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@app in your redesign, are you planning name folding in text to speech output?
@TweeseCake

I miss my Braille display sometimes.
"The Horse and His Boy: Shasta and his talking horse Bree flee from a life of slavery and head for the freedom of Narnia, facing many perils along the way."
I spent a good 10 seconds wondering, 'briefly' what?
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James Scholes
James Scholes
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Hahaha! We listened to the dramatisation of this only last weekend, and it still took me three listens of your post to get it.
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Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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@jscholes they dont do drama like this anymore. Although I think the eagle eared can spot the odd crinkling of a page in those recordings, certainly some of the later ones.
@James Scholes

#sekora
Zápasili na slavnosti dva kulatí chrobáci, Chtěli by si zlámat kosti, jeden druhým kymácí. Ten jim tleská, sláva volá, ten se chytá za hlavu, Ten zas holí hrozí zdola, zkazili mu náladu.
#sekora

Na @openalt právě přednáší @Oskar456 z @ripencc
@Ondřej Caletka @OpenAlt @RIPE NCC

Oh fargh... I just realized how daunting this new venture into #Macbook territory is. I have to learn an entirely new operating system as well as an entirely new DAW. I tend to do better at this sort of thing if I have access to an ordered way of doing things, like some sort of course... lessons, etc. There's somebody I'd love to learn from despite the fact I'm stupidly intimidated by them, but I don't think I can afford the nearly $65 an hour price tag. I've just jumped off a cliff and am plummeting toward unknown waters... Help? #Blind #Musician #MacOS #Logic #Komplete #A11y #Voiceover
#a11y #blind #MACOS #voiceover #macbook #musician #logic #komplete
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Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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Would it be too late to refund the MacBook and Logic and start over with a nice Windows laptop? Or did you not have a choice in which platform and DAW to use?
in reply to Matt Campbell

Kira-chan
Kira-chan
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@matt Could I do that, yes. But I also wanted to switch to Mac for music production anyway. I just had a moment of what the crap did I just do for a second... LOL
@Matt Campbell

Episode 2 is my favourite from #TheKeysOfMarinus. That's not saying much - also Babs didn't have the best aim here but she still goes hard #DoctorWho #DoctorWhoRewatch
#doctorwho #doctorwhorewatch #thekeysofmarinus
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Mrs McCrimmon
Mrs McCrimmon
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Also this made me miss Kieran Hodgson's bad #DoctorWho impressions - which were actually completely on point.

youtube.com/watch?v=OedNVdX2U2…


Bad Doctor Who Impressions: The Keys Of Marinus

Arbitan is having the Worst Day Of His Life. He's got guests arriving soon, he's lost his keys, and he's been killed by the Voord(s). But maybe Ian and Barba...
YouTube
#doctorwho

Falls der (Fach-)Arzttermin nur über #Doctolib vereinbart werden kann, geht anschließend wie folgt vor: Fordert zunächst eine Datenauskunft gemäß Art. 15 DSGVO an und veranlasst danach die Löschung eurer Daten gemäß Art. 17 DSGVO. Jedes Mal. Wirklich jedes Mal. Geht ganz einfach über Datenanfragen! 👇

datenanfragen.de/


Datenanfragen.de – Nutze Dein Recht auf Datenschutz.

Dank der DSGVO hast Du viele Datenschutz-Rechte. Wir wollen Dir helfen, diese zu nutzen. Stelle DSGVO-Anfragen an zahlreiche Unternehmen und lerne mehr über die Datenschutz-Grundverordnung und Datenschutz.
Datenanfragen.de
#doctolib
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IzzyOnDroid ✅
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Dabei sollte man villeicht auch ausdrücklich auf Absatz 2 hinweisen: wurden die Daten bereits an andere Weitergegeben, hat der Betreiber "angemessene Maßnahmen" zu treffen, auch dort auf eine entsprechende Löschung hinzuwirken (so versehe ich den Absatz zumindest).

Kann man da eigentlich auch eine verbindliche Bestätigung verlangen?

My mother-in law who refused to wear a face mask during the pandemic because it ‘made her look dumb’ is now wearing a garbage bag in support of Donald Trump.

Adding this to the Wikipedia entry for “I can’t even”

Climate Change Demonstration Criticised for Blocking Traffic in Spain theshovel.com.au/2024/10/31/cl…

Climate Change Demonstration Criticised for Blocking Traffic in Spain — The Shovel

“I’m all for action on climate change, but all this demonstration does is inconvenience people. It's selfish".
The Shovel

For many years I've believed that Facebook and Instagram were secretly downloading phone photos in the background. Because when you go to post a photo, it gets sent far too quickly to have done a download at the same time.

