Yesterday Twitter showed me a video of a known journalist interviewing a famous muslim US representative, where they cheerfully talk how the representative married and has sex with her brother.
Very realistic looking yet 100% fake. So many will believe it.
Insanely racist, islamophobic and defamatory.
Non consensual deep fakes are so obviously problematic, and in this political environment absolutely incendiary.
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Sora is a remarkable technical achievement but these were two poorly considered decisions
1. A platform where anyone can share a video of Pikachu & Sonic the Hedgehog beating each other up will be a DMCA takedown festival.
2.
There was one on Mastodon with Linus Torvalds cheering on an anti-trans kernel maintainer, and going on a racist rant himself. It was definitely his style of communication, but it was not actually him.
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Remember. If your Province doesn't offer free COVID vaccines to all it's because the tax cut for the rich at the Federal level make they no longer supply to the provinces. So the provinces have no obligation to care.
Two Governments failing their citizens doesn't make a success.
You can write to your MP. You can write to the Minister of Health. You can also write to your MLA / MPP / MNA at the Province level, but chance that they listen, or can do anything are slim. Namely the wack jobs at the helm of both AB and QC....
⚙️ Upozornění: Probíhá přesun všech videí z lokálního úložiště na S3 ☁️ Během tohoto procesu mohou být některá videa 🎞️ dočasně nedostupná nebo se nebudou přehrávat. Po dokončení přesunu se přehrávání obnoví ✅ Děkujeme za trpělivost 🙏
Did you notice Tuta's new colors? We've already heard great feedback, particularly about the blue dark theme. 💙 What are your thoughts about this update?!
✨ New color themes ✨ Apply dark mode to emails even if they contain colors ✨ Auto-save drafts
The last one is not visible, but super handy: Tuta now saves drafts automatically so if your device shuts down, your Tuta draft will not be lost! 🎉
looks good! Just not possible to set it to be automatic by system, only the red theme is aligned with the system settings + it would be nice to have red/blue icon options so it matches as well 😊
I the default Dark (red) theme. Though it would be really cool if you could select your own color and it generates a material 3 color palette and then maybe also uses the material you color on android (if that's possible).
I don't like the new version of the light theme. It makes reading difficult; I feel like I'm in a fog... It would be better to make this new version optional, like the others, so that users have the choice to revert to the previous version. Thank you.
My boss asked me "what new skills do you think web developers will need in two years", which gave me an opportunity to tell her about my recent efforts to learn urban foraging and how to identify edible plants in my neighborhood.
🇩🇪Klare Ansage jetzt auch der Bundesjustizministerin: „Anlasslose #Chatkontrolle muss in einem Rechtsstaat tabu sein.“ Private Kommunikation dürfe nicht unter Generalverdacht stehen. "Solchen Vorschlägen wird Deutschland auf EU-Ebene nicht zustimmen." bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Zitate/DE/2…
🇪🇺Germany's Minister of Justice today: "Suspicionless #ChatControl must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law." Private communication cannot be placed under general suspicion. "Germany will not agree to such proposals at the EU level." bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Zitate/DE/2…
As an experiment, I am quite literally #vibeCoding an #accessibility mod for a game. I'm about 90% of the way there (AI is making a mess of things but even a broken clock is right twice a day), and so far, I have spent a grand total of six dollars, and maybe about a half an hour of work. But sure, keep telling me making things #accessible is too expensive, takes too much time and doesn't need priority. Want to force #developers to use #AI? Do me a favor, force them to use it for this as well while you're busy making their lives miserable :P #rant
Dass die Absage zur #ChatKontrolle von der CDU kam, zeigt ja auch mal wieder, dass die SPD überhaupt keine eigenen Positionen mehr vertritt, sondern ausschließlich am Machterhalt interessiert ist.
witzig, in meiner timeline taucht gleichzeitig mit deiner Behauptung ein Artikel zur Ablehnung der #chatkontrolle durch die Bundesjustizministerin auf, sie gehört der SPD an.
