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I’ve suffered through many over-the-top renditions of the national anthem, but the one from this year’s Republican convention was by far the most extra. They threw in an orchestra, a choir, and at least eighty-seven key changes. I can’t even. Please just sing the damn song FFS. youtube.com/watch?v=h8MqnFQw3q…

The National Anthem rarely heard before/full version:from night 4 of RNC Conv #NationalAnthem #usa

Original video: https://www.youtube.com/live/2JVWSh6E-ZQ?si=TryXI1RQPJxR1-v8Sandi Patty's original versionhttps://youtu.be/Bg-3Ll2UPcQ?si=zCql4ezSXoyOwSSxIf ...
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Wo, that was quite a spectacle! I would remove vocal tracks and leave everything else in place. That sounded like a musical almost. A simple brass orchestra would suffice? :)
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That orchestral arrangement reminds me of an evangelical Christian singer named Sandi Patty whose career peaked in the 80s, so, during my childhood. Yes, she did key changes like that, too. Of course, she's well past her prime now.

Somewhat to my surprise, the rendition you linked *was* Sandi Patty's arrangement. Sounds like that other singer used the same track. I don't actually recall hearing Sandi Patty's version of the national anthem growing up.

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@matt I was just watching it with Jamie and we were speculating that it was a backing track, since she never actually saw any instruments or performers. That makes so much sense! Thanks.
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For many in the target audience at the convention, that performance probably brought back memories of the Reagan era, when Sandi Patty's version came out.
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@matt Oh wow, you just reminded me. She narrated a heavily abridged version of the bible for kids that I used to listen to growing up. I don’t remember most of it but I am sure it was super formative. Holy crap. I haven’t thought about that in years. I don’t think I knew she was a singer though.
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I hate to disappoint, but I actually don't remember that either. Maybe that was one of her later projects, after I was the right age for it.
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No, that was 1987. Go figure. I'm sure we never had that on cassette.
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@matt Oh yeah, I know of Sandi Patty. Yeah, she's definitely past her prime these days, but she did used to do key changes like that all the time. It was pretty wild.
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@jdking92 Her version of the national anthem wasn't even her most over-the-top song when it came to key changes. As far as I know, that dubious distinction goes to one of her more obscure religious songs, "Unshakable Kingdom", which went through a total of 6 keys (A flat, A, B flat, C, C sharp, and finally E). No, I don't remember that from when I was like 7; I listened to it again more recently.
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@matt GOod lord. Yeah...I used to have a lot of her stufff in digital form. IT sort of got nuked when my old computer's hard drive bit the dust and I just never bothered replacing it.
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“By expanding the human shielding charge to every inch of #Gaza, #Israel is using a familiar strategy at an unprecedented scale... the human shielding allegation…strategy has previously been seen in conflicts ranging from the Vietnam War to the war against ISIS. However, the intensity and scope of how Israel has mobilized the human shields accusation in the past year is unprecedented.” | Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon, Hewish Currents jewishcurrents.org/human-shiel…

A Legal Justification for Genocide

By expanding the human shielding charge to every inch of Gaza, Israel is using a familiar strategy at an unprecedented scale.
Jewish Currents
#israel #Gaza

The Free Market Capitalist is angry about Free Market Capitalism.
@elonmusk Having seen the evidence unearthed today by Congress, X has no choice but to file suit against the perpetrators and collaborators in the advertising boycott racket. Hopefully, some states will consider criminal prosecution.

I will never forgive The New York Times for bringing this to pass. They violated the journalistic norms they claim to uphold in their vindictive campaign against him. They hounded him out of office. They'd best not crow and they'd best not do the same to Kamala Harris. But I have no faith they can restrain themselves. Same to the Post.
screenshot of the time home page: BIDEN DROPS OUT OF 2024 RACE

"I’ve always been more 'Let’s just kick the fascists' asses' than 'Blue no matter who.'

But I will obviously support anyone Democrats nominate over Donald Trump. That’s the easiest choice of my life that doesn’t involve waffle fries.

