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Two people have been abducted from Scotland in the middle of the night by the US military. Despite an order from our highest court that they be kept here.

The Scottish Government must show that actions have consequences by evicting American troops from their base at publicly-owned Prestwick Airport.

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the memory of the Holocaust, antisemitism

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I try to be thorough and as generous as I can manage, particularly in my long-form AI-critic writing, but this video articulates something a bit less diplomatic: ultimately using it strikes me as somewhat shameful and embarrassing. But Dr. Collier puts it better than I can.

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this is what 2 years of chatgpt does to your brain

When two years of academic work vanished with a single click:https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04064-7#Link to patreon:https://www.patreon.com/acoll...
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Matt Campbell

Based on my reading of the original Nature blog post, it seems to me that the ChatGPT UI was less than clear about what turning off the data consent flag would do to *existing* data. So I blame OpenAI, not the professor. I think it's misleading to state, as Dr. Collier does here, that he clicked a "delete" button without realizing what it would do, and especially to take that as evidence of brain rot. We need to be careful not to succumb to confirmation bias.
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Glyph

@matt there is some evidence that the professor may be misrepresenting the “data consent” button that was clicked, at the very least. lots of people in the comments saying that it really is a big red “delete” button, others saying it’s different in europe because gdpr, but I don’t think I have seen anyone saying that they see precisely what he claims he saw. otoh maybe openai patched it since the article is bad press, so we can’t check now. the infrastructure of our lives is built on sand
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How does the @mixxx open-source community create software that rivals commercial alternatives? Collaboration between users and developers in the community chat on Zulip lays the foundation. New case study: zulip.com/case-studies/mixxx/ #openSource #chat

Case study: Mixxx open-source community | Zulip

Learn how collaboration in Zulip drives innovation for a community of passionate DJs and programmers from all over the world.
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#opensource #chat @Mixxx DJ Software

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What this means is that Duck Duck Go, alongside basically every search engine that is not google, has completely delisted Neocities.

Which feels like something a lot of y'all should know!

blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/0…

#Neocities #DuckDuckGo

Neocities Is Blocked by Bing

Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.n...
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#duckduckgo #neocities

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I'll never not be angry about how labor proved to the world that remote work is basically as good as in person work 6 years ago, and allows the corp to recruit from anywhere, and yet so many places have just said "actually, no, we want everyone back in the office 3-5 days per week because it makes management and extroverts and people who don't have to be the primary caregiver for a dependant sad".
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In FastSM, Tweesecake, and other blindness-specific clients, there's an odd problem. If I open a URL, there's a very good chance that NVDA will simply say "unknown". The URL opens, and Firefox gets focus, but I have to alt-tab away and back before NVDA will see that Firefox and my webpage exist. Sometimes, this doesn't happen at all. I don't know if it's the Python library used to open URLs, or something with NVDA, or a problem in Firefox, or a combination, or something else entirely.

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The bing behaviour described by neocities i.e. exclusion of site + surfacing unofficial / malicious clone sites is the exact same issue we saw a few years back.

We eventually resolved it after signing up to bings' webmaster tools and manually requesting crawls - and I marked it up as a fluke.

Seeing that it wasn't a one off, I have to conclude that Bing is a terrible search engine that will sometimes just censor sites while sending you to possibly-malicious clones.

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Neocities Is Blocked by Bing

Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.n...
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Heading home today after an epic week and a half of aerial image capture - lots, and lots, and lots of photos (maybe 80TB delivered this week alone!); managing to access some very hard to reach airspace.

We've run the aircraft down to it's 100 hour service, so I have some time over the next N=? days for projects!

- cartography design
- open geospatial coaching / training with a QGIS/Python/bash focus
- field research ops planning and support
- drone mapping / photography

...and more...

