The word 'Vrede' jumped out at me from this 'Peace' installation. 'Vrede' is Danish for anger, fury, wrath. I wondered if it was an artistic provocation. But it seemed too confined to chance, that someone who happens to understand Danish happens to see this German artwork. So I looked it up and learned that 'vrede' is Dutch for 'peace'.
Vrede. Peace in Dutch. Wrath in Danish. I wonder if there's a word for words like these, that mean the opposite in different languages.
Thunderbird can easily find emails iOS Mail app can't. Significantly better search
edit: I actually meant MacOS mail but same problem, terrible indexing
In bizarre move, Framework embraces deeply extremist views
Framework, the maker of repairable laptops, is embroiled in a controversy, as the company and its CEO are openly supporting people with, well, questionable views.
If you know a little bit about PR in social media space, you might note that, right out of the gate, a project by a vocal white nationalist known for spli
I think I'm going to convert my blog posts from Markdown to RST, it's so much better for certain things
Markdown has a lot of drawbacks, especially having no real formal standard for a lot of functionality
Go to log in.
<password is incorrect>
No, it isn't, I double-checked by opening my encrypted pwd file.
<password is incorrect>
<Login with backup email to be sent a verification code.>
Entered backup email, received verification code.
Enter verification code.
<must enter this info you never needed before>
What?!
Entered info, logged in.
It was never about an incorrect pwd.
I did remove the added info, though. We'll see what happens next time I need to log on. :(
Yes, I am grumpy.
On my AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS mini PC, NVDA is a bit sluggish in some cases in Firefox; e.g. cursoring through messages in Gmail folders. For reasons I don't fully understand, setting the processor affinity to a single CPU core and setting the process priority to "above normal" helps significantly, even when the CPU is nearly idle. I don't currently have the time/energy to debug the root cause for this or write a proper add-on, but I wrote an NVDA global plugin to make the change for me automatically when NVDA starts. If it breaks something, you get to keep all the pieces.
```
import ctypes
import globalPluginHandler
class GlobalPlugin(globalPluginHandler.GlobalPlugin):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
p = ctypes.c_void_p(ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetCurrentProcess())
ctypes.windll.kernel32.SetProcessAffinityMask(p, ctypes.c_void_p(1))
ctypes.windll.kernel32.SetPriorityClass(p, ctypes.wintypes.DWORD(0x00008000))
```
#nvdasr
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As if today couldn't get any worse, the bill for the server that runs this instance came out today and it was £1.60 more than expected. I never got any emails saying I'd gone over any limits or anything, but anyway, I'm now £0.02 negative. Some support to help keep this server going and help my other services grow, as well as covering personal costs, would be greatly appreciated.
* Patreon: patreon.com/seediffusion
* Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/seediffusion
At a critical moment, the tech press are failing to connect the dots between Apple and Google's craven capitulations and the authoritarianism they have nurtured within their own ecosystems. Apple is now corrosive to democracy itself, and we have to get smarter about the way these forces interact:
infrequently.org/2025/10/the-a…
/cc @owa @pluralistic
Apple bent the knee for months, leaving many commentators to ask why. But the reasons are not mysterious: Apple wants things that only the government can provide, things that will defend and extend its power to extract rents, rather than innovate.Alex Russell
Trump admin lies about #ICE being attacked, so they can be the victim.
The Technique is called DARVO
(Deny Attack Reverse Victim & Offender)
But when people see that the "attackers" are people in frog costumes, it visually destroys the lie.
This means us sharing our silly protests on social media is REALLY important.
This @TomSullivan post explains
digbysblog.net/2025/10/11/liar…
Cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war.
-Nora Reed
#Portland #Frogs #Antifa #AntiFascistFrog #FrogBrigade
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Human Rights Watch Refuses Aziz Ansari Riyadh Comedy Festival Donation
variety.com/2025/tv/news/human…
LOL.
Human Rights Watch says it 'cannot accept' donations from Aziz Ansari and other comedians who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.Ethan Shanfeld (Variety)
Here’s a true fact I learned today:
If you put solar panels over all the fields where corn is grown for ethanol today, you could power all of North America and still harvest shade crops underneath them.
if you are writing a UI
that loads data
"the data is not loaded yet"
must be OBVIOUSLY VISUALLY DISTINCT from
"the data is loaded, and it is empty"
that is all
It was never about Gaza...
We saw so many activists and activist organizations saying that they would boycott Israel as a means of changing the political situation.
Then a ceasefire happened, and they still insist on a boycott.
wiwibloggs.com/2025/10/09/the-…
thateurovisionsite.com/2025/10…
It wasn't about Gaza. We call them "anti-Israel" but it's really anti-peace, and anti-Palestinian too.
#Israel #Boycott #Antisemitism #Eurovision
"If a ceasefire is reached in the near future or the conflict evolves differently, that will not change our position for Eurovision 2026."William (Wiwibloggs)
Sensitive content
“Apple is now treating federal agents—who are public employees exercising government power—as if they’re a vulnerable minority group in need of protection from ‘discrimination.’ This isn’t just a misapplication of content policies; it’s a fundamental inversion of what those policies were designed to do.”
techdirt.com/2025/10/10/apple-…
#USpol #apple #censorship
Just when you think corporate content moderation can’t get any more absurd, Apple has managed to redefine “protected class” in a way that would make Orwell proud. According to int…Techdirt
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Make your dynamic content accessible by default with the HTML tag that time forgot.Den Odell
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