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Mantis Q40 Gets Winter Update Bringing Text To Speech - Double Tap

Today on the show Steven and Shaun discuss a range of tech topics including the rise in popularity of a pedestrian navigation app, a new AI assistant that’s just launched, and a major update to a popular QWERTY braille display.
Steven Scott (Double Tap)

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The fact that Cisco is able to provide these numbers raises the question about how the company processes the data for its own purposes.

I briefly address this question in section 3.2.6 of my case study, alongside Cisco's claims about privacy, data protection and 'GDPR compliance':
crackedlabs.org/en/data-work/p…

Tracking Indoor Location, Movement and Desk Occupancy in the Workplace

A case study on technologies for behavioral monitoring and profiling using motion sensors and wireless networking infrastructure inside offices and other facilities
Cracked Labs

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Something about starter packs that I think gets lost when they're discussed on Mastodon:

The power of starter packs is not in some centralised mega list of say "Black people in tech," curated by some central authority. The power is in a million tiny "Black techies I follow" lists curated by everyday users.

Check it out. I'm on some lists.
clearsky.app/mekka.mekka-tech.…

And yes, I'm on some lists I don't want to be on, that people use to block. And I mostly don't care. 🤷🏿‍♂️

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ClearSky

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mekka okereke

The losers that think being trans means being white and trans, hopped over from Mastodon to BlueSky, and put me on their "transmisogyny list."🤷🏿‍♂️

But Black trans people, and white trans people that aren't racist and can see Black people, put me in their starter packs.♥️

I don't want to be in community with the fashy white trans people that don't like Black trans people. I prefer the white trans people that like the Black and brown trans people.

I don't like everybody. It's OK if they block me.

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Something else interesting:

ClearSky, the tool for inspecting blocks, list membership, etc, is built by a Black developer. 👍🏿

BlackSky, the tool and moderation community for Black ATProto users and apps, is built by a Black developer. 👍🏿

Black developers are building on Blue Sky.

Shout out to everyone who will read this, and instead of saying "How do we get them to build for Mastodon/Activity Pub?" Will froth at the mouth about fake federation and the inevitable corpo takeover.🤡

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Mathijs

I have the fairphone 3, and I run LineageOS on it, to be google-free. In my experience the fairphone is fine, but it's not an equivalent of a flagship android phone. I usually say that I pay a convenience fee for my principles (part of my reasons to choose fairphone is the ethical production). Coming from an iphone I would expect you to run in to some annoyances that may or may not be worth it to you. (Cont.)
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Mathijs

The phones are certainly much cheaper than flagship android phones and you can run an open source OS on them. So if you want to get away from big tech the fairphone is a decent option, but that would require you to install another OS on your phone. It's not particularly hard but it it work. I would recommend calyxos.org/ but there are other good open source OS'es available for the fairphone 5.
As for reparability: if the fairphone 3 is an indication repairing fairphones is great!

CalyxOS

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Potřebujeme vaši pomoc! - Lékaři bez hranic - mailchi.mp/lekari-bez-hranic.c…

„Naši tradiční sbírku jsme se letos rozhodli plně věnovat na pomoc lidem v Súdánu, kteří si více než rok a půl procházejí utrpením, které si možná jen málokdo z nás umí představit. Cítíme, že se o této válce a humanitární krizi v médiích mluví jen málo a s vaší pomocí to chceme změnit.”

Potřebujeme vaši pomoc!

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We love #𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐱 ! 😍

That's why we offer 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐤𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 for all major distros.🧑‍💻👉 tuta.com/blog/desktop-clients-…

What's your favorite distro? 🐧

Let us know in the comments! 👇


Why the Tutanota desktop clients are best for productivity and security! | Tuta

Benefits of our desktop clients for Linux, Windows and macOS.
Tuta

  • ✅ Ubuntu (30%, 108 votes)
  • ✅ Arch (32%, 114 votes)
  • ✅ Fedora (26%, 93 votes)
  • ✅ OpenSuse (10%, 36 votes)
351 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago

#linux

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Les autocollants pour propriétaires de Tesla qui ont du mal à assumer les conneries d'Elon Musk se vendent comment des petits pains : futurism.com/the-byte/embarras…

Les autocollants : etsy.com/shop/MadPufferSticker…
"Anti-Elon Tesla Club"
"Je l'ai achetée avant qu'on ne réalise qu'Elon était fou".


Embarrassed Teslas Drivers Buying Huge Numbers of Anti-Elon Bumper Stickers

For longtime Tesla owners, Elon Musk has made their electric cars into red flags — and now, a bunch are sticker-slapping back.
Noor Al-Sibai (Futurism)

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Vanwaar komt die tech? Waarop getraind? Wie beheert de data? Dit wordt zo maar uitgerold en ik vind 0 info.

