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so the commons are shouting "shame!" about crumbling schools, unfit hospitals etc. But a penny off a pint at the pump in the pub had them all on their feet.
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Sean Randall
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if I wasn't lucky enough to listen Live over lunch, the text feed on the BBC is behind by a good 5 minutes. That's a shame. This is the sort of thing our license fee should make handling of reliable and speedy.

Interesting. When I search for “Norton Password Manager” on Chrome Web Store, it first lists five completely unrelated extensions, and only the last search result is the actual Norton Password Manager. Somebody told me that website is run by a company specializing in search, so this shouldn’t be due to incompetence, right? What is it then?

#google #cws

#google #cws

Todays #RetroTech

Scotch 3M Magnetic Tape Viewer

These are rare beasts, a useful tool for Audio Archiving. It rests on the Tape, showing the Magnetic Pattern

Ensures you get the right Head Configuration first time

Here’s - Quarter Track, Half Track & 8 Track

Before anyone asks, no, it doesn’t work on Helical Video as the Tracks are too fine. But it does show Edge Track Audio & Sync Pulse

@obsoletemediauk

#retrotech @Museum of Obsolete Media
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Internet Archive Services Update blog.archive.org/2024/10/28/in…

Book Talk: The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood

Join us for a book talk with legal scholar JAMES BOYLE, discussing his book THE LINE: AI and the Future of Personhood, in conversation with KATE DARLING of the MIT […]\n
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Safe and Smart: Expert Tips on Using Smart Plugs Safely This Winter cnet.com/home/smart-home/exper…

Safe and Smart: Expert Tips on Using Smart Plugs Safely This Winter

Smart plugs can handle a lot for our homes, but they aren't as durable as your home's hardwired outlets.
Chris Wedel (CNET)

Khronos reshared this.

I was briefly interested in getting a Galaxy Z Fold for art, but the price immediately turned my away. What do you mean it's almost $2000??
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Maksym Hazevych
Maksym Hazevych
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I bought myself a used Google Pixel Fold (1st gen) for roughly 560$. I'm not sure how it can be any better for art, but generally it is such a great and comfortable device compared to regular smartphones, that I cannot imagine going back. Plus, it is the only foldable that's possible to flash with a custom ROM, and there's official LineageOS support (although I haven't flashed it yet).

I Tried Dozens of Low-Carb Keto Breads. These Were the Best cnet.com/deals/best-keto-and-l…

I Tried Dozens of Low-Carb Keto Breads. These Were the Best

From sliced bread to bagels and tortillas, these are the best zero- and low-carb breads on the market.
Joey Skladany (CNET)

Take 50% Off a Walmart Plus Annual Membership Ahead of Black Friday cnet.com/deals/take-50-off-a-w…

Take 50% Off a Walmart Plus Annual Membership Ahead of Black Friday

Unlock early access to upcoming sales and cut the cost of your new membership by half.
Adrian Marlow (CNET)

Why is Montreal appealing a historic ruling on racial profiling by its police?

cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ap…

Falls Ihr es noch nicht mitbekommen habt: ab 15. November nimmt sich x.com in den neuen TOS u.a. heraus, Eure evtl. noch existierenden Tweets zum Anlernen von AI zu nutzen.

Ich hab meine sämtlichen 30541 Tweets gelöscht mit dem hervorragenden Script github.com/lucahammer/tweetxer von @luca
In der Beschreibung ist sogar eine Video-Anleitung auf deutsch und englisch. Vielen Dank! Angenehm schmerzfrei.

(siehe auch techradar.com/computing/websit… und x.com/de/tos )


X’s controversial changes to blocking and AI training sees half a million users leave for rival Bluesky – which then crashes under the strain

Concerns over the enablement of stalkers and trolls abound
Darren Allan (TechRadar)
@Luca Hammer
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Oskar
Oskar
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thanks for the tip. They responded „We’ve received your request. We typically respond within a few days, but some cases can take a little longer.“ That seems better.

