I urge people to not give their DNA to corporations. Once the corporation goes into receivership, the Nazis will buy your DNA data. Your entire family, including people you've never met, will become fodder for their racial animus, and will be targeted.
Please stop. Use your heads. Fascism isn't a fun game.
RE: floss.social/@IzzyOnDroid/1155…
If we may ask once more for your help here: there are still 15 "niche apps" left at codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/Every… – and 50+ other dormant apps at codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/Every… needing a "quick check".
If only 1 out of 10 of our followers would each pick a single app (we've highlighted each app's purpose in the lists, to make selection easier), each app would be covered 10 times over 😉 (unless all pick exactly the same app, that is 🤪)
Thanks in advance! 🙏 
This is a spin-off from #10 where I'd like some input from the team, concerning how to handle the following unmaintained apps which might be considered niche: * [x] [`com.ionicframework.backingtrainer763961`](https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.Codeberg.org
Dear #IzzyOnDroid community, we need your help for keeping our repo as useful as possible. No tech knowledge needed for this one, so anybody who's got an #Android device and some spare time can jump in here:codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/Every…
Are you using any of those apps, or would be willing to install one (or more) of them to see if they are still useful? Please then report there, or here to this #serviceToot – so we can get that issue solved 🙏
Thank you all in advance!
metadata reorg subtask: deciding about miscellaneous dormant apps
This is a spin-off from #10 where I'd like some input from the team, concerning how to handle the following unmaintained apps: * [x] [`com.projects.musicplayer`](https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.projects.Codeberg.org
Hodnoty 😶
> „Brala jsem to tak, že stejně projde.“ Barbora Urbanová, STAN, hlasovala pro Turka v čele zahraničního výboru PS PČR
Hello there...every day that I use Mastodon, I like to list three things that I like as a contribution towards a positive online space, as well as my own headspace. If you did this today, what would feature on your list?
01. Learnt how to play Father Kelly's Reel
02. Learnt how to p[lay The Reconciliation
03. Learnt how to play The Mountain Road
Hope whoever reads this can have a nice day.
@ThreeGoodThings #3goodthings #3GoodThingsToday #ReasonsToBeCheerful
⚠️ WARNING: If anyone tells you your account has been suspended and you need to "verify" it, they are trying to scam you.
DO NOT respond to them or click their link.
DO report them by clicking ⋯ on the scam post and then "Report" and if possible select the option to forward the report to its origin server.
The scammers may have 
Mastodon logos as their profile pictures and are posing as technical support.
Urgh, someone posted a Reform flyer through the letterbox this morning. Straight in the bin.
Missed the local elections by a year though, muppets.
Happy Birthday to Wendy Carlos, composer famous for Switched On Bach, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Tron. She also did a brilliant collaboration with Weird Al and many other albums worth checking out.
thepinknews.com/2025/11/14/kim…
#trans #transgender #WendyCarlos
Kim Petras made history as the first openly trans woman to win a Grammy in 2023, but we cannot forget Wendy Carlos, whose 86th birthday is today.Asyia Iftikhar (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
I should come up with a list of things that Japan is better at than "The West".
Things like cans. They are easier to open. More ergonomic. Why don't all cans work like they do in Japan?
Is that not a beverage can? US beverage cans have pull tabs like that. Well, most do. The braille label is good. I've noticed some European medicine boxes I've gotten have a bare amount of braille like that on them.
Do they have pull tab tops on canned foods? The US doesn't have that as much although it exists for some mixed nuts and fried onions cans...
Listen to the world's loudest bird, the Amazon's white bellbird. It has a call that peaks at 125.4 decibels, louder than a chainsaw or jackhammer.🔊
Credit: Anselmo d'Affonseca
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The trouble with trending bots—automated accounts which boost posts that trend on a selection of other servers—is that they are a surefire way for your post to end up on poast and shitposter club. Even if your own server admin keeps a tight ship and a comprehensive blocklist.
Trending bots are popular on small instances, even down to single-user instances, as a way to help populate the federated timeline. They endow a post with further reach than vanilla federation.
Unfortunately, small and single-user instances tend to be run by privileged hobbyists that don't feel the need to install even the most basic of blocklists. Those instances are seldom the target of harassment, so why bother?
The problem is that with the default Mastodon configuration, server blocks aren't transitive. Your post goes to your followers, it gets boosted by a human or a trending bot, and it goes to _their_ followers, and so on. And at no point do those subsequent servers check with yours to see if you've suspended the destination instance.
Boosting launders suspensions.
That's why I block trending bots on sight.
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.Anil Dash
Also Männer. Ich habe beschossen, mal aus dem Nähkästchen zu plaudern. Hier also die ultimativen Anmach-Lifehacks. Tricks, bei denen jede Frau sofort einknickt und die Beine breit macht:
- sehr ausgiebig erzählen, wie großartig man ist, insbesondere, dass man vor 30 Jahren mal ein geiler Hecht war (Leidtungssportler). Da stehen Frauen total drauf.
- einen inflationären broadcast raus schicken. Frauen finden es super, beliebig zu sein.
- eine Frau angraben, wenn die eigene Ehefrau daneben sitzt.
Taking money is often tricky. In the UK, it counts as self-employment income. If you receive under about a thousand pounds a year, that!s fine, so a small tip-jar thing is fine but once you cross the threshold you need to file a tax return every year and become liable for an exciting new category of national insurance contributions. If you want to pay someone else to do some work, you’re paying them out of money that!s already taxed (and then they need to pay tax)l or you need some other legal entity to distribute the money (I think GitHub’s donations thing can do this?).
