NBC - President Biden venting frustration in private conversations, some of them with campaign donors, over his inability to persuade Israel to change its military tactics in the Gaza Strip, and he has named Prime Minister Netanyahu as the primary obstacle. nbcnews.com/news/investigation…
@ppatel I wonder if Donald Trump could help here. I think he claims he can usually end large conflict in 24 hours. If I were Joe Biden, I would turn to experts for help! LOL
Absolutely mind blown today. Found a website that summarizes terms of service for lots of services out there such as Facebook, Reddit, Amazon and others; ranking them from grade A, very good, to grade E, awful. Take a look and you might be shocked by some of the stuff we all miss because we don't read TOS. Needless to say, this is going in my important sites list. tosdr.org. Additionally, you can follow @ToSDR which is the official account for the site.
“Terms of Service; Didn't Read” (short: ToS;DR) is a project started in June 2012 to help fix the “biggest lie on the web”: almost no one really reads the terms of service we agree to all the time.
Low-Tech Magazine explores techniques of the past and combines them with the knowledge of today to propose more sustainable futures.
Based on this idea, Kris de Decker and Roel Roscam Abbing organize an evening exploring concepts from the Internet's history that can help create a more sustainable future internet. With talks by Kris De Decker, @rra and @timrodenbroeker
How about systems where independent publishers could own their platform? Or what about media where you actually get to see posts from those you follow?
The evening will start with short talks and then make space for a larger discussion and chats over a drink. Are you curious what fresh ideas from the past can tell us about the future and who are the people working on them? Join us at Akasha Hub in Barcelona on the 21st of February.
**Back To The Future of The Internet**
Low-Tech Magazine explores techniques of the past and combines them with the knowledge of today to propose more sustainable futures.
+ Fossify Music Player: add it to your green suite - Iqra: religious app with trackers (Crashlytics & Co) that wasn't updated for 6+ years - some other old app(s) that were continued with a new packageName
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, GitLab, Codeberg).
Hmm, ich sollte vielleicht das tatsächliche Bild mit gleicher Beleuchtung aufnehmen wie zum Abruf der Bildbeschreibung mit BeMyAI. Tja, wenn die Blinden schon mal mit Fotos rumhantieren... 😀
Zu schade, dass BeMYEyes für Android immer noch nur sehr eingeschränkt funktioniert. Das Teilen von aufgenommenen Bildern ist ebenso wenig möglich wie das Posten von Bildern in BeMyEyes hinein.
Just finisihed this & it's brilliant: Katalin Kariko's story of her life. She was convinced that mRNA therapies could work decades ago & did the foundation work, all while being ignored, never promoted & struggling for jobs.
Today, millions are vaccinated with mRNA vaccines & she has a Nobel prize.
It's a great story, and leaves a lot for the scientific system to think about. Highly recommended.
Ticking off various FOSDEM boxes today; if you go to infodesk in K and ask for RichiH, they can tell you where to find me. You can also find me opening FOSDEM on Saturday, opening the monitoring devroom on Sunday, and closing FOSDEM on Sunday. Or just send me a DM during FOSDEM and we can try and meet. I should have Prometheus & Grafana and maybe FOSDEM stickers on me, so we can trade. I'll also try to remember to send you a DM.
@RichiH I'll be around during the whole Saturday and Sunday, speaking only once on Saturday morning and will probably otherwise hang around a lot in the cafeteria areas. Let's DM, seems maybe Saturday afternoon could be a good time.
@karnasubarna Nice! LoFi Girl is one of my go-to sources, but I also made a couple old school mixtapes with some of my favorite instrumental downtempo tracks. We'll be sharing that soon!
Depends on the work. If it's got to do with words together and texts - definitely no lyrics (or lyrics in languages I don't unterstand a single word). But with anything else lyrics are no problem.
btw: Listening to music with lyrics while reading fiction in my sparetime has to be in the same language the text I read is. Otherwise I don't remember what I read a minute ago :)
Night Drive by Timecop1983 is one of my goto albums to focus. It’s not completely without lyrics, but there aren’t many, and it works for me. I think there is also an instrumental-only version.
@truls46 Same. I used to listen to music while working occasionally, but in recent years have usually found it too distracting, with or without lyrics.
Interesting! I can manage to listen to instrumental music if I'm working in a spreadsheet or doing something more administrative that doesn't require writing. But the second any level of creative writing is required -- even writing an email -- I normally need silence, too.
