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I took a call from someone with questions about the Blazie Technologies products. He told me that he was a former customer of Blazie Engineering and how much he enjoyed those products. I was then quite amused when he told me that I was too young to remember those products, such as the disk drive accessory that was sold as a storage device for products like the Braille 'n Speak. I should have thought to tell him that I co-wrote the disk drive manual but I guess I'm so old I forgot to mention it. 😀
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I know it's late notice, but a friend of mine has two tickets for the Super Bowl.
They are box seats and he paid $3,500 per ticket, which includes the ride to and from the airport, lunch, dinner, a $400.00 bar tab and a pass to the winners locker room after the game.
What he didn't realize, when he bought them last year, was that it's on the same day as his wedding.
If you are interested, he is looking for someone to take his place.
It's at St. Paul's Church at 3 p.m. Her name is Ashley. She's 5'4", about 115 pounds, a good cook, loves to fish and hunt and will clean your truck. She'll be the one in the white dress.

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Everyone, sing along with me now:

I've no more fucks to give
My fucks have runneth dry
I've tried to go fuck shopping but there's no fucks left to buy
I've no more fucks to give
Though more fucks I’ve tried to get
I’m over my fuck budget, and I'm now in fucking debt

I've no more fucks to give
My fuck fuse has just blown
I've been hunting for my fucks all day but they've upped and fucked off home
I've no more fucks to give
My fuck rations are depleted
I've rallied my fuck army but it's been fucking defeated

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Are there any good video players for Linux for TV shows? The user experience I'm seeking is:

- I select a folder to play
- I start watching
- I close the app
- Sometime later, I reopen the app and it loads the playlist I was watching, at roughly the same position

In essence, I want the Netflix viewing experience except with the media I already have.

Please don't recommend hacks. I'm looking for sane defaults. I prefer an app that targets #GNOME but, really, anything will do.

#gnome
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elilla&, famigerada travesti

it's not even trans people alone (and we're like 1% of the dataset already), it's

- people getting married
- people getting divorced
- people getting adopted (including adults)
- immigrants who choose the option to naturalise their names
- people who win in court about name change for reputation (ridiculous name) or other reasons
- countries with an "artistic name" rule

why programmers keep treating people's names as immutable is beyond me

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The mentioned novel depicts serious mental health concerns and graphic violence

Sensitive content

#bookstodon

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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: 3 days ago

#fediverse #poll #computing #os
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