Yesterday I found this video from an Instagram founder, and damned if I wasn't right.

It doesn't appear to be all photos, just the most recent one (ones?). It's not clear from the video if it happens when you launch the app, or when you hit compose. They're doing it on the assumption you're about to post some recent photos. They claim it's okay because if you don't post it, they delete it.

That's classic Meta self-serving bullshit. The "Yeah, it's wrong, but it's okay because we're Meta and we're smart" excuse they always use.

It is not okay to upload my photos without my explicit consent. It's not okay to chew up my bandwidth when I may be deliberately trying to keep it low. IANL, but that first, frankly, sounds like class action material.

It doesn't matter that they claim to delete it. They just introduced a privacy risk. That could have been a nude of my spouse. That could have been a photo of my kid I was sending to my doctor. That could have been a photo of a contract I'm not allowed to share. All to save a few seconds they can brag about.

When Apple allowed you to selectively make photos available to app, I turned the feature on for Meta apps. This makes posting photos a pain, because Meta doesn't uses Apple's UI for choosing which photos they can see and selecting them at the same time. It's a multistep process and it isn't obvious how to do it. Ironically, it means that I rarely post to Instagram anymore. A fact that just reinforces my belief that Meta really wants full photo access and deliberately isn't fixing the issue.

Auch das ist #DisabledAlltag : In Werkstätten für einen mickrigen Stundenlohn schufften, ohne Arbeitnehmer*innen-Rechte, während andere sich eine goldene Nase verdienen. Inklusion? Fehlanzeige!

Das Team von andererseits hat gemeinsam mit der Süddeutschen Zeitung zu Behindertenwerkstätten recherchiert.

Unbedingt lesen!

andererseits.org/werkstaetten/

#WfMmB #WfbM #Inklusion #UNBRK #IhrBeutetUnsAus


Warum verhindern Werkstätten gleiche Teilhabe? - andererseits.org

Diese Recherche ist in Zusammenarbeit mit der Süddeutschen Zeitung entstanden: Fast 300 Tausend Menschen mit Behinderungen in Deutschland arbeiten in Werkstätten.
Christian Cito (andererseits)
#inklusion #disabledalltag #wfmmb #WfbM #unbrk #IhrBeutetUnsAus

My website turned four today! :starry-eyed:

Found out via the ooh.directory homepage.

cc @OohDirectory


ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you

A collection of 2,305 blogs about every topic
ooh.directory
@ooh.directory

Anybody know anything about the following User Agent strings?

  • ReplicantReaderBot: “Replicant” isn’t an entirely unique brand name. I hope this is unrelated to the Replicant LLM chatbots. If it is, is it used to train or is it just a client of the chatbots?
  • ArenaBot/1.0 (+<https://arena.im/bot/;> contact@arena.im) (page is a 404; is this used to train LLMs or does an LLM use this as a client to fetch data?)
  • SocialBeeAgent: again, used to train LLMs or a client of an LLM?
  • Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5 Tencent/BrandProtection. Does this obey robots.txt or am I gonna have to add another Nginx rule? I normally block brand-protection bots.

#bot #scraper #LazyWeb

#Bot #scraper #lazyweb
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Seirdy
Seirdy
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there are several and they all suck. darkvisitors is the least bad but it also lacks nuance and is very limited.
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Small #Matrix Conference Image dump
#matrix

‼️ A partir de esta mañana Izquierda Unida y el Partido Comunista de Andalucia hemos abierto nuestra sede en #ElPuerto como punto solidario para las personas afectadas por la tragedia climática en Valencia.

En estos momentos difíciles para tantas personas cualquier aportación, por pequeña que sea, puede ser de gran ayuda.

Cartel anunciativo de la apertura de la sede de Izquierda Unida y el PCA en El Puerto como punto solidario para la,recepción de ayuda a las personas afectadas por la DANA
#elpuerto

@AntennaPod I found out in the podcast listening statistic, that, if you start listening to a podcast episode in one month and not finishing it within this month and going on listening to it in the next month, the whole listening time of this episode is put in the month, where you finishing it.
Can this been fixed in the way to split the listening times to the respective months?
@AntennaPod
in reply to Fasi

AntennaPod
AntennaPod
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This is how the statistics feature is designed - the data is only approximate. It is designed this way to ensure that the app can focus on its main purpose - efficiently playing the episodes that you are interested in - without spending too much data and complexity on maintaining exact statistics.
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Fasi
Fasi
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Thank you for your quick reply. So it's not a bug, it's a feature. 😄 So I'll keep that in mind next time and not start an hour long episode at the end of the month and not be able to finish it.

