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2026 Will Mark The End of DSL & Traditional Home Phone For Many | Cord Cutters News

2026 will mark the end of DSL and traditional home phone service across the United States. In a significant step toward modernizing its telecommunications infrastructure, AT&T has received approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) las…
Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)

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RE: social.heise.de/@heiseonlineen…

Company gets bought, which is followed by layoffs? I'm shocked, shocked! That has never happened before.

😣

heise online English (@heiseonlineenglish@social.heise.de)

Layoffs at Vimeo after acquisition by Bending Spoons Bending Spoons bought Vimeo for $1.4 billion last fall. Now a second wave of layoffs is coming. https://www.heise.de/en/news/Layoffs-at-Vimeo-after-acquisition-by-Bending-Spoons-11152120.
heise online English (Heise Medien on Mastodon)

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Good morning all. I'm waiting for a grocery delivery today. Can't imagine how busy the grocery stores are now. We could see up to 14 inches of snow with this storm.
Today, I got a package from UPS, left at our door, addressed to someone at a completely different address. I read the address with my phone, searched and found the owner's phone number. I called and the package owner's wife picked up the box.
Not much going on this weekend except the possible storm arrival. For all impacted, stay safe.

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From austinpolitics.net/the-state-o…:

"I remember a couple years ago talking to a local businessman about Project Connect. 'If it doesn't go to the airport, what's the point?' he asked.

This is the kind of comment that would probably prompt vigorous nods of approval at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon but would make heads explode at a gathering of transit experts.

The idea that the purpose of public transit is to facilitate air travel is a more absurd version of the notion, popular among Sunbelt elites, that the point of public transit is to facilitate car travel by reducing car traffic.

(For the same reason that expanding highways doesn't reduce traffic, nor will public transit. The point of transit is not to make it easier to drive, it is to offer an alternative to driving.)"

Exactly.


The state of Project Connect

And should the train go to the airport?
Jack Craver (The Austin Politics Newsletter)

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Hello, we've just done a bugfix release of #GoToSocial v0.20.3, codename "Most Sinister Sloth 😈😈😈😈😈"!

codeberg.org/superseriousbusin…

This release contains some bugfixes for annoying little API issues, updates to robots.txt to forbid more so-called "ai" (🤢) crawlers, and a bugfix for polite interaction requests that will be useful when v0.21.0 comes out in a couple weeks.

If you're updating to this version from v0.20.0, v0.20.1, or v0.20.2, it's a very easy update with no db migrations.

If you're updating to this version from a version before v0.20.0, please follow the update instructions from v0.20.0, but replace 0.20.0 with 0.20.3 throughout. Be aware that the update to 0.20.x contains some potentially very long migrations. Please do read the notes carefully!

If you are currently on a snapshot / nightly build, stay on the snapshot / nightly build, as it's already ahead of this release.

Thanks for reading!


v0.20.0 Sinister Sloth 😈 - superseriousbusiness/gotosocial

Here's version 0.20.0 of GoToSocial, **Sinister Sloth**. It's been a long summer of gently poking and prodding at the sloth's tummy and sides to make xem giggle.
Codeberg.org
#GoToSocial

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I am unable to download my purchase of the new #Megadeth album because the service they are using relies on hCaptcha. If you are #blind and use a screen reader, you cannot solve the visual captcha. They ask you to install an #accessibility cookie, which I have tried to do with two different browsers, with no luck. The provided email address for help, customercare@mainfactorcommerce.com bounces. How much of my day am I going to waste on this? I can't even get my money back!! #A11Y
#a11y #Accessibility #blind #megadeth
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Joe Brockmeier

@hub They literally acknowledged that they had people with Nazi views on the platform and refused to deplatform them. I really don't know how much more correct that analogy could possibly be.

What pisses me off quite regularly about where we are is that we did not get here overnight. We are here now because of the stubborn refusal of a large number of people to say "that's not OK, we're not going to accept that, and I don't give a flying fuck how loud you cry about it."

If people had ostracized the Tea Party bastards years ago, we wouldn't be here.

If Trump had been sidelined years ago, we wouldn't be here.

If Gamergate and 4chan hadn't been tolerated... we wouldn't be here.

We used to be able to contain this shit. Remember David Duke? The Republican party used to at least refuse to endorse outright bald, naked racism.

Sorry. You caught me in a ranty mode.

