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Samsung just unveiled the Galaxy S25 series at Galaxy Unpacked!

Here’s EVERYTHING you need to know about them. They’re tougher, faster, and packed full of new AI features from Google and Samsung.

Click here for all the details 👇

androidfaithful.com/samsung-ga…


Samsung's Galaxy S25 is tougher, faster, and packed full of AI features

Everything you need to know about the Samsung Galaxy S25 series: Hardware, software, features, and pricing.
Mishaal Rahman (Android Faithful)

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By default, some categories of iCloud data, like login credentials and health information, are end-to-end encrypted, while others, like backups, photos, and iCloud Drive files, aren't. To encrypt all iCloud data except mail, contacts, and calendars end-to-end, turn on Advanced Data Protection in Settings (System Settings on macOS) > [your name] > iCloud > Advanced Data Protection. #TipTuesday support.apple.com/en-us/108756

How to turn on Advanced Data Protection for iCloud - Apple Support

Advanced Data Protection for iCloud offers our highest level of cloud data security and protects the majority of your iCloud data using end-to-end encryption.
Apple Support
#tiptuesday

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🔩 Adam Štrauch

@sesivany Já a mluvit před kamerou pro lidi? :-) Hele uvidíme. Minimálně lokálně s tím zatím dost bojuju. Nevím jestli to je HW nebo tou implementací speech-to-text, ale poslechne mě to tak jednou za 10 pokusů.

Co musím vyzdvihnout je instalace. Stačí k tomu standardní HA appka, přes bluetooth si to řekne o přístup k WiFi a HA už si to pak najde. Běží v tom standardní ESPHome a dá se nad tím převzít i kontrola a programovat si to sám.

@stepan @tasartir

@Štěpán Škorpil @Tasartir @Jiří Eischmann

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With the January #BTSpeak update, when you enter the file browser by typing O-chord followed by F, you will now be pointing to the title of the currently open file. This will make it
easier and much faster if you want to perform a task with the open file, such as protecting, renaming or deleting it. Instead of having to navigate through
the file list to find the file’s title, in most cases you’ll be pointing to it as soon as you open the file browser.
• When you enter the file browser by typing O-chord followed by F, you will now be pointing to the title of the currently open file. This will make it
easier and much faster if you want to perform a task with the open file, such as protecting, renaming or deleting it. Instead of having to navigate through
the file list to find the file’s title, in most cases you’ll be pointing to it as soon as you open the file browser.
blazietech.com/january-22nd-20…
DG

January 22nd, 2025 Update | Blazie Technologies

Blazie Technologies
#btspeak

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Rejoice: The Samsung Galaxy S25 supports seamless updates!

The S25 is the first Samsung flagship to support seamless updates, letting them take OTA updates in the background.

More details on what this means can be found 👇

androidpolice.com/galaxy-s25-s…


Rejoice: The Samsung Galaxy S25 supports seamless updates

OTAs now install automatically in the background
Mishaal Rahman (Android Police)

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We've released a new update for the BT Speak. It includes many new features, including controls for increasing and decreasing the speed of media playback, adding and navigating by markdown headings, stopping speech on the last spoken line when performing a continuous read, improved file transfers from your BT Speak to your computer using the SMB protocol and more. Learn all about what we've added from our Web site.
blazietech.com/january-22nd-20…

#BTSpeak
DG

January 22nd, 2025 Update | Blazie Technologies

Blazie Technologies
#btspeak

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New on // foss.events: Matrix Fringe Event by Matrix.org Foundation & Matrix Events Working Group on 31 January 2025 in HSBXL in #Brussels, #Belgium

Find out more on foss.events/2025/01-31-matrix-…

Official account: @matrix
Official hashtag(s): #matrixFringe

#foss #floss #freesoftware #opensource #events #europe


// foss.events

Everything in a nutshell about Matrix Fringe Event 2025 on // foss.events - The most comprehensive collection of FOSS events in Europe (and online)
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#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource #floss #events #europe #belgium #brussels #matrixfringe @The Matrix.org Foundation

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Anti-union, anti-labour law, anti-employee safety...

