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Uncensored AI weather explanations now in accessiWeather by letting you select specific models in a new dialog on the AI tab; view the example here

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Evening mastofolks!
So @daygar and I wrote a song for the #ChristmasReapers project again this year. We, along with 19 other amazing artists, made it onto the album, Christmas Through The Years. We're track 13 (not 4 as I first thought...sorry Day). Our backing vocals are also on track 1 of the album, which is a cover version of Train's Shake Up Christmas.
If you'd like to buy the album, it is available on Bandcamp at:
christmasreapers.bandcamp.com/…
All proceeds from the album will go towards #REAPER and #Osara, music software made accessible for blind and partially sighted users.
Thanks in advance for reading. Boosts for reach much appreciated.

Christmas Through the Years, by Christmas Reapers

20 track album
Christmas Reapers
#reaper #osara #christmasreapers @Day Garwood

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 16 updated and 1 added apps:

* PocketCheck: Have you put everything needed in your pocket? 🛡️

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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Gajim 2.4.1 has been released! 🎉

This release brings previews for GIFs and similar animation file formats 🎥, and many smaller changes and bug fixes.

Thank you for all your contributions ❤️ Let us know what you think!

Support Gajim's development: liberapay.com/Gajim

#gajim #xmpp #chat

gajim.org/posts/2025-12-13-gaj…

Gajim's chat window showing a preview of an animated file

Gajim 2.4.1

What’s New Gajim now supports playing animated GIF, WEBP, AVIF, and PNG files directly in the chat. Animations will play once you click the play button.
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#xmpp #chat #gajim
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Valerie Roney

☝️ok ok, hear me out...

Remember when the pandemic first started and everybody went outside at 7pm to make noise and cheer on frontline workers?

What if, at 7pm, we all went out on our balconies and porches and front steps and just fekkin screamed for five minutes.

I think it could really bring the community together.

#screamTherapy #teamApocalypse

#screamtherapy #teamapocalypse

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"After nearly four years of development, #Google is finally rolling out native #HTTPLiveStreaming (#HLS) playback to #Chrome on desktop with version 142 and newer, a major upgrade that’s also arriving on Microsoft #Edge and other #Chromium-based #browsers."

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#streaming #web #webdev #WebDevelopment


Google finally adds native HLS playback to Chrome, Edge, & other Chromium desktop browsers

After nearly four years of development, Google is finally rolling out native HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) playback to Chrome on desktop with version 142 and newer, a major upgrade that’s also arriving on
Hillary Keverenge (Techish Kenya)
#google #webdev #chromium #chrome #streaming #web #browsers #webdevelopment #edge #httplivestreaming #HLS
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Elias

Google and Microsoft are simply bad email providers. Their job is to deliver emails to users, and they fail at that.

The more fundamental problem is that too many users don't seem to understand that it's a choice. If your email provider is bad (and Google and Microsoft are *really* bad) then you should move elsewhere.

About the service that neil said is failing: it's not your service that is failing, it's Google and Microsoft that are failing. People should stop using them.

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From top AI coding user globally to completely stop using it because it's so much harder to review AI code than write it myself. And they say all software developers jobs will be replaced by LLM. Life comes fast at you. 🤣 xcancel.com/jhleath/status/199…
A two-part X (Twitter) post by Hunter Leath, showing the "life comes fast at you" concept through his use of AI coding assistants like Devin or Claude. The top, more recent post says: "an interesting update: the team is starting to move away from AI coding completely (devin/claude/etc) because it's so much harder to review the AI code than writing things themselves". The bottom, older quoted post says: "just found out that since this, i've become a top 50 user of Devin globally, now pushing ~60 PRs a day. AMA."

