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I don't know if this is a temporary or a permanent price change but APH is now selling Studio Recorder for $49.95.
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Studio Recorder Software: Digital Download | American Printing House

To celebrate 25 years, we are now offering Studio Recorder at a new low price! Studio Recorder is an easy-to-use accessible software to record and edit your ...
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O Rust siempre no es tan seguro como lo publicitan o los de Microsoft fueron capaces de meter vulnerabilidades aún y con Rust :nc_laugh_sweat:

"Check Point Research uncovered what is probably the first-ever publicly disclosed security flaw in a Rust-based component of the Windows kernel—Microsoft’s foundational operating system layer. This vulnerability can cause a total system crash, forcing a hard reboot and instantly knocking users offline."

blog.checkpoint.com/research/m…


Microsoft Vulnerabilities Exposed by Check Point Research

Check Point Research uncovered six fresh vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, including one critical flaw with potential for wide-reaching impact.
rohann@checkpoint.com (Check Point Blog)

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"To try to live without using plastic now (at least in the US) is an extremely expensive endeavor, both in terms of money and n terms of time. Plastic is so deeply integrated into so many of our systems that it is very difficult to avoid. But we are at a moment with "AI" where things aren't so deeply integrated, though corporate interests are pushing for them to be. So I believe that every act of refusal is especially powerful and meaningful now..."

buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive…

@emilymbender


Friends Don't Let Friends Prompt

By Emily Alex and I were at WorldCon (the World Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention) last week, talking about The AI Con with people whose livelihood...
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000: The Newsletter
@Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 12 updated and 1 added apps:

* PlayOnDlna: lets you play YouTube videos ad-free on DLNA players in your local network 🛡️

RB status: 688 apps (52.6%)

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

PS: our repo overhaul goes on. Next to sending hundreds of PRs with Fastlane trees upstream (a task long overdue), some other dead bones got buried:

(1/2)


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

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loved this:

"The lesson is this: never fight a corporation's customer service department. Fight its legal department or its PR department. They don't care about your inconvenience, but they are terrified of a broken promise."

sightlessscribbles.com/posts/2…

@WeirdWriter

The 'Accessibility' link is a Lie: My Adventures in Weaponizing Corporate Virtue Signaling, Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.
sightlessscribbles.com
@Robert Kingett

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Rate my battlestation!

This is a Sony Anycast Station AWS-G500HD from 2007. It's essentially a Sony luggable PIII 933Mhz PC that runs Linux 2.4.20 with a ton of FPGAs to do the heavy lifting of a video switcher. Plus glorious physical buttons, faders, dials, and removable keyboard. Oh, and a jog wheel.

#RetroComputing

A Sony laptop-style computer cosplaying as a video production switcher with keyboard, buttons, sliders, and dials on the bottom and a LCD on the top showing several windows of different video sources including "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles, Look Around You: Maths, a Lisa sales pitch video, and a rotating cube.
#retrocomputing

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Lidi začínají být čím dál tím větší svině.
Někdo je upálil zaživa, oplakává majitelka feny, které uhořely na Karlovarsku
novinky.cz/clanek/krimi-nekdo-…

„Někdo je upálil zaživa,“ oplakává majitelka feny, které uhořely na Karlovarsku

Zdrcená je chovatelka kavkazských pasteveckých psů Vlasta Kretschmerová ze Žlutic na Karlovarsku. Během noci z pondělí na úterý totiž přišla o svých pět milovaných fen, jež uhořely v kotcích. Ty podle policie někdo pravděpodobně zapálil.
Klára Mrázová (Novinky)
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El mejor congreso sobre educación, derechos humanos y proyectos Wikimedia está por llegar 🖥️🌐📚

Hoy es el último día para realizar tu registro y conseguir tu entrada para WECUDI.

🎫 pretix.eu/wikimedia-events/wec…

2do Congreso Internacional Wikimedia, Educación y Culturas Digitales: resistencia, colaboración y enfoques críticos frente a las hegemonías tecnológicas | 2025

Oct. 29th – 31st, 2025
pretix.eu

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Masks (respirators)

Well, it looks like the fire service in the United States can't admit that smoke is bad for firefighters because then it would have to admit that it had been putting people at risk for all these years.

This is identical to what we saw healthcare doing during COVID. (Which they did before COVID, and continue to do today.)

