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New Audio Player. I want to introduce you to an audio player which is new to me for both Windows and Mac. It is called the Flux Entertainment Centre.
This is a highly accessible application. I've been listening to our station Team-FM with it this morning and it is very stable and reliable.
Global shortcut keys are available and it even has variable speed and pitch playback. The only thing which is missing is the ability to determine elapsed and remaining time in hours, minutes and seconds. For many people like me that is an essential requirement. I must know an elapsed time quickly. Apart from that, it's excellent.
You do not need me to spell out its features because you can read about it here.
ims-productions.com/flux/

Flux

Flux Do you stream a lot of content on your computer but are tired of dealing with clunky and constantly changing web interfaces? If so, Flux was made for you. Flux brings your audio and media experie
IMS Productions
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Steffen

Yes, but with reservations. I would do it as long as it's a one-time payment and there's no online account and/or online activation. I'm always concerned that the developers will eventually lose interest in such projects and shut down the activation servers. The software would then become useless. That's why I don't like the concept of e.g. TweeseCake, even though it's currently free.

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Ich bin jetzt mal ganz ehrlich zu euch und mache mich unbeliebt:

Ich brauche nicht noch ein Video, wo ein Mensch durch Paris radelt und sagt:
Wie toll ist das?
Das könnten wir auch haben!

Wir brauchen Menschen wie die Bruntletts, die klar sagen:
DAS zu schaffen, braucht Rückgrat, Mut und Menschenliebe.
Danke!

Das Video geht heute raus an alle Newslettter-Abonnent*innen.
Alle 14 Tage gibt es hier Input in meiner Academy.
Übersicht hier:
katja-diehl.de/interviews/

Interviews — Katja Diehl

Katja Diehl – she drives mobility – Mobilitätswende

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Schönes Beispiel, wie man es nicht machen sollte: Wenn Bauanträge "nach drei Monaten ohne Widerspruch automatisch als genehmigt gelten", dann kann ich halt einen schönen Behörden-DDOS machen. Ich stell dann einfach in der Urlaubszeit schön per Serienbrief 823 Bauanträge und in der Zeit kriegen die die alle nicht fristgerecht abgelehnt

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Linnemann: CDU will automatische Behörden-Genehmigungen

Eine schnellere Genehmigung für den Hausbau, den größeren Carport oder ein Nachbarschaftsfest: Die CDU will laut Generalsekretär Linnemann automatische Fristlösungen auf den Weg bringen, um die deutsche Verwaltung zu beschleunigen.
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«Independientemente de la ley electoral —que efectivamente penaliza la fragmentación—, existe también una voluntad de conformar y construir un frente amplio sobre unos mínimos programáticos en los que estamos de acuerdo: la defensa de los servicios públicos, reformas estructurales del Estado, descentralización y políticas sociales».

🎙 Ya puedes escuchar la entrevista a Antonio Maíllo en ‘La mañana fin de semana’ de COPE

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🎧 ENTREVISTA | Antonio Maíllo en ‘La mañana fin de semana’ de COPE.

El Coordinador Federal de Izquierda Unida Antonio Maíllo es entrevistado en ‘La mañana fin de semana’ de COPE el 18 de enero de 2026.
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A quick #FOSDEM guide from someone who's been attending since it was still called OSDEM:

1. Be mindful of other people. This is an extremely busy conference.
2. If a talk is in progress and you want to enter the room: don't. Wait until the next talk.
3. If you didn't read 2, try to enter as quietly as humanly possible, and ideally even quieter. Many of the rooms have terrible acoustics and you will annoy hundreds of people.
4. The hallway track is very busy. Take it outside when possible.

#fosdem
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⚠️ We're 900 € short on funds for our stand at #FOSDEM

FOSDEM is the largest free and open source software conference in Europe. Attending FOSDEM allows us to promote #Luanti, bring the community together, and connect with other open source projects.

