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I submitted an idea for Thunderbird: suppressing the notification about remote content on emails, keeping it all blocked: connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/s…

Suppress remote content warning on email

There's a setting to accept all remote content, which suppresses the warning; but no setting to deny all remote content. I never want to get remote content on my email, and the constant notification is annoying.
connect.mozilla.org
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Garrett LeSage

@hub My thought exactly.

This is *the 5th time* Google Maps has been extremely inaccurate for me in the past week alone.

I've already been using Organic Maps quite a bit, but am depending on it more and more. Once in a while, the OSM map info is out of date, but so is Google. But OSM is never blatantly wrong like Google is lately.

I'm meeting a colleague (elsewhere) who sent me a Google Maps link right after this and that's wrong too. (6th time this week!)

@Hubert Figuière

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Truecaller rolls out real-time caller ID to its ~750K iOS subscribers, who account for 40% of its revenue; Truecaller has 2.6M+ paying subscribers in total (TechCrunch)

techcrunch.com/2025/01/21/true…
techmeme.com/250122/p5#a250122…


Truecaller brings real-time caller ID to iPhone users | TechCrunch

Truecaller for iOS has been updated with live caller ID support for its premium iPhone users.
Ivan Mehta (TechCrunch)

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O rety, wreszcie! Każdy, kto prowadzi publiczny transport zbiorowy, powinien udostępniać rozkłady do takiej bazy.

Bo jak mnie to wkurza, gdy planuję różne wyjazdy. Warszawską komunikację miejską mam w jakdojadę. Część PKS-ów jest w epodróżniku. Ale już np. komunikację gminną w powiecie warszawskim-zachodnim (czy Bielsku-Białej) znajdę w Google Maps. Z kolei rozkłady autobusów gminnych dookoła Otwocka są tylko do znalezienia w jakichś PDFach na stronach przewoźników. Chaos, który ogarniają jedynie miejscowi, a jak ktoś ma korzystać z komunikacji rzadziej, to odpuszcza.

transport-publiczny.pl/wiadomo…

#transportpubliczny


MI: Będą ogólnopolskie bazy rozkładów jazdy i przystanków

Resort zapowiada wprowadzenie baz danych, które zagregują informacje o rozkładach jazdy komunikacji publicznej. Pomoże to w stworzeniu wyszukiwarek połączeń zawierających dokładne, aktualne i kompletne informacje dotyczące wszystkich przewoźników.
www.transport-publiczny.pl
#transportpubliczny
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Want to help us improve the #curl shell completion script(s)?

github.com/curl/curl/issues/16…


Undeterministic zsh completion script output (depending on terminal size) · Issue #16072 · curl/curl

I did this I tried to reproduce the Arch Linux curl package by repeating the build in the documented build environment and noticed the zsh completions do not match: https://web.archive.org/web/2025...
GitHub
#curl
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Ben

@cachondo

Lol. I wasn't thinking of any rude or crude questions! Basically yes I wanted to know if you learned braille earlier or later in life (ie post-written word) and whether you read braille braille or tactile books (or both). I enjoy learning new 'languages' and would be fascinated to know whether it's something I could intuitively pick up or basically like starting again from scratch. I'd also be interested if it's direct translation or it there are shortcuts / iconography. Is it direct letter to letter or are you skimming whole words..... 'the' / 'here' / 'there' etc?

@Sean Randall
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Sean Randall

I learned Braille as my first writing system, so I visualise letters that way, even though I *know* they don't look that way. Braille is really a code to represent print.

The first level of Braille is called "uncontracted", and that is a direct letter-to-letter reproduction of the written word. if I wanted to ask
> "How are you today?"
I'd write
> "⠠⠓⠕⠺⠀⠁⠗⠑⠀⠽⠕⠥⠀⠞⠕⠙⠁⠽⠦". Which if you count you'll see is similar to the print, except the first character is a capital indicator telling us that the h in how is uppercase.

After that you can move onto "contracted" Braille, where there are short forms, contractions and word signs. For example, our question now becomes
> "⠠⠓⠪⠀⠜⠑⠀⠽⠀⠞⠙⠦"
here, the "ow" of "how" has merged into a "⠪" (an o-w sign), the letter y by itself stands for a you, and "td means today. a bit like early text-speak.

disclaimer, I am doing the Braille blind so can't 100% verify my output by touch at the moment.

