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Here's another song in support of the people of Minneapolis and in honor of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, this time from British singer Billy Bragg. Listen on YouTube here.

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#Miinneapolis #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #BillyBragg #Music


BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES

The murder of Alex Pretti was horrifically shocking, all the more so as we are still reeling from the images of the murder of Renee Good. That these crimes c...
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#music #reneegood #alexpretti #miinneapolis #billybragg

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NVSpeech Player with phoneme editor and NVDA Addon version 1.8. Those on the NVDA driver from yesterday can update it from the last button in the Speech Player settings panel, too.
This release adds a new Voice Profiles system to NV Speech Player packs. Voices are now defined in phonemes.yaml and can be selected at runtime, letting you ship multiple voice characters without maintaining multiple full phoneme tables.
• New YAML voice profiles
◦ Voices are defined in phonemes.yaml under voiceProfiles.
◦ Profiles are overlays: one base phoneme table, plus per-voice adjustments.
• New bundled voices
◦ Beth (female)
◦ bobby (child-esk)
• Voice selection everywhere
◦ The NVDA driver and phoneme editor can select a YAML-defined voice.
• Better debugging for pack authors
How voice profiles work (short version)
A voice profile can apply:
• class-based scaling (e.g., vowels vs. fricatives) for formants, bandwidths, gain/noise, and voice quality
• per-phoneme overrides for targeted fixes (absolute values that win for those specific fields)
• Existing packs remain compatible: voiceProfiles is optional.
• For low sample rates, keep an eye on harsh sibilants and overall gain — profiles include tools to roll off the top end and preserve headroom.
github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…

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Welcome to the Full Circle aviation museum. Walk this way and take a look at this interesting zeppelin. We’re not sure it ever flew, as it is constructed all of lead and, while it has a proper place for a gas bag and engines, we never found them.

Oh wait. The hamsters had a field day with this one…

Inside the showcase is the band Led Zeppelin!

Full Circle is on HKC Radio.

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Two people have been abducted from Scotland in the middle of the night by the US military. Despite an order from our highest court that they be kept here.

The Scottish Government must show that actions have consequences by evicting American troops from their base at publicly-owned Prestwick Airport.

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the memory of the Holocaust, antisemitism

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I try to be thorough and as generous as I can manage, particularly in my long-form AI-critic writing, but this video articulates something a bit less diplomatic: ultimately using it strikes me as somewhat shameful and embarrassing. But Dr. Collier puts it better than I can.

youtube.com/watch?v=7pqF90rstZ…


this is what 2 years of chatgpt does to your brain

When two years of academic work vanished with a single click:https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04064-7#Link to patreon:https://www.patreon.com/acoll...
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Matt Campbell

Based on my reading of the original Nature blog post, it seems to me that the ChatGPT UI was less than clear about what turning off the data consent flag would do to *existing* data. So I blame OpenAI, not the professor. I think it's misleading to state, as Dr. Collier does here, that he clicked a "delete" button without realizing what it would do, and especially to take that as evidence of brain rot. We need to be careful not to succumb to confirmation bias.
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Glyph

@matt there is some evidence that the professor may be misrepresenting the “data consent” button that was clicked, at the very least. lots of people in the comments saying that it really is a big red “delete” button, others saying it’s different in europe because gdpr, but I don’t think I have seen anyone saying that they see precisely what he claims he saw. otoh maybe openai patched it since the article is bad press, so we can’t check now. the infrastructure of our lives is built on sand
@Matt Campbell

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How does the @mixxx open-source community create software that rivals commercial alternatives? Collaboration between users and developers in the community chat on Zulip lays the foundation. New case study: zulip.com/case-studies/mixxx/ #openSource #chat

Case study: Mixxx open-source community | Zulip

Learn how collaboration in Zulip drives innovation for a community of passionate DJs and programmers from all over the world.
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#opensource #chat @Mixxx DJ Software

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What this means is that Duck Duck Go, alongside basically every search engine that is not google, has completely delisted Neocities.

Which feels like something a lot of y'all should know!

blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/0…

#Neocities #DuckDuckGo

Neocities Is Blocked by Bing

Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.n...
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#duckduckgo #neocities

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I'll never not be angry about how labor proved to the world that remote work is basically as good as in person work 6 years ago, and allows the corp to recruit from anywhere, and yet so many places have just said "actually, no, we want everyone back in the office 3-5 days per week because it makes management and extroverts and people who don't have to be the primary caregiver for a dependant sad".
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In FastSM, Tweesecake, and other blindness-specific clients, there's an odd problem. If I open a URL, there's a very good chance that NVDA will simply say "unknown". The URL opens, and Firefox gets focus, but I have to alt-tab away and back before NVDA will see that Firefox and my webpage exist. Sometimes, this doesn't happen at all. I don't know if it's the Python library used to open URLs, or something with NVDA, or a problem in Firefox, or a combination, or something else entirely.

