Concussion Drums - The Crow Hill Company
Craft epic cinematic drums with Concussion, your go-to orchestral percussion VST library, and build your perfect drum combo with Kit Creator.The Crow Hill Company
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 14 updated and 2 added apps:
* Paperize: wallpaper changer application with a clean design
* Simple Song Collector: gather YouTube audio tracks from your song lists in other apps
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
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
My Uncle Donald Trump Told Me Disabled Americans Like My Son ‘Should Just Die’
Fred Trump III describes conversations with his uncle about people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.Fred C. Trump III (Time)
Samsung Galaxy Ring review: great hardware, long battery life, and requires no subscription, but it's Android only and health tracking accuracy is a mixed bag (Victoria Song/The Verge)
theverge.com/24205156/samsung-…
techmeme.com/240725/p21#a24072…
Samsung Galaxy Ring review: keeping you in Samsung’s orbit
The $399.99 Samsung Galaxy Ring isn’t a revolutionary smart ring, but it does a good job of convincing you to stay within Samsung’s gadget ecosystem.Victoria Song (The Verge)
Despite all my experience, I am sometimes tempted to give certain #software vendors a second chance.
And I was curious to see what the new #AppleMaps could do. Unfortunately, my trial only lasted a few seconds, because neither one of my operating systems nor the browser I use for my daily work are supported.
And so I can say: negative prejudices confirmed, I don't need something like this.
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AI Video Generator Runway Trained on Thousands of YouTube Videos Without Permission
A leaked document obtained by 404 Media shows company-wide effort collected thousands of YouTube videos and pirated content for training data.Samantha Cole (404 Media)
It turns out a lot of return-to-office mandates were meant to make workers quit
Executives surveyed by Bamboo HR said they hoped return-to-office mandates would encourage "voluntary turnover"Ben Kesslen (Quartz)
puri.sm/products/liberty-phone…
fracturesounds.com/product/hom…
Homestead Piano - Fracture Sounds
A vintage upright piano, recorded in a dry and intimate setting- ideal for composers or songwriters seeking inspiration for their next piece of music.Fracture Sounds
Rust 1.80.0 is now available! 🦀🌈
This release brings you LazyCell, LazyLock, checked cfg names & values, exclusive ranges in patterns, IntoIterator for Box<[T]>, Option::take_if, split_at_checked, and more! ✨
Check out the announcement and release notes: blog.rust-lang.org/2024/07/25/…
Announcing Rust 1.80.0 | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.blog.rust-lang.org
FYI Informed consent is an essential component of health care.
If you do NOT speak French and/or are NOT otherwise fluent in French, you cannot give informed consent in French. FULL STOP.
PS FUCK THE CAQ.
montrealgazette.com/news/local…
#assnat #polQC #languagepolice #caqastrophe #fuckthecaq #polcan #cdnpoli #healthcanada #informedconsent
Montreal Gazette
The visits are raising the ire of some hospital staff, who are upset that they are being taken away from their pressing medical duties to be grilled by the OQLF.Aaron Derfel, Montreal Gazette (Montreal Gazette)
@arutaz Tuta does not use Google Push on Android or iOS. In fact, when implementing the push notification service, we did so in a zero knowledge way - meaning even notifications are encrypted and the server does not know anything about your data.
If you use the Tuta app, this happens automatically.
Popredná ruská ekonómka Valentina Bondarenková zomrela po páde z okna
Ruské úrady údajne nenašli žiadne dôkazy o násilnom zápase alebo kriminálnom motíve. l.rockosbasilisk.com/5ajXm
Comcast California Announces Live American Sign Language Interpreting Services at Several Bay Area Xfinity Store Locations | Comcast California
Comcast will provide ASL interpreting services at several Xfinity locations in the Bay Area and Donates $60,000 to community partners to further digital inc ...avalde167@cable.comcast.com (Comcast California)
"I believe reCAPTCHA's true purpose is to harvest user information and labor from websites," asserted Andrew Searles
"If you believe that reCAPTCHA is securing your website, you have been deceived."
reCAPTCHA has used:
819 million hrs of human time
$6.1 billion USD in wages
134 petabytes of bandwidth
7.5 million kWhs of energy
7.5 million pounds of CO2
theregister.com/2024/07/24/goo…
Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit
Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving themThomas Claburn (The Register)
Google drops it's plan of disabling 3rd-party tracking cookies by default in Chrome. 🍪
Looking for a Chrome alternative? Check out our recommendations.