Hunter Leath (@jhleath)

an interesting update: the team is starting to move away from AI coding completely (devin/claude/etc) because it's so much harder to review the AI code than writing things themselves
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Ich hab gestern in einem YouTube Vlog gehört, dass jemand für einen Termin in Köln die ÖPNV Verbindungen mit #KI geplant hat und dann 2 Stunden durch die Stadt geirrt ist, weil nichts von den Informationen stimmte. Rein aus Interesse hab ich das heute mal versucht mit einer Strecke, die ich gut kenne, weil da mein Augenarzt ist. Als erstes wollte die KI mich anstatt in die Amtsstraße ( die weit draußen am Rande der Stadt ist) zum Amtsgericht in der Innenstadt schicken. Außerdem wurde behauptet ich könnte dort mit der Straßenbahn Linie 2 hinfahren. Es gibt in diesem Stadtteil überhaupt keine Straßenbahn, ausschließlich Busse. Leute müssen wirklich aufhören zu denken, dass KI in irgendeiner Weise nützlich ist, den die ist dumm wie Brot.
#ki

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Telegram is working on accessibility in their desktop client. Never thought I'd see this. github.com/telegramdesktop/tde…

tdesktop should be screen-reader friendly

hi there, i´m a very fan of telegram and i use it on lots of devices. great job for the lightweight feel of the messenger. i wanted to introduce telegram to a blind user but had to realize, the (wi...
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
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The administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found that Trump once did the very thing he claimed could be a crime.
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#News #Trump #USPolitics #Law #Florida #Home #Mortgages


Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal

The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called “deceitful and potentially criminal.”
shoshana.gordon@propublica.org (ProPublica)
#Trump #News #law #home #Florida #uspolitics #mortgages

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Hey @delta I see that you guys added mentions in the sense of replying or reacting to a message: github.com/deltachat/deltachat…

However, I can't find an issue in your ticket tracker discussing @ metioning users in a group chat. Am I missing something or is this something not yet implemented or not in the roadmap. I'd be glad to help implementing it :D


notify about "mentions", add "mention" switch

in groups, Android and iOS meanwhile optionally notify about things that are directly directed to you, even if a group is otherwise muted. we call that "mentions". these are: replies to own message...
r10s (GitHub)
@Delta Chat (39c3)
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Delta Chat (39c3)

we typically discuss feature requests in the forum, and only open a GitHub issue when someone is set on actually doing it: support.delta.chat/t/direct-me…

Direct mention on groups

User Story: I have created a group in Delta Chat and started to chat with some friends. I am able to say something like “@tom: you are right” so it is clear to what friend I am replying to, “tom” is the contact name I have set for my friend but othe…
Delta Chat

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60 minutes! Whether it's @rlegowski1 and @daygar, @JessicatheVIArtist, Abby Hips and our own Kevin Reeves, or new faces like Jessica Thierjung of Lyriel and Árpád Király, this year's Christmas Reapers album, Christmas Through the Years, has something to interest you.

@Derek, @nick, Gianluca and Robin go live in one hour with the annual gala presentation.

2 PM EST, December 13.

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The Home of Kickass Creatives | HKC Radio

www.hkcradio.com
@Nick Giannak III @Day Garwood @Rebecca Legowski @Derek Lane @Jessica the VI Artist🎚️🎹🌈

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I have discovered that teaching programming goes much better with my fifth grade students if I take the time to teach them about all the symbols I think of as "normal" that are totally new to them.

"These are square brackets, you'll find them over the 'enter' key we use them for lists. In programming we have three kinds of brackets..."

This reduced confusion so much. And I feel a little silly for not realizing that OF COURSE they don't know what they characters are or how to type them.

