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​:ablobcatwave:​ #Introduction for my (recreated) solo instance
〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️Hello! I go by Leora online, late-20s, pronouns she/her ​:QueerCat_Trans:​
❥ I am happily married! ​:lesbian_heart:​
❥ I am a 🐈 #cat mom to 3 and a 🐶 #doggo mom to 1 very crazy #whippet. I will likely be posting a lot of pictures of my #cats Saria, Majora, and Link, along with the occasional Mabel picture.

❥ I am a Linux Server Administrator. ​:debian_logo:​ ​:ubuntu:​ ​:rocky_logo:​ ​:redhat:​
❥ I currently live in Arkansas in the US, but I'm trying my hardest to relocate out of the South for obvious reasons. ​:blobcatsweat:​
❥ My memory is absolutely terrible, can't really recall a majority of my past. ​:neocat_confused:​
❥ I’m reasonably confident in my programming ability; my projects are often less so. ​:golang:​ ​:python:​ ​:bash:​
❥ Took a 🇯🇵 #Japanese language course in high school only to forget it all the next year. Currently working on relearning what I've forgotten.

❥ Use to be super involved with 🎭 #theatre. I was in a mime troupe in high school; I learned mime stuff, stilt & ball walking, small bit of 🤸 acrobatic stuff, diabolo stuff. I was active on stage and behind the curtains for several shows throughout high school and college. My social anxiety has mostly put an end to that chapter of my life, though.

❥ In my free time I'm either tinkering with my ​:r_homelab:​ #homelab, watching ​:jellyfin:​ #jellyfin or youtube, ​:blobcat_comfy_reading:​ reading #manga or #webtoons, ​:blobcatgamer:​ playing video games (sometimes on #Twitch), or taking 📸 pictures of my cats.

Feel free to add me, I enjoy meeting new people! ​:QueerCatHeart_Trans:​

Other various interests & relevant tags: #intro #trans #lgbt #linux #cyberSecurity #programming #yuri #videoGames #zelda #rimworld #dog

Mabel, a white and blue(? yeah, I don't get it either) whippet, chilling on top of a purple bed with purple bed sheets and a purple duvet, with Tuna the Blåhaj hanging out on the bed frame behind her. Her ears are flopped forward as she stares inquisitively past the camera.
Two cats hanging out together on a white wall mounted cat fixture against a dark purple wall. The fixture has two levels. On the top, flat level is Majora, a black and white short-hair, and on the bottom, cradle shaped level is Link, an orange short-hair. Majora is hanging his front paws off the right side of the fixture, staring towards the camera. Link is staring blankly off towards the left. They are good cats.
A close-up of Saria, a long-hair brown tabby cat, staring upwards with her green eyes. She is very focused.
Two cats cuddled together in front of a bright window. On the left is Majora, a black and white short-hair, and the right Link, an orange short-hair. Majora is spooning Linky with his front right paw wrapped around Link's neck (in a loving way, not like a choking kind of way). They are on top of a white, cushy cat bed that is level with the window sill, and there are brown wooden blinds coming down to just about their head height.
#linux #Twitch #cat #manga #programming #cats #homelab #introduction #Jellyfin #lgbt #trans #videogames #théâtre #intro #cybersecurity #dog #zelda #doggo #japanese #whippet #webtoons #yuri #rimworld

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I’ve been using a Monarch for a year now, and it’s been the busiest year of my working life. But right now, I’m on vacation.
I expected to, and very much do, enjoy the benefits of multiline Braille for various work things, and I congratulate Vispero for doing a super job with Monarch support in JAWS. But now I am appreciating that there’s something very special yet intangible about curling up on the couch, grabbing a book from Bookshare, and reading for pleasure on the large display. I’m not sure I am able to articulate the full extent of the difference, it’s just more fluid, it’s better, it’s more relaxing somehow.
I think people will be very pleased with some of the updates that are just around the corner, and of course we’ll continue to articulate the value proposition, the improved outcomes, the equity, of multiline Braille to entities who can fund them and put them under the fingertips of more blind people.
So, back to my book.
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Jason J.G. White

@elettrona With the Braille Terminal application on the Monarch, you can also use it to access another device via a screen reader (NVDA and JAWS currently support the Monarch, with more expected to come).
Thus you have both the internal KeySoft applications and screen reader support. The Dot pad is just a display device - it must be used with a screen reader or a specialized application running elsewhere and attached via USB or Bluetooth.
I prefer the larger display and the ability to run applications on the device, so the Monarch fits my usage better. As Jonathan noted, the cell technology is similar (supplied by Dot Inc.) in both cases.
@Elena Brescacin

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1. User complains to #hackerone that I named his *previous* name when he renamed himself to a silly name after I banned them in a #curl report filed back in October.

