Trying to do this all from first principles, so:
* A freedom-respecting computer should never prevent a user from running software they want to run
But also:
* A safety-respecting computer should never allow someone other than the user to run software that acts against the user
There's no inherent conflict here - the user should be allowed to run whatever they want, someone who isn't the user shouldn't. But how do we tell the difference?
Movim 0.27 Lovas is finally there! 🎉
In this #Movim #release you'll find the first exciting video-conferencing features integrated with the help of the @nlnet funding. A big thanks to them for their precious support 😊 ❤️
The call flow is now completely integrated in the main window and an important refactoring was done both in the frontend part and the #XMPP Jingle stack.
You will also find several user interfaces fixes as well as a database reorganization.
⚠️ This version is also fixing a serious security issue that could cause remote-code execution under specific circumstances. We are inviting you to update as soon as possible.
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Communities • Movim 0.27 Lovas
What was planned to be a minor #release after last month one turned out to be a major release…mov.im
Me this afternoon: hunkered down in my closet, ignoring another fire alarm, trying not to see the whole damned thing as a metaphor for life these days
And yes, that is quite literal. I've been present for at least 4 false fire alarms in my new apartment building, 2 at around 2 AM, and have started ignoring them all with caveats. My closet is the only spot without a speaker blaring some obnoxiously loud, unique-per-room, sound designed to induce maximum panic and basically obliterate the usefulness of my most critical sense. The metaphor just gets more depressingly spot on the wider out you zoom.
The gritty deets are in the thread, but a follow-up to yesterday's post:
Some combo of "reset glasses, reset app, upgrade firmware, reset reset reset sorted things. I'm now back to having Meta AI describing things to me and it's already been useful.
One pro tip though: apparently the AI does not do PII at all. As in, you can't ask it who a package your apartment just tosses into the mailroom is to, even if it's clearly visible in the image, because it just won't answer questions like "Who is this package addressed to?" no matter how many ways you phrase it. This is at least anecdotally confirmed beyond me, so it isn't just that I used the wrong incantation.
Anyhow, was bummed to write that post. It's a useful tool when it works. Hell, the amount I can destress just by pulling print material out of cabinets and learning I can throw most of it away because it's just owners' manuals I can get online...that's huge, and worth the $300. But I still think there should be some way of tracking these limitations, because they both make sense and also might mean something isn't the accessibility tool you think it is when you buy it.
Regina Nkenchor @reginankenchor has just published "Assessing the Effectiveness of GNOME's Diversity and Inclusion Strategies: Challenges, Opportunities, and Recommendations". We have a lot of work to do!
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Introduction The GNOME Project is a prominent open-source initiative dedicated to creating a user-friendly and accessible computing environment. Renowned for its intuitive and elegant desktop interface, GNOME strives to deliver a powerful and inclusive ex
Introduction The GNOME Project is a prominent open-source initiative dedicated to creating a user-friendly and accessible computing environment.Regina Nkenchor (www.linkedin.com)
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#AI #Ethics #politics
How AI is Driving Us Toward a Global Philosophical Reckoning
We’re in the midst of a new technological revolution. Much like the Industrial Revolution, the AI era will challenge all aspects of society. David Leslie, Director of Ethics and Responsible InnovationRiley Fessler (The DSR Network)
Since this is the NB-80C, it's got a 10.4" 640x480 color LCD. (the NB-60 has a 9.4" 640x480 greyscale LCD)
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A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#162 Late Friday Edition
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This article doesn't have the word "commute" in it at all. Not very many of them do.
"As much as an 8 percent raise", but 8% of an 8 hour day is about 45 minutes. Which is... a 20 minute commute to and from work, which is time out of your life your employer is taking from you, unpaid, for which employer and employee both gain nothing.
And a 20 minute commute in Toronto is a _joke_, it's nothing. 40, 60, sometimes 90 are common.
I wish journalists could do math.
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Why remote work has staying power: It's 'still kicking,' economist says
The pandemic-era trend of working remotely has endured largely because it benefits both workers and businesses, economists said.Greg Iacurci (CNBC)
Imagine a job offer that read:
"As a condition of your employment, you will spend an additional 60 to 90 minutes every day in a mildly unpleasant environment accomplishing nothing. You will not be compensated for this time, nor any costs incurred during this time. Nothing that happens during this time will be valued or recognized by your employer in any way. However, should you decline these conditions or fail to complete them you will be fired."
A reasonable person might ask "what the hell".
Snáď iba preháňam, ale nemôžem si pomôcť. Vždy keď zavadím o noviny, vidím ako deň po dni prerážame nové dno (žumpy).
Dostanú ľudia už rozum? Alebo dostane vláda mrzkej lúzy 2.0 nejaký ďalší geniálny nápad... nejaký Lex "nechajte nás v tichosti kradnúť"?
