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If you're looking for a new powerful desktop, this mini PC could be very interesting. Very powerful specs, up to 96 gigs of ram and a mobile NVIDIA 4070. Apparently includes a fingerprint reader, built-in mic, and decent built-in speakers. liliputing.com/minisforum-atom…

MINISFORUM AtomMan G7 TI mini PC combines NVIDIA RTX 4070 graphics with up to an Intel Core i9-14900HX processor - Liliputing

MINISFORUM AtomMan G7 TI mini PC combines NVIDIA RTX 4070 graphics with up to an Intel Core i9-14900HX processor
Brad Linder (Liliputing)

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3 hours from now in Caledonia, #UnitedStatesOfAmerica (Houston County, Minnesota, United States of America) there will be a #Heatwave with a wet-bulb temperature of

31°C

This will be a margin of 6 degrees below body temperature which will kill vulnerable people 🥵💀 #DangerousWetbulb

The actual temperature will be 35°C

It will feel like 42°C

The humidity will be 72%

There will be clear sky

#HeatwaveUnitedStatesOfAmerica

wunderground.com/forecast/43.5…

Brownsville, MN 10-Day Weather Forecast | Weather Underground

Brownsville Weather Forecasts. Weather Underground provides local & long-range weather forecasts, weatherreports, maps & tropical weather conditions for the Brownsville area.
www.wunderground.com
#heatwave #unitedstatesofamerica #dangerouswetbulb #heatwaveunitedstatesofamerica

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A guide to budgeting for AWS Backup in VMware virtual environments
aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/a… #aws #blog

A guide to budgeting for AWS Backup in VMware virtual environments | Amazon Web Services

As VMware customers navigate the imperative to modernize their virtual environments, the need for reliable and cost-effective data protection has become paramount.
Amazon Web Services
#blog #aws

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Mehr #Datenschutz auf dem #Handy wünschen sich viele #Menschen, die mir begegnen.

Aber nicht jede:r möchte oder kann ein #Smartphone mit einem alternativen #Betriebssystem wie z.B. GrapheneOS ausstatten.

Wie man dennoch einen kleinen Schritt in Richtung #digitaleSouveränität gehen kann, versuche ich in diesem #Blog Post zu beschreiben:

pilgerweg-21.de/android-ohne-g…
#selbstbestimmtDigital


Android ohne Google Konto

Wie kann eine Android Handy ohne Google Konto betrieben werden?
JoergSorge
#blog #datenschutz #smartphone #handy #digitalesouveranitat #menschen #betriebssystem #selbstbestimmtdigital

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Heavy #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 19 updated and 4 added apps:

* Compose Stopwatch: Materialized You stop watch 🛡️
* Cavity: Wine cellar manager 🛡️
* Dahdidahdit: Morse code trainer for ham radio enthusiasts
* Clock: timer, stopwatch, sliding clock, and one-time and recurring alarms 🛡️

3 out of these 4 are #reproducibleBuilds 🥳

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


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. 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
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid
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Reg Braithwaite 🍓

Canadian Ken Westerfeld during his World Champion of Freestyle days. Back then, the scene was in the park behind the Ontario Legislature buildings, and top athletes like Ken were happy to throw with whomever showed up. How very weird.

That attitude made an indelible mark on my soul. Thanks, Ken, wherever you are!

Ken Westerfield making a leaping catch of a frisbee, backwards and between the legs
Ken Westerfield getting ready to serve, possibly at a very early Ultimate game.
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Voting in the US, food

Sensitive content

#food #voting #pizza #vote #gotv #pizzatothepolls
in reply to Kevin Beaumont

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Kevin Beaumont

Re Telegram - two main issues are apparently at play. One is child porn, the other is concerns about ransomware/extortion groups. The big concern is rightly about the first one.

With the later, groups targeting France (and the UK) have been dumping victim data on Telegram groups, with Telegram directly hosting the data and then failing to remove it.

Telegram is not an encrypted platform - the groups are plain text.

Telegram has <50 staff and 1 billion monthly active users.

in reply to Kevin Beaumont

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Kevin Beaumont

With regards to Elon’s claim today that a majority of Mastodon content is child porn - this isn’t true.

Some Fediverse servers are unsavoury - as an instance admin, you can chose to defederate them or not cache media content. You would only encounter this if a user interacted with it.

After approaching two years of being a Mastodon admin to a server with tens of thousands of users, I’ve only ever seen one post which was concerning - I removed the server and reported it to relevant authorities.

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With Trump waffling on whether he’ll show up, I’m confident that Debate Day, September 10, is going to be a big one for the Mastodon for Harris fundraiser. Either way we’ll be showing our support for #Harris and reminding Trump that her supporters are more numerous and enthusiastic than his. But no need to wait that long to make this point. You can donate right now at secure.actblue.com/donate/mast….