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🕯 **Операция «Анти-Google»: Госдума готовит цифровое лоботомирование**
В российской власти снова обнаружили источник всех бед — Google. Оказалось, что американская корпорация тайно мешает суверенитету, экономике и, вероятно, хорошему урожаю. Поэтому в Госдуме аккуратно достали лом и начали обсуждать «постепенные ограничения». Не запрет, нет. Медленное, заботливое удушение.
Идеолог процесса — депутат Андрей Свинцов. План простой, как чугунный утюг: если данные хранятся не там, где хочется депутату, значит данные вражеские. А раз вражеские — надо отучить население ими пользоваться. Сначала бизнес, потом обычные люди, потом — «а вы и не заметили, как стало лучше».
Под раздачу потенциально идёт всё: поиск, почта, YouTube, Android-сервисы. Это подаётся как «мягкое выдавливание», хотя по факту выглядит как попытка вытащить зуб через ухо.
**Что это означает на практике, без заклинаний:**
Android внезапно вспомнит, что он не отечественный. Google Play Services — та самая невидимая начинка, без которой приложения начинают вести себя как обиженные коты. Обновления ломаются, push-уведомления умирают, карты тупят. Телефон, правда, не превращается в кирпич — звонить и писать SMS всё ещё можно. Добро пожаловать в 2003 год, только дороже.
YouTube и Gmail официально превращаются в экстремистский контент — пока вы не включите VPN и не притворитесь финном. Власть искренне удивляется, что VPN всё ещё существуют, и параллельно пытается запретить их так, чтобы ими начали пользоваться даже пенсионеры.
Банки — редкий остров рациональности. Им Google не нужен. Деньги ходят по «Миру», СБП и НСПК. Банкоматы не взорвутся, наличка выдаётся, онлайн-банкинг жив. Максимум — Google Pay уходит в закат, а ему на смену выходит Mir Pay с выражением лица «я старался».
Интернет целиком не рухнет. Его давно готовят к осадному режиму: суверенный, скрепный, с фильтрацией и рекомендацией «перейти на отечественный аналог». Google просто станет очередной жертвой эксперимента «а что если выколоть один глаз — станет ли лучше видно».
**Контекст для понимания:**
Roblox, FaceTime, Snapchat уже ушли в категорию «экстремизм по настроению». WhatsApp — следующий кандидат. Логика простая: если сервис не контролируется, значит подозрителен. Если подозрителен — вреден. Если вреден — запретить. Наука, IT и реальность в обсуждении не участвуют.
Итог не апокалипсис, а привычная деградация по расписанию. Не «всё сдохло», а «всё стало хуже, но постепенно, чтобы не пугать». Населению рекомендуют адаптироваться: скачать офлайн-карты, привыкнуть к альтернативам и не задавать лишних вопросов.
Суверенный интернет — это когда у тебя всё работает, но как будто назло.
#Google #цензура #суверенныйинтернет #импортозамещение #Android #VPN #Госдума #цифроваяизоляция
#android #google #VPN #цензура #суверенныйинтернет #импортозамещение #госдума #цифроваяизоляция

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Codestats 0.5.0 has been released! Changes include adding the ability for you to customize it with a TOML config, bringing the supported language count to 447, getting rid of the old clunky CLI interface in favor of a much simpler one with flags for everything, adding two new display modules (TSV and compact JSON), streamlining the language list so it doesn't throw a huge list down the left side of your terminal, making the analyzer more tolerant and permissive all around, and a couple little bugfixes, for example sorting by the total number of files should now work as expected.
GitHub release: github.com/trypsynth/codestats…
Crates.io: crates.io/crates/codestats
Enjoy!

Release 0.5.0 · trypsynth/codestats

CLI tool to provide a per-language breakdown of a folder of sourcecode, optionally respecting things like gitignores, hidden files, and symlinks. - Release 0.5.0 · trypsynth/codestats
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Winter blue tardis

Ugh, I understand. I would hate web apps, if set web apps I used weren't accessible. With that said, no one can contact me via telegram for example, they pulled the plug on poor little Bulgaria, with the excuse we gotta pay for premium to register, and sign in with an account like google or apple depending on the phone. Yeah, screw that. I love the messenger app for mac, it doesn't look web, it's an actual app. Same for whatsapp. But the story on windows is different, many disabled folks complain and actually have the reason to, about whatsapp, that it turned into nonsensical inaccessible crap. FB isn't better itself, at least not on the web. I tried it. Wanted to pull out my hair. :)

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Utiliser l'IA pour coder, c'est reporter la charge de travail sur la personne qui fera la review de code.

Et perso, en tant que reviewer, je déteste ça. Me retrouver face à un code où il y a un petit détail qui n'a pas de sens. Le truc à peine visible. Qui me demande un effort pour comprendre pourquoi le dev a voulu faire ça, d'où sort cette variable (qui en fait n'existe pas...).
C'est un manque de respect envers les personnes avec qui vous travaillez. Arrêtez.

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André Polykanine

J'ai entendu une phrase dans un podcast russophone sur le développement et tout autour, et j'utilise cette phrase toujours maintenant : « Dès que tu as fait un commit, le code est ta responsibilité. tu peux avoir utilisé l'IA, mais dès que tu fais le commit, c'est toi qui en es responsable ». c'est tout. Moi aussi, j'utilise de l'IA comme code assistant, mais je ne fais pas de commits sans avoir vérifié le code avant.

