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Pi is a new digital currency developed by Stanford PhDs, with over 55 million members worldwide. To claim your Pi, follow this link minepi.com/FreakyFwoof and use my username (FreakyFwoof) as your invitation code.

Pi Blockchain, Community & Developer Platform | Pi Network

Pi is a network of tens of millions of humans mining Pi cryptocurrency to use and build the Web3 app ecosystem.
Pi Network
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Andre Louis

@BorrisInABox Given that Pi Coin is worth a fluctuating amount of USd, last I checked around 39/coin, I'd say it might well be. I never got into Bitcoin when I should have, stupid to do that. With this even if it went nowhere, pressing a button on a screen once every day doesn't hurt. I've amassed quite a collection doing that, as I think I've missed less than a week in all those years.
@Borris

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Buttons are superior to touch interfaces in almost all places.

Our previous gas stove and oven had buttons and dials and it was clear, easy & quick to operate.

Our new induction stove and oven uses touch. Everything takes easily three times as long.

spectrum.ieee.org/touchscreens


Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back

Rachel Plotnick's "re-buttonization" expertise is in demand
Gwendolyn Rak (IEEE Spectrum)

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Existe una petición oficial a la Unión Europea para que desarrolle y aplique activamente un sistema operativo basado en Linux en todas las administraciones públicas de los Estados miembros de la Unión.

Puedes adherirte y apoyar la petición (previo registro en el sitio del Europarlamento) en:

europarl.europa.eu/petitions/e…

Inicio | PETI | Comisiones | Parlamento Europeo

Página principal del Portal de Peticiones. Información general, últimas peticiones cargadas y otros enlaces con páginas reglamentarias. Otros enlaces con el sitio web del Parlamento Europeo.
www.europarl.europa.eu

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Bueno gente, pues junto a mi hermana he creado una web de ayuda (principalmente, dar información y servir de punto de encuentro digital) para los damnificados por la #DANA, focalizada en #Paiporta (que es donde vive ella), pero con un enfoque que tal vez le pueda resultar útil también a gente de otras zonas afectadas. Si podéis difundir, se agradece:
paiporta.illustietor.com/

Paiporta entre todos - Plataforma autogestionada para informar sobre el estado de Paiporta tras la catástrofe de la DANA de 2024.

Desde Paiporta creamos esta plataforma para informar del estado de nuestros vecindarios, visibilizar nuestras necesidades y echarnos una mano en lo que podamos.
Paiporta entre todos
#dana #paiporta

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Are you a policymaker, an IT officer or do you work in public service delivery in public administration in EU Member State?

We offer trainings that helps ensure that the policies are digital ready, from planning to the implementation stage.

Help us make our trainings better fit your needs 👉 europa.eu/!h4t48f

Digital-ready policymaking - What would you like to learn? We want to hear from you!

DRPM training needs survey

EUSurvey is an online survey-management system built for the creation and publishing of globally accessible forms, such as user satisfaction surveys and public consultations.
europa.eu

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#Dnf this #Fanfiction. The opening chapter was enough to tell me that the Harry Potter mentioned in the summary holds very little relation to the Harry I might enjoy reading about.

After the war Harry Potter's world falls apart. Then he is offered a chance to try and make a better future for himself and his friends. Of course things are never simple.

[Let's Try Again by DayDreamer315]](archiveofourown.org/works/1446…)

Let's Try Again - Chapter 1 - DayDreamer315 - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
archiveofourown.org
#fanfiction #dnf

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If you are a person anywhere on the autism spectrum, you may experience "Justice Sensitivity" and if you're like me, you may find it difficult to understand how so many people don't and how this could possibly be the norm.

