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Heyo, for this festive season, could we please help Kaede finish their Fine Arts degree at the University of Cape Town.

Kaede is a queer woman of colour in South Africa and an amazing (painting, tattoo, and fashion ) artist! A thoughtful soul, and such a beautiful ray of light that cuts through the gloom of the cold and racist hellscape of CPT.

They have been fighting since their first year to meet registration requirements, including taking on debt that will follow her into their final year. Kaede deserves this education as much as any of their classmates and your help is deeply appreciated.

Help her register for her final yearrr :BunnyHeart:

Fees Goal: $183/$5900
:blacksparkle: Due BEFORE 2ND WEEK OF FEBRUARY, to be able to register for their final year of Fine Arts.
:boostRequest:

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#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #Fundraising #HelpKDFinishSchool #QueerMutualAid

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Vanadium version 143.0.7499.34.2 released

Changes in version 143.0.7499.34.2:

  • avoid always open external links in Incognito mode causing bookmarks to always open in it
  • enable autofill configuration screens regardless of autofill settings
  • remove unused Google autofill status
  • enable Drumbrake WebAssembly interpreter for x86_64 builds used in the emulator too

A full list of changes from the previous release (version 143.0.7499.34.1) is available through the Git commit log between the releases.

This update is available to GrapheneOS users via our app repository and will also be bundled into the next OS release. Vanadium isn't yet officially available for users outside GrapheneOS, although we plan to do that eventually. It won't be able to provide the WebView outside GrapheneOS and will have missing hardening and other features.


Comparing 143.0.7499.34.1...143.0.7499.34.2 · GrapheneOS/Vanadium

Privacy and security enhanced releases of Chromium for GrapheneOS. Vanadium provides the WebView and standard user-facing browser on GrapheneOS. It depends on hardening in other GrapheneOS reposito...
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Hi everyone, I am reaching out to ask if anyone knows of any #GirlScouts selling cookies that wants to help there troop? I love buying cookies and supporting the Girl Scouts, but I want the credit for my contribution to go to someone indevidually who has a page that they can give me so I can buy from them and there troop gets the credit. I'm willing to work with anyone in need, I just want to buy some cookies and help a scout build some confidence. I was a Boy Scout and made it to Eagle when I was 17-years-old, and this is my way of supporting scouts by buying from them directly. Thanks, feel free to reach out via DM or just reply to this post, I'm down to buy from anyone who reaches out, because I think that programs like the Girl Scouts are a great way to raise future leaders. It certainly helped me a lot when I did scouting.
#girlscouts

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I highly recommend the Midlands Graduate School in the Foundations of Computing Science. And so do tell me many previous students, some of whom are now well-established academics, including LICS invited speakers.

The courses for 2026 are:

1. Type theory using Agda
2. Category theory
3. Lambda calculus and combinatory logic.
4. Effects and Call-by-Push-Value.
5. Synthetic Homotopy Theory.
6. Categorical Algebra and Logic.
7. Inductive and coindictuve Reasoning with Isabelle/HOL

(4) is to be delivered by the winner of the 2025 Alonzo Church Award, my colleague Paul Levy.

For more details, see
tinyurl.com/MGS-2026

Midlands Graduate School 2026

Midlands Graduate School (MGS) 2026
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Huzzah, I'm online!

The problem was that there is a password for the coffee shop wifi, but I couldn't discover that from ifconfig until I pulled it upon my phone and saw it was asking for a password.

