LibreOffice 24.8 Beta1 is available for testing - LibreOffice QA Blog
LibreOffice 24.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2024 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 24.8 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 24.8 started at the beginning of December, 2023.x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
Navigating Accessibility Challenges on Mobile Event Ticket Websites
Explore challenges faced by screen reader users on mobile event ticket sites and practical strategies for improvement.Michael Taylor (UsableNet Inc.)
Well this sucks. ChromeOS at least tried to track mainline Linux and was a major Linux desktop ecosystem contributor. Now it becomes just another android vendored crap. With more and more AI forcefeeding too. #chromeos
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Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with the best of Google technologies
ChromeOS will soon be developed on large portions of the Android stack to bring Google AI, innovations, and features faster to users. Ov...Chromium Blog
Some years ago, Arm announced MTE. I pointed out that it would be trivial to leak tags via speculative execution and so it wasn’t a robust defence in the presence of an adaptive adversary. No problem, I was told, it’s not intended as a mitigation technique, it’s intended for at-scale debugging. Then certain companies decided it was a security technology.
Note: The composition of CHERI and MTE that we proposed is not vulnerable to these attacks because MTE tag changing (in pointers and memory) is controlled via the CHERI permissions mechanism and so nothing in the model depends on the secrecy of MTE tags. If you leak the MTE tag in the composition, you gain nothing of value and cannot forge a pointer using that tag.
TikTag: Breaking ARM's Memory Tagging Extension with Speculative Execution
ARM Memory Tagging Extension (MTE) is a new hardware feature introduced in ARMv8.5-A architecture, aiming to detect memory corruption vulnerabilities.arXiv.org
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“A Short IPv6 Guide for Home IPv4 Admins” - taught me a bunch of useful things I didn't know that I didn't know about IPv6 in practice. Good stuff! gist.github.com/timothyham/dd0…
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A Short IPv6 Guide for Home IPv4 Admins
A Short IPv6 Guide for Home IPv4 Admins. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.Gist
Was für ein Tag 👏👏👏
Nach vielen Monaten Vorbereitung ist die Kampagne #AfDVerbotJetzt heute gestartet. Meine Bitte: Lest, was wir auf der Seite an Argumenten und FAQs aufbereitet haben, folgt dem Account @AfDVerbotJetzt und wenn ihr könnt und wollt:
Macht mit!
Alle Infos gibt es auf afd-verbot.jetzt
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Menschenwürde verteidigen und Demokratie schützen. Organisierten extremen Rechten den Boden entziehen.www.afd-verbot.jetzt
Tell me you're a self-centered fuck who doesn't give two shits about other people's struggles without telling me...
via the Pale Moon browser's docs. palemoon.org/technical.shtml
Official statement from @Mer__edith: the new EU chat controls proposal for mass scanning is the same old surveillance with new branding.
Whether you call it a backdoor, a front door, or “upload moderation” it undermines encryption & creates significant vulnerabilities.
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Awesome update and progress by GNOME GSoC student @atbrat on porting Workbench demos to Vala
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Vala took the lead over Python 😉
Thanks to @lw64 and @dimmednerd for reviewing
#GNOME #GSoC #Vala #GTK #pygobject
GSoC 2024: Week 3 Report - Bharat Tyagi - Medium
I listed down the demos that needed to be ported according to their length (S, M, L depending on the Lines of code) I planned to work on 3 demos daily, 1 LOC type each, which was different from how…Bharat Tyagi (Medium)
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Book Talk: Attack from Within by Barbara McQuade
Join us for a VIRTUAL book talk with legal scholar BARBARA McQUADE on her New York Times bestseller, ATTACK FROM WITHIN, about disinformation’s impact on democracy. NYU professor and author […]\nblog.archive.org
Doctor Who Magazine special celebrates novelisations
The latest bookazine Doctor Who: Print the Legend celebrates the world of Doctor Who novelisations - in hardback and paperback, and on audioAndrea Laford (CultBox)
Forderung nach Taskforce für AfD-Verbot: „Wir dürfen nicht einfach zuschauen“
Der CDU-Abgeordnete Wanderwitz und die Grünen wollen ein Verbot der rechten Partei forcieren. Eine Taskforce soll notwendiges Material zusammentragen.taz.de
Polizei-Tweet: Disziplinarverfahren gegen Aslan beendet
Erst wurde der Widerruf ihres Lehrauftrags für unwirksam erklärt und nun auch das Disziplinarverfahren eingestellt: Aslan hat kein Dienstvergehen begangen.Legal Tribune Online
v24.06 "The One With Over 250 Devices" is out now!
