Elon Musk grossly exaggerates about brain chip for the blind
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Elon Musk is overreacting to the brain chip for the blind Elon Musk claims that a new brain chip from his company Neuralink will surpass human vision. US scientists review this and conclude that the claim is "at best unrealistic".Ksenia Johnson (aussiedlerbote.de)
The FDA has been overseeing testing of ground cinnamon as part of a broader look into potential lead contamination.Jessica Rendall (CNET)
Wireguard is a high-performance VPN daemon built into the Linux kernel. Explore the benefits of Wireguard on Linux and set up your VPN today.LinuxToday
We might not have Grant Money – but we certainly have Grant Ideas 
Next app was just made ready for #reproducibleBuilds by its author – numbers go up 🥳 With the next sync, welcome SmartMouse to the "RB Club":
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Use your smartphone as a normal computer mouseIzzyOnDroid App Repo
Indivíduo de 54 identifica-se como jovem de 34 para poder comprar casa com isenção de IMT e imposto de selo
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Tem cabelos brancos mas vai pintar.Zé Pedro Silva (Imprensa Falsa)
“Viral videos showed customers ending up with absurd orders as a result of the McDonald’s AI drive-thru technology, like the woman who didn’t really want nine sweet teas or the girl shouting “stop” at the screen as it tallies up more than two dozen orders of chicken nuggets.” #Enshittification
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Literally setting billions of cash on fire in the hopes of printing money through some “AI magic” while laying people off.
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Microsoft has spent a staggering amount of money on AI — and serious profits likely remain many years out.Victor Tangermann (Futurism)
The original #hackerone report for #curl's CVE-2024-7264: ASN.1 date parser overread is now published:
## Summary: When a specially-crafted certificate is passed to `Curl_extract_certinfo` to parse, it may read bytes beyond the end of the buffer in which the certificate is held. According to the...HackerOne
I see Vance has chosen party (racism) over family.
(He has bi-racial kids and is clearly signaling they are allowed to identify with only one ethnicity and how they speak will be a measure of how well they match that ethnicity, which you can be sure he will assert is ‘white’).
Ref: washingtonpost.com/politics/20…
Donald Trump also berated a Black reporter who questioned him about his record of offensive comments about Black people.Brianna Tucker (The Washington Post)
A new #law goes into effect today in #Louisiana that will make it a misdemeanor for anyone, including #journalists, to be within 25 feet of a police officer if the officer orders them back.
Louisiana is the 4th state to enact one of these so-called #police "buffer laws," which allow officers to order people to keep their distance.
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Louisiana is the fourth state to enact a so-called police buffer law, which allows officers to order people to keep their distance. Journalists say the law will make it harder to document when police use excessive force.ProPublica
The best games for ZX Spectrum - descriptions, solutions, maps, pokes, online playing.www.zx-spectrum.cz
De alguna forma exótica, mi tarjeta de débito venció casi 2,000 años antes de que el banco siquiera existiera.
Imagino que esta tarjeta es con el César, y lo que es del César se le debe a él.
Study uncovers unique brain plasticity in people born blind
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A study led by Georgetown University neuroscientists reveals that the part of the brain that receives and processes visual information in sighted people develops a unique connectivity pattern in people born blind.Science X (Medical Xpress)
What Does It Mean To Be A Signal Competitor?
A lot of recent (and upcoming) blog posts I've written, and Fediverse discussions I've participated in, have been about the security of communication products. My criticism of these products is simply that, from a cryptography and security perspective, they're not a real competitor to Signal. For all its other faults, Signal sets the bar for secure private messaging. It's a solid security tool, even if its user experience…
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A lot of recent (and upcoming) blog posts I’ve written, and Fediverse discussions I’ve participated in, have been about the security of communication products. My criticism of these pro…Dhole Moments
#CD Rohlinge werden heute nur noch selten benötigt. Vielleicht liegt aber im Büroschrank noch eine angebrochene Packung?
Nicht wegwerfen!
Denn #Blindenhörzeitschriften werden nach wie vor gern von blinden Menschen mit speziellen Playern auf CD genutzt.
Die @ComputertruheMuenchen hat uns solche zukommen lassen. Vielen Dank!
