"The MetaVerse is the future and if you don't adopt it you're gonna be left behind"
mashable.com/article/meta-hori…
Wait, no more virtual sitting in a virtual chair, chatting with virtual people with a VR headset on, for hours? Bummer.Stan Schroeder (Mashable)
Got ripped off on an online purchase over the holidays for about $44.00
Sent dispute to bank/visa.
Bank disputes my dispute and rejects. Just got off the phone to learn the person who reviewed my dispute lied about the answers I provided in their dispute form as cause to reject the dispute.
Now, they've breached the state consumer protection act.
They're under threat of litigation if they don't return the money, which, is no idle threat.
Why would I go to these lengths over $44.00?
Because I'm SICK AND FUCKING TIRED of living in a #corporate dystopia and will drag the money out of them NO MATTER WHAT!!! Have fun paying your attorney's thousands of dollars over a $44.00 dispute because your corporate policy is to screw over your own clients to enrich your shareholders.
Good morning 😘
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For #RRS on #Android I just switched from Readrops to #CapyReader. It both is able to sync with #FreshRSS server, but Capy's UI better suits my needs.
Reeddrops looks fine, but it feels kind of wrong when using it. Especially in article listings. It seems like they use wrong UI components for the task.
Capy's UI feels less cluttered, more text focused. I better orient in the article titles. So far good work @_jocmp 👍️
The Right is obsessed with manufacturing reality for your consumption.
#KristiNoem #SouthDakota #InfantMortality #TheyAreNotProLife
#RightWingLies
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@MikeGorse we have two printers that are, by accident, multi-function, and, not by accident, two-sided printers. An old HP Laserjet 1536dnf MDF, black and white. Super reliable. Complains about refilled toner cartridges but they work. Clean the rollers half-assedly every 5 years and it keeps chugging.
Also, an HP color inkjet with refillable tanks, from a year or two ago, a total unreliable piece of shit that prints nicely. Needs Bluetooth to configure because it has no screen. Plate tray.
The FreeBSD Foundation announced they're funding development of a new agentic AI based on an Alibaba model which will run in your kernel called Kirk.
There will be no way to remove it from the OS beginning with FreeBSD 16.0, because this model is completely replacing the TCP/IP stack and the CPU scheduler. All of these decisions will now processed by Kirk. Instead of being based on the time-tested monolithic kernel design, this will be the beginning of a new era of hybrid-cystolithic kernels.
I added livekit and lk-jwt-service to my #matrix homeserver so I can initiate calls and conferences.
Element X audio/video calling pretty much feels like Face Time. Better than Signal calls.
You prob know this already, but if you duck-search, you can go to a slightly different entry point at noai.duckduckgo.com to do web searches without AI slop dumping on you.
I see they've dressed up the landing page there! Now more obviously non-AI. I mean, it's a selling feature, so yeah, go to town guys.
(if you still google things, consider the duck search! it's worked well for me for years, and the non-ai version is a nice step forward).
#InternetSearch #degoogle #websearch
The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.DuckDuckGo
Every time you buy a Chinese electric EV it makes baby Doug Ford cry.
Go ahead and buy a Chinese electric EV.
Making your list of @fosdem talks to try and get into/watch online? We are too! Be sure you don't miss @bogo and his talk, "What translating Thunderbird taught me," Sunday 1 February at 14:50 in the Translations dev room (K.3.401) 🌍
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“In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.”
musically.com/2026/01/15/5-1tn…
Music-biz number-cruncher Luminate has published its year-end report for 2025, with plenty of stats for the industry to chew over.Stuart Dredge (Music Ally)
krúpy a kadečo z prasaťa.
edit: s bramborami taky dobrý ale podľa mňa naj s chlebom a kyslou uhorkou hh
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Huh, that's interesting. It always used to skip back to the beginning for me.
I have recently figured out that I can somehow still get a student YT premium subscription through my employee account, because SheerID apparently doesn't check permissions for us properly, so that's my workaround now.
The future of software development is Gemini adding and removing the "status/needs-triage" tag from an issue on GitHub 5,000 times.
Gemini is made by Google, a company once famous for incredibly high quality software engineering.
github.com/google-gemini/gemin…
What would you like to be added? This is feature request - someone can point it as bug as well but I will not. Ask / Request 👉🏽 Implement exit and quit as standard commands with a simple confirmati...pm-bhatt (GitHub)
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RE: climatejustice.social/@termina…
Oh, good. It's driving up spinning rust prices too.
Hard drive prices are spiking because of "ai." Prices have jumped 46% on average since September. The 24TB Seagate BarraCuda used to be $239 on sale, but it's now sitting at $500.Terminal Tilt (Climate Justice Social)
Random quick+dirty scripts I want to share. Contribute to hannob/scripts development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
#Chromium embedders: imagine full extensions support, on your lightweight //content-only product. No more complex rebasings or //chrome hacks! Just clean APIs without chrome::Profile. Shin, from @igalia , has been working on this.
From an #Android prototype to a demo in the @WolvicXR browser, landing upstream in //extensions. A path to real extensions on TVs, cars, and custom #browsers. Read more in her new blog post! ✍ blogs.igalia.com/mshin/2026/01…
bei uns hieß das eine ganze Weile lang, dass das Paket dann innerhalb der nächsten 10 minuten ankommt. Verstanden hab ich das auch nie. 🤷♀️
Und mittlerweile geht das tracking dann glaube ich auch für die letzten 10 minuten hier.
God bless people who do stuff like getting in touch with the US patent office and putting the source code for the 1998 furby on archive.org
archive.org/details/furby-sour…
The source code of the firmware used in the 1998 Furby.The patent wrapper containing it was obtained and scanned by Sean Riddle (seanriddle.com).Internet Archive
Supposedly a IBM board member once said there's a market for maybe 5 computers worldwide.
Maybe he was just very good at making predictions.
Five computers. MS, Amazon, Google, Apple, Oracle.
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