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David Hembrow

They are not "open sourcing" anything. All they are doing is publishing an API which should have been public forever. They are doing nothing to help people maintain these devices when they fail.

It's a huge contrast with how hifi manufacturers used to behave. My Quad amplifier from the 1970s came with a user manual which included the circuit diagram. As a result, it's easy to repair and still works exactly as well as it did when it was new. It is extremely rare that present day companies support their customers so well, and while what Bose is doing with these speakers is welcome, it is certainly is not helping customers so well as was common 50 years ago.

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In other news, Twitter has turned off the image generator for the Grok AI system to all except paid subscribers.

theguardian.com/technology/202…

This follows the headlines and investigations by multiple national regulatory bodies about Grok stripping clothing off in images of women and children.

So in other words, Twitter has said it will only allow their AI service to make CSA images and revenge porn, if you agree to pay them.

It's overdue now. Ban Twitter.


Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery

Editing function to be limited to paying subscribers after X threatened with fines and regulatory action
Helena Horton (The Guardian)

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May 2026 be the year we can finally use some #Markdown for our posts on #Mastodon. 9 years since it was first discussed [1], never really rejected nor endorsed by @MastodonEngineering – It is about time to finally add it now. Boost if you agree ;)

[1] github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…


markdown support in toots

Basic markdown formatting in toots would be nice, you know; bullet points numbered lists italic bold strikethrough !Z͙A̮̥̳̹͉̙L͕̝̦̭̹ͅGO̭̲̩̘͝!̭̩̲͚̀ ̶̰̲̳H̭͔́e̗̯̪̲͔̫̗͘ ̰̩̯̲̰̘̩c̣̺̬o͏̣̞m̤͟e̹͈͇͉̺s͔͕̙!͏!
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#Mastodon #markdown @Mastodon Engineering
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1. Don't prepare for snow so you can save money
2. Wait for snow
3. When snow comes, declare total inability to deal with it
4. Make sure no one takes the phone to help stranded passengers on flights you sold them. Tell them that you are busy. Don't book them hotels or give them any comfort like food, drinks or beds.
5. Raise prices for the few seats on flights you do operate
6. Profit!

KLM and Schiphol explained.

#SarcasmButOnlyHalf

nltimes.nl/2026/01/08/plane-ti…


Plane ticket prices skyrocket over snow chaos at Schiphol Airport

Airline ticket prices are skyrocketing due to the chaos at Schiphol, the Telegraaf reported. Some 3,500 flights to and from Schiphol Airport have been canceled since January 2 due to snow.
NL Times
#sarcasmbutonlyhalf
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Seems there's an up-tick of drinking idiot juice in Saskatchewan? The Saskatchewan RCMP Operational Communication Centre has released a list of 2025's most ridiculous emergency calls, to warn people to stay off the lines
unless there's a serious situation. It comes as its 911 call-takers and dispatchers fielded more than 422,000 calls last year, 15 per cent more than the
year before.

Some alleged emergencies from last year: a friend had cooked one caller's pork chop without consent. A family member's loud snoring was keeping another
awake. A restaurant was taking too long with the lunch order of still another. And, perhaps most dire, someone had lost their phone and wanted an officer
to call it so they could hear it ring.

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806 bytes (!) is the current smallest curl logo SVG: github.com/curl/curl-www/pull/…

logo: refactor SVG sources by vszakats · Pull Request #536 · curl/curl-www

use original OCRAStd.otf glyph exports for characters (exported via FontForge). use native SVG shapes. use all-integer coordinates. retain existing shapes losslessly. rework/simplify minimization s...
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It's 2026 and we have no fully satesfying messenger for blind people.
WhatsApp, well no need to say anything.
Telegram, Image (can't imagine most germans switching) and IOS apps get less accessible e.g. no voice over focusable edit feald etc.
Signal, Desktop client is trash for screenreaders, ignore request to add TalkBack actions to Android apps, accessibility doesn't seem to be a high priority
Delta Chat, Yeah actually not to bad, though no web client through a browser, but as long as there is a portable app for Windows I guess that's doable, not sure atm.
What did I miss?

