Alice Cooper's "Wicked Young Man" lyrics are something else
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Cold blue swastika tattooed on my skin / The ice in my veins the staples in my chin / I've got it carved in my forehead "Slave To My Sin" / Too violent for the brotherhood to everGenius
Called it.
Homebuyers made a huge mortgage gamble. It's backfiring spectacularly.
O Rust siempre no es tan seguro como lo publicitan o los de Microsoft fueron capaces de meter vulnerabilidades aún y con Rust 
"Check Point Research uncovered what is probably the first-ever publicly disclosed security flaw in a Rust-based component of the Windows kernel—Microsoft’s foundational operating system layer. This vulnerability can cause a total system crash, forcing a hard reboot and instantly knocking users offline."
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Check Point Research uncovered six fresh vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, including one critical flaw with potential for wide-reaching impact.rohann@checkpoint.com (Check Point Blog)
"To try to live without using plastic now (at least in the US) is an extremely expensive endeavor, both in terms of money and n terms of time. Plastic is so deeply integrated into so many of our systems that it is very difficult to avoid. But we are at a moment with "AI" where things aren't so deeply integrated, though corporate interests are pushing for them to be. So I believe that every act of refusal is especially powerful and meaningful now..."
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By Emily Alex and I were at WorldCon (the World Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention) last week, talking about The AI Con with people whose livelihood...Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000: The Newsletter
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 12 updated and 1 added apps:
* PlayOnDlna: lets you play YouTube videos ad-free on DLNA players in your local network 🛡️
RB status: 688 apps (52.6%)
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
PS: our repo overhaul goes on. Next to sending hundreds of PRs with Fastlane trees upstream (a task long overdue), some other dead bones got buried:
(1/2)
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
loved this:
"The lesson is this: never fight a corporation's customer service department. Fight its legal department or its PR department. They don't care about your inconvenience, but they are terrified of a broken promise."
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This is a Sony Anycast Station AWS-G500HD from 2007. It's essentially a Sony luggable PIII 933Mhz PC that runs Linux 2.4.20 with a ton of FPGAs to do the heavy lifting of a video switcher. Plus glorious physical buttons, faders, dials, and removable keyboard. Oh, and a jog wheel.
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Zdrcená je chovatelka kavkazských pasteveckých psů Vlasta Kretschmerová ze Žlutic na Karlovarsku. Během noci z pondělí na úterý totiž přišla o svých pět milovaných fen, jež uhořely v kotcích. Ty podle policie někdo pravděpodobně zapálil.Klára Mrázová (Novinky)
El mejor congreso sobre educación, derechos humanos y proyectos Wikimedia está por llegar 🖥️🌐📚
Hoy es el último día para realizar tu registro y conseguir tu entrada para WECUDI.
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Speed in Norwegian and Swedish.
Masks (respirators)
Well, it looks like the fire service in the United States can't admit that smoke is bad for firefighters because then it would have to admit that it had been putting people at risk for all these years.
This is identical to what we saw healthcare doing during COVID. (Which they did before COVID, and continue to do today.)
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At the height of wildfire season, thousands of firefighters regularly face a host of dangers on the frontline, including confronting toxic smoke. As seasons grow longer and more intense, the health of wildland firefighters is under renewed focus.Stephanie Sy (PBS News)
Beim Postillon hat sich schon wieder eine Echtmeldung zwischen die Satire verirrt.
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Augsburg (dpo) - Bahnfahren kann auch entspannt sein: Um nervigen Mitreisenden zu entgehen, reserviert sich Manager Boris Gröhen bei seinen...Der Postillon (Blogger)
🤔This is kind of like when newspapers report that police officers are "quitting en masse." But then you read the article and for them "quitting" just means "I will not report to duty. I will still collect a paycheck and earn a pension."
He's moving from CEO to Executive Chair of the Board. 🤷🏿♂️
He was both CEO and Executive Chair of the Board before too. He's just dropping the CEO part. 🤷🏿♂️
No judgment either way, but this isn't a board leadership change.
Do what makes you happy. Seriously! If you enjoy shopping at Target, I love that for you. Seriously. It's your wallet.
ACAB
Parents decry police protest response after baby exposed to tear gas at Montreal family event
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Literally gasing babies. With a product know to be extremly toxic, yet allowed because police violence is part of the control.
also the caption on the picture is wrong, but given that CBC fired all the copy editors, it's probably the sparkling-autocomplete.
Update: it's correct at this time.
Some reflections from #WorldCon on how to talk to friends about "AI"
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By Emily Alex and I were at WorldCon (the World Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention) last week, talking about The AI Con with people whose livelihood...Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000: The Newsletter
"I didn't think the USA could ever ruin the dollar"
Well anyone who looked at a graph and the state of American politics saw differently.
I’m looking for my next challenge in some intersection of open source, community, and developer advocacy! I am passionate about helping others and doing good with technology, in particular—thus I’m especially interested in working with a non-profit or strongly value-aligned organization.
I’ve loved my work with @EndlessAccess, but unfortunately due to strategic decisions, my particular role won’t exist in the coming months.
#GetFediHired #FediHire #OpenToWork #jobs #cv
Experienced, friendly, and creative developer advocate and community builder passionate about open source, connecting people and technology, and equipping developers with the best tools.Cassidy James Blaede
NeoDB You is now on IzzyOnDroid!
You can use your favorite FDroid client to get it.
Thank you @IzzyOnDroid !
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#NeoDB #NeoDB_You #izzyondroid
What's the 2025 digital trend for you: #AI or digital #sovereignty?
