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"Part of our task in the face of generative AI is to make an argument for the value of thinking – laboured, painful, frustrating thinking."

"[W]e also need to hold our institutions accountable. [...] university administrators are highly susceptible to the temptations of technology-driven downsizing, big tech donations, and the appearance of being on the cutting edge."

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On Generative AI in the Classroom: Give Up, Give In, or Stand Up

Edward Dunsworth Two approaches dominate discussion about how professors should handle generative “artificial intelligence” in the classroom: give up or give in. Give up. Faced with a powerful new …
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Avoiding generative models is the rational and responsible thing to do – follow-up to “Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI’”: baldurbjarnason.com/2025/follo…

Avoiding generative models is the rational and responsible thing to do – follow-up to “Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI...’”

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
www.baldurbjarnason.com

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⚠️ JAWS bug and no apparent support with NVDA when aria-label/labelledby used on table headers

#aria #html #a11y

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JAWS ignores aria-labelledby on TH · Issue #909 · FreedomScientific/standards-support

Summary Navigate to https://stackblitz.com/edit/stackblitz-starters-bsnuekeb?file=index.html or run locally. Tab to the two buttons in the table's
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#a11y #html #aria

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Welcome Edwin Török as #curl commit author 1377: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1754…

openssl: enable readahead and increase read buffer size (improves download speed) by edwintorok · Pull Request #17548 · curl/curl

I ran strace on curl and noticed that it is doing a lot of very short reads, of exactly 5 bytes, followed by a larger read. strace Before recvfrom(4, "\27\3\3@\30", 5, 0, NULL, NULL) = 5 ...
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New app added to the Accessible Android apps directory: Anytime Podcast Player accessible accessibleandroid.com/app/anyt… @amugofjava #Android #App

Anytime Podcast Player - Accessible Android

Anytime is a free and open-source podcast player app. It is designed to be simple and easy to use, whilst including more modern features such as chapters,
Accessible Android
#android #app @Ben Hills
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Just a reminder that J.K.Rowling has said that any money she gets from the HP franchise she sees as support of her trans-phobia and she WILL funnel said funds towards further anti-trans and TERF activism.

Supporting the HP franchise in any way, whether watching movies, buying merch, or being part of the new HP TV Show is explicity enabling and endorsing anti-trans and TERF activism.
From: @xtaldave
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Dave nλ=2dsinθ (@xtaldave@xtaldave.net)

I feel slightly better about accidentally taking her out with my rucksack in Greenwich market now. "Katherine Parkinson accepts Harry Potter role..." https://www.thepinknews.
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📱 Switzerland is thinking about a drastic tightening of its surveillance law!

With the BÜPF revision, email providers could be forced to supply metadata to authorities in real time. Particularly affected: services that previously advertised strict data protection. End-to-end encryption remains protected, but your IP addresses, recipient data and locations would be monitored.

Learn more about this worrying development: mailbox.org/en/post/buepf-revi…

#DataProtection #Surveillance #Switzerland

A graphic showing the Swiss Federal Palace with Swiss flags, featuring the headline ‘Are we on the brink of digital X-ray surveillance?’ and a subheading about the BÜPF revision. A green button at the bottom reads ‘Read the blog now’.

BÜPF Revision: The Swiss Surveillance Law | mailbox.org

What does the planned tightening of Swiss surveillance legislation mean for email users? Read our blog now.
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#surveillance #DataProtection #switzerland

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It's really harder and harder to understand why is #GNOME alienating itself more and more form the rest of the community. Looks like we'll end up with GTK only for GNOME and GNOME only for #Linux and #systemd. I have no problems with systemd in particular, but making it a hard requirement is a limiting factor.

blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/202…

Introducing stronger dependencies on systemd

PSA for systemd-free distros about work they'll need to do to continue running GNOME
Adrian (Adrian's blog)
#linux #gnome #systemd
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Ivan Jelić

@ebassi I don't think anyone is surprised with systemd, I mean we are all using it, or majority at least. Although, I always thought of our ecosystem as one providing diversity and choice, not dominance. Maybe that's not viable down the line, and that's legit, you guys developing stuff know the best. If GNOME needs this kind of direction in order to be here, let it be. We'll see how that's gonna fly, though.
@Emmanuele Bassi

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After some deliberation I decided to move my development stack from Windows to Linux.

