Microsoft to hold an event on September 10 with CrowdStrike and other cybersecurity vendors to discuss how to prevent incidents similar to the July outage (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
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Microsoft plans September cybersecurity event to discuss changes after CrowdStrike outage
Industry participants will discuss the idea of relying more on a safer part of Windows than the privileged kernel mode that CrowdStrike software uses.Jordan Novet (CNBC)
Sources: Apple plans to unveil new iPhones, AirPods, and Apple Watches on September 10; developer logs: Apple has ramped up testing of four new M4 Mac models (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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Sources: Apple plans to unveil new iPhones, AirPods, and Apple Watches on September 10; developer logs: Apple has ramped up testing of four new M4 Mac models
By Mark Gurman / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.Techmeme
Amazon is bricking primary feature on $160 Echo device after 1 year
Link: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Amazon is bricking primary feature on $160 Echo device after 1 year
Smart display will soon default to showing ads after three hours.Ars Technica
Nie som fanúšikom AirTagov a iných spyware udelátok... ALE... toto je jednoznačne za aspoň jedného bludišťáka 👍
From: @briankrebs
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Attached: 1 image California woman fed up with stolen mail sends Apple AirTag to herself to catch thief https://apnews.com/article/airtag-mail-theft-apple-california-bf1f993430216f23efd1528ec0f6a19aInfosec Exchange
A week supercharged in client updates, and a call for booths for The Matrix Conference. That and more happened This Week in Matrix!
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This Week in Matrix 2024-08-23
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
A Prominent Accessibility Advocate Worked With Studios and Inspired Change. But She Never Actually Existed. - IGN
In the years since the alleged death of beloved accessibility advocate Susan Banks, mounting evidence and accounts from those close to her work suggest that she was not the person she claimed to be.Grant Stoner (IGN)
Today I learnt that the Mandarin for "comrade" under Communism (同志 tóngzhì) has been repurposed to mean "gay". Awesome work, comrades!
Here's my source, a YouTube interview with bilingual subtitles. youtube.com/watch?v=zHDwOegIVw…
What’s It Like Being a Gay Man in China - Chinese Interview
This is an interview video featuring a conversation with a native speaker. Learn authentic Chinese expressions, modal particles, and common filler words. Plu...YouTube
#LibreOffice #OpenSource #FOSS #Office #utilities #tutorial #tools
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Fediverse Symbol ⁂ (@FediverseSymbol@typo.social)
@simon@simonwillison.net When used within HTML, would something like ⁂ or ⁂ be okay?typo.social
Each time this sign goes by in my feed, I mentally add "and Stacy's Mom"
And now I shall spend the day listening to Adam Schlesinger's considerable oeuvre. In addition to his career with Fountains of Wayne, he wrote for the Click Five and the Monkees, for Stephen Colbert and Sesame Street, for the Tony Awards and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, to say nothing of penning the title track for _That Thing You Do!_
Adam's death in April 2020 will always be the public figure Covid death that hits me hardest
@matt
I ran out of characters! I could have done another five paragraphs on his awesomeness. I hate thinking about how many songs we were cheated out of when he died. He was also reputed to be the nicest guy in the industry
His "I was just fucking around and it needs a ton of work" demo tape for _What'll It Be_ ended up being recorded and sung nearly note for note in CE-G. He was so so good.
“That’s when Neil looked at the coin counter meter. it read “000001”:
And, sitting in the coin bucket was a single coin; a quarter dated 1983.”
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Centuri Aztarac: Finding THE Holy Arcade Grail…
Let me start by saying that this is the most amazingly poignant tale I’ve come across in arcade collecting circles. I’ve written before about incredible rare arcade “finds” …The Arcade Blogger
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I've conducted several informal experiments over the last few weeks about alt text for #photos as described by humans and as provided by #AI systems.
#LLMS, despite providing plethora of details when describing images, still miss the nuances of what the photos contain. Human #descriptions certainly continue to be better at conveying context.
This is not to suggest that automatic descriptions aren't useful. Several tools available to #blind people are now capable of providing a good idea of the contents of photos when no descriptions are available. Apps and hardware are able to analyze photos and videos for quick access to the environment when this wasn't possible short time ago.
