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Now that CTV is an anti-vaxxer propaganda rag and the Gazette is a paywalled car ad for west islanders, does anyone have any good English language news sources for Montreal?

ctvnews.ca/health/ready-willin…


'Ready, willing and able': COVID-19 vaccine policies at Ontario hospitals are keeping some health workers from filling dire staff shortages

Despite Ontario no longer requiring health-care workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, all of the province's 140 public hospitals continue to enforce a mandatory vaccination policy, leaving some experienced front-line workers in the dust as facil…
Avis Favaro (CTV News)

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Ardour developers ask for help from users - it's really easy to do and we can all make Ardour a bit better :)

Read more here:

discourse.ardour.org/t/help-ma…

#Ardour #AudioProduction #MusicProduction #Audio #FOSS #OpenSource #Libre #LinuxAudio #FreeSoftware


Help make Ardour 7.3 better: a simple thing for everyone

The source code of Ardour now contains support for searching both global and per-session preferences/properties.
Ardour
#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource #libre #audio #musicproduction #audioproduction #ardour #linuxaudio

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Afshin Falatooni's quote says it all 😁 Find out why – and get involved too: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
Photo of Afshin

Community Member Monday: Afshin Falatooni - The Document Foundation Blog

Today we’re talking to Afshin Falatooni, from the Persian-speaking LibreOffice community! Tell us a bit about yourself… I am from Iran, the city of Mashhad.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)

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Perhaps a little train recording for your next London-based audio-drama? Captured with iPhone 13 Pro internal microphones and #JustPressRecord.

Green Park to Baker Street (Jubilee line) youtu.be/olBrBB8VNiM


Green Park to Baker Street (Jubilee line)

A trip on London's Jubilee Line, recorded on Jan 21 2023.My wife and I were on the way back from the O2 Arena in Greenwich after seeing Peter Kay Live.Since ...
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#JustPressRecord

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Check out the new version of MuseScore which now claims to be accessible on Windows, Mac and Linux: musescore.org/en/accessibility #a11y
I am looking forward to giving it a spin!

Accessibility

Update: MuseScore 4 is OUT NOW! Blind users seeking to install it should follow the links labelled "MuseScore without Muse Hub" on the Download page, or follow…
MuseScore.org
#a11y

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So I've been building a 100% analog polyphonic synthesizer with an unique twist. To use only vacuum tube era technology from the 1930s.

Over 300 neon gas diodes create the sound you hear. Pretty awesome for technology from 100 years ago.

Still a work-in-progress, but I wanted to post a video of it with the innards spread out across the workbench. : }

I call it the "Neon String Machine"

#synthesizers #music #electronics #audio #synthwave

#music #audio #electronics #synthesizers #synthwave

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⚠️MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT⚠️

Tenacity 1.3 beta has officially been released for Windows and Linux! 🎉

Check it out here: codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tena…

Key features:

* Clip features from Audacity 3.1.

* New themes from Audacium and Saucedacity

* Modern upstream dependencies are used


tenacity

Tenacity is an easy-to-use, privacy-friendly, FLOSS, cross-platform multi-track audio editor for Windows, macOS, Linux, and other operating systems
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#adbsync v0.1.1 was just released, with some minor improvements and adjustments. Details in the changelog: codeberg.org/izzy/adbsync/rele… – a.o. syncing TO your device(s) should now be much faster when using a recent version of #ADB (r25+ / Android 7.1+)

#Android #sync


adbsync

Synchronize your Android device with your Linux machine using rsync and adbfs
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#android #sync #adb #adbsync

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Wow, so the other day I shared what #Microsoft does when you search to download #Firefox from #Edge* but they go one step further for #Chrome.

(I have zero love for either surveillance capitalist but, my goodness, what absolute asshattery. Having spent more time than I’d like testing in #Windows these past two days, I constantly feel like some malevolent entity is trying to exploit me at every turn. Because one is. This OS is a case study in hostile #design.)

* mastodon.ar.al/@aral/109704475…

#web

Screenshot of the Download Chrome page on google.com in the Microsoft Edge web browser. Edge has popped up a dialogue box over the page that reads: “Microsoft Edge runs on the same technology as Chrome, with the added trust of Microsoft.” There is a button on it that reads “Browse securely now”
#firefox #Windows #chrome #microsoft #design #web #edge
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

WTF is "the added TRUST of Microsoft"? Is this comedy – or what kind of "trust" do they mean?

I mean, the word can be ambiguous, right? A trust can be used to manage assets. MS certainly considers us and our data such. So if that's what they mean, they are shockingly honest here. With the exception that they never tell you what they have stored there…

Wait, "trust" can also mean "cartel". And that'd be right on spot, wouldn't it? 🤔

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Nolan Lawson zrezygnował z dalszego prowadzenia projektu #Pinafore i zamroził repo.

Nie będzie nowego maintainera i nowych wersji.

Tłumaczy powody na swoim blogu tutaj:
nolanlawson.com/2023/01/09/ret…

Jak ja go doskonale rozumiemm... I jego powody.

Prowadzenie takich projektów bez zewnętrznego wsparcia to droga przez mękę, użeranie z wiecznie niezadowolonymi osobami. Te zadowolone siedzą cicho, nie dając motywacji nawet dobrym słowem.
A miałem już w 1/3 zrobione tłumaczenie Pinafore na j. polski...

Przykład ekranu Pinafore ze spolszczonym UI

Retiring Pinafore

Five years ago, I started a journey to build a better Mastodon client – one focused on performance and simplicity. And I did! Pinafore is the main Mastodon client I’ve used myself since I fir…
Read the Tea Leaves
#pinafore

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Starting the OGL ‘Playtest’ - Posts

dndbeyond.com/posts/1432-start…

One key element is that the core D&D mechanics will be Creative Commons CC-BY-4.0. It's not the SRD though.

The other is that they are still trying to "deauthorize" OGL 1.0a with OGL 1.2, but removed most of the controversial clauses found in 1.1.


Starting the OGL ‘Playtest’

In this article, you can review a draft of OGL 1.2, submit feedback via survey, and learn about a Creative Commons license that puts D&D's core mechanic...
Starting the OGL ‘Playtest’

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Outside of Europe, #Google's monopoly gets slammed by India too. The ruling says that:

- Google must allow alternative app stores (like F-Droid or ApkPure) on the Play Store. This is really the step zero for fair competition: give everybody the same visibility, and let users pick what they like.

- Google should not force Android providers to install its own apps in order to be a certified Android provider. Step one for fair competition: competition only works if none of the involved party starts from a position of advantage.

- Google should make the Play Store available also on Android forks. Step two for fair competition: if the competitors' stores are available on your store, then your store should also be available on the competitors' forks, and users eventually will pick what they like the most. All the distribution asymmetries should be removed.

This is a good and balanced ruling that aims to create a level playing field by removing all the bumps that, as of now, strongly consolidate Google's position of dominance.

And it's going to hit Google quite badly too: India is the largest global market for Android (arguably on par with China), and Google may be on its way to lose its unfair advantage there.

9to5google.com/2023/01/20/goog…


Play Store will be forced to allow third-party app stores

A ruling in India will force the Google Play Store to distribute third-party app stores as soon as January 2023.
Ben Schoon (9to5Google)
#google
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