Together with 35+ public interest groups, we urged the European Commission president to prioritise the decisive enforcement of Europe’s tech laws, resisting pressure from Big Tech companies who seek to keep exploiting users and businesses dependent on them.
The confusing and vague executive order underscores how complex sex is and why it’s hard to reduce it into a neat binaryapple.news
I think we as a society need more of this
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Garmin users say smartwatches have stopped working
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Its Fenix 8 smartwatches, which retail for just under £1,000, are some of the devices to have issues.Tom Gerken (BBC News)
Sonos Executives Pay The Price For Company’s Shitty, Anti-Consumer Policies
techdirt.com/2025/01/28/sonos-…
You might remember that Sonos was the golden child of “smart,” internet-connected home hardware a decade or so ago. But that reputation has been steadily tarnished by a long line of bon…Techdirt
Woman travels from Cornwall to Manchester by flying via Spain because it was half the price of the train ticket
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This sort of madness is why we need proper rail and flight pricing structures that are reflective of their climate impacts
#FlightFree #RailPricing #ClimateCrisis #AviationFuelDuty
Kristina Coulson says it was cheaper to take the "extreme day trip" than travel by train.Erin Black (BBC News)
Oh no, the Chinese plagiarism machine might have plagiarized the American plagiarism machine
Volgens diplomatieke bronnen in Politico, zou de import van Russisch vloeibaar gas (lng) opnieuw ontsnappen in het nieuwe EU sanctiepakket.
België blijft medeplichtig, want Zeebrugge is al jaren een van de belangrijkste schakels in de Russische lng-exportmachine. /1
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The proposal will not include a blanket prohibition of LNG imports, as scores of EU hawks have been urging.Victor Jack (POLITICO)
Owncast is built on top of video streaming standards, meaning video players that support network video can play an Owncast stream. On your TV, phone, car, game console, wherever!
There are some other options for watching Owncast streams on other platforms.
For iOS and AppleTV check out the native app for browsing Owncast streams. apps.apple.com/us/app/owncasts…
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More tips for watching Owncast streams can be found at owncast.online/docs/watching-o…
Will be banned from the US?
OpenAI claims DeepSeek copied ChatGPT’s homework
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OpenAI claims that DeepSeek has infringed on its intellectual property for its AI model, and the US Navy bans the Chinese model.Nick Fernandez (Android Authority)
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U.S. Businesses Already Love DeepSeek
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LibreOffice 25.2 – our next major release – is due to arrive next week! But while you’re waiting, here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started 2025 …Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
OpenAi has insisted that DeepSeek has copied some of its proprietary models to train its own AI product, seemingly unaware that its own model was built by freely copying the work of millions and mi…NewsThump
Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run.Debian Project
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Holy shit. A doctor's appointment with some labs for a fever...
$33: Strep assay
$192: Flu test
$103: COVID test
$24: Bacteria culture
$361: Office visit
A $327.18 insurance adjustment means the cost of visit ends up $385.82. for a 15 minute Doctor visit and a few labs
How does this make sense?
An Introduction to Django Views
#Python #Pycharm #Howtos #Webdevelopment #Django
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Understanding Django views helps you make faster progress in your project. Learn all about views and best practices for using them.The JetBrains Blog
22 hours of reading this week and another 5 books swalloed up.
3 Pretty humdrum fanfics, although the 4th was a nugget: the way the Triwizard Tournament is handled in "The Lie I've Lived"by JBern was pretty cool. Shame the sequel isn't finished, the idea was quite well handled.
I started what seems to be a bit of a Star Trek knockoff series, too, which was ... Different.
#bookstodon
Only fall for the hype from Americans. Do not, under any circumstances, fall for the hype from Chinese. cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof…
All this exceptionalism is exhausting.
DeepSeek AI is a new open source AI model out of China that claims to be outperforming OpenAI, Google and Meta.Imad Khan (CNET)
Amatérská vytrvalostní cyklistka Kateřina Rusá totiž najela za loňský rok jen těžko uvěřitelných 55 555 kilometrů.www.cyklonovinky.cz
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@Tutanota How do you plan to act on the a11y issues on the web/app? The roadmap doesn't talk about that and The BFSG comes into force in Germany on June 8, 2025.
