Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today.
This version introduced a number of new features:
• Plugins! This was the first time a web page could make sound, via RealAudio. • Incremental display of progressive JPEGs on slow dialup connections. • Animated GIFs that were actually useful. • HTML frames. • JavaScript! That wasn't my fault, but you still have my apologies. • And of course my baby, the first release of Netscape Mail and News:
This version introduced a number of new features: Plugins! This was the first time a web page could make sound, via RealAudio. Incremental display of progressive JPEGs on slow dialup connections (which I demoed a few years back.
Before librsvg pinned the versions of its C dependencies in its CI (*), it would use whatever versions of those deps were in the rolling release of Tumbleweed at the time. They used to match pretty closely with upstream.
Now that I'm having to make CI work on old branches, I'm using gnome-build-meta's history to reconstruct that information.
(*) because, ha! there's no central repository of C dependencies where you can ask, "what's the latest version of cairo? what versions are available?"
We are pleased to announce we have rolled out a new, more intuitive issue template for reporting bugs or requesting features in NVDA. The form is still on GitHub & still requires the same information as previously, but now uses individual fields rather than one long edit box with comments. You can explore here (Note it IS live so if you submit an issue, it will be submitted as an actual issue): github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…
I put the Roomba down in the middle of the floor and started it. It jiggled about feebly, wouldn’t power up completely, moved back and forth in a disconsolate way never making much progress, then stopped in dejection with an error noise. Finally I realized I’d forgotten to turn on the light for it and it’s evening. Poor dear. Imagine if someone made a comic with a Roomba that had a little white cane swinging out in front of itself? #BlindProblems
[Blog Post] A Warning to Blind, DeafBlind, and Low Vision Users About Potential Loss of VoiceOver Speech in iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 applevis.com/blog/warning-blin…
Update, 09/18/2025: Apple has confirmed that they are aware of the issue and that it will be fixed in an upcoming software update. We will update this post as more information becomes available.
Agents in browsers are all the rage. Every browser company besides Apple and multiple startups are betting on adding AI to the browser that can explain webpages or perform automated tasks like booking a haircut or ordering your weekly groceries.
Is anyone using these and if so how do you like it?
[Updated: Fix On the Way] A Warning to Blind, DeafBlind, and Low Vision Users About Potential Loss of VoiceOver Speech in iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 applevis.com/blog/updated-fix-…
Update, 09/18/2025: Apple has confirmed that they are aware of the issue and that it will be fixed in an upcoming software update. We will update this post as more information becomes available.
A large Japanese team of scientists win the Biology Prize for studying whether cows painted with zebra stripes can avoid being bitten by flies. #IgNobel #BIology #Science 🐮 🦓
if you want to play shitlib games then the FCC didn't pull jimmy kimmel from the air, similar to biden admin privately getting twitter to remove tweets
they're both free speech violations because the government shouldn't have an opinion, but shitlibs didnt' care
ahhh come on. Biden admin isn't innocent of everything here but this situation is easily divided into two parts:
1. hey this is against your ToS, please enforce your ToS (everyone should feel free to send this message to Twitter or whoever)
2. hey this is dangerous misinformation and people are going to die, please stop it (ask nicely, but they don't have to do shit if they're OK with hosting that kind of content)
Requests for number 2 should probably have been denied because I'm sure internally they saw it going on. And yes maybe people were gonna die for being stupid. Trying to make a private company become your Public Service Announcement outlet is also stupid, they should have just used their own capabilities to share the information widely.
But isn't the whole "they got away with it because they're smarter about it" the same baseless shtick they've used for years to attack the Dems? I think that falls a bit too deep into conspiracy theory territory for me, the Dems definitely are not that smart or they'd have done a better job at weaponizing the government to get things done instead of dropping the ball every time they get into office
that was not the government, that was Biden's campaign officials. They weren't elected, didn't have power. Now I can't say for sure that there wasn't crossover between elected officials and campaign workers, but it's illegal for them to do any campaign work in official capacity or on government property etc so I would fully support prosecuting those people
I don't know that's true. I haven't seen hard evidence for that, but I understand why people believe it to be happening.
It's a goddamn failure of e.g., the ACLU or whoever if there's tangible evidence of this and nobody's bringing a case because it's harming all Americans
@feld The Trump admin didnt directly threaten anything either. they just pointed out that spreading misinformation is ground for losing your FCC license and said they would look into it. Then Sinclaire and Nexstar pulled his show. We cant really know for sure if their statements are honest and they were just disgusted themselves by what he said or if it was a response to public outcry, or if it really was federal pressure.
