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Reading Fedora infrastructure update about yet more problems with AI scrapers. It's really disgusting the pain that these bots are inflicting on the rest of the Internet. I hope users of these tools are conscious of how the vendors are acquiring their data, and taking pains to avoid the vendors or projects that ignore robots.txt (and such) and go out of their way to avoid being blocked.

These parasites are *worse* than spammers; typically spam is a nuisance, but not something that causes so much damage. It is flat-out unethical what these companies are doing, and equally unethical to support them.

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I won't say I told you so about putting Cloudflare on half of the internet being a horrible, horrible idea, but I actually did, so you can say it if you like. I hate how much stuff I can't read in edbrowse because of it, and the number of times my fully functional firefox browser has just failed the human verification. And, well, now it's like AWS all over again. Well done! Hope making it slightly harder for people to scrape stories from fanfiction.net was worth it.

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One of the things our community has asked for the most is the ability to browse AppleVis in their own language. And we’re really excited to finally say—it’s here! AppleVis now has live translation, and we couldn’t be happier to open the doors a little wider for people around the world.

We hope this makes it easier for anyone who’s wanted to explore AppleVis in their native language to feel right at home.

Today’s the day! Help us spread the word, and here’s to making the world feel a bit smaller and more connected so everyone in the low-vision and blind community can enjoy AppleVis and learn from each other.

Announcing the Availability of Language Translation on the AppleVis Website
applevis.com/forum/site-news-u…

Announcing the Availability of Language Translation on the AppleVis Website | AppleVis

Dear AppleVis Community, Since our 2024 acquisition by Be My Eyes, making AppleVis available in more languages and to more people has been at the top of our wish list.
applevis.com

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🦀 It's not ready for an official announcement yet, but we're working on a small DB-backed worker queue in Rust.

github.com/mre/workers

It's a recurring ask from clients, and I couldn't find anything "production ready" out there.

It's built on top of crates.io's queue. We moved to sqlx (from diesel) as well.

Can we get some eyeballs on it? Feel free to comment here and/or create an issue. A retoot and a ⭐ would also help, of course... 😉

#rustlang #rust #workqueue


GitHub - mre/workers: A worker queue implementation

A worker queue implementation. Contribute to mre/workers development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
#rust #RustLang #workqueue

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> The name Pakistan was coined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali, a Pakistan Movement activist, who in January 1933 first published it (originally as "Pakstan") in a pamphlet Now or Never, using it as an acronym.[21][22][23] Rahmat Ali explained: "It is composed of letters taken from the names of all our homelands, Indian and Asian, Panjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Baluchistan."

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#Reparaturbonus retten - #Elektroschrott vermeiden

Für #Thüringen - hier entlang 👇
petitionen.thueringer-landtag.…
#Ökologie #Nachhaltigkeit #repair

Reparaturbonus retten - Elektroschrott vermeiden, Bürgerinnen und Bürger entlasten (Über die Petition) - Thüringer Landtag - Petitionsplattform

Reparaturbonus retten - Elektroschrott vermeiden, Bürgerinnen und Bürger entlasten
petitionen.thueringer-landtag.de
#nachhaltigkeit #repair #thuringen #reparaturbonus #ökologie #elektroschrott

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If you use an app that sends you push notifications, install the damn app, don't just rely on the browser and the web version. I know, dumb ugly Electron bloatware that adds itself to autostart, you should still do it. Speaking from painful personal experience here.

(yes, it's Microsoft Teams, of course it is).

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What’s Wrong With this Picture?
[Quiz]Click Does it fail: 1.4.5 Images of Text
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#a11y #accessibility #wcag

What's Wrong With this Picture? [Quiz] - TPGi — a Vispero company

When is it acceptable to post images of text on your web site? When does it cross the line and fail WCAG SC 1.4.5 Images of Text? Test yourself in this quiz.
Ian Lloyd (TPGi)
#a11y #Accessibility #wcag

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Gemini3.0 Preview is out. Test it on Google AI Studio.
So far it has performed wonderfully in programming here. It understood almost 2800 lines of code and created working, performant and readable code in one try, that achieved what it had to.
aistudio.google.com/prompts/ne…

#AI #Gemini #Google #Coding #Programming #Agent #Gemini3.0 #NewRelease

Sign in - Google Accounts

aistudio.google.com
#gemini #google #programming #AI #coding #newrelease #agent #gemini3

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Windows #CLAT Enters Private Preview: A Milestone for #IPv6 Adoption
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Windows CLAT Enters Private Preview: A Milestone for IPv6 Adoption

IPv6 Adoption: A Global Shift Since its standardization in the late 1990s, IPv6 has steadily gained traction. The last 15 years, especially since World IPv6 Launch Day in 2011, have seen significant progress.
JimAlumbaugh (TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM)
#ipv6 #clat

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I really wish that Atlassian's status page service was dual-stacked and enabled #IPv6.

Community forum thread, or if you're a customer you can encourage them through a support ticket and reference "STATUS-512" (which I assume is a Jira ticket 😉).

community.atlassian.com/forums…

Since services like akamaistatus.com/ and cloudflarestatus.com/ explicitly don't want to use their own CDNs for this (to allow status reporting during outages) this results in these status pages being IPv4-only resources outside of their control.

