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Starlink Mini review: super compact and light, can be powered by a small power bank, installs quickly at new locations, but Wi-Fi range is sometimes a concern (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)

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Starlink Mini review: space internet goes ultraportable

SpaceX’s Starlink Mini satellite dish provides fast battery-powered internet with low enough latency that can be set up quickly in places 4G and 5G don’t reach.
Thomas Ricker (The Verge)

Seamless migration from any VMware environment to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and Amazon EC2
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Seamless migration from any VMware environment to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and Amazon EC2 | Amazon Web Services

Over the last 20+ years, commercially available compute virtualization solutions such as VMware have become powerful tools used to lower costs, improve efficiency, ease management tasks, and improve on-premises flexibility.
Amazon Web Services
#blog #aws

Apple launches entry MacBook Pro 14-inch with M4 chip, 16GB RAM, new Center Stage camera, more 9to5mac.com/2024/10/30/apple-l…

Apple launches entry MacBook Pro 14-inch with M4 chip, 16GB RAM, better battery life, more - 9to5Mac

Apple has unveiled the new M4 MacBook Pro in several models, including a 14-inch version that serves as the more budget-friendly entry model.
Ryan Christoffel (9to5Mac)

How to Install Seafile Self-Hosted Cloud Storage on Debian 12 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

How to Install Seafile Self-Hosted Cloud Storage on Debian 12

Seafile is an open-source file-hosting system written in the Django web framework. This article will guide you through installing Seafile on a Debian ...
Arvid L (Howtoforge)

I've been recently tinkering with #Python to build myself a better RSS feed experience with Youtube and GitHub feeds.

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#blogging


I built a custom RSS hydrator for better GitHub and Youtube feeds

Youtube and GitHub RSS/Atom feeds didn’t quite offer the experience I wanted so I built a web service that takes in a feed, hydrates its contents with more useful stuff and outputs a new feed.
Juha-Matti Santala
#python #blogging

in Mac OS 15.1, I was casually reading system information app with VoiceOver. I navigated into the hardware overview text area, then back to the list, and chose "software." here's where things got strange. Arrowing around in the text area would read me the hardware overview in one single chunk, but listening to it upon focus read the new content. So I ask: What the heck is going on with VoiceOver?
What would cause the virtual buffer and focused content to go out of sync like this?
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Q&A with scientists Charley Kline and Bill Duvall, who sent the first Arpanet message in 1969, on what the internet has become, lessons from Arpanet, and more (Scott Nover/BBC)

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'We were just trying to get it to work': The failure that started the internet

On 29 October 1969, two scientists established a connection between computers some 350 miles away and started typing a message. Halfway through, it crashed.
Scott Nover (BBC)

The drawback of leaving the Fascist Bird shite is that "brands" haven't migrated.

So I can't ask a car maker why their service (repairs) is worse than MAGA-Mobile which is a landmark in shittiness.

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Hubert Figuière
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FWIW it has been a month and a half and Nissan still doesn't have the replacement bumper.

(my *brand new* car was rear ended in its parking spot, 20m DOWN from the kerb)

Thinking getting a Nissan?

Hahahahaha! #WhatsApp survey question I just received asks:

'How visually appealing is WhatsApp’s design (that is, the way the app looks) to you?'

