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Do you know everything about IPv6, BGP or RPKI and are you willing to share it with others? We are looking for a technical trainer at @ripencc!

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The RIPE NCC - Technical Trainer (Network Engineer)

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I arrived at my GGSE English "Creative Writing" exam having not prepared whatsoever. I plagiarised the song Little Lady by Ed Sheeran word-for-word, receiving an A* for discussing the topic of sex trafficking & child exploitation which ultimately leads to the protagonists death.

#LibreOffice 24.2.7 is now available – the final planned update to the 24.2 branch, which reaches end-of-life in November. After that, all users are recommended to upgrade to the new stable branch, LibreOffice 24.8: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource #freesoftware
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LibreOffice 24.2.7 is now available – the last release in the 24.2 branch - The Document Foundation Blog

Berlin, 31 October 2024 – LibreOffice 24.2.7, the seventh and final planned minor release of the LibreOffice 24.2 branch, is available at on our download page for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource #libreoffice

🎶 **Excited to Share My New Arrangement of "Thriller" by Michael Jackson!** 🎶

I had so much fun making this track come to life in my own style and couldn’t have done it without the amazing gear and incredible people who helped along the way!

**Special Thanks To:**
- **Viscount International** 🎹 for that iconic organ sound—big shout-out to Delroy White for taking it up a notch with some custom tweaks.
- **Yamaha Drums** 🥁 bringing the heartbeat of this track.
- **Audix Mics** 🎤 for capturing the drum sound perfectly.
- **Pianoteq** for that smooth Rhodes sound in the background, adding that perfect touch.
- **Nord** 🎹 used the Stage 4 for some awesome Clav sounds.
- **Surge Synthesizer** 🎛️ powered up tons of synth sounds! Surge is fully accessible and open-source, and for all my blind producers, this one is a must.

Shout out to Mike Gardner for making it all sound amazing with the final mix!

Check out these links to all the fantastic companies that helped bring this track together:

🎹 Viscount International - [viscount link]
🥁 Yamaha Drums - [yamaha link]
🎤 Audix Mics - [audix link]
🎹 Pianoteq - [pianoteq link]
🎹 Nord Keyboards - [nord link]
🎛️ Surge Synthesizer - [surge link]

**#Thriller #MusicProduction #ViscountOrgan #YamahaDrums #AudixMics #PianoteqRhodes #NordStage4 #SurgeSynth #BlindMusician #MichaelJackson #MatthewWhitakerMusic #Accessibility #MusicForEveryone**


#Accessibility #musicproduction #thriller #viscountorgan #yamahadrums #audixmics #pianoteqrhodes #nordstage4 #surgesynth #blindmusician #michaeljackson #matthewwhitakermusic #musicforeveryone

Your Halloween reminder that COVID-19 is NOT over and masking, vaccinating, and distancing [when you have no idea about the quality of the ventilation] are the best ways to protect yourselves!

#MASKUP #MASKUPBUTTERCUP #WEATAMASK #GETVACCINATED #cdnpoli #polcan #COVID19ISNOTOVER #COVID19

#COVID19 #MaskUp #cdnpoli #polcan #maskupbuttercup #GetVaccinated #covid19isnotover #weatamask

"People from other parts of the world are genetically pre-disposed to crime" and are "poisoning the blood of Americans" should be career-ending for any public figure.

Anyone who votes in support of such ideas should be ashamed.

This should not be controversial.

There is an update for Seeing A I in the app store. Details of update:
This release includes several bug fixes to make your experience even better. Recent improvements include: • Seeing AI can now describe videos! Select "Browse Photos" from the menu, or share an MP4 file with Seeing AI, and hear it described, scene-by-scene. • You can now recognize PDF documents with Seeing AI. • After tapping "More Info" to get a rich description of an image, you can now ask questions on the same screen. • Reduced the amount of time it takes to get a rich description, or answers to your questions. • Reduced the amount of time it takes to get a rich description. • When using a large accessibility font size, press and hold on toolbar items to see a large content preview. • On the Product channel, both barcodes and Enhanced QR codes can now be recognized at the same time. • Plus, various bug fixes under the hood.

MikroTik and Ampere are collaborating on a new product line featuring server-class CPUs, promising groundbreaking performance. The partnership aims to provide high-quality networking solutions for a wide range of users.