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And the WhatsApp website is broken again. When you arrow through the chat list in NVDA focus mode it only says section section section. Please can there just happen some sort of wonder and an accessible, nice messenger with good web clients but also native desktop client appears which can actually can compete with WhatsApp? I wouldn't use it if it wasn't for everyone else, and I'm already locked from tons of other social media. It is not possible to quit WhatsApp in germany without loosing 80% of information from your social life.

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This world can be a very cruel place sometimes, and some of the best people are taken way too soon. Unfortunately, for those who might have known her, Janeen, lost her battle with a very sudden illness tonight. She taught me a lot. We were very bouncy, but I always had a special place in my heart for her, and she would light up a room. And as the text notification that gave me this news was a ding sound, I guesss when a bell rings, an angel gets its wings. Again, 2026 it's barely been a week, do better than this

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The ad invasion is about to get a lot worse… - youtube.com/watch?v=_YC_qOM_o2…

Osobně nějaký vyšší množství reklam nepozoruju. Ale to je hlavně kvůli tomu, že proti tomu aktivně bojuju. Pár tipů:
- Vyserte se na komerční sociální sítě nebo přítomnost na nich minimalizujte. To zrovna tady asi nemusím rozebírat. 😄
- Nainstalujte si adblock do prohlížeče. Nejlíp funguje uBlock Origin (addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…). K tomu budete potřebovat Firefox. Jasně, má problémy, ale lepší alternativa aktuálně prostě neexistuje. Navíc podporuje rozšíření i na Androidu. Jiný (ale horší) možnosti:
- Fork Firefoxu, ale tam většinou přicházíte o včasný security updaty. Nedoporučuju.
- Fork Chromia se zabudovaným adblockem. Tady můžu s čistým svědomím doporučit asi jen Vivaldi. Ale ze zkušenosti to nefunguje tak dobře jako uBlock Origin.
- Jinej fork Chromia, kam si nainstalujete uBlock Origin Lite. Ale zase, je to okleštěná verze (kvůli nepodpoře Manifestu V2), nefunguje tak dobře.
- Nainstalujte si na Android DSN filtr. Možnosti jsou (od nejjednodušší):
- Využijte nastavení Private DNS a hoďte si tam libredns.gr (podrobnej návod najdete v sekci DNS over TLS -> Android) nebo joindns4.eu/for-public. Výhoda je, že nemusíte nic instalovat a nezabere vám to VPN slot, ale spoléháte na třetí stranu.
- personalDNSfilter (play.google.com/store/apps/det…), asi nejjednodušší lokální filtrace.
- Invizible Pro (f-droid.org/packages/pan.alexa…), podporuje navíc DNSCrypt a Tor, ale nastavení není pro slabý povahy. 😄
- Pokud to je aspoň trochu možný, používejte web místo appky. Reklamy a trackery v appkách se blokujou mnohem hůř a někdy to ani nejde.
- Nepoužívejte Google. Osobně můžu doporučit startpage.com (má kontextový reklamy, ale daj se vypnout přes adblock) nebo searxng.cz (provozuje @oscloud).
- Ideálně se vyhněte chytrejm hovadinám, který nefungujou bez appky. Jasně, u hodinek apod. je to složitější, ale fakt nepotřebujete lednici nebo pračku s Wi-Fi.

#ads #adblock


uBlock Origin – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download uBlock Origin for Firefox. Finally, an efficient wide-spectrum content blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.
addons.mozilla.org
#ads #adblock @Oscloud
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Radomír Žemlička

@archos Ono to má prostě milion funkcí, přepínátek a parametrů na různejch místech. 😄 V zásadě to dělá to, co jsem potřeboval (mamutovo.cz/@Razemix/115418290…) v jedný aplikaci. Ale jsou tam jistý omezení:
- Podporuje to jenom DNSCrypt, takže jakejkoli DNS server, co si tam vybereš, musí bejt šifrovanej. I kdybys tam chtěl nastavit vlastní Pi-hole.
- Podporuje jen jednu URL pro blocklist. Takže buď musíš používat jen jeden (což mně nevadí, já používám prostě github.com/StevenBlack/hosts), nebo si někde udělat vlastní agregaci.
- Nemá jednoduše vyřešenou client authorization pro onion services. Musíš vyexportovat nastavení, upravit v zipu config a naimportovat to zpátky, viz github.com/Gedsh/InviZible/iss…. Tohle je trochu nedomyšlený, v Orbot je to prostě otázka pár kliknutí a vložení klíče.