#autismSpectrum #JusticeSensitivity

verywellmind.com/what-to-know-…


Justice Sensitivity Is Plaguing Autistic & ADHD Individuals—Here's What to Know

Justice sensitivity is a trait common in autistic and ADHD individuals. Learn how justice sensitivity impacts autistic individuals and how to care for yourself.
Amy Marschall, PsyD (Verywell Mind)
#AutismSpectrum #justicesensitivity
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Nicklas Johnson 🏳️‍🌈

@tardis I haven't experienced that so much, but sometimes when I am mentally tired or sleep deprived, certainly. I suspect I'm sort of just barely on the spectrum though, and my experiences are not representative of the vast sea of possibilities with neurodivergence.

The upside, of course, is being able to focus on incredibly complex, difficult problems that scare other people away. We're wired up differently, not wrongly.

@Winter blue tardis

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Este sábado se cumplieron 30 años del cocido en el que se plantó la idea del movimiento cultural gallego conocido como bravú.

Así que para mi #MusicMonday de este lunes haré un especial dedicado a la música con la que los gallegos crecimos en nuestra infancia y adolesciencia durante los 90.

Empezando, cómo no podía ser de otra forma, con la Oda ó futbolín de Os diplomáticos de Monte-Alto: youtu.be/G_2s-RFtEv4

#NowPlaying #bravú


Oda ao futbolín - Diplomáticos de Monte Alto

Autor: Xurxo SoutoVideoclip de Suso Iglesias
YouTube
#nowplaying #musicmonday #bravu
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zastanawiałam się, czy wrzucać dodatkowo u siebie, jako osobnego toota, skoro już krąży po sieci, temat kontrowersyjny, a ja cierpię na chroniczny niedobór doby ;)

ale w sumie mogę zapuścić linka i dodatkowo otagować:

Czy polska szkoła musi być uzależniona od Big Techów?
techspresso.cafe/2024/10/28/cz…

#edukacja #szkoła #wychowanie #dzieci #nauczyciele #rodzicielstwo #eSzkola #cyfryzacja #edziennik #microsoft #komercjalizacja #bigtech

Czy polska szkoła musi być uzależniona od Big Techów? - TECHSPRESSO.CAFE

Czy polska szkoła musi być uzależniona od Big Techów? Państwo promuje zagraniczne korporacje w polskich szkołach. Osoby szanujące prywatność sprowadza do "roszczeniowych dziwaków". My wszyscy natomiast to finansujemy z naszych podatków.
Joanna Cisowska (TECHSPRESSO.CAFE)
#microsoft #bigtech #Edukacja #szkola #wychowanie #dzieci #nauczyciele #rodzicielstwo #eszkola #cyfryzacja #edziennik #komercjalizacja
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miki

@avolha Z czasów licealnych / pandemicznych, to Polskie szkoły były tak niedofinansowane, że w praktyce kończyły uzależnione od Discorda, bo to było jedyne darmowe i sensowne na tą skalę rozwiązanie. to był dopiero prywatnościowy problem, zwłaszcza przy domyślnych ustawieniach i udostępnianiu kadrze informacji, kto, w co i kiedy gra.
@Anna Wasilewska-Śpioch

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Could daylight saving time ever be permanent? Where it stands in the states
"...We've had daylight saving time for longer than eight months at a time before, and it wasn't a big hit.
From February 1942 until September 1945, the U.S. took on what became known as "War Time," when Congress voted to make daylight saving time year-round during the war in an effort to conserve fuel. " "...Sunrises that could be as late as 9:30 a.m. "
usatoday.com/story/news/nation…

Could daylight saving time ever be permanent? Where it stands in the states

Americans really don't like changing their clocks twice a year. But should daylight saving time become permanent? Many states say yes.
, USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
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Hacked TP-Link routers at center of massive botnet used to attack Azure customers
"...Microsoft has exposed a complex network of compromised devices that Chinese hackers are using to launch highly evasive password spray attacks against Microsoft Azure customers. "
techspot.com/news/105414-tp-li…

Hacked TP-Link routers at center of massive botnet used to attack Azure customers

Microsoft has exposed a complex network of compromised devices that Chinese hackers are using to launch highly evasive password spray attacks against Microsoft Azure customers. This network,...
Skye Jacobs (TechSpot)

