“Gaza. I feel it particularly because I am Jewish. I know how much wickedness and cruelty were meted out to Jews in my lifetime. I was born in ’41 at the height of the Holocaust.

And so my heart is broken and I think the terrible thing I have to face is that Hitler won. He changed us. He made us like him.”

—Miriam Margolyes

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*While a hurricane was blowing
Freedom just around the corner for you
But with truth so far off, what good will it do?*

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#BobDylan #Jokerman #Infidels #Jesus #ZurFeierDesSonntags

CNA - Cambodia’s prime minister and Thailand’s acting prime minister are expected to arrive in Malaysia on Monday evening to discuss the escalating border conflict. channelnewsasia.com/asia/thail…
in reply to Debian

Original description ( peertube.debian.social/w/9J5zi… )

"Parody of a popular clip from the American-Malayalee television series 'Akkarakazhchakal' (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkara_K…) advertising Debian.

Those unaware, watch the the original clip from the series here: youtu.be/GzeAQlSxVvc. In the series, an expat from Kerala, India creates this ad for his insurance company named "Thekkumoottil insurance".

Made by folks of Debian India who has laughed enough to the original Akkarakazhchakal clip. A fun fact that somebody told me (subin): People used to torrent this 2008 show, it's arguably the first Malayalee tv show that was shared via torrent. Even after 15 years since its end, the show is adored by Malayalees"

Welcome David Zhuang as #curl commit author 1396: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1800…
#curl
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Všichni povinně poslechnout mujrozhlas.cz/rapi/view/serial…

Kdo to nezvládne do konce srpna, pro toho si přijde Ideopolicie a skončí na Ministerstvu lásky.

В немецком Дуйсбурге взорвали 63-метровую высотку '#ukraine''#news''#actual''#ukrpravda' - eurointegration.com.ua/rus/new…

(1/4) Muitos de nós conhecemos a @Safaa através do ex-Twitter, uma pessoa muito acarinhada, bondosa, acessível.

Apesar da radicalização recente do país foi com alguma surpresa que no ano passado vi campanhas agressivas de perseguição online por elementos de extrema-direita e da iniciativa liberal contra ela.

Num momento em que o país recebeu muitos imigrantes esquecemos que são pessoas com histórias de vida, que se confundem com a história dos seus países de origem

It's been a tough fight - but finally Apple allowed us to offer Tuta Mail as the default mail app: tuta.com/blog/dma-complaint-ap…

Enjoy! 🎉

And rate the app. ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨
➡️ apps.apple.com/de/app/tuta-sec…

5 simple fixes that make digital spaces calmer—for neurodivergent and all users.
knowaboutaccessibility.org/202…
#webdesign #UIDesign #ux #UXDesign #a11y

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Another PSA about Amazon:

They only pay authors 30% in royalties (even if they price above 2.99) when someone buys a book through Amazon COM while not actually living in the US.

That's right. Amazon "steals" 40% of my royalties because the customer is in a different location that the USA.

Why?

Because they can. Because we authors let them get away with that. No other store does this.

Buy direct. Or at least not through Amazon.

shop.hannah-steenbock.de/

#Reading
#WritingCommunity

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‘That idiot Putin wants to take it all’: Russia’s kamikaze tactics fuel a slow advance in Ukraine - The Guardian apple.news/A12Acek8hTqCyJ2SIqr…

Sice žádné překvapení, ale konečně to řekli nahlas: Microsoft nemůže garantovat, že data z EU nepředá bez souhasu do USA

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Want to tour the SFO Museum? Just email, and you’ll get one-on-one treatment. - Mission Local apple.news/Aj9lgrnrjQhWgt6KGPD…

Odešel Jiří Krampol. Tak teda RIP.
Jako mladý kluk jsem ho měl moc rád, spolu se Šimkem byli ve své době skvělí, Surio Mário Chuaréz Martinéz Ferdinando tehdy hrál všude, ale když vzpomínám na poslední desítky let, byl mi jeho “humor” čím dál tím víc cizí, takový obhroublý Troskův Kameňák, do toho ještě to protlačování SexyMozku,…

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The GUADEC 2025 core days ended, and now it's the time of workshops and "birds of a feather" sessions.