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@phils First of all: excellent music taste! But you possess concentration skills I will never have -- I'd be too compelled to *watch* or at the very least sing along 😜
If I am writing, mostly no music, but sometimes Japanese ambient or really repetitive dub reggae. However, the music can't help but get into the writing.
It's complicated, and lyrics really aren't important. 😆 I usually have a catchy tune anyway, so I often put on that very track so I can surf the mental wave. Or I need some unobtrusive background noise, but then, it's often not music at all, but some old-fashioned linear TV in the background, something I don't really care about. On very rare occasions, I pick music that really clashes with whatever tune is stuck in my head, but that only works for certain kinds of creative tasks, getting myself into some kind of "anti-flow", trying not to get too comfortable. 😅
music designed to be in the background is mostly ok. For instance dance music like techno. Fiddle tunes are sort of similar, but I get distracted listening to them because I might want to learn them. The "learn a new tune" task beckons.
If you're on Spotify, I made a Music For Coding To playlist specifically without vocals. (I've been told accountants also like it, and call it Music To Excel To?!)
I had a phase of listening to music while programming. It felt energising and I'd get in a rhythm. Mostly game music, because there's fewer lyrics. Darren Korb's tracks for the Supergiant Games games (especially Transistor) are awesome!
Provided to YouTube by Sparks & ShadowsSomething Dark Is Coming · Bear McCrearyBattlestar Galactica: Season 2 (Original Soundtrack) (Remastered)℗ 2021 Sparks...
I'm listening mostly English songs, but I'm not a native speaker and it Is hard to me to understand lyrics, so for me is singing like another music instrument.
In my last job the radio was playing all the time and I learned to tune it out after a while. Personally I only listen to music when it's lighter work and not too focus-intensive. I find instrumentals distracting as well because I hear the names of the notes as they play so I'll have this beautiful track playing and my mind will be like "E F# G# E B G F#" in the background.
Not in a professional capacity but I feel that! It's not even just music it's the melody of birds chirping, rustling leaves...anything but the task on hand 😀
I have the same problem. I usually listen to the playlist Hackers Coffee on Spotify. But also sometimes on french jazz as I don't understand french making it less distracting than languages I do understand.
music without lyrics. I find the “beats to think to” playlist from Spotify (or actually an old version of it that I exported to Apple Music) hits the sweet spot and helps me get in the zone and focus. Works for many colleagues too who I recommended it too.
@thunderbird And if I’m not in the mood for bounce/want something calmer, than some quiet classical music (preferably piano), such as Ludovico Einaudi, Yiruma or one of the suitable Apple Classical playlists (Piano Chill, Calm Classical, etc) where I actually discovered those artists in the first place.
(And yes, my taste in music is actually quite eclectic 😄).
#LOOPING #RONE Avec L(oo)ping, Rone nous embarque dans une expérience à part. Un projet hors norme réalisé par Louise Narboni, mené avec l’Orchestre National...
No lyrics for me either. I used to listen to Pandora's Journey channel on YouTube. My old video games MP3s I downloaded when I was a teen do the job as well 🤓
@maelmorin I've recently been listening to random Halo and Final Fantasy soundtracks (specifically the Piano Collections) and they're great for focusing up!
Tracklist (Trying to get video chapters working, if anyone knows why I can't see it LMK)0:00:00 Eternity Memories of Light & waves - X-20:06:21 J-E-N-O-V-A -...
I find the genre, artist or album doesn't really matter. The more familiar I am with the song, the more likely it is it'll become background music and I can focus on work. My recommendation is Carpenter Brut's 'Trilogy', for all my fellow 80s dark synth fans out there.
It's fascinating how different our tendencies can be when it comes to focusing. The more familiar I am with a song, the more likely I am to be drawn into it.
Without. What I need varies, but for focus I find nothing really beats a pink nose generator. Gregorian chant also works. Plainsong works ok if I haven't listened to it in a long time, but if it's in a language I understand eventually I'll start picking out words, at which point it stops working. (I studied Latin but I never got to where I could understand it being spoken.)
