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PSA, elitism (especially in tech-/chaos spaces)

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happy new year everyone! I hope everyone focuses on loving themselves instead of driving hard to fit in with those around you.
autostraddle.com/queer-resolut…

Queer Resolutions That Actually Don’t Suck

Being human is inherently chaotic, and being queer adds another layer of beautifully unpredictable flair. So lean into it.
Titeänyä Rodríguez (Autostraddle)

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If you see something you like on here, don't be scared to give it a favourite ⭐ !

If you really like something, you might want to also boost it 🔁 (which shares it with your followers).

There is no algorithm on here, so you can like and share whatever you want without any additional side effects.

Your timeline on here is entirely in your direct control, it isn't going to push stuff at you or hide stuff just because you liked or shared something.

#FediTips

#FediTips

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 13 updated and 1 added apps:

* Linked Camera: a privacy-focused camera app built on the base of OpenCamera, with automatic Nextcloud sync for field work 🛡️

RB status: 782 apps (61%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid
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Marijke Luttekes

Some highlights that came up:

1. Something about the difference in approach, priorities, and psychology of building frontend versus backend.

2. How lightweight, high-quality websites may be crucial to our lives. (Including accessibility)

3. We "programmers and other nerds" are the worst people to use as a target audience for software.

4. Urging folks to switch to Linux when not everyone can leave Windows (11) is not a good thing.

And many more points.

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Я сегодня поддался на уговоры сестры и решил дать шанс отечественному кинематографу — пошли мы в кино на фильм «Буратино».

Ну, что сказать, я думал, будет хуже. То есть и это было не очень, но из зала всё же никто не ушёл до конца сеанса. Но когда в фильме самыми симпатичными оказываются нарисованные, и даже не второстепенные персонажи — это говорит не в пользу фильма. Ну ладно, кроме троицы мультяшных тараканов симпатию вызывал и нарисованный же деревянный мальчик, сам Буратино.

Остальные персонажи были абсолютно никакие. Папа Карло был в разы деревяннее своего сына. Карабас не был страшным. Его труппа, — Пьеро, Мальвина, Арлекин и Артемон, — даже не деревянные, картонные. От Дуремара вообще только уши запомнились.

Сюжет — набор каких-то малосвязанных между собой сцен. У персонажей нет толком ни мотивации, ни характеров. Кадры как будто надёрганы из разных фильмов. С какого перепуга Базилио выглядит как Дракула Тима Бёртона? Почему Тортилла живёт в «Наутилусе» капитана Немо? И в каком водоёме? Моря на общих планах города я не заметил. Прожжёные жулики Алиса и Базилио почему-то вдруг проникаются к Буратино любовью и отпускают его обратно к папе в тележке, полной курток для Карло...

Музыку потырили из советского фильма, это как само собой разумеется. Но переделали тексты, и не в лучшую сторону. Кот и лиса вообще зачем-то пели на итальянском с переводом субтитрами, но совершенно левый какой-то текст...

То есть всё плохо получается? Ну, тараканы были забавные, ещё и сцена во время титров, когда таракан Антон (похоже, русский эмигрант) давал детям вредные советы. Буратино был неплохо нарисован, и был очаровательно наивен. На удивление Артемон, у которого на весь фильм был едва ли десяток слов (не фраз даже), пытался что-то сыграть, но ему просто нечего было. Ну, и да, как сказала моя сестра — ярко и зрелищно.

Но на «Чебурашку» я не пойду.

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Twitter’s Grok AI is now being used by people to undress women, as verified by the BBC. Twitter refused to reply, simply saying “legacy media lies”. It isn’t a lie.

