Reading a published internal presentation from Nokia in the after iPhone launch (in 2007).
It says:
"Nokia needs to develop the touch UI to fight back. S60 should be focus. Maemo platform is critical strength due to openness. Nokia needs a Chief UI architect to re-energize Nokia’s UI innovation across platforms and businesses."
Their failure was all self inflicted.
I have listened to over one thousand pieces of classical music in the last three months, and I have prepared a special playlist a little out of the ordinary.
😈😈FEELING EVIL, SHOW ME THE FORBIDDEN CLASSICAL😈😈
The reviews are in: "I thought classical music was boring, but this playlist gave me an anxiety disorder." "A disturbing glimpse into the dark heart of guys who write ballets about pretty princesses." "Who knew that a toccata could fall down the stairs?"
Featuring the talents of every Russian composer ever and also a few other guys from Hungary and France
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMq…
#music #classical #classicalmusic
for Lawful Evil people and/or people who want to feel impending doom on the double.The reviews are in: "I thought classical music was boring, but this playli...YouTube
BambuLab basically locks down their entire 3D printer ecosystem with this ridiculous cloud authorization system.
You want to print locally via your LAN? Sorry, the cloud needs to authorize your g-code first.
Want to use another slicer to send your job to the printer? Sorry, no.
Would it really still surprise anyone if DRM'd filaments are next on their agenda? Their printers are good, their prices are cheap, but please, stop supporting this company.
blog.bambulab.com/firmware-upd…
Launching first for X Series printers, with P and A Series updates planned for future releaseBambu Kidd (Bambu Lab Blog)
...and less than 24 hours later, the BambuConnect app has been de-obfuscated, including Bambu's private key to sign HTTP requests.
hastebin.skyra.pw/pufugimoye.j…
So much for their laughable security claims.
@AccessOn Would you consider mentioning the passing of Ed Potter on an upcoming edition of Access On? Before we had podcasts, Ed recorded Playback Magazine which, in many ways, was quite similar to the work that you do with your podcasts today. He provided listings of toll free numbers for ordering merchandise by phone and also provided listener-submitted reviews and demonstrations of products which were available at that time. Ed Potter, in that respect, was a true accessibility champion of his time. While he clearly lived a long and full life, I am still sad to learn of his passing but I'm grateful for his contributions to the blindness community.
For reference:
Obituary
legacy.com/us/obituaries/legac…
Archive of Playback Magazine
archive.org/details/playbackma…
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If you can dream it we can sing it! Comment your song ideas below!All Links!https://linktr.ee/beatsbyaiSpotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/2VL0G8nTevMkOCc...YouTube
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Wrote up a gnarly sequence of hacks for downloading every video in a TikTok account, just in case anyone needs such a thing in the next ~24 hours
uv, yt-dlp, JS in the Firefox DevTools and optionally throws in mlx-whisper for generating transcripts too til.simonwillison.net/tiktok/d…
TikTok may or may not be banned in the USA within the next 24 hours or so. Here's a pattern you can use to download all of the videos from a specific account.til.simonwillison.net
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
Interested in working with Micron to make cutting-edge memory chips? Work at Micron: https://bit.ly/micron-careers Learn more about Micron's Graphic Memory...YouTube
Mary Trump talks Trump’s vengeance presidency and global chaos fueled by Elon Musk.Want more Mary? Check out https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLApnnEs8u...YouTube
Oh yes, an oldie but goodie. “Federatable” not same as “federated”: by @pluralistic
"I used to be way more interested in how things worked. Now I’m interested in how they fail." by @pluralistic
"Enshittification isn’t merely the result of greed or foolishness — it is the inevitable consequence of a captive userbase."
This is the key.
If you have an aging computer and want to repurpose it, these lightweight Linux distributions will serve you for years to come.Jack Wallen (ZDNET)
Confession #328 of a long-time royal watcher.
There's one thing I miss about the late Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh. His sharp tongue. For example, this is what the royal second fiddle said upon leaving a plane, when asked by a particularly unimaginative journalist what the flight was like:
"And how was your flight, sir?"
