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There was the equivalent of a Youtube call-in show, where you win stuff for correctly answering weird questions without looking them up with a search engine. They had ways of knowing if you do.

I was watching Linus Tech Tips, something I usually don't do, because they annoy me, and was the first to correctly answer the question: "What is the city of origin of VoIP equipment manufacturer Grandstream?"

The answer was Brookline, Massachusetts.

Unfortunately, I woke up before I got to learn what I won. Oh well.

#WeirdDream

#weirddream
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So I found the secret to getting Google to listen to us! See, you have to join their Discord servers lol.

So Gemini on Android is less accessible with TalkBack than Gemini on iOS or even Gemini on the web. And I'm tired as fuck of sucky ass technology shit for the day just trying to do BSI on this iPhone because obviously having both hands on either side of the screen is having more than 3 fingers on a single side of the screen or some bullshit. Crem of the storming crem, Apple. So St'm not going into detail about the issue here because anyone who's kept up with the complaining I do knows the issue. Anyway, so I join the Gemini Discord, and I thought I'd posted that issue months ago, but apparently not. I know I reported it from the feedback part of the Gemini settings, but this is just proof that they don't read that shit.

So I post the bug report in the bug channel, and within a good hour or 2 I get a reply. Because of course. Now Google, make a TalkBack Discord server lol. Fucking insane. But yeah y'all if you have issues with Gemini, go to their Discord lol.

#google #accessibility #ai #blind

#Accessibility #google #blind #AI

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Version 0.4 of Paperback, my lightweight and efficient ebook and document reader, is out! Changelog:
* Added CHM file support!
* Added bookmark support! You can have as many bookmarks throughout as many documents as you like. You can jump forward and backward through them with b and shift+b, set one with control+shift+b, and bring up a dialog to jump to a specific bookmark with control+b.
* Added an installer alongside the portable zip file! The installer will install Paperback into your Program Files directory, and automatically set up file associations for you.
* Text files with BOMs should now be decoded properly, and the BOM will no longer be displayed at the beginning of the text either.
* Added far more information to the status bar. It'll now show you your current line, character, and reading percentage.
* HTML comments, as well as the contents of script and style tags, will no longer be shown in text output.
* If passing a relative path to Paperback on the command line, it will now resolve it properly.
* Percentage movement is now handled by its own slider-based dialog, accessible with control+shift+g.
* Documents without known titles or authors will now always have a default.
* The position saving logic is now much smarter and should only write to the disk when absolutely necessary.
* The document you had focused when you closed Paperback is now remembered across application restarts.
* Input into the go to line and go to page dialogs should now be sanitized more strictly.
* Fixed table of contents navigation in epub 3 books with relative paths in their manifests.
Zip download: github.com/trypsynth/paperback…
Installer download: github.com/trypsynth/paperback…
Donation page: paypal.me/tygillespie05
Enjoy!

Zaplaťte uživateli Ty Gillespie pomocí služby PayPal.Me

Přejděte na adresu paypal.me/tygillespie05 a zadejte částku. Protože jde o PayPal, je to jednoduché a bezpečné. Nemáte účet PayPal? Nevadí.
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Just FYI: my only account which is still active for me is from AllOverthePlace.ca. If anyone notices a David Goldfield from other accounts who follow you, please do notify me so that I can investigate it. Now there is a Civil War historian named David Goldfield who is, of course, welcome to establish a Mastodon presence but barring that, other accounts with that name are likely fakes.

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My DV advocate has been working to find us safe housing! In the meantime, I'm also working on an application for a part-time job that could be a great fit, and continuing to look for legal help while doing as much as I can independently.

PLEASE help us get legal help, a car, and everything else we need to survive ♥️

chuffed.org/project/replace-ou…

paypal.me/natoleander
venmo/cashapp @ natsmith89

@mutualaid @MutualAidNet #mutualaidrequest #mutualaid #transmutualaid #queermutualaid #disabledmutualaid

A banner image with the text "keep us safe" in large, colorful letters in a sketch font. On the right, there is a photograph: A light-skinned biracial baby with dark curly hair smiles slightly and holds their hand up to the side of their parent's face. The parent, who is white, has their head tilted to the side with a big smile, and has short light brown hair. The background is the inside of a vehicle.

Mutual Aid: Help a DV Survivor Get Financially Stable

Leaving is hard—and it's dangerous.
Chuffed
#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #transmutualaid #queermutualaid #disabledmutualaid @MutualAidNet @mutualaid 组
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Nat

Unfortunately we didn't get the transitional DV housing we were hoping for 💔 and still can't go home as emergency restraining order was denied. This goal is for legal funds but housing support is also urgent!

