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Lots of development and QA activity happening in #LibreOffice! Check out this summary for November: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #OpenSource
Pie chart of resolved bugs in November

QA/Dev Report: November 2024 - LibreOffice QA Blog

General Activities LibreOffice 24.8.3 was announced on November 14 Olivier Hallot (TDF) did big updates to screenshots in Help, added a help page for login/password dialog and improved help pages on Skia, Writer Navigator and Edit – External links in…
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#foss #opensource #libreoffice

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It is days like today I wish truth.social was Federated so I could personally tell Donald Trump to stfu.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #uspoli #fediverse
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Donald Trump says Canada becoming 51st U.S. state 'a great idea'

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is taking aim at Canada once more, saying it would be 'a great idea' to make it America's ‘51st state.'
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#fediverse #canpoli #cdnpoli #uspoli
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Activator Pro: New firmware version 1.3 available helptech.eu/post/activator-pro…

Activator Pro: New firmware version 1.3 available

These innovations are waiting for you: • Safe Mode update capability: With firmware version 1.3, the Safe Mode of the Activator Pro - comparable to the BIOS of a PC - can be updated for the first time without having to open the device.
nkr776 (helptech.eu)

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UK: “It’s still illegal to rip a CD you legally own to MP3!”

Also UK: “Hey, let’s exempt those AI guys from copyright law!”

FFS.

gov.uk/government/consultation…


Copyright and Artificial Intelligence

This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.
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J. J. Thomson, who was born #OTD in 1856, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906 for his discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be found.

Thomson was also a teacher, and seven of his students went on to win Nobel Prizes: Ernest Rutherford, Lawrence Bragg, Charles Barkla, Francis Aston, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Richardson and Edward Victor Appleton.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Th…

Books by J.J. Thomson at PG:
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#books #science #physics

J.J. Thomson, Nobel Prize photograph (1906). Nobel foundation - http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1906/thomson-bio.html Joseph John Thomson (1856–1940), often referred to as J.J. Thomson, is shown in a candid pose, engrossed in writing or drawing, likely related to his scientific work. He is depicted as a middle-aged man with receding hair, a neatly groomed mustache, and a composed, intellectual demeanor. Thomson is wearing formal attire typical of the early 20th century: A dark tweed suit jacket with a subtle texture. A high-collared white shirt and a decorative tie or cravat. A pocket square neatly tucked into his breast pocket, adding to the formal appearance. He is wearing round spectacles, which were characteristic of the period and contributed to his scholarly appearance.

Books by Thomson, J. J. (Joseph John) (sorted by popularity)

Project Gutenberg offers 74,754 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.
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#books #science #otd #physics

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ooh, I do have it in my model picker now. Excellent. "2.0 Experimental Advanced Preview gemini-exp-1206 5 of 5"
9to5google.com/2024/12/17/gemi…

Gemini subscribers can now use ‘2.0 Experimental Advanced’ with ‘significantly improved performance’

Following 2.0 Flash Experimental, Google is now letting Gemini Advanced customers access a new 2.0 Experimental Advanced model.
Abner Li (9to5Google)
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11 HTML best practices for login & sign-up forms evilmartians.com/chronicles/ht… #webdesign #UIDesign #ixd #UXDesign #forms #html

11 HTML best practices for login & sign-up forms—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

Even popular sites fail to implement the 11 best practices mentioned in this article, and thus have at least one mistake. Use this checklist on your next pull request review that deals with any form.
Andrey Sitnik (Evil Martians)
#html #webdesign #uidesign #uxdesign #forms #ixd

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A great paper on the effects of RTO mandates. In news that will surprise no one with half a brain:

  • You disproportionately lose women.
  • You disproportionately lose your best people.
  • You find it hard to replace the good people that you lose.

For a long time, companies were excited about offshoring because it meant that they could take advantage of a global labour force to increase supply and drive down labour costs. Now they’re starting to see the flip side: with a lot of places offering remote work, the demand is also global and they are competing with companies worldwide. If you don’t offer a good work-life balance for your best people, someone else will and they may be anywhere in the world.