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Proposal for a new regulation, dear @EUCommission. When a digital service like Apple iCloud, Google, Facebook etc decide to block or delete your account, they MUST give you a way for a limited time (I'd propose 6 months) to download all data/files they have stored under that account. You should be able to access it using the last known credentials. AFTER a full download has occurred, the account may be finally deleted. I am sure it needs more refinement, but the principle should be established.
@European Commission
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miki

In addition, there should be some kind of "small claims court" for online disputes, where an independent third-party adjudicates whether the user has actually broken the terms-of-service.

I'm no fan of regulation, but this is genuinely a service that only a government can provide, as it needs strong citizenship and identity verification to prevent abuse by scammers.

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Freydis Cook stood at the gates of the Wyrmhaven Deep Elite Magic Academy - a magical school run by goblins, for goblins. However, it was the only magic academy in the area, so her father had paid - or bribed - to have her attend school.

She was confronted by several goblin girls, led by one with long parallel curls in bright green. The goblin sniffed. "Smell that, girls? That's the smell of a human. Humans are outsiders here!"

Freydis said, "I take it you're the villainess?"

#microficiton

#microficiton
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🦋ShouldbeWriting🦋

A flying rat hovered over a bottle. It breathed out a stream of orange sauce, which filled the bottle to the brim.

"Excellent!" the man exclaimed. "Now, just fill five more bottles...."

A girl in a school uniform appeared. "Dad," she said, "my familiar is not meant as an endless supply of wing sauce for your tavern...."

"Now, now, Freydis Honey," her father replied, "let's not look a gift rat in the mouth....."

#microfiction

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Since 2007, I've had some prepaid phone numbers on a VoIP provider called Vitelity Communications, which became Voyant, which became Intelliquent, but which still calls itself Vitelity sometimes.

Anyway, I've got two numbers parked there that haven't been used for years. There are cheaper places to park phone numbers, but I just haven't been bothered to go through the port process.

This morning, I got an email that my balance for one of the two accounts was low, so I went to drop another $15 on it, which, given my lack of usage these days, generally pays for about 9 months of service.

Something broke (it was me, I broke), and I ended up paying $15 four times.

So, uh... guess I'm good until 2029 or so, unless I actually use these phone numbers, given that it is a pay-per-minute type service.

If I do want to port these phone numbers to another service, such as voip.ms, that's kind of annoying, because I'll have to burn my Vitelity credit first.

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OK so expanding on a reply I made regarding under 18s on social media apps. Personally, I think all this legal shit about kids accessing social media is just stupid, like really it should be at the discression of parents, not age, and if parents let their kids on social media they make sure the kid knows what to do and what not to do, and appropriate behavior and stuff. There are some parents out there that don't give a crap, and that's on them, if they wanna let their kids run rampant online then that's on the parents, and not the developers and if kids do something really stupid, then blame the parents for not teaching their kids properly. But nope, corporate and legal bodies have to make things difficult, placing responsibility on developers and even in some cases the adults that are on said platforms, its getting ridiculous! We should be fighting this authoritarian BS that is being forced in, not surrendering, and if we have to, even going the extreme way to undermine the corporate structure if they try to do anything against us. Screw submitting to the overlords, we need to take action before governments turn what's already a brutal online landscape into a corporate mess, even more than it already is. Its bad enough the US wants to see forreign tourest's social media and even do full on biometric scans, the world is turning into a huge clusterfuck, and we're letting it happen! OK I kinda went into a mini rant there, but if we're gonna surrender to stuff like this, suspending under 18s accounts on an audio social app like that, then who knows what things are gonna be like in a year or 2, things can only go so far before people get so sick of it they actually do everything to undermine the government and corporate stronghold, either some sort of cyber attack happens that targets a large chunk of government infrastructure, or we see protests both online and in the streets. Either way, there's only so much people can take before everyone's like fuck this we're doing something about it.

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[add] adds NVDA + shift +I as logic to flip Cadence from tall to wide. #28 - I added a new PR in Cadence repo:
github.com/tactile-eng/cadendu…

[add] adds NVDA + shift +I as logic to flip Cadence from tall to wide. by tgeczy · Pull Request #28 · tactile-eng/cadendum

What changed? A new script script_cycleCadenceLayout that calls cycleDevPositions(). The function and method logic existed for this already, this change just adds a binding and wires it up correctl...
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