Úřady práce jako součást boje vlivových oligarchů a jejich dobře placených politiků

"Lhali jsme ráno, lhali jsme večer. Bylo úplně jasné, že to, co říkáme, není pravda. Přitom jsme čtyři roky nedělali vůbec nic. Nic. Nedokážete mi říci jediné podstatné vládní opatření, na které bychom mohli být hrdí." (Bývalý maďarský premié...

blisty.cz/art/112651-urady-pra…

Úřady práce jako součást boje vlivových oligarchů a jejich dobře placených politiků | 24. 3. 2023 | Pavel Veleman | Britské listy

"Lhali jsme ráno, lhali jsme večer. Bylo úplně jasné, že to, co říkáme, není pravda. Přitom jsme čtyři roky nedělali vůbec nic. Nic. Nedokážete mi říci je...

^{Britské listy}

16,200 Ukrainian children are known to have been deported by Russia.

Their abduction is a horrible reminder of the darkest time of our history, war crimes.

With #Ukraine and #Poland, we want to help find them by:

- Holding a conference to take all measures needed to establish their whereabouts

- Assisting UN bodies and international organisations in collecting information, including on children adopted by Russian foster families

These children must return to Ukraine.

#noimpunity

Rád bych vyzval uživatele, kteří píšou česky a nemají nastavený jazyk příspěvků na češtinu.

Ostatní uživatelé si mohou filtrovat příspěvky na federované ose podle jazyka příspěvků, a podle toho sbírat a poznávat nové uživatele. Pokud budou mít nastavený filtr na češtinu, a vy nebudete mít jazyk příspěvků nastavený na češtinu, vaše příspěvky tak neuvidí. :)

Jazyk příspěvku můžete dočasně měnit i u políčka pro přidávání příspěvků. Je to čtvrtá ikonka se zkratkou jazyka (EN/CS/...)

Děkuji. :)

"The politics here are obvious. As Brewster Kahle put it, this decision conceives of libraries as "customer service departments for corporate database products." The truth is that libraries are ancient, bedrock institutions. Libraries are older than copyright. They're older than printing. Than paper. Than commerce."

📚 💫

@pluralistic on the @internetarchive case:

pluralistic.net/2023/03/25/con…

As part of their training, a crew of Canadian service dogs watched Billy Elliott: The Musical at Ontario's Stratford Festival theatre.

#Ontario #Canada #DogsOfMastodon

holy shit I just caught Google giving out massively incorrect information about a common drug. This is the kind of casual answer that can get someone killed.

#misinformation #generativeBullshit

@Onj you might enjoy that! :) toot.community/@openculture/11…

Open Culture (Official)

2023-03-25 21:34:53

Watch 13 Levels of Drumming, from Easy to Complex, Explained by Snarky Puppy Drummer Larnell Lewis

openculture.com/2023/03/watch-…

Watch 13 Levels of Drumming, from Easy to Complex, Explained by Snarky Puppy Drummer Larnell Lewis

It's fun to watch. In another video from the same series produced by Wired magazine, musician Jacob Collier explains the concept of harmony with increasing difficulty to five different people-- a child, a teen, a college student, a professional, and …

^{OC (Openculture.com)}

Watch 13 Levels of Drumming, from Easy to Complex, Explained by Snarky Puppy Drummer Larnell Lewis

openculture.com/2023/03/watch-…

A small reminder to owners of small instances. You are free to use our #LibreTranslate api for your Mastodon instance. Simply just warn us by DM. Thank you.

translate.fedilab.app

LibreTranslate - Free and Open Source Machine Translation API

Free and Open Source Machine Translation API. Self-hosted, offline capable and easy to setup. Run your own API server in just a few minutes.

