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Anyone with a Samsung Galaxy S24 ?

I am interested in its DNG files from the camera "expert RAW". The "visually lossless" compressed DNG files.

"key differences:" is the new "as a large language model"

I have wireless headphones on so I can walk around the house and still listen to things. They look big enough that whenever someone I don't want to talk to, comes to my door, I just say 'Sorry I'm on a work call.'
Today, Jehovah's Witness.
Definitely, definitely no thank you.
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Samuel Proulx
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This must be a UK thing. I have a two way camera and literally can’t imagine opening the door without knowing who is on the other side. If you won’t tell me who you are and what you want, the door stays closed and locked.
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Mikołaj Hołysz
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Europe generally, most people will open doors here when the doorbell rings.

We have a lot of intercoms though, and tose help. Especially in apartment complexes, which Europe has plenty of, you can't really live without one.

Once upon a time, I created a graph which analysed the @weeklyOSM outbound links, comparing the number of #Twitter and #Mastodon links.

A while later, the Weekly Team decided to not allow Twitter links anymore, as the platform needed an account to see content.

But, it is time for an updated graph!

A linegraph showing the number of Twitter links vs the number of Mastodon links. In the end, mastodon takes over.
#Mastodon #twitter @weeklyOSM

linux-game-manager
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the master branch of the linux-game-manager project Updated download link for latest zip. Fixed the installer.

I haven't reminded people in a while. I really recommend that people regularly download all their CSV files on their Mastodon profile in case their instance goes down (see the screenshot).

This is particularly suggested to everyone on an instance (especially big ones) for which the admin isn't transparent with finances and backup plans.

Better have a backup of your follows than suddenly losing everything!

Go to Preferences => Import/Export => Data Export => Download all CSV files you're interested in keeping

A screenshot of the Data Export page on Mastodon

The Mono Runtime that implements the .NET-Framework style APIs has moved to WineHQ:

mono-project.com

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Federico Mena Quintero
Federico Mena Quintero
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Yeah, pretty sure it was that time. There definitely were ethernet cables on the floor, and PCMCIA wifi cards. I did not have a cell phone yet 💀

Does anyone know of any widely-used open source / free software whose source code is *not* written in English? Not the programming language's keywords, but things like identifier names?
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Kyle Thayer
Kyle Thayer
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here's a Wikipedia page (it took me a long time to figure out how to search from this since "language" means two things in this context)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-En…
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scoopr
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Somehow I thought Blender would had initially a lot of Dutch, but it looks pretty clean on that front on a quick glance, apart from few comments here and there (22 years ago!).

projects.blender.org/blender/b…

Microsoft backports AMD branch prediction improvement to Windows 11 23H2, update available now — more users will see Ryzen performance improvements tomshardware.com/software/wind…

Sony Launched Its Smallest Earbuds Ever for Less Than $100 ($60 to be exact) gizmodo.com/sony-launched-its-…
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The AI bloatware era has begun, courtesy of the Google Pixel 9 (personally this really began with the S24, but hey, let's blame the newest thing for the rest of our problems, because that's the trendyest thing to do right now.) androidpolice.com/welcome-to-t…
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Calif. tech companies see laid-off workers as 'table scraps,' recruiters say sfgate.com/tech/article/califo…
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Google Meet’s automatic AI note-taking is here theverge.com/2024/8/27/2422984…

Nassau County, NY, population of 1.5 mil, has banned masks with a vote of 12 to 0 with 7 councilors abstaining

Masked advocates for masking were cut off from speaking, & one was arrested on false charges.

The police surrounded masked speakers, intimidating them.

White supremacists in the audience wore 1776 shirts, MAGA caps, & waved an Israeli flag. They recorded everyone masked & were allowed to go over their allotted time as they issued threats.

The connections between eugenics, white supremacy, indigenous struggle, and the abject failures of the so-called left to meaningfully resist could not have been more clear.

Every single one of y'all who are silent on COVID and/or refuse to mask are complicit in the fascist gains happening now & the deaths of the poor & disabled from COVID since the so-called left joined the Nazis on refusing to mask.

funny headline I can't forget about from late last year:
Cars for Kids Might Kill Kars4Kids curbed.com/2023/12/kars4kids-t…
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Andy
Andy
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I am so fucking sick of this "organization." All I hear are stupid advertisements. Do they do any real honest work, or spend all their money on stupid kids singing?
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Tamas G
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@remixman lol Some of it might go to kids, but "Most of Kars 4 Kids profits go to Oorah, a nonprofit serving Orthodox Jewish kids in New Jersey and upstate New York, with the same CEO, Rabbi Eliyohu Mintz, as Kars4Kids. " Which is certainly a bit odd along with the other practices like the Minnesota AG saying that "less than 1 percent of the money Kars4Kids raised actually went to kids in Minnesota." All of that is just not convincing to me, but they won the case in the end.
@Andy

Reminder: Mask bans give police the power to do even more racial profiling.

