I still can't believe #Brave is a thing. There apparently are just people out there who are like "I'm frustrated by the corporate bullshit in Chrome, so I think I'll try this crypto scam made by a homophobe"
It is a good New Year resolution, however, the main problem with it is that not a lot of people use Signal. So it would be hard for someone to switch if only small amount of someone's friends is using it.
I have a 4 year old Android phone that has not had updates for a while now. I am not going to use that as a basis for a secure IM system such as Signal.
I do not wish to buy a replacement for this phone. Neither Android nor iOS.
I use Wire IM. I believe it to be secure.
It has the great advantage over many IM systems in that you can register a personal account on Wire using just an email address.
Zatímco jiné děti rozbalovaly dárky, desetiletá Beatka zažila peklo. Matka ji na Štědrý večer vyhodila z domu kvůli hračce. Předsedkyně Fondu ohrožených dětí Hanka Kupková vyprávěla Deníku její příběh.
For years we’ve maintained LibreOffice Viewer for Android, which lets you access files in these formats on mobile devices: Open Document Format (odt, ods, odp, odg) Microsoft Office 2007–365 (docx, xlsx and pptx) Microsoft Office 97–2003 (doc, xls an…
I know it's probably just uploading a pre-existing APK to a different repository, but do people still use Zucc's metaverse (if anyone ever did at all)?
Flathub's "2025 Year in Review" contains many interesting statistics. I find this one the most interesting: Despite years of full support for ARM in Linux distributions and wild predictions, ARM still has an absolutely marginal share of the Linux desktop user base.
Yep, absolutely marginal share, at the same time it's nearly double grow every year. My guess Linux mobile and maybe "Raspberry Pi" computers are reasons of it.
I know of only a handful arm laptops so the numbers make sense? Last I looked there was a bunch of problems with them too (I.e. not all hw parts supported etc)
give me a nice ARM laptop with a superb battery live and Linux support and Ill tell you a different statistic next year. I need a new computer and I'm holding my horses waiting for it.
could it be because many ARM devices are still unlikely to use Flatpak?
I mean I think that recent RPis & friends may still be grouped under the “Linux desktop” category, and in that case I don’t think that they’d be making up <1% of the market. It’s just that they’re more likely to use Debian-based solutions and perhaps Snap rather than Flatpak.
Same for many Termux on Android solutions (are they counted?), running on ARM but very unlikely to use Flatpak.
If you exclude these big segments I think that at the current state you’re mostly left with folks who install Linux on their ARM Macbooks or Surface devices, since even popular manufacturers among Linux users (like Tuxedo or Dell) don’t even ship ARM-based solutions yet.
@fabio Yes, it's definitely biased in this regard although for example I do use Flatpak on my OnePlus 6. :) From me it was a little sigh that despite all the predictions we still don't have ARM as a widely available hardware architecture for desktop usage.
"average person counts ℵ₀ sets a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person counts 0 sets per year. Georg Cantor, who lives in cave & counts over ℵₐ each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was convicted of embezzling $539 million in state funds.
Razak, already facing years in jail for an earlier conviction, was part of a complex scandal involving the Malaysian financier Jho Low, who allegedly stole $4.5 billion from a state-owned development company and used the cash to, among other things, fund the Oscar-nominated movie The Wolf of Wall Street.
