You buy a new iPhone and your wallet cries. You wake up in your bed and believe that you have to buy a new phone every year. Or, you take the repair pill and you stay on iFixit.com and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
Microsoft just became the second company valued at over $4 trillion. How did they do that?
They fired over 15K developers and IT workers this year, saying cost cutting was needed. They also spent over $18 billion on stock buybacks, and the board approved $60 billion in buyback options. They poured $100 billion into AI.
Meanwhile, Microsoft's Satya Nadella says job cuts have been 'weighing heavily' on him cnbc.com/amp/2025/07/24/micros…
Seriously? I am speechless. Such a brilliant business model 🤡
Nobody clicks past Google’s AI Overviews
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/24/nob…
Remember somebody got a promotion and/or bonus for that at Google.
Nobody clicks past Google’s AI Overviews
Google claims the AI Overview on every search result — a frequently-wrong summary of other people’s work — sends a ton of clicks back to the original publishers they ripped off. This is false. Pew …Pivot to AI
Wonder if the Canadian Digital Services Tax will be resurrected.
Canada dropped it to appease Trump but it doesn't appear to have made any difference.
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
#usa #canada #tariff #digitalservices #trump
Trump signs order increasing tariffs on Canadian goods from 25% to 35%
Decision, described by Mark Carney as ‘disappointing’, comes amid escalating trade tensions between the two countriesRobert Mackey (The Guardian)
Conversations (XMPP) Tipp 4: Möglichkeit eines Passwort-Resets schaffen (bei conversations.im)
In diesem Video erkläre ich euch, wie ihr durch das Hinterlegen einer Mail-Adresse eine Möglichkeit für einen Passwort-Reset für eure XMPP-Adresse bei conversations.im schafft.
Der verwendete Link aus dem Video ist: account.conversations.im/login…
In what should have been called "falsehoods programmers believe about TV program (or should I say programme?) metadata."
Incredibly interesting stuff, if you're into that sort of thing.
Most programmers should be required to design an architecture for a system like this at some point, and then shown this post to realize how many incorrect assumptions they made.
Designing a URL structure for BBC programmes
This is a post I've been meaning to write for the last 7 years. In the circumstances it might be more of a eulogy than a birth announcement but since the sub...smethur.st
Stay #anonymous & private with Tuta Mail's #aliases 😎
In this in-depth guide, we cover:
✅ What email aliases are
✅ How to get email aliases
✅ How alias addresses increase privacy & security
Give it a read 👉 tuta.com/blog/secure-email-ali…
Email aliases: What is an alias and how does it improve online security? | Tuta
Learn how additional email addresses can increase your security, protect your identity, and significantly reduce spam issues. Plus: Get multiple aliases with Tuta Mail today!Tuta
Is it possible to prevent the contents of the blog from being automatically translated into another language? Could you just provide a translation link for people who need it?
I live in Taiwan, and the automatic translation is really poor and annoying.
- Yes, already using it! (30%, 112 votes)
- Didn't know it and could use it in the future. (35%, 129 votes)
- No, don't need it. (33%, 123 votes)
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LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025, Tokyo – Call for proposals is open - The Document Foundation Blog
Photo from the LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024 This is a translation of the Japanese post: The LibreOffice Asia Conference Committee is pleased to invite proposals for talks at the LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025, which will be held in Tokyo, Japan…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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#curl adds parallel host control
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/08/01…
curl adds parallel host control
I'm convinced a lot of people have not yet figured out that curl has supported parallel downloads for six years already by now. Provided a practically unlimited number of URLs, curl can be asked to get them in a parallel fashion.daniel.haxx.se
and what is the default value of N? ;)
”It then makes sure to keep N transfers alive for as long as there is N or more transfers left to complete, where X is a custom number but 50 by default.”
TIP: Je nutné, aby kolo mělo stojánek? Na co si u stojánku dát pozor
Máte na kole stojánek? Tedy nejspíše takovou tu „věc“ na (často) levé straně zadního kola, kterou můžete sklopit a opřít o ni kolo? Pak možná jenom čas od času řešíte to, že je potřeba to utahovat, protože se tomu uvolňují šrouby a přemýšlíte, proč to tam vlastně máte.
kolotipy.cz/2025/08/01/tip-je-…
TIP: Je nutné, aby kolo mělo stojánek? Na co si u stojánku dát pozor - Kolotipy.cz
Máte na kole stojánek? Tedy nejspíše takovou tu "věc" na (často) levé straně zadního kola, kterou můžete sklopit a opřít o ni kolo? Pak možná jenom čas od času řešíte to, že je potřeba to utahovat, protože se tomu uvolňují šrouby a přemýšlíte, proč t…Kolotipy.cz
August is my birthday month.
I'm disabled & queer, living in extreme poverty. I'm in URGENT need of food, hygiene, medication, clothing, etc.
