Apple’s decision to put satellite connections in iPhones is already saving lives, and as Hurricane Milton threatens Florida, now is the time for every US iPhone user to learn how the system works.
I appreciate the smaller indie developers, particularly in the Apple world, who specialise in a certain field and do it well, and take pride in being accessible. Rogue Amoeba is one. Their audio products are one of the best advertisements for Mac. Agile Tortoise is another, with the fabulous Drafts app. And another is Flexibits, who make the Fantastical Calendar app. This is a sound investment for management of the several calendars I keep. And they care a lot about #accessibility. I use their Openings and proposals feature regularly in my professional life. Now they have added RSVP. Here’s the explanation from their blog. If you’ve not checked out Fantastical yet, I did a demo on Living Blindfully and they have plenty of videos and help guides. I highly recommend it.
#huge office 365 news. I Have some huge news here for those who are tired of paying for office 365 subscription every year. Microsoft just bought out office 2024 you pay once and it’s yours to keep or until Microsoft ends Support for the product. Office 2024 is 150 United States dollars and is available now. Here is a link that describes this new version of office and I feel that many here will be very excited not having to pay every year for office 365. pcworld.com/article/2475992/mi…
It's important to note that the non-subscription version of Office 2024 will only receive security updates for five years and will not receive feature updates. It also does not include the additional OneDrive storage that you receive from the M365 subscription.
The following is taken from a Microsoft blog post:
"Office 2024 comes in two editions. Office Home 2024 is $149.99 USD and includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for one PC or Mac. Office Home & Business 2024 is $249.99 USD and comes with everything in Office Home 2024 plus Outlook and the rights to use the apps for commercial purposes. You can buy both editions from retailers worldwide and via Microsoft.com starting October 1, 2024. microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-…
@DavidGoldfield Thank you so much for this valuable info. It is really a shame that copilot pro does not come with Office 365 personal. I really enjoyed copilot pro however, to me it is very expensive for 20 United States dollars per month. It is a shame there are no other solutions that will integrate with word that work in a similar way to copilot pro that are accessible.
Correct; CoPilot Pro is a totally separate subscription from Microsoft 365. They may work well together but you don't get both by subscribing to just one service.
Ewan McGregor Reveals He and Lucasfilm Have Explored Ideas For ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ Season 2; Actor Wants to Revisit Clone Wars Era starwarsnewsnet.com/2024/10/ew…
New breach: Internet Archive had 31M records breached last month including email address, screen name and bcrypt password hash. 54% were already in @haveibeenpwned. Read more: bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…
prišiel aj jeden zo súrodencov, doniesol som mu to aby sa mohol v kľude najesť resp. rýchlo a viete čo urobil, asi to ochutnal a odišiel, je to pod schodami.. nebudem klamať keby som ho chcel mať doma
A few days ago I read this piece by @davidgerard about Eric Schmidt, formerly of Google, calling for burning all fossil fuels and letting climate change run without restraint for the sake of "AI" - pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/06/eri…
On the first reading, I missed how Schmidt apparently has a new military contracting venture called "Istari".
Yet another person who managed to read Tolkien's legendarium and completely misunderstand everything in it.
I hear you loud and clear Nobel Prize, you don't want to be left off of the AI hype train.
Next will be a Nobel peace prize for "AI safety."
Don't they supposedly wait for decades before seeing the impact, like new drugs that were created or something like that, before awarding Nobel Prizes?
Internet Archive's "The Wayback Machine" has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records.
well done to everyone involved in making usb so complicated that now the only way to understand what it's doing is to put diagnostic screens on charging cables
just a really solid set of decisions all the way down
Someone is DDOSing the internet archive, so we've been down for hours. According to their twitter, they're doing it just to do it. Just because they can. No statement, no idea, no demands.
Meanwhile, we literally rescued 400,000 dissertations from being pulped.
as I have mentioned elsewhere I have worked fiercely on reducing memory calls and memory copies in curl code over the last few years, and I have come to realize that strncpy is often a marker for questionable code decisions, so I have worked on removing those questionable code paths.
As I have reduced the amount already before, the remaining few uses were not hard to just fix with better conditions and improved logic
yeah I have a fondness for K&R C but looking back many of its standard lib functions were a Bad Idea that at best only made sense for some brief "Garden of Eden" period in the world's software ecosystem
before any user could be a determined (and well-resourced) adversary or a mind bogglingly careless idiot. haha
while I understand that C was always ever meant as a relatively light abstraction, I still don't understand why native string handling was never incorporated. Dealing with strings is relevant in _so_ many use cases, that not having a sane and safe abstraction for it is just asking for trouble.
I think that's one of the first things Borland improved on in their derivates of Pascal.
From the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library: Intro to Google Calendar: Thursday, October 10, 7:00 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/79…
In a perfect world bots and scrapers would follow robots.txt and/or ai.txt and give the webmaster a link to see if they have a legitimate reason to grab all the content. But, alas...
Remember all those posts you've seen telling you how using #Discord - a private, closed platform - is bad for your community? How it's a terrible idea for storing documentation or other information? Well, the Russian armed forces decided it was a smart idea to use it for *military communications*. Their own "internet regulator" (read: censor) decided to ban it, with predictable results: washingtonpost.com/world/2024/…
@GottaLaff Announcing the Cartoonists for Kamala fund raiser! Many cartoonists have donated original art of their work (not just a print!) for the auction where all the funds will go directly to the Harris-Walz campaign.
Here's a link to get you started. More art will be added over the next couple of days as this kicks into gear.
I letos budeme mít stánek na @linuxdays, tak se za námi zastavte, rádi vás uvidíme! Kromě toho si můžeme v sobotu v poledne poslechnout přednášku o #Fedora Asahi Remixu od @sesivany.
Milton je hurikán, kterého se vědci již dlouho obávali: Změna klimatu vytvořila v Mexickém zálivu vhodné podmínky pro extrémní hurikán. Když se včera hurikán Milton během 12 hodin změnil z bouře 1. kategorie na bouři 5. kategorie, klimatologové a meteorologové byli ohromeni. John Morales z televize NBC6, zkušený televizní meteorolog z jižní Floridy, se při popisu rychlého a dramatického zesílení hurikánu začal zalykat. Pro […]… politiq.cz/2024/10/09/milton-j… #Politika #Společnost #Zprávyzezahraničí :
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