🇦🇹 Austria: In Vienna, the police is trialing an automated software to predict crime. Every day, the system outputs hotspots to patrol [Kurier, 3 Dec 🔒, in German]. via Algorithm Watch
Con vocado el 2025 AppleVis Golden Apple Awards para la elección de apps accesibles del año. Participación española de @oriol y su reproductor accesible. Votaciones hasta el 22 de diciembre. Más información: applevis.com/newsletter/applev…
Hello from the team at AppleVis, We are very excited to share that today, we announced the nominees for our 2025 AppleVis Golden Apple Awards; highlighting this year's best of the best in accessible apps.
A critical buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the `curl_msprintf()` function in cURL's internal printf implementation. The function writes formatted output to a user-provided buffer without...
The attitude of people feeling like they should be able to report a security bug although their understanding of the topic is lousy is crazy.
The amount of explaining to people you have to do as a first level bug bounty triager is brain numbing. And with a C library you are probably in a good position because you scare the worst bug hunters.
This one is notable in that the function actually exists and would trigger the problem described if used that way. No hallucinated stack dump or non-existent function names.
Details:
Version: 0.2
Size: 11.4 MB
Operating System: Windows
Download: charm.zip
Description
CHARM is a Customizable, Helpful Audio Resource Monitor. It turns your CPU load, RAM activity and disk a
"An Open Letter to All Linux GUI Toolkits: Please Use File Chooser Portal."
Re-inventing the file chooser for each toolkit (rather than for each desktop environment) makes file choosers really inconvenient and hard to enjoy using, in my opinion.
NOt sure what's that all about Apple's "automation” attempts or even the iOS ”shortcuts” app, but it certainly doesn't feel like fun to create anything with them. Donno, perhaps it's a VoiceOver experience, but I equally find that a lot of the system prefs and features are not even properly exposed to take advantage of. Feels like a half-baked product feature to me!
The Montreal Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce (CCMM) and Tourism Montreal published 'Maximum Blockage: Taking concrete action to have a visible impact on site management and traffic flow,' criticizing the city's actions to open roads.
At this point, when you show me a trailer for your game that focuses on how lavishly detailed the visuals are all it does is make me wonder how many talented people you forced to give up their nights and weekends to make that happen
Developed by Arcanaut Studios in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games, Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic is a new single-player narrative-driven action RPG a...
LOLOL Doom: The Dark Ages won the accessibility innovation award? WHY? They have no accessibility settings that are innovative. South of Midnight and Assassin's Creed Shadows, which are also not particularly innnovative, still put in more effort than Doom. South of Midnight deserved the award, at least they tried. What a damn joke.
I'm having so much fun with #meshcore in #seattle. Same sense of wonder and excitement I had when I was 12 talking to someone across the world on irc. Only this time they are in Auburn. #mesh #meshuggah #PugetMesh
Wow. Tonight I discovered Pathé discs. This might be the only rare audio format that techmoan hasn't covered! Anyone got a good video or podcast on 'em? #audio#Pathé#history#youtube#peertube
@cordova5029 They're like...flat discs like on a gramophone, but instead of played from the outside, they're played from the inside. And instead of using a disposable needle, they use a shiny steel ball that bounces along the grooves and makes the sound that way. So no needle to replace. And the grooves are cut up and down, rather than side to side. Also, the ball places less wear on the record than a needle would. Unfortunately it didn't catch on outside of Europe. While it was a better system, before electronic amplification, the ball meant it was quieter than systems with a steel needle. So it just lost out because all anyone cared about was volume.
If an URL is in the form of `HOST/p/article-title`, the changes that it links to the nazi bar are high. Sadly a few other platform also use that scheme.
"The last 2/3rd inch XYZ camera I personally owned was this one." where "this one" is a link to Amazon. No other detail.
Several camera rumors websites do that. Not only it's shitty, but it often rots completely as it might just be a search query on the lookup for referral fees.
Generative AI systems are changing the way people interact with computers. MCP (model context protocol) is a way that enables LLMs to run commands and use tools to enable live, conversational interaction with systems.
