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Raycast: an ultimate macOS launcher

Introduction I am a relatively new macOS user, having started to use the Mac seriously in 2021. Since then, I have tested countless apps—some better than others, some more useful, and some perfectly accessible with VoiceOver, while others were comple…
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Covid vaccine, Singapore, positive

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Sign Language Recognition Using Accurate ASL Gesture Detection System disabled-world.com/assistivede…

Sign Language Recognition Using Accurate ASL Gesture Detection System

Study pioneers an accurate system for recognizing American Sign Language gestures using advanced computer vision and deep learning, significantly enhancing communication accessibility
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Kellogg’s to roll out cereal boxes with world-first technology for blind and visually impaired people disabilityhorizons.com/2024/12…

Kellogg’s to roll out cereal boxes with world-first technology for blind and visually impaired people

This is an updated post from our archives. Kellogg's has introduced NaviLens technology on its cereal boxes, enabling blind and visually impaired individuals to access product information via smartpho
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20th Century Fox Started Making TV Show 74 Years Ago Today cordcuttersnews.com/20th-centu…

20th Century Fox Started Making TV Show 74 Years Ago Today | Cord Cutters News

Seventy-four years ago, in 1949, 20th Century Fox, one of Hollywood’s major film studios, made a groundbreaking announcement: it would begin producing content for the burgeoning medium of television.
Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)

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The Fourth Doctor is Fifty! bigfinish.com/news/v/the-fourt…

The Fourth Doctor is Fifty!  - News - Big Finish

Award-winning, full-cast original audio dramas from the worlds of Doctor Who, Torchwood, Blake's 7, Class, Dark Shadows, The Avengers, Survivors, The Omega Factor, Star Cops, Sherlock Holmes, Dorian Gray, Pathfinder Legends, The Prisoner, Adam Adaman…
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Maths wankery.

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In 2024 #Google forced users to choose between #Chrome and #uBlockOrigin

Most chose the latter because finally everyone understands it's time to quit Google. 😎

Here are our favorite browser alternatives:
➡️ tuta.com/blog/best-private-bro…

Which one did you pick?

🦊 Firefox
🦆 DuckDuckGo
🕵️ Tor Browser
Mullvad
Pale Moon
Puffin
GNU IceCat
WaterFox
Brave
Hyphanet

Reddit Screenshot: Google confirms they will disable uBlock Origin in Chrome in 2024

Best Private Browsers 2024 | Top 10 To Stop Trackers | Tuta

When it comes to most secure browsers Firefox is the best alternative to Chrome on our list - and, no, incognito mode doesn't cut it.
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#google #chrome #ublockorigin

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9 Cancionistas uruguayas.

Gabriela Posada
Escalofrío (En Vivo)
youtu.be/5IvAVUDhMlA

Sylvia Meyer
El amor como razón del fin del mundo
youtu.be/XBUKdE6nCfE

Estela Magnone
Cascabel
youtu.be/CsS-8wPbsQY

Samantha Navarro
El Mar en un Anden
youtu.be/Op2uz3IIssk

Mariana Ingold
Cara a cara
youtu.be/F3fmNPKjdoc

Sofía Alvez
Canción asiático
youtu.be/T-gDskf4vD4

Rossana Taddei
Sic Transit
youtu.be/EWCCWa3CN_Y

Inés Pierri
Nos robaron la luna
youtu.be/w0hbqfI3TWs

Ninguna Higuera
Treinta y Tres
youtu.be/eL_C0JU-nUg

#musica #uruguay


Escalofrío (En Vivo)

Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesEscalofrío (En Vivo) · Gabriela PosadaEsposada (En Vivo)℗ 1992 SONDORReleased on: 1992-02-13Music Publisher: A...
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#musica #uruguay
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After 6 months and about 333 commits I proudly present:

Faircamp 1.0 – A static site generator for audio producers
simonrepp.com/faircamp/

To recap the highlights of the past months and learn what's new in the final 1.0 release, check out the blog post: simonrepp.com/posts/faircamp-1…

Development of version 1.0 was made possible through the amazing support, funding and expertise of the @NGIZero programme and coalition, led by the @nlnet foundation and financed by the European Commission's @EC_NGI initiative – thank you so much for giving me and everyone benefitting from a better Faircamp this incredible opportunity!

Also, many thanks to all faircampers, contributors, testers, translators, bloggers, podcasters and encouraging voices for supporting this journey - for the final 1.0 release specifically to @branpos for release candidate testing, @n00q for bugreporting/testing, @limebar for the external artist page feature inspiration and @Vac for their diligent translation work.

Along with this release I've published multiple new documentation resources - from an official Linux/macOS/Windows tutorial to a 1.0 migration guide, from an overhauled reference manual to a beginner's guide to publishing faircamp (or any!) static sites - check out the website and recent posts in the #faircamp hashtag to discover them!

That's all!

