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"Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations" The book," Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Advanced", costs $169.
Yet more reason to be skeptical about #AI salespeople.
retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30…

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations

Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…
Retraction Watch
#AI

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Wow, so that was what you were doing when you weren’t sleeping last night! It’s only 7:30 AM but it’s already a good day! Please take a moment to welcome my bride aboard the #Mastodon train if you have the notion, and let’s see if we can push her follower count past 1. LOL #GoodMorning mastodon.social/@sarahblarose/…

Sarah Blake LaRose (@sarahblarose@mastodon.social)

@Thumper1964@mindly.social surprise I am here. And hi to everyone else too. It only took me years to get here.
Mastodon
#Mastodon #goodmorning

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Kavu nemeleme!

Do tohohle jednokafackeho claimu jsme narazili jako do zdi, kdyz jsme kupovali pytlik kafe na posledni chvili na chatovy vylet. Tenkrat to byl problem, protoze jsme potrebovali rychle kafe pro hodne lidi a mlynek jsme nemeli. Zachranil nas az stary industrialni mlynek na recepci krajskeho uradu.

Obsluha jednokafe byla prisna. Nenamleli bysme ani vlastni babicce!

Uz tenkrat jsem mel napad na happening pujcit si mlynek a tech 250g tam na miste rucne protocit. Dnes, pri zaucovani slecny brigadnice, jsem se dozvedel, ze jejich nazor je podobny. Pro neodbytne #mampravonamleti maji pripravenou odpoved v podobe zapujcky hario slim mlynku.

Si rikam, ze prisel ten cas. Koupit si pytlicek. Vyzadovat pomleti. Pujcit si hario ... a vrhnout se na to pred zraky podporovatelu a kamer ... akorat ten mlynek je dost peklo, uz po dou davkach jsem doma skoro umiral ... a k tomu mam rad svuj filtr dost najemno. Dat 13 davek v kuse, to je tak na dve hodiny cisteho toceni ... a to mi nesmi v prubehu upadnout ruka ... vzdat to v pulce by bylo dost trapne.

Proto hledam podporu! Kdo by me chtel podporit v mleti kafe v jendom, vymyslime termin a vrhnu se na to.

#lbc #liberec #kafe

Kavovy mlynek Hario Slim.
#liberec #lbc #kafe #mampravonamleti

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New app added to the Accessible Android apps directory: Music Folder Player accessible with minor issues accessibleandroid.com/app/musi… #Android #App

Music Folder Player - Accessible Android

Note: This app is an audio player, not a downloader. It only plays audio files already on your device. If you’re looking to download new music, this app isn’t
Accessible Android
#android #app

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#Gnome #Files (#Nautilus) has a bulk rename tool for some time now, but literally every single time I try to use it I fail. Really, everytime I need to rename batch of files, I try it first in this tool, I recognize that my task is not possible done in it and than start totalcmd in wine just for this simple operation.
Are my needs so advanced? I don't think so.
For example now I want to add xml extension to all badly named log files. Impossible.
Nautilus bulk rename dialog with search and replace that doesn't support regex, so it's useless for my current task
Nautilus bulk rename dialog with rename pattern definition that omits current extension so it can never be changed. Useless for my task.
#gnome #nautilus #files

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Štěpán Škorpil

Actually when you open rename tool, it prefills it with pattern [Original file name] and extension is completely omitted from renaming.

We need to not omit extensions, add them as separate place holder [Originial file extension] and just prefill them when rename dialog opens as [Original file name][Originial file extension]

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Big update from our Documentation team – the #LibreOffice 25.2 user guides are now available! This is fantastic work, driven primarily by volunteers: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
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📣 The New LibreOffice 25.2 User Guides Are Here! - The Document Foundation Blog

The LibreOffice community has great news: the Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, and Math User Guides are now available for version 25.
Olivier Hallot (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice

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miki

Europe just giving money away to worthy OSS maintainers would be such a break.

Most normal EU projects are mired in anti-fraud rules. As a result, the money goes to the people who know how to game these rules while stil staying on the right side of the law.

It's not fraud by any legal definition, bbut it's basically fraud.

I genuinely hope this project is different.

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I kick off the morning reviewing this document: "#EUSTF: A Study on the Economic, Legal, and Political Feasibility of an EU Sovereign Tech Fund"

A 42,000 words proposal to create a EU-wide version of the German Sovereign Tech Fund/Agency with a 350 million € fund over seven years. To fund critical open source infrastructure.

It even features the now mandatory xkcd 2347 image. xkcd.com/2347/

Color me positive.


Dependency

xkcd
#eustf

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Hice un vídeo para que puedas enviárselo a tus personas cercanas, explicando lo fácil que es dejar #WhatsApp, y por qué es importante hacerlo. 💬

fediverse.tv/w/35Lvufq1XW8ZVBT… (@ivangj@fediverse.tv)
También disponible en YouTube por si quieres evitar rozamientos 😅.

