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RE: mastodon.social/@Moltz/1159910…

BOYCOTT. BOYCOTT. #BOYCOTT.

It's convenient to think that boycotts don't work because then we can just keep buying whatever we want. But boycotts often do work. As recently as a few months ago pressure was put on Disney for suspending Jimmy Kimmel. There's a much longer history of successful boycotts. Ever heard of Rosa Parks?

Of course, #Apple is HUGE. Even more reason to stop giving them all the money. No one forces you to buy a new iPhone every other year or subscribe to AppleTV.

John Moltz (@Moltz@mastodon.social)

X and Grok are still on the Apple App Store, the safest and most trusted place to get apps (citation: Apple marketing materials). https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/28/as-37-us-states-respond-to-grok-csam-problem-apple-really-needs-to-act/
John Moltz (Mastodon)
#apple #boycott
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Beardy Star Stuff 🏴🌹🇵🇸

If Apple-focused YouTubers and podcasters are actually fed up and as disgusted as they often profess to their audiences, they should step over the line and actually call for a boycott. There's no shortage of reasons at this point. Start naming specific grievances, list them out. Repeat them. And use the word boycott over and over.

Move on from criticism. If ever there was a time for #tech media folk to actually take a stand, 2026 is that time. Passive "reporting" helps #Apple. Do better.

#apple #tech
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Beardy Star Stuff 🏴🌹🇵🇸

If you're an #Apple user that doesn't like Tim Cook's fascist booklicking and if you've seen enough of Apple's increasingly fucked up conduct, stop giving them your money.

- Stop using Apple subscription services like Music, AppleTV, etc
- Move your data out of iCloud. Start gradually, find other services (YES, they do exist) and gradually downgrade your iCloud plan.
- Stop upgrading hardware. Use what you have until it no longer works. You don't need the latest, greatest new thing.

#BOYCOTT

#apple #boycott
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אַידיש ליד יעדען טאָג: ״קיעװער טראַמװײַ״

Yiddish Song of the Day: "Kiever Tramway" #Yiddish #YiddishSongoftheDay

youtube.com/watch?v=U0d9O7-aOJ…


Kiever Tramvay (The Kyiv Tram) - Yiddish-Russian Folk Song

Performed by Yan Tabachnik and his band "Новый День".Please turn on the captions to sing along.Thanks for watching!If you're willing to make a donation, you ...
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#yiddish #yiddishsongoftheday

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Because a LOT of people are missing the point:

No, Elon Musk is NOT serious about putting a million data centres into orbit. It can't work: laws of physics say "nope".

But SpaceX is expected to go public this year.

Elon is talking up his company's future prospects in front of gullible investors because he needs a growth narrative beyond Starlink, which is already priced in. Something to justify the Starship proram beyond NASA's lunar ambitions.

So it's salesman's bullshit, lies for fools.

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Gerade Info-Mail bekommen: Die Antidiskriminierungsstelle des Bundes sucht weitere Teilnehmende für ihre Umfrage zu Diskriminierungserfahrungen. Die Umfrage läuft noch bis 28.02. und ist in verschiedenen Sprachen verfügbar. Vor allem werden noch Jugendliche ab 14 Jahren für die Teilnahme gesucht, da diese Gruppe noch unterrepräsentiert sei.

www.diskriminierung-umfrage.de

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Unihertz Titan Slim

Prodám Unihertz Titan Slim. Škrábanec na displeji - v provozu v podstatě neviditelnej, nehtem jde cítit.

Používanej chviličku, resetnutej, s pouzdrem. Bez kabelu a nabíječky.

Mail: schmaker@schmaker.eu

Cena: 5000 Kč :: #Bazar na #Flohmarkt instanci nechces.cz Prosím odpověz přes přímou/soukromou zprávu.

#unihertz #Plzeň #Titan #telefon

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RE: mstdn.social/@990000/115993630…

How did we end up in the timeline where instead of writing a note on a post-it and sticking it to the door one needs A HUNDRED THOUSAND GPUS WHICH COST A TRILLION DOLLARS AND BURN A TERAWATT OF POWER WHILE GIVING ZERO FUCKS ABOUT COPYRIGHT OR CONSENT?

@990000@mstdn.social

2026-02-01 05:05:34

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Some genius made his AI remind him to get milk in the morning and it used up his $20 account balance overnight because it kept checking if it was morning every 30 minutes. Lmao. “AI”

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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Benjamin De Kraker @BenjaminDEKR OpenClaw is interesting, but will also drain your wallet if you aren't careful. Last night around midnight I loaded my Anthropic API account with $20, then went to bed. When I woke up, my Anthropic balance was $O. Opus was checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night." Doing literally nothing, OpenClaw spent the entire balance. How?
The "Heartbeat" cron job, even though literally the only thing I had going was one silly reminder, ("remind me tomorrow to get milk") 1. Sent ~120,000 tokens of context to Opus 4.5 2. Opus read HEARTBEAT md, thought about reminders 3. Replied "HEARTBEAT_OK" 4. Cost: ~$0.75 per heartbeat (cache writes) The damage: - Overnight = ~25+ heartbeats - 25 × $0.75 = ~$18.75 just from heartbeats alone - Plus regular conversation = ~$20 total The absurdity: Opus was essentially checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night."

