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Anybody still shopping at Target? I haven't in a year.

Marc Fischer‬ ‪@marc-fischer.bsky.social‬
From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

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Hi all. So, we are back at square one. Magnesium cream has now decided to stop working. Sleep meds don't let me sleep. I'm just trying to get through as best I can, thanks to the amazingly kind people who asked how I'm really doing. It's looking like I might have to go into a hospice for a few days to see if they can stabilize me. Ho hum, I'll just look it in the teeth and dare it to kick me! Lol!

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Mac TweeseCake eaters, how do you get TweeseCake to appear in the list of apps that are allowed to use the microphone? This is on a fairly old Mac OS, Ventura I think. Can't send voice messages yet, the record button does nothing, the person I'm trying to help doesn't get any system prompts to allow access and when we went to System Settings, Privacy and Security, Microphone, there's not a button to add an app there, only a list of apps that have requested access. Any advice welcome.

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Small hypothesis: I bet people like AI chat interfaces in some part because they are “clean” – simple text, easy to process, consistent visuals, no ads, no pop-ups, etc.

To use a cliche example: Even if it wasn’t in any way “smarter,” it’d still be nicer to ask ChatGPT for a recipe than go to a webpage to read that recipe. Its interface is a natural “reader mode.”

But… that’s not going to last.

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miki

I think it very well might, because of the difference in their nature.

Recipe webpages are strictly transactional. Their main purpose is to squeeze as much juice out of you *on this visit* as they can, and they compete in an extremely brutal, low-margin economy against other pages which have the same content and are attempting the same thing. There's 0 brand loyalty, there are no switching costs, if the page falls down in SEO rankings, they'll have 0 revenue after a week. This means that if they already have a customer "hooked", they need to shove as many ads in their face as they can. Next week, that customer won't remember whether the awful domain was online-recipes[.]com or recipesonline[.]us anyway.

Chatbots are different, as most people only use one. That means there's value in keeping the customer hooked, and giving them access to useful info when nobody else will is a great way to do this.

In an AI chatbot, the goals of squeezing as much money out of that customer and keeping that customer for themselves are at odds with eachother, and both of these goals are important.

I don't think they'll stay as pleasant to use as they are, but I also don't think they'll ever get anywhere near as bad as recipe websites.

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RE: tldr.nettime.org/@dk/115883067…

I like this, but I somehow fear someone will start a company called, like, Ptolemaic Systems or something.

Dmytri

2026-01-12 16:28:04

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I hereby coin the term "Ptolemaic Code" to refer to software that appears functional but is based on a fundamentally incorrect model of the problem domain. As more code is generated by AI, the prevalence of such code is likely to increase.
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Ich habe heute ein TikTok von Connor Scott Gardener gesehen. Er spricht darin über seine Erfahrungen mit Augenärzt*innen – und selten habe ich mich so unmittelbar, so schmerzhaft präzise wiedererkannt. Es war dieses „Ja, genau so fühlt sich das an“, das Erinnerungen an alte Müdigkeit und Verletzungen wachruft. (1/9)
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Richard Emling (DO9RE)

Und doch betrete ich Augenarztpraxen, in denen man genau so tut, als wäre ich ein ungelöstes Rätsel. Ich komme meist nur, um ein Rezept für ein blindentechnisches Hilfsmittel abzuholen. Keine Hoffnung, keine Erwartung auf Verbesserung. Nur Bürokratie. Und trotzdem beginnt fast immer dasselbe Ritual: Tropfen zur Pupillenerweiterung. Grelles Licht, das schmerzt. Untersuchungen, deren Sinn niemand erklärt. Ärger, weil ich nicht „richtig mitmache“. (3/9)
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Fanny Bui

Ich habe das Glück, arbeiten gehen zu können. Seit Jahren bezahle ich meine Blindenhilfsmittel selbst. Sogar das Jaws-Update werde ich selbst bezahlen, genau um dieser Erniedrigung zu entgehen. Ich empfinde das als entwürdigend. Auch ich bin von Geburt an blind. Bei mir sind die Augen normal, der Sehnerv ist verkümmert. Daran ändert sich nichts. Ich will mich nicht jedes mal neu rechtfertigen und meine Blindheit beweisen. Und es ist mir unverständlich, warum es für Menschen mit einer auf dem Ausweis festgestellten unbefristeten Behinderung keine Regelung gibt, dass der Ausweis als Nachweis der Notwendigkeit gilt... #Blindleben #Disabled-Alltag
#Disabled #blindleben

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Interesting chat with my wife's uncle this weekend who is a Vietnam vet.

I asked him if he felt like the south Vietnamese were supportive of their efforts to keep the north in check and he yes but they had a lot of issues with people sneaking across the lines and switching sides all the time to whoever they thought was going to win.

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feld

@polishdub what's interesting to me is that my mother in law and nearly all her siblings were in the Navy, but nobody seems to recognize the very special and dangerous unit he was in during Vietnam. Most of the others I think are a bit younger so they never really saw active duty like that, but still... they should know

my wife has never known what he went through. She just always thought of him as Santa Claus because of his white beard

@Wojo
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Lilac

god, I have needed a word like this!

Like - face generation. People either wear glasses or they don't, it's a binary operation. But generation via diffusion starts with a continuous feature space, and is acted upon by a continuous function.
This code will function in most cases but it is fundamentally incorrect.

If you take two faces, one with glasses and one without, interpolating between them will get you weird glasses melded with the face, and this is an artefact of that.