@feld @nimrod basically any time the federal government from the top wants you to do something in private communication you can assume if you didn't do it there would be some kind of retaliation, just another problem with having a big dangerous federal govermment
@feld @nimrod like it's come out in the last several years that in many if not most cases the federal government just "asks" for information from big tech and its given
@CapitalB @feld AI is just a wealth redistribution program from billionaires to programmers, IT guys and hardware manufacturers. It's never going to do what they want it to do. At least not for another few decades and after theyve lost everything multiple times over.
@CapitalB @nimrod which grid did they destroy since their massive deployment since ~2000 ? Because at least in America our power generation graphs show almost no impact. Look how flat that is
@feld @nimrod Look up momentum reserve and how inverters and electronics need it. Data centers offload spikes into the grid.
Generation has nothing to do with it. Spains most recent outage was caused by solar inverters and Frances giant nuclear steam turbines filtered the net noise.
@CapitalB @nimrod oh, you're talking about the frequency being unstable. Yeah, that can happen for various reasons. I'm not really concerned about it because it's solvable.
Shit, just ask @SlicerDicer what it was like living on Maui. For a very long time the island had issues with the frequency getting out of sync. Brownouts and minor outages were common, but not a full-scale blackout like Spain had which is a very different problem because of the type of generation they were reliant on. It's not like we're gonna go full Cuba because of some datacenters.
What people fail to understand is that since Enron, we put in some decent safeguards for this. For example, MISO, which covered the region of the power utility that I worked for.
The power plants have remote overrides by a regional authority. For example, if the grid in Chicago is struggling to keep in sync under load in the summer, MISO can remotely spin up the power plants in other states that feed that grid area to ensure there's enough power to keep it stable. This never used to exist.
I don't think Europe has anything equivalent. Nobody can remotely take control of the generation in France to fix a stability problem in Spain.
@CapitalB @SlicerDicer @nimrod Here's a map of the RSOs. These datacenters are in the PJM region, but notice that there's nothing covering the Carolinas, Georgia, or Florida.
This was their choice. They won't be able to control output from the south to smooth out these fluctuations, they can only pull in more from the north.
So maybe they'll have an outage or fires or something in that region and then they'll pull their heads out of their asses and form an RTO to prevent it from happening again.
so TL;DR -- I don't really care. This is a solvable problem. They'll get what they deserve, much like Texas and ERCOT.
@CapitalB @SlicerDicer @nimrod when I lived in Miami the lights would flicker and my UPS would engage many times a day with "bad input frequency event" alerts. That can't possibly be good for sensitive electronics like modern home theater equipment. (I always run all my electronics off inline/sine-wave UPSes)
But somehow everything still worked fine for people who were oblivious to what was going on.
@feld @CapitalB @nimrod Yeah having limits to generation causes issues with phase lock for sure. Though voltage drop is ever a concern. That’s not pleasant. The reality is we have stayed static on energy usage for a long time.
Consider the report in nature too that deepseek model cost 260k to do.
@feld The FBI was in constant communication with twitter about what needed to be censored and who needed to be banned. The FBI doesn't need to explicitly threaten you with anything. Everyone knows what's up when they show up. The supreme Court said this was perfectly fine and no one on the left complained. Consequences. No one on the right has any sympathy. We've been pointing this all out for years. The left has destroyed every norm in this country.
@Rocket I don't know if you can draw a direct line between "the left" and "the FBI" when law enforcement roles isn't exactly something the Dems dominate in this country.
also I forgot that the right has been working tirelessly to preserve every norm in this country and are 100% innocent
For anyone reallocating their monthly media budget: your local PBS/NPR stations have lost ALL of their federal funding and would put your monthly Disney/ABC/Hulu money to really great use.
Every night I stream an audiobook from my phone over AirPlay to Sonos speakers for 15/30/45 minutes and then have an automation on my server that takes over and streams sleep sounds (mpd+icecast) to the Sonos speakers.
The only reason I don't use the same mpd+icecast for streaming the audiobooks is that it would be a harder to build that automation as I'd need to keep track of my position. Essentially the audiobook is a playlist, but when it flips over it needs to stop playing, save state, and then switch to new playlist.
Well the AirPlay streaming from my phone is broken now with iOS 26 as it just stops playing at the end of the track for some reason.'
Oh another thing I'd want from the mpd+icecast setup is the ability to play the tracks at 1.1x speed or sometimes a bit more, depends on the style of who is performing the audiobook. It looks like this may be possible with an ffmpeg filter
The more and more old servers I see close, the more intolerable it is that Mastodon still doesn't offer a way to migrate data like posts to new accounts. A user's post history is valuable, and it's more valuable the older the account is. Users *should* have the option to migrate those to a new server!
I was thinking about the next time I visit New England and wanted to know where a certain town was. So I searched for it on Wikipedia, along with some other places that I know, and started writing down lat/lon coordinates. And I'm realizing that I have no idea what most blind people would do in this situation.
