Wrote up a gnarly sequence of hacks for downloading every video in a TikTok account, just in case anyone needs such a thing in the next ~24 hours

uv, yt-dlp, JS in the Firefox DevTools and optionally throws in mlx-whisper for generating transcripts too til.simonwillison.net/tiktok/d…

Downloading every video for a TikTok account

TikTok may or may not be banned in the USA within the next 24 hours or so. Here's a pattern you can use to download all of the videos from a specific account.

^{til.simonwillison.net}

Oh yes, an oldie but goodie. “Federatable” not same as “federated”: by @pluralistic

pluralistic.net/2023/08/06/foo…

Confession #328 of a long-time royal watcher.

There's one thing I miss about the late Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh. His sharp tongue. For example, this is what the royal second fiddle said upon leaving a plane, when asked by a particularly unimaginative journalist what the flight was like:

"And how was your flight, sir?"
"Have you ever been on an aeroplane?"
"Yes."
"Well, it was like that."

Anyway, here's a picture taken out a plane window in 2012, using the Retro Phone app on an HTC Sensation... a phone possesing a battery life so short it would die faster than a cordless Magic Wand.

#photography #CellPhonePhotography

Bambu Lab has just released a beta firmware for their 3D printers that includes DRM: blog.bambulab.com/firmware-upd…. it removes the ability to control your printer over the network from anything but Bambu software.

OrcaSlicer discussion: github.com/SoftFever/OrcaSlice…

Bambu claims that the negative response to their DRM is due to confusion, but nobody is confused. this new firmware doesn’t offer any security benefits; it has already been trivially broken. its only purpose is to be a DMCA hazard.

Firmware Update Introducing New Authorization Control System

Launching first for X Series printers, with P and A Series updates planned for future release

^{Bambu Kidd (Bambu Lab Blog)}

Developers having their apps available via the #IzzyOnDroid repo and curious how they perform, can look that up for themselves via our download statistics. We just included some examples on how to easily find out

* how often your app was downloaded since statistics became available
* day-by-day download statistics

Each just with a shell one-liner using `jq`.

codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/iodst…

iodstats

IzzyOnDroid statistics

^Codeberg.org

Very happy to be reporting on today's massive protest to keep the nuclear power plant in Almaraz open. The piece will appear tomorrow. Want it in your inbox first thing in the morning? Sign up today! For just €5 a month, you'll be getting a new piece every week.

Today I'll be releasing my interview with Johan Christian Sollid on Denmark's energy transition for the public, which can now be read on my website as well.

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Collectifission

Nuclear energy thoughts, stories and activism.

^{Collectifission}

Based on the latest updates in ETSI’s GitLab, it looks like EN 301 549 section 11.7 will specifically remove web sites and apps, and although it’s not clearly spelling it out it’s clear than the intent is not to include dark mode in that: labs.etsi.org/rep/HF/en301549/…

Guess it’s time to update my blog post on the subject! But obviously, it won’t be part of EN 301 549 v3.2.1 which is what’s being used for the EAA’s initial launch, so let’s see what the regulators choose to do.

Re-examine appropriateness of 11.7 for websites and mobile applications (#23) · Issues · Human Factor TC / EN 301 549 · GitLab

This same question has been raised twice: Pär Lannerö: Apropos Table A.1, could you please explain why clause "11.7 User preferences” is included and how it...

^GitLab

Die Standortdaten von Millionen Handy-Nutzer*innen weltweit stehen zum Verkauf, sie stammen aus Zehntausenden Apps. Nach unserer jüngsten Veröffentlichung zu den #DatabrokerFiles fragen uns viele: Was kann ich tun?! Hier sind sieben Wege, um deinen Standort vor Databrokern zu schützen.

netzpolitik.org/2025/databroke…

Databroker Files: Sieben Wege, um deinen Standort vor Databrokern zu schützen

Databroker verkaufen die Handy-Standortdaten von Millionen Menschen weltweit. Zehntausende App sind betroffen, wie Veröffentlichungen von netzpolitik.org und Recherche-Partnern aus sechs Ländern zeigen. Das kannst du tun, um dich zu schützen.

^{netzpolitik.org}

This is in line with my own experience interacting with well-meaning but poorly trained medical professionals.

Disability is often neglected in medical school curricula, new study finds - Northwestern Now news.northwestern.edu/stories/…

Disability is often neglected in medical school curricula, new study finds

“Doctors do not know how to care for people with disabilities because they never learned”

^{news.northwestern.edu}

#Accessibility challenge: Using the #screenReader of your choice, navigate to today's TV schedule for BBC Two. From the top of the page, what is the minimum number of keystrokes you can find to switch it to the listings for tomorrow instead?

bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl97

BBC Two England - Schedules

This is the daily broadcast schedule for BBC Two England

^BBC

Recent commentary on OpenAI's O3 large language model suggests, even to me as a non-expert, that it exhibits remarkable problem solving performance and adaptability to tasks for which it was not trained. If this line of research continues successfully, our prior assumptions about the limitations of machine learning systems may be due for revision, including our understanding of the relationship between AI and disability. The assumption reflected in the literature has been that AI systems have little capacity to respond appropriately to human diversity without detailed training in disability-related scenarios - whatever those are for the specific application. This view may soon cease to be valid, or at least not hold to the same extent as it does presently.

arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-pub-b…
#AI #MachineLearning #disability #discrimination

OpenAI o3 Breakthrough High Score on ARC-AGI-Pub

OpenAI o3 scores 75.7% on ARC-AGI public leaderboard.

^{ARC Prize}

Meine Einschätzung zum Stand der Dinge bei der #epa

taz.de/!6059544/

Datenschützer über neue Patientenakte: „Es ist ein Leichtes, unbefugt auf Daten zuzugreifen“

Schweigen oder widersprechen? Ex-Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragter Ulrich Kelber erklärt die elektronische Patientenakte – und wie er sich entschieden hat.

^{Svenja Bergt (taz)}

In this podcast, Grace Blakeley gives a presentation based on her recent book, Vulture Capitalism, at the LSE. There follows commentary and discussion.

lse.ac.uk/lse-player?id=341086…
#capitalism #politics #SocialTheory

Vulture capitalism

Join us to hear UK commentator and economic thinker Grace Blakeley talk about her latest book, Vulture Capitalism.

^{London School of Economics and Political Science}

Spent the last 6 hours trying to get a hello world equivalent gui window with a button on rust under windows.

This task which one might think is simple ended up taking literal hours and still hasn't been achieved because: the tutorials for gtk on windows and rust suggest putting msys2 bin directory on the path. This causes rust to fail to build correctly because it uses the wrong gcc and linkers.
Afterwards I managed it by using the appropriate environment variables.
But then I found out the dynamically linked libarries weren't found. I tried getting a way to copy them but it turned out to be too much work so I just moved the executable to the same dir.
Only to find out that gtk4 has no accessibility on Windows. Not bad accessibility, not accessibility that needs to be turned on. No. Accessibility. At all.
So then I decided to try Qt, which wants me to create an account to get an installer. Absolute no.
Got the 1.5gb sources and trying now to get an off-line installer out of it.

To get a fucking window with a button in it.

I don't think it's unreasonable for me to say this state of affairs is complete bullshit, and that most people with a normal level of motivation would have found plenty of opportunities to have given up. I still might.

(Not using NWG because tying the data to the GUI elements is non-trivial, it seems to require copying a lot and using twice the memory.)

#a11y #rust #gui #windows