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How to Stop Your Data From Being Used to Train AI
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Please read this article, if you are in one of these 10 states, please do not eat McDonald’s right now. McDonald's hit by major E Coli outbreak with one dead and dozens sick - Daily Mail apple.news/ArF_yf_nLR1mGeqOAZv…

McDonald's hit by major E Coli outbreak with one dead and dozens sick — Daily Mail

The CDC said Tuesday that 49 people in 10 states have been sickened from E Coli after eating at McDonald's, including one child. An older man in Colorado has died.
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Ehw ehw ehw!!! Walmart death: Halifax police say employee was found in oven: atlantic.ctvnews.ca/halifax-po…

Halifax police confirm body of Walmart employee was found in walk-in oven

Police have confirmed the body of an employee who died at a Walmart in Halifax over the weekend was found in a walk-in oven.
Atlantic

PQ leader says story time poster by Montreal library example of 'religious invasion'

montreal.ctvnews.ca/pq-leader-…

In short PQ is just like the CAQ. Racist AF.

#qcpoli


PQ leader accuses Montreal library of promoting 'religious invasion' with photo of girl in hijab

A Montreal borough and Muslim leader are pushing back against the head of the Parti Québécois after he accused a local library of promoting a "religious invasion" by posting a photo of a young girl wearing a hijab for a storytime event.
Montreal
#qcpoli

tis the season to dress like your pet without having your sanity questioned

#dogs #Halloween

#dogs #halloween

Well it’s not running Windows
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Venn diagram. Drive-time DJs on one side, Sisyphus on the other. Center overlap labeled "Bringing you the same great classic rock night after night."

¡Explora el calendario de actividades para el 25 y 26 de octubre en #GNOME Latam 2024!

events.gnome.org/e/latam2024

No te pierdas las charlas y eventos que hemos preparado, con destacados expositores y una gran promoción del Software Libre.

¡Va a ser imperdible!

¡Explora el calendario de actividades para el 25 y 26 de octubre en #GNOME Latam 2024!
#gnome

Dear @cbcnews calling Covid 'seasonal' is journalistic malpractice

Covid has NEVER been seasonal, and we've been in one of the highest waves of the ongoing pandemic since early August

Being a stenographer of Henry is not serving the public, you have a mandate to call out and correct disinformation

Do better

#Covid #Covid19 #BCpoli #CDNpoli

#covid #COVID19 #cdnpoli #bcpoli @CBC News

Promoting real-estate listing for my for-sale house

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#vancouver
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Tim Bray
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Promoting real-estate listing for my for-sale house

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Promoting real-estate listing for my for-sale house

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Union raises concerns over cracks in newly poured concrete in Montreal's La Fontaine Tunnel

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Is there some kind of trick to restarting NVDA programmatically? If I try to just task schedule or python subprocess c:\program files (x86)\nvda\nvda.exe I get "Requires elevation" errors even when running as privileged user. How does this work? @NVAccess #nvda
#nvda @NV Access
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Jamie Teh
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NVDA has the uiAccess privilege to enable access to the UI of apps running as admin. This requires a special kind of elevation. The easiest way to get that elevation is to use ShellExecute, which will verify that the app is in an allowed location for uiAccess apps and then elevate accordingly.
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Jamie Teh
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Python:
import ctypes; ctypes.windll.shell32.ShellExecuteW(None, None, r"c:\Program Files (x86)\nvda\nvda.exe", "", None, 1)
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NV Access
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@jcsteh Ah Jamie has you sorted, ignore my earlier reply which is out of date :)
@Jamie Teh
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Florian
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@jcsteh Thanks! :) I was noodling with it a bit more and noticed that supplying shell=True to subprocess also seems to work although using that is discouraged for security reasons, which is amusing :) I'll use this for now, thanks much
@Jamie Teh

PSA: if it is exclusive to a closed platform, it is not a podcast.