👉 tuta.com/blog/best-private-bro…
#browser #email #privacy #encryption #foss #cookies
Best Private Browsers 2024 | Top 10 To Stop Trackers
When it comes to most secure browsers Firefox is the best alternative to Chrome - and, no, incognito mode doesn't cut it.Tutanota
That might partly be because Vivaldi is openly against crypto"currency" while Tutanota is for. I've dropped Tutanota for that reason.
Here's one of the best takes on why Vivaldi is currently the number one browser and the 95% open source is a trivial “issue”:
blahaj.zone/notes/9vrn6csii37g…
Spider-hair (@Uraael)
Who do you trust with your browsing? I am in the minority position of never having trusted Google or Mozilla and that largely intuitive stance only grows increasingly correct as the corroborating evidence piles up. My daily driver is Vivaldi.Blåhaj Zone
This is pure cartel behavior: Reddit and Google have cut a deal that will freeze out all other search engines from indexing Reddit, where volunteers do essentially all the work.
This should not be legal.
It is VITAL to replace Reddit, and it will take a global village to do it. If we don't, the cartel wins.
And Google should be broken up by Congress, if the antitrust people won't try.
404media.co/google-is-the-only…
Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal
DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, and other search engines are not returning full Reddit results any more.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
Today I worked out that the UK would nearly fit 1:1 scale on a sheet of A-39 paper.
That's using the A paper scale, where A0 is 1m^2 and each number down the scale doubles in area, keeping a 1:sqrt(2) aspect ratio.
That's A minus 39. I make a sheet of that 741.455km x 1048.576 km
(Done in #QGIS using 'Shape tools' plugin)
Hiding Linux Processes with Bind Mounts
Lately I’ve been thinking about Stephan Berger’s recent blog post on hiding Linux processes with bind mounts. Bottom line here is that if you have an evil process you want to hide, use …Righteous IT
zdnet.com/article/switzerland-…
The United States remains reluctant to work with open source, but European countries are bolder.
No, Switzerland does not.
The law that they just passed requires software developed by or specifically for the government to be open but it contains a loophole allowing the use of proprietary software and it contains no incentive to avoid proprietary software.
When we adopted a similar policy at NASA in the 80s the loophole meant that there was no change in the amount of proprietary software we used. I expect the same in Switzerland.
for no particular special occasion but I'm selling my roguelike game for 50 cents if you buy it directly from my website. DRM-Free, Win, Mac, Linux and Android, and you also get a Steam key. Sale ends in 2 days!
questofdungeons.com
Quest of Dungeons
Quest of Dungeons is a roguelike game with pixel art made for Windows, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, iOS and Androidwww.questofdungeons.com
Tohle se #pirati myslím moc nepovedlo. Sice ta jeho kampaň byla nic moc, ale byl aspoň vidět. Byl na kandidátce a dělal kampaň 🤷🏼♂️🔓
denikn.cz/1480831/ferjencik-na…
Ferjenčík na trestné lavici. Piráti nechtějí, aby za ně kandidoval. Je to odplata za videa s Ježíšem
Exposlanec a jedna z nejvýraznějších tváří Pirátů Mikuláš Ferjenčík možná v příštím roce za trest nebude kandidovat do Poslanecké sněmovny. Vyzvali ho k tomu jeho spolustraníci, kterým vadila jeho předvolební videa s Ježíšem.Kateřina Frouzová (Deník N)
Btw to, že byl Ferjenčík tak dole na kandidátce mělo své důvody. A nejen předchozí sněmovní volby.
@marcel_kolaja
I was checking out this year's #StackOverflow annual developer report that few things caught my eye:
1. They have deliberately drawn the wrong conclusion about most popular operating system. They have interpreted #Linux distro as operating system, so they have separately provided numbers for Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, and etc., and have concluded that "Windows is the most popular operating system for developers, across both personal and professional use".
survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/t…
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