At my childhood home we had a Panasonic microwave that could automatically cook potatoes to perfection and you could program sequences with different power levels, two features that I really loved.
After 30 years of service it stopped working, but turns out you can still get basically the same thing from Panasonic, only slightly modernised on the outside, inverter on the inside.
It wasn’t made “smart” with IoT, it’s not different for the sake of it. It worked then, it works now. More of this.
The new Mozilla CEO says he could block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that it would bring in another $150 million, but he doesn't want to do that. Lmao. This guy has really lost the plot. Is he issuing threats to the users of an open-source project? Boy, what a disaster.
People use ad blockers to protect their computers from scams and malware because Google and other ad companies have failed to do so. They put profit above everything else. I can't believe this guy is on a mission to kill Firefox by the end of this year. People who use ad blockers are also less likely to buy your product if you bug them too much. I can't believe Mozilla has fallen to this level, where the CEO openly issues soft threats for a product that has little market share left.
Any apt experts out there? I'm trying to add MSSQL to a Debian-based image. I can do it, but the instructions use apt-key, which is deprecated. The articles I've read about the new way, using [signed-by=/path/keyfile.gpg] in my .list or .sources file, all talk about GPG keys. The problem is that Microsoft supplies a .asc file that contains a PGP key, not a GPG key. What do I do?
Also, the genius that decided the two key types should be GPG and PGP deserves to never sleep on a dry pillow again.
Comparing the early internet with the Sloponet that we are sliding into currently is mind boggling to me.
The early internet gave more people more tools to easier publish and learn and collaborate.
The slopfest centralizes knowledge so that you can only exist when you’re in a symbiotic relationship with an LLM that you pay a lot of money for when the bubble pops.
The internet distributed knowledge, the sloponet centralizes it and gives you only the bits you explicitly ask for.
Danish head of government IT (left) hands over the first "microsoft-free" computer to the head of Danish Traffic control, December 2025. They are testing Linux as the primary OS, with open source alternatives for stuff like office, on peoples work computers in government agencies. Traffic control gets to be our first test subject. This is gonna be put in the hands of somewhat tech-illiterate people. reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1p…
The EU is slowly becoming tech independent from *big tech* :)
tylko pamiętajcie! Skrzynka nie nadaje się do używania jako np ta bezpieczniejsza, potrzebna do logowania gdzieś indziej, bo jak się nie zalogujecie przez 6 mscy to skrzynka zostanie zamknięta 🤫
please tuta team for the 2026 make my wish come true... an official flatpak client of tutamail (with background portal support as well)!! thanks and happy christmas
Dear Tuta Team! First, thank you for your work as an e-mail provider and privacy advocates. Please add IronFox and/or Fennec as a browser (for Android, Firefox based), XMPP as instant messaging (apps: Conversations on Android, Dino on Linux, Monal on iPhone, no experience on other platforms), Ubuntu Touch as Android replacements and Unexpected Keyboard (at least an honorable mention. XMPP is the best of the bunch I'm missing. Keep up the good work!
A possible New Years Resolution for You 🎁: No more Shit Talking through Ads Disguised as Information (maps and lists). Focus on the task at hand: Security, Integrity and keeping Big Data at bay.
Acknowledge Proton Mail and maybe even cooperate against Big Data and Foul Legislation in all off Europe.🔒️
The trust from the Core of the Community will then slowly be building up. When that trust trickles down to the oblivious now becoming aware, you will indeed Live Long and Prosper ❤️.
Hey Tuta, I'm a bit disappointed that you still recommend LineageOS, CalxyOS and /e/OS even tho GrapheneOS and many users made you aware that those are insecure options. You could add Iphone and Pixels instead, which are secure options. I wish you could add SimpleX Chat to the list.
Das Jahr 2025 neigt sich dem Ende und erneut konnten wir dank eurer Unterstützung viele Stunden Podcast in guter Qualität produzieren. Vielleicht möchtet ihr unser Konto bei unserem Dienstleister Auphonic wieder etwas auffüllen, damit wir auch 2026 wieder gut klingen? auphonic.com/donate_credits?us…
After 15 years of playing around with hosted virtual and dedicated servers, with active servers in at least 20 cities across five continents, I've finally encountered the first datacenter located in a city whose name I cannot pronounce. The city is in Canada.
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@graham I'll describe approximately, if you want, I'll record a voice message. first you pronounce the "beau" like "boh" but without the final w component, so like "law" but the sound is more closed, closer to "oo". then, you drop the H (it's not read in French), you pronounce "ar" like the verb "are". then, you pronounce "nwah", so it's N, then W, then A as in Father. Boh-Ar-Nwah.
