Microsoft has hired Meta’s former engineering chief, Jay Parikh, to lead its new CoreAI team. Parikh is now focused on building an AI agent factory.Tom Warren (The Verge)
If someone were to invest development resources into the Open Source ecosystem right now, improvements to which area would benefit the user experience across all device form factors (desktop, laptop, mobile etc.) the most? You can name both individual applications, libraries and subsystems as well as broader topics like e.g. "messaging".
#linuxmobile #linuxdesktop #opensource #mobilelinux #linux
On Apple Watch Ultra, Apple Watch SE, and Apple Watch Series 6 and later models running watchOS 9 and newer, you can use the Compass app's...MacRumors.com
AUSTIN, TX—Proclaiming that he had “done enough,” billionaire Elon Musk confirmed Thursday that he would be taking a step back from fatherhood.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
As part of the project to port Delta Chat Desktop from Electron to Tauri1, we’ll showcase a setup where our Desktop app runs in Firefox and does not depend on Electron or Chromium anymore. This vid...delta.chat
"Between 2024 and 2028, the share of US electricity going to data centers may triple, from its current 4.4% to 12%."
Astounding that we prioritize electricity for AI over *every* *other* *possible* *use*. Housing, schools, and hospitals all have to make way for Big Tech data centers.
Important article by Tech Review:
are they now? It actually takes quite a bit of work to do a rate increase in the USA.
Though my official stance is that commercial customers shouldn't be paying a lower (bulk) rate than everyone else. Regular folks are subsidizing local factories without their knowledge and that's not cool
Yes, datacenters are affecting consumer rates, and yes, utilities are gaming regulations to do it: lpeproject.org/blog/youre-payi… . The section HOW DATA CENTER COSTS CREEP INTO RATEPAYERS’ BILLS reviews regulations and details how costs are passed to consumers, which includes standard rate cases based on anticipated operating costs due to data centers--which become socialized costs--but also circumventing the rate case entirely via "special contracts".
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By exploiting their monopolies and control over rate-setting processes, utility companies are shifting the costs of Big Tech’s voracious energy consumption onto an unwitting public.LPE Project
there is zero new information in this article that has not been public knowledge for decades. They unashamedly presented this in our internal training classes on utility economics when I worked at a utility doing IT security.
To be clear: it has nothing to do with datacenters or AI. This is normal business.
Anyone who wants manufacturing to come back to the USA -- this is what it will look like. The utilities will sign sweetheart deals with the companies and regardless of efficiency/renewables lowering their energy production costs, the people will bear the burden.
Have a big factory in your town? The people are subsidizing that business.
it's also a terribly written article. What the hell is this sentence:
> The electric utility industry is one of monopolists.
Well, you seem to have a bone to pick that I'm not interested in picking.
For everyone else: the authors of the article are describing their own research on the subject whether it's "new information" according to the other guy or not; yes, utilities are controlled monopolies, despite the objection; and whether or not this is "normal" business, not everybody knows how this works, they should, and they absolutely should not be bullied into accepting it just because the guy above has chosen to. That's authoritarian thinking.
@tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com @feld@friedcheese.us @markhurst@mastodon.social
if you want to solve this problem you need to actually understand it and its history or you'll be undermined by the proponents of these policies.
Demand fair rate schedules / equity in pricing instead of whinging about datacenters and AI or the factory down the road will continue to get away with being subsidized because everyone is focusing on AI panic.
And then the AI and datacenter companies will continue buying power plants, privatized solar/wind farms, and building reactors to power themselves, everyone will forget about the issue because it has been "solved" on its own as they won't need these sweetheart contracts and the rest of industrial America will soldier on continuing to extract wealth out of their communities like a giant tick.
Attack the ROOT of the problem, not the symptoms.
What we know about the DC shooting where 2 staff members of the Israeli Embassy were killed
https://apnews.com/article/israel-embassy-jewish-museum-shooting-9e77d16a88d634b0dde5b2455c96dddf?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Apple Shifts iPhone Production to India—But Purism Has Been Leading the Way for Over a Decade
Amid rising U.S.-China tensions, Apple is fast-tracking its move to shift iPhone production to India, aiming for a full transition by 2026.
