I'm surprised no one has made a game of it...
ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/ma… #montreal #polMTL #MTLpoli
The Montreal Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce (CCMM) and Tourism Montreal published 'Maximum Blockage: Taking concrete action to have a visible impact on site management and traffic flow,' criticizing the city's actions to open roads.Daniel J. Rowe (CTVNews)
Me: "You should use Firefox because it's the only real alternative, and you should keep yelling at Mozilla demanding they do the right thing"
User: "Yeah, I'm fed up with their behaviour, but they won't listen"
Me: "I know it's frustrating but Mozilla is full of good people, if you actively participate and share your feedback they will listen"
User: "All right, I'll tell them that they became too woke and corrupted by the leftist ideology"
Me: "Wait...what?! No...you can actually go away"
At this point, when you show me a trailer for your game that focuses on how lavishly detailed the visuals are all it does is make me wonder how many talented people you forced to give up their nights and weekends to make that happen
Developed by Arcanaut Studios in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games, Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic is a new single-player narrative-driven action RPG a...YouTube
"I don't like autotools so I use CMake".
mwaaaaahhh
hahahhahahah
Sorry. But CMake is million times worse.
#Enshittification of website is when it's written like this:
"The last 2/3rd inch XYZ camera I personally owned was this one." where "this one" is a link to Amazon. No other detail.
Several camera rumors websites do that. Not only it's shitty, but it often rots completely as it might just be a search query on the lookup for referral fees.
Generative AI systems are changing the way people interact with computers. MCP (model context protocol) is a way that enables LLMs to run commands and use tools to enable live, conversational interaction with systems.Brian Smith (Fedora Project)
John Varley (78) died December 10, 2025 in his home in Beaverton OR. He had COPD and diabetes. John Herbert Varley was born August 9, 1947 in Austin TX. He attended Michigan State University. His f…Locus Online
OpenAI reportedly declared a “code red” on the 1st of December in response to increasingly credible competition from the likes of Google’s Gemini 3. It’s less than two weeks later …Simon Willison’s Weblog
It is rumored that "OpenAI hasn't had a successful pre-training run since 2024, initially claimed by semi-analysis and never denied."
It looks like 5 and 5.1 were just different post-trains of some base model that they have had for a while, either 4o, 4.5 or something else entirely that we haven't seen at all. 5.2 seems to be using a newer base model.
Source for rumor: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Les citoyens aspirent à partager leurs convictions et idées régulièrement, pas seulement à chaque élection : c’est pourquoi Agora propose, pour la première fois, de créer les conditions d’un dialogue démocratique continu entre les citoyens et le Gouv…www.agora.gouv.fr
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ok so Trump says Americans need to just accept a lower standard of living and not buy their kids presents for Christmas and somehow THIS is not the "war on Christmas" we've heard so much about?
I mean it's not like he changed a Starbucks cup or anything I guess 
Hello @Raroun hope you're well. every now & then, when i have joined a different #Friendica instance in the past, i ask this same question of its Owners / Admins. always it's the same negative answer, but i live in hope!
on Masto & Sharkey instances, if the Admins are willing, it is technically possible to add FOSS emojis to the servers. consequently, on many of my instances i've been able to include these in various posts when applicable:
:linux: :archlinux: :kde: :plasma: :zenbrowser: :floorp: :firefox_nightly: :firefox: :thunderbird: :fedora: :opensuse: :debian:
so... is there yet any way that such emojis can be added to your instance, please?
cc: @Friendica Support
Here's a screenshot of what i now see, in draft / preview format, when i paste my original emoji-suite again, since @Raroun kindly enabled / added
the standard "Smiley Pack Addon" for Friendica
so i can see that yes, some of my desired #FOSSemojis now work, but sadly still most don't. i shall be most interested to see what might happen after this weekend. 🤞 🤞 🤞
FYI but every one of those :customemojis: has to have the actual PNG or GIF uploaded to YOUR instance for any of them to work.
Until then they're simply not going to work no matter what you do.
They are not universal. Each custom emoji is unique to the instance that has it.
My instance might have :heart: look like this: ♥️But on another instance :heart: might look like this: 💓
@Droppie [opensoc]
You can view the available custom emojis via the link. This will always be a limited selection, in addition to the classic emojis.
@Matthias sorry for my delayed reply. the large majority of my regular interlocutors are on various Masto instances, with some on Sharkey, so for me to derive full benefit of my desired #FOSSemojis in my Friendica instance/s, ideally each of the emoji codes needs to be the same across those platforms. doing a comparison of
has now shown me that whereas happily some are the same, eg::linux: :archlinux: :kde: :firefox: :thunderbird:
:linux: :archlinux: :kde: :firefox: :thunderbird:
unfortunately other important ones are different, eg::firefox_nightly: vs :firefoxnightly::fedora: vs :linuxfedora::opensuse: vs :linuxopensuse::debian: vs :linuxdebian:
:firefox_nightly: vs :firefoxnightly:
:fedora: vs :linuxfedora:
:opensuse: vs :linuxopensuse:
:debian: vs :linuxdebian:
and a few are absent in Friendica, though present in the others, eg::plasma: :zenbrowser: :floorp:
so, if i lump the "missings" with the "differents", the total number exceeds the "goods". it seems therefore that my desire to have comparable cross-platform FOSSemojis (without me needing to stop to think, each time i go to use some of them, "oh, are these good ones or bad ones?") is just not possible, so i need to abandon the idea.
oh well, thank you all for your help, anyway. 😢
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DeltaChat has just made its long-awaited Wireguard-esque multi-relay release.
