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Defense Against the Dork Arts

@hub That was back when Republicans were also complaining about "Conservative voices being silenced" on Meta platforms because they had some fact-checking and were reach-limiting egregious misinformation.

Zuck has since kissed the ring: he said he regrets all the moderation they did on misinformation pointed out by the White house, and called Trump's photo "The most badass thing I've ever seen."

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Didn't have time to watch this month's release party live stream? No stress, this short video will help you catch up. 😌

Slick dashboards and speedy cameras - read the full release notes for 2024.11 here: home-assistant.io/blog/2024/11…

#HomeAssistant #SmartHome #HomeAutomation #DIY

2024.11: Slick dashboards and speedy cameras

Our new sections dashboards are now out of experimental and have become the default, low-latency camera streams using WebRTC, live streaming logs, Home Assistant Voice updates, and much more!
Home Assistant
#homeassistant #diy #smarthome #homeautomation

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MapComplete used to do translations via hosted.weblate.org - we were using the "free tier for Libre/FLOSS-projects" which allowed to have at most 160K strings.

However, because we have a lot of strings multiplied by a lot of languages, we are approaching 180K strings (!). This is a bit over the limit.

As such, @pietervdvn setup translate.mapcomplete.org which will become our main translation hub. It should look familiar, as it too is weblate. You'll have to create a new account though.


Weblate

This site runs Weblate for localizing various software projects.
Weblate
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This man is an amazing storyteller. I could listen to him talk about music and his life for actual days.

Rick Wakeman On Prog Rock, Keyboards and His Legendary Career With Yes

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Rick Wakeman On Prog Rock, Keyboards and His Legendary Career With Yes

In today’s episode, legendary keyboardist Rick Wakeman dives into his incredible career, from his groundbreaking work with Yes to his solo masterpieces. We d...
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The wait is over! 🎉 Be My Eyes is now rolling out on Ray-Ban Meta glasses, bringing hands-free accessibility to our blind and low-vision community in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, and Australia.🌟

Say, “Hey Meta, Call a Volunteer on Be My Eyes,” for hands-free, real-time assistance from 8.1M volunteers.

Updates are rolling out over a few days, stay tuned!

Learn more: bemyeyes.com/blog/be-my-eyes-o…


Be My Eyes is rolling out on Ray Ban Meta glasses starting today!

Update your Ray-Ban Meta glasses to start experiencing unprecedented hands-free accessibility with the Be My Eyes on Ray-Ban Meta glasses in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, and Australia.
www.bemyeyes.com

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Be My Eyes is now available on Meta glasses in Australia, Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom, and USA. You can say "Hey Meta, Be My Eyes", or you can make a call on your phone and then double-press the camera button to switch between phone and glasses. This allows you to use the service directory or private groups. bemyeyes.com/ray-ban-meta

Be My Eyes for Smart Glasses

www.bemyeyes.com

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Spotify just reported record-breaking profits.

In totally unrelated news, Spotify stopped paying nearly 90% of artists on the service ANYTHING (no royalties for songs w <1k streams/year)

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Spotify Hits 252 Million Paid Subscribers, On Track For Profitability

"We’re where we set out to be — if not a little further — and on a steady path toward achieving our long-term goals," said CEO Daniel Ek.
Caitlin Huston (The Hollywood Reporter)

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Good morning everyone! As you all know if you follow me, I'm a sighted dev whose focus is on accessibility for the blind. I got into the space of accessibility and learned how important it was because I joined an accessibility jam and got first hand experience speaking with blind gamers. So I'm inviting you to the type of jam that changed my outlook! So join the discord for "Games for blind gamers" and ask your questions!
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#gamedev #accessibility

Join the Games for Blind Gamers Discord Server!

Check out the Games for Blind Gamers community on Discord - hang out with 183 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.
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#Accessibility #gamedev
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Whoops, missed posting about @randalschwartz and @bagder talking about Curl last week! hackaday.com/2024/11/06/floss-…

FLOSS Weekly Episode 808: Curl – Gotta Download ’em All

This week, Jonathan Bennett and Randal Schwartz chat with Daniel Stenberg about curl! How many curl installs are there?! What’s the deal with CVEs? How has curl managed to not break its ABI f…
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Today's Web Design Update: groups.google.com/a/d.umn.edu/… Subscribe info: d.umn.edu/itss/training/online… #Accessibility #A11y #WebDesign

Featuring @aardrian, @piccalilli, @yatil, @mgifford, @karlgroves, @seaotta, @jakelazaroff, @theadamsilver, @AlexDawsonUK, @gerrymcgovern, and more.

