states with even less access to qualified care. They don’t want to practice somewhere that the government is going to dictate what happens to their patient. They don’t want to worry about criminal charges.
All of this adds up to bad news for women - many of who WANT children but will choose not to become pregnant in the face of these archaic and dangerous laws. It’s not “your body my choice”. It’s “my body my choice”. Until people realize that - we continue to be in danger.
#abortion #prochoice #abortionishealthcare #womenshealth #mybodymychoice #reproductivehealth
> XMPP: the forgotten gem of Instant Messaging
For the five thousandth time, NO, it is not. It sucks. The XEPs suck. The clients almost all universally suck except like *one* client on Android. The server hosting story is an overcomplicated mess.
GRETCHEN, STOP TRYING TO MAKE XMPP HAPPEN
don’t forget the crypto!
On second thought, do forget it. Forget all about it.
GitHub - theodorblackbird/lina-speech: Official implementation of the TTS model Lina-Speech
Official implementation of the TTS model Lina-Speech - theodorblackbird/lina-speechGitHub
Used it in another project and it delivers great performance and it can be easily fine tuned on new data in few hours.
It uses Vocos as a decoder, so it is also very fast in decoding tokens back to audio.
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The gall on these people.
Leveraging the power of the state to benefit crony capitalists and protect their private interests, in detriment of their competitors and the public at large, is one of the main features of Fascism, by the way.
Also, if they decide to act on this, the joke is on them, it's so incredibly stupid. Reconstruction contracts are usually absurdly lucrative [Halliburton in Iraq, Marshall Plan in Europe]. I suspect Vance will get quite a few phone calls from American corporations begging him not to say stupid shit like this. German companies will not only ramp up their production to meet demand (especially military industries) and extend their area of influence, a few German capitalists will become very wealthy because Vance decided to be a Putin puppet and wank on Peter Thiel's agenda (yes, this is Peter Thiel's game pulling the strings, Elon is a low-IQ, socially challenged buffoon who got lucky and hired good engineers who save his business every day, despite him).
independent.co.uk/news/world/a…
JD Vance says US could drop support for NATO if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk’s platforms
Republican vice presidential nominee says ‘Germans and other nations’ – not Russia – would ‘have to fund Ukraine’s reconstruction’Gustaf Kilander (The Independent)
Where do folks go to get DRM-free epub books when they're trying to avoid Amazon and Barnes & Noble?
I use bookshop.org and thriftbooks.com for my hard copies of things, but I LOVE my eBooks too.
Right now the only advantage to Amazon is that I can legally break the DRM, so the book is truly mine once I purchase it (I won't buy eBooks I can't unlock). But I'd really like to find alternate sources of DRM-free books. Ideas?
It all started on November 11, 1996:
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#curl
How it started - everything curl
everything there is to know about curl, libcurl and the cURL projecteverything.curl.dev
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The October 2024 report from the Reproducible Builds project has just been published.
This month includes an Android toolchain bug I reported to Google having been fixed: "Number of cores affected Android compiler output".
And of course "@IzzyOnDroid passed 25% reproducible apps" 
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If you have more or better screenshots, please share! This shot is taken from the ending sequence of the PC version of the game Grand Theft Auto V. 44 minutes in! See the youtube version. Sky HD is a satellite TV box. This is a Philips TV.daniel.haxx.se
Integration of sandboxed-api for #libcurl?
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Integration of sandboxed-api · curl curl · Discussion #15539
The sandboxed-api project provides libraries the means to implement a separate api that allows to execute library functions in a separate process which can be effectively restricted using seccomp a...GitHub
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When I was a kid, under the influence of science fiction, I dreamt I was going to the moon. It was so exciting! When I woke up I was crushed. When I grew up, I realized sending humans into space is a waste of money at present - though it was good to prove we could do it.
If we're serious about exploring airless environments with lots of radiation, we should be developing cyborgs and better AI. But meanwhile, we can explore space from the comfort of home using space probes and telescopes. We just need to get better at explaining to ordinary folks how cool this is. I can get thrilled by graphs and tables of data, because I can vividly imagine what they mean. Most folks would prefer a good animated video.
