If there's one article you read today, it should be this one about the Darien gap.
We are so unprepared for the future.
Stop Running Google Chrome Immediately
I warned you when the Manifest v3 rollout was announced, I warned you just before it's started, this is your very final warning to stop running Google Chrome...YouTube
iAccessibility Community
The community forums for the iAccessibility website.iAccessibility Community
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Today's conversation features Taylor Arndt and Michael Babcock, where we dive into the world of AI capabilities, particularly focusing on the potential of utilizing GPT 4.0 for content creation...iACast
Just posted on Six Colors: Apple’s permissions features are out of balance
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Apple’s permissions features are out of balance
In an attempt to protect Mac users from getting themselves into trouble, Apple introduced numerous permissions pop-ups into macOS Catalina. In the years since, the company has accelerated its appro…Six Colors
Y'know, for a project that really likes to dogpile on bloggers for not citing them, LuaJIT's docs are incredibly sparse.
I say this as a person trying to learn about its internals.
Below, the closest thing to docs or papers I can find on their site. Yes, it's instructing you to google basic compiler terminology, plus a 2009 mailing list post.
The amount of interpretive labor this asks of its reader is huge. I'm good, I'll read about other JITs.
Apple Voice Control solves a huge accessibility problem in iOS 18
A disability campaigner has highlighted what he says is a huge accessibility breakthrough with Voice Control in the latest iPhone...Ben Lovejoy (9to5Mac)
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Spelling is a known thing that LLMs are bad at, and it doesn't reflect on their performance on other problems.
LLMs don't see language like we do, all input is first tokenized (AKA turned into subwords) before passed into an LLM.
Most common words are just one token, long and unusual words are two or three. Common combinations of letters, like "ing", "able", "anti" etc also form tokens, so a word like "antiwiral" might be passed as ["anti", "wir", "al"].
LLMs have never really seen letters, you can imagine them as extremely intellectually sophisticated people who enjoy all content through audiobooks and have never actually seen written text.
What’s It Like To Freeze Your Credit Report? I Had To Find Out - CNET Money
Freezing my credit will make applying for new credit accounts a bit more inconvenient. But it's worth it.Danni Santana (CNET)
The conspiracy theorists who think Biden has been replaced by AI
Anything you dislike can now be called an "AI fake."
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A linguist explores what Kamala Harris's voice and speech reveal about her identity
If you like language studies, this is interesting
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#HarrisWalz #Harris2024 #Harris #KamalaHarris2024
A linguist explores what Kamala Harris's voice and speech reveal about her identity
Every now and then, a scholar's niche expertise lines up with a cultural or political moment and finds an audience hungry for the details. Nicole Holliday is having one of those moments.Jason Pohl (Phys.org)
🎉 The #NLnet Libervia-AV project is officially complete! 🎉
I've successfully implemented one-to-one calls, desktop sharing, group calls & more, plus ported #Galène #SFU to #XMPP.
Huge thanks to everyone who supported this project!
I'll probably post a blog about the work done around the end of the summer.
Now it's time for some vacations 😎.
Restoring Ecosystems through Water Stewardship - Google Sustainability
Google aims to be water positive by 2030. See how we're improving water sustainability and raising our standard of water stewardship.Sustainability
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SafeBreach security researcher Alon Leviev discovered a Windows Update downgrade attack that can "unpatch" fully-updated Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server systems to reintroduce old vulnerabilities
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Woo! Airfoil, Audio Hijack, Farrago, Fission, Loopback, and Piezo are all ready for Sequoia. Update now.
A Sequoia-compatible SoundSource is coming soon. Watch our Status page and consider turning on test releases.
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Rogue Amoeba is home to fantastic MacOS audio products for consumers and professionals alike. Rogue Amoeba - Strange Name. Great Software.rogueamoeba.com
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I've proposed a merge request to GNOME's likely new Video Player app codenamed Showtime. The feature? Toggling between video duration and time remaining by clicking the end timestamp. :)
It's the little things!
I think this might be my first contribution to a GNOME Python app. It was a bit of a trip coming from Vala and JavaScript land, but I _think_ I did okay for a first pass.
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window: Toggle end timestamp between duration and time remaining (!13) · Merge requests · GNOME / Incubator / Showtime · GitLab
Addresses one part of #70, specifically...GitLab
This is the beginnings of a series I've wanted to write for quite a while, which I call "A Brief History of White Insecurity." I'm going to draw some non-obvious connections, across two thousand years of history, between men's fashion, ancient Roman conquest, the fact that I personally speak English, and global climate change.
Come along for the ride: starshipgender.com/2024/08/whi…
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