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👐BREAKING: Google made Quick Share compatible with AirDrop WITHOUT Apple's help!

Google's statement heavily implies this.

We don't know how Google did it, but Apple was seemingly NOT involved in making Quick Share work with AirDrop.

More details👇

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Google made Quick Share compatible with AirDrop without Apple's help

Google just announced that Android's Quick Share is now compatible with AirDrop on iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks, but Apple didn't help.
Mishaal Rahman (Android Authority)

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@ZBennoui Hi, I'm not asking for a lot - all I need is to provide food and medicine for my mother. She has Type 1 diabetes and hasn't been able to get her medication for over 3 months, plus she requires eye surgery.
I lost my father in the war - can you imagine? I'm having to step into his role as a father figure by seeking donations? ‼️‼️
Please, don't ignore me; I truly need your help, Please help where possible. Donation link in bio/Pinned post.🙏🍉🕊
@Zach Bennoui

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Small change, huge improvement. They replaced and moved this single streetlamp on one of main #Prague #bike ways A22. Originally there used to be the old lamp with bulky base placed almost in the middle of the road. It used to be very uncomfortable and sometimes dangerous place as it is just behind a turn and two cyclists couldn't pass each other here. Now it's fixed. 👏🚲
Narrow bikeway next to a road with a streetlamp on the side
Point on the map
#Prague #bike

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If the Canadian government wanted to do something nice for me, the absolute best single thing they could do for me¹ is cap UPS's import/brokerage fees at the amount I would have had to pay in self clearance. Or at self clearance levels plus ten percent.

Or just fucking make self clearance possible in downtown Toronto without spending $10 and two hours to take the train to Pearson. Please. I am dying

¹ I mean short of something really expensive like OHIP covering medication.

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Pitermach

@sclower The preview doesn't show anything either, and ironically they picked the episode Holoship which starts with the crew watching a movie. The BBC did this in a really cool way with Faulty Towers where they had one of the characters occasionally interject with descriptive commentary while staying in-character. Could have been fun to see how something like that could have worked with red dwarf
@Steve

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Soooo viele Daten, so viele Behörden, so viele Websites…

warum also nicht 'ne kleine Pest sein und Behinderten beim Melden von Barrieren helfen, indem man das alles massiv vereinfacht und dann noch mit Profis drüberschaut? Und alles das öffentlich zugänglich, damit sich nie wieder jemand rausreden kann? Könnte ja Behörden überlasten und Durchsetzungsstellen was zu tun geben.

2026. #sneakpeek

Ein Screenshot eines Online-Tools, mit dem man Barrieren melden können soll. In diesem Beispiel eine Barriere bei „Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe“, deren Beschreibung und Informationen direkt aus einem Prüfgutachten übernommen wurden.
#sneakpeek
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Thunderbird Pro is getting closer to its Early Bird release! Find out what that means and what it includes in our latest update.

#Thunderbird #ThunderbirdPro #Thundermail #OpenSource

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Thunderbird Pro November 2025 Update - The Thunderbird Blog

Our team remains hard at work on Thunderbird Pro! Get the latest developments on Thundermail, Appointment, and Send, and our Early Bird plan.
Ryan Sipes (The Thunderbird Blog)
#opensource #thunderbird #thunderbirdpro #thundermail

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Reversing the Reversal?: Government Puts Privacy Invasive Lawful Access Back on the Agenda
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Reversing the Reversal?: Government Puts Privacy Invasive Lawful Access Back on the Agenda - Michael Geist

Last month, the government seemingly reversed course on its lawful access plans to grant law enforcement powers to demand warrantless access to personal information from any provider of a service in Canada.
Michael Geist

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Never do this. NEVER

Remember the pain of being held back by 2.6.32 ??

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Ubuntu Pro now supports LTS releases for up to 15 years through the Legacy add-on. More security, more stability, and greater control over upgrade timelines for enterprises. […]

Ubuntu Pro now supports LTS releases for up to 15 years through the Legacy add-on. More security, more stability, and greater control over upgrade timelines for enterprises.
Canonical (Ubuntu)
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Phantasm

I don't think glibc maintainers care about compatibility considering their constant ABI breakage. New features? Maybe. But as I've said, this might stop some developers from trying out the new shiny things which I consider a good thing. Or if they want to use it, hide it behind #ifdef and supply an alternative. What this does isn't hold back improvement, it forces writing portable code again which everybody forgot in the last 5-10 years. And I'm getting tired of having to package some random new library from a year ago whose version must be from the last 3 months and the Python version must be _latest_ for a piece of software to even consider building itself. Examples: HomeAssistant, Gitea and much more.

