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So many stories of suffering in Africa are told by others; so few by the people living them. 'The World Was In Our Hands', an oral history of people living through the Boko Haram conflict, aims to correct this. @hrb has the review. continent.substack.com/p/revie…

Review: Victims of a terrorist insurgency talk back

So many stories of suffering in Africa are told by others; so few by the people living them. An oral history of people living through the Boko Haram conflict aims to correct this.
The Continent
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@bagder Yeah, I suspect the stats are odd because those countries are pretty low traffic so a small number of modern computers probably skew their stats.
Looking at yesterday's stats for DPRK, the main client we saw was an iPhone running iOS 18.5 & using Chrome. There's a couple of Macs, a Windows machine and a couple of Android phones and that's about it.
This is all assuming no GeoIP errors & ignoring VPN usage with out-of-country exits of course...
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Today, we at Tuta unite with European tech companies to call on EU Member States:

🚨 Vote NO on Chat Control! 🚨

Read our Open Letter: 👉 tuta.com/blog/open-letter-agai…

Reason overview against Chat Control: Mass surveillance, breaking encryption, fundamental rights, false positives, ineffective child protection, global precedent Source: fightchatcontrol.eu

Europe's future is at stake: Open letter against Chat Control | Tuta

European SMEs have united to direct a strong open letter to urge ministers of EU member states to oppose Chat Control and to defend privacy and a strong European tech industry.
Tuta

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onkelmorfar

Maybe things will work out well now:

Former minister of Justice, Marco Buschmann on X:
"#Chatkontrolle ist so, als wenn man Briefe vorsorglich öffnet und man nachschaut, ob nicht etwas Illegales darin stehen könnte. Sowas hat im Rechtsstaat keinen Platz. Diese Linie habe ich als Justizminister durchgesetzt. Ein Kurswechsel wäre ein Jammer!"

x.com/MarcoBuschmann/status/19…

Maybe he only dares to say that because the proposal will fall ?

#Chatkontrolle
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🐘 Nový web Mamutovo.cz je online!

@cynik_obecny připravil přehlednou stránku 👉 about.mamutovo.cz , kde najdete informace o instanci Mamutovo.cz, odkazy na služby, kontakty a první návody pro uživatele.

🌱 Web vzniká jako komunitní projekt propojený s Oscloudem a bude se dál rozšiřovat — přibydou další tipy, návody a zajímavosti ze svět #fediverse .

📣 Pomozte nám o Mamutovu dát vědět! Sdílejte odkaz dál, ať se o naší komunitě dozví co nejvíce lidí.
Každé zmínění, boost nebo odkaz na web pomůže. 💚

#Mamutovo #Oscloud #CzechFedi #Mastodon

MAMUTOVO.CZ | Skutečně sociální síť

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Dovolím si odemknout a sdílet vzpomínku na paní Drábovou od Petra Koubského na Nku

denikn.cz/1860331/vzpominka-na…


Vzpomínka Petra Koubského na Danu Drábovou: Nevšímejte si toho, nač zemřela. Na každého z nás teď připadá trochu víc práce

Nikdy nezapomenu, co posledního jsme si řekli. Je to smutné a banální a typické jak ze špatné knížky: S Danou Drábovou jsme si slíbili, že spolu musíme někdy zajít na pivo a „všechno to“ probrat. Už nezajdeme.
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feld

@mischievoustomato so far ... screen brightness buttons, probably fingerprint reader? Everything else is working fine, but wifi is slow until my replacement wifi card comes in the mail

even Thunderbolt is working. I didn't understand the non-Mac world where there's a security model and you can choose authorization requirements before using Thunderbolt devices. I turned the auth off in the BIOS and all that started working.

@johnny peligro

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Years ago I knew of a phone number in the US that you could call, and if I recall correctly, you'd hear a man and a woman talking seemingly to each other, reading the Harvard sentences (cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/proj…). I think this was used for telephone company technicians to test circuits, audio quality, etc. My dad and I were actually looking for something like this a few days ago, a phone number you can call and it will continuously make noise at you for as long as you kept the call up. Does anyone have that number or one similar? Please boost for reach. Thanks.

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“OpenAI and Ive [are] working on a device roughly the size of a smartphone that users would communicate with through a camera, microphone and speaker. One person suggested it might have multiple cameras.”

So… like… a phone?

“…designed to sit on a desk or table but can also be carried around by the user.”

So… like… a phone?

“…sensors would gather data throughout the day that would help to build its virtual assistant’s ‘memory.’”

So… like… a phone?

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/ope…


OpenAI, Jony Ive struggle with technical details on secretive new AI gadget

ChatGPT maker working with former Apple design boss to launch personal assistant.
Financial Times (Ars Technica)

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Today was spent writing user stories from your feedback, but my god can we please talk voiceover on macOS 26?

In VSCode, voiceover read single characters instead of whole lines when arrowing up and down, and arrow left / right too quickly caused letters to be read out twice.

Voiceover flat out ignored set preferences. I cannot stress this enough, mouse cursor was set to ignore voiceover cursor, and speak object under mouse was set to off, those toggles were broken.

