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Decentralization Unchained -- here is a lot of background what's happening with Delta Chat, serving as background for our job offers to experienced UI devs delta.chat/en/2022-12-15-uidev… #fossjobs

Delta Chat: Decentralization Unchained (Psst ... want a UI/UX dev job?)

What do indigenous communities in the Amazon rainforest, friends in Cuba, families in Iran, activists from Russia, a monastery in Cambodia, and many folks in the Fediverse have in common? You guess...
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TIL: There is a cursed color in the Kodak ProPhoto RGB color space which, when converted to sRGB using pre-August-2020-Security-Update Android's image conversion routines, causes an integer overflow and a crash due to a rounding error. Some dude accidentally created an image (flickr.com/photos/gaurav_agraw…) which contains the cursed color on a single pixel. In 2020 if you set this image as your desktop on a Google or Samsung device, the device would brick & lose all onboard data youtube.com/watch?v=iXKvwPjCGn…

Prolific sunset at St Mary Lake, Glacier National Park

The story is now on BBC on this photo breaking Android phones: www.bbc.com/news/technology-52978884?SThisFB&fbclid=I... ***** This photograph is in the news lately with android phones crashing when setting this as a wallpaper.
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This is making me think about making an "irl-basilisks" Github repo containing the Excessively Loud Sunset, Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation" and a copy of the EICAR test file. Probably a bad idea because sometime in 2026 I'd wind up including "entirely innocuous image that incorrectly trips neural network CSAM scanners" and then I'd get banned from Github mastodon.social/@miah@hachyder…

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This is like that Janet Jackson song with the same resonate frequency of some hard drives right? =)

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This Janet Jackson BASSLINE breaks laptops

Rhythm Nation's bassline is a nuts! | Get CuriosityStream/Nebula for less than $15 per year (26% off!) https://curiositystream.com/adamneely0:00 Intro1:49 Pa...
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Evropská komise schválila účinný lék na rakovinu prostaty. Stojí za ním česká vědkyně — ČT24 — Česká televize
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Evropská komise schválila účinný lék na rakovinu prostaty. Stojí za ním česká vědkyně

Evropská komise schválila používání léku proti rakovině prostaty firmy Novartis. Na jeho vývoji se podílela česká vědkyně Martina Benešová. Firma to oznámila na svých internetových stránkách a na prohlášení upozornil Deník N.
ČT24 - Nejdůvěryhodnější zpravodajský web v ČR - Česká televize

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České předsednictví dotáhlo včera v Bruselu k podpisu dohodu o partnerství a spolupráci s Thajskem.
Včera a dnes jsem přímo v Bangkoku jednal na ministerstvech zahraničí, školství, zdravotnictví a obrany a guvernérem Bangkoku o konkrétních projektech ve vědě a inovacích, obchodní a obranné spolupráci.
Se mnou do Bangkoku přijela i delegace podnikatelů ve zdravotnictví, kteří měli možnost projednat své nabídky spolupráce v oblasti péče o zdraví.

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Mmm, shiny new things! ✧・ﾟ: *✧ Our community is crafting LibreOffice 7.5, due for release in early February. And the first Beta is now available – so please help us to test it! qa.blog.documentfoundation.org…
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LibreOffice 7.5 Beta1 is available for testing - LibreOffice QA Blog

LibreOffice 7.5 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2023 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 7.5 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 7.5 started in mid June, 2022.
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arch linux kinda has to be your daily driver, if you only drive it every few weeks, something happens with the engine oil or something? something happens with pacman and the fuel injector gets clogged? and my god when that happens, you get that thing turning and it just rips itself apart, grinding noises, package conflicts, black smoke out the exhaust, and you gotta rebuild the whole thing. because you made a big mistake buddy. you gotta boot it up once per week and run the updates buddy

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“We must not give up hope. Every single day that we live, we make some impact on the planet. We have a choice as to what kind of impact that is.”

