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DJ Roxtar - #namyhoprezidentanesahej [explicit]

S laskavým svolením přesdílený hudební protest DJ Roxtara vůči útoku MZV Macinky na prezidenta Pavla

#macinka #turek #namyhoprezidentanesahej

djroxtar.com/
booking@djroxtar.com
youtube.com/@DJROXTAR/

DJ ROXTAR

🐬Home of Adolfeen DJ Roxtar is currently one of the best performance DJ in Czech Republic and this is his channel!
YouTube
#Politika #hudba #turek #Macinka #protestsong
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FOSDEM 2026 on PeerTube


Dear #Fediverse,

we managed to prepare our #VHSky #PeerTube instance channel for 3 #FOSDEM rooms, so feel free to subscribe them or use #federation feature if you are instance admin.

fosdem@makertube.net
fosdem@vhsky.cz

If any other instance admin would like to join our effort, feel free to contact me, there are still quite a few rooms left for sharing 😀

Fingers crossed hoping that everything goes well

Unified playlists here:
vhsky.cz/w/p/ixCUdbv6dmPVgeWLc…
makertube.net/w/p/tH91FM3JdSe7…

Thank you for your attention to this matter 😁
(and boost if you feel like)
vhsky.cz/c/fosdem/videos

#fediverse #peertube #federation #fosdem #vhsky

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There will be live video streams of FOSDEM 2026 via PeerTube, you can find out more details via @schmaker at:

➡️ schmaker.eu/display/c83e3896-2…

There are playlists for the event streams on PeerTube at these links:

➡️ makertube.net/w/p/tH91FM3JdSe7…
➡️ vhsky.cz/w/p/ixCUdbv6dmPVgeWLc…

You can follow these channels to see the streams pop up in your timeline on Mastodon etc:

➡️ @fosdem@makertube.net
➡️ @fosdem@vhsky.cz

(PeerTube admins wanting to federate these, you need to federate these specific channels.)

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #PeerTube

Schmaker

2026-01-18 21:42:31

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FOSDEM 2026 on PeerTube


Dear #Fediverse,

we managed to prepare our #VHSky #PeerTube instance channel for 3 #FOSDEM rooms, so feel free to subscribe them or use #federation feature if you are instance admin.

fosdem@makertube.net
fosdem@vhsky.cz

If any other instance admin would like to join our effort, feel free to contact me, there are still quite a few rooms left for sharing 😀

Fingers crossed hoping that everything goes well

Unified playlists here:
vhsky.cz/w/p/ixCUdbv6dmPVgeWLc…
makertube.net/w/p/tH91FM3JdSe7…

Thank you for your attention to this matter 😁
(and boost if you feel like)
vhsky.cz/c/fosdem/videos


#peertube #fosdem #fosdem2026 @Schmaker @fosdem@makertube.net @fosdem@vhsky.cz
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It feels like the alt text advice “describe what you see” being replaced with the alt text advice “don’t describe why you see” coincides a little too neatly with the rise of machine-generated alt text.

I’m always interested to hear from people who rely on this, though, and the common point being raised—AI just describing an image doesn’t tell the non-sighted reader what’s important or how it’s relevant to the post—is well-taken.

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Cuando era profe intentaba contar un chiste malo nuevo cada semana, voy a hacer un hilo recopilatorio de los que consiga recordar. Se aceptan sugerencias.

"Entra Jesucristo en un bar y todo el mundo empieza a reírse, ¿por qué?
— Es la gracia del señor."

#chistes #chistesmalos

#chistesmalos #chistes
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All bags are packed, ready for take-off: Meet us this weekend at #FOSDEM – our stand is UD2-02 (where you can grab stickers, flyers, & more)! And make sure you don't miss the lightning talk (10 min) on our download statistics, by the fantastic Cat Ima @SylvieLorxu (14:00 at UB4.132). And if you're bored, be also welcome to my half-hour-long about Reproducible Builds for Android Apps (12:30 at UB4.132; that's the FOSS on Mobile devroom).

Looking forward to meet you! 🤗

#IzzyOnDroid #FOSDEM2026

#fosdem #izzyondroid #fosdem2026 @Sylvia

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Statement from the Acting Commissioner of Competition on appeal court's ruling in Cineplex deceptive marketing case

canada.ca/en/competition-burea…

Sometime the Government catches on the oligarchs and their scams. Here, the "online booking fee" from Cineplex.


Statement from the Acting Commissioner of Competition on appeal court's ruling in Cineplex deceptive market...

