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I understand that people think their microphone is off when they have muted the microphone in the online meeting. Now, consider that the meeting software reminds you that your sound is muted when you speak.

[”Your microphone is muted.”]

It does this because your sound isn’t really muted… the software ”heard” you. The sound is just not transferred to other participants. But there is of course nothing stopping the software from capturing your sound anyway.

This is one o…

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Development and Testing of a Low Cost Ultrasonic Leak Detector
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If you don’t have a mute button on your microphone, the next best thing is software that will mute your microphone at the system level. MicDrop is an example of an app I’ve tried for this (Mac only): https://getmicdrop.com

You know it’s working when the meeting software starts throwing an ”error” and saying it’s not picking up sound from your microphone.

(1/2) Can you trust what you hear? 🎧 Episode 344 of the EdTech Situation Room (from 15 Jan 2025) explores AI voice tech, misinformation, and media ethics in the digital age.
on Substack:
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Lessons from Harlem
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I'm tired of always having a camera pointed at my face. I check out at a grocery store, there's a camera recording me close up. I drive down the road, there's a camera recording me at every intersection. One of my friends got new glasses, turns out its god damn ai glasses with cameras and a microphone recording our conversation and my facial expressions. Got a smart TV? Well apparently most have a privacy policy that gives them permission to use cameras to record you and take scr…

Today the new #DarkWave duo #HardAndSpades from #Leipzig released their first two songs, along with their online presence. If you're into

Intewesting! Via Wired:
Fender's GarageBand Rival
Fender has announced a new cross-platform app called Fender Studio that will let users easily record, jam, and release music from anywhere. The free app is available for iOS, Android, PC, Linux, and macOS, and looks to take on Apple's GarageBand for free recording app supremacy. It can use your phone's microphone or any compatible interface, and includes modeling for classic amplifiers, effects pedals, and mixing plug…

@… @… What's the quick shortcut to mute the microphone on Windows? Would be good to be able to tell people.

well matured commonplace book notes, tech safety and loudspeakers and hopefulness etc. https://lbj20.blogspot.com/2025/05/notes-tech-safety-loudspeakers.html HT @…

All the descriptions I’ve heard of the Ive AI device make it sound like an screenless insta360.
And really, a self-contained camera and microphone device - for use as AI sense input - is probably going to arrive in all manner of hardware. Brooches, glasses, etc.

@… @… I found this article but it talks about only workings for Teams... which would seem to indicate that it's not actually muting the microphone.

Statement by Teresa Berger, Professor of Liturgical Studies and Thomas E. Golden Jr. Professor of Catholic Theology at YDS/ISM.
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On a panel at St. Thomas More two days ago, I said in front of a large audience that I would be truly shocked if the cardinals elected a person from the U.S.! Conventional wisdom, after all, always had it that leadership of the Roman Catholic Church would come from somewhere else than a reigning superpower. 🧵