Completely different topic, so ripping this quote out of the context from the article I just boosted:
"I wonder how much Venezuelan sensitive information was in fact stored on Google/Microsoft services and accessed by the US military to prepare their recent strike."
This is indeed a pretty interesting question to ponder. And if you're, say, Greenland, maybe consider your use of US cloud services...
I should state for the record that I think LLMs and other forms of AI have some valid and worthwhile uses, and that *none* of them should be tied to big tech or capitalism.
See things like:
- accessibility
- some types of research
- spell-check and predictive keyboards
- spam/scam filtering
Things would be very different if Harris was president. Democratic voters would be defending her attacks on other countries instead of opposing attacks by Trump.
Just like how they were out to brunch when Biden was increasing the military budget, financing genocide, attacking civil liberties, and killing hundreds of thousands of people when he switched to Trump's Covid strategy to please short term business interests.
Other's People Music returned from its very brief EOY hiatus with some groovy new tunes! Leftfield hip hop, singer-songwriter art pop, demented soundscapes, lo-fi electronic nostalgia & a post-rock concept album about ants. Enjoy!
CV/resume generator for academics and engineers, YAML to PDF - rendercv/rendercvGitHub
So I'm going to NAM in a few weeks. I got a hotel room with a spa tub in it for the occasion, because I am a boujee bitch. There was an option during the booking to request braille signage, which I thought was pretty spiffy, so I selected it.
I just got a call from them to inform me that the braille signage is only available for the accessible rooms. Naturally the accessible rooms are just the regular rooms and don't have the upgraded tub. So So I decided to just keep things as is and do without the signage (as I have done my entire life)
How annoyed should I be about this?
@vitallie @miki I did enjoy it! The food is great, it's very walkable, the trains are solid and everyone I met was super nice. I think of moving there sometimes. But then I would have to learn dutch ;)
I think this is just a case where the ADA has succesfully bullied everyone in the US to do the right thing, which is good. I make a point of mentioning it when I stay in hotels (not that I think it will matter, but, you know, you gotta say something)
Summary When using multiple -b flags, the Cookie header was missing a space after the semicolon separator. Bug behavior curl -b 'a=b' -b 'c=d' https://google.com/ Produced: Cookie: ...GitHub
Today’s lesson: Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. A viral Reddit post about an unnamed food delivery company that delays customer orders takes all of the “driver benefit fee” was probably AI-generated. “Considering the delivery app industry track record of exploitation of its drivers, it’s easy to see why so many people believed this was the real thing,” Elissa Welle writes in her vetting of the post for @theverge. Read the rest of her report here:
#Tech #AI #FoodDelivery #Apps #TechNews #Transportation
DoorDash and Uber Eats both deny the allegations in the viral Reddit “confession” post about a “major food delivery app,” and the post is likely AI slop.Elissa Welle (The Verge)
#XMPP #Extensions and #Specifications ( #XEP )
Read about the new XMPP Extensions and Specifications changes and updates in December 2025:
xmpp.org/2026/01/the-xmpp-news…
#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc #xeps #standards #opensource #decentralization #federation #messaging
In this issue: Pack your bags and get ready for the XMPP Summit 28, take part on any or all of the three XMPP events on Fosdem 26 and the other two on the RHL26. Learn about Monal IM internals. Last JMP newsletter of the year. Update your clients …xmpp.org
Хегсет высмеял Путина и его "аналоговнетное оружие"
"Три ночи назад почти 200 наших лучших американцев вошли в центр Каракаса. И похоже, российская ПВО сработала не очень хорошо, не так ли?", - заявил глава Пентагона.
The XMPP Newsletter for December 2025 is out!
Read about the latest updates in the #XMPP universe and our #standards!
xmpp.org/2026/01/the-xmpp-news…
Enjoy reading! ☕
#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc #opensource #decentralization #federation #messaging #newsletter
In this issue: Pack your bags and get ready for the XMPP Summit 28, take part on any or all of the three XMPP events on Fosdem 26 and the other two on the RHL26. Learn about Monal IM internals. Last JMP newsletter of the year. Update your clients …xmpp.org
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Microsoft's CEO doesn't want us to talk about AI slop any more, does he?
He's quite right: we need to start calling unwanted LLM-generated garbage "Nadella", in honour of Microsoft renaming "Office" to "CoPilot".
Or I guess we could call it Nadella Bukkake.
What do you think?
