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Some of Apple's latest features aren't restricted to new hardware, like the new Live Translation feature for AirPods that relies on the H2 chip and Apple Intelligence on an iPhone.
appleinsider.com/articles/25/0…

Live Translation will also work with AirPods 4 and AirPods Pro 2

Some of Apple's latest features aren't restricted to new hardware, like the new Live Translation feature for AirPods that relies on the H2 chip and Apple Intelligence on an iPhone.
Wesley Hilliard (AppleInsider)

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Hypertension detection, a headlining feature of Apple Watch Series 11 and Apple Watch Ultra 3, is coming to some previous models, so there's no need to rush out and upgrade just yet.
appleinsider.com/articles/25/0…

Some older Apple Watch models will get hypertension notifications

Hypertension detection, a headlining feature of Apple Watch Series 11 and Apple Watch Ultra 3, is coming to some previous models, so there's no need to rush out and upgrade just yet.
Wesley Hilliard (AppleInsider)

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Deleting the Stocard importer from Catima because Stocard no longer exists feels so... anticlimatic.

I wish I could call it an "end of an era", but I can't. Everything is still the same. Big companies still mistreat us horribly and GDPR enforcement is still a joke. Literally nothing changed. It took *4 years* for my GDPR complaint on Stocard's partial exports to receive a decision which basically was... "Stocard can give incomplete data (because they have lawyers and you don't)".

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haha. I'm so bad. Got on Amazon to grab a Series 10 watch just 3 days before this Apple event. I was going from series 9 because my battery hit 83%. Nope. Once it hits the low 80s or 80 and below, you really feel it. So after 2 years it was time. I now have 7 Apple Watches in my collection in total, spanning from series 0 to Series 10. Not regretful at all of this. To be able to experience it as a timeline is very neat for me. Will skip this Series 11 though, because to me, a little battery and a new sensor that's only a trend sensing thing is just not worth it right now. Will wait for series 12. Series 10 is enough of an upgrade from series 9 with the beefier sounding speaker that it still felt worth it to me, and being able to play music through it. Series 11 won't see deep discounts (I got my series 10 almost 30% off) for a long time.
So, my thoughts. Now you know. I'm an Apple watch snob and collector, and you can go fuck yourself if you feel that's a problem.
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> Michigan Judge Tosses Out Cases Against Fake Trump Electors

> The judge, a Democrat, concluded that fake electors recruited to support Donald J. Trump’s candidacy in 2020 did not understand that they were being asked to do something illegal.

okay but if this is the standard we're going to set I hope we can stick to it for all crimes where someone didn't know they were being asked to do something illegal

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Judge: Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement is being shoved “down the throat of authors”
Feeling “misled,” judge refuses to rubber-stamp Anthropic's proposed settlement.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Judge: Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement is being shoved “down the throat of authors”

Feeling “misled,” judge refuses to rubber-stamp Anthropic’s proposed settlement.
Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)

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Getting excited. I just started a new repository on Github, a brand new project that I hope I'll get to show you soon. The initial target is Windows. I will eventually make it for Windows and Mac. I currently don't have a Mac so testing opportunities are limited. I prefer to test as I go.

Obviously, whatever I develop will be fully accessible.

Allright! I'll tell ya. It's going to be a fully-functional masto/bluesky/RSS client.

#accessibility #mystery

#Accessibility #mystery
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Week highlights: new releases of ShineStacker, @mixxx, and LSP plugins; new version of OurPaint by @chengdulittlea has pigment canvas and spectral blending, @inkscape is getting artwork recoloring, and @FreeCAD just got on-view gizmos for PartDesign commands such as Pad and Fillet

librearts.org/2025/09/week-rec…


Weekly recap — 7 September 2025

New releases of OurPaint and LSP plugins; new features in Inkscape and FreeCAD
Aleksandr Prokudin (Libre Arts)
@Inkscape @FreeCAD @Yiming Wu ✅ Use OurPaint @Mixxx DJ Software

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I said this when I first started getting into electronics and I’ll say it again:

software libraries need something akin to Datasheets. A technical document which lists facts about the operating parameters and intended uses, meant for a technically-minded person to evaluate “is this suitable for my use case?” and “what all would be involved in integrating this into my product?”

in my experience too much of this material for software reads like marketing fluff, making empty promises about ease or scale or whatever without any context under which those promises apply

we talk about software “engineering” and this sort of technical document strikes me as fundamental to that practice

in reply to Nick's world 🌎 👨‍🦯 🗽

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Sean Randall

You're supposed to get your kids engaged with others through trips, activities and outings.

I've rarely seen it done very successfully, if I'm honest.
As a teacher those who'd been homecshooled were very obvious when they came into my classroom.
My daughter has a couple of online friends who are homeschooled and socially, they are very different to the rest.

I'm sure it can work well in the right circumstances, but it's a bit like mainstream education for the blind. if one of the little things isn't quite in place properly the problems scale up quickly.

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