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Trudeau opting not to run in next election closest he's ever come to electoral reform - The Beaverton

"Political observers have noted that leaving the residence at 24 Sussex is also the closest the PM has ever come in 10 years to improving housing availability for Canadians."
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Trudeau opting not to run in next election closest he's ever come to electoral reform - The Beaverton

OTTAWA - With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announcing he will not run as planned in this year's upcoming federal election, observers have noted that this is technically the closest that the liberal leader has ever come to following through on his 20…
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15,000 doctors sign letter urging Senate to reject RFK Jr for HHS Secretary due to his anti-vaccine views and spreading conspiracy theories.
#antivaxxers
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‘Actively dangerous’: 15,000 doctors sign letter to Senate begging them to reject RFK Jr for health secretary

Kennedy, among other controversies, has spread misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine
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#antivaxxers

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We applaud Meta’s efforts to try to fix its over-censorship problem but will watch closely to make sure it is a good-faith effort and rolled out fairly and not merely a political maneuver to accommodate the upcoming U.S. administration change. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/eff-…

EFF Statement on Meta's Announcement of Revisions to Its Content Moderation Processes

Update: After this blog post was published (addressing Meta's blog post here), we learned Meta also revised its public "Hateful Conduct" policy in ways EFF finds concerning. We address these changes in this blog post, published January 9, 2025.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation

By the time we shared this statement, the conversation had understandably shifted toward Meta's dangerous new content policy. It was a mistake to project good faith onto the company, which quickly showed it was not deserving of it. For a full analysis, see eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/meta…

Meta’s New Content Policy Will Harm Vulnerable Users. If It Really Valued Free Speech, It Would Make These Changes

Earlier this week, when Meta announced changes to their content moderation processes, we were hopeful that some of those changes—which we will address in more detail in this post—would enable greater freedom of expression on the company’s platforms, …
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I posted a while back about my occasional (but regular) need to paste numbers, stripping out punctuation, spaces, etc. This is particularly useful when paying bills, since amounts, reference numbers, etc. are often written with spaces or punctuation, but banking sites tend to barf if you include those. It turns out you can do this with Ditto Clipboard Manager using a paste script. I originally thought that paste scripts always ran, which doesn't work for me, but it turns out that they actually appear as items in the Special Paste menu, which is IMO not very well documented. Anyway, go to Ditto -> Options -> General -> Advanced -> On Paste Scripts and add this script:
clip.AsciiTextReplaceRegex("[^\\d.]", "");
return false;
The name you specify is what appears in the Special Paste menu. You can even assign a shortcut key to that Special Paste item. Then, you just have to open Ditto, go to the item you want to paste and press the shortcut key (or use the Special Paste menu).

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Jamie Teh

If you get to the icon in the notification area (AKA system tray) of the taskbar, you can press the applications key (AKA menu key) to get the menu to come up. Once you get into Preferences, you can also bind a keyboard shortcut on the Quick Paste keyboard tab to bring up the menu so you don't have to faf around with the taskbar next time. I bound control+m here, so I can just press control+`, control+m to get the menu.
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Kaveinthran

@KaraLG84 finally it worked, I hunted down the ditto online forum and they said that if two instants of ditto is running it may not show. So I killed my ditto process, and run it again, it showed up. I asigned ctrl+m to the menus. Perfect, thanks folks, I really appreciate it.
What other features that you usually use, I am just trying to discover hidden gems here, I should try the num without dashes thingy.
@Kara Goldfinch

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New: Meta employees are furious about a new policy that allows users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill." Some have resigned in protest. Some LGBTQ+ employees have started saying they if they are 'mentally ill' they should get leaves of absence from work

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‘It’s Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now’: Employees Protest Zuckerberg’s Anti LGBTQ Changes

Meta's decision to specifically allow users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill" has sparked widespread backlash at the company.
Jason Koebler (404 Media)

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Mastering #curl has been viewed 56K times now. You better enjoy it, I'm not sure I will ever muster doing something like that again. 😁

youtu.be/V5vZWHP-RqU


Mastering curl with Daniel Stenberg (lead developer)

The slides = https://www.slideshare.net/DanielStenberg7/mastering-the-curl-command-linepdf0:00 Mastering the curl command line0:16 Daniel Stenberg0:36 curl s...
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#curl

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Muj kolega z Unreleased rozjel iniciativu na obnovu LA a podporu zachanych slozek. S podporou mistnich umelcu chce vytvorit playlist nevydanych pisnicek a nabidnout je pres nase PWYW na charitu. Zaroven posbirat lidi, kteri chteji pomoct a propojit je s potrebnymi na odstranovani nasledku pozaru.

