My fellow Canadians, if you want to be part of the USA, you can move there freely on your own. I encourage you to do so.
"To go to a foreign country and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there's an old-fashioned word for that, and that word is treason," said Eby ahead of the meeting.
#Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #USA #USPoli #Alberta #Separatism #Fascism #FarRight #ABPoli #BCPoli
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Irregular reminder that whenever Firefox does not work properly on a Google website, it's because Google intentionally makes the experience worse for Firefox
First screenshot is taken on Cromite, second on Firefox for Android
#Google #Firefox #FirefoxAndroid
Works well on a Firefox Beta for me.
Hovever I do agree Google and especially Microsoft cripple Firefox on their sites pretty often. Looking at Google Meet and Microsoft Copilot addon Microsoft Office Teams (dunno whats its official name today) especially.
NEW, by me: A security and privacy feature rolled out to select models of the latest iPhones and iPads this week will make it more difficult for law enforcement, spies, and malicious hackers to obtain a person's precise location data from their phone provider.
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The new security feature makes it more difficult for police and malicious hackers to obtain a person's precise location data from a cell phone company.Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
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Thursday.
Bertie's first train trip today. He behaved admirably; a touch grouchy and tired on the way home, but nothing I'd consider untoward for fellow passengers. He only slept about an hour total of the 12 hour day out so is unsurprisingly out-for-the-count while I enjoy my Buffalo Fried Chicken Burger, Halloumi Fries, Jalapeno and Cream Cheese Bites, and a portion of Teriyaki Boneless Chicken Strips.
Mrs R had a work thing. I always get a kick out of going to the Pocklington Hub in London, I enjoy playing spot the blind person. 1 guide dog, 2 canes and a VoiceOver today.
Also got to go for a ride on the electric travel assistance buggies again, which is always fun. A cheap upgrade to first class for the return leg of the journey meant I had leg room to spare, too.
For all that there is much strife and discord at home at the moment with a lot going on, the day out with the baby at 16 weeks was a right success.
I'll believe it when I see it.
Microsoft is focusing on fixing the core issues of Windows 11 over the coming months after persistent bugs, ads, and bloatware eroded user trust.
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Microsoft is going to spend 2026 improving Windows 11. It comes after Windows update quality issues and complaints about the operating system.Tom Warren (The Verge)
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The US administration have held meetings with members of the Alberta Prosperity Project, a separatist group that is pushing for the western province to become independent.
The group is openly seeking a $500B US line of credit from the US Treasury to help bankroll the new country, if they come out victorious in a referendum.
DO WE NOT HAVE LAWS PREVENTING THIS AND/OR PUNISH THIS?!?!? cbc.ca/news/politics/eby-alber… #cdnpoli #polcan #treason
B.C. premier says Alberta separatists seeking assistance from U.S. is 'treason'
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It's also interference from a foreign nation.
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If you're a Python developer, definitely make your voice heard here: pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/01/y…
I filled it out. I feel like it was briefer than previous years? And obviously there are a bunch of questions about genAI junk, which I suspect will end up showing up as very widely used, so I hope some of you skeptics will also fill it out and at least we might be legible as a meaningful minority
This year marks the ninth iteration of the official Python Developers Survey. We intentionally launched the survey in January (later than ye...Python Software Foundation Blog
- the server is not proprietary
Is literally a server of your property.
- they didn't assign you forcefully a server, you choose to proceed with the default onboarding,
And the default onboarding points to your servers.
the default server will change to random in the future when multi-relay is ready
You had ONE job. One.
> Is literally a server of your property.
buddy, what is wrong with your choice of words??? "proprietary" is used to mean that the source code of the server component is not available, of course every server out there has an owner and is "proprietary" according to your definition 🤦🤦🤦
> And the default onboarding points to your servers.
as said, this will change in the future, for now we do what is easier for users
> You had ONE job. One.
you just want to complain 👎
Habt ihr es auch gesehen? Die Doku des ZDF über so genannte #Christfluencer und ihre Verbindungen nach extrem rechts? Falls nicht. Hier in der Mediathek:
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#Evangelikalismus und #Freikirchen sind teilweise anfällig für rechte Ambitionen in Richtung #AfD und US-Rechte.
Und die christlichen Kirchen, was unternehmen die dagegen? Ich nehme nichts wahr.
