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Back in the day at a previous gig I tried and largely failed to convince anyone that sudden upswings in people sharing detailed instructions about screwing around in the guts of the product should be treated the same as sudden upswings in crash rates: a capital-I Incident that deserves near term attention and careful retrospective investigation.

What is this, if not a user expectation going so badly unmet that people are _happy_ to risk bricking their box to fix it?

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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 (@susankayequinn@wandering.shop)

Attached: 4 images My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
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RE: floss.social/@IzzyOnDroid/1155…

Thanks to 8 amazing "busy bees" of our amazing community, half of the list at codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/Every… has been successfully processed by now. Could we maybe motivate another 8 "busy bees" to help us completing the rest?

1. pick any app you feel comfortable with
2. test if it still works as expected
3. write a short comment (or toot) with your results
4. repeat with the next app if time (and fun?) permits
5. also check codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/Every… for more 😉

#IzzyOnDroid #serviceToot :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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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!

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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.
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In today's edition of #ChatGPT imagines a non-existent #curl feature, much to @bagder 's dismay...

As passed along by my colleague who discovered this, the prompt included: "find a website that is actually hosted on physical infrastructure in Guam"

and ChatGPT suggested one on #Akamai but then suggested using the no-existent --no-cdn flag to skip straight to the origin. Please don't take this as a suggestion to implement such a feature. 🙂

Prompt was: "If your goal is to find a website that is actually hosted on physical infrastructure in Guam (not just “serving Guam” or using a Guam-themed domain), here are the reliable ways to identify or locate such sites, plus a few examples." Response contained: 5. Guam Visitors Bureau https:/jwww.visitguam.com » + Mixed hosting (Akamai CDN). e BUT: Their origin server (not the CDN edges) is in Guam. If you use —-no-cdn via curl tricks or DNS origin lookup, you will hit the Guam origin.
#chatgpt #curl #Akamai @daniel:// stenberg://
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90-Day Cybersecurity Study Plan github.com/farhanashrafdev/90D…

GitHub - farhanashrafdev/90DaysOfCyberSecurity: This repository contains a 90-day cybersecurity study plan, along with resources and materials for learning various cybersecurity concepts and technologies. The plan is organized into daily tasks, covering t

This repository contains a 90-day cybersecurity study plan, along with resources and materials for learning various cybersecurity concepts and technologies. The plan is organized into daily tasks, ...
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#𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘃𝘀𝘂𝗸𝗻𝗶 𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝟰 -𝗔𝗺𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗮 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘂: 𝗟𝘇𝘇𝘆 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗲
Elizabeth Mae “Lzzy” Hale je hudebnice, známá jako 𝗵𝗹𝗮𝘃𝗻í 𝘇𝗽ě𝘃𝗮č𝗸𝗮 𝗮 𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗸á 𝗸𝘆𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗸𝗮 kapely 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗺
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#metalvsukni den 4 -Ambasadorka Rocku: Lzzy Hale – Ivan Stloukal

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Most businesses use #Outlook or Google #Workspace - even doctors and lawyers. Though they should know better!

Today we're comparing Gmail, Outlook, Zoho Mail & Tuta Mail so you don't have to. 🔐✨

If you know any business still not encrypting your data, share this link: tuta.com/blog/best-email-for-b…

#privacy #digitalsovereignty

Comparison table of Tuta Mail, Gmail, Zoho Mail, Outlook, comparing price, inbox size, mobile apps, e2e encryption, desktop apps, EU-based, EU sovereign product

Best email for business in 2025 (on iPhone, Android & Desktop) | Tuta

Choosing the right business email provider is important as email contains a lot of sensitive business data! That’s why we compare four options that many know from work: Tuta Mail, Zoho Mail, Gmail, and Outlook, to help you decide which email service …
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William B Peckham

