Google Cybersecurity Certification: Your Gateway to a New Career ?
Discover how the Google Cybersecurity Certification on Coursera can help you pivot to a cybersecurity career. Learn from my personal…
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Best Apple Deals of the Week: iPads and Apple Watches See Record Low Prices Alongside Samsung Monitors
This week began with a sitewide sale on Samsung that will continue through this Sunday, and continued with great discounts on the M4 iPad Pro, 10th generation iPad, Apple Watch SE, and Apple Watch Ultra 2.
Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with some of these vendors. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may rece … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS): Guide to Freely Activating Windows and Office
Discover how to activate Windows and Office using Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS) with methods like HWID, … ⌘ Read more
A minha primeira #musiquinta !
#Lamego é a cidade onde nasci e cresci, e agora a cidade onde (ontra vez) vivo.
Na foto, o #castelo de Lamego e dois #CDs que aqui tenho dedicados à cidade.
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I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for years now, worked fine. Today it’s down – and now I’m learning that it runs on Bing? 😳
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hah it’s down for me too! 😱
Stocks are up 12% this year, but nearly half of Americans think they’re down. What’s going on?
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_Many Americans incorrectly think the stock market is down, inflation is rising and a U.S. recession is underway.
Credit: Patrick Smith / Getty_
A new poll is offering fresh evidence that the U.S. economy’s strong performance isn’t resonating with … ⌘ Read more
Remember 2009, 15 years ago, the general outcry when #lastfm decided to put an end to its radios?
X Confirms Plan to Make ‘Likes’ Private, Remove Likes Tab From Profiles
Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) will soon stop showing public “likes” on users’ profile pages, the company has said. The plan was confirmed on Wedndesday by X engineers, after MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris uncovered a flag in X’s iOS app revealing the coming change.
Perris found that turning off the flag completely removes the “Likes” t … ⌘ Read more
Just before the rain hit us hard:
Apple Adds Support for Live Activities to Shazam
Apple today added support for Live Activities in Shazam, its free music discovery and identification app.
Shazam’s Live Activities keep the user updated when searching for music in the background, which is particularly useful when multitasking or identifying songs in other apps. The last [sign … ⌘ Read more
New Beats Pill Appears in FCC Database Ahead of Launch
Multiple celebrities have been spotted with a new version of the Beats Pill speaker, and today the device showed up in an FCC database, suggesting that we’re getting closer to a potential launch.
FCC filings typically happen just weeks ahead of when a product launches, so we could see this new Beats Pill speaker sometime in June. Apple plans to launch [Solo Buds … ⌘ Read more
Conserving Wildlife Can Help Mitigate Climate Change
Fran Silverman, Associate Director of Communications - Yale School of the Environment
Stephan: Further proof that we live in an interconnected, interdependent matrix of life, and if we are to survive we must protect the matrix. As a country, as a society, fostering wellbeing must become our most important priority.
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Medicaid “Unwinding” Disproportionately Affects Disabled People, Advocates Say
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Disabled people are losing benefits with little or no notice, getting bad advice when they call for information, and facing major disruptions in care while they wait for issues to be sorted out. Credit: Rich Legg / Getty
Jacqueline Saa has a genetic condition that leaves he … ⌘ Read more
iPhone 16 Pro Max to Feature New 48MP Wide and Ultra Wide Cameras
Apple’s iPhone 16 Pro Max will boast a bigger main camera sensor while both iPhone 16 Pro models will feature a 48-megapixel Ultra Wide camera for the first time, claims a rumor coming out of Asia.
According to Weibo user OvO Baby Sauce OvO, the main camera of the iPhone 16 Pro Max will be based on an advanced c … ⌘ Read more
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OS/2 2.0 wasn’t much of a success, huh? So, sure, go ahead and repurpose those disks. 😂
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yep, this was pre-“everything comes from China/Asia”. My keyboard was made in the UK: https://movq.de/v/ac83b493f6/model-m.ff.jpg
Apple Promotion Boosts iPhone Trade-In Values for a Limited Time
Apple today launched a limited-time promotion that increases the trade-in values for select iPhone models in the United States when customers buy a new iPhone.
The promotion lasts from today until June 3, and means anyone trading in their existing iPhone 11 or newer will get more money knocked off the price of a new iPhone. As you can see fro … ⌘ Read more
Quite proud of what we built :)
I really like the result.
O que passará pela cabeça de quem decide que, num formulário de contacto de um site institucional, se force os campos de texto a ter todo o texto em lowercase (nome, assunto e corpo da mensagem!)?
Russian Disinformation Videos Smear Biden Ahead of U.S. Election
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Microsoft said the video probably came from a group it calls Storm-1516, a collection of disinformation experts who now focus on creating videos they hope might go viral in America. Credit: Nanna Heitmann / The New York Times
Last month, a video began circulating on social media purporting to tell the … ⌘ Read more
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That was legible when I typed it. There were extra spaces between the words
W o r d s a r e p r o p e r l y s e p a r a t e d
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@iolfree@tilde.club I n d e e d !
