Wife has identical twin cousins in their late 20s, known them since they were babies. They both grew up to become music teachers (yes they're gay) and apparently one of them has been writing musicals? There's some online platform out there where you can publish / sell musicals?
Anyway their mom was telling me about this and mentioned that he sold copies of a musical about Auschwitz.
<Randy Jackson that's a no from me dawg>
I hate it when someone Slacks me with a simple "Hi Matt". Isn't it obvious? When you interrupt me, give me the whole thing at once, so I don't have to wait for a round-trip before I can make the most of the interruption. Let's not make this a bad high-latency IPC protocol.
Then again, in this case, the person messaging me isn't a programmer.
Chciaลem pomรณc osobie niepeลnosprawnej wyrobiฤ nowy dowรณd osobisty. Procedura jest dostฤpna online, wiฤc powinno byฤ ลatwo i przyjemnie :)
Spoiler: wcale tak nie byลo ๐งต โ
W Polsce funkcjonuje sobie taki dokument zwany kartฤ EKUZ. Z racji, ลผe to zdecydowanie nie jest jedyna karta, jakฤ wiฤkszoลฤ osรณb ma w portfelu, a wszystkie (zgodne z ISO 7810) karty wyglฤ dajฤ w dotyku prawie tak samo, moลผna poprosiฤ, aby na karcie umieszczono etykietkฤ w brajlu, na co istnieje oficjalna procedura. W przeciwieลstwie do niektรณrych innych dokumentรณw, np. wspomnianego tutaj Dowodu, etykietka taka nie jest integralnฤ czฤลciฤ karty, jest to po prostu solidnie naklejona przez urzฤdnika foliowa naklejka.
I tutaj zaczyna siฤ szkopuล. Typรณw kart jest kilka. Ten najpopularniejszy, tj. turystyczny, moลผna bez problemu wyrobiฤ przez internet, istnieje do tego dedykowana usลuga EPUAP i formularz w ichniejszym XML-owym standardzie, tj. wypeลniany on-line bezpoลrednio na stronie, nie staropolskฤ metodฤ drukuj-podpisz-skanuj (Polacy do za niฤ Nobla dostaฤ powinni).
Gdzie jest problem? Procedura mรณwi, ลผe w celu uzyskania brajlowskiej etykiety, naleลผy umieลciฤ odpowiedniฤ adnotacjฤ na wniosku. Coล takiego moลผna zrobiฤ na marginesie dokumentu papierowego, ale struktura XML takiej adnotacji nie przewiduje. Mamy wobec tego wybรณr, czy wniosek skลadamy sami, ale bez etykiety brajlowskiej, czy dziaลamy metodฤ z osobฤ widzฤ cฤ i dลugopisowym wypeลnianiem fizycznego wydruku (bo przecieลผ o pliku w standardzie PDF Forms to w tym kraju moลผna zapomnieฤ), i wtedy etykietฤ dostajemy.
I jeszcze jedna rzecz, ktรณrฤ warto mieฤ na uwadze. O ile w przypadku Epuap, zaลoลผenie skrzynki podawczej nie niosลo za sobฤ konsekwencji prawnych poza faktem, ลผe korespondencja zwiฤ zana ze sprawami skลadanymi przez ten wลaลnie system docieraลa do nas elektronicznie, w przypadku e-dorฤczeล jest inaczej. Jeลli skrzynkฤ do E-dorฤczeล posiadamy, wiele instytucji bฤdzie kontaktowaฤ siฤ z nami w ten wลaลnie sposรณb, przy czym nadal dziaลa zasada, ลผe przesyลka 2 razy awizowana (tutaj awizo to powiadomienie email) jest uznana za dorฤczonฤ po 14 dniach od pierwszej prรณby jej dostarczenia.
Innymi sลowy, jeลli skrzynkฤ do e-dorฤczeล mamy, w naszym obowiฤ zku jest sprawdzanie adresu email z niฤ powiฤ zanego.
Pleased to announce this new partnership and privacy alliance with Windscribe, Ente, Notesnook, and Addy.io!
windscribe.com/blog/windscribeโฆ
Windscribe Creates a Privacy-Focused Alliance
Windscribe VPN aims to create a robust, decentralized ecosystem of privacy products that puts users firmly in control of their data and digital footprint.ยKailash "QAizen" Z. (Windscribbles)
Last night I've changed my office's layout so I'm sat parallel to the window, rather than having my desk in front of it.
Pros: More effective use of space, closer to sockets, easier access to the radiator's valve, window handle and curtains, etc.
Cons: It's now way easier for me to get distracted by squirrels jumping from branch to branch in the trees.
We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing
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Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. โI felt like I was going to pass out and die,โ said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government wonโt say if any agents have been punished.
propublica.org/article/videos-โฆ
#News #Immigration #ICE #DHS #Trump #Police #Minneapolis
FYI Montrรฉal jacked up the property valuations AGAIN last year... so, Cรดte-des-NeigesโNotre-Dame-de-Grรขce's 1.9% is a FAKE AF LOW % on the heels of that #BS.
