Hanna sat down with Henry from @techlore for an in-depth talk about #privacy, #encryption, and #email!
You can watch the full interview here π youtu.be/0wgpuiIoG_g
Who Runs Your Email? Revealing Tuta's Security with Hanna Bozakov
In this interview, we chat with Hanna Bozakov, press officer at Tuta (formerly Tutanota), a leading secure email service provider. Dive deep into the world o...YouTube
Navigating Hotel Apps as a Blind Traveler: Accessibility Challenges
Learn about the challenges faced by blind travelers navigating hotel apps for essential functions like check-in and housekeeping tips.Michael Taylor (UsableNet Inc.)
Blind Barbie And Assistive Technology For Visual Impairment
Learn about designing for visual impairment, braille, and assistive technology with Low Vision/Blind Barbie and her white cane!Veronica Lewis (Veroniiiica)
Your Build AI QuestionsβAnswered
Learn about Aira's exciting new Build AI Access Offer, including how to participate, the benefits, and why we've launched this innovative program.Hannah Griffin (Aira)
> Fast forward to 2018. OpenAI releases GPT-1, and suddenly, the future of content creation becomes crystal clear. AI-generated content, indistinguishable from human-written text, is on the horizon.
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> I'm sure that a vast amount of valuable content is being overlooked. Information that you might search for may never appear in Google's results. Not because it doesn't exist, but because Google has chosen not to include it.
vincentschmalbach.com/google-nβ¦
Big Tech eating itself.
Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content - Vincent Schmalbach
Picture this: Itβs ten years ago, and youβve just launched a new WordPress blog. Within hours, sometimes even minutes, your content is indexed by Google.Vincent Schmalbach
My response (Fedi link). Google has a longstanding bias against new sites as part of its Experience, Expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness (EEAT) guidelines, not in spite of them.
LLMs just exacerbated an issue that already had a long history, and Googleβs established-site bias has long been visible (though perhaps less so in the past). Itβd crawl instantly but not index for weeks or months.
On a more selective Google
Selectivity is long overdue. Marginalia, Stract, and Teclis feel like a breath of fresh air for broad short-tail queries because they downrank or skip pagesSeirdyβs Home
Reply to Google Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content by Vincent SchmalbachSelectivity is long overdue. Marginalia, Stract, and Teclis feel like a breath of fresh air for broad short-tail queries because they downrank or skip pages full of ads, trackers, scripts, and even SEO. However, Googleβs selectivity canβt penalise such criteria as that would conflict with its ad business.
Google has a bias against new sites. This makes sense, given their spam potential. I disagree with your argument that a bias against new sites is a pivot away from Experience, Expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness (EEAT): it takes time for a website to become an authority and earn trust. If delayed indexing of new sites is wrong, then the problem lies with EEAT. I argue that EEAT is a good framework for an answer-focused engine, but a bad framework for a discovery- or surfing-focused engine like Marginalia or Wiby, respectively.
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seirdy.one: See Original (POSSE). #Google #SearchEnginesGoogle Now Defaults to Not Indexing Your Content - Vincent Schmalbach
Picture this: Itβs ten years ago, and youβve just launched a new WordPress blog. Within hours, sometimes even minutes, your content is indexed by Google.Vincent Schmalbach
Evaluating Adobeβs new cloud-based auto-tagging feature for PDF
Our expert Principal Accessibility Consultant, James Baverstock covers how to access Adobe's new cloud-based auto-tagging feature for PDFs andΒ how well it compares to Acrobat Proβs previousabilitynet.org.uk
"The Biden administration has quietly pushed more than a half-dozen countries to weaken, delay or rethink baby formula regulations aimed at protecting the publicβs health β sometimes after manufacturers complained, a ProPublica investigation has found."
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#PublicHealth #breastfeeding #BabyFriendly #formula #marketing #advertising #business #trade
Under Biden, U.S. Officials Fought Baby Formula Regulations Around the World
U.S. officials have challenged baby formula regulations in more than half a dozen countries, sometimes after manufacturers complained. Critics say the efforts are undermining public health.ProPublica
House Committee Calls On CrowdStrike CEO To Testify On Global Outage - Slashdot
According to the Washington Post (paywalled), the House Homeland Security Committee has called on the CrowdStrike CEO to testify over the major outage that brought flights, hospital procedures, and broadcasters to a halt on Friday.yro.slashdot.org
Wise Sons Deli Enhances Accessibility for the Blind and Visually Impaired with RightHear Technology - RightHear
Discover the transformative power of Audio Format Signage in enhancing accessibility and inclusivity in public spaces.Noa Nadler (RightHear)
From Ad Identifiers to Global Privacy Control: The Status Quo and Future of Opting Out of Ad Tracking on Android
Sebastian Zimmeck, Nishant Aggarwal, Zachary Liu, Konrad Kollnig
arxiv.org/abs/2407.14938 arxiv.org/pdf/2407.14938
arXiv:2407.14938v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Apps and their integrated third party libraries often collect a variety of data from people to show them personalized ads. This practice is often privacy-invasive. Since 2013, Google has therefore allowed users to limit ad tracking on Android via system settings. Further, under the 2018 California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), apps must honor opt-outs from ad tracking under the Global Privacy Control (GPC). The efficacy of these two methods to limit ad tracking has not been studied in prior work. Our legal and technical analysis details how the GPC applies to mobile apps and how it could be integrated directly into Android, thereby developing a reference design for GPC on Android. Our empirical analysis of 1,896 top-ranked Android apps shows that both the Android system-level opt-out and the GPC signal rarely restrict ad tracking. In our view, deleting the AdID and opting out under the CCPA has the same meaning. Thus, the current AdID setting and APIs should be evolved towards GPC and integrated into Android's Privacy Sandbox.
