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Der oder die FahrerIn eines dunklen SUV drängte am Samstagabend einen Radfahrer im Gegenverkehr auf Höhe einer Baustelle in der Paulinenhofstraße in Flittard ab. Infolgedessen stürzte der Radfahrer und erlitt mehrere Rippenbrüche. Der Verursacher flüchtete.
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One writer's experience with AI summarizers: "ChatGPT isn’t summarising at all, it only looks like it. What it does is something else and that something else only becomes summarising in very specific circumstances." (Depending on the text, the training sets, and parameters, the writer notes it condensing the text without regard to its most salient points, recycling others' summaries of the same or similar texts, or fabricating details when asked for more information.) ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/when-chat…

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PSA: iOS 18 is going to disable your old ‘Today’ view widgets 9to5mac.com/2024/07/23/psa-ios…


Immer öfter muss ich von #m4a zu #mp3 convertieren.

Da hab ich meiner Kollektion von #Nautilus#Scripts für #Ubuntu doch mal wieder eines hinzugefügt:

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Ein Rechtsklick genügt 🎉
Die Scripte kann man sicher professioneller machen 🤔
#Audio#Workflow#OpenSource



Comcast Lost Over 419,000 TV Customers & Lost 120,000 Internet Customers in Q2 2024 as Cord Cutting is Speeding Up cordcuttersnews.com/comcast-lo…


Practical SVG is Now Free to Read Online

Back in 2016 I wrote a book called Practical SVG. Recently, the publisher, A Book Apart, closed shop. Now you can Read Practical SVG on the web, here on this site, for free. I always like how Mat's book was online so now mine can join that cool club. I'll echo what I say on the site: Thanks to Jeff Eaton for…

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The first new Lyme disease vaccine in over two decades passed a key milestone last week — putting it on a timeline to potentially hit the market in 2026 if trial results are favorable.
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So thanks to @rmader@mastodon.social we managed to get the front camera in the Pixel 3a working with a libcamera/pipewire stack 🥳 Thanks to @flamingradian for the work on the whole port!

EDIT: The driver does not properly release the camera when closing the app, so it only works once per boot. It would be lovely if anybody with the skills would like to contribute to improve it!

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#postmarketOS #LinuxMobile #Pixel3a #Snapshot #GNOME #GUADEC

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Wir sind heute Abend mit unserer kritischen Position zum Thema #Behindertenwerkstätten bei ZDF frontal.
ZDF, 23.07.2024, 21:00 - 21:45 Uhr
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Just read an interesting post: Software engineers are not (and should not be) technicians haskellforall.com/2024/07/soft…

The ending summarizes the key point well:

> Or to put it another way: I actually view it as a red flag if an engineer or team gets into a predictable “flow” because it means that there is a promising opportunity for automation they’re ignoring.




Purism can produce made-in-USA, tailored GFE devices to gov specs. From wearable COP screens to field & office solutions. #GovTech #MadeInUSA #Purism

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🚨Jami is your free communication software, end-to-end encrypted and private. Ensuring non-commercial use of your data.😍

Here is the link to dowload it: jami.net/download/

#Jami #opensource #P2P #App #PrivacyMatters




Seltene Perspektive in der deutschen Medienlandschaft:

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"We explore the cost and security of reCAPTCHAv2 and conclude that it has an immense cost and no security. Overall, we believe that this study’s results prompt a natural conclusion: reCAPTCHAv2 and similar reCAPTCHA technology should be deprecated." arxiv.org/pdf/2311.10911


Ура!
Подкаст, в котором мы записывались на прошлой неделе и с которым потом было так много странных историй, всё же выложен в архив вместе с кратким резюме.
Мы с @Destranis были очень рады рассказать незрячим венграм о новом синтезаторе речи, с которыми в Венгрии прям беда и грусть.

Если кому интересно, подкаст можно послушать по вот этой ссылке:
gephaz.hobbyradio.hu/uj-ingyen…

Грустно, что @asael не мог участвовать в беседе, так как не знает венгерского, но мы упоминули его (правда с очень русским произношением его имени).

#RHVoice #RHVoice_hu #magyar #magyarul #podcast




Our final day of #GUADEC2024 BoFs and Workshops will start up soon. Make sure to check the website for BoF meeting links and your emails for access codes: events.gnome.org/event/209/pag…


Parabéns ao ganhador do Pants of the Thanks Awards deste ano, Felipe Borges @felipeborges ! Obrigado por todo o seu trabalho duro e muitas contribuições para o #GNOME! 👣 fixupx.com/guadec/status/18150…


Co je to zase na Hospodářkách za hrozný blábol?