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/moโฆ
#polMTL #MTLpoli #taxdollarshardatwork #propertytaxes #montreal #LIES
Gemini and Siri are teaming up. Will they figure out that humans are obsolete?
#AI #AISucks #SkyNet #Terminator #Cylons
eu explico: racismo, xenofobia, homofobia, ou ambos os tres
RE: mastodon.quebec/@radiocanada/1โฆ
Dans un courriel, #AirCanada explique que les "portes de soute ont รฉtรฉ fermรฉes par erreur alors quโun membre de lโรฉquipe au sol รฉtait ร lโintรฉrieur". La ligne aรฉrienne soutient que personne ne sโest blessรฉ et que les รฉvรฉnements font lโobjet dโune enquรชte.
#cauchemar #cdnpoli #polcan #worksafety #unions #onthejobdeaths
Radio-Canada (@radiocanada@mastodon.quebec)
Un employรฉ dโAir Canada demeure pris dans la soute ร bagages avant le dรฉcollage ยซโฏ Le membre de lโรฉquipe au sol a รฉtรฉ dรฉcouvert avant que le vol quitte Toronto pour Moncton. โฏยป https://ici.radio-canada.Radio-Canada (Mastodon Quรฉbec)
This is so... bleeping strange, that people reduce themselves into a transmitter between you and an llm.
Ok, one decides to use it to get internet points or whatever they strive for, but don't they have enough capabilities to answer to you afterwards?
In all yours and others examples I'm lost at exactly this self-dehumanising.
Okay y'all, I'm looking into getting smart glasses with this coming paycheck. I don't want to spend more than $450 or so on it. So, what's good in the middle of January 2026? Lol I say that because it'll probably change tomorrow or next week or next month.
Anyway any advice would be great! Boosts okay.
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Hlasovanie o poskytnutรญ makrofinanฤnej pomoci Jordรกnsku
Eurรณpsky parlament dลa 16. decembra 2025 prijal legislatรญvne uznesenie o nรกvrhu rozhodnutia Eurรณpskeho parlamentu a rady o poskytnutรญ makrofinanฤnej pomoci Jordรกnskemu krรกฤพovstvu. Parlament prijal svoju pozรญciu v prvom ฤรญtanรญ a prevzal nรกvrh Komisie na podporu hospodรกrskej stability Jordรกnska a pokrytie zostรกvajรบcich finanฤnรฝch potrieb krajiny poฤas obdobia operรกcie. Komisia navrhuje novรบ operรกciu makrofinanฤnej pomoci (MFA) vo vรฝลกke aลพ 500 miliรณnov EUR vo forme รบverov , ktorรก doplnรญ predchรกdzajรบcu MFA vo vรฝลกke 500 miliรณnov EUR.
Tรกto novรก makrofinanฤnรก pomoc je urฤenรก na rieลกenie naliehavรฝch hospodรกrskych vรฝziev vrรกtane vysokรฉho verejnรฉho dlhu, ลกtrukturรกlne zvรฝลกenรฉho rozpoฤtovรฉho deficitu (5,6 % HDP v roku 2024, ฤo predstavuje nรกrast v porovnanรญ s rokom 2023) a pretrvรกvajรบcich externรฝch deficitov (v priemere okolo 6,5 % HDP za poslednรฝch pรคลฅ rokov). Jej cieฤพom je tieลพ zmierniลฅ fiลกkรกlne obmedzenia zhorลกenรฉ nedรกvnymi krรญzami, ako je pandรฉmia COVID-19 a regionรกlna nestabilita.
Politickรฉ a ekonomickรฉ podmienky potrebnรฉ na udelenie navrhovanej makrofinanฤnej pomoci sรบ splnenรฉ, ฤo potvrdzuje aj hodnotenie sรบฤasnej situรกcie Jordรกnska zo strany Komisie. รver bude poskytnutรฝ v rรกmci zรกruky pre vonkajลกiu ฤinnosลฅ s dotรกciou vo vรฝลกke 9 %, ฤo predstavuje 45 miliรณnov EUR, ktorรฉ sa majรบ naprogramovaลฅ v rรกmci nรกstroja NDICI - Globรกlna Eurรณpa.
Makrofinanฤnรก pomoc bude platnรก dva a pol roka od nadobudnutia platnosti memoranda o porozumenรญ (MoU). Vyplatenie finanฤnรฝch prostriedkov sa uskutoฤnรญ v troch tranzรญciach, ktorรฉ budรบ podmienenรฉ รบplnou a vฤasnou implementรกciou dohodnutรฝch hospodรกrskych politรญk uvedenรฝch v MoU. Tieto politiky zahลลajรบ ambiciรณzne reformy v kฤพรบฤovรฝch oblastiach, ako je verejnรก sprรกva, fiลกkรกlne riadenie a รบsilie v boji proti korupcii, ฤรญm sa zabezpeฤรญ, ลพe podpora Eร prispeje k dlhodobej hospodรกrskej odolnosti a stabilite Jordรกnska.
