Substack tells writers Twitter "unexpectedly restricted access to embedding tweets"; Twitter seems to have disabled likes and RTs for tweets with Substack links (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)
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Twitter cuts off Substack embeds and starts suspending bots
Substack users are currently unable to embed tweets into their stories. That’s just the tip of the iceberg for the problems being caused by Twitter’s API changes.Mitchell Clark (The Verge)
His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent
Link: inverse.com/input/features/tro…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent.
Who was Thomas Buchler, the late creator of beloved Torah program 'TropeTrainer'? And can anything be done to revive his life’s work?S.I. Rosenbaum (Input)
The Tor Project partners with VPN maker Mullvad to launch the Mullvad browser, available on Windows, macOS, and Linux, seeking to reduce a user's "fingerprint" (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)
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The Mullvad browser protects privacy using standard VPNs
Mullvad VPN has teamed up with the Tor Project to release a browser focused on privacy, and making you harder to track via browser fingerprinting and third-party trackers.Mitchell Clark (The Verge)
First 2023 translation workshop from the pt_BR team — Debian Brasil
The Brazilian translation team debian-l10n-portuguese had their first workshop of 2023 in February, with great results: The workshop was aimed at beginners, working in DDTP/DDTSS. Two days of a hands-on workshop via Jitsi. In the follo...debianbrasil.org.br
MiniDebConf Brasília 2023 - 25 a 27 de maio — Debian Brasil
Nesse ano a MiniDebConf Brasil está de volta! A comunidade brasileira de usuários(as) e desenvolvedores(as) Debian convida a todos(as) a participarem da MiniDebConf Brasília 2023 que acontecerá durante 3 dias na capital federal. Nos dia...debianbrasil.org.br
Show HN: Coursemate, connect with other self learners
Link: coursem8.com/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Some signatories of the open letter to pause AI training walk back their positions, others turned out to be fake, and many experts disagree with its proposal (Chloe Xiang/VICE)
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The Open Letter to Stop 'Dangerous' AI Race Is a Huge Mess
The letter has been signed by Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Andrew Yang, and leading AI researchers, but many experts and even signatories disagreed.Chloe Xiang (VICE)
Bloomberg sponsors curl with 10K USD
url: mastodon.social/@bagder/110102…
discussions: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
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summary: Bloomberg has donated $10,000 to sponsor #curl, according to a tweet by daniel:// stenberg://.
Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?
CEO Eugen Rochko on running — and growing — a decentralized social network.
Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?
CEO Eugen Rochko on running — and growing — a decentralized social network gaining an influx of users in the wake of Elon Musk’s Twitter meltdown.Nilay Patel (The Verge)
"Con 68 años comprándose a una niña como si fuera un juguete de Reyes": críticas a Ana Obregón tras hacerse...
"El cuento de la criada", "aberrante", "como quien se va al Corte Inglés"Tremending (Público)
Why Engineers Need to Write
Link: developing.dev/p/why-engineers…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Why Engineers Need To Write
I hated writing in high school. It wasn’t objective like my favorite subjects, math and science. It also didn’t help that we had to write about old, hard-to-understand literature like Shakespeare.Ryan Peterman (The Developing Dev)
Banks as Collateral Damage in a Class War
Link: annpettifor.substack.com/p/ban…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Banks as Collateral Damage in a Class War
Central Bank obsession with holding down wages has consequences for fin stabilitySystem Change
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (January and February 2023)
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Sahil Dhiman (sahil) Jakub Ružička (jru) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Josenilson Ferreira da Silva Ileana...Debian Project
Zippyshare Quits After 17 Years, 45M Visits per Month Makes No Money
Link: torrentfreak.com/zippyshare-fi…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Zippyshare Quits After 17 Years, 45m Visits Per Month Makes No Money
Citing ad-blocking and rising costs, file-hosting veteran Zippyshare will shut down at the end of the month after almost 17 years online.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
A group of librarians argue the Internet Archive is a library, saying that the four major publishers' lawsuit threatens the development of digital collections (Inside Higher Ed)
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A group of librarians argue the Internet Archive is a library, saying that the four major publishers' lawsuit threatens the development of digital collections
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Researchers are sounding the alarm on the world’s first-known instance of real-world malware that can hijack a computer’s boot process even when Secure Boot and other advanced protections are enabled.
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Stealthy UEFI malware bypassing Secure Boot enabled by unpatchable Windows flaw
BlackLotus represents a major milestone in the continuing evolution of UEFI bootkits.Ars Technica
Unicode Roman Numerals and Screen Readers
Link: shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/03/unico…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Unicode Roman Numerals and Screen Readers – Terence Eden’s Blog
Regular blogging by Terence Eden.shkspr.mobi
The Be My Eyes app for the visually impaired will integrate with GPT-4, which can inspect and describe images, through a new Virtual Volunteer feature (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)
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The Be My Eyes app for the visually impaired will integrate with GPT-4, which can inspect and describe images, through a new Virtual Volunteer feature
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The Court of Justice is looking for freelance translators to translate texts into Irish. More information: curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/p1_2…
Saoraistritheoirí - Cúirt Bhreithiúnais an Aontais Eorpaigh
Court of Justice of the European UnionCURIA
Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone
Link: wired.com/story/twitter-data-a…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone
Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data.Chris Stokel-Walker (WIRED)
Rust 1.68.0 released
Version 1.68.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include the stabilization of the "sparse" Cargo protocol, the ability for (some) applications to recover from memory-allocation failures, and "local Pin construction":lwn.net
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