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Believe It Or Not, The Best Cola Brand We've Tasted Isn't Coke Or Pepsi
"...The winner of the showdown was actually RC Cola, or Royal Crown Cola.
RC Cola is one of the oldest soda brands still on the market, and was first started back in 1905. " thedailymeal.com/1697791/best-…

Believe It Or Not, The Best Cola Brand We've Tasted Isn't Coke Or Pepsi

During a Daily Meal product test we rated RC Cola in the number one spot due to its impressive carbonation and not overly sweet flavor profile.
Jessica Fleming-Montoya (The Daily Meal)
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The surprisingly deep reason why teens are calling everyone “chat.” "...The term, originally used in contexts like “chat, this real?” to “chat, am I cooked?” stems from the world of Twitch and Discord, as streamers ask their audience for clarification, support, and answers where viewers can communicate with the streamer through text. But now, it’s become adopted as IRL slang, used in any context, for any reason" slate.com/technology/2024/11/c…

It’s Teens’ New Favorite Word. It’s Everywhere. Maybe You Should Start Using It Too.

Teens are taking slang from the screen to the schoolyard. It’s reshaping the way that they connect with each other and the world.
Steffi Cao (Slate)

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United States government mulling a potential merger between Intel and AMD notebookcheck.net/United-State…

United States government mulling a potential merger between Intel and AMD

The United States Commerce Department is figuring out ways to keep Intel afloat after it posted $16.3 billion in losses this quarter. One of the options includes a merger with market rivals such as AMD and Marvell.
Anil Ganti (Notebookcheck)

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I had no idea that North Carolina allows spouses to share a voting booth. Both must consent to that, but of course an abused (or otherwise scared or intimidated) spouse isn't going to complain.

ncnewsline.com/2024/10/25/alam…

h/t @MissGayle @Burnt_Veggies @cafechatnoir
#uspol #voting #NorthCarolina


Alamance County voters raise concerns about spouses sharing polling booths • NC Newsline

Some Alamance County voters at the polls were shocked to see spouses sharing voting booths — though the practice is legal in North Carolina.
Brandon Kingdollar (NC Newsline)
#voting #uspol #NorthCarolina @Play Ball and Fight Fascists @Burnt Veggies @MissGayle

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As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access.

A thread, with links:

Chirag Shah and I wrote about this in two academic papers:
2022: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3498366…
2024: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3649468

We also have an op-ed from Dec 2022:
iai.tv/articles/all-knowing-ma…

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All-knowing machines are a fantasy | Emily M. Bender and Chriag Shah

The idea of an all-knowing computer program comes from science fiction and should stay there. Despite the seductive fluency of ChatGPT and other language models, they remain unsuitable as sources of knowledge.
IAI TV - Changing how the world thinks
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David Goldfield

@EdenLinnea Hi, and thanks for asking. Many of the items that I post to Mastodon covering blindness technology get distributed to my Tech-VI announcement list. There are some items that I post to Mastodon which don't get posted to Tech-VI, as some of them are out of scope for that list.
To subscribe via email, send email to
tech-vi+subscribe@groups.io
The main page, which contains an RSS feed and a message archive, is available at
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@Eden Linnea

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Welcome to the RB family, Innertune 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.m…

InnerTune is a fork of InnerTune – a Material 3 YouTube Music client for Android.

Thanks to Malopieds (the author of this fork) for making this possible :awesome:

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid


„InnerTune“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

A fork of InnerTune, a Material 3 YouTube Music client for Android
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brought you 16 updated apps, but also 2 apps were removed:

* DiviDoc contains a self-updater, and its author did not respond to our issue
* URL to PDF was rebranded to WebCapture more than a month ago, so the "old" app was removed

Further, several more apps could be confirmed as #reproducibleBuilds – bringing their total number here up to 315 (or relative: 26.2%).

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid
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Caleb Maclennan

Re DiviDoc ... You commented on an old closed issue instead of opening a new dedicated one:

github.com/Armand31/Dividoc/is…

Whether or not the author cares I can't say but for most projects that is a good way to go unaddressed. Also for the sake of every other potential user checking out known issues...


