@archos @schmaker Ja taky. Jenze v jednom hotelu maji jen mrazenou pizzu a v druhym zaviraji hospodu v 19:30. A tak je to tady se vsim. Zlata Jizni Morava!
So far, 202 sticker packs have been awarded in the Month of LibreOffice, May 2023. But we’re only half of the way through – so if your name (or username) isn’t on the list, join in, help to make LibreOffice even better, and get some cool swag! We’ll …
Hoping to make the list with my first patch which I've just confirmed to be fully operational!
Was looking forward to a smoother all-#FOSS paper writing workflow with @zotero and @libreoffice, am now also looking forward to getting some cool stickers 😎
@zotero haha my translation made it sound like a new feature, it’s two lines & some refactoring to fix an ancient bug inherited from #openoffice - though imo being able to fix such annoyances (or pay a random non-employee dev to do so on your behalf) is a really cool property of #FOSS projects like #LibreOffice. Beats hopelessly bashing my head against the wall while trying to work around the bugs and limitations of a certain proprietary office suite…
@mattit @zotero It's still a great contribution! And yes, when you can claim your sticker pack at the end of the month (details to follow), remind us to send you two 😉
Thanks! (Can I claim a third pack by reporting a bug my patch introduced? :D)
I think Month of LibreOffice & the sticker packs are a great way to get more people involved long-term - after all the first patch/translation/bug report is often the most cumbersome one due to all the setup overhead.
I always try to lower the barriers I bump into along the way, eg. submitted this patch to #fedora to include all build debs ootb: src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/lib…
unfortunately I wasn't playing the matches with you all but I was watching the streams and it was fun even then. Great job at getting the highest kill count in most rounds by the way, vip 🤯
I just started watching now as I missed it when it was live. I feel a bit weird watching game play streams when there's more than one person on the mic, since in my experience they tend to get pretty loud.
@seedy yeah the stream might be a bit confusing because it's more of a gameplay stream less of an introduction, but I think you will have fun watching it nevertheless
I can't hear much gameplay for the commentary, but from what I can hear, I'm getting COD Zombies vibes, which I love right off the bat. I loved playing Undead Assault; it's a shame that it had to die. But as one of the very few blind folks who knows and loves both COD Zombies and its mechanics and storyline, I'm pretty sure I'll really enjoy Final Hour as well when/if it comes out, provided I can afford it lol.
@seedy There isn't any bgm, I set this up in about 10 minutes lol. I also muted the in-game music because I thought it would be even more confusing, and I also didn't want copyright claims.
Glad to know that EU are at least somewhat pushing important issues. Shame about their merciless attack on encryption and chat apps. Really need to see the surveillance rhetoric “terrorism and child protection” put to bed and banned for good.
wow, exciting new #Accessibility features from #Apple coming hopefully in iOs 17. 1. Assistive access. Reduces the feature set and design of apps to minimum, to lessen cognitive load. 2. Live speech. Type text and phone reads it out loud or through an ongoing call. 3. Personal voice. iOs clones your voice to output with 15 minutes of data to train. 4. Point and speak. In magnifier, the phone reads out a text on a button, such as home appliance, a person is pointing at with their finger. and more, such as siri voices being better at faster speech rates, MFI hearing aids get macOs support, its easier to customise text size in MacOs and you can use your switch control as a game controller. apple.com/newsroom/2023/05/app…
Apple today previewed software features for cognitive, vision, hearing, and mobility accessibility, along with innovative tools for individuals who are nonspeaking or at risk of losing their ability to speak.
True story: Mozilla's @mconley is a legend. (Also, he worked on Mozilla Messenger, and is responsible for #Ubuntu shipping with Thunderbird!)
His enthusiasm is so contagious that just listening to this podcast might turn you into a software engineer! Join us for ThunderCast episode 2 as we reminisce about the early days of the internet, and talk about Firefox features more people should be using. blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/t…
@killyourfm Just discovered the thundercast last weekend and today I've listened the second episode. Great to listen to you guys, I feel like I could have been one of you by the memories you share, but unfortunately I went to the dark side on my career and working as a SAP system administrator. To compensate I use linux at home and all the opensource tools I can everywhere. Keep up the good job!