[FEATURE REQUEST] v3 Onion Service Client Authorization Support

In the latest v3 torspec a Onion service may require an authorization token. Lack of support for this authorization method in InviZible make this feature useless if your intent is to use an authori...
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2025-10-22 14:29:05

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I have a rather peculiar #Android problem.
- I use personalDNSfilter (zenz-solutions.de/personaldnsf…) to block ads system-wide. It's basically like running a local pi-hole using a local VPN.
- I would also like to use Orbot (#Tor) and run some apps (specifically Nextcloud) that don't natively support proxying through Orbot's VPN.

The problem is, Android won't let me run two VPNs at the same time. And blocking ads without a VPN would require rooting my phone, which I don't want to do. However:
- personalDNSfilter can expose the DNS server on port 5300 without using the VPN (which is useless in itself).
- Orbot can expose its HTTP and SOCKS proxy without using the VPN (which is also useless in itself).

Is there some way to setup a custom VPN that would combine these two things, i.e., let me route some apps through Orbot's proxy and use the local DNS server (provided by personalDNSfilter) at port 5300? I was looking at OpenVPN for Android (github.com/schwabe/ics-openvpn), but I'm honestly really confused. Help please? 😅 Boosts appreciated.



GitHub - schwabe/ics-openvpn: OpenVPN for Android

OpenVPN for Android. Contribute to schwabe/ics-openvpn development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub

@Archos

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Claude upravil podminky pouzivani sluzby. Zajimave na tom je, ze nektere funkce (zalohy dat) se nedaji koupit, nejsou soucasti ani nejvyssiho $200 tarifu. Jediny zpusob, jak je ziskat je sdilet svoje data na uceni modelu.

Povoleni pri potvrzovani znem T&C defaultne "ON", ale to je klasika.

Po Googlu je to tak druhy z top 4 postytovatelu modelu, kde se nejaka zasadni fukcionalita neda koupit za penize, ale jenom za sdileni dat.

#ai #claude

#AI #Claude

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To, na čem jsem s @archos pomocí pracoval v posledních dnech, je konečně tu!

Ode dneška vám @zpravobot každé ráno přinese informaci o počtu postů z předešlého dne doplněný o několik snad i důležitých zpráv, které pro vás vybral Claude AI.

Tak si to užijte, zasledujte Zprávobot a zůstaňte naladěni, rozhodně to pro dnešek není všechno…d8-D

#zpravobot #mastodon #aiDigest #ffcz #ffczsk
zpravobot.news/@zpravobot/1158…

Zprávobot @ zpravobot.news (@zpravobot@zpravobot.news)

📊 TRENDY DNE (08.01.2026) Zpracováno 3992 postů: 🌍 Zahraniční politika (427 postů) 🏛️ Politika (283 postů) 💼 Ekonomika (205 postů) 🎬 Kultura (109 postů) 👥 Společnost (48 postů) #zpravobot #trendydne 👇 Vybrané články v threadu
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#Mastodon #zpravobot #aidigest #ffcz #ffczsk @Archos @Zprávobot @ Zprávobot.news
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Taking sarcasm to the limit!

Sensitive content

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Gmail welcoming the Gemini era?

That's it. Guide to disable Gemini everywhere: tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-g…

Screenshot of Gmail tweet saying: Welcome to the Gemini era, reposting a Google tweet that explains the latest update on Gemini.

How to disable Gemini on Android & stop Google accessing your WhatsApp and more. | Tuta

Gemini AI needs to be disabled on Android or it will override your privacy settings and gain full access to your texts, calls, and WhatsApp - even if you’ve turned off Gemini Apps Activity on your phone.
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EU is calling for comments on open source strategies. MAKE YOURSELF HEARD!

Even non-EU citizens have a voice here.

NOW is a time to stand up and stand out! YOU want to help the Fediverse? Here's just one way today that YOU can REALLY make a difference:

The European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy will set out:

  • a strategic approach to the open source sector in the EU that addresses the importance of open source as a crucial contribution to EU technological sovereignty, security and competitiveness
  • a strategic and operational framework to strengthen the use, development and reuse of open digital assets within the Commission, building on the results achieved under the 2020-2023 Commission Open Source Software Strategy.

ec.europa.eu/info/law/better...

