I only noticed it just now, but Google has collapsed almost all varieties of European voices in its GCP TTS library last month into just one voice per gender.
If any of your apps or services has been using its English (British) voices, they won't sound anything like they used to.
And if you used multiple voices (e.g. using different female voices for different female characters), they will now all sound like the same person.
the Heritage Foundation just got all its sites blacklisted (= spam filter) from English Wikipedia, and probably deprecated (can't be used as a source)
Apple's 2025 is about to get busy with impending product launches, and new leaked info suggests some news big and small will be shared over the next week, which culminates in the iPhone SE 4 launch.
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Apple's 2025 is about to get busy with impending product launches, and new leaked info suggests some news big and small will be shared over the next week, which culminates in the iPhone SE 4 launch.Wesley Hilliard (AppleInsider)
Databroker Files: Im Dschungel der Datenhändler
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Wie #Apps uns ausspionieren, und "Datenreichtum" geschaffen wird (halt nicht bei uns)
In Massen verkaufen Databroker Handy-Daten von Millionen Menschen, darunter genaue Standorte. Warum sprudeln die Daten immer weiter? Mit internationalen Recherche-Partnern decken wir ein raffiniertes System auf, in dem die Beteiligten die Verantwortu…netzpolitik.org
Hola Fediverso.
¿Alguien entiende de monedas antiguas (numismática)?
Tengo una colección de monedas que herede de mi abuelo hace años y hoy me ha dado por mirarlas pero no sé si tienen algún valor. Entre los cientos de monedas hay un montón de 5 pesetas de finales de siglo XIX.
Agradezco un repost por si llegase a alguien que pueda ayudarme o decirme dónde pueden ayudarme.
(VER IMAGEN)
Thanks @bagder for providing the Firefox ca bundle publicly in an accessible way here: curl.se/docs/caextract.html
Extra kudos for the appropriate curl command-line to automatically download the latest version!
#curl
@archos S tím přejezdem je to zvláštní, páč používají podklady od TomTomu, jehož základem jsou OSM. 🤔
Navádění do průhů vloni byla taky tragédie. Mám ale pocit, že už je to teď lepší. Každopádně Mapy.cz mají to navádění do průhů přehlednější a dřívější.
Sygic jsem si pořizoval primárně kvůli dopravě v zahraničí, kdy Mapy.cz (v poslední aktualizaci přidaly Sentry tracker 👿 ) uměly jen ČR. Teď už umí i Slovensko, Polsko a Rakousko... Takže nevím. 🤷♂️
Danish citizens have launched an online petition, signed by 200,000 people, to purchase California. The petition notes that purchasing the Golden State would provide Danes with more sunshine, dominance in the tech industry, limitless avocado toast, and easy access to Disneyland. In return, California would get the rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.
Can they buy Wisconsin, please? I'd take that offer! 😆
-= We hoped we never had to do this but here we are and we now have to do this. =-
American trans humans are under threat and like in 1930s Germany, they now have to GTFO of their home country.
We have decided we need to collect some information on the possible ways out.
So we made a wiki.
We are collecting information on possible exit routes into various countries. We focus on work, study and self employment visas as they are available at the moment.
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The Braille Institute created a font designed to make reading easier for people with low vision called Atkinson Hyperlegible in 2019.
It just released an update (Atkinson Hyperlegible Next) and monospace version with enhanced characters, 7 weights, and variable weight.
They’re free for personal and commercial use.
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#a11y
Read easier with Atkinson Hyperlegible Font, crafted for low-vision readers. Download for free and enjoy clear letters and numbers on your computer!Braille Institute
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I’ll be doing this with every Google account I own today.
Join me? calckey.world/notes/a43gdi11p9
Google changed the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America. It would be just a total shame if we all flooded Google with feedback telling them the Gulf is labeled incorrectly. Open Google Maps, zoom out and center on the Gulf of Mexico.Calckey.world
Travel agents say Canadians are cancelling U.S. trips amid tariff threats
Apple now lets users migrate their purchases between different Apple accounts, but the feature isn't available to users in the EU, UK, or India (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
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If you have two Apple Accounts with multiple digital purchases between them, Apple now has a way for you to consolidate the accounts by migrating...Juli Clover (MacRumors.com)
Elon Musk is the father of 12 kids with three different women. Here's what to know about the mothers of his children: Justine Wilson, Grimes and Shivon Zilis.Skyler Caruso (PEOPLE)
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Military families protesting the defense department's anti-DEI push heckled Defense Secretary Hegseth at United States European Command headquarters in Germany.Courtney Kube (NBC News)
After taking office, President Trump rescinded a policy that instructed immigration agents to steer clear of sensitive locations like churches, schools and hospitals.Eileen Sullivan (The New York Times)
ProPublica has identified nine additional Musk-affiliated staffers. A former staffer at Boring Company now has an official role at DOGE in the Executive Office of the President. A former X employee now works in the General Services Administration.
