“‘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…
Harvard Professors Sue Trump Administration Over Threat to Federal Funds
The administration is reviewing about $9 billion in federal funding that the university receives.Edgar Sandoval (The New York Times)
“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_…
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'Thomas Claburn (The Register)
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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…
Citizen DJ / The Joe Smith Collection
Citizen DJ invites the public to make music using free-to-use audio and video collections. By embedding these materials in hip hop music, listeners can discover items in the library's vast collections that they likely would never have known existed.citizen-dj.labs.loc.gov
Vispero software prices have increased.
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store.freedomscientific.com/co…
Software for Home
US College Students and faculty may qualify for Free Home Access: check your email address. Our powerful accessibility software solutions for home users are available in a subscription-style license, providing you great flexibility in managing your l…Freedom Scientific eStore
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"What comes after world domination?"
Is it puppies? The graphic leads me to believe it's puppies. That would be an excellent outcome.
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Apple’s ‘Mythic Quest’ is ending with an updated Season 4 finale | TechCrunch
“Mythic Quest,” the Apple TV+ workplace comedy about the making of a popular online roleplaying game, is ending after four seasons. A new version of theAnthony Ha (TechCrunch)
"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…
Elon Musk Reportedly Doing Something Horrid to Power His AI Data Center
New footage has found that Musk's xAI, is using 35 methane gas generators to power its "Colossus" supercomputer facility.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
„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
A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆 (@JuliusGoat@mastodon.social)
Hey my reflections on leaving Substack a year ago are on Techdirt. Isn't that neat? https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/11/a-newsletter-writer-reflects-on-leaving-substack/Mastodon
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…
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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!
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In retrospect, I definitely picked the wrong game to test this setup with 
On the plus side, the realism of Stray running at 4K has definitely been approved by committee.
In case you missed it, there are Mastodon apps for retro computers from the 1980s & 90s
Apple II
colino.net/wordpress/en/mastod…
Apple Macintosh (pre-OS X)
github.com/smallsco/macstodon
Commodore 64
github.com/Havoc6502/MOStodon
Commodore Amiga
github.com/BlitterStudio/amido…
MS-DOS
github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon
MVS
github.com/mainframed/BREXXTOD…
Palm OS
github.com/knickish/heffalump
Windows 95
github.com/meyskens/mastodon-f…
GitHub - BlitterStudio/amidon: A Mastodon client for Amiga computers
A Mastodon client for Amiga computers. Contribute to BlitterStudio/amidon development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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#COSMIC is not even out of alpha and there's lots of #accessibility features already available!
There's more work to be done, for sure, but this is a very nice to see!
Dear Oliver
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. To the world, he was Dr. Sacks, the brilliant neurologist behind bestselling books like Musicophilia and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.Audible
@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?
Analyzing open-source bootloaders: Finding vulnerabilities faster with AI | Microsoft Security Blog
Using Microsoft Security Copilot to expedite the discovery process, Microsoft has uncovered several vulnerabilities in multiple open-source bootloaders impacting all operating systems relying on Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boo…Microsoft Threat Intelligence (Microsoft Security Blog)
For visibility:
If you work in cyber I'd be grateful if you could get in touch if (a) your bosses have asked you to keep quiet on social media about the Krebs-SentinelOne affair (b) you know of any cyber or disinfo research that's being suppressed for fear of crossing the administration.
I'm on Signal at: raphaelsatter.01
Reddit post here:
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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The most important experimental distro you've never heard of gets new project lead
: Plus a fresh version ... nine years after its lastLiam Proven (The Register)
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…
Tuta Mail could soon be your default iOS mail app – but only after filing a complaint against Apple
The encrypted email provider filed the complaint after allegedly waiting for months for a response from the Big Tech firmChiara Castro (TechRadar)
mastodon.social/@verge/1143254…
The Verge (@verge@mastodon.social)
Trump excludes smartphones, computers, chips from tariffs https://www.theverge.com/news/647666/trump-exempts-smartphones-laptops-chips-tariffsMastodon
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.
Just one more argument against ever using Google Play.
GitHub - FredJul/Flym: Flym News Reader is a light Android feed reader (RSS/Atom)
Flym News Reader is a light Android feed reader (RSS/Atom) - FredJul/FlymGitHub
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
If you've ever wanted to hear Time After Time sung in Inuktitut (an Inuit language), have I got a treat for you:
youtube.com/watch?v=jUrLFijCNT…
Elisapie - Taimangalimaaq (Time After Time) (Official Music Video)
Buy or listen to 'Inuktitut' here: https://bonsound.co/inuktitutYTDirector : Philippe LéonardEditor : Omar ElhamyColorist : Béatrice TremblayExecutive produc...YouTube
Pokud by tě takhle drapli někde v obydlené oblasti, někde kde je chodník, křižovatka …. Uff
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
Deluxe Edition of ‘Revenge of the Sith’ Novelization Coming October 14th
A deluxe edition of the novelization of Revenge of the Sith will be coming out on October 14, celebrating the 20 anniversary of the film.Tom Seery (Star Wars News Net)
Lucasfilm Announces New Darth Vader Novel, ‘Star Wars: Master of Evil,’ and More Publishing Updates
Star Wars revealed new tidbits about upcoming publishing releases, including cover art, release dates, and new titles coming to the galaxy.Tom Seery (Star Wars News Net)
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. 😅
connect.garmin.com/modern/acti…
Staré Hamry - Running Camp - sobotní běh
Distance 15,50 km | Time 1:34:33 | Pace 6:06 /km | Elevation 351 mconnect.garmin.com
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…
curl and speced cookie order
I just posted this on the curl-library list, but I feel it suits to be mentioned here separately. As I've mentioned before, I'm involved in the IETF http-state working group which is working to document how cookies are used in the wild today.daniel.haxx.se
It was super fun discovering that for example Python SimpleCookie just silently drops the Partitioned keyword since it's not a known standard cookie argument. (Fixed in 3.14 I think)
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
Update feature graphic by github-actions[bot] · Pull Request #2434 · CatimaLoyalty/Android
Automated changes by create-pull-request GitHub actionGitHub
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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 :)
#catima was in an shop window exhibition in Meissen, germany, 07 2023
and is in an exhibition in Zwickau, germany, since 09 2023
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