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A quick walkthrough of Google's First-Party Mode for Google Tags.
Simo Ahava (Simo Ahava's blog)

Mostly just a self reminder but maybe it’ll help you too.
Illustration of a tower split into two parts. The left side shows a complete, colored tower labeled "Everything you can do." The right side shows an incomplete, grayed-out tower with only a few colored bricks at the bottom, labeled "Everything you can do today.”

Broken Linux laptop makes for a fine smart TV alternative

DIYer picks a "little insane"-looking setup for less tracking, more control.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0…

Imperfect, Linux-powered, DIY smart TV is the embodiment of ad fatigue

Ars Technica
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Mathijs
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that's cool and all, but isn't this what libreelec is basically made for? That's what I use to control my tv amd watch netflix or whatever streaming service.
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Ross McKay
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@mvgorcum

I'm a big fan of LibreElec, have a RPi4 running it for my TV. But it's very much Kodi and no other apps. Nothing for viewing PDFs, no browser, no messaging, just Kodi. Which is generally fine! But this hack-a-TV can do all of those other things, and has more CPU grunt for it.

@arstechnica

@Mathijs @Ars Technica

I'm glad to share with you this early sample of my new neural TTS model OptiSpeech.
The model is end-to-end, and this variant is based on ConvNeXtTTS architecture.
Noticeably, the model is trained using 24KHz sampling rate, while being very performant.
Thanks for Pneuma Solutions for providing access to the hardware I'm using to train the model.

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Drew Mochak
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How does it handle punctuation differences? My biggest pet peeve with virtually all synths apart from Espeak and Eloquence is that a comma, period, exclamation point, semicolon, two dashes etc. all sound the same! Same amount of pause and same voice inflection. With eSpeak, for example, the voice will pitch up and sound more excited if the sentence ends with an exclamation point. Is that something LLM’s can do?
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Musharraf
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@drew
It's one of my biggest issues too. And it's one of the things I'm trying to address through this effort.
It largely depends on the model's design, given you have a good dataset.
With large models, it is almost a solved issue, but with compact models it is a challenge.
Large models have grater capacity to learn sentence-level as well as character-level prosody.
@Drew Mochak
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SirMars
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@drew Oh nice. I'd say she is about 57 years old. I like the voice though.
@Drew Mochak

hey @FreakyFwoof.
For some reason I had a copy of this 3 years ago that I don't remember reading.

Finished it yesterday. it was ... kinda OK, guess. clever twist on if just one small thing had been different.

A Better Man By: Valandar
Vernon changed in the beginning to be a better man, thanks to a wish. How will this affect Harry, and the entire Wizarding World? Now complete! Please R&R. AU, HPGW, RWHG, RLNT
Rated: Fiction T - English - Drama - Ginny W., Harry P. - Chapters: 54 - Words: 192,896 -
[A Better Man](fanfiction.net/s/2531438/1/A-B…)

@Andre Louis
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Andre Louis
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Probably never read it. I don't read HP/GW anything if I can help it. Huge anti-bias toward that pairing, just seems so utterly fake to me.
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Sean Randall
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it wasn't very fluffy, although I've read so much in the last week that the details are gone already. Nothing spectacular..
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Pratik Patel
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I refuse to read HP/GW pairings. That canon epilogue provides terrible outcomes.
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Andre Louis
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I see it like pineapple on pizza, or drinking coffee. Just never happen.

@books2explore
Alice's Adventures in a Differentiable Wonderland -- Volume I, A Tour of the Land
arxiv.org/abs/2404.17625

Alice's Adventures in a Differentiable Wonderland -- Volume I, A Tour of the Land

Neural networks surround us, in the form of large language models, speech transcription systems, molecular discovery algorithms, robotics, and much more.
arXiv.org
@books2explore

Hoy, por ninguna razón en particular, me viene a la mente esta canción: El Intocable, de La Polla Records. youtube.com/watch?v=OwMyTemh1i…

El Intocable

Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesEl Intocable · La Polla RecordsHoy Es el Futuro℗ 1993 Cultura Rock Records SL / La Polla RecordsReleased on: 20...
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BBC Says 450 Million Consume Its Global Programming radioworld.com/global/bbc-says…

