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Unmute Presents is now part of Aftersight! Tune in for tech tips several times a week, including Jaws insights and Blind Shell Classic 2 tutorials. Take
a listen at
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Call 303-786-7777 ex 2, 5, 14. #TechPodcast #AssistiveTech #Accessibility

Unmute Presents Podcast - Aftersight

Listen to audio podcasts online for free. Content is intended for blind, visually impaired, and print disabled audiences.
Aftersight
#Accessibility #assistivetech #techpodcast

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LibreOffice's native file format is the Open Document Format. Learn about how it's being adopted in Taiwan, from the recent #LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024! blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Group photo from LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024

LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024 in Taipei – Government Migration and Community Experiences Sharing - The Document Foundation Blog

Our Taiwanese community reports back from a recent event: The LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024 was held in Taipei from 2 – 8 August. This conference was suspended for several years due to the pandemic and was relaunched in Indonesia last year.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice

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1. German crime reporter asks MS Copilot what it knows about him.
2. Copilot falsely accuses him of child abuse, fraud, theft.
3. Copilot asserts “it is unfortunate that someone with such a criminal past has a family” and provides his (correct!) address and phone number.
4. Reporter files a libel complaint, but prosecutors refuse to take on the case: it’s not a criminal offense because no person committed it.

Must be great to be a big tech company. swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuertt…


Du bist ein Kinderschänder - sagt ein KI-Chat einem unbescholtenen Mann. Ein wahrer Fall.

Der Tübinger Journalist Martin Bernklau traut seinen Augen nicht. Im KI-Chat Copilot von MIcrosoft ist er verurteilter Kinderschänder, Ausbrecher aus der Psychiatrie und Betrüger. Die KI spinnt rum - und das kann jedem passieren, sagen Experten.
swr.online
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Is this my favourite Beaverton headline ever? I think maybe yes. “As covid rates skyrocket, health officials warn Canadians to wear plenty of sunscreen” omg 😂 thebeaverton.com/2024/08/as-co…

As COVID rates skyrocket, health officials warn Canadians to wear plenty of sunscreen - The Beaverton

“COVID is over, you all need to accept that, and also maybe that it never even happened. But we can’t pretend the sun doesn’t exist, so don’t forget your SPF.”
Mary Gillis (The Beaverton)

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The arrest of #Telegram's founder Pavel #Durov sets a dangerous precedent for what kind of action can be taken against supporters of #privacy & #cryptography.

Don't settle for anything less than E2E #encryption! We've created a list of the top encrypted messaging apps to help!
👉 tuta.com/blog/best-whatsapp-al…

A padlock graphic being orbited by a mail, calendar and contact icon.

Best WhatsApp Alternatives For 2024 | Time To Go Private! | Tuta

There are lots of messaging apps similar to WhatsApp. Here's a review of the best secure alternatives: Signal, Threema, Telegram, Element, Wire, SimpleX, Session, and more.
Tuta
#privacy #telegram #cryptography #encryption #durov
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FediThing

Telegram is not E2EE. Telegram is terrible for privacy because it misleads people into thinking it is private.

Messages and group chats on Telegram are by default visible to Telegram's staff and whoever they choose to share the messages with:

mstdn.social/@rysiek/113027895…

rys.io/en/171.html

There is also some very disturbing behaviour by Telegram detailed in the article linked above.

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Tuta

@stonebear We are not defending the founder of Telegram, it is far too early to make an statements in that regard because we do not know the full extent of the charges.

Telegram is not considered a secure messaging app because it does not guarantee end-to-end encryption by default.

We apologize if this message was less than clear in the post.

@Stone Bear (has moved)
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jidec

SimpleX is currently the most anonymous and secure chat, above Session, as Session keeps some metadata from what I read on the internet.
SimpleX relies on a network of relays (SMP servers): these ones can be joined directly or you can connect to their onion equivalent through Tor. This will give you an overlay to hide your IP. It uses Orbot on android for that.
And you can install your own SMP server(s) if you want if you don't trust the native ones, connected of course to Tor.