Link: help.mikrotik.com/docs/spaces/…
Comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

MikroTik and Ampere co-developing a groundbreaking product line with server-class CPUs - RouterOS - MikroTik Documentation

help.mikrotik.com

Estos días se ha vuelto a hablar de esta tira, y me sigue pareciendo una cosa sanadora y maravillosa, sobre todo cuando el bicho de la baja autoestima te está tirando pataditas
La primera viñeta dice: "You can achieve the true greatness if you focus on one thing" (Vemos a una persona subida en una gráfica en la que se ve el progreso de una habilidad que marca "great"). La segunda viñeta dice "If you have too many interests you'll never reach your full potential" (La persona mira desde el suelo a la gráfica en la que se ven los progresos de diferentes habilidades entre "bad" y "good") La tercera viñeta dice "Wait, where the fuck are you going?" (La persona trepa por las barras de progreso horizontales como si fueran los travesaños de una escalera de mano) En la cuarta viñeta le vemos sentado encima de la gráfica mirando el horizonte con el mar.

Reminder!

URL handling differences between URL parser implementations are to be expected.

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Andrew Kaster
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to be expected, sure. But should differences in URL handling behavior from different parsers be accepted as the right behavior going forward?
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daniel:// stenberg://
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@akaster I don't see how it can be avoided for as long as we can't agree on a single *fixed* URL specification. Which for some reason seems to be impossible to achieve.
@Andrew Kaster

alcohol, animal industry indirect reference, gay but like for boys

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Halloween logics

Excellence in child costuming, electrified Caltrain edition. (Bonus points for use of old CDs.)
A small child, wearing a cardboard box decorated as a new Caltrain engine. The child also has a small headpiece, connecting them to invisible electrical wires.

NO ONE HAS EVER BECOME POOR FROM GIVING.

Generative AI is coming to Google Maps, Google Earth, Waze
Conversational search and hazard reporting and more detailed maps, all thanks to AI.
arstechnica.com/cars/2024/10/g…

Generative AI is coming to Google Maps, Google Earth, Waze

Jonathan M. Gitlin (Ars Technica)
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Sandor
Sandor
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I think waze was “generative” enough in terms of routing without any AI help already. #lost #driving
#driving #lost

Good morning to you all. Happy Halloween to those who celebrate it. A very blessed Samhain to us who celebrate that one. If you celebrate neither, I hope you have a brilliant day. It's hard to believe that October is at its end for another year. May life be kind, may peace and serenity surround you. May you always remember that someone cares, you are not alone. It may feel that way at times but you are very muched loved and wanted. Have a grate time tonight no matter what you are doing.

Most adorable : the conductor had a printed sign "Tickets please" they hold in my sight in the silent area of the train rather than loudly asking for it. They said that'd be more comfortable for everyone than shouting and half of the people in the train were wearing headphones anyway.

I really, really like that idea and their commitment to just print these tiny signs.

in reply to Braid in trains - solidarity with

André Polykanine
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Cool, but if you're blind or low vision, you're basically screwed. when a conductor does the old thing (i.e., speaking normally), I have time to slowly open my bag, grab my wallet, put my disability card and tickets, if needed, out of it, and be in time. If a seemingly random person comes to me in silence, I won't react.

#windows store important update. Greetings everyone. Just letting everyone know in the latest update to the microsoft store app on windows 11, they have changed where you now download store updates. You used to go to the library tab in the microsoft store app however, this has now changed so to check for app updates open the microsoft store app by searching for store on the start menu. Then tab over till you hear home. Then arrow down till you hear downloads and hit enter. Then tab till you hear get updates button. sometimes focus will not always land on this get updates button so if this happens, just shift tab back till you find this button. Hit the space bar on get updates and follow the instructions. I hope this helps. I was a little confused at first because I did not know this had changed.
#Windows

