Amazon signs three deals to help develop small modular nuclear reactors in the US, with Amazon's Climate Pledge Fund leading a $500M Series C-1 for X-energy (Diana Olick/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2024/10/16/amazon-goe…
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Amazon is the latest large tech company to buy into nuclear power to fuel the growing demands from data centers.Diana Olick (CNBC)
Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Plus review: thin design, spacious 15.6" screen, great performance, Quick Insert key, and solid battery life, but average speakers (Daniel Thorp-Lancaster/Wired)
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By Daniel Thorp-Lancaster / Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.Techmeme
How Linux looks like wearing a Windows costume!How-To Geek
Below are 25 essential .htaccess tricks and tips that can help improve your site’s security, performance, and SEO.LinuxToday
YouTube announced today a sweeping set of updates designed to improve the experience for both viewers and creators across all platforms, including web, mobile, TVs, and YouTube Music.Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced today it is formally investigating the use of data caps by broadband providers and their impact on consumers and competition.Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)
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Not only has has Amazon upgraded its entry-level Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Scribe, it also launched the all-new Kindle Colorsoft, its first Kindle with a color E Ink screen.David Carnoy (CNET)
There was a lot of news the other day about passkeys and portability - fidoalliance.org/fido-alliance… - that says in part:
"Until now, there has been no standard for the secure movement of credentials, and often the movement of passwords or other credentials has been done in the clear."
This is true, but... there is also still no standard for any of that. The specs are mostly empty placeholders.
fidoalliance.org/specs/cx/cxp-…
fidoalliance.org/specs/cx/cxf-…
Solid Mitch Hedberg energy here.
The FIDO Alliance has published a working draft of a new set of specifications for secure credential exchange that, when standardized and implemented byLori Glavin (FIDO Alliance)
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
We’re celebrating 20 years of Thunderbird this year! It’s been an incredible journey for our users, the dedicated team of contributors who have worked on it and of course our amazing open-source community who has been there every step of the way. 🎉 To mark this occasion, check out this beautiful video by @freehive and see how Thunderbird is ready for the next 20 years.
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On December 7, 2004, Thunderbird 1.0 was released. Now, 20 years later, we’re celebrating two decades of secure, open-source email communication! 🎉 This new...YouTube
Apple’s App Stores across the iPhone, iPad, and Mac are down, leaving users unable to install new apps.Emma Roth (The Verge)
We mock it, but it's a serious thing that the leader of His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition has not obtained a national security clearance.
10 perfectly innocent explanations for why Pierre Poilievre won’t get national security clearance:
thebeaverton.com/2024/06/10-pe…
Pierre Poilievre’s refusal to get a national security clearance so he can read the report on foreign interference in Canada’s elections is raising eyebrows, with many suggesting that maybe he can’t get a security clearance because he poses a security…Luke Gordon Field (The Beaverton)
Looking around the App Store, it's clear that we're not charging enough.Relay FM
Thunderbird for Android 8.0b3 is out! There are two things we'd really love help testing. One is the funding feature! (thunderbird.topicbox.com/group…). The other is the QR code sync between desktop and mobile (thunderbird.topicbox.com/group…). Thanks to everyone who has helped beta test and given feedback!
Release notes on our GitHub: github.com/thunderbird/thunder…
#ThunderbirdForAndroid #Thunderbird #OpenSource
Thunderbird for Android – Open Source Email App for Android (fka K-9 Mail) - thunderbird/thunderbird-androidGitHub
dobre hovorí
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„Som výsluhový dôchodca a venujem sa mame.“ Bývalý policajný prezident Štefan Hamran je takmer rok v civile a už absolvoval niekoľko policajných výsluchov. J...YouTube
Bombic je z tej miniaturnej mensiny, pre ktoru sa podarilo naplnit tu cast programoveho vyhlasenia aktualnej vlady, ktora hovori o "bezpečnejšie žiť".
Lebo nackovia, fasisti, klamari, podvodnici, atd. a pod. sa tu teraz naozaj citia bezpecnejsie. (Volakedy by sli do basy.)
ref.: mastodon.social/@phanecak/1133…
Este k tomu programovemu vyhlaseniu vlady: - "Lepšie": urcite nie, aj ked to zuzime iba na ekonomiku, lebo konsokidacia zdvihne naklady vsetkym¹ - "pokojnejšie": to tiez nie, lebo "furt nieco"² - "bezpečne žiť": nuz, ani to, o.i.Mastodon
I really feel sorry for the public sector employees working on meeting this #a11y deadline for PDFs.