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Sean Randall

Go for it, questions very welcome.
there's a cool website you can learn from called UEBOnline if you want to go further.
Physical equipment for showing Braille electronically is very expensive unfortunately.
if you want to just write Braille though, [Perky Duck](duxburysystems.com/perky.asp) is free

Perky Duck free software

Perky Duck is a free download from Duxbury Systems (no charge) that offers some functionality, especially to someone learning about braille.
www.duxburysystems.com

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I have lost momentum in this week of reading and only managed to swallow 3 books, 3,750 pages.

the shoutout this week has to go to *The Boys*, a compelling work of literary fiction that pulls a childhood insecurity, grief and trauma into the light in an interesting way. I read it in a single sitting and it hung around my head for days afterward.
The other 2 were Harry Potter fanfiction, one of which was rather amateur and immature both, and the other of which seems to have sadly had its sequel abandoned.
#bookstodon

Book cover of "The Boys" by Katie Hafner. The cover features large red squares with white pictograms on a background of a grassy hill under a blue sky with clouds. In the top left, an icon of a falling stick figure with "KATIE HAFNER" written below. Central area has icons in a grid: broken heart, person riding a bike, upward arrows, two people holding hands, and storm cloud with a lightning bolt. "THE BOYS" is prominently displayed in large white text across the grid, with "A Novel" in the center. A quote from Maria Semple says, "An audacious feat of narrative bravado." In the background, three tall, skinny trees appear on the hill.
#bookstodon

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I did coding in the C64 demo scene in the late 80s, early 90s. Doing 6510 assembler in the demo group we called Horizon.

A sample demo part I wrote together with my Friend Linus. This demo part also uses the music routine I wrote, with music composed by Linus.

youtu.be/qYH-o2iss1Y?si=bNiRhJ…


C64 Demo: 1990 A Load of Old Shit by Horizon

C64 Demo: 1990 A Load of Old Shit by Horizonf:Commodore 64 (C64)f:Commodore 64 (C64) Demosf:Commodore 64 (C64) Crack/IntrosAirwolf/F4CG
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Good morning, friends of the #BSDCafe and the entire #Fediverse,
it's Wednesday, the day of the Sea. Let’s begin this new day by focusing on the beauty of nature, forgetting for a moment the problems of life and the world.

Because we are alive, now.

#Photography #Sunrise #SeaWednesday #MeerMittwoch #Sea #WinterSunrise #Photo #Picture #Pic

A breathtaking sunrise unfolds over the horizon, painting the sky with hues of soft gold, vibrant orange, and delicate pink. The calm sea mirrors the sky’s warmth, signaling the start of a new day. Silhouettes of palm trees stand gently against the morning light, while a quiet, distant structure anchors the scene. As the first light of dawn breaks through, it brings with it a sense of renewal and hope - a reminder that each new day holds the potential for growth, beauty, and the quiet peace that exists in the world despite everything.
#fediverse #photo #photography #sea #sunrise #pic #meermittwoch #seawednesday #bsdcafe #picture #wintersunrise

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Seven years ago I landed this new silly #curl progress bar take: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/01/22…

A flying curl progress bar

curl features an alternative progress bar. When you invoke it with -# or the longer version --progress-bar, curl will show the transfer progress using a single "bar" on the screen instead of the default meter that shows a lot of data like amount of d…
daniel.haxx.se
#curl

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La Fiscalía se opone a investigar a la policía infiltrada de Girona pese a admitir que actuó sin control judicial
eldiario.es/catalunya/fiscalia…

La Fiscalía se opone a investigar a la policía infiltrada de Girona pese a admitir que actuó sin control judicial

El Ministerio Público reconoce que la infiltración se llevó a cabo sin "una regulación expresa", pero avala que la agente engañara un activista independentista para mantener una relación con él
Oriol Solé Altimira (ElDiario.es)

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Hopefully people remember this, not just this week, but at the times when it can make a difference. flipboard.com/@npr/all-things-…

Trump gave pardons to hundreds of violent Jan. 6 rioters. Here's what they did

Throughout his 2024 campaign for president, Donald Trump repeatedly promised to give pardons to his supporters who had been criminally charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
NPR - Carrie Johnson , Tom Dreisbach , Barbara Van Woerkom , Ari Shapiro

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I thought it would be interesting to see what happens when you get a practice session from the tennis player Alex de Minaur at the Australian Open and slow it down by a ridiculous degree using reaper.
You get some very interesting sounds here particularly with the serving of the ball and the squeaking of the tennis shoes on the hardcourt.

