Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover
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Open Source Coalition Announces 'Model-Signing' to Strengthen ML Supply Chain
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Samsung Galaxy S25 Enterprise Edition Gets 8 Years of Updates
https://www.gizchina.com/2025/04/06/samsung-galaxy-s25-enterprise-edition-gets-8-years-of-updates/

SafetyCore: How This Android App Threatens Your Personal Data!
https://www.gizchina.com/2025/04/06/safetycore-how-this-android-app-threatens-your-personal-data/

Healthy Battery Charging
https://f-droid.org/packages/biz.binarysolutions.healthybatterycharging

Healthy Battery Charging alerts you when to plug or unplug your phone from the charger to improve battery life. The app itself is optimized for low battery consumption, running in the background and checking the battery level every 15 minutes. The exact timing of these checks depends on the Android operating system, which may schedule them alongside other tasks or delay them in sleep mode. As a result, the battery level may slightly exceed the high threshold while charging or drop slightly below the low threshold while discharging before you receive a notification.


For those who want to know more about the technical details of Li-ion batteries:
https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries

#Energy #Charge #Battery #LiInOnBattery

The "S" in MCP Stands for Security
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Diagnosing bugs preventing sleep on Windows
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Tracking the international space station with an Arduino
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Check here, your Xiaomi, Redmi or POCO device support's further updates or is EOL

https://trust.mi.com/misrc/updates

The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer
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Blacksmithing and Lisp
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My Browser WASM't Prepared for This. Using DuckDB, Apache Arrow and Web Workers
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Xiaomi 15S Pro: Leaked Certification Hints at Return of UWB and Blazing-Fast Charging
https://www.gizchina.com/2025/04/06/xiaomi-15s-pro-leaked-certification-hints-at-return-of-uwb-and-blazing-fast-charging/

…and here comes the Online Safety Act

The UK’s Online Safety Act officially came into force two weeks ago, and they have wasted no time using it.

Alternative social media network Gab has already been threatened with a massive fine for its supposed failures to “police speech” on its platform. Anecdotes are piling up, small forums and communities blocking access from the UK for fear of attracting OfCom’s ire and the like.

But rest assured, an OfCom spokesperson promised the Telegraph they would “only take action where it is proportionate and appropriate”. So that’s alright.

The Financial Timesheadlines……...

Read full article ...

https://off-guardian.org/2025/04/04/and-here-comes-the-online-safety-act/

Non-US-based alternatives to popular services
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Nintendo may use dual pricing to curb Switch 2 resales
https://www.gizchina.com/2025/04/06/nintendo-switch-2-launch/

Show HN: I built a Rust crate for running unsafe code safely
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E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against X
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Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit
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Max severity RCE flaw discovered in widely used Apache Parquet
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Pitfalls of Safe Rust
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