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Oh my word and ho ho ho! We live in such a holly jolly era of miracles and wonders! Classic Christmas song gets authorized Spanish reworking thanks to ‘responsible’ AI techcrunch.com/2024/10/25/clas…

Classic Christmas song gets authorized Spanish reworking thanks to ‘responsible’ AI | TechCrunch

In the decades following its 1958 release, Brenda Lee’s rockabilly-tinged “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” has attained status as an all-time holiday
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#AI #elevenlabs #ham

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Forensic Architecture's cartographic analysis of the Gaza genocide, provided to South Africa for use at the International Court of Justice.

Via @ayoub , but let me repeat for emphasis: READ THIS

(a thread with some findings from the summary)

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#Gaza #Genocide #ICJ #ICC #SouthAfrica #Israel #Geography #GIS

Forensic Architecture

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#israel #gis #southafrica #genocide #Gaza #icj #icc #geography @Elia Ayoub (he/him)

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So in A Herbivorous Dragon of 5000 Years Gets Unfairly Villainized season 2, the Crunchy English subs make it seem like King Vanessa being a girl is a reveal in ep4, because in ep2, she's referred to as "he".

This is odd since nobody acts like it's a reveal, & her name is "Vanessa". So I looked further b/c Chinese has no spoken gendered pronoun (there is "he" & "she" in text but in speech, it's the same word). The Bilibili Chinese subs say "she" (她), so do their English subs. It's only Crunchy that made the assumption the King is a boy.

I suspect the CR translator was working from just the raw, & without text they had to make an assumption, & they heard "king" & saw somebody who could be a feminine boy & assumed male.

#AHerbivorousDragonOf5000YearsGetsUnfairlyVillainized #anime #donghua

screenshot from Crunchyroll English subtitles of "An Herbivorous Dragon of 5000 Years Gets Unfairly Villainized" S02E02 showing the little girl Reiko talking to the Dragon. She says "Lord dragon, he's given his consent. Let's kill him."
screenshot from Bilibili English subtitles of "An Herbivorous Dragon of 5000 Years Gets Unfairly Villainized" S02E02 showing the little girl Reiko talking to the Dragon. She says "Evil Dragon Lord, she agreed."
screenshot from Bilibili Chinese simplified subtitles of "An Herbivorous Dragon of 5000 Years Gets Unfairly Villainized" S02E02 showing the little girl Reiko talking to the Dragon. She says "邪龙大人 她答应了" the female third person pronoun is used to refer to the king (aka "she" even tho in speech it sounds the same as "he")
screenshot from A Herbivorous Dragon of 5000 Years is Unfairly Villainized S02E02 of "Vanessa" the king of the kingdom, she is a dark haired girl who looks kind of like she could be a feminine boy, with chin-length hair, wearing a crown and in a regal suit, belt, and pants, with a cape and pauldrons
#anime #aherbivorousdragonof5000yearsgetsunfairlyvillainized #donghua
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the reason we suspect it's a translator error and not Crunchy using AI translation or something is because in episode 4, a character definitively genders Vanessa, calling her "my sister". That's the first time it's made directly clear. (The character referred to an off screen sister in previous episodes but not that that was Vanessa). And then the Crunchy subs start referring to her using female pronouns. So that's likely when the translator realized the gender of the character.

Crunchy notoriously overworks and underpays their translators so it's likely they don't have time to think too much about these things because of how fast they're pushed to translate stuff, and they're doing it as they get the episodes.

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incidentally I really hate how online western anime fandom treats Chinese anime/donghua. There's like constant hate on subsplease and other places on animation that has Chinese audio, and they complain about it being a "dub" even though that's the original language, and then they say they'll wait for the "real Japanese" even tho the JAPANESE IS THE DUB. There's also all the weebs who complain that Chinese sounds worse & is less "real" sounding than the Japanese dialogue and like, most of you can speak NEITHER LANGUAGE, shut the f- up.

And of course Wikipedia often only lists the Japanese VAs for a lot of Chinese anime, and it's so hard to find what the OP of a show is b/c all sites in search results list the Japanese OPs as the only OPs for the show -_-

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my take on recent regrettable events in the #linux kernel community. laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/2024…

On Linux MAINTAINERS file removal of Russian developers

I sincerely regret to see Linux kernel patches like this one removing Russian developers from the MAINTAINERS file. To me, it is a sign or maybe even a symbol of how far the Linux kernel developer co
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Bálint Szilakszi

@bagder
Yes that’s entirely fair, it would not have taken much to state:

“We are removing these names from the maintainers list because of US sanctions enforcement. No, this is not optional, at a penalty of personal criminal liability but I Linus Torvalds would not challenge this removal even if I could”

(Which was i think the gist of the statements that came out later)

@daniel:// stenberg://

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Matt Mullenweg is making an absolutely spurious legal claim to silence his critics. Because of the fair report privilege, "platforming the claims in the lawsuits" is on rock solid ground. If anyone knows the person behind bullenweg, there are plenty of lawyers who would delight in telling Matt to go piss up a rope. mastodon.social/@mvsde/1133736…

