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RIP Quincy Jones.

Legendary music producer behind hits from Sinatra to Michael Jackson.

I know I'm alone in this, but I think "Billie Jean" was a more iconic and transformative Quincy Jones song than "Thriller." First time we saw the Michael Jackson moonwalk!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=xpN3GRFK…


Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (Motown 25) (Remastered 4K)

Twitter: https://twitter.com/NMJ_OfficialInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nmjyoutube/SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/newmichaeljackson
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Dwenius

The real genius of “Thriller” is that it is 4 minutes of warnings about horrible scary monsters and then bang: fooled you, all that was a clever ruse to get you to hold me tight, kiss me, I will take care of you, protect you, love you, thrill you, this is a pop song, I am the King of Pop, what were you expecting?

But Billie Jean is a perfect song. And identifiable immediately after the first kick and snare of the intro.

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There’s a dirty Trump trick you need to look out for. He used it in 2020 to try to overturn the election, and he’s going to do it again. But it doesn’t work if you know it’s coming.

Watch out for Trump to exploit something elections experts call the “red mirage” to prematurely declare victory before all the votes are counted.

You see, in almost every election, Republicans appear to take an early lead. That’s the red mirage.

Then that lead gets smaller throughout… instagram.com/p/DB9oGT9py7R/?u…

Robert Reich on Instagram: "There’s a dirty Trump trick you need to look out for. He used it in 2020 to try to overturn the election, and he’s going to do it again. But it doesn’t work if you know it’s coming. Watch out for Trump to exploit something el

56K likes, 1,223 comments - rbreich on November 4, 2024: "There’s a dirty Trump trick you need to look out for. He used it in 2020 to try to overturn the election, and he’s going to do it again. But it doesn’t work if you know it’s coming.
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Right? Gosh, what difficult choices we got over here! #USPol infosec.exchange/@malwaretech/…

Marcus Hutchins :verified: (@malwaretech@infosec.exchange)

Attached: 1 image Non-Americans watching the US struggle to decide between electing a professional career politician or a racist serial sex offender with 34 felony convictions and the IQ of a spoon
Infosec Exchange
#uspol
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🚨🚨🚨 ARIZONA VOTERS — It’s been reported that thousands of early voters in Pima County returned only the first page of their two-page ballot. This is important because Prop 139 for Abortion Access is on page 2. Please don’t make the same mistake when you vote in person. Please share with AZ folks.

kold.com/2024/11/02/some-pima-…


Some Pima County voters are returning only one page of the two-page ballot

Some voters, perhaps 1% or more, are returning only one page of the two-page ballot in Pima County.
Bud Foster (KOLD)

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Inexperienced, poorly trained and underfed: the North Korean troops heading to Ukraine | North Korea | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

Inexperienced, poorly trained and underfed: the North Korean troops heading to Ukraine

Kim Jong-un has called his army the ‘strongest in the world’ but they are vulnerable to malnutrition, and none have seen combat or know the terrain in Russia’s war
Justin McCurry (The Guardian)
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Matt Campbell

Saw the following on the comment thread where I learned about the 64 MB RAM requirement for OpenWrt (where I also commented):

> These days I mostly write code for systems with 256 KiB of RAM, so struggling with 64 MiB seems a bit excessive.

Just now, I wish I had chosen to work on that kind of embedded software. I guess I still could, at least as a side project. I know I'm doing important work where I'm at though, even if I have to tolerate the unconstrained excess of Electron and the like.

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Quincy Jones, music titan who worked with everyone from Frank Sinatra to Michael Jackson, dies at 91.

apnews.com/article/quincy-jone…


Quincy Jones dies: Music titan produced Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' among others

Quincy Jones has died at age 91. His publicist says he died Sunday night at his home in Los Angeles. Jones' historic career ranged from producing Michael Jackson’s record-setting “Thriller” to prize-winning film and television scores and collaboratio…
HILLEL ITALIE (AP News)

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If you're looking for a distraction, the first book of HELL'S ACRE just dropped last week. Assassins! Secret identities! Rooftop battles! Intrigue! Pretty dresses! And a whole lot more...
lilithsaintcrow.com/2024/10/re…

Lili Saintcrow | RELEASE DAY: Hell’s Acre

That’s right, my beloveds–Book One of Hell’s Acre is now available! New Rome perches upon the shores of the Thamis River, and in its soot-stained depths a teeming mass of humanity…
Lili Saintcrow

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New: A Conceptual Model of ATProto and ActivityPub

You might want to know a little bit more about how #Bluesky and #atproto works, without needing to know all the technical details. This is a high level overview of how to think about how atproto works, and how it differs from #ActivityPub.

It is also a reflection on the concepts of decentralisation and federation, and what they bring to both the #fediverse and the #atmosphere

Read at: fediversereport.com/a-conceptu…

One of the main subjects of discussion recently has been whether Bluesky is decentralised and if it is federated. I think answering these questions requires a clarity on how ATProto differs conceptually from ActivityPub. Decentralisation and federation are valued for how they impact power structures, but there are multiple ways to build other power structures in open social networks. A bit of the summary at the top, since that might help during reading: The conceptual model of ActivityPub resembles that of email: independent servers sending messages to each other. The conceptual model of ATProto resembles that of the web: independent sites publish data, and indexers aggregate this data into different views and apps.

