I wonder if anyone hearing this can help me identify what sort of guitar is playing this solo (at least, I think it's a guitar): youtu.be/7zjU28f6sE4?si=oZCHQt… Thanks a lot!
If the Youtube timestamp does not come through, the solo I am talking about starts somewhere around minute 4.

Automated Accessibility Testing at Slack - Engineering at Slack slack.engineering/automated-ac…

AskBob's Best of 2024 - Part Two askbobrankin.com/askbobs_best_…

If you're an Apple user and I spoof your phone number in a call to the legitimate Apple Customer Support line (800-275-2273), I can force Apple to send you a system level "Apple Account Confirmation" prompt to all of your signed-in devices.

This approach is commonly used by a prolific voice phishing group to convince targets they really are in a support call with an Apple representative.

Today's deep dive into this weird world was made possible in part by a series of live phishing videos, tutorials and other secrets shared by an insider that show in unprecedented detail how these voice phishing scams can be so convincing.

Please share this story widely, because I learned a ton reporting this and frankly the various methods used by these groups to dox and target people are really slick.

From the story: "Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. However, new details about the internal operations of a prolific voice phishing gang show the group routinely abuses legitimate services at Apple and Google to force a variety of outbound communications to their users, including emails, automated phone calls and system-level messages sent to all signed-in devices."

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/01/a-…

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Also, are you sure you don't have "search" on?

Search is different than scraping, data from search is "injected" into your current conversation only, and only when you enquire about a specific subject. It doesn't go into Chat GPT's training corpus.

I just asked the raw GPT-4o model (with no search), and it can't answer the question correctly, so this seems to be the case.

In February 2024, I was in a car crash. My nerves from my spine to my hand were damaged.

#OpenSource and #Embroidery helped me imagine a more resilient future:

sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/ja…

I wanted to give back to the #FreeSoftware community, and the Conservancy staff and contractors who supported me. So I made an embroidery of Conservancy's logo for our fundraiser.

The top donor to Conservancy's fundraiser (from Monday, Jan 6 until AOE Wednesday, Jan 8) will receive my embroidery.

Please donate today:

sfconservancy.org/sustainer/

If you can only afford to give a little, we appreciate any support you can give!

If the top donor doesn't want the embroidery, a random donor to Conservancy's fundraiser will receive the embroidery. The random donor will be picked from anyone who donated from the start of Conservancy's fundraiser in November until AOE Wednesday, January 8.

If my journey inspires you, please donate to Conservancy's fundraiser:

sfconservancy.org/sustainer/

I love this article by @sphakos about their thoughts about software freedom and recovering from injury. I find it really moving:

"Why do we decide an object is beyond repair, and must be replaced by something expensive and new? Why do companies put out products that easily break physically, or will become obsolete or insecure due to a lack of software updates?"

sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/ja…

They also created an incredible cross stitch work that will go to an SFC donor!

Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking
thehardtimes.net/culture/mark-…

#Meta #MarkZuckerberg

A thoughtful piece about Ursula K. Le Guin's activism and complicated feelings, written by Julie Phillips and published on Literary Hub. I do enjoy the little glimpses into the history of my area, too.

lithub.com/the-way-of-water-on…

#UrsulaKLeGuin

We're hoping to organize a hopeful virtual event to get us to think our possible technological futures, and have a creative workshop. Maybe in the spring. Stay tuned. In the mean time, read our Possible Futures Series. If you have thoughts on what you'd like to see from the event, comment below.

▶️ Nobody Owns Our Techno-Future: dair-institute.org/blog/techno…

▶️ A Bus Model For Global, Human-Centered Education: dair-institute.org/blog/educat…

▶️ An Internet for Our Elders: dair-institute.org/blog/elders…

(continued)

in reply to Timnit Gebru (she/her).

▶️ Closure for Families of the Missing: dair-institute.org/blog/eritre…

▶️ Decentralized, Locally-Tailored Technology: dair-institute.org/blog/decent…

I watched #TheWarGames - in black and white!

I think it's wonderful; how the story morphs and grows as the serial progresses, how it ends its era dropping so many threads that would be picked up in #DoctorWho future by keeping things vague enough to be developed, rather than be dead ends.

Remarkably for a 10-parter it in no way drags, even the run about eps have a [sort of] point and develops that widening story.

