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The Miyazaki Maelstrom: OpenAI’s Ghibli Craze Signals a Troubling Future for Hollywood
"...Miyazaki’s creations reflect a bespoke, unique aesthetic, arrived at from thousands of hours of human labor and good old-fashioned dreaming..."
"...At the heart of the Ghibli craze is something good — people’s desire to connect to a fiercely loved artist, the images a testament to the depth and scope of Miyazaki’s influence. But at the root is also something very fraught, a willingness to see all art as both interchangeable and purchase-able. The frantic rush to turn our memories into a personalized Miyazaki greeting card is, through one lens, a testament to our love for the artist, but it is even more pointedly a testament to our love for ourselves, and seemingly no copyright concern nor sanctity-of-art instinct can stop us from fulfilling it...."
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OpenAI's Miyazaki Move Ushers In New Troubling Era for Hollywood

Sure, it's just some cool images. But it shows the tide is with the customized and the automated — and away from originality.
Steven Zeitchik (The Hollywood Reporter)

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In or out? In-N-Out says recent report on Albuquerque location timeline is ‘inaccurate’
"...While In-N-Out does have plans to come to the state, fans of the popular regional fast food chain still have a few more years to wait before pulling up with a burger order, as the chain’s plans to arrive in the Duke City by 2027 remain. ..."
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In or out? In-N-Out says recent report on Albuquerque location timeline is ‘inaccurate’

A popular Albuquerque Instagram account recently claimed the city’s first In-N-Out would break ground before July.
Albuquerque Journal

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🚀 Cinny just got even better!

In our last few releases, we’ve:
✅ Fixed unknown rooms in space lobby & improved search
✅ Added image previews & spoiler during image uploads
✅ Redesigned space/room settings
✅ NEW **custom power levels** (with colors & emojis!)
✅ Added bulk emoji import & room upgrades options
✅ Option to stop sending typing and read receipt

🔗 [Get Cinny](app.cinny.in/) | [GitHub](github.com/ajbura/cinny/releas…)

#Matrix #Cinny #OpenSource #cinnyapp

Power level tab in room/space settings in Cinny.

Releases · cinnyapp/cinny

Yet another matrix client. Contribute to cinnyapp/cinny development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#matrix #opensource #cinnyapp #cinny

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We’ve made your wildest dreams (or weirdest cravings) come true with our KFC Fried Chicken Toothpaste. Inspired by KFC’s legendary 11 herbs and spices, this toothpaste is like biting into a crispy, hot, juicy piece of KFC Original Recipe® Chicken. Bring the unmistakable taste of crispy, golden perfection straight to your toothbrush for a full-on flavour takeover.
• Limited Edition Flavour
• Fluoride-free formula for a superior clean
• Long-lasting oral health benefits
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KFC Toothpaste

Hismile US

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Wow, Cory Booker talking for 21 hours on the senate floor straight is still blowing my mind. Talk about courage, removing the headphone jack to me pales in comparison as the willpower and physical strength required to carry a speech forward for that long with only minimal breaks for questions and prayer service. Watch live here: msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/watch-li… #USPol

Watch live: Sen. Booker continues marathon Senate speech to protest Trump

Senator Cory Booker, D-N.J., is speaking and planning to hold the Senate floor for as long as he can. "I rise with the intention of getting in some good trouble.
MSNBC
#uspol
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New tool! Meet the iFixit ESD-Safe Hammer.

We hear you: sometimes you need a little more oomph to finish your fix. So, we engineered the world’s first hammer designed for electronics repair. It's built with a non-conductive handle, ESD-safe head, and just enough heft to "persuade" stubborn components.

Perfect for:
🔋 Glued-in batteries
🪛 Stripped screws
🔌Soldered memory
💥 Stress relief

Now unavailable at iFixit.com.

