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When you call Vispero, please show extra kindness to their sales and support staff. As someone who provided support full-time and who still takes support calls when needed, I can only imagine how rough it must be for them to be dealing with confused, resentful and angry customers. Remember, they don't make top-level decisions. They might not even agree with them but please don't ask them what they think about them as they can't tell you, they surely won't tell you and it's likely that calls are being recorded and they're trying to be professional and to represent the company and its products in the best possible light. Please thank them for their service.

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We've covered how Meta Ray-Bans could have been worn by CBP during ICE raids, how it's being modded for facial recognition, and how it's being used as a spy tool.

Every time Meta argues: What is the difference between Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses and an iPhone?

SO yeah—here's a guide for Meta's PR team: 404media.co/whats-the-differen…


What’s the Difference Between AI Glasses and an iPhone? A Helpful Guide for Meta PR

Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.
Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)

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Wanted: a lightweight open-source OCR engine, ideally as light as the OCR engine built into Windows 10/11 (apparently intended for mobile apps while MS was still trying to play that game), so not one of the current heavy deep-learning-based implementations, but also as good at handling color screenshots (particularly those with a mix of background/foreground color schemes) as Windows OCR. In my experience Tesseract fails on that latter point; would love to know if I'm just missing some trick.
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#фалыстыннаш
весь этот шум от победы мамдани - ИМЕННО потому что он хамасник. иначе этого бы ни кто и не заметил.

последствия? догадайтесь с трех раз. поддержка хамас теперь становится золотым ключиком для любого левого буратины.

и им не хватит ума этим ключиком не пользоваться.

#фалыстыннаш

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🎉 BIG WIN for small tech! 🎉

While #Apple continues to protect its #monopoly, #Google wants to settle the case with #EpicGames, allowing developers to:

✅ Link to outside payments
✅ Share direct downloads
✅ Skip Google’s 30% cut

Are we seeing a revival of "Don't be evil" after all?

More on Apple vs Epic Games: tuta.com/blog/apple-eu-dma-mal…

News screenshot: Google and Epic Games reach settlement for antitrust lawsuit They're now asking the court to approve the proposal that would finally end their court battle.

Apple's malicious compliance: app sideloading will remain impossible on your iPhone | Tuta

Apple follows EU Digital Markets Act by introducing hefty fines for independent software developers. Expensive fees will restrict the use of alternative app installation.
Tuta
#apple #google #monopoly #epicgames

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There's this email on one of my lists with "VI Coding Research - Call for Participants" as the subject line. I'm assuming they're looking for visually impaired coders, rather than coders who use vi, unless the two groups of coders overlap maybe. But that might be an interesting research question: how many VI coders use vi?
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aosp-devs (@aosp_devs) will be at FOSDEM 2026! We are joining forces with the FOSS on Mobile devroom to host a range of presentations on AOSP, Automotive, booting, as well as many other mobile topics. Now is your chance to be part of the conversation. The CfP is out, but please be quick because it closes on 1st December (at 23:59 UTC). We look forward to hearing from you

lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fos…

#FossOnMobile #aosp

[FOSDEM] Call for Participation: FOSS on Mobile devroom @ FOSDEM 2026

lists.fosdem.org
#aosp #fossonmobile @aosp-devs

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Friendica & threads.net

@Friendica Support @Fedi.Tips

I noticed a couple of issues with the friendica and threads.net integration today.


  1. The firefox extention Facebook container gets in the way (reported issue)
  2. The user profile link fails (assuming the above plugin is disabled)


I found the firefox extention Firefox Multi-Account Containers can be used instead ... just that you need to train it to keep meta sites in a seperate container.

I also found that whilst the profile URL fails on friendica, the link under the Unfollow button does work.

(browser containers can be used to keep settings local to a container - eg avoid any cookies set by facebook pollute browsing other sites. Also useful to open different accounts with the same institition)

@Friendica Support @Fedi.Tips
in reply to Matt Campbell

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Nolan Darilek

Programatic clipboard access, too. Specifically, I think Orca can't invisibly copy text to the clipboard like NVDA can. The current workaround for something like copying out of a terminal is opening a text window with the flat review content and copying from that, but I wish I could just set start/end markers directly in a terminal without all the ceremony of opening a separate window and re-finding the text in that. Orca has slightly less ergonomic commands for copying/appending the text of the current flat review object to the clipboard, but my understanding is that those keybindings only work under X sessions--at least, I don't think I've ever gotten them working since switching to Wayland and I was a pretty heavy user of them before.

