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Gisteren vond er een aanslag plaats op een protest van de Koerdische gemeenschap op het Operaplein. Wij waren daar ook aanwezig om onze solidariteit te tonen.
Er zal hierover nog communicatie volgen maar we willen al even reageren op een aantal artikels die hierover reeds in de Vlaamse media verschenen.
* De politie was niet "aanwezig om de manifestatie in goede banen te leiden." Daar heeft de Koerdische gemeenschap de politie niet voor nodig.
* Welgeteld één flik in burger heeft eerste zorgen toegediend. De rest stond er wat op te kijken. Het waren de omstaanders die voornamelijk de eerste zorgen hebben toegediend.
* Het was geen "pure chaos." Ja, het was verwarrend en beangsigend, maar de reacties van de meeste omstaanders waren snel en to-the-point.
* Sommige berichten spraken over een vechtpartij. Dit is pertinent onjuist.

Wij moedigen journaliten aan om verder te kijken dan wat de politiewoordvoerder hen vertelt en communicatie vanuit de politie met dezelfde voorzichtheid te behandelen als elke andere bron.

#Antwerpen #Rojava

#antwerpen #rojava

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Vegas taking a 27% cut by valuing the Canadian dollar at par is giving me the giggles - this is bordering on one of the most successful boycotts in history - FAFO you fucking US fascists - we are NEVER coming back

#CDNpoli #Vegas #USpol #USpolitics

ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/we-…


‘We miss our best friends’: Las Vegas hotels accepting Canadian dollar at par to spark tourism

Three downtown Las Vegas hotels have begun accepting the Canadian dollar at par with the American dollar in an effort to spur Canuck travel.
Timm Bruch (CTVNews)
#uspol #cdnpoli #uspolitics #vegas

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Each year we are excited to see how many NLnet grantees we can spot in the list of @fosdem speakers. This year is a new high with over 100 speakers!
Another record will be broken at our hex sticker table. We'll be bringing over 300.000 stickers featuring more than 300 unique hex designs.
We have 2 BoF meetups, 1 with @NGIZero and 1 NLnet get-together and we'll be bringing snacks.
And Michiel Leenaars will give the opening keynote on Saturday.
Let's meet at #FOSDEM!
nlnet.nl/events/20260131/FOSDE…

NLnet; Let's meet at FOSDEM 2026!

nlnet.nl
#fosdem @NGI Zero open source funding @FOSDEM

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IzzyOnDroid ✅

we'll hope you'll enjoy them! Btw, the download stats were even already featured by some "vodcasts" – see e.g. around 4:48 to 5:40 here: youtube.com/watch?v=VR-MEwPDw4… (and they're meanwhile also available in Droid-ify). They're privacy friendly (no PII at all), and rather easy to integrate with any web server – so maybe @fdroidorg might integrate them with their repository (and client?) as well? 🤔 We gladly provide our tooling to them – and to other repositories, of course!

Top 12 App Stores that are Better than Google Play Store

12 of the Best Alternative App Stores to the Play Store! Enjoy!______________________________________­ PATREON▣ HowToPersonalize - https://www.patreon.com/ho...
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@F-Droid

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Ist bei @disroot eigentlich noch jemand zu Hause? Haben vor 3 Wochen versucht, für jemanden dort einen Mail-Account zu registrieren. Der steht bis heute auf "pending approval", also mehr als die per automatischer Mail angegebenen 48h. Support-Anfrage per Mail vor 3 Tagen auch nur auto-reply, dass man innerhalb 24h antworten würde.

Erwarte ja keine "instant action", aber so gar keine, ist irgendwie seltsam (und wenig vertrauenerweckend)…

@kuketzblog steht bei Dir in der Empfehlungsecke 😉

@Kuketz-Blog 🛡 @disroot

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The entire left side of my mouth is one big hurtbox. I probably very much need to see a dentist, as things are noticeably getting worse, but the state of good ol' American health care is preventing me from even considering it, as I am constantly thinking about how much it's going to cost, especially since I'm not home. Such a joy.
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RE: tldr.nettime.org/@dk/115940759…

AI and IP will take a few threads to cover.

