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Restarting Thunderbird Live coding sessions from next week! 🚀



Monday tip:
Both Firefox and Microsoft Edge allow you to press Control + Shift +S to save part of a web-page or the full site. as a screenshot, .png file. This is quite interesting to me. I'm not sure if the selection part is accessible via keyboard to choose part of the page, but this was a random shortcut I bumped into, one which from my testing does not appear to exist on Google Chrome, unless the shortcut key is different.


"Microsoft Edge dialog Microsoft Edge is not responding
If you close the program, you might lose information." That's fine. It's a Monday. I understand the full risks of losing information, especially on such a day.


TIL conditional formatting in #LibreOffice calc goes wrong when your compare values are on another sheet and you save as xls file: the sheet reference gets dropped

Maybe it's a xls limitation, and mybe I should check the resulting xls before mailing it 🙄

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That is the point about Durov
and @telegram

And I can't imagine knive's manufacturer s level of liability 🔪

in reply to Gaël Duval - /e/OS & Murena

Encore une fois, rien dans les docs ne va dans ce sens. "a priori" c'est loin d'être satisfaisant pour une propriété aussi importante.
in reply to Fabrice Desré

A lire dans blog.cryptographyengineering.c… : e2ee "is only available for one-on-one conversations, and never for group chats with more than two people in them. " , fermez le ban.


I haven't even finished my coffee yet but I've already come across a bunch of bad takes on the telegram thing today.

I've already boosted this, but I'm begging everyone to read this post by @evacide before forming a strong opinion on this:

hachyderm.io/@evacide/11302452…


in reply to LibreOffice

Was she AI generated? Some definite weird quirks on the speech there such as "share idees" and "Free softwahrr". Didn't seem like it was just an accent.

#GenAI #AI #GenerativeAI



NIST has been working on a "Digital Identity Guidelines" document for a while, with the second draft being prepared for its final review:

nist.gov/news-events/news/2024…

It looks like they want to include facial recognition as one of the options, but they insist that any solutions will need to take privacy into account.

I'm glad they're considering that, but I don't see any mention of relatively simple methods for fooling these systems, as discussed in this article (among others):

vice.com/en/article/hackers-fo…

in reply to ansuz / ऐरन

see also "We Broke Into A Bunch Of Android Phones With A 3D-Printed Head" which can be read in full if you disable javascript:

forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewste…

in reply to ansuz / ऐरन

they're accepting public comments until October 7th, 2024.

I'm not American, nor do I have any particular industry experience with facial recognition other than a broad knowledge that biometric authentication is very often a terrible idea.

Perhaps someone on fedi who has a bigger stake in this wants to draft some open letter or something? I will happily add my signature to anything that raises these concerns in a well-considered manner.

I'll probably write something short if nothing substantial is organized before that deadline, but it would probably be more effective coming from a broader coalition.

#NIST #infosec



Allowing police officers to submit LLM-written reports reveals a remarkable misunderstanding of what LLMs do, a profound indifference to the notion of integrity in the communications of law enforcement with the justice system, or both.

Given how readily subject to suggestion human witnesses—including police officers—are known to be, this is a disaster.

Yes, police reports aren't always the most accurate, but introducing an additional layer of non-accountability is bad.

apnews.com/article/ai-writes-p…



The Librem 11 is the tablet that respects your rights. Powerful hardware meets ethical software. Work, create, and connect without sacrificing your digital autonomy. #Librem11 #PureOS #PrivacyFirst
puri.sm/products/librem-11/


Just a wild guess, but “will my messages remain private when they arrest the CEO of the company behind the messenger” is probably a good guiding question when deciding on your next chat app.


Most mirrors of libgen are now down. Anna's Archive is fighting to keep the lights on.
annas-archive.org/


Hovorí sa že najlepšie čo môžeš po tréningu urobiť je sa najesť a pospať si... ja som si pospal a zobudil sa k*revsky rozbitý, všetko ma bolelo. :kekw:
in reply to Schmaker

@schmaker @theron29 ja som zdravý ale potrebujem vymeniť jeden z dvoch palivových článkov.
in reply to SuspiciousDuck

@schmaker Zní to funny, ale ten dvojsmysl mi jinak uniká (a to mám obecně hodně dirty mind 😇)



I really enjoyed @yatil new article on WCAG levels. When the WCAG Guidelines were being created members tried to correlate the different levels (A, AA, AAA) based on how difficult they'd be to implement. It would be helpful if the standards within each level designation were checked again. The standards could be regrouped based on their current level of difficulty. Please check out the full article for more information. #accessibility yatil.net/blog/wcags-a-and-aa-…


I guess collusion isn't illegal in canada. Some product I get regularly jumped from $23 to $30, regardless of the retail oligarchs I buy it from. That's a 30% gouge. in a month.

