speaking of Siri being bad, my kids are seven, nine, and 10, and Siri has been a punchline for literally their entire lives. Apple may have lost them already, because they already “know” how bad it is why would they even try again when they get older and get their own phones. 1/2
My kids sometimes play a game they made up called “Alexa”, where one of them says “Alexa, play [song]”, and the other one has to sing that song.
But occasionally one of them will say “Hey Siri, play [song]”, and the other will say “I’m sorry, I cannot complete that request right now”, and they will laugh and laugh and laugh…
Imagine the following situation: your company receives a ZIP file with an invoice, and you're the person responsible for checking if all the details are correct, before sending it off to the payment department. You open the archive, and there's a single PDF inside. You view it, and all the details match—your company's details, seller's company's details, items and total amount are what's expected, and even the bank account number is the same as on previous invoices from this company. As everything looks good, you forward the ZIP with the invoice to the payment team, and move onto reviewing other incoming invoices.
A few days later you receive the same invoice again, but you already have it in the system. Just in case you reach out to the payment department whether it's been paid, and they confirm it has—great, no action required.
Another month passes by, and you get a "payment due" reminder. What's this? You remember it being paid already, so what gives. You ask the payment team, they again confirm the invoice was settled. You phone the seller about this, but they say they received nothing. So you head down the hall to the payment department, you open the invoice on your laptop, and start going through the details with them. But what's this? The destination account number and amount in the wire transfer and the invoice don't match! The payment team manager's face gets a bit red—seems like it was their mistake? But no! They show you the invoice, and the amount and account number match the actual payment... but it doesn't match what you see on your screen! How can this be?
Both of you re-download the ZIP archive from the email you've forwarded and open the PDF inside. And there it is—you see two different invoices. What in the world is happening?
Immediately you report it up the chain, and your boss's boss gets a pair of IT forensics consultants on the job. They investigate, and later you learn that your company has been scammed with a pair of different invoices hidden inside a schizophrenic ZIP file. This means that you—on your work laptop running a certain software stack—saw and approved the correct invoice. But the payment team—running a different software stack—saw the fake invoice inside the ZIP, which they thought was what you had approved. Even later on you find out that the seller's company has been partially compromised and a lot of their customers got fake invoices. But that's water under the bridge at that point, and the money your company transferred is long gone.
Has this scam actually been pulled off? I guess it would require the scammer to know which software stack the approver is using and which one the payment department is using.
All web developers know, at some level, that accessibility is important. But when push comes to shove, it can be hard to prioritize it above a bazillion other concerns when you’re trying to c…
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🦔 Eine kleine Lücke mit großer Bedeutung. Früher streiften Igel durch ländliche Hecken, Gehölze und artenreiche Magerwiesen. Heute kämpfen sie in urbanen Gärten und Parks um ihre Reviere – zwischen Zäunen und Straßen wird ihr Zuhause leider immer kleiner.
🪚 Du willst ihnen ein Stück Lebensraum zurückgeben? Zeit für ein Igel-Tor! Der Einschnitt im Zaun sollte am Boden mindestens 13 x 13 cm groß, ohne scharfe Kanten und am besten in der Nähe von Hecken und Sträuchern platziert sein.
Rain delay at #Wimbledon suits me as I can watch a little over my lunch break Cameron Norrie and Sonay Kartal just 2 of the handful of Britains aiming to progress today.
“Please mind the gap between the train and the platform” - seriously, even here where the platform is completely straight, in level with the train and there's a gap of like 2 cm? Shouldn't these announcements be a bit more targeted? Or was this station reconstructed without updating the announcement? #TfL #Blackfriars
America’s Mobile Security Crisis: Time for a Secure Alternative
ABC News reports a disturbing reality: smartphones used by U.S. officials, journalists, and tech execs are being hit by zero-click cyberattacks—many tied to Chinese state-backed hackers.
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Just listened to this solid episode of the Statecraft podcast: How to Digitize the Government. I had the chance to meet Joel Burke in #Estonia at the e-Governance conference earlier this year.
I had the chance to meet Joel in Estonia at the e-Governance Conference earlier this year. Our conversation there echoed many of the themes in this episode.
Well worth a listen if you’re serious about modernizing public services.
Are SOL and ADA all they seem to be? SOL especially seems really easy to use and implement governance but I don't know the encryption stuff to know if these claims are valid.
I've been struggling to find information on the environmental impacts of these kinds of coins. Everything focuses on power, but these coins use more hard drive as I understand it. Do you know where I could get more info on this?
Solana and Caldano. Blockchain technologies and ecosystems that can implement the stuff this guy is talking about. I thought maybe you were an expert on the tech.
If you are interested go ahead and review webspace on these blockchains. I'm especially interested in Solana, but Caldano is maybe more thoughtful.
WhatsApp users say hello to ads - or turn them off with this guide! Meta-owned instant chat app has announced that it will soon start showing ads. But why did WhatsApp break its no-ad promise?
je trouve ça vraiment chouette que vous vous engager autant sur le #Fediverse et avec de vrai recommandation général sur les #ViePrivée #PrivacyLife #PrivacyData
I hate to admit that people in Chile are and will be stubborn enough to refuse to switch despite everything.
