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" For a few hopeful weeks this summer, a bright billboard on the major highway linking Toronto to New York greeted Canadian drivers with a simple message: “Buffalo Loves Canada.”
The marketing campaign, which included a $500 gift card giveaway, was meant to show Buffalo’s northern neighbors they were welcome, wanted and missed."
Sadly, to get to places in which Canadians are appreciated, we have to pass the gestapo, to enter and to leave.
The Columbus Day holiday began in the 1920s, when a resurgent Ku Klux Klan tried to create a lily-white country by attacking not just Black Americans, but also immigrants, Jews, and Catholics. In the 1920s, Columbus mattered because celebrating an Italian defended a multicultural society. Now, though, he represents the devastation of America’s Indigenous people.
Today, we celebrate Indigenous People's Day, to honor those who sacrificed so much when the colonizers arrived.
There’s an accessibility bug on Mastodon: you cannot add custom alt text to your profile or header image. This means people using screen readers can’t know what these images show, so important info is missing for visually impaired users. ♿
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Pitch In the public profile edit section of the Mastodon web interface, it is not possible to set alternative text (alt text) for the profile picture and header image. Right now, both images have a...pauloxnet (GitHub)
Buried in its announcement about "F1: The Movie" making its streaming debut on December 12, Apple has also announced that Apple TV+ is being...Eric Slivka (MacRumors.com)
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Auphonic in der Zeitung! 🗞️
Die WKO Steiermark hat über uns berichtet und Einblicke gegeben, wie aus einer kleinen Idee in Graz ein globales Audiotech-Unternehmen wurde. 💜
Danke für das tolle Porträt! 🙏
Der ganze Artikel:
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Das Maximum aus einer schlechten Tonaufnahme herausholen – und das mit fast nur einem Klick: Damit hat sich „Auphonic“ international einen Namen gemacht.wko.at
GigaChad is the ultimate Chad—the hypermasculine ideal, the alpha, the most confident meme of a man you'll find on the internet.Marlon Ettinger (The Daily Dot)
attention, over forty queers:
do the thing. it is okay, you are not too old. besiders, older queers like us deserve visibility too. but for that to be happen, we need to make ourselves visible.
one of the most interesting and fun genres of online posts i see is zoomers and young millennials getting really hype cuz they found a video of like a 55 year old woman who picked up fortnight, or a 65 year old grandfather in a rap battle. no one is gonna laugh at you because people just kinda instinctively realize doing cool stuff when you are old is cool. so do the thing.
write fan fiction. start a blog about cool rocks. paint edgy horror art, dj a set, become a pro gamer. open furry porn commissions. learn guitar. change your career. write a novel. write a comic. do not march into the last half of your life with shame and regret in your hearts. you are beautiful and your passion is as radiant as the sun.
so do the thing.
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Do you know that you can use Subtitle edit to transcribe audio? It has a relatively accessible guy so you can use Purfwiev's faster whisper xxl, cpp, cpp cublas, const-me. Longer post how to use it follows:
Download the program from the developer’s website. Navigate to the level 2 heading labeled “Files.”
If you want to install Subtitle Edit normally, download the first file, labeled setup.zip.
There is also a portable version available, labeled SE_version_number.zip.
If you decide to use the portable version, extract it and move on to the next section of this article. The installation itself is standard and straightforward.
NVDA cannot automatically obtain focus in lists.
To find out which item in the list is currently selected, move down with the arrow key to change the item, then press NVDA+TAB to hear which one is focused.
In the folder containing your original file, you’ll now find a new file with the .srt extension.
This is a subtitle file—it contains both the text and the timing information. Since we usually don’t need timestamps for transcription, we’ll remove them in Subtitle Edit as follows:
If you’re transcribing multiple recordings, it’s a good idea to close the current subtitle file by starting a new project using Ctrl+N or by choosing File → New.
Downloaded models can, of course, be reused, so future transcriptions will go faster.
In this example, I used Purfwiev’s Faster Whisper. If you want to use a different model, you can select it from the model list, and Subtitle Edit will automatically ask whether you’d like to download it.
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I found a 16-bit stereo version of the Windows 95 startup sound.
I came across the root of the word "cirrus" en passant the other day. I rather like it because #curl is a major part of the cloud...
If people of different political persuasions were given a piece of paper, a few concepts (fascism, socialism, liberalism, maybe others), and a few historical and contemporary leaders (Trump, Biden, Mussolini, Hitler, Churchill, Pinochet, etc) and asked to stick the concepts and leaders on a map so that things that they saw as similar were close to each other, then I wonder what the results would be.
I'm thinking about an exchange that I had with one of my relatives on Facebook. I posted something that talked about fascism being defined by a strong leader who was not constrained by normal laws, a domestic enemy, and a promise to return the country to better days in an imagined past. This person responded with "like when liberals go around the world randomy killing people. I know who the fascist is--it's the entire Democratic party." I asked him how he would define fascism, and his response was "liberals."
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In elementary school, one of my classmates was hit by a car on his bicycle. He must have been about 9. His head went through the windshield.
He was fine.
The windshield was not fine. His helmet was not fine. The teacher had him bring in his mangled helmet to show the whole class. Nobody had to tell us he’d be dead if it weren’t for the helmet. It was obvious.
