Just got the following email from Orbit Research regarding the Orbit Player:

Hello List Members,

We are excited to announce that the Orbit Player will begin shipping on Monday, July 21, 2025!

Orders are now open and we encourage you to place yours early to ensure timely delivery from our initial batches.

Please note that initial production batches are limited and expected to sell out quickly. Therefore, we recommend placing your order as soon as possible.
Shipments will be fulfilled in the order they are received, with priority given to customers on the pre-order list.

You can place your order online here:
orbitresearch.com/product/orbi…

Or call us at 888-606-7248 to order by phone.

Thank you again for your continued support!

Best Regards,

Customer Care Team
Orbit Research

Orbit Player - Global Version

The Orbit Media Player is a versatile, user-friendly device designed to enhance accessibility for blind and visually impaired individuals. It features a compact, lightweight design with tactile buttons for easy navigation.

^{Orbit Research}

Well, Sameer finally got what he wanted: the end of an actually fast, actually secure counterpoint to Android.

CrOS can't make Android look like shit if CrOS also sucks:

theverge.com/news/706558/googl…

Google exec: ‘We’re going to be combining ChromeOS and Android’

A merger of Android and ChromeOS has been rumored for months, desired for a decade, and now Android head Sameer Samat says it’s on the way.

^{Dominic Preston (The Verge)}

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 20 updated and 1 added apps:

* DHBW Horb Student App: study life app for students at DHBW Stuttgart Campus Horb 🛡️

And it seems we make a spot landing at the 1st anniversary of our public RB GoLive on August 1st. Current RB status: 648 apps (49.8%) – just 0.2% missing for the 50% mark! 🥳

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Shared for absolutely no reason at all.

"Ottawa rushes to build its own AI translator as government use of free tools soars

Demand for official translation services is falling despite a rise in content creation. As public servants turn to free online tools, the government is racing to build its own AI translator.

If PSPC Translate works for staff in the department of about 19,000 people, the tool will be used more widely. It’s the first “lighthouse project” under the federal government’s artificial intelligence strategy, meant to help the public service learn how to build and implement new AI tools and create something that can be scaled across government."

thelogic.co/news/exclusive/ott…

Ottawa rushes to build its own AI translator as government use of free tools soars - The Logic

^{Murad Hemmadi (The Logic Inc.)}

Hmm, Florida has a congressperson who is being evicted for failing to pay rent.

#politics #eviction

#RechercheIdee:
Es wäre bestimmt interessant zu erfahren, ob und wie sich #katholische #evangelische und #Frei Kirchen, Werke, Initiative etc. für #SaveSocial engagieren @news_katholisch@libori.social

savesocial.eu/
#SocialMedia #selbstbestimmtDigital #FediKirche #digitaleKirche

🇩🇪

Soziale Netzwerke als demokratische Kraft retten Wer wir sind Nina George, Schriftstellerin, Ehrenpräsidentin European Writers’ Council (EWC) Foto: Heike Blenck Rocko Schamoni, Schriftsteller,...

^{Save Social}

Dítě popojíždí s odstrojeným kolem v kempu. „To je nějaký lehký...“

Foto je ilustrační, tady tu brašničku ještě měl.

#NaCestach #Ennstalradweg

Příprava na dovolenou. Dělám to dobře? 😎

#eknihy #e-knihy #nakupy

This is lovely, SwiftUI for Windows and Linux:

swiftcrossui.dev

Neplecha ukončena.

#miseauto

*unhinged laughing* a study where everyone involved assumed AI would improve developer productivity actually ended up showing a huge net productivity loss. I am going to be pasting this graph in SO many chats

Paper: metr.org/Early_2025_AI_Experie…

> “We are entering a world where we will learn to coexist with AI, not as its masters, but as its collaborators.” – Mark Zuckerberg

@trenner is spot on 🎯 "[They're] framing the conversation in a very specific way. Rather than “is this the future you want?”, the question is instead “how will you adapt to this inevitable future?”. Note also the threatening tone present, a healthy psychological undercurrent encouraging you to go with the flow. [...]"

tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevit…

HAHHA

archive.ph/68A7F

#SanFrancisco #AI

Who Says You Can’t Have Privacy and Security in an Operating System?

Meet PureOS — The OS That Respects You

Supported on Purism’s Librem 5 and Liberty Phone, PureOS gives you the power to break free from the eye of Big Tech.

✅ No targeted ads
✅ No trackers
✅ No foreign or domestic surveillance
✅ No addictive tech

Just freedom, transparency, security, and full control over your device—the way it should be.

