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iFixit

HP printers give fake error messages for non-HP ink. Some Keurigs only accept “approved” coffee pods. GE refrigerators show error codes for off-brand filters.

If you own something, you should be able to keep it running or repair it however you choose.

The maker shouldn't have a say in what brand of battery or filter you use any more than your car maker decides what brand of oil you use.

It’s a widespread issue across manufacturers, and something we’re fighting to fix.

ifixit.com/News/69320/how-part…


How Parts Pairing Kills Independent Repair

The biggest threat to repair is no longer hostile hardware. Today, many independent repair shop owners are most worried about the trend in electronics manufacturing known as “parts pairing.”
Lauren Greenlee (iFixit)

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Microsoft is introducing ads into a free version of Office, which seemingly only lets users save to OneDrive.

In other news, LibreOffice is also free, doesn't have ads, and lets you save your documents wherever you want. I use it every day for my work. It is available here:

libreoffice.org/

Home | LibreOffice - Free and private office suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft

Free office suite – the evolution of OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx. Updated regularly, community powered.
www.libreoffice.org

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Economic Blackout: What to know about the February 28 boycott taking off on social media - Fast Company apple.news/ABRBejNtsRVyZtAVK-f…

Economic Blackout: What to know about the February 28 boycott taking off on social media — Fast Company

This Friday, grassroots group The People’s Union is asking Americans to buy nothing for 24 hours to protest skyrocketing prices and corporate greed.
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MONKEY SEE, MONKEY DO...

There is no GREY AREA HERE. THERE IS NO ANGLE PARKING.

Montréal Bylaw 1384

Angle Parking 39. A road vehicle shall be parked parallel to the curb in the direction of traffic and may not be parked at an angle except when specified by signs and signals.

Montréal drivers upset after getting tickets for parking vehicles diagonally.

ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/re…

#polMTL #MTLpoli


Residents upset after getting tickets for parking cars diagonally after Montreal snowstorms

Some Montreal residents got $120 tickets for not parking parallel to the sidewalk, even though they were under the impression the city would show tolerance after last week’s storm.
Stephane Giroux (CTVNews)
#polmtl #mtlpoli

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Blind and Low-Vision Workshop By Aaron Di Blasi and Dr. Kirk Adams: Copywriting With AI: March 20, 2025 | Register To Receive The Recording, Curriculum and Prompts After The Workshop
at-newswire.com/blv-ai-copywri…

How To Generate Professional, High Quality, High Ranking, Accurate, Long Form Copy For Your Personal or Business Brand Using The Premium Versions of Foundational AI Models

Blind and Low-Vision Workshop By Aaron Di Blasi and Dr. Kirk Adams: Copywriting With AI: March 20, 2025 - AT-Newswire

In this free Workshop tailored for persons who are blind or low-vision Aaron Di Blasi and Dr. Kirk Adams review the 10-step workflow used by Mind Vault Solutions, Ltd.
Aaron Di Blasi (AT-Newswire)

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JD Vance states at CPAC that they would pick up the torch for a national abortion ban.

We warned people that Trump-Vance would go for a nationwide abortion ban.

Don’t blame me. I voted for the qualified black woman who supported your right to choose a safe, legal abortion and contraception.

threads.net/@factpostnews/post…


FactPost (@factpostnews) on Threads

JD Vance says they plan to “pick up the torch” to pass a national abortion ban: “Now we’ve got the power”
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Eden Linnea

@DavidGoldfield @wendinoakland My problem with pro-life is that even when you have people like me who say at age 20 I do not want children. I never want children. Please tie my tubes. They say, no. You will maybe change your mind. And oh, with your condition, you can't get pregnant. I did indeed get pregnat. I lost 16 pounds in three two months. I was sick and almost dying myself. Turned out I was pregnant. I was in a very bad physical state at that point. So before that I may have judged people who got abortions but not now. but should I have continued to risk my own life, especially when the doctor said this doesn't look normal at all? Not being nasty with you. Just asking in a civilized conversation. In every other way I'm pretty conservative. I do not think abortion should be used as birth control. I also do not think a rape victim should be forced to carry a child to term. Even if they could adopt, it out, why should the girl be punished more? Yes, the fetus is already a collection of cells. Yes. It could be transplanted. But to me, the most important person before birth or at least during the first trimester is the mother. And until they can make it easier for people to decide earlier in their lives they never want to get pregnant, then I'd be all for not having it except in medical crises. I just think the late-term and abortions willy nilly are a problem.
@David Goldfield @Wendizen

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I appreciate that even The Economist recognizes the Musk / DOGE staff purges as cost savings are bullshit:
“If you were to fire every last civil servant in America, you would still be saving just roughly 5% of the annual budget.”
economist.com/podcasts/2025/02….

