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Heard OrCam is ditching low vision products?
Not true.
“We’re still active, still innovating, and not going anywhere.”
Here’s what’s really going on.
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Google’s AR Glasses Of The Future & OrCam Talks To Double Tap

In this episode of Double Tap, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece dive into the latest developments in AI-powered wearables, smart glasses, and Apple’s ongoing st...
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I added to my reading queue this four-part aricle series on the history of the personal computer "to trace where the personal computer came from and where it went". The title of one of the parts seems intriguing: "Interactive Computing: A Counterculture".

technicshistory.com/a-bicycle-…

#PersonalComputer #retrocomputing


A Bicycle For the Mind

This series consists of the following posts: A Bicycle for the Mind – Prologue A Craving for Calculation Interactive Computing: A Counterculture From ACS to Altair: The Rise of the Hobby Computer…
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#retrocomputing #PersonalComputer

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My last post got more than 1k boosts! Thanks everyone! 👉 I decided to share one of my paid resources here on Mastodon for free so that everyone can have a look at my educational paper circuit projects and how my workshop kits look. Feel free to download and/or #retoot
These color-changing mushrooms are a fun party trick for grown-ups or an easy educational project for kids aged 7 and up.
And here is the super secret download link :-) voltpaperscissors.com/secretdo…

#libraries #papercraft #electronics

SecretDownloads — Volt, Paper, Scissors!

Volt, Paper, Scissors!
#libraries #electronics #papercraft #retoot

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We love #Linux ! 😍

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

What's your favorite distro? If it isn't listed below, let us know in the comments!🐧


Free secure desktop email client for Linux, Windows and macOS | Tuta

Why the Tutanota desktop client is best for productivity and security.
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  • Ubuntu (25%, 137 votes)
  • Debian (26%, 142 votes)
  • Arch (23%, 125 votes)
  • Fedora (24%, 131 votes)
535 voters. Poll end: 7 months ago

#linux

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PureOS Crimson Progress Update 🚀

Since July 2024, we’ve built a strong foundation—now climbing the stack!

March highlights:

• Faster USB charging
• Smoother touchscreen
• Speedier storage access

First alpha release coming soon.

Learn More Features Here: puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-d…

PureOS Crimson Development Report: March 2025 – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Guido Günther

Small correction: The crimson suite was created in 2023 already. See e.g. this librem5-base upload: source.puri.sm/Librem5/librem5… and lots of packages were uploaded afterwards. There was a stall in between but the foundations for crimson are about 1y older.

debian/changelog · pureos/latest · Librem5 / librem5-base · GitLab

Librem5 base configuration and meta packages.
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💫 The time has come: a new Delta Chat Desktop release is ready to be tested 💫

Version: 1.57.0 (which is the release candidate for 1.58.0, if it works well).

Highlights:
🎤 record voice messages
👤 new profile view design
🖼️ improved image messages (less border, you now see more from the image)

support.delta.chat/t/help-test…

#deltachat_desktop


Help testing the upcoming v1.58.x release

Please checkout & test the new Desktop Prerelease 1.57.0 before we publish the final release 1.58.0 Important new features to test: voice messages: finally you can record and send voice messages with DC desktop change to new transport API (technic…
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#deltachat_desktop

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Avoca

support.delta.chat/t/help-test…

From the link you provided! Its the only download available on that page as far as I can see. I found the instructions quite confusing actually. ...~test 1.57.0 for release 1.58.0 with a 1.59.0 core...

"Please checkout & test the new Desktop Prerelease 1.57.0 before we publish the final release 1.58.0"


Help testing the upcoming v1.58.x release

Please checkout & test the new Desktop Prerelease 1.57.0 before we publish the final release 1.58.0 Important new features to test: voice messages: finally you can record and send voice messages with DC desktop change to new transport API (technic…
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This is the kind of thing that should be banned. It is time to realize that indiscriminate data collection and profiling is harming our society.
techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perp…

#Vivaldi #Browser #Spyware #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #AI #Windows #Macos #Linux


Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch

Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads.
Julie Bort (TechCrunch)
#linux #browser #Windows #AI #surveillancecapitalism #surveillance #MACOS #vivaldi #spyware
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Pohled na naši planetu kamerou z ISS ve 4K ? .... ale jistě řeklo kouzelné sluchátko 😎
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Live 4K video of Earth and space: 24/7 Livestream of Earth by Sen’s 4K video cameras on the ISS

