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So so many reviews of audio equipment don't actually have any audio. Good to see that different here.
[Best Headset Microphones for Podcasting: USB Headset Mic Guide](thepodcasthost.com/equipment/h…)

Best Headset Microphones for Podcasting: USB Headset Mic Guide

A good USB headset microphone can make podcasting much easier AND less expensive. Check out some of the best headsets around, right here.
Colin Gray (The Podcast Host)

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„Naposledy za námi přijela někdy na podzim. Jen na pár dní. Ustlala si tehdy mezi mnou a klukem, na zemi, přímo pod stolem. Prý že tak je zvyklá, že takhle se cítí v bezpečí. Celé noci tam pak naříkala. Vyla jako zvíře a křičela ze spaní. Nikdo si prý neumíme představit, co se tam na východě odehrává.“

reportermagazin.cz/80585/jak-p…


Jak padla nesmrtelná Káťa. Třicetiletá snajperka a máma malého Denyse zemřela u Avdijivky

„Mysleli jsme, že je nesmrtelná,“ vzpomíná na ukrajinskou snajperku Katerynu Šynkarenko fotoreportér Stanislav Krupař. Poznali se na frontě, padla letos v bojích u Avdijivky.
Stanislav Krupař (Reportér Magazín)

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Ever find that sitting in front of your unnecessarily complex music rig is hard sometimes? Creative block hits and there's nothing you can do about it?
I certainly find that lately, more often than not.
One device has come into my life and changed a lot of that however. Ableton Move.

In this world-first video, I take you through making a beat without sight, just using the undocumented screen-reader function within the web-based Move Manager.

It's incredibly freeing to be able to just load a fresh set, be presented with four random sounds and perhaps one of them will inspire you so you just begin doing a thing that you had absolutely no plan to do before you started.
#InspiredBySound - Let's Move! (Ableton Move Accessibility Overview) youtu.be/p8IbinbOhY4
#Accessibility #Ableton #ScreenReader #Blind #Music #Composition


#InspiredBySound - Let's Move! (Ableton Move Accessibility Overview)

Check out the official Ableton Move website: https://www.ableton.com/en/move/Ableton Move is the first piece of hardware I've personally been excited by in y...
YouTube
#Accessibility #blind #music #screenreader #inspiredbysound #ableton #composition

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[EN]Since new readers have arrived here, I think I should introduce myself again. My name is Berta, I am a Spanish-Ecuadorian #philosopher and #artist. I am especially interested in the transition from #nature to #cultures, #mythology, #religion, and #symbolism. In my current #photography project, I am reconstructing the myth of Persephone.
Portrait of myself, with a horse skull and a camera.
Portrait. BW picture of a girl holding a horse skull against her face. The girl's face is non visible. She's in the middle of a dolmen circle.
Bw picture of the moon almost falling in the mountains.
BW picture of a girl's feet in the forest
#religion #photography #nature #artist #mythology #philosopher #cultures #symbolism

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🇫🇷 La decadencia del macronismo, bajo sus diferentes formas y etiquetas:

2017: 450.000 simpatizantes
2023: 35.000 militantes
2024: 8.500 militantes

lefigaro.fr/politique/le-nombr…

#politicafrancesa


Le nombre de militants Renaissance s’effondre et atteint son plus bas historique avant le congrès

INFO LE FIGARO - Alors que le parti présidentiel doit se désigner un nouveau chef cet automne, le nombre d’adhérents à jour de cotisation est plus faible que jamais.
Arthur Berdah (Le Figaro)
#politicafrancesa

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A couple years ago I opened a thread to add #AltText on #Mastodon banners and profile pictures. Now detailed todos are being posted. Is there anyone who could help in this case?

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
#a11y #Acessibility


Add ALT-Tag to banner and profile pictures and make the value editable for acessiblility reasons · Issue #10313 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch The banner and profile picts on the profile site has no ALT or ARIA tags. Blind people can't get information about the content of this images. Motivation Additional text information for image...
GitHub
#a11y #Mastodon #AltText #acessibility

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Now this is something I want. Don't get me wrong, I love my cane but if there's anything I can use to make traveling easier, you best believe I'm using it because right now, its just so exhausting to even want to walk anywhere and I'm tired after going out. It's much less exhausting being driven anywhere so if I can make walking easier with this cane, I'd get it. #Blind
youtube.com/watch?v=J-VVh5ezqG…

Smart Cane Gives the Blind Freedom to Explore

Like this video about WeWalk's smart cane and subscribe here: https://freeth.ink/youtube-subscribe-smartcaneUp next- Reversing Blindness: https://youtu.be/2U...
YouTube
#blind

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Umberto Eco Explains the Poetic Power of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts

openculture.com/2016/02/umbert…

Umberto Eco Explains the Poetic Power of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts

Just over 30 years ago, Umberto Eco wrote an essay in the New York Review of Books about what made that strip one of the most, if not the most compelling of the twentieth century.
Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)

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Welcome to the RB family, OwnTracks 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/org.o…

OwnTracks allows you to keep track of your own location. You can build your private location diary or share it with your family and friends.