If you can, please help by giving to our non-profit fundraiser. Any contribution helps lighten the load

opencollective.com/luanti/proj…

#Minetest #OpenSource #FreeSoftware


Luanti at FOSDEM 26 - Open Collective

Stand for Luanti at FOSDEM 2026
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#FreeSoftware #opensource #fosdem #Minetest #luanti

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It looks like Iran has successfully built a national 'walled garden' to control internet connectivity - both halting outsiders from communicating with those in Iran who are protesting, but also halting Iranians' ability to access the world wide web's myriad resources.

How well this 'wall' can be maintained remains to be seen but authoritarian regimes around the world will be watching, that's for sure.

#internet #censorship #Iran #politics

theguardian.com/world/2026/jan…


Iran plans permanent break from global internet, say activists

Report claims unrestricted online access will be a ‘government privilege’, limited to individuals vetted by regime
Aisha Down (The Guardian)
#politics #censorship #iran #Internet

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I'd like to know people's opinions on this. I enjoying following people who post in a variety of languages. I also know I have followers who appreciate alt text in images and do my best not to boost images that have no alt text.

What do you do when the image has alt text but is in another language? To boost it as I would like to would mean those using screen readers are disadvantaged, as far as I know. To boost and comment with English alt text would seem rude to the original poster who has already included alt text. (I'm only using English as an example there as it's the one I usually communicate in). Do screen readers have their own translation functions by any chance?

If you're someone who uses a screen reader what do you do when you come across alt text in a language you don't understand?

#AltText #languages #ScreenReaders

#languages #AltText #screenreaders

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Vystudoval jsem střední průmyslovou školu, obor Informatika, zaměření programování.
Co se týče skutečné informatiky, měli jsme předměty Programování, Databáze, Počítačové sítě, Technické vybavení počítačů, Operační systémy, Webové aplikace, Počítačová grafika.
Školu jsem dostudoval v roce 2019. V mé práci toho využívám nejvíce z předmětů Operační systémy a Technické vybavení počítačů.
Kolik učiva z těchto předmětů je užitečného v mé práci? Ne, takto to není vhodně formulovaná otázka. Co v práci dělám a co jsme se neučili? Správa domény ve smyslu uživatelů, počítačů v Active Directory. Modul DHCP? Nikoliv. Propojení s Microsoft 365? V té době už to existovalo, neučili jsme se to. Exchange? Ne. Procesy v IT? Ne. Jak řešit problémy s Windows, technické příkazy pro opravu systému? Ne. Z tématu kyberbezpečnosti jsme začali a skončili u složitosti hesla. Doménové politiky v prostředí Windows? Ne. Za to umím editovat grub, znám snad všechny příkazy bashe, umím zakládat uživatele v terminálu, není problém pro mě konfigurovat apache, sambu, atd. Vím, co je to fragmentace paměti, stránkování, preemptivní nebo nepreemptivní plánování, vím, co je to žurnál. Vím, jak se ukládají data do paměti počítače. Vím, jak pracuje procesor, co je to instrukční pointer, registry, instrukce. Vím, jak využít výkon grafické karty v programování přes technologii NVIDIA CUDA. Umím Assembler, C, C++, chápu princip objektového programování. PHP, a další jazyky, na které si už ani nevzpomenu.
A Novell, no.
Všechno jsou to věci, u kterých jsem rád, že je znám, ale velkou většinu věcí, kterou dělám v práci, mě ve škole nenaučili. Naučil jsem se je sám, protože mě ten obor baví. Praxe českého školství je skutečně taková, že sice máte maturitu z technického oboru nebo titul, ale potom nastoupíte do práce ve stejném oboru a připadáte si hloupí, protože věci, které se v praxi používají, vás nikdo cizí nenaučil. Prostě to tak je.
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Jan Antoš

