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Gosh darn it I'm really debating on whether I will regret having gone with Jet Black Watch series 10. But then again, Jet Black is more than just a visual thing, it's also very tactile with how smooth it feels and more premium. The sides of the watch feel just as the glass does. Then again, it's a fingerprint magnet. Along with micro-scratches and scuffs, which does worry me. Hmm. What a 3rd-world problem, gosh. I hate it.
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Tamas G

@alexhall So revolutionary! What I find funny is, until now, I never understood why Apple used the polycarbonate, smooth shiny plastic on their older Macbooks. Like the first ones. Powerbooks too I think maybe. Now I do. At the time to me it felt like, "oh, this is too glossy, it's just being premium for premium's sake, bah who wants that." But now with the watch I find it funny that this opinion for me has changed, not sure. Very interesting. Perhaps even then they were just trying to make the computer be as glossy as the screen is.
@Alex Hall
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Tamas G

@ppatel @alexhall ah yeah, those are titanium though I thought? Another beast entirely :) Far more durable probably. Jet Black was an aluminum-only finish introduced with the Apple Watch Series 10, not sure if they're now extending it to Ultra 3 (probably?). It doesn't really change what can scratch the aluminum itself, but because it's smooth and glossy smaller micro-scratches especially under light will be visible to sighted folks. From what I've also read though it's not as though the material types that scratch it really changes, hardness on it remains quite the same as any other s10 color type. So not sure. I got a vinyl glossy protector for it, a bumper case for a watch (for me) would turn it into a toy-feeling thing, since those had these chunky plastic bezels, so perhaps a vinyl skin works better.
@Alex Hall @Pratik Patel

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tech nattering linux tablets

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UnlikelyLass

tech nattering linux tablets

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Apple's Assault on Standards: Alex Russell dives deep into Apple's decade of harm and sabotage of the web and web standards.

infrequently.org/2025/09/apple…

Apple's Assault on Standards

By subverting the voluntary nature of open standards, Apple has defanged them as tools that users might use against the totalising power of native apps in their digital lives.
Alex Russell

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It's that time of year again: time to support @owa's call to end secret vetoes of Interop proposals. Web developers should at least know *who* is pushing cuts to the web's most effective "TODO" list, if not why. Show your support (politely) here:

github.com/web-platform-tests/…


Interop Lack of Transparency & Accountability

Description The voting process for Interop proposals is done in secret and each browser vendor involved can veto any feature without any transparency. Browser Vendors can sift through interop propo...
mtom55 (GitHub)
@Open Web Advocacy

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I just managed to get Oracle VirtualBox with KVM patches working as a Flatpak! Honestly kinda crazy that this can even be done

github.com/tulilirockz/Virtual…

#virtualbox #vms #vmm #kvm #qemu #linux #flatpak

VirtualBox virtualizing an Ubuntu virtual machine with a terminal opening, showing common commands that let you know that the virtualization environment is Oracle VirtualBox

GitHub - tulilirockz/VirtualBoxKVMFlatpak: VirtualBox with KVM patches packaged as a flatpak package

VirtualBox with KVM patches packaged as a flatpak package - tulilirockz/VirtualBoxKVMFlatpak
GitHub
#linux #Flatpak #qemu #vms #virtualbox #vmm #kvm
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well I tried to use Orion browser again as my default and while I love so many things it does, it has such weird WEIRD bugs

Like suddenly you can't click into and activate any text input areas, copy+paste shortcuts even in the browser address bar don't work and provides that "ding" noise MacOS emits when there's some invalid input

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Thank you everyone who made me enjoy this year's #smashingconf immensely. I had a wonderful time! ❤️

The slides for my talk are online!
noti.st/matuzo/kDeXgt/slides


Teaching an old dog new tricks by Manuel Matuzovic

Some new features in CSS only show their real potential when we radically break with old habits. Doing that on an existing website is almost impossible.
noti.st
#smashingconf

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Uns ist #Nachhaltigkeit und #Ressourcenschonung ein Anliegen.
Daher hier Links zu #Bücherschränken / #Bücherboxen, die zeigen, wo in #Wuppertal #Bücher abgeben oder getauscht werden können.

OpenBookCase
openbookcase.de/map
Freizeitmonster
freizeitmonster.de/blog/oeffen…
Abfallwirtschaftsgesellschaft Wuppertal (AWG):
awg-wuppertal.de/ueber-uns/akt…


Öffentliche Bücherschränke Wuppertal | FreizeitMonster

In Wuppertal und Umgebung findest du einige öffentliche Bücherschränke und Bücherzellen mit jeder Menge spannender Literatur.
FreizeitMonster
#nachhaltigkeit #wuppertal #BUCHER #ressourcenschonung #bucherschranken #bucherboxen
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FAMOS! Wuppertal

Ergänzung:
Bei Hutmacher / #Utopiastadt #Wuppertal steht auch ein Bücherschrank.