BBC Says 450 Million Consume Its Global Programming

The BBC says 450 million people consume its content globally each week, exclusive of its content targeting U.K. consumers.
Nick Langan (Radio World)
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rooktallon
rooktallon
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Yeah, and they'd have 300+ million more potentially if they actually allowed America to access their content. It's far less biased on American issues since they don't live directly in America and are therefore less affected.
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David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@rooktallon I know. I wish they'd allow us legal access to iPlayer. That would be amazing.
@rooktallon

Music

Now playing "City of the Dead" by "The Coffinshakers" from "Graves, Release Your Dead" via "mpv"

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A command line client for Pleroma, written in bash.
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We had a fantastic time watch the Rockies vs the Red Sox with everyone! Thanks for joining us at Coors Field!
#GUADEC2024
Group photo of GUADEC attendees at Coors Field with baseball pitch in the background
#guadec2024

Immer wieder findet man private Aufrufe zur Suche von vermissten oder gesuchten Personen. Warum es keine Gute Idee ist, diese zu teilen, haben wir hier für euch zusammengestellt.

#sicherimnetz #vermisstenmeldungen #fahndungsaufruf #blaulicht #medienkompetenz

Fahndungsaufrufe im Netz Gesuchte Personen haben Rechte! Bei jeder öffentlichen Fahndung, egal ob vermisste Personen oder Straftäter*innen, greift das allgemeine Persönlichkeitsrecht (Art. 2 Abs. 1 i.V.m. Art. 1 Abs. 1 GG). Dies umfasst auch das Recht am eigenen Bild, an persönlichen Daten und der Privatsphäre. Steht der Aufruf im Presseportal der Polizei? Nur Strafverfolgungsbehörden dürfen dieses außer Kraft setzen und nach Personen öffentlich fahnden. Nicht selbst strafbar machen! Teilt man ein Bild einer vermissten Person ohne deren Einverständnis, kann diese Regressforderungen stellen und man erfüllt u.U. selbst Straftatbestände, wenn z.B. private Daten der Person geteilt wurden. Besonderer Schutz für Kinder und Jugendliche Niemand kennt die Hintergründe eines privaten Aufrufs. Handelt es sich z.B. um einen Sorgerechtsstreit? Nur die Polizei kann daher entscheiden, wann der Nutzen einer öffentlichen Fahndung gegenüber den Nachteilen und Risiken überwiegt. Im Extremfall behindert man ggf. sogar die Suche, indem Täter*innen durch den Aufruf gewarnt werden. Das Internet vergisst nichts! Ist der Aufruf wirklich authentisch? Ist er aktuell? Ist die Person überhaupt (noch) vermisst? Vor allem, teile keine Screenshots von Suchmeldungen, sondern immer die Meldung selbst!
#medienkompetenz #sicherimnetz #vermisstenmeldungen #Fahndungsaufruf #Blaulicht
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Doppelmastermanderine
Doppelmastermanderine
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Was noch fehlt: Solche privaten Suchmeldungen werden teils auch von Tätern selbst erstellt, um eine Person ausfindig zu machen, die sich vor ihnen versteckt. Zb. weil sie aus einer gewalttätigen Beziehung geflohen sind. In so einem Fall bringt man die gesuchte Petson in grosse Gefahr.

According to the commit for download.sh on meta-llama Github repo, we're getting the updates: llama-3.1-405b, llama-3.1-70b, llama-3.1-8b. #LLM #ML #AI github.com/meta-llama/llama/co…

Update download.sh · meta-llama/llama@12b676b

Inference code for Llama models. Contribute to meta-llama/llama development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
#AI #ML #llm

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An update on this episode. Our foster:

RE: threads.net/@jdickerson/post/C…

Photo by John Dickerson on July 19, 2024. May be an image of 1 person, people kissing and Entlebucher mountain dog.

John Dickerson (@jdickerson) on Threads

Episode 3 is live. https://slate.com/podcasts/navel-gazing Ep. 1 is about marriage. Ep. 2 covers parenting. Ep. 3 is about our dog George and mornings. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Threads
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John Dickerson
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Per this episode: Dogs Can Smell Your Stress and Make Choices Based on It - New research seems to support the notion that dogs can read a person's mood via their scent. Dogs involved in an experiment appeared to have their own moods changed by the human sweat/breath odors presented to them. This "contagious emotion" then appeared to inform choices and actions made by the dog. dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…

Man's stressed friend! Dogs can smell stress in your breath and sweat - and it puts them in a bad...

