Woke up from a dream in which I was about to play a big trombone solo in this song about the wealth inequality crisis. More of that kind of dream please
Around 200,000 Linux computer systems from American computer maker Framework were shipped with signed UEFI shell components that could be exploited to bypass Secure Boot protections.
Languages are fun, have mysterious rules called grammar, but their native speakers certainly don't care about all that. In other words, do native speakers of a language speak the language correctly, as textbooks prescribe? (Hint: Definitely not.)
In this English Lesson with British English Teacher Roy, learn how to sound more like a native British English speaker when you speak English. In this Englis...
Today is nine years ago since I learned how a single fixed byte write outside a heap buffer in c-ares could be used in a sequence to execute code as root on Chrome OS:
Thursday, September 22nd 2016. An email popped up in my inbox. Subject: ares_create_query OOB write As one of the maintainers of the c-ares project I'm receiving mails for suspected security problems in c-ares and this was such a one.
I don't know who of you posted this theory but thanks to you and my colleague who helped me test this, I know for sure no that you can use the sound split feature of your screen reader to send just the sound of your other apps, without the TTS, while screen-sharing on meeting platforms. I tested this with NVDA and Jitsi running inside Chrome. When NVDA is on the left and everything else right, only a faint echo of my TTS could be heard most likely owing to how my headset and the jack of my Thinkpad is wired. This must mean that probably Chrome or Windows take the right channel as the mix in case of doubt and when everything has to be mono, but then I might be wrong on all of that so let's goooo! I'll have to test with other platforms. #Accessibility #A11y #Blind
My sister-in-law got stuck in a parking lot for two hours because she accidentally confirmed a car software update. In the past, we got stuck because e.g. the spark plug died or the coolant froze. Today, it's because the car is updating.
haha, good. reminds me of that one time i've been to a prosthetist with my kid. that is the sort of person that makes various medical aid devices. he needed to take measurement of child's feet, with a device that basically resembles a rugged document scanner.
bro rushes in a bit late, apologizes, powers on the computer, has the girl take off her shoes and step on the scanner. as the computer goes through POST our collective eyeballs turn on the screen:
Installing updates: 0%
*awkward silence* *you can step off the scanner sweetie*
Installing updates: 0%
*apologies* *small talk*
Installing updates: 0% Do not turn the computer off.
I recently updated my Ford 's Sync software. Claimed it would take 2 hours. I checked at 40 minutes and it was done. I think I could have driven it though. I updated the maps and drove it while that processed.
@lostinspc wow, my sister-in-law can still call herself lucky. She had to wait for 2 hours and now she is getting an error message saying that the SOS call function is disabled and she should visit the VW shop, but she can drive.
This is amazing research by Nadia Heninger and her co-authors Wenyi Morty Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin and Aaron Schulman. TL;DR a huge number of satellite links over our heads are totally unencrypted. satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/
It still boggles my mind that Xcode's *built in* AI autocomplete keeps suggesting APIs that don't exist.
Like, it's literally sitting on top of a compiler that can determine if an API exists, so why can't it ask the compiler *before* suggesting it?
The entire purpose of autocomplete is to help me find out the real name of hard-to-remember APIs. I'm perfectly capable of *misremembering* them by myself, I don't need the computer to do it for me
To be fair: CEO is probably one of the few jobs and LLM could automate reasonably, especially with the weird, erratic CEO manchildren we are stuck with
Just booked the train ticket to #Strasbourg for the #matrix conference 15-18 Oct. Check out the schedule: 2025.matrix.org/schedule/#full… @fairkom is a silver sponsor of the matrix foundation and will present their experiences deploying SchulchatRLP for half a million pupils, teachers and parents on Sat Oct 18th 10:00. The greatest challenges were syncing users and groups from a central IDM and building a #kubernetes cluster on premises. @matrix
Whether you want to hear how an organization deployed Matrix at scale or learn what the engineers are doing to improve the protocol, the Matrix Conference has a track for you.
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Liebe Leute, ihr habt euer #Win10 maximal noch ein weiteres Jahr. Allerdings hält es euch nicht auf, jetzt schon auf etwas Besseres umzusteigen!
Lauter nette Leute, die du auf endof10.org/ findest, helfen dir bei deinen ersten Schritte mit #Linux auf deinem Computer.
In #Graz macht das das #LinuxCafé zumindest 1x/Monat: events.graz.social/@linux_cafe Am 21.10. ist es wieder soweit. Gleich mal notieren und im besten Fall vorab Daten sichern, damit du mit einem frisch aufgesetzten Linux wieder danach heimkommst.
Aufklär-Artikel vom #ORF über das Support-Ende von #Win10 mit einem Schlussteil zu #Linux mit Referenz auf #EndOf10, das dir beim Umstieg auf Linux gerne hilft: endof10.org/
Wer aktuell auf dem eigenen Computer noch Windows 10 verwendet, steht spätestens am Dienstag vor einer großen Entscheidung: Dann stellt Microsoft offiziell die Unterstützung für sein mittlerweile zehn Jahre altes Betriebssystem ein.
