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The great Pain au Chocolat / Croissant war has a winner at the venue. It indeed is a Pain au Chocolat

#matrixConf



Good morning Berlin! #matrixConf is getting ready to welcome everyone for the first conference day!


Nezapomeňte dneska a zítra na #volby a jděte volit.
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Hace más o menos una hora empecé a leer "Yo, robot" de Isaac Asimov, y ya voy en el capítulo cinco. Estoy alucinando con todo lo que estoy leyendo, y eso que nunca fui fan de la ciencia ficción más allá de la space opera.

#scifi #asimov #books #mastodonbooks

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in reply to Autumn64 🏳️‍⚧️

A mi también me gusta mucho Asimov. La verdad es que lo de sus robots hace pensar en la IA que tenemos hoy, y cosas como los trucos de "mi abuela me contaba la receta del napalm cuando era pequeña."


👋 Hi, #scholars, tell us, why are you on #Mastodon?

🔍 We are researching how and why academics use Mastodon compared to other platforms. Is it key for #academic #discourse?

🔜 We'll launch our #research survey by mid-October, so stay tuned.

📣 Meanwhile: what features of Mastodon do you find most valuable for academic discourse?
And which other questions should we include in our research, you think?

#AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter #OpenScience #SocialMedia



Vercel v dubnu updatoval ceniky. Misto tradicniho pomaleho utahovani sroubu to fakt napalil a zavedl "Edge Requests", za timto kryptickym popiskem se skryva jakykoli request. (cti: assety)

V EU za to platime $2.60/1M requestu.

Zjistil jsem to, kdyz nam Volebni Kalkulacka vesele napocitava 5.6M Edge Requestu za den. Jeste, ze nejsou prezidentske volby a senatori dodali odpovedi tak pozde!

Cas z Vercelu odejit.

Pro predstavu porovnani jednoho dne senatu a prezidenta.

#vercel #cloud #aws

in reply to Martin Wenisch

Pokud se dobře pamatuju, tak Vercel byla jen pěkně zabalená AWS Lambda.

Kdyby pomohla nějaká asistenci s nastavováním přímo na té lambdě, tak nabízím pomoc.

in reply to Věroš 🦥 K.

@verosk Diky, je to tak, sluzby Vercelu bezi nad AWS cloudem. Je to trochu komplikovanejsi a psat bych o tom moh cely den. Ale v zasade to tak jednoduche neni, Vercel ma custom runner, ktery je brutalne optimalizovany a nahradit se da spis na EC2/EKS nez Lambdy. Ale ztrati se tim veskera vyhoda, proc to takhle delam.

Jednoduchost a DX.

Budu to resit stejne jako to delam na Unreleased, oddelim do vlastni CDN vcesko, co pujde a tim snizim requesty.



buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Por fin es viernes. Hoy tenemos: movidas varias con órganos colegiados, cuestiones sobre el plan de radón, y la memoria balance. Y aunque todavía no lo puedo decir, a lo largo de la mañana diré: chove en Santiago.

in reply to modulux

pues aquí la app del tiempo da lluvia pero llegando a la noche, durante el día en principio no va a hacerlo
in reply to Juan CBS

No sé, aquí en teoría sobre las 14 iba a llover y hay alerta de la AEMET, pero ahora tampoco da. A lo mejor me anticipo demasiado.


Another design session and then some initial coding for the next THunderbird live streaming.

#thunderbird #live

youtube.com/live/Mk0VqPyuKh0



Jeden z najlepších snímkov Jupitera, ktoré fotografovala sonda Juno NASA.

#space



If you're a #language nerd like I am, then you won't have missed the @mozilla #CommonVoice v19 #speech #dataset release - which now features 131 languages! Here's my #dataviz, done in @observablehq of the v19 #metadata coverage.

I've updated the visualisation this time around with human-readable language names instead of their ISO-639 or BCP-47 language codes to make it it easier to read.

There's some interesting observations:

▶ Catalan (ca) continues to be leader in terms of data - speaking volumes about the efforts to revitalise culture and language in Catalunya. It's also one of the few languages that has data for all age groups, particularly older speakers - this sort of data is missing for most other languages.

▶ Kiswahili (sw) is one of the languages where there is more data for female-identifying speakers than for male-identifying speakers ♀ - although Japanese (ja), Western Mari (mrj) and Luganda (lg) do pretty well here, too!

▶ Sentence domains can now be categorised, and although most new sentences are "general", Albanian (sq) has a lot of sentences related to law and government.

▶ Tsonga (ts), a Bantu language spoken in Southern Africa, has dethroned Icelandic (is) as the language with the highest average utterance duration. I don't know enough about Tsonga to speculate why - it's a somewhat agglutinative language, but many Tsonga works are generally short.

