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For those of you worried about the exposure of the UK state to the activities & money of Palantir, here's a diagram from The Nerve that is going to do nothing to reassure you at all....

For more details see the investigation published today by The Nerve.

#politics #Palantir

thenerve.news/p/palantir-techn…

Follow the link in the main post for the web-version of this digram which I am hoping will be machine readable... if it is not please accept my apologies as this diagram is just to complex to try and describe here.

Revealed: Palantir deals with UK government amount to at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency

EXCLUSIVE Nerve investigation finds Trump ally Peter Thiel's surveillance firm has won at least 34 contracts, including management services for Britain's nuclear deterrent, with MPs warning of 'gaping vulnerability' as US president threatens Nato all…
The Nerve
#politics #palantir

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Every year, I share the memory book of the lost shtetl of Zaromb, near Treblinka. It is a haunting catalogue of horrors, compiled in 1946. One of the recurring themes of the accounts: Zarombers faced as much danger from Poles as they did from Germans.

“As we saw later, the Poles took an active part in the massacre of the Jews of Zaromb. Several days before, a number of Polish cart drivers had been given orders to be ready to transport the "Zshides" (derogatory term for Jews) of Zaromb. They kept that order secret.”

#Jews #Jewish #History #Holocaust #Poland #Shoah #HolocaustRemembranceDay #Zaromb

jewishgen.org/yizkor/Zareby/za…

Zareby Koscielne, Poland

www.jewishgen.org
#history #Poland #jewish #holocaust #holocaustremembranceday #shoah #jews #zaromb

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Die Kirchenzeitung hat mit mir einen Podcast gemacht. Es geht um: “Liebet eure Feinde”. Es geht auch ein bisschen um die #TZI und um die #Mediation (meine Lieblings-Arbeitsfelder neben dem Pfarramt).

Leider nur innerhalb des E-Papers (mit Anmeldung) und über Spotify zu hören. Bei Spotify könnt ihr ihn aber auch ohne Abo oder Anmeldung hören: open.spotify.com/episode/5qLpV…

#Livinglearning #Erwachsenenbildung #Podcast #Fedikirche


Feinde lieben?

Und was glaubst du? · Episode
Feinde lieben? (Spotify)
#podcast #fedikirche #erwachsenenbildung #tzi #Livinglearning #Mediation

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In the hours after a man was shot in Minneapolis, but before his name was released, @theverge's creative director Kristen Radtke was working on coverage of the aftermath. Then his name was announced, Alex Pretti, and she realized he was her childhood best friend. She writes about how they met, when he was three and she was four, the things they did together, and the person he was. "As social media does its work putting bits and pieces together about each day of unfolding tragedy, more and more of us will realize that those pieces belong to someone we know."

flip.it/29XN-o

#AlexPretti #Minneapolis #Immigration #BorderControl #TrumpAdministration


I grew up with Alex Pretti

The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by federal agents was my childhood best friend.
Kristen Radtke (The Verge)
#immigration #minneapolis #trumpadministration #alexpretti #bordercontrol @The Verge

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I have switched the repeater on my balcony in Munich from #meshtastic to #Meshcore and after 1 hour I already see nodes and repeaters in Zürich, Switzerland and many other places. Impressive. My repeater, a Heltec T114 with a decent antenna, named DE81827_01 is solar powered and has a 2200 mAh battery so it should JustWork™️ at all times :) Oh. And use the „EU/UK narrow“ radio settings as that is the popular default, but not the default after installing the firmware. Why? Dunno.
Map of Munich showing a bunch of Meshcore repeaters covering a big chunk of the city. Not so many in the city centre, though.
Map with Switzerland, Austria and south Germany, showing 30 Meshcore nodes everywhere.
#meshtastic #meshcore
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Jiří Eischmann

@lyda true, but it's for integration on the end points. I haven't really seen something like bypassing traffic through a faster channel between two Meshcore nods. It's really all LoRa hops between repeaters. My maximum is 14 hops. I wonder what it's like in larger networks like in Germany. If the network really scales to dozens of hops (theoretical maximum is AFAIK 64).
@Kevin Lyda

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Really? Rebel Alliance?