* @alpinelinux 3.20
* @gnome 46
* @plasmamobile 6.0.5
* @phosh 0.39
* #Sxmo 1.16.3
* New ports in "community": Generic X86_64, ThinkPad X13s, Nexus 10, MS Surface RT
* Devices from "testing" category included for the first time!
* New keyboard mappings for chromebooks
* New UIs: cage, moonlight
* Logbookd
* Lots of kernel upgrades, improvements and bug fixes
Thanks to all who contributed!
Dänemarks Nationalteam verzichtet auf Gehalt für Equal-Pay
Frauen verdienen im Fußball oft noch immer deutlich weniger als ihre männlichen Kollegen. Dänemarks Fußballer verzichten deswegen jetzt auf eine Erhöhung ihrer Prämien.Mediathek
RIP Dario G
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Dario G - Carnaval De Paris (Official Music Video)
Subscribe to Chrysalis Records' YouTube channel: https://chrys.lnk.to/SubscribeOfficial music video for Carnaval De Paris by Dario G.Connect with CHRYSALIS R...YouTube
DEVONtechnologies | DEVONthink's Automation Options
DEVONtechnologies develops DEVONthink, DEVONagent, and other Mac and iOS apps for document and information management and web research.DEVONtechnologies
More than 500,000 books have been removed from the Internet Archive's lending library due to the Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit, including more than 1,300 banned and challenged titles. 📚 Our patrons have shared powerful stories about how this loss has impacted them, and we need your help to make a change.
Sign our open letter to the publishers urging them to restore access to these books. 📖✍️ #LetReadersRead
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Book Talk: Attack from Within by Barbara McQuade
Join us for a VIRTUAL book talk with legal scholar BARBARA McQUADE on her New York Times bestseller, ATTACK FROM WITHIN, about disinformation’s impact on democracy. NYU professor and author […]\nblog.archive.org
🌴We've finally wrangled everyone together for a group photo last month! 📸
We're a small but mighty team based in Montreal 🇨🇦, and building a secure and private communication app like Jami takes more than just code. It takes a dedicated team with a shared vision, a healthy dose of humor (seriously, check out those smiles! 😄), and a passion for collaboration (both within our team and with the amazing Free software community 🌐).
#OpenSource
#Privacy #TogetherWeBuild
Here's a picture taken with the Meta Smart Glasses, then described with #AI via #BeMyEyes, which has been an invaluable helping-hand, enabling me to know what randomly labeled pictures in my collection are, without having to ask my wife or children.
With image names such as 'photo-296_singular_display_fullPicture.jpg' it's a fun time trying to decipher such randomness sometimes.
This was taken at a podcast recording of Tim Harford's 'Cautionary Tales' and I got to take Jake along with me.
I get the AI hate I really do, but there are just times in life where hate is misplaced. for me, something that is an enabler is such a time.
No, it's not perfect, we're not there yet, but for my usecase it helps more than it hinders.
Your milage will of course, vary.
Did you know? In Canada, Capital gains are taxed far lower than other types of income.
But watch for confusion! The recent increase from 50% to 67% is NOT the tax rate, it's just the amount of the gain that qualifies to be considered for taxation. Nothing is *taxed* at 67%.
You can have an opinion about whether or not $ in an investment should be treated the same or differently from $ from working a job. But that's a different topic.
Try the calculator: turbotax.intuit.ca/tax-resourc…
📢 Wir sprechen uns mit Nachdruck dagegen aus, #Asylverfahren in #Drittstaaten auszulagern! Wir befürchten eine Unterminierung des Flüchtlingsschutzes weltweit.
#Flüchtlingsschutz
#Asyl
#Menschenrechte
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Unsere Stellungnahme:
"Auslagerung von Asylverfahren in Drittstaaten. Eine menschenrechtliche Bewertung der aktuellen Debatte"
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Menschenrechtsinstitut sieht Auslagerung der Asylverfahren in Drittstaaten sehr kritisch
Das Deutsche Institut für Menschenrechte befürchtet eine Unterminierung des Flüchtlingsschutzes weltweit.Institut für Menschenrechte
Quiz time! Guess the noise!
Attached to this post is an audio file. Have a listen and guess the origin.
I recorded this in my rented co-working office space. It's super loud and annoying and has been happening for months.
Engineers have now discovered the source!
Clues:
* I am on the 2nd of 4 floors
* It's intermittent and can happen a few times a day, or 5 times in 5 minutes.
* There is a bathroom nearby
* There are other offices nearby
* It does not come from my office (or me)
Guess!
