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Whether you hate him with a leftest passion, or you were a fan of him, Charly Kurk spoke the truth when he said this. Men always desire what they can't have. This was ment especially in the context of relations with females. And guess what? I feel it again in the hardest possible way right now. But nobody asked. Nobody cares. Nobody would understand my other struggles already starting with school. But yeah life is great, I got a fu ing roof above my head! Emotions? Nah let's hide them, we only wanna hear the positives!
Wow I'm sick of it.
Guess what, my father noticed it sadly. But I'm not gonna tell him anything in the slightest unless it's nesesary, school things might be something there. Dude has seriously been messing with my trust, using it as a weapon against me in the past, several times. Now he'll need to regain it. And if the rest of the world doesn't give a shit, guess let's put on the shield after hiding some more tears of exhaustion.

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It's a bit wild to me how much AI and tools I use for work and home are converging. For example, I use ChatGPT and Codex in both places equally, of course at work more of the tools have AI built into them, but just to casually open the same thing on both feels jarring to me every time for some reason. Not like it should, technically Office was something you'd have on your home and work computers too, but it's the context: Even when you used an Office product at home, you used it to be productive and get something done, whereas AI can absolutely be that with the right use but also be an incredible time-waster you have endless chats with because by design it's made to hook you in. Not sure. There you go, a Tuesday morning. That feels like a Monday :D because we had it off here in the states. So now, no more NV Speech Player work for a bit. It's work work time.
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RE: mastodon.social/@Tutanota/1159…

Super grateful to @Tutanota for sharing our experience of trying to bring digital rights advocacy to a local level!

Tuta Mail has been the secure, reliable foundation from which we could build this group! Important that we started on the right foot.

#Tuta #Florida #Privacy #Cybersecurity #DigitalRights #Tech #Miami

Tuta

2026-01-20 14:01:24

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Age verification laws are being introduced everywhere - including, Florida. 🔞🇺🇸

For Joseph, not knowing his own state had introduced age verification, was the final push he needed to take action and do something. So he started the Miami Tech Enthusiast Club @mtec

Don't miss this interview with him to find out why he started the club, its aims & goals, & why he chose Tuta Mail. 💪🔐

👉 tuta.com/blog/why-mtec-uses-tu…

"When age verification went into effect in Florida and I didn't know. That was my point. I could no longer afford to be uninformed about what was happening in my state. Sure it's not going to affect New York or California, but it's already affecting me, and that was what provided the impetus to know that we had to step up our game.” Joseph, Founder of Miami Tech Enthusiast club

Your voice, our drive: Presenting Tuta users from around the world. | Tuta

2025 was the year many people realized how at risk their digital privacy had become. For Joseph, it was the year to take action against this, and so he started the Miami Tech Enthusiast Club.
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#privacy #tech #cybersecurity #digitalrights #Florida #tuta #miami @Tuta

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USA anektují ještě letos Grónsko. To bude mít za následek rozpad NATO a nejspíš nový obranný pakt bez USA. Současně celá Evropa vypoví smlouvy USA o umístění amerických vojenských základen, přestane se obchodovat mezi USA a Evropou. Díky některým evropským firmám, jako třeba ASML, bude mít USA velký problém. Budou si chtít technologii vymoct silou a začne válka USA proti Evropě.

Současně anexí Grónska potvrdí USA platnost ruské anexe Krymu a Rusko vtrhne po rozpadu NATO do Pobaltí a Polska, znovu zabere Kazachstán (ropa).

Současně anexí Grónska potvrdí USA čínský nárok na Tchaiwan a Čína tam vtrhne.

A máme to tady. Třetí světová jako na dlani.

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Today's Web Design Update: groups.google.com/a/d.umn.edu/…

Featuring @mgifford, @SteveFaulkner, @MerylEvans, @eric, @TetraLogical, @deconspray, @matuzo, @aardrian, and more.

