I wish Canadians were more familiar with the Amazon Antitrust Paradox and the Curse of Bigness. Allowing Bell, Rogers, and Telus to enter new markets is market dominance disguised as competition.

N.S.-based internet provider cries foul over federal regulations | CBC News cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia…

The upcoming version of monocles chat will introduce several enhancements, including support for XEP-0118, enabling you to optionally share the music you're currently listening to with your contacts.
This feature enhances social interaction by allowing users to discover new music, share their tastes, and connect over shared interests, fostering a more engaging and collaborative experience within the app.
A big thank you to the developer who contributed to this feature!

#XMPP #messenger #socialmedia #MonoclesChat #monocles

Hi everyone, NVDA 2025.3 Beta 2 is now available! nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-3b…

Updates include:

Bug fix for responsiveness issues with SAPI 5. We think we have fixed most of the SAPI 5 bugs now - PLEASE test this version if you use SAPI 5 and let us know.
Bug fix for Turkish Braille tables

Updates to translations

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Beta #NewVersion #Update #SAPI5 #BugFix

Playing a bit with some redesign of the public transit itinerary rendering in Maps.

#GNOME #Maps #gnomemaps #mapstodon #PublicTransport #gtk #libadwaita

i wrote a 120,000 word book on my experience growing up in the BBS and dial-up internet era, from ~1985-1997

it's chock full of stories about ibm pc and macintosh hardware and gaming

it's going to be published this autumn as an ebook and might get a print edition

but i have a far more stupid idea for it: how about a floppy disk edition with a custom dos/windows 3.1 & macintosh system 6 ebook version

has anyone written a Voyager Expanded Book using the VEB Toolkit in 30 years?

(if you haven't heard of Expanded Books, michael crichton and voyager's team wrote an *excellent* version of Jurassic Park)

is there an ms-dos or windows 3.1 equivalent to VEBs? I swear that back in the 90s someone made ebooks using "Asymetrix Multimedia Toolbook", but i can't seem to find any examples of it

#macintosh #dosgaming #books #retroComputing #vintageApple

“What’s happening to freedom of speech in this country is undeniably alarming,” she says. “Why are we investing money and resources and support in arresting elderly Quakers and priests sitting peacefully in Trafalgar Square protesting the deaths of thousands of people by a country to whom we are still selling arms?"
- Juliet Stevenson

#PalestineAction

Прошу прощения, но я на этих выходных не отдыхал.

Запилил поддержку аудио-звонков для своего мессенджера, который работает через #Yggdrasil.

Называется он Mimir. Не требует регистрации от слова совсем.

up.r3v.dev/mimir_v2.0.0a9_call…

#Mimir #MimirMessenger

YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality

bbc.com/future/article/2025082…

Isn't that copyright violation? But it's super shitty (to say the least) from YouTube.

YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality

YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without telling users or asking permission. As AI quietly mediates our world, what happens to our shared connections with real life?

^{Thomas Germain (BBC)}

We see still a lot of downloads for Blade (apt.izzysoft.de/packages/v.bla…) – despite the app being seemingly abandoned, and issue tracker plus other reports say "Spotify broken", "Deezer broken", "App crashes"…

Anyone here using the app without issues? As it seems to be in higher demand, we hesitate removing it. Though the downloads could just be single-try, fails, delete…

#FollowerPower

„Blade Player“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

music player that plays from local library, Spotify, Deezer or SoundCloud

^{IzzyOnDroid Repo Browser}

i made a simple probe that lets me listen to light as sound, and recorded some interesting things

headphones recommended...

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 9 updated apps and 1 new – AntiFeature (oops?)

Well, y'all know the NoSourceSince, when an app's repo has disappeared entirely and you no longer can expect any updates. There's a precursor to that: when an app's repo gets archived, there won't be any updates either – but chances are it gets unarchived again.

So we introduced SourceArchived, to let you easily filter them out.

Enjoy the #IzzyOnDroid repo & its #Android #apps

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Fully agree with @transenv.bsky.social that this is completely unacceptable.

We must not let the US government impose their sick car culture on us, damaging both people and planet.

Also, if we give in on this, what is then next?

transportenvironment.org/artic… #dktrp #dkgreen #dkpol #eupol

Ich habe ein Playdate und zögere nicht es zu benutzen!!

Das Ergebnis des heutigen Tages von ersten Schritten ein wenig Pixel Art Animation zu lernen

Muss natürlich was mit Kaffee zutun haben...

#playdate

Un pote à perdu son chat à Bischheim, n'hésitez pas à faire tourner, merci !

Mise à jour : elle a été retrouvée, merci à tous !

#strasbourg #bischheim #chat

Dnes slaví #Ukrajina den nezávislosti. Je to zvláštní, ale její prezident v #USA červený koberec neměl.

Asi náhoda, co?

There's a really disturbing #Paypal #phishing scam happening right now. Obviously this reads like a typical phishing attempt (bad grammar, a malformed phone number to call, etc), but the official Paypal email wasn't spoofed. It came from PayPal's email infrastructure.

