In our series of free weekly webinars March 26th saw a session focused on Accessible Math and Science in Digital Publications, highlighting the latest developments […]
If you are interested to help shaping #FDroid 's future on a governance side: please consider to apply for a board seat.
As current board member I highly welcome nominations of anyone committed to furthering the #softwarefreedom of computer users, particularly with regard to mobile devices.
Nominations are now open for this year’s appointments to the F-Droid Boardof Directors! Up to four new directors will be selected to serve for twoyears.You m...
V březnu jsem poprvé naběhal sto kilometrů měsíčně. Moc mě to chytlo, zejména díky třem věcem. První z nich jsou sportovní hodinky, mám rád data a motivují mě hýbat se pravidelně. Druhá věc je hudba, dlouho jsem se jí vyhýbal, bál jsem se, že mě bude odvádět od soustředění na běh, což se neděje. A třetí je běhání pomalu, v druhé tepové zóně, kde docela v pohodě uběhnu 10 km, aniž bych se pak cítil vyřízený. Těším se na sezónu! Venek je radost.
Mám to podobně. Od pořízení hodinek loni v létě jsem si zlepšil VO2max o 4 body. Včera jsem po 11 letech uběhl víc než 10 km. Snažím se tempo držet pod 6 minut na km, což při takové vzdálenosti a kopcích znamená, že jsem vyřízený, ale už jsem překonal bariéru, za kterou už je pomalejší běh pohodička. Jdu si zaběhnout 6 km v tempu 6:30/km a ono už je to takové protáhnutí. Člověk má energii dívat se po krajině... Už to není jako dřív, kdy jsem od prvního km počítal metry do konce. 😅
Conservative candidate Lourence Singh for the New Westminster-Burnaby-Maillardville riding is no longer running in the federal election race, marking the third candidate exit in a single day.
A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why.
The American Association of University Professors is reminding Indiana University's provost that as a tenured professor, XiaoFeng Wang is entitled to due process. The university, meanwhile, is maintaining radio silence, which isn't a good look to prospective students considering attending.
Here's the latest on XiaoFeng Wang, the distinguished computer scientist who was summarily fired on Friday from his tenured position at Indiana University, where he had spent 20 years racking up accolades for his research in cryptography, privacy and cybersecurity. It comes from Alexander Tanford, president of the Bloomington chapter of the AAUP, the organization representing IU professors, and colleagues of Wang's.
In February, an anonymous person filed a complaint alleging research misconduct against Wang. "The charge seemed trivial -- that he had failed to properly disclose who was principal investigator on a grant application and had not fully listed all his co-authors on an article," Tanford told me.
On March 13 or 14, IU temporarily suspended Wang, banned him from his office and denied access to his computer, research and data while the investigation continued. This is permitted under IU's research misconduct policy. The reasons, though, aren't publicly known.
On March 28, Provost Rahul Shrivastav informed Wang he was being terminated immediately. Shrivastav provided no reason (he mentioned Wang taking a job at a university in Singapore, but this is permitted and not grounds for dismissal). What's more, policy ACA-52, approved by the IU Board of Trustees, prohibits summarily firing a tenured professor.
Also on March 28, homes that Wang owns in Bloomington and Carmel, Indiana, were raided by the FBI. The FBI says the raids were court approved, but so far no one has seen a warrant. The US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Indiana will neither confirm nor deny an investigation.
Indiana University has steadfastly refused to provide any reason for the termination or its failure to follow its own policy. Students and fellow faculty remain in the dark. His PhD students are frantically scrambling to find new advisors. One such student learned of Wang's firing only a few weeks before his PhD defense.
I reached out to Wang's attorneys 24 hours ago, and still haven't heard back.
We really need answers here. IU is tarnishing its reputation for academic independence. The lack of transparency here, both by IU and the FBI, truly sucks.
#RationalWiki is facing imminent legal peril from 5 separate defamation lawsuits from 5 #eugenics supporters. At least 2 of the lawsuits appear to be frivolous on their face. The 5 litigants are known to have acted in concert to take advantage of the weak #SLAPP protections within our state of incorporation and to bankrupt us. We need both monetary donations and legal representation (we are already aware of both the ACLU and the #EFF).
