I was originally investigating this report that Postman is not HIPAA compliant. I found that Postman is not just wholly unsuitable for anyone testing a healthcare application — it has virtually zero…
The Gemini app for iOS is being updated with extra AI smarts, including a better-performing Gemini 2.5 Flash and a new Gemini Live camera. appleinsider.com/articles/25/0…
Lots of people say this guy paying this OF model $35k is fake, but I know for a fact on another cam site there were customers that would drop 100k a month and even 10k a day on models
@black6 there are a lot of rich single men out there who are glued to their screens and have nothing better to do. No job, no responsibilities, and probably pretty poor social skills
Lyria 2 is our latest music generation model. It delivers high-fidelity music and professional-grade audio, across a range of genres and intricate compositions.
You can try the realtime version now in AI Studio. I'll be taking a look at it later today and if I can download the output will share here of course. Google's new TTS model just came out yesterday as well and sounds great, you can control how the model says what you type. For example, you could ask it to read in a really happy sounding voice or have it sound verry neutral with little expression.
In case you have also been wondering, we possess the technology of REFILLABLE SQUEEZE TUBES but nobody on the fucking planet seems to use them except massage therapists
Ever wondered about what MZLA is, how it relates to Thunderbird, and how it works with (but is different from) Mozilla and the Mozilla Corporation? Curious about how we work with the Thunderbird Council, our community governance? Want to know more about our future plans, including the mobile apps, Thundermail, and Thunderbird Pro? Check out the newest Community Office Hours with Director Ryan Sipes answering these questions and more.
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V tomto blogpostu jsem si pro vás připravil praktické tipy na to, jak lépe chránit své soukromí na mobilním telefonu: od operačního systému, přes prohlížeč až po VPN.
Softwarové klávesnice v mobilu jsou něco, co jsem doteď vůbec neřešil. Používal jsem to, co bylo na daném telefonu jako výchozí. Nicméně když si uvědomíte, že přes ně jde vše, co na mobilu napíšete, rozhodně stojí za trochu pozornosti.
to by mnohé vysvětlilo, no musím přiznat že od tě doby co mam iPhone se mi to nedeje. Jestli něco putuje do Apple netuším, ale stoprocentně to neprodává dále.
Enjoy writing fiction in Markdown, and prefer keeping ownership of your files in the filesystem, but still want beautiful ePub3 ebooks and paperback output? Your uncle Matt feels the same way!
I created a configuration and example project for pandoc, the fab #FOSS markup converter, to produce beautiful novels from your folders full of Markdown files. Lots of booky, novel-y, typographical/layout niceness. I'll be using this with #emacs. 💜
With your permission, I'm going to take this to the Braillists Foundation (braillists.org). Braille files are currently using a format that's more convention than standard, largely unmodified since 2993. There's a modern spec under production, but support for hardware lags heavily due to the low volumes of production and ridiculous price point of Braille equipment to the general consumer. Pandoc is already in use within the Braille community. Some sort of Braille output added to your cool tool would be an excellent interim step for us, I think.
I literally just made a bootable live cd for nixos to boot into a browser on a whim for a test. I had 0 knowledge of this 10 minutes ago and 5 of those minutes was writing the iso to the usb stick. Nix surprises me again. And you can make any type of image you want... digitalocean, ec2, hyperv, vmware, etc. Its nuts: github.com/nix-community/nixos…
well that answers that, Andy's got his next title sorted.
[Sadly, you will never be able to read Andy Weir's 'The Last Algorithm,' one of multiple non-existent books recommended by the Chicago Sun-Times in major AI snafu | Popverse](thepopverse.com/literary-recom…)
The Sun-Times has just offered the best argument against using generative AI in journalism, publishing a recommended summer reading list filled with books that aren't actually real.
