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Vanadium version 144.0.7559.59.0 released

Changes in version 144.0.7559.59.0:

  • update to Chromium 144.0.7559.59

A full list of changes from the previous release (version 143.0.7499.192.0) is available through the Git commit log between the releases.

This update is available to GrapheneOS users via our app repository and will also be bundled into the next OS release. Vanadium isn't yet officially available for users outside GrapheneOS, although we plan to do that eventually. It won't be able to provide the WebView outside GrapheneOS and will have missing hardening and other features.


Comparing 143.0.7499.192.0...144.0.7559.59.0 · GrapheneOS/Vanadium

Privacy and security enhanced releases of Chromium for GrapheneOS. Vanadium provides the WebView and standard user-facing browser on GrapheneOS. It depends on hardening in other GrapheneOS reposito...
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Question: what are y'all using as secret service on #Linux? (With #Wayland and #sway, if that matters.)

I did not like #GNOME #Keyring, because that pulled in tons of stuff I didn't want.

I'm currently using #KeePassXC, but let's just say it's a much better password manager than a Secret Service. (e.g., it can't remember authorized binaries over a session, and handling multiple databases isn't great.)

Ideally, I want something that does only this, but does it well.

#linux #gnome #Wayland #keepassxc #sway #keyring

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How comfortable are you with saying NO to people?

  • Saying NO is hard for me (45%, 59 votes)
  • Saying NO is easy (36%, 47 votes)
  • I will lose opportunities if I say NO (13%, 17 votes)
  • Don't like rocking boats (19%, 25 votes)
  • Rock​ the fucking boat (26%, 34 votes)
  • I don't want to offend (19%, 25 votes)
  • Silence is a NO (11%, 15 votes)
  • Silence is complicity (13%, 18 votes)
  • I say NO but people don't listen (29%, 38 votes)
  • I'd rather find a way to say Yes (12%, 16 votes)
  • I say NO but don't enforce the boundary (16%, 21 votes)
  • I'm scared and anxious and don't wanna (23%, 31 votes)
130 voters. Poll end: 2 days ago

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Every time a politician posts on Twitter a journalist should ask them to justify supporting child sexual abuse and fascism. thebeaverton.com/2026/01/elon-…

Elon Musk achieves dream of automating child sex abuse - The Beaverton

AUSTIN, TX - World's richest man Elon Musk has achieved another lifelong milestone goal, this time training his artificial intelligence program Grok to make it easier than ever for users to create images of child sex abuse.
Staff (The Beaverton)

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And now I'm learning Typst. AFAICT it's like Markdown with functions and PDF output, or a less noisy but just as powerful LaTeX. Found it looking for something that could generate invoices without me having to dig up someone's LaTeX template from GitHub and shoehorn my text into whatever format it expects. In addition to typesetting documents, I can store invoices as data in recutils, pipe out that data as a Typst document using the invoice template, then convert to PDF. Not sure of an easy way to do this in plain Markdown, and LaTeX would require a bunch of other noise plus using someone's random template. Apparently the Typst templates have visual regression tests too, presumably meaning I wouldn't have that one odd experience where for some reason my LaTeX invoice was pink and I had no clue why. Fun times.
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Bo Morgan

I was using pdflatex to generate receipts for product purchases on my website, and I found it didn't have very good international multilingual unicode support. I found wkhtmltopdf, which works great for me. On a digitalocean debian server, I'm producing receipts that closely mimic my on-line HTML receipts in 16 languages. I highly recommend wkhtmltopdf.

#html #pdf #wkhtmltopdf #latex #pdflatex #unicode #multilingual #international #foss #webdev

#foss #webdev #html #unicode #latex #pdf #international #multilingual #wkhtmltopdf #pdflatex
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@thunderbird

I observe some weird behaviour from my organisations #outlook server. I use #thunderbird as a desktop client. When I send a message to an unknown recipent, the non delivery report gets flagged as junk from outlook and will never be delivered into the inbox. All support staff I am asking are trying to convice me, I am doing something wrong or that is just the way it is.

E.g. #microsoft says: "This is not a misconfiguration in the traditional sense (such as no broken SPF/DKIM/DMARC, no transport rules required). Rather, it relates to how EOP handles NDRs based on the originating client’s submission method. It aligns with Microsoft’s design: Outlook web/desktop clients receive preferential treatment for internal mail flow."

Anyone else observed similar problems?

