Welcome to our newest GNOME Foundation member @eeejay 🎉
Eitan has been involved in Linux/GNOME accessibility for 20 years and is on the Mozilla accessibility team.
In the past he created Accerciser, and contributed to Orca as well as Telepathy.
Eitan makes Spiel; a speech framework for the freedesktop.
I heard you might be able to catch him at GUADEC in Denver this year.
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#NewPipe update: version 0.27.0 is available
🆕 comment replies
🆕 playlist descriptions
🆕 re-order custom playlists
🆕 reset settings
↗️ improved download checks
↗️ ask for consent before checking for updates
↗️ UI improvements
↗️ various player improvements
🐛 [YouTube] fixed comment extraction
🐛 [YouTube] fixed access to some streams
🐛 fixed crashes
🐛 fixed insecure backup import
The update is available through our custom #fdroid repo: newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/inst…
I have a very similar feeling. I try to combine it with 1 on 1 in the evening.
For me it's a fun replacement for homework (which I never do).
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"a management consultant wearing an engineer costume"–so cruel.
wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-ki…
This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it. The story begins on February 5th 2019, when Ben Gomes, Google’s head of search, had a problem.Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
@daniel Thank you very much for the quick fix. In general, I find conversations app to be very helpful and has almost all functionality as that offered by centralized proprietary messengers.
Is it possible for conversations to support webxdc apps? webxdc.org/docs/get_started.ht…. This is supported by Delta chat (which uses email instead of xmpp).
Zkouknul jsem podcast s
Johannou Nejedlovou, kandidátkou do Evropského parlamentu.
V rozhovoru štrejchli o téma "Evropská sociální síť" jako protiváha čínského TikToku a amerického Facebooku.
👩 Odpověděla že by jí spíš zajímala nějaká decentralizovaná forma sociální sítě.
🧔 Moderátor skoro až posměšně odpověděl "Že bych jako odešel z X a vzal s sebou všechno v batůžku a šel jinam..."
Chce to víc popularizovat #fediverse, aby nemuseli jen snít o věcech co už máme...
talktv.cz/video/johanna-nejedl…
Odstartovali jsme minisérii předvolebních rozhovorů s kandidáty do Evropského parlamentu. Jako první do studia dorazila Johanna Nejedlová, kandidátka Strany zelených. Příjemný poslech :)www.talktv.cz
SNS preliezla do parlamentu len vďaka tomu, že pozliepala to najšialenejšie a najvulgárnejšie. Píše Samo Marec.Samuel Marec (SME.sk)
According to a study by @kasnder (author of the app "Tracker Control")
"… 85% of apps
from 2017 could send data to Alphabet/Google, compared to 89% in 2020. Apps
still widely send personal data to tracking companies based in a third-party country
without an ‘adequate’ level of data protection, particularly to those in the US …"
ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b6a8…
This study received the Stefano Rodotà Award btw (see sectorplandls.nl/wordpress/unc…) – congrats to Konrad!
#Android #tracking #privacy #PlayStore
Tracking, the large-scale collection of data about user behaviour, is commonplace in mobile apps. While some see tracking as a necessary evil to making apps available at lower prices by showing users personalised advertising and selling their data to…ora.ox.ac.uk
// News from the Lab //
We would like to congratulate
@kasnder on receiving the Stefano Rodotà Award for his thesis (“Regulatory technologies for the study of data and platform power in the app economy“)!
For more info, see sectorplandls.nl/wordpress/unc…
On Tech Talk this week, I had a great conversation with Troy Otilio from @AiraVI about their new Access AI feature, which has recently been released as a beta in the Aira Explorer app. We spoke about where this feature came from, the impact the use of AI has on privacy, and so much more about AI and Aira in general. Have a listen here or wherever you get your podcasts
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/…
@rnib #aira #AccessAI #AI #chatGPT #gemini #blind #accessibility #podcast
Show RNIB Tech Talk, Ep Tech Talk 508: Access AI, WelcoMe In Currys, RNIB Gamer Survey - 16 Apr 2024Apple Podcasts
OK, halten wir mal fest: die Cum-Ex-Chefermittlerin schmeißt das Handtuch, weil es politisch nicht gewollt ist, dass Steuergelder in großem Rahmen wieder zurückgeholt werden. Zitat: "die Kleinen hängt man, die Großen lässt man laufen".