At its core, the themes are similar to what I’ve written many times before.

The capitalist comes to market twice, once as buyer, then again as seller.

As a buyer, capital is happy to get inputs for free, as a seller, exclusion and payment are required.

Understanding of IP must always be rooted in the difference between Department I and Department II in the circulation of capital.

With AI, Department II output becomes Department I input. The current is reversed and the circuit becomes unstable.

Dmytri

2026-01-22 20:59:45

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AI is the recuperation of the anti-copyright critique.

“Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it.” Lautréamont, 1870
1/8

#TheGeneralTheoryOfSlop


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We've updated the configuration on our Liberapay – which was unintentionally set to "anonymous donations only". You can now choose to have your support shown, if you wish so 🤗

Apologies for the mishap!

And thanks to the first supporter 🥰 Yes: if everyone who uses #IzzyOnDroid would chime in a buck per month, we'd be fully sustainable…

liberapay.com/IzzyOnDroid/


IzzyOnDroid's profile - Liberapay

The IzzyOnDroid team maintains the repository for F/LOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) Android apps launched by Izzy in 2015/2016, which has since become quite well-known …
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#izzyondroid

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🤦‍♂️ Девушка перевела «Филиппу Киркорову» 100 тысяч рублей

Лже-Киркоров написал ей в мессенджере и предложил поужинать в ресторане, если она оплатит ему дорогу. 30-летнюю девушку ничего не смущало, пока мошенник не перестал выходить на связь.

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André Polykanine

Девушку, конечно, жаль, но у нас пожилая мадам лже-Брэду Питту 830000 евро (это восемьсот тридцать тысяч, я не опечатался) перевела. Я могу немножко приврать в сумме, но по-моему именно столько. Скандалище на всю Францию был.
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André Polykanine

Vous avez déjà vu le scandal dans l'Assemblée nationale quand LFI a voté contre l'inscription des frères musulmans dans la liste des organisations terroristes ? youtube.com/watch?v=ASdvZoCCeZ…
Après ça, j'ai finalement inventé une correcte abbréviation pour LFI : LFT (la France trahie)

B0RD3L TOTAL à l'Assemblée (menaces, invectives, hystérie…) à propos des FR3R3S MVSVLM4NS

REJOIGNEZ LA COMMUNAUTÉ SUNRISE : https://fr.tipeee.com/nicolas-faure-sunrise/newsMe soutenir par un don : https://sunrise.tube/soutien/Abonnez-vous à IdeoCh...
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David Falkenberg 🎗️

Bonjour @menelion

Oui malheureusement.

Un scandale que je dénonce sur #Mastodon.

👇

mastodon.social/@AmIsraLHai/11…

David Falkenberg 🎗️ (@AmIsraLHai@mastodon.social)

#Politique #ThomasPortes confirme via son Pouet que #LFI n'est plus #LaFranceInsoumise, mais #LesFrèresIslamistes.
David Falkenberg 🎗️ (Mastodon)
#Mastodon @André Polykanine

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RE: social.tchncs.de/@s3nnet/11594…

That's quite nice a video, and very informative – thanks! For the curious:

0:00 #AuroraStore, 1:53 #FDroid 3:48 #Droidify 5:02 #IzzyOnDroid, 10:40 FFUpdater

(as for his comment on not knowing about our security: did he really miss that link on the web page he's showing? So head to izzyondroid.org/about/security… for that part 😉)


s3nnet.de (@s3nnet@social.tchncs.de)

Attached: 1 image @IzzyOnDroid@floss.social Check out that video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0e_2eYqH9E
s3nnet.de (Mastodon)
#fdroid #Droidify #aurorastore #izzyondroid

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Age verification is no longer exclusive to accessing explicit content, soon we will have to verify ourselves for everything we do online.

In this video, we explain why #AgeVerification could mean:

❌ Less anonymity
❌ More surveillance
❌ A less free internet

🎥 Watch it here: inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=Fu6xJnb…

At Tuta, we say no to age verification, & yes to privacy. ❤️ 🔒

#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #PrivacyMatters #DigitalFreedom

#privacymatters #digitalfreedom #onlinesafety #ageverification

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#StroongeCast E71: Do You Fancy A Drink? youtu.be/Mxa0W_z6Ls8

This week we're discussing whether having a drink when out with friends is necessary and expected, or safe to skip. For those who don't drink, are you considered 'the boring one?'
Kirsten doesn't drink very much at all, and Andre may have a drink when out with friends or at a gig, but not always.

