in reply to Aral Balkan

Ever seen the HTML produced by an MS Word export? Blood fountains from your eyes. I once cleaned up such a HTML, and the size of the resulting clean HTML was less than 20% of the original. They even used CSS classes, but then explicitly repeated their definitions every.single.time (like "<p class="foo"><font size…><font family…><b><i>blabber</i></b></font></font></p>", with "foo" of course having font size, family, italics, bold already).

But right, worse examples are no excuses…

If you're surprised Tesla takes and keeps recordings from their cars after seeing the news about the Cybertruck in Vegas, you shouldn't be. This is not something new. Tesla has been taking and storing media for many years, claiming it's used to train their AI capabilities. You can't opt out either.

And Tesla employees do access it, make fun of you, make memes, and share the content internally, without any legitimate reason to access the content.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

While this is about Tesla, this is a growing problem across this and other industries.

#Tesla #Surveillance #Privacy

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If one of your new year's resolutions was to tighten up your digital/online security, we've got you!

Digital Security Fundamentals Training for Anti-Fascists
January 18th @ noon EST/5PM GMT
Info/enrollment: bit.ly/digisecworkshop

#antifa, #opsec, #digitalsecurity, #antifascism #antifascist

Uitgezonderd wenst jou vele wilde plannen toe in 2025!
Ben je benieuwd naar onze wilde plannen voor 2025? Kom dan zeker naar de volkskeuken op 4 januari waar we 𝐞́𝐞́𝐧 𝐯𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐳𝐞 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐃𝐒𝐓𝐄 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐍 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 uit de doeken zullen doen!
Meer info over de volkskeuken kan je vinden op onze website --> www.uitgezonderd.org
#wildeplannen

Next week on Thursday Jan 9 comes a new chance to get to learn how to get started with #libcurl development in a live and free webinar with me. Sign up here:

us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

There's a Q&A too of course.

Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/…

Table of contents:

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racist conspiracy theories by ladybird dev

so yeah, the ladybird dev is boosting conspiracy theories and claiming he's been instructed to participate in "reverse racism" against white men as an exec, and how he was "scared to rock the boat".

if you weren't convinced that he's just an asshole by his "pronouns are political" statements before, then yeah.. here's him diving even deeper into this garbage.

it's always the same. starts with "pronouns and genders are political" and devolves into this kind of stuff. this is basically him saying he believes in white replacement theory.

archive.is/ZtQpj

Edit: removed the transphobia claim since he wasn't *explicitly* transphobic

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The most detailed explanation of the European Accessibility Act
#EAA I have read

#EU #accessibility

digitalaccessibilitycentre.org…

Witaj, Polsko! Welcome, Poland!

With the Polish EU Council Presidency, we will challenge current uncertainties and build a stronger, united Europe for all.

To achieve that, Poland will focus on:

⬜Defence and security
🟥Protection of people and borders
⬜Resistance to foreign interference and disinformation
🟥Ensuring security and freedom of business
⬜Energy transition
🟥Competitive and resilient agriculture
⬜Health security

ℹ️ poland25.eu

❌ Stop #Google Calendar having access to your and your family's data! ❌

Tuta Calendar lets you and your family stay organized in true privacy with post-quantum encryption.

Share, plan, and organize your family's calendar privately with Tuta ❤🔐

tuta.com/blog/best-family-cale…

#familycalendar #tutacalendar #PostQuantumCryptography #degoogle

I was randomly checking when I have to renew my subscription plan to @Tutanota.

I was surprised to see that @Tutanota quietly raised their prices from 36 €/yr to 39.99 €/yr for the Revolutionary plan and 96 €/yr to 99,99 €/yr for the Legend plan.

Previous announced price plans (tuta.com/blog/announcement-new…) .

By the way, @Tutanota your in-app plan’s prices in French is misleading. It reads “39,99 €/month paid annually” which means 479,88 €/year.

@Tuta

👉🏼 I have been doing some testing and have noticed when navigating links on iOS using VoiceOver (VO), if the link contains an element that is not exposed as a generic element it causes VO to treat and announce text in the link as separate links.

#a11y #iOS

html5accessibility.com/stuff/2…

#a11y #ios

I think everyone who has an opinion, positive or negative, about LLMs, should read how @simon summed up what’s happened in the space this year. He’s the most credible, most independent, most honest, and most technically fluent person watching the space. simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/…

Announcing FediMeteo – Weather in the Fediverse!

Weather has always influenced our lives: from agriculture to outdoor activities, to extreme events that, thanks to modern technology, can now be predicted with greater reliability. Personally, weather plays a significant role in my daily decisions, which is why I decided to create a service tailored for the Fediverse.

FediMeteo uses Open-Meteo data to publish updates every 6 hours, including current weather conditions, forecasts for the next 12 hours, and predictions for the upcoming days. Each country is served by its own dedicated instance (e.g., it.fedimeteo.com for Italy), managed through snac to ensure simplicity and efficiency in publishing.

You can follow FediMeteo directly in the Fediverse (on Mastodon and compatible platforms), via RSS, or by visiting the dedicated page for your city (e.g., fr.fedimeteo.com/paris).

Currently supported countries include:
Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands – with many more regions coming soon!

FediMeteo is hosted on a FreeBSD-based VPS, with each country isolated in its own jail to ensure security and scalability.

Visit the main site to explore the national instances and start following your local weather updates today:
fedimeteo.com

Happy weather monitoring to all! 🌦️

FediMeteo is dedicated to my grandfather, who every evening would give me the weather forecast based on TV, radio, and his personal experience. He would convince me that the weather would be bad, so he had an excuse to accompany me to school instead of me going alone.

#FediMeteo #Announcements #FreeBSD #FediMeteo #WeatherForecasts #Weather #Meteo #snac #Fediverse #Mastodon

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We were so focused on hospitality and making tea at #38C3 that we kinda forgot to ask for financial support... Only 2 donation boxes were scattered in corners of the House of Tea. 😞

As a result we got 250€ in donations (versus 1000+ last year!) 💸

So, IF you remember ever looking for a donation box during #38C3 and could'nt find one... OR if you enjoyed your time at the House of Tea AND can afford a small financial contribution:

-> opencollective.com/house-of-te… ❤️ 💰 🍵

Thank you!! ❤

#38C3

Ya sabemos cómo va a terminar esto!

Rubén Blades denuncia a Vox por usar su canción 'Pedro Navaja' para una "burda" parodia

noticiasdenavarra.com/politica…