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Amazon introduces AI-powered audio product summaries for easier shopping

The new AI shopping experts help save time by compiling research and providing product highlights for customers from product pages, reviews, and insights.
Rajiv Mehta, Vice President, Search and Conversational Shopping, Amazon (US About Amazon)

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Attention JAWS Users!

Discover a better way to shop online with Innosearch AI— an accessible platform that makes browsing and purchasing from popular retailers easier than ever.

🗓️ Join us Thursday, May 29 at 12 PM Eastern Time for the "Shop Online with Innosearch and JAWS" webinar, hosted by Vispero.

🔹 Learn to easily navigate Innosearch.ai
🔹 Search for products efficiently
🔹 Make purchases using JAWS

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
More info: freedomscientific.com/training…

A promotional graphic for a webinar titled “Shop Online with Innosearch and JAWS.” The image shows shopping bags on a laptop keyboard, with the word "SHOPPING" displayed on the screen. The right side of the image includes text that says: "Learn how to navigate Innosearch.ai, search for products, and make purchases all using JAWS!" A red button at the bottom says “Register now!” and a red label at the top reads “webinar” with a play icon.

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Shop Online with Innosearch and JAWS. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Innosearch offers an online shopping experience that makes it easy to shop for and purchase products from many popular retailers all on one website. Join us on Thursday, May 29 at Noon ET as we discuss this accessible platform.
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#XMPP Community

The next XMPP #Sprint in #Berlin starts tomorrow! 23rd - 25th May 2025 - it is open to all interested.

More details: wiki.xmpp.org/web/Sprints/2025…

:xmpp: :xmpp: :xmpp:

#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc
#opensource #decentralization #standard

#xmpp #opensource #Jabber #chat #interoperability #decentralization #Berlin #standard #rtc #sprint

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Just saw an FB post about using ultrasound to stimulate regions of the brain, to enhance memory, cognition, etc. Turns out this is an actual field of study, transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/…

Just reminded me of Star Trek S03E14 Whom Gods Destroy

Transcranial Focused Ultrasound (tFUS) and Transcranial Unfocused Ultrasound (tUS) Neuromodulation: From Theoretical Principles to Stimulation Practices - PMC

Transcranial focused ultrasound is an emerging technique for non-invasive neurostimulation. Compared to magnetic or electric non-invasive brain stimulation, this technique has a higher spatial resolution and can reach deep structures. In addition, ..
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If someone were to invest development resources into the Open Source ecosystem right now, improvements to which area would benefit the user experience across all device form factors (desktop, laptop, mobile etc.) the most? You can name both individual applications, libraries and subsystems as well as broader topics like e.g. "messaging".

#linuxmobile #linuxdesktop #opensource #mobilelinux #linux

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#linux #opensource #MobileLinux #linuxmobile #linuxdesktop

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#deltachat Desktop can now run on #Firefox and Safari, entirely avoiding #Electron and Chromium! It's an intended side-effect of the "porting Desktop to #Tauri" effort led by @treefit which aims to provide a non-Electron packaged version of the Desktop. Here is a video and deep dive into what's working on regular browsers now, and what's missing for a full Web version: delta.chat/en/2025-05-22-brows…

Delta Chat: Delta Chat Desktop, but running inside of Firefox 🦊

As part of the project to port Delta Chat Desktop from Electron to Tauri1, we’ll showcase a setup where our Desktop app runs in Firefox and does not depend on Electron or Chromium anymore. This vid...
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#firefox #deltachat #electron #tauri @treefit
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Yes, datacenters are affecting consumer rates, and yes, utilities are gaming regulations to do it: lpeproject.org/blog/youre-payi… . The section HOW DATA CENTER COSTS CREEP INTO RATEPAYERS’ BILLS reviews regulations and details how costs are passed to consumers, which includes standard rate cases based on anticipated operating costs due to data centers--which become socialized costs--but also circumventing the rate case entirely via "special contracts".

