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This is Theodosii Spassov, probably one of my top 3 Bulgarian kaval players, with slow melody. It's a great demo of what the Bulgarian kaval can do; big range, kaba, vocal drone/harmonisation, sound effects, various levels of breathiness, ornaments like hlopki, mordents, vibrato. Particularly notable in this one is circular breathing, both for the 2nd kaval drone, which is quite common, but also in the main melody. Virtuosic stuff!
#Music #Ethnomusicology #WorldMusic
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Theodosii Spassov - "Slow Melody" Santorini - 1991

Kaval -- Bulgarian wooden fluteTheodosii Spassov was born on March 4th, 1961. He began his early training on the kaval at the Kotel Music School and The Acad...
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📽️ Nový návod na OSCloud
Ukládej si články jedním klikem!
🦊 Do Firefoxu teď snadno přidáš rozšíření Wallabagger, které propojí tvůj prohlížeč s Wallabagem.
@oscloud@vhsky.cz
🎥 Videonávod (PeerTube):
👉 vhsky.cz/videos/watch/tmrCgnyz…

📘 Celý návod v dokumentaci:
👉 docs.oscloud.cz/apps/wallabag/…

#OSCloud #Wallabag #Firefox #OpenSource #Návod

Wallabag - Oscloud Docs

Oscloud je váš osobní cloud a hosting webových aplikací.
docs.oscloud.cz
#firefox #opensource #wallabag #oscloud #navod @oscloudcz

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📰 Vzhledem k tomu, že Pocket končí, připomínáme, že na Oscloudu už delší dobu běží naše instance Wallabag
✅ se synchronizací
✅ čtením bez reklam
✅ a nově i podporou článků za paywallem!
Např. Deník N, Novinky, Root, Lupa, SeznamZprávy...
🟢 Ověřeně funguje Deník N (včetně přihlášení)
🟡 Další weby jako Novinky, Lupa, Root... jsou zatím průběžně testované
📖 Jak přidat přihlášení a seznam funkčních CZ webů:
🔗 docs.oscloud.cz/apps/wallabag/…
Díky za postrčení a support: @kepi
#Oscloud #Wallabag #OpenSource

Wallabag - Oscloud Docs

Oscloud je váš osobní cloud a hosting webových aplikací.
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#opensource #wallabag #oscloud @kepi has moved

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I’m 37 years old and living with end-stage kidney disease in Oregon. I urgently need a living kidney donor. My blood type is A+. NKR covers all costs—travel, lodging, medical, and time off work.

Please visit nkr.org/PZG643 to learn more. Even if you can’t donate, sharing this post could help me find a match. #KidneyDonation #OrganDonation #ESKD #DonateLife #GiveLife #ShareYourSpare #BeADonor #Transplant #MedicalMiracle


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#KidneyDonation #organdonation #ESKD #donatelife #givelife #shareyourspare #beadonor #transplant #medicalmiracle
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Went through a drive thru for a spoon once...

Checkers employee shoots, kills customer during dispute over food order, Florida deputies say
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Checkers employee shoots, kills customer during dispute over food order, Florida deputies say

An employee at a Checkers in Osceola County fatally shot a customer during an argument over his food order, according to the sheriff’s office.
Brandon Hogan (ClickOrlando | Orlando, Florida News, Local Headlines | WKMG News 6")
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miscbrains

It was bad enough with native ads, then gamergate made everything political and retarded. After all that settled, the industry decided to side with the screeching lefties instead of the actual audience of gamers. So it's been a death spiral ever since. Sad times when you gotta shill a mattress. Dick pills or pharma ads are probably on the horizon.

Fuck it. Let's go back to usenet. I can probably remember how to use nn.

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fewer not less 💀 weird Al wants to know if you were raised in a sewer
RT: infosec.exchange/users/codingh…

Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror@infosec.exchange)

Attached: 1 image "I think sometimes programmers forget that their primary job is to create a world where we need *less* programmers, not more." I've consistently expressed various forms of this sentiment on https://blog.codinghorror.
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America, impotently, as the coup proceeds:

"Trump is lying! Trump is stupid! He's so corrupt, and he needs to be impeached! I can't believe the media is letting him get away with this!"

