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"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.

github.com/zoicware/RemoveWindโ€ฆ


GitHub - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI: Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11

Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI
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To make it clear, I don't agree with the under 16 ban of social media because:
1. It won't remove bullying from teens' lives
2. The age verification tech will actually be used to compromise identity and may actually be used *for bullying*
3. Teens will not learn how to engage with social media.
4. Alternatives to using social media are not "riding a bike" or "reading a book", but actually "talking to Chat GPT". Good luck with that.

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The new web-based WhatsApp for Windows is uninstalled for now. After the forced switch from the previous app, messages simply stopped syncing on my PC. Nothing I send from Windows goes through, and anything that arrives on my phone never shows up on the desktop. Only Meta could take a perfectly good app and turn it into a trash-tier experience. Honestly, itโ€™s unbelievable how consistently they manage this.

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Callum Stoneman

@FreakyFwoof Based on my experience that's exactly what will happen unfortunately. It was a very sad day for me as well. Brian Hartgen's scripts make a massive difference, but of course that only helps if you're a JAWS user. I'm not sure how things are with NVDA add-ons at the moment, but I'd be surprised if there wasn't something out there to help make it a bit more usable
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Andre Louis

They seem to do that a lot. In my case I just got banned with zero understanding why. Very rude people, very hard to get hold of.

TikTok Permanently Banned My Account With No Reason Given youtu.be/mVaV3ObYbnQ


TikTok Permanently Banned My Account With No Reason Given

Maybe itโ€™s my imagination, but if youโ€™re going to ban somebody permanently, you should probably send them an email about it.Yesterday, my wife, myself, and m...
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On this day six years ago, we learned that mr Robot curls:

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2019/12/10โ€ฆ

Exactly three years later, still this date, we found a #curl sighting in the movie Silk Road:

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/12/10โ€ฆ


Mr Robot curls

The Mr Robot TV series features a security expert and hacker lead character, Elliot. Season 4, episode 8 Vasilis Lourdas reported that he did a "curl sighting" in the show and very well I took a closer peek and what do we see some 37 minutes 36 seconโ€ฆ
daniel.haxx.se
#curl
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๐Ÿšจ World's first social media ban begins: Australian & underโ€‘16? Your social media account is now locked. ๐Ÿšจ

What's next? From Dec 27 #AgeVerification checks for search engines like #Google.

BUT - Once your data is in the system, what's stopping it from being used for surveillance?

And what happened to #Privacy? ๐Ÿง

#DigitalID #Australia

YouTube already has it โžก๏ธ tuta.com/blog/how-to-turn-off-โ€ฆ

Notice from YouTube: You must be 16+ to sign in to YouTube in Australia.

YouTube AI Age Verification: What it is & how to turn it off. | Tuta

Did YouTube ask you to verify your age with ID or credit card? You're not alone! YouTube AI is increasingly trying to estimate how old you are based on your habits following the global push for age verification.
Tuta
#google #privacy #australia #digitalid #ageverification

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Bei einer technischen Untersuchung von zehn Passwortmanagern, die wir als BSI zusammen mit dem FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik und der @verbraucherzentrale_nrw durchgefรผhrt haben, kam heraus, dass es durchaus Unterschiede in den getesteten Produkten gibt.

โžก๏ธ Hier erfahrt ihr mehr รผber die Untersuchung: bsi.bund.de/dok/1188780

Fliederfarbene Grafik mit halbtransparentem Zahlenmuster im Hintergrund. Auf der linken Seite ein dunkelblauer Kreis mit weiรŸem Text: "Worauf sollte man bei einem guten Passwortmanager achten?" Daneben ein Icon von einer Hand mit einem Finger, der nach oben zeigt und das Symbol eines Computer-Ordners. Auf der rechten Bildhรคlfte ein dunkelblauer eckiger Textblock mit einer Aufzรคhlung von Stichpunkten: "Verwendung eines Masterpassworts fรผr den Zugang zum Passwortmanager; Automatische Sperre nach Zeitรผberschreitung; Passwortmanager unterstรผtzt die Verwaltung von Zwei-Faktor-Authentisierungsinformationen; Metadaten: Nicht nur das Passwort, auch Benutzernamen oder zugehรถrige Webseiten sollten verschlรผsselt sein; Wiederherstellungsoption, falls das Masterpasswort vergessen wird."

Untersuchung: BSI identifiziert Verbesserungsbedarf bei Passwortmanagern

Aufgrund der Sensibilitรคt der in Passwortmanagern gespeicherten Daten bestehen hohe Anforderungen an deren IT-Sicherheit.
Bundesamt fรผr Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik

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Interesting. Someone dropped 240 usb keys around Luxembourg, and 38,4 (16 %) were put into a computer and a file called "disclaimer.html" was opened.

Are usb keys still such a big attack vector?

