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“India Street Lettering, the new book by type designer and lettering artist Pooja Saxena, is a warm, thoughtful look at the signs that quietly shape India’s streets... It’s part archive, part love letter, and a deeply satisfying record of India’s everyday typography.”

Beaming about the book being featured in The Nod’s fortnightly roundup of unmissable cultural finds thenodmag.com/content/nod-list…

@blaft

A mockup of the India Street Lettering book. The book is standing on its bottom right corner on a grey background. Its front cover with snippets of various signs in centrestage.

How about a Christmas tree dressed in Benarasi brocade?

All the bazaars giving us the Christmas feels, a love letter to India’s street signs, plus more of The Nod’s current obsessions
The Nod Desk (The Nod Magazine)
@Blaft Publications

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There are two types of software devs in December end:
1. Those who respect the Code Freeze.
2. Those who spend Christmas Eve or rest of the holidays stuck in their childhood room, trying to SSH into a production server over their parents' ADSL while their better half stares stares at them with pure annoyance from the hallway.

Which one are you gonna be? 🤔

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Version 1.1.0 of #Paylino, my accessible bill scanning and splitting app, has just been released on the App Store with the following new features and improvements:

• Tip Your Way — Each guest can now choose their own, individual tip percentage when splitting a bill, making fair paying even more flexible.
• Even smarter Bill Splitting — Paylino now guides you through the splitting process with helpful prompts, showing exactly how many items still need to be assigned before you can view totals.
• Various performance and stability improvements throughout the app.

If you'd like to check it out, the following link will take you directly to the App Store page: apps.apple.com/de/app/paylino/…
#iOS #iOSDev #IndieDev #Accessibility #AccessibleDesign


Paylino‑App – App Store

Lade Paylino von Subsspot GmbH im App Store herunter. Sieh dir Screenshots, Bewertungen und Rezensionen, Benutzertipps und weitere Spiele wie Paylino an.
App Store
#Accessibility #ios #indiedev #accessibledesign #iosdev #paylino

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TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse

techdirt.com/2025/12/19/tiktok…


TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse

There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it’s somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticis…
Techdirt

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@adguard I knew I liked you guys for a reason. So cool, thank you! AdGuard VPN for Windows v2.8: Now with accessibility support
December 18, 2025
We’re excited to bring you a new version of AdGuard VPN for Windows — one that meaningfully improves comfort, usability, and inclusivity. With this release, we’re taking an important step toward making AdGuard VPN easier to use for everyone, including people who rely on assistive technologies.

Accessibility support
This version introduces a range of accessibility enhancements across key parts of the app. The home screen, authorization flow, and onboarding experience now support screen readers, offering clear and accurate descriptions of icons, buttons, and interactive elements. These improvements help make navigation more intuitive and seamless.

Accessibility is an ongoing commitment for us, and we’ll continue improving AdGuard VPN to ensure it’s comfortable for all users, regardless of device, experience level, or abilities.

You say — we do
Thank you for staying with us. As always, if you have suggestions or any requests, feel free to share them on social media or on GitHub! Your feedback helps shape the future of AdGuard VPN.

@AdGuard

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Just wait until these guys learn about how companies like Apple buy future years worth of hardware and fab time for stuff that hasn't been sold yet or doesn't even exist

Or I don't know, the entire concept of futures contracts. Did you know they've even proposed the idea of organ futures for human organs ?
RT: mastodon.social/users/mhoye/st…

mhoye

2025-12-18 21:39:06

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To spell this out clearly, the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn't been produced yet has been bought with money that doesn't exist to populate GPUs that also haven't been produced to go in datacenters that haven't been built powered by infrastructure that may never exist to meet a demand that doesn't exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can't exist while economists talk about this thing they call the "rational markets hypothesis".

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What’s really amazing about vibe-coding is how people are replacing programming languages which are strictly deterministic with human speech which is highly ambiguous and expect programming to be faster and better.

“Well only use it when you’re already an expert!”

None of the people starting their careers using this technology are experts yet, nor will the ever be.

And within some finite amount of time nether will you, the expert, be an expert anymore.

