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Hi all #introductions #update My name is Mohammed. i'm #blind. I'm from #cairo, #egypt. I was born in 2003 and I studied #translation and #interpretation from #English into #Arabic and vice versa. I'm a #gamer, #musician, and a language lover. I love making #friends and using #tech as #technology is life. I am currently working as a remote #Customer_care advisor and i'm an NVDA Certified Expert by @NVAccess.

It's pretty bleak if you feel compelled to use the techniques of mass advertising within an application itself to convince users to use certain of its features.

#tech #dev #software #SoftwareDevelopment

' #Musk’s fixation on what he calls the “woke mind virus” suggests both an understanding of humans as machines and an obsession with the threat of left-wing contagion: a conviction that people can be hacked like software and that progressive ideas—cultural Marxism, gender ideology, and so forth—act on the system as a kind of intellectual malware.'

Mark O'Connell reviews #BenTarnoff's & #QuinnSlobodian's #Muskism

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2026/07/23/space-oddity-muskism-slobodian-tarnoff/
https://archive.ph/STOGJ
#tech #books @bookstodon

Re: https://social.wildeboer.net/users/jwildeboer/statuses/116860157329810170

I realize this is beside the point, but personally I view the fact that code review is not considered interesting as a serious failure of computer science education. I'm invested in the latter, so it stands out for me.

On the whole writers tend to love to read. I think they love it in part because their education led them to realize that learning to read well is both a good in itself and helps you become a better writer. Programming languages were designed to be human readable so that humans could read them. Yet we have a couple generations of people writing code most of whom were never explicitly taught how to read it, let alone learn to love reading it.

#tech #dev #software #SoftwareDevelopment #ComputerProgramming #ComputerScience #ComputerScienceEducation

Meta Pulls AI Image Feature From Instagram Days After Launch

Remember that new feature Meta announced last week that let people use public Instagram posts and reels to generate AI content? It didn't last long. Meta pulled the feature from Instagram late on Friday, following wides…

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/13/meta-pulls-ai-image-feature-from-instagram/

#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #MacRumors [MacRumors]

I tested all three OpenVPN tiers: Why the free version is still the best choice for most users

OpenVPN offers three modes of deployment with varied pricing based on the same underlying protocol. Here are the pros, cons, and costs associated with each.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/managed-self-hosted-or-open-source-how-to-choose-the-right-version-of-openvpn/

#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #ZDNet [ZDNet]

Why I'm using wired Android Auto when all the cool kids are switching to wireless

Sometimes, you have to dial back the tech to make ends meet.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-im-using-wired-android-auto-when-all-the-cool-kids-are-switching-to-wireless/

#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #ZDNet [ZDNet]

Under Trump, the United States has made it clear that dependence on US tech can and will be weaponized.

In part, that's a new development — at least for some parts of the world. But ensuring the power of the US was sustained by getting other parts of the world to adopt its tech was always part of the plan.

https://disconnect.blog/global-dependence-on-us-tech-was-always-the-plan/

#tech #politics #donaldtrump #siliconvalley #digitalsovereignty

Part 2 of Long Reads' discussion with #BenTarnoff and #QuinnSlobodian, authors of #Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/long-reads-trillion-dollar-baby-w-quinn-slobodian-and/id791564318?i=1000775222782

for Part 1 v. https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/long-reads-trillion-dollar-baby-w-quinn-slobodian-and/id791564318?i=1000773249464

#Musk #ElonMusk #tech #BigTech #techCriticism #techOligarchs #SiliconValleyRight #books @bookstodon

New video is up!

In this one I talk about Gamers Nexus' investigation into LG TV's illegal spying on customers, give an overview of ACR, touch on pending privacy lawsuits, and steps you can take in order to protect yourself against these privacy violations from your TV.

If you enjoy the video, please give it a like as this helps us tiny creators immensely. Thank you!

https://youtu.be/JLHTPI_Z4Ps

#Privacy #LGTV #MassSurveillance #Tech #Technology #YouTube

Out today: "When you wake up in the morning and someone says: 'If you send me $10, my dear, and tell me about your day,' it’s like Stockholm Syndrome. It’s worth the $10 to keep pretending that there is this person who loves you and wants to hear about your day." https://www.texasobserver.org/austin-novel-romance-scammers/

#books #bookstodon #tech #culture @bookstodon

Ici impossible de mettre à jour, ou même simplement d'installer Signal via le store Android. Quelqu'un ici rencontre un problème similaire ?

#tech #android

"What truly binds together this movement is a desire for freedom from, if not total control over, nation-states; a belief in the superiority, either innate or engineered, of a superior class of elite coders and engineers; and a complete rejection of any conception of social responsibility or equality under the law."

Ali Winston reviews @gilduran 's #TheNerdReich: #SiliconValley Fascism and the War on Democracy

https://thebaffler.com/latest/revenge-of-the-nerds-winston
#tech #BigTech #SiliconValleyRight #books @bookstodon

The Alibi of Capital
How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow

Description
Today, extraordinary wealth seems to arrive from nowhere. The trick of conjuring this unearned wealth is, in fact, the key to understanding capitalism’s origins and a clue to why the catastrophe of climate collapse is upon us: value is created by consuming the future.

