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Ook deze week kwamen activisten terug naar de Burg in #Brugge om krijtboodschappen aan te brengen tegen de genocide. #stopgenocide #freepalestine #freedomofpress

uitgezonderd.org/week-7-van-heโ€ฆ


Week 7 van het โ€œKrijtprotestโ€ vraagt aandacht voor vermoorde journalisten in Palestina

Sinds het begin van juli wordt op de Burg in Brugge, door middel van krijtboodschappen, geprotesteerd tegen de genocide op het Palestijnse volk. Vandaag, 17 augustus vormde daar geen uitzondering โ€ฆ
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#brugge #freepalestine #StopGenocide #freedomofpress

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What can be done about London's overheating homes?

Andre says he saves a lot on heating in the winter
As a musician, Andre Louis works a lot at his home in Kilburn and in summer, despite having numerous fans placed around the rooms, he says it gets unbearably hot.
"The way that these places are built, they are built for warmth, but that means that in heat, it is doubly warm," he explains.
"We don't turn the heating on in the winter, for example. We haven't done in about eight years. In that time, we've actually saved a lot of money by not having to turn the heating on.
"But because these places don't come with air conditioning, we find that anything we do to mitigate doesn't help."

Source: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clydlxโ€ฆ


City living: What can be done about London's overheating homes?

The city's concrete jungle means it is now considered one of the world's most extreme urban heat islands
Alice Bhandhukravi (BBC News)

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I vibe-coded this yesterday to help deal with my timesheet at work. I didn't find the way GitHub presented my activities useful for tracking my time.

github.com/mgifford/gh-summary

Seems to work OK. Would love feedback on how to improve it.

#GitHub #Timesheet


GitHub - mgifford/gh-summary: Pull your GitHub Summaries for easier timekeeping

Pull your GitHub Summaries for easier timekeeping. Contribute to mgifford/gh-summary development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
#github #Timesheet

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Here's a 20-minute tutorial In which I demonstrate how I use #Suno AI to cover/remix my tracks in new ways. A few people have been asking me to show this because the website's a little incomprehensible, so I thought I would do a bit of an explainer.
Here, I'm using NVDA screen-reader in windows with Google Chrome.

If you are attempting this on MacOS, you will likely have to interact with the item and move over to the play button before being able to do VO+Space to play your item. If you don't, nothing much happens.
In all other respects, MacOS works very similarly to windows, so you should be able to follow along with this demo successfully.

Youtube with subtitles: youtu.be/CpK1QBzjSI0

Download for offline listening: onj.me/media/How_I_Use_Suno.mpโ€ฆ

#NVDASR #Demo #Tutorial #Blind


How-To: Use Suno from a Blind Perspective - NVDA (Audio Only)

Here's a 20-minute tutorial In which I demonstrate how I use Suno AI to cover/remix my tracks in new ways. A few people have been asking me to show this beca...
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#blind #nvdasr #tutorial #demo #suno
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While I'm generally very pro-EU, this #ChatControl initiative they keep pushing - despite experts persistently debunking the rationale behind it - is indefensible.

Instead, this initiative will create an extremely invasive surveillance state where everything you type, view and receive is automatically scanned & potentially (falsely) flagged for human review.

This would mean the end of privacy.

If you are an EU-citizen, please consider writing to your MEPs.

fightchatcontrol.eu/

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.
fightchatcontrol.eu
#chatcontrol
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Want to add AI-generated images directly into your #LibreOffice documents? Here's an optional extension to do just that โ€“ powered by a crowd-sourced, volunteer cluster of image generators: blog.documentfoundation.org/blโ€ฆ #OpenSource #freesoftware #ai
Screenshot of extension inserting an image of a dog

AI extension: Stable Diffusion image generator for LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog

LibreOffice does not include artificial intelligence (AI) out-of-the-box. But many users want AI features in the suite โ€“ so we encourage developers to make them available as optional extensions.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#FreeSoftware #opensource #libreoffice #AI

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ร–PNV: Warum deutsche Zustรคnde nicht "normal" sind

ร–PNV-Fahrgรคste in Deutschland sind viel Leid gewohnt. Hier ist Normalitรคt, was nicht normal ist. Das zeigt auch der Blick ins Ausland.

heise.de/hintergrund/OePNV-Warโ€ฆ

#DeutscheBahn #Journal #MissingLink #Verkehrspolitik #Verkehrswende #Wirtschaft #news


