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Last night, I had a #weirdDream about a new product announced at NAMM, called the Absorbian. It was basically this dense, compact cube that had two handles you pulled apart, and it expanded into about a 8x8x8 block that completely absorbed any sound around it. Perfect for recording clean vocals in a busy industrial wearhouse, but small enough when folded that you could easily carry it in a purse. It was hollow in the middle, so you put whatever you wanted isolated inside the cube once expanded.
#weirddream
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Being human is just constant admin. Register this, fill out that, contact the business or person. I long to just exist outside of all of the noise. Put my shoes on and just walk the fields and Downs. Survey the ocean and stand in the salty breeze. Lay in a meadow and splash in a stream. Howl in the moonlight and weep against a tree. Make friends with a badger. Form an alliance with the birds. Go to war against the snakes. Create a new religion with the dirt folk. Lose my mind and smile at the sun as I fly away to a lost continent. Transubstantiate into a being of pure energy and beam myself throughout the cosmos. Drift past the observable universe and discover a new place where matter and physics no longer exist. Join with the universe and become god. Instead I have to do my stupid little emails.

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Wow. This is an intelligent and powerful speech.

It is shocking in its frank admissions. Especially coming from someone who was the head of the Bank of England.

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Davos LIVE: Canadian PM Mark Carney speaks at World Economic Forum

Watch live as Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers a special address at the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos. Follow live updates: https://bit.ly/4...
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This is very serious, please share.

ICE agents are impersonating utility workers to lure people out of their homes.

Anna Anthro (@AnnaAnthro@mastodon.social)

#OREGON: #ICE agents now posing as Pacific General Electric, NW Natural workers, officials warn “ #Portland metro area officials are warning residents about reports of federal immigration officers posing as utility workers to lure people out of thei…
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There is a surprising inconsistency with how columns are represented in spreadsheets I have never thought about. There is A, B, ..., Z, AA, AB, ..., BA, ...; if we assume that column indexes start from 0 (like rows), then A = AA = AAA etc.

That's clearly incorrect, so the table rows must be indexed from 0 while table columns are indexed from 1, right? No! If A=1, then Z=27, so AA=28, but we've already determined, that A stands for 1, so AA is basically 28 + 1. Ergo, column labels in spreadsheets are not indexes and they are pure nonsense. QED. :)

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Vím, že se opakuju, ale Rusko musí shořet na popel.

denikn.cz/minuta/1948248/


V Kyjevě je milion lidí bez elektřiny, mrazy trvají

Kyjevská radnice hlásí kritickou situaci s vytápěním a elektřinou. Milion lidí je bez energie, 5600 bytových domů nemá dodávky tepla, 600 tisíc obyvatel z celkem třímilionové metropole už město opustilo. (NV)
Petra Procházková (Deník N)

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PSA: If you want to avoid a meeting, enforce 8 or more participants. Scheduling it will be almost impossible.

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Scheduling meetings: are the odds in your favor? - The European Physical Journal B

Abstract Polling all the participants to find a time when everyone is available is the ubiquitous method of scheduling meetings nowadays.
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The more I use my phone rather than a computer, the more I’m really starting to understand that VoiceOver, as a screen reader, is fundamentally broken on the iPhone and I don’t think it can be repaired. I just had three cases where I opened an app, or navigated to a new screen, and voiceover jumped focus three times without me ever touching the screen. I also constantly have to navigate a typing delay. There is a significant delay now where VoiceOver will, on occasion, more than not, just randomly decide not to say the key my finger is navigating over when typing. It feels like everything about VoiceOver is very sluggish in this latest operating system version. I genuinely think that VoiceOver is broken in so many ways that it’s more advantageous to use a desktop and a desktop screen reader. Even with NVDA’s flaws, it’s 1 million times more useful than what I’ve just encountered. I don’t understand the blind folks that exclusively use an iPhone without a computer by choice. Those blind people have a fuck ton more patience than I do. #Apple
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(1/2) We are happy to announce a new milestone for transparency in #IzzyOnDroid: public metadata

Starting today, all info on all IzzyOnDroid apps is now publicly available on Codeberg in our new metadata repository: codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/repod…

You can now submit your updates to listed apps (e.g. AuthorName, links) directly via PRs – and we're looking forward to your contributions! We're now working on updating our documentation, to help you with this. Stay tuned!

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Our repo browser now also links you to the corresponding metadata for an app, if you're curious or need to check something (e.g. whether automated update checks are enabled)

repodata

metadata for the Apps available at the IzzyOnDroid repo
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Nigel Farage Breached The MPs' Code Of Conduct 17 Times, Watchdog Confirms
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/farage-registered-more-than-ps380000-financial-interests-late_uk_69709305e4b084d70182d794?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Nigel Farage Breached The MPs' Code Of Conduct 17 Times, Watchdog Confirms

The Reform leader registered more than £380,000 of financial interests outside of the accepted 28-day period.
Kate Nicholson (HuffPost)
@UK Government

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🔴 Wat gebeurt er als Trump met één druk op de knop alle Amerikaanse systemen van Nederlandse organisaties uitschakelt?

We deden onderzoek. Wat blijkt?

🎓 81.4% van de onderwijsinstellingen raakt toegang tot documenten en e-mail kwijt

🏛️ net als en 72.6% van de gemeentes

🏢 en 70.4% van de grootste Nederlandse bedrijven

Dit en meer kun je vinden op zijnwealautonoom.nl. Daar verzamelen we van ruim 13.000 Nederlandse organisaties bij wie ze hun websites en e-mail hebben ondergebracht.

Zijn we al autonoom?

Zijn we al autonoom brengt in kaart van welke organisaties het internet in Nederland het meest afhankelijk is.
Zijn we al autonoom?
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