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You’re Paying Big Tech’s Power Bill

By exploiting their monopolies and control over rate-setting processes, utility companies are shifting the costs of Big Tech’s voracious energy consumption onto an unwitting public.
LPE Project
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feld

there is zero new information in this article that has not been public knowledge for decades. They unashamedly presented this in our internal training classes on utility economics when I worked at a utility doing IT security.

To be clear: it has nothing to do with datacenters or AI. This is normal business.

Anyone who wants manufacturing to come back to the USA -- this is what it will look like. The utilities will sign sweetheart deals with the companies and regardless of efficiency/renewables lowering their energy production costs, the people will bear the burden.

Have a big factory in your town? The people are subsidizing that business.

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Anthony

Well, you seem to have a bone to pick that I'm not interested in picking.

For everyone else: the authors of the article are describing their own research on the subject whether it's "new information" according to the other guy or not; yes, utilities are controlled monopolies, despite the objection; and whether or not this is "normal" business, not everybody knows how this works, they should, and they absolutely should not be bullied into accepting it just because the guy above has chosen to. That's authoritarian thinking.

@tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com @feld@friedcheese.us @markhurst@mastodon.social

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feld

if you want to solve this problem you need to actually understand it and its history or you'll be undermined by the proponents of these policies.

Demand fair rate schedules / equity in pricing instead of whinging about datacenters and AI or the factory down the road will continue to get away with being subsidized because everyone is focusing on AI panic.

And then the AI and datacenter companies will continue buying power plants, privatized solar/wind farms, and building reactors to power themselves, everyone will forget about the issue because it has been "solved" on its own as they won't need these sweetheart contracts and the rest of industrial America will soldier on continuing to extract wealth out of their communities like a giant tick.

Attack the ROOT of the problem, not the symptoms.

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Apple Shifts iPhone Production to India—But Purism Has Been Leading the Way for Over a Decade

Amid rising U.S.-China tensions, Apple is fast-tracking its move to shift iPhone production to India, aiming for a full transition by 2026.

Read Article: puri.sm/posts/apple-moves-ipho…


Apple Moves iPhone Production to India—Purism Has Been Leading the Way for Years – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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"'Take a screenshot every few seconds' legitimately sounds like a suggestion from a low-parameter LLM that was given a prompt like 'How do I add an arbitrary AI feature to my operating system as quickly as possible in order to make investors happy?'" signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-…

#Signal #Microsoft #Recall #MicrosoftRecall #LLM #LLMs #privacy


By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall

Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows.
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#privacy #signal #microsoft #llm #LLMs #recall #microsoftrecall

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Creating a 5-second AI video is like running a microwave for an hour

"This report arrives at a time in which people are using generative AI for absolutely everything. Google announced at its annual I/O event that it's leaning into AI with fervor. Google Search, Gmail, Docs, and Meet are all seeing AI integrations. People are using AI to lead job interviews, create deepfakes of OnlyFans models, and cheat in college."

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New MIT report reveals energy costs of AI tools like ChatGPT

That's a long time in the microwave.
Christianna Silva (Mashable)

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Join the 272 people who've already won sticker packs in the Month of #LibreOffice, May 2025! Be a "Handy Helper" and assist other users, or a "Globetrotter" and contribute to translations: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
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Starting today: The Month of LibreOffice, May 2025 - The Document Foundation Blog

Want to learn new skills for a potential future career change, or expand your knowledge and have fun on the way? Then get involved in the Month of LibreOffice, May 2025! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will collaborate t…
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#foss #opensource #libreoffice
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TerryB

I can only recommend #LibreOffice It will give you everything that Microsoft charges you for without it costing you a penny. It allows you to just save your work without being “dark path” pushed or forced to save it into a OneDrive “cloud” where they can see your information. It hasn’t got the subscription nonsense of MS365. We use it as Digital Champions with our digitally disadvantaged adults to teach them basic computer skills
A gold cup inside a green and blue “ on” sign. The Digital Champions badge.
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This kind of thing makes me really love our community. We’ve cultivated a culture where the details matter 🩷 github.com/elementary/shortcut…

ShortcutsView: use listboxes by danirabbit · Pull Request #157 · elementary/shortcut-overlay

Fixes #150 Uses listboxes instead of a grid. In this way, the screen reader will announce for example "System, list with 6 items". Each shortcut can be navigated with the keyboard and rea...
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What Is the Origin of the Calendar?

