I like this joke, find it hilarious. A love story film (a Swedish one), lots of emotions, lots of drama, then the happy ending, the couple is together, the male hero takes the main guy takes the main girl by the hand and they go away from our view, and then there is that huge inscription on the screen: "SLUT"!
Well, it looks like the fire service in the United States can't admit that smoke is bad for firefighters because then it would have to admit that it had been putting people at risk for all these years.
This is identical to what we saw healthcare doing during COVID. (Which they did before COVID, and continue to do today.)
At the height of wildfire season, thousands of firefighters regularly face a host of dangers on the frontline, including confronting toxic smoke. As seasons grow longer and more intense, the health of wildland firefighters is under renewed focus.
🤔This is kind of like when newspapers report that police officers are "quitting en masse." But then you read the article and for them "quitting" just means "I will not report to duty. I will still collect a paycheck and earn a pension."
He's moving from CEO to Executive Chair of the Board. 🤷🏿♂️
He was both CEO and Executive Chair of the Board before too. He's just dropping the CEO part. 🤷🏿♂️
No judgment either way, but this isn't a board leadership change.
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The best open source office suite continues to evolve, while maintaining its focus on privacy and digital sovereignty Berlin, 20 August 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.8.
@modem56kb 32-bit Linux made a tiny fraction of a single percent of our downloads. We have very limited resources but in the long run, couldn't dedicate our resources to building for 32-bit Linux. We hope you understand.
Please make it simpler to download and update LibreOffice in languages other than English.
To those unfamiliar with English and/or with difficulties with using computers, the download of an English package, and then the requirement of downloading and installing a "translated user interface" can be quite difficult to understand.
Notice this whole ordeal has to be repeated for every update.
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This is what evals are for. You need some trusted data set where the answers are known (or at least can be checked). You then try different prompts and see which alterations improve LLM performance. You don't just blindly try things and hope they work (though I'm sure some of the worst kind of AI grifters do.)
@miki That's a really small example set size to cover training, validation, and testing! Especially when you consider the enormous variability in the distribution being drawn from!
Excel developers 40 years ago: we've built a world-first recalc system, delivering performant but accurate dynamic cell updating on any architecture or system.
Excel developers now: we added a function that can sometimes give a correct answer. We can't tell if the answer is correct or not. Also it shouldn't be used for numbers in a spreadsheet.
Numerical calculations is just not what AI is for.
However, it's far more useful for things like e.g. extracting product dimensions or hotel reservation dates from arbitrary, unstructured text. Before the advent of AI, this was extremely unfulfilling, manual data entry work.
You can then use such data in Excel to do numerical / statistical calculations the "traditional way."
AI may not have perfect reliability (remember that humans don't either!), but you don't always need perfect reliability. If you only want to check how many customers complain about the rooms being too cold versus too hot, and how that is correlated to the weather outside, room location and AC settings, you may prefer a slightly inaccurate analysis over one that requires a person to read 20000 emails and identify temperature complaints.
I really don't get where all this hate is coming from.
@miki From the relentless, obnoxious, obscene hype about how AI is the best and greatest danger and salvation for humankind. That's where the hate is coming from.
It is so hilarious to me that we have FOSS maintainers begging for money to try to keep the development of NTP ongoing. NTP - you know, that protocol that the entirety of humanity relies on for access to the internet (or anything on a network for that matter).
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@cachondo Yeah. I only realized yesterday how fucked this book is for accessibility because - ironically - 4 of the characters speak in ASL all, or some of the time.
Not on you to worry about as an author, surely. I mean 9 times out of 10 people using screen readers don't even know when there are regular quotes, never mind any other way of marking up speech.
I guess an author's note explaining your syntax and perhaps something on your website or whatever about how you can modify screen readers to interpret them in the best way is far and above most authors effort.
@cachondo 🤔 what about ePub files? I'm assuming that with a kindle eReader or similar device you're screwed and get whatever the manufacturer set up. But the kindle app on a mac or windows would use whatever you've got configured for the OS. Is that correct?
I'm still screwed when it comes to audiobooks though. I'm coming up with zero ideas on how to verbally indicate spoken versus signed without it getting really annoying really fast.
I have to take ePub to Braille directly. I think it uses pandoc in the middle, which uses some type of markdown, which is then faithfully converted to the appropriate Braille for italics, underlines and so forth.
The only thing that comes to mind with audio is some sort of effect. In the British Harry Potter audios, for instance, there's a little bit of "what would the character say", and it's done with a slight echo effect on the audio.
@cachondo that is an interesting solution that could work in theory, but holy shit would that require a lot of time and money to make happen or just time if I was doing it myself
Editing's a ridiculous time sink either way you work it. If you were doing the narration yourself, I suppose you'd get your engineer to fold that into the mastering process. They'd be working from a written copy of your text anyway, so would already know what's spoken versus ASL. You don't want to change the way you speak, right? You just want to indicate a method of speech.