Každopádne už nedokážem iba kľudne sedieť, na cenzúru sa treba pripraviť:
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#cenzura #vladamrzkejluzy #dns #slovakia #slovensko #navody
Ako sa pripraviť na cenzúru za čias vlády mrzkej lúzy 2.0 – lekcia 1 | Ľuboš Moščovič o bezpečnosti
Informačná bezpečnosť sa týka každého!www.herrman.sk
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Aj k VPNkam sa dostanem. Ľudia sú ochotní sa brániť, len väčšina netuší ako. Informácie sú sila.
The Russian economy is crashing.
In 2008 one ruble would buy 4 US cents. Now the value is just 1 cent. Imagine an entire country of people having the value of their pensions etc. reduced by 75 percent, just because of 1 man’s stupidity.
Good luck with the imports Vladimir.
oh, no-no it’s not that bad!
It’s even worse!
In 1991 you could get $2 for 1₽.
In ‘92 it was just 0.8¢
By ‘97 crashed to 0.016¢
Then RUB was denominated by factor 1000 (1000₽ → 1₽) in ‘98
So now you get 16¢ for 1 new ₽, but…
by ‘99 it was already 4¢
and in ‘24 it’s back to 1¢
But now you know that it’s actually 0.0001¢.
So it’s 2$ to 0.0001¢ in just 35 years.
Yeah, you are reading this right:
RUB in ‘24 worth 2,000,000 (two million) times less than in ‘91 comparing to USD
Kinda make you think, right?
But wait!
let’s look 100 years back. It’s 1920 and exchange rate it still about 1¢ for 1₽
Catch is that along the way it was denominated 6 times, by total factor of 5 × 10¹⁵ so in just a century it’s value comparing to USD is fallen
5 000 000 000 000 000
five
quadrillion
times
1 quadrillion is 1000 trillions, so it’s 140 times bigger than US national debt.
“crashing” is just a permanent state of Russian economy
Nie som fanúšikom AirTagov a iných spyware udelátok... ALE... toto je jednoznačne za aspoň jedného bludišťáka 👍
From: @briankrebs
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Attached: 1 image California woman fed up with stolen mail sends Apple AirTag to herself to catch thief https://apnews.com/article/airtag-mail-theft-apple-california-bf1f993430216f23efd1528ec0f6a19aInfosec Exchange
A week supercharged in client updates, and a call for booths for The Matrix Conference. That and more happened This Week in Matrix!
matrix.org/blog/2024/08/23/thi…
This Week in Matrix 2024-08-23
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
A Prominent Accessibility Advocate Worked With Studios and Inspired Change. But She Never Actually Existed. - IGN
In the years since the alleged death of beloved accessibility advocate Susan Banks, mounting evidence and accounts from those close to her work suggest that she was not the person she claimed to be.Grant Stoner (IGN)
Today I learnt that the Mandarin for "comrade" under Communism (同志 tóngzhì) has been repurposed to mean "gay". Awesome work, comrades!
Here's my source, a YouTube interview with bilingual subtitles. youtube.com/watch?v=zHDwOegIVw…
What’s It Like Being a Gay Man in China - Chinese Interview
This is an interview video featuring a conversation with a native speaker. Learn authentic Chinese expressions, modal particles, and common filler words. Plu...YouTube
#LibreOffice #OpenSource #FOSS #Office #utilities #tutorial #tools
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Fediverse Symbol ⁂ (@FediverseSymbol@typo.social)
@simon@simonwillison.net When used within HTML, would something like ⁂ or ⁂ be okay?typo.social
Each time this sign goes by in my feed, I mentally add "and Stacy's Mom"
And now I shall spend the day listening to Adam Schlesinger's considerable oeuvre. In addition to his career with Fountains of Wayne, he wrote for the Click Five and the Monkees, for Stephen Colbert and Sesame Street, for the Tony Awards and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, to say nothing of penning the title track for _That Thing You Do!_
Adam's death in April 2020 will always be the public figure Covid death that hits me hardest
@matt
I ran out of characters! I could have done another five paragraphs on his awesomeness. I hate thinking about how many songs we were cheated out of when he died. He was also reputed to be the nicest guy in the industry
His "I was just fucking around and it needs a ton of work" demo tape for _What'll It Be_ ended up being recorded and sung nearly note for note in CE-G. He was so so good.
“That’s when Neil looked at the coin counter meter. it read “000001”:
And, sitting in the coin bucket was a single coin; a quarter dated 1983.”
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Centuri Aztarac: Finding THE Holy Arcade Grail…
Let me start by saying that this is the most amazingly poignant tale I’ve come across in arcade collecting circles. I’ve written before about incredible rare arcade “finds” …The Arcade Blogger
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I've conducted several informal experiments over the last few weeks about alt text for #photos as described by humans and as provided by #AI systems.
