The gnome-control-center panel I’ve been working on for the last many weeks is now ready for review, including a new chart widget for showing time spent using the computer screen (so you have some visibility into your compute use habits).
Glad to finally have this off my plate and on its way to being reviewed and hopefully merged.
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Si tú también estás flipando desde fuera del País Valenciano sobre la combinación de criminal incompetencia con escándalos delirantemente bochornosos que es la gestión del PP valenciano, en nuestro pódcast lo analizamos y damos detalles sobre el tema.
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Fango y horror | La Paella Rusa
El desastre de la DANA… y sus responsables. Cuatro años más de Trump. Óscar Puente, rey de la carretera. Terapia de grupo radiofónica para no acabar completamente desquiciados.Plaza Podcast
🔴Los Franco pierden el juicio contra el Estado por la propiedad de los bienes del Pazo de Meirás.
Un juzgado de Madrid ha dado la razón a la Administración en el litigio que mantenía con los herederos del dictador.
Por @javierhrguez
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Los Franco pierden el juicio contra el Estado por la propiedad de los bienes del Pazo de Meirás
Un juzgado de Madrid ha dado la razón a la Administración en el litigio que mantenía con los herederos de Francisco Franco sobre todo tipo de bienes y documentos hallados en el interior del inmueble.www.elsaltodiario.com
Turns out if a technology comes along that dismantles the basic interpersonal building blocks of everyday life in this world and replaces it with constant 24/7 insubstantial but incredibly loud screams of existential agony, both overt & covert, the world…starts to come apart at the seams.
We used to call that the Singularity. Funny how we thought it hadn’t happened yet.
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Something I've thought about lots over the past few years and even more recently: what can we do to foster and normalize small tech rather than big tech?
Individual communities are going to need to manage their own tech infrastructure in the coming years if they want to be more accessible, not beholden to large corporations, not surveilled constantly, etc. Individual creators will need to distribute outside of Steam or Spotify. Co-ops need property management portals. Mutual aid groups might benefit from lightweight logistics or communication tools.
I think platform is key. It needs to be easy to host/manage for others, and those others need to eject easily either to different providers or to their own host. Lots of stuff gets us parts of that, but I don't think anything is close to what would be ideal. Needs to be easy to build for and hard to break completely. Also needs to be entirely open source and not just open core.
I still think Sandstorm is closest start here (or more likely, Tempest once it gets moving again), but it's been super hard to keep people engaged in building or funding it. Even I've been too busy with other things to focus on chipping away at my own todo list.
But we had ease of hosting (once started) and user portability pretty much completely down pat, and I still see nobody doing anything else that approaches selfhosting intended for other people to have their own agency on it.
Yeah, I really want Sandstorm to succeed, and I think it's the model I'd like us to all move towards. You really do have to rewrite/adapt your apps for it, though, and I'm just thinking to give folks a standardized OIDC provider/mail setup/interop spec, and maybe something like NixOS to glue it all together. It's not the solution I want for sure, but I'm thinking we'll need a working solution sooner rather than later. I want to see tech succeed in these spaces because the alternative is that folks go back to writing things on whiteboards/pieces of paper, which means they're inaccessible to me. Thus my urgency to succeed on a quicker timeframe.
Speaking of, are the community meetings still happening? Always wanted to attend but 9 PM CST wasn't a great time and I never spoke up. Still have a soft spot in my heart for Sandstorm though.
Daniel's weekly report November 8, 2024
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release. rock-solid, fosdem, talks, curl -v google.com, podcasts, uncurled, security, polhem prize
He's currently rolling out a software product and I think he should have a presence here, but I'm not sure whether it would make the most sense for him to run his own server, which he's not keen on, or.. how to find one that would be a good fit.
It's an RPG virtual table top online thingy, so if you know a server where that would be at home, lmk I guess?
Never had any problems being on defcon.social
You Might Not Need that Framework – Frontend Masters Boost
There are big tradeoffs, naturally, but vanilla JavaScript is very powerful, usable everywhere, lightweight, and high-performance. Learn it and use it when it's the best choice.frontendmasters.com
One more GNOME development and socializing meetup in Hamburg with @camelCaseNick and @FineFindus ! Today was a really productive day. @FineFindus created a libadwaita MR for some API we also want in Papers, and merged a locatization MR in udisks-rs. And @camelCaseNick and Ihelped debugging the libadwaita code and got 5 MRs in Papers in! As always, send us a message if you come around!
#GNOME #Papers #postmarketOS #Hamburg
I wish I could tell Firefox to NEVER open a new tab from an external URL in some of the window. Or always in ONE specific.
For now it's just a crap shoot.
I posted this on elsewhere, and folks found it helpful, so here it is for y’all
For #lgbtq married couples, it's time to take steps to protect your marriage in case same-sex marriage is officially dissolved in the coming years. My husband and I did this when Roe V Wade was overturned, so I hope this is helpful. 👇
This is an important effort to help explore what can be done to make the #Web less energy-hungry…. and thereby help reduce the impact of the overall #Internet on #ClimateChange. (Since web traffic is such a huge amount of Internet traffic.) Good to see this happening!
