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Haptic’s touch-based navigation helps blind and sighted alike get around without looking techcrunch.com/2024/10/29/hapt…

Haptic's touch-based navigation helps blind and sighted alike get around without looking | TechCrunch

Smartphones and navigation apps have become second nature these days. But for those with blindness and low vision, it's not quite so convenient. Haptic
Devin Coldewey (TechCrunch)

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📣 New blog post

✨ Sliding Sync at the Matrix Conference — mnt.io/articles/sliding-sync-a… ✨

I have presented Sliding Sync, a novel, fast and efficient synchronisation mechanism for the Matrix protocol, at the first Matrix Conference in Berlin. It's been many many months that I'm working on this project, and I'm joyful it's now available to everyone for a better Matrix user experience!

The article contains the recording + slides. I've highlighted other talks too.

#matrix #RustLang


Sliding Sync at the Matrix Conference

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#matrix #RustLang
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I don’t get political very often on here, but this is gold! And yes, since this election will have worldwide repercussions, many of us outside the U.S. definitely hope for a particular winner. youtube.com/watch?v=se-didBGn8…

#USPolitics #Election2024 #Harris


"Gimme Hope Kamala" - Marsh Family adaptation of Eddy Grant "Gimme Hope Jo'Anna" for Trump vs Harris

With only a matter of weeks until the pivotal US Presidential Election in November, and the Democratic National Convention having begun today, we decided to ...
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#uspolitics #Election2024 #harris

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We just released a big update, with support for the following:

- Full Table of Contents (during export)
- Apple Intelligence Writing Tools (where available)
- New iOS Shortcuts (via Control Center and iPhone Action Button)

We also fixed a weird crash when dragging a project from Backup onto the Library. For full release notes, see ulysses.app/release-notes

Screenshot showing Ulysses with the editor and a PDF export, containing a table of contents.

Ulysses - Release Notes

A pleasant, focused writing experience combined with effective document management, fast syncing and flexible export make Ulysses the first choice for writers of all kinds.
ulysses.app

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Our goal is to make @libreoffice available in as many languages as possible, so the whole world benefits from a free and private office suite. And Jonathan Clark has joined our team, to work on improvements to language support: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
Photo of Jonathan Clark

Interview: Jonathan Clark, team member, developer focusing on RTL / CTL / CJK - The Document Foundation Blog

Hello Jonathan, you have been hired by The Document Foundation in the role of developer focusing on the issues of languages written from right to left, or RTL (Right to Left).
Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
@LibreOffice

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Was mir an #Thüringen gefällt?

Z.B. die #Investition in #digitaleSouveränität #FOSS #OpenSource #OpenTalk #Videokonferenz
procial.tchncs.de/notes/9zwk4t…
#Verwaltung #Digitalisierung #digitalePrivatsphäre


OpenTalk (@OpenTalkMeeting@social.opentalk.eu)

Die Thüringer Landesverwaltung hat mit OpenTalk eine zukunftsfähige Videokonferenzlösung gefunden! Sicherheit, Anpassungsfähigkeit und Open Source stehen im Fokus.
tchncs
#foss #opensource #Digitalisierung #videokonferenz #digitalesouveranitat #digitaleprivatsphäre #thuringen #investition #opentalk #verwaltung

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Welcome Marwan Yassini as #curl commit author 1311: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1545…

mqtt: Fixed mqtt.md wording and added clearer explanation. by Marwan141 · Pull Request #15451 · curl/curl

Some of the wording in the MQTT.md file was confusing in terms of how the commands were used and what they did, so I cleared up some of the wording to better explain the use case of each command.
GitHub
#curl

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@Friendica Support
Seit 1-2 Tagen werden Links aus der ARD Mediathek nicht mehr richtig eingebunden. Ist das nur bei mir so?

ardmediathek.de/video/tagessch…

@Friendica Support

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Why they’re a dying company: More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI / AI is hugely important to Google’s products, & it sounds like the company relies on it internally, too.

theverge.com/2024/10/29/242827…

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More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says that more than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI. He made the announcement on company’s third quarter 2024 earnings call.
Jay Peters (The Verge)

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What is "Amoc" and why is it so important?
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The dangers of a collapse of the main Atlantic Ocean circulation, known as Amoc, have been “greatly underestimated” and would have devastating and irreversible impacts, according to an open letter released by 44 experts from 15 countries.

There are indications that Amoc has been slowing down for the last 60 or 70 years due to global heating. The most ominous sign is the cold blob over the northern Atlantic. The region is the only place in the world that has cooled in the past 20 years or so, while everywhere else on the planet has warmed – a sign of reduced heat transport into that region, exactly what climate computer models have predicted in response to Amoc slowing as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.

Another indicator is a reduction in the salt content of seawater. In the cold blob region, salinity is at its lowest level since measurements began 120 years ago. This is probably linked to Amoc slowing down and bringing less salty water and heat from the subtropics.

It is an amplifying feedback: as Amoc gets weaker, the oceans gets less salty, and as the oceans gets less salty, then Amoc gets weaker. At a certain point this becomes a vicious cycle which continues by itself until Amoc has died, even if we stop pushing the system with further emissions.