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Slimme camera’s moeten geweld in Joodse buurt Antwerpen voorspellen

De Antwerpse politie gaat de Joodse buurt bewaken met slimme camera’s, uitgerust met artificiële intelligentie. Het is de bedoeling dat die geweldsincidenten voortijdig detecteren. Dat schrijft Gazet van Antwerpen.
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Die App des Bundesrates war ein positives Beispiel. Dass es auch weniger datenschutzfreundlich geht, zeigt die App der Bundesregierung: Sie nutzt Verbindungen zu Google Firebase und enthält eine angeblich »technisch notwendige« Analysefunktion, die sich nicht deaktivieren lässt (analytics.bundesregierung.de).

bundesregierung.de/breg-de/ser…

#bundesregierung #app #android

Regierungs-App: Aktuelles zur Regierungspolitik | Bundesregierung

Die Regierungs-App bietet Aktuelles zur Regierungspolitik, Äußerungen des Kanzlers, exklusive Videos und Fotos.
Die Bundesregierung informiert | Startseite
#android #app #Bundesregierung

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It's done. Now it’s your turn, Oracle.

We’ve submitted a formal petition to cancel the JavaScript trademark: it is generic, Oracle has abandoned it, and Oracle committed fraud on the USPTO during the last trademark renewal.

Oracle has until January 4th to respond, or the case will go into default, which will result in the trademark being canceled.

It's time to #FreeJavaScript.

deno.com/blog/deno-v-oracle

#deno #node #javascript #typescript #webdev


Deno v. Oracle: Canceling the JavaScript Trademark

Oracle is holding the JavaScript trademark hostage, and we’re pursuing legal means to #FreeJavaScript. Here’s a brief update.
Deno Blog
#webdev #typescript #javascript #deno #node #freejavascript

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I installed #Signal and #Conversations_im on a clean install of #GrapheneOS on my Pixel 4a and measured the battery impact. The results are shocking!

Both messengers had only one contact: my regular phone.

I used my regular phone to send messages to the Pixel 4a (which was not used for anything else over the course of the experiment).

I always sent the same message via Signal and #XMPP (mixing up which app went first). In total I sent ~32 messages in intervals of 10mins to a few hours.

Battery usage stats from an Android phone. The battery is down to 10% after 20 hours since last full charge. Signal has consumed 95% in that period and Conversations 5%
#xmpp #signal #grapheneos #conversations_im

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A PSA for people active on #Bluesky: your block list is PUBLIC information.

A website that tracks Bluesky stats – which I am not naming here on purpose – makes this job super easy: you can enter *any* username and see the accounts a user has blocked.

(Yes I tested it with my account and was horrified)

I'm alarmed by this because the information could be weaponized for abuse.

Muting may be the safer choice then?

Please read up about Bluesky here: dustycloud.org/blog/how-decent… (by @cwebber)

How decentralized is Bluesky really? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms

dustycloud.org
#bluesky @Christine Lemmer-Webber
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We began donating to @Blender 10 years ago. #B3D has improved so much since then and is now a primary tool for our small creative agency. They're asking for more support so we've increased our giving. Please take a moment to consider if you can give too: fund.blender.org/ 🧡 :blender:🧡

If you can't give, don't feel guilty. Those who can contribute for those who can't. 🤜 🤛


Blender Development Fund

Join the Development Fund and support Blender Foundation to work on core Blender development.
Blender Development Fund
#b3d @Blender 🔶

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Celebrating our first anniversary, our next #NixOS meetup is scheduled for Wednesday, December 18 at the Mathematikon in #Heidelberg. For the first time, we are separating our Nix and Rust meetup, so be prepared for another announcement of our Rust anniversary meetup.

No matter if you use #Nix :nixos: or #Lix :lix_ice: on #Linux or #macOS, everyone is welcome to join us.

Pizza and drinks will be provided. If you plan to join us, please register for the event here:

rheinneckar.events/events/2f36…


Nix Your Bugs Anniversary

One year after our first Nix & Rust meetup, we are meeting again in Heidelberg for our first anniversary! 🎊 Note that for the first time, this meetup is only about Nix and NixOS, the declarative package manager and Linux distribution.
rheinneckar.events
#linux #MACOS #NixOS #nix #Heidelberg #lix
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Nix & Rust Rhein-Neckar

As talk, we'll be hearing from @notthebee who recently tinkered on using #NixOS to power his couch gaming PC.

For our anniversary, we're reserving more time for hacking, troubleshooting and networking than before, so feel free to bring your laptops, projects and #Nix problems with you! And even for complete beginners, this may be a great opportunity to learn from more experienced Nix users.

#NixOS #nix @Wolfgang

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We have little in common with the group posting this video and I suspect most of you are not religiously inclined, but this is a shockingly good homily from a priest in #Florida, who denounced Trump's pick of Mike Huckabee for Ambassador to #Israel and demanded that the killing in #Gaza must stop. In a nutshell, #Catholic teaching holds that Jesus' kingdom is within us and not in some physical realm like Israel. youtube.com/watch?v=5maZ7HumgI…

The Killing in Gaza is NOT of Christ's Kingdom

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#israel #Florida #Gaza #catholic

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Lost Emperor Penguin Who Washed Up in Australia Returns Home

A penguin named Gus captured people’s hearts when he appeared on an Australian beach not long ago. Now he’s ready to go back home.
CaLea Johnson (Mental Floss)
@animals-mental_floss

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It’s worth noting that students in the United States with a qualifying print disability can receive services from Bookshare at no cost.
Also, some state libraries provide complementary subscriptions to patrons. It’s certainly worth reaching out either to your local NLS affiliate or to your
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