Wait a minute! I see the home sub for JAWS has jumped in price to $674? What the fuck! I purchased my sub in June. Am I going to be billed almost $700 to renew? If so, bye-bye JAWS! I was willing to pay the $104, but damn near $700? No way! | JAWS Home Subscription – Freedom Scientific eStore store.freedomscientific.com/pr…store.freedomscientific.com/co…
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Over the past few weeks, the team has been hard at work improving stability, fixing bugs, and rolling out some exciting new features, both in the core and across all platforms.
Welcome to this new Jami development update! Over the past few weeks, we've focused on stability, maintenance, and some key feature improvements across both the core and platform-specific components. Let’s dive into what’s new.
After firing 700 employees for AI, Swedish company admits their mistake and plans to rehire humans. What went wrong with OpenAI + Klarna parnership? Despite initial optimism, the company has now acknowledged that the shift to AI has negatively impacted service quality and faced major public backlash for using AI finance.yahoo.com/news/firing-… The CEO want human workers back and looking for humans to replace those AI tools powered by shity OpenAI.
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Kids, you would hate it. You would feel so alone, you'd never find your 'tribe', you'd feel like you would have to conform with what everyone else would be doing and there would be little outlet for you to complain about that.
I was a kid without Internet, the problem isn't the Internet, it's the Nazi Peados who control it. The Tech Bros, the Governments, those wankers.
These sort of mails are like coke to indie developers. That's a huge boost to the morale. (Also, thank you for the existence of curl. Did I mention that curl was one of the first programs I cross-compiled for iOS? just because that's the basis for building a terminal: you need to be able to download stuff. Before that there was "ls", because you need to check that the download worked...)
Seeing this reminded me that it's used in Xenoblade X DE (probably the original too, but didn't check the legal notices) as well. Thank you so much for making it.
Every six months, we release a new major update to #LibreOffice. And our community is working on LibreOffice 25.8, which is due in August. Help to test the first Alpha development snapshot: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #OpenSource
LibreOffice 25.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.8 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 25.8 started at the beginning of December, 2024.
- don't know about 25.8, as I'm having no success with installing 25.2.3 (Intel) on my 2017 MacBook Air running Monterey. Just keep getting the window saying it can't install. Even tried Silicon version with (obviously) same result. Tried other mirrors. Same result. Argh. An experiment - downloaded Silicon version onto my M2 Mini and install process opened without issue. Thoughts?
@bazcook So you're definitely downloading the Intel version from the website? (As Apple Silicon is the default CPU choice – there's no way to auto-detect.) Can you post a screenshot of the message you receive when you try to install the Intel version on your 2017 Air?
@bazcook At a loss too – that's not one we've seen before either, "Operation not permitted". Does the same thing happen with any other .dmg files saved in the same place?
- nope. LibreOffice gets to be the first! All app downloads have always been sent to Downloads folder before installation. Started installation from there. And before you ask - tried saving it to Desktop and then installing from there. Same issue. Again, downloading Silicon version onto my M2 Mini (into Download Folder) and it activated the install without issue. Same browser (Firefox) and all other internet / Wi-Fi settings, too.
@bazcook We're absolutely puzzled too. Never seen that before or other reports from users on macOS, I'm afraid. Searching around, we can only find reports of "Operation not permitted" in the terminal or when building .dmg images, not opening. The only other idea we have is to try a different mirror server from download.documentfoundation.or…
- okay, so take your pick. Downloaded from a country-specific mirror, using a different browser - this time Safari. It installed without issue. Blame the source? Blame Firefox? But again, I downloaded the Silicon version from default location on my M2 using Firefox and it had no issues. Something is funky *somewhere*, but at least I was able to get it to work.
Heading to #KotlinConf later this week? So are two members of our mobile team! Be sure to say hi if you see them in talks and in the hallway track, and we've even been told @kewisch is bringing some Thunderbird for Android stickers to share!
This PR adds a minimal built-in plugin manager vim.pack. This is a first step towards resolving #20893. A general design is a minimized (496 LOC for core functionality when PR is opened) and rework...
Michael explains how he uses the BT Speak editor as a simple way to keep track of his events and appointments without involving the calendar application.#ass...