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Dr. Adam Steer

...with a little nudge from and in collaboration with @rowlandm I'd like to add:

- outdoor coaching and mentoring (not guiding, a different kind of support. Ask me)

...and with growing experience at the sharp end of aviation operations, working in small collaborative teams with pilots:

- help with operational forecasting; working with pilots and ATC

Websites in my bio show a good range of capabilities ;)

#fedihireme #openforConsulting

#fedihireme #openforconsulting @Rowland Mosbergen
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Dr. Adam Steer

Very important PS:

If you are an organisation looking for a way out of US / other vendor capture dependency for your mapping needs (hi local governments, land managers, indigenous corporations) - and don't have a clear path for how:

Reach out. I'm very very happy to help.

I'm focused on Australia / Oceania, I can point you to others if you're in Europe / Scandinavia / Asia / Americas

...although dang I'd love an excuse to come visit and go skiing :D

#openGeospatialConsulting #GISchat

#gischat #opengeospatialconsulting
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> More than 200 years ago, bison roamed freely across Illinois, but as the industrial revolution reshaped the landscape, the bison disappeared.

yeah they just decided to "leave" lol why can't they just admit we literally killed them all
RT: glammr.us/users/danielleganza/…

Danielle Robichaud (@danielleganza@glammr.us)

Bison return to Illinois prairies after nearly 200 years https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/bison-return-to-illinois-prairies-after-nearly-200-years/
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Langer Post, #Sharkey -Erfahrungen eines Mastodonten

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 14 updated and 1 added apps:

* GeoGas: monitor price data from Spanish gas stations 🛡️

Google Status: unchanged. We're still being blamed for an allegedly malicious file that doesn't even exist on the server. Reevaluation requests still failing (taking more than 24h each).

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository :awesome: and turn off that allegedly Safe Browsing in your browsers, if you can. Seems to be fake.


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid 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
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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So yeah, USB ports in Windows have a memory of what you jammed in them and the list can become extensive. I just ran this nifty little utility called Device Cleaner and it found 166 non-present USB devices. I deleted them all with this utility and now my computer seems happier. It's sort of like cutting your hair I guess. You can download this from Major Geeks right here: majorgeeks.com/files/details/d…

Device Cleanup Tool

Device Cleanup Tool is a portable tool that lists all non-present devices and then allows for easy removal.
www.majorgeeks.com

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#XSF Announcement

Tomorrow the 28th #XMPP #Summit is taking place in #Brussels, #Belgium.
Start at 09:00 am (UTC+1).

If you come in person, reach out before (almost full). Else join remotely
xmpp.org/2025/11/xmpp-summit-2…

Meet us at #FOSDEM 2026, too!

#jabber #chat #opensource #messaging #federation

Plenty of XMPP Logo and OMEMO (fish) Stickers

XMPP Summit 28 | XMPP - The universal messaging standard

The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all …
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#xmpp #opensource #Jabber #federation #fosdem #chat #messaging #belgium #xsf #brussels #summit

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Apparently in Italian there is a word for:

"Men of retirement age who spend their time watching construction sites, especially roadworks – stereotypically with hands clasped behind their back and offering unrequested advice to the workers."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umarell


Bolognese slang term for elderly men watching construction sites

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)

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Elektroautos gelten als sauberste Alternative zum Verbrenner. Dabei wird ein noch klimafreundlicheres Fahrzeug oft vergessen: das E-Bike. Studien zeigen: E-Bikes sparen mehr Ressourcen, verursachen deutlich geringere CO2-Emissionen und beschleunigen die Verkehrswende stärker als die Elektrifizierung des Autoverkehrs.

E-Bikes ersetzen fast jede zweite Autofahrt.

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Warum E-Bikes für die Verkehrswende noch wichtiger sind als Elektroautos - Squirrel News

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#MilionChvilek svolává demošku. Kdybyste se náhodou v neděli v 15:00 nudili... pro mimopražský je to asi na prd a narychlo, ale třeba by někdo výletil...

Každým boostem zachráníte jednu micinku! :)

#Praha - #Staromák - #demonstrace na podporu prezidenta.

