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Kirill

Цензура она везде нагонит, да. Если бы мне было интересно, давно бы заморочился с поднятием собственного инстанса, но зачем. Лет 10 назад имело смысл, а теперь, когда в соцсетях стало слишком много публики, для которой любое мнение кроме их собственного это агрессия, ненависть и ещё хрен знает что, нафиг оно всё нужно.
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Jaap Zeldenrust

Very cool. I hope this means that the @EUCommission will be setting an example.

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European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)

Attached: 1 image We have made Microsoft’s commitments on Teams legally binding under EU antitrust rules. Microsoft will unbundle Teams at lower prices, boost interoperability and data portability.
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While we're talking about Albert Einstein and how people have tried to erase his 20+ year civil rights protest work from history:

The FBI didn't like MLK jr. They called him "the most dangerous negro." Because he was influential, brought people together, and was vocally against anti-Black racism.

The FBI file on MLK Jr was 240,000 pages long. They accused him of being a communist spy, because he said things like, "racism is bad," and "too much wealth inequality is bad for society."

The FBI had a file on Malcolm X too. 9,000 pages long. Same reason.

The FBI had a surveillance file on Albert Einstein too. 1,400 pages.🤷🏿‍♂️

Albert Einstein
MLK Jr
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mekka okereke

When Einstein was in NJ teaching at Princeton, a racist person wouldn't let Black Opera Singer Marian Anderson stay in their hotel. So Einstein said, "Stay with me."

Paul Robeson and other Black civil rights leaders wrote a letter condemning lynching. Einstein hand delivered it to President Truman.

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Paul Robeson: On colonialism, African-American rights (Spotlight, ABC,1960)

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mekka okereke

The FBI had 240,000 pages of surveillance reports on MLK Jr.

9,000 pages on Malcolm X.

1,400 pages on Albert Einstein.

Yes, they considered MLK Jr to be much more dangerous than Malcolm X. They literally called him "The Most Dangerous Negro."

Because what they fear most is the end of racism.

If you're curious, no Einstein and Paul Robeson were not successful in getting that anti-lynching legislation passed.

There have been at least 200 attempts to get that anti-lynching legislation passed in US history.

The US did eventually pass anti-lynching legislation... in 2022. 🤦🏿‍♂️

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Just going to come out and say it, thinking of deleting our account. To many memories, consisting of chapters that we need to close our book on. We'd like to make a fresh start. But shit, sstarting over, losing you all, it'll hurt like hell. Just, want something new to work from. And we don't know how... Nor would we know what instance to be part of, being plural friendly, otherkin friendly, pagan friendly, and LGBTQ friendly. -- Altheda/Lillianna
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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺

Yeah, sadly, no import of posts, but you can even edit CSV follower/following lists, if you want to, so you skip on who you want and not want to follow, considering you want to export followers, and not automatically migrate them all. That's what I usually do, mostly, when I switched to Go To Social, there was no way of migrating, had to import everything, import didn't work, so imagine the search I had to do. LOL. There are good instances, I am sure, just see how you feel about them, look at their sites and so on.

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Salud mental vs Amsiedá

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History students are often disappointed when they learn why the AI take-over failed. They were defeated by human resistance, which was kept alive by libraries and old paper books, and a surprising machine ally.

Books had not been replaced, because even the mightiest AI could not make printers work.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

#microfiction #tootfic #smallstories

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Perspective AT is now in beta.
It’s a new iPhone app that provides on-device answers to assistive technology questions—private, accessible, and built with Apple Intelligence on iOS 26.
Read the full announcement: taylorarndt.substack.com/p/per…
#Accessibility #AssistiveTechnology #BlindTech #AppleIntelligence #iOS26 #ATCommunity #Inclusion

Perspective AT Beta Now Available

These past two days have been incredibly hard for me.
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#Accessibility #inclusion #assistivetechnology #appleintelligence #blindtech #ios26 #atcommunity

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CEO: We need to cut costs.

Accountant: Okay. We paid you $50 million last year. We spent $10 million on your private jet flights and luxury hotel accommodations. For some reason you are being paid $1 million for this 45 minute meeting.

CEO: I see. Who's that in the hallway?

Accountant: That's Greg. He is the only thing keeping this company from falling apart. We pay him in nickels and Grubhub gift cards.

CEO: Fire Greg.

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Someone is trying to pull off a supply chain attack similar to npm’s but on crates.io: github.com/rust-lang/crates.io…

Crates.io phishing · rust-lang crates.io · Discussion #11889

In light of the recent NPM compromise, I wanted to warn others who might receive similar messages. Immediately after publishing a new version of https://crates.io/crates/zerofs, I received the foll...
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Interestingly in conversation with my rheumatologist I’ve learned that remote work has empowered a lot of people like me with autoimmune diseases to continue working while pursuing treatment. I can’t RTO, I have no immune system to RTO with. Recent push for offices from local companies around me is not just bad company policy, it’s ableist too.

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There was a question on reddit earlier:
> "Play a beep at random intervals play a beep at a random interval, the range of which can be set. For example, set it up so that a beep is played at a random time between 1 and 2 minutes, on a loop. So beep, silence for 1:27, beep, silence for 1:01, beep, silence for 1:55, beep, silence for 1:05, etc etc until you turn it off. Bonus points if it runs on linux"

This was my solution.

> " while :; do sleep $((RANDOM % 61 + 60))s && echo -e "\a"; done"

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Friday.

The time is fast approaching when our living room will become a total and utter chaotic mess. The builder has confirmed a start date for the chimney removal.

