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This is great:

> His criticisms have, amongst other things, made Epic CEO Tim Sweeney grumpy. Posting on MechaHitler.com, the billionaire wilderness conservationist and original Unreal Engineer commented that "political opinions should go into op eds folks."

The mechahitler link, of course, goes to x.com. 😂

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Epic boss Tim Sweeney is right to call genAI a political topic - it's a mechanism of class war

Epic's Tim Sweeney has challenged a review of Arc Raiders that marked the game down for its generative AI elements, calling genAI a politicised subject.
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell (Rock Paper Shotgun)
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Bubu

Different article, also great, starting from the subheadline already.

> Microsoft have delivered a timely reminder that AI isn’t just effective at injecting ugly, soulless anti-art and nonsense robochat into your games – it also has the power to ruin your entire PC.

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Microsoft detail 'agentic AI' plan for Windows 11, immediately admit it might install malware on your PC

Windows 11's promised AI helpers carry a serious security risk, according to Microsoft themselves.
James Archer (Rock Paper Shotgun)

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Security Patches Ported For AOSP 16 QPR1 To GrapheneOS

We ported the Android 16 security preview patches to 16 QPR1. 2025111801 is our first 16 QPR1 with December 2025, January 2026, February 2026 and March 2026 ASB patches:

grapheneos.org/releases#202511…

We'll fix a few more QPR1 regressions and then it should be able to reach Stable.

GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)

We ported the Android 16 security preview patches to 16 QPR1. 2025111801 is our first 16 QPR1 with December 2025, January 2026, February 2026 and March 2026 ASB patches: https://grapheneos.
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#grapheneos

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Today I finished my maths unit on sequences and series at last. It took me two weeks and I'm still not fully reliable on everything.

Went from recurrences (affine and homogeneous linear 1st order and homogeneous 2nd order) to sequence convergence, series (geometric, p), and convergence tests: comparison, Leibniz, ratio, root, Direchlet.

It annoys me how long it takes me to go through this stuff. A lot of it I should already know (like the sum of a geometric series). Also I hate reindexing.

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My wife ordered some dog training toys from Ireland. They got stuck in customs. Got a notice to contact DHL. DHL says,

"Unfortunately, your shipment's progress has been seized by official government authority and this shipment will not be delivered or returned to DHL"

Uhh.. wtf?

We expected she'd have to pay some kind of stupid tariff or something maybe but now apparently the product is just... gone? Stolen by the government?

What the hell?

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GrapheneOS Foundation Response To French Media Inquiries(UPDATED: 11-20-2025)

We were contacted by a journalist at Le Parisien newspaper with this prompt:

I am preparing an article on the use of your secure personal data phone solution by drug traffickers and other criminals. Have you ever been contacted by the police?

Are you aware that some of your clients might be criminals? And how does the company manage this issue?


Absolutely no further details were provided about what was being claimed, who was making it or the basis for those being made about it. We could only provide a very generic response to this.

Our response was heavily cut down and the references to human rights organizations, large tech companies and others using GrapheneOS weren't included. Our response was in English was translated by them: "we have no clients or customers" was turned into "nous n’avons ni clients ni usagers", etc...

GrapheneOS is a freely available open source privacy project. It's obtained from our website, not shady dealers in dark alleys and the "dark web". It doesn't have a marketing budget and we certainly aren't promoting it through unlisted YouTube channels and the other nonsense that's being claimed.

GrapheneOS has no such thing as the fake Snapchat feature that's described. What they're describing appears to be forks of GrapheneOS by shady companies infringing on our trademark. Those products may not even be truly based on GrapheneOS, similar to how ANOM used parts of it to pass it off as such.

France is an increasingly authoritarian country on the brink of it getting far worse. They're already very strong supporters of EU Chat Control. Their fascist law enforcement is clearly ahead of the game pushing outrageous false claims about open source privacy projects. None of it is substantiated.

iodéOS and /e/OS are based in France. iodéOS and /e/OS make devices dramatically more vulnerable while misleading users about privacy and security. These fake privacy products serve the interest of authoritarians rather than protecting people. /e/OS receives millions of euros in government funding.

Those lag many months to years behind on providing standard Android privacy and security patches. They heavily encourage users to use devices without working disk encryption and important security protections. Their users have their data up for grabs by apps, services and governments who want it.

