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Dropbox is trash. Have to join a shared folder but can't because apparently I'm using 360% of my available storage, oh no. The root folder is empty, I left all shared folders, I don't have photos uploaded... Asked Claude, apparently it's a backup feature I have turned on somewhere somewhen, but no idea how to turn it off anymore. Meanwhile, on Windows it's spamming you with stupid notifications, and on the web and mobile app, it's trying to shove the premium plans up your throat no matter where you click. Even if I get this crap resolved, no way I'm even considering using that again. Can't we just have a good cloud option these days?

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Wir freuen uns über die Veröffentlichung eines selbstgemachten Musikvideos der verrückten Jugend vom Blinden- und Sehbehindertenverband WNB: Wie im Looping
youtu.be/ZxY64X2V8wI?si=3OMrmK…

Verrückte Jugend - Wie im Looping

Mit ihrem ersten selbstgeschriebenen und selbstproduzierten Song „Wie im Looping“ feiert die Verrückte Jugend ihr Musikvideo-Debüt. Der Song entstand im Rahm...
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Krásné dobré ráno mastodonští! 🙋‍♀️🐈🐶
Je suchý mráz. Svítí velké žluté kulaté. To je vám taková paráda! Jeho Lordstvo dostalo půlku vařeného vejce. Sir Artur kus rybičky. Já si dávám ranní kávu. Den jako malovaný.
Musím říct, že Archibald klame tělem. Vypadá jako roztomilý medvídek, který neumí do pěti napočítat. Ale nevím, jaké geny v něm dřímají. Občas se stane, že chytí stopu. Zavětří jako Bloodhound, nahodí vrtuli a mizí v dálce s čumákem při zemi. Tuhle ho zase přepadnou chrtí myšlenky. Letí jako tryskáč, nožičky nejsou vidět, překážky neexistují. Úplný Falco. A pak má chvilky, kdy je proti němu Rotvajler hadr. Kde se v něm bere to hluboké vrčení a vlčí dravost? Porve se s vámi jako zarputilý buldok. Člověk by se ho na chvilku i bál.
A pak sebou plácne na gauč. Kříženec lachtana, knedle, čuníka, tousťáku, kočky a brambory.
Vy si taky najděte nějaký objekt k prozkoumání. Jen pozor, jestli nemá ostré zuby. Aby vás nehryznul. 😇
#dobre_rano
#dobréRáno
#dobre_rano #dobrerano

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Hier gerade: Ein Rücksturz in die 90er.

Damals wohnten wir in einem Haus, das seit den frühen 70ern eine Sechser-WG war und in der links-alternativen Szene Triers einen berühmt-berüchtigten Ruf als Zentrum allen Chaos, aber auch als Ort legendärer WG-Feten hatte.

Für die Badezimmertüre gab es keinen Schlüssel mehr, sodass man, wenn man ungestört bleiben wollte, laut Musik hörte.

Je nach Musik wusste man, wer sich gerade im Bad befand. Z. B. hörte Mitbewohnerin T. entweder Element of Crime, Ry Cooder oder Buena Vista Social Club.

Jetzt hat meine Liebste die Badezimmer-Musiktradition wiederaufgenommen und ich muss nun an unsere ehemalige Mitbewohnerin T. denken, weil meine Liebste Talking Timbuktu von Ry Cooder hört. ^_^

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Anyone using S3 (compatible) storage for incremental backups of Linux and/or MacOS machines at home? If yes, what backup software/tool? Open source preferred. My first unfocused research suggests to look at restic [1] and maybe just some scripting around rclone [2]. Any hints/links welcome! (Yes, this is part of my project to use local S3 compatible storage based on garage [3])

[1] restic.net
[2] rclone.org
[3] garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr

#SelfHost #SysAdminLife @homelab


The Garage team - An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters

An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters
Garage
#selfhost #sysadminlife @Run your own homelab
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There is a CLI tool that lets you do common video and audio operations without having to remember complex ffmpeg syntax. There is no AI and no API calls, just old school pattern matching. It’s fast, works offline, and feels like video editing in plain English right from your CLI. For example, you can simply type:
```
ff convert my-file.mp4 to gif
```
And it will generate the ffmege command for you:
```
ffmpeg -i my-file.mp4 -vf fps=15,scale=480:-1:flags=lanczos -loop 0 -y video_output.gif
```

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Andre Louis

@Scott I made a bat file based on similar information a month or so ago that takes image as the first input, file as the second, and turns that video into <second file.mp4> as the output.
The contents of said batch file goes like this:

@ffmpeg -threads 3 -hwaccel auto -r 1 -loop 1 -i %1 -i %2 -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -x264opts opencl -vf scale=1280:720 -c:v libx264 -tune stillimage -c:a copy -shortest "%~dpn2.mp4"

@Scott

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The #Trump administration has been accusing the #EU of #censorship via its #DigitalServicesAct, but is any of what they are saying true?