Fynn Ellie Becker

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The site chronicling Matt Mullenweg vs WP Engine got bullied out of existence.

bullenweg.com

Screenshot of bullenweg.com stating: Bullenweg.com is no longer available following threats of legal action from Matthew Mullenweg. A quote by Matt Mullenweg follows: Platforming the claims in the lawsuits, in particular, is shaky ground. I encourage you to read this article: https://www.vulture.com/article/piers-morgan-apologizes-jay-z-beyonce-uncensored-jaguar-wright.html It is important to me to know who is behind Bullenweg, and I believe the legal system provides ample opportunities to do so. That will take a few weeks, or if you reveal yourself now we can discuss next steps.

bullenweg

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A whopping 10,000 downloads in just 24 hours! We're deeply grateful for your overwhelming support and trust. Thank you for choosing #JetBrainsRider, and welcome to the JetBrains community. Here's to building amazing things together! 🙌💻 #dotnet #csharp #fsharp #aspnetcore #gamedev 🚀

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10K Downloads for Rider

Rider: The Cross-Platform .NET IDE from JetBrains

Develop .NET, ASP.NET, .NET Core, Xamarin or Unity applications on Windows, Mac, Linux
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#gamedev #fsharp #dotnet #csharp #jetbrainsrider #aspnetcore

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Ich hoffe, meine lieben Leseratten sind nicht mittlerweile verhungert – seit Mitte Juni kein Lesefutter zugefügt 😱 Also hier mal schnell 24 Neuzugänge bei ebooks.qumran.org/ hochgeschoben. Mehr kommt nach, braucht nur wieder ein wenig – zu viel zu tun…

#eBook #eBooks #gratis


Izzy's freie Bibliothek

Katalog mit freien eBooks (Public Domain, Creative Commons): kostenlos und ohne Anmeldung stöbern und herunterladen!
ebooks.qumran.org
#eBooks #gratis #eBook
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R. Shivran

Wie gesagt, ich muss mich mal in den Code reinlesen, was da wie implementiert ist. Irgendwo muss die Suche ja programmiert sein, läuft dann vermutlich via php? Könnte man auf der Ebene ggf. auch optimieren, dauert nur länger, bin ich nicht so der Pro drin.

Aber das können wir ja irgendwann mal in Ruhe besprechen, wenn es dir passt. War ja nicht der Sinn der Sache, dass du jetzt mehr Arbeit damit hast, v.a. wenn du eigentlich gar nicht die Zeit dafür hast.

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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@r_shivran Mobil im Reader wird das OPDS Interface benutzt, da werden die Daten als strukturiertes XML geliefert. Die Darstellung wird dabei vom jeweiligen eBook Reader bzw. der jeweiligen App übernommen. Da sollte das eigentlich kein Problem sein.

Für Weiteres wechsel ich mal in den "DM Modus", damit wir hier nicht das ganze Fedi (oder auch nur alle Follower) "spammen"…

@R. Shivran

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The Small Midwestern Cities That Could Play a Pivotal Role in This Year’s Elections
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For all the talk about big-city Democrats and rural Republicans, it's the voters in overlooked places like Sandusky, #Ohio, and Racine, #Wisconsin, who could decide everything from key congressional races to the presidency.

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#News #Midwest #Election2024 #Vote #WorkingClass #Industry #Economy #Labor


Small Midwestern Cities Could Be Key to 2024 Elections

For all the talk about big-city Democrats and rural Republicans, it’s the voters in overlooked places like Sandusky, Ohio, and Racine, Wisconsin, who could decide everything from key congressional races to the presidency.
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#labor #News #economy #ohio #vote #workingclass #Election2024 #wisconsin #midwest #industry

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Hello #writers of the world! With #NaNoWriMo approaching, I wanted to create a space for like-minded people to gather and share ideas, progress, encouragement, and accountability. I've created a Discord server for writers of any kind, be that novelists, poets, coders, content writers, etc. Anyone is welcome to join and hang out with us. We have text channels for casual and topic-based conversation, as well as voice channels for various topics including one for body-doubling. You're even welcome to join if you aren't a writer but enjoy reading/helping others with their projects. If this sounds like a place you might like to be, please join. :) discord.gg/hYtPBcCZ33 #writing #nanowrimo2024 #amwriting

Join the The World Nexus Discord Server!

