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A great researcher I work with @carlysagan is looking for research funding or a remote position! It is really depressing how little funding is available to research the effects of satellite reentries... we REALLY need to get more scientists on this, because 1-5 Starlinks per day are reentering now and we don't actually know what that's going to do to the atmosphere... ugh.

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#GetFediHired

Carly Sagan (@carlysagan@mastodon.social)

Are people really being hired through Mastodon posts? I feel embarrassed to put my CV on here but I see a lot of people doing it and my workplaces and funds are illegally removing the only women and would appreciate any help finding remote work in ST…
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#getfedihired @Carly Sagan

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Today is apparently #InternationalPodcastDay, so how about our podcast #StroongeCast?
We're a husband and wife team consisting of Andre and Kirsten Louis who live in London. On this podcast, we explore anything that makes us question the world—from relationships and parenting to school memories and beyond. Join our family chats for lively discussions, fun stories, and plenty of curious moments.
Andre is blind whilst Kirsten is sighted, so listen as they discuss their life as a couple, what it's like to parent when you're avoiding all the toys on the floor and so much more.
Check us out wherever you get your podcasts.

onj.me/stroongecast

Onj.Me

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#stroongecast #internationalpodcastday
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So, this has nothing to do with residential school, but It just came back to me. My dad has recounted to me many times this very odd story of his school when he was a child. He lived in a small French community in Manitoba. Every 6 months or so, an English representative from the government would come to survey how things were goin in the small school. My dad was tasked with hiding all of the French books and they were to make sure not to speak French during the visit. Now I have to call him and actually listen more closely as to why this was happening. Was it illegal to learn French back then in Manitoba? I mean, i wouldn't think so, but, guess I'll have to ask.

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Really wish I didn't have to say what I’m about to say, but here goes.
I am having serious doubts on whether hosting my own Fedi instance with #GoToSocial was really such a great idea. My instance still feels more like a deserted island in the middle of nowhere rather than part of a huge decentralized network with lots of activity.
My timeline seems incomplete compared to what I was getting when my account was on a larger Mastodon instance, although I’m actually following more accounts on here. Or so I thought, because actually, something seems to be very seriously wrong on my end when it comes to following accounts. Yes, I uploaded my following_accounts.csv file to this server, and yes, it did then start following these accounts as expected. Here's the weird thing though, if I look at the accounts that I’m following, a lot of them will have a status of „Follow request sent“. To be clear, these are unprotected, public accounts that anyone can follow, except me apparently. It's also not like this issue only shows up with one other instance or 2, it's a whole bunch of accounts across various different instances where this is going on. I can then retract the bogus follow request and then follow the account again, at which point it’ll correctly show that I’m following the account. As soon as I refresh or close and reopen that profile, however, I’m again seeing a pending follow request…
Also, pulling up account profiles only seems to work 25% of the time. Searching for a user like „someone@example.com“ will show the account, but without any profile info, as well as post and follower / following counts as 0. Opening the profile often results in nothing showing up for a few minutes, until the profile and posts eventually start to populate. I am also not finding anything in the GTS logs that would indicate issues with the config, no unexpected HTTP status codes, nothing which to me would indicate that there might be some issue in my config or network. I've been running hypebot and FediFetcher for several days at this point, but haven't really notized any significant improvements. So am I just being impatient / spoiled by the large Mastodon server I was on before, or am I right to be concerned?
#GoToSocial
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#USA #israel #palestine #Hamas #Gaza #donaldtrump

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#Politique

Bravo à #AnnePernelleRichardot, l'élue #Socialiste de #Strasbourg qui dénonce sur #X :

"Le prosélytisme de la municipalité Barseghian".

Oui c'est une atteinte à la #laïcité.

Et Oui c'est du clientélisme.

#BoualemSansal résume parfaitement bien les choses :

"La gauche a abandonné ses ouvriers, n'ayant rien à leur offrir. Elle est allée chercher un peuple de remplacement."

#Strasbourg #Municipale

👇

#x #politique #strasbourg #annepernellerichardot #socialiste #laicite #BoualemSansal #municipale
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Whoah. TIL that yt-dlp (the command line video download tool) includes a crude JS "interpreter" (~1k lines of Python).

github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issue…

via @cfallin

Why can't yt-dlp's native JavaScript interpreter be improved to handle the new YouTube player JS? Currently, yt-dlp relies on a complicated set of regex patterns to identify the necessary functions in the YouTube player JS, and relies on even more regex to try and interpret that JavaScript code natively within Python. This code was already hugely costly to maintain. Any time YouTube changed something about their player JS, it would cause multiple maintainers to drop everything and spend all of their free time for the next 2-3 days trying to fix things. With the latest changes, the necessary functions are spread out all over the player and are much more difficult to identify. Continuing to use the regex-based approach would be far too brittle and far too costly (i.e. maintainers would be spending all of their free time for the next 2-3 weeks after a breakage trying to fix things). So the regex-based approach has been abandoned in favor of an AST-based approach (https://github.com/yt-dlp/ejs), which should allow us to respond much more quickly to changes in the player JS, even as its obfuscation increases.
Python code from yt-dlp's YouTube extractor showing a function that extracts and processes JavaScript function names, with regex pattern matching and debugging output

[Announcement] Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

Beginning very soon, you'll need to have Deno (or another supported JavaScript runtime) installed to keep YouTube downloads working as normal. Why? Up until now, yt-dlp has been able to use its bui...
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@Chris Fallin

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Open source and federated systems are all about collaboration. But collaboration is not chaos. Come listen to @dinum 's @matmaul at the Matrix Conference, explain how it's opening its private federation to a select few, securely!