Sadly, it fails to state the entities targeted are the ones who were investigating Musk or showed too much independence. USAID, for example:
gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-u…


The structural failures impeding Africa’s savvy, entrepreneurial youth

Also on the daily podcast: Elon Musk’s DOGE is not saving as much as it claims and why Germans top the sick-days table
The Economist

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Shame on the US for blatently denying the truth... flipboard.com/@associatedpress…

US refuses to blame Russia for Ukraine war, splitting with European allies in UN votes

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — In a dramatic shift in transatlantic relations under President Donald Trump, the United States split with its European allies by refusing to blame Russia for its invasion of Ukraine in votes on three U.N.
Associated Press - By EDITH M. LEDERER

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My deep dive on accessibility testing workshop with Smashing Magazine starts this Wednesday, but you can still sign up. I even have a special discount with 15% off from the original price for you!

ti.to/smashingmagazine/online-…


Smashing Online Workshops

Meet practical and friendly online workshops on front-end, design & UX. Boost your skills online, with actionable insights by experts in the industry, live. 👩‍💻 Find all workshops at https://smashingconf.com/online-workshops
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Founded 80 years ago by two Quebec entrepreneurs, home improvement chain RONA has long considered itself a Canadian icon. The retailer went so far as to paste the words "Truly Canadian" and "Proudly Canadian" in large letters on many of its storefronts.

But RONA was acquired by American retail giant Lowe's in 2016, so they had to remove those signs after Canada's Ad Standards council found they "conveyed an inaccurate general impression" given the company's ownership.
cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col…

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Israel’s fierce military offensive in response to the October 7 attacks has killed nearly 50,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials — most of them women and children — destroyed most infrastructure in the besieged enclave and brought much of Gaza’s 2.3mn population to the brink of famine.
German election winner to welcome Benjamin Netanyahu despite ICC arrest warrant on.ft.com/3EULMh0

German election winner to welcome Benjamin Netanyahu despite ICC arrest warrant

Israeli prime minister’s office describes Friedrich Merz’s gesture as ‘overt defiance’ of international court
Mehul Srivastava (Financial Times)

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New wcurl release:
github.com/curl/wcurl/releases…

Functionality-wise, there's only one change:
* Allow -o and -O to be used without whitespaces (e.g.: -oNAME).
Full list of changes available in the link.

We don't have any other changes planned for wcurl, so it could be a while until the next release. It already has all the features we wanted (that we could achieve with a POSIX shell script).


Release v2025.02.24 · curl/wcurl

Allow -o and -O to be used without whitespaces (e.g.: -oNAME). Fix capitalization of the name of copyright owner sergiodj. Use the standard copyright header in manpage. Create a github workflow for...
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somecanuckchick

There is no grey area here. There is no angle parking.

This really started to become a problem around 2017... it's almost like Projet Montréal people encourage this shite.

I remember visiting friends on the plateau and bringing a shovel to dig our own parking spot... WTAF IS THE PROBLEM?!?

I've seen this angle parking BS from a lot of university students from out-of-province, or family visiting from the USA. It's ridiculous.

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brought you 16 updated (15 RB), 2 added and 5 removed apps:

+ URLCheck: analyze/share URLs before opening them 🛡️
+ Iconify (Foss): customize Android UI (rebranded from non-Foss)
- Monerujo (see previous toot)
- Howl: no longer maintained, author requested removal
- CameraRollX: same
- vTunnel: source gone 2y ago
- Compagnon HIIT: no updates since 2018 & source gone

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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Andor Season 2 (April 22, Disney+): First teaser trailer!!

I sooooo can't wait (and as a bonus, two Star Wars ships never seen in live action!)

"The final season will unfold over 12 episodes broken down into four chapters of three episodes each. The first chapter will premiere April 22, with subsequent chapters debuting each week."

youtube.com/watch?v=AE4wxt70aU…


Andor | Season 2 Trailer | Streaming April 22 on Disney+

The critically acclaimed series returns.Watch the new trailer for season 2 of Andor, streaming April 22 on Disney+.
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Okay mastodonians 🐘

it's time for the opposite of doomscrolling

my latest "Linkfest" newsletter just dropped 📬

crammed full of gems pulled from the inky mineshafts of the internet

Free to read and subscribe to, right here: buttondown.com/clivethompson/a…

This issue includes:

👉 tactile graphics from 1900
📇 "alexinomia"
☁️ fog harvesting
💖 dataviz on how romance is vanishing from movies
🎲 a to-do app controlled by dice
📱 WikiTok
🎒 solar backpacks
🐟 66 million year old fish vomit

and SO MUCH MORE

The photo of a large piece of thick stiff cardboard, with embossed images of a lobster, a tarantula, and a few other insects. Each one has a few lines braille embossed beneath it, seemingly describing what the insect or animal is. It looks old.

Linkfest #31: Tactile Graphics, "Alexinomnia", and a To-Do App Controlled By Dice

Hello folks! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, a collection of the finest nuggets of science, culture and technology that...
The Linkfest
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Here are some of our main takeaways from the EU Open Source Policy Summit 2025:💡 👨‍💻

— Open and collaborative innovation solves the dilemma of #competitiveness and #sovereignty
— Now is the time to invest in open source #maintenance and #security
— Building sustainable open source ecosystems remains challenging but necessary
— Open source is being increasingly regulated in Europe, and the new challenge is #implementation and #compliance

Read more in our new blog: 👇 🔗

openforumeurope.org/the-eu-ope…

#security #maintenance #compliance #competitiveness #sovereignty #implementation
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