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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 10 updated and 1 added apps:

* FDTracker: easily add, view, update, and track your fixed deposits

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:




As California gets ready to do more "homeless sweeps," I feel the need to remind y'all that NYC has more homeless people, and more homeless people per capita, than San Francisco.🙂🙃

But NYC is a much less cruel and much less dysfunctional city than San Francisco, so their homeless people are much more likely to have shelter.

hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/111…

in reply to Badtux the Snarky Penguin

If a shelter is so bad someone would rather sleep on a piece of cardboard in the cold and wet San Francisco weather than sleep in a cot or bed inside ... What does that say about the shelters?

@badtux
@mekkaokereke

in reply to Jess👾

Many of my friends who are homeless have to literally PAY RENT to be able to stay in the shelter.
Yes.
Homeless people.
Get kicked out of their homeless shelter.
Because they can't afford rent.

@badtux
@mekkaokereke




Olympic Opening Ceremony (audio-only) audio described on BBC1, for as long as the TV stays alive: 2.onj.me/tv.m3u
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in reply to Andre Louis

'Windows updates 37% don't turn off your computer.'
You utter, utter shitting bastard!
in reply to Andre Louis

you never serve anything on windows. Ever. If you do, your whole crowd will be striked.


X, formerly known as Twitter, has automatically activated a setting that allows the company to train its Grok AI on users’ posts.

X enabled the new setting by default.

The good news is that you can switch it off and also delete your conversation history with the AI.

techcrunch.com/2024/07/26/here…



Hello hello Jamers 👀

Our team focused on bug fixes, UI enhancements, unit tests implementations. 😍

👀 Want to know more about the jami's #development progress? Read our Dev update 10 !
Here is the link: jami.net/dev-update-10/

#Jami #opensource #P2P #App #PrivacyMatters



According to this Reuters report, it's "estimated that financial losses globally from the CrowdStrike outage could total around $15 billion."

Or, to put it in terms CrowdStrike's marketing team would understand, 1.5 billion Uber Eats gift cards.

reuters.com/technology/fortune…



The Physical Keyboard Challenge: Evaluating the Experience of Using an Android Tablet with an External Keyboard accessibleandroid.com/the-phys…
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If you still maintain a Twitter account, probably opt out of it using your content to train its racist LLM / genAI chatbot:
x.com/settings/grok_settings

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Hey!

Do you own a circular slide rule, or know someone who does? Maybe you have a box in the attic or a whole drawer of them.

I am working on an artist’s book with one chapter dedicated to circular slide rules.

If you would like to help me out and get a credit in a really cool book then please scan your slide rule(s) and submit via the form on my site or you can email me lharby@gmail.com.

Details and submissions at this link slackwise.org.uk/submit

Please retoot for more toot-ins!

Thank you!

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Diversity in tech isn't just good - it's vital. PureOS: Secure, private, and free from Big Tech monopolies. #ChooseFreedom
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Who needs Project 2025 when The Donald could be so easily swayed to return us to 1925, halfway through the forced sterilization of 30,000 Americans in the eugenics program that influenced the Nazis.

“My Uncle Donald Trump Told Me Disabled Americans Like My Son ‘Should Just Die’”
time.com/7002003/donald-trump-…

#accessibility



Sad that the #Olympics have already been marred by attacks. I'm only a passing sports fan, but I enjoy the variety every 4 years. Last time, I really enjoyed the choice of music during the parade in Tokyo at their opening ceremony.
Looking forward to this evening's opener!
in reply to Sean Randall

Great fun watching the Archery at the #olympics yesterday, and more qualifying for GB this morning.
The skill and focus needed is impressive, I've only personally done rifle shooting and that was taxing too. The noise of archery is very distinctive, though, and easy to follow by ear.
Tennis again this evening. If Dan and Andy - Dandy? Can pull off another win, well. Hard to imagine how that'll feel.
GB are also in the rowing for a title today, among plenty of other things.
in reply to Sean Randall

Shame about the tennis on Thursday. Looking forward to the Archery qualifying again this morning. GB have been bouncing around the top 6-7 of the medal table the last couple days, been a great #olympic performance for them. I think as an opening week goes, one of their strongest certainly since I can remember!