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Sur l'article Wikipedia de la municipale new-yorkaise, on constate que le seul borough où Cuomo, l'agresseur sexuel raciste et magouilleur (sans parler des scandales liés à la gestion de la pandémie) — logiquement Trump-compatible, arrive en tête est Staten Island.

Ce borough, le moins peuplé (un peu moins de 500 000 habs) et le moins densément peuplé (3330 habs/km², loins devant le Queens), est celui avec le taux de pauvreté le plus bas des 5 et où 70% des gens sont proprios. C'est le borough le plus conservateur au niveau vote (Trump y a fait 64% en 2024 par exemple)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_New…

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Zohran Mamdani won young men 18-29 by 40 points.

40 POINTS!

And he did so by standing FOR economic justice, FOR Trans rights, FOR immigrant rights, FOR labor rights, FOR Palestinian rights, & FOR diversity.

All the Corporate Democrats who said Dems can only win by by "running to the center," or "siding with Israel on Gaza" or "not being distracted by the Trans issue," should shut up & have the humility to listen.

Zohran is what happens when you run FOR justice rather than just against Trump.

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

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Clemens

FIPS is fine with TLS 1.3, it's Common Criteria which is not, IIRC. Stupid choice by them, but I don't make the rules.

I agree the PR is an improvement, though. This is not just for FIPS. There are orgs out there that only allow TLS 1.2 because they can MitM that with the middleboxes they have, and those people tend to configure their system crypto-policy (and therefore OpenSSL defaults) to a TLS max version of 1.2. Applications *can* explicitly override that, but should they?

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Thank the gods Carney cut the luxury yacht tax, eh?
No longer will people buying a yacht worth over a quarter of a million dollars be saddled with a luxury tax. Ditto your private jet or helicopter with a value above $100,000. Whew.
Corporations will enjoy a “super-reduction” of more than 2% points to Canada’s marginal effective tax rate, and the 1% tax on foreign-owned vacant housing is gone.
Trudeau's proposed increase to the inclusion rate on the capital gains tax is also scrapped.

At least they didn't call it the Canada Strong & Free & Proud Budget. #cdnpoli

Screenshot of the cover of the Canadian Budget 2o25: Canada Strong Budget.
#cdnpoli

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In the upcoming release you will be able to follow any blog on the XMPP network directly by clicking on the [Follow] button without being mutually friends (like it was until now), its a small change but with big impacts 😁!

We wrote a detailed and accessible article that explains the differences between the #XMPP network and the #Fediverse and shows how blogs are handled on the XMPP network a bit more in details 😸

If you are curious to see how XMPP works (spoiler: it's pretty simple in the end 😌) checkout our article (and don't forget to leave a ♥️ or a comment!

#activitypub #movim

mov.im/community/pubsub.movim.…

The XMPP Network
The Fediverse

Movim • The difference between XMPP and ActivityPub, explained through the Blog feature 🗒️✨

Blogs are one of the historical features of Movim, the upcoming 0.32 release will redefine how…
mov.im
#xmpp #activitypub #fediverse #movim
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Wow that's bullshit

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Liberal government wants to change arbitration rules for public servants

The changes to the Public Sector Labour Relations Act would alter the arbitration process for public service bargaining units.

The changes would ensure arbitrators take into consideration Canada’s fiscal position, so the government can free “resources to be invested towards growing Canada’s economy.”

ottawacitizen.com/public-servi…

#Budget2025


Liberal government wants to change arbitration rules for public servants

Matteo Cimellaro (Ottawa Citizen)
#budget2025

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Crown corporation Santé Québec is hit by a class action lawsuit about unauthorized access to medical records.

The Crown corporation took over the management of the health network in December 2024.

montreal.citynews.ca/2025/11/0…
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La société de la Couronne Santé Québec est frappée par un recours collectif concernant l'accès non autorisé aux dossiers médicaux.

Santé Québec a repris la gestion du réseau de la santé en décembre 2024.

lp.ca/4AxE6I?sharing=true

#Québec #Health #Santé


Santé Québec hit with class action lawsuit over access to medical records without consent

A class-action lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Superior Court against Santé Québec to compensate Quebecers whose personal information was accessed without consent and without valid reason.
Jessica Barile (CityNews Montreal)
#health #quebec #sante
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