Maybe this is spam designed to make you (and others) leave matrix?
In XMPP public rooms we definitely had a very motivated hater spamming gore images (and worse) everywhere they could. The point was precisely to make everyone run away.
The way this crap is moderated on big platforms may be more effective, but at what cost? ("facebook moderation ptsd" on your favorite search engine, but I bet you know the story already)
You don't need to be an apologist for them. I used to be a content moderator. I know how hard it is. But Matrix outsourcing the problem to users is not the solution. And, frankly, that sort of spam should be automatically detected without human intervention.
It isn't up to the customers of a bar to chuck out unruly patrons.
I am not an apologist of Matrix in general, but content moderation in decentralised services run by volunteers is a very hard problem. Automated content inspection is near impossible with E2EE and in general frowned upon by privacy advocates (for good reasons).
to be precise, we said: you are very welcome to publicise our flaws: “Matrix needs way better antispam and moderation controls; I’m not going to use it any more” or whatever. but please do *not* repost abusive spam, spreading it even further, which does nothing other than [give the spammer the attention they want].
Meanwhile, we are working hard on anti-invitespam measures - and we apologise to those hit by the spammer.
Look, we all get it. Matrix is up against some tough competition and your core product is free and open source. One thing that could go a long ways is including an auto moderator bot for the free groups hosted on matrix.org. Or building in some more controls into the app for group admin and moderator teams.
Seeing posts like this, I simply had disabled invites on my server before it could spread to me, so I've not seen anything.
I'll keep the server for now, while migrating everything to ejabberd. It's got WIP Matrix support, so if I really have to, I'll be able to join a Matrix room, but everything else will be XMPP. There IDs can be hidden in a chat, making the spread of spam much more difficult, just because IDs cannot be scraped as easily.
I deeply regret having brought more than 3k users to Matrix.
This has just hindered us from adopting something better that works well. I also wanted to love Matrix and advertised it for a couple years, always thinking "Yeah, it's new, it will get better", but the issues have always stayed.
The people behind Matrix are nice and I wish them the best. Should the issue get solved in the future: I'll gladly try adopting it again. :)
@erebion we're sorry that you've ended up here. what were the specific issues (on which clients, and which server(s)) which have been problematic? we're trying to map out actionable stuff (e.g. edent's 3pid invite issue in Element X got fixed: github.com/element-hq/element-…; we've been at war against abusive spam - github.com/element-hq/element-… etc) - but worried that actionable stuff is getting lost in the general "it sucks" feedback.
Steps to reproduce Where are you starting? What can you see? Lots of "Unsupported Event" messages in a room. What do you click? Clicking on the event does nothing. Outcome What did you expect? To s...
@erebion this is *very* helpful - thanks. it's interesting that performance sounds to be the root problem here. Synapse is certainly not that efficient, but it really shouldn't be that bad, and UTDs really should be dead as of 2024. Fractal hasn't enabled sliding sync yet, which explains why launch is slow, but Element X (for instance) should be instant, not slower than Fractal.
But also feel like feedback is often just ignored, unfortunately. Hope the community interactions will improve, love the ejabberd community as a positive example.
My issues are mostly not even the spam (I just disabled invites), but mostly sloooow performance. Otherwise I'm fine with it all.
Sometimes Fractal neeeds 30 minutes to sync up when opening, it's written in Rust and should be fast enough.
@erebion the feedback is really *not* being ignored though; just trying to get to the bottom of it. specifically, is your bad experience because you're using a particular server instance which is struggling?
#GitLab's newly introduced on-by-default nearly unnoticeable "Read More" hyperlink on bug report descriptions, subtly cutting off any contents longer than the browser window's viewport height—even when you're just following the mandatory template!—has got to be the dumbest anti-feature design of the year.
It's barely been a few days and I've already had someone tell me that I didn't provide the required information, yet it was all there in the description I wrote with the form! 🤦
Noticed an AI assistant is now in your WhatsApp? Meta’s AI feature is now being rolled out in the EU and you can’t turn it off – but you can stop the AI invasion by opting for privacy-focused alternatives.
