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“What began as deportation operations…has grown into something far darker. This is no longer about immigration. American citizens are being targeted, brutalized, and now killed for attempting to protect their own communities.”

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'Get the F*ck Out': Mayor Frey Blasts ICE After Fatal Minneapolis Shooting

Today's shocking shooting reopened the city's deepest wounds.
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It's the program that never quits. EdSharp. Just remembered it, like 5 minutes ago and it still runs on Windows 11. It's better behaved than Notepad, friendlier than a little puppy with a waggily tail. It will be your friend when you program. It's the slinky of all text editors. github.com/EmpowermentZone/EdS…

GitHub - EmpowermentZone/EdSharp: EdSharp is a full featured text editor that is friendly, powerful, and open source.

EdSharp is a full featured text editor that is friendly, powerful, and open source. - EmpowermentZone/EdSharp
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FYI The INFO-Neige app no longer free for users—is it worth $4.99 every 6 months?

311 Montréal app is free... but it's nothing like the INFO-Neige app, eh.

C'est dommage. :(

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INFO-Neige app no longer free for users, City of Montreal ends funding

The popular INFO-Neige app, used by residents to track snow removal operations in real time, is no longer free after the City of Montreal ended its financial support for the service. Users must now pay $4.
News Staff (CityNews Montreal)
#Internet #polmtl #enshitification #montreal #mtlpoli #infoneige

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I updated my Debian 12 server to Debian 13. I wish Windows updates were that painless. The update ran because I explicitly told it to. There were no long restarts, no "don't turn off your computer" pre-Windows screens, no surprises. Just some terminal commands, one restart (which I asked for), and that was it. Debian 12 became Debian 13. Smooth, easy, painless, and directly under my control.

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Damn. Sometimes I forget how useful claude is. So I was struggling to add my classes this semester to my calendar. The Apple Calendar app on iOS is an absolute mess (for me at least) and I needed to add 3 classes, all of which had different times and dates. I decided, screw it. I'll have Claude try to add it to my account. Instad, it comes up with a better idea. It creates this .ICS file. All I had to do was open Outlook, import, boom. All my classes are on my calendar now. No catches.

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I just pushed a small #NVDARC for Mac build out, featuring some small improvements to controlling a Mac via NVDA remote. Modifiers shouldn't get stuck as often anymore, as well as more keyboard shortcuts should be possible to press now, such as VO+Shift+letters. There's still more work to be done, as I can't press all VO+shift+letter combinations yet for some reason, but there's enough of an improvement here that I figured it worth updating.
#nvdarc

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ICE kills a woman in Minneapolis with a gun shot to the head.

Mayor Jacob Frey who has seen video of the incident calls it abuse of lethal force and tells ICE: “Get the FUCK out of Minneapolis — we do NOT want you here.”

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has told the Minnesotan National Guard to be on standby, and has made a point in his press briefing that now Minnesotans will protect Minnesota.

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BREAKING: Minneapolis mayor tells ICE to "get the f*** out" of city after agent kills woman

Officials in Minneapolis gave a briefing after a shooting involving ICE left one woman dead.MS NOW: My Source for News, Opinion, and the World.Same mission. ...
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Well, I finally did it! I was working on this project for a couple days now, since Saturday. Since we are in 2026, I thought I would make a montage of the best moments on TeamTalk last year, this compilation being from Dane's TeamTalk server stonercloud. I wasn't on any other TeamTalk servers. Even though I felt like we weren't on it as much this past year, I still managed to get some pretty funny moments, and quite fun conversations, and things that might make you say what the fuck? Not to mention, singing funny stuff. I'd say I have a few favorites here, but I won't go over them for spoilers obviously. The cast of people in these recordings were myself, Dane, Ethan (though I didn't feature him that much), hunter, McKenna and Crayton. Get some popcorn or whatever you like, and enjoy this! #Lol #Comedy

#comedy #lol

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With the ability to customize VoiceOver actions and add your own shortcuts, the NVDA Remote controller iOS app very quickly became one of my favorite applications. It still feels surreal, having access to my PC from anywhere, with the ability to be very productive. The only thing more surreal than that is the ability to control my Mac, that one I never expected. Huge thanks @Bri, you've made a massive difference, and I hope you continue maintaining it as long as possible.
@Bri🥰
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Borris

Turns out you don't need to take the motherboard out to get to the m.2 slot after all. It's under a big ol' heatsink, which I took off, but it wasn't obvious to me, because the drive was still attached to it by thermal paste. So, I was also taking the old drive out, and didn't even notice it was there. STUPID!

