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In this clip, i install some APH programs from my childhood! Mathflash, and Talking typer! I had some technical issues, making this take longer than expected! I only used the trial versions, as i don't have a key, however, that dosn't detract from the fun anyways! First, i look at Mathflash. I suck at math, so i got that over with as quickly as possible, inorder to not imbarrass myself.
The second program in the cue was my favorite APH program, Talking Typer! The vertual nightmare of almost every child that used it! I think i can say i have more respect for it than i had 7 years ago! I played some hurry scurry, and failed misserably, yet seemed to have a good time reguardless of that. I also discovered that the go, application, and tools menus work in the trial version on older versions of Windows, compared to my experience on Windows 11, when i left it unregistered. None of the menus showed, leaving me to believe that they updated the program for modern windows at some point. It turns out, they did back in 2020, and they did post about that on there official youtube channel.
You can find it hear.

youtu.be/BpTwwKz3TZ4?si=iE9gOG…

Anyways, hope you enjoy! I am getting the netbook today, so, i think i am done with the VM stuff for a while. Givin that the netbook is a lot more interesting than just messing with a VM. It's real hardware, and i am so excited!



New Accessible Typing Apps from APH

Join Joe Hodge of APH's Technology Product Research Group to learn more about the legacy application Talking Typer and two new accessible typing apps designe...
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Privacy Washing is Big Tech's latest strategy to lull you into their sphere.

Don’t fall for Big Techs fake “we care about your privacy” claims.

Privacy Washing:

❌ Destroys trust
❌ Puts your data at risk
❌ Delays real protections

Find out more here: tuta.com/blog/big-tech-privacy…

#Privacy #DataProtection

Privacy Washing: Image of Don Draper from Mad Men giving a presentation, with a speech bubble, "We care about your privacy" on the poster next to him are the logos of Big Tech companies, Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft.

"Privacy Washing": Why Big Tech doesn't truly care about your privacy! | Tuta

Welcome to the age of "Privacy Washing": Big techs like Google and Microsoft now appear privacy-focused, but this is a facade. What is "Privacy Washing", and why is it happening? We explain below.
Tuta
#privacy #DataProtection
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snornik

post: mastodon.bsd.cafe/@gumnos/1150… direct: media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/med… repost from: @gumnos. not putting user data at risk: maybe dont store the keys of your own users on a central server 🤷‍♀️

Tim Chase (@gumnos@bsd.cafe)

Attached: 1 image "It turns out the public hates the culture of corporate greed. Let's figure out how we can monetize that hate." (from my feed elsewhere, it made me laugh)
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This week's In-Process is out. Featuring all the news on NVDA 2025.2, info on the upcoming NVDA 2025.3, a recap on restarting after updating (no we're not about to enforce that!) and a look into the namesake feature of Microsoft Windows... and just how complicated ARE the Windows+arrow key commands? (Very, but we break it down for you!) All that and more, available now: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #Windows #Desktop #NewVersion #NewRelease #FOSS #News #Newsletter

Screenshot of my desktop showing one window snapped to the left half of the screen and the snap window manager showing other windows I can snap to the right half if I choose.

NV Access | In-Process 22nd August 2025

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#Accessibility #foss #Windows #nvdasr #News #newsletter #desktop #nvda #newrelease #newversion

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I've finally just submitted the RFC series for USB3 support on Apple Silicon machines. RFC because the entire Type-C machinery spans multiple subsystems and has quite a few quirks which makes the entire thing rather annoying to deal with and I'm not 100% convinced about the current approach.

This also includes some initial work for DisplayPort-altmode and USB4/Thunderbolt but both will require much more work after this is upstream, so don't get your hopes up just yet.

lore.kernel.org/asahi/20250821…

#asahilinux #linux

[PATCH RFC 00/22] Apple Silicon USB3 support - Sven Peter

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Here's a lovely article about Randy Rhoads from our friends at @GuitarWorld:

guitarworld.com/artists/guitar…

One thing I didn't know is Randy triple-tracked his solos. WTF? Who can play that consistently? Well, surely Fripp, and Randy too I reckon.

#guitar #music #metal #ozzy


“He triple-tracked his solos. Ozzy told him, ‘Nobody can do that!’ Well, he could. That was just his genius”: Randy Rhoads’ sister Kathy is keeping his legacy alive with a new pedal and old memories

Kathy Rhoads recalls the young guitarist’s diary entry about the Prince of Darkness, his thoughts on the Eddie Van Halen comparisons, and touches on moments so painful she still can’t discuss them
Andrew Daly (Guitar World)
#music #guitar #metal #ozzy @Guitar World

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💬 Conversatorio La voz y el territorio: derechos, lenguas indígenas y su relación con la autonomía en el siglo xxi
🌿 Participan: Josefa Sánchez Contreras, Yásnaya Elena A. Gil y Luis Manuel Amador.
🗓️ Viernes 29 de Agosto a las 12:00 hrs
🏫 Salón Jaime García Terrés - Centro de Exposiciones y Congresos de la UNAM, Ciudad de México
🌍 filuni.unam.mx/eventos/

#UNAM #mexico #ciudademexico #feriadellibro #lenguasindigenas

Conversatorio La voz y el territorio: derechos, lenguas indígenas y su relación con la autonomía en el siglo xxi

