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PSA for anyone bringing Ero devices into your home already containing several Alexas. The Alexas will try to act as WiFi extenders. That's all well and good until you're using an Ero pro 7 mesh and really want the nice fast speeds it can deliver over WiFi. Alexa extenders are limited to 100mbps max, and will clutter everything up, screwing up the mesh hand-off and making it all slow. just turn that off

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Users do not care about:
- your pitch deck
- your fancy JIRA process
- how many 5-min calls you hop on
- how many story points that last ticket was
- your runway
- if you use kubernetes, serverless, or bare metal
- if you code in Python or Javascript or C# or Java or Cobol
- if your code coverage is 1% or 100%

They care about software that solves their problems.

All those things you should care about & have an opinion on. But they all come second to software that solves their problems

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RE: floss.social/@IzzyOnDroid/1156…

Thanks to our Math friends, this question has been answered 🤗 Now, may we call out to our "root friends": for a timezone updater, an USB keyboard for Keepass2Android, and a "reverse pixelifyer"?

codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/Every…

Thanks in advance! With your help, we'll get that list done 🤗

#izzyOnDroid #serviceToot :boost_love:

IzzyOnDroid ✅

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Any math fans around here? There are 2 "matrix calculators / solvers" left in codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/Every… which would need a check. Only you can tell how useful they are! 🙏

#IzzyOnDroid #serviceToot :boost_love:



metadata reorg subtask: deciding about dormant apps which might be considered niche

This is a spin-off from #10 where I'd like some input from the team, concerning how to handle the following unmaintained apps which might be considered niche: * [x] [`com.ionicframework.backingtrainer763961`](https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.
Codeberg.org

#serviceToot #izzyondroid

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"All items unselected, selection mode exited. All items unselected, selection mode exited. All items unselected, selection mode exited. " - what a lovely treat, all I need to do is hit escape multiple times in my Chrome History search results view and I can get this to repeat on command with zero interruption, how lovely.
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Tech companies are crying that Americans aren't buying new phones fast enough to keep the economy stimulated. Wages have been stagnant for, what, 44 years and you've got the gall to keep raising prices and cry we're not buying enough?

I don't think you should reward this shit with a click but, in case you must, I've got a barely tweaked URL to save you the trouble I already spent looking up the article.

source: cnbc DOT com/2025/11/23/how-device-hoarding-by-americans-is-costing-economy.html

#Technology #USEcon #USPOL #Technically

The Bottom Line Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy Published Sun, Nov 23 202510:05 AM EST Updated Sun, Nov 23 20258:57 PM EST Kevin Williams Key Points Americans are hanging onto their smartphones for much longer than they did a decade ago, but new releases like Apple’s iPhone 17 can entice consumers to upgrade. Businesses tend to hang onto their devices even longer than individual consumers, especially overseas. While it may seem to be a smart money move, it can result in a costly productivity and innovation lag for the economy.
#technology #uspol #usecon #technically

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Today I was browsing the commit history of a project of a very well known open source software foundation that is now "focusing on AI".
I almost lost my shit when I discovered that "Claude Code" started rephrasing the included copy of the Apache 2.0 license in a random bugfix commit.

yes, they merged it. :blob_cat_sip_glare:

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So, have been eyeing up some #cloud #storage. Currently on a Dropbox plan, but pCloud's 60% off lifetime for Black Friday is showing up all over my Facebook feed. I've heard mixed reviews about it, but not having to constantly shell out for DB/Google Drive/whoever else is out there seems nice. I'm looking at the 2TB plan. Normally $600, now $280 with savings. Is it worth it?
#cloud #Storage
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daniel:// stenberg://

@jaanus I hear you. I've poked on it a little and it should soon be using a lighter red for the comments and a yellow version instead of the rather dark blue for function names.

github.com/curl/curl-www/pull/…


mkexam: CSSify the enscript output by bagder · Pull Request #515 · curl/curl-www

mkexam.pl now converts the enscript output from using hard-coded font color values to instead use with specific class names for different code sections. example.css is a new CSS file with the styl...
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From Humanware:
BrailleNote evolve: a new chapter in braille-first computing
humanware.com/en-usa/brailleno…

BrailleNote evolve: a new chapter in braille-first computing - HumanWare

For 35 years, HumanWare has been at the forefront of braille technology. From the original BrailleNote Classic to the BrailleNote Touch Plus, each generation has reflected a simple idea: when braille users have tools built for them, independence beco…
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Continuing on the previous toot, let me voice my belief:

NATO is good. We need NATO. NATO is right now the only guarantee that there are no Russian tanks on the streets of my town. Or Vilnius, or Tallin. Ukraine has full rights to join NATO and should do it as quickly as possible.

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Dorothy Thompson was a journalist who in 1931 did interview Hitler, where he clearly stated his intent if he was elected.

Has Hitler got elected in 1934, the Gestapo ordered Dorothy Thompson expulsed from Germany because of her critical views and reporting.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_…

History repeating.


American journalist and radio broadcaster (1893-1961)

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)

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i've recently started thinking more about relationships as having two separate axes, romantic vs platonic (relationship content/feelings) and dating vs friendship (relationship structure). platonic friendships and romantic dating relationships are very normalized in our society, but romantic friendships and platonic dating relationships aren't. i think the world would be much better if those latter two were more accepted and common ,,,, i have several friends where i love them dearly and we have romantic feelings towards each other, but we just happen to not be dating , and it makes me sad that that sort of thing isn't more common
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modulux

Given I don't draw those distinctions strongly myself (friends/lovers/whatever) your post resonates with me a lot; though I'm not sure about the dating/friendship axis. It's kind of hard for me to get what's in there. Like, could you describe the four quadrants just a little?

