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PSA per Nitrokeys own documentation their security keys DO NOT use the secure element within the device. You should probably start looking for a new key.

docs.nitrokey.com/nitrokey3/fe…


in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt

This is a joke based on the "biblically accurate angels" meme, which depicts angels as a terrifying mass of eyes and wings; the Graphviz drawing is a terrifying tangle of nested protocols.

in reply to Matt Keeter

Ah, got it. I grew up evangelical, but wasn't familiar with the "biblically accurate angels" meme, and didn't know what was biblically accurate about Ethernet being at the top and bottom of the stack as described in the alt text.


A new report from European Commission's Open Source Observatory gives an in-depth analysis of #OpenSource policy across 15 EU and non-EU countries.

It shows that governments are adopting open source to enhance
🔴 digital sovereignty
🟡 data privacy
🟢 control over digital infrastructures

Read the report 👉 europa.eu/!DDyPBb

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We know you can’t get enough of us, so we are back again with #Fractal 8!

discourse.gnome.org/t/fractal-…



I'm fucking dying at this. Dude literally started racist anti-immigrant anti-Muslim riots in the UK, then 4 days later realizes he's a brown dude who converted to Islam
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in reply to modulux

@modulux
I don't know if he did, but he fled the country to avoid jail time.
in reply to P J Evans

I was reading his wikipedia article and while it's hard to tell how seriously to take it, it says:

Tate was raised Christian[139] but later became an atheist.[140] By early 2022, he identified as a Christian again, and said that he tithed £16,000 to the Romanian Orthodox Church on a monthly basis.[141][142] After a video of him praying at a mosque in Dubai went viral in October 2022, he announced on his Gettr account that he had converted to Islam.[143][144][145]







Updated the JAWS to NVDA guide with a Common Problems and solutions section, in an attempt to tidy it up a bit.
feel free to either suggest what you would like to see included in the guide (except Eloquence), or edit it yourself.
github.com/nvaccess/nvda/wiki/…
#nvda #Blind
@NVAccess
in reply to Kara Goldfinch

Thanks so much Kara! That resource is a fantastic help to many users, and it is largely thanks to a lot of work by you!


GOOGLE WAS JUST RULED A MONOPOLY!

This wild day just got wilder! 😲

Here’s what the judge wrote:

After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly. It has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act.


This ruling won’t just affect Google but also Apple, Amazon, Meta, and every other Big Tech company that the DOJ is going after!

Let me be blunt. After decades of not doing anything about tech monopolies, the U.S. government just showed it is not playing games!

finance.yahoo.com/news/google-…



Good.

Google's online search monopoly is illegal, US judge rules bbc.com/news/articles/c0k44x6m…



Why can't we have more articles like this one? Don’t Panic: Here’s What’s Behind Today’s Sell-Off - Bloomberg apple.news/AgmR8z7VQQn-faUEC7V…


☆☆☆ github.com/curl/curl is 7 stars away from 35K stars now. ☆☆☆

A totally meaningless number.



O Usha, be careful who you defend. He said what he sad, and that's that... Usha Vance tries to defend her husband's 'childless cat ladies' comment - NPR apple.news/AW3BAeivuSF-XNZRdTW…


Welcome Voyage to the selection of reproducible apps at #IzzyOnDroid – v0.10.1 coming up tomorrow just made it :awesome:

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.d…

#reproducibleBuilds

in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅

eine Frage, war der Sinn hinter dem Repo nicht mal Apps aufzunehmen welche (noch) nicht in FDroids eigenem Repo vorhanden sind?

In letzter Zeit häufen sich bei mir die Apps welche in beiden vorkommen ... oder habe ich das mal falsch verstanden? :D

in reply to Michael

@Michael1 Es war einmal, vor langer Zeit… Und Dinge ändern sich. Früher habe ich Apps, die schließlich bei F-Droid verfügbar wurden, i.d.R. auch aus dem IzzyOnDroid entfernt.

"Damals" hast Du das schon richtig verstanden. Voyage (der Toot auf den Du antwortest) ist aber nicht bei F-Droid zu finden, oder habe ich nur nicht richtig geschaut?



Welcome Austin Moore as #curl commit author 1292: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1437…
#curl



"Apple made a fateful decision that mobile-phone internet should be app-centric, not browser/website centric. Then Android copied their mistake."

