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Meloni e Crosetto spenderanno oltre 25 miliardi per costruire l’esercito più forte d’Europa
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L’Italia ha ordinato 380 carri armati Phanter KF 51 di quinta generazione e oltre 1000 carri armati leggeri multiruolo Lynx. Nessun paese Occidentale ha un simile numero di mezzi corazzati. Tra il 21 e il 23 gennaio 2025 i produttori…
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Meloni e Crosetto spenderanno oltre 25 miliardi per costruire l'esercito più forte d'Europa

L'Italia ha ordinato 380 carri armati Phanter KF 51 di quinta generazione e oltre 1000 carri armati leggeri multiruolo Lynx. Nessun paese Occidentale ha
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I dieci comandamenti di Friendica. Cosa fare con l’account che abbiamo aperto su Poliverso?

Ecco una sorta di decalogo su Friendica. Ci sono molti link che possono appesantire la lettura, ma speriamo che vi piaccia e soprattutto ci auguriamo che lo troviate utile!

informapirata.it/2025/02/02/i-…

#Fediverse #Fediverso #Friendica

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I dieci comandamenti di Friendica. Cosa fare con l’account che abbiamo aperto su Poliverso?

Ecco una sorta di decalogo su Friendica. Ci sono molti link che possono appesantire la lettura, ma speriamo che vi piaccia e soprattutto…
informapirata
#friendica #fediverse #fediverso

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It’s been a rough few weeks for Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, who will be stepping down next month. But tonight he gave a powerful speech that should make all Canadians proud. It wasn’t carried by American television. But my American friends, I hope you will watch it and share it. And understand that for us, this betrayal is about more than economics. youtu.be/xiaACQpFUfE #Canada #tariffs #cdnpoli #t

Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Saturday that Canada will respond to Donald Trump's tariffs with 25 per cent tariffs on $155 billion of U.S. goods.»»» ...
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#canada #cdnpoli #tariffs #t
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In 1933 Hitler's forces invaded the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (the leading centre of research on trans and gay people at that time) and burned all of the books and records (after taking care to note down the details of all the patients to round up later). Philosophically this is what the US CDC is now doing by purging everything to do with trans people.
A night shot of crowds looking on and giving Hitler salutes as a bonfire of books and paperwork burns in the foreground. Several figures in the middle ground are wearing Nazi uniforms or have swastika armbands

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Federal agencies requiring you to have an account on Musk's vile platform to see official documents?

It's a reminder that fascism requires the merger of government and corporate interests.

thedesk.net/2025/02/ntsb-moves…


NTSB forces reporters to get plane crash updates on X

The NTSB says it will only notify the media about press conferences and investigative updates on two recent plane crashes via the social media platform X.
Matthew Keys (The Desk)
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In case you missed it: #Debian is no longer posting on Elon’s Twitter/X. I just saw it yesterday

micronews.debian.org/2025/1738…

#linux #xodus #twitterexodus #TwitterMigration

The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter. We took this decision since we feel X doesn't reflect Debian shared values as stated in our social contract, code of conduct and diversity statement. X evolved into a place where people we care about don't feel safe. You are very much invited to follow us on https://bits.debian.org , on https://micronews.debian.org/ , or any media as listed on https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicity/otherSN #debian

The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter. We took this decision since we feel X doesn't reflect Debian shared values as stated in our social contract, code of conduct and diversity statement. X evolved into a place where people we care a

The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter. We took this decision since we feel X doesn't reflect Debian shared values as stated in our social contract, code of conduct and diversity statement.
micronews.debian.org
#linux #debian #twittermigration #twitterexodus #xodus
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V posledni praci pred Unreleased jsem bojoval proti pouzivani null vs 0 k ulozeni vyznamu u typu number. Marne. Je to soucast TS a musime s tim zit, ac si tak plnime codebase naslapnymi minami.

V UR zacinam pouzivat na podobne problemy type guardy. Je to opomijena featura, ktera naprosto opravnene vyvolava emoce typoveho silenstvi a pomalosti psani kodu.

Samotneho by me to samozrejme nenapadlo. V tymu pritvrzujeme lint pravidla. Tak mi nic jineho nezbyva.

