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Rant:

I take dance classes a few times a week. I always wear a KF94 mask. I know it isn’t perfect, but those are the ones that fit my face best and, at least from my experience so far, they seem to sufficiently protect me against germs from people who are pre- or a-symptomatic. However: I have the rule that if somebody tells me that they are sick, I leave. Today was such a day. I arrived, talked to someone, and a few minutes into the conversation they volunteered that they are sick, so I got dressed and left again.

I know there’s worse things in the world, but I’m still annoyed. Especially because of the attitude that I get when I explain this. People tell me that I don’t have to apologise for my behaviour. I mean… I wasn’t planning to. So I just say nothing and leave, but it feels really shitty.

I know that people also censor any photos and videos taken at events. As in: if I’m in it, they don’t upload them, because I don’t look “gezellig” enough. I don’t mind that pics and vids of me aren’t shared publicly, but the reason pisses me off.

#MaskUp #COVIDisAirborne #Rant #GrumpyMcGrumpface

#rant #MaskUp #COVIDisAirborne #grumpymcgrumpface

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An meine blinden Follower: Ich habe bislang Hörbücher im Epub-Format von buecher.de gekauft, konnte sie auch immer herunterladen. Jetzt sind die irgendwie verschmolzen, und ich kann nur noch online im Tolino Webreader lesen. Sie machen es also unmöglich, gekaufte Bücher herunterzuladen. Das ist derselbe Unsinn wie bei Streamingdiensten. Hat jemand eine Alternative, wo es noch geht? ebook.de hat dasselbe Problem. Bin etwas entsetzt!
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@shinyoukai @feld The only BSD I would trust with my data is FreeBSD on ZFS. And maybe Dragonfly with Hammer. Except these two I don't think there's been many attempts to even have UFS journaled. You can do it with GEOM on FreeBSD somehow, but why bother when you have ZFS. Both {Open,Net}BSD have a habit of nuking filesystem on power failure.
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Buying a track or ebook that you can’t pass on, share, or transfer isn’t ownership; it’s a rental. We need to restore digital first sale. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/rent…

Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off

In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era, many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form – and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them. Instead, we are stuck renting them, subject to all kinds of terms and conditions.
Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Die allermeisten „KI“-Bildbeschreibungen die ich bisher gelesen habe sind fast so nützlich wie der Hinweis „da ist ein unregelmäßig geformter, erdfarbener Fleck auf dem Gehweg vor dir“ an eine blinde Person die dabei ist in eine ungesicherte Baugrube zu fallen. Der „optische Eindruck“ stimmt, die relevante Information fehlt.
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Holger Dittmann

„Das Foto zeigt eine Person, die einen schwarzen Mikrofon hält, dicht an ihrem Mund, mit einem dunklen Anzugrock, einem hellblauen Blusehemd und einem gepunktetem Hemd. Die Person hat kurze, dunkle Haare, die mit einer Seitenteilung geschnitten sind, und der Hintergrund ist dunkel mit einem verschwommenen, warmen Lichtquelle hinter ihr sichtbar.“

Man(n) trägt jetzt zwei Hemden. Tippe auf Balenciaga.

Wieviele Blinde haben Altbot wegen dieser Scheiße inzwischen stummgeschaltet oder blockiert?

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Holger Dittmann

Vielleicht war der anfangs tatsächlich mal brauchbar. Aber das Modell wurde mehrfach gewechselt, und wer das Ding jetzt noch nutzt ohne wenigstens mal ab und zu reinzulesen was es inzwischen produziert… ich weiß ja nicht. Ich hänge immer noch an den „sich windenden Evergreen- und Barentieren“ von vor ein paar Minuten fest.

Ich komme mir ja als Sehender schon von solchen Texten verarscht vor. Wäre ich blind hätte ich möglicherweise das Gefühl mir bietet jemand eine Lesebrille an.

