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This is now my Windows startup sound. Taken from [Elecarlton](youtube.com/channel/UC9htxziaT…)'s latest video.


William Vaulter (Elecarlton)

hi i make goofy ahh tts vids for literally no reason lmfaoxd Soar with your visions!! (EST. 2013, Early 2022) Elecarlton is the home of unhinged, action-packed text-to-speech chaos and out-of-context madness, all starring the Epic Goddamn Microsoft …
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I'm not exactly sure why I'm doing this on a Sunday, and the hard work was done by others, but there you go; proposed fix for CVE-2026-0716. gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libsoup…

websocket: Fix out-of-bounds read in process_frame (!494) · Merge requests · GNOME / libsoup · GitLab

If the maximum incoming payload size is unset, then a malicious frame could cause an overflow when calculating the needed amount of data, leading to an out-of-bounds read...
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Mal by som otázku/prosbu na mieste osadenstvo. Vždy som chcel vedieť programovať, ale nikdy mi to veľmi nešlo. Naposledy som to skúšal pred 13 rokmi, kedy som sa skúšal naučiť PHP (konkrétne Laravel).

Chcel by som to znova vyskúšať, a tak otázka znie, či by mi niekto vedel poradiť, ako na to, resp. nejaké tipy na návody a pod. Potreboval by som to vysvetľovať asi čo najprimitívnejšie ako to len pôjde, a ideálne aby to bolo v slovenčine/češtine. Taktiež aby to bolo zadarmo, keďže nemám peniaze na nejaké platené kurzy. Mohla by mi v učení pomôcť aj AI? Aj keď viem, že tu nie sú jej priaznivci, no ja osobne nie som jej zarytý kritik.

A aby som nezabudol, prioritne by som sa chcel asi naučiť to PHP (aby som vedel naprogramovať webstránky, nejaké redakčné systémy a pod.), prípadne ešte C++ (keďže by som chcel vedieť programovať Arduino).

Vopred ďakujem za rady/pomoc.

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Michal

Python je dobrá voľba z viacerých (netechnických) ohľadov, najmä dostupnosť učebného materiálu (dokumentácia, knihy, tutoriály, blogy) a veľkosť komunity (množstvo ľudí, ktorí vedia pomôcť).

Ako už bolo písané, je dobré mať nejaký cieľ (projekt), ktorý bude motiváciou učiť sa (áno, sú aj ľudia, ktorí sa učia teoretickú fyziku "len tak"...). Netreba sa báť skúšať, zlyhávať, pýtať sa a opravovať, dokým to nepôjde.

Ja "programujem" 2/3 svojho života a stále sa učím :)

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Das letzte mal als ich versucht habe #NINA auf #GrapheneOS ohne Google Play Services zum Laufen zu bringen, habe ich es leider nicht hinbekommen (ist aber schon ein paar Jahre her). Wenn jemand passend zum #did #dut nach Alternativen sucht: #fosswarn

Mit FOSSwarn bekommt ihr offizielle Warnmeldungen für eure Orte direkt aufs Handy. Push-Benachrichtigungen funktionieren ebenfalls zuverlässig über UnifiedPush, ich nutze dazu die App #Sunup

#didit #dutgemacht

f-droid.org/packages/de.nucleu…

#grapheneos #Nina #did #sunup #dutgemacht #fosswarn #didit #DUT
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Ondřej Caletka

Dutch AON FttH specs are saying just TX 1310nm, RX 1490/1550 nm.
I bought a 1550nm one as they are much more common and got no link. So I bought a 1490nm one and the link came up immediately.

Then I bought fibre cleaning pens, got extra 10 dB by cleaning the connectors and now even the 1550nm one gets the link.
So probably if you have enough optical power, all SFPs are wideband 😁

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We will be participating at #fosdem in Bruxelles (31.1. / 1.2.). 🚀 Well, at least kind of...