A 39C3 debrief, getting ready for FOSDEM, and new developments in the Rust servers area. That and more happened over the year end holidays!
matrix.org/blog/2026/01/05/thi…
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
Folks now getting mad at me that I paywall the channel Discord/Matrix.
I get it, everyone wants everything for free.
Counterpoint. I:
1. Have to eat, and
2. Don't want to spend 10 hours a day moderating.
It's a buck a month. I'm OK with it.
The packaging of the Fairphone and it's accessories has braille! I have never seen any packaging other than medicine have braille. I'm so impressed. Even the location of the qr code is highlighted with embossing. It seems to say "scan qr code for help".
#fairphone #braille #phone #smartphone #packaging #accessibility #a11y #blind
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Archive of assistive technology software, manuals, and audio clips from the 1990s or prior. - nstockton/vintage-accessGitHub
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Me: We all know PGP is bad because it forces you to support legacy bullshit like 1024-bit RSA keys, but I'm specifically going to write a blog post about email encryption as not just a technical challenge.
@delta: subtoots my blog post
Their source code: Disables TLS security to support legacy 1024-bit RSA.
github.com/chatmail/core/blob/…
Chatmail Rust Core library, used by Android/iOS/desktop chatmail apps, bindings and bots 📧 - chatmail/coreGitHub
I have been notified about this #accessible text editor written in rust with a lot of interesting features.
Modern Notepad in Rust: read PDF/EPUB/DOCX, play MP3 audiobooks, create audiobooks with high-quality TTS, and manage bookmarks. - Ambro86/NovapadGitHub
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RE: chaos.social/@delta/1158424466…
Encrypted content / headers / transport / etc. are great harm reduction, but by no means is it metadata avoidance (in the strict academic sense of what those words mean when applied to communications systems).
Third party actors (e.g. relay servers / network actors) can build correlative models using the *metadata* inherent in the communication protocol (source, destination, timing, frequency).
We have decades of research demonstrating the power of such models - let's not minimize them.
Don't believe those who loudly claim email can not avoid metadata! They are ignorant of our continuous works on minimizing metadata:DONE:
- no phone number other identifying data needed
- no cleartext "Subject"
- no cleartext "To"
- randomized "Date"
- no IP addresses
- group/avatar/attachment/etc metadata only contained in encrypted message partsUpcoming:
- servers to never see cryptographic ID metadata
- remove "threading" and auxilliary headers
- experiment with Sealed Sender
We are looking for an experienced Android UI developer for github.com/deltachat/deltachat…. Native Java, close to the system, with minimal deps and fluff.
Networking/encryption/persistence is not part of the job as it happens in github.com/chatmail/core
Remote collab is fine and the default. We meet in person every few months in the black forest or other occasions/places. We can do 20-30 hours per week contracts with 4-5K EUR pay per month.
EDIT: position is filled. thanks all!
Chatmail Rust Core library, used by Android/iOS/desktop chatmail apps, bindings and bots 📧 - GitHub - chatmail/core: Chatmail Rust Core library, used by Android/iOS/desktop chatmail apps, bindings...GitHub
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J'en ai eu marre de voir un ami galérer avec un client XMPP sur Mac…
Et bon je suis impulsif·ve vous le savez, donc comme j'adore le client Gajim, bah ça fait 4 semaines que je travaille sur le fait de pouvoir enfin utiliser Gajim sur MacOS, vous avez du le voir passer ici vu mes demandes en décembre :D
Et ça y est on a enfin des .dmg qui marchent bien et que vous pouvez tester en nightly ici :
gajim.org/download/#install-ma…
N'hésitez pas à nous faire vos retours sur le salon de Gajim !
Today in 1940, 86 years ago: in the United States, the Federal Communications Commission demonstrates FM broadcasting for the first time.
Y'all I'm away from my Linux work machine for two whole weeks. And I come back to find...
It's still powered on.
It's at the lock screen.
It's ready, ready I say, for my password. No reboot needed. No secure desktop and then wait for a few seconds for Windows to consider doing its job. It just, plain, works.
RE: fosstodon.org/@gajim/115843719…
Glad to be able to help Gajim be available on MacOS! 🎉
Gajim on macOSInstalling Gajim on macOS just got a lot easier! Gajim is now available as a packaged DMG setup file 📦, which can be downloaded and installed.
At the moment, we provide an experimental nightly for testing. If everything goes well, the next Gajim release will include a macOS setup as well 🎉
Try the nightly here:
gajim.org/download/#install-ma…
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