A conceptual model of ATProto and ActivityPub

If you were to design an open social networking protocol, what would that look like? Which metaphors and comparisons would you use to get a general idea of how the network functions? And what would you answer if people ask if your network is decentra…
fediversereport.com
#activitypub #fediverse #bluesky #atmosphere #atproto

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Hello everyone!

I write my bachelor's thesis about Mastodon as an alternative social network and how its users perceive the platform.

I would be greateful if you would particpate in my survey:
umfragen.uni-paderborn.de/inde…

It only takes 10-15 minutes and would help me a lot.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

In case you want to support me, you can repost the access link, which would also help me.

Thank you!

Survey about Mastodon Users' Attitudes towards the Platform

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@thunderbird

#thunderbird a lancé une appli sur Android

Je vais tester.
Nous avons eu un retour comme quoi elle n'était pas (encore) bien sécurisée ?!

play.google.com/store/apps/dev…

@mozilla@mozilla.social
@Mozilla@mamot.fr

Merci à @oisux


Applications Android de Mozilla Thunderbird sur Google Play

The home of Thunderbird
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#thunderbird @Mozilla francophone – Commu @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox @Mozilla @Association Oisux

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Gajim is currently migrating from GTK3 to GTK4. 🔧 GTK is Gajim's user interface toolkit. It provides building blocks, like windows, buttons and labels. 🧩

Version 4 of this toolkit brings performance improvements to Gajim, e.g. faster rendering of user interface elements. 💨
Additionally, switching to GTK4 allows Gajim to use newer widgets, like nice drop downs.
Here is a quick peek at a new group chat "@ mention" widget. 😎

Stay tuned! :xmpp:

gtk.org

#gajim #xmpp #chat #gtk4

A message input with a popover showing a list of group chat participants which can be mentioned. The message input contains "@ca", which triggers a popover with group chat participants filtered by "ca".

The GTK Project - A free and open-source cross-platform widget toolkit

GTK is a free and open-source cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.
The GTK Team
#xmpp #chat #gajim #GTK4
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Hugh Nelson sentenced to actual prison for creating AI-generated images of children. Fascinating case on multiple levels. But the fact remains that he received a longer sentence than if he had actually raped a child...because of AI. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq6l24…

Man who made 'depraved' child images with AI jailed for 18 years

Hugh Nelson, who used software to create images, told police he was "very corrupted and warped".
Ewan Gawne (BBC News)

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*All* of this is JS-optional, progressively enhanced HTML. All of it.

hachyderm.io/@joelanman/113426…

Joe Lanman (@joelanman@hachyderm.io)

so with the GOV.UK platform you can now: - send emails, texts and letters - take payment, including direct debits - make accessible interactive prototypes - use a common design library and frontend code and - make accessible forms with no code n…
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Thanks for all your patience, @fdroidorg users! Thunderbird for Android is now available on F-Droid - download away!

#Thunderbird #ThunderbirdforAndroid #fdroid #OpenSource

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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Thunderbird is a 100% open source, privacy focused email app.
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#opensource #fdroid #thunderbird #thunderbirdforandroid @F-Droid

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#Trump Claims “Illegal Alien” #Voting Is Rampant. His Own Party Disagrees.
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In a private video training session, a top #Pennsylvania #Republican National Committee official reassured a new poll watcher that undocumented people could not possibly vote in the state.

#News #Election2024 #DonaldTrump #RNC #GOP #Video #Politics #Government #Immigration

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RNC Video Contradicts Trump’s “Illegal Aliens” Voting Claims

In a private video training session, a top Pennsylvania Republican National Committee official reassured a new poll watcher that undocumented people could not possibly vote in the state.
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#Trump #politics #News #voting #video #government #immigration #GOP #Election2024 #republican #donaldtrump #pennsylvania #rnc

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Ui-wooo! Hetzner is one week late with their Halloween "prank": 3 maintenance windows in a row, November 6, 7 and 8. We hopefully won't be affected for the full time (they wrote "just a few minutes") but of course cannot tell *exactly* when. So some time within those windows.

Again, only the primary servers are affected. Our mirrors will still be available to you for app updates and installs.

#maintenance #IzzyOnDroid #serviceToot

screenshot from our Uptime Kuma monitoring system, showing 3 scheduled maintenance windows in a row for November 6, 7 and 8
#serviceToot #maintenance #izzyondroid

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A #Georgia #Election Official’s Months-Long Push to Make It Easier to Challenge the 2024 Results
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Julie Adams quickly ascended from a little-known #conservative activist to a surprise appointee on the Fulton County board of elections.

She has used her new perch to carry out the efforts of players seeking to tilt the election in Trump’s favor.

#News #Politics #Election2024 #Atlanta #Voting #Election #Government #Trump

propublica.org/article/julie-a…


Julie Adams’ Rise From Conservative Activist to Georgia Election Official

Julie Adams quickly ascended from a little-known conservative activist to a surprise appointee on the Fulton County board of elections. She has used her new perch to carry out the efforts of players seeking to tilt the 2024 election in Trump’s favor.
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#Trump #politics #News #voting #conservative #government #election #Election2024 #georgia #atlanta

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 5 updated and 1 added apps:

* File Explorer: a full-featured and lightweight file manager (successor of the app by the same name, entirely rewritten)

Further, I succeeded in establishing some more apps as #reproducibleBuilds – bringing the count up to 318 apps (26.4%).

At apt.izzysoft.de/magisk 6 #Magisk #modules have been updated.

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
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#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #reproduciblebuilds #magisk #izzyondroid #modules
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