Read Article: puri.sm/posts/apple-moves-ipho…
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
"'Take a screenshot every few seconds' legitimately sounds like a suggestion from a low-parameter LLM that was given a prompt like 'How do I add an arbitrary AI feature to my operating system as quickly as possible in order to make investors happy?'" signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-…
#Signal #Microsoft #Recall #MicrosoftRecall #LLM #LLMs #privacy
Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows.Signal Messenger
Oh my god. I just had the terrible realization that AI coding agents take the Mythical Man Month and make it last forever. They're new to the project and they'll never learn anything, so they're always new to the project.
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Creating a 5-second AI video is like running a microwave for an hour
"This report arrives at a time in which people are using generative AI for absolutely everything. Google announced at its annual I/O event that it's leaning into AI with fervor. Google Search, Gmail, Docs, and Meet are all seeing AI integrations. People are using AI to lead job interviews, create deepfakes of OnlyFans models, and cheat in college."
mashable.com/article/energy-ai…
That's a long time in the microwave.Christianna Silva (Mashable)
Want to learn new skills for a potential future career change, or expand your knowledge and have fun on the way? Then get involved in the Month of LibreOffice, May 2025! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will collaborate t…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Fixes #150 Uses listboxes instead of a grid. In this way, the screen reader will announce for example "System, list with 6 items". Each shortcut can be navigated with the keyboard and rea...GitHub
What Is the Origin of the Calendar?
The modern calendar borrows influences from a collective of early calendars such as the Jewish, the Babylonian, the Roman, and the Egyptian calendars.
by Mike Cohen
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Books on calendars at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/2…
Maya calendar:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/1…
Swiss surveillance could become worse than US
If passed, Swiss chat, email & VPN providers must:
🚨 Log IP addresses
🚨 Ask for ID upon sign up
🚨 Decrypt data upon request
Let's fight for privacy! 👉 tuta.com/blog/switzerland-surv…
Revision of Swiss surveillance law VÜPF would directly target VPN & encrypted chat and email providers based in Switzerland.Tuta
Duolingo deletes its TikTok and Instagram posts amid AI backlash 😂
After Duolingo said it was going “AI-first,” things went downhill fast as millions saw it as replacing humans developers and support staff with bots fastcompany.com/91338068/duoli… They also increased subscription costs while firing staff #ai
I want to get back to writing more long-form content. In the age of ChatGPT, that seems like a valuable skill to maintain.
However, my old website used handcrafted HTML and simply wasn’t up to the task, so I made a new one. Check it out: gultsch.de
I’ve been a freelance software developer for over 15 years. My main interests lie in open standards and communication protocols, including instant messaging, email, and the fediverse. I’m the project lead for Conversations and Ltt.rs.Daniel Gultsch
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Hey @fdroidorg,
Could you please explain to me why Catima is marked as reproducible on verification.f-droid.org/packa…, despite you shipping a version you build and sign yourself to users? I also don't see anything in the metadata on gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-… listing what upstream APK file to compare against.
#IzzyOnDroid correctly compares the APK files I put on GitHub with a local build, which is what I hope you're doing too but given I see no reference to the APK in the metadata... are you?
Data for the main F-Droid repository at https://f-droid.orgGitLab
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sorry, but I had to boost this again now. @fdroidorg can you please make optically clear which APKs you reproduced? Developers knock our doors wondering why we say their app is not RB, while you claim it is – and checking, EACH SINGLE TIME we find the app is NOT set up RB at your end, and the JSON at your verification server clearly states you verified YOUR OWN build. Yes, that might show your build is deterministic – but not that theirs is RB. It's confusing.
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@Fettlaus Let me explain by example.
Say, Joe provides you with the APK of his FOSS app. You have to believe him he built it from his FOSS source code, but you have no proof.
