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Good morning. If you are a citizen of these here United States, age 18 and up, today is an excellent day to register to vote if you have not already, and if you have already registered to vote, to check that your registration is still active and valid. If you don't where to start with either, vote.org has you covered. Please register and vote, every election is important and this one is even more so. Thank you!

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Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org

Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.
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As expected, judge Cannon dismisses the classified documents case against Trump, after the supreme court hinted how she could do so.

Right this moment, we are witnessing what the future dystopian United States looks like: One law for you, another for the Emperor.

May American voters be wise enough to spot the trap they are about to walk into, before it is too late.

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Wow, who would sit there and listen while it gets to a 100%? mindly.social/@Tamasg/11279067…

Tamas G

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If you miss defragmenting your C drive, there's a website that lets you recreate the experience complete with hard-drive chunking sounds (visit defrag98.com/, the site is very accessible surprisingly enough) pcgamer.com/hardware/if-you-mi…


If you miss defragmenting your C drive, there's a website that lets you recreate the experience complete with hard-drive chunking sounds

No, it won't actually defrag your SSD.
Jody Macgregor (PC Gamer)
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Dennis Schubert

@narinarinari Every time we put anything in front of the user after any updates, y'all on social media go full rage mode, too. No matter how we handle this, there's always a large group of people yelling at us.

Bobby explained in his Reddit post why we decided to make this opt-out. If you disagree with that, that's your good right. I can't convince you otherwise, and if you want to act like this is a big conspiracy, so be it. Nothing we could say will change that.

@Nari
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Nari

If you don’t want users to be upset at your choices, maybe don’t make choices that harm them? What’s more, there’s a pattern here. Mozilla only continues to exist because Google, the world’s largest ad company, keeps it alive. Mozilla has also recently purchased an ad company, so is actively part of that toxic market. And you partnered with Meta of all untrustworthy, data hungry ad companies on this nega-feature. Gee, I wonder why people are upset.
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Ob groß, klein, prall oder schlaff: Die weibliche Brust ist ein Quell des Lebens und der Empörung. Woher kommt der sexualisierte Blick auf die weibliche Brust? Ganz klar ist sie eine höchst erregbare Körperstelle - doch das gilt grundsätzlich für alle Menschen.

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#Wissenschaft #Gesellschaft #Doku

Befreite Brüste

Viele städtische Bäder in Deutschland erlauben auch in dieser Saison, dass Brüste von Frauen genauso sichtbar sein dürfen wie nackte Männeroberkörper. Das sorgt für blankes Entsetzen.
3sat
#gesellschaft #wissenschaft #doku

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fail2ban has one core maintainer github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban and he has only 3 Github sponsors github.com/sebres

WTF

I can't even comprehend how many servers are protected by fail2ban, how many compromises are avoided, how many people who run hobby things all the way up to major sites that get to sleep soundly every night... because of this single project.

#oss


GitHub - fail2ban/fail2ban: Daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors

Daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors - fail2ban/fail2ban
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#oss
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If you care about women's rights, protecting Medicare and Social Security, or safeguarding democracy on the whole, you should be concerned about Project 2025. Last week, writer Jay Kuo broke down this radical agenda for a second Trump term in a piece of essential reading from The Big Picture. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p…

Heritage Foundation's Radical Project 2025 Broken Down By Issue

We took on Project 2025 issue by issue so you don't have to.
The Big Picture

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Calling All Blind and Low Vision Users!

Exciting news! I’ve reached out to Apple Accessibility, and they’re on board to collaborate with us. They’ve asked me to put together a team so we can work directly with their team and engineers.

Are you passionate about improving accessibility features for blind and low vision users? Do you use VoiceOver, Zoom, or other low vision features on your devices? We need your help!

We’re looking for individuals who are interested in providing feedback and testing new features from our point of view. Your input will be invaluable in making technology more accessible for everyone.

If you’re interested in participating, please fill out the form below:

forms.microsoft.com/r/eRQAsmMb…

Let’s make a difference together!
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Best,
Matthew Whitaker

#Accessibility #BlindUsers #LowVision #VoiceOver #Zoom #AppleAccessibility #TechForAll #Inclusion #AccessibilityMatters #blind #lowvision

#Accessibility #blind #zoom #inclusion #voiceover #lowvision #AccessibilityMatters #techforall #blindusers #appleaccessibility
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M.S. Bellows, Jr.

Today would be a good day for Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas's conflicts of interest, so that when Cannon's ruling today (that special counsel are unconstitutional) finally makes it to SCOTUS and they don't recuse themselves, their personal interest in the outcome is so blatant that even the most naive citizen will see their corruption for what it is.

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Here's the thing: Trump *is* an authoritarian who wants to destroy democracy. This isn’t a smear, it’s a fact. That Trump got shot doesn’t change the necessity of him being defeated at the ballot box, nor does it absolve him of his past misdeeds.

