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1/2 Because I'm hearing a lot to the opposite effect and the discussion of it happens of course entirely in German and thereby without input from non German speakers:
If you want the international community to engage with you and your topic, it is highly appreciated by many if you hold your talk in English. Be the live translation as good as it may, it does not invite to interact with you and your topic if your talk is in German. #39c3
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📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 5. Jänner, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
Mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille mit 8 Tasten auf der Vorderseite und zwei seitlich sichtbare Tasten auf der Oberseite. Das Gehäuse ist 3D-gedruckt, rot mit hellen Streifen und die Tasten sind weiß. Das Gehäuse ist ungefähr fünfeckig. Ein Rechteck wird an der Breitseite durch ein Trapez erweitert. Die Form ähnelt einem Haus mit Fenstern in der Mitte. Die Tastatur zeigt mit der Oberseite nach rechts unten und liegt auf einer Holzplatte.

Do-It-Blind (DIB) Besprechung

Learn using BigBlueButton, the trusted open-source web conferencing solution that enables seamless virtual collaboration and online learning experiences.
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#blind #inklusion #make

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Good morning everyone. :)

I hope you all have a wonderful Monday.

This is the first science post of 2026, and hopefully I will be able to do more this year.
The Holidays were great and very awesome.

Always remember, you matter and to always be kind.

Today we are gonna be talking about The Integrated Circuit.

An integrated circuit (IC) is a miniature electronic circuit in which thousands to billions of electronic components such as transistors, resistors, capacitors, and diodes-are fabricated onto a single small piece of semiconductor material, usually silicon. Instead of building circuits with separate components, an IC combines them into a single, compact, and efficient unit. Because everything is built onto a single chip, ICs are smaller, faster, more reliable, and more energy-efficient than circuits made from discrete components.

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Wir freuen uns über das gelungene Interview "Hilfsmittel gemeinsam entwickeln – das Open-Source-Projekt OSKAR" von Christian Stahlberg vom Sightviews Podcast. Die Folge bietet eine gute Vorstellung und Überblick unserer Tätigkeiten. sightviews.de/316-oskar #make #blind #inklusion

Hilfsmittel gemeinsam entwickeln - das Open-Source-Projekt OSKAR

OSKAR ist ein Open-Source-Projekt, das Hilfsmittel für blinde Menschen gemeinsam entwickelt und frei zugänglich macht. Baupläne, Software und Anleitungen stehen offen zur Verfügung und können angepasst und weiterentwickelt werden.
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For a while, I have had to turn off VoiceOver speech on my phone at night, because VoiceOver shouts "100% charged" every few minutes once the battery is full. Since iOs 2026.2, I have to turn VoiceOver off completely, because under yet to be determined conditions, VoiceOver falls into a restart loop, turning on its speech, and reading out loud the screen contents. Apparently it briefly disables screen curtain as well, which doesn't bother me, but very much so my wife. Glad that Apple has such a swift track record in fixing accessibility bugs. /s

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Don't believe those who loudly claim email can not avoid metadata! They are ignorant of our continuous works on minimizing metadata:

DONE:

- no phone number other identifying data needed
- no cleartext "Subject"
- no cleartext "To"
- randomized "Date"
- no IP addresses
- group/avatar/attachment/etc metadata only contained in encrypted message parts

Upcoming:

- servers to never see cryptographic ID metadata
- remove "threading" and auxilliary headers
- experiment with Sealed Sender

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Adam Katz

thoughts from an anti-spam professional:

If the unencrypted Date header is more than a few hours off, it is likely to be blocked as spam. Randomly skewing it by up to 1800 seconds in either direction should be safe. Changing the time zone to grossly mismatch the geoIP is probably unwise, though +0000 is fine.

I suspect you're trying to make your headers super generic with all the important and identifiable aspects (and metadata) in the encrypted body. That's a good move, just be careful about spam filters.

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The Indonesian discourse over dogs is really disgusting and despicable. They’re willing to haramize an entire species just because the saliva is haram. They’re willing to ignore hadiths and surahs saying dogs are friends and guardians, and tales about heavenly rewards for feeding starving dogs, all just because they can’t be fucked to use water and soap.

The Quran actually advised Muslims to consume meat from an animal caught by dogs trained to hunt because it’s meant for consumption. And yet people have gone out of their way to pretend the verse didn’t mention dogs when it specifically does.

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Well, the numbers are in: 72% of all electricity in the EU in 2025 came from low carbon sources.

67% if you want to exclude biofuels, which "low carbon" credentials are disputable.