Ono se to nezda, ale ted pracujeme na kampani pro zpevacku, ktere dnes pres noc shorel v LA dum 😢

Moznost prispet na konkretni pomoc jiz brzy.

unreleased.art/allwegot

#music #help #la


California Fire Relief

We are looking to be a hub of organized effort as we help rebuild the communities we love. We want to help as many individuals from our City as we can. Just add your phone number to this list, and we will deploy opportunities to help.
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#music #help #la

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I found two of the most ridiculous Android phones I’ve ever seen at CES 2025
"...For starters, there’s the battery, which has a gargantuan 33,000mAh capacity. Yes, you read that correctly: a 33,000mAh battery... "
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I found two of the most ridiculous Android phones I’ve ever seen at CES 2025

Have you ever seen an Android phone with a smartwatch on the back? What about one with a 33,000mAh battery? I saw both at CES 2025.
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The ‘Worst in Show’ CES products put your data at risk and cause waste, privacy advocates say
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The ‘Worst in Show’ CES products put your data at risk and cause waste, privacy advocates say

So much of the technology showcased at CES includes gadgets made to improve consumers’ lives — whether by leveraging AI to make devices that help people become more efficient, by creating companions to cure loneliness or by providing tools that help …
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It's very, very obvious why people hate AI anything when shit like this is what you get back.
Here's a video that came up in my recommendations, very clearly made with #Suno and I wasn't going to call it out publicly until I realised that the creator deleted my comment to someone else asking if AI Was used to write it.
Now I will.

Nowhere in the description does it say this was all made with AI.
Nowhere does it say 'Yeah I just gave Suno a prompt and let it generate some banal shit.'

I have a serious, serious problem with this. It's disingenuous and the comments are full of praise for the music, and absolutely no negative comments.
If mine has been removed (which was just asking the creator to disclaim his content) then how many others have been removed too?

Full disclaimer: *I* use Suno, but I give it my material, get itt to cover it and *always* say when I've done so, no exceptions.
Fucking livid!

youtu.be/5I_e2d3Wxp0?si=NDih8q…


KYLE NAKAMURA | the walkman

The Walkman, like the iconic device, lets you tune into jazz and funky grooves for every mood—music to carry with you wherever you go.Chapters:0:00 midnight ...
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#suno
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Pitermach

@Minionslayer
@WeirdWriter @Minionslayer @lerven It's starting to happen with sound effects too. I recently got an update to a sound library, granted this was a free update to something I purchased 10 years ago so I can't complain too much, which added over 3000 new effects. Which was all well and good until I found things like an "elephant trumpet" that sounds like someone badly blowing into a trumpet, or other sounds with that trademark AI fuzz in them. And as for how this is effecting music Ben Jordan's most recent video which is totally worth watching says this year alone there has been a 15% per day increase in song registrations this year, meaning around 50 million new songs were uploaded to streaming services just last year. I don't even want to know how many of them were AI generated. youtube.com/watch?v=QVXfcIb3OK…

Using AI To Detect AI Music (and other music industry data-porn)

What streaming service pays the best? What sample library has the worst copyright problem? How to tell if music is human-made or not. It all gets answered he...
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December held updates, including:

* reproduce.debian.net
* github.com/kpcyrd/debian-repro… by @kpcyrd
* diffoscope.org/
* reproducible-builds.org updates

... and much more! Read about it at reproducible-builds.org/report…


GitHub - kpcyrd/debian-repro-status: Check the reproducibility status of your Debian packages

Check the reproducibility status of your Debian packages - kpcyrd/debian-repro-status
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@kpcyrd 🏴

