This Week in Matrix 2025-05-09
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsMTRNord (matrix.org)
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsMTRNord (matrix.org)
Millions of Canadians' health data available for sale to pharmaceutical industry, study shows
cbc.ca/news/health/health-data…
If only we have had decades of Govt that cared about privacy. Instead they focused on protecting cartels.
Getting keyboard accessibility right is essential for building inclusive digital experiences, but it can be hard to know where to start.
In this Foundations post on Keyboard Accessibility, Accessibility Specialist Demelza Feltham breaks down the foundations of keyboard accessibility, offering practical tips and examples to help you design and build interfaces that work for everyone.
Read it on the TetraLogical blog at: tetralogical.com/blog/2025/05/…
By prioritising semantic HTML and offering keyboard-friendly alternatives for complex interactions, you help create a more inclusive experience for people who use a keyboard.TetraLogical
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Slides and transcript from my talk, "Anatomy of a Database Operation", at DjangoCon Europe in Dublin on 25 April 2025. I'll ...Karen Jex (Blogger)
016c362e95d96e129374b07258b246bc2412c526 seemingly from d16d199d from 15 years ago causes errors when git...GitLab
no lebo spáchal trestný čin. Že nie je nebezpečný znamená že nie je agresívny.
edit: vo väzení sa učia dennímu režimu, chodiť do práce, starať sa o seba, učiť atd. v domácom väzení by si tie návyky pravdepodobne nevybudoval.
What on earth, SoundCloud??
"In the absence of a separate agreement that states otherwise, You explicitly agree that your Content may be used to inform, train, develop or serve as input to artificial intelligence or machine intelligence technologies or services as part of and for providing the services."
via @sarahdal crispsandwi.ch/@sarahdal/11447…
#soundcloud #AI #copyright #musicians #AITraining
SoundCloud new T&Cs - your uploaded music will be used to train AI https://soundcloud.com/terms-of-use from https://bsky.app/profile/theflightmusic.bsky.social/post/3loqazjjayk2ucrispsandwi.ch 🥪🐘
Now I'm spending my morning talking to an "AI-powered chatbot", trying to get in touch with a human to opt out of having my work be used to train AI.
Happy Friday, we live in the future!
What a week => lists.haxx.se/pipermail/daniel…
Mastodon, curl up, curlinfo, tpm2, rc1, AI, curlx, meta hash
So, I'm about to try Slint! Thanks to @JessDail for reminding me about it. Except this time I'm going to try it in a VM because I do not want a repeat of the Fedora incident from a week ago. Ugh.
GNOME Welcomes Its Google Summer of Code 2025 Contributors!
We are happy to announce that five contributors are joining the GNOME community as part of GSoC 2025!
This year’s contributors will work on backend isolation in GNOME Papers, adding eBPF profiling to Sysprof, adding printing support in GNOME Crosswords, and Vala’s XML/JSON/YAML integration improvements. Let’s give them a warm welcome!
In the coming days, our new contributors will begin onboarding in our community channels and services. Stay tuned to Planet GNOME to read their introduction blog posts and learn more about their projects.
If you want to learn more about Google Summer of Code internships with GNOME, visit gsoc.gnome.org.
New in Foobar2000 for Mac V2.25 preview: "Added keyboard shortcut mapping functionality."
Yeeees!!!! This is what I've been waiting for for ages. The Mac version received everything else I used, and behaves very similarly and runs just as quickly as the Windows version, but literal 0 support for hotkeys was a dealbreaker. It goes without saying that, like the Windows version you need to go in and set up the keys yourself and at least for this initial preview there is absolutely no default hotkeys defined where the Windows one at least has some menu items configured. It also currently doesn't support global shortcuts or hotkeys without a modifier so sadly still no space to play or pause for me. Even then this is a huge improvement and I can actually see myself using this as my default player now also on Mac. You can download from here
CC @masonasons think you were also waiting for this.
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Servo Report Week 17 & 18 2025
Highlights from last 2 weeks:
- servoshell: Make list of options in <select> prompt scrollable
- Initial support for marking custom protocol secure
- layout: Implement `justify-self` for block-level boxes
- Implement `ShadowRoot::setHTMLUnsafe`
- Start adding support for transforms in readable and writable streams
- Continued work on Trusted Types & DevTools improvements
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You can help support Servo, an independent web browser engine, and the health of the web ecosystem by donating:
github.com/sponsors/servo
opencollective.com/servo
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Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.GitHub
1 Meme sagt mehr als 1000 Worte. Oder, Conny?
Wir sind nächsten Freitag in Sachen Aufklärung über Open-Source-Software-Alternativen auf der Digitalen Woche Kiel unterwegs - von Office-Anwendungen über Clouddienste (Nextcloud) bis zum Betriebssystem (Linux).