So, dear #FreeBSD fam, how was I supposed to know? There was no mention of WPA or WPS in the CAPS flags:

rld@Intrepid:~$ ifconfig wlan0 list scan |grep -e ^SSID -e ^The.Book
SSID/MESH ID                      BSSID              CHAN RATE    S:N     INT CAPS
The Book Shoppe                   50:e4:e0:b7:b8:e2    6   54M  -53:-96   100 EPS  RSN BSSLOAD APCHANREP HTCAP WME
The Book Shoppe                   50:e4:e0:b7:7b:c2   11   54M  -54:-96   100 EPS  RSN BSSLOAD APCHANREP HTCAP WME
The Book Shoppe                   50:e4:e0:b7:b8:f2   36   54M  -59:-96   100 EP   RSN BSSLOAD APCHANREP APCHANREP APCHANREP APCHANREP HTCAP VHTCAP VHTOPMODE VHTPWRENV WME
The Book Shoppe                   50:e4:e0:b7:7b:d2  149   54M  -57:-96   100 EP   RSN BSSLOAD APCHANREP APCHANREP APCHANREP APCHANREP HTCAP VHTCAP VHTOPMODE VHTPWRENV WME

I've had a hard time finding/figuring out what all of those various CAPS flags mean. :P
#freebsd
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Simon Jaeger

Unfortunately I'm not sure if the Ableton comes up immediately with network access, but I suspect the answer is yes. I figured out that Tailscale was breaking DNS, but only after dismissing the welcome screen.
That said, when you power it on for the first time, you can just skip the wi-fi setup. At this point, the wi-fi is disabled but it otherwise functions normally.
When you first power on the Move, it shows a "Welcome, press wheel to get started" prompt. When you press the wheel, you'll be asked if you want to set up wi-fi, and you can turn the wheel to the right and press it again to select "skip".
You can then go to move.local/development/ssh and add a public key. Worth noting that the page prompts you to "confirm with the wheel"; just press the wheel and the key should be added.
After that, you can set up the network according to this audio file, but you need to type "enable wifi" from the connmanctl prompt before you can scan for networks.
So, as long as you know what to expect, independent setup seems to be possible.
Also, I see a "Beta" tab in the development section. Has anyone tried joining that?
Edit: I'm on version 1.2 and the current stable version is 1.8. I'm installing the update now, but I can't guarantee everything will work exactly the same way on the new version. I assume 1.2 is somewhat old.
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Borris

Yeah, that just gets you access to the beta builds when they come out. It's just an easy opt-in/out. If you want to actually contribute to discussions, you have to go through their code central thing. Forget what they call it now.
Generally speaking, during an active cycle, you'll get one beta build per week until release. Then it goes quiet for a bit, then more betas. The current 1.8.5 looks like mostly just miner bugfixes. Most of them add obvious features.
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"Contrairement aux idées reçues, ce n’est pas grâce aux véhicules électriques, mais par le développement des trains à grande vitesse que les Chinois ont réussi à limiter leur consommation de pétrole" lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/…

« En Chine, les économies de CO₂ obtenues grâce au TGV sont sans commune mesure avec celles de la voiture électrique »

Contrairement aux idées reçues, ce n’est pas grâce aux véhicules électriques, mais par le développement des trains à grande vitesse que les Chinois ont réussi à limiter leur consommation de pétrole, constate dans sa chronique au « Monde » Jean-Baptis…
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (Le Monde)

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Il était encore là à Québec?!?! haha

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"Québec était la plus importante municipalité dans la province à encore arborer un crucifix dans sa salle de conseil. C’était aussi l’une des dernières."

#QCpol

lapresse.ca/actualites/regiona…


Laïcité | Le crucifix sera retiré de l’hôtel de ville de Québec d’ici Noël

La retraite a sonné pour le crucifix de l’hôtel de ville de Québec. Le symbole religieux sera retiré d’ici Noël de la salle du conseil municipal pour se conformer au principe de laïcité, et sera entreposé dans une collection d’objets historiques.
La Presse
#qcpol

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📣 Ready to shake up digital payments?

The 11th open call from #GNUTaler is now live!
We’re looking for #privacy-first, Free Software-powered payment projects that challenge the status quo.
💡 It's real, it works, no blockchain, no surveillance.

