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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 15 updated and 1 added apps:

* Dragon Launcher: a highly customizable Android launcher focused on speed and efficiency 🛡️

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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Sign this petition to help protect the LGBT in Florida!
sign.moveon.org/petitions/stop…

AG Uthmeier: Stop attacking drag performers and violating our First Amendment rights!

Drag is protected speech. Federal courts already said this law is probably unconstitutional. Uthmeier is only enforcing it because of a legal loophole—not because it's suddenly okay. The law is intentionally vague.
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Idea for #Apple and #Google: Include a setting for their #AI to give photos meaningful file names. Because I'm tired of trying to differentiate between 5187923061456387928_121.jpg and 5892706374823612537_353.jpg.
P.S. It would have been nice if even without AI they gave names like current date, current time with seconds and a sequential number… dreaming is not forbidden? right?
#Accessibility
#Accessibility #apple #google #AI

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une abeille

The data duplication on crossing nodes and crossing ways annoys me a lot. I also stopped tagging the button operation when I realized that all local crossing buttons are for audible signals only. There is also a problem with the audible signal tagging for crossings, where `=yes` is apparently supposed to equal `locate`+`walk` 😖

I support an effort to clarify and simplify.

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Listening to @bcmerchant.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy BLOOD IN THE MACHINE on @libro.fm@bsky.brid.gy and hit the part in the early 1800's where tradespeople worked from home, made their own hours, and the bosses said "We're putting an end to THAT shit", and reflecting on COVID "back to the office" mandates. Plus ça change ...
@bcmerchant.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy @libro.fm@bsky.brid.gy

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In another random collection of A T History, I'm starting a YouTube playlist of ads for blindness agencies and companies, like this one for Recording for the Blind. I know there are ACB, NFB, AFB, CNIB, and other ads online as well. If you know of others I'd love to have them.
I'll share the playlist once I have a decent amount.
youtube.com/watch?v=2qEi0sLBPE…

Volunteer For Recording For The Blind, Inc.

Recorded during the Mike Douglas Show on KNBC from December 1974.
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How many in Montréal, specifically *MY* borough of Côte-des-Neiges? Asking for myself, really.

Québec’s family doctors have voted overwhelmingly in favour of an agreement that will incentivize them to take on an additional 500,000 patients by next June. cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/fa… #polQC #QCpoli #santeQC #QChealth #assnat #CAQASTROPHE

#assnat #polqc #caqastrophe #qcpoli #santeqc #qchealth

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Some things I learned in a talk from a founder and CEO of dating platforms:
- Dating platforms certainly use machine learning to create the profile proposals for users. That's called recommender systems.
- They are not interested in giving you the perfect match, because that would mean that you don't need the platform anymore.
- They use priming. This means they categorize the "attractivity" of people. And let's say you are a 6 or 7 (out of 10) in their system, they first present 8 or 9 graded profiles to you, expecting the "8 person" to reject you. But this primes your expectations of "what you can get". And hence when presented with a good matching profile, you probably will judge this as being below your expectations.

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A museum dedicated to nothing but (making) maps? And you'd like us to show visitors how they can make maps themselves with OSM? Of course!
The MAP–Mercator Museum in Sint-Niklaas is back and we are there for the opening festival, until Jan 3rd. Dates at community.openstreetmap.org/t/…
Museum info: mapsint-niklaas.be/mercator

OpenStreetMap Belgium at the MAP – Mercator Museum Opening

OpenStreetMap Belgium at the MAP – Mercator Museum Opening! Call for volunteers The brand-new MAP – Mercator Museum in Sint-Niklaas is reopening soon, and OpenStreetMap Belgium will be part of the opening festivities! The theme of the opening festiv…
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FreeBSD has Wireguard support in the base OS, but it's not well documented how to use it. So here you go. Hopefully an example lands in the FreeBSD Handbook soon.

blog.feld.me/posts/2025/12/wir…


Wireguard The FreeBSD Way

Wireguard is part of the FreeBSD base OS install these days so you do not need to install additional software to use it. I was using Wireguard the traditional way via the wireguard-tools package so I could use wg-quick like you would on Linux.
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This is horrible. Do not buy AI translated books. Please.

