In the face of Trump’s threats, Britain’s best path is clearer than ever: hurry back to Europe
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

WARNING: Ring doorbell cameras now partering with #ICE

DO NOT USE!

As a general rule, if you use any kind of doorbell cameras they need to be offline, connected only to your own internal monitor that must never be bridged to any part of the Internet.

Ring however takes this problem to another level, actively sharing data not only with cops but also with ICE

#Ring #Boycott

Among many pieces of evidence about inequity cited in the latest report from Oxfam on extreme wealth & inequality is this:

Billionaires are 4,000 times more likely be holding a political office than 'ordinary' people...

yup, we are living in a system ruled by and working for the 3,000 billionaires in the world!

#inequality #politics #poverty

for more see:

oxfam.org/en/research/resistin…

This is one of the coldest nights ever. Living in open area between the damaged walls makes the situation worser

I'm just thinking about how this suffering might end? We literally suffer in every single detail in our life. In the food, water, shelter, education, health. Literally everything!

Every morning we just think of how we'll end the day peacefully. We don't have big dreams. We just need a normal life

If you would like to help my family please donate and share

chuffed.org/project/121561-urg…

in reply to Zach Bennoui

i tried to think of an analogy

maybe like if you opened apps using physical buttons, each one designed a certain way. you get used to the feel of it. the shape, texture, etc. maybe even enjoy it aesthetically

then it is randomly changed. it is disconcerting. some people struggle more with that change

but also, maybe the new button feels 'off' in some way. you don't like the texture, or it has a shape you just don't enjoy as much

i don't know if that helps but best i could think of

I have another great tip here for those who receive emails or documents that contain tables with rows and columns. I just discovered that if for example you receive a daily spam report from your email provider that is set up in rows and columns. if using Jaws, when you enter the table by arrowing down, use alt control and left and right arrows to navigate each cell and using alt control up and down arrows moves down one cell or row and reads it. My daily spam reports can sometimes be 50 pages long and using the above navigation commands really cut my reading time in half. Wanted to share this with everyone here.
in reply to Scott Rutkowski

In addition to my previous post, I have found on an iPhone if you enter a table within an email or any table, you can use your rotor by rotating with two fingers either clockwise or anticlockwise until you hear Rose and then you can flick left and right to move between each cell and flicking up and down will read that particular column and move you from row to row. This is also very useful and I had no idea that this even existed on the iPhone even though I have been using the iPhone for years using VoiceOver. I have not needed this function until now so wanted to share this knowledge with others here.

Tusky 32 with support for displaying quotes is in beta 🥳

To try out beta version:
- get the app from our repo EDIT sorry, it's not there yet: codeberg.org/tusky/Tusky/relea…
- or enroll into Beta via Play Store: play.google.com/store/apps/det…
- via F-Droid (eventually) gush.taks.garden/note/372daaca…

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Here's a cool podcast about MineCraft accessibility, breaking down how it works. #audio limitlessbb.podbean.com/e/epis…

The princess left a note behind, explaining why she ran away.

"She disagrees with what she was taught," the queen said.

"Embroidery and such?" chuckled the king. "Classic."

"It's not needle-work she objects to. She likes that. She rejects the nobility of the nobility, and our right to rule."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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Curious about using Google’s NotebookLM with JAWS? This archived webinar shows how to use your own documents to get summaries, outlines, and answers, all in a keyboard-friendly way. Learn how to create a notebook, add sources, ask questions, filter results, and build reports.

Access the archive here: freedomscientific.com/webinars…

#JAWS #FreedomScientificTraining #AITraining

How to block Bluesky from Mastodon:

1. Go to the profile page of the account @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy
2. Click ⋯
3. Click "Block Domain" to stop seeing Bluesky accounts
4. Click "Block" to prevent your own account being bridged to Bluesky

You may need to copy-paste @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy into the search box on your server to make the profile appear.

If you can't find the account @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy, your server is probably already blocking the Bluesky bridge.