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@prologic That's a lovely campfire! Let's see what my hike produced yesterday.
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Let’s just go with that view: https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-auf-den-wasserberg-und-das-fuchseck-2024-05-18/24.jpg
Two mates and I went on a 25km hike yesterday to the Wasserberg (lit. Water Mountain) and Fuchseck (lit. Fox Corner) on the edge of the Swabian Alb. They arrived by train and of course it was delayed by half an hour, “due to limited availability of tracks”. That was a first one, I never heard that reason before. Another train had a breakdown in a train station and later my mates’ train had to be rebooted, too. That restart alone took 10 minutes. O_o Software problem, it can’t be helped.
It rained the whole day before, so a lot of foot paths had turned into small creeks. Also, the mud levels were much higher than usual. We also took one or the other shortcut which were even messier. And also reeaalllly steep (see 07 and 08). It didn’t help that my guiding abilities also sucked a bit and I took the wrong turn twice. Oh well, we just explored new paths I’ve never been on. That’s a win in my book. :-)
After a rest at the Wasserberghaus with a Spezi, we then decided to also visit the Fuchseck, since we’re just around the corner. It took a bit longer that I remembered and after enyoing the view and eating homemade waffles with apple sauce, we then made our way home.
About 100 meters in front of the train station it began to rain. The thunderstorm caught up on us. We just made it in time, a couple of minutes later, the train was supposed to show up. I quickly walked home and was a bit soaked when I unlocked the front door.
It was great fun, it was a nice stroll for me, my mates were absolutely exhausted. Well, I admit, my feet hurt, too. :-)
Here’s a nice view on the Three Emperor-Mountains in the distance. From left to right: Hohenstaufen, Rechberg and Stuifen, the left one is my backyard mountain:
https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-auf-den-wasserberg-und-das-fuchseck-2024-05-18/42.jpg
More pics: https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-auf-den-wasserberg-und-das-fuchseck-2024-05-18/
The first and hopefully not last thing I drew this year (drawn yesterday). Kinda minimalistic and Scribble Kibble inspired.
OS/2 2.0 wasn’t much of a success, huh? So, sure, go ahead and repurpose those disks. 😂
https://movq.de/v/5ad2630508/IMG_20240519_072303.jpg-small.jpg
Gurman: No New Mac Studio and Mac Pro Until Mid-2025
Apple will not refresh the Mac Studio and Mac Pro with next-generation high-end chips until the middle of 2025, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
In the latest edition of his [“Power On” newsletter]( … ⌘ Read more
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MOTW: What's the most interesting media (photo, video, image or screenshot) you've captured this week? 🤔
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This is what the last couple of weeks have been like at work 🔥
It’s the End of Google Search As We Know It
, - WIRED
Stephan: Google is the largest search engine in the world, with a 90.91% market share and you probably use it every day. As this article tells us it is about to change radically.
Google Search is about to fundamentally change—for better or worse. To align with Alphabet-owned Google’s grand vision of [artificial intell … ⌘ Read more
Apple to Increase Old iPhone Trade-In Values for iPhone 15 Customers
Apple for a limited time will increase the trade-in value for older iPhones when customers buy any iPhone 15 model in the U.S. and Canada.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple will soon boost the credit paid for older iPhones when customers buy an iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus … ⌘ Read more
The Trump hush-money trial reveals a seedy world shot through with moral rot
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‘The trial has introduced us to a world of moral and ethical loathsomeness in which people use and abuse one another routinely. It’s Trump world.’ Credit: Mark Peterson / AFP / Getty
There is something important about Trump’s criminal trial in New Yo … ⌘ Read more
Apple Launches Tap to Pay on iPhone in Japan
Apple has announced Tap to Pay on iPhone in Japan, allowing independent sellers, small merchants, and large retailers in the country to use iPhones as a payment terminal.
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One of the super frustrating things about this: I have to write lots of documents, but I am required to use horrendous software to do that. It cannot even number sections automatically, nor can you insert cross-references to other sections. Simple stuff like that. It all has to be done manually.
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I was able to dig up StarOffice 3.1, which I used in the 1990’ies on Windows 95. This was the highlight of my day. 🥰 As you can see in the photo below, this CD includes a version for Windows 3.1, 95/NT – and OS/2! How cool is that? My CD back then did not have the OS/2 version.
StarWriter of StarOffice 3.1 can do a lot of the stuff that I’m missing in the tool at work. Like automatic numbering of sections/chapters and cross-references to other parts of the document. Essential basic stuff like that.
