Whether it's for offline listening, privacy or something else: we're always happy when someone is so enthusiastic about AntennaPod (even if the love is declared in a media article with a clickbaity title 😇). And it's cool to see it run on a phone with an eInk display! howtogeek.com/this-is-the-only…
when I go through my mails I usually have 3 buttons: "A" "Del" "Down Arrow"
Things that are done, but are important "A" for Archive. Things that I don't need to anymore "Del" Things I have to act on "Down Arrow" aka I check on them once I'm done.
when I reach the bottom I answer any E-Mail that needs answering and press "A" to archive it as well. I continue this until my Inbox is empty and I'm done for that session.
Great tips, I remember the Henk Postma post referenced somewhere else like 15 years ago! Too bad tags can’t be reordered... 😩 That would improve the use a lot.
@tagomago Thanks so much for the feedback, and seriously, we're so thankful for Hank's article! And the ability to reorder tags...that could be a great suggestion for Mozilla Connect! connect.mozilla.org
curl_easy_reset() did not reset the rewind_read flag. This caused any
handles that previously had a CURLE_SEND_FAIL_REWIND error to get stuck
with that error, failing any subsequent requests, even ...
## Summary:
- Use-After-Free vulnerability that leads to arbitrary write/READ
YES, I used IA along with mermaind editor (online one) to generate this graph that show these paths for...
We are thrilled to announce an exciting new chapter in the evolution of Mixxx, redesigning the Mixxx user interface in #QML. This significant update aims to enhance customization, improve performance, and ensure better accessibility for a variety of hardware, including tablets and touchscreen laptops, but also to users with vision deficiency.
We're looking for developers, designers, and testers to help us on this journey!
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This proposed UI change feels very Rekordbox-y, and that's a compliment. I love that Mixxx will soon have a 3-band waveform that actually works and waveforms in the library pane with one-click preview... I have really disliked the way tracks have to be loaded into the preview player to preview them up to this point. The controller mapping interface looks freakin' slick too!
Last week I was talking with my cousin (who is not an engineer) about how "artificial intelligence" has never really meant anything, and has been typified by "moving goalposts" as a result.
Not six hours later, I was debugging her mom's 1991-vintage pinball machine, and found this sentence in its instruction manual. These "advanced artificial intelligence systems" used a 2 MHz 6809 processor.
@cachondo To clarify, the use of the term "artificial intelligence" isn't related to the old speech synthesizer specifically, but the MS-DOS screen reader ASAP (Automatic Screen Access Program). Here's that passage:
ASAP uses a new technique that employs artificial intelligence to decide what part of the screen catches a sighted user's eye and announces that material automatically.
We're talking about a program that was 55 KB of machine code.
@cachondo I think the actual technique was something like looking at the foreground and background colors of text on the screen (reading from PC text-mode screen memory) and using heuristics to determine what text was highlighted or otherwise noteworthy enough to be read automatically when it changed.
@cachondo Later GUI screen readers, at least on Windows, did similar things, but they first had to intercept OS graphics API calls to build an off-screen model. I wrote one of those myself. And at the time (2005, when I was about 25) I thought my off-screen model was pretty clever. Never thought to call it artificial intelligence though.
Google confirmed that one of its cloud-stored Salesforce databases was breached, exposing its customer data. Google attributed the breach to a hacking group, ShinyHunters, known for breaking into Salesforce databases.
Fortunately, the August Atomic peace blocked the Japanese plan 夜桜作戦 (Operation Cherry Blossoms at Night) to bomb California in next month w/ bubonic plague, developed & tested @ Unit 731, using I-400 subs & float planes they carried. That saved not only the lives of civilians in California who otherwise would have died horribly from a disease we had no cure for, but the millions of Allied & Japanese troops, + millions of civilians.
In which I distill a lot of casual pub chats I've had with friends into a layperson's guide to the #OnlineSafetyAct. What it is, the problems it causes, and why you should definitely care.
Age verification has hit the UK, people need to upload ID to see 'adult' content. What's the harm in laws like this, if they protect children? Let's see.
Tl;dr: "This law breaks the internet, destroys online privacy, kills independent websites, wrecks accessibility, trains users to routinely bypass government blocks of genuinely illegal content, and offers less protection to kids than the tools that are already freely available from every major ISP."
