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Join Blazie Technologies tonight (February 3) at 8:00 PM Eastern time on Tek Talk. Learn about the BT Speak, the newest update for the product and ask us questions about this wonderful pocket computer. Here is the Zoom link.
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Journalists use #Signal to talk to sources and share tips safely. The app helps protect privacy, but #journalists are often targets. To stay safe, they should secure their Signal account. This article explains how. The tips are also useful for ordinary users.

freedom.press/digisec/blog/loc…


Locking down Signal

Also available in Spanish.
Freedom of the Press
#signal #journalists

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Steeds meer mensen maken de overstap van Big Tech socials naar het gefedereerde sociale web…
Wat is dat eigenlijk en waarom zou je dat ook doen?

Deze avond ontdek je alles over wat er stinkt aan platformen als Facebook, X en instagram en wat er dan precies zo interessant is aan gefedereerde platformen zoals Mastodon, Pixelfed, Bluesky,…

Onze spreker komt er alles over vertellen op 20/2 in Burg 4 en uiteraard is er ook ruimte voor al je vragen.

Inkom: gratis/vrije bijdrage

meer info op www.uitgezonderd.org

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Lots of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 & 5090D GPUs Are Getting Bricked, Possibly Due To Driver, BIOS or PCIe Issues
"...On Chinese forums including Chiphell, Baidu, and even the social media outlet, Bilibili, there are a bunch of reports of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090D ending up bricked. The two variants that have caused these issues are from manufacturers, Colorful and Manli. However, there are also a few reports of Gigabyte's RTX 5090D GPUs having the same issue have also popped up...."
wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-rt…

Lots of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 & 5090D GPUs Are Getting Bricked, Possibly Due To Driver, BIOS or P…

Users of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5090 & 5090D GPUs face many issues, with some cards even getting bricked with the latest drivers.
Wccftech
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Tamas G

@luiscarlosgonzalez @rommix0 yeah, I guess that's true, my 2010 Macbook had a Geforce 9400, ha. So jumping from 9-series to a 40-series, well, massive evolution in tech. :D Back when I built my first desktop rig in high school, I included AMD Radion graphics, and SLI was huge back at the time too. Now SLI is no more, but I guess there's no practical need to link two GPUs together for consumers either.
@Luis Carlos

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Vorig jaar al verlieten we Twitter, omdat we ons niet konden verenigen met het negatieve klimaat daar. We zijn nu al een poosje actief hier, en met veel plezier, maar zijn nog hard op zoek naar mensen om te volgen. Onze focus ligt op onderwijs, leerkrachten en docenten, (grootstedelijke) pedagogiek, kansenongelijkheid, de meritocratie, (stoppen met) toetsen, etc. Wie heeft tips voor ons, wie moeten we zeker gaan volgen? #dtv (foto van ons team voor de attentiewaarde en ter kennismaking)
Het team van Nivoz in 2024, poserend in het gras achter het Dokhuis in Rotterdam, de thuishaven van Nivoz.
#dtv

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Since the sourcing of this fantastic 1979 IBM training slide is buried in various Twitter threads (and linking to Twitter sucks now because logged out users can't navigate conversations) I put together some notes on its origin: simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a…
Paper with all caps writing: A computer can never be held accountable Therefore a computer must never make a management decision

A computer can never be held accountable

This legendary page from an internal IBM training in 1979 could not be more appropriate for our new age of AI. ![A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. THEREFORE A …
simonwillison.net

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Yikes.

Three people "nearly lost their lives" after relying on a tidal app, rescuers said.

They were cut off waist-deep in Silverdale, Lancashire, on Sunday after an app they used to check the tide levels showed information for an area with the same name in the United States.


That area, Morecambe Bay, has one of the highest and fastest-moving tidal flows on the planet. In the space of an hour the water can easily rise 5-6 metres. Given how cold it is at this time of year those people are extremely lucky that the rescuers got to them so quickly.

A plea to developers everywhere - your app could be used by people all round the world, don't make any assumptions about location, countries, time zones etc.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwywxn…


Cumbria tidal app warning after three 'nearly lose lives'

Rescue teams say the group was cut off after the app showed tide times for the wrong area.
Pamela Tickell (BBC News)

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Why the Tutanota desktop clients are best for productivity and security! | Tuta

Benefits of our desktop clients for Linux, Windows and macOS.
Tuta

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European Open Source Achievement #Award

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/02/03…


European Open Source Achievement Award

I have been awarded the European Open Source Achievement Award! Proud, happy and humble I decided to accept it, as well as the associated nomination for president of the new European Open Source Academy for the coming two years.
daniel.haxx.se
#award
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Be a Dolphin not a Shark: Using cooperation over conflict to advance digital accessibility (Paris Web)

Lainey shares "share stories and strategies from 3 decades of accessibility convincing with public and private organizations"

paris-web.fr/2024/conference/b…

#a11y #accessibility #ParisWeb


Be a Dolphin not a Shark: Using cooperation over conflict to advance digital accessibility - Paris Web