Join my colleague Martín Abente Lahaye in his workshop on Gameeky, a learning tool designed for teaching programming, arts, and other skills, on Sunday, July 27, at 12:00

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#gnome #guadec2025 #igalia

in reply to Toni Barth

@ToniBarth @FreakyFwoof @Scott @cachondo So for processing the video and then saving out the mp3 it internally uses ffmpeg, which is probably why it has no problem with .mov. For playback, I’m not sure what the video player control uses, could be something ancient built-into Windows. It's giving a lot of people trouble, the dev said on the audiogames forum the next version will have a new video player which should be more compatible. For some people what helped is installing the kLite codec pack so you can try that, though it didn't help me on my ARM Windows VM even though the codecs themselves appear to work in the MPCHC that got installed with it, while my physical Windows PC just worked first try.

Also, regarding Brian, you can still purchase him as well as the other Ivona voices here harposoftware.com/en/

in reply to JamminJerry

@FreakyFwoof @ToniBarth @Scott @cachondo Yeah around the time Ivona was bought out by Amazon Harpo was able to get the distribution rights to them for accessibility. They also sell modern Vocalizer voices ala carte on the same page. Nice thing about these is the activation system is a simple offline key, no internet DRM of any kind. I think they might also be more responsive than the official Ivona packages were
in reply to Pitermach

@pitermach If you can get the compact variant that works, e.g., from Freedom Scientific since it's an older version, you just need to paste in the its installation folder and replace the values in the registry to point to the the compact variant. Values can be found in the HDR file. I did that for Vietnamese because its compact variant is not as buggy. I can write up actual instructions when not going off memory if wanted. @Scott @FreakyFwoof @JamminJerry @ToniBarth @cachondo
in reply to Pitermach

@pitermach @FreakyFwoof @ToniBarth @Scott @cachondo so the original ones I have require an internet connection? I didn't think they did, but I don't know. yeah, I don't like the old installers as they install other programs even though I don't want them. I have tried unchecking them, and they still install anyway. they were pretty expensive voices back in 2014. I paid 45 dollars per voice, hents why I only baught two of them.
in reply to Pitermach

@pitermach @ToniBarth @FreakyFwoof @Scott @cachondo are you serious? I am looking at this harpo software thing, and I am looking at voices, and they are saying that the ivona voices are a sail? they want 55 euros for a voice, which converts to I think google said either 64, or 65 dollars. well it looks like it is the voice, plus something called speach to go, for what it looks like. not only that, the vocalizer voices are the same price just for one voice. I know a lot of the vocalizer things you could get you got all the vocalizer voices for I think around 100 US dollars, not 65 for just one voice. ouch! now the ivona ones used to be 45 US dollars for just one voice so that doesn't surprise me, well it does when they call a sail 65 dollars for just one voice. smile.

Krásné dobré ráno mastodoní bando! 🙋‍♀️🐈🐶
Dneska se mi zdálo, že je mi šedesát šest let. Proč právě tolik nevím. Jen jsem se zoufale ptala, kam to všechno tak rychle uteklo. Asi pro mě trošku zdvižený prst. Něco jako ty, ty, ty. Jsou i jiné věci než práce. A jiní lidé, než v práci. Tak na to taky myslete. Venku je ošklivo. Budu se snažit lenošit a hrát si. Čestné slovo. 😁
Vy si taky jděte hrát. Teda, jestli jste nezapomněli, jak se to dělá. 😊
#dobre_rano
#dobréRáno

For those of you who use the #unspoken#NVDA addon, I pushed fixes to it for the latest version of NVDA. I also filed an issue documenting the current state of the addon, and why it's going to continue to suck well into the future, unless we can find a #Python developer who's comfortable with #HRTF and other audio techniques, or get Python bindings to steamaudio or something similar and modern. github.com/masonasons/Unspoken/issues/16