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AM Part 1: Using AppManager to Install Apps and Overcome Future Restrictions accessibleandroid.com/am-part-…

AM Part 1: Using AppManager to Install Apps and Overcome Future Restrictions - Accessible Android

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Teil 6 der der Nextcloud-Serie!

Push-Benachrichtigungen auf Android via UnifiedPush & NextPush – datenschutzfreundlich über deine Nextcloud statt Google. 👇

kuketz-blog.de/push-benachrich…

#nextcloud #unifiedpush #push #google #android #datenschutz


Push-Benachrichtigungen für Android via UnifiedPush (NextPush) – Nextcloud Teil 6

Push-Benachrichtigungen auf Android via UnifiedPush & NextPush – datenschutzfreundlich über deine Nextcloud statt Google.
www.kuketz-blog.de
#android #google #UnifiedPush #datenschutz #nextcloud #push

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Despite generating $4.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2025, OpenAI reported a net loss of $13.5 billion. In other words, ignore all sugar coating. They, are losing money heavily techinasia.com/news/openais-re…

They abandoned the goal cancer cure to produce only rewritten text, images, and 10 second meme videos. They're burning capital on millions of GPUs. The classic VC model. Outspend rivals and use others' copyrighted work without solving a single critical problem. No human suffering solved

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"…pokud chcete žít v míru, pokud chcete žít na Západě, pokud chcete žít v otevřené společnosti, pokud chcete žít ve společnosti, kterou neřídí nenávist, zvyšujete své šance volbou Spolu, STAN a Pirátů."

Tak hodně štěstí! #volby #respekt #tabery
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Česko potřebuje slušnou konzervativní silu Spolu, regionální uskupení STAN a liberální hlas Pirátů. Česko má předpoklady aby ustálo i vládu extremistů. Je tu nezávislá policie, justice, média, máme dvoukomorový parlament, demokratického prezidenta a silnou občanskou společnost. Destrukce systému většinou přichází až v druhếm volebním období, ale proč riskovat? Proč ztrácet čas zápasem za demokratické principy země, když před námi leží příležitost vybrat si lehčí cestu prostě jít k volbám? Ještě jednou si to zopakujme, kmoci se mohou dostat strany, které chtějí změnu režimu, vyvázat nás ze spojeneckých svazků a jež kolaborují s naším primárním nepřítelem Ruskem. Proto závěrem s plnou vážností říkáme, pokud chcete žít v míru, pokud chcete žít na Západě, pokud chcete žít v otevřené společnosti, pokud chcete žít ve společnosti, kterou neřídí nenávist, zvyšujete své šance volbou Spolu, STAN a Pirátů. Schválně používáme spojení, že zvyšujete šance. Nikdo nedokáže garantovat, že vnější okolnosti mír a prosperitu umožní. Nebo že demokratické sily šancí na lepší budoucnost nemalá hodnota.

Zvolí si Česko vládu hněvu?

Letošní volby mohou přinést obrat porevolučního směřování
Erik Tabery (Týdeník Respekt)
#respekt #volby #tabery
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Maarten Aertsen

Back when the dialogue about CRA started years ago, I feel a citable reference like this would have been very helpful in the interaction with policy makers. Which is one of my motivations for volunteering my time and help to create one.

Europe is hardly the only place where people conceive software or critical infrastructure regulation. The future will learn if it’ll be of value elsewhere to inform policymakers about the role of FOSS.

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C++ Weekly With Jason Turner posted about how to use GCC's `-fstack-usage` feature with @compiler_explorer :

youtu.be/kXe-YkJ9nBs?si=wBUYPI…

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C++ Weekly - Ep 499 - GCC's Stack Usage Analysis (and Warnings!)

☟☟ Awesome T-Shirts! Sponsors! Books! ☟☟Upcoming Workshops:► C++ Best Practices Workshop, CppCon, Aurora, CO, USA, Sept 13-14, 2025: https://cppcon.org/class...
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@Compiler Explorer
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I use mattermost as a free, open source Slack replacement. I like it a lot. I also use authentik as my SSO provider for my #homelab / #selfhosted stuff.