Für einen guten Zweck und dazu ökologischer als ungenutzt zu entsorgen 
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Ungenutzte und nicht mehr benötigte CD Rohlinge für Blindenhörzeitschriftenwww.kom-in.de
Mame 0.268 came out yesterday, and it’s a really cool release for blind fans of vintage tech because it includes a fix by @datajake1999 to its emulation of the Dectalk PC Card. What this means is it’s now possible to emulate a self-contained talking IBM PC complete with an original synthesizer without having to resort to a windows only virtual serial port driver and separate apps like you have to with Dosbox. If you want to play with this there are already 2 packages that help with setup just like the community made for the Apple II a while back - one from Jake, which just includes a talking freeDOS installation and no other programs found here datajake.braillescreen.net/uti…
As well as one compiled by Daniel Nash that also includes a bunch of games, including some text only classics like Eamon Deluxe as well as the first audio games from PCS Games or Jim Kitchen found here
nashcentral.duckdns.org/projec…
The cool thing is even though both of these come with a Windows version of Mame this all works just as well on Mac or Linux, you just have to get the latest version of mame from homebrew or your package manager, then unzip either of these and take the startup command from the .bat file and paste it into the terminal.
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@munchkinbear curl has been built into Windows for a while now. I wonder how you ended up not having it installed.
In reference to https://www.reddit.com/r/MAME/comments/ceitb9/blind_user_with_a_couple_questions/ The easiest route would probably be to add hooks so OSD can speak the name of the currently selecte...GitHub
Attached: 1 image The latest update to DEVONthink, version 3.9.7, brings a variety of improvements across the app, including new application scripts for web browsers, enhancements to Markdown transclusions, WYSIWYG editing, search, and more.DEVONtechnologies
Hello Jamers 😍
As you know, Transifex serves as our #collaborative translation #management platform. While the core principles remain similar, this tutorial diverges from its predecessor by focusing specifically on the translation of the Jami application. 📲
Are you #multilingual? Your skills can make a real impact! Join our translation efforts and help us break #language barriers! 💪
👀 Want to know how ?
Here's the link: jami.net/how-to-contribute-to-…
#Jami #opensource #P2P #App #PrivacyMatters
Transifex serves as our collaborative translation management platform. This tutorial diverges from its predecessor by focusing specifically on the translation of the Jami application.jami (Jami)
The Man Behind Project 2025’s Most Radical Plans
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As #Trump tried to disavow the politically toxic project, its director, Paul Dans, stepped down.
But the plans and massive staffing database that he prepared — to replace thousands of members of the “deep state” with #MAGA loyalists — remain.
#News #Government #election2024 #Election #project2025 #HeritageFoundation #Politics #Voting #GOP #PaulDans
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As Donald Trump tried to disavow the politically toxic project, its director, Paul Dans, stepped down. But the plans and massive staffing database that he prepared — to replace thousands of members of the “deep state” with MAGA loyalists — remain.ProPublica
Are you an engineer who is passionate about #accessibility and developer tooling? You should apply to join the Accessibility Insights team! jobs.careers.microsoft.com/glo…
Make the web better at scale!
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 14 updated and 1 added apps:
* Dhaaga (Lite): An Opinionated Fediverse Microblogging App (Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, Firefish, Sharkey, Akkoma)
One more app has been confirmed RB aka #reproducibleBuilds – and some more are in preparation.
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. 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
Cool class on applied accessibility for designers: maven.com/soren/applied-access…
Application for scholarship for it here (apply by 11:59pm PT August 1 2024): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
#a11y #design #learning #lessons #accessibility #scholarship
Thank you for your interest in being considered for a scholarship for Applied Accessibility. For this scholarship, we are prioritizing people with the greatest financial needs and/or systemic marginalization Please only submit information that is tr…Google Docs
Jeannette Ng: Eye-opening little ancdote from a friend who ran a table top game for his all male gaming group: he genderflipped every character in the pre-written module resulting in an all female setting. His players grew increasingly paranoia and were convinced of a conspiracy.
The players (convinced there's some sort of murder cult going on) started scouring the setting for men. The pre-written module's village contained only one female character: the wife of the blacksmith. Unnamed. Which of course was all the more suspicious to them.
There was absolutely nothing my friend could do to convince his players that there wasn't a great conspiracy or at least a basement full of dead dudes."
LinguisticParadox: (Hashtag) This could be a new 'Bechdel' test: If you genderswap all the characters does it feel like something must have happened to all the men?
