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I think the Reddit crowd is misinterpreting his statement about Trump having a more secure border because they keep saying he's anti-immigration and how Obama deported more people etc etc. He's not saying he's anti immigration or wants Trump style deportations. He just said Trump did better at the border itself.

"Illegal labor is exploiting the undocumented and bad for Americans" has been a consistent view of his. That's not ani immigrant.

Today's iPhone discovery: on iPhones with an action button (I'm not sure about older models), you can check the ring/silent status. Make sure no audio--not even VO speech--is playing. Give it a couple seconds. Now press either volume button. The volume doesn't change, but you get haptic and speech feedback about which mode you're in. I can once again check the status quickly and easily, almost as good as touching the physical mute switch.

I wrote some words for ~ this week in security ~ about the security and privacy risks with AI browsers, like Perplexity's Comet and OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas, and why they should really come with enormous warning labels: "⚠️ Use at your own risk! ⚠️"

Read online: this.weekinsecurity.com/ai-bro…

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Twenty Thousand Hertz - Inside Walt Disney Imagineering: 20k.org/episodes/disney-imagin…

Sound is a crucial part of what makes Disney parks feel magical… and it all starts inside the closely-guarded rooms of Walt Disney Imagineering. In this episode, Imagineers John Dennis and Greg Lhotka break down how they use music and audio to bring attractions to life, from speaker systems hidden in rock work, to the intricate timing of a Frozen water ride. Then, they reveal the surprising story of how one of Disney’s most iconic songs got a brand new verse, more than half a century after its debut. Watch Dallas' trip to Walt Disney Imagineering on ⁠Youtube⁠. If you know what this week's mystery sound is, tell us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠mystery.20k.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Support the show and get ad-free episodes at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠20k.org/plus⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow Dallas on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Join our community on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Reddit⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Explore incredible speakers, soundbars and more at ⁠sonos.com⁠. Visit ⁠⁠quince.com/20k⁠⁠ for free shipping on your order & 365 day returns. Find a therapist who takes your insurance at ⁠⁠⁠growtherapy.com/20k⁠⁠⁠. Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial at ⁠⁠⁠shopify.com/20k⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 20k.org/episodes/disney-imagin…

"More than £100m was spent last year by local authorities and the government on failed efforts to block support for children and young people with special educational needs in England...

The enormous cost in legal fees and staff resources came after councils won just 136 out of more than 10,000 tribunals in 2022-23, a success rate of 1.2%..."

From theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/d…

The system is fundamentally broken. Each case involves a child or young person who is missing out on the support they need.

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#трамп: ты можешь заявить три требования для остановки войны
путин: снятие санкций, разморозка активов, возвращение западных компаний, денафификация и демилитаризация Украины - это раз.

а если без шуток, эти дегенераты УЖЕ требовали возвращение западных компаний и инвестиций как УСЛОВИЕ прекращения войны во время переговоров в стамбуле. так что вменяемости ждать не стоит.

Добрый день!
Я француженка и я изучаю русский язык. Я ищу людей чтобы говорят по русский to follow там. Предпочтительно женщины но мужчины хорошие тоже.
Мне тридцать лет, я живу в Мetz и я люблю литературу, музыку, видео игры, шитье и вязание.
Спасибо большое за ваши будущие предложения !

Cool Microsoft Word tip for anyone who doesn't know. If you need to insert random text in a word document, open a blank doc. Type =rand(10,5) the numbers are for number of paragraphs, and number of lines per paragraph.
Here is a Microsoft article on the feature: support.microsoft.com/en-gb/of…

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Found it. It is on the View tab but it’s not the setting I mentioned. On the View tab go to the zoom group. There is a button in there to Zoom the document so multiple pages fit on the screen. That’s not what you want. Choose the single page option.

"Amazon sold cloud-computing services to two Israeli weapons manufacturers whose munitions helped devastate Gaza, according to internal company materials obtained by The Intercept.

Amazon Web Services has furnished the Israeli government — including its military and intelligence agencies — with a suite of state-of-the-art data processing and storage services since 2021 as part of its controversial Project Nimbus deal. Last year, The Intercept revealed a provision in that contract requiring Amazon and Google, the other Nimbus vendor, to sell cloud services to Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israeli Aerospace Industries, two leading Israeli weapons firms.

New internal financial data and emails between Amazon personnel and their Israeli corporate and governmental clients show that Amazon has consistently provided software to both Rafael and IAI in 2024 and 2025 — periods during which Israel’s military was using their products to indiscriminately kill civilians and destroy civil infrastructure. Rafael purchased artificial intelligence technologies made available through Amazon Web Services, including the state-of-the-art large language model Claude, developed by AI startup Anthropic.

The materials reviewed by The Intercept also indicate Amazon sold cloud-computing services to Israel’s nuclear program and offices administering the West Bank, where Israeli military occupation, population displacement, and settlement construction is widely considered illegal under international law."

theintercept.com/2025/10/24/am…

#Amazon #Israel #Gaza #AWS #CloudComputing #Genocide

🚨 Warnings over Perplexity’s Comet Browser 🚨

AI browsers are the new hype but it doesn't mean they are safe to use 👉🏼

Security researchers from LayerX Security have revealed that the AI browser is vulnerable to CometJacking attacks, allowing hackers to hijack sessions and access user data.

For more info on why you're better off not using Comet: tuta.com/blog/perplexity-comet…

#Perplexity #AIBrowser #CometBrowser

Does anyone know of an easy to set up bot that'll play a configurable sound/perhaps speak a message on TeamTalk when a PayPal donation comes in? Failing that, I've got flexible routing and could send a sound from somewhere else to TT locally. Most of our supporters do their thing between streams, but I'd like to get something going because last time someone topped us up while we were live, I didn't notice. It accidentally took a month to thank the person. Oops!

