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#Apple created a 24k gold and glass statue for Donald Trump, featuring a unique piece of glass crafted by iPhone glass manufacturer Corning. Tim Cook personally presented it as a gift to Trump.
The piece is a large glass disc with the Apple logo cut into it. Trump’s name is printed on the top, while the bottom bears what appears to be Cook’s signature, along with the inscription “Made in USA” and the year 2025.

theverge.com/news/737757/apple…


Apple made a 24k gold and glass statue for Donald Trump

Apple CEO Tim Cook gave President Donald Trump a “unique” piece of glass from iPhone glass manufacturer Corning that’s set in a 24-karat gold base.
Jay Peters (The Verge)
#apple

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This is a pretty gross display by Tim Cook. What even is the point of being the head of one of the most influential companies on the planet if you spend even a minute of your time having to perform displays of obeisance like this?

I mean, really -- I have a lot of problems with people amassing the kind of wealth that Cook has, but it seems even more disgusting and pointless to have that kind of resources and still suck up to Trump.

macworld.com/article/2870568/a…


Tim Cook gifts Trump with 'unique unit of one' etched plaque with a 24K gold base

The gift marks a renewed committment to U.S. manufacturing to avoid semiconductor tariffs.
Roman Loyola (Macworld)

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Jupí. Pokud se nic nepodělá, budu ten v koutě s pivem v ruce
mastodon.arch-linux.cz/@archos…

Archos

2025-07-18 07:19:42

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🐘 Mastodon CZ sraz je tady!

Po dvou skvělých setkáních se znovu potkáme u piva – přijď na pokec, poznat známé nicky z timeline a dát tváři Fediverse.

📍Pivovar Bubeneč, Bubenečská 321/33, Praha 6
(místo bude ještě potvrzeno)
🗓️ Pátek 3. října 2025 večer
🍻 Otevřený neformální sraz, žádná registrace, žádné přednášky – jen pivo a lidi z fedi.

✅ Bude nutné udělat rezervaci v restauraci předem, tak ať víme, kolik nás dorazí
srazy.arch-linux.cz/invite/KeV…
#mastodonCZ #fediverse #mastodonsraz #praha #fedičajovna #birellovka #boost
@mastopivo #mastopivo


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Introducing: AntennaPod 3.9 😎
Thanks to the holidays we've seen an uptake in community contributions! Some highlights from this release:
↕️ "Move to top/bottom" option in queue multiselect
💬 Support for VTT transcripts
📍 Remember scroll positions
Full list of changes available on our forum: forum.antennapod.org/t/3-9-rel…
Download it now from F-Droid or Google Play!

3.9 release notes

Hello all! As the 3.9 release is getting nearer, it is time to prepare its release notes. This is the full list of changes: ▶ List of PRs & commits in this release Which I have summarised as follows (in 431 characters, line endings not included): …
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If I recall my last business ethics and compliance training at #Apple correctly there was something about corruption and not giving gifts to government officials, not even in countries where it’s „customary“ or „necessary“ to do so to do business…

theverge.com/news/737757/apple…


Apple made a 24k gold and glass statue for Donald Trump

Apple CEO Tim Cook gave President Donald Trump a “unique” piece of glass from iPhone glass manufacturer Corning that’s set in a 24-karat gold base.
Jay Peters (The Verge)
#apple
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#Demascus #Tubi
The new sci-fi comedy series Demascus is now streaming on Tubi.

Demascus | Official Trailer | Tubi Original Limited Series

"A 33-year-old Black man on a know-thyself mission begins an experimental immersion therapy that sends him into alternate timelines of his own life.Starring: ..."
youtu.be/2zMo-SJx8bw?si=nNqgoB…


Demascus | Official Trailer | Tubi Original Limited Series

YouTube
#demascus #tubi

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Not to do one of those "Americans make everything about themselves" type comments, but bear with me for a moment here:

The "mature #democracy" is dying because it's so lazy defending something it never thought it had to defend

While the emerging democracy vibrantly defends its democracy because it's painfully aware of what it can lose and how much it suffered to get the chance to have one

"#Moldova Just Jailed Its #Putin-Aligned Governor. Here’s What She Did"

united24media.com/world/moldov…

#USA


Moldova Just Jailed Its Putin-Aligned Governor. Here’s What She Did

A pro-Kremlin regional leader has been jailed in Moldova, marking a major blow to Kremlin influence in the country’s autonomous south. As Chișinău deepens ties with the EU and Ukraine, Russia’s decades-long grip continues to unravel.
Jess Daly (UNITED24 Media)
#Putin #USA #democracy #moldova
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"Yes, you read that right. A law supposedly designed to protect children now requires victims of sexual assault to submit government IDs to access support communities." techdirt.com/2025/08/04/didnt-…

