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The CAQ has allocated $54M for Alloprof to teach French to kids... montreal.citynews.ca/2024/09/3…

What a coincidence Sandrine Faust was made a Chevalière of the Order National du Québec recently... ordre-national.gouv.qc.ca/memb…

#CAQASTROPHE #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #polMTL #MTLpoli #cdnpoli #polcan

#cdnpoli #assnat #polqc #polmtl #caqastrophe #qcpoli #polcan #mtlpoli

hay por aquí algún #pirata 🏴‍☠️ #español #cinefilo?
#espanol #pirata #cinefilo

I was looking for a movie trailer on YouTube... and it's getting full of AI-generated trailers made by randos of movies that don't exist!? WTF?
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James Henstridge
James Henstridge
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Fake trailers were a problem before AI. Before, they'd be cut up from previous films in the series or other films the actors had appeared in.
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R. Rojas
R. Rojas
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Así hay montones de tráileresde películas, que o es un tráiler real pero la miniatura del video está toda fotochopeada o hecha por IA, o son falsos o fan made, de escenas de otras películas acá medio conceptual, orita me salió uno de Doom si Dwayne Johnson fuera protagonista.
(Sí salió en la de Doom de 2005 pero no era protagonista)
Miniatura de un supuesto trailer de la película Doom con Dwayne Johnson, con La Roca usando el traje del Doomslayer, hecho por IA.

One caller asked for help finding her brother. Another needed info about evacuation routes. A third worried if a nearby dam was about to burst. And many callers said "I'm just so proud of my neighbors."

Local radio in western North Carolina is a literal lifeline right now 🧵

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Brian Stelter
Brian Stelter
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As Helene's waters recede, iHeartMedia's stations in Asheville are giving voice to the crisis – and giving hope to listeners. WWNC and six other stations owned by iHeart are working together, simulcasting round-the-clock coverage. Live here: wwnc.iheart.com/

Found a way to still save money. Get two BOGO burgers from A&W for $23 and change in savings. Add fries, and all in, its $41.70. Not bad for four burgers and fries, taxed, delivered, and tipped.
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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Yikes! That's very expensive.Your 41 dollars are more than 80Bgn xd. I could buy food for long long time with this.

Nothing makes you appreciate electricity like being without it for nearly five days. It's good to be back.

I sometimes wonder why all the FLOSS #mahjong #games on Linux are always the boring American "mahjong solitaire" version, never the traditional "street" mahjong, which is 100x more stimulating.

It would be so cool if #GNOME's #Mahjongg game (or a derivative) had a multiplayer-like mode, the one played by uncles in the streets of Hong Kong (youtube.com/watch?v=qzcmCvOM2K…), but with the computer as opponents (like in the embedded video below, or most computer chess games)…

#gaming #videogames #蔴雀 #麻将

#gaming #gnome #games #videogames #mahjong #mahjongg #蔴雀 #麻将
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Jeff Fortin T.
Jeff Fortin T.
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@hub Turns out I have a portable set that is older than me! I ought to learn to play someday 🤔
@Hubert Figuière

Women Survivors Speak Out on 40th Anniversary of Union Carbide Bhopal India Disaster indybay.org/newsitems/2024/09/…

Este jueves/viernes/sábado voy a estar en Monterrey, en el Linux App Summit (LAS). ¿Quiién se lanza?

linuxappsummit.org/

Privacy Browser 0.6.2 has been released.

stoutner.com/privacy-browser-p…

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Soren Stoutner
Soren Stoutner
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@vibudanimsara Privacy Browser PC is based on Qt WebEngine, which is based on the Chromium's rendering engine (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), but not the GUI, plugin, or other Chromium code.

wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine/Chromiu…

@Vibuda Nimsara

Of all the reasons to endorse Universal Basic Income, mental wellbeing is often overlooked. Imagine fewer people acting out of desperation and frustration. UBI has the power to alleviate stress and foster a more compassionate society. Turn down the suffering, turn up the empathy.

This front door can go from clear to opaque with a voice command - The Home Depot’s newest smart door features smart glass th... - theverge.com/2024/9/30/2425834…

Radio Recorder – command line internet radio player and recorder linuxtoday.com/blog/radio-reco…

WTF doesn't my laptop detect the SD card...
in reply to Hubert Figuière

Hubert Figuière
Hubert Figuière
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it works usually. Not sure wtf is happening. It's a realtek PCI-e card reader.