Faircamp website header, stating in bold, large typography: "A static generator for audio producers". Below that the text says "Point Faircamp to a folder hierarchy containing your audio files. Within minutes, Faircamp builds a complete website presenting your work. The resulting site requires no database, no programming, no maintenance, and is compatible with virtually every webhost on this planet." Notably there are some now items that previously did not appear on the website: 1) "Latest release: 1.0", 2) "Migration to 1.0 (Video)", 3) In the topmost header there are now buttons saying "Download", "Resources" and "Tutorial".

Faircamp

simonrepp.com
#Faircamp @NGI Zero open source funding @bran(...)pos @Lime Bar @n00q @Next Generation Internet @NLnet @Vac, Jr. 🌿
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Thanks to @spacepup, I got my hands on a demo of a Czech text to speech software from 1993 called CS voice. When opened, it automatically reads a prewritten text describing the program's various functions and features, but in a fun and humorous tone.
The first link leads to the recording itself, and the second contains a translated transcript of the recording.
If you're curious about the history of this TTS software, I highly recommend reading the article linked below. It's in Czech, but includes a bunch of recordings and insights into the development of speech synthesis, not just in the Czech Republic but more broadly.
If you're a fan of the history of text to speech, I think you'll find this really fascinating.
Link to article: blindfriendly.cz/hlasove-synte…
link to recording: dropbox.com/scl/fi/z99c5le3s80…
link to transcript: dropbox.com/scl/fi/rbem4a8mrai…

Mal nahldnut do historie hlasovch syntz

Hlasov
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The #38C3 presentation about the massive #Volkswagen data leak is over and the leak was as bad as it sounded. 100,000s of cars could be located down to cm precision. Also a lot of metadata that is NOT supposed to be public. Disturbing.

The main takeaway was that the real problem here wasn't the leak itself, but that this data was collected in the first place.

I agree. It's not a good idea to create mountains of very personal data and then pray it never leaks.

#privacy #fail #leak #breach #vw

#privacy #fail #leak #breach #vw #volkswagen #38C3

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A razão: não devem trabalhar bem o suficiente para a privatização

Mas não há quem pare esta ministra?

🔗 publico.pt/2024/12/28/sociedad…


Ministra e director executivo do SNS demitem administração da ULS da Lezíria

Dirigentes da Unidade Local de Saúde de Santarém foram chamados a Lisboa para serem informados que saem em 31 de Dezembro, sem direito a indemnização.
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“The data centers powering the AI industry are fueling higher levels of dangerous air pollution, according to new research. In a paper titled The Unpaid Toll: Quantifying the Public Health Impact of AI, scientists say this pollution could lead to up to 1,300 premature deaths each year by 2030. On top of that, the public health costs—ranging from treating cancer and asthma to covering missed work and school days—are estimated to be hitting around $20 billion annually.”

fastcompany.com/91253026/air-p…

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Hi! Hope you've had a good christmas/December holiday season so far. I haven't posted on here lately, but with all the retro tech stuff that's made a bit of a resurgence in my corner of Masto I have to share this video where a long-time user of GameMaker tries to find the origin of a bunch of Midi files that used to come in free resource packs on the gamemaker site. You get everything from exploring vintage personal home pages, a lot of covers and some original material, and a lot of Sonic. youtube.com/watch?v=CSYSkjQI__…

Identifying Every MIDI in Res02.zip

Old Game Maker users and internet users alike will recognize Resource Pack 2 for its 129 midis. But who made them all? In this video, I set out to find out, ...
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Peekr turned two today. 🎉
Here are the recap (left) and some memories while we were building the by-then "the biggest SVMetaSearch update" (right). We've came a long way throughout these two years.

And when you look at the picture on the right, you can clearly notice how much the interface has evolved.

Thank you, and see you in the next 365 days!

2nd anniversary - 2022-2024.12.28 29.1M documents* in the index ~800k to ~1.6M searches** every week * As of 28 December 2024 6.25am CET. ** This is a rough estimate. Each week differed in the traffic volumes.
A collage of two Peekr interface editions. The first, on the left, is kept in sepia-ish colours, while the second, on the right, is kept in the current Peekr's colour palette (green-ish). Between left and right there's much difference. On the left, you may notice lack of site overview and Internet Archive links (which are present in today's Peekr - on the right). Finally, there's no News and Tor tabs on the left, which on the right are sitting and awaiting their proper implementation. Result links are trimmed to fit in one line on the right, while on the left they were let to spill through all way to the end, sometimes requiring a few lines to be written.

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#AskFedi: Do any of you know of acceptable #EyeTracking solutions using just plain old cameras (or maybe the IR stuff that comes in iDevices)?
I want to play around with something really quickly, and just need something that kind of works, ideally without requiring additional components (though I have IR LEDs and some small camera modules lying around).
If you are curious, it is about this: plush.city/@hadley/11372975948…

#BoostsWelcome #DIY

Hadley T. Canine (fox) (@hadley@plush.city)

Rendering idea: bright flashes should be drawn using a simulated persistence of vision, because computer monitors can only get so bright. And a quick, one-frame flash will inherently look very dark.
✨Plush✨City 🏙
#askfedi #boostswelcome #diy #eyetracking

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Ok, so as I'm closing to a highscore release, there's a specific thing I want to know. How many people are still using gnome-games or (never released but I know a few distros packaged it anyway) pre-rewrite highscore?