Jeanne Pratt, Acting Commissioner of Competition, issued a statement following the Federal Court of Appeal’s decision to uphold a September 2024 ruling by the Competition Tribunal in a deceptive marketing case involving Cineplex.
Competition Bureau Canada (Government of Canada)

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GrapheneOS Near Future Major Text To Speech Improvements

We've built our own text-to-speech system with an initial English language model we trained ourselves with fully open source data. It will be added to our App Store soon and then included in GrapheneOS as a default enabled TTS backend once some more improvements are made to it.

We're going to build our own speech-to-text implementation to go along with this too. We're starting with an English model for both but we can add other languages which have high quality training data available. English and Mandarin have by far the most training data available.

Existing implementations of text-to-speech and speech-to-text didn't meet our functionality or usability requirements. We want at least very high quality, low latency and robust implementations of both for English included in the OS. It will help make GrapheneOS more accessible.

Our full time developer working on this already built their own Transcribro app for on-device speech-to-text available in the Accrescent app store. For GrapheneOS itself, we want actual open source implementations of these features rather than OpenAI's phony open source though.

Whisper is actually closed source. Open weights is another way of saying permissively licensed closed source. Our implementation of both text-to-speech and speech-to-text will be actual open source which means people can actually fork it and add/change/remove training data, etc.

GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)

GrapheneOS (GrapheneOS Mastodon)
#grapheneos
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Today was definitely a #Thursday.

I went to a dentist, and, as a result, I'll be getting a root canal on Monday... maybe... because we're supposed to be getting snow over the weekend, so what are the odds the office will be open?

I slipped and fell on the ice getting out of the car, got two items that were damaged in shipping, and you can't make this stuff up.

Also completely scrapped a project I was working on, because everything was just going completely wrong.

#thursday
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singleWordFinalHoldMs: 45
Adds a bit of sustain to the last voiced segment (helps “R/are/you” feel complete).
singleWordFinalFadeMs: 18
Adds a proper fade-to-silence frame (prevents the hard cut).
singleWordClauseTypeOverride: "." and singleWordClauseTypeOverrideCommaOnly: true
If NVDA passes comma clauseType for isolated words, it won’t rise anymore.

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GrapheneOS version 2026012800 released

Tags:

  • 2026012800 (Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel Tablet, Pixel Fold, Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 8a, Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, Pixel 9a, Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL, Pixel 10 Pro Fold, emulator, generic, other targets)

Changes since the 2026012100 release:

  • FusedLocationProvider: restore pre-16-QPR1 GNSS usage policy of using GNSS for both balanced and high power requests instead of only high power requests since many GrapheneOS users don't enable network location and network location may not always be accessible such as temporarily not having internet access
  • Sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer: add special case for sandboxed Play services making it so users granting the SMS permission enables reading SMS addressed to apps using the Google Play services client library (Android 16 QPR2 prevented using the SMS permission to read SMS addressed to other apps so a special case is needed for apps which use Google Play services to handle SMS-based authentication)
  • Sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer: prevent sandboxed Play Store attempting to install the "Device configuration" package which is not used on GrapheneOS and serves no purpose
  • avoid compatibility issues with apps doing misguided anti-tampering checks by changing the initial call stack for secure app spawning (exec spawning) to match the standard zygote-based spawning
  • Settings: require device restart after changing the secure app spawning setting
  • Sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer: update Android Auto configuration UI to Material 3 Expressive
  • add workaround for upstream system_server startUserInBackgroundTemporarily crash
  • fix GrapheneOS support for recording permission usage history for a broader set of permissions
  • Dialer: set CallStyle for call notifications to improve the user interface and replace our temporary workaround of disabling notification grouping for it
  • Network Location: rename "GrapheneOS proxy" option to "GrapheneOS Apple proxy" for clarity
  • Network Location: add "Apple China" server choice required for China data due to China's laws about mapping the country (currently no proxy due to poor connectivity to and from China causing reliability issues with connecting to Apple's servers in China from ours but we plan to offer it as an option in the future)
  • Pixel 8a, 9th gen Pixels and 10th gen Pixels: disable NTP usage in Samsung gnssd which isn't as useful on GrapheneOS due to reducing the system time update threshold from 2000ms to 50ms along with avoiding us needing to redirect this to our own NTP service as we did for Qualcomm xtra-daemon
  • update code for disabling reporting of harmless fingerprint-service.goodix crash
  • improve user interface for Network/Sensors permissions in the permission manager
  • fix minor Material 3 Expressive styling issues for the Contact Scopes and Storage Scopes configuration UI
  • adevtool: raise minimal supported Node.js version to 24
  • adevtool: disallow running adevtool as root
  • adevtool: check for presence of prebuilts dirs at startup
  • kernel (6.12): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision including update to 6.12.67
  • Vanadium: update to version 144.0.7559.109.0