They don't even bother to switch from the most infamous bank (that one being BancoEstado, a.k.a the Bank of the State of Chile) despite the plethora of direct competition they have access to on the literal palm of their hands.
About time! Can't have apps without ads! We need more enshittification!
I couldn't care less. I never used WhatsApp, never will. Whoever is upset about it: you had time and reason enough to switch. I don't know how many articles i read about alternatives to the Meta-verse. You opted in to simply make Mark richer. So: Shhh!
deleted it after ai crept in. Sadly people are lazy and will continue like nothing is happening. Just like they do with other meta products, google, apple, ect... So many better choices xmpp, signal, session, heck even SMS/MMS vs being sold.
Meta is doing one shitty step after the other...and every time there is a shitstorm and many are talking about leaving, but at last, convinience is winning and most silently take the shit and don't change anything...🤷🏻♂️
Lidem, kteri vydelaji hromadu penez a s tim spojenou slavu/viditelnost v nejakym bode totalne jebne. Naprosto bez vyjimky.
Kdyby ty penize pouzili a nasli si kvalitniho psychologa, tak by to dost pomohlo cele spolecnosti. A sam doufam, ze to neni uplne pravidlo a jde vydelavat penize bez nutnosti se prepnout do modu chodiciho ekonomickeho a sociologickeho think tanku a snazit se ridit spolecnost podle mustru Thiela a Muska.
První díl podcastu Druhé ekonomické transformace se věnuje tématu rozhýbání peněz Evropanů a zavedení takzvaného 28. režimu EU. Hosty byli Jana Brodani výkon...
Niekde som nedavno cital ze niekde na urovni bohatstva (resp "net value") 100 az 300 milionov tito bohati ludia stracaju kognitivny kontakt s ludskou realitou, pretoze sa pre nich uplne straca akykolvek odpor ktory by realita kladla ich rozmarom.
🤦 Aby toho zmatku nabylo málo je tu “Zmatek v koncesionářských poplatcích. Část OSVČ se registrovat nemusí” kde tisková mluvčí vykládá zákon. Má to ale háček, ten nehovoří o nutnosti vlastnit, ale stačí už jenom “užívání”. Neměli by to konečně jasně vysvětlit (a napravit) zákonodárci?
To je dobrej bizar. Prijde mi tam, ze ta mluvci to rika tak, jak to chapu ja (kdyz mam jako osvc osobni telefon, tak se registrovat musim). Ale hned pod tim to v tom clanku rikaji spatne (jenom kdyz ho mam na firmu v ucetnictvi).
@mwenisch Zákon neříká nic o nutnost něco vlastnit, říká že buď vlastnit nebo používat. Takže je uplně jedno čí telefon to je :) OSVČ navíc žádná účetnictví nemají.
Me v tom clanku zaujala citace, ze nemusim plnit povinnost "kdyz tim nezpusobim CT zadnou skodu". To je vec, co neplati vubec nikde. Socialka, VZP, bernak...
The hype about the potentials (it’s always future potential, never real current use) of AI has discarded its last cycle (“reasoning models”/”deep research”, both terms being factually untrue and deeply deceiving at best) and moved to a new double wha…
@Michael I think this rather shows more who I managed to reach when I begged people to respond to the survey than what the average curl users might want...
I use RSS very actively, its actually sad to see whats happening to it. I do wonder how one could make more folks aware of it and how to use it, because for me it was a black box until a few years ago when I set up my own aggregator and took the plunge. I use it for my goto news feed every day since.
🚀 Openfire 5.0.1 is out! This update fixes several issues found in the 5.0.0 release that we did last week. Check out the blog post for more details: Openfire 5.0.1 Release #Openfire #XMPPdiscourse.igniterealtime.org/t…
Openfire 5.0.1 has been released! Openfire, created by the Ignite Realtime community is a powerful chat server that lets you communicate in real-time with your team or friends.
Add a new commandline option --out-null that discards all response bytes into the void. Replaces non-portable use of '-o /dev/null' with more efficiency.
Feature earliest for 8.16.0
I wonder what the use case is. 🤔 Ignoring response data from portable scripts? My inner Python coder says I would have let the subprocess write to stdout as normal, then just not read from the pipe. Are we worrying about script performance?
Interactive use? Not sure I see the point there. Fewer characters to type?
that's in particular important to keep in mind when looking at a graph like this, showing the number of known vulnerabilities per 1,000 lines of code in #curl over time:
Can you compare the graph of knowledge over time? IE, if you take now and looking back X years, and compare that to a year ago, looking back X years, does the graph change shape?
If you're improving it should be flatter now (since there were fewer security issues to be fixed).
Distracted dolphin or frolicsome frog? Did you notice that in Raccoon themes are named according to a strange convention? Have you ever wondered why? My latest article explains the localization journey which has brought to this result.
Localization and customization are first-class citizens at Procyon, as already discussed. An feature in which they come together is the choice of the color theme to apply to the app.
