I promised myself I'd be more positive on here but I can't. I really can't.
WHY IS WHATSAPP WEB TAKING UP 812MB OF RAM?
Over 800 megs. For a messaging app. On a browser. What is going on? Where have we gone wrong? And hey, it used to be that it was easy to justify the continued use of WhatsApp because of its accessibility, but that is no longer the case. It now sucks. But hey, there's one good part to all of this:
At least, at the very least, I don't have to use Telegram.
I expect we'll be starting war with Iran soon seeing how Australia has requested all citizens leave the country immediately. They must have been given a heads up.
> "Leave Iran now. Commercial options to depart are still available but becoming more limited. Airspace closures and flight cancellations could happen soon, making it impossible to leave later," the public communique read on Monday (January 12). Canberra further said that Australian citizens staying back in Iran despite the advisory would be responsible for their own safety.
Existing World's Smallest Violin Still Too Large By Orders of Magnitude, Say Boffins
futurism.com/artificial-intell…
A self-described AI ambassador is in shambles after she says other AI prompters have been plagiarizing her instructions.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
I am here once again to tell you no centralized service is the solution, the solution is #decentralization
> Investment firm buys #Threema.
> Their "investment themes":
> - Growth potential above 10% per annum
> - Profitable or foreseeable path to profitability
About one in 12 sheep is gay, but when rams prefer the company of other rams, they're considered a commercial failure and slaughtered. In Germany, some are lucky enough to end up in the Rainbow Wool sanctuary, a biodiverse sheep farm that prioritizes animal welfare, run by Michel Stücke and his partner Jochen. Last month, the wool from some of those sheep was showcased by LA designer Michael Schmidt in his "I Wool Survive" collection, a collaboration with Grindr and publicist Kelly Cutrone. Dazed talked to Schmidt and Cutrone about the collection. Learn more about Rainbow Wool — including how to sponsor a gay sheep — at the second link.
#LGBTQ #Fashion #Farming #AnimalWelfare #Sheep #Animals
Using the wool of 35 homosexual rams, LA designer Michael Schmidt crafted a collection that examined the ‘stereotypical tropes of gay fantasies’Dazed Digital
Introduction Time:
Mastodon was recommended by a friend, so still figuring all this out. I'm a young writer trying to learn my craft by writing in public. Learn by doing, right?
Works are free under CC BY.
100% human.
#introduction
This ad for a cheap Funai VCR on marketplace had an completely incorrect AI description (image1), because they googled the Funai UL Listing number (image2,image3) which scraped an ebay listing for a DTV box that also used the UL Listing number (image4).
The internet is eating itself and I'm tired.
😳 🥵
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For the fourth time, the Blind Travel Foundation $10000 travel grant is available to benefit the blind and visually impaired community.
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I don't know what's worse.
Links to flipboard or links to instagram or facebook ?
Just randomly thinking about that car I used to pass every week on the way to and from my child psychiatrist's office in 1995, with a missing door. Lots of tape where the door should have been.
I wonder how that person's life turned out.
'Imperialists can never save you': In Lebanon, Iranians divided over protests shaking their country #press
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A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#231 Blueprint Maps
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Updates on what happens across the GNOME project from week to weekthisweek.gnome.org
I’m moving away from Facebook and Instagram, as they no longer feel like the places where I want to spend my energy.
I’m a photographer working across film and digital — people, places and weddings — and I’d love to connect with others who care about analogue photography.
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Revolog Tesla BW 200
#analogue
Comitis Capital hat den Kauf von Threema vereinbart – final abgeschlossen ist das laut Mitteilung noch nicht (Closing im Jan. 2026 geplant).
Und ja: Threema bleibt weiterhin in der Schweiz (Sitz), aber „Schweizer Souveränität“ ist am Ende auch eine Frage von Eigentümerstruktur, Governance und Transparenz.
@roCKyJungE @BlackWolf
Wie hast du deiner Familie und Freunden erklärt wie XMPP funktioniert?
Jedem, dem ich auch nur davon erzähle, ist ab dem Punkt komplett überfordert, wenn es darum geht, dass man seinen Server frei wählen kann und ich komme nicht mal an den Punkt, wo man sich seinen Klienten selbst auswählen kann.
Aber heutzutage sind Menschen von ihrer Freiheit irgendwie komplett überfordert und das in vielen Gebieten.
