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I am very proud and honoured to receive the Robert S Bray award from the American Council of the Blind. mosen.org/bray2024/

in reply to DAVID WOODBRIDGE

Someone should let them know about Iomega zip disks. They'll be able to store far more data on one of those than on a floppy.

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What's wrong with this world? Menah Menah is now a Karioki track? I guess it's for lazy singers? youtube.com/watch?v=gyQEec97Gn…
in reply to Just Martin

Oh, that's not the worst I've heard. The song "Tequila" by the Champs has been done at karaoke.


Update on MAME DECtalk PC emulation. I implemented a hack to fix the broken DSP output. Here is a recording of what it sounds like now.



ElevenLabs Reader Alpha Impressions: Awesome Development, Although Not as Expected accessibleandroid.com/elevenla…


SWNN Interview: ‘Temptation of the Force’ Author Tessa Gratton on Connecting the High Republic, Attachment in ‘Star Wars’, and More starwarsnewsnet.com/2024/07/sw…




Are audiobooks set to change forever? vi.ie/are-audiobooks-set-to-ch…
in reply to David Goldfield

This trend of AI narrators for audio books is quite disturbing in my opinion. There are some truly phenominal human readers out there, and I'd hate to lose the joy of listening to them read and do all the various voices of characters and stuff. While I can easily use synthetic speech on my computer, iPhone, ETC, I have never been able to use a TTS voice to read for pleasure. I have no clue why, but there's some sort of disconnect in my brain, and having to focus on what the TTS voice is saying just takes me out of the story, especially if it's one that I've heard with excellent narration from a human reader.


Changing folder view to get more file information vi.ie/changing-folder-view-to-…



CVE-2024-5535 is an #OpenSSL problem that cannot be triggered by #curl

OpenSSL calls it it a low severity flaw. openssl.org/news/vulnerabiliti…

GitHub lists it as "critical" at 9.1 out of 10: github.com/advisories/GHSA-4fc…

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Apparently I am now a "Principle Data Architect". x.com/filrakowski/status/18113…

I was lucky enough to be warned by @honk -- if you see any familiar names they would probably appreciate a heads up about their face and name being used for a scam.

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I am truly surprised at the number of people that can't recall a time in very recent history when trusted politicians, journalists, media outlets and notable public figures wittingly and unwittingly conspired to use overblown news reports & wild reactions to those reports in a feedback loop to prevent the best Presidential candidate for the American people being elected, handing the election to the best candidate for the American oligarchs instead.

#politics #journalism #Election2024



Something reminded me today of this gem by Roy Fielding (author of the dissertation that coined the term REST): roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/sp… The quote from the conclusion of James Burke's Connections series is worthwhile all by itself, but then Fielding ties it into some discussion that was happening at the time of writing about what is and isn't REST.


The app apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/a… (available in the @IzzyOnDroid repo) has (finally) been using the @openfoodfacts API since today's update \o/

Scan name (source OpenFoodFacts), select expiry date, done.

Great, I've always wanted that. ❤️❤️❤️

Thanks #openfoodfacts

in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅

ok thanks

Wir schmeissen in der WG jeden Tag soviel Essen weg,deswegen die Freude, das die app das nun endlich drin hat

in reply to -/mondstern

keine Sorge, @openfoodfacts ist da schon dran. Ich bin zuversichtlich, dass das Problem mit dem nächsten Release gelöst ist. Das kommt dann auch wieder gleich zu IzzyOnDroid: Updates sind wieder aktiviert, die APK-Datei mit den proprietären Bestandteilen wurde auch bei Github von den Releases entfernt.


I've just put together a 40 second "fast forward" video for our High Performance Graphics talk later this month: youtube.com/watch?v=gkeqny6zMD…

The animations were all hand-coded in Rust and rendered in Vello in real time. Just a screen record in OBS to add the voiceover, no other editing. This feels like a preview of the potential for this infrastructure to support high-powered creative tools.





