Everybody is baking cookies ... we're baking pagers 😁
First batch of 39c3 pagers populated with small components and in the reflow oven!
Everybody is baking cookies ... we're baking pagers 😁
First batch of 39c3 pagers populated with small components and in the reflow oven!
it is not that I have something to hide 🤷♂️ I simply have nothing I want YOU to see...
#e2ee #encryption #privacy #chat #communications #family #ChatControl
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thing that's making me feel old today: remembering Japan's colour-coded payphone tier ranking system, which at one point was an important thing to know 😅
iirc:
* pink phones only took ¥10 coins, up to 6 at a time
* blue & yellow took both ¥10 and ¥100 coins
* green took phone cards as well as coins
* grey were the S-tier payphones -- they took *two* phone cards at once, so you didn't get cut off when your first phone card was used up. the only real option for making an international phone call
Gotcha.
FWIW, I don't think this is a voiceover issue; if you longpress and select add new contact from the menu that appears, you will also get a dialog where the phone number is not prefilled. That said I don't think it is intentional to have two different dialogs for the same flow, so I filed a bug. Thanks for flagging!
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 13 updated & 1 added apps:
* Qm Authenticator: an offline two-factor authentication 🛡️
RB Status: 755 apps (59.4%)
3 unmaintained apps have been removed:
* Smooth Clicker was reported mostly defunc
* Performance-Tweaker: only had 1 pre-release 2017; root+tracking
* Tortoise: the music player was reported as not working
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
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
I am working on some Gemini related stuff (the protocol, not Google AI) and would be interested in hearing about how Gemini stacks up from an accessibility perspective. Are there any specific clients or screen readers that work best? Is there any specific Gemini formatting that helps or hinders? Is there any accessible-specific content that you think should be made available via Gemini?
On a related note, am I wrong in thinking that Gemini is well suited to a low/no vision user? And if so, why?
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this haunts me:
“The processes that slow engineers down are the same processes that make their work legible to the rest of the company. And that legibility (in dollar terms) is more valuable than being able to produce software more efficiently.”
seangoedecke.com/seeing-like-a…
The big idea of James C. Scott’s Seeing Like A State can be expressed in three points: Modern organizations exert control by maximising “legibility”: by…www.seangoedecke.com
Anyone in the #GearSquad (or out of it) have these Adam Audio D3V monitors? My long suffering Eris 3.5s have developed an intermittent buzz, so it is time for an upgrade....
soundonsound.com/reviews/adam-…
How much tech can you cram into a compact set of desktop speakers? A lot, if you’re ADAM Audio.Sound On Sound
William Shatner in March 2025.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Americans have shown a tremendous amount and variety of opposition – more than some may realizeRebecca Solnit (The Guardian)
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Provided to YouTube by DistroKidI Want a Different President for Christmas · Emory Jones · Emory JonesI Want a Different President for Christmas℗ Sad Girl St...YouTube
I’ve just canceled my @heiseonline subscription which I’ve had for don’t know how long, definitely more than a decade. Reason is that Heise is part of the German lobby organization “Die Familienunternehmen,” which is problematic in itself – but that organization recently decided to cooperate with a German fascist party. While a number of other companies saw the public criticism and decided to withdraw their membership, Heise published this bullshit statement: heisegroup.de/presse/Zur-aktue…. It can be summed up as “we don’t want to talk about politics.” No further questions, goodby Heise.
Ansgar Heise, geschäftsführender Gesellschafter der Heise Gruppe GmbH & Co. KG und gleichzeitig Herausgeber von den heise-Zeitschriftenmarken, bezieht Stellung zur Debatte um "Die Familienunternehmer e. V.".heise group
My mum passed away 32 years ago. Every year her best friend (who had a hand in raising me after mum died) sends me a nice message. Every year - because my take on things is that any good news stories in my family are as a direct result of her kindness, love and patience - I send her a breakdown of all of the nice things happening with the kids. Every year she sends me a response to that, which hands down is fuckn hilarious. She's a no nonsense Austrian woman of advancing years, with an extremely dry sense of humour.
Her response this year.... "What a wonderfully long and interesting report."
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Je viens de trouver un exemplaire du Catalogue d'objets introuvables de Jacques Carelman d'occasion, je suis refaite !
C'est un livre que j'ai passé des heures à feuilleter gamine, j'ai hâte de re-découvrir toutes les inventions farfelues 💚
@temptoetiam @martin si vous ne connaissez pas encore, je suis sûre que c'est un bouquin pour vous !
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Stop working for humans. AI CEO delivers algorithmic thought leadership, with instant decisions, and zero ego. Replace your boss before they replace you.replaceyourboss.ai
Rozmohl se nám takovej nešvar - #Android appky se bez ověření #GooglePlay ani nezapnou, takže když je sosnete pomocí #AuroraStore, máte pešek.
Pruďte je, pište na helpdesky .. nenechme si Android ukrást.
Díky.
Pokud budou chtít nějaké argumenty, můžeš je odkázat na toto: grapheneos.org/articles/attest…
Jinak já přes Aurora Store nainstaluju, ale holt musím mít v izolovaném prostředí Google Play Services, aby odpověděly na to volání, až se aplikace poprvé spustí.
Guide on using remote attestation in a way that's compatible with GrapheneOS.GrapheneOS
Hot off the press in TWIM! 🔥 🧯
The public hosted slack bridge is being retired, Draupnir gains previews for Policy Room Subscriptions, Synapse dropping Postgres 13 support.
That and more happened This Week in Matrix!
Check it out at matrix.org/blog/2025/11/28/thi… !
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsHarHarLinks (matrix.org)
I switched back to Android and truly honestly tried to use all the default AI stuff that Google is trying to push forward.
I probably lasted 45 minutes before disabling everything.
The initial "fascinating" nuance of having auto reply, suggestions, "intelligent" context recognition, and so on, quickly was replaced by annoying and incorrect results, constant interruptions and prompts and popups that made using my phone just painful.
Years of development wasted on features that don't work
World's smallest violin needed, again:
hollywoodreporter.com/business…
"OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits" —if found guilty of 'wilful" infringement OpenAI could be on the hook for up to $150,000 per work. (And circumstances don't look great for them—they appear to have destroyed lists of the copyrighted works they'd trained GPT on.)
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.Winston Cho (The Hollywood Reporter)
Hubert Figuière
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