^{translate.fedilab.app}

From Ted Chiang's writeup on ChatGPT:

> In 2013, workers at a German construction company noticed something odd about their Xerox photocopier: when they made a copy of the floor plan of a house, the copy differed from the original in a subtle but significant way. In the original floor plan, each of the house’s three rooms was accompanied by a rectangle specifying its area: the rooms were 14.13, 21.11, and 17.42 square metres, respectively. However, in the photocopy, all three rooms were labelled as being 14.13 square metres in size. The company contacted the computer scientist David Kriesel to investigate this seemingly inconceivable result. They needed a computer scientist because a modern Xerox photocopier doesn’t use the physical xerographic process popularized in the nineteen-sixties. Instead, it scans the document digitally, and then prints the resulting image file. Combine that with the fact that virtually every digital image file is compressed to save space, and a solution to the mystery begins to suggest itself.

> […] Xerox photocopiers use a lossy compression format known as JBIG2, designed for use with black-and-white images. To save space, the copier identifies similar-looking regions in the image and stores a single copy for all of them; when the file is decompressed, it uses that copy repeatedly to reconstruct the image. It turned out that the photocopier had judged the labels specifying the area of the rooms to be similar enough that it needed to store only one of them—14.13—and it reused that one for all three rooms when printing the floor plan.

"ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web",
newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-t…

ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web

The noted speculative-fiction writer Ted Chiang on OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT, which, he says, does little more than paraphrase what’s already on the Internet.

^{Ted Chiang (The New Yorker)}

I’m excited to share what I’ve been hacking on for the past few years: The Most Dangerous Codec in the World: Finding and Exploiting Vulnerabilities in H.264 Decoders.

This is the story behind CVE-2022-3266, CVE-2022-32939, CVE-2022-42846, and CVE-2022-42850 along with an extended RCA of CVE-2022-22675.
🧵

RT @mitvis@twitter.com
We’re looking for screen reader users to join our paid remote study! We’re testing out customizable descriptions for accessible data visualizations, and we want your feedback on if they’re helpful. $50 compensation for 1.5 hour study. Sign up at this form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

twitter.com/mitvis/status/1638…

Customizable Descriptions for Accessible Data Visualizations

The MIT Visualization Group is conducting a remote study on customizable descriptions for accessible data visualizations for screen readers. We are seeking blind, low-vision, and/or visually impaired participants to help with this study.

^{Google Docs}

Really liking this GTK4/libadwaita Mastodon client - beta.flathub.org/apps/dev.geop…

Well done! I encourage the author to reach out to the GNOME design team to get some feedback in helping improve it further.

Tuba | Flathub

Browse the Fediverse

^Flathub

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Inaudible ultrasound attack can stealthily control your phone, smart speaker

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…

Inaudible ultrasound attack can stealthily control your phone, smart speaker

American university researchers have developed a novel attack which they named "Near-Ultrasound Inaudible Trojan" (NUIT) that can launch silent attacks against devices powered by voice assistants, like smartphones, smart speakers, and other IoTs.

^{Bill Toulas (BleepingComputer)}

The central holding of the #InternetArchive court opinion is, if you own a physical book and scan it, you infringed the author's copyright by creating an unauthorized copy—even if you never use both at the same time. (This also implies that printing an ebook = infringement.)

That's quite bad.

storage.courtlistener.com/reca…

blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/th…

You know how research is overwhelmingly done on people who are WEIRD - from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies?

An animal behaviour scientist has proposed that the animals we've been studying are also quite STRANGE. We're focusing on the fish who swim into traps, the crows who walk right up to a weird log on their first day in captivity. theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

A cognitive revolution in animal-behavior research has begun

Animal ‘personalities’ are forcing scientists to rethink basic research.

^{Elizabeth Preston (The Atlantic)}

Today the search element landed in the HTML spec
(and subsequently the ARIA in HTML and HTML AAM specs too)

but hey, maybe reading/keeping track of specs is not how you spend your time.

Good for you, btw.

So here's a quick intro to the search element
scottohara.me/blog/2023/03/24/…

ScottO explains the new search element.

scottohara.me//blog/2023/03/24…

Carolyn is greatly missed.