"Mozilla is going to be more active in digital advertising."
"we do this fully acknowledging our expanded focus on online advertising won’t be embraced by everyone in our community" - blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/im…
I appreciate Mozilla laying their intent out explicitly with no room for interpretation or guesswork.
Personally, I think this is not just a huge misstep, but a deathknell.
The new one-time-purchase version of Microsoft Office is out.
As usual, Microsoft warns that it’s inferior to the subscription version, since it won’t receive updates and… *checks notes* … lacks the Copilot AI integration.
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🥳 Exciting news! @loops, the #Fediverse's answer to TikTok, receives a grant from @nlnet! 🎉
Get ready for a new era of personalized short-form videos, remixes, and community interaction - all with the freedom and privacy of #ActivityPub!
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Aira X Meta Ray-Bans Beta: Over 75% of Waitlist Now Live!
Over 3/4 of our waitlist now has access to Aira’s professional Visual Interpreting via the Meta Ray-Bans smart glasses! Audio and video are working smoothly, but imagine how much more powerful these smart glasses could be with deeper Meta integration. That’s where we need your help!
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💔 Like this child's parents, I would never have considered rabies as a risk from a lost bat fluttering around inside the house, not leaving any obvious bite marks.
So, a reminder to all:
Rabies is nearly always fatal once symptoms develop, but can almost always be prevented if you get the shots soon enough after exposure. If anyone has contact with an oddly-behaved wild or stray mammal, get rabies shots as soon as possible.
And TIL: bats are the main vector in Canada.
Happy National Poetry Day to all those who celebrate.
Here’s a poem called ‘In Search of Poetry’. It’s constructed entirely from popular Google searches about poetry.
Two Chinese nationals were sentenced to prison for scamming Apple out of more than $2.5 million after exchanging over 6,000 counterfeit iPhones for authentic ones.
It's a shame people don't listen to 80s music anymore.
That song from The Police taught us ages ago to open-source when you do this, with the lyrics "I send a NES O/S to the world ♫"
as poetic as i find frank's use of the term "harmony" to describe local soundness and completeness (cf. local reduction and expansion of proofs) in natural deduction*, i am not sure that it really works as a music metaphor.
maybe i'm missing something? but musical harmony is about deriving "new" sounds from individual sounds, whereas logical harmony is about checking you *can't* do (something like) that with your inference rules.
*see, e.g., part 11 here cs.cmu.edu/~fp/courses/15814-f…
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#Repology only has marginal support for F-Droid, only seeing a few handpicked packages for software which is also available in Linux:
repology.org/projects/?inrepo=…
I've recently had a few PRs which improve F-Droid support and add #IzzyOnDroid, allowing full-fledged version comparison within Android ecosystem.
I wonder if any #fdroid maintainers or @IzzyOnDroid would be interested in that.
nothing really - just a feedback. Here's, for instance, list of projects in IzzyOnDroid which intersect with other repos (F-Droid, that is, but I am still to recheck if there are any projects which also intersect with *nix repos)
Yupp, I've got a similar query with my local tools here as well (comparing the indexes which were loaded into a database). But from the linked page, I cannot see what intersects or tell what it really means – not before I open details of one. Some "title" attributes on the version labels in the list would help.
"This repository does not provide links to package recipes…" – that's on the ToDo list. Not sure if Santa will fit it on his sleigh already…
> Some "title" attributes on the version labels in the list would help.
You mean renaming "Selected" column to something like "In IzzyOnDroid"?
> that's on the ToDo list
The requirement is common to all repos, but I don't really treat it as mandatory for IOD, for as I understand you just provide upstream-built APKs and if there are recipes these are in fact just a manifests with upstream URLs. Stull, having more information including these URLs exposed would be great.
I mean that when hovering over the version labels it could show some details, as it does on the details page. But yeah, adjusting the column names to what they show would be even more intuitive.
And build recipes are publicly available with our builders for Reproducible Builds, if an app is set up for that (currently, 22.6% of the apps at IoD are). The other metadata will become publicly available soon™, hopefully…
I've had no idea that there are newer formats. F-Droid parser (reused for IoD) haven't had major changes since 2016 when it was introduced. Guess it's time to revisit it.