Just updating everyone on the advocacy I’ve been doing with Flexibits regarding Fantastical for Windows.
Flexibits have been seeking advice direct from Microsoft about improving accessibility. There is no doubt that as a company they are committed to making the experience as accessible as their products on Apple platforms. They set an aggressive schedule for getting things improved substantially, but they say they ran into a couple of issues directly with Microsoft and were not able to get all of the fixes in that they were hoping to include by the end of this week.
Flexibits tell me they are getting ready to issue a public release, version 4.0.3, that includes some fixes that should help a bit, however it is not close to being everything they are trying to improve.

So in the next release, they say we should notice some fixes to accessibility, but this is definitely not the finished product.
We can obviously lament the fact that it was released without accessibility included in the first public build, and this is regrettable, but we are where we are, and I have developed a good sense over the years of when we’re being given the run-around and when a company is genuine. I am sure they are now trying to put this right. If it gets done successfully, having Fantastical working accessibly on Windows will be a huge deal for those of us who use this app extensively on Apple platforms. I’ll keep everyone posted.

Ugh, the #chrome #extension ecosystem is exactly as bad as I'd expect.

And the fact extension is still up claiming not to collect any data even if it has been called out in one of the biggest security newsletters shows how much Google care about this (not much). The only thing they care about is pretending to ship AI features to detect malicious extensions. Because that's how you get promoted.

I mean is it even possible to report a suspicious or bad extension? I don't see anywhere

Great research by @WPalant and @c0m4r

And @campuscodi for putting the spotlight on it.

Text from screenshot: Chrome extension turns malicious: A popular Google Chrome extension with more than 100,000 installs has now turned malicious. The Hide YouTube Shorts extension is performing affiliate fraud and collecting the browsing history of all its users. Security researchers say the extension appears to have turned malicious after it was transferred to a new developer.
Text in screenshot from the extension store: Privacy The developer has disclosed that it will not collect or use your data. This developer declares that your data is Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes
#extension #chrome @Yellow Flag @Catalin Cimpanu @c0m4r
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Hubert Figuière
Hubert Figuière
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the worst is that you can block "Shorts" with an uBlock Origin rules. No need of a new extension.

Oh wait...

Oh, neat! A new open source app for Fuji cameras.

github.com/petabyt/fudge

Currently Android and WiFi only, just supporting transfers so far. Bluetooth is planned, as is location support. Desktop and iOS versions are listed on the roadmap.

#Fuji #camera #OpenSource #FOSS #Android


GitHub - petabyt/fudge: Unofficial app to pair with Fujifilm cameras

Unofficial app to pair with Fujifilm cameras. Contribute to petabyt/fudge development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
#android #foss #opensource #camera #fuji

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I really like the semantics of Rust's Option<T> and Result<T>, and I wish more programming languages would adopt something like it.
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Zeeshan Ali Khan 🇺🇦
Zeeshan Ali Khan 🇺🇦
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you probably mean `Option`. `Optional` is the zvariant workaround for inability to use `Option` with D-Bus 😊

tu sú lóve :kekw:

What is this good for?
On second floor.
On the ceiling.
#comonitor
#comonitor

ALL standards should be available online free of charge.

US folks: If you've not voted early, and don't yet have plans to vote, please make plans over the weekend! If early voting is still available in your area, take some time out of your day and get it done.

For those who have already voted via mail or in-person early voting, here are resources to check the status of your ballot: vote.org/ballot-tracker-tools/


Track Your Ballot or Ballot Application - Vote.org

Ballot tracker tools for all 50 states. Find the status of your ballot.
www.vote.org

Why people would want to deprive themselves of their natural desires, I do not know, especially just because the month of November passes. It's unhealthy to starve yourself of the natural ways of life.
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Nick's world
Nick's world
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lewd.

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@modulux
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modulux
modulux
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lewd.

