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Aira Tech Tips & Troubleshooting with a Visual Interpreter aira.io/aira-tech-tips/

Aira Tech Tips & Troubleshooting with a Visual Interpreter - Aira

In our 2024 Explorer Survey, people identified three main categories of tasks: describing, reading, and technical assistance. Since 2020, the use of visual interpreting to assist with computer and other technical tasks has surged significantly.
Hannah Griffin (Aira)

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#Segen oder Werkzeug zur #Manipulation? #Hallow bezeichnet sich selbst als »erfolgreichste Gebets-App der Welt«. Unter den Unterstützern und Investoren der vermeintlich christlichen #App finden sich viele #Trump- Unterstützer. #Datenschutz- Lücken könnten für dessen #Wahlkampf genutzt worden sein:

Gebets-App "Hallow": Segen ode...


Gebets-App "Hallow": Segen oder Manipulations-Werkzeug?

Die katholische App Hallow bezeichnet sich selbst als "erfolgreichste Gebets-App der Welt". Unter den Unterstützern und Investoren der App finden sich viele Trump-Unterstützer – und Datenschutzlücken könnten für dessen Wahlkampf genutzt worden sein.
Veronika Wawatschek (BR24)
#app #Trump #datenschutz #manipulation #Segen #Hallow #Wahlkampf
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Thomas Wystrach

Wo Gwen #Stefani zum täglichen Beten einlädt: #Hallow ist eine Art individualisierte Content-Plattform für römisch-katholisches Leben. In die #App haben laut @businessinsider.com Peter #Thiel und JD #Vance investiert. Ein #Medienethik​er sieht die App als Vehikel für die post-liberalen #USA:

Hallow: US-App, auf der Gwen S...


Hallow: US-App, auf der Gwen Stefani zum täglichen Gebet einlädt

„Hallow“ ist eine Art individualisierte Content-Plattform für katholisches Leben. Ein Experte sieht die App als Vehikel für das post-liberale Amerika.
Deutschlandfunk
#app #USA #Hallow #Stefani #Thiel #Vance #Medienethik @businessinsider.com

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Is your teenager on Instagram? 🙈 And are they using a Meta Teen's account? 🤔

If so, you should read this 👉 tuta.com/blog/instagram-teen-a…

#Meta #MetaTeens #InstagramTeens #DataPrivacy

All contact’s names, cellphone numbers, & email addresses if contacts are uploaded or import Device signals such as GPS, Bluetooth, close Wi-Fi access points, beacons, and cell towers Information the user chooses to share with Meta. For example, location & photos
Sign up information: name, email address, phone number, age Clicks, likes, any content created, posts, photos, messages sent Interactions with content, including the ads viewed or engaged with All friends and followers, & what they do on Meta products
App, browser, & device information Meta collects IP addresses to estimate location What’s done off Meta’s products: websites visited, apps used, & games played How often Meta products are used & the time spent on each platform

Are Instagram Teen Accounts really protected - even from Meta? | Tuta

Instagram Teen Accounts may help protect from online threats, but that doesn’t mean they’re protected from Meta’s data collection.
Tuta
#meta #dataprivacy #metateens #instagramteens

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The Document Foundation is the non-profit entity that coordinates the @libreoffice project and community. Here's what we did last year: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource #freesoftware
Picture of globe with "Annual Report 2024" text on top

Annual Report 2024: The Document Foundation's activities - The Document Foundation Blog

The Document Foundation is the non-profit entity that coordinates the LibreOffice project and community.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource @LibreOffice

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Bug report:
NVDA behaves erratically in the Start menu with recent Windows 11 24H2 updates, and might even freeze: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…
@NVAccess

NVDA behaves erratically in the start menu · Issue #17951 · nvaccess/nvda

Steps to reproduce: Use NVDA to go to the start menu, try searching for something, and make sure you are on Windows 11, 24H2, and have the latest updates installed. Actual behavior: NVDA usually wo...
GitHub
@NV Access

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With Trump reportedly planning to end the IRS Direct File program, there's no better time to remember how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free.

(Published 2019)
propublica.org/article/inside-…

#Trump #Tax #IRS #News


Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free

Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.
ProPublica
#Trump #News #tax #irs

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Certain models of Lenovo laptops now ship with Fedora and Ubuntu Linux. This is done to keep costs low and cater to developers or IT professionals who heavily rely on Linux. Another reason could be the increased unpopularity of Windows 11 in recent times due unwanted features like "AI" or "Recall", but that is just my own wild guess ;) LOL. Would you buy it?