Download: onj.me/media/stroongecast/71_-…


StroongeCast E71: Do You Fancy A Drink?

Welcome to episode 71.This week we're discussing whether having a drink when out with friends is necessary and expected, or safe to skip. For those who don't...
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#stroongecast

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Here's a little advanced computer tip for you all on a Friday, definitely not based on recent personal experience.

If you have plugged in a cable, and it does not work, ensure that the end of the cable that you have plugged in is part of the same cable as the other end of the cable. This can really make a difference.

Yours bemusedly,

Neil

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Two years ago we switched all #curl documentation into markdown as the source format. We generate man pages and more from those.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/23…


curl docs format evolution

I trust you have figured out already that I have the highest ambitions for the curl documentation. I want everything documented in a clear, easy-to-read and easy-to-find manner.
daniel.haxx.se
#curl

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Baví mě komentáře od lidí na #Youtube, kteří mají nutkání "odhalovat" neoznačená AI videa, jako např. cestovatelku časem na různá historická místa. Jinak by se díky realistické kvalitě opravdu nedalo poznat, že to není realita 😝

BTW jsem pro zákon označovat všechen AI obsah, jinak bude během několika let (nejen) Youtube skoro nepoužitelný, nebude se dát filtrovat. A vše bude růst exponenciálně: porostou nároky na energii, poroste množství podvodů a lží, bude se melancholicky vzpomínat na dobu před AI. V rukou mentálně nedospělých lidí je AI zlo.

#youtube

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Our In-Process blog is back for 2026! And we've got a bumper issue to start with:

We highlight the "Switching from Jaws to NVDA" guide, we have tips for running NVDA on a Mac and creating a new NVDA Shortcut.
We hear from a user on their achievements in 2025, and we want to hear yours! And finally, a quick tipe from @JenMsft here on Mastodon on Using Clip with the command line!

All available now at: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #Blog #News

NV Access | In-Process 23rd January 2026

www.nvaccess.org
#Accessibility #blog #screenreader #nvdasr #News #nvda @Jen Gentleman

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NV Access

@nikosdemetriou I vaguely recall something about the shortcut from a number of years ago, but I just checked with NVDA 2025.3.2 and the shortcut as created with the instructions in In-Process will restart NVDA - of course it is easier to check the box and let the installer create the shortcut, but sometimes that doesn't happen, or the shortcut gets deleted etc.
@Nikos Demetriou

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So tell me, how do you feel about TikTok in the US now opening ways for systems like Palantir and others that "assist" ICE to get access to your user data? Allowing the US to do what they accused China to do – surveillance – when avoiding exactly that was the original stated reason for the whole fight?

(Gift article) nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technol…

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Krásné dobré ráno mastodonní lidečkové! 🙋‍♀️🐈🐶
Včera mi došel balík z antikvariátu! Jucheeeej! Nudit se nebudu. Tak copak já si vyberu jako první? Lord Archibald má úplně stejnou radost. On dostal krabici. Teď na ní pilně pracuje. Sir Artur takovou radost nemá. Původně se do té krabice uhnízdil. Byl surově vytřepán a teď se vztekle z opěradla gauče dívá, jak z krabice odletují ohryzané kusy. Myslím že si ho budu muset udobřit nějakou dobrůtkou. V koupelně probíhá hádka. Obě Dcery národa odjíždějí do města. Obě chtějí k umyvadlu. Hned. K zrcadlu. Hned. Možná si půjdu pro židli a sednu si ke dveřím. Spor se přiostřuje. Chtějí rozsoudit. Židle nebude. Prchám.
Vy se každému sporu dnes vyhněte a udržujte si hladinu zdravého humoru. 😊
#dobre_rano
#dobréRáno
#dobre_rano #dobrerano

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Friendly reminder that Mastodon, et al is federated, which means you almost certainly won't see every reply on a thread.

