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Mastodon, if you have to do starter packs, *please think about consent* for people being added to starter packs. The bluesky starter packs may be great for new accounts trying to find their people, but it has not necessarily been fun for people who've been added to starter packs without their knowledge. I feel like a couple thousand people looking for a coffee shop have suddenly turned up in my living room.

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mekka okereke :verified: (@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)

As fun as this list is, I forgot one: * Despite all this progress on Mastodon, even more innovation will happen in the Fediverse services outside of Mastodon.
Hachyderm.io
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Cómo afecta a los despidos la sentencia del Supremo que obliga a escuchar a los trabajadores antes de echarlos eldiario.es/1_b48f95?utm_campa…

Cómo afecta a los despidos la sentencia del Supremo que obliga a escuchar a los trabajadores antes de echarlos

El impacto es "enorme", advierten los especialistas, con un nuevo derecho a una "audiencia previa", que modifica el procedimiento para despedir y anticipa muchos litigios sobre sus detalles
Laura Olías (ElDiario.es)

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the fucking audacity of white american latinos calling us Puerto Ricans gringos lost in an island so we can have the privilege to cleaning up their fucking fascist messes.

GO DEAL WITH YOUR ANTI-BLACK GWANABÍS DE MIERDA AND KEEP NUESTRA PATRIA OUR OF YOUR FUCKING MOUTHS

fuck y'all.

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (@blogdiva@mastodon.social)

who they hell are you to call us gringos? we Puerto Ricans are a nation. FULL STOP. we aren't Americans. we have American Citizenship. don't you go disrespecting us like that. we aren't here to clean gringos' fascist messes.
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And here's an hour of one of Larry King's interviews with Gork, president of the planet Fringas, who made several appearances on his show. The YouTube video mistakenly credits Gork as being voiced by Robin Williams. This is incorrect; Gork was voiced by Herb Cohen, one of King's best friends since childhood and the author of "You Can Negotiate Anything."
This clip claims to have been recorded from WCAU, now WPHT out of Philly. WCAU started carrying the Larry King show around 1981 after it had been airing on WWDB. WWDB was not only one of Philly's all-talk stations but it was unusual in that it was also an FM station. I have recordings of this station from 1979, some of which I've already digitized and would like to share them with Philly talk radio enthusiasts.

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Larry King Show - guest Robin Williams. WCAU 1210 AM

Robin Williams as "Gork" on Larry King Show. WCAU-AM 1210 Philadelphia. July 2, 1982.
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David Goldfield

@robini71 @Angela2000 Yep, I have fond memories of WCAU back in the day. They did a lot of local talk as well as a long-running evening show called Radio Cllassics where they'd play several OTR shows. My dad and I both enjoyed that show and my dad won a few prizes from it by answering trivia questions. I think one of them might have been a tin of Riceman pretzels.
@Angela2000 @Robin Frost

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Today is the birthday of Larry King, who was born on November 19, 1933. In my teen years, I listened to a lot of local talk radio in the Philly area but the Larry King show was one of the few shows that aired during that time which was national. There was something about that show that just captivated me. I loved Open Phone America, where he took calls about any topic from 3:00-5:30 AM Eastern time. He had a guest on for three hours and he was a master at interviewing. He could even interview his own daughter and made it so interesting. His daughter Chaia sadly also passed away. I even called Larry at his hotel when he was in Philly and talked with him for around ten minutes.
I read both of his autobiographies. I wish more recordings were publicly available from his show on Mutual.
He was my favorite radio talk show host and one of our best interviewers. Here's a link to a blog post that I wrote about him when I learned of his passing.
davidgoldfield.wordpress.com/2…

My Memories of Larry King

Introduction After opening the Mail app on my iPhone this past Saturday the first email to greet me was from a good friend of mine who informed me that Larry King had passed away. I immediately ope…
Thoughts from David Goldfield
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"Empire of Death" wasn't a great way to end a #DoctorWho season. Episode 488 of the Two-minute Time Lord podcast: twominutetimelord.com/2mtl-488…

2MTL 488: Foundation and "Empire" - Two-minute Time Lord

"Empire of Death" epitomized RTD's approach to season finales that he deployed to popular (if not always critical) acclaim during his first stint as showrunner. What happened this time?
That Chip Guy (Two-minute Time Lord)
#doctorwho