Gehoord de beraadslaging in de Tweede Kamer om "Antifa" aan te merken als terroristische organisatie,
Overwegende dat in ons land de haat tegen immigranten toeneemt, extreemrechtse politici steeds meer genormaliseerd worden, kritisch geluid wordt gesmoord en activisten worden opgepakt;
Overwegende dat wij een gewelddadig en dodelijk grensbeleid voeren, dat wij medeplichtig zijn aan een genocide op de Palestijnen, dat wij massaal profiteren van uitbuiting van het globale zuiden, dat de haat tegen LGBTQI+ mensen toeneemt, dat mensen met een beperking worden afgestraft en in de kou worden gelaten;
Samsung has rolled out a software update to its smart fridges that will display ads, despite saying they had "no plans" to do so. We're headed for a future where you will have to pay extra for appliances without ads.
Occasionally, I've seen BARD offering collections of old time radio shows but for what I think may be the first time, BARD is offering a collection of BBC dramas.
Anton Chekhov: 6 full-cast BBC radio productions : The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, Wild Honey & more DB130807 Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich
"BBC radio productions of some of Anton Chekhov's finest plays. A master of Russian realism, Anton Chekhov is renowned for his meticulously observed plays and short stories exploring the human condition, in all its joys and sorrows. Included here are six of his best-known dramas, as well as Michael Frayn's adaptation of Wild Honey, drawn from an early, untitled Chekhov play; and one documentary exploring Chekhov's life and work. Wild Honey - The acclaimed radio version of Michael Frayn's adaptation and Olivier Award-winning comedy, in which village teacher Platonov's youthful ambitions are rekindled when the seductive Sofya arrives. Ian McKellen stars as Platonov. The Seagull - Recorded on location in Russia, this much-praised version of Chekhov's classic set on a lakeside dacha features a star cast including Diana Quick, Alex Jennings, Robert Glenister and Helena Bonham-Carter. Ivanov - 19th Century landowner Ivanov is in debt and depressed -- can the love of a beautiful young woman rejuvenate him? Alec McCowan, Maurice Denham, Maxine Audley and Judi Dench star in this vintage production, adapted by John Gielgud. The Cherry Orchard- Returning home from Paris, Madame Ranyevskaya and her daughter Anya discover that the family estate must be sold to cover their debts. Can they save their beloved cherry orchard? Starring Sinéad Cusack, Anna Massey, Patricia Routledge and Andrew Sachs. Three Sisters - Stuck in provincial Russia, Olga, Masha and Irina dream of one day returning to Moscow. But life keeps getting in the way ... Hattie Morahan, Scarlett Alice Johnson and Flora Spencer-Longhurst star in Chekhov's poignant meditation on love and longing. Uncle Vanya - Life on a rural Russian estate is thrown into turmoil by the visit of the ailing Professor Serebryakov and his beautiful young wife Yelena. Anton Lesser stars as Serebryakov, with Lyndsey Marshal as Yelena and Neil Dudgeon as Vanya. Great Lives - Matthew Parris, William Boyd and Chekhov biographer Donald Rayfield consider the Russian writer's claim to greatness." -- From publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. London : BBC Digital Audio, 2022.
Cool to see BBC collaborating with Bard in this way. In case you don't know, BBC Radio4 also has a pretty big collection of more modern audio dramas as podcasts. One series I really like is Limelight, about every month or so they give you a new five or six episode series, and they never expire. You can find it on Apple podcasts or wherever else.
They've also got Drama Of The Week, that's been going for at least five or six years at this point. Only caveat with that one is the episodes get deleted after about a week, as they replace them with something new. Could always download the episodes you like though. I wish there was a more permanent archive of these, I love audio dramas and think the BBC's productions are some of the best, even by today's standards. There's BBC Sounds, but those dramas also expire after some time.
