Welcome to the RB family, Privacy Lock 🥳
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Privacy Lock offers an extra layer of security on top of Android’s built-in features – like "shake to lock". Its next release should show the "green shield".
#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid
„Paranoid's Pal - Privacy Lock“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
Protecting Your Digital IdentityIzzyOnDroid App Repo
Whoop! It's officially Winter time in the UK... Sunset at 4:54PM today.
Bring on the log fires, candlelit evenings, home-made stews and soups, weekends making Christmas cake and duck confit, roast chestnuts, baggy jumpers and extra fluffy socks!
This is the Mac Mini’s big moment
Apple is nearing the announcement of its M4-powered Mac Mini, which is rumored to be the company’s smallest computer ever.Chris Welch (The Verge)
Five new iPad mini 7 upgrades you might’ve missed - 9to5Mac
Apple released its new iPad mini model earlier this week, marking the first update in over three years. It was...Michael Burkhardt (9to5Mac)
Do not withhold good from those who deserve it when it’s in your power to help them.
Proverbs 3:27
shame the history of almost every religion doesn't see the leaders living up to those standards.
As a message, I am all for a lot of religious communication. But I'm afraid the reality is often and very sadly harder to accept.
7 essential password rules to follow in 2024, according to security experts
What makes a password strong now? How long should it be? How often should you change it? Here's what the cybersecurity pros at NIST recommend - some of which may surprise you.Ed Bott (ZDNET)
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Hearing Aids May Reduce Risk of Developing Parkinson’s Disease
A study of veterans suggests a link between hearing loss and risk of Parkinson’s disease, with hearing aids potentially reducing this risk.Andy Lundin (The Hearing Review)
The compact point and shoot market collapsed because of smart phones
Me looking at cheap smart phone picture: 🤮
(over processed splotch. and no need to pixel peep to see it)
What is nice is when the camera vendors use that small footprint to do something that is still challenging with a phone.
I picked up an Olympus TG-6 some time back, and love it. Maybe it just scratches my particular itches: robust, waterproof (50', more with housing), and does beautiful macro shots out of the box.
Apple wins a battle (and $250) in its smartwatch patent fight with Masimo
Apple earned a mixed victory in a patent infringement lawsuit against Masimo after a federal jury found that Masimo had infringed on some Apple patents.Jay Peters (The Verge)
Microsoft Office 2024 is now on Amazon, no subscription needed
Want to use Word, Excel, and Powerpoint without a subscription obligation? You can with Office 2024, which is now available on Amazon.Hans-Christian Dirscherl (PCWorld)
Digital Technology and Sustainability with Ishmael Burdeau.
In this episode, Millie Cave interviews Ishmael Burdeau, Sustainability Business Architect at the UK government's DWP, to explore the environmental impacts of digital technology.
looks like Debian's zipalign package is completely broken in testing/unstable. good thing I wrote my own, better version :3
github.com/obfusk/reproducible…
(it's so good tencent ported it to python 2 and violated the GPL (fixed now))
reproducible-apk-tools/zipalign.py at master · obfusk/reproducible-apk-tools
reproducible-apk-tools - scripts to make android apks reproducible - obfusk/reproducible-apk-toolsGitHub
"Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.”
But Whisper has a major flaw: It is prone to making up chunks of text or even entire sentences, according to interviews with more than a dozen software engineers, developers and academic researchers. Those experts said some of the invented text — known in the industry as hallucinations — can include racial commentary, violent rhetoric and even imagined medical treatments…"
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Researchers say AI transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
Whisper is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence, but it has a major flaw. It makes things up that were never said. Whisper was created by OpenAI.GARANCE BURKE (AP News)
Aurora Australis, captured at the southern tip of Africa where two oceans meet 🌌
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Kyle Goetsch | Adventure Through Photography (@kylegoetschphotography) on Threads
Another one of the Southern Lights captured at the Southern tip of Africa where two oceans meet. The Indian and the Atlantic oceans with the Aurora Australis above.Threads
Eleven years ago, the only long-lived #libcurl fork I am aware of was made: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2013/10/27…
It existed for several years, but it seems to be completely gone now.
he forked off libgnurl
Everyone and anyone is of course entitled to fork a project that is released under an open source license. This goes for my projects as well and I don't mind it. Go ahead.daniel.haxx.se
My instance has moved from 1 to 2,000 characters. I rarely hit the old limit. I love writing and am a very wordy guy, but I managed on twitter. hell: I managed with SMS in the 1990's.
I think this is also the first time I have actually started a post with the phrase 'my instance'.
Not sure how I feel about that, either. On the one hand, it's just here, working, and I'm not giving it a second thought.
On the other, I feel I should be paying toward its upkeep.
decomplexifying #curl
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/10/27…
decomplexifying curl
(I wrote about this topic in my weekly email this week. This is the blog version, somewhat extended.) Easy to read Two contributing factors that make code hard to read are function length and function complexity.daniel.haxx.se
I'm sure you're aware of the caveats but using function length may not be the best metric to measure complexity. What I'm about to write is therefore likely nothing new to you but I'm doing it nevertheless because there are many voices in the software engineering space that apply a naive law of "long function bad, short function good".
While splitting a function into smaller parts may improve readability to some degree, it rarely decreases the mental capacity needed to understand it. I'd argue that it's quite often even the opposite if the code is well-structured:
Blocks can be used efficiently to mimic a function that is specific to a use case, relatively short and not reusable. A separate function would introduce overhead in form of its signature and disruption of the reader's flow because its location is elsewhere in the code. The block can easily be shoved into a function when it becomes larger or when it can be re-used.
As a general rule of thumb, I agree, I think.
When it comes to reducing complexity, what I'd want is to keep mental capacity needed in an acceptable range. In that regard, I'd e.g. value minimising the amount, scope and lifetime of variables within a function over function length. These metrics are likely much harder to provide but maybe they would be a neat addition next to the cyclomatic complexity.
Why do we still call them set-top boxes? When was the last time you saw a brand new, modern television on top of which such a device could be placed?
For me, this was probably in the summer of 2003, and that's kind of a stretch.
Does this go into the category of why the save icon is still a floppy disk, why phone cameras still make analog shutter noises, and why phones are still called phones?
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Je to absurdní, ale Evropa se nemůže zbavit závislosti na ruském zemním plynu.
Paradoxně tak Evropa financuje obě strany konfliktu.
Nejde jen o tranzit přes Ukrajinu, ale i ruský LNG, který dováží čím dál více evropských zemí. Například Španělsko pokrývá 23 % svých dovozů plynu z Ruska.
I just got word that the 27th #XMPP Summit will indeed take place on the two days leading up to #FOSDEM 2025.
Thursday, January 30th 2025 and Friday, January 31st at the Thon Hotel EU in Brussels, Belgium.
Save the date! RSVP if you plan to attend in person.
If you are an XMPP developer and enjoy long discussions over minute details of XMPP protocol extensions this event is perfect for you!
Looking forward to seeing everyone in person again. Stay tuned for more details.
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