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Fake videos from Russian propagandists aim to raise tensions ahead of Election Day - NPR apple.news/Ab1jgHqgtQ8Gni_R994…

Fake videos from Russian propagandists aim to raise tensions ahead of Election Day — NPR

Intelligence officials say the video, which purported to show a Haitian immigrant claiming he had voted multiple times in Georgia, is the product of a Russian propaganda operation.
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Die #Musik von #Silentlive hörte ich vor einigen Jahren in einem kleinen #Café in #Wałbrzych - ich versuchte der Kellnerin verständlich zu machen, dass ich die CD gern einfach sofort kaufen würde. Nach einigem hin und her verkaufte sie mir ihr eigenes Exemplar. Eine schöne Erinnerung.

silentlive.pl/
#Music #FromTheEast #Poland #FediMusic

Oficjalna strona zespołu SILENTlive - SILENTlive

Aktualności z życia zespołu SILENTlive
silentlive.pl
#Poland #music #fedimusic #musik #cafe #silentlive #wałbrzych #fromtheeast

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In my 20 years of podcasting, I’ve tried many services for recording podcast interviews. I’ve found nothing better than Cleanfeed, because it’s reliable and flexible. While there are services that record locally and then upload, all of them glitch out at one time or another, because there is a lot of complexity in getting that right. It’s heartbreaking to lose a good interview because your double-ender service had a bad hair day. It happens far too much.
Cleanfeed is also good for broadcasting and other live events. During the lockdowns, many broadcasters were using Cleanfeed to send entire shows, including high quality stereo music streams, back to radio stations.
I did an explanation and demonstration of Cleanfeed in The Blind Podmaker podcast which is still relatively current.
I say all this because Cleanfeed has just come out with a very nice update for iPhones using USB-C. You can now use a USB-C audio device including audio interfaces, come into Cleanfeed through safari for iOS, and Cleanfeed will recognise the audio device. This is going to be a big deal for people who want to participate in high quality podcasts or live broadcasts while on the go. If a radio station has a broadcaster in the field for some reason, coming in through Cleanfeed and a USB-C audio device is going to sound way better than a FaceTime call.
Best of all, Cleanfeed’s developers care deeply about #accessibility. They’ve responded positively to many of my suggestions and those of others in the blind podcasting community.
You can find Cleanfeed at cleanfeed.net.

Cleanfeed

The online studio for live audio and recording
cleanfeed.net
#Accessibility

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I had a talk called "Unbreakable Linux for Entire Family" today. It had nothing to do with Oracle #Linux, it was about concepts and approaches around #Fedora #Silverblue to make a truly free ChromeOS-like system for friends and family.
I was happy to have a full room of people. It's good to see #OpenAlt bouncing back in terms of attendance.

The recording of the talk (in Czech) is already available online:
youtube.com/live/7Xhs8zP8xwI?t…


Konference OpenAlt 2024 – sobota – D0207

Vítejte na konferenci OpenAlt 2024.🗓️ 👍 Program a hodnocení: https://www.openalt.cz/2024/program/
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#linux #fedora #silverblue #openalt
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Mrs McCrimmon

Also this made me miss Kieran Hodgson's bad #DoctorWho impressions - which were actually completely on point.

youtube.com/watch?v=OedNVdX2U2…


Bad Doctor Who Impressions: The Keys Of Marinus

Arbitan is having the Worst Day Of His Life. He's got guests arriving soon, he's lost his keys, and he's been killed by the Voord(s). But maybe Ian and Barba...
YouTube
#doctorwho

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Falls der (Fach-)Arzttermin nur über #Doctolib vereinbart werden kann, geht anschließend wie folgt vor: Fordert zunächst eine Datenauskunft gemäß Art. 15 DSGVO an und veranlasst danach die Löschung eurer Daten gemäß Art. 17 DSGVO. Jedes Mal. Wirklich jedes Mal. Geht ganz einfach über Datenanfragen! 👇

datenanfragen.de/


Datenanfragen.de – Nutze Dein Recht auf Datenschutz.

Dank der DSGVO hast Du viele Datenschutz-Rechte. Wir wollen Dir helfen, diese zu nutzen. Stelle DSGVO-Anfragen an zahlreiche Unternehmen und lerne mehr über die Datenschutz-Grundverordnung und Datenschutz.
Datenanfragen.de
#doctolib

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For many years I've believed that Facebook and Instagram were secretly downloading phone photos in the background. Because when you go to post a photo, it gets sent far too quickly to have done a download at the same time.

Yesterday I found this video from an Instagram founder, and damned if I wasn't right.

It doesn't appear to be all photos, just the most recent one (ones?). It's not clear from the video if it happens when you launch the app, or when you hit compose. They're doing it on the assumption you're about to post some recent photos. They claim it's okay because if you don't post it, they delete it.

That's classic Meta self-serving bullshit. The "Yeah, it's wrong, but it's okay because we're Meta and we're smart" excuse they always use.

