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We're happy to announce that @Tuba has been accepted into GNOME Circle. Tuba lets you explore the federated social web. With its extensive support for popular Fediverse platforms like Mastodon, GoToSocial, Akkoma, and more, it makes it easy to stay connected to your favorite communities, family, and friends. Congratulations!

Get Tuba on Flathub: flathub.org/apps/dev.geopjr.Tu…
Follow its maintainer: @GeopJr
Learn more about GNOME Circle: circle.gnome.org

#GNOME #GNOMECircle #Tuba

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Anyone who still works for Google, can you tell me what the *fuck* is going on? I am not in the market for automated high-throughput bluffing
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#ALT4you A screenshot of Google's answer to the question "is tripe kosher?"

AI overview: *Whether tripe is kosher depends on the religion of the cow*. Tripe is the lining of a cow, pig, or sheep's stomach, but most tripe sold is from beef.

Jewish ritual slaughter removes parts of the animal that are considered unclean, such as ("show more" button)



I've been working on a thing for a few weeks, and I'm hoping there are #Language / #FileFormat / #Markdown nerds and experts on Mastodon who can provide some input and sanity-check.

I looked for an existing markdown extension file format that would allow me to write a document in multiple languages, and I couldn't find anything that fit the bill.

So, I decided to create my own. 🤷‍♂️

github.com/OmenApps/PolyglotMa…

#PolyglotMarkdown #Languages #OpenSource #LanguageTools #Translation #Multilingual

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I see Element is going just great right now (this is Element Desktop. Literally the Electron app they ship)


What kind of pants do psychics wear?

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Dealing with the most maddening Sims 4 bug. Sims have personal feelings about other Sims called sentiments, which drive how they interact with each other. A sim that feels bitter to another will lash out at them.

I've had a couple who, for reasons I couldn't figure out, were randomly mean to each other for things I couldn't figure out. From marriage up until their kids were ready to graduate high school, they've had a super rocky relationship compared to other couples. My main sim kept yelling at her husband, and eventually he started getting negative sentiments toward her.

Turns out, sentiments were sticking around for far longer than they should. As married adults with two children, she was bitter this whole time because.... He didn't invite her to prom once. That's it. That's what caused a lifetime of bitterness toward each other

in reply to Chris 🌱

I can't get over the fact that the biggest obstacle to a happy life these two had was prom. So many arguments and grudges, over prom
in reply to Chris 🌱

I've removed the stuck sentiments manually and fixed their relationship, and observed them for a few days in game. After smoothing things over they've not been mean to each other at all. They've been super loving, like they should have been all along 🥹

I might schedule a vow renewal for them since they never had a proper wedding ceremony

in reply to Andrew

@cinebox as soon as I repair a few other failing relationships in my game...


You know, I miss the days when including a web-based frontend was kind of considered mandatory for a web app, rather than bundling a single-page, API-driven thing as a separate project:

> Shlink is a self-hosted URL shortener which provides both a REST and a CLI interface to interact with it.
>
> Additionally, there’s also an official Shlink web client which, by making use of Shlink’s REST API, provides a beautiful web UI to handle multiple Shlink instances.

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On the flip side, it does at least avoid the problem of the bundled front-end being completely inaccessible and any alternative front-end that might be more accessible ending up as a second class citizen with only half the possible functionality. Mastodon is an example of this for me, where I think something like Semaphore is a far better client, but if you were to set up a Mastodon server, you'd also get all the bulk of the coupled Mastodon front-end.


Reading through the French prosecutor's press release re: Pavel Durov and Telegram, it's still not clear what is going on, but the last three items are a big red flag.


Blood Sugar Tracking Heats Up: Dexcom's Over-the-Counter Sensor Now Available for Sale cnet.com/health/medical/blood-…


The following is for anyone in the Ingham County in Michigan, and surrounding areas. If you fall under this advisery, please be very careful if you have to go outside tomorrow.

Heat Advisory
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Grand Rapids MI
120 PM EDT Mon Aug 26 2024

MIZ037>040-043>046-050>052-056>059-064>067-071>074-270130-
/O.NEW.KGRR.HT.Y.0002.240827T1400Z-240828T0200Z/
Mason-Lake-Osceola-Clare-Oceana-Newaygo-Mecosta-Isabella-Muskegon-
Montcalm-Gratiot-Ottawa-Kent-Ionia-Clinton-Allegan-Barry-Eaton-
Ingham-Van Buren-Kalamazoo-Calhoun-Jackson-
Including the cities of Charlotte, Baldwin, Alma, South Haven,
Lansing, Clare, Kalamazoo, Jackson, Fremont, Hart, Big Rapids,
Jenison, Holland, Ionia, St. Johns, Battle Creek, Hastings, Grand
Rapids, Muskegon, Greenville, Mount Pleasant, Grand Haven, Reed
City, and Ludington
120 PM EDT Mon Aug 26 2024

...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM TO 10 PM EDT TUESDAY...

