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Google Chrome is ditching support for macOS 12 Monterey, leaving owners of older Macs stranded with no new security updates. Is your Mac one of them?
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Google Chrome is ditching support for macOS 12 Monterey, leaving older Macs stranded

Google has announced that its Chrome web browser will soon no longer support macOS 12 Monterey, with a July 2026 update requiring macOS 13 Ventura or newer.
Oliver Haslam (AppleInsider)

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The war is over, but my wounds are still open. My home was destroyed. I lost two girls. I can no longer live here. Only bad memories surround me. I live in harsh humanitarian conditions. I am not asking for the impossible. Just remember me Remember my child Ibrahim. I just want to keep him warm, protect him, and save him from all this hell.🙏💔🥺
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#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #israel #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #fediAid #mutualAid
@gvenema
@kathimmel
@lashman

Help us save my family in Gaza from hunger and killing.

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#MutualAid #israel #palestine #Gaza #STOPtheGENOCIDE #gazaverified #fediaid #stopisrael @lashman @it's kat! 🇵🇸✊ @Gerrit 🇪🇺🌍🍉🔻
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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
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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
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#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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