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WordPress’s emperor, Matt Mullenweg, demands a hefty tribute from WP Engine, and a battle erupts leaving millions of websites hanging in the balance. Meanwhile, the Internet Archive is under siege from hackers.

Listen to "Smashing Security" in your favourite podcast app:

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Smashing Security

Podcast · Graham Cluley & Carole Theriault · A helpful and hilarious take on the week's tech SNAFUs. Computer security industry veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault chat with guests about cybercrime, hacking, and online privacy.
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For those who can’t wait for Emoji Reactions I made #Conversations_im available for free on Google Play for the next couple of days.

play.google.com/store/apps/det…

(Note that the Google Play version has some drawbacks like no address book integration and no public channel discovery. For channel discovery you can use search.jabber.network directly.)


Conversations (Jabber / XMPP) - Apps on Google Play

An encrypted, user friendly XMPP instant messaging client optimized for mobile
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#conversations_im

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I see Microsoft still haven't fixed the crash in Phone Link when you focus the message list. So, here's my app module to work around this and add some other conveniences. I can't be bothered adding type annotations, etc. to submit to NVDA core, nor can I be bothered submitting this as an add-on, so this will require developer scratchpad to be enabled. gist.githubusercontent.com/jcs…

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Jamie Teh

@BorrisInABox Oh oh, yes, I know what you're talking about now. I have calls disabled for Phone Link because it wants to steal calls from my Airpods, but I re-enable calls on demand occasionally if I need it for a specific call, which isn't that often for me. Just in case you don't know, alt+s gets you to settings, which is useful for quickly disabling calls.
@Patrick Perdue

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Written by an 18 yrs. old:

“I wish I was around when people had blogs or even myspace. This era was deeply personal and creative. Most writing on the internet was individual, not written in search of “SEO” or profit but driven by the need and want of people to share knowledge–pure curiosity.”

Great blog post re: #IndieWeb #OldWeb

rohan.ga/blog/early-internet/

/via @feedle

I Wish I Didn't Miss the '90s-00s Internet

about me I am 18, born in 2006. This is generally a good thing as I am in the prime of life currently.
Hugo ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Bear
#indieWeb #oldweb @feedle

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Welcome to the RB family, Weathernaut 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/me.ta…

Weathernaut lets you check the current conditions, get hourly forecasts for today and tomorrow, or plan your week with a 7-day forecast.

Again, thanks to @bg443 for providing the recipe!

And we just passed the 300th RB app at IzzyOnDroid here: 301 apps / 24.8% are now RB :awesome:

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid


„Weathernaut“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Weathernaut: Accurate Weather, Music, and More!
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
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Welcome to the RB family, Jetflix 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.y…

Jetflix is a Movie listing app using the TheMovieDb API which lets you search, filter, select by genre, see cast and crew details, production companies and more.

Thanks to @bg443 for providing the recipe!

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid


„Jetflix“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Movie listing app using TheMovieDb API
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid @bg443

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At a protest in SF, blind Uber and Lyft users claim the companies aren't doing enough to prevent drivers from turning away passengers with visual impairments (Wired)

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At a protest in SF, blind Uber and Lyft users claim the companies aren't doing enough to prevent drivers from turning away passengers with visual impairments

From Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.
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I really like Drew's framework here dividing current AI use-cases into Gods (human replacement, which I think of as still mostly science fiction), Interns (assistants you delegate closely-reviewed tasks to, which is most of how I use LLMs today) and Cogs (smaller tools that can more reliably serve a single purpose, like Whisper for transcription) - more of my own notes on this here: simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/20/…
note.computer/@dbreunig/113330…

Drew Breunig (@dbreunig@note.computer)

Simplifying the AI noise by segmenting everything into 3 big use cases: Gods, Interns, and Cogs. https://www.dbreunig.com/2024/10/18/the-3-ai-use-cases-gods-interns-and-cogs.html
note.computer
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Simon Willison

@matt @forrestbrazeal I've not felt the anger personally, because I've been releasing open source code for 20+ years so I already default to "I want people to be able to reuse my work as much as possible" - but I absolutely understand the people who ARE angry

If I was an artist and someone trained Stable Diffusion on my work without my permission and then started competing with me for commissions that used my own personal style I think I'd feel very differently about this all

