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DOGE Staff Had Questions About the ‘Resign’ Email. Their New HR Chief Dodged Them - WIRED apple.news/A_mgU9aiuSwemLPTEW3…

DOGE Staff Had Questions About the ‘Resign’ Email. Their New HR Chief Dodged Them — WIRED

“I think the information that you’re going to have about this is available to you right now,” Stephanie Holmes told workers at Elon Musk’s DOGE who pressed for detail on offers of “deferred resignation.”
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I finally got around to asking for permission to release the one-night hack project I did on New Year's Eve. The project was personally motivated, but company-related. Specifically, it's a rewrite of the API client library for the System Access screen reader for Windows.

Source: github.com/PneumaSolutions/sa-…

Binary release: github.com/PneumaSolutions/sa-…

Note: The screen reader isn't open-source, only this tiny client library.

On this thread, I'll selectively quote from the README for more background.


GitHub - PneumaSolutions/sa-api

Contribute to PneumaSolutions/sa-api development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Matt Campbell

This new open-source implementation finally lays bare at least one... interesting decision that I made as a much younger developer about 20 years ago. Specifically, for my IPC implementation, I decided back then to use an obscure serialization format that, as far as I know, has long since been abandoned by its original developer, called banana: docs.twisted.org/en/twisted-16… So I wrote a banana encoder (but not decoder) in C++ way back then, and now I've rewritten that encoder in Rust.

Banana Protocol Specifications — Twisted 16.2.0 documentation

docs.twisted.org

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HTe #Movuary continues. A challenge to produce something with the #AbletonMove every day in february. Todays submission is my attempt to create a typical rap beat. Deep bass, some claps and bells are a thing in this little loop. Enjoy.

#abletonmove #movuary

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Going thru the stands at fosdem ran into immich.app as a photographier I was interested so asked a few questions :
- what's your biz model?
- none yet, but probably hosted services
- how do you compare to #flickr or #pixelfed?
- pixelwhat? We are providing a replacement photo - no direct answer for flickr
- do you support activitypub?
- actiwhat?
- do you run on any OS?
- of course we do, we provide docker images

#fosdem2025 #floss #selhosting #photography

Huge flyer for immich.app
#floss #pixelfed #photography #flickr #fosdem2025 #selhosting
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🐧DaveNull🐧 ☣️pResident Evil☣

@hub

>> "gphoto" is a tool to download pictures from digital cameras

Yes, apparently you have no idea… Your statement is incomplete at best, as "dowloading photos" is only is a small subset of what it can do and is hardly the most important part (USB Mass Storage or Memory card reader for the few cameras that do not support UMS mode, are enough to just "download photos from cameras")

But go on, keep trolling and pretending I'm "missing the point" if that makes you feel smart… 🤷‍♂️

@Hubert Figuière

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eBay users are getting back at graphics card scalping bots by listing pictures of the RTX 5090 for $2000, occasionally framed
"...In the description sits a disclaimer that these sellers are actually emailing pictures of RTX cards to unsophisticated bots or even more unsophisticated scalpers, people looking to take advantage of the low supply, high demand situation to resell graphics cards for a pretty penny."
pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-…

eBay users are getting back at graphics card scalping bots by listing pictures of the RTX 5090 for $2000, occasionally framed

"I got the frame from Target."
James Bentley (PC Gamer)
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Che l'#AIAct europeo, orientato peraltro alla prevenzione del danno e non alla tutela dei diritti, proclami principi solenni per ridurli a dosi omeopatiche in un'alluvione di eccezioni non è una sorpresa. Bastava leggerlo.

