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Mit einem Satz entfacht Kanzler Merz eine Debatte. Und erinnert Ibrahim Arslan an düstere Zeiten, die nie wirklich vorbei waren. Was er dagegen hält.
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Mit einem Satz entfacht Kanzler Merz eine Debatte. Und erinnert Ibrahim Arslan an düstere Zeiten, die nie wirklich vorbei waren. Was er dagegenhält.
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Highly Experimental Releases Of GrapheneOS Based On AOSP 16 QPR1 Available (UPDATE 11-18-2025)

Releases of GrapheneOS based on Android 16 QPR1 are available for public testing. These are highly experimental and aren't being pushed out via the Alpha channel yet. Join our testing chat room if you have a spare device you can use to help with testing.

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We've resolved all the major regressions reported during testing of our experimental 2025111700 release based on Android 16 QPR1. Our upcoming 2025111800 release will likely be our initial production release based on Android 16 QPR1. It should reach our Alpha and Beta channels.

We're aware a small company which wanted to partner with us but was unable to meet our security requirements has been attacking GrapheneOS with misinformation and libel since November 12. We'll write detailed a response to it once our port to Android 16 QPR1 is shipped to Stable.

They launched a device using a fork of LineageOS without standard privacy and security patches or protections. Their launch announcement goes out of the way to attack GrapheneOS with inaccurate claims. They doubled down on it on several forums where they got a negative response.

We have a serious OEM partnership with a large company actively working on implementing MTE and the rest of what we need. We need a proper secure device which can be refreshed yearly as a replacement for Pixels. We're not going to abandon properly protecting users to provide it.

Our focus is Android 16 QPR1, then Android 16 QPR1 security preview releases with all the current December 2025 / January 2026 / February 2026 / March 2026 patches and finally support for all four Pixel 10 models. We can find time to debunk another falsely marketed product too.

Companies marketing phones as being private while lacking basic privacy patches and protections clearly feel very threatened by GrapheneOS. Completely unprovoked attacks on us including linking harassment content is a bold launch strategy for a product asking people to trust it.

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So if I'm reading this right: microsoft.com/en-us/security/b…

(If one forgives the sampling limitations (one question, 100 positive responses, etc.), which I'm not sure you should...)

The output of a language model is predictable enough that, even with simple ML models, if you

  • use an LLM to generate prompts about a topic x and not about a topic x
  • record the timestamps of when the LLM responded with the next chunk of tokens for each generated prompt
  • train the ML model to classify "known to be/not be about x" from the timestamps

then you can get effectively perfect precision of guessing when something is about x.

Or, if Microsoft's own research is true, then the output of LLMs is not in fact a divinely powerful information oracle, but so stereotyped you can predict the topic by the timing of responses. The oracle only appears divine because we cannot see any of the other requests, and are led to believe our question is unique and personal.

Or, this is a profound self own about the use of LLMs for information, period.


​​Whisper Leak: A novel side-channel attack on remote language models | Microsoft Security Blog

Understand the risks of encrypted AI traffic exposure and explore practical steps users and cloud providers can take to stay secure. Learn more.
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>boot windows partition
>Lenovo Vantage autostarts
>discord autostarts
>microsoft teams autostarts
>defender scans entire fucking disk
>several command windows pop up and disappear
>"compatibility telemetry" starts blaring my cpu and disk
>windows auto-downloads driver updates
>screen flickers and scaling changes several times
>onedrive starts blaring cpu and disk

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But I have one more frustrating annoyance. Yesterday I did some audio editing in Reaper, everithing worked fine. Today after this update, reaper didn't work e. g. I had no output. After investigation, I noticed that something sets my output device to operate at 96 khz 24 bit. Maybe it is the best possible quality for the integrated realtek hardware but I prefer 48 khz 16 bit. and I have no idea why some system update needs to change that.

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Today, my VPS served over 51.5 million requests. Well over 99% of that was AI crawlers and other obnoxious shits.

This is not normal. This is complete and utter bullshit. This is also happening all over the place.

It can be caught, it's not even hard. But we shouldn't need to. This is about three orders of magnitude more requests I'd normally receive, and it's almost entirely useless garbage.

Every single one of you who use GenAI tools, you personally, are complicit in this. You are responsible for these bots hammering the entire internet, you are enabling it.

If you think this price is acceptable, that every single person who hosts anything outside of BigTech walled gardens deserves this relentless assault of thieving robots, then you are a garbage human being.

But it is not too late to change course. You too can look back at the carnage you enabled, and feel remorse. It's okay. We'll forgive you.

