The Council of Europe has made a #treaty on #AI (Treaty number 225), open to other signatories, and has been joined by the US and other countries. I've taken a quick look, and while it's mostly fluff (AI shall be used for good and not evil type stuff) there are a couple of useful bits.

There's a risk framework that states have to set up, to consider the graduated risks of AI in different areas. A possibility for a moratorium of AI use in specific high-risk areas. An obligation that, where AI is used to make decisions, people affected can challenge them and be given an understanding of the systems involved. There's also an obligation to assure to people that they are notified they are communicating with an AI rather than a human.

For more info, here's the treaty (PDF warning): rm.coe.int/1680afae3c

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I mean, thanks for showing me the numbers on how insane data sharing is, but really? And those are the ones I can't opt out of?

Do they count like every employee as a partner, or is my data really being shared with hundreds of other businesses?

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Finally! NVDA 2025.1 will be able to recognize and announce same page links, and buttons which point to text on the same page. It's part of Alpha 33850, and can be disabled, if desired, in NVDA's Document Formatting settings pane. So issue #141, opened on Jan 1, 2010, is closed. Thanks to everyone who helped materialize this: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…

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@JustinMac84 There is an issue for clickable at least, I haven't looked at columns review's functionality, but feel free to create an issue if there isn't already one at github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue… - re what gets built in and what's an add-on - essentially we try to ensure the most important functionality for the largest user base is built in - there will always be things some people see as vital others don't use - and some which are add-ons we simply haven't got to addin in.

Hello people, boy do I have some news for you. So @Kaliah and I were messing around with Siri, and it had a complete A I meltdown and said the letters J, C, F, E, and X in a random order and wouldn't stop for 30 goddamn seconds. We spent like 10 minutes laughing our asses off at this. Here is the recording for proof of this completely bizarre occurance. Happy listening!

Wait a damn minute, look at that pull request discussion and the diff as committed… the CTO of #Firefox has amended #Mozilla's "Neutral" position regarding #JPEGXL to indicate that their "cost" concerns are mainly about the security risks of a decoder being 100k lines of C++, and that they would be "open to shipping" a memory-safe decoder that meets their requirements?

And some folks at Google are going to write that implementation in Rust?!

I… I did not expect that.

github.com/mozilla/standards-p…

Edlin is a classic editor from the early DOS days, but it’s still a fun and useful editor. Here's a hands-on intro to editing with Edlin:

both.org/?p=7385

I use Edlin when I want to write something quickly, like a test program or a brief note.

Edlin is also very useful if you want to capture some commands into a FreeDOS batch file— you can write the new batch file while any commands you ran are still visible on the screen.

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Found out recently that Mapillary broke the navigation in their web explorer. Couple years ago it showed a trace as a series of points: you click on one and see the photo.

Now it displays a line. You cannot click anywhere on the line, but have to trace your mouse cursor along it, searching for a photo. And only then you can click and see it.

I think they don't use Mapillary anymore at Meta, that's why all its parts are getting worse with time.