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Stack Overflow's monthly question volume has collapsed about 300 -- levels not seen since the site launched in 2009, according to data from the Stack Overflow Data Explorer that tracks the platform's activity over its sixteen-year history.
Well, we've already taken to defending Wikipedia - it's gone from "it's just written by some random bod on the internet, it must be crap" to "it's written by actual human beings, it's great!"
Over the weekend I got Pi-hole up and running (first time user), and it sure is eye-opening seeing what your devices are up to.
The screenshot that's all red, for example, is my Samsung smart TV, which is constantly talking to Netflix (and other domains, even when using my PC and not interacting with the "smart hub".) I haven't opened the Netflix app in at least two weeks.
The other one all in green (allowed for now), is my Echo Dot with Alexa. That thing is talking to Amazon constantly...
Coincidentally I wrote a blog post about AdGuard Home (Pi-hole alternative) yesterday: blog.eischmann.cz/2026/01/04/a… (in Czech, but GT works well on it) I've also noticed how much the Netflix apps call home. Glad it's blocked now.
AdGuard Home: domácí ochrana nejen před reklamou Jak na blokování reklamy a rodičovskou kontrolu ve vlastní režii? AdGuard Home je na to výborné řešení. Používám ho už půl roku a v článku jsem se podělil o praktické zkušenosti z instalace a provozu, popsal jeho nejdůležitější vlastnosti a taky se trochu věnoval srovnání se známějším Pi-hole. #Adguard #AdguardHome #blokování #Pihole #reklama #soukromíblog.eischmann.cz/2026/01/04/a…(reakce na tento příspěvek se může zobrazit jako komentář pod článkem)
since Day 2 on CCCongress i am missing three of these definitively not an IED contraptions, designed to make music and deployed on the towel holders in three toilets, clearly marked with my DECT number and my nickname. If you took them and repurposed them for other shenanigans, i would love to have them back. As of now, i am out roughly 160 euros for replacements and that hurts.
Samsung screen reader users may have noticed that the TalkBack experience on One UI 7 and 8 can be frustrating when navigating recent apps. On the Recent Apps
Liebe #FediKirche, am Samstag, 21.2.2026 ist online das nächste #GottDigital #Barcamp . Wir wollten ja mal einen #Fediverse Workshop anbieten. Diesmal geht das relativ einfach, indem man sich am Anfang der Veranstaltung meldet. Ich habe bisher Zeit und würde mitmachen. Wer ist noch dabei als Teilgeber? Weitere Infos: gott.digital/ cc @alex @sannezc @onlinekirche
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All theories of change are modes of transiteration, ways of "moving through again." Directing trajectories via action, feedback, and correction. Aristotle’s phronesis, Mao’s Mass Line, Freire’s pedagogy, Agile sprints. Power is control of correction. Trajectories are political.
My niece comes to the U.S. most years from Europe to visit her grandfather.
This year she was stopped at the airport, taken into an interrogation room, accused of being a prostitute, had her phone taken and scanned, and released.
You know, in case you were wondering why tourism to the U.S. is down.
Don't believe those who loudly claim email can not avoid metadata! They are ignorant of our continuous works on minimizing metadata:
DONE:
- no phone number other identifying data needed - no cleartext "Subject" - no cleartext "To" - randomized "Date" - no IP addresses - group/avatar/attachment/etc metadata only contained in encrypted message parts
Upcoming:
- servers to never see cryptographic ID metadata - remove "threading" and auxilliary headers - experiment with Sealed Sender
If in 2026 you make generic claims against the feasibility of using #email and #openpgp for secure decentralized messaging, there hardly is a way around taking a deeper look at RFC9850 and RFC9788 and the minimalist Rust-based approach chatmail.at takes. Hammering away at gpg and other crimes of how email-encryption doesnt work well ... frankly does not cut it for making a generic "it can not work" claim. See also chaos.social/@delta/1157966260…
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People generally use OpenPGP because they want to encrypt emails, so the topics intersect a lot, but it was about the challenges one faces when trying to use encryption with their mail client software.
