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2026-04-05 22:20:08 CEST

"Lithuania explores offline card payments during emergencies"
https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2883172/lithuania-explores-offline-card-payments-during-emergencies
#cashback, but different!
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2026-04-04 17:37:01 CEST

"How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'? I mapped every one."
https://teybannerman.github.io/strategy/2026/03/31/how-many-microsoft-copilot-are-there.html
"A few weeks ago, I tried to explain to someone what Microsoft Copilot is. I couldn’t… because the name ‘Copilot’ now refers to at least 75 different things."
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2025-12-25 22:44:37 CET

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there are reports that game cards with less than 64gb memory are coming for switch 2. Maybe this helps with games that need less storage. Even though it probably still increases prices - but at least one could sell them later on or give them to the next person.

2025-10-30 11:27:32 CET

„22 Of Earth's 34 Vital Signs At Record Levels“
…and it's not the record levels nor directions you want.
https://www.iflscience.com/breaking-records-by-extraordinary-margins-22-of-earths-34-vital-signs-at-record-levels-81368

2025-08-11 21:51:40 CEST

„The EU (still) wants to scan your private messages and photos“
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
„The "Chat Control" proposal would mandate scanning of all private digital communications, including encrypted messages and photos. This threatens fundamental privacy rights and digital security for all EU citizens.“

2025-05-10 20:18:44 CEST

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-1-built-for-control-but-not-for-people/
»Linux “just works”—if you can see.
If you’re blind?
You boot into a live image and get nothing.
No speech. No braille. No login prompt feedback. Maybe Orca starts, maybe not.
Maybe you know the shortcut (Alt+Super+S?) but does that even work in this session type?
Is it Wayland? Is it X11? Is the screen reader bound to a key combo that doesn’t exist on your keyboard?
You open the installer?
“Next. Button. Button. Button. Button.” That’s all Orca says.
Ubuntu MATE 12.04 had a working, labeled, navigable installer.
Ubuntu MATE 24.04? It’s garbage.
No headings. No structure. No sense of where you are. Just unlabeled buttons and blank space.
This isn’t a bug.
This is neglect.«
#Accessibility #a11y

2025-02-09 21:38:35 CET

„Dazed & Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHAv2“
https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10911
„In terms of cost, we estimate that – during over 13 years of its
deployment – 819 million hours of human time has been spent on
reCAPTCHA, which corresponds to at least $6.1 billion USD in
wages. Traffic resulting from reCAPTCHA consumed 134 Petabytes
of bandwidth, which translates into about 7.5 million kWhs of
energy, corresponding to 7.5 million pounds of CO2. In addition,
Google has potentially profited $888 billion USD from cookies and
$8.75-32.3 billion USD per each sale of their total labeled data set.
[…
Ultimately] it can be concluded that reCAPTCHAv2
presents no real security.
Given that:
(1) reCAPTCHAv2 is negatively perceived by most
users,
(2) its immense cost, and
(3) its susceptibility to bots,
our
results prompt a natural conclusion:
reCAPTCHAv2 and similar reCAPTCHA technology
should be deprecated.“

2024-12-10 20:58:09 CET

„The Monospace Web – A minimalist design exploration“
https://owickstrom.github.io/the-monospace-web/
By @npub1u6p…lmvv

2024-10-05 09:00:06 CEST

"Who owns your shiny new Pixel 9 phone? You can’t say no to Google’s surveillance"
https://cybernews.com/security/google-pixel-9-phone-beams-data-and-awaits-commands/
"Google's latest flagship smartphone raises concerns about user privacy and security. It frequently transmits private user data to the tech giant before any app is installed. Moreover, the Cybernews research team has discovered that it potentially has remote management capabilities without user awareness or approval."