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The Wireless Power Consortium launches faster Qi2 25W wireless charging, with "major Android smartphones" finally adopting the standard alongside the iPhone (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
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It's common to be overwhelmed by the constant attacks on privacy we read about every day, and to burn out trying to fix every problem all at once.
This is by the attackers' design, of course. Big tech companies and governments want to paralyze you with choices and actions, so you give up on the fight entirely.
It's okay to take a breath, clean up slowly, and train yourself over the long-term to improve your data privacy health over time.
Improving privacy can get overwhelming at first. It's important to move one step at a time, but remain persistent. Good privacy is like good health habits.
Ever see a bunch of restaurants on delivery apps sharing an address and possibly even large chunks of their menus?
I used to see this stuff and thought it was some tax evasion scheme, but no – they're ghost kitchens.
This looks like an existential danger to traditional local gastronomy with shit like big chains pretending to be small locally-owned shops. And of course systemic work and food safety violations because it wouldn't be late-stage capitalism without those…
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this became very popular during COVID due to everyone doing deliveries and nobody wanting to get food from Denny's delivered, but they'd do it if it was called SUPER AWESOME BURGERS
However, this still existed long before then. I don't know how you conclude that there is any food safety violation going on though. They're still working out of a licensed commercial kitchen...
An expressive, semi-modular, and comprehensive physical modeling/waveguide synthesizer. - GitHub - gabrielsoule/resonarium: An expressive, semi-modular, and comprehensive physical modeling/wavegui...
@dch I hate checking status and doing management tasks with their web interface and PlexDash is also sorta inconvenient, so I'm making my own tied into my Phoenix/LiveView home automation / internal network homepage website thing
I have a fake phone-style landing page on my intranet with a grid of buttons like "apps" which some are links to internal hosted services, others open a LiveView page... it's growing features as I think of them.
I have live co2 measurement for my office on the top bar as well as the live glucose for my mother so I can see how she's doing at a glance. Need to get some live bandwidth up there too, maybe my server load and CPU temp too...
Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.
My colleague Georges Stavracas will talk about the state of the XDG desktop portals, and the plans for the future of this shared application development API, on Friday, July 25, at 11:40
Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.
* FixupXer - URL Enhancer: removes tracking parameters from URLs to protect your privacy and make links cleaner 🛡️ * Simplest Notes: a clean, minimalistic app for quickly taking and organizing notes 🛡️
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).
#Thüringen #BadBlankenburg, Burg Greifenstein. Blick von der Burgmauer ins malerische Schwarzatal. Auf der Informationstafel an der Burgmauer ist folgender Text zu lesen: " Burg Greifenstein" Ehemals eine der größten deutschen Adelsburgen. Um 1208 wird die Burg "Blankenstein" im Besitz der Grafen von Schwarzburg erwähnt und ist später Sitz des Zweiges Blankenburg der schwarzburgischen Dynastie. 1304 ist sie Geburtsort des späteren Königs Günter XXI. von Schwarzburg-Blankenburg.
***Attention! If you miss MSN/Windows Live Messenger, AIM, and/or ICQ, this is for you! If you use a screen reader and want a 100% accessible messenger client, this is also for you.* This works with Windows XPthrough 11, and I'm logged into it as I write! It's called Escargot, and it revives Windows Live/MSN Messenger. This is the original software, but it has been patched so that it connects to the escargot.chat server and not the Microsoft one. It is 100% free and accessible with NVDA and I'm sure JAWS as well. They also have projects for AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) and ICQ, including for Android and IOS, and are working on a web client for MSN. (I don't know if AIM or ICQ are accessible with screen readers, as I have never tried them). Anyway, if you're over twenty-one (my personal request), have read my profile here, and wish to add me, I am dandylover1@escargot.chat. You can find everything here.
Note: If you already have Windows Live/MSN Messenger on your system, you will still need to download their version and create an account. Your Microsoft, MSN, or Hotmail one won't work for signing in. Also, remember to click on RUN_AFTER_INSTALL.exe, in order to patch the program to the Escargot server.
@fireborn So do I! I found some people to add and started a conversation with one of them. Wow! I forgot how incredibly simle and wonderful the interface is! I just have to hit shift+tab to go into the history, and tab to go back into the edit field. Plus, NVDA reads messages as they are sent and as I receive them. I can also easily copy and paste things!