Company preemptively considered (most?) Hacks people are suggesting to get a 'free tv' only to then undo the surveillance parts of the hostile surveillance tech:
Also there is a 'discrete' camera in the middle bezel of the top screen that will 'continually monitor the area in front of the TV in order to provide better ads and services'
Ilya Pozin, the co-founder of Pluto TV, is launching a free, ad-supported TV set that comes with two displays: a 55-inch one for viewing and a slim Smart Display for ads and widgets.
Möchte lieber nicht wissen, welche Staubsauger-Roboter das gleiche mit Bildern aus der Wohnung machen… Vermutlich alle, die eine Kamera haben (und nicht mit Custom ROM bestückt wurden).
@Mawoka Der "Umriss" ist nicht nur der Grundriss – sondern auch wo Möbel etc. stehen; noch nicht ganz Fotos, aber auch nicht nur nackte Wände. Und ja, diese Karten landen fast immer auf den Servern des jeweiligen Herstellers; kommt der Bot nicht ins Netz, stellt er sich doof… @sandfrog @kuketzblog
Current Status - Last Updated, Monday 01 May 2023 Forum, Wiki and Paste sites are now all active. Systems have been rebuilt from scratch with new images, software and patches. All users will need…
As you may have seen on other posts, we're broadly back on line now, with the forum, Wiki and paste sites all operational. It's been a huge effort by several key team members - I won't name names…
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“I can get my bank statement or a gas bill in accessible formats, but yet I still receive health information that I can’t read. What could be more personal than your health status?” So true! #accessibility #communication #blind #deafblind #disability @disability | Blind people at risk due to ‘inaccessible’ health information from NHS, charity warns | The Independent independent.co.uk/news/health/…
Publisher (Di Blasi): I'd be willing to wager more than a Starbucks run that it is. Alexa is, with minimal argument, the most capable voice assistant ever created. It achieved that status not only through AI, but through more-accurate-than-most, instantaneous voice recognition via the cloud. Put another way, Amazon hasn't yet incorporated true generative AI into the Alexa model. At least...
Amazon's voice assistant was a technological feat when it was first introduced. But now Alexa's capabilities are outdated. Here's why that could change soon.
Here's an effect plugin that separates voice, voice reverb, and ambient noise into three separate channels with controls to mute, solo, or adjust the volume of each. I haven't spent too long testing this yet, but it seems to open up a ton of possibilities--boosting the dialog of movies, removing the noise and echo from recordings, making a bad audio setup sound clearer on voice calls ... and that's just off the top of my head. I have no idea what kind of black magic this is, but somehow it's able to run in real time on my setup with minimal CPU load. goyo.app/
Instantly De-Noise, De-Reverb, and De-Voice your Audio. AI-Powered Noise Reduction to get Clean, Studio Quality Vocals. GOYO Voice Separator Plug-in is for Content Creators, Sound Engineers, Producers, Streamers, Musicians. Free to Use Open Beta.
Please say by bye to Mr Buzzard T Buzzard, radio DJ extraordinaire, who is retiring from radio after 275 years on-air. His last words behind the microphone are here: #ElevenLabs
And I'm glad you regret nothing. Honestly, it's interesting. I, too, use Eleven Labs for fun stuff kinda like that, but my stuff is very slightly less silly. I've discovered that I am kind of obsessed with the way it gets context most of the time, so I tend to write all sorts of stories that aren't necessarily quite that silly just because I want to hear it read them. It's probably the least silly I've been with a thing I could mes with. hahaha. Am I making any sense?
someone created a Godot plugin to open Unity packages and prefabs. this is game changing, just imagine reusing your unity assets to port a game to Godot from Unity. reddit.com/r/godot/comments/13…
Por lo demás, recursos de los productores de aceite de oliva contra el registro de contratos alimentarios, y de un ayuntamiento rebotado por la ubicación de la Agencia Espacial Española.
como toque de color, un conde renuncia a su título.
Continued: it's striking that the authors didn't even use conventional machine learning procedures to develop their classifier.
Rather, they chose features that made sense to them as indicators.
These were not even indicators of fake papers, but rather indicators of non-response to a survey —which of course is a very different thing than authorship of a fake paper.
"Note that the tallying rule [private email, no international collaborators] identifies likely fakes, but it cannot determine with certainty whether a given publication is actually (legally) a fake. Nevertheless, it is a reliable tool to red-flag scientific reports for further analysis and is a rational basis to estimate the upper value of fake publishing in biomedicine."
