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#TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse - techdirt.com/2025/12/19/tiktok… "This was never about addressing privacy, propaganda, or national security. " #ellison

TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse

There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it’s somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticis…
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#tiktok #ellison

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🎮 BLOCK LEAGUE TOURNAMENT - Christmas Edition 🎅

Santa's checking his list, but you'd better be checking your back: IT'S PEW PEW TIME 💥

2 SPOTS LEFT!

❓ 8 teams of 3 players each. Direct elimination.
🗺 Hyperium (quarterfinals), Station 2
📅 Friday, 19 December
🕑 8:30 PM - 10:30 PM (UTC)
🏆 €20 each, champion title tag and more

✍️ How to apply:

join our Matrix community matrix.to/#/#luanti-aes:matrix… to find and/or tell us your teammates!

#Videogames #Gaming #Luanti #LibreSoftware #FreeSoftware #Event

Voxel. A futuristic stadium at night, snow falling, lots of artificial lights. Text says: "Block League Tournament 19/12/2025, Sponsored by FSFE"

Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication

You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversation
matrix.to
#FreeSoftware #gaming #libresoftware #videogames #event #luanti
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Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” Beta Is Available for Download with Cinnamon 6.6 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" Beta Is Available for Download with Cinnamon 6.6 - 9to5Linux

Linux Mint 22.3 beta is now available for download with the Cinnamon 6.6, Xfce 4.20, and MATE 1.26 desktops, based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS.
Marcus Nestor (9to5Linux)

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Would you believe there’s a new installment of the Taming the Terminal podcast out today? 5 years ago, @bart had taught us everything he’d planned, so we set the show aside until he had new material. If you’ve always wanted to know how to use the Terminal but thought it was too intimidating, or if you just want to be better with it, this is the show for you. Head over to the link below or subscribe in your podcatcher of choice!

ttt.bartificer.net

#Terminal

Three Ts pointing to the center at angles with a command prompt in the middle. Get it?

Taming the Terminal

ttt.bartificer.net
#terminal @Bart Busschots
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I have 2-3 packages with at least different 2 couriers out for delivery today which means a minimum of 2 trucks driving to my door and it's so fucking dumb that instead of legally mandating Canada Post be used for the last mile instead the Liberals want to kill Canada Post and end door-to-door delivery.

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A Texas district in which Black students were allegedly taunted with monkey noises.

An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.”

These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored.
propublica.org/article/trump-e…

#News #Education #Trump #Racism #CivilRights #School #Family #BlackMastodon


Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump

Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.
cengiz.yar@propublica.org (ProPublica)
#Trump #News #education #racism #civilrights #school #blackmastodon #family

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Mildly curious, what do people use for mastodon on windows at this point? Asking this because my client of choice, enafore, seems to crash or refuse to load when quotes come on my home timeline (or that's what I assume breaks it), and semaphore doesn't play sounds when new notifications come in, an enafore feature I got a bit attached to lol. I really like the pinafore/semaphore/enafore line, but the tradeoff of either random breakage or lack of sounds is admittedly bothering me.

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Okay, I'm loving this gitlab CLI. I'm so glad that I know about it now. Of course, I need to figure out how to do things with it, but, for instance, I can just go into my at-spi2-core directory from the console and type
glab mr update 220 --draft

Otherwise, I'd need to open gitlab.gnome.org in a browser, click the button to sign in, type in my username and password, get my phone out for the two-factor authentication, then find the control on the web page to do what I want.

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Endlich! Das war ein Krampf über mehrere Tage, bis das endlich geklappt hat. Angeblich hätte ich immer noch irgendwelche Aktivitäten gehabt (die ich nicht hatte). Jetzt hat es geklappt, nachdem ich wiederholt den Antrag gestellt hatte. Und gleichzeitig habe ich drei Dutzend Bestätigungsmails ins Postfach gespült bekommen, dass Zahlungen im Einzugsverfahren storniert worden wären, die ich irgendwann als junger Mann mal stattgegeben hatte. Ein Rückblick in meine Konsum-Historie ....
#Paypal
Screenshot der Paypal-Kündigungsbestätigung: "Konto geschlossen. Hiermit bestatigen wir, dass Ihr PayPal-Konto geschlossen wurde."
#paypal
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🎉 arcanechat.me server upgraded! 🎉

some of you might have noticed arcanechat.me was down for a few minutes, that was because I was migrating to the new more powerful server as announced some days ago!

besides having a faster more powerful server, now every user have 2GB of temporary storage! useful if you receive a lot of media!

