We're continuing investigation to the performance issues, you can follow and react here: https://lemmy.world/c/friendicaworld
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Emacs For Writers (Video Series)

cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6891969

If you write for a living, for studies, or even as a hobby, you should consider Emacs. It could be just what you need in an environment of enshittifying word processors and AI garbage.


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2025-11-29 21:29:32

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Emacs For Writers (Video Series)


If you write for a living, for studies, or even as a hobby, you should consider Emacs. It could be just what you need in an environment of enshittifying word processors and AI garbage.

#emacs

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Valentine Angell

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Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles
#punk #antifascist #tentacles #californian punk #Jello Biafra
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Happy 55th Oregon Blew Up A Whale Day for those who celebrate!

Also: if you're afraid of doing something because you're worried you'll look like a jackass if you mess up, PLEASE know that you will never look like as much of a jackass as the State of Oregon did as chunks of rotting whale blubber pelted onlookers.

They caught the whole debacle on the evening news.

popularmechanics.com/science/a…

50 Years Ago Today, Oregon Blew Up a Dead Whale. With Dynamite. On Live TV.

The blubber chunks were ... everywhere.
Caroline Delbert (Popular Mechanics)
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We're now running Mastodon v.4.5 which introduces "quote posts". Learn more about how to confirm your personal setting preferences here:

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/…

Mastodon 4.5

Quote posts, the end of missing replies, new tools for admins and better emojis. All of these and more, in our latest release.
Mastodon Blog

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FOSS software is not free as in beer or free as in freedom, it's free as in free kittens. You have to take care of them forever.
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gargle

friendica.world/contact/blocke… is empty too.

I saw an account on the local feed that posted way to many posts to my liking, so I clicked on the three dots to ignore them. That account was NOT in my contacts. It worked as a charm. I got curious and tried to find out where I could find all the accounts I ignored that way, but that functionality does not seem to exist. friendica.world/contact/ignore… and friendica.world/contact/blocke… only work for accounts that are in my contacts.

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Michael 🇺🇦

In the admin settings is a configuration called 'Posts per user on community page'. When this is set, it will restrict the number of posts per user.

Also the admin could restrict the number of posts that a user can create per hour/day/week.

Funny side note: I created these settings for exactly that user. That account had been on several other Friendica servers before and - I guess - annoyed tons of admins because of this flooding.

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Jeanne Dielman mural, a few minutes’ walk from 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Brussels

#Cinema #Movies #Art #StreetArt #Murals #Bruxelles #Brussels #Brussel #Belgie #Belgique #Belgien #SilentSunday

#art #silentsunday #movies #streetart #cinema #belgie #bruxelles #murals #belgique #Brussels #belgien #brussel

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Exactly 50 years ago: The first issue of BYTE, the dawn of a revolution: "Computers -- the World's Greatest Toy!" And more....
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Me: This meeting could have been an email.
Also me: (gets an email) Goddammit.
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”What stands out to me about the conversations on the fediverse is how much focus is placed on the singular fediverse, and how its decentralised nature can be a powerful tool for dealing with government overreach. In contrast, very limited attention is given to the very real problem that this means that there are a large number of server operators who do have to make the challenging decision for themselves: do they comply with Mississippi's Age Assurance Law, block access to Mississippi IP addresses, or ignore it altogether?“

— @LaurensHof in this weeks' Connected Places

This absolutely nails the issues facing the fediverse, especially as we go more mainstream and have to deal with regulations with legal requirements around the globe, especially in countries and states where we have people accessing our services from.

@Laurens Hof
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Reasons for Linux laptops?

- A Windows computer always has a higher price for the Windows license.

- Linux-Computers have been extensively tested for hardware compatibility. You can be sure that Wi-Fi and Bluetooth will work in your system.

- By purchasing Linux laptops and desktops, Linux is indirectly supported. Higher sales indicate a demand for Linux products, and therefore more vendors may be inclined to offer Linux as the operating system of choice.