Wow, what an amazing story: quantamagazine.org/srinivasa-r… #math

Srinivasa Ramanujan Was a Genius. Math Is Still Catching Up. | Quanta Magazine

Born poor in colonial India and dead at 32, Ramanujan had fantastical, out-of-nowhere visions that continue to shape the field today.
Quanta Magazine
#math

I primarily use fedi because

  • It’s fun (72%, 176 votes)
  • It’s better (61%, 149 votes)
  • I can be smug when the other things fall apart (50%, 123 votes)
244 voters. Poll end: 5 days ago

In-Process is out, featuring the results of our braille survey, Elston Changemakers event, the 2024.4 Release Candidate, an NV Access All-Hands, and using Data Validation in Excel.

Read now at: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Blog #News #Software #FOSS #Elston #Excel

Quentin, Gerald, Sascha, Mick, James and Sean gathered around a table working

In-Process 23rd October 2024

Over the past fortnight we had a fantastic response to our braille survey, thank you! We already have some learnings to share with you! Plus, we’re nearly ready for NVDA 2024.4, are you? We’ve also…
NV Access
#foss #blog #software #screenreader #nvdasr #News #nvda #excel #elston

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Welcome to the RB family, WikiReader 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/org.n…

WikiReader is a lightweight Android app for reading Wikipedia articles distraction-free. Supports light mode, dark mode and Material You dynamic colors.

Thanks to Nishant's work on it, we were now able to build it reprocucibly :awesome:

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid


„WikiReader“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Read Wikipedia pages distraction-free
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

Not as smooth as I thought
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Hubert Figuière
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Why is my cpu at 400MHz now?
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Hubert Figuière
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Try to browse the web at 400Mh… this will be fun.
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Hubert Figuière
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rebooting reset things. But I can't reboot each it goes into low power... Not sure wtf. Maybe there is something I need to do tell "this is a new CPU"
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Hubert Figuière
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ran an OS update and I wonder if it is not the same bug I observed with the Dhell: slow CPU speed when unplugged.
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Garrett LeSage
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Ugh, my previous Lenovo laptop for work would often throttle to 400 MHz and stay there. Rebooting sometimes helped, but not always.

I tried many things. Nothing worked. Forums were full of other people complaining about the exact same problem, on both Linux and even Windows.

It was a hardware problem with the Intel CPU and poor chassis design that had no way to get rid of the heat.

I hope your laptop is fine and that it was a random aberration.

Have you tried updating the firmware yet?

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Hubert Figuière
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@garrett it was running for less than 30 minutes since I got it. But then I ran an update (didn't before transplanting the drive because rebooting is a waste of my time). New kernel

Now it seems to not have had that problem. As I said elsewhere in the thread, it looks like the behaviour I recently observed when running on battery on the Dhell.

@Garrett LeSage

The code in librsvg that I know the least is the first code of it that I ported to Rust 🤔

you know how some music gets faster and faster? 'accelerando' is the term for this i guess.

anyway, what i find interesting is when people sing or play together this kind of music, they seem to accelerate in unison, even though no one in particular is leading.

which made me think, is there some universal rate of acceleration that people unconsciously follow? like some fibonacci-style pattern? has this been researched?

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Cleverson
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@pvagner As a musician, I think it is simply due to the joy of playing live, feeling the moment so to speak.
@Peter Vágner

The amount of website that logged me out: fuck you!

My @frameworkcomputer laptop 13 is in service. Just dropped the SSD in and it booted immediately.

Pros: I didn't have to install an OS
Cons: I still haven't ditched Silverblue.

@Framework
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Hubert Figuière
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@NostalgicKitsune it's just my fault I bought the hype. and them I'm being told there is a bug in the installer if I try to install workstation on top it might wipe my home partition/volume...

death by a thousand cuts.

