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🚨 BREAKING #Google just activated #Gemini on #Gmail - without asking you.
Turn it off now; here's how!
tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-g…
✊️ Fight AI & fight Google
You have to manually turn off Smart Features in the Setting menu in TWO locations.
Share so everyone is aware. ❤️
Gemini AI needs to be disabled on Android or it will override your privacy settings and gain full access to your texts, calls, and WhatsApp - even if you’ve turned off Gemini Apps Activity on your phone.Tuta
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I can't believe I didn't share with you all about the hard slap I received few days ago.
arnel.bearblog.dev/reaper-slap…
#Reaper #ReaperFM #Daw #Audio #Blogging #Learning
Last night, a man named Justin Frankel walked into my living room. He came in uninvited and just slapped me hard.Sharan
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No, there was no leaked database of 3.5B #WhatsApp users. Researchers from Vienna simply used the contact discovery method with all possible phone numbers to get contact data of 3.5B users. They informed WhatsApp who kinda fixed it by setting rate limits for contact discovery and the researchers deleted their collected data. Read the paper instead of clickbait :)
github.com/sbaresearch/whatsap…
Contribute to sbaresearch/whatsapp-census development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Today, November 19, is World Toilet Day.
In honor of this, in 2018, when November 19 fell on a Monday, I recorded an introduction to week 47 of 2018 using a couple of toilets flushing, a vocoder, and my own voice, such that the toilets are speaking.
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Another notable feature merged in the GNOME Calendar live coding session today: the ability to export an entire calendar as an .ics file.
This was originally added to the wishlist 10 years ago: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…
Thanks to @FineFindus's dedication towards implementing this (alongside the individual event .ics export feature) this year, you will be able to use this feature in #GNOME 50 (or the nightly flatpak version of Calendar today): gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…
Originally reported by Tin Man on 2015-10-26 in Bugzilla bug (#757125): For backup purposes, it would nice...GitLab
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We're building something for the Fediverse. #Holos
ActivityPub running on your phone. Your own server, your data stored locally. A relay handles your stable identity when you're offline.
One account, all formats. Short text, long articles, photos, videos. The UI adapts to your mood. Switch between text mode, photo grid, video feed, article editor based on what you feel like sharing.
Same network, same followers.
Early stages, but the foundation is solid. We wanted to share the progress.
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I'm proud to release the first early version of the high-level audio engine I've been working on for the past months!
GraphAudio.Kit is a high level 3d audio game engine for your dotnet, using SteamAudio for great hrtf! Very understandable and hackable. It's built on top of GraphAudio, which is a set of libraries I made that let you create your own audio engines by giving you a graph-based audio framework, webaudio for your dotnet basically! Please take a look, and tell your friends.
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After a few intense days with GPT Codex, it’s finally time to officially introduce Sara. #SARA or Simple Accessible Radio Automation, is a program primarily designed for radio presenters who host live shows.
Some notable features that are currently missing from other broadcast solutions accessible to blind users include:
a loop function – especially useful for intros,
a flexible number of playlists and players,
and a news editor module with the ability to embed audio clips that can be played while reading the news.
The application is 100% vibe-coded, and it’s definitely not recommended to test it during a live broadcast. It requires several sound cards to operate, and for now, I’m not planning to add any virtual audio routing like the one found in Radioboss or SPL. The program is and will remain open source, and perhaps someone interested in contributing will join the project.
In terms of screen reader compatibility, the main focus is on NVDA.
Happy testing: gitrls.com/michaldziwisz/sara/
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An accessible, light-weight, cross-platform ebook and document reader. - trypsynth/paperbackGitHub
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The latest Zoom firmware for the H1 Essential has this so-called 'AI Noise Reduction' thing going on, so I thought I'd test it in a noisy environment which I call 'The Cupboard Of Doom!'
It's where all the water, heating and electricity comes into the house, so it's of course ideal for lovely, high-quality recordings.
In the first clip, noise reduction is off, then in the next clip which is back-to-back, it's on.
My scepticism about this whole thing is on full display here...
