U.S. distillers complain Canadian provinces favouring local alcohol

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LOL. You elected your leader. Complain to him.

Editional tips and tricks for downloading the cops pack

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Is there a tool that will either

- let me run a script over files in a directory tree in parallel
- re-encode a directory tree of music files in parallel

while being robust about interruptions (don't have to restart if I interrupt it and run it again), etc.

I'd rather not write this even though it would be a good little exercise.

(I need to recompress my music collection, for my car's stereo, and it needs Very Particular metadata.)

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@gnomon I'll need mp3 and was thinking of batching all tracks in an album, which kinda matches my laptop's number of cores.

I need to experiment a bit with the stereo first; it doesn't pick up the track number field, so if it just sorts an album's tracks in alphabetical order I'll need to tell ffmpeg or whatever to output track numbers as part of the track name.

(everything is in flac; I need mp3 smaller than the bitrate I used initially, or music won't fit in an USB stick)

Investigadoras de la UNAM descubren bacterias que degradan en 15 días el plástico – La Crónica de Hoy
cronica.com.mx/academia/2025/1…

We are receiving reports that Google flags our repo as "having dangerous apps" or being a "dangerous site" – texts being very vague, no proof given (nor did they inform us). They also link to a page they call "Transparency Report" – which is of the same vagueness, but definitely not transparent (transparencyreport.google.com/…)

We're not aware of any such dangerous content. All apps on our repo are properly scanned, see izzyondroid.org/about/security…

#IzzyOnDroid #serviceToot

we named our security company after the loser who lost because of his bad security

techcrunch.com/2025/12/28/from…

Spoilers: The only legitimate complaint I have about Manamon 1 and 2 is that the main character sounds way older than they actually are. Why is a little boy or girl interfering with things they should not meddle with at such a young age? Entering a shadow kingdom, hopping into Requiem, stopping Eschonites at restaurants... you should be at least 18! Not to mention they don't even talk like their age. I'm not saying they have to sound immature, but cut back on the grammar. They're kids.

people are waking up and learning it's time to distrust Meredith. She's not pushing Signal into any direction where it's impossible for her to "pull out" of a country that is demanding a backdoor.
RT: antifa.style/users/walsonde/st…

Europe is going to use the intense hatred of relying on American services to trick everyone into adopting a CBDC aren't they? It's such a :kiss: moment in history where everything comes together perfectly
RT: mstdn.social/users/hkrn/status…

this is a serious question, in case anyone has specific knowledge[1]: how come 20% of Apple device updates (most egregiously the Apple Watch) are getting to "100%" and 80% of the update is "Preparing…" with no percentage

[1]: NOT GUESSES PLEASE DON'T GUESS I ALREADY HAVE QUITE A BIT OF KNOWLEDGE ON THE TOPIC THAT WOULD ALLOW ME TO GUESS MYSELF. ONCE AGAIN NO GUESSES PLEASE

Any #FreeBSD sysadmins out there running #Bastille jails with multiple interfaces?
Or any sort of jail with multiple interfaces?
I was going to try out Bastille rather than old-fashioned manual "Thick" jail like the ones I’ve set up before because I've never done multiple interfaces or thin jails and Bastille seemed like a good way to do that. Except that it isn't working. At least not in the way I think the docs imply...
Of course I've opened an issue: github.com/BastilleBSD/bastill…

Last week, for Digital Wellbeing we merged features that allow parents to better set their kids screen time by not allowing kids to unlock the screen and allow parents to extend screen time as needed!

Digital Wellbeing helps parents encourage safe and healthy habits for their kids. These are features that are funded by the GNOME Foundation. #DigitalWellbeing #FriendsofGNOME

donate.gnome.org/

#FOSS #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #GNOME

good glorious food, washed down with alc mentions

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Ich hab zwei Fragen an @delta: Erstens, kann ich einen Account zu einem anderen Server umziehen oder muss ich einen neuen erstellen und allen Kontakten den neuen Account mitteilen und zweitens
antifa.style/@walsonde/1158051…
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You can read here how to migrate to a new relay: support.delta.chat/t/how-to-mi…

How chatcontrol will be implemented and what to do against is is hard to predict without a concrete proposal, so let's see.

#XSF Announcement

We are considering to participate the #Google Summer of Code 2026!

If you are interested as a contributor or mentoring #XMPP project start reading here: wiki.xmpp.org/web/Google_Summe…

#GSoC #ccc #chat #messaging #jabber #standards #opensource #interoperability #operators #rtc

I cannot say this authoritatively, but I inquired about the scope of the gpg.fail vulnerabilities that affect GnuPG (and at least one also affecting Sequioa, a Rust PGP implementation) to see if any of these things are a concern for DeltaChat and the response was that they are all out of scope for how DeltaChat uses PGP.

also DeltaChat uses rpgp, not GnuPG or Sequioa, and rpgp has been audited a couple times.

Reminder: You better hurry!

@monocles and #Conversations_im are available for free on your Android device since Dec 24th and until the 31st on Google Play!

Get your friends and family and don’t miss out on the opportunity to install and onboard them in one (or both) of the most featureful #XMPP clients on Android!

Set them free from invasive, data harvesting, centralized IM communications networks!

#RunJBR #Privacy #Security #Decentralization #PrivacyIsAHumanRight #DigitalSovereignty #Jabber

Manchmal wünschte ich, Leute gäben sich mehr Mühe zu lesen, was ich schreibe und nicht was sie lesen wollen.

Mela: "Jeder kann Politiker werden."

Menschen:
- "Aber ich habe in Partei X Erfahrung Y gemacht."
- "In den Parteien wird um jeden Posten geklügelt."
- "Bei der CDU wird man ohne Verbindungen nichts."
- "Ich bin wieder ausgetreten, weil …"
- "Für Menschen mit Sozialphobie geht das nicht."
- "etc etc"

Ich habe gesagt: Jeder kann Politiker werden.
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I've noticed, of late, NVDA randomly freezes on my production machine, when at home, simply pressing control+alt+N restarts NVDA and all is well, but this naturally does not work when accessing the machine remotely. I can connect, but can't read or control anything. Is there some way to trap whatever leads up to this, and if so, report this semi-crash to someone who would find such information useful?

Apple files appeal in £1.5 billion case over App Store fees in the UK 9to5mac.com/2025/12/29/apple-f…