Examining the headers shows that SPF, DKIM, and DMARC all pass. If you have a Paypal account, please exercise caution. Don't click links in these emails. Forward them to phishing@paypal.com.

Please boost for visibility.

Should governments build more public housing?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_h…

#EvanPoll #poll

residential properties usually owned by a government

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• Yes (87%, 353 votes)
• Yes, but... (10%, 44 votes)
• No, but... (0%, 3 votes)
• No (1%, 4 votes)

Přesně za 2 měsíce vyjdou Slavné časy, moje překladatelská radost ze Zimbabwe. 💛

#knihy #preklad

Cool cool, Sam Altman met a UK government minister and tried to get the UK gov to buy every citizen a ChatGPT license, at a cost to taxpayers of £2bn a year.

We’re a country with food poverty and food bank usage is high. theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

Deal to get ChatGPT Plus for whole of UK discussed by Open AI boss and minister

Exclusive: Deal that could have cost £2bn was floated at meeting between technology secretary Peter Kyle and Sam Altman

^{Eleni Courea (The Guardian)}

Have you ever run a sanity check on server? Perhaps had a service that’s hung?

Maybe you’ve had a housekeeping script, or wondered if a particular platform supports something natively?

Well, next time you look in the mirror, you’ve got a low-down, dirty bigot looking back at you and you should be ashamed at the incredibly insensitive language you’re using.

According to the new Inclusive Language Guide they’ve endorsed, most of the language that IT people use to discuss services, software, and projects is downright disgusting.

Check out some of the condemnations:

Instead of “black hat” and “white hat”, you must say “malicious hacker” and “approved hacker”. Ironically hacker itself is a co-opted word whose originally meaning has been subverted.
You can’t say “housekeeping” because…people shouldn’t keep house? Strange, because “housekeeper” is hardly a gendered term. Instead you must say “cleanup” or “maintenance” or “logistics”.
“Sanity Check”? How dare you, you ableist.
You can’t say “normal” or “abnormal” because…reasons? Instead you say “typical” or “atypical”.
“Dummy”? You might as well be spitting on people in wheelchairs.
“Hung” is labeled “violent Language that practices a degree of aggression”.

You’d be forgiven for thinking this was an Onion article, but it’s something the Linux Foundation actually believes in.

If everyone took these suggestions seriously, they would quickly turn into euphemism treadmills. Today we can’t say “normal” – tomorrow they’d be horrified someone says “typical” and would be suggesting a new term.

But really, who would take these ideas seriously?

“Avoid using idioms and jargons,” is another key recommendation. I’m not sure how someone has a conversation about information technology without using information technology jargon. Can we no longer use terms like “CPU”, “network”, and “compiler”?
Suggestions

The list seems to have a lot of room for improvement, in my opinion. Here are some terms they missed:

Horsepower: deeply inconsiderate to horses (and those who identify as equines), since they did not consent to their strength being commodified for mechanical comparisons.
Primary/Secondary: these terms practically scream hierarchy, if not patriarchy.

Firewall: may be alarming to those with a history of house fires or fear of walls. I suggest using “Boundary of Warmth.”

Bug: derogatory toward insects, portraying them as inherently problematic when they’re just trying to live their best lives.

Thread: offensive to knitters, as it trivializes the noble art of textile creation for mere CPU scheduling.

Deadlock: insensitive to those dealing with jammed doors or locksmith trauma. And the violence!
Fork: can cause distress to spoons and knives by implying cutlery hierarchy.

Cloud: could upset people who live in perpetually sunny climates and feel cloud-excluded.

Ping: might offend submariners who still have flashbacks from Cold War sonar drills.

Mouse: unfairly stigmatizes rodents, who do not deserve to be synonymous with point-and-click servitude.

lowendbox.com/blog/youre-a-fil…

#linux #idiots

You're a Filthy Bigot, According to the Linux Foundation. Here Are the Offensive Terms They Missed. -

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Today is Ukraine’s Independence Day. 🇺🇦

We celebrate a nation and its people, and their choice of freedom.

Those who are bravely resisting Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war of aggression.

We stand by them for as long as it takes for a just and lasting peace.

Slava Ukraini.

📺 Jak sledovat videokanály na VHSky.cz a dalších PeerTube instancích?

Máme videa a máme jich spoustu! 🎞️
Jak je ale pohodlně sledovat? 👉 Podívej se na nové video od @schmaker
vhsky.cz/w/cY8dPMLhMKQm8E564GE…

Wenn Meister Petz ein Ast auf den Kopf fällt, dann hat er Bärau

(wenn er in den Schritt fällt, dann ists ein Kugel-Schrei-Bär)

Core postmarketOS contributor Clayton is crowdfunding a new laptop for @postmarketOS development. He's raised over 50%, let's get it all the way! This is an excellent way to support the advancement of Mobile Linux. @craftyguy @linmob #linux #mobilelinux #postmarketos

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Something is coming soon 😉

Enjoy your weekend ❤️