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Almost, but Not Quite, Entirely Unlike…
By Léonie Watson, @tink - "Can you give me the HTML for an accessible button please? It was a simple enough question. Or it would have been, had I been asking another person. As it was, I was asking ChatGPT, and so of course there was nothing simple about it…"
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HTMHAIL - HTMHell

A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
HTMHAIL - HTMHell
@Léonie Watson
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Google vs Samsung: The Android Accessibility Showdown for 2025 and Beyond accessibleandroid.com/google-v…

Google vs Samsung: The Android Accessibility Showdown for 2025 and Beyond - Accessible Android

In the accessibility arena of Android, Google’s Pixel and Samsung’s Galaxy devices dominate the field. While brands like OnePlus and Xiaomi offer competitive
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Shit that drives me nuts about #emacs :

I use lsp-mode to have modern niceties for editing code, and which-key to aid in remembering hotkeys.

lsp-mode has a bunch of prefix keys, but somehow Emacs just displayed "g +prefix" and the like for them. It didn't tell me what each group is.

Turns out there is "which-key integration" in the lsp-mode docs: emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/p…

So you *have to enable integrating it with the thing you already have enabled*. Now it displays "g +goto" as expected.

Keybindings - LSP Mode - LSP support for Emacs

Language Server Protocol Support for Emacs
emacs-lsp.github.io
#emacs

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💥 THE BATTLE BEGINS 💥

The tech industry has had quite a year with its billionaires revealing who they really are for all to see. Who will be the WORST PERSON IN TECH?

🗳️ Voting is now open: forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1XV6A8

#tech #techwontsaveus #siliconvalley

Full bracket of 32 names for The Worst Person in Tech 2024

Worst Person in Tech 2024 - Round One

The end-of-year contest from Tech Won’t Save Us to let YOU choose the worst person in the tech industry is back! Here's how it works: Every day I’ll post the matchups and you'll have 12 hours to vote.
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#tech #siliconvalley #TechWontSaveUs

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Last time we raised funds to add offline messaging support to #bifrost bridge, which connects #matrix and #xmpp. Now we need to raise some funds again to adapt the bridge to support recent changes in how media is shared in matrix. Please contribute opencollective.com/bifrost-med… #FreeSoftware Once we have some funds, we hope this will motivate someone to fix the bridge. You can also join xmpp:bifrost-mam@groups.podder… if you like to help.

bifrost-media - Open Collective

Add authenticated media support to bifrost bridge
opencollective.com
#FreeSoftware #xmpp #matrix #Bifrost

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"Initially launched in Sept 2014, there are now over 106M users on the network, spread over ~100K server instances, providing a secure open source alternative to Teams/Slack/WhatsApp/Discord within a global network. Users include the governments of France, Germany, UK, US, Sweden, Poland, Ukraine and many others, as well as major open source organisations including Mozilla, the Wikimedia Foundation, KDE, GNOME, Debian, etc."
Listen to @matthew about @matrix at
usenix.org/conference/srecon23…
#SREcon23

Designing Matrix: A Global Decentralised End-to-End Encrypted Communication Network | USENIX

www.usenix.org
#srecon23 @The Matrix.org Foundation @Matthew Hodgson

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I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop

(The exact same laptop that could just about run a GPT-3 class model 20 months ago)

The new Llama 3.3 70B is a striking example of the huge efficiency gains we've seen in the last two years
simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/9/l…


I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop

Meta’s new Llama 3.3 70B is a genuinely GPT-4 class Large Language Model that runs on my laptop. Just 20 months ago I was amazed to see something that felt …
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🚨 Are your passwords long enough?

Our survey shows 16% of Tuta users use passwords under 10 characters!

NIST & CISA recommend at least 16 to defend against malicious attackers & modern threats like quantum computing.

🔒 Protect your data: tuta.com/blog/minimum-password…

#CyberSecurity #PasswordTips

New NIST recommednation for password lenght, 2024

Tuta Survey Results: Only about half the users use passwords that are long enough. | Tuta

Why password length matters for online security & best practices to protect your online accounts.
Tuta
#cybersecurity #passwordtips

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🔍 Accessibility is our priority!
We're implementing WCAG 2 standards to ensure Joplin is even more inclusive and user-friendly for everyone, including those with disabilities.
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Project 2 : Making Joplin more accessible with WCAG-2 compliance By adopting WCAG 2 standards, we’re ensuring that everyone, and users with disabilities in particular, can enjoy a seamless note-taking experience

Project 2: Making Joplin more accessible with WCAG-2 compliance | Joplin

We're always looking for ways to make Joplin better for everyone, and one of the key steps in improving accessibility is implementing the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2). These guidel...
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Talon

@spacepup These aren't special wavetables for it. It's all stock surge stuff. I guess most of the magic is the modulation, post processing and arrangement. Set up lots of LFOs and find cool sweet spots. After a while you develop an intuition of what effects will add to the sound. Or you find ones you like using. Used an absolute ton of compression, frequency shifting, phase distortion and such. Cut the reverb tails at the right spots so things don't blend into each other. And lots and lots of experimentation.

