Montreal weather: Freezing rain, ice and wind

ctvnews.ca/montreal/weather/ar…

re: REM interruptions. One would think they would have designed to be resilient to that kind of weather...

🏖️⌨️ You know how Shadow DOM can break accessibility? There’s a new proposal with experimental implementations (some by @igalia) to help fix that! I blogged about it: meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/202…

The EU will launch the digital euro as a 100% European digital payments system to replace reliance on Visa, Mastercard, and Apple and Google Pay, with the European Central Bank issuing a digital form of cash. It will be built entirely in Europe, have zero transaction fees, instant payments, and strong privacy, giving the EU full control over its payments infrastructure.

independent.ie/business/digita…

(archive.ph/ERzTA)

Guude 👋. I checked out ChatterboxTTS Multilingual from Resemble AI.

Video is online on my Thorsten-Voice youtube channel: youtu.be/GOfRG0Byaa0

Including audio samples of all 23 supported languages (MIT licensed), local installation, some shared lessons learned and test with zero shot voice cloning.

What do you think?

La encuesta maldita definitiva


Porque no hay suficientes divisiones en el Fediverso, vengo a traer una pregunta que creará cismas, caos, cruzadas y vindicaciones.

Cuando estás en tu casa, ¿vas por allí con calzado o con los pies descalzos?

  • A pies descalzos (46%, 7 votes)
  • Con calzado (46%, 7 votes)
  • Un pie calzado, el otro no (0%, 0 votes)
  • Yo me llamo Jose Luis (6%, 1 vote)
15 voters. Poll end: in 2 days

in reply to Hubert Figuière

@hub we crossed the border at Cape Canaveral a couple of months ago. 3200 cruise passengers, it was pretty... cruisey. i suspect we were considered low risk.

however, it is a big planet. i don't need the stress of crossing that border again without the US wanting to welcome foreigners again.

there are loads of other places in the world - hello! canada!!! - that are available.

Wir haben den Barrierefreiheits-Talk vom #39c3 auseinandergenommen, denn er war wieder gut noch lehrreich.

Er enthielt Inspiration Exploitation, extrem unsaubere und fehlerhafte Ausführungen zu den WCAG, illegale und behinderten Schadende Rätschläge, und ein gänzlich fehlender Blick für die Systematik.

Insgesamt war er leider dem CCC in keinster Weise würdig. Leider ist er innerhalb der letzten Stunden zu einem der meistgesehenen Talks zum Thema überhaupt geworden.

youtu.be/fQklPjB38ws

#39c3
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fxbsky.app/profile/sailorroosc…

holy shit they might have found cure for Alzheimer's

edit: for those who can't log in

bsky post by sailorrooscout:

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

note: the first trials were on mice, but they're promising

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Just going to put this out there. If someone posts a workaround for a thing that might be giving people trouble and you don't do it, that's fine, but the lecture about oh well you're just putting off what's going to happen isn't helpful. Also, if said workaround involves tampering with software, it's of course common sense to use caution but again, lecture not needed. Nobody is forcing workaround for anything down anyone's throat, and there's no reason to get weird if someone decides to post about using said workarounds. Do or don't, but save the lecture. We're adults, we know the risks. Thanks. Have a good monday.
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Drôle et triste en même temps

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Daltonisme : Trouble visuel à cause duquel Steven Guilbeault et Elizabeth May ont déjà cru voir Mark Carney en vert.

Environnement : Ce qui nuit à l’économie.

Syndicat : Ce qui nuit à l’économie.

Rien : Concession demandée par Mark Carney à l’Alberta en échange du démantèlement de sa politique climatique.

Pistes cyclables (voir partout des) : Trouble obsessionnel particulièrement contagieux lors des élections municipales.

lapresse.ca/actualites/chroniq…

RE: chaos.social/@c3awareness/1158…

We should have the same at #FOSDEM


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in reply to 𝕆𝕥𝕥𝕠 𝕧𝕠𝕟 𝕎𝕖𝕟𝕜𝕠𝕗𝕗 🐾🐐🐇🐔

@Kipe @OttovonWenkoff Já nevím, jako ujel bych to to neříkám, ale já bych byl po těch kilometrech byl jeden den kaput. Mně stačilo to ježdění po Bavorsko. Jasný ono je i něco jiného být 8 hodin v práci a pak jet 400 km z Garmisch-Partenkirchen, ale i tak.
Někomu to tak asi nevadí.

When ChatGPT was released 3 years ago I never anticipated how it could become a source of tensions with people in my life.

So to add to its many damages, it's a source of:

- environmental catastrophe
- economic bubble
- monumental job losses with bosses leaning into AI and laying off workers
- loss of critical thinking
- destruction of higher ED methods
- further isolation with people using AI characters as "romantic partners"
- dangerous medical advice (especially with reliance on it for mental health support)

(I'm probably forgetting other important things)

AND:

source of tensions inside homes and with friends when you have a person critical of AI (🙋‍♀️​) attempting to reason with a person whose default setting is: "I'll ask ChatGPT". Pointing out flagrant mistakes by AI seems to make their heads explode and get angry at the messenger. Ouf.

Sorry for the downer but I'm sure this is a pretty common problem...

Anyway, this morning I was given hope by a toot from @jwildeboer and I should just keep focusing on that. And make sure my own child doesn't buy into the BS of AI... mastodon.social/@jwildeboer@so…

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in reply to Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂

i had an interesting interaction with my father (almost 70) this weekend. my aunt has apparently been telling him how great chatgpt is so he gave it a try. but he started by asking things he knew the answers to and came to the conclusion it's useless. once i explained what it is under the hood he was annoyed he had even tried

Welcome to week 1 of 2026!

What, week 1 of 2026 is in 2025? Yes: the "first week of 2026" starts on the Monday of the first week that has at least 4 days that fall in 2026, AKA the week with the first Thursday of the year.

Since years don't have an integer number of weeks, a "weekyear" has either 52 or 53 weeks - so you can say we have 'leap weeks' sometimes.

This is all laid out in ISO8601:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week…

However, the nice thing about standards is that there's so many to choose from. Yes, there are also people who count differently. The Java docs for their utility classes to count weeks cheekily claims "the common definition" is one where a week starts on Sunday (and week 1 is the first week where *any* day falls into the new year): docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase… . Do not believe their lies.

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