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This has been out for nine months already, and the feedback has been very positive. With airplay on BBC 6 music among other stations, it's garnered quite a lot of attention in the media.
The track is called 'Deusa' and is one of my absolute favourite things to have made in a while. I imagine hearing this as you walk down the street, coming out of a restaurant, clothes or shoe shop or in someone's car on a Friday night.
Roberta Silva is a fantastic Brazilian-Portuguese singer that lives in London. I first heard her at a gig and when I told Cian (aka Bruk Rogers) about her after he wanted us to find a singer, said she'd be the absolute best fit for the job, which she is.
Listen on your music platform of choice here: truthoughts.ffm.to/degl.OTW


#PEP517 build backends with the same .gitignore related bug:

* poetry (github.com/python-poetry/poetr…)
* maturin (github.com/PyO3/maturin/issues…)
* hatch (github.com/pypa/hatch/issues/1…)

... 🙄

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in reply to Bubu

wait! Am I going to be overwhelmed by all new build backends when I return to work?? *sweating intensifies*
in reply to Bubu

Maturin is fixed now (and poetry already was at the time of the initial post, even though it took 1.5 years after the initial report).

Hatch isn't moving. Maybe in a year or two? 🤷




A FOSS project like OpenSSL should be able to explain their choices without resorting to unverified, wishy-washy statements.

This has gone on long enough. Debian sid is now shipping curl with gnutls to enable HTTP/3. Gentoo is considering its options.

Talk to your distro of choice, if you want access to modern internet protocols. The alternatives are there.
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Wyciek danych nie jest udostępnieniem danych - tak wynika z ostatniego wyroku Wojewódzkiego Sądu Administracyjnego w Warszawie.

Pewna spółka, zajmująca się obsługą płacową, została zaatakowana przez ransomware. W rezultacie dane jednej z firm (kontrahenta spółki) zostały zaszyfrowane. Poszkodowana w ten sposób firma zwróciła się ze skargą do Prezesa #UODO.

Organ nadzorczy stwierdził jednak, że odpowiedzialność za naruszenie ponosi... firma, która (zdaniem PUODO) udostępniła dane osobie atakującej i to właśnie ona została ukarana upomnieniem.

Decyzja organu została zaskarżona. Wojewódzki Sąd Administracyjny w orzeczeniu z 25 lipca 2024 r. (sygn. akt II SA/Wa 2430/23) przyznał rację firmie. Wskazano w szczególności, że Prezes UODO nie wykazał, by w sprawie doszło do udostępnienia danych osobowych.

Szczegóły: rp.pl/abc-firmy/art40866771-sa… #RODO



V eDokladech je chyba, která bude brzy opravena. Omlouváme se.

Nejedná se o něco bezprostředně zneužitelného, ale být to tam nemá. Z mého pohledu se jedná o šlendrián programátorů a je ostuda že nebyl odhalen dřív.

irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov/eobca…

in reply to Ondřej Profant

Tak ted uz alespon rozumime vyjadreni pana Mesrsmida, proc by jim zverejneni zdrojovych kodu "velmi zkomplikovalo situaci".

mastodon.cesko.digital/@mwenis…


Na Lupe se Martin Mesrsmid vyjadroval k problemum eDokladu. Co se stalo tak nejak vime. Jako novinka padla otazka: "Planujete zverejnit eDoklady jako open source?" Na cez jednoznacne odpovedel:

Velmi by nám to zkomplikovalo situaci.

Kdo nekdy neco programoval, tak tusi, o jake komplikace se jedna 🙈. Pro IT netknute jsme poprosili Yenerator, aby nam situaci priblizil. Dekujeme!

Vyzblepty Yeneratoru a nazory na stav Ceske IT infrastruktury najdete na diskutuj.digital/

#it #dia #meme


in reply to Martin Wenisch

Pepik: A co kdybysme to rovnou udělali jako open-source?

Martin: Nene, to by nám hrozně zkomplikovalo situaci: museli bysme pořádně definovat requirementy (nemohli bysme pracovat agilně)! A navíc: takhle si tady v analýze rizik můžu škrtnout všechna reputační rizika ...