Today is the anniversary of the release of the web to the world, in 1991, by @timbl when he said "Try it"
Billions have taken up his call to use the web. W3C, as a steward of this initial gift since 1994, is realizing our vision of making the web work, for everyone – a web designed for the good of its users, that is safe and secure.
In this blog post about the newly published W3C Statement “Vision for W3C”, W3C CEO Seth Dobbs emphasizes the importance of principle-driven leadership and how vision gives clarity to move towards meaningful goals.
Mr. Berners-Lee did something awesome but the current state of the web is awful and you know it. "A web designed for the good of its users that is safe and secure." Do you really believe it?
The state of the web being awful is not due to its open standards but due to the perversions built on top of it by capitalism, which entirely thwart the open principles it was built for.
The world's democracies should boycott the Trump Olympics. Trump announces he will chair White House taskforce for 2028 LA Olympics theguardian.com/sport/2025/aug…
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Tuta Mail @Tutanota — Your email, truly private & quantum-secure.
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as much as I love and use Signal, I don't see how it counts as a DeGooglify app. Now to the question, I like Fossify apps, FairEmail, Aurora Store, F-Droid (Droid-ify), Obtainium, Tubular, KeePassDX, FUTO Keyboard, among others...
as a start: GrapheneOS Gmail => Tuta and Proton Google Calendar => Tuta and Proton and Etar Google Chrome Browser => LibreWolf, Vanadium and Brave Google Search => Leta.mullvad.net Google DNS => NextDNS/mullvad DNS Google Drive => Syncthing to synchronize my data, ProtonDrive Password Manager : KeepassXC, KeepassDX MullvadVPN/ProtonVPN Google Play Store => Droid-ify Tasks Google Fotos => Aces Libre Google Authenticator => Aegis, Standardnotes Google Docs => LibreOffice/OpenOffice Google Gemini => VeniceAI Google Hangouts => Threema G board => Futo Google Voice Assistant => Whisper/Futo
#nextcloud made it possible for me to (self-)host my (and my family's) phone calendars, contacts, and even when pictures are taken, they get uploaded to our Nextcloud instance, and NOT to google/apple.
10/10, would recommend for any household looking to #degoogle.
Others include #searxng, has literally replaced all monolithic search engines, works great, no ads or AI
Nextcloud can replace a lot of Google services. It is open-source, so you can host it yourself, or use an ISP that supports it. I use an ISP that is based in the EU.
"GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out."
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"Dohmke said developers who initially dismissed tools such as GitHub Copilot as gimmicks now see them as indispensable collaborators. Through trial and error, these people have evolved from skeptics to AI strategists"
The NLnet Foundation revealed more projects receiving funding from NGI Zero Commons, which includes the popular Bottles app for running Windows apps on Linux.
I've had this PDF in my pile of random documents for like 10 years. It's an old paper that was apparently typeset with LaTeX back in 2002. If I try any non-OCR-based PDF text extraction tool I'm aware of, it produces complete noise. Does anyone know what's going on here? Is there some identifiable alternate character mapping, or is it one of a kind? Is there any better way to pull text out of it than OCR? mwcampbell.us/documents/not-mi… (apparently no longer available from its original source)
somebody else can probably give a more comprehensive answer, but at first glance it looks to me like the text in that pdf was rasterized for some reason (if I zoom in, I can see the pixels, this is with some old version of Google PDF reader on my Android phone).
@jplatte It might be using low-resolution bitmap fonts; Poppler's pdffonts says that the embedded fonts are Type 3, not TrueType. But it doesn't seem to be rasterized at the page level, like a scanned document.
I have a piece of software called PDF2XL which is normally great for extracting tables of data from PDF files. I've used it with hundreds of files before.
This one file though, gives me gibberish
A lovely piano exists in the house of my friend Ignasi Cambra, and I was fortunate enough to be allowed to play it for a short while.I'm on a family cruise a...
"GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out."
So, I guess, if one wants to get out, @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de is the place to go.
https://www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-developers-embrace-ai-or-get-out-2025-8
I've been an email hosting customer with #MythicBeasts (@beasts) for just under a day and a half, and I'm honestly very impressed. I opted for their email only plan since I already have webspace somewhere else. The main website and control pannel UI are very accessible to #blind #ScreenReader users like myself, with sections clearly structured with headings, pretty much no unlabelled links, buttons or other elements, and no annoying ads, pop-ups or anything else that could hijack a screen reader or lag a browser to pieces. I contacted them about an issue I'm having yesterday and the initial reply, *human* reply that is, took just over 10 minutes. The issue is still ongoing as of now, but I'm confident that it will be fixed soon; I did contact them at the backside of the working day after all. Not bad at all for the monthly price of just under a fiver! Also, bonus points for being a 2000s ISP, having started in the year 2000.
