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…

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

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in reply to Jiří Eischmann

@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

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

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…

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

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

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…

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

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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…
@maco

"...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…

🚀 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

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…


"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

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.

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

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.

iunida.org/ldczz

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

@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!)

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…
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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

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Want to help us improve the #curl shell completion script(s)?

github.com/curl/curl/issues/16…

#curl
in reply to Sean Randall

@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?

in reply to Bendolph T. Red-Nosed-Reindeer

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.

in reply to Bendolph T. Red-Nosed-Reindeer

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

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