#LastPass was hacked for the fourth (!) time. If anyone is still using it, stop right now! Migrate your passwords, use #KeePass, #BitWarden or even #1Password, but make it safe for you. theverge.com/2022/11/30/234869…

The government wants to get in your DMs.

The #OnlineSafetyBill will make messaging apps scan what you're saying and what images you're sharing before they get encrypted. It unlocks your privacy.

Email your MP (UK) today: action.openrightsgroup.org/wri…

#BlockTheBill #PrivacyIsOnlineSafety #privacy #freedomofexpression

Mindblowing 🤯

#Whisper is an #openSource #speechRecognition model written in #Python by #OpenAI. I’ve just seen it in action. Extract an #mp3 from a video, run it through Whisper, and it turns every spoken word into text. It even does a very decent job in #Danish. Perfect for subtitling #TV and #video. I am very impressed.

github.com/openai/whisper

#ai #language #transcription #speechToText

Další díl našeho podcastu Beer&Bible o Danushe Nerudové. A taky o vodě v Pismu svatému. Věděli jste, že živá voda fakt existuje?
youtu.be/9SD-M10SxdE

Thunderbird Daily users should start noticing something new in the app menu 😉

(This is purely in the testing phase right now, and as always we don't recommend Alpha software in a production environment.)

EDIT: Please read this post before deciding to test it thunderbird.topicbox.com/group…

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⚠️ WARNING: Do not use #Hive Social!

According to research conducted by @zerforschung, the #Twitter alternative Hive Social has got a number of dangerous #security vulnerabilies.

They allow attackers to completely access and even to partly edit anyone's data, including private posts, deleted direct messages, e-mail addresses and phone numbers signed up with etc.

Once again this demonstrates that you should not rely on closed-source software to guard sensitive data.

🔗 zerforschung.org/posts/hive-en

Programming, Dev Recommendations
#Dev recommendations 6. #RegEx can be a hard topic for every new person starting with #programming. However don’t be scared of them because they are useful and fun! If you struggle to learn #RegularExpressions here are my favorite resources.
1. regex101.com. This website is your all in one toolbox for regular expressions, with tutorials, reference and a very advanced debugger which can visualise the expression’s output. All for free, and with #accessibility for the #blind out of the box.
2. youtube.com/watch?v=r6I-Ahc0HB…
A little course on regular expressions. The teaching is cler and the guy explains everything on the way.
As always, if you have any questions about #RegEx, #csharp #dotnet, #swift or anything else, feel free to ask me!

More LibreOffice Conference 2022 videos! Arabic/Persian/Klingon support, wiki cleaning, project sustainability: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…

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Password managers are an essential thing. But folks using LastPass... don't. Similarly, all the other centralised, VC-funded proprietary corporate players (1Password, Dashlane, etc.). They're all an accident waiting to happen (or happen *again*, like this: bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…). Instead I recommend: BitWarden + VaultWarden: tech.oeru.org/setting-your-own… If you're not up to building your own, find someone you know & trust to do it. If you build one, make it available to your family & social circles.
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My daughter asked me, "Have we ever seen a star being born?" Here's part of the answer.
Deep within interstellar cloud CB 130-3, a dense knot of gas and dust teeters on the edge of collapse. When it goes, it will become a new star.
nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard… #Space #astronomy
in reply to Corey S Powell

"Have we ever seen a star being born?" Part 2: This is protostar L1527, 1/50,000th the age of the Sun. It's still pulling in gas & squirting out huge jets. The star itself is hidden behind a dusty disk (the line at the middle). Planets are forming there! webbtelescope.org/contents/new…

"It was my belief that as Mastodon adoption grew, the moderators of whichever instance you chose to use would have to deal ever-increasing volumes of abuse. It’d be like how email providers have to develop spam filters to combat incoming spam from every other provider (but so much still gets through).

After a month on #Mastodon, I’ve realized I was wrong."

escapingtech.com/tech/opinions…

Had a really fun conversation about Mastodon and the Fediverse today with folks at the #Oregon State University #OpenSource Lab, @osuosl.

If you don't know about them (or if you do!) please give them a follow. It's a great program for getting university students hands-on experience with key #FreeSoftware project infrastructure.

osuosl.org

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I’ve recently released gpu-io – a #webgl computing library for real-time physics simulations, particle/agent-based systems, cellular automata, image processing, and general purpose GPU computations.

Examples: apps.amandaghassaei.com/gpu-io…
GitHub: github.com/amandaghassaei/gpu-…

gpu-io makes it easy to build GPU-accelerated apps without worrying about low-level WebGL details and browser inconsistencies. Designed for WebGL2 with fallbacks for WebGL1. WebGPU support is planned! More in thread 🧵...

Counting unique visitors without using cookies, UIDs or fingerprinting. – notes.normally.com/cookieless-…

This is why you should clear your cache frequently. Privacy Browser does (by default) every time you run Clear and Exit.

in reply to Soren Stoutner

@futureisfoss By the way, in the next release Privacy Browser will also run Clear and Exit when the last tab is closed by the OS back button or gesture, which happens if the last tab does not have any back entries in the WebView history.

redmine.stoutner.com/issues/93…

Hello people of the Fediverse! Some of you may have heard that a new Mastodon client, Ivory, is in development for iOS (and Mac!). This is true! Tapbots is going all in on Mastodon and we hope this place continues to grow and thrive. Tweetbot will continue to be developed alongside Ivory as a lot of code is shared. A new Mac version of Tweetbot and Ivory are also currently in development and we are working hard on getting those towards a public beta state.

Heads up for fans of the #Metatext #Mastodon app

- its lead developer @metabolist has stopped updating it, for health reasons.

:blobcatohno: :ohno:

If someone else would like to help out, please email them at info@metabolist.org

:mastodon_oops:
mastodon.social/@metabolist/10…

Web: metabolist.org/

:ablobcatheart:

#feditips #opensource #accessibility

The last minutes are running out. Masstodon.Technology will shut down permanently any day now ashfurrow.com/blog/mastodon-te… 😢

No, I won't talk about fish here. But thank with all my heart our then admin and god-father, @ashfurrow, for having kept it up and running all those days of fond remembrance! I'll never foget those years.

Live long and prosper, Ash – you're now free of that burden and walk toward new horizons. (Made it out before that bird crashed in through the roof, lucky man! 🙊 🙈 💨)

You want to help #OpenSource #FreeSoftware but you are not a developer? And English isn't your first language? Well - that's just perfect! Join us at #codeberg and donate some of your time and knowledge of your language by helping with translations for many open source projects at translate.codeberg.org!

Píše se o nás. 🏴

zivotvcesku.cz/europoslanec-mi…

depol, Letzte Generation

Gregor #Gysi vertritt #LetzteGeneration vor Gericht.

rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2022…

Something I've started doing for my command-line tools is including a page in their online documentation that shows the --help output for all of their sub-commands

I mainly do this because having the help output displayed online somewhere makes it much easier to casually review for opportunities to improve it!

For sqlite-utils for example I realized that having example usage for each command is a really big usability improvement.

Here's that page: sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/l…