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Letos volím poštou

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Zatímco v Česku vrcholí horká fáze kampaně, já už mám odvoleno. Spolu s více než dvaceti tisíci krajany jsem se rozhodl letos poprvé vyzkoušet korespondenční hlasování. To se dostalo do novely zákona o správě voleb a umožňuje Čechům žijícím v zahraničí…


Letos volím poštou

Ondřej Caletka (Ondřej v Nizozemsku)

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Android po letech nabídne podporu pro DHCPv6, bude ale vyžadovat úpravu sítě root.cz/clanky/android-po-lete…

Android po letech nabídne podporu pro DHCPv6, bude ale vyžadovat úpravu sítě

Android dlouhá léta bojkotoval podporu DHCPv6, aby zabránil přidělování jednotlivých adres koncovému zařízení. Připravuje se řešení, ale od správců sítí bude vyžadovat úpravy nastavení i adresních plánů.
Ondřej Caletka (Internet Info, s.r.o.)

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I replaced Windows clipboard with this micro-productivity tool, and I’m not going back xda-developers.com/replaced-wi…

I replaced Windows clipboard with this micro-productivity tool, and I’m not going back

Discover how Ditto, an open-source clipboard manager, transformed my productivity by providing complete control over my clipboard history, easy organization, and seamless multi-device syncing.
Yash Patel (XDA)

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#Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

In an indie bookshop: A gentle big dog is eager to greet any customer who'll give him a pat. With his tail wagging invitingly, and soulful brown eyes, he gives all newcomers an optimistic look that says: "Will you be my friend?"

A small human (3?) races into a small accounting firm while roaring: "DADDY! I'VE GOT YOUR SANDWICHES!"
His very pregnant mum is telling him to slow down, but Small Human Sandwich Deliverer takes no notice.
Daddy needs sandwiches and he needs them NOW!

A tiny human (2?) is told to hold Mum's hand before they cross the road.
He takes this instruction very seriously, holding Mum's hand in his left, and the hand of his SpongeBob plushie in his right.
Looking both ways, all three of them cross the road safely.

A small human (4?) dressed as Wonder Woman is being tackled by her dastardly big sister.
(Oh no!)
What will she do?
WHAT WILL SHE DO?!
A mighty roar saves the day!
She is Wonder Woman.
She SHALL NOT be defeated!

A small human (3?) is nonchalantly munching an apple while Mum fastens the strap of a bright pink bike helmet under her chin
Once the helmet is on, she climbs deftly onto the back of Mum's bike and they cycle off.
Still munching her apple, completely chill.
The sun shining overhead.

Any typos spotted in this post are very careful to hold on to their hashtags when they cross the road. If spotted, please accept all sandwiches they may offer you. They're very good sandwich deliverers.

#dog

#dog #spotted
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Well, since tomorrow is supposedly the rapture, I forgive everyone who ever hated me intensely and anything else that I might forget. But I'll most likely be the one dude that gets left behind, because that's usually what happens. Heck, my family left me behind when I was 6-years-old at midnight mass. So I'm used to it. Lol!

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Fuck!

"I am writing on behalf of myself and fellow taxi drivers to raise urgent concerns about the escalating incidents of violent behaviour directed at drivers in our area

Earlier today, a colleague of mine was attacked while dropping off a passenger near the bus station by the Pentagon Shopping Centre. He was forcibly dragged from his vehicle and beaten, sustaining cuts to his hands and bruising to his face. His injuries were serious enough that he had to be taken to hospital for treatment"

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Direct from the dot lumen website: "Expected something like this to exist, but not during our lifetime." - blind since birth
Everything the Guide Dog can do, now in Technology
The guide dog pulls your hand, the .lumen Glasses pull your head. Powered by our patented haptic interface.
My comment? That's... interesting. I did not know that "blind since birth" was someone's name or a proper attribution. Neither am I sure I want to it pull my head. What do you all think?
dotlumen.com/glasses

Glasses | .lumen

.lumen is the research startup which builds glasses that empower the blind to live a better life.
.lumen

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Well, the world is a bit more normal today. ABC will reinstate Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show starting Tuesday! Yay! toronto.citynews.ca/2025/09/22…

ABC ends Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension and his show will return Tuesday

ABC will reinstate Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show in the wake of criticism over his comments about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, officials with the network said Monday.
Meredith Bond (CityNews Toronto)

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WTF can I buy an e-book (that is DRM free because it's Tor) *in Canada* without going through one of the monopolies... No Bezos, No Google, No Apple, and fuck Kobo, I don't need another pivacy violation. I just want to download the fucking file (I could with Google, FYI). You already want CA$22 for it.

