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I've been beaten by the LAPD. I lived in Berkeley in the late 1960s and early 1970s. I've been tear gassed and watched police push people backwards off of highway overpasses. I knew and understood many Black Panthers.

I am sick and tired of Kumbaya songs. I am sick and tired of turn-the-other-cheek reactions to current affairs in the US.

But I am also a lawyer, sworn to peaceful methods.

What do I do?

What strikes me is the age old method of ostracism - practiced in ancient Athens, written about in plays like Lysistrata, and rendered into strong force by churches through the practice of excommunication.

We ought to perform civil excommunication on ICE agents - do not sell or rent products to them in stores, do not rent hotel rooms to them, do not fund them, treat them like modern day lepers. Businesses should make it clear that they will never be hired for a job. Do not adopt Jesus' policy of acceptance of them.

Spread their names so that we may cut them off from society.

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RE: cyberplace.social/@Wuzzy/11588…

Good news, i hope to see other project do the same (if technically possible ... of course) @CachyOS @fedora @opensuse @ubuntu @archlinux @flathub @IzzyOnDroid @nixos_org

Wuzzy (@Wuzzy@cyberplace.social)

YES YES YES! #Gentoo is planning to ditch #GitHub in favor of #Codeberg. They mention the continued attempts to force #Copilot into the workflows as a reason. https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/01/05/new-year.
Wuzzy (Cyberplace)
@openSUSE Linux @Arch Linux @NixOS @IzzyOnDroid ✅ @Fedora Project @Canonical Ubuntu @Flathub @CachyOS
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

No prob (as it feels like 98% of everything is captured there by MS, as often also on the desktop, such things can happen far too easy).

Besides: not only am I AT Codeberg, I'm IN, being a Codeberg e.V. member. Actually, I almost was a founding member back then. Did you know the original name was TeaHub? 😉

So, we're working closely together. Codeberg also runs one of our mirrors 🤗

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RE: social.abolivier.bzh/@brendan/…

If you're going to @fosdem be sure to find us in Building F AND be sure to check out @brendan 's talk! We can't wait to see everyone, and don't worry, we're bringing all the stickers.

Brendan Abolivier

2026-01-09 11:11:43

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Going to @fosdem this year? Me too! I'll even be babbling about the work we've done over the past couple of years to support Microsoft Exchange in @thunderbird - that'll be Saturday midday in the Modern Email devroom.

fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event…



FOSDEM 2026 - A short story of supporting Microsoft Exchange in Thunderbird

fosdem.org

@FOSDEM @Brendan Abolivier

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 18 updated and 1 added apps:

* Coffee: prevents your screen from dimming or locking 🛡️

RB status: 796 apps (61.9%)

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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We love to see it--community-created harm reduction infrastructure in the face of the alarming integration of AI agents into the Windows operating system (which is currently the most reckless deployment environment) ❤

github.com/zoicware/RemoveWind…

A screenshot of the top of the Readme, that says "Why? The current 25H2 build of Windows 11 and future builds will include increasingly more AI features and components. This script aims to remove ALL of these features to improve user experience, privacy and security." Then it lists the services you can disable registry keys for.

GitHub - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI: Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11

Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI
GitHub

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I wrote about a new MacOS accessibility library, pyax. It's a cool little tool you can use to inspect the accessibility API of apps. #a11y #macos #firefox #accessibility

blog.monotonous.org/2026/01/12…

MacOS Accessibility with pyax | monotonous.org

In our work on Firefox MacOS accessibility we routinely run into highly nuanced bugs in our accessibility platform API. The tree structure, an object attribu...
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#a11y #Accessibility #firefox #MACOS

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It can be hard to imagine how to defend oneself against an overwhelming force like ICE. But a few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter-surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-…

How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE

A few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.
Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Perhaps the single most certain thing about generative AI is that developing "skill" with prompting AI has very little value as any sort of long term "investment".

* If the technology improves rapidly, any tricks you learn now will soon be irrelevant.
* If the technology stagnates, it just won't be nearly as useful or important as the people preaching about it claim. (If it's even useful at all for the things you might want to use it for.)

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Hi #Forkiverse people! I'm a writer of fiction and nonfiction. I'm blind and have been in the Fediverse a long time now but I love it here! I blog a lot and an introduction to my blog can be found at sightlessscribbles.com/welcome… #Introduction #Introductions #NewHere #Blog #Blogging #IndieWeb

A Humble Welcome Note Without Cookies, Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.
sightlessscribbles.com
#introductions #blog #introduction #newhere #indieWeb #blogging #forkiverse

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*sigh* Hoopla's catalog system is broken. If I click on an audiobook narrator's link, only *some* of their titles appear, as an example. Same for authors. Unfortunately, Libby has a better catalog system but Hoopla has better audio quality. To fix this, download the Library Extension for your web browser and browse Audible. You will find titles neither system appears to have, but this extension finds them. libraryextension.com/ #Library #Libraries

Library Extension (for web browsers)

Library Extension lets you instantly see book and eBook availability from your local library
www.libraryextension.com
#library #libraries
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Just wanted to install an #XMPP client to create an account to test something. I moved away to #Matrix years ago because I had no hope anymore for #XMPP, but now that I wanted to create an account, I am just shocked at how dead it is: #Fedora still has Gajim 1.7.3, when the last release is 2.4.1. #pkgsrc is a bit but noch much better with 2.1.1. #Tkabber is even worse: pkgsrc has 0.11.1, when 1.1.2 is the latest release that was released in 2015(!). It seems distributions keep XMPP clients around, but don’t update them because nobody is using them anymore. I had not expected for XMPP to be that dead. That’s shocking.

I also think if distributions cannot be bothered to update a package in over 10 years, they should just remove it…

#xmpp #matrix #fedora #pkgsrc #tkabber

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Sent my feedback on public initiative for European commission and open source. Placed my name - I am proud and active on what I'm doing, talked as a blind european citizen.
Every european relying on accessibility should talk now.

ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-r…

#accessibility #a11y #blind # disability #eu #europe #inclusion #OpenSource

European Commission - Have your say

European Commission - Have your say
#a11y #Accessibility #opensource #blind #EU #europe #inclusion
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Nextcloud 📱☁️💻 - @nextcloud

Considering Nextcloud instead of Microsoft 365? 🔀

Join our live "Ask the Expert" Q&A for clear, practical answers. No sales pitch, just real-world insights.

🗓 Jan 15, 2026
⏰ 3 PM CET / 9 AM EST

Save your seat or register for the recording: 👉 go.nextcloud.com/r/kf6C

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Ask your pressing questions live or in advance and get clear answers on adopting Nextcloud as a Microsoft 365 alternative, including demos and real-world migration insights.
Nextcloud
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Anybody still shopping at Target? I haven't in a year.

Marc Fischer‬ ‪@marc-fischer.bsky.social‬
From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

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Hi all. So, we are back at square one. Magnesium cream has now decided to stop working. Sleep meds don't let me sleep. I'm just trying to get through as best I can, thanks to the amazingly kind people who asked how I'm really doing. It's looking like I might have to go into a hospice for a few days to see if they can stabilize me. Ho hum, I'll just look it in the teeth and dare it to kick me! Lol!

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Mac TweeseCake eaters, how do you get TweeseCake to appear in the list of apps that are allowed to use the microphone? This is on a fairly old Mac OS, Ventura I think. Can't send voice messages yet, the record button does nothing, the person I'm trying to help doesn't get any system prompts to allow access and when we went to System Settings, Privacy and Security, Microphone, there's not a button to add an app there, only a list of apps that have requested access. Any advice welcome.
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