#Reading
Apparently, in the wider bookish community, there is this idea that listening to audiobooks doesn't count as reading. This idea is ableist af.
I mean, what about blind people?
And besides, what about people who can focus better and longer when listening (audio), instead of reading (visual)?
What about people who can better focus on listening to stories while doing something, for instance going for a walk, doing sports, crocheting, knitting, or arts and crafts?
I would like to introduce you to my friend, and previous colleague from IBM, Erich Manser who is a competitive blind runner. Over the years I enjoyed hearing about his adventures, and when it comes to sports, I got much inspiration from him.Tom (Even Grounds)
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My 1st talk for #EUOpenSourceWeek is done. Great to present on #a11y #WAD & #EAA at the #Drupal4Gov
I'm enjoying the great talks. Recurring focus on #procurement & drive to #DigitalSovereignty
Looking forward to #FOSDEM on the weekend.
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#XMPP Summit
Being an unconference, every participant will raise agenda points and then those will be prioritized by interest. The first topic is "XMPP 2.0".
xmpp.org/2025/11/xmpp-summit-2…
Meet us at #FOSDEM 2026, too!
#jabber #chat #opensource #messaging #federation #Brussels, #Belgium #opensource
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all …xmpp.org
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Save the date: Our FOSDEM social event takes place on Saturday 31st
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9.30pm onwards
Pommodoro est l’endroit idéal pour un lunch dans le centre de Bruxelles. Nous vous proposons de délicieuses spécialités italiennes: Pâtes, Pizza, Antipasti, Viandes, …Pommodoro
fucking hell I just calculated core count, ram, and storage added up between all my machines.
132 cores, 262.536GB of ram, 85956.128 GB (85.9TB) of storage
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Twice Google Gemini tried to tell me that I was wrong regarding a tennis result from 2004 but I kept telling it it wasn’t correct and eventually, it got it right.
In the 2004 Australian Open men's doubles semi-finals, Bob and Mike Bryan did indeed defeat Todd Woodbridge and Jonas Björkman with a score of 6–1, 6–2.
Sometimes you just have to keep guiding the AI models particularly if you know that something is incorrect.
It's almost like you're teaching something.
This is where I can see a problem with these AI models because if you don't know that something is incorrect, you can go away with the wrong information.
I'm seeing this a lot with supposed history posts about events from the Second World War.
When I was 18 I took a medicine called Theraflu because I was sick, it caused me to hallucinate. I actually thought my coat rack in my room was alive and trying to kill me.
Never again will I touch that stuff. Absolutely nasty.
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#XSF Announcement
The 28th #XMPP #Summit starts today at 09:00 am (UTC+1)!
If you come in person, reach out before (almost full). Else join remotely:
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Meet us at #FOSDEM 2026, too!
#jabber #chat #opensource #messaging #federation #Brussels, #Belgium #opensource
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I kinda wish every racist had to take a DNA test.
Mine is 98% predictable. Evenly split between Southwestern Norway and Northeastern Scotland. I’m a Viking.
BUT. A Viking who is also 2% South Asian. And I’ll bet a lot of these racists would find out they’re not as white as they thought.
Which might not change their politics but would probably annoy the fuck out of them. And result haha.
From stateof.mozilla.org: "the team will […] experiment with opt-in, privacy-first AI tools under the banner of Thunderbird Assist."
Please no, don't waste resources on the AI hype.
I chose my future already and ditched Firefox after many years. I'm gonna stop my donations for Thunderbird and ditch it as well.
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Here's another song in support of the people of Minneapolis and in honor of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, this time from British singer Billy Bragg. Listen on YouTube here.
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#Miinneapolis #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #BillyBragg #Music
The murder of Alex Pretti was horrifically shocking, all the more so as we are still reeling from the images of the murder of Renee Good. That these crimes c...YouTube
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in reply to Amalia Zeichnerin • • •Amalia Zeichnerin
in reply to Dennis • • •I know that technically speaking listening is not reading. But that's not the point I was trying to make. My point was the consumption of books in general, no matter with which method this consumption happens. I mean, in the end, you know a story, and it doesn't matter that much imho if you have listened to it or if you have read it.