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I hate this bullshit service, even more after reading their ableist response to this person: 'I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind' michaels.world/2023/11/i-was-b…
#HCaptcha

I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind | The Blog of Michael Taboada

Also known as: why you shouldn't trust a company who makes their product intensionally inaccessible with allowing you an accessibility workaround Update: I've been informed that hCaptcha now has a text captcha option.
Michael Taboada (The Blog of Michael Taboada)
#hcaptcha
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Tune into our newest episode of the Nation’s Blind Podcast where our hosts are joined by Jonathan Mosen, former producer and host of the Bolotin award-winning Living Blindfully podcast and our incoming executive director for Accessibility Excellence. They discuss Access On, our new podcast that focuses on the role that technology plays in living the life we want. Jonathan also provided advice and tips for new podcasters: nfb.org/resources/publications…

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A study asked 50 doctors to make six different diagnoses for medical conditions. "Doctors who did the project without AI got an average score of 74%, doctors who used AI got an average score of 76%, and ChatGPT itself got an average score of 90%." "AI didn’t help doctors using it as much as anticipated because physicians “didn’t listen to AI when AI told them things they didn’t agree. Most doctors couldn’t be convinced a chatbot knew more than them." #LLM #AI #ChatGPT qz.com/chatgpt-beat-doctors-at…

ChatGPT beat doctors at diagnosing medical conditions, study says

The small study showed AI outperforming doctors by 16 percentage points
Ben Kesslen (Quartz)
#AI #llm #chatgpt

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That’s cute… I wonder what sort of AI Jesus he/she/it is? Does their Jesus incorporates an encoder, decoder or both? I assume their Jesus is a multi-modal bot / agent? LOL mastodon.social/@Richard_Littl…

Richard Littler

2024-11-18 21:44:25


I give up. Now there's a Swiss church that has an #AI Jesus....

"Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing religious life at a small church in Lucerne, Switzerland, where a virtual Jesus is caring for the concerns and needs of the faithful."

Hold on...
Isn't this from the film THX 1138?

Good god, we're living in a low-budget 1970s dystopia.

dw.com/en/switzerlands-ai-jesu…

Screengrab: Church confession booth. "Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing religious life at a small church in Lucerne, Switzerland, where a virtual Jesus is caring for the concerns and needs of the faithful."
Confession booth. The 'automated Jesus' in the film THX 1138

Switzerland's AI Jesus answers questions of faith – DW – 11/18/2024

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Here's a link to my RNZ Nine to Noon interview about the unfinished business I leave behind as I leave New Zealand. Yes, it's been an emotional week since the PM dropped his ableist grenade into the apology. rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/…

Blind and disabled advocate Jonathan Mosen to quit NZ in frustration

An award winning disability advocate, honored for services to the blind community, is quitting New Zealand -  saying it's  the worst country in the western world in which to be blind. 
RNZ

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Welcome to the RB family, OpenSCQ30 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.o…

OpenSCQ30 is free software for controlling settings for the Soundcore Q30 headphones.

Took us (the author and IoD) quite some efforts to get the "rusty" things at bay, but we finally succeeded – thanks a lot, @oppzippy :awesome:

Green shield will show up with the new release on the next sync around 7 pm UTC.

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid


„OpenSCQ30“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

controll settings of Soundcore Q30 headphones
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid @Kyle Scheuing

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Wow, I just spent the last few hours workshopping this unfinished PR with Claude. I get why AI is bad for unverified research and the like, but that I as a CMake know-nothing and after not getting help on the CMake forums was able to get a thing mostly building on Android when the build originally crashed a minute or 2 in, working through multiple problems and obscure CMake issues, kind of blows my mind. github.com/duckdb/duckdb_spati…

Get building on Android by ndarilek · Pull Request #456 · duckdb/duckdb_spatial

Thanks to #345 for getting this started. I took a slightly different approach: The NDK prebuilds seem to ship with static zlib, so I hack CMake to find those. I also tweak the dependencies on Andr...
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I give up. Now there's a Swiss church that has an #AI Jesus....

"Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing religious life at a small church in Lucerne, Switzerland, where a virtual Jesus is caring for the concerns and needs of the faithful."

Hold on...
Isn't this from the film THX 1138?

Good god, we're living in a low-budget 1970s dystopia.

dw.com/en/switzerlands-ai-jesu…

Screengrab: Church confession booth. "Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing religious life at a small church in Lucerne, Switzerland, where a virtual Jesus is caring for the concerns and needs of the faithful."
Confession booth. The 'automated Jesus' in the film THX 1138

Switzerland's AI Jesus answers questions of faith – DW – 11/18/2024

dw.com
#AI

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Před pár dny jsem tu sdílel info, že botník press.coop končí a že se jeho boti stěhují na Flipboard.com.

Dneska jsem se tomu trochu věnoval a ukončil 2 boty, ale hlavně...

Na Flipboard.com aktuálně běží reálně několik stovek velmi zajímavých informačních zdrojů, počínaje ofiko @NationalGeographic a konče třeba @BBCNews.

Když si do Explore zadám Flipboard.com a nechám zobrazit všechny výsledky, je jich opravdu moooc a jsou hodně zajímavé, tak to zkuste.

#fediverse #tip_mastodon

#fediverse #tip_mastodon @National Geographic @BBC News
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Bye Bye Elon, bonjour journalisme indépendant ! Pour fêter votre retour massif sur Mastodon, découvrez notre travail en profitant de 3 mois d'abonnement pour 1€. L'offre est valable une semaine, mais chut il ne faut pas le dire aux autres 🤫
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Accueil | Arrêt sur images

La critique média en toute indépendance : enquêtes, analyses, chroniques et émissions.
Arrêt sur Images

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#Catima 2.33.0 is out!

This release contains some minor tweaks and some user-contributed features and fixes, most notably the ability to choose the amount of columns to display in the home screen and a fix to retain the search state when rotating the screen or opening a card.

Coming soon to an app store near you :)

catima.app

#Android #OpenSource #IzzyOnDroid

Catima - The Libre Card Wallet

A Loyalty Card & Ticket Manager for Android
catima.app
#android #opensource #catima #izzyondroid
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 10 updated and 1 added apps:

* Mindful Attention Awareness Scale: Find out how mindful you are on a scale of 1 to 6. 🛡️

RB status: 343 apps (28.3%)

At apt.izzysoft.de/magisk today 1 #Magisk #module was added, and 2 updated:

* Audio HD Enhancer: Improve audio output to 320Kbs systemless for both Internal Speakers & Bluetooth

Status there: 120 modules

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 #magisk #izzyondroid #module

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"Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games" from Game Developer: gamedeveloper.com/business/epi…

Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games

The Unreal series may have been shelved years ago, but Epic is letting its first two installments live on through the Internet Archive.
Justin Carter (Game Developer)

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Make Sure to Update: iOS 18.1.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.1.1 Fix Actively Exploited Vulnerabilities macrumors.com/2024/11/19/ios-1…

Make Sure to Update: iOS 18.1.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.1.1 Fix Actively Exploited Vulnerabilities

The iOS 18.1.1, iPadOS 18.1.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1.1 updates that Apple released today address JavaScriptCore and WebKit vulnerabilities that...
Juli Clover (MacRumors.com)

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Cool to see a company whose annual revenue is $250B announce a $1.25M open source security fund (that’s about three *minutes* of revenue), in a press release that without blinking or apparent irony (1) says maintainers need more time and (2) requires maintainers to take a multi-week, many-hour training program.

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Announcing GitHub Secure Open Source Fund: Help secure the open source ecosystem for everyone - The GitHub Blog

Applications for the new GitHub Secure Open Source Fund are now open! Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until they close on January 7 at 11:59 pm PT. Programming and funding will begin in early 2025.
Martin Woodward (The GitHub Blog)
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Prvé videjko z #minetest serveru Český Hvozd je na svete :) (preposielam zo serverového fóra): youtube.com/watch?v=zePC1OYvVr…

Hra na Českém hvozdu — Minetest/Luanti v češtině

Stavba na náměstí v České. Hra kouzelnickým stylem na Českém hvozdu, veřejném serveru pro české a slovenské hráče/ky, kde jsou všechny módy v češtině. Listop...
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