An Algorithm Deemed This Nearly Blind 70-Year-Old Prisoner a “Moderate Risk.” Now He’s No Longer Eligible for Parole.
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A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release. Civil rights attorneys say it could disproportionately harm Black people — and may even be unconstitutional.
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#News #Louisiana #Prison #CriminalJustice #CivilRights #Technology #Law
Was asked to provide a “DEI harder” v-neck womens t-shirt, so here it is
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Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems.Zoom Video
: The 1990s called – they're impressedLiam Proven (The Register)
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Washington/Peking - Celková celní zátěž čínského dovozu do USA teď činí 145 procent. Bílý dům to potvrdil televizi CNBC. Prezident Donald Trump ve středu na síti Truth Social oznámil, že clo na čínský dovoz navyšuje na 125 procent.ČTK
The March 2025 Android Progress is out! In our latest update, we have:
* news on team changes (including some new iOS hires!)
* our roadmap board
* account drawer improvements
* community contribution highlights and
* an easy way to get involved!
#Thunderbird #Android #OpenSource
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This month, we cover recent changes to our team, our roadmap board on GitHub, and contributing via triaging GitHub Issues.Philipp Kewisch (The Thunderbird Blog)
News, previews, and guides from the Thunderbird TeamThe Thunderbird Blog
If you are using BlueSky besides the Fediverse we've created an account there, too:
We'll still use Mastodon to primarily post but I think we will be crossposting to Bluesky in the future :)
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I grew-up as a Christian Pastor’s Kid which surely was a struggle for me. Today I got this text from my dad about him performing his first ever same-sex marriage in his career at the age of 67 years old.
He’s been a minister in the United Methodist Church for over 30 years and I can assure you, this was one of the highlights of his entire 30+ years ministering.
He said, “It was one of the most meaningful things I’ve done.”
Changed hearts are possible! 💕🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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I made that thread from yesterday into a brief post.
“Automated WCAG Testing Is Grrreat!”
adrianroselli.com/2025/04/auto…
I’m a big fan of using automation in WCAG testing. I use bookmarklets, dev tools, browser features & reporting, and a pile of third-party products from assorted vendors. These save me time and effort, letting me focus on more tricky cases.Adrian Roselli
Microsoft have made a boo boo and made a new exploitable security vulnerability in Windows.
If you create the folder c:\inetpub on a Windows PC - possible without admin rights - future security updates (and this months) fail to ever install.. so you can stop OS updates applying.
infosec.exchange/@wdormann/114…
Attached: 3 images @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social @jernej__s Yeah, so this is interesting. I was skeptical, but I can confirm that [KB5057589](https://support.microsoft.Infosec Exchange
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Claude has a new subscription tier called "MAX," but it costs a whopping $200 per month, and users aren't happy with how the company enforces rate limits.
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You don't often see Microsoft mentioned in the same breath as Elton John, Celine Dion, and Chicago, but it just happened. Twice.Paul Thurrott (Thurrott.com)
Xeno-canto is an online database that provides access to wildlife sound recordings and soundscapes from around the world.
Since launching in 2005 with a focus on birds, 🐦 the platform has expanded taxonomic coverage and contains records collected by both professional and citizen scientists. 🔎
Records are made available for publishing through support of #NLBIF.
Explore > 810,000 records on GBIF: 🔗gbif.link/xenocanto
Check out the project: 🔗 xeno-canto.org/
Der Chaos Computer Club ist eine galaktische Gemeinschaft von Lebewesen für Informationsfreiheit und Technikfolgenabschätzung.www.ccc.de
It’s been a busy stretch, but finally sharing my FOSDEM talk from earlier this year. I spoke about Thunderbird’s journey toward a unified, open-source design system that spans desktop and Android — and how designers (and curious contributors) can help shape its future. Check it out if you're into collaborative, scalable design in open-source spaces.
REMINDER: Your resistance goes faster, harder, and further without the use of ableist language. Fascists won't give a fuck, but a whole lot of folk who have been called 'crazy’, ‘insane’, 'stupid’, ‘idiot’, ‘moron’, and so forth hear you every time you do this, and make themselves a little smaller.
The same goes for body-shaming of any kind. It hurts your allies, not your enemies.
Update your vocabulary.
And check for alt text before you post, or boost.
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For this year’s LibreOffice Conference we had two location proposals: Luxembourg and Budapest. Members of The Document Foundation voted to choose the final location, and we can announce that Budapest is the winner.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Today during a meeting it was mentioned that the front-end for Firefox' main source code repository [1] was super slow because of... AI scrapers! Surprise surprise! The team had to go through quite a bit of effort to curb the traffic. Also, can you think of something more stupid than scraping sources hosted in a version control system by scraping the web front-end?
[1] hg.mozilla.org/
Amazon announced that it would use AI to help farmers in Aragon, Spain use water more efficiently.
That's the same Amazon that is using huge quantities of water for its data centers in Aragon, Spain
The same super-secretive Amazon that does its very best to hide its water usage figures from the public.
Welcome to the world of Big Tech: grifters, con artists and scammers. Mafia-like thugs who swear local governments to silence.