Pěním. A jak už to tak se mnou bývá, víc než bych nezbytně musel... #klubovna

in reply to Hartgen Consultancy

Is it just me or when it sings JAWS does it sometimes sound like he's saying Charles?
in reply to David Goldfield

@DavidGoldfield No I don't think it says that. Sometimes even some Americans mispronounce that word to my ears anyway. Where I had an issue was when we got to the bridge onward. Despite my original document having no spelling errors, the AI tool insisted on singing, Tors for Windows. That tune was too good to lose, so I simply edited it and substituted the T sound for a J. Strange it did that, but AI can do interesting things.



Inside JD Vance's VC career: five years, two firms before co-founding Narya, investing in AppHarvest, which faced lawsuits and filed for bankruptcy, and more (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)

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Galaxy S25 Ultra to use same battery and charging specs as Galaxy S20 Ultra 9to5google.com/2024/07/26/sams…


AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry from Google DeepMind tried the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad and performed at the level of a silver medalist! #Math #LLM #ML #AI deepmind.google/discover/blog/…
#AI #math #ML #llm


Here's my advice on how to design your course to be more ADHD-friendly. Many of these tips will help students regardless of #ADHD diagnosis: scaffolding large projects and being abundantly consistent about instructions.

#Academia #UDL #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #DisabledInSTEM

theadhdacademic.weebly.com/tea…

in reply to theADHDacademic

Why should it be up to the teacher to break large projects into chunks? Isn't that a skill that the student will need to learn to do for themselves when they want to take on a large project in the workplace?
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt 1) Having assistance breaking large projects into smaller tasks is something that ADHD people can often receive as workplace accommodations, so this is an acknowledged problem in the work world rather than something exclusively expected of individual employees themselves. (See askjan.org/disabilities/Attent… as an example.) Workplaces, like many instructors, are invested enough in people's success that they will work with them to help make it happen.

2) Just like any other skill, most learners will acquire the ability to break things down into smaller chunks if they have it explicitly modeled for them, rather than absorbing it through osmosis.

3) Almost all learners—ADHD or otherwise—will produce work that's more what the instructor has in mind if they receive some degree of formative feedback along the way. Chunking projects helps this feedback be more manageable / useful for everyone.

in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt Why should it be up to the student to learn how to do this without guidance? Isn't that a skill that a teacher could scaffold and explicitly teach them so the process and expectations are clear? Isn't managing a project something *managers *in a workplace should do for/with their reports and teams?
in reply to B Haas

@belehaa Because employers want people who can manage themselves. Less overhead. We may disagree about whether that's reasonable (I personally think it is), but surely it's important to set up students for success in the world as it is.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt Validating students' needs and supporting them as they learn will set them up for success far better than leaving them to struggle. Abandoning people to figure it out on their own because "everyone else" can do it is ableist
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt @belehaa Setting students up for success in the world "as it is" means setting them up for burnout and mental health issues including a higher risk of suicide.

How about we create learning and working environments that support everyone's talents and allow everybody to thrive?

in reply to Kit Muse

@KitMuse @matt @belehaa Yeah exactly. Expecting people with ADHD to live without accommodations rests on the belief that either:

-ADHD is not a "real" disability or;
-Disabled people do not deserve accommodations

Both are ableist.

in reply to Nic, Gently Salting the Vibes

@PacificNic @KitMuse @belehaa I don't believe either of those things. But I wonder if ADHD requires accommodations from teachers, employers, etc., or if it only requires the people who have it to know how to work around their own disability.

I'm legally blind. I understand why a sensory disability requires external accommodations. I just wonder if the same applies to ADHD. I should probably go off and learn more about this on my own before I say anything more.

in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt @PacificNic @belehaa I appreciate your willingness to learn. Speaking only as someone who wasn't diagnosed until they were 48 and in the final semester of a dual major bachelor's (I'm now a graduate student), learning that I was ADHD changed me from believing I was broken to someone whose mind worked differently. It literally facilitated the healing journey I'm on, moving it from fumbling around feeling like I was broken by trauma to understanding why it happened.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt @belehaa Employers also want people with functioning vision, hearing and movement. Every disability – be it blindless, deafness or ADHD – puts demands on employers. What you are saying implicitly is that disabled people have no place in the working world.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt Why should it be up to the teacher to teach how to write a project proposal, how to evaluate a project's success, how to work as part of a team? Aren't these skills that the student will need to learn to do for themselves when they want to take on a large project in the workplace?

