If the Youtube timestamp does not come through, the solo I am talking about starts somewhere around minute 4.
You and Your Friend
Provided to YouTube by Warner RecordsYou and Your Friend · Dire StraitsOn Every Street℗ 1996 Mercury Records Ltd. (London)Conductor, Keyboards, Producer: Ala...YouTube
Finding My Purpose: Navigating Accessibility and Advocacy
Discover the inspiring journey of a woman with multiple disabilities as she navigates her passion for accessibility and technology, fueled by faith and resilience.RareBird15 (Life of a Rare Bird)
Automated Accessibility Testing at Slack
At Slack, customer love is our first priority and accessibility is a core tenet of customer trust. We have our own Slack Accessibility Standards that product teams follow to guarantee their features are compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidel…nstormann (Slack Engineering)
AskBob's Best of 2024 - Part Two
Did you catch Part One of my “Best of 2024” series? Well, buckle up, because today I’m serving up another round of ten wildly popular AskBob articles! These gems were carefully curated with assistance from a network of quantum robots, secret nodes on…Bob Rankin (Ask Bob Rankin)
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."
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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:
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:
Embroidery and resilient software freedom in 2025
I spent most of 2024 recovering from a spine injury after a car accident. I’d love to share my new insight into free software accessibility, and how both free software and embroidery helped me build resiliency.Software Freedom Conservancy
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!
Embroidery and resilient software freedom in 2025
I spent most of 2024 recovering from a spine injury after a car accident. I’d love to share my new insight into free software accessibility, and how both free software and embroidery helped me build resiliency.Software Freedom Conservancy
Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking
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Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, medical pioneer who received the world's first experimental rat penis transplant, announced today that the social media juggernaut would stop fact checking.Matt Husser (The Hard Times)
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…
The Way of Water: On the Quiet Power of Ursula K. Le Guin’s Activism
In the past two months, I’ve found myself thinking back to an essay Ursula K. Le Guin posted on her blog in November 2016. It was one of her last long essays, and she wrote it at a time when she—li…Literary Hub
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)
A Bus Model For Global, Human-Centered Education
The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.www.dair-institute.org
▶️ Closure for Families of the Missing: dair-institute.org/blog/eritre…
▶️ Decentralized, Locally-Tailored Technology: dair-institute.org/blog/decent…
Decentralized, Locally-Tailored Technology
The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.www.dair-institute.org
DAIR Presents: Imagining Possible Futures
At DAIR, we want to encourage imagining otherwise. Join us for two panels and a collaborative zine-making workshop.Eventbrite
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…
17 mil. zhlédnutí · 58 tis. reakcí | Billionaires Called Out for Tax Evasion by Historian Rutger Bregman at Davos Economic Forum | This historian told a room full of billionaires at Davos that they need to step up and pay their fair share of taxes | By No
This historian told a room full of billionaires at Davos that they need to step up and pay their fair share of taxeswww.facebook.com
Next year’s MacBook Pro could be Apple’s biggest Mac upgrade ever
Apple has big things in store for next year’s new MacBook Pro model, it could even be the biggest Mac upgrade ever. Here’s what’s coming.Ryan Christoffel (9to5Mac)
Meta seems cooked, but I’m glad we have open and federated alternatives!
Instagram -> pixelfed.org
Reels -> loops.video + vidzy.codeberg.page
Facebook -> friendi.ca + hubzilla.org
Whatsapp -> matrix.org
Spread the word!
locusmag.com/2024/03/cory-doct…
Capitalists hate capitalism too. Amazing read which solidifies that we are actually in a _postcapitalistic_ society now.