#whatsapp
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Andre Louis
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These days apps are far more complex than they were in 2010, so if you don't explore by touch and at least try to know where common things are, you're going to have a very slow time indeed.
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Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Yep, sometimes, explore by touch is the only thing that would adiquately work in some apps, if VO loses focus or reaches some kind of boundary that doesn't exist, but it decided to do so. Same thing used to happen with talkback and other readers. It's good to know both. Speaking of using that, how would you teach someone the concept of explore by touch? I honestly can't explain it well I suppose, but I am trying to help someone from around here. What do you compare it vs swiping, for example? To me it's just like drawing on your screen, but drawing lines. also I am one of the people who uses explore by touch a lot, and also manages to guess half of the things on the screen if apps are well-made.
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Rebecca
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@tardis @jscholes Have they used tactile maps? If so you could say it's a little bit like exploring a tactile map but it's just your phone screen. I know speed dots have shut down but when I had them they really helped me orient to my phone at first.
@James Scholes @Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Oh, these never shipped here, well, yeah I tried that approach but I guess they didn't get it, so I tried drawing. It's a person who likes working on a computer, so.
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James Scholes
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@tardis The majority of physical surfaces a blind person will encounter don't support sequential swiping. Explore by touch has to be the default for restaurant tables, kitchen counters, a new computer, etc. So I don't think you need a fancy explanation for how to find stuff on a screen; they can just be explored like those other things. I'm no teacher though so what do I know. @FreakyFwoof @silverleaf57
@Rebecca @Andre Louis @Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Yeah, trust me, neither am I. But at least I am getting paid. and I better be. I spent three hours trying to make this guy learn how to use iPhone, because he wanted an iPhone. And I could've done something else with my time, too. Plus, he insisted on paying, so, well, I don't deny.
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Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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the three hours were spent trying to disable subscriptions he subscribed to. Because Apple is, well, Apple, and the appstore isn't translated in my language. and then trying to disable the personal data thing icon. and it turns out it needed screen recognition, but I can do it with VO turned off, so go turn on that, swipe a thousand times through settings. and someone setup the iPhone by transfering from android, so now, it's a mess. Even the apps went to transfer. also, Apple photos sucks now. No idea what they did to it, but unless you use explore by touch, you screwed, unless you have like, two photos, but I have at least a few hundred even with the recent cleanup. So, yep, explore by touch in my opinion must be taught to people, the earlier the better. also, it's just easier. Haha.

Whenever companies “overinvest and underperform,” for some reason the people that have to go are never the execs who made these strategic mistakes.

Save the bachelor study Celtic Languages and Culture at Utrecht University from extinction!

Dear Fedi, we need your help!

On Monday, the University of Utrecht announced that they would shut down six bachelor studies, including the 'bachelor of arts' ("BA") Celtic Languages and Culture.
Current students will be able to finish their study, but from 2026 on no new students are to be accepted.

This was shocking news to receive.
We will not go down without a fight, though! :drgn_knife_angry:
We started a petition to stop it! (see the end of the toot if you want to skip all about why it is bad to loose Celtic in Utrecht.)

The Celtic BA at Utrecht University is unique in the Netherlands, and rare worldwide. Moreover, being able to study Celtic here in the Netherlands, away from the political context you have when you study it in Ireland, for example, allows us to bring new insights, because we can see it all from a slightly different perspective, which is very valuable for the whole field of Celtic studies.
It should be no wonder then, that the department of Celtic studies at Utrecht University is internationally respected.
The Celtic department also delivers important contributions to the field of Celtic studies that are much-needed worldwide.
Therefore, it would be disastrous to lose this beautiful and culturally important bachelor, that celebrated its centenerary just last year!

Hence, I emplore you all to sign this petition to save Celtic!
chng.it/tBwmVpYqMF

It is also possible to write a letter or email wherein you write why it is so important to keep the Celtic bachelor, to the Rector Magnificus of Utrecht University, who has to vote together with the 'rectores' of all other Dutch universities about the dissolution of the Celtic bachelor.
If you decide to write a letter or email, the staff of the Celtic department would love to receive a copy.

Written letters can be directed to:
Professor dr. Henk Kummeling
Universiteit Utrecht
Bestuursgebouw
Heidelberglaan 8
3584 CS Utrecht
The Netherlands

Emails can be directed to:
h.kummeling@uu.nl

You can send the Celtic staff a copy by:
Adding their email address in the BCC, or emailing a scan of your letter:
keltischezomer@uu.nl

Alternatively, you can send a physical copy to @drnike, Aaron Griffith, or Natalia Petrovskaia, at
Trans 10
3512JK Utrecht
The Netherlands

There exists an example draft for letters, if you would like to see that, please ask me!

#CelticStudies


Red de Opleiding Keltisch/Save the Bachelor Celtic!