⏳ Deadline: February 1, 2026 – 12:00 CET
🔗 nlnet.nl/taler/
#FLOSS #FreeSoftware Tech #DigitalCash #OpenCall #NLnet #Funding
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#FreeSoftware #privacy #floss #nlnet #funding #opencall #gnutaler #digitalcash
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Tamas G

@matt I guess technically 3rd since iOS did this in VoiceOver and Eloq? Quite interesting that we're putting so much weight behind keeping a dead synth alive, but with not enough competition to challenge it (Vocalizer sucks at punctuation, ETC), it'll just stay alive. And become increasingly hard to maintain, although I don't see Windows abandoning win32 for a long while, maybe only if ARM64 became better, or this AI-first agentic OS crap makes them lose sight of compatibility.
@Matt Campbell
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Tamas G

@clv1 RHVoice has true potential and I think momentum for it has gotten greater as time has gone on, to me performance comes almost as close as Eloquence but not quite as I don't hear the start of letters when holding down the tab key like I do there. Perhaps that's the other bit, some people are sensitive even about the smallest amounts of lag, wish I didn't count myself in that group. ESpeak had the potential but I feel like we saw the limits of it with SpeechPlayer in Espeak's project, so far though that was the closest for me if ever that I considered switching away permanently. @matt
@Matt Campbell @Cleverson

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Black Friday is the perfect day to support independent news sites and journalists with clicks and/or cash. 💰

Here are some who are active in the fediverse. Tell us in the comments if there are any we've missed.

404 Meda, @404mediaco

Bolts, @bolts

Brian Krebs, @briankrebs

Brian Merchant, @brianmerchant

Casey Newton, @caseynewton

Cory Doctorow, @pluralistic


Joan Westenberg , @Daojoan

Gareth Halfacree, @ghalfacree


GBH News, @gbhnews

Kim Zetter, @kimzetter


Knowable Magazine @KnowableMag

LWN.net, @lwn

Molly White, @molly0xfff


ProPublica, @ProPublica

Rest of World, @restofworld

San Francisco Public Press, @SFPublicPress

Steve Herman, @w7voa

The Texas Observer, @TexasObserver

The Continent, @thecontinent

The Conversation, @TheConversationUS

The New York Review of Books, @nybooks

The Transmitter, @thetransmitter

The Tyee, @thetyee

The Xylom, @thexylom


The Tucson Sentinel, @TucsonSentinel

Tim Mak/The Counteroffensive, @timkmak

#Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #News #BlackFriday #Media #Journalism #FollowFriday

#News #journalism #followfriday #media #blackfriday #Newstodon #newstodonfriday @Cory Doctorow @Casey Newton @Gareth Halfacree @Molly White @Tucson Sentinel @BrianKrebs @ProPublica @Texas Observer @gbhnews @Kim Zetter @The Conversation U.S. @Rest of World @Tim Mak @Steve Herman @BoltsMag.org @The New York Review of Books @Brian Merchant @The Tyee @The Xylom @Knowable Magazine @JA Westenberg @The Continent @SFPublicPress @404 Media @The Transmitter @LWN.net
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Just went down the rabbit hole of Japanese train departure melodies, where most stations got unique tunes to announce when a train is leaving, often themed around the area they were in. And then I went down the much sadder rabbit hole of finding out this year JR East, one of the companies running the network has started phasing them out for standardised, line-specific and more generic melodies, maybe due to equipment changes (because now the driver is responsible for pressing the button to play them which is now located in the cab instead of outside where it used to be pressed by a conductor), maybe due to expiring copyrights, or some people claim due to people getting in the way pointing their selphiesticked phones to record them. Apparently minimalism doesn't extend to just visual logos anymore. :( Anyway here's a good video in English that explains the concept. The whole channel is worth a sub if you love to also hear about things like the Wilhelm scream and its lesser-known brother or the origins of the Playstation startup sound. youtube.com/watch?v=-KxQIEhsFQ…

The fascinating world of Japanese train melodies

🗣️ Come join us on Discord:https://discord.gg/3Edst7T8Yy☕️ Support the channel: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mixedsignalshttps://www.patreon.com/mixedsignal...
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Un señor en su casa descubre que una empresa llamada Pinturas Rosell se ha llevado 3,4 millones en 1.182 contratos menores de Ayuso.