Web Design References: Webdev Newsletter

Web Design References: News and info about web design and development. The site advocates accessibility, usability, web standards and many related topics.
www.d.umn.edu
#a11y #Accessibility #webdesign @Adrian Roselli, pH0 @Mike Gifford, CPWA @jake lazaroff @Karl Groves @Gerry McGovern @Stephanie 🔮 Web Witch @Eric Eggert @Adam Silver @Alexander Dawson @Piccalilli

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Folks, have you encountered this weird NVDA issue? NVDA does not enter focus mode when pressing enter on the Gemini edit field. I can duplicate it, and it doesn't affect JAWS 2025.
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@NVAccess

nvda does not enter focus mode when pressing enter in gemini edit field · Issue #17044 · nvaccess/nvda

Steps to reproduce: go to the gemini website https://gemini.google.com/app After making the current options such as accepting contracts and logging into google. It is important to mention that my n...
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Automate the deployment of Amazon RDS for Db2 Instances with Terraform
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Automate the deployment of Amazon RDS for Db2 Instances with Terraform | Amazon Web Services

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the practice of provisioning and managing your computing infrastructure using code, rather than manual processes and settings.
Amazon Web Services
#blog #aws

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A Simple Breakdown of Localhost and 127.0.0.1 in Networking linuxtoday.com/blog/a-simple-b…

A Simple Breakdown of Localhost and 127.0.0.1 in Networking | Linux Today

When working with Linux or any other operating system, you might encounter the terms localhost and 127.0.0.1 quite often. They are closely related, but understanding the distinction between the two can help clarify many networking concepts.
LinuxToday

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 16 updated and 1 new apps:

* rbtlui: if you always wanted to explore our #reproducibleBuilds this app is for you: rbtlui provides a graphical interface to explore the builders verifying the apps (and the verified apps themselves) provided by IzzyOnDroid on reproducibility. Of course rbtlui is RB itself 🛡️

So thanks to @bg443 for rbtlui! And 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 #reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid @bg443

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For some reason people fleeing the sinking #Twitter / #X ship for #BlueSky don't seem to be aware of the fact that crypto bros at #BlockchainCapital bought a huge stake in the company just a few weeks ago. Like these are basically the same crypto bros who just helped #ElonMusk buy Twitter. They might even be literally the same people (I strongly suspect they are but I'm too lazy to check). Either way #BlockchainCapital was co-founded by #BrockPierce, who also brought you #Tether, AKA the company that Trump's transition team chairman manages $120 billion for. Pierce is also a friend of the #Netanyahu family.

You don't have to take my word for it. Here's the official press release: bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2…

Moving to BlueSky is not an escape. Growing a base there is just putting in a bunch of work to create a platform that will be co-opted by crypto bros as soon as X breaks in half.

p.s. crypto bros (#a16z) also own #Substack

#crypto #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #USDT #Trump #DonaldTrump

Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users October 24, 2024 by The Bluesky Team Bluesky now exceeds 13 million users, the AT Protocol developer ecosystem continues to grow, and we’ve shipped highly requested features like direct messages and video. We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $15 million Series A financing led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Alumni Ventures, True Ventures, SevenX, Amir Shevat of Darkmode, co-creator of Kubernetes Joe Beda, and others.

Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users - Bluesky

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#Trump #twitter #bitcoin #crypto #cryptocurrency #bluesky #substack #elonmusk #x #netanyahu #donaldtrump #blockchaincapital #brockpierce #tether #usdt #a16z
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‘Congratulations to the convicted felon’: Scotland’s Parliament unrelentingly tears into Trump after re-election themarysue.com/congratulations…

'Congratulations to the convicted felon': Scotland's Parliament unrelentingly tears into Trump after re-election | The Mary Sue

Donald Trump shares a close bond with Scotland, with his mother being born there and him owning multiple properties in the country
Evan Tiwari (The Mary Sue)

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If you think for a minute I didn't preorder this as soon as I heard about it, well...

