French people, seeing the Canadians happy that the insane candidate was not elected, but troubled because said insane candidate still got 40% of the vote:
Since 1.10.2 the BBL network plugin ships with debugger detecting code that will terminate the application when a debugger is attached. This makes it impossible to run the slicer from Visual Studio...
While I like Tuta very much I've to say that the E2E encryption is only possible via pre-shared passwords or when sender and recipient both are using Tuta.
Tuta is not supporting established E2E crypto as e.g. GPG. This results in a limited applicability of E2E encryption and IMHO results in most mails send from Tuta users are not E2E encrypted but only use transport crypto (TLS).
@voidstar Thanks for your feedback! You're right — full E2E encryption with Tuta requires either both users on Tuta or a shared password for external recipients. We chose built-in encryption over PGP to ensure privacy is automatic and user-friendly. While TLS is used with non-Tuta users, we encourage switching to Tuta for full E2E by default.
Yes, I understand your rational but I think it's flawed.
I agree that some users cannot use GPG due it's complexity, but your approach is just not feasible. Pre-sharing a password with attorneys, doctors, authorities, etc does not work. So while in theory your approach might make sense it does not work leading to the results described.
Moreover, I think it should be the customers choice to use IMAP/POP with GPG if one wants to as both approaches are not mutually exclusive.
not looking for free email, but I can not pay via banking card. The payment method should either be somehow via cash or if not possible then via Monero.
Trotz Überschrift ist der Kommentar deutschlandfunk.de/kommentar-z… vom #DLF (leider nur auf seltsamen social media unterwegs) zur elektronischen Patientenakte auf weiten Strecken gut und ausgewogen.
Aber dann der Schluss: Man müsse halt auch mal mit halbgaren Lösungen starten, sonst bliebe nur das Faxgerät … 🤯
Ob die Kommentatorin in ein Auto steigt, bei dem man sich halt noch nicht um die Bremsen gekümmert hat? Und in einer Wohnung wohnt, bei dem das Dach noch nicht gebaut wurde?
Die elektronische Patientenakte startet. Trotz Datenschutzsorgen und technischer Hürden bleibt sie ein überfälliger Schritt für ein modernes Gesundheitswesen.
"Privacy on Trial: Meta’s DOJ Battle vs. Purism’s User-Centric Philosophy"
Meta claims it’s not a monopoly.
The FTC disagrees.
At the center of the case: Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp—moves the FTC argues were calculated to "neutralize competitive threats" and consolidate power across the digital landscape.
For those who reject Surveillance Capitalism—where your data is the product—Purism offers a bold alternative.
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Hnutí ANO by spolu s SPD, Stačilo! a Motoristy dosáhlo ve Sněmovně na ústavní většinu 122 poslanců, ukázal průzkum STEM pro CNN Prima News zveřejněný v neděli.
The Accessibility Task Force of the W3C Publishing Community Group has announced the release of the Accessibility Metadata Display Guide for Digital Publications 2.0. […]
At Blind Ambition, we are always excited to see new technology that has the potential to transform everyday life for blind and partially sighted people. The recent updates to the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses promise to be a real game-changer.
The author of this piece from Blind Ambition states:
“It’s important to remember that, as empowering as this technology is, it should ideally be used alongside traditional mobility tools, such as a long cane, for maximum independence and safety.”
To use the word ideally is a bit of an understatement. It is absolutely essential that blind people who use these smart devices while navigating must continue to use their primary mobility aid at all times, whether we’re talking about a white cane or a guide dog. Smart glasses cannot and will never replace these critical mobility solutions. I cannot emphasize this enough. Also, as magical as these devices may seem to be, remember that AI still has a propensity to hallucinate. That’s a very kind way of saying that it can and will lie to you. As a blind person who regularly uses AI tools, I am well aware of how this technology has benefited our community but it’s important to always be aware of the software’s limitations.
At Blind Ambition, we are always excited to see new technology that has the potential to transform everyday life for blind and partially sighted people. The recent updates to the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses promise to be a real game-changer.
@lulu_bear Blind Ambition responded very quickly to my feedback and have since updated their post to provide a more balanced and accurate perspective. I'm grateful to them for taking my feedback seriously and for responding so promptly. Here is the relevant portion of their blog post which they have revised.
It’s important to remember that, as empowering as this technology is, it must be used alongside traditional mobility aids, such as a long cane or a guide dog. This is not just a recommendation — it is absolutely essential. Smart glasses, no matter how advanced, cannot and will never replace critical mobility tools that have been developed over decades to ensure safety and independence for blind and partially sighted people. We cannot emphasise this enough.
Moreover, as magical as these AI-powered devices may seem, it’s important to acknowledge their limitations. Artificial Intelligence has a well-documented tendency to hallucinate — a polite way of saying that it can and does present inaccurate or entirely false information. As a blind person who regularly uses AI tools, I’m fully aware of the ways this technology benefits our community, but it’s vital to stay aware and cautious of these software limitations. Always verify information using multiple tools or human support where possible.