All of the Android 16 security patches from the current February 2026, March 2026, April 2026, May 2026 and June 2026 Android Security Bulletins are included in the 2026012801 security preview release. List of additional fixed CVEs:

  • Critical: CVE-2026-0039, CVE-2026-0040, CVE-2026-0041, CVE-2026-0042, CVE-2026-0043, CVE-2026-0044, CVE-2026-0047, CVE-2026-0049
  • High: CVE-2025-22424, CVE-2025-22426, CVE-2025-32348, CVE-2025-48600, CVE-2025-48615, CVE-2025-48617, CVE-2025-48630, CVE-2025-48641, CVE-2025-48642, CVE-2025-48644, CVE-2025-48645, CVE-2025-48646, CVE-2025-48649, CVE-2025-48652, CVE-2025-48653, CVE-2025-48654, CVE-2026-0011, CVE-2026-0014, CVE-2026-0015, CVE-2026-0016, CVE-2026-0017, CVE-2026-0018, CVE-2026-0020, CVE-2026-0021, CVE-2026-0022, CVE-2026-0023, CVE-2026-0024, CVE-2026-0025, CVE-2026-0033, CVE-2026-0034, CVE-2026-0035, CVE-2026-0036, CVE-2026-0048, CVE-2026-0050

For detailed information on security preview releases, see our post about it.


GrapheneOS security preview releases - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

GrapheneOS discussion forum
GrapheneOS Discussion Forum
#grapheneos

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Are you really digitally independent? ⛓️‍💥

In his guide “Getting off US tech”, tech writer and podcaster @parismarx breaks down why #DigitalSovereignty matters, and how to get there step by step.

Discover practical, user-friendly alternatives! Full list of apps 👇 disconnect.blog/getting-off-us…


Getting off US tech: a guide - by Paris Marx - Disconnect

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
Paris Marx (Disconnect)
#digitalsovereignty @Paris Marx

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My fellow Canadians, if you want to be part of the USA, you can move there freely on your own. I encourage you to do so.

"To go to a foreign country and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there's an old-fashioned word for that, and that word is treason," said Eby ahead of the meeting.

#Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli #USA #USPoli #Alberta #Separatism #Fascism #FarRight #ABPoli #BCPoli
cbc.ca/news/politics/eby-alber…

#USA #canada #canpoli #cdnpoli #fascism #abpoli #Alberta #bcpoli #uspoli #farright #separatism
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Sean Randall

If you always want the number symbol and a series of words to be read hashtag rather than number, that's doable.
If your platform uses hashtags that start with a number, though, then that wouldn't follow the pattern and NVDA would still say number in those situations.

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I'm crowd sourcing once again. So as most of you know I lost my job back in February and have had no luck in obtaining another one. Previously, I taught assistive technology in a school setting. I'm interested in teaching assistive technology at a rehab center for blind adults, or anything I can do remotely, such as tech support or cold calling. Yes, I really will do cold calling at this point. If you have any leads to anything I can use, please make me aware of them. I've re-applied for SSI, but it could take up to 300 days for them to reach a decision on my claim. My resume will be available upon request. Thanks in advance for your help.

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NEW, by me: A security and privacy feature rolled out to select models of the latest iPhones and iPads this week will make it more difficult for law enforcement, spies, and malicious hackers to obtain a person's precise location data from their phone provider.

techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/appl…


Apple's new iPhone and iPad security feature limits cell networks from collecting precise location data | TechCrunch

The new security feature makes it more difficult for police and malicious hackers to obtain a person's precise location data from a cell phone company.
Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
in reply to Tamas G

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Scott

I contend that when the apocalypse comes and the world is reduced to a swamp of putrefaction, when a deathly silence has befallen and all hope is lost, a nerdy gang of zombies will get boozed up and go looking for some entertainment. They'll find Audio Games Net, they'll consider taking it down, but even then they'll be like, "Nah, fuck it, not worth worrying about."

Tamas G reshared this.

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Tamas G

@Scott ahahahaha well at least that was very funny to picture, definitely thanks for that. LOL! I really think Cloudflare is the only thing protecting them from all the spam topics, and even then you'll see them come through every once in awhile, but yeah, with all the trolling / lots of ambivalence against developers, I just arely if ever visit there or post. Usually it's why I find more entertainment in the off-topic room then the game threads themselves which is ironic, but even then very specific topics too. LOL.
@Scott

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Thursday.

