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Media outlets reported injuries to several people and said some had been taken to hospital.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/several-injured-after-explosion-at-school-complex-in-indonesian-capital-local-media-reports

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• Finance minister writes to EU tech chief to demand investigation
• EU says it is in touch with Shein
• France moves to ban Shein over illicit products
• German retail association calls for action from Germany, EU

The European Union must take action against Shein, French government officials said on Thursday, saying the Chinese online retailer was in breach of the bloc's regulations due to the sale of child-like sex dolls and banned weapons on its marketplace.

France moved to ban Shein over the illicit products on Wednesday, prompting the company to suspend its marketplace in the country as it reviewed how third-party sellers operate on it. It had already halted the sale of all sex dolls worldwide.

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A client has asked me to replace their video editor for a video podcast. It's the standard quick-cut style, zooms, loud transitions, and big bubble-letter subtitles throughout.

They recommended using Descript, which looks to be an AI platform that does all the work for you. Throw your video/audio into the site, and it transcribes the video, allowing you to edit based on the transcription. It then makes AI recommendations and inserts zooms and transitions.

There's no getting around using AI for some of this, like subtitle generation, but I'd rather not buy a sub to an AI platform, nor would I like to use one, so I'm looking for alternatives. The pay certainly isn't worth the time it would take without cutting corners unfortunately.

Unfortunately, Davinci Resolve isn't playing well with my system and the nvidia driver I use (580, it worked on 550 but that's not an option in Additional Drivers anymore for some reason) results in a black screen for the video timeline (not ideal for a video editor haha). I've been playing around with Kdenlive and Blender's video editor.

I found an add-on for both programs that transcribes speech-to-text, which I finally got mostly working with Kdenlive (using whisper) but not with Blender. I also found a FOSS app called audapolis which does well pulling a transciption into an exportable file.

Anyone have any experience making these mass-produced-style videos without going full AI? My client mentioned the old VE spent 1-2 hours with Descript for a 15ish min video and 2 shorts. I'm ok doubling that timeframe at first if it means not using Descript.

Hello all,

Apologies if this isn't the right place, but I have moved instances a few times, and in doing so I've accumulated a number of subscriptions from my old instances. I always used the "migrate" feature, and I have roughly 200 communities I'm subscribed to. Most are from various other instances that aren't my own. That being said, I have Lemmy open on "subscribed" and "scaled", as I found this gives me just what I want to see when I boot up the site.

But it is very slow, sometimes even timing out on Jerboa. I thought it was my instance, but I've had this issue on other instances as well. I'd imagine federating all my subscriptions would take some time, but then wouldn't "All" cause even more problems? I've tried to look into this to no avail.

Am I the only one? I'm asking this more out of curiosity than an actual solution.

“He did it. He threw the sandwich.”

That’s how the defense counsel for Sean Dunn, the man who threw a sub-style sandwich at a Border Patrol officer in Washington, DC, this summer began the federal trial against him Tuesday morning.

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No affiliation here, I just came across FiberSeeker 3 and wondered what people think about it. The ability to do continuous fiber embedded printing really seems to step up the prints from prototype to actual functional parts.

I'm thinking it would be really cool to try printing some bike components, specifically a seat post setback adapter for my tall ass. I'm wondering if this type of composite part could take that kind of repeat shock?

https://archive.is/2A9U3

That Brazil chose Chinese electric vehicles as the official means of transporting Mr. Lula and other world leaders sent a clear signal to many: In its quest to transform its roads and its economy, Latin America’s largest nation would be turning to China.