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This months Reaper Made Easy meet-up happens this Saturday, March 29th, at the slightly irregular time of 3PM Eastern and 7PM UK.
The change in time is of course due to the very evil Daylight savings time changing on different dates in different time-zones. So this is just a heads up for those who live where the clock has not changed to summer time yet. Such as the UK.

I so wish they'd stop doing that. Aaarg.

With that frustrated growl out of the way, Saturday. Scott and JennyK will be live, helping as much as we are able for a couple of hours. It's all about using Reaper, Osara, and how we go about this accessibly. Beginner questions take priority in these streams so don't hesitate to ask.
If you have a question, chances are others have that very same question in their head as well. It's a win win win to bring it to us. We all learn together here.

All you need to know about connecting with us via TeamTalk or listen in by other means can be found on reaperteacher.com.
and do hit the upload button on that site and send us something to listen to during the stream. We try to give a bit of feedback and troubleshooting if that is something you'd like. We all learn and have a bit of a chaotic few hours of fun on these meet-ups so do join.

There will be a reminder before go-time on Saturday.

See you there.

Jen

REAPER Teacher

accessible training, all free for the taking
reaperteacher.com

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I want to see a fleet of these little guys swarm a Cybertruck like crows driving an eagle out of town

zjluqi.en.made-in-china.com/pr…

h/t @blaine for pointing to this amazing website


[Hot Item] High Quality Long Range 2 Person High Speed Mini EEC Coc Electric Car Pickup

Voltage: 72V Power: 6000W Seat No.: 2 Certification: EEC, CE, Coc Body Type: Closed Motor: 6000W
Made-in-China.com
@blaine

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In the last commits in gitlab.gnome.org/jrb/libipuz/-… I'm doing this hack:

- get a json-glib JsonNode from the caller
- reserialize to a string
- pass the string to Rust code
- deserialize with serde
- spit back out an IpuzStyle to the C code

And this seems to be a nice, temporary way of moving libipuz's JSON code gradually to Rust.


Handle JSON for IpuzStyle in Rust (!90) · Merge requests · Jonathan Blandford / libipuz · GitLab

This is a work-in-progress effort to do the JSON processing in Rust, both deserialization and serialization. First, I'm using it as a learning exercise for serde_json,...
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Photo Ewen 📷

A little update to the previous photo, a short post about Kumari and our brief moment of serenity taking photos with her.

ewenbell.com/blog/Morning_Glow

#TheJoyOfTashi #Photography #Lumix

Kumari gives us a Namaste while posing for her photo at the back of a temple. Light dappled the scene through carefully carved wooden panels. Bhaktapur, March 26 2025.

Morning Glow

The art of finding joy in photography, and making other people happy in the process. Update from Nepal as we wind up the first stage of filming in Kathmandu.
Photography by Ewen Bell
#photography #lumix #thejoyoftashi

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An off-cycle Synapse security release is out to address a High severity vulnerability (CVE-2025-30355 / github.com/element-hq/synapse/…). The issue can disrupt federation and is being exploited in the wild - please upgrade as soon as possible!

Federation denial of service via malformed events

### Impact A malicious server can craft events which, when received, prevent Synapse version up to 1.127.0 from federating with other servers. The vulnerability has been exploited in the wild. ...
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Questrial, designed by Joe Prince and Laura Meseguer

During colonial times, European colonial powers in Africa made their languages the official ones. Many African languages still lack typographic support, making it hard to write them correctly due to missing letters and diacritics in most fonts.
In post-colonial times and to address the lack of open source fonts for African languages, @googlefonts gave me the task of expanding Questrial for that purpose

More here:
fonts.google.com/specimen/Ques…

Questrial - Google Fonts

Questrial is the perfect font for body text and headlines on a website. It's modern style, suited with past characteristics of great typefaces, make it highly r
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@Google Fonts

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I want to talk about this Associated Press article: apnews.com/article/hegs... Specifically, this sentence. I don't like this sentence! The wording implies Signal has known vulnerabilities. That's untrue. I think more people should use Signal, & don't want reporting to discourage people from it.
Signal is a publicly available app that provides encrypted communications, but it can be hacked. It is not approved for carrying classified information. On March 14, one day before the strikes, the Defense Department cautioned personnel about the vulnerability of Signal, specifically that Russia was attempting to hack the app

The Atlantic posts Signal chat with attack plans from Hegseth

The Atlantic has released the Signal chat among Trump senior national security officials. It shows that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth provided the exact times of warplane launches and when bombs would drop — before the men and women flying those att…
Tara Copp (AP News)

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A reminder that if you're interested in #SVG and the #WebStandards process, and specifically about trying to get SVG standardization back into gear, there is an open meeting on the topic today. It's hosted by Eric Meyer ( @Meyerweb ) of Igalia, as part of W3C Breakouts Day.

