Head’s up. The crypto world is trying really hard to pivot towards decentralized social media.

It’s important for everyone to know that the Fediverse has NOTHING to do with cryptocurrency, or NFTs, or whatever Ponzi scheme the “coin” hucksters have been trying to peddle.

Whenever something gets trendy, that’s when the bottom feeders arrive.

blockworks.co/news/web3-social…

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Schadenersatz droht: Datenschützer mahnt Aus für Microsoft 365 an Schulen an
heise.de/news/Schadenersatz-dr…

#datenschutz #privacy

radio.sh
stormdragon2976 pushed changes to the master branch of the radio.sh project You no longer have to declare an array in the configuration file. just add the stations in the format [station name]=”url”

Today's #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid is rather a drizzle with 4 updated and 1 new apps:

* Image Resizer: shrink your images

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:

Какой же классный диапазон у Мортена Харкета! И низкие, и высокие ноты берёт так, что просто треки хочется по миллиону раз переслушивать. Я на этот подсел: youtu.be/XdoUm3-v5U4
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А я просто обожаю Summer moved on. Оно, конечно, грустно, что капец, но зато там есть чуть ли не самая длинная нота в истории. При этом это не автотюн и не музыкальный фотошоп, я слышал, как он это вживую в радиостудии под гитару поёт. Вот, например, хорошая версия: youtube.com/watch?v=L41OrlHtfM…

I turned my old 'Hefty Bolox' Steve's Clock into a very swanky American audio-book narrater. It's probably American because the entire collection of samples comes to only 17 seconds, so not a lot for it to work with. It switches between American and British like it's going out of style. CC @sclower

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"A handful of companies own the #patents on virtually every #seed planted in the US. Now, a new crop of unowned seeds is bringing #biodiversity back to #farming."
worldsensorium.com/open-source…

#agriculture #food #monopoly #ossi (Open Source Seed Initiative)

FYI, I link to two earlier reports on this problem (2017 and 2019) in a tweet from 2020.
twitter.com/petersuber/status/…

Pro-gun lawyer and influencer is repeatedly warned that he cannot have ANY metal on his person before he enters an MRI-scanning room.

He ignores the warnings and enters with a concealed handgun.

- MRI is energized

- Handgun is pulled towards the magnets

- Handgun discharges

- Man is shot in his abdomen and dies.

msn.com/en-us/news/technology/…

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As far as I understood this new API, a user will receive a token. There is already a token in the current implementation. It is generated out of the process when the user has connected with their Twitter account. And this token indeed is individually stored per user. So we could change the addon in a way that one can enter that token by their own. And also we then have to remove all read commands, since only write will be supported in the future.

Learn to Create Accessible Websites with the Principles of Universal Design
interaction-design.org/literat… #UIDesign #WebDesign #UniversalDesign

Physicist John Tyndall is often credited with discovering the greenhouse effect, which he wrote about in 1859.

But female scientist Eunice Foote published a paper - 3 years earlier - demonstrating how atmospheric water vapor & CO2 affected solar heating. She theorized that heat trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere warm its #climate.

Tyndall was widely read. And Foote, being a woman, wasn't even permitted to present her own work. climate.gov/news-features/feat… #history #science #ClimateChange

Kudos to @alecaddd and team for taking on the massive challenge of modernizing Thunderbird. Here's hoping it'll finally get a headerbar instead of the 6 toolbars, and real threading!

Your move, @libreoffice :)

blog.thunderbird.net/2023/02/t…

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We love improvements too – but our volunteers would appreciate a hand 😉 libreoffice.org/community/get-…
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and you did this while keeping the classical menu bar available 👌👏

@tbernard The process that Thunderbird is going through right now, Libre Office did it few years ago when taking over the OpenOffice codebase IMHO. Sure the design didn't really change at this time, but the internals did.

What is missing is a modern look to Libre Office, but the modernized UX is definitely here.

If you are looking for open-source sampled instruments to use in your music, here's a great repository:
sfzinstruments.github.io/

They use the SFZ format which is the best way to make sampled instruments. It's open-source, easy to edit (all based on text + audio files) and well documented.

To use these instruments in Ardour or other DAWs I'd recommend the open-source plug-in sfizz:

sfz.tools/sfizz/

More about the SFZ format here:
sfzformat.com/

#MusicProduction #FOSS

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For me this is the last nail in the coffin for #Go.

I've never bought much into the language. I've been impressed by its constructs to natively manage and synchronize asynchronous operations, but its rigidity when it comes to programming paradigms (no proper object-oriented and functional constructs in the 21st century, seriously?) means that I see it as a language that seriously limits expressivity, and doomed to generate a lot of boilerplate. It's a language very good at solving the types of problem that are usually solved at Google (build and scale large services that process a lot of stuff in a way that the code looks the same for all the employees), and little more than that.

After #Rust really took off, I didn't see a single reason why someone would pick Go.

And now here we go with the last straw: Google has proposed to embed telemetry collection *into the language toolchain itself*. And, according to Google, it should be enabled by default (opt-out rather than opt-in), because, of course, if they make it an opt-in then not many people will explicitly enable a toggle that shares their source code and their usage of the compiler with one of today's biggest stalkers. If they make it an opt-out, well, many people won't even notice, and you can grab more data points from people, whether they know/like it or not.

If you build open-source projects in Go, it's time to drop it and start considering alternatives. The market for modern compiled language is much more competitive now than it was a decade ago. We knew already that we couldn't trust a programming language developed by the largest surveillance company on the planet.

theregister.com/2023/02/10/goo…

#rust #go

This is today's watch. It has to be – the date is broken, and it only shows 11, so it only makes sense today.

It's not winning any beauty contests. The dial has a nice texture, but the hands are nowhere near the markers, and the date window is nowhere near the indexes. Not a surprise, if you look inside. And with these long lugs it somehow manages to wear a little big, despite being classically sized.

It came to me with a bracelet, and I lasted maybe 2 minutes with it. It's an excellent hair removal tool, so it went back to the box of crappy parts, making room for this leather strap. Now it looks somewhat nice, if you squint a little.

Seems like it's overdue for service for decades, the amplitude (at a glance) is probably around half of what it should be. Somehow manages to keep decent time though.

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Just finished watching this almost an hour long video doing a deep dive into the music and sounds of Wario Land 4 on the GBA and holy crap this game has so many cool audio things going on in it. youtube.com/watch?v=G6ih-1kP6D…
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Mastodon v4.1.0 got released today!
Some awesome additions that people have been after for a while now:
- Add support for importing/exporting server-wide domain blocks
- Ensure exact match is the first result in hashtag searches
- Add support for editing media description and focus point of already-sent posts
- Add listing of followed hashtags

And the list of fixes inbound with this version is monstrous.

This is great to see, but please keep in mind that your particular instance will need to be updated to this version so not all instances will update at the same time.

Some apps may also need to be updated in order to support these new features.

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…

#Mastodon #Update #MastodonTips #FediTips

More dark mode and compatibility improvements are coming to #LibreOffice, thanks to the work of our QA team! Here's their summary from January: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org…

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