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I guess Mark really thinks that Meta smart Glasses is the iPhone of today: AppleInsider, ‪@appleinsider‬, During an interview with Joe Rogan about Meta's abandonment of fact-checking and changing rules to allow hate speech, Meta's CEO targeted Apple for lacking innovation since the iPhone.

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AppleInsider (@appleinsider@mastodon.social)

During an interview with Joe Rogan about Meta's abandonment of fact-checking and changing rules to allow hate speech, Meta's CEO targeted Apple for lacking innovation since the iPhone. https://appleinsider.
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@AppleInsider

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A “Horrendous” Alaska Sexual Assault Case, Delayed for a Decade
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Four different judges have agreed to delay the trial more than 70 times in total. We pieced together a timeline of the delays using audio recordings and logs from every hearing.

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#News #Alaska #Law #Crime


The Neverending Case: How 10 Years of Delays Have Prevented a “Horrendous” Sexual Assault Allegation From Going to Trial

ProPublica
#News #law #crime #alaska

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RIP to Ben Caldwell. The world and web accessibility benefited from Ben's knowledge and dedication and will continue to do so. Condolences to Ben's family and friends. Some sad news for folks who may not have seen this in other places. Obituary and funeral details for Ben are at:

gundersonfh.com/obituaries/Ben…

Luncheon After Service

Benjamin Burr "Ben" Caldwell`s visitation
Benjamin Burr "Ben" Caldwell (www.gundersonfh.com)

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#BBCNews live page: bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5y81zyp1e…
There are now at least seven fires in Los Angeles and some of its neighbouring counties.

The largest two, in the Palisades and Eaton have burned nearly 27,000 acres since Tuesday.

At least 137,000 people have been forced to evacuate


California's fire death toll doubles as chaos grips LA

Ten deaths have been confirmed so far in the Los Angeles fires, which have been fanned by powerful gusts.
BBC News
#bbcnews

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From Brian Vogel: Announcement Only: The choice of "Outlook (classic)" and "Outlook (new)" should both be available under M365 Family (and probably Personal) at this time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/84…

From Brian Vogel: Announcement Only: The choice of "Outlook (classic)" and "Outlook (new)" should both be available under M365 Family (and probably Personal) at this time

groups.io

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Triangle Centers
A Brief Introduction

The center of a triangle is an interesting idea. Unlike circles, a triangle’s center isn’t always the same point because triangles aren’t generally symmetric, and there are lots of different ways to define what you mean by the center of a triangle. Years ago, when the internet was young, I remember finding Clark Kimberling’s online Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers, which had documented hundreds of different ways to define a triangle’s center. The Encyclopedia now contains nearly 40,000 different definitions.

The four most famous triangle centers are the center of mass, circumcenter, incenter, and orthocenter. These were all known by the ancient Greeks, making them more than a couple thousand years old. All four of these can be easily demonstrated by folding paper. So get yourself some paper and scissors, and follow along.

Remarkably, some triangle centers can fall outside the triangle, especially if you use an obtuse triangle—one with at least one obtuse angle. So start your exploration with an acute triangle. To keep it interesting, try not to make your triangle too close to equilateral. Make each of the sides at least 2-3 inches long. Cut out four copies of your triangle.

Photo of paper triangles folded and labeled with their different types of centers.

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This week in #FDroid (TWIF):

- We will remove the "gentle update" from F-Droid 1.22.0-alpha, as it is not stable enough. Thank you for testing (and finding bugs)!
- there is a new article on how to replace most common apps with open source versions
- Fossify Paint was added
- we recommend to switch from Mull to Fennec (as Mull has stopped development)
- OpenTracks is now available as reproducible and non-reproducible variant
- Exclave, a SagerNet fork was added

f-droid.org/2025/01/09/twif.ht…


Gentle updates postponed | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

This Week in F-DroidTWIF curated on Thursday, 09 Jan 2025, Week 2F-Droid coreHow is the new Client 1.22.0-alpha0 update working for you? Did you notice any u...
f-droid.org
#fdroid

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"One of our deepest, most fundamental problems as a craft is that we have enshrined «velocity» above all else, willfully blinding ourselves to the long-term consequences of gimcrack software."
Great quote by @bcantrill , from bcantrill.dtrace.org/2018/09/1….