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Törmäsin Linkkarissa uuteen, kotimaiseen äänikirjapalveluun, josta voi ostaa kirjoja yksittäiskappaleina. He lisäksi lupaavat reilumpaa korvausta tekijöille. Toistaiseksi vain Aviadorin ja Aula & co teoksia tarjolla, mutta mielenkiinnolla seuraan, miten tämä lähtee kehittymään. 🤔

#kirjamastodon #kirjailijanelämää #äänikirja
kuulokuva.com/blogs/news/aanik…


Äänikirjat kappalemyyntiin – Kuulokuva takaa tekijöille reilun korvauksen

Lukuaikapalvelut ovat pienentäneet kirjailijoiden tuloja, joten Kuulokuva tarjoaa vastavoiman: äänikirjojen kappalemyynnin. Kuulokuvassa äänikirjat tuottavat yhtä hyvin kuin paperikirjat. Kuulokuva laajentuu kustantamosta äänikirjakaupaksi.
Sami Kuusela (Kuulokuva)
#kirjamastodon #kirjailijanelamaa #aanikirja
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Mixxx was spotlighted in Magnetic Magazine, featuring an interview with one of our Core Team developers: magneticmag.com/2025/12/a-look…

A Look Into the Only Open-Source DJ Software On the Market: A Conversation with the Mixxx Team - Magnetic

When we first learned about Mixxx, it almost seemed too good to be true.
Ben Lepper (Magnetic Magazine)

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DVV julkaisi listan 100-vuotiaista henkilöistä, joista heillä ei ole mitään ajantasaista tietoa ja jotka julistetaan kuolleiksi, jos muuta tietoa ei ilmene. Tuli erikoinen olo tätä listaa lukiessa. Keitä nämä ihmiset olivat? Mihin heidän jälkensä päättyvät? Miksi DVV ei tiedä näistä ihmisistä mitään? dvv.fi/julkiset-kuulutukset

Julkiset kuulutukset - Digi- ja väestötietovirasto

Digi- ja väestötietovirasto

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Short and succinct, @neil lays down the incredible danger of the UK's current political talk about "banning under 16y olds" from using online services.

UK's "age assurance" is similar to #chatcontrol 's "age verification" plans: the end of privacy when using online services. Basically policing everywhere demanding "show me your passport!" before you can cross the street to a web shop or forum.

decoded.legal/blog/2025/12/a-p…


A proposed legislative amendment to attempt to ban under 16s in the UK from common messaging services, sharing family photos, using Wikipedia, and doing much else online, by imposing age assurance on everyone

Earlier this week, I wrote about a proposed legislative amendment to attempt to compel VPN services providers to prevent anyone under 18 in the UK from using their VPNs.
decoded.legal
#chatcontrol @Neil Brown

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HN elitists: omg FreeBSD is so retarded I can't believe this exploit existed what kind of idiot still uses shell scripts for stuff this important

Oh I don't know, like everybody??

Yeah FreeBSD manages resolv.conf changes using shell scripts from a BSD licensed project called openresolv

But Debian does the same goddamn thing with their version of it called resolvconf: salsa.debian.org/debian/resolv…


Debian / resolvconf · GitLab

Debian Salsa Gitlab
GitLab

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#TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse - techdirt.com/2025/12/19/tiktok… "This was never about addressing privacy, propaganda, or national security. " #ellison

TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse

There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it’s somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticis…
Techdirt
#tiktok #ellison

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🎮 BLOCK LEAGUE TOURNAMENT - Christmas Edition 🎅

Santa's checking his list, but you'd better be checking your back: IT'S PEW PEW TIME 💥

2 SPOTS LEFT!

❓ 8 teams of 3 players each. Direct elimination.
🗺 Hyperium (quarterfinals), Station 2
📅 Friday, 19 December
🕑 8:30 PM - 10:30 PM (UTC)
🏆 €20 each, champion title tag and more

✍️ How to apply:

join our Matrix community matrix.to/#/#luanti-aes:matrix… to find and/or tell us your teammates!

#Videogames #Gaming #Luanti #LibreSoftware #FreeSoftware #Event

Voxel. A futuristic stadium at night, snow falling, lots of artificial lights. Text says: "Block League Tournament 19/12/2025, Sponsored by FSFE"

Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication

You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversation
matrix.to
#FreeSoftware #gaming #libresoftware #videogames #event #luanti
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Would you believe there’s a new installment of the Taming the Terminal podcast out today? 5 years ago, @bart had taught us everything he’d planned, so we set the show aside until he had new material. If you’ve always wanted to know how to use the Terminal but thought it was too intimidating, or if you just want to be better with it, this is the show for you. Head over to the link below or subscribe in your podcatcher of choice!

ttt.bartificer.net

#Terminal

Three Ts pointing to the center at angles with a command prompt in the middle. Get it?

