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For those interested in monitoring weather coverage of Hurricane Melissa there are 2 weather channels offering live coverage via YouTube which is quite friendly and easily followed and understood for those who are blind or low vision.

@RyanHallYall is live and can be viewed at:
youtube.com/watch?v=qitHKtkqN_…

@MaxVelocity is also live at:
youtube.com/live/UkpbrMBjiJ4
And as mentioned yesterday coverage can also be found through
Nationwide 90 which can be heard via TuneIn Radio website and apps and via smart speakers as long as power and connectivity can be maintained.
tunein.com/radio/Nationwide-90…
They can also be found simulcasting via YouTube.
Their channel is at:
youtube.com/@Nationwide90fmLiv…
And their live stream when active is at:
youtube.com/watch?v=qHgcACy3Ls…
We hope this is of interest and use.


Nationwide 90FM, NationWide Radio 90 FM, Kingston, Jamaica | Free Internet Radio | TuneIn

Nationwide 90FM - Nationwide Radio is the leading news station in Jamaica and is the the only Emmy winning award news team in the country. Nationwide 90FM is a Jamaican radio station located in Kingston, Jamaica.
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Neuer Beitrag über SHIFT von der Hessenschau.🙂

hessenschau.de/tv-sendung/shif…

#shift #shifthappens #shiftphone #hessenschau


Shift: Nachhaltige Smartphones aus Nordhessen

Alle Videos zur hessenschau. Haben Sie eine Sendung verpasst? Dann sind Sie hier richtig. Folgen Sie uns hinter die Kulissen und lernen Sie unsere Redaktion sowie Moderatoren kennen.
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#shifthappens #shiftphone #shift #hessenschau

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A woman’s husband had been in and out of a coma for months, but she never left his side. Day after day, she sat by his bedside, holding his hand, her love and hope unwavering.

One afternoon, to her amazement, his eyes fluttered open. Slowly, he looked around the room and then motioned for her to come closer.

Her heart raced with relief and joy as she leaned in, tears welling up in her eyes. His voice was frail, but he managed to whisper, with a glint of emotion in his eyes,

“You know something? You’ve been there for me through every tough moment in my life.”

She smiled, her heart swelling with love as he continued,

“When I lost my job, you were there to support me.
When my business failed, you stayed by my side.
When I got shot, you were there in the hospital, holding my hand.
When we lost the house, you stuck with me.
And now, with my health failing, you’re still here.”

Her eyes brimmed with tears, and she whispered back, “Oh, darling, that’s so sweet. What are you trying to say?”

He took a deep breath, looked her straight in the eye, and said,

“I think you’re bad luck.”

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Husté. Na Slovensku už dávno mají být projekty pro stát pod otevřenou licencí. Jenže to ve výsledku vůbec nic neznamená. dennikn.sk/blog/4934481/myty-m… #links

Blog N: Mýty ministra Migaľa: „Dostaneme zdrojové kódy, nebudú nás vydierať“

Minister Migaľ sa bráni tvrdením, že “konečne získame zdrojové kódy slovensko.sk a vymaníme sa zo závislosti od jedného dodávateľa”. Mať zdrojové kódy ešte ale neznamená mať systém pod kontrolou.
Slovensko.Digital (Denník N)
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Jiří Eischmann

Tohle by stálo za žalobu na stát. Buď ten kód vůbec není pod licencí požadovanou zákonem (=> žaloba) nebo je a ta licence je porušovaná (=> žaloba). Když se stát rozhodne nedodržovat zákon, máme právní systém od toho, abychom ho k tomu donutili. S právním systémem na Slovensku je to všelijaké, ale to pak má společnost problém úplně jiných rozměru než jen open source ve státní správě.

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This is a valuable lesson for any manufacturer: never awaken the nerd sleeping inside your customer, because his wrath shall be terrible.

In this case the warning was quite literal.