We asked 1,000+ attendees to mask indoors this weekend, and everyone just did. I didn’t have to stop and remind a single person the entire 3 days.

There were definitely gaps in the policy, the risk wasn’t reduced to zero, but if anyone is wondering if it’s possible for events and large gatherings to make reasonable accommodations to reduce the risk of spreading COVID, it absolutely is, we proved it, and your event should be doing it too.

Holy cow, #Transitous-based #publictransit routing has just landed in the nightly version of #GNOMEMaps, and therefore the number of cities you can get transit directions in… has gone waaaay up! It can even route through a mess like Los Angeles' multiple transit authorities, or calculate long-distance trains! :blobaww:

Big props to @mlundblad for implementing this: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-m…

#GNOME #transit #travel

Screenshot of GNOME Maps showing public transit routing between two points in the Los Angeles urban agglomeration, tracing differently colored lines between three transit systems/companies
Screenshot of GNOME Maps calculating a train itinerary from Toronto to Québec City, using two train lines with Montréal as a stop-over
Screenshot of GNOME Maps calculating a French train itinerary from Bordeaux to Strasbourg, using multiple train lines/segments
#gnome #travel #transit #publictransit #transitous #gnomemaps @Marcus Lundblad
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One really cool thing about #Tusky: you get the option to open a post with your other account (s)! Very convenient thank you 👍🙏

#MastodonApps

#Tusky #mastodonapps

In what universe does anyone want to install an app to control a fan? It's A FAN!

*Grumble* at least the stupid thing was only like $40 ... Roughly the same price as all the manual fans...

a tower fan box that among the features advertises that the fan can be controlled with their proprietary app

Given that broadly speaking, if you're writing a new file it should probably be done atomically, why don't language stdlibs come with this feature?
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Matt Campbell
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Good question! In an Electron app I've been working on for a few years, I've been using the write-file-atomic package from npm. In Rust, I guess the most widely used, well-tested implementation of the renaming part of that procedure is in the tempfile crate, but it would be nice to have a convenient way to write a file atomically with just one function call.
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rain 🌦️
rain 🌦️
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Check out github.com/untitaker/rust-atom…. If you don't want per-file durability then tempfile is fine.
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I'm seeing @Tusky lose posts when entering more than a couple of hashtags. The lost posts don't get saved as drafts.
I've taken to tooting without the hashtags and then going back to edit the toot to add the hashtags.
Any idea what's going on?

#tusky

#Tusky @Tusky

A cartoon depicting a conversation between two men in an office. One man, seated and on the phone, says “Boeing says we forgot to check the snow specifying ‘round trip’”. The one standing looks concerned. In the background, a large NASA sign is visible, alongside images related to the international space station.

This is the first one I did: theawkwardyeti.com/comic/kidne…

On my second one, "Bile", I tried to add emphasis to "you was mean to me" using the "em" tag. It doesn't seem to do anything for the screen reader I was using, though. theawkwardyeti.com/comic/bile/

2/2

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Pitermach
Pitermach
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@blindbat84 That is so cool, thank you for doing this! And don’t worry about the comma pauses. I’m not sure which extension you’re using specifically, but generally extensions designed to read a page will do so pretty slowly kind of like an audiobook narrator. Screen readers do still pause for punctuation, but that pause is generally short and will get even shorter if the user increases the speech rate. This is how that comic was read out by my screen reader as an example and I actually slowed it down for this demonstration, I usually read faster than this.

@Sarah Russell
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dreaminghope
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@pitermach @blindbat84 Thank you! I have heard friends' screen readers before, but wasn't sure if the cadence would still be off at speed. I appreciate hearing the recording! I'm also going to download a proper screen reader too, per someone else's suggestion - the extension is obviously not a good imitation.
@Pitermach @Sarah Russell

Oh look, another crash of the AMD driver. Cause by opening a web page in Firefox. Fantastic.

Ich habe aufgeschrieben, wie es auf dem BarCamp Kirche Online war. #bckirche #Blogpost
pressepfarrerin.de/2024/08/26/…
#blogpost #bckirche

A YouTube video really can remove water from your iPhone

9to5mac.com/2024/08/27/remove-…

Did you know when using JAWS 2024, when focused within the list of running applications (JAWS Key+F10), you can find an app and press Delete. This will close down the application. Very useful if an app is running and you are having difficulty closing it.

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Sean Randall
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You can also use the delete key whilst holding alt down when pressing alt+tab to close a window, rather than releasing alt to activate it. Not in JAWS of course because of it already using Alt+del as a hotkey.