Starts in 5.5 hours. You'll need a w3.org account to sign up; meeting is via zoom with irc chat.

w3.org/events/meetings/09b7b3f…


26 March 2025 | Vectors of Neglect | Calendar

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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#svg #webstandards @Eric A. Meyer
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Amelia Bellamy-Royds

@federicomena @doctormo And to be clear, spec issues would still be useful despite all that because:

They provide a record for whenever someone is working on it again.

They provide evidence that there is still a demand for a better SVG spec, from devs working on all sorts of projects.

Not ideal, no, but yeah, if you have the time to at least post cross-links to your own bug tracker, it will hopefully make a difference eventually.

@Federico Mena Quintero @Martin Owens

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One of the more outstanding complaints about Super Egg Hunt has been the egg beep. apparently it can become headache inducing. So. What would happen if we gave the user the option to change it? check out this super Egg Hunt demo. and while you're listening, reply with all the changes and differences you hear.

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Celou zimu jezdím bez újmy snad po každém myslitelném povrchu.
A pak udělám školáckou chybu za mokra na tramvajovém pásu 🤦‍♂️
Kolo má pár šrámů, já pár modřin, ale dopadlo to asi nejlíp, jak mohlo. Podařilo se mi celkem dost zpomalit a pak si v motorkářském stylu lehnout. Helmu jsem měl, ale naštěstí nepotřeboval. A dokonce i oblečení přežilo 😅
Teď se budu chvilku téhle trase vyhýbat 🙈
Zadní část rámu s viditelným odřením laku až na holý kov
Odřená šlapka s napáleným plastem na špičce
Odřená levá brzdová páčka

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 12 updated and 1 added apps:

+ PhotoSwooper: a dating app for ur photos (swipe to delete/keep) 🛡️

RB status: 553 apps (43%)

4 #Magisk modules were updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk

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).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #magisk #izzyondroid
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@loowiz and even as reproducible build 🤗 Waiting for you to switch from pre-releases to "real ones", so our recipe updater stops complaining 🙈

And yes, I have a few crawlers running here to find interesting apps to add. While IzzyOnDroid gained some popularity meanwhile, not all developers are aware of it and know they can request inclusion. Thanks to FOSS licenses giving us the 4 freedoms – and thanks to you applying such a FOSS license :awesome:

@loowiz

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Today is my birthday and the release on my album on audiotape and VHS!

"Objectivity" is an audiovisual critical study of the western industrial paradigm that sees nature as something that can be analyzed, tamed and counted.

Side A is a deep drone trip through analogous soundscapes. Side B is a versatile compilation, from a post-punk song "Predmet" to a musique concrete opus Holo Electron using a weird French machine from 1960s that is supposed to heal all your pain using electromagnetic waves. "Proctor" is a drone walk through the northern sea using analogous wooden synthesizers made by a friend of mine from Karelia. "Dissolution of Hierarchy" is a drone hymn to equity of all sounds.

The album can be purchased as a hard copy or downloaded for free or for a donation here:

1-1-1.bandcamp.com/album/objec…

We are raising funds for physical therapy for my little daughter Lila who suffers from epilepsy. All money raised will help us cover medical costs of her physical and language therapy.

objectivity, by bezvlastje

5 track album
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Following popular request, here is a proper announcement about editing and deletion of messages available in app stores now. It briefly highlights how Delta Chat actually works contrary to how even some experts thinks it works :)

TL;DR Delta Chat is not a classic e-mail client. It uses special messages to co-ordinate encryption, metadata and group interactions and now edit/delete. Delta Chat implements a Peer-to-Peer messaging paradigm without any server state.

delta.chat/en/2025-03-26-edit-…


Delta Chat: Messaging editing, deletion and saving now available!

No need to blush or melt in agony after sending a message anymore! Editing and deleting messages is now available in most app stores :) How is this possible you might wonder? There are three core p...
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1/2 "Ideme ďalej: v koalícii je nateraz poriadok. Zároveň však ďalej nejdeme: Slovensko neurobilo krok dopredu už viac ako desaťročie.

