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I just wanted to say thank you to all the #blind folk who responded last night to give me so many fantastic responses.

It's given me a clear direction of travel, and been quite affirming in terms of my future plans.

I don't have as much money as I'd like, but I can certainly do some things.

I think I'm going to go back to the table and ask the charity to put some of our own money in so that I can do something for Deafblind people.

They may say no.

#accessibility #disability #disabled

#Accessibility #blind #Disabled #Disability

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A long one, but that's pretty common for Hindustani Classical. This is a recording from 1974 of Surbahar (essentially bass sitar) playing rāg yaman. This serene evening rāg is similar to lydian, though with rules. Alāp Jor Jhala refers to distinct sections. The alāp is a slow free-rhythm exploration of the rāg, jor/jod () introduces a steady rhythm, and jhala introduces a more lively rhythm (a constant pattering of melodic raindrops).
#Music #Ethnomusicology #WorldMusic
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Imrat Khan - Surbahar - Raga Yaman Live in Germany 1974

Raga Yaman ( 33.00 )Alap, Jor & JhalaImrat Khan - SurbaharFrom " Live in Munchen, Germany, 1974Recorded from LP to CassetteBy the joining of Alap & Jor to Jh...
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#music #ethnomusicology #worldmusic
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Cassana 🍻

@menelion Hindustani and Carnatic music theory are interesting different worlds to explore. I’ve mainly done rhythm theory though, but I understand the basics of rāg. Perhaps useful to know. The melody is mainly happening on one string. For reference, the surbahar usually has a scale length of 95-100cm. The instrument’s overall length can be more like 130cm. It’s a beast!
@AndrΓ© Polykanine

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K tomu, co se teď dΔ›je, jen jedno

🎸HNF🎸
🎢To svΔ›t se posral🎢
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To svet se posral - YouTube Music

Provided to YouTube by Parlophone Czech Republic To svet se posral Β· HrdinovΓ© novΓ© fronty VΓ‘lka β„— 2007 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by E...
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Google AI Plus : avec son nouvel abonnement Γ  8 euros par mois, Gemini veut tuer ChatGPT Go
https://www.numerama.com/tech/2168959-google-ai-plus-avec-son-nouvel-abonnement-a-8-euros-par-mois-gemini-veut-tuer-chatgpt-go.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

PubliΓ© dans Le meilleur de la tech @le-meilleur-de-la-tech-Numerama


Google AI Plus vs ChatGPT Go : quel abonnement IA Γ  8 euros choisir ?

Quelques jours après le lancement de l'abonnement ChatGPT Go à 8 euros par mois, Google réplique avec Google AI Plus, une formule équivalente qui donne accès à la meilleure version de Gemini et à 200 Go de stockage.
Nicolas Lellouche (Numerama)
@le-meilleur-de-la-tech-Numerama

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RE: social.heise.de/@heiseonline/1…

FΓΌr blinde Musiker*innen, die die zugΓ€nglichen Keyboards und auf NKS basierenden Bibliotheken nutzen, weil sie eben sprechend sind und somit zugΓ€nglich, im Gegensatz zu vielen anderen solchen Keyboard-Systemen, ist das eine verdammt schlechte Nachricht. Sehende kΓΆnnen vielleicht auf Alternativen ausweichen, wir haben aber solche nicht. Wie bitter! Hoffe das ganze Γ–kosystem wird irgendwie gerettet.

heise online (@heiseonline@social.heise.de)

Native Instruments meldet Insolvenz an Das Berliner Musiktechnologieunternehmen Native Instruments, auch Muttergesellschaft von iZotope, Plugin Alliance und Brainworx, hat Insolvenz angemeldet. https://www.heise.
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Yesterday at work:

me: "Codex, figure out why <component> doesn't see <hardware>, even though <hardware> is clearly present on machine."

(left unsaid: component runs in container, other stuff (also in containers) sees hardware fine).

*2 minutes later*

Codex: "You have foo installed at version X (likely from ubuntu repositories), vendor's hardware support matrix page says that <hardware> only supports Foo at versions y+, I advise you to install from official vendor repo. If you run foo, it shows a "hardware not recognized" warning."

Me: "You don't have sudo, write a sh script runnable with sudo."

