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"Chat Control" proposes mandated scanning of all private digital communications, including encrypted messages and photos.

Contact your MEPs to express your views πŸ‘‡
fightchatcontrol.eu/

A message I received today:"While you don't entirely disagree with me? that you disagree with me at all means you can fuck right off!" This is what passes for well-reasoned debate on the internet. What passes for tolerance of different points of view, for challenges to our own. And we wonder why fascism is so successful at the moment. "You're not like me, therefore you don't deserve to be heard". This isn't just the province of the right. Please share widely.

White mold #fungi split their #genome across several nuclei theconversation.com/white-mold…

"#spores of S. sclerotiorum contain one set of 16 #chromosomes divided across two nuclei, rather than each nucleus containing a complete set... #chromosome composition varies among nuclei, suggesting the division of chromosomes between nuclei is in an irregular manner... to produce the next generation, they need to reform a diploid cell with the full suite... Presumably, this requires the fusion of nuclei"

in reply to Archos

Tak to je dΔ›s... To je horΕ‘Γ­ neΕΎ Lunetic s Klusem dokupy. πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ
PodotΓ½kΓ‘m, ΕΎe mi nejde o umΔ›leckΓ½ dojem, ale o mΓ­ru trapnosti.

Naopak vΔ›tu, ΕΎe smΔ›r je dopΕ™edu, podepisuju. Ta jedinΓ‘ mΓ‘ smysl.

At least with fixed ALPR cameras, and even certain police departments that heavily use the tech on their vehicles, it's at least theoretically possible to plan travel to avoid constant state surveillance.

This partnership would make surveillance all but ubiquitous, impossible to avoid, and would mark the largest assault on unencumbered freedom of movement that I can imagine.

404media.co/flock-wants-to-par…

in reply to Paul Knightly

What we're increasingly seeing is a convergence of the Death of Anonymity in both virtual and physical spaces. Online, this includes the explosion if ID requirements to access services to "protect the youths".

In any case, it's all under the pretense that because there are bad actors that exist, it's incumbent on law abiding citizens to be subjected to increased surveillance for their protection, despite the fact that bad actors will still exist and skirt these systems regardless.

Recently, the meta rayban glasses have kind of been hitting me from all directions, and not gonna lie, I'm starting to consider buying them, since I rely a lot on identifying colours on displays of household appliances, reading documents on paper, recognizing frequencies/channel numbers on radios and so on. Could anyone who owns them please enlighten me if they work for the things I described? And mainly if the AI functions are supported outside of the US (since I'm from Czechia)? I remember reading about this limitation a few months ago, but maybe I'm imagining things. I'd be very glad for any answers, and if you could boost this post, that would really help me out a bunch. Thanks!

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A quick reminder: dueling URL parsers is a path to pain and sorrow.

(blogged two years ago)

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/01/10…

Random thought: What if multitrack recording and stereo hadn't been developed concurrently? What if stereo, and even binaural micing, had come long before multitrack? Would it have become normal to produce music recordings in the studio by setting up binaural mics in a room where a band performed together? When multitrack finally came, would it still be normal to produce the artificial stereo mixes we have now, that IMO don't sound anything like a band playing together in a room?

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"Please do not use Google AI to find out our specials. Please go on our Facebook page or our website," the restaurant wrote in a weary Facebook post. "Google AI is not accurate and is telling people specials that do not exist which is causing angry customers yelling at our employees."

"We cannot control what Google posts or says," the post added, "and we will not honor the Google AI specials."

futurism.com/local-restaurant-…

I watched Envision's community call. If I'm understanding this correctly, I can actually buy the Solo AirGo V glasses from the manufacturer's web site. I haven't looked at it in detail. but, the prices appear to be cheaper. I'm confused by the financing here. I understand the first year's pro sub to be free. But, if I subscribe to the annual pro plan right now, I'd get it for $100 and I'd be grandfathered in for following years.

#accessibility #blind

To defend against Russian tanks, Finland and Poland consider restoring wetlands

Finland and Poland are both considering rewetting dried out peatbogs to form defence barriers against a potential Russian ground invasion. Restoring these natural carbon sinks could also bring significant environmental benefits.

france24.com/en/europe/2025082…

Wir brauchen die Großen!

Damit wurde ich letztens in Sachen #digitaleKirche belehrt.

