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Copilot Word Make Changes: Improvements in Word 365 Interface - Office Watch
Discover the innovations in the Word 365 interface with Copilot's 'Make Changes' feature. Improve your text editing experience with more flexibility and options.Office-Watch.com (Office Watch)
Amazon Expands Grocery Delivery Subscription Options with New Annual Plan and Affordable Access for Prime Members | Cord Cutters News
Amazon continues to enhance its grocery delivery services with the introduction of a new annual subscription plan, offering Prime members even greater savings and benefits.James Guttman (Cord Cutters News)
NASA Will Shutdown Its Cable TV Network Called NASA TV Next Week to Focus on Streaming | Cord Cutters News
NASA’s free streaming service, NASA+, lifted off late last year, and now, to focus on its streaming service, NASA will be shutting down its cable networks on August 26, 2024.Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)
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I've seen a few blind folks posting their positive experiences with the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, specifically the AI. Wanted to post a quick counterpoint.
It wasn't as useful as I'd hoped--I couldn't get it to OCR or summarize menus for example--but I was mostly happy using it for last mile visual help. "What's this piece of paper, what are the cooking instructions for this pizza, what brand are these dishwasher pods, etc."
Except a few weeks ago, Meta AI just stopped responding. I can ask it for the time but that's about it. I've connected a calling app but it refuses to call out, and of course visual/image-based help is dead too.
This issue has persisted through multiple app resets and factory resets of the glasses. AFAIK everything is updated, too.
The cherry on top is that I just pecked out a bug report using BSI on Android, and submitting that seemed to hard-lock/crash the app with no indication that the report even went through. So who the hell knows if I actually did the thing.
I'm not too upset since I have the disposable income to spare, but I'm regretting the purchase a bit now and can't really recommend them. Real bummer--I got a decent amount of use out of them when they worked but now they're just an expensive headset.
Great glad you got it sorted! Yeah it basically won’t do PII at all.
One time I tried to get it to read the CVC off the back of my credit card to pay my electric bill and it refused. That became some fairly colorful product feedback :)
Several men are in the locker room of a golf club. A cellular phone on a bench rings and a man engages the hands-free speaker function and begins to talk.
Everyone else in the room stops to listen.
MAN: "Hello"
WOMAN: "Hi Honey, it's me. Are you at the club?"
MAN: "Yes."
WOMAN: "I'm at the shops now and found this beautiful leather coat. It's only $2,000; is it OK if I buy it?"
MAN: "Sure, go ahead if you like it that much."
WOMAN: "I also stopped by the Lexus dealership and saw the new models. I saw one I really liked."
MAN: "How much?"
WOMAN: "$90,000." ;
MAN: "OK, but for that price I want it with all the options."
WOMAN: "Great! Oh, and one more thing... I was just talking to Janie and found out that the house I wanted last year is back on the market. They're asking $980,000 for it."
MAN: "Well, then go ahead and make an offer of $900,000. They'll probably take it. If not, we can go the extra eighty-thousand if it's what you really
want."
WOMAN: "OK. I'll see you later! I love you so much!"
MAN: "Bye! I love you, too."
The man hangs up. The other men in the locker room are staring at him in astonishment, mouths wide open.
He turns and asks, "Anyone know whose phone this is?"
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Attached: 4 images Check out the #piet, SoulsCircuit's very cool retro-futuristic handheld tablet/console. Designed with Free Software, the piet runs #Plasma and a full range of KDE software. More at https://soulscircuit.FLOSS.social
Just putting a this out there: I think $DJT is such a naked pump-and-dump scheme that (provided he doesn't win) it'll be a big part of his final downfall.
It was up 15% yesterday, on NO news, which reeks of a pump and dump. Market makers can prop up the price with a few big buys and get out, leaving naïve investors holding the bag. If that's _the plan_, that's textbook securities fraud, and a criminal conspiracy.
He can start selling his 60% stake in 4 weeks.
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Making PyPy's GC and JIT produce a sound
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Making PyPy's GC and JIT produce a sound
the video shows the effect of a hacky script that will play a sound when certain events happen in the VM:- the two different coin sounds are played when the ...YouTube
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Sometimes your text document is perfect, it's just not in the right format. For changing extensions, for converting to PDF, RTF and EPUB, Morphosis is the perfect app! Just drop your file in and chose what new form you want your words to take. Supporting a wide range of export formats, Morphosis even lets you choose between sans and serif for your output!
