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Calling all blind, DeafBlind, or low vision users of Apple Products! Take our 2024 Apple Vision Accessibility Report Card survey to grade Apple's performance in meeting your needs during 2024. The report card will be shared with Apple and our community in February. applevis.com/blog/share-your-a…

Share Your Apple Vision Accessibility Experience and Opinions: The 2024 AppleVis Report Card Survey is Now Open | AppleVis

We are very excited to announce our third annual Apple Vision Accessibility Report Card and invite you to participate in the survey that will determine the ratings.
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A US official says the Biden administration won't force TikTok to go dark in the country on January 19 and will leave it up to Trump to implement the law (ABC News)

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Biden administration will leave it to Trump to implement TikTok ban

The ban goes into effect on Sunday unless the Supreme Court intervenes.
Elizabeth Schulze (ABC News)

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AT&T stops 5G Internet Air service in New York, as a new law mandates monthly broadband rates of $15 for 25Mbps or $20 for 200Mbps for low-income residents (Eli Blumenthal/CNET)

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AT&T Is Stopping Its 5G Internet Air Service in NY Because of New Broadband Law

A new affordable broadband law in the Empire State has led to AT&T dropping its 5G home internet product entirely.
Eli Blumenthal (CNET)

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Lonely Mountain: Snow Riders has a new release date and it's next week - rockpapershotgun.com/lonely-mo… #LonelyMountains:SnowRiders #Racing #Sports #PC

Lonely Mountain: Snow Riders has a new release date and it's next week

Lonely Mountain: Snow Riders was delayed at the last moment late last year, but it now has a new release date and it's next week.
Graham Smith (Rock Paper Shotgun)
#sports #pc #racing #LonelyMountains

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[Forum Topic] PSA: There's no Hey Siri on Mac Mini applevis.com/forum/macos-mac-a…

PSA: There's no Hey Siri on Mac Mini | AppleVis

At least three of us on here have purchased m4 Mac Minis, but I haven't seen this mentioned. Those considering one ought to be forewarned that Hey Siri only works on internal microphones, so a USB external mic plugged into a Mac Mini won't listen for…
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Fixes for a critical rsync vulnerability (CVE-2024-12084) have been released for Stable/Bookworm, Testing and Unstable. Oldstable/Bullseye is not affected. Fixes for other lower severity CVEs have also been released in the same update and can all be tracked at security-tracker.debian.org/tr…. The fixed Stable version is 3.2.7-1+deb12u1 and the fixed Testing/Unstable version is 3.3.0+ds1-3

Information on source package rsync

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Effortlessly execute AWS CLI commands using natural language with Amazon Q Developer
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Effortlessly execute AWS CLI commands using natural language with Amazon Q Developer | Amazon Web Services

The CLI struggle is real Command-line tools are meant to simplify infrastructure and DevOps workflows, but the reality is often the opposite. Instead of speeding things up, the vast array of commands, flags, and syntax turns the CLI into a puzzle.
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Sonos CEO Patrick Spence is leaving following a botched app revamp that upset customers and stymied growth; board member Tom Conrad is named interim CEO (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Sonos CEO Patrick Spence Leaving After Failed App Revamp Led to Customer Revolt

Sonos Inc. Chief Executive Officer Patrick Spence is leaving after eight years in the job, a move that follows a botched app revamp that upset customers and stymied growth.
Mark Gurman (Bloomberg)

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Matt Mullenweg deactivates the accounts of several WordPress.org members, some of whom have been leading a push to create a new fork of the open-source project (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

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Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress accounts of contributors planning a fork | TechCrunch

 Matt Mullenweg has deactivated the accounts of several WordPress community members, including two with plans to fork WordPress.
Paul Sawers (TechCrunch)

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Mark Zuckerberg lamented the rise of "culturally neutered" companies that have sought to distance themselves from "masculine energy" (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)

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Mark Zuckerberg on Joe Rogan Podcast Slams Biden Administration

Mark Zuckerberg lamented the rise of “culturally neutered” companies that have sought to distance themselves from “masculine energy,” adding that it’s good if a culture “celebrates the aggression a bit more.”
Riley Griffin (Bloomberg)

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Our map of Developer Locations now links to a nice interactive world map where Debian Developers offer PGP keysigning. We use such keysigning to prove identities of prospective Debian people. Debian Members can add themselves to the PGP signing offers wiki page and soon you will be listed at debian.org/devel/developers.lo… #debian #community micronews.debian.org/2025/1736… #debian

Our map of Developer Locations now links to a nice interactive world map where Debian Developers offer PGP keysigning. We use such keysigning to prove identities of prospective Debian people. Debian Members can add themselves to the PGP signing offers w

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#debian #community

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Voice-controlled murder mystery Dead Meat hits Steam this year, but its embrace of generative AI might spoil a great idea - rockpapershotgun.com/voice-con… #DeadMeat #Puzzle #Slop?

Voice-controlled murder mystery Dead Meat hits Steam this year, but its embrace of generative AI might spoil a great idea

Dead Meat is a murder mystery where you can talk to suspects through your microphone and ask anything you want, but it feels too reliant on generative AI.
Nic Reuben (Rock Paper Shotgun)
#puzzle #Slop #deadmeat
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