#SoftwareLibre #PeerTube #Chat #Signal #XMPP #DeltaChat #Matrix

#xmpp #matrix #signal #whatsapp #peertube #chat #softwarelibre #deltachat @Ivan GJ
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Ivan GJ

Aunque el objetivo del vídeo es dejar a #WhatsApp en evidencia, también otorgo una parte no-despreciable del vídeo a #Signal, como la gran alternativa.

También nombro a #XMPP (vivo amenazado por la furia de @kyva), PERO:
Signal es el único "quita-y-pon" 🧩 que tenemos ahora mismo, para seguir conversando con **nuestros contactos telefónicos**, sin tener que ir preguntando a todo quisqui por su dirección.

Que ya los iremos metiendo en el saco federado, pero tú estate en Signal mientrastanto. 😉

#xmpp #signal #whatsapp @⁂ Kyva

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OK so as people seem interested, here is a first Libervia-CLI tip.

`li` is the short alias for `libervia-cli`.

If you want to quickly upload a file to share it, you can use:

`li file upload -P your_file.ext`

`-P` shows a progress bar.

You can even encrypt it with the `-e` option in which case you'll have an `aesgcm:` with the decryption token as a fragment of the URL (the `#…` part).

You can then decrypt with `li file get`.

libervia.org/__b/doc/backend/l…

#libervia #cli #li #tips #xmpp

file: files sending/receiving/management — Libervia Backend documentation

libervia.org
#xmpp #libervia #CLI #tips #li

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La version 2.3.1 de Gajim est sortie et est de nouveau disponible sur Windows (prévenez vos ami·es Windowsien·nes !) \o/

Une belle harmonisation graphique en passant à libadwaita, la barre de menu disparaît (les fonctionnalités sont réparties aux endroits cohérents), des boîtes de dialogue repensés, possibilité de masquer la barre de titre (pratique si comme moi on est sur un gestionnaire de fenêtre en tuile comme i3) et d'autres petites choses.

Toujours dispo en français bien sûr :
gajim.org/fr/posts/2025-06-29-…

#XMPP


Gajim 2.3.0

Quoi de neuf Gajim 2.3 inclus un nouveau design avec Adwaita, une bibliothèque d’interface utilisateurice qui propose des blocs pour construire des applications adaptatives modernes.
gajim.org
#xmpp

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💼 I'm hiring a staff-level Android engineer to focus on accessibility and design systems!

block.xyz/careers/jobs/4752556…


Careers - Staff Android Engineer, Accessibility & UI Systems

Made up of Square, Cash App, Afterpay, TIDAL, Bitkey, and Proto, Block, Inc. builds technology to increase access to the global economy.
Careers - Staff Android Engineer, Accessibility & UI Systems

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I just heard one of the strangest things in my life.
I was generating one of my stories in Eleven Labs with my voice. I used the V3 speech model, which is in its alpha stage. Anyway... I was trying to generate a portion of text, and what came out must have been a thread of random sounds, emotional and inflectional changes in the voice, and a bunch of poems and stories all woven into some strange pattern. Not to mention, it sounded like it was speaking about twenty languages. To demonstrate my point, allow me to show you the first generation. It does speak a few of the tags, which isn't supposed to happen but as you know this model's a work in progress. I will paste the exact generation, which will serve as my transcript. I will post the... questionable material in a separate post.
Natalie gazed around the dimly-lit hallway, her eyes landing on a stack of beat-up folding chairs against a nearby wall. Steven and Darla follow close behind, their nervous chatter a soothing, reverberant murmur. The dusty sign reading “Staff Only” hadn’t escaped their view as they’d descended the stairs that led them into this utility hall, locked doors occupying the otherwise bare brick walls. The staff parking lot was barely visible through the emergency exit glass doors that marked the corridor’s end.
Natalie hadn’t expected their plan would be so successful. As they discussed details over lunch, she told Darla that they should just tell their parents everything and get it all over with.
[firmly] “I’m not abandoning our cause. Lillie deserves justice,” Darla replied.
[muffled] “Me neither,” Steven said with a mouthful of pizza. [confidently] “Trust me, it will work. [smugly] Ms. Briggs is easy.”
Natalie leaned back in her chair with a resigned sigh. [sighs] [wearily] “I sure hope you’re right.”
Ms. Briggs taught the fifth period English course after lunch. She usually attended weekly conferences on Thursdays for one of her students with special needs, which caused her to be a few minutes late. When the three friends arrived, there were only a few students sitting at their desks, their attention captured by books and touchscreens. Ms. Briggs always left her blue mug at her work station, which still held half a cup of coffee. Gingerly, Darla had slipped the laxative into the lukewarm liquid, watching as it dissolved. More students began filing in, Ms. Briggs on their heels. Darla shot Natalie a wink as the teacher hurredly took her place at the podium.
Steven knew his stolen laptop had to be in the lost and found. Yesterday, he’d asked their math teacher Mr. Higgins if he’d seen it, and he’d casually remarked that it hadn’t been located, looking down at his notepad. Mr. Higgins wasn’t fond of computers, casting icy glares at students using their devices in the cafeteria. Steven wonder if that was why he was evasive. It didn’t matter. He’d overheard a janitor say to the principal that a computer was found by the bleachers. When he confided in Darla and Natalie, two of his best friends since the third grade, it was Darla’s brilliant idea to take some of her mom’s laxatives. Natalie chuckled, recalling the moment when their lecture on Hamlet was interrupted, Ms. Briggs making her hasty retreat with a sheepish grin.
[eagerly] “So where is this conference room?!” Darla said as she brandished the shiny key with the yellow sticker she’d managed to slip from the teachers keyring as the class idly chattered. [curiously] [whispering] “Did you ever go in there when you worked here during the summer, Natalie?”
[whispering] [hesitantly] “Only once, just to sweep,” Natalie whispered. She pointed out a small alcove in the center of the hall, ending in a set of worn wooden doors.