(Bookshop dot org doesn't want to do business with Canada)

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this piece describes my preferred approach to programming better than anything I've managed to write so far (did I post this already? maybe so, but it's worth a repost)

the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/to-be-…

To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head

This is a brief write-up of a trick I learned that helps me write code faster and more accurately. I say "trick", but it's really something I started to do without noticing as I moved further into my career.
Matthew Prast (The Nerve Blog)
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wow, to be able to type into the search Box (Windows 10) and get results right away, without that slight 2-second delay, just, makes me wanna cry.
Like, y'all, we're missing out on so much performance we lost in Windows 10 and that to me is ironic. Explorer was very, very slow and buggy in the initial shipping version of Windows 11, build 22000. I remember this well. It was something where you navigated and it would act as though it was loading. Sometimes you'd open a folder and it would "look" empty. Things like that. Youza.
Then we are here today, and while largely the functional bugs are gone, Microsoft got way too aggressive with this "oh, we're going to go modular!" stance. They just turned the shell into something that runs like 2 or 3 other processes - one for the start menu, one for the shell's host itself, one for the widgets, one for that, one for this.
Before you know it, those processes all need to coordinate and bog the system down. I realized that's the downfall of Windows 11. It's not even the AI and the marketing and the pushing of Microsoft Services. It's this constant, "we must have 40 SVCHost processes for you because everything is so sandboxed and secure and modular that we don't care if we trash your ram" attitude I feel from them. All of it. The AI and marketing are one thing, but it tells only the icing of that story
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Tamas G

@serrebi Yeah was trying to figure out after which version number they lost their way. It may have been in truth sometime in the 15XX build range (like 15063) where XBOX began to be bundled in more tightly, but even up until 19041 (2019's build) Microsoft was so focused on Cortana that htey didn't add a lot of cruft and more modularity or bloat. Then Windows 11 hit in 2020, Microsoft was like "Windows 10 sucks now, we have a new kid on the block!" and thankfully, that's why we got more "feature packs" with 19042, 19043, 19044, and 19045. All of them though still retained the Microsoft of 2019, and not of 2025, which looked more like the Microsoft of 2015 than the one today.
@Brandon

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✏️ The politics of AI: we'll need more sustainability, community and democracy

some of my notes from “The politics of AI”, earlier this week at Goldsmiths hidde.blog/ai-politics

(thanks @danmcquillan and others for organising!)


The politics of AI: we'll need more sustainability, community and democracy

Last week I attended a symposium called ”The Politics of AI: governance, resistance, alternatives” at Goldsmiths in London. In this post, I will share some takeaways.
Hidde's blog
@danmcquillan
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Windows 10 support ends on October 14.

Help the people around you continue to be protected by helping them switch to Linux. They don't need to go buy a new computer just because Microsoft made a decision for them.

Follow @Endof10 for success stories and resources for how to help people switch!

Learn more: endof10.org

#EndOf10 #Linux #OpenSource #Fedora


End of 10

Windows 10 ends in 2025. Don’t buy a new PC — revive yours with Linux. It's fast, secure, and help is available to get you started.
End of 10
#linux #opensource #fedora #endof10 @End Of 10 Campaign
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Did you know? International Repair Day is on the 18th of October!

It is also the date of our next Repair Cafe with @tog

Join us to have your household items repaired and learn how you can do it yourself!

Free tickets: eventbrite.ie/e/1601041400929?…

Promotional poster for a "Repair Café" event on "Repair Day," dated 18.10.25. The top half features illustrations of tools like a screwdriver, wrench, hammer, paintbrush, level, and pliers arranged around bold text: "REPAIR CAFÉ on REPAIR DAY → 18.10.25." The bottom half has a blue background with white text providing event details: "FREE Tickets at the link below!! Tog Hackerspace, Unit 1B Motor City, Kylemore Road, Dublin 12."

Repair Cafe

Do you have broken stuff lying around at home? Clothes, Small Appliances, Toys or Electronics? Bring them to our Repair Cafe to be fixed!
Eventbrite
@Tog Hackerspace

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#chatcontrol is a giant legal-technical quagmire and would erode privacy in times where we most need it. But let's talk about protecting children ... what chatcontrol claims to be about:

First, it's unproven that chatcontrol would help lower actual abuses.

Second, why not spend the many EU millions that go into busying politicians, developers, lawyers and orgs into hiring social workers? They could directly act on the huge backlog of _reported known_ child abuse cases. That definitely helps.

#chatcontrol

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J'espère que les maires qui ont choisi d'hisser les drapeaux palestiniens en depit des interdictions seront lourdement sanctionnés. Quel est le sentiment renvoyé par les représentants de l'état avec cette désobéissance ?
C'est quoi ce pays ? Que dis-je ? Pays ? La France n'a plus rien d'un pays ! Quelle honte !

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Do you use WhatsApp ?
It's been months I'm planning to uninstall it but haven't done it yet.
I'm curious to know the average proportion of WhatsApp users on Mastodon (don't lie!).
Just pick 1 answer & boost 😄

  • Of course! (3%, 15 votes)
  • Yes but I wish I could get rid of it (43%, 203 votes)
  • No, this is evil (I prefer other alternatives) (53%, 247 votes)
465 voters. Poll end: 4 weeks ago

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I don't know who needs to hear this, but it's never propagation. Not anymore.

Sure, maybe if you're updating glue records it'll take a few minutes, maybe an hour. But, DNS infrastructure is so much less aggressively cache-y than it used to be. It's not hanging on to old records for 24-48 hours, as lots of people say you should wait for propagation. If you're getting bogus records after an hour or even a few minutes, you did something wrong. Usually it's just the TTL, probably <5 minutes.

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Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉

@matt it will make things a bit slower for your users. I usually do 60 seconds for stuff that I expect to change regularly or when I'm planning a migration to a new server/IP, 5 minutes for stuff I don't have any plans to change.

Zero TTL would be, IMHO, for services that move around a lot via some dynamic mechanism. I can't think of any time I'd set TTL that low, or any benefit to doing so.

But, because Route 53 is very distributed with Anycast, it probably doesn't have a huge impact.

@Matt Campbell
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