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From EYB re #AsmaKhan's new book, #flavour
[My comments are in square brackets.] It sounds interesting, especially as I have #MasalaLab by #KrishAshok on my desk at the moment.

Asma Khan, creator of Darjeeling Express in London, thinks that the idea of what Indian people eat at home is so wrong. “No one in India eats naan at home,” she says. “You need a tandoor. Your bloody house would catch fire. People’s idea of what we eat is so warped.”

Her two #cookbooks focus on Indian home cooking. Her upcoming book, Flavour – Discover the Elements Behind Delicious Indian Cookery, is different.

It is structured around the six core #ayurvedic tastes: Tangy, Bitter, Hot, Sweet, Sour, and Salty and how they correlate to the six seasons in Bengal. [These aren't actually the 6 Ayurveda tastes, which are Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Pungent, Astringent.]

This book aims to illuminate Indian cookery by giving the foundations needed to build balanced flavours, dishes and sumptuous feasts. [All from a Bengali perspective, of course. Each region in Indian has very different food and approaches.]

With core techniques including roasting, grinding and tempering spices, how to cook with ghee, chillies, and onions, and what to add and when to re-balance flavours in a dish, Flavour will have home cooks applying fundamental processes intuitively to their cooking of Indian [Bengali] food.

#IndianFood #BengaliFood #Food #Cookbooks



According to #NS, people on the go are not used to returning deposited bottles at the stations so it makes no sense to deploy more reverse vending machines there.

nos.nl/artikel/2530271-verkoop…

How come that often three out of four machines at Amsterdam Centraal are full? And what would it then look like if people were used to returning bottles at the station?

#ns


I have been travelling the past few weeks, and have not yet had the time to fully digest the recent announcement by Deepmind of how their two new #IMO problem solver engines, AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry2, were able to between them solve 4 of the 6 problems at the most recent International Mathematical Olympiad: deepmind.google/discover/blog/… . But I can record some preliminary impressions.

1. This is great work, shifting once again our expectations of which benchmark challenges are within reach of either #AI-assisted or fully autonomous methods. For instance, IMO level geometry problems are now effectively a solved problem for specialized AI tools; and it seems now that IMO problems that can be readily formalized and with formal proofs that can be located through a reinforcement learning process are now at least somewhat amenable to AI attacks (though currently requiring genuinely significant amounts of compute per problem, and human assistance on the formalization side).

2. There may be side benefits of this approach into making formal mathematics easier to automate, which could in turn facilitate mathematical research methods that contain formal components. In particular, the database of formal proofs generated by this effort could be a useful resource if shared more openly.

3. The approach (based more on reinforcement learning than large language models, somewhat in the spirit of AlphaGo, and heavily emphasizing formal methods) is clever, and makes sense in retrospect. As per the "AI effect" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effec… , once explained, it does not "feel" like an exhibition of human-like intelligence; but it is still an expansion of the capability of our suite of AI-assisted problem solving tools.

#AI #imo
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"We estimate that the decline in Nuclear power Plants caused by Chernobyl led to the loss of approximately 141 million expected life years in the U.S., 33 in the U.K. and 318 million globally".

So, for the slow kids, let’s spell this out:
1. Chernobyl happened
2. Many countries close down nuclear or no longer build it
3. Instead fossil fuel plants get built
4. Air pollution is spiking
5. 318 million life years are lost globally (thus far)

All because of fear.

nber.org/conferences/si-2024-p…



Kačica detektív.

dennikn.sk/4110761/pripad-unos…



Takže "Internet je naše moře", pojďme si to shrnout:
- digitální stavební řízení nic moc
- evidence ubytovaných je WTF
- #eObčanka taky průser
- v ochraně před copyright lobby se vůbec nic nestalo
- v oblasti drogový politiky je úplný ticho

Možná se pletu #Piráti, ale nezačínali jste jako strana, která má problém s velkýma bratrama a podobnýma srandama? Kde je důraz na soukromí?

