What the headline claimed: "Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload".
What the article said: Microsoft might, like, remove a few buttons and possibly rename their Recall spyware but then again they might not and either way AI is here to stay because other operating systems have it.
Logic Pro 12 will not work offline!
Apple will not give me a 11.2.2 version of Logic Pro that I had before. It's obvious that they want to move to subscription model, but I don't want to. So Apple blames the victim, saying "you should have had a backup"? A reputable company would give me the previous version. No warning about this before udate.
This is not cool, Apple. Too busy swanning around the White House, Tim? Let's have some support.
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If you take just one thing away from #FOSDEM this is it.
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“If we lose our democracies, Open Source is irrelevant and goes away”
or putting it another way:
If we don’t apply, enforce, adopt and embrace Open Source in our public and government institutions we risk to lose our democracies.
#OpenSource #SaveDemocracy
Boost if you agree!
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Hi Folks,
I am looking for screen reader users to test a site taking approximately one hour. This is a paid gig - $50 via a gift card. Please ping me for more details.
Please boost for reach.
Thanks!
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I missed this but Gentoo Linux allows you to bootstrap the rustc compiler using a regular C++ compiler via mrustc. You should be able to build the entire Rust toolchain from source without having to rely on a rustc binary distribution if you wish so.
Wow… Google fined a whopping $68 MILLION DOLLARS for eavesdropping on people’s spoken conversations. That’ll teach them! It’s going to take Google a whole hour and a half to make that money back. I guess they won’t be pulling shit like this anymore after feeling that sort of pain. We really showed ‘em this time, eh?
Correction: it’s not even a fine; it’s a settlement with no admission of wrongdoing. So even worse.
mastodon.social/@JulianOliver/…
As we guessed, it seems that despite Google saying they were not making recordings of people's voices and mining them for advertisers, they were doing exactly that.Julian Oliver (Mastodon)
Thread for Day 2 of @fosdem / #FOSDEM 2026 sketch notes!
Will be posted in chunks of a few talks at a time today...
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Then an extremely fun #FOSDEM talk by @rottytooth about Esoteric Languages 😀
Tried my best to capture it in sketches:
GoDaddy DNS really is a steaming pile of manure.
1. You can manage DNS records in cPanel, but the nameservers listed there don't work.
2. You can switch to the default GoDaddy nameservers, but they don't contain the cPanel records.
3. The only 'solutions' are to:
a. Copy all the records manually from cPanel to GoDaddy
b. Setup your 'own' nameservers, which resolve to the cPanel IP
Active dis-recommend if anyone is looking for hosting (I can't change this one, the client likes them).
"Ministr kultury Oto Klempíř (za Motoristy) si pozve umělce, kteří se včera účastnili demonstrace na podporu prezidenta Petra Pavla v centru Prahy. "
Uměli mu řeknou, že máme svobodu slova, kterou snad žádný udavač StB nebude ničit, a můžou jít domů.
Co si to ten estébák dovoluje???
Bude druhá anticharta?
"Proto však také pohrdáme těmi, kdo v nezkrotné pýše, ješitné nadřazenosti, sobeckém zájmu či dokonce za mrzký Sorosův peníz se kdekoli na světě - a také u nás se na Staroměstském náměstí našla skupinka takových odpadlíků a zrádců - odtrhnou a izolují od vlastního lidu."
5-minute AI win:
Do the same type of task often? Try:
"Create a template for [type of document/message]. Include placeholders I can fill in each time."
Now you have a starting point. Every. Single. Time.
Never start from scratch again.
Went to the hospital for some more voice training exercises, and a thought occurred to me.
Is there a place, a business, somewhere on this planet named after dirt, that manufactures uncomfortable chairs for hospital waiting rooms? A business whose owner one day decided, "my passion, my calling, in this life is to make chairs as uncomfortable as I possibly can."
Then, for some reason man was not meant to know, many hospitals saw this place, and said, "yes, we want to torture our patients. We want to make their wait as terrible as we can."
Wormhole lets you share files with end-to-end encryption and a link that automatically expires.Wormhole
Je viens de réécouter du Within Temptation, et définitivement j'aime pas, le chant est toujours pareil, ça varie pas, pareil pour la musique
Définitivement, le seul groupe de sympho qui me fait vibrer c'est Epica, à l'ancienne, sur les trois premiers albums, avec tellement de changements de rythmes, c'est un pur plaisir
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Provided to YouTube by Nuclear BlastLiving a Lie - The Embrace That Smothers, Pt. 8 · EpicaThe Divine Conspiracy℗ 2007 Nuclear BlastReleased on: 2007-09-07Co...YouTube
Pour les hashtags, il vaut mieux utiliser le CamelCase ou les underscore pour distinguer les mots en terme d'accessibilité ?
Par exemple, UnionEuropéenne ou Union_Européenne ?
#hashtag #CamelCase #Underscore #accessibilité #accessibility #a11y
poke @access42 @A11yAwareness @juliemoynat @AccessibilityLU
[Repost] Clean YouTube links. When you get a link from YT, it includes an ID tracking back to YOU. It's a "query string" on the end of the URL like this:
...?si=
[tracker_ID_here]This ID allows YouTube (and their owner, Google, and *their* owner, Alphabet, and ALL of their associates) to track the people who click on the link, and the apps they used, back to you, building a network of none-of-their-business.