It is not okay to upload my photos without my explicit consent. It's not okay to chew up my bandwidth when I may be deliberately trying to keep it low. IANL, but that first, frankly, sounds like class action material.

It doesn't matter that they claim to delete it. They just introduced a privacy risk. That could have been a nude of my spouse. That could have been a photo of my kid I was sending to my doctor. That could have been a photo of a contract I'm not allowed to share. All to save a few seconds they can brag about.

When Apple allowed you to selectively make photos available to app, I turned the feature on for Meta apps. This makes posting photos a pain, because Meta doesn't uses Apple's UI for choosing which photos they can see and selecting them at the same time. It's a multistep process and it isn't obvious how to do it. Ironically, it means that I rarely post to Instagram anymore. A fact that just reinforces my belief that Meta really wants full photo access and deliberately isn't fixing the issue.

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Auch das ist #DisabledAlltag : In Werkstätten für einen mickrigen Stundenlohn schufften, ohne Arbeitnehmer*innen-Rechte, während andere sich eine goldene Nase verdienen. Inklusion? Fehlanzeige!

Das Team von andererseits hat gemeinsam mit der Süddeutschen Zeitung zu Behindertenwerkstätten recherchiert.

Unbedingt lesen!

andererseits.org/werkstaetten/

#WfMmB #WfbM #Inklusion #UNBRK #IhrBeutetUnsAus


Warum verhindern Werkstätten gleiche Teilhabe? - andererseits.org

Diese Recherche ist in Zusammenarbeit mit der Süddeutschen Zeitung entstanden: Fast 300 Tausend Menschen mit Behinderungen in Deutschland arbeiten in Werkstätten.
Christian Cito (andererseits)
#inklusion #disabledalltag #wfmmb #WfbM #unbrk #IhrBeutetUnsAus

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Ugh, the #chrome #extension ecosystem is exactly as bad as I'd expect.

And the fact extension is still up claiming not to collect any data even if it has been called out in one of the biggest security newsletters shows how much Google care about this (not much). The only thing they care about is pretending to ship AI features to detect malicious extensions. Because that's how you get promoted.

I mean is it even possible to report a suspicious or bad extension? I don't see anywhere

Great research by @WPalant and @c0m4r

And @campuscodi for putting the spotlight on it.

Text from screenshot: Chrome extension turns malicious: A popular Google Chrome extension with more than 100,000 installs has now turned malicious. The Hide YouTube Shorts extension is performing affiliate fraud and collecting the browsing history of all its users. Security researchers say the extension appears to have turned malicious after it was transferred to a new developer.
Text in screenshot from the extension store: Privacy The developer has disclosed that it will not collect or use your data. This developer declares that your data is Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes
#extension #chrome @Wladimir Palant @Catalin Cimpanu @c0m4r

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Oh, neat! A new open source app for Fuji cameras.

github.com/petabyt/fudge

Currently Android and WiFi only, just supporting transfers so far. Bluetooth is planned, as is location support. Desktop and iOS versions are listed on the roadmap.

#Fuji #camera #OpenSource #FOSS #Android


GitHub - petabyt/fudge: Unofficial app to pair with Fujifilm cameras

Unofficial app to pair with Fujifilm cameras. Contribute to petabyt/fudge development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
#android #foss #opensource #camera #fuji

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US folks: If you've not voted early, and don't yet have plans to vote, please make plans over the weekend! If early voting is still available in your area, take some time out of your day and get it done.

For those who have already voted via mail or in-person early voting, here are resources to check the status of your ballot: vote.org/ballot-tracker-tools/


Track Your Ballot or Ballot Application - Vote.org

Ballot tracker tools for all 50 states. Find the status of your ballot.
www.vote.org

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I dream of someday giving a conference talk titled "A Majestic Minilith", drawing its title from DHH's "majestic monolith" (signalvnoise.com/svn3/the-maje…) plus the Minilith from Arthur C. Clarke's _2061_. In this talk, I would show a full-stack web app written in Rust (or maybe some other AOT-compiled language), where the whole thing is a single binary, and show via live demo with audience participation that it can handle a decent number of concurrent users on a low-power home router.

The Majestic Monolith

Monolith by Rene Aigner Some patterns are just about the code. If your code looks like this, and you need it to do that, here’s what to do. You’d do well to study such patterns, as they give you a …
Signal v. Noise

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Hier gibt es meinen ausführlichen Bericht zur Antwort der🚦auf meine schriftliche Frage zum Ausmaß der Förderung von #Blockchain ⛓️ durch den Bund u ob die Reg. überhaupt mal guckt, was aus den letzten 215 mio € #Fördergeld für Gedöns seit 2017 geworden ist: mdb.anke.domscheit-berg.de/202…

PICs: Screenshots aus dem verlinkten Text, u.a. ein #tl;dr u eine Gegenüberstellung von #hypetech Förderung u #Opensource Förderung

Millionen für Blockchain in 2024 – Wirkung egal - Anke Domscheit-Berg

Mit wie viel Geld fördert der Bund immer noch Blockchain Vorhaben? Das fragte ich mich, als mir auffiel, dass laut Haushaltstitel „Innovative Anwendungen von Künstlicher Intelligenz“ auch Blockchain gefördert werden kann - das stand im Kleingedruckte…
Anke Domscheit-Berg
#opensource #blockchain #fordergeld #tl #hypetech

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#kraftwerk’s mighty Autobahn is 50 years old today!