#Amazon is ceasing operations in Québec, moving back to ‘third party’ delivery... ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/am…


Amazon is ceasing operations in Quebec, moving back to ‘third party’ delivery

Online retail giant Amazon is pulling out of Quebec, a spokesperson confirmed to CTV News. The company says it will cease operations over the next two months in various centres and facilities.
Rachel Lau (CTVNews)
#amazon

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Hey Ottawa people 🇨🇦 - the City of Ottawa is asking for feedback on their communications: "Tell us how you like to hear from us".

I just filled out the survey to ask them to support ActivityPub/Mastodon.

engage.ottawa.ca/communication…

Please boost for reach!

#Ottawa #YOW #CityOfOttawa

Access Denied | Engage Ottawa

engage.ottawa.ca
#ottawa #yow #cityofottawa
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Emmanuele Bassi

@maco it's the infamous rant he posted on Google Plus (back when it existed) and was meant to be shared within Google, but the UX for limiting the audience was still such a mess that he ended up making it public. Somebody saved it for posterity, especially after G+ died: gist.github.com/chitchcock/128…

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Gist
@maco

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"...despite legislation, standards and a growing general understanding of the concept, only a tiny fraction of products and services are accessible to everyone."
stiftelsenfunka.org/about-us/c…

It should be the other way round - Funka Foundation

There is something strange about accessibility. Those of us who work with it every day think it’s obvious, something everyone should focus on in all communication.
Funka Foundation

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🚀 Heinlein Gruppe gründet OpenCloud GmbH zur Stärkung des Open Source-Ökosystems in Deutschland 🇩🇪. @OpenCloud bietet sicheres, DSGVO-konformes File-Management und -Sharing und stärkt damit Europas digitale Souveränität.

Peer Heinlein betont: „Das digitale Ökosystem ist kritische Infrastruktur.“

🔗 Pressemitteilung: opencloud.eu/de/news/heinlein-…

#OpenSource #Cloud #OpenCloud #HeinleinGruppe #DigitaleSouveränität

OpenCloud Filesharing-Lösung - Nutzeransicht auf einem Laptop

Heinlein Gruppe stärkt mit der Gründung der OpenCloud GmbH das Open Source-Ökosystem in Deutschland | OpenCloud

PRESSEMITTEILUNG
opencloud.eu
#opensource #cloud #digitalesouveranitat #opencloud #heinleingruppe @OpenCloud

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This effort isn't restricted to government employees…

“Mr. Trump is also directing the attorney general to create a plan to deter the private sector from adopting or continuing DEI programs.”
cbsnews.com/miami/news/trump-o…

The CNN piece Matt links references accessibility programs.

mstdn.social/@mattmay/11386996…


Trump signs orders ending diversity programs; federal DEI staffers being placed on leave

Trump is axing funding dedicated to promoting diversity, equity and inclusion within the federal government.
Megan Cerullo (CBS Miami)

Matt May

2025-01-22 03:48:48

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"Employees in any (US federal) Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility offices will be placed on paid administrative leave 'effective immediately.'"

Tomorrow at 5pm is their last day. Agencies have to make a plan for firing them all by next Friday.

They're salting the earth.

cnn.com/politics/live-news/tru…


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✉️✨ Nail Your Email Sign-Offs! ✨✉️

Learn how to close your emails like a pro and leave the perfect impression. ✅

👉 Check out our latest blog post for tips and examples: tuta.com/blog/how-to-end-an-em…

#EmailTips #ProfessionalCommunication #EmailEtiquette #WritingSkills

Mail Interface with signatures

How To End An Email (With Examples) | Tuta

Master the art of ending any email with this step-by-step guide. Plus: learn what to avoid when closing an email.
Tuta
#emailtips #professionalcommunication #emailetiquette #writingskills

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I like this #FunkaFoundation post. Imagine how much less clear our writing would be without spell & grammar checking tools. The same goes for publishing to the web, but with accessibility. These tools exist, and they just need to be enabled by default.

stiftelsenfunka.org/about-us/c…

The simplest way for government & similar organizations to do this is to just enable Accessibility Insights by default on every browser.

accessibilityinsights.io/

Then authors can see & report problems that they see.