ร–PNV: Warum deutsche Zustรคnde nicht "normal" sind

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#News #verkehrswende #deutschebahn #journal #missinglink #verkehrspolitik #wirtschaft
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Koen ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

check out nextcloud AIO with collabora if you want to selfhost (it's free except for your hosting costs and your time) - it can be used for collab - or just check out collabora online - collaboraonline.com/

Cryptpad is great if you want E2E encryption, i.e. your documents can't be read by the server hosting the documents

I think nextcloud can be set up with E2E encryption too

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So among the various things i #selfhost is my NAS. It's just a desktop that I installed a nice disk controler and some 12K SAS drives and #TrueNAS. But it lives, like a lot of my kit, in the garage. And it's hot in the garage tonight. Ambient air temp is like 82F/28C at 23:00 at night.

Most of the time it's fine. CPUs tend to run around 45C just doin normal stuff. But when I do an scp of a film I've digitized on my laptop, it goes over gigabit ethernet and that seems to warm up the CPUs. For the whole like 45-90 seconds the scp is running, the cores get super hot. Then it calms down.

#selfhosting #nas

A graph labeled "CPU Overview". There's ring graph like a speedometer saying "3% average usage" which suggests I'm only using about 3 percent of my CPUs' capabilities. But it also says Hottest 94 degrees (this is celsius). So the thermal readings on one of my cores is basically 94 degrees.
#selfhost #selfhosting #truenas #nas

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A look at the problems at Uber Freight, which has posted operating losses every year since it was founded in 2017, except for 2022, and just appointed a new CEO (Thomas Black/Bloomberg)

bloomberg.com/opinion/articlesโ€ฆ
techmeme.com/250816/p18#a25081โ€ฆ


A look at the problems at Uber Freight, which has posted operating losses every year since it was founded in 2017, except for 2022, and just appointed a new CEO

By Thomas Black / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
Techmeme

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This is just straight up mental illness to be that obsessed with who follows a link to your public blog posts
RT: furry.engineer/users/soatok/stโ€ฆ

Soatok Dreamseeker (@soatok@furry.engineer)

I had some referrers show up to my blog in the past few days that I consider quite gross. Most fedi instances agree and defederate with them. You probably know the ones.
Furry.Engineer - Duct tape, hotfixes, and poor soldering!

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youtu.be/LBq3d1MNmBk

YouTubers and podcasters who regularly do that will easily be able to recognize themselves :')


When Podcasts Platform Terrible People

Go to https://buyraycon.com/ryangeorge to get 20% off Everyday Earbuds Classic. This video was sponsored by Raycon. Some of the links may be affiliate links....
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Other arrangements could be made for Air Canada customers, this was an unnecessary move by the federal government.

"The Liberals are violating our Charter rights to take job action and give Air Canada exactly what they want -- hours and hours of unpaid labour from underpaid flight attendants, while the company pulls in sky-high profits and extraordinary executive compensation,โ€ said CUPE Air Canada Component president Wesley Lesosky in the release."

#Women #AirCanada #Union
#Canada

ctvnews.ca/business/article/aiโ€ฆ


BREAKING: Jobs minister orders Air Canada flight attendants back to work

Air Canada flight attendants have officially begun their strike after failing to reach a deal with the airline, the Canadian Union of Public Employees announced Saturday morning.
CTVNews.ca Staff (CTVNews)
#canada #union #women #aircanada
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Gordon J Holtslander

Air Canada canโ€™t afford to pay flight attendants for all their work, but can afford $M500 to buy back shares?

aircanada.com/media/air-canadaโ€ฆ


Air Canada Completes $500 Million Substantial Issuer Bid, Acting on its Commitment to Balanced Long-term Capital Allocation

MONTRร‰AL, June 25, 2025 โ€“ Air Canada (TSX: AC) has taken up and paid for 26,595,744 of its Class A Variable Voting Shares and Class B Voting Shares (collectively, the โ€œsharesโ€) at a price of $18.
Air Canada EN

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Krรกsnรฝ vรฝlet to byl, ale smรฝkat to moje 120 kilovรฉ tฤ›lo po tฤ›ch kamenech uลพ je moc. Budu muset to #hubnuti vzรญt vรกลพnฤ›! Koleno bolรญ, kotnรญk bolรญ, ostruha bolรญ a to mรกme plรกnovanรฉ jeลกtฤ› tล™i tลฏry. Jak jรก se tฤ›ลกรญm do prรกce. ๐Ÿคฃ Vrchol Jizerky, Na ฤŒihadle (raลกelina), Frรฝdlantskรฉ cimbuล™รญ.
#hubnuti
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For only ยฃ2.39 on Kindle at the moment in the UK, you can get all 4 of the Man of His Word fantasy books.
Nearly 1,800 pages of escapism which enthralled me greatly the first time I read it. I've been back a handful of times, too.