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Multiple things are true about Trump's shooting

Political violence is wrong. And Trump is the candidate of political violence.
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NEW — Two outer-space franchises collide at San Diego Comic Con as #StarTrek and #DoctorWho showrunners join forces for a special panel and gallery experience to bring fandom together

More details: tinyurl.com/sdcc-trekwho

STAR TREK and DOCTOR WHO Showrunners Join Forces for SDCC's "Intergalactic Friendship Day" Panel • TrekCore.com

Two outer-space franchises collide at San Diego Comic Con as STAR TREK and DOCTOR WHO showrunners join forces for a special panel to bring fandom together
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#startrek #doctorwho

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Apple Watch Lost in the Sea Found 18 Months Later, Still Works — 'Find My' feature helps diver recover lost Apple Watch nearly two years later appleinsider.com/articles/24/0…

'Find My' feature helps diver recover lost Apple Watch nearly two years later

A YouTuber who lost his Apple Watch while swimming and diving in the summer of 2022 has had it returned to him, thanks to the Find My feature.
Charles Martin (AppleInsider)

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"How in particular should *we* respond—those of us who did and do see Trump as an urgent threat to our liberal order and consider defeating him to be America’s most urgent political priority?"

Today's Morning Shots from @wkristol52 and @eggerdc: thebulwark.com/p/bullets-cant-…


Bullets Can’t Save Liberalism

Plus: Why Democrats can’t back down from the election fight.
William Kristol (The Bulwark)
@wkristol52 @eggerdc

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Your smartphone is a spy in your pocket. Choose freedom with Purism's Liberty Phone - made in USA, no data harvesting. #Purism #PureOS #PrivacyMatters
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Your Phone is Giving Away More Than You Ever Bargained For – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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#purism #pureos #privacymatters
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AlexTECPlayz

"Liberty Phone", 2014-ish specs in a $2000 phone, what the fuck. The processor costs $73 per piece. Can someone that (un)fortunately bought this thing confirm it's actually using Bluetooth 5.3 and Wi-Fi 6, or is it a marketing lie?

Additionally, this article from Madaidan's Insecurities blog still stands:

madaidans-insecurities.github.…

Linux Phones | Madaidan's Insecurities

madaidans-insecurities.github.io

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#Journalists and EU citizens - Want to know how you can help stop chat control?

First things first, stop calling it Upload Moderation and call it Chat Control! Many of you still call #ChatControl Upload Moderation but that doesn't do this #privacy invading law justice!

Want to learn more on Germany's role in stopping Chat Control? Check out Tuta's latest article here: tuta.com/blog/germany-stop-cha…

Do the right thing and say it how it is!

How Germany was key to stop chat control - and how the name helped with that.

Once again public pressure led to politicians stopping their push for mass surveillance - but the fight continues!
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#privacy #chatcontrol #journalists

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Something reminded me today of @chadaustin's argument that Go isn't a good language for application servers, laid out in this 2016 post: chadaustin.me/2016/04/two-kind… That post gives reasons why Haskell is better, while acknowledging its relatively poor usability. I wonder how Rust compares. I see people argue that Rust is better for special-purpose infrastructure servers than for application servers, because for the latter you want garbage collection, not Rust's ownership model.

Two Kinds of Servers

Occasionally I overhear (or get sucked into) an argument that goes like this:
Chad Austin
@Chad Austin
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Chad Austin

I haven’t written Haskell or any serious product or business logic since then! I don’t personally enjoy Rust that much (to my surprise) but it has excellent compositional properties for large systems. And I think IMVU switched to C# on the backend to avoid dealing with GHC’s GC.

I do miss monads. No other mainstream language lets you restrict effects. Being able to say “you cannot do non-database IO inside of a transaction” was so good.

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Have been listening to some of the episodes of this Computer Talk magazine from the 90's. oneswitch.org.uk/art.php?id=36…. I'm amazed at some of the stuff that these guys were getting up to, there is an article in one of the magazines which talks about using boot menus in DOS 6! I feel we've lost a bit of that technical prowess with the younger blind generation, maybe that's an overall decline?

History: Computer Talk audio magazines

Museum: Computer Talk magazine for blind computer users.
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“It cannot be stressed enough: Violence should have no place in American political life. But one cannot let the matter rest there…It took only minutes for Trump’s allies and supporters to turn the bloody episode into a battering ram against Democrats…”
thebulwark.com/p/truth-about-p…

The Truth About Political Violence

To condemn the attack on Trump’s life requires being honest about his candidacy.
Gabriel Schoenfeld (The Bulwark)

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If you miss defragmenting your C drive, there's a website that lets you recreate the experience complete with hard-drive chunking sounds (visit defrag98.com/, the site is very accessible surprisingly enough) pcgamer.com/hardware/if-you-mi…

If you miss defragmenting your C drive, there's a website that lets you recreate the experience complete with hard-drive chunking sounds

No, it won't actually defrag your SSD.
Jody Macgregor (PC Gamer)
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