Bei @MapComplete gibt es auch eine Karte für Bücherschränke, über die fehlende Schränke leicht ergänzt werden können.
Damit werden die #OpenStreetMap -Daten ergänzt, so dass die Orte dann auch auf Open Book Case und allen weiteren Karten, die auf #OSM basieren dazu kommen.

mapcomplete.org/bookcases.html…


Public bookcases

A public bookcase is a small streetside cabinet, box, old phone booth or some other objects where books are stored
mapcomplete.org
#openstreetmap #OSM #wuppertal #utopiastadt @MapComplete
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Nous fêtons nos dix ans ce vendredi. Pour ceux qui veulent assister à la cérémonie, vous pouvez nous rejoindre, vendredi à 20h15, sur: youtube.com/watch?v=6kyj9xHvKO… #inclusionnumerique Et les gens qui veulent venir sur place, vous pouvez nous faire signe !

🎉 Les 10 ans d’Hypra en direct ! 🎉

Made with Restream Studio. Livestream on 30+ platforms at once via https://restream.ioVous ne pouvez pas être présent à notre soirée anniversaire le 12 septe...
YouTube
#inclusionnumerique

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"Is Putin in the room with us just now?" - asked a pro-Russian Polish MEP on Twitter today in one of the discussions related to Russian influence in Europe .

She deleted this post as the context has changed due to Russian drone attack on Poland. But if you want to imagine how would your room look like if Putin tried to be there with you, there are some pictures:

A living room in a house, with broken down furniture and lots of rubble
A hole in the reinforced concrete roof of a living room
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I already have enough issues with my iPhone slipping between the driver's seat in the car and the console gap because it always slides out of my shorts pocket somehow if I forget to take it out before I sit down

Now I'm walking around the house looking at every crack and crevice wondering how many iPhone Airs are going to get lost in there, forever unretrievable...

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feld

@dvl I think the engineering is impressive but is it necessary for a phone? I'd rather see super thin electronics be the norm for other things.

Make an even thinner iMac

Use that tech to make... I don't know, just some computer embedded somewhere thinner. The digital dashboard on your car? I'm sure they'd appreciate if there was less room needed behind the screen.

@Dan Langille

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My saga to find an #ARM #SBC that has #AES acceleration hits some roadbumps, because it seems all the newer ARM boards require a custom vendor OS with, usually, an ancient kernel. Sigh.

Blog post: "ARM is great, ARM is terrible (and so is RISC-V)" changelog.complete.org/archive…

ARM is great, ARM is terrible (and so is RISC-V) | The Changelog

changelog.complete.org
#arm #sbc #aes

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If anyone is curious, my current Android setup is as follows:

I use #NeoStore or #Droidify (currently Neo Store, the new stats support is just too tempting) with the #IzzyOnDroid repo as primary app source, the #FDroid repo as secondary.

If I need something not on either of those, I will use #AuroraStore to access #GooglePlay.

Random APKs from GitHub or whatever only in very very specific cases. I will generally wait until the app drops on F-Droid or (preferably) IzzyOnDroid.

#fdroid #googleplay #neostore #Droidify #aurorastore #izzyondroid
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Sylvia

There's basically 2 situations where this can happen:

1. The app needs Google Play Services, if you disable this (on stock Android) you'll need to enable it. If you use a custom ROM, you probably want microG
2. The app detects if it's installed by Google Play, either a weak check (can be bypassed with `adb` and using the `-i` flag I think or a strong check and... yeah, no luck.

If you're on stock Android, I see no reason to use Aurora Store, it doesn't give more privacy :)

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LATEST safety problem? This is a lawsuit from 2019... autoweek.com/news/a2153241/tes…

But, hey, you do you Ars Technica. arstechnica.com/cars/2025/09/f… #mediaissues #truthinmedia #messagemanagement #messageconfusion #cars #flushdoorhandles


Tesla's flush door handles under fire in wrongful death lawsuit

The retracted door handles prevented first responders from entering the vehicle
Wesley Wren (Autoweek)
#cars #mediaissues #truthinmedia #messagemanagement #messageconfusion #flushdoorhandles

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Hi friends. Job fair was a bust, a lot of them are tech related jobs I have no experience with. Sucks, because nobody told me I needed to be a programmer for data related jobs with SQL. I never learned it in College, I am a business graduate, I learned mostly financial stuff also, there weren't many companies there. Oh, and I can confirm, ICE is recruiting blind people. No, I did not even consider it, but just letting people know. Anyway, its not a total loss because I'll be meeting with someone tomorrow from a local staffing agency.
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Sean Randall

the L in SQL stands for language, what did you expect it to need?
there's loads of online tutorials, you can get yourself well skilled up if you have a mind to.
Not much of the visual side of database design has proven accessible to me, but SQL and its various incarnations have been firm friends for me for 20 years or more.

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When the French immigrant from France isn't French enough for the province of Québec's selection certificate programme... ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/fr… #cdnpoli #polcan #polQC #QCpoli #BS

French kindergarten teacher leaving Quebec after immigration application rejected

A French kindergarten teacher is facing deportation back to France after her immigration application was denied.
Kelly Greig (CTVNews)
#cdnpoli #polqc #qcpoli #polcan #bs
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