L'app di Intesa Sanpaolo pesa 700 MB e nasconde un file chiamato "rutto.mp3". Un simbolo del disagio tra i consulenti IT? Una riflessione su sfruttamento e qualità del lavoro. #Consulenza #Tech #IntesaSanpaolo

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If we don't fight back, right now, against the escalating right-wing warfare against public participation -- e.g. freedom of expression -- we are well and truly screwed. Josh Marshall has solid ideas here. (I have more that I'll be adding in a newsletter post later.)

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Journalist Carl von Ossietzky was a constant voice against Nazism and rising militarism in 1920s and 1930s Germany. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for it — and he died for it. In this long read for Atavist, Kate McQueen tells his story. "They may condemn us, today, tomorrow, the day after, [and] we will accept it,” he once wrote. “But our pride will be in … becoming more energetic, sharper, denser and tougher. That’s why we are journalists.”

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#History @histodons #Journalism #Nazism #Germany

With the Mobifree project (mobifree.org), e Foundation @e_mydata has raised 4.4M€ from the European Union to fuel Open Source projects accross the EU! 👊

This will help the development of more human FOSS software in the mobile area, like microG, DeltaChat, F-Droid, /e/OS...
@microg @delta @fdroid
@ngi

Learn more about this endeavor at e.foundation/ngi-mobifree-proj…

What to do during the darkest days on the Northern hemisphere? Hole up inside CCH and huddle around the blinking LEDs of #38c3 !
We're looking forward to go to Congress and we hope to see you there.

One of the things we'll be doing is a joint meetup with @PrototypeFund and @sovtechfund about funding free and open source projects. Day 2 at 15.00 in Saal D.
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Gizmodo: You Can Now Call ChatGPT on the Phone

"...If you are ever feeling lonely and just need someone to talk to, OpenAI has you covered... Callers are limited to 15 minutes per month..." gizmodo.com/you-can-now-call-c…

#chatgpt #ai

New study finds that women born in the most sexist U.S. states experienced faster memory decline in later years compared to women born in the least sexist states. The difference was equivalent to nine years of cognitive aging.

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🪣🧼🫧USHERING IN THE NEW YEAR🧹🧽✨

Preparations for the New Year in Japan begin on December 13th, 'Shōgatsu-goto Hajime' (正月事始め).
Pine decorations are cut or bought ('matsu-mukae' 松迎え) and the house is cleaned from top to bottom ('susu-harai' すす払い).

#松の内 #Japan #NewYear #Kyoto #正月 #正月事始め #Shogatsu #京都

Fighting on Mist World. The usual. What else is new, the same old dramas get re-hashed, the same conversations happen again and again as new players join it. And then we have this masterpiece of an AI song about Admin 6, created by one of the players (Ginger) and for anyone not playing the game, hearing it should help them to know why you might want to wait with such horrible staff support.
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Doctor Who Fans in America Can Now Watch Some Classic Episodes Free on YouTube thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2024… #DoctorWho

From the Internet Archive:
Doctor Who Classic Comics : High Quality archive.org/details/doctor-who… #DoctorWho
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Congratulations to ABC Excellence Awards Winners 2024 inclusivepublishing.org/news-a…

ICEVI Organizational Award Conferred on The DAISY Consortium inclusivepublishing.org/news-a…

You Can Now Call ChatGPT & Ask Questions On The Phone cordcuttersnews.com/you-can-no…

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Welcome Kuan-Wei Chiu as #curl commit author 1327: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1577…
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@RaccoonForFriendica version 0.3.2 of Raccoon has been released! 🎉🦝🎉

Changelog:
- feat: add Acknowledgements screen;
- feat: support for block quotes;
- fix: prevent crashes while loading timeline;
- fix: load suggestions and trending links;
- fix: retrieve source for post editing;
- fix: user post pagination;
- fix: images overlapping text;
- fix: detect Friendica RC versions;
- enhancement: accessibility improvements;
- enhancement: post preview;
- enhancement: exclude replies from timeline by default;
- enhancement: make Markdown mode always available;
- enhancement: l10n updates.

Thanks to all those who helped by testing and reporting bugs, submitting pull requests or translating the UI. You are mentioned in the home page and, from now, also in a dedicated screen which can be accessed from the "App information" dialog.

You are simply awesome #livefasteattrash

#friendica #friendicadev #androidapp #androiddev #fediverseapp #raccoonforfriendica #kotlin #multiplatform #kmp #compose #cmp #opensource #procyonproject

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Brand new audio game: "Super Race Grand Prix" applevis.com/forum/ios-ipados-…

Exciting news for #KMP devs! JetBrains has officially launched this new site named "Klibs.io" for finding KMP libraries. It has 1400+ libs already, including our own "KHealth" too 😉

Check it out: klibs.io/?query=khealth

#Kotlin #Multiplatform #JetBrains #KHealth #Technology #Software #Health

Warning: loud noises. So I tried out the bestspeech addon for NVDA released by @Tamasg for fun. Unfortunately, if I arrow up and down quickly on a webpage, this is what it frequently does. Sorry for the echo and horrible clipping, I had to shout over the noises, and the setup to record this wasn't ideal. But I haven't heard a computer make these noises in ages!
in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

loool that totally sounds like the pointer fried your memory horribly. And NVDA didn't reboot itself, just reset the speech synth after all that even? I've never heard eloquence samples in the corruption, wow. You can try the -older version of the add-on but since more people saw issues when we weren't using the thread executor to try and avoid race conditions I don't think you'll find it much better. We'll see how badly the 2025.1 version changes things, ironically yeah for BestSpeech the add-on changes might be more minimal, and at least the newer eloq drivers are able to play through Wasapi on Nvwave output devices, so I'm hoping they'll stay good.
in reply to Tamas G

So oddly, that only happens on my Intel Microsoft Surface laptop. It's fine on my AMD Framework Laptop. But just pressing the up and down arrows quickly on a webpage on my surface can get that to happen every time, howling squeaking random eloquence samples and all. A sighted person tells me that the "okay" button eloquence tries to read is for a dialogue that says "The instruction at {random numbers} referenced memory at {random numbers}. The memory could not be written. Click on OK to terminate the program." But if I don't press okay NVDA just fixes itself and comes back.
in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

oooh that's interesting. with this newer thread executor model, I've actually gotten myself to switch back to Eloquence while the loud sounds were happening, and it would continue to play them on that other thread whilst Eloq just happily spoke along. One of the most baffling experiences in this for sure, so at least I'm thinking the newer driver does more to prevent NVDA's main thread from frying and keep it more in the DLL lock.
in reply to Timothy Wynn

so to do it, make sure this function is defined as returning these:
```def terminate():
global bgt, player, dll, handle
```
And then add this towards the end:
``` if dll and hasattr(dll, '_handle'):
ctypes.windll.kernel32.FreeLibrary(dll._handle)
dll = None
handle = None
```
(be sure to re-indent as needed) - this should close the dll for you every time you switch synths.
Oh yes, looks like this part of the driver is not in the base driver code, so the file with the underscore before it.
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OpenAI launches free phone hotline to let anyone call ChatGPT
1-800-CHATGPT telephone number lets any US caller talk to OpenAI's assistant—no smartphone required.
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