Big News: Our Administration is investing nearly $900 million to purchase over 3,400 clean school buses in 530 school districts across the U.S. 🚌
This investment will improve the air our children breathe, reduce pollution, and create good-paying manufacturing jobs.
Hey Canadian nerds! I have held the domain registration for regex.ca for a very long time. When I lived in Canada it was my primary domain, but I haven't used it for years. Does anyone on the fediverse have a good use for it?
I'm going to release it but if you've got a good pitch I'll pay for a 1 year renewal and then transfer it to your ownership.
[edit: @blakecoverett has put regex.ca to appropriately goofy, human-centric use. huzzah for the Fediverse!]
XZ 5.6.2 Released With The Frightening Backdoor Removed
It was two months ago today that an urgent security alert was issued over XZ being hit by malicious code that turned out to be a backdoor within liblzma added by a bad actor that worked his way into XZ co-maintainership. Longtime XZ developer Lasse Collin is back at the helm and has been auditing the prior XZ commits and today released XZ 5.6.2 with the backdoor completely removed...
phoronix.com/news/XZ-5.6.2-Rel…
I'll take the train over to #Gothenburg tomorrow and talk #http3
meetup.com/webbhuset/events/30…
On Thursday, May 30th at 18:00, Webbhuset invites the creator of cURL, Daniel Stenberg, to our office in Gothenburg for an exclusive lecture on HTTP/3! 🤩💥 The agenda: *Meetup
Anything from Vox Media and The Atlantic is now untrustworthy in any capacity from now on. Remember this when reading or linking to any articles in the future.
#AI #FuckAI #Journalism
my understanding is that this is a license for OpenAI to train LLMs on what their writers produce, not a license to generate articles with OpenAI LLMs.
Still shitty though.
Workbench News 🛠️
Now available in the GNOME nightly repository
Welcoming 2 GSoC students
@vixalientoots and @atbrat
#GNOME #TypeScript #Vala #GSoC
Nightly Workbench is now available on the GNOME nightly repository. Please prefer Workbench from Flathub but if you're a GNOME contrib...Sonny's
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edit: still trying! please keep on boosting!
we're moving to #Prague! and we need some friends.
we're moving to #Czechia in September and we might be a bit lonely. so if you want to befriend a couple of quirky migrants, let me know!
I'm into #music, #FOSS, #linguistics, #DoctorWho, #TTRPG and #DropoutTV. oh, and I'm #trans.
my girlfriend likes #medicine, British television, #Disney, #Eurovision and #TrueCrime. "I am the bisexual stereotype".
#Praha #Prag #PleaseBoost
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It's not long until the 1st of June, so why not pick up the guitar and learn some catchy tunes for the summer? I've just published version 7.0 of Fretboard, which brings more accurate chord name prediction, note names on hover for the neck top toggles, and a couple of fixes for various small issues encountered since last release. It should be on Flathub very soon!
#Fretboard #GNOME #Flathub #GNOMEApps #GNOMECircle #Guitar
I should have waited before ordering my new framework 13 amd. whoops!
fosstodon.org/@frameworkcomput…
We've permanently reduced the prices on our AMD-powered Framework Laptop 13 models and remaining inventory of 13th Gen Intel Core and introduced new configurations of Ryzen 7040 Series DIY Edition with the 2.Fosstodon
Has the latest Akkoma update broken domain delegation for anybody else?
In user handles, I’m seeing changes like: functional.computer is social.functional.computer, sergal.org is mastodon.sergal.org, treehouse.systems is social.treehouse.systems, strafpla.net is mstdn.strafpla.net, etc.
The Internet Archive, best known for its Wayback Machine, says that it has been under a sustained distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)...Ben Lovejoy (9to5Mac)
After a report on what Apple users do with their old iPads, analytics firm CIRP has released a study about...Michael Potuck (9to5Mac)
Der Fall Rammstein - Aussage gegen Aussage
Zwei Frauen werfen Rammstein-Sänger Lindemann Machtmissbrauch vor. Doch bei der Staatsanwaltschaft haben sie sich nicht gemeldet. Das deutsche Sexualstrafrecht werde vielen Betroffenen nicht gerecht, kritisieren NGOs.