This session will share stories and strategies from 3 decades of accessibility convincing with public and private organizations. Have you ever tried to convince someone of the value and importance of …
Paris Web
#a11y #Accessibility #parisweb

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Merz’ Vorschlag, Privatsphäre kostenpflichtig zu machen, ist ein Angriff auf die Grundrechte. Wer seine Daten schützen will, soll zahlen – ein undemokratisches Konzept, das den Datenschutz zu einer elitäreren Ware macht und das Vertrauen in das Gesundheitssystem bzw. die elektronische Patientenakte (weiter) zerstört. Unfassbar. 🤦‍♂️

heise.de/news/Merz-Wer-Daten-b…

#epa #merz #datenschutz #gesundheit


Merz: Wer Daten bereitstellt, zahlt 10 Prozent weniger Krankenkassenbeiträge

Die "E-Patientenakte für alle" sorgt für Begehrlichkeiten. Ginge es nach Merz (CDU), kostet Privatsphäre bald extra. Wer Angst um seine Daten hat, muss zahlen.
Marie-Claire Koch (heise online)
#datenschutz #epa #gesundheit #merz

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Welcome to the RB family, Lavender Photos 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.k…

Lavender Photos is a no non-sense, smooth, and performant gallery app. Thanks to the help of kaii, we finally got the green shield up! :awesome:

And with this, the #reproducibleBuilds status of the #IzzyOnDroid now is: 421 apps (34%) of all apps covered!


„Photos“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

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Des nouvelles de la confidentialité de vos clouds Google Drive vis-à-vis de Google eux-mêmes :

Un avocat parisien a utilisé Google Drive comme service cloud pour son activité pro. Il intervenait dans un dossier de pédopornographie, avec des pièces à conviction en conséquence, comme on pourrait l'imaginer.

Google, scannant les fichiers du Drive de l'avocat (censément couvert par un secret professionnel très strict), a détecté les images, et désactivé le Drive et l'adresse Gmail de l'avocat, lui faisant ainsi perdre accès à toutes ses données professionnelles. Et il encourt des poursuites aux USA.

Quittez. Gmail. Et. Google Drive.

courdecassation.fr/decision/67…

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Call for Papers for Linux App Summit 2025 is now OPEN!
Join us in Tirana, Albania on April 25-26!
🗓️ Submit by Feb 15.

👉 Details & submit: conf.linuxappsummit.org/event/…
💻 Hybrid event - join in person or online!
🌐 Check our website for more details: linuxappsummit.org/


Linux App Summit 2024

The Linux App Summit (LAS) is designed to accelerate the growth of the Linux application ecosystem by bringing together everyone involved in creating a great Linux application user experience.
linuxappsummit.org
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Janneke

great!
How about dropping all and anything AI and start implementing some very basic programming practices, such as removing all constant error messages? Offering declarative configuration? Exporting configuration. Expose internals and offer a programmable, hackable UI?

chaos.social/@Natanox/11393991…

Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸 (@Natanox@chaos.social)

Attached: 1 image · Content warning: Gnome rant, anti-features
chaos.social

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„Například vy pravděpodobně čtete tento článek na počítači a k internetu přistupujete z IP adresy 213.xxx.xxx.xxx, která je registrovaná v obci Ostrava, Česko.“

👍 @jancibulka

irozhlas.cz/zpravy-svet/sledov…


Hackeři ukradli data z firmy, která prodává informace o poloze lidí. Sbírala je i z českých aplikací

Společnost Gravy Analytics přeprodává informace o tom, kde se pohybují jednotliví lidé. Informace posbírané hlavně z mobilních telefonů se nyní podařilo odcizit hackerům, kteří je nabízí k prodeji.
Jan Cibulka (iROZHLAS.cz)
@Jan Cibulka

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Attention #Fediverse!

The government of the state of Tamil Nadu in India is offering an enormous cash prize to anyone who can crack the code of an ancient script used in the Indus Valley civilization.

I'm just posting this because I figure if there's some big brain who can decipher the script, and that person needs money right now, there's a decent chance they are posting cat pictures on #Mastodon.

smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/…


Officials Are Offering $1 Million to Anyone Who Can Decode This Ancient Script

The enigmatic Indus Valley civilization left behind a script that today's historians haven't yet deciphered. While amateur theories abound, scholars are increasingly relying on computer science to crack the code
Eli Wizevich (Smithsonian Magazine)
#fediverse #Mastodon

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Another enjoyable #Fanfic over the weekend for me. I've seen The Chamber of Secrets power Harry up aplenty, but this was a bit different.

A disillusioned Harry Potter begins to unravel his potential as the wizarding world follows the Triwizard Tournament. Harry delves into a world that is much greater, and more complicated, than he was aware of. The story contains detailed magic, politics, social situations and complicated motivations. It is a story of growth and maturation.
Words: 560,933 -

[Harry Potter and the International Triwizard Tournament | Saliient91](fanfiction.net/s/13140418/1/Ha…)

#fanfic

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📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 3. Februar, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag um 19:00 besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
Mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille mit 8 Tasten. Das Gehäuse ist rot und die Tasten sind weiß. Das Gehäuse ist ungefähr fünfeckig. Ein Rechteck wird an der Breitseite durch ein Trapez erweitert. Die Form ähnelt einem Haus mit Fenstern in der Mitte.