Subscribe info: d.umn.edu/itss/training/online…

#Accessibility #A11y #WebDesign

Web Design References: Webdev Newsletter

Web Design References: News and info about web design and development. The site advocates accessibility, usability, web standards and many related topics.
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#a11y #Accessibility #webdesign @Adrian Roselli, pH0 @Mike Gifford, CPWA @Steve Faulkner @Meryl Evans, CPACC 🦻 @Manuel Matuzović @deconspray @Eric @TetraLogical

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Just imagine, the Nobel Peace Prize, whether directly or indirectly, is the kindling for starting a conflict historians will come to call World War III. You know there's only one person in the world with all of the self-centered, idiotic, stupidity and unadulterated narcisim, qualities, and power to do it. And its not like he's some maniacle tyrant who grabbed power, his citizenry gave it to him, legally, twice! Just all kinds of LOLZ, irony, and insanity one would come to expect in 2026.

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Age verification laws are being introduced everywhere - including, Florida. 🔞🇺🇸

For Joseph, not knowing his own state had introduced age verification, was the final push he needed to take action and do something. So he started the Miami Tech Enthusiast Club @mtec

Don't miss this interview with him to find out why he started the club, its aims & goals, & why he chose Tuta Mail. 💪🔐

👉 tuta.com/blog/why-mtec-uses-tu…

"When age verification went into effect in Florida and I didn't know. That was my point. I could no longer afford to be uninformed about what was happening in my state. Sure it's not going to affect New York or California, but it's already affecting me, and that was what provided the impetus to know that we had to step up our game.” Joseph, Founder of Miami Tech Enthusiast club

Your voice, our drive: Presenting Tuta users from around the world. | Tuta

2025 was the year many people realized how at risk their digital privacy had become. For Joseph, it was the year to take action against this, and so he started the Miami Tech Enthusiast Club.
Tuta
@Miami Tech Enthusiast Club 📎

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Accessible recruitment is everyone’s business
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by @iheni
#a11y #accessibility #hr #recruitment

Henny Swan: Accessible recruitment is everyone’s business - HRreview | HR News, Opinion & Advice

Recruitment is supposed to be a gateway. Too often, though, that gateway is built with walls rather than open doors.
Henny Swan (HRreview | Black and White Trading Ltd)
#a11y #Accessibility #hr #recruitment @Henny Swan

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"Vibe coding" really is indistinguishable from playing a slot machine.

There's (for some) a degree of fun based on the hope of getting something valuable for a relatively small investment. When it won't work you just keep pulling the lever. At some point you surely will win, right?

Also with slot machines the bank always wins while slowly draining your resources.

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#XMPP Community

The Chat of the Future Initiative has its first focus session today from 18:00 UTC!
As chosen by the participants, the topics are User interface & User experience and new Community Events.

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#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc #messaging #ux #ui

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Chat of the Future Initiative | XMPP - The universal messaging standard

The XSF Communication Team is launching the ‘Chat of the Future Initiative’ to support the XMPP ecosystem through collaborative discussions, development, and improved public communication. This new initiative invites participants from all …
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#xmpp #Jabber #chat #UX #interoperability #ui #messaging #rtc
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Jonathan

@JustinMac84 Because I don't need inflection. I want the text, that's the point of the message. Not to insert a sun or a colision or whatever you can spam on your frequently used emoji keyboard. Sighted can skip it, or ignore it, or yeah are bored of dry text but that's not my problem. What does a colision or a sun communicate to me? What is coliding? It's winter, no sun...
@Justin Macleod
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Justin Macleod

If I send you a weary face imoji for example, it is a lot more concise and elegant than expressing that feeling in the required number of words. It adds emphasis to text. Sometimes lack of inflection can be problematic and lead to misunderstanding so, with an imoji, things can be clarrified. Given that, if I send multiple consecutive imojis, speech should concatinate them, I'm not seeing that it takes up significantly more time.
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Jonathan

@JustinMac84 Lol and here kicks the language barrier, I don't even know from the top of my head what a weary face is. Right so I searched, do you mean this? 😩
I mean why is it better though. In germany we literally have a word for that. Erschöpft, tired, overwealmed, you decide. See I'd rather take your description of the actual feelings rather than a dumb emoji. But well I guess that's where our opinions differ and that's also good, you don't always have to disagree. Just to clarify I'm not trying to go against you in anyway, it's just I really struggle to find a proper need/usecase for me and am annoyed by the constant usage of them by some people.
@Justin Macleod
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Jonathan

