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Coming to an airport near you with those "convenient" face recognition tools which scan you so you walk out without doing any paperwork, will be security personnel matching your face to anything you've said or done and deciding whether you get harassed (or worse) or not.

motherjones.com/politics/2025/…


The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI

Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
Mother Jones

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Shopify CEO says no new hires without proof AI can’t do the job

theverge.com/news/644943/shopi…

Will the CEO replace himself with an AI. That would be a huge cost cutting measure with a positive effect on the workforce...


Shopify CEO says no new hires without proof AI can’t do the job

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke sent a memo to employees saying that before they ask for more headcount or resources, teams must show why they “cannot get what they want done using AI.”
Jay Peters (The Verge)
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Dennis the Menace Star Jay North Dies at 73, His Classic Show Is Streaming on Prime Video cordcuttersnews.com/dennis-the…

Dennis the Menace Star Jay North Dies at 73, His Classic Show Is Streaming on Prime Video | Cord Cutters News

Over the weekend, Jay North, the child actor who brought the beloved character Dennis Mitchell to life on CBS’s Dennis the Menace, passed away at 73.
James Guttman (Cord Cutters News)

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In which @bagder is wrong about something, maybe.

"Wider code is harder to read."

Seems obvious it is highly subjective. Period.

I personally find excessive line breaking very difficult to read.

Being a DEC bunny I grew up on 80 chars. I always preferred my VT100 on 132w.

I found reading the blog post hard.

Breaking words is probably even worse (inset) 😂

I guess you can get used to anything.

But is there any evidence to support this dogma?

tldr; No. /1

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/04/07…

to date to have been the direct result of us using C instead of a mem- ory-safe language alternative. This is however a much lower number

Writing C for curl

It is a somewhat common question to me: how do we write C in curl to make it safe and secure for billions of installations? Some precautions we take and decisions we make. There is no silver bullet, just guidelines.
daniel.haxx.se
@daniel:// stenberg://

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🫥 @aardrian explains the reasoning behind the only one <main> per page rule.

#HTML #WebStandards #a11y #ARIA

adrianroselli.com/2025/04/main…


Mainlining Mains

Sometimes you run into a main landmark where you don’t expect one. Like Main Street USA in Hong Kong Disney. So you grab a snack in a diner that serves no hot dogs.
Adrian Roselli
#a11y #html #aria #webstandards @Adrian Roselli, pH0

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Framework has stopped selling versions of its base laptop model in the US because of tariffs. Says that if it kept selling them in the US it would lose money. Framework is the only company that makes reliably upgradeable, repairable laptops

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Framework Stops Selling Some of Its Laptops in the U.S. Due to Tariffs

The manufacturer says it would now have to sell its laptops at a loss.
Matthew Gault (404 Media)

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Bug #284804 AX: VoiceOver no longer announces change to aria-expanded value
bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?i…

This bug appears to come and go. Get fixed, then regress, then get fixed. It’s still unassigned after 4 months.

I just tested in VoiceOver / macOS 15.4 / Safari 18.4 and it works. For me. For now.

284804 – AX: VoiceOver no longer announces change to aria-expanded value

WebKit Bugzilla
#284804

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Silence is Collaboration: Academics Must Speak Out Against Fascism. “We will call these arrests what they are: abductions by ICE cowards in plainclothes and facemasks.” lithub.com/silence-is-collabor…

Silence is Collaboration: Academics Must Speak Out Against Fascism

We write this in the wake of the illegal arrests of Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Badar Khan Suri, Alireza Doroudi, and other foreign students and teaching faculty at American universities. We wi…
Literary Hub

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Should the 'row' role really be necessary for parents of 'gridcell' and other cell role elements?

#ARIA #WebStandards #a11y #Nerdvana

github.com/w3c/aria/issues/240…


Should the 'row' role really be necessary for parents of 'gridcell' and other cell role elements? · Issue #2402 · w3c/aria

Discussed in #2128 Originally posted by turjmner8 February 22, 2024 In general, would it be possible to remove the requirement for role 'gridcell' elements to be contained within role 'row' element...
GitHub
#a11y #aria #webstandards #nerdvana

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Ah, Shopify! Where would Breitbart be without you?