Sensitive content

I dream of someday giving a conference talk titled "A Majestic Minilith", drawing its title from DHH's "majestic monolith" (signalvnoise.com/svn3/the-maje…) plus the Minilith from Arthur C. Clarke's _2061_. In this talk, I would show a full-stack web app written in Rust (or maybe some other AOT-compiled language), where the whole thing is a single binary, and show via live demo with audience participation that it can handle a decent number of concurrent users on a low-power home router.

The Majestic Monolith

Monolith by Rene Aigner Some patterns are just about the code. If your code looks like this, and you need it to do that, here’s what to do. You’d do well to study such patterns, as they give you a …
Signal v. Noise

drawing, suggestive @ viewer

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Hi, humans.

If you like me (and we like, at least sometimes talk) and would be interested in joining a potential discord server I create, feel free to give me a shout.

Can't promise anything, as these thing usually go, but I'd like to have people I like around and stuff.

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Estelle
Estelle
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@cachondo @menelion Believe me this isn't coming from anyone fanatical. I hated it until a week ago when I had cause to want to use it, and have just realised it's not thaaaaat bad. I get the hate though, I was there too.
@André Polykanine @Sean Randall
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Mikołaj Hołysz
Mikołaj Hołysz
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@cachondo @menelion Discord really starts to shine when you have people that are on the server while moving about. Their noise cancelation is beyond amazing, meaning that you can e.g. do stuff in the kitchen, speak when you have something to say, and not be annoying when you don't. It also handles network conditions, like when getting into an elevator for example, a lot better than tt.

With that said, I think it needs a lot more shepherding from admins, as each new member needs to actually be invited, you can't just give credentials to people you trust.

@André Polykanine @Sean Randall
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André Polykanine
André Polykanine
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@miki @cachondo All that is true, but accessibility… I installed it ereyesterday once more, and I'm still struggling.
@Mikołaj Hołysz @Sean Randall
in reply to André Polykanine

Estelle
Estelle
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@menelion @miki @cachondo What are you struggling with? I'm not at all trying to minimize it, believe me. I just want to understand where other people might find it difficult. I still have problems too.
@Mikołaj Hołysz @André Polykanine @Sean Randall
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André Polykanine
André Polykanine
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@miki @cachondo Itg's just not intuitive. In slack, for example, everything is super easy: F6 for moving, Ctrl+shift+L to go to channels tree, etc. Here… the interface is convoluted to the point I don't know where to go. Also, lots of pop-ups with some stuff called Nitro, try this, try that, and so on.
@Mikołaj Hołysz @Sean Randall
in reply to André Polykanine

Estelle
Estelle
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@menelion @miki @cachondo See, Slack sounds complicated to me. I find it relatively intuitive to navigate between servers using control tab, to navigate to channels etc using headings and links, to find edit boxes... I don't know, I guess different things work for different people, and that's also okay.
@Mikołaj Hołysz @André Polykanine @Sean Randall
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André Polykanine
André Polykanine
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@miki @cachondo See? Headings and links. so again, virtual PC on, virtual PC off, it's sooo daunting!
@Mikołaj Hołysz @Sean Randall

QT: queerphobia, twitch.tv

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#Twitch #petition #transphobia #queerphobia #twitchtv

Hier gibt es meinen ausführlichen Bericht zur Antwort der🚦auf meine schriftliche Frage zum Ausmaß der Förderung von #Blockchain ⛓️ durch den Bund u ob die Reg. überhaupt mal guckt, was aus den letzten 215 mio € #Fördergeld für Gedöns seit 2017 geworden ist: mdb.anke.domscheit-berg.de/202…

PICs: Screenshots aus dem verlinkten Text, u.a. ein #tl;dr u eine Gegenüberstellung von #hypetech Förderung u #Opensource Förderung

Millionen für Blockchain in 2024 – Wirkung egal - Anke Domscheit-Berg

Mit wie viel Geld fördert der Bund immer noch Blockchain Vorhaben? Das fragte ich mich, als mir auffiel, dass laut Haushaltstitel „Innovative Anwendungen von Künstlicher Intelligenz“ auch Blockchain gefördert werden kann - das stand im Kleingedruckte…
Anke Domscheit-Berg
#opensource #blockchain #fordergeld #tl #hypetech

Why can't your nose be 12 inches long? Because then it'd be a foot!

No consideraré aquest un país seriós i com cal fins que no es faci fora l'actual govern del País Valencià: o dimiteixen o se'ls fa un 155...

...tot i que després de veure Madrid durant la pandèmia em queden poques esperances.