Nike Stam (Change.org)
#celticstudies @Dr Nike
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I wanted to watch something else after Downton Abbey. So I' begun Upstairs Downstairs. It's good so far.
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David Goldfield
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My wife and I started watching Upstairs, Downstairs but we stopped sometime during either season 1 or season 2. It was a great show and I enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed Downton. I really should rewatch it and keep going as I liked the characters. The episodes on Amazon Prime didn't have audio description, although the newer series from around 2010 does have it.
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Brian Hartgen
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@DavidGoldfield Hi David, you are right. We have both versions. Lulu has watched it lots of times. The 70's drama doesn't have AD, but like all the 70's dramas we have, there is plenty of dialog, more than enough to follow it.
@David Goldfield

New game added to the Accessible Android apps directory: BitLife accessible accessibleandroid.com/app/bitl… #Android #Game

BitLife - Accessible Android

One of the few, if not the only, Life Simulator app accessible to the blind and visually impaired. How will you live your life? Will you become famous? Commit
Accessible Android
#android #game

Part of the ADHD tax is, for example, when I change the tyre that was
flat this morning, replace it with the spare tyre, and since I already put the supermarket bags in the car I start thinking of the route - whether to go to the store first or the tyre shop first - so I forget to make sure I have the fucking security lock nut with me - and so I eventually arrive to the tyre shop and discover I don't have it.
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Federico Mena Quintero
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So I go back home, park the car, retrace my steps to see if the nut is somewhere on the street, but of course it is a lost cause. So I unload the groceries and have a quick lunch and in a few minutes I'll go to the tyre shop again and tell them to please break the goddamned security bolts and replace them because I'm that doofus that lost the nut.

Also, fuck cars.

@freedomscientific It's been a while since I've used Face in View but when I try to adjust Face in View settings from Settings Center using the default profile, it indicates
Only available when Freedom Scientific Kernel Camera driver is installed.
When I attempt to enable it from the layered keystrokes insert+space, F O JAWS announces
Unable to initialize any camera. Face in View will now close.

This is the case with JAWS 2025 and 2024.
What do I need to get Face in View working?
I couldn't find an article mentioning this in your knowledge base.

@Freedom Scientific
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Jessica Dail
Jessica Dail
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I just tried on my end & it worked. I'm now running #jaws2025. Is it possible either, A: your laptop doesn't have a camera or B: the camera quit working? That would be my guess anyway.
#jaws2025
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David Goldfield
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@KE8UPE Laptop definitely has a camera. However, I did wonder if it had malfunctioned so that's my next step.
@Jessica Dail
in reply to David Goldfield

Jessica Dail
Jessica Dail
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Is the camera internal or external? If external, try to unplug it & plug it back in. You may also want to try plugging into a different usb port, if possible.
in reply to Jessica Dail

David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@KE8UPE Fixed it. Camera Privacy Settings were off. Enabled them as well as the toggle to allow desktop apps to access the camera.
@Jessica Dail
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David Goldfield
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@KE8UPE Well, while Face in View itself seems to be working, I still am not able to adjust Face in View settings from Settings Center with default.jcf opened. It still says
Only available when Freedom Scientific Kernel Camera driver is installed.
I'll continue to investigate but would welcome suggestions.
@Jessica Dail
in reply to David Goldfield

David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@KE8UPE Yes, it's a camera issue as I get an error from Zoom when I try to start video in my meeting. I will troubleshoot.
@Jessica Dail

CLIMATE PROTESTORS NEED TO STOP BLOCKING ROADS!!

So apparently Google is now generating over 25% of their new code via AI. Given Google's downward quality trajectory, that explains a lot.
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Charlie Stross
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Google is roughly 28 years old. A founder/executive at the start who was then aged 30 is now pushing 60. Insofar as corporate culture is set from the top down, Google is now running on the fumes of the original vision. It's no accident that the life expectancy of a successful corporation is only half that of a human organism ...
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Lauren Weinstein
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Yep. Years ago I publicly predicted that Google would follow the usual arc (DEC, HP, Bell Labs, etc.) -- and that really the only question was how fast it would happen. Sundar really sped up the process.

The fact that I can just...decide not to go to a class and no one really cares is still so foreign to me. Even more foreign, though, is having a social life that actually makes me want to ditch class. College is a weird place.
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Matt Campbell
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It took me until my senior year of college to even try skipping class once, and I did that because of weather. More precisely, I skipped two of the classes I had that day because they were in different buildings than the one where most of my classes were at that point. And I knew I wouldn't miss anything at all by skipping those two classes.

got laid off in the big dropbox layoffs today.

if anybody is looking for a staff-level engineer who loves mentoring and who is an expert in web security, email security, TLS/PKI, key and secrets management, and general defense security stuff, please feel free to hit me up.

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