When it all comes down to it, I’m a single-issue voter. My issue is that I’d like to keep voting."

~ Jason Sattler

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
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Biden is out. Freedom must win.

A few thoughts on defeating the most obvious threat to democracy in American history.
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#biden #democrats #kamalaharris
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"Nothing says women refuse to accept second-class citizenship like electing one. I have no doubt she can do it, and I look forward to watching the support she receives from Hillary Clinton, her sorors, and pretty much everyone in America who loves democracy. We have work to do!"

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
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#biden #democrats #kamalaharris
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"Donald Trump and Chris LaCivita are about to hit Kamala Harris with an avalanche of racist and sexist attacks and a ton of slut-shaming. Democrats across the board need to be saying now what we all know, which is that this will bring out the very worst of Trump. Racism and sexism are his brand. Charlottesville is his brand."

~ Josh Marshall

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Democrats
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A Small Matter of the Politics

This isn’t what I want to be discussing right now. But it’s...
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The post about representation in cyberpunk settings that I just boosted reminded me of an idea I had not long ago: It would be cool if someone made a game similar to System Shock, but as an audio game. For those not familiar with System Shock, Jimmy Maher covered it well: filfre.net/2021/03/system-shoc… 1/2

» System Shock The Digital Antiquarian

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Now, in System Shock, what Maher calls the diegetic UI is explained in-world by having the player character outfitted with a neural implant in the backstory. So in an audiogame remake, the hacker could be blind, and then the implant, rather than giving them sight, gives them a new audio UI to their world. 2/2
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BTW, someone wrote a complete fan novelization of System Shock, called Free Radical: shamusyoung.com/shocked/ Obviously they made the story their own, filling in details that aren't fleshed out in the game, especially details about the backstory. Regardless, I appreciated being able to enjoy a version of the story aspect of one of the many games I'll likely never be able to play.

Free Radical Chapter 0: Foreword

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Wow, in #nvda, you can now press NVDA+ctrl+escape to enable/disable screen curtain. #accessibility #blind
#Accessibility #blind #nvda

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You sure can! I just shared your post - nice little tip for people :)
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I've had this mapped to NVDA plus printscreen for ages. Seemed a far more sensible shortcut

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@Darrell Hilliker 👨‍🦯♾️📡

just found out that Qi wireless charging involves X.509 somehow

I agree with everything Scott Hanselman writes in this post.

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#crowdstrike #microsoft #dei #softwaredevelopment

Context - someone on the birdside are blaming #crowdstrike on DEl hiring Here's the thing folks. I've been coding 32 years. When something like this happens it's an organizational failure. Yes, some human wrote a bad line. Someone can "git blame" and point to a human and it's awful. But it's the testing, the CI/CD, the A/B testing, the metered rollouts, an oh shit button to roll it back, the code coverage, the static analysis tools, the code reviews, the organizational health, and on and on. It's always one line of code but it's NEVER one person. Implying inclusion policies caused a bug is simplistic, reductive, and racist.
Engineering is a team sport. Inclusion makes for good teams. Good engineering practices makes for good software. Engineering practices failed to find a bug multiple times, regardless of the seniority of the human who checked that code in. Solving the larger system thinking SDLC matters more than the null pointer check. This isn't a "git gud C++ is hard" issue and it damn well isn't an DEl one. 口参O 12,698 417

Scott Hanselman on LinkedIn: #crowdstrike | 452 comments

Context - someone on the birdside are blaming #crowdstrike on DEI hiring Here’s the thing folks. I’ve been coding 32 years. When something like this happens… | 452 comments on LinkedIn
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#microsoft #softwaredevelopment #DEI #crowdstrike

Perfect. As a web #developer, no notes.

