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Fun fact: The Cadence braille display, made by Tactile Engineering, is manufactured in Lafayette, Indiana, USA, utilizing local Indiana and Midwest tech companies for its advanced components, with support from Purdue University connections. Might also be why it's priced closer to a standard 40-cell display per module, but I would rather support manufacturing that's here at-home (US) Probably unavoidable that some parts could be made elsewhere, like a specific microcontroler or other smaller piece, but from what I've gathered and info I read they are assembled and components for the cells manufactured here.
Fairly awesome, and again it's why I love supporting local, including the BTSpeak too which is at least north-American made and US serviced. By contrast I'm sure the larger companies do their manufacturing and assembly more internationally.

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Hubert Figuière

The way I see it is that any anti-trust concern about Netflix will be ignored for Skydance/Paramount, if their hostile takeover is sucessfull. Why? Because they are friends with the dictator and it funded by the Saudis masquerading as the son-in-law... Netflix deal was already above the initial offer from Skydance.

Either way the biggest losers are gonna be the people, and all the one actually making shit.

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#21NightsOfHavamal

“Cows die,
Family die,
You will die the same way.
I know only one thing
That never dies:
The reputation of the one who’s died.”

-Hávamál 77

Together with verse 76, which is much the same, this is the most famous part of the Havamal. 76 starts the same and says that “a good reputation never dies, for the one who earns it well,” but I prefer this verse. It implies that the reputation you have earned at your death is the one that will stick around, whether good or bad.

The advice, then, is to work on that reputation while you have time to do so. Leaving a good legacy is more than doing one good deed, it's continuing to be a good person as you grow and change with life.

I think this also applies to remembering those who have passed. Odin wouldn’t say, “Don’t speak ill of the dead.” Everyone should be remembered as they lived, even if they were an asshole, and it’s okay to say so.

#21nightsofhavamal

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This is just a guess, but since NVDA 2026.1 has officially finished its new-feature phase and development has now moved on to 2026.2, it wouldn’t be surprising if @NVAccess releases the first beta of NVDA 2026.1 in the coming days. Considering the huge changes related to the 64-bit transition and the difficulty some add-ons have had keeping up, especially those tied to speech engines and other low-level components, it would be an interesting milestone in its own way. And let's see how users will react to the super-basic, and hugely error-prone, offline AI model used despite all warning signs in place.
@NV Access
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I have been hearing a lot about the new Llama CPP UI but have not tried it yet.
This week I am going to run it in a real on device AI workflow and see how well it fits into my day to day work as a blind iOS developer.
If you are using LlamaCPP or similar local model tooling, how is the new UI working for you in practice. What does it do well, and what still gets in your way.
#AI #OnDeviceAI #LlamaCPP
#AI #ondeviceai #llamacpp

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Recently we completed a security audit of Thunderbird Send, our upcoming end-to-end encrypted large file sharing service, with the help of the @ostifofficial and 7ASecurity. Read our summary of the report's findings, and learn how we've acted on these recommendations to be more secure and worthy of the trust our user community places in us.

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #InfoSec

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/12/t…


Thunderbird Send Security Audit with OSTIF and 7ASecurity - The Thunderbird Blog

As we get ready for the Thunderbird Pro launch, we want every service we offer to be secure and worthy of the trust our community places in us.
Natalie Ivanova (The Thunderbird Blog)
#opensource #infosec #thunderbird @OSTIF

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DHH launches something he says is Open Source but isn't. world.hey.com/dhh/fizzy-is-our…

Matt Mullenweg calls it false advertising: ma.tt/2025/12/dhh-open-source/

All this I learned from Dries Buytaert: dri.es/source-available-is-not…


DHH & Open Source

I might have a new prayer: God, give me confidence of DHH claiming his proprietary license is Open Source. 37signals/Basecamp has a great new product called Fizzy, whose brilliance and innovative q…
Matt (Matt Mullenweg)
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miki

Quoting directly from the post you linked:

"This is done under the O'Saasy License, which is basically the do-whatever-you-want-just-don't-sue MIT License, but with a carve-out that reserves the commercialization rights to run Fizzy as SaaS for us as the creators. That means it's not technically Open Source™, but the source sure is open, and you can find it on our public GitHub repository."

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RE: mastodon.social/@gaza_verified…

Don’t ignore me… and don’t ignore my innocent children.
Please, don’t underestimate how much even a little can help — a small amount truly makes a big difference.

If just 5 people donate right now, each with $5, I’ll be able to buy my child a winter jacket to keep him warm in this cold weather.
Please… don’t hesitate. Your small support can change a child’s life. 💔

Gaza Verified Campaigns (@gaza_verified_campaigns@mastodon.social)

#GazaVerified campaigns that raised less than $200.0 in the past 7 days: 53. @tahine21@mas.to ($193) 54. @sarada9669 ($196) 55. @suad@mastodon.scot ($199) (5/5)
Gaza Verified Campaigns (Mastodon)

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status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An
attempt was made to correct the error. Applications are unaffected.

mmmmph. Why does "zpool status" exit 0 when there is this issue? All my data is fine, but there was an event and it shouldn't be exiting 0 until I've cleared it.

