I just pushed an #NVDARC for iOS update. Here's what I've added this time: Adds a new feature I'm calling Gesture Presets. The idea is that you can set up your three finger swipe actions to send keys you want them to send, and then save them as a preset. Then, you can set up more keys, save that as another preset, etc. Then, a new picker item will appear in the connection window, where you can quickly switch between gesture presets on the fly. In addition to all of this, you can make different machines start with different gesture presets in the machine editor. Let me know what you think! testflight.apple.com/join/edg8…

Today has been a very strange day. Definitely had some #Thursday components, such as both of my ears completely becoming useless at different points, a fantastic headache, a couple of technical things that went wrong, and the ill-advised (by me) working on an experimental project that might crash and burn, but I won't know about that for a while.

Currently, both my ears are, for all intents, nonfunctional, so I am once again thankful for the existence of braille displays.

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As I suspected it probably would be, my bug bounty submission of using an AI email summarizer was closed as being 'infeasible' and an 'acceptable risk' with AI.

But still - I think it's an interesting finding, so I have written it up thus: mike-sheward.medium.com/recrui…

TL;DR = I discovered how you can use Google Workspace's Google Gemini Email Summarizer to make a phishing attack seem more convincing, because it summarizes hidden content.

#infosec #ai #llm

Using AI's, I've co-written a clever editor that cleans text and prepares it for use with index-tts. It kept getting more powerful, so even if you don't use it the way I do, it may be useful, or perhaps, you, being a human could bring the actual personal touch to it. Do whatever you like with any part of this project you like, just let me know for my own gratification, source included dropbox.com/scl/fi/1d2cuzegf60…

If you create an alternate gmail account, or any gmail account really, make sure you either configure 2FA with an authenticator app or add a recovery phone number.
The moment you sign into that account with an Android phone, the gmail app on iOS, the youTube app on iOS, or anything else that Google can send a code to, your account will force-enable 2FA without so much as a warning. The next time you try to sign in from a browser or another device, you sure as shit better have that phone with you, rather than hiding in a box 3000 miles away, otherwise you're not getting into that account.

Every day, thousands of women and children are victimized by people on X using the Grok chatbot to generate scantily clad and naked photos of them.

It’s time for governments to take action. Elon Musk’s X should have been banned long ago. They don’t have an excuse to delay any longer.

disconnect.blog/elon-musks-x-m…

#tech #socialmedia #elonmusk #x #grok #twitter #everythingapp #deepfake

With xAI's Grok generating endless semi-nude images of women and girls without their contest, it follows a years-long legacy of rampant abuse on the platform.

404media.co/grok-ai-sexual-abu…

I've been elected to FESCo! šŸŽ‰

[1]Thanks to everyone who voted for me. Feel free to reach out if you want to have a chat.

If you did not vote for me, feel free to reach out as well if you feel confortable sharing why.

Now back to the work to make Fedora and all the Atomic variants awesome!

[1] communityblog.fedoraproject.or…

#Fedora

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Well that’s a nice self pay-it-forward Happy New Year. Having one less thing to do at the start of the year sounds great to me.

That said, it opens up a whole game of trying to find the oldest curl version in active deployment. Finding Ā©ļø2014 in your car infotainment system is like finding the exp2014 aspirin in the office’s medical bag.

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Reasons are, as so often, historical. Computer software form and best practice does in many ways originate in the US during the 1970s and 80s - right the time US copyright switched from requiring a full notice of (c) symbol, year and author to not doing so. So it comes mostly by continued practice. Mostly as US law is still case law for most parts, which means that having a classic notice may give a better standing. Then again, the year itself may only once the item gets past any of the thresholds - which are quite long by now.

So for all practical reasons, it would have been sufficient to only note the year each file was created first - removing the need for yearly updates. This gives a minimum duration of 50 (Berne) or 70 (EU/US) years after your death. That's as of now something like 2076. Sure, libcurl may be still in use by then - if we still use computers and not clay tablets again - I would think any possible dispute has been solved already :)

On a side note, the EU still recommends the use of a copyright notice: europa.eu/youreurope/business/…

wow! Thanks Google AI Overview, you totally got it right.
"Apple's Solution: Licensing and Porting: Rather than trying to run the old 32-bit version through emulation (which would only be a temporary solution), Apple made a deal with Code Factory and Nuance, the companies that owned the rights to the voice. As part of this agreement, a full, natively 64-bit version of the Eloquence engine was developed specifically for integration into Apple's VoiceOver accessibility features."
That's right. 64-bit Eloquence. On Mac and Apple devices. All thanks to Code Factory. Ha ha. Heh heh. Sure, as likely as a JAWS for Mac OS appearing.

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(Doug) Ford warns Carney not to cut tariffs on Chinese EVs as PM looks to repair ties with Beijing

cbc.ca/news/politics/ford-carn…

Elbows up.

As I said the tariff is not to protect Canada. It's to protect a US industry that don't give a fuck about Canada.

Edit: Added in the headline that it is the drug dealer, not the car manufacturer.

#cdnpoli

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Hi all. So today, my hair went. Well, a lot of it went. Instead if the jaw length bob I had, I now have a very short, very. short. layererd fluffy cut which, I am so happy to report, looks amazing and is easy easy for me to manage! I am so happy. I have new natural sleep aids coming, plus cream for the restless legs which I am so, so hoping will work. Feeling pale pink and hopeful today.

Tehran, Babol, Mashad, Hamadan, Kermanshah...and many more cities: There are masses on the street tonight all over #Iran. At the same time the regime has once again shut down the internet in order to prevent information to get in and out of the country. We know from previous protests that they kill the people in silence and darkness. Please be the voice of the brave Iranians- they are risking their lives for freedom.

#Iranrevolution #internetblackout #betheirvoice #BarayeAzadi

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