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#HappyNewYear all countries in the Central European timezone. Let's list them all, shall we? Albania, Andorra, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Vatican City. Did I forget anyone?
#happynewyear

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YouTube demonetized Patrick Boyle's video on the Epstein Files. Which effectively hides it over there.

I'm doing my part to ensure his hard work doesn't go to waste.

Watch his video and reshare.

youtu.be/GAJf2F1BbRA

Screenshot of Batrick Boyle's notice from YouTube

The Epstein Files are Worse Than You Think!

Get a complete picture of the news on your phone or tablet by downloading the Straight Arrow News app.Go to https://www.san.com/pboyle to check it out. When ...
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I was on Broward County Library's Creation Station Monthly podcast! Got to chat with @telekitnetic.bsky.social and @wabigun.bsky.social about art. Go give it a watch ↓↓

youtube.com/live/kRXzqjUUOwU

#Indigenous #Mvskoke #Art #Beadwork


Creation Station Monthly - December 2025

Creation Station Monthly is a 45-60 minute monthly program that brings two strangers together to talk about a creative topic they both are interested in. I a...
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#art #indigenous #mvskoke #beadwork

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Santa Claus:
- Hides away from society
- Only goes out once a year for his job
- Avoids interactions by working the night shift
- Has exactly one outfit that he wears
- Unusual sense of style
- Talks to animals
- REALLY like making lists and going over them
- Has an intense special interest in toymaking
- Restricted diet (only eats sweets and baked goods)

What I'm trying to say is Santa is autistic.

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It's interesting (in a completely non-judgmental way) to see from all these end of year posts how many books different people read in a year.

I'm someone who feels a bit lost without a good book on the go, and I usually read at least two (and sometimes up to six) books each week. Some people would undoubtedly consider that too many, but I unashamedly read for pleasure and entertainment rather than analysing and reflecting on each title in detail.

That does mean that books have great reread value for me, but also that in certain weeks I read more titles than some people do in a year. I work full time, but watch very little television and movies and don't play a lot of video games.

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I take in a lot of Mastodon posts, tech-focused videos, tech-focused articles, and the like. From comments made by all these people, I sometimes think I'm the only person who doesn't miss wired headphones for my smartphone. I switched to bluetooth headphones many years ago and have loved them. No cable to get tangled with a cane or leash, no juggling my phone and a cable when working out, no cable snagging on a branch or door handle. I love bluetooth headphones!

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tip of the day: If you're looking for an assistive technology specialist at an institution for the blind, I don't hink it's a very good idea to have a driver's license as a requirement to be considered for the role. By enforcing such a requirement, you're essentially cutting off the people who would be the most capable of performing that particular job. Naturally, I will not be mentioning the name of the organization with this lackluster requirement.

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> On August 5, 2025, Stein-Erik Soelberg (“Mr. Soelberg”) killed his mother and then stabbed himself to death. During the months prior, Mr. Soelberg spent hundreds of hours in conversations with OpenAI’s chatbot product, ChatGPT. During those conversations ChatGPT repeatedly told Mr. Soelberg that his family was surveilling him and directly encouraged a tragic end to his and his mother’s lives.

it's amazing, we've replaced the FBI with a machine that can push mentally ill people into violence. We no longer need to spend agent time radicalizing people into building bombs, buying weapons, etc.

Thank you OpenAI for helping us keep the government small :laugh:

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Thank you 2025

(German blog article. I mentioned you @SylvieLorxu
at the end)

mooontxt.codeberg.page/posts/2…

Here I mention everything and everyone I am grateful to in 2025. Of course you too.
I am always and eternally grateful to you. That’s why I mentioned you on the exhibition flyer and now also on the blog article.

mondstern Blog

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@Sylvia

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The entire analog section of my Mackie ProFX 12 V3 mixing console pans ever so slightly right, when the controls are dead-center. Nothing I've done, in as far as cleaning maintenance has fixed it, so I think its a more fundamental permanent problem that likely requires physical electronics skills beyond my own. So I can either go hunting for another small 12-channel console that does ultimately what I want, which is feed at least three stereo pairs, and one phantom-powered XLR to a pair of XLR-connected studio monitors, and provide buses of all this to/from the computer. Or I can simply do what drivers do when their cars pull to the right. Just keep the wheel a bit left. I can set all the pan controls on all the channel strips to what sounds like center, as opposed to what feels like center with the de-tent.