If that's not what your team is doing, then the post doesn't apply to you, so there's no need to subtoot about it.
We'd be surprised if you find a "0day" exploit against standard #deltachat users but certainly prefer you finding something than eg putin/khomeini-aligned hackers.
we still welcome scrutiny even if you take the unusual path of directly publishing security findings without giving FOSS developers a chance to fix it for users. It's still better to become aware of issues now than in the future when there are bound to be many more users.
For decades, “The Year of the Linux Desktop” was treated as a tech world punchline. But as we enter 2026, the data shows the laughter has stopped. Between th...
Why in the world have you hashtagged this with #Accessibility? first, your video has not a single word about assistive technologies or accessibility, and second, people preaching Windows exodus usually keep silence on the small fact that most disabled people like blind, low-vision or low-mobility people have no viable, decent, professional and, the most important, accessible software replacement in the Linux world.
I appreciate your perspective. As a disabled creator myself, I use #Accessibility because I build my content to be accessible (Alt-Text, transcripts, etc.) and because my journey with Linux is tied to my own accessibility needs. I agree that Linux has a long way to go for many users with specific assistive tech needs. For me, the "exodus" is about reclaiming hardware that corporate EOL policies try to make inaccessible to those on fixed incomes.
Are you asking for proof of my disability? That is a deeply personal and invasive question. I do not share the specifics of my medical history or my personal assistive setup to qualify my lived experience or my work. Accessibility is a broad field, and my use of the tag stands on the standards I maintain for my content and the economic accessibility I advocate for.
You are gatekeeping a hashtag (which is silly) because you believe I am not disabled enough. That is wrong. I will not be replying to you again.
Oh no no, nothing personal, sorry for misunderstanding. If you are not comfortable about it, don't tell anything. I'm totally blind myself, hence asking. I see how blind people struggle in Linux environments, I struggle myself even in Windows with open-source solutions like Nextcloud and alternative office suites.
Getting very grumpy with people ghosting me over several #Accessibility fails I gave feedback for over the last month or so.
Emailed Winchester Christmas Market organisers because despite the event being listed as fully accessible, there was no way for a wheelchair user to actually approach 95% of the stalls there because they were up a step. Got an auto-mail stating the inbox was regularly monitored and they aim to respond to everything within 1-2 business days. No response. 3 weeks and waiting.
Emailed Showcase cinema because of poor quality viewing despite paying extra for fancy seats, the wheelchair accessible ones were right at the front and the image was warped and weird and the audio was atrocious. Plus one of the seats was broken and wouldn't recline. One response from a manager asking if the staff member we'd spoken to about the broken seat offered us anything (they didn't), no response since. 2 weeks and waiting.
Hey Guys, gals, people and pets, Satya Nadella is getting tired of people calling AI Slop output AI Slop. If everyone can stop that's be great as it is upsetting Microslops share holders.
Don't start calling Microslop Microslop or use the #microslop tag as it might burst the AI bubble and then Microslop might have to take SlopPilot out of Windows. As you know, that would be terrible.
yeeeeah, it might be time to to stop using GitHub for my projects. I know I said it last year but holy hell 🇺🇸 is not a safe place to be putting any of your data..
feels very relatable. I have half of my migration script done so I got the data at least local but since I want to either build my own custom forge software or cgit+mailinglist (less preferred option) its stuck. Wither on building the software or on me setting up all the lists in mailman...
(I don't want forgejo mainly because it 2 times self destructed on me to a point of impossible to recover. So I gave up on it for now. Codeberg I dont want since I dont want to land in another forge out of my control. I may set up codeberg mirrors for my more recent projects though)
1/2 Because I'm hearing a lot to the opposite effect and the discussion of it happens of course entirely in German and thereby without input from non German speakers: If you want the international community to engage with you and your topic, it is highly appreciated by many if you hold your talk in English. Be the live translation as good as it may, it does not invite to interact with you and your topic if your talk is in German. #39c3
1. No they won’t 2. They leave even when you don’t tax them 3. Things get better for most people when they leave 4. They say this so you won’t tax them
📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 5. Jänner, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
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This is the first science post of 2026, and hopefully I will be able to do more this year. The Holidays were great and very awesome.