"PDFs are where services go to die."
No doubt the people working on this will be super under-resourced, and actually meeting this deadline won't be seen as much of a win by anyone, but not meeting it has legal and dire consequences.
To be clear more #a11y is good! Under-resourcing teams is not!
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#Government #PublicInterestTech #CivicTech
If your government agency is typical, you have a lot of PDFs. Probably thousands. They are probably not accessible.Rebecca Woodbury (Department of Civic Things newsletter)
Here in the United States, "I'm voting Green" is just a shorthand way of saying "I'm voting for the cheaper Putin lickspittle to help the more expensive Putin lickspittle get back into the White House."
To the Green supporters/Russian bots about to fume in the comments about how their vote is in fact something else than the above, here is my pre-emptive reply:
Wow. I didn't expect the amount of resonance my writeup is getting. Thank you very much.
I did a lot of changes, split the document. Hopefully providing alternative, practical strategies for synthesizing sounds in a size-coding context:
ronnypries.de/notes/music-prod…
May also be generally relevant for folks struggling/are bored with their bassdrums.
#demoscene #sizecoding #sounddesign #mixing #patchdesign #musicproduction
Hopefully actionable patch-programming insights for size-coders, who also make their own music.ronnypries.de
Python comes with several different libraries that allow you to write a command line interface for your scripts.Steve Emms (LinuxLinks)
"Idle thoughts for October"
baldurbjarnason.com/2024/idle-…
This week's post is short but manages to be a bit contemplative nonetheless.
I decided to take a bit of a writing break after last week’s mammoth essay. Not because writing these things takes so much of my time.www.baldurbjarnason.com
Hey Tuta Fans! Want to know how Tuta's new visual universe is improving our growing range of products? 🎨
Read Tuta's rebranding story told by our talented in-house designer Daniel 👉tuta.com/blog/tuta-new-creativ…
#TurnonPrivacy #Rebrand #Tuta
#MadeinGermany #Design
Turn ON privacy. That's what we offer since day 1 of Tuta(nota). Now our brand architecture reflects this in a new app ecosystem.Tuta
“Under [Stallman’s] ideological leadership, the free software movement is unsafe, particularly for women. Women represent just 3% of the free software community, compared to 23% of industry programmers generally. This is no accident.”
This, 100%. Thank you for saying out in the open what we have all lived, survived, observed, and known to be true for decades. Now that F/OSS can’t look away, what will we do about it? The fish rots from the head, after all…
@glyph
October 14th, 2024 Richard Stallman (aka “RMS”) is the founder of GNU and the Free Software Foundation and present-day voting member of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) board of directors and “Chief GNUisance” of the GNU project.The Stallman report
👁️ @w3c AGWG (Accessibility Guidelines Working Group) Teleconference
15 Oct 2024 - draft minutes
"RESOLUTION: We will explore having a set of required provisions that is somewhat comparable to WCAG 2.2 A & AA and a set of provisions and assertions that can be used to build upon that through points, percentages, or predefined sets of provisions (modules)."
A world of color and texture could soon become more accessible to people who are blind or have low vision, via new software that narrates what a camera records.University of Michigan (Tech Xplore)
This weekend I managed to get #wmbus receiver working. 🎉
Our housing cooperative installed new hot water and heater meters with radio readings. I found out it uses 868Mhz wmbus protocol and that there is an #ESPHome extension adding support for this.
I only needed encryption keys, which I was provided with by the cooperative.
Now my #HomeAssistant tracks out heating and hot water #consuption. Yay...
github.com/SzczepanLeon/esphom…
Contribute to SzczepanLeon/esphome-components development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
The annual HTML conformance analysis, validating 200 home pages of the most popular websites. Despite improvements, there is no signal of commitment to valid output as a quality baseline to benefit end users as well as web development as a profession…meiert.com
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in reply to mhoye • • •This is the most important thing you need to know about passkeys: that "Authorizing Party" box in the spec?
That's not you. They're not actually "your" passkeys.