Aber diejenigen, die politisch dafür (mit)verantwortlich sind, werden nicht nur nicht belangt, sondern sind von ihrer Partei gedeckt und sogar noch zum Bundeskanzler befördert geworden. Die SPD hat sich so weit von Ihrer ursprünglichen Zielgruppe entfernt, dass es nicht mehr feierlich ist.
Und Folterknecht-Olaf lacht sich vermutlich eins ins Fäustchen, dass er außer einem unbequemen Statement nicht weiter zur Rechenschaft gezogen wurde.
Es ist so zum 🤮
www1.wdr.de/mediathek/video/se…
Deutschlands wichtigste Cum-Ex-Ermittlerin Anne Brorhilker wird die Justiz verlassen – und übt Kritik.WDR Nachrichten
Nine years ago today, a #curl command line was prominent on an even larger display...
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/04/24…
We’ve had ChatGPT for 18 months, but what’s it for? What are the use-cases? Why isn’t it useful for everyone, right now? Do Large Language Models become universal tools that can do ‘any’ task, or do we wrap them in single-purpose apps, and build thou…Benedict Evans
A dedicated music technology team creating innovative world class sample libraries and virtual instruments | World Series | Chronicles Series | Color SeriesEvolution Series
The actors who play The Beatles Chris Mason (John), George Caple (Paul), Philip Davies (George) and James Hoyles (Ringo) in the second episode of the Doctor Who 2024 series The Devil’s Chord are interviewed in Doctor Who Magazine 603.Andrea Laford (CultBox)
@rbreich@masto.ai lets be clear -- the only antisemitism in america exists in the fascist right-wing, as it has for 100ish years, and their basis for it is essentially as unscientific and ridiculous as "flat earth.Mastodon
Antisemitic shit I have seen on the left in the last few months: nazi race science, dual loyalty tropes, "you know why" Jewish control conspiracy tropes, Holocaust inversion and harassing the public social media accounts of memorials/museums, screeching at Shoah survivors at town halls, folks at these campus protests chasing Jewish students who were trying to get to/from, "the only real Jews" bullshit from the goyim, the “Jewish culture is about being victims" lady…and more!
TL;DR fuck y'all.
And…FML. Not to defend the ADL's recent weaponization of antisemitism or whatever? But...they're not the ones doing the “occupation." The ADL is literally based in New York.
But there we go back to the dual loyalty and "all Jews must answer for Israel" nonsense. So.
Again. Go fuck yourselves if you believe there's "no antisemitism" happening on the left. Is it as widespread as some claim? No. Does it exist? Yes.
...and fuck all y'all who believe otherwise and/or refuse to clean house.
I just discovered Green the Web... love it!
Get your own website sustainable with green UX/UI design. Plus, get fast loading times, great SEO, accessibility and happy users.Green the web
offf, this story about how Google made google search into a pile of seagull shit hits me hard:
wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-ki…
Around the time of this story, I was living through a similar situation in my work life (on a much smaller scope, of course, WordPress.com first, Tumblr later).
Back in 2019, working on WordPress, I started finding myself, almost weekly, arguing against people who wanted to take the product we were working at and made it worse if that mean they could squeeze 0.1% more revenue from it
The 0.1% figure is not even a random number: I remember this speciffic A/B test on WordPress.com that was declared a success and shipped to 100% of the users because it increased the free-to-paid conversion by 0.1%. Soon after it was released, I found out that as a side effect, it increased the churn of free users by 20 something %,so I called for an urgent rollback and removal of the change. So I was promptly explained that we didn't care about free-users churn, because finance had calculated the average long-term value of the free users to be something like $2 per year, and the increase in conversion was bigger than what we could get from them.
Everything became about growth hacking. Everything became thinly-veiled dark patterns. In our private dev slack channels, we joked that since it was impossible to make it smaller or less conspicuous, the next thing the growth team was going to ask us to do was to make the 'free plan' button flee away from the mouse pointer when the user tried to click it. We kept making our product worse, we kept consciously crippling the cheaper versions so we could force people to move to the more expensive options.
