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If anyone wants to learn numbers in Estonia, here's 100 estonians, aged 0 to 100, saying their age out loud. If not for the language, the change in peoples voices as they age is fascinating if presented in this manner. youtube.com/watch?v=DhzCffo-_C…

0-100 years in Estonia

From January - August 2025, I asked 100 Estonians all over Estonia to say their age in front of the camera from 0 - 100.Next up Finland and Latvia😉The idea ...
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Timothy Wynn

This isn't too great for learning, as there are a number of regional variants present in the voicing, but here's counting in (mostly northern) Vietnamese with (presumably) the voicing being done by a Representative of said age. Note that the first number audible is three, and the last is 99:
youtube.com/watch?v=4z1lUwHhuA…
Thanks to @jakobrosin for inspiring me to look up my language's version.

Vlogger Đinh Tiến Dũng : 0 - 100 Tuổi Ở VIỆT NAM l 0 -100 Years In VIET NAM

I make videos - Tôi làm videoDTD TV - 0 - 100 Tuổi Ở VIỆT NAM l 0 -100 Years In VIET NAM#DTDTV #ĐinhTiếnDũngTV #DinhTienDungTV
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Jj já jsem Tutu taky zaplatil na rok. Zkoušel jsem i Proton, ale pro mě zbytečně drahý a přeplácaný. Tak jsem se rozhodoval mezi mailbox.org a Tutou. Zatím vyhral mailbox, ten nový vzhled se jim povedl.

Your data – under your control.

Your digital workspace with email, cloud, office & meet. Secure & GDPR-compliant for businesses, public authorities and private individuals. ▶ Try us now!
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PSA: our new release 0.87.0 out! 🎉

The list of newly supported devices, new features, improvements and fixes is simply too large to post here, so make sure to check out our blog post!

Of special note: in addition to the regular F-Droid releases, we're now publishing official releases, signed by us, directly on our Codeberg repository. And our official builds have also been picked up and published by IzzyOnDroid for easy future upgrading. 🚀

More in our blog post: gadgetbridge.org/blog/release-…


Gadgetbridge 0.87.0: Many new devices, improvements and official builds - Gadgetbridge

A free and open source Android application for bluetooth devices.
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OpenStreetMap.org website & our mapping API will be read-only for server maintenance on the 5 October 2025 between 9:00 and 12:00 (UTC/GMT). See the time local to you: timeanddate.com/worldclock/fix… #OpenStreetMap #Maintenance 🪛 🤖

Event Time Announcer - OSM.org Maintenance - Read-only - 3 hour window

Event Time Announcer shows time for OSM.org Maintenance - Read-only - 3 hour window in locations all over the world. In London it happens on neděle 5. říjen 2025, 10:00:00.
www.timeanddate.com
#openstreetmap #maintenance

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Niekedy, ked sa vrtam v statnom IT, sa citim ako zakaznik slovenskeho gastra v podobe, ako ju "ospevuju" Haf&Beyuz v skladbe "Gastrobrekeke":

"Este nikto sa mi tu tak ako ty nestazoval,
daj si prosim otocku a niekam inam otravovat odpal!"

"To sa neda nablokovat, co si sa zblaznil?!"

m.soundcloud.com/hafnerbeyuz/1…

#eGov #Slovensko #gastro #music #HipHop #Hafner #Beyuz


12 gastrobrekeke ft orion

Stream 12 gastrobrekeke ft orion by haf&beyuz on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.
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#music #slovensko #hiphop #egov #gastro #hafner #beyuz

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UnifiedPush (Datenspuren 2025)

Push-Benachrichtigungen auf Android-Handys ohne Google. Dezentralisiert und Open Source.

Mit Open Source Tools wie microG bekommt man zwar erfolgreich proprietäre Google Software von seinem Android-Handy verbannt; die eigentlichen Benachrichtigungen werden aber dennoch über Google Server verschickt (Firebase Cloud Messaging).

UnifiedPush ist ein Framework, mit dem Push-Benachrichtigungen dezentral bzw über selbst betriebene Server zugestellt werden können. Zahlreiche Open Source Android Apps unterstützen bereits UnifiedPush. Unter anderem: Tusky, Fedilab, DAVx⁵, Fennec, Element (mit Einschränkungen) und viele mehr.

Dieser Vortrag erklärt, wie Push-Benachrichtigungen im Allgemeinen funktionieren und warum sie trotz ihres eventuell schlechten Rufes eleganter sind, als jede App eine eigene Serververbindung aufbauen zu lassen.

Des Weiteren werden mögliche Privacy-Probleme erörtert die mit der Benutzung von Google Push Servern einhergehen.

