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Don't blindly believe everything you read online, tempting as that is. Do your homework first. This video series will help you do it well: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8d

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Remember to pop your filter bubble every so often. If you think you're not in one, you're trapped in one and in for a rude awakening.

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Rob Ricci

MFW the website I run on a raspberry pi sitting in my living room has better uptime than two of the planet's largest cloud providers

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Well, Yamamoto might make the final tally 4 games to 3. Or the Jays' entire lineup finally shake him up like they've done the rest of the Dodgers' pitchers. We'll see.

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The difference between the Dodgers and the Blue Jays:

The Dodgers are a team of great players.

The Blue Jays are a great team of players.

This is going to end with the team representing another country again winning 4 games to 2.

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Alexis

Be like Data.

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The kde-www mailing list via KDE.org, thread "No X under social media.", reply by Paul Brown on Tue Oct 28 10:22:52 GMT 2025: mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-www

TLDR: KDE quit Twitter & refuse to go back because it became a brand "X" nazi bar & huge liability to KDE's community.

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fsgnjx, f4, f2, .filmröllchen

mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-www

yet another reason to feel good about daily-driving @kde . they’re not gonna throw us under the bus :)

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trashHeap :hehim: :verified_gay:

Tripped over oneko in #FreeBSD ports, and installed it for some Nostalgia. Which caused me to trip over this eliotakira.com/neko "Neko: History of a Software Pet" page.

Which included a repository of a bunch of historical versions. Including the original 90s #BeOS version which had introduced me to the net kitty.

Which caused me to wonder if the "replicat" app from BeOS could be made to build in #Haiku. (It can).

The actual replicant feature where the app window is embedded into the desktop isn't working quite right for some reason that escapes me at the moment. (Other replicants work fine on my system.) #HaikuOS

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Efi (nap pet) 🦊💤

looks like kde is alright
thanks @cybersqyd for pointing this out

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Hypothesis: Copilot told a vibe-coding employee to FORMAT C: /Y on the Azure servers and convinced the poor sod's vibe-working manager to sign off on it.

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Scary Jerry 👻👻💀🎃

I’m sure the Azure outage was definitely not caused by an MS employee needing a break from Teams

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Ashe Dryden

We are creating an increasingly brittle world.
mastodon.social/@mhoye/1154590

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mhoye (temporarily spooky)

There's an Azure outage, so in the Netherlands the trains aren't working.

nltimes.nl/2025/10/29/ns-hit-m

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If your government's legislature can't vote because a third-party commercial ~~cloud~~ somebody-else's-computer is down, then your government needs to ditch it for an on-prem solution pronto.

The Scotsman, "Scottish Parliament suspends voting over ongoing Microsoft outage": scotsman.com/news/scotland/sco

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The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.

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Today it's Microsoft's turn to be the somebody else's computer that goes down worldwide. News is saying Azure and 365 were down and are starting to come back up, but Microsoft's support website (support.microsoft.com) is still down for me as I post.

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Juice that toots other Juice

Honking Juice

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

i want recommendations for free text to speech interfaces like those used for speech impaired people (screens of icons for quick vocabulary, customizable, with option for full text input)

bonus points for something with a highly customizable voice, or also seeking recommendations for any tts voice that's local, customizable, not genAI, runs on old hardware. i don't want solutions that only work with the system's black box TTS i have to find arcane packs for

please boost! :boost_ok:​

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Once upon a time, Napster was a "sharing is caring" pirate website.

Then the RIAA killed it, took control of it, and resurrected it as a "rent to never own" pirate website.

Now it's dead again and about to be resurrected as a dot-ay-eye "plagiarism machine" pirate website.

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

TIL one form of CDDA copy protection is intentionally corrupted error correction codes causing audible glitches in ripped copies which explains a lot of MP3s i downloaded as a teenager sounding the way they did

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🇨🇦️Dracula🍁

Some musical humour.

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