Researchers from the University of Bristol have discovered that dogs really can tell when you are stressed and are even put in a bad mood by the smell of worried humans.
Wiliam Hunter (Daily Mail)

Something you may not have realised is right-handed: playing cards.

When you pick up a card with your dominant hand and add it to the front of a card you're holding in your non-dominant hand, you create a fan towards your dominant hand.

Standard playing cards have a small version of the number and suit in two corners so that you can see them no matter which way up the card is, *as long as they're fanned right*, and many modern card games follow suit (ha!) without thinking, for the convention or aesthetic

Consider mirroring important summary information in both left and right corners (Ticket to Ride does a great job putting the suits in both corners while maintaining the pleasant asymmetrical feel of having them in one)

It's admittedly only a tiny accessibility issue, but it IS an accessibility issue, so have think about it.

#GameDev #Accessibility #a11y #TableTop #CardGames #BoardGames

Standard playing cards
Cards from LOOT. In addition to the summaries only being in the left corner, they rely on colour-vision to distinguish them, (despite the MAIN image having different symbols!)
Cards from Love Letter, with the number shown only on the left.
Cards from Ticket to Ride, with symbols in all four corners (colourblind friendly, too, although the carriage pieces in the same game are a problem)
#a11y #Accessibility #gamedev #boardgames #tabletop #cardgames
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Hubert Figuière
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@bornach @ben @MedusaGladiatrix poker deck vs bridge deck. In Europe I was used to the latter. The size of cards is different too.
@Bornach @Medusa Gladiatrix

Fake O'Reilly-style book cover called Coding with GPT (7th Edition). Subtitle: "Introducing the uncanny into your codebase". The animal on the cover is a weird hybrid of a collie dog and an emu, joined together at the midsection.

In case you missed it: Accrescent is now mirrored in the GrapheneOS App Store! This helps GrapheneOS users securely and easily obtain Accrescent from a trusted source.

GrapheneOS highly values privacy and security as we do, so we're excited about this collaboration.

grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/…

#privacy #security #accrescent #appstore #android

GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)

GrapheneOS App Store now includes a mirror of Accrescent, which is a privacy and security focused alternative to the Play Store distributing developer builds of apps: https://accrescent.
GrapheneOS Mastodon
#android #privacy #security #AppStore #accrescent
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FDA approved lychee
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When is Obtainium gonna be in your store? Asking for a friend ™️
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Accrescent
Accrescent
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@PaintedDurian We don't plan on allowing other app installers such as Obtainium in Accrescent at this time. But in general, all apps in Accrescent are uploaded by their respective developers, so it's up to them to determine whether they want their app in Accrescent.
@FDA approved lychee

The Simpsons predicted it.
Two pictures side by side with Lisa Simpson and Kamala Harris wearing alike outfits: Blue jacket, lighter blue shirt underneath, pearl necklace and pearl earrings. Below a scene from the Simpsons, where President Lisa simpson is in the oval office with her staff. Caption "As you know, we've inherited quite a budget crunch from president trump."

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Hot Pink Dreams Triangle Peyote Stitch Beaded Bracelet

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DM with customs or questions!

#Cvkvlv #CvkvlvBeadwork #Mvskoke #Native #Indigenous #NativeAmerican #Beadwork #Jewelry #Bracelet #Handmade #IndigenousCreatives #IndigenousArtist

A triangle-patterned pink and white beaded bracelet with a gold clasp on a marble background

Hot Pink Dreams Triangle Peyote Stitch Beaded Bracelet

Materials:Glass beadsAdjustable gold claspApproximately:8 1/2 inch or 21 1/2 cm cm long1/2 inch or 1 1/2 cm wide
Cvkvlv.com Beadwork
#indigenous #jewelry #handmade #NativeAmerican #native #cvkvlv #cvkvlvbeadwork #mvskoke #beadwork #indigenouscreatives #indigenousartist #bracelet

Disability:IN Announces 2024 Inclusion Awards with Winners in 12 Categories disabilityin.org/releases/disa…

Disability:IN Announces 2024 Inclusion Awards with Winners in 12 Categories - Disability:IN

Companies can now analyze and progress their disability inclusion efforts in Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Japan, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Allyce Torres (Disability:IN)

Color me surprised.