🎁 this is my Christmas gift for the #ArcaneChat users, if you feel like showing back your love, you can support my work here:
arcanechat.me/#contribute
💜

an image showing the storage usage of an user in arcanechat.me, max. storage is 2gb

ArcaneChat

Private chats for the family
arcanechat.me
#arcanechat

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Quick PSA : yes, #Mozilla has been disappointing, but so far, they’re the only organization preventing Google to have a full control over web standards. Blink/WebKit-based browsers (Chromium, Vivaldi…) do NOT help at all in that regard.

So please use #Firefox or a #Gecko-based alternative (#ZenBrowser, #LibreWolf…). Ride the nightly release train and report bugs if you can. #Servo is getting ready, but for the next ~5 years, Gecko is our only suitable option.

#firefox #mozilla #librewolf #gecko #servo #zenbrowser
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Raphael van Lierop :

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what GenAI is.

GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, because you don't have evil in your heart.

But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, and anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.


Bianca's answer :

Not just that but Tolkien also said: "Evil cannot create anything new, it can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.".
Sound familiar ?
Screenshot of the two bluesky posts. Raphael's post is illustrated by a still from The Fellowship of the ring, and shows Boromir holding the One Ring in front of his eyes. His left hand is about to take the ring from its chain.
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Important Acronyms in IT Technology

IPv4: Internet Problem, Version 4
IPv6: same, but 6 times more Problems
DHCP: Desktop Hardware Cleaning Protocol
DNS: Destroying Network Protocol
VPN: Very Problematic Network
EthO: Eternity, low Level
Eth1: same, but stoned
SDA: Software Defined Anger
CPU: Core Problem Unit
RAM: Random Access Mismatch
HD: Historical Device
SDD: Self Destroying Device
TCP: Total Complex Protocol
UDP: Undefined User Paranoia
USB: United Shit Bracket
GW: Genuine Witchcraft
ROM: Rusty Old Malware
GPU: Great Picture Utensil
C#: Chaos
C++: same, but much more
CAT0...n: Number of Cats lying on keyboard, what else?

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I just wrote up some docs on how to hide images in public rooms on Matrix in several clients.

matrix.org/docs/chat_basics/pu…

If anyone was able to add info for more clients that would be awesome. Here's my change for reference: github.com/matrix-org/matrix.o…


Document how to hide images in Element by andybalaam · Pull Request #2971 · matrix-org/matrix.org

As discussed within the Trust and Safety Research and Documentation Working Group. ✔️ Checklist Check for common mistakes: Wrap plain URLs in <> to linkify them (learn more). Use the ri...
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Jiří Eischmann

"But that’s just the Economics 101 reason not to do this. The other one is this: I’m pretty sure people actually hate this? You have the data, you know."

Oh yeah, they do, but their goal isn't making features people don't hate. Their goal is making profitable features which people hate, but not to the extend they would leave the service. And because they have data, they have learned that the threshold is really high for most people.
So we have a market with a handful of dominant services which are hated by their users, but it isn't going to change until people stop complaining about it and actually start leaving them.

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Filip Hracek

I take your point. People apparently don't hate this enough to leave right now. But the thing about losing goodwill is that things happen gradually, and then suddenly. I think that a good business leader should be sensitive to this. The fact that the data doesn't show enough outflow to worry about _today_ doesn't mean you're not going to see something much worse in the future.

We all know the rationale of shoving AI on people. I just thing 2 massive buttons around every email is stupd

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Just tried building a rust project using cargo and it started pulling and building 385 dependency packages without any confirmation prompt. This is insane and super not secure. How are rust devs ok with this?

EDIT: to make it clear, my problem is that it didn't stop for confirmation. This is not ok. I thought NPM was bad but this is insane.