Zoom meeting of Low Vision Now: Barry Greenbrat From Maxi Aids Discussing the Company's Products: Saturday, November 2, 12:45 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/80…

Zoom meeting of Low Vision Now: Barry Greenbrat From Maxi Aids Discussing the Company's Products: Saturday, November 2, 12:45 PM Eastern Time

groups.io

From TTJ: It’s Almost Time For the Reveal of Our 2024 TTJ Holiday Gift Guide!: Tuesday, November 19, 2:00 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/80…

From TTJ: It’s Almost Time For the Reveal of Our 2024 TTJ Holiday Gift Guide!: Tuesday, November 19, 2:00 PM Eastern Time

groups.io

From Selvas BLV: Join us for our Braille eMotion webinar!: Tuesday, November 12, 8:00 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/80…

From Selvas BLV: Join us for our Braille eMotion webinar!: Tuesday, November 12, 8:00 PM Eastern Time

groups.io

From the Florida Outreach Center for the Blind: Recording Available: AIRA Workshop groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/80…

From the Florida Outreach Center for the Blind: Recording Available: AIRA Workshop

groups.io

From Vispero: Join us on 11/7 for a live webinar featuring the ONYX OCR: Thursday, November 7, 12:00 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/80…

From Vispero: Join us on 11/7 for a live webinar featuring the ONYX OCR: Thursday, November 7, 12:00 PM Eastern Time

groups.io

From A T Guys: Now Hiring: Customer Service and Sales Associate (Remote, Part-Time) groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/80…

From A T Guys: Now Hiring: Customer Service and Sales Associate (Remote, Part-Time)

groups.io

there's something mildly ironic about the head office of a parcel delivery company being on the 2nd floor. One of the most irritating things for delivery drivers and it's baked in to every communique they send.

If I didn't have to pay over $700 for Dragon naturally speaking, I'd also get J-dictate for myself because I really enjoy speaking over typing even though I am good at typing.
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Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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I can't imagine using my voice instead of my fingers. I never use Siri and only use the smart speakers for limited things, usually when my hands are occupied. I guess I grew up not being welcome to talk very much, I could always type. It also freed me from not being able to communicate well as a child, so I suppose in that regard I've never considered it as something to be replaced by a more efficient method.
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Nick's world
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@cachondo It's something I considered because even though I can type be there are times when its a pain and if I'm ever going to have a job heavy in writing, I'd rather speak than type.
@Sean Randall

#curl production source code age
Production source code age graph showing much large share of the code is how old, over time, in curl
#curl
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daniel:// stenberg://
daniel:// stenberg://
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@kurtseifried hang on, I have a much nicer version coming up. It's just a little slow... running git blame on all files in 200+ tags takes a while
@kurtseifried (he/him)

Version 1.3 of #Pipilo on #iOS is out. Pipilo is a unique Fediverse app where you view posts one at a time in a horizontal timeline.

Main new features are bookmarks support, upgraded link previews with inline YouTube videos, navigation by tapping screen edges, post translation, post deleting, and collapsible post threads.

Check it out, share and enjoy!

Full release notes: pipilo.thanel.me/changelog
App Store: apps.apple.com/us/app/pipilo/i…

Preview of redesigned link previews feature in Pipilo. The updated link previews now include inline YouTube player, short summaries, author profile links and colored backgrounds.
Preview of bookmarks feature in Pipilo. There is a dedicated timeline to view all bookmarks and an action in post context menu to toggle bookmark state.
Preview of other new features like post translation, post deleting and collapsible post threads.

‎Pipilo

‎Pipilo is a unique Fediverse app that lets you browse posts on a horizontally scrolling timeline. Each post is displayed within the context of its conversation with replies from people you follow.
App Store
#ios #pipilo

Now, because of Google's no-opt-out policy on AI searches, every search uses ten times more power than they used to. Want to find out what movie Danny DeVito did with Arnold Schwarzenegger? Now, you have to weigh your curiosity against the health of the planet.
Don't Google that! It was Twins! Jeez, didn't you read the start of this post?
A post by rax 'leads with her crotch' king @RaxKingIsDead The post says, "hahahahaha this sucks man Each time you search for something like "how many rocks should I eat" and Google's AI "snapshot" tells you "at least one small rock per day," you're consuming approximately three watt-hours of electricity, according to Alex de Vries, the founder of Digiconomist, a research company exploring the unintended consequences of digital trends. That's ten times the power consumption of a traditional Google search, and roughly equivalent to the amount of power used when talking for an hour on a home phone. (Remember those?) Kevin Donovan @kevindonovan. The Hidden Environmental Impact of Al by @LoisParshley"

- Patricia, you ancient programmer, how does one get good at programming, please share your wisdom.