If it's the latter, check out these European alternatives 👉 tuta.com/blog/boycott-us-choos…
And, yes, Tuta is proudly #European! 💪 🇪🇺
With the growing movement to boycott US products and services, more people are choosing European alternatives. Let’s take a look at the best European products you can use.Tuta
New major update to the private, free and open source office suite! #LibreOffice 25.8 is now available, with:
📝 Navigator improvements in Writer
📊 Many new spreadsheet functions
🚀 Faster file loading
Learn more and download it: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
The best open source office suite continues to evolve, while maintaining its focus on privacy and digital sovereignty Berlin, 20 August 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.8.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
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Please make it simpler to download and update LibreOffice in languages other than English.
To those unfamiliar with English and/or with difficulties with using computers, the download of an English package, and then the requirement of downloading and installing a "translated user interface" can be quite difficult to understand.
Notice this whole ordeal has to be repeated for every update.
Why don't you do it like OpenOffice or Firefox?
#Mozilla have taken a lot of criticism lately, but then they come out with something outstanding and important like this.
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Firefox is now the first and the only browser to deploy fast and comprehensive certificate revocation checking that does not reveal your browsing activity to anyone (not even to Mozilla). ...John Schanck (Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog)
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Excel developers 40 years ago: we've built a world-first recalc system, delivering performant but accurate dynamic cell updating on any architecture or system.
Excel developers now: we added a function that can sometimes give a correct answer. We can't tell if the answer is correct or not. Also it shouldn't be used for numbers in a spreadsheet.
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Numerical calculations is just not what AI is for.
However, it's far more useful for things like e.g. extracting product dimensions or hotel reservation dates from arbitrary, unstructured text. Before the advent of AI, this was extremely unfulfilling, manual data entry work.
You can then use such data in Excel to do numerical / statistical calculations the "traditional way."
AI may not have perfect reliability (remember that humans don't either!), but you don't always need perfect reliability. If you only want to check how many customers complain about the rooms being too cold versus too hot, and how that is correlated to the weather outside, room location and AC settings, you may prefer a slightly inaccurate analysis over one that requires a person to read 20000 emails and identify temperature complaints.
I really don't get where all this hate is coming from.
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@miki
The hate is coming from people who are losing their jobs. Trained professional, high-paying, white-collar jobs.
Computers have been shedding people's jobs since the 90s, and no one cared.
Factory automation has eliminated millions of regular jobs, and no one cared.
The time to care was when it was first noted that the proceeds of production belong to those who own the means of production.
We never fixed that problem.
It is so hilarious to me that we have FOSS maintainers begging for money to try to keep the development of NTP ongoing. NTP - you know, that protocol that the entirety of humanity relies on for access to the internet (or anything on a network for that matter).
Meanwhile the o̶l̶i̶g̶a̶r̶c̶h̶y̶ broligarchy makes billions of the backs of these people.
Anyways, they're currently at $495 of $1000 for their 2025 goal. Go throw them some $ if you feel so inclined.
#NTP
To honor and perpetuate Dave's legacy and efforts, with the blessings of his family, donations to the Mills-Spring Fund at Network Time Foundation are welcome and appreciated.www.nwtime.org
Woke up early. Spot-checking the PDF and ePub files before sending them out to people.
Discovered that all the underlined text is missing. 🤦♀️
The exporter converted it to <span class="underline">underlined text</span>
but it should have converted it to _underlined text_
ARRRGH. I should not have to be fucking with code to export my book using existing tools.
@cachondo 🤔 what about ePub files? I'm assuming that with a kindle eReader or similar device you're screwed and get whatever the manufacturer set up. But the kindle app on a mac or windows would use whatever you've got configured for the OS. Is that correct?
I'm still screwed when it comes to audiobooks though. I'm coming up with zero ideas on how to verbally indicate spoken versus signed without it getting really annoying really fast.
I have to take ePub to Braille directly. I think it uses pandoc in the middle, which uses some type of markdown, which is then faithfully converted to the appropriate Braille for italics, underlines and so forth.
The only thing that comes to mind with audio is some sort of effect.
In the British Harry Potter audios, for instance, there's a little bit of "what would the character say", and it's done with a slight echo effect on the audio.
With PHP 8.5 we get Connection, DNS and SSL Sessions sharing across requests with cURL.
I made a video showing how this works and discuss the performance potential youtube.com/watch?v=wr_Jnrc2ha… - a short @mnapoli cameo included
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"Pretend that a ping pong ball represents a single #curl installation somewhere in the world..."
(blog post from 2020)
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Pretend that a ping pong ball represents a single curl installation somewhere in the world. Here's a picture of one to help you get an image in your head.daniel.haxx.se
Working area of the 2026 HTTP Workshop. Contribute to HTTPWorkshop/workshop2026 development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
"The seventh HTTP Workshop is on for 2026: 14-16 July in Basel, Switzerland."
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Working area of the 2026 HTTP Workshop. Contribute to HTTPWorkshop/workshop2026 development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Air Canada strike fallout: 2 class-action lawsuits proposed in Montreal
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Two possible class-action lawsuits by Air Canada passengers affected by the airline’s flight attendant strike were submitted in court in Montreal Monday.Zachary Cheung (CityNews Montreal)
It's gonna take awhile for me to get used to seeing so many grocery prices in the US being consistently higher than they are here in Canada.
Like...AVOCADOS FFS they travel PAST 'Murica to get here and they're still a bit cheaper here?
Forum outage (bbs.archlinux.org) due to cloud node outage
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