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RE: toad.social/@syferdet/11599296…

So Jeff Bezos bought a movie for Melania.

They spent $40 million making it, and $35 million marketing it, and as expected it earns only $5 million.

But on the bright side, old Jeff gets to support the Trump crime family without people boycotting Amazon and burning down his stores — the way they torched Teslas after Musk got Trump elected — because this new money transfer is a bit more opaque.


Brian M Knoblock 🇺🇸🇳🇴 🦊 (@syferdet@toad.social)

Attached: 1 image @jillL@theblower.au @randahl@mastodon.social It could actually be seen as having overperformed at $2,9 million. Estimates were $1-5 million and this projects to around $5m.
Brian M Knoblock 🇺🇸🇳🇴 🦊 (toad.social)

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NVDA Composer things

Sensitive content

#nvdacomposer @Andre Louis

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Du möchtest den #diday nutzen, um Independent Messaging auszuprobieren, aber hast noch Fragen?

Unter diesem Link
kannst du in den Indie Messaging Chat reinschauen und, falls notwendig, Fragen loszuwerden:
yaxim.org/chat/#di.day@confere…

Du gibst einfach einen Spitznamen an und kannst direkt Fragen stellen.

Keine Fragen?

Dann starte doch direkt:
Deutsch: imday.de/
English: imday.de/en/
Francais: imday.fr/

#did #didit #dut #dutgemacht #xmpp #messenger #whatsapp

Ein Screenshot von der Webseite: https://imday.de/

yax.im web chat

browser-based access to the xmpp/jabber chatrooms on chat.yax.im
yaxim.org
#xmpp #whatsapp #messenger #did #dutgemacht #didit #diday #DUT

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Лучи ненависти сервису HCaptcha и тем, кто его использует. Ситуация: надо пройти челенж. "Вслепую" челенж пройти, как вы понимаете, невозможно. Но HCaptcha хорошие. HCaptcha заботливые. HCaptcha сердобольные. HCaptcha придумали как незрячие могут пройти челенж! Они придумали устанавливать кастомный Cookie-файл в браузер, по которому, в последствии, фрейм проверяет и скипает задачу. Ну, это они так думают. Наивные. В реальности фрейм HCaptcha упорно утверждает, что куки-файла нет. Установил. Куки-файла нет. Еще раз установил. Куки-файла нет. Еще раз. Нет. "Вы использовали разрешенное на сегодня количество файлов cookie." Спасибо, бл*дь! Горите в аду! Есть же Recaptcha, ну что вам неймется-то? Аааа! Задница полыхает, что твой вечный огонь.

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Re: last boost (dragonscave.space/@TheQuinbox/…) about Fedra, @TheQuinbox's new Mastodon client, what makes this project notable to me is that it's written in Rust and uses wxDragon, a project to provide Rust bindings for wxWidgets. The result is a desktop application with top-tier accessibility for screen reader users, in a self-contained executable that's quite small by modern standards (~10 MB for Fedra). I hope this project will become a reference for future applications by and for blind people.

Quin

2026-02-01 05:11:37

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Fedra is now open source, and there is no longer any time limit on it! Enjoy! github.com/trypsynth/fedra


GitHub - trypsynth/fedra: An open-source, accessible, blazing fast Mastodon client

An open-source, accessible, blazing fast Mastodon client - trypsynth/fedra
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@Quin

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#XMPP @ #FOSDEM 2026

Talk:
What are you listening to now?: Implementing "Now Playing" feature in modern XMPP - Özcan Oğuz
Sun, 14:15, AW1.126

Visit the XMPP #Realtime Lounge in #ULB, AW Building, Level 1!

#jabber #chat #opensource #messaging #federation #Brussels, #Belgium #opensource #europe

#xmpp #opensource #Jabber #federation #fosdem #chat #europe #messaging #belgium #realtime #brussels #ulb

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I just saw a short on Youtube about how many musicians find it hard to tell the difference between an augmented and a diminished chord. To me, it's pretty obvious, not because I have a firm grasp of music theory. I really don't. It's always been sub-par. I just play things that sound good to me. The reason it's obvious to me is because of the Casio SK-1 I had as a kid. It had dedicated keys for different types of chords, and someone once told me what they all were, probably when I was about four years old. Stuff like that sticks around forever.
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LibreOffice

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So hörte sich manch männlicher Mitstudent für mich in meinem ersten Semester an der Uni an: "Unter Einsatz immenser, jedoch bis zum Moment der Aktualisierung des Impulses latenter Energien löste sich die amphibielle Kreatur von ihrem habituellen Standort und verschwand, einer in erster Näherung parabolischen Bahnkurve folgend, in den mehr oder minder transparenten Räumen ihrer Existenz." = »Ein Frosch sprang ins Wasser.« Danach bekam ich ob diesem abgehobenen Geschwafel nur noch Lachflashs. 🙃

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Girl-type-entity who almost got 5 and a half hours sleep.