*thinks*

Well, you write a lot of bad code, like a hole shitton of bad code, then you maintain it for a few years and then you look at it again and say holy shit, and that’s when you know you’ve gotten better. Rinse and repeat for ever.

The great start for #PragmaConf Day 2 continues with @feli speaking about accessibility in designing APIs.
#pragmaconf @Feli

Haptic’s touch-based navigation helps blind and sighted alike get around without looking techcrunch.com/2024/10/29/hapt…

Haptic's touch-based navigation helps blind and sighted alike get around without looking | TechCrunch

Smartphones and navigation apps have become second nature these days. But for those with blindness and low vision, it's not quite so convenient. Haptic
Devin Coldewey (TechCrunch)

I am a straight, cis male. For the most part, I'm OK with that, but if I could just make facial hair stop existing in my life without changing anything else, that'd be cool. I really, really hate shaving. I also hate not shaving because I put it off for too long, since I hate shaving. I just want nothing to do with any of it.

Marek Macko reshared this.

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Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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I don't enjoy it either. When my soup is more on than in me is about time for a trim. Then I just lop it all off and end up looking like a teen.

I left my Melbourne hotel at 8:30am, Tuesday 29 October.

I caught a 12:00pm flight from Melbourne to San Francisco also on Tuesday 29 October.

Then I caught another 12:00pm flight from San Francisco to Newark, still on Tuesday 29 October.

I have walked into the door of my house in Buffalo at 11:30pm — 23:30 on Tuesday 29 October.

I have spent 30 hours traveling and have not gotten away from Tuesday 29 October.

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Cartoon by Jim Benton
#Meme #spookyseason
In this comic by Jim Benton, Alice, a character with blue hair and a pentagram hoodie, is seen setting up a ritual circle with candles and a red pentagram. In the second panel, she summons a green demon-like creature. As the ritual continues, more strange and demoniac creatures appear in the circle. In the second-to-last panel, a purple creature realizes something's off, saying, "Wait a second… These are birthday candles!" In the final panel, the creatures, now joined by Alice holding a birthday cake, look happy. The last character now touched says:"You guys"
#Meme #spookyseason

ak som dnes aspoň 20x neprskol tak ani raz
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SuspiciousDuck
SuspiciousDuck
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doslova mi tečie nádcha.. asi si Zyrtec alebo tak niečo lebo ty vole 😪

Prvni zdokumentovany vyskyt Unreleased QR kodu™ v divocine hudebnich klubu.

Jen houst!

vede sem:
unreleased.art/new-dessert

Slogan "Want Unreleased Music?" jeste asi budeme nunat.

#music #art

QR kod s titulkem "WANT UNRELEASED MUSIC?" na plakatu hudebniho klubu s lineupem Izabel a Asher Rotha.

UNRELEASED

Not a label. Not management. Just a collective of artists, dreamers, & designers trying to change an unfair industry.
unreleased.art
#music #art

38 👴🏻
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Marco Zehe
Marco Zehe
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Thank you! I am doing fine, actually. Enjoying my retirement and the fact that I no longer have to put up with job pressure.

📣 New blog post

✨ Sliding Sync at the Matrix Conference — mnt.io/articles/sliding-sync-a… ✨

I have presented Sliding Sync, a novel, fast and efficient synchronisation mechanism for the Matrix protocol, at the first Matrix Conference in Berlin. It's been many many months that I'm working on this project, and I'm joyful it's now available to everyone for a better Matrix user experience!

The article contains the recording + slides. I've highlighted other talks too.