Watch Earth Live from space in 4K. See Earth like astronauts on the International Space Station #ISS #LiveStream #Earthlive #ISSLive #EarthfromSpace Join our...
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The process of importing the #EV is finally over. It was pretty smooth on the Czech side except for a little drama at the technical inspection. Since I was buying it from an official dealer, I just checked the VIN code on the windshield, but the technical inspection needs to check the one sealed in the chassis and they couldn't find it. I had to call the German dealer and they had to ask the mechanics. It was under the carpet in the back of the trunk. 😅

#electronicvehicle #emobility

A detailed photo of a registration plate with EL letters and a blue stripe with the EU logo and CZ.
#ev #electronicvehicle #emobility

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Making Accessible Audio Software – Perspectives of a Blind Music Producer Trey Culver & Adam Wilson
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#Accessibility #coding #programming #software

Making Accessible Audio Software - Perspectives of a Blind Music Producer Trey Culver & Adam Wilson

https://audio.dev/ -- @audiodevcon​---Making Accessible Audio Software - Perspectives of a Blind Music Producer - Trey Culver & Adam Wilson - ADCx Gather 202...
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#Accessibility #software #programming #coding

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I'm pondering adding a --location-mode flag to #curl and I could use your feedback!

github.com/curl/curl/pull/1654…


curl: add --location-mode all/obey/first by bagder · Pull Request #16543 · curl/curl

Sets the "mode" for how to treat and use a custom HTTP method when following redirects. The idea being that a user can set location-mode: obey in their .curlrc or similar to get this func...
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With bluesky (mostly) going down for a few hours today, I got to wondering about how decentralized the fediverse really is in terms of where its servers are hosted. I grabbed a server list from fedidb, with network information coming from ipinfo.io .

[EDIT: I did a better analysis on a dataset of 10x as many servers, see discuss.systems/@ricci/1144003… ]

These stats are by the number of *servers* not the number of *users* (maybe I'll run those stats later).

fedidb currently tracks 2,650 servers of various types (Mastodon, pixelfed, lemmy, misskey, peertube, etc)

The fediverse is most vulnerable to disruptions at CloudFlare: 24% of Fediverse servers are behind it. Also note that this means that I don't have real data on where this 24% are located or hosted, since CloudFlare obscures this by design.

Beyond CloudFlare, the fediverse is not too concentrated on any one network. The most popular host, Hertzner, only hosts 14% of fediverse servers, and it falls off fast from there.

Here are the top networks where fediverse servers are hosted:

504 Cloudflare, Inc.
356 Hetzner Online GmbH
130 DigitalOcean, LLC
114 OVH SAS
56 netcup GmbH
55 Amazon.com, Inc.
55 Akamai Connected Cloud
36 Contabo GmbH
33 SAKURA Internet Inc.
32 The Constant Company, LLC
31 Xserver Inc.
28 SCALEWAY S.A.S.
24 Google LLC
23 Oracle Corporation
16 GMO Internet Group, Inc.
14 IONOS SE
14 FranTech Solutions
11 Hostinger International Limited
10 Nubes, LLC

Half of fediverse servers are on networks that host 50 or fewer servers - that's pretty good for resiliency.

There is even more diversity when it comes to BGP prefixes, which is good for resiliency: for example, the cloud providers that have multiple availability zones will generally have them on different prefixes, so this gets closer to giving us a picture of the specific bits of infrastructure the fediverse relies on.

The top BGP prefixes:

55 104.21.48.0/20
50 104.21.16.0/20
48 104.21.64.0/20
41 104.21.32.0/20
41 104.21.0.0/20
38 104.21.80.0/20
32 172.67.128.0/20
31 172.67.144.0/20
28 172.67.208.0/20
28 162.43.0.0/17
27 104.26.0.0/20
26 172.67.192.0/20
26 172.67.176.0/20
23 172.67.160.0/20
19 116.203.0.0/16
17 172.67.64.0/20
17 159.69.0.0/16
16 65.109.0.0/16
14 88.99.0.0/16
14 49.13.0.0/16
13 78.46.0.0/15
13 167.235.0.0/16
13 138.201.0.0/16
11 95.217.0.0/16
11 95.216.0.0/16
11 49.12.0.0/16
11 135.181.0.0/16
10 37.27.0.0/16
10 157.90.0.0/16

75% of fediverse servers are behind BGP prefixes that host 10 or fewer servers, meaning that the fediverse is *very* resilient to large network outages.

