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Automatic Subtitles with Kdenlive
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This is a compelling art project combining open camera data from various surveillance cameras and Instagram influencers' posts over a 10 day period. This is done by an individual with limited resources for art. With that low a barrier to entry I can only imagine what nefarious actors could do. All of this is child's play compared to what the big tech platforms can and are doing with all this data. #SurveillanceCapitalism #DeleteBigTech https://driesdepoorter.be/thefollower/
The Follower
Using open cameras and AI to find how an Instagram photo is taken. Project by Dries Depoorter.Dries Depoorter
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This Controversial Artist Matches Influencer Photos With Surveillance Footage | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-followers-influencer-photos-surveillance-footage-180980825/
#surveillance #privacy #security #technology #AI #bigbrother
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This Controversial Artist Matches Influencer Photos With Surveillance Footage | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-followers-influencer-photos-surveillance-footage-180980825/
#surveillance #privacy #security #technology #AI #bigbrother
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I've been saying for awhile that TikTok is as bad or worse than Facebook. They just didn't have the numbers to bring the adverse attention to themselves yet. I guess we are finally getting there. I need to check to make sure that the between all the Firefox browser, Duck Duck Go Privacy Essentials, and Facebook Container tech I use to eliminate this tracking by Facebook works against these TikTok exploits. As the article says, just like with Facebook's tech, you don't have to have an account on these systems for them to be tracking you all over the internet and selling your data. #SurveillanceCapitalism #DeleteTikTok #DeleteBigTech https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics-computers/privacy/tiktok-tracks-you-across-the-web-even-if-you-dont-use-app-a4383537813/
How TikTok Tracks You Across the Web, Even If You Don’t Use the App
Consumer Reports finds that websites are collaborating with TikTok, using the company's tracking technology to follow you when you aren't using TikTok.Thomas Germain (Consumer Reports)
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until people in the west get harmed by tiktok and other gatherers, they will continue being treated as benign, harmless. the same answer will result when you try to alert users to impending danger: "i choose what they have on me. if i do not want something in public i will not put it in public. whatever they are selling is to allow continued use for free". that is the template answer.
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In this new #PeerTube and #Fediverse exclusive video, I give my first impressions of the vegan/plant-based Kit Kat.
https://share.tube/videos/watch/64849036-8d62-41d5-8d9e-cb46a82eb20c
https://share.tube/videos/watch/64849036-8d62-41d5-8d9e-cb46a82eb20c
Vegan Kit Kat first impressions review
With the help of Lucy, I had a look at what the plant-based version of the classic wafer-based treat, Kit Kat, has to offer.ShareTUBE [a PeerTube Server]
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Logic exposed
https://nitter.net/NoLieWithBTC/status/1575602024452096000
#gun #laws #GOP
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@Simons_Mith Yeah, they're on the side of the mass shooters.
At one time, I would say that as a cynical joke, but unfortunately now it's just true.
At one time, I would say that as a cynical joke, but unfortunately now it's just true.
It's because it's not just guns or just mental health, it's both. So they take a stand against both, esp. because the NRA lines their pockets, and aggrieved and mourning parents do not.
Logic exposed
https://nitter.net/NoLieWithBTC/status/1575602024452096000
#gun #laws #GOP
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When you're talking about Linux, it's okay to say that it's "open source".
It's okay to say that it's "free software".
It's okay to call it "GNU/Linux", "Linux", or to mess up its name.
It's okay to refer to it as "the one with the friendly penguin".
Part of RMS' legacy has been an incessant obsession with terminology and pedantry, overshadowing far more important shared objectives which are fundamentally emancipatory in nature.
Pedantry is not activism; it is alienating, not emancipatory.
It's okay to say that it's "free software".
It's okay to call it "GNU/Linux", "Linux", or to mess up its name.
It's okay to refer to it as "the one with the friendly penguin".
Part of RMS' legacy has been an incessant obsession with terminology and pedantry, overshadowing far more important shared objectives which are fundamentally emancipatory in nature.
Pedantry is not activism; it is alienating, not emancipatory.
