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If you're anywhere near Prague this weekend, meet the #LibreOffice community at LinuxDays 2025! More info: linuxdays.cz/2025/ #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
LibreOffice merchandise
LibreOffice flyers, in Czech
LibreOffice printed guidebooks, Czech translation

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Konference o Linuxu, open-source a vším, co s tím souvisí. Koná se každoročně v pražských Dejvicíc na půdě FIT ČVUT v Praze.
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Delta Chat

well, we appreciate Signal trying to make a difference with its public weight ahead of the oct14 chat control vote. Yes, Signal is centralized and running on gafam servers but it also was a key leading effort to make e2ee UX widely available ... and that is fundamentally threatened by #chatcontrol. Federated #xmpp or #email servers do not help against legislation that aims at apps and clients. This is a time to put all of our joint weight against chatcontrol, not gamble for exceptions.
#xmpp #email #chatcontrol
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Dr0id

@delta I am not sure to understand your argument well. So I understand (perhaps not correctly) the idea of ​​this time with #ChatControl is that the messages are scanned on the client's side, and before that the infrastructure does not matter. I will avoid that restriction but the vast majority of people do not do it. If they do not scan my device they will do it in the person with whom I communicate. It would be a lost battle.
#chatcontrol @Delta Chat
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obsoleszenz

The fight is to not loose the rights older generations fought for. Everything else is arrogance. Thinking you can out smart authoritarian shifts and attacking voices fighting this is really blind sighted. You may not like signals public stunts, but attacking them for using their weight to lobby against chat control is very divisive. In unity we can be strong, singled out we will get ran over. This is not about xmpp vs signal. This is liberty vs dystopia.
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Daniel Gultsch

@obsoleszenz @delta Political action is important. I was on the streets protesting against the first data retention (Vorratsdatenspeicherung) laws 20 years ago. However we also need a Plan B. "Leaving Europe" is either an empty threat or not helpful at all to the people living here.
People need to know that they can rely on Jabber/XMPP in general and #Conversations_im in particular to stay around no matter what.
#conversations_im @Delta Chat @obsoleszenz
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Matt

I wouldn't be so sure about that, after all, the way of implementing it hasn't been specified at all. To make sure the malware is even installed they'd either have to force all manufacturers to make it an integral system component or the mobile providers to not let you online unless your device responds to an encrypted ping for the app. Both would let them turn the trojan off explicitly for phones identifying as belonging to something cop-adjacent.
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Kelly Sapergia

No and no for me. I'm in charge of The Global Voice's account the troll keeps referencing, and am getting fed up with constantly having to block him every time. I know he was active on Twitter before, but I didn't have many problems with him as I do today. The owner of TGV tried to tell him that what he was doing was pathetic during a chat room conversation during her show earlier today, but he just effectively laughed it off.

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Very ironic. I installed Avast after removing Vipre. They both use around 1.08 GB of program files application size. They both also consume around 300-500 MB Ram and spin up 3 processes exactly, but I will give Avast here for the CPU usage during scans: Vipre can go as high as 10-20%, whereas Avast better manages this. Otherwise I'm quite torn, because while I could disable the smart scan and find schedules in Avast, I did like Vipre's Firewall even if it was noisy and brutal at blocking things. But once I had it right boy did it work well, and I would be alerted if a strange process even tried to get outbound traffic. Avast, I installed just the antivirus only, it is very likely that the program files folder for the full security suite would consume well around 2 GB disk space and spin up a few more processes as well, potentially. Vipre's security does not include "AI protection" and all the other stuff like Avast is claiming, and beyond a Firewall / e-mail blocker it doesn't include other things (Avast I believe can even run an extension for you in-browser for tracking protection and greater privacy.) To me, these two AV solutions are very close and neither is "bad", just depends on what jives with your personality and your desires.
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Tamas G

oh no, haven't heard of that one! At this point any firewall is probably a better one than Windows built-in, since that one doesn't even block the traffic as it asks you about, ironic to me considering that if a Ransomware does get passed the guards, it would have unfetthered access to the network until you hit "block" in that little pop-up, facepalm moment. xD
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Well well. On Linux, to get Virtual Audio Cable like functionality, I just had to have GPT write me a .sh script for it, and now I can output Orca to that relay. It used pactl load-module module-null-sink to create it. I'm shocked, but this did work out for me and way more dead simple than I thought. It can use a mike for apps as well so any app using the microphone of that virtual device just pipes back to source. So that's one more thing down in Linux land that I had on Windows. Eventually, I'm making this switch. Still determined to especially as Orca and Firefox browsing are great together now that polite live regions and things like that are better honored. Winetricks or a Win7 VM works for games or other smaller Windows apps, and everything else like SMB shares, streaming, Ollama, TeamTalk, ETC can be done from the Linux side.
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Another small victory today.

A salesperson had almost convinced a client to move their email from 365 to Google because "they hold all the cards now". I stepped in and suggested they keep their email on servers that they control instead. The salesperson almost mocked me, treating me like a "nerd" who doesn't understand how the world works.

I was happy to be a nerd, if necessary, to explain the pros and cons of the solution to the client.
The result? The salesperson was politely thanked and "sent home", and I'm now evaluating some details of the new mail server, which, by the client's choice, will be based on OpenBSD.

