The attempts by law enforcement & governments to subvert end-to-end encryption are ongoing. The European Commission is going to spend a year thinking about their new "Roadmap for law enforcement access to data", and they are (genuinely) asking for people to join their expert group to help. Here I urge you to join that group (also because I can't): berthub.eu/articles/posts/poss…
tl;dr: The European Commission is honestly asking for experts to advise them on ways to institute “effective and lawful access to data for law enforcement”. If you are an expert, I urge you to apply to join this group. You have until September 1st.
Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek has raised €600M for his new startup, which is developing AI TECH FOR WAR. Ek still owns 9% of Spotify, but has 37% voting control. His net worth went from $2.5B to $10B in the last two years alone, on the back of paying musicians a pittance in royalties.
And don’t forget:
• Spotify spent $250M of your subscription dollars to invite Joe Rogan to spew his disinformation on their platform. • They’re still trying to embrace and extinguish Podcasts. • They’re developing in-house, AI-generated “music” so users will play them (royalty-free) instead of music created by humans (who demand royalty).
And now, he’s using his wealth, created by your subscriptions, to fund tech that will use AI to literally murder humans in war.
Are any of the other streaming music services with more or less complete catalogs of major-label music actually any better, or would the only ethically consistent position be to quit using streaming music altogether and go back to maintaining one's own collection?
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Using Soundiiz turned out to be even better than we expected. 🙂 The best part is that it not only imports and exports your playlists but also shows which songs, artists, or albums couldn't be found in the new app.
Make no mistake. This is a USA automaker and oil company hit job on the independence and sovereignty of the Canadian economy.
They are trying to reverse the inevitable so they can continue their own businesses as usual for as long as possible.
It can't be allowed to happen. Canada is already lagging far behind other nations. Our Economy and our Society and our burning forests, will suffer if our government gives in to this pressure.
- Canada needs to open the market to EV low-speed vehicles (LSV) and small EVs as used in many European cities, as well as stop placating the US and remove the tariffs to the Chinese EV market, like on BYD. Canada does *not* have a EV manufacturing base to protect - and only if there is significant competition and take up here in Canada will there ever be one. Nor should we be the gatekeeper for the US, who have shown to do us no favours.
Amazon is giving shoppers a reason to stock up on household essentials with a steep discount on its Amazon Basics AA & AAA High-Performance Alkaline Batteries Value Pack as part of its Prime Day Sale.
June isn’t supposed to be this busy. It’s the time of year when families spend time outdoors or go on vacation. But it’s hardly been a vacation at Converge. We’ve been busy on the conference circuit. My last blog about…
Manufactured by Low Vision International, the MagniLink TAB is a new mobile tablet that “sets a new quality standard in tablet solutions for the visually impaired.” Foldable, lightweight and simple…
Смотри, @rakhelele, что мне Ютюбчик подкинул! Ну не красота ли? youtube.com/watch?v=HwKYvqG60H… Они, оказывается, даже с Иданом Райхелем вместе пели. Может, ты их знаешь, а я впервые слышу, мне прям зашло.
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The French city of #Lyon will also be replacing Microsoft for #opensource solutions. Really curious what #Linux distro they will choose 👀
Also featured; #Jitsi for video conferencing, #Nextcloud paired with #OnlyOffice for document sharing and co-editing, #Zimbra for email, #Chamilo for online training, and #Matrix for instant messaging. 🔥
Most comercial platforms (including Windows and office) are very accessible to PWDs. This is not true for FOSS software (including all linux distros and most of software targeting Linux). This move will leave PWDs out.
Looks great! Small question if you don't mind: what does Tusky use for image editing? I currently use github.com/Yalantis/uCrop in Catima but development seems to have stalled sadly so I'm looking into alternatives.
@SylvieLorxu We use github.com/CanHub/Android-Imag… It works, but I don't expect it to get any huge updates anymore. The way foward is probably to switch to Compose and see which libraries are available there.
This year, there appear to be even more fireworks on my street. Which seems weird given both the tariffs and the fact these are a Chinese invention which are made in China, and the folks setting them off around here are very much ‘America first’.
Because the folks setting them off don’t seem to care about their neighbors nor neighbors’ dogs. mefi.social/@MissConstrue/1147…
So, I grew up with Special Forces men who served in Vietnam, as well as having three family members on that stupid wall. Two of my best friends served in Middle East deployments.
For those who may be partaking in explosives over the holiday weekend, please be careful and do not follow the example of ten-finger Johnny. youtube.com/watch?v=3jz3XBJQjf…
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LLMs, KI-Chat und Agenten machen persönliche Daten einfach, kompakt und klar formuliert zugänglich. Dabei sammeln die Betreiber umfassende Mengen davon.
If you want to understand why O'Reilly is a supporter of this announcement, and want to ask both me and Matthew Prince about it, join our July 14 conversation on Live with Tim O'Reilly.
@zersiax It's what brf files use. It's basically an agreed upon standard of encoding arbitrary Braille dot patterns (all 64 of them) as ASCII characters.
I guess that's everyone's excuse as well? What do you even mean, how do you implement this on FreeBSD using the available mechanisms? Hook into dtrace? Kqueue is not equivalent for watching directories recursively
This is diabolical... a Python object that hallucinates method implementations on demand any time you call them, using my LLM Python library github.com/awwaiid/gremllm
For macOS 15 Sequoia Intro Here are 10 tips for macOS that you probably didn't know. One thing I like to do in my spare time is find out new tips for macOS.
cURL is a ubiquitous Internet transfer engine. An Open Source client-side library for doing internet transfers specified as URLs. Daniel has taken the curl p...
My father's first memories are of a concentration camp. My grandmother screamed through nightmares every night for the rest of her life. I exist because she risked her life so my dad could survive.
This Fourth of July, I'm not feeling very patriotic. But I know exactly which America I believe in.
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