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Yeah, I canceled WaPo. Probably gonna send that money to ProPublica instead.



The Small Midwestern Cities That Could Play a Pivotal Role in This Year’s Elections
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For all the talk about big-city Democrats and rural Republicans, it's the voters in overlooked places like Sandusky, #Ohio, and Racine, #Wisconsin, who could decide everything from key congressional races to the presidency.

propub.li/48mLrOJ

#News #Midwest #Election2024 #Vote #WorkingClass #Industry #Economy #Labor



"Kamala Harris is the Only Patriotic Choice for President".
nytimes.com/2024/09/30/opinion…

The NYT shows the WaPo how it's done.



Did Pierre Poilievre get his security clearance yet? No?

How about now? No?

Now? No?

What is he waiting for?

And why is the media no longer talking about it? #cdnpoli #polcan




OK, I was trying very hard to record a screencast demoing the new picture descriptions with ChatGPT in iOS18.2, but screen recording cuts out when Siri speaks. Not sure if this has always been the case or this is temporary bug though…
in reply to victor tsaran

if you connect your phone to a Mac by a cable and open QuickTime and start a screen recording on your Mac, there will be a drop down option on the record controls that will let you select your iPhone as the recording source and then you may be able to record what you want there. πŸ‘πŸΌ
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The site chronicling Matt Mullenweg vs WP Engine got bullied out of existence.

bullenweg.com

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Hello #writers of the world! With #NaNoWriMo approaching, I wanted to create a space for like-minded people to gather and share ideas, progress, encouragement, and accountability. I've created a Discord server for writers of any kind, be that novelists, poets, coders, content writers, etc. Anyone is welcome to join and hang out with us. We have text channels for casual and topic-based conversation, as well as voice channels for various topics including one for body-doubling. You're even welcome to join if you aren't a writer but enjoy reading/helping others with their projects. If this sounds like a place you might like to be, please join. :) discord.gg/hYtPBcCZ33 #writing #nanowrimo2024 #amwriting
in reply to πŸ¦‹Mia FaithπŸ¦‹

well, maybe nanowrimo is what's finally going to get me over the threshold and make me start a blog.


Auch das sind Gitarrengâtter. Aber Gâtter der akustischen Gitarre, und Gâtter des Jazz: Biréli Lagrène und Adrien Moignard, "geerdet" von Bassist William Brunard.
youtube.com/watch?v=V-lb4V_7do…
oder auf der Individous-Instanz euerer Wahl mit /watch?v=V-lb4V_7doM


I was sitting here trying to get my paired AirPods Pro 2 to actually stream stuff from my phone. Despite being paired, it just wasn’t having it. What fixed it? Closing the Mail app, of course. Why didn’t I think of that?


I gave all my dead batteries away today, free of charge.


If a child refuses to sleep during nap time, are they guilty of resisting a rest?


Only recently learned this myself! (Same pepper, different prep)
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VytvΓ‘Ε™enΓ­ hesel v rΕ―znΓ½ch sluΕΎbΓ‘ch bΓ½vΓ‘ poslednΓ­ dobou dost voprus. KdyΕΎ mi napΓ­Ε‘ou, ΕΎe se mΓ‘m vyvarovat ilegΓ‘lnΓ­ch znakΕ―, ale uΕΎ nenapΓ­Ε‘ou, kterΓ© to jsou, je docela obtΓ­ΕΎnΓ© generovat hesla.
in reply to Smoon

– Zadajte heslo!
– jablko
– Δ½utujem, heslo musΓ­ obsahovaΕ₯ minimΓ‘lne 8 charakterov!
– červenΓ©jablko
– Δ½utujem, heslo musΓ­ obsahovaΕ₯ min. 1 číslicu!
– 1červenΓ©jablko
– ΔΎutujem, heslo musΓ­ obsahovaΕ₯ min. jedno veΔΎkΓ© pΓ­smeno!
– 1VYJEBANÉčervenΓ© jablko
– Δ½utujem, heslo nemΓ΄ΕΎe obsahovaΕ₯ za sebou nasledujΓΊce veΔΎkΓ© pΓ­smenΓ‘!
– 1VyjebanéČervenΓ©JablkoAnastrčSiho!
– Δ½utujem, heslo nemΓ΄ΕΎe obsahovaΕ₯ diakritickΓ© znaky!
– 1VyjebaneZhniteCervenΓ©JablkoAzdochniAkAniToNeprijmes
– Δ½utujem, toto heslo je uΕΎ obsadenΓ©!