Many interesting things in this article, but this is one particular gripe I have about today's Internet. I will go to so much unnecessary trouble just to avoid using somebody's app.

tumblr.com/accordion-druid/685…

#IndieWeb #Enshittification #Web3 #SocialMedia #Blog

in reply to Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)

Apple didn't make that decision, they tried the browser thing, they initially wanted developers to make web apps instead of native apps, but people really, really didn't want that, to the point of making Cydia because Apple wouldn't budge. They eventually learned their lesson.
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@miki huh, well in that case, the customer was very very wrong on that one, at least from the perspective of creating a healthy Internet in the future
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@miki Apple didn’t release (or, one might say *they withheld*) browser APIs that we needed to make useful web apps. It’s better now, but there is still too much friction. Apple and the App Store won, users and developers lost.

I agree with everything in the article. 💯

in reply to Quinn Comendant

@com @miki Well, the initial mistake was when all the greedy consumer ISPs caused the Internet to go from IP (the protocol) -centric to Web-centric, effectively blocking all other protocols and services.

From that point, did it really matter whether it is web browsers or bespoke apps that dominate? Everything has to be shoehorned into TCP streams formatted as HTTP traffic, regardless of whether it is effective or not. We the users have already lost and have a subpar experience.

in reply to ticho

@ticho @com I think the mistake doesn't just lay with "greedy consumer ISPs", a lot of it was caused by opening up the internet to bad actors, the exhaustion of IPV4 space, an increased focus on privacy and the move to portable, battery-powered devices.

End-to-end connectivity with no firewall is the opposite of what users want because of security, static IPs are bad for privacy and impossible when people constantly switch between WiFi and cellular, and it's a terrible idea to allow unrestricted connectivity if you care about battery life.

in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@miki @com Most of that could be solved or mitigated, see e.g. MPTCP (Multipath TCP) for solving reliance on unchanging static IPs.

in reply to Alexandre Franke

Yikes! Thanks for pointing that out. We've retracted the boost and boosted the original post you linked to.

We monitor the #Matrix hashtag to try to find news to reshare with the ecosystem, and will be wary of that particular outlet going forward.

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'The money was critical': Forbes report shows staggering amount Trump earned as president - Raw Story

rawstory.com/news/trump-money-…



Come on @404mediaco. I know this isn't the experience you want when people come to your site.


as an adblock developer you spend a lot of time improving websites despite the owners of said websites constantly trying to make them worse

social.polotek.net/@polotek/11…


Come on @404mediaco. I know this isn't the experience you want when people come to your site.
in reply to Rick Scott 🏳️‍⚧️

many times I wanted to make a blog hall of shame of websites. With that kind of examples. But I felt it would create too much negativity.


This is a wild story that says a lot about right-wing evangelicalism:

1) Matt Bevin, the Republican former Kentucky governor, adopted a boy from Ethiopia for PR purposes
2) Bevin and his wife decided they don't like the boy so they ship him off to an abusive "troubled teen" facility in Jamaica
3) Jamaican government shuts down the horrible group
4) Bevin family abandoned the boy in Jamaica after the facility was closed

kentuckylantern.com/2024/08/04…



If OpenAI were a serious and responsible company they would enable their watermarking feature. But they know that it would completely undermine their product: Nobody wants to read "AI" generated shit and having that easily detectable would shed a bad light on their users. Which it should: If you don't want to write it, I don't want to read it.

(Original title: OpenAI won’t watermark ChatGPT text because its users could get caught)

theverge.com/2024/8/4/24213268…

in reply to tante

Text is just text, you can't watermark text without decreasing its quality.

Simple example, if you ask Chat GPT to count from 1 to 10000, either you get unwatermarked output or you get incorrect output, there's no way to do both.

It's important to note that this doesn't apply to any other format, images, audio and video can be watermarked easily with little to no difference to the human eye or ear.




My #Epson L486 #printer stopped working because of a full waste ink pads.
🔍 Finding new pads?
✅ Easy, they are on aliexpress or allegro...

🔧 Replacing pads?
✅ Easy, one screw in the back, plenty tutorial videos on youtube...

0️⃣ Reset software counters?
❓ Tool found on epson.com didn't work.
✅ The following one did. Of course, I had to start it in Windows in virtual machine as I don't have any win machine laying around and I don't trust the app.
github.com/Ircama/epson_print_…



strašne som si chcel dať pizzu

edit: ešte mám šošovicový prívarok, a vajcia hehe
edit: #leanatlet

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New SpoonStack Dev Blog is up! Introducing the BitLadle project - highly efficient, Disability-Driven server tech for the unrepresented masses:

spoonstack.org/devblog/2024/08…

Making cool online stuff shouldn't be reserved for a small handful of people with privilege, money, time, and/or skills. BitLadle is part of changing that.