Guides to Mastodon & the Fediverse:

➡️ fedi.tips (my website 😁 )

➡️ “Mastodon For Dummies” by Chris Minnick & Mike McCallister, book/ebook/audiobook

➡️ mastodon.help - Mastodon tips

➡️ joinfediverse.wiki/Main_Page - Articles about using the Fediverse

➡️ github.com/joyeusenoelle/Guide… - Mastodon etiquette & traditions

➡️ enthalpiste.fr/index.php/fedi-… & didiermary.fr/sommaire-du-guid… - Guides in French

➡️ blog.noleron.com/posts/tips/ - Guide in Ukrainian

➡️ panduanfediverse.wordpress.com… - Guide in Indonesian



#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 23 updated and 1 added apps:

* Hyperlink Knapsack: manage your LinkAce database

An update to Food Expirations had to be removed (fresh index being deployed as I write this) as it introduced several proprietary components, hopefully by accident).

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:



The #NGI Zero consortium, of which the FSFE is a partner, is granting small and medium R&D projects developing #FreeSoftware technologies that can improve the Internet.

Find more about the NGI Zero Common Fund: nlnet.nl/commonsfund/



Apparently, Showtime, the new #GNOME Video player is now available in Flathub. It's gstreamer based and written in Python.
flathub.org/apps/org.gnome.Sho…


That thing where 40% of the regular commenters on the blog of an organization trying to replace the US constitution with a calvinist-mammonite theocracy turn out to be posting from Russian and Chinese email addresses …

Gosh, I CAN'T IMAGINE WHY Chinese or Russian state actors might be enthusiastically boosting a neo-fascist conspiracy to overthrow the Biden administration!
techhub.social/@rayckeith/1127…



please boost this post to help me find a job :boostRequest:

i'm looking for something remote in the realms of social media and/or video editing

i'm vanta -- known social media poster, longtime writer, seasoned video editor, skilled audio/image editor, designer of websites, and all-around creative person

here's my portfolio vanta.work

tysm 🖤

#GetFediHired #FediHired #job #jobs



It's time for the June Thunderbird for Android Progress Report! We have:

👨🏻 A New Team Member
💕 A Two App Foundation
✨ Material 3 and Android Updates
🌏 Translation News

We also have a bonus Thundercat! 🐈

blog.thunderbird.net/2024/07/t…

#Thunderbird #Android #OpenSource

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I’m trying to come up with a more cynical and violently disparaging take on both the work of living human beings *and* the performance management process itself, and coming up short. lattice.com/blog/leading-the-w…



I don't know why I've been thinking so much about "Agile". Maybe looking at LinkedIn too much (for unrelated reasons) has broken some demon seal within me, but despite the fact that I'm not interacting with it now, I find myself annoyed about it more than I have been in a while. Today I guess I've got a milquetoast defense of Agile & Scrum: a lot of what they get blamed for is just management trying to go too fast, without explaining.

(ICYMI, see previous for context <mastodon.social/@glyph/1127356…>)


in reply to Ben Cox

People need to recognize that the criminals in swatting are the cops for reacting to unauthenticated reports with violence.
in reply to Charles U. Farley

In that respect, it's the same as "identity theft", where the "victim" is actually victimized by payment providers, banks, and the credit bureaus, who failed to authenticate the person they issued credit to or otherwise acted on behalf of.
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ElevenLabs Reader Alpha Impressions: Awesome Development, Although Not as Expected accessibleandroid.com/elevenla…


Did you know ANYWAYS also has a newsletter: anyways.eu/newsletter/

Read the latest edition here:
mailchi.mp/anyways.eu/try-anyw…

📈 Over 600 projects representing 1.900 scenarios and 24.000 map edits.
🚴‍♀️ Velo-city and talking about modeling cycling.
📢 Communication with ReRoute and our focus on this product.
🗺 Maps and Data we have published and plan to publish.
🚀 New features like private datasets and Mapillary integration.



Remembering Brandon Cole descriptivevideoworks.com/reme…


#GUADEC2024 is one week away! Make sure you're registered as a remote participant if you're attending from home or at a satellite event like in Berlin. Knowing where and how you attend helps us improve future events! events.gnome.org/event/209/reg…

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The City of Boston is going to stop asking people what disabilities they have in favor of asking what accommodations they require. Brilliant!
Via @kellylford
wgbh.org/news/local/2024-07-11…

#accessibility #a11y #disabilities



It's finally time! Registration & Call for Proposals are now open for #XDC2024 in Montréal, Canada! If you plan on attending, please make sure to register as early
as possible! xdc2024.x.org #Mesa #Wayland #Linux #Graphics #OpenSource
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“Taking care of our people” by saying they’re shit publicly, by Intuit.