- Jane Goodall cam.ac.uk/research/news/dr-jan… #nature

Jane Goodall and infant chimpanzee Flint reach out to touch each other's hands in Gombe, Tanzania. Photo: Hugo Van Lawick/National Geographic

Dr Jane Goodall on the environment: "My greatest hope is our young people"

In a new film, Dr Jane Goodall DBE talks about the environmental crisis and her reasons for hope. 
University of Cambridge
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The amazing Georges Stavracas Neto has merged the code that adds a grid view to the default file selection dialog in GTK4, completing the work done by him, Matthias Clasen, and Corey Berla that ported the whole dialog away from the deprecated GtkTreeView widgets to the new GTK4 list widgets. In so doing, Georges closed a 18 years old bug: blog.gtk.org/2022/12/15/a-grid…

George's work will be available in GTK 4.10, next February/March.

A grid for the file chooser – GTK Development Blog

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Big Tech wants to see you naked, but we won't let them! 😎💪🔐

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There is now a much easier way to follow people on the fedi.directory site.

If you install a special extension on your web browser, you will be able to follow accounts by just clicking "follow" on their profile pages, even if they are on different servers. The browser extensions mean that the follow will happen instantly without you having to sign in again.

More info including links to extensions at:

➡️ fedi.directory/how-to-use-this…

This also works on other Fediverse directories!


How to use this site | Fedi.Directory

Interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse
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#GoodMorning adventurers!
How are you?

I survived the hump day and this is all I'm going to say about yesterday and how it went.

Today it's #thursday, meaning I'll be #live #streaming on #twitch this evening at 10 PM CET, don't miss it!
I'll be chilling playing some #WorldOfWarcraft #Dragonflight, leveling up the new hero class, the evoker, with drops enabled!
And maybe, a few games on #DivineKnockout, also with drops enabled!

Click the 💜 on twitch.tv/the_gamer_tavern to be notified when I'll be online :dragon_happy:

#Gaming #VideoGames #Streamer


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Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers.
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#Twitch #gaming #streaming #videogames #live #worldofwarcraft #goodmorning #Dragonflight #thursday #DivineKnockout #streamer

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Streit um #Chatkontrolle: FDP und Grüne stellen sich gegen Faeser
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Streit um Chatkontrolle: FDP und Grüne stellen sich gegen Faeser

Im Bundestag regt sich Widerstand gegen den Kurs von Innenministerin Faeser bei der Chatkontrolle. FDP und Grüne wollen den Bruch des Koalitionsvertrages keinesfalls hinnehmen. Sie streben eine Positionierung des Bundestages an.
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We’re finally back on Google Play!! Thanks to all the hard work by joseluismarti and Fuzzard! We have the Kodi v20 RC1 available if you opt into testing: play.google.com/apps/testing/o… and thanks to jogal/thexei, we finally have a new build in the MS Store which should work well again on Xbox! Keep in mind, we had to push our v20 RC1, so still a little rough around the edges.

Sign in - Google Accounts

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The accessibility for the blind advent calendar: day 14 - France
Since some time I have been drawn to research Minitel, a French Videotex-based system for accessing information that predates the Internet. It was a revolution in terms of digitalization which made activities such as buying train and plane tickets, signing up for classes and reading newspapers digitalized as early as the 80's. You can read more about it in the following Wikipedia article:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
There were many devices invented to make Minitel accessible to the blind, although the system itself wasn't designed with this target group in mind. Mostly, they were external speech synthesizers like in the case of Lectel:
lemonde.fr/archives/article/19…
or the Valentine text-to-speech card for the Apple II:
blog.atalan.fr/valentine-carte…
The history of the Eurobraille company, the makers of the popular Esys, Esytime and B.Note Braille displays, starts also with a speech synthesizer for the Minitel terminals.
eurobraille.fr/notre-histoire/
As I found out, however, most of France's blind community at that time did not have access to this kind of technology and Minitel only became accessible on a global scale in the 90's when regular PC's did but then it was almost the time of the Internet so it never gained the same momentum as it did with the society at large. Pity as this could have been an opportunity to push the inclusion of blind and partially sighted people to whole new levels.
Always design with accessibility from the start!
#Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #France #Internet #Minitel #Videotex #RetroTech

Les ordinateurs ont la parole

Un Salon vient d'être consacré aux machines parlantes et aux innovations techniques destinées aux aveugles. Le matériel existe, pas encore le marché !
CHRISTIAN TORTEL (Le Monde)
#Accessibility #blind #france #Internet #adventcalendar #minitel #videotex #retrotech

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V Chersonské oblasti byly objeveny dětské mučírny.