3. Trillion. Dollars.

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Kirill

Ох, я и забыл о существовании такой платформы. Может цензуру ввели, или наоборот. История с твиттером хорошо показала сколько идейных оттуда побежали когда нафиг разогнали всех этих красноволосых модераторов.

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👋 Hello! GNU Guix is on @hachyderm - yay!

If you haven't heard of #gnu #guix we're a free software project that's created a hosted package manager (think homebrew or flatpak) and a GNU/Linux distribution.

GNU Guix uses the functional packaging approach pioneered by #nix and adds a user-experience and system configuration system. It uses a DSL that's based on Guile Scheme. You can use it configure your home environment, dev environments or the entire system using a declarative and transactional definition.

We hope to tell people about the project and our latest news. We'd love to engage with people around #freesoftware #guile #scheme and more general #linux topics!

#FreeSoftware #linux #gnu #scheme #guix #nix #Guile @Hachyderm

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Tried to change my default terminal emulator to foot, as seen by #GNOME software (e.g. #GNOMENautilus ), and found out that GNOME uses a #hardcoded list of terminal emulators. After looking on Stack Exchange, it appears you can't change it.
Such a botch, are the answers I was reading out-of-date or can you just not change your default terminal in GNOME software?
#gnome #gnomenautilus #hardcoded

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Speaking of image alt text, as a photographer who tries to put care into this, I would really love it if there were a single standard EXIF field in which alt text could be embedded and from which the text was reliably extracted when the image was uploaded. It would be much easier to write a description once and have it live with the image rather than have to manage it separately (or write it on the fly when posting).

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#ZeusWPI - de studentenvereniging voor Informatica aan de #UGent houdt een #Linux #installParty op 14 oktober

Normaalgezien zijn hun activeiten gericht op studenten informatica, maar voor de installparty zijn ook buitenstaanders welkom. Als je meer wilt weten over #linux , wilt testen of met hulp wilt installeren, wees welkom!

Meer info op zeus.ugent.be/events/25-26/lin…

#endoften #endOf10 #Gent #Oostvlaanderen

Linux Install Party

Start het nieuwe academiejaar goed met een Linuxinstallatie
Zeus WPI
#linux #gent #ugent #endof10 #zeuswpi #installparty #endoften #oostvlaanderen

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Hey folks, so I’ve put it off as long as I could, but, sadly, my main machine is dying, so I need to raise some funds to replace it and some other old ass electronics that are on their last legs.

I tend to buy all refurbished stuff and it’s been a minute since I’ve upgraded my gear (I can’t install the latest anything on my current set up. Yeah, that OLD), so I can get what I need for around 3k.

The easiest way to contribute is to use the long term GoFundMe I have or my Kofi to make one offs. Either one is cool. I know most folks don’t like Paypal for obvious reasons, but if you want to use that, just send me a DM and I’ll give you that info.

In any event, thanks in advance for the help so I can continue development on my projects and working with others to push this independent social media thing forward.

It’s an exciting time in social media right now and I’m itching to do more, so it would be nice to have a computer that works when I need it to LOL!

gofundme.com/f/a-new-way-to-so…
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After one solid day, the Help Ro Replace His Old Ass Electronics Fund is at $1005.78/$3000, which is a fantastic start.

A big shout out to everyone that has not only given, but also left some very kind words of encouragement and affirmation. Those small acts of kindness mean a lot to me.

Let’s keep it going. There’s a good chance we can knock this out this week, so I can get some new stuff and keep pushing #fipamo and #thebadspace forward, as well as some other tidbits I can't talk about publicly just yet.

LET'S GET THIS DONE!

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Bully of Bullies, Inc

The pace slowed on day two, but some contributions were received from some kind souls, so the Help Ro Get New Gear Before His Stuff Dies Fund (yes, I’m changing the name everyday lol) currently stands at $1096/$3000.

I still feel optimistic about getting this taken care of this week because of all the boosts and contribution this has gotten in the last couple of days, so thanks to everyone who shared this everywhere.

As much as I like to believe I can duct tape stuff together to keep working, it’s just come to a point where I need to get my hands on new equipment to continue doing what I do.

I’m a bit bummed this is happening when I decide to rebuild both of my projects in Rust because I’m on such a good pace, but I’m past due for an upgrade, so here we are.

In any event, the support received so far has been very encouraging, ha, which only makes me want to push harder.

And we’re just a little over a third of the way there, which I have to admit is pretty exciting after a couple of days.

So let’s keep pushing this thing forward and it’ll knocked out in no time.

Thanks, y’all.

ps. When the goal is hit, there will be a memorial service for my old stuff. Ha, it’s been good to me all these years, so I want to give them a proper send off. I’ll post a vid of the affair.

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What's the topic of Office Hours conversation? Conversation view! From backend changes to in-person collaboration, find out how the Thunderbird team is making it possible:

#Thunderbird #OpenSource

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/v…


VIDEO: Conversation View

We're starting work on the long-awaited Conversation View! Learn how our developers and designers are working together to make it happen!
Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
#opensource #thunderbird
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