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Toronto to Quebec City high-speed rail construction could begin in four years

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Never a priority. Not even shocked a second by this.


High-speed rail construction could begin in four years, LeBlanc says

The federal government wants construction on a planned high-speed rail line between Toronto and Quebec City to begin within four years.
The Canadian Press (CTVNews)

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 13 updated and 1 added apps:

* PhotoSphereGallery: Gallery and viewer for spherical photos (360°) 🛡️

2 #Magisk modules have been updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk

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


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
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #magisk #izzyondroid

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It does seem to bother the fash that people won't cry for them.

Sure people on the right wing make a big show of what a tragedy it is, but that's political & to spite the libs.

For fascists who are killed, the people capable of compassion won't mourn them, & everyone else will try to capitalize on political opportunity.

It seems like this gets under their skin, like they think they are entitled to the compassion which no one in their own tribe ever exhibits.

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Artemis

It's so fucking parasitic. The fash don't have anything of their own. They just try to leach it from us.

Those of us who have chosen to be human...to extend empathy to others...are vermin in their eyes.

UNTIL

they need something from us which they don't ordinarily value.

It's not just empathy. It's also things like scientific knowledge. They denigrate, destroy, etc. but then they want the medical care they defunded.

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Can anyone recommend a headset for use with Jaws, J-Say and Dragon? My wife is still looking at the Poly Focus 2 which is wired or wireless but it sounds like USB wired would be the way to go for accuracy ETC. The hyper X cloud flight we have now works ok but she likes jaws in her left ear so I wonder if that is interfering with the microphone.

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#Catima 2.38.0 is out!

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

This release adds support for .pkpasses, removes the Stocard importer (as Stocard no longer exists) and removes images from the widget below Android 12L.

Do note that the widget change is not what we want. If anyone understands this crash and has a fix, I'd love to hear it, so we can support images on all Android versions: github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

Coming soon to an app store near you.

#IzzyOnDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay


Widget crash issue

Thanks for the new widget! Great! But there is a problem: if the cards have no pictures, everything works. If you add a picture to at least one card, the application closes with an error and the wi...
TheLastProject (GitHub)
#github #googleplay #catima #izzyondroid
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Sylvia

Please note that the #FDroid release is sadly still delayed due to gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issu….

There is also F-Droid's request to Google on issuetracker.google.com/issues….

I'm watching the F-Droid issue and it looks like Google may release a new version of aapt2 that can run on the older hardware of the F-Droid buildserver but that doesn't seem to have happened yet. Hopefully this changes in the near future.


aapt2 fails to run on the buildserver - AGP 8.12.0-alpha07 is latest compatible (#593) · Issues · F-Droid / admin · GitLab

Affected apps under this label: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/?label_name%5B%5D=AGP-8.12.0 Between 8.12.0-alpha07 and 8.12.0-alpha08, aapt2 started to want a CPU that supports BMI1, CPUID, SSE4_1, SSSE3 ...
GitLab
#fdroid

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I've played this game before, eh. It will never happen... *sad panda face*

railwaygazette.com/high-speed/… #cdnpoli #ALTO


Canada aims to start Alto high speed rail construction in four years

CANADA: The Alto high speed rail project is to benefit from a Major Projects Office which the government has established to identify projects that are in the national interest and streamline their assessment and approval to accelerate development.
Railway Gazette International
#cdnpoli #alto

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Nedavno jsem tu nadaval na kulturu faktur v US. Dneska jsem narazil na borce, co nadaval ze za sluzbu vytezovani faktur chteji 5Kc/kus a ze on to radsi da do Gemini a ma to zadarmo.

O hodinu pozdeji psal, ze mu to na fakturach z US davalo celkovou cenu 0Kc ... firma "uplatnila predplaceny kredit jako slevu".

Jsem si vzpomel, jak nam kdysi ucetni nadavala, at to nedelame.

AI revoluce je obcas parodie sama na sebe.

#faktury #ai

#AI #faktury

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I'm sure a lot of you know that pressing alt, shift, win, and control on modern Windows opens the annoying MS Office thing. But it turns out you can combine that with letters to launch Office apps and services. For instance, all modifiers with w opens MS Word, n opens One Note, p opens Powerpoint, and so on. Also, here's a reminder that win-control-f24 toggles the trackpad. That's useless on its own, but you can remap that shortcut with AutoHotkey or a similar tool.