John Varley (78) died December 10, 2025 in his home in Beaverton OR. He had COPD and diabetes. John Herbert Varley was born August 9, 1947 in Austin TX. He attended Michigan State University. His f…
Initial notes on GPT-5.2 - I'm excited to see the knowledge cut-off bump up to August 2025, interesting that it's priced at 1.4x over GPT-5.1 simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/11/…
OpenAI reportedly declared a “code red” on the 1st of December in response to increasingly credible competition from the likes of Google’s Gemini 3. It’s less than two weeks later …
It is rumored that "OpenAI hasn't had a successful pre-training run since 2024, initially claimed by semi-analysis and never denied."
It looks like 5 and 5.1 were just different post-trains of some base model that they have had for a while, either 4o, 4.5 or something else entirely that we haven't seen at all. 5.2 seems to be using a newer base model.
Je viens de répondre au questionnaire du gouvernement sur l'IA. J'espère que je ne suis pas seul à répondre en faveur du numérique et IA accessible et du progrès technique. agora.gouv.fr/consultations/ci… #AI #France
Les citoyens aspirent à partager leurs convictions et idées régulièrement, pas seulement à chaque élection : c’est pourquoi Agora propose, pour la première fois, de créer les conditions d’un dialogue démocratique continu entre les citoyens et le Gouv…
ok so Trump says Americans need to just accept a lower standard of living and not buy their kids presents for Christmas and somehow THIS is not the "war on Christmas" we've heard so much about?
I mean it's not like he changed a Starbucks cup or anything I guess
Hello @Raroun hope you're well. every now & then, when i have joined a different #Friendica instance in the past, i ask this same question of its Owners / Admins. always it's the same negative answer, but i live in hope!
on Masto & Sharkey instances, if the Admins are willing, it is technically possible to add FOSS emojis to the servers. consequently, on many of my instances i've been able to include these in various posts when applicable:
Friendica supports custom emojis from other instances, but we don't support adding new ones per instance. One reason is that there is still an accessibility issue with them, see my issue that I created in the Mastodon repository in 2018: github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
Another reason is that Friendica is able to create posts that also appear on other system (not only ActivityPub). But these custom emojis will only work with ActivityPub and will look ugly on other systems.
so, even though, for instance, the obliging Admins at blahaj.zone & infosec.exchange/space added those ones in my OP for me, it can't now be done for @Raroun to just borrow them from either of those servers?
@Droppie [opensoc] I just activitated the standard "Smiley Pack Addon" for Friendica. I will have a look at the custom addon from @Matthias at the weekend :)
Here's a screenshot of what i now see, in draft / preview format, when i paste my original emoji-suite again, since @Raroun kindly enabled / added
the standard "Smiley Pack Addon" for Friendica
so i can see that yes, some of my desired #FOSSemojis now work, but sadly still most don't. i shall be most interested to see what might happen after this weekend. 🤞 🤞 🤞
@Matthias sorry for my delayed reply. the large majority of my regular interlocutors are on various Masto instances, with some on Sharkey, so for me to derive full benefit of my desired #FOSSemojis in my Friendica instance/s, ideally each of the emoji codes needs to be the same across those platforms. doing a comparison of
has now shown me that whereas happily some are the same, eg: :linux: :archlinux: :kde: :firefox: :thunderbird: :linux: :archlinux: :kde: :firefox: :thunderbird:
unfortunately other important ones are different, eg: :firefox_nightly: vs :firefoxnightly: :fedora: vs :linuxfedora: :opensuse: vs :linuxopensuse: :debian: vs :linuxdebian: :firefox_nightly: vs :firefoxnightly: :fedora: vs :linuxfedora: :opensuse: vs :linuxopensuse: :debian: vs :linuxdebian:
and a few are absent in Friendica, though present in the others, eg: :plasma: :zenbrowser: :floorp:
so, if i lump the "missings" with the "differents", the total number exceeds the "goods". it seems therefore that my desire to have comparable cross-platform FOSSemojis (without me needing to stop to think, each time i go to use some of them, "oh, are these good ones or bad ones?") is just not possible, so i need to abandon the idea.
