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Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns

svd.se
1,448 points·by sandbach·4 months ago·809 comments

America's Future Is African

liberalcurrents.com
2 points·by sandbach·5 months ago·0 comments

A Missive on the Leitmotif

wehwalt.net
1 points·by sandbach·5 months ago·0 comments

It's the Great AGI Rebrand

theverge.com
2 points·by sandbach·7 months ago·0 comments

UK to rejoin EU's Erasmus student exchange programme

theguardian.com
19 points·by sandbach·7 months ago·13 comments

Why can't I buy a small smartphone?

ft.com
4 points·by sandbach·9 months ago·3 comments

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1 points·by sandbach·9 months ago·0 comments

The AirPods Pro 3 Are Everything I Wanted, and They're Crucially Flawed

aftermath.site
3 points·by sandbach·9 months ago·1 comments

China opens highest bridge, breaking its own record

nbcnews.com
3 points·by sandbach·10 months ago·0 comments

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sandbach
·13 days ago·discuss
For those curious about the Godson–dog food connection, the Chinese code name was 狗剩 gǒu shèng 'scraps for the dog'.

https://baike.baidu.com/item/Godson/10744024
sandbach
·2 months ago·discuss
Compare https://deskto.ps/
sandbach
·2 months ago·discuss
They've recently done up Norwich castle and it's better than ever. It's in the running for Museum of the Year!
sandbach
·5 months ago·discuss
Not at low temperatures.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-fiction-glas...
sandbach
·5 months ago·discuss
Skill issue.
sandbach
·5 months ago·discuss
The Chinese vertical typography is sadly a bit off. If punctuation marks are used at all, they should be the characters specifically designed for vertical text, like ︒(U+FE12 PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL IDEOGRAPHIC FULL STOP).
sandbach
·6 months ago·discuss
There are ETFs that specifically exclude companies with lots of negative externalities (no Exxon, etc.). The term to look for is "socially responsible".

E.g. https://www.ubs.com/uk/en/assetmanagement/funds/etf/lu062945...
sandbach
·6 months ago·discuss
Banksy??
sandbach
·7 months ago·discuss
Those vowel diacritics in Semitic languages are called matres lectionis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mater_lectionis
sandbach
·7 months ago·discuss
> A magic 'send my PC browser tab to this other PC connected to the TV' button

You can send a tab to another device on Firefox. It doesn't come with all the browser context, but it's pretty handy.
sandbach
·9 months ago·discuss
https://archive.ph/BXR3b
sandbach
·2 years ago·discuss
Anyone interested in formants and speech synthesis should have a look at Praat[0], a marvellous piece of free software that can do all kinds of speech analysis, synthesis, and manipulation.

https://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/