I usually go for something without lyrics if I want to focus. The Super Meat Boy or Hotline Miami soundtracks are very good for that. If I'm not in the mood for that kind of music, I'll put on metal with hard to understand vocals. 😅 For any other occasion, i.e. low brain consumption work, I'll put on whatever metal or hardrock album comes up on shuffle. 🤘
@mforester Great call on those particular game soundtracks. I haven't listened to them intentionally, but played the games way back when and the energy is perfect!
For focus music, I lose myself in this Plastikman x Endel 12 hour epic. There's a Part 2 just as long available as well. youtube.com/watch?v=mfqcgALDLL…
Download the Endel app for a fully personalized experience based on your own location and inputs: https://endel.page.link/beatport Richie Hawtin aka PLASTIKM...
I usually listen to music with lyrics when I am not doing anything and soundtrack when doing something. Also, "No time for caution" when doing serious stuff :p
I have one pipeline for processing words in my brain. If music has lyrics, it occupies it. If I need to concentrate, then this process also requires access to this pipeline. So it's one or the other. But music without lyrics does not require it, so it's fine. Sometimes even helps by cutting out noise from around.
My favorites:
Soma FM Groove Salad internet radio
Diablo 2 and Torchlight 2 soundtracks by Matt Uelmen
I do listen to music when I work, almost exclusively "space ambient". Definitely no lyrics. A good example is Stellardrone: stellardrone.bandcamp.com/trac…
usually I put on music that I don’t really like, lyrics or not. Just enough to keep my brain distracted from wandering but not enough to get me karaokeing
How inappropriate would be to say that sometimes I listen to my own music and link it here as a "focus" track to make it into the Thuderbird's playlist?
When having to focus a lot I really love listening to my FLACs of Death - Leprosy such a good album 😻
Generally any extreme subgenre of metal / punk rock works pretty well, if the lyrics are being screamed/growls its less distracting. The brain™ can just scream along in the background so the part of the brain working on the task in the foreground doesn't get distracted 🧠
Normally I like total silence. But if there are disturbing noises (which usually is for some time) I go with non-lyrics electronic chillout. Best for me is Study with Miku Part 1-3: open.spotify.com/intl-de/artis… (it's on YouTube too for free and official) There really is not much music I can listen to when working. Also music from "Space Night" works.
If I want to be in the zone, it's got to be something I know cold. There are a lot that work for me, but 3 good ones are: * Beethoven's Missa Solemnis * Any Kleptones up to Uptime/Downtime * Any of David Byrne's covers playlists, including the Fatboy Slim curated Beatles covers.
My “force myself to be productive” playlist is just this one track on an endless loop: “Ping Island/Lightning Strike Rescue Op” from Mark Mothersbaugh’s score for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.
Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupPing Island/Lightning Strike Rescue Op · Mark MothersbaughThe Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou℗ 2004 Disney Enterpr...
Music in a language I don't know, preferably with some energy. Punjabi folk metal is a fine choice - Bloodywood's Machi Bhasad or Rang De Basanti are favorites
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.
This is mind-blowingly bad. Most up-to-date study on Atlantic Ocean currents system shows signals of collapse. This could happen in 2025-2095 with 95% probability. Land to grow wheat may drop by half. Winter temperatures in Northern Europe could drop between 10 and 30 °C. "Once we have a definite warning signal it will be too late to do anything about it, given the inertia in the system",says @rahmstorf,one of the greatest experts in the field. 1/🧵 1/5
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StreetPass: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef… Automatically discovers mastodon accounts on any web page you visit. Keeps a list so you can browse accounts at your convenience.
Download Mastodon – Simplified Federation! for Firefox. Simplifies following or interacting with other users on remote Mastodon instances in the Fediverse.
- #ski pistes - #aerialways - 3D-visualisation of the terrain - various useful POI, such as #guideposts, information boards, #restaurants mountain #rescue stations, ...
All data is of course based on #OpenStreetMap (with the addition of height data and aerial imagery of course)
This might or might not be created because @pietervdvn went #skiing last week ;)
It would help users migrating from queer.af if you would temporarily add the following to /etc/hosts:
65.108.48.233 queer.af
The domain was suspended this morning without warning.
For users attempting to migrate, there’s an alias domain for the UI setup at: queer-af.alioth.systems
Thank you everyone for flying queer.af; sorry for the abrupt end, but it was out of my control, and you were all (hopefully) aware of this possibility anwyay.
queer.af, an eclectic queer space
queer.af is a mastodon instance for those who are queer or queer-adjacent who would like a more pleasant social media experience.