You be the judge. Useful or useless?
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Please consider nominating GrapheneOS and Accrescent (submit the form once for each) for the 2025 Proton Lifetime Fundraiser.
Direct link to form: form.typeform.com/to/XixQrG8Q
Learn more about the fundraiser: proton.me/blog/lifetime-fundra…
#grapheneOS #opensource #accrescent #android
Join Proton’s 2025 Lifetime Fundraiser and help decide which organizations receive grants supporting privacy, free speech, and human rights.Irina Marcopol (Proton)
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@accrescent You're welcome! I enjoyed your recent blog post. It's always interesting getting a peek “behind the curtains”.
For anyone interested in reading those posts - blog.accrescent.app/
@accrescent I hope you win.🙏🏼 I answered every question 👍🏼
"Thank you for your support! Each suggestion will be thoroughly considered. We will announce the chosen organizations on the Proton blog and on our social channels. Stay tuned for the start of the fundraiser on 16 December, 2025!"🤞
The DMA requires Meta to give people using WhatsApp in Europe the option to connect with people using third-party messaging services that have chosen toMeta Newsroom (Meta)
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# Let SSH retry connecting for you
I didn't know this!
Via @sin
sindastra.de/p/2786/let-ssh-re…
You know the feeling when you rebooted a machine, and you keep retrying to connect over SSH, just to get a connection error? Or you keep pinging the machine until it's up? There's an easier way! Edit or create ~/.Sindastra (Sindastra's info dump)
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This is TERRIBLE! Mozilla people who used to follow me here... Talk some sense into your coworkers/management!
People don't use Firefox because it's loaded with crap and AI, they use it because it's not corporate owned and not feeding all your browsing data into the data machine. AI is not of any benefit to add to your browser, no matter the hype.
blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai…
AI Window is a user-controlled space we’re building in Firefox that lets you chat with an AI assistant and get help while you browse.Kristina Bravo (The Mozilla Blog)
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Most of HumanWare is Linux based these days.
The firmware update files for Chameleons, Mantises and Brailliants also have Linux images in them.
I suspect the serial port you're speaking of is for UARD. Most devices of this kind have an UARD port somewhere, mostly used for diagnostics and debugging, although access to it often requires some disassembly.
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Because of how the timezone selection page works now - the selection is confirmed on the map widget or by automatic selection (which obviously does not work), it...GitLab
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Here's an excellent write-up summing up the state of #GameAccessibility in the last 5 years by Grant Stoner. To say it was a rollercoaster of emotions is an understatement. We had incredible innovation and progress in games like The Last of Us or Forza, but for all of those we also had many disappointments that either came tantalizingly close but weren't accessible to some groups of people like totally blind gamers, or just straight up didn't really offer any accessibility features but still got a lot of praise and awards. We also lost some very good people. The industry is also undergoing some difficult times with way too many layoffs. And yet, I'm optimistic we’ll still see some wonderful things in the future. If this year is anything to go by, even if there won't be as many accessible Tripple-A releases, we're also seeing a rise in accessibility mods becoming more frequent. Ultimately what sums up these last 5 years, and probably the future as well is the last paragraph Grant wrote: "
> How do you explain the past five years of accessibility? Both Xbox and PlayStation are fixtures within the disabled community. They uplift us, highlight our work, and give us opportunities to be better advocates. And in equal measure they frustrate us, casting us aside in perplexing moments of grief and frustration. If anything, these five years are a testament to disabled perseverance in an industry that still struggles to fully welcome us."
polygon.com/ps5-xbox-series-x-…
As we mark five years of PS5 and Series X, it’s a fitting moment to examine the highs and lows of accessibility.Grant Stoner (Polygon.com)
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Ooo lookie: Sideload apps onto your iPhone much more easier, on Mac and Linux too!
User friendly sideloader. Contribute to nab138/iloader development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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At 13, I joined a Wolfenstein 3d modding forum. 22 years later, my posts are still there - and still searchable.
The discussion I had in Discord 2 years ago?
Not so much.
