Microsoft is bundling AI-powered Office features into Microsoft 365 subscriptions. Prices are going up, though, by $3 per month.Tom Warren (The Verge)
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 19 updated and 2 added apps:
* Podcini.X - Podcast instrument (Podcini.R is discontinued) 🛡️
* MBCompass: simple and efficient compass
12 old apps have been removed (using v1-only signing with weak keys & their repos removed/archived etc), we still investigate other v1-onlys having good keys.
RB status: 408 apps (33.1%)
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
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
David Lynch has died
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/16/24345312/david-lynch-death-director-twin-peaks?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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David Lynch, the pioneering writer and director whose haunting, surreal works include the film “Mulholland Drive” and the TV show “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78.Jay Peters (The Verge)
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Don't listen to what you hear. I tell you the reality from my dual booting experience.Ankush Das (It's FOSS)
Join us for a virtual workshop with The Braille Institute and Geoffrey Peddle, Aira's Chief Technology Officer to discuss how AIRA is making an impact in the lives of individuals with vision loss by offering specialized remote assistance and new AI-driven features in one place.
Date: Friday, January 17, 2025
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM PT
From calling trained agents for real-time visual support to other helpful AI features and how to get started with Aira, you'll have a chance to ask anything you'd like to know during the AMA session.
Register here: brailleinstitute.org/find-serv…
AIRA is a leading company in the assistive technology space, with a smart phone app that allows people to call agents for specialized remote help…Gina Cosio (Braille Institute)
Changelog Security Fix insufficient validation of account URIs (GHSA-5wxh-3p65-r4g6) Update dependencies Fixed Fix libyaml missing from Dockerfile build stage (#33591 by @vmstan) Fix incorrect n...GitHub
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The Cheapest It's Ever Been: The Newest Amazon Fire 7 Tablet Is Only $45 Today
https://www.pcmag.com/deals/amazon-deals-of-the-day-newest-amazon-fire-7-tablet-is-only-45-jan-16?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Amazon's "Deals of the Day" will save you 35% on the Amazon Echo smart speaker and another 20% on a 55-inch Roku TV Plus Series television.Shubham Yewale (PCMag)
#Mozilla Settles Case Over Its Refusal to Hire Apple Activist
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Mozilla Corp. has agreed to settle allegations it refused to hire a former Apple Inc. software engineer because of her prior labor activism.Josh Eidelson (Bloomberg)
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Message order in Matrix: right now, we are deliberately inconsistent, artificialworlds.net/blog/2024…, by @andybalaam.
Excellent article explaining different events orderings in Matrix, the impact and a possible solution.
Import OneNote Archives Joplin now supports importing OneNote archives, a significant step for users transitioning from OneNote. Microsoft has long made it challenging to leave OneNote, offering li...joplinapp.org
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AT&T stops 5G Internet Air service in New York, as a new law mandates monthly broadband rates of $15 for 25Mbps or $20 for 200Mbps for low-income residents (Eli Blumenthal/CNET)
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A new affordable broadband law in the Empire State has led to AT&T dropping its 5G home internet product entirely.Eli Blumenthal (CNET)
Thunderbird est une application de messagerie facile à configurer et à personnaliser — elle comporte de nombreuses fonctionnalités très pratiques !Thunderbird
Merci beaucoup de nous avoir installés et de nous avoir soutenus financièrement ! Nous vous en sommes très reconnaissants. 😊
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Certifikační autorita @letsencrypt bude vystavovat připravované šestidenní certifikáty také na IP adresy, což je skvělá zpráva například pro nasazení DDR.
root.cz/zpravicky/let-s-encryp…
Certifikační autorita Let's Encrypt chce letos začít nabízet volitelně krátkodobé certifikáty s šestidenní platností. Už kvůli tomu testuje…Petr Krčmář (Internet Info, s.r.o.)
@thunderbird its not much but you are solid. Will try to give more from time to time!
PS. The message in the client reminded me to chip in :
Earlier I decided that I wanted to use my Arturia KeyLab 88 keyboard to control @mixxx so that I can play along with tracks easier. I wrote up some MIDI bindings with basic functionality and threw them up here on the off chance that anyone else has the same keyboard as me and wants to use them:
About 70% of teachers and students in a new survey said digital censorship in their schools hinders students’ ability to complete their assignments.