At Blind Ambition, we are always excited to see new technology that has the potential to transform everyday life for blind and partially sighted people. The recent updates to the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses promise to be a real game-changer.
Latest maintenance release brings improved stability and fixes to the powerful free office suite Berlin, 30 April 2025 – The Document Foundation is pleased to announce the release of LibreOffice 25.2.
Love the alt text, but it doesn't actually tell you any of the figures. Felt a bit like clickbate in alt text form, which is incredibly funny as an idea if nothing else.
FSCast #257. Taming JAWS On the Web, an introduction to Innosearch, and more stories and memories from Ted Henter – Freedom Scientific Blog blog.freedomscientific.com/fsc…
This month, we explore the use of Web verbosity settings to tame excessive speech on some Web site with JAWS. Then, Bryan Vuong introduces us to Innosearch, an innovative approach to shopping. And …
In April, we in the #LibreOffice community attended events in-person (giving away cool merchandise!). We also gave talks online, and announced the location of 2025's conference: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started the month by posting a video from Document Freedom Day celebrations with the Nepalese LibreOffice commu…
Featuring - The NVDA 2025.1 Beta - What’s New in 2025.1 - Updated NVDA Expert Certification 2025 - Gene Empowers New Zealand - Changes for Developers - NVDA Add-ons and API Breaking Changes
I just wanted to let you know that this post is not showing up on the nvaccess.org/news page. I like to check that page for an overview of recent happenings at NV Access and I just wanted to let you know about this. Thanks!
And in News: nvaccess.org/news/ (the "latest news" shows the release info, but below that in "recent news", "In-Process 30th April 2025" is the newest item. Unless you are looking somewhere else?
"Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI."
It can't be 30% by plain math. Just replacing 30% of existing code with new code takes (many) years, and then we include all produced code. If they ONLY used AI to write all code for the last few years, and they wrote it at a high pace, it could *perhaps* be done.
We all know that AI can't write code that good. But sure "up to 30%" could also mean "2%".
@emmadavidson my experience with AI code is similar to that: you can get a lot of suggestions, but you need to filter out the crap and cherry-pick the goodies to be productive. It's very much like having a super-eager junior dev throwing out ideas and code non-stop.
My thought was that it’s all code, and that it includes tons (perhaps a majority) of things like old boilerplate generated from templates and stuff like that.
So… a company that wants you to buy subscriptions to their AI powered tools is over exaggerating the benefits of their AI powered tools? I’m shocked, SHOCKED, to learn that there’s cheating going on…!
Considering that the "AI" cut&paste machine was mostly trained on software copyrighted by other people, including GPL and similar licenses, we are one judge who doesn't believe in the imaginary "AI exemption" away from Microsoft having to cease and desist distributing any such software, with their own CEO confessing to breaking copyright law.
If I understood another company's metric correctly it goes like this: If code has been suggested and a portion of the code made it into the source tree, it counts. But if it's 30% of the code checked in has been "touched" by AI code completion, it'd also be hilariously low for a good product.
I wonder if they count rejected merges from half-working slop bots...
Although my experiences with MSTeams, O365 and SharePoint are so degrading in the last couple of months (not that Teams was any good even before) that I'm open to believe that they actually accept that garbage without much thinking just so they can market it that way
talking to a friend at a different company who works under the Microsoft umbrella, they definitely are pushing hard on the LLM stuff - forcing devs to self-report telemetry on LLM-plugin usage.
Hello, if you care about Servo, the alternative web browser engine that was originally slated to be the next gen Firefox but now is a donation-supported project under the Linux Foundation, you should know of this week's Developments.
Specifically Servo announced a plan to, as of June, start allowing Servo code to be written by "Github Copilot":
Servo’s Technical Steering Committee is looking for feedback regarding our policy for contributions made with generative AI. The current policy, adopted in June 2024, is documented in the Servo boo...
There has been a public comment period on this plan, with public comment so far overwhelmingly negative. I'm not sure how this response will impact the plan; the announcement said enactment was "subject to a review of your feedback", whatever that means.
Personally I think the plan is a horrible idea on both technical and moral grounds, and would end Servo's current frontrunner status as the best candidate for a browser that truly represents the open web and respects the needs of its own users.
Please do not respond to this thread to talk about Ladybird. This is a personal request from me. Just… please. Don't make me have a conversation about Ladybird today. Some other time
This question, both eerie and thought-provoking, provided the core of @bagder 's talk during the @foss_north conference. The Academy Chair's presentation reflected on the progress made with open source, where we are now, and what lies in the future of open source.
it makes me really curious how they measure this. I seriously doubt this number and consider it just AI sales talk. They have too strong incentive to blow up the number.