Akamai Status

Welcome to Akamai's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.
akamaistatus.com
#ipv6

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Google launches Gemini 3 with state-of-the-art reasoning, ‘generative UI’ for responses, more 9to5google.com/2025/11/18/gemi…

Google launches Gemini 3 with state-of-the-art reasoning, ‘generative UI’ for responses, more

Google today announced Gemini 3 with the goal of bringing “any idea to life.” The first model available in this family is Gemini 3 Pro...
Abner Li (9to5Google)

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🇩🇪Die #Chatkontrolle ist noch NICHT vom Tisch! Spitzenwissenschaftler warnen: Der neue Vorschlag berge weiterhin „hohe Risiken“ durch fehlerhaftes ‚freiwilliges‘ KI-Massen-Scanning & invasive Alterskontrollen. Auch Italien & Polen haben Vorbehalte: patrick-breyer.de/fuehrende-wi…

Führende Wissenschaftler warnen: Neuer EU-Vorschlag zur Chatkontrolle bleibt hochriskant

Nachdem die Verpflichtung zur „Chatkontrolle" nach öffentlichem Protest aus dem EU-Gesetzentwurf gestrichen wurde, schien dies ein Erfolg für Datenschützer zu sein.
Patrick Breyer
#Chatkontrolle

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As the person who designed and fought for this app, I am a bit sad about the change.
The native app was by no means perfect, but it felt like a real productivity tool that was trying to be respectful of it's environment.
I've come to the conclusion that native desktop apps are just not viable from large companies, even if there is headcount.


WhatsApp native app replaced with web wrapper news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper | Hacker News

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aaron

@WeirdWriter @talon @matt This only works so long as there's an accessible alternative to whatever you want to use that is actually good. Yes, alternatives to everything usually exist, but the problem is they usually don't have the same level of polish. Sure for people into technology they can work, but try getting someone who just doesn't care and just wants to send messages to use maytrix or delta chat or whatever. not going to happen.
@Talon @Matt Campbell @Robert Kingett
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Robert Kingett

But what I meant was, developers like the one making Paperback will get my money far faster than big tech will. github.com/trypsynth/paperback @fireborn @prism @talon @matt

GitHub - trypsynth/paperback: An accessible, light-weight, cross-platform ebook and document reader.

An accessible, light-weight, cross-platform ebook and document reader. - trypsynth/paperback
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@Talon @Matt Campbell @aaron @Drew Mochak

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Koumbit now offers a turnkey shared Nextcloud hosting service starting at 50GB.

NextCloud is a suite of online collaboration tools. It offers file storage and sharing (similar to Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive).

You are tired to rely on the GAFAM (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft) who steal your personal information and then sell them to the american orange monster? Here is your opportunity to escape!
For more details, see: koumbit.org/en/content/shared-…

#nextcloud

A view of Koumbit's Nextcloud shared hosting login page

Shared Nextcloud Hosting

The Shared Nextcloud Hosting service is for clients who wants a space to hold and edit their files collectively. It includes updates twice a year to ensure the safety and performance of the service.
Koumbit.org
#nextcloud
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If your school or workplace uses Exchange for email, accessing it with Thunderbird just got easier! Our blog post has all the details on getting connected. Additional features, like calendar and address book, are in the works!

#Thunderbird #Exchange

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/t…


Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support - The Thunderbird Blog

Thunderbird Exchange support has finally landed for email in the latest monthly release. Find out what's in, out, and still on the way.
Heather Ellsworth (The Thunderbird Blog)
#thunderbird #exchange

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First MR merged in the currently happening GNOME Calendar livestream: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…

It's already available in the current nightly flatpak version. It is so nice to be able to use the new event quick-add popover, with no extra swirly pages etc. to pick the target calendar. Very efficient! 😌

Thanks to @TheEvilSkeleton for their patience and sisyphean rebasing of that much awaited merge request over the past 2 years 🫡

4 tickets have been closed as a result!

#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #UX

Screenshot of GNOME Calendar's new quick-add event creation popover, where the calendars list picker has been merged in an elegant way into the main popover, so there is only a single page. Various other issues were also fixed as part of that branch.

quick-add-popover: Port to libadwaita widgets and merge stack pages (!362) · Merge requests · GNOME / gnome-calendar · GitLab

Both stack pages are merged into one, to avoid additional clicks. Mnemonics were added to accommodate keyboard users as well. Closes
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#gnome #UX #gnomecalendar @TheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️
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✨I used Google's new Gemini 3.0 AI to make Android apps and fine-tune my workouts

Gemini 3.0 Pro brings big improvements to reasoning and coding. I put the new model to the test by asking it 9 complex questions.

Here's how it went👇

🔗 androidauthority.com/how-good-…

I tested Google's new Gemini 3 AI chatbot and I was blown away

Google just released its smartest AI chatbot yet, Gemini 3 Pro, so I had it answer 9 challenging problems. Here's how it went.
Mishaal Rahman (Android Authority)

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Okay, that's it, I'm turning off all notifications and badges for the Google Play Store. It's nothing but spam now, with what appears to be no way to only get functional notifications.

Edit: I provisionally take it back, there is a config section after you expand, titled " payments, deals, and recommendations". I'll report back in a few days whether this works or not.

Notification icon in the upper right hand corner of the Google Play Store app, a little line drawing of a bell, with a badge count of six.
The first three unread "alerts" in the Google Play Store app. Titles: "tap into this month's game picks", "43 updates need approval", "find a new favorite app on play". There's also a pop-up at the top with the title "get updates faster", with the text " receive special offers, Early Access to new features and updates. Stay informed with notifications and emails."
The rest the of the "alerts", titled "your favorite anime", "multiplayer fun with friends or foes" and "offline fun you can have anywhere".
The notification settings area (at the Android level) for the Google Play app. The only categories enabled are "updates available" and "maintenance". Notice that neither of these seem to really cover "spam me about game crap".
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