Other interesting fact: the photo seems to be a stock photo, but they usb key looks EXACTLY like one I have, from Luxembourgs biggest bank.

en.paperjam.lu/article/the-redโ€ฆ


The red USB key, the little weakness that will lose you

An experiment carried out in Luxembourg this summer shows that, despite ten years of awareness-raising and widely-documented cyber-risks, a significant proportion of the population still pick up and plug into their computers USB keys they come acrossโ€ฆ
en.paperjam.lu

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Hi @NVAccess if possible in a future in prossess blog, could you tell us how to interact with split buttons on windows? For example when a windows update requires restart, the button is a split button. The default action is to restart the machine, but I think there are more options to it and I am not sure how to find them. Somebody told me in the past but I don't remember. I couldn't find anything online. If I type split buttons, I get the buttons for split screen etc.
@NV Access

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The World #Blind Union General Assembly and World #Blindness Summit in Sรฃo Paulo, #Brazil in September was an amazing opportunity not only to talk about NVDA, but to give a presentation on the amazing MOVEMENT behind the world's favourite free #screenreader! We have two videos of the presentation and a full transcript for you, complete with an audience-initiated chant of "#NVDA NVDA NVDA!" at the end!

nvaccess.org/post/world-blind-โ€ฆ

#NVDAsr #Accessibility #Movement #Social

Title slide from presentation "World Blind Union General Assembly and World Blindness Summit Sao Paulo, Brazil, presented by Emma Bennison (Director) James Boreham (GM) with NV Access Logo. Title in white on purple. Presenters below in purple on white.

NV Access | World Blind Union General Assembly and World Blindness Summit Sรฃo Paulo 2025

www.nvaccess.org
#Accessibility #blind #screenreader #nvdasr #Social #brazil #blindness #nvda #movement
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Last week Trump called Tim Walz the โ€˜R slurโ€™.

He then doubled down on it, and now his base have begun harassing the entire Walz family.

Memes are circulating on socials encouraging people to drive past their house and yell it at them.

Iโ€™ve been personally called that word more than 1,000 times in the last seven days.

We canโ€™t allow this to happen. The disability community has fought far too hard for far too long to remove that word from the public vernacular.

This is ableism at itโ€™s most ugly, and ableism feeds eugenics and eugenics feeds fascism.

Help us fight back. We are not expendable.

disabledginger.com/p/the-r-sluโ€ฆ

#uspol #trump #walz #fascism #discrimination #ableism #eugenics #chronicillness #disabilityjustice


The R Slur Must Never be Normalized

Last week Trump called Walz the 'R slur', and now his base is using it regularly. We must all speak out against this. It's a term that pushes a eugenicist agenda and feeds directly into fascism.
Broadwaybabyto (The Disabled Ginger)
#Trump #uspol #chronicillness #DisabilityJustice #discrimination #ableism #fascism #eugenics #walz

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Every available method of age verification systematically excludes or harms marginalized people. The real question isnโ€™t whether these systems discriminate, but how extensively. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/10-nโ€ฆ

10 (Not So) Hidden Dangers of Age Verification

Itโ€™s nearly the end of 2025, and half of the US and the UK now require you to upload your ID or scan your face to watch โ€œsexual content.
Electronic Frontier Foundation

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โŒš๏ธGoogle is rolling out a new Wear OS update for the Pixel Watch series, bringing:

- Smarter Smart Replies to the Pixel Watch 3 and later

- New double pinch and wrist turn gestures for the Pixel Watch 4

More details๐Ÿ‘‡

๐Ÿ”— androidauthority.com/pixel-watโ€ฆ

๐Ÿ”—androidauthority.com/pixel-watโ€ฆ

Your Pixel Watch just got smarter, more efficient Smart Replies - Android Authority

Google is bringing even smarter Smart Reply functionality to its recent Pixel Watch models, and this should deliver battery savings too.
Hadlee Simons (Android Authority)

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Secretary of State Rubio has concluded Calibri is a DEI font and orders US diplomats to revert to Times New Roman in official communications. devdiscourse.com/article/politโ€ฆ

Font Wars: Times New Roman vs. Calibri in U.S. Diplomacy | Politics

In a move reflecting broader debates on diversity the US State Department led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reverted to using the Times New Roman font in official communications dismissing the previous administrations adoption of the more accโ€ฆ
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You can now blame Cloudflare for website issues with โ€œThe Cloudflare Error Page Generatorโ€ (an open-source project ) lets you create custom, static HTML error pages that perfectly mimic Cloudflare's style (like 5xx down errors). Put it on your site to quickly shift blame to Cloudflare when your site fails even when you donโ€™t use Cloudflare ๐Ÿคฃ yes, someone spent time building it instead of fixing the actual website. ๐Ÿ˜‚ github.com/donlon/cloudflare-eโ€ฆ

GitHub - donlon/cloudflare-error-page: Cloudflare error page generator

Cloudflare error page generator. Contribute to donlon/cloudflare-error-page development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Here it is. I went through many many Youtube videos to dig out these. The sounds of: First a Monarch, then a dotPad X, then the Cadence. all 3, side by side. Interesting to me that DotPad's noise is more fragmented, maybe a tad louder than Monarch, almost on-par with Cadence. Cadence may be the loudest, but also fastest-refreshing (which is where they'll always have an advantage, even when you pair 2 or 4 that refresh rate doesn't go up.) Refresh rates between DotPad and Monarch feel comparable to me: Around 1.5 to 2.5 seconds, depending on your text's complexity.

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Internships like Google Summer of Code prioritize people who have very little to no experience with free and open-source software (FOSS)

To get a job, employers prioritize people who have a formal experience, so internships are perfect for that

I have too much experience to be qualified for an internship, but I have no formal experience to be qualified for a job

Make it make sense please

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