#thunderbird #microsoft #outlook @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

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How much would my Polish followers enjoy having a Wrapper for SMP Soft? It's not hard to make one, but I wonder if it's worth my time.
Might have to make one for NVDA 2026.X, although at least SMPSoft can grab direct wave chunks, it's just that the engine is a bit meh Like, it's not as bad as SoftVoice. But like, it's kinda bad.
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Tamas G

@pitermach oh yes. I've look into that one a bit, it looks to be based on FestVox, which is to say, it's using Festival-generated voices. Very interesting. But no DLL, there's an engine that drives the voices as an executable, which makes that one super tricky. Not one single DLL lib that we could load into NVDA, so we'd have to manipulate the client executable to get speech results, blah. It felt like a lot more work than worth to even try to get speech out of it, kinda sad.
@Pitermach

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Updated page: Piper voices, and other retro NVDA speech synthesizers
Added: BraiLab 2025.
Added: Eloquence 3.3 2025.
Added: Eloquence 4.7 2025.
Added: SMPSoft 2025.
Added: MindMaker FlexVoice 2025.
Happy Friday!
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Piper voices, and other retro NVDA speech synthesizers - Eurpod

Welcome to the post everyone has asked for over time! The one where you can find download links for various Piper (link to repo) voices.
Tamas Geczy (Eurpod)

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Sensitive content

#selfhost #selfhosting #deltachat #chatmail #self_hosting

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“‘AI’ is not your friend. Nor is it an intelligent tutor, an empathetic ear, or a helpful assistant. It can not ‘make up’ facts, and it does not make ‘mistakes’. It does not actually answer your questions.”

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We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'

We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.
Emily M. Bender (Tech Policy Press)

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I present for all interested, my annual HKC Radio megapack as I'm now calling it. This is a collection of various shows and special events from the current era of HKC Radio, from July 2021 to now. It includes official archives where possible, but also unofficial archives of events and shows no longer on the station from former broadcasters that did awesome shows during their time on the station. Missed a birthday bash or want to relive a Weakest link game? You'll likely find it here. This year's megapack comes in at an impressive 263 GB! Enjoy, and for fans of Digital Domain, I'll be working on putting together a separate package or set of packages, that'll allow you to enjoy all domains from 2006 to present. But for now, enjoy this year's HKC Radio Megapack. sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/kd…

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Slack is having a weird field day Friday where even though I'm messaging a person, her conversation shows as unread in the control+T "jump to conversation" dialog. It's as though it's not marking unread things as read. Maybe Slack decided to get lazy for the Friday, said fuck it, I'm done marking people's messages as read now, they've read too much. Ha.
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Stralau

Zu der Kartoffelaktion: mögliche Verteilstellen (z.B. Schulen, Kitas, Kirchgemeinden) sollen sich bis übermorgen melden, Lieferung ist dann nächste Woche Donnerstag oder Freitag. Die Verteilstellen geben sie dann an die Bevölkerung weiter.

Anmeldung: 4000-tonnen.de/

4000 Tonnen – Kartoffeln für Berlin

Kartoffeln kostenlos für Berlin. Eine Aktion von Berliner Morgenpost, Ecosia und Osterland Agrar GmbH.
www.4000-tonnen.de

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Quebec public servants push back against return to office mandate

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Quebec public servants push back against return to office mandate

Beginning Jan. 26, Quebec government employees will be required to work three days a week in the office instead of two, a move that is drawing pushback from one of the province’s largest independent unions.
Swidda Rassy (CTVNews)

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This was a fun read. I burst out laughing at this statement from Bosch after criticism of their products from @pluralistic

‘Worst in Show’ CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells

"earning and keeping trust with our consumers, especially in the areas of privacy and cybersecurity, is at the core of our company’s values.

#enshitification

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#enshitification @Cory Doctorow
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an interesting bean

according to coffee geography magazine:

> Prior to Alexa Plus, issuing a voice command for a pre-programmed coffee routine via standard Alexa was a relatively reliable affair. Now, the more advanced assistant has shown moments of confusion, failing to consistently execute a basic coffee order. This hiccup underscores a broader industry challenge: while next-gen AI assistants boast vast potential for complex, conversational interaction, they can ironically stumble over the straightforward, programmed commands that defined earlier smart home tech.

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Marius

When I was young, we even had coffee makers without Alexa functionality.

They were rather ingenious, they had 'buttons', little surfaces connected to mechnical levers and an electronic switch.

As user, you would touch the 'button', and the coffee machine would then execute the associated command.

I dont know how it worked internally. I suppose they had a little speaker inside next to the Alexa microphone, and it would sound out the command at inaudible volume

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Martijn Vos

@Zauberlehrling @Cory Doctorow

the fridge that also uses computer vision to track when food items are running low and can advertise replacements.


"Advertise"!? That's not how this was supposed to go. The smart fridge is supposed to remind you, maybe add your preferred product to your shopping list or next groceries order, not take this as an opportunity to spam you with ads.

@Cory Doctorow @Zauberlehrling
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We are very well aware of the fact that X for Grok is now offering a spicy mode showing explicit sexual content with some output generated with childlike images:

📌 A detailed request for information on Grok has been sent to X, and we are reviewing the company’s responses.

📌 X has been ordered to retain all internal documents and data concerning Grok’s features until the end of 2026.

The Digital Services Act is very clear:

In the EU, all platforms have to get their own house in order.

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The Document Foundation, the non-profit entity behind @libreoffice, has an updated Conflict of Interest Policy for its Board of Directors: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
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Updated Conflict of Interest Policy for TDF's Board of Directors - TDF Community Blog

The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit entity behind the LibreOffice project. It collects donations from users, and employs a small team to support and coordinate the worldwide community that makes the software.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
@LibreOffice
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