2945/5000

chuffed.org/project/replace-ou…
paypal.me/natoleander
venmo/cashapp @ natsmith89

#transmutualaid #queermutualaid #disabledmutualaid #mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #helpfolkslive2025 #transcrowdfund #disabilitymutualaid #disabledmutualaid @mutualaid @MutualAidNet


Mutual Aid: Help a DV Survivor Get Financially Stable

Leaving is hard—and it's dangerous.
Chuffed
#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #transcrowdfund #transmutualaid #queermutualaid #disabledmutualaid #disabilitymutualaid #helpfolkslive2025 @MutualAidNet @mutualaid 组
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Nat

EXTREMELY URGENT MUTUAL AID

DV survivor & baby in urgent need of funds for legal aid! We haven't been able to get a restraining order yet which puts a huge strain on stability. Consult w sliding scale lawyer is today!

2945/5000

chuffed.org/project/replace-ou…
paypal.me/natoleander
venmo/cashapp @ natsmith89

#transmutualaid #queermutualaid #disabledmutualaid #mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #helpfolkslive2025 #transcrowdfund #disabilitymutualaid #disabledmutualaid @MutualAidNet


Mutual Aid: Help a DV Survivor Get Financially Stable

Leaving is hard—and it's dangerous.
Chuffed
#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #transcrowdfund #transmutualaid #queermutualaid #disabledmutualaid #disabilitymutualaid #helpfolkslive2025 @MutualAidNet
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When Andre (@Onj) randomly reached out offering to produce drums for a collaboration, it just so happened that was working on a song and was having trouble getting drums that sounded right. It was perfect timing and he did an amazing job. Check out the links on Andre’s profile to check out his work! He’s a real talent and an awesome human.

Our collaboration is now up on #Bandcamp for #BandcampFriday if you want a copy for yourself.

Gettin’ Stoned (ft. Andre Louis)
~ #Dgar

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#DgarMusic #Music


Gettin Stoned (ft. Andre Louis), by Dgar

track by Dgar
Dgar
#music #bandcamp #bandcampfriday #dgar #dgarmusic @Onj 🎶

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A lady went to a salon to get her hair done. While the stylist was working, she noticed a handsome man sitting quietly in the shop.

Suddenly, the lady turned to him and said, “Sir, you’re so handsome. Can we meet later today?”

The man replied, “I’m married.”

The woman continued, “And so? You can just tell your wife you’re going to visit a friend in the hospital, and from there…”

The man calmly replied, “Tell her yourself—she’s the one doing your hair.”

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In Japan, trees in the path of urban development or road construction are often relocated rather than cut down. This reflects the country’s deep respect for nature and commitment to environmental preservation.

Using specialized techniques, experts carefully bind and protect the roots before transplanting the tree to a new location.

This approach ensures the preservation of greenery while allowing infrastructure projects to move forward.

#archaeohistories

#archaeohistories

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🇩🇪Ein starkes Zeichen aus Slowenien: Die Regierung lehnt die #Chatkontrolle nach Protesten u.a. der #Piraten ab. Hier siegen Grundrechte über den Überwachungswahn!

Wann zieht Deutschland nach? Der Kampf ist nicht vorbei! #Noch12Tage
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Slovenija vendarle sprejela odločitev o uredbi Chat Control

Notranje ministrstvo je danes sporočilo, da predloga evropske uredbe za boj proti spolnim zlorabam otrok (Chat control) v trenutni obliki ne podpira.
STA (N1)
#piraten #Chatkontrolle #noch12tage

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ever wonder why Linux distro images are so darn big? I do, a lot, because we have silly rules about it! here is the investigation for #fedora 43's workstation live: bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.c… . It boils down to: "Firefox, LibreOffice, firmware, translations, CJK support, printing support, and podman/skopeo"

2360056 – (F43Workstationlivex86_64Oversize) Fedora 43: Workstation live x86_64 image exceeds maximum size

bugzilla.redhat.com
#fedora

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Pokud v Praze volíte Piráty a nevíte koho kroužkovat, tak Gabriela Svárovská by váš kroužek uživila… asi víc než známé Pirátské tváře, které jich i tak dostanou spoustu. programydovoleb.cz/volby/snemo…

