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If we don't fight back, right now, against the escalating right-wing warfare against public participation -- e.g. freedom of expression -- we are well and truly screwed. Josh Marshall has solid ideas here. (I have more that I'll be adding in a newsletter post later.)

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A Big Pile of Money and Lawyering to Defend Trump’s Legal Targets?

In the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory and promised revenge tour, a number of individuals have proposed the creation of an organization or fund which…
Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)

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Journalist Carl von Ossietzky was a constant voice against Nazism and rising militarism in 1920s and 1930s Germany. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for it — and he died for it. In this long read for Atavist, Kate McQueen tells his story. "They may condemn us, today, tomorrow, the day after, [and] we will accept it,” he once wrote. “But our pride will be in … becoming more energetic, sharper, denser and tougher. That’s why we are journalists.”

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#History @histodons #Journalism #Nazism #Germany


The Good Traitor

The Third Reich feared Carl von Ossietzky so much they sent him to a concentration camp. Could winning the Nobel Peace Prize save his life?
Kate McQueen (The Atavist Magazine)
#history #Germany #journalism #nazism @histodons group

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With the Mobifree project (mobifree.org), e Foundation @e_mydata has raised 4.4M€ from the European Union to fuel Open Source projects accross the EU! 👊

This will help the development of more human FOSS software in the mobile area, like microG, DeltaChat, F-Droid, /e/OS...
@microg @delta @fdroid
@ngi

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NGI Mobifree Project raises 4.4 million eurosfor Open Source projects development - e Foundation - deGoogled unGoogled smartphone operating systems and online services - your data is your data

NGI Mobifree Project raises 4.4 million euros for Open Source projects development The Mobifree Project, initiated by e Foundation, brings together twelve+ organizations to challenge the norms of mobile technology development.
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@microG Project @Delta Chat (39c3) @/e/OS - deGoogled mobile OS @F-Droid @NGI Outreach Office

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What to do during the darkest days on the Northern hemisphere? Hole up inside CCH and huddle around the blinking LEDs of #38c3 !
We're looking forward to go to Congress and we hope to see you there.

One of the things we'll be doing is a joint meetup with @PrototypeFund and @sovtechfund about funding free and open source projects. Day 2 at 15.00 in Saal D.
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Meet the Funders: Sovereign Tech Agency, NLnet, Prototype Fund - 38C3

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#38C3 @Prototype Fund @Sovereign Tech Agency

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Gizmodo: You Can Now Call ChatGPT on the Phone

"...If you are ever feeling lonely and just need someone to talk to, OpenAI has you covered... Callers are limited to 15 minutes per month..." gizmodo.com/you-can-now-call-c…

#chatgpt #ai


You Can Now Call ChatGPT on the Phone

Something of a cheap gimmick, callers can speak to ChatGPT up to 15 minutes a month for free.
Thomas Maxwell (Gizmodo)
#AI #chatgpt

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New study finds that women born in the most sexist U.S. states experienced faster memory decline in later years compared to women born in the least sexist states. The difference was equivalent to nine years of cognitive aging.

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Sexism Is a Risk Factor for Memory Decline Among Women

Columbia researchers have found that women born in the most sexist U.S. states experience faster memory decline in later life compared to women born in the least sexist states.
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

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🪣🧼🫧USHERING IN THE NEW YEAR🧹🧽✨

Preparations for the New Year in Japan begin on December 13th, 'Shōgatsu-goto Hajime' (正月事始め).
Pine decorations are cut or bought ('matsu-mukae' 松迎え) and the house is cleaned from top to bottom ('susu-harai' すす払い).

#松の内 #Japan #NewYear #Kyoto #正月 #正月事始め #Shogatsu #京都

A traditional meal served at Torin-in to end the official New Year celebrations in January.
Nao-san enjoys a matcha enjoying the wintery scene in the teahouse garden.
The Great Buddha of Todai-ji gets a clean.
A young pine sapling hung as decoration (and symbol of good fortune and health) on a temple gate for the New Year.
#japan #kyoto #京都 #newyear #松の内 #正月 #正月事始め #shogatsu

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Fighting on Mist World. The usual. What else is new, the same old dramas get re-hashed, the same conversations happen again and again as new players join it. And then we have this masterpiece of an AI song about Admin 6, created by one of the players (Ginger) and for anyone not playing the game, hearing it should help them to know why you might want to wait with such horrible staff support.