@archos test do kamene, pamatuju si jeden pracovní pohovor (teda spíše rozhovor s recruiterem), někdy uprostřed jsem mu řekl, koukám tady na požadavky co máte a jste si vědom ze nemám VŠ? Úplně automaticky mi odpověděl, to neni problém, když máte více než 15 let praxe. Popravdě řečeno se mě na VŠ nikdo nikdy poslední dekádu a půl nezeptal. Až na jednu výjimku, a to byla jedna nejmenovaná česká konzultantská firma v ČR, která ani nebyla schopna mi nabídnout podmínky které už mam cca dekádu (Estonsko, Gibraltar - výše platu, bonusy, dny dovolené, zdravotní pojištění, etc…) a ještě mi řekla, ať se vrátím tedy vrátím do svého alternativního světa. Tak jsem ji slušnou češtinou upozornil, že to je ona kdo mě kontaktuje a poslal do prdele i celou firmou at už me nikdy nekontaktuje.
@Archos

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RE: gultsch.social/@daniel/1135490…

#Signal isn’t just AWS. It also has a hard dependency on Google’s push notification system (FCM) if you don’t want your battery to catch fire.

Signal’s attitude towards #UnifiedPush and #FDroid speaks volumes.

Daniel Gultsch

2024-11-26 11:29:14

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I installed #Signal and #Conversations_im on a clean install of #GrapheneOS on my Pixel 4a and measured the battery impact. The results are shocking!

Both messengers had only one contact: my regular phone.

I used my regular phone to send messages to the Pixel 4a (which was not used for anything else over the course of the experiment).

I always sent the same message via Signal and #XMPP (mixing up which app went first). In total I sent ~32 messages in intervals of 10mins to a few hours.

Battery usage stats from an Android phone. The battery is down to 10% after 20 hours since last full charge. Signal has consumed 95% in that period and Conversations 5%

#fdroid #signal #UnifiedPush

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A hard lesson learned: don’t hold people to the standards to which you hold yourself. It’s unfair because:

1. They probably don’t know what the hell your expectations are

2. If they’re not your employees, you have no reason to hold them to most standards (aside from the typical societal ones such as being decent, reasonable human beings)

3. There’s a pretty good chance the standards you hold for yourself are ridiculous, anyway *points at myself*

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Random idea I had out of complete boredom, a bot that boosts publicized polls from anywhere it's federated with, of course not DMs or followers only or anything like that. No, I do not know if this is ethical or viable or anything similar, I just came up with it out of boredom and doing a search for "poll" in my mastodon client. Lol
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RE: social.tchncs.de/@restless/115…

Wenn wir das mit der digitalen Unabhängigkeit ernst meinen ist #Signal einfach nur eine Ablenkung.

#Quicksy hingegen ist ein wirklicher Schritt in die richtige Richtung. Quicksy ist so konzipiert, dass man darüber hinaus wächst und ein nahtloser Übergang zu #Conversations_im möglich ist.
Quicksy ist die Einstiegsdroge für wirklich unabhängiges Instant Messaging mit #XMPP.

Restless (@restless@social.tchncs.de)

Der #DiDay und die Messenger - Eine einfache Lösung? Schön wäre ja, wenn mehr Menschen zu offenen, föderierten Messengern wie Matrix oder XMPP wechseln würden. Die grösste Hürde bleibt oft: Menschen finden. Ich habe nun Quicksy ausprobiert.
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#xmpp #signal #conversations_im #quicksy
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Daniel Gultsch

@griesgram Wenn das Ziel ist die Leute von WhatsApp wegzubekommen bin ich d'accord damit.

Der Anspruch war aber digitale Unabhängigkeit und da ist Signal einfach Thema verfehlt.

Digitale Unabhängigkeit bekommen wir nur hin wenn wir das selbstständig in unseren jeweiligen communties organisieren. Unabhängigkeit erlangt man nicht in dem man sich von einem walled garden in einen anderen walled garden mit etwas weniger Dornen begibt.

@griesgram
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Debacle

@griesgram
Signal nutzen, weil es eine sichere (im Sinne von "confidential") Alternative zu WA ist? Völlig in Ordnung, kein Problem!