Falling in love with Rust

Let me preface this with an apology: this is a technology love story, and as such, it’s long, rambling, sentimental and personal.
The Observation Deck
@Bryan Cantrill

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 16 updated and 3 added apps:

* Pixelix: a client for Pixelfed 🛡️
* Droid Pad: create control interfaces for BLE, WebSocket, MQTT, TCP, and UDP protocols 🛡️
* sms2call: automatically call a configured number when an SMS with specific content is received 🛡️

RB status: 397 apps (32%)

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 #izzyondroid

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To all the people that came to me after my talk on @termux recommending me to use postmarketOS, PureOS or a Pinephone:

There will be theme night specifically on mobile Linux on the Jan. 30 at @chaostreffbern where we can discuss all the different kinds of mobile Linux variants. I hope I get to play around with some of them. Maybe I'll be convinced. 😉

chaostreffbern.ch/en/themenabe…

#ChaostreffBern #Termux
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glow ⚇ (@glow@blob.cat)

Thanks to everyone who attended my talk about @termux at @chaostreffbern yesterday. A lot of people came and I had a blast telling everyone how crazy my phone setup is. If you need the slides, ma...
blob.cat
#termux #chaostreffbern @Termux @Chaostreff Bern

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For those at the back of the class, let me say this once more. Fuck! Facebook! #LGBTQ #Transgender #nonbinary #TransRightsAreHumanRights 404media.co/meta-deletes-trans…

Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes

Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.
Jason Koebler (404 Media)
#transgender #LGBTQ #nonbinary #transrightsarehumanrights

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Have you had that "Upcoming price change for your Microsoft 365 subscription" email yet? They want to charge you an extra 50%ish for AI features, and they do *not* make it easy to find the way to turn it off. It took me minutes of searching - this is a particularly evil dark pattern.

"Switch plan" just lets you pick between annual and monthly billing. You want "Turn off recurring billing" and then "Current subscription without AI".

You're welcome. Please boost for others.

Screenshot from the Microsoft 365 subscription page, showing the "Turn off recurring billing" item as highlighted.
A screenshot from the Microsoft 365 subscription website, highlighting a "Current subscription without AI" option, which is A$109/year, instead of the $159/year option with Copilot and AI nonsense.
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Donald J. Trump is a Convicted Felon!

Trump Sentenced to ‘Unconditional Discharge,’ Will Enter Office as Felon

Judge Juan Merchan gave the president-elect a penalty-free sentence for his hush-money crimes

Solely because of the election results, Trump escaped justice for his 34 felony convictions!

A black eye for justice in America!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking

rollingstone.com/politics/poli…

Donald Trump - our balding, convicted felon in the White House

Trump Sentenced to 'Unconditional Discharge' in Hush Money Case

Donald Trump was sentenced an "unconditional discharge" by Judge Juan Merchan on Friday in his hush money case, and will enter office as a felon.
Nikki McCann Ramirez (Rolling Stone)
#Trump #politics #News #uspol #breaking #breakingnews #GOP #uspolitics #press #aurefreepress #headline

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The Quest to Create the Most Accessible Museum in the World -- The refreshed museum of the American Printing House for the Blind in Louisville, Kentucky, is slated to open in 2026 with a novel invitation to visitors: please touch. groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/84…

The Quest to Create the Most Accessible Museum in the World -- The refreshed museum of the American Printing House for the Blind in Louisville, Kentucky, is slated to open in 2026 with a novel invitation to visitors: please touch.

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Happy to have some of my work on #accessibility featured in this #GovTech article govtech.com/network/whats-new-…

Was a real pleasure to work on the #WebAlmanac this year.


What’s New in Digital Equity: Feds Fund Digital Upskilling

Plus, the BEAD Progress Dashboard gets updated this week, a comprehensive report examines website accessibility across government, and one Georgia county gets to work on digital inclusion.
Julia Edinger (GovTech)
#Accessibility #govtech #WebAlmanac
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