(yes, Fortune covered this too, but I'm not supporting clicks for them until they make their CMS output more accessible link text.)
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Want a less chatty BlindShell Classic 2? In this under 4-minute episode, we show you how to cut down on extra menu announcements for smoother navigation.
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BlindShell Classic 2 Talking Cell Phone for the Blind
The BlindShell 2 talking cell phone is in stock and ready to ship. Announcing a brand new BlindShell. Designed for the blind from the ground up.A. T. Guys
25 years ago, on February 13, 2000 the final "Peanuts" comic strip was released. It followed the death of Charles M. Schulz the day before, as he passed away only a few hours before its publication, serving as his final farewell to his readers.
#Peanuts #Comics #CharlesSchulz #comic #ComicStrip #ComicStrips #OTD #Snoopy
I think today's dose of Doctorow (or @pluralistic , if you prefer) may well be more relevant than most.
We MUST make informed decisions and harbour informed opinions. If we go about uninformed, we end up with both our feet in our mouths.
Which is something the left has been doing a LOT in what concerns the internet as a whole.
A lot of reports of alarms on iOS not sounding for people have emerged (as far back as even last May, phonearena.com/news/annoying-i…, and then early this year: nypost.com/2025/01/14/tech/iph…)
I know why now. If you set multiple alarms, iPhone will only sound them for 10 minutes. Should your alarms not be turned off and this 10-minute time is up (say, because you slept through it), the first alarm is stuck waiting in queue, and subsequently scheduled alarms will never sound but go off.
The moment you dismiss that first alarm, all of those others will magically begin sounding every 10 minutes as you dismiss them in horror, realizing that Apple's operating system is not able to properly queue alarms.
And yes, this is in iOS 18.3. I've been struggling with this pattern all week, it has made me late to my first meeting Monday because I woke up too late and scrambled too long to get ready, ETC. Not good.
A supremely annoying iPhone alarm bug is spreading like wildfire... again
For at least the third time in the last year or so, iPhone users are complaining on social media that their alarms are not working properly, with Apple once again promising to deliver a fix for ...Adrian Diaconescu (PhoneArena)
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Tim Cook, on His Apparently Favorite Website, Teases Apple Product Launch Next Week
Link to: https://x.com/tim_cook/status/1890068457825394918Daring Fireball
@gruber there is. It's like advertising on it. But I guess you are just like them. Can't have it both ways.
If the link is only on X? then don't even talk about it. Have some courage.
UI/UX Design Studio Manager Laurel Terlesky's #fosdem talk is online! Explore Thunderbird's journey toward a cohesive, scalable, and data-informed open-source design system that unites desktop, Thunderbird for Android, and beyond.
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OpenAI scrubs diversity commitment web page from its site | TechCrunch
OpenAI has eliminated a page on its website that used to express its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The URLDominic-Madori Davis (TechCrunch)
Unsere #Matrix #Bridges sind jetzt offiziell aus der Beta-Phase raus! 🚀
Neben Telegram, Signal und WhatsApp haben wir ab sofort auch eine Bridge zu Discord im Angebot.
Vielen lieben Dank an unsere Beta-Kunden! Wir melden uns in Kürze bei euch 🙂
Mehr Infos zu unserem Matrix-Hosting und anderen Open-Source-Lösungen findet ihr auf unserer Website:
Genauere Infos zu den Bridges findet ihr hier:
docs.ossrox.org/Matrix/Bridges…
#OpenSource #Messaging #Privacy #Hosting
Bridges | Ossrox Wiki
Matrix Bridges sind letztlich Dienste, die eine Verbindung zwischen dem Matrix-Ökosystem und anderen Messaging-Plattformen wie Telegram, Signal, WhatsApp und vielen weiteren herstellen.docs.ossrox.org
#Fractal 10 had a couple regressions. We didn’t want our users to wait until Fractal 11 to get the fixes in their favorite #GNOME #Matrix client, so here is Fractal 10.1:
discourse.gnome.org/t/fractal-…
Fractal 10.1 released
Due to a couple of unfortunate but important regressions in Fractal 10, we are releasing Fractal 10.1 so our users don’t have to wait too long for them to be addressed.GNOME Discourse
"The UK’s war on encryption affects all of us" via @verge.
Indeed, the UK's actions imperil security across the globe.
It's worth highlighting that open source comms tools, like @matrix and @signalapp, empower researchers and users: you'll _see_ if a backdoor is added.