Šutaj Eőtok: Za rok sme ukončili vojnu v polícii a zastavili nelegÑlnu migrÑciu
spravy.pravda.sk/domace/clanok…


Our latest episode is a good one! Get hooked on pre-commit hooks with Stefanie Molin. We talk about what they are, why you want them, how to build them, how to debug them and much more. Enjoy! cc @mkennedy #python

talkpython.fm/episodes/show/48…



Hey you! Want to work on software that impacts hundreds of millions of people all around the world? Come join my team at Apple as a Localization Software Engineer! 🌎🌍🌏

(Cupertino-based, no remote work)

jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/2…




Vyslechnuto v autobusu
Ε½ena k muΕΎi
"Co mÑ ten tvůj počítač co nemÑm jÑ?

MuΕΎ
"VypΓ­nač." πŸ”΄


in reply to Josef Kusek

JΓ‘ mΓ‘m samoobsluΕΎnΓ© pokladny docela rΓ‘d, kdyΕΎ mΓ‘m jen pΓ‘r vΔ›cΓ­. UpΕ™ednostnil bych tedy radΔ›ji online vΓ½bΔ›r s osobnΓ­m vyzvednutΓ­m (napΕ™. pΕ™i cestΔ› z prΓ‘ce), dovoz mi nevyhovuje kvΕ―li zavozovΓ½m oknΕ―m, ale na to si musΓ­m jeΕ‘tΔ› počkat.
@cermak
in reply to brabitom

@KKocanski @babaq @trilobyte samoobsluha vs. pultovΓ½ prodej je podobnΓ© tΓ©ma. Bufet na stojΓ‘ka vs. restaurace. SvΔ›t se posouvΓ‘. JΓ‘ rΓ‘d nakupuju spotΕ™ebnΓ­ zboΕΎΓ­, nΓ‘Ε™adΓ­ apod. on-line, ale potraviny, oblečenΓ­ a boty osobnΔ›. NejvΓ­c mi vyhovuje scan&go v Globusu. NejdΕ™Γ­v scannerem a co zavedli skenovΓ‘nΓ­ aplikaci v mobilu, tak vyfotΓ­m čÑrovΓ½ kΓ³d a nakupuju rovnou do taΕ‘ky. SamozΕ™ejmΔ› za to platΓ­m penΔ›zi i čÑstΓ­ svΓ©ho soukromΓ­.


OK, I added "live recognition" to the rotor on my iPhone 16 Pro, and I have to say I use the feature more and more. Text recognitionwhile not the same as Seeing AI, is still quite good for quick scanning needs. Pretty cool! ,

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in reply to victor tsaran

Yes and where it really comes into its own is if you use a chest harness or similar to wear the phone. You can walk outdoors with a select number of live recognition features enabled and it gives you an incredible amount of information about your environment.
in reply to Jonathan Mosen

@JonathanMosen I know you have Pro Max, but how long would a battery last with all those features turned on?
in reply to victor tsaran

I don’t know how long it would take to drain it. But battery life is wonderful on this new device.
in reply to Jonathan Mosen

@JonathanMosen
Does it do it in realtime, or do you need to keep taking snapshots of what's around?
in reply to LΓ©onie Watson

@tink It does it in real-time, and it’s all done on device, so latency is fantastic.
in reply to Jonathan Mosen

@JonathanMosen @tink Yep, in real time. The only thing is that the speech is lagging a bit behind, especially for longer passages. But it is a very useful tool!


[Forum Topic] muting speech without the track pad applevis.com/forum/macos-mac-a…


Bash Scripting Tutorial: How to Write a Bash Script lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


[Podcast] Get More Out of Your iPhone: Recording and Transcription on iOS applevis.com/podcasts/get-more…


Sam Altman side by side with Aaron Swartz.

I can't stop thinking about it. One was prosecuted by the US for downloading copyrighted data from 1 source for noble purposes, and committed suicide to avoid prison. The other is widely celebrated for doing this on a much larger scale*.

Edited: *(and not for noble purposes)

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in reply to Ondine B.

It's truly sad. Just to not get a wrong impression there was one woman. It's Jessica Livingston, Paul Grahams wife.


Delta sues CrowdStrike over software update that prompted mass flight disruptions

reuters.com/legal/delta-sues-c…



Not that I don't like the headline or them publishing it.

If it wasn't for the oligarch interfering with the editorial board endorsement, it wouldn't look like the oligarch is trying to attack his rival.

Let fascists duke it between themselves.

🍿



People often think about the DMCA as the law that was created in the wake of Napster to address online sharing of music & movies without compensating copyright holders.

A less discussed part of the law is that it banned repairing electronics without permission from the manufacturer as long as they use DRM to prevent it which practically everyone from Apple to John Deere does.