Weil wir heute aus unerfreulichem Anlass (Nazi-Angriff auf Behinderten-Wohnheim) über Behinderung sprechen:
Wenn ihr denkt, Behinderungen wären doch eher selten, dann macht euch bitte klar, dass auch chronische Krankheiten, Neurodivergenzen, psychische Krankheiten, die länger als 6 Monate andauern, unter das große Dach von Behinderung fallen. Einen offiziellen Grad der Behinderung kann man z.B. bereits für einige Tage Migräne im Monat bekommen.
Ausführlich zum Thema:
bpb.de/themen/inklusion-teilha…
Behinderung – ein scheinbar einfaches, alltäglich benutztes Wort. Bei genauerem Hinsehen zeigt sich jedoch, dass es sich dabei um eine komplexe und relative Kategorie handelt.Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung
Apple is running a few long-term health studies. Your hearing health -- and what those earbuds and headphones can do to it -- is one of them.Jessica Rendall (CNET)
⚠️ Bitte schwimmt nicht im Rhein! Es ist lebensgefährlich! ⚠️
Die Feuerwehr Köln bittet euch, dies zu beachten: Auf keinen Fall selbst hinterherspringen, um jemand zu retten. Stattdessen 112 wählen, Rettungsring zuwerfen, Person möglichst im Blick behalten und der Feuerwehr-Leitstelle möglichst genaue Ortsangaben machen. 🚨
Hier findet ihr mehr Infos: stadt-koeln.de/artikel/05197/i…
Bei gefährlichen Strömungen wirkt der Sog so stark, dass er selbst geübte Schwimmer bis auf den Grund zieht. Die Strömungen sind unberechenbar.www.stadt-koeln.de
As both incumbents and investors rush to do Everything With "AI," their singular focus ignores multiple areas that are ripe for building something new.
Here I argue that the rise of LLMs is converging with larger social issues that provoke demand for:
- Better engines of discovery
- Greater reliance on video
- More underground internet
- Expanded privacy software
redeem-tomorrow.com/a-future-b…
“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.” Similarly, a good investor or corporate strategist should be imagining the changing demands of an LLM-saturated world.redeem-tomorrow.com
The section "Video as a counter to text spam" makes me really uncomfortable. I'll try to explain why in a constructive way.
First, of course, video poses accessibility challenges, particularly for blind and deaf people. Of course, these problems can be more or less overcome using computer vision and speech recognition, or "AI" if you prefer. But the results aren't as reliable as having the content in text in the first place.
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But beyond that, this part:
> It can give you enormous detail about its creator. You can learn things about their identity, economic circumstances, where in the world they live.
sounds to me like a big step *backward* from text. There are real people who have worthwhile things to say but have reasons to keep those things hidden, or at least keep them from biasing their audience against their actual message.
Spam is a problem. But I'm not ready to give up on text.
@matt all of these points are reasonable and even objectively correct, and I'm with you on not giving up on text: I publish tens of thousands of words each year to my blog
and simultaneously I don't think it matters in the short term: I think text is fucked until we get replacement discovery engines
I put so much work into my text and very few people ever read it. Meanwhile, I’ve had millions of people hear my insights on tiktok
the incentives are BAD right now for text
Oberirdische oder Tunnel-Variante – Entscheidungsvorlage veröffentlichtwww.stadt-koeln.de
A guilty verdict in this case - the only one likely to go to trial - would allow anti-Trump forces to say for the next five months to American voters, *Do you really want a convicted felon as president?*
Today's Morning Shots from @wkristol52 and @eggerdc: thebulwark.com/p/after-the-tri…
Plus: Meet the MAGA establishment, same as the old establishment.William Kristol (The Bulwark)
🚀 Introducing ESS 24.05 with MSI files!
Simplify your rollouts with our new MSI build of Element Desktop - centralise installations and scale effortlessly.
Plus, enjoy improvements to our message notifications and Group Sync.
Learn more: element.io/blog/ess-24-05-now-…
#MSI #FOSS #Productivity
In our most recent version of ESS 24.05 we’re pleased to offer a Windows MSI (Microsoft Installer) build of Element Desktop. Many larger customers prefer MSI files for software installation.Archie W (Element Blog)
Stadt wünscht sich U-Bahn-Tunnel durch die Innenstadt
Die Stadt Köln und die Kölner Verkehrsbetriebe haben Zukunftspläne für eine der wichtigsten Bahnstrecken in der Innenstadt vorgestellt. Derzeit sieht es ganz nach einem großen U-Bahn-Tunnel aus, der auf Teilen der Ost-West-Achse quer durch die Stadt führen soll - vom Heumarkt bis zum Aachener Weiher.