If you don't pay for the enterprise version of Mattermost, you don't get the SSO features. You can fake that by using their free GitLab integration. But you also don't get the capability to switch users from one form of authentication (email/password) to SSO after you set it up.

This is pretty obscure, and it involves a bunch of raw Postgres queries. But I figured it out and wrote a blog on converting Mattermost users from email/password to SSO


Mattermost Converting Users from Email to Gitlab authentication | Paco Hope

If you start your Mattermost Team Edition using email and password for users, but then you change your mind and switch to GitLab authentication, it’s not at all obvious or easy how to convert the existing users.
blog.paco.to
#homelab #selfhosted
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I'm surprised it took this long, tbh.
mas.to/@carnage4life/115307708…

Dare Obasanjo

2025-10-03 01:46:40

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Apple has removed ICE tracking apps from the App Store.

This includes ICEBlock which alerts people of sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in their area after complaints from Attorney General Pam Bondi.

9to5mac.com/2025/10/02/followi…



Following DOJ pressure, Apple pulls ICEBlock from the App Store - 9to5Mac

ICEBLOCK has been removed from the App Store at the request of the US Attorney General Pam Bondi. Here are the details.
Marcus Mendes (9to5Mac)

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Apple has removed ICE tracking apps from the App Store.

This includes ICEBlock which alerts people of sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in their area after complaints from Attorney General Pam Bondi.

9to5mac.com/2025/10/02/followi…


Following DOJ pressure, Apple pulls ICEBlock from the App Store - 9to5Mac

ICEBLOCK has been removed from the App Store at the request of the US Attorney General Pam Bondi. Here are the details.
Marcus Mendes (9to5Mac)
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The Democracy Paradox podcast has restarted, featuring a series of three interviews (two already posted) with political scientists writing on democratic backsliding. democracyparadox.com #PoliticalScience

Democracy Paradox - Because Democracy is More than Elections

Because Democracy is More than Elections
democracyparadoxblog (Democracy Paradox)
#politicalscience

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ahaaha. github.com/nalexandru/api-ms-w… -: GitHub - Implementation of api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll for Windows 7 based on Wine code. Good job, person who just helped me get Tweesecake running on Windows 7. So far, it's been fairly painless to get modern things going on it.

GitHub - nalexandru/api-ms-win-core-path-HACK: Implementation of api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll for Windows 7 based on Wine code

Implementation of api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll for Windows 7 based on Wine code - nalexandru/api-ms-win-core-path-HACK
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Tamas G

ooh nice, for chromium? I couldn't find a good firefox one, r3dfox is definitely not accessible, Firefox 115 ESR is not the worst since it's 2023 but gosh darn it all the opensource instructions require you rebuild the Firefox source with Rust toolchains! Insanity. This kind of stuff made me a bit sad, just how quickly Windows 7 lost support once the ESU was gone, devs dropped it, and while some modern DLLs can be layered back in, my guess is once the app starts to drop support if they tie into system-level APIs and use newer ones, Windows 7 has very little fighting chance, sigh.
I wonder how long it'll take for Windows 10 to get there. I mean, not forever. Right now it shares enough in similar to Win11 that this matters very little, but in 5 years the code paths will diverge enough that it'll really be hitting end of life too.
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Simon Jaeger

@cubic @serrebi I hear a lot more people talking about running enterprise versions of Windows 10 when compared to any previous Windows version, and I don't know the history of enterprise releases and their end-of-life dates, but I wonder if Windows 10 LTSC will make a difference to software support at all. So far I don't think I've seen any apps that specifically require Windows 11, but I know they're coming eventually.
@Brandon @Seedy!
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Tamas G