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An interesting proposition! I know from experience within queer spaces that new terminology can be complicated to spread outside of in-groups, but seeing the state of vocabulary and the FOSS movement as viewed from the outside, rallying around simpler terms that are more explicit are less specialized would definitely be an improvement :3
Try using the terms "cooperative technology" or "cooperative software" with people unfamiliar with FOSS. IME they'll understand it quickly without needing to explain much if anything. And there's no need to explain what source code is.
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Dinkum is a new video game created by one Aussie https://www.9news.com.au/technology/meet-the-townsville-man-who-created-popular-farming-simulator-game-dinkum/b2671e3e-604a-4e0b-a0e8-f6301281cf51
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Tags: #dandelíon
via dandelion* client (Source)
Queensland man quits job to create successful Aussie-themed video game 'Dinkum'
Queensland man James Bendon quit his job to create a video game set on a quirky outback Australian island, which has already exceeded all expectations.Julian Price (9News)
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Dinkum is a new video game created by one Aussie https://www.9news.com.au/technology/meet-the-townsville-man-who-created-popular-farming-simulator-game-dinkum/b2671e3e-604a-4e0b-a0e8-f6301281cf51
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via dandelion* client (Source)Queensland man quits job to create successful Aussie-themed video game 'Dinkum'
Queensland man James Bendon quit his job to create a video game set on a quirky outback Australian island, which has already exceeded all expectations.Julian Price (9News)
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I love watching these YT channels that point out ridiculousness in movies. That's even true for movies I like and *especially* for guilty pleasure movies I like. Sin #60 for True Lies made me guffaw. He has a point though... #humor
https://youtu.be/5Iuh9lPJqAE
https://youtu.be/5Iuh9lPJqAE
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It would be humorous if the movie spent some significant amount of time just driving around looking for a place to park. We need more movies to have random slices of reality to wake us up.
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With the demise of Stadia the topic of if I, a Flutter developer, am concerned about the demise of that development stack eventually by Google. In this post first I rationalize why I'm not. I used the word "rationalizing" intentionally because I recognize I may be self-deluding on this topic. In the second port I show just how much Google is the driver of the project. No surprise it is most or all of it. You can link through to more detailed data including per-version breakdowns #flutter #dart #google #stadia #opensource #development #BigTech https://www.nequalsonelifestyle.com/2022/09/30/sdart-flutter-open-source-stats/
Dart/Flutter Open Source Contribution Stats (and why I use it despite Google's dominance in it)
This week Google did the totally not surprising move of cancelling Stadia. In some chat rooms I’m in the topic turned to Google’s penchant for cancelling major projects in general.N=1 Lifestyle
No doubt google will ditch Flutter whenever they find something "better", because they have thousands of developers, and they can afford it. Look at GWT. Well, in fact, I think GWT is still in use right? I guess we can call it a zombie?
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...at some points I thought he was just trying to keep the Emperor Technoking's ego massaged to help with the transition. However the way he threw Parag Agrawal under the bus and some of his own self serving vision quest shit is what makes me think he buys into Musk being a tech bro boddhisatva world savior like he fashions himself to be.
...but there is more than enough Musk sycophancy going around in those threads. Again how much of that is just playing to Musk's over-sized ego and sociopathy to get in on the deal and/or stay in his good graces I don't know. It was quite the pathetic display at best and dystopian all around.
