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Imagine that the government has decided that, to stimulate the economy, every adult citizen MUST go on a TV reality/game show.

What type of show would you choose?

  • A game of brains ( like The Chase or Jeopardy) (74%, 23 votes)
  • A game of personality (like Housewives or Traitors (0%, 0 votes)
  • A game of strength (like Survivor) (3%, 1 vote)
  • A game of chance (like Deal Or No Deal) (22%, 7 votes)
31 voters. Poll end: 45 minutes ago

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We tortured these shellfish to check that they're aware of physical harm and yep -- they are. So weird, every living thing we check we can find some kind of electrical or chemical response to damage. What are the odds?

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Immediate ban on boiling crabs and lobsters alive is called for after disturbing study

Recent studies hint that crabs, lobsters, and other crustaceans experience pain and discomfort in ways we hadn't fully understood before.
Eric Ralls (Earth.com)

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Oh yeah, totally forgot. It's been about a year and a week with Android now. Over all I'm really satisfied, Google has improved talkback a lot. The one and only annoying thing is typing, that's really a disaster and I'm glad I have vision left so I can turn off TB to type sometimes, or being able to attach a bluetooth keyboard. Otherwise though, I love being able to install apks and get updates right from the source like GitHub, Zoom, as well the camera zoom from the pixel 9 pro as well as the ability to Zoom anywhere with the accessibility button in the 3 button nav bar, which also features my best friend the back button, is great, not having to triple tap and swipe around laggy and weird like on IOS. Well, that's all. There are tons of other things I forgot for sure but I really enjoy what this is and would recommend. At some point, probably when I get a new phone whenever that is, I'll root or even gravin OS this thing, gonna be fun. Oh yeah and we have NVGT games, that's fun too.

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Web Accessibility in 2026: Five Predictions Shaped by How the Web Is Changing blog.usablenet.com/web-accessi…

Web Accessibility in 2026: Five Predictions Shaped by How the Web Is Changing

Five predictions for web accessibility in 2026, shaped by AI-driven development, dynamic rendering, and how modern websites are built and maintained.
Jason Taylor, Chief Innovation Strategist (UsableNet Inc.)

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If you use an AI-generated image for your article/post, this indicates to me you might have also used AI-generated text.

If you use AI-generated text for your article/post then:

1- I have no idea if you verified the veracity of any claimed facts.

2- I have no idea what your own voice is.

3- I have no idea if this truly expresses your own views, and if you even cared to read it.

4- I have no idea what your intention is with this, other than exploiting my attention and clicks with the least amount of efforts on your part.

5- This shows me you have no respect at all for the labour that was stolen to build these tools, exploiting millions of artists and writers to make billions of dollars without any compensation to them whatsoever.

Why would I want to engage with any content like that?

• I don't want to communicate with a machine (I can do that by myself).

• I don't want to participate in this disgusting exploitation of artists and writers.

• And I want to communicate with another human, of course.

If your intention isn't to communicate with another human, then stop deceiving them making them think they are :no_ai:

#NoAI #StopTheSlop

#noAI #stoptheslop
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SAPI4 is returning to NVDA 64-bit.
Support for SAPI4 via a 32 bit shim runtime:
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@NVAccess

Support for SAPI4 via a 32 bit shim runtime by michaelDCurran · Pull Request #19412 · nvaccess/nvda

Link to issue number: Summary of the issue: 64 bit NVDA can no longer support SAPI4. Description of user facing changes: SAPI4 is again availble on 64 bit NVDA. Description of developer facing cha...
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Let's start with what my 24/7 outside Mics, the Clippy EM 272, attached to my window have captured. I sadly didn't have the time to setup better quallity thann opus with meh settings which where already in place, but I'll post some of the stuff I captured with the Zoom H1E as well. this are 5 minutes which give an overviewe quite well, no processing or anything. This was right 5 minutes after midnight, so 12:05 to 12:10.

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Sometime around the 2020 era, we lost the right to be mediocre at things we love.

No longer can you just bake bread...you must start a sourdough side hustle lol. Wanna stay fit and go jogging or running? Nah, you gotta optimize your biometrics for a marathon. What my point is that every hobby has been enshittified and gentrified into a brand opportunity.

This strange infatuation with optimization culture is killing the human spirit.

So this new year, starting tomorrow, one of my resolutions is to do something bad but fun. Maybe I write a terrible poem. I like to draw and paint, so perhaps I will draw a horse that looks like a table or sing off-key in the showers or in front of my loved ones. The algorithm driving the mainstream social media wants me to be a polished product, but my humanity lives in these messy, unoptimized, cringe-inducing joyful failures.

I will try to reclaim the right to be an amateur. Will you join me?

