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@FreakyFwoof I am enjoying the harry potter fanfic folder on the web. It's quite slow with my screen reader as I couldn't get it on to my dropbox, I am using the free acount unfortunately. I tried downloading the main folder but dropbox is throwing up error, I guess it could be the amount of files and the size of the folder.
Can you zipp them up for me, so that it'd be easier for me to access them offline? (1/2)
@Andre Louis

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Distributed Proofreaders has posted its 50,000th unique title! It is "A Dictionary of the Art of Printing."

Read about it here:

blog.pgdp.net/2025/12/07/celeb…

Book at PG:

gutenberg.org/ebooks/77410

Congratulations to all who worked on it.

#books #dp #dpblog

Imperial printing press

Celebrating 50,000 Titles

This post celebrates the 50,000th unique title Distributed Proofreaders has posted to Project Gutenberg: A Dictionary of the Art of Printing, by William Savage. Congratulations and thanks to all th…
Hot off the Press
#books #dp #dpblog
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In my neighborhood, I often see parcel delivery trucks from 5 different transport companies wasting energy to drive to the same homes on the same day.

This is unregulated capitalism.

Then comes trash day, and 1 company arrives with 1 garbage truck and empties all the trash cans in 1 go.

This is regulated capitalism.

The municipality decided only 1 company could win the garbage truck service job. They offer up the job every couple of years, 1 company wins, and we all save CO2 emissions.

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I don't hate Apple Music. I just prefer Spotify. I don't need Dolby Audio to enjoy my music. Sure it makes it a different experience, but I can sacrifice that. Plus, Spotify's been around way longer. Sure the UI isn't the best, but the web client is where it's at if you are not using it on a mobile device. It's also more streamlined in how they handle their artists. They bring you your stats, fans, playlists, etc, all in front of you, something I feel Apple Music lacks in that area.
in reply to D.Hamlin.Music

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NV Access

@dhamlinmusic @jonathan859 We haven't got a solid plan for it yet, but we know that eaiser transfer of settings between machines is something users DO want. Obviously we've seen developments from other AT vendors & the response to those.... which gives us some ideas of what users DON'T want.... - though even if we went for an account option, it would be opt-in, not mandatory, and the code would all be open, so there's that - but no, we haven't started working on anything at this time.
@D.Hamlin.Music @Jonathan

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I wish we had better blindness media that actually talk about things such as the #Enshittification of adaptive software, but that would require the blindness press to actually have a spine. This blog posts disgusts me in ways I can't articulate yet. vispero.com/resources/account-…

Vispero Account Update | What’s Changing & Why

Learn why account information is requested, how it’s used, and what changes are coming to simplify Vispero’s registration process for JAWS, ZoomText, and Fusion.
Rhonda Bassett-Spiers (Vispero)
#enshittification

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Grokipedia is not only controversial and often far from proper fact-checking, but it also has accessibility issues. Not that anyone expected otherwise. For example, every link inside its articles is marked as if it opens a dialog box. In reality, selecting these links opens no dialog at all, and they behave just like normal links. NVDA and JAWS both announce them as “Collapsed opens a dialog link.”
If you want an example, check their article on “Psychology”:
grokipedia.com/page/Psychology

Psychology

Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behavior, encompassing empirical investigations into mental processes such as cognition, emotion, perception, and motivation, as well as observable actions in humans and animals.
Grokipedia
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Mě neděsí ani tak moc ta rychlost, ale to, kolik je těch zařízení napadených, že dokážou vygenerovat takový traffic. 4 milióny kompromitovaných zařízení!
Chtělo by to řidičák na internet. :)
Až půjde o něco víc než o hříčku typu "vytížíme na minutu celý internet", bude pozdě to řešit.

csirt.cz/cs/kyberbezpecnost/ak…

Aisuru nájemný botnet prolomil další "rekord". DDoS útok dosáhl 29,7 Tbps - Aktuálně z bezpečnosti - CSIRT

Aktuálně z bezpečnosti
csirt.cz

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This episode of the Linux Unplugged podcast includes an informative interview with Kent Overstreet regarding the development and long-term evolution of the Bcachefs file system.
linuxunplugged.com/644
#Linux #filesystems #bcachefs

The People's Filesystem

Kent Overstreet joins us for a full update on bcachefs. What’s new, what’s next, and the surprising upside of getting kicked out of the kernel.
LINUX Unplugged
#linux #bcachefs #filesystems

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24 of the 27 European Commissioners are still posting on X

Leaving ought to be a moral imperative, especially after what has happened in the past week

A little overview on my blog: euroblog.jonworth.eu/musk-want…


Musk wants to abolish the EU, while European Commissioners keep posting on X

Transatlantic geopolitical battles came to a head this past week, as the European Commission finally fined X €120 million under the Digital Services Act.
Jon Worth's Euroblog

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🚨🇬🇧 Today at 5.15 GMT the UK Parliament debates the petition against #DigitalID - the most successful petition to date.

Watch it live here: youtube.com/live/dCGWpaAfJIw

Scrreenshot from petition website: Petition Do not introduce Digital ID cards We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at. Sign this petition 2,963,240 signatures | Show on a map 100,000 = Parliament will debate this petition Parliament will debate this petition on 8 December 2025. You'll be able to watch online on the UK Parliament YouTube channel.

E-petition debate relating to digital ID - Monday 8 December 2025.

The Petitions Committee has scheduled a debate relating to digital ID.Robbie Moore MP has been asked by the Committee to open the debate. The Government will...
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#digitalid

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btw fun fact: openAI gobbled up half of the dram market. that's why as you may have noticed, ram prices have gone crazy high this year.

youtube.com/watch?v=9A-eeJP0J7…

it's a bit silly if you ask me. the high-end markets are going to be completely screwed for the next few years.


WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron

SUPPORT THE AI DYSTOPIA REPORT SERIES: https://store.gamersnexus.net/ai-dystopiaMicron has sold out consumers and terminated its consumer line of house brand...
YouTube
in reply to Leah Rowe ( #39c3 ☎️FORK☎️ )

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Leah Rowe ( #39c3 ☎️FORK☎️ )

idk, call me crazy, but maybe enforce anti-trust laws, don't allow monopolies, etc. seems sensible to me. don't let a single corporation reduce the amount of ram the world can buy by 40%.

and modernise the laws against price fixing and so on, so that you can actually punish this sort of thing

letting one american company destroy the world economy seems pretty dumb if you ask me. maybe... don't let them do that???

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Dear OSS community on Mastodon,

Every day I scroll through my feed and I see proud announcements like:

“First Alpha Relase of HyperTurboWidget available"


or

“Version 2.7.1 now with improved glorb handlers!”


or

“Flux Capacitor version 4.5 is out”


… and I sit there wondering if I should be excited, terrified, or calling a licensed electrician.

Don’t get me wrong, I love open source. I just have no idea what three quarters of these projects actually do. Are we talking about a web server? A file system? A middleware thingy that keeps the flux from overflowing into the space–time continuum?

So, dear OSS developers of the world: When you announce a new release, please give us (your adoring but slightly confused audience) just a tiny bit of context.

  • Tell us what your software does.
  • Tell us why this release is cool.
  • Tell us what it requires to work.

Example:

We are proud to announce Flux Capacitor version 4.5 is now avalaible. While it creates a nice wormhole to 1955, it requires an underlying gigawatt stack 1.21 to work reliably.


Because nobody wants to cheer enthusiastically for “v2.7.1” while secretly Googling “what is a glorb and why does it need handling”.

Yours truly,

Someone who wants to celebrate your achievements

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Shai Hulud may have been a bad surprise, but what is not a surprise is that it started with a #github vulnerability (in the Actions product)

Their approach to #infosec in general (especially for their JS and container registry products) is horrendous.

Need to access a public JS package published on github? you need issue a personal access token.

Need to pull docker images from there? Fine grained (per repo) tokens not supported - you need to use a classic token with too many permissions.

Authenticating to the Container registry GitHub Packages only supports authentication using a personal access token (classic). For more information, see Managing your personal access tokens.
#infosec #github

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Re: last boost (mastodon.nz/@XauriEL/115681024…), I respect authors, artists, and other people who take this position, and I think it's a good reason to refrain from at least some uses of generative AI. As for my own open-source work, I don't really care if it's used in any way, even by generative AI without attribution, as long as it helps improve the state of accessibility. And, yes, as long as I can make a living.

Xauri'EL Zwaan

2025-12-08 00:05:56

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I don't give a shit about "copyright infringement". I care about the product of my labour being appropriated and used to create an inferior copy of my work that is crowding it out and depriving me of a livelihood. Pirate my books all you want, but don't insult me by telling me that making AI slop off the back of my stolen work is OK

in reply to Matt Campbell

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wizzwizz4

Attribution's important, and you can get many of the same benefits by triple-licensing it MIT/Apache/"you can train AI models on this, and the resulting derivative works may be used as if CC0-licensed".

I can't imagine anyone would object to adding works to the generative models whose authors have explicitly-granted permission to do so. (Actually, there are people who'd object to this use of public domain works whose authors haven't granted permission, so that might even be better.)

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Friends of FediMeteo,
in a few weeks FediMeteo will turn one year old.
What better way to celebrate than by adding coverage for a few new countries?

So I’m asking you all: which country would you like to see among the next ones supported?

Tagging @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services and @FediTips@social.growyourown.services for extra visibility 😉

#FediMeteo #FediMeteoCoverage #FediMeteoAnnouncements

@FediFollows 🎅 @Fedi.Tips 🎄

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Dnes si připomínáme 45 let od vraždy Johnna Lennona

Jako každý rok, budeme dnes večer vzpomínat, zpívat, chlastat a hulit na Maltézkém náměstí u zdi, dokud nás nevyžene zima nebo cajti.

(Kdo by chtěl na Johnovi najít nějakou chybu, může, ale my tu opěvujeme legendu, očištěnou od vyhnání hipíků z ostrova a podobných chybyček ná kráse)

#Umřeniny #JohnLennon #Praha #Kampa

cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vra%C5%B…

J.W.Lennon

vražda britského hudebníka

Přispěvatelé projektů Wikimedia (nadace Wikimedia)
#praha #umreniny #johnlennon #kampa

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RE: mstdn.dk/@mjj/1156829881362689…

Great intro to making a damn website!

Looking for free and easy place to host it? I've got you.

~> public.monster

Morten Juhl-Johansen (@mjj@mstdn.dk)

How to Make a Damn Website https://lmnt.me/blog/how-to-make-a-damn-website.html "Look at your unstyled HTML page and appreciate it for what it is. Always remember, this is all a website has to be. Good websites can be reduced to this and still work.
Morten Juhl-Johansen (mstdn.dk)
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Does anyone else experience random issues where the sound card glitches out and gets all garbly? When this occurs, the only way I know to fix it is to reboot. This happens to me ocasionally on two different machines, both Lenovos with Realtek audio. Every time it happens, it's in the middle of Eloquence voicing something. I usually hear like a quick static pop, and after that, Eloquence, and all other system sounds are garbly. Restarting the audio service doesn't help. Only fix is a reboot.
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