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#NativeInstruments Summer of Sound sale is now live.

From the website:

Summer of Sound has come back around, and it’s bigger and better than ever. For the first time, we’re offering 50% off all KOMPLETE 14 bundles, as well as all individual instruments, effects, Expansions, and upgrades. Don’t miss unbeatable hardware and software bundles, 50% off TRAKTOR PRO 3, and even half-price deals from our partners at iZotope.

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#nativeinstruments

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audiogame-manager

stormdragon2976 pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project Some very experimental changes. Thanks to @bgtlover we now have tolk support. This means that Survive the Wild works for the most part. Also, the game Christmas Chaos works too.

There is a bit of a bug in the clipboard reader, but it only seems to show up during the forms in STW. I’ll see what I can do about getting it fixed, but in the mean time, you may have a bit of trouble creating a new account.

Please note that as the Tolk support improves, the way audiogame-manager interacts with it may also change. instructions will be provided if manual intervention is required.


audiogame-manager

Installer and launcher for Windows based audio games under wine for Linux.
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bgt lover

re: audiogame-manager
precisely, that way, you don't have to have a server per bridge. If that's undesirable, I can make an entirely new server altogether, but I did it this way to maintain compatibility with that one, since if we have to have a middleman, at least we should have a single one. I'm unsure whether I'll continue this project, with the rest I have planned for it, since it's good enough at what it does. However, if I do, I may add improvements to the server, for example being able to change the speech rate, volume, punctuation and so on, but hopefully those would only be a superset of the existing server, so it'll still maintain compatibility with the nvda2speechd one. Also, I still get the arrow keys issue, now it's most keys, however it doesn't happen when I run this in bottles for example. May it be using some kind of directx or direct input for capturing certain things? I gotta see what does bottles install differently in its prefixes.
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Billy

re: audiogame-manager

I really like the idea of using the same server for both projects.

Oh, I meant to let you know, I actually got to log in to STW today, and the arrow keys work for me. The AGM installer is very minimal for it, so I’m not sure why it would be giving you problems, unless you have something else installed in the same bottle with different requirements that conflict something needed by STW?

I’ll get started on testing the new tolk stuff now. I’ll let you know how it goes.

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We ( @bkeegan @MattNicholson @blakeley ) are researchers at University of Colorado Boulder conducting a survey about social media platform migration. If you are at least 18 and have used Twitter and/or Mastodon you are eligible to share your experiences with leaving (or choosing not to leave) Twitter and/or joining (or choosing not to join) Mastodon. You can optionally provide your email address to enter a drawing for a $75 gift card. Please boost! Survey link: cuboulder.qualtrics.com/jfe/fo…

Qualtrics Survey | Social Media Platform Migration Survey

The purpose of this research is to explore the factors that lead to and challenges of leaving and joining social media platforms, including federated social media.
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Calendario de eventos para hoy 26 y 27 #GNOME Latam 2023.

Tenga en cuenta que el evento está programado en la hora local de Zacatecas, México.

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Heya, we did the thing!

GoToSocial v0.9.0 Spicy Sloth is out now 🌶️ 🔥

This release was fun to work on, and we hope you enjoy using it! The project is slowly and steadily maturing and getting better :gtspat:

Big thank you to all contributors, folks who opened issues, instance admins who let us know weird stuff was happening, people who seem to like the code, and people who give us money to write the code!

You can get the release from here: github.com/superseriousbusines…

Highlights:

  • PROFILE FIELDS will now be federated. This means you can set key/value fields on your profile, just like other Fedi softwares already have, and they will federate in and out properly! It may take up to 2 days to start seeing fields on remote profiles, be patient ;)
  • Kickass new layout for web view of profiles, including fields!
  • Initial support for request tracing (github.com/superseriousbusines…)
  • "Subscribe" to an account you follow to receive notifications when they create a new post! (AKA "click the bell" functionality.) Very useful for catching posts of followed accounts who don't post very often.
  • Automatic remote status refetching to get up-to-date replies + edits.
  • Performance improvements for message sending: you can now configure the rate at which messages will be federated outwards, better spacing out CPU usage and avoiding issues with rate-limiting.
  • Lots of caching performance improvements; things should feel generally snappier.
  • Suspend accounts from right within the admin panel by clicking through from reports.
  • We added a whole bunch of trans rights to the code 🏳️‍⚧️ The code has so much trans rights in it now. If you don't like trans rights, you won't like this code.