#linux #fedora #ubuntu #opensource

This screenshot shows certain models of Lenovo laptops now ship with Fedora and Ubuntu Linux. You can still chose Win11 if you want.
#linux #opensource #ubuntu #fedora
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#StateTerror
A brief guide for Americans

by #TimothySnyder

Yesterday the president defied a #SCOTUS ruling to return a man who was mistakenly sent to a gulag in another country, celebrated the suffering of this innocent person, & spoke of sending Americans to foreign #ConcentrationCamps.

This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, & it has to be identified as such to be stopped.

#law #Trump #tyranny #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship
snyder.substack.com/p/state-te…


State Terror

Timothy Snyder (Thinking about...)
#Trump #law #authoritarianism #autocracy #SCOTUS #tyranny #timothysnyder #dictatorship #stateterror #concentrationcamps

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“If you don’t see all of this as one of the darkest days in American history, in which the President is openly embracing disappearing people without due process in the name of “liberty,” you are a part of the problem. Fascism has risen in America, and it is being aided by a foreign dictator whom Trump admires.”

techdirt.com/2025/04/14/trump-…


Trump & Bukele Plot US Citizen Detention In Salvadoran Torture Camps, While Defying Supreme Court Via Gibberish Responses To Reporters

In a stunning White House appearance that should alarm anyone who cares about constitutional rights, democracy, the rule of law or anything of the sort, Donald Trump and Salvadoran dictator Nayib B…
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Here everyone, enjoy what @cordova5029 sounds like being the voice of my windows pc which is plugged into a doubletalk board which is then piped to a mac using a soundblaster omni to an rvc'd . Enjoy! I promised ya I'd tell you when I do fun or interesting things with your voice, pal. You're the voice of my doubletalk. I also tried it with Zacky B's voice too, which is @bender and he almost sounds like the doubletalk without trying, he can form his mouth really eloquently and articulitly when doing doubletalk.

@Xantastic @bender
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Jérôme

yeah but with this plan a lot of those are set to be redeveloped or at least changed. I'm guessing they dont want to invest thousands of dollars into a charging station that might disappear or need to be relocated.

ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/ci…

Anyway, i'm just offering a theory.


City of Montreal unveils redesign plan for Mount-Royal Park

The City of Montreal announced its redesign plan for Mont-Royal on Wednesday that would drastically limit vehicle access and dramatically increase green space.
Daniel J. Rowe (CTVNews)

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Very cool descriptions from this year's Csun of the new advancements in multi-line and active #Braille. awesome read! helenkeller.org/csun-2025-a-de…

CSUN 2025: A DeafBlind Take on Progress, Priorities, and the Road Ahead

Technology expert Scott Davert from Helen Keller National Center reports on the latest assistive technologies showcased at CSUN 2025, offering insights on innovations for blind and DeafBlind users.
Helen Keller Services
#braille

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44 Years Ago Today: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Signed Off NBC in 1981, Leaving a Sci-Fi Legacy cordcuttersnews.com/44-years-a…

44 Years Ago Today: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Signed Off NBC in 1981, Leaving a Sci-Fi Legacy | Cord Cutters News

Today marks the 44th anniversary of the final episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, which aired on April 16, 1981, concluding its two-season run on NBC.
Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)

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CSUN 2025: A DeafBlind Take on Progress, Priorities, and the Road Ahead helenkeller.org/csun-2025-a-de…

CSUN 2025: A DeafBlind Take on Progress, Priorities, and the Road Ahead

Technology expert Scott Davert from Helen Keller National Center reports on the latest assistive technologies showcased at CSUN 2025, offering insights on innovations for blind and DeafBlind users.
Helen Keller Services
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@neurrone Stat blocks start getting better in the third book. She keeps steamrolling over everything; the conflict in the book comes from the danger to her friendlies, and her struggles to develop emotionally and find a purpose in freedom. And her character does develop. But the primary tension is if she'll do the "right" thing or the "logical" thing, rather than if she'll win in combat.
@Dickson Tan

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After 2 years I thought it was time to make another release of #Adebar – though it contains only minor changes (like adjustments for Android 14+15):

codeberg.org/izzy/Adebar

Generates a.o. documentation for your #Android devices, you can find some examples at izzy.codeberg.page/@master/ade…


Adebar

Android DEvice Backup And Report, using Bash and ADB.
Codeberg.org
#android #Adebar
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@MichaelZ You do understand correctly. Unfortunately, the `adb backup` command was pretty much castrated from around Android 10 onward, and no replacement provided. So reliable backups cannot be done with that anymore.