The company annoyed a buyer enough to push him into full blown nerd mode. He tore the product apart, reverse engineered every part, and then published a step by step guide showing exactly how to disable "kill switch" that prevented the use of the product without the vendor spying on the user.

What started as a minor grievance became a public, technical exposé that left the maker exposed and embarrassed.

Moral of the story: underestimate your users at your own peril.

The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me

Update: This post seems to have struck a nerve and went very wide. As I will not be able to answer every comment, I want to add a few points:

  • The linked article was not written by me. It came to me on a different channel (Discord). I only wrote the post on Mastodon.
  • The top image in the article looks AI generated. It is no a good image, but in my view less irritating than an advertisement (which is far more common).
  • Some people suggest the article itself is AI generated. I don't think this is the case. I wouldn't rule out he author wrote the text in a different language and used AI for translation assistance.
  • The claims in the article are not fully backed by the linked repo, but the general statement is correct and IMHO important.

The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me

Would you allow a stranger to drive a camera-equipped computer around your living room? You might have already done so without even realizing it. The Beginning: A Curious Experiment It all started innocently enough.
Harishankar (Small World)
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#fanfiction #fanfic #harrypotter #crossover #mlp #mylittlepony #xover #fimfic #fimfiction

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Chcete nainstalovat Linux, ale ještě nikdy jste to nedělali? Přijďte v sobotu k nám na stánek talks.openalt.cz/openalt-2025/… a bude tam několik odborníků (včetně mě), kteří vám pomohou. Vstup zdarma. A kdo to boostne, tak má taky vstup zdarma.

Oživte váš počítač: přejděte z Windows 10 na Linux OpenAlt 2025

V říjnu 2025 končí bezplatná podpora Windows 10, což pro řadu uživatelů znamená nutnost nákupu nového počítače. Náš workshop ukáže, jak lze stávající zařízení oživit instalací operačního systému Linux a prodloužit jeho životnost.
talks.openalt.cz

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Medical masks were never designed to protect the wearer — and leading safety authorities are finally saying so. Only respirators (like N95s) qualify as Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). Read more: whn.global/whn-joins-in-the-ch….

#PublicHealth #N95 #MaskUp #Masking

White WHN graphic with headline in bold black and red: “MEDICAL MASKS ARE NOT PPE.” Center shows a blue surgical/medical mask inside a red “no” symbol (circle with a diagonal slash). Body text below: “New statements from leading safety authorities confirm what experts have said all along — only respirators protect against airborne infection. Medical masks are not PPE.” Footer displays the link: “whn.global/whn-joins-in-the-chorus-medical-masks-are-not-ppe.” Small whn.global logo at the top.
Clean white WHN slide. Large heading: “Why this matters.” Paragraph: “Throughout the pandemic, confusion over mask types led to unsafe guidance for both the public and healthcare workers. Even today, many hospitals still rely on surgical masks for ‘protection’ — when in fact, they are not PPE at all.” Subheading: “Experts are setting the record straight.” Bulleted list: • British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS): It’s a breach of health and safety law to claim surgical masks protect against inhaled hazards. • Canadian Standards Association (CSA): Only respirators (N95, KN95, FFP2, etc.) qualify as PPE. • FDA & CDC: Medical masks are for source control — not personal protection. Small whn.global logo at the top.

WHN joins in the chorus: Medical masks are not PPE - WHN

Overview Throughout the COVID pandemic, there has been confusion from public health and medical leaders over which masks to wear to prevent transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
WHN
#publichealth #MaskUp #n95 #masking

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I see so many people (mostly men, this isn't random) talking about how Meta's Ray-Ban glasses are "incredible" or "still not ready" yet, I don't see anyone calling it what it is: Voyeurism.

This technology will increase voyeurism and stalking aggressions in unacceptable ways. These glasses are a voyeur's dream weapon. Also a doxxer's and stalker's dream weapon.

Why are our laws and cultures not protecting us against this?

