The cat is out of the bag. Even Business Insider is conceding that return to office policies are less about mythical hallway conversations and more about getting remote workers to quit.
it became quite clear to me when Apple was bragging about not having to do layoffs, and then started forcing RTO for people who had been hired fully remote and lived hours from the nearest office.
When I was in high school, I took a class on ham radio. I didn’t take an exam at the time because I didn’t own the necessary equipment, didn’t know what equipment was required, & didn’t know an…
Are you new to Windows 11? Need tips on managing tasks and settings with JAWS? Join us Thursday, May 15 at Noon ET for a live webinar, “Ten Tips for Managing Windows 11 with JAWS.
I'm happy to release the third edition of: Personal Power: Getting The Most from iOS as a Totally Blind User This book, freely available to all, was written to help totally blind people use iPhones competently and make the most of their capabilities …
SoundCloud says it is revising its terms of use to make it clear that it will not use member content to train AI models that replicate their music or likeness.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of Trump Media stock the same day Trump unveiled new tariffs that caused the stock market to plummet, according to records obtained by ProPublica.
Disclosure forms show that Bondi sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of shares on April 2. That day, after the market closed, Trump’s “Liberation Day” press conference sent the market tumbling.
there’s a proposal to ban conversion practices in the european union.
the deadline is May 17 and we’re about half way. we need one more country to pass the threshold. currently Slovenia is closest to it at 86% followed by Germany and Sweden at 53%.
While cassettes and CDs are now staples on artists' merch tables, tech companies are starting to make physical media players again. But are they any good? Th...
Anyone really good at diagnosing weird RasPi4 issues?
I've got a 4B/8G that refuses to boot, always goes to rainbow screen. Red LED solid, so not PSU (and multiple tried). Multiple cards tried burned multiple ways/multiple images.
EEPROM Update card just shows this (and apparently doesn't update?)
@Bubu hmmm - I built it in Linux, but it won't recognize it over USB. It doesn't seem like the RP4 allows you to do this, only the CM4? (Doesn't seem to be any way to force nRPIBOOT?)
In case anyone else finds that story turning up in their feeds or emails: Fact Check: Videos alleging Pope Francis' loyal dog wouldn't leave his side, even in death, are AI-generated yahoo.com/news/fact-check-vide…
Apparently, the hallucinations keep rolling. At today’s discovery hearing in Concord Music v. Anthropic, the lawyer for the plaintiffs informed the court of their suspicion that AnthropicR…
Apple is partnering with Universal Music for a new Sound Therapy Option. This will be added as a wellness option for day to day listening with a Sleep option, Focus option and Relax option.
Two years after changing the name of HBO Max to just Max, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is reversing its decision. Starting this summer, Max is going...
Canada’s new Housing and Infrastructure Minister Gregor Robertson says he doesn’t think housing prices need to come down, and that the federal government should focus on building more homes.
Satoshi's Bitcoin walks into a quantum bar; Shor's algorithm says, "Your keys or your life," and poof—nothing's funny anymore. blockchain.news/flashnews/sato…
According to @deanmlittle on Twitter, Satoshi Nakamoto's original Bitcoin holdings are locked in Pay-to-PubKey (P2PK) addresses, not Pay-to-PubKey-Hash (P2PKH), which leaves them completely unprote
> For active traders, this highlights a significant security risk for early Bitcoin addresses if quantum computing becomes practical, potentially impacting long-term confidence...
Yeah if they can invent a quantum computer that doesn't exist yet with specs exceeding anything remotely suggested and they can keep the power on and temperature stable to a millionth degree for decades they can break it.
Congrats to my beloved husband! I can attest to the many hours of every day that has gone into this latest edition! I'm glad to see all the love from folks! Go Mike go! mstdn.social/@mfeir/1145080197…
Hello everyone. Just in time for Global Accessibility Awareness Day, I'm delighted to release the third edition of Personal Power: Getting The Most From iOS as a Totally Blind User. This ebook is free to everyone and is available in a number of formats. You can find it at this link: michaelfeir.blogspot.com/2025/…
My list of RSS feeds has been updated! For those that aren't in the loop, this is a categorized list of feeds that I follow. You can easily copy the direct RSS link to things that interest you, or even download a full OPML file for import into your favorite RSS reader. RSS is the past--and the future! Everyone should use it! Feel free to respond to this with interesting RSS feeds that you follow.
Changes (05/14/2025): New: Manton Reece, WIL WHEATON dot NET, Newsweek, The New Republic, Release notes from authentik, Release notes from Docker, Release notes from pi-hole, Release notes from vscode, Home Assistant, Joel on Software, LambdaMOO Status Blog, Lobsters. Removed: AudioGames.net Forum New releases (no longer viable because of their aggressive Cloudflare protection), Popehat, James Hoffmann, Linus Tech Tips, Marques Brownlee, Not Just Bikes, TechLinked Moved: Changelog on Tailscale (now under Software Releases instead of Technology)
In case it wasn't obvious, all YouTube channels have been removed. I haven't been consuming YouTube via RSS for a long time, although I'd love to return to that someday. #RSS #feeds #IndieWeb
There were layoffs at MS yesterday and 3 #Python core devs from the Faster CPython team were caught in them. If you know of any jobs, please send them their way (they kind of know Python, CPython, and its internals well 😉):
15+ years experience in software development; primarily in Python and C as well as C++… · Experience: Microsoft · Education: University of Glasgow · Location: Greater Oxford Area · 107 connections on LinkedIn.