#typescript #it #programming

function hasValidMinPrice(attachment: AssetBundleAttachment): attachment is AssetBundleAttachment & { useAsGalleryAssetMinPrice: number } { return attachment.useAsGalleryAssetMinPrice !== null; }
#programming #typescript #IT

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@NGICommons
Is this the article that was mentioned at FOSDEM? I didn't see when it was published commons.ngi.eu/2025/01/31/digi…

Digital Commons and Digital Public Goods – Finding Common Ground for Policymakers - NGI Commons

Over the last five years, there has been growing international recognition of Digital Commons and digital public goods (DPGs) terms as essential to a more equitable digital cooperation model that operates in service of the public interest.
margfmartel16 (NGI Commons)
@NGI Commons

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Flakturm Humboldthain: Errichtet 1941/42 als Luftabwehr- und Bunkeranlage, überstand der Flakturm Sprengversuche nach dem Krieg. Heute sind Teile der Ruine sichtbar – ein Lost Place mit Aussichtsplattform.
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Ansicht eines ehemaligen Flakturms im Volkspark Humboldthain in Berlin-Wedding. Die Betonmauer ist mit Graffiti bedeckt, davor führt eine verwitterte Treppe durch kahle Bäume.

Gipfel des Wedding: Der Flakturm

Der Aufstieg zur Humboldthöhe im Volkspark Humboldthain ist wie eine kleine Reise durch die Geschichte des Wedding.
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🚀 Exciting news! AppleChat Live is coming on Feb 17 at 8 PM ET! Join Marty & Chris for all things Apple. 🍏 Don’t miss out! #AppleChat #TechEvent #ClubUnmute join the club at unmute.show/

Home - Unmute

Unmute, Be Heard! Latest from Unmute Learn more about the latest News From Unmute. Welcome to Unmute Presents, where technology meets community.
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#techevent #clubunmute #applechat
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Michael Babcock

@DavidGoldfield Definitely consideration for sure ! plan to get through first quarter of twenty five before we add something else , we have our jaws class launching this month as well . more details to come shortly about that ! taught by the amazing Marcy ! and wanna make some connections at CSUN this year to help Acquire more equipment for educating purposes.
@David Goldfield

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#3dprinting folks, if you want to learn how a 100% blind person does 3d design and print, check this video out. It's a long one but if you're interested in his methods and want your questions answered, this guy explains it all. youtube.com/watch?v=KCrYGqgOjN…

I am fully blind, and this is how I do 3D designing and printing independantly

My name is Edis, and this is a place where I try to make 3D more accessible. Not just for blind and visually impaired people, but also sighted people. join m...
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#3dprinting

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My 2nd @fosdem talk was Alternative Text for Images: How Bad Are Our Alt-Text Anyway?

fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event…

It is available online:

docs.google.com/presentation/d…

#FOSDEM #FOSS #AI #LLM #AltText #Accessibility


FOSDEM 2025 : Alternative Text for Images: How Bad Are Our Alt-Text Anyway?

Alt Text for Images: How Bad Are they Anyway? FOSDEM, Feb 1, 2025 25 minutes, Track: Inclusive Web, Room: K.3.201 https://fosdem.
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#Accessibility #foss #fosdem #AI #AltText #llm @FOSDEM

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It was my dad who first alerted me to this weird term, 'Synaesthesia' in the 90's. I forgot about it for a time, but recently rediscovered it. Turns out I have it and so do many other blind people.
In this episode of my podcast, we discuss it, I explain my version of it and also read out comments from a thread I started on social media from others that also have it.
Only after recording did we realise that our children both have it too, despite not being blind, so we'll talk about that in the next episode.

youtu.be/gXaB9zsvhwE

Thread on #Mastodon: universeodon.com/@FreakyFwoof/…


StroongeCast E20: Synaesthesia

Welcome to episode 20 of StroongeCast with Andre and Kirsten Louis.In this episode we give you the answer to last episode's question, leave you with another,...
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#Mastodon

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Hi #FOSDEM! Please come to my "The Road To Mainstream Matrix" talk in Janson at 12:00 CET, or tune in remote at matrix.to/#/#2025-keynote:fosd… or live.fosdem.org/watch/janson. There will be dangerous demos.

Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication

You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversation
matrix.to
#fosdem

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Canadian Labour Congress calls for massive retaliation against US tarrifs, including full cutoff of electricity, critical minerals, and O&G. Also demanded are matching tariffs, worker support programs, and diversification away from US economy.

If this is what's being demanded in the open, I'm curious the extent union labour in strategic sectors might put on their wooden shoes. Dumping of American goods in Canadian ports seems very plausible.

canadianlabour.ca/cut-off-u-s-…

#labour #canpoli #cdnpoli


Cut Off U.S. Energy and Resources Now: No Electricity, No Critical Minerals, No Oil and Gas  | Canadian Labour Congress

WINNIPEG – Bea Bruske, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, issued the following statement today:  Donald Trump’s reckless tariffs are an attack on Canadian workers and our economy. With 2.
cstdenis (Canadian Labour Congress)
#canpoli #cdnpoli #labour

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As I don't like it when articles force you to open them in order to get to the critical information because they won't put that information in the title, I'll copy the main points below.

United Natural Trading LLC issued a recall on its Fresh Direct dark chocolate-covered pretzels on January 30, 2025 due to an undeclared allergen: milk. In other words, the packaging does not disclose that the pretzels contain milk or milk protein derivatives, which could lead to serious reactions for those with milk allergies.
The good news is that the damage may be limited — the chocolate-covered pretzels were shipped out to Connecticut, New Jersey and New York in limited quantities. What's more, according to the FDA, they were sold through an online third-party retailer and not directly on supermarket shelves. An internal review showed of the company's label management system is what rang the alarm that these pretzels were not labeled properly.

The Pretzel Snack That Was Just Recalled Over An Undeclared Allergen thedailymeal.com/1776873/choco…


The Pretzel Snack That Was Just Recalled Over An Undeclared Allergen

United Natural Trading issued a recall on its Fresh Direct dark chocolate-covered pretzels on January 30, 2025 due to an undeclared milk allergen.
Jessica Fleming-Montoya (The Daily Meal)
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Holy crap Cory @pluralistic you should run #DOGE instead of nazi-boy 😂

pluralistic.net/2025/01/27/bel…

This is one HELL of a summary ☝️

But why aren't there people in authority doing this kind of savings overview already?!
Corruption?

Pluralistic: It’s pretty easy to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget, actually (27 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net
#doge @Cory Doctorow

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Some thoughts about DeepSeek r1 and its purported biases, including a transcript I ran on my own server to show how it answers politically sensitive topics to the PRC: modulus.isonomia.net/tech/r1-b…

DeepSeek-r1: biases and metabiases

Many of you already heard about DeepSeek. It’s a Chinese AI lab that has published models that can be run locally, take much less effort to train,...
modulus.isonomia.net

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Ooohhh GTK 4.18 has proper accessibility on Windows and macOS for the first time!! Exciting blog.gtk.org/2025/02/01/whats-…

mclasen

2025-02-01 13:59:32

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What’s new in GTK, winter 2025 edition


We just had a GTK hackfest at FOSDEM. A good time for an update on whats new and exciting in GTK, with an eye towards 4.18.

GTK hackfest 2025Requirements


You can no longer call gdk_display_get_default() or gdk_display_open() before gtk_init(). This was causing problems due to incomplete initialization, so we made it fail with a (hopefully clear) error message. If you are affected by this, the usual fix is to just call gtk_init() as early as possible.

On Windows, we have a hard requirement on Windows 10 now. All older versions are long unsupported, and having to deal with a maze of ifdefs and unavailable APIs makes development harder than it should be. Dropping support for very old versions also simplifies the code down the stack, in Pango and GLib.

The same idea applies to macOS, where we now require macOS 10.15.

Spring cleaning


The old GL renderer has been removed. This may be unwelcome news for people stuck on very old drivers and hardware. But we will continue to make the new renderers work as well as possible on the hardware that they can support.

