Big Tech at work: LG, Samsung sue Indian government over electronic-waste pricing policy
reuters.com/sustainability/cli…
E-Waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the world. Most of it is not recycled and what is is often done in the Global South with terrible conditions and awful pay. Big Tech wants to keep the truly dirty secret of e-waste as hidden as possible, and keep paying poor workers as little as possible.
If you want to truly understand modern technology, start with e-waste.
Apparently the arXiv* is relocating from servers at Cornell University to Google Cloud. Putting all our eggs into Google's basket seems unwise, especially at this point in history.
This jobs listing gives a number of reasons for moving to the cloud, but to my inexpert eye it looks like they could do everything they want to do while remaining self-hosted. At the relatively modest scale of the arXiv the cloud really is just someone else's computer.
info.arxiv.org/hiring/index.ht…
It's worth noting that the arXiv used to have a network of mirrors, but they decided to shut down the last of those in September of last year. The explanation was that they were no longer worthwhile as the Cornell servers + CDN delivered better performance than the regional mirrors: info.arxiv.org/help/mirrors.ht…
The multi-site (and multi-country) backup provided by those mirrors does not appear to have been a consideration, because of course nothing bad would ever happen to an American university.
*The arXiv is a repository providing free access to pre-prints of academic papers in a range of fields across physics, maths, biology, computer science, etc. In some fields, including astronomy, it is the main way that researchers keep up to date with new publications in their area of research.
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Writing myself a little getaddrinfo replacement in the morning:
github.com/bagder/repladdrinfo
A getaddrinfo drop-in replacement powered by c-ares - bagder/repladdrinfoGitHub
After the Code of Conduct and the Mediation process, the Core Governance document is now ready for wider feedback.
This document describes what JoinJabber does and what we aim to achieve. It also describes what our values are and a way to make proposals to the entire community.
Feel free to share and read/respond to the document.
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#xmpp #permacomputing #consent #jabber
collective - Resources and meta issue trackerCodeberg.org
Fuck OpenAI and the others, sure. Also, I understand where this stance comes from, as the current LLM bubble and the ridiculous associated claims are insufferable. But this feels like a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
You asked for feedback, this was mine, I hope that does not get me excluded as I am grateful for joinjabber's existence. (2/2)
Where is the 1970's sci fi series UFO streaming? Is UFO available to stream for free or by subscription?johnnyjay (Cancelled Sci Fi)
Your weekly dose of information that keeps you up to date on the latest developments in the field of technology designed to assist people with disabilities and special needs. Special Guest: Cody Mi…Assistive Technology at Easter Seals Crossroads
DOJ withdrew 11 ADA guides, but website and mobile accessibility rules remain. Here's what it means for digital compliance in 2025.www.accessibility.com
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Address common accessibility challenges in mobile web forms for blind users, focusing on issues like invisible fields, keyboard overlap, and focus jumping, with tips for improvement.Michael Taylor (UsableNet Inc.)
I compared #curl today vs curl 8 years ago on malloc count + memory use to download a single 512MB file over cleartext HTTP:
129 mallocs, which is exactly the same.
Maximum allocated now: 135566. 17,681 bytes *less* than eight years ago.
Not everything has to go bloat over time I suppose.
And here's the old blog post: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2017/04/22…
Today I landed yet another small change to libcurl internals that further reduces the number of small mallocs we do.daniel.haxx.se
Here is a documentation patch clarifying libcurl's guarantees with regards to the CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER buffer. See #17100. Tested make -C docs.GitHub
One year anniversary for the #curl pillow "curl is just the hobby"
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/04/22…
Jan Gampe took things to the next level by actually making this cross-stitch out of the pattern I previously posted online. The flowers really gave it an extra level of charm I think.daniel.haxx.se
NVDA 2025.1 Beta 2 is now available for testing. As well as all the amazing updates in NVDA 2025.1 (from Beta 1), this new beta includes updates to some translations, as well as a minor bug fix for SAPI 5 voices using rate boost. Read the full release notes (including all the 2025.1 features & fixes) and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-1b…
#NVDA #NVDAsr #Update #Beta #FLOSS #FOSS #PreRelease #News #Testing #Test #FreeSoftware #ScreenReader
Beta2 of NVDA 2025.1 is now available for download and testing. For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before it is officially released, we welcome yo…NV Access
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Good news stories about NVDA, our users, supporters, staff, volunteers, community or anything else related.NV Access
Discover how the 2025 TAD Fellowship is transforming career pathways for blind and low-vision students through elite mentorship, technical training, and private-sector job placement. Applications open through April 30, 2025.Dr. Kirk Adams
Melania Trump greeted children and rebooted her “Be Best” campaign in one of her first official appearances since the inauguration.apple.news
Finally have my Prosody server all compliant!