A 10-year global investigation into the sacrifices women make to be artists. Ticket Link Join us for a presentation and discussion with Author Stephanie Elizondo Griest. 5:45 PM: Doors open […]\n
Molly White @molly0xfff) is the best journalist (by a considerable margin) covering the endlessly corrupt cryptocurrency "industry" and its metastasizing spread into the endlessly corrupt Trump world and -- this should scare the hell out of you -- now into our banking system.
Trump’s crypto empire attracts more foreign millions, the FHFA pushes crypto on mortgage lenders, and Mamdani’s mayoral primary win makes billionaires sweat
I went through and cleared out a load of unnecessary subscriptions, and put some of that to become a Friend of GNOME. It’s important to me to support my favourite thoughtful, usable open-source desktop environment (and who knows, perhaps one day my favourite phone environment too)
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Despite my aversion to subscriptions, I decided to become a Friend of GNOME today to support software I love :}
If you wish to join me, checkout:
https://donate.gnome.org/
#gnome
Open letter from #EPA employees says their boss has has been "adopting the messaging of political propaganda, rather than the #science that the EPA’s work relies on. This includes spreading misinformation about science through official EPA channels, claiming science is a 'religion,' praising 'clean coal'(which does not exist), and attacking members of Congress (which may have violated the Hatch Act, which disallows political campaigning by federal employees)." electrek.co/2025/07/01/hundred…
Google Tightens Android Sideloading—At What Cost to Digital Freedom?
Google has begun blocking sideloaded Android apps in Singapore, citing security concerns over apps requesting sensitive permissions like SMS and accessibility services.
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I regularly try to use my librem5 as a daily driver... But compared to my android phone ... Performance and battery life are generations apart.... Will there be some processor upgrade at some point?
An iPhone app called ICEBlock, which allows anyone to lawfully and anonymously report ICE sightings and get notified about nearby ICE agents, went viral overnight after criticism from the US Attorney General.
FYI: The app doesn't collect or store user data. (I checked by doing a network traffic analysis of the app.)
Given that currently 8% of the people detained by ICE for deportation are factual violent criminals, American citizens should take note that the words of a dictator are fucking meaningless gravy.
Merely having the wrong meme on your phone and not enough money for the best deals on a golden Trump card can get you thrown into a gulag in another country.
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Breaking: Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country.
The dust has not even settled from the announcement that ICE will be receiving more funding than the entire US prison system, and that a new concentration camp is opening in Florida, and already Trump is announcing he will deport US citizens.
I hate running. I used to believe that, over time, this would change. I thought, over time, that I would grow to love running out of sheer repetition. This has not happened.
I used to think that if I could write for a living I’d never have to work—my hobby would be my job. This also has not happened. It turns out that when you have to do something for multiple hours every day it’s not always fun. Sometimes the day goes by quickly because of how much fun you’re having, sure, but not every day. Some days you don’t feel like being creative but have to anyway. Some days you have absolutely nothing to say but need to keep talking because that’s the job.
Sometimes things are hard, is what I’m saying. It’s a universal human experience.
Companies, naturally, are trying to sell you things to “solve” this unsolvable problem. The logic of consumerism runs deep in all of us thanks to the hundreds of hours we’ve all spent listening to advertising’s constant rituals. In thirty second we see a problem presented, a solution offered at a reasonable price, then a moment of ecstatic relief as the product solves the problem. It’s the story we’ve all seen more than any other, drilled into our heads, shaping the way we see the world whether we realize it or not.
So obviously we all think we’re one purchase away from solving things that aren’t really solvable. Do you hate running? Buy a Fitbit and you can turn those dreaded workout into something fun. Are you having trouble feeling motivated? Maybe buy this fancy project management software, or notebook, or anything else you might come to believe will finally make it easy for you to do things you don’t actually want to do.
I am not, for the record, saying all of these things are useless. They have real purposes. But no tool is every going to make it easy for you to do things you don’t want to do. I am never going to like running—I’m just going to have to convince myself to do it anyway.
I’ve found ways to make running suck less. I do it first thing in the morning—that way I don’t spend all day dreading the workout to come. I always run with my wife, which creates the social pressure I need to actually follow through. I listen to music while I run, mostly so that I have something to think about that isn’t how much I hate running. And we basically always run the same route—that way I know exactly how much running is left and can avoid the need to make any decisions while I’m tired and angry.
None of this makes running fun. It does make it suck less. And part of doing things you dislike—or even doing things you like on days you’d rather not—is realizing that there’s never going to be some purchase or trick that will magically make it easy. There is never going to be some magic moment of truth where things click and you stop resisting the things you know you need to do.
Sometimes you just have to push through it. Sometimes it’s hard, and that’s okay. Do it anyway.
An obituary for reading the internetAnne Helen Petersen/Culture Study Pocket is shutting down and, with it, the idea of actually reading things online.
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in reply to Joe Lion • • •My kids sometimes play a game they made up called “Alexa”, where one of them says “Alexa, play [song]”, and the other one has to sing that song.
But occasionally one of them will say “Hey Siri, play [song]”, and the other will say “I’m sorry, I cannot complete that request right now”, and they will laugh and laugh and laugh…