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How come the only time Windows biometrics needs to rescan me for third party app access (including passkeys) is ...
Yep, ya guessed it. Immediately after I reauthenticate to windows itself.
This bothers me just like those websites where you reset your password and still have to log in.
Probably just getting grumpy in my old and tired state.


#LinkedIn is not familiar with the concept of "#privacy by default"

Suggest everyone check their settings. lnkd.in/efq-wHms





AT&T Slapped With $13M Fine Over Data Breach, Vows to Improve Security pcmag.com/news/att-slapped-wit…

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I wonder how many (good) Mastodon instances you could instantly shut down by convincing Wasabi to put all uploaded files through Photo DNA and close the accounts that get far too many hits.


Hi everybody, are you getting any new iPhones or AppleWatch how are you guys doing. I’m back. About a year and a half ago, I had a stroke, I couldn’t even write or talk with my iPhone or watch. I’m doing better now. I’m just to say hi to you guys.
in reply to David Goldfield

@DavidGoldfield hi David nice to but thank you so much hear you again. This is very good because it takes me a little long time because of the stroke. But thanks for talking with me. This helps a lot.
in reply to Randy Rusnak

Oh, of course, Randy. It's just so wonderful seeing you out here.


Hi @thunderbird@mastodon.online can you tell, where the profiles.ini is located when Thunderbird is installed as snap on ubuntu?


After almost a year since the last release, a new version of #Eyedropper is now available.
It now features a color editor, allowing to directly modify picked colors, a new warning page for unsupported systems (Thanks to @bragefuglseth for the illustration) and a rewritten color conversion backend.

The new version should be available on Flathub soon.

#GNOME #GNOMECircle



Racial profiling, was seit gestern an allen Grenzen durchgeführt wird, hat lediglich dazu geführt, dass ein dröhnendes Schweigen auf den sozialen Medien eingesetzt hat.
Es könnte vielleicht etwas damit zu tun haben, dass man dem eigentlich zustimmt, weswegen man in den Wintermonaten auf der Straße war?
Was ist der Unterschied zwischen Sellners Deportationsplänen und dem heutigen Vorgehen an den Grenzen?
Warum schweigt ihr?
Vielleicht, weil es eure Parteien sind, die ihr gewählt habt?


CHECK YOUR SETTINGS: LinkedIn gave itself permission to use your personal data to train its AI models. Instead of opting in, you have to opt out.

Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement

linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/s…



Reminder that my team is still looking for a Senior Embedded Engineer to work on our charging station software in @rust:

jucr-gmbh.jobs.personio.de/job…

Relocation to Berlin is a hard requirement though but it can't be helped when working on constantly improving hw.

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Spectrum Voluntarily Boosts Speeds, Lowers Internet Bundle Price cnet.com/home/internet/spectru…

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Компания Neuralink Илона Маска представила устройство Blindsight (habr.com/ru/news/844190/), способное вернуть зрение слепым от рождения, получившее одобрение FDA (Управления по контролю за продуктами и лекарствами США).

Это устройство представляет собой мозговой чип, даже если у пациента нет глаз или зрительного нерва, но не повреждена зрительная кора.

Устройство находится на ранней стадии тестирования.

in reply to dimkainc

Мечты, мечты :) Но мозг… боюсь я просто. Всякое же бывает при таких операциях (или нет?)
in reply to André Polykanine

@menelion не знаю. У подопытных Маска, судя по новостям, личность не терялась. Правда проводники, входящие в кору головного мозга обрывались, что вызвал в последствии дискомфорт испытуемого. И на просьбу об удалении нейрочипа сообщили, что это невозможно.

Может когда-нибудь вся эта технология будет доведена до совершенства. Как знать...

А может Маск с командой переберётся на Марс, как он заявлял.





Important Advisory for All macOS RIM Users: Avoid the Sequoia Upgrade Until Further Notice groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/77…





The CAQ: We must protect the French language!

Also, the CAQ: We will make it as difficult as possible for non-Francophones to learn the French language.

montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-lib… #CAQASTROPHE #FRANCISATIONFAILURE #polQC #QCpoli #polMTL #MTLpoli #cdnpoli #polcan




A. T. Guys Announces the Micro-Speak Plus Talking Digital Voice Recorder, 3rd Edition: Price$69.95 USD groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/77…



And admit it, if the pager thing was a movie plot, you'd be rolling your eyes at how implausible that is


Ich fordere:

- offene Grenzen
- Wärmepumpen bis zum Abwinken
- Kindergrundsicherung + Kekse
- eine Windrad- und Photovoltaikekstase
- barrierefreien ÖPNV bis in den letzten Winkel der Republik
- eine Zukunftsvision, die einen glückselig lächelnd einschlafen lässt
- verständliche Bedienungsanleitungen
- pestizidfreies Obs un Jemös
- Deutschkurse für ALLE
- 90% Vermögenssteuer für Überreiche
- einen Generalstreik
- Gerechtigkeit
- Solidarität mit Traumwandler*innen und Zipfelmützen
.
.
und so 😏



Two reasons to do anything: a good one, and a real one.

Good reasons to hate AI: the energy consumption! The theft! The plagiarism! It's a parrot! The corporations, man. Did you know it's actually a parrot???