If that's not greedflation....



Mi propuesta para el logo del fediverso:
Una mano cerrada en puño con el dedo corazón extendido hacia arriba y la frase:
Móntate aquí.

Esto... que yo me iba a comer, hasta luego.



When meta glasses work to read something, they work very very well. But, when they fail, they fail spectacularly. For some reason, I could not get them to read me something that was right in front of me, the same exact thing I'd done before with other documents I had sitting before me. And other appps did much better.

It's a reminder that this device hasn't been enhanced for blind people's specific needs. It's a device/platform that happens to have features that help.

#accessibility #a11y



This year is the 30th anniversary of W3C. On Wednesday 25 September, at W3C@30, we will explore the impact of W3C standards on the world, imagine the possibilities for the next 30 years and celebrate our community with talks and a gala at our annual #w3cTPAC conference in Anaheim, CA.

Thank you to our sponsors @igalia and mesur.io. Organizations and individuals can sponsor the event (your sponsorship may be tax deductible if you pay US taxes)

See more:
w3.org/2024/09/TPAC/w3c-30.htm…



Ridicule.

"La Ville de Beauharnois lui a envoyé deux avis de nuisances en juillet. Elle y indique avoir constaté lors d’inspections que « différents arbustes ne sont pas entretenus et poussent de manière désordonnée » sur son terrain."

"De son côté, M. Brossoit fait part de son incompréhension face à ces inspections, alors que de l’herbe à poux foisonne jusque sur la bordure du trottoir sur le terrain d’une résidence voisine."

#Québec #RébellionFruitière

lapresse.ca/actualites/environ…

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Hubert Figuière
je suis envieux de ses fruits. Nous on avais 5 pommes et toutes mauvaises....


Looking for a #gnome #linux suggestion. I'm running #debian on my laptop with Gnome. I'm looking for how to configure a Gnome hot key to do something I'm used to doing.

On a Mac or on Windows, Alt-Tab cycles through open applications. This works the same on Gnome. On both Windows and Mac there's another key combination (Ctrl-Tab on Windows, I think; Cmd-~ on Mac) that will let you cycle through windows of the currently focused application. If I have 2 or 3 terminal windows open, I can press Cmd-~ to bring different ones in focus. These keystrokes don't seem to be working in Gnome. I can't find a key sequence to switch between VSCodium windows, or terminal windows, or Firefox windows.

What's the trick?

in reply to Paco Hope #resist

the shortcuts are Super + Tab for switching between apps, and Super + the key above Tab, depending on your keyboard layout.

For more information: help.gnome.org/users/gnome-hel…

in reply to Emmanuele Bassi

@ebassi Everyone quickly pointed that out. So I must have messed something up by changing a setting somewhere. I'll go check my settings.


youtube.com/watch?v=E4X56wIOZn…


"Trudeau says Canada will slap big tariffs on Chinese EVs "

In other news Governing for the lobbies. The Govt already killed the Canadian made Zenn car a decade and a half ago.

And nothing in sight to force the lobbies to produce smaller and cheaper EV.

(putting aside that EV are not the golden hammer of climate action)

cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-h…

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in reply to Hubert Figuière

This is more complex than governing for the lobbies. This is not only to entertain the local economy (feeding the local workers rather than these at the other end of the planet), but also to prevent dependence, dumping, takeovers.

But I hope that there will be incentives for local <25k$ cars; while a good portion of people could use active or collective transportation most of the time, we do need cars, sometimes, and we'd better use energy-efficient ones that don't suffocate our closed, non-infinite atmosphere.

in reply to Jérôme Carretero

@cJ the lobby the one that sell F150 (dangerous) and doesn't have much smaller vehicle that would satisfy 90% of the trips made by these F150...


Listening to the S1/S2 Doctor Who soundtrack due to secret reasons and I’m mad at RTD all over again for Doomsday.
in reply to Tammy Garrison

Are you mad at him because Eccleston felt that he had to leave the series?