"Have you ever been on an aeroplane?"
"Yes."
"Well, it was like that."
Anyway, here's a picture taken out a plane window in 2012, using the Retro Phone app on an HTC Sensation... a phone possesing a battery life so short it would die faster than a cordless Magic Wand.
#photography #CellPhonePhotography
Bambu Lab has just released a beta firmware for their 3D printers that includes DRM: blog.bambulab.com/firmware-upd…. it removes the ability to control your printer over the network from anything but Bambu software.
OrcaSlicer discussion: github.com/SoftFever/OrcaSlice…
Bambu claims that the negative response to their DRM is due to confusion, but nobody is confused. this new firmware doesn’t offer any security benefits; it has already been trivially broken. its only purpose is to be a DMCA hazard.
Launching first for X Series printers, with P and A Series updates planned for future releaseBambu Kidd (Bambu Lab Blog)
Developers having their apps available via the #IzzyOnDroid repo and curious how they perform, can look that up for themselves via our download statistics. We just included some examples on how to easily find out
* how often your app was downloaded since statistics became available
* day-by-day download statistics
Each just with a shell one-liner using `jq`.
Welcome to Indie App Spotlight. This is a weekly 9to5Mac series where we showcase the latest apps in the indie app...Michael Burkhardt (9to5Mac)
Very happy to be reporting on today's massive protest to keep the nuclear power plant in Almaraz open. The piece will appear tomorrow. Want it in your inbox first thing in the morning? Sign up today! For just €5 a month, you'll be getting a new piece every week.
Today I'll be releasing my interview with Johan Christian Sollid on Denmark's energy transition for the public, which can now be read on my website as well.
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Raspberry-powered laptops and tablets can be the perfect pick for your projects, and portable computing needs. Here's a list of options.Ankush Das (It's FOSS)
Based on the latest updates in ETSI’s GitLab, it looks like EN 301 549 section 11.7 will specifically remove web sites and apps, and although it’s not clearly spelling it out it’s clear than the intent is not to include dark mode in that: labs.etsi.org/rep/HF/en301549/…
Guess it’s time to update my blog post on the subject! But obviously, it won’t be part of EN 301 549 v3.2.1 which is what’s being used for the EAA’s initial launch, so let’s see what the regulators choose to do.
This same question has been raised twice: Pär Lannerö: Apropos Table A.1, could you please explain why clause "11.7 User preferences” is included and how it...GitLab
Die Standortdaten von Millionen Handy-Nutzer*innen weltweit stehen zum Verkauf, sie stammen aus Zehntausenden Apps. Nach unserer jüngsten Veröffentlichung zu den #DatabrokerFiles fragen uns viele: Was kann ich tun?! Hier sind sieben Wege, um deinen Standort vor Databrokern zu schützen.
netzpolitik.org/2025/databroke…
Databroker verkaufen die Handy-Standortdaten von Millionen Menschen weltweit. Zehntausende App sind betroffen, wie Veröffentlichungen von netzpolitik.org und Recherche-Partnern aus sechs Ländern zeigen. Das kannst du tun, um dich zu schützen.netzpolitik.org
This is in line with my own experience interacting with well-meaning but poorly trained medical professionals.
Disability is often neglected in medical school curricula, new study finds - Northwestern Now news.northwestern.edu/stories/…
“Doctors do not know how to care for people with disabilities because they never learned”news.northwestern.edu
#Accessibility challenge: Using the #screenReader of your choice, navigate to today's TV schedule for BBC Two. From the top of the page, what is the minimum number of keystrokes you can find to switch it to the listings for tomorrow instead?