Is anybody here like.... #weird or whatever. I wanna embrace this app, but it seems like most people are tech geeks and I'm just not. Has anyone gone to a good concert lately? Shit. I wanna find my weirdos.
Missing option, though that would probably be unrealistic: "Only if signed by F-Droid".
Why? When Google signs, it adds proprietary BLOBs to the APK as well (keyword: DEPENDENCY_INFO_BLOCK, FROSTING_BLOCK). So the APK as it would then be distributed via PlayStore would no longer be fully FOSS.
Why unrealistic? As for new apps, Google no longer accepts APKs signed by their devs.
Yes yes. My bad. I'm running version 25.8.1.1. When I open a .csv file with LibreOffice Calc I see this Text Import window. The problem is that it doesn't fit to my screen size and for that reason the bottom buttons aren't visible.
The kerberos5 library Heimdal is one of three GSS libraries curl support.
It has a memory leak triggered by the new test in #18917 and the project
seems mostly abandoned.
Drop support and steer use...
quick curiosity question about breaking changes and versions: this is technically a breaking change, it would mandate a new major version according to semver. I know curl does not strictly abide by semver. How do you make sure the 3 people impacted by that change actually see it when they update?
@vincentbiret it's not a breaking change, neither API nor ABI change. An affected user (assuming one even exists) just have to build with a another 3rd party library and not change anything else.
ah it's a module/lib/implementation detail. From afar it looked like it was a protocol being dropped. I'm guessing that things like dropping a protocol or a version of one would mandate a major version bump?
So, exporting 73Kb ODS document (several sheets with one small table on each one of them) into XML in #LibreCalc results in 439Mb file. #Vim basically dies on this file. #Emacs opens it instantly. I can even navigate it freely and syntax highlighting works. Although it doesn't help much. Here's a catch:
me@desktop:~/temp$ wc -l file.xml 1 file.xml
It's a 439 Mb long line. I have no idea what's wrong with LibreCalc.
Hi! We're not sure what you mean, by "export to XML", as LibreOffice's own format (.ods) is XML. Can you be more specific? Also, what version of LibreOffice are you using?
@libreoffice I mean "File -> Export..." then choosing Microsoft Office 2003 XML. Actually I wanted XLS file, but didn't put an extension manually, so LibreCalc exported to pure XML. I used LibreOffice 7.4.7.2 on LMDE 6 (pretty old, I think). Now I tested it with the same file on LibreOffice 25.2.4.3 on FreeBSD 14.3. Results are the same: 439 Mb file.
Ah, OK! That doesn't sound right. Can you please report it to the QA community at bugs.documentfoundation.org and share the file if possible (or part of it that recreates the problem). Thanks!
I reported a use of uninitialized memory to them a couple of years ago without any response. This reminds me that I should probably submit it to the Debian BTS to see if the maintainer there has better insights than the heimdal project's listed contacts.
Another edition of LinuxDays took place in Prague last weekend – the country’s largest Linux event drawing more than 1200 attendees and as every yearm we had a Fedora booth there – this time we also representing CentOS.