Codex: "script is at ..."

Me: "./script.sh; reboot"

*2 minutes later*

Oh that worked. Would have taken me hours of debugging otherwise.

The whole thing took about 15 minutes, most of which was installing packages over a slow network connection.

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So, jetzt weiß ich auch, woran es lag, dass ich immer dachte, meine Posts auf diesem Account würden zu spÀt in der Timeline erscheinen. Mein Programm, mit dem ich trâte, steckt noch in der Entwicklung, und erst jetzt ist das Streaming komplett. Jetzt lÀuft also alles. Das wird bedeuten, dass ich in nÀchster Zeit auf meine Instanz umziehe.

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Sign in with Apple polls!

Have you ever used this with a website and received essentially none of the emails the site sent (particularly a question with Kickstarter)?

(Sign in with Apple lets you use Hide My Email to create an address that Apple restricts to validated addresses that an app or website has registered with Apple and added DKIM and SPF records to define correct email origin servers.)

  • No or almost no email (30%, 10 votes)
  • All or almost all email (42%, 14 votes)
  • Some or most email (27%, 9 votes)
33 voters. Poll end: in 9 minutes

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Need to view the recovery key for a FileVault-encrypted Mac in order to, for example, reset its login password? If you opted to allow your Apple Account to be able to decrypt your Mac, the key is stored and viewable in the Passwords app on your signed in devices like any other credential; just select your Mac's name in the list of accounts, and then click or double-tap the key to show it. #TipTuesday
#tiptuesday

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What is with these websites with seemingly random soft hyphens Β­ placed everywhere?

Here's an example. It makes reading with a screen reader very difficult.
When researchΒ­ing a famous hisΒ­torΒ­iΒ­cal figΒ­ure, access to their work and mateΒ­riΒ­als usuΒ­alΒ­ly proves to be one of the biggest obstaΒ­cles. But things are much more difΒ­fiΒ­cult for those writΒ­ing about the life of Marie Curie, the sciΒ­enΒ­tist who, along her with husΒ­band Pierre, disΒ­covΒ­ered poloΒ­niΒ­um and radiΒ­um and birthed the idea of parΒ­tiΒ­cle physics. Her noteΒ­books, her clothΒ­ing, her furΒ­niΒ­ture (not to menΒ­tion her lab), pretΒ­ty much everyΒ­thing surΒ­vivΒ­ing from her Parisian subΒ­urΒ­ban house, is radioacΒ­tive, and will be for 1,500 years or more.

openculture.com/2023/11/marie-…


Marie Curie's Research Papers Are Still Radioactive a Century Later

Image by The Wellcome Trust When researching a famous historical figure, access to their work and materials usually proves to be one of the biggest obstacles.
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Borris

@bnlandor @hosford42 @KaraLG84 @Akki iOS voiceover ignores them completely. Not everything does. NVDA, for example, which I am using now, treats them the same as a regular hyphen. This can be changed by a simple dictionary change, but, I guess, if you needed those in code for some reason, you wouldn't know they were there if that were the default.
That being said, I think it should be.
@Aaron @\u1f0a1 @Kara Goldfinch @Heather πŸ‘»

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Canceled my Spotify subscription this year and started using @AntennaPod, and my god what an update to my QoL.

No algorithms shoving perceived interests down my throat, no analytics tracking my every move, and no ads other than any the shows themselves decided to embed in an episode.

Seriously, if you can, give it a shot for at least a week, or swing a donation their way. We all need projects like these to flourish

antennapod.org/


AntennaPod – The Open Podcast Player

AntennaPod is a podcast player that is completely open. The app is open-source and you can subscribe to any RSS feed. AntennaPod is built by volunteers without commercial intere...
AntennaPod
@AntennaPod

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RE: social.coop/@dajb/115971635811…

This is super neat!

Doug Belshaw (@dajb@social.coop)

Built a small bridge between Proton Calendar and privacy-friendly video calls. A new browser extension lets me drop Jitsi, BigBlueButton, Whereby (or any custom link) straight into events. Code and details: https://blog.dougbelshaw.
Doug Belshaw (social.coop)

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On my way to Brussels for XMPP summit then FOSDEM. Contact me here or on XMPP if you want to discuss Libervia, see a demo, or talk about related topics (XMPP Pubsub, e2ee, activityPub or email gateways, forums, multiparty A/V calls, metadata reduction, serverless, data policy, etc).