Our @bene64 will join the Free Android World stand together with @BlissLabs and @shiftphones as part of the @IzzyOnDroid team.

His focus there will be primarily the IoD project, but he will be happy to discuss #BrewMemo as well ;)

Please come by and drop a hello, when you're also visiting.

#fosdem #brewmemo @Bene @SHIFTPHONES @IzzyOnDroid ✅ @BlissLabs

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Walmart partners with Google to offer AI-enhanced shopping, allowing users to purchase Walmart and Sam's Club items directly on Gemini (Jaewon Kang/Bloomberg)

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Walmart partners with Google to offer AI-enhanced shopping, allowing users to purchase Walmart and Sam's Club items directly on Gemini

By Jaewon Kang / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
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“Code is not an infinitely reproducible machine that requires no labor inputs to operate. Rather, it is a brittle machine that requires increasingly heroic measures to keep it in good working order, and which eventually does "wear out" (in the sense of needing a top-to-bottom refactoring).”

— @pluralistic, pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/100…

The myth that "old code doesn't rust" persists because it justifies moving fast, breaking things, and leaving it for someone else to clean up the mess.

👇🏽

Pluralistic: Code is a liability (not an asset) (06 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Reginald Braithwaite

Speaking of the fragility of enterprise software… Here's the robust architecture of an online banking system I used to lead. 3.5 million people trusted this with their life savings.*

That TUI app written in MUMPS(!) once powered the terminal a bank teller would use to process an in-person transaction. It embodies and unambiguously encodes every business rule for transactions that have been developed over decades.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS

@pluralistic

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An XKCD "dependency" meme that describes the stack as "WebSphere, MQ, Oracle, J2EE, &c." and describes the critical dependency as "JDBC screen-scraping a teller app written in MUMPS."

programming language

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KDE developers, is this true /j
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probono (@probono@fosstodon.org)

@katzenmann@c3d2.social That's exactly my point - the "whole Linux community doing Wayland" was never true to begin with. It was Red Hat pushing it like crazy and KDE unfortunately following suit.
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This repository contains resources concerning unofficial Linux distribution aimed at visually impaired users. This distribution is called Vojtux. The name is based on first name of the main contributor; Vojtech. github.com/vojtapolasek/vojtux

GitHub - vojtapolasek/vojtux: Scripts and documentation about accessible version of Fedora

Scripts and documentation about accessible version of Fedora - vojtapolasek/vojtux
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Had a look at "multi-agent coding" today.

Apparently, the first step is signing up for the premium plans from OpenAI, Anthropic AND Google. So that's £50 to £500 a month. Then installing a massive pile of NodeJS to coordinate it all.

A few years ago, we were all celebrating how computing had gotten cheap: RasPi Zeros for a tenner, old HP workstations or ThinkPads on eBay for £100.

Having to pay three different landlords to build software seems like an incredibly shit vision of the future.

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This is racism. (And also, the World Cross-Country Championships this year are clearly being rigged.)

"According to a report from LetsRun.com, only four of the 18 Ethiopian U20 athletes had their U.S. visa applications accepted"

(That's the national team with the 44-year winning streak. Other countries, including Eritrea, are also excluded due to Trump's racist travel bans.)

runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/u…


U.S. denies entry to 14 Ethiopian athletes ahead of World XC Championships - Canadian Running Magazine

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Después de volver del último concierto no volví a sacar el saxofón del estuche, hasta hoy. A veces es necesario desconectarse hasta de la música por un tiempito. Mientras jugaba un rato con algunos pasajes para reencontrarme, salió la caricia de esta hermosa melodía del gran cuchi y su zamba me voy quedando. No sé ni donde puse el micrófono, pero no importa. Era solo para ir quitando telarañas de los dedos mientras jugamos a hacer música.