#Privacy #Safety #Meta #RayBan #Consent

#privacy #meta #consent #Safety #rayban
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To anyone with questions about Meta's Ray-Ban glasses and how this is problematic for privacy and consent, I highly recommend reading this excellent article from Janus Rose at The Verge:

"“One way to think about it is protecting your community and the people you care about,” said Gilliard. “When you’re wearing these glasses, when you use your video doorbell, when you record everyone’s conversations, you’re not just surveilling yourself. And there’s no consistent and foolproof way to guarantee that information won’t be used against people you care about — to hurt trans and queer people, or hurt immigrant communities. I wish people would think about it in those terms instead of ‘did my package get delivered.’”

theverge.com/tech/807834/meta-…

#Privacy #Meta #RayBan #Consent #Safety


Privacy laws can’t keep up with ‘luxury surveillance’

Legal experts explain the laws and ethics of recording other people with Meta’s new smart glasses and other wearables.
Janus Rose (The Verge)
#privacy #meta #consent #Safety #rayban

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Hello my friends ❤️

I'm Nouran. I'm 19 years old. I survived after 2 years of genocide. I have big dreams. But my only dream now is see my family in a better situation. We are still suffering. We don't have healthy food. We wait long time to fill water. We lost our home and now we literally live between the rubble.

Your donations helps us overcome this difficult time and secure our basic life necessities.

Please donate and share with your friends 😢

chuffed.org/project/121561-urg…

#gaza #palestine


Urgent help for Ahmed's family

"I’m tired, Mama. I’m thinking of the hours that I'll spend tomorrow in the water line." – says 9 year old Ahmed to his mother before going to sleep.
Chuffed
#palestine #Gaza
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Mastodon is seriously such an interesting place. I have posts boosted by people with thousands of followers (the most was something with 10k) from who I'd just never expect to boost random stuff like that I post. It's mostly quiet and just moving along, silently reading the tl, at least for me, but once it gets engaging, it's fun as well. But I think much also depends on the server, and I'm happy with mine.

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I wanted to send myself an email to my gmail account, in order to open it in evolution and test something for the day job. I used my sdf.org email to send the email, figuring that Google might be less likely to consider it spam than something I sent from my vps (in hindsight, I should've used my work email, but didn't think of that for some reason). But, no, it landed in my junk folder.

Sometimes I wonder if I should give up and use Google or Microsoft for my email, so that all of the people who use Google or Microsoft for their email would receive my emails, but then, if I did that, then I would be the one with other peoples' emails being caught in their spam filters.

Freaking email.

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Another Friday reminder. Me actually getting the gold medal. We're talking actual real trumpets there.

Details: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/10/25…

A gold ceremony to remember

There are those moments in life you know already from the start are going to be the rare once in a lifetime events. This evening was one of those times.
daniel.haxx.se
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As a kid, I learned English from English language cartoons on FilmNet. I learned from German TV shows. My passion for Swedish crime series taught me Swedish.

But now, the largest tv medium of our time, YouTube, has begun auto-translating everything. Future generations will not be exposed to foreign languages and be inspired to take an interest.

There was no public review of this, no democratic vote. One company just decided to turn foreign cultures off and make the world dumber.

For profit.

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I admit that it feels kind of special to have :fedora: #Fedora Linux 43 released on my birthday. Thank you, @adamw and others, for your thorough testing, which delayed the release process just enough to make this happen. ☺️

fedoramagazine.org/announcing-…


Fedora Linux 43 is here! - Fedora Magazine

I’m excited to announce my very first Fedora Linux release as the new Fedora Project Leader. Fedora Linux 43 is here! 43 releases! Wow that’s a lot.
Jef Spaleta (Fedora Project)
#fedora @Adam Williamson

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I largely prefer the architecture and experience of the fediverse/Mastodon over ATproto/Bluesky, but there are a number of accounts I care about that are only on Bluesky and not bridged to the fediverse. And even with bridging, it's not the best experience.