It's light (but moving), entertaining YA fantasy. The good guys are good, the bad guys are bad, and there's not a lot of grey area. It is a bit heavy on the traditional gender roles, Inos is a princess but she's not helplessly waiting to be rescued, and while Rap is the strong commoner, he's not always right, or always doing the rescuing. They're genuine (if young and not overly complex) people.
It's clever, diversionary fantasy with a rich magic system. The sequel is just as good too, which is rare.

seanrandall.me/recommends/B073โ€ฆ
#Bookstodon #Fantasy

a book cover for "A Man of His Word: The Complete Series" by Dave Duncan. The background is a textured, gold pattern. The cover features an illustration of a box set containing four books, each with distinct covers. 1. **Magic Casement**: This book shows a decorative golden fleur-de-lis on a dark background. 2. **Faery Lands Forlorn**: The cover has an abstract, swirling design in green tones. 3. **Perilous Seas**: This book features a stylized image of a dragon in gold. 4. **Emperor and Clown**: This cover displays a jesterโ€™s hat in shades of purple. The title "A Man of His Word" is at the top in large blue letters, with "The Complete Series" underneath in smaller font. The author's name, Dave Duncan, is prominently displayed at the bottom in a blue font.

A Man of His Word: The Complete Series eBook : Duncan, Dave: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

seanrandall.me
#fantasy #bookstodon

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Kyiv Independent - President Zelenskyy to meet President Trump in Washington on Monday to discuss ending Russia's war in Ukraine, following a call between the two leaders. kyivindependent.com/zelensky-tโ€ฆ

Trump, Zelensky to meet in Washington next week after US-Russia summit ends without agreement

Zelensky said he supports Trumpโ€™s proposal for a trilateral meeting between Ukraine, the U.S., and Russia, noting that the three leaders can cover the โ€œkey issues.โ€
Dominic Culverwell (The Kyiv Independent)

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BudgetBraillerBlog: BudgetBraillerBlog Intro. โ€œA manual brailler costs a little under $1,000 and electric braillers cost significantly more. Given that I was just at a 3D printing festival and you can build a 3D printer for under $200, I decided to try to design one.โ€

rbfirehose.com/2025/08/16/budgโ€ฆ


BudgetBraillerBlog: BudgetBraillerBlog Intro | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

ResearchBuzz (ResearchBuzz: Firehose)
#Accessibility #opensource #Disability #3dprinting #blindness #hardware #braille #VisualImpairment #brailleEmbossers

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The thing I love about open source is that it's possible for an engineer to not only benefit #Fedora as a project, but the entire #Linux community in a single commit.

github.com/kolunmi/bazaar/commโ€ฆ


block fedora flatpak repos ยท kolunmi/bazaar@e8bff2b

New App Store for GNOME. Contribute to kolunmi/bazaar development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#linux #fedora

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I keep hearing about this one and it's finally finished, so I can start it.
@FreakyFwoof and @SeveraSnape, is it worth it?

Harry Potter and the Artificer Legacy
By: Kairomaru
Everyone knows the story, the Potters attacked and little Harry left with his relatives. But what happens when the last Potter stumbles upon something left behind? What does someone with no preconceived notions about Magic do when they find out that it's real? Do they follow along just like everyone else? Or do they find their own path? Harry Potter did always like to make things!
Chapters: 85 - Words: 490,082 - Reviews: 5,726 - Favs: 15,836 - Follows: 17,972 - Updated: Jul 23 - Published: Nov 19, 2019 - Status: Complete -
fanfiction.net/s/13435630/1/Haโ€ฆ

@Katy T @Andre Louis

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Vฤera jsem naลกel super video na bล™iลกรกky, jako celรฝ jsem to v tom tempu nedal, holt stรกle je co zlepลกovat ๐Ÿ˜„
youtu.be/i9tucuNBJUw?si=BeEh_Pโ€ฆ

20 min TOTAL CORE AB WORKOUT (At Home No Equipment)

At home abs workout with no equipment! This one is an intense 20 min workout that will target your total core! More of an advanced style workout :)SUBSCRIBE ...
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Jan Korbel ๐Ÿง