I've been using windows for over 20 years and always loved it's backwards compatibility and stuff, but recently it has become borderline unusable and gets in the way of my work.

It took me like a single day to configure everything and it just works, and also works better than Windows too! I posted a thread of my reasoning and experience on BS (sorry):

bsky.app/profile/sosowski.bsky…

#gamedev #indiedev #linux

#linux #gamedev #indiedev

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🎓 "Making a career out of FOSS Internships (GSoC/Outreachy)"
with Aryan Kaushik at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 12:05 CEST 📍 Brescia

💼 FOSS can lead to real careers. Aryan explains how GSoC & Outreachy changed lives—and why you should get involved too.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#OpenSource #GSoC #Outreachy #GNOME

The image shows graphically what's announced in the post. It contains the GNOME logo, the name of the speaker, the photo of the speaker and the title of the talk. It moreover contains a graphical rappresentation of the city of the conference, Brescia, and the dates of the conference.

GUADEC 2025

Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.
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#opensource #gnome #gsoc #outreachy #guadec2025

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Apparently, if you have facebook or Instagram installed on your *Android* phone, Meta was able to track your browsing habits and link them to your real identity even if you never logged in on the web, used incognito mode or a VPN.

zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-t…


“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion.

You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.
Jorge García Herrero (Zero Party Data)
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Prof. Sam Lawler

My takeaway: Satellite launches are undoing the recovery of the ozone layer that should be happening now that CFCs are banned. And this study doesn't even take into account metal deposition from reentries, which might be even worse!

When I teach climate change in my astro classes, I always give the recovery of the ozone layer as an example of how countries can work together to fix a giant problem (Montreal Protocol). I guess satellite companies are now destroying that too.

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Apparently, if you have facebook or Instagram installed on your phone, #Meta was able to track your browsing habits and link them to your real identity even if you never logged in on the web, used incognito mode or a VPN. I hope Meta gets hit with every fine in the book.

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“Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion.

You just can't finish off Zuckerberg.
Jorge García Herrero (Zero Party Data)
#meta

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You can now translate print text to Braille and back-translate Braille to print text using the new API AXBrailleTranslator in your app!

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AXBrailleTranslator | Apple Developer Documentation

Translates print text to Braille and Braille to print text according to the given Braille table.
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Nějaký idiot, a idiot je slabé slovo, mi dnes ráno zde, mimo obec, nedal přednost v jízdě. Vtrhnul mi do cesty jak Hitler do Polska, čůrák. Okamžitě jsem začal brzdit a strhnul jsem volat vlevo, málem jsem skončil v té přikopě. No tep jsem měl tak 180 minimálně. Bílá Fabie combi z Darkovic. No škoda slov. A podotýkám znovu, je to mimo obec, takže jsem tam jel minimálně 80. Byli jsme od sebe zhruba tak, jak ukazuje fotka, když mi do té cesty vjel.

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"Ice can end". Spotted on the corner of Mission and 18th in SF. This is one of Sapien's "Magic Acrostic Squares" that can be read left to right, or top to bottom. #SFGraffiti #AbolishIce #Graffiti #MagicAcrosticSquare #Sapien
Large graffiti on a wall in San Francisco. The text has three words, Ice, Can, and End, written in a 3 by 3 square. So the words can be read from left to right, or from top to bottom. The letters are on a wall filled with other graffiti pieces by other artists.
#sfgraffiti

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Remarkable investigation into Telegram by IStories (in Russian):
istories.media/stories/2025/06…

English version by OCCRP:
occrp.org/en/investigation/tel…

tl;dr:

👉 Telegram uses a single company with ties to the Russian FSB as their sole infrastructure provider, globally.

👉 Combined with a cleartext device identifier Telegram's protocol requires to be prepended to all encrypted messages, this allows for global surveillance of Telegram users.

I am quoted in this story.

