I get that same uncomfortable look when someone tries to hand me a baby every time someone gives me a shoutout for some open source thing
"eehhhhh this is too big of a responsibility, i really shouldn't. no, you don't understand, you don't want me in this position it may not end well"
Hi there! I see over in Disable primary-paste by default (!119) · Merge requests · GNOME / gsettings-desktop-schemas · GitLab that Gnome is considering removing middle-click paste.GNOME Discourse
OK so I've been talking about The End of UX for a while now.
I want to shoutout the @firefoxwebdevs account for *not* ending UX. They are engaging with some pretty heated feedback regarding LLM-related UI and having a genuine dialogue. I may be pretty much on the side of the heated feedback, but I also want to give credit where credit is due.
The End of UX would be to say "we'll design this however we want and you'll just love it” rather than engage. FF isn't doing that, which is commendable!
Put down toast. Barely toasted. Ok, let's toast one more time.
BURNED.
how does this happen, science ?
Bearded dog hazards:
Making breakfast, she drinks a bowl of water and runs over to me -- dripping water everywhere
I set down my egg and grab a towel
SPLAT
egg rolled off the counter
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last month of last year – click the links to learn more… At the start of December, we announced a new Code of Ethics and Fiduciary Duties for The Document Foundati…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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It is absolutely *wild* to me that media organizations still do not put RSS/Atom 
feed info front-and-center on their websites.
One needs to dive into HTML code or use external tools to discover their feeds.
It is wild because this is one of the easiest, least-effort ways to reach their audience. Encouraging RSS/Atom use is a phenomenal way of becoming less reliant on gatekeepers like huge social media platforms.
Come on! 
If you're wondering what consequences X has faced: none. At all. A few months ago when Grok called itself MechaHitler, the service was shut entirely for days, the same day. When this women issue happened, Elon laughed.
Grok is still outputting non-consensual deepfake pornography and sexual abuse material at a rate of 1 post per second. Example search:
from:@grok filter:media
Direct link:
x.com/search?q=from%3A%40grok%…
I hope Cisco enjoy directly funding sexual abuse material.
It hands them blueprints for exploitation, legitimacy and controlchrisyoong.com
Putting people in bikinis is just the tip of the iceberg. On Telegram, users are finding ways to make Grok do far worse.
sightlessscribbles.com/the-hom…
It's so easy to forget how beautiful words can be. Thank you for the reminder, @WeirdWriter.
Everyone else: I would highly recommend his writing! See sightlessscribbles.com (there is an RSS feed).
I have a product idea that can save people money, give them their attention back, bring people closer together, divest in evil corporations, and help maintain healthy cognition/media literacy.
I call it “reading books and going to libraries”
Just figured out (out of necessity) that I have a better way of OCRing my vm's screen than using Seeing AI. If I specify a monitor when starting qemu, then I can telnet into the monitor, and there's a screendump command that will dump the screen to a file, and then I can use tesseract to OCR the image.
Unfortunately, none of that is helping me right now. I get "Guest has not initialized the display (yet)." So I'm just as mystified as before. Reminds me of the children's song I used to listen to where a climber went over the mountain to see what he could see, but the other side of the mountain was all that he could see.
Now I have this function in my .bashrc (I have the monitor on port 4444):
ocrvm()
{
rm -f a.png a.txt
echo screendump a.png |nc -N localhost 4444 >/dev/null
tesseract a.png a >/dev/null 2>&1
more a.txt
}
It isn't very polished--it creates files called a.png and a.txt in the current directory, but, meh, it does what I need.
Edit: I found my original issue--something was wrong with the virtual drive that I have set for the UEFI image. And I love having this little OCR scriptlet now--it makes it really easy to monitor the status of a vm while it's booting up and I don't have a screen reader available yet.
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OneDrive is Microsoft's cloud-based storage service, and it's aggressively pushed on users of Windows. They want your files on their servers, and are willing to use dark patterns to get…Rob Beschizza (Happy Mutants, LLC.)
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#XSF Announcement
The XSF is 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 #chat #messaging #jabber #standards #opensource #interoperability #rtc #specifications
Hey @FreakyFwoof, I've just started this one. Interested to know if you think it's worth carrying on!
Harry Potter and the Hero's Path, By TheJackOfDiamonds
AU Ritually abused by the Dursley's, young Harry Potter learns to count on himself. After discovering magic at a young age, he practices to become stronger to protect those weaker than him.
March 2006-November 2025.
323493
words in 52 chapters.
fanfiction.net/s/2869936/1/Har…
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@Friendica Support Es gibt ein Addon für den OPML-Export. Gibt es auch eins für den OPML-Import?
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1996 CD release of "Liberation" on Discogs.Discogs
Next time some moron in your government want to regulate the Internet "for the children" remind them they are posting on a CSAM content farm formerly known as Twitter.
A recent family movie night at the household of 14-year-old Sarah Mason ended abruptly when the audio description began to vividly relay the details of an unexpected and lengthy sex scene.Sy Hoekstra (The Squeaky Wheel)
Ihr könnt den #DiDay ja für ne gute Idee halten — das tu ich prinzipiell auch, weil er lokale Vernetzung und Dezentralisierung stärkt.
Aber vielleicht denkt ihr nochmal darüber nach, ob man das in direkter Assoziation mit einem „D-Day“ oder einem „Unabhängigkeitstag“ haben mag, wo beide Begriffe ganz eng verwoben mit der Befreiung von Unterdrückten (oft Schwarzen, Sklaven, …) durch Europäer verwoben sind. #Dudegemacht
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in reply to feld • • •feld
in reply to johnny peligro • • •@mischievoustomato also, I don't feel qualified for anything.
I'm not looking for fame and I didn't get some fancy MIT education or anything
johnny peligro
in reply to feld • • •feld
in reply to johnny peligro • • •@mischievoustomato I can't call myself a programmer, never really been paid to "build something" as my primary job description.
I'm a sysadmin/network guy who has been up to his eyeballs in Linux/BSD for a long time and spent a lot of time reading code and fixing things.
I'm not fluent in PHP, but I've fixed customers' PHP apps before.
I've reworked a patches to C/C++ projects to make them compile again on newer OS or library or whatever
Give me a targeted error or problem and I can probably figure it out.
Ask me to build/design something from scratch and even though I have a lot of ideas in my head about the right way to do things because I try to pay attention to best practices, security, performance and have a pretty wide range of knowledge... I'm more likely than not to produce an amateurish pile of garbage
If someone else provided me with a complete technical design to follow of how it should work, there's a much better chance I can be successful or at least not waste so much time