Happy birthday to pharmaceutical #chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for #leprosy. Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for both women & Black scientists. Ball studied #chemistry at UW earning a BSc & 2nd degree in pharmacy 2 years later. She published “Benzoylations in Ether
Stihl jsem i jeho odjezd. Dojel k přechodu, počkal na zeleného panáčka na semaforu a pak se tam vmotal mezi přecházející chodce a auta co ty chodce pouštěla. Ani světla si nerozsvítil. Skoro si myslím jestli neměl něco pod kůží.
In de welkomsthal van station Amsterdam Centraal werd donderdagavond op grote schaal gedemonstreerd tegen de uithongering van Gaza door Israël. Demonstranten zijn vervolgens in een lange stoet door de stad aan het wandelen.
"We're going to get the drug prices down ... 1,000%, 600%, 500%, 1,500%, numbers that are not even thought to be achievable"US President Donald Trump made bo...
Dropkick Murphys announced Wednesday they will no longer be performing at any more Punk in the Park shows after learning the festival’s organizer donated to the Trump campaign.
Government is prioritizing technology solutions that encourage speed, savings and innovation. Open source software — a type of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solution — aligns with that approach.
Thank you for writing up these specs! I noticed that Arch Linux has consistently improved its documentation and infrastructure over the past years, and it's great to see this improve even further!
There's a Chinese-developed Windows GUI toolkit called DuiLib (github.com/DuiLib/DuiLib) that, as far as I can tell, has no programmatic accessibility, so it's not usable with a screen reader. Does anyone know how widely used this toolkit is in China? I know the Zoom Windows app is using a private fork of this toolkit with a somewhat broken accessibility implementation (particularly when it comes to edit controls).
The IT world has convinced us no new software can be deployed outside of US clouds. We're so sure about this that European governments (including the UK) are handing over vital government functions & data to US controlled servers. In this piece I argue that until recently we somehow could run stuff on locally owned hardware, and that we should urgently relearn that skill, while it is still possible - or end up as digital colony of the US: berthub.eu/articles/posts/our-…
I know this is gonna be stupid as hell, i just couldn't help myself. I went on my XP VM, got bord, and started fucking around with Sample TTS voice. All it really says is bla, so i took full advantage of that fact, out of pure boredom. I have the wav file, of what he was actually trying to say, coming next! When i come in contact with TTS, these abominations tend to rise from the pits of my brain!
'How big tech is force-feeding us AI". I'm reading a study “Imposing AI: Deceptive design patterns against sustainability” and thinking about how to integrate that into @Vivaldi's feedback on the EU's nascent Digital Fairness Act. Many people don't want to be tricked (or forced) to use -or feed- LLMs. bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-bi…
Plus, OpenAI's absurd listening tour, top AI scientists say AI is evolving beyond our control, Facebook is putting data centers in tents, and the AI bubble question — answered?
Amen to this. One of the things that really galled me about the spate of tech layoffs is the undercurrent of "gee, y'all just weren't working hard enough" instead of "corporate leadership didn't know WTF to do, made a bunch of shitty choices, and now y'all are on the unemployement line while execs collect bonuses and see their stock go up".
When, not if, things implode, it should be the C-suite that gets sent packing, not the workers.
Slowly reading through Ed Zitron's last article on AI and there's one thing that stands out: it's clear that the AI bubble might send us straight into another 2007-style financial meltdown.
@hub Exactly. When I've been a manager, I expected that if I had a failure at that level, I'd be (at best) demoted or given my walking papers with little more than pocket change. Instead, the C-suite folks skate by and, even if they're fired, they're given more than I make in a decade or two to hold them over until they can screw up elsewhere. Sigh.
I would strongly suggest organisations disable Microsoft Translator for Edge. It's enabled by default, and allows users to automatically translate webpages (without prompt after first use) to native language by sending the entire page content to MS. This includes intranet sites and SaaS services.
It links to a privacy policy that sounds fluffy and nice and - ya know - it isn't. The Microsoft Translator privacy policy for M365 or Azure doesn't actually apply to it.
Mitschriften der Do-it-blind (DIB) Gruppe vom April 2025 wurden veröffentlicht. Damit dokumentieren wir unsere wöchentlichen online Besprechungen und unsere monatlichen Treffen im Hackerspace @metalab . oskars.org/tags/mitschriften/ #make #blind #inklusion
"ChatGPT is a very successful growth product and an absolutely horrifying business. OpenAI is a banana republic that cannot function on its own, it does not resemble Uber, Amazon Web Services, or any other business in the past other than WeWork, the other company that SoftBank spent way too much money on.
"And outside of ChatGPT, there really isn't anything else."