All the following screenshots are from QEMU VMs (OS/2 2.1, Windows 3.11, and Windows 98), but I think I’m gonna install this on my real OS/2 Warp 4 box soon. 🧓
What really blew my mind is this feature, though: You can rearrange your document’s structure using drag-and-drop. Here’s a demo (Window 2000):
https://movq.de/v/67523d0d3f/so31.mp4
I really, really wish the tool at work would have a feature like that. It would have saved me so much time already. 😭
Climate change is likely to aggravate brain conditions, study finds
, - Medical Press - University College London
Stephan: As the climate changes and an increasing number of researchers look at the effects it is likely to produce the news that comes out of their work is ever more alarming. Here is the latest I have read about.
Credit: CC0 Public Domain
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What's all of this about? one may ask...
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@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Bahahaha 🤣 The domain for that image is blocked on my local network 😅
New iPads Get Redesigned Magnets for More Smart Folio Viewing Angles
Apple has new Smart Folio cases for its latest M4 iPad Pro and M2 iPad Air models that boast a wider range of viewing angles, and thanks to Marques Brownlee, we now know how it’s done.
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I've ripped off it's GPU about a year ago to rescue another computer ... Now I'm stuck with only SSH to play with it. Since it came with just a VGA port for display and my monitor takes all but THAT!
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What’s all of this about? one may ask…
Well I’ve been itching to toy around with a BSD on actual hardware and away from the comfort of VMs. NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD… It doesn’t matter. I just want to “Make it feel… Make it feel alive AGAIN!”
my current desktop #screenshot https://0x0.st/XKRk.png . I enjoy june’s scheme https://causal.agency/scheme.png
Thanks to #GoogleIO I also noticed that now their lexicon has the term “Open Software”, not defined but exemplified, in a quiet step away from using the “Open Source” term.
On #GoogleIO’s keynote, it is said that Google Search has been getting an increase in user satisfaction, and I feel like there must be something weird going on,because all I read everywhere on news, blogs and social media is that people are feeling that Google Search is getting worse and worse (which I also feel). Are they in a bubble? Am I in a bubble? What’s going on?
FERC Overhauls Electric Grid to Pave Way for Renewables
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, Contributing Writer - EcoWatch
Stephan: Here is some way too late, but nonetheless still good news. Finally, the country is beginning to seriously restructure the electrical grid to prepare for the conversions to Renewables.
_Electric power lines are attached to the transmission tower along the power grid in … ⌘ Read more
School segregation surges 70 years after Brown v. Board ruling
Russell Contreras, - Axios
Stephan: This is very sad news for those of us who worked so hard to end school segregation and bad news for the United States. We are going in the wrong direction in so many ways.
Racial segregation in schools across the country has increased dramatically over th … ⌘ Read more
School segregation surges 70 years after Brown v. Board ruling
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Racial segregation in schools across the country has increased dramatically over the last three decades, according to two new reports and an Axios review of federal data.Why it matters: As the U.S. marks the 70th anniversary of the landmark ⌘ Read more
Apple Previews Three New CarPlay Features Coming With iOS 18
Apple today previewed new accessibility features coming with iOS 18 later this year, and this includes some new options for CarPlay.
Apple highlighted three new features coming to CarPlay:
- Voice Control: This feature will allow users to navigate CarPlay and control ap … ⌘ Read more
M2 iPad Air and M4 iPad Pro Models Now Available for Same-Day Pickup
Starting today, Apple’s new M2 iPad Air and M4 iPad Pro models are available for same-day or next-day pickup at Apple Stores, with no pre-order required. Online orders are also beginning to arrive to customers today.
Customers across the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and other regions can now place an order on Ap … ⌘ Read more
#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyRecord Week 20
Apple Says It Stopped $7 Billion in Fraudulent Transactions in Last 4 Years
Apple today shared its fourth annual fraud prevention analysis, providing insight into how the App Store’s rules protect users from fraudulent apps and other security issues.
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How rich is too rich?
Lucas Chancel, - nature
Stephan: Grotesque wealth inequality has become a major social force shaping the United States and much of the rest of the world. Here is a very good take on this reality.
_In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, residents in unplanned settlements live just blocks away from wealthy suburbs.
Credit: Viviane Moos / Corbis / Getty_
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New iPad Air and iPad Pro Feature Battery Health Menu Including Cycle Count and 80% Charging Limit Option
Apple’s latest iPad Air and iPad Pro models feature a new Battery Health menu in the Settings app that is not available on older iPads, and which includes options that were once limited to iPhone 15 models.
OpenAI Announces ChatGPT App for Mac, GPT-4 for Free, and More
At its Spring Update event, OpenAI announced that it will be releasing a desktop app for the Mac, as seen in the screenshot below. The app will be rolling out to ChatGPT Plus subscribers starting today, ahead of a wider launch “in the coming weeks.”
“With a simple keyboard shortcut (Option + Space), you can inst … ⌘ Read more