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Despite the recent media reporting, #Windows installation with local accounts is working just fine. Create a regular Windows installation media and drop autounattend.xml to the root of the USB device and install it.

You can craft the autounattend.xml yourself or use a service like schneegans.de/windows/unattend… to generate it.

If the installation demands you to connect to the internet, you can bypass this part by pressing Shift+F10 and then entering oobe\bypassnro + <return>. After the installer restart, you'll have the "I don't have internet" option, and the installation will proceed.

EDIT: To clarify: While I did not test the latest insider build I believe this method will continue to work, even with it. I'll be sure to edit the post if this turns out to be incorrect.

Freshly installed Windows 11 25H2 with local only user accounts.

Generate autounattend.xml files for Windows 10/11

schneegans.de
#Windows
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If you have an iPhone 16 (of any kind), this is your reminder that you can set up an automation in the Shortcuts app that turns on silent mode when you leave home, and another one that turns it back off when you arrive.

I used to keep my phone on silent all the time, mostly to save myself the embarassment of forgetting to flip the switch before an important meeting. With the physical switch gone, this is no longer necessary.

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Some personal reflections on the second anniversary of October 7. #antisemitism #israel #palestine

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October 7, 2025 | Letters Blogatory

Today is the second anniversary of October 7. I want to share some personal reflections about that day and the past two years. October 7 was, for me, a lightning bolt.
Ted Folkman (Letters Blogatory)
#israel #palestine #antisemitism

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"World leaders who just a few years ago lauded Thunberg and rushed to share stages and photo-ops with her have said nothing. The climate scientists who hailed her moral clarity and feverishly retweeted her have ignored her. The prime minister of her own country has been silent. Thunberg has been abandoned by a fake progressive liberal class that hailed her courage and valorised her strength just a few short years ago" donotpanic.news/p/the-liberal-…

The Liberal Abandonment Of Greta Thunberg

The Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has been detained by Israel and reportedly maltreated by her Israeli captors after she was kidnapped, along with hundreds of other activists, from Gaza’s territorial waters on Friday.
Nate Bear (¡Do Not Panic!)

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Une pensée pour tous les Juifs victimes du terrorisme le 7 octobre et leurs proches🕯️. Je pense à cette chanson interpretée par Keren Ann pour le film "Yossi". J'ai eu la chance d'échanger avec elle et elle m'avait appris que c’est une cover d'une chanson de 1973 composée par Mati Caspi. L'amour et la paix...

#Politique #Israel #Hommage #Terrorisme #7octobre #Paix #Guerre

#israel #politique #guerre #hommage #terrorisme #7octobre #paix

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Matrix has always been about cooperation. Germany's ZenDiS is taking it to the next level by working together with France and the Netherlands to create a cross-border collaboration suite for the public sector.

🇪🇺 Don't miss Alexander Smolianitski's talk at The Matrix Conference where he'll share how to create a more integrated European digital landscape.
🎟️ We have a few tickets left for the conference in Strasbourg next week - grab yours before we run out!

conference.matrix.org/register

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Register for The Matrix Conference

Join us for the Matrix Conference this October. The four day conference will take place in Strasbourg, France. Talks will be streamed live and virtual attendees will be able to ask speakers questions.
conference.matrix.org
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The Matrix.org Foundation

@aaron The Matrix.org Foundation is not only run by people who are vocally opposed to Chat Control, we are duty bound by our mission to oppose it much like we opposed the most egregious parts of the Online Safety Bill before the UK signed it into law.

We do some public advocacy, including raising awareness and signing open letters, and a great deal of advocacy behind the scenes.

@Aaron Caskey-Demaret

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Now that I'm in the Swiss healthcare system… no wonder Germany has a shortage of doctors and nurses. They're all here! 😂

(My dentist, substitute primary care physician, and psychiatrist are all Germans… only the primary care physician is Swiss… same for a whole bunch of the nurses…)

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I am pleased to announce the imminent launch of my **post-AI chatbot**!

All the misinformation of an AI chatbot without the environmental damage, for just $9.99/month.