The modern calendar borrows influences from a collective of early calendars such as the Jewish, the Babylonian, the Roman, and the Egyptian calendars.

by Mike Cohen

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Books on calendars at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/2…

Maya calendar:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/1…

#history #calendar

The Maya sacred calendar is called Tzolk’in in Yucatec Mayan and Chol Q’ij in K’iche’ Mayan. This calendar is not divided into months. Instead, it is made from a succession of 20 day glyphs in combination with the numbers 1 to 13, and produces 260 unique days. Multiplying 20 x 13 equals 260 days. This image illustrates how the numbers 1 to 13, cycle through the 20 glyphs to form dates in the Tzolk’in calendar. Any such combination, such as 1 Imix’, repeats only after 260 days have passed. The length of the Tzolk’in matches nine cycles of the Moon and the gestational period of humans. The Tzolk’in is also related to the movements of the zenith Sun and the growing cycle of corn. https://maya.nmai.si.edu/calendar/calendar-system#:~:text=The%20Maya%20sacred%20calendar%20is,x%2013%20equals%20260%20days.

What Is the Origin of the Calendar?

Mike Cohen (TheCollector)
#history #calendar

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Swiss surveillance could become worse than US

If passed, Swiss chat, email & VPN providers must:

🚨 Log IP addresses
🚨 Ask for ID upon sign up
🚨 Decrypt data upon request

Let's fight for privacy! 👉 tuta.com/blog/switzerland-surv…

Image with the headline "Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US" next to a shield with the Swiss flag and a big crack going through it.

Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US | Tuta

Revision of Swiss surveillance law VÜPF would directly target VPN & encrypted chat and email providers based in Switzerland.
Tuta

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I want to get back to writing more long-form content. In the age of ChatGPT, that seems like a valuable skill to maintain.

However, my old website used handcrafted HTML and simply wasn’t up to the task, so I made a new one. Check it out: gultsch.de

Daniel Gultsch

I’ve been a freelance software developer for over 15 years. My main interests lie in open standards and communication protocols, including instant messaging, email, and the fediverse. I’m the project lead for Conversations and Ltt.rs.
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Hey @fdroidorg,

Could you please explain to me why Catima is marked as reproducible on verification.f-droid.org/packa…, despite you shipping a version you build and sign yourself to users? I also don't see anything in the metadata on gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-… listing what upstream APK file to compare against.

#IzzyOnDroid correctly compares the APK files I put on GitHub with a local build, which is what I hope you're doing too but given I see no reference to the APK in the metadata... are you?


metadata/me.hackerchick.catima.yml · master · F-Droid / Data · GitLab

Data for the main F-Droid repository at https://f-droid.org
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

sorry, but I had to boost this again now. @fdroidorg can you please make optically clear which APKs you reproduced? Developers knock our doors wondering why we say their app is not RB, while you claim it is – and checking, EACH SINGLE TIME we find the app is NOT set up RB at your end, and the JSON at your verification server clearly states you verified YOUR OWN build. Yes, that might show your build is deterministic – but not that theirs is RB. It's confusing.

#reproducibleBuilds

#reproduciblebuilds @F-Droid

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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@Fettlaus Let me explain by example.

Say, Joe provides you with the APK of his FOSS app. You have to believe him he built it from his FOSS source code, but you have no proof.