Source: lowcarbonpower.org/region/EU

A pie chart showing the electricity generation in the EU in 2025. 23% came from nuclear, 13% from hydro, 17.9% from wind, 12.8% from solar, and 0.1% came from geothermal. 4.8% came from biofuels, 10.2% from coal, 15.8% from gas and 1% from oil.

Understand low-carbon energy in EU through Data

EU's electricity mix includes 23% Nuclear, 18% Wind and 16% Gas. Low-carbon generation peaked in 2024.
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When was the last time you went out for a few hours, without any device?

a worthwhile read about sitting alone somewhere without any connected devices candost.blog/the-unbearable-jo…

Since 10 years, i am also doing this weird thing where my mobile is mostly offline, only using WIFI here and there, but i am going to more often leave devices completely at home. It's really crazy how much this once normal situation is like a super-big deal these days.


The Unbearable Joy of Sitting Alone in A Café

Hunting timeless insights into humans and software and helping others on the way.
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JTI

I also received Spam in the Fediverse. From multiple servers, large and small. The topic is important as the Fediverse will scale and complicated because of the implied decentralized nature of it.
Hence, I expected a thoughtful discussion and comparison of existing work, work in progress, current research questions and transferrable work between the two protocols.

What did I get: Absolutely thought free, cheap instances of tu quoque and demonstrations of incompetence about the subject being discussed. Do better.

Which brings us to one the most important tools to combat spam in the Fediverse at the moment: The block function.

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Ich bin Fan vom Känguru und „VIEWS“ ist auch wirklich sehr gut.

Ich frage mich, ob Marc-Uwe Kling (@marcuwekling ) der Sache nicht mehr geholfen hätte, wenn er angekündigt hätte, ab morgen ausschließlich im #Fediverse zu posten.

Die meisten Nutzer folgen dem Content und nicht komplizierten moralischen Appellen.

#Mastodon #DiDay #DigitalIndependenceDay #DiDit

#fediverse #Mastodon #didit #diday #digitalindependenceday @Marc-Uwe Kling
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Regezi

Aus eigener Erfahrung würde ich sagen, dass ein zu aprupter Wechsel selten von langfristigem Erfolg gekrönt ist...ich denke, wenn einige neue Nutzer hier (zeitweilig parallel) ihre Zelte aufschlagen, sollten wir ihnen einen möglichst warmen Übergang ermöglichen...
* es benötigt auch etwas eigene investierte Zeit, dieses Netzwerk besser zu verstehen und diesen "Mehraufwand" können wir nur anteilig mit Usability-Attraktivität wettmachen...

@marcuwekling

@Marc-Uwe Kling

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I wrote Zig bindings to quickjs-ng with 96% API coverage (~240 exported C decls) with unit tests, examples, and doc strings on all functions in less than 6 total hours with AI assistance. I never want to hear that AI isn't faster ever again. github.com/mitchellh/zig-quick…

This isn't slop. I worked for those 6 hours.

I was reviewing everything it outputted, updating my AGENTS.md to course correct future work, ensuring the output was idiomatic Zig, writing my own tests on the side to verify its work (while it worked), and more. My work was split across ~40 separate Amp threads (not one mega session, which doesn't work anyways unless you're orchestrating).

I have a ton of experience writing bindings to libraries for various languages, especially Zig. I have never achieved this much coverage in so little time with such high quality (e.g. test coverage). My usual approach is to get bind just-enough of the surface area to do my actual work and move on. This time I thought I'd draw the whole owl, because it's a new world. And I'm very happy with the result.

Anyone with experience writing bindings knows that you do some small surface area, then the rest of the coverage is annoying repetition. That's why I usually stopped. Well, LLMs/agents are really, really good at annoying repetition and pattern matching. So going from 5% API coverage to 95% is... cake.

There is probably some corners that are kind of nasty still, but I've been re-reviewing every line of code manually and there is nothing major. Definitely some areas that can just use a nicer Zig interfaces over the C API, but that's about it.

I plan on writing a longer form blog showcasing my threads, but you can at least see the final AGENTS.md I produced in the linked repo.

github.com/mitchellh/zig-quick…


GitHub - mitchellh/zig-quickjs-ng: Zig build and bindings for quickjs-ng

Zig build and bindings for quickjs-ng. Contribute to mitchellh/zig-quickjs-ng development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Welcome to 2026! We have a lot planned for this year, including #LibreOffice 26.2, due in early February. Keep an eye on our blog for more updates: blog.documentfoundation.org #foss #openSource #freesoftware

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Da vergüenza ajena que Pedro Sánchez sea incapaz de publicar su propio comunicado de condena a la invasión americana sin tener a un grupo de países al lado, como da vergüenza ajena que haya tenido que unirse al comunicado latinoamericano porque ningún otro país de la UE es capaz de criticar a los EE.UU. como sí hicieron con la invasión de Iraq.