Cory Doctorow: Capitalists Hate Capitalism
In conflict, we find clarity. We all hold contradictory views: We love our families, but they drive us crazy. We want more housing in our cities, but we don’t want our property values to decrease w…Locus Online
Cory Doctorow: Capitalists Hate Capitalism
In conflict, we find clarity. We all hold contradictory views: We love our families, but they drive us crazy. We want more housing in our cities, but we don’t want our property values to decrease w…Locus Online
remove #msh3 support from #curl in six months?
github.com/curl/curl/pull/1593…
DEPRECATE: remove msh3 in six months by bagder · Pull Request #15931 · curl/curl
The msh3 backed for QUIC and HTTP/3 was introduced in April 2022 but has never been made to work properly. It has seen no visible traction or developer activity from the msh3 main author (or anyone...GitHub
Je viens d'installer Dhaaga (lite) pour tester mais TrakerControl y trouve une librairie Google.
C'est normal ?
@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
Rückblick auf 2024 und Ausblick auf 2025: Reproducible Builds, Sicherheitsmaßnahmen, und mehr
2024 winkt zum Abschied, 2025 klopft an die Tür: Was haben wir 2024 erreicht, und was sind unsere Pläne und Hoffnungen für 2025? Werft mit uns einen Blick zurück auf die eingeführten Sicherheitsmaßnahmen, auf die Fortschritte bei Reproducible Builds …IzzyOnDroid
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Radio Caroline, the Pirate Radio Ship That Rocked the British Music World (1965)
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Radio Caroline, the Pirate Radio Ship That Rocked the British Music World (1965)
Nowadays musicians can reach hundreds, thousands, sometimes millions of listeners with a few, usually free, online services and a minimal grasp of technology.OC (Openculture.com)
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…
More Speech and Fewer Mistakes
We're ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to a Community Notes model.Joel Kaplan, Chief Global Affairs Officer (Meta)
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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…
Pre-travel controls: Digitalising travel documents - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
We are responding to a public consultation on the European Commissions’ digitalising travel documents proposal. This proposal promises convenience in travel but could pave the way for biometric mass surveillance and automated discrimination.European Digital Rights (EDRi)
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
it is important to move to a mastodon instance that does not federate with Facebook's threads.net service. it's about to get real, real ugly over there
threads.net/@zuck/post/DEhgYx4…
Mark Zuckerberg (@zuck) on Threads
It's time to get back to our roots around free expression and giving people voice on our platforms. Here's what we're going to do:Threads
> the best way to defend against the trend of government overreach on censorship is with the support of the US government.
—Mark Zuckerberg
archived snapshot:
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… )
Klaudia (aka jinxx) (@viennawriter@literatur.social)
Angehängt: 1 Bild Man muss keine Bestseller-Autorin sein oder super bekannter Influencer. Es gibt Menschen, denen gefallen unsere #Bücher, völlig egal, ob uns 50, 500, 5.000, 50.000 oder noch mehr Menschen folgen.literatur.social
by @heydon
github.com/Heydon/principles-o…
#a11y #accessibility #webdesign #UIDesign
GitHub - Heydon/principles-of-web-accessibility: How to approach accessible web interface design
How to approach accessible web interface design. Contribute to Heydon/principles-of-web-accessibility development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
We're looking for the next Fedora Project Leader. Is it you, or someone you know?
redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/e…
Fedora Project Leader
About the job The Fedora Project Leader is accountable for the ongoing success of the Fedora Project and the health and growth of its contributor community and user base.redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
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!
SFC End of Year Q&A
Sie wurden zu SFC End of Year Q&A über BigBlueButton zur Teilnahme eingeladen. Um beizutreten, klicken Sie auf den obigen Link und geben Sie Ihren Namen ein.bbb.sfconservancy.org
Govee unveils new Mini Panel Lights at CES 2025 - 9to5Mac
Govee just announced their new Mini Panel lights at CES. We got some quick hands on time with these, and I was impressed!Fernando Silva (9to5Mac)
Severance season 2 review: even weirder, wilder, and darker
The sci-fi thriller Severance returns to Apple TV Plus with a season 2 premiere on January 17th.Andrew Webster (The Verge)



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