Funcionarios. Oposición política. Interventores. Observatorios de lucha contra la corrupción. Tribunal de cuentas. Fiscalía de Madriz. Medios de comunicación.

Todos cobrando al final de cada mes por buscar y denunciar corrupción.
Y un tío con un portátil y un par de tardes libres hace mejor su trabajo.

nitter.net/CiudadanO_O/status/…

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Pregunta seria.
Todos sabemos qué marca la tradición editorial. Textos justificados, letra con serifa, separación silábica, evitar líneas vírgenes y huérfanas, etc.
Cuando he escrito mis trabajos y mis apuntes para clase he respetado esa tradición.
Sin embargo, yo soy profesor de lengua, no editor de textos. Y cada vez que leo algo específico sobre accesibilidad, lo que leo es que evite todo eso. Al final atiendo a alumnado de muy diversa índole y me interesa que mis materiales propios sean adecuados para todos.
Las tipografías sin serifas son más fáciles de leer. Los textos, justificados a la izquierda. Nada de separación silábica.
No he leído ningún informe técnico o divulgación científica al respecto (tampoco he buscado mucho), pero este es un tema que me sorprende bastante. ¿Estoy en lo correcto? ¿Conocéis bibliografía específica sobre el tema?

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If you’re already supporting GNOME—whether as a long-time donor or a brand new friend—share a post this week with #FriendsOfGNOME to tell the world why! We love to hear, respond to, and boost your stories.

If you’re not supporting GNOME yet, now is your chance: head to donate.gnome.org to join, and help us reach 1,500 Friends of GNOME by the end of the year.

#GNOME #GivingTuesday

#gnome #GivingTuesday #friendsofgnome

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Unix - BSD developers : this code should run and be maintained as long as computers exist.

Linux - GNU dev : this code should run and be maintained as long as someone is willing to do the work

Consultant: this code should run until the end of my contract.

Enterprise grade B2B software : this code should run till the end of the demonstration to that big customer.

Vibe coding : You are perfectly right. The code doesn’t run. Try this one. You are right, it deleted your hard disk, I’m sorry.

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There seems to be some excitement about Code Factory bringing Eloquence back to Android as a 64-bit app. As someone who doesn't use Android and doesn't have any particular love for Eloquence, I'm out of the loop. I thought everyone hated Code Factory for how they've handled voice demos and existing Eloquence customers in the past? Do I have that wrong, or is this such a big deal that all will be forgiven? No judgement either way. I'm just not sure what the deal is.
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Tamas G

it's one of those things where I think they're the only stewarts of the Eloquence engine left alive out there, so people accept it. I'm not that excited, if I can get the beta I get the beta, but the sub fee is where I'm out on it. With how little I use Android phones, mainly for testing at work, it's so so not worthwhile. I also doubt it's true 64-bit. Unless they're in such close partnership with Cerence that they get that decompiled, there ain't no way, I'm thinking more like a wrapper library that's translating calls directly inside the process, sort of like what chinese phones are doing to get around the lack of aArch32 on modern ARM chips.
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Winter blue tardis

Noo, this is no good. Depression sucks indeed. I'm sorry you feel that way, and I do understand depression way too well. I hope the day gets better for you, we can't have you depressed all day now, can we? Here to be a listener if you need to talk to someone, and I'm pretty sure others are here as well: you will get through this, I know it. ,
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🌱🏴‍🅰️🏳️‍⚧️🐧📎 Ambiyelp

It doesn't have quantum resistant encryption, SimpleX and Signal do, SimpleX is also decentralised with multi-profile, no private data for registration and available on linux android windows and macos

Quantum resistance is important now because of an attack vector called Store Now Decrypt Later >
youtube.com/watch?v=-UrdExQW0c…


What makes quantum computers SO powerful?

