@accrescent I hope you win.🙏🏼 I answered every question 👍🏼
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.
The tiny local credit union had to replace their Windows 10 PCs. Their local IT provider got acquired by a regional IT company and no longer offers disk wiping/destruction.
What are the best options to wipe or destroy (if required) about 5 SSDs that would satisfy a bank auditor?
I don't know if these are self encrypting drives. If they were spinning disks, I've used DBAN in the past, but SSDs have additional logic for wear leveling and trimming, so I don't know what additional steps are needed to ensure the data is all gone.
A quick check for physical disk destruction devices seems a bit pricey at this low volume, but a handy sledge hammer might not be enough for an auditor.
In the past, a disk random write/wipe plus drilling a hole through the platters was accepable for spinning drives.
ATA secure erase should be supported by the SSD and should be understood by the drive firmware to write zeroes to EVERYTHING including the bits you can't reach, but also even if you did a DBAN and are worried about the wear leveling the amount of extra storage dedicated to handle failing flash is pretty small that I doubt anything of value could be found. Who knows though!
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@marcozehe gerade auf der Freedomsci-Seite bei den alten JAWS-Downloads dein Script zum WinCommander gefunden und mal vorgemerkt, sollte ich einen der Win9x-VMS/Notebooks nochmal verwenden :)
Um Gottes Willen, ich wusste gar nicht, dass die da noch verfügbar sind. Ich selbst nutze ja kein Windows mehr, und daher auch keinen Total Commander, und einen Windows Commander schon lange nicht... Aber wenn's Dir Spass macht...
Der Total Commander hieß ja früher WinCommander, der wurde aus Markenschutzgründen dann umbenannt. Den TC für Windows hab ich letztens erst gekauft xD Ja, wenn ich meinen Windows ME Laptop rauskrame, lad ich das da mal drauf.
So last night, I tried Fedora 43. Fedora-Workstation-Live-43-1.6.x86_64.iso. The installer is now web based, making it really nice to use, even with just Tab and Shift + Tab. I was able to install it with no problem.
Now, first time setup had just one big issue, the timezone selector. It's keyboard accessible, and works like this: you start typing a city name, like Chicago, and then down arrow through suggestions and press Enter on the one you want. But Orca doesn't speak that there are suggestions available, and does not read which suggestion you select until you press Enter.
Other than that, Gnome desktop looks pretty good these days! The settings are much better, and that's about all I had time to test so far. Orca starts if you hit Alt Windows S at the installer and first setup, then starts after first setup is complete. The overview panel where you type to search doesn't read when it opens, but basically you just hit the Windows key and start typing what you want, and Orca reads what you hand on, and you can arrow through results. Notifications read too, and I'm thankful Gnome supports notifications.
Mozilla announces more AI in Firefox, still failing to understand that at this point their market share is made of tech savvy people who do not want that.
Mozilla, please. Stop chasing the fads. Get your own values.
People use Firefox to get access to an open web, use a sturdy browser, and not to be tracked. Build in that direction and that direction only.
Nobody from your current user base will recommend Firefox with AI to their friends.
PEOPLE: we would not like ai in our browser it serves no useful purpose and is destroying our world
MOZILLA: brrrr brrr here comes the yummy ai airplane open wide brrrr hey why aren't you opening your mouth for this yummy ai? ok here it comes again brrrrr brrr...
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The only important take-away from Anthropic's hype piece about an "AI-orchestrated" cyber attack:
Tech company valued at over $180 billion still can't make their product not do things they don't want it to do.
> They broke down their attacks into small, seemingly innocent tasks that Claude would execute without being provided the full context of their malicious purpose. They also told Claude that it was an employee of a legitimate cybersecurity firm, and was being used in defensive testing.
Humans fall for attacks like that too. See e.g. all the well-paid remote "bank transfer website testing" jobs, which are actually money laundering scams.
Computers can count faster and with orders of magnitude fewer errors than we can.
Cars can move faster and longer distances, carrying heavier loads, than we can.
Anthropic and other AI hype companies are making bank on pretending their spicy autocomplete is so much better than human labor. We absolutely should point and laugh at them when these claims fall flat on their face.
LLMs are a lot more like humans (or weird animals) than they are like computers. I think service dogs are a really great comparison. We don't quite understand how and why they do what they do (chemists still can't quite replicate a police dog's nose), we know they make tons of mistakes, but they're better / faster / cheaper / more useful than humans, so we keep using them.
@miki the fact is LLMs are not better nor more useful than humans, research shows. We just keep falling for the hype.
> After completing the study, developers estimate that allowing AI reduced completion time by 20%. Surprisingly, we find that allowing AI actually increases completion time by 19% arxiv.org/abs/2507.09089
> For an organization of 10,000 workers, given the estimated prevalence of workslop (41%), this yields over $9 million per year in lost productivity. hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-w…
Google is starting to retreat on its "developer government ID verification" plan, thank goodness.
But the devil will be in the detail, and Google's positioning that wanting to install software on your own device makes you a "power user" is concerning.