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Sometimes you just a need a nice, light, pop song filled with positivity

…that's been filmed on dozens and dozens of iPhones 🤳

#OKGo

youtube.com/watch?v=MOEULOSVNK…


OK Go - A Stone Only Rolls Downhill (Official Video)

Get this song: https://sym.ffm.to/astoneonlyrollsdownhill.And all things OK Go: https://linktr.ee/okgomusicCredits:Directors:Damian KulashChris Buongiorno E...
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#okgo

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Trump grants a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of Silk Road and a cult hero in the cryptocurrency world who was serving a life sentence (New York Times)

nytimes.com/2025/01/21/technol…
techmeme.com/250121/p32#a25012…


Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht, Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace

Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.
David Yaffe-Bellany (The New York Times)

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Input methods on macOS also work much better! The next version of Ghostty allows all the standard control keys to work with the built-in Japanese input method: support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/… In 1.0.1, these worked but ALSO encoded them to the shell. This is now resolved.

For Japanese typists, the AquaSKK/macSKK input methods work out of the box. This has been verified thanks to a vocal group of Japanese users. According to them, Ghostty is the only terminal at all where this is true (Terminal/iTerm require hacks, other terms don't work at all)

Keyboard shortcuts for Japanese conversions on Mac

When using a Japanese input source on your Mac, use keyboard shortcuts to convert characters.
Apple Support

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@khomus has been pestering me for a while now about"dungeon synth"; yes, that's a genre. I describe it as quite-metronomic not-very-expressive keyboard/MIDI-based fantasy, i.e., historically-inaccurate medieval #music. Can you tell I'm not really a fan? Anyway, I decided to try making some dungeon non-synth; so all-acoustic instruments, namely baritone #ukulele, frame drum and cristal. I expect I probably missed the mark; too complicated and more Renaissance-ish, but let me know?

#music #ukulele @Khomus

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World politics, Trump, survey data

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#Trump #politics #europe #world #internationalrelations
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ben

World politics, Trump, survey data

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Gebruik je #WhatsApp? Dan support je #Meta. #Instagram is ook van Meta.

"Het is dinsdag niet mogelijk om verschillende zoekopdrachten gerelateerd aan politieke tegenstanders van Donald Trump uit te voeren via Instagram."

Wil je werkelijk een bedrijf met zulke ondemocratische praktijken steunen?

Maak de switch je kunt het! Heb je vragen, laat het me weten!

Schakel over naar @signalapp of @matrix

nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/01/21/insta…

#BanWhatsapp #BanMeta #signal #signalapp #matrix #opensource #FOSS


Instagram lijkt zoekopdrachten naar politieke tegenstanders Trump te verbergen: 'We werken aan oplossing'

Luuk Diepeveen (NRC)
#foss #matrix #opensource #signal #whatsapp #Instagram #meta #signalapp #banmeta #BanWhatsApp @The Matrix.org Foundation @Signal

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I'd like to create #wireguard tunnel between two natted machines. I'm fine with using an intermediate third machine for IP addresses and ports discovery.
The idea outlined in this article sounds verry appealing to me.
However I'm wondering is there something that is developed further beyond a proof of concept I might look at instead? I know there is #tailscale. That sounds too much for me unfortunatelly as I do need to register with them and similar. Thus I'm exploring if there is something I can self host.

jordanwhited.com/posts/wiregua…


WireGuard Endpoint Discovery and NAT Traversal using DNS-SD

In this post we will set out to establish a WireGuard tunnel between dynamically addressed peers that are both sitting behind a NAT.
www.jordanwhited.com
#wireguard #tailscale
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