if you've ever found yourself staring at the State Dept's 'Visa Bulletin' and been completely unable to read it, this page makes things much much easier

seekingvisa.com/bulletin/emplo…

#Immigration

My nerd self is happy. I just found this really cool slipknot live overview mix overview which is a lot of fun. I've always wanted to get into live engineering. youtube.com/watch?v=MFV73c5aL_…

You know, I sometimes feel like I'm being kind of a bitch by refusing to subscribe to Substack newsletters, refusing to share Substack links. But this is why. Substack is a right-wing social media platform that uses its token left-wing writers and apolitical newsletters as cover. I don't want any part of that.
mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/…


SCOOP: Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog. The alert contained a swastika and prompted users to subscribe to newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the "white nationalist community." Another Nazi blog is being promoted in Substack's "Rising in History" list usermag.co/p/substack-sent-a-p…

July has been a truly incredible month for LLM releases from China - Moonshot (Kimi K2), Z ai (GLM-4.5) and 5 new releases from Qwen

I think it's undeniable that the best available open weight models now come from the Chinese AI labs simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/30/…

in reply to Simon Willison

I'm attending one of the best academic AI conferences (ACL) this week, and the vast majority of papers presented are now from China. I've been to one session where, out of 8 papers, every single one was presented by somebody from that country.

This is my first time at ACL, but other attendees have said that this is not how things have been at previous editions.

The fraction of Chinese participants also went up, from ~30% last year to 51% this year. The US is at 18%, everybody else is single-digit percentages if that.

Rodičovská iniciativa Dětství bez mobilu a sítí hledá pomoc s IT zázemím pro spuštění výzvy rodičům


Ahoj, jsme skupina rodičů a na začátku září chceme spustit výzvu rodičům, aby odkládali věk, kdy svým dětem dají chytré telefony a přístup k sociálním sítím. Inspirujeme se mj. zde: smartphonefreechildhood.org/pa…. Hledáme někoho, kdo nám pomůže vybrat vhodný nástroj na sběr podpisů a práci s kontakty. Jsme schopni se složit na odměnu. Těšíme se na zprávu!

Discuss this on our forum.

I really like this new fun @icing take: happy eyeballs that start new connection attempts at a timeout but without stopping the old ones. First to connect still wins.

github.com/curl/curl/pull/1810…

I'm happy to report that the glitches that could happen in #curl when you did more than 2.2 billion transfers in a single invoke are now history.

github.com/curl/curl/pull/1809…

#curl

Na landing page pro ureleased.art (pro neprihlasene vede na join.unreleased.art) se nam hromadi prichozi z Google Searche. S rostouci tendenci. Me to prekvapuje. Search Console mlci.

Vyzkoumal jsem, ze Google AI overview nas zminuje u nasich umelcu. viz photo. Zajimavost na tom AI overview je, ze dost veci je tam spatne/vymyslenych. A taky vede na pidgin landing page, coz je tak trochu meh 🤷

Jak s tim nalozit netusime. Rady vitany.

#google #ai #search #hudba

New to #LibreOffice? Grab its Getting Started Guide for tutorials, tips and tricks! It was just updated to the latest release, thanks to volunteers in our Docs team: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource

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New to #LibreOffice? Grab its Getting Started Guide for for tutorials, tips and tricks! It was just updated to the latest release, thanks to volunteers in our Docs team: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource

#фалыстыннаш
творит, да… что ж поделать.

а вот с вопросом об остановке Израиля военным путем - мысль очень интересная.

сама хезбола явно не может, раз обращается к прогрессивному человечеству. а что боеспособного есть у прогрессивного человечества?

армии нато - сша и германия не одобрят
россия - вся под покровском
иран - ну вы понели
саудиты и пр - на американском оружии

пока кроме китая нападать на Израиль некому.

How to shrink your feed


I posted asking for help on this a bit ago, and while I didn't get any solutions, it did get my brain thinking outside of the box, and I found the solution, its easy, but proof that the UI, especially the settings layout really needs some work around here.

For whatever reason, the necessary setting isn't under the timeline settings, but Social Networks

The key setting here is Followed Content Scope, default is 'Conversations my follows started or commented on', but if'n you change it to 'Only conversations my follows started' if will only show original posts and boosts.

Hopefully this'll help others, I mentioned in a comment on my original post, but that could easily be missed, so here we go. Oh, and if'n you've any tag suggestions, send them my way, and I'll prolly add them.

#friendica #timeline

@Friendica Support

breaking news
(I have to confess apple is sometimes good)
given a #IPv6only mobile access (like the Deutsche Telekom within Germany, not during roaming)
recent apple #iOS 18.5
makes
#IPv6mostly for clients via hotspot

#dhcpoption108 as well #pref64

I made also the windows test - in case option 108 is not provided by the client, iOS provides IPv4

#ipv6

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"Remember back in 2023 when hackers exposed (and fixed) malicious anti-repair software in Polish trains? Well, it turns out that the manufacturer, Newag, is at it again" cc @pluralistic ifixit.com/News/112008/polish-…

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today comes with 14 updated and 1 added apps:

* Quick Timer: lets you set and manage timer directly from your Quick Settings 🛡️

And we've left the "beast" behind, thanks to this one 😊 RB status now: 667 apps (50.6%)

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

We've been doing State of the Thunder, our bi-weekly deep dive into development and roadmap discussion, for a few months now! One common thing we hear is "this info is great! But, can you put it in a blog?" And starting with episode 10, we have. All of the latest Thunderbird updates and discussions, now in an easy to read format - with links to the videos and podcasts for those of you who still want to watch or listen!

