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This is super neat!
Built a small bridge between Proton Calendar and privacy-friendly video calls. A new browser extension lets me drop Jitsi, BigBlueButton, Whereby (or any custom link) straight into events. Code and details: https://blog.dougbelshaw.Doug Belshaw (social.coop)
if you happen to do that, please let me know. I am talking about a topic and I am interested in feedback fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event…
also @delta
On my way to Brussels for XMPP summit then FOSDEM. Contact me here or on XMPP if you want to discuss Libervia, see a demo, or talk about related topics (XMPP Pubsub, e2ee, activityPub or email gateways, forums, multiparty A/V calls, metadata reduction, serverless, data policy, etc).
You can also directly come to our booth (XMPP & Realtime Lounge).
Please note that this year we are in AW level 1 instead of the usual location.
Reading the "European agentic AI landscape" report and it doesn't start well. And note, I'm not per se opposed to AI. But this sort of unjustified affirmation of the consequent bothers me:
"The EU must address systemic barriers that limit its ability to
strengthen the agentic AI ecosystem and generate value."
Oh, really, must it now? Why then I suppose no-one could have anything to argue against that.
This is a lot higher than I expected:
"Citizens broadly support the benefits of AI. 62% of Europeans view robots and AI positively at work, and 70% believe they improve productivity, but remain concerned about privacy and the loss of human control (Eurobarometer 2024)."
Please help sign this online petition.
A new bill in Indonesia would massively expand censorship of LGBT+ content online. Tell lawmakers to reject this dangerous legislation now!
This petition was created by their partners at the Pelangi Nusantara.
action.allout.org/en/m/a68f74a…
#lgbt #indonesia #humanrights #censorship
Indonesia is moving to ban LGBT+ content across digital platforms. Activists warn this will fuel harassment and arrests. Urge lawmakers to reject the Broadcasting Bill and defend free expression – censorship is not protection.action.allout.org
Leyendo noticias de Administración electrónica, acabo de ver esto, que se presenta como favorable, y a mi no me lo parece (y eso que yo sí pienso que la IA y los LLMs pueden tener utilidad).
"Europa destina ahora una mayor proporción de capital riesgo a la IA agentic que Estados Unidos, con Francia y Alemania emergiendo como los principales centros. Una constelación más amplia de ciudades innovadoras, como Ámsterdam, Estocolmo, Múnich y Barcelona, está fortaleciendo el papel de Europa en este espacio. Los financiadores públicos, como el EIC y el EIT Health, desempeñan un importante papel catalizador, atrayendo a los principales inversores globales al ecosistema europeo de IA agentic."
Colleague: Hey, we missed you at the off-site! You should have seen Brad's sales presentation, it w—
Me: [boops colleague on the nose]
Colleague: HEY! What the hell was that?
Me: I'm marking you as "read" without opening the message.
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The iPad was announced 16 years ago today. How?
How has it been that long?
How has the iPad not made PCs irrelevant yet?
How long until Apple just admits that iPad OS is a failed experiment with 7 too many window management options that make using the iPad more frictionful than a real computer at almost every single use case.
I still use mine almost every day but if my current 2018 iPad Pro stopped working for some reason I’m not sure I’d replace it. It just doesn’t quite know what it’s for. Still.
Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.
Ayer me tocó ir de sustituto a una comisión de publicaciones. Menos mal que el informe era favorable porque no es un tema en el que tenga experiencia.
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A lawyer says she was left bloody and swollen after multiple Durham Regional police officers allegedly slammed her head on a desk without provocation, ripped off her head scarf and dragged her to the basement cells of the Oshawa courthouse last week.
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Remember folks, Apple also delayed the release of one of their show because the subject might offend the snowflakes in the white house
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sava…
So if you think their leadership is silent about what's happening, consider they are tacitaly supporting it.
journa.host/@theintercept/1159…
Internal Slack logs shared with The Intercept show outrage over Cook’s coziness with Trump and Apple's silence on Pretti's death. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/27/apple-tim-cook-trump-alex-prettiThe Intercept (Journa.host)
Amazon exec accidentally sends layoff email a day early. Now people know there are layoffs but now need to wait until the official date to know if they were affected.
How stressful.
cnbc.com/2026/01/27/amazon-ina…
Amazon sent a notice out to staffers in an apparent error acknowledging "organizational changes" at the company.Annie Palmer (CNBC)
Randos from FaceBook: Hi.
Me: Hi, I’m receiving a High volume of messages right now. But if you have something specific to share, let me know.
Them: Oh, I’m sorry. How’s it going?
Me: I’m busy. Did you need something?
Them: Oh, I just wanted to be your friend.
This has been the pattern with Messages there as of late, and it’s making me angry. It’s like, why should I have to come up with things to talk about with 20+ strangers in a given day? And, how’s it going is an open ended question. Not a specific share. Why is low effort engagement the new normal? Why is putting the emotional labor on someone else to make them drive an online conversation the new normal? Yes, I know I can block or restrict. And I do. That doesn’t change the pattern or the frustration. Mute one and three more like it come along.
#Eyedropper now supports the new session restore feature, so it will automatically restore picked colors across reboots.
Thanks to @AdrianVovk for the excellent guide!
#GNOME #GNOMEApps #GnomeCircle
So, random tip that some of you will probably find useful and others will be like, meh, I've known that for ages. Still I'm putting it out there because I'm literally ecstatic after learning this information, which I really should've looked up years ago.
So if I'm on a web site that has a lot of interesting links I want to check out, I will often open them in new tabs or windows, so that I can easily close them and return to the main page when done. To open a link in a new tab/window, I used to go to the context menu and hit the appropriate option. But in later versions of Brave (which is my primary browser), keyboard focus seems to have trouble staying in the context menu. Usually I have to open it, escape out of it, and open it again. Not sure why.
It turns out you don't even need to deal with that menu though, at least not for that. Shift enter opens a link in a new window, and control shift enter opens in new tab. I'll be honest, I don't enjoy learning random keystrokes because they're easy to forget, but these are two that are definitely going to save me time, and I will use them so much that I will remember them. As a third bonus keystroke, alt enter on a link will let you download the file it points to (it's the save link as option in the context menu). So yeah, hope at least one person finds this information useful.
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Hi everyone, I am excited to introduce App-Suite.eu, a new home for macOS applications built from the ground up with a "Native Accessibility First" philosophy.www.applevis.com
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Great video about younger Singaporean food ‘hawkers’
Singapore’s hawker culture is world-famous — but behind the sizzling woks and iconic flavors lie the hidden struggles of families fighting to keep a nation’s...YouTube
I have seen this elsewhere and it's so good that I want to repeat it over"
Oracle is an acronym that stands for One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison.
And this is so accurate that it goes along with him naming his new yacht izanami.
(hint: spell that name backwards)
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