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E&P - ​The Voice of America is facing an unprecedented crisis. Journalists have been cut off from their newsrooms—emails shut down, phones disconnected, and no way to reach editors—leaving many in a state of uncertainty. VOA’s chief national correspondent, Steve Herman, finds himself among more than 1,300 colleagues placed on excused absence. editorandpublisher.com/stories…

Voice of America turmoil through the eyes of veteran VOA journalist Steve Herman

Voice of America (VOA), the U.S. government-funded international broadcaster, is facing an unprecedented crisis.
Episode 276 of "E&P Reports" - A Vodcast series hosted by Mike Blinder (Editor and Publisher)

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Debian is present this weekend at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2025, in Chemnitz, Germany. Visit our booth! You can also attend a talk given by Andreas Tille, the current Debian Project Leader: Tausend Freiwillige, ein Ziel chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2025/… #debian

Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2025 · Vortrag: Tausend Freiwillige, ein Ziel

Die Chemnitzer Linux-Tage sind eine Veranstaltung rund um das Thema Linux und Open Source für jedermann, die Linux-Nutzer, Insider und Unternehmen zusammenbringt.
chemnitzer.linux-tage.de
#debian

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Fascism defined - Tommy Douglas

"Let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt - it may even wear a dress shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege."
#fascism #USA #Canada #cdnpoli

"Let me remind you what fascism is. It need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt - it may even wear a dress shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege." - Tommy Douglas
#USA #canada #cdnpoli #fascism

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I only need to know 2 things about the Wisconsin Supreme Court election:

1) Judges are the last reasonable roadblock slowing down the Project 2025 plan.

2) Elon Musk and the Project 2025 crew don't want Susan Crawford to win. They're scared.

Susan Crawford. That's the only name I need to know.

crawfordforwi.com/

The other person's name doesn't matter. Their platform doesn't matter.

So resist the very human urge to talk about that person and why they are bad.

Because name recognition affects judge elections more than you think. A lot of people are just going to vote for whichever name they've heard most. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Elon is dumping in millions to make sure that as many people have heard that other name as possible.

You can't fight that by also saying that other name.

Talk about this name instead.

Susan Crawford.

That's who they don't want to win.


Judge Susan Crawford for Wisconsin Supreme Court

Judge Susan Crawford is a former prosecutor and current Circuit Court Judge running for Wisconsin Supreme Court to protect the rights and freedoms of all Wisconsinites.
Susan Crawford for Wisconsin

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💯 Same goes for legal and tech conferences.
mastodon.social/@vicgrinberg/1…

Dr. Victoria Grinberg (@vicgrinberg@mastodon.social)

No, covid did not teach me that online conferences are just not working. It taught me that 2/3rds of all conferences could be fully online (though one still needs to think about best structure for them and not just transplant them without any adaptat…
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Making websites smaller has tangible effects on the environment.

“Shaving off a single kilobyte in a file that is being loaded on 2 million websites reduces CO2 emissions by an estimated 2950 kg per month.“

(thoughts welcome; the post is from 2020, are these reasonable assumptions today?)

dannyvankooten.com/blog/2020/w…


CO2 emissions on the web

Danny van Kooten
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#Catima 2.34.5 is out!

This is a maintenance release that targets Android 15 and fixes a crash.

The app will look slightly uglier on some devices, due to Google's changes in how drawing over the system and navigation bar works. Sadly, supporting proper edge-to-edge requires extensive rewrites (help very welcome!), so I opted to at least ensure we target Android 15 before any deadlines.

Coming soon to an app store near you.

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#IzzyOnDroid #Fdroid #GitHub #GooglePlay


Release 2.34.5 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Target Android 15 Fix crash reading unsupported pkpass files Improve pkpass support
GitHub
#fdroid #github #googleplay #catima #izzyondroid

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Sylvia

@sihaha Apps targeting older Android versions tend to work fine on newer ones due to how backwards compatibility works on Android, but targeting newer Android versions has 2 clear benefits:
1. Google has one reason less to kick you off Google Play
2. There are generally slight security improvements (small hardenings here and there)

The downside is that it can take a lot of work because Google tends to change a lot every Android version.