@Hubert Figuière
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Hubert Figuière

oh I know. A few years ago it was like "we pay nazis writer". And in 2025 they even send a promotion mailing with swastica and everything.

But then look at Governments worldwide continue to post on the CSAM generator formerly know as Twitter. They didn't stop when its owner made the salute. Now they are saying there is nothing they can do about the CSAM. (litterally that what our Govt said, posting on said platform)

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This text on resistance in Minneapolis reminds me so much of @pluralistic 's book "Little Brother". It shows that groups need not be powerless victims, even when facing evil.

skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:y…

#Minneapolis #democracy #FuckICE #nokings

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life. It's genuinely a leaderless (or leaderful) movement, decentralized in a way that the state is absolutely unequipped to handle. There are a few basic skills involved, and so people teach each other those skills, and people are collectively refining them. Before I came, I asked a local friend if the cold (it's going to be -20 or so in the coming days) would stop people from coming out. "No, we'll be there. It's ICE who can't handle it." Today I talked with a 76 year old who'd been standing in the cold for hours guarding her neighbors. I was getting kind of chilly, even in the new winter gear i bought for this trip (and I live in the goddam mountains myself). She didn't even have a hat on. Another person put it: "we're Minnesotans. We're excited to get out our real winter gear out of the box for the year."

Page by Margaret Killjoy | @margaret.bsky.social

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some prot…
skywriter.blue
#democracy #nokings #fuckice #minneapolis @Cory Doctorow
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Andreas Neustifter

"ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

Come for the quote, stay for the text.
skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:y…

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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some prot…
skywriter.blue

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Hausärztin aus Emmendingen zu Friedrich Merz: "Telefonische Krankmeldung ist kein Freifahrtschein"

Yvonne Fechner, Vorstandsmitglied im Hausärztinnen- und Hausärzteverband Banden-Württemberg, widerspricht Friedrich Merz. Sie sieht keinen Beleg für mehr Krankheitsfehltage durch telefonische Krankmeldungen.

➡️ badische-zeitung.de/hausaerzti…

Hausärztin aus Emmendingen zu Friedrich Merz: "Telefonische Krankmeldung ist kein Freifahrtschein"

Ulrike Sträter (BZ.medien GmbH & Co. KG)

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Meine ChatGPT-Nutzung wandelt sich über die Jahre von einem erstaunten „Wow!“ über „Guck ich als erstes, weil es so einfach ist“ und „Guck ich nur, wenn ich woanders nichts finde.“ hin zu „Nutze es fast gar nicht mehr und entwickle eine Aversion“, weil mich die vielen falschen Antworten und das Mindfuck-artige, pseudo-beziehungsorientierte Kommunikationsmuster unglaublich triggert und aggro macht, besonders wenn eins die ständigen falschen Antworten korrigiert.
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For those of you that still follow me for the Nova related stuff, I have put together some notes from my meeting yesterday with Instabridge, the company that has just acquired Nova Launcher.

You can view that Google Doc here:

docs.google.com/document/d/196…

#Nova #NovaLauncher #Acquisition #Instabridge #Meeting #Android #Apps


Notes From The Meeting With Instabridge On January 22nd, 2026

Thursday, January 22nd, I had a meeting with a couple of employees from Instabridge, the company that has acquired Nova. One of those included the CEO, Carl, and various different things were discussed in that meeting.
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#android #apps #meeting #novalauncher #nova #acquisition #instabridge

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I was wondering when a reporter would uncover this.

So BitLocker is super secure, right? Well... BitLocker recovery keys are backed up to Microsoft's Cloud - and they give them out to law enforcement on request. Using the BitLocker recovery key, you can just unlock the device without a PIN etc.
forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewste…

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Gisteren vond er een aanslag plaats op een protest van de Koerdische gemeenschap op het Operaplein. Wij waren daar ook aanwezig om onze solidariteit te tonen.
Er zal hierover nog communicatie volgen maar we willen al even reageren op een aantal artikels die hierover reeds in de Vlaamse media verschenen.
* De politie was niet "aanwezig om de manifestatie in goede banen te leiden." Daar heeft de Koerdische gemeenschap de politie niet voor nodig.
* Welgeteld één flik in burger heeft eerste zorgen toegediend. De rest stond er wat op te kijken. Het waren de omstaanders die voornamelijk de eerste zorgen hebben toegediend.
* Het was geen "pure chaos." Ja, het was verwarrend en beangsigend, maar de reacties van de meeste omstaanders waren snel en to-the-point.
* Sommige berichten spraken over een vechtpartij. Dit is pertinent onjuist.

