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Nice evening ride, overcast but not too cold. Didn't get any rain which is a bonus at the moment. #biketoot #biketooter #cycling #fediversecyclingclub

Route of a cycle ride around Warrington UK

cyclist in a cycle lane approaching Runcorn bridge

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Last month we released #MocaccinoOS #Linux 25.12 and with this release I want to test with using #torrents.

Would be cool if people could help test and share them. Links are on the download page.

https://www.mocaccino.org/blog/2025/12/15/mocaccinoos-v25.12/

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Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 💕💁

#Billionaires #Capitalism #Anarchism #USA #US #Politics #Economic #LucyParsons #Inequality

Black-and-white portrait of Lucy Parsons, a 19th-century labor activist, shown above a bold quote that reads: “Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote their wealth away.”

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Dusted off the carbon bike. Nice ride out no issues, bit chilly that's all. Back into warrington passing at least 50 cars . #biketoot #biketooter #cyclist #fediversecyclingclub

black carbon bike on a bridge over a dual carriage way, with Manchester UK in the far distance

Map of a cycling route around Warrington UK

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Was in shorts, drivers must have wanted a closer look at my amazing legs, as that is the only explanation for all the close passes tonight #biketoot #biketooter #cycling #fediversecyclingclub

Cyclist on a road with a high hedge to the left. A low sun is setting up ahead

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#war #taxes #republicans #trump #iran

@daveybot i did well, then cruelly gave it to my colour blind missus to try. She did better than i thought

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Oh gawd, this could prove distracting, today.

This was my first attempt. I challenge you all to a colour game thingy!

https://dialed.gg/?c=BEJ28N

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Local Bus? That is another way of putting it.

A meme with the caption: "look, at that everyone, a local bus!". The image shows a front end of a bus (as in public transit) .The display that usually shows the bus line or the direction of travel reads: 192.168.228.

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A couple of months ago a family friend had a very serious health issue and he couldn't move or speak much. So I put together a web app with a set of phrases, connected to a game controller, in a way that he could just select phrases from the list to communicate. Luckily this person got better quickly, and this app was no longer needed, but I decided to improve this experiment and publish it as an Open Source project.

So, this is VoxEase. It can be operated with a mouse, a touch screen, a computer keyboard, a game controller using a single hand, or you can set it to scan the list of phrases automatically so you only need to press one button to pick your phrase.
It only requires a modern browser and once downloaded it works offline.
It supports multiple languages and it can also be used by people with sight impairments (it works with screen readers).

Any suggestions on how to make it better are welcome!

Link: https://turisc.github.io/voxease/

#openSource

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Hello everyone, version 0.21.0 of #GoToSocial, aka Sacrilegious Sloth, has emerged from the release candidate process, ready to serve your nasty blasphemous posting needs 🥰 :gtspat:

https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.21.0

Please read the migration notes carefully for instructions on how to upgrade to this version! There are database migrations and config file changes to be aware of.

Here are the release highlights:

Domain Limits: You can now create domain limits in the admin section of the settings panel, in order to do things like limit + mute all accounts on a domain (except ones you follow), add content warnings to posts from limited domains, mark media as sensitive (or don't download it at all).
Documented here: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/admin/domain_limits/
Indexable support: You can now mark your account as "indexable" by full-text search, in the settings panel. This will federate your preference to other servers, so that servers with full-text search functionality can include your posts in search results.
Documented here: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/user_guide/settings/#mark-accounts-posts-as-full-text-indexable
Show reblogs on the web view of your profile (opt-in): A new setting in the settings panel allows you to opt-in to showing posts that you've boosted/reblogged on the web view of your profile. The default setting retains existing behavior (don't show boosts on the web view).
Documented here: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/user_guide/settings/#include-boosts-on-the-web-view-of-your-profile
Better caching behavior for timelines. The number of database calls when browsing local + public timelines and lists should be significantly reduced.
Store + show reason for undownloaded media: When media fails to be downloaded from a remote instance, the reason why will be shown next to the post.
Include canQuote property on outgoing posts: Currently, this is always set to author-only, but it paves the way (and signals intent) for GtS to implement quote toots at some point.
Much improved OpenGraph previews: Whitespace is now preserved in OpenGraph previews, and media + formatting was rejigged, so linking to GoToSocial posts should result in much better OpenGraph-generated preview cards.
Expand/collapse all spoilers button on web view of threads: when viewing threads in the web view, you can now expand/collapse all spoilers at the click of a button.
S3 Object Info Caching: you can now configure cache.s3-object-info in order to mitigate expensive S3 info calls when doing nightly media cleanup.
Preserve significant whitespaces in incoming + outgoing posts: previously we were squashing a lot of whitespace together, which meant that, for example, indentation could get lost on posts federated into a GoToSocial instance. This is now fixed, so you can post poetry and whatnot without worrying about it looking like hot crap.
Millions of fucking bugfixes: we squashed a lot of them!

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Every time I recollect my thoughts.

Meme panel from the movie The Princess Bride in which a sick kids grandpa is reading him a book.

All right, now, let's see. Where were we?
Oh, yes. In the Pit of Despair.

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Hello all.
New to this place, and wanted to introduce myself.

I'm living in Denmark (don't worry, I'll stick to English), working in programming but am currently struggling with burn-out and other related stress/depression issues (non-diagnosed, simply working through it all), living on my own, and am looking to find and possible create a new voice for myself outside tech and normal life.
I'm going to try and find/experiment with new hobbies to share about, food stuff, music and other such things, so I'm looking for others to follow for a more artistic and mindful approach, than what I'm usually exposed.

Anyway - enough rambling, and hiya to you all. Hope to 'see' you around.

#introduction

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@BenCotterill @bigvimto @DJDarren @WiteWulf Aside: I drove a lorry once and it was fucking brilliant. I always tell my pupils that my plan for when I'm sacked as a teacher (it's inevitable!) is I'm going to set up a haulage company - all the drivers will be middle-aged women, and the company will be called Mother Truckers. I can't wait!

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#Caturday greets

black cat behind its white paws you can only see its eyes and paws

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#SilentSunday

A garden light among some snow covered flowers in the night. The snow forms balls at the top of the flowers.

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Age verification is not en never was about protecting children. It's about mass surveillance.

"Once a user verifies their identity with Persona, the software performs 269 distinct verification checks and scours the internet and government sources for potential matches, such as by matching your face to politically exposed persons (PEPs), and generating risk and similarity scores for each individual. IP addresses, browser fingerprints, device fingerprints, government ID numbers, phone numbers, names, faces, and even selfie backgrounds are analyzed and retained for up to three years."

https://www.therage.co/persona-age-verification/

#AgeVerification #MassSurveillance #Persona #Thiel #ChatControl #Discord

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