Here's what I'd like to encounter one day. A credit card with the number in braille on it. It could even be mini braille. I would totally dig that.
in reply to Martin from Toronto

I was told that Wells Fargo offers them. When I recently had to replace my credit card, I forgot to ask about this and I can find no references to this service on their Web site but I haven't searched very extensively.
in reply to David Goldfield

@DavidGoldfield I have never seen one. I have seen several banks which offer a folder with Braille numbers on it when you get the actual card. Wonder if they include the expiration date and cvv. you can't activate if they don't but I have never seen an actual card with Braille on it.
in reply to David Goldfield

@DavidGoldfield Yup, it's not mentioned anywhere, but you find a lot of references to it in email lists and the like. Discover mentions it on their site in a sentence. Still Interesting that it's possible though.
in reply to Martin from Toronto

@DavidGoldfield Oh I wish I could show you this card it's so neat how they fit everything on the front face of the Discover Card and it isn't mushy #Braille or too squished together either.
in reply to Robin Frost

@robini71 Yes ... I can certainly understand why you wouldn't want to show people your Braille credit card. 😀


I would like to thank the big Internet monopolies of Google and Microsoft for killing the open email system so that we can focus on used closed proprietary silos that make it so difficult to do anything with.

This is the Internet we all envisioned.

#sarcasm



Passo dello Stelvio ✅

Climbing is easy. Descending is hard. 😅

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Trudeau: We don't want to take any risks of Canada being flooded with (checks notes) affordable electric cars.

cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-h…

in reply to Hubert Figuière

The quote:

> Federal regulations set up by Transport Canada to approve low-speed vehicles (LSVs) for public road use excluded the ZENN and other NEVs from Canadian roads. ZENN's battle with Transport Canada over LSV regulations was periodically mentioned in Canadian news.



@Tutanota You guys online? Getting timeouts on tuta.com
@Tuta
in reply to Marek

If you send your IP to our support team at hello@tutao.de they can check if it was blocked on our end.


Space is inhospitable, yet we travel through it on this magical miraculous living rock which provides everything we could ever need.

There is more than enough food, water, air, & land for everyone.

No other planet will ever be our home.

We should really start acting like it.



Ah yes, I remember that Star Trek plotline where Kirk solved the infamous test by buying all the Holodecks in Starfleet, and making sure everyone's Period dramas and historical reenactments were filled with screaming Nazis and Ferengi Crypto merchants.


Someone used my Gmail account to sign up for OnlyFans. So I did a password recovery and deleted their account.

I really hate (a) people who don't remember their email. addresses. And (b) sites that don't use a double opt-in process.



London Underground has the greatest branding of all time. It's instantly recognisable, clear without being boring, works for both locals and tourists and, unlike the usual suspects like as Coke and McDonald's, it's actually useful to people


Until we have essentially "solved" the climate crisis, the mass provision and use of AI is immoral. Their energy usage is simply indefensibly high.

Same goes for cryptocurrencies and blockchain of course, but that's both more widely understood, and no longer the thing that businesses are eagerly throwing money at, fearful of missing out.



Do you still use #Gmail?

Answer not listed? Let us know in the comments!

  • Yes, I need it for Android. (32%, 150 votes)
  • Yes, because I like it. (9%, 42 votes)
  • No, why would I? (58%, 273 votes)
465 voters. Poll end: 2 months ago

in reply to Tuta

Still use it, because many of my account are link to that evil email 😞 . But I'm removing slowly what I can from it.
in reply to Tuta

Unfortunately, Android doesn't work without a GMail account. I look forward to the day Google's monopoly would come to an end.
However, I haven't been using Gmail as a communication means for at least 4-5 years, but strictly to log in to the Play Store.
Same is true for all the other Google "free" products: Search, Maps, YouTube, Drive, Calendar, Pay, etc.

"If you don't pay for a product, then you are the product" 🤔

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#Telegram and #Durov are once again in the media, so I translated my May piece about the service to English:

Telegram is neither "secure" nor "encrypted"
rys.io/en/171.html

Calling Telegram "secure" or "encrypted" is misleading, and is journalistic malpractice.

Telegram itself seems to mislead about it on purpose.

Telegram's encryption protocol is suspicious and transmits cleartext device identifiers with every message.

They have been called out for it many times, and refuse to change.



Heya everyone, I thought I posted this here last night, but apparently I didn't..

I regret to inform you that the Screen Shot Off The Record plugin that we linked to briefly was found to have a key logger and was sending screen shots to unwanted parties.

So if you have this plugin installed, you will want to remove it immediately.

You can see our official post about this at pidgin.im/posts/2024-08-malici…

We are planning a more indepth post in the near future.



To the journalists calling Pavel Durov a "cyber-libertarian", the actual term you're looking for is "asshole"


I’m sitting in a hanging chair next to Alice in our back garden. It’s a sunny day in London, so I thought I’d enjoy it while it lasts.