Benecke: „To přesahuje jakoukoli vědeckou představivost“

Biolog Mark Benecke ve své zimní zprávě o klimatické krizi uvádí znepokojivé údaje. Globální oteplování dosáhlo v roce 2023 rozměrů, které se nepodobají ničemu, co se kdy stalo.

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Yesterday I didn't have anything interesting to read, so I looked around in my previous stuff and realised there was a series I had read a while ago and there might be some new books out.

It's called the Maradaine Sequence and there are a lot of books in it. I hadn't yet read Assassins of Consequence and the Quarrygate Gambit, and that's what I'm doing now.

The books are set in a complex capital city with magic and technology roughly on the cusp of the industrial revolution. There's not a single main character, though perhaps the central character is a magic student who fights a vigilante war against drug gangs. There's lots of intrigue, from the lowlife criminal underworld to the machinations of parliament and mage circles. I really like it.

More info: : goodreads.com/series/146658-ma…

Hey old web people, I'm working on assembling some bloggish reminiscences about Flickr similar to this one for an upcoming birthday party for the Flickr Commons (in January). Got any deep cut blog posts you'd like to share?

cybercultural.com/p/flickr-bef…

Well, it's a bit annoying that the Karen voice is kinda broken on iOS 17. On the flip side, I have apparently been living under a rock and never knew you could get eSpeak on the iPhone these days, so now I am using that at a similar rate to what I use with NVDA and don't have to retrain my brain to another voice, which is lovely. Thanks @serichsen. apps.apple.com/be/app/espeak-n…

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@leonardder @bill No. I find I struggle a bit with fast, formant based speech coming out of a speaker, especially if there's background noise, which is often the case when I'm using my phone. In contrast, when I'm using Windows, I generally use a headset.Regarding the issue you mentioned, there's a bug in eSpeak for iOS which causes it to drop or corrupt samples at fast speeds. I suspect it has something to do with the buffer size being wacky when Sonic is engaged, but that's just a guess. I did look at the code trying to fix it, but never could quite work out what was going on.

One of the trickier skills in programming is being OK with throwing away working code, when you find a better way to solve a problem. I spent most of yesterday coming up with a performant method for showing direction arrows along a planned hike. This morning I thought of a better way, so ended up deleting all of the code I wrote yesterday, which would have worked alright but wasn't nearly as good.

Getting comfortable with the Sunk Cost Fallacy is key to ending up in a good place.

#AndroidAppRain at #FDroid 2 days ago with 55 updated & 3 added apps:

* Orgzly Revived: outliner for taking notes and managing to-do lists
* Fcitx5 for Android (Chewing Plugin)
* FREE Browser: privacy oriented web browser with Greasemonkey style script support

Today at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid it were 6 updated & 1 added apps:

* OneKeePass: simple and secure offline password manager supporting the KeePass (KBDX) format

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

Kdyby někdo instaloval Roblox na linuxu pomocí Grapejuice tak vězte, že instalace studia je rozbitá. Dá se to opravit tím, že ručně stáhnete launcher setup.rbxcdn.com/RobloxPlayerL…, pak ho ručně nainstalujete pomocí wine a nakonec ze složky .wine/drive_c/Program Files(x86)/Roblox/Versions překopírujete RobloxStudioLauncherBeta.exe do té samé složky v Grapejuice (prefixes/studio/drive_c/Program Files(x86)/Roblox/Versions). Původní wine instalaci pak můžete smazat.

UPDATE: NOT ANYMORE! (But I want to keep the post up in case I want to reference it in the future.)

Original Half-Life is free on Steam through it's 25th release date anniversary (19th of November)
store.steampowered.com/app/70/…

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Well, here we go! Original Half-Life got updated for its 25th anniversary.

In addition to brand new content & features some of the stuff is reverted back to its 1998 state, and some pre-release materials are also included!
half-life.com/en/halflife25

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I'm a pretty hardcore language descriptivist (as opposed to a prescriptivist); I think language is an ever-evolving thing to be played with, and that most hate on "non-standard" dialects comes down to some kind of elitism/classism/other-ism.

This is particularly apparent in English. When you smack someone with a "rule" from English, you might wanna check where it came from. Example: not ending a sentence with a preposition? ONE GUY'S OFF-HAND COMMENT.

atlasobscura.com/articles/why-…

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My ancestral dialects are Southern and Appalachian, which are used in US media to signal a non-smart person. We have a joke.

A Southern man is visiting the Harvard campus and asks a random person "Excuse me sir, can you tell me where the library's at?"

