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Google’s “AI overview”, pointlessly appended to their usual weather forecast for my suburb:

“The weather in XXX is currently sunny with a temperature of about 17° C ... ”

The forecast already states the current temperature, but no, it is not “currently sunny” as it’s 10:23 pm.

The forecast by itself is perfectly understandable. It does not need a summary, an overview, an interpretation, a Reader’s Digest Condensed Version.

FFS, Google, is this what you’re building new data centres and buying billions of dollars worth of GPUs to do?

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Es ist doch jetzt schon so, dass die Menschen vorsprechen müssen. Und in gewisser Weise hat das auch sein Gutes, weil nur so Hilfsangebote unterbreitet werden können. Aber das zum Zwang zu machen, ist meiner Erfahrung nach hoch problematisch. Viel besser gefallen mir da Projekte, wie es sie in einigen Jobcentern gibt, bei denen Vermittler aufsuchende Arbeit machen und das Vertrauen der Leute erst einmal zurück gewinnen... Dazu kommt, dass sehr oft noch nicht einmal offiziell diagnostiziert ist, dass jemand unter einer psychischen Erkrankung leidet. Weil Scham und kaum Therapieplätze und und und ... Ich finde, im Umgang mit dieser Gruppe haben wir gesamtgesellschaftlich wirklich kaum sinnvolle Konzepte und eine riesige Menge aufzuholen. Zumal sie wächst und gesellschaftliche Kompensationsmechanismen immer mehr wegfallen... *Seufz!* kolektiva.social/@helenasteinh…

Helena Steinhaus (@helenasteinhaus@kolektiva.social)

Attached: 1 image "Menschen mit psychsichen Erkrankungen sollen künftig persönlich beim Jobcenter vorsprechen. So soll geprüft werden, ob die Betroffenen wirklich krank sind.
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Dennis

@realn2s Ich habe das im Studium auch gemerkt. In den Sozialrechtsvorlesungen hatte ich einie Dozentin, die einige Jahre im Jobcenter gearbeitet hat. Zuerst war ich sehr skeptisch. Habe ich doch wirklich schlechte Erfahrungen gesammelt und diese für die Norm gehalten. Aber dieser Austausch zeigte ein anderes Bild. Keineswegs ein fehlerfreies, aber ein deutlich anderes. So sehr ich die Frustration verstehe, so sehr versuche ich immer mal wieder dafür zu werben, dass Sachbearbeitende nicht dafür eingestellt werden, es Leistungsempfangenden schwer zu machen. Aber natürlich gibt es im Sozialrecht viel Luft nach oben. Das ist, denke ich, auch jedem klar.
@Claudius Link
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Fanny Bui

@WestphalDenn @realn2s Die Sachbearbeitenden müssen ein Lsetz vertreten. Ob sie hinter diesem Gesetz stehen, ist zweitrangig. Sie müssen sich an dessen Rahmen halten. Aber sie haben auch ein Stück Ermessen. und das Gesetz hat Nischen. Es weiss zum Beispiel kaum jemand, dass der ärztliche Dienst der Agentur für Arbeit jemanden als für bis zu 6 Monate nicht erwerbsfähig einschätzen kann. und dass dann einfach nichts Leistungsrechtliches passiert. Die betreffende persön ist damit quasi für 6 Moate wie Krank geschrieben und bekommt ihre Leistungen ganz normal weiter. Es ist auch kaum bekannt, dass man aufstockend zum Krankengeld Leistungen vom Jobcenter erhalten kann und dass wenn Krankenscheine eingehen, auch über lange Zeit, ebenfalls keine Leistungen wegfallen. Irgendwann leitet das Jobcenter natürlich die Begutachtung durch die Fachdienste ein, um zu prüfen, ob es als Leistungsträger der Grundsicherung für Erwerbsfähige noch Zuständig ist, oder ob der Leistungsträger für Nichterwerbsfähige, also SGB XII zuständig wird. Aber es gibt viele vorübergehend (auch langfristiger) kranke Leistungsbezieher im Jobcenter, die trotzdem generell erwerbsfähig bleiben, man hofft ja immer auf Genesung...
@Claudius Link @Dennis
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neocolapsar

I had problems a while back with cloud storage. A lot of my files got corrupted. I tried another service but it also didn't work as expected.