digiday.com/marketing/after-ye…


After years of uncertainty, Google says it won’t be ‘deprecating third-party cookies’ in Chrome

After much back and forth, Google has decided to keep third-party cookies in its Chrome browser. Turns out all the fuss over the years wasn’t in vain after all; the ad industry’s cries have finally been heard.
Kayleigh Barber (Digiday)
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Hugo Awards Disqualification Statement locusmag.com/2024/07/hugo-awar…

Hugo Awards Disqualification Statement

Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon for our Futures, released the following statement today: In the course of tallying the votes on the final ballot for the 2024 Hugo Awards, the Glasgow 2024 Hugo Administrat…
Locus Online

From Hadley: Reading Apps, Gadgets, and Resources: Tuesday, July 23, 2:00 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/73…

From Hadley: Reading Apps, Gadgets, and Resources: Tuesday, July 23, 2:00 PM Eastern Time

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From the Florida Outreach Center for the Blind: Workshop Recording Available; Learn About Computers for the Blind groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/73…

From the Florida Outreach Center for the Blind: Workshop Recording Available; Learn About Computers for the Blind

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Scarlet Phoenix Collective
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They're not a bad program. I would warn folks that since the computers are donated, they might not be the latest and greatest.-t

Master these Windows 11 features to supercharge your efficiency pcworld.com/article/2403670/fo…

Master these Windows 11 features to supercharge your efficiency

How to be efficient with innovations such as virtual desktops, multitasking and clipboard history.
Martin Appel (PCWorld)

Celebrating 34 Years of the ADA and Explaining the Latest DOJ Web Accessibility Regulations! - Blind Institute of Technology blindinstituteoftechnology.org…

Celebrating 34 Years of the ADA and Explaining the Latest DOJ Web Accessibility Regulations! - Blind Institute of Technology

Join us Tuesday, July 30, 2024 at 11:30 MT for a very special webinar! We will be celebrating the 34th year since the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and exploring the latest DOJ regulations! We will be joined by Ken Nakata, form…
James Warnken (Blind Institute of Technology)

The First Doctor and Steven reunited bigfinish.com/news/v/the-first…

The First Doctor and Steven reunited  - News - Big Finish

Award-winning, full-cast original audio dramas from the worlds of Doctor Who, Torchwood, Blake's 7, Class, Dark Shadows, The Avengers, Survivors, The Omega Factor, Star Cops, Sherlock Holmes, Dorian Gray, Pathfinder Legends, The Prisoner, Adam Adaman…
www.bigfinish.com

heh

Privacy Browser Android 3.18.1 has been released.

stoutner.com/privacy-browser-a…

Privacy Browser Android 3.18.1 – Stoutner

www.stoutner.com

Wir alle so:
Foto eines bedruckten Sweatshirts, auf dem "Internet" steht. Darunter, vor einem bunten Hintergrund, surfen Kinder auf Tastaturen.

Cool OSPO job at UC Davis, within the library system, focused on sustainability. This could be really interesting for the right person. CLOSES THURSDAY so pull the trigger quickly if this is you.

#getfedihired #OpenJobs #opensourcejobs cc @jobs @osjobhub

careerspub.universityofcalifor…

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careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu
#getfedihired #opensourcejobs #OpenJobs @Open Source JobHub @Public Interest Jobs

Kinda tired out tonight, so obviously I spent it doing a bunch of art stuff and then I made a fake safety infographic as side content for my game projects, instead of actually working on those.
A safety infographic with the following text: Caution: Zone of Discontinuity. There have been reports of discontinuity or “time-damage” phenomena in this area. If you encounter any of the following: Deja-vu Event Sudden memory loss Unexpected Doppelganger Dizziness Time skipping or slipping Reality shift (you will hear the distinctive sound) Extremely strong smell of ‘pears’ Continuum Collapse Please remain calm and quietly vacate the space, then report to your nearest Mulligan Institute operative, who will handle the situation from there. Do not attempt to resolve the situation yourself. There is then an monotone image of a screaming woman with her hands to her head, and a series of blocky symbols. A final box contains the text "Stay Safe: remember the time rhyme" "If there's more, shut the door. If there's less, tidy the mess." In the background is a watermark with the text "Mulligan Institute"

youtube.com/watch?v=EGH2eJdVLY…

El futbol llanero devora las chinampas de Xochimilco:

Desde hace más de una década en cientos de chinampas ya no se siembra, se juega futbol. Ya sea porque los propios chinamperos decidieron cambiar los cultivos por balones o porque otros fueron despojados de sus tierras. Se trata de una zona declarada Patrimonio Cultural de la Humanidad.