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Join the Internet Archive & partners for PROTECT OUR FUTURE MEMORY 🏛️

📚 This #webinar introduces the growing international movement to ensure libraries & other memory institutions have the same rights online they’ve long held in the physical world. 🌐

📆 Jan 27
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ blog.archive.org/event/protect…

#libraries #digitalrights #righttoown

Protect Our Future Memory: Join the Call for Library Digital Rights

Libraries, archives, and museums have always collected, preserved, and provided access to knowledge for the public good. But in the digital age, those foundational rights are increasingly under threat. Join […]\n
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#libraries #digitalrights #webinar #righttoown

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RE: mastodon.social/@karlgroves/11…

PS: Also, make phone calls with help from the "5 calls" app. 5calls.org/

Karl Groves (@karlgroves@mastodon.social)

The absolute *minimum* you can do right now is email your representatives in the Senate and Congress to tell them how you feel about what's going on right now. It'll take only 5-10 minutes of your time. Do it now.
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Hubert Figuière

I should also be noted that the Hootsutie whistle blower in 2020 got shit canned.

vancouversun.com/business/loca…


Hootsuite whistleblower dismissed after criticizing company's dealings with ICE

Sam Anderson's departure comes after she denounced Hootsuite's proposed three-year deal with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Scott Brown (Vancouver Sun)

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I know a guy who used to be a conservative, until he went to college. It wasn't "woke professors" that change him to a liberal, it was being in an actual city instead of the small town he grew up in.

Meeting more diverse people made him realize he was fed lies about others while growing up.

So yeah, if you ever wondered why the right wants to shut down education and universities, that's one reason.

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Siemens has signed a partnership with NEWAG in Poland
railwaygazette.com/business/si…

And we still have not got to the bottom of NEWAG's GPS location sabotage jonworth.eu/newags-digital-sab…


Siemens and Newag to co-operate in Polish high speed train market

POLAND: Siemens Mobility and Newag have signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen their co-operation in the Polish rail market and expand their previous joint work on metro trains into the high speed rail segment.
Railway Gazette International

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LLM boys pivoting to ads. EVERYTHING IS ADVERTISING!

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#weeklybeats #orangedrink


One Song A Week - WeeklyBeats 2026: Everything Is Advertising (screamo, hardcore, punk, grunge) 🏳️‍🌈

I played all the instruments, composed, mixed, mastered the song, and filmed and edited the video in 4 days.happy new year 🥳
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#weeklybeats #orangedrink

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We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running. From Privacy International:

"Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP)."

"If the proposed changes are adopted after the 60-day consultation, then millions of travellers to the U.S. will be forced to use a U.S. government mobile phone app, submit their social media from the last five years and email addresses used in the last ten years, including of family members. They’re also proposing the collection of DNA."

PI linked to and summarized a Federal Register entry describing the proposed requirements:

-All visitors must submit ‘their social media from the last 5 years’

-ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) applications will include ‘high value data fields’, ‘when feasible’
‘telephone numbers used in the last five years’
-‘email addresses used in the last ten years’
-‘family number telephone numbers (sic) used in the last five years’
-biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
-business telephone numbers used in the last five years
-business email addresses used in the last ten years.

privacyinternational.org/news-…

The Federal Register entry says comments are encouraged and
must be submitted (no later than February 9, 2026) to be assured of consideration.

Federal Register entry: govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-202…


The Trump Administration wants your DNA and social media

Privacy International
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I feel for anyone in the travel, tourism and hospitality industries, which make up ~ 10M jobs and ~ 3 percent of the nation's GDP. From the U.S. International Trade Administration (trade.gov)

"Inbound international travel to the United States plays a vital role in the Nation’s economy and promotes cultural exchange and understanding. Travel and tourism is the largest single services export for the United States, accounting for 22 percent of the country’s services exports and 7 percent of all exports in 2023. The travel and tourism industry contributed $2.3 trillion to the U.S. economy in 2022 (2.97 percent of the country’s GDP), supporting 9.5 million jobs."

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