> If your company operates in Germany or targets German users, you should make all content on your website or app accessible – from the homepage to the cookie banner. Otherwise, you risk not only high fines, but also reputational losses and missed business opportunities .
consentmanager.net/en/knowledg…
cc @juliemoynat
Compliance with German accessibility laws - BFSG, BITV 2.0 and BGG. Make sure your website or app meets all requirements. For private and public companies.Sophia Hertzke (consentmanager - English)
Advanced Chinese AI model DeepSeek has Nvidia, OpenAI, and other tech companies worried.Kylie Robison (The Verge)
Busy days now. On this Saturday on #FOSDEM I will speak about #curl security work in "tightening every bolt":
fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event…
That's an interesting metaphor and it raises so many questions:
1. Wouldn't it have been smarter to torque them correctly from the start ?
2. How does one even determine the correct torque for any one bolt ?
3. When somebody starts a FOSS project today, where do they acquire a torque-wrench ?
And no, I'm not teasing you (this time 🙂 ) those are some of the questions I tried to find answers to with #varnishcache's "dial it to 11" code quality rule.
@bsdphk For me, open sourcing started with „here is what I did over the weekend, do what you want with it“. Now we have „civilization will end on several planets if you screw this up“ foss projects.
This is no way to run a civilization.
@bsdphk I would argue that knowing how much torque to put in or even where the bolt have to go is... a process that can only be done after already having built the project, multiple times.
There is a reason any big engineering project (yes even road and bridges) build a lot of simulations and prototypes and even to scale models.
In software, we have a chance that we can *change the product itself* once it is running for no more cost. As an engineer in any other field, I would kill for that ability, as it would makes the iterative process of designing far faster and efficient.
Said otherwise... doing it the way we do in software is more advanced and "good" engineering than doing it "in the real world".
This is ofc only one lens to look at it, but it does have some support. It is just one map to look at things, maps are not the territory.
@Di4na
It is now 50 years since Frederick P. Brooks wrote a book where he told everybody in IT to always build a prototype and to always throw it away...
I think it is very sound advice, but obviously not stand alone: The chapter on Second Systems Syndrome is equally important.
Have you ever studied the rsync source base?
I'm still not seeing a "better/more popular project" anywhere ?
Sad news - Meta is cutting their budget that includes the work I do on Rapid, so I’m looking for a new job.
If you’re looking to hire someone remote/NYC with solid frontend skills, particularly maps, dataviz, WebGL (but I’m open to anything interesting), let’s talk!
DMs open, or find me on:
github.com/bhousel
linkedin.com/in/bhousel/
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A 1337 #curl author
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/01/29…
For quite some time now, I celebrate and welcome every new commit author in the curl project in the public.daniel.haxx.se
Welcome Michael Schuster as #curl commit author... 1337
github.com/curl/curl/pull/1604…
Yes, number 1337 finally happened.
Problems Build fails when support for session tickets is disabled (thus HAS_SESSION_TICKETS undefined in lib/vtls/mbedtls.c). Runtime error for all TLS connections when built with MBEDTLS_USE_PSA_...GitHub
In a weirdly surprising move, Facebook is restricting posts related to Linux content on its platform and flagging them against its Community Guidelines, including popular site DistroWatch.Karthik Mudaliar (Neowin)
Via another "crazy security scanner" report, I learn that #libcurl is installed in a #Microsoft Office and/or Teams install on Windows? According to the reddit post, in a normal install.
Does anyone know more?
The reddit page mentioning this: reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments…
The libcurl mailing list post:
"I just got 1600 detections today for this, despite it being 2 months old already"
I feel sad this is now where we're at.
(quote from affected user on the reddit link mentioned above)
Un concejal del PP pide disculpas tras comprar vino durante el pleno
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Marí Olano buscaba botellas de vino desde su escaño y con su portátil mientras se debatía sobre la dana en el hemiciclo
“Ha sido un error y pido disculpas.” Esta ha sido la respuesta de José Marí Olano, el concejal de Grandes Proyectos del Ayuntamiento de València, a Levante-EMV al ser preguntado por una incómoda situación ocurrida en el pleno ya que ha sido sorprendi…José Miguel Vigara (Levante-EMV)
Figures from CSJ show that last year 343 people were charged with blasphemy, including 19 Christians, five of whom were women.Andrés Henríquez/ACI Prensa/CNA (National Catholic Register)
So you just got your first Raspberry Pi, or have been using one for a while, wondering if this tiny computer can replace your PC? Well, this is the perfect article for you because that'sRaspberryTips
This article is based on Fred Moltz’s talk at A11yNYC. Nine years ago, Fred Moltz started Verizon’s accessibility program. He built it from the ground up, which helped him evolve into a disability advocate and champion.Equal Entry
In this episode, I give some very basic information about the audio editing software Reaper. I show where to download the software, find the plug in that is essential for using Reaper with a screen…Desiree Renae's Website
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I think my favorite Trump nickname is still Fibberachi.