reshared this

A friend of mine, also blind and a very advanced user, tried to send me a Zoom meeting invitation with a Mac. Here's what happened:
1. Instead of a meeting at 4 pm the meeting was set to last from 8 PM previous day to 4 PM next day;
2. the appointment location contained only this: "[Name Redacted] is inviting you to a Zoom meeting.";
3. The appointment body was totally empty, so no Zoom link was available.
That's all you need to know about #Accessibility and usability of a Mac with #VoiceOver.
To prevent a holy war of devoted Mac fans, I am not telling you this is completely impossible. I'm just telling you that on Windows it's a breeze for a blind user and I even don't know how to achieve such messy results here.
#Accessibility #voiceover
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Zachary Bennoui
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I've scheduled a bunch of Zoom meetings with Mac OS over the years, really wonder how this person went about it cause unless Zoom changed something recently it really shouldn’t be that hard with VO. I wonder if the crazy amount of hate VO on Mac gets is because of people coming from Windows expecting it to behave the same? Been using Mac OS for about 15 years at this point and just don’t have many of the problems I see a lot of people complaining about.
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Somehow I can no longer get my Braille display to talk to NVDA. I've no idea what I did, or if I pressed some random keystroke that disables it, in the same way you can turn off speech or something. Very confused.
in reply to Sean Randall

Andre Louis
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@cachondo Orbit Reader 20+, and I fixed it by setting the tether mode to focus, not automatically. Maybe that breaks things. Must have lent on that key by mistake one day and didn't realise.
@Sean Randall
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Sean Randall
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I like the orbit. Despite the high repair rates mine's never had a problem, and from a cold start it's the quickest braille device I've used for taking a note, despite being the cheapest.
in reply to Sean Randall

Scary Martin
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@cachondo Do you find it noisy? Also, is it fast enough to be used as a braille display on your smart phone? I've always been curious of the Orbit.
@Sean Randall
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Sean Randall
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@mcourcel
You can hear how loud it it is in contrast to speech here.

@Scary Martin
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Scary Martin
Scary Martin
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@cachondo Yeah, that's actually not that bad. Thanks for that.
@Sean Randall
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Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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@mcourcel I wouldn't want to read on it out loud in church, and 20 cells is a bit slow for fluent reading regardless of your display, really.
I should go record the canute for comparison purposes...
@Scary Martin
in reply to Sean Randall

Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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@cachondo @mcourcel Well, they do at least have a 40 these days and it refreshes at the same speed as the 20 doesn't it? Not slower.
@Scary Martin @Sean Randall
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Andrew Hodgson
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@cachondo @mcourcel Yeah for me I go with the larger number of cells because I am fairly slow at reading Braille to be honest.
@Scary Martin @Sean Randall
in reply to Sean Randall

Andrew Hodgson
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@cachondo Yeah unlike something like the Vario which uses Windows CE which takes just over a minute to start, and I think the Humanware devices use Android under the hood don't they? The Esys devices used to start up fairly snappy but I never used them as I wanted onboard translation.
@Sean Randall

TFW a discontinued digital camera is more expensive now used than its MSRP when released.

Back to the regular AMDgpu crash.

Die letzten Monate war es Social-Media-technisch hier eher ruhig, weil das Leben zu viel war. Ein enger Freund, mit dem ich seit 40 Jahren befreundet war, ist verstorben. Ich selbst hatte auch noch eine kleine OP. Dann die Arbeit und der ganze Rest. Hoffe, jetzt wird‘s mal wieder etwas aufgeräumter!

TekSavvy Fires Back at CRTC Over Internet Rates: This Isn’t Competition | iPhone in Canada

#cdnpoli

iphoneincanada.ca/2024/10/30/t…

TekSavvy Fires Back at CRTC Over Internet Rates: This Isn’t Competition • iPhone in Canada Blog

Independent internet service provider TekSavvy has expressed disappointment over the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC) new interim wholesale fibre rates, stating they fall short of expectations.
Austin Blake (iPhone in Canada Blog)
#cdnpoli

Apple has announced its new MacBook Pro featuring the M4 family of chips and Apple Intelligence. The updated laptop promises improved performance and efficiency, along with new capabilities driven by Apple's custom silicon technology. The M4 MacBook Pro aims to provide users with a powerful and intelligent computing experience.

Link: apple.com/newsroom/2024/10/new…
Comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


Apple’s new MacBook Pro features the incredibly powerful M4 family of chips and ushers in a new era with Apple Intelligence

Apple today unveiled the new MacBook Pro, powered by the M4 family of chips: M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max.
Apple

A case ruled that Google's terms of service do not eliminate a user's Fourth Amendment rights. The court found that Google is a government agent when collecting and analyzing data for the government.

