Montreal issues new guide to city workers on how to handle English speakers
montreal.citynews.ca/2025/09/0…
They have money for Franco-fascism but not firefughters. #polMtl
The city of Montreal has given its employees a rulebook for dealing with English-speaking citizens, with step-by-step instructions that spell out when, and how, service in English is allowed.Lola Kalder (CityNews Montreal)
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If only we had reproducible builds, that would surely have prevented this.
Is it ok for people on the ActivityPub network to speak negatively about other distributed social networks? #EvanPoll #poll [ ] Yes [ ] Yes, but... [ ] No, but... [ ] NoCoSocial
Today I learned that Porche Headlights are great Grow Lights for your Weedz ...
The actual fuck?
@feld @SlicerDicer I don't know if you've been in a grow room (doo dee do) but they're hot (and humid).
If you're not in a place where it's legal to grow, IR is Often used (from the air) to find homes with Super Hot Spots.
The fun part Slicer is that it would seem they're STUPID easy to steal. (?!?)
Aside: When I was in Uni, every year they'd put sodium bulbs in the lamp posts over three or four bridges, and about two weeks after the quarter started, they would all disappear. A-MA-Zing.
On this day in 1966, Star Trek first beamed into living rooms across America. None of us could have imagined then the journey it would set us on. And not just the cast and crew, but the millions of fans who would find hope, inspiration, and community in its vision of the future.
Over the decades, I’ve been humbled and grateful for the love you’ve shown, not only to me, but to the ideals of Star Trek itself: diversity, unity, and the belief that together, humanity can boldly go where none have gone before. Thank you for your unwavering support and for keeping this dream alive all these years. Live long and prosper, always.
Today's #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid brings you 19 updated and 2 added apps:
* Network Switch: enables you to toggle between 4G and 5G network modes 🛡️
* Screenlite Web Kiosk: a simple Android kiosk browser app that displays web content in full-screen mode 🛡️
RB status: 705 apps (53.9%)
5 #Magisk modules have been updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
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
Beginning June we witnessed a sudden surge of Delta Chat usage especially in the US and Cuba. We don’t know the social dynamics behind it but it probably helps that Delta Chat apps resiliently work...delta.chat
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💬 WECHSEL von #K9mail auf @thunderbird
UPDATE:
Es ist total easy. Die Daten müssen nicht vorher von K9 Mail exportiert werden
#Thunderbird installieren und dann den Weg gehen, wie in den Screenshots zu sehen. Das auswählen, was aus #K9mail importiert werden soll - fertig 👌
Thunderbird liest die Daten direkt aus K9 Mail aus
Me too, it's really easy 🙂
I finally switched yesterday after you announced the temporary bug in K9.
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On September 8 2025, around 13:00 UTC, someone compromised Josh Junon’s npm account (qix) and started publishing backdoored versions of his package. Someone noticed and let Josh know: Josh confirme...fasterthanli.me
try {
args = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(argsIn));
} catch (e) {
args = [...argsIn];
}
Ah see? I'm not the only one who didn't know about structuredClone
Here's the NPM supply chain attack payload deobfuscated & cleaned up by hand as best I could: github.com/fasterthanlime/0x11…
...I'm not sure it would ever work in its current form, tbh
De-obfuscated payload from the September 8 2025 npm supply chain attack - fasterthanlime/0x112GitHub
Re-posting due to current events.
The secret language of coders, part N of many. Today: "npm"
I have been pushing for #Inkscape to remove/decommission it's Twitter account. But I didn't want to do it unilaterally, bossing people about, but through reasoned policy that can be applied to other captured banana-pants social media platforms.
So I've drafted a policy, which I'm interested in having more people look at as it's going to be one of those gnarly things that's important to get right:
lists.inkscape.org/hyperkitty/…
What do you think? Worth while approach for a #foss project?
Until now, if you lost or broke your phone, your Signal message history was gone, a real challenge for everyone whose most important conversations happen in Signal. So, with careful design & development, we’re rolling out opt-in secure backups.
Secure backups will let you save an archive of your Signal messages remotely in privacy-preserving form, refreshed daily.
Now available in the latest Android beta release, rolling out to iOS & Desktop soon
signal.org/blog/introducing-se…
In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal.Signal Messenger
would that our local police were as committed to arresting asshole pickup truck drivers as the Prince George RCMP was to arresting this guy driving a toy Barbie jeep
New Privacy Guides article :2001: ⛔
by me:
Chat Control is one of the
most terrifying proposal for dystopian authoritarianism the Western world has seen in years.
We need your help to fight it ✊🇪🇺
For democracy,
For privacy,
And for all other human rights,
We cannot afford to lose this battle.
📩 If you are European (EU):
Contact your MEPs and local media this week to tell them to oppose Chat Control (more information in the linked article).