Here I list some online stores that sell Linux computers or specialize only in Linux systems.

public.quodari.com/public/memo…

12 and more online-Stores to buy Linux Computers

Looking for Linux laptops? Here I list some online stores that sell Linux computers or sp...
public.quodari.com

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Blumpkin Spice Latte

"Mass surveillance shifts the guillotine equilibrium in favor of being greedier, by making it cheaper to identify and neutralize incipient guillotine-builders, which means that you can raise the greediness floor without seeing a concomitant rise in your guard labor bill."
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Iwan Rhys Morus follows the interplanetary safari that is John Jacob Astor’s A Journey in Other Worlds (1894), a high-voltage scientific romance in which visions of imperialism haunt a supposedly “perfect” future: publicdomainreview.org/essay/c…

Colonizing the Cosmos: Astor’s Electrical Future

During America’s Gilded Age, the future seemed to pulse with electrical possibility. Iwan Rhys Morus follows the interplanetary safari that is John Jacob Astor’s A Journey in Other Worlds, a high-voltage scientific romance in which visions of imperia…
The Public Domain Review

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Toren van Kasteel De Haar | Tower of De Haar Castle

Foto van hoektoren van kasteel

Haarzuilens (Utrecht) 2023

(Van mijn blog | From my blog)

Tags: #architecture #architectuur #castle #foto #fotografie #kasteel #netherlands #photo #photography

#photography #foto #photo #fotografie #architecture #netherlands #castle #architectuur #Kasteel

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I’ve been saying when the #AI bubble pops, it’s going to be so disastrous it will make the dot com bust pale in comparison.

Almost every online platform and SAAS I use has gone all-in on “integrating” AI in some form.

futurism.com/ai-agents-failing…

#technology

AI Is Failing at an Overwhelming Majority of Companies Using It, MIT Study Finds

Recent figures by MIT found that 95 percent of generative AI pilots are failing, with some drastic implications for the spending bubble.
Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
#ai #technology
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Ben Evans

Disagree. Lots of companies have largely paid lip-service to this fad. They have either deployed a shallow integration, such as a chatbot and called it "AI" or rebadged some non-generative technique that they were already doing.

IMO very few comapnies are doing any serious work with LLMs b/c they just aren't that useful for most of the data processing that companies and customers actually want to do.

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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

@kittylyst
I'm most concerned about the impact on the real-estate market. A lot of pension funds mix different risk profiles and so will have some tech stocks as high-risk, high-return things, but they'll also have a load of real-estate funds as low-risk, stable-return things. Unfortunately, a lot of the AI spending has been on datacenter leases, which are being used by the owners to underwrite other investments, so a lot of the low-risk things will also drop sharply in value. That's likely to have a big impact beyond the stock market.
@Ben Evans
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Ben Evans

@david_chisnall Yes, this is a concern. But I don't know how big of a one it is - although "not as bad as 2008" is a pretty low bar to clear.

I guess we'll see what happens as and when the CoreWeave (aka "WeWork for Nvidia chips") domino falls. Nothing good, I expect!

@David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

@kittylyst
I did the maths about a week ago. If the tech bubble drops in value (proprtionately) as much as as it did when the .com bubble crashed, the US stock markets will lose about as much of their total value as the NYSE did on the first two days of the Wall Street Crash. The secondary effects from margin calls are likely to have a similar effect.
@Ben Evans
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Settings

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

#krita #WebComic #minifantasytheater
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New major update to the private, free and open source office suite! #LibreOffice 25.8 is now available, with:

📝 Navigator improvements in Writer
📊 Many new spreadsheet functions
🚀 Faster file loading

Learn more and download it: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware

LibreOffice 25.8: smarter, faster and more reliable - The Document Foundation Blog

The best open source office suite continues to evolve, while maintaining its focus on privacy and digital sovereignty Berlin, 20 August 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.8.
Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
#libreoffice #foss #opensource #freesoftware
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pinho

Please make it simpler to download and update LibreOffice in languages other than English.

To those unfamiliar with English and/or with difficulties with using computers, the download of an English package, and then the requirement of downloading and installing a "translated user interface" can be quite difficult to understand.

Notice this whole ordeal has to be repeated for every update.

Why don't you do it like OpenOffice or Firefox?

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#LibreWolf v142.0-1 is now available!

codeberg.org/librewolf/bsys6/r…

librewolf.net/installation/

No major changes from LibreWolf's end.

See mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/142.… for upstream changes.

142.0-1 - librewolf/bsys6

## LibreWolf bsys6 Release v142.0-1 - Upstream release, see the [Firefox 142.0 Release Notes](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/142.0/releasenotes/) (Built on GitLab by pipeline [1993020832](https://gitlab.
Codeberg.org
#librewolf
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LibreWolf

@soop We try! 😁

(codeberg.org/librewolf/setting… for the most recent stuff.

