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"When I look through my own recipe for the perfect cup of tea, I find no fewer than 11 outstanding points. On perhaps two of them there would be pretty general agreement, but at least four others are acutely controversial. Here are my own 11 rules, every one of which I regard as golden:"

A study using augmented-reality headsets with virtual keyboards and eye tracking, enabling non-speaking autistic people to type independently. (Critics have argued that human assistants for this kind of communication may be influencing what the person appears to be saying.)

"A duck robs a poor innocent woman as she’s distracted by the cute ducklings. Moments later they all rush off with their ill-gotten gains! What you don’t see is the camera crew, make-up …"

places.pub is a service that makes OpenStreetMap geographical data available as ActivityPub objects.

"Watch three official, two David Lynch-directed and several fan-made David Lynch Signature Cup Coffee commercials."

"Ecosia plants trees in over 20 biodiversity hotspots worldwide. Browse our reforestation projects by country to discover their impact on nature and people."

"I posted something on Mastodon that uses Unicode math symbols to produce fake bold and fake italic text. I used YayText.com to generate it, but I am not linking it because you I don’t want you to use it…"

Wow. Google decided to revoke an access-all-files permission it had granted the Nextcloud Android app back in *2011* from future Play store versions, meaning the cloud syncing app can no longer sync files with the cloud (except photos and media, because it can still get at those with a narrower permission). An installed copy of the app can still ask for those permissions and use them, but Google won't approve updates in the Play store if it does. Fortunately F-Droid doesn't have the same restrictions, and Nextcloud has the resources to maintain a slightly different build for the different channels.

"Without full file access, it’s kind of hard to use your own cloud."