Sex and gender are constellations:

"Many people, including Dawkins, believe sex and gender are a straightforward binary. You’re either male or female, a man or a woman, end of story.

But if that were the case, it should be easy to come up with a rule that tells you which sex a person is. However, that turns out to be not nearly so simple. The more you look, the more you find that any such rule is fraught with complications, exceptions and judgment calls."

freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/…

Sex and gender are constellations

^{freethoughtblogs.com}

Don't use "click here" for link text

Link: dont-click-here.com/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

PipeWire 1.2.6 is out! Some more bugs were fixed. More details below. Note that the 1.2 series is the latest stable version.

gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewir…

1.2.6 · PipeWire / pipewire · GitLab

PipeWire 1.2.6 (2024-10-23) This is a bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with the previous 1.2.x and 1.0.x releases....

^GitLab

Amazon-owned Eero unveils the $350 Eero Outdoor 7, a dual-band 2.4 and 5Ghz Wi-Fi 7 access point that covers up to 15,000 square feet with speeds up to 2.1Gbps (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

theverge.com/2024/10/23/242775…
techmeme.com/241023/p25#a24102…

Eero’s newest device lets you take your Wi-Fi outdoors

The new $350 Eero Outdoor 7 is an IP66-rated access point that can extend your Wi-Fi network beyond your home.

^{Jennifer Pattison Tuohy (The Verge)}

Defender Sound Studio

Link: zapspace.net/defender_sound/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

✨ Coming Soon ✨ Quick actions on email notifications: Deleting or marking an email read will soon be easier 🥳

#comingsoon #sneakpeak

One of the top things I wish Apple trained all their UX designers on: do not show obvious, modal feedback telling me the result of something I just triggered is the expected one.

For example, control-click on a video on Messages and choosing “Add to Photos Library" shows a confirmation dialog saying this will make the video available on Photos on all my devices.

I know, that's what I just told it to do… and since it's something non destructive and easy to reverse, why the confirmation?

Want to show your support for the Internet Archive? Join us TONIGHT (Wed, Oct 23) ⬇️

🏛️ IN PERSON, 5-10pm PT: eventbrite.com/e/escaping-the-…

📱 ONLINE, 7-8pm PT: eventbrite.com/e/escaping-the-…

Escaping the Memory Hole (IN-PERSON)

Celebrate IN-PERSON with the Internet Archive as we highlight the vital role of libraries in preserving our shared digital culture.

^Eventbrite

I thought I understood the extent to which the broad availability of mobile location data has exacerbated countless privacy and security challenges. That is, until I was invited along with four other publications to be a virtual observer in a 2-week test run of Babel Street, a service that lets users draw a digital polygon around nearly any location on a map of the world, and view a time-lapse history of the mobile devices seen coming in and out of the area.

The issue isn't that there's some dodgy company offering this as a poorly-vetted service: It's that *anyone* willing to spend a little money can now build this capability themselves.

I'll be updating this story with links to reporting from other publications also invited, including 404 Media, Haaretz, NOTUS, and The New York Times. All of these stories will make clear that mobile location data is set to massively complicate several hot-button issues, from the tracking of suspected illegal immigrants or women seeking abortions, to harassing public servants who are already in the crosshairs over baseless conspiracy theories and increasingly hostile political rhetoric against government employees.

krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/th…

Absolutely thrilled to have the Matrix.org Foundation and Community devroom accepted at @fosdem!

As always, looking forward to February, I can't wait to see the community in the physical world again 🥳

@matrix

I found a very odd Google search bug/misfeature on android: I've somehow gotten stuck in Brown Mode.

It happens in both Firefox and Chrome, and as long as I'm signed into my account, it's brown.

Some apps at #IzzyOnDroid would need verification if they still work. Aholic Gino started a list for that, most of them were already covered – but we'd need help covering the remains (just install, see if they work and are useful, report back either in the issue or as reply to this toot).

Any volunteers here on the Fedi?

gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo/-/…

Abandoned/Nonworking Apps (#617) · Issues · IzzyOnDroid / repo · GitLab

I was able to easily and quickly find all of the apps with archived and deleted repos not marked with NoSourceSince or a note thanks to

^GitLab

The ultimate #Google self-own: Google's AI Overview result of "enshittified google" that includes "AI Overview" as an example of enshittified Google.

#enshittification #chatbots #selfown @pluralistic

Here’s the server that’s been running my two #fediverse instances and #Hugo blog for the past two years.

It’s a low-power Intel NUC with a Celeron processor, 16 GB of RAM, and a 500 GB SSD. The entire setup lives under my printer and cost less than $300.

Bandwidth demands are modest—just a few gigs weekly. No fancy tunneling involved either. It’s just a straightforward router setup forwarding a couple of ports, a script that updates the server’s IP with my registrar as needed, and a robust Fail2ban rule set to keep things a bit secure.

No more corporate social networks and VPSes!

Bad idea: a character who cannot use any common password reminder questions.

* they have never had a pet
* no mother's maiden name, no mother: they have two fathers, neither of who changed their name.
* they were homeschooled, so no high-schools and first grade teachers (arguable)
* they've never been on vacation
* they are not into music, so they have no favorite band.
* they haven't dated anyone
* they're colorblind so no favorite color
* they didn't go to college
* they don't drive

Wholeheartedly agree with @pluralistic 's plea to use #RSS, my favourite RSS application is in fact @AntennaPod for podcasts.

Slightly embarrassed to admit I don't really understand how it works, which suggests that vast majority of people don't know it even exists ...

pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/kee…