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When I spent a year with the DotPad and now 6 months and going with the Monarch, besides the fact that the Monarch is the only Multi Line Tactile display still available in Australia, here are some of my advantage points for the Monarch over the DotPad.

Can be used as a stand alone device,
20 hours battery life,
On/off, USBC, USBA, HDMI, 3.5MM ear phone jack, and volume up/down buttons,
Users used to the Braille Note, Brailliant, and Mantis will pick up same concepts used on the Monarch (its KeySoft),
Plug in a QWERTY keyboard and/or portable HDMI display,
Braille input keyboard,
10 line by 32 cell tactile display,

Removable metal template to replace membrane over the pins,

Speech output,
Navigation and Zoom keys, Point and click to move cursor or Zoom tactile graphics,
Button to refresh tactile array at any time,
Tactile horizontal and vertical scroll bars to let user know where they can scroll,
Easily jump around tactile graphic with keyboard short cuts,

increase line spacing when reading Braille,
Easy to identify cursor in menus, and place focussed line that contains cursor to the top of the display,
Access various file formats,
Various applications including web Browser (beta), email (beta), Tactile Library (APH), Maths graphing calculator, Word Processer, Braille Editor, Book Reader (victor Reader),
2025 WingIT app for iOS drawing, and Terminal screen reader support.

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Ukrainians Do Not Want to Defend Incumbent Gov’t, Calling Country ‘Prison’ - Reports sputnikglobe.com/20241226/ukra… Ukrainian men are fleeing the country because they don't want to defend the corrupt government, German broadcaster n-tv reported, citing Ukrainian migrants. #news #press

‘Ukraine Now a Prison’: Ukrainians See No Point In Defending Current Regime - Reports

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Una curiosidad que he aprendido estas fiestas, por contradicción:

No existe obligación legal de que las bebidas espirituosas vengan con tapón irrelenable. Así se deduce, contrario sensu, del artículo 10 del RD 164/2014, de 14 de marzo: boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A…

BOE-A-2014-3251 Real Decreto 164/2014, de 14 de marzo, por el que se establecen normas complementarias para la producción, designación, presentación y etiquetado de determinadas bebidas espirituosas.

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„Demokracia nie je divácky šport, že sa naň môžeme pozerať a nezapájať sa. To, že sa občania angažujú, vyjadrujú, je prejavom slobody, občianskej uvedomelosti.“

~ #ZuzanaČaputová

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Zuzana Čaputová: Dávame to. S chybami, s ťažkosťami, ale dávame

Zuzana Čaputová strávila posledné tri mesiace na Stanfordovej univerzite v Spojených štátoch. Hneď po návrate prišla na diskusiu so šéfredaktorom českého týždenníka Respekt Erikom Taberym.
Matúš Kostolný (Denník N)
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Gajim’s port to GTK4 is almost finished. 🥁 Currently we’re testing thoroughly to make the switch as smooth as possible.

We went ahead and made lots of small improvements, e.g. writing messages while offline, better styling for image previews, improved chat filters and more.

Gajim also improved its spam fighting toolkit: The next release will allow you to moderate all messages of a spammer at once. 🤖

If you like to support Gajim, please consider making a donation: liberapay.com/Gajim


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Gajim is a fully-featured XMPP client.
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⚠️ 🚨 It’s time to stop using Blabber.im 🚨⚠️

The abandoned fork of #Conversations_im has a critical security issue: attackers can bypass STARTTLS negotiation, resulting in an unencrypted connection to a fake server. This vulnerability is similar to the STARTLS attack discovered in various email clients¹

✅ Fixed in Conversations 2.13.1 (Feb 2024)

📢 Please migrate to Conversations immediately! It's free on Google Play until the end of the year and always free on #fdroid

¹: archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedu…


FOSDEM 2024 - [Protocols] Security of STARTTLS in the E-Mail Context

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#fdroid #conversations_im

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Historia del panetone: el pasado industrial y el motivo por el que en Italia suele ser mejor | El Comidista | Gastronomía | EL PAÍS elpais.com/gastronomia/el-comi…

Historia del panetone: el pasado industrial y el motivo por el que en Italia suele ser mejor

Desde su incierto origen medieval, el pan navideño ha pasado por la industrialización y la vuelta a lo artesanal. En España triunfa, pero la calidad media del italiano es superior porque su denominación está regulada
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The holidays are often a really tough time for queer, and especially #trans, folks. We fight for family and somehow it always seems to turn into us getting hurt more and more.

