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I am pretty much against biological essentialism and I do my best to ensure my work reflects that.

Unfortunately that is relevant to this review of representation in the 2024 D&D player's handbook which covers quite the range of topics.

It's spicy stuff! 😋 And quite refreshing to hear in honesty.

#5e #Dnd #wyrmworksPublishing

wyrmworkspublishing.com/wotcs-…

#dnd #5e #wyrmworkspublishing
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Firefox will reconsider supporting JPEG XL if they get a Rust implementation:

github.com/mozilla/standards-p…

This is a very good news for web standards:

mastodon.social/@kornel/113078…

and will fix a blocker that is hurting adoption of JPEG XL.

The reference implementation has unfortunately been written in C++ just as browser vendors started looking into migrating away from C++ for security reasons, and saw the C++ codec primarily as a big new attack surface.

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Cybersecurity course: 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲, 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀-𝗼𝗻, 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲!
Czech Technical Univeristy's "Introduction to Security" class opens online for free! 14 weeks of deep attacking and defending. Join us and register for free. Starting on Sep 26th. 
cybersecurity.bsy.fel.cvut.cz/
#cybersec #infosec #blueteam #redteam #education #security
#infosec #security #education #cybersec #blueteam #redteam

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Does anybody still remember the scandalous headlines about how AI companies are killing themselves because AI-generated data appears on the web, and training AI on its own data destroys model performance?

Now it turns out that *basically none of this is true*.

This problem happens only when the new model is trained exclusively with the synthetic data, and when the old, human-made data is removed. Nobody actually does this in practice. What people do instead is adding synthetic data to the pool they already have, and then the problem does not occur.

There's more (including a paper) at nitter.poast.org/RylanSchaeffe…

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As I understand it, it's about ratios. Obviously they would still have the human data there, the trick is when the synthetic data, since there is so much of it and it can grow at a rate far faster than human written, approaches or eclipses the volume of human data. Right now, it likely won't happen. A few years down the line in one possible future, when everyone uses AIs on their devices to write social media posts, when article writers have been fired and replaced with LLMs etc? Who's to say.
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August seems like it just flew by! Catch up on what the Thunderbird Desktop Team has been working on in our latest Developer's Digest. In it, we have:

more Rust! 🦀
updates on Exchange and the global database 🌐
news about the upcoming Calendar rebuild. 🗓️

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Development

blog.thunderbird.net/2024/09/t…

#opensource #thunderbird #development

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Heute ist #WSHD2024!
Der 4. September ist dem Bewusstsein für die Bedeutung sexueller Gesundheit gewidmet. Das Motto für 2024: Positive Beziehungen.

Die World Association for Sexual Health hat den Tag 2010 ins Leben gerufen.

Im Fokus der Arbeit am RKI stehen sexuell übertragbare Infektionen und deren Prävention, doch sexuelle Gesundheit geht weit darüber hinaus. Sie umfasst ebenso Aspekte wie Lebensqualität, Wohlbefinden, Rechte und zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen.

🔗 rki.de/sti

Zwei Finger, mit einem Gesicht und Armen bemalt, die von einem Kondom umgeben sind, symbolisieren den Schutz und die Wichtigkeit von Safer Sex. Darüber steht der Text 'Welttag der sexuellen Gesundheit'. Quelle: Viktoriia M - AdobeStock.com
#wshd2024
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Foxle

@aquasscum
@DenisCOVIDinfoguy

Wie wäre es, wenn ihr hier auf Mastodon #LongCovid und #corona etwas ernster nehmen würdet!

Einmal pro Woche ein Tröt zum Abwassermonitoring wäre schön! Welche Varianten breiten sich gerade aus?

Eure Sprachlosigkeit erzeugt den verheerend falschen Eindruck, Corona sei kein Problem mehr...

Wie viele Infizierte entwickeln nochmal Long Covid? Wer hat ein erhöhtes Risiko Long Covid zu entwickeln?

Schweigen von euch. 🤨😷😬

#LongCovid #corona @Denis - The COVID info guy - @aquascum
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You can use Mastodon on many retro computer systems:

:apple_old_logo: Apple II - colino.net/wordpress/en/mastod…

:apple_old_logo: Apple Macintosh (pre-OS X) - github.com/smallsco/macstodon

:commodore: Commodore 64 - github.com/Havoc6502/MOStodon

:amiga: Commodore Amiga - github.com/BlitterStudio/amido…

:ms_dos: MS-DOS - github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon

:IBM: MVS - github.com/mainframed/BREXXTOD…

:Palm_OS: Palm OS - github.com/knickish/heffalump

:windows95: Windows 95 - github.com/meyskens/mastodon-f…

#FediTips #RetroComputing #1980s #1990s

#FediTips #retrocomputing #1980s #1990s

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Oh, thank goodness not having a fully functional screen reader isn’t a blocker for Fedora 41. We wouldn’t want them to miss their 10th anniversary of shipping an operating system without a fully functional screen reader, after all.

ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-be…

#Fedora #RedHat #IBM #a11y #accessibility #screenReader #orca #linux #openSource #FOSS #ableism masto.ai/@phoronix/11307885166…

#a11y #Accessibility #linux #foss #opensource #screenreader #fedora #redhat #ibm #ableism #orca

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En.osm.town is an independent Mastodon server for OpenStreetMap people. Funding graciously provided by the OpenStreetMap Foundation.

:Fediverse: en.osm.town

You can find out more at en.osm.town/about or contact the admin @compass

#FeaturedServer #OpenStreetMap #OSM #Maps #Mapping #Map #Geospatial #GIS #Cartography #Cartographers #Cartographer #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse

#fediverse #Mastodon #openstreetmap #gis #maps #OSM #mapping #map #cartography #geospatial #freefediverse #featuredserver #cartographers #cartographer @OSM Town Compass

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Now's a great time for people to get into the free Kontakt library scene, even if you don't own a Komplete Kontrol keyboard. Since loading a Kontakt library without OCR is accessible on both Mac and Windows, you can avail yourself of some killer freebies such as this new drum kit from Fracture Sounds.
Reaper users especially take note.
There's a plethora of free-to-use instruments that run in Kontakt player, so you can enjoy pianos, strings, drums, bells, a fantastic Rhodes plugin, all sorts of goodies.
The free landscape has honestly never been as good as it is now.

youtu.be/i9xRHf6rR5Q?si=e0Q9m-…

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You are using #LibreOffice but don't want to create or modify a complex citation style for your needs?
Thanks to our #GSOC contributor, you can now choose from the vast amount of #CSL styles in JabRef and use them together with LibreOffice.

Check out our blog post for more details
blog.jabref.org/2024/08/26/GSo…

@libreoffice

#opensource #bibliograpy #javafx #java #JabRef #scholar #bibliograpy

Screenshot of JabRef showing the CSL styles selection dialog with Apa style selected
Screenshot showing a generated citation in LibreOffice (on the left) which is selected in JabRef (on the right)
#opensource #java #libreoffice #gsoc #csl #bibliograpy #javafx #jabref #scholar @LibreOffice
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because we don't get to talk aboutmore positive, more accessible app redesigns often, @bitwarden just released a major update to their apps which ditches the cross platform code base they were using in favor of native apps (on iOS being SwiftUI) and this update is so much more accessible and pleasant than the previous version if you use voiceover.
@Bitwarden

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Thanks to everyone who has sent messages of appreciation for Living Blindfully following the announcement of its pending closure at the end of this month. I have kept a number of them permanently as they were very touching.
Now it’s time for talk of the future.
I have published episode 299 of Living Blindfully, featuring a conversation with Mark Riccobono, who is President of the National Federation of the Blind, @nationsblind, about my exciting new role with NFB.
The episode is available in your podcast player now, or on the web at:
LivingBlindfully.com/299.
The transcript can be found at LivingBlindfully.com/lb0299tra….
I'm getting to work right away with the organized blind movement to progress a range of important technology, accessibility, and communication issues, many of which we have discussed over the years on Living Blindfully.
Just as important as ensuring that current and future technology is accessible is keeping people informed about all that is possible. This includes helping to make sense of the increasingly complex choices we often have to make when it comes to choosing the right tool to live the life we want. That’s why, as part of my new NFB role, I am pleased to be working with the Federation on some new podcasting and information dissemination initiatives. More about those in due course.
This is without question the proudest day of my professional life, and I look forward to staying in touch as I work with a committed, capable, determined group of people building a better future for us all.
@NationalFederationOfTheBlind

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Here's the (excellent) official GOV.UK guidance on progressive enhancement — in short, try very hard to avoid using JS at all, and especially avoid large frameworks.

gov.uk/service-manual/technolo…

And here, from the frontpage of HN, is an unofficial component library that emulates the GOV.UK "Design System”… in Vue.

govukvue.org

…There's no emoji for “flailing my arms with an exasperated, disbelieving look on my face”

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