Today brings 84 new features in Safari 18.4! • Declarative Web Push • Screen Wake Lock API for Home Screen Web Apps • Viewport presets in Responsive Design Mode • Ogg Opus & Vorbis • Image Capture API • WebM support in MediaRecorder • `view-transition-name: match-element` • `::details-content` • `sideways-rl` & `sideways-lr` • `shape()`dialog.requestClose() • JavaScript Iterators • CHIPS • new Web Extension APIs • alpha & transparency in color picker
🚀 Finding tty device should now be faster 🌱 Overhauled the sysex request 🥸 Better parsing of midi bytes to not read invalid midi messages from tty ⏰ Added --timeout flag to cli 🧹 Moved crates into own subfolder (./crates) 🧹 Updated dependencies
# Changelog
🚀 Finding tty device should now be faster
🌱 Overhauled the sysex request
🥸 Better parsing of midi bytes to not read invalid midi messages from tty
⏰ Added --timeout flag to cli
🧹 Moved crates into own subfolder (.
In other news, I made an #NVDA add-on to generate and copy a UUID to the clipboard when you press NVDA+Alt+U, because that's apparently something I find myself doing quite often:
NEW: CTV has cancelled an election fact-checking segment on their morning show in response to political pressure from the Conservative Party.
Sebastian Skamski, a senior campaign official for Mr #Poilievre denounced CTV News, saying their guest was lying directly to viewers & suggested that CTV News is working to help elect Liberals.
Despite Mr Skamski offering no evidence to support his claims, the network folded & cancelled the segment.
The Miyazaki Maelstrom: OpenAI’s Ghibli Craze Signals a Troubling Future for Hollywood "...Miyazaki’s creations reflect a bespoke, unique aesthetic, arrived at from thousands of hours of human labor and good old-fashioned dreaming..." "...At the heart of the Ghibli craze is something good — people’s desire to connect to a fiercely loved artist, the images a testament to the depth and scope of Miyazaki’s influence. But at the root is also something very fraught, a willingness to see all art as both interchangeable and purchase-able. The frantic rush to turn our memories into a personalized Miyazaki greeting card is, through one lens, a testament to our love for the artist, but it is even more pointedly a testament to our love for ourselves, and seemingly no copyright concern nor sanctity-of-art instinct can stop us from fulfilling it...." hollywoodreporter.com/business…
In or out? In-N-Out says recent report on Albuquerque location timeline is ‘inaccurate’ "...While In-N-Out does have plans to come to the state, fans of the popular regional fast food chain still have a few more years to wait before pulling up with a burger order, as the chain’s plans to arrive in the Duke City by 2027 remain. ..." abqjournal.com/business/articl…
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Wow, Cory Booker talking for 21 hours on the senate floor straight is still blowing my mind. Talk about courage, removing the headphone jack to me pales in comparison as the willpower and physical strength required to carry a speech forward for that long with only minimal breaks for questions and prayer service. Watch live here: msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/watch-li… #USPol
Senator Cory Booker, D-N.J., is speaking and planning to hold the Senate floor for as long as he can. "I rise with the intention of getting in some good trouble.
We hear you: sometimes you need a little more oomph to finish your fix. So, we engineered the world’s first hammer designed for electronics repair. It's built with a non-conductive handle, ESD-safe head, and just enough heft to "persuade" stubborn components.
Wow, Cory's amazing! I also learned that Ted Cruz spokefor 21 hours against Obamacare. What kind of person do you have to be to do that? . Cory Booker's anti-Trump speech on the Senate floor has lasted 19 hours and counting - NPR apple.news/As-ewC0oCQA6_Bf8g7R…
The New Jersey Democrat has been criticizing the Trump administration's policies on immigration, education, the economy and more since 7 p.m. Monday. Here's what to know about his marathon speech.
Strom Thurmond spoke for just over 24 hours in 1957. It was about civil rights. I do not know which side he was on, as I haven't looked, and I wasn't even an itch in my dad's ballsack.
Very sad to learn that Dave Täht has passed away. Dave was one of the driving forces fighting bufferbloat. His work is likely saving whole years of latency every hour around the world. Some loving words can be found here: libreqos.io/2025/04/01/in-lovi… - his good fight will not be forgotten!
We’re devastated to announce that Dave Täht has passed away.Dave was an amazing man, helping the world with FQ-CoDel and CAKE, fighting bufferbloat and trying to make the world a better place…
I'm happy to announce the release of Forge v0.5.0, which adds support for Github discussions. I've also just released Magit v4.3.2, Transient v0.8.7 and ten more packages. reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1j…?