There's a reason they're going after a legitimate privacy and security project developed outside of their jurisdiction rather than 2 companies based in France within their reach profiting from selling 'privacy' products.

discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24134…

Here's that article:

archive.is/AhMsj

There's another article posted at lefigaro.fr/secteur/high-tech/…. We don't have a subscription to access it so we can't evaluate whether the coverage is fairer. Need our community to check. There's an ongoing attempt to smear GrapheneOS by French government agencies so there will be more articles.

The reality is that a tiny proportion of the GrapheneOS userbase are criminals, clearly far below 1%. It's a rounding error. The vast majority of criminals use Android and iOS. French law enforcement contains a vastly higher proportion of criminals than the GrapheneOS userbase.

French law enforcement has a disproportionately high number of domestic abusers, pedophiles and other criminals. They routinely illegally violate the human rights of French citizens. They're upset they can't break into phones of a small handful of people because of GrapheneOS.


Qu’est-ce que GrapheneOS, ce logiciel détourné par certains trafiquants pour supprimer les informations de leur téléphone ?

DÉCRYPTAGE - Ce système d’exploitation créé en 2014 inquiète les autorités tricolores. Il permet, entre autres, de réinitialiser un smartphone aux paramètres d’usine grâce à un seul code.
Emma Confrère (Le Figaro)
#grapheneos
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You probably don’t need `aria-label` for that thing.

It doesn’t auto-translate:
adrianroselli.com/2019/11/aria…

It’s code smell:
ericwbailey.website/published/…

You can probably use better methods:
adrianroselli.com/2020/01/my-p…

#accessibility #a11y #ARIA


aria-label Does Not Translate

As of my 25 July 2025 update at the end of this post, aria-label auto-translation support is less spotty than when I first wrote this post, but still unreliable. It does, actually. Sometimes.
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#a11y #Accessibility #aria

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seasonal music

Sensitive content

#apple #music #christmas #holiday #song

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Today, November 19, is World Toilet Day.

In honor of this, in 2018, when November 19 fell on a Monday, I recorded an introduction to week 47 of 2018 using a couple of toilets flushing, a vocoder, and my own voice, such that the toilets are speaking.


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The thing about using live captioning on the iPhone when in public is that it doesn't discriminate between 2 people speaking. I was ordering a coffee and someone else was cussing out another person, so my captions looked like "What you fucking asshole! size would you fuck that! and fuck you! like?" I was .... SO confused! YIKES! #Deafblind
#deafblind

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A surprising amount can be read from the data, and for some users, it can be life-threatening.


The entire WhatsApp profile database (including correlatable phone numbers and face photos) leaked.

heise.de/en/news/3-5-Billion-A…

#Privacy #WhatsApp #Databreach


3.5 Billion Accounts: Complete WhatsApp Directory Retrieved and Evaluated

Vienna researchers retrieved all WhatsApp numbers. The 3.5 billion profiles represent the largest data leak in history—and it's worse than you might think.
Daniel AJ Sokolov (heise online)
#privacy #whatsapp #databreach

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- Copilot was forced to nearly every MS user without their consent
- Gemini starts each time an Android user touch their smartphone main button
- Whatsapp users suddenly interact with an AI they can’t disable
- Firefox will soon have its own AI
- Even myself, as a @protonprivacy and @kagihq user, I received access to multiple chatbots I never asked for

But remember: statistics show that "people are using AI tools !"

If you trust those statistics, you are deep into the delusion bubble.

@Proton @Kagi HQ
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LibreOffice communities around the world help to improve the software, do local marketing, and advocate for open standards. Today we're announcing a new project, to build up the LibreOffice community in the US: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #openSource #freesoftware
US flag and LibreOffice logo

Announcing the LibreOffice US community! - The Document Foundation Blog

LibreOffice is made by hundreds of people around the world. In many countries, we have active communities that organise events, do local marketing, and help users in their local language.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource

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"If you're not using the stable kernel, your system is insecure. [...]
I'll call out Debian: Debian tracks our kernels very well. Debian runs the world. Over 70% of all servers in the world run Debian. Everything else is a rounding error [...]
👉 Debian: really, really good. I work with the Debian developers all the time. I can't recommend them enough. Their systems are good.
👉 RedHat, SUSE: they have their own weird systems -- talk to them, you're paying them."