Did you know Gemini can create images in .SVG format? This makes it very friendly to Braille embossers or tactile-graphic displays. Fun fact for the day.
Now that's neat. I'm trying to figure out why I'm getting a 429 error when running gemini cli. Or it says I'm waiting for your first command then drops me back to a prompt.
I've been doing a lot of work on PDF accessibility lately. As you may know, PDF is at heart a vector graphics format like SVG. So some diagrams and other graphics in a PDF document are vector graphics. Assuming the document is properly tagged so these vector graphics are marked as figures, is there a practical way to emboss them or view them on a tactile graphics display?
@matt oooh not sure. Thought some software (like Braille Blaster) can import the SVG if those could be exported from a PDF, then you'd have to add Braille labels to any visually-labeled portions. As long as it's grayscale (which was easy enough to ask Gemini to do) embossers shouldn't try to squeeze too much detail into the graphic at once. But yeah, that's an interesting one to experiment with, perhaps something to also research during my break off work :D
Today I got to experience the joys of the Scala programming language. Actually I do like it quite a lot - it's very readable syntax, statically typed however, oof. I think I don't like static typed languages for all the work you have to do, it does make you less careless, but it's why Python's great. Anyway, it uses functions and objects/classes, Scala does not require semicolons (;) to end statements. The val VS Var fight, mutable vs immutable variables, fun fun. But again, not a bad language overall, looks like I'll be needing it for work from time to time.
DeltaChat has just made its long-awaited Wireguard-esque multi-relay release.
You can add multiple relays (chatmail/email accounts) to your profile. Your account now survives server outages, censorship, or even government seizures. Your identity is not tied to a single email address anymore.
Change to another relay, message your contacts/groups, and they'll immediately learn the new address they can reach you at and will respond using that address now.
Just like how Wireguard gets a valid encrypted packet from a peer at a new IP address and automatically starts using it.
The one downside right now is that if you and all your friends were using the same server that disappears you can't really message them from your new address because... your point of contact for them is still the old address that is unreachable.
This is why it's important to embrace decentralization as much as possible.
Future work: automatically learning of ALL the current relay addresses for a peer and automatically re-routing your communications if the current point of contact is no longer valid. Or shotgunning your communications to the user across multiple addresses simultaneously just to be safe and letting the client ignore (not even download) duplicated messages they have already received.
If you use multi-device with DeltaChat, ensure all are on at least the new version 2.33.0 and add an additional relay. It will be automatically synced to your other devices so they are ready to use it as well.
Let’s say you have initially created a profile on the default relay and want to migrate away from it. Update at least to 2.33 on all your devices: Help testing upcoming Delta Chat 2.33.
call me when Reticulum is solving communication problems for people under authoritative regimes
These other projects *exist* but don't actually work with any groups directly to prove they're actually helping real humans solve real problems. Writing some code is only half the work.
Well I'm a guy and have the same problem. I hate disagreeing with anyone because I'm scared I'll come off as kinda an asshole, but I just need to stop overthinking and caring so much about what other people might say.
There's a miniature jungle gym thingy in our back yard. I just discovered, while stepping outside to de-stress after my interview, that if I lean on it just right, my perpetual back pain from a bad disc eases up. Found my new hangout!
you ever notice nobody speculates anymore what they'd do in a zombie apocalypse. wonder if that kind of speculation lost its luster now we're going through what feels like the actual end of the world
![A billboard, purportedly from the NHS, saying: KNOW YOUR PARASITES:
❝TICKS: External parasites. Remove with tweezers. [photo of ticks]
WORMS: Internal parasites. Remove with medication. [photo of worms]
BILLIONAIRES: Economic parasites. Remove with wealth tax. [photo of laughing Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg]❞](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/736889 "A billboard, purportedly from the NHS, saying: KNOW YOUR PARASITES:
❝TICKS: External parasites. Remove with tweezers. [photo of ticks]
WORMS: Internal parasites. Remove with medication. [photo of worms]
BILLIONAIRES: Economic parasites. Remove with wealth tax. [photo of laughing Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg]❞")
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