Anschließend wird die Architektur von UnifiedPush erklärt.

Der Vortrag endet mit einer praktischen Anleitung wie man UnifiedPush auf einem Android-Handy benutzt.

#xmpp #opensource #UnifiedPush #Jabber

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Y’all. This is a known spammer who is picking up momentum. We’re seeing LOTS of accounts using the same name and avatar. But the bio varies from instance to instance. And a minority of them don’t have an avatar, but still use the name.

If you see these accounts, please report them. We’re trying to wipe them out, but we can’t until we know about them.

Thanks for the teamwork! 🤝

#Spam #JimmyTruth #Teamwork #Moderation

Screenshot of a Mastodon avatar, name, and handle. The name is Jimmy Truth. The avatar is a young white male, with a long buzz cut, wearing a white tank top.
#moderation #spam #teamwork #jimmytruth

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While places like Germany (Grafenrheinfeld) and the USA (Hartsville) are tearing down clean energy infrastructure, China releases this montage about building the world's largest wet cooling tower at the Lianjiang Nuclear Power Plant.
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Emil Jacobs - Collectifission

Sorry, it is hard to not be sarcastic after dealing with the same one-sided question for years.

Nuclear waste is currently recycled through the PUREX process, where spent nuclear fuel rods are cut down in smaller pieces and then chemically treated to keep the uranium and plutonium (read: the fuel) to create new fuel rods with them, which is called MOX fuel (Mixed OXide).

This is possible because spent nuclear fuel, after having been in a reactor core for four or five years, still have up to 96% of the fuel available. It is just too contaminated with fission products to remain high efficiency at that point.

The fission products, which are a wide group of short lived isotopes, are separated via the PUREX procedure and put in glass granulates. This vitrified stuff is chemically inert and highly radioactive for around 300 years. In the Netherlands we store around 1.5 cubic meters of it each year in an above-ground facility called the HABOG building at the COVRA facility (see below picture). I had a tour there last year, which was really fascinating.

The disadvantage of the PUREX route is threefold: 1. It separates out the plutonium, creating a potential proliferation concern; 2. it's somewhat costly, so only few countries do it (the Netherlands does it via France's Orano facility in La Hague); 3. it's not that efficient in burning up all potential fuel.

There is an alternative in the works via pyroprocessing (yes, by high temperatures), which leaves the plutonium mixed with the uranium. This route in combination with another type of reactor, called a fast breeder reactor, can be used to create a better way to gain a 100x efficiency gain in fuel efficiency. This leaves essentially the short lived fission products.

Then there's another development going on via molten salt reactors. This way opens the possibility of isolating specific isotopes from that 'soup' of fission products, which then can be used for a plethora of industrial and healthcare use cases. If we develop this the coming decades, there is a potential to actually more or less completely recycle all of the waste.

Fast breeder reactors and molten salt reactors get online in the coming decade. China already got one online recently. I expect a lot more developments in this regard in the next few decades.

But again, compared to all other energy sources, nuclear energy has by far the lowest waste stream in absolute volume and the best maintained one by regulation. If for example the solar industry was expected to be on the same level of care, it would go bankrupt overnight. The nuclear industry can only maintain this double standard because of the amazing energy density of uranium.

Hope this helps!

Picture of the hall at the HABOG building.
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Disney wants Kimmel back on the air, negotiating with Kimmel. Disney should have never gave given into pressure from Trump administration to suspend Kimmel.
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Jimmy Kimmel, Disney Work Toward Compromise to Bring Show Back to ABC

Jimmy Kimmel and his representatives are working with Disney and ABC leaders on a compromise to allow 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' to return to ABC.
Cynthia Littleton (Variety)

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Trump’s EO on H-1B visas has thrown the tech industry into chaos overnight

I just published an email Google sent H-1B employees yesterday warning them to not leave the US / to return by midnight tonight sources.news/p/heres-googles-m…

Leaked memo: Google warns H-1B employees not to leave the US

“We understand this may create challenges, and we are here to support you,” Google told employees last night.
Alex Heath (Sources)

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For the next GTK cycle, Matthias has been working on a format for symbolic icons that can be rendered efficiently by GTK, including animations; it is based on a subset of SVG with custom vendor attributes:

discourse.gnome.org/t/animated…

If you want to experiment with content creation apps, or towards a shared implementation, feel free to drop by on Discourse.