Not only the linked article does not provide any means to "opt out", clearly stating that opt-out is not an option, but also no way to "object" for users in EU could be found.
…let’s rephrase this. If you are using Meta’s products (WhatsApp included) your data *is* going into the AI woodchipper. Full stop. Don’t think otherwise. Opting out/in is just appeasing politicians. At least 3 reasons for this; it is extraordinarily difficult to prove your data is in there or remove it once digested, the US isn’t going to prosecute them, and they can pay (or delay/etc) any EU fines/prosecution.
“Opt out” is exactly as effective as “Do not track”. That’s it.
Hi Cakers, We are looking for people to join an early alpha group for the TweeseCake rewrite. Your feedback on our progress so far would be super appreciated. Please Note: This is very early days and will be nowhere near the completed product. We are specifically seeking feedback on the current state of the Mastodon and Feeds services using the GUI (visible interface) only at this stage. If you are interested in providing feedback on these specific features in their current, incomplete form, please complete the following form and we will put a group together in a couple of weeks: forms.gle/tHhi2HexSnAsaFB88
Thank you for your interest in becoming a tester for TweeseCake! We’re looking for users who can test features, report bugs, and help us refine the user experience.
The most commonly selected contact platform will be used for team chat.
@cachondo The rewright doesn't have Telegram or any chat platforms yet. I was just mainly listing what's usable for people for efficiency. Although I think We'd all love access to the WhatsApp API.
We've had a lot of applications for the testing program so far; thank you to all interested! We'll be keeping them open for around 10 more days. We would be interested in having more users with basic/lower-end hardware, as we do have a lot of applications with high-end machines. That being said, anyone with a Mac or Windows computer is welcome to apply. Here is that link again forms.gle/tHhi2HexSnAsaFB88
Thank you for your interest in becoming a tester for TweeseCake! We’re looking for users who can test features, report bugs, and help us refine the user experience.
The most commonly selected contact platform will be used for team chat.
Thank you for your interest in becoming a tester for TweeseCake! We’re looking for users who can test features, report bugs, and help us refine the user experience.
The most commonly selected contact platform will be used for team chat.
Lol I hope my response got submitted correctly, when opening this I can just submit another answer as usual. I wish Google Forms would give proper information on already finished forms and rather than letting you edit them.
@cachondo @jonathan859 It won't email you back, and Google forms is tricky when it comes to that because of problems when non-gmail users submit a form.
@hallen @jonathan859 I've never failed to receive an email from Google Forms to any of the 4 workplaces or 2 personal addresses (both outside of Gmail) that I have used whilst filling in a Google Form.
![Subject: Just a quick thank you for your existence
Hi Daniel,
I was digging around in the credits section of an app (YouTube
on my Xbox, actually), and I saw “libcurl” listed - and your
name came up when I looked into it. I had no idea one person’s
work has helped support so much of the internet I use every
day.
I just wanted to say: thank you. Not just for the code, but
for the spirit behind it. The way you’ve built and shared
libcurl, all these years, quietly powering so much without
expecting credit… it really moved me. Most people never see
that kind of work, but I stumbled across it and it left an
impression.
So this is just a small message to say:
Thank you for existing.
[name redacted]](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/669718 "Subject: Just a quick thank you for your existence
Hi Daniel,
I was digging around in the credits section of an app (YouTube
on my Xbox, actually), and I saw “libcurl” listed - and your
name came up when I looked into it. I had no idea one person’s
work has helped support so much of the internet I use every
day.
I just wanted to say: thank you. Not just for the code, but
for the spirit behind it. The way you’ve built and shared
libcurl, all these years, quietly powering so much without
expecting credit… it really moved me. Most people never see
that kind of work, but I stumbled across it and it left an
impression.
So this is just a small message to say:
Thank you for existing.
[name redacted]")
André Polykanine
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