Spurensuche im digitalen Glaubensraum: Was steckt hinter dem Content von Christfluencern wie Jasmin Friesen und Leonard Jäger?ZDF
just heard the most american airport announcement ever:
“we are now boarding to paris, a reminder that this destination is international, meaning outside of the united states”
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I don't know who needs to hear this but if that ICE agent didn't just randomly execute Alex Pretti in the street but rather targeted him because Alex kicked an ICE vehicle the week before, that elevates your random murder to premeditated murder instead.
Hope that helps.
#BookReview They Came to Slay, the Queer Culture of DnD - by Thom James Carter
You may have guessed it, but I bought the book because it's purple, and who could resist a title like that? 💜
For anyone who's played #DnD for a while, like myself, there wasn't much new in the book. A little bit predictable. But a fun one to have in my collection regardless, and inspired me to experiment with characters of other genders in future TTRPG sessions.
hi, you might want to look into ArcaneChat messenger, its main selling point is being purple 😌
: Agency looks to understand the extent of identifying information available to its masked agentsThomas Claburn (The Register)
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Wow, another one. An acquisition by Bending Spoons is really Il bacio della morte, to use the language of Bending Spoons' origin.
Vimeo was recently acquired by a private equity firm and you know what comes next: Vimeo Lays Off ‘Most’ of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes ‘the Entire Video Team’. gizmodo.com/vimeo-lays-off-mos…Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team'
Employees reported major job cuts this week, just months after the video hosting site was bought by Bending Spoons.Bruce Gil (Gizmodo)
Express yourself securely, unbounded, freely
#DeltaChat #privacy #security #decentralization #diday #digitalindependece #autonomy #independence
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Tesla's Q4 2025 earnings call made one thing painfully clear: the company is no longer interested in being an automaker.Fred Lambert (Electrek)
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Also, I may have put myself in a situation where my Mastodon life and my work life collide in a way I never intended.
This is largely because the reaction to "I spoke to blind people and this is what they said" is being treated like either a revolutionary stroke of genius or a heretical breach of protocol, depending on who I speak to.
If you’re going to FOSDEM, please wear masks. The venue is stuffy and con crud was a thing before the virus that can take away your ability to concentrate enough to make software.
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#ThreeDuckThursday is heading for the weekend.
#DuckOfTheDay #Duck #Ducks #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Birding #Birds #HolmeFen #TheGreatFen
I've been asked a few times in the past week to use #GitHub, and I'd like to be helpful, but I keep seeing Renée Good's face and it would seem disrespectful somehow.
Happy to email a patch, but I'm done with that site.
Problem to solve This task comes after the implementation of ActivityPub for social features, implementing cross-instance search, implementing visualizing cross-instance projects,...GitLab
FYI: GitLab happily collaborates with ICE.
Here's what GitLab's CEO, Sid Sijbrandij, himself committed:
gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitl…
> vetting customers is time consuming and potentially distracting.
GitLab employees are forbidden to discuss politics at work or raise concerns about GitLab's customers.
Even when it's perfectly clear that a customer is evil, they want to "do business with customers with values that are incompatible with our own values".
They "welcome everyone […] to be customers of GitLab" as they "do not currently exclude anyone from being a customer based on moral/value grounds."
Here's a news article:
theregister.co.uk/2019/10/16/g…
Code-hosting biz also bans staff from talking politics at workThomas Claburn (The Register)
I just (re-)discovered the Playdate play.date/ and it looks really cool but also really expensive. Is there way to buy a used one easily in France/Europe?
It’s yellow. It fits in your pocket. There’s a crank. It comes with 24 free games to get you started. Say hi to Playdate from Panic.play.date
I dunno about you, but I don't need my devices "analyzing my facial expression"
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in reply to Nicks World • • •The number sign is the hashtag, it's the same symbol. You could probably use a regular expression so it only calls it a hashtag if there are letters after it, but generally speaking the hash, number or pound sign (also called an octothorp by the way, is all just one symbol.
Not to be confused with pounds used in currency, as in £100, which we use in the UK. Those ones are different.
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in reply to Nicks World • • •If your platform uses hashtags that start with a number, though, then that wouldn't follow the pattern and NVDA would still say number in those situations.