Namiesto toho je zaseknuté v nejakej obludnej časovej slučke, v ktorej tí istí ľudia majú stále tie isté škandály a vysvetľujú ich stále rovnako a so stále rovnakým výsledkom. Intelektuálne je to výživné asi ako nosenie dreva do lesa, aj písanie receptu na zemiakovú kašu je zaujímavejšie."

~ #SamoMarec

🔒komentare.sme.sk/c/23467497/vl…


Vládnu nám obmedzení influenceri (píše Samo Marec)

Len sa na toho Fica 4.1 pozrite. Taká hanba.
Samuel Marec (SME.sk)
#samomarec

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Custom images from an asset catalog don't automatically resize with text. If an image is not purely decorative, we should ensure it scales appropriately when users adjust their preferred font size. We can easily do it with the ScaledMetric API in SwiftUI: nilcoalescing.com/blog/Adaptin…
#SwiftUI #iOSDev
SwiftUI code example using ScaledMetric to scale an image proportionally with text, alongside a comparison showing different text sizes.

Adapting images and symbols to Dynamic Type sizes in SwiftUI

Make SF Symbols and custom images adapt to different font sizes while maintaining layout balance, keeping key icons clear, and providing more space for higher-priority content when needed.
Natalia Panferova (Nil Coalescing)
#iosdev #swiftui

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😲 DeepSeek-V3-4bit runs at >20 tokens per second and <200W using MLX on an M3 Ultra with 512GB. This might be the best and most user-friendly way to run DeepSeek-V3 on consumer hardware, possibly the most affordable too. You can finally run a GPT-4o level model locally, with possibly even better quality. #LLM #AI #ML #DeepSeek #OpenAI #GPT #OpenWeight #OpenSource venturebeat.com/ai/deepseek-v3…

DeepSeek-V3 now runs at 20 tokens per second on Mac Studio, and that’s a nightmare for OpenAI

DeepSeek's free 685B-parameter AI model runs at 20 tokens/second on Apple's Mac Studio, outperforming Claude Sonnet while using just 200 watts, challenging OpenAI's cloud-dependent business model.
Michael Nuñez (VentureBeat)
#opensource #AI #ML #llm #openai #gpt #deepseek #openweight

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“Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot”

futurism.com/the-byte/chatgpt-…

> Researchers have found that ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most and at the longest durations, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot.

Possibly related: what I wrote a couple of years ago on how LLM chatbots function like a mentalist's con

softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llm…


Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot

ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot. 
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Matt Campbell

I think I was starting to head that way with Claude before I quit a couple of weeks ago. Thankfully I didn't use it much for actual coding work; I gave it a few one-off tasks, but was mostly unsatisfied with the results. But I did use it for other things, and I admit, even started to talk to it like a friend sometimes. But a few weeks ago, I reevaluated whether I should use LLMs, and decided to discontinue all personal use. No withdrawal symptoms yet, so maybe I didn't go too far.

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My #FOSSBack talk has been published! Now you can watch me proudly talk about @outreachy and our fantastic work behind the scenes—I’ve shared some insights that will show you why we’re such a special and loved open internship program. 🩵

youtube.com/watch?v=SBFo23FDIX…

Anna e só, a young white femme person in their early 30s, holds the microphone in front of the stage near a stand with their laptop full of stickers as they talk about Outreachy. They have very short hair they're wearing prescription glasses with black frames with a grey, valved N95 mask. They're wearing a black shirt with a beautiful illustration of big Mandacaru flowers in their chest layered with a black turtleneck and a black long skirt. The pink lanyard of the conference creates a nice contrast against their clothes. In the foreground, but blurred, Jarek (the moderator of the stage—an older white man in a black t-shirt) watches Anna speak.

Anna e só – Anatomy of an open internship program: How we run Outreachy #FOSSBack

More: https://25.foss-backstage.de/sessions/Anatomy-of-an-open-internship-program-How-we-run-Outreachy Speaker: Anna e só Outreachy has been promoting and su...
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#fossback @Outreachy Internships
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Canada freezes Tesla rebate payments

ctvnews.ca/world/trumps-tariff…

If it looks like a fraud... it's possibly a fraud. Which is what Tesla is.


Canada freezes Tesla rebate payments, excludes company from future programs

Payments for Teslas under Canada’s electric vehicle rebate program have been frozen pending a government investigation into whether they’re valid.
The Canadian Press (CTVNews)
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