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Update: The addition of leading silence detection and removal logic to NVDA's speech has been delayed to V2025.2.
github.com/nvaccess/nvda/pull/…
@NVAccess

Add leading silence detection and removal logic by gexgd0419 · Pull Request #17648 · nvaccess/nvda

Link to issue number: Closes #17614 Summary of the issue: Some voices output a leading silence part before the actual speech voice. By removing the silence part, the delay between keypress and user...
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„Die Polizisten gingen nah an mich ran, die Hunde sprangen mich an und bissen mich in den Oberarm“, schildert Krug die Situation. Sie sei geschockt gewesen und zurückgewichen. Wenige Sekunden später habe ein anderer Polizist seinen Hund gegen sie gehetzt – das ist die Szene, die man auf dem Video sieht.
Hundetrainer Martin Rütter nannte den Umgang des Polizisten mit dem Polizeihund „kompletten Wahnsinn“. taz.de/!6063531/
Zwei Polizeihunde und Hundeführer, mit dem Rücken zu uns, stehen vor einer Sitzblockade. Text: „Wieso sollte die Allgemeinheit dafür aufkommen, dass Po­li­zis­t*in­nen ihre Aggressionen nicht unter Kontrolle haben?“ Die Aktivistin Aktivistin Salome Krug wurde beim Protest gegen den AfD-Parteitag in Riesa von einem Polizeihund gebissen und will nun, dass die Polizei die Klinikrechnung bezahlt

Aktivistin über Polizeigewalt in Riesa: „Die Hunde bissen mich in den Oberarm“

Beim Protest gegen den AfD-Parteitag in Riesa hatte die Polizei ihre Hunde nicht im Griff. Verletzte will, dass Polizei die Klinikrechnung bezahlt.
Katharina Schipkowski (taz)

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Great turnout today at the State of Open Con in London.

More discussion of procurement, regulation and the role of government.

stateofopencon.com

#SOOCon #StateOfOpen #SOOCon25 #FOSS #London #Drupal #CHAOSS

Stop for the SOOCon.
At the Drupal Table at SOOCon
Henry, Bill and I at the SOOCon25
CHAOSS Table at the State of Open Conference.

- State of Open Conference 25

The UK's Open Technology Conference: Open Source Software, Open Hardware, Open Data, Open Standards, & AI Openness. 4 and 5 February, 2025 at Sancroft, Rose St, Paternoster Sq., St Paul's London EC4M 7DQ
State of Open Conference 25
#foss #drupal #london #Stateofopen #chaoss #soocon #soocon25

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Musk se dostal k citlivým datům stamilionů Američanů. Tají ale, jak s nimi naloží
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denikn.cz/1644057/musk-se-dost…

Musk se dostal k citlivým datům stamilionů Američanů. Tají ale, jak s nimi naloží

Elon Musk na pokyn Donalda Trumpa ovládl tři federální úřady a získal přístup k důvěrným informacím o finančních tocích stamilionů lidí. Nikdo neví, zda si data úřadů stáhl, případně co s nimi hodlá dělat.
Jana Ciglerová (Deník N)

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Opened new #email account at @Tutanota
No ads, no tracking, #encryption enabled by default, no bullshit. Highly recommended!
#degoogle #privacy
tuta.com/

Tuta: Turn ON privacy for free with secure emails, calendars & contacts | Tuta

Tuta guarantees your data stays private for free & without ads. Quantum-resistant encryption makes Tuta the best secure technology solution to protect your privacy.
Tuta
#email #privacy #encryption #degoogle @Tuta

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‘Down there,’ he said, ‘are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any iniquity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathesomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no.’

#Books
#TerryPratchett

Lying on a fringed, green and blue sofa blanket, my paperback edition of Terry Pratchett’s novel Guards! Guards! The cover is a busy hectic lively cartoon-ish illustration of trolls and demons and City Watch guards surrounding a Wagnerian woman tied to a rock, about to be sacrificed, while birds screech down from the skies.
#books #terrypratchett

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🚀 RIPE NCC Training is coming to Hamburg! 🇩🇪

Want to level up your Internet skills and connect with other professionals? This February, we’re hosting in-person training in Hamburg. Free for RIPE NCC members!