We chose this. We can choose better.
blog.discourse.org/2025/11/the…
I recently spent forty minutes searching through Slack trying to find a technical decision — made eight months ago — about an app that 60% of my creative life depends on. I knew the conversation had happened. I remembered participating in it.JA Westenberg (Discourse)
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Hey, did you know that you can join Matrix chatrooms using Movim and #matridge (a Slidge XMPP - Matrix bridge) ? 😮
You can then access your Matrix rooms (and soon Matrix servers 😚) and integrate them seamlessly in your Movim interface ✨
…and it seems that Movim is much faster than Element at accessing and displaying the content of Matrix chat rooms 🚀 Fun 😸
Checkout the Slidge project slidge.im/ !
Slidge is a chat gateway library for XMPP built in Python, and a set of gateways for other networks.slidge.im
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Libervia CLI Tip 15:
When publishing a blog or other pubsub based feature, the item ID is often used in the URL when it is rendered for the web (e.g.; Libervia or Movim use something like `https://…/blog/<user>/<item_id>`).
It is then important to have a user-friendly item ID (e.g.; `title-of-my-publication-abc123`), which is usually done by the software from the title.
If you want to change it, you can use `li pubsub rename`.
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Base48 je brněnský hackerspace a komunitní dílna. Nabízíme prostor, vybavení a komunitu pro tvoje elektro, 3D tisk, DIY a další projekty.base48.cz
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To whom it may concern:
Someone fixed the accessibility of the torrent listview in QBitTorrent version 5.1.3.
I wish I could find out who did it so I could personally thank them.
This has made my day. In a world where updates are often measured by how much a11y they break, this has been a rare moment of joy and comfort.
Thank you.
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Seems like it was Andrew Johnson, or akj.
github.com/qbittorrent/qBittor…
Link to Issue Closes #20393 Description Navigating the torrent list with arrow keys did not announce selection changes to screen readers. Development Approach Call QTreeView::currentChanged() to en...GitHub
I have just found a nice document scanning app for android that can do automatic edge detection, cropping, multipage scanning, OCR, PDF export and more.
It's called #makeacopy and it's using #tesseract engine to perform the OCR directly on the device with no internet connectivity requirement at all.
The app has almost full #a11y support for screen reader users in the sense that all the controls are clearly labelled and it's easy to navigate.
I can't resist and I have asked the developer if it would be doable to add a screen reader compatible notifications making the automatic edge detection somehow accessible as well.
Now I'd appreciate comments from low vision screen reader users, mobility trainers, people assisting other blind people or others who might be able to tell if my idea is viable and how much you like it?
Here is link to the github issue I have started: github.com/egdels/makeacopy/is…
Thanks for looking into it.
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Here's the most efficient way I've found to make a video from an image plus audio file that preserves quality.
ffmpeg -threads 3 -hwaccel auto -r 1 -loop 1 -i "image.file" -i "audio.file" -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -x264opts opencl -vf scale=1280:720 -c:v libx264 -tune stillimage -c:a copy -shortest "video.mp4"
- A command prompt terminal should open and the encode should start. You can check the status by reading the bottom of the window.
- The window will close once the encode is complete. This could take anywhere from a few seconds to five-ten minutes. You should see a video file in the folder that is only a few MB larger than the audio+image files you started with.
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Make this a bat file on your path, start with image first, then audiofile, and you'll get audiofile.mp4 as an output.
@ffmpeg -threads 3 -hwaccel auto -r 1 -loop 1 -i %1 -i %2 -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -x264opts opencl -vf scale=1280:720 -c:v libx264 -tune stillimage -c:a copy -shortest "%~dpn2.mp4"
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Oh, that makes sense. Though dates at a school seem kind of strange to me.
I was like that in primary school, I also needed to carry a brailler so there was no extra hand for a cane. I got better in high school as I was allowed to use a laptop and ebooks, which made things much easier.
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So Google is building a massive AI data centre on Christmas Island, a tiny remote Australian territory with 1,692 people, and it’s exactly the kind of dystopian tech imperialism you’d expect.