I had an epiphany last night about something in the nginx config and after sorting that, all the optional XEP listed also pass!
Now to convince wife and kids to use it for our group chat... they really don't want to install any more apps, because I'm "being difficult" because they already use whatsapp 😑
The main reason I'm impressed with it over matrix, is reliable notifications. It just works. So far, anyway.
Thank you to the people that replied to my post last week suggesting I try xmpp after the matrix server we used shut down. I had written it off as an old platform for nerds, but it's... actually really good ❤️
#prosody #xmpp #chat #nginx #matrix
lmao @matrix STILL has the "Matrix 2.0 is here" (mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix/11…) post pinned to the profile even though "here" is STILL a very long stretch
It's official - Matrix 2.0 implementations are here and ready for mainstream use! 🎉🥳🎊 Come watch the keynote from The Matrix Conference and learn about the joy of instant sync ⚡️, next-gen auth 🔐, native VoIP 🎦 and Invisible Crypto 👻: matrix.org/blog/2024/10/29/mat…Matrix 2.0 Is Here!
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsMatthew Hodgson (matrix.org)
Synapse 1.114.0 (2024-09-02) This release enables support for MSC4186 — Simplified Sliding Sync. This allows using the upcoming releases of the Element X mobile apps without having to run a Sliding...GitHub
first of all, that's great, but, there are no clients which are usable for me which implement this.
Looking at the proposal there seem to be some major questions still unaddressed so I don't entirely understand the energy in implementing and the big announcement for something that is in an unfinished state with a lot of ambiguity in it's specification.
Keepass-Tool (Format 4) "Secrets". Einfacher und weniger Möglichkeiten im Vergleich zu KeepassXC & Co., dafür hübsch und übersichtlich.
Vielleicht eine Möglichkeit, Familienmitgliedern einen Passwortmanager schmackhaft zu machen ... 
Schlagwörter, Anhänge, Notizfelder usw.
Verwalten Sie Ihre Passwörter – Secrets ist eine Passwortverwaltung, die das KeePass-Format in Version 4 nutzt. Die Anwendung integriert sich perfekt in die GNOME-Arbeitsumgebung und stellt eine einfache und übersichtliche Schnitts...apps.gnome.org
The alert is specifically for pork carnitas products produced from April 1-2, 2025 and sold in Aldi stores across the nation.Laurel Stone (WLNS 6 News)
If someone's profile looks blank on here, don't assume it is actually blank. Some accounts, especially newer ones or ones with few followers, may look blank even if they aren't.
There's more info about this, why it happens and how to check what the profile really looks like in the guide:
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You can prevent your own account ever looking blank to anyone by pinning up to five posts or five threads on your profile:
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An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
Today, I'm happy to be starting at Fastly!!
I'll be working on the StarlingMonkey team--a JS runtime/SDK that runs on WASM!
I always dreamed of becoming a compiler hacker, and I guess I finally made it :P
I might also be showing up in e.g. TC39 (again) and/or WinterTC, depending.
LFGGGGGGG
RFK jr: Boomers don't have autism.
Meanwhile:
The US FTC sues Uber, claiming the company charged for Uber One without consent, made it difficult to cancel, and failed to deliver promised savings (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2025/04/21/ftc-sues-u…
techmeme.com/250421/p11#a25042…
The FTC claimed that users are "wrongly promised savings" when they sign up for Uber One, and that the company makes it difficult to cancel the subscription.Annie Palmer (CNBC)
Hi @DavidGoldfield Here’s something for tech-vi. ☺️
Users complain of new “sycophancy” streak where ChatGPT thinks everything is brilliant.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
MAYDAY on the National Mall -- Impeach, Convict, Remove
Mayday Movement USA will establish a long-term presence on the National Mall in Washington, DC, in sight of the US Capitol, beginning on May 1st, 2025. We will remain there until Donald. J Trump is impeached and removed from office.
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg:// • • •I have forgotten more than I ever knew about C. Nevertheless I have two ?
1) why is namelen on line 104 not being set to null if it is null on the input? Perhaps malloc initializes memory but I don't recall that or perhaps there is something else of why it isn't used. I get the ptrs here confused especially since I have no clue how c-ares works.
2) really a style question. line 11. Any reason why it's own dot.h isn't last? It shouldn't matter. Perhaps one could argue it should be first
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in reply to Mihugo • • •@Mihugo 1) why would it need to change namelen? When name is cleared, namelen will get set to zero in the next loop (if there is any).
2) no reason, it doesn't matter to me