I just gave to Kamala Harris!

Show your support with a contribution.
ActBlue
#harris

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We've just become aware of a resource written for those who are #Blind and seeking employment. The person who told us about it says: "you can either read it directly on the webpage, or there is an accessible word document and I believe and accessible PDF. The author is blind, so he certainly did his best to make sure the book was accessible as possible to anyone who wanted to use it." Find it here:
respectability.org/people-with…

People with Disabilities at Work - Disability Belongs

A guide to achieving economic independence and inclusion through employment and entrepreneurship from Ollie Cantos and RespectAbility.
Respect Ability
#blind
in reply to Fabrice Desré

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Fabrice Desré

A lire dans blog.cryptographyengineering.c… : e2ee "is only available for one-on-one conversations, and never for group chats with more than two people in them. " , fermez le ban.

Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?

This blog is reserved for more serious things, and ordinarily I wouldn’t spend time on questions like the above. But much as I’d like to spend my time writing about exciting topics, som…
A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering

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I haven't even finished my coffee yet but I've already come across a bunch of bad takes on the telegram thing today.

I've already boosted this, but I'm begging everyone to read this post by @evacide before forming a strong opinion on this:

hachyderm.io/@evacide/11302452…

evacide (@evacide@hachyderm.io)

My dudes, Telegram is not an e2e messaging app like Signal or WhatsApp. Telegram is more like Twitter.
Hachyderm.io
@evacide

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Join us at the #LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024! Even better: give a talk there 😊 The call for papers is still open: events.documentfoundation.org/… #foss #OpenSource

LibreOffice Conference 2024

Schedule, talks and talk submissions for LibreOffice Conference 2024
events.documentfoundation.org
#foss #opensource #libreoffice

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NIST has been working on a "Digital Identity Guidelines" document for a while, with the second draft being prepared for its final review:

nist.gov/news-events/news/2024…

It looks like they want to include facial recognition as one of the options, but they insist that any solutions will need to take privacy into account.

I'm glad they're considering that, but I don't see any mention of relatively simple methods for fooling these systems, as discussed in this article (among others):

vice.com/en/article/hackers-fo…


Hackers Fool Facial Recognition Into Thinking I’m Mark Zuckerberg

Using a new technique, researchers say they can make AI systems misidentify people by adding small bits of data to the images.
Todd Feathers (VICE)
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ansuz / ऐरन

see also "We Broke Into A Bunch Of Android Phones With A 3D-Printed Head" which can be read in full if you disable javascript:

forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewste…


We Broke Into A Bunch Of Android Phones With A 3D-Printed Head

We 3D printed a head and used it to unlock four Android devices. Apple and Microsoft devices weren't fooled, though.
Thomas Brewster (Forbes)

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Allowing police officers to submit LLM-written reports reveals a remarkable misunderstanding of what LLMs do, a profound indifference to the notion of integrity in the communications of law enforcement with the justice system, or both.

Given how readily subject to suggestion human witnesses—including police officers—are known to be, this is a disaster.

Yes, police reports aren't always the most accurate, but introducing an additional layer of non-accountability is bad.

apnews.com/article/ai-writes-p…


Police officers are starting to use AI to write crime reports

Police officers are starting to use artificial intelligence to help write crime reports. Pulling from the sounds of an officer's body camera, an AI tool based on the same technology as ChatGPT can churn out the first draft of an incident report in se…
SEAN MURPHY (AP News)

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I really enjoyed @yatil new article on WCAG levels. When the WCAG Guidelines were being created members tried to correlate the different levels (A, AA, AAA) based on how difficult they'd be to implement. It would be helpful if the standards within each level designation were checked again. The standards could be regrouped based on their current level of difficulty. Please check out the full article for more information. #accessibility yatil.net/blog/wcags-a-and-aa-…

WCAG’s A and AA distinction is mostly academic · Eric Eggert

On Mastodon, Steve Faulkner shared a link to a GitHub discussion around the A, AA, and AAA levels of WCAG (Web Content Accessibility …
Eric Eggert
#Accessibility @Eric Eggert

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This year is the 30th anniversary of W3C. On Wednesday 25 September, at W3C@30, we will explore the impact of W3C standards on the world, imagine the possibilities for the next 30 years and celebrate our community with talks and a gala at our annual #w3cTPAC conference in Anaheim, CA.

Thank you to our sponsors @igalia and mesur.io. Organizations and individuals can sponsor the event (your sponsorship may be tax deductible if you pay US taxes)

See more:
w3.org/2024/09/TPAC/w3c-30.htm…

W3C @ 30

www.w3.org
#w3ctpac @Igalia
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