Just finished listening to the flourish systems change podcast episode with Dan Hill. Much of the discussion was on #DarkMatter in urban design. Happy that he mentioned the work of @darkmatterlabs.org.

flourish-book.com/flourishsyst…

What does Dark Matter mean for Digital?

Scariest cable I have that I actually use. It's a USB-C to Thinkpad "adapter" that I bought to power a thinkpad that shipped with a giant 135W brick-of-a-power-supply. This cable does work, but has the tendency to "overload" many USB chargers, causing them to reset. Fun times, but good for traveling so I don't have to lug the brick around with me as well.

make #curl --url support a file with URLs?

curl.se/mail/archive-2025-01/0…

With my new PR, you can write "curl --url @file" and curl will download all the URLs in the provided file as if -O was used for each one of them. It can also get the list from stdin if you do "--url @-" in style with how other curl options work.

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alright I forgot to comment on this, because it was around 2weeks ago, but i'm gonna go ahead and now comment on it.
it was thanks to a certain post that I remembered to talk about it.
so i'm gonna be doing a interview with humanware in some point in the future.
and my tvi (teacher of the visually impaired for more context) basically said, hey don't talk about security.
are you kidding me dood? don't talk about security?
right, let's ignore the fact that the braille note is like 8fucking versions out of fucking date!!!!!
let's also ignoe the fucking fact that this thing could be easy to hack if it gets into the wrong fucking hands.
o, right, and let's also ignore the fact that there is literally a critical fucking vulnerability within android8 that the august update fails to fucking patch!!!!!!!
forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2…
what's the excuse for not talking to humanware about security.
"o it's fine, you've locked down your braille note enough".
I get it, i'm basically a security guy, I have Google advanced protection, I have a duress password, I have an antivirus sitting on the braille note, I have keysofts software set to i'm fucking paranoid mode.
but really? simpl don't talk about security? you're joking! if you really needed extra features humnware, just make your own OS based on Android, what is it, 16? you're just trying to be cheap so you can get your money from states and organizations around the world...

If you ever had doubts whether technology is political:

github.com/orgs/community/disc…

(Short recap: Github CoPilot stops working if you have gender-related words in your code, anything related to sex and so on).

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Interestingly, one person captured by big tech found that Microsoft was perfectly in their rights to POST to you "since we could have no proof a user wasn't behind initiating that POST". Another reader wanted Microsoft to be prosecuted for hacking. Others chimed in how this explained their subscribe/unsubscribe links being weird lately: berthub.eu/articles/posts/shif…

As the #BambuLab users are slowly waking up to what blog.bambulab.com/firmware-upd… means, it's a good time to remind everyone that the writing has been on the wall from day one.

It's not a "told you so", mind. It's a "this will continue and get worse". #Bambu will continue to tighten the ratchet.

#Prusa is far from perfect, but they deliver reliable #3dprinting based on open source software at an acceptable cost.

And if you missed it: they allow you to maintain warranty with custom firmware again.

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A propos of nothing, is there a way to verify since when #BambuLab has been blocking @internetarchive ?
It appears to apply to all of *.bambulab.com

Try it for yourself: web.archive.org/web/2025000000…

I have never seen this in my life.

I can think of very few things that are less trustworthy than blocking @internetarchive

Anyway, archive.is exists, so I did a thing:
* archive.is/NAIsu
* archive.is/fjmTe

#enshittification #3dprinting

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I randomly stumbled across the answer why #BambuLab #3dprinting is blocking #internetarchive:

Someone on #Reddit complained about #BambuLab changing their warranty after they bought something and refusing service based on the new "terms". They used @internetarchive to prove that the change was made.

So obviously #Bambu did the right thing.. and blocked the #Internet #Archive...

It's not #enshittification if you do it from the start? :p

Vorsicht mit dem neuen @accrescent App-Store:

Das ist ein neuer alternativer Android-App-Store, der von sich behauptet, auf Privacy und Security fokussiert zu sein. Er wird auch über den @GrapheneOS Appstore angeboten.

Bei genauerem Hinsehen finden sich allerdings Apps, die Werbe- und Analysetracking enthalten, wie ich nach kurzer Prüfung feststellte.

Der Entwickler sieht darin kein Problem …
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Mit der Spionage-App mSpy überwachen Menschen heimlich die Handys ihrer Partner:innen. Das ist illegal. Jetzt gibt ein Leak Einblick in die Kommunikation mit Kund:innen. Die zeigt, wie skrupellos die Täter:innen ihre engsten Bezugspersonen ins Visier nehmen – auch in Deutschland. #mSpyLeak

netzpolitik.org/2025/mspy-leak…

Der gute @lacrosse hat gestern bei @kuketzblog einen sehr umfassenden Artikel zur #ePA geschrieben, der viel sehr genau trifft.

kuketz-blog.de/hoffnung-als-st…

Es gibt darin einen wichtigen Aspekt, der oftmals nicht ganz so klar ist, aber daher will ich das noch mal kurz erklären, warum die Wurzel des Problems mit digitalen Großprojekten in Deutschland oftmals politisch ist. Ganz besonders bei der #ePA.
Ein Thread am Morgen. 🧵

Herzlichen Dank, liebe @bkastl, für diese superverständliche Erläuterung eines der politischen Grundfehler bei der #ePA. Ich bin ja auch schon lange unterwegs, um zu erläutern, wie sich politische Entscheidungsfindung ändern muss, um digital sauber umsetzbare und grundrechtlich haltbare Beschlüsse zu fassen

mastodon.social/@bkastl/113898…

Podobno jest boom na podrabiane dyplomy ukończenia wyższych uczelni. Młode pokolenie dochodzi do wniosku, że po co męczyć się kilka lat, skoro dyplom da się kupić, wygląda jak prawdziwy.

