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.
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…
[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 🐮 🦓
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
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.
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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...
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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.
Folks, it's happened. AI has become *so* smart that it knows how to intentionally sabotage a live product demos by Mark Zuckerberg and leave him helplessly flailing...
Let's work on some percussion and percussive sounds! And talk some theory in the process!Start your synth programming journey here: https://www.etherdiver.co...
Bro have you done anything with Surge? Free open source synth that is honestly insane. The main guy who worked on it also has a few other plug-ins and he cares a lot about accessibility. It's one of the few synths that's nearly entirely fully accessible using a screen reader.
@ZBennoui I installed an early version of it in like, 2019 or so, but haven't looked at it yet. I have heard good things, tho. If a bunch of people were interested, I'd def consider doing some coverage of it -- maybe a comparison with Pigments!
"Anyway, we’re moving to Mattermost. This experience has taught us that owning your data is incredibly important, and if you’re a small business especially, then I’d advise you move away too."
@twinspin6 this script is great, but a little messy. It's a single gigantic Elixir script. Automatically fetches and installs its dependencies. You just provide the gitlab URL and admin token as ENVs and set some parameters and it crawls the users and find spammer accounts to delete. It has interactive and automatic modes.
🆘 This might be my last message to you… Israel is bombing Gaza’s communication towers, and the internet could disappear at any moment. We live on the edge between life and death, but your messages and support are what keep us holding on to hope. I’m sharing my donation link here ⬇️
Yet another reason to stop using Chrome: Gemini is coming right into the browser, including the address bar ("Omni bar") by default. These features are computationally expensive at scale, privacy-destroying, and just plain annoying.
@feld I believe you are discussing a per-query cost, but the scale of inference is a different story. Every. Single. Interaction. With the Omnibar. And that also abstracts away the total cost of training the models, which continued use of them models incentivizes.
Every company has been very shady about their full energy usage, but the scale of data center and power investment tells the tale.
- the scale of their current design will cost them so much electricity they'll stop
- they'll optimize their inference engines to not need so much energy
I'm betting on the latter after seeing my friend's custom inference engine written in C with custom Metal/CUDA kernels which can stream the layers and data as it's needed, gives you essentially infinite context, has tool calling, etc
And it runs on a 10 year old Mac Pro. He can run Qwen on it. You can load a 32B parameter model without needing ten of gigabytes of VRAM.
edit: and it's fully deterministic and 100% compatible with PyTorch
I just find it so hard to believe that Google doesn't have anyone working on this. If they can't figure this out I guess my friend will be a multi-billionaire when he sells his inference engine to the highest bidder.
A recent report revealed that AppCloud, an Israeli application developed by IronSource, comes pre-installed on certain Samsung devices, particularly Galaxy A and Galaxy M models, and cannot be fully removed. The app automatically collects user data, including location, device fingerprints, and IP addresses. 1/3
Every time I heard Charlie Kirk's schtick called "debate", it bothered me, because no Kirk clip I ever saw was anything like debate. Happily, Mike Masnick has saved us all from watching enough Kirk to properly describe what he was actually doing. techdirt.com/2025/09/17/the-de…
Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him”…
It is funny to be back in the place where I used to live for most of my life. Having been away for so long, I have all kinds of emotions: some positive, some negative. The mixture leaves me puzzled. Now, reflecting on them, I decide to concentrate on the positive ones. I have no use for the other ones. These are mainly ghosts from the past. Styria is lovely, the weather is perfect, it smells fantastically, and a school kid even fell in love with my Brompton.
"The overall design of Trump’s policy is clear enough: weaken the United States abroad to create an environment friendly to dictators, while using the American armed forces as an intimidation force to make dictatorship possible at home."
ABC just announced that Jimmy Kimmel Live will be suspended “indefinitely” over comments he made on Monday night about the killing of right-wing Christ figure, Charlie Kirk.
"Kimmel’s suspension has produced an uproar. Comedian Paul Scheer noted that Kimmel is off the air but Brian Kilmeade of the Fox News Channel, who recently called for killing homeless Americans by 'involuntary lethal injection,' is still employed."
"Do people understand now what the authoritarian project is aiming for? ...
What happens in a society where one side is required to operate at all times and in all places in perfect good faith and the other side faces no such constraints?"
"Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show program was indefinitely suspended so billionaires can continue abusing Charlie Kirk’s murder to gain control of our media and lay the red carpet for Trump’s fascist agenda.
That’s the truth. Everything else is just propaganda, obfuscation, and pretext."