Let's say you're reading a post from "reasonable.domain". And someone from "cesspool.domain" replies to it. If your instance blocked "cesspool.domain", you won't see that reply.

This effect minimizes the appearance of harm. It can be a blessing, but it also means you won't always see the problems inherent on these platforms.

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Give it to a popular speech synthesis engine, ETI Eloquence, or Eloquence TextToSpeech on Android, to not mispronounce stuff when they are incorrectly spelled. Strategy...being the word in reference. Eloquence says it correctly even if people type Stratogy. eSpeak immediately says something I can't even make other synthesizers replicate. The place where I most often see this horrible mistake is on forum.audiogames.net, but I don't go on about it there, because it's not the user's fault that the speech engine they use does not alert them to the mistake. I do read braille, mostly to help me with my work, as most of the folks CVs I have to process, have African names, and speech, no matter which synthesis engine, break African names royally. Just...fix Stratogy on eloquence so it actually pronounces it wrong...then that illusive E in the middle will replace the incorrect O.
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Tariq

#gnuplot was one of the very first tools I used for looking at data

it was 1995 and I was doing my first job (year out between school and uni) and the place had sunOS 4 workstations with 1-bit high-resolution monochrome displays iirc

the unix systems were locked down so there was no python or anything ... just fortran f77 and shell and gnuplot

there was a Windows 3.11 based option with Microcal Origin but that couldn't handle much data volume

(those constraints led me to prototype a linux-based data analysis workstation)

openwindows 2 monochrome desktop on sunos 4.1.1
#gnuplot
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Thanks, Mozilla accessibility folks! This article explains Pyax for inspecting and testing #accessibility on Mac OS in more detail: blog.monotonous.org/2026/01/12…

MacOS Accessibility with pyax | monotonous.org

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
#Accessibility

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Liebes Fediverse! Ich hatte im schulischen Rahmen schon mehrfach Zeitzeugen zu Gast: Holocaustüberlebende, politisch Verfolgte aus der ehem. DDR, usw.

Nun suche in Kontakt zu Menschen, deren Eltern(-teil) Täter*innen zB. in der Nazi-Tötungsmaschinierie war(en) UND die sich kritisch damit und mit der damit verbundenen Familiengeschichte auseinandergesetzt haben.

Habt Ihr mir da Namen oder Tipps, wen ich da anfragen könnte?
Gerne mal boosten! Und: Danke vorab dafür!

#followerpower

#followerpower

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I know I use AI a whole lot lately, but people are vastly over-estimating the capabilities of it and thus using it for all kinds of things they shouldn't! One giant example is that hardly anybody writes anything themselves anymore. Look, being well-written used to be something to be proud of. Now, I beg anyone and everyone to just write things yourselves! I'd almost go so far as to say, the less well-written whatever it may be is as long as it's still getting the intended message across, the better! At least it won't be full of false positivity, more emojis than the Apple Keyboard and more lists than...A person who loves lists! Very Sincerely: someone who is quite saddened by both companies and individuals making writing so much more boring!
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Tech Singer

I don't mean to be blunt, and ask your pardon, but if the most important part of the company, the marketing which generates sales and the sales department, is being tossed at AI, why wouldn't the less important parts which can be ignored in most cases be filled with AI as well? Developement isn't that important compared to sales. Jaws is more or less done at this point, new features are either too far a reach or require ideas which people don't have. The same may be said of magnification generally, right? Why not dump everyone who knows what's going on and milk it for all you can?

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One of the coolest things for Rhythm Heaven fans, Heaven Studio, now has a mod to make it screen reader accessible! I've been having such a blast playing this thing! If anyone would like to snag Heaven Studio, and/or the mod, links will be below.
Heaven Studio Revival Project: drive.google.com/file/d/1FKeKx…
Accessibility Mod (click on download on the page): chikutaku-luyi.itch.io/rhsamod
After downloading the mod, you should see a Heaven Studio folder. Go into that, then there should be things like MellonLoader, and other items. Select all, then paste them into the root of your Heaven Studio folder, then load Heaven Studio.exe, and enjoy!

Heaven Studio Accessibility mod by chikutaku_luyi

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