Not so with proprietary tools. Do you really trust Meta, Apple, or Google not to roll over on you?
theverge.com/policy/612136/uk-…
#FOSS #SoftwareFreedom #OpenSource #Security #Privacy #Encryption
The UK’s war on encryption affects all of us
The UK is using its Investigatory Powers Act to demand backdoor access to iCloud users’ encrypted backups worldwide.Gaby Del Valle (The Verge)
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🎉 Today marks 4 years of etke.cc! 🎉 etke.cc/news/2025-02-12-today-…
Tim Cook Teases Feb. 19 Product Launch, Likely the iPhone SE 4
Apple's CEO didn't give many details, but the rumor mill tips a next-gen lower-cost iPhone.Joe Hindy (PCMag)
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid with 10 updated (4 RB) and 2 added apps today:
* TDX: explore and monitor your favorite artists and their latest releases 🛡️
* Private DNS Quick Setting: Toggle Private DNS from Quick Settings 🛡️
RB status: 446 apps (35.8%)
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
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
Rozhovor: Přijmout dítě s autismem znamená vydat se na nečekaná dobrodružství
📌*Jak začlenit dítě s poruchou autistického spektra do běžné školky? *
O své zkušenosti a rady se s námi podělila Mgr. Sylva Kočí z neziskové organizace Jdeme Autistům Naproti z. s.
Rozhovor: Přijmout dítě s autismem znamená vydat se na nečekaná dobrodružství | Twigsee
Jak začlenit dítě s poruchou autistického spektra do běžné školky? Zeptali jsme se Mgr. Sylva Kočí z neziskové organizace Jdeme Autistům Naproti z. s.Martina Zatloukalová (Twigsee s.r.o)
"Paní učitelky mají někdy z příchodu dítěte s autismem obavy."
Tak toto je, žiaľ, totálny eufemizmus. Naše škôlky, až pričasto, neakceptujú žiadnu formu inakosti a na Slovensku k tomu majú riaditeľky ešte aj kladivo na čarodejnice, keďže deti najskôr prijímajú na tzv. adaptačný pobyt, takže ktokoľvek "by im narušoval vyučovanie" ostáva mimo systém.
Môžete mať aj 4 papiere s odporúčaním odborníkov na integrovanie v štandardnom kolektíve, poprípade s asistentom, budú vás tlačiť do outu - "a nebolo by mu lepšie v špeciálnej škôlke"?
No nebolo - tá v našom meste rieši iba ťažké prípady, s pridruženou retardáciou alebo úplne neverbálnych, no a taká špecializovaná na nejakú "ľahšiu" diagnózu, napr. NKS, tak tá je jedna v kraji (ak vôbec), takže good luck...
Naš predprimárny systém má deti so znevýhodnením tam kde slnko nesvieti, česť výnimkám, ale viem o tom viac než by som chcel.
Taky mám od Vodafone (ExUPC) doma 1/0,1. Řekl bych, že tím je rychlost internetu možno považovat za vyřešený problém.
Za 2 roky se budu snad stěhovat do bytu, kde bude možnost až 2/1, ale to už si nedokážu představit, že bych doma využil. Leda že bych do komory přesunul server z Casablanky, kde je “jen” na gigabitu 😀
Everything we think we know about the next iPhone SE
Apple may be about to launch the iPhone SE 4 with Face ID, Apple Intelligence, and a single rear camera.Dominic Preston (The Verge)
RIP #GNOME logo ... we barely knew ya. 1997-2025
#BrandEquity #logo #branding #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS
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@cassidy @nekohayo @KekunPlazas @federicomena @ebassi Meanwhile, I was walking by a shop window tonight and saw this grumpy turtle plush gnome.
Gnomes come in all shapes and sizes!
Anyone dressing up could put a bit of a spin and combine the gnome outfit with others. Doctor gnome, pirate gnome, astronaut gnome, and even a grumpy turtle gnome, apparently.
@federicomena I think we can get to that point eventually, but so far every time I’ve brought it up to Foundation employees or members of the board, it’s been largely dismissive. Not maliciously so, but more like, “oh yeah that’ll never happen, you’ll never get everyone to agree,” and/or “trademarks are expensive, not worth it.”
So I shifted the approach to try to build some amount of consensus on a potential way forward. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be working, either.
Despite not having a lot of money we are yearly subscribed to give 300eur to the #foss #forgejo platform of @Codeberg who are currently suffering sustained network and abuse attacks social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/1…
Some of our #webxdc developments takes place on Codeberg. Thanks for persevering! #hugops
Codeberg.org (@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de)
We are currently suffering from a network-level DDoS attack. Or maybe just a single actor. Anyway, our downlink is jammed.social.anoxinon.de - Mastodon
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Now that we have three different #AI Music generators, I wanted to give them a tricky test and compare the results. I'm totally not musical, so hopefully one of my followers will chime in to this thread with some musical theory criticism.
The prompt we'll be using today: "A comic operetta in the style of Victorian satirical comic operettas making fun of President Donald J Trump." We'll be leaving all other settings as default.
The things I'm looking for:
1. Does the song refer to recent events?
2. Can it follow my strong style instructions? I'm wanting something in the style of gilbert and Sullivan. But if I mention them directly, the AI's either refuse on copyright grounds, or generate endless bad versions of A Model of A Modern Major General.