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Why firefighters are facing toxic smoke with little to no protection

At the height of wildfire season, thousands of firefighters regularly face a host of dangers on the frontline, including confronting toxic smoke. As seasons grow longer and more intense, the health of wildland firefighters is under renewed focus.
Stephanie Sy (PBS News)
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🤔This is kind of like when newspapers report that police officers are "quitting en masse." But then you read the article and for them "quitting" just means "I will not report to duty. I will still collect a paycheck and earn a pension."

He's moving from CEO to Executive Chair of the Board. 🤷🏿‍♂️

He was both CEO and Executive Chair of the Board before too. He's just dropping the CEO part. 🤷🏿‍♂️

No judgment either way, but this isn't a board leadership change.

Do what makes you happy. Seriously! If you enjoy shopping at Target, I love that for you. Seriously. It's your wallet.

forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/…

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I’m looking for my next challenge in some intersection of open source, community, and developer advocacy! I am passionate about helping others and doing good with technology, in particular—thus I’m especially interested in working with a non-profit or strongly value-aligned organization.

I’ve loved my work with @EndlessAccess, but unfortunately due to strategic decisions, my particular role won’t exist in the coming months.

cassidyjames.com/resume

#GetFediHired #FediHire #OpenToWork #jobs #cv


Résumé

Experienced, friendly, and creative developer advocate and community builder passionate about open source, connecting people and technology, and equipping developers with the best tools.
Cassidy James Blaede
#jobs #FediHire #getfedihired #opentowork #cv @Endless Access

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What's the 2025 digital trend for you: #AI or digital #sovereignty?

If it's the latter, check out these European alternatives 👉 tuta.com/blog/boycott-us-choos…

And, yes, Tuta is proudly #European! 💪 🇪🇺

European Alternatives: Email, Tuta Mail. Calendar, Tuta Calendar. Search, Ecosia, Mojeek, Qwant, MetaGer. Browser, Vivaldi, Mullvad Browser, Librewolf, Waterfox.
Made in Europe: More at the link in caption.

Boycott US products? New tariffs make people choose European products. Are we seeing a trend? | Tuta

With the growing movement to boycott US products and services, more people are choosing European alternatives. Let’s take a look at the best European products you can use.
Tuta
#AI #european #sovereignty

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New major update to the private, free and open source office suite! #LibreOffice 25.8 is now available, with:

📝 Navigator improvements in Writer
📊 Many new spreadsheet functions
🚀 Faster file loading

Learn more and download it: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware

LibreOffice 25.8 banner, with "smarter, faster and more reliable"

LibreOffice 25.8: smarter, faster and more reliable - The Document Foundation Blog

The best open source office suite continues to evolve, while maintaining its focus on privacy and digital sovereignty Berlin, 20 August 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.8.
Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource #libreoffice

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pinho

Please make it simpler to download and update LibreOffice in languages other than English.

To those unfamiliar with English and/or with difficulties with using computers, the download of an English package, and then the requirement of downloading and installing a "translated user interface" can be quite difficult to understand.

Notice this whole ordeal has to be repeated for every update.

Why don't you do it like OpenOffice or Firefox?

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#Mozilla have taken a lot of criticism lately, but then they come out with something outstanding and important like this.

hacks.mozilla.org/2025/08/crli…

CRLite: Fast, private, and comprehensive certificate revocation checking in Firefox - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

Firefox is now the first and the only browser to deploy fast and comprehensive certificate revocation checking that does not reveal your browsing activity to anyone (not even to Mozilla). ...
John Schanck (Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog)
#mozilla

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Excel developers 40 years ago: we've built a world-first recalc system, delivering performant but accurate dynamic cell updating on any architecture or system.

Excel developers now: we added a function that can sometimes give a correct answer. We can't tell if the answer is correct or not. Also it shouldn't be used for numbers in a spreadsheet.

The COPILOT function comes with a couple of limitations, as it can't access information outside your spreadsheet, and you can only use it to calculate 100 functions every 10 minutes. Microsoft also warns against using the AI function for numerical calculations or in "high-stakes scenarios" with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as COPILOT "can give incorrect responses."

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miki

Numerical calculations is just not what AI is for.

However, it's far more useful for things like e.g. extracting product dimensions or hotel reservation dates from arbitrary, unstructured text. Before the advent of AI, this was extremely unfulfilling, manual data entry work.

You can then use such data in Excel to do numerical / statistical calculations the "traditional way."