Anyway, a brand new Samsung 990 Pro 2TB SSD has been installed, replacing the much slower 512GB Chinese whatever drive. Now I can do what I actually wanted to do with this thing in the first place.

It'd sure be nice if RAM were reasonably priced. I'd like to upgrade this box from the 16GB it came with, but it's just not practical.

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Sometimes, games are like real life. For instance, it's been a long time since I played NetHack, but the player starts the game on the first level of the dungeon and has a dog with him/her (or, in later versions, maybe a cat). The pet would fight things along with the player, and it could help the player in some ways--a pet dog would never step on a cursed item, for instance, which could help the player determine whether an item is cursed. But pets have pros and cons, so, in that regard, deciding whether to use the dog when playing NetHack is a bit like a blind person deciding whether to use a guide dog. nethack.fandom.com/wiki/Pet

Pet

For pets in SLASH'EM, see pet (SLASH'EM). A pet is your companion in the dungeon. By default, each character starts with a pet, though you may acquire many more. They can be used to determine whether items are cursed.
Contributors to Wikihack (Fandom, Inc.)

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Halfway through this Canadian SF anthology and every short story/poem so far has been great. Highly recommend, available from Bakka Phoenix Books dot com on Harbord or fine booksellers near you. @pluralistic has a contribution as well :) #Canadian #Toronto #SF #CurrentlyReading #SciFi #Fantasy
A blue book with a sea green space scene of a spaceship passing a space station. Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction Vol 3. Features a bunch of authors including @pluralistic and edited by Stephen Kotowych
#scifi #fantasy #canadian #sf #toronto #currentlyreading @Cory Doctorow

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Hey so Claude Code got DecTalk working in Termux on Android and got Emacspeak working with it. Very little lag. Emacs. Android. Org-mode. Bluetooth keyboard. Nov.el. Markdown-mode. Org-export. Calendar. Emacs. Mind blown.

#emacs #accessibility #android #blind #termux

#Accessibility #android #emacs #blind #termux

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How do I use Gmail with JAWS? Our archived training walks through six practical tips to help you work more efficiently in Gmail. Learn keyboard-driven ways to write, format, review, and manage email with confidence using JAWS screen reader.

Listen here: freedomscientifictraining.libs…

#JAWS #ScreenReader

Frequently Asked Questions, How do I use Gmail with JAWS?

Freedom Scientific Training Podcast: Six Essential Tips for Improving Your Gmail Experience with JAWS

In this training session, Liz and Rachel walk through six practical tips to help JAWS users work more efficiently in Gmail.
freedomscientifictraining.libsyn.com
#screenreader #jaws

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> RFK Jr.'s new food pyramid puts meat, cheese and vegetables at the top

Every food pyramid and dietary guideline ever produced by the American government has been propaganda designed to support someone suffering in the food/ag industry

Oh no the dairy farmers are suffering, time to tell everyone to drink milk, eat cheese, and the government will buy and store billions of pounds of cheese in caves.

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Doing a search in Windows Slack, there seems to be no way to get out of the search area without restarting? I don't see a close button, and escape does not clos the window. There are a lot of things Slack does really well but sometimes I get stuck in UI hell, which may be just my own misunderstanding of how it works but...
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Jage

@menelion 1. Press Ctrl+K
2. Search for something, I searched for meta, was told no exact matches, and then pressed enter.
3. I'm now in a list, first item is messages 15.
4. Press enter and tab twice, you can now arrow through messages.
5. From here, escape either says nothing, or all unread messages in channel general read, and there is no close button when searching the virtual buffer.
I'm sure I'm just missing something or going about this the wrong way.
@André Polykanine
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James Scholes

Just to check: are you talking about the search results screen, or the search dialog?

If the former, it behaves like a view of its own, akin to a channel or DM convo. Those also can't be closed with Escape, but is it the transactional/temporary nature of a search that makes it feel like it should work differently for you?