gotosocial/observability.md at main · superseriousbusiness/gotosocial

Fast, fun, ActivityPub server, powered by Go. Contribute to superseriousbusiness/gotosocial development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Just saw a blog post about someone just... feeding tons and tons of personal information into a GPT4 model for personal assistant purposes and I don't get it. I just don't get it. It doesn't matter how many times we shout the dangers of not caring about privacy from all the roof tops in the world. People just don't care. What's the point. Gah this is so damn demotivating. OpenAI even tells you that they'll totally use that data and you shouldn't give it to them. You have to click next like 5 times before you get to the point of being able to do that very thing. And people still do. This is why we're losing. It's actually insane.
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Mohamed Al-Hajamy 💾

I think it's just a matter of people having other things they care about. Sure, you can tell people that company name sells your data to blah blah blah don't give it to them but like, whoever wrote the blog post you mentioned probably gets at least some level of value out of the summaries, so even if they are aware of the risks, they might be fine with giving their data to OpenAI because they feel the trade-off is worth it.

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Meet the #LibreOffice community at events around the world! We were recently in north Italy, for instance: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
LibreOffice community in Italy

LibreOffice Community at Events in Italy, Spring 2023 - The Document Foundation Blog

Emiliano Vavassori, Deputy Chairperson in The Document Foundation’s Board of Directors, give us an update on recent events in Italy: Linux Arena at Fiera del Radioamatore – Pordenone, April 23rd and 24th As in every spring, the Pordenone Linux Users …
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Twitter bloquea la cuenta de un candidato socialista por subir una foto de la boda de dos mujeres

La red social ha suspendido el perfil del número dos del PSPV al Ayuntamiento de Valencia tras una campaña de denuncias de un grupo de ultraderecha

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Twitter bloquea la cuenta de un candidato socialista por subir una foto de la boda de dos mujeres

Twitter ha bloqueado la cuenta del número dos de la lista del PSPV al Ayuntamiento de Valencia, Borja Sanjuan, por negarse a eliminar un tuit que incluía una foto de la boda de su hermana con su mujer.
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Nevěříte na klimatické změny? Stejně byste měli chtít čistější vzduch. Znečištěné ovzduší emisemi částic je totiž podobný zabiják lidí jako kouření cigaret. Alkohol a drogy daleko vzadu. Na 36% obyvatel světa dopadne 73% ztracených roků života způsobených znečištěním ovzduší. bit.ly/2YcaMWb

New Index finds air pollution reduces global life expectancy by nearly 2 years, making it the single greatest threat to human health | EPIC

Fossil fuel-driven particulate air pollution cuts global average life expectancy by 1.8 years per person, according to a new pollution index and accompanying report produced by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC).
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(...) providers of IT services related to open source software are welcome to apply:

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Commission moves to a fully electronic, flexible procurement process for the acquisition of software licences and associated services

DG Informatics (DIGIT) of the European Commission has launched an improved dynamic purchasing system for software licences and associated services (SIDE III DPS).
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Today's #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid brings you 14 updated and 1 new apps:

* DroidFrida: portable frida injector for rooted android devices

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
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#android #free #fdroid #apps #AndroidAppRain #IzzySoftRepo

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¡ANA ROSA, PILLADA! Por ESTO está en Contra la LEY DE LA VIVIENDA | NOTICIAS BÁSICAS

Hoy, 25/05 en Noticias Básicas, hablamos del conflicto de intereses de la capo de Telecinco que ataca la regulación de viviendas turísticas mientras gestiona 44 pisos en zonas exclusivas; también viajamos a la Edad Media para hablar de la imputación judicial contra tres trabajadores de TV3 que realizaron un sketch humorístico con la Virgen del Rocío; tratamos el caso de Mar Salas, 👇

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Question for blind macOS users: Is Apple's Terminal app the only terminal that works with VoiceOver, or are there others? Yes, I know it's common for blind macOS users who rely on the terminal to use an in-terminal screen reader like tdsr (github.com/tspivey/tdsr), but I have a specific reason for asking about terminal access with VO.

