I think part of the reason why Mastodon fails for me is because it offers far too much control to users over what they see. I think this creates insular communities where reach is limited and opinions go unchallenged because that makes people uncomfortable.

If BLM / George Floyd happened on Mastodon instead of other social media, I do not think that change would've occurred because either people would mute the tags or words, or admins would ban profiles talking about it (because Masto is white)

My peeps, we are hiring. I've been at Coda for nearly a year and genuinely look forward to work every day. I get to work on the cool projects I want, with smart, kind people who enjoy what they're doing. And now we can use more help in our security department.

We're looking for a 100% remote (in the US, due to compliance obligations) security engineer. Downside: you have to see me all the time. More info at job-boards.greenhouse.io/coda/…

If this looks interesting, please hit me up for the details.

oooh, the redbox uses full AES encryption!

and they always use the same key which is embedded in the executable right next to the encrypt() and decrypt() functions. well done, guys

I have to ask, because apparently a lot of people don’t use the keyboard to navigate websites at all. I do it all the time.

#a11y

• Use Keyboard sometimes (41%, 39 votes)
• Use Keyboard frequently (33%, 31 votes)
• Use Keyboard with assistive tech (4%, 4 votes)
• Only use the mouse/touchpad/pointer (20%, 19 votes)

My violence towards robot vacuums (usually when they get caught in cords for the MILLIONTH TIME) is vindicated.

They're spies.

werd.io/2024/insecure-deebot-r…

Insecure Deebot robot vacuums collect photos and audio to train AI

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-05/robot-vacuum-deebot-ecovacs-photos-ai/104416632 [Julian Fell at Australian ABC News] "Ecovacs robot vacuums, which have been found to suffer from critical cybersecurity flaws, are collecting photos, videos and v…

^{Ben Werdmuller (Werd I/O)}

If you are using a so called smart connected TV and are concerned about your privacy, you should read the following scientific article: "Watching TV with the Second-Party: A First Look at Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs"
arxiv.org/pdf/2409.06203v1

In short, if your TV's settings are not correctly adjusted, it can periodically (in some cases, every 10 seconds) send a fingerprint of what is being displayed to a server to find out what you are watching.

"#PHP RFC: Add persistent #curl share handles"

wiki.php.net/rfc/curl_share_pe…

The PR => github.com/php/php-src/pull/15…

feat: enable persistent `CurlShareHandle` objects by ericnorris · Pull Request #15603 · php/php-src

This PR introduces a new function, curl_share_init_persistent, that creates a php_curlsh struct that can live beyond a single PHP request. Persisting a curl share handle would allow PHP userspace t...

^GitHub

The incredibly talented Lupita Nyong’o now has a podcast:

brittlepaper.com/2024/10/kenya…

Kenyan Actress Lupita Nyong'o Brings Light to Global Storytelling in her New Podcast!

Lupita Nyong'o's podcast, Mind Your Own, is all about belonging. Whether that's belonging in a family, relationships, or self-love, it's about sharing stories around the globe.

^{Brittle Paper}

[white cis men do not comment]

#Men #Sexism #mansplaining #ToxicMasculinity #gaslighting #ReplyGuys

"Incremental #HTTP Messages" proposal:

Upon receiving a header section that includes the Incremental header field, HTTP intermediaries SHOULD NOT buffer the entire message before forwarding it. Instead, intermediaries SHOULD transmit the header section downstream and continuously forward the bytes of the message body as they arrive.

datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft…

aj toto je nové, pripomína mi to...

edit: resp. som to nemal povolené ale ináč to vidím iba posledných pár dní

why is the sky a SPHERE???

why do I have to know SPHERICAL GEOMETRY?????

we should live in a CUBE. a CUBE is a nice, sensible shape! flat planes are EASY.

this has been the latest in my series of rants about how astronomy is unnecessarily hard, tune in next week for "why does everything have to be MOVING all the time"

edited to add necessary context: I am a professional astronomer

(Update: I previously said “mailing lists” but very little of the recent report concerns itself with email. The point still stands.)

