I've said it before now, but I'll repeat it in the context of FIFA or the Olympics: Please don't come here. The rule of law is gone. I could never have really "guaranteed your safety" before, one can't. But now, I can't even guarantee that we'll get you out of this.
Do not come to the US, which is currently busily become a failed pariah state with no rule of law.
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Friends & Comrades
How are you??
(everything is a LOT right now and you don't have to be perfect for me or anyone else, and we are multi-faceted beings that are capable of feeling many things simultaneously, so choose everything applicable)
Recently have you felt?
- Anger/RAGE (72%, 13 votes)
- Horror/shock (33%, 6 votes)
- Sadness/Crying: can't stop/won't stop (5%, 1 vote)
- Sadness/Not Crying (44%, 8 votes)
- Numb/disassociated (55%, 10 votes)
- Frozen/stuck: can't get out of bed (27%, 5 votes)
- Irritable/annoyed (38%, 7 votes)
- Fear/afraid/spooked/jumpy (16%, 3 votes)
- Trembly (16%, 3 votes)
- Sensitive (16%, 3 votes)
- Anxiety (55%, 10 votes)
- Depression (27%, 5 votes)
- Avoidant (22%, 4 votes)
- Overwhelmed (22%, 4 votes)
- Stressed (38%, 7 votes)
- Foggy (11%, 2 votes)
- Peaceful (16%, 3 votes)
- Calm (33%, 6 votes)
- Thoughtful (27%, 5 votes)
- Happy (16%, 3 votes)
- Giddy/Glee (11%, 2 votes)
- Joy (16%, 3 votes)
- Awe (16%, 3 votes)
- Laughter (16%, 3 votes)
- Another secret thing, in the comments... (0%, 0 votes)
- I have someone I can talk to (50%, 9 votes)
- I have no one to talk to (16%, 3 votes)
Is it still mate, or how are we doing.
Context: I want to try to switch from Windows, and I'm fine spending some time setting things up, but I don't want to have a 30 min debug session every time I want to use my computer
Incidentally, yesterday's event(s) are why I ALWAYS switch off video autoplay in all browsers and social media apps and refuse to use TikTok or other video media platforms.
I do not need to see that kind of shit, and you should think twice before sharing it with strangers without a content warning.
eurpod.com/synths/nvSpeechPlay…
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"Sokeus on vaatinut tienraivaajan asennetta" | Espoon kaupunki
Haastattelussa säveltäjä ja harmonikkataiteilija Joose Ojala.www.espoo.fi
Моя разказ за роботите и хората няма да спечeли Букър, но пък аз си го харесвам.
Капчици живот • Блога на Бого
Страх ме е. Много ме е страх, но не за себе си, а за вас. Навеждали ли си сте се някога към локвичка с вода след току що навалял дъжд за да духнете в нея?Богомил "Бого" Шопов (Блога на Бого)
Aз на FOSDEM 2026
Тази година пак ще се опитам да се замъкна на FOSDEM. За първи път си направих и слайдовете предварително, което малко ще намали стреса, които промените в последните секунди ми носят. Ако сте там и искате да се видим, тук ми е приблизителния план за двата дни! Ето списък с лекциите и слайдовете, ако ви е интересно.
Aз на FOSDEM 2026 • Блога на Бого
Тази година пак ще се опитам да се замъкна на FOSDEM. За първи път си направих и слайдовете предварително, което малко ще намали стреса…Богомил "Бого" Шопов (Блога на Бого)
Huh.
ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/qu…
Quebec imposes guidelines for the use of AI in the civil service
Quebec’s Ministry of Cybersecurity and Digital Technology (MCN) is adopting measures to regulate the use of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) by public bodies.The Canadian Press (CTVNews)
It didn't, but it sounds better than I would have expected.
(My expectations are very low because of Canada.)