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Doctor Who Fans in America Can Now Watch Some Classic Episodes Free on YouTube thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2024… #DoctorWho

Doctor Who Fans in America Can Now Watch Some Classic Episodes Free on YouTube

In the age of various streaming services as well as commercial media such as Blu-rays, not having access to a television series or film might seem like a problem that only existed in the Dark Ages,…
The Doctor Who Companion
#doctorwho

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From the Internet Archive:
Doctor Who Classic Comics : High Quality archive.org/details/doctor-who… #DoctorWho

Doctor Who Classic Comics : High Quality : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Doctor Who Classic Comics  :  High QualityComic strips based on the Doctor Who television series. Originally published between 1963 and 1990, and featuring...
Internet Archive
#doctorwho
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Congratulations to ABC Excellence Awards Winners 2024 inclusivepublishing.org/news-a…

Congratulations to ABC Excellence Awards Winners 2024 - Inclusive Publishing

Many congratulations to the winners of the Accessible Books Consortium International Excellence Awards for Accessible Publishing, announced last night at the International Publishers Association Congress in […]
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ICEVI Organizational Award Conferred on The DAISY Consortium inclusivepublishing.org/news-a…

ICEVI Organizational Award Conferred on The DAISY Consortium - Inclusive Publishing

The DAISY Consortium was honoured to receive the Organizational Award at the ICEVI World Conference 2024. The award citation acknowledges DAISY Consortium’s leadership and contribution […]
Sarah Hilderley (Inclusive Publishing)

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You Can Now Call ChatGPT & Ask Questions On The Phone cordcuttersnews.com/you-can-no…

You Can Now Call ChatGPT & Ask Questions On The Phone | Cord Cutters News

In a move to increase accessibility, OpenAI has announced that its popular AI assistant, ChatGPT, is now available on landlines and WhatsApp. Users can call 1-800-CHATGPT to access the service or text ChatGPT through the messaging app.
Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)

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Welcome Kuan-Wei Chiu as #curl commit author 1327: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1577…

http_aws_sigv4: Fix invalid compare function handling zero-length pairs by visitorckw · Pull Request #15778 · curl/curl

The compare_func() can violate the antisymmetric property required by qsort. Specifically, when both aa->len == 0 and bb->len == 0, the function returns conflicting results (-1 for compare_fu...
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@RaccoonForFriendica version 0.3.2 of Raccoon has been released! 🎉🦝🎉

Changelog:
- feat: add Acknowledgements screen;
- feat: support for block quotes;
- fix: prevent crashes while loading timeline;
- fix: load suggestions and trending links;
- fix: retrieve source for post editing;
- fix: user post pagination;
- fix: images overlapping text;
- fix: detect Friendica RC versions;
- enhancement: accessibility improvements;
- enhancement: post preview;
- enhancement: exclude replies from timeline by default;
- enhancement: make Markdown mode always available;
- enhancement: l10n updates.

Thanks to all those who helped by testing and reporting bugs, submitting pull requests or translating the UI. You are mentioned in the home page and, from now, also in a dedicated screen which can be accessed from the "App information" dialog.