RELIABLE TOOL?
RATIONAL BASIS?
How could anyone write this stuff and post it in good faith?
"It is important to keep in mind that our indicators provide a red flag, not legal proof, that a given manuscript or publication might be fake. However, it is the authors' burden of proof to demonstrate that their science can be trusted."
BULLSHIT.
It is absolutely not the authors' burden of proof to demonstrate that their science can be trusted when the criteria used to question their work are (1) their email address and (2) the lack of international collaborators.
And then there's the survey they used to "validate" their hopeless instrument.
How would you respond if you received this from some random account?
As a misinformation researcher, I get all sorts of politically motivated harassment that looks a lot like this. Last thing I'm going to do is give them contacty information they could look up themselves for my university president, dean, HR people, etc.
To presume that not answering implies guilt is outrageous.
Finally, I want to stress that it is no defense whatsoever to say that the algorithm could be used simply as a preliminary screen to red-flag papers for additional scrutiny.
If one is going to propose machine-learning classifier to make instrumental decisions that affect careers and reputations, one must carefully and thoroughly consider issues of fairness and risks algorithmic harm that might arise.
The authors of this preprint don't even mention such issues.
Not only does the Science story fail to call them on this; its author falls into the one of the oldest and most pernicious traps around algorithmic bias.
The author contrasts the use of "automated methods" with reliance on "human prejudice", entirely overlooking the fact that the automated methods proposed here are nothing but the explicit and fully-descirbed instantiation of human prejudice.
UPDATE: The paper is on pubpeer, with a response from lead author Sabel.
I find it to be a completely unsatisfactory effort at misdirection, but decide for yourself.
The irony of this guy writing a preprint that spectacularly overestimates the frequency of fake papers using ridiculous methods, getting Science and NPR and a host of right-wing news organizations to pick it up, and then saying "The loss of trust in science is the key issue we should worry about."
Je to jedna z mála navigací, podporující původně letecké pásmo L5/E5. Tedy má vyšší přesnost v členitém terénu. "GPS (L1+L5) + GLONASS (L1) + Galileo (E1+E5a) + QZSS (L1+L5) + NavIC (L1)"
V ceně mapa Topo Czech Pro. Display chráněn fólii, tělo už nějaké škrábance má. Však má vojenskou odolnost a je určené do hor.
@Marco SocialHub admins are looking for people to join their Wellbeing team. People who can mediate conflict in a calm and reasonable way, and tell the difference between temporary grumpiness and patterns of trolling.
Can you think of anyone else who might be a good candidate? They're looking to diversify the team a bit. So particularly keen to welcome people who aren't straight, white, and cis.
@eprodrom asked a question on the swicg (Social Web Incubator Community Group) mailing list about why people were asking questions about AP/AS2 on SocialHub instead of there. @melvincarvalho posted a response that captures my situation well.
Thanks, and I appreciate the team wanting to diversify the moderation team. However, since I no longer work, for health reasons, and that work involved quite some stress with W3C procedures as well, I do not think me joining this social hub thingie would be a good idea. Not only would it probably not do my mental health any good, but it would also mean I could get unreliable, which would be unfair to the team. So I must decline.
Update --aws-sigv4 command line option example to include explicit us in region identifier aws:amz:east-2:es -> aws:amz:us-east-2:es
List of supported regions:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/l...
Calibre-Web is a great open source web #ebook library that can be used by the whole family. I wrote a blog post about how to install it, set it up and use it (in Czech, but DeepL translates it well). And thank you, @archos, for the tip. 😉 blog.eischmann.cz/2023/05/15/c…
OK when I started listening to it I didn't think it was going to be very funny but damn I was wrong. That is golden. Although how did this lady not notice the high hard one? And what's the show they said he did before the game? I couldn't understand it, something is tight?
@x0 There’s a lot more in that archive, including much younger versions of some people who are still here, people who thought they were sending private messages which actually weren’t as private as they thought and other weirdness.
@x0 It was Christopher Toth’s thing that let you upload and play audio in Qwitter, and old Twitter client of his. Way, waay before my time. It used a predictable ID scheme, so somebody scraped it and posted the whole thing on archive.org. It’s in the warc format (so basically raw HTTP responses), which is kinda unwieldy to work with, but I wrote some Python scripts that do the magic github.com/mikolysz/qadl
@x0 there so so so much shit in there. Music, private, that weren't so private dm's, I"m even in there if you know the posts to look for, and what files were me, but I"m certainly on there.
