The United States will celebrate theΒ 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the countryβs founding document, in 2026. Twenty years later, America will celebrate the 250th anniveβ¦
This is, as they say, why we canβt have nice things. This week Senator Ron Wyden β one of the few U.S. Senators who takes public and consumer privacy seriously β attempted to passβ¦
Scientists have been working on enhancing concrete to store energy. That includes researchers at MIT, who found a way to combine cement, water, and carbon black to create a 'supercapacitor' for this purpose back in 2023. It's now 10x better at this.
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This is a digitally created image resembling a news headline featuring a portrait of Mariah Carey and a smaller inset image of a person in a suit. The main image shows Mariah Carey looking to the left, wearing a black dress and several necklaces, with hair styled in long waves. She is positioned against a blurry, dark background. In the upper left corner is a smaller circular portrait of a person in a dark suit and blue patterned tie.
Below the main portrait is text that reads: βMariah Carey Told To βLeave The U.S.β After Admitting She Didnβt Know Charlie Kirk β Critics Jeered: βDarling, I remember melodies, not mediocrityββ. The background of the image is a dark, gradient color with a slight shimmer. The composition is designed to resemble a tabloid news article or online sensational headline.
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The Internet Archiveβs Cookbook and Home Economics Collection contains nearly 13,000 archival cookbooks from the past several centuries. mymodernmet.com/internet-archiβ¦
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The text at the top of the image reads: "I'm not saying Donald Trump is a Nazi. But America's Nazis believe he is."
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The image is a square photo of a small kitten sitting in a corner of a room. The kitten is facing slightly to the left and has orange and white fur. The walls are a light beige color, and the floor appears to be made of wood. Above the kitten is the text βI am opposite of artificial intelligenceβ and below the kitten is the text βI am genuine stupidity.β A small watermark logo is in the bottom right corner of the image.
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Ok, maybe not for the win per se, but I am switching over to DeltaChat as I really only have two people I share with.
While its not perfect, it works well enough for me, I just send the occasional message, link or image to others or m'self, and it does that fine. This time around, I've got the sticker thing sorta fixed, Android doesn't offer a sticker option, something I need to see if'n I can figure a work around for, but I've got it working well on my desktop. I've also tried the Mastodon bridge, and that works fine, but having your home timeline show up as chat messages get old fast, notifications are a little bit better, but still, bad idea. There is a Telegram bridge, but that looks like it only works to bridge Telegram Groups to DeltaChat, so that's not all that great.
So what is DeltaChat? Its an email based encrypted messenger. You can use an existing email address, though I don't recommend that, or get one from DeltaChat or a couple other servers. Clients exist for Linux, MacOS, iOS, Android... And I suppose there's one for Windows too.
I guess if'n anyone wants to try it, or has questions, I can try to answer them, just shout at me here.
EweSticker is an Android sticker keyboard application, specifically designed for sharing a wide variety of custom stickers in supported messaging apps. This project draws inspiration from the uStic...
@Hiro Lynx πΎβ«π§ I'd heard something about that, but hadn't tried it. Not sure how well it'll work, but we'll see if'n I can get it installed and working, animated images don't seem to work in the Android client though
EDIT That works very nice, thanks. Wonder if'n iOS needs a solution like that or if'n it just works.
adding stickers from the keyboard stopped working completely with the recent changes instead if being set, they are added in-line to the text field - and the ignored on sending
Deltachat mobile doesn't support stickers [workaround].
I found a good workaround that works well for #Apple #Mac, not quite a sticker picker but similar amount of clicks on iPad and iPhone. I like the odds that it would work on #windows and #linux versions.
On Desktop apps, display your installed stickers and find a Show Sticker Folder button at the bottom.
Click button. This displays the folders with .webp files.
Create a Delta folder at the top level in iCloud (or whatever).
Copy all the sticker folders to iCloud.
In a #iPad or #iPhone chat, use π (paperclip) button.
Tap Files.
Navigate to iCloud Delta folder and drill down to sticker folder, then double-click the sticker you want. The .webp file will be inserted, and the mobile app shows it animated!
If you selected a sticker, the picker will remember the folder for next time.
Optional: Tell Files to display icons. To the extent that works in Files on the iPad and iPhone (questionable), you will see the key image for the sticker.
In the middle of the 20th century, the atom was all the rage. Radiation was the shiny new solution to everything while being similarly poorly understood by the general public and a great deal of thβ¦
Weβve spent plenty of time talking about various people who are failing to meet this moment, but I will say that a number of district court judges have really been stepping up. The latest example iβ¦
Independent bookshops will earn 100% of the profit from sales, and ebooks will be priced the same as they are on Amazon. theguardian.com/books/2025/octβ¦
For the past 15 years, F-Droidhas provided a safe and secure haven for Android users around the world tofind and install free and open source apps. When cont...
Democratic and Republican lawmakers across the country tried to push through bills to tighten gift limits, toughen conflict-of-interest provisions or expand financial disclosure reporting requirements. But many of the measures were derailed.
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