A quantum computer in the next decade could crack the encryption our society relies on using Shor's Algorithm. Head to https://brilliant.org/veritasium to st...
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ArcaneChat

@ambiguous_yelp

> Quantum resistance is important now because of an attack vector called Store Now Decrypt Later

that would apply in a centralized server with access to all messages, but with #DeltaChat you can use a trusted server or your own server and then the attacker can't "store now" because communication between you and your delta chat server is already encrypted with quantum-resistant encryption

#deltachat @🌱🏴‍🅰️🏳️‍⚧️🐧📎 Ambiyelp
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ArcaneChat

@ambiguous_yelp

> SimpleX is also decentralised with multi-profile

but it doesn't have proper multi-device support besides the UI is pretty bad, not user friendly, not on the level of mainstream apps like #WhatsApp or #Telegram, see this #SimpleX screenshot for example

#whatsapp #telegram #simplex @🌱🏴‍🅰️🏳️‍⚧️🐧📎 Ambiyelp
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🌱🏴‍🅰️🏳️‍⚧️🐧📎 Ambiyelp

Custom backgrounds are far from an essential feature and anyway its not like the main messages are unreadable, this is easily fixed anyway I doubt it will be like that for much longer

Multi device support is a harder problem, but simplex still tackles it better than protocols with similar threat models like briar messenger or cwtch messenger for which there is essentially no multi device support, (and with briar not even a migration feature not sure abotu cwtch yet)

You alluded to simplex's Linked Mobiles feature have you tried it? it is surprisingly easy to use you just scan a qr code and after at most a couple of seconds you can use the same profile on a different device

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🌱🏴‍🅰️🏳️‍⚧️🐧📎 Ambiyelp

It has gotten a lot more usable in the past 2y, the UI used to be a lot harder to navigate and you couldnt even trust it to reliably send messages its definitely a growing userbase amongst hardcore privacy enthusiasts and I expect it to get more polished

Also I don't think you give people enough credit I've got a lot of my friends both online and irl to message me there and no one has complained about the UI before obv you know your mom but I suppose it comes down to how much she cares abotu privacy and anonymity, imo motivation matters more than making tech solutions more pallatable to people who realistically dont care about the same things we do, but privacy and anonymity is a pillar of democracy and a last line of defence against fascism so everyone should care about it if they understood

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feld

@piero nah you're good, I'm just agitated that nobody seems to see how terrible this experience is.

I'd be happy if simply disabling the wlan0 interface worked, but it doesn't. It wipes /etc/resolv.conf but leaves wlan0 as the default route interface which makes no sense because the interface is down and ue0 is up on the same network.

(sorry this reply got stuck in draft state)

@Piotr Smyrak

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Most presenters lose a significant amount of their audience 10 seconds into their lecture, because they play it safe. Not this one. The question is, what is real #music and is AI ruining it?
youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ0BOEOtD2…

Is AI Ruining Music? | Dustin Ballard | TED

What makes music “real” — is it the instruments, the voice, the creator’s intention or something else entirely? Dustin Ballard, the creative force behind the...
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#music

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Des rayons vidés : le magasin U Express rue du 22 novembre conteste une interdiction de vente d’alcool.
Remarque :
Depuis qu'il n'en vend plus, la rue est tranquille. Les alcooliques sont allés devant un autre magasin plus loin. #strasbourg
dna.fr/economie/2025/12/01/des…

Strasbourg. Des rayons vidés : le magasin U Express conteste une interdiction de vente d’alcool

Sous le coup d’un arrêté préfectoral, le supermarché U Express de la Grand’rue à Strasbourg a dû retirer toutes les boissons alcoolisées de ses rayons.
Geneviève Lecointre (Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace)
#strasbourg
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