Top countries where fediverse servers are hosted:

871 United States
439 Germany
156 France
148 Japan
75 Finland
57 Canada
49 Netherlands
38 United Kingdom
26 Switzerland
26 South Korea
21 Spain
19 Sweden
18 Austria
17 Australia
15 Russia
12 Czech Republic
10 Singapore
10 Italy

And finally, a map of the locations of fediverse servers:
ipinfo.io/tools/map/91960023-e…


IP Map Report

We're the trusted source for IP address information, handling 50 billion IP geolocation API requests per month for over 1,000 businesses and 100,000+ developers
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One thing that's interesting to me in this data is that there is actually *much* more consolidation on a few cloud providers in Europe than there is in the US. This is actually somewhat concerning. 81% of fediverse servers in Germany are at Hetzner, 73% of the servers in France are on OVH. By comparison, the most popular American provider, Digital Ocean, hosts only 14% of servers in the US. I don't know how representative this is of cloud usage overall (eg. Digital Ocean is definitely not the top cloud in the US) but it does certainly suggest much more centralization in Europe as compared to the US.
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Atlanta Radio Veteran ''Cadillac Jack'' Choate Dies at 51 news.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/…

Atlanta Radio Veteran ''Cadillac Jack'' Choate Dies at 51

RADIO ONLINE offers the latest radio industry news, podcast news, radio show prep, radio promotions, radio station data and more. RADIO ONLINE has been serving the radio industry since 1989, with up-to-the-minute news at radio-online.com
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Hey pals: Someone I like made a tool that extracts still images from youtube tutorials so we can follow them step by step with screenshots as God intended instead of having to constantly be pausing and seeking back and forth. I have LOST this precious resource.

Was it you? Will you give me the link? I will bookmark it this time.

UPDATE: FOUND. It is github.com/obra/Youtube2Webpag… by @jesse and it deserves a genius grant if we're honest


GitHub - obra/Youtube2Webpage: I learn much better from text than from videos

I learn much better from text than from videos. Contribute to obra/Youtube2Webpage development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Please help the autism community of the United States be protected!
As some might know, RFK is planning to create a registry for those who are autistic. this is a violation of basic human rights, and can lead to things like nonconsensual and painful therapies, force sterilization and eugenic cleansing.
Please help the American Autistic Community, and those who support said community, raise our voices in saying no. Sign the petition, if you can.
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If you cannot, or are unwilling to, please share and boost the post for those who may be able to.
Thank you.

Stop the National Autism Registry: Protect Our Children’s Privacy and Human Rights

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🕛Z #NowPlaying at the top of the hour, 2 hours of relaxing #NewAge, #ambient, and #meditationmusic on Northern Lights: The New Age Show, #live with Kelly Sapergia. More information is at ksapergia.net/northernlights/. Tune in either by visiting theglobalvoice.info and clicking on the Listen Live link, or go directly to theglobalvoice.info:8443/broad… #TGVRadio #audio #radio 📺🗣️📻🎶🎙️🌌🌈🫣🫰🩵🪬🫶

Welcome to The Global Voice - The Global Voice

The Global Voice brings together an international team of broadcasters, producers and radio journalists to present for you a wide range of entertaining and informative programs.
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#audio #radio #nowplaying #ambient #live #newage #meditationmusic #tgvradio

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As a reminder to my academic friends. If you are doing research that involves modifying a compiler - perhaps to add a security mitigation or to test an optimization or some other interesting behavior - and you want to run a real world benchmark or test suite: we can help you run it on Firefox.

We can get you set up with our CI so it's easy and efficient to iterate on your patches and run it through the whole gamut.

If you want a compelling story in your paper, showing results on what is probably the second most complicated piece of software in use ought to do it.

wiki.mozilla.org/Building_Fire…

Building Firefox/SURF - MozillaWiki

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Zoom attack tricks victims into allowing remote access to install malware and steal money malwarebytes.com/blog/news/202…

Zoom attack tricks victims into allowing remote access to install malware and steal money | Malwarebytes

Attackers are luring victims into a Zoom call and then taking over their PC to install malware, infiltrate their accounts, and steal their assets.
Danny Bradbury (Malwarebytes)

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My older sibling started an Etsy shop a couple weeks ago where they sell hand-made stickers. And, all the images have detailed, human-written alt text! Even if you can't see them, some of these stickers have really fun shapes. I especially like the Colorado ones. Great for laptops. etsy.com/shop/froggymakescraft…

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They also recently started selling these: Handmade Foldable Tote Bag & Carrying Pouch. There are multiple patterns, I've personally been rocking the Grogu/Baby Yoda one, but there are mushrooms, cats in multiple colors, and more. Impossibly cute, and it folds up into this tiny little pouch with a button for securing. All sowed by hand, directly outside my bedroom door. etsy.com/listing/4295110843/ha…
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