MeerKAT is an amazing array of 64 radio telescopes in South Africa. They want to expand this to the Square Kilometer Array, which will actually consist of thousands of telescopes in South Africa and Australia. But it's already seeing great stuff. Like just this June they found a weird thing that flashes like a pulsar - but really slowly, once every 54 minutes instead of a thousand times a second like an ordinary pulsar.
That's insane! What is this thing? We don't know, and that's exactly why it's cool. But for some guesses, read on - after I do the laundry.
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Okay, I hung up the laundry. Imagine an enormous star flinging off its outer layers after it runs out of fuel and its core collapses under its own gravity. If it doesn't become a black hole, the core can shrink down to a ball of neutronium just 20 kilometers across. Just as a ballerina spins faster as she pulls in her arms, this ball spins really fast - like 1000 rotations a second. And since neutronium conducts electricity, it can blast out radio waves as it spins, creating a blinking radio signal, called a pulsar. Pulsars are so precisely periodic that when Jocelyn Bell first spotted one, people thought it was a signal from aliens!
Like the rest of us, pulsars slow down as they age. But this also means their signal weakens. So we usually don't see pulsars in the gray region of this chart - to the right of the line called the 'pulsar death line'. Pulsars are the gray dots to the left of this line. The pink squares are called 'magnetars'. These are the squalling infants in the world of pulsars: young and highly magnetized neutron stars that do crazy stuff like put out big bursts of X-rays now and then.
But then there are weirder things. A telescope array called the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder was searching for radio waves connected to a gamma ray burst in 2022 when it stumbled on something that blasts out radio waves about once an hour. It lost track of this object, so folks brought in the more powerful MeerKAT radio telescope and found it again.
Now it's called ASKAP J1935+2148. It's well to the right of the pulsar death line. What could it be?
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The radio source ASKAP J1935+2148 is an amazing thing. It blasts out radio waves once every 54 minutes, which is incredibly slow for a pulsar. Pulsars usually pulse somewhere between 1000 times a second and once every few seconds.
ASKAP J1935+2148 puts out 3 kinds of pulses in a rather random way: bright pulses, weak pulses, and no pulse at all. But if you fill in the missing pulses, you'll see the pulses keep the same period with an accuracy of 1/10 of a second. So I imagine it must be something quite heavy slowly spinning around, which has a patch that switches between 3 modes of radio emission.
It could be a really weird pulsar, but nobody knows how a pulsar spinning so slowly could put out radio waves. Another candidate I've read about is a 'magnetic white dwarf'. These are white dwarf stars that have strong magnetic fields. Nobody knows why! But also, nobody has seen one put out radio pulses. So this also seems like a long shot.
In short, it's a mystery! And that means we'll learn something cool.
For a nice account of this, try Astrobites:
• Magnus L'Argent, This ultra-long period radio signal can’t make up its mind, astrobites.org/2024/07/02/ultr…
For even more details, try this:
• M. Caleb et al, An emission-state-switching radio transient with a 54-minute period, nature.com/articles/s41550-024…
The animated gif here shows an artist's impression of an ordinary pulsar, not ASKAP J1935+2148. It's probably been slowed down a lot.
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This ultra-long period radio signal can’t make up its mind
You’ll have to wait nearly a whole hour to catch a glimpse of it!astrobites
This is a valuable article for those who are involved in any way in online spaces (read: all of us). I'm looking forward to reading the research paper. Some of their findings:
1. Members Don’t Leave After Experiencing Toxicity
2. Online Toxic Behaviors Are Not Isolated Incidents
3. Toxicity Stems from Culture, Not a Few “Bad Apples”
4. Rivalries Don’t Boost Communities — They Tear Them Apart
5. Self-Moderation Is Not Enough to Keep Toxicity at Bay
hbr.org/2024/11/why-moderators…
Why Moderators Can’t Protect Online Communities on Their Own
An analysis of 18 years of data on user behavior and its moderation reveals that the failure stems from five common misconceptions about toxicity.Harvard Business Review
If there are any #Lorcana fans out there interested in donating $6.52 towards helping children in hospitals, doing so in the next half hour at
desertbus.org/donate
will enter you into a giveaway for one booster box of each set of Lorcana released so far. All 5!