@Jage

@Jage
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RE: mastodon.world/@somecanuckchic…

The Legault Government promised a family doctor for everyone. While it's an almost impossible goal, any of its actions as had the opposite effect. Exhibit:

#polqc

somecanuckchick

2026-01-07 23:28:03

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Dr. Mark Roper, a family doctor and the Director of the Queen Elizabeth Family Medicine Group says his clinic has lost two full-time physicians amid concerns over the legislation, even as the CAQ government delays implementation and signals it will revisit some of its most controversial provisions ahead of its February 28th deadline.

montreal.citynews.ca/2026/01/0… #CAQASTROPHE #polQC #QCpoli #polMTL #MTLpoli #cdnpoli #polcan



Q&A: Bill 2 uncertainty leaves Quebec clinic short two doctors

Quebec’s wide-ranging overhaul of the health-care system under Bill 2 continues to ripple through the province, with some clinics reconsidering closures even as others warn the uncertainty is already taking a toll. Dr.
Lola Kalder (CityNews Montreal)

#polqc

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Dr. Mark Roper, a family doctor and the Director of the Queen Elizabeth Family Medicine Group says his clinic has lost two full-time physicians amid concerns over the legislation, even as the CAQ government delays implementation and signals it will revisit some of its most controversial provisions ahead of its February 28th deadline.

montreal.citynews.ca/2026/01/0… #CAQASTROPHE #polQC #QCpoli #polMTL #MTLpoli #cdnpoli #polcan


Q&A: Bill 2 uncertainty leaves Quebec clinic short two doctors

Quebec’s wide-ranging overhaul of the health-care system under Bill 2 continues to ripple through the province, with some clinics reconsidering closures even as others warn the uncertainty is already taking a toll. Dr.
Lola Kalder (CityNews Montreal)
#cdnpoli #polqc #polmtl #caqastrophe #qcpoli #polcan #mtlpoli

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What are some technological examples (preferably from the somewhat recent past) of things that used to be available, and were then replaced by something strictly worse in at least one important aspect? I'm not talking about situations where users have decided to move on (you can still use Windows XP if you want), or cases that are due to a business decision of a single entity.

A few examples that come to mind are:

* Basically everything about air travel, supersonic, hassle-free / no security, standing room.

* Extremely high-quality telephony, which used to be available on analog lines, was left behind during the move to digital, and then came back somewhat with the advent of the internet.

* Low-latency communications, both one-to-one (telephony) and one-to-many (radio / TV). Same story with analog -> digital, except the internet is even worse on that score than the older digital protocols were.

* Extremely long-range mobile telephones (as far as I understand, analog and some GSM variants offered ranges far longer than achievable on LTE).

* Telephone directories, and the concept of just being able to contact basically anybody you'd like.

* WHois (being able to see the owners of any website on the internet, thanks GDPR).

* Short and unbreakable digital signatures (ECDSA still works, but only until a sufficiently powerful quantum computer is build).

* Being able to make as many copies of your credit card as you wanted (doable with MagStripe).

* Media distributed in physical form and watchable offline.

* Websites that worked with old and underpowered processors. Javascript isn't the main blocker here, forcing TLS on everybody is.

* Radio scanning and Wardriving (still a thing to some extend, but a lot of stuff is encrypted nowadays, so not as useful).

* Being able to receive radio stations from a great distance (many AM stations are no longer on AM, particularly outside the US).

* Remote work and remote in general (much more prevalent during the pandemic than now).

* Access to many substances, E.G. cocaine was once used as an anaesthetic, now you go to prison if you use it, basically no matter where you live.

* X-Ray machines everywhere, they used to be E.G. in shoe stores. That was before we knew how dangerous they were.

* Prevalent and cheap (unlicensed) doctors, though sometimes of dubious quality. Now outlawed in most countries.

* Passport-free travel across borders.

Are there any others?

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Peter Saathoff-Harshfield

We just got these nice, new electric trains here between San Jose and San Francisco a year ago, and they have smaller areas for wheelchair users, with flip-down seats that get in the way, and no seats wheelchair users can transfer into. The dirty, old trains we had before were better in those ways.
Also:
Headphone jacks on phones
Elevators without touchscreens
Phones with physical keyboards
Electronic devices that accept standard batteries rather than having a built-in one
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Peter Saathoff-Harshfield

Yes. I have to deal with it in my office every day.
All the ones I’ve encountered also have a single physical button, which puts it into a mode where you have to press repeatedly to cycle through every floor, or wait for it to count through them and press to select, or something. Different ones work differently, and they are all far worse than just having a button for each floor.
Do the ones where you are have a button?

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Amis parisiens, suite aux grands froids dans la capitale, un centre d'hébergement d'urgence a été ouvert dans la crèche Frédéric Mistral dans le 15e arrondissement (10 villa Frédéric Mistral).

Si vous êtes voisins et que vous pouvez donner un peu de nourriture ou que vous tenez un commerce alimentaire et que vous avez des invendus, n'hésitez pas à passer, c'est ouvert 24h/24.

Il y a aussi d'autres centres peut-être près de chez vous, n'hésitez pas à aller demander s'ils ont besoin de choses.

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