I don't really know, I don't have any red flags, I suppose. I use gandi for my hosting and their mail box pricing has shot up, so I may well move. pity there's no way of moving host like you'd just send a text for a PAC on your mobile
Europe’s biggest businesses run on US tech — putting its privacy and sovereignty at risk. Read our study on how bad the problem is and why we urgently need a Europe-first tech policy.
Add LibQurl to the list of known binding libraries.
EDIT: I noticed that my PR comment maaaybe sounds more like an order than the simple description it was intended to be. Sorry! ^^;
In the early days of curl development we (I suppose it was me personally but let's stick with we so that I can pretend the blame is not all on me) made the possibly slightly unwise decision to make the -X option change the HTTP method for all request…
V posledních dvou letech se stala platební karta univerzálním platidlem ve veřejné dopravě v Nizozemsku. Stačí přiložit platební kartu při nástupu i výstupu, systém sám spočítá jízdné a strhne přesnou částku. Bohužel to dlouho nevydrželo. Národní…
s tímhle už jsem se potkal, když manželka zkoušela u nějaké VOD služby použít jednorázovou kartu Revolutu, aby dostala další měsíc na zkoušku zdarma. Nefungovalo to, měli to ošetřené. V tomto případě se ale jednalo jen o jednorázové virtuální karty. Ty dlouhodobé virtuální myslím fungovaly. @Oskar456
to se mi stalo taky, když jsem se jednou pokoušel objednat jídlo u Glovo. Nevím, jak jsou obchodníci schopni detekovat, že jde o jednorázovou kartu, ale vzhledem k tomu že evidentně jsou, trochu to popírá smysl jejich existence.
Thanks @JonathanMosen for writing this. So many bits from the history of assistive technology, not to mention about the people who made that history happen. Thanks again! mosen.org/russell/ A personal reflection: why is that the extraordinary people who run through their life at an enormous speed leave us so early and unexpectedly?
I don’t know where the time goes. It seems impossible, yet the calendar doesn’t lie. 20 years ago, Dr. Russell Smith MNZM, CEO of HumanWare, my friend, my mentor, my then boss, and a man who made t…
"Indonesia's nuclear regulator has approved Thorcon's site evaluation plan and the site evaluation management system plan for a proposed power plant based on its advanced molten salt reactor technology at a site on Kelasa Island in Bankga Belitung Province."
Indonesia's nuclear regulator has approved Thorcon's site evaluation plan and the site evaluation management system plan for a proposed power plant based on its advanced molten salt reactor technology at a site on Kelasa Island in Bankga Belitung Pro…
I'm amazed and delighted by the level of institutional courage it takes to go for a relatively unproven solution like these MSRs instead of going the boring PWR route like anyone else who dares. It also seems ideally placed to preserve strategic ambiguity, build capacity and avoid excessive dependence.
The toys are listening. But are we paying attention to what they're doing with what they hear?
I've been digging into the Mattel-OpenAI partnership announced back in June, and what I found is unsettling. This isn't just new toys with cool new features like they’d like us to think—but rather a calculated strategy to normalize AI data collection from children using brands parents trust.
The kick in the face? We're experimenting on kids with zero safety data. The first real study on how AI toys affect child development just started this year. Yet we won't see results until 2026 once the market is potentially saturated.
Meanwhile, there's this absurdly bs double standard: your kid's AI tutoring session at school gets FERPA protection, but their intimate conversations with an AI Barbie at home? Just loose COPPA rules and shitty corporate promises.
I keep thinking about all those nights I whispered secrets to my teddy bears, hoping they'd come to life like in Toy Story. Now toys can actually respond—but they're sending those secrets kids share out of trust and loyalty to their digital friends to corporate servers.
Three days of research convinced me we're at a crossroads. The toys that shape our children are being designed to harvest their emotional data for profit.
Third spruce tree on the left
in reply to Wayne is Easily Distracted • • •Hubert Figuière
in reply to Third spruce tree on the left • • •Third spruce tree on the left
in reply to Hubert Figuière • • •ah. I too like to sync my photos to the butt.
_What you doing?_
Nothing really, just sitting in the park, feeding the ducks, watching the butts.