Disney wants Kimmel back on the air, negotiating with Kimmel. Disney should have never gave given into pressure from Trump administration to suspend Kimmel. variety.com/2025/tv/news/jimmy…
It now appears the Trump administration is going to require government scientists to allow political apparatchiks to review and vet scientific papers before publication to ensure ideological purity. This is gross abuse of the scientific process.
Trump’s EO on H-1B visas has thrown the tech industry into chaos overnight
I just published an email Google sent H-1B employees yesterday warning them to not leave the US / to return by midnight tonight sources.news/p/heres-googles-m…
For the next GTK cycle, Matthias has been working on a format for symbolic icons that can be rendered efficiently by GTK, including animations; it is based on a subset of SVG with custom vendor attributes:
I have been working for a while on GTK support for stateful, animated, symbolic icons. This post is meant to provide an introduction to the format, and encourage experimentation with it. The code will land very soon in GTK 4.21.
Want to lose yourself in 1980s weird compressed sampled music? Then www.modarchive.org is your next stop. You can even download a 29 gig archive of said sampled music. Speaking of samples, here's one that I particularly like: modarchive.org/index.php?reque…
Moje starší nastupuje v pondělí vysokou školu. Jihočeskou univerzitu, přestěhovala se do pronajatého bytu v Českych Budějovicích. Trávím tu víkend, pomáhám zabydlovat a dávám nevyžádané otcovské rady. Tak vás zdravím z jihu Čech.
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
Major news: New Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses will feature its own screen reader, text size and magnification options for blind and low vision people. Huge thanks to @emassey0135 for spotting this and sharing. Full story here: doubletaponair.com/meta-ray-ba… #blind #tech #accessibility
Meta has just announced at Meta Connect that the upcoming Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses will ship with a suite of accessibility features designed specifically for blind and low-vision users.
@phnt @a1ba well and even before LiveView you technically can have Elixir on the frontend with HEEX templating, but it's just generating static pages at that point.
The widely used image-parsing library suffers from a flaw that can allow remote code execution via crafted images in Android devices, putting connected corporate workflows at risk.
Kyiv Independent - Russia launched a large-scale missile and drone attack on Ukrainian cities overnight, killing at least two people and injuring 32 others. kyivindependent.com/russia-lau…
Russia launched a large-scale missile and drone attack on Ukrainian cities overnight on Sept. 20, killing at least two people and injuring 32 others, officials reported.
Musk considers environmental regulation a barrier to innovation. As he eyes a new project in Houston, here’s what to know about some of his companies’ past projects that have faced scrutiny from regulators and environmental advocates.
Since I've been having a lot of fun adapting classical music to chiptune style, I thought maybe I should follow all the way through and make an entire asset pack for RPG-type games...? Since I'm not composing everything from scratch, it could be very affordable relative to the amount of music. This is "Torrent" by Chopin, which I think sounds very Boss Music...
Wow, gerat to be coming to this years after I've had an idea for a final-boss-battle-style rendition of Chopin's Nocturne op. 9 no. 2 in my head but not enough skill to actually compose it. Is that something you could imagine for the future?
> #Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man
> The man noticed that posts encouraging him to “get Threads” (…) were being dropped into his Instagram feed featuring embedded posts of uniformed girls as young as 13 with their faces visible and, in most cases, their names.
> The children’s images were used by Meta after their parents had posted them on Instagram to mark their return to school.
Please. Get off Meta sites! Close your accounts! And for god's sake stop posting pictures of your children, or even yourselves, anywhere on the internet.
"The children’s images were used by Meta after their parents had posted them on Instagram to mark their return to school. The parents were unaware that Meta’s settings permitted it to do this. One mother said her account was set to private, but the posts were automatically cross-posting to Threads where they were visible. Another said she posted the picture to a public Instagram account. The posts of their children were highlighted to the stranger as “suggested threads”.
The recipient told the Guardian the posts felt “deliberately provocative and ultimately exploitative of the children and families involved”.
The father of a 13-year-old who appeared in one of the posts said it was “absolutely outrageous”. The images were all of schoolgirls in short skirts with either bare legs or stockings." theguardian.com/technology/202…
"The mother of a 15-year-old whose picture was used in a promotional post that featured a large “Get Threads” button said: “For me it was a picture of my daughter going to school. I had no idea Instagram had picked it up and are using it as a promotion. It’s absolutely disgusting. She is a minor.” ...
With 267 followers, her Instagram account usually had modest reach but the post of her child attracted nearly 7,000 views, 90% from non-followers, half of whom were aged over 44 and 90% of whom were men.
Another mother whose post of her 13-year-old was used in a promotional post said: “Meta did all of this on purpose, not informing us, as they want to generate content. It’s despicable. And who is responsible for creating that Threads ad using children’s photos to promote the platform for older men?”
@chikim This does make me think. The only real thing of interest to me is the live translation feature. But I don't believe Apple was ever good at this, so I'll just wait and see what sort of experiences others will have before I make any move! :)
@chikim Yeah, somehow the heart monitor feature didn't really excite me. :) But funny re hearing. Perhaps I should get them just for that one reason? LOL
I think if you're onn an iDevice capable of Apple Intelligence and AirPods firmware is on 8A356 or later, it should work for you: support.apple.com/106340 @chikim
Resolves #5611 by just removing support for the X11 backend entirely.
If the eventual goal is to implement everything in GTK, we can remove some X11-exclusive code and get rid of quite a bit of cru...
At Meta Connect 2025, Mark Zuckerberg’s live glasses demos repeatedly failed. Why did he risk it in the age of keynotes that are long marketing videos?
So, you’ve proven you can take action. You canceled Disney, rallied around Kimmel, and feel good that you’ve “done something.”
But now what?
Will this be yet another moment where your actions only extend as far as how close to home the issue hits? Or can your outrage and your action, finally be more inclusive?
Am 20. September 1822, vor 203 Jahren, wurde der Scheibmaschinen Erfinder Peter Mitterhofer geboren. Unter anderem gelang es ihm 1866 aus Holz- und Blechteilen den ersten brauchbaren Schreibapparat für Blindenschrift herzustellen. #make #blind #inklusion
that's an interesting claim that lots of companies make (admittedly fewer and fewer these days). But I'm curious to know what your policy on responding to US gov subpoenas are? Especially given the new classification of trans terrorists.
Am Samstag wird in Frankreich das 200-Jahr-Jubiläum der Brailleschrift gefeiert. Im französischen Coupvray, dem Geburtsort des Erfinders der berühmten Blindenschrift, Louis Braille, wird ein Gedenktag begangen, mit dem auf die nach wie vor große Bede…
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Rocky Rococo Pizza closing permanently after 35 years in downtown Spokane
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