You don't need to look at the environment damage LLMs cause - we can have an educated guess (it's very bad). You don't need to look at the unsustainability of it all. All of those are things that we don't directly feel right now.

But look at the damage these things cause to everyone outside of the BigTech walled gardens. That is measurable. These attacks are fact. You can't debate it. You can't justify it.

You, dear enabler of GenAI bullshit, you are responsible for enabling this carnage. Think about that. Feel bad about it, and stop. Today is a great day to do that.

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Adam MacLeod

There is something called Feditext which is either in Testflight or possibly early release. I'm not up on its situation ,but its the only other accessible iOS client that has kept current that I know of. I will certainly be looking more into it in light of these early developments from Mona. However, no policy has been enacted yet. We will wait for some sort of response from them, perhaps some clarification, and hopefully some realization of the stupidity, and provide an opportunity for a change of coarse, before any final decisions are reached. Final decisions will also be posted on the admin accounts of all affected instances. If an app-wide block should go into effect, it would only apply to inbound connections to the API that would be prevented, so Mona 7 would not be able to connect to my instances, but content visibility and interactibility would not be affected on any other instances, and users would still be able to use any client allowed by their remote instance to interact with your posts on my instance, even if the client is blocked locally.
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GrapheneOS AOSP 16 QPR1 Build Regressions Are Being Corrected
Our port to Android 16 QPR1 which was to AOSP on November 11 is currently being tested internally. Several important regressions have been discovered and we're working on resolving those before we release it for public testing. A few minor features also still need to be ported.

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I just checked #NeoServer as iOS app for checking server usage and managing docker containers. Pretty good UI and good to use with VoiceOver. Heres the appstore link:
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#neoserver
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Ein Lebenszeichen von mir. Nach meinem Start mit Ylvi am Bike bei einem kleinen Rennen in Leipzig bin ich bereits mittags zurück gefahren, da mein Bruder einen runden Geburtstag feierte. Weil ich das Rennen schon vor der Siegerehrung verlassen habe, weiß ich noch keine Zeiten, aber das ist am Ende eh egal. Es lief gut für uns am Bike. 1/2

#Zughundesport #Bikejoring #RaceDay #Canicross #Dogscooter #Dogs #EuropeanSleddog #Schlittenhunde #Hunde #Wettkampf #Sports

Ein blonder Hund im Zuggeschirr läuft in vollem Galopp vor einem Rad. Der Hund ist über eine flexible Leine mit dem Rad verbunden. Auf dem Bike sitzt eine Person in orange-schwarzer Sportkleidung.
#dogs #sports #zughundesport #bikejoring #raceday #canicross #dogscooter #europeansleddog #schlittenhunde #hunde #wettkampf

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Here is a transcript of the Access On episode segment in which Jonathan Mosen reads the letter that Mark Riccobono, President of the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), wrote to Vispero’s new Chief Executive Officer.

Dear Ms. Bassett Spears, as you know, the National Federation of the Blind is the nation's transformative organization of blind people, with affiliates in every state as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. As the voice of the nation's blind, we have a duty to alert those who offer products and services to us when there is a groundswell of concern. This is the commitment I have also made to you in the two one-on-one conversations we have held.

Following feedback from many of our members who are raising new issues almost daily, I feel compelled to formally convey to you a series of pressing concerns regarding Vispero's direction and engagement. As the producer of JAWS, ZoomText and Fusion, Vispero impacts the daily lives and opportunities of millions of blind individuals across the United States and worldwide. With this influence comes a profound responsibility to prioritize the needs, aspirations and leadership of those you serve.

Pricing and Licensing Changes While we appreciate that Vispero must operate in a manner that ensures ongoing commercial viability, we are concerned by the limited and unclear communication around recent changes to JAWS licensing models and pricing structures. These changes have generated significant confusion, anxiety and frustration worldwide. The temporary removal of the Home Annual License option from the website, reversed only after public backlash, created unnecessary alarm. This decision led many to believe that a product they used daily was suddenly out of their financial reach. We urge Vispero to provide a clear explanation of the new pricing options and to show respect for its loyal customers by explaining clearly why these changes are necessary. Erosion of Home Annual License Functionality We are disappointed that JAWS Home Annual License holders have been excluded from the new Page Explorer feature.

Vispero highlighted this feature at our recent National Convention in July, valuing it sufficiently to produce a video demonstrating the new functionality. It was marketed at that time as an addition to FS Companion. At no time was there any mention that Vispero would create different tiers of JAWS users when it came to cutting-edge AI tools.

