I haven't narrated new audiobooks in a while. The field is hard hit by big corporations pushing for computer generated voices. It's hard to find jobs that pay a reasonable rate and I have ethical qualms about taking work away from the handful of narrators who still manage to work at it as a full time job.

However, it is work that I have greatly enjoyed, which draws on my background in acting and singing. I regret that big companies are wrecking it for all of us.

@audiobooks
#Audiobooks

Bye-bye Microsoft ! Comment les organisations se mettent (enfin) au logiciel libre - INCYBER NEWS


#politique #logiciellibre #sécurité #souveraineté

Un pays tout entier, le Danemark, un länder allemand, des dizaines de communes, comme Lyon, la troisième ville de France… Lentement mais sûrement, les collectivités basculent vers Linux, LibreOffice et autres NextCloud. Le but est économique, mais aussi d’asseoir sa souveraineté numérique et d’en finir avec la dictature des GAFAM.


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My newest way to pill a cat.
I'm cutting the pill in half and just giving it to him twice. After I cut it, I crush it.
-Put a little bit of a lickable treat at the bottom of the dish, pour powdered pill on top, add the rest of the treat and mix it up real well
-Then add a little bit of pureed baby food to disguise it even more. I was pureeing tuna fish, but thought baby food was less work.
-He laps this up and cleans the bowl.
Hard to find baby food without onions, but I found this and the turkey flavor from the same company - no onions.
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My highest success rate with cats has been mixing the pill powder into cream cheese. I tried it with the foxes last summer and they didn't go for it so I bury their ivermectin in small cupcakes and they snap that up.

It's the dog that eats a whole bowl of food, leaves the bowl clean and then spits out the pill that always made me laugh. They might be animals but dog, cat, fox, hamster they get wise to our trickery sometimes.

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I've been working with content and data since the mid-1990s. Most techies see data as bit and bytes. All of it is good. Even if it's badly written, out of data, plain wrong--or whatever. The more data, the better. Don't delete the data because you never know. We can never have enough data.

From this culture comes the crappy AI that we know. Feed it enough data and because of the sheer quantity, intelligence will flow. It's Cult of Volume. A high art of stupidity. Smartest guys in the room?

Mutual aid, please boost, urgent

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#RSF and #Avaaz launch international media operation: “At the rate #journalists are being killed in #Gaza by the #Israeli #army, there will soon be no one left to keep you informed”


Hundreds of media outlets, brought together by the campaigning platform Avaaz and Reporters Without Borders (RSF), are waging a campaign calling for the protection of #Palestinian #journalists in Gaza, the emergency evacuation of reporters seeking to leave the Strip, an end to impunity for Israeli crimes against Gaza’s reporters and that foreign press be granted independent access to the territory.

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“There’s a lot of big men on campus,” said one investor who is close with some of Meta’s new AI leaders.

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/zuc…

At the very core of environmental collapse and the Sixth Great Mass Extinction, is the Great Men / Big Men syndrome. An elite group of men have got totally out of balance with all other nature. Their destructive power threatens to overwhelm all life. Their lust for domination will wreck all before it.

Meet Piotr Szczerek, the hero who snatched a hat from a kid on live TV at the US Open.

He’s a millionaire CEO of a private company, and now he’s bravely threatening to sue anyone who dares to call him a “greedy POS” or anything equally hurtful.

So whatever you do, definitely don’t share this post. Just quietly warn your close friends not to call him mean names. Wouldn’t want to hurt his millionaire feelings.

TX:

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mesa getting loaded


2 more pkgs created out of the maze,
vulkan-freedreno and vulkan-asahi providing drivers for Apple and Adreno GPUs

While researching in that direction we discovered some interesting software for gfx of embeded devices, if any of you have such or interested in such
directfb in jobcomm
OpenGL ES 2.0 GFX driver for DirectFB2
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectFB github.com/deniskropp/DirectFB…

Mesa is built with ES2 support not ES1 but I am not yet sure who supplies it
Maybe when rust doesn't find it locally it builds from a rust container the dependency ... one of the reasons I hate rust. Maybe it is libglvnd ?

#joborun

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always it gets 2 tests out of hundreds failing

makepkg -e --nocheck 

and you are done and any time you have failing checks you do the same as we do 😀

We have been trying to add the failing output on a file called failed.tests in each pkg that does this, so you can compare your failed tests with ours.
Arch writes patches to skip tests that fail

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Défense de la Plaine à St Péray, appel à mobilisation !
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That creepy weirdo just got schooled by Malone.
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Liste de course pour réussir en toute sécurité la rentrée du 10 septembre
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Manif fin aux violences, au racisme et au fascisme de la police
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"Manifestation urgente pour faire pression sur la ville dans le scandale des échanges fascistes sur les groupes WhatsApp de la police lausannoise
Autorisée, lundi 1er septembre 2025, rendez-vous devant la Coop de Prélaz à 18h30"

#Contre-Attaque @contreattaque@mastodon.social
L'ESCROQUERIE DE LA #DETTE RÉSUMÉE EN DEUX CHIFFRES

«Il faut une prise de #conscience des #Français» sur la dette disait #François Bayrou devant le #Medef il y a encore quelques jours.
L' #escroquerie du #chantage à la dette peut être #démontée simplement en deux chiffres
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Hablo con un colega, técnico del CSIC, que deja su trabajo. Ha tirado muchos años de una unidad clave para los científicos, pero el CSIC ningunea sistemáticamente a sus técnicos: económicamente y en reconocimiento.

El resultado, técnicos descontentos y en última instancia, que se piran. El CSIC debería mirarse muchas cosas, pero sobre todo esta.

Una obra no la levantan los arquitectos, y una investigación tampoco la levantan hoy en día sólo los científicos.

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Nouvelle occupation de la Plaine de St-Péray dès ce dimanche 31 août
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