Gemeint sind Konzerne wie z.B. Meta, Google, MS...

Diese Ansicht teile ich so pauschal nicht!

Klar, nicht nur in digitaler Kirche haben wir uns von den Großen abhÀngig gemacht. Wenn sie den Stecker zu wichtigen Diensten ziehen (z.B. Seekabel, DNS, Cloud-Infra usw.), ginge zur Zeit nix mehr.

Trotzdem, oder gerade deshalb mΓΆchte ich diese Herangehensweise nicht zur Grundlage meiner Arbeit machen.

Dankbar bin ich, dass es viele Engagierte gibt, die die Freiheit eines Christenmenschen (frei nach Luther, die Theologen mΓΆgen mir verzeihen πŸ˜‰ ) auch im Digitalen erproben und sich fΓΌr eine, soweit wie mΓΆglich, selbstbestimmte digitale #Kirche und #Gesellschaft einsetzen.

#FediKirche #RespektDerDigitalenPrivatsphΓ€re #selbstbestimmtDigital

Is it time to add support for another TLS backend to #curl ? github.com/curl/curl/discussio…
#curl

🍲 Novinka na Oscloudu: Mealie – sdΓ­lenΓ‘ kuchaΕ™ka a plΓ‘novač jΓ­delníčkΕ―!

Mealie je open-source aplikace, kde mΕ―ΕΎeΕ‘:

- uklΓ‘dat a tΕ™Γ­dit recepty,

- plÑnovat jídelníčky,

- generovat nΓ‘kupnΓ­ seznamy,

- importovat recepty z webovΓ½ch strΓ‘nek

- sdΓ­let recepty s rodinou nebo komunitou.

πŸ”‘ PΕ™ihlΓ‘Ε‘enΓ­ je jednoduchΓ© pΕ™es Oscloud účet. Registrace probΓ­hΓ‘ jen na pozvΓ‘nku nebo pΕ™Γ­mo zde:
πŸ‘‰ helpdesk.oscloud.cz/help/30202…
VΓ­ce zde:
πŸ‘‰ docs.oscloud.cz/apps/mealie/

#oscloud #mealie #opensource #fediverse #recepty

I've just published a blog post listing exciting new features in Debian 13, focusing on practical changes that can improve your workflow for better performance and productivity.

This is also useful for users of other distributions, as most of the features come from projects also packaged outside of Debian.

samueloph.dev/blog/debian-13-m…

News: Full text of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker's speech at news conference on reported Trump military plan for Chicago

cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illin…

#Pritzker

in reply to Mastodon Migration

Video: Governor JB Pritzker | Full speech responding to Trump administration’s suggestion of sending the National Guard to Chicago | 14 min

youtu.be/rRfHOJrx0aM?si=aQ2MG4…

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When the Washington Post asked 604 DC residents about Trump’s takeover, Post editors didn’t like what they said, so they took it out of the headline.

fair.org/home/wapo-editors-doi…

One of the benefits of eSpeak-NG is that it doesn't make assumptions like reading "CUP" is Cuban Pesos (hello US OneCore voices) - but the flip side is that eSpeak will read the year 1987 as "nineteen hundred eighty seven". If you'd like it to read that as "nineteen eighty seven" & learn a little #regex on the way, then @fastfinge has you covered with the "Correcting Years With NVDA and Espeak" blog post: stuff.interfree.ca/2025/08/28/…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Tips #Accessibility

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in reply to NV Access

I can't resist the temptation to discuss more OneCore oddities, we also can't forget the OneCore bug with reading ernesto, or have you been using applications where unchecking check boxes was necessary? Also fun fact. Microsoft David always uses its OneCore data even in SAPI5. Zira uses OneCore data in OneCore, but its older data in SAPI5. What this means, is that David will always exhibit these problems, but Zira will only if using OneCore and not SAPI.

Thanks to everyone at #SomethingDigital in Brisbane for a fantastic time this week!

Did you catch Mick Curran discussing "From voice interfaces to micro-interactions: The innovations powering digital accessibility" on Tuesday? He was joined by Allison Ravenhall from the Commonwealth Bank, Jim Hogan from Griffith University and moderator Vivienne Neilan from NIISQ.

To find out more about Something Digital, see somethingdigital.com.au/

#SD25 #SomethingDigitalBrisbane #SomethingFest2025

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