🗣️ If you are outside of the EU:
Spread the word! Tell your friends and family in the EU about it! Make noise on social media! This will affect you too.
privacyguides.org/articles/202…
#PrivacyGuides #ChatControl #StopScanningMe #Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy #EUpol
Chat Control is back to undermine everyone's privacy. There's an important deadline this Friday on September 12th. We must act now to stop it!Privacy Guides
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Strasbourg, Blick von der Kathedrale Notre Dame
#Strasbourg #France #photographie #photography #urban_photography #architecture #europe
To me, the worst part of what is being called the "largest supply chain attack in history" is the fact that there are over "2.6 billion weekly downloads of those NPM packages"
What the actual fuck?! [says a guy who used to curate SQL queries because the results took too long to deliver over 9600bd]
I maintain the Debian package/repo for Helm here https://helm.sh/docs/intro/install/#from-apt-debianubuntu . The bandwidth has gotten to be enough that it's no longer feasible to host it myself (~7...mattfox (GitHub)
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A Cli package for the public Radio browser API, built to be lightweight , accessible and easy to use from the ground up. - GitHub - tgeczy/radio-browser-whiptail-cli: A Cli package for the public ...GitHub
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STOP DOING ALPHA CHANNELS
• Pixels were not meant to be transparent
• YEARS OF DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for anything beyond OPAQUE RGB PIXELS
• Wanted to make part of your texture invisible anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "[bright magenta pixel]"
• "Yes please give me this specific color in INVISIBLE. Please give me 150 % intensity on the red channel" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Premultiplied
LOOK at what Graphics Programmers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the CRTs & LCDs we built for them
(This REAL Transparency, done by REAL Graphics Programmers)
[Three images demonstrating transparency, but with their transparent parts rendered as opaque in different ways:]
[Wikipedia's sample PNG image "PNG_transparency_demonstration", with the transparent background shown as the usual light gray checkerboard pattern]
[the OpenEXR sample image "PrismLenses", with the transparent background shown as solid black]
[a texture of a bouquet of flowers, with the transparent background replaced with opaque colors "bleeding out" from the opaque pixels]
[all images are subtitled with progressively longer strings of red question marks]
""Emission with no occlusion cannot be represented in straight alpha""
They have played us for relative fools](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/702277 "[\"STOP DOING MATH\" meme format - plain text on light blue background]
STOP DOING ALPHA CHANNELS
• Pixels were not meant to be transparent
• YEARS OF DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for anything beyond OPAQUE RGB PIXELS
• Wanted to make part of your texture invisible anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called \"[bright magenta pixel]\"
• \"Yes please give me this specific color in INVISIBLE. Please give me 150 % intensity on the red channel\" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Premultiplied
LOOK at what Graphics Programmers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the CRTs & LCDs we built for them
(This REAL Transparency, done by REAL Graphics Programmers)
[Three images demonstrating transparency, but with their transparent parts rendered as opaque in different ways:]
[Wikipedia's sample PNG image \"PNG_transparency_demonstration\", with the transparent background shown as the usual light gray checkerboard pattern]
[the OpenEXR sample image \"PrismLenses\", with the transparent background shown as solid black]
[a texture of a bouquet of flowers, with the transparent background replaced with opaque colors \"bleeding out\" from the opaque pixels]
[all images are subtitled with progressively longer strings of red question marks]
\"\"Emission with no occlusion cannot be represented in straight alpha\"\"
They have played us for relative fools")
France’s parliament voted to topple the government of Prime Minister François Bayrou on Monday after the PM surprised even his own allies by calling a confidence vote to resolve a months-long deadlock over his austerity budget.FRANCE 24
Love LibreOffice development? Want to turn your passion into a paid job? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice.Open Source JobHub
Just became aware of this from @thecarpentries — they had to say no to a huge grant from the US government because of their commitment to diversifying the software industry. I donated and hope you’ll think about it too.
carpentries.org/blog/2025/06/a…
In September 2024, The Carpentries submitted a proposal to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Pathways to Enable Open-Source Ecosystems (POSE) Program.The Carpentries
Ice Cube is still dropping incredibly catchy tracks. No idea how I missed this last year
youtube.com/watch?v=vvvQwYXPV-…
Don’t miss the first track from Ice Cube’s upcoming album Man Down! "It's My Ego" brings the heat with bold lyrics and hard-hitting visuals, setting the stag...YouTube
though this version with Killer Mike and Busta Rhymes is better because Killer Mike is so good, but Ice Cube has better verses on the original
youtube.com/watch?v=ADvIfLH2qs…
Subscribe to CUBEVISION to get everything the Ice Cube lifestyle has to offer. Stay tuned for new videos and exclusive content coming soon.Official Ice Cube...YouTube
Canada's National Observor: Whistleblower exposes how AI fuels Big Oil growth
nationalobserver.com/2025/09/0…
#AI #climateemergency #microsoft
"We realized we were basically working for an oil company," said Holly Alpine, a former Microsoft employee who quit her dream job on the company's sustainability team when she realized the company, like most tech companies, is helping fossil fuel com…Canada's National Observer
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I found a new newborn Hedgehog and then
#babyanimals #animals #hibernators #funnyvideos
Sarah Michelle Gellar posts masked selfie on set of Buffy
thecanary.co/global/world-anal…
'I will wear a mask in my shower if that means I don't get this again' said Sarah Michelle Gellar after recovering from COVID-19Christopher McDonald (The Canary)
A short tl;dr is that Hollywood and adjacent industry (music) still have strong COVID protocols in effect, but none speak publicly because the fascist have made COVID protection perceived as something bad.
Maybe Hollywood should show the power they have and actually make this a thing. Show the example.
Imagine the lives that could be changed with this much money? If they spent just a fraction of that on education of women and girls, it would have an impact many times greater.
Imagine how much renewable energy could be installed?
Even simple things like providing concrete floors to those whose homes have a dirt floor would have a massive impact.
Instead, it'll trash the environment, waste water, and make people's lives worse.
Fucking criminal.
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OpenAI Says Its Business Will Burn $115 Billion Through 2029 https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/08/1426211/openai-says-its-business-will-burn-115-billion-through-2029?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanonmastodon.cloud
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