That's it? That's all we've got, as our future is stolen from us and replaced with a fascist, dictatorial nightmare, complete with concentration camps, and genocide in the works?

Where are the riots? Where are the marches? How can this guy and his supporters and enablers even show their faces in public without being afraid for their very lives?

#fascism
#FuckYouFascists
#FascismInPlainSight
#FascismInTheUSA

#fascism #fuckyoufascists #fascisminplainsight #fascismintheusa
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Morgan ⚧️

@flamingored there *have* been millions of protestors. There's no media coverage of it, but there was a day of the 50501 protests where there were millions of people out there at once. There have been all sorts of protests popping up all over the place, you're just not hearing about them
And I agree there needs to be more
But it's not like everyone is silent
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Zach Bennoui

@raphaelmorgan @flamingored Protesting for like one day does nothing. They can work but they need to be like a week long at least. People aren't taking this seriously IMHO, and until we wake up to what's actually happening America is lost. I'm sick of people online, Reddit is a great example, saying shit like "oh, but what can we do?" when someone asks why more isn't being done. We clearly can not handel the situation we're in at the moment, and I hope to God something will change sooner rather than later, because honestly we don't have much time left.
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Aaron

@ZBennoui @raphaelmorgan @flamingored I think we will have to start over from scratch to make it work, personally. But we should do our best to skip the death camps currently looming between us and the end goal of rebuilding what we have lost.

We are going to have to do some hard thinking and hard work, however we get through this. I think we will at the minimum need some new constitutional ammendments to thoroughly limit executive power. No one person should have that much power. The collective's decisions should be made collectively. Pardons need to go. Appointments need to go. Executive orders need to go. Military and police should not report to the same person. Prosecutors should not report to presidents. Chop it all up and put it in the hands of multiple people that have to vote. If we have to have an executive, we should have more than one, each with a sliver of responsibility and power, and each independently elected. Our system is broken.

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Aaron

@ZBennoui @raphaelmorgan @flamingored And different voting methods should be put into place, too. Ranked choice or something that doesn't incentivize the formation of a binary political system with red and blue vying against each other like fucking sports teams, casting each other as villains to fight over the tiny scrap of swing voters that have all the control. A bottom-up system, not a top-down one, so the people really do rule themselves. Proportional representation to eliminate the tyranny of the majority. There are all kinds of things we can and probably should do to make our government truly representative and accountable and reliable.
@Zach Bennoui @Morgan ⚧️ @flamingored
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flamingored

@8petros @ZBennoui @raphaelmorgan @CassandraVert
I agree with all of the above. People in large numbers are needed to solve the issue, strike and shut down the economy. Being in the streets might be dangerous with such a violent administration, but refusing to work, reduce purchases to the bare minimum, only purchasing from small local businesses, etc. might be needed.
I can't see there's a painless way to stop a wannabe dictator, but the sooner the easier and less time to do damage
@8Petros [$ rm -rv /capitalism/*] @Zach Bennoui @Morgan ⚧️ @CassandraVert

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But but autocomplete can't do that 🤪

How I used o3 to find CVE-2025-37899, a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s SMB implementation – Sean Heelan's Blog
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How I used o3 to find CVE-2025-37899, a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s SMB implementation

In this post I’ll show you how I found a zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel using OpenAI’s o3 model. I found the vulnerability with nothing more complicated than the o3 API ̵…
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"The NBER paper comes on the heels of other indications suggesting that AI’s potential, while tremendous, has been vastly overstated in the media and the market."

But they're doing the exact overstatement here with the phrase "while tremendous."

fortune.com/2025/05/18/ai-chat…


Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds ‘no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation’

Despite AI’s promise to revolutionize white-collar work, most workers are using it sparingly—or hiding it from their boss.
Irina Ivanova (Fortune)

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Tak jsme se ženou nechali od @sesivany navézt do editace @osmcz přes StreetComplete a řešíme takové ontologické dilema: Je klasická pražská mozaika ze své podstaty spíše dlažbou nrbo dlažební kostkou?

Já to chápal užitně, že je narozdíl od kočičích hlav ok pro vozík, podpatky nebo skateboard, tudíž dlažba.