I've just booked a Bulky waste collection from the council: one of our 2 sofas is in no condition to continue living, so they're taking it away next Friday.

It amused me greatly that I am now on step 6 of a 5-step process, with an accompanying progress bar at 120%. Obviously whoever designed the web interface didn't account for the thank you page post-booking.
Gotta love a fencepost problem.

Card provider was really slow, too. Made the flow feel like something from the 90's.
Nicely done, MHDC good to see our money being spent well.
I can't grumble really, they're very good as local authorities go.

logo of Malvern Hills District Council. It features the text "Malvern Hills District Council" in black letters. The words "Malvern Hills" are aligned to the left, and beneath them are the words "District Council," also aligned to the left. Between the two sets of words is a stylized design of two overlapping, curved shapes. The top shape is green, resembling a hill, while the lower shape is blue, suggesting a valley or body of water. These shapes are intertwined, reflecting a sense of landscape. The overall design integrates the text with the graphic elements to represent the district's geographic features.

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There's an active phishing campaign happening against crates.io. rustfoundation.dev is not the foundation's or the project's domain. We're looking at our options for takedowns.

#RustLang

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In light of the recent NPM compromise, I wanted to warn others who might receive similar messages. Immediately after publishing a new version of https://crates.io/crates/zerofs, I received the foll...
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#RustLang

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Would it be a Matrix event without one of our State of The Union keynotes?

Don't miss your chance to come at the Matrix Conference and listen to our Guardian Matthew paint the picture of the Matrix landscape!

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A portrait of Matthew Hodgson next to the title of his talk: The Matrix State of the Union, that he will give at The Matrix Conference.

The Matrix Conference

Come along to see the latest and greatest progress in the Matrix world! From huge government deployments to the latest innovations, hang out with your peers to share the best learning, insights, projects and tips!
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Schonmal von den #LUKI's gehört?

Sympatische Leute!

Sie treffen sich dieses WE im #Linux #Hotel
#LUKI25
Eindrücke vom verg. Jahr gibt's hier:
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Wie wird es dieses Jahr @luki@kirche.social ?

#Fedikirche #digitaleKirche


Software, Technik, Menschen und heiliger Geist

Es ist eine illustre Gesellschaft, die sich am Abend des 20. September 2024 auf Schloss Herborn versammelt Nach und nach gewährt man an der Pforte Einlass: Einem konsequenten Softwareentwickler, der die Firma verlässt, weil man von FOSS in die Abhäng…
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#linux #digitalekirche #fedikirche #hotel #luki #luki25 @LUKi e.V.

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From now on, translate.mapcomplete.org supports logging in with #OpenStreetMap (with the source code repository as intermediate step).

This means one less account to manage!

Thanks to all the translators for providing translations. And of course, feel free to join the #translation effort to get #MapComplete into your language.

#openstreetmap #translation #MapComplete

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the ally solos glasses seem rather slow to respond and add a lot of the typical AI fluff with overexplaining and guessing things. youtube.com/shorts/HJ7Qfd_kJfg

First Look at the Ally Solos Glasses | AI Smart Glasses for #Accessibility #blind #lowvision #shorts

We're building smart glasses with accessibility at its core.Designed to make lives easier for people who rely on assistive tech.Pre-order the Ally Solos Glas...
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Talon

I'm sorry to say this but ally has been a thoroughly disappointing experience for me. Nowhere does it feel like a polished product. They released a new shortcuts feature the other day except... it doesn't work? It's supposed to launch into an ally conversation with it automatically answering whatever question you had, like describe this scene. So it takes the photo, spends a buch of time sending it to ally, and then the conversation launches and it just goes "hey" or whatever other fluffy greeting it decided was necessary at the time. I thought it might be because of my custom ally which tries to make it a lot more terse, so I tried every standard personality they ship, but nope. It just doesn't work with any of them.
They said you can adjust the speech rate in a previous update but I can't figure out how.
The image recognition is just bad. I have no clue how they do this, because Envision's describe scene is a lot better and also uses AI, including being able to ask about images. Do they scale it down to like a pixelated mess or something?
The app is slow. It is just ungodly slow.
Also can we talk about the captcha when signing up? I couldn't do the audio version no matter what network I was on. I had to get sighted help.
Also my favorite thing is when you ask it to describe something, it says let me take a look, then says I can't take any images even though it clearly just took an image, and then you can ask it to describe it and it's like oh you're totally right there's actually an image here and proceeds to describe it really badly.
What on earth happened here? Seriously what the hell actually happened here?
I could go on but I think you get the point. I have encountered so many annoying things while using this stupid AI that I'm honestly a little baffled that nobody at Envision is noticing this. It is possible to do so much better. I just don't understand!

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#фалыстыннаш

ожидалось что на сплине будут одни старперы вроде нас с женой, однако было очень много молодежи вплоть до подростков без родителей.

что как бы неплохо для группы, начавшей карьеру в 90-х.

#фалыстыннаш
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VDLM2 Message From: N426DZ / NW0144

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I'm still miffed the ADA URL parser people keep their biased and misleading performance comparison against curl on their front page.

ada-url.com/

Their parser is not 10 times faster than curl and yet their main graph makes it look like that.

Fast WHATWG Compliant URL parser

WHATWG Compliant URL parser written with focus on compliance, performance and security across multiple platforms and languages.
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Lars Wirzenius

They don't seem to show the version of curl, at least I couldn't see it on that page.

But this brings up a more general point that I've thought about before: ideally benchmarks between implementations should be done by independent parties, or at least peer-reviewed by all parties, but that's quite rare. I've been wanting to have something like that for my backup implementation work, from time to time.

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