The Hungarian presidency in the Council of the EU has proposed another text for the #ChatControl file. It is to be discussed by the law enforcement working party in Council on Monday (23 September). Experts widely criticise Chat Control e.g. for attacking #E2EE, IT-security and violating (European) fundamental rights. The #GlobalEncryptionCoalition now warns that the Hungarian proposal fails to resolve the problems of the regulation and calls on governments to reject it: globalencryption.org/2024/09/g…
Meeting notes, leaked to and published by @netzpolitik_feed (German), show that the Council's own legal service warns that the new proposal by Hungary does not solve the previously criticised incompatibility of the #ChatControl file with European law. netzpolitik.org/2024/interne-d…
New presidency, same unacceptable #CSAR proposal: The 🇭🇺 Presidency still seeks to impose a system of mandatory scanning of online communications with intrusive technologies that undermine security and threaten fundamental rights.
With the Global Encryption Coalition, we call for the continued protection of our privacy & strong encryption 👇
🇩🇪Die Global Encryption Coalition warnt: Die aktuelle Vorlage zur #Chatkontrolle wird die Verbreitung illegalen Materials nicht stoppen, sondern erhebliche Sicherheitsrisiken für alle Bürger, Unternehmen und Regierungen nach sich ziehen. globalencryption.org/2024/09/g…
🇬🇧The Global Encryption Coalition warns: The latest #ChatControl text will not solve the problem of the online spread of child sexual abuse material, but will introduce significant security risks for all citizens, companies, and governments. globalencryption.org/2024/09/g…
Thanks @sektor for the work on I38. There were actually 4 patches, but the script that reports them only picked up the last one. To see whatelse changed, use git log.
So one quick note, bychanging the setting in #talkback for text in images from unlabeled to always the feature will work as before, which I have found acceptable.
The Access Text Network (a US platform where some publishers share accessible PDFs of their books on demand to authorized users) has gradually been coming back online after it collapsed this spring as a result of some kind of disagreement between Georgia Tech and the Association of American Publishers.🤔
My work was only granted access to the new AccessText today, and the collection has to be built back up over time book by book. accesstext.org/about-us
A week ago, in spite of all her campaign promises to defend the rights of Mexico's sexual diversities, President-Elect Claudia Sheinbaum announced that the terf Renata Turrent will be the new director of the public television station Canal Once. In response, over 100 queer, antiracist and abortion rights organizations and nearly 400 individuals have signed this statement calling for her dismissal. @reclaimingtrans and @thatweirdolee have been kind enough to host the English translation
For public television and radio and free media that truly represent the diversity and dignity of all people!
Mozilla's mozilla.social Mastodon server will shut down in December. support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/m… I guess there weren't enough users? In any case, this seems like a weird thing to do, given that X is a mess and we need open alternatives supported by companies…
Just applied to the @sovtechfund fellowship program. Happy that this intiaitive exists, should I be selected or not. I do not envy them the task of selecting the initial five people.
In case you missed this before, #Linkedin decided to start training its AI on your data without telling you, never mind asking you. Go here to turn it off: linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/s…
He says all the 25-year-old hackers are writing JavaScript frameworks that only work on AWS these days. At least the things I'm seeing from the (relatively few) 25-year-old (and younger) hackers that I know, particularly here on the fediverse, give me hope that he's wrong.
Plus I think he's plain wrong about how far back the popularity of permissively licensed open-source goes. Permissively-licensed libraries for Python in particular were plentiful well before 2008.
@nick Yeah. Believe it or not, I kept that server proprietary to ACB Radio for a little while, because of some drama between ACBRI and a station started by some ex-ACBRI broadcasters. It was actually Charlie Crawford at the ACB that convinced us to open-source it, and I think I ended up releasing that server under the GPL. One of its major dependencies, was LGPL back then, but I think was relicensed to MIT before 2008.
Yeah, I liked Supercast, even if i ultimately settled on Icecast even while Supercast was something I could viably run. ...I never got pRS to work. Yeah, I know that wasn't yours, but it's still true.
@nick I think Marc Mulcahy and I might have been the only ones to ever use PRS in a live show. Geoff Shang at ACB Radio ran PRS in automation for a while, if I remember correctly.
No, I hate that thing with a passion. I use Ezstream, which means I can do very little other than what i'm doing. But it's resource cheep, takes little time to make work, and doens't reencode.