AI Act, tutte le eccezioni all'uso della sorveglianza biometrica che spaventano l'Europa

Dal 2 febbraio entrano in vigore i divieti per l’utilizzo di sistemi di identificazione in tempo reale negli spazi pubblici, ma secondo numerose ong le eccezioni previste per le forze dell’ordine rischiano di portare ad abusi
Laura Carrer (Wired Italia)
#AIAct
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Meloni e Crosetto spenderanno oltre 25 miliardi per costruire l’esercito più forte d’Europa
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L’Italia ha ordinato 380 carri armati Phanter KF 51 di quinta generazione e oltre 1000 carri armati leggeri multiruolo Lynx. Nessun paese Occidentale ha un simile numero di mezzi corazzati. Tra il 21 e il 23 gennaio 2025 i produttori…
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Meloni e Crosetto spenderanno oltre 25 miliardi per costruire l'esercito più forte d'Europa

L'Italia ha ordinato 380 carri armati Phanter KF 51 di quinta generazione e oltre 1000 carri armati leggeri multiruolo Lynx. Nessun paese Occidentale ha
Redazione Italia (Pressenza)

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I dieci comandamenti di Friendica. Cosa fare con l’account che abbiamo aperto su Poliverso?

Ecco una sorta di decalogo su Friendica. Ci sono molti link che possono appesantire la lettura, ma speriamo che vi piaccia e soprattutto ci auguriamo che lo troviate utile!

informapirata.it/2025/02/02/i-…

#Fediverse #Fediverso #Friendica

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I dieci comandamenti di Friendica. Cosa fare con l’account che abbiamo aperto su Poliverso?

Ecco una sorta di decalogo su Friendica. Ci sono molti link che possono appesantire la lettura, ma speriamo che vi piaccia e soprattutto…
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#friendica #fediverse #fediverso

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It’s been a rough few weeks for Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, who will be stepping down next month. But tonight he gave a powerful speech that should make all Canadians proud. It wasn’t carried by American television. But my American friends, I hope you will watch it and share it. And understand that for us, this betrayal is about more than economics. youtu.be/xiaACQpFUfE #Canada #tariffs #cdnpoli #t

Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Saturday that Canada will respond to Donald Trump's tariffs with 25 per cent tariffs on $155 billion of U.S. goods.»»» ...
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#canada #cdnpoli #tariffs #t
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In 1933 Hitler's forces invaded the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (the leading centre of research on trans and gay people at that time) and burned all of the books and records (after taking care to note down the details of all the patients to round up later). Philosophically this is what the US CDC is now doing by purging everything to do with trans people.
A night shot of crowds looking on and giving Hitler salutes as a bonfire of books and paperwork burns in the foreground. Several figures in the middle ground are wearing Nazi uniforms or have swastika armbands

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Federal agencies requiring you to have an account on Musk's vile platform to see official documents?

It's a reminder that fascism requires the merger of government and corporate interests.

thedesk.net/2025/02/ntsb-moves…


NTSB forces reporters to get plane crash updates on X

The NTSB says it will only notify the media about press conferences and investigative updates on two recent plane crashes via the social media platform X.
Matthew Keys (The Desk)
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In case you missed it: #Debian is no longer posting on Elon’s Twitter/X. I just saw it yesterday

micronews.debian.org/2025/1738…

#linux #xodus #twitterexodus #TwitterMigration

The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter. We took this decision since we feel X doesn't reflect Debian shared values as stated in our social contract, code of conduct and diversity statement. X evolved into a place where people we care about don't feel safe. You are very much invited to follow us on https://bits.debian.org , on https://micronews.debian.org/ , or any media as listed on https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicity/otherSN #debian

The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter. We took this decision since we feel X doesn't reflect Debian shared values as stated in our social contract, code of conduct and diversity statement. X evolved into a place where people we care a

The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter. We took this decision since we feel X doesn't reflect Debian shared values as stated in our social contract, code of conduct and diversity statement.
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#linux #debian #twittermigration #twitterexodus #xodus
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V posledni praci pred Unreleased jsem bojoval proti pouzivani null vs 0 k ulozeni vyznamu u typu number. Marne. Je to soucast TS a musime s tim zit, ac si tak plnime codebase naslapnymi minami.

V UR zacinam pouzivat na podobne problemy type guardy. Je to opomijena featura, ktera naprosto opravnene vyvolava emoce typoveho silenstvi a pomalosti psani kodu.

Samotneho by me to samozrejme nenapadlo. V tymu pritvrzujeme lint pravidla. Tak mi nic jineho nezbyva.