I mean, I say "chatbot".

In fact, whenever someone tries to use the service, it just connects them with another person who is also trying to use the service at the same time.

Like ChatRoulette, but with fewer... well, you know.

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If I made a series of videos about something, what would you like?

The Standard Model? Grand unified theories? Clifford algebras? The octonions? Entropy? Category theory? Quantum logic and projective geometry? Visually beautiful math?

These would all be easy, since I've got the material prepared. I don't want to explain something brand new - at least not until I've covered some of these. Each of these topics could take at least 10 videos.

(I've got a drawing tablet now, so I'm ready to make videos where I show slides of stuff and also write while I talk. It will take some practice to do it well. I thank @Garrett for offering to pay for the tablet. It proved unnecessary, but it helped push me into action.)

A hyperbolic honeycomb called {6,3,5}, since it’s built from flat planes tiled by regular hexagons, 3 meeting at each vertex, and 5 of these planes meeting along each edge of the honeycomb. White struts with a blue background. Drawn by Roice Nelson. More explanations here: https://blogs.ams.org/visualinsight/2014/04/15/635-honeycomb/
@Garrett Lisi

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If you have considered applying for GNOME Foundation membership but were discouraged by our asking for a “full name,” we have news: we’ve updated our process and docs to clarify we don’t require members to submit a “legal name.”

As a diverse and global community, we know that the concept of names is far more complex than many realize. What’s important is that your Foundation membership reflects who you are and how people will recognize you in our community—that’s it.

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Membership |

The GNOME Foundation supports a free, accessible, and community-driven computing platform through advocacy, funding, and collaboration.
Membership |

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GNOME

@Atirut great question! Membership is how contributors to GNOME can participate in the operation of the GNOME Foundation itself, including the ability to vote and run in Foundation elections for the board of directors, and to propose referenda.

Members also get a handful of other perks like a gnome.org email address and Matrix account, a hosted blog, access to our hosted video conferencing software, etc. You can read about the benefits here:

handbook.gnome.org/foundation/…


Membership Benefits

A range of benefits are available to GNOME Foundation members. This page provides information on how to access them. For general information on Foundation membership, including how to apply, see fo...
GNOME Project Handbook
@Wattana

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mailbox takes a clear stance against chat control

On 14 October, the EU Council will vote on the CSA Regulation – legislation that would require email and messaging services to automatically scan private messages. Without cause, without suspicion.

Together with other European tech companies, we've signed an open letter.

More in our news article: mailbox.org/en/news/chat-contr…

#StopChatControl #DataProtection #chatcontrol #stopscanningme

Graphic with the quote “There is no such thing as a little back door,” the statement “mailbox positions itself against chat control,” and an image of a surveillance camera.

Chat control: "There's no such thing as a little backdoor"

Why mailbox rejects the EU's proposed chat control legislation and what you can do now – all the facts at a glance.
mailbox
#DataProtection #chatcontrol #stopscanningme #StopChatcontrol
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EU: „Chatkontrolle!“

Wir: „Alter wir sind gerade mit den BigBrotherAwards beschäftigt.“

Könntet ihr uns nen Gefallen tun und einfach mal eure Abgeordneten anrufen? Wir wissen aus Erfahrung: Das wirkt am besten. Briefpost ist auch nicht schlecht. Aber die muss jetzt schnell raus gehen.

Hier gibts Hilfe: chat-kontrolle.eu/index.php/20…

Wir verlassen uns drauf, dass ihr das jetzt alle macht, ja?

Private Nachrichten scannen heißt: Grundrechte killen, Demokratie schwächen. Und Deutschland ist gerade das Zünglein an der Waage. Jeder Anruf zählt!

#Chatkontrolle #ChatkontrolleStoppen #Überwachung #BigBrotherAwards #Grundrechte

Der Kampf gegen die Chatkontrolle braucht dich jetzt! – Chatkontrolle STOPPEN!

chat-kontrolle.eu
#Chatkontrolle #überwachung #ChatkontrolleStoppen #bigbrotherawards #grundrechte

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Fixed it for you, @CTVNews !

