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#Carney ran on a build Canada platform that hasn't proposed any real nation building, rather we get pandering to foreign petro oligarchs.

Here's some nation building actions that should already be underway:
1. Get our govt data out of the USA. House it in the EU until we have a domestic datacentre.
2. Get schools across the nation off american software and networks. Like stop forcing my kid to use an enemy chromebook. This will take a large investment in infrastucture to update schools.
3. Retrofit schools, colleges and universities with renewable energy and batteries. Gift the installs and equipment to help reduce school electricity costs (and work toward climate action).
4. Similarly assist FN and especially Inuit communities getting off diesel generators. The soot is speeding melting in the Arctic.
5. Like the national railway that our ancestors built, build a national fleet of electric truck-trains (truck with 7-10 reefers). The railways are often plugged and reducing productivity.

#CdnPoli

#cdnpoli #carney
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miki

My take on the the points you make about LLMs:

LLMs have the potential to turn content into a diff between what you already know and the current state of the world. The problem with making any kind of content is that no two readers are the same and have the same level of knowledge. This means that you'll always get some people who find parts of your content too hard to understand, not because they're stupid, but because they don't have the necessary prerequisites yet. You will also get some people who find parts of your content unnecessary, as they contain information they already know. Those two groups might overlap!

LLMs fundamentally change this paradigm. Because they're cheap enough to run to produce content aimed at a single reader, they can take into account what the reader already knows, what preliminaries the reader is missing, and what they're trying to get out of that content in the first place.

This requires combining the LLM with some kind of knowledge tracking system, which is hard for the usual privacy / "walled gardens" reasons, but I think we'll eventually get something like that for education at least.

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Our Soldering Workshop proposal has been officially accepted for FOSDEM 2026.
On 31 January, from 10:00 to 17:00, participants will assemble the RVPC, an open-source hardware and software retro-style RISC-V computer. olimex.wordpress.com/2025/12/1… #fosdem #riscv #oshw #floss
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We will run Soldering workshop for RVPC – the Retro Style RISC-V computer on FOSDEM 2026

FOSDEM 2026 will take place in Brussels on 31 January and 1 February 2026. It is the largest European event dedicated to Open Source Hardware and Free/Libre Open Source Software, bringing together …
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#floss #fosdem #oshw #riscv

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"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.

github.com/zoicware/RemoveWind…


GitHub - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI: Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11

Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI
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To make it clear, I don't agree with the under 16 ban of social media because:
1. It won't remove bullying from teens' lives
2. The age verification tech will actually be used to compromise identity and may actually be used *for bullying*
3. Teens will not learn how to engage with social media.
4. Alternatives to using social media are not "riding a bike" or "reading a book", but actually "talking to Chat GPT". Good luck with that.

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The new web-based WhatsApp for Windows is uninstalled for now. After the forced switch from the previous app, messages simply stopped syncing on my PC. Nothing I send from Windows goes through, and anything that arrives on my phone never shows up on the desktop. Only Meta could take a perfectly good app and turn it into a trash-tier experience. Honestly, it’s unbelievable how consistently they manage this.

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Callum Stoneman

@FreakyFwoof Based on my experience that's exactly what will happen unfortunately. It was a very sad day for me as well. Brian Hartgen's scripts make a massive difference, but of course that only helps if you're a JAWS user. I'm not sure how things are with NVDA add-ons at the moment, but I'd be surprised if there wasn't something out there to help make it a bit more usable
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Andre Louis

They seem to do that a lot. In my case I just got banned with zero understanding why. Very rude people, very hard to get hold of.

TikTok Permanently Banned My Account With No Reason Given youtu.be/mVaV3ObYbnQ


TikTok Permanently Banned My Account With No Reason Given

Maybe it’s my imagination, but if you’re going to ban somebody permanently, you should probably send them an email about it.Yesterday, my wife, myself, and m...
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On this day six years ago, we learned that mr Robot curls:

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2019/12/10…

Exactly three years later, still this date, we found a #curl sighting in the movie Silk Road:

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/12/10…


Mr Robot curls

The Mr Robot TV series features a security expert and hacker lead character, Elliot. Season 4, episode 8 Vasilis Lourdas reported that he did a "curl sighting" in the show and very well I took a closer peek and what do we see some 37 minutes 36 secon…
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#curl
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🚨 World's first social media ban begins: Australian & under‑16? Your social media account is now locked. 🚨

What's next? From Dec 27 #AgeVerification checks for search engines like #Google.

BUT - Once your data is in the system, what's stopping it from being used for surveillance?

And what happened to #Privacy? 🧐

#DigitalID #Australia

YouTube already has it ➡️ tuta.com/blog/how-to-turn-off-…

Notice from YouTube: You must be 16+ to sign in to YouTube in Australia.