@maswan I would expect just about every MS dev to have AI enabled as they are probably more or less forced to, and probably are being measured on that metric.
@bagder Ah, maybe I should read the actual quote instead of just the top bullet points too: "I'd say maybe 20%, 30% of the code that is inside of our repos today and some of our projects are probably all written by software," which is both a firmer statement on all code in repository and not just this year's code. But also includes any kind of software generated code.
Assuming of course that it is anything but a wild guess for marketing purposes.
@bagder Some years ago I was at a company where the middle management had promised their boss 100,000 views of their latest product teaser video. The solution was to have it autoplay on most of the site's popular pages. Instant success (as long as you count views as "the video started"). Since then I've had a hard time trusting success numbers from people with a vested interest. A year or so later that whole Facebook pivot to video thing was exposed as an inflated fraud too.
In this special CRA Mondays episode, Olle E. Johansson joins the ORC Working Group to discuss the urgent need for a resilient, globally coordinated vulnerab...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped | US immigration | The Guardian theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…
My family is fleeing the country. We are not doing this in a panic; this is an orderly retreat from an unwinnable situation. We are slowly but surely packing up and emptying out our house.
On May 1st, a massive coalition of immigrant rights and pro-democracy organizations is staging a rally and march for immigrant and worker rights, led by the Consejo de Resistencia en Defensa del Inmigrante. They are expecting hundreds of thousands of marchers.
If you are in #Chicago and you want to stop Trump's agenda, you should join it. They will be marching from Union Park at 11 A.M.
Talking about a positive way that AI helps me with alt texts while working on a blog... 🤖
I know people hate AI for many reasons, and I do get it... But... I'm trying to write a blog post where I share images with album covers, titles and other info, and I have to say...
The way the AI made the elaborate alt texts for the images, it saved me loads of spoons and energy and time and frustration... If I had better hands, better concentration, less distraction, more spoons..
Sure, I would have tried to create the lists myself. But this... It helped me so much.
I'm not lazy, I have some (invincible) disabilities. But I will want my blogs to be inclusive/accessible to all... So, lately, I've been trying to make my posts "better" by adding more alt texts with my images.
And even though the AI helps a lot, it's still quite some work to get the text to the images and all that.... But, because the alt texts take less spoons, I can work on my blog better. So that's a win.
And hey, I still write my own blog texts 😉 although my usage of the English language, I guess I may seem as silly as a ChatGPT text at times. 😂
I know there are many downsides to AI. I don't need to discuss them... Hey I don't have the spoons for that! But I try to live economical, and I do know my footprint increases with AI. But when your disability is made less restricted when AI can help with complicated alt texts...
Please don't think badly of me for using it. I want my posts to be accessible to all that may be interested in them. And I hope that, by trying my best this way, that my posts become more open for everyone to enjoy (or to quickly skip, my topics won't be enjoyable by everyone I guess 😉).
Fankoos 🫶🏻 for not judging me. And I'll keep doing my best to make my images more inclusive to everyone.
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I'll share one of the images that I am using in my new blog, and I'll add the elaborate alt text AI made for me here, as it's too big for the text box with the image itself:
A screenshot of a music streaming application displaying the "Top aller tijden" (Top of all time) albums in the "Albums" category. The interface is dark-themed with a grid of album covers, their ranking, number of streams, and an average rating.
Top Albums List:
Room Service – 3,297 streams, 11.5 rating
Cover: Roxette's "Room Service" album featuring Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle in a red-toned design.
Have A Nice Day – 1,344 streams, 4.8 rating
Cover: Roxette's "Have A Nice Day" album, featuring a bright yellow and pink aesthetic with Marie smiling.
Mind Control – 1,319 streams, 4.4 rating
Cover: Mono Mind’s "Mind Control" with a futuristic band aesthetic.
Don't Bore Us - Get to the Chorus! – 289 streams, 1.32 rating
Cover: Roxette’s greatest hits compilation.
The green highlight under "Albums" indicates that this tab is selected. The layout is structured, and the user interface includes options for sorting by "Nummers" (Songs), "Artiesten" (Artists), and "Genres." The share icon is visible in the top right corner.
I downloaded a scientific paper of great interest to me. It is of typical length, about 15 pages in the PDF. I opened it in Acrobat, and got this message highlighted at the top of the page next to an AI sparkle icon: "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary." I cannot put into words how much this enrages me. First, this is not a long document. Have you met documents? Second, and more important, telling someone to not read a thing they want to read??! Fuck you, Adobe.
Not something I anticipated, but we have a lot of positive words to say about Nintendo this week.00:00 - Intro01:12 - Atomfall07:00 - South of Midnight23:05 ...
I've made a modified Acapela TTS NVDA add-on that has all the British and US English voices included. Here's the direct link to the file: galaxy4productions.com/resourc… I tried to see if I could also get it to work with the NVDA 2025 alpha but had no luck with that.
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