Apple: Our iPhones have “cutting edge technology” Their cutting edge technology: *Image of someone peeling an apple with the edge of an iPhone* Via: windoge81

If you've ever ordered from Uber Eats, you forfeit your right to sue if an Uber ever crashes into you. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

A stupid question to powerful #Mastodon users. Is there a web page where I can get all the users of a particular instance? Not feeds, not timelines, just users, either names or profiles? Thanks! #MastoAdmin
#Mastodon #mastoadmin
in reply to André Polykanine

Mason
Mason
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Well, mastodon servers have profile directories, but those are, wildly incomplete.
in reply to André Polykanine

Dame_
Dame_
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you can try the directory but it’s also predicated on anyone that opted into being discoverable

Police in Waterbury, Connecticut, were able to find a stolen Ferrari worth over half a million dollars, all thanks to a pair of Apple AirPods left behind by the vehicle's owner.

appleinsider.com/articles/24/0…

Hey everyone!
It’s been a bit quiet around here for the past few months, but we’ve been busy behind the scenes, stirring up something big. After lots of thinking, testing, and a few metaphorical cake disasters, we’ve decided to completely rewrite TweeseCake from scratch!
Why, you ask? Well, the current app is a bit like trying to ice a cake that’s crumbling—it’s unstable and tricky for us to add those tasty new features you’ve been asking for. So, we figured it’s time to start fresh and bake something better.
The new version of TweeseCake will be a whole lot more flexible (think custom sessions in the future), way more stable, and packed with extra power for all you sweet-toothed users out there. Our initial focus will be on perfecting the Mastodon session type, but trust us, this new framework will let us cook up even more awesome features in the future.
Progress is well underway, with a lot of the core framework already written. But don’t worry, the current app isn’t getting tossed out entirely; it’ll still get some updates, just fewer fancy new layers for now.
So, keep your forks ready—TweeseCake next gen is coming, and it’s going to be a slice of something special!
What you can expect:
* More flexibility (customise as much as possible).
* Translatable.
* Custom sessions (for the developers out there; note that this will come later).
* More stability (we hope!).
* Best of all, easier to maintain!

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I am glad `<datalist>` saw some fixes in Safari, as spotted by @adactio adactio.com/journal/21445

However, other bugs (such as the ones I link from JAWS and Firefox) are still open as well as voice control challenges and text size issues:
adrianroselli.com/2023/06/unde… (anchor link)

So nothing likely changes in your support landscape. Yes, this still makes me sad.

#accessibility #a11y

#a11y #Accessibility @Jeremy Keith

Remember the broken poll() in Apple OSes? I blogged it eight years ago: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/10/11…

Can we trust poll() on macOS these days?

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Chris Vest
Chris Vest
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@st3fan in Netty we’ve been using kqueue on macOS for many years with no issues, client and server use cases alike
@Stefan Arentz

I was so excited for a long time when I read the news @thunderbird got a new push and people are working on it, and on an android version too... After all this time, I'm still get excited when I see updates, but I always realise I'll not use it as I moved to @protonprivacy 100% a few years ago with everything and I don't have any other server I would use. Now they are open for beta testing (mastodon.online/@thunderbird/1…) and I don't even have an email address to use it with. :/
@Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox @Proton
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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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Thanks for sharing your story and we'd love if Proton Mail users had the option to use Thunderbird for Android, like they can use the Desktop app, in the future! And if that happens, we'll always be here to try :)

I'm... sort of becoming hopeful that we might just get on top of this whole climate change thing at some point?

I don't want to rock the doomer boat too much, but the uptake of renewables over the past year or two has been utterly staggering. The numbers feel made up.

Yesterday I attempted to create my first iOS shortcut. All I wanted to do is the following: create a folder where I can store my most favorite shortcuts, display that list on the screen and let me run a shortcut from the list. Of course, the idea is to assign this to an Action Button. In theory, it’s a very uncomplicated shortcut. Yet, why does iOS keep saying that “cannot find such a shortcut” when I run one from the list? All the variables seem to be in the right place. (1/2)
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Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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The shortcut king as far as I'm concerned is @jakobrosin. He has many, many of them.
@Jakob Rosin
in reply to Andre Louis

victor tsaran
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Oooo thanks for that. Jakob, where is your shortcut treasure bin? :)
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Jakob Rosin
Jakob Rosin
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@FreakyFwoof Haha I haven’t actually published any as most are highly personalised and I’d need to polish a lot of stuff to get them public. But I’m mostly running a few automations here and there. For example when opening Zoom / any other videoconferencing app, my phone automatically goes into my meetings focus, whic in turn limits notifications and calls. A sleep focus change triggers a toggle in my home assistant which in turn does a bunch of stuff in my home automation sphere, changing speakers behaviours, checking a few sensors ETC. And I’ve got an action button shortcut which does do different things based on my location and phone focus at the moment. There are also a few battery related automations, such as turning on low power mode earlier than iOs does it, and turning it off again… I am shure I forget things.
@Andre Louis
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Vincent van Itallie
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It is funny i tried to build that exact same shortcut on sunday night. I bound a solution in the"shortcuts reddit, this shortcut looks"at a spesipic folder and lists all the shortcuts within that"particular folder.