The broligarchy is consolidating power for Trump and MAGA, using Charlie Kirk's murder, to gain control of our media, crush dissent, and punish critics and comedians like Jimmy Kimmel
"We are governed by liars and crooks whose agenda is to demolish the rule of law and the rights of the rest of us, including our First Amendment right to free speech (Happy Constitution Day, by the way!)."
Hannah Arendt famously wrote, “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e.
"What happened to Jimmy Kimmel Live! is not just about a late-night host or a single corporate decision. It is a flashing red warning sign of how fragile the foundations of free discourse have become in the United States."
In a stunning move that exposes the fragility of free expression in American media, ABC announced that Jimmy Kimmel Live! has been pulled indefinitely.
"Fueled by the rhetoric of prominent politicians, social media platforms have turned into a staging ground for collecting names and orchestrating campaigns to call for firings. Conservative social media influencers have encouraged people to submit posts of coworkers or community members, and then have used their large platforms to amplify calls for punishment."
"It is really important to understand the contrast between Trump’s behavior and those of previous presidents for two reasons [after a highly publicized murder of an outspoken ideologue]: First, to get a clear measure of the extent of our moral descent. And second, to fully understand the authoritarian dangers our republic is facing."
"As the nation reckons with the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, there has been a notable trend from mainstream pundits and press outlets. They have tended to downplay or outright ignore the ugly things that he said and instead to stress the polite ways he said them. It's an emphasis on style over substance."
"This approach has been widespread in the punditocracy, which has almost uniformly moved to hold Kirk up as a rare avatar of civil disagreement in an uncivil era.
These pundits' paeans to Charlie Kirk's 'civil' approach to politics ignore the many illustrations of his incivility."
"Trump and MAGA did not get Kimmel suspended for a joke. They got Kimmell suspended for a show of power. They are sending the message to stick to their approved MAGA script or they will come for you."
"Don't you dare call us fascists, they say, as they force people off the airwaves for criticizing them while vowing to crush and criminalize their opposition."
“You may think you’re angry over Colbert and Kimmel but as someone who is familiar with the history of Nazi Germany I promise you, you’re not nearly angry enough yet.”
"Kimmel’s accusation that Trump is using the Kirk murder for political payback was right on the money.
It’s not as if this is surprising. It’s not as if we haven’t been warned about what’s coming again and again. It’s not as if the President of the Right hasn’t signaled his yearning for absolute rule day after day after day."
"Donald Trump and his loyal enforcer Stephen Miller have once again revealed the heart of their political project: to recast the state as an instrument of vengeance against dissent. ...
Trump and Miller do not simply want to punish their critics—they want to reshape America into a machine of loyalty and fear. Their vision requires enemies because enemies justify repression."
"And while they cloak their project in American flags and talk of law and order, the blueprint is the same one authoritarian regimes across the twentieth century wrote in blood: silence the critics, glorify the leader, criminalize dissent."
"One of the necessary conditions for an authoritarian takeover is control of the media. It’s a critical step to quash dissent—turning a free press designed to hold power accountable into a propaganda organ that amplifies the state’s message."
"That could never happen here, right? Not with our long tradition of a vibrant, free media?
Well, the MAGA Right is on the verge of controlling the vast majority of the American media ecosystem.
A dynamic highlighted by the fact that Disney announced it was bowing to pressure from the Trump Administration and pulling Jimmy Kimmel off the air indefinitely because of comments he made about Charlie Kirk."
"The timing isn't coincidental. This is happening while people are still being fired for not mourning Charlie Kirk appropriately. Karen Attiah lost her Washington Post column. Airline pilots got grounded. Hospital workers were terminated. Now a comedian with one of the longest-running shows on television gets yanked off the air for making a joke about Trump…."
"Welcome to the new normal, where a late-night comedian making fun of the president is 'the sickest conduct possible,' but calling for trans people to be institutionalized was just Charlie Kirk practicing politics the right way."
Back when I started playing with Rust, it wasn't going smoothly, to say the least. I was ready to put it away and revisit at a later time.
Then came @liw, and gave me a quick, condensed version of their Rust course, and that was enlightening, to say the least. It wasn't a deep dive, it was about the basics, to get through the initial hurdles. But I got way more than that - pointers to where I could learn more, what to explore next, and how. It gave me a foundation to build on.
It was quite literally life changing, and I am eternally grateful to Lars for it.
If you're a FOSS programmer, and you're interested in Rust, their next session is an opportunity I'd highly recommend you to take.