Accessibility Insights

Solve accessibility issues before they reach your customers.
accessibilityinsights.io
#funkafoundation

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Today's Web Design Update: groups.google.com/a/d.umn.edu/…

Subscribe info: d.umn.edu/itss/training/online…

Featuring @a11ytalks, @mgifford, @aardrian, @SteveFaulkner, @codepo8, @cferdinandi, @adactio, @rem, @cloudfour, @theadamsilver, and more.

#Accessibility #A11y #WebDesign

Web Design References: Webdev Newsletter

Web Design References: News and info about web design and development. The site advocates accessibility, usability, web standards and many related topics.
www.d.umn.edu
#a11y #Accessibility #webdesign @Adrian Roselli, pH0 @Mike Gifford, CPWA @Jeremy Keith @Chris Heilmann @Chris Ferdinandi @Steve Faulkner @A11yTalks @rem @Adam Silver @Cloud Four

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Exigimos al Gobierno de Canarias anular la expulsión de dos profesoras con discapacidad visual y auditiva.

El sistema educativo debe garantizar la participación plena de todas las personas con discapacidad, tanto en el alumnado como en el profesorado.

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Comunicado de apoyo a la educación inclusiva y en igualdad tras la discriminación a dos docentes en Canarias

En Izquierda Unida, leemos con indignación la decisión de la Consejería de Educación del Gobierno de Canarias de aceptar el criterio de un tribunal médico, no de una evaluación educativa, y expulsar d
Admin IU (Izquierda Unida)

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I submitted an idea for Thunderbird: suppressing the notification about remote content on emails, keeping it all blocked: connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/s…

Suppress remote content warning on email

There's a setting to accept all remote content, which suppresses the warning; but no setting to deny all remote content. I never want to get remote content on my email, and the constant notification is annoying.
connect.mozilla.org
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Garrett LeSage

@hub My thought exactly.

This is *the 5th time* Google Maps has been extremely inaccurate for me in the past week alone.

I've already been using Organic Maps quite a bit, but am depending on it more and more. Once in a while, the OSM map info is out of date, but so is Google. But OSM is never blatantly wrong like Google is lately.

I'm meeting a colleague (elsewhere) who sent me a Google Maps link right after this and that's wrong too. (6th time this week!)

@Hubert Figuière

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Truecaller rolls out real-time caller ID to its ~750K iOS subscribers, who account for 40% of its revenue; Truecaller has 2.6M+ paying subscribers in total (TechCrunch)

techcrunch.com/2025/01/21/true…
techmeme.com/250122/p5#a250122…


Truecaller brings real-time caller ID to iPhone users | TechCrunch

Truecaller for iOS has been updated with live caller ID support for its premium iPhone users.
Ivan Mehta (TechCrunch)

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O rety, wreszcie! Każdy, kto prowadzi publiczny transport zbiorowy, powinien udostępniać rozkłady do takiej bazy.