Even though these tools exist, automatic #descriptions should not be a substitute for alt text.
For this experiment, I asked several friends to send me photos and share #descriptions with me.
To give you one example, I was sent a photo of a table surface with a small coffee pot and a cup of coffee with foam on top. The table also had a plate of cookies, muffins, and croissants.
The #AI description described the drink in the coffee cup as a yogurt-based concoction. It also missed the cookies on the plate.
#accessibility #a11y #blind #photos #photo #photography
Version 4 of @cinnyapp was released a month ago, and it sports a very cool notification center to keep tabs on the most important things! Lozenge covers Cinny's minimalistic approach in Matrix Live, to our greatest delight.
Matrix Live S09E38 — The Best Notification Center Yet
Version 4 of Cinny was released a month ago, and it sports a very cool notification center to keep tabs on the most important things! Lozenge covers Cinny's ...YouTube
the unit."
"Climb on top of?" I wonder what happened to get that added.
Fuck everyone who uses "unalive" with zero sense of irony. Fucking socmed algorithm brain poisoning.
Say "kill". Say "murder". Say "suicide". Say "rape". Say "pedophile". Say what you mean. If people need to not see or hear those words they'll use a filter.
(Or if you're on a platform where you feel like you're forced to elide a word, make it obvious you know you're being censored and don't use stupid euphemisms like it's a totally normal thing to do.)
![[A friend is standing behind Cueball, who is typing at a computer.]
Friend: You should be more careful what you write. Future employers might read it.
[The friend still stands while Cueball looks at his computer.]
Cueball: When did we forget our dreams?
Friend: What?
[Cueball stands beside his friend.]
Cueball: The infinite possibilities each day holds should stagger the mind. The sheer number of experiences I could have is uncountable, breathtaking, and I'm sitting here refreshing my inbox. We live trapped in loops, reliving a few days over and over, and we envision only a handful of paths laid out before us. We see the same things every day, we respond the same way, we think the same thoughts, each day a slight variation on the last, every moment smoothly following the gentle curves of societal norms. We act like if we just get through today, tomorrow our dreams will come back to us.
Cueball: And no, I don't have all the answers. I don't know how to jolt myself into seeing what each moment could become. But I do know one thing: the solution doesn't involve watering down my every little idea and creative impulse for the sake of some day easing my fit into a mold. It doesn't involve tempering my life to better fit someone's expectations. It doesn't involve constantly holding back for fear of shaking things up.
Cueball: This is very important, so I want to say it as clearly as I can:
[The next three panels are Cueball standing.]
Cueball: FUCK.
Cueball: THAT.
Cueball: SHIT](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/583664 "[A friend is standing behind Cueball, who is typing at a computer.]
Friend: You should be more careful what you write. Future employers might read it.
[The friend still stands while Cueball looks at his computer.]
Cueball: When did we forget our dreams?
Friend: What?
[Cueball stands beside his friend.]
Cueball: The infinite possibilities each day holds should stagger the mind. The sheer number of experiences I could have is uncountable, breathtaking, and I'm sitting here refreshing my inbox. We live trapped in loops, reliving a few days over and over, and we envision only a handful of paths laid out before us. We see the same things every day, we respond the same way, we think the same thoughts, each day a slight variation on the last, every moment smoothly following the gentle curves of societal norms. We act like if we just get through today, tomorrow our dreams will come back to us.
Cueball: And no, I don't have all the answers. I don't know how to jolt myself into seeing what each moment could become. But I do know one thing: the solution doesn't involve watering down my every little idea and creative impulse for the sake of some day easing my fit into a mold. It doesn't involve tempering my life to better fit someone's expectations. It doesn't involve constantly holding back for fear of shaking things up.
Cueball: This is very important, so I want to say it as clearly as I can:
[The next three panels are Cueball standing.]
Cueball: FUCK.
Cueball: THAT.
Cueball: SHIT")
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Acabo de ver un milagro. Una rara excepción a la propaganda habitual que hacen en los noticiarios a favor de las empresas de seguridad, de alarmas, etc.
En esta ocasión han sacado a la dueña de la casa diciendo que no se entiende que teniendo conectada la alarma (mientras la cámara enfoca un cartel de la infausta Securitas Director) ha podido el ladrón entrar y pasearse por el jardín tranquilamente, robarles unos patinetes y salir de allí con toda la calma y sin que suene la dichosa alarma.