Things that are still in "progressive rollout" state don't get enabled in LibreWolf anyway, but as soon as they veer towards a full rollout, we disable them)

explicitly disable ml smart tab group feature · a642ca7659

settings - All the settings files that form the core of LibreWolf.
Codeberg.org
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Blink and you’ll have never seen it in the first place 🫥

Age verification rules in the UK Online Safety Act are snapping parts of the Internet out of existence.

But it’s not what you think (porn)!

News on conflicts: GONE. Support for sexual health and smoking: GONE.

Watch as ORG’s @JamesBaker shows how censorship works ⬇️

#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #osa #censorship #reddit #ageverification #vpn #privacy #freeexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol #freedomofexpression

#reddit #privacy #vpn #censorship #onlinesafety #ukpol #OSA #ukpolitics #onlinesafetyact #freedomofexpression #ageverification #FreeExpression @James Baker
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Graham Smith

Inability or unwillingness? What would it profit a Parliamentarian who had invested substantial political capital in the project to look behind the label on the tin and discover a can of worms? There was no shortage of people pointing out the design defects in the Bill.

And when it all goes horribly wrong, blame the platforms, blame the regulator; then claim that this was only ever a trial run and we always knew we would need OSA v2.

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Graham Smith

@Heidentweet @jim And, of course, blame the previous government even though the Bill had full cross-Parliamentary support: the only complaint from Labour was that it didn’t go far enough. telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/… (£)

Tech Secretary Peter Kyle under fire as Online Safety Act faces mounting backlash

Peter Kyle is facing mounting criticism over Labour’s online safety crackdown
Matthew Field (The Telegraph)
@Jim Killock @Caro S.
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How's it going since the UK Online Safety Act slammed an age gate on the Internet?

Age verification providers with dodgy privacy policies, over-moderation of content, scammers scheming and sites closing down.

Here's a week in the life of an unworkable law ⬇️

openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-g…

#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #privacy #ageverification #ageassurance #ukpolitics #ukpol #freedomofexpression #censorship #netplurality

The Great British Firewall: Age Verification has Failed

From Friday 25 July 2025 UK Internet users have had to verify their age to use a range of apps and websites – from social media platforms such as X, Reddit and Bluesky to dating apps like Grindr to porn sites such as Pornhub.
Open Rights Group
#privacy #censorship #onlinesafety #ukpol #OSA #ukpolitics #onlinesafetyact #freedomofexpression #ageverification #ageassurance #netplurality
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Toni Aittoniemi

I don’t even think a private company SHOULD be allowed to run an age-verification service!

Critical matters private personal information should be exclusively handled by the state, with independent security audits mandatory.

You hand that data over to the private sector once, it’s going to be hacked or sold and that’s it, and you can’t vote the fuckers out who fucked it up.

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Lights are going out across the Net for UK users.

Age verification is driving sites to shut down, geo-block the UK or restrict features and content.

In trying to tackle to worst of the Net, it's harming the best.

🗣️ ORG Exec Director, @jim

#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #ageverification #ageassurance #freedomofexpression #digitalrights #censorship #ukpol #ukpolitics

#censorship #onlinesafety #ukpol #OSA #ukpolitics #onlinesafetyact #digitalrights #freedomofexpression #ageverification #ageassurance @Jim Killock
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The Gift of Life

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

#krita #WebComic #minifantasytheater
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LLM is replacing therapists, advisors, lawyers, and even doctors in some cases, according to news articles. But guess what? None of the usual protections apply. If your private chat can be subpoenaed, there is no NDA. There is no legal or ethical obligation. Governments love this. Some human professionals will not hand over your data and will protect you, but how are you supposed to get protection from greedy AI companies ? This is another danger. So be careful what you share with these chatbots
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It looks like we are under attack, that caused SSH connections to fail. We have deployed mitigations and the situation calmed down. Please let us know if the issue occurs again.
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📣 Is "disable" the same as "uninstall"? We do not believe it. Google does.

Under the DMA, the FSFE with a coalition of civil-society organisations prompts the @EUCommission to open proceedings to investigate Alphabet's (#Google) regarding the uninstallation of pre-installed apps in Android.

Uninstalling is completely removing the app, not just disabling it! This is key for #DeviceNeutrality!

📎 edri.org/wp-content/uploads/20…

#SoftwareFreedom #DMA

#google #softwarefreedom #dma #deviceneutrality @European Commission
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theregister.com/2025/07/25/mic…

go to the cloud they said
it'll be fine they said

Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty

: Under oath in French Senate, exec says it would be compelled – however unlikely – to pass local customer info to US admin
Paul Kunert (The Register)

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