I should also mention that I make a living working on these packages, so please consider sponsoring my work. Thanks! magit.vc/donate/
Hmm...so Kristi Noem asked Claudia Sheinbaum for Mexico to share its biometric data with the US. Sheinbaum declined, stating that such data does not exist.
Meanwhile, Sheinbaum sends to Congress a proposal to create a biometric database in the name of helping find the disappeared. The database would absorb all public and private data collection - from healthcare to education to cell phones to religious institutions to banks to the post office.
La presidenta reaccionó a las declaraciones de Noem, quien desveló este lunes que en la reunión del viernes le pidió reforzar la frontera con Guatemala y compartir datos biométricos de migrantes y viajeros con las autoridades estadounidenses.
I'm excited to announce the release of Kiki Ultimate Digital Painting Companion, a plugin for Krita that brings a personal assistant to your screen. Blog post: davidrevoy.com/article1071/int…
talk of expanding housing via prefab kits and preapproved plans reminds me of catalog homes, offered by Sears and several others. I wonder why we quit doing them. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cat…
NOS Teletekst celebrates 45 years today 🥳 Despite 1970s-grade textual pages with just semi graphics, despite the fact that for last 19 years there is no native environment for broadcasting it and finally despite the fact that more advanced alternatives using rich text and pictures like HbbTV exist, people still like the technology that is due to its technical limits ad-free, clutter-free and to the point.
The official video for “Never Gonna Give You Up” by Rick Astley. Never: The Autobiography 📚 OUT NOW! Follow this link to get your copy and listen to Rick’s ...
The bird is out of the bag! We're introducing Thunderbird Pro (you already know Appointment!), a set of productivity AND privacy boosting services. And that includes...*drum roll*...an email service we're calling Thundermail. Find all the info in this excellent article:
"Thundermail" will be part of a suite of Thunderbird Pro services, as the team behind the venerable Mozilla email client begins building a complete ecosystem.
@simpolomeowastaken That's talking about Assist, one of the totally optional Thunderbird Pro products. For starters, it will summarize your email and inboxes, with more features to be added. It uses LLama 3.2 which will run on NVIDIA confidential compute infrastructure and eventually locally on your machine. It won't use your email for training, and as an add-on, it will only be in the core Thunderbird client if you want it to be. We'll have.a blog post out soon with more about Thunderbird Pro!
@perksofbeingben That's a good question! I've gone ahead and passed it on to Ryan, and we'll try and get to it in our upcoming blog. As for calendar and contacts for Android, we don't have a timeline for those features at this point. Quick filters, however, HTML Signatures, and more desktop-like folders are coming this year: github.com/orgs/thunderbird/pr…
@codewiz is this the same Mozilla that's been adding anti-privacy ad and tracking junk into Firefox, or a completely different entity which just so happens to share the name?
But, yes, it's now a separate entity called MZLA Technologies Corporation.
...and, no, it's wholly owned by the same Mozilla Foundation that's been adding anti-privacy junk features into Firefox: blog.thunderbird.net/2020/01/t…
@OctaviaConAmore It's not too clear whether donations to the new MZLA entity are earmarked exclusively for #Thunderbird development, or can be harvested by the parent organization to fund other projects.
I'd want to know because recently I've been donating to Thunderbird and I wouldn't like my donations to be redirected to #Firefox, given its current leadership and direction.
@codewiz All of the donations to MZLA go to Thunderbird! You can see how we put your donations to use in our yearly updates - here is the update for 2024: blog.thunderbird.net/2024/10/t…
Given Mozilla's history with service offerings lately, I think I'd have to see this not being EoS'd for the next 12 months at least before I'd consider it. And I'd have to have a better understanding of how Mozilla's interest in AI training/datamining is reflected in this service. This was actually one of Google's original purposes with Gmail.
@slyborg These are understandable concerns, and we'll have a blog out soon that will hopefully answer them (which we'll share here). But AI training/datamining is not on the table as part of any of the products that make up Thunderbird Pro.
thinking about this post and about how this could be me because my hearing is sometimes not great and I have a terrible habit of nodding and smiling instead of asking people to repeat themselves 🙃
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