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Apple Continues Working to Get Blood Oxygen Sensing Back in U.S. Apple Watches as Next Masimo Trial Begins macrumors.com/2024/11/05/masim…


I cut my finger chopping cheese, but I think that I may have grater problems.
in reply to I Has Wisdom

There are medical practitioners who specialize in this type of assistance. It's a cottage industry.


The US Navy equipped dolphins with cameras to study their unique underwater hunting abilities. The footage captured showed remarkable dolphin teamwork and precision in capturing fish, demonstrating the animals' incredible diving skills and adaptability in varied environments. This innovative research sheds light on how dolphins utilize their sonar and echolocation for hunting.

Link: sciencealert.com/the-us-navy-p…
Comments: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…



So,, my department for the blind and visually impaired is outright giving me a computer packed with the latest jaws version and a 40 cell braille display. I did not expect this at all! It's super awesome and I'm totally getting Leasy with it too. Is anyone else excited about getting new tech this year? #blind
in reply to Nick's world

it has acapela text-to-speech in it. My first Index used prerecorded Human speech, but the newer ones have software.
The control panel is labeled in Braille.
in reply to Eden Linnea

@EdenLinnea yeah. I mean hammering holes in things is never going to be a silent operation, but I've heard much quieter machines.

it's not designed for huuuge batch jobs, of course. I can run off a 30 page bug history for work whilst popping out for a coffee and nobody's bothered. I would like a better way of binding my paper, perhaps i'll ask for a binding machine as a christmas present.



podcast 31 has just been uploaded to my podcast site. This podcast is a review of the Raynic Weather Radio moddle CR1009. you can either go to the main page located at
jjhof.com/podcast
and it will be the first podcast you come across, or you can use this link to go directly to the podcast.
jjhof.com/podcast/index.php?na…
in reply to JamminJerry

we don't have anything comparable to your national weather radio service here. Our shipping forecast goes out a few times a day and there are specialist marine radios that use VHF I think, but tuning into 24/7 weather on a home receiver seems a pretty different way of doing it to me here in the UK.




Dog hasn't changed timezone.. So she begs for supper too early.


Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division

techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/mozi…

in reply to Hubert Figuière

gotta love techcrunch reusing a picture of the sight long gone: the monument has been removed as the SF office has closed.


The US two-party system is completely fucked up. How could they end up in an election where they have to chose between Kamala Harris and Vladimir Putin?


#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 12 updated and 3 added apps:

* Aurora Store: the inofficial PlayStore client has been added on special request. At IoD it's one of the #reproducibleBuilds 🛡️
* Aegis: the 2FA app has been added at special request, too
* OpenBible: download & read the bible in different languages 🛡️

RB: 320 apps (26.5%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:

in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅

Out of curiosity, what's the reason for having apps that already exist in f-droid?
in reply to Leeloo

@leeloo F-Droid describes itself as decentralized and stresses the importance to not be "locked into F-Droid as the monopoly app provider" (see: f-droid.org/en/2022/02/05/dece…) – so we help with that. Furthermore, several apps have #reproducibleBuilds at IoD but not there (e.g. Aurora Store). IzzyOnDroid performs extra checks (see: android.izzysoft.de/articles/n…). So this increases security and also resilience. Also, some people prefer one place and others the other, developers included 😉


🗳️ 🇺🇸 Election Day is an official holiday here at Adafruit. All employees have a paid day off so they can get out and vote, or volunteer for poll working, etc ! While we will still be moving orders on Tuesday, November 5 there may be some delays or longer ship times. Please allow extra time and plan accordingly!


Got it all done. By that I mean returning broken electronics and the haircut, of course! Now now, all you "go vote" peeps, chill, I early voted on Friday.
It would be my luck to arrive at Best Buy though, only to be told that their fuse had blown and the store was opening later in the day instead. Had to go to Staples, where they tried to get me to sign up for their rewards program just to get store credit for the items I return. Not too worth it to me.
Back to work for the last 2 hours now.
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Was echt prima wäre in Friendica/im Fediverse: Ein Verfallsdatum für Postings. Also nicht pauschal für alle, das gibt es ja schon, sondern dass ich bei jedem Post entscheiden kann, wie lange der online ist. Es sind ja nicht wenige Postings nach ein paar Wochen irrelevant, während andere noch nach Jahren interessant sein können.

@Friendica Support



yup, layoffs at the Mozilla Foundation 😢.
some of the folks directly affected are already listed here: mofo.directory/

Good, talented people. Get them on your team now!



Because of sudden car trouble I had to order groceries today. Guess who just realized their food was sitting on the porch for an hour because the delivery person never rang the doorbell???
in reply to Chris 🌱

That's the worst! Decent refund policy at least?

I had to start temperature-checking food deliveries that were left out so I didn't use unsafe foods.