WOW! Something just let loose on the far side of the sun and Earth (as well as the entire solar system) are getting peppered with hard protons. Debris from the blast emerged in the form of a full halo CME. Hard protons are good at charging spacecraft bodies, fogging their cameras, and causing reboots of onboard computers. Indeed, you can see a hint of the "fog" in the movie above. Each speckle is a hard proton striking the spacecraft's digital camera. spaceweather.com has the latest on this big, BIG boom.
#CME #Boom #protons #SOHO #Spaceweather #FullHaloCME
It's amazing to see how many buses a single subway rail line needs to be temporarily replaced for track construction.
#mbta rail replacement buses for the red line. Full buses every 2-3 minutes, bus berth full of buses. And that's only one line!
Don't underestimate the capacity of a subway train system!
A statement that does not inspire confidence:
"Our [Honeywell] Level-6 [Minicomputer from the 1970s] has been deassessioned and shipped to EDF Energy who own and run eight nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom." β ricomputermuseum.org/collectioβ¦
Honeywell/Ultimate Level-6
Our Level-6 has been deassessioned and shipped to EDF Energy who own and run eight nuclear power stations in the United Kingdom.www.ricomputermuseum.org
abc.net.au/listen/programs/bigβ¦
#media #journalism #democracy
Read all about it! β why local news matters and what we can do to save it
Who's watching your local council, keeping you abreast of issues in your neighbourhood, and celebrating your community's achievements? That used to be the role of your local newspaper, but now many of us don't have one.Natasha Mitchell (ABC listen)
There's now an implementation of the reading-flow property behind a runtime flag in Canary! As part of the work to implement this we need to make some decisions about how to handle elements with display: contents, and I've written a post to ask for your feedback and use cases.
developer.chrome.com/blog/readβ¦
Request for developer feedback on reading-flow and elements with display: contents Β |Β Blog Β |Β Chrome for Developers
Help us to make sure reading-flow meets your needs.Chrome for Developers
Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source zdnet.com/article/switzerland-β¦ by @sjvn
Switzerland is one of the world's leading #opensource countries; now, if only the United States could follow its lead!
Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source
The United States remains reluctant to work with open source, but European countries are bolder.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
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Big model release today: Meta AI's Llama 3.1 series, including Llama 3.1 405B which appears to be the first openly licensed model that genuinely competes with current top proprietary models GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet
My notes here: simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/23/β¦
Introducing Llama 3.1: Our most capable models to date
We've been waiting for the largest release of the Llama 3 model for a few months, and now we're getting a whole new model family instead. Meta are calling Llama β¦simonwillison.net
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today today with 10 updated and 1 added apps:
* FluxTube: Ad-free YouTube client using piped API
Oh, and the #Magisk repo had some updates as well as 1 added module:
* AshLooper: Boot Loop Protection
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/1β¦
POL-K: 240723-2-K Verletzter Radfahrer - Zeugensuche nach Unfallflucht
KΓΆln (ots) - Am Samstagabend (20. Juli) gegen 20.30 Uhr ist ein 59 Jahre alter Radfahrer wegen eines mutmaΓlichen FahrmanΓΆvers eines dunklen SUV in KΓΆln-Flittard gestΓΌrzt....Polizei KΓΆln (Presseportal.de)
When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind.
One of the use cases I thought was reasonable to expect from ChatGPT and Friends (LLMs) was summarising. It turns out I was wrong. What ChatGPT isnβt summarising at all, it only looks like itβ¦R&A IT Strategy & Architecture
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PSA: iOS 18 is going to disable your old βTodayβ view widgets - 9to5Mac
Apple is planning to end support for legacy widgets on the iPhoneβs βTodayβ view when iOS 18 debuts this fall.Ryan Christoffel (9to5Mac)
Immer ΓΆfter muss ich von #m4a zu #mp3 convertieren.