I was really glad that Tomáš Hrčka helped me staff the booth. I’m focused on the desktop part of Fedora and don’t follow the rest of the project in such detail. As a member […]
PeakParkour is an audio-based endless runner where your character runs forward automatically across three lanes. Your task is to survive for as long as
The Japanese Blind ICT Network (JBICT) is currently running their fifth annual survey on Assistive Technology usage preferences of users with visual impairments. As I discovered it only this year, naturally I read through the results of the 2024 edition with the help of Google Translate. Some interesting patterns: 1. The survey was distributed through many channels including mailing lists, Line chat groups (the leading instant messaging app in Japan(, X and, if I understand correctly, a local Braille magazine. Most respondents were in their 40's and 50's with a stark difference even towards respondents in their 30's and 20's. 2. PC Talker, the locally manufactured screen reader with some 30 years of history, is still the leader, however NVDA and Narrator are winning some ground too. Most respondents admit to using a combination of two or three screen readers, the most popular combo being PC Talker, NVDA and Narrator. Interestingly enough, the reason most given for sticking with their primary option is being used to it rather than added features or exemplary app support. 3. iPhone definitely dominates the market which cannot be said about the Mac. Two users are still running Raku F-03, an early smartphone manufactured by Fujitsu in the 00's with a screen reading capability, compatible with I-Mode, the predecessor of current Web but with many modern features we associate with smart technology such as video, payments etc. I might have gotten the model wrong in which case, my apologies. One of those users owns this phone alone while the other uses it in parallel with an iPhone. 4. The adoption of Word as a text editor is super marginal compared to some local options, many of which are linked so can be tested. Outlook is the second email client next to a local option. Browsing email from the provider's website is more popular than Thunderbird and Becky was used by just a couple users. 5. OCR and image recognition apps are used primarily on mobile devices for reading mail, product packaging and social media photos rather than books. The apps we all know like Seeing AI, Envision and Be My Eyes are far more popular than Japanese products. jbict.net/survey/at-survey-04 - I'd be happy about insights, feedback and corrections from Japanese users - I'm just a geek exploring whatever can be found with the means available to me. #Accessibility #A11y #Blind #Japan
As an addendum: the most popular Braille display is Braillememo, which as I understand is a tiny display of 16 cells which perhaps bigger options available, with a feature of coupling more of them together to create a bigger one, kind of like sighted users handle things on multiple screens. Braillesense is pretty popular, Focus is way down and I was surprised how few users of Seika displays there are.
@jakobrosin Some time ago I was exploring the different advent calendars on accessibility and web design that @aardrian keeps recommending each year and there was the Japanese one - interesting resource by the way. Anyway, the JBICT network was referenced there and I followed the link and that's how I found their podcast which mostly posts interviews with exhibitors at the annual show of blindness products in Tokyo. I subscribed and transcribed some of that with Whisper which is how I got the rough idea of the products like Braillememo. They posted an episode on the results of the survey last week and had a link in the show notes - I need to take a peek into the episode itself as it might provide more context. The Raku phone is something I learnt from somebody I met through the ICC camp when I was researching the accessibility of I-Mode.
@miki @jakobrosin I guess you could have some degree of difference in one country or the other if, for instance, someone developed a suite of self-voiced apps that a lot of people have come to use over the years, or some other factor that affects the general usage pattern. I guess this would have been more of a wild ride in the 80's/90's where each country had three local screen readers for Dos and one or two odd hardware synths plus Apollo. Czech Republic is my favorite example of this - a dos-based notetaker with dialup support at the beginning of the 90's, the biggest blindness organisation hosts its own BBS, accessible public transit schedules on Dos, a Symbian app to support two or three blindness libraries by 2007...
@jakobrosin Italy had something similar re: DOS notetakers as far as I believe. There was also that device we had which let you read Teletext with a DOS screen reader.
@jakobrosin Italy had something similar re: DOS notetakers as far as I believe. There was also that device we had which let you read Teletext with a DOS screen reader.
We're trying to use @Tutanota for our email needs, but it seems like our email address is getting marked as spam by Gmail. Hopefully it's something we can overcome soon as we try to recruit members!
Spam is classified by many factors - if you send out many similar, unasked for emails for recruiting, Gmail users will mark them as spam, which then blacklists your domain on Gmail. Please do not do this to reach out to people, but use other methods than email!
ah ok, that's exactly what I was doing! Not spam emailing, but researching to see what local businesses or groups might be interested in our club. We'll try another way!
## Summary:
In curl’s OpenSSL backend, `ossl_get_channel_binding` retains a new reference to the server’s X509 certificate via `SSL_get1_peer_certificate` and never releases it. When Negotiate...