#webdev #memes

Two panels from Simpsons where Homer is holding a picture of a perfectly built firepit ("localhost") and the next panel is reality - a mess ("production").
#webdev #developer #memes

GUADEC talks are complete but BoFs and Workshops start tomorrow 15:00 UTC, check the schedule for more details and links:
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#GUADEC #GUADEC2024
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Hugging Face’s SmolLM models bring powerful AI to your phone, no cloud required

Hugging Face's SmolLM transforms AI with compact, powerful language models that outperform tech giants, bringing advanced capabilities to personal devices without compromising privacy or performance.
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We're excited to share that GUADEC 2025 will take place in Brescia, Italy! We look forward to working with the local team and we hope to see you all in Brescia next year!

#GUADEC #GUADEC2025 #GNOME

GUADEC 2025 in Brescia, Italy
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Cloud68.co 👩‍💻👨‍💻
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awessome. Some of our team members are thinking to join. Are there any dates yet?

#GUADEC2024 talks are complete, join us for the conference closing in Track 1! youtube.com/live/2-hTw0bx6Sc?f…

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In case you missed it, #BookWyrm is the Fediverse's alternative to Amazon's Goodreads.

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I'm helping an open source project by stepping in for a bit, as the Interim Executive Director for GNOME. Looking forward to helping GNOME grow.

foundation.gnome.org/2024/07/1…

GNOME Foundation Announces Transition of Executive Director – The GNOME Foundation

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If this doesn’t energize the party, literally nothing will. We need to be running this ad non-stop on every available screen in the country.

#usPol #harris

#uspol #harris
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Can we put this on Youtube to make it easier to distribute? Or is the video already there?

This is epic. Apparently, in 2011 Donald Trump donated to Harris's campaign. Here is the post with an image of the check! :). x.com/rpsagainsttrump/status/1…
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Newsflash: other people exist!

For the love of God, don’t block the sidewalk for wheelchair users and people with strollers or suitcases or whatever. Some massive main character syndrome on display here.

#frustration #antisocial #ableism #accessibility

Picture of a grey Vespa blocking the sidewalk in between parked cars and buildings.
#Accessibility #ableism #antisocial #frustration
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This is selfless leadership. We’ve seen leaders put themselves over the country for too long. Trump is doing that right now. Now it’s time to find the candidate who can end Trump’s political career. nytimes.com/2024/07/21/us/poli…

Joe Biden will go down historically as an extremely underrated president, especially if Trump is defeated again in November

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Joe Biden's underrated presidency

He's achieved a lot — with the notable exception of popularity.
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Once you choose hope, anything's possible.
— Christopher Reeve

Ok, so I know Biden just resigned and all, but are you looking at the exciting stuff the GNOME design team has worked on this year?? youtube.com/live/2-hTw0bx6Sc

#GNOME


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I know this is obvious, but I still decided to run through the following exercise. I asked OpenAI to analyze its own description of a photo. Here is what we came up with: The logical pattern of the description primarily follows a "concrete to generic" approach. Here's a breakdown of how this pattern unfolds:

1. **Concrete Details about the Main Subject**:
- The description begins with specific details about the man: his appearance and attire. (1/5)

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- "The photo shows a man sitting at an outdoor café. He has short, light brown hair and is wearing a pink T-shirt with a black shoulder strap across his chest."

2. **Concrete Details about the Immediate Surroundings**:
- It then moves to the specific details of what is immediately around the man: the table and the coffee. (2/5)

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This progression from specific, concrete details to more general, contextual information helps build a vivid and complete picture of the scene, starting with what is most immediately noticeable and expanding outward to give a fuller sense of the environment and setting.
this is a really nice pattern. I think this is why these descriptions sound so palatable:) And here is the picture itself! :) ! (5/5)

Zahrajte si #FlappyBird bez instalace v prohlížeči!😎

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#opensource #gaming

Zahrajte si Flappy Bird bez instalace v prohlížeči! – Infoek.cz

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Politically, Biden's dropping out creates all sorts of uncertainty.

Procedurally, however, what happens how is extremely clear: The DNC will use its convention to officially designate its nominees for president and vice president, and those people will appear on the ballot in all 50 states, DC, etc.

A summary of state ballot access laws, from the officials who run the elections, is at nass.org/sites/default/files/r…

It would have been much more complicated if this had occurred after the convention.

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Do Democrats have enough time to find a different path to victory?