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Glyph

@matt @forrestbrazeal I don’t feel like I am stuck in step 4, but I can’t get to step 5 because I do very much believe that (at least in their current incarnation) AI is very much going away. I am worried about the collateral damage that this particular dead tree is going to cause when it smashes into the rest of the ecosystem. E.g.: nvidia currently has a market cap of 11% of GDP, which I do not think is sustainable. But who on earth is going to get a positive ROI on ChatGPT at $20/mo?
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Matt Campbell

@glyph Yeah. Today I went down a rabbit hole looking into what it would take to reproducibly, deterministically build some video assets for a little side project I did. It reminded me of how some hard-core free software folks, particularly the GNU Guix developers, have been working on bootstrapping a whole OS with minimal dependence on existing binaries. We're never getting that for these big models.

@simon

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Simon Willison

@matt @glyph the models I can run in my laptop today are leagues ahead of the models I ran on the exact same hardware a year ago - improvements in that space have been significant

This new trick from Microsoft looks like it could be a huge leap forward too - I've not dug into it properly yet though github.com/microsoft/BitNet


GitHub - microsoft/BitNet: Official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs

Official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs. Contribute to microsoft/BitNet development by creating an account on GitHub.
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@Matt Campbell @Glyph

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We compared smart ring heart rate data with smartwatches, and the results may surprise you (...Instead, it's the Amazfit Helio Ring that won the hardware accuracy contest. And since Amazfit recently discounted it to $199 and made its pricey subscriptions free, the Helio Ring has become more appealing.
On the other hand, the Helio Ring has unresolved problems like the limited number of sizes (three), short battery life (four days), and lack of automatic workout detection.) androidcentral.com/wearables/s…

We compared smart ring heart rate data with smartwatches, and the results may surprise you

Our smart ring heart rate accuracy test measured how Oura, Samsung, Amazfit, Ultrahuman, and RingConn do when compared against smartwatches.
Michael L Hicks (Android Central)

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 17 updated and one long-awaited added apps:

* Fossify Camera: your light-weight camera app from the Fossify collection 🥳 and it got the 🛡️ (i.e. it is reproducible), yay!

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps and #reproducibleBuilds with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

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In Wales, if you want a bwca or bwbachod (a goblin who cleans your home), then leave out a cup of cream each night (or better yet, a cup of ale). However, bwcas hate teetotalers. If you refuse to drink alcohol, they may kick you or throw your plates at you.
🎨 Tony DiTerlizzi

#FolkloreSunday #OfDarkandMacabre #31DaysofHaunting #31DaysofHalloween #Superstitiology #Mythology #Folklore #Celtic #CelticMythology #Wales #WelshMythology #Fairy #Goblin

A benevolent house goblin, as painted by Tony DiTerlizzi
#mythology #folklore #Wales #folkloresunday #ofdarkandmacabre #31daysofhaunting #31daysofhalloween #superstitiology #celtic #celticmythology #welshmythology #fairy #goblin
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Josef Zettl alias Princezna

Tak to nezávidím.
Chce to hodně promastit, ideálně nějaký krém s kakaovým máslem, makadamovým olejem. Ale dobrý je i samotný olivový olej, nebo sádlo to je TOP.
No a před prací doporučuji promazat vazelínou, ta vytvoří tenký film, který chvilku vydrží i ten Jar.
Doporučovat rukavice je předpokládám zbytečné.
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Josef Zettl alias Princezna

Musí to mít ve složení to, co jsem psal třeba kakaové máslo makadamový olej, olivový olej, nebo klidně použít to sádlo.
Pokud se bavíme o krému z drogerie, tak doporučuji tento: rossmann.cz/krem-na-ruce-s-oli…

Obsahuje jak kakaové máslo, tak olivový olej, vstřebává se rychle.

Krém na ruce s olivovým olejem | ROSSMANN

www.rossmann.cz

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Ongoing discussion, but it looks like Bitwarden may be starting to make moves towards no longer being open source:

github.com/bitwarden/clients/i…

Previous issues opened against the SDK have been met with replies that suggest they have no intention of reconsidering the licensing decision:

github.com/bitwarden/sdk/issue…


Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software · Issue #11611 · bitwarden/clients

Pull request #10974 introduces the @bitwarden/sdk-internal dependency which is needed to build the desktop client. The dependency contains a licence statement which contains the following clause: Y...
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chx

@erion @tootbrute well here it is. Guess what? The world isn't ending. github.com/bitwarden/clients/i…

Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software · Issue #11611 · bitwarden/clients

Pull request #10974 introduces the @bitwarden/sdk-internal dependency which is needed to build the desktop client. The dependency contains a licence statement which contains the following clause: Y...
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@Tutanota When you update something like for example tuta.com/blog/how-to-start-an-… would it be possible to add a short description (preferably at the top) of what was updated so people don't need to reread the whole thing to try and find what was changed.