Let's investigate 🧵🔽
#EUpol #USpol

#Trump #EU #censorship #uspol #digitalservicesact #eupol
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Somewhere along the line developing Catima changed from "fun little hobby project where I can build an useful thing and have fun" to "oh God if I make a single mistake I risk 125 thousand people losing their data, I must not make any mistakes" and I do kinda miss the old vibe.

I mean it's amazing that my little hobby project got this many people to have just that tiny bit more privacy (yes, loyalty cards inherently are tracking but at least we reduce the trackers) but sheesh 😅

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Čo chcú voliči Republiky a ako sa to dá dosiahnuť umierneným, konštruktívnym spôsobom?

Kotleba padol ale Republika stúpa. A dosť silne. Jej voliči vnímajú nejaké potreby, ktoré chcú mať naplnené cez Republiku.

Ja to poriadne nesledujem, tak sa do detailov nevyznám. Viete konkrétne sformulovať čo vlastne bežný volič Republiky chce?

A ako by sa to dalo dosiahnuť spôsobom, ktorý by bolo ťažké označiť za fašizmus?

#slovakia
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kubofhromoslav

Tak to sme sa teda pohli 😅

Asi najbližšie, čo poznám, sa k tomu dostal Ken Wilber v knihe "Trump a post-pravdový svet". Ten popísal situácii v USA, ale základné koncepty by mali fungovať aj na Slovensko. Vychádza z vývinovej psychológie, podľa ktorej sa ľudská psychika vyvíja celý život a dajú sa identifikovať viaceré rozličné fázy vývinu. Argumentuje, že ľudia centrovaní v autoritárskej "jantárovej, modrej" fáze (bežné znaky do napr. čierno-biele chápanie sveta, kolektivizmus, rešpektovanie autority, neprijímanie rozdielov (sexizmus, rasizmus, xenofóbia atď)) boli progresívnymi a liberálnymi vladármi dlhú dobu odsúvaný na druhú koľaj, z čoho bolo nasraní. A keď prišiel Trump, ktorý hovoril presne to čo cítili a nadával na tých, na ktorých aj oni, cítili s ním hlboké spojenie a preto ho volili. To, že je to diktátorský magor im nevadilo, lebo to bol ich diktátorský magor.

Na konceptuálnej úrovni to vnímam rovnako aj na Slovensku. Akurát v úrovni konkrétností už neviem čo slovenskí republikáni chcú... Teda, okrem svojho tatka, ktorý nadáva rovnako ako oni. Ale na začiatok by však rozhodne bola vhodná úcta a neopovrhovanie.

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OK, I am a lot more impressed with Supertonic than I thought. It has its own text processor that does some uncommon context text-based things like phone numbers, technical units, and financial stuff, that other commercial AI TTS engines like Eleven Labs, Gemini, Open AI, and Microsoft Azure don't do. And plus, unlike Sonata/Piper, it's not using eSpeak as a base.

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#LibreOffice Viewer is now available on Meta Quest virtual reality headsets: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
Screenshot of LibreOffice Viewer

LibreOffice Viewer now available on Meta Quest VR headsets - TDF Community Blog

For years we’ve maintained LibreOffice Viewer for Android, which lets you access files in these formats on mobile devices: Open Document Format (odt, ods, odp, odg) Microsoft Office 2007–365 (docx, xlsx and pptx) Microsoft Office 97–2003 (doc, xls an…
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#libreoffice

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Flathub's "2025 Year in Review" contains many interesting statistics. I find this one the most interesting: Despite years of full support for ARM in Linux distributions and wild predictions, ARM still has an absolutely marginal share of the Linux desktop user base.

flathub.org/en/year-in-review/…

#Linux #desktop #Flathub #ARM

A screenshot that shows Platform downloads: 98.7% (426.5 mil) for X86_64 and 1.3% (5.4 mil) for AArch64.

2025 Year in Review - Flathub

Celebrating a year of growth and innovation on Flathub
Flathub
#linux #arm #flathub #desktop
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Fabio Manganiello

could it be because many ARM devices are still unlikely to use Flatpak?

I mean I think that recent RPis & friends may still be grouped under the “Linux desktop” category, and in that case I don’t think that they’d be making up <1% of the market. It’s just that they’re more likely to use Debian-based solutions and perhaps Snap rather than Flatpak.

Same for many Termux on Android solutions (are they counted?), running on ARM but very unlikely to use Flatpak.

If you exclude these big segments I think that at the current state you’re mostly left with folks who install Linux on their ARM Macbooks or Surface devices, since even popular manufacturers among Linux users (like Tuxedo or Dell) don’t even ship ARM-based solutions yet.

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Former Malaysian PM convicted for embezzlement

semafor.com/article/12/26/2025…

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was convicted of embezzling $539 million in state funds.

Razak, already facing years in jail for an earlier conviction, was part of a complex scandal involving the Malaysian financier Jho Low, who allegedly stole $4.5 billion from a state-owned development company and used the cash to, among other things, fund the Oscar-nominated movie The Wolf of Wall Street.