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13 #eBooks habe ich gerade auf eBooks.qumran.org/ hinzugefügt – well, off by one, also gibt es da jetzt "nur" 12,999 eBooks – statt der erhofften 13k. Ich hoffe, meine lieben Leseratten verzeihen mir das 😳

Ich wünsche Euch dennoch häppi schmökering! :awesome:


Izzy's freie Bibliothek

Katalog mit freien eBooks (Public Domain, Creative Commons): kostenlos und ohne Anmeldung stöbern und herunterladen!
ebooks.qumran.org
#eBooks

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Practical FP in Scala + Functional event-driven architecture leanpub.com/b/pfp-feda-scala by Gabriel Volpe is the featured bundle of ebooks 📚 on the Leanpub homepage! leanpub.com #FunctionalProgramming #Scala #Software #books #ebooks

Practical FP in Scala + Functional event-driven architecture

Practical FP in Scala (A hands-on approach) & Functional event-driven architecture, aka FEDA, (Powered by Scala 3), together as a bundle! The content of PFP in Scala is a requirement to understand FEDA so why not take advantage of this bundle!?
leanpub.com
#books #software #functionalProgramming #eBooks #scala

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“Braille is not itself a language but is it the key to reading and writing for blind people in any language at all.” Discover the difference between Braille transcription and language interpretation during our next Where the Blind Work Webinar on January 23 at 8:00 p.m., Eastern. Get ready for an informative conversation on the difference between the two and how blind professionals are finding success in these fields: buff.ly/3KYZo9a

Where the Blind Work Webinar | National Federation of the Blind

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Following a couple of days walking around Almogía over the Christmas break, I've added 3 local signposted hiking trails to OSM.

I'm especially pleased that OSM-based outdoor maps will now show connections between the Camino Mozárabe to the east and the PR-A 293 to the west, via the summit of Santi Petri. Both were already mapped, but until now it was difficult to be sure from online information if there was a waymarked route between them.

Before and after screenshots:

#OpenStreetMap #hiking

Map from hiking.waymarkedtrails.org showing trails near the village of Almogía. Two long trails are mapped, but there are apparently no trails linking them.
Map of the same area as the first image, now showing three short hiking trails that link the two original trails.
#hiking #openstreetmap
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Alan Grant

Also as part of mapping these recent hikes, I've been trying out uploading some of my survey photos to #Panoramax via @MapComplete - mainly of guideposts and information boards/maps. Previously I only used this kind of photo to inform my mapping, without sharing them. But it seems kind of a waste to leave them sitting on my hard drive.

Of course the danger is that I'll now start worrying about the lighting and composition of what used to be mere throwaway survey snapshots...

Screenshot of the MapComplete website after uploading a photo of a hiking guidepost.
#PANORAMAX @MapComplete

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 10 updated and 3 added apps:

* Lotus: a music player designed with Material You 🛡️
* NowiPass: a secure password manager that uses AES to encrypt your passwords 🛡️
* Weread: Read it later for web content

RB status: 394 apps (31.8%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:

PS: For a list of updated apps, you can follow @fdroid – which also covers other repositories 😉


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 #izzyondroid @F-Droid repository updates

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🚴‍♂️ Městská cyklistika 🚴‍♀️
Hledáte tipy a triky, jak zvládnout jízdu na kole ve městě? Sledujte kanál @mestskacyklistika_vse, kde najdete užitečné rady, jak si užít městské ježdění bezpečně a pohodlně. 🏙️
vhsky.cz/w/hXjKpLXeBvYSVfSXcTz…
#VHSky #Cyklistika

Jak přežít na kole vedle kamionu? 🚲 vs 🚛

Jízda na kole vedle kamionu nebo autobusu je stresující a životu nebezpečná. Ve videu vám ukážeme, jak předcházet rizikovým situacím a vyhnout se tragédiím, které se staly v roce 2024 v Praze. Ačko...
VHSky
#cyklistika #vhsky @Městská cyklistika

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Millionen fließen in die Altmark: Statt Atomkraftwerk: Riesenbatterie bei Arneburg im Kreis Stendal speichert Strom volksstimme.de/lokal/stendal/s…

