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Looking for more internship project ideas for Outreachy (December-March cohort)

GNOME is interested in participating in the Outreachy December-March cohort, and while we already have a few great projects, we are looking for experienced mentors with a couple more project ideas. Hurry up, we have until September 11 to conclude our list of ideas.

Please, submit project ideas on gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/interns…

Feel free to message us on #internships:gnome.org (matrix) if you have any doubts.

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#gnome #outreachy #internships

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Some updates on my #Libervia work:

- Kicked off #email #gateway project (nlnet.nl/project/EmailXMPPgate…) using IMAP/STMP. Basic gateway should be coming soon.
- Preparing next major release: web frontend design & internal improvements in progress. The release will be *huge*.
- Started new desktop frontend; more details to follow.
- Aiming to resume blogging and weekly videos this week, if time allows.
- Targeting a Libervia-based service by the end of the year.

#XMPP #nlnet #FOSS #decentralization

#xmpp #foss #email #libervia #nlnet #decentralization #gateway
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NVDA 2024.4 Beta 2 is now available. Changes from Beta 1:

- The stability of NVDA’s Poedit support has been improved with the side effect that the minimum required version of Poedit is now version 3.5.

- NVDA is no longer as sluggish when arrowing up & down through large files in VS Code.

- NVDA no longer freezes while checking for add-on updates.

- Updates to translations.

Please go to nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-4b… for the full what's new & to download.

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Beta #FOSS #ScreenReader

NVDA logo and text in white on purple with grey sunburst designs around edge.
#foss #screenreader #nvdasr #nvda #beta

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CGT denuncia un ERE encubierto en las Apple Store avalado por los sindicatos Fetico y CC OO.

Más de 120 dependientes de las tiendas de Apple en Puerta del Sol (Madrid), Passeig de Gràcia (Barcelona) y València han sido despedidos.

La mayoría de las personas despedidas tenían entre diez y doce años de antigüedad. en los últimos días Apple ya ha contratado a 40 jóvenes a tiempo parcial, con contratos de entre 20 y 24 horas.

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I remember #NaNoWriMo's innocent early days of simply cranking out a terrible first draft without your internal editor interfering, and then watched in disappointment over the years as it became institutionalized and started taking itself way too $eriou$ly.

This latest misstep isn't terribly $urpri$ing, and they surely won't be the last arts organization to make a tone deaf decision related to "AI" non$en$e.

#cmonson #WritingCommunity

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#nanowrimo #writingcommunity #cmonson
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victor tsaran

@bryansmart @ZBennoui Can's speak for Maschine, since I do not use it, but not sure I can access more of Guitar Rig's content. Perhaps I'm missing a trick? Native Access's redesign is certainly good, but I am not sure if we gained much in terms of efficiency. All of these changes are happening sooooo slooooow though. :) NKS support is spotty. I guess, I will take whatever is given, I don't want to sound trumpets just yet! :)
@Zach Bennoui

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Oh boi, do I have thoughts about #nanowrimo. Disclosure; I have written millions of words (most of them technical), I have done #NaNoWriMo a few times, and I have been writing about #AI since the early 90s.

#LLMs are NOT AI. LLMs are vacuums which sort existing data into sets. They do not create anything. Everything they output depends on stolen data. There is no honest LLM.

This year, Nano is sponsored by an LLM company, and after pushback, they said anyone suggesting AI shouldn't be used was "ableist and "classist"....which....whooweee , that's a mighty bold stance.

LLMs are being sued to hell by authors for slurping up all their content. The reason you can "engineer a prompt" by including "in the style of RR Martin" is because the LLM has digested ALL of RRMartin.

Re: "ableism", I'm going to direct you to Lina² neuromatch.social/@lina/113069…, who writes about the issue better than I could. And I want to thank @LinuxAndYarn for coming up with my fave new Nano tag: #NahNoHellNo.

#AI #nanowrimo #LLMs #nahnohellno @Rachel Rawlings
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Dnes jsem dostal zprávu, že byl můj podcast zařazen na web České podcasty. Tři roky od jeho vzniku :) No jo, popularizace vědy, záznamy předášek či četby z populárně-vědecké literatury nikdy nemohou překonat bulvár jako jsou Opravdové zločiny :))))) Pokud by se vám chtělo a pokud jste si opravdu něco již naposlouchali z mého podcastu Dobrodružství poznávání, můžete zde ceskepodcasty.cz/podcast/dobro… přidat své hodnocení. A nemusíte mne šetřit, už něco unesu :) Předem moc děkuji. Ale klidně se věnujte jiným věcem, není to zas tak důležité pro to, co dělám. Mne potěší, když nějaké zajímavé četby dorazí k vašim uším. To úplně stačí :)
Podcast Dobrodružství poznávání na webu České podcasty
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 9 updated, 1 removed and 1 added apps:

- Joplin was removed as updates became unavailable. The FOSS variant without any non-free dependencies is still available at F-Droid.
+ Showly returned with a FOSS build today, to let you track shows & movies

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

#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid
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David Goldfield

I just heard from them and they confirmed that this book isn't available in an electronic format. If it's the case that the publisher doesn't believe in eBooks then they're not only behind the times but they're locking out an entire community of readers. A paper version of a book would take hours for me to scan. If their titles were available as eBooks, I'd be willing to purchase them as would,, I'm sure, other visually impaired readers. As it stands now, they've lost several sales from me.
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