Bin für jeden Tipp dankbar, weil ich möchte gerne mehr Menschen zu XMPP bringen.
Apparently to renew a passport in Canada one has to pay a tax to Adobe, and Microsoft or Apple.
What kind of fucking elbows up is that?
How about you make a form in the web browser and if you need use to have the PDF generate the PDF as the result?
Requiring a single (American) vendor is already a violation of procurement rules. Why isn't it in the communication with citizen?
Non-withstanding that the software IS spyware.
I've been beaten by the LAPD. I lived in Berkeley in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I've been tear gassed and watched police push people backwards off of highway overpasses. I knew and understood many Black Panthers.
I am sick and tired of Kumbaya songs. I am sick and tired of turn-the-other-cheek reactions to current affairs in the US.
But I am also a lawyer, sworn to peaceful methods.
What do I do?
What strikes me is the age old method of ostracism - practiced in ancient Athens, written about in plays like Lysistrata, and rendered into strong force by churches through the practice of excommunication.
We ought to perform civil excommunication on ICE agents - do not sell or rent products to them in stores, do not rent hotel rooms to them, do not fund them, treat them like modern day lepers. Businesses should make it clear that they will never be hired for a job. Do not adopt Jesus' policy of acceptance of them.
Spread their names so that we may cut them off from society.
RE: tldr.nettime.org/@dk/115883068…
fanbois call it Epic Yclic Code
It attempts to fit solutions from potentially very different domains together with corrective code "epicycles" until it satisfies its context, the user, and tests.
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RE: cyberplace.social/@Wuzzy/11588…
Good news, i hope to see other project do the same (if technically possible ... of course) @CachyOS @fedora @opensuse @ubuntu @archlinux @flathub @IzzyOnDroid @nixos_org
YES YES YES! #Gentoo is planning to ditch #GitHub in favor of #Codeberg. They mention the continued attempts to force #Copilot into the workflows as a reason. https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/01/05/new-year.Wuzzy (Cyberplace)
perfect thanks for the clarification, you are right, my brain must have bugged 😂 👍
edit corrected the message :)
No prob (as it feels like 98% of everything is captured there by MS, as often also on the desktop, such things can happen far too easy).
Besides: not only am I AT Codeberg, I'm IN, being a Codeberg e.V. member. Actually, I almost was a founding member back then. Did you know the original name was TeaHub? 😉
So, we're working closely together. Codeberg also runs one of our mirrors 🤗
but sadly the only apps, i would have used izzy on droid where removed due to their author demand or are not here :
- Bitwarden
- Molly
- Steam apk
- Cromite (webrowser)
it's not bashing i understand you respect author decision, just find it sad :)
May try to ind a simple way to make a fdroid repo (without their app), and host them myself.
any recommendation on how to start up a basec one ?
because their doc, are confusing, and their "use the flatpak" don't work as the flatpak don't even start.
RE: social.abolivier.bzh/@brendan/…
If you're going to @fosdem be sure to find us in Building F AND be sure to check out @brendan 's talk! We can't wait to see everyone, and don't worry, we're bringing all the stickers.
Going to @fosdem this year? Me too! I'll even be babbling about the work we've done over the past couple of years to support Microsoft Exchange in @thunderbird - that'll be Saturday midday in the Modern Email devroom.fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event…
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 18 updated and 1 added apps:
* Coffee: prevents your screen from dimming or locking 🛡️
RB status: 796 apps (61.9%)
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid 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
@thunderbird Hey TB Team. I really never need HTML-formatting in event descriptions. How can I turn that off? It is really bugging me to see format options there.
Thank you.
We love to see it--community-created harm reduction infrastructure in the face of the alarming integration of AI agents into the Windows operating system (which is currently the most reckless deployment environment) ❤
github.com/zoicware/RemoveWind…
Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAIGitHub
Agentic AI is the catch-all term for AI-enabled systems that propose to complete more or less complex tasks on their own, without stopping to ask permission ...YouTube
A Privacy Failure Waiting to HappenDaniel Kahn Gillmor (American Civil Liberties Union)
I wrote about a new MacOS accessibility library, pyax. It's a cool little tool you can use to inspect the accessibility API of apps. #a11y #macos #firefox #accessibility
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In our work on Firefox MacOS accessibility we routinely run into highly nuanced bugs in our accessibility platform API. The tree structure, an object attribu...blog.monotonous.org
A few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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