A great read for everyone reading "social media" theguardian.com/books/2025/jul…

"We paid people a few dollars to unfollow the most divisive political accounts on X. After a month, they reported feeling 23% less animosity towards other political groups. In fact, their experience was so positive that nearly half the people declined to refollow those hostile accounts after the study was over. And those who maintain their healthier newsfeed reported less animosity a full 11 months after the study."

Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?

Why does the online world seem so toxic compared with normal life? Our research shows that a small number of divisive accounts could be responsible – and offers a way out

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

I'm going to present a new direction for one of the core libraries in the GNOME ecosystem, and how it will impact writing libraries, on Thursday, July 24, at 09:00

events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#guadec2025 #gnome #igalia

GUADEC 2025

Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.

^{GNOME Events (Indico)}

Cheogram is now available to beta test on iOS!! #xmpp. V basic function, just messaging and calls but looks nice!

testflight.apple.com/join/rmfX…

Join the Cheogram beta

Available on iOS

^{testflight.apple.com}

Kdo půjde v pátek na pivo?

Zamluvila bych aspoň jeden stůl, tak dejte vědět. : elpicko.cz/

(Jo a pozor, je to jenom pro nejdrsnější týpky. To víte, Palmovka! )

@mastopivo

elpíčko

Od 2.6. otevíráme už od 10:00! Od pondělí do pátku si na naší vaší zahrádce můžete vychutnat navíc kávu a nějaký ten koláč :) . Současně je k dispozici standartní nabídka z odpoledního nápojového lístku.

^elpíčko

Quebec man outraged after being arrested by U.S. Coast Guard while fishing

ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/qu…

Fascist army doing fascist things. And our conservative Govenrment doing jack shit.

Quebec man warning Canadian boaters after he was detained by U.S. Coast guard, put in jail cell

A Quebec man says he is outraged after the U.S. Coast Guard accused him of fishing in American waters and then arrested him before putting him in a jail cell for nearly two hours.

^{Joe Lofaro (CTVNews)}

"Long before Prime Minister Mark Carney made sweeping election promises of harnessing artificial intelligence to boost productivity in the federal bureaucracy, AI programs were hard at work in the public service.

Whether it’s tax questions, addressing Phoenix pay issues, translation services, or drafting documents, it seems there’s an AI bot for that.

In fact, the annual report about the federal public service itself was developed with the help of generative artificial intelligence."

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"Last month, PSPC’s Translation Bureau launched an AI translation tool prototype called PSPC Translate, spokesperson Jullian Paquin confirmed to The Hill Times.

The prototype was designed after a “noticeable decline” in translation request volumes, which suggested employees were using external translation tools like Google Translate and DeepL, an AI translation tool, Paquin said.

“To address this, the Translation Bureau sought to provide a secure, high-quality alternative that reflects Canadian linguistic standards and ensures data confidentiality.”

The tool is not intended to replace human translators, but to support the day-to-day communication needs of employees, and to reduce reliance on “unvetted external platforms," Paquin said."

archive.ph/fceZP

#cdnpoli

Last week, Quentin was on The Digital Access Show with Narelle from DASAT, talking all things NVDA and Digital Accessibility. Watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=UWmVMdu03v… or however you get your favourite podcasts!

#NVDA #NVDAsr #DigitalAccessShow #DigitalAccessibility #DASAT

Season 2 Episode 25 - Quentin Christensen

On this week's episode of The Digital Access Show, Quentin Christensen from NV Access dives into the NonVisual Desktop Access screen reader and shares his th...

^YouTube

PSA

Humans are animals.

We don't mean this figuratively or pejoratively: we mean this in a literal, factual sense.

Humans are part of the kingdom animalia, which comprises all animals.

As such, if you think, say, or write things like:

• "humans and animals"; or
• "humans versus animals";

... you're setting humans apart as something other than what we are, as if we're somehow above other animals, which is incredibly anthropocentric and flawed

It's a bit like saying "2 and even numbers", which implies that 2 isn't an even number. Instead, you might say "2 and other even numbers"

So, when you are talking or writing about any animals, please kindly specify whether you mean:

• human animals
• non-human animals
• all animals

Thank you 🫶

#humans #HumansAreAnimals #NonHumanAnimals #AllAnimals #PSA

kingdom of multicellular eukaryotic organisms

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

"What you have is, in essence, a very grassroots and cheap approach to launder misinformation to the public.”