Every 3 years we get to request exceptions. This time we got this exemption.

ifixit.com/News/102368/victory…



In the same way that your cat is an obligate carnivore and must consume meat to survive, humans are obligate social animals. If we are isolated from each other, we sickenβ€”both mentally and physicallyβ€”and eventually die. This is why solitary confinement is a form of torture.

Which means that while people have no fixed nature, we are inexorably social animals. The forms our sociality might take are varied, complex, and adaptable, but we can at least confidently say that we are inevitably social. Pro-sociality is baked into (almost) all of us.

Which is why there is no real incompatibility between communist anarchism and individualist anarchism. We are maximally free when we are all free, and we can maximize our individual well-being through voluntary cooperation.

in reply to HeavenlyPossum

Since we are obligate social animals, there are limits to what extractive elites can get away with before the entire edifice collapses. Karl Polanyi warned in β€œThe Great Transformation” that people stripped of their community relationships by capitalism, reduced to an abstract commodity called β€œlabor” that is bought and sold in markets, could not survive for long, and that their societies would fall apart.

Just take a look at the US tearing itself apart before our eyes and tell me Polanyi was wrong.

There is, and Bichler and Nitzan put it, an β€œoptimal” level of capitalist sabotage. Exploit too little and you risk being out-competed by rival capitalists; exploit too much and you risk, in essence, eating the seed corn you were supposed to save for next spring’s planting.

in reply to HeavenlyPossum

You can look at this situation and conclude that this is somehow our natureβ€”to be greedy, extractive, violent, cruel. But that is both empirically false and deeply reactionary, a condemnation of *other* people as needing to be controlled, or reshaped in your desired image, or culled.

What people need in reality is to be free. Free people do not inevitably make β€œgood” choices. Every one of us has the capacity and instinct to be cruel, violent, and greedy. But we also have the capacity and instinct to care for each other andβ€”most importantlyβ€”to be pro-social. We need each other. Self-interest alone can explain why free people tend to make pro-social choicesβ€”those of us who want to survive and flourish need each other, regardless of whether we are β€œgood” at heart or not.



Imagine if β€œI need a moment to think" and β€œI need more information first" were acceptable responses in allistic society.

#ActuallyAutistic



My spreadsheet of the longer-term implications of #COVID19 infections has now reached 1,100 studies. Recent additions show COVID and Long COVID causes fatigue, heart arrhythmias, reduced white blood cell count, T-cell exhaustion, lower quality of life, cognitive impairment, insomnia, erectile dysfunction, and persistent liver damage.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…



FYI, use Signal or Threema as messenger, don't trust anyone who claims that Telegram or Session would be more secure, who ever claims that, doesn't understand how the security of those messengers works.
Session started on a reasonable basis (Signal Fork), but they removed a few essential security features over time and by now shouldn't be trusted.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sessio…


'It is fine not to like a piece of Free software' and other oft-unstated FOSS-related freedoms

β€œFree software”, according to the FSF’s definition, embodies four freedoms.

There are plenty more than that - or, at least, many freedoms which are inherent in, or arise from, those four freedoms - most of which go unstated most of the time.

This is far from a complete list, but rather my jottings based on ponderings and observations from the last few days, across a couple of different (intentionally unstated / unlinked here) things.


neilzone.co.uk/2024/10/it-is-f…

#FOSS #BeKind #blog



STOP DOING HOMEWORK

CHILDREN WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO SPEND TWELVE HOURS A DAY DOING SCHOOLWORK

YEARS OF BUSY WORK yet NO REAL WORLD USE FOUND for replacing free time with MORE SCHOOL

Wanted to learn during your free time anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called "THE LIBRARY"

"The assignment is due tomorrow. It is worth 50 percent of your grade." - Statements dreamt up by the utterly deranged

"Sorry can't go out tonight, I have homework"

They have played us for absolute fools



I’m just putting this out there…

If I had a Top Secret SCI clearance, and had conversations with my county’s sworn adversary (Putin), I would have had my clearance revoked, been arrested, held in confinement (flight risk) until my trial.

Why is #Musk not in jail? Money πŸ’° ???
#NASA #DOJ #FBI #HomelandSecurity



We just had the help of @thunderbird and some super-cool and very smart community members who together have been improving the snaps for @thunderbird and #firefox on #UbuntuTouch while at #UbuntuSummit
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Microsoft fires 2 employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza apnews.com/article/microsoft-f…
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I went to the store to pick up eight cans of sprite... when I got home I realized I'd only picked seven up


@Tutanota I just realised that all the comments I have added to my contacts over the years, including family-related and medical important information, are gone...

github.com/tutao/tutanota/issu…

Bugs are becoming more common recently, and this one made me lose data. I'm quite disappointed.

#Email #OpenSource #FOSS #Security #Privacy

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