Author: encyphr

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British Museum makes 1.9M images available for free

The British Museum has revamped its online collections database, making over 1.9 million photos of its collection available for free online under a Creative Commons license.Under the new agreement the majority of the 1.9 million images are being made available for anyone to use for free under a Creative Commons 4.0 license. Users no longer…

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With questionable copyright claim, Jay-Z orders deepfake parodies off YouTube

On Friday, I linked to several videos by Vocal Synthesis, a new YouTube channel dedicated to audio deepfakes — AI-generated speech that mimics human voices, synthesized from text by training a state-of-the-art neural network on a large corpus of audio. The videos are remarkable, pairing famous voices with unlikely dialogue: Bob Dylan singing Britney Spears,…

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IPFS 0.5

by Molly Mackinlay on 2020-04-28 go-ipfs 0.5.0 is a major step forward on our journey toward a more efficient, secure, and resilient web to preserve and grow humanity’s knowledge. We’re happy to share that IPFS 0.5.0, the largest upgrade to the IPFS protocol and Public Network yet, is now available. The result of extensive community…

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DigitalOcean VPC

 Blog Simplicity yields productivity, and that’s why many developers have brought DigitalOcean into the workplace. Thousands of startups and small businesses have already chosen to run critical applications on DigitalOcean. Still, many more businesses tell us that they’d gladly migrate to our cloud if we could help them better secure their applications, and if we…

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The Anti-Amazon Alliance

The nonsensical tie-in has long been one of my favorite PR genres, and the coronavirus crisis has created a whole host of examples; Casey Newton posted a particularly egregious one: Using a current news event as cover is hardly limited to bad PR pitches;1 look no further than this announcement from Google, which used the…

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Amazon is holding over 4.2M dollars, suffocating our business

Can someone please help us here?! My partner and I have been selling on Amazon since 2013 with outstanding metrics. Our average net sales are over $1 million/month and we are by no means new or small sellers. We started shipping a lot more than usual Merchant Fulfilled orders because of the situation with FBA,…

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Show HN: Editly – Slick, declarative command line video editing

This GIF / YouTube was created with this command: “editly commonFeatures.json5”. See more examples here. Editly is a tool and framework for declarative NLE (non-linear video editing) using Node.js and ffmpeg. Editly allows you to easily and programmatically create a video from set of clips, images and titles, with smooth transitions between and music overlaid.…

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US Senators Introduce Resolution to Allow Remote Voting During Emergencies

03.19.20 Bipartisan resolution would ensure Congress fulfills constitutional responsibility to govern during a crisis WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Rob Portman (R-OH) today introduced a bipartisan resolution to amend the Standing Rules of the Senate to allow senators to vote remotely during a national crisis.  During certain crises, such as the current…

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Memories – 256 bytes demo winner of Revision 2020

Introduction Hello! My name is “HellMood” and this is not a usual wiki style article. It will be written from my point of view, in first person. This article is all about a tiny MS DOS program called “Memories”. This program has a size of 256 bytes and won the “PC 256 byte” competition of…

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Tmux for Mere Mortals

Tmux has liberated me from tiling window mangers. Not that I didn’t like those, but I occasionally have to work with macOS or default GNOME setups. And over the years I realised that I only need a terminal multiplexor to do terminal tiling for me, the rest of the windows are just fine to be…

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