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Friend: I don't know what to do!

Me: (I explain what he needs to do.)

Friend: That sounds like just what I need. I'm going to do that!

(a week later)

Me: How did it go?

Friend: Oh that? I didn't do it.

Me: Why not?

Friend: I don't know. I just didn't.

Me: Okay. Will you try again?

Friend: Probably not.

Me: So you'll just ignore the problem then?

Friend: Oh no. It's still a problem.

Me: But I gave you the solution.

Friend: And a great solution it was.

Me: And yet...

Friend: Exactly

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Dear Amazon, if you're going to use AI enhanced synthetic speech for Audio Description on your Prime TV series, the least you can do is check it for pronunciation quality. The voice being realistic isn't enough.

In Talamasca: The Secret Order, AD mispronunciations include "Surré" instead of "Surrey", "alyus" instead of "alias", and "one hundreds" instead of "hundreds".

#Amazon #Prime #Talamasca #AD #accessibility #MustDoBetter

#Accessibility #ad #amazon #prime #talamasca #mustdobetter
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Austin Nix

Naturally when I mentioned The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus earlier it's because I was reading it. and now I am not because I've finished it. I've read enough of the Oz books to know that I probably would have guessed this was written by the same author even if I didn't know that up front. Baum has a very particular style of writing that you can always tell it's him when you read one of his books.
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Tech Singer

This has nothing to do with Christmas, but I thought I'd mention it since you mention Baum. He wrote a ton of other stuff besides the Oz books, and it did sell quite a bit. I think the one which sold best, I'm not sure whether sales were better than the Oz books but am sure it didn't last as well, is his Aunt Jane series. It's an interesting glimpse of the time, I'm not particularly into that myself but did read the first one. Anyhow, it's on Gutenberg, I believe, as well as being in the usual Delphi collection which they call, with some justification given that it contains, at least, the vast majority of what he wrote, the complete Baum delphiclassics.com/shop/l-fran…

L. Frank Baum – Delphi Classics

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I love this recording of the Nat King Cole trio performing The Christmas song in 1946. The version you always hear with the strings is lovely and everything but this stripped back version with just bass, guitar and Nat's piano and vocals is something else.
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"The Christmas Song" (1946) Nat "King" Cole Trio

King Cole Trio recording of "The Christmas Song"
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Good grief I wish someone would create a way to do a mass migration from #lemmy to #piefed. Lemmy is by far the most annoying software I have the displeasure of maintaining. In today's adventures, the Lemmy developers finally created a #postgres index in 0.19.15 that I'd created myself ages ago for performance reasons. But the database migration fails if the index already exists. Even if it's the exact index it wants to create, created exactly the way the migration is doing it. And no, you can't skip a database migration, and no, it's not smart enough to check and skip the migration by itself. So you have to log into the database and drop index idx_post_aggregates_creator, and let Lemmy recreate it. Yes, this takes a while, for absolutely no reason. And if you wanted to do it without downtime in an offline copy of the database, I guess you'd have to do a bunch of fiddling to trick Lemmy into thinking the migration happened when you went to upgrade production. There had to be a better way to do that! But it's not documented and I have no idea what it would be.
#lemmy #piefed #postgres

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“What makes me transgendered is that my birth sex—which is female—appears to be in social contradiction to my gender expression—which is read as masculine. I defend my right to that social contradiction. In fact, I want to live long enough to hear people ask, ‘What made me think that was a contradiction in the first place?’”

(Leslie Feinberg, "Trans Liberation")

#trans #lgbtq #lgbtqia #nonbinary

#trans #lgbtqia #LGBTQ #nonbinary

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Super huge panic. Took left Cadence out of backpack, now cells across two sides of it won't raise or lower at all. Gosh. Did me dropping my bag on the car floor ruin the display? (another reason I wish cases existed for it.)
I ran the dot calibration tool, nothing- those dots, 4 cells on either left and right sides of the left display, appear dead to it. Wow, just wow. What a holiday.
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