To avoid disrupting your valuable work, we will be careful and start with very generous limits. Over time, we'll tune the configuration based on your feedback.
We also plan on helping you find and lower resource consumption, should you be shocked with the amount of storage you currently consume.
(By the way, we are aware of a bug that makes repo size count twice. It will get fixed soon)
New #OpenZFS tool landed this week: rewrite a file in place, updating location, compression, checksums and other storage characteristics, but without any evidence above the filesystem layer.
It's not quite the fabled magical block pointer rewrite, but with thoughtful use it can certainly help with much-wanted operations like rebalancing a pool.
oh shit this is great, I wrote my own tooling to do this for me but it wasn't "in-place". It works very well, but you have to run it multiple times to get an even distribution across VDEVs
Hello everyone. Just in time for Global Accessibility Awareness Day, I'm delighted to release the third edition of Personal Power: Getting The Most From iOS as a Totally Blind User. This ebook is free to everyone and is available in a number of formats. You can find it at this link: michaelfeir.blogspot.com/2025/…
If only you could do two things: Drop the price on your devices so normal people who aren't rich can buy them too, and start selling them in physical stores like shopping malls worldwide. The world would have a chance at being an ever so slightly better place once more.
"Дом содрогнулся до основания, и голос этот, заглушивший громкий вой собак, услышали все соседи Вардов. Миссис Вард, стоявшая за дверью лаборатории, задрожала, припомнив, что говорил ей сын в прежние дни о голосе, словно исходчщем из самой преисподней, о котором со страхом повествуют древние мистические книги. Она вспомнила также рассказ Феннера о том, как прогремел этом голос над обречённой на гибель фермой в Потаксете в ту ночь, когда был убит Джозеф Карвен. Чарльз даже назвал ей слова, которые произнёс голос. Он нашёл то заклинание в одной из бумаг Карвена: "ДИЕС МИЕС ЙЕСХЕТ БОЭНЕ ДОЭСЕФ ДОУВЕМА ЭНИТЕМОС".
Сразу после того, как прозвучал громовой голос, на мгновение воцарилась кромешная тьма, хотя солнце должно было зайти только через час, потом вокруг него распространился новый запах, отличный от первого, но такой же странный и нестерпимо зловонный. Чарльз снова запел заклинания, и миссис Вард сумела расслышать некоторые слоги, которые звучали как "Йи-нэш-Йог-Сотот-хе-лгеб-фи-тродог", а в конце раздалось оглушительное "Йа!", завершившееся воем, который постепенно перешёл в исторический сатанинский смех."
хм, мне одной кажется странным, что миссис Вард запомнила какие-то бессмысленные (для неё) слова и слоги на целые года? ~~или она тут тайно тоже замешана~~
Бывает такое, когда на стрессе врезается что-то в память, даже если кажется бессмысленным. Я слышал о подобных рассказах и в реальной жизни, когда люди запоминали какие-то слоги или слова на незнакомом языке, а потом выяснялось, что они значили.
If you’re in the EU and you opted out of Meta training generative AI on your Facebook, Threads and Instagram posts and pictures, Meta are requiring you to opt out *again* or they will continue training on your data.
In a move that surprises absolutely noone, GitHub now requires users to login in order to browse public repositories (including open source projects). After a few (~10) requests, you get blocked (I can confirm). In order to fight AI scrapers, I guess.
So, GitHub decided to blanket-limit access to open source projects as a defense against the very scourge that they(r parent company) unleashed on the world.
I won't be hypocrite: it's a bit embarrassing, but undeniably satisfying to say "told you so". I moved away from GitHub long ago and I moved all my stuff to Codeberg instead. And so happy I did!
Select Topic Area Question Body "I'm experiencing an issue when trying to access files from a GitHub repository without logging in. After 3 attempts, I receive an Error 429 (Too Many Requests) and ...
I don't use Spotify (I'm on Tidal) and I hate it when people post music with Spotify links. This site "translates" Spotify links to other music services, including Tidal and Deezer.
Veamos cómo disfrutar de la última versión del cliente de correo @thunderbird en openSUSE Tumbleweed (y otras distribuciones de GNU/Linux) y no es usando Flatpack
¡Muchas gracias por ayudar a los usuarios de Tumbleweed a cambiar al canal Release! Estamos muy agradecidos por toda la ayuda que prestas a nuestra comunidad.
@Friendica Support As for my knowledge this intended newbee speaks fluently german, englisch and spanisch, tho maybe du/you/tu is a little bit to shy to ask for help .. not sure.
