Exciting update about the hackfest: We will now offer lunch for participants of the hackfest. π²
The lunch will cost about 8 Euros. A friend volunteered to cook for us with the deal that any extra funds would go to the local social bicycle association Efesta (efesta.net), which we both are part of.
The event will be so much bigger than I anticipated, already more than 15 people signed up.π
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Mozilla bought the Android email app K-9 (which didnβt include any trackers) and integrated trackers as part of #Mozillaβs rebranding under the #Thunderbird name.
They even made it opt-out instead of opt-in. Their defense for breaking the law: βwe wouldnβt have enough data if we obeyed the law.β
It doesnβt matter whether you βanonymizedβ the data or not: If you want to extract data from someoneβs device to yours, you may do so only if they knowingly consented.
sigmoid.social/@davidculley/11β¦
My original team at Apple is hiring for a couple of software engineering roles: junior and senior. This is an amazing team and a chance to have a positive impact in education! jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/2β¦
Pech fΓΌr alle, die BILD glaubten und sich eine neue Gasheizung aufschwatzen lieΓen: Laut Heizspiegel wird Heizen mit WΓ€rmepumpen 2024 am gΓΌnstigsten. Das wird wenige ΓΌberraschen - auΓer die, die ihre Informationen von fossilen Propagandaschleudern beziehen.
With HIDIOCREVOKE we can now finally have a go at implementing a desktop portal for sandboxed apps to access hidraw devices without giving them blanket permissions to all device nodes
fosstodon.org/@whot/1132463293β¦
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Russia is deliberately leaking chemical waste into the Desna River, wiping out wildlife. Typical.
"Not a single organism survived. This is unprecedented. Itβs Europeβs first completely dead river."
#RussiaIsATerroristState #PutinIsAnEcoTerrorist
Tuta's (@Tutanota) new calendar app for Android and iOS is here:
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Where web #accessibility, digital #sustainability, #contentManagement, open-source software, and web standards intersect, you'll find @mgifford always advocating for content, people, and the planet.
In his practice, Mike ensures that the content systems they deliver are built as sustainably as possible, deliver accessible experiences to citizens, and work well for authors and others who use the system.
ellessmedia.com/csi/mike-giffoβ¦
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That isn't a microaggression, that's a plain old macroaggression.
9 Google employees were arrested and two dozen were fired after an occupation of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian's office demanded the tech giant withdraw from Project Nimbus, an AI project to help streamline the operations of Israel's genocidal military.
unicornriot.ninja/2024/google-β¦
Atenção, comunidade!
Estendemos o prazo para submissΓ£o de palestras para o #GNOMELatam 2024 atΓ© o dia 07 de outubro! Se vocΓͺ ainda nΓ£o enviou sua proposta, esta Γ© sua chance de compartilhar seu conhecimento sobre @gnome e #SoftwareLivre.
Β‘AtenciΓ³n, comunidad!
Β‘Hemos extendido el llamado a charlas para #GNOMELatam 2024 hasta el 07 de octubre! Si aΓΊn no has enviado tu propuesta, esta es tu oportunidad de compartir tu conocimiento sobre @gnome y #SoftwareLibre.
Please remember, girls and boys, if you celebrate: UNIX day 20000 is on 2024-10-04 (the 4th of October). It's a special day, since the next round (10000) UNIX day is 30000 at 2052-02-20.
βhtmx ~ Why Gumroad Didn't Choose htmxβ
htmx.org/essays/why-gumroad-diβ¦
> AI and Tooling Support: Itβs worth noting that AI tools are intimately familiar with Next.js and not so much with htmx, due to the lack of open-source training data.
A risk with "AI" for coding Iβve talked about is that it's trained on legacy code so it's going to be a conservative force in software dev, driving people to use outdated but popular approaches. This is the first time I've seen that happen in the wild
Yep Mozilla did bend the knee....
Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure
"The system is designed such that humans donβt have access to individual data. The outputs are aggregated and anonymized, then Anonym destroys the individual data."
I have no words.
"Mozilla is going to be more active in digital advertising."
"we do this fully acknowledging our expanded focus on online advertising wonβt be embraced by everyone in our community" - blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/imβ¦
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.
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.
π―
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.
The new one-time-purchase version of Microsoft Office is out.
As usual, Microsoft warns that itβs inferior to the subscription version, since it wonβt receive updates andβ¦ *checks notes* β¦βlacks the Copilot AI integration.
<sarcasm>
βOh noooooβ¦</sarcasm>
GNOME
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