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The conversation about AI is exhausting, and I'm finding myself more and more talking with my friends about its dangers and downfalls.
I definitely see a new level of awareness and skepticism coming from non-tech people, which is great.

One question that sometimes come up with people wanting to learn how to code is "Is it worth even doing it with all this AI self coding tools?"

Hell yeah! Absolutely! Technical literacy is even more important now than ever!

youtu.be/g5IRn0OzzU4?si=EjUgEw…


Should you learn to code in the age of "AI"?

In a time when the sentence "junior developers will be replaced by AI" is heard multiple times a day, does it make sense learning how to code?Yes, now more t...
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U.S. distillers complain Canadian provinces favouring local alcohol

ctvnews.ca/toronto/politics/qu…

LOL. You elected your leader. Complain to him.


Group of U.S. distillers complains LCBO, other provinces favouring local alcohol

A group of U.S. alcohol producers claims Canadian retailers are giving unfair advantage to local spirits, including what it calls “discriminatory” markups in Nova Scotia and other provinces.
The Canadian Press (CTVNews)

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Editional tips and tricks for downloading the cops pack

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BobbyJunior

Editional tips and tricks for downloading the cops pack

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@Bri🥰

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Is there a tool that will either

- let me run a script over files in a directory tree in parallel
- re-encode a directory tree of music files in parallel

while being robust about interruptions (don't have to restart if I interrupt it and run it again), etc.

I'd rather not write this even though it would be a good little exercise.

(I need to recompress my music collection, for my car's stereo, and it needs Very Particular metadata.)

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Ben Zanin

I know you have a solution already, but what file format are you targeting? e.g. if your source and target formats are FLAC then metadata-only updates in parallel should be clustered by album because metaflac(1) can take some shortcuts; if it's MP3 specifically then you'll want to group files into batches because id3v2(1) starts slowly; if you actually need to re-encode and not just update metadata then you might need to disclose your core count; etc etc
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Federico Mena Quintero

@gnomon I'll need mp3 and was thinking of batching all tracks in an album, which kinda matches my laptop's number of cores.

I need to experiment a bit with the stereo first; it doesn't pick up the track number field, so if it just sorts an album's tracks in alphabetical order I'll need to tell ffmpeg or whatever to output track numbers as part of the track name.

(everything is in flac; I need mp3 smaller than the bitrate I used initially, or music won't fit in an USB stick)

@Ben Zanin
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Robin Kipp

That's really cool, congrats! Just one thing, please please please don't use the Claude-generated code to learn SwiftUI… SwiftUI has gone through several very significant changes since its introduction, so there's a lot of still working but deprecated API in there, and Claude absolutely loves to use the outdated methods. So, if your goal is just to have some great fun with it and quickly build some fun projects for yourself and maybe some friends, this is absolutely, totally fine. But if you actually want to get into Swift and SwiftUI for real, I'd be more than happy to send you a link to an absolutely amazing tutorial series, which will teach you all you need to know from beginner to expert.

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We are receiving reports that Google flags our repo as "having dangerous apps" or being a "dangerous site" – texts being very vague, no proof given (nor did they inform us). They also link to a page they call "Transparency Report" – which is of the same vagueness, but definitely not transparent (transparencyreport.google.com/…)

We're not aware of any such dangerous content. All apps on our repo are properly scanned, see izzyondroid.org/about/security…

#IzzyOnDroid #serviceToot

Screenshot from Chrome browser, declaring IzzyOnDroid being a "Dangerous site"
screenshot from Chrome in the Android emulator (Pixel 6, API 34), claiming IzzyOnDroid containing "dangerous apps" "Attackers currently on apt.izzysoft.de could install dangerous apps…" 1) there are no attackers on that site, it's only us 2) we cannot install apps on your device, only you can 3) maybe we have some apps dangerous to Google's business model, but (to our knowledge) none dangerous to your device ;) 4) most of the apps here come from GitHub. I bet GitHub is flagged the same – not, because MS has lawyers we cannot afford…

Security - IzzyOnDroid

Security measures taken at IzzyOnDroid
izzyondroid.org
#serviceToot #izzyondroid
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Ԏєηυкι, 手抜き🚀🐧♏ 🔭 ⚫⚪

I guess that any site with open source and transparent content is for Google suspicous . Other sites use other safety measures not supportet or not under control by Google. For a big tech giant like Google other sites trigger more often alarms without really be carefull about the "foreign" content. Means also Google may try to confuse or irritate or manipulate others who are not following Google ?

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Spoilers: The only legitimate complaint I have about Manamon 1 and 2 is that the main character sounds way older than they actually are. Why is a little boy or girl interfering with things they should not meddle with at such a young age? Entering a shadow kingdom, hopping into Requiem, stopping Eschonites at restaurants... you should be at least 18! Not to mention they don't even talk like their age. I'm not saying they have to sound immature, but cut back on the grammar. They're kids.