Nothing appears to be working on a new pair of 'Ear Open' earbuds.
What an absolutely fantastic headline!
If you didn't know the company was called 'Nothing', you might think someone is complaining that absolutely no part of their new earbuds works as expected!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Source: 9to5google.com/2024/08/27/noth…

A macOS dialog saying ‘“Trash” can’t be opened right now because it’s being used by another task, such as moving or copying an item or emptying the Trash. Try again when the current task is complete.’
A picture of a raccoon in the trash.

A new version (1.63) of the FORT RPKI validator, from PCH alum Jorge Cano, just dropped:

fortproject.net/en/validator

FORT Project | FORT Validator

FORT Validator is an open source RPKI validator which allows operators to validate BGP routing information against the RPKI repository.
fortproject.net

💯 shifting workloads to a cloud you control the security, cost, and location of is appealing to most CIOs surveyed, but the challenges can be daunting. We have a better path to a modernized private cloud with hardware and software designed and supported together by Oxide 🚀
A graph displaying cloud repatriation trends from 2H20 to 1H24. The blue background features two lines: a pink line for "NOT PLANNING REPATRIATION" starting at 57% and decreasing to 17%, and a yellow-green line for "PLANNING REPATRIATION" rising from 43% to 83%. A large green circle states "83% of enterprises plan to move workloads back to private cloud from public cloud". The graph is based on Barclays CIO Survey 2024.

These Adm. Grace Hopper talks from NSA are a must-watch for anyone moving information around. Just listening to her amazing brain grappling with concepts of data availability that we're *still* relearning every year is humbling. nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Relea…
#GraceHopper #Computing #InformationScience

NSA releases copy of internal lecture delivered by computing giant Rear Adm. Grace Hopper

FORT MEADE, Md. — In one of the more unique public proactive transparency record releases for the National Security Agency (NSA) to date, NSA has released a digital copy of a lecture that then-Capt.
National Security Agency/Central Security Service
#computing #gracehopper #informationscience

Tak po #VanillaOS se zabydluji v #EndeavourOS 😀 #Linux
#linux #endeavourOS #VanillaOS

One thing that doesn't make sense for me about this whole "Telegram is a Russian spy op" theory.

Telegram is used in Ukraine a lot. Some Ukrainians probably use it to unwittingly share information that the Russian military would find useful, like telling their friends that there are troops marching down their street right now.

If the theory was true (or at least plausible), wouldn't we expect some kind of response from the Ukrainian government? After all, if most of your citizens use a messaging app controlled by your enemy, wouldn't it make sense to ban it, or at least heavily discourage its use? There are plenty of western messaging apps that the Ukrainian government could promote, and yet, with all the intelligence and information about Russian ops that they have, they do nothing.

“Exciting news is on the horizon for AppleVis! We’re in the process of transitioning to a new home on Mastodon. Be sure to unfollow our older AppleVis account and welcome the new AppleVis on Mastodon . Stay tuned for updates—we’ll have some news to share in the coming days!

mastodon.online/@AppleVis@mast…


Mastodon

A newer server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit
Mastodon hosted on mastodon.online
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 10 updated and 1 added apps:

* URL to PDF Converter: convert any web page into a PDF file 🛡️

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


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. 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
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

📊 Spent several hours today using @libreoffice Calc instead of Excel. When did this tool become so capable? 🤯📈 #LibreOffice
#libreoffice @LibreOffice

McDonald's Instagram hacked, hackers claim $700,000 haul

August 21, 2024
web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=mcdon…

McDonald's Instagram hacked, hackers claim $700,000 haul McDonald's Instagram account, as well as the Twitter account of a McDonald's marketing director, began promoting a memecoin called $GRIMACE (named for the restaurant chain's blobby purple mascot). The posts to McDonald's 5.1 million followers caused the token price to spike. Then, the attacker sold off their holdings, profiting around $700,000 and plunging the token price.
They then boasted about their haul on the compromised Instagram account, changing the bio to say: "Sorry mah nigga you have just been rug pulled by India_X_Kr3w thank you for the $700,000 in Solana 🇮🇳". The token stunt by the massive company was perhaps made more believable by McDonald's previous forays into crypto, including when they launched a McRib-themed NFT project in December 2021. The company had also joked about a "Grimacecoin" back in January 2022, in a reply to a tweet from Elon Musk.

McDonald's Instagram hacked, hackers claim $700,000 haul

McDonald's Instagram account, as well as the Twitter account of a McDonald's marketing director, began promoting a memecoin called $GRIMACE (named for the restaurant chain's blobby purple mascot). The posts to McDonald's 5.
Web3 is Going Just Great

Dneska dorazily motoboty. Jsou super, sedí hezky. Akorát teda pro někoho, kdo posledních 10 let chodí jenom v barefootech, je to dost nezvyk. 😅
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