“Hundreds of protesters, including students, professors & even the mayor of Cambridge, braved the cold to protest against the Trump administration’s threat to cut Harvard’s funding. At a packed park in Cambridge, Mass., they called on the university to lead the charge against the government’s crackdown on higher education.”
“‘Harvard possesses not just the resources to withstand the pressure,” said Mayor Denise Simmons, “but the moral obligation to do so.’” #resist nytimes.com/2025/04/12/us/poli…

“Slopsquatting” in a nutshell:

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_…

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This is just awesome! Interviews with singers and songwriters and I guess producers. And all free to download. Just ... wow!

citizen-dj.labs.loc.gov/loc-jo…

Vispero software prices have increased.

JAWS Home Annual
JAWS Home Annual
Regular price$104.50
ZoomText Magnifier/Reader Home Annual
Regular price$93.50

Fusion Home Annual
Regular price$187
JAWS
JAWS Home Perpetual License with SMA
Regular price$1,548
ZoomText
ZoomText Magnifier/Reader Perpetual License with SMA
Regular price$1,232
ZoomText
ZoomText Magnifier Perpetual License with SMA
Regular price$885
OpenBook
OpenBook Perpetual License
Regular price$1,100

store.freedomscientific.com/co…

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If you want to learn how to edit audio, how to mix, how to change your voice, how to create and arrange sound effects, my DMs are open. I've been working professionally in audio since 2017 and one of my favourite things to do is teach, to help other people achieve their goals, whether audio is a means to an end or the end itself. Get in touch. Let's talk!

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"Generators like xAI's emit huge amounts of nitrogen dioxide, a highly reactive gas which causes irreversible respiratory damage over time. And that's before you consider its effects on the ozone layer, or its contribution to acid rain, smog, and nutrient pollution in local soil and waterways. With 35 generators now chugging along, that's a whole chorus of turbines spewing the toxic gas into low-income, minority-led communities 24/7."

futurism.com/elon-musk-memphis…

„However for all creators or potential creators, I will say again: leaving Substack behind is probably a better idea than staying no matter your circumstance, and it is easier than I thought it would be, and it costs less than I feared it would.“ — A.R. Moxon

mastodon.social/@JuliusGoat/11…

#substack #ghost #newsletter #monetisation

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We're looking for an experienced open source developer and designer to support our team in building a platform-native web browser for Linux, using GTK and libadwaita: kagi.peopleforce.io/careers/v/…

Here's why you might enjoy working at Kagi: help.kagi.com/kagi/company/hir…

#Kagi #FediHire #Remote #Linux

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The summary blogpost about the 2023/2024 GNOME STF Project @AdrianVovk and I have been working on for quite a while is finally out 🤓📖

It's looooong, but that's a good thing, there's *so* much good stuff that was done as part of this over the past year.

Shoutout to @sonny, thanks to whom all of this was possible!

blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2025/…

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In case you missed it, there are Mastodon apps for retro computers from the 1980s & 90s

:apple_old_logo: Apple II
colino.net/wordpress/en/mastod…

:apple_old_logo: Apple Macintosh (pre-OS X)
github.com/smallsco/macstodon

:commodore: Commodore 64
github.com/Havoc6502/MOStodon

:amiga: Commodore Amiga
github.com/BlitterStudio/amido…

:ms_dos: MS-DOS
github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon

:IBM: MVS
github.com/mainframed/BREXXTOD…

:Palm_OS: Palm OS
github.com/knickish/heffalump

:windows95: Windows 95
github.com/meyskens/mastodon-f…

#Mastodon #RetroComputing

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Such a great read about the letter exchanges between Oliver Sax and the lady who ended up being known as Stereo Sue! :) #literature #psychology #neurology audible.com/pd/B0CVJ7LN82?sour…

@bagder You've might already heard about Microsoft's security copilot detecting actual vulnerabilities in grub, uboot etc.

microsoft.com/en-us/security/b…

Have the ai "bug" reports improved over at curl or not?

Microsoft Windows Recall is not mandatory (yet) but starts in the background by default. It can be turned off by typing the following commands with admin rights:

DISM /Online /Get-Featureinfo /Featurename:Recall

DISM /Online /Disable-Feature /Featurename:Recall

This is for your info. It is upto you whether to disable or keep it running. "Recall" refers to the controversial AI-powered feature for Copilot+ PCs. This feature takes periodic screenshots of your screen including everything you type

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Three men died in a car accident and found themselves at the Pearly Gates, where Jesus welcomed them personally.