I still remember this vividly 40 years later.
I wear a helmet.
Re this from @thomasfuchs:
hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/1153…
Just had to block (not on here) people who were arguing that wearing helmet doesn’t add protection for you when you use a bicycle. Incredible stuff.Hachyderm.io
You should not need a bicycle helmet for every day utility cycling any more than you should need a helmet for walking or running. The activity and the environment should be safe enough that hitting your head hard in just the right way should be vanishingly unlikely. This is the Dutch and N European way.
Racing, Peloton, Downhill, BMX, MTB, 30mph E-Bikes are another thing entirely.
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"Bon, la grippe on va vous faire le vaccin mais le COVID non 🥰"
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Edit: C'est en Allemagne donc rappels 1x par an et selon des critères assez restreints (genre pas entre 18 et 59 ans).
Donc vivre avec une personne qui est sous traitement contre le cancer, ou avoir de la famille proche de plus de 90 ans dont une qui vient de faire un infarctus c'est pas vraiment grave.
Bundespreis Ecodesign 2025 – Wir sind nominiert!
Der Bundespreis Ecodesign ist die höchste staatliche Auszeichnung für ökologisches Design in Deutschland.🏅
🟢 149 Beiträge haben es in die Jurysitzung geschafft.
✅ 30 davon wurden nun für den Bundespreis Ecodesign 2025 nominiert!
Die Preisverleihung findet am 1. Dezember im Bundesumweltministerium in Berlin statt. Bis dahin heißt es: Daumen drücken!👍
#shift #shifthappens #shiftphone #ecodesignpreis #nachhaltigkeit #designaward
Comme maire du plateau il n'a même pas pietonnisé av Mont Royal à l'année.
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Le chef de Projet Montréal, Luc Rabouin, a annoncé dimanche vouloir piétonniser plusieurs artères dans le Vieux-Montréal, poursuivant ainsi le projet de « royaume des piétons » initié par l’administration de Valérie Plante.La Presse
Two main reasons:
1. Extra layers: Every additional layer between the code and what the computer is doing makes the program slow
2. Software is built without taking data access into consideration. e.g. Doing everything in serial, storing data in AoS vs SoA, using an unsigned 32 bit int to store a country, etc...
With #Framework shouting from the rooftops that they prefer to have no values at all, maybe it's time to look into alternative computer vendors with values similar to those originally ascribed to Framework.
There's, of course, @mntmn (crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform…) based in Germany which is probably the only one that's in the same league (and probably well beyond) in terms of modularity and hackability. It's a bit of a hacker boutique, though: unusual hardware at rather steep prices - partially _because_ it's so unusual.
A bit more "standard" and with that more affordable, too, there's @slimbook@linuxrocks.online in Spain (slimbook.com/en/upgrade-repair), @starlabssystems in the UK (de.starlabs.systems/collection…), and @novacustom in the Netherlands (novacustom.com/cat/spare-parts…).
While they don't bring that "replace everything" ethos, they're small laptop vendors that ramped up from "resell China white label laptops" to doing more and more design and production on their own.
In terms of modularity, they pass the bar that the big vendors fail: they don't solder and glue everything into a single blob that becomes an all-or-nothing deal when components break. Instead, they even sell individual parts on their store.
They're not quite at the Framework-level of modularity, but I think they all deserve a shoutout for moving the needle in the right direction when it comes to sustainability.
(honorable mention for @system76, who at least mention keeping your device useful for longer at system76.com/laptops, encouraging battery replacements and other maintenance, even if they don't have a spare parts section in their shop)
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bizarre flight to have roaring overhead just now. who's going from Sault Ste Marie to Zurich on a chartered Dassault Falcon 7X? 🤔 #TheSoo #CYAM
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Track Air Alsie A/s (6I) #6009 flight from Sault Ste. Marie to Zurich (Kloten)FlightAware
White “progressives” and “liberals” exercising their First Amendment rights by protesting at Kamala Harris’s book tour events isn’t the flex you think it is or having the impact you claim to want.
What it actually demonstrates is that you’re still not ready to have the “revolution” you keep screaming for.
Because yelling at a Black woman who currently holds no executive power doesn’t make you radical…it makes you reckless.
Flux Do you stream a lot of content on your computer but are tired of dealing with clunky and constantly changing web interfaces? If so, Flux was made for you. Flux brings your audio and media experieIMS Productions
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Favorable decision by the Austrian DSB: Microsoft Education 365 may not track school kids and Microsoft is ordered to provide full access to kids' data.noyb.eu
#ChatControl must never come back. 💪
❌ Breaks encryption
❌ Destroys privacy
This would make free discussion online impossible, create a backdoor for abusers and authoritarian regimes, and endanger journalists & activists.
Privacy is not a crime. #StopChatControl
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As we speak, the EU is debating a law called "Chat Control". For now, the vote on Chat Control has been postponed, but should this law pass - what would it mean for your security and privacy? At first glance, it's about combating child abuse on the …Tuta | Invidious
Apple bent the knee for months, leaving many commentators to ask why. But the reasons are not mysterious: Apple wants things that only the government can provide, things that will defend and extend its power to extract rents, rather than innovate.Alex Russell
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