AI may not have perfect reliability (remember that humans don't either!), but you don't always need perfect reliability. If you only want to check how many customers complain about the rooms being too cold versus too hot, and how that is correlated to the weather outside, room location and AC settings, you may prefer a slightly inaccurate analysis over one that requires a person to read 20000 emails and identify temperature complaints.

I really don't get where all this hate is coming from.

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@miki
The hate is coming from people who are losing their jobs. Trained professional, high-paying, white-collar jobs.

Computers have been shedding people's jobs since the 90s, and no one cared.

Factory automation has eliminated millions of regular jobs, and no one cared.

The time to care was when it was first noted that the proceeds of production belong to those who own the means of production.

We never fixed that problem.

@miki

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It is so hilarious to me that we have FOSS maintainers begging for money to try to keep the development of NTP ongoing. NTP - you know, that protocol that the entirety of humanity relies on for access to the internet (or anything on a network for that matter).

Meanwhile the o̶l̶i̶g̶a̶r̶c̶h̶y̶ broligarchy makes billions of the backs of these people.

Anyways, they're currently at $495 of $1000 for their 2025 goal. Go throw them some $ if you feel so inclined.

nwtime.org/mills-spring/

#NTP

Mills-Spring Fund

To honor and perpetuate Dave's legacy and efforts, with the blessings of his family, donations to the Mills-Spring Fund at Network Time Foundation are welcome and appreciated.
www.nwtime.org
#ntp

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Woke up early. Spot-checking the PDF and ePub files before sending them out to people.

Discovered that all the underlined text is missing. 🤦‍♀️

The exporter converted it to <span class="underline">underlined text</span>

but it should have converted it to _underlined text_

ARRRGH. I should not have to be fucking with code to export my book using existing tools.

annotated screenshot of a couple paragraphs. The first one ends with "As a result" and then nothing. The nothing has been underlined with an arrow pointing to the underline. Text at the bottom says "Heyy!! Where'd it go?!"
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masukomi

@cachondo 🤔 what about ePub files? I'm assuming that with a kindle eReader or similar device you're screwed and get whatever the manufacturer set up. But the kindle app on a mac or windows would use whatever you've got configured for the OS. Is that correct?

I'm still screwed when it comes to audiobooks though. I'm coming up with zero ideas on how to verbally indicate spoken versus signed without it getting really annoying really fast.

@Sean Randall
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Sean Randall

I have to take ePub to Braille directly. I think it uses pandoc in the middle, which uses some type of markdown, which is then faithfully converted to the appropriate Braille for italics, underlines and so forth.

The only thing that comes to mind with audio is some sort of effect.
In the British Harry Potter audios, for instance, there's a little bit of "what would the character say", and it's done with a slight echo effect on the audio.

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Sean Randall

Editing's a ridiculous time sink either way you work it. If you were doing the narration yourself, I suppose you'd get your engineer to fold that into the mastering process. They'd be working from a written copy of your text anyway, so would already know what's spoken versus ASL. You don't want to change the way you speak, right? You just want to indicate a method of speech.

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With PHP 8.5 we get Connection, DNS and SSL Sessions sharing across requests with cURL.

I made a video showing how this works and discuss the performance potential youtube.com/watch?v=wr_Jnrc2ha… - a short @mnapoli cameo included

#php #curl #php8 #php8_5


Share cURL Handle across PHP Requests (New in PHP 8.5)

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#php #curl #php8 #php8_5 @Matthieu Napoli
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If you work on HTTP implementations, deploy it at scale, or have a unique perspective or interest in the protocol, you might find other people to talk to at the 2026 HTTP Workshop: github.com/HTTPWorkshop/worksh…

GitHub - HTTPWorkshop/workshop2026: Working area of the 2026 HTTP Workshop

Working area of the 2026 HTTP Workshop. Contribute to HTTPWorkshop/workshop2026 development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Dobré narozeninové ráno. Doufám, že bude super den. Hned ráno jsem si udělal radost. 😀Cukr 5,4. Většinou ho mám ráno mezi 7 a 12. Co mi ale vadí je ta hrozná únava kterou pociťují a silné bouchání srdce i když jsem v klidu. 😟
Nebudu si tím kazit den. A za malou chvilku zase stres v práci.
Tak hezké ráno a celý den, joudové.
#zivot
#prace
#prace #zivot
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