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❄️ Vánoce i pro ptáky. Připravte opeřeným sousedům nadílku, která je potěší.

birdlife.cz/vanoce-pro-ptaky-p…

👇 Například kosy pohostíte jablky, strakapoudy potěší lojové koule, samozřejmě bez sítěk a palmového oleje. 🍎

Na 10.–12. ledna připravujeme už sedmý ročník Ptačí hodinky – sčítání ptáků nejen na krmítkách.

Podrobnosti a materiály najdete už teď na ptacihodinka.birdlife.cz

Foto: Miloslav Anderle a Karin Bojerová

Vánoce pro ptáky. Připravte opeřeným sousedům nadílku, která je potěší, vyzývají ornitologové veřejnost • Česká společnost ornitologická

Vyvěsit krmítko, zasypat do něj a pak už se těšit z malých opeřených strávníků, to patří k oblíbeným zimním činnostem v mnoha českých domácnostech.
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Newswire: Tek Talk of 12/9/24 at 8pm Eastern welcomes Humanware's Peter Tucic, Director of Strategic Partnerships, and Mathieu Paquette, Product Manager, to discuss the Victor Reader Stream 3 1.4 update groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/82…

Newswire: Tek Talk of 12/9/24 at 8pm Eastern welcomes Humanware's Peter Tucic, Director of Strategic Partnerships, and Mathieu Paquette, Product Manager, to discuss the Victor Reader Stream 3 1.4 update

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📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 9. Dezember, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag um 19:00 besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
Mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille mit 8 Tasten. Das Gehäuse ist rot und die Tasten sind weiß. Das Gehäuse ist ungefähr fünfeckig. Ein Rechteck wird an der Breitseite durch ein Trapez erweitert. Die Form ähnelt einem Haus mit Fenstern in der Mitte.

Do-It-Blind (DIB) Besprechung

Learn using BigBlueButton, the trusted open-source web conferencing solution that enables seamless virtual collaboration and online learning experiences.
bbb.metalab.at
#blind #inklusion #make

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"We are happy to tell you that we accept your proposal "Tightening every bolt" in the Security room at FOSDEM 2025."

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Tightening every bolt FOSDEM 2025

Things to do in order to sleep well while having your C code in twenty billion installations. A talk about what the curl project does to minimize security risks: Security, Safety, Reproducibility, Vulnerability handling and the processes and tooling …
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Jiří Pavlík

@Keev Zpovědní tajemství je církevním právem stanovený a církví těžkými tresty postihovaný závazek mlčenlivosti o věcech, které se kněz dozví v rámci svátosti smíření, což je obřad s jasně ohraničený začátkem a koncem. Na běžné pastorační rozhovory se zpovědní tajemství nevztahuje.

Nedává smysl, aby se zpovědní tajemství vztahovalo na jiné osoby než na duchovní se zpovědní juristikcí (právem udělovat svátost smíření). Není důvod pro nějaké tajemství obdobné zpovědnímu pro jáhny nebo pastorační asistenty a asistentky, kteří a které nemají žádnou jurisdikci obdobnou zpovědní jurisdikci.

Není důvod, proč by církev měla zavazovat stát k ochraně něčeho, co sama svými předpisy nechrání.

@Keev
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#Slop is low-quality media - including writing and images - made using generative artificial intelligence technology.


Quelle: Wikipedia.

Open source projects have to deal with a growing number of low-quality vulnerability reports based on AI. See for example this comment from Daniel Stenberg, maintainer of #Curl:

I'm sorry you feel that way, but you need to realize your own role here. We receive AI slop like this regularly and at volume. You contribute to unnecessary load of curl maintainers and I refuse to take that lightly and I am determined to act swiftly against it. Now and going forward.

You submitted what seems to be an obvious AI slop "report" where you say there is a security problem, probably because an AI tricked you into believing this. You then waste our time by not telling us that an AI did this for you and you then continue the discussion with even more crap responses - seemingly also generated by AI.

Weiterlesen bei HackerOne: Buffer Overflow Risk in Curl_inet_ntop and inet_ntop4.

#opensource #AI #LLM #Spam


curl disclosed on HackerOne: Buffer Overflow Risk in Curl_inet_ntop...

*Curl is a software that I love and is an important tool for the world. * *If my report doesn't align, I apologize for that.* The `Curl_inet_ntop` function is designed to convert IP addresses from...
HackerOne
#opensource #AI #llm #spam #curl #Slop

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So a crazy thing happened. In a crime thriller film called Les chambres rouges (Red Rooms, 2023) there is a scene where the hacker protagonist is attempting to purchase a snuff film in online auction. The auction happens via IRC or IRC-like chatting environment and to my surprise there's actually me @rolle and my wife @mustikkasoppa who are one of the bidders.