#DisabilityDrivenDevelopment

in reply to Amelia

> There's also a bit of an unfortunate cultural tendency to conflate efficiency with a kind of extreme minimalism, which often ends up having very exclusionary results in practice - not something I'm keen to recreate.

This! So many minimal, from-scratch, "handmade" UIs are completely inaccessible with screen readers and other access tech.



i've made a thing: xkcd.fyi/

it's an alternative frontend to xkcd.com/ with some important differences:
- title text shown in a more accessible way (instead of abusing alt text)
- transcript included for every comic (with newer ones sourced from explainxkcd)
- link to explainxkcd.com/ (for when you don't get the joke)
- dark mode!

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The European Union must keep funding free software,

An Open Letter to the European Commission

igalia.com/2024/08/05/The-Euro…

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Toto teatrálne označovanie budov Polície je tiež pekne od piči.


"Social media wasn’t web 2.0, it’s what *killed* Web 2.0!

You might think I’m arguing over mere nomenclature but the important fact is that this era existed, and the Web3 pitch pretends it didn’t. We already had decentralized internet with social features. This fact contradicts the story the Web3/blockchain advocates want to tell you, so their story skips this entire era."

Good post over here: accordion-druid.tumblr.com/pos…



Chipmakers puting AI cores in your CPU and not letting you use them for absolutely anything is the biggest waste of silicon in the history of modern computing.

Those tensor cores are godsend for things like large-scale CAD simulations but the only SDKs/samples provided are hardwired to run pretrained models.

There's no way to access the matrix/tensor capabilities directly. And that goes for both AMD and Intel.

#ai #NPU #tensor #programming #hardware #cpu



It seems that even those who are not interested in sports and do not follow the Olympic Games have already read about the "50-year-old Turkish man who showed up at the competition in a wrinkled T-shirt, without special equipment, and took the Olympic silver without even taking his hand out of his pocket."

"Surely, Turkey sent some kind of hitman to Paris!" social media marvels.

In the blink of an eye, Yusuf Dikec, a previously unknown figure outside professional circles, a retired gendarmerie officer and professional shooter, became a global internet meme and sensation.

Everything is great! The moral of this story could be: no matter how old you are, keep doing what you love, and your best achievements may still lie ahead, even if you are an athlete over 50!

But another nuance caught my attention.

The fact is, Yusuf Dikec did not win the Olympic silver alone. It was a team event. Shooting alongside him was his colleague Sevval Ilayda Tarhan. In the same T-shirt, in the same pose, and also with minimal equipment.

The only difference is that he is 51, and she is 24. He began professional shooting around the time she was born.

Dikec is an excellent shooter with a plethora of medals from prestigious competitions, but he had never made it to the Olympic podium until his young partner grew up and competed with him on the same team.

If we look at the individual performances of these shooters in the same discipline where they took silver as a team, we will see that Tarhan finished 7th, while Dikec only came in 13th.

Now let's trace how mass consciousness works: we simply do not notice the woman standing next to him. It does not matter who she is, how she is dressed, how she shoots, or how unique her achievement is. We only see the man in the "wrinkled T-shirt," deliberately nonchalant, and create a romantic image of a "hitman." We spread a photograph in which he is shooting alone, and the result of this shooting is 13th place! Yet, we declare that he won "silver."

Why does the logic of mass culture work this way? After all, patriarchy has long ceased to exist, feminism is unnecessary, equality has been achieved, at least in Paris 2024 for sure!

This is how patriarchal myths about great male victories are born before our eyes. These images are entrenched in culture and shape our thinking. Meanwhile, women's contributions and achievements are simply erased from history. It was like this before. Unfortunately, it still happens today.

#Paris2024 #YusufDikec #SevvalTarhan #Olympics

Translated text. Original text from Maya Guseynova

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Privacy meets power. The Librem 11 is our most advanced tablet, designed to protect your digital rights. PureOS, a pressure-sensitive pen, and freedom—all in one sleek device. #Librem11 #DigitalPrivacy
puri.sm/products/librem-11/
in reply to Purism

I am still waiting for a tablet with kill switches.
It doesn't really seem like a true #Purism device without them.


Welcome Moritz Buhl as #curl commit author 1291: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1439…
#curl