#LLMS, despite providing plethora of details when describing images, still miss the nuances of what the photos contain. Human #descriptions certainly continue to be better at conveying context.
This is not to suggest that automatic descriptions aren't useful. Several tools available to #blind people are now capable of providing a good idea of the contents of photos when no descriptions are available. Apps and hardware are able to analyze photos and videos for quick access to the environment when this wasn't possible short time ago.
Even though these tools exist, automatic #descriptions should not be a substitute for alt text.
For this experiment, I asked several friends to send me photos and share #descriptions with me.
To give you one example, I was sent a photo of a table surface with a small coffee pot and a cup of coffee with foam on top. The table also had a plate of cookies, muffins, and croissants.
The #AI description described the drink in the coffee cup as a yogurt-based concoction. It also missed the cookies on the plate.
#accessibility #a11y #blind #photos #photo #photography
Version 4 of @cinnyapp was released a month ago, and it sports a very cool notification center to keep tabs on the most important things! Lozenge covers Cinny's minimalistic approach in Matrix Live, to our greatest delight.
Matrix Live S09E38 — The Best Notification Center Yet
Version 4 of Cinny was released a month ago, and it sports a very cool notification center to keep tabs on the most important things! Lozenge covers Cinny's ...YouTube
the unit."
"Climb on top of?" I wonder what happened to get that added.
Fuck everyone who uses "unalive" with zero sense of irony. Fucking socmed algorithm brain poisoning.
Say "kill". Say "murder". Say "suicide". Say "rape". Say "pedophile". Say what you mean. If people need to not see or hear those words they'll use a filter.
(Or if you're on a platform where you feel like you're forced to elide a word, make it obvious you know you're being censored and don't use stupid euphemisms like it's a totally normal thing to do.)
![[A friend is standing behind Cueball, who is typing at a computer.]
Friend: You should be more careful what you write. Future employers might read it.
[The friend still stands while Cueball looks at his computer.]
Cueball: When did we forget our dreams?
Friend: What?
[Cueball stands beside his friend.]
Cueball: The infinite possibilities each day holds should stagger the mind. The sheer number of experiences I could have is uncountable, breathtaking, and I'm sitting here refreshing my inbox. We live trapped in loops, reliving a few days over and over, and we envision only a handful of paths laid out before us. We see the same things every day, we respond the same way, we think the same thoughts, each day a slight variation on the last, every moment smoothly following the gentle curves of societal norms. We act like if we just get through today, tomorrow our dreams will come back to us.
Cueball: And no, I don't have all the answers. I don't know how to jolt myself into seeing what each moment could become. But I do know one thing: the solution doesn't involve watering down my every little idea and creative impulse for the sake of some day easing my fit into a mold. It doesn't involve tempering my life to better fit someone's expectations. It doesn't involve constantly holding back for fear of shaking things up.
Cueball: This is very important, so I want to say it as clearly as I can:
[The next three panels are Cueball standing.]
Cueball: FUCK.
Cueball: THAT.
Cueball: SHIT](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/583664 "[A friend is standing behind Cueball, who is typing at a computer.]
Friend: You should be more careful what you write. Future employers might read it.
[The friend still stands while Cueball looks at his computer.]
Cueball: When did we forget our dreams?
Friend: What?
[Cueball stands beside his friend.]
Cueball: The infinite possibilities each day holds should stagger the mind. The sheer number of experiences I could have is uncountable, breathtaking, and I'm sitting here refreshing my inbox. We live trapped in loops, reliving a few days over and over, and we envision only a handful of paths laid out before us. We see the same things every day, we respond the same way, we think the same thoughts, each day a slight variation on the last, every moment smoothly following the gentle curves of societal norms. We act like if we just get through today, tomorrow our dreams will come back to us.
Cueball: And no, I don't have all the answers. I don't know how to jolt myself into seeing what each moment could become. But I do know one thing: the solution doesn't involve watering down my every little idea and creative impulse for the sake of some day easing my fit into a mold. It doesn't involve tempering my life to better fit someone's expectations. It doesn't involve constantly holding back for fear of shaking things up.
Cueball: This is very important, so I want to say it as clearly as I can:
[The next three panels are Cueball standing.]
Cueball: FUCK.
Cueball: THAT.
Cueball: SHIT")
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Acabo de ver un milagro. Una rara excepción a la propaganda habitual que hacen en los noticiarios a favor de las empresas de seguridad, de alarmas, etc.
En esta ocasión han sacado a la dueña de la casa diciendo que no se entiende que teniendo conectada la alarma (mientras la cámara enfoca un cartel de la infausta Securitas Director) ha podido el ladrón entrar y pasearse por el jardín tranquilamente, robarles unos patinetes y salir de allí con toda la calma y sin que suene la dichosa alarma.
Pues me ha gustado. Dame más pelis como esta.
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