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Massive IT outage spotlights major vulnerabilities in global information ecosystem tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep…
The global information technology outage on July 19, 2024, that paralyzed organizations ranging from airlines to hospitals and even the delivery of uniforms for the Olympic Games represents a growing concern for cybersecurity professionals, businesses and governments.
#Tucson #Arizona


For the next 24 hours, all proceeds from our apps @mastowatch and #Audracity will go to the #Kamala campaign!

#usPol #usa #harris #biden #Election2024

Audracity: apple.co/47HmGeg
Mastowatch: apple.co/3VUPytt



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The Joe Biden web store has been converted to the Harris campaign and has a *ton* of #KamalaHarris merch, including bi and trans flag stuff!

#usPol #usa

shop.joebiden.com/



Notes from Nerdsville.

Since I started watching all the classic Doctor Who espisodes in order, I've come to appreciate the quiet horror of the first Cybermen.

With minimal paraphernalia, and face coverings like bandages, they're easily the most creepy, evoking the sort of body horror their increasingly shiny descendants have lost. The weird, elongated pronunciation adds to the effect.

Bill Potts transforms into one of these monsters in The Doctor Fails.

#DoctorWho

youtube.com/watch?v=-Yi1l1sOO_…

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in reply to Fardels Bear

I agree. I've always found the voices of those earlier Cybermen to be far more horrifying. Some of the later ones almost sound like they're enjoying themselves; listen to them in Earthshock and the Five Doctors.


Did you know? The menu theme for the old Monkey Business audio game is a MIDI file called rastamon from Passport Designs. Here's my attempt at replicating the render of the file that appears in the game. As played on the S-YXG50 VSTi, with the 2 mb ROM and XGLite enabled. Thanks to @pitermach for the initial discovery. MIDI: web.archive.org/web/1997070321…

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We are pleased to announce that we got selected in another funding round by the EU’s NGI via the @NLnet Foundation @NGI0 Entrust Fund to work on some important features in Monal: nlnet.nl/project/Monal-IM-UI/

In short this consists of the following tasks (in no special order):
Implement Dialpad, Rewrite Chat UI, Implement Message Reactions, Rich Replies and Stickers, XSF work and a documentation of Monal's internals

#monal #ios #macos #xmpp #nlnet



This coming Friday, July 26th, is the one year birthday of a major accessibility issue in documentation for website developers being pointed out, and little has been done.

Let's put it to bed without birthday cake.

Brain cancer has removed my ability to help, but I hope it's possible. If you've written HTML or CSS take the time to read over the issue, this is important.

Boosts appreciated 💜

github.com/orgs/mdn/discussion…



TIL that a twitch streamer and youtuber by the name of Masayoshi decided to test something out on his livestream a year ago telling people in chat to type “im 12” and, long story short over 100 twitch accounts were perma banned for “being underage” thanks to twitch’s bots thinking that were underage

youtube.com/watch?v=eYf60wpdJA…
#til #todayilearned
reddit.com/r/todayilearned/com…



Aira Officially Launches Remote Incident Manager Integration, Making On-Demand Remote Visual Assistance Fully Accessible! pneumasolutions.com/aira-offic…
in reply to Jessica Dail

@KE8UPE RIM is free if you're the person who is receiving assistance. I don't know if AIRA's free tier allowing for daily five-minute calls provides this capability so it would be better to ask them about this. Even if it did, you would be pretty limited as to how much help you could receive because of the brief time allowed per day. Now if Be My Eyes had agents who could do it that would be pretty amazing.



Verizon Just Added 378,000 5G Home Internet Customers, Putting Pressure on Comcast & Spectrum As Cord Cutting 2.0 Grows cordcuttersnews.com/verizon-ju…


How to Get AI to Be Your Personal Narrator Online cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof…


Amazon Smart Thermostat Review: Great Features at an Unbeatable Price cnet.com/home/energy-and-utili…


Yes, yess, yeeessss....

mujrozhlas.cz/rapi/view/episod…

in reply to Erwin

Pořád si říkám, jestli to nebylo už delší dobu připravené. No snad se jí to podaří a vyhraje.
in reply to Archos

@archos doufejme že mají nějaké eso v rukávu. Ale tak konečně mají Američané koho volit.


What was Robles v. Domino’s Pizza? accessibility.com/blog/what-wa…


Braille in the Digital Age: The Significance of Braille Displays for Digital Accessibility accessibility.com/blog/braille…

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1Password can now encrypt data using your saved passkeys blog.1password.com/encrypt-dat…


We could generally use anybody interested in web development or design of basically any skill level to take interest in our websites. This is a place where we don’t have a very active community. Our web presence is maintained but it isn’t vibrant and exciting. Great opportunity for some excited young people to take ownership!
mastodon.social/@elementary/11…

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Pedály už dorazily 🤗
Tak to zítra po práci budu muset vyrazit 👍
in reply to Archos

@wolf70

F = m * g * sin(alfa) ... (ještě je tam nějaké tření a další věci, ale to zanedbáme 😉)

Síla nutná k posunutí člověka do kopce je bohužel stále stejná, nehledě na pedály.