#Politika #Macinka #Turek #prezident #Babiš

Milí přátelé, všichni víte, jaká je situace. Je třeba říci už dost. Nehorázné vydírání prezidenta ze strany Petra Macinky je absolutně nepřijatelné! Něco takového do demokratické kultury opravdu nepatří. Pokud tohle dnes mlčky projde, zítra už nebude existovat žádná hranice. Nejde přitom jen o jednoho člověka. Jde o nebezpečný precedens: o to, zda si kdokoli může osobními nátlakovými hrami vynucovat politická rozhodnutí, která mají přímý dopad na bezpečnost České republiky. Naše bezpečí není hračkou pana Macinky – ani nikoho jiného ze současné vlády. Je čas postavit se za bezpečnost naší země. Je čas dát najevo, že STOJÍME ZA PREZIDENTEM. A je čas ukázat, že nás je hodně. Potkáme se proto již tuto neděli 1. února v 15:00 na STAROMÁKU, kde zveřejníme naše požadavky i další postup. Ano, je možné, že bude Staromák praskat ve švech. Ano, je možné, že se na něj nevejdeme. Jistě však chápete, že za 5 dní není možné zorganizovat akci úplně pro všechny. Tohle však není konec, nýbrž začátek. Ne všichni totiž mohou tak rychle přijet do Prahy. Pokud se na Staromák nevejdeme, budou následovat další akce v regionech - aby tak bylo vidět, že to není jen Praha, ale skutečně CELÁ REPUBLIKA. A pokud to bude i nadále potřeba - pokud si politici nepřestanou brát naši zemi jako rukojmí - najdeme pro setkání signatářů výzvy STOJÍME ZA PREZIDENTEM takové místo, kam by se mohli vejít všichni. Úplně všichni. V tuhle chvíli je nás už neuvěřitelných 340 000 tisíc! Podpisy dál rychle přibývají. A každý má obrovský smysl. Proč? Protože tohle není situace, ve které je možné stát stranou či nezúčastněně mlčet. Tohle je chvíle, kdy se občané musí postavit za pravidla, která drží tuhle zemi pohromadě. Tady je v sázce víc než partikulární zájmy pár politiků. Tady je v sázce budoucnost nás všech. Pojďme dát najevo, že nám na naší zemi záleží. Pojďme dát najevo, že v této kritické chvíli STOJÍME ZA PREZIDENTEM. Zúčastněte se prosím osobně, anebo online na dálku (pošleme Vám před akcí odkaz). Ale nenechte si to ujít. Myslí si, že je nás málo. Myslí si, že nás odradí zima. Myslí si, že mohou cokoliv. Pojďme jim ukázat, že se mýlí. Vidíme se v neděli v 15:00 na Staromáku. Těšíme se na Vás! A moc Vám děkujeme za šíření. Srdečně, Mikuláš Minář Předseda Milionu chvilek pro demokracii P. S. To, čím nyní můžete pomoci úplně nejvíc, je rozšířit výzvu na podporu prezidenta ke všem svým přátelům. Čím více nás totiž bude, tím větší bude naše společná síle - a celkový dopad v příštích měsících a letech.
#Politika #MilionChvilek #Demonstrace #praha #babis #turek #prezident #staromak #Macinka

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1:08:15 oh. If commenting on other people's habits is odd, then dude's just explained part of why people have reacted so weirdly to me over the years.

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I am VERY concerned for these girls... - Therapist Plays Doki Doki Literature Club - 1

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/eurobradyJoin the Community! https://discord.gg/GChs8TBnZw#ddlc #dokidokiliteratureclubplus #gaming #therapist #letsplay #r...
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Mx Verda

I'm grateful for this experience showing me I trust my actions, and I behave with integrity however I can.
I'm grateful for this experience giving me insight into how I can affect others and how I did affect other people when I acted like that.
I'm grateful I can avoid acting like that now.
I'm grateful I wrote down exactly what happened as it happened in the Cat in a Flat booking chat.
I'm grateful I didn't compromise my needs more than I felt was fair.
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Mx Verda

When someone treats you badly and refuses to change their behaviour, it is not 'bad' or 'failure' to block them.
If you feel reasonably sure they may continue to act carelessly toward other people, it is not 'bad' or 'failure' to report their messages.
You exist too. You're allowed to curate your environment to be more tolerable to you.