@menelion @graham This actually makes a ton of sense especially as I took some French up to early high school. It was that transition from “eau” to the silent “h” that was tripping me up. Sure, if you’ve got the motivation to record a voice message, I’d be curious, but if not, I imagine the internet has recordings. I was just exceptionally lazy, and more amused that the first name I had trouble with was right here in my home country. On the west coast there are about seven languages that are vastly more common than French, so it’s not as emphasized in the education system as it would be in Ontario and other neighbouring provinces.
@graham @menelion I'm really surprised nobody has attempted an IPA to Eloquence converter yet. Unless that's just seven kinds of not possible. It would help two groups of people at once.
@menelion Thanks yeah I thought it'd be in Quebec, which I'd read a bit about ... but I thought you had enough French to be OK with saying Trois-Rivières and Chibougamau, Kuujjuaq, and Rouyn-Noranda would be too remote to have data centres
I just agreed to speak at a big festival. They invited me by contacting my publicist. I told him I'd do it.
They then sent him (not me) an email with an attached PDF, and asked him to forward it to me, and to instruct me to check page two of the PDF for a link to a Microsoft Form to complete my RSVP.
The number of times I've asked for something like a key that needs to go into a DNS record and received a screenshot in a word document in response is ludicrous. This is the sort of stuff that's error prone when manually transcribed (especially in the case where I receive a 6MB *photograph* of the web page.)
If only there was a way to select, copy and paste text information directly into an email...
i remember once having a project manager email me a word doc of a screenshot of a location on the server where a file i needed was. it's a kind of rube goldberg machine of sending information. at the very least, it makes a good story
Não basta postar o vídeo, dizendo que o contexto muda tudo. O que as pessoas entenderam da citação dele, não mudaria consoante o contexto - mas, não surpreendentemente, o vídeo só confirma o que já se pensava: é totalmente elitista e preconceituoso. Dizer o contrário é gaslighting.
The new F-Droid app will be able to download and install several updates simultaneously. Also, it will ask for confirmation before download, if needed (and supported on newer Android versions). #fdroid
Is downloading multiple things in parallel actually a useful thing? What are the scheduling thoughts behind that and how is the bandwidth allocated?
I'd assume it will slightly reduce overall download time (because establishing connections in parallel does speed things up) but the time until the first app is fully downloaded might be a lot higher because the allocated bandwidth is lower for every app?
@Bubu Currently, there are many mirrors that are very slow. If you hit one with sequential downloads, things take a long long time. In my tests, the speed-up is significant when most mirrors are unable to max out your available bandwidth.
@Bubu But apparently, even Google Play is now downloading in parallel, so I guess even with nearly unlimited server bandwidth there may be a benefit to it 🤷
Holy crap! It is currently 37F here, 2.7C. Who turned up the heat? Who is bringing the barbi-q? tomorrow they are sayi9ng we could see between 44, and 46 for a high, but have rain. Sadly this isn't going to last long as we dip down to around 19 for a low thursday night. this could make things very interesting Friday morning.
So Eloquence for Android has finally been released to the public on Google Play Store. I don't know how I feel about this. I just hope that Code Factory doesn't abandoning the product as quickly as they're releasing this thing. play.google.com/store/apps/det… #Android #TTS #blind #accessibility
@Stealthy holy smoke. Are you kidding me? 72 Eur per year? I heard in US market they sold it for 29 bucks a year. 72 Eur is way, way too expensive for a TTS.
I know that all words are made up, but why do some words sound more made up than is acceptable? Take "lanyard" for example. What the fuck is a lanyard? Why not go all the way and call it a bippityboop? Lan-bloody-yard.
hmmm.... the UK is expected to announce tomorrow that it has rejoined the Erasmus student exchange scheme.
the Q. will be how much the UK will be contributing to the scheme to have closed the deal - anyone thinking that the UK has beaten the EU down much from their original request has not been following the various negotiations with the EU since Brexit.
But no doubt Keir Starmer will trumpet this as part of reset that Britain has 'won'!
So, the cost of rejoining the Erasmus scheme is £570m for 2027; almost double the scheme contribution when we were members of the EU.
While its good to see the scheme back for university students, its difficult to see how this can be anything other than (another) aspect of the costs of Brexit.
What we once had is now nearly twice as expensive after five years. Keir Starmer may say its a win for the 'reset', but once again we're worse of than we were!
