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Look, we can all complain about religion all we want, but the Protestant Church in the Netherlands in the city of Kampen who have been holding an uninterrupted mass for over a year to protect a family of two parents and five kids (21, 15, 11, and 4) from deportation are fucking heroes. This family has been in The Netherlands for 12 years, so these kids know nothing of the place they came from (hell, two of them were born here and have never seen their parents' home country), and deporting them would be insanely cruel.

Why the long mass, though? Well, according to Dutch law, law enforcement is not allowed to enter a church (or other house of worship) as long as a mass/service/etc. is underway. As such, members of this church take turns holding mass, and 2000 of them have been keeping this up for over a year. The family has its own little area in the church, but they can't leave the building. The kids are taught by local teachers inside the church, and the 21-year old does odd jobs in the building. So yeah, they've been inside for over a year.

Turns out this "church asylum" thing has actually been attempted over 50 times since 1978, and it's been successful at times.

I almost bought a house in Kampen a few years before meeting my now-wife and moving to Sweden. Had that not happened, and I managed to buy a house in Kampen, I would've joined this church in a heartbeat to help out.

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Kerkdienst voor uitgeprocedeerde familie Babayants gaat al een jaar dag en nacht door

Met hulp van 2000 vrijwilligers beschermt de protestantse gemeente in Kampen het Oezbeekse gezin tegen uitzetting. Voorgangers wisselen elkaar af om de twee uur.
Rolinde Hoorntje (NOS Nieuws)

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#opencollective in collaboration with #google is sending free Google Titan Security Keys to collectives hosted on OSC. So if any #foss project is in need of one, kindly to check this out: opencollective.com/opensource/…

October Update for OSC - Open Source Collective

📣 Announcements 📣 Free Security Keys · Thanks to a generous donation from Google — and following our...
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When you're a kid, a race is when you're running with your friend, and whoever gets to the destination first wins, and it's fun. When you're an adult, a race is when program A sends a signal, and then program B invokes a method call on program A that program A might not be ready for yet, and all the end user knows is that something isn't working, and then you have to figure out why things aren't working and figure out what to do about it, and it's not fun.

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Hey @AccessOn am I missing something, or do I have to pay to get transcripts of your episodes? There's a transcript heading, but all it says is: "Are you the producer of this podcast? Add a podcast transcript →
Need Audio-to-Text? Transcribe with Listen411 in Just 60 Seconds →". Clicking on the latter link brings me to a service where I can pay $0.06 per minute of audio to have it described. This feels exclusionary to me though, deaf-blind users should not have to pay for the right to consume your episodes. Living Blindfully had some of the best transcripts out there during its time, it would be incredible if whatever technology was used there could be incorporated here too.
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World governments are trying to ban AI. Here's a comment I just saw that I agree with:

"Advanced AI is the most truly democratizing force the world has ever known, and that is why it is being attacked by so many privileged people (all of whom are quite happy with the status quo thank you very much). Suddenly, as a result of advanced AI, all their connections and their expensive degrees—advantages they and their kids leveraged of to cut ahead of the poor and marginalized and help themselves to the best educations and housing and medical care and food and and cushyest jobs—DO NOT MATTER ANY MORE. Any dirt poor kid with a third-hand laptop or even smartphone can learn anything, build any kind of software, make amazing films and screen them worldwide. The words the elite hate to hear more than any other are, "WE ARE DOING THIS WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION". And they hate it most of all when it's coming from people they had convinced themselves were powerless to disturb their privilege. AI, AGI, and yes, super-intelligence, are for *us*; the people. We are not giving it up so they can leave us to die in a ditch while they sashay smugly back to their yachts and leafy retreats."

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Matt Campbell

I'd like to know who wrote that comment you reposted. In other words, please cite your source.

While some critics of AI probably do fit the description in that comment, IMO the best criticisms focus on how AI actually further concentrates wealth and power, in the hands of the companies who own the AI models, as well as the companies who will use AI to replace labor (or at least try very hard to do so, whether it actually works or not).

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Holy shit - Google just announced that Quick Share is now compatible with Apple AirDrop!

This starts rolling out today to the Pixel 10 series.

I'M NOT JOKING: blog.google/products/android/q…

Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10 family.

Today, we’re introducing a way for Quick Share to work with AirDrop.
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Microsoft makes Zork I, II, and III open source under MIT License
Microsoft's Open Source Programs Office worked with Jason Scott to do it.
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Microsoft makes Zork I, II, and III open source under MIT License

Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office worked with Jason Scott to do it.
Samuel Axon (Ars Technica)

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A late in the day edition of the mid-week Other People's Music teaser! This is a look at this week's batch of music, previewed via the first line of the review, with all appropriate links (music, socials, full review) linked. Here's the full post:

etherdiver.com/2025/11/14/opm-…

#Musodon #OtherPeoplesMusic #OPM #Music

OPM: Old Tech Is Good Tech – Ether Diver

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#music #musodon #opm #otherpeoplesmusic
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FastWeather, a basic app for getting weather, is joining my list of software projects. Download the executable and run it. You'll start with a default set of cities so you can experience the program but either delete those or run with the --reset option to start fresh. Details and the app are linked off of www.theideaplace.net/projects. The user guide is at github.com/kellylford/FastWeat….

FastWeather/USER_GUIDE.md at main · kellylford/FastWeather

A simple app for getting weather details. Contribute to kellylford/FastWeather development by creating an account on GitHub.
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kellylford

@clv0 @DavidGoldfield The program now has a units tab under configuration where you can change the measure used for temperature, wind and precipitation. The Configure button has also been moved to the main screen and can be accessed with Alt+c. Alt+n will put focus in the edit box for adding a new city. Grab the newest executable from the same locations. I didn't change the version number.
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We are trying something new at Igalia: a video show called "Hackers Assemble" where we chat about all the inner workings of computing, from the kernel to the browser.

For the first episode, I met with André Almeida to talk about case insensitive filesystems on Linux. Check it out: youtube.com/watch?v=bJI8rWproH…


Case insensitive filesystems on Linux - Hackers Assemble Episode 1

André Almeida joins us to tell us about the work he has recently done to improve support of case insensitive filesystems on Linux.This is the first episode o...
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Joseph Humfrey

@matt hmm that’s an interesting question and I’m afraid not one that we’ve really considered. Currently the game isn’t really set up to be possible to play that way. It could be conceivably made to work but would probably require some significant rearchitecting. I’ll have a think, but I’m afraid it seems unlikely for the initial release, sorry!
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