@JustinMac84 Also, and it'll be difficult to describe this in english, but it's a similar situation to alttext, just a bit less significant. How would I know what a person is trying to say with an emoji that I can't perceive the same way sighted/the sender does?
For example, recently in a Teams call we we're supposed to do the impression of a certain emoji someone would send into the chat, in this case, it was "Ermahnendes Gesicht", which, acording to AI, translates to shushing face. So in english I find this description to be more understandable than in german, but still, what is a shushing face? I didn't know, well shit. Turns out a face that has a finger over their lips to, idk, imply silence, make someone shut up? It's just useless. I can't, get them on the same level, same for gifs and stickers and all that crap.
@Justin Macleod
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Jonathan

@JustinMac84 I had this several times now, sighted sent me emojis they interpreted completely different than whoever decided what my screenreader should say when it finds this random bunch of unicode clutter.
When I read out what the emoji was read out as to me, they were like, what, that is totaly not what this is etc. Well then, I rather just drop them completely.
@Justin Macleod

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Oh look: #discord outsourced their age verification to some vendor. You know, the #ageverification that countries like the UK want to make mandatory for basically every online service. And the vendor had a data breach exposing photos of government IDs for 70,000 people.

Do you feel safer? How many children did we protect by exposing the IDs of these 70,000 (presumably) adults? Thanks for taking one for the team, you 70,000 canaries in the #privacy coal mine.

discord.com/press-releases/upd…


Update on a Security Incident Involving Third-Party Customer Service | Discord

At Discord, protecting the privacy and security of our users is a top priority. That’s why it’s important to us that we’re transparent with them about events that impact their personal information.
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#privacy #discord #ageverification

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On one hand, I absolutely love and adore pull requests. On the other hand, they make me realize just how bad I am at pretending to be a developer. Anyway, if you use #NVDA 2026, here's another release of unspoken-ng that fixes Firefox errors while also making everything better because I am apparently incapable of correctly thinking through the effect of threads. You should upgrade ASAP if you use this addon: github.com/fastfinge/unspoken-ng/releases/tag/v1.0.4

Release Firefox and performance fixes · fastfinge/unspoken-ng

Everything in this one is thanks to akj. If you use Firefox, you should upgrade right away to prevent errors. Full changes: Fix COM threading violations when navigating Firefox content by extracti...
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#nvda

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Las leyes y sus definiciones.

La ley de montes define 'monte' como “todo terreno en el cual vegetan especies forestales, arbóreas, arbustivas, de matorral o herbáceas, sea espontáneamente o procedan de siembra o plantación, que cumplan o puedan cumplir funciones ambientales, protectoras, productoras, culturales paisajísticas o recreativas.”

Aplicando la regla de que Si A, entonces (A o B):
(A ⇒ A ∨ B)

“todo terreno en el cual vegetan especies herbáceas, que procedan de siembra, que puedan cumplir funciones recreativas.” es un "monte"

Entonces:
- un parque es un monte.
- una plantación de marihuana es un monte.
- mi maceta es un monte.

#lengua #logica

#lengua #logica
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modulux

Observación interesante, aunque también hay que leer el 5.2--3:

2. Sin perjuicio de lo dispuesto en los demás apartados de este artículo, no tienen la consideración de monte:
a) Los terrenos dedicados al cultivo agrícola.
b) Los terrenos urbanos.
c) Los terrenos que excluya la comunidad autónoma en su normativa forestal y urbanística.
3. Las comunidades autónomas, de acuerdo con las características de su territorio, podrán determinar la dimensión de la unidad administrativa mínima que será considerada monte a los efectos de la aplicación de esta ley.

Dicho esto me pregunto si el adjetivo forestal está modificando a todas esas frases (arbóreas, arbustivas, de matorral o herbáceas). Hay especies herbáceas forestales? Ni idea.