Let's start with riffusion.com. It gave me a song called "Why won't they let me edit?" It's apparently about how Donald Trump wants to edit his wikipedia page. I'm not aware of this being a thing that happened, but it's possible I missed that? It starts off enough like an opera for my taste, but it quickly devolves into a kind of 2000's pop musical style. I give it 8/10 for topicality, and 5/10 for style. Link: www.riffusion.com/riff/40bbc4f8-c557-4bb4-9a95-1bbcb66c38de#riffusion
Why Won't They Let Me Edit? by fastfinge
Comic operetta, Gilbert & Sullivan style, orchestral, Victorian parlor musicRiffusion
DebConf25 Logo Contest Results
Last November, the DebConf25 Team asked the community to help design the logo for the 25th Debian Developers' Conference and the results are in! The logo contest received 23 submissions and we thank all the 295 people who took the time to...Debian Project
With a heavy heart, we announce the resignation of Asahi Linux founder Hector Martin. Our project is continuing with new collective governance. Our statement is on our project blog.
Marcan steps away from Asahi. What a damn heartbreaking thing this is. Even if you think his approach to handling people sucks, he was willing to do some important work that nobody else was willing to touch, and his technical knowledge was unparalleled.
marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as…
Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead
Back in the late 2000s, I was a major contributor to the Wii homebrew scene. At the time, I worked on software (people call them “jailbreaks” these days) to allow users to run their own unofficial apps on the Nintendo Wii.marcan.st
This is a sad development for user freedom. Transitioning from individual to collective leadership is great, and it is a monumental achievement that Marcan built an org that will persist. Those of us who have aging Apple Silicon hardware are probably going to owe this team a real debt of gratitude for avoiding the e-waste-ification of those devices in the coming years. But it makes me sad that the fuckups in leadership on Linux will not understand what a loss this is.
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Asahi Linux (@AsahiLinux@treehouse.systems)
With a heavy heart, we announce the resignation of Asahi Linux founder Hector Martin. Our project is continuing with new collective governance. Our statement is on our project blog. https://asahilinux.org/2025/02/passing-the-torch/Treehouse Mastodon
@ai6yr when I said that the Shopify CEO sucks and doesn't care about Nazis:
"Shopify says risk of fraud, not Nazi swastika, was reason for Kanye West store takedown
An internal message obtained by The Logic outlines Shopify’s rationale for deleting Kanye West’s online store"
thelogic.co/news/shopify-takes…
Shopify says risk of fraud, not Nazi swastika, was reason for Kanye West store takedown - The Logic
After initial silence, commerce company says the rap star violated its termsMurad Hemmadi (The Logic Inc.)
Imagine that you did a thing that everyone thought was great, and you could just shut up and take the W.
But somehow you _feel the need to clarify_ that you didn't actually do it because it was the right thing.
"You saved the puppy from getting run over by the garbage truck!"
"Well akshually I was just trying to clear the way for it."
Ich geh dann mal kurz an @Codeberg spenden. Haben die sich verdient - gerade jetzt! ❤️ 👇
Recht hast Du! Anzeige ist raus. Äh, ich meine, mein längst überfälliger Mitgliedsantrag; habe den "Mindestbeitrag" mal verdoppelt. Dauerspende (Liberapay) läuft eh schon länger, und auch trotzdem weiter. Machen wir das zu einem Streisand-Effekt! @Codeberg macht da einen großartigen Job, das gehört unterstützt.
Some countries are willing to stand up for what's right:
Report: The US threatened to cut aid to South Africa unless it withdrew its case of genocide against Israel, & South Africa's foreign minister said, "No chance”.
"Standing by our principles sometimes has consequences, but we remain firm that this is important for the world & the rule of law" ~Ronald Lamola
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#SouthAfrica #ICJ #GazaGenocideNotWar #USBullying #USAid #USPol .
'No Chance' - South Africa Remains Firm on ICJ Case despite Trump’s Actions - Palestine Chronicle
South Africa’s Minister of Foreign Affairs said there was “no chance” of withdrawing the ICJ case against Israel despite the US's actions.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
I will speak at #fossnorth in Gothenburg in April 14-15:
What comes after world domination?
Open Source has in many ways already won. It is used in every product by every company, to very a large degree. But we are not done. We can improve: we can take this further, we can make our projects better, we can enhance our communities and make sure it is done sustainably. The future is ours.
I will talk #curl in Stockholm on May 22 at the Open Infra Forum.
Sign up here:
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OpenInfra Forum #19! 10 year anniversary! Up to 150 attendees.
Hej allihopa! Goda nyheter! Open Infra Forum firar 10 år, så den här gången slår vi på stort! Varmt välkomna till Biograf Skandia på Drottningatan 82 ochMeetup

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