"The politics here are obvious. As Brewster Kahle put it, this decision conceives of libraries as "customer service departments for corporate database products." The truth is that libraries are ancient, bedrock institutions. Libraries are older than copyright. They're older than printing. Than paper. Than commerce."
OpenSSL 1.x reaches end-of-life in under six months. If you do these sorts of things in your organization and you haven't yet gotten things building with OpenSSL 3, now is an excellent time to start! openssl.org/policies/releasest…
holy shit I just caught Google giving out massively incorrect information about a common drug. This is the kind of casual answer that can get someone killed.
It's fun to watch. In another video from the same series produced by Wired magazine, musician Jacob Collier explains the concept of harmony with increasing difficulty to five different people-- a child, a teen, a college student, a professional, and …
It's fun to watch. In another video from the same series produced by Wired magazine, musician Jacob Collier explains the concept of harmony with increasing difficulty to five different people-- a child, a teen, a college student, a professional, and …
A small reminder to owners of small instances. You are free to use our #LibreTranslate api for your Mastodon instance. Simply just warn us by DM. Thank you.
> In 2013, workers at a German construction company noticed something odd about their Xerox photocopier: when they made a copy of the floor plan of a house, the copy differed from the original in a subtle but significant way. In the original floor plan, each of the house’s three rooms was accompanied by a rectangle specifying its area: the rooms were 14.13, 21.11, and 17.42 square metres, respectively. However, in the photocopy, all three rooms were labelled as being 14.13 square metres in size. The company contacted the computer scientist David Kriesel to investigate this seemingly inconceivable result. They needed a computer scientist because a modern Xerox photocopier doesn’t use the physical xerographic process popularized in the nineteen-sixties. Instead, it scans the document digitally, and then prints the resulting image file. Combine that with the fact that virtually every digital image file is compressed to save space, and a solution to the mystery begins to suggest itself.
> […] Xerox photocopiers use a lossy compression format known as JBIG2, designed for use with black-and-white images. To save space, the copier identifies similar-looking regions in the image and stores a single copy for all of them; when the file is decompressed, it uses that copy repeatedly to reconstruct the image. It turned out that the photocopier had judged the labels specifying the area of the rooms to be similar enough that it needed to store only one of them—14.13—and it reused that one for all three rooms when printing the floor plan.
The noted speculative-fiction writer Ted Chiang on OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT, which, he says, does little more than paraphrase what’s already on the Internet.
I’m excited to share what I’ve been hacking on for the past few years: The Most Dangerous Codec in the World: Finding and Exploiting Vulnerabilities in H.264 Decoders.
This is the story behind CVE-2022-3266, CVE-2022-32939, CVE-2022-42846, and CVE-2022-42850 along with an extended RCA of CVE-2022-22675. 🧵
RT @mitvis@twitter.com We’re looking for screen reader users to join our paid remote study! We’re testing out customizable descriptions for accessible data visualizations, and we want your feedback on if they’re helpful. $50 compensation for 1.5 hour study. Sign up at this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
The MIT Visualization Group is conducting a remote study on customizable descriptions for accessible data visualizations for screen readers. We are seeking blind, low-vision, and/or visually impaired participants to help with this study.
Samsung released S23 series in february including S23, S23 + and S23 ultra. Here's a review of the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra by John Dyer from Blind Android Users podcast tinyurl.com/yc45uh4m
American university researchers have developed a novel attack which they named "Near-Ultrasound Inaudible Trojan" (NUIT) that can launch silent attacks against devices powered by voice assistants, like smartphones, smart speakers, and other IoTs.
The inputmode global attribute is an enumerated attribute that hints at the type of data that might be entered by the user while editing the element or its contents.
This allows a browser to display an appropriate virtual keyboard.
Write a story about an intelligent AI assistant learning to speak to dogs. Write it in beautiful, flowery prose. Include exciting and dramatic sentences. #ChatGPT #ElevenLabs
Wow! Here's my variant: "Write a story about an intelligent AI assistant learning to speak to dogs. Write it in the style of Arthur C. Clarke." Voiced by #ElevenLabs Adam. #ChatGPT
@matt Was this with GPT3.5? I'm very disappointed by Elevenlabs' built-in voices. I feel like they do a poor job representing what it's capable of. The new randomly generated voices can be pretty awesome though!
The central holding of the #InternetArchive court opinion is, if you own a physical book and scan it, you infringed the author's copyright by creating an unauthorized copy—even if you never use both at the same time. (This also implies that printing an ebook = infringement.)
Today’s lower court decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is a blow to all libraries and the communities we serve. This decision impacts libraries across the US who rely on controlled digital lending to connect their patrons with books online.
Beyond the cost of living crisis moving toward a public energy system in Europe session starting now, with interventions by Vera Weghmann, @AttacAustria , @RosaluxEuropa and @olivierhoedeman , among others! #PowerToThePeople
“Public institutions are much better positioned to address the urgency of climate change while also protecting workers” - inspiring intervention by Vera Weghmann, from the University of Greenwich #PowerToThePeople
“A wholistic approach to public ownership would be best: transmission, distribution, supply and generation of green and not so green energy” - Vera Weghmann
“In Austria, most energy companies are in public hands, but they behave like private companies”, Angela Fister, from @oegb_eu , the Austrian Trade Union Confederation
“Public control will allow to stop the massive public subsidies to the private sector.Nationalising means changing the system - take democratic control over investment and prices. Nationalising is a struggle that is underway”, Mathieu Strale from the Parti des Travailleurs Belges
Mathieu Strale: “In 20yrs, Engie made €15bn just on Belgian electricity market, 7x the value of infrastructure. So if we need to take it back, then we won’t pay it again! We’ve already done so”
Public electricity campaign ideas on EU electricity market reform: 👉right to clean energy 👉price setting wholesale markets 👉control prices 👉democratic public-owned energy companies (for workers and consumers) 👉fighting market power
Die geplante #Chatkontrolle ist ein Angriff auf unsere Grundrechte. Wir fordern den Bundestag dazu auf, sich klar gegen solche irrsinnigen Methoden der Massenüberwachung positionieren. Wir lehnen eine anlasslose Durchsuchung wie im autoritären China klar ab. #PIRATEN
I already knew that “Italian cuisine” was a myth, I didn’t know it was such a lie. But if I think back to my childhood (1980s, not that long ago!) it all makes sense… ft.com/content/6ac009d5-dbfd-4…
You know how research is overwhelmingly done on people who are WEIRD - from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies?
An animal behaviour scientist has proposed that the animals we've been studying are also quite STRANGE. We're focusing on the fish who swim into traps, the crows who walk right up to a weird log on their first day in captivity. theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
News from the #LibreOffice Documentation community! Czech guides are available in the Bookshelf – and you can help us to translate more: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
Today’s lower court decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is a blow to all libraries and the communities we serve. This decision impacts libraries across the US who rely on controlled digital lending to connect their patrons with books online.
Awww, poor little tiny Internet Archive. Boo hoo! Poor Silicon Valley, having to obey laws meant to protect the mere serfs & plebians who actually make content for a living. Who write. Who create. Who are not just riding off other people's work. People. Like. Me.
Hubert Figuière
in reply to Sriram "sri" Ramkrishna - 😼 • • •TIL.
The worse? I actually reviewed the Flatpak submission and this escaped me...
Sriram "sri" Ramkrishna - 😼
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