Cloudflare making headlines again, probably not the way it would prefer. From @dangoodin at Ars:
A familiar debate is once again surrounding Cloudflare, the content delivery network that provides a free service that protects websites from being taken down in denial-of-service attacks by masking their hosts: Is Cloudflare a bastion of free speech or an enabler of spam, malware delivery, harassment and the very DDoS attacks it claims to block?
arstechnica.com/security/2024/…
Meanwhile, from Proofpoint:
Proofpoint is tracking a cluster of cybercriminal threat activity leveraging Cloudflare Tunnels to deliver malware. Specifically, the activity abuses the TryCloudflare feature that allows an attacker to create a one-time tunnel without creating an account. Tunnels are a way to remotely access data and resources that are not on the local network, like using a virtual private network (VPN) or secure shell (SSH) protocol.
First observed in February 2024, the cluster increased activity in May through July, with most campaigns leading to Xworm, a remote access trojan (RAT), in recent months.
Campaign message volumes range from hundreds to tens of thousands of messages impacting dozens to thousands of organizations globally. In addition to English, researchers observed French, Spanish, and German language lures. Xworm, AsyncRAT, and VenomRAT campaigns are often higher volume than campaigns delivering Remcos or GuLoader. Lure themes vary, but typically include business-relevant topics like invoices, document requests, package deliveries, and taxes.
proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-…
Cloudflare masks the origin of roughly 10% of abusive domains, watchdog says.Ars Technica
For what it's worth, I've always been confused by Cloudflare's official position on abuse, which is that they are not a hosting provider, but rather a pass-through, so it's not up to them to be arbiters of what's fine and not so fine.
But if you think about it, by that definition Cloudflare is the world's largest proxy network. Probably they don't use this term to describe their business because proxy providers are -- at least historically -- somewhat strongly associated with abuse.
Either way, if Cloudflare decides to stop proxying traffic for a particular customer, they are not being arbiters of free speech, as the CEO constantly claims. Because that customer's site will still be reachable. It simply won't enjoy the protection from DDoS attacks that Cloudflare offers for free.
Underneath all of these concerns, a lot of people in the security industry seem to believe that if Cloudflare were to somehow start clamping down on the rampant abuse of their services for cybercrime, then those bad actors will just move to someplace else where Western law enforcement and intelligence agencies have less visibility, like Russia's DDoS-Guard. That may be. But I say let's burn that bridge when we come to it.
I love this! Ask people to boost a post if they want to be "notified" of some special news, edit the post to send a notification. In this case @eniko even changed their profile display name so you don't even need to tap on the notification to know what's going on. 💜
Many of the features we take for granted today emerged first through creative use of the existing (limited) features of the platform (e.g. boosts were just "RT @originalaccount tweet" back in the days) and were picked up by platform developers when they become popular. This is how the userbase evolves a platform.
An 11.5 inch display, a lot of memory, the latest Android with 4 years of updates and speakers from JBL; the new Lenovo Tab Plus promises a lot of featuresSteffen Schultz (Accessible Android)
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@khronos A post about them from @pitermach: Mame 0.268 came out yesterday, and it’s a really cool release for blind fans of vintage tech because it includes a fix by @datajake1999 to its emulation of the Dectalk PC Card. What this means is it’s now possible to emulate a self-contained talking IBM PC complete with an original synthesizer without having to resort to a windows only virtual serial port driver and separate apps like you have to with Dosbox. If you want to play with this there are already 2 packages that help with setup just like the community made for the Apple II a while back - one from Jake, which just includes a talking freeDOS installation and no other programs found here datajake.braillescreen.net/uti…
As well as one compiled by Daniel Nash that also includes a bunch of games, including some text only classics like Eamon Deluxe as well as the first audio games from PCS Games or Jim Kitchen found here
nashcentral.duckdns.org/projec…
The cool thing is even though both of these come with a Windows version of Mame this all works just as well on Mac or Linux, you just have to get the latest version of mame from homebrew or your package manager, then unzip either of these and take the startup command from the .bat file and paste it into the terminal.
The Chuwi MiniBook X is a small laptop with a surprisingly good keyboard. While the rest of the specs are pedestrian, it can work for remote writers.Ben Sin (XDA)
Deciding whether AI is “worth” the energy it consumes is a messy, complicated matter.Nilay Patel (The Verge)
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Three years of support isn't long enoughZachary Kew-Denniss (Android Police)
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