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Celebrating 29 years of Windows 95 — How Microsoft's operating system evolved since the iconic Start menu was introduced windowscentral.com/software-ap…

Celebrating 29 years of Windows 95 — How Microsoft's operating system evolved since the iconic Start menu was introduced

Windows 95 introduced the iconic Start menu to the revolutionary taskbar, and Microsoft's OS influence is still felt 29 years later.
Ben Wilson (Windows Central)

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SOLD Pluto TV & Paramount+ Have Been Sold to Skydance As All Other Bidders Drop Out cordcuttersnews.com/sold-pluto…

SOLD Pluto TV & Paramount+ Have Been Sold to Skydance As All Other Bidders Drop Out | Cord Cutters News

Late last night, Paramount and Skydance officially announced a deal to merge. With this deal, Skydance will buy the Redstone family’s majority control of Paramount. This comes as the final bidder, Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)

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Welcome Eric Norris as #curl commit author 1301: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1469…

share: don't reinitialize conncache by ericnorris · Pull Request #14696 · curl/curl

Recently I was messing around with the idea of enabling persistent Curl_share structs in PHP, i.e. to be able to reuse the same instance of the struct across multiple requests in a single mod_php w...
GitHub
#curl

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Want to see a Grace Hopper lecture? NSA just released a historic recording and it is 🔥

The lecture is “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People”

Hear from a legend in her own words.

nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Relea…


NSA releases copy of internal lecture delivered by computing giant Rear Adm. Grace Hopper

FORT MEADE, Md. — In one of the more unique public proactive transparency record releases for the National Security Agency (NSA) to date, NSA has released a digital copy of a lecture that then-Capt.
National Security Agency/Central Security Service

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#GeschichteStattMythen
#InteractiveSite hilft, regionale & überregionale #Lügengeschichten der #Rechtsextreme|n auf ihren Wahrheitsgehalt zu prüfen.
#Geschichtsrevisionismus in #Thüringen kann anhand interaktiver Karten enttarnt werden.

Geschichte Statt Mythen
geschichte-statt-mythen.de/

#thuringen #geschichtestattmythen #interactivesite #lugengeschichten #rechtsextreme #geschichtsrevisionismus

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So, have you ever thought your devices were listening to what you were saying, and then ads for that thing would show up...and all the pundits kept telling us it was coincidence and we were just seeing patterns because people seek patterns?

Yeah...naw. @404mediaco in their tradition of breaking all kinds of news, would like to tell you that you're not insane, and the pundits were wrong.

404 brings receipts: Cox Media Group (CMG) says it can target adverts based on what potential customers said out loud near device microphones, and explicitly points to Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Bing as CMG partners.

MindSift boasted about targeting advertisements by listening to peoples’ everyday conversations through microphones in their smart speakers.

Here's the deck, read it for yourself: 404media.co/heres-the-pitch-de…

(free signup may be required, iirc, but if you've got spare change, consider subscribing too. They're doing yeoman's work out here on the data front.)
#Enshittification


Here’s the Pitch Deck for ‘Active Listening’ Ad Targeting

404 Media previously reported Cox Media Group (CMG) was advertising a service that claimed to target ads based on what potential customers said near device microphones. Now, here is the pitch deck CMG sent to prospective companies.
Joseph Cox (404 Media)
#enshittification @404 Media

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I believe passionately that blind people should be leading the organisations that serve us. Lived experience matters. It can make a material difference
to the type and quality of services we receive.
Vision Australia's Board has decided to make an internal appointment for its vacant CEO role, rather than conduct a thorough international search to find
the best person for the job. This means that capable blind people external to the organisation are denied the right to apply.
I am a proud signatory to an open letter written by blind leaders, which has been sent to the Vision Australia Board.
There is a version of this letter available for all who wish to express solidarity to sign.
In the spirit of self determination/nothing aboutus without us, it is time for Vision Australia to appoint its first blind CEO.
If you feel the same, please sign.
change.org/unitedblindleaders

Open Letter to the Directors of Vision Australia Urging Open CEO Recruitment Process

Graeme Innes (Change.org)

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I've been working on a thing for a few weeks, and I'm hoping there are #Language / #FileFormat / #Markdown nerds and experts on Mastodon who can provide some input and sanity-check.

I looked for an existing markdown extension file format that would allow me to write a document in multiple languages, and I couldn't find anything that fit the bill.

So, I decided to create my own. 🤷‍♂️

github.com/OmenApps/PolyglotMa…

#PolyglotMarkdown #Languages #OpenSource #LanguageTools #Translation #Multilingual

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GitHub - OmenApps/PolyglotMarkdown: A versatile Markdown extension designed to manage and display multilingual content within a single document, offering powerful features like language-specific content inclusion, multi-language metadata support, and vers

A versatile Markdown extension designed to manage and display multilingual content within a single document, offering powerful features like language-specific content inclusion, multi-language meta...
GitHub
#opensource #languages #language #translation #markdown #multilingual #fileformat #polyglotmarkdown #languagetools

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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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