Add automatic update · Issue #9 · Armand31/Dividoc

An Android app designed to assist the documentation of dead bodies in war, disaster and migration areas - Add automatic update · Issue #9 · Armand31/Dividoc
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@alerque Yes, I commented on the issue that introduced this, Caleb. And I've pinged the author explicitly, twice even. Apart from that, the project has not seen any commit since 2/2023, and Armand seems "gone" since June. So chances of this being addressed are rather low to non-existent.

Should it be addressed later, the app can easily be re-established, metadata have been archived and not deleted.

@Caleb Maclennan

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Spotted on an evening walk on an isolated beach in Aotearoa #NewZealand

A small human (5?) holding up a kite so her older brother can get it in the air. She's an expert holder, picking it up every time it falls on the sand. The patience and optimism that it'll fly eventually seems infinite.

A man (30s?) with a thoughtful aspect pushing a wheelbarrow down to the water line. He's got all the gear for a perfect few hours fishing. A while later he's spotted in a deck chair next to a low table with a picnic on it while waiting for a catch.

A small group of young humans directed by a man (40s?) in setting up a sand-drawn rugby pitch. He's wearing a bucket hat and has the air of a dad on a mighty mission. Within minutes he has teams sorted and is running up and down the sand umpiring. This is serious business

Two grey haired naturists walking along the treeline on a quiet patch of the beach. From a distance they look like two tranquil, rather pink wild creatures happily holding hands as one of them points out different cloud formations crossing the skyline.

A couple of women (20s?) smooching while standing in ankle deep water. They pause to take a selfie and then one abruptly stoops and splashes the other. Shrieking, chasing and more smooching to follow.

Any typos spotted in this post are lost after being locked in overnight after the sunset gates were closed at this beach. If spotted give them a drink of water and a ride to the nearest town. They will appreciate breakfast.

You're looking at a spectacular flat yellow/brown sand beach at almost full low tide. There's a massive expanse of sand in the foreground that feels quite coarse underfoot. To the left you can see a treeline of pine trees going into the distance. To the right is blue water and overhead is a stunning late spring evening blue sky with the odd fluffy picturesque cloud. In the far distance is a mountain range because this is New Zealand and those suckers sneak up on you.
#newzealand
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mahdi

taky mam vzdycky "radost", kdyz vidim update tohohle molochu. Bohuzel mam jednu appku, kde to nejde vypnout a zatim sem byl linej ten -9999 ebuild poradne prozkoumat, jestli bych to nevypl nebo je to nak vic zadratovany. Naivne sem si myslel (tak pred pul rokem), ze zkusim prepnout par balicku na binarni, ale ono to nejde (zatim?) uplne mixovat. Jen pokud existuje -bin alternativa separe, i u LO sem musel prejit na kompilaci, protoze -bin je zoufale stara a dle bugzilly to moc nevypada.
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Jiří Pavlík

@Marián Kyral @mahdi Já mám Firefox a Thunderbird binární, protože tam jsou updaty hodně časté, Libreoffice kompiluju na svých třech strojích pod hodinu (jsou to děla), na čas Qtwebengine se mi nechce vzpomínat.

Zkoušel jsem binpkg gcc, protože mi chvíli zlobila jeho kompilace, ale jinak té binpkg větvi Gentoo rozumím tak, že je spíš pro případ, kdy člověk spravuje síť a nechce kompilovat na každém PC.

@Marián Kyral @mahdi
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Marián Kyral

@jiri @mahdi

Ta binární větev je pro všechny, kdo využívají nejčastější kombinaci USE flagů. Pokud člověk moc nedivočí, tak se použije binární balík. Jinak se kompiluje.

Bohužel čím větší balík, tím více USE flagů a tím větší šance, že se bude muset kompilovat. Nebylo by špatné, mít nějaký nástroj, který by mi řekl, kterými USE flagy se liším.

@Jiří Pavlík @mahdi
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