Brandolini's Law is going to sink us. There is just too much BS
sketchplanations.com/the-bs-as…
Also known as Brandolini’s Law, this is the simple observation that it’s far easier to produce and spread BS, misinformation and nonsense than it is to refute it.Sketchplanations
@nlnet just announced four accepted NGI proposals within the EU Mobifree project which we are a small part of.
social.nlnet.nl/@nlnet/statuse…
Happy to see fosstodon.org/@termux
nlnet.nl/project/OpenAGPS/
lambdanative.org/
and nlnet.nl/project/ATL/
receive funding.
Don't you prefer the @EUCommission to fund a thousand of such wonderful infrastructural and diverse FOSS projects instead of throwing more money after AI things, only amounting to a drop in the giant AI money ocean, anyway?
Four projects will receive grants to contribute to the NGI @mobifree pilot. Many thanks to all four teams for contributing to a fair, open and privacy-friendly mobile software ecosystem.
@termux Android terminal app and software distro/run-time
OpenAGPS: Privacy-friendly, self-hostable location service
Android Translation Layer: Run Android apps on Linux
LambdaNative F-Droid integration: Portable, Productive and Performant App Development with Scheme
nlnet.nl/news/2024/20241111-NG…
#NGI #mobile
You may be able to get a free Thanksgiving dinner in 2020! From free turkeys to free food boxes to hot meal sites, we've found everything you need!Nicole Thelin (Low Income Relief)
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Get x-ray vision into AWS CloudFormation deployments with a timeline viewAmazon Web Services, Inc.
In this tutorial, youll learn how to backup and restore using Rsnapshot on a Linux server. Youll be setting up rsnapshot for local backup and remote...Arvid L (Howtoforge)
I'm glad I got out of Microsoft. wheresyoured.at/the-cult-of-mi…
When I was there (mid 2017 to late 2020), "growth mindset" was a thing we heard about sometimes, like at new employee orientation and from the executives, but at least on my team (Windows accessibility), I didn't see it being used against employees. Perhaps the Windows org didn't see the worst of it. But now they're encouraging employees to use Copilot to fill out their Connects (reviews), and managers are using it to summarize them.
Soundtrack: EL-P - Flyentology At the core of Microsoft, a three-trillion-dollar hardware and software company, lies a kind of social poison — an ill-defined, cult-like pseudo-scientific concept called 'The Growth Mindset" that drives company d…Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
Tired of zoom, meet, w/e video conferencing software collecting your data?
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NEW: call links let you start a video call with your fave Signal users easily, no group needed. Announcing these, and other improvements to calling here👇
If you love group calls on Signal, but don’t want to create a group chat for every combination of your friends or colleagues, you’re in luck.Signal Messenger
Welcome to the RB family, Habit Builder 🥳
apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.o…
Habit Builder provides you with the right tools to keep track of your habits and understand your progress.
Once more, joint efforts with the developer managed to get the app reproducible 
#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid
Simple habit tracker with insightsIzzyOnDroid App Repo
I’m becoming quite a fan of the @FLOSS_Weekly podcast. The latest episode with @bagder about Curl was super interesting.
Surprisingly for a chat about a seemingly dry subject, had me chuckling to myself a good few times. 🙂
hackaday.com/2024/11/06/floss-…
This week, Jonathan Bennett and Randal Schwartz chat with Daniel Stenberg about curl! How many curl installs are there?! What’s the deal with CVEs? How has curl managed to not break its ABI f…Hackaday
The 2024 Web Almanac is out, and this year the accessibility chapter is back, great work @mgifford!
almanac.httparchive.org/en/202…
Accessibility chapter of the 2024 Web Almanac covering ease of reading, navigation, forms, media, ARIA, and accessibility apps.Mike Gifford (HTTP Archive)
An anecdote that I shared about rolling around on the floor back in 2000 to solve a math problem, both in my #Masterclass at masterclass.com/classes/terenc… , and on #MathOverflow at mathoverflow.net/a/38882/766 , as well as the #NewYorkTimes nytimes.com/2015/07/26/magazin… , has for some reason recently gone viral on various social media. Just for the record, I wanted to add some mathematical background behind the story, which eventually led to my paper arxiv.org/abs/math/0010068 . At the time, I was trying to construct solutions to an equation known as the wave maps equation on the sphere: the solution was like a solution to the wave equation, except being forced to take values in a sphere rather than in a vector space.
I was trying to solve the equation iteratively, breaking up the solution to a low frequency base solution and a high frequency correction. As a first approximation, the low frequency base could also be assumed to stay on the sphere and solve the wave maps equation, so the main problem was to work out what the high frequency correction was doing.
Because the high frequency correction also had to keep the solution on the sphere, one could assume as a first approximation that the high frequency correction was tangent to the low frequency base. So, at any given point in space and time, the low frequency base solution was located on some point on the sphere, and the high frequency correction basically lived on the tangent plane to the sphere at that point. But because the base solution evolved (slowly) in space and time, this tangent space kept rotating around the sphere.
(1/3)
A prodigy grows up to become one of the greatest mathematicians in the world.Gareth Cook (The New York Times)
Remember the Polish train hackers? The guys who identified why trains being serviced by an independent, licensed train servicing center, "randomly" started failing? And identified the root cause, namely geofencing and/or time-related triggers?
The face charges by the original train manufacturer, who claims the violated copyright and other laws. A fascinating story of contradictory arguments. Enjoy!