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please boost!!! :boostRequest:

hey there and happy pride month! it's me, vanta rainbow black, fedi's favorite trans punk catgirl instance admin :pinkcat_cat:

right now i need $100 for groceries and $60 for medical weed and $20 for a few small things -- $180 total

do you enjoy the work i've done organizing a mass-defederation of meta's threads with FediPact? are you hype in the pipe for the fedi memoir whose 52k word rough draft i recently finished? do you like the rad cybersyndicate instances i've set up? the cool clothes i DIY together? my pirate radio station, vantaradio? my awesome videos? my amazing selfies? my community movie nights? my posting generally? or just wanna give someone in need a nice helping hand?

well i'm an impoverished neurodivergent trans woman just trying to survive so if you wanna support me anything helps me keep being able to do all those cool thingies!!!

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#MutualAid #TransCrowdFund #pride #PrideMonth #pride2025


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creating videos and such.
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#MutualAid #pride #transcrowdfund #PrideMonth #pride2025

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Heard chanting and marching while doing yardwork, zipped over to check it out, and…

…lo and behold! an emergency protest in favor of immigrants rights, organized by miracmn.com in response to the SCOTUS threatening birthright citizenship.

Despite the apparent short notice, folks brought their game. Got a couple of photos (with permission). The guillotine actually moves up and down while the rider pedals!

MIRAC - Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee

MIRAC - Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee
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Paul Cantrell

Now I’m on MIRAC’s mailing list, so hopefully I don’t miss the next one.

Also, though…it is just deeply heartening to randomly encounter a protest: not a thing that I already knew about, but a thing that just •showed up• in my neighborhood. It makes me feel like the circle of resistance is much bigger than my own little circle. And it is.

That’s the feeling I want us to create: “Wow, these protests are everywhere.”

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Paul Cantrell

Things like this are not just a symbolic expression of discontent.

Fascism depends to a •very• large extent on anticipatory compliance. It needs people to feel like things are going that way, it’s already a done deal, better to just go along with it.

Every time dissent is visible, every way dissent feels ubiquitous, every time somebody feels like they’re not alone in opposition, every time somebody who’s tempted to comply fears there might be hell to pay if they do — that directly, concretely damages the fascists’ power.

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#GNOME necesita tu ayuda!

Si eres usuario de GNOME o simplemente nos quieres apoyar porque te gusta nuestro escritorio, tenemos una nueva web donde puedes donar mensualmente!

donate.gnome.org

Ninguna donación es pequeña. Con esta nueva web queremos conseguir tener donaciones recurrentes a lo largo del año para poder mantener nuestra infraestructura.

#gnome
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Purism’s Librem 5 & Liberty Phones Named Most Secure Smartphones in the World by Efani, Navi, and Analytics.

Top cybersecurity and tech publications agree—Purism leads mobile security in 2025.

Learn more at Purism: puri.sm/posts/the-2025-most-se…

The 2025 Most Secure Phone in The World Reviews Are In: Efani, Analytics Insight, Navi, and Cashify – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Purism SPC
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David Goldfield

@Bruce @Thumper1964 I also remember APH's version of that calculator, which they called the Student Speech Plus calculator. It was essentially the same but the rocker switch on the right hand side had a different function. I can't remember which version did which function but one calculator used the rocker switch to control the speed that the result was spoken. The other calculator, I think, used the rocker switch to silence keyboard entry.
@Kevin LaRose, Antifa Member @Bruce Toews

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Oh no, I just had a look at the Monarch Braille display page, aph.org/product/monarch/, and the price literally had me… Now I do wish I was a monarch with a lot of money to play with! :)

Monarch | American Printing House

Take flight with the Monarch, a multiline braille device that renders tactile graphics integrated with braille on the first-of-its-kind 10-line by 32-cell refreshable braille display.
American Printing House
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