It's actually not an unusual concept.

Until 1968, presidential candidates were always picked by party conventions.

And that process, though providing less public input, also produced some great nominees.

theconversation.com/until-1968…

#Biden #Election2024 #USPolitics #Histodons @histodons

Until 1968, presidential candidates were picked by party conventions – a process revived by Biden’s withdrawal from race

With President Joe Biden out of the presidential race, the Democratic Party will have to find another nominee. Past methods of choosing have had their flaws, but also their successes.
The Conversation
#histodons #uspolitics #biden #Election2024 @histodons group

I believe we will win.

(If we all work for it.)

I believe will will win.

IF WE ALL WORK FOR IT.

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There’s Always Something We Can Do

Tough week, huh? Hard not to feel a little overwhelmed with what feels like relentless, catastrophic political news. But I’ve volunteered for political campaigns for literally 40 years —…
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hey stop doomscrolling and check this out
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If the rumors are true, this week could be another exciting week for opensource LLMS! Meta may release Llama-3-405b on this Tuesday. Also there could be updates to 8b and 70b models distilled from 405B. Joe Spisak, a product director at Meta says they were initially going to call Llama 3 8b and 70b a prerelease or preview because these models didn't have all the things they planned to release.
Sources:
theinformation.com/briefings/m…
x.com/AlpinDale/status/1814814…
youtu.be/r3DC_gjFCSA?feature=s…
#LLM #AI #ML

Meta Announces Llama 3 at Weights & Biases’ conference

In an engaging presentation at Weights & Biases’ Fully Connected conference, Joe Spisak, Product Director of GenAI at Meta, unveiled the latest family of Lla...
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#AI #ML #llm
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@vick21 No, it doesn't work. I lost faith in multimodal on llama.cpp, which Ollama relies on. Llama.cpp dropped multimodal support on March 7 (supposedly temporarily), but there is no momentum or interest among the devs to bring it back. They all seem preoccupied with providing immediate next day support for new text-only LLMs being released constantly.
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Interesting. I'm sort of getting tired of all these models being released every day. It increasingly looks more and more like a gaming exercise! :)

And Track 2 talks on the livestream here: youtube.com/live/X0nUMyQxkLA?f…
#GUADEC2024

GUADEC 2024 – Day 3, track 2

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GUADEC day 3 will be back from the break soon. Catch Track 1 talks in 15 mins on the livestream here:
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GUADEC 2024 – Day 3, track 1

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Z-Library: More Domains Seized Than Any Other Pirate Site in History

No other pirate site in history has had more of its domains seized by law enforcement than Z-Library, and it's not over yet.
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Joe Biden just announced on Twitter that he would not be seeking reelection.
"Why am I posting about this", you didn't ask? Well, he announced it in a letter, contained in an image, with the alt text of "A letter from president Biden". So for anyone curious what that letter actually said, here's a transcription. I had GPT transcribe it since Windows OCR was mangling parts of it, and OneStep Reader was even worse, but Aira verified the accuracy of it.
slj.io/biden.txt
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That's a lot of fun chaos when you look at it from the other side of the world where the government is not even a thing. Laughs.

Slow Fourier Transform en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide-Pre…
This photo shows the largest of the three sections of Tide Predicting Machine No. 2, a special purpose mechanical analog computer for predicting the height and time of high and low tides. The gears on the left transmit power from the hand crank.
Contron panel of the machine, with a mechanical pen plotter and three mechanical dias showing day, hour and minute.
Clockwork of the machine.

special-purpose mechanical analog computer used by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey to compute the height and time of high and low tides for specific locations

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Wow maybe they are onto something!
A photo of a news article saying « IKEA solved its “unhappy worker crisis” with higher pay, flexibility and subsidised childcare. »
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 9.5 updated and 1 added apps:

* ShikiApp: an unofficial Shikimori mobile app

The .5 update is, urn, Update.Me which forgot to increase the versionCode. So if you use this app, you might wish to manually update by simply installing it again as if it were not yet there 🙈

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


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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).
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