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Every available method of age verification systematically excludes or harms marginalized people. The real question isn’t whether these systems discriminate, but how extensively. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/10-n…

10 (Not So) Hidden Dangers of Age Verification

It’s nearly the end of 2025, and half of the US and the UK now require you to upload your ID or scan your face to watch “sexual content.
Electronic Frontier Foundation

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⌚️Google is rolling out a new Wear OS update for the Pixel Watch series, bringing:

- Smarter Smart Replies to the Pixel Watch 3 and later

- New double pinch and wrist turn gestures for the Pixel Watch 4

More details👇

🔗 androidauthority.com/pixel-wat…

🔗androidauthority.com/pixel-wat…

Your Pixel Watch just got smarter, more efficient Smart Replies - Android Authority

Google is bringing even smarter Smart Reply functionality to its recent Pixel Watch models, and this should deliver battery savings too.
Hadlee Simons (Android Authority)

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Secretary of State Rubio has concluded Calibri is a DEI font and orders US diplomats to revert to Times New Roman in official communications. devdiscourse.com/article/polit…

Font Wars: Times New Roman vs. Calibri in U.S. Diplomacy | Politics

In a move reflecting broader debates on diversity the US State Department led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reverted to using the Times New Roman font in official communications dismissing the previous administrations adoption of the more acc…
Devdiscourse News Desk (Devdiscourse)

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You can now blame Cloudflare for website issues with “The Cloudflare Error Page Generator” (an open-source project ) lets you create custom, static HTML error pages that perfectly mimic Cloudflare's style (like 5xx down errors). Put it on your site to quickly shift blame to Cloudflare when your site fails even when you don’t use Cloudflare 🤣 yes, someone spent time building it instead of fixing the actual website. 😂 github.com/donlon/cloudflare-e…

GitHub - donlon/cloudflare-error-page: Cloudflare error page generator

Cloudflare error page generator. Contribute to donlon/cloudflare-error-page development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub

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Here it is. I went through many many Youtube videos to dig out these. The sounds of: First a Monarch, then a dotPad X, then the Cadence. all 3, side by side. Interesting to me that DotPad's noise is more fragmented, maybe a tad louder than Monarch, almost on-par with Cadence. Cadence may be the loudest, but also fastest-refreshing (which is where they'll always have an advantage, even when you pair 2 or 4 that refresh rate doesn't go up.) Refresh rates between DotPad and Monarch feel comparable to me: Around 1.5 to 2.5 seconds, depending on your text's complexity.

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Internships like Google Summer of Code prioritize people who have very little to no experience with free and open-source software (FOSS)

To get a job, employers prioritize people who have a formal experience, so internships are perfect for that

I have too much experience to be qualified for an internship, but I have no formal experience to be qualified for a job

Make it make sense please

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I took a call from someone with questions about the Blazie Technologies products. He told me that he was a former customer of Blazie Engineering and how much he enjoyed those products. I was then quite amused when he told me that I was too young to remember those products, such as the disk drive accessory that was sold as a storage device for products like the Braille 'n Speak. I should have thought to tell him that I co-wrote the disk drive manual but I guess I'm so old I forgot to mention it. 😀
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I know it's late notice, but a friend of mine has two tickets for the Super Bowl.
They are box seats and he paid $3,500 per ticket, which includes the ride to and from the airport, lunch, dinner, a $400.00 bar tab and a pass to the winners locker room after the game.
What he didn't realize, when he bought them last year, was that it's on the same day as his wedding.
If you are interested, he is looking for someone to take his place.
It's at St. Paul's Church at 3 p.m. Her name is Ashley. She's 5'4", about 115 pounds, a good cook, loves to fish and hunt and will clean your truck. She'll be the one in the white dress.

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Everyone, sing along with me now:

I've no more fucks to give
My fucks have runneth dry
I've tried to go fuck shopping but there's no fucks left to buy
I've no more fucks to give
Though more fucks I’ve tried to get
I’m over my fuck budget, and I'm now in fucking debt

I've no more fucks to give
My fuck fuse has just blown
I've been hunting for my fucks all day but they've upped and fucked off home
I've no more fucks to give
My fuck rations are depleted
I've rallied my fuck army but it's been fucking defeated

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Are there any good video players for Linux for TV shows? The user experience I'm seeking is:

- I select a folder to play
- I start watching
- I close the app
- Sometime later, I reopen the app and it loads the playlist I was watching, at roughly the same position

In essence, I want the Netflix viewing experience except with the media I already have.

Please don't recommend hacks. I'm looking for sane defaults. I prefer an app that targets #GNOME but, really, anything will do.