Recent commentary on OpenAI's O3 large language model suggests, even to me as a non-expert, that it exhibits remarkable problem solving performance and adaptability to tasks for which it was not trained. If this line of research continues successfully, our prior assumptions about the limitations of machine learning systems may be due for revision, including our understanding of the relationship between AI and disability. The assumption reflected in the literature has been that AI systems have little capacity to respond appropriately to human diversity without detailed training in disability-related scenarios - whatever those are for the specific application. This view may soon cease to be valid, or at least not hold to the same extent as it does presently.
arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-pub-b…
#AI #MachineLearning #disability #discrimination
OpenAI o3 scores 75.7% on ARC-AGI public leaderboard.ARC Prize
Meine Einschätzung zum Stand der Dinge bei der #epa
Schweigen oder widersprechen? Ex-Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragter Ulrich Kelber erklärt die elektronische Patientenakte – und wie er sich entschieden hat.Svenja Bergt (taz)
In this podcast, Grace Blakeley gives a presentation based on her recent book, Vulture Capitalism, at the LSE. There follows commentary and discussion.
lse.ac.uk/lse-player?id=341086…
#capitalism #politics #SocialTheory
Join us to hear UK commentator and economic thinker Grace Blakeley talk about her latest book, Vulture Capitalism.London School of Economics and Political Science
Spent the last 6 hours trying to get a hello world equivalent gui window with a button on rust under windows.
This task which one might think is simple ended up taking literal hours and still hasn't been achieved because: the tutorials for gtk on windows and rust suggest putting msys2 bin directory on the path. This causes rust to fail to build correctly because it uses the wrong gcc and linkers.
Afterwards I managed it by using the appropriate environment variables.
But then I found out the dynamically linked libarries weren't found. I tried getting a way to copy them but it turned out to be too much work so I just moved the executable to the same dir.
Only to find out that gtk4 has no accessibility on Windows. Not bad accessibility, not accessibility that needs to be turned on. No. Accessibility. At all.
So then I decided to try Qt, which wants me to create an account to get an installer. Absolute no.
Got the 1.5gb sources and trying now to get an off-line installer out of it.
To get a fucking window with a button in it.
I don't think it's unreasonable for me to say this state of affairs is complete bullshit, and that most people with a normal level of motivation would have found plenty of opportunities to have given up. I still might.
(Not using NWG because tying the data to the GUI elements is non-trivial, it seems to require copying a lot and using twice the memory.)
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I'm a bit nervous about the fact it uses an external crate for a11y, so it's not on by default, and it says some widgets have a11y support, so it's not clear if all of them do. Also can one do list views? I haven't seen them on the list of widgets.
PS Still trying to build Qt, got failures due to: lack of ATL, mismatch in architecture, and now some weird openssl link failure.
I've been trying FLTK after running out of other options. I can see why you recommended it, the building situation is so much easier, just cargo add with the bundle feature and it's done.
Unfortunately the accessibility implementation isn't good. I've only given a quick look, but the example provided already doesn't work well. Specifically, the screen reader re-reads every time an input field is changed, so it reads the entire input whenever a new character is entered.
However if one day the accessibility situation improves I will definitely look into it again. It seems much easier to deploy.
Marc Andreessen Seems to Think Hillary Clinton Was Actually President
gizmodo.com/marc-andreessen-se…
The New York Times made a sneaky edit to its own transcript to make Andreessen sound more coherent.Matt Novak (Gizmodo)
If you're wondering which apps take priority on your new Linux machine, these 10 will help you get the most out of the OS.Jack Wallen (ZDNET)
YouTube channel The Serial Port was on Radio New Zealand to talk about dial-up networking as a hobby and creating their own dial-up ISP:
rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/…
8 'til Late does a bit of retrospecting on the use of Dial-up internet, then Mark Price and Ben Grubbs from The Serial Port come along and tell us how they're still keeping Dial-up alive.RNZ
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This specification defines a protocol for end-to-end encryption in one-to-one chats, as well as group chats where each participant may have multiple clients per account.Marvin Wißfeld
As someone familiar with the XMPP Standards Foundation, I can explain this one 🙂
The answer is rather simple... it's not "finished" yet.
Most clients are on an earlier version of the XEP (0.3.x).
The crypto is 99% the same, but some other things were changed to make the protocol better, more efficient, etc. We need more implementations of the latest version before it can be moved on to "Stable", which is the next stage for XEPs.
Learn about the latest enterprise features in iOS 18.2 & macOS Sonoma 15.2, from MDM enhancements to improved security & enrollment for Apple IT admins.Bradley C (9to5Mac)
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