I don't know about how we're in the world, but in the United States, many businesses are part of a franchise business, and the franchise company tells you what you have to use. It is in us contract. And for some reason, they're more invested in the real estate, image, and profit options and really don't care about your security as the franchisee. They barely care about their own. If we could find a way to appeal to those franchise companies so that they would standardize on more secure solutions, it would be wonderful I have not figured out how to do that, but if we could do that, that would turn a ton of small business to more secure solutions.
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Dear People of Brazil: We, Germans, are very sorry for these arrogant, rascist and stupid things our (not loved) chancellor told you about #Brasil & your city #Belém - most of us didn't vote for him. He is a constant nuisance and says mean things even about German cities and is absolutely wrong about migration, climate crisis and its solutions. I often get woozy shaking my head just listening to news.
So, pls forgive us - our country Germany. We all do hope our head of gov will retire VERY soon.
#Brasil #belem
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Sylvia

If you don't mind the local timeline being all Germans talking about Nazis bad and trains delayed chaos.social is honestly nice enough, I can hook you up with an invite just lmk.

They do block the worst scum and they ended up defederating Threads after seeing their moderation policy, but they don't seem to block instances lightly.

You are expected to at least somewhat CW some stuff I believe and mods can get annoyed if you are careless but I never ran into trouble myself.

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One more reason why your social media platform should not have an attached, easily accessible API.

It's far too easy for LLMs (through coding agents) to stalk others for you.

"look through the last 1000 posts of this person and figure out if we can hire them, we have offices in <insert list of cities here>" is absolutely doable right now. That's an euphemism for "I want to know where my ex lives right now" that is palatable to LLMs.

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I've been avoiding new music lately. It's a painful thing, because I actually don't want to. But I also don't know what else to do. The truth is that everything could be AI, and I'm so skeptical of artists I don't know. Every new release, every song a service suggests, I'm asking. And the paranoia sucks.

Please don't tell me to just move past it and accept it, this is something I feel strongly about and I'm allowed my own convictions. I just hate the concept with a passion and cannot figure out how to simultaneously avoid it and be able to try/have access to new things.

Ironically, this is where TikTok comes in super handy. Most of the songs I hear on there are sung live, as some kind of demonstration or promo, and if the artist on the original sounds the same, I'm relatively convinced.

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Erion

Your creativity is definitely not threatened by AI. If people choose to listen to it and prefer it over music that people put their soul into, that's their problem. If you enjoy what you do and you do it because you enjoy doing it, nothing else matters.

I have been rejected because of AI from a huge company that values quantity over quality these days. Was it disappointing? Sure, when you can't pay your bills because you don't have a job it's more than disappointing. But you are empowering AI more if you give up doing what you like because of it and I can't do that.

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Wow! The iPhone 17 Pro Max can download at 1.8 gigabits per second, and upload at 1.3 gigabits per second. Pretty darn good for WiFi. Cellular performance is craptastic, no more than 400 megabits down by 80 megabits up, but I think I can pretty confidently say that is a result of shitty cell network performance, rather than device performance.
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Jonathan

Would you say it sounds more spatial? I know AirPods have the 3d Sound thing, but what I mean by that is rather, does the music sound more next to your ears and more bright/open/full? I know this description is probably horrible, but I don't know how to describe it in proper audio language, especially in English. The experience I've made with the AirPods Pro 2 was that music like techno sounded a bit, well idk, I can't say it better than flat. Like it has been tried to squeeze it into the little thing left and right to my ears. While I feel like with my Pixel Buds it sounds, more full. I know it's hard to say without having a comparison between the earbuds actually being talked about, so sorry if that's out the scope. Just interested in the improvements with the new model.
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Adam MacLeod

@jonathan859 I have disabled all of the spatial and head tracking stuff. It sounds reasonable to me. In fact, a problem I was having with my Airpods Pro 1 was that Spatial and Head tracking shit would actually not really turn off when it said it was, so everything sounded like it was moving with my head, and also had a bit of a room echo effect on everything. I was most certainly not a fan. This is fortunately not the case with these new Airpods Pro 3, and the soundfield doesn't track with my head, and the audio sounds nearly as close to as intended as possible.
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Konstantin Wecker, "Beziehung" zu Jugendlicher