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About

Well, well, well. The “age assurance” part of the UK’s Online Safety Act has finally gone into effect, with its age checking requirements kicking in a week and a half ago. And what do you kno…
Techdirt

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From the ACB mailing list:

Congress has reintroduced the Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act (TCIEA). This bill works to ensure that people with disabilities are not paid subminimum wage under an almost 100-year-old piece of legislation that allows certain businesses with a specific certificate to do so. The bill will work to eliminate such working environments and help transition people currently in such settings into a more integrated work situation. To ask your member of Congress to support the bill, go to speak4.app/lp/9801enwx/?ts=175….

#blind #congress #accessibility #work #job #wage #TCIEA #ACB

ACB Urges Congress to Pass the Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act

A provision in the Fair Labor Standards Act allows entities with a specific waiver, known as a 14(c) certificate, the ability to...
speak4.app
#Accessibility #blind #job #congress #work #acb #wage #tciea

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GPT-5 could be launching today.
As a ChatGPT Teams user, I may get access. If that happens, I’ll go live on YouTube to test it, walk through what’s new, and discuss accessibility and real-world use.
Let’s see what @OpenAI delivers.
youtube.com/@tayarndt
#GPT5 #AI #YouTubeLive #Accessibility #ChatGPT #OpenAI

Taylor Arndt

Tech tutorials from an accessibility perspective.
YouTube
#Accessibility #AI #openai #chatgpt #gpt5 #youtubelive

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Len aby ste vedeli
infovojna.com/article/na-mosko…

Na Moskovskej štátnej univerzite bol zavretý inštitút, ktorý skúmal teleportáciu a získaval informácie prostredníctvom cestovania v čase. Rovnakým výskumom sa už dlhodobo zaoberajú aj Spojené štáty

Teleportácia a cestovanie v čase sú odlišné koncepty. Teleportácia zahŕňa okamžitý prenos hmoty alebo energie z jedného bodu do druhého bez prekonania priestoru, zatiaľ čo cestovanie v čase sa vzťahuje na pohyb v čase, ktorý môže zmeniť časovú os uda…
www.infovojna.com

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man anxiously, desperately trying to sell snake oil insists that the people who refuse to drink snake oil are the real weirdos businessinsider.com/github-ceo…

GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out

Thomas Dohmke wrote that humans are often resistant to change. He said that's okay, but these people should probably find another profession.
Alistair Barr (Business Insider)

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Working hard between the Website WG and the T&S R&D WG to get out a room upgrading guide for #matrix - we will see how close we get to finish it in time for next week's room version security update release, but it already has lots of useful info in bullet point form: github.com/matrix-org/matrix.o…
If you have the time to help turn it into nice text (or even pictures?!!), please send patches!

Add room upgrading guide by HarHarLinks · Pull Request #2861 · matrix-org/matrix.org

🎩 Website & Content WG in collaboration with T&S R&D WG Tackles #2704, though there may be multiple iterations in this or in followup-PRs - depends on the Hydra release timeline and con...
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#matrix
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dlgeek

My mental model is that curl is a flexible tool for making network calls (of whatever sort you like) whereas wget is a dedicated for downloading and saving webpages or files.

That being said, I usually use curl for the latter use case too, out of muscle memory. But when I spent a month and a half downloading RedHat ISOs over a 28k dial up connection as a kid, you better believe I used wget and it's resume functionality.

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Wait, did Movim just unlocked the global search feature in its chat messages? 😱

Thanks to the powerful tsvector/tsquery #PostgreSQL feature (feature not available on MariaDB sorry 😔) you can now search messages by keywords in your history and directly load the conversation from the past 🕰️ !

Just click on the search button or hit Ctrl + F to open the brand new search panel 🔍

The next version will be packed with plenty of awesome features for sure 🚀✨

#xmpp #movim #search #feature

The search feature on mobile
The search panel
#xmpp #movim #postgresql #search #feature
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Well here's a weird one...

Key sections from the U.S. Constitution have gone missing from the U.S. government's official website, including sections 8 through 10, which include legal provisions like habeas corpus (aka due process). The White House hasn't commented.

techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/key-…


Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government's website | TechCrunch

Internet sleuths say the U.S. Constitution's website is now missing key sections from its website, including a key legal provision relating to habeas corpus, which protects citizens from unlawful detention.
Dominic-Madori Davis (TechCrunch)

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It's here! The NVDA 2025.2 Release Candidate is available: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-2r…

We encourage ALL users to try this before we declare it is stable. Please see tips on how to test without affecting your installed copy in this week's In-Process: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-4…

NVDA 2025.2 includes improvements in Windows 11, browse mode & Microsoft Word. Plus updates to eSpeak-NG & LibLouis, new device support & more!

