Security software expert Neil Rubenking has something to say about Apple Intelligence. He makes it really easy to understand the most important points. A must-read if you use Apple devices.
This time: Finished off the TODO plugin!, Started thinking about verifying our device, Next time: Verifying our device so there are no more red shields on our messages
🇩🇪🚨Alarm: EU-Regierungen sollen die #Chatkontrolle nach unseren Infos schon nächsten Mittwoch im AStV-Ausschuss beschließen - Enthaltungen zählen dort nicht als Nein!
Schien eine Einigung des Europäischen Rates bei der Chatkontrolle zuletzt noch in weiter Ferne, zeichnet sich nun ab, dass Frankreich, einst klar gegen Chatkontrolle, zunehmend zum Wackelkandidat wird.
🇬🇧🚨Alert: EU governments are to adopt #ChatControl #MassSurveillance in next Wednesday's Coreper II committee according to our information where abstentions may not be counted as a no! How will your government vote? chatcontrol.wtf
Schien eine Einigung des Europäischen Rates bei der Chatkontrolle zuletzt noch in weiter Ferne, zeichnet sich nun ab, dass Frankreich, einst klar gegen Chatkontrolle, zunehmend zum Wackelkandidat wird.
Microsoft Recall's security issues weren't anomalies but symptoms of a culture prioritizing cool features over protecting users.
A former employee has revealed how the company refused to fix the security hole that led to hacks of the Treasury, NIH, and nuclear secrets.
Microsoft chose not to fix the flaw that led to the SolarWinds hack to avoid risking billions in government contracts. That focus on profits has now become a national security issue.
Former employee says software giant dismissed his warnings about a critical flaw because it feared losing government business. Russian hackers later used the weakness to breach the National Nuclear Security Administration, among others.
A game jam from 2024-06-10 to 2024-07-17 hosted by Purism. All those participating, use the code purismgamedev to save 10% on the purism shop! Welcome to the first Purism Free Software Game Jam! Here, we want...
@archos Já zkouším pořád. Už několik let jedu v režimu, že objednávám postupně ze všemožných pražíren, vždycky 4 druhy po 250 g. Zatím jsem byl spokojen se všemi kávami, takže asi budu dál pokračovat v objevování a nezaseknu se na jedné pražírně/kávě 😎
I might have asked before, and I never tried before, but which drums are you using for those beats, and are you applying any processing to them? Limiting/clipping or something similar? They are pretty snappy, I actually like them and will probably try to write a Techno/Trance beat myself.
@ToniBarth I mostly get my samples from Splice nowadays. :) and yup, I process them a little bit. Always depends on the kick, but usually some EQ, sometimes some compression or distortion, and then I do the same on the drum bus. Usually I like to soft clip my drums together a little bit as well, sometimes more or less depending on what I'm doing. I've been known to soft clip other parts with the drums too for extra crunch. There isn't really a science to it though, some kicks just naturally sound like that and I do very little or no processing at all. I'm not afraid to do terrible things though and I will absolutely use OTT and friends if I think it sounds good. And for EDM, I think it often does. Everytime questions like this come up I really think I should do some kind of video or livestream or something. Hopefully I'll eventually do one. But people will probably cringe once they figure it all out. lol
We 100% need more videos and livestreams about how to produce, arrange, compose music, basically everything around it. I did some streams about 2 years ago and i'm planning to do more in the future, I just want to improve my workflow a little bit so that I don't spend 3 hours writing just a lead melody. I'm mainly into orchestral video game and film scoring stuff, having different perspectives on different kinds of music would be awesome.
Od 20.5. jsme díky #FVE nakoupili jen 8,87kWh ze spotřebovaných 461kWh. A vyrobili asi dvojnásobek toho, co jsme spotřebovali. Cena výkupu ale klesla z 3,50Kč/kWh na 0,2.
@brabitom ~450kKč po odečtení dotace, 15 let záruka na komplet a roční servisy. Návratnost vychází každý rok jinak. Ale v době nákupu optimistických ~7 let (realisticky jsme počítali víc). Taky je dobré připočítat, že ti to zabírá nějaké místo apod., na druhé straně získáváš soběstačnost a stabilitu. Navíc pocit, že vyrábíš, je fajn
Life360 is the “family safety app” (child phone monitoring app) so invasive that it was user by sex traffickers to monitor and control victims. The app was working as intended, since parents used it to control children in a similar fashion. Tile, also used abusively, was bought by Life360. They now sell location data to cops.