🗓️ October 15 to 18
🗺️ Kaleidoscoop, Strasbourg, France
🎟️ Get your tickets, but be quick!

conference.matrix.org/register…

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Register for The Matrix Conference

Join us for the Matrix Conference this October. The four day conference will take place in Strasbourg, France. Talks will be streamed live and virtual attendees will be able to ask speakers questions.
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@MatMaul @DINUM
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Idk, but to me the main sign that the “AI” bubble is about to burst is that it’s now advertised as an investment to consumers.

If you’re a big investor, how do you unload your high risk assets that might collapse soon? You make the plebs buy them off of you.

This is the dump part of “pump & dump”

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Reminder that #USB is, and always was, a bad design; as usual for Intel. We had #Firewire, a true bus, and not the worst option of many, polling, like USB. We could have had everything USB-C offers now -- reversible plugs, power-negotiation, multi-protocol -- with Firewire decades ago if USB hadn't taken over. Firewire even had Ethernet-over-Firewire, at 400MBps, fifteen years before Thunderbolt would do the same.

Firewire didn't need a different plug for the computer-side and for the device-side (USB-A & USB-B) because it was a true bus. You could hook any two devices together via a normal Firewire cable and you'd get instant two-way communication. This is how the PS2 did link-play. USB pushed the workload on to the computer. USB-C solves the "who is the host and who is the client?" problem by putting a tiny *computer* into the cable, that's how insane USB has become.

Firewire has been gone so long now that most #Apple #Mac users probably don't even know that you could plug a Mac into another computer via Firewire, power it on holding T and the internal disk drive would appear *as an external HDD* to the other computer.

#retrocomputing

#apple #retrocomputing #mac #usb #firewire
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Ed Zitron keeps choosing violence for breakfast: "Every CEO talking about AI replacing workers is an example of the real problem: that most companies are run by people who don’t understand or experience the problems they’re solving, don’t do any real work, don’t face any real problems, and thus can never be trusted to solve them."The Case Against Generative AI. A thread full of bangers 👇 🧵
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The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 words.
Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
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My blog has a very basic comment system that uses Mastodon/ActivityPub. It's a bit cumbersome, but I never liked the alternatives like Disqus, because I always feared they would add enshittification at some point. Seems my gut feeling a few years ago was right. ryansouthgate.com/goodbye-disq…

Goodbye Disqus - Your injected ads are horrible

Disqus turned my clean blog into an ad-riddled mess. Here’s why I pulled the plug—for your privacy and reading sanity
ryansouthgate.com

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Přišlo mi ochranné sklo od dbrandu. Originální fólie, co instalují přímo v Samsungu, už byla dost jetá a navíc jsem ji poškrábal mikroutěrkou při čištění a už se to nesrovnalo. To jsem myslel, že ani není možné, ale asi tomu trochu pomohla IPA. Co se týče samotné ochrany tak si na ní stěžovat nemůžu. Displej mi vždy přežil.

Nicméně .. "idiot proof installation" skla od dbrandu dostálo svého jména a zatím dobrý. Žádný prach, žádné bublinky, sklo přesně vycentrované.

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❤️ Pošlete to dál. instagram.com/reel/DPNqxBOjNh2…

Politické komentáře on Instagram: "Vzkaz od pana Zdeňka Svěráka (prvo)voličům. Originál: youtu.be/HH5aOSwncg0?si=FhtQbHTAP5bJhCA_ #zdeneksverak #volby2025 #demokracie #jduvolit #ano #spolu #spd #starostove #stan #pirati #motoristesobe"

11K likes, 172 comments - politickekomentare on September 29, 2025: "Vzkaz od pana Zdeňka Svěráka (prvo)voličům. Originál: https://youtu.
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Dear lazyweb, I'm continuously pulling my hair trying to escape Microsoft's firm grip on the Czech educational system by making my son use Libreoffice Writer instead of Word, but running into a format translation issue where citations ('www document' kind) lose the URL as they switch to 'article' and the inserted 'short name' is replaced by 'title'. Any tips? Even came down to trying Office 365, but their importers are way worse than LO exporters.

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More and more governments and organisations are freeing themselves from vendor lock-in! The Austrian military has moved 16,000 PCs to #LibreOffice – getting vital digital sovereignty in the process: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
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Austria's military switches from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog

Like we’re seeing in Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark and many other government bodies and organisations, the Austrian military (Bundesheer) has migrated 16,000 PCs from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource #libreoffice

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This week's In-Process is out and it's a bumper edition! We've got:

1. NVDA 2025.3
2. Obtaining NVDA
3. Add-on of the week: AudioScreen
4. Chrome bug fix
5. Planned infrastructure outage notification
6. Bobby Singh – Finding Light Through NVDA
7. New issue template

Yes SEVEN articles! There's something for everyone :)

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#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Blog #News #Newsletter

NV Access | In-Process 30th September 2025

www.nvaccess.org
#blog #screenreader #nvdasr #News #newsletter #nvda

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rk: it’s hyphen-minus actually

I’m in a similar boat. The issue, for me, with both Proton and Tuta is that there’s no IMAP support and that makes migrating to a new provider difficult. Unfortunately my need for open protocols and easy vendor portability probably outweighs my desire for encrypted-at-rest email.

They’re all problematic though. Fastmail busts unions. Proton’s CEO is clueless if not actively malicious. Tuta locks you in. The small providers have issues with being blackholed. It’s a whole thing.

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Great recap by @Tutanota on Chat Control and what needs to happen to protect encryption! Watch if you haven't: youtube.com/watch?v=ttuWR6ZtF-…

🚨 Chat Control: The EU Wants to Break Encryption & Germany Is The Deciding Factor

The EU member states are about to vote on the most dangerous law for online privacy in decades: Chat Control. This proposal would force scanning of private m...
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