YouTube AI Age Verification: What it is & how to turn it off. | Tuta

Did YouTube ask you to verify your age with ID or credit card? You're not alone! YouTube AI is increasingly trying to estimate how old you are based on your habits following the global push for age verification.
Tuta
#google #privacy #australia #digitalid #ageverification

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Bei einer technischen Untersuchung von zehn Passwortmanagern, die wir als BSI zusammen mit dem FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik und der @verbraucherzentrale_nrw durchgeführt haben, kam heraus, dass es durchaus Unterschiede in den getesteten Produkten gibt.

➡️ Hier erfahrt ihr mehr über die Untersuchung: bsi.bund.de/dok/1188780

Fliederfarbene Grafik mit halbtransparentem Zahlenmuster im Hintergrund. Auf der linken Seite ein dunkelblauer Kreis mit weißem Text: "Worauf sollte man bei einem guten Passwortmanager achten?" Daneben ein Icon von einer Hand mit einem Finger, der nach oben zeigt und das Symbol eines Computer-Ordners. Auf der rechten Bildhälfte ein dunkelblauer eckiger Textblock mit einer Aufzählung von Stichpunkten: "Verwendung eines Masterpassworts für den Zugang zum Passwortmanager; Automatische Sperre nach Zeitüberschreitung; Passwortmanager unterstützt die Verwaltung von Zwei-Faktor-Authentisierungsinformationen; Metadaten: Nicht nur das Passwort, auch Benutzernamen oder zugehörige Webseiten sollten verschlüsselt sein; Wiederherstellungsoption, falls das Masterpasswort vergessen wird."

Untersuchung: BSI identifiziert Verbesserungsbedarf bei Passwortmanagern

Aufgrund der Sensibilität der in Passwortmanagern gespeicherten Daten bestehen hohe Anforderungen an deren IT-Sicherheit.
Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik

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Interesting. Someone dropped 240 usb keys around Luxembourg, and 38,4 (16 %) were put into a computer and a file called "disclaimer.html" was opened.

Are usb keys still such a big attack vector?

Other interesting fact: the photo seems to be a stock photo, but they usb key looks EXACTLY like one I have, from Luxembourgs biggest bank.

en.paperjam.lu/article/the-red…


The red USB key, the little weakness that will lose you

An experiment carried out in Luxembourg this summer shows that, despite ten years of awareness-raising and widely-documented cyber-risks, a significant proportion of the population still pick up and plug into their computers USB keys they come across…
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Hi @NVAccess if possible in a future in prossess blog, could you tell us how to interact with split buttons on windows? For example when a windows update requires restart, the button is a split button. The default action is to restart the machine, but I think there are more options to it and I am not sure how to find them. Somebody told me in the past but I don't remember. I couldn't find anything online. If I type split buttons, I get the buttons for split screen etc.
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The World #Blind Union General Assembly and World #Blindness Summit in São Paulo, #Brazil in September was an amazing opportunity not only to talk about NVDA, but to give a presentation on the amazing MOVEMENT behind the world's favourite free #screenreader! We have two videos of the presentation and a full transcript for you, complete with an audience-initiated chant of "#NVDA NVDA NVDA!" at the end!

nvaccess.org/post/world-blind-…

#NVDAsr #Accessibility #Movement #Social

Title slide from presentation "World Blind Union General Assembly and World Blindness Summit Sao Paulo, Brazil, presented by Emma Bennison (Director) James Boreham (GM) with NV Access Logo. Title in white on purple. Presenters below in purple on white.

NV Access | World Blind Union General Assembly and World Blindness Summit São Paulo 2025

www.nvaccess.org
#Accessibility #blind #screenreader #nvdasr #Social #brazil #blindness #nvda #movement
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Last week Trump called Tim Walz the ‘R slur’.

He then doubled down on it, and now his base have begun harassing the entire Walz family.

Memes are circulating on socials encouraging people to drive past their house and yell it at them.

I’ve been personally called that word more than 1,000 times in the last seven days.

We can’t allow this to happen. The disability community has fought far too hard for far too long to remove that word from the public vernacular.

This is ableism at it’s most ugly, and ableism feeds eugenics and eugenics feeds fascism.

Help us fight back. We are not expendable.

disabledginger.com/p/the-r-slu…

#uspol #trump #walz #fascism #discrimination #ableism #eugenics #chronicillness #disabilityjustice


The R Slur Must Never be Normalized

Last week Trump called Walz the 'R slur', and now his base is using it regularly. We must all speak out against this. It's a term that pushes a eugenicist agenda and feeds directly into fascism.
Broadwaybabyto (The Disabled Ginger)
#Trump #uspol #chronicillness #DisabilityJustice #discrimination #ableism #fascism #eugenics #walz
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