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Ah ben y'a pas que de mauvaises nouvelles:
"Alain Soral condamné en dernière instance à de la prison ferme pour discrimination et incitation à la haine homophobe"
stophomophobie.com/suisse-alai…

Suisse : Alain Soral condamné en dernière instance à de la prison ferme pour discrimination et incitation à la haine homophobe - Association STOP Homophobie

Suisse, Alain Soral, Tamedia, Cathy Macherel, LGBT, Queer, homophobie, homosexuel, haine homophobe, diffamation, discrimination,
Revue du Web (STOP Homophobie)

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Greece becomes first EU country to ban bottom fishing in marine protected areas

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Tuesday (16 April) a ban on bottom trawling in the country’s marine protected areas (MPAs), the first such fishing ban in Europe.

euractiv.com/section/agricultu…


Greece becomes first EU country to ban bottom fishing in marine protected areas

Hugo Struna (EURACTIV)

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We have a new This week in #FDroid (TWIF) post.

Thanks to the EU's DMA, 3rd party stores will get more love and treated more equally than before.

Tailscale is doing a redesign, until that's done we've released the crash fix update.

Conversations and Quicksy have their 10th anniversary and celebrate with a design update.

Last but not least, we had 10 new and 160 updated apps this week.

f-droid.org/2024/04/18/twif.ht…


Maintaining ownership | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

TWIF generated on Thursday, 18 Apr 2024, Week 16F-Droid coreUpdate 1.20.0-alpha1 added “tighter integration with the unattended updates code for Android 14 a...
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“I think it’s really important to realize that you could have voted for Donald Trump in November of 2020, and then saw January 6, and then see him find himself under four criminal indictments [and that might change your opinion],” Conway added. “What we’ve seen in focus groups, and even with the folks that we’ve been mobilizing, are that there’s a lot of 2020 Trump voters who say: ‘This guy has lost his mind since the last time I voted for him’.”

RE: threads.net/@gtconway3/post/C5…


George Conway (@gtconway3) on Threads

‘This guy has lost his mind since I voted for him’: Can these ex-Trump voters swing it for Biden? @andrew_feinberg reports on a $50 million ad campaign focused on reaching out to Trump loyalists — and whether it has a realistic chance of changing th…
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Start saving money for that M4 Ultra with 500GB! Maybe this could be the first open source that could surpass GPT-4! AIatMeta: "Llama 3 8B & 70B models are just the beginning of what we’re working to release for Llama 3. Our largest models currently in the works are 400B+ parameters and while they’re still in active development, we’re excited about how this work is trending." #LLM #AI #ML twitter.com/AIatMeta/status/17…
#AI #ML #llm

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I made a new Mastodon bot, called "I Hope This Email Finds You.” Twice a day it proposes a novel way to conclude that sentence that opens so many emails. (It uses phrases from Google Books that include the phrase “finds you.”) I've been having fun reading these, so I turned it into a bot because you, too, might have fun reading them. botsin.space/@thisemailfindsyo…

I Hope This Email Finds You (@thisemailfindsyou@botsin.space)

I hope this email finds you under a balcony and kisses you in the shadows until there's nothing left of you but sparkling fairy dust, and in your weakened state, you ask if she wants to hang out next weekend, and her face clouds and she goes, “Ohhh."
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What are 'orphan crops'? And why is there a new campaign to get them adopted? - NPR apple.news/Aw8KCvXzwTlqrut0w8w…

What are 'orphan crops'? And why is there a new campaign to get them adopted? — NPR

The grass pea is one: a hardy crop that can thrive in a drought. An agriculturist is spearheading an effort to diversity what farmers grow as climate change threatens staples like corn and wheat.
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Nearly half of China's major cities are sinking, researchers say - Reuters apple.news/AkkICxNTPSNCdnGqg47…

Nearly half of China's major cities are sinking, researchers say — Reuters

Nearly half of China's major cities are suffering "moderate to severe" levels of subsidence, putting millions of people at risk of flooding especially as sea levels rise, according to a study of nationwide satellite data released on Friday.
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Love this theory by @alexhern that the reason ChatGPT uses words like "delve" a lot is that OpenAI outsource a lot of their RLHF annotation to workers in Nigeria, and Nigerian formal English has a slightly different vocabulary theguardian.com/technology/202…

TechScape: How cheap, outsourced labour in Africa is shaping AI English

Workers in Africa have been exploited first by being paid a pittance to help make chatbots, then by having their own words become AI-ese. Plus, new AI gadgets are coming for your smartphones
Alex Hern (The Guardian)
@Alex Hern

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I wish I knew more about this project in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
I suspect this is part of bus driver training.

I'm imagining the DMV making it a part of every driving test for your license. Some people learn best by experiencing the consequences of their actions from the victim's perspective.

#BikeTooter #ShareTheRoad #DrivingSafety

#biketooter #sharetheroad #drivingsafety

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I like to minimize the size of binaries I build. Unremovable debugging strings annoyed me, so I've added an option to completely neuter `Debug::fmt` in #Rustlang

github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull…


debug-fmt-detail option by kornelski · Pull Request #123940 · rust-lang/rust

I'd like to propose a new option that makes #[derive(Debug)] generate no-op implementations that don't print anything, and makes {:?} in format strings a no-op. There are a couple of motivations fo...
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#RustLang

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New beta release of Sonata-for-NVDA, formaly known as Piper-for-NVDA
NVDA 2024.1 compatibility
Support for fast variants for Piper voices. These fast variants improves responsiveness significantly because they use streaming synthesis
Improvements to responsiveness and speed across the board
Release page:
github.com/mush42/sonata-nvda/…
Direct download link:
github.com/mush42/sonata-nvda/…

Release v3.0-beta.1 · mush42/sonata-nvda

What's new NVDA 2024.1 compatibility Changed the name to Sonata since we plan to support additional TTS models besides Piper in the future. Support for fast variants for Piper voices. These fast v...
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This is a great piece, and confirms the broader scale of a piece I did a long time ago: Apple has "must shred" agreements with e-waste recyclers that require them to destroy devices that could easily be repaired/refurbished/reused after having data wiped

bloomberg.com/news/features/20…


Apple iPhone Recycling Program Has Secrets

Apple touts its network of shredding robots and contractors as a greener way to reuse old gadgets. A lengthy court battle and a Businessweek investigation have cast some light on the recycling industry’s dirty secrets.
Austin Carr (Bloomberg)

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We now have a custom-made leather carrying case for the BT Speak, available from Turtleback. Details including a description of the case's features along with limited time promotional pricing are available here.
groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/67…
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For BT Speak Customers: Exciting News! Custom-made Leather Cases for the BT Speak From Turtleback are Now Ready to Order

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