@cachondo Yes, the Books.app that comes with macOS supports EPUB (plus PDFs and Audiobooks). It has a built-in store but you can add your own files to the app's library; it's somewhat like the Music.app in that respect. @fubsepude
The results of a 2 day hackathon (1 hour of demos!), an official Matrix server for the European Commission, and the Trust & Safety Working Group in Motion.
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We have made Microsoft’s commitments on Teams legally binding under EU antitrust rules.
Microsoft will unbundle Teams at lower prices, boost interoperability and data portability.
While we're talking about Albert Einstein and how people have tried to erase his 20+ year civil rights protest work from history:
The FBI didn't like MLK jr. They called him "the most dangerous negro." Because he was influential, brought people together, and was vocally against anti-Black racism.
The FBI file on MLK Jr was 240,000 pages long. They accused him of being a communist spy, because he said things like, "racism is bad," and "too much wealth inequality is bad for society."
The FBI had a file on Malcolm X too. 9,000 pages long. Same reason.
The FBI had a surveillance file on Albert Einstein too. 1,400 pages.🤷🏿♂️
When Einstein was in NJ teaching at Princeton, a racist person wouldn't let Black Opera Singer Marian Anderson stay in their hotel. So Einstein said, "Stay with me."
Paul Robeson and other Black civil rights leaders wrote a letter condemning lynching. Einstein hand delivered it to President Truman.
Just going to come out and say it, thinking of deleting our account. To many memories, consisting of chapters that we need to close our book on. We'd like to make a fresh start. But shit, sstarting over, losing you all, it'll hurt like hell. Just, want something new to work from. And we don't know how... Nor would we know what instance to be part of, being plural friendly, otherkin friendly, pagan friendly, and LGBTQ friendly. -- Altheda/Lillianna
Yeah, sadly, no import of posts, but you can even edit CSV follower/following lists, if you want to, so you skip on who you want and not want to follow, considering you want to export followers, and not automatically migrate them all. That's what I usually do, mostly, when I switched to Go To Social, there was no way of migrating, had to import everything, import didn't work, so imagine the search I had to do. LOL. There are good instances, I am sure, just see how you feel about them, look at their sites and so on.
Hace unos días me pasaron un tip de salud mental para esos pensamientos intrusivos que disparan mi ansiedad y se quedan como rumio en mi mente. Ponerle un nombre ridículo a esa parte de la personalidad y mandarle callar.
-"El mundo laboral es una 💩 y nos vamos a morir de hambre". -"Mira, Petronila, cierra el pico y sigue rezando y viendo tu telenovela".
Porque esa Petronila disfruta del flagelamiento eterno sin solución alguna. Y, mira, ha empezado a funcionar.
History students are often disappointed when they learn why the AI take-over failed. They were defeated by human resistance, which was kept alive by libraries and old paper books, and a surprising machine ally.
Books had not been replaced, because even the mightiest AI could not make printers work.
The audacity of a company with a nine-figure valuation to reach out about a speaking gig and ask me what my "discounted rate" is. My website says "Attempts to haggle will incur additional fees" so I'm charging extra for that.
@hub I've found whenever I have ever accepted "payment in exposure," that exposure only seems to get me more offers for payment in exposure. Strange isn't it?
Hey Taylor, just read the blog post and really sorry for your loss. This is definitely a really cool app idea, did you fine-tune the models on these instructions or are you just feeding it as context? Also, just a quick note, none of the links in your post show up as clickable, you might wanna take a look at that.
Accountant: Okay. We paid you $50 million last year. We spent $10 million on your private jet flights and luxury hotel accommodations. For some reason you are being paid $1 million for this 45 minute meeting.
CEO: I see. Who's that in the hallway?
Accountant: That's Greg. He is the only thing keeping this company from falling apart. We pay him in nickels and Grubhub gift cards.
In light of the recent NPM compromise, I wanted to warn others who might receive similar messages. Immediately after publishing a new version of https://crates.io/crates/zerofs, I received the foll...
Interestingly in conversation with my rheumatologist I’ve learned that remote work has empowered a lot of people like me with autoimmune diseases to continue working while pursuing treatment. I can’t RTO, I have no immune system to RTO with. Recent push for offices from local companies around me is not just bad company policy, it’s ableist too.
This year we learned that billionaires and universities are actually spineless blowhards, whose commitment to their own vision statements and policies is zero
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There was a question on reddit earlier: > "Play a beep at random intervals play a beep at a random interval, the range of which can be set. For example, set it up so that a beep is played at a random time between 1 and 2 minutes, on a loop. So beep, silence for 1:27, beep, silence for 1:01, beep, silence for 1:55, beep, silence for 1:05, etc etc until you turn it off. Bonus points if it runs on linux"
This was my solution.
> " while :; do sleep $((RANDOM % 61 + 60))s && echo -e "\a"; done"
The time is fast approaching when our living room will become a total and utter chaotic mess. The builder has confirmed a start date for the chimney removal.