This is also mostly a non-issue for open source software where you can always patch it to work on older libc, or make multiple packages if you are the developer. The developer might not want to do it, but maybe the distro maintainers want to which is also fine. And pre-built binaries without source will always suffer since glibc ABI compatibility barely exists.

#ifdef

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Finally, NVAccess has agreed to separate links from the adjacent non-link text and display them on separate lines as a toggleable option. It’s still unclear when this will be implemented, but it's a good step forward in my opinion. I opened this issue in April 2020, and many users really want it.
Their comment states:
"We appreciate the constructive community feedback. We've triaged this issue, meaning we would accept this feature as a toggleable option."
github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…
@NVAccess

Issue displaying text after links when the Screen Layout mode is turned off

Steps to reproduce: First and foremost, make sure the Screen Layout mode is turned off. It can be done via Insert+V when placed on a webpage. The issue can be duplicated everywhere but, as an examp...
amirsol81 (GitHub)
@NV Access
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Jamie Teh

@kaveinthran This isn't even a question of design philosophy, so a fork wouldn't help that. This is ultimately about what a very small team of developers has the capacity to handle. The fact that this (and other issues) have been triaged means that pull requests would be accepted for them, so I don't see how a fork would change anything here. @amir @Dennislong82
@Kaveinthran @Amir @Dennis long

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Mental note of an idea before I forget and never tell anyone: @thunderbird should adopt and dig in deep on being the best in class mobile and desktop client for #DeltaChat in addition to being an email and RSS reader. Compete on simplicity and features against closed, commercial Messangers, not just corporate email. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

cc: @delta

#deltachat @Delta Chat @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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Delta Chat

you are 6 years late :) We already invited the Thunderbird core team for two days of discussing joint futures in 2019. For several reasons (pandemic disruption among them) they didn't follow up much. Maybe they also believed, like many others, that instant messaging via email can not work? In any case, they recently integrated a Matrix client, but TB's chat interface remains very bare bone. Should they revise their approach, we'd be happy to collaborate.

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If any Jaws home users were wondering if they're missing out on AI Web page summaries, from my testing, the answer is no. These summaries are pretty good if you are a beginner, they give you an overview of important links, how to navigate the page, remind about potentially useful shortcuts, and so on. From my testing on several large forum topics, these summaries do not summarize the text content itself, They just briefly mention what it is about.

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A worrying number of influential people seem to have forgotten how bubbles work. When the bubble starts to burst it won’t first manifest in Nvidia’s results, but in smaller loss-making AI start-ups struggling to secure the investor funding they need to keep operating. This will slowly propagate to larger loss-making AI companies, and the collapse will be well underway by the time it shows up in Nvidia’s results.
Guardian headline: Markets rally after Nvidia’s strong results calm AI bubble fears

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Dear Diary, or whatever passes for it these days:

I'm currently sitting in a park. It's a lovely spring day, with a gentle breeze. The birds are chirping, the air smells clean, and there are some kids playing. It's peaceful. Perhaps it's too peaceful.

I feel like I'm supposed to disturb that peace, perhaps by blowing something up, or setting the grass on fire. I feel like, if I don't do this, everything will remain unbalanced.
Is this normal?

Written by me on this very keyboard in a #WeirdDream

#weirddream
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Question for my tecnical friends.

Let's say you are creating a project that requires it be protected by a captcha. You have to use a captcha, and there is no way around this. Please don't reply with statements like. Captcha are bad, or don't use a captcha. Thanks. With that being said.

Which captcha service would you recommend and why?

The captcha needs to have an accessibility component or an alternative option for solving, and needs to be simple to integrate.

Free/low cost is probably preferred.

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Reza JDP

I’ve been using reCAPTCHA for years. It's straightforward to integrate and easy for users to solve. Plus, it offers solid accessibility support. That said, the audio CAPTCHA can be challenging for visually impaired users who also have hearing difficulties. In those cases, hCaptcha might be a better option, as it offers an accessibility cookie to bypass challenges. However, to be honest, I’ve found that feature to be a bit unreliable.
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