The ending ep kills me and I love and despair at Jamie and Zoe's ending. Especially Zoe's; she grew a lot in her time and it's all gone and she knows, some part of her at the end KNOWS she's forgotten something and I hate it and love it. #DoctorWhoRewatch

This.
This. This.
This. This. This.
THIS.
Taxes not philanthropy.
Quality of jobs, not numbers of jobs.
The best 4.5 minutes on social media.

facebook.com/nowthisimpact/vid…

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locusmag.com/2024/03/cory-doct…

Capitalists hate capitalism too. Amazing read which solidifies that we are actually in a _postcapitalistic_ society now.

remove #msh3 support from #curl in six months?

github.com/curl/curl/pull/1593…

@IzzyOnDroid has been doing an amazing job getting our repo to over 30% of apps being reproducible. Maintaining a rebuilder takes a lot of constant work. Thank you!

As I've written before:

[...] the ecosystem is constantly moving: old toolchain and dependency bugs get fixed, but new ones keep popping up. [...] Reproducible Builds are not just an item on a checklist [...] It's an ongoing process involving not just upstream app developers, but also maintainers of repositories, clients, and rebuilders; those involved in outreach and writing documentation; developers and maintainers of tooling, toolchains, and dependencies. And often requires a lot of collaborative debugging :)


See also our "Review of 2024 and Outlook for 2025: Reproducible Builds, Security Measures and more":

android.izzysoft.de/articles/n…

#IzzyOnDroid #ReproducibleBuilds

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Radio Caroline, the Pirate Radio Ship That Rocked the British Music World (1965)

openculture.com/2025/01/radio-…

Meta abbandona il fact-checking e allenta le sue regole di moderazione dei contenuti


Meta sta terminando il suo programma di fact checking di terze parti, passando al modello Community Notes, utilizzato da siti come X.com

Ha anche aggiunto che avrebbe rimosso le restrizioni su "argomenti che fanno parte del discorso comune". Invece, avrebbe concentrato l'applicazione delle leggi su "violazioni illegali e di elevata gravità".

Infine, gli utenti saranno incoraggiati ad adottare un approccio "personalizzato" ai contenuti politici, lasciando spazio a molte più opinioni e tendenze nei feed delle persone, che si adattano a ciò che desiderano vedere.

about.fb.com/news/2025/01/meta…

@eticadigitale

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A #EUTravelApp proposal by the European Commission would let you upload your biometric data to a database for pre-travel controls.
Many of you have told us you share the concerns we raised about the proposed regulation such as data protection risks.
📣 You can participate in a public consultation to voice your opinion until tomorrow (January 8) and share this blog to inform more people about the proposal.
edri.org/our-work/pre-travel-c…
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2/2 so not only does this discriminate against those not having a mobile device, or used their choice of running it "tracking free" with a custom ROM and no "store account" – it REQUIRES those using the app to have an account with a US company tracking them via their services.

Objections? Oh, you have something to hide? => stigmatized. Suspect because of valuing your privacy.

And enforcing us to give our data to an US company, outside GDPR directive. Again, violating their own laws.¹

Was ist denn aktuell die go-to #Fediverse-Software für Facebook-Flüchtige, die mit dem Mastodon Interface nicht warmwerden? Firefish wurde iirc eingestellt. Was gibt's da noch? Wieder Misskey? (Frage für ein paar liebe Autoren-Kolleg:innen, die mit Mastodon nicht gut klarkommen.)

Gerne RT.

(Nicht völlig unrelated zu literatur.social/@viennawriter… )

Principles Of Web Accessibility
by @heydon
github.com/Heydon/principles-o…
#a11y #accessibility #webdesign #UIDesign

Want to know the secrets of how to run an inclusive and diverse #OpenSource and #FreeSoftware internship program?

Want to share ideas and help shape the future of @outreachy ?

Come join me and the Outreachy team for an AMA chat!

Wednesday, Jan 8:
- 6 am Pacific USA
- 9 am Eastern USA
- 14:00 UTC
- 15:00 Central Europe
- 15:00 Western Africa
- 19:30 India

Video chat link: bbb.sfconservancy.org/b/pon-nx…

What burning questions do you have for Outreachy internship organizers?

Reply or DM to give us ideas of what to discuss!