📆 26 Feb – LIR Training Course
📆 27 Feb – IPv6 Fundamentals Training Course
📆 28 Feb – RIPE Database Training Course

📍 Register now or sign up for our mailing list to stay updated on upcoming webinars and training near you: ripe.net/training/in-person-tr…

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We are excited to announce the National Federation of the Blind Radio Network (NFBRN). Broadcasting 24/7, this dynamic station brings together a diverse mix of content from the organized blind movement, including legendary speeches, Braille Monitor articles, recent podcasts, convention highlights, uplifting stories, and live events. And there is more to come. Send your feedback to communications@nfb.org.

NFBRN is available on any Amazon device by opening "Nation's Blind."

#NFBInDC

#nfbindc

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Fun fact: Did you know you can open the quick settings from within Windows setup OOBE screen using Windows +A and disable Wi-fi from there?
That's right. No need for messy commands. Just, go in there before it asks you to connect to a network, and toggle Wi-fi off. Can't believe they don't block the quick settings pannel.
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Salesforce Cutting 1,000 Roles While Hiring Salespeople for AI
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-04/salesforce-cutting-1-000-roles-while-hiring-salespeople-for-ai?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Salesforce (CRM) Cutting 1,000 Roles While Hiring Salespeople for AI

Salesforce Inc. is cutting jobs as its latest fiscal year gets underway, according to a person familiar with the matter, even as the company simultaneously hires workers to sell new artificial intelligence products.
Brody Ford (Bloomberg)
@Profiles

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Anthropic Asks Job Applicants Not To Use AI In Job Applications slashdot.org/story/25/02/03/20…

Anthropic Asks Job Applicants Not To Use AI In Job Applications - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Anthropic, the company that made one of the most popular AI writing assistants in the world, requires job applicants to agree that they won't use an AI assistant to help write their application.
slashdot.org

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“Zero warnings”: Longtime YouTuber rails against unexplained channel removal

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Even creators are treated like a SKU. And the whole lack of explanation is telling.


“Zero warnings”: Longtime YouTuber rails against unexplained channel removal

Developer calls for human review to end YouTube’s automated channel removals.
Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)

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Workers in DC are fighting to block Musk's minions.

"About 100 Federal employees and supporters...blocked the doors to...‘data miners’....The small group of young men eventually left without entering after the protesters would not let them near the front doors."

dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/02/fed…


Federal Workers Block Doors of Admin Building Over Elon Musk Data Breach - DCMediaGroup

Nearly 100 Federal employees took part in a protest now into its second day of a takeover by Elon Musk surrogates of the high administration arm of the Federal government.
John Zangas (DC Media Group)

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Er, wait... that $100M contract with Elon Musk's Starlink that Doug Ford "ripped up"? Doug Ford signed that deal himself when Trudeau wouldn't make a deal with Musk, conning Ontario taxpayers out of $100M for a service worth less than $14M.

Now he's calling a snap election while taking credit for undoing his own crooked deal (with added penalty costs to Ontario taxpayers). The news is only covering his ripping up of the contract, not the origins of the contract to begin with.

#cdnpoli #cdnpoli

Article Link: https://globalnews.ca/news/10869860/ont-spacex/ Canada Ford government inks $100M deal with Elon Musk’s Starlink system By Isaac Callan Global News Posted November 14, 2024 1:26 pm Updated November 16, 2024 11:53 am 2 min read The Ford government has signed a deal worth roughly $100 million with Elon Musk’s Starlink company to provide high-speed internet to parts of northern and rural Ontario. On Thursday, the province announced Starlink had won a competitive bidding process to run a satellite-based internet program for roughly 15,000 households and businesses beginning in June 2025. “Our government is pleased to work with Starlink to offer a highly advanced satellite internet service that will help people living and working in the hardest to reach areas of the province access high-speed internet,” Kinga Surma, Minister of Infrastructure, said in a statement. “Our government knows how essential it is to have access to online services and supports, which is why we are using all viable options and technologies, including fibre, fixed wireless and satellite to ensure every community across the province has access by the end of 2025.”
Even though #DougFord has 18 months left in his mandate, he called a snap FEBRUARY election. Why? It sure isn’t for the excuse Ford claims. Ford made an utterly corrupt deal with #ElonMuskIsANazi. $100M for 15,000 households when it actually costs $13.97M (including tax)? #onpoli Because anti-democracy proto-fascist #MapleMAGA #Conservatives couldn’t hand Musk 🇨🇦’s satellite broadband at the federal level, they’re doing a workaround by having Conservative led provinces hand Musk Canadian’s taxpayer money: globalnews.ca/news/1086986... #DougFord inks deal with Musk. #cdnpoli
Ford canceled the deal. He’s a transactional conman who knows this will play well and clinch his win. Even though Ford is the one who forged this backroom deal to bypass Trudeau’s refusal of a Starlink deal & when a Canadian option was on the table. #NeverEverTrustConservatives #ONpoli
#cdnpoli
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Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads

timsh.org/tracking-myself-down…

#privacy #tracking #linuxmobile #surveillance


Everyone knows your location

Recently I read about a massive geolocation data leak from Gravy Analytics, which exposed more than 2000 apps, both in AppStore and Google Play, that secretly collect geolocation data without user consent.
tim (tim.sh)
#privacy #surveillance #tracking #linuxmobile

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🔥 DELTA CHAT 🔥

The ease of use, the privacy-by-design, identity AND routing agnostic, the realtime peer-to-peer messaging supported by @n0iroh
The Genius ✨ zip-file applications ✨ ecosystem.

Check out the talk by @delta at #fosdem25 for more.
fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event…

omigosh. You blew my mind yesterday, the development and transformation you have made in the last few years is fantastic.

Presented by:
@hpk @Xeniax@mastodon.ml

Meme depicting a grave on which it says email is dead with delta chat happily squatting over it.

FOSDEM 2025 - Delta Chat, from e-mail messaging to Peer-to-Peer realtime networking

fosdem.org
#fosdem25 @Delta Chat (39c3) @holga @iroh
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We need your help! We're making good progress with #XDP support for our #DNS software. However, to properly test it we need access to two metal boxes with 10Gb/s NICs that have XDP driver support, e.g. docs.ebpf.io/linux/program-typ… Please contact us if you can help out. 💚

Program Type 'BPF_PROG_TYPE_XDP' - eBPF Docs

This page documents the 'BPF_PROG_TYPE_XDP' eBPF program type, including its definition, usage, program types that can use it, and examples.
docs.ebpf.io
#dns #xdp
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You can customise what appears on your timeline using Mastodon's Filters feature. It lets you automatically hide posts containing certain words, phrases, hashtags, links or emoji. This guide explains how to use Mastodon filters and answers lots of common questions:

➡️ fedi.tips/filtering-your-timel…

Filtered posts can be either hidden completely, or hidden behind a warning that can be clicked open.

Filters give you the ability to hide whatever you don't want to see, from NSFW to Wordle.

#FediTips


Filtering your Mastodon timeline to automatically hide posts containing certain words, phrases, hashtags, links or emoji | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse
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#FediTips

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Taliban minister ‘forced to flee Afghanistan’ after speech in support of girls’ education | Taliban | The Guardian theguardian.com/global-develop…

Taliban minister ‘forced to flee Afghanistan’ after speech in support of girls’ education

Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, Taliban’s deputy foreign minister, left for UAE after criticising ban on secondary school and higher education for girls
Tom Levitt (The Guardian)

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The ecosystem is moving ... away from corporate centralization and mindsets.
Billionaires are out, federated and multi-player systems are in, if we gather the many chats, gossips and happenings around #fosdem correctly. Dispersing ourselves around Bruxelles the last couple of days was very enjoyable (thanks Sun!) and helpful to orient in convivial directions in this otherwise extraordinarily stupid 2025 timeline ... thanks to the many people we enjoyed conversations and hang outs with! ❤️
Picture of entrance to "Delta" subway station close to the ULB Fosdem conference location. It's beginning February, trees mostly have no leeves, and there are wall paintings: a kind of animal/human in black on yellow ground, as well as a yellow/blue towerlike structure with some red and black graffiti. A stairway and two machine-rolling stairways are visible, one of them currently blocked.
#fosdem
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