Google Lookout: Current Offerings and the Untapped Potential for a Blind Essential Toolbox accessibleandroid.com/google-l…
in reply to Molly White

This is not to downplay the extent to which Trump is grifting his devotees and crypto traders looking to make a buck on memecoin speculation. But it is important that we accurately report on his cons and don’t contribute to misleading crypto hype for the sake of large numbers.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #USpol

“Cynicism comes with hidden taxes. Every time we default to assuming the worst, we pay in missed opportunities, reduced social trust, and diminished creative capacity. These costs compound over time, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy in which cynical expectations shape cynical realities.” joanwestenberg.com/we-dont-nee…
in reply to Tomáš Znamenáček

Chvilku mi to trvalo, ale dosel jsem k zaveru, ze s clankem striktne nesouhlasim. Cynismus ma svoje misto a nedaval bych rovnitko mezi cynik = debil, ac mnoho cynickych postoju je v zasade jenom fakticka manifestace debila.

Zadany stav v clanku me prijde mnohem nebezpecnejsi. Defensivni pozitivne-skepticke postoje se rychle zvrhnou v sanewashing. Viz treba media ve vztahu k Trumpovi a jeho kampani (vs cynicke postoje proti-trumpovskych republikanu).

in reply to Martin Wenisch

Já jsem si z toho odnesl hlavně ten postřeh, že cynismus člověka oslabuje takovým tím postojem „stejně to nebude fungovat“. A s tím souhlasím, nebo aspoň pro mě je to užitečná korekce kurzu. Na druhou stranu úvahy typu „pět důvodů, proč bude Trumpova vláda dobrá pro EU“, taky vůbec nepovažuju za šťastné.
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Weird tech mystery of the day.

I am running a Bookwyrm instance, which receives a post request to /inbox about twice a minute, from mastodon.sdf.org. The user it is posted as no longer exists, and every time this happens, SDF returns a 404, which is then logged here. Any idea what is going on? The two IP addresses the requests come from belong to mastodon.sdf.org, so I am assuming they are not forged.

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„Blue Monday“ Tag der Einsamkeit – Besonders betroffen sind Menschen mit niedrigem Einkommen. Zusammenhalt wächst dort, wo Angebote ohne Schwellen erreichbar sind.
religion.orf.at/stories/322848…

📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 20. Jänner, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag um 19:00 besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion

Sharing passwords can be risky - but it doesn’t have to be 🔐

Learn the safest ways to share passwords securely and protect your sensitive information here 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-share-passwo… #PasswordProtection

#OnlineSafety #Encrypted

Head up, #maker #3DPrinter fans. The just-announced BambuLab lockdown on our printers is on it way - but you can still enroll your printer (with the usual caveats) to run rootable firmware.

Read BambuLab's post here: blog.bambulab.com/firmware-upd…

Buuuuuuut,

You can still go through the opt-out procedure (or just not upgrade your printer)

bambulab.com/en-us/third-party…

Or, y'know, you could get the keys... hackaday.com/2025/01/19/bambu-… ;)

And I'd recommend X1 Plus firmware :) github.com/X1Plus/X1Plus

#OwnIt #RightToRepair

From Canada, I hope folks are taking some time this Martin Luther King Jr. Day to reflect on the hope he had for America.

Here’s his lecture from the 1967 Massey Lecture in Canada - Conscience for Change - 1967 Massey

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL30…

The Massey Lecture is a real institution here. So many great intellectuals have presented challenging views about challenges to modern civilization.

Welcome 9cel as #curl commit author 1332: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1605…
#curl
in reply to Moe Lassus

Good Morning.
You know it's going to be there, and make everyone angry and tense. Only sensible thing to do, is FLOOD SOCIAL MEDIA with #DistractingStuff #Otters
We don't have SEA OTTERS, and often seals swim by when I'm having morning coffee.
But, #RiverOtters come out in the harbour on low tides regularly. Pretty sure that's an otter head

So I had a break from Fanfiction for all of 3 weeks. I got sucked into ...
The Accidental Animagus
White_Squirrel
Harry escapes the Dursleys with a unique bout of accidental magic and eventually winds up at the Grangers' house. Now, he has what he always wanted: a loving family—and he'll need their help to take on the magical world and vanquish the dark lord who has pursued him from birth.

archiveofourown.org/works/1407…
cc @FreakyFwoof

I've been watching the ways in which search engines have integrated large language models into their results, and the results are just as bad as you would expect. #misinformation #disinformation #homophobia #transphobia
jessk.org/blog/ai-and-disinfor…

At this year's #FOSDEM my team at #wolfSSL got no booth space so my large volume #curl sticker distribution (LVCSD) has to be done using other means.

The LVCSD will most likely happen in the cafeteria area, but feel free to ping me if you can't get your fix as planned.

I will bring thousands of curl stickers and hundreds of coasters. There will be a few mugs and maybe some tshirts.

Buying myself friends, like a boss.

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On this day four years ago, I handed over svn.haxx.se to the #Subversion project and my two decades of hosting a mailing list archive for the project was over:

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/01/20…

LibreOffice is the privacy-oriented office suite and doesn't include AI out-of-the-box. No way. But some people find AI tools useful, so a community member has made a (fully optional!) extension to add these features if you want them: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…

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