The August 2024 report from the Reproducible Builds project has been published.
"In Android news, the IzzyOnDroid project added 49 new rebuilder recipes and now features 256 total reproducible applications representing 21% of the total offerings in the repository."
Featured are Holger Levsen's DebConf24 talk (and the related LWN article), PostgreSQL removing intermediate build artifacts from tarballs, various improvements to our website, and more.
Bis auf Weiteres haben wir uns entschlossen, unseren Mastodon-Kanal ruhen zu lassen. Folgt uns auf unseren anderen Kanälen für spannende News zu den Themen Bildung und Forschung:
Wenn #Bildung und #Forschung nicht an der zukunftsweisendsten Entwicklung der letzten Zeit in Sachen fairem #SocialMedia teilhaben möchte, hm, da fällt einem nix mehr ein...
Because I can’t be arsed to re-up my Dragon license, kudos to @siblingpastry for the most recent test of voice control support for wrapped labels: tpgi.com/should-form-labels-be…
Cisco's site for selling company-themed merchandise is currently offline and under maintenance due to hackers compromising it with JavaScript code that steals sensitive customer details provided at checkout.
Added a "2 month update" section to my blog post about #Amazon bricking my kindle and reading at least 26 books on the Kindle Paperwhite I bought to replace it.
tl;dr: I regret buying a paperwhite instead of the Kobo Libra Color.
What a total pain. I unDRM my Kindle books so I can read them in Braille, but to do that I have to download and transfer via USB then use calibre. Presumably my device will also stop being supported soon.
@cachondo wait.... you unDRM them still? Like present day? I haven't figured out how to do that for the latest kindle DRM.
Please tell me your secrets!!!
I used to use calibre for that, but I'm pretty sure it can't do the latest anymore. I tried 2 paid apps too. They could extract the content but they lost all the formatting and things like bold and italic.
To be honest I'm still using the old setup. I had to add the serial number of the physical Kindle into a Calibre plugin somewhere for it all to work. Doesn't work on the newer KFX files, but every book I've acquired is still downloadable as an AZW file from the website. It's a paperwhite 10th gen.
@cachondo ahh i didn’t know you could still download the AZW files. That was the piece i was missing.
As far as i know there’s no good decryption for the KFX files although the paid ones may work for you, unless braille readers do something useful to designate bold and italics
Long story there. They do now, but didn't when I learned Braille as a kid so I don't miss the formatting. In fact many of the Braille books from the 80's in the UK didn't have capital letters in them either!
@cachondo why do people keep making such half-assed accessibility accommodations? Like, i get that it can be hard but “fuck-it. I did the bare minimum” and then wandering off is just a dick move
and will fix a blocker that is hurting adoption of JPEG XL.
The reference implementation has unfortunately been written in C++ just as browser vendors started looking into migrating away from C++ for security reasons, and saw the C++ codec primarily as a big new attack surface.
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Microsoft announces a Copilot: Wave 2 event on September 16 at 8:00 AM PT, where it is expected to announce a Copilot rebrand and new features (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Does anybody still remember the scandalous headlines about how AI companies are killing themselves because AI-generated data appears on the web, and training AI on its own data destroys model performance?
Now it turns out that *basically none of this is true*.
This problem happens only when the new model is trained exclusively with the synthetic data, and when the old, human-made data is removed. Nobody actually does this in practice. What people do instead is adding synthetic data to the pool they already have, and then the problem does not occur.
As I understand it, it's about ratios. Obviously they would still have the human data there, the trick is when the synthetic data, since there is so much of it and it can grow at a rate far faster than human written, approaches or eclipses the volume of human data. Right now, it likely won't happen. A few years down the line in one possible future, when everyone uses AIs on their devices to write social media posts, when article writers have been fired and replaced with LLMs etc? Who's to say.
Heute ist #WSHD2024! Der 4. September ist dem Bewusstsein für die Bedeutung sexueller Gesundheit gewidmet. Das Motto für 2024: Positive Beziehungen.
Die World Association for Sexual Health hat den Tag 2010 ins Leben gerufen.
Im Fokus der Arbeit am RKI stehen sexuell übertragbare Infektionen und deren Prävention, doch sexuelle Gesundheit geht weit darüber hinaus. Sie umfasst ebenso Aspekte wie Lebensqualität, Wohlbefinden, Rechte und zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen.
@kimvsparrentak Hi Kim, I guess I can assume the greens are opposing this chat control again. No idea if and how we can get a signal out and have the Dutch vote be a firm "No!".
Obviously as we have a useless government where certainly the VVD already earlier went really bad and now they are in the extreme right coalition where certainly one other will like the Stasi methodes for sure.
@johnkavs @ScottLucas Hi there! Yes, we will be keeping up to date and spreading as much awareness and updates on the matter. Please join the fight to stop this.
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Oh, thank goodness not having a fully functional screen reader isn’t a blocker for Fedora 41. We wouldn’t want them to miss their 10th anniversary of shipping an operating system without a fully functional screen reader, after all.
I'd love to see something like this for Rust. That is, targeting application processors unlike embedded Rust, with a port of std, possibly with some things stubbed out, rather than no-std. I don't want to start a language flame war, but IMO, Rust has stronger safety guarantees in safe code.
Wichtiger Artikel beim @Volksverpetzer - auch wenn es letztlich alle wissen: Bund und Länder horten zahlreiche sensible Bürgerdaten. Ein pseudo-demokratisches Fascho-Regime kann diese Daten für vielfältige Zwecke nutzen. Vor allem natürlich für die Verfolgung "unerwünschter Personen". volksverpetzer.de/analyse/digi…
Can any of the #libreoffice spreadsheet users out there tell me if there is an "import JSON" extension available at this time, or if there are any plans to add the function to Calc any time in the near future. Thanks in advance :)
@DoKo @FreieSoftwareOG Well, OpenOffice's last big update was in 2014, and it's had repeated problems fixing security holes on time: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_O… – But LibreOffice is the properly maintained and actively developed successor project 😊
@FreieSoftwareOG the point was noch using OO or LO (this was just the small "joke" to not use MS Office), the point is the question who utilizes who...
Apple II - colino.net/wordpress/en/mastod…
Commodore 64 - github.com/Havoc6502/MOStodon
Commodore Amiga - github.com/BlitterStudio/amido…
MS-DOS - github.com/SuperIlu/DOStodon
MVS - github.com/mainframed/BREXXTOD…
Palm OS - github.com/knickish/heffalump
Windows 95 - github.com/meyskens/mastodon-f…
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