After news broke about sex traffickers using Life360, nothing much changed at the company. Now there’s a data breach of Tile.
Life360’s CEO says he’s never heard of his parenting app being used by sex traffickers to monitor the location of their victims. But Forbes obtained evidence that the app and others like it have been used as digital “leashes.”
Na messenger Telegram zaútočili hackeři, kterým se podařilo získat citlivé informace z 361 milionů účtů. To je přibližně 122 gigabajtů důvěrných dat. Pokud tento komunikátor používáte, raději prověřte, zda se to náhodou netýká i vás.
I bounce between a lot of different laptops, reinstalling Windows and trying crazy things. As such, I've hit a lot, lot of annoying trackpads in my lifetime, as have my friends. As such, I spent tonight writing this tiny Win32 C program that eats all events from your physical trackpad or mouse, making this a nonissue. NVDA's mouse movement/clicking commands still work, too! It's incredibly lightweight, coming in at around 30 KB for a 64-bit executable. The hook gets reinstalled every 5 minutes to avoid an annoying bug in Windows 10, but you probably won't notice. Click on the system tray icon to exit, should you so choose. quinbox.xyz/files/Mousecat.exe
Cool; thanks much. I'm about to buy another laptop within some months to replace my current. Do you know whether a Dell Latitude is worth buying for personal use? I wanted to know in particular whether its keyboard is better than on a Dell Inspiron.
@clv0 I have a Dell Latitude 5590 that I got refurbished on Amazon. I really like the keyboard because the keys are spread out enough that I feel comfortable typing on. It has a number pad on the right side. I did not need to have a sighted person go into the BIOS and change any function key settings like on some laptops. (1/2)
@progressivecat Good to know. Do you recall the screen size in inches? Here in Brazil, it appears Dell sells the 5440 only, which has a 14 inches screen. I'm not sure whether it has the keypad.
Více než 1000 let žijí lidé z indonéského kmene Bajau na hausbótech. Značnou část svého života tráví ale přímo ve vodě. Díky obojživelnému způsobu života se dokázali geneticky adaptovat na vodní prostředí. irozhlas.cz/zivotni-styl/spole…
Yesterday's #audioMo didn't post, so here it is again. or for the first time, maybe. A look at the changes to #BrailleScreenInput in #VoiceOver on the upcoming #iOS18.
Quite some time ago, I wrote an AutoHotkey script to implement global shortcut keys for the Windows Spotify app. I stopped using Spotify years ago, so I abandoned the script completely. And yet every few months, I still get comments on the Gist with people using it or modifying it in various ways. I find this amusing. The latest one: gist.github.com/jcsteh/7ccbc6f…
Niekto by mi mohol vysvetliť, prečo sa non-profit organizácia, ktorá dlhé roky budovala svoje meno a stále má na svojej hlavnej stránke motto "The Mozilla Foundation works to ensure the internet remains a public resource that is open and accessible to us all.", rozhodla podvoliť cenzorským požiadavkam krvilačného diktátora z benzínky?
At the request of Russia’s federal censor, the Mozilla Foundation, the entity behind Firefox, is blocking censorship circumvention add-ons for its browser, including ones developed specifically to help those in Russia bypass state censorship. theintercept.com/2024/06/12/mo…
How long does it take to forget, that you are supposed to post to the fediverse, when you did a release? Well, about a year I guess. Anyway, #Nheko 0.12.0 is out now! Took us a while (and there seem to be 800 commits in that release?!?), but our Qt6 port is finally out and with it exciting features like automatically deleting messages, ignoring users, intentional mentions and much, much more. Tbh, I forgot half the things we added and am always surprised that wasn't in 0.11.3 yet!