Cannot check out the data right now, but if names you mention are these `org.example.calculator` like ones, I'd prefer to stick with display names - these at least have a chance to match with other ecosystems, fulfilling Repologys goal. Mismerged projects with common names can be split by URL.
I don#t know what parser you mean, but in 2016 there was only the XML index (aka "v0") – and meanwhile v1 and v2 have been released which differ a lot. Not only they are JSON instead of XML, but a lot of internals have changed or were added.
You should definitely not go by display names alone, that's pretty error prone in most cases. Those packageNames/applicationIds are supposed to be unique – but I understand they don't exist with many desktop apps. URLs should often help, yeah.
Speech Note - An Offline Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech and Translation App for #Linux
It's time for the Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest! We have updates on:
* Our Exchange progress
* Account hub development
* Global Database and Conversation View
* In-App Notification
* Source Docs Clean Up
* Cross Device Import
* Battling OAuth Changes
Read the latest and find out what's landing soon! 🛬
Very disappointing what Thunderbird does here with K9 Mail and violates the DSVGO.
Time to think about an alternative.
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Organizations that get relieved of credentials to their cloud environments can quickly find themselves part of a disturbing new trend: Cybercriminals using stolen cloud credentials to operate and resell sexualized AI-powered chat services. Researchers say these illicit chat bots, which use custom jailbreaks to bypass content filtering, often veer into darker role-playing scenarios, including child sexual exploitation and rape.
krebsonsecurity.com/2024/10/a-…
![A screenshot of the AI sex chat service "chub[.]ai" which includes hundreds of pre-made characters with which one can strike up a conversation. The characters are mostly scantily clad female anime personas. Some of these characters include the tags "rape" or "incest," and "NSFL" or Not Safe for Life.](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/596139 "A screenshot of the AI sex chat service \"chub[.]ai\" which includes hundreds of pre-made characters with which one can strike up a conversation. The characters are mostly scantily clad female anime personas. Some of these characters include the tags \"rape\" or \"incest,\" and \"NSFL\" or Not Safe for Life.")
Sarah Jamie Lewis
in reply to Sarah Jamie Lewis • • •I like Mozilla, or rather I liked what Mozilla once was. Over the years I've volunteered time on various Mozilla projects - both online and in-person. I've advocated for Firefox for two decades.....
Time after time, especially in recent years, I've given Mozilla the benefit of the doubt - because I both believed they were honestly doing things for the right reasons.
I no longer believe that.
Sarah Jamie Lewis
in reply to Sarah Jamie Lewis • • •Browser development and maintenance is a costly endeavor - any firefox fork has to either commit to that upkeep, or rely on being able to sift critical changes from unwanted cruft in a timely manner.
Ultimately I think the only way we can dig ourselves out of this mess is by making it easier to build and maintain browsers (There are perhaps alternative foundations to build on, such as servo on the horizon - but they too need funding.)
Sarah Jamie Lewis
in reply to Sarah Jamie Lewis • • •Short term....we have two cross-platform browser engines.
Both maintained by advertising companies - both with a multitude of forks claiming to disable and/or patch out the bad stuff.
But ultimately, both base browsers - and this the underlying web standards - are being primarily driven by the needs of advertisers.
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in reply to AlgoCompSynth by znmeb 🇺🇦 • • •No, they didn't see an opening and took it. They swindled and deceived people, rigged the game so only they could win. Don't talk about Google like some dashing maverick, deftly dodging the sluggish giants. They're bullies, and cheats, and should be referred to as such.
Sorry but I'm sick of framing this abuse as if it were something to be admired and respected. Cutting edge? Really?
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Maybe the Google plan was always to dominate the market, but Chrome didn't catch fire because of that. It caught fire because it made browsing easier and web development tolerable. Every web developer I knew back then developed on Chrome and tested on the other browsers in later stages of the process. 2/2
Cy
in reply to AlgoCompSynth by znmeb 🇺🇦 • • •It didn't make anything easier though. Every webdev I knew showed little to no critical thinking, and just went where the hype is, so they started developing on Chrome because of the marketing saying it was the hip new thing. Nobody questioned it, or did any sort of critical study or comparison.
It's true IE was garbo.
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History repeating. It happened with Internet Explorer before. But everyone seems to forget.
I have been calling Chrome the "New Internet Explorer" for a reason.