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the snipes are pure pleasure, BUT look at the *numbers* - there lies the Deep Magic.
How are heads not rolling for gross incompetence/neglicence??
Guess I'm not Smart MBA Man, so I can't understand 🤷♂️
(Zitron explains it nicely tho- it's all about that share price on the stock market - to keep that where it is, everybody involved has to convince everybody involved that they can keep on growing foreva - which means going balls deep in fantasies like genAI)
The thing that gets me is there are 70ish people on the boards + CEOs of the Mag7 who are driving all of this. They're the ones in charge of the market monsters afraid of another monster immanentizing, so they have to get there first and own the market.
"This is an iPhone moment" was mentioned A LOT in the early throes of this, with the implication of not getting in on the LLM craze meant you'd be a candy-bar phone seller in an era of smartphones. That emotional message sells HARD to the people calling the shots.
"This is an iPhone moment" was mentioned A LOT in the early throes of this, with the implication of not getting in on the LLM craze meant you'd be a candy-bar phone seller in an era of smartphones
I really can't understate how much FOMO dominates in big tech leadership. The history of information technology is full of disruptive technologies.
The PC made IBM a niche player and established Microsoft's dominance.
Microsoft missed out on the web (Gates famously called the Internet a passing fad) and let Google become one of the largest tech companies.
Smartphones made Apple from a distant second place in the PC race and a company worth a fraction of Microsoft to one of the largest companies in the world.
Each one of these (and a few others, such as virtualisation / cloud) caused a big company to lose market share to a new player. Sometime catastrophically, sometimes they recovered.
The thing that absolutely terrifies the senior leadership at these companies is that there will be a new thing that will cause a big shift in the industry and they will be in the position Microsoft was on the web or smartphones, or that IBM was on commodity desktops.
These people are typically the living embodiment of the Peter Principle. Normally, they can do a completely mediocre job and watch the line go up a bit. As long as they don't do too many really stupid things, they're fine. They're in charge of a money fountain and they just need to not spill too much. But occasionally, once or twice a decade, something comes along where they need to actually do something or the money fountain might stop working.
The problem is that they're really bad at identifying these moments. And so they leap on everything that looks as if it plausibly might be such a thing. Normally they only waste a billion or so, and wasting a billion every few years is not a problem for a company making tens of billions in profit every year.
This time, they got into an exciting echo chamber where everyone else was jumping on the same bandwagon and so the personal risk if they were the one who didn't jump and was wrong was very high. The risk (again, to the individuals, not the company) of being wrong in the same way as everyone else is much lower (who could possibly predict that pissing away all of your money on a buggy bullshit generator is a bad idea? Everyone else is doing it! It wasn't my poor management that tanked the value of the company, it was an 'industry downturn', you can tell because all of our major competitors also lost 50% of their share price overnight. Oh, and actually it isn't really a tech industry problem, it's a global recession [caused by a liquidity crunch caused by wiping out $2T in the stock market overnight]).
The last few things that were not actually disruptive technologies (mixed reality / AR / metaverse, Web 3) were similar. One company jumped so all of the others did. No one looked bad when it turned out to be mostly nonsense because no one was the outlier, they were just tracking industry trends.
The weird thing this time is quite how much people are willing to throw money at it without any revenue. It's like a massive game of chicken, except it's the economy not a car that they're going to crash.
yeah. It would be better to finish the synchronization feature. Or finish bookmarks features. There is still no way to synchronize search shortcuts and also it is pain to set them. And if you workaround it using bookmarks, search shortcut is not working on mobile phones. It so old issue now... And you could find many more more needed features....
Itch.io has had to shadow ban all erotic and NSFW content after pressure from payment providers itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw… . Payment providers are increasingly become censors of content raising issues around neutrality of banking and payment systems. #censorship #visa #mastercard
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Fdroid rebuilds the apps every few days. Seems like this version with debug info was the target for their rebuild.
Should be fixed in the next build cycle in a few days.
(Btw: the manual install you did might be updated by Fdroid when it has newer versions available, I'm not sure about that but it is signed with the same key)
(And secretly, we are happy with this message, know we know the auto updates work just fine 😊 )
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in reply to phryk 🏴 • • •this became very popular during COVID due to everyone doing deliveries and nobody wanting to get food from Denny's delivered, but they'd do it if it was called SUPER AWESOME BURGERS
However, this still existed long before then. I don't know how you conclude that there is any food safety violation going on though. They're still working out of a licensed commercial kitchen...