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people are waking up and learning it's time to distrust Meredith. She's not pushing Signal into any direction where it's impossible for her to "pull out" of a country that is demanding a backdoor.
RT: antifa.style/users/walsonde/st…

Kai und der Andere 🎗️ (@walsonde@antifa.style)

Spricht eigentlich irgendwas gegen #Delta Chat? Ich mein, #Signal ist toll, aber Meredith Whittaker hat bereits angekündigt, dass sie sich aus Europa zurückziehen werden, sollte die #Chatkontrolle kommen.
Antifa Style

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Europe is going to use the intense hatred of relying on American services to trick everyone into adopting a CBDC aren't they? It's such a :kiss: moment in history where everything comes together perfectly
RT: mstdn.social/users/hkrn/status…

Hacker News (@hkrn@mstdn.social)

EU to build no-fee payments service like Visa/Mastercard and Apple/Google Pay L: https://www.independent.ie/business/digital-euro-what-it-is-and-how-we-will-use-the-new-form-of-cash/a165973061.html C: https://news.ycombinator.
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this is a serious question, in case anyone has specific knowledge[1]: how come 20% of Apple device updates (most egregiously the Apple Watch) are getting to "100%" and 80% of the update is "Preparing…" with no percentage

[1]: NOT GUESSES PLEASE DON'T GUESS I ALREADY HAVE QUITE A BIT OF KNOWLEDGE ON THE TOPIC THAT WOULD ALLOW ME TO GUESS MYSELF. ONCE AGAIN NO GUESSES PLEASE

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Any #FreeBSD sysadmins out there running #Bastille jails with multiple interfaces?
Or any sort of jail with multiple interfaces?
I was going to try out Bastille rather than old-fashioned manual "Thick" jail like the ones I’ve set up before because I've never done multiple interfaces or thin jails and Bastille seemed like a good way to do that. Except that it isn't working. At least not in the way I think the docs imply...
Of course I've opened an issue: github.com/BastilleBSD/bastill…

Documentation and/or implementation of 'network' subcommand unclear.

I am attempting to create a jail acting as a specialized proxy with access to multiple host vlan interfaces. The existing host config is: cloned_interfaces="lagg0 vlan0 vlan1 vlan2 lo1" ifconfig_la...
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#freebsd #bastille

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Recently, for Digital Wellbeing we merged notification improvements. Other feature work that will allow parents to better set their kids screen time by not allowing kids to unlock the screen and allow parents to extend screen time as needed is under review.

Digital Wellbeing helps parents encourage safe and healthy habits for their kids. These are features that are funded by the GNOME Foundation. #DigitalWellbeing #FriendsofGNOME

donate.gnome.org/

#FOSS #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #GNOME

#linux #foss #opensource #gnome #digitalwellbeing #friendsofgnome
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good glorious food, washed down with alc mentions

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Ich hab zwei Fragen an @delta: Erstens, kann ich einen Account zu einem anderen Server umziehen oder muss ich einen neuen erstellen und allen Kontakten den neuen Account mitteilen und zweitens
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Kai und der Andere 🎗️ (@walsonde@antifa.style)

Spricht eigentlich irgendwas gegen #Delta Chat? Ich mein, #Signal ist toll, aber Meredith Whittaker hat bereits angekündigt, dass sie sich aus Europa zurückziehen werden, sollte die #Chatkontrolle kommen.
Antifa Style
@Delta Chat (39c3)
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Delta Chat (39c3)

You can read here how to migrate to a new relay: support.delta.chat/t/how-to-mi…

How chatcontrol will be implemented and what to do against is is hard to predict without a concrete proposal, so let's see.


How to migrate your profile to another relay (version 2.33)

Let’s say you have initially created a profile on the default relay and want to migrate away from it. Update at least to 2.33 on all your devices: Help testing upcoming Delta Chat 2.33.
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#XSF Announcement

We are considering to participate the #Google Summer of Code 2026!

If you are interested as a contributor or mentoring #XMPP project start reading here: wiki.xmpp.org/web/Google_Summe…

#GSoC #ccc #chat #messaging #jabber #standards #opensource #interoperability #operators #rtc

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Google Summer of Code 2026 - XMPP WIKI

wiki.xmpp.org
#xmpp #google #opensource #Jabber #chat #gsoc #interoperability #standards #CCC #messaging #xsf #rtc #operators

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I cannot say this authoritatively, but I inquired about the scope of the gpg.fail vulnerabilities that affect GnuPG (and at least one also affecting Sequioa, a Rust PGP implementation) to see if any of these things are a concern for DeltaChat and the response was that they are all out of scope for how DeltaChat uses PGP.

also DeltaChat uses rpgp, not GnuPG or Sequioa, and rpgp has been audited a couple times.

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Reminder: You better hurry!

@monocles and #Conversations_im are available for free on your Android device since Dec 24th and until the 31st on Google Play!

Get your friends and family and don’t miss out on the opportunity to install and onboard them in one (or both) of the most featureful #XMPP clients on Android!

Set them free from invasive, data harvesting, centralized IM communications networks!

#RunJBR #Privacy #Security #Decentralization #PrivacyIsAHumanRight #DigitalSovereignty #Jabber

#xmpp #privacy #security #Jabber #decentralization #digitalsovereignty #conversations_im #runjbr #privacyisahumanright @monocles
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