Bye bye, Windows 10! Microsoft is stopping support for the operating system today. If you're still using it, now is a good time to consider alternatives such as Linux, which is free and open source (like LibreOffice): blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… @Endof10 #endof10
Today, Microsoft is ending official support for Windows 10. This leaves users who want to continue using the operating system with few alternatives — especially if they have an old PC that is not compatible with Windows 11’s demanding hardware requir…
""[…] There is only one correct metric that should be counted when dealing with software, and that is the user's cognitive load. […] If my Windows/Python/Notepad++ setup is more ubiquitous, understandable, intuitive and replicable than your obscure Arch/Hyprland build with its hundred painstakingly typed-out customizations for every single software in it, then my setup is better and more minimalist than yours. Full stop. […]""
I, too, have been an avid connoisseur of linux distros and have had my fair share of distrohopping every time the next shiny thing barges into the Linux worl...
tumble out of bed and i stumble to the kitchen pour myself a cup of ambition and yawn and stretch and try to come to life jump in the shower and the blood starts pumpin'
OH MY GOD THERES SO MUCH BLOOD COMING OUT OF THE SHOWERHEAD OH MY GOOOD
In Europe everyone is talking about #DigitalSovereignty - which is great! But we can't have that and undermine our sovereignty by giving law enforcement the key to all encrypted communication. To us at Tuta it's clear:
AI technology designed to detect illegal material cannot distinguish between "good" and "bad" speech. It opens the door for governments, now or in the future, to monitor all messages, photos, and videos. Once the infrastructure for scanning is in place, it can and will be used for other means as well.
Ask yourself this: Would you install a camera in your bathroom so the government can "make sure nothing bad happens"? Interestingly, EU governments themselves don't want the AI to scrape their data.
European SMEs have united to direct a strong open letter to urge ministers of EU member states to oppose Chat Control and to defend privacy and a strong European tech industry.
I understand why governments want to exclude their data. But politicians have friends, families, business partners, they use "anonymous" accounts that won't be covered by this exemption, they retire at some point. There are many ways in which their sensitive information might be leaked just like anyone's else.
You wouldn't just be handing the key to law enforcement. The system would likely be outsourced to a private company that may not be based in the EU. There's also the system itself. Cast your minds back to the Post Office fiasco in the UK, where innocent people were jailed for fraud because the system had flaws.
It is not even able to scan for harmful content. It is impossible to differentiate between legitimate nudes or abusive ones. As well as it is impossible to differentiate grooming vs flirting simply by the chat content. #chatcontrol is a huge scam!! Only practical use-case is mass surveillance and information control.
hey Tuta. I appreciate the work you’re doing fighting for our privacy on social media. In return I’ll fight to adopt your email services within our company.
And you know what's worst about all this, after delving even deeper into the subject? That it would de facto be the end of *all* privacy 🚫🔐 Because, in reality, this law assumes the scanning of everything sent from our device, not just messages, as is usually said. That's the worst part. That this law normally seems bad because it will scan our messages. But the truth is, this law is the devil because it will scan everything
@Tuta you have to be precise with this: it did not fail! to avoid failure the vote was postponed because somehow surprisingly germany showed some resistance. i don't expect it to stay that way.
the eu commission's president Ursula von der Leyen, a member of the cdu, the actual ruling party in germany, was notorious for using the pretext of fighting child abuse to install internet censorship in germany (dns blocking list aso). thus her nickname in germany: Zensursula, from Zensur (censorship) and Ursula ...
a postponed vote can be added quite quickly back on the agenda and fighting the evil internet is a popular topic in party circles of the conservatives. also, don't count on the german chancellor Merz to keep promises he made ...
Maaaan... trying to build #GNOME control-center to do some tinkering and during the build I figure out 0pointer.de is down since a dependency lives there.
@pid_eins do you per-chance have any more information on when to expect the site to be functional again (or even if this planned downtime)?
I've never had to use it. like, call a place for actual support, that required like, a thing I couldn't have done myself if I knew how. LIke, back at the beginning of may when this old thing had to go to the hospital, dude was all flabergasted that I was even still running it.
Happy to try to answer any questions! Do you mean how screen readers behave to each other? Or how they make the computer behave compared to not having one running?
Aside from NVDA, You mentioned Narrator and I mentioned Jaws, Narrator comes with Windows and is less full featured. Jaws is a commercial program which costs around $2,000 (plus upgrade costs every couple of years). NVDA is completely free by philosophy. Feature-wise, NVDA and Jaws are quite similar
@NVAccess thanks for this, yes I meant what one SR reads out (nvda) while another does not read out that same line (narrator) ... am just puzzled about that behaviour, but have since established that nvda is 'superior' and or widely preferenced to narrator (unsurpsingly, the latter being a MS product >.<)
@NVAccess JAWS does not cost 2000 dollars, unless you purchase a professional license. In the united states, users can get a home anual license for 104.00 per year. Currently JAWS sma's cost 228.00 per two years, but they will be going up at the end of october by 10 percent. I am not as well versed in pricing for JAWS outside the US, but there are other options for purchasing JAWS in the US.
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while I'm at the topic of #screenreaders - just found out NVDA is a project by 'NV Access' - an Australian non-profit that develops NVDA as a free, open source screen reader for WIN nvaccess.org/download #screenreader #thanksguys
Good question. We don't do website audits - primarily because web accessibility is complex enough that there are entire companies dedicated to purely that. We do have a good relationship with @intopia and would recommend them. There are other companies who also do similar work.
@NVAccess thank you my company has hired them and we now work through their recommendations but it appears very hard to test because the three screen reader used all behave differently in their output
You're working with Intopia? Fantastic! Different screen readers shouldn't behave too differently from each other for the most part. Intopia should definitely be able to recommend why one is giving different information. In some cases the default settings may be different. EG NVDA does not report changes in text colour by default, but it CAN. Or one may read the same information but in a different order. That's ok & may be a reason why a user may pick one screen reader over another.
Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: 🧵👇wired.com/story/satellites-are…
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bro rushes in a bit late, apologizes, powers on the computer, has the girl take off her shoes and step on the scanner. as the computer goes through POST our collective eyeballs turn on the screen:
Installing updates: 0%
*awkward silence*
*you can step off the scanner sweetie*
Installing updates: 0%
*apologies*
*small talk*
Installing updates: 0%
Do not turn the computer off.
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