Don't buy smart home devices that require a cloud connection because the manufacturer *will* eventually brick them.
It's a waste of your money and a terrible amount of avoidable e-waste.
Instead, buy from companies who make devices that work with no cloud and/or with a free local option like Home Assistant.
belkin.com/support-article/?ar…
This is a good place to look: home-assistant.io/integrations…
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@archos @cynik_obecny Našel jsem další
f.cz/@ferda/114943743366871943 🤷🏻‍♂️.
Budou asi dávat stejný nebo podobný název účtu na všechny(?) Mastodon servery, možná už někde jsou 🤔.

So the CEO of one of BlackRock's real estate subsidiaries, Wesley LePatner, was gunned down in a workplace shooting.

LePatner was in charge of a $56B fund that has been reported to be a part of BlackRock's strategic mass purchasing of homes.

The press & cops seem to be working double time to make sure this isn't seen by the average Joe as some sort of Luigi moment.

The cops claim the assailant was lost and killed the wrong CEO.

yahoo.com/lifestyle/articles/e…

#BlackRock #WesleyLePatner #NYC #Luigi

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I did not say how things are, I said how things are meant to be. A currency is meant, under ideal conditions, to be stable (not greatly volatile) and seamless to exchange. A lot of crypto is neither of these things and instead functions/exists more akin to a security: greatly changing/fluctuating valuation vs. mostly stable and constant value + bought/sold/traded over marketplaces vs. exchanged for goods/services/payment.

Jednou mám volno, tak můžu rajzovat po výletech.
Právě jsem se vrátil domů, ale příště bych raději za nějakou lepší příležitosti.
Pohřeb královny jsem před pár roky nezvládl, protože jsem musel vozit lidi do Londýna, tak jsem se rozloučil aspoň s princem… teda za mě spíš králem - temnot

Ať to tam nahoře ladí #Ozzy

#ozzy
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Add tech to a manual Perkin's Braille writer with Paige Connect! Great for teachers and students- It's a board with optical sensors that attaches via USB-A for power. Connects to smart devices (phones, tablets, laptops) via Bluetooth, enabling instant digital output & audio feedback

aph.org/blog/bring-new-life-to…

#Braille

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I certainly remember having to wait for manual transcription at elementary school and found it a frustrating experience.
Also, during the Covid pandemic, one of our Braille libraries gave out Braille displays to members, at least a dozen of which I know were to kids that are now just sat around because the parents didn't know any Braille to help them learn to use the devices. SO Sad,
So any sort of Braille improvement is a big thumbs up from me.

YouTube rolls out age-estimation tech to identify US teens and apply additional protections

techcrunch.com/2025/07/29/yout…

Nothing wrong can go with this. From the same people that can't guess I understand another language that English. Or that can't figure out I watched a video on their platform.

Ora bem, o melhor é mesmo a criança comçar logo a comer cozido e feijoada a partir dos 2 meses, que não estamos cá para criar pãozinhos de leite.

🔗 publico.pt/2025/07/29/sociedad…

well well. Thanks to the Botspot-VM project, for Pi5, I was able to get Windows installed, NVDA started, and now Mist World is running on a little Pi5 overclocked to 2.8 gHZ. github.com/Botspot/bvm
Wow. Truly the most versatile device, I could run Linux and Windows in one go, then swap the SD for the Android OS build if I wanted to and add a USB touchscreen. Wow. Amazing. I do think the BTSpeak should have waited for the CM (compute module) 5. It's so so much faster, Pi4 I wouldn't even thinking of Running Windows 11 on with a fraction of the speed it has.
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Mist World, huh? I played that thing a long time ago, but it was so P2W that I just pulled out. Has the game gotten better, or is this just one of those "I don't care what it is, this is more of a benchmark than a gaming session" things? In which case, yeah, I've done that before, and trust me, you do not want to run anything more complicated than a single-player BGT/NVGT game on a netbook.
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@HunterXWorld haha I think worse! Considering they're now are launching a second server just to pull more cash out of people. Ha. Considering the game uses almost 1 GB of ram, does horrible garbage collecting as it's based on Java8 and is always doing a lot of small RAM reads and writes, the Pi can handle it really well. Audiogames have usually stayed on the lower-side of CPU usage, might be their big advantage here - only about 19-25% CPU is used even on the Pi, something that might be 0-3% on a regular desktop-class one.

Zkouším LinkedIn Learning Courses a vybral jsem si jako první kurz linkedin.com/learning/paths/ja… - na konci by měl být nějaký test a pak certifikát od Jetbrains.

Jenže z velké části už všechny ty informace, které jsou v daných kurzech, znám. 2 dvouhodinové kurzy o OOP jsou téměř totožné. V jednom kurzu jsem úspěšně dokončil všechny kvízy na konci kapitol, ale stejně to po mně chce dokoukat videa. Přetočit je na konec nezabírá. Tak si to dám 2x zrychleně bez zvuku někam na pozadí. Jaký e-learning!

