sfconservancy.org/sustainer/

This is the toughest time to work at a charity. When a charity posts its fundraiser, the total ask has been vetted 100 times: it's the amount that the org needs to keep going for the coming year.

Unlike your local PBS/NPR station, #SFC doesn't have a service we can interrupt to
pitch appeals for donations (& we probably wouldn't even if we did).

#SFC is short $48k with just days to go.

If you want me & my colleagues to work for #SoftwareFreedom in 2026, please give.

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One of several drummers on the station, HKC Radio would like to wish a very Happy Birthday to Sonic Synergy's own Christina Campbell! Sadly, we can't have Warren Haynes jumping out of a cake for you, we do hope that your birthday has all the rhythm you could want and does not contain tumor milk.

Catch her and Kevin Sunday at 6 PM EST!

Hey lovelies 🩷

We think we've possibly got a few followers and mutuals who are blind and use some kinds of iOS mobile devices, right?

Enquiring because of a random encounter with another plural trans+ being on Reddit, who advised that they're legally blind and had not found any suitably accessible way to access the fediverse.

Can anybody advise whether there are any such ways, so we can give them some way or ways to join the friendlier fediverse community?

If not, they're stuck largely with Reddit and Bluesky 😅😔

The topic only came up after we advised that we'd found fedi to be much more plural friendly and accepting that most other such places... especially Reddit.

For clarity, we have zero experience of iOS and are not blind (at least presently at least), so we'd appreciate any firsthand experiences very much 🫶🏻

#AskFedi #iOS #accessibility

RE: mastodon.social/@lobsters/1158…

Thought this was going to tell me to stop using MariaDB and use something else, but it's actually telling you to switch to MariaDB already...

Ui, the #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… … OK, today 10 updated and 1 added apps – where the latter is rather a returning one:

* Amethyst: a Nostr Client for Android 🛡️

(was here until 2023, moved to F-Droid, was archived there, and now is back with us)

RB status: 798 apps (62%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository

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}

Oh no. Can you please think of the poor corporation and its CEO? The negativity you talk about regarding AI is hurting them badly. Now Jensen Huang is begging you to stop being so negative about AI: "[It's] extremely hurtful, frankly, and I think we've done a lot of damage," he said. This is the same thing the Microsoft CEO said a couple of weeks back. It would be a shame if you boosted and spread this negative news. Lmao.

gizmodo.com/jensen-huang-is-be…

Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI

" extremely hurtful, frankly, and I think we've done a lot of damage," he said.

^{AJ Dellinger (Gizmodo)}

Over the weekend, 17,000 people canceled their #WorldCup tickets

#FIFA is holding an emergency meeting

Maybe they will give Agent Orange another pretty trophy? Maybe bigger, more gold... really sparkly? Will that fix the problem? (/s)

As an American: don't come here

Don't do business with the #USA

Until we clean this shit up. Mainly: we #vote #primaries #primaries2026 and get some real left candidates

ticketnews.com/2026/01/nearly-…

#Boycott #BoycottUSA #Soccer #Football #Sports

Nearly 17K Fans Cancel 2026 World Cup Tickets Amid Boycotts

Tens of thousands of fans cancelled their tickets to the 2026 World Cup over the weekend amid safety fears in the U.S.

^{Olivia Perreault (TicketNews)}

Well done @MapComplete for resolving a bug in less than a day! ⚡ thanks from Italians 🍕

P.S. Forgejo is so nice! Lovely integration with OpenStreetMap OAuth. Really simpler than GitHub and GitLab! 👏

source.mapcomplete.org/MapComp…

#OpenStreetMap #MapComplete #Forgejo

Etymology prefixes: we should first replace *long* prefixes

I noticed that, when an Italian street is called "Viale XYZ" (example: "Viale Marebello"), then the prefix "**Viale**" is not omitted correctly. The "le" part remains by mistake.

^Forgejo

fellas, if your savior:

• can turn water into wine
• can make bread
• is risen

that's not your savior. that's a colony of fermenting microorganisms

RE: chaos.social/@cjk/115892556039…

Keep it up folks. Culture is winning this one.

My 3yo demanded apples with ketchup this morning. Horrible but, fine, if that’s what you want, you got it. Then he asked if I wanted to taste it. I obviously did not. This mofo turned these tables on my so quick with a “you don’t have to eat the whole thing but at least try it”

Let me tell you. That combo is so much worse than I could have imagined. 🤢🤢🤢

RE: social.tchncs.de/@gborn/115887…

#Threema hat sich dann somit auch für mich erledigt. Reden wir einfach mehr über #DeltaChat.

Legault resigns to spend more time privately hounding minorities

thebeaverton.com/2026/01/legau…

Always on point

#qcpoli

Legault resigns to spend more time privately hounding minorities - The Beaverton

QUEBEC CITY - Quebec Premier François Legault announced his resignation today, explaining that he plans to bring his famed enthusiasm for attacking basic human rights to the private sector.

^{John Hansen (The Beaverton)}

Yeah that's fair. I have just read it's a 1.2 trillion -parameter model, that's quite insane. I wonder though if Google will update that as often as their own models, it might be that they still release newer models for themselves but then strategically hold the Apple one back a little bit, on the basis of "letting that model mature first." This will be interesting to see play out for sure.

dragonscave.space/@miki/115895…

miki

2026-01-14 21:29:43

Nah. Giving LLMs their identity is done in post-training, and Google can just remove that data for their posttraining mix for Apple. They're definitely going to have one. Since pretraining = ~60-90% of compute, redoing that part won't be that expensive. There are rumors that Google will only ship the base models anyway, and that all the fine tuning will be done internally by Apple (perhaps on Google infrastructure). Those base models have no idea what they are yet.

The most painful lesson I learned, and have yet to fully recover from, after losing the community I spent years cultivating when Twitter was sold, it’s this: the “revolution” and change so many of you say you want will never be built in public, on platforms owned by people who not only do not share your values but who see them as threats.

At any moment, the communities, businesses, networks, and even friendships you’ve built there can be taken from you because they were never truly yours.

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Want odds on who/what blocks our driveway first?

A snowplow pushing the snow from the bus stop more than 1 block away, or a motorist who gives zero f*cks about blocking our driveway w/ their vehicle whilst they do whatever they need/want to do in our immediate 4-block radius?

Montréal braces for heavy snow as Environment Canada issues warning... montrealgazette.com/news/weath…

#winter #winterweather #CDNNDG #CDNNDGBS #polMTL #MTLpoli #meteoQC

Montreal braces for heavy snow as Environment Canada issues warning

Environment Canada has issued a warning for the area, saying rain is expected to turn to snow.

^{Montreal Gazette}

#deltachat and #chatmail and #webxdc are in a unique "market" where few other cross-platform messengers can play. The unique and growing market is shaped by rising authoritarianism, internet shutdowns and restrictions.

We are building a "Minecraft world of messaging" where skilled people can rip apart, modify, replace, recombine and do modding, at every level. All #foss and featuring

Decent Usability and UI
Offline first
End-to-End encryption
Standards based
Resilient
Decentralized

>eat
>get depressed

That's it I'm kicking the habit, from now no more eating

so this guy claims that he was was a sex slave for Epstein & co as a kid and Trump was one of his abusers (also Clarence Thomas and some others) and that at one point he jammed a tent stake up Trump's ass and got beat for it

he says Trump's medical records will corroborate this and this is also why Trump said he "felt raped" when his medical records were stolen a while back?

WILD SHIT MANNNNN

i feel like boomer isn't derogatory enough, we should call boomers and genx the lead-exposed generations

"well no wonder you're tanking the economy, you're in the lead exposed generation"