* WHAT...Heat index values up to 105 expected.

* WHERE...Portions of central, south central, southwest, and west
central Michigan.

* WHEN...From 10 AM to 10 PM EDT Tuesday.

* IMPACTS...Hot temperatures and high humidity may cause heat
illnesses.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out of
the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors.



PSA about fediverse software and TERFs for anyone unlucky enough not to know the lore (passing mentions of other harassment campaigns and far-right groups)

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re: PSA about fediverse software and TERFs for anyone unlucky enough not to know the lore (passing mentions of other harassment campaigns and far-right groups)
soapbox is the frontend; it’s also compatible with Mastodon and Akkoma. Rebased is Gleason’s Pleroma (backend) fork with built-in (trivially detectable) auth-fetch circumvention.


If you're looking for a new powerful desktop, this mini PC could be very interesting. Very powerful specs, up to 96 gigs of ram and a mobile NVIDIA 4070. Apparently includes a fingerprint reader, built-in mic, and decent built-in speakers. liliputing.com/minisforum-atom…

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How to Start, Stop, and Restart Services in Linux linuxtoday.com/it-management/h…



I blogged about my Google Summer of Code project where I added TypeScript support to Workbench!

vixalien.com/blog/workbench-ty…

#gnome #workbench #typescript #gsoc

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I just learned that on Discord, if you open the GIFs from tenor.com in your web browser, the graphics actually have an alt text attribute. Neat.. Kinda wish Discord would have grabbed that and used it as the label instead of just "GIF" button, but what can you do?


Just removed the iOS version of Microsoft 365 from my phone. I’m fed up with its implementation of Word not working well with my Bluetooth keyboard, in that characters would be missing at random while typing, even though I was actually typing everything correctly, forcing me to go through my document and add the missing characters. I don’t recall experiencing this behavior with other word processors for iOS like Pages or Ulysses. Glad Word still works great for Windows.


aj ja som.. ja som som som som som aaaa používam často som, a sa mi to nepáči


long post, workplace communication

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long post, workplace communication

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Hola, me han dicho que haga una breve #presentacion así que vamos allá:
Soy historiador, especializado en contemporánea, además soy diputado andaluz en Por Andalucía y de Podemos.
Soy militante desde los 15 años por los DDHH y especialmente por el derecho a la vivienda.
Pienso que militar es poner el cuerpo y me da pereza la politiquería, siempre pienso en el “para qué”.
Me interesa la #historia la #politica la #literatura la #musicaurbana y el #boxeo


Before naming your product, maybe consult a dictionary? pro-lapse.com/


If humanity ever clone butterflies for any sort of medical or science experiment, they should call them margarineflies.
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3 hours from now in Caledonia, #UnitedStatesOfAmerica (Houston County, Minnesota, United States of America) there will be a #Heatwave with a wet-bulb temperature of

31°C

This will be a margin of 6 degrees below body temperature which will kill vulnerable people 🥵💀 #DangerousWetbulb

The actual temperature will be 35°C

It will feel like 42°C

The humidity will be 72%

There will be clear sky

#HeatwaveUnitedStatesOfAmerica

wunderground.com/forecast/43.5…



Mañana me tocan 400km de viaje a la montaña leonesa. No se si me conectaré desde allí, todo depende de alá y las antenas.




Oh, I'm sure this cannot possibly end poorly: police using LLMs to write reports.

apnews.com/article/ai-writes-p…

#AI #nope

#AI #nope
in reply to Steve Schwinghamer

Oh look, here's some evidence about how this won't possibly go badly:

phys.org/news/2024-08-ai-polic…

#racism #AI



Thanks to Stefano Rivera and others, pictures by some participants of DebConf24 in Busan are now easily viewable on people.debian.org/~stefanor/dc… . You are invited to share your DebConf24 pictures on DebConf Share git-lfs too!


services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.issuer.common_name: "Roomba CA"


Did you know that Debian's gitlab instance, salsa.debian.org: has ~15.500 users, 79.000 projects, 750 groups, 31.000 forks, 14.600 issues, and 64.000 merge requests? We are active!
in reply to Debian

this is great - i thought it was on github, had to reread, pls keep advertising this fact to expand community, v possible many people are still in the dark on this


A guide to budgeting for AWS Backup in VMware virtual environments
aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/a… #aws #blog
#blog #aws


How to Track Your Time in Linux With Bartib linuxtoday.com/it-management/h…


#AccesasaibleApple went under a little bit of stress-test today and it seems to have survived it neatly. Now I am shifting my attention top the main website while you are welcome to discuss and exchange.





As a 50+ man in a solid relationship, I don't know much about the dating scene out there. But the TikTok girlies say it's rough.

Just now a neighbor's 40ish daughter visiting from California told her dad how her most recent "first date" there ended: she had to punch the dude in the face because he put hands around her neck.

I didn't learn if those were "angry throttling" hands or "kinky neck squeeze" hands, but on a first date, I don't think that even matters.

#Dating #FirstDate #Disaster