Teď jsem si ale všiml, že jiní to karegorizují jako kostky a jakože musím uznat, že se skládá z kostek...

Fotky z kategorií dlažba, betonové panely a dlažební kostky
Foto: Pražská mozaika
@osmcz @Jiří Eischmann
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Jiří Eischmann

některé tagy nemají jasně vymezené hranice, což bývá předmětem dlouhých diskusí na fóru. Člověk by se tak neměl trápit tím, že stejnou věc někdo jiný označuje jinak, pokud se jedná o podobné materiály.
Dlažební kostky (sett) mají být nahrubo opracované přírodní kameny do podoby kostky, mezery mezi nimi jsou zpravidla větší. Dlažba (paving stones) může být jak z přírodního, tak umělého materiálu, má dokonalejší tvar a je zpravidla vydlážděná s menšími mezerami.
To, co je na fotce, jsou za mě dlažební kostky, ale ani s dlažbou člověk velkou chybu neudělá.

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Hi everyone. Please share this far and wide.
An Open Letter to OpenAI and Jony Ive: Building an Accessible Future Together
By Mike Calvo, CEO and Co-founder, Pneuma Solutions
Dear Sam Altman and Jony Ive:
As a community of passionate consumers and advocates, we are excited about the merger between OpenAI and io, Jony Ive’s visionary company. This collaboration holds real promise for groundbreaking innovation. We want to make sure that the future you're building includes the millions of people with disabilities who can benefit from it.
Jony, your legacy at Apple transformed how accessibility was viewed in technology. From VoiceOver to your commitment to inclusive design, you helped raise the bar for what accessibility should look like. Sam, OpenAI’s work with platforms like Be My Eyes has already proven how AI can enhance lives. Your combined track records show that accessibility can be a foundation, not just a feature.
But we’ve also seen what happens when companies overlook that foundation. The Humane AI Pin and the Rabbit R1 launched with high expectations, yet they failed to meaningfully include our community. These products were missed opportunities. They serve as reminders of why it’s so important to involve disabled users from day one.
Our community is not a small corner of the market. We are early adopters, loyal customers, and passionate users of technology that works for us. If you truly want to innovate, then bring us in early. We urge you to connect with organizations that represent a wide range of disabilities and to invite community members to participate as beta testers and advisors.
Because nothing about us should be decided without us.
This is a chance to create something truly inclusive, to honor the accessibility legacy you’ve already helped shape, and to build a future where everyone benefits. We’re here. We’re ready to collaborate. Let’s make sure this next chapter of innovation includes all of us.
Sincerely,
Mike Calvo
CEO and Co-founder
Pneuma Solutions

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Art, Literature, and Collective Earth Aesthetics - Mixe Communal Networks, translation to English by Yásnaya Aguilar - wordswithoutborders.org/read/a…

Art, Literature, and Collective Earth Aesthetics - Words Without Borders

Translator and activist Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil brings us a dispatch from the future in the form of an essay written in 2172.
By Mixe Communal Networks (Words Without Borders)
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Federico Mena Quintero

"A piece made by weaving music can also, at the same time, have a poetic, narrative, visual, or ritual nature, depending on the culture that created it. What is now regarded as an organic element of all aesthetic manifestations was regarded as an innovative and risk-taking sort of interdisciplinary experimentation during the Dark Night of Capitalism. By contrast, almost all literature appeared in one particular privileged form, in a solitary object that needed writing: the book"

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Seen many blind people advocating for Audible's AI narration instead of having narrators they don't like record the audiobook and its takes like this that make me super ashamed of some in my own community. I can't even think of what to call these people.

The reasoning is that an AI voice won't be busy or expensive so we can get more audiobooks and just... I strongly suspect these are Blind people that hate audiobooks and want them gone or otherwise reduced in pop culture. I can't understand the logic otherwise.

#AI #Audible

#AI #audible

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Zach Bennoui

Yeah this is a dumb take. I go to Audible or other places like that to get books read by humans. If I want AI, I can just get a book from Bookshare and load it up in Eleven Labs reader or use one of the many TTS APIs from Google or Microsoft to make my own audio book. That not only gives you more choice in terms of voices but also doesn't fool people who may not be able to detect AI generated audio into thinking they're listening to a real human voice actor.
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