Last chance to see: the original BBC Radio series : in search of the world's most endangered species DB130819 Authors: Adams, Douglas, Carwardine, Mark
Read by: Carwardine, Mark, Jones, Peter
"In 1985, The Observer magazine sent Douglas Adams to Madagascar to look for the exotic and potentially extinct aye-aye lemur. There he met zoologist Mark Carwardine, and together they made a radio pilot about their travels, In Search of the Aye-Aye. This led to a hugely popular radio series, Last Chance to See, later adapted as a bestselling book. Douglas Adams died in 2001, but his friend Stephen Fry took his place for a follow-up 20th anniversary television series, broadcast on BBC Two in 2009. This collection includes the initial pilot show and the complete BBC radio series from 1989, in which Adams and Carwardine embark on a quest to track down weird and wonderful threatened species across the globe. Voyaging from New Zealand to Chile, they hope to encounter the flightless Kakapo parrot, the river dolphin revered as the 'goddess of the Yangtze' and the secretive, confusing manatee -- as well as the randy Rodrigues fruit bat, the terrifying (and smelly) Komodo dragon and the solitary Juan Fernandez fur seal. Funny, thought-provoking and poignant, Last Chance to See combines Adams' inimitable humour and Carwardine's expertise to provide a unique snapshot of our vanishing world and the rare creatures that inhabit it. Sadly the Kakapo remains critically endangered, and Yangtze River dolphin was declared functionally extinct in 2006. Part travelogue, part natural history show, this unforgettable account of a remarkable voyage of discovery serves as a reminder to protect our planet while we still can." -- From publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
Yes, yes, it is true that the Focus 40 Blue is made by a company that competes with NVAccess. But NVDA does not use many of the features, keys, and functions of the Focus 40. A lot of the keys on the Focus 40 do nothing in NVDA. Of course, you might say that NVDA is like this with other braille displays as well. But take the earlier example of moving between items on the desktop. Is it really the case that NVDA cannot do this with the Focus 40, or is it just me not understanding things properly? @NVAccess
See my previous reply to that specific question, but remember you can customise any of the keys on the display to do whatever you want, either NVDA commands or emulating keyboard commands etc - See: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2…
Okay, another question, this time for NVDA users who work with braille displays. It is really strange, but it seems that when using a Focus 40 Blue with NVDA, you cannot move through items in a list directly from the braille display. For example, you cannot move between items on the desktop using the display’s keys. I can do this in JAWS, but is it really true that NVDA cannot handle such a simple task with a Focus 40 Blue? Please kindly boost. @NVAccess
I haven't got a Focus to play with just now, but looking at: download.nvaccess.org/document… There are quite a few back / forward key options listed, have you tried all of those to move? EG: - TopRouting 1 / 40 to scroll back / forward. - leftAdvanceBar / rightAdvance bar to scroll back / forward. - left / right WizWheel Up / Down to Move back or forward using that Wiz wheel action - BrailleSpaceBar+dot1 or 4 for up or down arrow - leftRockerDown, rightRockerDown to move display to next line
Oh wait! Do you mean that the Focus display drivers should be downloaded and installed separately? I thought they were part of NVDA, which they should be for ease of access, or if one is using JAWS - which I am, they get installed automatically.
From reading that section of the user guide, it looks like you do need to have the drivers from Freedom Scientific installed - but if you have Jaws they are likely already installed, hence the display is already working without you needing to install anything new
But the FS website says that I need the drivers if I want to use Focus displays with anything other than JAWS. I'm installing them, so let's see how it goes.
I just installed the Focus display drivers, and now those combinations work! Space + various Braille key (1 to 6) combinations can now be used to emulate various key strokes like Up, Down, Tab, SHIFT+Tab, Windows+D, NVDA+N, Escape, Windows key, etc. Very nice and quite usable!
So, Generative AI is a stochastic parrot regurgitating the average of all the world’s most mediocre code… Yet, somehow, the “upper elite 1% of talent” is getting massive productivity gains from it? To the point where Elite Performing tech corporations mandate it?
That doesn’t add up
If you told me the most stacked sports team, with billions in funding, found a solution to dramatically improve performance? I’d be sus
If you said the solution was a mic yelling random instructions, I’d call you delusional
If you said the training data was mostly middle school pickup games? Bruh
## Summary:
A timing attack vulnerability exists in curl's Digest Authentication implementation due to the use of non-constant-time string comparison (strcmp()) when comparing authentication...
## Summary:
A timing attack vulnerability exists in curl's Digest Authentication implementation due to the use of non-constant-time string comparison (strcmp()) when comparing authentication...
it's amazing how cordial you can be even after finding out the PoC script *doesn't even invoke curl*, I admire your patience and professionalism. These people need to be publicly shamed for wasting so much time and energy (and to what ends, one may wonder?), and for the test of us to know how much sh*t you have to deal with on a daily basis.
I wonder is it feasible/reasonable to ask that people pay a deposit to make hackerone reports? They get the deposit back plus bounty if it's a real bug, and don't keep it if it turns out to be ai slop.
IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.
The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.
So, hypothetically, if I were beginning to suspect that I'd found a race condition in the Cortex-M7's cache memory interface...
...do I know anyone with a contact at ARM who could answer some narrowly targeted questions about the implementation details of the memory subsystem, too granular to be in the TRM? We are not an RTL licensee so I can't just go read it. (...actually I'm not sure if RTL licensees are _allowed_ to read it?)
I'm probably wrong but this would sure be great to rule out!
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