The Alibi of Capital explains how this came about through the imperial expansion of the West, encumbering today’s generations with repayments on earlier extractions. Timothy Mitchell identifies the forms of capitalisation, credit, and coercion that turn prospective assets into present income. Rejecting the common idea that claims on the future create only financial or fictitious capital, he traces the terraforming projects – the destruction of rivers, the colonising of territory, the expansion of infrastructure, and the burning of carbon – through which the future has been squandered. Terms such as finance, technology, the economy, and growth function as alibis that conceal this devastating form of extraction.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-alibi-of-capital-how-we-broke-the-earth-to-steal-the-future-on-the-promise-of-a-better-tomorrow-timothy-mitchell/b9d75f1021d88989

#capitalism #extractivism #colonization #tech #technology #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #EnvironmentalDestruction #EcologicalDestruction #MortgagingTheFuture

Re: https://discuss.systems/@ricci/116961677110890384

I've taken part in numerous computer science research projects that involved IRB review. I believe the system can work, even for cases like the above post. But Google and Stanford are bad actors that are taken at their word, and no system, IRB based or otherwise, is going to function properly if it cannot appropriately metabolize this reality.

I was once in a meeting where a Google X person gushed about a project that used smartphone sensor data to detect earthquakes. The calculus being set up here is that detecting earthquakes is a social good that outweighs any particular individual's right to privacy and even outweighs their right to know that their smartphone is being used in this way, let alone consent to it in any meaningful way. (*) Let me be clear and say I reject this framing, but it does appeal to a lot of people, even well-meaning ones. A mess.

#Google #IRB #ethics #EthicsReview #ComputerScience #research #ResearchEthics #tech #dev


(*) I assume there's some contortion involving EULAs whereby Google X can pretend that anyone using Android consented to having their smartphone's sensor data used for any future purpose Google et al. cooks up.

Re: https://social.freebitcoin.gay/users/drew/statuses/01KY7HAXB9R8BZ60CXWB3P2B7Y

I think the most important question is: why does anyone comply with what one incurious, self-centered, and self-important man, Linus Torvalds, says?

Why is that most important? Because Linux does not belong to Linus Torvalds. It belongs to the world. Torvalds only gets to dictate if the people who are best-positioned to take that power from him fail to do so. From where I sit (as an outsider), he should have been removed from the project, or at least have his dictatorial power removed, long ago, and the primary problem is that there is no structure or will to actually do that.

Under these conditions Linux is a hierarchical, and therefore right-wing, project. The project allows a single man to dictate the future evolution of a global good. Let's drop the illusion that it is "free" or "open" till that changes.


#dev #tech #FOSS #FLOSS #LOSS #linux #kernel #AI #LLM

Wait, dead mic?

Alright, it is in fact Sunday-morning-in-Europe but I am elbow-deep in setting up some machine over the world's slowest network connection, so if you're into that this is that. #lispyGopherClimate #emacs #ssh #actuallySshX Just building #acl2 and #lambdaMOO . ( #lisp, #logic and #mud ) (and #i2p but there's no accounting for taste).

https://toobnix.org/w/gXLXQqxf5MYg1NDF2Ua6oA

Every week since 2022 ! #peertube #podcast #tech #live every 8am Sunday UTC.

Time to update your Android devices: extensions are here. 🔥

#browser #news #technology #tech

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-mobile-8-2/

#Meta faces biggest #court fight yet over #socialmedia’s impact on #children

Meta Platforms will face a coalition of state attorneys general in a California #FederalCourt trial beginning on Wednesday over claims it engineered #Facebook & #Instagram to be #addictive to children, a case that could expose the company to massive damages & force it to make sweeping changes ​to its platforms.

#law #tech #MentalHealth #business
https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-29-states-head-court-biggest-test-yet-youth-social-media-litigation-2026-08-12/

#GiftArticle

#Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret #Louisiana #DataCenter Deal

A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.

#law #tech #regulations #electricity #energy #scam #Zuckerberg #ClimateChange
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/technology/meta-data-center-louisiana.html?unlocked_article_code=1.01A.Wi4A.RH8MIJ_Ha7It&smid=nytcore-ios-share

After The Economist’s interview with Elon Musk, will major media finally reassess how they cover the fascist billionaire?

As its editor-in-chief did the rounds saying she was “not a Musk hater,” he was on X calling her a traitor to the West and suggesting she be murdered. Please, have some dignity.

https://disconnect.blog/elon-musks-tired-schtick/

#tech #elonmusk #artificialintelligence #politics #media #journalism

#Tech

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https://chuffed.org/project/164090-help-omar-and-his-family

#Gaza #Palestine #Design #Tech #introduction #policy #CreativeToots #MastoArt #WebDev #SoftwareEngineering #softwaredesign #SoftwareDesign #Programming #OpenSource #CreativeToots #DigitalArt #MastoArt #Fediverse #Introductions #Photography #FF #FollowFriday #Fediverse #CatsOfMastodon #News #AmReading #Books #DigitalDesign

Lichess has always been the most #accessible #chess website for #blind #screenreader users. You can play games there, analyze them, even do puzzles. What you can't do, though, is learn the absolute basics there.
The tutorials are not accessible, and this has been a problem for years from what I know.
I'm fixing that. I have the platform running locally, and already fixed the " collect the stars"-style tutorials so they work with screen readers. Once i'm happy with these changes I will submit a pull request upstream... let's hope they feel up to merging it once I'm done here. #lichess #accessibility #blindChess #webdev #openSource #tech

Welp - since search basically everywhere has turned into "I see your suggestion in my input field, but how about I show you a shitload of stuff entirely unrelated to it?" it just occurred to me that the young folks out there probably don't even realize that originally, a search field was for entering the thing you wanted to find *and then the engine would present you with that thing* if at all possible & if it wasn't, it would just tell you that.

#ux #tech #enshittification