#design #icons #gtk #ux


Animated icons for GTK

I have been working for a while on GTK support for stateful, animated, symbolic icons. This post is meant to provide an introduction to the format, and encourage experimentation with it. The code will land very soon in GTK 4.21.
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#gtk #UX #design #icons

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 14 updated and 1 added apps:

* PinePods: a complete podcast management solution that allows you to host your own podcast server and enjoy a beautiful mobile experience 🛡️

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).
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#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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Major news: New Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses will feature its own screen reader, text size and magnification options for blind and low vision people. Huge thanks to @emassey0135 for spotting this and sharing. Full story here: doubletaponair.com/meta-ray-ba… #blind #tech #accessibility

Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses to Include Built-In Screen Reader and Vision Accessibility Features - Double Tap

Meta has just announced at Meta Connect that the upcoming Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses will ship with a suite of accessibility features designed specifically for blind and low-vision users.
Steven Scott (Double Tap)
#Accessibility #blind #tech @Elijah Massey

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Kyiv Independent - Russia launched a large-scale missile and drone attack on Ukrainian cities overnight, killing at least two people and injuring 32 others. kyivindependent.com/russia-lau…

2 killed, 32 injured in large-scale Russian missile, drone attack on Ukrainian cities

Russia launched a large-scale missile and drone attack on Ukrainian cities overnight on Sept. 20, killing at least two people and injuring 32 others, officials reported.
Dmytro Basmat (The Kyiv Independent)

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How to Write in Cuneiform, the Oldest Writing System in the World: A Short Introduction

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How to Write in Cuneiform, the Oldest Writing System in the World: A Short Introduction

Teaching child visitors how to write their names using an unfamiliar or antique alphabet is a favorite activity of museum educators, but Dr.
OC (Openculture.com)

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Before and after the 2024 election, Elon Musk made it clear he disliked environmental regulations and considered them a barrier to innovation.

His companies, from Boring Co. to xAI, have been accused of finding ways to sidestep regulations. Here's what to know:
propublica.org/article/elon-mu…

#ElonMusk #Environment #Regulation #Business #SpaceX #Tesla #Musk


The Environmental and Regulatory Scrutiny Elon Musk’s Companies Have Faced

Musk considers environmental regulation a barrier to innovation. As he eyes a new project in Houston, here’s what to know about some of his companies’ past projects that have faced scrutiny from regulators and environmental advocates.
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#environment #business #musk #elonmusk #spacex #tesla #regulation

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Since I've been having a lot of fun adapting classical music to chiptune style, I thought maybe I should follow all the way through and make an entire asset pack for RPG-type games...? Since I'm not composing everything from scratch, it could be very affordable relative to the amount of music. This is "Torrent" by Chopin, which I think sounds very Boss Music...

#music #classicalmusic #chiptune #gamedev #rpgmaker #jrpg


#music #gamedev #classicalmusic #chiptune #rpgmaker #jrpg

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> #Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man

> The man noticed that posts encouraging him to “get Threads” (…) were being dropped into his Instagram feed featuring embedded posts of uniformed girls as young as 13 with their faces visible and, in most cases, their names.

> The children’s images were used by Meta after their parents had posted them on Instagram to mark their return to school.

theguardian.com/technology/202…


Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man

Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says
Robert Booth (The Guardian)
#meta
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Please. Get off Meta sites! Close your accounts! And for god's sake stop posting pictures of your children, or even yourselves, anywhere on the internet.

"The children’s images were used by Meta after their parents had posted them on Instagram to mark their return to school. The parents were unaware that Meta’s settings permitted it to do this. One mother said her account was set to private, but the posts were automatically cross-posting to Threads where they were visible. Another said she posted the picture to a public Instagram account. The posts of their children were highlighted to the stranger as “suggested threads”.

The recipient told the Guardian the posts felt “deliberately provocative and ultimately exploitative of the children and families involved”.

The father of a 13-year-old who appeared in one of the posts said it was “absolutely outrageous”. The images were all of schoolgirls in short skirts with either bare legs or stockings." theguardian.com/technology/202…


Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man

Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says
Robert Booth (The Guardian)
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Nonya "Fucking Bitch" Bidniss

"The mother of a 15-year-old whose picture was used in a promotional post that featured a large “Get Threads” button said: “For me it was a picture of my daughter going to school. I had no idea Instagram had picked it up and are using it as a promotion. It’s absolutely disgusting. She is a minor.” ...

With 267 followers, her Instagram account usually had modest reach but the post of her child attracted nearly 7,000 views, 90% from non-followers, half of whom were aged over 44 and 90% of whom were men.

Another mother whose post of her 13-year-old was used in a promotional post said: “Meta did all of this on purpose, not informing us, as they want to generate content. It’s despicable. And who is responsible for creating that Threads ad using children’s photos to promote the platform for older men?”

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