For those of you without ADHD or AuDHD, or insomnia for different reasons, that's about as much as we can expect to get most nights.

It's been about our average over the last month.

Our realistic target is 6+ hours.

Our ideal is 7+ hours. .

Anything much beyond 7 is a luxury we don't get to experience any more, except on very rare occasions.

8+ hours of actual sleep, not just time in bed, on a regular basis just isn't on the cards for us.

#AuDHD #sleep #neurodivergent #neurospicy

#neurodivergent #AuDHD #neurospicy #sleep

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#XMPP @ #FOSDEM 2026

Talk:
@Movim: Building a Decentralized Social Network on XMPP - Timothée Jaussoin
Sun, 13:45, AW1.126

Visit the XMPP #Realtime Lounge in #ULB, AW Building, Level 1!

#jabber #chat #opensource #messaging #federation #Brussels, #Belgium #opensource #rtc #e2ee #europe

#xmpp #opensource #Jabber #federation #fosdem #chat #europe #messaging #belgium #realtime #brussels #rtc #e2ee #ulb

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Carpe Diem!

Heute ist der zweite Digital Independence Day.

Wäre heute nicht ein guter Tag, um einen Messenger auszuprobieren, der einen offiziellen Standard nutzt, d.h. den Weg von Instant Messaging zu Independent Messaging zu beschreiten?

Einen ganz einfachen Weg, der deine persönlichen Bedürfnisse berücksichtigt und dabei auch die Souveränität deiner Mitmenschen verbessert, findest du hier: imday.de/

Viel Erfolg!

#did #didit #dut #dutmacht #diday #xmpp #messenger #whatsapp

Vier Muffins auf einem weißen Teller Jeder Muffin ist mit dem Logo einer XMPP-App versehen (Quicksy, Conversations, Monal und Snikket). Der Teller ist mit einem XMPP-Logo versehen. Quellenangabe des Bildes: https://codeberg.org/ge0rg/fosdem-2026-xmpp-diday/src/branch/main/images

imday.de/de/

imday.de
#xmpp #whatsapp #messenger #did #didit #diday #DUT #dutmacht
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Axel

Carpe Diem!

Today is the second Digital Independence Day.

And I think it is the perfect day to make the step from instant messaging to independent messaging.

Find your personal way to make a change:
English: imday.de/en/
Francais: imday.de/fr/
Deutsch: imday.de/de/

And (last but not least): Following the instruction will also improve the digital sovereignty of your friends.

Good Luck!

#did #didit #diday #xmpp #messenger #whatsapp

Four muffins on a plate. A logo of an XMPP app is attached to each muffin (Quicksy, Monal, Conversations, and Snikket). The plate is labeled with an XMPP logo. Source: https://codeberg.org/ge0rg/fosdem-2026-xmpp-diday/src/branch/main/images

Independent Messaging Day

imday.de
#xmpp #whatsapp #messenger #did #didit #diday
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Good morning everyone!!! :)

I’ve had a long and crappy week especially with this horrible weather.

Always remember to be kind to each other and you matter so much. You deserve the best and most amazing moments.

Today we are gonna be talking about hyperbolic orbits

A hyperbolic orbit describes the path of an object that passes through a gravitational system only once and never returns. Unlike circular or elliptical orbits, a hyperbolic trajectory is open, meaning the object has enough speed to escape the gravity of the body it encounters. In our solar system, some comets and interstellar objects follow hyperbolic orbits, briefly swinging past the Sun before heading back into deep space. These paths have an eccentricity greater than one, a key mathematical signature of escape. Hyperbolic orbits are important because they reveal objects that originated elsewhere. A few examples include Oumuamua and 31/ATLAS.

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XMPP @ #FOSDEM

Talk:
Engineering #XMPP Federation: Building Messaging, Voice & Social Features Across Independent Projects - Jérôme Sautret & Timothée Jaussoin
Sun, 13:15, AW1.126

Visit the XMPP Realtime Lounge in AW Building, Level 1!

#jabber #interoperability #opensource #federation #messaging

The XMPP Logo
#xmpp #opensource #Jabber #federation #fosdem #interoperability #messaging
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