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Languages are fun, have mysterious rules called grammar, but their native speakers certainly don't care about all that. In other words, do native speakers of a language speak the language correctly, as textbooks prescribe? (Hint: Definitely not.)

Here's a video to illustrate this. Thanks, Google recommendations. youtube.com/watch?v=nIl_rdTUU1…


16 phrases you can hear native British English speakers say that you were taught were wrong

In this English Lesson with British English Teacher Roy, learn how to sound more like a native British English speaker when you speak English. In this Englis...
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Today is nine years ago since I learned how a single fixed byte write outside a heap buffer in c-ares could be used in a sequence to execute code as root on Chrome OS:

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/10/14…


a single byte write opened a root execution exploit

Thursday, September 22nd 2016. An email popped up in my inbox. Subject: ares_create_query OOB write As one of the maintainers of the c-ares project I'm receiving mails for suspected security problems in c-ares and this was such a one.
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I don't know who of you posted this theory but thanks to you and my colleague who helped me test this, I know for sure no that you can use the sound split feature of your screen reader to send just the sound of your other apps, without the TTS, while screen-sharing on meeting platforms. I tested this with NVDA and Jitsi running inside Chrome. When NVDA is on the left and everything else right, only a faint echo of my TTS could be heard most likely owing to how my headset and the jack of my Thinkpad is wired. This must mean that probably Chrome or Windows take the right channel as the mix in case of doubt and when everything has to be mono, but then I might be wrong on all of that so let's goooo! I'll have to test with other platforms. #Accessibility #A11y #Blind
#a11y #Accessibility #blind

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This is amazing research by Nadia Heninger and her co-authors Wenyi Morty Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin and Aaron Schulman. TL;DR a huge number of satellite links over our heads are totally unencrypted. satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/

🛰️ SATCOM Security

Research project homepage for SATCOM Security: papers, source code, and recent satellite communications vulnerabilities.
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It still boggles my mind that Xcode's *built in* AI autocomplete keeps suggesting APIs that don't exist.

Like, it's literally sitting on top of a compiler that can determine if an API exists, so why can't it ask the compiler *before* suggesting it?

The entire purpose of autocomplete is to help me find out the real name of hard-to-remember APIs. I'm perfectly capable of *misremembering* them by myself, I don't need the computer to do it for me

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Just booked the train ticket to #Strasbourg for the #matrix conference 15-18 Oct. Check out the schedule:
2025.matrix.org/schedule/#full…
@fairkom is a silver sponsor of the matrix foundation and will present their experiences deploying SchulchatRLP for half a million pupils, teachers and parents on Sat Oct 18th 10:00. The greatest challenges were syncing users and groups from a central IDM and building a #kubernetes cluster on premises.
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Schedule of The Matrix Conference

Whether you want to hear how an organization deployed Matrix at scale or learn what the engineers are doing to improve the protocol, the Matrix Conference has a track for you.
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#matrix #kubernetes #strasbourg @The Matrix.org Foundation @fairkom
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