Rusové do zadržených řezali nožem, pálili rožhaveným kovem.

Jednoho chlapce drželi celkem 90 dní. Několikrát ho vyvedli "na popravu" a stříleli nad hlavu.

Informoval 🇺🇦 komisař pro lidská práva.

Vězněné děti také musely poslouchat nepřetržité sténání mučených žen a mužů.

Napít děti dostávaly jen obden a jídlo téměř žádné.

Jednoho chlapce Rusové zadrželi jen kvůli tomu, že si vyfotil zničenou voj. techniku.

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На деокупованих територіях знайшли дитячі катівні – Лубінець

Російські військові під час окупації Харківщини та Херсонщини облаштовували катівні для дітей, які, на їхню думку, чинили спротив.
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#FreeSoftwareAdvent for today: Hammerspoon. Another macOS tool that makes the platform usable.

Script the OS, add hotkeys, all from Lua, a not wholly unpleasant programming language. One thing that it desperately needs is good documentation, and if I had a few weeks of uninterrupted time and no responsibility, I'd write said documentation. Otherwise, you need to do a lot of googling to find blog posts and code samples because the API docs are a bit mystical.

hammerspoon.org/

Hammerspoon

Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua. Making the runtime, funtime.
www.hammerspoon.org
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Todays #AndroidAppRain brings you 6 updated and 1 new apps at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid

* Vibe Music: stream music from YouTube Music
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #fdroid #apps #AndroidAppRain #IzzySoftRepo

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Mastodon legal
From the article: "CyberScoop spoke with several Mastodon instance administrators whose member numbers ranged from the dozens to the tens of thousands about how they would handle a law enforcement request. Most ran their instance as a hobby and none had a legal background."
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Fleeing Twitter users face uncertain privacy, security features on alternative platforms

Users are leaving Elon Musk's Twitter in droves but risk seeing their data exposed on niche, less resourced platforms.
Tonya Riley (CyberScoop)

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I just wrote a song with lyrics and chords supplied by #ChatGPT!

Recorded it for you, enjoy!

The prompt:
"Create an emo song with lyrics and guitar chords that evoke sadness and loneliness. Make the chorus have different chords than the verses."

Verse 1:
G C
Lost and alone
Am D
In this cold world
G C
My heart is a stone
Am D
No one to hold

Chorus:
F C
Emptiness fills me
G D
Loneliness chokes me
F C
I am fading away
G D
In my own misery

(There's more but no room)

#AI #Musician #Music


#music #AI #chatgpt #musician

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Is TikTok Chinese spyware? US politicians think so.

reuters.com/world/us/us-lawmak…

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Mozilla is running a Model Sprint for African Languages competition using the Common Voice data

Competition page - foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog…
Application link - forms.gle/CMYc99rfmjMaT5UM6

I highly encourage any African researchers working on African NLP to apply!

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MCV African Languages Model Sprint 2022

In 2022 Mozilla Common Voice released several African language datasets, including Luganda, Kinyarwanda and Kiswahili - which are now some of the largest datasets on the platform. Incredible community mobilization goes into every hour of speech.
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Encouraging to see the dream of #AccessKit (github.com/AccessKit/accesskit) becoming a reality. I just finished the first iteration of macOS support for text edit controls, and the work I did in egui, which I had tested with the AccessKit Windows adapter, only required a one-line fix to be fully functional on macOS. And even that change wasn't exactly Mac-specific, just something that didn't happen to be needed on Windows. Also, integrations in other GUI toolkits are in the works. #accessibility

GitHub - AccessKit/accesskit: UI accessibility infrastructure across platforms and programming languages

UI accessibility infrastructure across platforms and programming languages - GitHub - AccessKit/accesskit: UI accessibility infrastructure across platforms and programming languages
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#Accessibility #accesskit

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