A new native macOS client, a funded roadmap for Draupnir, and a Matrix meetup planned in Tokyo – that and lots more happened This Week in Matrix!
matrix.org/blog/2026/01/16/thi…
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
Im Kampf um ihre Existenz hat die Rote Hilfe einen wichtigen Erfolg erzielt. Sanktionen eines »x-beliebigen Drittstaats« könnten kein Grund für eine Kontenkündigung sein, entschied das Göttinger Landgericht.nd-aktuell.de
Do you use D&D Beyond for your sessions and you hate how clunky and slow you would be with it with a screen reader? I've got something for you! I've started work on a browser extension called Enhance Ability (pun absolutely intended!) It does a lot to make the site more intuitive and bring your speed on par with a sited user who can just glance at information. Read the readme below here for a preliminary feature list. I've sent it for review on the firefox and chrome add-on stores, and I'll publish links whenever they're available. I'm happy to discuss or answer any questions here! If you like to sideload it or look at the code, or read for more information, visit on github! github.com/the-byte-bender/enh…
Or the releases for packages: github.com/the-byte-bender/enh…
A browser extension that improves screen reader accessibility on D&D Beyond. - the-byte-bender/enhance-abilityGitHub
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Hello! I hope you're all doing well. Does anyone have any experience with either the JetKVM or the GL.Inet Comet units? If so, are they accessible for screen readers? I'm going to have to buy a KVM soon and am curious which one I should buy.
Please boost if you would. Thanks!
LLMs are spam generators. That is all.
They're designed to generate plausibly human-like text well enough to pass a generic Turing Test. That's why people believe they're "intelligent".
But really, all they are is spam generators.
We have hit the spamularity.
fellas, if your savior:
* can turn water into wine
* can make bread
* is risen
that's not your savior. that's a colony of fermenting microorganisms
"The MetaVerse is the future and if you don't adopt it you're gonna be left behind"
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Wait, no more virtual sitting in a virtual chair, chatting with virtual people with a VR headset on, for hours? Bummer.Stan Schroeder (Mashable)
Got ripped off on an online purchase over the holidays for about $44.00
Sent dispute to bank/visa.
Bank disputes my dispute and rejects. Just got off the phone to learn the person who reviewed my dispute lied about the answers I provided in their dispute form as cause to reject the dispute.
Now, they've breached the state consumer protection act.
They're under threat of litigation if they don't return the money, which, is no idle threat.
Why would I go to these lengths over $44.00?
Because I'm SICK AND FUCKING TIRED of living in a #corporate dystopia and will drag the money out of them NO MATTER WHAT!!! Have fun paying your attorney's thousands of dollars over a $44.00 dispute because your corporate policy is to screw over your own clients to enrich your shareholders.
Good morning 😘
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For #RSS on #Android I just switched from Readrops to #CapyReader. It both is able to sync with #FreshRSS server, but Capy's UI better suits my needs.
Readrops looks fine, but it feels kind of wrong when using it. Especially in article listings. It seems like they use wrong UI components for the task.
Capy's UI feels less cluttered, more text focused. I better orient in the article titles. So far good work @_jocmp 👍️
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The Right is obsessed with manufacturing reality for your consumption.
#KristiNoem #SouthDakota #InfantMortality #TheyAreNotProLife
#RightWingLies
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I'm about to replace my MFP with a newer one that's laser instead of ink and has a feed tray and supports duplex for scanning. I scan a lot more than I print and having a feed input allows for bigger than the glass allows (which seems to be nearly every single item I want to scan).
Also having a feed input will probably (or more likely probably not) stop me from using it as a shelf as well.
The FreeBSD Foundation announced they're funding development of a new agentic AI based on an Alibaba model which will run in your kernel called Kirk.
There will be no way to remove it from the OS beginning with FreeBSD 16.0, because this model is completely replacing the TCP/IP stack and the CPU scheduler. All of these decisions will now processed by Kirk. Instead of being based on the time-tested monolithic kernel design, this will be the beginning of a new era of hybrid-cystolithic kernels.
I added livekit and lk-jwt-service to my #matrix homeserver so I can initiate calls and conferences.
Element X audio/video calling pretty much feels like Face Time. Better than Signal calls.
You prob know this already, but if you duck-search, you can go to a slightly different entry point at noai.duckduckgo.com to do web searches without AI slop dumping on you.
I see they've dressed up the landing page there! Now more obviously non-AI. I mean, it's a selling feature, so yeah, go to town guys.
(if you still google things, consider the duck search! it's worked well for me for years, and the non-ai version is a nice step forward).
#InternetSearch #degoogle #websearch
The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.DuckDuckGo
Every time you buy a Chinese electric EV it makes baby Doug Ford cry.
Go ahead and buy a Chinese electric EV.
Making your list of @fosdem talks to try and get into/watch online? We are too! Be sure you don't miss @bogo and his talk, "What translating Thunderbird taught me," Sunday 1 February at 14:50 in the Translations dev room (K.3.401) 🌍
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“In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.”
musically.com/2026/01/15/5-1tn…
Music-biz number-cruncher Luminate has published its year-end report for 2025, with plenty of stats for the industry to chew over.Stuart Dredge (Music Ally)
krúpy a kadečo z prasaťa.
edit: s bramborami taky dobrý ale podľa mňa naj s chlebom a kyslou uhorkou hh
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Huh, that's interesting. It always used to skip back to the beginning for me.
I have recently figured out that I can somehow still get a student YT premium subscription through my employee account, because SheerID apparently doesn't check permissions for us properly, so that's my workaround now.
The future of software development is Gemini adding and removing the "status/needs-triage" tag from an issue on GitHub 5,000 times.
Gemini is made by Google, a company once famous for incredibly high quality software engineering.
github.com/google-gemini/gemin…
What would you like to be added? This is feature request - someone can point it as bug as well but I will not. Ask / Request 👉🏽 Implement exit and quit as standard commands with a simple confirmati...pm-bhatt (GitHub)
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That's only 1.x, right? No plans to get rid of more modern ones?
(Don't expect you to, but it's been my experience that it's better to ask than to indirectly assume all will be fine...)
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Oh, good. It's driving up spinning rust prices too.
Hard drive prices are spiking because of "ai." Prices have jumped 46% on average since September. The 24TB Seagate BarraCuda used to be $239 on sale, but it's now sitting at $500.Terminal Tilt (Climate Justice Social)
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