@gregkh at youtu.be/dhu8HSOzxd8?t=1226


Kernel CVEs are Alive, but Do Not Panic! - Greg Kroah-Hartman, Kernel Maintainer

Kernel CVEs are Alive, but Do Not Panic! - Greg Kroah-Hartman, Kernel MaintainerLast year the Linux kernel community took charge of issuing CVEs for any foun...
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Say hello to Art of Flora 🌱 Available now for Pre-order!

Please share and spread the word!

This sibling of Art of Fauna is all about the beautiful world of plants 🌸

What stays the same? 👀
- Relaxing puzzle game based on historical art
- 20% of proceeds are donated to nature conservation
- Big focus on accessibly

apps.apple.com/at/app/art-of-f…

A thread 🧵

1/6

#gamedev #indiedev #nature


Art of Flora: Pflanzen Puzzle‑App – App Store

Lade Art of Flora: Pflanzen Puzzle von Klemens Strasser im App Store herunter. Sieh dir Screenshots, Bewertungen und Rezensionen, Benutzertipps und weitere…
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#gamedev #nature #indiedev

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When Dave Plummer wrote the original Task Manager for Windows NT, he specifically avoided linking with a CRT to make the binary as small as possible. As such, the first version of Task Manager to ever ship with Windows was an 85 KB executable.

Now cut to today. On Windows 10, the laggy, crappy UIA-heavy Task Manager is around 1.2 MB.

But wait, because it gets worse!

On Windows 11, the new Task Manager using WinUI and admittedly with *slightly* better accessibility and *slightly* less lag, is 5.6 MB, with a nearly 1 MB TaskManager.DataModel.dll next to it.

And when they ask me why I am utterly obsessed with binary size, this is why.

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Matt Campbell

In music, we often think the past was better, because we remember the greatest hits of the past while we constantly hear the merely average or bad stuff in the present. I think it's the same for us nerds and software. Dave Plummer's original Task Manager was one of Windows's greatest hits. I'm sure NT4 also had stuff that was merely functional and inefficient by the standards of its day. And now Microsoft has seen fit to replace Task Manager with the equivalent of filler music.

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Tech Singer

I agree, but in music, the instruments don't change very much over time, though they do change to some extent. Comparing your 486 to what we have now, what we should be seeing now is excellent speed and performance, no matter how bad the actual code was in the days of NT. What we do see is real degradation. Some of that degraded performance is because of new features that many people do actually like and use. A great deal of it, though, is bloat, very niche features which could be turned on or off if needed, lazy coding... I could go on.
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Canadian Government Introduces New Stablecoin Act as Part of Budget Implementation Legislation
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Canadian Government Introduces New Stablecoin Act as Part of Budget Implementation Legislation - Michael Geist

The Canadian government yesterday tabled its Budget Implementation Act. Running at over 600 pages, the bill includes several notable provisions related to digital policy including the repeal of the Digital Services Tax, the restoration of a privacy p…
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As a polytheist, I worship gods from a few different pantheons. When the weather turns colder, and I wake up to a world covered in glittering frost every morning, my focus turns to the Norse pantheon.

Their myths were born from a people who were living through the end of the last Ice Age, and so it's easy to see how the Frost Giants were their adversaries.

Here in the Northern forests of the American continent, an average of 39% of days in the year will reach below freezing. I feel like I know what it's like to battle the cold and darkness of winter. It's difficult, depressing, and hard to get out of bed sometimes, but I can take comfort in knowing that my gods are right there with me.

#NorsePagan #Polytheism

#NorsePagan #polytheism

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We love the story of 17th century Tulipmania and its financial collapse. How could those people have been so stupid to bet the house on a tulip bulb?

At the end of September, the 8 largest stock holdings in the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) were all AI stocks, amounting to a quarter of the value of the entire pension fund.

The #AI bubble may be about to burst. Mark Carney must not bail out its Tech Barons
breachmedia.ca/ai-bubble-may-b…