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Eben in einer Unterhaltung mit Produktionsmitarbeiter:innen das Wort „Motek“ für Hammer gehört. Gemutmaßt, dass es polnisch ist. Recherchiert und zwei Dinge herausgefunden:
1. gebräuchlich im Ruhrgebiet und tatsächlich polnischer Herkunft.
2. im hebräischen bedeutet Motek „Schatz, Liebste:r“ und daraus ist im jiddischen das Kosewort „Motte“ entstanden. Meine Oma hat mich quasi immer „(Mini)Motte“ genannt 😍

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When I started experimenting with #Linux again in 2024, I was very impressed at how mature everything had become since I last tried it in the mid-00s. The biggest surprise, though, was #GNOME. It had a level of intentionality and clarity of vision that far exceeded my expectations of a FLOSS project. It made me feel welcome and comfortable.

To the developers of @gnome : Thank you for having the audacity to strive for simplicity in the face of continued criticism from the community. It matters.

A screenshot of my GNOME desktop on Fedora. It features a purple-pink gradient wallpaper, and has a light colored top panel courtesy of the extension "Luminus". Three windows are open: 1. Firefox, that has been given an Adwaita-theme using the app "Add Water", showing the website ottoojala.itch.io 2. Gapless, playing the song "Berry Rock" by Lauri Kallio 3. Apostrophe, with the following text: "GNOME <3 Every day, when I sit down at my computer, I feel such appreciation that a bunch of talented people got together to make something as beautifully simple as modern GNOME. (Finland got some love in this screenshot too. I don't know any Fins IRL, but you guys seem cool)"
#linux #gnome @GNOME

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See? All 3 of my wrappers got a little bit of TLC. (tender love and care) Brailab-Wrapper got the nicer say-all, Softvoice-wrapper did too, and Flexvoice-wrapper got major updates to how it handles both say all and consonant generation. Whew whew. Gotta give them love all equally, they're my babies now. Weee weeee they go, crying through the night, asking me to fix this callback or that function, weeee weee. Hush little code babies, hush. You're all patched up now.
Next time you'll all grow will be when NVDA 2026.1 will require I wrap the wrapper in another wrapper to sandbox the wrapper from wrapping NVDA too rapidly. Wait what?
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The "email collection" section of my website is now two years old and consists of 97 emails.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/12…


emails I received, the collection

I have since at least 2009 posted occasional emails I received on this blog. Often they are emails from people who found my email address somewhere, thinking I am involved in the product or service where they found me.
daniel.haxx.se
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Paul_IPv6

two concepts that many developers don't think much about are connectedness (how many things talk/connect that you aren't even aware of) and unintended use/consequences.

i think it's great you keep this collection to remind you and others of how much we all don't know about how our work is used or how the things we do use don't work the way we think they do. :)

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Aktuelle Infos findest Du auf www.vzsh.de

Vielen Dank fürs Mitlesen, Teilen und für eure Unterstützung! 🫶

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Hello Wonderful people. I wanted you to all know, I updated eurpod.com/flexvoice.nvda-addo…. For those who are caching an older copy, use this link instead OK?
eurpod.com/flexvoice130.nvda-a…
It’s now way more resilient with URLs and weird symbol-heavy text (Mastodon stress tests 😅).
Big win: no more silent dropouts when it hits consonant-only strings like MSGS, HTTPS, ETC. I really really put effort into making the normalizer more robust.
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This week on #OpenSourceSecurity I have a chat with @algernon about @iocaine

Iocaine creates a maze of garbage to trap scraping bots. I love this idea, it has amazing chaotic good energy!

I learn all about how Iocaine works, and even got to see some dashboards showing off the size of the problem and how Iocaine handles it all.

opensourcesecurity.io/2026/202…


Iocaine poisons bots with Gergely Nagy

Josh talks to Gergely Nagy (algernon) about his tool Iocaine. Iocaine creates a maze to trap scraping bots in a world a fake pages they cannot escape.
Josh Bressers (Open Source Security)
#opensourcesecurity @algernon can't wait to be done with adulting @iocaine powder

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Guardian investigation finds AI overviews provided inaccurate and false information... theguardian.com/technology/202… #google #googleAI #googleAIFAIL #AIFAIL #health #internet

‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk

Guardian investigation finds AI Overviews provided inaccurate and false information when queried over blood tests
Andrew Gregory (The Guardian)
#google #health #Internet #googleai #googleaifail #aifail

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So it started three days ago with one very neat little recommendation from @FreakyFwoof.
An organ plugin that was on sale at a bargain price, and sounded much better than some of our previous organ.
But now, thanks to this recommendation, and a little help from @daygar, not only have we got an amazing organ, but a free synth plugin worth $300 on top!
I mean seriously...it's amazing how one recommendation can lead to other great stuff!
Thanks Andre and Day for your help on this!
@Day Garwood @Andre Louis
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Whitney Loblaw

I was trying to listen to the episode on @podverse but there seems to be something wrong. The video plays, and it stops halfway. Any chance you could check what kind of podcast RSS goes to Podverse (looks like there's at least two: podverse.fm/podcast/l9ldjLosC_ and podverse.fm/podcast/8krTUBa_Zs), if the metadata is correct, and maybe only send audio to it?

LibreOffice

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This will only make sense if you're a Linux geek, but I just saw a post where someone was wondering why government departments are still using X. At first, I interpreted the question as wondering why they're using X11 and haven't switched to Wayland, but, of course, in this context, X was referring to my ex-social network.
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An early look at the accessibility work going on in Servo. Part of Igalia's Sovereign Tech Fund project.

igalia.com/2025/10/09/Igalia,-…

Igalia, Servo, and the Sovereign Tech Fund | Igalia

Igalia is an open source consultancy specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions.
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Matt Campbell

Congratulations on this milestone. I'm proud that AccessKit (accesskit.dev/) played a role in making this possible. I know that we, both AccessKit and Servo, have a long road ahead to implement full web content accessibility across platforms. But this is a good first step.

AccessKit

Accessibility infrastructure for UI toolkits
AccessKit

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