Glad to hear you have good experiences so far :)

@Si (he/him)

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L’appello «Stop ReArm». Una campagna europea.La mobilitazione pacifista per fermare il piano von der Leyen e rilanciare l'Europa sociale. Qui l'articolo di #ilmanifesto: ilmanifesto.it/lappello-stop-r…

Il sito della campagna è qui: stoprearm.org/ ma al momento è solo in inglese
#pace #StopReArm #pacifismo #Europa
@macfranc
@gubi
@lindasartini
@RFancio
@oKolobos
@Pare
@scuola

L’appello «Stop ReArm». Una campagna europea Basta Spinelli La mobilitazione pacifista per fermare il piano von der Leyen e rilanciare l'Europa sociale «Ci opponiamo al piano dell’Unione europea di spendere 800 miliardi di euro in armi. Saranno 800 miliardi rubati. Rubati alle spese sociali, alla salute, all’educazione, al lavoro, alla costruzione della pace, alla cooperazione internazionale, alla transizione giusta e alla giustizia climatica. Saranno un beneficio solo per i produttori di armi in Europa, negli Stati uniti e in altri paesi. Renderanno la guerra più probabile, e il futuro più insicuro per tutti e tutte. Genereranno più debito, più austerità, più confini. Approfondiranno il razzismo. Alimenteranno il cambiamento climatico». Comincia con queste parole l’appello «Stop ReArm Europe» al quale da ieri è possibile aderire (tutti i riferimenti e gli aggiornamenti della campagna si trovano all’indirizzo www.stoprearm.org). Tra i primi supporter dell’iniziativa figurano Transnational Institute, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Attac Italia, Arci, Transform Europe, International Peace Bureau, Ferma il riarmo e Stop the war coalition.
STOP ReArm Europe welfare not warfare Let’s organize a European movement against ReArm Europe!

L’appello «Stop ReArm». Una campagna europea | il manifesto

Crisi Ucraina (Politica) «Ci opponiamo al piano dell’Unione europea di spendere 800 miliardi di euro in armi. Saranno 800 miliardi rubati.
Giuliano Santoro (il manifesto)
#Europa #ilmanifesto #pace #stoprearm #pacifismo @Carlo Gubitosa @Guido Dotti @macfranc @Linda Sartini @Pare 🚲 🌞 @RFanciola @scuola group

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I've been using Skype to talk with my parents since I moved to Canada, that's the tool they know and switching to something else for them is gonna be super hard.
Now Skype is forcing them to switch to Teams, a buggy and bloated tool made to be a gateway to sell services.
It's Microsoft, so I'm not surprised at all, but still, disappointing.
Screenshot of Skype banner announcing the shutdown
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Steven D Rowe 🇨🇦🇬🇧

I'm in a similar situation but I'm going to try MyTello. You can set it up to dial a local number from the home phone to talk to someone with a number registered around the globe, or call via their app. I've only done one test call so far, but might be an option.

mytello.com/

Cheap international calls from Czech Republic - mytello.com

Cheap international calls from Czech Republic. Call worldwide to any country starting from 0,3 Kč per minute. Works with any landline or mobile phone ✓ No contract ✓ Free test ✓ 100% Money back guarantee ✓
mytello

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This week we did a working session in BOARC, Bidston Observatory, an amazing self-organised community center close to Liverpool, UK (with a radio station in the basement!).

We finalized and tested the first, experimental prototype of Toolkitty, an mobile and desktop app for collectives to share resources & spaces and organise events!

And we launched it's website! 🥳

toolkitty.org

A group of seven people standing in front of a building, the sun is already low, in the background one can see the sky and another part of the building, an observation tower
A large communal room with a kitchen inside, there's laptops on the table and 3 people working with them

Toolkitty

Toolkitty is a coordination app for collectives, organisers and venues. You can organise events, share resources and spaces in a collaborative calendar.
toolkitty.org

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New in GNOME 48 is the necessary support for keyboard handling by the Orca screen reader in Wayland sessions. As I reported on the Orca mailing list recently, I have updated my system, and this support is so far working as intended. You need Mutter 48 and the latest AT-SPI installed.

