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RE: mamot.fr/@ploum/11593879477897…

I agree with this wholeheartedly. We shouldn't create European versions of Google, Amazon or Microsoft, oligopols that benefit from vendor lock-in. Instead, we should have a commons based on open-source technology and standards, which can then be used to develop solutions for customers. And let the competition flourish. In my opinion, that is in our European DNA.

ploum (@ploum@mamot.fr)

Why there’s no European Google? And why it is a good thing! My answer to the European Commission "call for evidence on Open Source." https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html #geminiprotocol link: gemini://ploum.
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I don't send many emails anymore. I receive emails but I don't send many. Even at work, most of our communication is done via other means. But I do generate at least one email a day to send to a group of external testers. I don't send this from a traditional mail client. Instead it is a shell script that gathers some information and opens a text editor to add further comments. After that the file is sent with #cURL, via smtp. That means that curl is my main mail client (at least for sending). 🤔
#curl
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I do appreciate all the work the EU has done with regulatory work around data sovereignty and the DMA. But they would still be gigafucked if the US ordered Amazon, Google, and Microsoft to cut them off. They may not even have the encryption keys accessible entirely in the EU. The fact that their data physically resides in Europe don't mean shit if a US corp can kill their whole infrastructure with a single command to lock their accounts.

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Some answers to FAQ from a life long Oklahoman

-why is everyone freaking out over the forecasted snow storm?

Our state has very little of the infrastructure needed to deal with a large amount of snow or extended cold weather.

-why are the grocery stores empty?

Everyone is scared they will be stuck at home with no power, no water, and no hope that the government will be willing to help.

-why all the milk and bread?

I honestly do not know. Me and mine have 2 weeks of shelf stable things to munch on but we have the privilege to be prepared, most of the state are unable to afford their basic needs day to day and cannot adequately prepare for things like this.

- why does your government suck?

"Rugged individualim for some, gut wrenching poverty for most." Is the motto of the GOP whom have a super majority in our legislature. They are currently actively campaigning to defund libraries, public schools, and county services because "it's not nice to make rich people pay taxes" or something.

- you seem angry.

That's not a question.

#Oklahoma #Snow

#snow #oklahoma

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As stupid shit posts of a repo goes this might be the best I've made in a long time.

Presenting the Self Deleting Repo.

When opened in vs code or zed it immediately deletes its self. (at least if you have the rust plug in installed)

I've also added agent instructions that might make the agent delete it but I don't have any of the ai tools installed to see if that part actually works.

github.com/emilyselwood/self_d…


GitHub - emilyselwood/self_deleting_repo: A repo that deletes it self when it opens in an editor.

A repo that deletes it self when it opens in an editor. - emilyselwood/self_deleting_repo
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Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant media.mit.edu/publications/you…

New brain rot successfully unlocked by using ChatGPT and other similar AI tools. Over many millennia evolution helped you develop critical thinking skills and you are giving that all away chasing some fools' dreams who think you can do better things in life without money or work. At the end of the day, you will have neither.

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …
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iMessage on Windows, Android, or Linux? BlueBubbles on a Mac makes it possible. And it might not be as tricky as you think, if you use Tailscale to hook everything up securely. tailscale.com/blog/bluebubbles…

Tailscale + BlueBubbles puts iMessage on Windows, Android, or anywhere

BlueBubbles is a clever way to bring iMessage to almost any device. Tailscale makes it far more simple to hook it all up.
Kevin Purdy (tailscale.com)
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Jonathan

@techsinger Yeah it's mainly about remote control from a pretty restricted Laptop. I let NVDA provide/run the server to connect to atm, and then just connect through tailscale, and additionally, I have my Mullvad VPN exit nodes. Honestly the router is a very good idea. I already have a gl router which was like 100€, that one would be too big though. i have to look into whether there exists something small. I would just do Hotspot over USB C but I'm not sure if the computer would complain about connected devices and what not, I mean you literally have to approve new keyboards. Stupid work Laptop can't do anything. Anyway worst case I just run the NVDA Remote server on my proxi vps or something. Also the only problem I can think of with the router is powering it portably. For instance I used a separate Laptop for school before and am now switching to my work Laptop for that as well, and therefore am looking into suitable options to keep current functionality.
@Tech Singer
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Tech Singer

