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#Catima 2.41.6 is out!

Catima is a simple app for store discount cards, event tickets and more.

This release fixes a regression introduced in 2.41.5 causing the manual barcode selection screen to only show empty squares and makes URLs in card IDs clickable in the "more info" pop up.

Coming soon to an app store near you!

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay


Release 2.41.6 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Auto-detect URLs in card ID and make the clickable in card ID details pop-up Fix barcode selector activity showing white squares instead of barcodes
GitHub
#fdroid #github #googleplay #catima #izzyondroid
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Sylvia

@amy Oh that's easy just drop github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro… from your fork and maintain Android 5-compatible forks of the official Google libraries which dropped Android 5 support for all eternity!

Or run an older version: github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro… 😛


Revert "Reapply "Temporarily re-add Android 5 support (#2925)"" by TheLastProject · Pull Request #2989 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Reverts #2984 Finally removes Android 5 support so we can update our dependencies
GitHub
@Amy

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A techbro desperate for cash is detained for 13 hours after leaving a non-functioning, vibe-coded anti-fraud device in a Swiss hotel lobby during the Davos conf

sfstandard.com/2026/01/22/tech…


‘I’m very stupid’: SF tech founder jailed in Davos for bomb-lookalike device 

After leaving a prototype unattended at the World Economic Forum, Sebastian Heyneman was held by Swiss authorities for 13 hours.
Rya Jetha (The San Francisco Standard)

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"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?"

"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."

After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"

"This, too, is magic."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #SmallStories

#microfiction #tootfic #smallstories
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#TwinCities Workers #Strike Against #ICE. Two Hundred Cities Follow.

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As two hundred and fifteen cities prepare to walk out today in solidarity with #Minneapolis, the whole world is watching.

Twin Cities Workers Strike Against ICE. Two Hundred Cities Follow.

As two hundred and fifteen cities prepare to walk out today in solidarity with Minneapolis, the whole world is watching.
Pablo Manríquez (Migrant Insider)
#strike #ice #minneapolis #twincities
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Matthew Exon

It automatically adjusts depending on how often the source posts articles. Presumably the idea is to avoid sending frequent requests to small servers that rarely publish. This does mean that if an account only publishes once a month or so, it'll probably take a day or so before you see the article.

It used to be configurable on a per-feed basis, but looking now I think that setting went away. It can still be configured in the database I believe.

The way Friendica does RSS polling is pretty broken. You're supposed to make conditional requests so that the feed only needs to be built when it genuinely has something new, and you're supposed to respect the retry time. That way you can request much more frequently without overloading the server. But implementing that would require database schema changes.

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RE: tldr.nettime.org/@dk/115940759…

I previously framed the resistance against copyright as a tragedy in three parts, from anti-copyright to free software and copyleft to free culture and the so-called creative commons. But this fourth act is tragicomic. AI as Détournement.

Dmytri

2026-01-22 20:59:45

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AI is the recuperation of the anti-copyright critique.

“Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it.” Lautréamont, 1870
1/8

#TheGeneralTheoryOfSlop


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I can officially say, dev talk went well, and I'm on a great path to Senior Engineership. But I'm still very much considering nuking the entire NV Speech Repository and saying fuck it I'm done. Not sure. It's very, very tempting. Just blow it all away and close it, never work on it again and maybe someone will maintain it. But I'm sure every developer has that feeling in a project. It's not that I don't like harsh or bad feedback, it's that I feel like that feedback will always be there, for years, months, when you're making a synthesizer like that, so I'm just on this constant hamster wheel of failures? Sigh. Not sure. That's how it makes me feel honestly.
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Tamas G

@startrek2025 this is great to hear. Yeah, improvements come incrementally and not all at once sadly. I want to take a little break but then I feel like the feedback piles up and I have this itch to fix them all. Which is why we've added stuff like TrillModulation so you can make this thing now roll it's R's for 300 seconds if you wanted to (not recommended though.) Stuff like that. People send it in, and that itch really comes back to solve the problem. Whether with or without AI then I persist until it's solved, it's just how I tend to work.
@David Dunphy