You can follow the app's creator here: @monster
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Autism and ADHD are NOT trendy. They're more common than we thought, and particularly manifest differently in women, so all the people that were missed as kids are connecting the dots on why certain things were so much harder for them in their lives than most people. And that lets them come up with actually effective strategies.
It's a very, very good thing that lots of adults are figuring this out. Life is much easier with proper language and connecting to other similar folks!
Completely agree with minimising swiping on the share sheet, get close to what you want and swipe from there.
Other thoughts, disable apps you don't need, try to move stuff you do need closer to the beginning of the list.
also, the problem with the item chooser is it can only choose items that are visible on the screen and the share sheet has multiple pages. Actually, that's another suggestion, touch close to the right edge then three-finger swipe to the next page.
Today in Techbros failing to understand consent:
The Microsoft overlords parachuted into management of the 5e, 5.5e and dnd brand are automatically updating character sheets made using DnDBeyond.
Just a simple tick box of "would you like to do this?" And they'd get a lot of happy compliance but, they don't get consent and won't care that you just don't change someone's character sheet without permission.
It. Is. Not. Done.
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D&D Beyond Will Rollout New 5.5E Rules - Whether You Like It Or Not - Bell of Lost Souls
D&D Beyond has revealed how the update to the 5.5E Ruleset will play out, letting players know what they will - and won't - have access to.J.R. Zambrano (BoLS Interactive LLC)
🪦The Dying Web | Matthias Endler
｢ the world's largest websites are owned by the same company, which also owns the world's most popular browser and search engine. Coincidentally, they are also the world's largest advertising company. And people are wondering why they can't block ads on YouTube anymore ｣
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#google #monopoly #firefox #chromium
There are some amazing people who provide all kinds of support about Thunderbird, whether it's here or in our official Mozilla Support (SUMO) site! If you've ever wondered how to get involved there, or are just curious how it works, our most recent Office Hours shows you the ins and outs of tackling community questions. You don't need a cape to be a Thunderbird superhero (also, no capes!), just skill, knowledge, and time!
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VIDEO: How to Answer Thunderbird Questions on Mozilla Support
In this first of a two-part series, the Thunderbird Team discusses how to get involved with providing Thunderbird support.Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
Agree! BTW, it’s a much-discussed issue and the solutions are on the way! dragonscave.space/@miki/113006…
Idea:Image recognition apps for the blind should do an OCR pass on the image first, and include any text found in the prompt. The LLM should be told not to do its own OCR and to rely on the text provided.
LLMs are notoriously bad at OCR, particularly for non-English languages. To make things worse, unlike normal OCR engines, their badness doesn't result in typos and garbled text, but in perfectly understandable and grammatically valid text that says something very different than what's actually included in the image.
An OCR pass should help "ground" the LLMs here.
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 4 updated and 2 added apps:
* Volume Percent Calculator: Calculate alcohol mass, content and volume in drinks
* Passwords to remember: Generates human speakable and readable passwords
Both apps have #reproducibleBuilds 🥳
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
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
For users of Slack on iOS, the latest version provides a bug fix for VoiceOver users. From the release notes:
What’s New
Version History
Aug 21, 2024 Version 24.08.30
Bug Fixes
• Fixed: With VoiceOver enabled, some DMs simply would not open, no matter how much double-tapping you did. VoiceOver was built for increased accessibility, not to make messages literally inaccessible. Our sincere apologies.
I'm so excited to be going to the matrix conference in Berlin in 3 weeks. Me, Jan and @CvG6666 are going to the conference on behalf of @fairkom to meet the community, be part of this rich exchange and also hopefully showcase some of our undertakings.
We're hoping to make new friends and learn about interesting new projects related to the matrix eco system.
We are a bit jealous that we can't all come along! But with you guys we are very well represented and are happy that @fairkom can also be there. we are very excited to hear what you will report!
Here's the schedule: 2024.matrix.org/schedule/
Programme
The Matrix Conference is coming to Berlin, Germany on September 19–22, 2024.2024.matrix.org
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Flipping the Script: Exploring New Paradigms in Secure Mobile Computing – Purism
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
‼️Hey!! Tusky 26.1 is out!!!! 🎉🎉
We have fixed some issues 👇
- Fixed a bug where Tusky sometimes mixes up timelines and/or notifications of accounts ✅
- Fixed two bugs where Tusky would not provide the translation option even the server is configured correctly ✅
- Fixed a rare bug that sometimes made Tusky crash at startup ✅
- Fixed a bug where the timeline would randomly jump to the position of the last "show more" placeholder clicked on "oldest first" reading order ✅
And added new things 👇
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