From @feed - Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain

Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.

404media.co/googles-ai-is-dest…

Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain

^{Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)}

Here, you will find all sorts of obscure singers on cd, many of whom you can't find anywhere else, including Youtube! To say that I am impressed is an understatement.

classicmusiccds.com

For those of us who love Italian tenors, they have an entire section devoted to them!

classicmusiccds.com/product-ca…

#cds #opera #recordings #singers

ITALIAN TENORS – WELCOME TO CLASSIC MUSIC CDs

Posts about ITALIAN TENORS written by bensaude777

^{WELCOME TO CLASSIC MUSIC CDs}

> Open source X and Threads competitor Mastodon will begin experimenting with a new way to raise funds: in-app donations. The organization on Wednesday announced it’s launching a campaign that introduces banners inside its Android and iOS apps, prompting users to make a monetary donation.

oh great here we go

matrix.org/blog/2025/07/postgr…

Thanks for the interesting read @matrix!

The article doesn't mention federation at all. Federated rooms would have worked fine for people on other servers, right? And repairing a room could also be done by fetching the uncorrupted state from another homeserver?

How we discovered, and recovered from, Postgres corruption on the matrix.org homeserver

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^{Richard van der Hoff (matrix.org)}

In a recent CNN report, skepticism surrounds the Trump Organization’s claim that its new “T1” smartphone is “Made in the USA.”

Experts, including Todd Weaver, CEO of Purism, challenged the claim, citing striking similarities between the T1 and a low-cost Chinese phone, the Revvl 7 Pro 5G, made by Wingtech, a Chinese manufacturer.

Weaver emphasized the logistical and technical difficulty of building a phone in the U.S.

See the interview at Purim: puri.sm/posts/cnn-report-puris…

CNN Report: Purism is the Only Known U.S. Phone Manufacturer – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.

^{Purism SPC}

We are delighted to discover our own Marie has a biscuit named after her. Our friends know how dear biscuits are to every member of the bookshop.

#biscuits #Marie #bookshop #librairie #bookstodon

Hey #fedihelp,

I'm struggling with an #Android #widget issue, and I was wondering if anyone had any clue.

Basically: I have a widget with a grid of items. I want the items in the grid to stick to a certain aspect ratio, regardless of the widget width. The height should dynamically adjust so it always stays that aspect ratio. Normally I would use a ConstraintLayout, but that doesn't seem supported on widgets and I cannot find any good alternative.

Code here: github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

Thank you!

Hey fedi,

I'm struggling with an #Android #widget issue, and I was wondering if anyone had any clue.

Basically: I have a widget with a grid of items. I want the items in the grid to stick to a certain aspect ratio, regardless of the widget width. The height should dynamically adjust so it always stays that aspect ratio. Normally I would use a ConstraintLayout, but that doesn't seem supported on widgets and I cannot find any good alternative.

Code here: github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

Thank you!

I mostly keep checking in with the Wirecutter to watch the progress of their descent from once-great recommendation site to clickbait and Amazon spam farm.

Today they have a whole article recommending using a scythe to cut your grass (you read that right). The whole thing is full of details that SCREAM that it's the worst lawn tool idea ever, along with a link to buy one from Lee Valley Tools for a couple hundred bucks. nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews…

My Neighbors Stared. I Cut My Lawn With a Scythe Anyway.

Avid scythers praise this ancient mowing tool for its quiet, meditative workout. Our writer wondered if it was an exercise in self-denial.

^{Liam McCabe (Wirecutter)}

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 11 updated and 1 added apps:

* LoveLaceAV: a fork of the Hypatia malware scanner 🛡️

5 #Magisk modules were updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk

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

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}

“Brief Note on Figure and Figcaption Support”
adrianroselli.com/2025/01/brie…

Unofficial sequel: “Don’t Wrap Figure in a Link”
adrianroselli.com/2025/01/brie…

#HTML #accessibility #a11y

Brief Note on Figure and Figcaption Support

I am not going to dive into the details of

and

^{Adrian Roselli}

I've reworked my personal page: eischmann.cz/

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