I'm again running my free Rust training course for FOSS developers. It's split into two sessions of two hours. First session is on Wednesday, October 1 at 13-15 UTC. Second sessions is two days later, on Friday, October 3 at 13-15. See https://liw.
Hayden Field and New York Times reporter Kashmir Hill discuss how users of ChatGPT and other bots can become delusional or be driven away from seeking help.
Working on adding Apple SecTrust support to curl (e.g. the native macOS and other Apple *OS system certificates store) and reaching out to the Homebrew/Macports people if they'd like that too or have other needs. #curl
In the general discussion about curl's handling of a "native CA" and our addition of support for using Apple's SecTrust directly, the question arose how homebrew and macports can/wont make use of t...
Chtěli bychom na Mamutovo nabídnout lidem, kteří nejsou prozatím na Mastodonu, nějaký simple "starter pack" uživatelů, ze kterých by si zájemci mohli nazobat další zajímavé účty. Protože tady úplně nefrčí Follow friday, mohli byste nám pomoct vy?
Prosím, napište nám s hastagem #startovacibalicek účty, které stojí za to.
Stačí jeden, dva, ale klidně i víc, přebereme to, nějak základně roztřídíme a zkusíme nabídnout.
no bohužel to je, to, o čem mluvím. Dokud na české Fediverse nebude aspoň 20000 lidí, tak tu nebude takové to prostředí lidí soutěžících o to, kdo nabídne zajímavý obsah. Nebudou tu reakce na pod odkazy na články a tak.
Zatím jsme vzdáleni světelné roky od toho, aby šlo nabídnout zajímavý "starter pack" účtů nově příchozímu z ulice. Existuje strašně moc typů účtů, jeden jsou ti, kdo si chtějí prostě povídat s lidmi celkem o čemkoliv, nekontroverzně. Jenže ty nejde dost dobře dávat do "starter packů"....
Je to ošemetný problém, prostě jen napodobovat, jak to vypadalo na vrcholu Twitter bubliny, než ho koupil Elon, nejde. Mastodon je hodně aktivistický, aktivisté ale když se zrovna nevěnují svému aktivismu, jsou v podstatě docela nudní lidé.
Je třeba taky přijmout fakt, že spousta obsahu na sociálních sítích je vytvářena profesionálně, jen o tom nevíme...
@xChaos Jestli je něco, co mi tady nechybí, tak je to soutěžení o pozornost. Naopak jsem rád, že je to společnost obyčejných lidí s "nudnými" životy. Málokdo má život takový, aby jím mohl denně bavit obecenstvo. Podle mě má opravdová sociální síť odrážet opravdové lidské vazby. Moji kamarádi nejsou žádní supermani, kteří dokáží bavit tisíce, proto to ani nečekám od lidí, které sleduji tady. Právě tahle lidskost a opravdovost je to, čím je Fediverse unikátní. To by měl být náš prodejní artikl. Ne přenášení toho, co (ne)funguje na X, sem.
a o tom to je. Abych mohl publikovat cokoli mám na srdci, nikdo mě kvůli tomu nehejtoval a mohl jsem být svůj. Není to o počtu hvězdiček. Ale když mám problém a vykecám se z něj tady, tak se najdou tři, čtyři lidi, co mi poradí nebo mě podepřou. A to přece stačí.
Hvězdička tvůj život nezmění. Ale rada, nebo aspoň pocit, že někoho zajímáš to kurňa změnit může.
no, ehm, dobře. Někteří lidé prostě nemají vlastně nejmenší důvod být na sociální síti, dá se říct
Jediné, co jsem si dovolil říct, že většina typických uživatelů sociálních sítích tam není kvůli čtení dále nestrukturovaných automaticky generovaných přehledů článků. Jsou tu, aby se k nim dostalo něco zajímavého doporučeného lidmi s podobnými zájmy, tedy těmi, které followují. Tedy, to, že tenhle výběr začne za lidi dělat algoritmus, to se nám nelíbilo, ale právě že lidi si už odvykli, že jejich interakce je důležitá a že mají interagovat.
Prostě je to asi stejné, jako elektřina v asynchronním motoru: dokud ho nenabudíme, jen se klec volně otáčí naprázdno, když ji otočíme. Musí se přidat určité množství magie, aby to začalo fungovat. Chvíli se to vydrží točit setrvačností, ale to není ono.
Samozřejmě tu iniciativu vítám, ale šance na tu masovou migraci byla jedna.
