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I’ve started writing a fan retelling of Mass Effects 2 and 3. I’m publishing it in a web serial format, to get in the habit of releasing content on a schedule. Here is the prologue: mass-effect-redux.ghost.io/pro…

If you like what you see, please leave a comment and subscribe to receive more chapters!

This is my first real writing project, so feedback is much appreciated.


Prologue

The Council chamber of the Citadel presidium was one of the most austere locations in the known galaxy. One could not visit without feeling the weight of past millennia.
Drew Mochak (Mass Effect Redux)
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NASA has taken light data detected by four of their telescopes—@ChandraXray, @NASAWebb, @NASAHubble, and Spitzer Space Telescope—and turned them into sound. Hear what some galaxies and stars sound like: go.nasa.gov/3PjoNzt
#NASA

Cosmic Harmonies: Sonifications From NASA Telescopes - NASA

Three new sonifications of data from Chandra and other NASA telescopes have been released.
NASA
#nasa

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I put this up last night, and I probably will again next week. I had this crazy idea of a mastodon meet-up, virtually, where we could all order from a restaurant and eat together. If you think this sounds fun, feel free to fill this out, (don't worry, I'm not collecting too much info), and we'll see if we can get something planned! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Mastodon Meet-up

This is a form to see who might be interested in a meet-up lunch or dinner virtually. Please note, I only wish to collect name and/or mastodon username for the purposes of organization.
Google Docs

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Looking for an #artist on the Fediverse who's accepting #commissions right now.

I need a logo for my FOSS project. The current logo is a placeholder I threw together so I'm looking for anything that's more stylish/creative. Here's the current logo and the only real requirement I have is that the K and the VM stand out since it's supposed to be a play on Linux KVM.

If you're interested please provide a portfolio of previous works you've done (preferably logos, but anything with text in it will do) and a quote if possible.

Payment can be made via PayPal, Ko-Fi, CashApp, or credit card.

Thanks!

#commissionsopen #artistsonmastodon

KONTROLVM logo
#artist #artistsonmastodon #commissions #CommissionsOpen

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Hello everybody. You wanted Sonic? Here is your Sonic, complete with all day breakfast, burgers, chicken and a side for everyone. I'm happy to say that I have successfully implemented rate boost into the Bestspeech NVDA addon as requested! Feel free to grab github.com/samtupy/b32tts_wrap… to try it out. Have fun! Sonic is both the name of the algorithm we're using for rate boost as well as the name of a restaurant I enjoy sometimes, so I couldn't resist the word play haha.

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Tamas G

love eating at Sonic! Although the foot-long Coney can give me horrible heartburn, thankfully not experiencing the same with this new fix. :D Huge thanks in getting this done, and while it does muffle consonants slightly, it's really only minor to me and with unvoiced volume at 90 it's good enough to be pleasant. Also love that this had no performance impact, that's superb :D

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An overview of reviews made with MapComplete – 2025 edition


 Two years ago, I did an analysis on the reviews made with mangrove.reviews - you can find this analysis here. In this blog, I'll basically do the same analysis as then, but just with the latest data (as of 28 febr 2025). Mangrove.reviews client […]

Two years ago, I did an analysis on the reviews made with mangrove.reviews – you can find this analysis here.

In this blog, I’ll basically do the same analysis as then, but just with the latest data (as of 28 febr 2025).
Mangrove.reviews client breakdown

Total2175
mangrove.reviews834
mapcomplete.org798
toggenburg.swiss229
thurgau-bodensee.ch70
ostschweiz.ch55
heidiland.com42
wengen.swiss27
open-reviews.net20
winterthur.com15
beta.localtownguide.com11
open-reviews.orderingstack.com13
jungfrauregion.swiss10

As is visible, about one third of all reviews came from mapcomplete, only a fraction less then mangrove.reviews itself.

It is also surprising that there are quite a few swiss websites in there.

Map themes

The most popular themes to create reviews were:

  1. Food: 271 reviews
  2. Shops: 117 reviews
  3. Cafes and pubs: 84
  4. Playgrounds: 53
  5. Pets: 42
  6. Toerisme vlaanderen (commissioned and hidden theme): 30
  7. Cyclofix: 26
  8. Campersite: 23
  9. Fritures: 21
  10. Personal theme: 21

No big surprises here, seems like food is by far the most popular theme to give reviews on.

Language

From the reviews that had a text, the language breakdown is pretty much in line with the changeset-language statistics.

  1. English: 102
  2. Dutch: 42
  3. German: 37
  4. Russian: 14
  5. French: 12

Locations

The MapComplete-reviews are geographically clustered in Europe and the US – not surprisingly where the biggest and well-connected popuplations live.