@simon @cubic @serrebi Oh yeah, the 10 Enterprise IoT LTSC (long-term servicing channel) is what I'm running now. There's a way to get the build to 19045 (from 19044, so to the 22H2 update) by extracting the .cab from the .msu package and installing it with dism, as it's just an enablement package, meaning the features are in the build just not running. So then, supposedly (although it's not confirmed, at least the package is easy enough to remove,) you get to keep Windows 10 LTSC support date (2031) with the slight improvements of the update, like performance tweaks and advanced threat protection enabled. I can say from my Winver dialog that it's a weird frankenstein of things: "Version 21H2 (OS Build 19045.6396)" - huh? But true. It didn't up it to "22H2", and the only way you would even know it's not treu 21H2 is by looking at the build number. Officially, my SKU still reports as the 21H2 LTSC branch, too. Huh huh. We'll see what happens in a month with this, I also have a back-up of that drive from before applying the update.
@Brandon @Simon Jaeger @Seedy!
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Tamas G

yeah, their site is about the only place I've known you can get LTSC without it being the evaluation copy Microsoft gives for enterprise builds. LTSC is as clean as you'll get to Windows 7 but with Windows 10's Metro UWP bits still there. Removing those is difficult in any way because of just how much the shell and other settings bits rely on it now. I tried Explorer7, which lets you get Windows 7's Explorer on Win10, it's nice but then I'm reminded that control+windows +enter to run something as an admin wasn't added in Windows 7's explorer, joke's on me. xD
Oh yeah, and today marks 11 days until Win10 is out of mainstream support, ironic that it's 11 days to the end of 10.
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Simon Jaeger

@cubic @serrebi Really liking all of the tinkering energy here. I have gotten win11 to cooperate but it seems like slimming down Windows 10 is easier, and there are hardware requirements even for the LTSC channel. I'm kinda wondering if I could get Windows 7 to run on my Compute Stick. It's the perfect shitty hardware to test out a much older, faster windows release. Wonder if I still have an old copy of Windows Loader. Eventually it turned into serious malware.
@Brandon @Seedy!
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Tamas G

OMG so you're telling me that's how I got ransomware in Windows 7 that one time? xD (this was back in 2020) Yeah, a lot of those keygens can really be crap. Not worth it when powershell scripts and things do exist which are a lot more safe and you can review the input so you know what it's doing exactly. Not that I advocate for these things, but LTSC I think also can only activate via volume licensing channels.
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Simon Jaeger

@serrebi @cubic For general use I think you will be far happier with Windows 10 IOT LTSC. I only wanted to try Windows 7 on this particular compute stick because it has an ancient and terrible Intel Atom chip. It looks like there aren't wi-fi and Bluetooth drivers readily available though, so that's probably a no from me.
After running Win11Debloat, changing some stuff in ExplorerPatcher, installing Classic Shell, and Winaero Tweaking a few things, I'm reasonably happy with how Windows 11 runs on even the slowest mini PCs available now. It positively flies on my Beelink SER8. I think we've figured out ways to mitigate the major irritations in Windows 11 by this point. It's even possible to put the system tray back to the way it was in win10 via ExplorerPatcher.
@Brandon @Seedy!
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Tamas G

@simon @serrebi @cubic aha yeah. I just tried the big red "install now" button just because, why not. guess what, no boot. Ahahahaa. I wasn't expecting any different. Problem is that GPT partitions were so new in 2009 and foreign, Windows just added support and to UEFI in general, so even if your partitions aren't right, Windows just will tank back then. No Recovery environment either to speak of for them.
@Brandon @Simon Jaeger @Seedy!

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Last night, in response to the Israeli military attacking the Sumud flotilla attempting to deliver aid to starving people in besieged Gaza, 10,000 protesters marched through the streets of Rome.

Another solidarity flotilla is on the way to Gaza right now, defying the blockade.

A general strike will take place in Italy tomorrow in solidarity with the people of Gaza.

Stop the genocide. Abolish the fascist ethnostate that is perpetrating it. Free Palestine.