@Dressfleech
Warum der Tunnel eine Scheißidee ist findest Du hier.
Ein Verfahren nach 26 GO NRW liegt fertig in der Schublade.
Beim Plenum diskutieren wir gemeinsam inhaltliche Themen zur Verkehrspolitik und planen unsere Aktionen. Oft stellen unsere Arbeitsgruppen inhaltliche Ergebnisse oder Aktionsvorschläge vor.Bündnis Verkehrswende Köln
Klimatické cíle Green Dealu jsou nastaveny správně. Cena za neřešení globálního oteplování by byla obrovská.
Zároveň pokud evropský průmysl nezmodernizujeme, tak nám ujede vlak.
Chybí však investice. Proto chceme nakopnout evropský byznys po vzoru USA – daňovými úlevami.
echo24.cz/a/HxeWM/zpravy-domac…
Pokud nechceme, aby se z Evropy stal skanzen, musí dojít k zásadním změnám v současné podobě Green Dealu. V předvolebním rozhovoru pro Echo24 to říká lídr pirátské kandidátky do eurovoleb a zároveň kandidát na eurokomisaře Marcel Kolaja.Jan Křovák (Echo24.cz)
Reminder: #AltText is not a place for copyright information, or additional details about the image.
Put that into a separate post, for the love of god.
It's as if you were blocking a bike path with a street sign.
The purpose of alt text is increased accessibility, so when in doubt, ask yourself if the text you're adding helps blind or visually impaired folks better understand what's in the actual image.
“Your site or app should work as much as possible without JavaScript | Go Make Things”
gomakethings.com/your-site-or-…
> I’m amazed at how often this is a controversial opinion, but…
Yeah. This shouldn't be a controversial statement at all and it’s honestly weird that it is.
I’m amazed at how often this is a controversial opinion, but… your site or app should work as much as possible without JavaScript.gomakethings.com
You boosted my protest sign where I called Canada Action LIARS for their cross-Canada “LNG will reduce global emissions” ad campaign. Now please boost this!
It turns out after immediate questions were raised last year, the Canada ad regulating agency agreed in January the campaign was misleading. But all decisions are CONFIDENTIAL and there is NO enforcement! The decision was finally leaked.
Spread the word!
#climateAction #disinformation #climateChange #canPoli #cdnpoli
nationalobserver.com/2024/05/2…
Ad Standards, the industry organization that regulates advertisements in Canada, ruled against one of the country's largest pro-fossil fuel advocacy groups for spreading disinformation about the harmful climate impacts of liquified natural gas (LNG),…Marc Fawcett-Atkinson (Canada's National Observer)
“Lately, the Bulwark isn’t just an anti-Trump soapbox or a cocoon for neocons. Unlike the many Republican professionals who can’t stand Trump but plan to back him anyway, the crew seems protective of the Democratic incumbent as Biden and whatever remains of his 2020 coalition head gingerly toward November.”
Okay okay okay... get this.
Nvidia is getting sued for copyright infringement, specifically related to its use of the books3 dataset right? So right now, their defensive strat seems to be:
Hey, a library is a library and that includes shadow libraries. Indeed, those so-called "shadow libraries" aren't shadowy at all. They're valid sources of data and information, just like any other public library.
If, in the course of this lawsuit, Nvidia somehow legally legitimizes shadow libraries? I'm going to laugh my ass off.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Will quibbling over the meaning of "shadow libraries" help Nvidia's case?Ars Technica
Netlify wanted to charge me $55 again (they didn't) for HTMHell. They told me that I'm using up more than 100GB of bandwidth, mostly because of the RSS feed (70GB). The file is 300KB compressed.
Is that possible? Am I doing something wrong or incredibly right? :D
Si eres autónomo, luego la ayuda de 1000 euros se refleja en la declaración de la renta y pagas esos 1000, tu cuota mensual de 300 euros y otros 1000 o 2000 por si acaso, así que mejor ahorra y cómpratelo sin que te ayuden.
Si eres autónomo, esta nueva ayuda puede hacer que consigas un Mac prácticamente gratis
applesfera.com/portatil/eres-a…
Si eres autónomo en solitario, o autónomo con hasta dos empleados, este año 2024 te va a traer una buena noticia. Y es que dentro del programa Kit Digital se...Guille Lomener (Applesfera)
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