Here's a very rough demo of a bit of old technology from 1989 or so, at least that's when we got ours. Almost certainly headed for a landfill soon, as we're moving and not taking it with us. The Xerox Kurzweil Personal Reader model 7315, a print reading machine for the blind. The system we had with the electronics unit and automatic scanner cost $10,000 in 1989. This or a machine very similar was demonstrated on an episode of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.

The Call for Papers for Linux App Summit is open until August 21! linuxappsummit.org//cfp/ (dates there are incorrect, you can still submit talk proposals)
in reply to Andre Louis

I really wonder how this was done. It sounds like maybe someone used one of those iOS auto-rap apps and played Eloquence through a speaker? The instrumental comes from an old song by Nicki (not Vicki) Minaj. youtu.be/pSFyrrhKj1Q?si=kTK38Y…

⭐ Creativity Is Made, Not Generated procreate.com/ai

"Generative AI is ripping the humanity out of things. Built on a foundation of theft, the technology is steering us toward a barren future. We're here for the humans. We're not chasing a technology that is a moral threat to our greatest jewel: human creativity"

👏

📌 rknight.me/links/creativity-is…

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 6 updated and 2 added apps:

* kitshn: client for the self-hostable Tandoori recipe database – and a #reproducibleBuilds
* ByeDPI: bypass censorship (here: DPI, Deep Packet Inspection)

At apt.izzysoft.de/magisk 2 #Magisk #modules were updated.

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

I won a contest @libreoffice held, and I got all this KILLER LibreOffice swag from them.

I've used LibreOffice for so many years, from back in the mid 2000s when it was OpenOffice. It's better than Microsoft Office. It's totally free and open source, and you don't have to be logged in like you do now with Office.

Try it out if you haven't, you won't regret it.

libreoffice.org

#LibreOffice #OpenSource #FOSS

"#Ableismus kann töten." "Das erste Mal wirkliche Angst bekam Sarah Baumgart im Jahr 2018 bei einer Kleinen Anfrage der #AfD im Bundestag. Darin ging es um die Zahl von behinderten Menschen in Deutschland und den vermeintlichen Zusammenhang von Behinderung mit Inzucht und Migration. „Da wurde mir klar, die hören beim Thema Migration nicht auf“, sagt Sarah Baumgart..." taz.de/Menschen-mit-Behinderun… #WirSindDieBrandmauer #noAfD #Afdverbot #Menschenfeindlichkeit #Demokratie

Scoop: New details are emerging about a breach at National Public Data (NPD), a consumer data broker that recently spilled hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security Numbers, addresses, and phone numbers online. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that another NPD data broker which shares access to the same consumer records inadvertently published the passwords to its back-end database in a file that was freely available for download from its homepage until today.

krebsonsecurity.com/2024/08/na…

in reply to BrianKrebs

Expecting data brokers to care about securing the data they so casually collect, buy, collate and otherwise acquire is pointless. None of them really do, and almost every breach involving a data broker shows this. By definition, their businesses largely rely on collecting records that they already view as public and that this entitles them to collect, resell, etc said data. If that is the fundamental organizing idea of your business model, how much are you going to care about protecting it from mass theft?
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I've been enjoying Mastadon but have missed the academic side of things--I used to find so many resources for students and faculty on Twitter. I realized that I need to start doing them myself and maybe we'll build a community. So, here I go:
New book for grad students found on JSTOR: Grad School Life: Surviving and Thriving Beyond Coursework and Research, Kory-Westlund, Columbia University Press, www-jstor-org.ezproxy.lib.vt.e…

#academicchatter #gradschool #gradstudents #academiclife

Me llamo José Manuel y soy de Mallorca. Como #presentación, así en general, puedo deciros que soy músico, compositor y aficionado al cine y a la fotografía. Mis mayores influencias musicales son Mike Oldfield, Vangelis y Jean-Michel Jarre. Mi música está disponible en Bandcamp. 🎧🎹🎸

josemanuelguerra.bandcamp.com/…

Recently, a Dutch hacker found a vulnerability allowing him to shut down 4 million solar power installations. A handful of mostly non-European places manage perhaps 100 GW of solar power in the EU. Any mishap there, or heaven forbid, a compromise, could easily shut down so much power that the European electricity grid would collapse. Shockingly, we regulate these massive control panels as if they are online birthday calendars. And that must change. berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-…

Топ бесплатных нейросетей на все случаи жизни

В наше время ИИ проникает во все сферы жизни, предлагая невероятные возможности для творчества, работы и развлечений. Нейросети уже не фантастика из будущего, а реальные инструменты, доступные каждому. В данной статье мы представляем вашему вниманию подборку лучших бесплатных нейросетей, способных удовлетворить самые разнообразные потребности: от генерации контента и обработки данных до оптимизации рабочих процессов и организации увлекательного досуга. Приятного прочтения!

habr.com/ru/companies/bothub/a…

#ии #ии_и_машинное_обучение #ии_помощник #бесплатные_инструменты #генерация_контента #обзор_сервисов #оптимизация_рабочего_времени #чатботы

#deltachat_desktop 1.46.5 release is rolling out:
- download and test it at: download.delta.chat/desktop/v1…
- check release status at: github.com/deltachat/deltachat…