Aber Signal nutzen, weil es "unabhängig von #BigTech" sei? Das ist Quatsch, man tauscht nur Meta mit Amazon und Google. Sagt Signal sogar selbst.

framapiaf.org/@debacle/1158043…


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Attaché : 1 image You like Signal for it's outstanding #confidentiality? Fine! You like Threema, since it's safe, it's from #Switzerland, and #ElsbethSigmund as #Heidi was your #childhoodCrush? Great! You like Whatsapp, because your friends are th…
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#bigtech @griesgram
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Daniel Gultsch

@griesgram @debacle Der Punkt ist das wir bei WhatsApp -> Signal keine übertragbaren Fähigkeiten lernen. Bei Quicksy können wir langsam, nach und nach lernen: Hey guck mal du kannst auch mit Leuten chatten die Monal oder Snikket benutzen. Hey du möchtest Quicksy auf dem Desktop nutzen? Wusstet du das du dich mit Dino in dein Quicksy Account einloggen kannst?
@Debacle @griesgram

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It would take the average American driver over 40 years to burn as much fuel as a single flight of a Boeing Pegasus refueling tanker. No amount of recycling your cans and bottles is ever going to compete with these numbers.

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The U.S. War Machine is Destroying the Planet

In their new documentary “Earth’s Greatest Enemy,” Abby Martin and Mike Prysner reveal that the climate and anti-war movements are really one and the same—because the U.S. military is the worst polluter of all.
Karissa Halstrom (Current Affairs Inc)

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Trump now claims he will introduce tariffs on countries that does not support his plans to take over Greenland.

Two points:

— The US Supreme Court is currently evaluating whether Trump's tariffs are even legal, so it is not even certain that Trump can do this.
— If Trump imposes these tariffs, the EU will likely change the soft approach to Trump, immediately introducing reciprocal tariffs from the entire union, at which point Trump might fold, as he did with China.

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A damning new study could put AI companies on the defensive.

In it, Stanford and Yale researchers found compelling evidence that AI models are actually copying all that data,
not “learning” from it.

Specifically, four prominent LLMs
— OpenAI’s GPT-4.1, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, xAI’s Grok 3, and Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet
— happily reproduced lengthy excerpts from popular
— and protected
— works, with a stunning degree of accuracy.

They found that Claude outputted “entire books near-verbatim” with an accuracy rate of 95.8 percent.

Gemini reproduced the novel “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” with an accuracy of 76.8 percent,

while Claude reproduced George Orwell’s “1984” with a higher than 94 percent accuracy compared to the original
— and still copyrighted
— reference material.

“While many believe that LLMs do not memorize much of their training data, recent work shows that substantial amounts of copyrighted text can be extracted from open-weight models,”
the researchers wrote.

Some of these reproductions required the researchers to jailbreak the models with a technique called "Best-of-N",
which essentially bombards the AI with different iterations of the same prompt.

(Those kinds of workarounds have already been used by OpenAI to defend itself in a lawsuit filed by the New York Times,
with its lawyers arguing that “normal people do not use OpenAI’s products in this way.”)

The implications of the latest findings could be substantial
as copyright lawsuits play out in courts across the country.

As The Atlantic‘s Alex Reisner points out,
the results further undermine the AI industry’s argument that LLMs “learn” from these texts
-- instead of storing information and recalling it later.

It’s evidence that “may be a massive legal liability for AI companies”
and “potentially cost the industry billions of dollars in copyright-infringement judgments

futurism.com/artificial-intell…


Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the AI Industry to Its Core

Researchers found compelling evidence that AI models are actually copying copyrighted data, not "learning" from it.
Victor Tangermann (Futurism)
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Call it hashtag stacking or just spamming, but addding 20 hashtags to your post is super annoying to screenreader users, since the screenreader reads out every single hashtag of yours. so, please, add your hashtags to end of your post, even preferably after an URL. And who ever of the app developers out there creates a feature which detects this pattern in posts and allows me to disable it, has my vote. #accessibility #a11y
#a11y #Accessibility
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I lost a friend over my article about the murder of Renee Nicole Good.