Thanks are owed to the software developers responsible for this work.
#gnome #accessibility #Linux #Wayland

#Accessibility #linux #gnome #Wayland

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Peter Vágner

@Jason J.G. White Yes it's amazing @GNOME #a11y is moving into the right direction but I'm afraid it's at very slow pace.
Within Gnome 48 we do have reworked keyboard input handling.
Now we need mouse emulation
and in the future we'd like to have touch screen gestures and related screen reader features.
The interaction between gnome developers and screen reader users is one direction only.
New features are being added, some bugs which we can tolerate are introduced along the way and we do need to wait at least some 6 months until these are addressed at a platform level in an upcoming release.
#a11y @GNOME @Jason J.G. White

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exercise, soliciting advice

on days when i have no time, I prioritize push-ups for upper body with arm/chest focus or squats for lower body with quad focus.

What is a good single upper body exercise for maximum back engagement that requires only dumbbells or bands? I’m currently partial to renegade rows or wide-grip push-ups.

Edit: for context, here are my current workouts: seirdy.one/about/workouts/#leg…


My workouts

Documenting my low-equipment at-home workout regiment. How I work out, why I work out, my workout split, my list of exercises, and advice I'm soliciting.
Seirdy’s Home
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We are happy to announce that 56 teams and individuals will receive funding to support their work on improving the core technologies of the internet.

We'd like to congratulate them and thank them for making the internet better for us all.

Come and take a look at the projects to see the marvellous work being done to upgrade the open internet architecture.
nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250321-ca…
#FOSS #NGI0 #NGI

NLnet; 56 Projects Receive Grants for Improving Core Technological Building Blocks

nlnet.nl
#foss #ngi0 #ngi

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Amazon flags Surface Laptop 7 as a frequently returned item — warns buyers to check reviews first
windowscentral.com/hardware/su…

Amazon flags Surface Laptop 7 as a frequently returned item — warns buyers to check reviews first

Some configurations of Surface Laptop 7 on Amazon in the US are being flagged with a warning that says the product has a high return rate, encouraging buyers to research the device before purchasing.
Zac Bowden (Windows Central)

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📄 NEW: "The Substack Dilemma: How Creators Are Inadvertently Fueling America's Failure"

Many don't realize that Substack's purpose is to advance 'The Network State' concept. Here's what creators + readers need to know.
america2.news/the-substack-dil…


The Substack Dilemma: How Creators Are Inadvertently Fueling America's Failure

Creators have flocked to Substack because of its ease of use — but that simplicity comes at a steep price.
Dave Troy (America 2.0)

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President Donald Trump, according to the White House, has revoked security clearances for former President Joe Biden, former Vice President Kamala Harris, two former secretaries of state (Hillary Clinton and Antony Blinken) and others. whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac…

Rescinding Security Clearances and Access to Classified Information from Specified Individuals – The White House

MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES  SUBJECT:    Rescinding Security Clearances and Access to Classified Information from
The White House

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Creating more copyrights won’t get artists paid for the same reason that giving your bullied kid extra lunch money won’t get them lunch.
--Cory Doctorow @pluralistic

The answer to AI abuses is not stronger copyright, but stronger labor and privacy laws.

pluralistic.net/2023/09/17/how…

How To Think About Scraping – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net
@Cory Doctorow

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@archos , já myslel zes měl včera burger, ne hrachovku 😉

novinky.cz/clanek/domaci-zemet…


Karlovarský kraj zasáhlo mírné zemětřesení

Na hranicích Chebska a Sokolovska se v sobotu nad ránem otřásala země. Zemětřesení bylo mírné. Nejsilnější otřesy byly po 06:00 a dosahovaly úrovně dva stupně. Epicentrum bylo východně od Lubů u Chebu.
ČTK (Novinky)
@Archos
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