Weird thing about the kids in this part of the world is that when they're upset or whining, they have a unique thing they do to add emphasis to whatever they're saying.
Some people stamp their foot. Some drop their lip. These kids? They add a very emphatic vowel to the end of the sentence. The more upset, the harder they cough that vowel out, and the longer the micropause between the word and the vowel.
I'm sure the @Vivaldi folks are sick of hearing this feedback, but I'll say it anyway (sorry): the only thing that holds me back from adopting and enthusiastically recommending Vivaldi is that it's not 100% open source.
With Mozilla chasing the AI dragon, now would be a really great time for Vivaldi to take the plunge and go fully FOSS. I don't know that it gains much, if anything, by being just mostly FOSS.
People involved in the open-source community often ask us why Vivaldi browser isn’t fully open-source. In this post, we’ll explore and explain our position.
But it's been four years since it was published. They've had four years to assess whether being closed is accomplishing their goals, and a lot has changed with Mozilla in that time as well.
If I were at Vivaldi, I'd be arguing that the benefit of going fully open and welcoming Firefox users who are unhappy outweighs the benefits of being closed. Yes, people could fork the UI bits - but I've seen some pretty snazzy Firefox forks since that post that have really done wonders with the UI. I don't think the value of preventing forks is as high as they seem to believe. (Of course they don't have to provide their branding/trademarks in any source.)
Especially since AIUI Vivaldi has already struck a stance that is less AI-happy than Mozilla, I think they have an opportunity to win over some hearts and minds, as it were. They could also become the default browser and ship with distributions like Fedora and Debian, which won't ship it now as closed-source...
Oh cool! #Github CLI has a quick way to create a gist! gh gist create *.md *.txt *.py -pwd "my cool stuff" -p makes public, -w opens web browser after creating, and -d sets description.
For anyone using Parallels Desktop on Mac OS: What's the secret for disabling all these annoying and unnecessary shortcut keys, like command+q=alt+f4, command+b=CTRL+B, etc? I found them in a nice list in preferences > keyboard > Windows 11, I think, but every single one of these checkboxes is permanently checked, and can't be unchecked. I want all these stupid things to get out of my life.
Edit: Figured it out, I think. I changed the keyboard profile from "Windows" to "Generic". That seems to have done it.
Možná jste to nevěděli, ale reader mode ve Firefoxu umí číst články. Jakože nahlas. Přečte text jako audio. Ale zní to prehistoricky a čeština je to vtipná. Kdyby zrovna do tohodle vrazili AI a vylepšili to, neuráželo by mně to.
Myslím, že jsou věci, které jsou AI a jsou pro lidi užitečné, ale je otázka, jestli to jsou zrovna ty, které si produkťáci vycucali z prstu, a jestli jich je tolik, kolik se nám snaží aktuální trh naznačit.
Problém je, že tyto užitečné funkce se špatně monetarizují, takže jako AI místo tohoto očekávám spíš různá napojení na OpenAI/Perplexity/Google, kteří budou rozhazovat prachy po hrstech, dokud budou investoři platit.
For a long time, Mozilla has mismanaged Firefox while its CEO and other C-suites have taken massive salaries. Yesterday’s news must have hit them hard, as social media users expressed their anger toward turning Firefox into an "AI browser." But here is the thing, they are not going to back down (at least that is what I think). These executives don't understand open source or who their users actually are. It is still not too late for Mozilla to stop this madness and return to its roots.
LibreWolf is another option. It is a custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom with all bad bits (like LLM/AI, No trackers/telemetry, enhanced privacy etc) removed.
In the United States, amateur radio operators can apply for special event 1x1 callsigns, which are good for 15 days. They start with K, N or W, with a number (0-9) and a letter (A-Z, excluding X).
So, I dare someone to do a personal special event, called Naps on the Air, reserving the call N4P, using FT8 in fully automated mode, and working as many stations as possible while sleeping... or not.
#Wedos (tedy dnes Vedos 🤦 - pitomý rebranding) jde úplně do kopru. Už 9 měsíců mám u jednoho webu připravený upgrade na aktuální #Drupal 11. Ten už tu s námi je rok a 4 měsíce. Ale nasadit ho nemůžu. Vedos totiž nabízel max PHP 8.2. Verze 8.3 kterou potřebuju vyšla už před dvěma roky, a než ji nasadili přechází do režimu security maintenance. OK, nasadili i PHP 8.4 - tak web upravuju a testuju, aby fungoval i na PHP 8.4. Jenže teď jsem zjistil, že mají jen MariaDB 10.4. Ta dostala poslední update v květnu 2024, už není supportovaná a i Drupal vyžaduje minimálně 10.6.