So I moved to local storage again. I'm using a pen drive to work with files that I need to take with me. Everything else is on my desktop SSD.

My public.monster site was all written from scratch. I didn't use a static website generator.

I didn't know about LunarVim. I have to give it a try. :)

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What are the benefits for Geany of porting it to GTK4?

The editor/IDE #Geany is still #GTK3 and the hampering factor was that the editing engine #scintilla wasn't ported to GTK4 but it exists now.
However, one of the main developers questions, if there are any benefits at all in porting Geany to GTK4:

"I wonder if anyone would find motivation for this. As said in #3675, in my personal opinion there are no benefits at all in GTK4."

github.com/geany/geany/issues/…

@GTK @ebassi @gnome #GTK #Gnome

Screenshot showing: eht16 left a comment in geany bug #4460 I wonder if anyone would find motivation for this. As said in #3675, in my personal opinion there are no benefits at all in GTK4.

Port Geany to GTK4

Port Geany to GTK4. As Scintilla is now ported to GTK4 (see https://mastodon.social/@bugaevc@floss.social/115507432930694449), it would be great if Geany would be ported to GTK4 as well bringing al...
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#gnome #gtk #GTK3 #geany #scintilla @Emmanuele Bassi @GNOME @GTK
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eht16

integration on Linux


probably means "integration in Gnome". Using other DMs feels rather less integrated. You might say that's the responsibility of the other DMs. Fine.
Users might judge differently.

if the current maintainer doesn’t want to spend their time


Just for clarification, we are not talking about "the maintainer" here, just my personal opinion about GTK4. Geany is maintained by a team of developers and I do not represent the team as a whole here.

@GerryT
I'd like to keep the discussion in github.com/geany/geany/discuss… as it is way more visible to Geany related developers and users than here. Thanks.

@whitemice @GTK @gnome


Geany 4.0, the GTK4 edition (and more) · geany geany · Discussion #3675

There are a number of probably big changes being examined or coming in the future. The point of this discussion is to record and discuss them. Blue sky thinking is encouraged, but implementability ...
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Monoka

@eht16 To given an overview of the current state of #GTK4 adoption. Out of the active GTK open source projects 71% use GTK4, and 29% still use #GTK3 as of today (#GTK2 not counted). This is an increase of 9 percentage points since Nov 2024. This means that GTK4 will likely crack 90% of active #GTK projects in 2028 (and probably plateaus at such share).

Additionally, 90% of GTK4 projects use #libadwaita (#Gnome), and 6% of GTK3/GTK4 projects use #libgranite.

@ebassi @whitemice @GTK @gnome

#gnome #gtk #libadwaita #GTK3 #GTK4 #GTK2 #libgranite @Emmanuele Bassi @GNOME @GTK @Adam Williams @eht16
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Ich denke, wir brauchen dringend eine positive Erzählung, was nach dem Kapitalismus kommen könnte.
Aber so, dass sie sich konkret an der Lebenswirklichkeit und dem Sprachgebrauch ganz durchschnittlicher Menschen orientiert.

Und nein, "Anarchosyndikalismus", "klassenlose Kollektivordnung" oder "Rätekommunismus" sind da eher ungeeignet als Einstieg ins Gespräch.😏

Ich muss das überschlafen.🥱

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elala@nrw.social

Sie ernähren keine Kinder, heizen die Wohnung nicht und schneiden unseren Kranken und Alten nicht die Fuß- und Fingernägel, während im Nebenzimmer das Baby aufgewacht ist, die Katze auf den Teppich kotzt und der Partner/die Partnerin anruft um Bescheid zu geben, dass sie/er Überstunden machen wird, um die Zusatzkosten für die neue Waschmaschine aufzufangen und es darüber hinaus sowieso später wird, weil einige Zugverbindungen ausfallen, oder es Probleme mit dem Auto/dem Fahrrad gibt.

3/x

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elala@nrw.social

Darüber hinaus wird „Normalsterblichen“ von gesellschaftspolitischen Vordenker*innen unermüdlich das Gefühl vermittelt, ungebildet und unterentwickelt zu sein, weil die Inhalte, die sich hinter den wohlfeilen Ausführungen der "intellektuellen Elite" verbergen, ganz selbstverständlich vorausgesetzt, aber so gut wie nie entschlüsselt und konkret mit Leben gefüllt werden, weil ... das könnte mensch doch alles längst wissen, wenn mensch sich doch nur mal interessieren und schlau machen würde.