#rust #rustlang

#rust #RustLang
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Dear Fediverse, I recently acquired a second-hand #guitar that I had "love at first sight" for as soon as I saw it online. It really is lovely to play, but I know very little about it, though, except that it's from a now defunct brand called #Dreambow. I can't find any other name or serial. Do you know what model it might be, and/or year? It definitely is a single cut, but it's not a Les Paul replica as you can see in the picture. Please help me boost this until it reaches someone who knows 😅
Picture of a natural wood finish Dreambow single cut guitar I bought
#guitar #dreambow

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Just a quick note to explain why I'm transliterating Hebrew instead of just typing it: Eloquence, which is a speech synthesizer used by a lot of blind people who use screen readers, really freaks out with Hebrew, to the point where it just announces characters. So it's a lot easier for screen reader users to read if I just transliterate it. #Chanukah #Mazeldon #Accessibility #A11Y
#a11y #Accessibility #Mazeldon #chanukah

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Got a few minutes to brush up on your typing? @Marconius and i made an accessible typing game with speed stats that plays right in your browser. Touch typing takes practice: just roll with it and then share it with the tech instructors and students in your life marconius.com/fun/rollWithIt

Roll with It Typing

A fun accessible typing tutor that you can really commit to.
marconius.com
@Marco Salsiccia

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GotaTun is a WireGuard® implementation written in Rust aimed at being fast, efficient and reliable. Now available to all Android users, we aim to ship it to the remaining platforms next year.

Read more here: mullvad.net/blog/announcing-go…


Announcing GotaTun, the future of WireGuard at Mullvad VPN

GotaTun is a WireGuard® implementation written in Rust aimed at being fast, efficient and reliable. Now available to all Android users.
Mullvad VPN

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🎄🎁 Christmas Giveaway: Tuta is giving away a 🇩🇪 German-made Volla Phone by @volla

The Quintus, worth €719, is a Google-free smartphone built for freedom, simplicity & security. 🔒

✨ VollaOS (with multi-boot option) or Ubuntu Touch
📱 6.7” AMOLED display
📸 50 MP triple camera
💾 8 GB RAM | 256 GB storage
🚀 Powerful Mediatek Dimensity 7050 8-core processor

⚡ For a chance to win, just comment what is most important for you on a #deGoogle phone? ⚡

#Privacy #DigitalFreedom #Giveaway #VollaPhone

Christmas Giveaway: Win a Volla Phone! with image of the phone.
#privacy #degoogle #VollaPhone #giveaway #digitalfreedom @Volla

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bazzargh

somewhat nerdsniped into just coding something that generates cross-stitch.

gist.github.com/bazzargh/be402…

from there it'd not be difficult to drop it in three.js and get a 3d version, in a wood-textured frame, but I've wasted enough time on this!

"Never expect two independent url parsers to treat every url identically", as a (fake) cross-stitch design

cross-stitch generator. paste into p5js.org to see it. fakes "3d" just by drawing threads 3 times in different shades.

cross-stitch generator. paste into p5js.org to see it. fakes "3d" just by drawing threads 3 times in different shades. - crossstitch.js
Gist

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altbot v2.4 is here!!

just pushed a pretty significant update, swapped out the old gemma3 27b model for qwen3-vl:30b-a3b-thinking and holy shit the difference is noticeable

the cool thing about this model is it's very dynamic, simple images get quick, concise descriptions without overexplaining everything. and with complex images, it takes its time and actually thinks through what it's looking at. you get better alt-text without wasting compute on stuff that doesn't need it.

basically: smarter where it counts, efficient where it doesn't.

oh and here's the part that made me double-check my math: electricity usage dropped by MORE THAN 10x. complex images that used to cost ~0.950 Wh now only use ~0.092 Wh. this is thanks to MoE (mixture of experts) architecture, despite being a 30b parameter model, it only activates 3b worth of parameters at a time. so you get way better results while using a fraction of the power.

been testing this for a bit now and honestly really happy with the results. descriptions are more accurate, less hallucination-y, and the model describes way better than before.

as always, altbot is fully open source and processes everything locally, no data gets sent to third parties. your images stay private.

if you wanna support continued development:
☕ ko-fi.com/micr0byte
💜 github.com/sponsors/micr0-dev

source code: github.com/micr0-dev/Altbot

thanks for helping make the fediverse more accessible :3


GitHub - micr0-dev/Altbot: Accessibility bot designed to enhance the Fediverse by generating alt-text descriptions for images, video, and audio.

Accessibility bot designed to enhance the Fediverse by generating alt-text descriptions for images, video, and audio. - micr0-dev/Altbot
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