1) The nickname of my wife is mistakenly written as "mustikasoppa" (with one k) but if I recall correctly she has used a mistakenly written nickname in the past
2) We are both operators and on the same IRC channel as we've been for the past 17 years

This is not a coincidence. One nickname can be made up by accident but not two with these features and definitely not in a French movie. My wife's nick "mustikkasoppa" is Finnish and means "blueberry soup".

Our IRC logs are more or less public because of open source and statistics so I presume the scene has been made with chatgpt which has scraped our nicks from the Internet so that they ended up in the movie. We still chat via IRC every day together.

The era of AI... Do your background check, folks. I'm glad this wasn't a dramatized documentary film but a complete fiction. However my wife and I are real. Mixed feelings.

#OpenAI #Privacy #Movies #IRC #GenerativeAI #ChatGPT

A movie scene from Red Rooms, a lady is looking at the screen
A scene from the movie, nicknames rolle and mustikasoppa are bidding BTC
A closeup chat scene from the film Red Rooms, rolle bids 6 BTC and saying something like "Yeah, but I'm already". Mustikasoppa proceeds to bid 7 BTC
A scene from the film, online poker table with 5 cards that have skulls in them
#privacy #irc #movies #openai #chatgpt #generativeAI @Roni Rolle Laukkarinen @Veera Laukkarinen
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Just released a new version of wcurl:
github.com/curl/wcurl/releases…

There's 3 new exciting features:

* New option "-o|-O|--output" for those who would like to choose the output filename.

* Automatic percent-decoding of output filenames, especially handy for URLs which are not written in Latin-based languages.

* Default filename set to "index.html" for those cases where wcurl/curl couldn't identify an output filename from the URL. You can now download everything with wcurl!


Release v2024.12.08 · curl/wcurl

New parameter -o|-O|--output|output= which allows the user to choose the output filename. Default to index.html as filename if none can be inferred from the URL. Percent-decode output filenames by ...
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Chi è andato su Bluesky sull’onda dell’hype, per bandwagon effect o per l’istintiva tendenza a fare il pecorone, sappia che i suoi testi sono sfruttati a scopo di lucro per attività informatiche dal pesante impatto ambientale.

hdblog.it/tecnologia/articoli/…


Bluesky: i tuoi post vengono usati per addestrare le AI, senza permesso

Su Hugging Face spopolano i dataset con milioni di post degli utenti di Bluesky, raccolti senza il loro permesso. Per ora non sembra esserci una soluzione.
Umberto Stentella (HDblog.it)

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Nová studie vědců Floridské státní univerzity ukazuje, že přidávání olova do benzínu způsobilo jen v USA deprese, úzkosti nebo hyperaktivitu u více než poloviny populace. V roce 2015 mělo více než 170 milionů Američanů vysoké hladiny olova v krvi během klíčových fází vývoje mozku. Důsledky zahrnovaly nejen pokles IQ a nižší příjmy, ale také rozsáhlé problémy s duševním zdravím.

stoplusjednicka.cz/olovnaty-be…


Olovnatý benzín je jen v USA zodpovědný za 150 milionů psychiatrických poruch | 100+1 zahraniční zajímavost

www.stoplusjednicka.cz

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"Given the fact that NVDA has an extremely light computer resource foot print the portable version is a blessing" - Squire, South Africa / NVDA negates the barriers many face when accessing a PC, as a free and light-weight screen reader translated into more than 50 languages.

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #GoodNews #FOSS #Free #Lightweight #A11y

Black text on a white background. NV Access logo above, purple sunbursts around. "Given the fact that NVDA has an extremely light computer resource foot print the portable version is a blessing" - Squire, Dyson South Africa
#a11y #foss #free #screenreader #nvdasr #nvda #goodnews #lightweight
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Simon Jaeger

Two related stories, both involving NVDA basically saving the day:
1. A week-long goalball camp that took place in a school during the summer. The library computers were locked down and had no screen reader on them. I helped a few people get NVDA running. I think it was version 0.5 at the time.
2. All throughout high school the blind school had hilariously old computers running a six-year-old version of JAWS. I basically ran my own portable software suite with NVDA as the screen reader. I can confirm it ran much, much better than JAWS ever has ... and possibly ever will.

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Just posted podcast episode with some of my experience with the meta glasses. Look forward to any feedback you all will have!!! desireerenae.com/learning-blin…

Learning Blind Tech Episode 19: Basics on Meta Glasses

In this episode, I discuss reasons why I use the Meta Glasses. I demonstrate using them to identify items, call Be My Eyes, and find content in Metaview Gallery.
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