A pracodawca nie jest w stanie zadzwonić do uczelni i sprawdzić, czy dana osoba ją ukończyła, bo RODO...

Rozwiązanie byłoby proste: powszechna baza informacji o absolwentach uczelni wyższych, najlepiej z publikowanymi w otwartym dostępie pracami licencjackimi i magisterskimi. Żeby można było sprawdzić, co pan absolwent czy pani absolwentka rzeczywiście robili i czy pracy nie napisał im Chat GPT, albo Google. Ale przypuszczam, że wyszłoby przy tej okazji tyle szkieletów w szafie, że klasa polityczna na to nigdy nie pozwoli.

EDIT:

szczegóły (paywall)
wyborcza.biz/biznes/7,147743,3…

streszczenie (bez paywalla) finanse.wp.pl/chcial-kupic-w-i…

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Scholz zu Holocaust-Gedenktag: "Müssen die Erinnerung hochhalten"

Kanzler Scholz mahnt, das Erinnern der jungen Generation an den Holocaust zu fördern. Zusammen mit anderen Spitzenpolitikern reist er wegen des 80. Jahrestags der Auschwitz-Befreiung nach Polen.

➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/a…

#Holocaust #Shoah #Auschwitz #Konzentrationslager

For anyone who does have the 22 kHZ Eloquence already or the Tiflotecnia drivers, I uploaded my new files to eurpod.com/upsampled_drivers.z…
This contains two files. _ibmeci.py is the IBMTTS modified to upsample 22K to 44K using Audioop.
_init.py goes to TifloTecnia's Vocalizer, inside synth drivers and the folder name of the driver.
For Eloquence 6.6, driver files are up at eurpod.com/eloq66.zip - people will need to manually run regsvr32.exe ibmcc.dll in their command prompts, and potentially preinstall a ViaVoice5 package first if registering the DLL still does not make it speak. (datajake.braillescreen.net/tts…)
It's risky though, when it's broken, the only thing that will save you is Narrator to click through the "entry point not found" dialogs. That's how you know those DLLs are not registered right on your system. Either way, you can hate the upsampled voices, that's OK, it's purely optional and has made my own life better and that's what mattered with this project.
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@rommix0 Cool. I have ViaVoice 6.7.3.2 with the NVDA add-on by David CN. I replaced _ibmeci.py in the synthDrivers folder with yours, then restarted NVDA, but I haven't noticed any difference. Do I need to change any option in NVDA settings, or perhaps my laptop speakers are too bad? Also, I haven't found 44 khz amongst the bit rates in the options. There are only 8, 11, and 22 khz.
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@clv0 @TomGrant91 @rommix0 I wonder if the 6.7 sounds better than the 6.6 in terms of the 22K voice, maybe. I do know that at the 7.0 I tried, it gets very aliased and hissy sounding, so they broke that 22K behavior in some of the drivers, and that's really why I've stuck with 6.6, it has the best quality for the 22K without any extra aliased high-pitched sounds there. Even when I upsample it, the only noises that sound a bit off are the various pops eloquence naturally makes when certain words follow each other, but otherwise it can keep the 44K resample without making it too hissy.
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oh yeah, my eloq66 zip file on that Eurpod link (eurpod.com/eloq66.zip) has an ibmeci66.dll file in there. Looks like my ibmeci.dll and ibmcc.dll files are the 6.7.3.2 one in that package, too. So that's the bad one. That's right, I couldn't get the V7.0 dll file to load into the IBMTTS driver, it told me it's not a valid IBMECI.dll file even though it is, so I could never test how much better 22K is in 7.0 DLL. It's 6.7 I hated though for aliasing, now I remember, and that's why the zip has both: 6.6 which is not so hissy and extra-high pitched like 6.7 is. I do wish I could hear or try 7.0, but beyond just using it as the engine itself, there's no way to get it in NVDA.
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If you are actively hiring for positions in a company that is friendly to transgender people, in a country that is safe for transgender people, and you are willing to sponsor visas for people seeking to emigrate for these positions, I would like to hear from you. werd.io/2025/seeking-trans-fri…

What's new with Google Accessibility? Find out straight from Google From Talkback to live transcribe, workspace, and wallet!
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#accessibility #a11y

"On Thursday, Republican U.S. Rep. Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma introduced a House Resolution to condemn [Bishop Mariann] Budde’s sermon. … Twenty Republicans co-sponsored the resolution."

~ Brian Kaylor

#Trump #Republicans #BishopBudde #ReligiousFreedom #ReligiousLiberty #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"A Public Religion Research Institute study from the Fall revealed the strong connection between the role of patriarchy, attitudes on child-rearing, and religiosity that directly predict one’s support for both Trump and violent authoritarianism. We are all now hijacked by powerful men like Donald Trump, whose parental figures were mostly vindictive, cruel, or absent."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Trump #Republicans #patriarchy #misogyny #abuse #violence #masculinity
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New Michigan Law Requires High Schools to Offer CS Classes - The state of Michigan will now require each public high school in the state to off... - news.slashdot.org/story/25/01/… #education

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Absolute Leseempfehlung! »Hoffnung als Strategie: Kommentar zur unsicheren elektronischen Patientenakte (ePA)« 👇

kuketz-blog.de/hoffnung-als-st…

@PWS_1 @evawolfangel @bkastl @digitalcourage @netzpolitik_feed

#epa #datenschutz #dsgvo #gematik #lauterbach #buyx #schaar #optout #optin