The guy sniffs haughtily. "At Harvard, we learn not to end a sentence with a preposition. Try that again."

The first guy nods and considers. "Excuse me sir, can you tell me where the library's at, asshole?"

Thanks folks, I'll be here all week.

WRKS se blizi do testovatelneho stavu. Potreboval bych nekoho, kdo to proklika a preda zpetnou vazbu. Jakakoli kritika/pochvala vitana!

Vyvojova verze (aktivne proti ni vyvyjim, tak muze byt trochu nestabilni) je na:

staging.wrks.art/

Z mobilu (iOS i Androidu) se da instalovat na homescreen.

Diky moc! Pokud by vas zajimal jakykoli technicky detail, sem s otazkami. Rad se o to podelim.

*neni tam zadne nahravani obrazovky a invazivni cookies a tak.

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A přepnutí na obrazovku pro založení účtu je hodně náhlé, vadí mi, že vypadnu z toho tab baru – místo abych byl na té pravé záložce, jsem najednou úplně jinde. Nevím, jak z toho ven, možná nepoužívat tab bar a zvolit volně stojící ikony? Pak by nějaký animovaný přechod na celou novou obrazovku nepůsobil divně.
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V tento sváteční den jsem se vypravil zapálit Karlovi svíčku k lavičce Václava Havla. U nás se ten park již dlouho nazývá špek park, dávno před tou instalací té lavičky. Kdo náhodou neví, nemá to souvislost s vepřovým tukem. Špek je slangově cigareta marihuany. Akorát od doby, kdy tam byly nainstalovány kamery, se tam ty špeky už tolik nehulí.

Google announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as uBlock Origin #uBO will be disabled in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3 (#Mv3).

The new #Chrome manifest will prevent using custom filters and stops on demand updates of blocklist. Only #Google authorized updates to browser extension will be allowed in the future, which mean an automatic win for Google in their battle to stop YouTube #AdBlockers .

#ManifestV3 is deceitful and threatening to your privacy, and now is a good time to switch to #Firefox (@mozilla) and/or #TorBrowser (@torproject) if you haven't done so already!

EFF (@eff) on Google’s Manifest V3:

⚠️⁠eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chro…
⚠️⁠eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/goog…


Chrome Manifest V3 Transition Timeline (2023-11-16)

🚩⁠developer.chrome.com/blog/resu…


EDIT for clarification: MV3 in Chrome will still allow some ad blocking extensions, but will severely limit their blocking ability and even restricts pre-set filters to 50 MAX.

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Google's upcoming changes to Chrome Extensions will break uBlock Origin! 💔

By updating to MV3 and disabling support for MV2 Google will be pushing even more ads and trackers on Chrome users. 🤮

The internet should be a place of free creativity not a swamp of endless advertisements 👇
tuta.com/blog/posts/google-fac…

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Hmm.... I don't really agree that the internet should be just a place of "free" creativity, though.

A lot of people rely on the internet to pay their bills and, whether we like it or not, ads are an important source of revenue.

Consumers don't value digital goods and services in the same way as something more tangible.

The only way to really change this might be to show that we are willing to pay with our wallets and not our personal data.

Ani po 34 rokoch od vybojovania si slobody sa väčšina Slovákov mentálne nikam neposunula. Prírodu sme chránili až príliš? Vážne? Na Slovensku? A príliš? Chce se mi blejt, velebnosti.

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Are there any #Linux distributions with #Speakup in them that work on the new #mac machines in #vmare or #utm? I tried #debian 12 and under this distro Speakup froze up at random intervals and locked up the vm. I am starting to think that two different physical machines may be the best for me. #arm64 with #accessibility features doesn't seem to be stable enough yet for prime time.

I fully switched to Firefox a few months ago when Google kept on pushing their "Manifest V3" Chrome policy, now that they continue to push it and remove V2 (and with it meaningful adblockers) from Chrome in 2024 maybe you want to start migrating as well?

developer.chrome.com/en/blog/r…

Don't go to Brave btw. It's a shit company that keeps doing shady stuff and is run by a homophobe. There are so many browsers, just pick one. (Whether other Chromium-based browsers will keep an interface for effective customization for users around is for you to research. Just use Firefox TBH).

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@IzzyOnDroid Moin, versteh ich das richtig, wenn github.com/Kunzisoft/KeePassDX… gefixt ist, bekomme ich die updates des .libre Pakets wieder wie gewöhnlich mit der fdroid Signatur? 🤔