Now Joe builds it 50 times resulting in the same APK – what does that prove? That his build was deterministic. Maybe, as you still can't tell if it really was built from there.

Comes Jane, not related to Joe, builds from his source, and gets the same APK. Now you now: (1/2)

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IzzyOnDroid ✅

(2/2) both must have used the same code. You no longer have to trust Joe for that. Now Jerry confirms as well… we can prolong the line. That is RB.

Now, you certainly can trust @fdroidorg builds from the right source. But if they then build again with the same result, what does it prove? Only that it's deterministic. If they however get the same APK as Joe, that again is RB. This is the case for apps set up as RB there, AFAIK ~15%; but how to tell them apart?

That was our request. @Fettlaus

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IzzyOnDroid ✅

(3/2) Joe, Jane, Jerry, Jake: that's the line we build at #IzzyOnDroid. We run our "Janes" here to confirm "Joe's" builds – and we have "Jerrys" like Ben: independent builders. A builder is set up within 5 minutes thanks to codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/rbuil… – so everyone who wants can become a Jake.

@fdroidorg provides their verification builder setup as well, but that depends on the original builder providing the proof – so it only works with "source repos" like theirs and Guardian. Not independently.


rbuilder_setup

Scripts to automate setup of rbtlog, rbhelper, and their dependencies
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

(4/2) so you can use codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/rbtlo… to confirm builds from anywhere: F-Droid, IzzyOnDroid, just some random Android app at Codeberg, GitLab, Github or self-hosted Forgejo, Gitea, GitLab. And you can use F-Droid's verification builder to confirm their builds, and Guardian's – and from other F-Droid repos using fdroidserver to build from source.

rbtlog

Reproducible Builds Transparency Log for IzzyOnDroid
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@Fettlaus oh, @fdroidorg DOES provide real reproducible builds, covering about 15% of their apps. The problem shown here is that, at the verification server visualization, you cannot tell those apart from the "just deterministic ones". Does a green checkmark mean the APK of the developer was confirmed RB – or just the one F-Droid built themselves? You can figure out manually by checking the app's YAML file to see if RB was set up. But that requires some technical knowledge.
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@Fettlaus that. Or draw a border around the checkmarks when it was "not just the own build" – to symbolize the "higher level". Or use a double-checkmark, as e.g. Conversation uses: 1 check = sent successfully, 2 checks = sent and read.

There are ways. But you need to go them. Not doing it and just say nothing, makes it look like you really want to pretend the higher numbers, for some reason.

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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@storchp does not really look like that will be processed anytime soon. And it's about the F-Droid client, while we referred to their verification server here. Example: verification.f-droid.org/packa… shows AppManager being reproducible, while it definitely is not, see github.com/MuntashirAkon/AppMa… and the following comments. And see F-Droid's announcement here: f-droid.org/en/2025/05/21/maki…

It's good that they do it, but it needs differentiation – or it leads to confusion, as in the case of AppManager & many more

Screenshot from the issue inked in the previous toot, showing it was opened 2018-08-14 and is still open

Publish on F-Droid

@IzzySoft Please help me.
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By June 28, 2025, all emails sent to EU audiences must comply with the #EuropeanAccessibilityAct. Accessible emails aren't just legal requirements - they boost engagement and inclusivity. Are you ready? 🇪🇺

#EmailAccessibility #EAA2025 #DigitalAccessibility #a11y #Accessibility

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Are Your Emails Ready for the European Accessibility Act? 2025 Is the Deadline » emailexpert

The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is no longer a future consideration. By 28 June 2025, all businesses offering digital products and services in the
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ALA welcomes IMLS staff return and select grant reinstatements, cautiously optimistic about national case ala.org/news/2025/05/ala-welco…

ALA welcomes IMLS staff return and select grant reinstatements, cautiously optimistic about national case

ALA welcomed the return of Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) staff to work and the reinstatement of some IMLS grants, which had been terminated following President Trump’s March 14 Executive Order 14238.
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