В Питере открылась монастырская баня для состоятельных верующих. Люксовый комплекс рассчитан на двоих и оформлен с камином, колоколами, иконами и парной. Цена православного релакса — 35 тысяч рублей с человека: в неё входят парение вениками, массажи, скрабы и «очищение ума от дурных мыслей». Обещают полный духовный перезапуск.
Чем это отличается по сути от "денежных ворот"?
Где-то мне на крещение попадалось видео с православными неграми и негритянками, которые в прорубь окунались... 😂
Nazi Germany didn't start with camps.
It started with loyalty tests, enemies within, attacks on the press, and people saying "this won't last."
It was built while people waited for it to get "bad enough" to matter. Waiting was a decision.
If this feels uncomfortably familiar right now, that's not an accident.
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Rip up trade deals with the US. They're not worth the paper they're written on anymore.
Repeal anti-circumvention laws; allow companies in every nation to reverse engineer US tech, and sell better, cheaper alternatives, even to Americans - this would create leverage over the USA.
Cory Doctorow raised this idea at his 39c3 talk, recently. I agree. Those trade deals promise low/no tariffs and we let US tech walk all over us. Well now there is nothing to lose (never was).
fediversity.eu is hiring (EU-based) developers!
we'll also be at #fosdem's #nix track next week.
Tim Cook, Andy Jassy, and AMD CEO Lisa Su are at the White House for a VIP screening of the Melania doc.
If you’re wondering what kind of access a gold-and-Gorilla-Glass statue, a $1 million donation, and endless fawning buys you, well, it gets a special advanced screening of a state-sanctioned propaganda documentary film about the First Lady.Terrence O'Brien (The Verge)
#NewYearResolution2026: Never let people tell you it's impossible to deGoogle your life. 💪
➡️ Find out the names to the icons: tuta.com/blog/degoogle-list
Top list to deGoogle with best private alternatives | 2025 | Tuta
2025 is the year to deGoogle! In this guide, we take a look at the best private Google alternatives so that you can say hello to privacy!Tuta
#Bulgarian localization daily (device) usage of the products I contribute to:
- Firefox Desktop: 130 764
- Firefox for Android: 52 954
- Thunderbird: 20 284
RE: mastodon.social/@Moltz/1159538…
I have the feeling I have bought my last Apple products. They make me productive and I love how they work for me. But my conscience can’t handle giving this company more money.
John Moltz (@Moltz@mastodon.social)
On the night a man was murdered by ICE in Minnesota, Tim Cook spent the evening watching what must be one of the shittiest movies of all time with the people running ICE as their own personal terrorist organization. https://www.theverge.John Moltz (Mastodon)
I think #Signal seems to be a really good app. Both from UX perspective and privacy (as far I've heard from others).
But it's still US software hq:ed in Mountain View California (with Alphabet, Google, LinkedIn), so switching to it does nothing (0) towards European digital independence. It doesn't help promote the emergence of strong European alternatives to US tech. It actually does the opposite when the European alternatives miss out on an influx of new users.
#digitalsovereignty #diday
Large corporations will cooperate with all governments (including the US), and Signal cannot mathematically leak your data. Between today's reality and switching to Signal, I would choose Signal.
Yes, it would be good if there were a strong European alternative that would gain popularity, but I don't see such a ‘player’.
#DeltaChat, it is decentralized, doesn't require phone numbers or any private data, onboarding is smooth much easier than in signal, similar UI (it is a signal fork) it has much better multi-device and multi-profile support, secure in-chat mini-apps like notepads, to-do lists, shopping lists, etc
there are alternatives, but they will not gain momentum if you don't promote them and stop misinforming people selling a centralized silo running on amazon as sovereign
@leanderlindahl
Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires
thehftguy.com/2026/01/22/doing…
<- this is one of those things I never knew existed but now desperately need
Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires
Disclaimer: None of this is written by AI, I’m still a real person writing my own blog like its 1999 I finally figured out how to do Gigabit Ethernet over my existing phone wires. Powerline adapter…The HFT Guy
Join me in an experiment to attempt to map the happiness levels of the Fediverse. Once a day I post a poll asking a simple question: how happy are you?