#Venezuela #PedroSanchez #psoe #ue #eu #europe #trump

#Trump #EU #europe #PSOE #PedroSánchez #Venezuela #ue

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🧵 We moved from Google Cloud to Hetzner and cut infrastructure costs by 80%. Here's what I learned:

Same workloads, same reliability, actually better performance for our use case. Main thing we lost: 47 GCP console screens to find a simple setting.

GCP isn't bad - it's powerful and right for many cases. But somewhere the industry decided "real" companies must use hyperscalers. That's marketing, not engineering.

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@Tutanota [1/2] I was using tuta mail. It was logged into the tuta app on my phone. Whenever I open the tuta app it automatically takes me to the inbox. I was also able to access it from the web too. But from the day before yesterday I was not able to login, it shows "invalid credentials".I tried many times carefully checking my credentials but I am not able to login. Also it does not login to my app automatically anymore. It was my primary email for official communication attached with many org
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Because of work, I haven't really made presentations since ~2016, and when I had to, I was basically forced into PowerPoint.

Back then, my conference & OSS talks were HTML+CSS for me (in Spanish, mostly). Markdown was just for Wikipedia.

Now I’m prepping a #FOSDEM 2026 talk for @badgefed and discovered #marp.
Markdown-based slides, and… wow. I'm having way more fun than I expected.

marp.app/


Marp: Markdown Presentation Ecosystem

Marp (also known as the Markdown Presentation Ecosystem) provides an intuitive experience for creating beautiful slide decks. You only have to focus on writing your story in a Markdown document.
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#fosdem #marp @The BadgeFed Project

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Hi. I apologize in advance if my account becomes somewhat political. I am Venezuelan, and I want to talk about what is happening in my country. I will do so from my own beliefs and political position.
I am open to debate and to clarifying doubts for anyone who has them.

However, I am not open to insults, disrespect of any kind, or being called a traitor to my country. I only accept respectful dialogue here, and I thank in advance anyone who chooses to engage in that spirit.

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Acabadico Babel, de Kuang. Uf, me ha flipado, genuinamente, me parece una maravilla de novela. sí, tiene sus cosas, como que la narradora es demasiado obvia a veces y tiene a explicar demasiado, confiando demasiado poco en el lector.

PERO, aún así, me ha flipado toda la novela de cabo a rabo. En tema, estilo y estructura. En general no leo libros tan largos (aunque ahora van a venir varios tochos seguidos...) y me imponía bastante. Sin embargo, me lo he bebido. Lo comencé el día 1, viajando a casapadres en tren, y me lo he acabado esta tarde.

Me encanta como el conocimiento de un campo muy concreto, la traducción, puede acabar no solo siendo un sistema de magia, sino un sistema de poder y relaciones. Que el propio sistema de magia que plantea sea en sí los vacíos del lenguaje... Mira, me flipa.

También es de los pocos sistemas de magia que he visto que, de verdad, está ahí para reforzar la trama y su mensaje anticolonial.

En fin, que recomiendo muchísimo #literaverso

#literaverso
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modulux

Me gustó muchísimo también; y la forma en que se sistematiza la traducción como un recurso a utilizar y explotar es muy interesante. Personalmente, también hice una lecutra secundaria que no sé si es porque yo siempre pienso en estas cosas, o porque realmente estaba ahí; pero el tema de la centralización, de como se controlaba la traducción desde un solo centro y así había que renovar la suscripción de vez en cuando, me recordó un montón a todo el tema de la nube y el software como servicio; y el status de los traductores me hizo pensar en la posición de los estratos técnicos (ingenieros, arquitectos...), con privilegios materiales pero explotados y reproduciendo el sistema.

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Ayer un señor me ayudó a subir al tren, me buscó asiento, me puso la mano en la cabeza y me dijo "que Dios te bendiga". Y Dios me bendijo. Y ahora no sé qué hacer con la bendición. ¿A alguien más le pasa? ¿Cómo se vive estando bendecido? Es que no estoy usando bien la bendición o algo, porque los problemas que tengo son los mismos y no he notado ningún cambio.
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