Anyway, grab the latest version of this #Matrix client here: github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko/… Or don't, I can't tell you what to do! But if you read so far, it surely is worth giving it a try, right? :D
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That's sad news! Especially as the reason implies chances for a *.deb are rather non-existing as well. And I wonder how the Flatpak was built then? I don't use (and don't want to use) Flatpak at all (personal reasons going too far here to explain), so I'll then have to stick with 0.11.3 for a while longer. Hope there'll be a solution for the AppImage not too far away (maybe the day a newer glibc can be used?)…
Flatpaks provide their own runtimes with recent enough Qt and an easy module system to include custom dependencies. Appimages don't. Appimages don't isolate the glibc from the system as well as a lot of other stuff. That means for Appimages specifically you need to pick a system with an older glibc than any of the systems you expect the Appimage to run on. This is a huge pain for something like Qt version bumbs since there is no distro with Qt6.5 and a glibc older than Debian (to my knowledge). Additionally there is no reliable way to tell if you included all the necessary dependencies, since it might work on your test machine, but not on others, because Appimages don't isolate dependencies from the system. This coupled with other tooling issues makes Appimages a huge pain to work with. Someone fixed the Appimage before and maybe someone else will again, but I won't. I dealt enough with Appimages that I don't want to touch them again. If someone wants Appimages, they need to step up and contribute and maintain them.
Understandable then, thanks. I cannot jump in there (I'm not a dev). I just look at them from the "user's perspective", where they are easy to deal with: a single binary you can download and run, no strings attached. Especially no framework that fills up gigabytes of disk space (literally) for something otherwise coming as < 300 kB *.deb (that was the experience driving me away from it, don't want to repeat that, was a pain to clean up).
At least 100 MB are much less as what Flatpack drags in along 🤪 If I'd use many apps as Flatpacks, that would somehow "level out" as they'll most likely have a huge overlap in modules used. But most of my apps come from the official distro repos, with 2 or 3 rarely used apps as AppImages. Nheko is the only app I regularly use (apart from ungoogled Chromium I use for video conferences), thus falling out of that pattern.
PS: I just looked. My distro (I'm on Mint 21.3, based on Ubuntu 22.04) currently has 0.9.1 only, so fat chance 0.12 will show up there anytime soon. Maybe someone comes up with a PPA at one point, or providing a *.deb to attach to your releases or provide separately…
PPS: launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/n… has 0.11.3 – so chances are 0.12 will show up there one day 🤞 That PPA is maintained by the Matrix packaging team.Seems active and well maintained, last upload was 2024-05-27. Maybe you want to link to that e.g. here: github.com/Nheko-Reborn/nheko#… ? Useful for Ubuntu and derivates. Ah yuck, for Jammy they're stuck at 0.9.1 as well 😭 Going to look further.
And no, I won't downgrade to that 0.9.1, no worries 😆
At the request of Russia’s federal censor, the Mozilla Foundation, the entity behind Firefox, is blocking censorship circumvention add-ons for its browser, including ones developed specifically to help those in Russia bypass state censorship. theintercept.com/2024/06/12/mo…
Multiple witnesses in the criminal cases against Donald Trump have received significant financial benefits, including large raises from his campaign, severance packages, new jobs, and a grant of shares from Trump’s media company.
Witnesses in the various criminal cases against the former president have gotten pay raises, new jobs and more. If any benefits were intended to influence testimony, that could be a crime.
We'd like to say a huge thank-you to the HDMC and the JFTC for helping ensure browsers can compete fairly, and so web apps can contest the gatekeeper's native app ecosystems.
OWA is looking forward to helping contribute towards monitoring compliance and helping provide information for effective enforcement.
The #NHS are forcibly detransitioning a #trans woman.
#PandoraHolmes is being held against her will without access to her HRT. Policy is a bridging prescription from DIY, but they are stringing her along and lying, trying to stall until she can't appeal.
This is self-justifying torture. Denied HRT because she's suffering from having her HRT withdrawn. Initially they wanted to hold her two weeks. Now she's facing 6 months. I don't even want to imagine what's next.
An adult is being forcibly detransitioned, in the UK. Make this fucking news everywhere. Before they start opening special camps for trans people.
Apple developer documentation: macOS 15 Sequoia will let virtual machine users sign into iCloud and Apple ID-related services, which was previously not possible (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)
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you two just keep me hanging on