After running a successful research project at Microsoft with a team spanning several thousand miles between the furthest members, I was quite surprised to be told that we all needed to come back into the lab because research requires people to be face to face. Especially by people who had spent two years doing nothing to promote collaboration and who were pushing policies that would exclude my close collaborators in other countries.

At SCI, we’re remote first. My most recent hire is on a boat in the South Pacific. As long as people can communicate and have a decent Internet connection, I don’t care where they are (the accountants may, for tax purposes). You need to actively build teams when people are remote, just as when they’re local. Mostly of the people who felt RTO was important were the ones who weren’t doing this in either setting and were relying on similarity biases to create teams (I’d love to see a correlation between managers who advocate RTO and managers who have a higher turnover for folks who are not white cishet males: I suspect it would be strong).

Return to Office Mandates and Brain Drain

By tracking over 3 million tech and finance workers' employment histories reported on LinkedIn, we analyze the effect of S&P 500 firms' return-to-office (RT
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$ pip3 search something
...
RuntimeError: PyPI no longer supports 'pip search' [...]. Please use pypi.org/search (via a browser) instead. [...]

Sure, no problem. Let's see …

»JavaScript is disabled in your browser. Please enable JavaScript to proceed.«

Urgh, but okay, #pip is a #Python package manager, they're good guys. Let me just open #NoScript and temporarily allow pypi.org ... oh no, it wants to run #JavaScript from …

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That's what you get after 30 years of using the term #OpenSource instead of #FreeSoftware.

#FreeSoftware #opensource #python #javascript #noscript #PIP
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Welcome to the RB family, PuppyGit 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.c…

PuppyGit is a Git client for Android. Thanks to the enormous efforts by its developer who even rewrote their entire build workflow, PuppyGit was now confirmed reproducible :awesome:

RB stats now: 376 apps (30.7%)

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid


„PuppyGit“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

An Android Git Client
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

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Edit: We've moved to a dedicated account, so if you're interested, please follow @StroongeCast. Thanks.

New podcast with my wife, and more to come, the next time I can persuade her to sit behind a microphone again.

#StroongeCast E01: Will You Peel My Orange? youtu.be/XeVO8pTfrK8

Download: onj.me/media/stroongecast/01_-…


StroongeCast E01: Will You Peel My Orange?

RSS feed: https://onj.me/media/stroongecast/index.php?xml_feed=yWelcome to episode 1 of StroongeCast, a husband and wife team consisting of Andre and Kirsten...
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#StroongeCast E54: Growing In Confidence youtu.be/SxtSbkEABzc

In this episode we talk about the fact that it's our one-year anniversary of the podcast, how we think it's gone so far, some of the things we may cover in the future, and how Kirsten has grown in confidence over the last year.
There was a time when she'd have refused to be on mic at all, but doing this weekly has made it easier for her to talk to you.
We also touch on the audio quality of some of our favourite podcasts and how some of them unfortunately fall flat, which is surprising, given the budget that some have access to.

Lastly, a new, personalised birthday greeting should you want it. We're starting up a short audio segment called 'Stroonge Cards' which is a personalised greeting from your friends over at StroongeCast that sounds similar to the podcast.
If you'd like such a greeting yourself, please get in-touch to tell us when your special day is, so we can record it for you.
This of course doesn't go out on the podcast itself, it will be sent to you directly.

Download: onj.me/media/stroongecast/54_-…
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StroongeCast E54: Growing In Confidence

Welcome to episode 54 of StroongeCast.In this episode we talk about the fact that it's our one-year anniversary of the podcast, how we think it's gone so far...
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Day 18 - #adventOfIOSAccessibility. When building custom components, or if not relying on UIControl's attributes to configure state, it can be easy to forget to specify the right accessibility traits. These are indispensable for a good experience with VoiceOver, Switch Control, Voice Control, Full Keyboard Access...

#365DaysIOSAccessibility

Calendar of advent of iOS Accessibility. Day 18. Missing traits. Three examples. The first one shows a custom segmented controller. These tend to have a missing selected trait for the selected option. The second one shows a custom page control. These should configure an adjustable trait. The third one shows a button that shows the disabled state by changing the color of the text instead of setting isEnabled to false. This means the button will be lacking the not enabled trait.
#365DaysIOSAccessibility #adventofiosaccessibility
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Alan Hicks

Great to see you recorded for posterity. How do you feel about being part of future research for a few generations?