For me, and I admit this makes me a bit odd, anyone I know well and would call a friend is someone I could love.

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"What are you working on?"

I put the soldering iron on its stand and inspected my work.

"A time travel receiver. I figured out the machine can't travel in time itself."

"Do you have a transmitter too?"

I plugged the power in. "Not yet."

A newspaper appeared in the machine.

"I will, next year."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories #scienceFiction

#microfiction #sciencefiction #tootfic #smallstories

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Hey, friends learning #Spanish or #French:

Kwiziq is 40% off for the next week!

This is a fantastic tool with great grammar explanations that uses spaced repetition for grammatical concepts, mostly having you fill in the blank for sentences with the correct word (but also sometimes, multiple choice "which is the correct translation?" stuff).

This is how I plugged the gaps in my Spanish grammar left after doing Duolingo. This is how I passed the DELE B2.

#languageLearning

#french #spanish #LanguageLearning

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#foss #opensource #software #developer #umfrage #digitaleteilhabe #wissenschaft #DigitaleBarrierefreiheit #idt #weiterbildungen #digitalerbarrierefreiheit #bedarfe #eureperspektiveistwichtig #deinemeinungmachtwas

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Yesterday I bothered to look it up, and apparently the conference pear is named for the National British Pear Conference of 1885 where it won first prize.

OK, but.

I haven't heard of this conference ever happening again (no Wikipedia article for the event itself), and there aren't any better pears as far as I know, so is it possible humanity achieved a fairly satisfactory pear 140 years ago and then lost interest?

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Ok, so this is another of those weird questions which I post because people here use their brains more than most. I want to have one NVDA Remote client control two machines at the same time. That is, I want my laptop to control my desktop and my second desktop, but I want both desktop1 and desktop2 to have their NVDA heard through the laptop at the same time. I also want to switch back and forth between the two machines, as well as to and from the laptop itself, with a keystroke. There are two solutions I've found for this, but both are a bit of a mess. I can use thenvdaremote:// URLs to disconnect from desktop1 and connect to desktop2 with one keystroke, and have another keystroke to do the reverse. The problem there is that I can't hear both machines' NVDA at the same time. Also, and this isn't as big a deal, I'm just a perfectionist, switching takes a few seconds. Secondly, I can run a virtual machine and have that connected to desktop2, with the host machine connected to desktop1. That allows easy switching of the keyboard, just alt+tab to the VM window and hit ctrl+g when I want to control desktop2. It also allows both desktops to have their NVDA run through the speaker at the same time and also, which is very nice, allows braille to swap with any display which supports channels. The problem there is the latency of the VM audio, which I can't seem to shrink. It seems a bit overkill, I may say, to run an entire windows OS just for NVDA remote in a VM. Does anyone have any better solutions. Can anyone think of something which would get all three things running, fast switching, simultaneous NVDA, and no latency? Ideas would be very gratefully received and boosts would be appreciated. #NVDA #blind #a11y #screenreader #remote #nvdaremote
#a11y #blind #screenreader #remote #nvda #nvdaremote

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Tech Singer

@jonathan859 You know, this is why I post this stuff. I just didn't think of that at all. Completely missed the boat on it. Thank you. I'm going to try this and see what happens. I know that the remote add-on and teleNVDA didn't work together, but as I said, I went mentally blank on using the core remote plus teleNVDA. My version with the core remote is on the other machine, but I'm going to try this and will report back. Again, this is what happens when you get another pair of eyes on the thing. I really appreciate it, and have no clue how I could have overlooked that possibility
@Jonathan

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Telegram, the cloud-based freemium chat, has now implemented strict rate limiting for users of alternative clients, VPNs and virtual phone numbers.
Clients like Nekogram, Nagram, Cherrygram and Unigram may show transmission delays or errors.
If your client had recently become slower, disable the VPN and use a real number.

#telegram #android #windows #linux #software #opensource #foss #cloud #im #chat #vpn

#android #linux #foss #opensource #telegram #Windows #software #chat #VPN #cloud #im

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Auszug aus: »Warum das Argument, man müsse in sozialen Netzwerken bleiben, um Opposition zu leisten, völliger Unsinn ist«

Die Vorstellung, dass Opposition auf X oder TikTok unverzichtbar sei, beruht auf einem grundlegenden Missverständnis dieser Plattformen. Viele erkennen nicht, dass sie unbewusst Teil des Systems sind. Sie glauben, ihre Präsenz sei nötig, um Desinformation zu bekämpfen oder ihre Meinung zu verbreiten – ohne zu merken, dass sie damit genau das tun, was Algorithmus und Tech-Bros wollen. Durch Kommentieren und Teilen stärken sie das System, das sie ablehnen. Dieser Teufelskreis lässt sich nur durch Rückzug und den Entzug von Aufmerksamkeit durchbrechen. Doch solange viele ihre Aktivität dort für »wichtig« halten, bleibt das System am Laufen. 👇

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Warum das Argument, man müsse in sozialen Netzwerken bleiben, um Opposition zu leisten, völliger Unsinn ist

Der Mythos der »notwendigen Opposition« auf Plattformen wie X und TikTok ist eine Illusion: Auseinandersetzungen verstärken Desinformation und fördern das Geschäftsmodell.
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