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MacOS kernelové ovladače třetích stran zakázal, v Linuxu běží Falcon jako eBPF. Za to, že Microsoft nebyl schopný poskytnout vhodná API, není přece problém antimonopolní regulace.

A ta perlička o úderu blesku - Kurtz to posral v McAfee a teď to podělal v CrowdStrike. To, že se podobná chyba stala na dvou místech zároveň je záležitost firemní kultury, viz např. zde: hachyderm.io/@shanselman/11281…

in reply to Ondřej Surý

Že to hlásá Microsoft, který využívá situace, chápu. Ale, že ten blábol přebírají Hospodářky. 🤦‍♂️
To je jak tvrdit že za špatné jídlo v restauraci může hygienická stanice, která kuchaře obtěžovala s čištěním kuchyně.
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No, Southwest Airlines is not still using Windows 3.1

A story that's been persistently making the rounds since the CrowdStrike event is that while several airline companies were affected in one way or another, Southwest Airlines escaped the mayhem because they were still using windows 3.1. It's a great story that fits the current zeitgeist about technology and its role in society, un

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#Windows

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To je snůška kecu jak od nějakého dezolata, ano zla EU může za to že Microsoft neumí udělat APi tak aby to nepodělalo ten jejich shit který nazývá prý operačním systémem ..m

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😂
Abych parafrázoval článek: když se ekonom vrtá v technických tématech a rozvrtá je v úplný blábol.


There are some nice performance and memory improvements in BIND 9.20.0 that just hit the shelves:

isc.org/blogs/2024-bind920/

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Oh, the new option resolver-use-dns64 is cool! 👍🏻
bind9.readthedocs.io/en/v9.20.…
That means you can run your DNS64 resolver as a part of your IPv6-only infrastructure without provisioning it with dual stack connectivity or CLAT.


GNOME Calendar users, rejoice!

After 7 months of pain and suffering, we finally reworked the event details popover, which will be available in GNOME 47!

The new event details popover builds on top of the existing UI/code, while adding a few improvements and behavioral changes:

  • The popover displays the changes-prevent (lock) icon when the event is read-only.
  • Each section is properly separated with separators, with equal amount of margins.
  • Location and Meetings section are mutually exclusive; only one is shown.
  • When an event has no event note, the popover will always explicitly display that there's no event description.
  • The action button adapts its icon and tooltip text depending on the event permission.

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…

#GNOME #GNOMECalendar #GTK #libadwaita #GTK4

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“I am Buzz Aldrin, second man on the moon! Neil before me!”


The RockYou2024 password list has placed nearly 10 billion plaintext #passwords into the hands of malicious actors.

If you are not already using a password manager the time to start is now!

We've created a quick and easy guide to help you get started. 💪
👉 tuta.com/blog/best-password-ma…

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Recommending password-manager? Good idea!
Rcommending 2FA/MFA?
Even better!
Recommending to put both password and second factor in the same password-manager?
Meh...
I don't know, if you meant it that way, but it somewhat reads it ...
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@cart1082 Thanks for the feedback! We would agree that it is best not to keep your eggs in one basket. Secure unique passwords stored in a password manager + a physical U2F key is our go-to wherever possible.
@Cart


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This post was a bit surprising: Mozilla's ad tracking feature is part of an "origin trial", which means the new API is only exposed to websites on an allow list. Currently that list is empty, so the it doesn't do anything even if you've left the feature enabled.

They generated all that bad publicity, and the feature isn't even collecting any data yet.



First-Party Mode, Google’s new tool to avoid adblockers and browser’s tracking protections simoahava.com/analytics/first-… 👀


Mostly just a self reminder but maybe it’ll help you too.


Broken Linux laptop makes for a fine smart TV alternative

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

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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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@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



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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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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@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.
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@drew Oh nice. I'd say she is about 57 years old. I like the voice though.


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…)

in reply to Sean Randall

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.
in reply to Andre Louis

it wasn't very fluffy, although I've read so much in the last week that the details are gone already. Nothing spectacular..
in reply to Sean Randall

I refuse to read HP/GW pairings. That canon epilogue provides terrible outcomes.
in reply to Andre Louis

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