Donate: ko-fi.com/qpthepurplesnep
Wishes: throne.com/qp_and_valiant/
💕💸
#HelpSky
#MutualAid #Help #DisabledCrowdfund #Disabled #Poverty
Is One Enough? Screen Reader Use Among Employed People: a Peer-Reviewed Publication From The National Research and Training Center on Blindness and Low Vision
Hamilton's cybersecurity insurer isn't paying out, because Hamilton didn't satisfy the basic security requirements in the policy they purchased. $18.3M and counting. Ouch!
globalnews.ca/news/11313018/ha…
Ontario city facing full $18.3M cyberattack bill after insurer denies claim
Hamilton taxpayers are looking at fronting the full cost of a devasting 2024 cyberattack after the city’s insurance company denied its claim.Aaron D'Andrea (Global News)
🇨🇦 Canadians prefer the disabled and poverty stricken pushed out of sight-- invisible
Punishing unhoused people for existing doesn’t make them go away
#Canpoli #Canada #Poverty #Housing #MentalHealth #Disability #invisible
policyalternatives.ca/news-res…
Encampment sweeps won’t solve Canada’s homeless crisis | CCPA
Devin’s headlamp cut through the darkness. At the base of the pine trees lining the narrow green strip beside Notre Dame East Boulevard, he was bent, writing on the white backside of a plastic sheet.Changiz M. Varzi (CCPA)
Canadians' health data at risk of being handed over to U.S. authorities, experts warn
cbc.ca/news/health/health-data…
But on neo con Government as put aside the privacy bill because it didn't serve they lobbies. And has been addicted to US clown.
'I won't back down': How and why Canadians are boycotting the U.S.
cbc.ca/news/canada/we-asked-ca…
It's hard, but we make do. Require changing some habits too. And to be vigilent. Labels are not always clear.
Meta’s Favorite Product Isn’t AI. It’s the Copy Button.
om.co/2025/07/31/metas-favorit…
#AI
Meta’s Favorite Product Isn’t AI. It’s the Copy Button.
An hour after I posted my piece about Meta’s Super Intelligence memo, a friend pinged me and pointed out that once again, Mark Zuckerberg has subsumed someone’s idea and phrase and…On my Om
🇺🇸 It's been exactly one year since we went live with our Reproducible Builds publicly. Almost exactly at their first anniversary, we passed the mark of 50% apps covered by them.
But more has happened since: we've improved on the RBs, published the framework. You've asked for Download Statistics? Today we make those public. And more – plus more to come. As usual, we announce what it's ready – no fabulous promises, just facts. So read the full update here:
android.izzysoft.de/articles/n…
News from the first half of 2025: RB work, Download Statistics, and more
Half a year has passed since our last blog post. You might be curious what we achieved since then – and we have not been idle! Be prepared for more reproducible builds, download statistics, and other nice things 😃IzzyOnDroid
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PS: If you like our work, please donate! It'll allow us to take more time away from our $dayjob and focus on making IzzyOnDroid as good as it can be 🤗
opencollective.com/izzyondroid
(most of our work is still done in our free time without pay – and we are fine with that. But we could do so much more!)
IzzyOnDroid - Open Collective
IzzyOnDroid provides a curated repository of FOSS Android apps, transparently labeling anti-features and performing additional scans.opencollective.com
W00t, w00t! New NeoStore (one of our F-Droid clients) arrived, now showing the RB status directly next to the versions of each app 🥳
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Ich bin schon ganz gespannt auf die nicht-beta Version. 😄
Ihr macht alle einen riesen Job! 👍 chapeau! 🎩
Vielen Dank ans ganze Team
CC:
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From my #inbox
"i just got a google pixel phone and your name and email is on the phone, it says you helped to make it. i wanted to say thank you for xmaking this amazing phone. i love using it."
I enjoyed listening two these podcasts on Asian history back to back today
Sarah Paine Episode 1: The War For India:
dwarkesh.com/p/sarah-paine-ind…
How will #Taiwan shape #Asia’s future? With Chris Horton:
open.spotify.com/episode/4Yq0l…
I was really impressed by just how much Taiwan.
Sarah Paine Episode 1: The War For India (Lecture & Interview)
First of three new lectures from Professor Paine, followed by my questions. This time: Mao v Khrushchev v Nehru v LBJDwarkesh Patel (Dwarkesh Podcast)
This calm and lovely night, #curl got its 271st command line option merged and we call this baby --parallel-max-host
Enjoy!
github.com/curl/curl/pull/1805…
curl: add --parallel-host to limit concurrent connections per host by bagder · Pull Request #18052 · curl/curl
Where 'host' is protocol + hostname + portnumber.GitHub
LibreOffice 25.8 RC2 is available for testing - LibreOffice QA Blog
LibreOffice 25.8 will be released as final on August, 20, 2025 (check the Release Plan). LibreOffice 25.8 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) brings us closer to the final version, which will be preceded by Release Candidate 3 (RC3).Italo Vignoli (LibreOffice QA Blog)
Waitress: any decisions on dessert?
Me: how big is the tiramisu
(Waitress gestures with her hands about six inch square)
Me: oh! That's too much. I can't possib-
Waitress: No. It's not too much. There's no such thing as too much tiramisu.
Reader: it was too much. But definitely a light-hearted moment that made my day.
You Should Probably Leave Substack
You should probably leave Substack. Here’s why and how.How to Leave Substack.
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