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@simon In your recent blog post with your updated LLM pricing table (simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/10/…), I wonder why the table is an image and not an HTML table. You did provide alt text, but an actual HTML table, which can be navigated with specific screen reader commands, would be better.

LLM pricing calculator (updated)

I [updated](https://github.com/simonw/tools/commit/07c91d8b4fd31f4d460e6b0cd9c225af7e211112) my LLM pricing calculator this morning ([Claude transcript](https://claude.
Simon Willison’s Weblog
@Simon Willison

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Gajim 2.1.0 has been released 🥳

This release brings an all-new activity feed and adds support for Message Displayed Synchronization across group chats.

Thank you for all your contributions! ❤️

Support Gajim's development: liberapay.com/Gajim

#gajim #xmpp #chat

gajim.org/post/2025-04-08-gaji…

Gajim's main window showing the new activity feed

Gajim's profile - Liberapay

Gajim is a fully-featured XMPP client.
Liberapay
#xmpp #chat #gajim

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Every single person on this platform needs a refresher:
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Calling in is a technique that does allow all parties to move forward. It’s a concept created by human-rights practitioners to challenge the toxicity of call-out culture. Calling in is speaking up without tearing down. A call-in can happen publicly or privately, but its key feature is that it’s done with love. Instead of shaming someone who’s made a mistake, we can patiently ask questions to explore what was going on and why the speaker chose their harmful language.

Call-ins are agreements between people who work together to consciously help each other expand their perspectives. They encourage us to recognize our requirements for growth, to admit our mistakes and to commit to doing better. Calling in cannot minimize harm and trauma already inflicted, but it can get to the root of why the injury occurred, and it can stop it from happening again
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learningforjustice.org/magazin…#callingIn


Speaking Up Without Tearing Down

A veteran human rights educator explains the value of teaching students to call each other in rather than out.
Learning for Justice
#callingin

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I've put all of my uBlock Origin additions into this gist:

gist.github.com/mhoye/dcc2c2fe…

It causes mild inconvenience on Google properties, and breaks Twitter and Facebook entirely which I consider a net benefit.

Beyond that: the web snaps into place for me. It's _fast._ Even on slow machines or ancient hardware. The web is insanely fast, if you cut out the sludge.

Works with Firefox+uBlockOrigin. If you're using Chrome or Safari, you should probably do something about that.

Feedback is welcome.


uBlock Origin Bonus Content

uBlock Origin Bonus Content. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Gist
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besides being useful, this is impressive, I can't even imagine how much time this took to put together. hackers.town/@lori/11430992838…

lori

2025-04-09 20:38:04

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Alright I've done it--here's a large collection of short beeps and boops from different video games suitable for using for notification sounds for your phone or whatever else. Over 500 tiny noises curated by me that aren't too long or too horrible to hear beeped at you all day. Enjoy!

d-shoot.net/files/Game_Notific…


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Dickson Tan

I also use Miniflux as my feed reader of choice, its easily one of my most used applications.

How does kubo work? Is it similar to Dropbox? For file syncing and sharing links to other people, I use Seafile.

For uptime monitoring, I use Gatus. I like that it uses YAML to configure various endpoints, which is faster than having to use a GUI that may or may not work.

I've been looking for a notes solution, how's Joplin's accessibility?

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Dickson Tan

Seafile offers an app called Seadrive that you can download which integrates with explorer. The integration adds a seadrive submenu, one of which lets you generate direct links to files. Anyone that has the link doesn't need to install anything to download the file.

For cross-platform syncing, I would use Syncthing, except that it doesn't work on iOS. Hence why I'm still on Seafile for stuff like ensuring my KeePass database is available to all my devices.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

@neurrone Unfortunately I just use iCloud for syncing stuff to IOS. I'm part of an iCloud family, so there isn't really any cheaper option. What I mean about being intentional with sharing is: I don't really want explorer intigration. If I share a random file, now I have to remember that file is shared, and never move/change/delete it. If I upload a file to sharry, I can make the link expire in a month or a year or whatever, and then forget about it. I know the person gets there file, the file will get deleted to free up server space at a reasonable time, and if I want to update it, I can give them a new link, rather than modifying it, and then suddenly realizing I'm sharing modifications that I didn't intend to share yet.
@Dickson Tan

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Egg prices continue to increase despite bird flu outbreak slowing
https://apnews.com/article/egg-prices-bird-flu-cpi-b0ded420e9f7c0a707277c9c63396a76?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-AssociatedPress