An interview with Mozilla president Mark Surman about plans to deploy its ~$1.4B in reserves to fund an AI "rebel alliance" to challenge companies like OpenAI?

cnbc.com/2026/01/27/mozilla-bu…


Mozilla is building an AI ‘rebel alliance’ to take on industry heavweights OpenAI, Anthropic

Mozilla is looking to deploy its roughly $1.4 billion in reserves to support "mission driven" companies and nonprofits, and is particularly focused on AI.
Ashley Capoot (CNBC)

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Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead it's littered with 'TODO: Check authorisation' and similar

blog.cloudflare.com/serverless…


Building a serverless, post-quantum Matrix homeserver

As a proof of concept, we built a Matrix homeserver to Cloudflare Workers — delivering encrypted messaging at the edge with automatic post-quantum cryptography.
The Cloudflare Blog
in reply to Jade

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Jade

I'm also giving a talk about some of the actual work that goes into building this software in a few days at FOSDEM, if you want to learn more:

tech.lgbt/@JadedBlueEyes/11595…

Jade (@JadedBlueEyes@tech.lgbt)

I'm really happy to share I'll be at #FOSDEM - I'll be giving a talk with @nex@fedi.transgender.ing about Continuwuity on Sunday. I'll also be at the @matrix@mastodon.matrix.
Jade (LGBTQIA+ and Tech)

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Franz-Josef Strauß, 25.01.1957: „Atomenergie wird eines Tages elektrische Energie in so großen Mengen und zu so niedrigen Kosten liefern, daß sie praktisch nichts mehr kostet.“

Friedrich #Merz, 27.01.2026: Deutschland solle „den ersten #Fusionsreaktor der Welt ans Netz nehmen“. Dann werde Strom so günstig, „dass es keine anderen Erzeugungsmethoden mehr brauche“.

Deutsches Schulbuch, 2095: „Jahrzehntelang hielten konservative Politiker an teuren Technologien fest und verursachten hohe Kosten“

#merz #fusionsreaktor
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

Ich bin definitiv pro Fusion. Das sollte massiv ausgebaut werden! Auf jedem Dach, an den Balkonen, und überhaupt. Wir können diesen riesigen Fusionsreaktor, den wer-auch-immer vor Milliarden Jahren da ins Zentrum unseres Sonnensystems gesetzt hat, doch nicht auf ewig halb im Leerlauf belassen! Der liefert so viel, dass wir eigentlich keine anderen Erzeu… oh, der wird doch nicht etwa DAS gemeint haben? 🤪

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Okay, so our generator's doing the weird thing again. We've all diagnosed it as a partially frozen regulator on our propane tank. What you're about to hear is AC hum recorded while this is going on. UPS's do not like what you're about to hear, almost certainly because the AC frequency is wobbling back and forth all the time. This is *not* normal!

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So ginge es auch:

"Die Regierung in Spanien will den Aufenthaltsstatus hunderttausenden Migranten ohne Papiere legalisieren - und verfolgt damit einen deutlich anderen Kurs als viele EU-Staaten.
(...)
begründet die migrationsfreundliche Politik seiner Koalition mit der Gefährdung des Sozialstaats und der Rentensicherung aufgrund fehlender Arbeitskräfte und einer überalterten Bevölkerung."

Erscheint mir irgendwie cleverer...

#migration #spanien

n-tv.de/der_tag/Spanien-legali…


Der Tag: Spanien legalisiert Aufenthalt von etwa 500.000 Migranten

Der Tag
n-tv NACHRICHTEN (ntv NACHRICHTEN)
#migration #spanien

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brought you 13 updated and 1 added apps:

* Punch-hole Download Progress: Xposed module that renders download progress as an animated ring around the camera cutout 🛡️

RB Status: 812 apps (62.4%)
Google Bot Status: DeepSleep. 24h since our last request for clearance, no response yet.

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository :awesome: And feel welcome in the Droidiverse 😜

#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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Preparations for #FOSDEM (continued):

✅ Ordered @snikket_im stickers
✅ LED blinkenlights for #XMPP stand with DI.DAY
❌ Camera API bridge for #Mastodon and #XMPP demo

#DidIt #DutGemacht #DIDAY

#xmpp #Mastodon #fosdem #dutgemacht #didit #diday @Snikket
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Shawn Webb

#HardenedBSD applies the following compiler flags to #OpenSSL in the base operating system:

  1. -ftrivial-var-auto-init=zero
  2. -fsanitize=safe-stack
  3. -fzero-call-used-regs=used

The OpenSSL port (in the HardenedBSD ports tree exclusively) only enables the first option.

I wonder if the combination of these features would mitigate the OpenSSL stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability announced today. I hope to answer that question this evening unless someone else beats me to it.