@nick Yeah. At some point I implemented something like ezstream directly in Supercast as a fallback for when no live broadcaster was connected. I don't think I ever released that version of Supercast, but I wasn't deliberately holding it back, I just wasn't managing the project well at that point.
@nick Or PRS2, where the 2 could be interpreted as "squared".
For anyone else watching the thread, PRS stood for Personal Radio Station and was a broadcast automation thing that a friend (Marc Mulcahy) and I worked on mainly in 2002-2003, that was used by a group of Internet audio streams for blind people.
@nick Oh, at one point at Serotek, we had an internal fork of PRS where the scheduler and related high-level modules were rewritten in Python, while the mixer remained in C (we used the Python ctypes module to call into the C code). The rewrite was actually mostly not done by me, but by a developer we had hired. The Python rewrite was supposed to be followed by further enhancements to the scheduler, but that never happened. SPN Radio ran that version of PRS.
Hell, Ezstream doesn't handle conditions on its own. If you want it to do in between things, you'd essentially have to have it in the playlist it points at. Shuffel is right out as it's only a single category streamer.
@nick And did I ever tell you about the personal project I did with another fork of PRS, for Christmas 2014? I got it running on a Raspberry Pi, using SQLite as the database and with a quick and dirty ALSA output, so I could give my dad an easy way to listen to his MP3s in the car, with mixing, compression, and interspersed liners. I called in a favor from a friend to produce professional-sounding IDs like "Your favorite classic rock, all the time. This is Don FM."
@nick The fatal flaw was that the original Raspberry Pi's built-in audio output couldn't match the volume of the car's FM radio or CDs, even with heavy compression. Along the way, I also found out that Marc's wideband compressor had a mistake in it all these years.
@BrailleScreen Are you saying you wouldn't be able to use music you actually listen to because it's all on streaming services? Building up an MP3 collection is still an option.
@nick Nah, what actually happened is I posted that then realized the only challenge would be setting up a setup like the one you described. I do have an old pi around here I should try that with.
@BrailleScreen If you'd actually be interested in trying it, I could post the system image somewhere and write up some instructions. As for the hardware, it was just a Pi in a case, plugged into the car via either an AC adapter or a USB charger, I don't remember which. Keep in mind, I haven't updated this thing at all since early 2015.
@BrailleScreen I think the Pi 2 came out right after I finished the project.
The whole thing was super-custom, with a stripped-down kernel and a minimal buildroot-based userspace image actually embedded in the kernel as an initial RAM disk. The payoff was that it booted in like 5 seconds, and I think I later learned that a big chunk of that was the Pi boot loader.
Well gosh, I'm glad we required masks 😂 If we use this venue again (and we definitely will when we return to Berlin), I've got some ideas about how to manage airflow differently.
It is always fun to meet @pabloyoyoista and @FineFindus. And this time, we had the pleasure of meeting with one of the GTK maintainers, Benjamin Otte, as well. Amongst other, interesting discussions about GTK's new renderers and phones, performance, regressions, collaboration, and testing. And the general “wouldn't it be nice if”s … language support, upstreaming things … and maybe, someday, some of them … 🤞 And if you happen to be in the Hamburg area and want to join, shoot us a message.
As it turns out, women leaders are not likely to act based on their emotion, but men are. Study (N=137) finds women leaders had low levels of abusive supervision regardless of their anxiety. Men leaders engaged in more abusive supervision (being rude, ridiculing, yelling at, or lying to their reports) when their anxiety was higher. hbr.org/2024/09/research-how-a…
WHYcast Episode 1 is available now! This episode contains: Fallfest Orgameet, we talk with @Dany from Team:Content, a little history lesson and we talk with @zeno4ever about Hackfest.
“Elon Musk lived in apartheid South Africa until he was 17. David Sacks…left aged five, and grew up in a South African diaspora family in Tennessee. Peter Thiel spent years of childhood in South Africa and Namibia, where his father was involved in uranium mining[…]. And Paul Furber, an obscure South African software developer and tech journalist living near Johannesburg, has been identified by two teams of forensic linguists as the originator of the QAnon conspiracy.”
Our In-Process blog is out! This week, we feature NVDA 2024.3.1, Mykael making it happen in Brazil, RACQ's Road Ahead article, NVDA 2024.4 Beta 4 and Which reference is right for me?
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