I got so fed up of waiting for Meta to launch their AI for the Meta Raybans that I took the plunge and set up a VPN. Lo and behold, my glasses now have the AI feature. I’m really enjoying the ability to ask questions about my surroundings & get quick responses, but some of the answers have confirmed that AI is far from infallible. Today, I found a jar in the cupboard which I was pretty sure contained honey. I asked Meta and it said it was a jar of peanut butter. Wrong; it was honey, as confirmed by Be My AI. I suppose the contents are a similar colour, but I thought Meta might read the label.
But if it gets this sort of thing wrong, I’m not convinced it is going to take over the world. If it does, we’re in trouble.
#Accessibility #AI #Tech #Meta
in reply to Gordon Anthony

Not only that. I noticed that when Meta AI provides the wrong answer, it tends to blubber on and on as if trying to jiustify its folly! :)


I'm on a social media fast, which is why you haven't heard much from me, but I did want to share one cool thing. Our stuff has been 8-bit RGB for a while, but it's increasingly clear that's not going to cut it in an HDR world. Inspired by bevy_color and some conversations, I've started a color crate: github.com/linebender/color

If you're into color, I'd love your feedback. If you use color in Rust, let me know whether this crate would be useful, or what might be changed.



There were 2 Democrats on the entire state ballot here in Alabama, at least in my district. Every other Republican was unopposed. If you live in a blue state, don’t you dare take it for granted.




I don't have an opinion about systemd, other than the fact that every 3-5 years something breaks on one of my Linux boxes and I have to re-learn everything I knew.
in reply to Dominykas Blyžė

So then I go and start reading some tutorials. They begin like so:

> For years Linux admins and users have configured their network interfaces in the same way. [...] The configuration was incredibly easy and never failed to work.

😭



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Da ich nicht genau weiß, wann ich zur Aufbereitung des weiteren Backlogs komme, habe ich meinen lieben Leseratten schnell noch die 17 bereits fertig gestellten #eBooks bei ebooks.qumran.org/ hochgeladen. Kommt bald wieder Nachschub zu den jetzt 12.917 Büchern dazu, weiß halt nur noch nicht genau wann…

Bis dahin also: Häppi Schmökering! :awesome:



Stále na pozícii lídra aliancie, neuveriteľné (to som to už chcel ale tri krát delegovať na niekoho iného). Nemáme Discord server a pre progres ho potrebujeme... vždy som chcel mať Discord server. :kekw:


NY Times tech union has asked users not to play Wordle or other Times games while they are on strike. It's a really easy way to support them. polygon.com/news/474209/new-yo…

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Think of the children.

They're in your system right now.

#fosschild



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Kdo na tuhle písničku kroužil po parketu jako puberťák? Nestyďte se, přiznejte se.
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power Of Love youtube.com/watch?v=WtdRv6GT9Z…


Hey, friends: today we win. Today will protect each other, and the most vulnerable in our communities. Today we are going to stand up against fascism & violence and joyfully come together to care for those who need protection & support. We do this *no matter* how votes go today, no matter what disruptions or attacks come, so find peace in knowing what does not change, what they can never stop. Once you’ve voted, sign off, and don’t look or scroll if it causes you stress. Tomorrow we get to work.


Zmizeli beze stopy. Tragédii hokejových reprezentantů stále halí záhada

Přesně před sto lety, 5. listopadu 1924, se narodil český hokejový útočník Karel Stibor. Mistr světa z roku 1947 a stříbrný medailista z olympiády o rok později byl jednou z obětí leteckého neštěstí, při kterém zemřelo i pět jeho parťáků. Připomeňte si jednu z největších tragédií v historii českého sportu.

sport.aktualne.cz/hokej/hokejo…



Check Your Local Network Speed in Linux, Windows, and macOS linuxtoday.com/blog/check-your…


Superfile: A Modern Terminal File Manager for Linux and macOS linuxtoday.com/developer/super…


From the mouth of my 8 year old this morning. Jaydon, if I could vote, I would not vote for Trump. Dad, why? Jaydon, because he's in jail and he just wants to be president so he won’t go to jail. Dad, but he’s not in jail. Jaydon, also, he’s mean and won’t allow babies. I would vote for Harris, she’s nicer. Me, Jaydon where did you hear about the presidents and the election stuff? Jaydon, from ads. LMAO, welcome to election day at my house this morning!
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I have just received information that I have an opportunity to DJ at a party on the first of November :)
in reply to Cobalt

fliers are printed and handed out. if there is anyone here who is going to attend, feel free to drop by the DJ booth!
in reply to Cobalt

jolly good time! the PoS system wasn't gonna be in use for the event after all so they told me I could set up there. this ended up being my setup. shout out @mixxx for being cool software


Great guide by @vantablack that explains how to run your own 🏴‍☠️ radio using azuracast and mixxx on the Oracle free cloud tier:

vantablack.writeas.com/vantas-…

With the neat idea to use #ffmpeg through "yt-dlp --extract-audio" to "borrow" some cool audio fillers from one of thousands of video services supported.

Thanks to Vanta #azuracast and #mixxx

🎶 // @vantablack // @azuracast // @mixxx // 🎶



Somehow, I ended up with two #NVDA shortcuts on my desktop. One points to nvda.exe, and another one points to nvda_slave.exe. They both seem to work. They both have the same hotkey registered. Anyone have some idea what the difference is?
#nvda


Reminder:

Republicans changed the way votes are counted specifically to convince their voters that Democrats "stole" the 2020 election.

On Election Day, only the votes cast that day will be counted and it will look like Trump is winning by a lot.

Then, other kinds of votes will be counted, and Kamala will suddenly do better.

Be ready for it. Don't get depressed on Election Day.



TIL: Puerto Rico actually doesn't vote in the presidential election.

Simply, it's the electoral college. And that by itself is more than unfair. Probably a result of colonialism.