You are not their parent (probably) nor carer (probably), and NO ONE is getting paid enough to be mistreated.

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With voice profiles you can change the character of the voice in two strong ways:
1.
Global / class-based shaping
• Push vowel formants up/down in a non-uniform way (biggest "gender/age" cue after pitch)
• Adjust bandwidths to go from "clean/bright" to "thicker/more muffled"
• Tame harshness in fricatives by slightly scaling aspiration/frication amplitudes
• Adjust defaults like glottalOpenQuotient, outputGain, etc. (since the hook now runs after defaults)
2. Small targeted overrides
When one vowel (usually /i/, /u/, schwa-ish things) sticks out, you can override just that phoneme without forking the whole pack.
That combination is exactly how you get:
• female: higher pitch + raised vowel space (CF1–CF3 more than CF4–CF6), maybe a touch more “open quotient” / breathiness, careful with fricatives
• child: even higher pitch + even more raised formants, but usually less “heavy” low-frequency energy
• deep male: lower pitch + slightly lower vowel space, maybe tighter bandwidths, more “chest” feel (within what your params can simulate)
And now, lunch time over. changes in repo.

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Re last boost: This is really sad. The one maintainer of the Slint accessible distribution of Linux, is dead. This is a hard loss. May more popular distributions work even half as hard as him in listening to blind people and making their Linux distro accessible. Join the Orca mailing list. Contribute to the Orca screen reader. Now, more than ever, as more and more "tech" people move to Linux, we need to be accounted for. Also BRLTTY really needs Grade 2 Braille input support.

I mean, look at it this way. If sighted developers don't make their stuff accessible, we blind people will use AI to beat it into submission, send a PR, and you'll have *even more* AI stuff to deal with. And y'all don't want that, do you? :P So just avoid that by making it accessible. And no please we don't need another standard. Please. I beg of you.

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Alfonso Siciliano

Hi, thank you for your feedback on accessibility and open source technologies. I always read your posts with great interest in order to improve the accessibility of FreeBSD, a UNIX and open source operating system.

At the FreeBSD Developer Summit in Dublin 2024, I showed other developers (using simulators) the challenges faced by color-blind, low-vision, and blind users. The @FreeBSDFoundation is currently sponsoring the "Vision Accessibility" project to improve accessibility for users with visual impairments.

At the Developer Summit in Zagreb 2025, I presented the new accessibility handbook docs.freebsd.org/en/books/acce… focused on the assistive technologies currently available in the system, including practical examples to help developers better understand these challenges.

I am in contact with organizations supporting people with low vision, blindness, and deafblindness to implement Braille display subsystem for FreeBSD and to develop interfaces specifically designed to be used with screen readers.

Any feedback or suggestions are very welcome.

#accessibility #FreeBSD #UNIX #openSource

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America's unofficial poet laureate and "guy filling in until Woody Guthrie is reincarnated" does it again.

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Bruce Springsteen Responds to Minneapolis Killings With Fiery New Protest Song

Just days after the death of Alex Pretti, Bruce Springsteen wrote the protest song 'Streets of Minneapolis,' which denounces ICE and Donald Trump.
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I don't know who needs to hear this but open source maintainers leaving X11 behind and focusing solely on Wayland isn't some conspiracy. It's a case of focusing limited resources on what makes sense to them. Supporting old code and maintaining backwards compatibility can be great, but often hard choices have to be made when it comes to what individuals and companies have the time and energy to work on.

It sucks if you get left behind but open source owes you nothing unless you're paying for it

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