What is your setup and what have you tried till now @Mina to install your #friendica server, maybe we can figure out what's your problem with the installation. 🤔
until finally the browser told me "redirection error".
I then tested with some arbitrary PHP file if PHP worked. It did (in the root directory and the friendica subdirectory).
Then I tried stuff that was recommended in the forum (where I also found people told to become developers if they had problems), like entering database details into config files, some changes in .htaccess, but, alas, to no avail.
Not sure what is the actual state of the art of the installer is. Last I "heard" and experienced is that it was broken and that the best way to install is thru the console commands detailed in the helpers page: /help/Install#Option+B%3A+Run+the+automatic+install+script
Actually I didn't followed the @Friendica Support or friendica news channel latelly, so no idea if there were any updates. What I wondered "the other day" is that we could ask @Tobias wich friendica version was the last that had the install working fine and simply install that version, via gitpull. Once installed you can than just start the updates. If you do that before even creating any contacts or content, that should go quite smoothly. We recently did updates from 2023.05 on this server and the referenced installation guide was from that (stable) version in it's time and worked well so I assume that installing via gitpull but adressing that version, or the one Tobias indicates should work out easily.
In any case it's probably recommended that you hop on some friendica server first to see how it looks and feels. Squeet.me could be a recomendation, it is running 2025.07rc branch right now, that's apparently a step in between from stable and develop branch. Than there are also the instances of @Tuxi ⁂. @OldKid ⁂ and @Raroun not sure if they accept users.
I'll dig into the actual state of the art of the branches and friendica. Apparently the development of the code has some delays:
friendica notes on github on the actual stable release: wrote:
Known Issues At the time of writing this, none with 2024.12
But the development branch is currently rather unstable and should be used with caution as the development diverged far (for Friendica terms) from the now stable branch. We will let our very valued ALPHA testers when the dev team things that the development branch is stable enough again.
@Michael 🇺🇦 @Hypolite Petovan any recommendation in which latest friendica release the installer still worked fine?
Hi there, the moment has come to do the first instance upgrade cycle in the life of this instalation to bring this server to the actual stable version 2024.12-1 in the comming days.
Are there any specific recomandations or details to have in mind besides the information expected to be found in every update release instruction?
This is basically a single user instance with round about 14 forum pages with few followers each and a total of 18 profiles with contacts in the activityPub and diaspora community and some RSS subscriptions. No other specific conectors are enabled.
DB backups amount to ~180MiB and the image file storage folder on ftp around ~400MiB.
Friendica stable | 'Giant Rhubarb' 2023.05 - 1518 PHP Version 8.1.2-1ubuntu2.14 VPS server | Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 4 Core CPU, 8 GB Ram with 300GB NVME Disk - unlimited traffic hosted by @ raroun 👍
Notes: This instances right now seems to work well. Sometimes this profile here has some strange hickups like when following up the link of a post from this server in a stream view a message "Not Found |The requested item doesn't exist or has been deleted." Also right now profiles from contacts, for example @ hoergen or @ feb don't show up in the contact list but they are displayed as followed in the profile contact page.
Anyway: I'm pretty sure, the problems I had during the installation were not caused by Friendica itself (I mean: there are a lot of people, who successful completed an installation), but by some configuration with my hosting solution (on Ionos.de).
Just useful error messages during the installation process would be great.
Actually you even might consider to setup your subdomain at first at weingaertner-it.de/, if they still do friendica hosting, I get a 503 right now over here. Apparently a single user instance costs 5 euro a month. If you like it you could than move the already existing DB to your own setup. Somehow that's how this instance came to live, but with another provider.
I already pay 10€ per month for a quite generous hosting package, I already paid for the domain name, and I don't want another regular cost.
The idea of this proposal, besides giving others the chance to hear\see\brainstorm it also, is to:
Animate you to check #friendica out. That might give you an incentive to setup your own instance.
Have the easiest way to check out the back end. If I remember well, #weingaertner-it gives you the option of a monthly rent. So, suppose a 3 month "trail test"of friendica. That would be 15 euro. How much is an hour of your time worth? Setting up your own server means at least 8 hours of time, in over all terms. Clicking a weingaertner setup and redirecting your subdomain to them for a testride should be like an hour. If you follow thru with friendica, your personal server setup, profiles and created content wont be a lost effort as you take all of that with the DB onto your existing hosting package.
Support and foster the #fediVerse structure by supporting the weingaertner PYMES
I guess that's why @utopiArte invest time to create that text and posted it as a new answer with hashtags. That way it is a public answer and can be spread by an easy reshare all over the fediverse .. 😇
#fediTips
How to do your first steps in hosting your own #fediVerse presence.
♲ utopiArte (https://tupambae.org/profile/utopiarte) - 2025-08-24 10:17:47 GMT (https://tupambae.
OpenAI is moving to publish the results of its internal AI model safety evaluations more regularly in what the outfit is pitching as an effort to increase transparency.
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