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jdarais

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Software engineer in the bay creating #art #photography and the occasional #software hobby project. Also a #biking and #sailing enthusiast and sporadic blogger.

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Started shifting away from streaming and building up my personal music library again. In the process, I've realized that lossy audio codecs are becoming obsolete. Storage and bandwidth are so plentiful now, does it matter if a song is 20MB?

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Ah yes that’s what was missing from open plan offices: more people talking all the time

Alt text: A tweet from Allie K. Miller reads: “This is absolutely insane and proof that voice is about to transform the workplace. At Wispr, employees use voice hundreds of times a day to multitask across their entire workflow. Here’s one dev using Cursor and Gmail simultaneously, all through WHISPERING, on a $10 mic.” Below the text is a photo of a man seated at a desk in a modern open-plan office, speaking softly into a small desktop microphone while looking at a wide computer monitor that displays code and an open Gmail inbox. The workspace has large windows, high ceilings, and exposed ventilation ducts.
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@Daojoan oooh, just like in 1984

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The U.S. Justice Department says it has reached an agreement with Boeing that allows the plane company to avoid prosecution for its role in two passenger jet crashes that killed a total of 346 people in Indonesia and Ethiopia. Read more from @politico
https://flip.it/9ElSz-

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@NewsDesk @politico

"The government would have the option of refiling the charges later."

Sounds like a shakedown similar to the Eric Adams case.

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CBC - A remarkable reversal for the Liberal Party which has made an incredible comeback and will form government.

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@w7voa may the US serve as a cautionary tale for all other countries.

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What is giving you hope right now?
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@indivisibleteam that it's being demonstrated that evil is often accompanied by incompetence

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We spoke to the relatives of three immigrants transferred to Guantanamo, who said they’ve been left in the dark about their loved ones.

“To me it’s the desperation, the frustration that I know nothing of him. It’s a terrible anguish. I don’t sleep.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-migrants-guantanamo-bay?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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@ProPublica this is important, thanks for your reporting

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President Trump has signed three executive orders imposing 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico and 10% on imports from China.

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"The airplane was on a perfect and routine line of approach to the airport. The helicopter was going straight at the airplane for an extended period of time. It is a CLEAR NIGHT, the lights on the plane were blazing, why didn’t the helicopter go up or down, or turn. Why didn’t the control tower tell the helicopter what to do instead of asking if they saw the plane. This is a bad situation that looks like it should have been prevented. NOT GOOD!!!" - President Trump social media post

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@w7voa these kinds of situations are typically ones that should have been prevented

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Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, responds sarcastically to US President-elect Donald Trump’s proposal to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America by suggesting North America should be renamed “América Mexicana." https://apnews.com/video/mexico-claudia-sheinbaum-mexico-government-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador-international-agreements-daf8791533ae4ffcbfcb2a75767b931f

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@w7voa can't tell you how excited I am to get years more of this 🥲