I get it. Is the Mt3000 too big? What about the SFT1200? Both are from gl.inet, I'm not sure how returns work in Amazon.de but they may be worth looking at. Two suggestions, though, if I may make them. First, is tailscale funnel too big a risk, or will it not work for you? It gets rid of all the hardware, and you don't have to run a remote server for it, right? I used to want to run a remote server, but decided not to bother anymore, and that decision has been strengthened by the companion which lets me do three and four connections at a time without a server. Secondly, I'm a bit confused about powering it portably. You already have a laptop. If you already have one, you can power the router through a free USB port on the laptop, can't you? You can even do it through a hub. I'm seeing consumption of less than 10W on many of these. I powered one from a phone's USB port once when I needed to, and was surprised it didn't make life too hard. My usual setup, until about three months ago, was powering an MT3000 from a cheap Lenovo which I was using. The reason I stopped was that the lenovo broke in hardware and I got a much smaller unit and started using a USB wifi adapter. Basically, there was no power issue, and I did that for a few years without trouble.
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Jonathan

@techsinger I mean I don't need a tunnel really. I could also have that with my reverse proxy setup already, for example any service like miniflux.jonathan859.com runs on my Raspberry Pi from home through Tailscale to a VPS that exposes it with a reverse proxy, so over all it's already a bigger tunnel, I was just wondering whether theoretically I could get tailscale to work so I wouldn't have to alter the setup that much, but over all it'll probably just be the simplest solution, yeah.
@Tech Singer
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Tech Singer

Yes, that makes sense. My view is the fewer parts the better, just because it avoids complications. There's another argument to be made that it's such a small amount of data that it doesn't matter. How much noticeable latency does a tailscale intermediate server, or your VPS, or a nvdaremote server running on the public internet really produce? I mean I'm not going to communicate with another part of my city through a center in Christchurch, but if you're even in the same province/state on everything, does the movement really matter that much?

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Sometimes the job interview just wants to gain code exec on your machine:

runjak.codes/posts/2026-01-21-…

Local girl failed the coding interview:
I don't think they've got a job for me anymore now that I got their repos deleted⁉️

GitHub 404 page for github.com/solvolab - an organisation removed from GitHub after being reported for distributing malware to developers.

runjak.codes: An adversarial coding test

Sometimes the job interview just wants to gain code exec on your machine.
runjak.codes

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Imagine telling someone in 1950 that train travel across Europe will one day be the expensive alternative chosen by well-off people with environmentalist opinions, while unskilled workers will only be able to afford air tickets, and arrive in a fraction of the time.

#trains #climate

#climate #trains

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miki

Most of these subsidies go to the traditional (and expensive) air carriers. Ryanair, which is the low cost king, is very famously anti-subsidy. Sure, there's some subsidization for airports and specific routes that governments care a lot about, but it's not like rail isn't subsidized either.

Rail is so inefficient that even cars are often cheaper. If you have 2 or more people in a group, especially if they're on a normal ticket, it's often cheaper to go by car than by train. A car can seat five, a train can seat hundreds and runs on efficient tracks instead of inefficient roads. It's all just utterly ridiculous.

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What instant communication, thread-based platform do you use at least once a month?
Just trying to get an idea of the popularity of different options - multiple choices possible, please boost around!

If you think we should add some choices, please cite them in comment and I'll do a 2nd poll. They would have to be similarly thread / themes / channel - based, with a phone app but also available in the browser (e.g. maybe Matrix? But website-only platforms like Discourse would not work).

#Discord #Teams #MSTeams #Slack #Zulip #AcademicChatter (but not only)

  • Discord (11%, 1 vote)
  • Teams (44%, 4 votes)
  • Slack (0%, 0 votes)
  • Zulip (11%, 1 vote)
  • Other / None / see results (33%, 3 votes)
9 voters. Poll end: in 2 days

#discord #slack #msteams #teams #zulip #academicchatter

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I thought I was going crazy since #Today I can't find any obvious mention of #Dovecot and #ChatMail servers.