With this app, now 24% = 291 apps at the #IzzyOnDroid repo have #reproducibleBuilds – almost every 4th app :awesome:


„OwnTracks“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Your location companion
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

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My violence towards robot vacuums (usually when they get caught in cords for the MILLIONTH TIME) is vindicated.

They're spies.

werd.io/2024/insecure-deebot-r…


Insecure Deebot robot vacuums collect photos and audio to train AI

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-05/robot-vacuum-deebot-ecovacs-photos-ai/104416632 [Julian Fell at Australian ABC News] "Ecovacs robot vacuums, which have been found to suffer from critical cybersecurity flaws, are collecting photos, videos and v…
Ben Werdmuller (Werd I/O)

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If you are using a so called smart connected TV and are concerned about your privacy, you should read the following scientific article: "Watching TV with the Second-Party: A First Look at Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs"
arxiv.org/pdf/2409.06203v1

In short, if your TV's settings are not correctly adjusted, it can periodically (in some cases, every 10 seconds) send a fingerprint of what is being displayed to a server to find out what you are watching.

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"#PHP RFC: Add persistent #curl share handles"

wiki.php.net/rfc/curl_share_pe…

The PR => github.com/php/php-src/pull/15…


feat: enable persistent `CurlShareHandle` objects by ericnorris · Pull Request #15603 · php/php-src

This PR introduces a new function, curl_share_init_persistent, that creates a php_curlsh struct that can live beyond a single PHP request. Persisting a curl share handle would allow PHP userspace t...
GitHub
#php #curl

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"Incremental #HTTP Messages" proposal:

Upon receiving a header section that includes the Incremental header field, HTTP intermediaries SHOULD NOT buffer the entire message before forwarding it. Instead, intermediaries SHOULD transmit the header section downstream and continuously forward the bytes of the message body as they arrive.

datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft…

Incremental HTTP Messages

This document specifies the "Incremental" HTTP header field, which instructs HTTP intermediaries to forward the HTTP message incrementally. Discussion Venues This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC.
IETF Datatracker
#http

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#SKpolitika, verzia "posledne slovo #BraňoBezák" + #HowItStartedVsHowItsGoing:

1/2

How it started: "Programové vyhlásenie tejto vlády sa volá: Lepšie, pokojnejšie a bezpečne žiť."

dennikn.sk/4252319/newsfilter-…


Newsfilter: Správu o atentáte objednal Fico, píše ju Gašpar. Aký asi bude výsledok?

1. Minister vnútra jedno nedorozprával, druhé odpinkal. 2. Ficova bilancia sa len zhoršuje. 3. Načo sú nám ícečká, keď budú lietadlá? 
Tomáš Gális (Denník N)
#skpolitika #branobezak #howitstartedvshowitsgoing

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It took a while but the developer has finally added the required accessibility enhancements so I can finally share a fun little game called Language Guessr. You're given a short audio recording and it is your task to guess what language it is in. Should you give the wrong answer, you have the option to hear a sample recording in the language you indicated so that you can learn the difference. A great little toy for language geeks. There's an edit combobox at the top to search for the country so that you don't have to navigate the map view which doesn't work with screen readers. Happy playing! languageguessr.io/ #Accessibility #A11y #Blind #Languages

Home - LanguageGuessr

GeoGuessr but then for languages
languageguessr.io
#a11y #Accessibility #blind #languages

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There’s a lot of complexity around what open means and how that intersects with AI, but from a reputational and consistency perspective I really can’t get over this 👇🏽 for the current draft of the OSI AI definition.
mastodon.social/@odoruhako/113…

pedestrian cyclist

2024-10-15 19:08:59


Great. I'm looking forward to the next generation of open source hardware drivers and the "detailed descriptions of all contained binary blobs". 🤡

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Just read the OSI "Open Source AI Definition" (opensource.org/deepdive/drafts…)
It's basically pointless but the best part is:
Data information needs to include: "a detailed description of all data used for training, including (if used) of unshareable data"

My man. If the data to train the model is unshareable meaning I cannot get it to reproduce your binary/model, your system _is not open source_.

The Open Source AI Definition – 1.0-RC1

Endorse the Open Source AI Definition: have your organization appended to the press release announcing version 1.0 version 1.0-RC1 Preamble Why we need Open Source Artificial Intelligence (AI) Open Source…
Open Source Initiative
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