Privatiza, que o Mercado auto-regula-se. Contra o consumidor. Depois podes sempre dizer que "a culpa é dos impostos". Confia, Joca. "Lucro histórico. Resultados líquidos da Galp aumentam para mil milhões de euros em 2023" tsf.pt/3256370800/lucro-histor…
Ač se tu moc nepohybuju, v budoucnost ActivityPub stále věřím! O víkendu jsem svůj web defragment.tech zapojil do fediverse. Sledovat ho můžete skrz @blog
In this post on the @TetraLogical blog, I ask Bard (now Gemini), ChatGPT from OpenAI, and Fix My Code from userway for help writing accessible code: tetralogical.com/blog/2024/02/…
Like many inventions before it, Generative AI is changing the way we do things. Like those inventions that went before it, Generative AI is capable of great good and great harm, and like the humans that used those inventions before us, we need to be …
Existing #Skiff users can't switch to #Tuta because forwarding isn't possible: if you add a rule for forwarding from Skiff to Tuta you never get the verification eMail(s).
@dnkrupinski The manual forwarding of mails should not cause any problems. If these verification emails are not arriving, please send any error messages you receive to our support team at hello@tutao.de.
@aisutee No, there's no pgp integration yet. Right now we work on making our encryption quantum-proof; we'll see if/how we can support pgp as well once that project is finished.
I have both, in this case returning back to Tuta accounts (actually it was the recover basement anyway) So it's time to make Tuta more featured with Notes, Pages, Drive, connecting with wallets etc.
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Technology ... has always been political. I’ve very little time for discussions which try to separate “tech” and “politics”.
The same is true with licensing models.
Over the last couple of years, I’ve seen more people talking about “ethical licensing”. And, while I’ve yet to see an “ethical licence” come up in the course of my work, I thought it might be an interesting topic for a blog post.
Interesting post. My view is ethical licences are trying to do too much in hanging on copyright law. The advantage of FOSS is that it's just setting down rules around the hinges of copyright (conveying copies of the work, etc). This seems a lot hazier and more complicated. If a party finds themselves with a copy of a work they legally accessed, can they be compelled to adopt certain behaviour in order to be allowed to run it? I don't know, but I'm dubious. What about an entity that is in compliance at time t0 but not time t1...
I think stuff like the copyrfarleft can be desirable, just not sure if licences are the right tool. Of the ones I've seen I think the peer production licence is the one that seems most plausibly binding: civicwise.org/peer-production-…
This seems a lot hazier and more complicated. If a party finds themselves with a copy of a work they legally accessed, can they be compelled to adopt certain behaviour in order to be allowed to run it?
Hmm... I'm not sure I agree, aside from complexities of interpretation.
My sense would be that this is not too different from many licences, which dictate who can do what with the software, in what situations.
I think the substantive difference is those licences usually have a contractual nature (there's mutual agreement (real or constructed/fictional) and consideration). But FOSS licences don't operate like this, they derive their powers from copyright law alone, no? In which case...
There's a lot written about this, and it probably depends on jurisdiction, but a lot of commentary approaches FOSS licensing as contracts embodying licences.
Yes... I'm not absolutely clear on the bounds of this myself. A licence seems to me to be unilateral in principle. But the logic of a licence that requires an ongoing obligation to do (or not to do) seems more the terrain of contract. In civil law we're not absolutely opposed to a contract without quid pro quo (in some European codes donation is a contract) but one still gets weird results. Also if licencing of this type constitutes a donation I don't want to think of the tax implications of that. shudder
A licence seems to me to be unilateral in principle.
This feels odd to me.
I can grant my neighbour a licence to come into my garden to trim their hedge, but I don't see as meaning that they can come into it for another reason, or that it would apply to anyone else?
Mm, good point, need to think about it a little further. It's difficult because while my intuitive sense for a right erga omnes like excluding people from coming into your yard is reasonably strong, my intuition for someone being able to stop someone else to do arbitrary things with their computer is a lot less well-formed. But that doesn't mean the law agrees with me.
Context is critical. That's especially true when learning a new language like Chinese. Every day, get a bite-size story to study, straight to your inbox.