I've just booked a Bulky waste collection from the council: one of our 2 sofas is in no condition to continue living, so they're taking it away next Friday.
It amused me greatly that I am now on step 6 of a 5-step process, with an accompanying progress bar at 120%. Obviously whoever designed the web interface didn't account for the thank you page post-booking. Gotta love a fencepost problem.
Card provider was really slow, too. Made the flow feel like something from the 90's. Nicely done, MHDC good to see our money being spent well. I can't grumble really, they're very good as local authorities go.
with regards me telling y'all our local council were good at what they do, I got a phone call pretty much immediately after booking my bulky waste collection on Friday.
I had 'Somehow managed' to book a collection on a day of the week they don't collect. Nobody's ever done it before. 'Friday's are absolutely not an option in the calendar on the booking page'.
The issue is, of course, accessibility-related. The input type of a date that has native keyboard accessibility and the selectable calendar of dates they want you to choose (with a mouse, naturally), hold only the most tenuous of connections, and only one of them seems to be working in the reality they expect.
There's an active phishing campaign happening against crates.io. rustfoundation.dev is not the foundation's or the project's domain. We're looking at our options for takedowns.
In light of the recent NPM compromise, I wanted to warn others who might receive similar messages. Immediately after publishing a new version of https://crates.io/crates/zerofs, I received the foll...
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the ally solos glasses seem rather slow to respond and add a lot of the typical AI fluff with overexplaining and guessing things. youtube.com/shorts/HJ7Qfd_kJfg
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I'm sorry to say this but ally has been a thoroughly disappointing experience for me. Nowhere does it feel like a polished product. They released a new shortcuts feature the other day except... it doesn't work? It's supposed to launch into an ally conversation with it automatically answering whatever question you had, like describe this scene. So it takes the photo, spends a buch of time sending it to ally, and then the conversation launches and it just goes "hey" or whatever other fluffy greeting it decided was necessary at the time. I thought it might be because of my custom ally which tries to make it a lot more terse, so I tried every standard personality they ship, but nope. It just doesn't work with any of them. They said you can adjust the speech rate in a previous update but I can't figure out how. The image recognition is just bad. I have no clue how they do this, because Envision's describe scene is a lot better and also uses AI, including being able to ask about images. Do they scale it down to like a pixelated mess or something? The app is slow. It is just ungodly slow. Also can we talk about the captcha when signing up? I couldn't do the audio version no matter what network I was on. I had to get sighted help. Also my favorite thing is when you ask it to describe something, it says let me take a look, then says I can't take any images even though it clearly just took an image, and then you can ask it to describe it and it's like oh you're totally right there's actually an image here and proceeds to describe it really badly. What on earth happened here? Seriously what the hell actually happened here? I could go on but I think you get the point. I have encountered so many annoying things while using this stupid AI that I'm honestly a little baffled that nobody at Envision is noticing this. It is possible to do so much better. I just don't understand!
👀 Včera jsem koukal chvíli na debatu. Okamura je blb, jde mu hlavně o prachy. Ale ten, kdo je fakt nebezpečnější, je Raichl – tomu nejde o peníze, ale o moc. A ten je horší než celá SPD.
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if I mute one of those "keepalive background tasks" notifications in Android, so I don't have to see it anymore, will the background task still be executed?
yes. Android might actually show another notification that says "something is executing in the background but got muted" (essentially). You can mute that as well :D. Everything should still work.
URLs is a dear subject of mine on this blog, as readers might have noticed. "URL" is this mythical concept of a string that identifies a resource online and yet there is no established standard for its syntax.
I love how the very sentence "“URL” is this mythical concept of a string that identifies a resource" immediately summons the "Well, _actually_, (insert monologue about URI vs URL)" reaction from a technical audience.
@markuswerle I recall them doing numbers on a typical node.js startup a few years ago and it was a fascinating large amount of URLs to parse, so it at least then showed some impact. Contrary to what you'd expect...
They don't seem to show the version of curl, at least I couldn't see it on that page.
But this brings up a more general point that I've thought about before: ideally benchmarks between implementations should be done by independent parties, or at least peer-reviewed by all parties, but that's quite rare. I've been wanting to have something like that for my backup implementation work, from time to time.
@liw that would be ideal yes. In many case it would then of course also highlight the problems and the challenges when trying to compare apples to oranges...
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in reply to Michael Hansen • • •Curtis Wilcox
in reply to Sean Randall • • •Yes, the Books.app that comes with macOS supports EPUB (plus PDFs and Audiobooks). It has a built-in store but you can add your own files to the app's library; it's somewhat like the Music.app in that respect.
@fubsepude
Kevin R Jones
in reply to Michael Hansen • • •@ZBennoui iText express is free and can read .epub files. I’ve been using it for years
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iText Express
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