#EU #open #foss #openSource #source #linux #activitypub #AP #fedi #fediverse

European Commission - Have your say

European Commission - Have your say
#linux #foss #opensource #activitypub #fediverse #EU #fedi #open #source #ap

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Can you recommend a Mastodon instance that:
- is English-speaking
- isn't afraid of war content and attacks coming from Russia (experience)
?
After we started publishing dnesnaukrajine.cz/index-en.htm… in English, I thought I could also toot the English version. I post the Czech version on f.cz/@dnesnaukrajine, but I thought I could post the English version elsewhere because of the live feed. But where?

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Zwift vs ROUVY 🚴‍♂️ – osobní srovnání

#Zwift je hlavně o gamifikaci a komunitě. Nabízí několik virtuálních světů – ikonickou Watopii (tu už asi každý někdy viděl na Stravě), ale taky Londýn, Paříž, Richmond a další. Je tu spousta eventů, závodů a společných jízd. Ideální, když chceš jezdit s lidmi, hecovat se a mít pocit „živé“ trati. Potkáš reálné jezdce i kamarády, třeba @pavelkout 🙂 Velké plus je plynulost – dojedeš okruh, zatočíš a jedeš dál. Klidně hodiny bez přerušení, žádné klikání, žádný výběr nové trasy.

#ROUVY jde úplně jinou cestou. Nabízí tisíce reálných tras ze slavných i méně známých míst po celém světě, s reálnými profily a videem. Skvělé pro cílený trénink, přípravu na konkrétní kopce nebo strukturované workouty. Co mi ale vadí: auta a ruch v záběrech, které občas rozbijí zážitek, a hlavně to, že po dojetí trasy musíš znovu vybírat další. Když chceš jet dál, musíš zastavit a klikat.

Cenově jsou si blízko. Zwift stojí 19,99 USD měsíčně nebo 199,99 USD ročně. ROUVY vyjde na 19,99 USD měsíčně nebo 179,99 USD ročně a nabízí i skupinové plány – při registraci s dalšími 4 lidmi na rok se dá dostat zhruba na 8,4 USD měsíčně, což už není tak hrozné.
#zwift #rouvy #indoorcycling #smarttrainer #virtualcycling #cyklo #cyklistikacz

#cyklo #zwift #Rouvy #indoorcycling #smarttrainer #virtualcycling #cyklistikacz @Pavel Kout
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Knut

nice comparison. I agree with most of what you write with one exception.

For me, Rouvy is my favourite for just riding. The sometimes more rapid grade changes where you can power up a small bump without ruining your ride makes it for enjoyable. Maybe my inclination to do fartslekj both when running and cycling might be part of why this is appealing to me.

Zwift however is great for group rides, community and racing. For me however the gamification went too far. I have friends who love the micro improvements for bikes, but I hate it and almost quit Zwift after that. I know I can just ignore it and ride, but unfortunately I am unable to.

At the beginning of October, I got to do a couple of great rides outdoors and decided to sign up for Rouvy. Now I’m back to riding regularly on Rouvy. I kept my Zwift account because I enjoy the occasional race.

#rouvy #zwift #virtualcycling

#zwift #Rouvy #virtualcycling

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Augment (which gave the #curl project free access) is changing pricing (again) in what seems to be a 10x increase.

Augment pricing changes from ‚messages‘ (number of answer which you control) to ‚credit‘ (which is effort controlled by Augment).

And this is probably still not enough to cover their real costs, not even speaking of profit.

Wherever you stand on the LLM debate, don‘t become dependant on those companies. Their business model sucks.

theregister.com/2025/10/15/aug…


AI startup Augment scraps 'unsustainable' pricing, users say new model is 10x worse

: Second huge increase in six months sees some devs heading for the exit
Tim Anderson (The Register)
#curl

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Tengo ciertas ideas acerca de lo que puedo hacer, como ciudadano, para reducir mi contacto económico con agentes que fomenten la línea política predatoria del gobierno de los #EstadosUnidos, pero quería preguntaros a vosotros. ¿Qué habéis hecho, qué creéis necesario hacer, qué os gustaría hacer pero creéis que no podéis, para «independizaros» de las barras y las estrellas?

Sentíos libres de difundir. Respuestas cínicas o contrarias a la tesis serán, como mínimo, ignoradas. ¡Gracias!

#estadosunidos
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