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There is no grey area here. There is no angle parking.

This really started to become a problem around 2017... it's almost like Projet Montréal people encourage this shite.

I remember visiting friends on the plateau and bringing a shovel to dig our own parking spot... WTAF IS THE PROBLEM?!?

I've seen this angle parking BS from a lot of university students from out-of-province, or family visiting from the USA. It's ridiculous.

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brought you 16 updated (15 RB), 2 added and 5 removed apps:

+ URLCheck: analyze/share URLs before opening them 🛡️
+ Iconify (Foss): customize Android UI (rebranded from non-Foss)
- Monerujo (see previous toot)
- Howl: no longer maintained, author requested removal
- CameraRollX: same
- vTunnel: source gone 2y ago
- Compagnon HIIT: no updates since 2018 & source gone

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 #izzyondroid

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Andor Season 2 (April 22, Disney+): First teaser trailer!!

I sooooo can't wait (and as a bonus, two Star Wars ships never seen in live action!)

"The final season will unfold over 12 episodes broken down into four chapters of three episodes each. The first chapter will premiere April 22, with subsequent chapters debuting each week."

youtube.com/watch?v=AE4wxt70aU…


Andor | Season 2 Trailer | Streaming April 22 on Disney+

The critically acclaimed series returns.Watch the new trailer for season 2 of Andor, streaming April 22 on Disney+.
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Okay mastodonians 🐘

it's time for the opposite of doomscrolling

my latest "Linkfest" newsletter just dropped 📬

crammed full of gems pulled from the inky mineshafts of the internet

Free to read and subscribe to, right here: buttondown.com/clivethompson/a…

This issue includes:

👉 tactile graphics from 1900
📇 "alexinomia"
☁️ fog harvesting
💖 dataviz on how romance is vanishing from movies
🎲 a to-do app controlled by dice
📱 WikiTok
🎒 solar backpacks
🐟 66 million year old fish vomit

and SO MUCH MORE

The photo of a large piece of thick stiff cardboard, with embossed images of a lobster, a tarantula, and a few other insects. Each one has a few lines braille embossed beneath it, seemingly describing what the insect or animal is. It looks old.

Linkfest #31: Tactile Graphics, "Alexinomnia", and a To-Do App Controlled By Dice

Hello folks! It’s time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, a collection of the finest nuggets of science, culture and technology that...
The Linkfest
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Here are some of our main takeaways from the EU Open Source Policy Summit 2025:💡 👨‍💻

— Open and collaborative innovation solves the dilemma of #competitiveness and #sovereignty
— Now is the time to invest in open source #maintenance and #security
— Building sustainable open source ecosystems remains challenging but necessary
— Open source is being increasingly regulated in Europe, and the new challenge is #implementation and #compliance

Read more in our new blog: 👇 🔗

openforumeurope.org/the-eu-ope…

#security #maintenance #compliance #competitiveness #sovereignty #implementation

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A new version of MapComplete is out. v0.50 has a few nice updates:

- A quickswitcher on the index page with your recently visited themes
- Housenumbers in the basestyle (thanks @protomaps )
- Map labels on the basestyle are translated (thanks @protomaps )
- AED-theme: cleanup of the icons, more filters (thanks @midgard )
- Update to the NSI
- Update to the (quite new) scouting groups theme
- Many, many bug fixes and small UI improvements

Test it on mapcomplete.org

A bunch of icons, each representing a thematic map on Mapcomplete. The title above says "recently visited themes"

MapComplete - editable, thematic maps with OpenStreetMap

MapComplete is a platform to visualize OpenStreetMap on a specific topic and to easily contribute data back to it.
mapcomplete.org
@Midgard @protomaps
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Roberta Flack, Grammy-winning singer with an intimate style, dies at 88
https://apnews.com/article/roberta-flack-dies-61ad9755cc7b4f37b29884adc49c9340?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Entertainment @entertainment-AssociatedPress


Roberta Flack dies at 88

Roberta Flack has died at 88. The Grammy-winning singer and pianist was known for her intimate vocal and musical style on “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and other hits.
Hillel Italie (AP News)
@entertainment-AssociatedPress

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If you’re an individual who is blind or has low vision facing #accessibility challenges in your daily life—whether at work, online, or in everyday experiences—the ACB Accessibility and Training Services program is here to help! We can work with you to understand your accessibility challenges and the best approach to resolving them. Email us at accessibility@acb.org or visit acb.org/accessibility to get in touch.
Graphic of the ACB logo on a purple background with the text “Accessibility & Training Services” below. At the bottom of the graphic is the webpage address: acb.org/accessibility.