When I was freelancing, I would do paid consulting for F/OSS projects I worked on and I already had the tax liabilities from other work so it was a tiny incremental overhead. Since I started working as an employee, I’ve mostly just asked people who like F/OSS project I work on to donate to Murray Edwards: it works as well to motivate me to do more on the project, is tax deductible in several countries, and means I don’t have to do any paperwork.
For tiny projects, small donations are easy. For big donations, it’s worth setting up a charitable foundation that can handle the money and pay people. There’s a big gap in the middle. Being under an umbrella organisation can sometimes help. If the Linux Foundation were not the absolute worst, they could fill this need. The FSF tried: they’re a lot better intentioned than the LF, but barely more competent.
#Spotted at a Vintage Christmas Market in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A woman (50s?) in a floral dress wraps her arm around her friend's waist, grinning cheekily: "Shall we go in the shop over there and gasp at the prices?"
Her friend laughs: "Yes!"
They wander off, heads bowed together.
A dapper young human (11?) is promenading along in a bowler hat, waistcoat, tie, suit jacket, ironed jeans and shiny black shoes.
He's got a walking stick in one hand and his other is looped through Nan's arm.
Her pretty polka dot dress fluttering in the breeze.
Charm personified.
A small human (4?) is perusing bouquets of flowers with a critical eye.
Finally she chooses one, pays from an embroidered change purse, then kisses it with great ceremony before handing it to her farm gear and gumboot wearing Dad.
Dad taken off guard, eyes watering, picks her up for a big hug.
A small human (3?) is walking across a paddock carpark towards the market, holding Mum's hand.
Speaking in careful, optimistic tones he says: "Mum, when we get there do you want an ice cream or a pancake? I think you should have the ice cream."
A woman (70s?) reaches over a fence to pat a very hairy black yak. In return she gets a generous lick on the hand and laughs, saying to her friend. "Look at all that snot! Oh well, it'll wash off." She gives the yak an affectionate look and they wander off. (Continued Below)
I've wanted one of those these for a while.
youtu.be/iQv7zL91JgY?si=3DRX2a…
The Airwheel SE3S smart riding electric suitcase can travel up on a single charge, at 8 miles an hour. It is lightweight, and can easily convert from motor t...YouTube
@djohngo I think i would get in trouble with that. Plus the battery would be heavy to put in the above luggage hold.
Fun though.
🇩🇪✅ GESCHAFFT: Verpflichtende #Chatkontrolle durch die Hintertür verhindert!🎉 Ein Riesenerfolg & DANKE an alle! 🙏
Aber ⚠️: Geplant sind weiter anonymitätszerstörende Alterskontrollen & freiwillige Massenscans. Der Kampf geht nächstes Jahr weiter!
🇫🇷 Französisch: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0 🇸🇪 Schwedisch: Chat Control 2.0🇳🇱 Niederländisch: Chatcontrole Inhalt der Seite: Die Abschaffung des Digitalen Briefgeheimnisses Hilf jetzt mit die Chatkontrolle zu stoppen…Patrick Breyer
🇪🇺✅ SUCCESS: We've prevented mandatory #ChatControl through the back door!🎉 A big win & THANKS to everyone! 🙏
But ⚠️: Anonymity-breaking age checks & "voluntary" mass scanning are still planned. The fight continues next year!
🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0, stopchatcontrol.fr🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇩🇰 Danish: chatcontrol.Patrick Breyer
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Kanaďani jsou hrdí uživatelé metrického systému...teda krom výjimek, kterých je tak půlka.
Takže ve skutečnosti žiju ve vtipu (to je asi z toho, jak jsem se celý život vyhýbal Brnu)
Wizard of the Other Oz (ft. Pierson) - Studio C
"Dorothy (Pierson) finds herself in the wrong Oz, one where the wizard (Dalton) and witch (Aleta) only speak in Aussie slang."
youtube.com/watch?v=1nRC9Cpi43…
Dorothy (Pierson) finds herself in the wrong Oz, one where the wizard (Dalton) and witch (Aleta) only speak in Aussie slang.Please enjoy this sneak peek sket...YouTube
LES PETITS TRACAS DE PIERRE-ÉDOUARD STÉRIN : DETTES, NUL EN AFFAIRE, DÉTESTÉ DU GRAND PUBLIC, SON EMPIRE RÉACTIONNAIRE S'EFFONDRE
La rentrée 2025 est rude pour Pierre-Édouard, qui voit ses Nuits du Bien commun chahutées, sa villa envahie, et son business en grande difficulté.
Notre article à lire ici : contre-attaque.net/2025/11/14/…
La rentrée 2025 est rude pour Stérin, qui voit ses Nuits du Bien commun chahutées, sa villa envahie, et son business en grande difficulté.B (Contre Attaque)
#PPOD: This new JWST picture features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537 — the Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), JWST has revealed never-before-seen details in this picturesque planetary nebula with a rich backdrop of thousands of stars. Planetary nebulae like the Red Spider Nebula form when ordinary stars like the Sun reach the end of their lives. Credit: ESA, NASA & CSA, J. H. Kastner (Rochester Institute of Technology)
I live in a house with large open spaces carved up by some alcoves, columns and protrusions. I'm told on occasions that it looks quite attractive.
but as I, a #blind person, miscalculate while bending down to pick something up and yet again catch my head on another bit of pointless wall, I'm reminded how truly subjective design preferences are.
🐓 Vstávej! Je krásná sobota, škoda ji prospat! 😊
Už jsi vzhůru? Tak hezký víkend. 😍
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Most of HumanWare is Linux based these days.
The firmware update files for Chameleons, Mantises and Brailliants also have Linux images in them.
I suspect the serial port you're speaking of is for UARD. Most devices of this kind have an UARD port somewhere, mostly used for diagnostics and debugging, although access to it often requires some disassembly.
"The Gentrifiers of Cattan"
Sounds like a funny table top game.
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