If your device is rooted, Adebar provides replacements for backup/restore, too – otherwise, you can still use it for device documentation. Sorry, not much that can be done about that (apart from using a companion app, which I cannot provide).

@MichaelZ

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"Nextcloud crushes Microsoft 365!"

XDA strongly endorses Nextcloud as the leading #MS365 and #BigTech alternative! 🌟

"If you value data ownership and privacy... Nextcloud delivers unparalleled control over your digital environment."

Thank you XDA!

xda-developers.com/nextcloud-b…


6 ways Nextcloud beats Microsoft 365 entirely for free

Nextcloud is the ultimate free Microsoft 365 alternative
Parth Shah (XDA)
#bigtech #MS365

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Possibly the weirdest planet yet discovered?

Newfound world 2M1510 (AB) b appears to orbit not one but two stars...and they are actually failed stars, known as brown dwarfs...and the planet orbits sideways, in a unique up-and-down polar orbit.

eso.org/public/news/eso2508/ #space #science #astronomy #nature

Left: This image, taken in visible light, shows 2M1510 AB, a pair of brown dwarfs orbiting each other. The two brown dwarfs, A and B, are seen as a single source in this image, but we know there are two of them because they periodically eclipse each other. When monitoring their orbits, astronomers found perturbations that can only be explained by the gravitational tug of an exoplanet circling both brown dwarfs in a perpendicular orbit. This system contains a third brown dwarf, 2M1510 C, which is located too far away to be responsible for these perturbations. Right: This is an artist’s impression of the exoplanet 2M1510 (AB) b’s unusual orbit around its host stars, a pair of brown dwarfs. The newly discovered planet has a polar orbit, which is perpendicular to the plane in which the two stars are traveling.

"Big surprise": astronomers find planet in perpendicular orbit around pair of stars

Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these ‘polar planets’ orbiting a stellar pair.
www.eso.org
#science #nature #astronomy #space

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Free Blue Screens of Death for Windows 11 24H2 users

Microsoft rewards those who patch early with bricks hurled through its operating system Keeping with its rich history of updates that break Windows in unexpected ways, Microsoft has warned that two recent patches for Windows 11 24H2 are triggering blue screen crashes.…
#theregister #IT
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Free Blue Screens of Death for Windows 11 24H2 users

: Microsoft rewards those who patch early with bricks hurled through its operating system
Brandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
#IT #theregister

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For those who are interested in free-threaded Python (peps.python.org/pep-0703/), a few of us working on it, and more importantly porting libraries to work with it, have set up a new Discord server, for folks to ask questions a bit more interactively. (Lurking is also welcome! It's amazing how much you learn by osmosis.)

discord.gg/rqgHCDqdRr

#Python #PythonDevelopment


PEP 703 – Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython | peps.python.org

CPython’s global interpreter lock (“GIL”) prevents multiple threads from executing Python code at the same time. The GIL is an obstacle to using multi-core CPUs from Python efficiently.
Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs)
#python #pythondevelopment

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Before you plug in your new Timex/Sinclair 1000, please take a moment to think about this exciting new adventure. We want to assure you that:

1. You will enjoy computing.

2. You will find it easy as well as enjoyable.

3. You shouldn’t be afraid of the computer. You are smarter than it is. So is your parakeet, for that matter.

4. You will make mistakes as you learn. The computer will not laugh at you.

5. Your mistakes will not do any harm to the computer. You can’t break it by pushing the “wrong” button.

6. You are about to take a giant step into the future. Everyone will soon be using computers in every part of their daily lives, and you will have a head start.

-- Steve Vickers, Timex/Sinclair 1000 Instruction Manual (aka the US ZX81 manual)

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1/2 - TrueFans now allows you to export your podcast activity in the W3C ActivityStreams 2.0 format.

We use the AS2.0 structure - Actor, Verb, Object format. e.g Sam (Actor), Plays (Verb), Podnews Weekly (Object). plus attributes Listen Time, Percent Completed, Value Paid.

We enable users to auto publish their activity to X, ActivityPub, BlueSky, Threads and Linkedin.

We allow Creators to do the same.

w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core…

/cc @evan @chris @dave

Activity Streams 2.0

www.w3.org
@Dave @Evan Prodromou @Chris Messina
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