2. Hackerone asks me to respond on their support forum, on which I have no account. Grrr. I refuse to.

3. Replying to the hackerone email about this instead, I get a bounce saying they don't accept emails on support@hackerone ...

Kill me now.

(The user who submitted this report was going by the name "b4sh0ne" up until their last comment when they renamed to this new name. Unfortunately, the HackerOne interface does not properly show this. We banned the user nonetheless.)
#curl #hackerone

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In 2009, I was with a friend in West Virginia, who had a gig playing for a school music program for 5 through 10-year-olds.

The youngest of those kids are now old enough to drink in the United States. Maybe not quite college graduation, at least with a four-year degree, but close.

In a few days, the very youngest licensed American drivers will have been born three years after the first iPhone was released. This includes one of my cousin's grandchildren.

I'm too young to be this old, or something.

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I woke up this morning, went into the kitchen, collected some spoons1, it's time to roll up my sleeves and release #iocaine 3.1.

  1. Drank 0.4l of caffeinated hot chocolate, and topped it with two pellets of Ferrero Pocket Coffee. So I'm like wide-eye awake for the next hour, and I'm hearing colours2. ↩︎
  2. iocaine's soothing green is, as expected, soothing, like a small breeze upon a field of wild grass. My burning red-yellow rage is the most metal sound you ever heard. ↩︎
#iocaine

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Как те, которые бояться потревожить россию, изъять ее деньги, сбить их дрон, наказать за перерезанные кабеля, трубопроводы, закрытые аэропорты, взорванные рельсы, сгоревшие торговые цетры…

могут ГАРАНТИРОВАТЬ безопасность?

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Das 240. WildMics-Special war unser Jahresabschluss 2025. In einem Ask us Anything konnte ihr uns Fragen zu Politik, Gesellschaft und dem Leben stellen. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Bund Europäischer Jugend - Österreich.
Mit @SophiaKrappweis & @TommyKrappweis
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Grafische Ankündigung des WildMics Specials: Das Bild zeigt ein stimmungsvolles Nachtlager mit einem Lagerfeuer im Mittelpunkt. Darüber steht in großer Schrift „Laberfeuer“. Um das Feuer herum schweben Wörter wie „Information“, „Fakten“ und „Forschung“. Links und rechts des Feuers sind Porträtfotos der Diskussionsgäste zu sehen. Am unteren Rand steht in weißer Schrift: „Ask us Anything (in den Farben der EU Flagge" - Mit Dana Buchzik und Dirk van den Boom Das Bild vermittelt eine einladende Atmosphäre zum gemeinsamen Nachdenken und Diskutieren über Kommunikation von Fakten. Links unten befindet sich ein schwarz-weißes Logo von Hoaxilla, das zwei stilisierte Gesichter mit Sonnenbrillen zeigt. Daneben ein schwarzer Hintergrund mit weißem Text: "WildMics – Special 240". Rechts unten ist ein farbenfrohes WildMics-Logo mit einem Mikrofon und Regenbogenfarben.

WildMics Special #240 – Jahresabschluss Ask us Anything – HOAXILLA®

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@Tommy Krappweis @Sophia Krappweis

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A short while ago I was explaining to a client the reason why his website has seen a very significant increase in load over the past few weeks. On many of the servers I manage, I see connections coming from residential users, yes, but mainly from unscrupulous AI scrapers that do not care about overloading everything. Someone on their side replied to me: "Wouldn’t moving everything to the cloud solve the problem? I mean... autoscaling!"

That sparked a somewhat "conspiratorial" thought. Some colleagues have told me that, with the recent surge in AI bot traffic, their costs have skyrocketed. Given how much money is being spent, and not earned, on AI, are we really sure this is not, in some way, planned or at least welcomed as a way to increase costs for end users of cloud services and funnel them into AI budgets?

#SysAdmin #IT

#IT #sysadmin

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Europe is making a list, checking it twice… and upgrading its trains to high-speed – nice! 🚄

While you are sipping hot chocolate, we are cooking up 200+ km/h rail magic:

✨ Faster journeys: Berlin → Copenhagen in 4hr instead of 7hr
🚆 New routes: Lisbon–Madrid–Paris and Tallinn–Riga–Vilnius–Warsaw
🌙 More night trains for long trips
🎫 One ticket for your whole journey, and easier booking across borders

By 2040, your holidays might just start on the rails.

👉 link.europa.eu/hDyYBG

A watercolour-style illustration depicting a sleek, red and white high-speed train, labelled "EU Holiday Express in the making," speeding out of a swirling, abstract representation of the blue European Union flag with its yellow stars. In the background, there are snow-covered Christmas trees and picturesque, snow-dusted houses. The EU logo is also visible in the bottom right corner.