This holiday on #StainedGlassWoman, we're holding the Black Sheep close, and talking about the reasons families are dysfunctional.

And no, it's not your fault. It was never your fault.

#FtM #Nonbinary #MtF #psy

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Black Sheep

Dysfunctional family systems, queer folks, and why the holidays generally suck
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#trans #nonbinary #ftm #mtf #stainedglasswoman #psy

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🆕 blog! “Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - Joy To The World”

Welcome to this very silly series of blog posts where I attempt to identify all the mobile phones used in Doctor Who.

The 2024 Xmas special is fairly light on phones. Right at the end, we see Ruby Sunday calling her mum.

And a shot of the base of the phone.

It looks like it's the same phone as…

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/12/mobil…
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#DoctorWho #DoctorWhoPhones


Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - Joy To The World

Welcome to this very silly series of blog posts where I attempt to identify all the mobile phones used in Doctor Who. The 2024 Xmas special is fairly light on phones. Right at the end, we see Ruby Sunday calling her mum.
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#doctorwho #doctorwhophones

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Merry Christmas from @bermudianbrit and me. This is what we do with our Christmas afternoon, record a cover, of course!

Hope you like it, and feel free to give thoughts or suggestions.

youtu.be/wZwjibvCZL

#music #cover #Singer #Christmas

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Užívejte si videa a hudbu, kterou máte rádi, nahrávejte originální obsah a sdílejte vše s přáteli, rodinou i celým světem na YouTube.
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#music #singer #christmas #cover @Matthew J
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"I have directed the Department of Defense to continue its surge of weapons deliveries to Ukraine, and the United States will continue to work tirelessly to strengthen Ukraine’s position in its defense against Russian forces." - President Biden in response to Russia's latest air attacks whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/s…

Statement from President Joe Biden on Russia’s Overnight Aerial Attacks against | The White House

In the early hours of Christmas, Russia launched waves of missiles and drones against Ukrainian cities and critical energy infrastructure. The purpose of
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Louis Armstrong reads ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas (his final commercial recording). “This is Louis ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong, talking to all the kids from all over the world at Christmastime.” kottke.org/24/12/louis-armstro…

Louis Armstrong Reads ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas

While poking around for Christmas music, I found this little-known recording of Louis Armstrong reading ‘Twas The Night Be
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We really got the computer-human relationship all wrong: it should be a model of consent, rather than about restraining bolts, governor modules, or the Three Laws of Robotics

I was thinking about this excellent speech by Martha Wells on her Murderbot diaries being stories of bodily autonomy and slavery, and about the fantastic video on The Tragedy of Droids in Star Wars by Pop Culture Detective.
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Martha Wells spells out how wrong the Three Laws of Robotics are in stipulating a subservient relationships for robots to sacrifice themselves on behalf of humans, built around fears or assumptions that robots would inherently act to harm humans (or not act to save humans) and that therefore robots should put humans before themselves.

#ThreeLawsOfRobotics
#MurderbotDiaries
#ArtificialIntelligence #Al


The Tragedy of Droids in Star Wars

It’s not a Star Wars story unless there’s a lovable droid stealing the spotlight but, when you really stop and think about it, there’s also something profoun...
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#Al #artificialintelligence #threelawsofrobotics #MurderBotDiaries

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Wikipedia is a problem for Musk/Trump. Not, as Musk says, because it's "woke." Because it's one of our last reliable tethers to a consensus reality. Therefore, an antidote to disinformation.

It's not making anyone money. It's not enshittified. Of course it's not perfect—it's an endeavor of imperfect cooperating humans. But it needs protection and support.

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#wikipedia


Elon Musk Takes Aim at Wikipedia

The billionaire has become one of the most prominent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump.
James Bickerton (Newsweek)
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