El futbol llanero devora las chinampas de Xochimilco

Desde hace más de una década en cientos de chinampas ya no se siembra, se juega futbol. Ya sea porque los propios chinamperos decidieron cambiar los cultivos...
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uspol but constructive and pro-fediverse

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Matt Campbell
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uspol but constructive and pro-fediverse

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Luis Villa
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uspol but constructive and pro-fediverse

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@Matt Campbell

I recently discovered that the OpenCore boot loader has a screen reader built into it, which makes it the only boot manager accessible to the blind. OpenCore contains UEFI drivers for different hardware and filesystems, and one of them is an audio driver that works with Intel HDA cards that are very common on both desktop and laptop motherboards. There is an option in its configuration file called PickerAudioAssist that enables the screen reader if the audio driver is configured. When this is enabled, OpenCore will speak which operating systems are available to boot, and then it will speak the selected option when you press an arrow key, and it will say which option it is loading when you press enter or when the timeout expires. It uses audio files of the words and phrases it speaks instead of using a speech synthesizer, so it is limited in what it can speak. For example, there are audio files for Windows and MacOS but not for Linux, so it will say "other OS" for any linux distribution. However, this is still much better than only hearing a beep and having to guess where you are or memorize the menu to figure out which option is selected. OpenCore was designed to boot MacOS on non-Apple hardware, so it implemented audio and screen reading functionality similar to what Apple implemented on Intel Macs but for all X86 computers, and you don't need to install MacOS to use OpenCore if you don't want to. dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Po…

OpenCore beauty treatment | OpenCore Post-Install

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Elijah Massey
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@vick21 @weirdwriter I'm not sure since I only started using OpenCore very recently. Have you gotten it to work?
@victor tsaran @Robert Kingett backup
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victor tsaran
victor tsaran
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@weirdwriter No, I actually busted my old Mac and need to get back to it to recover. Hopefully, then I will be able to upgrade to the latest version of OC to try it out.
@Robert Kingett backup

Yep, a self-healing metal.

Scientists have discovered that metal-halide perovskite, a next-generation semiconductor material, can self-heal from radiation damage in space. And this could be a game-changer for space-based solar panels and future power generation.

theconversation.com/space-radi…

#Space #Research #Engineering #News

Space radiation can damage satellites − my team discovered that a next-generation material could self-heal when exposed to cosmic rays

Spacecraft exteriors that automatically heal from radiation damage would change the game − one material shows promise.
The Conversation
#News #engineering #research #space

If a person with a disability tells you they can’t do something it’s not because they’re lazy or don’t want to.
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Strictly Come Dancing left Paralympian Will Bayley with injuries he'll 'never get over'

Paralympian Will Bayley was left in "horrific pain" after falling from a jump in rehearsals.
Yasmin Rufo (BBC News)

Having some fun playing around with PipeWire's midi support today using various applications from Flathub. #linux #pipewire #rosegarden #qwgraph #qsynth #fedora_linux
#linux #pipewire #rosegarden #qwgraph #qsynth #fedora_linux

accursed storage

#unix_surrealism #technomage #monochrome

Mage retrieves a memory card from a hacker duo.
#monochrome #unix_surrealism #technomage

#uspol Republican playbook hilariously upset. Energy and hope.

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We've partnered with Abside to create a groundbreaking secure communication solution for government agencies. Our Liberty phone, featuring Made in USA Electronics and running our non-Android PureOS, now integrates with Abside's N79 5G private network. The result? A fully American-made, ultra-secure platform for government personnel to communicate and access critical data on the move. Privacy, security, and performance – all in one package. #Purism #Cybersecurity #Abside

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Abside and Purism Partner to Deliver Secure Mobile Solution for U.S. Government and NATO Countries – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Purism SPC
#purism #cybersecurity #Abside
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Joshua Crawford has moved
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Does that mean that there is a 5g modem for the librem5 that will be available soon?
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Free Soft&Hardware Enthusiast
Free Soft&Hardware Enthusiast
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what is the status of upgrading the librem 5 pureos to crimson? has this effort been abandoned or will this be pursued?
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