#iFixit #FixWithForce #AprilFools

Hammer with a black handle and blue textured grip. The iFixit logo is printed on the handle, with the graphic portion of the logo embossed near the bottom. The head of the hammer is raw metal with black accents. The text on the image says "NEW! ESD-Safe Hammer" above the hammer, with "IT'S HAMMER TIME" in blue underneath the hammer, and the iFixit logo beneath that.
#aprilfools #ifixit #fixwithforce

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Wow, Cory's amazing! I also learned that Ted Cruz spokefor 21 hours against Obamacare. What kind of person do you have to be to do that? . Cory Booker's anti-Trump speech on the Senate floor has lasted 19 hours and counting - NPR apple.news/As-ewC0oCQA6_Bf8g7R…

Cory Booker's anti-Trump speech on the Senate floor has lasted 19 hours and counting — NPR

The New Jersey Democrat has been criticizing the Trump administration's policies on immigration, education, the economy and more since 7 p.m. Monday. Here's what to know about his marathon speech.
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Very sad to learn that Dave Täht has passed away. Dave was one of the driving forces fighting bufferbloat. His work is likely saving whole years of latency every hour around the world. Some loving words can be found here: libreqos.io/2025/04/01/in-lovi… - his good fight will not be forgotten!

In loving memory of Dave Täht

We’re devastated to announce that Dave Täht has passed away.Dave was an amazing man, helping the world with FQ-CoDel and CAKE, fighting bufferbloat and trying to make the world a better place…
LibreQoS

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I'm happy to announce the release of Forge v0.5.0, which adds support for Github discussions. I've also just released Magit v4.3.2, Transient v0.8.7 and ten more packages. reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1j…?

I should also mention that I make a living working on these packages, so please consider sponsoring my work. Thanks! magit.vc/donate/

It's Magit! Please support my work on Magit

Support Magit Development
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Hmm...so Kristi Noem asked Claudia Sheinbaum for Mexico to share its biometric data with the US. Sheinbaum declined, stating that such data does not exist.

aristeguinoticias.com/010425/m…

Meanwhile, Sheinbaum sends to Congress a proposal to create a biometric database in the name of helping find the disappeared. The database would absorb all public and private data collection - from healthcare to education to cell phones to religious institutions to banks to the post office.

aristeguinoticias.com/010425/m…

#Mexico


Sheinbaum aclara: No firmó acuerdo para compartir biométricos ni 'blindar' frontera sur

La presidenta reaccionó a las declaraciones de Noem, quien desveló este lunes que en la reunión del viernes le pidió reforzar la frontera con Guatemala y compartir datos biométricos de migrantes y viajeros con las autoridades estadounidenses.
Redacción AN / ARF (Aristegui Noticias)
#méxico

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NOS Teletekst celebrates 45 years today 🥳
Despite 1970s-grade textual pages with just semi graphics, despite the fact that for last 19 years there is no native environment for broadcasting it and finally despite the fact that more advanced alternatives using rich text and pictures like HbbTV exist, people still like the technology that is due to its technical limits ad-free, clutter-free and to the point.

Teletekstpagina 702
nos.nl/ttapp

A screenshot of NOS teletekst page 702 showing a semi graphical weather map of the Netherlands. The text is a bit narrow since the page is adjusted for viewing in vertical mode on a phone.

NOS-apps voor mobiel en tablet - Over NOS

Met de NOS-app ben je altijd en overal op de hoogte van het laatste nieuws en de laatste achtergronden. De...
Over NOS

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The bird is out of the bag! We're introducing Thunderbird Pro (you already know Appointment!), a set of productivity AND privacy boosting services. And that includes...*drum roll*...an email service we're calling Thundermail. Find all the info in this excellent article:

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Email

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Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service

"Thundermail" will be part of a suite of Thunderbird Pro services, as the team behind the venerable Mozilla email client begins building a complete ecosystem.
Forbes
#email #opensource #thunderbird

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Finally! Mozilla Thunderbird challenges Gmail with its own email service. And that's just the beginning...
forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelh…

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Email


Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service

"Thundermail" will be part of a suite of Thunderbird Pro services, as the team behind the venerable Mozilla email client begins building a complete ecosystem.
Forbes
#email #opensource #thunderbird
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@rootcz to tu (zatím) nesdílí, tak to nasdílím já. Kdo ještě neodešel od #Windows, tak tohle je dost zásadní důvod, proč to udělat. Abyste se dostali do vlastního počítače, musíte se ověřovat někde v tramtárii. A když si #Microsoft usmyslí, tak vám ten účet zablokuje.

Jo, i dřív byl tlak na to, aby se místo lokálního účtu použil ten microsoftí. Ale postupně ubývají možnosti, jak zůstat u lokálního účtu. Mimochodem, i s lokálním účtem a s vypnutím všech volitelných šmírovátek se do Redmondu pořád odesílá docela dost informací.