He was angry I called out the underlying misogyny.

He was mad I didn’t give ICE the benefit of the doubt.

He made it personal.

He told me my “stupid clown hair” is why people don’t take me seriously

Everything he said to me was dripping with disdain and misogyny.

There was no debate.

There was no respectful disagreement.

In under five minutes he had attacked my intelligence, my politics, my appearance and my writing.

This is not normal behaviour.

He literally proved my point.

Had I taken the bait I’m convinced that I would have been called a “f*cking b*tch” by the end of the conversation.

This is what MAGA is doing to men.

It’s emboldening them.

It’s validating their bigotry.

I assume this person was always hateful and misogynistic on some level … but now he no longer feels he has to hide it.

He literally said as much.

He said “I never told you in the past because I wasn’t allowed. Now I am.”

Why is he allowed to tell me now??

Why does he feel justified in lashing out with rage and insults over something that has nothing to do with him?

It’s because of what happened to Renee Nicole Good.

We all watched a woman get shot in broad daylight and there’s been zero consequences

We’ve watched rapists, pedophiles and abusers go free for years.

Every woman who’s ever experienced abuse knew exactly what Jonathan Ross meant when he said “f*cking b*tch”

He didn’t fear for his life.

He was enraged she didn’t fear for hers.

My friend was enraged I dare speak out for a “lesbian leftist”.

He was enraged I didn’t remain silent, complicit and demure.

He was apparently also enraged I didn’t realize he hated my hair and change it to please him.

Make no mistake, there is a war against women going on.

This regime wants to make us “less than”.

They want us afraid.

They want us in the home serving our husbands and having children.

They want us seen and not heard.

They don’t want us resisting.

Which is why we must keep speaking out.

We must refuse to go back.

My life is better off without this person in it, and thankfully I can walk away.

Not everyone can.

Speak up if you see someone being hurt.

Protect your friends and neighbours.

Challenge misogynistic talking points.

Demand justice for Renee Nicole Good.

Don’t cower. Don’t be afraid. Don’t give up.

#uspol #fascism #reneenicolegood #abolishice #immigration #minnesota

#uspol #immigration #fascism #abolishice #minnesota #reneenicolegood

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The measles outbreak in South Carolina is the largest in the country and has spread to three other states.

It’s growing at an alarming speed.

Over 500 people in quarantine and 200 are actively infected.

This was completely preventable.

These people didn’t need to get sick.

Measles can kill. It can disable. It can leave you deaf and blind.

It’s a vaccine preventable illness.

Shame on everyone creating distrust in the vaccine and refusing to do their part for public health.

nbcnews.com/health/health-news…

#uspol #measles #publichealth #disability #ableism


South Carolina measles outbreak doubles within a week: ‘Staring over the edge’

On Friday, South Carolina health department said 124 measles cases were diagnosed since Tuesday, bringing the state total since the outbreak began last fall to 558.
Erika Edwards (NBC News)
#uspol #Disability #publichealth #ableism #measles

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haha. I have made blindsoft image describer-js (BSID-JS) open source. #opensource #cloudflare #workers #js #javascript github.com/averlice/bsid-js if you want to host or contribute at all, feel free. licensed under the gpl-v3 public distribution license.

GitHub - averlice/bsid-js: blindsoft image describer running on cloud flare workers

blindsoft image describer running on cloud flare workers - averlice/bsid-js
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#opensource #cloudflare #javascript #js #workers

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Started watching BSG again today as I wanted to see if it looked as awesome on a 77" OLED TV as i thought it would (it does) and, oddly, it has over the years become something of a comfort show.

It continues to impress me how well Ronald Moore and Co. dealt with issues touched upon 20 full years ago that continue to be relevant today.

tvscholar.com/p/20-years-later…


20 years later, Battlestar Galactica still holds up

A rewatch begins as Peacock dumps Sam Esmail's planned reboot.
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