restore support for bypassing carriers disallowing choosing the cellular network mode (this was lost in a recent major version migration such as the port to Android 16 QPR1 but we aren't sure exactly when it regressed)
remove poorly designed upstream end session button on the lockscreen (it remains available in the power menu)
enable feature flag for new upstream end session button in the user switcher
switch to vendor files from 2nd December 2025 release (BP4A.251205.006.E1) for devices with it available
enable lockscreen widget support
fix upstream system_server crash in NotificationHistoryProtoHelper
Wi-Fi HAL: ignore debug logging requests on all Pixels with MTE support to avoid a crash from detecting an invalid memory access in the upstream code
Sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer: add support for redirecting Google Play location service requests from within Google Play services itself which means the GrapheneOS provided network location will work for internal Play services features such as Google Maps location sharing when redirecting to the OS is enabled (which is the default) and the Location permission is granted to it
Sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer: force redirecting Google Play location service requests from within Google Play services and Android Auto when the Location permission is disabled for better error handling (neither properly handles the Location permission not being granted since it's always granted on any Google Mobile Services OS in practice instead of being explicitly opt-in)
Sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer: fix a compatibility issue with the Chromium test suite
Network Location: improve position estability accuracy and stability
Network Location: prevent potential division by zero exception
Network Location: improve experimental Wi-Fi RTT support which is still disabled in production
kernel (6.1): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision
kernel (6.6): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision including update to 6.6.119
kernel (6.6): disable CONFIG_TLS to reduce attack surface
kernel (6.12): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision including update to 6.12.63
kernel (6.12): disable CONFIG_TLS to reduce attack surface
include configuration for thermometer on 10th gen Pixels
adevtool: auto-detect filesystem image type (ext4 vs. EROFS)
adevtool: add support for canary builds
adevtool: improve performance
remove obsolete workaround for using a prebuilt recovery extension
All of the Android 16 security patches from the current January 2026, February 2026, March 2026, April 2026, May 2026 and June 2026 Android Security Bulletins are included in the 2025121701 security preview release. List of additional fixed CVEs:
A maple syrup co-op where you deliver the sap and they turn it into syrup for you for free (they do the labor and cover energy costs), but they also use the waste heat to heat the local community and everyone in the community gets free maple syrup too
Lol. Whenever I open ableton on windows now, any audio basically stops being audible. There's only the metronome that I got working, and even that sounded super glitchy lmao. Well I can't go into audio settings without a working monitor for visual help or audio for nvda so what is going on?
I just found an interesting video segment on PBS about the old Eureka A4 Braille computer, featuring it singing, playing music, and more. youtube.com/watch?v=84C5SFRh81…
Special thanks to archive.org for hosting these episodes. Downloads of all these episodes and more can be found at: http://archive.org/details/computerchroni...
Really cool when we can find these bits of documentation of the eureka! I still want to see one! I briefly saw one in around 1993, but couldn't understand a word of what it was saying!
@KaraLG84 I briefly encountered a disk for it once (while borrowing a machine at what was then the Association for the Blind), but I'd certainly never heard the colour identifier in action
@KaraLG84 They also made a stand-alone talking colour sensor and a talking compass, both of which I briefly played with at technology expos. robotron.net.au/archived.htm
@KaraLG84 I had their talking compass. At least I'm pretty sure it was that one. It had an English/Spanish switch on it, and took one type N battery, I think.
Well and there you have it. Christmas is officially over. And honestly? It was a total flop: I've been better off physically last year, even though I did a lot of sports this year I feel like I just don't have energy, am not even demotivated, but just, tired and don't get things done. The vibe wasn't there at all. If you asked me a month ago I would've felled it, and I do not know why that is. I hope 2026 brings a better year overall, despite the name. But now with the wining out of the way, I hope yall had a good, or fine enough christmas.
Seit vier Uhr wach und irgendwie an. Also irgendwie so richtig an. Kriege mich auch gerade nicht wieder ruhig, um vielleicht noch etwas zu schlafen. Und irgendwie nervt das.
I'm still sometimes mad that sighted users are up to 8K monitors, or lower-resolution screens with insane refresh rates. Color accuracy is amazing. Bloom isn't a problem as dimming zone counts increase and OLED drops in price. There are resolutions, widths, inputs, and other features for almost any situation. Meanwhile, braille displays still cost thousands, and we're celebrating because we can kind of feel rough line drawings, on devices that still use mechanical pins. I get it, but still...
It seems like a big part of the problem is that huge brands haven't put any resources into braille. Samsung, LG, Hisense, and others keep pushing visual display technology forward--we have screens that can literally fold in half! Meanwhile, braille is still stuck using the resources of tiny companies to move forward. What would happen if Apple, or Microsoft, or Samsung threw a billion dollars and a team of genius scientists and engineers at braille display technology?
Was könnte denn eine passende Fedi-Instanz für einen jungen Transmann sein, der sich u.a. für alles, was fliegt, interessiert, und auf den Hund gekommen ist? 😄
Würde ihm gern eine Community hier schmackhaft machen.