Check out the The World Nexus community on Discord - hang out with 11 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
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#nanowrimo #writing #amwriting #writers #nanowrimo2024

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Auch das sind Gitarrengötter. Aber Götter der akustischen Gitarre, und Götter des Jazz: Biréli Lagrène und Adrien Moignard, "geerdet" von Bassist William Brunard.
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oder auf der Individous-Instanz euerer Wahl mit /watch?v=V-lb4V_7doM

Biréli Lagrène Trio - Live à Maisons-Laffitte Jazz Festival

Maisons-Laffitte Jazz Festival - DIGITAL EDITIONdu 12 au 21 juin 2020http://www.mljazzfestival.comhttp://www.facebook.com/MLJazzFestivalhttp://www.instagram....
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Our latest episode is a good one! Get hooked on pre-commit hooks with Stefanie Molin. We talk about what they are, why you want them, how to build them, how to debug them and much more. Enjoy! cc @mkennedy #python

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Pre-commit Hooks for Python Devs

Do you struggle to make sure your code is always correct before you check it in? What about your team members' code? That one person who never wants to run the linter? Tired of dealing with tons of conflicts and spurious git changes? You need git pre…
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Hey you! Want to work on software that impacts hundreds of millions of people all around the world? Come join my team at Apple as a Localization Software Engineer! 🌎🌍🌏

(Cupertino-based, no remote work)

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Localization Software Engineer - Careers at Apple

Apply for a Localization Software Engineer job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.
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Josef Kusek

@KKocanski @babaq @trilobyte samoobsluha vs. pultový prodej je podobné téma. Bufet na stojáka vs. restaurace. Svět se posouvá. Já rád nakupuju spotřební zboží, nářadí apod. on-line, ale potraviny, oblečení a boty osobně. Nejvíc mi vyhovuje scan&go v Globusu. Nejdřív scannerem a co zavedli skenování aplikaci v mobilu, tak vyfotím čárový kód a nakupuju rovnou do tašky. Samozřejmě za to platím penězi i částí svého soukromí.
@Lukáš Kotek @Kristýna Kočanski @Martin Bodlák 💙💛
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[Forum Topic] muting speech without the track pad applevis.com/forum/macos-mac-a…

muting speech without the track pad | AppleVis

Hi all, I'm hoping someone has an answer to this, if there is one. On the track pad on the mac, you can use a lot of the same gestures as you can on the phone, such as the three finger double tap for speech and three finger tripple tap for screen cur…
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Sam Altman side by side with Aaron Swartz.

I can't stop thinking about it. One was prosecuted by the US for downloading copyrighted data from 1 source for noble purposes, and committed suicide to avoid prison. The other is widely celebrated for doing this on a much larger scale*.

Edited: *(and not for noble purposes)

old photograph of with many young people of YCombinator’s first cohort (2007)
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People often think about the DMCA as the law that was created in the wake of Napster to address online sharing of music & movies without compensating copyright holders.

A less discussed part of the law is that it banned repairing electronics without permission from the manufacturer as long as they use DRM to prevent it which practically everyone from Apple to John Deere does.

Every 3 years we get to request exceptions. This time we got this exemption.

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Victory Is Sweet: We Can Now Fix McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines

The Copyright Office just handed down a big Right to Repair win: we can now legally repair commercial food preparation equipment, including McDonald’s machines.
Elizabeth Chamberlain (iFixit)

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My spreadsheet of the longer-term implications of #COVID19 infections has now reached 1,100 studies. Recent additions show COVID and Long COVID causes fatigue, heart arrhythmias, reduced white blood cell count, T-cell exhaustion, lower quality of life, cognitive impairment, insomnia, erectile dysfunction, and persistent liver damage.

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COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Studies

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#COVID19

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FYI, use Signal or Threema as messenger, don't trust anyone who claims that Telegram or Session would be more secure, who ever claims that, doesn't understand how the security of those messengers works.
Session started on a reasonable basis (Signal Fork), but they removed a few essential security features over time and by now shouldn't be trusted.
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'It is fine not to like a piece of Free software' and other oft-unstated FOSS-related freedoms

“Free software”, according to the FSF’s definition, embodies four freedoms.

There are plenty more than that - or, at least, many freedoms which are inherent in, or arise from, those four freedoms - most of which go unstated most of the time.

This is far from a complete list, but rather my jottings based on ponderings and observations from the last few days, across a couple of different (intentionally unstated / unlinked here) things.


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#FOSS #BeKind #blog


'It is fine not to like a piece of Free software' and other oft-unstated FOSS-related freedoms

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#foss #blog #bekind

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Microsoft fires 2 employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza apnews.com/article/microsoft-f…

Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza

Microsoft has fired two employees who organized an unauthorized vigil at the company’s headquarters for Palestinians killed in Gaza during Israel’s yearlong war with Hamas.
MATT O'BRIEN (AP News)
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@Tutanota I just realised that all the comments I have added to my contacts over the years, including family-related and medical important information, are gone...

github.com/tutao/tutanota/issu…

Bugs are becoming more common recently, and this one made me lose data. I'm quite disappointed.

#Email #OpenSource #FOSS #Security #Privacy


Lost all my contact comments on Android · Issue #7818 · tutao/tutanota

This is not a feature request (existing functionality does not work, not missing functionality). I will request features on forum or via support. I've searched and did not find a similar issue. Bug...
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#foss #email #opensource #privacy #security @Tuta
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