High-speed rail plan

Connecting Europe, shortening travel time.
Mobility and Transport

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So there are apparently people creating personal voices on Macs, because it's more flexible than on the iPhone. I have heard several times that people have even cloned all sorts of random voices. But since you can't upload audio files for recording, how exactly are you to do this, manipulate the folder, where ever it is, or whatnot?
#personal_voice #accessibility #a11y #voiceover #mac
#a11y #Accessibility #mac #voiceover #personal_voice
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Winter blue tardis

Honestly, I don't know and I haven't tried it. Now you gave me an idea, it's bad when I have ideas. :D Manipulating the folder? I am not sure, unless Mac saves it somewhere in an actual folder, but as far as I know, it's synced via iCloud, so if I were to create a personal voice on Mac, it will also be on the phone, which, to be fair, is fun. I should. Told you, giving me ideas is bad.

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Lately I’ve been realizing that I probably made a (small but important) mistake when choosing Proton Mail over @Tutanota Mail.

I truly respect and like both European companies, but what I’ve been noticing, and deeply appreciating, is how strong, healthy, and direct the relationship between Tuta and its users is. They communicate, they discuss, they listen.

It actually reminds me a lot of the @Vivaldi browser team, including @jon himself. And that kind of attitude is priceless, especially when it’s combined with such a clear stance on privacy & security, AI, and user-first values. That combination is simply top-tier.

I recently noticed Vivaldi starting some cooperation with Proton. Personally, I’d much rather see a collaboration with Tuta.

Rooting for you. Rooting for both teams (actually all three). Absolutely fantastic work.

#privacy #security #email #europeanTech #Vivaldi #Tuta #Proton

#email #privacy #security #proton #vivaldi #tuta #europeantech @Tuta @Vivaldi Browser @Jon S. von Tetzchner

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@Tutanota Hey, was sagt ihr zu der neuen Sau von #Vorratsdatenspeicherung die durchs Dorf getrieben wird und auch Mailprovider betreffen soll? netzpolitik.org/2025/anlasslos…

Anlasslose Speicherung: Justizministerium veröffentlicht Gesetzentwurf zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung

Die Bundesregierung will Internet-Zugangs-Anbieter verpflichten, IP-Adressen aller Nutzer für drei Monate zu speichern. Das geht aus dem Gesetzentwurf zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung hervor, den das Justizministerium veröffentlicht hat.
netzpolitik.org
#vorratsdatenspeicherung @Tuta
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Tuta

Danke für den Hinweis, wir schauen uns das an. Fraglich, ob es dieses Mal Bestand haben wird... siehe: tuta.com/blog/data-retention-g… Wir lehnen jede Form der anlasslosen Massenüberwachung ab und werden sicher dagegen aktiv werden.

Germany: Data retention to be abolished once and for all. | Tuta

According to the German Minister of Justice data retention or "the storage of telecommunications data without any reason" could soon come to an end.
Tuta

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Whatever else the future may hold, I'm hoping for a decrease in the yelling of "stochastic parrots!" in literally any conversation about so-called AI by people who wouldn't otherwise use the word "stochastic" in any other context. Memorising a phrase containing an obscure word and deploying it like a hand grenade to shut down a discussion has never struck me as a particularly helpful or inclusive strategy.

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Joshua Rogers on his bug bounty experiences in 2025.

Positive for #curl, kafka-esque for all others mentioned. ‚BugCrowd‘ seems to a typical level-1 support company living on denials.

(Joshua also reported on Apache and pbly other projects where he could talk to the maintainers. I take #curl here as an example for FOSS projects interested in actually securing things.)

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My 2025 Bug Bounty Stories

A recap of my 2025 bug bounty experiences, featuring failures and stories from Google Cloud, GitHub, Vercel, Opera, and others.
Joshua Rogers (Joshua Rogers’ Scribbles)
#curl

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No sé si es que uso los LLMs de forma distinta a otra gente, pero a mi me dan muy buenos resultados como vehículo de aprendizaje que me sería imposible (literalmente) hacer de otra forma. Tut largo, pero es que lo tenía que decir.

Os contaré mi experiencia concreta. Llevo tiempo en un plan para mejorar mis matemáticas. Con un LLM he podido aprender matemáticas formales de forma rigurosa, verificando las pruebas por mi mismo, algo que sin esa herramienta me era materialmente imposible por razones de accesibilidad.