@x0 was around from october 2010, to I think, april or may of 2012. in those 20 years some insane number of gb were generated. People would upload show archives, for people, there's a rather large collection of a mexican or some kind of hispanic novela.
@cordova5029 @x0 There was also no validation, so people would make backups, compress them with 7zip, add strong encryption, change the extension to .mp3 and post them there.
@cordova5029 Oh I noticed SNDUp had a validation system which broke with particular kinds of MP3 files depending I think on the way the tags were stored, I had to talk to Josh about fixing that one.
@cordova5029 @x0 LOL I didn't know about this. I did post a MIDI file to it once. The funny thing is, I don't remember if Qwitter could actually play it properly.
@x0 I can host it if needed, I have the space and such. Just don't know if we want a raw index or what w want ... but I can totally throw that up there.
@x0 Looking at this in a moment of peripheral, fleeting interest. Is there a quicker and more intuitive way of grabbing all 7 parts from Archive.org? I tried downloading a few things but was met with an error about the files being too large to compress.
@x0 I've been playing with this, pretty neat! 2 questions. How big would this be if you asked it to fetch the entire list... and how much server strain on archive.org would that be? Wondering if it would be worth my while making a local copy of all this crazyness.
@x0 Yeah, figured archive.org would have the tolerance for a mass download of a puny 289gb, lol. It just feels a bit rude though. This one agent keeps coming back for more... and more... and ...
@x0 So. After going through some of the archive via these tools, I've come up with an interesting observation. It seems that at some point, the link scheme was changed so that instead of just straight numbers in base 10, numbers were now in base 36. However, it seems as a result, older posts were duplicated so that older base-10 links still worked. For example. 50 - Good_VS._Bad_Voice (1E) is later duplicated as 180 - Good_VS._Bad_Voice (50). That is, post 50 also shows up as post 180, where it equates to 50 in base 36. Weird! So if you noticed a lot of dups, I think that's why.
@arfy @x0 You’re absolutely right of course, and I noticed that same effect. The problem is in the underlying archive, which the tools I wrote merely extract. It could (and probably should) be worked around, but I’d need to learn more about how the ID scheme works exactly.
@arfy @x0 The ID scheme works as follows. It started out as just an increasing number. Then after a while it transitioned to a base36 ID, using the digits 0-9 and the letters a-z, might be upper case. I think it was base 36 and not base 62, though it could be base 62, in which case, letters of both lower and upper case were used. Any newer style ID that consists of just digits, and thus could conflict with an older file identified under the old scheme, had an underscore at the beginning.
![Cox–Zucker machine
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cox–Zucker machine is an algorithm created by David A. Cox and Steven Zucker. This algorithm determines whether a given set of sections provides a basis (up to torsion) for the Mordell–Weil group of an elliptic surface E → S, where S is isomorphic to the projective line.[1]
The algorithm was first published in the 1979 article "Intersection numbers of sections of elliptic surfaces" by Cox and Zucker[2] and was later named the "Cox–Zucker machine" by Charles Schwartz in 1984.[1]
Name origin
The name sounds similar to the obscenity "cocksucker". This was a deliberate choice by Cox and Zucker, who conceived of the idea of coauthoring a paper in 1970, while first-year graduate students at Princeton University, for the express purpose of enabling this joke. They followed through on it five years later, as members of the faculty at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.[3] As Cox explained in a memorial tribute to Zucker in Notices of the American Mathematical Society in 2021: "A few weeks after we met, we realized that we had to write a joint paper because the combination of our last names, in the usual alphabetical order, is remarkably obscene."[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%E2%80%93Zucker_machine](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/436714 "Cox–Zucker machine
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cox–Zucker machine is an algorithm created by David A. Cox and Steven Zucker. This algorithm determines whether a given set of sections provides a basis (up to torsion) for the Mordell–Weil group of an elliptic surface E → S, where S is isomorphic to the projective line.[1]
The algorithm was first published in the 1979 article \"Intersection numbers of sections of elliptic surfaces\" by Cox and Zucker[2] and was later named the \"Cox–Zucker machine\" by Charles Schwartz in 1984.[1]
Name origin
The name sounds similar to the obscenity \"cocksucker\". This was a deliberate choice by Cox and Zucker, who conceived of the idea of coauthoring a paper in 1970, while first-year graduate students at Princeton University, for the express purpose of enabling this joke. They followed through on it five years later, as members of the faculty at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.[3] As Cox explained in a memorial tribute to Zucker in Notices of the American Mathematical Society in 2021: \"A few weeks after we met, we realized that we had to write a joint paper because the combination of our last names, in the usual alphabetical order, is remarkably obscene.\"[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%E2%80%93Zucker_machine")