Taming the Terminal

ttt.bartificer.net
#terminal @Bart Busschots
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I have 2-3 packages with at least different 2 couriers out for delivery today which means a minimum of 2 trucks driving to my door and it's so fucking dumb that instead of legally mandating Canada Post be used for the last mile instead the Liberals want to kill Canada Post and end door-to-door delivery.

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A Texas district in which Black students were allegedly taunted with monkey noises.

An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.”

These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored.
propublica.org/article/trump-e…

#News #Education #Trump #Racism #CivilRights #School #Family #BlackMastodon


Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump

Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.
cengiz.yar@propublica.org (ProPublica)
#Trump #News #education #racism #civilrights #school #blackmastodon #family

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Mildly curious, what do people use for mastodon on windows at this point? Asking this because my client of choice, enafore, seems to crash or refuse to load when quotes come on my home timeline (or that's what I assume breaks it), and semaphore doesn't play sounds when new notifications come in, an enafore feature I got a bit attached to lol. I really like the pinafore/semaphore/enafore line, but the tradeoff of either random breakage or lack of sounds is admittedly bothering me.

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Okay, I'm loving this gitlab CLI. I'm so glad that I know about it now. Of course, I need to figure out how to do things with it, but, for instance, I can just go into my at-spi2-core directory from the console and type
glab mr update 220 --draft

Otherwise, I'd need to open gitlab.gnome.org in a browser, click the button to sign in, type in my username and password, get my phone out for the two-factor authentication, then find the control on the web page to do what I want.

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Endlich! Das war ein Krampf über mehrere Tage, bis das endlich geklappt hat. Angeblich hätte ich immer noch irgendwelche Aktivitäten gehabt (die ich nicht hatte). Jetzt hat es geklappt, nachdem ich wiederholt den Antrag gestellt hatte. Und gleichzeitig habe ich drei Dutzend Bestätigungsmails ins Postfach gespült bekommen, dass Zahlungen im Einzugsverfahren storniert worden wären, die ich irgendwann als junger Mann mal stattgegeben hatte. Ein Rückblick in meine Konsum-Historie ....
#Paypal
Screenshot der Paypal-Kündigungsbestätigung: "Konto geschlossen. Hiermit bestatigen wir, dass Ihr PayPal-Konto geschlossen wurde."
#paypal
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🎉 arcanechat.me server upgraded! 🎉

some of you might have noticed arcanechat.me was down for a few minutes, that was because I was migrating to the new more powerful server as announced some days ago!

besides having a faster more powerful server, now every user have 2GB of temporary storage! useful if you receive a lot of media!

🎁 this is my Christmas gift for the #ArcaneChat users, if you feel like showing back your love, you can support my work here:
arcanechat.me/#contribute
💜

an image showing the storage usage of an user in arcanechat.me, max. storage is 2gb

ArcaneChat

Private chats for the family
arcanechat.me
#arcanechat

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Quick PSA : yes, #Mozilla has been disappointing, but so far, they’re the only organization preventing Google to have a full control over web standards. Blink/WebKit-based browsers (Chromium, Vivaldi…) do NOT help at all in that regard.

So please use #Firefox or a #Gecko-based alternative (#ZenBrowser, #LibreWolf…). Ride the nightly release train and report bugs if you can. #Servo is getting ready, but for the next ~5 years, Gecko is our only suitable option.

#firefox #mozilla #librewolf #gecko #servo #zenbrowser
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Raphael van Lierop :

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what GenAI is.

GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, because you don't have evil in your heart.

But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, and anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.


Bianca's answer :

Not just that but Tolkien also said: "Evil cannot create anything new, it can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.".
Sound familiar ?
Screenshot of the two bluesky posts. Raphael's post is illustrated by a still from The Fellowship of the ring, and shows Boromir holding the One Ring in front of his eyes. His left hand is about to take the ring from its chain.
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