„Odstraňujeme skript bypassnro.cmd, abychom vylepšili zabezpečení a uživatelský komfort systému Windows 11. Tato změna zajišťuje, že všichni uživatelé ukončí instalaci s připojením k internetu a účtem Microsoft.“

root.cz/zpravicky/windows-11-z…

#fail #bigbrother #Windows11


Windows 11 zakáže bypassnro.cmd, který slouží k použití lokálního účtu při instalaci

Windows 11 při instalaci požaduje vytvoření účtu Microsoft. Dříve bylo možné použít skript bypassnro.cmd, který vytvoření účtu Microsoft přeskočil a byl…
Jan Fikar (Internet Info, s.r.o.)
#Windows #Windows11 #microsoft #BigBrother #fail @Root.cz

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Windows Narrator is adding a speech viewer / log:
blogs.windows.com/windows-insi…

Do not treat it as a proxy for what is actually announced:
adrianroselli.com/2020/08/spee…

#accessibility #a11y


Speech Viewer Logs of Lies

The headline is intentional hyperbole, chosen mostly for the sloppy alliteration. When sighted users test with a screen reader it is common to rely on the visual output — checking to see where focus goes, confirming that controls behave, watching the…
Adrian Roselli
#a11y #Accessibility

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Tamas G

if they can one-up other screen readers in actually dumping the output string of how the text-to-speech engine spoke the text, I'd be amazed. Still a huge point of confusion with VoiceOver's caption panel and other things, even at work, not to mention your article, yes. However, this could be a chance for them to do it right, especially if this is getting targeted at teachers and other professionals.
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James Scholes

That doesn't seem technically possible, let alone likely from Microsoft. Every synthesiser would need to report back what was actually said and how, which would also mean them agreeing on a format in which to deliver that information. At best, Microsoft could implement it for their own voices, and publish a spec for anyone else who wanted to bother. @aardrian
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Tamas G

@jscholes Yeah, when they had announced their "new natural voices", I was hopeful that maybe they'd add something exclusive to them with how it was (still is) so coupled to Narrator only, so this would be a good chance for it. Will probably wait for others to test it on the insider channel as I don't have any machines enrolled in it right now nor my past enthusiasm for trying them out. xD @aardrian
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I wrote these two Windows C++ programs over the weekend to copy/paste files from the windows clipboard from the command line. fcopy will put one or more files on your clipboard, similar to pressing control+c in windows explorer, and fpaste will paste any files currently on your clipboard to the current directory. github.com/trypsynth/cmd_clip/…
They're both written in modern C++, tested building with WinLibs and G++. A makefile is provided to make building easier. Zlib license. Both binaries are under 100 KB.

Release 1.1 · trypsynth/cmd_clip

Switched to a CMake build process and built with MSVC, making the binaries much smaller.
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Matt Campbell

@jscholes This is pretty much what I guessed, which is why I didn't ask the question. (I didn't guess that it would build faster as a C++ program, but it honestly doesn't surprise me, given the weight of windows-rs.) On the topic of binary size, it sucks that with stable Rust, every binary carries ~100 KB of code to build and render a stack trace on panic. But that's being worked on. Nightly Rust does allow tiny binaries.
@James Scholes

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AI-enabled smart cane that can give directions or travel tips wins design award attoday.co.uk/ai-enabled-smart…

AI-enabled smart cane that can give directions or travel tips wins design award - AT Today - Assistive Technology

An AI-enabled smart cane designed to transform the lives of people with sight loss has won a prestigious international design award.
Millie York (AT Today - Assistive Technology)

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Chicago hosted a massive TDoV gathering yesterday, and @piperbomb.bsky.social was there with her camera. You have GOT to see these pictures. (We'll thread a few of them.) www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

A Torrent Of Solidarity in the...


A Torrent Of Solidarity in the Windy City

An on the ground photographic account of a Trans Day of Visibility protest in Chicago, IL.
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Marius Kleidl

I've prototyped a CLI client for resumable uploads at github.com/tus/rufh-implementa… and the gist is: The client offers the server to upgrade to resumable uploads. If the server provides an upload resource, the client can use it to resume from network interruptions and 5XX responses. In addition, the upload resource URI is saved in a text file, allowing resumption after the client crashes or is interrupted (e.g. Ctrl/Cmd+C), similar to how curl's `--continue-at -` works.

rufh-implementations/clients/go at main · tus/rufh-implementations

Information about implementations of draft-ietf-httpbis-resumable-upload - tus/rufh-implementations
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