My story “Death and the Gorgon” was voted best novella of 2024 by the readers of Asimov’s SF. You can read it online at the link below.

I also have a new novella in the Nov 2025 issue of Asimov’s, “Spare Parts for the Mind”, and they have an excerpt from that on their web site.

Link to “Death and the Gorgon”: asimovs.com/wp-content/uploads…

Link to excerpt from “Spare Parts for the Mind”: asimovs.com/current-issue/stor…

Spain completes its 'most ambitious space project' with the launch of the satellite SpainSat NG II

The SpainSat NG II satellite successfully took off from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9. With it, Spain completes its SPAINSAT NG secure communications programme and reinforces its role as a technological and strategic reference in space.

euronews.com/next/2025/10/25/s…

Version 2 of UpSiteDown, Seediffusion's free and accessible website monitoring tool, is out now!

* Version 2 is the first UpSiteDown release to use codenames. Each major version will use a British celebrity name for a codename. Version 2 is codenamed after the TV and Radio presenter Jamie Theakston.
* UpSiteDown is now using accessible_output2 instead of cytolk for a speech library, helping the program on its way to cross platform.
* The program can now send push notifications to iOS devices via Prowl.
* The program can now monitor other types of servers that don't use web ports, such as FTP servers, mail servers, game servers etc. Simply start a URL in your sites.txt file with either icmp:// to have the host monitored via ping requests, or tcp:// to have it monitored via TCP connections.
* UpSiteDown is now completely open source and in the public domain, being licensed under the Unlicense license.

GitHub repository: github.com/seediffusion/UpSite…
Latest release: github.com/seediffusion/UpSite…

looking at the epstein ballroom that Microsoft "donated" money to and thinking back on how they used to get salty at me, a lone engineer, when I took too long to do my annual "compliance" training which involved watching a video and taking a quiz about how it's wrong and against company policy to bribe public officials for preferential treatment in business.

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Got nerdsniped around lunchtime yesterday, and ended up implementing a shared "reduced motion" setting for GNOME and the rest of the xdg stack:

- gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/m…
- gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettin…
- github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop…
- gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-des…
- gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…

#a11y #accessibility #gnome #gtk #xdg #portals


Time for plumbing a whole new accessibility setting from desktop to toolkit: 3 hours

Time for knowing what to plumb: 20 years

Time for bikeshedding on the type of the setting: Positive infinity


#uspol, sort of

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Did you know that you can get your news from Wikipedia?

It isn't sensationalized. It is based on high quality sources. Edited by volunteers who care more about accuracy than politics and guided by open editorial process / rules among peers.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:C…

You can donate to Wikipedia via the Wikimedia foundation.

#Wikipedia #News

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Hi @skippingmoonrocks
We're sorry to hear about that! We care but we're not experts so for some things rely on user feedback.
The best way to report would be via our forum: forum.antennapod.org, Bug category and complete the template.

(But if need be, you can share it here also, and we'll try our best to pass it on.)

@Ri
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if you tap the title in the first chatlist view and then "connectivity" you will see quota usage on your relay/server. Maximum file size is published by each relay eg nine.testrun.org/info.html
We are likely going to expose this to clients maybe just in the connectivity view. Not settled yet how precisely.
in reply to 🎃 Spooky Sancas 🏴‍☠️💻🎷

messages are only stored on the device, only if you have more than one device they are stored on the server temporarily. So server storage is usually not a limitation.
The maximum file size is 25MB, but in reality files need to be a bit smaller than that. Typically, information like that is here: nine.testrun.org/info.html

☁️The recent AWS outage showed how fragile “cloud-based security” can be.

When one datacenter faltered, global communication tools — including Signal — went dark 🌑

🕸️Matrix-based messaging systems kept running because they don’t rely on a single provider.

Resilience = decentralization

Let's invest in open, federated platforms.

#AWS #Signal #Matrix #Resilience #CyberSecurity #Decentralization #OpenSource

Our project is one of constant exit planning and circumvention considerations ... as times and tech are getting more shitty.

We don't bet on a single basket, and not a single state or jurisdiction, and certainly not AWS/Google/Microsoft US clouds which run #Signal servers.

No single hoster, platform or language (we do a lot of Rust, granted) and no single device or vendor. At #chatmail protocol levels we regard nothing as holy, and look for simplicity and robustness, and convivial community 🖤

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Das ist nicht nur optisch die grossartigste Sammlung an #UnplugTrump Tools und Services, die ich je gesehen habe.

Eigentlich muss man sich die URL zu dieser Seite von @kuketzblog auf ne Funktionstaste oder Shortcut legen, damit man die immer wieder schnell in Nachrichten und Postings packen kann.

Falls ihr die noch nicht kanntet 👉 kuketz-blog.de/unplugtrump-mac…

Und bitte boosted the living daylight out of this. Tausend Dank #Fediverse 🙏

New release v2.22.0, finally bringing push notifications to Ubuntu Touch users 🔔 Prerequisite is a chatmail profile.

Other highlights:

📞 Experimental calls (on UT, no video is a known issue, but do let us know if audio doesn't work: support.delta.chat/t/deltatouc…)

:awesome: Emoji reaction UI/UX has been reworked

👇 Long-press a message to select text for copying

and more, see the full changelog at codeberg.org/lk108/deltatouch/…

#DeltaTouch #DeltaChat #UbuntuTouch

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Important correction, Turning Point USA was founded by one young Republican (Kirk) and a 72-year-old Republican (Bill Montgomery). This was always an AstroTurf campaign for rightwing oligarchs.

Still, your point about covid and guns is very apt.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_…

Meanwhile, in extinction-stage capitalism… universeodon.com/@cryptadamist…