4/x

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Can someone actually - I mean really - explain why airports equate disability assistance so strongly with wheelchairs? I genuinely don't understand how pushing a wheelchair is easier than, say, sighted guide. Some have said it might relate to training, but sighted guide doesn't require a lot of training, if any. Is there something I'm missing? This is all completely aside from the fact that this shouldn't be about their convenience over my preferences, but that's not the point for this question.

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Dean Martineau

@pixelate The notion that one should actually consult the recipient of services to see what that recipient wants is a foreign concept especially out of the US where I live. nd in some places in the US too. One story: I was in oHare and had a connection to make. I'm short, in ok shape but no athlete. The assistant was tall and knew what he was doing. He convinced me to accept the wheelchair, that he could do it faster that way. In fact, he did.
@Devin Prater :blind:
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Andre Louis

I read somewhere that apparently it's something to do with insurance. If the chair breaks while you're in it, or they walk you into something, they can claim for it or some crap. If you're being guided and they make you trip over something sharp and you slice your face to the bone, you can sue them... How true any of that was, and where I read it I cannot tell you, so consider this unfounded nothingness.

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I'm still of the opinion that we need an organisational fork of Mozilla, preferably not domiciled in the US.

We have technical forks like librewolf, that's not what I'm asking for. I'm asking for new stewards of the upstream code. Although perhaps if the forks want to consider how they'd become a hard fork, with an organisational structure that would work too.

Mozilla is a product of it's surroundings. It's surroundings was silicon valley and well 🤷‍♀️

mamot.fr/@thibaultamartin/1155…

Thib

2025-11-14 15:41:51

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Mozilla announces more AI in Firefox, still failing to understand that at this point their market share is made of tech savvy people who do not want that.

Mozilla, please. Stop chasing the fads. Get your own values.

People use Firefox to get access to an open web, use a sturdy browser, and not to be tracked. Build in that direction and that direction only.

Nobody from your current user base will recommend Firefox with AI to their friends.

blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai…

#firefox #ai #privacy



Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we're working on and how you can help shape it

AI Window is a user-controlled space we’re building in Firefox that lets you chat with an AI assistant and get help while you browse.
Kristina Bravo (The Mozilla Blog)

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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! 🙏 :boost_love:


metadata reorg subtask: deciding about dormant apps which might be considered niche

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.
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

2025-11-09 13:02:33

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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!

:boost_love:



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

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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

#3goodthings #3goodthingstoday #reasonstobecheerful

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⚠️ 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: Mastodon logos as their profile pictures and are posing as technical support.

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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


Trans Awareness Week 2025: Meet music pioneer Wendy Carlos – the first trans woman to win a Grammy

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)
#transgender #trans #wendycarlos
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Megan Lynch (she/her)

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...

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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.

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One of the top stories on Hacker News today was a post arguing that Mozilla shouldn't accommodate any usage of AI in Firefox because (understandably) people were mad at Big AI companies for all the horrible things they've done to users and the internet and society. But I think people are ignoring the reality that *hundreds of millions of users* are using LLMs today, and they need to have tools from platforms that will look out for their interests. anildash.com/2025/11/14/wantin…

I know you don’t want them to want AI, but… - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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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.

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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

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.


Murray Edwards College

Murray Edwards College

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#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)

#spotted
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🇩🇪✅ 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!

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Das Bild zeigt einen kurzen Textausschnitt aus dem neuesten Verordnungsentwurf des EU-Rats zur Chatkontrolle. Der Text lautet: "(17a) Nothing in this Regulation should be understood as imposing any detection obligations on providers." Übersetzung ins Deutsche: "(17a) Nichts in dieser Verordnung ist so auszulegen, dass sie den Anbietern Aufdeckungsverpflichtungen auferlegt."

Chatkontrolle

🇫🇷 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
#Chatkontrolle
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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!

chatcontrol.eu

The image shows a short excerpt of text from the latest Council draft regulation on "Chat Control". The text reads: "(17a) Nothing in this Regulation should be understood as imposing any detection obligations on providers."

Chat Control: The EU's CSAM scanner proposal

🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0, stopchatcontrol.fr🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇩🇰 Danish: chatcontrol.
Patrick Breyer
#chatcontrol

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