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Ah nice. Was just searching for reasons to get rid of this old Echo Dot 4 which sadly has such a good sound but is otherwise useless and kinda spyware to me, as I just got an E-Mail saying that there were smart home devices on my network which are Alexa compatible... Did I ever ask you to scan my network like that? Yeah na good bye bro.

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SSD thumb drives could be better than cheap USB flash drives

“Instead of getting a cheap but very sluggish flash drive, consider buying a USB SSD that looks like a regular thumb drive but is way faster and only slightly more expensive.”

I haven’t bought a cheap flash drive for quite a while, so did not rea ...continues

See gadgeteer.co.za/ssd-thumb-driv…

#storage #technology


SSD thumb drives could be better than cheap USB flash drives

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Because I'm curious, have a random poll. If someone posts or sends you a link to a video or song, do you click it/look at it? Feel free to boost this if you feel like it. Apologies for the limited choices, my clients won't let me go above 5. Last edit I promise, the duration was messed up. Sorry for anyone who previously voted

  • I regularly click video or song links (9%, 8 votes)
  • Only if the person indicated what the link was (40%, 33 votes)
  • Only if it's from specific people (23%, 19 votes)
  • I rarely or never click video or song links (21%, 17 votes)
  • Something else, put in replies (4%, 4 votes)
81 voters. Poll end: 7 hours ago

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#fosdem preparation list:

* Noise cancellation headphones
* Public transport app
* Add the hotel and the campus to favorites
* FOSDEM schedule app
* Bookmark the sessions of interest

Still open: what to take for a snack, to avoid the crowd at the food court.

Also, do I need EUR cash for the merchandise? Or everyone's accepting cards and Paypal?

#fosdem2026

#fosdem #fosdem2026

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In order to collect some feedback:
Any recommendations for a privacy friendly software for a poll that's self-hostable, simple enough to set up and uses only at most a few 100MB of RAM?

Thanks in advance :-) (Alternatively, I think I will just use beta.framaforms.org/)
#fedihelp #web #polls


Framaforms BETA

Des formulaires éthiques avec LiberaForms LiberaForms est un outil logiciel libre développé comme une infrastructure communautaire, libre et éthique qui...
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#web #fedihelp #polls

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Q: How do you convince people to use privacy respecting technologies for communication?

I am looking for real life use-cases to include into my #FOSDEM talk and beyond.

If you have encouraged someone to switch to say Signal, or Sessions, or XMPP or some other tool/protocol, please share here or via DM.

Anonymity is guaranteed. You can use also my Sessions messenger session: 0531634331f5b6be12375bf4229412eed3f2f3543cfe119df37e1b72c883143d4a

#fedihelp #foss #privacy #decentralization #p2p

#foss #privacy #fosdem #p2p #decentralization #fedihelp
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Tanguy ⧓ Herrmann

it's in french, but here was my answer

hachyderm.io/@dolanor/11556533…

TL;DR : Create a group which gives value to people, and tell them you need Signal for that.

My biggest success so far.

I must have around 400 contacts on Signal. But I use it for more than 10 years.

Tanguy ⧓ Herrmann (@dolanor@hachyderm.io)

@prunelier@mastodon.social @ploum@mamot.fr Moi, ce qu'on m'a souvent dit, c'est qu'il n'y a personne sur Signal. Et ce sont des personnes qui avait plusieurs dizaines de personnes sur Signal qui disaient ça.
Tanguy ⧓ Herrmann (Hachyderm.io)
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Mad Argon

firstly I was not on other services, so my family downloaded Signal to have any messaging channel. But they used it only to text/call me and returning to Messenger for chatting with each other. Later I show my mother and aunt groups in Signal and after creating few group chats this somehow pulled my close family members here. If many conversations are here, the rest would follow.
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In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material.

You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system.

It’s a feature.

thegist.ie/the-gist-the-abuse-…


The Gist: The Abuse Factory

X, the child abuse imagery app, revealed our state has no red lines. This is the Gist.
Simon McGarr (The Gist)
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