When the Home Annual License was introduced in 2018, the National Federation of the Blind applauded the move. We believed it worked for everyone. The unemployment rate among blind people is far too high.

The JAWS Home Annual License allows those who do not qualify for funding to use JAWS at a price they can afford. They can become familiar with the product, which in turn improves employment prospects. When an Annual Home License user finds work, Vispero benefits when an appropriate license is purchased for the blind person's workplace.

This program has been an investment in the capacity building of blind people. Depriving Annual Home License customers who have paid in good faith of new core features is a concerning new policy that changes the implicit social contract of this license. We call upon you to reconsider this decision and make Page Explorer along with future AI features available to this category of user.

Vispero Account In the United States, Jaws 2026 requires users to create and sign into a Vispero account. If it eventually becomes possible for customers to return authorizations when upgrading computers and share settings across devices, then users will benefit from this change. However, we are also hearing concerns.

Many of these may be addressed with clear, transparent, respectful communication. Some Jaws users are concerned about the amount of data being collected, such as the name of a person's employer. We seek assurance that all data Vispero is collecting is actually necessary for the operation of Jaws and that users are not being required to provide marketing data, which should be optional, in order to use their screen reader.

Additionally, there are concerns about whether a cloud outage, such as that which affected Amazon Web Services in October, may disrupt Jaws if ongoing use requires verification that users are logged in. We seek further clarity and assurance on these issues. Technical support.

We are hearing from members that Vispero is no longer accepting technical support requests via email. While we appreciate that requiring users to submit a web form may aid Vispero through the mandatory provision of information that can help the technical support process, email is a ubiquitous medium. Even those who have access to older note taker products, whose Jaws may not be working at all, can submit a written technical support request via email. (1/2)

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Aaron Espinoza

We invite you to reconsider this decision. Blind leadership. We are concerned by the apparent decline in blind leadership at Vispero that has recently occurred.

We believe that one of the reasons Jaws has become the dominant product in the screen reader industry is that the original company that developed Jaws, Henterjoys, was founded by a blind person. There were always capable blind people who were users of the product in key positions. This allowed blind people to mentor people who are not blind, but who possessed the values and curiosity to be successful.

In recent days, we have learned of the departure of Glen Gordon. Glen is a giant in this industry who developed many of the paradigms that all graphical screen readers subsequently adopted. Marking the 30th anniversary of Jaws for Windows, we honored Glen's contribution at this year's National Convention of the National Federation of the Blind in New Orleans by giving him the prestigious Kenneth Jernigan Award for his outstanding contribution.

The fact that Glen felt he must resign from the company, not because he wished to retire, but because of a perceived incompatibility of values, is of serious concern and one we would expect would cause considerable reflection about the company's direction. We also note that other blind people in leadership roles have been redeployed into positions that appear to have less direct influence on the products and services blind people use. We are concerned that these changes will result in Vispero making decisions that are not informed by the knowledge and lived experience of blind people.

The National Federation of the Blind proudly supports and indeed insists that blind people help direct the products and services intended for our use. However, multiple recent developments are creating an increasing disconnect between leadership and the people the company exists to serve. We are here to help.

It is our hope that Vispero and the National Federation of the Blind can continue to be trusted partners. We remain uniquely placed to provide constructive advice based on the views of our extensive membership across the nation. We encourage you to engage with these concerns in a spiritship of partnership and urgency.

We request a comprehensive public response to the issues outlined above and a commitment to ongoing dialogue with the organized blind movement. Your leadership presents an opportunity to set a new standard of access, accountability and inclusion. We urge you to seize it.

I look forward to your prompt and substantive reply. Sincerely, Markay Riccobono, President, National Federation of the Blind.
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Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Ejerciendo mis atribuciones según el principio de dedicación al servicio público absteniéndome no solo de conductas contrarias al mismo, sino también de cualesquiera otras que comprometan la neutralidad en el ejercicio de los servicios públicos.

Y vosotros, ¿qué tal?

Que casi se me olvida lo de la consideración con los administrados.

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LibrePods unlocks Apple's exclusive AirPods features on non-Apple devices. Get access to noise control modes, adaptive transparency, ear detection, hearing aid, customized transparency mode, battery status, and more - all the premium features you paid for but Apple locked to their ecosystem.

AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem

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Has anyone seriously played around with modern ARM laptops? I'm wondering if I should be looking for a black Friday sale on one.
My current laptop is a 14-inch Thinkpad from 2020. Its 4th-gen mobile Ryzen 7 is still outperforming entry-level laptops, but certainly isn't winning any power consumption races, and the machine is bulky.
I'd love something I can carry in my 13-inch computer bag. Any serious computing is likely to happen on my mini PC, which is either at home or with me on longer trips. So the purpose of a laptop is to be ultra-portable and good enough for basic computing. My understanding is that Windows on ARM (and its supporting hardware) has gotten to that point now.

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#WenkoffRetro No. 267 🎶❤️
#RetroMusic

**Ať svoboda, mír, úcta, slušnost, pravda a láska nejsou nikdy jen prázdnými pojmy a jednou skutečně zvítězí nad lží a nenávistí.**
✌️♥️🇨🇿

A komunisti, estébáci, fašouni a náckové všech zemí - vyližte si prdel!!!

A teď volume doprava:

#wenkoffretro #retromusic

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Unfollowed Audiobook Café by Accessible Media Inc. because they promoted AI narration for audiobooks. The host just interviewed an independent author that released a full cast audiobook using 11 labs. I couldn’t even make it past the introduction. The host kept making a claim that it cost money to produce audiobooks and human narrators are not cheap, so independent authors can’t afford human their Raiders, so this is the only way to go about it. I can’t express my other discussed. Frankly, if I can achieve human narrators, there is no excuse. It really isn’t that hard. The host justification was that, well, it’s not cheap to hire human audiobook narrators. I’m not going to promote the episode, you can go look for it, but every time I see blind or visually impaired people promote AI audiobooks, I just have to ask, why do you still listen to human narrated audiobooks because clearly you don’t want human narrated audiobooks any more? I legitimately do not understand. #AI #Audiobooks #Audiobook
#AI #audiobooks #audiobook

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#Spotted at a Vineyard Picnic in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A very friendly dog (red cloud kelpie), her bottom square with age, is sprawled on a picnic rug as numerous small humans compete to see Who Can Pat Her Best.
Friendly Dog is in her element, a doggy smile on her face.
This is the life.

An amiable barefoot man (60s?) is sitting cross-legged on a picnic blanket, solicitously serving deliciously crumbly home-made scones to friends old and new.
Butter?
Home made jam? He'll see you sorted.
People taking a bite and grinning with happiness.

A small human (3?) in a pretty dress has decided she is the STRONGEST.
Little does Big Brother (5?) know that he's about to be on the end of a SNEAK ATTACK.
Small human barreling into his tummy, knocking him over.
Rolling on the grass like giggling puppies.
WHO WILL WIN?
(It's a draw!)

A small human (4?) in a fairy dress has commandeered a sit-on wooden digger and is showing the other kids how to do it.
She's firm with her opinions, expression resolute.
She is the digging fairy and she will get this job done.

A small human (3?) has decided that she is in charge of walking the family dog amongst the people.
Family Dog is a Good Girl, and although she's tempted by all the picnic treats on offer, she's not sampling any.
They head off to roam for a bit amongst the vines.

(Continued Below)

Short description. You're looking at people picnicking amongst grape vines with trees and mountains in the distance. Long description: You're standing under a big shady tree with a lichen-coated sturdy branch overshadowing the picture going diagonally from left to right. Beneath the branch is a low hedge with small pointy leaves, and beyond that hedge are a bunch of people of all ages, makes and models spread out on a motley assortment of picnic rugs. There are dogs. This is a kiwi gathering. There are always dogs and they are good dogs. The grass they are sitting on is newly mowed and the waft of sun warmed fresh cut grass is in the air. The vines have big green leaves. The trees beyond the vines are an assortment of all makes and models. Picture Hobbiton. I know, it's a cliche but it kind of fits here for convenience. Beyond those trees you can see the shadow of a mountain range stretched luxuriously out. Imagine a coolish breeze coming off those mountains, because it's New Zealand and the weather is gonna get you. The sound you're hearing is most likely a chill afrobeat, people laughing and chatting and the odd small human explaining EMPHATICALLY to her friends how to use a digger.
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@NVAccess I saw you favorite my post about talking about the station playlist addon all of a sudden stop causing my computer to freeze up as soon as I mentioned it on here. well, just to give you an update, it kept happening later, so I just deactivated the addon again. I really want to use this addon, but no one knows what is going on, what is happening, and it sounds like I am the only one this happens to. the only way I have rfound to fix it is to restart NVDA when I notice it start happening, and then it stops for a while, until NVDA has been running for a while, and then it starts up again.
@NV Access
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