The X11 and Broadway backends have been deprecated, as a clear signal that we intend to remove them in the GTK 5. In the meantime, they continue to be available. We have also deprecated GtkShortcutsWindow, since it needs a new design. The replacement will appear in libadwaita, hopefully next cycle.

It is worth reminding everybody that there is no need to act on deprecations until you are actively porting your app to the next major version of GTK, which is not on the horizon yet.

Incremental improvements


Widget layout and size allocation has received quite a bit of attention this cycle, with the goal of improving performance (by avoiding binary search as much as possible) and correctness. Nevertheless, these changes have some potential for breakage, so if you see wrong or suboptimal layouts in applications, please let us know.

GTK has had difficulties for a while getting its pointer sizes right with fractional scaling on Wayland, but this should all be solved in GTK 4.18. No more huge pointers. Fixing this also required changes on the mutter side.

New beginnings


Accessibility in GTK 4.18 is taking a major step forward, with the new AccessKit backend, which gives us accessibility on Windows and macOS, for the very first time. The at-spi backend is still the default on Linux, and has seen a number of improvements as well.

And, maybe the biggest news: We have an Android backend now. It is still experimental, so you should expect some rough edges and loose ends. For example, there is no GL renderer support yet. But it is exciting that you can just try gtk4-demo on your phone now, and have it mostly work.

Enjoy!


apks/org.gtk.Demo4 · Artifacts · android-signer (#4707329) · Jobs · GNOME / gtk · GitLab

GTK is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.
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@RaccoonForFriendica I'm seeing a lot of new users from Google Play's statistics, even if the app is not yet in the production channel. Welcome everyone, I hope you'll enjoy #friendica and #raccoonforfriendica!

Thanks to all the translators who continued to work on the app UI and store description, your dedication is really appreciated. @Fitik @Cătă @TamilNeram @Ricky-Tigg

To old users, I've added two new big features: swipe navigation which allows you to navigate between posts from the conversation detail and the "shortcuts" section, where you can explore other instances and see their local timeline "as if" your were registered there. Plus, as usual, small fixes and enhancements listening to your continuous feedback.

Have a nice weekend and #livefasteattrash

#friendicadev #androidapp #androiddev #fediverseapp #kotlin #multiplatform #kmp #compose #cmp #opensource #foss #procyonproject

#friendica #foss #opensource #kotlin #androiddev #Compose #raccoonforfriendica #androidapp #multiplatform #friendicadev #CMP #kmp #FediverseApp #livefasteattrash #procyonproject @Cătă @Fitik @RaccoonForFriendica

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xinit

I think it's a "feel" issue more than a "functional" issue. I went to double check but the app is just stopping on me. Might be my phone''s being difficult.

I think the account switch is maybe a bit too far out of the way to be readily available. The menu opens up to access the account dropdown, and then you switch to the other account and the menu stays there.

My first thought is that switching to the account should acknowledge the change and then retract the menu. It took me a while to guess my way into swiping the menu to the side to dismiss it.

I was able to switch between Friendica and Mastodon well enough, but maybe there's a way to float that switch up to the top a bit more.

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𝔻𝕚𝕖𝕘𝕠 🦝🧑🏻‍💻🍕

@xinit ok I'll add a message in a snackbar to acknowledge that the change has happened and close the side menu.

You can also switch the account from your profile screen using the top right button, even in that case I'll add a snackbar when the change happens.

Thanks for explaining it to me.

@RaccoonForFriendica

@RaccoonForFriendica @xinit

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The Social Web Devroom at FOSDEM had been fantastic yesterday. All of the talks worth to rescreen them once the come online.

I will try to attend too many BOF workshops today 😅 and still have to walk around to discover all the gems at the different projects booth 🤯

Up cycling Android at 9h fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event…

At 12h the Social Web BOF fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event…

And at 14h Windows-10-to-Linux up cycling fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event…

Really looking forward to this Sunday at FOSDEM

#fosdem25 #upcyclingandroid #socialwebfosdem #windows10 #win2linux

#UpcyclingAndroid #windows10 #fosdem25 #socialwebfosdem #win2linux
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