The reason I'm wondering is - data migration. If there's a lot of people still using the old app, I will have to have a simple way to migrate data from it. If not, I don't need to bother ^^

I have a feeling that it's not a lot of people, since gnome-games is EOLed on flathub and was dropped from everywhere since it was never ported away from tracker 2.x, but you never know, so asking anyway.

If you're using it, please reply. Otherwise, please boost ​:boosts_ok_gay:​


Files · pre-rewrite · World / Highscore · GitLab

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Reading this comment by @david_chisnall: lobste.rs/s/lgqwje/does_curren… (the one about flat memory being a poor abstraction and so on), it occurs to me that microprocessor designers are way better at hiding complexity behind non-leaky abstractions than a lot of us software developers (myself included). I wonder why, or if my perception is off.

Does current AI represent a dead end?

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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

I suspect that it's largely down to two things:

First, hardware abstractions are hard to change. The i386 didn't succeed because it was the best 32-bit chip, it succeeded because it could run all existing 8086 software. That's a massive driver. It's easy to build a new chip that massively outperforms a modern Intel chip if you're able to co-design the OS and language that run on it but you won't sell (unless it is really good for a specific, common, workload and gives at least a 10x speedup, as with GPUs).

Second, hardware is simple. Hardware is laid out on a 2D plane and interactions are bounded to adjacent things. You need to route wires to interact with further-away things, which makes place-and-route harder and impacts timing. Most of the time, logic blocks are equivalent to pure functions: they have some in wires and some out wires and, after n cycles, will produce some output on the output wires that depends on the input. The ones that are not (the ones that have internal state) are the more annoying to verify. In contrast, objects in a programming language exist in an n-dimensional sea. Any pair of objects can interact if some piece of code holds references to both (including if one holds a reference to the other). Most components have some state and their output and interactions with other components depend on that state.

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Antes de la pandemia, para el cumpleaños de mi ex, se me ocurrió la genial idea de grabarme cantándole el feliz cumpleaños, por supuesto, desafinadísima e inventando notas. Hasta mi hermana salió al final del audio felicitándolo y me pegó un susto porque no sabía que estaba ahí. Lástima que no conocía este imno, me habría ahorrado la vergüenza! Y seguramente la relación se habría salvado 🤣🤣 todo ventajas. youtube.com/watch?v=Ayyo6X2IbU…

Canción: ¡Feliz cumpleaños! - Videoclip - Flos Mariae

CADA MIÉRCOLES UN NUEVO VIDEOCLIP. CADA MARTES UNA NUEVA MÚSICA M.B.D.SUSCRÍBETE al CANAL – DALE a ME GUSTA – DESCÁRGATE el Wallpaper AQUÍ: http://www.flosma...
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Today is the day. Welcome to THE charger!

USB-C is officially the common standard for charging electronic devices in the EU.

This means:

🔌The same charger for all new phones, tablets and cameras
⚡ Harmonised fast-charging technology
🔄 Reduced e-waste
🛑 No more “Sorry, I don’t have the right cable”

One charger to rule them all.

#SingleMarket #DigitalEU 

A minimalist illustration showing a packaged charger box labeled "one Union one Charger." The box features an image of a blue charger with the European Union flag symbol and a USB-C cable. The scene is set within a holiday theme, with decorative Christmas trees, ornaments, and gift boxes surrounding the charger box. In the top right corner, there is a small EU flag symbol.
#SingleMarket #DigitalEU

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"The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing" is an abnormally well-written textbook. I'm 5 chapters in and so many things are clicking for me that have never made as much sense before. I bought the physical version but it rocks that it's also available for free in full legally: dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm

The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing's Table of Content

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Elias Mårtenson

@modulux The REPL's include an input method that allows you to type them using a prefix character (usually backquote). So to type ⊂ you press backquote followed by z.

The web-based client shows the keyboard layout: kapdemo.dhsdevelopments.com/cl…

There's also an Emacs mode for people who prefer that. It's also my intent to create a custom keyboard layout for Linux, but I haven't done that because I personally have no need for it. There is one for APL though, which has almost all the symbols needed.

Kap client

kapdemo.dhsdevelopments.com
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There I'll be an Arch user meetup at 16:00 today at #38C3.

Short presentation from staff, maintainers and contributors. Then a Q&A session.

We have swag and (some) stickers.

events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hu…

#ArchLinux

38c3: Arch Linux user meetup

Arch Linux is a community-driven Linux distribution for the "do-it-yourself" user. A couple of Arch Linux maintainers and contributors will give you a status update of what has been happening since the last congress. We'll also allocate time fo...
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#archlinux #38C3
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