#gnome

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The mentioned novel depicts serious mental health concerns and graphic violence

Sensitive content

#bookstodon

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Fun fact: The Cadence braille display, made by Tactile Engineering, is manufactured in Lafayette, Indiana, USA, utilizing local Indiana and Midwest tech companies for its advanced components, with support from Purdue University connections. Might also be why it's priced closer to a standard 40-cell display per module, but I would rather support manufacturing that's here at-home (US) Probably unavoidable that some parts could be made elsewhere, like a specific microcontroler or other smaller piece, but from what I've gathered and info I read they are assembled and components for the cells manufactured here.
Fairly awesome, and again it's why I love supporting local, including the BTSpeak too which is at least north-American made and US serviced. By contrast I'm sure the larger companies do their manufacturing and assembly more internationally.

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Hubert Figuière

The way I see it is that any anti-trust concern about Netflix will be ignored for Skydance/Paramount, if their hostile takeover is sucessfull. Why? Because they are friends with the dictator and it funded by the Saudis masquerading as the son-in-law... Netflix deal was already above the initial offer from Skydance.

Either way the biggest losers are gonna be the people, and all the one actually making shit.

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#21NightsOfHavamal

“Cows die,
Family die,
You will die the same way.
I know only one thing
That never dies:
The reputation of the one who’s died.”

-Hávamál 77

Together with verse 76, which is much the same, this is the most famous part of the Havamal. 76 starts the same and says that “a good reputation never dies, for the one who earns it well,” but I prefer this verse. It implies that the reputation you have earned at your death is the one that will stick around, whether good or bad.

The advice, then, is to work on that reputation while you have time to do so. Leaving a good legacy is more than doing one good deed, it's continuing to be a good person as you grow and change with life.

I think this also applies to remembering those who have passed. Odin wouldn’t say, “Don’t speak ill of the dead.” Everyone should be remembered as they lived, even if they were an asshole, and it’s okay to say so.

#21nightsofhavamal

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Ďalšie Lemmy komunity v slovenčine?
Zdar. Poznáte na Lemmy aj ďalšie komunity v slovenčine? Ja som zatiaľ našiel len všeobecné /c/Slovakia, pričom len táto jediná má nejaký nový zmysluplný obsah. Viem, že je nás tu málo, ale možno máme aj nejakú tematickú komunitu v slovenčine (alebo aspoň budeme mať ;).
#slovakia
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EfreetSK

Čau, nuž zo začiatku boli viac menej 2 relatívne aktívne:
* !slovakia@sopuli.xyz
* !slovakia@lemmy.world

Okrem toho sú aj tieto viac menej mŕtve komunity:
* !Slovakia@kbin.social
* !slovakia@lemmy.ml

Tématická komunita je fajn nápad, je to trocha odvážne keďže máme problém ako tak udržať nad vodou tieto naše generické komunity (je nás tu fakt málo) ale veď prečo nie, kým neskúsime nezistíme :)

Ako ja dlho snívam o nejakej čisto slovenskej inštancii - napr. lemmy.sk (čo už niekto kúpil) alebo piefed.sk ktorá by sa sústredila čisto na Slovensko. To by bolo krásne, no len čo som čítal tak že je to relatívne drahé a náročné prevádzkovať takú inštanciu. No a trebalo by ľudí samozrejme. Ale snívať môžem :)

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EfreetSK

Uff presné číslo neviem ale za posledné roky už pár inštancií skončilo s tým že proste sa im to neoplatí, tak z toho usudzujem. Hlavne si spomínam na 2 prípady
* ~~lemmy.zip~~ lemm.ee - to bola všeobecná inštancia a relatívne veľká. Oni skončili myslím že pre to že tá správa toho vyžadovala dosť času a už sa tomu nechceli venovať
* diagonlemmy.social - to bola Harry Potter inštancia a pokiaľ viem tak oni skončili pre peniaze, že je to proste príliš špecifická inštancia a nestojí to za to spravovať pre tých pár komunít celú inštanciu. Ale toto ma mrzelo lebo ich som videl ako príklad toho ako by to malo fungovať.

Ale pre porovnanie - veľké inštancie ako lemmy.world uvádzajú že majú výdavky asi 9000 € ročne (keď pozerám na ich výdavky z 2023 a 2024)

opencollective.com/mastodonwor…

Ale zas treba zohľadniť to že to je najväčšia lemmy inštancia na svete a spravujú mimo nej aj Mastodon inštanciu, Piefed inštanciu a bohvie čo ešte. No a že sú v cloude, tam aj malá inštancia vyjde tipujem aspoň na 100 € mesačne. Keď to človek rozbehá na nejakom PC doma pod stolom tak to nebude stáť takmer nič (ehm no mimo elektriny, domény, PC súčastí, ...)


Mastodon.world - Open Collective

Providing Fediverse instances to be used by anyone. (Mastodon, Lemmy, Calckey/Firefish etc)
opencollective.com
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