Now Joe builds it 50 times resulting in the same APK – what does that prove? That his build was deterministic. Maybe, as you still can't tell if it really was built from there.
Comes Jane, not related to Joe, builds from his source, and gets the same APK. Now you now: (1/2)
(2/2) both must have used the same code. You no longer have to trust Joe for that. Now Jerry confirms as well… we can prolong the line. That is RB.
Now, you certainly can trust @fdroidorg builds from the right source. But if they then build again with the same result, what does it prove? Only that it's deterministic. If they however get the same APK as Joe, that again is RB. This is the case for apps set up as RB there, AFAIK ~15%; but how to tell them apart?
That was our request. @Fettlaus
(3/2) Joe, Jane, Jerry, Jake: that's the line we build at #IzzyOnDroid. We run our "Janes" here to confirm "Joe's" builds – and we have "Jerrys" like Ben: independent builders. A builder is set up within 5 minutes thanks to codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/rbuil… – so everyone who wants can become a Jake.
@fdroidorg provides their verification builder setup as well, but that depends on the original builder providing the proof – so it only works with "source repos" like theirs and Guardian. Not independently.
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@Fettlaus that. Or draw a border around the checkmarks when it was "not just the own build" – to symbolize the "higher level". Or use a double-checkmark, as e.g. Conversation uses: 1 check = sent successfully, 2 checks = sent and read.
There are ways. But you need to go them. Not doing it and just say nothing, makes it look like you really want to pretend the higher numbers, for some reason.
@storchp does not really look like that will be processed anytime soon. And it's about the F-Droid client, while we referred to their verification server here. Example: verification.f-droid.org/packa… shows AppManager being reproducible, while it definitely is not, see github.com/MuntashirAkon/AppMa… and the following comments. And see F-Droid's announcement here: f-droid.org/en/2025/05/21/maki…
It's good that they do it, but it needs differentiation – or it leads to confusion, as in the case of AppManager & many more
By June 28, 2025, all emails sent to EU audiences must comply with the #EuropeanAccessibilityAct. Accessible emails aren't just legal requirements - they boost engagement and inclusivity. Are you ready? 🇪🇺
#EmailAccessibility #EAA2025 #DigitalAccessibility #a11y #Accessibility
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The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is no longer a future consideration. By 28 June 2025, all businesses offering digital products and services in theemailexpert
We have just released Ulysses 38.2. This version fixes a couple bugs and crashes from the last release.
A pleasant, focused writing experience combined with effective document management, fast syncing and flexible export make Ulysses the first choice for writers of all kinds.ulysses.app
ALA welcomed the return of Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) staff to work and the reinstatement of some IMLS grants, which had been terminated following President Trump’s March 14 Executive Order 14238.American Library Association
Unravelling how users in the accessibility space perceive AI's role to play to enhance accessible content.Betty Dartois-Vanneck (A2i Transcription Services)
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After so many years, I'm still discovering new keyboard shortcuts in Windows. Here are the most useful ones that come in handy every single day.Chris Hoffman (PCWorld)
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There are a lot of myths floating around out there about antivirus software. Let’s bust them.Chris Hoffman (PCWorld)
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Grrrr.
## Summary: This report details a memory leak vulnerability in libcurl that occurs when processing HTTP 3xx redirect responses containing a `Location:` header. Specifically, the memory allocated...HackerOne
Questions around social media campaigns prompt several nations to demand a ‘complete review’ of how the contest’s public vote worksMartin Belam (The Guardian)
Studie: polovina mladých chce svět bez internetu
Mladí Britové ve věku 16 až 21 let také podpořili noční digitální klid.
Těžko tomu věřit, ale téměř polovina mladých lidí by raději žila ve světě, kde neexistuje internet.
Zjistil to britský průzkum, o kterém včera informoval server The Guardian. Téměř 70 procent mladých lidí ve věku 16 až 21 let se podle průzkumu cítí hůř, když stráví čas na sociálních sítích. #dnešnítisk #MFD #tisk250521
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