Link: ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions…
Comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Google's TOS doesn't eliminate a user's Fourth Amendment rights, judge rules [pdf] | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com

"SimpleQA is a new question-answering system developed by OpenAI that can rapidly retrieve answers from a wide range of text sources. It uses a simple, efficient architecture and achieves high accuracy on various benchmarks, making it an effective tool for information retrieval."

Link: openai.com/index/introducing-s…
Comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

SimpleQA | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com

Neat book that will be on my bookshelf

Research Software Engineering :
A Guide to the Open Source Ecosystem

by Matthias Bannert

rse-book.github.io/

Research Software Engineering

rse-book.github.io

PSA Google Analytics is spyware.

How to make me really, really, really not interested in using GitHub.
"Latest changes" box on GitHub. The changes are: 1. GitHub Copilot Metrics API GA release now available 2. Github Copilot is now available in Windows Terminal 3. Web search in GitHub Copilot Chat now available for Copilot Individual 4. GitHub Copilot code review in Github.com (public preview)
in reply to Hubert Figuière

Dave Mac Farlane
Dave Mac Farlane
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But also on Windows! And with a chatbot! And with a new plagiarism-as-a-code-review service!

Aaagggh

Spending too long nursing my 7 year old MacBook Pro back to life

I’m all for maximising the life of tech. I’ll try to repair anything

But damn it’d be nice to earn enough money to be able to buy a new laptop when I need one

in reply to Jon Worth

Pietervdvn
Pietervdvn
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oxfam and some companies refurbish older devices. Pro-specs for a low price, and only a few years old.
in reply to Pietervdvn

Jon Worth
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@pietervdvn Maybe. Either that or an entry level M4 Mac Mini I can just about afford.
@Pietervdvn

A look at VMware one year after Broadcom's acquisition: some customers say costs have risen 300%, Broadcom stopped selling perpetual VMware licenses, and more (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)

arstechnica.com/information-te…
techmeme.com/241031/p23#a24103…


300 percent price hikes push disgruntled VMware customers toward Broadcom rivals

Ars Technica speaks with users and channel partners disgruntled by Broadcom’s changes.
Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)

#curl source code age

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/10/31…

(what happened live here on mastodon converted into a blog post)


curl source code age

In every software project that has been around for a while there is of course newer code and older code.
daniel.haxx.se
#curl

The Linux Directory Structure, Explained lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

The Linux Directory Structure, Explained

If you're coming from Windows, the Linux file system structure can seem particularly alien.
How-To Geek

CRTC Approves Google’s $100 Million Online News Act Exemption Deal
michaelgeist.ca/2024/10/crtc-a…

CRTC Approves Google’s $100 Million Online News Act Exemption Deal - Michael Geist

The government’s deeply flawed attempt to force tech platforms to pay Canadian news outlets for linking to news is nearing its payout.
Michael Geist

Accessibility Courses from Teach Access! teachaccess.org/accessibility-… "These free, self-paced courses for educators provide an introduction to disability and the principles of accessible design across various disciplines" #a11y #webdev #webdevelopment #webdesign #accessibility

Accessibility Courses – Teach Access

teachaccess.org
#a11y #Accessibility #webdev #webdesign #webdevelopment

Dropbox is laying off 20% of its staff | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2024/10/30/drop…

Dropbox is laying off 20% of its staff | TechCrunch

Dropbox is laying off 20% of its staff as the cloud storage company undergoes what CEO Drew Houston calls a "transitional period."
Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)

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Why isn't anybody talking about this tactile graphics braille display? I mean, it's half the price of the other one. Still expensive, but mman! Introducing the Dotpad: floridareading.com/products/do…

Dot Pad | Innovative Tactile Graphics & Braille Display

Explore the Dot Pad, a revolutionary tactile graphics and Braille display for the visually impaired. Perfect for education and creativity!
Florida Vision Technology

My wife saw Christmas tree cakes at the store and bought me 3 boxes.

This is true love, folks!

in reply to Jcrabapple 💙

Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Aww. This is adorable! I wish you many more moments like this one. Also a man's love goes through the stomach, say old people here. :D
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