🔴El CIS coloca al BNG en el Gobierno de la Xunta de Galicia y acerca al PP a su mínimo histórico
📊El estudio para las elecciones gallegas pone al PP en mínimos históricos con entre 34 y 38 diputados; rompe con creces el techo de Ana Pontón otorgándole entre 24 y 31 actas; y pone al PSdeG por debajo de su suelo electoral con entre 9 y 14👇elsaltodiario.com/elecciones/c…
El estudio para las elecciones gallegas pone al PP en mínimos históricos con entre 34 y 38 diputados; rompe con creces el techo de Ana Pontón otorgándole entre 24 y 31 actas; y pone al PSdeG por debajo de su suelo electoral con entre 9 y 14.
Encountering an app with buttons that cannot be focused using a screen reader is frustrating but not uncommon. It's known that Google itself may design apps
> The question of whether SARS-CoV-2 is mainly transmitted by droplets or aerosols has been highly controversial.
> For most of human history, the dominant paradigm was that many diseases were carried by the air, often over long distances and in a phantasmagorical way. This miasmatic paradigm was challenged in the mid to late 19th century with the rise of germ theory, and as diseases such as cholera, puerperal fever, and malaria were found to actually transmit in other ways. Motivated by his views on the importance of contact/droplet infection, and the resistance he encountered from the remaining influence of miasma theory, prominent public health official Charles Chapin in 1910 helped initiate a successful paradigm shift, deeming airborne transmission most unlikely. This new paradigm became dominant. However, the lack of understanding of aerosols led to systematic errors in the interpretation of research evidence on transmission pathways. For the next five decades, airborne transmission was considered of negligible or minor importance for all major respiratory diseases, until a demonstration of airborne transmission of tuberculosis (which had been mistakenly thought to be transmitted by droplets) in 1962. The contact/droplet paradigm remained dominant, and only a few diseases were widely accepted as airborne before COVID-19: those that were clearly transmitted to people not in the same room. The acceleration of interdisciplinary research inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that airborne transmission is a major mode of transmission for this disease, and is likely to be significant for many respiratory infectious diseases.
The question of whether SARS-CoV-2 is mainly transmitted by droplets or aerosols has been highly controversial. We sought to explain this controversy through a historical analysis of transmission research in other diseases.
Nejen na tyto otázky odpovídá Ali Almossawi v Ilustrované knize argumentačních klamů. Publikace je dostupná zdarma.
Do češtiny byla přeložena volně dostupná kniha, která by mohla patřit k základnímu vzdělání v kritickém myšlení.
Los agentes de la Policía Municipal de Madrid redactaron más de 200 informes sobre la situación de las residencias de la capital en los primeros meses de la pandemia.
As part of my dissertation project, I'm aiming to collect a large research sample to help construct a validated measure on Teacher Attitudes towards Multilingualism.
If you are a teacher (primary, secondary, tertiary education), and you teach multilingual students, could I please ask for 10 minutes of your time?
Na husté síti v rybí líhni se zachytávají miliony drobných jiker. „Vznáší se ve vodě. Naberu vodu, abych jikry pročistil, pak ji sleju a přeliji jikry opatrně do válce,“ popisuje Zbyněk Janči.
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Mason @realMasonMohon:
You have a pride flag in your bio. You obviously think marriage is a term with no actual content that can be applied to anything. No wonder we say you don't understand marriage [face with tears of joy emoji]
Ephraim Stone @TEStoneWrites:
The rainbow in my bio is a reminder that G-D will never again bring destruction to creation, that His covenants are eternal, that his word is unfailing, and that His gifts to my foremothers and forefathers are everlasting.
Mason @realMasonMohon:
Apologies for misunderstanding. As l'm sure you know, many others use it to represent something else
Ephraim Stone @TEStoneWrites:
I also suck dick
11:18 PM • 2/9/24 From Earth](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/518202 "Screenshot of a 4 post conversation:
Mason @realMasonMohon:
You have a pride flag in your bio. You obviously think marriage is a term with no actual content that can be applied to anything. No wonder we say you don't understand marriage [face with tears of joy emoji]
Ephraim Stone @TEStoneWrites:
The rainbow in my bio is a reminder that G-D will never again bring destruction to creation, that His covenants are eternal, that his word is unfailing, and that His gifts to my foremothers and forefathers are everlasting.
Mason @realMasonMohon:
Apologies for misunderstanding. As l'm sure you know, many others use it to represent something else
Ephraim Stone @TEStoneWrites:
I also suck dick
11:18 PM • 2/9/24 From Earth")
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