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@NVAccess @jcsteh I appreciate your insights here. I am planning to open an issue on GitHub, but I first want to make sure it actually needs a separate issue.
Currently, when NVDA encounters bold or italic text in HTML, it displays that word or phrase on its own line in the virtual buffer. Just like with links, NVDA then places the following non-styled text directly after it on the same line. This means that when navigating with Up and Down arrows, you may encounter several new lines in the middle of a paragraph, each starting with one or more bold or italic words, followed by normal text. Besides making navigation more difficult, this behavior is not very useful. For example, in online dictionaries where one or more words in an example sentence are bold or italic, the virtual buffer does not show how many words at the start of the line actually have that formatting.
To see this issue, which is very easy to reproduce, go to the Merriam-Webster dictionary website and check the definition of “workaholic.” Here is the direct link:
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In the Examples section, the first example displays “My brother is a real” on one line, and on the next line it shows “workaholic who almost never takes time off.” The problem is even worse in the Recent Examples section. There, in addition to an italicized word inside the example, the name of the publication is also bold or italic, and NVDA breaks the paragraph even further and places each styled element on its own line.
At the very least, there should be a setting that toggles this behavior, so users can choose between the current mode and an alternative mode where bold, italic, and underline formatting does not break the virtual buffer into separate lines.
Also, when pressing Insert+F on text that is bold or italic, NVDA reports formatting details only at the end. For example:
“Open Sans 14.5 pt very dark pale aqua-blue on white bold italic align left.”
It would be better if NVDA announced bold, italic, or underline at the beginning instead of the end, similar to how JAWS does it. For example:
“bold italic align left Open Sans 14.5 pt very dark pale aqua-blue on white.”
I want to open an issue requesting NVDA to stop separating bold and italic text from surrounding words, or at least provide a toggle for it, and to improve how formatting information is announced in general. There should be more efficient ways to convey this information without altering the structure of the virtual buffer.

Definition of workaholic

Definition of 'workaholic' by Merriam-Webster
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Jamie Teh

You may get some pushback though. By definition, turning screen layout off means you're asking NVDA not to respect visual layout and to instead break lines. Where lines are broken, then, is debatable. You personally just want this for links and I tend to agree that formatting and links are very different, but it could equally be argued that the same rule should be applied to other inline elements because they are still different from the surrounding text. VoiceOver breaks on every. single. element. for example. This is why I personally dislike non-screen layout in general, even for links, but I respect that there are different preferences and styles of navigation.

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Linus Torvalds Says Vibe Coding is Fine For Getting Started, 'Horrible Idea' For Maintenance developers.slashdot.org/story/…

Linus Torvalds Says Vibe Coding is Fine For Getting Started, 'Horrible Idea' For Maintenance - Slashdot

Linus Torvalds is "fairly positive" about vibe coding as a way for people to get computers to do things they otherwise could not.
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And oh boy all terms seem so foreign to me as a long time #Linux user. The same disk is called ada0 with a partition like ada0p2 in #FreeBSD, will be called something like sd0 with sd0h in #OpenBSD, ld0 and dk2 in #NetBSD . Then to experiment, all the #dkctl, #disklabel and #fdisk commands are like blue and red wires on a dynamite you have to get rid of 😱. Linux distros nowadays seem to be going to the #gdisk way which feels very much like #gpart in FreeBSD.
#UseBSD #RUNBSD #BSD #FOSS #UNIX #Linux
#linux #foss #bsd #OpenBSD #freebsd #unix #netbsd #runbsd #UseBSD #dkctl #disklabel #fdisk #gdisk #gpart
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Dgar

If I might weigh in here with some personal experience as an indie artist. I’ll refer to my streaming stats for March 2025 which totalled a bit over four dollars in streaming earnings.

Amazon Music: 6 streams, $0.00
Spotify: 84 streams, $0.00
Tidal: 2 streams, $0.01
Pandora Plus: 3 streams, <$0.01
Deezer: 1 stream, <$0.01
Facebook/Instagram: 21 streams, <$0.01
YouTube: 87 streams, ~$0.21
Apple Music: 27 streams, ~$0.15
Soundcloud: 23 streams, ~$3.78

If you are paying a Soundcloud subscription, a portion of that will go directly towards the specific artists you’re streaming.

I haven’t mentioned Bandcamp as I think of it as a music shop rather than a subscription streaming service, but straight up purchasing music there is a really great way to support your chosen artists.

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