in reply to Tamas G

Song contains sexual content, references to violence
I am never going to look at TTS the same way again. LOL. It adds random things too. LOL. Now I should send you neural engine examples see what turns out from them, unfortunately can't run them on this Mac. But this was hilarious. I will not look at decktalk like a shitty singer, now he's grown a bit in my, erm, ears? Eyes. Something like that. 🤣

Last year @matthewhelmke had a typewriter that had been in his family since it was brand new carefully packaged up and sent to me, and I'm absolutely in love.

This 1940 Smith-Corona Sterling has easily taken a spot as the best condition #typewriter in my collection 😍

I wrote about it here, with lots of pictures: princessleia.com/journal/2024/…

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in reply to SuspiciousDuck

Tipujem, ze odpoved bude nieco v zmysle "viac".

ref.: Vec ft. Škrupo - Máme všetko

"Máte všetko?
Máme všetko.
Nič vám nechýba?
Máme všetko.
Ste fakt OK?
Máme všetko.
Tak čo chcete?
Chceme viac!"

youtu.be/O_F6WIjmZjM

It's Becoming Possible To Use The Webcam On Newer Intel Laptops With Open-Source Linux

While Intel typically does a great job with their open-source Linux hardware support with enabling all features under Linux and doing so in a timely manner -- often well in advance of the client and server hardware availability -- an exception in recent years has been around the web cam support for many newer Intel laptops. Since Alder Lake an increa…
phoronix.com/news/Intel-Webcam…

Fuck-you-Google: always

Google Update Reveals AI Will Start Reading All Your Private Messages
forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/20…

#FuckYouGoogle #privacy #surveillance #AI #Bard #Android

🔒 It’s Data Privacy Day! 🛡️

Did you know your phone could be spying on you through sneaky trackers hiding in your apps? 😱 But fear not! With Advanced Privacy, we're putting an end to this digital invasion! 🚫✋

Today, let's take a stand for our privacy! Share with us how many trackers you've recently blocked using Advanced Privacy!

Tag us and spread the word! Let's show how we're taking back control of our data! 🌐💼

murena.com/securing-your-mobil…

#DataPrivacyDay #PrivacyAware
@e_mydata @gael

❓ Alza nabízí až 25% slevy pro AlzaPlus+ členy při nákupu v aplikacích. Jen do dneška, ale zaujalo mne to pro dvě věci.

1) AlzaPlus+, což je něco jako 25 Kč měsíčně a máte dopravu zdarma do boxů, prodejen a odběrních míst. Prozatím cenu nezvýšili, ale stále mi připadá, že to je poměrně nízké (a fakt to šetří peníze).

2) Sleva je podmíněna nákupem v mobilní aplikaci. Nějak tak mi uniká, proč to není možné i přes web. Zvláštní. Napadá vás proč na webu ne?

alza.cz/slevy-app?idp=8574&ban…

@BrodieOnLinux I think I accidentally found a good video topic for you, while I was digging into why xbps-src on void wasn't working. Go to voidlinux.eu and translate the page and you will see what I mean. xbps-src points to this now and totally ignores any setting in the repo configs in the etc directory.

Now that y'all have seen the differing career impacts, media coverage of, and societal reactions to, Black women being accused of plagiarism (Claudine Gay) and white women being accused of plagiarism (Neri Oxman)...

you can understand why I say that widely used automated plagiarism detecting software that advertises a false positive rate of 1%🤦🏿‍♂️, is devastating for Black students.

Another flavor of: in a racist country, being falsely accused has devastating consequences

law.umich.edu/special/exonerat…

in reply to mekka okereke

In Fall 2020 I was forced to use HonorLock, an "anti-cheat" suite which recorded videos of students taking tests in their dorm rooms and then used AI to determine whether or not they were cheating. I had to manually override it a lot because it automatically determined
a)All black people are cheating because it can't recognize their faces at all,
b)Anyone who has a roommate is cheating, because it's impossible to take a test in the same room as someone else,
c)Anyone with autism or ADHD is cheating because their eyes move in unexpected ways,
d)Anyone with photophobia or related eye conditions is cheating because their eyes move in unexpected ways,
e)Anyone using accessability software is cheating because there's software running on their computer
...and a whole bunch of "cheating" accusations that I couldn't discern any reason for.

If our civilization collapses, extraterrestrial archeologists can look at this and be impressed. Three satellites following the Earth in an equilateral triangle, each 2.5 million kilometers from the other two. Each contains two gold cubes in free-fall. The satellites accelerate just enough so they don't get blown off course by the solar wind. The gold cubes inside feel nothing but gravity.

Lasers bounce between each cube and its partner in another satellite, measuring the distance between them to an accuracy of 20 picometers: less than the diameter of a helium atom! This lets the satellites detect gravitational waves — ripples in the curvature of spacetime — with very long wavelengths, and correspondingly low frequencies.

It should see so many binary white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes in the Milky Way that these will be nothing but foreground noise. More excitingly, it should see mergers of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies as far as... the dawn of time, or whenever such black holes were first formed. (The farther you look, the older things you see.)

It may even be able to see the "gravitational background radiation": the thrumming vibrations in the fabric of spacetime left over from the Big Bang. These gravitational waves were created before the hot gas in the Universe cooled down enough to become transparent to light. So they're older than the microwave background radiation, which is the oldest thing we see now.

It's called LISA - the Laser Interferometric Satellite Antenna. And we're in luck: ESA has just decided to launch it in 2035.

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In 1995 computing pioneer Niklaus Wirth wrote "A Plea for Lean Software". In 2024 it is entirely normal for simple software to be shipped as a 350MB package, or for it to have 1600 dependencies. In appreciation of Wirth's legacy, I wrote a 2024-era Plea for Lean Software, updated for today's computing horrors: berthub.eu/articles/posts/a-20…

The Fedora Pride team is hosting a @Minetest gaming event tomorrow, Jan 27 at 7pm UTC (2pm EST)!

Minetest is an open source game inspired by Minecraft. If you've never given it a shot and are looking for that 'first time playing Minecraft' experience again, come join us!

Learn more: discussion.fedoraproject.org/t…

#Fedora #Minetest #Minecraft #OpenSource

El año pasado me dio por activar el doble factor de autenticación en muchos de los sitios en lo que frecuento y me dio mucha curiosidad como funciona la generación de claves TOTP.
Acabo de escribir un artículo sobre el funcionamiento de ese algoritmo, por sí quieren echarle un ojo :)
blog.kirbylife.dev/post/funcio…

Interesting STUDY on the risks of #COVID19 infection in a university setting in China.

The risk of infection of susceptible students per 45-min lesson was 1%. (That adds up fast with 15 classes/week for many students.)
An occupancy rate of 50% reduced infection risk by 62%.
Fresh air decreased risk by 81.1%.
All students wearing N95 respirators reduced risks by 96%.

So, which of these mitigations are we doing to protect students? None. We are doing none of them.

sciencedirect.com/science/arti…

CES 2024: Tandem Insulin Pumps podfeet.com/blog/2024/01/ces-2…