Bertie's first train trip today. He behaved admirably; a touch grouchy and tired on the way home, but nothing I'd consider untoward for fellow passengers. He only slept about an hour total of the 12 hour day out so is unsurprisingly out-for-the-count while I enjoy my Buffalo Fried Chicken Burger, Halloumi Fries, Jalapeno and Cream Cheese Bites, and a portion of Teriyaki Boneless Chicken Strips.

Mrs R had a work thing. I always get a kick out of going to the Pocklington Hub in London, I enjoy playing spot the blind person. 1 guide dog, 2 canes and a VoiceOver today.
Also got to go for a ride on the electric travel assistance buggies again, which is always fun. A cheap upgrade to first class for the return leg of the journey meant I had leg room to spare, too.

For all that there is much strife and discord at home at the moment with a lot going on, the day out with the baby at 16 weeks was a right success.

I’m sitting on a train with Mrs Randall and Bertie. I am on the right, smiling and wearing a dark striped jumper, while Mrs Randall is rocking her reddish-brown hair and white wired Apple earbuds. Bertie is looking directly at the camera with his big dark eyes. He is dressed in a cozy light grey sweatshirt with a matching sage green bib over the top, and you can see a dummy clip made of light wooden beads attached to his outfit. I am supporting Bertie securely around his middle with both hands, and my wedding ring is clearly visible on my finger as I hold him. Behind us, the bright interior of the train carriage, with its green accents and window, provides a blurred backdrop to our family moment.

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@doubletap I'm listening to today's episode ("The Best NVDA Add-ons and Keyboard Tricks You Need") and really enjoyed the discussion around #NVDA workflows and keyboard customisation. I smiled when one of you mentioned struggling to remap an Applications key on a Keychron, because I ran into exactly the same issue after buying my Keychron shortly after Christmas.
What finally worked for me was not using the Menu / Applications keycode directly at all. Even though it's exposed in the Keychron Launcher, it didn't actually do anything reliably on Windows with NVDA.
Instead, I created a macro for Shift+F10, which is the standard Windows keyboard equivalent for the context menu and is very screen-reader friendly. In the Keychron Launcher, I went to Macro, selected a macro slot, chose Start Recording, pressed Shift+F10, stopped recording, and then assigned that macro to the key I wanted.
One important gotcha I ran into: the launcher shows what look like “duplicate” key entries in the macro (for example multiple F10s or Shift appearing twice). Those aren't mistakes. They're the key-down and key-up events. If you delete them, you can end up with Shift getting stuck. Leaving the macro exactly as recorded solved that for me.
Once I did this, the key worked reliably everywhere I’ve tried it, like File Explorer, browsers, and with NVDA, and it's honestly been more dependable than trying to use the Applications key directly. Thought I'd share in case it helps others listening to this episode or experimenting with Keychron keyboards.
#ScreenReader #Accessibility #Blind #keyboard @mastoblind @main
#Accessibility #blind #screenreader #nvda #keyboard @Double Tap @Blind Main @Group 4 Blind & VI people

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I'll believe it when I see it.

Microsoft is focusing on fixing the core issues of Windows 11 over the coming months after persistent bugs, ads, and bloatware eroded user trust.

theverge.com/tech/870045/micro…


Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in Windows

Microsoft is going to spend 2026 improving Windows 11. It comes after Windows update quality issues and complaints about the operating system.
Tom Warren (The Verge)

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The US administration have held meetings with members of the Alberta Prosperity Project, a separatist group that is pushing for the western province to become independent.

The group is openly seeking a $500B US line of credit from the US Treasury to help bankroll the new country, if they come out victorious in a referendum.

DO WE NOT HAVE LAWS PREVENTING THIS AND/OR PUNISH THIS?!?!? cbc.ca/news/politics/eby-alber… #cdnpoli #polcan #treason

#cdnpoli #polcan #treason

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If you're a Python developer, definitely make your voice heard here: pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/01/y…

I filled it out. I feel like it was briefer than previous years? And obviously there are a bunch of questions about genAI junk, which I suspect will end up showing up as very widely used, so I hope some of you skeptics will also fill it out and at least we might be legible as a meaningful minority


Your Python. Your Voice. Join the Python Developers Survey 2026!

This year marks the ninth iteration of the official Python Developers Survey. We intentionally launched the survey in January (later than ye...
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