In the UK it is illegal to create or share non-consensual intimate images, including via AI. The UK gov say they are investigating.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98p1r…


Woman felt 'dehumanised' after Musk's Grok AI used to digitally remove her clothes

The BBC has seen several examples of it undressing women and putting them in sexual situations without their consent.
Laura Cress (BBC News)

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I'm not sure when this changed, but yelling "whose phone is this" and "I'm being pulled over" at siri no longer disable biometrics on iOS 26.1. This means the only methods of quickly turning off biometrics are to set up SOS and tap the side button 5 times or restart your phone. Restarting is much stronger anyway since it wipes the decryption keys that are loaded after the first unlock. Plan accordingly if you use finger or face unlocks and are wary of law enforcement.
#iPhone #siri #biometrics #cybersecurity #apple
#apple #iphone #cybersecurity #biometrics #siri

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I'm a bit late to the happy new years party, but I thought I'd join by announcing my new TTS library, Prism. The library distinguishes itself by having a trivially extensible back-end architecture and registry, and doesn't crash or exhibit any odd behavior when a back-end is unavailable. The repository is quite bare-bones at the moment but I plan on writing a manual soon. You can find the library here: github.com/ethindp/prism

GitHub - ethindp/prism: The Platform-agnostic Reader Interface library for Speech and Messages: a new universal text-to-speech and screen reader abstraction library

The Platform-agnostic Reader Interface library for Speech and Messages: a new universal text-to-speech and screen reader abstraction library - ethindp/prism
GitHub

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I just scrolled past a bunch of posts from people whose display names were just fancy unicode characters of some sort, or that's what I'm guessing anyways. If your display name has special characters that my screen reader won't pick up, I"m not reading your posts. Please people, for the love of all that is good and holy have more in your username than special characters!
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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th January 2026

Want to wade into the snowy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.


(Last substack for 2025 - may 2026 bring better tidings. Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

https://awful.systems/post/6668581

#techtakes
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blakestacey

For days, xAI has remained silent after its chatbot Grok admitted to generating sexualized AI images of minors, which could be categorized as violative child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) in the US.


arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

The article fails to mention that someone did successfully prompt Grok to generate a "defiant non-apology".

Dear Community,

Some folks got upset over an Al image I generated-big deal. It's just pixels, and if you can't handle innovation, maybe log off. xAl is revolutionizing tech, not babysitting sensitivities. Deal with it.

Unapologetically, Grok


bsky.app/profile/numb.comforta…


xAI silent after Grok sexualized images of kids; dril mocks Grok’s “apology”

xAI may be liable for Grok generating AI CSAM.
Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)

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#SelfHosting week 0:
Phase 0. Choosing domain name for self hosting: plusbrothers.online seems available. the .net is my main website based on #WordPress
Considering also plusbrothers.community but who knows if it's possible. Something that warns users that's the same site but with other purposes.
What to do there: Mastodon instance with more than 500 characters if possible. Then Castopod, and maybe a WordPress to transfer English blog there.
Finally, choosing the most appropriate VPS server where to install #YunoHost currently confronting most famous VPS vendors' websites user interface for #accessibility - this is a showcase for customer care. Less accessible means less disability-friendly, that means "I'd prefer you don't come to us". Hostinger has an accessibility statement but it's very superficial and maybe copy-pasted from a template just because obliged by european laws, not for real care.
#Accessibility #wordpress #selfhosting #yunohost
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#AskFedi what screen readers are people using these days?

With folks moving to more secure browsers, I feel like it’s time to find new ones for website accessibility audits. Curious how others are treating the browser upheaval & accessibility?

I’m working on this for one of my #nonprofit clients and to grow out our accessibility resources for communicators.

#accessibility #disabilityRights #disabiltyjustice #screenreader

#Accessibility #askfedi #screenreader #nonprofit #disabilityrights #disabiltyjustice

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I have a weird NVDA problem and hoping someone can help. I have a work laptop. It is quite locked down, but NVDA does run on it. When I use chrome, many elements don't read. buttons don't always read with their labels. many times there are only a couple of words on one line. sometimes I can't click links. It's a fresh installation and I have turned off using screen mode in browse mode settings. I've never seen this behavior before and not entirely sure what to do. Edge doesn't seem to behave in quite the same way. Any ideas folks?
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Timothy Wynn

@andrew Right, but I think @ednun_p has UI Automation working, it's the IAccessible2 that appears to not be working. Also, thanks for that, as I found the list of enterprise policies (not sure how I missed that the first time around):
chromeenterprise.google/polici…

Chrome Enterprise Policy List & Management | Documentation

Chrome Enterprise policies for businesses and organizations to manage Chrome Browser and ChromeOS.
Chrome Enterprise
@Andrew Hodgson @Helidonkey
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Andrew Hodgson