#Thunderbird #OpenSource

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/07/s…

Don't buy smart home devices that require a cloud connection because the manufacturer *will* eventually brick them.
It's a waste of your money and a terrible amount of avoidable e-waste.
Instead, buy from companies who make devices that work with no cloud and/or with a free local option like Home Assistant.
belkin.com/support-article/?ar…
This is a good place to look: home-assistant.io/integrations…
in reply to Archos

@archos @cynik_obecny Našel jsem další
f.cz/@ferda/114943743366871943 🤷🏻‍♂️.
Budou asi dávat stejný nebo podobný název účtu na všechny(?) Mastodon servery, možná už někde jsou 🤔.

So the CEO of one of BlackRock's real estate subsidiaries, Wesley LePatner, was gunned down in a workplace shooting.

LePatner was in charge of a $56B fund that has been reported to be a part of BlackRock's strategic mass purchasing of homes.

The press & cops seem to be working double time to make sure this isn't seen by the average Joe as some sort of Luigi moment.

The cops claim the assailant was lost and killed the wrong CEO.

yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/e…

#BlackRock #WesleyLePatner #NYC #Luigi

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I did not say how things are, I said how things are meant to be. A currency is meant, under ideal conditions, to be stable (not greatly volatile) and seamless to exchange. A lot of crypto is neither of these things and instead functions/exists more akin to a security: greatly changing/fluctuating valuation vs. mostly stable and constant value + bought/sold/traded over marketplaces vs. exchanged for goods/services/payment.

Jednou mám volno, tak můžu rajzovat po výletech.
Právě jsem se vrátil domů, ale příště bych raději za nějakou lepší příležitosti.
Pohřeb královny jsem před pár roky nezvládl, protože jsem musel vozit lidi do Londýna, tak jsem se rozloučil aspoň s princem… teda za mě spíš králem - temnot

Ať to tam nahoře ladí #Ozzy

#ozzy
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Add tech to a manual Perkin's Braille writer with Paige Connect! Great for teachers and students- It's a board with optical sensors that attaches via USB-A for power. Connects to smart devices (phones, tablets, laptops) via Bluetooth, enabling instant digital output & audio feedback

aph.org/blog/bring-new-life-to…

#Braille

in reply to Carrie On Accessibility

I certainly remember having to wait for manual transcription at elementary school and found it a frustrating experience.
Also, during the Covid pandemic, one of our Braille libraries gave out Braille displays to members, at least a dozen of which I know were to kids that are now just sat around because the parents didn't know any Braille to help them learn to use the devices. SO Sad,
So any sort of Braille improvement is a big thumbs up from me.

YouTube rolls out age-estimation tech to identify US teens and apply additional protections

techcrunch.com/2025/07/29/yout…

Nothing wrong can go with this. From the same people that can't guess I understand another language that English. Or that can't figure out I watched a video on their platform.

Ora bem, o melhor é mesmo a criança comçar logo a comer cozido e feijoada a partir dos 2 meses, que não estamos cá para criar pãozinhos de leite.

🔗 publico.pt/2025/07/29/sociedad…

well well. Thanks to the Botspot-VM project, for Pi5, I was able to get Windows installed, NVDA started, and now Mist World is running on a little Pi5 overclocked to 2.8 gHZ. github.com/Botspot/bvm
Wow. Truly the most versatile device, I could run Linux and Windows in one go, then swap the SD for the Android OS build if I wanted to and add a USB touchscreen. Wow. Amazing. I do think the BTSpeak should have waited for the CM (compute module) 5. It's so so much faster, Pi4 I wouldn't even thinking of Running Windows 11 on with a fraction of the speed it has.
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in reply to Tamas G

Mist World, huh? I played that thing a long time ago, but it was so P2W that I just pulled out. Has the game gotten better, or is this just one of those "I don't care what it is, this is more of a benchmark than a gaming session" things? In which case, yeah, I've done that before, and trust me, you do not want to run anything more complicated than a single-player BGT/NVGT game on a netbook.
in reply to Hunter

@HunterXWorld haha I think worse! Considering they're now are launching a second server just to pull more cash out of people. Ha. Considering the game uses almost 1 GB of ram, does horrible garbage collecting as it's based on Java8 and is always doing a lot of small RAM reads and writes, the Pi can handle it really well. Audiogames have usually stayed on the lower-side of CPU usage, might be their big advantage here - only about 19-25% CPU is used even on the Pi, something that might be 0-3% on a regular desktop-class one.

Zkouším LinkedIn Learning Courses a vybral jsem si jako první kurz linkedin.com/learning/paths/ja… - na konci by měl být nějaký test a pak certifikát od Jetbrains.

Jenže z velké části už všechny ty informace, které jsou v daných kurzech, znám. 2 dvouhodinové kurzy o OOP jsou téměř totožné. V jednom kurzu jsem úspěšně dokončil všechny kvízy na konci kapitol, ale stejně to po mně chce dokoukat videa. Přetočit je na konec nezabírá. Tak si to dám 2x zrychleně bez zvuku někam na pozadí. Jaký e-learning!

I am having a consistent problem where I am unable to clone everything from this repository into my local machine. Every time I clone using the command line, none of the documentation shows up. only one folder seems to show up and that appears to be the GitHub folder. Does anyone know what the cause of this could possibly be and how to rectify the issue? github.com/buttondown/docs #OpenSource #Git #GitHub #CLI
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OK, I can reproduce this. I don't have a solution, but I know the cause of the problem. Notice this error:

error: invalid path 'public/images/email-interface/draft-apis:email-interface.png'

Windows doesn't allow colons in filenames, but Unix does. Probably your best bet would be to ask BUttondown to rename that file and any others like it.