BUT, here it is: github.com/chatmail/relay/tree…

Based on the kinda snippy text there in the readme, I guess the #DeltaChat folks decided they want to down-play the dovecot dependency in case they decided to do something else in future.

Also, "custom builds" might make some folks ... itchy.


relay/scripts/dovecot at main · chatmail/relay

chatmail service deployment scripts and docs . Contribute to chatmail/relay development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#deltachat #dovecot #Today #chatmail
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feld

it is a custom build because of this one patch that upstream for some reason hasn't merged. Dovecot sleeps for 500ms before actually delivering a mail to the client because of some ancient race condition they couldn't figure out, it's really dumb

github.com/dovecot/core/pull/2…


storage: remove 500 ms debounce on IMAP IDLE notifications by link2xt · Pull Request #216 · dovecot/core

This commit removes hardcoded 500 ms debounce from storage that delays all storage notification subscribers such as IDLE and NOTIFY commands. 500 ms debounce constant NOTIFY_DELAY_MSECS was added i...
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I've been using the new Microsoft Outlook for a while, and although it was usable and had some nice features, it was never quite as accessible as I was hearing it was from other blind users. I went back and reviewed chapter 4 of David Kingsbury's book, Windows Screenreader Primer from the Carroll Center for the Blind, and changing the following setting made all of the difference! 😎

In the view group, I went into the Reading pane menu and checked the Popout only item.

#Accessibility #A11y

#a11y #Accessibility

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Chystá se nová evropská sociální síť W - viz tenhle článek:

cybernews.com/tech/social-plat…

Jelikož si ještě nepořídili všechny domény, tak na překlepové doméně w-social.eu už vznikla reklama na Mastodon, tak jsem dneska přes oběd něco podobného udělala taky 😄

Mrkněte na wsocial.cz 🐱

Zkuste Fediverse 😉

Zkuste Fediverse - komunitní decentralizovanou sociální síť.
wsocial.cz
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Chao-c'

tak ten vysoký počet sledujících mají často z toho důvodu, že je díky mastodexu sledují další a další lidé.

V úplně prvních momentech Twitter exodu to bylo lepší než nic, ale po těch 2 letec to už nedává moc smysl. Zvlášť proto, že některé ty účty jsou v podstatě neaktivní a ty sledující jim naskakují právě jen kvůli tomu uvedení na seznamu... taková sociální renta ze sociálního kapitálu :-))

@kayla_eilhart

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I'm happy to announce ChapterPod, an app for adding chapters to podcast files, is now available to download!

I've been using this for about 6 months behind the scenes to do all the chapters for Comfort Zone, and it's easily the best tool for the job (for me, at least).

Available for Mac, iPad, and iPhone

apps.apple.com/us/app/chapterp…

ChapterPod App - App Store

Download ChapterPod by Matt Birchler on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like ChapterPod.
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He conseguido probar, con algo de dificultad, que la suma, resta y producto de reales definidos como clases de equivalencia no dependen de representantes específicos, y que cumplen las leyes del anillo (más o menos). Algún lema sobre positividad. ahora me falta la tricotomía. No sé si habré elegido bien usando secuencias en lugar de cortes de Dedekind. Pero es que las pruebas de supremos e ínfimos me tocan las narices bastante; es un coñazo tener que hacer análisis de casos con eso.

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I couldn't believe that PC Gamer headline was a proper reflection of what was said, but... it was.
The thing which most annoys me is that they seem to believe they have a right to do a damaging thing (which they acknowledge is damaging) in the hope that they might find something impactful to do with it (which they acknowledge they haven't, yet) because there's currently a lot of hype about it, and the only time limit on this is "find something before the hype runs out".
Right now, the zeitgeist is a little bit about the admiration for AI in its abstract form or as as technology. But I think we as even a global community have to get to a point where we are using this to do something useful. That changes the outcomes of people and communities and countries and industries. Otherwise I don't think this makes much sense. In fact I would say we will quickly lose even the social permission to actually take something like energy, which is a scarce resource, and use it to generate these tokens, if these tokens are not improving health outcomes, education outcomes, public sector efficiency, private sector competitiveness across all sectors, small and large, right? And that to me is ultimately the goal. Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, Davos 2026 youtube.com/watch?v=1co3zt3-r7I
PC Gamer headline: "Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it" by Tyler Wilde

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Launching their new social network, W, a group in the EU posted a map of where other social networks are hosted. It showed nothing in Europe.