Wij moedigen journaliten aan om verder te kijken dan wat de politiewoordvoerder hen vertelt en communicatie vanuit de politie met dezelfde voorzichtheid te behandelen als elke andere bron.

#Antwerpen #Rojava

#antwerpen #rojava

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Vegas taking a 27% cut by valuing the Canadian dollar at par is giving me the giggles - this is bordering on one of the most successful boycotts in history - FAFO you fucking US fascists - we are NEVER coming back

#CDNpoli #Vegas #USpol #USpolitics

ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/we-…


‘We miss our best friends’: Las Vegas hotels accepting Canadian dollar at par to spark tourism

Three downtown Las Vegas hotels have begun accepting the Canadian dollar at par with the American dollar in an effort to spur Canuck travel.
Timm Bruch (CTVNews)
#uspol #cdnpoli #uspolitics #vegas

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Each year we are excited to see how many NLnet grantees we can spot in the list of @fosdem speakers. This year is a new high with over 100 speakers!
Another record will be broken at our hex sticker table. We'll be bringing over 300.000 stickers featuring more than 300 unique hex designs.
We have 2 BoF meetups, 1 with @NGIZero and 1 NLnet get-together and we'll be bringing snacks.
And Michiel Leenaars will give the opening keynote on Saturday.
Let's meet at #FOSDEM!
nlnet.nl/events/20260131/FOSDE…

NLnet; Let's meet at FOSDEM 2026!

nlnet.nl
#fosdem @NGI Zero open source funding @FOSDEM

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IzzyOnDroid ✅

we'll hope you'll enjoy them! Btw, the download stats were even already featured by some "vodcasts" – see e.g. around 4:48 to 5:40 here: youtube.com/watch?v=VR-MEwPDw4… (and they're meanwhile also available in Droid-ify). They're privacy friendly (no PII at all), and rather easy to integrate with any web server – so maybe @fdroidorg might integrate them with their repository (and client?) as well? 🤔 We gladly provide our tooling to them – and to other repositories, of course!

Top 12 App Stores that are Better than Google Play Store

12 of the Best Alternative App Stores to the Play Store! Enjoy!______________________________________­ PATREON▣ HowToPersonalize - https://www.patreon.com/ho...
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Ist bei @disroot eigentlich noch jemand zu Hause? Haben vor 3 Wochen versucht, für jemanden dort einen Mail-Account zu registrieren. Der steht bis heute auf "pending approval", also mehr als die per automatischer Mail angegebenen 48h. Support-Anfrage per Mail vor 3 Tagen auch nur auto-reply, dass man innerhalb 24h antworten würde.

Erwarte ja keine "instant action", aber so gar keine, ist irgendwie seltsam (und wenig vertrauenerweckend)…

@kuketzblog steht bei Dir in der Empfehlungsecke 😉

@Kuketz-Blog 🛡 @disroot

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The entire left side of my mouth is one big hurtbox. I probably very much need to see a dentist, as things are noticeably getting worse, but the state of good ol' American health care is preventing me from even considering it, as I am constantly thinking about how much it's going to cost, especially since I'm not home. Such a joy.
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RE: tldr.nettime.org/@dk/115940759…

AI and IP will take a few threads to cover.

At its core, the themes are similar to what I’ve written many times before.

The capitalist comes to market twice, once as buyer, then again as seller.

As a buyer, capital is happy to get inputs for free, as a seller, exclusion and payment are required.

Understanding of IP must always be rooted in the difference between Department I and Department II in the circulation of capital.

With AI, Department II output becomes Department I input. The current is reversed and the circuit becomes unstable.

Dmytri

2026-01-22 20:59:45

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AI is the recuperation of the anti-copyright critique.

“Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it.” Lautréamont, 1870
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#TheGeneralTheoryOfSlop


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We've updated the configuration on our Liberapay – which was unintentionally set to "anonymous donations only". You can now choose to have your support shown, if you wish so 🤗

Apologies for the mishap!

And thanks to the first supporter 🥰 Yes: if everyone who uses #IzzyOnDroid would chime in a buck per month, we'd be fully sustainable…

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The IzzyOnDroid team maintains the repository for F/LOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) Android apps launched by Izzy in 2015/2016, which has since become quite well-known …
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