Wir freuen uns über alle, die sich aufschlauen möchten oder noch weitere Tipps für #OSS-Tools in der Tasche haben.
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Did you see this? It's an artist's conception of how gravity from the tiny moon Daphnis creates ripples in Saturn's rings - created by Kevin Gill of NASA.
This image was pretty popular here, and elsewhere on the web - but people often don't come out and say from the start that it's not a photo. The actual photos are less beautiful but... hey, they're real! And the ripples look different in the photos. Let's take a look.
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This 2005 photo, taken by the Cassini probe, was the first time anyone actually saw Saturn's moon Daphnis! It's only 8 kilometers across.
This gap in Saturn's A ring was first discovered by Voyager, and it was named the Keeler Gap. It's 35 kilometers wide. I guess this gap let people guess the existence of a moon, and later the ripples in the A ring let people guess where the moon must be! I don't really know the history here.
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On May 1st, 2005, the Open Document Format (ODF) become an OASIS standard. One year after, it became an ISO/IEC standard.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
TableEx is a unique and inclusive mobile game designed specifically to bring the enjoyment of classic board and card games to blind users. It achieves thisAccessible Android
Salt Typhoon cyberattacks exposed major flaws in U.S. telecom networks.
Unencrypted SMS, voice, even MFA = compromised..
At Purism, we build secure tech: Isolated baseband radios Post-Quantum Crypto Decentralized apps Private LTE
puri.sm/posts/why-the-salt-typ…
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
#PSA Heads up: Soundcloud will use your content to train AI
ETA: Lovely news! The change to SoundCloud's terms of service happened in February 2024; they've been stealing your intellectual property for a whole-ass year.
futurism.com/soundcloud-ai-ter…
#ArtificialIntelligence #GenAI #SoundCloud
SoundCloud, a music-sharing platform loved by new and independent artists, updated its terms to allow it to use artists' work for AI training.Maggie Harrison Dupré (Futurism)
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Subscribe to my weekly emails where I sum up what I did this week and what I plan to do next week: lists.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo…
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@manchicken not particularly in this context, no. Since a while back I do send out a monthly email on the libcurl mailing list titled "Help us out in the curl project!" which tend to mention different things. Here's the latest one I sent:
curl.se/mail/lib-2025-04/0041.…
There is also this general page: curl.se/docs/help-us.html
Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Here’s a fun one… Microsoft added copilot features to sharepoint. The copilot system has its own set of access controls. The access controls let it see things that normal users might not be able to see. Normal users can then just ask copilot to tell them the contents of the files and pages that they can’t see themselves. Luckily, no business would ever put sensitive information in their sharepoint system, so this isn’t a realistic threat, haha.
Obviously Microsoft have significant resources to research and fix the security problems that LLM integration will bring with it. So much money. So many experts. Plenty of time to think about the issues since the first recall debacle.
And this is what they’ve accomplished.
pentestpartners.com/security-b…
TL;DR AI Assistants are becoming far more common Copilot for SharePoint is Microsoft’s answer to generative AI assistance on SharePoint Attackers will look to exploit anything they can get their hands on Your current controls and logging may be insuf…Jack Barradell-Johns (Pen Test Partners)
In de zoektocht naar het terugdringen van de (winter)sterfte onder honingbijen waagt het Belgische biotechbedrijf Apix Biosciences zijn kans met een stuifmeelvervanger.
Maar deze nieuwe technofix doet niets aan de kern van het probleem: “Bijen hebben nood aan meer onbespoten bloemen”.
apache.be/2025/05/09/honingbij…
De aandacht voor een nieuwe technofix leidt af van de ware oorzaken van bijensterfte.apache.be
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F4 Map is a WebGL 3D Map Viewer based on OpenStreetMap dataF4map Demo - Interactive 3D map
General Activities Olivier Hallot (TDF) fixed displaying help for a particular module from the command line, updated help after changes to object boundaries options, improved help on BASIC format codes and added type information to BASIC help pages, …x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
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Cyprus will participate in this year’s online International Low-Vision Song Contest on May 16, with the entry Pyxida, performed by Nicoletta Livadioti and Nikos Demetriou. The public is being encouraged to cast their votes to support the Cypriot duo.cyprus-mail.com
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