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"Renee Nicole Good was a 37-year-old award-winning poet, a mother of a six-year-old, and a wife who had recently moved to Minneapolis. That all ended yesterday when a masked ICE agent murdered her in broad daylight": Abolish ICE Before They Kill Again, Impeach Trump & Noem Before They Incite More Murder techdirt.com/2026/01/08/abolis…

Abolish ICE Before They Kill Again, Impeach Trump & Noem Before They Incite More Murder

Renee Nicole Good was a 37-year-old award-winning poet, a mother of a six-year-old, and a wife who had recently moved to Minneapolis. That all ended yesterday when a masked ICE agent murdered her i…
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I guess this warrants a screenshot, as I keep seeing #GNOME + #Linux threads where folks freak out about the "middle click paste" gsetting being set to False by default in gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettin…. Some ask "How dare they hide this into a gsetting to be toggled", or "they should add it to GNOME Tweaks" etc.…

Thing is, it's *already* in GNOME Tweaks, since 2016: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-t…

We were told multiple times the gsetting is not getting removed. I'll keep using it & move on. :blobcatcoffee:

Screenshot of the "GNOME Tweaks" GUI application, that provides a "Middle Click Paste" setting toggle in the "Mouse & Touchpad" section.

Make Gtk/EnablePrimaryPaste configurable through gsettings (2f9b1b3b) · Commits · GNOME / GNOME Tweaks · GitLab

Instead of relying on xsettings overrides, let's make use of a proper gsetting newly added for this purpose that can also be used by gtk+ on the wayland backend. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775847
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Hey @FreakyFwoof have you taken a look at this?
I just got to the crossover reveal chapter, probably gonna be done in the next 30 minutes LOL, shortish chapters but I'm loving it.

Title: The Owl, the Witch, and a Man Named Anthony
Author: White_Squirrel Author
Summary: Holly Potter learnt at Gringotts that her father wasn’t James Potter, but some guy named Anthony Stark.
Tony Stark was very confused when a paternity claim was delivered directly to his bedroom by a snowy owl.
They begin a correspondence of letters, not knowing what bizarre revelations will come of it, all mediated by our favourite Arctic avian and told in real time as the letters are delivered.
Covers Hogwarts first year. Holly was born in 2000. Formerly “Flight of the Post Owl.”

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I'm watching people in my feed screaming at each other over Firefox's "AI kill switch" this morning with some trepidation.

As far as I'm concerned, Firefox already has an AI kill switch. It's called browser.ml.chat.enabled, I set it to false more or less the day it appeared, it hasn't mysteriously popped back on since, despite angry posts to the contrary, and that's been that for me. It's disabled every "AI" feature I find objectionable. I'd prefer if Mozilla leadership would sync up with reality on occasion and stop deciding to put this paid placement trash into Firefox in the first place, but at least there's a reliable way to get rid of it.

Everything else people have been screaming at Mozilla about? I'm not sure I see the problem. The little model you can download to summarise web pages for you? I wouldn't trust it, and so I don't think it's necessarily a productive use of Firefox devs' time, but at least it's opt-in. The other little model you can download to help organise your tab groups? I don't use it much, but this one seems more practical, and it's also opt-in, despite the occasional angry report of it slowing down people's browsers even without having been downloaded. Liek, bro, maybe try closing a Slack tab or two.

I don't want ChatGPT in my browser, or Claude, or any kind of world burning data centre LLM pretending to be our new AI god. browser.ml.chat.enabled = false does that for me. It would be even better if it wasn't there in the first place. But tiny, focused ML models doing nominally useful things? I not only do not see the problem there, I'd like some of them to be part of the Web platform rather than just the browser. I've been wishing since they launched them that Mozilla would make an API available to web sites out of those translation models of theirs, for instance.

I'm monitoring the situation, as European heads of state like to say, but so far, despite the posturings of their C-suite types, it doesn't seem like any critical Mozilla resources are being diverted away from maintaining the Web platform into AI boosterism. Every new Firefox changelog is delivering on what it should be delivering on, and it's only occasionally that I see a new "AI" feature advertised. Compare that to a product like VSCode, which has been completely consumed by the cancer of slop production with only one in a hundred changelog entries being about building an actual damned code editor, and I'm not feeling all that alarmed about Firefox just yet.

I know this is Mastodon, but sometimes I just wish people would entertain having opinions that can have some nuance in between "burn the world down so the AGI can live" and "Butlerian Jihad now," you know?

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Stranger Things complete. Hard to believe a show that I've watched since middle or high school ends when I'm an undergraduate. That was sort of the only thing I watched on Netflix. But the service is disappointing now. There are barely any good shows or movies to watch. And if they are, they're are average at best, or they got canceled for reasons which usually involve money and whatnot.