@Sebastian

#nobillionaires
Black to the Future @Adjective_J Listen no one is "vilifying" rich people. They ARE villains. If you run a billion dollar company, give yourself millions in dollars and benefits, but pay your individual workers less than a living wage and give them shitty insurance, what are you if not a villain?
#nobillionaires

My goal isn't for Mastodon to replace Twitter.

My goal is for the Fediverse to attack and dethrone God.

working on location systems is fun because you get to say things like "trilateration can be performed after acquiring the almanac and ephemeris".

Is Ponderosa still a thing? A low cost restaurant in the 80s.
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Jason Fayre
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No. Those are long gone. There was another place like it called Bonanza. I think that might’ve only been Manitoba though

I'm <having the opposite problem some people seem to: my timeline is way, way, way too fast. But it's hard to slow it down because it's interesting too. I think I will have to hide boosts from some accounts.

Brailliant BI20/40X tip when using multiple connected Bluetooth devices. When using a device, Home button on Brailliant plus far left or right thumb keys to switch between devices.

I tested more thoroughly simple #NextCloud apps that I was willing to use, like Deck, Notes, and Tasks. Unfortunately their #accessibility is so that it's quite painful to use. And, as far as I could investigate, main accessibility problems come from core NextCloud frontend components, like NCSelect (pseudo-combo-box'ish thing) or NCListItem. Sad but true.
#Accessibility #nextcloud

It seems to me that the mainstream software industry is no longer attractive to our best and brightest young technologists. This is sad. dragonscave.space/@TheQuinbox/…

"It might help if I had any idea what I want to be when I grow up, but I don't. Probably not a programmer, the thought of working on microservices and bloated web stuff all day does not appeal to me. But...what else? <shrug>"

Quin (@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space)

@jscholes Everything you've just described is exactly what I'm feeling. I'm in networking 1, and while the other students are being told what an IP address is, I'm probing all the subnets on the school's wi-fi network with nmap.
The Dragon's Cave
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Quin
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Part of it's also that I just see how shitty software is. I go onto a website now and there's a very good chance I'll be met with a cookie popup or some other annoyance. I'd sooner die than get paid $120000 a year to put an aria-live region on an ad to announce that it closes in x number of seconds, or whatever. But that's where the world is going. Shitty web apps and super overcomplicated backend infrastructure that gives me a headache to even read about, and this is the person who read Bjarne Stroustrup talk about C++ templates for like two chapters and didn't get a headache. It's not the coding that I don't want as a job, I'd be happy working on fun stuff like NVGT or Hammerspoons, but open source software doesn't pay the bills, and I'm not sure I'm smart enough/possess the necessary business skills to sell software on my own. But coding's what I'm good at, so shrugs. Maybe I'll end up finding some fulfilling programming job. I haven't ruled it out, but I look at what a lot of entry positions on indeed would want and nope straight out.

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Matt Campbell
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@TheQuinbox Well I definitely didn't have the necessary business skills to sell software on my own, and maybe I still don't. I guess it was lucky that I crossed paths with Mike Calvo when I did. That doesn't help you, though.
@Quin

a few days ago there was a heated argument about whether developers should study the humanities.

well, i'd just like if most developers can just learn how to write concisely and clearly in any format. how about that

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modulux
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Absolutely agree, and if quoting the greats helps with it, here's E. W. Dijkstra, one of the most hardcore programmer-mathematicians ever:

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

Macron facilitó un gobierno de la derecha con apoyo/permiso de la extrema derecha porque pensaba que el Frente Popular derogaría la reforma de las pensiones, que lo habría hecho.
Y ahora el Gobierno facilitado por Macron lleva a la Asamblea Nacional dicha derogación. Hilarante.
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Well now.

Rustls Outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL

memorysafety.org/blog/rustls-p…

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Apparently some fiddlery went on with the CPU, but even if Rustls is "only as fast as" the traditional solutions, I feel like it''s a hell of a lot safer from a security POV.

openssl-library.org/news/vulne… (about 10-20 a year) vs ... 2 for Rustls. Now 2 a year. 2 as in forever

Now granted Rustls has less legacy technical debt and baggage and is written in a memory safe language... Which I guess is sort of the point, it's more secure. So if it's as performant...