Always remember, you matter and to always be kind.
Today we are gonna be talking about The Integrated Circuit.
An integrated circuit (IC) is a miniature electronic circuit in which thousands to billions of electronic components such as transistors, resistors, capacitors, and diodes-are fabricated onto a single small piece of semiconductor material, usually silicon. Instead of building circuits with separate components, an IC combines them into a single, compact, and efficient unit. Because everything is built onto a single chip, ICs are smaller, faster, more reliable, and more energy-efficient than circuits made from discrete components.
Wir freuen uns über das gelungene Interview "Hilfsmittel gemeinsam entwickeln – das Open-Source-Projekt OSKAR" von Christian Stahlberg vom Sightviews Podcast. Die Folge bietet eine gute Vorstellung und Überblick unserer Tätigkeiten. sightviews.de/316-oskar #make #blind #inklusion
OSKAR ist ein Open-Source-Projekt, das Hilfsmittel für blinde Menschen gemeinsam entwickelt und frei zugänglich macht. Baupläne, Software und Anleitungen stehen offen zur Verfügung und können angepasst und weiterentwickelt werden.
For a while, I have had to turn off VoiceOver speech on my phone at night, because VoiceOver shouts "100% charged" every few minutes once the battery is full. Since iOs 2026.2, I have to turn VoiceOver off completely, because under yet to be determined conditions, VoiceOver falls into a restart loop, turning on its speech, and reading out loud the screen contents. Apparently it briefly disables screen curtain as well, which doesn't bother me, but very much so my wife. Glad that Apple has such a swift track record in fixing accessibility bugs. /s
OK that's weird. I haven't heard of this or seen it, how are you charging? What phone? I'm running 17 Pro and 26.2 and Kirsten hasn't reported being woken up in the night from the screen. I wonder what's different?
@FreakyFwoof I am charging wirelessly. on a belcin 3 in 1 charger stand. But the restart loop happens also when its just iddle, not connected to anything. For the constant announcement for "100% charged," for a while, I suspected that I had accidentally told VoiceOver to watch the battery charge status cell on status bar, but its not that.
OK I just locked my phone. It's at 100% sitting on Apple Magsafe and it's connected to my mixer via USB-C 3.5MM. It's not saying or doing anything. I'm just trying to see if I can reproduce it.
@FreakyFwoof I can confirmed this happens to me too. I think VO is crashing because on my end, before saying the battery percentage, it says screen curtain on. What phone are you running? I'm on a 15 normal. My partner has a 16 and it doesn't happen to her.
@FreakyFwoof I wonder if it is software. Partner, despite working in the tech sector, refuses to update everything. Wouldn't surprise me if she was still on 26.0.
@FreakyFwoof @ysotomayor I was going to write about this very thing. For me it seems like it happens when getting notifications and sleep mode is active. I did actually recently set up my phone again for other reasons and it hasn't fixed it. I do use the focus sleep option and my next thing was turning that off.
@sapphireangel @FreakyFwoof @ysotomayor Its got so bad for me I turn off VoiceOver when I go to bed. I don't use screen curtain and I don't think the screen gets brighter for me. However whenever I receive a notification I get the name of the app spoken out as well as the battery charge status. I think this is only happening for me during sleep focus times but need to do more testing on that.
It definitely turns out to be so. I sleep with airpod(s) in to reduce noise. I also read a book before sleep. This enables the phone to very effectively disrupt my sleep with its notification soup. @andrew @sapphireangel @FreakyFwoof @ysotomayor
@jscholes @andrew @sapphireangel @ysotomayor Um, in the focus settings, my sleep and DND enable at the same time and none of them have that so-called 'Intelligent Breakthrough' mode switched on. Could it be that? I see no need.