Good news: DELETE the "?si=..." part & the link works just fine without the tracking.
It's groundhog day, in which, for some reason, a groundhog is taken out of it's comfortable burrow and forced to look for it's own shadow, such that the continuation of winter can be predicted.
The answer is yes. Always yes.
It's the second most pointless day of the year, on the second day of the second month. How cute.
Oof, the second #RaspberryPi price-hike in two months is here. Three months ago, the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB had a $120 RRP; it's now $205.
Thanks, #AI(!)
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Seit Jahren steht fest, dass Arbeitgeber die Arbeitszeit ihrer Beschäftigten aufzeichnen müssen. Inzwischen werden die Behörden aktiv.Legal Tribune Online
Three #MondayMallards today!
#MondayMallard #Duck #DuckOfTheDay #Mallard #AnasPlatyrhynchos #BirdsSeenIn2026 #WoodwaltonFen #TheGreatFen #Birding #Birds
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Which password manager do you use? 🔒🔑
If you're not using one yet, take a look at the top free password managers for 2026. They are essential for protecting your digital identity!
👉 tuta.com/blog/best-password-ma…
A password manager is an easy tool to increase the security of your digital identity. In this guide, we take a look at the best three password managers and why you should start using one.Tuta
I'm missing Proton Pass on your list. They have a free tier, and the client apps are open source. I love the broad application and OS support, seamless sync between devices and the ability to share entries with other family members. It can also manage passkeys and TOTPs.
Free and fully encrypted password manager to keep your login credentials safe. - Proton PassGitHub
Email from Royal Mail: "We delivered your parcel! How did we do?"
Mate, you did the bare fucking minimum expected of you. Your entire job is to accept the parcel that someone wants to send me, transport that parcel to my house, then ensure that the parcel enters my house. That is literally your job.
Reviews are for things that cost people money to experience. I will review a meal. I will review a new record, or a new movie.
I will not review a fucking parcel delivery. Particularly not the default parcel delivery service in the UK.
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But they'll only get a raise if you give them a 10 NPS. So they'll soon start attaching professionally-printed leaflets saying "customers are reminded that it's polite to give a score of 10 to every courier that delivers them a package, otherwise they're at risk of losing their job."
This is actually something that does happen in certain industries right now btw.
Yes, but now it's been sold off it's in a "race to the bottom" and trying to compete with Spamazon, Herpes, DreadfulParcelDelivery, and the like. (Cut the staff, reduce the service, everything at the cheapest possible price, et bloody cetera.) At least they don't just hurl your package at the doorstep and run away. Yet. (My postie (who was absolutely wonderful) has apparently retired or been "Let go". The service has sucked badly ever since then.)
@miki @Cadbury_Moose grr, I'm so tired of the notion that basic infrastructure services will be improved through competition. I know they were inefficient when Keith Joseph first got the keys to the Conservative manifesto, and I'm sure if you take away the competition they will become less efficient, but enough is enough.
edit: preaching to the choir warning.
@FourT4 @Cadbury_Moose They have over here. Our national postal service used to have a monopoly on letters, and they got so bad that it was literally cheaper to put a heavy piece of metal in your envelope (which made it a parcel) and send it via a private company.
See also: US telco and airline deregulation.
Notepad++ have released a new version to fix the auto update process being hijacked notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v88…
I reported the vulnerability, it is being hijacked by threat actors in China. doublepulsar.com/small-numbers…
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Notepad++ have today confirmed their auto process was compromised by Chinese nation state threat actors, in a supply chain hack: notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hij…
This backs up my blog from late last year, with #GAYINT threat actor mapping to Funky Stamen.
The infrastructure and update mechanisms have since been tightened. For what it’s worth - entry was to telcos and financial services with interests aligned to China. Notepad++ dev did a great job treating issue seriously.
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I just have my family's pictures to hide from creeps, both inside and outside of the corporate networks.
That is more then enough reason for me to run my own XMPP server.
An open-source, accessible, blazing fast Mastodon client - trypsynth/fedraGitHub
RE: mastodon.social/@distrowatch/1…
Regretable indeed.
LFS will be focusing on systemd for future versions of the project's educational texts: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20127DistroWatch (Mastodon)
Learn using BigBlueButton, the trusted open-source web conferencing solution that enables seamless virtual collaboration and online learning experiences.bbb.metalab.at
Das 15jährige Enkel hat im mehrjährigen #Informatik Unterricht noch nichts über die Grundlagen, Handhabung und Funktionsweise von #EMail gehört, geschweige denn etwas zu Basics in Spamerkennung.
yaxim 0.9.9c is live on Google Play.
~Major~ ~Minor~ Only change: added support for Android 15 in order to be allowed onto Google Play.
Change in privacy policy: Google insists on yaxim collecting email addresses (which it does not) because XMPP addresses look like email addresses (which they do).
Looks like I sneaked in a bug as well, that impairs the self-ping timers. Investigation is ongoing.
#xmpp #yaxim #android #GooglePlay
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