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modulux
modulux
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Ojalá, pero con la mayoría del PP en el Senado, imposible.

anyone got a suggestion for a USB C to 3.5 MM adaptor. purchased one from Amazon and it is absolute crap. Unusable. very distorted even at low volume and things I know are stereo are played in mono. don't buy this . amazon.ca/gp/product/B0BK86C7T…

Amazon.ca

www.amazon.ca
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André Polykanine
André Polykanine
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Amazon.ca is showing me a captcha without an audio alternative… what the hell? I've never seen such a thing before.

Watch #OpenAlt live
@keddie : Digitalni stavebni rizeni.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=LA-jCIw7…

Konference OpenAlt 2024 – sobota – D105

Vítejte na konferenci OpenAlt 2024.🗓️ 👍 Program a hodnocení: https://www.openalt.cz/2024/program/
YouTube
#openalt @Ondřej Profant
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📐 Tohle je zajímavý oříšek. Řekněte mi kolik je tam trojúhelníků. A pak zkuste experiment, předložte obrázek vaší oblíbené AI (co umí obrázky, ChatGPT ano) a nechte ji to spočítat. Dá to nebo nedá?

Irregular reminder that hitting the numbers next to menuconfig search results jumps you directly to the symbol config

#kraftwerk’s mighty Autobahn is 50 years old today!

Imagine listening to it back then, this amazing 22 minute electronic track that captures the joy (and boredom) of a long drive on the autobahn.

It remains stunning and fresh now, let alone how mindblowing it must’ve been in ‘74

youtu.be/vkOZNJYAZ7c?si=FomUnY…

#Music


Autobahn (2009 Remaster)

Provided to YouTube by Parlophone UKAutobahn (2009 Remaster) · KraftwerkAutobahn℗ 2009 Ralf Hütter/Kraftwerk under exclusive licence to Parlophone Records Lt...
YouTube
#music #kraftwerk

Claro, por ahí fuera flipan con que los responsables siguieran con sus agendas y haciéndose fotos mientras ya caían las lluvias torrenciales.

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…


Valencia's governor posed for photos amid flash flood red alerts

Carlos Mazón and his regional government failed to send out emergency warnings 12 hours after the country’s meteorological agency
James Crisp (The Telegraph)

@bagder Something you write is used in the Nintendo 3DS internet browser. It sadly does not say what exactly it is using but I would assume it is #curl.
Nintendo 3DS XL on a wodden table showing the specifications screen of the internet browser. "[...] Notices regarding other Open Source Software Copyright (c) 1996 - 2009, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>. [...]"
#curl @daniel:// stenberg://
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daniel:// stenberg://
daniel:// stenberg://
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now added to the collection at daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/10/03… thanks!

screenshotted curl credits

If you have more or better screenshots, please share! This shot is taken from the ending sequence of the PC version of the game Grand Theft Auto V. 44 minutes in! See the youtube version. Sky HD is a satellite TV box. This is a Philips TV.
daniel.haxx.se
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SomeAnoTooter
SomeAnoTooter
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it's so crazy to explore tools like curl and find out how cool and useful it is and noticing that a lot of tools and products are using it in the background. Such a great accomplice but sadly not as monetarily rewarding as a good song or film, even so it is more useful (no shame on music and films but I prefer technical stuff for my entertainment ;..; )

Updates on the floods in #Valencia from a friend in #Spain
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#spain #valencia
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modulux
modulux
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It's a tragedy, and the handling is absolutely awful so far. A few more details:

Right after winning the election, the regional government abolished the regional emergency unit as a cost-cutting measure.
Urban planning failed in allowing to build in what are essentially dry riverbeds and became wet once again.
The state agency for meteorology had been giving warnings for days. Civil protection didn't issue warnings to citizens through their phones until flooding had already begun.
A far right pseudo-trade union has sued the director of the agency for reckless homicide.
The president of the region incorrectly stated that the phenomenon was remiting and heading elsewhere.
The region didn't ask the state to raise the emergency level to 3, in which case the state would take over the single command and deploy its own means to support. But now the region accuses the state of innaction. The region also didn't declare "situation of catastrophic emergency" which would have vested single command on the regional president, probably to elude legal responsibility.
Volunteers were rejected at first, then belatedly organised, and the region instead of sending them to help people in villages with cleaning, food and water delivery and so on, have at times sent them to clean shopping centres.

With that amount of rain it was always going to be bad. But the civil protection plan failed and the political conflict in the country is keeping administrations pointing the finger at each other. Very upsetting.

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