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#News #ElonMusk #DOGE #Government #USPolitics #Trump
Musk and his lieutenants are reshaping the government and its mission with the blessing of President Trump. ProPublica has confirmed the names and roles of more than 30 staffers affiliated with the billionaire.ProPublica
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Even herhalen.
De Golf Of Mastodon.
Ja, daar lijkt het sterk op.
Edit:
Added hashtags in case anyone wants to find the picture in the future
#GulfOfMastodon #GolfOfMastodon #GulfOfMexico #GulfOfAmerica #Elephant
Canned tuna sold at Walmart, Trader Joe's and other retailers may be contaminated with the bacteria that cause botulism, the FDA announced.Corin Cesaric (CNET)
New and only on Assigned Media: Wikipedia editor Pax Ahimsa Gethen writes about transphobic harassment, defacement, and attempts to turn Wikipedia into a source of anti-trans disinformation, and of the determination of trans editors to preserve the site as a vital source of unbiased, truthful info.
On Trans Issues, Wikipedia is ...
In the wake of the anti-trans legislation by the Trump Administration, Wikipedia stands as a reliable source for information on trans topics.Assigned
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@Ernesto Wong García estaba pensando en hacer algo así para los hashtags, a ver... ¿qué te parece?
Se va a poder hacer clic en cada elemento (por ej. "linux" aquí) y abrir la corresponde pantalla con todos los post que contienen el hashtag seleccionado.
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The OnePlus 13 is a reasonably priced flagship Android smartphone offered for $899 in the US. It has the latest Qualcomm SnapDragon 8 Elite processor, 12GB orJohn Dyer (Accessible Android)
Last night I finished a book I read for a reason that did not give me particularly high expectations: the author is a friend of my wife. I knew knew that she (the author) liked Babylon 5, so at least she had good taste.
To my surprise, I found myself really enjoying it. There are a couple of places where the writing is clunky but the characters were interesting and the story was engaging. I’m very much looking forward to the sequel (due this year).
If you enjoy low-stakes science fiction mysteries, I can thoroughly recommend Artificial Selection by Marianne Pickles. I will try to avoid spoilers, but if you hate people putting machine learning in totally inappropriate places, there is a two-page rant about 3/4 of the way through that you’ll enjoy (I did!).
Learn about Marianne Pickles's work-in-progress novel, a science fiction mystery set in a future when the climate crisis is history.Marianne Pickles
Interested to take a little tour through how #deltachat apps and the #rustlang core library are wired together?
@treefit and @WofWca provide a deep-dive into the history of apps migrating from a C-Foreign-Function-Interface to a #Rust based JSON-RPC mechanism, with entertaining horror stories like how an iOS release some years ago could delete profiles without the user intending it 😬
The post also highlights a few areas where folks interested to help could start ... delta.chat/en/2025-02-11-why-j…
Foremost this is a quite technical post. Read our other blog posts if you want something more targeted at end users. If you have not yet looked at the Delta Chat source code, you might not know tha...delta.chat
Don’t use the aria-label or aria-labelledby attributes on divs, spans, or other elements representing static/noninteractive text-level semantics, unless you’re also updating roles.Ben Myers
Learn how to use each tab in the WAVE extension.Whitney Lewis (Pope Tech Blog)
You might think you're operating system gives you the privacy you need, but unless you're using an OS like Tails Linux, your privacy cannot be guaranteed.Jack Wallen (ZDNET)
Surface Update History: Improvements and fixes in the updates February 2025 updates February 3 release The following update is available for Surface Laptop Studio devices running Windows 10...Windows 11 Forum
If you’ve had enough of Windows 11, or are considering moving away from Microsoft when the tech giant pulls the plug on Windows 10 later this year, there are plenty of options available to you, ran…BetaNews
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So I finally turned a recent popular post here into a proper story.
Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’
Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have precluded him from gaining the necessary security clearances to do so. As today’s story explores, the DOGE teen is a former denizen of ‘The Com,’ an archipelago of Discord and Telegram chat channels that function as a kind of distributed cybercriminal social network for facilitating instant collaboration.
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Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities should have prec…krebsonsecurity.com
Muskwatch.com analyzed URL traffic for an image sharing service run by Coristine (tesla dot sexy), and found between April 2021 and September 2021 that numerous noxious URLs redirected to Coristine’s site, including, “children-sex.party,” “child-porn.store,” “kkk-is-cool.club,” “nigga.rentals,” “nigga-sex.download,” “owns-a-slave.shop,” “raping-women.club,” “ketamine-rape.date,” “rape.business,” and “rapes-wo.men.” Internet archives of the URLs show they redirected traffic to tesla.sexy but any content they may have linked to has disappeared.
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The site launched by Edward Coristine in 2021 promised to protect the privacy of its users, stating, “All your images are encrypted. We do not log IP addresses, device agents or anything else.”Caleb Ecarma (Musk Watch)
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