Rustls Outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL

ISRG has been investing heavily in the Rustls TLS library over the past few years. Our goal is to create a library that is both memory safe and a leader in performance.
www.memorysafety.org

Health Canada: we have the tools

Also Health Canada: you peons are too stupid to be trusted with far-UVC devices so we are banning you from buying them domestically or importing from other countries. Just fucking die quietly.

If you can't discuss politics without it becoming an argument, either you're hanging with the wrong people or it's a skill issue.

Ich glaube es wird #Zeit den #Uhrenumstellungsfilter wieder zu aktivieren.

#CEST / #CET / #DST
#Sommerzeit #Winterzeit #Normalzeit
#Zeitumstellung ist nicht, #Uhrenumstellung schon.

#zeit #uhrenumstellungsfilter #cest #cet #dst #sommerzeit #winterzeit #normalzeit #zeitumstellung #uhrenumstellung
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erAck
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@IzzyOnDroid
You matched my filter :mastogrin:
Aber gute Idee, die Uhren woanders hin (um)zustellen, obwohl.. eigentlich steht die eine Uhr gut da im Küchenregal.
@IzzyOnDroid ✅

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 15 updated, 10 removed and 2 added apps:

* Rate Your Pics: allows you to rate your pictures very quickly 🛡️
* Ease The Waiting: a mix between a calendar and a clock that makes you wait faster

Thanks to Aholic Gino for walking through older apps (see: gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo/-/… – still a lot to do there), 10 apps which were no longer working were removed.

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

I tried to walk to a place I've been to, but not walked to, before. I needed a GPS app and FaceTime to figure things out and actually make it. While I'm glad such tools exist, it's annoying that if I could see, I could have done this with no problems. Without having to think about it, actually. All you sighted people out there better appreciate your sight. The ability to just look around and know stuff is underrated and incredible.

The BT Speak Users’ Manual is Now Available!!
Blazie Technologies is happy to announce the publication of a comprehensive manual for the BT Speak. The manual goes beyond what we provide in our Getting Started guide and offers the following sections.
• Introduction, including describing the contents of the packaging for new users who are unboxing their BT Speak for the first time
• Physical description and orientation
• How to power on, shut down, putting the device to sleep and waking up the device
• Battery considerations
• How to navigate menus and use shortcut keys for Quick navigation
• Adjusting speech, including how to switch to other voices and text to speech engines
• Getting help, including how to obtain context-sensitive help and accessing the text and audio versions of the Getting Started guides
• How to connect to Wi-Fi
• How to install new software updates
• Accessing the Settings menu
• Introducing the editor, including how to find and manipulate text
• File management, including how to create and open files and subdirectories
• Using applications, including the radio tuner, phonebook, agenda calendar and BT Learn for free Braille coaching, tests and games
• An introduction to desktop mode
• An introduction to using the Mozilla Thunderbird email program
• An introduction to Web browsing using Chromium and Firefox
• Concludes with an extensive list of commands

This is the first version of the users’ manual. We will be continually adding and modifying this document as new features are added, with newer versions of the manual being released on a regular basis. We welcome feedback from our users regarding how the manual can be improved. If you have feedback for us, please submit comments and suggestions via email to support@blazie.net.
Where to Download the Manual
You can find the manual on our Web site by pointing your Web browser to www.blazietech.com. You’ll find it from several locations, including the front page, from the Guides and Media page, from the BT Speak Pro product page and from the Documentation page.
For convenience, here are the direct download links.

Accessible PDF version:
blazietech.com/_files/ugd/4d64…
Microsoft Word version (also compatible with LibreOffice Writer)
download-files.wixmp.com/raw/2…

We hope that this first edition of the manual will assist you in learning more about how to use your BT Speak and that it will help you to become a more effective and productive user.

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