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I played a bit more with Numen (a cool voice control system, see https://numenvoice.org/). I can not only control my desktop, laptop, or linux mobile phone (#sxmo) with it, but also my house (lights, heating, media, etc) from all of these devices. Next I'll hook some mics to my raspberry pi's and control home automation from there.

All this on-device, no cloud connections, and definitely no "Hey Google", "Siri" or "Alexa"!

#diy #homeautomation #numen

Fun fact about Microsoft #Windows: if you type Ctrl-Shift-Alt-Win-L, LinkedIn will open in your default browser. This is an OS hotkey that cannot be turned off.

I know this reads like a joke but it isn't.

the hard part about hating computers is loving computers so, so much

I spent most of the time I've been trying to run a game company regretting the early decision to not use Unity for my project. But reading this, I'm really, really, *really* glad I don't have Unity anywhere in my stack

https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates

Things that stand out here:

- The pricing plan is baffling. It's like they designed it to make it impossible for you to make rational decisions about what you're getting into
- If they bait-switch you like this now, what will they do in ANOTHER 2 years?

We absolutely understand that not everyone can donate. In that case, please share the Godot Dev Fund link! Spreading the word is an excellent way to help.

https://fund.godotengine.org/

I was featured in a news article about blind people using high speech rates over the weekend. I probably wouldn't have chosen the synth they chose for the "test your skills" video, but that's a minor nitpick. https://www.9news.com.au/national/the-secret-language-only-blind-people-can-understand--and-its-not-braille/667eca67-a032-497e-a8fe-2bfd0d57e1c7

Hi, I'm a Haskell programmer. I spent so long getting a math PH.D I forgot "words" can contain more than one letter. I think comp (q,r,s,t) (u,v,w,x) = (q*u+r*w,q*v+r*x,s*u+t*w,s*v+t*x) is "self-documenting code"

Need a second letter in your variable name, just for a laugh? We already have that: It's called '

— A Haskell programmer

https://blog.erlend.sh/transitioning-r-rust-to-the-threadiverse

Three months ago I submitted a post to the #Rust sub-reddit called 'Building a better /r/rust together' wherein I hailed #Lemmy as a fitting successor.

Today we have 3+ moderately active Rust spaces on the threadiverse. To counteract community fragmentation, we need the ability for #ActivityPub groups (Lemmy 'community' or #Kbin 'magazine') to follow other groups.

Help needed from fedi-curious Rust developer out there: Implement FEP-d36d for Lemmy as drafted by @helge

Since I've seen a lot of chatter about people switching to #Firefox as Google ramps up the enshitification of #Chrome, let me tell you about a killer feature for people who (a) need multiple accounts on the same websites (eg. devs) or specifically (b) have to use multiple Google accounts.

Firefox has an official addon called Multi Account Containers that lets you trivially set up color coded tabs that have separate sets of cookies. Log into your dev account in one, and your test account in another. Log into your personal #gmail in one and have another tab next to it with your work Gmail. I'm actually not signed in to any Google accounts in most my tabs, I just have containers for the specific tasks I do on Google products.

It'll take you 30 seconds to set up.

Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

Mozilla's explanation: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

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I hate it when you follow a link to a really great blog post and you're two paragraphs in thinking oh my god this is really good but then a modal popup window from substack asks you to subscribe to this newsletter and you have to hit "continue reading" to finish and then you wonder if this great blog entry will last on someone else's service that may not be around in a few years

Some of you are wondering how the cars collect and share this if they have no internet connection. A lot of this data is actually collected through other means, and when you are in touch with a dealership. So it’s direct contact but also info they proactively collect through social media (not kidding! I just read Nissan’s privacy notice again) and credit reporting entities. If you have downloaded one of their apps, the internet connection is right there.

Of course, a lot more cars than you imagine have internet connections, and cars have had some sort of onboard computer since the 1970s. A lot of data is stored until it can be accessed or uploaded. And you often don’t even have to press buttons for something to be logged. Sensors are always on, marketed as making you safer, but also saving data to be sold to third parties.

So car companies may also combine information collected about you from your car with personal information they get from third parties. Then they can share (or even sell) that information, and any “inferences” they made based on it, to all kinds of businesses

And here’s another kicker… just by sitting in a vehicle that uses NissanConnect services, you agree to have your data collected by Nissan. So if you hitch a ride with a friend’s Nissan, you are on Nissan’s radar. The privacy policy makes it the responsibility of the owner to disclose this to anyone travelling in their car.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/what-data-does-my-car-collect-about-me-and-where-does-it-go/