Misty @misty@digipres.club
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My new album is out. Eight tracks of disquieting drone/ambient/shoegaze, inspired by anxiety, climate grief, crustaceans, the coast, and nuclear power. https://blacktent.bandcamp.com/album/dungeness-synth
The transparency on the Canadian COVID exposure tracking app is fantastic. It’s using the Apple/Google API and is great on privacy, too.
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Tune in to my Fediverse #SummerSchool presentation right now to learn the what, the why, and the how of allyship!
https://zoom.us/j/97739833435?pwd=bVA5ZDRJQ1FxOGFuKzdMYnRjRVZYZz09
Slides & recording will be up after the event. #LGBTQ
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Ancestry is being acquired by Blackstone for $4.7B, in case if you were wondering if there was money to be made in exploiting family history. Blackstone is also known for such great hits acquiring SESAC, the performing rights organization, and acquiring a 50% stake to the Haynesville Shale in Louisiana from Shell for $1.2B. Not to mention the many evictions in Blackstone-owned buildings in California. (https://matienzo.org/2020/218/ancestry/)
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Really excited for my #SummerSchool talk tonight! Join me at midnight UTC to hear about LGBTQ+ Allyship and the strength of diverse teams.
If you're not already signed up and would like to attend, send me a DM and I'll drop you the Zoom link!
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hey if you were signed up for @LaCrecerelle's talk please check your email for a link to the new meeting room! the presentation will be at 12am utc (in about 8 hours) 🌈
thanks for bearing with us with all the confusion over the times!!
Submitting an erratum to Steve and Carol on the basis that this term actually originates from Gundam
Sounds like the consensus is that there are some promising developments but currently Tesseract is still the strongest option.
What’s the state of the art for free OCR (Japanese specifically)? Is Tesseract still the best option?
We're back up! Sorry for the inconvenience. It appears the server was unexpectedly restarted on me, which led to Mastodon's directory being unmounted.
First time seeing this permission dialogue. Yes, the Canadian app is using the Apple/Google API built in to the OS; I’m really happy about that!
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With the recent changes to @TroveAustralia, the Australian Women’s Weekly cover browser was retired. As a low-tech alternative, I’ve harvested all the cover images from the Women’s Weekly and saved them into PDFs for easy browsing, one for each decade. There are 2,566 images from 1933 t... https://updates.timsherratt.org/2020/07/27/with-the-recent.html
Idea: if Apple can’t mark ARM Mac browsers as “ARM” because then they’d be served the mobile pages, they should identify their CPU as “PowerPC”.
Ever think about how an Apple libc function shells out to Perl https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/Libc/blob/master/gen/wordexp.c#L192
If I’m converting 8-bit PCM to 16-bit, is a “normal” conversion via FFmpeg or sox the best option? Or is there something that can do some interpolation/filtering that would help cover up the 8-bit artifacts?
Well this is *incredibly* overdue, but it looks like Edmonton’s football team is finally changing its name. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bv8ygv/edmontons-football-team-finally-drops-name-report
Just noticed the Kerberos site still has its “Kerberos Y2K statement” on the front page https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/
Tip for people testing software on Apple Silicon: if your terminal emulator is Intel-only, it will launch shells running under Rosetta and all software you launch will run in Rosetta too.
In other words: if you have a non-universal iTerm, all your CLI tools run in Rosetta.
Really loving how much the “squish that cat” video has become an in joke with my friends
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