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A víte, jak to dopadne, když vám někdo "ze srandy" šťuchne opilého kamaráda přímo před autobus, který jede 27 mil za hodinu?
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Vyvázl z toho pravděpodobně "jen" s otřesem mozku...



Curiosidad sobre las olimpiadas: en 1992 la competición de tiro era mixta, y se llevó el oro esta señora, Zhang Shan. Vamos, que ganó al resto de señoros. En consecuencia se prohibió jugar a las mujeres para las siguientes. En el 2000 se les dejó volver a competir pero aparte.
Que veo a mucha gente preguntar por qué algunos deportes no son mixtos, pues por esto, por si ellas ganan.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Sh…



That creepy ‘friend’ device and the Samsung Galaxy Ring have more in common than you might think techradar.com/health-fitness/t…


If you're not into Tiktok and shorts, but like your longform content, if you happen to like oldschool Rhodes and Wurli sounds from the 80's, you might like this overview I did of a recently-released product. I think it has some of the more unique sounds in the genre, and is very customisable which I demonstrate in the first 20 or so minutes. The last hour is spent going through my favourite sounds in the library, so yeah, this is a long one...
#InspiredBySound - Impact Soundworks Altera Keys (NKS Overview & Favourites)
youtu.be/WByxAqBV508


Question for those who own the Bible Courier: what TTS engine does it use? I have to admit that I'm intrigued by this device but I haven't yet seen it. Its price of $100 is just high enough that I'm not quite sure I want to order it but I am thinking about it ..

biblecourier.org/

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in reply to David Goldfield

I’m not personally familiar with this product. But students in the passive owned something like this it’s usually an audio recording that’s broken up by Bible books, chapters, and verses in such a way that you can easily navigate to them using buttons. There is an awesome Amazon echo app called the Bible app skill though that works pretty good and has several different narrated Bibles. as an alternative.
in reply to David Goldfield

I don't know what the TTS engine is, but it's a great device. There are so many versions you can get. Plus, it gives you the ability to navigate between book, chapter and even verse. You can also make bookmarks. I highly recommend it.



A gem by @pluralistic from a couple of months ago:

"Geometry hates Tesla, and physics hates Starlink. Reality has a leftist bias. The future is fiber, and public transit. These are both vastly preferable, more efficient, safer, more reliable and more plausible than satellite and private vehicles. Their only disadvantage is that they fail to give an easily gulled, thin-skinned compulsive liar more power over billions of people. That's a disadvantage I can live with."

pluralistic.net/2024/05/16/sym…



Did you catch the "20 Minute Tech Tips" episode with Elizabeth Whitaker when she demonstrated some powerful tips for searching in Gmail? Listen to the episode now: freedomscientifictraining.libs…

#FreedomScientificTraining #JAWS #20MinuteTechTips



I was like “LOL gnome feels the same about Lunduke as I do!” and then they were dicks about it - upholding gnome’s reputation also, I suppose.

So what if some new member posts a link to Lunduke article not knowing about some unwritten rule… and they get banned? Yeah that’s rubbish. Write your rule down somewhere FFS. This will scare off new or unaware users.

Hell, until recently I wasn’t even aware that others disliked the guy as much as I do. The most info I got on him being disliked came from his own articles, which was amusingly helpful. :neocat_laugh:

#gnome #lunduke

in reply to L-Theanine

you assume I am a machine that cannot discern intent, and can't obviously distinguish between somebody that posts a link to a known fash because they don't know any better, and somebody that posts a link as a way to be an asshole and rage farm.


Aaaand… Welcome to the RB family, AlternativeUnlockXposed! Thanks to the efforts by its author, the app now builds reproducible:

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.l…

So with the next sync, expect the new release to show up with the green shield for RB :awesome:

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid



Thank you for coming to this year's #SolsticeSchool! As usual:

Shoutouts to the presenters for their talks!! Thank you for your time and sharing your knowledge! An archive of materials will become available here: solsticeschool.scholar.social/…

& thank you also to moderators for helping out!!



Huh. Speed limits on Ontario hwys changed. I mean, folk were already doing 120 if no cops around, so 110 no big deal, so far anyway. When it registers, will 120 turn to 130? Not great for pollution, but we have an idiot PM who isn't big into science or environment.

globalnews.ca/news/10614497/sp…

in reply to Carolyn

I was like WTF the other day on the 417. I didn't realize it was that recent.


A Brief tour of the End, an accessible fiction podcast directory.


This is a brief tour of The End database, for fiction podcasts, with Apple's screen reader on iOS. I walk through some pages of the website that show how clean markup can make a website very easy to navigate for everyone, not just screen reader users.
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I'd like to clarify the origin of the accusations against #ImaneKhelif because I don't think most people realize where they came from. The vitriolic mix of of misogynist, transphobic and racist insults against the Algerian athlete started days before the match, largely on Italian papers belonging to far-right politicians and businessmen. Here's a few examples from late July (English translation of the titles is in the alt text). 1/8
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in reply to Gabriele Svelto

This stuff was quickly picked up on Twitter/X by Italian far-right and Russian disinformation networks that amplified their content and eventually reached Elon Musk. Musk felt obliged to share them even more widely. Italian right-wing parties have had long ties to Putin's regime, so it's completely unsurprising to see them spread the same disinformation. 5/8
in reply to Gabriele Svelto