You are simply awesome #livefasteattrash

#friendica #friendicadev #androidapp #androiddev #fediverseapp #raccoonforfriendica #kotlin #multiplatform #kmp #compose #cmp #opensource #procyonproject

#friendica #opensource #kotlin #androiddev #Compose #raccoonforfriendica #androidapp #multiplatform #friendicadev #CMP #kmp #FediverseApp #livefasteattrash #procyonproject @RaccoonForFriendica

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Brand new audio game: "Super Race Grand Prix" applevis.com/forum/ios-ipados-…

Brand new audio game: "Super Race Grand Prix" | AppleVis

Dear, XXS Web Development, the makers of "SoundEcho" and "Hunting the ducks", are proud to present their latest game: a racing game full of action, excitement and fun! The app is available in the EU and the US, in Canada, Great Britain, Australia, Ne…
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Exciting news for #KMP devs! JetBrains has officially launched this new site named "Klibs.io" for finding KMP libraries. It has 1400+ libs already, including our own "KHealth" too 😉

Check it out: klibs.io/?query=khealth

#Kotlin #Multiplatform #JetBrains #KHealth #Technology #Software #Health

Klibs.io — Search 1400+ KMP libraries | JetBrains

AI-powered search engine for Kotlin Multiplatform libraries. Explore the best KMP packages, access metadata, and learn about the authors.
klibs.io
#technology #software #health #kotlin #jetbrains #multiplatform #kmp #khealth

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Warning: loud noises. So I tried out the bestspeech addon for NVDA released by @Tamasg for fun. Unfortunately, if I arrow up and down quickly on a webpage, this is what it frequently does. Sorry for the echo and horrible clipping, I had to shout over the noises, and the setup to record this wasn't ideal. But I haven't heard a computer make these noises in ages!

@Tamas G
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Tamas G

loool that totally sounds like the pointer fried your memory horribly. And NVDA didn't reboot itself, just reset the speech synth after all that even? I've never heard eloquence samples in the corruption, wow. You can try the -older version of the add-on but since more people saw issues when we weren't using the thread executor to try and avoid race conditions I don't think you'll find it much better. We'll see how badly the 2025.1 version changes things, ironically yeah for BestSpeech the add-on changes might be more minimal, and at least the newer eloq drivers are able to play through Wasapi on Nvwave output devices, so I'm hoping they'll stay good.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

So oddly, that only happens on my Intel Microsoft Surface laptop. It's fine on my AMD Framework Laptop. But just pressing the up and down arrows quickly on a webpage on my surface can get that to happen every time, howling squeaking random eloquence samples and all. A sighted person tells me that the "okay" button eloquence tries to read is for a dialogue that says "The instruction at {random numbers} referenced memory at {random numbers}. The memory could not be written. Click on OK to terminate the program." But if I don't press okay NVDA just fixes itself and comes back.
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Tamas G

oooh that's interesting. with this newer thread executor model, I've actually gotten myself to switch back to Eloquence while the loud sounds were happening, and it would continue to play them on that other thread whilst Eloq just happily spoke along. One of the most baffling experiences in this for sure, so at least I'm thinking the newer driver does more to prevent NVDA's main thread from frying and keep it more in the DLL lock.
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Tamas G

so to do it, make sure this function is defined as returning these:
```def terminate():
global bgt, player, dll, handle
```
And then add this towards the end:
``` if dll and hasattr(dll, '_handle'):
ctypes.windll.kernel32.FreeLibrary(dll._handle)
dll = None
handle = None
```
(be sure to re-indent as needed) - this should close the dll for you every time you switch synths.
Oh yes, looks like this part of the driver is not in the base driver code, so the file with the underscore before it.
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OpenAI launches free phone hotline to let anyone call ChatGPT
1-800-CHATGPT telephone number lets any US caller talk to OpenAI's assistant—no smartphone required.
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Call ChatGPT from any phone with OpenAI’s new 1-800 voice service

1-800-CHATGPT telephone number lets any US caller talk to OpenAI’s assistant—no smartphone required.
Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)

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Vispero Partners with ThunderCat to Empower the VA’s Blind and Low Vision Workforce with Fusion, and JAWS Inspect, Including Training and Support tpgi.com/vispero-partners-with…

Vispero Partners with ThunderCat to Empower the VA’s Blind and Low Vision Workforce with Fusion, and JAWS Inspect, Including Training and Support - TPGi

Vispero Partners with ThunderCat to Empower the VA’s Blind and Low Vision Workforce with Fusion, and JAWS Inspect, Including Training and Support.
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