Recently I was messing around with the idea of enabling persistent Curl_share structs in PHP, i.e. to be able to reuse the same instance of the struct across multiple requests in a single mod_php w...
FORT MEADE, Md. — In one of the more unique public proactive transparency record releases for the National Security Agency (NSA) to date, NSA has released a digital copy of a lecture that then-Capt.
So, have you ever thought your devices were listening to what you were saying, and then ads for that thing would show up...and all the pundits kept telling us it was coincidence and we were just seeing patterns because people seek patterns?
Yeah...naw. @404mediaco in their tradition of breaking all kinds of news, would like to tell you that you're not insane, and the pundits were wrong.
404 brings receipts: Cox Media Group (CMG) says it can target adverts based on what potential customers said out loud near device microphones, and explicitly points to Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Bing as CMG partners.
MindSift boasted about targeting advertisements by listening to peoples’ everyday conversations through microphones in their smart speakers.
(free signup may be required, iirc, but if you've got spare change, consider subscribing too. They're doing yeoman's work out here on the data front.) #Enshittification
404 Media previously reported Cox Media Group (CMG) was advertising a service that claimed to target ads based on what potential customers said near device microphones. Now, here is the pitch deck CMG sent to prospective companies.
I believe passionately that blind people should be leading the organisations that serve us. Lived experience matters. It can make a material difference to the type and quality of services we receive. Vision Australia's Board has decided to make an internal appointment for its vacant CEO role, rather than conduct a thorough international search to find the best person for the job. This means that capable blind people external to the organisation are denied the right to apply. I am a proud signatory to an open letter written by blind leaders, which has been sent to the Vision Australia Board. There is a version of this letter available for all who wish to express solidarity to sign. In the spirit of self determination/nothing aboutus without us, it is time for Vision Australia to appoint its first blind CEO. If you feel the same, please sign. change.org/unitedblindleaders
I'm curious as to where you stand regarding top management positions in access technology companies that make products for the blind, such as Freedom Scientific, Humanware, etc. Do you feel that they should also be filled by a blind person?
@DavidGoldfield Yes. Absolutely. Few of them have ever conducted an open process for filling those roles. I don’t think Freedom or HumanWare ever have. I have been surprised more people haven’t objected to this.
#ALT4you A screenshot of Google's answer to the question "is tripe kosher?"
AI overview: *Whether tripe is kosher depends on the religion of the cow*. Tripe is the lining of a cow, pig, or sheep's stomach, but most tripe sold is from beef.
Jewish ritual slaughter removes parts of the animal that are considered unclean, such as ("show more" button)
I've been working on a thing for a few weeks, and I'm hoping there are #Language / #FileFormat / #Markdown nerds and experts on Mastodon who can provide some input and sanity-check.
I looked for an existing markdown extension file format that would allow me to write a document in multiple languages, and I couldn't find anything that fit the bill.
A versatile Markdown extension designed to manage and display multilingual content within a single document, offering powerful features like language-specific content inclusion, multi-language meta...
Reading through the French prosecutor's press release re: Pavel Durov and Telegram, it's still not clear what is going on, but the last three items are a big red flag.
If you're looking for a new powerful desktop, this mini PC could be very interesting. Very powerful specs, up to 96 gigs of ram and a mobile NVIDIA 4070. Apparently includes a fingerprint reader, built-in mic, and decent built-in speakers. liliputing.com/minisforum-atom…
3 hours from now in Caledonia, #UnitedStatesOfAmerica (Houston County, Minnesota, United States of America) there will be a #Heatwave with a wet-bulb temperature of
31°C
This will be a margin of 6 degrees below body temperature which will kill vulnerable people 🥵💀 #DangerousWetbulb
Thanks to Stefano Rivera and others, pictures by some participants of DebConf24 in Busan are now easily viewable on people.debian.org/~stefanor/dc… . You are invited to share your DebConf24 pictures on DebConf Share git-lfs too!
As VMware customers navigate the imperative to modernize their virtual environments, the need for reliable and cost-effective data protection has become paramount.
http://KEXP.ORG presents King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded October 11, 2017.Songs:Welcome to an Altered FutureDig...
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
Canadian Ken Westerfeld during his World Champion of Freestyle days. Back then, the scene was in the park behind the Ontario Legislature buildings, and top athletes like Ken were happy to throw with whomever showed up. How very weird.
That attitude made an indelible mark on my soul. Thanks, Ken, wherever you are!
“We’re a big believer in passkeys, and hope they are the future for authentication. Phishing is a blight on the internet, and this is our best hope of eliminating it forever.” fastmail.com/blog/introducing-…
Pizza to the Polls is making democracy delicious by delivering free food for all to polling places with long lines. Send us reports of long lines and we'll send in the delicious reinforcements.
I’ve been told the Telegram CEO arrest includes concerns about ransomware groups using the service to distribute stolen victim data - Telegram hadn’t been acting on reports (they did eventually remove Qilin).
Re Telegram - two main issues are apparently at play. One is child porn, the other is concerns about ransomware/extortion groups. The big concern is rightly about the first one.
With the later, groups targeting France (and the UK) have been dumping victim data on Telegram groups, with Telegram directly hosting the data and then failing to remove it.
Telegram is not an encrypted platform - the groups are plain text.
Telegram has <50 staff and 1 billion monthly active users.
With regards to Elon’s claim today that a majority of Mastodon content is child porn - this isn’t true.
Some Fediverse servers are unsavoury - as an instance admin, you can chose to defederate them or not cache media content. You would only encounter this if a user interacted with it.
After approaching two years of being a Mastodon admin to a server with tens of thousands of users, I’ve only ever seen one post which was concerning - I removed the server and reported it to relevant authorities.
With Trump waffling on whether he’ll show up, I’m confident that Debate Day, September 10, is going to be a big one for the Mastodon for Harris fundraiser. Either way we’ll be showing our support for #Harris and reminding Trump that her supporters are more numerous and enthusiastic than his. But no need to wait that long to make this point. You can donate right now at secure.actblue.com/donate/mast….
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