Kdyby ลกlo ฤistฤ› o cviฤenรญ ;-) tak mฤ› sedlo (nฤ›kolik let jsem cviฤil) tohle:

youtu.be/wnpk-bKvkRE

Ty tomu navรญc (na rozdรญl ode mฤ›) budeลก i rozumฤ›t :D


9 Minuten CORE Workout fรผr Zuhause | SIXPACK + UNTERER RรœCKEN - Extrem effektiv! | Sascha Huber

โžž Meine Fitness App GYMKY (Maximaler Rabatt Code: SASCHA10): https://gymky.comโžž Spare jetzt 10% mit dem Code "SASCHA10" auf deine gesamte Bestellung bei Proz...
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lol, "collective bargaining" apparently means you can go on strike for about 12h before the gov't orders you into binding arbitration

thestar.com/business/hajdu-ordโ€ฆ


Hajdu orders binding arbitration to resolve Air Canada labour dispute

Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu says she has ordered binding arbitration and for operations to resume.
Kyle Duggan The Canadian Press (Toronto Star)

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Reminder that the strike is about a women-dominated workforce doing unpaid labour while executives get huge bonuses. Carney's Liberals are exactly who we warned they were. www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...

BREAKING: Jobs minister orders...


BREAKING: Jobs minister orders Air Canada flight attendants back to work

Air Canada flight attendants have officially begun their strike after failing to reach a deal with the airline, the Canadian Union of Public Employees announced Saturday morning.
CTVNews.ca Staff (CTVNews)

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Many Linux users have recently reported their fans running at full speed and high temperatures. They discovered that Firefox was consuming all CPU cores, and it turns out that the cause was Firefox's new default AI features. This is how you ruin your product ๐Ÿ˜… theregister.com/2025/08/13/firโ€ฆ

Some users report their Firefox browser is scoffing CPU power

: You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI
Liam Proven (The Register)

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Wo ich die Tage wieder ein bisschen #Schach gespielt habe, bekam ich auch Lust auf ein lockeres PC-Schachprogramm.

Leider sind die meisten Schachprogramme leider staubtrocken und die pseudo-intellektuellen Sprachsamples von #Fritz gingen mir schon damals auf die Nerven.

Richtig gut fand ich damals #SchachDemSchweinehund von #Chessbase: de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schachโ€ฆ
Das brachte durch spitzzรผngige Kommentare die Atmosphรคre einer lockeren Schachpartie gut rรผber. Was vergleichbares kenne ich leider nicht.

Kurioserweise ist das Spiel sehr schwer zu bekommen, weder digital archiviert noch gebraucht als CD. Und Videomaterial existiert auch keines auf YouTube. ๐Ÿ˜ณ Da kรถnnte auch das etwas stรผmperhafte technische Fundament schuld sein: Ich erinnere mich noch, dass ein elendiger Videocodec (von Real Network oder Microsoft) fรผr die Animationen des Schweinehunds genutzt wurde. AuรŸerdem gabs noch einen CD-Kopierschutz. ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ Dรผrfte vermutlich nicht leicht sein, das auf modernen Systemen lauffรคhig zu machen...

chessprogramming.org/Schweinehโ€ฆ

Schachprogramm

Autoren der Wikimedia-Projekte (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#schach #fritz #schachdemschweinehund #chessbase
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Bubu

Bei ZVAB scheint es jemadn im angebot zu haben, wenn das kein listing fehler ist? zvab.com/Schach-Schweinehund-Tโ€ฆ

Aber halt auch 60โ‚ฌ ๐Ÿ˜•

Schach Dem Schweinehund. DAS TIERISCH FIESE SCHACHPROGRAMM Cd-Rom fur Windows 98/ Nt/2000 /Me/ XP von ChessBase: Kassette (2002) | Buli-Antiquariat

ISBN: 9783861504535 - Kassette - Zweitausendeins, Berlin - 2002 - CD-ROM, Ein Leckerbissen fรผr alle Schachfreunde, mit Multimediaschachkurs von GroรŸmeister Dr. Helmut Pfleger. Size: 19 x 13 Cm - Schach Dem Schweinehund.
www.zvab.com

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I have to say the lunch menu was not really impressive. and for his excellency Vladimir Putin? :) Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit - NPR apple.news/AUS7RXIWyRXuZdOxhzVโ€ฆ

Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit โ€” NPR

Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.
apple.news
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