Pues me ha gustado. Dame más pelis como esta.
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Warum ist Barrierefreiheit in der Frontend-Entwicklung entscheidend? Oleksii (Aljoscha) Sukhodolskyi gibt Einblicke und teilt seine Expertise im neuen Blogbeitrag.
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#Barrierefreiheit #FrontendEntwicklung #DigitaleInklusion #Accessibility #OpenSource
5 Fragen zu Barrierefreiheit in der Frontend-Entwicklung
In unserer Serie „5 Fragen zu“ geben unsere Expert:innen Antworten zu wichtigen Themen rund um OpenTalk, Open Source-Software, digitale Souveränität und aktuelle Branchentrends.OpenTalk
Data breaches have become an almost daily occurrence. Most of their contents are self-explanatory like #email addresses or #phone numbers.
Others might sound a bit odd, like hashed #passwords.
Let's dive into the details with today's cryptography lesson!
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What is a password hash: Cryptography Basics | Tuta
An introduction to hashing functions and how they protect your passwords.Tuta
— Okay.
— Please click the place where the red arrow is.
— As I've already told you, I'm blind, so please describe in words.
— I marked you the place with an arrow, can't you see it? If you can't, I'll re-mark the place for you.
— I'm blind, as I've already told you. Sorry to be that person, but the word "blind" means, I cannot see. At all."
That's how my day goes. #Work #MyDay #accessibility
Madrid tamén ten episodios de protestas polo turismo masivo, o que pasa que se necesitan cantidades enormes de xente para que se note nunha cidade tan grande. Recordade como se protestaba polo ruído e as molestias durante as Jornadas Mundiales De La Juventud 2011da Igrexa Católica.
De paso, recordade os cánticos de BENNEEEE DICTOOOO EQUIS UVE PALITO PALITOOOO. Non ten nada que ver, pero eran moi graciosos.
Ya know what? I'm gonna toot my own horn today On Here Specifically.
I have already received at least a dozen thankful comments/replies for letting people know they can slow down door closers. A lot of people have been living with irritating bangs in apartment buildings and whatnot.
And thanks to watching a YouTube video, their life is now better. I didn't sell anything to them, I just decided to share some knowledge in my own (hopefully entertaining) way.
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IPB158: “IPv6 Mostly”: A Strategy to Balance Legacy and Modern Networking Needs
IPB158: "IPv6 Mostly": A Strategy to Balance Legacy and Modern Networking Needs | Packet Pushers
"IPv6 Mostly" is an alternative to the dual-stack approach of transitioning to IPv6. On today's podcast we discuss the practical challenges and security considerations of strategy for moving to an IPv6-centric network while retaining IPv4 for legacy …Packet Pushers Interactive LLC
Another small update that dropped a few days ago: the "hotels"-theme now supports more then just hotels, but also B&Bs, guest houses, motels, hostels, ...
This makes it easier to consult and add this information to #OpenStreetMap
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in reply to Randahl Fink • • •oh, no-no it’s not that bad!
It’s even worse!
In 1991 you could get $2 for 1₽.
In ‘92 it was just 0.8¢
By ‘97 crashed to 0.016¢
Then RUB was denominated by factor 1000 (1000₽ → 1₽) in ‘98
So now you get 16¢ for 1 new ₽, but…
by ‘99 it was already 4¢
and in ‘24 it’s back to 1¢
But now you know that it’s actually 0.0001¢.
So it’s 2$ to 0.0001¢ in just 35 years.
Yeah, you are reading this right:
RUB in ‘24 worth 2,000,000 (two million) times less than in ‘91 comparing to USD
Kinda make you think, right?
But wait!
let’s look 100 years back. It’s 1920 and exchange rate it still about 1¢ for 1₽
Catch is that along the way it was denominated 6 times, by total factor of 5 × 10¹⁵ so in just a century it’s value comparing to USD is fallen
5 000 000 000 000 000
five
quadrillion
times
1 quadrillion is 1000 trillions, so it’s 140 times bigger than US national debt.
“crashing” is just a permanent state of Russian economy