#AI

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Should I have gone with DotPad X over Cadence? For me, I don't think so. Your trade-offs may vary but:
Both devices have a refresh noise. There's no way around it. I wish I could hear the DotPad X in action, but very few or practically nobody has posted a demo of this. I would expect it to sound like a Monarch, if the cell tech is the same or similar. Even if we consider Cadence louder, the refresh is near-instant. Not as instant as a classic piezoelectric 40-cell, but let me say, itt's no more than .5 to 1 seconds for the entire 4 lines to refresh. This doesn't get longer when you connect more than one because they refresh together, but you do get slightly louder clicks. So refresh rate itself? Cadence still wins.
Then for me the battery is what sealed the deal. Weeks on a charge? DotPad X looks to be 8 hours. A workday's worth, sure, but not much more.
And for sure, this is Cadence gen 1. Can you imagine what this little company from Indiana could do with it if more people saw things this way? How the tech could improve, maybe dampening over time the clicks?
Joe and the rest of their team have been incredible. For repairs, they told me they send you a new unit and you then send yours back. Very prompt at responses too during the day, you're not left waiting on hold.
So if anyoone again asks: "Do you regret Cadence despite its press conference-like noise when refreshing?" My answer is still a resounding no. I love 48-cells in my pocket, sized like an 18-cell.

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Když přijdete o řidičák, tak podle toho, jak jste o něj přišli, vás čekají různé cesty k jeho získání zpět. Ty nejdrsnější jsou po odebrání papírů na více než 18 měsíců, kdy musíte projít terapeutickým kurzem za 15k, který trvá 20 hodin. Na druhou stranu u takového vybodování vám bez řečí vrátí papíry po 12 měsících.

Tady asi nejvíc pozor na rychlost >+40 v obci a >+50 mimo obec, to je řidičák pryč na místě. Podobně to je s chybějící nebo zakrytou RZ - to říkejte že se nasedali do auta, které mělo obě RZ v pořádku. A hned poté na nehody se zraněním. Taková nehoda může mít mnoho forem a snadno přijdete o papíry i když si budete myslet, že jste nic špatného neudělali. Příkladem může být řidič autobusu, který prudce zabrzdí kvůli situaci před vozem a někdo uvnitř autobusu se zraní.

idnes.cz/zpravy/domaci/silnice…


Desítky tisíc řidičů přišly o „papíry“, ale zpět je nechtějí. Silnice jsou plné lidí bez řidičáků

V Česku existuje početná skupina lidí, kteří přišli o řidičské oprávnění a nechtějí je zpátky. Podle zjištění redakce iDNES.cz je celkem 37 768 vybodovaných řidičů, jen letos jich následkem bodů přišlo o „papíry“ 4 175.
iDNES.cz
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Jiří Eischmann

O papíry můžou lidi přijít i při zkouškách na jinou skupinu. Když jsem dělal zkoušky já, bylo tam dost profesionálních řidičů, kteří si potřebovali jen přidat další skupinu. Zkoušející na začátku řekl, že jim dává poslední možnost odejít, pokud si nevěří, že pokud nedosáhnou bodů, které jsou potřeba pro skupiny, které už mají, musí řidičák odevzdat. Všichni zůstali a někteří na konci museli odevzdat řidičáky. Ne, že by jim to ušlo o pár bodů, ale měli třeba 25/65. 🤯
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🔩 Adam Štrauch

Takhle rychlé to není. Tím, že odevzdáš kartičku, o oprávnění nepřijdeš. Na to musí proběhnout správní řízení na úřadě, které se dá odkládat dokud ten test neuděláš. Dneska už s kartičkou jezdit nemusíš, takže pokud nejedeš do zahraničí, tak stačí být jen rychlejší než úřad.

Nicméně je to jedna z dalších cest, jak o papíry přijít, když to člověk nechá dojet do konce 🙂

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When Everyone’s a Developer, How Do We Promote the Web Platform Over React?

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#webplatform


When Everyone’s a Developer, How Do We Promote the Web Platform Over React?

2025 is a strange time to start a newsletter about web technology. The past four editions of WTN have focused on the intersection of the web and AI, because frankly that's where most of the excitement is on today's internet.
Richard MacManus (Web Technology News)
#webPlatform

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With NVDA, why can we navigate HTML tables by cell, but not tables in Windows apps? Foobar2000's key assignments list is a table, but you can find them in first-party apps as well, like Event Viewer. Even Explorer lists are, arguably, tables, but those do allow cell navigation. Sure, Explorer lets you use plain arrows instead of table commands, but it works. Why not use table navigation for all tables?
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Alex Hall

@jscholes @TheQuinbox @miki In Task Manager, on the processes tab, I have a data grid of processes. However, it acts more like a tree view, with multi-window processes able to be expanded or collapsed. I don't have any other columns I can move to. If I want to see how much memory Firefox is using, I... Actually, I'm not sure how I'd do that. There are sort options for memory, CPU, and more, but no columns for those data points.
@miki @Quin @James Scholes
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