Egg prices increase to record high despite Trump's predictions and bird flu outbreak slowing

U.S. egg prices increased again last month to reach a new record-high of $6.23 per dozen despite President Donald Trump’s predictions, a drop in wholesale prices and no egg farms having bird flu outbreaks.
Josh Funk (AP News)
@U.S. News

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"What #Trump demonstrates here is not a strategy but a mental illness. I’m not the first to observe the striking resemblance between Trump’s governing style, particularly on #tariffs, and Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another, more commonly known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy. It involves either pretending that a child is sick or inducing sickness so that you can luxuriate in restoring the child to health."
newrepublic.com/article/193834…

The Sick Psychology Behind Trump’s Tariff Chaos

This isn’t trade strategy. It’s Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
The New Republic
#Trump #tariffs

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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.
propublica.org/article/tiger-a…

#News #Louisiana #Prison #CriminalJustice #CivilRights #Technology #Law


TIGER, the Algorithm Banning Louisiana Prisoners from Parole

ProPublica
#technology #News #law #civilrights #criminaljustice #louisiana #prison

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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

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/04/t…


Thunderbird for Android March 2025 Progress Report - The Thunderbird Blog

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)
#android #opensource #thunderbird

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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! 💕🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#lgbtqia #queer #trans #lgbtq

Text message bubble with black background and a heart expressing love for the text. The text says, “ thought I’d share something really special. I was able to do this afternoon. I hoped two things would happen before I retire. First, that my denomination would remove the harmful language around LGBTQIA+ persons. Check, that happened last May. Second, I hoped I’d have the opportunity to officiate a same-sex marriage. Check, that’s what happened this afternoon. I had the privilege to marry two women a 79 and 83 year-old.
#trans #lgbtqia #queer #LGBTQ

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I made that thread from yesterday into a brief post.

“Automated WCAG Testing Is Grrreat!”
adrianroselli.com/2025/04/auto…

#accessibility #a11y


Automated WCAG Testing Is Grrreat!

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
#a11y #Accessibility

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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…


Will Dormann (@wdormann@infosec.exchange)

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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Microsoft Has Been Inducted Into the National Recording Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress thurrott.com/microsoft/319570/…

Microsoft Has Been Inducted Into the National Recording Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress - Thurrott.com

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)

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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/

two birds in flight

Search

Search for datasets in Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Free and Open Access to Biodiversity Data.
gbif.link
#nlbif

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Der Überwachungskatalog im Koalitionsvertrag: Wem diese Liste keine schlechte Laune macht, dem ist nicht zu helfen. Das Recht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung soll zum Treppenwitz werden. ccc.de/de/updates/2025/ueberwa…
chaosknoten

CCC | CCC fordert Notbremse für den Überwachungskatalog im Koalitionsvertrag

Der Chaos Computer Club ist eine galaktische Gemeinschaft von Lebewesen für Informationsfreiheit und Technikfolgenabschätzung.
www.ccc.de

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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.

fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event…


FOSDEM 2025 - Thunderbird: Building a Cross-Platform, Scalable Open-Source Design System

fosdem.org

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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.

#Accessibility #AltText

An A4-sized poster, black capital letters on a white background; MY RESISTANCE WILL BE ACCESSIBLE, OR IT WILL BE BULLSHIT. Paraphrased from the original by Flavia Dzodan, which stated ‘My feminism will be intersectional, or it will be bullshit’.
#Accessibility #AltText

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Recognise the picture? This year's LibreOffice Conference 2025 will take place in Budapest! Thanks to our members for voting for the location: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
Photo of Budapest on the river

LibreOffice Conference 2025 will take place in Budapest - The Document Foundation Blog

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)
#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource

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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/

hg.mozilla.org index

hg.mozilla.org repository index
hg.mozilla.org

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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

theguardian.com/environment/20…


Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas

Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents
Luke Barratt (The Guardian)
@Tu nube seca mi río
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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…

Abstracts from NOS and Der Spiegerl about deGoogling and Buying European

Bei Streaming, E-Mail, Onlineshoppen: Zehn einfache Schritte zu mehr Unabhängigkeit von US-Technik

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)
#degoogle #buyeuropean

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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


PhD Stipend in Human-Computer Interaction Principles for Messaging Interoperability

The PhD position is supported by the project mInt:  Human-centered design principles for effective management of social boundaries in interoperable t...
Aalborg Universitet
#privacy #dma #interoperability #hci #phd #messaging @Niels van Berkel
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