Do-It-Blind (DIB) Besprechung

Learn using BigBlueButton, the trusted open-source web conferencing solution that enables seamless virtual collaboration and online learning experiences.
bbb.metalab.at
#blind #inklusion #make
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Mark12870

@mwenisch Nakonec jsem to nějak zvládl, ale prostě k tomu máme hromadu dependencies jako nx, angular, typescript, prettier, ... A neměl jsem tušení jak to poskládat dohromady. Dokumentace k tomu mi přišla dost chaotická... Zvlášť, když jsem potřeboval dokumentaci eslint ke každé knihovně a jak to v rámci eslint správně nakonfigurovat. 🙃
Nevím jestli by ale jiný tool měl takovou podoporu všech těchto technologií.
@Martin Wenisch

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Monday.
Extraordinary episode of Desert Ireland Discs yesterday with [Nemone Lethbridge, ](bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0027l20)

We had a delicious chicken dinner, at teatime last night, which means the sprog gets her weird dinner of leftover chicken, gravy and pasta tonight. Weird? Maybe. Delicious? So she claims.

Another day of uncertainty at work, because for the next fortnight we're all really in limbo as to who's staying and who's going. There's still the job to do, but the uncertainty nipping at our heals and I imagine that it's not just me who's finding it hard to focus on the actual work rather than start surfing the job boards.

Really enjoyed the new Doug Richards novel at the weekend; I read it in a single sitting. Then weirdly felt like my own grandfather as I went up to bed at 1AM, telling my daughter not to be up late gaming on the way. Just what used to happen to me for my latter years at secondary school and college.


Desert Island Discs - Nemone Lethbridge, lawyer and writer - BBC Sounds

Nemone Lethbridge, barrister, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne.
BBC
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Sean Randall

The sense memory was extraordinary. As I turned the lights off and walked up the stairs, I could honestly hear the clatter of my granddad putting the TV remote onto his silver drinks coaster, the creak of the chair as he got up, the firm *thunk* of him switching off the TV at the wall and the gentle roar of the kettle as he took himself a cup of tea up to bed.

Sounds I haven't heard since I left for college nearly 20 years ago came back with a sharp, fluid pang I haven't felt for a long time.

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Sean Randall

No idea what's wrong with me lately.
I was waiting for my daughter to show up yesterday and told my NAS to give me a random episode of The Next Generation before putting something joint on the TV.
I didn't recognise the plot at all. None of the names of the species, none of the lines, nothing. it was a pretty forgetable one from the first season with the only real notable thing to my mind being Tasha's wave goodbye at the end, but still.
Growing up I could practically quote the episodes. I used to mute the TV and lipsync, I was that... engaged.

Concerningly I am getting old. I don't think I've watched more than a handful of episodes since I met my now wife, over 6,700 days ago.

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Sean Randall

To add to the sense of doom my life seems to be in at the moment, we sent our daughter out for the first time in an Uber unaccompanied yesterday. Uber Teen has come to town, and she's quite comfortable using it by herself.
This frees me up from making round trips to collect or drop her places. But it felt surreal and not very pleasant, watching her get into the car from an upstairs window then following along on the map. Just another one of those milestones, I suppose.
Anything could happen! Of course it could. But then it always could. "It does not do not to do because of what others could do but usually won't do" as a wise old friend said to me once. We have to live.

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Hallo @Friendica Support, ich habe einen User auf meiner Instanz in einem Beitrag der nur an meine Kontakte ging (also privat) mit einem @ erwähnt. Dieser Beitrag wurde auch veröffentlicht und den Kontakten angezeigt.
Es gibt allerdings eine Ausnahme: Der User, der in dem Beitrag mit @ erwähnt wurde, wurde nicht über eine Benachrichtigung benachrichtigt und der Beitrag selber wird ihm auch nicht in seiner Timeline angezeigt.

Es handelt sich um diesen Beitrag: anonsys.net/display/bf69967c-1…

Was läuft hier schief? Ich selber habe keine Erklärung dafür...
Ist das ein Bug in der aktuellen Stable?

Cc.: @Mac King ⁂ @Mac King

@Friendica Support @Mac King @Mac King ⁂

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Nvidia's RTX 5080 is Actually an RTX 5070
"...or at least it should be based on its hardware configuration. This is the reason the RTX 5080 is so underwhelming: it should be sitting in the 70 class at a lower price point, delivering much more impressive gains generation over generation. Instead, Nvidia has become greedy, ..."
techspot.com/article/2950-nvid…

Nvidia's RTX 5080 is Actually an RTX 5070

Take a hard look at the specs, and you'll soon realize the RTX 5080 is just an RTX 5070 in disguise. Nvidia's greed may be at play, and we'll prove it by analyzing historical GPU configurations.
Tim Schiesser (TechSpot)
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