Three young children were among five people injured in a knife attack in Dublin on Thursday that sparked riots in the city centre and which police have not yet ruled out any motive over, including whether it could be terror-related....
Today somebody in a group I’m in which has some accessibility issues was yet again complaining that their Dragon Speaking software was not playing nice with Firefox, which led me to see if there was an alternative, and surprisingly i found none workable at the plain user level beyond Dragon, and upgrading for that person might...
I’ve never seen Star Trek TOS so I don’t know for sure if this is explained anywhere. Does anyone know why they made the switch from red shirts to yellow shirts between commanding officers and security between TOS and TNG?
I spent an incredible amount of time over the past few days unf*cking the fedia.io database. It should be clean now and that should both dramatically improve performance and fix all or most all of the remaining error 500’s
For many years now I’ve had in my memory this scene from star trek tng where, for whatever reason, a group of British officers and Irish officers led by O’Brien start getting nationalistic and sing their respective national songs at each other. I remember the British were singing “Rule Britannia” but I don’t recall the...
"British" people are far more likely to sing their national songs ("Land of my Fathers" for Wales, for example) than that dodgy imperial song. ( Look at the words. They're really bad, even for an empire. )
Does anybody know about a good voice-to-text tool? I improvise song lyrics a lot and often thought about how useful it would be to have it written down so I can salvage the good parts.
The author was blocked from accessing a work website due to issues with Cloudflare’s browser integrity checks. Despite having credentials to prove his identity, an attempt to bypass the checks by disabling fingerprinting in Firefox resulted in Cloudflare blocking all access. He could still access the site on Chrome, showing...
Those seem like "how" or "why" questions to me. More complicated. The big one is "how do we prevent" and I bet we won't get an honest answer from big social themselves. That's why there should be independent public research.
I’m trying to degooogle my personal email address and replace it with a different email that doesn’t collect my data and its secure as well. Any suggestions for that?
If you click on the "more" button under a comment or link there will be an activity tab. In this tab you can see everyone who has boosted, favourited or reduced the post. I'm not sure if this a...
Steve Huffman, the Reddit CEO, told NBC News in an interview that a user protest on the site this week is led by a minority of moderators and doesn’t have wide support.
Strictly speaking, he's correct that it's a minority of moderators because there's a lot of zombie subreddits on there which didn't take part in the protest. Still not a good look to be picking fights with your biggest contributors.
If these rule changes happen, should we login to reddit to vote against spez's hand-picked mods as needed, (and campaign against them?), or is it best to stay off there still?
The 4 day women's Tour de Suisse starts on the weekend. It's on GCN if you need TdF watching training (stage one starts at 02:20 AEST Sunday which is brutal)....
Also looks to be free to view in most of Europe on Eurosport 1 Germany: 1820-2030 Sat (rec), 1030-1250 Sun, 2200-2325 Mon (rec), 0100-0030 Wed (rec). All times CEST = UTC+2.
Ireland: Riots erupt in Dublin after children stabbed (www.reuters.com)
Three young children were among five people injured in a knife attack in Dublin on Thursday that sparked riots in the city centre and which police have not yet ruled out any motive over, including whether it could be terror-related....
Is there any FOSS full speech recognition user friendly software yet?
Today somebody in a group I’m in which has some accessibility issues was yet again complaining that their Dragon Speaking software was not playing nice with Firefox, which led me to see if there was an alternative, and surprisingly i found none workable at the plain user level beyond Dragon, and upgrading for that person might...
Are there any Piped based Youtube Music client for just audio playback?
Other than Libretube? Available on fdroid? I want proxied interaction with google apis....
Question about "redshirts" (izzydata.xyz)
I’ve never seen Star Trek TOS so I don’t know for sure if this is explained anywhere. Does anyone know why they made the switch from red shirts to yellow shirts between commanding officers and security between TOS and TNG?
We’re back (fedia.io)
I spent an incredible amount of time over the past few days unf*cking the fedia.io database. It should be clean now and that should both dramatically improve performance and fix all or most all of the remaining error 500’s
Star Trek TNG Singing Bar Scene
For many years now I’ve had in my memory this scene from star trek tng where, for whatever reason, a group of British officers and Irish officers led by O’Brien start getting nationalistic and sing their respective national songs at each other. I remember the British were singing “Rule Britannia” but I don’t recall the...
FOSS voice to text
Does anybody know about a good voice-to-text tool? I improvise song lyrics a lot and often thought about how useful it would be to have it written down so I can salvage the good parts.
Stop using Brave Browser (www.spacebar.news)
Blocked by Cloudflare (jrhawley.ca)
The author was blocked from accessing a work website due to issues with Cloudflare’s browser integrity checks. Despite having credentials to prove his identity, an attempt to bypass the checks by disabling fingerprinting in Firefox resulted in Cloudflare blocking all access. He could still access the site on Chrome, showing...
Did Facebook fuel political polarization during the 2020 election? It’s complicated. (arstechnica.com)
Universal Chat Application, Beeper, Will Be Available To Everyone (For Free) In A Matter Of Weeks. (blog.beeper.com)
I was on the beta testing team and have been using Beeper for a little over two years now....
Twitter Turning Into X Is Set to Kill Billions in Brand Value (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
An estimated $4 to $20 billion in value, what is he thinking?
Attackers find new ways to deliver DDoSes with “alarming” sophistication (arstechnica.com)
FOSS email providers?
I’m trying to degooogle my personal email address and replace it with a different email that doesn’t collect my data and its secure as well. Any suggestions for that?
Giro d'Italia stage 1 canceled due to torrential rain and hail (velo.outsideonline.com)
Some riders were able to get out before the rain began but the stage had to be called off.
PSA: every interaction you make with various posts on kbin is viewable to everyone.
If you click on the "more" button under a comment or link there will be an activity tab. In this tab you can see everyone who has boosted, favourited or reduced the post. I'm not sure if this a...
Labour piles pressure on Sunak with plan to prevent ‘mortgage catastrophe’ (www.theguardian.com)
Reddit CEO slams protesters, says he'll change site rules (www.nbcnews.com)
Steve Huffman, the Reddit CEO, told NBC News in an interview that a user protest on the site this week is led by a minority of moderators and doesn’t have wide support.
Typo in magazine description (fedia.io)
We have an addiction to fossil fuels, not an addition.
Tour de Suisse der Frauen (fedia.io)
The 4 day women's Tour de Suisse starts on the weekend. It's on GCN if you need TdF watching training (stage one starts at 02:20 AEST Sunday which is brutal)....