Weird on ABC’s behalf. Like, how exactly would he do that? I wonder why so many businesses have such difficulty standing up to Trump? Or is it an interactive handwashing we are observing here? mas.to/@barney/113221877311355…

I always wanted a trashcan Mac Pro, so I found a 12-core one with 64GB of RAM. And, it's great, but I can't come close to stressing its memory capacity. Any ideas?

I may have to resort to desperate measures and start up a single Slack desktop instance.

People who are into “Accessible PDFs” will say “you can add a hidden structure to your PDF, so screen reader users can read them”. Which is like only the smallest slice of what makes something accessible. It’s the “there is an elevator at the back that gives you access through the kitchen and the toilet is on another floor in another building” of digital accessibility.

On Tuesday 1 October 2024, the UK will become the first major economy to stop using coal to produce electricity, when the last of its coal-fired power stations closes:
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y35q…

On some level, do you ever stop wanting those who have wronged you to fall on their reched knees before you and beg for forgiveness? We just get really good at covering it up. Just me?
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👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle
👩‍🦯The Blind Fraggle
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@modulux I mean, these are people I love, but also people who don't know the meaning of remorse or a true apology.
@modulux
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modulux
modulux
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If it's the same situation I have, I think they find it difficult to understand or to accept they have done anything wrong.

@mapcomplete@botsin.space (which posts a daily overview of changes made with mapcomplete.org) now loads the pictures from #panoramax too (and is thus again fully operational)
#PANORAMAX @MapComplete (bot)
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The other day I referenced a recent controversial thread, "fedi is for losers," that outlined the ways fedi folk are societal outliers. I gravitated here, eagerly, because it lines up with my values. I feel more estranged from my society than ever. I just came from Insta. Pop culture & consumerism. Any thought that takes longer than 5 seconds is dull. I spent a day last week with a friend & noticed how much of their daily life revolves around purchasing/acquisition (mostly to be forgotten). 😫

Another ridiculously busy month for #postmarketOS

So much work being done by so many people! it's genuinely amazing to be a part of it. Amazing job by Pablo and @ollieparanoid on the blog post as always.

postmarketos.org/blog/2024/09/…

#postmarketos @Oliver Smith

Recording of my @allsystemsgo talk
"busd: There is a new D-Bus broker in town" is already available:

youtube.com/watch?v=D_C_CdoVmS…

#busd @zbus

#BUSD @zbus @All Systems Go!
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sad this has nothing to do with the organiser.
Wonder if there's a forth book?
I'll stop now.
A book cover of Defunct by Maxwell Farmer, subtitled THE LAST PSION

just noticed that tiktok muted the audio on a video of mine because of a copyright strike based on... silence
Sound removed The sound has been removed because it infringes on someone else's copyright. Sound details "3 Minutes of Silence" Posted on 04-19 at 11:01 1:00 Check for copyright Sound copyright check Run a check automatically every time you post something new. You can turn this off in TikTok Studio &gt; Publish settings. Violation reasons Copyright claim We take copyright complaints very seriously and may take additional action if necessary. Change sound
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Jason J.G. White
Jason J.G. White
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Would the copyright in question be due to John Cage? 4 minutes 33 seconds for solo piano?

I think Nissan is trying to beat Tesla in term of body work / repairs.

Talk about quality service.

tam je fakt bôčik
ramen s bôčikom

mačky done.. musím kúpiť granule ináč

edit: zabúdam na ne
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Does WhatsApp for desktop literally ever stay linked? Even when you link with phone number, it seems it will always eventually just go unexpected error, please link again with the QR code from your phone, and sign me out. Piece of shit.
in reply to x0

Mikołaj Hołysz
Mikołaj Hołysz
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Mine doesn't unlink, but I also keep it open in the background at almost all times.

FREAKING FINALLY

"Buttons are back, baby!! This piece has been 15 years in the making, more or less."

@mimsical in the WSJ on the resurgance of physical buttons for interfaces.

"Fundamentally, the problem with touch-based interfaces is that they aren’t touch-based at all, because they need us to look when using them."

Materiality and embodiment ftw.

[gift link, courtesy of the author]
wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/tou…

@Christopher Mims
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