Imagine listening to it back then, this amazing 22 minute electronic track that captures the joy (and boredom) of a long drive on the autobahn.

It remains stunning and fresh now, let alone how mindblowing it must’ve been in ‘74

youtu.be/vkOZNJYAZ7c?si=FomUnY…

#Music


Autobahn (2009 Remaster)

Provided to YouTube by Parlophone UKAutobahn (2009 Remaster) · KraftwerkAutobahn℗ 2009 Ralf Hütter/Kraftwerk under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Lt...
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#music #kraftwerk

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Claro, por ahí fuera flipan con que los responsables siguieran con sus agendas y haciéndose fotos mientras ya caían las lluvias torrenciales.

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…


Valencia's governor posed for photos amid flash flood red alerts

Carlos Mazón and his regional government failed to send out emergency warnings 12 hours after the country’s meteorological agency
James Crisp (The Telegraph)
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daniel:// stenberg://

now added to the collection at daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/10/03… thanks!

screenshotted curl credits

If you have more or better screenshots, please share! This shot is taken from the ending sequence of the PC version of the game Grand Theft Auto V. 44 minutes in! See the youtube version. Sky HD is a satellite TV box. This is a Philips TV.
daniel.haxx.se
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SomeAnoTooter

it's so crazy to explore tools like curl and find out how cool and useful it is and noticing that a lot of tools and products are using it in the background. Such a great accomplice but sadly not as monetarily rewarding as a good song or film, even so it is more useful (no shame on music and films but I prefer technical stuff for my entertainment ;..; )
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modulux

It's a tragedy, and the handling is absolutely awful so far. A few more details:

Right after winning the election, the regional government abolished the regional emergency unit as a cost-cutting measure.
Urban planning failed in allowing to build in what are essentially dry riverbeds and became wet once again.
The state agency for meteorology had been giving warnings for days. Civil protection didn't issue warnings to citizens through their phones until flooding had already begun.
A far right pseudo-trade union has sued the director of the agency for reckless homicide.
The president of the region incorrectly stated that the phenomenon was remiting and heading elsewhere.
The region didn't ask the state to raise the emergency level to 3, in which case the state would take over the single command and deploy its own means to support. But now the region accuses the state of innaction. The region also didn't declare "situation of catastrophic emergency" which would have vested single command on the regional president, probably to elude legal responsibility.
Volunteers were rejected at first, then belatedly organised, and the region instead of sending them to help people in villages with cleaning, food and water delivery and so on, have at times sent them to clean shopping centres.

With that amount of rain it was always going to be bad. But the civil protection plan failed and the political conflict in the country is keeping administrations pointing the finger at each other. Very upsetting.

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Buenos días, esto es muy fuerte. Hoy la Generalitat empezaba a "organizar" a los voluntarios para distribuirlos mejor. Hasta aquí ok, más vale tarde que nunca.
Pero resulta que este señor, periodista para La Vanguardia y A Punt, dice que hay lío en "varios" buses porque les han llevado A LIMPIAR UN CENTRO COMERCIAL.
Al parecer la gente se niega a bajar de los buses porque quieren ayudar a la gente en sus casas u calles.
Cuando crees que no pueden dar más vergüenza y asco, lo consiguen.
Captura de un tuit de la pajarería en el que dice el periodista Héctor Sanjuan que hay lío con los voluntarios que está organizando la Generalitat porque les han metido en buses y les han llevado a limpiar un centro comercial y claro, la gente se niega porque quieren ayudar a las personas, no a las empresas ni mucho menos ser mano de obra gratis para ellos.

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How a misinterpretation of a BMJ publication from 1996 caused (and yes, I do mean caused) the explosion in rates of peanut allergy.

In a nutshell: for decades the guidance issued in the USA and UK was the opposite of what it should have been and left a generation with preventable, life-threatening allergies.

news.harvard.edu/gazette/story…


Seem like peanut allergies were once rare and now everyone has them?

Surgeon, professor Marty Makary examines damage wrought when medicine closes ranks around inaccurate dogma.
Terry Murphy (Harvard Gazette)

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We're looking for a new team member who cares deeply about testing and code quality to join us in our work supporting some of the most high profile #Apple frameworks, such as #SwiftUI and #UIKit. jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/2…

Software Developer in Test - Swift Platform Experience - Careers at Apple

Apply for a Software Developer in Test - Swift Platform Experience job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.
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#apple #swiftui #uikit
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