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The French literary translators association (ATLF) and the collective En Chair et en Os (In the Flesh) have just published a press release (in French) relating how translators working for Harlequin were recently told that the publisher would now be turning to AI: ‘An external contractor, the communications agency Fluent Planet, will put the texts through “automatic translation” software and then recruit freelancers directly to post-edit the machine output in French. The stated aim is to increase profitability by reducing working time.’

A number of French translators have been working for Harlequin for years, often exclusively. This decision places them in an extremely precarious position, without proper notice or compensation.

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Nejlepší interiér trolejbusu? Turecká Bozankaya ukazuje, jak se to má dělat

Konečně trolejbus, kde je prioritou cestující?

Praha zažívá trolejbusový boom, o kterém se nám před pár lety ani nesnilo. Ale nejde jen o nové tratě, jde i o vozidla. Do pražských ulic vyrazila na testování doposud málo známá turecká Bozankya.

V dnešním pozitivním komentáři se podíváme na to, proč je vnitřek Bozankye SNG 12T prostě jiný a lepší. Kam zmizela ta otravná motorová věž? Jak je možné, že působí tak vzdušně, i když má standardní rozměry? A všimli jste si toho obrovského okna vzadu?

#praha #komentar #doprava #názor #trolejbus
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protip: If you're going to rip off someone's Harry Potter #fanfic, and have a bad AI voice read it, maybe check to make sure it's not an explicit drary slashfic before uploading it to your Harry Potter Playtime Fun channel, and marking the video "for children".

Maybe while you're at it, consider picking a British voice? And proofreading the titles so they have the correct chapter numbers? And not skipping chapter seven completely? It must take extra work to do crime this badly!

Just a few tips for the scammers out there. I know crediting the original author and doing an actual human reading just isn't possible; you've gotta upload a couple hundred videos a week, after all!

#fanfic

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Important: We've just released a critical security update for ESS Community. Please update as soon as possible: github.com/element-hq/ess-helm…. ESS Classic and other Synapse installations are not affected.

Release 25.12.2 · element-hq/ess-helm

ESS Community Helm Chart 25.12.2 (2025-12-19) Security Fix critical security issue tracked as ELEMENTSEC-2025-1670. This release is a critical security update to address an issue affecting all ve...
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The idea of Matrix as a chat service is nice. But the fact that it keeps going out of sync, and I keep losing messages from other people is just plain annoying. This is worse than IRC net split (at least there was a message when it happened).

#Matrix #MatrixChat #ElementX #IRC

#matrix #irc #ElementX #matrixchat
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Mauricio Teixeira 🇺🇸🇧🇷

@matrix
My account is on matrix.org, and I'm using ElementX 25.12.0 on Android. The channel is on a different server, and there's a bunch of people bridging to different services (like Telegram). I bet I'm either losing the messages from the bridged people, or the ones from 3rd party servers.
@The Matrix.org Foundation
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JBrickelt963 ✊(φ)🚩

Because people sense that things could go wrong.

They fear that Mozilla will lose its way, to the detriment of the community's demands.

Because other features that are highly sought after by the community are still waiting to be integrated, if at all.

Encouraging AI is not necessarily environmentally friendly and, above all, it consumes local resources. Many have noticed a significant slowdown on FF. Even though GAFAM is lobbying that ‘no AI = mediocre product’.

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I love it! I recently replaced the 4 TB drives in my father's NAS with my old 8 TB ones. Old means used already, but not too old and not with much load, plus Ironwolf Pro, so actually supposed to run multiple years, but most of them weren't quite a year old. Well, now, after a few weeks, I randomly get random power outages in HDD 1. OK, well, damn. But it looks like the RAID is still consistent. About an hour later, now HDD 4 starts to fail as well. Man, what is this shit?

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I'm recruiting a PhD student for autumn 2026 on a project on accessibility in musical instrument design, in partnership with disability arts charities OHMI and Drake Music.

Application deadline 15 February 2026. More info and contact details: liss-dtp.ac.uk/project/instrum…

Instrument design by and for disabled musicians: the roles of technical discourse and vernacular creativity - LISS DTP

PhD project summary: An estimated 16 million people in the UK live with a disability (DWP statistics 2023), of which 48% have mobility impairments and 25% have impaired dexterity. Traditional […]
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