#Newag #PolishTrainHackers #Poland #Train #ReverseEngineering
rys.io/en/175.html
Wednesday, August 28th, marked the beginning of the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the Polish train manufacturer Newag against train maintenance yard Serwis Pojazdow Szynowych and experts froSongs on the Security of Networks
Dear authors, and if Netflix or whoever is listening, you too:
If you're out of fun ideas for historical drama, alternate history or the like, how about this: an all-female gang in a European capital, renowned for coming up on top against male gangs and taking good care of their members, and one which may have endured for generations. You don't even need to invent most of it if you don't want to. This gang really existed and they were known as the 40 thieves or the 40 elephants: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty_El…
Please write something in this setting. Please!
pixelfed.cz na verzi v0.12.4
Added Implement Admin Domain Blocks API (Mastodon API Compatible) ThisIsMissEm (#5021) Authorize Interaction support (for handling remote interactions) (4ca7c6c3) Contact Form Admin Responses (52c...GitHub
This month in Servo…
🔒🔑 early SubtleCrypto support
🎨💡 ‘mix-blend-mode: plus-lighter’
📦↔️ CSS size keywords
📏🏎️ faster layout and compositing
📱🌃 OpenHarmony nightlies
More details → servo.org/blog/2024/11/08/this…
Plus initial SubtleCrypto support, CSS size keywords, and OpenHarmony nightlies.Servo
I've seen a number of toots today advising people against scanning random #QRCodes because they can be used in a number of malicious ways.
There are a number of legitimate ways people can use such codes to trick others, and it can require some deeper understanding of how systems work to avoid them. For that reason, I'm not going to contradict that recommendation, but I will add to it.
QR codes are usually just URLs encoded in a visual, machine-readable form, so they aren't necessarily more dangerous than a link. The danger comes from the fact that most scanner apps will directly open whatever URL you scan without giving you the opportunity to consider whether that's a good idea.
You can reduce the risk of scanning such codes by installing a better app which requires manual interaction to open URLs after decoding them.
For android users I recommend "BinaryEye", since it's open-source, ad-free, and has a bunch of other useful features.
Its github page links to both F-Droid and the play store:
github.com/markusfisch/BinaryE…
Yet another barcode scanner for Android. Contribute to markusfisch/BinaryEye development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
I just released version 0.4.1 of #rsop, a stateless #OpenPGP ("SOP") CLI tool based on @rpgp:
This release adds support for the 'revoke-key' command.
For more on #SOP, see datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft…
This document defines a generic stateless command-line interface for dealing with OpenPGP messages, known as sop. It aims for a minimal, well-structured API covering OpenPGP object security.IETF Datatracker
Apple's 2024 Mac mini stashes the power button underneath, a bold move that executives say aligns with user habits, even if it's left some fans scratching their heads. https://appleinsider.Mastodon
🙂 Come work with us 🇬🇧 Resident in the UK only 😩 #accessibility #ux #jobs https://misc.tetralogical.com/careers/2024-09-principal-accessibility-consultant/Mastodon
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 9 updated and 1 added apps:
* Raccoon for Friendica: a mobile client for Friendica by @dieguitux8623 & team 🛡️
RB stats: 328 apps (27.1%)
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo
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
There are many “what should we do next” thinkpieces, but this one is mine.
If you want an abstract summary, the idea is “we need to run a year-round parallel campaign apparatus that just introduces people to progressive ideas by making their lives better in whatever ways we can”.
That is a staggeringly huge project and if it does even happen, I can only be a tiny part of it, so I will need your help. Contact info is at the end of the blog post.
blog.glyph.im/2024/11/its-time…
Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.blog.glyph.im
Get JLCPCB 6 layer PCBs for just $5! Register to get $80 Coupons: https://jlcpcb.com/?from=chrisdoel3D Printing $0.3 & Get $60 for New Users: https://jlc3dp....YouTube
Egy héttel az előző béták után az Apple ma este elérhetővé tette az újabb verziókat – illetve érkezett még macOS Sonoma 14.7.2 RC2 (23H304) és macOSJadeye (Szifon.com)
The 2024 Web Almanac has been published:
almanac.httparchive.org/en/202…
I have contributed to the chapters on accessibility and sustainability.
#WebAlmanac #WebAlmanac24 #HTTPArchive
The Web Almanac is an annual state of the web report combining the expertise of the web community with the data and trends of the HTTP Archive.Rick Viscomi (HTTP Archive)
Accessibility chapter of the 2024 Web Almanac covering ease of reading, navigation, forms, media, ARIA, and accessibility apps.Mike Gifford (HTTP Archive)
After a recent collaboration between the Jieshuo screen reader developer and VIVO to integrate the Blue Heart AI LLM into Jieshuo, driving the AI imageKareen Kiwan (Accessible Android)
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@GenTollis mapcomplete.org/theme.html?z=1… is the resulting digital map.
If you make your own puzzle map with it, I'll be claiming tax though: you'll have to send me a picture of the end result ;)
MapComplete is a platform to visualize OpenStreetMap on a specific topic and to easily contribute data back to it.mapcomplete.org
Here’s your chance to learn new skills for a potential future career change, or expand your knowledge and have fun on the way: get involved in the Month of LibreOffice, November 2024! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Culture impacts how icons are interpreted, understood, and used.ericwbailey.website
One of my favorite Singapore food writers / recipe developers lives in the Netherlands now.
“Having grown up in perpetual summer, living in the Netherlands with the cold as a constant companion often makes me hanker for foods that I’d never craved for in Singapore.”
That’s what I feel too: the perpetual summer.
The newsletter name is a joke because there are no Singapore noodles in Singapore:
sgpnoodles.substack.com/p/bak-…
making braised pork and glutinous rice dumplings out of seasonPamelia Chia (Singapore Noodles)
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