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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 
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
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
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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.gajim.org
Hi, i usualy build gajim from source (because debian), and would like to ask for some additional README.
What is wheel? Do i need it?
And it says: `python -m build -w`. But `-w` isn't meantioned in `build -h`.
It would be nice to have something like:
For linux use these tree stepps:
* "configure"
* "build"
* "install"
Otherwise: gajim is great!
I just walked by somebody pushing a stroller with the lil baby inside just fekkin screaming at the top of their lungs.
I don't know what was wrong, but like, me too kid. Me too.
☝️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.
"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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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 onHillary Keverenge (Techish Kenya)
In all the many years I've run a mail server, I've not had a problem. I send mail, I receive mail. All good.
But it bothers me that this one particular service, of all the many services that I run, is the one most prone to failing because of a decision by one of two companies.
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.
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 themselvesNitter
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...marcelremmy (GitHub)
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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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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)
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
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)
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
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.
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.
With all these UX disasters from Windows 11 to Liquid Glass, it's interesting how UIs from the 90s mostly feel just right to me—and I don't think that's just purely nostalgia or growing up with it.
Things like window borders that are visible so you know where to resize things and scrollbars that indicate the current viewport.
My LG TV’s new software update installed Microsoft Copilot, which cannot be deleted.
Weird that such a miracle technology can't be uninstalled. You'd think it's so good and useful that people would go out of their way to install it, even.
With the new TalkBack release, it is now possible to get information about special text formatting such as bold, underlined, and more. Reporting can be doneEditorial Staff (Accessible Android)
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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/codestatsGitHub
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.
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.
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?"
"Well," said Moldessa, "a winged sauce rat is a much better familiar than most. Look at what I've got!"
Moldessa's familiar Stinky was a Miasma Mushroom Mutt. Stinky looked up at them excitedly. He wagged his tail and farted a stench most foul.
Freydis covered her nose. "This, I cannot deny...."
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....."
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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