in reply to Tuta

I have a 4 year old Android phone that has not had updates for a while now. I am not going to use that as a basis for a secure IM system such as Signal.

I do not wish to buy a replacement for this phone. Neither Android nor iOS.

I use Wire IM. I believe it to be secure.

It has the great advantage over many IM systems in that you can register a personal account on Wire using just an email address.

Then you can chat and call using a computer.

Without needing a smartphone.

#LibreOffice Viewer is now available on Meta Quest virtual reality headsets: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…

Flathub's "2025 Year in Review" contains many interesting statistics. I find this one the most interesting: Despite years of full support for ARM in Linux distributions and wild predictions, ARM still has an absolutely marginal share of the Linux desktop user base.

flathub.org/en/year-in-review/…

#Linux #desktop #Flathub #ARM

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Former Malaysian PM convicted for embezzlement

semafor.com/article/12/26/2025…

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was convicted of embezzling $539 million in state funds.

Razak, already facing years in jail for an earlier conviction, was part of a complex scandal involving the Malaysian financier Jho Low, who allegedly stole $4.5 billion from a state-owned development company and used the cash to, among other things, fund the Oscar-nominated movie The Wolf of Wall Street.

#Malaysia #press

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I just found an interesting video segment on PBS about the old Eureka A4 Braille computer, featuring it singing, playing music, and more. youtube.com/watch?v=84C5SFRh81…

Well and there you have it.
Christmas is officially over. And honestly? It was a total flop:
I've been better off physically last year, even though I did a lot of sports this year I feel like I just don't have energy, am not even demotivated, but just, tired and don't get things done. The vibe wasn't there at all. If you asked me a month ago I would've felled it, and I do not know why that is.
I hope 2026 brings a better year overall, despite the name.
But now with the wining out of the way, I hope yall had a good, or fine enough christmas.

I'm still sometimes mad that sighted users are up to 8K monitors, or lower-resolution screens with insane refresh rates. Color accuracy is amazing. Bloom isn't a problem as dimming zone counts increase and OLED drops in price. There are resolutions, widths, inputs, and other features for almost any situation. Meanwhile, braille displays still cost thousands, and we're celebrating because we can kind of feel rough line drawings, on devices that still use mechanical pins. I get it, but still...
in reply to Alex Hall

It seems like a big part of the problem is that huge brands haven't put any resources into braille. Samsung, LG, Hisense, and others keep pushing visual display technology forward--we have screens that can literally fold in half! Meanwhile, braille is still stuck using the resources of tiny companies to move forward. What would happen if Apple, or Microsoft, or Samsung threw a billion dollars and a team of genius scientists and engineers at braille display technology?
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Was könnte denn eine passende Fedi-Instanz für einen jungen Transmann sein, der sich u.a. für alles, was fliegt, interessiert, und auf den Hund gekommen ist? 😄

Würde ihm gern eine Community hier schmackhaft machen.

#Followerpower #trans #LGBTTPIQ* #SafeSpace #Community

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Episode 03 von "Dada & Welf - Kommando Katze" ist soeben auf den gängigen Plattformen erschienen und ich spreche einen K.I. Schlitten 😁

Viel Spaß und Frohe Restweihnachten!

album.link/dadawelf3

in reply to Tommy Krappweis

Den hast Du richtig gut getroffen! Diese überenthusiastische Art, wie die KI-Chatbots sprechen, die Illusionen, die auch bei Bildbeschreibungen gern mal, zuschlagen, und dieses erstmal nach dem Mund reden. So herrlich! Allerdings wirft die Folge auch Fragen auf, wer die stiftende Entität war z. B. Schätze das wird an anderer Stelle nochmal wichtig? Euch einen geruhsamen Jahreswechsel!

Home Alone II is the last movie that will run and will be the shutdown of Christmas automation proper. Directly thereafter, HKC Radio's annual Christmas replays will begin running - replaying all the live Christmasy content we did as a station. This will end on January 1 at 7 PM when the Digital Domain does its New Year's Day show, which we can tell you will feature Christmas leftovers. Sonic Synergy will interrupt this on Sunday, however.

HKCRadio.com

Арестован музыкант известной белорусской группы “Стары Ольса”. Сильно на нас (курганских неоязычников) повлиявшей в своё время…

#хроники_дна #lang_ru

Sure thing, my mobile carrier here in Saskatchewan Canada sends me a text message from a number in the Philippines urging me to redeem “points” by clicking a link to a Chinese domain (fun looking up .xin a new TLD that has a meaning of “trust”).

I like looking things up and I’m fascinated people will use their finite amount of life and some measure of tech skills to devote to phishing for phools.

This advice is dependent on AI-induced errors being treated as an externality and thus not something the company is liable for.

I dearly hope that this does not become the case - the limited liability of corporations is bad enough. If companies are given any kind of legal pass for AI mistakes and hallucinations...

Somebody always has to bear the pain of mistakes. Capitalism and AI could combine to make sure the wealthy are never that person.

fosstodon.org/@atoponce/115787…

so after being bedridden for 16months due to a hernia, I've finally got my surgery!
now I'm bedridden for recovery, which is at least a great improvement.
I'm still about 1300$ away from paying all my storage bills, so if you've got a couple dollars, it'd help me get through this last stretch. Thanks so much!

ko-fi.com/fooneturing

#mutualaid

Here you go, don't bother installing additional tools on servers when you don't really need them.

blog.feld.me/posts/2025/12/tmu…
RT: friedcheese.us/objects/7d8c76e…


What a giant waste of time. You don't need any of this; you can make a custom shell alias which updates your SSH_* ENVs for you

blogsystem5.substack.com/p/ssh…


No matter what I do, I can't get a PHP dev container to work right. It seems to connect, and the terminal works, but f12 on an object type doesn't go to the class definition how it should. My plan was to use a PHP dev container for local PHP projects, since I can't get PHP to work natively on Windows. Or, I'd attach right to the container the project itself creates. But I've been at this all day with nothing to show for it except a lot of ChatGPT usage. Come on, end of the week!

Christmas Dash 1.1.1 is out. This is a patch update with some helpful additions.
Occupants and cookies no longer spawn in places you cannot access. This especially applies to cookies since they used to spawn in walls.
Pressing O now tells you how many occupants are in the house, but this is only if you are inside.
Small and medium snowballs have been improved. Small now stuns for 2 seconds instead of 1.5, and medium stuns for 4 instead of 3.

Please share what you got for Christmas because I feel deprived of information. I got some Mrs. Cavanaugh’s dark chocolate orange creams that I haven’t tried yet, and a bunch of gifts from the neighbors, including a bag of bite-size candy bars, a scarf, lotion, and a small round tin of cookies. And some kind of a strange wallet/purse thing. Also a six pack of fuzzy socks from the boyfriend to replace the ones I lost.