Hopefully we'll be able to use the data to answer some big questions. Are we happier on holidays? Does Valentine's Day make us happy? What about weekends?
I know what I think, but lets find out.
Please follow this account, boost the polls and check back to get the analysis. (I share the raw aggregate data so you can do your own analysis too)
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Google is now marking EVERY SINGLE APK at our repository as "Malware site issue". Congrats, "Safe" browsing.
Of course there is not a single malware there, everything is scanned multiple times. And I bet they excluded *.google.com from their scan or the entire PlayStore would be red by now, too…
Calling out to all of you: Please use safebrowsing.google.com/safebr… to report the links as "safe"!
apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo/co… is the one console reports.

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@admin I've updated my snipped with information collected from this thread, on how to disable Google Safebrowsing on Android browsers:
gitlab.com/-/snippets/4909577#…
So far, we have hints on Firefox and Brave. If you know it for other browsers, please let me know and I'll add it.
Note that, while I'm very much tempted to, this is no "recommendation to disable it". For our site it is safe (to our knowledge), but there are real dangers out there (like, googleapis.com 🙊). So be careful, please!
Ah, so to follow the instructions on the error message you have to know how to bypass their attempts to block mobile users from using about:config. Lovely.
I filed a bug report with Mozilla too. As far as I'm concerned this is a serious UI defect, especially considering that the desktop version offers significantly more detail and also a bypass link. So sick of mobile users getting screwed over by Mozilla...
Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android androidauthority.com/google-si…
The company insists it’s about user awareness, not blocking installs. Do you trust? (1/2)
Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android - Android Authority
Google says Android is getting a "high-friction" sideloading flow, but insists it's an accountability layer about risk awareness.Adamya Sharma (Android Authority)
The gift card accountability sink
The gaps scammers exploit in gift cards are the result of deliberate policy tradeoffs.Patrick McKenzie (patio11) (Bits about Money)
Prosody 13.0.4 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch. Welcome to another minor release from our stable branch! We encourage any deployments using 13.0.blog.prosody.im
Návrh na vyslovenie nedôvery Európskej komisii
Poslanci Európskeho parlamentu vo štvrtkovom hlasovaní zamietli návrh na vyslovenie nedôvery Európskej komisii.
Návrh, ktorý predložila skupina Patriots for Europe, bol zamietnutý. Hlasovaniu predchádzala plenárna rozprava s komisárom Marošom Šefčovičom v pondelok 19. januára.
Politická skupina Patrioti za Európu predložila návrh na vyslovenie nedôvery Komisii, čím spochybnila obchodnú dohodu medzi EÚ a Mercosurom, ktorú členské štáty schválili 9. januára a podpísali 17. januára v Paraguaji.
Podľa rokovacieho poriadku Parlamentu môže návrh na vyslovenie nedôvery Komisii predložiť predsedovi jedna desatina všetkých členov Parlamentu, teda v súčasnosti 72 poslancov Európskeho parlamentu. Hlasovanie sa musí uskutočniť menovite a na prijatie je potrebná dvojtretinová väčšina odovzdaných hlasov, ktorá predstavuje väčšinu všetkých členov Parlamentu.
Not sure how many of you use ChatGTP, but you might want to scale back.
"The latest model of ChatGPT has begun to cite Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as a source on a wide range of queries, including on Iranian conglomerates and Holocaust deniers, raising concerns about misinformation on the platform.
In tests done by the Guardian, GPT-5.2 cited Grokipedia nine times in response to more than a dozen different questions."
theguardian.com/technology/202…
#news #technology #TechNews #ChatGPT #OpenAI #AI #GenAI #grok #grokipedia
Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal
Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniersAisha Down (The Guardian)
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