Appreciate your transparency with the process and outcome here.
It's really helpful to be able to reference how maintainers of well known / well respected projects have handled issues like this where it's not always clear cut.
Avis non-sollicité d'une personne noire sur le débat Bluesky VS Mastodon
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Face aux mouvements de contestation de la Gen Z de Madagascar qui, à la base manifeste pour un réel accès à l'eau potable et à électricité sans coupure, le président malgache a nommé comme premier ministre un général de l'armée de terre.
22 personnes sont mortes selon les chiffres de l'ONU qui datent d'il y a déjà une semaine. Une grève générale est prévue si le gouvernement ne répond pas aux exigences du mouvement Gen Z et la répression des forces de l'ordre va sûrement être de nouveau violente. Il est important de regarder et de partager ce qu'il se passe là-bas.
Bluesky et Mastodon dans tout ça ? La portée de ces évènements est assez faible sur le fedivers, les rares publications sur le sujet que j'ai vues passer sont à peine partagées.
Bluesky c'est à peine mieux mais uniquement parce qu'il y a plus de monde qu'ici, une recherche du terme "Madagascar" sur Bluesky me donne un peu trop de résultats sur les films d'animation.
Et honnêtement je m'en fous, si on doit combattre l'algorithme sur les réseaux sociaux détenus par des milliardaires pour avoir de la portée médiatique, on fera ce qu'il faudra.
Two years ago today was the vicious Hamas October 7th attack. So much suffering of innocents on that day, so much suffering since. That was of course what Hamas wanted; their plan was to provoke a response from the Israeli government that would eventually weaken international support for Israel.
I pray that the residents of the Holy Land may live in peace someday. May it be soon.
A few years ago, I learned how to use #Coq, a proof assistant, by reading a wonderful freely available book called software Foundations (I think it was called something else at the time). This resource was, as well as an excellent introduction for a user who hadn't done (almost) any proof assistant stuff before, accessible for a blind person. It was easy to read the .v files and follow along filling in the exercises.
A bit later, Coq changed its interface. Specifically, coqtop, which is the command-line REPL-ish way to use coq, removed the capability to show proof scripts (Show Script) and the automatic script printing after Qed/Defined/Admitted/etc. This made it very hard for me to keep using it, because the IDEs were not accessible at the time (nor now).
Recently I used #Codex, specifically codex-cli, to solve this problem. I asked it to write me a script that would sit between me and coqtop, and allow me to enter theorems, tactics, etc, and keep a record of them on a .v file, including tactics only when they succeeded, and unwinding when the undo command was used. Codex took a while flailing, and I had to direct its attempts carefully, but it got a script that works, written in python, to do just this. I can now use Coq again, and I get usable .v files afterwards which I can work on.
In principle this is something I could have done myself. But the python script is fairly large, and the task is fiddly (requires messing about detecting prompts, etc). Realistically, I think I would never have done it. My next possibility was trying to use Coq from VS Code, but I don't know how well that would have worked out.
So, in this particular case, an AI coding agent made #accessibility where there was none and increased my ability to learn and work. It's going to be difficult to convince me that this has no value.
Yes, I asked the Coq-Club mailing list for solutions to this problem. None were offered.
Does anyone know the origin of the phrase "Mother of all Demos" as applied to Douglas Engelbart's famous 1968 demo? Wikipedia doesn't say; it only mentions that the name was retroactive. I'm guessing the origin is Steven Levy's 1994 book _Insanely Great_. Rationale: Other authors write things like "known as" or "so-called" when mentioning that phrase, but Levy simply said "It was the mother of all demos." (I don't know about capitalization as I pulled that quote from the audiobook.)
@esoteric_programmer Almost certainly not, because the phrase "mother of all X" in English apparently only came into common usage in 1991 with the Gulf War.
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