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Isfugl - Alcedo atthis - Eurasian kingfisher
#fugle #fotografi #birds #birding #birdingphotography #herlevfotoklub #nature #wildlife #2730foto #photography #dof #dof #dofbirdlife
#Isfugl #Alcedo_atthis #Eurasian_kingfisher
#photography #wildlife #nature #birds #birding #fugle #fotografi #birdingphotography #herlevfotoklub #2730foto #dof #dofbirdlife #isfugl #alcedo_atthis #eurasian_kingfisher
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Tamas G

@TomGrant91 oh, if you place the .exe where your soft voice add-on lives or the DLL files do, it'll auto-detect it. But because we can't technically bundle it all together in the repository, it's possible that someone builds the speak program on its own and would need to then manually give it where that file lives. I doubt the folks behind SoftVoice are around anymore, but I had to stay cautious. Even though the Eurpod page is public, it's not tied to the wrapper project so if anyone reaches out and says, "take this down, you're redistributing our speech engine!" I can just yank the file off Eurpod and not touch my repo.
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RE: mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/1149428…

With regards to Grok generating CSAM, I'd like to point out that all the image generation models are probably trained with CSAM in the first place. The kind of scraping that was done to train them is indiscriminate and the companies that make them don't care, so god knows what's inside the training data. My recommendation still stands: stay tf away from them

Gabriele Svelto (@gabrielesvelto@mas.to)

Also, torrenting porn at that scale means that Meta's models are pretty much likely to contain NCII and even CSAM. Keep the fuck away from them.
Gabriele Svelto (mas.to)
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So. Because GPT uses Jupyter internally, when it reviews files, they get truncated for it. Poor thing. It spends half its time trying to figure out why the code is truncated when in reality it's Jupyter and the output truncating it. Ha. Can't believe that.
Gemini is good, but it can only do code changes inline. GPT will actually patch your file for you if you are specific enough and upload it. But then of course it spends half its time trying to figure out whether a piece of code exists or not because it got truncated. Unreal.

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PSA We are happy about the wealth of privacy focused classic email providers (proton, tutanota, posteo, mailbox.org etc) but they are not geared for instant secure messaging. Do yourself, family and friends a favor and use delta with any of the many chatmail.at/relays

Or setup a relay of your own if you feel like it.

Or use a a dedicated chat email address on your own or any classic email server that has reliable service and no obnoxious rate limits or annoying spam handling.

Cheers.


Chatmail: Relays

Chatmail provides FOSS infrastructure for interoperable, secure, speedy and reliable end-to-end encrypted messaging. Check out clients as Arcane Chat, Bots or Delta Chat today!
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Delta Chat

for setting up contact with a friend, see delta.chat/en/help#howtoe2ee -- there also is a mode that doesn't require a camera/scan-qr code but sharing an invite link.

Delta Chat: FAQ

What is Delta Chat? Delta Chat is a reliable, decentralized and secure instant messaging app, available for mobile and desktop platforms. Instant creation of private chat profiles with secure and i...
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Fedir Ustynov

@Delta Chat
Have you tried calling the person and attempting to onboard them using only voice?

The only thing that came to mind was something like: "Take a sheet of graph paper and start shading in squares. Shade the first square. Now the second. Now the third..." Of course, dictating a link out loud is not much easier.

I hope that onboarding two or three friends a day for about a week will make it clear that all the options you suggested are not great. :)

@Delta Chat

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We could for example attach an Eloquence audio sample, then ask for a synth that sounds similar. In case the AI couldn't make it from scratch, we could ask whether another synth could be the basis, for example ESpeak's klatt variants. @fastfinge @jscholes @cachondo @FreakyFwoof @amir @ZBennoui @pixelate @Tamasg
@James Scholes @Tamas G @Sean Randall @Andre Louis @Zach Bennoui @Devin Prater :blind: @🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @Amir
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Tamas G

Sort of my thought sadly. It's gotten better, no doubt, you can now get AI to spit out 60 KB of slop in one go, wow progress. xD So context improved, maybe a slightly better skillset, but the amount of time you'd spend debugging and seeing which step it went wrong on, especially for all the low-level plumbing an engine needs is brutal. @clv1 @jscholes @cachondo @FreakyFwoof @amir @ZBennoui @pixelate
@James Scholes @Sean Randall @Andre Louis @Zach Bennoui @Devin Prater :blind: @Amir @Cleverson
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Štěpán Škorpil

I heard something.
It seems to me like community hysteria and bad company response on the topic.🤷 Well, I know a little about this, but what I heard, they are paying to multiple open source projects, right? And one of them is Omarchy/Hyperland? Which is run by a open far right idiot? That itself is not making them facist.
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There was a bug (thanks to someone for discovering, I won't name names) where your own custom settings in SoftVoice applied to all variants, rather than them using their own parameters upon speaking. This is fixed partially: You can now choose a different voice but if you adjust pitch again from what you set, it'll apply. This second part is more tricky, as the engine doesn't tell us, "Hey, this is the pitch I set it to when the voice changed." Instead, you call one of the variants and the engine resets with the parameters it has internally for them. Tricky tricky. Nonetheless, it's (mostly) solved, what a relief.
Re-Download 2025.3.5: eurpod.com/softvoice-2025.nvda…
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