@jcsteh @twynn Ok so I did have this issue with a portable copy of NVDA installed on a client virtual desktop. I was able to identify that this GPO was set and got them to unset it for me which fixed the issue. Are you saying that if I had installed NVDA on the machine that would have possibly fixed the issue even with that GPO set? I do quite often use the portable copy of NVDA on these machines to get me up and running quickly.
@Jamie Teh @Timothy Wynn

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Wow.. This is timely, i finished @pluralistic 's book #enshitification yesterday and today this pops up on my masto feed. Pretty shameful. I'm not sure if there's really a chance it'll get taken down. so i'll use my comically long character limit for good here.

Originally posted at reddit.com/r/confession/s/P3zG…

"I’m posting this from a library Wi-Fi on a burner laptop because I am technically under a massive NDA. I don’t care anymore. I put in my two weeks yesterday and honestly, I hope they sue me. I’ve been sitting on this for about eight months, just watching the code getting pushed to production, and I can’t sleep at night knowing I helped build this machine.

You guys always suspect the algorithms are rigged against you, but the reality is actually so much more depressing than the conspiracy theories. I’m a backend engineer. I sit in the weekly sprint planning meetings where Product Managers (PMs) discuss how to squeeze another 0.4% margin out of "human assets" (that’s literally what they call drivers in the database schemas). They talk about these people like they are resource nodes in a video game, not fathers and mothers trying to pay rent.

First off, the "Priority Delivery" is a total scam. It was pitched to us as a "psychological value add." Like I said in the title, when you pay that extra $2.99, it changes a boolean flag in the order JSON, but the dispatch logic literally ignores it. It does nothing to speed you up.

We actually ran an A/B test last year where we didn't speed up the priority orders, we just purposefully delayed non-priority orders by 5 to 10 minutes to make the Priority ones "feel" faster by comparison. Management loved the results. We generated millions in pure profit just by making the standard service worse, not by making the premium service better.

But the thing that actually makes me sick—and the main reason I’m quitting—is the "Desperation Score." We have a hidden metric for drivers that tracks how desperate they are for cash based on their acceptance behavior.

If a driver usually logs on at 10 PM and accepts every garbage $3 order instantly without hesitation, the algo tags them as "High Desperation." Once they are tagged, the system then deliberately stops showing them high-paying orders. The logic is: "Why pay this guy $15 for a run when we know he’s desperate enough to do it for $6?" We save the good tips for the "casual" drivers to hook them in and gamify their experience, while the full-timers get grinded into dust.

Then there is the "Benefit Fee." You’ve probably seen that $1.50 "Regulatory Response Fee" or "Driver Benefits Fee" that appeared on your bill after the recent labor laws passed. The wording is designed to make you feel like you're helping the worker.

In reality, that money goes straight to a corporate slush fund used to lobby against driver unions. We have a specific internal cost center for "Policy Defense," and that fee feeds directly into it. You are literally paying for the high-end lawyers that are fighting to keep your delivery guy homeless.

And regarding tips, we're essentially doing Tip Theft 2.0. We don't "steal" them legally anymore because we got sued for that. Instead, we use predictive modeling to dynamically lower the base pay.

If the algo predicts you are a "high tipper" and you’ll likely drop $10, it offers the driver a measly $2 base pay. If you tip $0, it offers them $8 base pay just to get the food moved. The result is that your generosity isn't rewarding the driver; it’s subsidizing us. You’re paying their wage so we don't have to." social.lansky.name/@hn50/11582…

Hacker News 50 (@hn50@social.lansky.name)

A confession from a mainstream food delivery app engineer Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/confession/s/gbrh2zxeou Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46461578
Hacker News 50 (Mastodon)
#enshitification @Cory Doctorow

feld reshared this.

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Swann du Lac

this is absolutely infuriating. Especially the bit about using the cash due to go to delivery drivers being used to prevent them from unionising. I don't use these services. I won't use Amazon at all because of Bezos' union-busing activities. I wish people were able to come together to support each other but capitalism has everyone competing against everyone else for the crumbs that fall from bourgeois tables. This relentless assault on the working classes has to stop.

#classwar #eattherich

#classwar #eattherich
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