How to start an email (with examples) | Tuta

How to start an email (formal & informal), and the dos and don'ts of email greetings.
Tuta
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This: #antiracist vs "not racist".

If you want to start on that education, I really recommend reading "So You Want To Talk About Race" by Ijeoma Oluo.
I've previously recommended "White Fragility" by Robin DiAngelo, which was good as an initial bridge - a white person talking to white people why they should care to be antiracist. But she's since turned that into a whole white savior consultant business, which is gross.
Ijeoma Oluo though? Her words as another woman of color _gave me breathing space_. She wrote all the things that I'm too exhausted to bring up with my white friends anymore. She wrote that, so the rest of us BIPOC don't have to anymore - it's a book of empowerment like that, in a big way.

And this is why I implore everyone to read that book, even if you need "White Fragility" as a stepping stone first.

Antiracist vs. "Not Racist" by #TheRealDrBatGuy A wheel with 4 icons on the left for "Antiracist" opposite 4 icons on the right for "Not Racist" (with quotation marks). Top icons: Antiracist - an eye icon for Awareness: Being aware of your own biases, privileges, and how you benefit from white supremacy Not Racist - a struck through eye icon for Colorblindness: Saying things such as "I don't see color" or "I don't care whether you are Black, white, or purple" Middle top icons: Antiracist - an ear icon for Listening: Leaning in and listening without centering your own experiences and whiteness, owning your mistakes and not getting defensive Not Racist - multiple location icons grouped together for Proximity: Making comments like, "My husband/kids/uncle/brother/friend/roommate is Black, so I can't be racist!" Middle bottom icons: Antiracist - book with lamp icons for Education: Educating yourself on race, racism, and white supremacy, paying Black educators (not expecting free education) Not Racist - a circle with an x icon for Avoidance: Avoiding conversations about race and racism, and asserting that talking about racism perpetuates it Bottom icons: Antiracist - a megaphone icon for Activism: Speaking out in your personal life, professional life, and social media, and calling people out/in as needed Not Racist - a struck through speaker icon for Silence: Staying silent when others make racist comments or jokes, noting that it's ok as long as you are not the one saying it
#antiracist
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#Bitwarden is no longer free software.

The new code introduces a dependency on @bitwarden/sdk-internal, whose license explicitly states that it can’t be used by any software other than Bitwarden.

That violates the freedom 0 of free software (I can do whatever I want with the source code as long as my output is also free and open).

This seems to be part of a long strategy from Bitwarden to gradually pull the rug under their “free and open” principles and turn the product into a closed product after gaining sufficient market share.

And it’s a reminder that open projects maintained by companies should never, ever, ever be trusted.

In my case I already moved to Vaultwarden a while ago. I had a hunch that Bitwarden was going in this direction, plus running 15 .NET containers on my box just to run a password manager seemed pure insanity to me.

I advise everyone to move away from Bitwarden too before it’s too late.

github.com/bitwarden/clients/i…


Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software · Issue #11611 · bitwarden/clients

Pull request #10974 introduces the @bitwarden/sdk-internal dependency which is needed to build the desktop client. The dependency contains a licence statement which contains the following clause: Y...
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#bitwarden

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Inspired by a recent podcast, I read this article on digital minimalism. Interestingly, I think I'm already much of the way there: very little interaction with corporate social media, no difficulty leaving the phone at home when going to a concert, for example, no desire to use technology when I'm meeting people or at a conference - even a technology conference.
I'm reasonably selective about what podcasts or radio to listen to, what fora to engage in, what to read online, etc., although there are probably some that I could remove without loss of substantial value.
I prioritize creation over consumption in general.
calnewport.com/on-digital-mini…
#Digital Minimalism #SocialMedia

On Digital Minimalism - Cal Newport

The Curmudgeonly Optimist People are sometimes confused about my personal relationship with digital communication technologies. On the one hand, I’m a computer scientist who studies and improves these tools. ... Read more
Study Hacks (Cal Newport)
#digital #socialmedia
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