Da hab ich meiner Kollektion von #Nautilus#Scripts fΓΌr #Ubuntu doch mal wieder eines hinzugefΓΌgt:
codeberg.org/cExplorer/nautiluβ¦
Ein Rechtsklick genΓΌgt π
Die Scripte kann man sicher professioneller machen π€
#Audio#Workflow#OpenSource
Comcast Lost Over 419,000 TV Customers & Lost 120,000 Internet Customers in Q2 2024 as Cord Cutting is Speeding Up | Cord Cutters News
Cord cutting is continuing to hit Comcast hard as the company has recently lost both TV and internet customers. In Comcastβs 2nd quarter earnings report released this morning, the company reported it lost 419,000 cable TV customer losses.Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)
Practical SVG is Now Free to Read Online
Back in 2016 I wrote a book called Practical SVG. Recently, the publisher, A Book Apart, closed shop. Now you can Read Practical SVG on the web, here on this site, for free. I always like how Mat's book was online so now mine can join that cool club. I'll echo what I say on the site: Thanks to Jeff Eaton forβ¦
chriscoyier.net/2024/07/22/praβ¦
Practical SVG is Now Free to Read Online
Back in 2016 I wrote a book called Practical SVG. Recently, the publisher, A Book Apart, closed shop. Now you can Read Practical SVG on the web, here on this site, for free. I always like how Matβ¦Chris Coyier
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So thanks to @rmader@mastodon.social we managed to get the front camera in the Pixel 3a working with a libcamera/pipewire stack π₯³ Thanks to @flamingradian for the work on the whole port!
EDIT: The driver does not properly release the camera when closing the app, so it only works once per boot. It would be lovely if anybody with the skills would like to contribute to improve it!
gitlab.com/sdm670-mainline/linβ¦
#postmarketOS #LinuxMobile #Pixel3a #Snapshot #GNOME #GUADEC
media: i2c: imx355: Parse and register properties (!1) Β· Merge requests Β· Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 Mainline / linux Β· GitLab
Analogous to e.g. the imx219. This enables propagating V4L2_CID_CAMERA_SENSOR_ROTATION values so that libcamera can detect the correct rotation from the device tree and propagate it further to e.g....GitLab
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Wir sind heute Abend mit unserer kritischen Position zum Thema #BehindertenwerkstΓ€tten bei ZDF frontal.
ZDF, 23.07.2024, 21:00 - 21:45 Uhr
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Mehr zum Thema:
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Menschen mit Behinderungen haben immer noch einen auffallend schlechteren Zugang zum Arbeitsmarkt als nichtbehinderte Menschen.Institut fΓΌr Menschenrechte
Just read an interesting post: Software engineers are not (and should not be) technicians haskellforall.com/2024/07/softβ¦
The ending summarizes the key point well:
> Or to put it another way: I actually view it as a red flag if an engineer or team gets into a predictable βflowβ because it means that there is a promising opportunity for automation theyβre ignoring.
Software engineers are not (and should not be) technicians
Software engineers are not (and should not be) technicians I donβt actually think predictability is a goo...www.haskellforall.com
Purism can produce made-in-USA, tailored GFE devices to gov specs. From wearable COP screens to field & office solutions. #GovTech #MadeInUSA #Purism
puri.sm/posts/purpose-built-smβ¦
Purpose-Built Smartphones for Government vs. Commercial Off-The-Shelf Devices β Purism
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
π¨Jami is your free communication software, end-to-end encrypted and private. Ensuring non-commercial use of your data.π
Here is the link to dowload it: jami.net/download/
#Jami #opensource #P2P #App #PrivacyMatters
Get Jami for any device
Jami for any device The free Software community advises and recommends using Jami with GNU/Linuxjami (Jami)
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Unknown parent • • •Pixelcode πΊπ¦
Unknown parent • • •@doerk @zeitfalle Further: It's not even the users who exchange PGP keys. Instead, Proton, Mailbox.org, Posteo etc. all automatically announce their users' public keys via their Web Key Directories. When entering bob@mailbox.org as the recipient in Proton, then Proton automatically fetches Bob's public key from Mailbox.org's WKD without you even noticing.
That's just as seamless as writing an encrypted e-mail from your Tuta account to another Tuta user.
Doerk
in reply to Pixelcode πΊπ¦ • • •Thats exactly what I want. No dealing with cumbersome links or exchanging a secret via encrypted messengers or phone calls.
Zeitfalle
Unknown parent • • •Doerk
in reply to Zeitfalle • • •While I can understand why they don't offer IMAP for security reasons, I can't understand why there is no PGP support. Sure, it is not as secure as sending mails between two tuta accounts, but you have to consider that you have to submit the secret to the recipient in first step. How can you do this? In most cases this will be done by unencrypted mail which counteracts the approach of encryption.
Doerk
in reply to Doerk • • •Now you can say: But I have to exchange a key with PGP as well, but that's what public keys are for.
London Eastfield π΅πΈ
in reply to Tuta • • •I only got the chance to listen to this yesterday.
Great interview. Thank you to both Hanna & Henry!