Now the CEO of Shopify demands that every developer there uses “AI” to enable swastika merchants to make even more moolah.

(Hi to my “friends” who work there!)

🔗 adactio.com/notes/21833


April 7th, 2025, 5:16pm

Ah, Shopify! Where would Breitbart be without you? Now the CEO of Shopify demands that every developer there uses “AI” to enable swastika merchants to make even more moolah. (Hi to my “friends” who work there!)
adactio.com

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Y’all, we are in a timeline where the #AARP is telling old people to buy burner phones before going through border checks. What the actual fuck are we doing, America?
In other news, someone in DC just told me that the security fences have gone back up around the White House,so buckle up, they’re about to do something even worse than we’ve seen.

aarp.org/travel/travel-tips/se…


6 Ways to Secure Your Phone as You Reenter the Country

In some instances, government agents can search your digital devices legally after an international trip. Here's what you can do.
Edward C. Baig (AARP)
#aarp
in reply to Bread and Circuses

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Nicole Parsons

Six billionaire families and their allies funded Project 2025 to get climate action ended.

Bradley, Coors, Koch, Scaife, Seid, and Uihlein

desmog.com/2025/03/14/heritage…

desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-…

Yes, the moneyed are willing to risk global recession & wars to keep frying the planet.


Heritage Foundation and Allies Discuss Dismantling the EU - DeSmog

The group that drafted a key blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term convened a meeting in Washington D.C. this week to consider proposals for bulldozing the European Union (EU).
Sam Bright (DeSmog)

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Majority of Canadians agree that Danielle Smith has betrayed Canada by engaging with Americans who want to annex Canada... cultmtl.com/2025/04/majority-o…

#cdnpoli #polcan #elxn45


Majority of Canadians agree that Danielle Smith has betrayed Canada

A majority of Canadians agree that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is betraying her country by engaging with Americans who want to annex Canada.
Matthew Renfrew (Cult MTL)
#cdnpoli #polcan #elxn45

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Whelp. Bye Servo.

floss.social/@servo/1142969778…

Servo

2025-04-07 13:44:36

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Servo is considering:

- allowing some AI tools for non-code contributions

- allowing maintainers to use GitHub Copilot for some code contributions over the next 12 months

These changes are planned to take effect in June 2025, but we want your feedback. More details:

github.com/servo/servo/discuss…

screenshot of “AI Policy Update Proposal” issue (servo/servo#36379)

AI Policy Update Proposal · servo servo · Discussion #36379

Servo’s Technical Steering Committee is looking for feedback regarding our policy for contributions made with generative AI. The current policy, adopted in June 2024, is documented in the Servo boo...
GitHub

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Servo is considering:

- allowing some AI tools for non-code contributions

- allowing maintainers to use GitHub Copilot for some code contributions over the next 12 months

These changes are planned to take effect in June 2025, but we want your feedback. More details:

github.com/servo/servo/discuss…

screenshot of “AI Policy Update Proposal” issue (servo/servo#36379)

AI Policy Update Proposal · servo servo · Discussion #36379

Servo’s Technical Steering Committee is looking for feedback regarding our policy for contributions made with generative AI. The current policy, adopted in June 2024, is documented in the Servo boo...
GitHub
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L'équipe de @thunderbird travaille sur une suite de services incluant un service d'e-mails (avec webmail), sous licence libre blog.thunderbird.net/2025/04/t…

L'inscription en liste d'attente pour la beta : thundermail.com/. Hâte de tester ça :ablobattention:

#foss #thunderbird


Thundermail and Thunderbird Pro Services - The Thunderbird Blog

Announcing a new Thunderbird email service called Thundermail as part of the Thunderbird Pro suite of additional services.
Ryan Sipes (The Thunderbird Blog)
#foss #thunderbird @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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