A similar thing happened to Digital Art a couple of decades ago with the Digital Art Museum. It spurred a few awards for excellence, most notably Vera Molnar who received the Dam Digital Art Award before her death last year:
digitalartmuseum.org/history/i…
ddaaward.org/

Digital Art Museum - Technology timeline

Digital Art Museum Technology timeline
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Sharkey: un progetto Fediverse bello dentro e fuori! Il post sul software del Fediverso ergonomicamente più interessante a cura di @Elena Rossini ⁂

@Che succede nel Fediverso?

c'è una piattaforma di microblogging Fediverse che è assolutamente meravigliosa e piena di caratteristiche di design brillanti che rendono il suo utilizzo un vero piacere. Il suo nome è Sharkey, è un "soft fork" di Misskey , e merita sicuramente la vostra attenzione

blog.elenarossini.com/sharkey-…


Sharkey: a Fediverse project that is beautiful inside & out

Discover the beauty and joy of Sharkey, a stunning Fediverse platform that is a Misskey fork. Explore its elegant design, user-friendly onboarding, and unique features – like Antennas.
Elena Rossini
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Both Eloquence 4.7 and 4.2 received updates in the drivers:
(common): Properly call DLL handle termination after switching away from either synthesizer. Previously you would fry your NVDA by switching from one to the other, as they both leave traces for one another if doing consecutive initializations. This was a problem of the past, no longer, we take care of it in both drivers for you.
- Eloquence 4.7: Updated it from the 4.2 driver to also have the bgPlay function accept onDone, attempt multiple tries to feed audio, and use a lock to ensure thread-safe access to player.feed(). While this does not solve issues with Wasapi, it (slightly) improves it while keeping things more thread-safe for the older-style single callback.
eurpod.com/OldEloquence2024.nv… (v 4.20)
eurpod.com/Eloq47-2024.nvda-ad…
Done for the night, exhausted now from reviving 2 more synths in a single day.
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Tamas G

was there ever a 1.0 or 2.0? Wonder if we would have recordings of it somewhere. I wish there was a way to pinpoint down when the voice so drastically changed, clearly there must have been other versions developed between those that slowly got it there. The more you unravel about that product the more fascinating history it has :D
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Tamas G

3.3 also appears to accept the current community dictionaries, although don't think these can be language specific like newer Eloquence. I renamed them to main.dic and root.dic from the community dictionaries, loaded them and surprisingly that worked. I don't see a way to disable abbreviations as this appears to be built-in to the language and I couldn't find a function in 3.3 that toggles them off or a speech parameter, would be nice to add that as a setting if it's ever found.
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Mohamed Al-Hajamy 💾

@TomGrant91 @KaraLG84 From what I remember, dictionary loading for multiple languages wasn't implemented in that code, and the release notes for Eloquence 5.0 claimed that all languages shared a single dictionary set in older versions. Recordings of 1996-era versions of Eloquence can be found in this article. archive.nytimes.com/www.nytime…

The Infinitely Patient Computer Teaches Problem Students to Read

archive.nytimes.com
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Mohamed Al-Hajamy 💾

There probably were many intermediate versions between that which aren't publicly available, or at least not in the known sources. ETI was known to produce lots of minor versions of major releases, example: Eloquence 5.0. That version was officially released on February 8, 2000 according to the release notes, with the earliest build I can find being version 5.0.000.0004, compiled on March 31, 2000, and the last known builds were of version 5.0.3.8, compiled on December 10, 2001.
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Tamas G

@MutedTrampet @KaraLG84 aaah I love your eloq research. It's been super helpful and I added the abbreviation setting into Eloq 3.3 driver. I'll see what I can do about the other PP tags for the shorten pauses, it may be that I add the setting as a choice slider like the IBM drivers and people can just choose then in both 3.3 and 4.7. Even if the tags add some broken punctuation for 3.3, at least folks can decide.
@Mohamed Al-Hajamy 💾 @Kara Goldfinch
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