@FreakyFwoof I also charge overnight on a MagSafe three in one charger and I'm also hearing these announcements, I don't hear it when it's plugged in with a USB cable however
@FreakyFwoof I played with the idea to actually set up my phone from scratch, but configuring everything again the way I like, including my automations sounds fun only in theory.
Totally agree. This drives me bananas! I have to turn off speech each night, and you're absolutely right that half the time it just restarts and comes back with speech on and screen courtain off. So infuriating. #a11y
@sinabahram Indeed. While the first VO crash and restart can sometimes take hours, if I sleepily then reach over, and mute the sleep again, the next restart and sleep comeback happens precisely when I manage to drift back to sleep. To their credit, this aggressive sleep killer works better than the standard 9 minute snooze on iOs alarms, but I prefer to use it by choice.
Don't believe those who loudly claim email can not avoid metadata! They are ignorant of our continuous works on minimizing metadata:
DONE:
- no phone number other identifying data needed - no cleartext "Subject" - no cleartext "To" - randomized "Date" - no IP addresses - group/avatar/attachment/etc metadata only contained in encrypted message parts
Upcoming:
- servers to never see cryptographic ID metadata - remove "threading" and auxilliary headers - experiment with Sealed Sender
I think emails should be remade from scratch. They are too old and have trust in too much stuff. We need a newer and better protocol that still feels like email, but encrypts everything and doesn't allow spoofing.
@SkyLuke This is basically what we do with chatmail.at/ setups. Only encrypted messages are allowed, the clients encrypt everything (Subject, To, Date etc. using rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9788.htm…). Transport encryption using TLS >=1.2 is enforced, clients use TLS 1.3. Spoofing is not possible because of strict DKIM requirement (no legacy mechanisms like SPF, no probabilistic spam filtering).
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Yes, but my college email is from Google... Not much I can do... I can use other services for personal use. Also, literally, if a service can just provide semantic search for emails, without generative ai crap, just similarity search in a high dimensional encoding space, and it runs in my computer with a really small open source model, that would be perfect. I know I could do it myself, but it is another side project...
That is just a suggestion for you guys. Do semantic search in a private conscious way. There is no need for expansive crappy text generation on top, just the semantic search and sorting by similarities. My cellphone does this even offline for settings. So it is probably something the client can do just fine.
If the unencrypted Date header is more than a few hours off, it is likely to be blocked as spam. Randomly skewing it by up to 1800 seconds in either direction should be safe. Changing the time zone to grossly mismatch the geoIP is probably unwise, though +0000 is fine.
I suspect you're trying to make your headers super generic with all the important and identifiable aspects (and metadata) in the encrypted body. That's a good move, just be careful about spam filters.
heheh, aattelin suojata nextcloud-tiedostojaon salasanalla. ei mitään turhan monimutkaista, kun tää ei ole mikään topsecret-juttu, lähinnä sloppaajien estämiseksi.
valitsin salasanaksi FuckUSA. nextcloud ilmoittaa, että salasana on miljoonan yleisimmän joukossa, valitse joku vaikeampi :D
The Indonesian discourse over dogs is really disgusting and despicable. They’re willing to haramize an entire species just because the saliva is haram. They’re willing to ignore hadiths and surahs saying dogs are friends and guardians, and tales about heavenly rewards for feeding starving dogs, all just because they can’t be fucked to use water and soap.
The Quran actually advised Muslims to consume meat from an animal caught by dogs trained to hunt because it’s meant for consumption. And yet people have gone out of their way to pretend the verse didn’t mention dogs when it specifically does.
As an outsider who doesn't understand this very well, why do you think that is? I guess what I'm asking is, is this a proxy for something else or is there a good reason why things got that way?
雌雄揃って行動してることが多いように思うけど、まだ番になってない子なのかなぁ？
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