▶ Bengali / Bangla (bn) has a significant amount of data that is not yet validated, and therefore does not appear in training / dev / test splits. There is a similar case for many languages new to Common Voice - it takes time to validate.

▶ The language with the highest number of average contributions per speaker is Taita (dav), a Bantu language from Kenya.

What do you make of the data visualisation? Are there any other insights you can see?

Big thanks to the CV team for all their efforts - EM, Jessica Rose, Dmitrij Feller and Justin Grant.

#linguistics

observablehq.com/@kathyreid/mo…



Wissenschaftliche Fakten zu Accessibility Overlays gefällig?
@dnikub hat geforscht.

Hier gibt’s ihre Ergebnisse: youtube.com/watch?v=Atc5v64gqd…




what are your favorite things to do for fun at home that don’t have a high bar to entry, besides consuming other people’s content? #AskFedi


It’s a nice day. Work is in a hurry-up-and-wait phase. Let’s try getting AppleTalk running over barbed wire again!
#LiveLaughLocalTalk
#GlobalTalk
#RetroComputing


I can't believe voters in the US look at all the stuff people in Europe are protected from with GDPR and they're just like, "nah, we don't want that legislation that has zero negative impact on us, and protects us from our data and art being perpetually stolen for techbro AI space data centers."

It's not even like EU employment protections, where insane Reaganomics BS insists companies will fall to socialism as a result.

Like, this could be us, but you are most definitely playing.

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in reply to Lesley Carhart

Worst part is having to listen to all the dumb American techbro takes about how GDPR and similar citizen protections are why the EU doesn't have a big tech market like the US does. I'm convinced these are the same people who would have opposed the abolition of slavery because 'The Economy™'


Thank you to LWN.net for their recent article: Attracting and retaining Debian contributors, which highlights one of the ways that our project grows. lwn.net/Articles/987548/ #debian


If you're strapped for cash or just tired of being sud'b to death:

If you go to cancel Disney+, Max, or Hulu, they will all offer you a cheap plan for 3 to 6 months to get you to stay.

I'm just saying.



Sensitive content

in reply to Seirdy

I totally posted this just so the Fedora42 hashtag would exist on this instance and I could follow it in advance without spamming it.


A few years ago, I gave my mother a WiFi picture frame for Christmas, from this company: pix-star.com/

This evening, I was visiting my parents for my niece's birthday, and when someone mentioned the picture frame, I got to thinking about how far a photo goes when my mother sends it from her phone or tablet, to the associated cloud service, and then it gets downloaded to the picture frame, especially when she's sitting in the same room as the frame. 1/?

in reply to Matt Campbell

I'd seen these frames before and was sceptical about buying one for this reason, but you've given me an idea for a Christmas present now. My parents really like having pictures of us on the wall, so I may go with it anyway.


softwares should use "account" instead of "user" in their interfaces:
- an account can be shared by multiple users
- an account can be used without any real user
- "user" can be a gendered word in other languages, so it is highly probable that the translations will excludes women, non-binary or agender people


We went to the grocery store and the cashier hit the cabbage code for our Brussel sprouts, and the clementine code for our navel oranges 🤨


how did i clean before i got microfiber cloths
in reply to Seirdy

a single wipe with this thing is like five times more effective than with a normal rag or paper towel
in reply to Seirdy

i was so much faster at cleaning that i ended up doing 3x the amount of cleaning i set out to do, spending the same amount of time. technology is once again self-defeating when it comes to freeing up time /hj
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Jagmeet Singh says NDP will back Liberals in non-confidence vote

cbc.ca/news/politics/singh-non…

So no fall election for now.

#cdnpoli



Are there other training corpus out there like Common Corpus that are built using exclusively public domain or openly licensed content? What LLM's use only Common Corpus?

"Contrary to what most large AI companies claim, the release of Common Corpus aims to show it is possible to train Large Language Model on fully open and reproducible corpus, without using copyright content. " huggingface.co/blog/Pclanglais…



Anyone using NVDA, have you found with 2024.4 beta 4, that reviewing Windows Terminal is very sluggish?

#nvda #nvdaSR #screenReader #accessibility #blind

in reply to Devin Prater :blind:

I haven't seen any reports of this yet. A couple of things to try:

1) Fully restart the PC after updating.

2) Press NVDA+q, then down arrow to "Restart with add-ons disabled" and enter. If resolved, work through add-ons one by one to find the culprit.

Following those, it would be great to get more info. Set log level to "Debug" (on general settings") restart with add-ons disabled, replicate problem, then please write up an issue on github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…

in reply to NV Access

@NVAccess Restarting with addons disabled didn't fix it, but closing and re-opening Terminal did fix it. I'll see if I can get logs next time it happens and file an issue.


Regular reminder that if you are not targeted by a particular form of oppression, you do not get to decide what "counts" as problematic in that area.

