Attention ASL3 users: N8EI has tested and confirmed the audio problem in the ASL3 Raspberry Pi Appliance, and has provided a temporary fix to hold the kernel packages back, until a more permanent fix can be made for future kernels.
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Adobe reader has enabled the AI "leak your documents to their cloud feature" with ZERO warning.

Great if you look at legal documents or financial documents (invoices & bank statements especially) that SHOULD be private.

Turning off AI assistant in Adobe reader

Three Bars Menu -> Preferences

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Cursing Disables Google's AI Overviews - Google users have discovered that adding curse words to search queries disables th... - tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/… #ai
#AI

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Le sette meraviglie di Mastodon glitch-soc (e di poliversity.it)

Eh già, Mastodon sa andare spesso oltre i limiti conosciuti, e questo grazie al fatto di essere un software open source, cui chiunque può apportare personalizzazioni interessanti. Oggi parliamo del fork Mastodon Glitch-soc, quello utilizzato nella nostra istanza Poliversity!

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#Fediverso #Glitch #Mastodon #Poliversity #Poliverso

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I'm skipping #FOSDEM this year, but the #XMPP Standards Foundation will be there! Stop by the Realtime Lounge¹ to chat about XMPP, pick up some merch, and maybe grab a #Conversations_im sticker—while supplies last! 🚀

¹: xmpp.org/2025/01/xmpp-at-fosde… (K building 2nd floor, beside the elevator)

I don’t usually do this kind of evangelism, but if you’re looking for a reason to try #XMPP on #GlobalSwitchDay, now’s the perfect time: #Conversations_im is currently free on Google Play!

play.google.com/store/apps/det…

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I agree that xmpp connections work reliable. But a point is that users can not know which server is properly configured, can they?
edit: I mean client to server connections. Unfortunately the protocol is not reliable regarding server to server connections.
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I've seen people promoting Feburary, 1st 2025 as a #globalswitchday to leave questionable services.

If you are thinking of switching your instant messaging app: Please consider switching to #XMPP to enhance your digital sovereignty.


I don’t usually do this kind of evangelism, but if you’re looking for a reason to try #XMPP on #GlobalSwitchDay, now’s the perfect time: #Conversations_im is currently free on Google Play!

play.google.com/store/apps/det…


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It seems to me that popular developer sentiment has been shifting away from packaging of software by Linux distributions, and toward direct packaging by upstream developers (as they do for other platforms), for a while. Here's the most recent anecdote I read, about a bug involving Wine and Debian: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4… This developer clearly thinks that the distro packaging model in general is a bad idea. I'm sympathetic to this perspective. 1/?
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On the server side I think Docker builds have been responsible for this. I used to use Debian packages for Mailman but in Mailman3 its such a mess imho I just use a venv with Pip. I don't know anyone who does use those Debian packages and I kind of feel sorry for the maintainers as they are doing a lot of work and the advise on the support list is not to use it.

Email leaked to Ken Klippenstein telling NOAA employees that their course material can’t contain ANY of the following words in order to remain complaint with Trump’s executive order on DEI.

The party than ran on freedom and speech and avoiding censorship now actively censoring people.

Every word breaks my heart… but I want to pause on the inclusion of “empathy”.

The fact that they can’t use the word empathy is a perfect encapsulation of this whole administration.

#uspoli #noaa #trump #dei #deia #censorship#fascism #freedomofspeech #inclusion

Re: last boost (on "Rationalist" cults: maxread.substack.com/p/the-ziz…), the part that most concerns me is the last section, which argues that a bunch of individually good personal qualities, when combined, tend to leave people vulnerable to sophistry and, by extension, cults.
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I think that this reading is … incomplete. One of the personal qualities required here is straightforwardly negative, which is to say, a perverse level of intellectual humility and an inability to recognize cognition itself as a process with a cost. There is a ton of “I can imagine X, therefore X is inevitable”, ignoring of physical limits, assuming that the starts of sinusoidal curves are all exponential forever… the movement is rife with faith, they just call faith “logic”
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@glyph I keep thinking back to one thing you mentioned in this thread from a few weeks ago, "a perverse level of intellectual humility". I think after rejecting the religion and politics I grew up in, I spent a long time thinking that questioning everything was a must. And that has led me, at times, to question things I probably shouldn't, like the belief that it's worth firmly and persistently advocating for accessibility.

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ACB and other leading disability organizations have responded to President Trump's recent remarks regarding the plane crash at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Click here to read the statement: acb.org/acb-and-other-leading-…

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My heart weeps for this man, his family and the Black community as a whole on this.

How many times in current history has law enforcement ended a Black life and not been held accountable?

To familiar, this one...

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:tapestry_app: It’s been a long road, but your patience is about to pay off. Tuesday is the day!

February 4 we’ll be releasing v1.0 of Tapestry for iOS, our universal, chronological timeline for your favorite social networks, rss feeds, and much more. Stay tuned! #TapestryApp

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I updated the Accessible Audio Plugin And Software Catalog (APS) today, providing more than 700 new Kontakt libraries which can now be browsed and filtered by price, nks compatibility and more. The information was imported from ReaperAccessible.fr. Feel free to check it out at timtam.github.io/musicalsight/…
And if you want to contribute, feel free to do so, you can add new products from the catalog's root or edit any product information from the product page.