#matrix #RustLang


Sliding Sync at the Matrix Conference

mnt.io
#matrix #RustLang
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I don’t get political very often on here, but this is gold! And yes, since this election will have worldwide repercussions, many of us outside the U.S. definitely hope for a particular winner. youtube.com/watch?v=se-didBGn8…

#USPolitics #Election2024 #Harris


"Gimme Hope Kamala" - Marsh Family adaptation of Eddy Grant "Gimme Hope Jo'Anna" for Trump vs Harris

With only a matter of weeks until the pivotal US Presidential Election in November, and the Democratic National Convention having begun today, we decided to ...
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#uspolitics #Election2024 #harris
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Cristobal
Cristobal
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Here in California and my Brandenburg in-laws are telling us to come home. There’s space.

has any single follower of mine ever played a MUD, or has even heard of what a MUD is. or am i a boomer. #mud #moo
#MUD #moo
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modulux
modulux
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Sure, I played Shades of the Past, Merentha, some vampire stuff, and some Wheel of Time stuff. Some MUDs in Spanish as well.

O Público noticia que entre 2015 e 2023 houve 126 casamentos, em Portugal, que envolveram crianças entre os 10 e os 14 anos.
Mas depois os activistas climáticos é que são presos.

So, whats the trick in reading the APple INtelligence output preview in MacOs? I see a popover, but VoiceOver simply reads the controls in that, not the content.
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Jakob Rosin
Jakob Rosin
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@pitermach aa-ha. How intuitive. Or perhaps its me not using VO j as often I should. Thanks so much!
@Pitermach
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Pitermach
Pitermach
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I only discovered it by trying everything during the beta cycle and vaguely remembering that key let you escape a popup lol. The proofing tools are even more fun if you decide to try those out because they display 2 popovers. One has previous and next controls which step through every suggested change. When you press it the cursor is moved to where the change was made but there’s also a second popup displayed that explains what was done and why with a revert button. If you want to get back to the main controls to review the next change, you have to first press escape to close that popup otherwise vo-j won’t work.

We just released a big update, with support for the following:

- Full Table of Contents (during export)
- Apple Intelligence Writing Tools (where available)
- New iOS Shortcuts (via Control Center and iPhone Action Button)

We also fixed a weird crash when dragging a project from Backup onto the Library. For full release notes, see ulysses.app/release-notes

Screenshot showing Ulysses with the editor and a PDF export, containing a table of contents.

Ulysses - Release Notes

A pleasant, focused writing experience combined with effective document management, fast syncing and flexible export make Ulysses the first choice for writers of all kinds.
ulysses.app

The last time I turned on my Mac Mini was two weeks ago when I recabled the desk.

The time before that was in June 2023 when I moved into this apartment.

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daniel:// stenberg://
daniel:// stenberg://
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I have two of them (one m1, one Intel) on top of each next to me on my work desk. I don't use them even once a month.

New song by the fabulous Marsh Family for these trying times.

"Bohemian Trumpsody" - Marsh Family adaptation of "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen about trump.

How is this real life? Wish it was fantasy!
Ought to be landslide, not a race to the final week
Look in his eyes, it’s up to you guys, you see
He’s just a playboy, he feels no empathy
Because he’s kinda dumb, kinda slow
Little lie, shitty joke
Every single swing vote really really matters to liberty

Full lyrics at youtube.com/watch?v=YY_8WzcHqM…
1/n


"Bohemian Trumpsody" - Marsh Family adaptation of "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen about Donald J. Trump

Well, with the polls so tight a week out, we decided to revisit US Election politics one last time, and ambitiously to have a stab at building a parody aroun...
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#dobréRáno
#dobrerano

Oh weh…

> Uhren, die in der x'-Achse des bewegten Systems K' aufgehängt sind und von dem in K ruhenden Beobachter abgelesen werden […]

Musste ich jetzt dreimal lesen. Armbanduhren? 🤣

OK, freut Euch bei der nächsten Runde #eBooks u.a. auf eines von Paul Kirchberger, das die Relativitätstheorie erklären möchte, ohne großartige mathematische Kenntnisse vorauszusetzen…

#eBooks
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IzzyOnDroid ✅
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OK, besagtes #eBook ist jetzt verfügbar – gerade mit 25 weiteren #ebooks bei ebooks.qumran.org/ hochgeladen.

Und das Backlog ist noch immer nicht leer. Da hat sich seit Juni so einiges aufgestaut…


Izzy's freie Bibliothek

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