#Telegram #InfoSec #Privacy


Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle

The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services.
OCCRP
#privacy #infosec #telegram
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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

> In the entire history of Telegram, it has never handed over private messages to third parties

🚨 Sneaky use of "private messages"!

Remember, Telegram has end-to-end encrypted "Secret Chats", which almost nobody uses; and then it has "Cloud Chats" for everything else.

They decided to add "private" here, as if "less private" non-Secret-Chat messages had been provided to third parties? .. :blobcateyes:

Yes, there are indications of just that if you're wondering:
wired.com/story/the-kremlin-ha…

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The Kremlin Has Entered Your Telegram Chat

Russian antiwar activists placed their faith in Telegram, a supposedly secure messaging app. How does Putin’s regime seem to know their every move?
Darren Loucaides (WIRED)
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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

> and its encryption has never been hacked

Ignoring dumb use of the h-word (🙄), Telegram encryption – specifically, the v1 of their homegrown MTProto protocol – had been shown to contain "a most backdoor-looking bug" some people have ever seen:
words.filippo.io/dispatches/te…

This has since been fixed, and MTProto 2 has been rolled out. But it still smells funny to a lot of cryptographers.

More importantly though: the story is not about breaking Telegram's encryption

Another red herring!

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The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I’ve Ever Seen

This is the story of a bug that was discovered and fixed in Telegram's self-rolled cryptographic protocol about seven years ago.
Filippo Valsorda

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Apparently the Department of Energy is trying to eliminate accessibility/nondiscrimination regulations. If you live in the U.S., please take a few minutes to comment on DOE-HQ-2025-0015 and DOE-HQ-2025-0024:
regulations.gov/document/DOE-H…
regulations.gov/document/DOE-H…

#Disability #Accessibility #A11y #DisabilityRights

Department Of Energy Proposes Eliminating Building Access Requirements for Federally Funded Buildings. Public Comment Open. Submit by June sixteenth.
#a11y #Accessibility #Disability #disabilityrights

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Unable to work full time and need money for offline and online bills. I need all your support! sightlessscribbles.com/support… @MutualAidNet @MutualAidVisibility @mutualaid @mutual_aid #MutualAid #Disability #DisabilityMutualAi…

Tip me, Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.
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Want to test the #macOSTahoe beta but can't risk your main system? Create a second APFS volume in Disk Utility on your Mac so you can use the beta when you want, while keeping your primary system intact. #TipTuesday applevis.com/podcasts/experien…

Experience New macOS Beta Software with Confidence: Dual Boot macOS and Run Beta Software Alongside the Latest Public Release of macOS | AppleVis

In this episode, Levi Gobin demonstrates how to prepare your Mac for beta testing by creating a second volume on your Mac's internal disk to install and run beta versions of the operating system.
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#tiptuesday #macostahoe

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New at America's Voice: Stephen Miller’s brutal obsessions are on full display in workplaces, courthouses, and our neighborhoods.

The mass deportation architect-in-chief's lifelong, maniacal preoccupation w/vilifying immigrants (and non-white people overall) has reached new autocratic heights 👇🏽
americasvoicecnn.substack.com/…


Stephen Miller’s Brutal Obsessions Are On Full Display In Workplaces, Courthouses, and Neighborhoods

The mass deportation architect-in-chief's lifelong, maniacal preoccupation with vilifying immigrants has reached new autocratic heights.
Gabe Ortiz (Combating Nativist Narratives)

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The Threat Beneath: Hidden In-Chip Operating Systems

Modern CPUs from Intel and AMD ship with undocumented, embedded operating systems (Intel ME, AMD PSP) that run below your OS—at ring -3—with full system access and zero user control.

The Alternative?

Librem 5 Phone running PureOS, a Debian-based, fully auditable Linux OS, built for security from the silicon up.

✔️ No Intel ME or AMD PSP
✔️ No telemetry, tracking, or backdoors

Read more at Purism: puri.sm/posts/hidden-operating…


Hidden Operating Systems in Chips vs. Secure, Auditable OSes: A Cybersecurity Comparison – Purism

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
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