Después de unos meses, he conseguido aprender un montón de lógica que no sabía (CNF, BNF, prenexado de fórmulas, semántica, el teorema de la solidez de la deducción natural sobre fórmulas de primer orden, por inducción en la altura de la derivación). Estrategias de prueba: contrapositiva, por contradicción, por inducción, inducción fuerte y estructural. En análisis real, entiendo bien los límites de las secuencias y funciones, la continuidad, los teoremas fundamentales como Bolzano, convergencia de una secuencia monótona acotada, valor intermedio, valor extremo. No sólo los entiendo sino que puedo escribir por mi cuenta las pruebas de los teoremas. Conseguí entender como funcionan los números complejos como representantes de una rotación del plano, raíces de complejos, y porque toda la trigonometría se simplifica enormemente con estas herramientas. En álgebra lineal, aprendí como calcular determinantes recursivamente, Gauss-Jordan, Gram-Schmidt, proyección, QR. Pero aún más importante, aprendí a entender el álgebra lineal desde el punto de vista de una aplicación lineal T sobre un espacio vectorial V en un campo F, independiente de una base, en vez de partir de la representación concreta de una matriz. Aprendí que el determinante de una aplicación lineal es una función multilineal, alternante, normalizada, de la imagen de unas bases ordenadas a un escalar, que representa la ratio del volumen orientado de la aplicación lineal. Hice todo el tema de expandir una función de este tipo sobre bases en 2d ((1,0), (0,1)) y vi salir de allí las permutaciones, hasta la típica fórmula de determinante de una matriz 2x2 (ad-bc).

Todo esto no fue fácil, no fue libre de frustración. La gente muchas veces dice que el objeto de un LLM es eliminar la frustración y la dificultad que dan lugar al aprendizaje. Pues no sé, si se usa así a lo mejor sí, pero tuve días en que pensé que no podía con esto. Yo siempre insisto en reproducir las pruebas, hacer los cálculos, hacer tests y ejercicios, y que se me corrija con rigor. En alguna ocasión el LLM me dijo, "tienes un conocimiento suficiente para continuar," a mi no me lo pareció, y seguí trabajando hasta que entendí el tema satisfactoriamente.

Las posibilidades de haber hecho esto sin un LLM, para mi, son cero. Porque me habría sido imposible encontrar material accesible (no es la primera vez que lo busco) y todavía más difícil poder preguntar dudas y que alguien me corrija los ejercicios. No se trata de que El LLM sustituya el esfuerzo intelectual; sino que suple la ausencia de material accesible y la posibilidad de corrección.

Por eso no me convence la afirmación general de que los LLMs son inútiles para aprender, o para x. Son herramientas muy fáciles de utilizar mal, y no son perfectos; en algún caso me dieron resultados erróneos (cosa que por cierto los profesores también hacen), lo cual incide en la necesidad de verificar todo; pero es que ese es mi método en todo caso, cuando aprendo matemáticas intento verificar todo. Quizá por eso me haya ido bien.

En resumen, esta tecnología me ha facultado para aprender cosas que hacía años que quería aprender y que hasta ahora siempre me había sido imposible. A la gente no le gusta la palabra democratizar en este contexto, pero me cuesta no usarla.

#IA #LLM #accesibilidad #aprendizaje

#llm #accesibilidad #ia #aprendizaje

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Anyone who's smarter than me with meson and github actions, please be my guest at telling me if I'm doing something silly github.com/akiraux/Akira/pull/…

Meson clean up by Alecaddd · Pull Request #776 · akiraux/Akira

Use gnome scripts and remove the custom Python post install Add meson minimum version Remove a couple of deprecated utils Replace deprecated meson source_root() and build_root() methods Use the rec...
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Had my call with the CEO and a load of execs, had to take it from a park around the back of the Tate gallery as there was nowhere quiet and private enough.

Got roasted but fucking smashed it. CEO thanked me profusely for turning around a $10m shit show.

The fucker who caused all the drama tried to attribute some of the success to someone on their team who had absolutely nothing to do with it. I let that shit slide, for today. Record will get set straight, served ice cold, corporate climbing motherfucker.

Christmas isn't cancelled ✊

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I see that Fernando Pereira is donating to OpenReview (with a public announcement) because he apparently cares about "open science" or "open research" or some such. That's news to me.

He is the Google VP who wrote a condescending, bizarre, what was meant to be anonymous, "privileged and confidential" letter which was then sent to the HR department, instructing me and my coauthors to retract our Stochastic Parrots paper.

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I was considering setting up my #immich server for a while now, but ept putting it off because I thought migrating the photos from iCloud to immich would be hard. Several how to's explained you had to download the photos from Apple's privacy website in bulk, or export them on your Mac as separate files.

So, finally put to work: I made enough room on my Mac to export all of them, I exported all photos in original quality from the Photos app to some directory on the Mac, and setup my immich server.

Then, finally, being able to login on the mobile immich app, I see a simple 'backup' toggle. I can select all albums in the iOS Photos app and switch "enable backups" on.

Just like that, it uploads everything to my new immich instance. This couldn't have been easier. All my prep work wasn't needed.

So, if you have been holding off, don't. This is so easy.

#immich
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