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.
Den hast Du richtig gut getroffen! Diese überenthusiastische Art, wie die KI-Chatbots sprechen, die Illusionen, die auch bei Bildbeschreibungen gern mal, zuschlagen, und dieses erstmal nach dem Mund reden. So herrlich! Allerdings wirft die Folge auch Fragen auf, wer die stiftende Entität war z. B. Schätze das wird an anderer Stelle nochmal wichtig? Euch einen geruhsamen Jahreswechsel!
Home Alone II is the last movie that will run and will be the shutdown of Christmas automation proper. Directly thereafter, HKC Radio's annual Christmas replays will begin running - replaying all the live Christmasy content we did as a station. This will end on January 1 at 7 PM when the Digital Domain does its New Year's Day show, which we can tell you will feature Christmas leftovers. Sonic Synergy will interrupt this on Sunday, however.
I hope everyone had a good Christmas. I just went from 72 f, about 22 c, into snow storm weather. Tito's mom was worried I wouldn't have snow clothes flying in from Florida. But no. I packed for whatever Jersey tries to throw at me weatherwise.
> We asked them a few months ago why certain wire transfers were taking longer to be received than they advertised. They took 3 months to respond and charged us a $295 "Account Analysis Fee" to tell us that they didn't know.
are credit unions a thing in the US? They're not super popular here, (except on the left coast), but damn, they treat me so much better than the banks do.
@mWare yes! And I've been a Credit Union customer since 2008 but yeah, it's pretty much the same type of issues though. Only thing better is that they keep more money in the local community.
Sure thing, my mobile carrier here in Saskatchewan Canada sends me a text message from a number in the Philippines urging me to redeem “points” by clicking a link to a Chinese domain (fun looking up .xin a new TLD that has a meaning of “trust”).
I like looking things up and I’m fascinated people will use their finite amount of life and some measure of tech skills to devote to phishing for phools.
This advice is dependent on AI-induced errors being treated as an externality and thus not something the company is liable for.
I dearly hope that this does not become the case - the limited liability of corporations is bad enough. If companies are given any kind of legal pass for AI mistakes and hallucinations...
Somebody always has to bear the pain of mistakes. Capitalism and AI could combine to make sure the wealthy are never that person.
so after being bedridden for 16months due to a hernia, I've finally got my surgery! now I'm bedridden for recovery, which is at least a great improvement. I'm still about 1300$ away from paying all my storage bills, so if you've got a couple dollars, it'd help me get through this last stretch. Thanks so much!
Tools are being developed to fix SSH Agent forwarding so when you ssh to a server and attach to a tmux session your agent forwarding still works. But this requires you have this custom tool on every server, available on every OS/distro, etc.
@tppetkov Nice post! Just a quick comment, the fixssh() function could be added to the precmd hook in zsh (or in bash github.com/rcaloras/bash-preex… ) for maximum convenience.
@tzz @tppetkov well idk, I don't think it would work that way. When you attach to a tmux session it's not a new shell that executes, but when you attach and then open a new terminal in that session it would I guess... so there is still a benefit
I believe socket symlinking works fine with both screen and tmux so a small shell wrapper around screen/tmux should do the job. Did OP try that route and give up?
but then when it fails, I just type my shell alias "fixssh" and continue. I wouldn't be able to let all of this work automated / hands-free anyway because I always have to touch my Yubikey to use it for SSH
No matter what I do, I can't get a PHP dev container to work right. It seems to connect, and the terminal works, but f12 on an object type doesn't go to the class definition how it should. My plan was to use a PHP dev container for local PHP projects, since I can't get PHP to work natively on Windows. Or, I'd attach right to the container the project itself creates. But I've been at this all day with nothing to show for it except a lot of ChatGPT usage. Come on, end of the week!
Scott
in reply to Fesshole 🧻 • • •Twinkle Paws the Christmas Elf
in reply to Scott • • •Scott
in reply to Twinkle Paws the Christmas Elf • • •Twinkle Paws the Christmas Elf
in reply to Scott • • •Scott
in reply to Twinkle Paws the Christmas Elf • • •