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Is there any possible way for MacOS to be able to find your location without WiFi being enabled? Surely this must be possible. I mean even with a 3rd party GPS or something. I have a hotspot here that has GPS capabilities, why can't I wire that up so it can read that location data from its API or whatever
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feld

I ask because I have automation that ensures WiFi is always off when I'm connected via Ethernet. The MacOS networking always resets the order of preferred network devices so WiFi is first, and even when I "roam" from Wifi to Ethernet it will keep the existing sessions alive over WiFi which defeats the purpose.

So I need WiFi completely off when I don't want to use WiFi.

It would be easier if there was a "DO NOT CONNECT TO WIFI" option but the radio is still on -- then this functionality would still work

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So, like, thanks to the SoundSource app from @RogueAmoeba I am able to move the sound coming from my Chrome window to the left of VoiceOver. Why is this important? Well, I am in a meeting and this helps me concentrate better on what my screen reader says. To top it off, I applied 10-band EQ to the Chrome source to shape the sound to fit in better with VO.
I do wish I could pan different sources, not just the main output, though!
@Rogue Amoeba

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The Uncertain Future of Nova Launcher: A Look at Its Impact and Current State accessibleandroid.com/the-unce…

The Uncertain Future of Nova Launcher: A Look at Its Impact and Current State - Accessible Android

An uncertain future looms over Nova Launcher, a name synonymous with Android customization and a vital tool for many users, including those with visual
Salih Kunduz (Accessible Android)

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Přijďte na konferenci #LinuxDays na moji přednášku "Partybox / barevná hudba na routeru #Turris Omnia". Bude to pořádná diskotéka! 👯 🤩

Samozřejmě vřele doporučuji i další přednášky v tracku CZ.NIC (místnost 111), přednášku "Turris - něco se chystá!" od @michal v místnosti 155 a také tu spoustu ostatních skvělých přednášek, které na konferenci budou.

#konference #LinuxDays2025 @linuxdays @turris

DJ v záři reflektoru
#linuxdays #turris #konference #linuxdays2025 @Michal Hrušecký @LinuxDays @Turris project

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I know it’s just a social media post, but I stand with my colleagues and the students at America’s HBCUs.

It’s a short hop from radical anti-intellectualism to outright racism, and we’ve experienced these headwinds before.

But the work to build America’s pluralist democracy will not be halted by this kind of cowardice.

#uspol #democracy #highered
#academia

apnews.com/article/threat-hbcu…

#democracy #uspol #academia #highered

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Possibly unpopular opinion: the reason I never got into mainstream videogames with accessibility features is because it feels like it basically just plays itself for you. The two largest examples of this that come to mind are The Last of Us and Forza. I'm not shitting on people who play and enjoy those games, I'm glad they enjoy them. But for me, having the game effectively cheat/play itself for "accessibility" reasons just takes all the fun out of it for me. I'm not playing, the computer is. I'm not much of a gamer, but think I'll mainly stick to my audiogames.
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Guillem Leon

Absolutely, Forza with full driving assist is just a very good background noise generator if you like your background noise to be angry cars, and I also completely agree with your original point insofar as there are games that will do that if the right set of accessibility features are on. But seriously. There are so, so, so many more now than before that are just, not even remotely close to being like that. And it would be very sad indeed if your opinion was based on TLOU (disclaimer: I have not played TLOU and am sort of turned off of trying it precisely because I've heard it's a little bit like what you describe) and Forza on beginner mode. At any point, I will more than happily advise on something with low-effort setup if you let me know what style of game you'd be interested in trying. The set of available titles is not massive, but it is diverse and hella fun.
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Pitermach

@guilevi Re TLOU I think the game is still worth playing, you do get a lot of agency in how you wanna approach the combat encounters and what you want to focus on with character upgrades. The story itself is very linear and I agree the nav assist could make exploration for collectables easier, because right now if you want to find them you have to keep scanning for items and can easily miss things. If you want to see how a system like that can be improved, keeping the option to turn you to an objective but also adding a lot of passive radars for items, doors and walls, look at 1428 shadows over silesia. But back to TLOU in the part 2 remake they added the no return mode which is pure combat with added roguelike elements and that's my favorite part of the game. And in that mode you can ironically decide where you want the navigation to take you.
@Guillem Leon
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Jiří Eischmann

@mcepl yeah, I know: social.vivaldi.net/@sesivany/1…

Plus Signal has no web client and Matrix and Telegram don't have web clients of the same quality. Just with Slack there is feature and quality parity.

Jiří Eischmann

2025-09-12 16:39:35

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@usul yeah, a lot of people around me do it this way and it makes sense because you only have one web engine running and it saves memory, but I'm an old school desktop guy and if something has a desktop client I prefer it to web clients.

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