They’re militarising a small island community in the name of cloud computing, partnering with the Australian Defence Department to monitor Chinese submarines and enable AI powered warfare systems. The island becomes a pawn in great power conflicts while Google extracts strategic value.
Meanwhile, locals are promised vague economic benefits while their homeland gets turned into a surveillance node with subsea cables linking to US Marine bases. Classic extractive colonialism dressed up as innovation.
The energy demands alone, powered by a local mining company, naturally, are staggering. Big Tech continues doubling our electricity costs for AI toys while communities bear the burden.
Christmas Island is known for red crab migrations, not military infrastructure. But when you’re a trillion dollar corporation, even the most remote ecosystems are just real estate for your empire.
#googleisevil #bigtech #militarisation #digitalcolonialism #aiethics #christmasisland #defendtheislands #environment #aibubble
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Collecting OpenStreetMap-compliant accessibility data in public transportplay.google.com
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Have you ever booted a zip archive? I was doing my regular computing shenanigans, and then it dawned on me that a floppy image can be a valid ZIP archive. That's because the boot sector and the FAT table are at the beginning of the file, and the ZIP file header is at the end of it. The trick was used in the past for something called "rarjpeg" (a JPEG image that is a valid RAR file).
I needed a test fast, so I took @nanochess's bootBASIC, and created a file that has the bootsector at the beginning, then 701709 bytes of padding, and then 25159 bytes of ZIP file with the bootBASIC sources.
It can be unzipped by your favourite archiver, or booted in your favourite emulator ( qemu-system-i386 -fda bootableBASIC.zip)
The file: drive.google.com/file/d/1JQgBS…
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in reply to sebulon • • •At me I think the ai work is great! Why do you think it's not that good?
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in reply to Tuta • • •But one can make it not to access location
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in reply to Tuta • • •i know, when i'll be the CEO of my job i'll change my work email provider
In the meantime i'd appreciated a more concrete answer
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in reply to Tuta • • •To be fair, that setting exists already for quite a while (and I've turned it off ages ago on my gmail account). Good to remind people to check once in a while whether it's still turned off, but it's not like they did this yesterday.
Here's the post from january 2025 about exactly this interface.
workspace.google.com/blog/prod…
Updated smart feature settings to give users more choice and control
Yulie Kwon Kim (Google Cloud)mrteddybear
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in reply to Tuta • • •second toot about this today - how is this "breaking" when I already switched it all off the last time it was "breaking" two or three months ago?
(I verified it's all still off...)
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in reply to Tuta • • •Will share the link with family who need to hear it from "someone else".
Had to go Proton for all bc every time I attempted to sign up w Tuta for a account (paid annually after sign-up) I was flagged as potential abuser. With VPN. W/O VPN. Multiple devices, IPs, and browsers over a two-month period. 🤷🏻
That said, I still appreciate what you do. Disappointing to not have been able to sign up and pay. 💰 Maybe fix that. -Random midwestern parent who likes privacy and technology 👍
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in reply to Tuta • • •Anyone who thinks Google gonna honor that setting its a fool.
Google will keep raping everything you put on their servers, like they have being doing forever.
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in reply to Tuta • • •And none of the alternatives is safe as long as billions of people continue to use gmail blindly.
Every mail you sent/receive to/from gmail is a door wide open.
No other option then to block all traffic from gmail accounts.
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in reply to Troed Sångberg • • •L. B. Heuschkel
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I'm European. It was on. I disabled it per your instructions.
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in reply to L. B. Heuschkel • • •@lbheuschkel
I'm surprised this is legal in the EU.
@Tutanota
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in reply to Tuta • • •Unfortunately the Gemini star icon remains active so you can accidentally click on it.
It's a problem on the small top area of the Gmail app on an iphone
MrAptronym
in reply to Tuta • • •I already turned off smart features, anticipating this.
Only use my gmail for trash and unimportant logins though at least
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in reply to Tuta • • •To skip potential UX variants this direct link mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#sett… may be a good starting point.
(& don't use evil G's services at all!)
#howTo
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