For reference: openssl-library.org/news/vulne…

#CVE202515467 #infosec #FreeBSD

Vulnerabilities | OpenSSL Library

openssl-library.org
#infosec #freebsd #OpenSSL #hardenedbsd #CVE202515467

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#AlexPretti broke a rib in confrontation with federal agents a week before death edition.cnn.com/2026/01/27/us/…

"about a week before his death, he suffered a broken rib when a group of federal officers tackled him while he was protesting their attempt to detain other individuals."

In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security said that “DHS law enforcement has no record of this incident.”

It sure looks like they knew who he was, but don't want to reveal it was an #ICE #execution

#ice #execution #alexpretti

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asking for money [60/100 €]

Sensitive content

#MutualAid #begpost #transmutualaid #helpfolkslive2026 @Mutual Aid Requests
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It sounds like there was another ICE shooting today but there's almost nothing known about what happened.

"The individual, who has not been identified, was shot in southern Pima County near milepost 15 of West Arivaca Road at around 7:30 a.m., according to a news release from the Santa Rita Fire District. The fire department said it transported the person in critical condition."

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/perso…

#ICE #Politics #USPolitics #USPol


One person in critical condition after being shot in incident involving Border Patrol in Arizona

A person was shot in an incident involving U.S. Border Patrol in Arizona on Tuesday, according to a Pima County Sheriff spokeswoman.
Mirna Alsharif (NBC News)
#politics #uspol #uspolitics #ice

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One thing I love about being involved in my College is I get a direct line on what young people are thinking.

In my circle of 30-50-somethings, it's taken for granted that "AI" is changing everything. Some people express caution that we shouldn't even take any position on software engineering education because it will be out of date within a week.

Meanwhile, my students are telling me that in their cohort, everyone is tired of AI and wants to learn proper software engineering.

One lesson here is: do you remember how clueless your boss was about everything? Recognise when you are in the "boss" demographic, and that your breathless enthusiasm and concern may be equally misinformed.

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Cleverson

OK, now to another issue: the synth is adding a schwa after an r when it comes before consonants like f, m, r, s. this caused words like "permite, personalizado, interface, irmão" to sound strange, so I stripped off the schwa for testing, but then the r became too weak. One solution I found is to change the schwa to the other schwa, that's ᵊ can it be done with a single rule, or I have to normalize for every consonant?
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Tamas G

@clv1 hm, you shouldn't. you can try it this way:
normalization:
classes:
R_SCHWA_FOLLOW_CONS:
# consonants that were causing the full-schwa to sound too syllabic
# (you can expand this later if needed)
- "f"
- "m"
- "r"
- "s"

replacements:
# If we have r + schwa and the next phoneme is one of the consonants above,
# swap schwa to the reduced schwa ᵊ so /r/ stays audible without adding a full syllable.
- from: "rə"
to: "rᵊ"
when:
beforeClass: R_SCHWA_FOLLOW_CONS

@Cleverson
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Cleverson

One more detail: I did the following steps:
1. Add a rule using a text editor and save the file;
2. Go to the phoneme editor and save the file;
3. Now when I command the editor to speak something, it successfully takes into account the rule I've just added. However, the normalization rules list view is not updated accordingly. This issue applies to other lists like language settings as well.
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Tamas G

@clv1 oh yeah that's tricky since we'd have to check whether you made manual changes outside the editor for that one, like every minute, read the file or something. I'm not sure if we can do it without you needing to quit and reload the editor, though I can do a "reload language" option in the menu that can help this. Otherwise it becomes a mess with syncing whether the file was modified or not and more like the auto-save features in word haha. Not impossible, but right now yes, it only checks it once when you arrow to the language. So actually just up/down arrowing again will reload the new one.
@Cleverson
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Tamas G

@clv1 Setting _isVoiced: true on a phoneme does not actually add voicing. It’s metadata. It just says “this sound may carry voicing”, but it doesn’t generate any buzz by itself. It also allows for timing rules on that phoneme (voiced things are allowed to be longer)
If voiceAmplitude is still zero, the DSP has nothing periodic to work with, so your ears hear… nothing new. That’s why changing _isVoiced on x feels like it does nothing, it kind of does nothing.
To hear a difference, you must give the phoneme a voiced source and mark it voiced. For example:
"x":
_isVoiced: true
voiceAmplitude: 0.18
fricationAmplitude: 0.55
Now you’re actually mixing voicing + noise, which is how voiced fricatives work in Klatt. The effect will still be subtle (that’s normal), especially at fast speech rates, but it’s there.
@Cleverson
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