Learn how 👇 themarkup.org/digital-book-ban…
Nationally representative survey data from The Center for Democracy & Technology finds schools subjectively and broadly block students from information onlinethemarkup.org
The Trevor Project? Blocked. Planned Parenthood? Blocked. NASA? BLOCKEDthemarkup.org
Quel système d'exploitation utilisez-vous ? Nous aimerions vous aider à le découvrir !
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We just released Mastodon 4.3.3, 4.2.15 and 4.1.22. They contain a few bug fixes as well as a security fix (medium severity, github.com/mastodon/mastodon/s…)
We recommend every instance administrator to update as soon as possible.
If you are using our nightly releases, a container image with the fix has been published with the `nightly.2025-01-17-security` tag.
Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…
Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community - mastodon/mastodonGitHub
In this blog post, I briefly discuss the year 2024 around the LibreOffice development blog, and the outlook for 2025.Hossein Nourikhah (LibreOffice Development Blog)
Review: The Odyssey is a story about a homicidal maniac (Odysseus) who refuses to ask for directions. This tragic flaw, shared by many men, leads his crew to disaster. Some are eaten by monsters, some are eaten by their crew-mates, and some finally get fed up with this cruise from hell (literally at one point), and take a flight home.
When Odysseus returns home, he is shocked, SHOCKED, to discover that after a 20-year absence, his wife is entertaining the possibility of remarrying.
🚨 Privacy Win 🚨
The USA's loudest endorsement ever: CISA urges everyone to use encryption!
Use services like #Signal and #Tuta to secure your online communication.
Here's the news: tuta.com/blog/us-cisa-endorses…
Following the Salt Typhoon hack, CISA recommends to secure online communication with strong end-to-end encryption and to use apps with zero metadata.Tuta
But who controls the data on the server? Is it self-hostable, It' might be end-to-end encrypted from the user to the server and back, but that's where it ends.
You might as well use apple and iMessage/iMail/iCal otherwise it's just as secure, and if/when a government comes in and says turn over your user data or intercept the messages they have too.
The Client maybe GPL3 But until the server is available and released under the same license there is no reason to change.
@AzureCerulean The entire encryption takes place on the client so the server only see encrypted data.
We plan to publish a small, open source server for self-hosting in the future. The current server structure is much too complex for that so we did not see the point in publishing the code.
Owncast v0.2.0 has been released. A follow-up with some small bug fixes will be on its way as well. As always, if you have any feedback, questions, or issues, please file them with our bug tracker so they can get addressed.
Stream on, streamy people.
My Eye: Unlock the World Through AI-Powered VisionAccessible Android
Vlastním už nějaký pátek doménu babiszmenilnazor.cz/
Zrovna mi přišla upomínka, že bych ji měl prodloužit a já vlastně nevím, jestli mi ten šupák za těch 145 Kč stojí.
Už proto, že já nemám čas, a ani náladu, shánět data abych mohl vytvořit nějaký pěkný web. A je to škoda, takhle před volbami…
Looks fake doesn't it? This reconstruction of Medieval Bologna shows how Italian towns used to be a forest of towers, dense as Manhattan skyscrapers!
Here's a stable blog-formatted version of my thread from yesterday about the lost towers of the Guelph-Ghibelline wars exurbe.com/the-lost-towers-of-…
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in reply to Gerhard Hallstein • • •@Gerhard Hallstein was meinst du mit Spitznamen ???
Wenn du damit den Spitznamen deines Accounts meinst dann liegt es daran, das der Spitzname nicht geändert werden kann/darf.
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in reply to OldKid ⁂ • • •@Gerhard Hallstein ok jetzt habe ich mich mal etwas reingefuchst und auch deine Unterhaltung mit Tuxi ganz gelesen.
Es könnt daran liegen das der Account seine Infos aus dem RSS Feed bezieht und das jedes mal wieder neue wenn ihr den Feed abruft und in dem Feed ist eben auch der Name enthalten und den übernimmt er jedes Mal aufs neue wie es scheint.
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