Which brings us to the reason why this stuff was brought up in the first place: Italy's far-right government is running into trouble, being completely incapable of running the country, and has been isolated within the EU, even managed to fight against other European right-wing parties. This fall they'll probably have to enact large budget cuts which will be deeply unpopular, so they're trying to change the public discourse to *anything* that is not governance. 6/8




wild how nature can be like this but if you try to do it in a game everyone says it's bugged


In case you missed it, the #GUADEC 2024 talk about #GNOMECalendar has now been published as a standalone video on the #GNOME channel! youtube.com/watch?v=MFs0KGpJlK…

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Thanks to the people that make my life easier, so #kudos to:
- @Tutanota for email
- @Vivaldi for browsing
- @joplinapp for notes
- @kde for everything KDE!
- @netcup for hosting
- @alpinelinux for an awesome distro
- @bitwarden for password keeping
- scaleway.com/en/ for VPS and S3
- mataroa.blog/ for blogging

And of course @Tusky for the app and @trumpet for ensuring everything is running smoothly 🥰

Some are also #foss others are nice people / #infrastructure providers

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The Space Shuttle had a 59-pound printer on board, known as the Interim Teleprinter. Putting this heavy printer in orbit cost $1.5 million per flight, but it was a key piece of flight hardware,
providing the astronauts with mission plans, weather reports, and other documents from Mission Control. Let's take a look inside... 1/12


Great news for #KDEConnect and another win for funding #opensource and #internships.

Thanks to the hard work of ShellWen Chen (颉文) for #GSoC, the SSHD server used for #SFTP has been upgraded!

Check out their Ko-fi for donations, links to GitHub, etc.

ko-fi.com/shellwen



The cybertruck is like if a Kia wanted to larp as an F150


I mask. Any time, anywhere indoors that has (or had recently) anyone besides my spouse.


in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅

Ah, I can see this: github.com/Ivy-Apps/ivy-wallet…. I'm not a dev so I don't know what's going on there. It's a nice app but since it's not on F-droid I'm kinda skeptical about it so I disable network access for it xD
in reply to Tris

@triskelion I'm no Android dev either, but that would change the app name shown to drop the "Demo".

But before I give you false hope there, I'v just looked into the latest release: wouldn't be welcome at IoD, sorry. Comes with Crashlytics, Firebase, GMS etc – so too many proprietary components. Also, why would a wallet app need your location? The app description gives no clue (but speaks of "privacy"). Draw your own conclusions, and I might be wrong to call that "a bit risky"…

@Tris


Gajim is now on liberapay.com :liberapay:

If you like to support Gajim with a donation, feel free to visit liberapay.com/Gajim

in reply to Gajim

@codelutin is a member @copiepublique and we support FLOSS with a yearly donation. I will propose you this year liberapay.com/codelutin/

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The App Directory Submission process is now live at iaccessibility.net Create an account, and login, and then find the App Directory link in the menu. You will then find a button to submit an app.

We will finish creating the ability to view submitted apps by the end of the weekend.

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uspol, PSA

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in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

most of us are on the way back from DebConf (I'm still going to do some tourism here for a week), so it might take a couple of days for us to reply, sorry. I would love for that to happen, though.
in reply to Samuel Henrique

also I did a lightning talk presentation for wcurl, I was waiting to get the YouTube link but you can watch it here for now:
saimei.ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/debi…

wcurl is at 13:36




Sidewalks used to be wider. It’s a fact that rarely gets acknowledged in discussions about road diets. Usually the road diet debate is framed as taking space AWAY from cars. Really it’s about giving it BACK to pedestrians. Here’s a good article about it tinyurl.com/2s4bzxw3


#InspiredBySound - Impact Soundworks Altera Keys (NKS Overview & Favourites)
youtu.be/WByxAqBV508
in reply to Rui Batista

@ragb Already discussed in description... Accident, no way I was going to re-record, didn't find out until editing.


If you could not attend the DebConf or have missed the conference because of time zone differences, all recorded video are now available for viewing at your leisure: meetings-archive.debian.net/pu… #debian #debconf24 #busan #korea #debiankorea micronews.debian.org/2024/1722… #debian
in reply to Debian

Some kind of overview or table of contents would be nice. Have I overlooked this?




Thank you to all the people who made #DebConf24 possible! The DebConf organisation team, the Local Team, Debian Video Team, our speakers, volunteers, and attendees. Would you like to join for organising the next DebConf? If so visit wiki.debian.org/DebConf/25 and contact the DebConf team. #debconf24 #busan #korea #debiankorea #debconf25 micronews.debian.org/2024/1722… #debian


Wonderful article: "Computers can be understood": blog.nelhage.com/post/computer…

"…no single human understands all of the layers…from the transistors and silicon up through …the application code, not even to mention all the network services involved…"—why I am, shall we say, not a fan of the phrase "full stack".

"…engineers I’ve worked with (including myself) who are the most comfortable reading unfamiliar code bases are at risk of habitually undervaluing documentation…”—ouch, that one hurt.

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Grocery getters. Who the fuck need that to get groceries and why the fuck don’t they know how to park?
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