Some examples that are routinely getting mishandled around these parts:

If you are not Black, you do not get to decide what is (or is not) anti-Black.

If you are white, you do not get to decide what is (or is not) racist.

If you are cis, you do not get to decide what is (or is not) transmisia.

If you are not Jewish, you do not get to decide what is (or is not) anti-Semitic.

If you are male, you do not get to decide what is (or is not) sexist.

If you do not have a particular disability, you do not get to decide what is (or is not) ableist with regards to that disability, and no, experiencing one particular disability does not qualify you to talk about all others.

Not deferring to the targets of these forms of oppression is, by definition, continuing and upholding that oppression.

Also, since apparently it still needs to be said over and over, weaponizing the oppression you do experience to try to invalidate others is no good either.

reshared this

in reply to Matt Campbell

@jscholes @twynn @bryansmart And, I won't be dogmatic about who should and shouldn't advocate for accessibility. Non-disabled allies who really understand accessibility are great.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt That's the gist of it, yes. You'll note that I'm not saying you should be more educated on those subjects, which is entirely your choice and nothing to do with me. But an approach of silence can be actively harmful when it's based purely on a "I didn't know, so it's not for me to say" argument. @twynn


📣 New Webinar Recording + Tech Note Alert!

We just published the webinar recording that walks through learning and using R with screen readers—and it's bilingual (English & Turkish)! with subtitles in English.

📹 Webinar video featuring @lizhare
and Alican Cagri Gokcek: vimeo.com/1008631708

📝 Also, don't miss the detailed technical note on our blog with the resources you need to get started. By Liz: ropensci.org/blog/2024/09/05/s…

#RStats #ScreenReaders #Accessibility



“New Zealand’s Long-term Insights Briefings may not make the headlines, but they should. They’re a little unusual, internationally. Every three years, public service departments are mandated to think long-term—about the trends, risks, and opportunities that could shape our lives over the next 10, 20, even 50 years.”

— Victoria Mulligan

linkedin.com/posts/victoriamul…

in reply to Ruth Malan

Ugh, the idea of having a client that cared about a five year plan, let alone a 40 year one
in reply to Eleanor Saitta

recent discussion about some older C libraries has me realizing that some of those are going to be Roman road-style infrastructure, probably used for literal centuries and setting design choices that may well be used for millennia if our civilization lasts that long.

This is of course horrifying.



Want to catch the leadership summit live online! We’ll be streaming live on YouTube all day Saturday during the event. Subscribe and turn on notifications for this and future BPD video content.

youtube.com/@blackdevs



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in reply to Archos

Proč si vybral zrovna stavebnictví? Je velmi komplikované i bez digitalizace. Urychlení není vždy dobré. Dělají se chyby a jsou v tom podvodníci …


A wife sends a text message to her husband:
"Honey, don’t forget to pick up some bread on your way home from work. Oh, and your girlfriend Vallery says hi!"
Husband texts back:
"Who’s Vallery?"
Wife replies:
"Nobody, I just wanted to make sure you’d read my message."
Husband responds:
"Well, I’m actually with Vallery right now, so I thought you saw us."
Wife, shocked:
"WHAT? Where are you?!"
Husband:
"Right outside the bakery, by the door."
Wife, rushing:
"Stay there! I’m coming right now!"
*Five minutes later, she texts him again:*
"I’m here at the bakery. Where are you?"
Husband:
"I’m still at work. Now that you're there, why don’t you grab the bread and bring it home? 😆🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️🤣"


Delivery Robot Knocked Over Pedestrian, Company Offered ‘Promo Codes’ to Apologize 404media.co/r/cef15c77



Two most beautiful words in the English language:

Meeting canceled



German army wants to help with floods.

Polish Prime Minister: if you see German troops, don’t panic.



Ich bin mit meinem Startup gescheitert, Qualitatsjournalismus gut zu finanzieren und besser zugänglich zu machen.

Das Paywall-Problem (nur 13% der Deutschen haben ein Digital-Abo von Verlagsinhalten) wird zu einem Demokratie-Problem.

in reply to Henning Tillmann

kostenlos ist eigentlich nicht korrekt, es wird mit den Daten der Nutzenden bezahlt...


Not wrong. Of course, we are now buying records again. 😉

#GenX

h/t reddit /r/genx

#genx



🇦🇹 🇨🇿 🇵🇱 🇷🇴 🇸🇰 Europe is by your side in this difficult moment.

Today, President von der Leyen is in 🇵🇱 Wrocław to visit the areas recently affected by heavy floods and rains in Central Europe.

She also discussed the response with the leaders of Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Austria.

Through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, the EU is working to provide emergency equipment.

When the time comes, we will be ready to help rebuild.

This is #EUSolidarity.

ℹ️ europa.eu/!DBcpR3

#EU

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