Principal | VII Feria Internacional del Libro de los Universitarios 2025

www.filuni.unam.mx
#unam #méxico #ciudademexico #feriadellibro #LenguasIndigenas

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I managed to get the TP-Link Omada SDN Controller software running on FreeBSD after finding an old tip by someone about editing a Java JAR file with a decompiler to remove a Linux check

community.tp-link.com/en/busin…

Installing Omada Controller 5.15.24.19 on FreeBSD - Business Community

This is a follow-up to the thread: https://community.tp-link.com/en/business/forum/topic/181042   A similar change to the Java code was required. The function we are looking for is now in the omada-common-5.15.24.19.jar file. If you change
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 16 updated and 1 added apps:

* ExifEdit: a simple Android EXIF Editor (change the modification date, edit the coordinates, delete all EXIF data) 🛡️

RB status: 688 apps (52.8%)

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

Cleanup progressed, tool, 5 apps have been removed today:

* SpaceXFollower: was added before we knew that Elo 🙊 💨 I mean, unmaintained since 2021, author gone 2023, almost no downloads

(1/2)


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
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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ČSOB a její dceřinky vytvořily tak komplexní systém služeb, že po deseti letech, kdy tam máme hypotéku, vůbec netuším, co za služby tam vlastně platíme. Pokud tenhle screenshot chápu správně, tak jsme přišli o 0.2 procentního bodu ze slevy na vedení účtu a pojištění.

Fun fact: ČSOB má pojišťovnu, ale pojištění auta k půjčce, co jsme brali na Teslu kvůli dotaci, nám dali od Kooperativy.

Příští měsíc doplatíme Teslu, v dubnu 2026 hypo a pápá.

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Interesting new Google paper released today:

“Measuring the environmental impact of delivering AI at Google Scale”

services.google.com/fh/files/m…

Apparently, “the median energy consumption for a Gemini Apps text prompt in May 2025 is 0.24 Wh.”, which is down 33x from May 2024.

This is equivalent to watching TV for a few seconds.

(The paper does not include model training, only model usage.)

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The lady is not for turning: Julie Miville-Dechêne’s campaign for kids and porn regulation

mediapolicy.ca/2025/08/16/the-…

Not only they are illiterate on the subject matter, but they will ignore experts that could provide them with the insight of everything wrong.

It's governance by ideology. It's dangerous. It has to stop.


The lady is not for turning: Julie Miville-Dechêne’s campaign for kids and porn regulation

August 16, 2025 Senatrice Julie Miville-Dechêne does not give up easily. The senator appointed by Justin Trudeau in 2018 is now engaged in her third try to get the pornography-regulating Bill S-209…
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Raven667

Oh no, the consensus opinion seems to be that people hate the Ribbon UI, so maybe that isn't as successful a design ethos at is seems.

I really wish there was more funding for extensive scientific user studies to hone UI development, as a lot of designers seem to be unteathered to feedback, so all the hard work to create a logical, consistent set of principals, ends up not being effective because it isn't tested enough against how real people use things (both newbies and seasoned users with more expectations).

Most UI development these days happens with web apps, and there doesn't seem to be HIG for web apps as respected as the old IBM CUA or Mac HIG, every company seems to be learning UI design from scratch because the web platform allows you to design _anything_ without many guardrails.

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Emmanuele Bassi

@raven667 "the consensus" of whom? Mastodon?

I strongly recommend watching that presentation to understand the enormous amount of data Microsoft had and used to design and iterate on it.

youtube.com/watch?v=YLZgNHEEnS…


MIX08: The Story of the Ribbon

Jensen Harris tells the story of the creation, design, and history of the Microsoft Office Ribbon, introduced in Office 2007.Part of MIX08 in Las Vegas.
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In case I have any blind students or others who need to write academic essays, I thought I should share this. The Essayist iOS app is accessible with VoiceOver. I'm thankful that I no longer need to write such essays, but would have deeply appreciated an app like this. Back to School with Essayist apps.apple.com/ca/app/essayist…

‎Back to School with Essayist: New School Year. New Features.

‎New School Year. New Features.
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You thought Windows Recall was bad?

Meet the Chrome VPN extension that takes screenshots of every site you visit. 😱 cyberinsider.com/chrome-vpn-ex…

PSA: If you don't use Chrome, you're better off anyway 😎 tuta.com/blog/best-private-bro… Which is your alternative?

Oh, and check how to disable Recall on Windows 👉 tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-m…

Chrome VPN extension screenshots every site you visit. Screenshot of FreeVPN.One

Chrome VPN Extension With 100k Installs Screenshots All Sites Users Visit

FreeVPN.One, a verified Chrome extension with over 100k installs on the Chrome Web Store, is taking screenshots of sites users visit.
Bill Mann (CyberInsider)
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Dominik

Es ist es an der Zeit zu prüfen, ob ein die Privatsphäre respektierendes Betriebssystem wie Linux nicht besser zu Ihren Bedürfnissen passt. Linux enthält keine eingebaute Spyware, Linux-Distributionen machen keine Screenshots ohne Zustimmung und Linux verwendet offenen Quellcode, den jeder überprüfen kann.

Sogar Microsoft verwendet Linux - wer hätte das gedacht! 😎

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"Between approximately 00:34 and 01:48 (Beijing Time, UTC+8) on August 20, 2025, the Great Firewall of China (GFW) exhibited anomalous behavior by unconditionally injecting forged TCP `RST+ACK` packets to disrupt all connections on TCP port 443"

I don't see it in our logs but then again, we're blocked in China aside from the Military & "elites".

#censorship #china

gfw.report/blog/gfw_unconditio…

Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025

The Great Firewall of China (GFW) conducted a large-scale, unconditional block targeting TCP port 443 on August 20, 2025. This report documents the measurements and analysis we conducted of that event.
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