Learn more at Purism: puri.sm/posts/what-is-pureos-a…

Sagt mal @Golemde: Einen Artkel mit dem Titel "Curl-Entwickler erwägt Ende der Bug-Bounty-Prämien" mit einem AI Slop Bild zu illustrieren ist aber schon auch etwas schräges Messaging, oder?

(Link: golem.de/news/wegen-ki-schrott… )

What little luxury does being retired give you the most pleasure?

For me it is the ability to have a long bath in the middle of the day.

By the way, this is NOT me.

We are launching Mailx, an open source, audited email aliasing and forwarding service built and operated by the IVPN Team.

Mailx is in closed beta, first available free to IVPN Pro customers with at least one year of remaining time on their account, with new invite rounds to follow.

Blog post with details: ivpn.net/blog/mailx-beta-audit…

Mailx beta launch - Audited, open-source email aliasing service

In short Today we are launching Mailx, an email aliasing and forwarding service built and operated by the IVPN Team.

^IVPN

Dětský bagr do pískoviště Stavoplast A01 Klasik

Prodávám velmi málo používaný dětský bagr na pískoviště, Stavoplast A01 Klasik (viz Menzi Muck A01 Klasik). Výborný stav, bez škrábanců. Vzhledem k velikosti jen osobní předání - Pardubice, Třemošnice, Čáslav.
Cena 3000 Kč.

Cena: 3000 Kč :: #Bazar na #Flohmarkt instanci nechces.cz Prosím odpověz přes přímou/soukromou zprávu.

Deltachat Desktop 1.60.1 is ready to be tested! Highlights:

🖼️ open all media view (gallery) in an own dialog
🔔 a sound effect is played when current open chat gets a new message (can be turned off)
🔎 Zoom In/Out with Ctrl +/-
💠 show 3 recently used apps in chat navbar

support.delta.chat/t/help-test…

#deltachat_desktop

:test_tube: Help testing the upcoming v1.60.x release

Please help testing the next release 1.60.x before we publish it to the stores: New features: 🖼 open all media view (gallery) in an own dialog 🔔 a sound effect is played when current open chat gets a new message (can be turned off) 🔎 Zoom In/Out …

^Delta.Chat

16 yo Sofia Avramenko got 200 in biology, math, Ukrainian (197 in history)

The highest scores for university entrance

Amazing by itself

She did it living in #Sloviansk, #Donetsk

The frontline

With nightly shelling

"You would sit somewhere in the corridor or in the basement until 2:00 AM, so it was very difficult to wake up in the morning. Or I would hear drones flying, or something would start shooting or banging"

Sofia plans to be a doctor

suspilne.media/donbas/1058377-…

#UkraineWar #Ukraine

Maybe LLMs are allowing leakage of information between parallel universes. What we think of as hallucinations could be facts in another timeline.

I know, it’s just bollocks. But it makes the hallucinations more fun when I think of them this way.

hachyderm.io/@mattcomi/1148492…

mattcomi (@mattcomi@hachyderm.io)

Attached: 1 image He did not. This is simply plausible nonsense. It used to be that Google Answers would fail by being the right answer to the wrong question. Now they fail by being completely made up. Why do we abide this.

^Hachyderm.io

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Je ne vois pas où Madame Borne a tort. Le courant, mal défini ou pas, existe. Je ne sais pas pour les universités, mais dans la société — absolument.
leparisien.fr/societe/islamo-g…

« Islamo-gauchisme » à l’université : Borne recadre le ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur et affirme l’existence du courant

Philippe Baptiste estime que « l’islamo-gauchisme », un « terme pas bien défini », est un courant qui « n’existe pas ». Interrogée ce dimanche, la ministre de l’Éducation nationale l’a contredit.

^{Le Parisien avec AFP (Le Parisien)}

Le niveau de trumpisme 😱

« Ce courant existe dans la société, donc nécessairement à l’université », a affirmé Élisabeth Borne sur radio J.

« Dire que l’islamo-gauchisme n’existe pas, c’est un peu comme dire que la Terre n’est pas ronde », avait estimé l’ancien ministre de l’Éducation Jean-Michel Blanquer.

leparisien.fr/societe/islamo-g…

« Islamo-gauchisme » à l’université : Borne recadre le ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur et affirme l’existence du courant

Philippe Baptiste estime que « l’islamo-gauchisme », un « terme pas bien défini », est un courant qui « n’existe pas ». Interrogée ce dimanche, la ministre de l’Éducation nationale l’a contredit.

^{Le Parisien avec AFP (Le Parisien)}