Ano, práva LGBT, sociální role státu a všechny tyhle věci jsou důležitý, ale kvůli tomu vás nevolim. Dělá něco #Šalomoun? Dělá něco dobře #Bartoš?

V tuhle chvíli jedinej důvod, proč vás znovu volit je #Lipavský.

Nevim, jestli mi to stačí...

eObčanka měla chránit soukromí, přitom odesílá, kdo se kde ověřuje. ‚Sběr dat omezíme,‘ slibuje agentura

in reply to Schmaker

Jojo a oni se pak divý, že jim klesají preference. 😁


Zdá se mi, že se nám ta digitalizace nějak vymyká a velký bratr číhá v každém kroku... irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov/eobca…



iOS 18: What's New With the Calculator App macrumors.com/guide/ios-18-cal…





What can we learn from the CrowdStrike outage to protect assistive technology? vi.ie/what-can-we-learn-from-t…

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Dušek: "Stejně když tě vidim Tomáši jak piješ, tak bych chtěl aby mi takle vodtejkala vana."

📽️Hospoda

in reply to Archos

@archos TV Nová ho tuším často reprízovala cez letné prázdniny, či?


Shostakovich: Cello Concerto n.1 op.107 - Mischa Maisky

youtube.com/watch?v=RKVU6TzM8g…

in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky, Gidon Kremer - Shostakovich Piano Trio 2

youtube.com/watch?v=ebxWZPiGd_…

in reply to Federico Mena Quintero

Argerich, Maisky, Bell, Kraggerud, Bashmet - Shostakovich Piano Quintet

youtube.com/watch?v=1RoAsbBMJ8…



Windows gets Linux’s sudo superpower: Here’s how to turn it on pcworld.com/article/2388945/wi…

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It's always a good day to learn a little more about Jacqueline du Pré.

What a delightful person.

youtube.com/watch?v=mvPza4XosW…

in reply to Merlin Mann

Jacqueline du Pré was a very good cellist.

youtube.com/watch?v=OPhkZW_jwc…



6 Ways to Make An Event More Accessible aira.io/6-ways-to-make-an-even…
in reply to David Goldfield

it's a bit AIRA service centric... not talking visual interpretation but AIRA like it's the only game in town hehe
in reply to Jeffrey D. Stark

@jstark Perhaps, but remember it was written by AIRA and so I would expect some promotion of their service.


Blindness History Basics: A Brief History of the Refreshable Braille Display aph.org/blindness-history-basi…
in reply to David Goldfield

Oh, it definitely is marketed for that. Yup, I remember seeing my first Kurzweil reader. As big as a photocopier. Now the same technology fits in my pocket and is pretty much free.
in reply to Just Martin

@mcourcel I remember the Kurzweil Model 2 at a school for the bllind that I attended as a kid. After powering on, you had to press three buttons in a specific order. One day, I accidentally pressed them in the wrong order, the machine wouldn't work and they had to get a technician to come to the school to fix it.


Regarding the hit-by-bullet assumption:

"It seems quite likely that the story Trump has been telling constantly over the last two weeks simply isn’t true, that he and his campaign know it’s not true or at least that there’s no evidence for it. And the press has too."

As Josh Marshall makes clear, this is another willful failure of Big Journalism. Refusing to do the basic stuff is the norm now.

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/f…

(Free link)

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Auto-Populate iPhone Home Screen With Your Most Used Apps

macrumors.com/how-to/siri-sugg…



Oh no, who could've thought 😨🤣🤡🤡

77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds
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🕛Z #NowPlaying at the top of the hour, 2 hours of relaxing #NewAge, #ambient, and #meditationmusic on Northern Lights: The New Age Show, #live with Kelly Sapergia. More information is at ksapergia.net/northernlights/. Tune in either by visiting theglobalvoice.info and clicking on the Listen Live link, or go directly to theglobalvoice.info:8443/broad… #TGVRadio #audio #radio 📺🗣️📻🎶🎙️🌌🌈🫣🫰🩵🪬🫶


SecureBoot is compromised on a big chunk of devices. Awesome.*
arstechnica.com/security/2024/…
in reply to Seirdy

I don't think there's any safe pro-user boot security on desktop-like platforms besides the Talos II that doesn't have major issues.
in reply to LisPi

v-boot itself is perfectly capable of being pro-user, so long as hardware support is there. I think it should be possible to get a Star Labs notebook working well with it.