However, South America and South-East-asia are starting to popup as well.

Flanders is overrepresented in Europe. MapComplete is mainly developed there and had a few projects going on there, so there are more reviews.

Conclusion

The reviews work and there is a slow but stable growth in the number of them. The results are predictable and, dare I say it, downright boring.

It must be said that the reviews have gotten a higher visibility in the MapComplete UI, which definitively helped to get more reviews.

The script to calculate the analysis is here

Cafés and pubs

Coffeehouses, pubs and bars
mapcomplete.org

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Guide: Finding Your Way Home in a (Home) Buttonless World: Using an iOS Device Without a Home Button applevis.com/guides/finding-yo…

Finding Your Way Home in a (Home) Buttonless World: Using an iOS Device Without a Home Button | AppleVis

Introduction With the recent release of the new iPhone 16e, this means the end of the Home Button for iPhone users. Those who have been using iPhone SE's for years will now have to face not having a phone on the market which has the Home Button.
www.applevis.com

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“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.” Because the US is a Russian ally (or satellite?) now I guess. therecord.media/hegseth-orders…

Exclusive: Hegseth orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning

The secretary of Defense has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions, sources tell Recorded Future News.
therecord.media

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42 Years Ago: “M*A*S*H” Finale “Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen” Sets TV History with Record 125 Million Viewers cordcuttersnews.com/42-years-a…

42 Years Ago: "M*A*S*H" Finale "Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen" Sets TV History with Record 125 Million Viewers | Cord Cutters News

42 years ago today—the final episode of the beloved television series M*A*S*H aired on CBS, drawing an unprecedented 125 million viewers in the United States and etching its name into the annals of broadcast history.
Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)

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BREAKING NEWS 🚨

If you needed more proof that Trump is a Russian Asset...

"The head of Trump's Pentagon ordered US Cyber ​​Command to stop all activities against Russia, including offensive cyber operations,"
- The publication Record
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #Breaking #BreakingNews

Trump's KGB codename:

#Putin #News #Russia #EU #Ukraine #NATO #war #breaking #breakingnews #press #zelensky #aurefreepress #headline

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I do wonder how many women are happy with how male/female washrooms. It really isn't uncommon to find long lines outside of women's washrooms at busy times. I'm just regularly surprised at how people want to defend a system that is already clearly broken. It isn't like we've always had sex segregated bathrooms:

time.com/4337761/history-sex-s…


Why Do We Have Men’s and Women’s Bathrooms Anyway?

Though laws about bathroom use by transgender people have sparked new debate, the roots of bathroom sex segregation go back over a century
Maya Rhodan (Time)

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"NATO není věc, které se Rusko bojí. Rusko se bojí demokracie expandující do Ruska. Proč jsme v NATO? Je to proto, že se bojíme Ruska. A jediné, co skutečně funguje – jediná bezpečnostní záruka, která funguje – je deštník NATO," dodala.

Kája Kallasová
Místopředsedkyně Evropské komise

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All the Deets on the Mighty Details Tag 🙌

@geoff over at #CSS Tricks has written a definitive guide on using <details>, a number of possible use cases, and some of the trickier aspects of styling it and even animating the opening and closing states. I’ll be sure to refer to this the next time I do #WebDev on a <details>-based feature!

thathtml.blog/2025/02/all-the-…


All the Deets on the Mighty Details Tag

One of the great unsung heroes of modern web UX.
That HTML Blog
#webdev #css @Geoff

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Twice-divorced, currently-unmarried Sergey Brin thinks 60 work hours a week is the appropriate choice for Googlers: nytimes.com/2025/02/27/technol… [gift link]

Google’s Sergey Brin Asks Workers to Spend More Time In the Office

The tech giant’s co-founder said that if employees worked harder and were in the office more, the company could reach an artificial general intelligence breakthrough.
Nico Grant (The New York Times)

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Gajim 2.0.0 has been released 🎉

Gajim migrated its user interface toolkit to GTK 4, which brings performance improvements and sets the ground for great features to follow. ⏩

Additionally, this release brings improved image previews, better tools for fighting spam, and much more.