You can add multiple relays (chatmail/email accounts) to your profile. Your account now survives server outages, censorship, or even government seizures. Your identity is not tied to a single email address anymore.
Change to another relay, message your contacts/groups, and they'll immediately learn the new address they can reach you at and will respond using that address now.
Just like how Wireguard gets a valid encrypted packet from a peer at a new IP address and automatically starts using it.
The one downside right now is that if you and all your friends were using the same server that disappears you can't really message them from your new address because... your point of contact for them is still the old address that is unreachable.
This is why it's important to embrace decentralization as much as possible.
Future work: automatically learning of ALL the current relay addresses for a peer and automatically re-routing your communications if the current point of contact is no longer valid. Or shotgunning your communications to the user across multiple addresses simultaneously just to be safe and letting the client ignore (not even download) duplicated messages they have already received.
If you use multi-device with DeltaChat, ensure all are on at least the new version 2.33.0 and add an additional relay. It will be automatically synced to your other devices so they are ready to use it as well.
support.delta.chat/t/how-to-mi…
Let’s say you have initially created a profile on the default relay and want to migrate away from it. Update at least to 2.33 on all your devices: Help testing upcoming Delta Chat 2.33.Delta Chat
call me when Reticulum is solving communication problems for people under authoritative regimes
These other projects *exist* but don't actually work with any groups directly to prove they're actually helping real humans solve real problems. Writing some code is only half the work.
classic being a woman issue: being labeled combative/argumentative/mean because you aren't terrified of disagreeing with peopleThe Wandering Shop
![A billboard, purportedly from the NHS, saying: KNOW YOUR PARASITES:
❝TICKS: External parasites. Remove with tweezers. [photo of ticks]
WORMS: Internal parasites. Remove with medication. [photo of worms]
BILLIONAIRES: Economic parasites. Remove with wealth tax. [photo of laughing Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg]❞](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/736889 "A billboard, purportedly from the NHS, saying: KNOW YOUR PARASITES:
❝TICKS: External parasites. Remove with tweezers. [photo of ticks]
WORMS: Internal parasites. Remove with medication. [photo of worms]
BILLIONAIRES: Economic parasites. Remove with wealth tax. [photo of laughing Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg]❞")
If you missed yesterday's stream on the Harmonic/additive engine of Pigments, you can now watch it as a VOD on PeerTube:
This is an urgent plea for help that cannot be delayed.
Sadly, the rain came inside and flooded all our thing..
The broken roof and walls couldn’t handle the heavy rain.
Everyone in my family is now looking for a dry corner to sleep in even though we know we won’t be able to sleep tonight.
Please donate to help my family fix whatever we can fix in our shelter
chuffed.org/project/121561-urg…
"I’m tired, Mama. I’m thinking of the hours that I'll spend tomorrow in the water line." – says 9 year old Ahmed to his mother before going to sleep.Chuffed
So the 2038 bug Alstom is being sued about by RATP (Paris transit) impact Alstom Metropolis trains.
What about the REM here? Do we have competent people to validate it? Or is it just Pulsar problem for another day?
Source in French:
leparisien.fr/info-paris-ile-d…
(maybe paywalled, not sure, I could read it here)
Le tribunal administratif de Paris a condamné, jeudi 13 novembre, Alstom à réparer un défaut logiciel grave affectant le RER A, huit lignes de métro et six lignes de tramway. Sans correction, ces rames s’arrêteront le 19 janvier 2038.Candice Doussot (Le Parisien)
A metric fuckton of people around me are sick with the flu or Covid.
For some strange reason, however, everyone I know who is fully vaxxed is still here.
Maybe, just maybe, there's a connection.
just going to reiterate this. if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
If Immigrants Don’t Have Due P...
How do you prove you’re a citizen?Noah Berlatsky (Everything Is Horrible)
One of the joys of getting older is no longer doing things to get ahead or to look better to superiors or generally pushing yourself because someone else wants you to.
40 minutes into this evening's seminar, I wasn't getting anything from it and decided to turn it off, and instead I put Christmas film #2 on while I wrapped presents.
This is a much better use of my time!
this is an experimental quote-share from my #Friendica #newsbots #Circle, whose default Permissions disallow anyone outside this Circle being able to see or access it. i have now done a one-off flip of the Permissions, just for this individual post, to Public, so...
Hello? (Hello, hello, hello)
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me
Is there anyone home?
Come on (Come on, come on), now
I hear you're feeling down
Well, I can ease your pain
And get you on your feet again
Relax (Relax, relax, relax)
I'll need some information first
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?
♲ Unofficial SBS News Bot - 2025-12-11 20:24:04 GMT
Time magazine names 'Architects of AI' as Person of the Year. Here's who's pictured sbs.com.au/news/article/time-m… #World
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KDE, OpenStreetMap, Wikipedie, Gentoo a Thunderbird obdarovány.
U FF si nejsem jist, zda si to zaslouží, takže letos nic.
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