A design from the inside back cover of Rolling Thunder #10. It reads "When in Rome, do as the Vandals do" with an image of crowds facing off with riot police.

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SAAQclic: French added “complexity,” according to a former IBM manager

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SAAQclic: French added “complexity,” according to a former IBM manager

Language was “a major challenge” in the development of the SAAQclic platform, as much of the work was carried out in India, according to a former IBM manager.
Adriana Gentile (CityNews Montreal)

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New research from AWU/CWU/Techquity on AI data workers in North America. “[L]ow paid people who are not even treated as humans [are] out there making the 1 billion dollar, trillion dollar AI systems that are supposed to lead our entire society and civilization into the future,” says one.

cwa-union.org/ghost-workers-ai…

#AI #labor

We identify four broad themes that should concern policymakers: Workers struggle to make ends meet. 86% of surveyed workers worry about meeting their financial responsibilities, and 25% of respondents rely on public assistance, primarily food assistance and Medicaid. Nearly two-thirds of respondents (66%) report spending at least three hours weekly sitting at their computers waiting for tasks to be available, and 26% report spending more than eight hours waiting for tasks. Only 30% of respondents reported that they are paid for the time when no tasks are available. Workers reported a median hourly wage of $15 and a median workweek of 29 hours of paid time, which equates to annual earnings of $22,620. Workers perform critical, skilled work but are increasingly hamstrung by lack of control over the work process, which results in lower work output and, in turn, higher-risk AI systems. More than half of the workers who are assigned an average estimated time (AET) to complete a task felt that AETs are often not long enough to complete the task accurately. 87% of respondents report they are regularly assigned tasks for which they are not adequately trained. With limited or no access to mental health benefits, workers are unable to safeguard themselves even as they act as a first line of defense, protecting millions of people from harmful content and imperfect AI systems. Only

Ghost Workers in the AI Machine:

U.S. Data Workers Speak Out About Big Tech’s Exploitation
Communications Workers of America
#labor #AI

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Nejzajímavější mi přijde inventura hlasování, protože je o reálných hlasováních, a ne o proklamacích do budoucna, které mohou, ale nemusí být naplněny. #volby2025

(Mimochodem je docela zajímavé, jak se celkové výsledky za stranu nemusí překrývat s výsledky za konkrétní poslance.)

volebnikalkulacka.cz


Volební kalkulačka

Nejužitečnějších 5 minut před sněmovními volbami 2025
Volební kalkulačka
#volby2025
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Typst will support tagged PDF in a future release. The code has now been merged. Support for HTML output is also under development separately. I'm not involved in this project, but with these advantages, I'm becoming more tempted to use it routinely for document creation. github.com/typst/typst/pull/66… #Typst #accessibility #PDF

Generate tagged PDF documents for accessibility by saecki · Pull Request #6619 · typst/typst

This will be the first PR in a larger effort to make PDF documents generated by typst compliant with PDF/UA-1 and more accessible in general. Tagging of PDF documents will be enabled by default to ...
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#Accessibility #pdf #typst

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Anyone using YLight Music?

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.y…

it's a client for Youtube Music, but was last updated 2020. Still shows about 15 installs (downloads by F-Droid clients) per month here. We wonder if it still works, so we shall keep it – or not, and it should be removed. Feedback appreciated!

:boost_love:

#serviceToot #FollowerPower #IzzyOnDroid

„Ylight Music“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Listen & download to unlimited songs for free without any ads
IzzyOnDroid Repo Browser
#followerpower #serviceToot #izzyondroid

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Hey folks, If you’re developing an #XMPP server or server-side component, I’d love for you to check out the XMPP Interop Framework (xmpp-interop-testing.github.io). It’s an open-source test suite that runs your implementation through real-world XEP compliance checks.

The project supports a wide range of continuous integration solutions, offers flexible configuration options, and has matured nicely over the past two years. (1/2)

XMPP Interop Testing

XMPP standards compliance tests easily added to the test phase of your build pipeline
XMPP Interop Testing
#xmpp
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