The notion that you need to be an "experienced user" to use @fdroidorg, for instance, is nonsense.
But still: keeping up the pressure appears to be working. A little.
I learned on this trip that a little pouch full of SMA antenna adapters looks like a baggie of bullets to TSA - they got flagged both coming and going😀
Killing time at the airport in Milwaukee now - have a bit of time before my actual flight
I just did an assistive technology tutoring session for the one blind student that I tutor (an hour per week), and he mentioned that macOS 26 took away the Launchpad feature. Can anyone else confirm this? And if so, is there a reliable way to get Launchpad back? Apparently he had gotten used to launching macOS apps that way.
Also, a recurring stumbling block for this student, when using Windows with NVDA, is the header control in multi-column list views, like when you're in the file open or save dialog and you're shift-tabbing from the file name edit into the item list. Is there a way to just get rid of that header control, at least in file open/save dialogs across all folders?
That's correct. Apple's suggested replacement is launching the new spotlight apps view which is what the launchpad icon silently gets replaced by, but it's not a direct replacement. That view is more like the iOS app library where the apps are automatically categorised and shown in a roughly alphabetical grid, while launchpad was a complete emulation of the iOS home screen with options to make pages and manually organise apps into folders. I didn't think any blind people used it since it doesn't offer first letter navigation, but it had some fans with sighted mac users that a number of replacements popped up. I can't give you any names or information whether they're accessible though so they'd have to try out a few.
Apparently doing the following two terminal commands will do it, run at your own risk as I have not tested them. sudo mkdir -p /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/SpotlightUI.plist SpotlightPlus -dict Enabled -bool false and reboot the Mac. Source: igeeksblog.com/restore-launchp…
Apple removed Launchpad in macOS 26 Tahoe. Miss it? Here’s how to restore Launchpad using Terminal, plus the pros and cons of ditching the new Spotlight.
Thank you to @BorrisInABox I got the firmware on my Zoom H1 essential updated. I had to plug it in to the wall instead of my computer just so the update would execute. Grandma is in the future, whether she likes it or not.
what i usually do is plug it in to the computer and when the dialog pops up where you can select storage / mic, I press menu button. It disappears but it powers using computer.
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Last year the Geospatial devroom only had half a day at FOSDEM, and we still ended up with a packed room and a queue down the corridor.
This year we have the whole of Saturday to ourselves, so if you have something geo-flavoured to share, whether it is maps, data, tools, clever hacks, fieldwork tech, city projects, OSM magic, climate work or anything else, now is the moment to submit a proposal.
Plenty of good mapping stuff seen on yesterday's walk:
* couple of postboxes in Tayport (a VR wall and a Scottish Crown lamp one) * a defibrillator * typical Scottish vernacular architecture along Ogilvy Street * no picture, but aberrant house numbering on the same road, with evens on the left when oriented in the direction of ascending numbers 1/n
* WWII tank traps along the shore just above the highest spring tide level * a Pill Box associated with the tank trap * information board on the historical port and ferry * a bridge crossing the razed railway line
The point of the walk was to look at nature and more precisely the range of biotopes in the nature reserve.
The first part had several in close proximity: tidal flats with plenty of waders and wildfowl; a small salt Marsh only inundated at the highest tides; sand dunes which transitioned in a few 10s of metres from dune grasses to Heather and other heathland species; conifer forestry plantations dating back to 1920s (mainly pine)
A couple of waxcap fungi near the start, one possibly White Waxcap. A vivid orangey brown mushroom in the heath, and a big group of Clouded Funnel inbthe forest.
At least two Clafonia species on the hesth. Commonest was one of the reindeer lichens, sometimes in large patches. The other gad brown potential (fruiting bodes). Light was very poor gor even half decent photos.
In the forest a birch tree was covered with Evernia pruinastri (Oak Moss)
Lastly @trigpoint mapped most of the benches we saw.
A plea to all #OpenStreetMap folk: please map benches. Knowing where they are can help people like me with COPD and other breathing conditions. Benches make all the difference as to whether a walk is pleasant or not, and sometimes whether one is possible at all.
I find hat still being able to walk 8-9 km walk sustain nmy mental health. Any infrastructure which helps is invaluable.
oh fuck you YouTube. I check my "subscription" page to see the new stuff. To have your shitty algorithm show me "relevant" stuff. No one asked for that crap.
Fuck you YouTube. A Fuck the project manager that thought it's a good idea. May you be replaced by a chatbot at the next round of layoffs.
current invite links are long-term usable, and multiple use.
As a link creator, you can scan/click your own link to disable it.
But publishing such invite links is not recommended, unless it's from a chat profile that you only use for people to get in contact with you but then continue chatting from a different profile that is not published.
Cat's out of the bag: FEX, an emulator I've been working on these past 4 years, is going to be part of the Steam Frame to bring x86 Windows games to an ARM Linux VR headset! 😊
Learn more and wishlist now: https://steampowered.com/hardwareAnnouncing new Steam Hardware from Valve: Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and Steam Frame are ...
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