Read more about scaffolding as an educational term. It's about gradually removing support over time so that the students work independently eventually rather than chuck them off the deep end and see who swims.

in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt No worries. It's a term with a specific meaning in education. There's a range of strategies between "chuck them off the deep end and see who swims" and scaffolding, but scaffolding generally leads to a greater number of successful students and is more equitable, in my opinion.



Ysanne Churchman, who voiced Alpha Centauri in ‘The Curse of Peladon’ and ‘The Empress of Mars’ has died.
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Dneska volníčko, ráno kilák a půl v bazénu a teď oběd "na prasáka", tlačenka s cibulí a octem a pivo 😊
in reply to Archos

@archos občas mě ty sprostý český jídla chybí 😊
Když přijedu do Čech, většinou požírám jedy jako Gothaj a Turisťák, takovou hrůzu taxu nekoupíš.
Ale co naděláš, 40 let ti to rvali na talíř a přeučuj se skoro v padesáti...
in reply to Cynik

Jj plně chápu, však ještě pamatuju dobu, kdy jsem šel ráno do práce a první kam se jelo bylo na ovar a pivko ke snídani 😄👍
Nebo taková dršťková ke snídani 😋😋
in reply to Archos

@archos to pamatuji svůj první festak... K snídani pivo a gulášovka 😄
in reply to Zechy

@zechy To je taky klasika :flan_XD: No ten ovar bych už asi dneska ke snídani nedal, ale gulášovka, nebo dršťková to není špatný.
in reply to Archos

@archos @zechy Tak dršťková polévka je jedna z mála klasických jídel, které fakt nemusím 😅
in reply to Archos

@archos @zechy Tak houbový guláš, to je jiná 🤤 Nejlepší je z václavek 🤩 Já u dršťkové nemám problém s polévkou jako takovou ( je to v podstatě gulášovka ), ale dršťky nemám rád (i když jsou správně očištěné)
in reply to Archos

@archos Chystá se k nám z Asie tchán. Vidíme ho jednou ročně. Vyžádal si českou hospodu, kde mají koleno nebo kachnu se zelím 😁


OpenAI Just Released SearchGPT. It’s Already Error Prone. (...The tool then pulls up a list of festivals that it states are taking place in Boone this August, the first being An Appalachian Summer Festival, which according to the tool is hosting a series of arts events from July 29 to August 16 of this year. Someone in Boone hoping to buy tickets to one of those concerts, however, would run into trouble...) theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
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Massive leak reveals One UI 7.0 design changes! sammobile.com/news/massive-one…


#SFF people! The Blaft Anthology of Anti-Caste SF is an amazing project and deserves all the support! If you want to promote #OwnVoices and #DiverseSFF this goes beyond South Asian or Diaspora Indian lit to feature caste oppressed writers and anti-casteist stories. It's also super pretty and fun and well-designed! There's a tote!
kickstarter.com/projects/blaft…


Did you know Tuta offers discount plans for NGOs?

We spoke to the Committee for Justice, a Swiss-based Organization who use Tuta Mail as their end-to-end email provider.

Find out more on the CFJ, their work and why they chose Tuta: tuta.com/blog/how-tuta-helps-o…
#givingback #nonprofit #privacy




Guide for Using Mastodon Search. It’s easier and more powerful than you… | by Mark Wyner | Jun, 2024 | Medium markwyner.medium.com/guide-for…

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@Sandruska93 Docela i dobré kafe tam dělají. Sice za 60 Kč, ale co bych neudělal pro fotku na Mastodon 😄😄
in reply to Archos

...jen když kape! 😅 Ale asi pozdě. 😉
Tady žhaví puchejř na 30 a strkám ryby do grilu... 🙋‍♂️




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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