Because people need explanations, not brochures.

#OwnYourData #OpenBSD #RunBSD

#OpenBSD #runbsd #ownyourdata

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I don't even use the network connection flyout anymore. These days I just type in, run dialog or CMD, "Netsh wlan connect <profilename>" (your network's name) and I'm there. I don't need it. It makes me sad that we cannot get the Windows 8 flyout in Windows 10. So I don't use it. I use explorer.exe from Windows 7 through Explorer7. I try to keep ram usage light. Today I was able to get it to 1.81 GB out of 64 GB with Mem Reduct. I again repeat. You all don't know my obsession ffor this low ram usage comes from wanting to run a mini desktop PC off a Sherpa 100-watt AC battery pack. If you did, trust me, you'd feel the same. I need Windows RAM usage to be as low as Linux RAM usage. (and to be fair to RAM: RAM that's sitting there, in a process which is not using it or is using very little CPU threads and power is not the same, I'm more measuring against Ram at cold boot, not RAM throughout using programs.)
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Tamas G

@techsinger ahaha yeah! That's the downside. It's not for serious work that way but more gaming, although it would suck for that pack to die right as I'm in the middle of a boss run or something! Youch. For a very low-powered laptop, I do have the Asus Expertbook which has the Core Ultra 288V. Intel's first actual low-powered-but-doesn't-suck chip. Now that thing, no matter how conservative I'll ever get my K11 and throttle CPU to 50 or 60% max, will blow it out of the water, think one time I got 14 hours on it when making a cross-atlantic flight. xD But for being at the airport lounge and freaking sighted people around me out with a mini-desktop where I'm only on the keyboard and headphones? sign me up!
@Tech Singer
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Tech Singer

I agree. This was, to be fair, a bigger issue before constant low-bandwidth, low-latency, connectivity. Now, I'm using a surface Go with a complete garbage CPU but I don't care, the point of its existence is to support a keyboard, an audio card, and a network connection so I can talk to my real desktop processors wherever I am. Really, there's no reason you can't do this with a phone, but the latency is just that bit over target for audio. With NVDA remote, the latency hits the "don't care" level. Frankly, I'm just a perfectionist and like character echo, if either of those didn't apply, there's no reason I wouldn't want to do it through the phone. Of course, at that point, it doesn't matter anymore, if the client chooses to crash, you lose nothing except the time it takes to bring it or something else back up. If I wanted to go back to using reasonably high-end processors, what's wrong with the GPD win 5? Keeping in mind, of course, that I have no interest in screen size. With most of the new stuff having at least two USB C ports (3.x, 4.x, whatever), you can carry a bunch of batteries and go on for, basically, as long as you like.
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Kelly Sapergia

@ChrisDuffley I think Ramone, JimmyTruth, etc., are the same person. In looking up Ramone's name, I saw it was the name of a bad guy from a video game series. Regardless, this individual has attended some of TGV's shows via Zoom under the name "JimmyTruth", and he definitely had a Russian accent with quite the speech impediment too. All that, of course, doesn't excuse this behavior, which he thinks is a joke according to a conversation I saw earlier today in TGV's chat room.
@Christopher Duffley - KC1WXP
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Christopher Duffley - KC1WXP

This is correct. The name is Ramon Salazar. Even @tysonsylvester@mastodon.stickbear.me / @Tysonsylvester can tell you since he saw his real IP address at one time on another TeamTalk a long time ago. Pretty much hell on steroids. I totally agree and wish that we could get the powers that be over there to help him find a life. This is more than unacceptable.
@Tyson sylvester @tyson sylvester
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For residents of the U.S., health insurance open enrollment is beginning.

Good time for a reminder that, if you have the option of enrolling in a high deductible health plan, those policies come with Health Savings Accounts (HSA).

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"HSA contributions, unlike other tax-advantaged investment vehicles, offer a triple tax benefit – tax-deductible contributions, tax-free growth, and tax-free withdrawals for qualified medical expenses."

#USPol #insurance #HealthInsurance

health insurance plan with lower premiums and higher deductibles than a traditional health plan

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TT-RSS is going away. It was the first feed reader I hosted and used in a regular basis and it was great. Sad to see it go, but I understand the reasons. community.tt-rss.org/t/the-end… #selfhosting #selfhosted

The end of tt-rss.org

On November 1st 2025 I’m going to dismantle the entirety of infrastructure that powers tt-rss.org, cgit, this forum, and other related sites.
Tiny Tiny RSS: Community
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"Lo aquí planteado busca ayudar a entender la situación poniendo énfasis en la construcción de masculinidades crueles, bajo la idea de que no es un suceso aislado, sino que responde a un contexto y una dinámica social en donde crecen grupos como los autodenominados incels, fratría masculinista con fuerte base en redes sociales que reproduce discursos misóginos y enaltece comportamientos violentos."

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#México #CDMX


Incel y machósfera: claves para entender el atentado en el CCH Sur

Análisis del caso de Lex Ashton, desde las masculinidades crueles, la cultura incel y la violencia de género en México.
Revista Común
#méxico #cdmx

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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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