The big unknown here – the billion-dollar question – is how far away this tipping point is. It is very difficult to answer because the process is non-linear and would be triggered by subtle differences in salinity, which in turn depend on amounts of rainfall and cloud cover over the ocean as well as Greenland melting rates. These are hard to model accurately in computers so there is a big uncertainty relating to when the tipping point will be reached.
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FULL ARTICLE -- theguardian.com/environment/20…

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Screenshot from top of linked article. Headline says: "We don't know where the tipping point is. Oceanographer Stefan Rahmstorf explains why Amoc breakdown could be catastrophic for both humans and marine life." Below this is a photo of ice melting in Greenland.

‘We don’t know where the tipping point is’: climate expert on potential collapse of Atlantic circulation

Jonathan Watts (The Guardian)
#Climatecrisis #climatechange #science #environment #climate
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Now Hiring: Customer Service and Sales Associate (Remote, Part-Time) A T Guys, a leader in assistive technology since 2008, is looking for a motivated and customer-focused individual to join our sales and support team.
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Sources: Chinese hackers targeted phones used by Trump family members and Biden admin and State Dept. officials; audio communications may have been captured (New York Times)

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techmeme.com/241029/p32#a24102…


Sources: Chinese hackers targeted phones used by Trump family members and Biden admin and State Dept. officials; audio communications may have been captured

From New York Times. View the full context on Techmeme.
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rip botsin space
botsin.space/@muffinista/11339…

colin mitchell

2024-10-29 20:26:36


Hey friends, it's hard to write this, but it's time to retire botsin.space. I wrote a post about it here: muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/2…

TLDR the site will go read-only on or around December 15th.

I'm so thankful for all the support and good times here ❤️ thanks everyone


RIP botsin.space

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On this day, six years ago, David John Duncan, well-known to some, unknown to most, but wonderful author of science fiction and fantasy novels, passed away. I have read as much of Dave's stuff as I can get my hands on. He is an author that I'm very fond of. I enjoy his books and the stories he tells.

My introduction to Dave was the first book in his Seventh Sword series, which is called The Reluctant Swordsman. It's a portal fantasy novel. It was published in 1988, and it follows the mind of a gentleman called Wally Smith, who ends up in the body of a swordsman of the seventh rank, the mighty Shonsu, who was killed in his fantasy world, and Wally's mind brought across to re-inhabit the body by the world's goddess in an attempt to complete a mission for her. The subsequent two books in the series complete that arc, and it's a very satisfying trilogy of books. 24 years later, Dave published a fourth book in the series, showing the evolution of the characters after the main quest had completed, and it was a very satisfying way to meet Dave as an author.


in reply to Sean Randall

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Sean Randall

When I tell people I've read over 18,000 pages of Dave Duncan's writing, they say to me, where do I start? Where do I begin? How do I get into this author? You know, what's a good opening? And that's so hard to answer, because although Dave's got a lot of tropes that he sticks to, and he's got a very distinctive style, he doesn't do the same thing twice, as counter to what I've just said, as that may sound. He makes a new world, a unique world, and then plays by its rules. And that's something that not a lot of authors can say. I think it's even rarer to be able to identify a piece of work as an author's, yet not know where it's going to end up. You know, that's pretty clever. So I would say that you should probably start with the opening to one of the series, because that way, if you don't like it, you don't have to read more. But if you do like it, you know there is more, and that's really cool. So we've got The Reluctant Swordsman, of course, is the start of the fantasy, portal fantasy, The Seventh Sword. The King's Blades books are also based on swordsmanship, although not portal books. And they're really clever, because the stories stand more alone there, and they sort of intertwine, but in a more subtle, non-serial way. The Great Game is a trilogy of books set both during the First World War, and in an alternate world called Nextdoor, one of my particular favourite series. Nostradamus is a series set in Venice, Italy. Those are just a few of the series that you can start off with. And if you like them, and you know you like Dave's Stile, then you can pick a standalone book and think, oh, you know, I'm in the mood for something this long, and give that a try. Lots of options.

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spent some time today working on this diagram of how the ASCII control characters work in unix

there are a lot of mistakes/missing nuance but I think it's really interesting how little structure there is. Special codes (like `3` for SIGINT) that are handled by the OS are mixed with just regular keypresses (like `13` for "enter”) which are mixed with codes that are handled by the application (like `1` for Ctrl-A in readline)

(not looking for an ASCII history lesson right now)

color coded table of ASCII control codes
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#Catima 2.32.1 is out!

This fixes a regression in 2.32.0 which could break text display in the add dialog in non-English languages which I sadly missed in review: github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

It also contains some translation updates that were submitted between the last release and just now.

Coming soon to an app store near you :)

#Android #IzzyOnDroid #GooglePlay #GitHub


Fix text wrapping on add dialog by TheLastProject · Pull Request #2142 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Before After
GitHub
#android #github #googleplay #catima #izzyondroid

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 10 updated & 1 removed apps:

SwiftNotes had to be removed again due to license/copyright reasons (a fork without giving credits), it's repo is meanwhile unavailable too.

Updated apps include Catima, fixing a regression introduced with yesterday's update (yupp, @SylvieLorxu is fast with fixing and really taking care! 😍).

All 7 #reproducibleBuilds succeeded as well!

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 @Sylvia

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[Blog Post] Apple Introduces Redesigned Mac Mini, Updates iMac and Mac Accessories applevis.com/blog/apple-introd…

Apple Introduces Redesigned Mac Mini, Updates iMac and Mac Accessories | AppleVis

Apple this week updated several of its Mac product lines, as well as the Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse, and Magic Trackpad accessories. These Macs have been updated with variants of the M4 chip, the same chip that was introduced with the 2024 iPad Pro.
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