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Audiobook sales have finally surpassed e-books goodereader.com/blog/e-book-ne…

Audiobook sales have finally surpassed e-books - Good e-Reader

Digital book sales in the United States have been strong since the summer. In August 2024, e-book revenues were up 6.1%, generating 90.4 million dollars. Year-to-date e-book revenues were up 3.5% compared to the first eight months of 2023, for $687.
Michael Kozlowski (Good e-Reader)

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Improving E-book Accessibility Through Automated Content Management goodereader.com/blog/commentar…

Improving E-book Accessibility Through Automated Content Management - Good e-Reader

The e-book market is projected to reach $14.61 billion in 2024, reflecting a 3.2% increase from $14.16 billion in 2023. In 2023, 21% of Americans between the ages of 30 and 49 owned an e-reader.
Markus Reily (Good e-Reader)

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Ač jsem veskrze pragmatická, přece jen jsem několikrát v životě narazila na věci zvláštní... třeba dnes v noci.
Utočili na mě děsi, všemožné příšery, tlamy otevřené, oči vyvalené, co chvíli to vypadalo, že je po mě. Fakt jsem se bála. Musela jsem vstát, rozsvítit a zaměstnat se něčím jiným, abych se jich zbavila.

Takže vytyčuji téma: tajemno... Setkali jste se s něčím, co si nedokážete vysvětlit?

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Strong words about software development efficiency, scrum, etc

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#RIPE89 was an absolute blast, we would like to thank @ripencc for organizing this amazing event. We met a lot of interesting people and had lovely chats. If you would like to watch @m4rc3l lightning talk about our RIPE Labs article series, here is the recording: ripe89.ripe.net/archives/video…

#DDIX #Dresden @melody @m4rc3l

Melody, Klemens und Melody at RIPE89
Marcel Holding our Lightning-Talk

Daily Archives – RIPE 89

A RIPE Meeting is a five-day event where Internet Service Providers (ISPs), network operators and other interested parties from all over the world gather.
ripe89.ripe.net
#dresden #ripe89 #ddix @melody @Marcel @RIPE NCC

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Videos from #MatrixConf, usable implementations of Matrix 2.0, a new Matrix Client called Tammy and lots of changes in Fractal! This and more happened this week in #Matrix!

Come check it out at matrix.org/blog/2024/11/01/thi… 🎉


This Week in Matrix 2024-11-01

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
MTRNord (matrix.org)
#matrix #matrixconf

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💟 1 year ago today I joined TetraLogical, the best group of #accessibility practioners I could ever wish to work with.

If you need practical, expert advice, you know where to get it 🖖🏽

tetralogical.com/services/


Services - TetraLogical

Accessibility consultancy with a focus on inclusion. We can help you with knowledge, experience, strategy, assessments, and development.
TetraLogical
#Accessibility

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It's 1214 days since I filed a React Native bug because an external keyboard user on Android cannot get focus into a text input field so can't fill in forms. No-one cares. Except people with access needs, of course. github.com/facebook/react-nati…

Can't focus into text fields, Android + external keyboard · Issue #31820 · facebook/react-native

In the first Expo example on https://reactnative.dev/docs/textinput - with an external physical keyboard on Android, we don't seem to be able to move the focus into/ between these input fields. It'...
GitHub

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The new version of Wagtail, v6.3, has been released.
How many release announcements kick off with a strong commitment to accessibility like this one?

"We're just a little obsessed with accessibility around here. Between our accessibility checker feature, the accessibility workshops we've hosted, the accessibility statistics we shout about, and the dedicated Accessibility page we have here on Wagtail.org, you may have noticed that. So, ..."

💙 @wagtail
wagtail.org/blog/wagtail-63/


Level up your image accessibility and dashboards with Wagtail 6.3 | Wagtail CMS

Manage alt text like a pro and more with our latest Wagtail release
Wagtail CMS
@Wagtail
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An AI-generated ad left thousands of Dubliners waiting for a Halloween parade that never came engadget.com/ai/an-ai-generate…

An AI-generated ad left thousands of Dubliners waiting for a Halloween parade that never came

Thousands of people took to the streets after being duped by an AI-generated ad for a parade. The My Spirit Halloween website advertised the fake event.
Lawrence Bonk (Engadget)

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Open Source Bites Back as China’s Military Makes Full Use of Meta's Llama 2 AI Model gizmodo.com/open-source-bites-…

Open Source Bites Back as China’s Military Makes Full Use of Meta's Llama 2 AI Model

China’s People’s Liberation Army is using Llama 13B for military applications. That’s against the acceptable use policy, but there’s no way to put the AI back in the bottle.
Matthew Gault (Gizmodo)

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Along with flash floods, we're also dealing with flash droughts — a new term for me.

"Where has all the rain gone? Bone-dry October strikes much of US"
phys.org/news/2024-10-bone-dry…

h/t @primonatura
#drought #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming


Where has all the rain gone? Bone-dry October strikes much of US

A bone-dry October is pushing nearly half of the United States into a flash drought, leading to fires in the Midwest and hindering shipping on the Mississippi River.
Seth Borenstein (Phys.org)
#climatechange #globalwarming #drought @Primo Natura

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Oh thank god I have a reason to stop being nice to the fucking Walmart greeter.

“Facial Recognition That Tracks Suspicious Friendliness Is Coming to a Store Near You”
gizmodo.com/facial-recognition…

(This is clearly me making a joke — I don’t go to Walmart; I have to harass the greeter at their home.)


Facial Recognition That Tracks Suspicious Friendliness Is Coming to a Store Near You

Coresight AI has released a new product that sends alerts to store security when customers and staff have anomalous interactions.
Todd Feathers (Gizmodo)

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#CAQASTROPHE! The CAQ pissed away an inherited surplus on its wishlist, which didn't include healthcare spending, and now the CAQ healthcare minister says healthcare spending is becoming untenable... and 1M+ Quebeckers STILL DO NOT HAVE A FAMILY DOCTOR.

montrealgazette.com/news/quebe… #assnat #QCpoli #polQC #cdnpoli #polcan #CAQBS #CAQLIES


Quebec's health-care costs are becoming untenable, Dubé warns

Says this year's budget will be $60 billion, a 50-per-cent increase in six years.
La Presse Canadienne (Montreal Gazette)
#cdnpoli #assnat #polqc #caqastrophe #qcpoli #polcan #caqbs #caqlies

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So... this was a fun compiler bug: the D8 Java to DEX compiler (part of the Android toolchain) eliminated a redundant field load if running the class's static initialiser was known to be free of side effects, which ended up accidentally depending on the sharding of the input, which is dependent on the number of CPU cores used during the build.

issuetracker.google.com/issues…

I made a small example to illustrate why this optimisation is only valid when the class initialiser doesn't have side effects (or the initialiser is guaranteed to have run already, which is the case for a base class of the current one):

gist.github.com/obfusk/8382214…

#ReproducibleBuilds


issuetracker.google.com/issues/366412380

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/366412380. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Gist
#reproduciblebuilds

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Welcome to the RB family, Hash Checker 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.s…

Hash Checker is an app for generating and comparison MD5, SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512 and CRC-32 hashes from files or text. Thanks to the efforts by its dev, today's release is now RB :awesome:

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid

„Hash Checker“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Fast and simple application for generating and comparison hashes
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid
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