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I wonder how @bagder feels about Microsoft mentioning curl at support.microsoft.com/en-us/to…

This isn't really very spicy, and I'm not suggesting that Microsoft are trying to blame curl for Microsoft's previously-insufficient security controls. I knew curl shipped with Windows for quite a few years now, but I guess I hadn't realized (or had never considered) that Invoke-WebRequest is more or less a curl wrapper.

PowerShell 5.1: Preventing script execution from web content - Microsoft Support

support.microsoft.com
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Вообще начал замечать за собой придание излишней важности ко всему, даже к постам в федиверсике... типа сел такой, надо что-то умное выдать, да такое, чтобы никто не приебался, а если бы приебался, то сразу бы получил жирный аргумент или "пошел нахуй". иногда жеж ведь жизнь проще чем кажется, не так ли?

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Out of the following operating systems, which one do you use the most, not at work, but in your free personal time?

Please consider boosting for a larger sample size. Thank you.

#poll #os #computing #fediverse

  • GNU Linux or UNIX (62%, 4532 votes)
  • MacOS (22%, 1667 votes)
  • Microsoft Windows (13%, 954 votes)
  • Other, please comment. (1%, 127 votes)
7280 voters. Poll end: 4 days ago

#fediverse #poll #computing #os
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I've seen a bunch of bike packing videos with people holding a bike tube up to their ear or using water, trying to find location of a leak. In Yvette Kooijman's latest video her partner used something entirely unexpected.

youtu.be/A-v_hl53x9I?t=503

Just a small container with styrofoam beads above wire mesh and a clear plastic top.
hollandbikeshop.com/en-gb/bicy…

#BikeTooter #BikePacking

A hand holding a small container of styrofoam beads and running it across a bike inner tube, the beads start to “dance” when it is above the leak with air rushing out.

Puncture Repair Kits

Order the Simson Puncture Finder online quickly and at low cost. The largest official Simson dealer - Hollandbikeshop.com
Hollandbikeshop.com
#biketooter #bikepacking
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Martin

@BorrisInABox @cordova5029 Okay, so first you need a floppy drive. No problem! a.co/d/5nnSz9M Then you would need floppy disks, which seem to only come in 10 packs: a.co/d/gRuh3DB And at 1575 floppies, you would need at least 158 boxes, so at 37 bucks per box, it would cost you around $5846, plust the cost of the drive itself. So barring any bad disks, for a bit less than 6K, you should be all setup to your hearts content. LOLOLOL!
@Xantastic @Borris
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Xantastic

@BorrisInABox @tarrenvane @mcourcel that way if you ahve a really old machine with a floppy drive and want to massively increas the size of it's what ever, put this thing in it that looks like a floppy but is really a 2 tb sd card in a thing that massively increases it's formfactor, but is totally readable by this machine, because it reads it like a floppy, somehow automagically it reads it.
@Borris @Martin @Tarren (They/Them)
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Martin

@BorrisInABox @cordova5029 @tarrenvane Back in 2019, I was returning some equipment to I T, because I was moving on from a job. I dropped off a floppy drive and the kid was all confused. Is this a GameBoy cartridge reader or something? I said: "Yes, yes it is, but it's missing the universal cartridge converter, so not sure what to do." Some dude behind him started laughing, "That's a floppy drive, stupid." Hehehe lolol! so much fun!
@Xantastic @Borris @Tarren (They/Them)

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While the UK has a million problems, the right-wing talking point over "arrests for social media posts" is entirely fake, made up, and 100% bullshit. The reality is that the number of people convicted for online posts in the UK has declined sharply since 2015 - from about 2000 then to less than 1100 in 2025. Of note is that only about 10% of those received any prison time, and the majority of those were less than two months long.

And no, those convictions weren't over shitposts, but posts inciting actual violence, calling for murder, abuse and god knows what else - like right-wingers calling for burning down asylum centers or killing non-white children.

So, if you see right-wing lunatics ejaculating over social media posts arrests in the UK - it's bullshit. None of it is true.

mythdetector.com/en/uk-for-soc…


Are Over A Thousand People Arrested Each Month In The UK For Social Media Posts? | Mythdetector.com

On June 3, Georgian Dream MP Nino Tsilosani wrote that in the United Kingdom, more than a thousand people are arrested each month due to social media posts.
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#XMPP Community

Consider to vote for the brand request in the Font Awesome repository on GitHub to accept the XMPP logo:

github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Aw…

#chat #messaging #jabber #standards #opensource
#interoperability #decentralization #operators #service

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Brand Request: XMPP (formerly named Jabber) · FortAwesome Font-Awesome · Discussion #21069

🏷️ What brand are you requesting? XMPP 🌐 Official website http://xmpp.org/ 📘 Brand assets or guidelines (optional) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:XMPP_logo_(without_text).svg 🔍 Request che...
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#xmpp #opensource #Jabber #chat #interoperability #decentralization #standards #messaging #service #operators
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