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Missy Hoppe

This trend of AI narrators for audio books is quite disturbing in my opinion. There are some truly phenominal human readers out there, and I'd hate to lose the joy of listening to them read and do all the various voices of characters and stuff. While I can easily use synthetic speech on my computer, iPhone, ETC, I have never been able to use a TTS voice to read for pleasure. I have no clue why, but there's some sort of disconnect in my brain, and having to focus on what the TTS voice is saying just takes me out of the story, especially if it's one that I've heard with excellent narration from a human reader.

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I am truly surprised at the number of people that can't recall a time in very recent history when trusted politicians, journalists, media outlets and notable public figures wittingly and unwittingly conspired to use overblown news reports & wild reactions to those reports in a feedback loop to prevent the best Presidential candidate for the American people being elected, handing the election to the best candidate for the American oligarchs instead.

#politics #journalism #Election2024

#politics #journalism #Election2024

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Something reminded me today of this gem by Roy Fielding (author of the dissertation that coined the term REST): roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/sp… The quote from the conclusion of James Burke's Connections series is worthwhile all by itself, but then Fielding ties it into some discussion that was happening at the time of writing about what is and isn't REST.

Specialization » Untangled

roy.gbiv.com

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The app apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/a… (available in the @IzzyOnDroid repo) has (finally) been using the @openfoodfacts API since today's update \o/

Scan name (source OpenFoodFacts), select expiry date, done.

Great, I've always wanted that. ❤️❤️❤️

Thanks #openfoodfacts


„Food Expirations“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Remember all the expiration dates of your food stocks.
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#openfoodfacts @openfoodfacts @IzzyOnDroid ✅

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I've just put together a 40 second "fast forward" video for our High Performance Graphics talk later this month: youtube.com/watch?v=gkeqny6zMD…

The animations were all hand-coded in Rust and rendered in Vello in real time. Just a screen record in OBS to add the voiceover, no other editing. This feels like a preview of the potential for this infrastructure to support high-powered creative tools.


GPU-Friendly Stroke Expansion

A 40 second "fast forward" video for our High Performance Graphics paper on GPU-Friendly Stroke Expansion.The paper will be presented at High Performance Gra...
YouTube

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Guides to Mastodon & the Fediverse:

➡️ fedi.tips (my website 😁 )

➡️ “Mastodon For Dummies” by Chris Minnick & Mike McCallister, book/ebook/audiobook

➡️ mastodon.help - Mastodon tips

➡️ joinfediverse.wiki/Main_Page - Articles about using the Fediverse

➡️ github.com/joyeusenoelle/Guide… - Mastodon etiquette & traditions

➡️ enthalpiste.fr/index.php/fedi-… & didiermary.fr/sommaire-du-guid… - Guides in French

➡️ blog.noleron.com/posts/tips/ - Guide in Ukrainian

➡️ panduanfediverse.wordpress.com… - Guide in Indonesian


Sommaire du Guide Mastodon - Didier J. MARY (blog)

Sommaire du Guide Mastodon - Un guide d'utilisation non-officiel dans la langue de Molière pour les francophones du monde entier.
Didier J. MARY (Didier J. MARY (blog))

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 23 updated and 1 added apps:

* Hyperlink Knapsack: manage your LinkAce database

An update to Food Expirations had to be removed (fresh index being deployed as I write this) as it introduced several proprietary components, hopefully by accident).

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :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, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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That thing where 40% of the regular commenters on the blog of an organization trying to replace the US constitution with a calvinist-mammonite theocracy turn out to be posting from Russian and Chinese email addresses …

Gosh, I CAN'T IMAGINE WHY Chinese or Russian state actors might be enthusiastically boosting a neo-fascist conspiracy to overthrow the Biden administration!
techhub.social/@rayckeith/1127…

Haderach C. Kwisatch (@rayckeith@techhub.social)

Thread by @HackingButLegal "I am reviewing this alleged hack of The Heritage Foundation. I have identified very embarrassing data within this dataset. Why so many Chinese IP addresses? 🤔" https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1811048725717938537.html
TechHub

