The thing with the court wanting Google to sell off Chrome and stop paying for search engine placement is that the latter is what fund Mozilla. Granted they have a hoard of cash, it's not a good news.
Also who would "buy" Chrome? Microsoft? That would be fucking ironic.
Don't forget to join this years Matrix fridge event at FOSDEM! matrix.org/blog/2024/11/matrix…
You can meet cool people like... well, I don't know who confirmed they will be there yet, but last year lots of developers and users where there and it was lots of fun and there was some free food, which is the most important part for a fridge!
(Also, if you joined last year, remember: this year it is in a different location with likely more heat and better toilets!)
Matrix in full force at FOSDEM
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
DOJ, States Formally Recommend a Google Breakup - Thurrott.com
The DOJ and several US states feel that the only way to fix Google's abuses is to force radical changes on the company.Paul Thurrott (Thurrott.com)
Not sure why I've always done it this way, part of it I know is control over where and how formatting is applied. (Thinking about how Slack turns ``` code blocks into something that screen readers don't announce the formatting for, as an example.) The other part is typing indicators, perhaps - I get conscious if people see this typing indicator, even though I know most likely nobody cares, but if something takes me longer to write thoughts out on, I want zero judgment possibilities. In Google Docs, unless I'm making edits or proofreading, I'd rather paste in chunks of text at once because if I end up re-writing something to sound more accurate, I don't want the inaccurate version of it revisioned. And these are just my own personal reasons for always copy-pasting. I suppose if my workplace claimed I was doing all my work by AI writing, it's not like my workflow there had changed before and after its usage. With how much they promote internal AI tools though for increasing our productivity, don't see that happening.
Your keystroke biometrics are everywhere
Real time collaboration software and text boxes that rapidly save drafts to the cloud essentially log your fingerprintable typing behavior. The industry refersSeirdy’s Home
“Synchronized” methods/blocks (intrinsic locks) will no longer pin virtual threads to platform threads. This has been an annoying limitation of Project Loom. Coming in Java 24:
openjdk.org/jeps/491
This feels weird to say because it should be obvious: Don’t download random #Conversations_im forks from the PlayStore!
I don’t know why people install apps with no website or source code. If you’re reading this, you’re likely not one of them—but server stats show they exist.
Yesterday, I warned one such fork about massive security issues and asked them to take it down. They refused.
me to the customer support chatbot: "Is it possible to hide my number in the phonebook?"
chatbot: "Sorry to hear you're cancelling your phone subscription."
me: "no, that's wrong"
chatbot: "I'm sorry, I don't understand"
me: "don't cancel my subscription"
chatbot: "sorry to hear something went wrong while cancelling your subscription, we'll try again later"
me: "I want to keep my subscription"
chatbot: "I'm sorry, I don't understand"
FUCK AI.
Working on an open source Matrix project, and you would like the world to know more about it? Our FOSDEM DevRoom's Call for Proposals is open until the end of November, don't be late!
Talks will be recorded, livestreamed, and re-uploaded to our channel!
matrix.org/blog/2024/11/fosdem…
Call for Participation to the FOSDEM 2025 Matrix Devroom
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
As of Chrome 131 you have more options to style `<details>` and `<summary>`.
You can now use the `display` property on these elements, and also use a `::details-content` pseudo-element to style the part that expands and collapses.
developer.chrome.com/blog/styl…
More options for styling | Chrome for Developers
You can now set the display type and also style the container for the part that expands and collapses using the new ::details-content pseudo-element.Chrome for Developers
That's a lot.
wral.com/news/local/climate-ch…
#climate #ClimateChange #extremeweather #hurricanes
Climate change adds 18 mph to hurricane wind speeds, study shows
Human-caused climate change is intensifying Atlantic hurricanes, with rising ocean temperatures adding an average of 18 mph to wind speeds, according to a new study by Climate Central.Liz McLaughlin, WRAL Climate Change Reporter (WRAL)
As users are flocking to BlueSky from social media platforms like X/Twitter, so are threat actors. BleepingComputer has spotted cryptocurrency scams popping up on BlueSky just as the decentralized microblogging service surpassed 20 million users this week.
We got lots of spam at MetaFilter and one time someone posted trying to promote something called "Exemplary Purchase" and we kept wondering what are they were trying to say until we realized it was a translation error, they meant to say "Best Buy" in English.
Ten years on, every time I drive past a BestBuy, I think "Exemplary Purchase!"
Already looking forward to the chaos the next time a major blindness convention is held at one of their hotels.
Be My Eyes, Hilton Executives Talk ‘World-First’ Partnership In New Interview forbes.com/sites/stevenaquino/…
Be My Eyes, Hilton Executives Talk ‘World-First’ Partnership In New Interview
In mid-October, Be My Eyes announced what it called an “industry-first” venture with hospitality giant Hilton that makes travel accessible to Blind and low vision people.Steven Aquino (Forbes)
Que non se lle apague a luz que ten nin lle enferme a neurona,porque mimadriña que portavoz 🤦
lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/pont…
La portavoz de los propietarios de viviendas de uso turístico gallegas: «Quienes quieren prohibir el alquiler vacacional es por envidia y chismorreo»
La presidenta de Aviturga no entiende a las comunidades de vecinos que vetan los alquileres de corta estancia en sus edificios: «Están devaluando su propiedad»María Hermida (La Voz de Galicia)
GitHub - sjdonado/idonthavespotify: Effortlessly convert Spotify links to your preferred streaming service
Effortlessly convert Spotify links to your preferred streaming service - sjdonado/idonthavespotifyGitHub
So if you use Matrix I just opened a small "Luddites Unite" Channel on my Matrix Server. Dunno what it will become yet but setting up a "Luddite Slack" felt like it was the dumbest thing on the planet.
matrix.to/#/!RjZTZaZdcUlIsCWJc…
(all runs on my dedicated server, no 3rd party cloud stuff)
Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication
You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversationmatrix.to
The mask comes off at LWN, as *two* editors (jake and *corbet*) dive in to frantically defend the honour of Justine fucking Tunney against multiple people pointing out she's a Nazi who fills her projects with racist dogwhistles
the sheer audacity of Jake replying:
>> I certainly don't go around personally vetting the beliefs of every maintainer of software I use against my own.
> Right. And we don't either.
Yer a journalist, Jake. You *should* be vetting the people you're doing an article on, ffs. It's literally your job.
Hubert Figuière
in reply to Hubert Figuière • • •Hubert Figuière
in reply to Hubert Figuière • • •TBF I don't expect much to happen.
Lawyers will be paid, things will drag away, and then the orange fascist, after being properly bribed, will get the whole thing thrown out.