Accessibility and Training Services | American Council of the Blind

www.acb.org
#Accessibility

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Flaw found in stalkerware apps, exposing millions of people. Here's how to find out if your phone is being spied upon.

bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hot…


Flaw found in stalkerware apps, exposing millions of people. Here's how to find out if your phone is being spied upon

A serious security vulnerability has been found in popular stalkerware apps, exposing the sensitive personal information and communications of millions of people.
Hot for Security

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HEAD’S UP: Do not allow browser notifications at dodgy sites!

My daughter was on my computer, using Microsoft Edge, was visiting one of her fansites, and she allowed a dodgy pop-up notification.

This resulted in Edge sending pop-up notifications to the notification bar that kept saying my computer had a virus. No matter how many times I clicked it to go away, the pop-up would keep appearing. And each time I clicked on it, it would take me to a dodgy site urging me to download “anti-virus software”.

So I did an anti-virus scan to see if there was a virus. No viruses detected. Turns out, after additional troubleshooting, I discovered there was not virus. It was just a browser notification. By turning off that notification, the pop-up finally went away.

I had a long talk with my daughter about not clicking everything she sees, and I think this is a lesson everyone should learn.

Attached image is that annoying pop-up. And by the way, Microsoft, allowing browser notifications to appear in the system notification bar is beyond stupid!

Virus detected notification
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Harry Potter fanfiction

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Sean Randall

Harry Potter fanfiction

Sensitive content

@Kevin R Jones @Andre Louis

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There are some serious reasons why you still need to be on Meta platforms: it's your last link to family members, or your support system, or you live in a small town.

I wrote about how to stay on while limiting Meta's ability to surveil you or use your information against you.

tl;dr Boring users, who don't generate clicks or behavioral data, are unprofitable users.

buttondown.com/practicaltips/a…


How to grey-rock Meta

(This post is structured like one of those recipes where you might not care about the preamble because you came here to make the damn thing. The operational...
Practical Tips
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As Facebook Abandons Fact-Checking, It’s Also Offering Bonuses for Viral Content
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Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed.
propublica.org/article/faceboo…

#News #Facebook #Meta #Zuckerberg #Tech #Technology


Facebook Boosts Viral Content as It Drops Fact-Checking

ProPublica
#facebook #technology #News #tech #meta #zuckerberg

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this video was going to be made public at some point ... but as this seems to have stalled (and there's really no financial incentive anymore that the conf can gain from keeping this 16 month old video under lock and key) ... here's the recording of my (then) updated talk "These (still) aren't the SCs you're looking for..." from 19 October 2023 / #a11yTO / Toronto youtube.com/watch?v=ADIgU53Y2R… #a11y #wcag #barrierefreiheit #accessibility

Patrick H. Lauke - These (still) aren't the SCs you're looking for / a11yTO 2023 / 19 October 2023

WCAG is supposed to give us a reasonably objective way of saying whether or not the sites we are building/auditing are "accessible" (to a particular baseline...
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#a11y #Accessibility #wcag #a11yto #barrierefreiheit

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Auto-generated sign language has been very difficult to create. I'm hopeful that advancements in AI will lead to auto-generated sign language becoming ubiquitous in the next 15 years. However, it is important to remember that auto-generated sign language like captions will probably never be 100% accurate. There should be a way to edit auto-generated sign language in the future. Also, interpreters and CART services are needed for live events. #accessibility blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-sign-…

AI Platform for Teaching American Sign Language | NVIDIA Blog

The Signs platform is creating a validated dataset for sign language learners and developers of ASL-based AI applications.
Michael Boone (NVIDIA Blog)
#Accessibility

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Welcome Laurențiu Nicola as #curl commit author 1345: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1644…

ci: use stable Rust toolchain for `rustls` and skip installing the docs by lnicola · Pull Request #16447 · curl/curl

I think it builds on stable (or beta, at least), so there's no reason to use nightly. Also, use the minimal profile to skip installing the docs. It probably won't make a difference (because...
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#curl

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In QR codes, the following characters can be stored more compactly:

• Digits: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
• Uppercase letters: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
• Space
• Symbols: $ % * + - . / :

That’s why uppercase URLs produce smaller QR codes than lowercase URLs.

Details: “Why are QR Codes with capital letters smaller than QR codes with lower-case letters?” by @Edent
shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/why-a…

@Terence Eden
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