Being #OpenSource has many advantages. For #NVDA has opened the way for community contributions, and has enabled #transparency, #security and #innovation beyond what might have been possible in closed software. Increasingly, governments are also mandating the use of open source. Here is an article on such a step forward in Switzerland:

"Switzerland Makes Open Source Software Mandatory For Public Sector"

news.itsfoss.com/switzerland-o…

#FOSS #NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #Software #News

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Latest installment of Starship Gender is now up!

I explore bits of my own personal story and background I've never talked about in public before, how they led me through a lifelong process of questioning things, and why I ultimately think the deeply interconnected nature of all forms of systemic oppression conceals an incredibly powerful source of hope:

starshipgender.com/2024/07/why…

in reply to Amelia

Thanks for taking the time to write this. I wonder about this part:

> we need to reconnect to own embodied experience of safety, and we need to reconnect with our own sense of agency.

That seems very abstract. Forgive me if I've missed concrete examples of how to do this. If not, do you plan on unpacking this more in a follow-up?

Thanks again.

in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt You didn't miss anything! It's already a very long piece, and yes, I fully plan to follow up over time with concrete, actionable ideas and practices.

That gets very tricky in a hurry, though, to do in English - because the majority of approaches out there in the "western" world are deeply tangled up in colonialism and cultural appropriation issues. I feel like the complexity there deserves its own standalone treatment of how to avoid repeating colonial theft of traditions that include techniques for that safety and agency.

in reply to Amelia

Also, I'm curious what you meant when you said your family were "doing their best to cosplay working-class people". Did that have to do with them being missionaries, or something else?


So I went out in Cork city to listen to traditional Irish music with @sapphireangel and Ryan, and we encountered this. No amplification, just a bunch of dudes playing their asses off.


"The Jasper fire was caused by a lightning strike on Monday afternoon and fuelled by strong winds, according to Parks Canada.

Flames from the blaze rose 100 meters high (328 feet), and strong wind gusts on Wednesday afternoon pushed the fire 5 kilometers (3 miles) in less than 30 minutes, said Alberta public safety minister Mike Ellis."

reuters.com/world/americas/hug…

#Jasper #wildfires



According to @bagder the stubborn way the #OpenSSL project is handling #QUIC implementation is directly responsible for delaying HTTP/3 adoption (1), and I tend to agree. When the project rejected the community QUIC patches and decided to go with their own design, it wasn't difficult to predict problems. This was proven right by the massive feature gaps (2) and performance issues (3) discovered by @icing when trying to marry OpenSSL QUIC to #curl. Even with API fixes released in version 3.3 the implementation is still inferior, and there is no good solution in sight.

1) lwn.net/Articles/983380/
2) github.com/openssl/openssl/dis…
3) github.com/icing/blog/blob/mai…




With its One UI 6.1.1 update, Samsung will turn its Auto Blocker feature on by default, preventing users from side-loading Android apps unless they opt-out. pcmag.com/news/newer-samsung-g…

in reply to Ondřej Surý

@ondrej @icing "By aligning our roadmap with the community’s needs, we aim to deliver more timely and effective solutions."

my corporate lingo meter went all the way up to red

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

@icing Exactly. 🤮

From my perspective, I could handle an open source project that makes decisions I disagree with if it’s a grassroot thing and people are genuine. And perhaps they can’t do it because there’s not enough time.

And I’m pretty sure people have disagreed with me before on my decision I make for BIND 9 project. (1/2)

in reply to Ondřej Surý

But this corporate bullshit, I don’t believe a word that has been said. If there was a MPL 2.0 compatible library with PKCS#11 support with good performance I would probably be working on migration as we speak. And I didn’t even know about the performance problems between 1.1.1 and 3.0.0 that haproxy maintainer mentioned. Although we had to dance around the EVP SHA1 being horribly slow compared to the old API. (2/2)