But their map is wrong.

Here's what Mastodon actually looks like, and what the Fediverse as a whole actually looks like.

arewedecentralizedyet.online/m…

A screenshot of a map showing that Mastodon instances are located around the world.
A screenshot of a map showing that many kinds of Fediverse instances are located around the world.

Social Network User Data Storage

arewedecentralizedyet.online
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If "AI" worked they'd be using it, not selling it.

I.E. if it did what they claimed it would be proprietary secret sauce, not "come use this for free so we can figure out what it might be good for". Still, in 2026.

Remember when blockchain was going to have a zillion world-changing uses, real soon now? Same guys, they pivoted.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

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RE: hear-me.social/@Lacze/11593625…

The "brilliant" minds behind the new social network wsocial.eu forgot to grab related domain names, so I applaud the efforts of the creator of w-social.eu... encouraging people to be social and simply join the fediverse.

Fun fact: yesterday I almost registered wsocial.lol (1 Euro for the first year) and wsocial.wtf.

I guess if I see an article in mainstream media about wsocial.eu I may do it (if the domains are still available).

Journos, you should cover the fediverse!

#resist

• Łącze (@Lacze@hear-me.social)

• Wsocial https://w-social.eu Social media platform, an alternative to X ~ ~ Check, help, and share the link to the platform 😊 _____ #twitter #x #socialmedia #Europe #freedom #freespeech #News #technology #Mastodon #Media #opensource #foss
• Łącze (hear-me.social -- Tell us)
#resist
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Elena Rossini ⁂

I was this close to registering a domain name & creating a splash page to expose why wsocial.eu is such a terrible idea.

Why did I stop?

I have a big hunch that their initiative is going to FLOP. Big time.

A fork of Bluesky that requires government ID to post? Bahahahahaha.

Sure you can have rich and powerful friends helping you launch at Davos but getting people excited about a new social network isn't easy.

I will use my limited time in propping up the fediverse instead ✊

W Social

wsocial.eu

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NVSpeech Player with phoneme editor version 1.6 now on GitHub as a release. github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
Release notes:
This release removes all direct linking against libespeak and other phonemizer libraries. Phonemization is now performed via external command-line tools (preferably through STDIN), keeping NV Speech Player and the Phoneme Editor fully GPLv2-compliant while still allowing use of GPLv3 phonemizers such as eSpeak NG as separate programs. Functionality is unchanged for users, but the integration is now cleaner, more flexible, and license-safe.

Release NVSpeech Player with phoneme editor version 1.6 · tgeczy/NVSpeechPlayer

Licensing & phonemizer changes This release removes all direct linking against libespeak and other phonemizer libraries. Phonemization is now performed via external command-line tools (preferably t...
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Tamas G

@spacepup For “dans”, the vowel is /ɑ̃/ (nasal A). You usually don’t add a brand-new phoneme right away. Map the nasal vowel to an oral vowel + nasal consonant:
/ɑ̃/ to ɑn (or sometimes ɑŋ, depending on taste)
That already gets you most of the way there and works well in formant synths.
In packs/lang/fr.yaml (or your French pack):
normalization:
replacements:
- from: "ɑ̃"
to: "ɑn"
That way:
• dans (/dɑ̃/) now is dan. True nasal vowels aren’t just “vowel + N”, but acoustically this approximation is very close, and much better than guessing a random vowel. Most engines (and even some older TTS systems) do exactly this.
@Spacedog
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Tamas G

@spacepup You’re absolutely right — /ɑ̃/ in dans is one vowel, not “a + n”. Native speakers don’t pronounce an actual n there.
I think the reason people suggest mapping it to ɑn isn’t because that’s phonemically correct, but because of how formant synthesizers work. There is no true nasal vowel tract (no velum lowering, no nasal cavity resonator). A nasal vowel would need different formants + nasal anti-resonance, which we don’t currently model as a separate vowel type. So ɑn is a controlled approximation, not a claim about how French works. Later on we might be able to add more engine params like that though, but it requires deeper level changes to its actual sound.
@Spacedog
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