Microsoft announces a Copilot: Wave 2 event on September 16 at 8:00 AM PT, where it is expected to announce a Copilot rebrand and new features (Tom Warren/The Verge)
theverge.com/2024/9/4/24235634…
techmeme.com/240904/p19#a24090…
Does anybody still remember the scandalous headlines about how AI companies are killing themselves because AI-generated data appears on the web, and training AI on its own data destroys model performance?
Now it turns out that *basically none of this is true*.
This problem happens only when the new model is trained exclusively with the synthetic data, and when the old, human-made data is removed. Nobody actually does this in practice. What people do instead is adding synthetic data to the pool they already have, and then the problem does not occur.
There's more (including a paper) at nitter.poast.org/RylanSchaeffe…
August seems like it just flew by! Catch up on what the Thunderbird Desktop Team has been working on in our latest Developer's Digest. In it, we have:
more Rust! 🦀
updates on Exchange and the global database 🌐
news about the upcoming Calendar rebuild. 🗓️
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Privacy-focused Tuta Mail Opens Second Office in Munich:
See how Tuta stacks up with other email providers in keeping your information private:
The Promise and Pitfalls of Web Accessibility Overlays for Blind and Low Vision Users
#accessibility #overlays #research
research paper (PDF)
researchgate.net/profile/Garre…
Heute ist #WSHD2024!
Der 4. September ist dem Bewusstsein für die Bedeutung sexueller Gesundheit gewidmet. Das Motto für 2024: Positive Beziehungen.
Die World Association for Sexual Health hat den Tag 2010 ins Leben gerufen.
Im Fokus der Arbeit am RKI stehen sexuell übertragbare Infektionen und deren Prävention, doch sexuelle Gesundheit geht weit darüber hinaus. Sie umfasst ebenso Aspekte wie Lebensqualität, Wohlbefinden, Rechte und zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen.
Wie wäre es, wenn ihr hier auf Mastodon #LongCovid und #corona etwas ernster nehmen würdet!
Einmal pro Woche ein Tröt zum Abwassermonitoring wäre schön! Welche Varianten breiten sich gerade aus?
Eure Sprachlosigkeit erzeugt den verheerend falschen Eindruck, Corona sei kein Problem mehr...
Wie viele Infizierte entwickeln nochmal Long Covid? Wer hat ein erhöhtes Risiko Long Covid zu entwickeln?
Schweigen von euch. 🤨😷😬
🚨 From today, #EU governments could start endorsing the #ChatControl draft law.
🫵 We need you to object to this client side scanning of all your private messages.
✅ Here’s how you can help stop this #surveillance : patrick-breyer.de/en/take-acti…
You can use Mastodon on many retro computer systems:
Apple II - colino.net/wordpress/en/mastod…
Apple Macintosh (pre-OS X) - github.com/smallsco/macstodon
Commodore 64 - github.com/Havoc6502/MOStodon
Commodore Amiga - github.com/BlitterStudio/amido…
MS-DOS - github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon
MVS - github.com/mainframed/BREXXTOD…
Palm OS - github.com/knickish/heffalump
Windows 95 - github.com/meyskens/mastodon-f…
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p.s. A number of people asking if there's a lightweight version of Mastodon's web interface to use on older devices, you could try "Brutaldon":
It works on text browsers, so it may be lightweight enough for some older devices that can't cope with the official web interface.
¡Las postulaciones para GNOME Latam 2024 ya están abiertas!
¡No pierdas la oportunidad de ser parte de este evento que une a la comunidad #GNOME en América Latina! Regístrate ahora y asegura tu lugar en Medellín, Colombia, o en línea.
As inscrições para o GNOME Latam 2024 já estão abertas!
Não perca a oportunidade de fazer parte deste evento que une a comunidade #GNOME na América Latina! Inscreva-se agora e garanta seu lugar em Medellín, Colômbia, ou online.
Oh, thank goodness not having a fully functional screen reader isn’t a blocker for Fedora 41. We wouldn’t want them to miss their 10th anniversary of shipping an operating system without a fully functional screen reader, after all.
ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-be…
#Fedora #RedHat #IBM #a11y #accessibility #screenReader #orca #linux #openSource #FOSS #ableism masto.ai/@phoronix/11307885166…
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En.osm.town is an independent Mastodon server for OpenStreetMap people. Funding graciously provided by the OpenStreetMap Foundation.
You can find out more at en.osm.town/about or contact the admin @compass
#FeaturedServer #OpenStreetMap #OSM #Maps #Mapping #Map #Geospatial #GIS #Cartography #Cartographers #Cartographer #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
Now's a great time for people to get into the free Kontakt library scene, even if you don't own a Komplete Kontrol keyboard. Since loading a Kontakt library without OCR is accessible on both Mac and Windows, you can avail yourself of some killer freebies such as this new drum kit from Fracture Sounds.
Reaper users especially take note.
There's a plethora of free-to-use instruments that run in Kontakt player, so you can enjoy pianos, strings, drums, bells, a fantastic Rhodes plugin, all sorts of goodies.
The free landscape has honestly never been as good as it is now.
You are using #LibreOffice but don't want to create or modify a complex citation style for your needs?
Thanks to our #GSOC contributor, you can now choose from the vast amount of #CSL styles in JabRef and use them together with LibreOffice.
Check out our blog post for more details
blog.jabref.org/2024/08/26/GSo…
#opensource #bibliograpy #javafx #java #JabRef #scholar #bibliograpy
The current JPEG XL decoder in #Firefox apparently consists of more than 100,000 lines of multi-threaded C++
For just decoding an image format.
Not sure what it says about the format, the implementation and the Internet at large.
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I wrote a @TPGi blog post last year on 20 #DigitalAccessibility books. Since then, quite a few more have been published, so I've blogged about 19 more.
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EXTR240903_ZATOKA
Je tam nahoru strašný kopec, ale ten pohled stojí za to. Na zpáteční cestě jsme trochu zmokli, ale v ochlazeném vzduchu večeře chutnala nadmíru dobře... 😉
#extr
We're pleased to report that Matrix has performed well in the BSI audit, conducted by mgm security partners, under the CAOS initiative. The audit found only three low-severity issues.
We're proud of the results and grateful for the BSI's support of open-source security.
Let's keep building a safer, open web together!
element.io/blog/bsi-funds-secu…
Here's the (excellent) official GOV.UK guidance on progressive enhancement — in short, try very hard to avoid using JS at all, and especially avoid large frameworks.
gov.uk/service-manual/technolo…
And here, from the frontpage of HN, is an unofficial component library that emulates the GOV.UK "Design System”… in Vue.
…There's no emoji for “flailing my arms with an exasperated, disbelieving look on my face”
It has come to my attention that there are younger folks who haven’t heard of Five Geek Social Fallacies.
It was written in 2003 and the social dynamics stay real. Once you read it, you’ll see them everywhere.
@SuspiciousDuck Najma "bezpecnejsie", ci?
Vraciame sa do "devedesiatok" aj v tom zmysle, ze si budeme na stretnutiach vyberat baterky z mobilov. Apon teda ti, ktory ich v tom mobile nemaju zalepene. :)
What app are you using to stay in touch with friends and family? Feel free to repost it so we can reach bigger audience.
If your app isn't in the pool, just add it as response and other can fav it :)
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Exec at #Trump Media Jumped the Line for U.S. Visa After Company Lobbied #GOP Lawmaker
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A former aide to Rep. Don Bacon, a #Nebraska #Republican, said she intervened on the company’s behalf even though she thought it was inappropriate.
“It was specifically the congressman that suggested I needed to deal with it.”
#News #Immigration #Politics #Government #Business #TrumpMedia
Google's TalkBack screen reader is getting a neat new feature that uses Gemini AI to generate descriptions of images that don't have alt. text.
Unfortunately, this feature won't be available on Samsung devices. Here's why👇
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in reply to x0 • • •@x0 The fun fact is that, at least from what we know, AI companies are basically already doing this.
Synthetic data, applied at a massive scale, is already being used in training, and it already works and helps.