Back then I was the lead of one of the two dev divisions working on WordPress.com, so my job was mainly to discuss what we were going to be doing, when and how. And I was getting drained by a constant state of fight against a constant wave of shit they wanted us to build. So much than by the end of 2020, the CEO quietly told me to follow the growth team plans and shut up or step down.
So I requested to move to tumblr, because I thought the pastures were greener over there. But it was all the same: Adding login walls to what we were pretending to be "the last bastion of the free internet", cramping in embarrasingly obvious money-making schemes disguised as features, and making them silently opt-out instead of opt-in so the less people the possible would deactivate them, having to fend off the pressure from the CEO to make everything algorithmic timelines because, you know, tiktok makes a lot of money and why aren't we, etc etc.
I found myself in a place where building something good that people enjoy using was no longer a priority, but tricking people into generating more money for the company was. And when I looked around me, I could see that happening everywhere else, not only in my company. Experiencing the start of the enshittification years from inside wasn't easy.
And, as in the article, the people who decided to turn the shit-metter up to 200%, have a name, in every case. And these people, no matter if they are called Sundar and Prabhakar or Matt and Mark, are destroying the internet. These people are milllionaires, or billionaries, and are destroying our shared, common spaces to squeeze some extra cash from us.
That's why the fediverse and its principles are important. Because that's how we take back internet from their dirty hands. That's how we make internet resilient against them. That's how we build the commons.
This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it. The story begins on February 5th 2019, when Ben Gomes, Google’s head of search, had a problem.Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
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Today's the UNESCO #WorldBookDay! #OpenStreetMap can help you find books.
We map libraries <wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ta…> (incl. little free libraries <wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ta…>), and bookshops <wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ta…>.
Several books have been published about #OSM: <wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bo…>
We want OSM to be used, so if you need a map for your book, we have very generous & liberal attribution requirements: osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence… (and can show where to buy your stationary wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ta… )
A public bookcase is a small streetside cabinet, box, old phone booth or some other objects where books are storedmapcomplete.org
A new iPhone costs a pretty penny -- actually, a lot of pretty pennies. We gathered the best cheap refurbished iPhones below.Andrew Morrisey (Digital Trends)
Republicans: “We believe in free markets.”
Workers: “Ok, I'd like to go work for my firm's competitor without legal threats.”
Republicans: “No, not that free market.”
Lina Khan was appointed by Joe Biden to lead the FTC in 2021. Elections matter and so does who appoints government officials.
This is huge news for workers.
FTC bans noncompete agreements, making it easier for workers to quit. Here's what to know. -
cbsnews.com/news/ftc-noncompet…
Regulators prohibit new noncompetes, which impede millions of U.S. workers from getting a better job.Kate Gibson (CBS News)
Microsoft reversed the fix for an Outlook bug causing erroneous security warnings after installing December 2023 security updates
The second audio drama celebration of Colin Baker's four decades of Doctoring is announced - The Trials of a Time Lord.Ian McArdell (CultBox)
We've rewritten Firefox's crash reporter in Rust! 🦊💻
This version supports native cross-platform GUI rendering. 🚀
Dive into why we chose Rust, the challenges of designing an app for when the browser fails, and its impact on developers and users.
The Firefox crash reporter has been ported to Rust, with an architecture supporting native cross-platform GUI rendering.Alex Franchuk (Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog)
Who'd have thought that a mad rush to shove a feature zero people asked for into the last place it belongs would end up going poorly, that's wild, nobody could have predicted.
512pixels.net/2024/04/ai-overl…
I recently noticed a new folder in the root level of my Home directory, named ai_overlay_tmp: In preparation for a future Mac Power Users episode, I've been playing with a bunch of AI software, and I assumed something I downloaded generated this fold…512 Pixels
For a different audience who may not have seen this.
Watching discussions surrounding the BTSpeak here on Mastodon and on the main BTSpeak support list, I agree that there needs to be a discussion list for advanced users for various reasons. Surprisingly for me, I've created such a list. This is not an official list sponsored by Blazie Technologies. Take all warnings to hart. But join and have fun.
groups.io/g/BTSpeak-Advanced
#BTSpeak
This group is dedicated to providing an advanced forum for the users of BTSpeak and other potential hardware devices by Blazie Technologies.groups.io
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