Want to get your blood boiling this morning then read the text message exchanges in the Twitter v. Musk discovery. Yes it was as bad or worse than I thought in terms of Musk's more than dabbling with ultra-right wing agitprop actors in this (Thiel, Mercers, Murdochs) and it is all about the greatest hits of right wing persecution complex (that part not as surprising). All of them are as much techbro JAQ off nihilists *at best*, including Jack Dorsey. <sarcasm>Good thing they don't have billions each and social clout to fuck everything up even more so they can gain more money and influence</sarcasm> Grr #MuskIsADick #DeleteBigTech #BillionairesShouldNotExist https://nitter.net/kateconger/status/1575577084210032640#m
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A bunch of Elon Musk's text messages hit the docket today in Twitter v. Musk. Most of them identify sender & recipient, but this one, apparently about reinstating Trump, does not.Nitter
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The direct link for those that don't want to wade through the Tweets even through Nitter: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23112929/elon-musk-text-exhibits-twitter-v-musk.pdf
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https://polyglot.city/@chambln/109034500474188343
https://polyglot.city/@chambln/109034500474188343
Gregory Chamberlain (@chambln@polyglot.city)
If you speak another #language and have even basic programming skills, consider contributing to #LibreLingo – a promising #free replacement for #Duolingo https://librelingo.Polyglot City
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https://polyglot.city/@chambln/109034500474188343Gregory Chamberlain (@chambln@polyglot.city)
If you speak another #language and have even basic programming skills, consider contributing to #LibreLingo – a promising #free replacement for #Duolingo https://librelingo.Polyglot City
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#comic #comics #poorlydrawnlines
Poorly Drawn Lines – Turn My Back
A thrice-weekly webcomic written and illustrated by Reza Farazmand. New comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.poorlydrawnlines.com
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#comic #comics #poorlydrawnlinesPoorly Drawn Lines – Turn My Back
A thrice-weekly webcomic written and illustrated by Reza Farazmand. New comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.poorlydrawnlines.com
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How we can use gaming to support positive ageing (and support our relationships with our pets, too)
Even though the typical mobile gamer is a middle-aged woman, ageist stereotypes about gamers continue to circulate.The Conversation
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Even when I regularly posted to Twitter and had content up there I rarely saw how fucked up so many of the users on the system were. Nosing around looking for some news follow up yesterday though it was plain as day. I'm sure if the fediverse reached that much critical mass it would be like that too. Look no further than all the crazy toxic shit on PeerTube for a bit of a hint. Sad enough of us humans have to act like sociopathic nihilistic fucks and destroy everything. Will we ever transcend our id brains such that these people don't emerge in large enough numbers to wreck anything and everything good we try to create? /rantmodeoff
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@paperdigits Yeah but an isolated one. Same with Truth Social. The idea is that federation should mean people can self select to expose themselves to that content or not so live and let live. I doubt that will scale to a billion users especially without some moderation mechanism beyond individuals blocking individuals or server admins blocking whole obviously noxious servers.
It is fascinating how much we can extract from DNA samples from fossils! #Neanderthal #Hominids #paleontology https://youtu.be/rnqT0K5Ls2I
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MAME 0.248 supports .moof files, which are disk images of copy protected Mac floppy disks. ("Moof" is the sound a dogcow makes.)
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“A Moof A Day”
Macintosh .moof disk images of copy protected software, verified in multiple emulators, full metadata, downloadable or playable in your browser. Also: raw flux files, visualizations, handcrafted screenshots, &c.
https://archive.org/details/moofaday?sort=-date
Hey, that gives me an idea.
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“A Moof A Day”
Macintosh .moof disk images of copy protected software, verified in multiple emulators, full metadata, downloadable or playable in your browser. Also: raw flux files, visualizations, handcrafted screenshots, &c.
https://archive.org/details/moofaday?sort=-date
Moof A Day: Macintosh Software : Free Software : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive
Moof A Day: Macintosh Softwarearchive.org
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Okay all these Moof posts make me want to dig out a Mac Plus emulator and try some ancient games
It is amazing how small changes to things that just look like syntactic sugar can create large performance changes. For most parts of most apps it really doesn't matter since they aren't so performance critical in the grand scheme. But for certain things it becomes critical to understand what is going on. This was particularly about C# and the .NET CLR but principle applies across the board when dealing with the peculiarities of each stack. #software #development #dotnet https://particular.net/blog/pipeline-and-closure-allocations
How we achieved 5X faster pipeline execution by removing closure allocations
The NServiceBus messaging pipeline strives to achieve the right balance of flexibility, maintainability, and wicked fast…ummm…ability. It needs to be wicked fast because it is executed at scale. For…Particular Software
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LPS
•Rokosun
•Tio
•Nevertheless awesome tool!