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Two possible class-action lawsuits by Air Canada passengers affected by the airline’s flight attendant strike were submitted in court in Montreal Monday.
A federal appeals court rejects T-Mobile's bid to overturn a $92M fine for illegally sharing customer location data without consent, per a 2024 FCC ruling (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
Microsoft has added COPILOT AI to Excel — but give it a miss if you use the spreadsheet software for numerical calculations or in scenarios with legal regulatory and compliance implications because COPILOT "can give incorrect responses," the company warns. Here's more from @theverge.
Microsoft Excel is testing a new “COPILOT” function that lets you use AI to generate summaries, tables, tags, and more based on a group of cells you specify.
someone needs to push and ask the right questions. I thought he was going to do that at the start when he mentioned the price difference between the UK and the US.
@dmills87 I think you had two problems there. First, the audience member, Steve I think he said it was, could have been a little more eloquent, but perhaps he is not experienced in this area. But I think this subject is very much outside Peter White's field of expertise.
we need someone who asks the really hard questions. sight and sound doesn't need to be involved with jaws over here at all. people would be more than happy to get the software from the US.
@dmills87 I couldn't agree more. I accept that there are organisations and perhaps some individuals who do need them, but a lot of us definitely do not and probably know a great deal more about how it works.
@dmills87 In my case I had an issue with JFW causing me issues on a laptop secured with some fairly serious security software. FS refused to help with this and had to go through S&S. Was fobbed off with their support as they just didn't have the answers, they eventually pushed me to FS again and with the help of a senior tech at FS and the security company we got it sorted. Interacting with S&S wasted just over a week.
@andrew @dmills87 I've had this a lot, too. Seriously complex scripting issues where S&S do everything I've already done, eating into the support time the employer had paid for with them. I'm more qualified to script than anyone on their helpdesk, for heavens sake. But they didn't listen.
@cachondo @dmills87 S&S wanted me to get ATW funding to get some scripting to help me with this security software issue as well. That would have been a waste of money, the issue was the security software was blocking the API hooks JFW was using into the applications, so the scripter would have been in the same boat as I was. I am an end user of this endpoint software and don't have any admin access.
2. Vispero is private equity and they purchased FS a few years ago. The PE model is simple. find a good product, extract revenue by hiking prices/changing the model to squeeze the customer, then when customers turn away and company starts loss making, saddle it with its debts and walk away, asset stripping the business as they go. FS is heading for a long walk off a short cliff. @andrew @cachondo @brian_hartgen @dmills87
@bermudianbrit @cachondo @dmills87 I think everyone knows this really. I wish more scripters would work with NVDA and we could then get a real push for making this work in work situations. I do think we will be worse off though without JFW, it will be one less choice.
@andrew @bermudianbrit @dmills87 I have been scritping JAWS since I started using it with Windows 95. It's a system I'm comfortable with and I do miss it with NVDA because I'm less comfortable in Python. I can do addons and modules with a lot more effort than I can do scripts. It's frustrating that I know that technically the NVDA ecosystem is far more powerful, but the training materials of JAWS were there when my mind was flexible enough to soak 'em up.
@cachondo @bermudianbrit @dmills87 Yeah I hear you. I suspect others people are in similar positions. I just can't help feeling we're flogging a dead horse and that will bite us if we don't think ahead somehow. I count myself in this category.
@cachondo @dmills87 This was stopping me from working with clients and there was talk about putting me on the bench while this got sorted. The responses from S&S especially regarding getting a scripter involved caused me serious anxiety and dread to think how anyone not as tech savvy would have coped in this situation. S&S don't get all the blame, as the company I work for were doing their bit to make things difficult as well.
@cachondo @andrew @dmills87 Putting this politely, I don't think they have any scripting talent there. They typically use Blazie to do that work for them. Thankfully, other companies use me, but they use Blazie.
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Curious about our progress on Thunderbird Pro? Our latest update, direct from Managing Director Ryan Sipes, keeps you in the know - and lets you know how to stay updated:
I find it interesting that you want to operate Thundermail in Germany. How will you ensure to comply with the GDPR, when both MZLA Technologies and Mozilla Foundation as US-based entities can both be forced via CLOUD Act to violate the GDPR?
great update, thank you! I didn't see any mentions about OS or platform availability though, did I miss them?
I'd love to hear details about how Android fits into these plans since many launches like this often tend to either exclude mobile platforms at launch or restrict the feature set. Is that the plan with Thundermail?
@perksofbeingben Hey there! Thundermail will work with all apps on all platforms, mobile and desktop. Send and Appointment will take a bit longer to come to mobile, as those are more desktop-oriented for now.
@perksofbeingben You're welcome! Whenever we get closer to this integration would be when we'd need beta testers, and we'll definitely put out a call on our blog and share it here!
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