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My latest at ZDNET:

"No one running a so-called Home edition of Windows should be forced to manually edit the registry or run PowerShell scripts to manage updates or turn off features they don't want to use. Those users shouldn't have their files moved to OneDrive without their informed consent. If they choose an alternative browser or search engine, that choice should be respected."

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Windows 11 has 1 billion users - and they're furious

Hitting 1 billion monthly active users should be cause for celebration in Redmond. These days, though, it feels like every one of those users is complaining. Does Microsoft have what it takes to address the many pain points in Windows 11?
Ed Bott (ZDNET)

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I've made getting to both the web and iOS versions of my Fast Weather app easier. Just visit FastWeather.online to use the web version or use the Try iOS link at the bottom of the page to join the iOS Test Flight and get the program. Table view on the web is a favorite of mine for quickly browsing temperatures in either my set of cities or the prepopulated lists of cities for a state or country. Change the view to table, pick a state and use screen reader table commands to quickly read.

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I need 1 good person to get me out of here please get me out of here. JUST ONE.😭

Stuck with one diagnosed #narcissist/ #psychopath but others are the same. I don’t want to die here.

Help please.!!!!!🙏

#MECFS
#SevereME
#LongCovid
#ChronicPain
#Hypothyroidism
#Endometriosis
#Abuse
#NarcissisticAbuse
#Neglect
#FDV
#DV
#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest

#MutualAid #LongCovid #NarcissisticAbuse #mecfs #chronicpain #MutualAidRequest #abuse #SevereME #narcissist #hypothyroidism #endometriosis #neglect #fdv #dv #psychopath
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A person just walked by in sturdy shoes, a face mask, and a backpack with a protest sign sticking up out of the back. They walked with purpose and resolve (heading toward the nearby transit station to get downtown, I assume), and it was all I could do not to run out and thank them for protesting.

Thanks again, a million times over, to everyone out there showing up, on behalf of those of us who can't do that right now. 💜

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Jiří Eischmann

@stepan Definitely it has integration with MQTT or there is an integration into Home Assistant. The question is if there is coverage. If there is, all you need is a small companion, if there isn't you'll have to install a repeater in some good location to cover the area for yourself and others. Urban areas such as Prague, Brno and Ostrava are well covered. Countryside, you still have to be lucky. You can check the current map of the network here:
mapa.meshcore.cz/
You can use the Propagation function to see what coverage you would get from a spot you pick on the map.

mapa.meshcore.cz

Mapa Tvojí Mámy!
mapa.meshcore.cz
@Štěpán Škorpil

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Undiagnosed neuro-divergence is like playing a video game on the hardest settings, whilst everyone else is gaslighting you by saying it's on the easy mode.

When you are diagnosed (even self diagnosed) it's like realising you are on the hard setting, it doesn't make the game any easier... But you know you're going to struggle and can find ways to work around the problems to better suit your abilities.

#neurodivergent

#neurodivergent
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Adam MacLeod

It seems that radio-browser.info which is the site that Tweesecake uses, and likely FastSM as well, does not carry a stream for that station. Not saying it doesn't exist, just saying it doesn't exist on a popular open source radio listings platform, and its probably unlikely that the blindy apps will find it. If you do come across some sort of live stream like something on a web page from them, and want to attempt to extract a source, let me know, and I'll do some source code diving and see if they haven't entirely wrappered it. But probably most likely its not as easy as it once was. But if a stream exists that you want to see if can be turned into a Winamp or FastSM compatible stream, I welcome the challenge.
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JamminJerry

@Bri @countrymetalhead @adam @evilcookies98 you have every right to brag about it! I didn't think I would like it, as I haven't liked a lot of players I have tried threw the years, but yours has actually caused me to stop using winamp lately. the only thing you don't have is support for DSP effects. lol.
@The Evil Chocolate Cookie @Adam MacLeod @Wes Derby @Bri🥰
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Bri🥰

@countrymetalhead @adam @evilcookies98 No. I don't even want to touch that. SiriusXM is really damn stingy about what can play their streams. A SiriusXM app for Mac and iOS recently got shut right the fuck down because of SiriusXM blocking the app, so ... I could maybe get it working and it might work for a bit, but eventually it would just get shut down.
@The Evil Chocolate Cookie @Adam MacLeod @Wes Derby
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JamminJerry

@Bri @countrymetalhead @adam @evilcookies98 the person doing the development for it was a hell of a person too! that makes me want to seriously consider getting rid of there service just for this reason. I mean I haven't been listening to them a lot lately, and when I did, it was on my google speaker, or an echo in the house, but still. to jsut do that after 10 fucking years, that is completely bullshit!
@The Evil Chocolate Cookie @Adam MacLeod @Wes Derby @Bri🥰

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I do love going through job application submissions where 700 candidates replied with the exact same sentence on one of the entry questions.

Using AI tools to email blast all job postings doesn't increase your chances, it makes you look lazy and doesn't make your resume stand out.