I am having a consistent problem where I am unable to clone everything from this repository into my local machine. Every time I clone using the command line, none of the documentation shows up. only one folder seems to show up and that appears to be the GitHub folder. Does anyone know what the cause of this could possibly be and how to rectify the issue? github.com/buttondown/docs #OpenSource #Git #GitHub #CLI
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OK, I can reproduce this. I don't have a solution, but I know the cause of the problem. Notice this error:

error: invalid path 'public/images/email-interface/draft-apis:email-interface.png'

Windows doesn't allow colons in filenames, but Unix does. Probably your best bet would be to ask BUttondown to rename that file and any others like it.

If Privacy and Security Matter—Invest in the Librem 5, Powered by PureOS (Debian Linux- Open Source).

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The Librem 5 was designed for those who refuse to be tracked, profiled, or exploited.

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Age verification is creating an information desert.

The Online Safety Act sets every UK user to child as default.

Teenagers? Blocked. Adults? Content denied unless we do age checks with unregulated companies.

It's not just porn! News on Gaza and Ukraine is being scrubbed from view, threatening #freedomofexpression as well as #privacy

404media.co/uk-users-need-to-p…

#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #palestine #gaza #ukraine #reddit #ageverification #ageassurance #censorship #ukpolitics #ukpol

I wrote this blueprint for a web app that would make it easier for people to build voices and languages for different TTS engines. It's vague, but it's a start if anyone wants to contribute to it or eventually create the real thing. Boosts appreciated, as always. github.com/lower-elements/Voic… #TTS #Accessibility #AI #ML
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Kopia is a Cross-platform open source backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included for backups and restore.

github.com/kopia/kopia

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🚨 Microsoft’s Recall is capturing your screen 🚨

Don't let this AI-powered tool fool you as "convenient" 👉 It's invading your PRIVACY.

Turn it off now: tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-m…

My relative sent a large sum of CZK via SWIFT transfer to Revolut to pay for an electric car from Germany. Three days passed, but the payment hadn't arrived. She contacted support, who told her that they don't accept CZK payments and that the payment would be returned to the original account in ten days. She needs to pay for the car ASAP. Upon hearing this, she almost had a panic attack.

Later, we found out that it was an AI bot hallucinating.

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Уикипедия и информация за Габровския регион

След като миналата година овършяхме близките осем села, сега се вдигнахме да отидем и в малко по-далечните от нас. Целта беше да направим поне по една гео-тагната снимка и да я добавим в общомедия, за да се вижда за селото. Другата цел беше да видим дали има неща, които можеше да бъдат опреснени. Така се случи, че научихме за двама човека допринесли супер много за България, но са забравени.

bogomil.info/6002
#wikipedia #gabrovo #osm

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Okay, I have no idea why, but I just wrote a Python script which takes an 8K 8-bit mono wav file and makes it sound like it's a victim of robbed-bit signaling (if you have no idea what that is, consult Wikipedia). The attached media file has never been transmitted over any kind of telephone network. And yet, if you listen carefully (I deliberately lowered the volume of the original audio to make it more obvious) you might think it was.

So…who hates those Google log-in pop-ups that are seemingly everywhere now? Wanna make them go away?

1. Get uBlock Origin (which you should have already been using):

github.com/gorhill/uBlock

2. Open the plugin and click the settings button.

3. Click on the “my filters” tab and paste this into the input:

||accounts.google.com/gsi/*$xhr,script,3p

That’s it! Worked flawlessly for me.

(Updated URL. Thx @IceWolf
and @emz!)

#Google #Privacy #Security #PopUps #InfoSec #BadGoogle

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Welcome Dominik Tomecki as #curl commit author 1397: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1664…
#curl

Output nothing with #curl --out-null

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/30…

#curl

Yes, #GUADEC2025 is over. We want to thanks all the in person and remote attendees, the volunteers, the staff and all those made this edition possible! 👏

The initial report is:
- 450 espresso coffee
- ~5kg of sweet pastries
- ~5kg of savory pastries

Looking forward to see you again next year!

P.S. photo album will be published as soon as possible on Flickr

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What a great edition @gnome !

🔹132 attendees the first day
🔹all the "blank" badges finished the 2nd morning❗️
🔹over 200 unique attendees
🔹many newcomers
🔹4 printed newspaper articles
🔹10 online newspaper articles
🔹32 participants for a tour in Bergamo Città Alta
🔹uncountable participants for Brescia's Castle, restaurants and bars

🔜 looking forward to GUADEC 2026!

💬 Zdá se, že matrix.org zavádí premium tarify pro svůj veřejný server.

🔒 Free plán: max. 1 MB přílohy, žádné veřejné místnosti
🚀 Premium plán: až 100 MB přílohy, rychlejší pozvánky, tvorba veřejných místností

Více info: matrix.org/homeserver/pricing/

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Většinu péče o blízké v Česku zajišťují neformální pečující.
Doma, bez volna, bez podpory, bez uznání.

Péče je krásná. Ale taky vyčerpávající.
A složenky poslání nezaplatí.

📌 Ulož, sdílej, mluvme o to.

My jsme KRUH

Hlas péče, spolupráce a důstojnosti.

My jsme KRUH - síť lidí, kteří věří, že péče nesmí být privilegium, ale právo.

👉 Sdílej.
Ať nikdo nezůstane stranou jen proto, že je “ten slabší”.

#pecujici #neformalnipece #neformalnipecujici#kruhpecuje#hnutikruh#kruh