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USB 3.0 flash drive supports OS boot and file transfer on Raspberry Pi lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

USB 3.0 flash drive supports OS boot and file transfer on Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi has released the Raspberry Pi Flash Drive, a USB 3.0 Type-A flash storage device intended for file transfer, backups, and operating system use across Raspberry Pi boards and other computers.
Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)

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2026 Will Mark The End of DSL & Traditional Home Phone For Many cordcuttersnews.com/2026-will-…

2026 Will Mark The End of DSL & Traditional Home Phone For Many | Cord Cutters News

2026 will mark the end of DSL and traditional home phone service across the United States. In a significant step toward modernizing its telecommunications infrastructure, AT&T has received approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) las…
Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)

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RE: social.heise.de/@heiseonlineen…

Company gets bought, which is followed by layoffs? I'm shocked, shocked! That has never happened before.

😣

heise online English (@heiseonlineenglish@social.heise.de)

Layoffs at Vimeo after acquisition by Bending Spoons Bending Spoons bought Vimeo for $1.4 billion last fall. Now a second wave of layoffs is coming. https://www.heise.de/en/news/Layoffs-at-Vimeo-after-acquisition-by-Bending-Spoons-11152120.
heise online English (Heise Medien on Mastodon)

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Good morning all. I'm waiting for a grocery delivery today. Can't imagine how busy the grocery stores are now. We could see up to 14 inches of snow with this storm.
Today, I got a package from UPS, left at our door, addressed to someone at a completely different address. I read the address with my phone, searched and found the owner's phone number. I called and the package owner's wife picked up the box.
Not much going on this weekend except the possible storm arrival. For all impacted, stay safe.

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From austinpolitics.net/the-state-o…:

"I remember a couple years ago talking to a local businessman about Project Connect. 'If it doesn't go to the airport, what's the point?' he asked.

This is the kind of comment that would probably prompt vigorous nods of approval at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon but would make heads explode at a gathering of transit experts.

The idea that the purpose of public transit is to facilitate air travel is a more absurd version of the notion, popular among Sunbelt elites, that the point of public transit is to facilitate car travel by reducing car traffic.

(For the same reason that expanding highways doesn't reduce traffic, nor will public transit. The point of transit is not to make it easier to drive, it is to offer an alternative to driving.)"

Exactly.


The state of Project Connect

And should the train go to the airport?
Jack Craver (The Austin Politics Newsletter)

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Hello, we've just done a bugfix release of #GoToSocial v0.20.3, codename "Most Sinister Sloth 😈😈😈😈😈"!

codeberg.org/superseriousbusin…

This release contains some bugfixes for annoying little API issues, updates to robots.txt to forbid more so-called "ai" (🤢) crawlers, and a bugfix for polite interaction requests that will be useful when v0.21.0 comes out in a couple weeks.

If you're updating to this version from v0.20.0, v0.20.1, or v0.20.2, it's a very easy update with no db migrations.

If you're updating to this version from a version before v0.20.0, please follow the update instructions from v0.20.0, but replace 0.20.0 with 0.20.3 throughout. Be aware that the update to 0.20.x contains some potentially very long migrations. Please do read the notes carefully!

If you are currently on a snapshot / nightly build, stay on the snapshot / nightly build, as it's already ahead of this release.

Thanks for reading!


v0.20.0 Sinister Sloth 😈 - superseriousbusiness/gotosocial

Here's version 0.20.0 of GoToSocial, **Sinister Sloth**. It's been a long summer of gently poking and prodding at the sloth's tummy and sides to make xem giggle.
Codeberg.org
#GoToSocial

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I am unable to download my purchase of the new #Megadeth album because the service they are using relies on hCaptcha. If you are #blind and use a screen reader, you cannot solve the visual captcha. They ask you to install an #accessibility cookie, which I have tried to do with two different browsers, with no luck. The provided email address for help, customercare@mainfactorcommerce.com bounces. How much of my day am I going to waste on this? I can't even get my money back!! #A11Y
#a11y #Accessibility #blind #megadeth
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