I got several questions on what's new with Version 7 of the Ray-ban Meta Smart glasses. The URL of the release notes follows: These features and improvements will become available starting the week of July 31, 2024.

Respond without 'Hey Meta'
Now you can make another request to your glasses after the first one without needing to say ‘Hey Meta’ again. Your glasses and mic will stay on and listen for a brief period after each request is complete. This feature will be on by default but you can turn it off from the Settings menu in the Meta View app.

Stay on track with the games in Paris
Get real-time info on the Paris Olympics, including medal counts, event times, results and athlete bios. You can also ask questions about your favorite athletes and games from past events. For example, ask “Hey Meta, which country is leading the gold medal in gymnastics?”

Improved Apple Music search
We are adding a setting to make it easier to recognize previously unrecognized tracks and enhance your Apple Music experience. To turn this on, go to Settings in the Meta View app, select Apple Music and turn on Improved Music Search.

Share photos to your Instagram Story hands-free
The feature is now supported in French and Italian in addition to English. Your glasses can capture and share photos completely hands-free to your Instagram Story. From the Meta View app, go to Settings, then tap Communication and connect your Instagram account. To share, say “Hey Meta, share a photo to my Instagram Story” or “Hey Meta, share my last photo to Instagram.”

Share to Facebook Stories from Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses
You can share photos you capture with Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to Facebook Stories. To share to Facebook Stories, make sure you’ve turned on voice interactions and connected your Facebook profile to the Meta View app.

Improvements
Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Early Access program
These features and improvements are available in the Early Access program.

Skip saying “look and” when you make a request to Meta AI
Early Access users can now say “Hey Meta” and ask Meta AI about what they see without saying “look and.”

| meta.com/help/smart-glasses/ar…

@federicomena and other Rusters: what are the best examples of C->Rust rewrites?

As far as I understand it, this includes things like librsvg (incremental rewrite) but not coreutils (reimplementation from scratch).

Techy people!

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(NOTE: This has no connection to the mobile apps Toot! or Tooot. They just have similar names.)

#Mastodon #CLI #TUI

Es war einmal ein Huhn,
Das hatt' nicht viel zu tun,
Es legte jeden Tag ein Ei
Und … Morgen ist's vorbei? 🤔

🐣

My politics are: we should have massive carbon taxes, massive land value taxes, and generous UBI.

Is there an existing label for that?

we got a new #curl security vulnerability reported *this morning*, and since we already had a patch release planned for tomorrow, well, we have worked like crazy through-out the day and the fix and the advisory and everything will be published tomorrow along with #curl 8.9.1

Never a dull moment in this factory.

We’re growing our product team!

Are you an #iOS Developer who wants to lead our official #Mastodon iOS #App?

This is a remote full-time position and requires an overlap with the CET timezone.

Ideally:

1. You are a senior iOS Developer comfortable with a mature codebase
2. Proficient in #Swift and #Apple Frameworks (UIKit, SwiftUI, Combine)
3. Prior experience with social media networks is a big plus!

For more info/to apply:
jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/bc91…

#FediHire #GetFediHired #hiring #mastodev

iOS Developer (m/f/d)

We're looking for a full-time remote iOS Developer to work on our official Mastodon iOS app.

^{jobs.ashbyhq.com}

if at first you don't succeed, release, release again

Tomorrow comes the 259th attempt

Opinated analysis of StackOverflow Survey 2024:

• StackOverflow names for "Admired" and "Desired" are stupid and dumb and bad.
• "Admired" means "I use it, and I want to keep using".
• "Desired" means "I don't use it, but I want to."
• Rust still the top Admired for another year (9th in a row?).
• Rust ~80%, that means 1 in 5 Rust developers do not want to continue working with Rust.
• Python is even worse: 1 in 3 developers want to quit (~66% Admired).
• The curious point of Python is that it 50% of people not using Python want to use (top Desired).
• There is notable number of Python users wanting to get out, while there are a huge number of users of not-Python wanting to get in.
• Elixir is again in 2nd place as Admired and nobody actually mention this.
• Elixir is also the second highest paying language.
• I'm not a fan of Elixir syntax, but I guess its 2nd places should still be said.
• C++ is ~50% Admired, meaning 1 in 2 C++ developers do not want to continue working with the language.
• It is curious that the 3 top Admired languages -- Rust, Elixir and Zig -- are tackling hard problems of memory safety and concurrency.
• The same "dislikeness" of having to use Python goes to pip.
• Ruff, a Rust tool for Python, have 80% of Admired.
• ~50% of CMake users want to get out of it.
• Between CMake, Meson and Ninja ("common" build tools for C/C++), Ninja gets the least dislikes.
• The most Admired build tool is... Cargo (go figure, right?)
• Neovim Admired score is higher than Vim.
• Emacs Admired score is higher than Vim but notably lower than Neovim.
• The pay gab between Rust and Go is neglectable.
• Cobol pays 5% better than Python.
• Rust average salary is down 10% from last year.

An earthquake in the Apple community: AppleVis is shutting down. A huge loss for us in the disability community.

applevis.com/blog/end-era-mess…

Hey guys, you don’t need a mother, sister, or daughter to care about women’s rights. It’s so nice to hear a man say, when asked “why do you support [policy that impacts women and girls]?”

“Because women’s rights are human rights. And I care about and support all women.” Not just because you are related to one.

A ver, Nacho, usemos la lógica. Sánchez y Maduro tienen problemas más importantes que perseguirte.
Pero ojo con Zapatero. Ese no tiene nada mejor que hacer que ir a por ti.

Nacho Cano dice que su imputación es un "montaje de la banda de Sánchez, Maduro y Zapatero"
eldiario.es/cultura/nacho-cano…

Nacho Cano dice que su imputación es un "montaje de la banda de Sánchez, Maduro y Zapatero"

El productor musical ha difundido un vídeo en el que vuelve a defender que es víctima de una operación contra él por apoyar Isabel Díaz Ayuso

^{Laura García Higueras (ElDiario.es)}

If you took all the money Nvidia stock has lost in the last month, that missing capital is larger than all but 8 companies IN THE WORLD.

It's lost more than one TSLA. A Samsung and a MasterCard. More than three Salesforces. IN A MONTH.

🇨🇭 Welcome to the party!! 🇨🇭

Innovation will start booming with Switzerland mandating government software to be open source.

Public money for public code, forever! 🤘

#OpenSource #Transparency #DigitalSovereignty

zdnet.com/article/switzerland-…

Switzerland federal government requires releasing its software as open source

The United States remains reluctant to work with open source, but European countries are bolder.

^{Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)}

Dicen que los niños ya no juegan en la calle.

Pues mi barrio debe ser la excepción: pelota parriba y pabajo, patines, juegos de esos de palmas y palabras...
Mari mari po po
mari mari sa sa
mari po
mari sa
mari po sa.

Y todo lo imaginable. Siempre me sorprende un poco cuando escucho algún canijo decir cabrón o hijo de puta, pero seguramente yo decía ídem de ídem.

🥚 🎶 … und der Count-Down läuft … 🎶 🐣

#IzzyOnDroid