He said, “To enter Heaven, I’ll ask each of you one question. Tell the truth, and you’re in. But if you lie… well, you know where you’re headed.”

He turned to the first man.
“How many times did you cheat on your wife?”

The man stood up proudly and said,
“Lord, never. I was completely faithful my whole life.”

Jesus smiled. “Well done, my son. For your loyalty, you’ll get a mansion and a limousine to enjoy eternity.”

Then He turned to the second man.
“And you?”

The man looked sheepish. “Uh… twice, Lord. I messed up.”

Jesus nodded. “At least you were honest. You’ll get a nice four-bedroom house and a BMW.”

Finally, He looked at the third man.
“And you?”

The third man sighed and confessed,
“Eight times, Lord… maybe more. I lost count.”

Jesus raised an eyebrow but said, “You’re forgiven. But your heavenly home will be a studio apartment, and your ride? A Yugo.”

A few hours later, the second and third men saw the first man—the one with the mansion and limo—sitting on a cloud, crying.

“What’s wrong?” they asked. “You got the best deal!”

He wiped his tears and said,
“I just saw my wife go by… on a skateboard.”

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We're finally able to work on the default mail app for iOS - because of journalists from Heise, TechRadar, and Cyberinsider.

❤️ Thanks for this great reporting and for supporting our fight against Big Tech dominance. ❤️

👉 heise.de/news/E-Mail-Firma-Tut…

👉 techradar.com/computing/cyber-…

👉 cyberinsider.com/tuta-mail-fil…

Apparently, all RSS readers are banned on Google Play:

Google added some restrictions to news app and I don’t see how Flym (and other RSS aggregators) could comply to that. For instance, Flym cannot provide a “valid and verifiable contact information” for the feed, nor it can assure that “each of the sources must meet News policy requirements”.

As of today, Flym updates on Play Store are blocked by Google. So I have archived this project in order to clearly show that I won’t maintain it anymore. I’m not aware of any official way of publishing an RSS client on PlayStore and do not have motivation to argue with Google.


github.com/FredJul/Flym

Just one more argument against ever using Google Play.

Very early #OnThisDay, 12 Apr 1944, Odette Wilen parachutes into France to work as a wireless operator for the British Special Operations Executive. The SOE supports the French resistance.

Wireless operators were at the greatest risk of discovery, as their position could be triangulated whenever they were transmitting messages back to London.

Wilen evades capture by minutes and escapes over the Pyrenees. She lives until 2015.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

The left shift key of my laptop has been acting erratically (it keeps registering as being active for ~1s after being released [1]). I tried cleaning the key today with alcohol but no change in behavior. Anything else I should try (besides learning to just use the right shift key 🙈)?

[1] before I actually noticed what was going on this was driving me completely insane when trying to enter my passwords

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Lucasfilm Announces New Darth Vader Novel, ‘Star Wars: Master of Evil,’ and More Publishing Updates starwarsnewsnet.com/2025/04/lu…

Just finished 15.5 km in the #Beskydy mountains. The longest run of my life. Not bad considering I started pretty much from scratch in winter. But the photos before and after the run speak for themselves. 😅

#run #running #TrailRunning

connect.garmin.com/modern/acti…

It is already fifteen years now since I started "debating" about cookie spec details. So many lost battles...

This blog post from 2010 is about ordering of cookies in HTTP headers.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2010/04/12…

Are ther any #persian speakers on Mastodon who can help tell me if github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro… looks correct at all?

I have no experience with the language, barely know what it's supposed to look like, so I can't tell 😅

Thanks in advance for anyone willing to take a minute to look!

#persia #catima #i18n #mastohelp

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A friend told me it looked like it wasn't RTL correctly. So after some tweaking (and replacing ImageMagick by Inkscape for PNG generation as ImageMagick was ignoring RTL) I ended up getting a decent enough fix I think: github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

I can't judge if it's correct, but it looks better and fairly consistent with the translation file. So as long as the translator translated correctly this *might* be okay?

So I'm going to guess this is resolved :)