A brilliant new Black Mirror-style sci-fi thriller by the star of Red Dwarf and Fully Charged.

PRE-ORDER NOW
Shadow
The Ghost Camera is a gripping sci-fi thriller in which a British hi-tech start-up accidentally discovers an alternative use for one of their inventions – by creating a tiny, momentary black hole in a lab, they can capture images that defy all attempts to explain them.

Morris is a laboratory janitor in Oxford and is perfectly happy with his lot.

When Morris accepts company stock as overtime pay, he never expects to be caught in the middle of an extraordinary discovery – a camera that captures images from through time, not space.

Told through Morris’s own observations, but also through clippings from newspapers, tech magazines and websites from all over the world –
The Ghost Camera offers a Black Mirror-style parable about where technology might lead us.
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The Rhodes #BlackFriday sale is now on.
Upto 60% off in some cases.
I have an affiliate link but as always, no need to use it if you don't wish to do so.
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Homepage - Rhodes Music

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While LLM output looks promising and true, there is always something wrong — and you won't find it unless you have experience in the subject area.

For carthography AI is especially bad, because nobody writes proper documentation, so there is nothing to train on.

Here are three examples of Ian's LLM photo-to-tags bridge integrated into Every Door. While opening hours detection works great, everything else... Can you spot what's wrong in each tag list?

#30DayMapChallenge

Photo of a shop plate: "Kosmetika. Open 09.30-18.30, Saturday 10.00-18.00, Sunday 10.00-17.00 no break".
AI detected tags from the Kosmetika / beauty salon photo. Tags are: amenity=beauty, opening_hours=Mo-Fr 09:30-18:30, Sa 10:00-18:00, Su 10:00-17:00.
AI detected tags for a monument. Tags are: amenity=statue, description=Statue of an important historical figure, material=stone, name=Monument.
AI detected tags for a post box. Tags are: amenity=post_box, addr:housenumber=132, name=Почта. (132 was a ref number, not address).
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Every Door OSM Editor

In the past couple weeks, I'm increasingly looking towards @MapComplete : its thematic editing and linear geometry tools would be very helpful when I finally get myself to survey speed limits in my area.

Every Door can do much, but not all. That's why many mappers have multiple apps on their phones: StreetComplete, Organic Maps, OsmAnd, Vespucci, Go Map... And MapComplete in a browser tab.

#30DayMapChallenge

Screenshot of a mobile browser with MapComplete open. There's a yellowish map with black and red lines for roads. On some, speed limits are displayed: 30 or 50. There is a menu button and a header at the top: "Maxspeed", and a "Search a location" field.
MapComplete opened in a mobile browser. Displayed is a page for editing a speed limit for a road segment. Panels, from the top: 1. Menu bar with some unlabelled icons and an X button. 2. Question: "What is the legal maximum speed one is allowed to drive on this road?" with a "50" for an answer, and two buttons: Cancel and Save. 3. Small map with a black line for a road and a "50" limit in a red circle. 4. Button "Split this road in smaller segments". 5. Button "Mark this location as favourite" with a big heart for an icon. 6. Button "Share this location". 7. A QR code to open the location on another device. 8. Last edited timestamp (11 September, 8:32).
#30DayMapChallenge @MapComplete

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Far More Blue

Even after the darkest night, the sun will shine. The sea will entertain you with its relaxing noise, and the sand will reflect the light in a warm, ancient colour palette.

#Photography #Photo #MeerMittwoch #SeaWednesday #NaturePhotography #Nature #Sea #Light #Blue #Sky #Italy

A view from a beach, with sand, blue sky and the sea. The light, the sea and the sand will shine on you, warming your soul.
#photo #photography #nature #Light #Italy #naturephotography #sea #sky #meermittwoch #seawednesday #blue

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It’s been a long long while since I’ve focused on my writing so I signed up at
writingmonth.org. My goal is simple - commit to writing at least 500 words/day and see where it leads me ✍️

My handle is curiousmagpie if you want to connect there. 👋

Weblog: curiousmagpie.weblog.lol/

#WritingCommunity #WordWeavers #WritersCoffeeClub #WritingMonth

Musing with the Magpie · Geese

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#writingcommunity #writerscoffeeclub #WritingMonth #wordweavers
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