#creativity #hobbies #art #depression #socialmedia #newyear #resolution #happynewyear #MentalHealth #Culture #enshittification #creative #design #writing #reading #books #drawing #music #gardening #nature #running #fitness

#books #music #art #drawing #socialmedia #culture #design #nature #gardening #writing #reading #MentalHealth #fitness #creativity #hobbies #depression #happynewyear #creative #enshittification #running #newyear #resolution

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Wow! What an adventure! But first, an explainer. So ever since I had Speedy, my primary Windows machine custom-built in January of 2022, it has been unpredictably unstable when the system was really busy. Specifically, it seemed to crash and reboot randomly, but whenever the GPU was being heavily used. That, or if I switched from playback to recording controls for my PCIe sound card. But again, only sometimes, only randomly. It was really strange. A bunch of Internet research told me that I was very much not alone amongst owners of the particular Asus motherboard. People who know a lot more then me about hardware, and its associated firmware settings and workings came to the conclusion that when devices rapidly changed power states, or when the PCIe bus was heavily loaded with power draw, and that device rapidly changed C states, it would cause an APIC error on a random CPU core, the OS would bluescreen, and auto restart. So whatever, I lived with it for a while, just expected the machine to randomly reboot whenever it decided to, when the GPU was loaded, or the random time it would reboot after changing audio modes on the add-on sound card. But then I went to check for BIOS updates, and what do ya know, Asus still writes terse, if at least non-generic release notes, and amongst these notes was a line that roughly said that the PCIe C states crash problem was fixed! I almost jumped in my chair, but i held myself down, toned my excitement down, downloaded the update, and put it on a USB drive. My motherboard has a pretty neat feature called Asus BIOS Flashback. One of its features is a physical button on the back panel that, when the system is mostly powered down, but not entirely powered off, as in fans not spinning, but ATX power switch is on and motherboard is still getting power, it will update the BIOS from a designated file on a flash drive plugged into a designated port, with no user interaction! You hold the Flashback button in for 8 seconds, wait 18 minutes, and your BIOS should be the version you put on the flash drive. Wellp, I did this, waited, the fans and drives powered up after I tried the power button, but no OS. I was mad, I was growlin' like a mad wuff puppy! I thought I had wrecked the entire machine! I couldn't even figure out the correct key sequences to get a Debian installer booted, to at least see if the BIOS was posting and booting something. Nope. None of it worked. So I just crashed out myself at around 8:00 AM until 3:00 PM, then I tried a few more times, with no good results. But then I had an idea. What if I put the version of the BIOS that used to be on the board back on the flash drive and reflash it? Wellp, what do ya know, it actually worked! I have the computer back! Yay! So now, instead of jumping from BIOS 4602 to 5308 in one shot, I'm doing the upgrades one version at a time. See if that works any better.
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Adam MacLeod

@JamminJerry Yeah, you don't have the physical flashback button that makes BIOS upgrades actually blind-friendly. Most integrated systems providers distribute BIOS firmware through Windows Update, but that does not happen with OEM systems, the boxes we build ourselves. In short, you're probably fine to just leave things alone. And now for a way longer winded version. Because you know I'm good for those, LOL. If your system is as stable as can possibly be possible with Windows running on it, as in you're not getting bluescreens/reboots on the regular, then you don't really need to update the BIOS. Well... There were a couple bad UEFI exploits and outright unfixable human blunders that may compromise a system's security at the firmware level, but people like us really don't have to worry about it. Probably about is much as we worry about being struck by lightning. Its high-value targets that the smart guys who have the skills to exploit this stuff go after. They want money or information valued in the millions, not social media posts from some rando. In my case, I was upgrading the BIOS to resolve a very long-standing, very annoying bug that the release notes said was fixed, or at least addressed in a BIOS update. But if there's nothing major bad going on with your system, best to just leave it alone and let it run.
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Toward the end of 2024 we added a feature to Thunderbird desktop and Android to import accounts via a QR code (desktop generating the QR code and Android scanning it).

I think this feature should be abused by websites helping their users set up mail accounts (in TB for Android), so I've created a little library that helps with generating the QR codes: github.com/freaktechnik/thunde…


GitHub - freaktechnik/thunderbird-account-qr-code: Generate QR codes to import mail accounts in Thunderbird for Android

Generate QR codes to import mail accounts in Thunderbird for Android - freaktechnik/thunderbird-account-qr-code
GitHub

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Constrict by Wartybix was accepted into GNOME Circle!

It compresses your videos to your chosen file size — useful for uploading to services with specific file size limits.