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Release #Update #NewVersion #PreRelease #test #Testing #FOSS #FLOSS

Mockup of NVDA box with NVDA logo and name in white on purple with grey sunbursts around edge.

NV Access | NVDA 2025.2rc1 available for testing

nvaccess.org
#foss #floss #test #release #nvdasr #testing #update #nvda #newversion #prerelease

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5 months ago today I was laid off from my job and I am currently looking for my next senior front end developer role.

I have 19+ years of experience working with small agencies and Fortune 500 companies and focus on writing clean, accessible HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Resume: aubreysambor.com/resume

Leads/boosts appreciated!

#getfedihired #FediHire

Resume | Aubrey Sambor

A blog about web development, knitting, and other assorted things.
Aubrey Sambor
#FediHire #getfedihired
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@lexipic Thanks!

Your blue screen experience highlights one of the problems with AI. If you show a sighted person a blue screen, they will recognise it & look for the error code & details which might help diagnose the issue. AI will look at it, and get as far as recognising that it looks similar to images it has seen previously of blue screens.... but not understand what the text means or which part is importnat in that. It will see the large :( as just as important and describe that to you.

@Alexis
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Alexis

I did get sided help, and it was eventually discovered that the blue screen was error code for a hardware failure. The computer could not be saved. I did however, managed to get some files off of it that I wanted back. So I’m not overly upset about that. However, I am upset about all the time lost. I had to go searching for a charger for my latitude, and that took a whole week to find one. So I was a week without a computer, and was left not knowing what I was going to do about school once it starts for me in December. It was pretty bad. You can have all the software you want, yet, when the hardware fails, that’s where it becomes devastating.

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Some postmortem notes about our 19th mapping party…

en.osm.town/@OSMIndia/11493311…

On a positive note, I think this was a productive party. 8 out of 10 participants were experienced mappers, and I’m happy with the data we added to the market. 👍

On the other hand, there were hardly any people from Noida - clearly, the publicity needs more work 😐

One participant recommended posting on Luma, so I guess we’ll be trying that.

Also, if you like my work, please support me on Liberapay. I’m unemployed, and rely on the community’s support for my contributions.

#OpenStreetMap #OSM #contraMaps


OpenStreetMap India (@OSMIndia@en.osm.town)

Attached: 3 images A big thanks to all 11 participants of the 18th #OpenStreetMap #Delhi Mapping Party! 🙂 We hope you will join us again to help make #OSM better. Each mapper matters! #OsmNcr #India #Noida
OSM Town | Mapstodon for OpenStreetMap
#openstreetmap #OSM #contramaps
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Traveling OSM Salesman^W Problem ✊🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦

Even on the night before the party, we were agonizing over the perpetual question - what editor to teach to newcomers?

And after the workshop and the latest mapping party, I think I have a new and improved idea.

  1. We always introduce #CoMaps (and earlier Organic Maps) to newcomers, focusing on it as a means of using OSM. But we avoid using its editor - offline data can be confusing and (in the presence of concurrent editors) can more easily lead to duplication.

But if we want people to recommend CoMaps to other, less technical people…they may want the latter to be able to add places without installing another app.

  1. I have long admired StreetComplete’s gamified interface, but always figured that it would cause issues in a mapping party.

But perhaps we can incorporate it after all? The people it is most likely to cause issues for are the #Vespucci users, and they are experienced enough (and Vespucci’s tooling is good enough) to handle upload conflicts.

Another issue is that if a user adds some data using a #StreetComplete layer, it takes time for quests to appear for it.

  1. #MapComplete is good because it puts together the things people coming from Google Maps often expect from OSM - map data, photos, and ratings+reviews. The questions and the photo-taking may also add some variety and fun, and the photos also help other mappers verify the data and add details.

So here’s the new idea -

  1. We practice adding 1-3 POIs with CoMaps. There may be duplication, but that’s okay, we (the organizers) will clean it up later as we usually do.
  2. Then, we add 5-10 POIs with MapComplete.
  3. Finally, we try out StreetComplete to add more details to the streets and POIs. We will use SC’s team mode to divide quests between people on the same team.

I’ll test the viability of this process soon.

(Vespucci will go back to being an editor for regular participants.)

#OpenStreetMap #OSM #contraMaps

#openstreetmap #OSM #MapComplete #streetcomplete #comaps #contramaps #vespucci
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