#typescript #it #programming

function hasValidMinPrice(attachment: AssetBundleAttachment): attachment is AssetBundleAttachment & { useAsGalleryAssetMinPrice: number } { return attachment.useAsGalleryAssetMinPrice !== null; }
#programming #typescript #IT

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@NGICommons
Is this the article that was mentioned at FOSDEM? I didn't see when it was published commons.ngi.eu/2025/01/31/digi…

Digital Commons and Digital Public Goods – Finding Common Ground for Policymakers - NGI Commons

Over the last five years, there has been growing international recognition of Digital Commons and digital public goods (DPGs) terms as essential to a more equitable digital cooperation model that operates in service of the public interest.
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Flakturm Humboldthain: Errichtet 1941/42 als Luftabwehr- und Bunkeranlage, überstand der Flakturm Sprengversuche nach dem Krieg. Heute sind Teile der Ruine sichtbar – ein Lost Place mit Aussichtsplattform.
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Ansicht eines ehemaligen Flakturms im Volkspark Humboldthain in Berlin-Wedding. Die Betonmauer ist mit Graffiti bedeckt, davor führt eine verwitterte Treppe durch kahle Bäume.

Gipfel des Wedding: Der Flakturm

Der Aufstieg zur Humboldthöhe im Volkspark Humboldthain ist wie eine kleine Reise durch die Geschichte des Wedding.
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🚀 Exciting news! AppleChat Live is coming on Feb 17 at 8 PM ET! Join Marty & Chris for all things Apple. 🍏 Don’t miss out! #AppleChat #TechEvent #ClubUnmute join the club at unmute.show/

Home - Unmute

Unmute, Be Heard! Latest from Unmute Learn more about the latest News From Unmute. Welcome to Unmute Presents, where technology meets community.
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#techevent #clubunmute #applechat
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Michael Babcock

@DavidGoldfield Definitely consideration for sure ! plan to get through first quarter of twenty five before we add something else , we have our jaws class launching this month as well . more details to come shortly about that ! taught by the amazing Marcy ! and wanna make some connections at CSUN this year to help Acquire more equipment for educating purposes.
@David Goldfield

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#3dprinting folks, if you want to learn how a 100% blind person does 3d design and print, check this video out. It's a long one but if you're interested in his methods and want your questions answered, this guy explains it all. youtube.com/watch?v=KCrYGqgOjN…

I am fully blind, and this is how I do 3D designing and printing independantly

My name is Edis, and this is a place where I try to make 3D more accessible. Not just for blind and visually impaired people, but also sighted people. join m...
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#3dprinting

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My 2nd @fosdem talk was Alternative Text for Images: How Bad Are Our Alt-Text Anyway?

fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event…

It is available online:

docs.google.com/presentation/d…

#FOSDEM #FOSS #AI #LLM #AltText #Accessibility


FOSDEM 2025 : Alternative Text for Images: How Bad Are Our Alt-Text Anyway?

Alt Text for Images: How Bad Are they Anyway? FOSDEM, Feb 1, 2025 25 minutes, Track: Inclusive Web, Room: K.3.201 https://fosdem.
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#Accessibility #foss #fosdem #AI #AltText #llm @FOSDEM

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It was my dad who first alerted me to this weird term, 'Synaesthesia' in the 90's. I forgot about it for a time, but recently rediscovered it. Turns out I have it and so do many other blind people.
In this episode of my podcast, we discuss it, I explain my version of it and also read out comments from a thread I started on social media from others that also have it.
Only after recording did we realise that our children both have it too, despite not being blind, so we'll talk about that in the next episode.

youtu.be/gXaB9zsvhwE

Thread on #Mastodon: universeodon.com/@FreakyFwoof/…


StroongeCast E20: Synaesthesia

Welcome to episode 20 of StroongeCast with Andre and Kirsten Louis.In this episode we give you the answer to last episode's question, leave you with another,...
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#Mastodon

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Hi #FOSDEM! Please come to my "The Road To Mainstream Matrix" talk in Janson at 12:00 CET, or tune in remote at matrix.to/#/#2025-keynote:fosd… or live.fosdem.org/watch/janson. There will be dangerous demos.

Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication

You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversation
matrix.to
#fosdem
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