Fascists united. ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/qu… #cdnpoli #polcan #caqastrophe #redneckois


Quebec and Alberta united in pushing back against Ottawa, Premier Danielle Smith says

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her province and Quebec are united in their desire to resist federal overreach.
The Canadian Press (CTVNews)
#cdnpoli #caqastrophe #polcan #redneckois @CTV News

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The Best Line Length

What’s a good maximum line length for your coding standard?

blog.glyph.im/2025/08/the-best…

#typography #UIDesign #webdesign #reading #readability

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Article says 88 (but I think more like 80)


Deciphering Glyph :: The Best Line Length

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.
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#webdesign #reading #uidesign #typography #readability
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The European Open Source Awards marks a celebration and one of a kind recognition of open source excellence in Europe.

Open Call for Nominations: europeanopensource.academy/ope…

Open Call for Nominations: European Open Source Awards 2026 | European Open Source Academy

Call for Nominations for European Open Source Awards 2026
europeanopensource.academy

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5.15 Million Dollar Settlement in California Web Accessibility Class Action Fashion Nova website barriers sparks lawsuit that should have settled lflegal.com/2025/10/fashion-no…

5.15 Million Dollar Settlement in California Web Accessibility Class Action

Digital accessibility is a civil right of disabled people. In the United States and other countries, civil rights are baked into laws mandating accessibility.
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#Politics America, I'm not pointing fingers here. I'm sure this post will get a lot of responses thatwill point fingers, further making my point. If Republicans and Democrats don't start both recognizing that both sides are Americans and not waring countries, if some kind of ability to work together doesn't happen, the American empire is as doomed as all the empires that came before it.
#politics

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This is a fantastic graph the likes of which should be hanging on the walls in schools and offices.

We all _know_ that the media coverage is skewed, and it's all understandable, but seeing a graph like this has the power of actually updating your brain a bit.

ourworldindata.org/does-the-ne…

A graph titled: What Americans die from and the causes of death the US media reports on.

Does the news reflect what we die from?

What do Americans die from, and what do the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fox News report on?
Hannah Ritchie (Our World in Data)

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Je suis sûre que - si vous êtes anglophone - vous aurez bien quelques minutes pour écouter Ursula K. Le Guin vous lire un extrait de son roman "Lavinia" pour votre déjeuner.

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L'enregistrement date du printemps 2008, et j'suis toujours très émue de l'entendre, pour ma part.

Ursula K. Le Guin

A special featuring a recent reading by noted Portland author Ursula K. La Guin.  She reads from her new novel, Lavinia, which is based on a secondary character mentioned briefly in Virgil's masterpiece, The Aeneid.
KBOO

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⚡ Nicht nachlassen: Innen- und Justizminister entscheiden HEUTE über die #Chatkontrolle!⏰😡

Eure Anrufe/Mails kommen "mit großem Schwung im Bundestag an", höre ich - es WIRKT! 💥💪

📞 JETZT MINISTERIEN&ABGEORDNETE ANRUFEN UND PROTESTIEREN:
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Das Bild verwendet das bekannte Meme-Format „Disaster Girl“. Es zeigt: Vordergrund: Ein junges Mädchen mit einem leicht schelmischen Lächeln blickt direkt in die Kamera. Ihr Gesichtsausdruck vermittelt eine Mischung aus Unschuld und unterschwelliger Genugtuung. Hintergrund: Ein Haus steht in Flammen. Feuerwehrleute sind dabei, den Brand zu löschen. Auf dem Feuerwehrauto ist die Nummer „38“ zu sehen. Text-Overlays: Über dem brennenden Haus steht: „PRIVATSPHÄRE & SICHERHEIT“ – ein Hinweis darauf, was hier symbolisch „in Flammen steht“. Über dem Gesicht des Mädchens steht: „EU-KOMMISSION“ – sie wird hier als die vermeintliche Verursacherin des „Brandes“ dargestellt.

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.
fightchatcontrol.eu
#Chatkontrolle
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