![Table 3. Questionnaire sent to corresponding authors Name of corresponding author with ORCID, if available, and number of his/her SCI Data collection and analysis of the work described in this publication complies with List institutional (!) (professional) email addresses of all co-authors (in the order of Did you engage a professional agency to help write your paper? [Yes/No] If yes, If so requested by the editor, are you able and willing to provide the original data and Was the manuscript originally submitted simultaneously to other journals ? [Yes/No] Provide name and institutional email of your academic leadership:
1. Academic leader (e.g. President/ Dean)
If your work received grant support, please specify the source(s) and provide contact Please sign to confirm the following statement: “I declare that I take the responsibility that the data and content of the above-mentioned publication are authentic and that they comply with the principle of good scientific practice.”](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/436706 "Table 3. Questionnaire sent to corresponding authors Name of corresponding author with ORCID, if available, and number of his/her SCI Data collection and analysis of the work described in this publication complies with List institutional (!) (professional) email addresses of all co-authors (in the order of Did you engage a professional agency to help write your paper? [Yes/No] If yes, If so requested by the editor, are you able and willing to provide the original data and Was the manuscript originally submitted simultaneously to other journals ? [Yes/No] Provide name and institutional email of your academic leadership:
1. Academic leader (e.g. President/ Dean)
If your work received grant support, please specify the source(s) and provide contact Please sign to confirm the following statement: “I declare that I take the responsibility that the data and content of the above-mentioned publication are authentic and that they comply with the principle of good scientific practice.”")
![Bernhard A. Sabel
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the first indicator is private email of the corresponding author. I am corresponding author and did not use a private email.
Tellying rules - which is the method we used - do not involved testing of significance levels; they are a method to calculate the precision of decisions, where "sensitivity" and false alarms" are the key parameters. I suggest that you read the books by my co-author G. Gigerenzer to learn how to interpret numbers correctly (cited in our reference list). Of note: we got 90% sensitivity (=we missed 10% of known fakes) with 44/37% false alarms. These are paper not identified by our method as fake, but some proportion of them may - in fact - be true fakes when defined by other parameters. So conceptually (mot not mathematically) you can add 10% to our number and subtract 28% of the 44/37% of or false alarms, though strictly methodologically speaking this is not permissable
It is important to remember that our goal was not to identify fake papers for sure; it was to estimate the scope. Do not forget. If our 300,000 figur in biomedicine is double the true number, we still have a massive problem that we need to deal with.
Rather than focussing on methodological issues (which I always welcome), let us try to raise awareness that there is a problem we need to solve. Of note: I just learned that Spotify is now retracting thousands of AI-generated songs... The loss of trust in science is the key issue we should worry about.](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/436710 "Bernhard A. Sabel
#1
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the first indicator is private email of the corresponding author. I am corresponding author and did not use a private email.
Tellying rules - which is the method we used - do not involved testing of significance levels; they are a method to calculate the precision of decisions, where \"sensitivity\" and false alarms\" are the key parameters. I suggest that you read the books by my co-author G. Gigerenzer to learn how to interpret numbers correctly (cited in our reference list). Of note: we got 90% sensitivity (=we missed 10% of known fakes) with 44/37% false alarms. These are paper not identified by our method as fake, but some proportion of them may - in fact - be true fakes when defined by other parameters. So conceptually (mot not mathematically) you can add 10% to our number and subtract 28% of the 44/37% of or false alarms, though strictly methodologically speaking this is not permissable
It is important to remember that our goal was not to identify fake papers for sure; it was to estimate the scope. Do not forget. If our 300,000 figur in biomedicine is double the true number, we still have a massive problem that we need to deal with.
Rather than focussing on methodological issues (which I always welcome), let us try to raise awareness that there is a problem we need to solve. Of note: I just learned that Spotify is now retracting thousands of AI-generated songs... The loss of trust in science is the key issue we should worry about.")
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