Spíše, než se seznamy účtů, bych lidi učil pracovat s hashtagy. A hlavně, pro konzumenty obsahu to tu nebude zajímavé ještě dlouho. Vidím smysl v tom přesvědčit lidi, co rádi obsah vytvářejí, že tohle je místo, kde si ho můžou syslit "na později", a třeba znovu boostnout, až budou mít publikum, nebo tak.
Další věc je, že na začátku se tu šířily mýty typu "favování nemá význam" - favování tu není jen kvůli ovlivňování algoritmu, má význam i kvůli výběru obsahu pro archivaci, povzbuzení autorů, apod.
@xChaos nepříjemná pravda je ta, že většina lidí nemá zájem o nějakou sociální interakci online, proto nemá zájem ani o opravdovou sociální síť. Jak říkáš, pro ně to je algoritmizovaný feed s možností se s někým pohádat v komentářích. Tou opravodovou sociální sítí byly Twitter, FB aspol. tak akorát na začátku. Pak pochopili, že to tam lidi neudrží a změnili to na ty zpravodajské/zábavní feedy. Nemyslím si, že úspěšnou strategií je to replikovat. Myslím si, že ta síla je fakt v tom nabídnout tu sociální interakci. Ale to bude vždycky niché. Je to skupina lidí, které oslovuje Nyx, Hofyland... Úplně malá skupina to není, ale je roztříštěná. Ambicí Fediverse by mělo být to slepovat dohromady.
@sesivany @xChaos nj, doomscroling je tak báječný....dopaminek, pocit, že to tam žije... 🤣 Na mastodonu mám za pár minut sjeté všechno... V těch trendujících bych potřeboval víc. Ale většinou to jsou i zajímavé, nebo dost vtipné trendy, to zase jo.
@xChaos @sesivany A co byste řekli na opačný přístup? Udělat nějaký účet, který budeme sledovat s upozorněním a který nám bude představovat nové uživatele? (Těm by se místo starter packů řeklo, ať napíšou tomu účtu nějaké intro, které se přesdílí.)
@Jann To je moc dobrý nápad. To by mohlo fungovat. Akorát si říkám, že by bylo dobré úplně na začátek toho člověka oslovit, jestli o to vůbec má zájem. Někteří o tu pozornost nestojí.
@sesivany @Jann výhoda tady je, že ti to nikdo a nic nenutí. Takže i kdyby tě začal sledovat někdo o koho nestojíš, tak mute/block to řeší zcela elegantně. Když chceš být bludný kámen, můžeš být bludný šutr
@sesivany @xChaos jj, souhlasím s @sesivany ... taky nestojím o to, aby se z Mastodonu stalo druhé X. Jsem spokojený, že je tedy pohodové, klidné, netoxické prostředí, bez letek rusských a jiných trollů.
@sesivany @xChaos Ano a ne. Rozhodně mi neschází konverzační styl Twitteru, influenceři a jiné zrůdy, personal brand a tak. Taky inteligentní diskuse, kde na sebe lidi většinou moc neřvou je skvělý.
Na druhou stranu musím se přiznat, že jsou lidé, kteří jsou na Twitteru (a nyní BSky), a kteří mi chybí: pan profesor Snyder, pan doktor Romancov a tak. Sice je tu mám přes bird.makeup a podobné, ale to mě stále nezapojí do té konverzace. A všechny bridge zatím sajou.
@mcepl @xChaos Do jaké konverzace? Ty jim odepisuješ a oni na tebe reagují? Snydera bych rád na Mastodonu jako občana Snydera, ale k tomu myslím nedojde. Jako profesora Snydera ho sleduji na read-only Substacku a nepřijde mi, že bych přicházel o jeho podstatné myšlenky. Případně to tu můžu mít jako read-only bota. O co přicházím? Že se nemůžu připojit k desítkám dalších komentářů, které autoři originálních postů často ani nečtou? Tohle je podle mě falešné FOMO.
@sesivany @xChaos U pana Romancova bych očekával i ty jeho odpovědi, ale jinak se radostně zúčastním i diskusí čtenářů. Jasně, spousta toho jsou nesmysly, ale zdaleka ne všechno.
@sesivany @xChaos Jsem chtěl napsat něco podobného. Nemám potřebu soutěžit a píšu jen když mám pocit, že mám "světu" co užitečného říct. I proto mám někdy delší odmlky. Ale pokud někdo chce posílat jen random útržky ze svého života, fotky zvířátek nebo vlastní lyrickou poezii, je to stejně správné. Osobně jen oceňuju, pokud je v tom +- konzistentní a nemusím dělat moc změn v odběrech S těmi jsem btw opatrný, protože už mám problém to odsledovat.
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