Piráti (Praha): přehled kandidátů ve sněmovních volbách 2025

Podívejte se na seznam 142 známých kandidátů, kteří budou kandidovat do Parlamentu pod hlavičkou Česká pirátská strana ve volbách ve dnech 3. a 4. října 2025
Piráti (Praha): přehled kandidátů ve sněmovních volbách 2025
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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

Ugh, we're sorry that's happening! Increased memory usage can have several different causes, so we'd definitely you to either reach out to our community on Mozilla Support (support.mozilla.org) or to file a bug report on bugzilla (bugzilla.mozilla.org) - we'd definitely encourage reading this article first! wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:T…

Mozilla Support

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Wow. It sure doesn't seem like the Bluesky PBC CEO likes her current users very much. This is pretty incredible. Feel like we've seen this movie before.

h/t @stefan stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/1…

#Bluesky

A pair of two posts from Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky. In first, she says "You could try a poster’s strike. I hear that works." In the second, she replied "Are you paying us? Where?" to someone saying "Yeah but a customer threatening to cancel their service usually gets a couple things accomplished. C'mon, Jay. Shame on you."

Stefan Bohacek (@stefan@stefanbohacek.online)

Attached: 1 image Just a CEO of a hot new social media platform calling its users freeloaders and telling them to stop posting, hm. #bluesky #SocialMedia
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#bluesky @Stefan Bohacek
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 12 updated apps. Our ongoing gardening activity cleaned out 2 no longer maintained apps which where also rarely downloaded anymore:

* Ylight Music: a Youtube Music client, which was reported to us as … behaving strangely
* widgets-for-auto: Android Auto widgets, with several proprietary components and also only few downloads

As it goes with gardening, our other plants are now better visible 🤗

Enjoy 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).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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Running 14.3-STABLE right now. Intel iwlwifi driver with an Intel AX210 card giving me full 250/40 Mbps (the maximum of my DSL line) via WiFi :)

Random connection issues, that I had with -RELEASE are solved in the current -STABLE 🙂

5Ghz, 802.11ac with 80Mhz wide channel...

We're making fast progress with FreeBSD on the modern desktop 🙂

#freebsd #iwlwifi #wifi #networking

#freebsd #networking #wifi #iwlwifi

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Mathematics in the age of automated proofs: AlphaProof (From the lab into your hands). ~ Thomas Hubert. youtu.be/uhwfTOUIeiw #AI #Math #ITP #LeanProver #AlphaProof

Thomas Hubert: AlphaProof: From the lab into your hands

Part of the symposium Mathematics in the age of Automated Proofs at Leiden University. Made possible by the generosity of the the Lorentz Center, the Dutch R...
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#AI #math #alphaproof #leanprover #itp

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If you're helping people sign up on here, that's great! 👏

However, I'd strongly suggest not signing up on the mastodon.social server. It's way way too large and that's dangerous (here's why fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-ide…).

I know some find choice overwhelming, so if you just want one general long-established very busy server mas.to is a better option for example.

There are also lots of other good servers listed at fedi.garden and joinmastodon.org/servers


Fedi.Garden

Highlighting nice servers on Mastodon and the Fediverse
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Daniel Gultsch

FWIW I'm reasonably sure Facebook never supported XMPP federation. They supported logging in via XMPP with a regular XMPP client (c2s) but they didn't support s2s. Meaning you could only chat with other Facebook users.

GTalk had federation and it was somewhat bad when they shut that down. But I don't remember Facebook's XMPP access being very relevant for the larger ecosystem.

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I just had to uninstall vipre advanced security because sometimes when I would reboot the computer, my whole internet on my desktop wasn't connected. I would reboot, and it would fix its self, and then if I had to reboot again, it would break my internet again. I don't have time to try to figure out why in the sam hell it would break my internet that bad. I did try turning the firewall off, checking for internet, and there was nothing, and turning it back on, and still nothing. sometimes when I would go check, it was already turned off, but I had no internet at all on my desktop. That was fun while it lasted, but I am not paying for something that decided to sometimes cause me to have absolutely no internet access when I reboot the computer. back to microsoft defender I go I guess.
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Tamas G

@vol4life8657 @lino_jr yeah avast is not a bad option actually. I think that the smart scan thing can also be disabled in it, and you do have a lot of control. Who knows, might switch, not like I don't have 30 days to cancel this one. Well now like 28. LOL. Still, I got tired of Defender's inability to customize scan schedule and what happens for so-called "catch-up scans." Like when a scan is interrupted in the background by a reboot and then what. I don't want it continuing then, I want it to restart the full scan. things like that I need perfect LOL
@Darrell Bowles @Lino Morales The no good ham
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