There is a point getting lost in the noise of the Stallman thing which I’d like to highlight, in the hopes of helping reply guys understand why they’re receiving such a furious response to what they believe is a principled defense of open debate:

The events where Stallman was obnoxious were *for free software projects*. That is to say, a *professional context*.

#SKpolitika, verzia "posledne slovo #BraňoBezák" + #HowItStartedVsHowItsGoing:

1/2

How it started: "Programové vyhlásenie tejto vlády sa volá: Lepšie, pokojnejšie a bezpečne žiť."

dennikn.sk/4252319/newsfilter-…

Newsfilter: Správu o atentáte objednal Fico, píše ju Gašpar. Aký asi bude výsledok?

1. Minister vnútra jedno nedorozprával, druhé odpinkal. 2. Ficova bilancia sa len zhoršuje. 3. Načo sú nám ícečká, keď budú lietadlá? 

^{Tomáš Gális (Denník N)}

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Absolutely wild how many companies are adopting AI notetaking apps for meetings.

Y'all'er just chill sending your planning, product direction and revenue details to some random third party in exchange for them doing the low value task of halfassing note taking for you?

There’s a lot of complexity around what open means and how that intersects with AI, but from a reputational and consistency perspective I really can’t get over this 👇🏽 for the current draft of the OSI AI definition.
mastodon.social/@odoruhako/113…

pedestrian cyclist

2024-10-15 19:08:59

Great. I'm looking forward to the next generation of open source hardware drivers and the "detailed descriptions of all contained binary blobs". 🤡

Just read the OSI "Open Source AI Definition" (opensource.org/deepdive/drafts…)
It's basically pointless but the best part is:
Data information needs to include: "a detailed description of all data used for training, including (if used) of unshareable data"

My man. If the data to train the model is unshareable meaning I cannot get it to reproduce your binary/model, your system _is not open source_.

Hey fedi, let's play a new(?) game! It's called "Stories That Could Have Happened".

The game: Someone picks a phenomenon, a saying, an event, or something else, where we don't actually know for sure how it happened or came to exist, and then we collectively write a Story That Could Have Happened about its origins! It doesn't need to be true or based on history!

There are only a few base rules, to keep it fun and non-confrontational for everybody:
1. You can either post a top-level reply to start a new story about the topic, or reply to someone else to continue on their story chain so far.
2. If you reply to someone else, you must either add to it or refine it with more nuance - you cannot outright contradict their post!
3. Posting with public visibility is encouraged, but make sure to add the #StoriesThatCouldHaveHappened hashtag, so that people can mute it if they want.
4. Keep your post short, and leave enough room for the next person to build on it.

So, anyone up for playing? 🙂 Let's start with this topic:

"Turning lead into gold"

Where did the idea come from?

Extraños tiempos estos.

Es normal una cohabitación entre ambas cámaras, con sus choques, pero hay que cumplir unas normas.

O bien el servicio jurídico y el presidente del Senado han prevaricado al permitir que se "vetase" una norma a destiempo, o bien el servicio jurídico y el presidente del Congreso han prevaricado al enviar una norma "vetada" al BOE.

No creo que ninguno rinda cuentas.
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I'm noticing a pattern here...

#privacy #chrome

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today? Sure! 10 updated and 1 added apps for you:

* Install with Options: more advanced app installs without needing to use ADB (using Shizuku) 🛡️

Number of apps with #reproducibleBuilds is up to 289 (or 23.8% out of 1.213 apps altogether) now.

At apt.izzysoft.de/magisk today 2 #Magisk #modules were updated and 1 added:

* Enable Blurs: enable more extensive blur effects

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repos

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. 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}

Free idea for anyone who wants it:

True crime podcast but instead of murders etc. it's just a long string of white collar crime that no one has bothered prosecuting.

• Wage theft
• Cooking books by doing layoffs
• Cooking books by canning projects that could earn back their cost
• Paying no tax by claiming your business is based in some random location with low-to-no effective tax rate

You could keep a podcast filled for years with illegal union busting.