You can also directly come to our booth (XMPP & Realtime Lounge).

Please note that this year we are in AW level 1 instead of the usual location.

#Libervia #XMPP #summit #FOSDEM #Brussels

#xmpp #libervia #fosdem #brussels #summit
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So far with Moltbot, just on their web interface I have:
Sent a message to A T Guys support using the contact form on the website, getting around the CAPTCHA
Rickrolled myself by having it find Rick Astley on my computer and play using Winamp
Created a 20 song playlist of 90s bangers from files on my hard drive
Connected with Home Assistant and controled my speakers
Taken a screenshot of my computer
This thing can do good and very bad things. But wow the potential is there however you define it.

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Reading the "European agentic AI landscape" report and it doesn't start well. And note, I'm not per se opposed to AI. But this sort of unjustified affirmation of the consequent bothers me:

"The EU must address systemic barriers that limit its ability to
strengthen the agentic AI ecosystem and generate value."

Oh, really, must it now? Why then I suppose no-one could have anything to argue against that.

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Please help sign this online petition.

A new bill in Indonesia would massively expand censorship of LGBT+ content online. Tell lawmakers to reject this dangerous legislation now!

This petition was created by their partners at the Pelangi Nusantara.

action.allout.org/en/m/a68f74a…

#lgbt #indonesia #humanrights #censorship


Stop Indonesia’s bill to censor LGBT+ lives online

Indonesia is moving to ban LGBT+ content across digital platforms. Activists warn this will fuel harassment and arrests. Urge lawmakers to reject the Broadcasting Bill and defend free expression – censorship is not protection.
action.allout.org
#censorship #HumanRights #lgbt #indonesia

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Leyendo noticias de AdministraciΓ³n electrΓ³nica, acabo de ver esto, que se presenta como favorable, y a mi no me lo parece (y eso que yo sΓ­ pienso que la IA y los LLMs pueden tener utilidad).

"Europa destina ahora una mayor proporciΓ³n de capital riesgo a la IA agentic que Estados Unidos, con Francia y Alemania emergiendo como los principales centros. Una constelaciΓ³n mΓ‘s amplia de ciudades innovadoras, como Ámsterdam, Estocolmo, MΓΊnich y Barcelona, ​​estΓ‘ fortaleciendo el papel de Europa en este espacio. Los financiadores pΓΊblicos, como el EIC y el EIT Health, desempeΓ±an un importante papel catalizador, atrayendo a los principales inversores globales al ecosistema europeo de IA agentic."

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The iPad was announced 16 years ago today. How?

How has it been that long?
How has the iPad not made PCs irrelevant yet?
How long until Apple just admits that iPad OS is a failed experiment with 7 too many window management options that make using the iPad more frictionful than a real computer at almost every single use case.

I still use mine almost every day but if my current 2018 iPad Pro stopped working for some reason I’m not sure I’d replace it. It just doesn’t quite know what it’s for. Still.

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I tell ya, you could give Windows the newest and even better hardware in tons, and it would still be sluggish, laggy, unresponsive, straight up ignore input or take a minute to process, especially when booting up. This is a fucking top tier Lenovo laptop, I don't care how much bloatware there is on there, you have the resources, go and use them man, no reason to have my screenreader lag, only process one out of 3 keys and force me to reboot before even having done anything.

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I tried using Claude Code on the desktop app today. Not to get technical, but Claude's where it's at if you're working on a large project like I am. It helps me follow a plan through beginning to end in an ordered way. Chatgpt is useful for other things, but this thing's generally accessible, is a great code pair, and it's willing to teach me as we go so I can do some of the coding. Heaven't started coding a lot yet, but I have a plan file outlined, and I'll start a refactor tomorrow.

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OK, what are these big, awful, horrible problems which are supposed to befall me if I upgrade to the newest version of iOS as a voiceover user? Got a notification from Dice World and so of course immediately updated on my primary device because I’m that kind of stupid. So far, seems to be yet another massive wave of nothing. Thoughts welcome.
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