The mediocrity machine is so good at giving you the illusion of efficiency

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Aleca

@winduptoy whatever thing Mozilla is doing or the way they (mis)communicate things, it has nothing to do with people applying to jobs.
The majority of the applicants know nothing about Mozilla nor Thunderbird, they just use AI tools without any safeguard or awareness of how terrible they are and everyone in the world is dealing with the consequences of this unmitigated and unchecked cluster fuck that a bunch of billionaires unleashed on the web
@winduptoy

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Australia is BURNING

Tuesday’s temperatures reached record-breaking levels in Victoria—49°C—forcing more than 1,000 people to evacuate due to extreme fire danger and leaving thousands of animals without food, water, shelter, or safety. The situation is also dire in New South Wales, with catastrophic temperatures forecast to hit wildlife hard, especially flying foxes whose population is decimated.

You will probably hear nothing about this on the news, but it's happening

#ClimateChange

#climatechange

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Reminder: tomorrow we're back in the saddle, with premium REAPER prattle.

Join Scott and Jenny K for I'm Perplexed, what's next? Saturday at 3PM Eastern, 8PM UK. It's a Q&A session covering all things REAPER, OSARA and accessible production. As usual, we'll be making sure questions from newcomers slip to the front of the queue.

Details are at reaperteacher.com.

If you're able to help cover the time we put in to running these meet-ups, here is where to top up the kitty.
paypal.me/TGVTraining

See ya there,

Scott


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Přejděte na adresu paypal.me/TGVTraining a zadejte částku. Protože jde o PayPal, je to jednoduché a bezpečné. Nemáte účet PayPal? Nevadí.
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I got into an almost-argument and I need advice and/or guidance from you dorks (affectionate).

Some doop on Reddit says he rips his CDs into flac files. I said the only thing that flacs increase in this regard is file size; not quality. He insists they sound better as flacs.

So, I ripped two CDs on my l33t h8xor Linux PC. 192kbps mp3s, and flacs. I genuinely could not tell the difference on any of my headphones, including the planar magnetic supernerd audiogasm cans. And I mean it: Zero difference.

Have I fallen into confirmation bias, or is there a real difference?

#AskFedi #Audiophile #FileFormats

#askfedi #audiophile #fileformats
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This is a damning article from the Wikipedia editors on GenAI articles written for Wikipedia: wikiedu.org/blog/2026/01/29/ge…

#ai

Far more insidious, however, was something else we discovered: More than two-thirds of these articles failed verification. That means the article contained a plausible-sounding sentence, cited to a real, relevant-sounding source. But when you read the source it’s cited to, the information on Wikipedia does not exist in that specific source. When a claim fails verification, it’s impossible to tell whether the information is true or not. For most of the articles Pangram flagged as written by GenAI, nearly every cited sentence in the article failed verification.

Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025

Like many organizations, Wiki Education has grappled with generative AI, its impacts, opportunities, and threats, for several years. As an organization that runs large-scale programs to bring new e…
Wiki Education
#AI

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Question for my audio people:

I have an analog mixer. It sounds big and awesome when I listen to the main outputs connected directly to my monitors. But when I run my second set of main outputs into my computer via Ferrofish converters and an RMI ADAT-->USB interface (the Digiface), everything sounds...flat and lame. And I definitely lose significant amounts of bass response.

Is this expected?

1/x

#audio #GearSquad

#audio #gearsquad
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Für alle interessierten, heute wurde ein Beitrag zum Thema @letsenvision #Ally #Solos glasses auf sightviews.de veröffentlicht, indem unsere Erfahrungen mit dem Zoll und dem mangelhaften Support auch diskutiert werden.

Sightviews

Sightviews ist der unabhängige Podcast rund um Hilfsmittel und Technik für blinde und sehbehinderte Menschen – verständlich, praxisnah und ohne Werbe-Blabla.
Sightviews
#ally #solos @Envision
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Alyx Woodward (she/her)

@feld I will be blunt: "efficient" really doesn't mean much coming from the typical high-tech person. In practice, it seems to mean only that if the high-tech person is doing something *faster*, they pretend to themselves that it's also better and more "efficient".

So the slop machine does a design faster. How do you know it's not also garbage? LLMs can't tell the difference between garbage and good information. How would you know the PCB layouts produced by an LLM trash machine are actually any good?

@feld

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1. Open Google
2. Search "fuck ICE"
3. Close Google
4. Open YouTube
5. Search "fuck ICE"
6. Close YouTube
7. Open Spotify
8. Search "fuck ICE"
9. Close Spotify
10. Open Amazon
11. Search "fuck ICE"
12. Close Amazon
13. Open Walmart
14. Search "fuck ICE".
15. Close Walmart
16. BUY NOTHING
17. BUY NOTHING
18. BUY NOTHING
19. JUST KEEP SEARCHING THE TERM
20. MAKE IT TREND
21. MAKE IT TREND EVERYWHERE
22. FUCK. ICE.
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annaecook

Today is a day of a national shutdown. Many working in tech are likely afraid of losing their jobs, a reasonable fear.

If you can’t take today off, consider alternative actions you might take to show solidarity for those in this country under persecution

techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/t...
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Tech workers call for CEOs to speak up against ICE after the killing of Alex Pretti | TechCrunch

More than 450 tech workers from companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and Salesforce have signed a letter urging their CEOs to call the White House and demand ICE leave our cities. 
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annaecook

If you can’t show solidarity, give it.

If you’re a tech worker with the means, help families who have been stuck in their homes for weeks unable to work or live their lives who need help with food or rent

www.standwithminnesota.com
standwithminnesota.com/


Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory

Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
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