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The bing behaviour described by neocities i.e. exclusion of site + surfacing unofficial / malicious clone sites is the exact same issue we saw a few years back.

We eventually resolved it after signing up to bings' webmaster tools and manually requesting crawls - and I marked it up as a fluke.

Seeing that it wasn't a one off, I have to conclude that Bing is a terrible search engine that will sometimes just censor sites while sending you to possibly-malicious clones.

blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/0…

Neocities Is Blocked by Bing

Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.n...
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Heading home today after an epic week and a half of aerial image capture - lots, and lots, and lots of photos (maybe 80TB delivered this week alone!); managing to access some very hard to reach airspace.

We've run the aircraft down to it's 100 hour service, so I have some time over the next N=? days for projects!

- cartography design
- open geospatial coaching / training with a QGIS/Python/bash focus
- field research ops planning and support
- drone mapping / photography

...and more...

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Dr. Adam Steer

...with a little nudge from and in collaboration with @rowlandm I'd like to add:

- outdoor coaching and mentoring (not guiding, a different kind of support. Ask me)

...and with growing experience at the sharp end of aviation operations, working in small collaborative teams with pilots:

- help with operational forecasting; working with pilots and ATC

Websites in my bio show a good range of capabilities ;)

#fedihireme #openforConsulting

#fedihireme #openforconsulting @Rowland Mosbergen
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Dr. Adam Steer

Very important PS:

If you are an organisation looking for a way out of US / other vendor capture dependency for your mapping needs (hi local governments, land managers, indigenous corporations) - and don't have a clear path for how...

Reach out. I'm very very happy to help.

I'm focused on Australia/ Oceania, I can point you to others if you're in Europe / Scandinavia / east Asia / Americas

...although dang I'd love an excuse to come visit and go skiing :D

#openGeospatialConsulting #GISchat

#gischat #opengeospatialconsulting
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> More than 200 years ago, bison roamed freely across Illinois, but as the industrial revolution reshaped the landscape, the bison disappeared.

yeah they just decided to "leave" lol why can't they just admit we literally killed them all
RT: glammr.us/users/danielleganza/…

Danielle Robichaud (@danielleganza@glammr.us)

Bison return to Illinois prairies after nearly 200 years https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/bison-return-to-illinois-prairies-after-nearly-200-years/
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Langer Post, #Sharkey -Erfahrungen eines Mastodonten

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 14 updated and 1 added apps:

* GeoGas: monitor price data from Spanish gas stations 🛡️

Google Status: unchanged. We're still being blamed for an allegedly malicious file that doesn't even exist on the server. Reevaluation requests still failing (taking more than 24h each).

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository :awesome: and turn off that allegedly Safe Browsing in your browsers, if you can. Seems to be fake.


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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So yeah, USB ports in Windows have a memory of what you jammed in them and the list can become extensive. I just ran this nifty little utility called Device Cleaner and it found 166 non-present USB devices. I deleted them all with this utility and now my computer seems happier. It's sort of like cutting your hair I guess. You can download this from Major Geeks right here: majorgeeks.com/files/details/d…

Device Cleanup Tool

Device Cleanup Tool is a portable tool that lists all non-present devices and then allows for easy removal.
www.majorgeeks.com

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#XSF Announcement

Tomorrow the 28th #XMPP #Summit is taking place in #Brussels, #Belgium.
Start at 09:00 am (UTC+1).

If you come in person, reach out before (almost full). Else join remotely
xmpp.org/2025/11/xmpp-summit-2…

Meet us at #FOSDEM 2026, too!

#jabber #chat #opensource #messaging #federation

Plenty of XMPP Logo and OMEMO (fish) Stickers

XMPP Summit 28 | XMPP - The universal messaging standard

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all …
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#xmpp #opensource #Jabber #federation #fosdem #chat #messaging #belgium #xsf #brussels #summit

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Apparently in Italian there is a word for:

"Men of retirement age who spend their time watching construction sites, especially roadworks – stereotypically with hands clasped behind their back and offering unrequested advice to the workers."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umarell


Bolognese slang term for elderly men watching construction sites

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