How are other people handling this?

The result for now is that I have two separate accounts… but I really don’t want to manage two different accounts. 😭

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Windows 11 is, well, shit. But, Windows is modular, and pretty much everything can be removed or modified with the right tools and knowhow.

Here's a 23 minute special showing how to un-enshittify Windows 11 from stock install to finish, using open source and/or completely free tools.

peertube.wtf/w/pqMrXFbzpJAS4r5…

#enshittification #windows #microsoft #opensource

#opensource #Windows #microsoft #enshittification

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"This document specifies the experimental ai Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme. The scheme provides a dedicated access point for Artificial Intelligence (AI) resources, enabling autonomous systems and robots to connect natively while allowing human-facing applications to interoperate via HTTPS gateways"

ietf.org/archive/id/draft-sogo…

AI URI Scheme

This document specifies the experimental ai Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme. The scheme provides a dedicated access point for Artificial Intelligence (AI) resources, enabling autonomous systems and robots to connect…
www.ietf.org

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On October 4 and 5, the LinuxDays 2025 event took place in Prague – and the #LibreOffice community was there! Find out more: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource #freesoftware
LibreOffice stand at the event
LibreOffice stand at the event
LibreOffice stand at the event

LibreOffice at LinuxDays 2025 in Prague - The Document Foundation Blog

On October 4 and 5, the LinuxDays 2025 event took place at the Faculty of Information Technology (Czech Technical University).
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource #libreoffice

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I just received an email from Vispero:

"Quick reminder that on October 31st, your JAWS, ZoomText, or Fusion software will no longer receive product updates, support, and new features."

OOOOOH NOOOOO! My Jaws for Windows 7.1 from 2006, or something like that, which doesn't support Windows Vista (the last version I can actually run with my own serial number), won't receive updates anymore? SADNESS!

For context, I've been using NVDA as my primary Windows screen reader since about 2009 or so.

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Hey, Anthropic owes me $9000! They illegally used at least 3 of my books on LibGen to create Claude. Now they're paying a $1.5 billion settlement, at $3000 per book. See if *your* books are on the list:

anthropiccopyrightsettlement.c…

If so, you have until March 23, 2026 to file a claim. The above website lets you file a claim, but this one explains everything more clearly:

authorsguild.org/advocacy/arti…

Actually I exaggerated: the payment will be split between authors and publishers, but I have to make the claim - so the settlement is making me do some work my publisher should be doing for me. My coauthors and I will just get half, $4500. One of these books has 2 coauthors, one has 3, and one is a book I edited, with essays by lots of authors. So $1000 is a more realistic estimate of what I get. Oh well.

Bizarrely, my most popular book, Gauge Fields, Knots and Gravity, is not on the list. But I guess it's not surprising:

"The settlement agreement discloses that approximately 500,000 titles out of the 7 million copies of books that Anthropic reportedly downloaded from LibGen and PiLiMi meet the definition required to be part of the class."

Only books whose copyright is registered with the US Library of Congress meet that defiinition!

If you have a book on the list, you can opt out of the current settlement and join future lawsuits. But you have to take action to do that!!! For more information on that, see item 40 here:

anthropiccopyrightsettlement.c…


Bartz v. Anthropic Settlement: What Authors Need to Know - The Authors Guild

Updated October 2, 2025 IMPORTANT: The Works List Is Now Live on the Settlement Website The searchable Works List and Claim Forms are now available at www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com. Find more info here and below. Background  Bartz v.
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Tech Singer

I'm more or less vegetarian myself, and I think the difficulty is that vegetarian stuff in many restaurants is really an afterthought. The taste just isn't there. This has changed recently to some extent, but is still the case quite often. For a good number of years, "vegetarian" was a synonym for "bad". Sad for us who are, but there it is, and it might explain what you've seen. @TheQuinbox
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