Follow:
@tunubesecamirio
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Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continentsLuke Barratt (The Guardian)
Major European news sites start talking about the trend to #deGoogle and to #BuyEuropean 💪
Thanks, Markus Böhm and Dennis Hoogeveen, for the mentions. ❤️
Read the full articles:
👉 spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpoliti…
👉 nos.nl/artikel/2562279-klanten…
Es geht ihnen um Trump, Musk oder Bezos, um Datensicherheit oder die Stärkung der heimischen Wirtschaft: Viele Europäer würden sich gern von Techdiensten aus den USA lösen. Zehn niedrigschwellige Ideen für jede und jeden.Markus Böhm (DER SPIEGEL)
neither EU tech is trustworthy because of the chat control spyware bill. Regardless where the software is coming from, it must be fully FOSS.
So the term we are looking at is de-gafaming, not just de-googleing.
I'm hiring a PhD student in Copenhagen, Denmark to do #HCI research on #privacy and #interoperability in messaging apps!
This is a fully funded 3-year position in the Copenhagen campus of Aalborg University. The student will join my project "mInt" (for "messaging interoperability" ;)) and will be co-supervised by me and @nielsvanberkel .
More info and application form here: stillinger.aau.dk/phd-stilling…. Deadline is May 18.
#hci #interoperability #messaging #dma #phd
The PhD position is supported by the project mInt: Human-centered design principles for effective management of social boundaries in interoperable t...Aalborg Universitet
Now that I got #xmpp concepts and I know how this works, I found a good reason to think that #profanity is not good enoght, the reason is on the picture.
Basically I can't fetch the previous messages on grupchats something that is required for me.
#xmpp @jabber comunity Do you know about a tui or console app that support this and other usuful XEPs?
A big thank you to Radically Open Security for performing the audit and to @nlnet for funding it.
Radically Open Security has been a long term partner of #Conversations_im ever since they did the first #OMEMO audit back in 2016!
Recent audit: conversations.im/2025_audit_co…
OMEMO audit: conversations.im/omemo/audit.p…
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A recent security audit of #Conversations_im¹ found that wildcard certificate handling didn’t fully comply with the spec.
Conversations was accepting *.a.example for c.b.a.example, even though wildcards are only meant to match a single label.
This issue has been fixed in version 2.18.0, now live on Google Play.
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Note: the following are my personal opinions, and should not necessarily be taken as the opinion of my employer.Back in the day, when I was a larval teenaged geek, one of the first projects I ever created was called mircspeech.stuff.interfree.ca
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raw (right) vs JPEG (left). It's all in the software. The JPEG is SooC derived from the raw. X-Pro1 Velvia.
(the crop isn't even identical)
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Open-source LLM fine-tuning for Llama 4, Phi 4, Gemma 3, Mistral and more! Beginner friendly. Get faster with Unsloth.Unsloth - Open source Fine-tuning for LLMs
I'm super excited to have Ben Ritner from KadenceWP joining me live on YouTube tomorrow to talk about building accessible websites with Kadence. Tune in at 3 PM central. #WordPress #a11y #accessibility
Join Amber Hinds and special guest Ben Ritner, Sr. Director of Product at StellarWP and the founder of Kadence WP, for a conversation about how to build acce...YouTube
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Some Mexico news:
President Sheinbaum and her lackeys at the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH - an ostensibly autonomous state institution) are battling with the United Nations over disappearances. The UN says disappearances in Mexico are "generalized and systemic." With no sense of irony, or apparent grasp on reality, the CNDH replied that, "We reject that Mexico is experiencing a crisis of disappearances and more so reject that these are the result of State policy." They then ramble on about foreign meddling making things worse. Apparently 124,000 disappeared since 2006 is something that just happens?
jornada.com.mx/2025/04/07/poli…
In an incident causing widespread indignation, on Saturday afternoon, a poorly built structure collapsed in strong winds at the international AXE Ceremonia Festival in Mexico City, killing two photojournalists. That was at 5:30pm. The show continued until 2am with no interruption.
The festival was to proceed on Sunday and authorities said they would close the venue after the festival ended. In response to outrage over the deaths and refusals by artists, including mi querido Ed Maverick, to perform as if nothing happened, they finally cancelled the remainder of the event.
"It was not an accident, it was negligence," say the journalists' union.
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Descarta que esas ausencias sean consecuencia de una política de Estado, como señaló la ONUDEMOS, Desarrollo de Medios, S.A. de C.V. (La Jornada)
The Mexican government's battle with reality and the United Nations continued today with the Senate passing a resolution demanding the UN remove Olivier de Frouville from his post as head of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances for daring to propose that disappearances in Mexico occur in a "generalized or systemic manner."
Apparently what forces the State's hand is when some UN functionary says something approximating the truth.
Apparently they can't be bothered with the 124,000 disappeared, the extermination camp discovered in Jalisco last month, or their own vapid promises to take action after the fact.
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El presidente del CED incluyó en su declaración el grave señalamiento, sin sustento alguno, de que hay desapariciones forzadas en México, argumentando la temeridad de que éstas son generalizadas y sistémicas, expresó Gerardo Fernández Noroña.Andrea Becerril y Georgina Saldierna (La Jornada)
Taking to the internet to share my experiences of living as a disabled person naturally involves a lot of advocacy. But I haven’t always been a confident advocate, so I’m sharing my story of how I changed that.Holly (Life of a Blind Girl)
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