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please boost this post to help me find a job :boostRequest:​

i'm looking for something remote in the realms of social media and/or video editing

i'm vanta -- known social media poster, longtime writer, seasoned video editor, skilled audio/image editor, designer of websites, and all-around creative person

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#GetFediHired #FediHired #job #jobs


vanta's work portfolio

vanta.work
#job #jobs #fedihired #getfedihired

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It's time for the June Thunderbird for Android Progress Report! We have:

👨🏻 A New Team Member
💕 A Two App Foundation
✨ Material 3 and Android Updates
🌏 Translation News

We also have a bonus Thundercat! 🐈

blog.thunderbird.net/2024/07/t…

#Thunderbird #Android #OpenSource


Thunderbird for Android / K-9 Mail: June 2024 Progress Report

A new mobile team member. more progress on Material 3, targeting Android 14, and more in June's monthly Thunderbird for Android report.
cketti (The Thunderbird Blog)
#android #opensource #thunderbird

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I’m trying to come up with a more cynical and violently disparaging take on both the work of living human beings *and* the performance management process itself, and coming up short. lattice.com/blog/leading-the-w…

Today, Lattice Makes History and Leads the Way in Responsible Employment of AI

We need to employ AI as responsibly as we employ people, and to empower everyone to thrive working together. — Jul 09, 2024 by Sarah Franklin
Sarah Franklin (lattice.com)

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I don't know why I've been thinking so much about "Agile". Maybe looking at LinkedIn too much (for unrelated reasons) has broken some demon seal within me, but despite the fact that I'm not interacting with it now, I find myself annoyed about it more than I have been in a while. Today I guess I've got a milquetoast defense of Agile & Scrum: a lot of what they get blamed for is just management trying to go too fast, without explaining.

(ICYMI, see previous for context <mastodon.social/@glyph/1127356…>)

Glyph (@glyph@mastodon.social)

"Individuals and interactions over processes and tools" from the Agile Manifesto is just a fancy rephrasing of a "personal responsibility" ideological stance; i.e. if there's a problem, fix it with individual effort rather than systemic change.
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ElevenLabs Reader Alpha Impressions: Awesome Development, Although Not as Expected accessibleandroid.com/elevenla…

ElevenLabs Reader Alpha Impressions: Awesome Development, Although Not as Expected - Accessible Android

ElevenLabs Reader is an app made by ElevenLabs specifically for reading purposes. It supports reading with curated voices available in a library, as well as
Ciprian Dinca (Accessible Android)

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Did you know ANYWAYS also has a newsletter: anyways.eu/newsletter/

Read the latest edition here:
mailchi.mp/anyways.eu/try-anyw…

📈 Over 600 projects representing 1.900 scenarios and 24.000 map edits.
🚴‍♀️ Velo-city and talking about modeling cycling.
📢 Communication with ReRoute and our focus on this product.
🗺 Maps and Data we have published and plan to publish.
🚀 New features like private datasets and Mapillary integration.

ANYWAYS Newsletter - Over 600 projects!  📈

mailchi.mp

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The City of Boston is going to stop asking people what disabilities they have in favor of asking what accommodations they require. Brilliant!
Via @kellylford
wgbh.org/news/local/2024-07-11…

#accessibility #a11y #disabilities


Boston is changing how it collects data on disability

City departments will ask about accommodations rather than a person’s type disability.
Meghan Smith (GBH)
#a11y #Accessibility #disabilities @kellylford

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Embracing digital freedom. Respecting your privacy. Secure hardware, ethical software. Join the Purism revolution. #DigitalLiberty #Purism #PureOS

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Beautiful, Secure, Privacy-Respecting Devices - Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy, freedom, and security
Purism SPC
#purism #pureos #DigitalLiberty

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Unsurprisingly, Lithium batteries are not good for the environment. This paper notes the manufacturing is an overlooked significant source of ‘forever' chemicals, nature.com/articles/s41467-024…

Lithium-ion battery components are at the nexus of sustainable energy and environmental release of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances - Nature Communications

A new class of PFAS (bis-perfluoroalkyl sulfonamides) used in lithium-ion batteries have been released to the environment internationally.
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