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🌟 Ready to shape the future of collaboration, all while driving innovation in #opensource? We are hiring! 🌟

Are you a great listener and a curious product person with experience in leadership and engineering? Then you might be a great fit for our Product Tech Lead role at @openproject.

You’ll lead a team of experienced engineers and help shape product direction based on the needs of our users. careers.openproject.org/o/prod…

#productmanagement #productleadership #techleadership #fediHire #foss


OpenProject GmbH - Product Tech Lead (all genders)

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#foss #opensource #FediHire #productmanagement #productleadership #techleadership @OpenProject

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Oh my, that clown service again. In the console, they report "harmful content" they write they detected – but at the same time, their engine confirms the file being fine at VirusTotal 🤦‍♂️

Most of the time I get the idea, they just want to keep us busy with nonsense, so we cannot do the work we are here for…

Requested a review, giving them their own results to check. Yuck.

Google Console marks this file as harmful
At VirusTotal, Google says the file is fine.
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

PS: Snippet updated, find it at gitlab.com/-/snippets/4909577 for reference. So far, all we receive from either of those services, are false positives – needlessly wasting our time.

Edit: No, we did not sign up willingly for either of those. Both are forcing us into (useless) action.


Netcraft false positives, Google Safebrowsing shenanigans ($4909577) · Snippets · GitLab

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They broke #WhatsApp for #Windows completely. At least with JAWS, I hear "Press right and left arrows" instead of each and every message with virtual cursor turned off. Also, it randomly starts calls on arrow keys sometimes. Absolutely unacceptable behavior.
UPDATE. Tested without Doug's scripts and with #NVDA, same results. Random messages, especially missed calls, are read as "Press left and right arrows...".
#Accessibility #Blind
#Accessibility #blind #whatsapp #Windows #nvda
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At the moment, the only stable, fast, and high-quality internet connection from Iran is either through Starlink, which is illegal here and extremely expensive and smuggled, or through stealth VPN services that operate using Starlink, which are also very expensive. I’m currently using one of those services. Each gigabyte costs around 5 to 6 dollars. Damn these murderous dictators!

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Amir

@miki Telegram has been blocked for several years. I only managed to connect to it using a very basic L2TP VPN in order to obtain this Starlink-based service.
That L2TP connection is extremely slow, to the point that it’s basically useless for normal web browsing or even opening WhatsApp. According to NetBlocks data, right now only around 1% of people in Iran have access to the global internet.
@miki
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Borris

I am not yet, but I am interested in such things as well. Apparently, the web/app interfaces are accessible, at least for Meshtastic. There is also MeshCore, which runs on the same hardware, but I don't know much about that. Apparently fixes a lot of issues with Meshtastic, especially in densely populated areas with lots of nodes.
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my workplace bought a new firewall. the manufacturer included a cable for the iec c15 plug (Warmgerätestecker). its a US plug on the other side.
turns out my company does not own a single c15 plug cable, only boatloads of c13. (Kaltgerätestecker)

i am tempted to get my dremel.

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As part of governance updates for The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind @libreoffice, we now have Community Bylaws. Thanks to everyone who contributed feedback and suggestions: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #openSource #freesoftware
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Version 1 of TDF Community Bylaws - TDF Community Blog

The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit entity behind the LibreOffice project. It collects donations from users, and employs a small team to support and coordinate the worldwide community that makes the software.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource @LibreOffice

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Everyone that manages security reports for Open Source projects have been getting a higher workload because of AI. Both real reports and just slop - reports including vulnerabilities in code that doesn't exist. For some, this is becoming a denial of service attack, with developers having to spend valuable, and in some cases unpaid, time to sort out what's real and may be a vulnerability.

Jarek Potiuk, member of The Apache Software Foundation will talk about this on the GVIP Summit Wednesday Jan 28th in Brussels. We still have a few seats available - but hurry up to register!

gvip-project.org

#NVD #CVE #EUVD #EUCRA #CRA

#cve #cra #eucra #euvd #nvd
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