We'd also love to have you check out the @desertbus gaming charity fundraiser marathon over at
twitch.tv/desertbus
Here's their post about this very giveaway:
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Donate to Desert Bus 2024
Donate directly to Child's Play Charity, supporting children's hospitals and domestic violence shelters across the globe. Every donation helps keep the bus on the road just a bit longer.Desert Bus for Hope
Escaping From Trump?
Fancy a break?
A 4-year cruise: the US offers a "break from politics"
A residential cruise line is offering a four-year voyage for passengers looking for an extra-long vacation.
All-inclusive tickets start at $256,000 for a single room. Double rooms start at $319,998. The cruise will take vacationers to 140 countries.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #vacation #cruise #Politics #uspolitics #uspol
Кто-то может сказать "тупая привычка", но, когда я доигрываю игру в CS2, то я всегда говорю "всем спасибо за игру" и ухожу. Даже если проиграл, даже если злился на всех, всё равно - скажу "спасибо" и выйду.
Многие отвечают "и тебе спасибо, удачи", но в большинстве случаем я слышу мат в свою сторону, по стилю "иди на*й отсюда уе*к, га*он".
Accessible Audio Hardware
Accessible audio hardware You may be worried about buying a new piece of technology, but not knowing if you will be able to use it. In the age of touchscreens, not every device on the market can be usToni Barth
#Accessibility #Blind #Disability #AssistiveTech #Inclusion
Ahora sin contenido gráfico xD
Ayer estuve donando sangre y como siempre hago mi poquito de proselitismo: #DonaSangre si puedes, es un sacrificio pequeñito para un bien necesario y que no hay otra manera de conseguir.
Y, si donas, hazlo en servicios públicos ❤️
so I discovered yesterday that gotosocial has support for local-only posting similar to glitch/hometown, which is great! unfortunately none of the clients I'm aware of appear to support it
if you're an android or JS dev, adding this to Tusky or Pinafore/Semaphore/Enafore would be a really cool contribution IMO!
there's an existing issue for Tusky but I couldn't find anything for Pinafore & co
"Local only" visibility · Issue #3198 · tuskyapp/Tusky
I've been testing Takahē (jointakahe.org) with Tusky - it has a Mastodon compatible API. One feature it has is a post visibility setting of "local only". It would be good to see this in Tusky. Appa...GitHub
If you really aren't interested in spending the time, gathering the hardware, putting it all together, and futzing around with software, then there is the ClearNode from NodeVentures.com
The advantage is that you get a fully-assembled and working node delivered to you, along with an iOS app to control things. But it is significantly more expensive, and the app functionality depends on AWS to function. But its totally up to you the route you choose to go.
Me neither.
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#USPolitics #PostElectionBlues #TuckersBalls
Anti-Trump protests erupt across US from New York City to Seattle
Thousands of people take to streets to protest threats to reproductive rights and pledges of mass deportationsMaya Yang (The Guardian)
Human performance: youtube.com/watch?v=14OM6Ysnk6…
An Overview of the Camera Types Found on Android Smartphones - Accessible Android
With advancements in smartphone technology, today’s Android phones come equipped with multiple cameras, each serving a unique purpose. Understanding the roleEditorial Staff (Accessible Android)
Say, Bluesky has public lists of accounts that users curate which helps a ton with onboarding. We have lists too, but only you can see your own lists.
Am I missing something? This seems a pretty obvious feature that only needs a minor code change? Or am I missing something and can I see other people's lists?
Why do governments still have Twitter (X) links on them? Surely we can be confident that it isn't a neutral public square in 2024. Are governments getting value from it? Agencies/departments do not need to pick between LinkedIn, Mastodon, Bluesky or Threads if choosing a new platform proves difficult, but remove Twitter from your social media feeds.
Having Twitter, but not the others isn't neutral, it is negative.
Dnes už jsem schopen nějaké práce s textem, tak jsem sepsal, proč odcházím od Pirátů. Mnohým z vás bych to jinak dlužil po těch letech, co tu #piráti dělám reklamu. Už nebudu :(
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Update: Vložen správný screenshot na můj příspěvek pro (ne)vstupování do vlády. Konkrétně: jackc.teptin.net/files/clanky/…
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