#FediTips #Bluesky

in reply to stu

You can, though there is really minimal functions. Just a login but no ability to load, read, or send email yet! You can find the link in a recent blogpost (blog.thunderbird.net/2025/12/t…) but we'll let everyone know when we're more ready for testing!

I never applied for an amateur radio license because I didn't like the idea of appearing on an official list of "skilled" people. Until now that was a theoretical fear. One I wasn't even sure if it was warranted or just me being overly cautious.

In Belarus things escalated quickly. Radio amateurs - usually recognized as men of goodwill - have been declared enemies of the state and publicly shamed and indicted for high treason.

steanlab.medium.com/mayday-389…

Haha. All 10 of these. And I think I'm going to start calling it "3D printed code" sounds way cooler than "vibe coding" LOL.
10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents
arstechnica.com/information-te…
(although, 50 projects in a month? Holy hell, not even I could do that.)

We may have to stop selling our CBD products in November because Republicans and the booze lobby snuck a hemp ban into the law last year.

So let's have some fun until then.
milkbarn.farm/pages/loophole

A woman will head to court in March after the City of Burlington fined her for letting her garden grow wild. Similar cases have cropped up in other cities, raising the question of where our priorities lie thenarwhal.ca/opinion-burlingt…

A random question for blind people mainly, but really for anyone comfortable. What is your mental landscape like? What I mean by that is how do you picture things? Visual imagery? More sensory based? Nothing at all? Something else? I'm curious because even though I'm blind my mental landscape is very visual, I think in pictures, maps, recreations of places/objects/ETC in my head in a very visual way, which from what I've heard doesn't seem that common in the blind community. But maybe I'm wrong, I'd be really curious on thoughts here if you all are comfortable.

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I've noticed there seems to be two main types of Linux distributions:

1) Aside from security updates this is going to take a LONG time to get new packages. Updated version of Wine or MESA drivers? See you in six months!

2) EVERY package the second it releases! Hope you don't mind KDE breaking something every couple of months!

I'm wondering if there's any distributions that are similar to the second one but on like a one-month delay, to filter out problematic updates?

#Linux

Bill C-15 would allow corporations to be exempt from most Canadian laws

policyalternatives.ca/news-res…

All you need is to bribe one minister.

#cdnpoli

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Something I'd really like to see from @fosdem - a graph of which social media addresses speakers have on their profile / presentations over the years. Last year it was still quite disappointing that the number of people with Mastodon on their slides was quite low. Maybe something for the stats session at the end?
#FOSDEM #fosdem2026

I'm currently exploring options for local LLMs to be integrated into Home Assistant. Does anyone here got experiences with this already? Like, did you try running a Raspi5 with one of the AI hats? What were your results? Do you have any other affordable local AI systems running with Home Assistant, which models work best for you?
#homeassistant #ai #raspberrypi #ollama #smarthome

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in reply to Jage

@Jage Thinking about the same, but renting a VGPU server would be way more expensive than buying even 1 graphics card now, at least in the long run. That is why i'm asking if people got experiences already. I don't need to interpret live video, I don't think images either. Mostly just text to control entities and such, at least for now. But having a bit of GPU power in reserve won't be bad either.
@Jage

"Code is a liability (not an asset). Tech bosses don't understand this. They think AI is great because it produces 10,000 times more code than a programmer, but that just means it's producing 10,000 times more liabilities.

#Code is a #liability. Code’s capabilities are #assets. The goal of a tech shop is to have code whose capabilities generate more revenue than the costs associated with keeping that code running.

…that's the thing: any nontrivial code has to interact with the outside world, and the outside world isn't static, it's dynamic. The outside world busts through the assumptions made by software authors all the time and every time it does, the software needs to be fixed." @pluralistic

pca.st/episode/ff6c7462-2117-4…

Ok nice, just found the tool that's going to replace my quickly copy/paste link from PC to phone thing. NTFY. If I needed I could even make a script or something for it, though the web interface will be completely fine. I can then just open the notification on my phone, click on it and have it in the clipboard right away. Even more straightforward than roaming around on WhatsApp first, completely own infrastructure with a tool I use anyway.