Bo jak mnie to wkurza, gdy planuję różne wyjazdy. Warszawską komunikację miejską mam w jakdojadę. Część PKS-ów jest w epodróżniku. Ale już np. komunikację gminną w powiecie warszawskim-zachodnim (czy Bielsku-Białej) znajdę w Google Maps. Z kolei rozkłady autobusów gminnych dookoła Otwocka są tylko do znalezienia w jakichś PDFach na stronach przewoźników. Chaos, który ogarniają jedynie miejscowi, a jak ktoś ma korzystać z komunikacji rzadziej, to odpuszcza.

transport-publiczny.pl/wiadomo…

#transportpubliczny


MI: Będą ogólnopolskie bazy rozkładów jazdy i przystanków

Resort zapowiada wprowadzenie baz danych, które zagregują informacje o rozkładach jazdy komunikacji publicznej. Pomoże to w stworzeniu wyszukiwarek połączeń zawierających dokładne, aktualne i kompletne informacje dotyczące wszystkich przewoźników.
www.transport-publiczny.pl
#transportpubliczny
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Want to help us improve the #curl shell completion script(s)?

github.com/curl/curl/issues/16…


Undeterministic zsh completion script output (depending on terminal size) · Issue #16072 · curl/curl

I did this I tried to reproduce the Arch Linux curl package by repeating the build in the documented build environment and noticed the zsh completions do not match: https://web.archive.org/web/2025...
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#curl
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Bendolph T. Red-Nosed-Reindeer

@cachondo

Lol. I wasn't thinking of any rude or crude questions! Basically yes I wanted to know if you learned braille earlier or later in life (ie post-written word) and whether you read braille braille or tactile books (or both). I enjoy learning new 'languages' and would be fascinated to know whether it's something I could intuitively pick up or basically like starting again from scratch. I'd also be interested if it's direct translation or it there are shortcuts / iconography. Is it direct letter to letter or are you skimming whole words..... 'the' / 'here' / 'there' etc?

@Sean Randall
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Sean Randall

I learned Braille as my first writing system, so I visualise letters that way, even though I *know* they don't look that way. Braille is really a code to represent print.

The first level of Braille is called "uncontracted", and that is a direct letter-to-letter reproduction of the written word. if I wanted to ask
> "How are you today?"
I'd write
> "⠠⠓⠕⠺⠀⠁⠗⠑⠀⠽⠕⠥⠀⠞⠕⠙⠁⠽⠦". Which if you count you'll see is similar to the print, except the first character is a capital indicator telling us that the h in how is uppercase.

After that you can move onto "contracted" Braille, where there are short forms, contractions and word signs. For example, our question now becomes
> "⠠⠓⠪⠀⠜⠑⠀⠽⠀⠞⠙⠦"
here, the "ow" of "how" has merged into a "⠪" (an o-w sign), the letter y by itself stands for a you, and "td means today. a bit like early text-speak.

disclaimer, I am doing the Braille blind so can't 100% verify my output by touch at the moment.

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Sean Randall

Go for it, questions very welcome.
there's a cool website you can learn from called UEBOnline if you want to go further.
Physical equipment for showing Braille electronically is very expensive unfortunately.
if you want to just write Braille though, [Perky Duck](duxburysystems.com/perky.asp) is free

Perky Duck free software

Perky Duck is a free download from Duxbury Systems (no charge) that offers some functionality, especially to someone learning about braille.
www.duxburysystems.com

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I have lost momentum in this week of reading and only managed to swallow 3 books, 3,750 pages.

the shoutout this week has to go to *The Boys*, a compelling work of literary fiction that pulls a childhood insecurity, grief and trauma into the light in an interesting way. I read it in a single sitting and it hung around my head for days afterward.
The other 2 were Harry Potter fanfiction, one of which was rather amateur and immature both, and the other of which seems to have sadly had its sequel abandoned.
#bookstodon

Book cover of "The Boys" by Katie Hafner. The cover features large red squares with white pictograms on a background of a grassy hill under a blue sky with clouds. In the top left, an icon of a falling stick figure with "KATIE HAFNER" written below. Central area has icons in a grid: broken heart, person riding a bike, upward arrows, two people holding hands, and storm cloud with a lightning bolt. "THE BOYS" is prominently displayed in large white text across the grid, with "A Novel" in the center. A quote from Maria Semple says, "An audacious feat of narrative bravado." In the background, three tall, skinny trees appear on the hill.
#bookstodon
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