Increasingly, the real reason some developers hate AI:

It is driving the value of being The Syntax Knower to zero, and some folks built their whole deal on that single pillar.

in reply to bsky: @daniloc.xyz

Wait, I thought you listed energy consumption under one of the dumb criticisms of AI. Did you change your mind, or did I misunderstand? Not trying to argue, just curious.


JAWS 2025 public beta is now available for testing.
A few notes about this if people are trying the public beta.

Hartgen Consultancy products are not supported as part of this test beta cycle.

On a personal note, I do think there are some very rough edges with this public beta.
Two good examples would be:
1. There are times when, if you move to the desktop, the response time of JAWS reporting the focus is significantly slower than JAWS 2024.
This has been reported by me a number of times.

2. If you open up Winamp, and press Insert+T to read the song title and artist of a radio station which is playing, the URL for the stream is announced instead.

For these reasons and a few others, I am not using version 2025 for my day-to-day usage with work or even pleasure.
But that is what the beta process is about; to report such findings.

Anyone who wishes to try it can do so:
support.freedomscientific.com/…



I just updated to IOS 18 and am noticing a very decreased responsiveness. Is this a common problem?
in reply to Malia Suhr

This sometimes happens to me post-update because the system might be doing some stuff in the background.

I'd wait a few hours, possibly restart the device, and start worrying if nothing changes.

in reply to Liam Erven

@lerven Can you do that accessibly now?

It used to be that a settings reset would turn off VO, turn off the accessibility shortcut, turn off siri and unpair all your computers, making it basically impossible to turn VO back on, possibly except through a wipe and the the DFU procedure.

in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@miki Good question, and I don't have a spare device to test this on. That would be gross if so.
in reply to Liam Erven

@lerven @miki Wouldn't a settings reset just change everything back to default settings? If so, it wouldn't make sense for siri to be turned off because I'm pretty sure it's on by default. How strange.
in reply to Malia Suhr

@lerven I'm pretty sure it asks you at setup whether you want it to be on, and there's no setup after a settings reset.

This might be a language thing though, I could have had my phone still set to Polish when I did this.

in reply to Liam Erven

@lerven I think I'd almost prefer backing up to a real computer and restoring from backup over a settings reset.

The new Apple APIs that let apps opt out of backup make that process far more annoying than it should be, though.



Well, ARM laptops are out for me on the Windows side. Not sure not sure. The compatibility and living without virtual machines, custom drivers (like keyboard interception hackery things) just won't work for me. Until the 3rd-party open-source community gets more behind ARM Windows I'm just not able to see it, and that may or may not happen, so off to looking for a 13" laptop as part of my birthday quest of finding something, I guess Birthday is next Sunday, ugh.
in reply to Tamas G

My brother went for the Prestige 13 AI laptop from MSI. Batterylife is pretty decent but the weight can't be beat (0.99 kg). Uses Core Ultra 7 processor, integrated Arc graphics, 32GB RAM, and EVO means at least 10 hours of battery life . Think he got it for around $950 so it was a good deal at the time.


For me, the best thing about the #WatchOS11 update is that you can finally change the sounds for certain alert types, and when you change the sound, it changes the haptic as well. This means that I can finally tell the difference between text/iMessages and emails without having to use VoiceOver to check. Such a simple thing, but long overdue in my opinion!

#apple #AppleWatch #WatchOS



GNOME 47 (codename “Denver”) is out today! I’ll be celebrating by upgrading my desktop to Fedora Silverblue 41 beta.

My favorite feature is definitely Accent Colors, but there is a lot of refinement and polish in this one. Check it out:

release.gnome.org/47/

#GNOME #GNOME47 #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS

in reply to Cassidy James Blaede

Thanks to everyone who has shared feedback about GNOME; we’re listening and constantly working to make it better release after release. And thank you especially to those who spent countless hours designing, architecting, organizing, developing, and testing everything. It’s often thankless volunteer work, but we do it because we care about making a platform and ecosystem that’s stable, usable, and a joy to use.

It’s a lot of work, but we’re all just a little… ambitious enough to make it happen 💙




so discord rolled out Messaging Layer Security (MLS) before Matrix did.
in reply to Jeder :: ::

@jeder ietf standard for actually secure e2ee, inspired by the signal protocol.


New from 404 Media: LinkedIn is training AI on users before updating its terms of service. People noticed a new setting on generative AI. I asked LinkedIn, they said they're updating their terms "shortly." They went ahead and trained AI w/o updating 404media.co/linkedin-is-traini…


Never reached for a definition list in Markdown until this very morning. Huh! Easy. geoffgraham.me/definitions-lis…


JAWS 2025 public beta is now available for testing. Just to remind you that Hartgen Consultancy products are not supported as part of this test beta cycle. We ask you please not to install them into JAWS 2025.


Если человек токсичный — перестаньте его есть


Oh look, Starlink is continuing to screw up the sky in every way possible.

"Second-Generation Starlink Satellites Leak 30 Times More Radio Interference, Threatening Astronomical Observations"

astron.nl/starlink-satellites/

It's going to be "hilarious" when Starlink messes up the radio sky so badly that radio astronomers can't even use quasars to calibrate GPS anymore. There are so many consequences from all these stupid, cheaply built, disposable satellites. universetoday.com/105160/navig…



The bright side to the AWS announcement is that they're allowed to work 2 days a week from home, on weekends.