GitHub - tspivey/tdsr: A console screen reader for macOS and Linux

A console screen reader for macOS and Linux. Contribute to tspivey/tdsr development by creating an account on GitHub.
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miki

VS Code kind of works, ish, but VO will *never* work well in *ANY* terminal application, not without terrible and ugly hacks at least, due to the way they manage (or rather not manage) queued speech, which is… pretty incompatible with what you’d want from a console. You’d either need Apple Script, I believe there’s an “is VO speaking” action, or you’d need to go the native TTS route and parse VO’s plist files to get the speech settings.

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Not much to say about #AMD outside of that huge gap up after #NVDA earnings. Wow. 📈

Options data is likely going to be messy on AMD today and tomorrow as people take profits and contracts get assigned.

Dark pool sentiment for #AMD is still positive and the biggest dark pool level for the moment is $107.46 (by a lot).

Some bearish dark pool trades came through last night for AMD and NVDA, so exercise caution playing here at the top. Many traders will want to take profits, some will get greedy, and AI is uncharted territory.

The market will likely pick winners in the AI race and will likely pick them violently. Just don't find yourself without a chair when the music stops.

Not financial advice. Do your homework.

#stocks #trading #options

#nvda #stocks #options #amd #trading

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TIL that "spool" as used in "print spooler" is an acronym that stands for "Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On Line". Image is an excerpt from Inside AppleTalk, Second Edition, page 14-3.

Although there may be some disagreement: is it a backronym? (Missing verification.) See the Wikipedia page for more. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spooling

*Edited to include backronym reference from Wikipedia page.

#RetroComputing #VintageComputing

THE WORD SPOOL is an acronym for Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On Line, and a print spooler is a hardware application or a software application (or both) that is used to store data on a disk temporarily until the printer is ready to process it. Since the print spooler handles the interaction required with the printer in order to accomplish the printing process, use of a spooler frees the originating computer, such as an Apple Macintosh computer, to perform other activities during the printing process. This chapter describes AppleTalk print spooling in general and compares printing with a spooler to printing without a spooler. In addition, since print spooling can be accomplished either by a spooler/server or as a background process on the originating computer, this chapter also compares these two options.

intermediate store of data

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Tom Greene

I almost didn't believe it... but I found this description in an IBM document from 1966. (source: archive.org/details/bitsavers_…)
In some programming systems, either batch or SPOOL file-to-file utilities can be processed. Batch file-to-file utilities are run independently when no other program is being run. SPOOL (Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On Line) utility programs are designed to maximize total job throughput. For example, if one program does not require the full I/O capacity of the system, other peripheral operations can concurrently use the I/O facilities that would otherwise be idle. Also, a program that normally uses slow speed I/O devices (such as printers, card readers, and card punches) can direct its output to high speed I/O devices (such as magnetic tape or disk units). Later, a SPOOL operation can transfer this data from the high-speed to a low-speed I/O device if concurrent programs do not need this pair of I/O devices.

ibm :: 360 :: fe :: 2030 :: Y24-3360-1 2030 FE Theory Opns Jun67 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

From the bitsavers.org collection, a scanned-in computer-related document.ibm :: 360 :: fe :: 2030 :: Y24-3360-1 2030 FE Theory Opns Jun67
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According to a new report from Secureworks, endpoint attack vectors that include email, popular operating systems, and apps are on the rise.

In response to attacks by way of Android apps, Google has removed thousands of nefarious apps that had the capability to launch malware enabling developers to launch a wide array of attacks including Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, Man-in-the-Middle (MitM), and Ransomware attacks.

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Cybersecurity Attacks Launched From Operating Systems & Apps On The Rise – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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ITmodulo

I think we need to be more precise with statements such as "support intrusive apps".

This is true in case where those apps are preinstalled by vendor with no possibility to remove. Also the whole GMS case.

The fact that it's nearly impossible to buy phone without built-in telemetry scares me.

Just keep in mind that community based #lineageos and #DivestOS are Android but doesn't include or support this crap.

Thank you for effort you put into mobile Linux development!

#lineageos #DivestOS

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The Podcast Show London 2023 is now over. 😭
But as a grande finale, I was lucky enough to attend a terrific live podcast recording. 🎙️🎭
Can you guess which one?!
Hint: it's about PODcasting, it brings NEWS, it's WEEKLY and it REVIEWs everything you need to know.
Oh and it's hosted by the brilliant @james & @samsethi.
🙃 ʍǝᴉʌǝɹ ʎlʞǝǝM sʍǝupoԀ 🙃
James Cridland & Sam Sethi
@Sam Sethi ⁂ @James Cridland
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