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„Oficiálně – například v otevřených přiznáních velkých počítačových firem – dnes AI píše čtvrtinu až třetinu veškerého nově vznikajícího programového kódu. Ve skutečnosti to je pravděpodobně více, možná mnohem více, protože většina programátorů má pochopitelně motivaci nepřiznat, kolik práce za ně AI dělá,“ píše Petr Koubský: denikn.cz/1930468/umela-inteli…. Mně tahle cifra furt nesedí, vůbec. Kolik kódu zhruba generujete přes LLM? (Za případné sdílení díky.)

Umělá inteligence v okamžiku bilancování: trochu sen, trochu noční můra

Na přelomu roku se tématu umělé inteligence nemůžeme vyhnout. Bude tu s námi na každém kroku, stejně jako byla loni.
Petr Koubský (Deník N)

  • 0 % (26%, 7 votes)
  • do 10 % (42%, 11 votes)
  • do 20 % (3%, 1 vote)
  • víc (26%, 7 votes)
26 voters. Poll end: in 12 minutes

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Jiří Eischmann

třeba u nás ve vývoji OS je to pořád málo, protože se stejně 70-80 % času tráví hledáním řešení a domluvou jako to udělat a jen 20-30 % psaním kódu. Problémy jsou u nás celkem komplexní a požadavky na optimalizaci velké. Ale v aplikačním vývoji v jasně zdokumentovaném prostředí (třeba různé BI aplikace na platformách MS) se dnes už téměř výhradně vibecoduje a prý to celkem funguje.

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 21 updated and 3 added apps:

* SMS2Email: Forwards SMS messages to SMTP (Email) server 🛡️
* Muzza: A Material 3 YouTube Music client 🛡️
* HMA-OSS: A FOSS continuation of Hide My Applist Xposed module with several new features 🛡️

And in time for new years eve, we have a Schnapszahl for you in our RB status: 777 apps (60.7%) 🥳

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository :awesome: and have a happy new year! 🎆


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@liberloebi Dito – das, wo die Deutschen rutschen. Ich sage aber: "A gutn Rosch"¹. Tut weniger weh (warum sollte man sich auf's Glatteis führen lassen?) – und meint "Rosch Ha-Shanah", den "Kopf des Jahres"; also "ein gutes neues Jahr! 🤗 Komm gut rüber, knallen können die andern 🤪

In diesem Sinne: Nicht "Hals- und Beinbruch", sondern "Hazloche un Broche"¹ – Glück und Segen!

¹ aus dem Hebräischen, über's Jiddische (beides)

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Talk of strange software problems reminded me of the strangest problem one of our projects at work ever ran into, in production. The application was slow on Wednesdays, but only if it rained.

Here's a hint: The database was restarted around midnight every day. This was a long time ago.

The explanation involved a mother with a child that went to some early morning thing on Wednesdays and when it rained, the mother drove the child. Which meant that the mother arrived later at the office than usual. Which meant that she didn't call up her favourite reports first thing in the morning. Which meant that the database didn't cache the execution plans that were "good for everybody" apparently but the ones optimised for some other random dude whose execution plans were lousy. And so the database got off to a bad start on Wednesdays if it rained.

I don't know how they ever figured this one out. What a nightmare. It ended up in our internal Oracle database training for many years. These days, almost everybody uses PostgreSQL.

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Borris

I can't do it myself (Motorola windows software is completely screen reader and accessible) but I know several people who have used those for analog and digital UHF nodes. That goes for the 750, 1250 and 1550. A friend has a CDM-1550 putting out exciter power to get Allstarlink to his repeater, where there is no internet access. The radio is picked up by a dedicated receiver connected to the controller. Not the best way to do it, but it sounds pretty good.
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