Pardon, já jsem nerd.🤓



Do you think reCaptcha is annoying? Then you haven't encountered OpenAI's captcha...

You have to solve 20 puzzles, by clicking on left and right arrows to select the one correct image from 7 options.

Frak it, giving up...




If you or someone you love (or even vaguely tolerate) is using #accessiBe, perhaps send them this information about the class action lawsuit against accessiBe for lying about its #overlay:
lflegal.com/2024/07/accessibe-…

#accessibility #a11y

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Náš projekt Pomáháme.Digital vyhrál první cenu Evropské komise za digitální inkluzi. Mám z toho velkou radost – mimo jiné mě těší, že nevyhrála nějaká vyhajpovaná AI břečka, ale technicky konzervativní projekt, jehož hodnota je především v dobrém výzkumu a dobrém nápadu – tedy že pokud chceme zlepšit situaci digitálně vyloučených lidí, můžeme do nich digitální kompetence vpašovat osmózou z pracovníků a pracovnic v sociálních službách :) blog.cesko.digital/2024/07/cis…


Privacy-first smartphone. No tracking. No data mining. Runs PureOS. Physical kill switches. True digital freedom in your pocket. #Librem5 #PureOS
puri.sm/products/librem-5/




📣 Do-It-Blind DIB online Besprechung am Montag, 22. Juli, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag um 19:00 besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion


Day 4 of #GUADEC2024 is here and it’s time for BoFs and Workshops! We’ll be starting up in 30 mins, make sure to check the website for BoF meeting links and your emails for access codes: events.gnome.org/event/209/pag…



Testing something, feel free to ignore (but I also want this to show up on your timeline, sorry!)

attie.co.uk/embed_test.txt

in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt Yeah, it's 100% no-frills... I just wanted to check something out. Currently watching all the various fedarated instances crawling the URL - there are many!


Remember how my UK trip was cut short by COVID last month?

Well. I have four travel days left on my Interrail ticket, and I'm gonna use them! :D

First goal for today: Leave Germany! 👋

in reply to blinry

That was certainly refreshing! :)

Oh, I learned that Budapest grew together from two smaller cities, Buda and Pest! It used to be called "Pest-Buda" at some point!



As expected after their customer survey, @protonprivacy released a "AI mail writing bullshit assistant".

On Reddit, two kinds of reactions:

1. The negatives: asking about the privacy, the ecological impact, the money/time spent on this instead of other features.

2. The positives: thanking the developers for not enabling the feature by default.

Despite this, I’m sure people at Proton are convinced that this one the most important/urgent thing the Email world needed.

redlib.freedit.eu/r/ProtonMail…

in reply to ploum

Hi, check out this guy's website in case you want to change service. Lots of suggestions of privacy-protecting services, and he is quite rigorous in his selections: digdeeper.club/


#Techbros are again leading the charge by reinventing what was already there…

Edit: apparently the OP is a famous {{Dubious}}{{Citation needed}} radio producer, so it's even worse…

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#Nextcloud: Wer ein paar Plugins installiert, bekommt ein Hauptverzeichnis voller Ordner, die jeweils zu einem Plugin gehören.

Für neue User ist das verwirrend.

Ich fänd gut, wenn diese Ordner alle in einem versteckten Ordner gesammelt würden.

Wer will, kann dann in diesen Ordnern Dinge tun. Aber wer sich dafür nicht interessiert, sieht sie auch erst einmal nicht.

Bitte unterstützt meinem Feature Request dazu:

github.com/nextcloud/server/is…

in reply to Steffen Voß

Nicht nur verwirrend für neue User. Es kann auch zu richtigem Chaos kommen, wenn neue user diese Ordner mit eigenen Dateien füllen oder sie löschen, weil ihnen die Notwendigkeit der Existenz nicht bekannt @nextcloud@mastodon.xyz


Llama3-405b base model is leaked on 4chan as Miqu-2. Miqu-1 was leaked Mistral 70b model which was confirmed by Mistral CEO. The download size is 764GB, and it was briefly on Huggingface but taken down. The torrent is still working apparently. #LLM #AI #ML reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/commen…
#AI #ML #llm



One at the Time.

Michaël Borremans.

2003.

“A painting is not just an image: it is an object with a multi-layered character.”



Innuendo, definitely NSFW, or as they say: lewt! The joke is in the alt text.

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