From: @w3c
w3c.social/@w3c/11344250260640…
World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)
The newly launched Sustainable Web IG will publish the Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG). The guidelines are in line with the Sustainable Web Manifesto and aligned with GRI Standards and the UN Sustainable Development Goals to help organizations in…w3c.social
A few months ago I wrote about how I approach alternative text for images and tried to offer context for each of my considerations.
“My Approach to Alt Text”
adrianroselli.com/2024/05/my-a…
I also link other resources that are not mine.
My Approach to Alt Text
I ran across a survey from Tilburg University on the experiences and perspectives of image describers. It asked what process I follow to write image alternative text, and it occurred to me that I don’t use a checklist or guideline anymore.Adrian Roselli
So much for being the 'ethical, safe one'
Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers
techcrunch.com/2024/11/07/anth…
#ai
Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers | TechCrunch
Anthropic has teamed up with Palantir and AWS to sell its AI family of models called Claude to defense customers.Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)
Windows 11 24H2 breaks popular Alt + Tab shortcut. Here's what you can do
One of the most popular Windows keyboard shortcuts is causing a black screen for users after updating.Hans-Christian Dirscherl (PCWorld)
Hast Du wieder mal in den offiziellen Google-Dokumentationen was gesucht? 🙊 💨
Ernsthaft: bevor ich da anfange zu lesen, ändere ich IMMMER zuerst "hl=de" zu "hl=en". Sonst wirste wahnsinnig – oder wie der Sachse sagt: "Orschwerdbleede!" 💡
If you're worried about storing your data with US tech companies in light of the election results, this link has a list of European alternatives. These include:
- Email hosting
- Cloud storage
- Domain name registration
- Navigation apps
- Many other services
Stay safe.
Edit: Follow the creator at: @european_alternatives
Homepage | European Alternatives
We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.European Alternatives
Sad to see that @mozilla needs to layoff 30%😢
Is Google’s ban on paying Mozilla for including G Search in Firefox the reason?
All #privacy companies must unite against Big Tech now! 💪
👉 tuta.com/blog/will-ban-on-goog…
Will the ban on Google payments kill Mozillas Firefox? | Tuta
How Google’s antitrust judgement could harm Mozilla and what we all must do to help!Tuta
Mozilla stopped being a privacy company a while ago TBH. The latest blow is the removal of uBlock Origin Lite. We need to develop an alternative browser engine.
I'm not even willing to try chromium based browsers.
Can someone explain why the #Rosenbergs were executed for providing classified documents to Russia whilst convicted felon Trump did the same thing but was elected President of the United States🇺🇸?
#Treason #TrumpIsATraitor #Russia #politics
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Fickle Friends - Pretty Great (Official Video)
'Are We Gonna Be Alright?' is out now. Stream and buy the album now, available on CD, Cassette (& Vinyl LP's released in March) https://FFriends.lnk.to/AWGBA...YouTube
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When nobody want the feature, include it in the base and increase the price to at least offset the cost:
Microsoft is bundling its AI-powered Office features into Microsoft 365 subscriptions
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Microsoft is bundling its AI-powered Office features into Microsoft 365 subscriptions
Microsoft is bundling its Copilot Pro features into Microsoft 365 in some markets. Prices are going up in exchange for AI-powered Office features, though.Tom Warren (The Verge)
Any cryptographers who are sad about the post-quantum competitions coming to an end and looking for a new problem, here's one I've seen in a few places:
There's a trend towards end-to-end encryption for all datacentre interconnects (no plaintext on the wire, for any wire that leaves the CPU package). This includes things like PCIe, 100 GigE, and so on. As a result, we're rapidly approaching a world where there's over 1 Tb/s of encrypted traffic flowing in and out of every node.
At this rate, bit flips are inevitable somewhere (especially when you scale this up to a datacentre size). This leads to a couple of problems. The first one is bit flips on the wire.
The integrity tags in AES will catch these, but if you need to retransmit that's very painful (the bandwidth-delay product means the buffer sizes get huge), so ideally you want to bake in some forward error correction after encryption. But now you're reducing data rates.
Problem 1:
Can you design an integrity scheme for a symmetric cypher that also provides error correction, is easy to implement in hardware, and does not provide an oracle. I honestly have no idea whether this is even theoretically possible.
Beyond that, the AES engines are hot. Encrypting at even 10 Gb/s consumes a fair bit of power (Problem 0: Can you design a symmetric cypher that can be implemented in 10% of the power of AES in a hardware implementation?). This means that bit flips can occur in the middle of the encryption. These will corrupt the data but may have valid integrity tags.
Problem 2:
Can you design a symmetric cypher such that the integrity tag calculation can be computed in a pipeline that's independent of the main encryption (without duplicating a load of work or massively increasing the number of calculations) such that a bit flip in either pipeline will cause the integrity checks to fail?
Currently, I believe the work around for this is to add forward error correction before encrypting, such that a single block failing can be small, but that also adds a lot of overhead (i.e. lower bandwidth).
Problem 3:
Can you build a cypher scheme with both of these properties? Integrity tags permit error correction and can be computed cheaply in an independent pipeline so that they can catch bit flips during encryption.
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