#Malaysia #press


Former Malaysian PM convicted for embezzlement

Razak, already facing years in jail for an earlier conviction, was part of a complex scandal involving the Malaysian financier Jho Low.
Tom Chivers (www.semafor.com)
#press #malaysia
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GrapheneOS version 2025122500 released

Tags:

  • 2025122500 (Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel Tablet, Pixel Fold, Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 8a, Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, Pixel 9a, Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL, Pixel 10 Pro Fold, emulator, generic, other targets)

Changes since the 2025121700 release:

  • restore support for bypassing carriers disallowing choosing the cellular network mode (this was lost in a recent major version migration such as the port to Android 16 QPR1 but we aren't sure exactly when it regressed)
  • remove poorly designed upstream end session button on the lockscreen (it remains available in the power menu)
  • enable feature flag for new upstream end session button in the user switcher
  • switch to vendor files from 2nd December 2025 release (BP4A.251205.006.E1) for devices with it available
  • enable lockscreen widget support
  • fix upstream system_server crash in NotificationHistoryProtoHelper
  • Wi-Fi HAL: ignore debug logging requests on all Pixels with MTE support to avoid a crash from detecting an invalid memory access in the upstream code
  • Sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer: add support for redirecting Google Play location service requests from within Google Play services itself which means the GrapheneOS provided network location will work for internal Play services features such as Google Maps location sharing when redirecting to the OS is enabled (which is the default) and the Location permission is granted to it
  • Sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer: force redirecting Google Play location service requests from within Google Play services and Android Auto when the Location permission is disabled for better error handling (neither properly handles the Location permission not being granted since it's always granted on any Google Mobile Services OS in practice instead of being explicitly opt-in)
  • Sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer: fix a compatibility issue with the Chromium test suite
  • Network Location: improve position estability accuracy and stability
  • Network Location: prevent potential division by zero exception
  • Network Location: improve experimental Wi-Fi RTT support which is still disabled in production
  • kernel (6.1): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision
  • kernel (6.6): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision including update to 6.6.119
  • kernel (6.6): disable CONFIG_TLS to reduce attack surface
  • kernel (6.12): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision including update to 6.12.63
  • kernel (6.12): disable CONFIG_TLS to reduce attack surface
  • include configuration for thermometer on 10th gen Pixels
  • adevtool: auto-detect filesystem image type (ext4 vs. EROFS)
  • adevtool: add support for canary builds
  • adevtool: improve performance
  • remove obsolete workaround for using a prebuilt recovery extension

All of the Android 16 security patches from the current January 2026, February 2026, March 2026, April 2026, May 2026 and June 2026 Android Security Bulletins are included in the 2025121701 security preview release. List of additional fixed CVEs:

  • High: CVE-2025-32348, CVE-2025-48561, CVE-2025-48630, CVE-2025-48641, CVE-2025-48642, CVE-2025-48644, CVE-2025-48645, CVE-2025-48646, CVE-2025-48649, CVE-2025-48652, CVE-2025-48653, CVE-2026-0014, CVE-2026-0015, CVE-2026-0016, CVE-2026-0017, CVE-2026-0018, CVE-2026-0020, CVE-2026-0021, CVE-2026-0022, CVE-2026-0023, CVE-2026-0024, CVE-2026-0025

2025121701 provides at least the full 2026-01-01 Android and Pixel security patch level but will remain marked as providing 2025-12-05.

For detailed information on security preview releases, see our post about it.


GrapheneOS security preview releases - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

GrapheneOS discussion forum
GrapheneOS Discussion Forum
#grapheneos

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I just found an interesting video segment on PBS about the old Eureka A4 Braille computer, featuring it singing, playing music, and more. youtube.com/watch?v=84C5SFRh81…

The Computer Chronicles - Computers and the Disabled (1992)

Special thanks to archive.org for hosting these episodes. Downloads of all these episodes and more can be found at: http://archive.org/details/computerchroni...
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Well and there you have it.
Christmas is officially over. And honestly? It was a total flop:
I've been better off physically last year, even though I did a lot of sports this year I feel like I just don't have energy, am not even demotivated, but just, tired and don't get things done. The vibe wasn't there at all. If you asked me a month ago I would've felled it, and I do not know why that is.
I hope 2026 brings a better year overall, despite the name.
But now with the wining out of the way, I hope yall had a good, or fine enough christmas.

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I'm still sometimes mad that sighted users are up to 8K monitors, or lower-resolution screens with insane refresh rates. Color accuracy is amazing. Bloom isn't a problem as dimming zone counts increase and OLED drops in price. There are resolutions, widths, inputs, and other features for almost any situation. Meanwhile, braille displays still cost thousands, and we're celebrating because we can kind of feel rough line drawings, on devices that still use mechanical pins. I get it, but still...
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Alex Hall

It seems like a big part of the problem is that huge brands haven't put any resources into braille. Samsung, LG, Hisense, and others keep pushing visual display technology forward--we have screens that can literally fold in half! Meanwhile, braille is still stuck using the resources of tiny companies to move forward. What would happen if Apple, or Microsoft, or Samsung threw a billion dollars and a team of genius scientists and engineers at braille display technology?
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