Co je to za hosting, kde nelze nasadit aktuální verzi CMS? A podpora mlčí. Na opakovanou otázku, jaký mají plán upgradu, a kdy se ho dočkáme, odpoví: Ano máme outdated verze, nevíme.
Wedos si pamatuju jako progresivní firmu pyšnící se serverama v oleji, aktuálními verzemi, super supportem a skvělou cenou. Dnes? 👎️
Asi to prostě naházím na nějaké levné VPS v Dockeru a bude pokoj.
Tak můžeš to zkusit u nás na @rosti. Kromě toho, že se snažíme držet nabízené technologie aktuální, tak máme i Docker compose hosting, kam si můžeš strčit prakticky cokoli.
Ja kiedyś dostałem na bardzo podobnej zasadzie maila z Githuba, tam (jeśli dobrze pamiętam) wykorzystany został mechanizm powiadamiania mailem o issues, w których użytkownik jest wspomniany. W ten sposób w mailu można zawrzeć dosłownie wszystko, bo treść issue staje się częścią maila. Tam zabawa była dość prosta, chodziło o odebranie nagrody od Githuba za kontrybucje do open source, coś w stylu phishingowej wersji hacktoberfest. Oczywiście odebranie wymagało potwierdzenia autentyczności konta, "w celu ochrony przed robotami", potwierdzenie miało postać "depozytu" w kryptowalutach.
Uh-oh (for you). Just came across an old post and have there-fore realised it is your BIRTHDAY coming up soon! Please can everyone remember it's Tays birthday at the end of this month and see who can send the most unhinged psychotic birthday card. I realise as I type this I mean like an alligator in a tutu on a skateboard juggling, not like a crazed photo of her front door while she's sleeping. Get the vibe right, peeps. X
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EVERYONE STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING
IT IS THE BIRTHDAY OF THE GREAT, POWERFUL, INCOMPARABLE, INSCRUTABLE, IRREPRESSIBLE UNASSAILABLE, EMPRESARIO.....
Gerade wieder eingefallen, weil ich gestern darüber mit der Partnerin sprach: Ein Bekannter von uns ist Beamter und drängt seinen knapp 18 Jahre alten Sohn mehr oder weniger in die selbe Laufbahn. So entstehen Dynastien die sich gegenseitig absichern, aber maximal keinen Bock haben effizient und mit gutem Willen zu arbeiten.
@svenja .Wenn die Wahl nicht aus freien Stücken passiert, ist das fatal. Allerdings gibt es schon sehr viele gute Gründe, in eine Beamtenlaufbahn einzusteigen. Einer davon ist tatsächlich die Vielfalt des öffentlichen Diensts. Jemand, der lieber handwerklich unterwegs ist, könnte eine Laufbahn im technischen Dienst in Betracht ziehen. Ich lese aus dem Beitrag viel Negatives. Mit Abstand das Wichtigste ist es, herauszufinden, was der Sohn sich wünscht und welche Beschäftigungsmöglichkeiten es dafür gibt.
Ja, natürlich ist das maximal negativ. Der junge Mann hat keinen Bock und wird gedrängt und wenn ich heute in Ämter gehe, erlebe ich diese Lustlosigkeit eben oft. (Ausnahmen bestätigen die Regel)
Ich schreib das aber auch, weil ich maximal gerne meiner Berufung nachgehe und diese ohne jeden Zwang gewählt habe.
Today, twenty-nine awesome years ago, httpget 0.2 shipped. Unfortunately, both the source and the changelog for this release have been lost in time (like tears in rain).
httpget was the precursor to what later would become #curl
Five years ago I started getting these emails about #curl from NASA. Months later we learned this probably was related to them using curl in the Mars Helicopter mission.
Not everyone understands how open source is made. I received the following email from NASA a while ago. Subject: Curl Country of Origin and NDAA Compliance Hello, my name is [deleted] and I am a Supply Chain Risk Management Analyst at NASA.
They probably use curl more than my code in the kernel (I seriously doubt they're using my therm_adt746x iBook G4 thermostat driver on the helicopter). But that earned me a github badge I can flex with.
wondering if some manger at NASA said „what, there could potentially be spy tech in CURL?! We need to rip it out of all our systems at once and replace it with something home made!“
You weren't tempted to ask "Before I spend time responding, first tell me what amount of NASA's $22.6 billion budget has been donated to the curl project to keep it going?"
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