Millionen fließen in die Altmark: Statt Atomkraftwerk: Riesenbatterie bei Arneburg im Kreis Stendal speichert Strom

Arneburg - Auch wenn die Wirtschaft stöhnt und ächzt: In und um Arneburg brummt das Geschäft. Das gilt besonders für den noch relativ neuen Markt der Großbatteriespeicher.
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

Das "Wir bauen auf und reißen nieder // Dann ham'wer Arbeit immer wieder" nie fertiggestellte Arnobyl bekommt jetzt endlich eine vernünftige Anwendung? Hat ja lange genug gedauert. Ganze Stadtviertel sind seitdem entstanden und wieder verschwunden (Hallo, Wohngebiet Süd in Stendal! Straße ist noch da, Betonblöcke mittlerweile fast alle wieder weg. ~10.000 Menschen wohnten da – und bastelten Tagsüber am KKW. Jetzt wieder eine Wiese in Süd…)

Schön, ick freu mir! Zumindest prinzipiell 😉

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Definitely not as impressed with it as I was with Google LM. I think the voices don't sound as vibrant since they're using ElevenLabs "quick clone" and even if you do one of the magic voice options, not all of them come out great. (Mac OS Alex though somehow came out exactly on-point.) The hosts sound bored, horrible to me. This is why I threw it together in my lunch break, 30 minutes, fed it the Mist World Wiki and a few sources, edited the chapter outlines a bit to make sure it's not adding bad info, and threw it together. I would not be offended if people turn it off after the first minute, truly. Horrible. What would this thing do with API docs of speech synthesizers or info about old retro tech? Not great.

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Tamas G

@vick21 oh, the game's at mwgame.net and our wiki at mwgame.wiki (I maintain it for the community.) The game is from China (So is PUBG, though) and does have P2W elements, competitions are not super balanced, but for me it's been a prime stress relief after work (even if that meant building up 3 blessed characters in 2 years, cause I'm insane xD)

Mist World

Official Mist World Website
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Some (out of scope) fun-fact about #deltatauri: It only took me like 3 hours to get it running on #iPhone

@TauriApps is really easy for making #crossplatform apps.

Though of course the devil is in the detail, it would still need quite some native integration work to make it useable for normal users, so currently it is not a goal for us. So it won't replace our native #deltachat_ios app any time soon ;)

20% of the work for 80% of the visible result 😅

Deltachat "desktop" running on an iPhone. The screenshot shows the chatlist.
Delta Chat "desktop" running on an iPhone. The screenshot shows the message list / chat content) with some messages (content is not relevant - some bug report I sent to myself, a screenshot and some emojis)
#iphone #deltatauri #crossplatform #deltachat_ios @TauriApps

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Zveme Vás na první letošní sraz spolku OpenAlt v Brně, v tradiční třetí pátek v měsíci – 17. 1. 2025 v 18:00.

Jako vždy může přijít kdokoliv (nejen členové). Tentokrát se potkáme v Red Hat Labu na Fakultě informatiky Masarykovy univerzity (místnost S505).

V rámci srazu si můžete vyslechnout krátké přednášky s tématy:

- @sesivany vhsky.cz
- @jmlich chytré hodinky pohledem linuxáka.

Přednáškový blok se pokusíme živě streamovat na vhsky.cz!

openalt.org/content/pozvanka-n…

Pozvánka na 206. sraz OpenAltu v Brně – OpenAlt z.s.

www.openalt.org
@Jozef Mlich @Jiří Eischmann

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #96: Fire in the hole!
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#aviation #cargoplanes #sheep #sheepfarts #fart #deadlygases #strangebuttrue #flying #aircraft #aviationhistory #strangebuttrue #wtf #silentbutdeadly #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
In 2015, a Singapore Airlines cargo plane carrying 2,000 sheep was forced to make an emergency landing because the sheep farted so much that it triggered the fire alarm.
#aviation #wtf #sheep #aircraft #fart #aviationhistory #cargoplanes #sheepfarts #deadlygases #strangebuttrue #flying #silentbutdeadly #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
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