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Sony XM6 still sucks like Xm5. Gosh. What a disappointment. After a month in, Sonos Ace is winning over all of them. XM6 has come out to be very sweat-trapping over time on the earcups, compared to Sonos ace. The right earcup tap sensor will sometimes register phantom taps when I'm not wanting it to and until I reboot it won't stop doing so. Quirks like that. So nope, no Xm7 for me. Also no Bose QC Ultra. After 2.5 years, a slight electric static noise began to come around on the right earcup. Little electric swirl. Bose can go suck it. For me Sonos wins them over by a longshot. Their new QC Ultra refresh launching in October has no interest to me.
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@luiscarlosgonzalez ah yeah. It's definitely an upgrade over the XM5. But it keeps the same cheap plastic (I dropped mine outside once, and now the edges of the left cup have slight nics in them), does add folding, and sadly extends that right earcup sensor to be more edge-to-edge, as in, even almost around the lip of the round cup's outside. I think the best quality was in XM4, and it's a shame they didn't go back to that level of workmanship with the Xm6 - more so like they took the cheap qualities about the XM5 to add folding alongside with.
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Trying a sattisfaction survey for #audiopub.
Do you like the site? Do you hate it? The reality of making stuff is that you almost exclusively hear from people when something is broken or they're frustrated. If I only went by my inbox, I'd think everyone hated this project. I don’t run big intrusive analytics, so this Survey exists instead to hopefully gain a better picture!
Feel free to respond to it: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Audiopub Satisfaction Survey

Google Docs
#audiopub

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 12 updated and 1 added apps:

* Squeezelite: a 'headless' audio player for Lyrion Music Server 🛡️

We've also added a new category "Social Network", so you can find all your favorite Fediverse apps easier (we chose that name as F-Droid already uses it, and we wanted to avoid "clutter" there).

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid
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issues with auto-ocr, then auto-generate minimal reproducible example
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'delegate like a boss' w/o dogfooding? mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p…


Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up

78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software? Turns out those productivity claims are bullshit.
Mike Judge

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Brazil's Bolsonaro guilty of coup charges, court majority decides in landmark trial nbcnews.com/world/brazil/brazi… #Brazil #Fascism

Brazil's Bolsonaro guilty of coup charges, court majority decides in landmark trial

BRASILIA — Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was convicted by a Supreme Court majority on Thursday of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election, a powerful blow to the populist far-right movement he created
Reuters (NBC News)
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Golden aspens blanket the trail at Fish Lake, Utah, in a beautiful autumn display. More than beautiful—it's part of Pando, the largest living organism on Earth. Over 100 acres, sharing one vast root system, a living wonder of nature. Walking here feels like stepping through living history, every leaf connected to a single ancient being.

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#nature #utah #photography #buyintoart #landscape #LandscapePhotography #art #photo #utah #fineartphotography #autumn #fall

A winding trail at Fish Lake, Utah, covered in golden aspen leaves with white-barked trees glowing in autumn sunlight. This forest is part of Pando, the largest living organism on Earth, sharing one massive root system.

Fall In Love by Rebecca Herranen

Rebecca Herranen
#photo #art #photography #nature #autumn #landscape #landscapephotography #BuyIntoArt #fall #fineartphotography #utah

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After a short hiatus, State of the Thunder is back! This time, in addition to tackling community questions, we're also responding to the top 20-ish requested features from Mozilla Connect. Get the latest news on Sync, translations, and more!

#Thunderbird #OpenSource

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State of the Thunder: Mozilla Connect Updates - The Thunderbird Blog

State of the Thunder is back for a new season! We're answering more questions and updating you on top requested features from Mozilla Connect
Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
#opensource #thunderbird

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#SCOTUS #TransRightsAreHumanRights
"The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a transgender boy may use the boys’ bathroom in a South Carolina public high school while he pursues a challenge to a state law requiring students to use the bathrooms for their sex..."

Supreme Court Rules for Transgender Boy in Bathroom Dispute

"The interim order came after a decision in June on medical care for transgender youths and as the justices prepare to hear arguments on transgend..."
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#transrightsarehumanrights #SCOTUS

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I'm not bothered that the same crowd that was happy joking about feeding people to alligators wants us all to act as though this wretched monster who died from the exact policies he championed should be somehow go unmocked, mourned and valorized. That's expected, there's nothing new there.

I am bothered by the people I expected to know better doing just that.

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Today, we’re ready to show you the upcoming quote posts feature in more detail. We’ve put together a blog post with examples of how quote posts will work on Mastodon, ahead of early access on our own servers next week 💬 Full launch to come, in Mastodon v4.5

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/…

Introducing quote posts

Over the years, we’ve learned just how essential quoting is to many of you. Here's a deep dive on how quote posts will work on Mastodon.
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There’s documentation available today, along with an FAQ. If you’re a developer, draft documentation is available as well.

Quote posting will be available on mastodon.online and mastodon.social next week! We will be listening to your feedback on our new feature.

docs.joinmastodon.org/user/quo…

Quoting other posts - Mastodon documentation

All about quoting content (your own posts, or those made by other people).
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“You shouldn’t celebrate his death.”
He celebrated the deaths of Black and Brown people daily. He is a nazi. You are a nazi sympathizer.

No celebration. Just watching chickens coming home to roost, like Malcolm said.

Fake virtue signaling and demanding empathy for a man who said “empathy is for the weak” and whose actual last words were violent anti-black and anti-trans dogwhistles is absolutely delusional.

Having pity for a man who would gladly try to kill you for not being white is insane.

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Live Translation with AirPods is not going to be available in the EU. This means that it doesn't use on-device AI model and the microphones forward everything to remote servers 🤯

UPDATE: Before this post goes out of control. The DMA can also be a reason why this feature is not available in the EU:

infosec.exchange/@hacksilon/11…

#Apple #privacy #infosec

Apple Intelligence: Live Translation with AirPods Live Translation with AirPods is not available if you are in the EU and your Apple Account Country or Region is also in the EU English (United Kingdom) English (United States) French (France) - not available in the EU German (Germany) - not available in the EU Portuguese (Brazil) Spanish (Spain) - not available in the EU Back to Top ®

Max Maass :donor: (@hacksilon@infosec.exchange)

@mysk@mastodon.social @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social I would bet that this isn’t about GDPR but about the digital markets act, in which case on-device or off device doesn’t make a difference.
Infosec Exchange
#apple #privacy #infosec
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Opinion: Exclusive TalkBack Features for Google TTS Are Doing More Harm Than Good accessibleandroid.com/opinion-…

Opinion: Exclusive TalkBack Features for Google TTS Are Doing More Harm Than Good - Accessible Android

TalkBack, a part of the Android accessibility suite, is the screen reader developed by Google and comes pre-installed on most Android phones and tablets.
Kareen Kiwan (Accessible Android)

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Are you part of an open source project with a community of users, contributors, and/or third party developers?

I want to interview people about their projects with particular attention to how codebases, documentation, project management tooling, and community spaces are constructed.

On these "project tours" we'll go through your project together, on video call, and talk about how the structure of the project influences, and is influenced by, your goals, culture, logistical constraints, etc.

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