Congratulations and welcome! 🎉

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#gnome #circle #libadwaita #flathub

Constrict app GNOME Circle banner

Install Constrict on Linux | Flathub

Compress videos to target sizes
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#gnome #libadwaita #flathub #circle

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That's a radio wrap from me for a few weeks. I'll be back on air on January 19 with the Digital Domain, and the first Sonic Onslaught of the year is on January 20. Keep an eye on @radio for what my coworkers are doing, although it looks like most of them, other than @reverendbigdawg and the Sonic Synergy crew, are taking similar lengthed breaks. Regardless, thank you for tuning in, and may 2026 bring even better radio.
@HKC Radio @John Clower

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¡Al fin!

Tenemos alternativa, y más que buena, para poder leer nuestros libros en casi todos los formatos. Después de unos meses de mucho trabajo, el desarrollador Jonathan Chacón ha podido sacar a la luz, en el último día del año 2025 esta aplicación que seguro va a llenarnos de satisfacción a muchas personas ciegas, y algunas con otros problemas para la lectura. (1/2)

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"Woman falls from 3rd-floor balcony after being pushed: Montreal police"

Wow that's.. I mean I guess the headline technically isn't the passive voice since there's someone taking an action but I think they might have written it with the wrong actor verbing.

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Woman falls from 3rd-floor balcony after being pushed: Montreal police

A woman is in critical condition after being allegedly pushed from a balcony and falling three storeys in Montreal’s Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough.
Daniel J. Rowe (CTVNews)

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There have been thousands of potholes, PRE-freezing rain this week... what about THOSE POTHOLES?!?

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Montreal crews working to repair potholes, clear sidewalks after freezing rain

The City of Montreal says it’s working to make getting around safer after the freezing rain and snow that hit the city this week.
Daniel J. Rowe (CTVNews)
#polmtl #mtlpoli #nidsdepoule #potholes #liarliar
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Hubert Figuière

"Lanier [Black & Decker's national coordinating counsel] expressed concern that if any manufacture licensed the safety feature, all others would be forced to do likewise, or risk litigation following injuries with their products."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SawStop


American table saw manufacturer with automatic stop upon skin-contact

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
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In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

'A directive from above': Form...


'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry

In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directed from the very top and the damage this legitimiza…
David Forbes (Trans News Network)

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Democrat Positions in 2024 vs What MAGA Pretended They Were:

ON ABORTION: Let's weigh the possible rights of the unborn fetus against the actual rights of the adult woman whose body it's in and allow the mother the right to make the medical choice whenever possible.
WHAT THEY PRETENDED: Let's kill babies after they're born.

ON IMMIGRANTS: Let's give immigrants a safe and legal path to full American citizenship in this country, and while that's happening, remember that they are still human beings and are granted rights under our Constitution.
WHAT THEY PRETENDED: Let's allow all the fentanyl dealers unfettered access across our border so they can rape people, because we hate America.

ON TRANS PEOPLE: Let's let trans people exist, and provide access to safe and legal means of providing them life saving medical care.
WHAT THEY PRETENDED: Let's kidnap eight year olds in the middle of the school day and perform forced gender transition surgeries on them for fun.

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We're finally addressing a behavior that has been driving some of us crazy with how floating windows transition from/to the overview on GNOME Shell

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-s…

#GNOME #Shell #JavaScript #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource

workspace: Translate origins of larger window dimensions to move in a straight(er) line (!4010) · Merge requests · GNOME / gnome-shell · GitLab

Related:
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#linux #foss #opensource #gnome #shell #javascript

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Here ya go, more than 7 minutes of unprocessed fireworks from behind my flat. I turned the binaural perspective towards the action a bit, since there wasn't much going on to the right of the mic due to how the buildings are laid out, but thanks to Ambisonics, this is actually possible without affecting the sound quality at all. You kinda get the xperience from right when it starts till... well, it starts to slow down again, including an ambulance. Enjoy, or something.
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I read an article in the New York Times about what questions to reflect upon going into the new year. I thought I'd share the questions here.
1. What is worth remembering from 2025?
2. When did you feel the most joyful and carefree?
3. What gave you energy and what drained it?
4. What seemed impossible but you did it anyway?
5. What habit, if you did it more consistently, would have a positive effect on your life?
6. What did you try to control that was actually outside your control?
7. Is there anyone you need to forgive in 2026?

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Re: #lastBoost. I was in San Diego at the beginning of december, and one of my Uber drivers (if you can still call them that) had a Tesla.

He looked in the stats, and since the last firmware update, ~90% of the miles driven were full FSD.

During our trip, he only took control once, when he didn't like the route the FSD was taking. However, it turned out that the route he wanted was actually blocked, so the FSD was right all along.

#lastboost
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