There Is a New Live TV Streaming Service Called ZipWave TV Trying to Compete With Frndly TV & Philo TV | Cord Cutters News
There is one more live TV service jumping into the fray called ZipWave TV. This new service offers a mix of free and premium channels like the Game Show Network and Great American Family.Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)
9 Ways to Keep Your Kitchen Cool During a Heatwave
Here's how I keep my kitchen from getting too hot during a sweltering summer spell.David Watsky (CNET)
Going on Vacation? 11 High-Tech Security Tips Before You Leave
Our vacation checklist is the perfect way to prepare your smart home for a few days away, or even weeks or months.Tyler Lacoma (CNET)
Some of the problems I encountered after installing Windows 11 alongside Linux (as described in the previous post):
1. Windows by default sets the real-time clock to local time; Linux by default sets it to UTC. This is a problem in a dual-boot configuration in which both operating systems are installed on the same machine, and they don't agree on the date/time. I must have solved this before, but I had forgotten the solution. A Web search identified a Windows registry change which specifies that the clock is set to UTC.
2. The Network Time Protocol (NTP) service under Windows wouldn't synchronize. It was configured to use time.windows.com as its NTP server. Changing the server to pool.ntp.org worked. For some reason, this seemed to deactivate the NTP service, so I had to start it manually and configure it to be started automatically on boot, with a couple of Windows PowerShell commands. I don't understand why it wasn't running after I changed the server details.
3. Microsoft Windows kept losing its IPv6 address. This is possibly related to the packet filter configuration. A discussion I found on the Web suggested that IPv6 router advertisements might be filtered out - and they're needed to renew the address. At this point, I had installed Microsoft's Windows Security Baseline, which sets a large number of security-related parameters in the local group policy configuration. The solution, in the end, was to change the network category of the Ethernet interface from Public to Private, which has less restrictive packet filtering applied.
4. The Windows Security Baseline also prevented the system from entering suspend mode (i.e., any of the sleep states). I found and fixed the setting in Local Group Policy. I also remembered that I had to change the setting which prevented writing to unencrypted removable drives - a good idea in many commercial environments, but not for my use cases.
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It is an amazing feature that in my case always causes hard crash of libreoffice. Just use Shift+Esc and then use arrow up or down and... boom!
Fedora 40 Gnome at Wayland.
Patrick Breyer fordert zum Widerstand gegen die Chatkontrolle auf und gibt Tipps, wie sich jeder Einzelne aktiv beteiligen kann. Werdet JETZT aktiv, sonst kann es sein, dass die Unvernunft siegt. 👇
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#chatkontrolle #ChatkontrolleStoppen #sicherheit #security #datenschutz #privacy
Rat soll Chatkontrolle durchwinken - Werde jetzt aktiv!
Der belgische Vorsitz im Rat der EU will die Chatkontrolle am Mittwoch den 19. Juni abstimmen lassen. Damit bestätigen sich die Befürchtungen: die Verfechter der Chatkontrolle wollen ausnutzen, dass es nach den Wahlen weniger öffentliche Aufmerksamke…Patrick Breyer
Schon am Mittwoch könnte über den belgischen Vorschlag zur Chatkontrolle abgestimmt werden. Die Chefin des Messengers Signal warnt vor rhetorischen Spielchen: Der Vorschlag führe zu einer „gefährlichen Schwachstelle in der Kerninfrastruktur“ und würde Verschlüsselung grundlegend schwächen. Das sieht auch der Chaos Computer Club so.
A discussion of discussions on AI bias:
Two small nitpicks:
1. Making Brotli much better for English than for other languages *might* make some sense because it's often used to compress html markup, Javascript, stylesheets and so on, and those are overwhelmingly English, even on non-English websites. I don't think it's why this happened and there's probably bias involved, but I can envision a scenario in which something like this was explicitly considered "intended behavior"
2. I think there are fundamentally two kinds of AI bias, and people seem to be conflating the two. The first is a bias explicitly against the user's intentions, e.g. turning Asians into whites. That's a bug. THe second, however, is a reflection of the world, and "fixing" it would actually make the model worse. A good example is a sentence like "My partner is a programmer. [blank] works at Google on search rankings." If you ask a model to fill in the blank, "he" should be far more likely than "she", just because there are far more male programmers than female programmers. "Fixing" this makes the model objectively worse at its job.
I notice that most people are in two camps, either they think both biases are egregious and should be fixed, or they think that it's all just "woke people being woke" and we shouldn't fix any of them. I think both attitudes are wrong.
Exhibit is an amazing 3d preview app. Really handy for those working with 3D printing.
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I can’t make it work with VoiceOver, too… unsure if it’s my terrible VO skills tho.
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