All of these changes were only possible by touching a lot of Gajim’s code base, and we appreciate all the feedback we got from you. ❤️

#gajim #xmpp #chat

gajim.org/post/2025-02-28-gaji…

Support us: liberapay.com/Gajim

Gajim 2.0.0 main window showing a chat

Gajim's profile - Liberapay

Gajim is a fully-featured XMPP client.
Liberapay
#xmpp #chat #gajim
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As a person who refused to use either, all I know is what I've heard:
People wanted Skype, but Microsoft kept pushing everyone to go to Teams instead and people hated Teams because it was broken and not ready for general release still now 7 years later, so people quit using either and thus the rise of the horribly insecure Zoom which nobody should have used, so now to get even more people to stop using its products,
"Microsoft is shutting down Skype after over two decades [...] as tech giant says it will focus on Teams"
theguardian.com/technology/202…
Maaaybe it would have been better for everyone if Microsoft just... didn't buy Skype just to ruin and now cancel it?
But then again, the reason why I refused to use Skype was the backdoors, sooo guess it's a good thing it dies.

Have you heard of signal.org yet?


Microsoft is shutting down Skype after over two decades

Internet calling service that disrupted landline industry to close in May as tech giant says it will focus on Teams
Johana Bhuiyan (The Guardian)
in reply to André Polykanine

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b9AcE is anti-fascist

@menelion Nowadays Signal has group video calls support.signal.org/hc/en-us/ar… too.
Otherwise there is also Jitsi, but its hosting of the platform requires at least one video conference participant must use either an account of Google or of Microsoft (GitHub) for the conference to start, but since Jitsi is open source it can be self-hosted and seemingly then not have those account requirements.

The short answer: Signal.

@André Polykanine

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For anyone curious, the Alternative A2DP Driver for Windows can be found here: bluetoothgoodies.com/a2dp/
- Well worth the money ($5, trial available first), and you get a discount for multiple computers. The fact that I can choose the codec types, bitrates, and see information about the currently negociated rate is really useful.

Alternative A2DP Driver

www.bluetoothgoodies.com
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Le comportement de @thunderbird avait changé sans prévenir dans les dernières MAJ par rapport aux listes mail.
Il n'affichait plus l'identité des gens qui écrivent sur les listes mails. Ce qui complique l'utilisation des listes.

Pour rétablir le fonctionnement "normal" et afficher l'identité de la personne qui a écrit, il faut décocher une case dans les paramètres
"Show only display name for people in my address book"

C'est pas gentil de changer les interfaces sans prévenir.

comment ça s'affiche à l'écran
@Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
in reply to bikepunk

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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

We got an update from our team - it's a bug (bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…) - if you clear it from your address book, things should look as they should.

1900211 - Wrong sender name shown for mailing list posts since 'Foo Bar via mailinglist' ends up in collected address as displayname

RESOLVED (mkmelin+mozilla) in Thunderbird - Message Reader UI. Last updated 2025-02-24.
bugzilla.mozilla.org

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Re: fighting back against this criminal & corrupt administration: AOC sent a letter to the US Attorney General asking whether she’s under investigation for “educating her community about their constitutional rights”. I love that she CC’d Trump. ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/…

Ocasio-Cortez Sends Letter to AG Bondi on Homan Threats

WASHINGTON, DC —Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) sent a letter to U.S.
Representative Ocasio-Cortez
in reply to The Matrix.org Foundation

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Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️

Surely though the purpose of @EUCouncil looking at #Matrix would be to remove reliance on US tech companies?

If so, isn't it a major roadblock that @element / ElementX don't have working calls without Google / Apple on mobile (Note: relevant to all non Android/iPhone, not just those with NTFY):

github.com/element-hq/element-…

While there are other clients, the mature ones are based on Element, so what client would the EU use, or would they not use it for calls? Or mobile? Seems unlikely.


no call ringing when using own ntfy server · Issue #8761 · element-hq/element-android

Steps to reproduce Hello, I am encountering an issue with call notifications not working when using a custom ntfy server. When selecting Google Push for notifications, both call notifications and t...
GitHub
#matrix @EU Council @Element

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In talks with Russia, Trump repeats his Afghanistan playbook kyivindependent.com/in-negotia…

In talks with Russia, Trump repeats his Afghanistan playbook

Donald Trump is elected U.S. president after criticizing a war abroad and calling for its end. He negotiates a deal with an adversary of the United States under heavy sanctions, cutting an ally out of their own country’s peace talks.
Andrea Januta (The Kyiv Independent)

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#Mozilla isn’t addressing the number one question: why did they remove this section from their #firefox terms of services?

> * Does Firefox sell your personal data?

> Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That’s a promise.

github.com/mozilla/bedrock/com…

Screenshot showing the question and answer via the GitHub commit, the left side is red to indicate removal

Tos copy updates (fix #16016) (#16018) · mozilla/bedrock@d459add

* ToS copy updates (fix #16016) * Apply suggestions from code review - copy change Co-authored-by: maureenlholland --------- Co-authored-by: maureenlholland <...
GitHub
#firefox #mozilla
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