Predpokladom pre poskytnutie makrofinanฤnej pomoci Eurรณpskej รบnie bude, aby Jordรกnsko reลกpektovalo รบฤinnรฉ demokratickรฉ mechanizmy vrรกtane pluralitnรฉho parlamentnรฉho systรฉmu, zรกsady prรกvneho ลกtรกtu a zaruฤilo dodrลพiavanie ฤพudskรฝch prรกv.
RE: tldr.nettime.org/@dk/115883067โฆ
Una reflexiรณn muy interesante: el ยซcรณdigo ptolemaicoยป es, como el viejo sistema geocรฉntrico de Ptolomeo, software basado en un modelo del problema a resolver incorrecto que solo se acerca a un funcionamiento adecuado mediante sucesivos parches. La generaciรณn de cรณdigo asistida por IA va a traernos muchos de estos ยซregalosยป.
I just got falsely flagged as a bot while trying to use the DB train connection lookup service (from first use on, on a residential connection, both in Firefox during multiple attempts, then also in Chromium, only the third attempt in an Epiphany browser got through). People will be very amused if that happens to them on a journey while frantically trying to figure out alternative connections during one of the usual DB situations. โ(ใท)โ
(Going by what I'm reading from sysadmins these days, I guess this is another case/consequence of big tech AI scrapers DDOSing the web to death.)
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#XMPP Community
The Chat of the Future initiative has its first session today from 19:00 CET!
xmpp.org/2026/01/chat-of-the-fโฆ
#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc #xeps #standards #opensource #decentralization #federation #messaging
Chat of the Future Initiative | XMPP - The universal messaging standard
The XSF Communication Team is launching the โChat of the Future Initiativeโ to support the XMPP ecosystem through collaborative discussions, development, and improved public communication. This new initiative invites participants from all โฆxmpp.org
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I spent nearly two hours on a call with a fantastic Aira agent who was kind enough to type out these lists for me in text form, then I had an AI turn them into tables for easier viewing.
onj.me/ngg.html
there are currently some discussions about open source licensing and post open source. If you could magically change curl's license (also for all existing version & distributions and with no other changes to reality), would you pick a different one?
If you have Mona Pro or Mona Pro Max, donโt miss this opportunity. getmona.app
โMona for Mastodon
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Mantis Q40 question: when using the onboard applications, I can switch between QWERTY and #braille input by pressing F12. Is there a way to achieve the same thing while connected to an external device in terminal mode?
In other words: I want to use the FDS and JKL keys as simulated Perkins-style input while connected to NVDA, VoiceOver, etc. without using any software-based simulation features built into the #screenReader itself.
Bug reports came through that SoftVoice will not read Mastodon posts. Turns out we need to do the character splitting in the wrapper.
Re-download eurpod.com/softvoice-2025.nvdaโฆ. Alternatively, if you have a cached copy, use eurpod.com/softvoice-2025-v07.โฆ for a clean one.
This copy fixes it so we do split into 350-character chunks at the wrapper side. In my testing this reads all Mastodon posts to expectation now, as these can often throw the entire post's chunk onto the engine.
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Comitis Capital รผbernimmt Threema
Threema gilt als sicherer Messenger-Dienst mit Fokus auf Privatsphรคre. Am Montag hat Comitis Capital die รbernahme angekรผndigt.
Ich mag ja nicht jedes Dateils dieses Deals zu รผberblicken oder maรe mir an alles zu verstehen. Aber ausser dem Namen des Kapitalgebers รคndert sicht nichts. Menschen die JETZT irgendwelche Einstellungen รคndern glauben doch nicht wirklich, dass die bereits รผbertragenen worden sind, dann auf den Servern verschwinden. Oder?
Oder dass die Afinum andere Zeile hatte als jede andere Firma.
Warum ist Wachstum erstrebenswert habe ich gelesen. Das hรคngt von der Situation ab. Wenn es WhatsApp und Meta im allgemeinen ein Stรผck weit verdrรคngen soll ist esSEHR erstrebenswert. Hรถhere Mitgliederzahlen heisst auch stabilerer Service fรผr uns Nutzer.
Dieses reflexartige zuschnappen und diese Versuche hier einen Dรคmonen herraufzubeschwรถren ... statt unter Umstรคnden darรผber nachzudenken, dass irgendwer den Bumms auch bezahlen muss und das nicht mit 3,50โฌ lifetime getan ist.
Threema kann als Inhouse-Messenger genutzt werden. Evt ist das der Grund fรผr eine Firma eine Softwarebude finanziel zu unterstรผtzen.
Torvalds arbeitete jahrelang fรผr Transmeta und wurde von denen bezahlt um den Linux-Kernel zu managen. Weil die den Kernel brauchten. So wie viele Entwickler der OpenSource Scene auch einen Anstellungsvertrag haben.
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Truly, someone who wants to test your product needs this, why lock it in the most expensive tier? Please make this transition easier :)

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in reply to Matt Campbell • • •I've found using nohello.net/ helpful sometimes, other friends started using it as well (for status messages on Instant messaging systems such as Teams).
Other times I'm direct, but as you point out, it's heavily dependent on receiving side.
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