"Part of our task in the face of generative AI is to make an argument for the value of thinking – laboured, painful, frustrating thinking."
"[W]e also need to hold our institutions accountable. [...] university administrators are highly susceptible to the temptations of technology-driven downsizing, big tech donations, and the appearance of being on the cutting edge."
Edward Dunsworth Two approaches dominate discussion about how professors should handle generative “artificial intelligence” in the classroom: give up or give in. Give up. Faced with a powerful new …
Avoiding generative models is the rational and responsible thing to do – follow-up to “Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI’”: baldurbjarnason.com/2025/follo…
This is the age old question about whether a label should override content. That absolutely makes sense for buttons, links, etc., but it's never been quite as clear for containers like paragraphs, table cells, etc. where there can be some nasty consequences if the label completely overrides the content.
I ran strace on curl and noticed that it is doing a lot of very short reads, of exactly 5 bytes, followed by a larger read.
strace Before
recvfrom(4, "\27\3\3@\30", 5, 0, NULL, NULL) = 5
...
Anytime is a free and open-source podcast player app. It is designed to be simple and easy to use, whilst including more modern features such as chapters,
Corrected Subject: an Article From HowtoGeek About the Benefits of RSS Feeds: Why I Still Get My News and Alerts From a 25 Year Old Tool groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/94…
Just a reminder that J.K.Rowling has said that any money she gets from the HP franchise she sees as support of her trans-phobia and she WILL funnel said funds towards further anti-trans and TERF activism.
Supporting the HP franchise in any way, whether watching movies, buying merch, or being part of the new HP TV Show is explicity enabling and endorsing anti-trans and TERF activism. From: @xtaldave xtaldave.net/@xtaldave/1146637…
I feel slightly better about accidentally taking her out with my rucksack in Greenwich market now.
"Katherine Parkinson accepts Harry Potter role..."
https://www.thepinknews.
Přeloženo máme, tam by se maximálně doladily nějaké korekce. Namluvit nějakým co nejlepším mikrofonem do PC .. nevím odkud jsi, ale možná by se našel někdo v okolí s potřebnou technikou? Nevím, kde je místní třeba @Jan Sobotka, ale kdyby byl ochotnej, tak by to šlo možná udělat i v slušný kvalitě
📱 Switzerland is thinking about a drastic tightening of its surveillance law!
With the BÜPF revision, email providers could be forced to supply metadata to authorities in real time. Particularly affected: services that previously advertised strict data protection. End-to-end encryption remains protected, but your IP addresses, recipient data and locations would be monitored.
It's really harder and harder to understand why is #GNOME alienating itself more and more form the rest of the community. Looks like we'll end up with GTK only for GNOME and GNOME only for #Linux and #systemd. I have no problems with systemd in particular, but making it a hard requirement is a limiting factor.
@ebassi Hi, thanks for responding! I don't think anyone is against that, but is price for that having GNOME just for Linux/systemd? Am I wrong in assuming we'll end up with that?
the blog post explains how to cope with that, and if other platforms shipping GNOME had similar functionality, it would be easy to add; what's unacceptable is to let GNOME ship hacks that don't even get tested and can (and do) regress at any point. At least, if a downstream takes ownership of the hack with a patch, they can immediately fix it.
also: it's way too late to be surprised that Linux and systemd have the absolute majority of the market share; they get to dictate what kind of functionality is available, and other platforms need to adapt. We're not in the '80s/'90s any more, with a bunch of incompatible Unix versions all vying for dominance.
@ebassi I don't think anyone is surprised with systemd, I mean we are all using it, or majority at least. Although, I always thought of our ecosystem as one providing diversity and choice, not dominance. Maybe that's not viable down the line, and that's legit, you guys developing stuff know the best. If GNOME needs this kind of direction in order to be here, let it be. We'll see how that's gonna fly, though.
After some deliberation I decided to move my development stack from Windows to Linux.
I've been using windows for over 20 years and always loved it's backwards compatibility and stuff, but recently it has become borderline unusable and gets in the way of my work.
It took me like a single day to configure everything and it just works, and also works better than Windows too! I posted a thread of my reasoning and experience on BS (sorry):
Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.
Couple of typos: - First paragraph: "then" should be "they" - Secure transport, first paragraph: first "have" should be "has" - Same Paragraph: "since" should be "for"
Apparently, if you have facebook or Instagram installed on your *Android* phone, Meta was able to track your browsing habits and link them to your real identity even if you never logged in on the web, used incognito mode or a VPN.
The more I learn about atmospheric chemistry, the more terrified and angry I am about satellite companies' blatant lack of consideration for how their actions will harm the atmosphere. I hope this gets a lot of press. Great work by a whole team of scientists, including @astrokiwi.bsky.social!
My takeaway: Satellite launches are undoing the recovery of the ozone layer that should be happening now that CFCs are banned. And this study doesn't even take into account metal deposition from reentries, which might be even worse!
When I teach climate change in my astro classes, I always give the recovery of the ozone layer as an example of how countries can work together to fix a giant problem (Montreal Protocol). I guess satellite companies are now destroying that too.
Apparently, if you have facebook or Instagram installed on your phone, #Meta was able to track your browsing habits and link them to your real identity even if you never logged in on the web, used incognito mode or a VPN. I hope Meta gets hit with every fine in the book.
Terrible Gallup poll today. Lots of bad anti-trans sentiment, but this one really blew my mind and should be VERY eye opening to our LGB folks: America is about to cross back over into being gay or lesbian is something that is caused externally (and therefore "fixable" with conversion therapy)
Even if being trans or gay was a choice, it would absolutely not justify trying to "fix" it.
Similarly, fighting racism on the basis that races "do not scientifically exist" is too weak IMHO. Even if they did, it would not be OK to treat human beings differently based on their ancestors or visible differences.
this is fabulous, but I hope developers don't start using it in place of making their apps just work with VoiceOver. We've already seen a number of apps do their own thing with regards to text to speech, when we as primary users already have a comfortable and preferred setup
Nějaký idiot, a idiot je slabé slovo, mi dnes ráno zde, mimo obec, nedal přednost v jízdě. Vtrhnul mi do cesty jak Hitler do Polska, čůrák. Okamžitě jsem začal brzdit a strhnul jsem volat vlevo, málem jsem skončil v té přikopě. No tep jsem měl tak 180 minimálně. Bílá Fabie combi z Darkovic. No škoda slov. A podotýkám znovu, je to mimo obec, takže jsem tam jel minimálně 80. Byli jsme od sebe zhruba tak, jak ukazuje fotka, když mi do té cesty vjel.
It guides you through writing a whole native x64 debugger from scratch, dispelling all the magic and teaching you a ton about operating systems as it goes.
Even if you don't care about writing a debugger, you can read it to your cat.
"Ice can end". Spotted on the corner of Mission and 18th in SF. This is one of Sapien's "Magic Acrostic Squares" that can be read left to right, or top to bottom. #SFGraffiti #AbolishIce #Graffiti #MagicAcrosticSquare #Sapien
👉 Telegram uses a single company with ties to the Russian FSB as their sole infrastructure provider, globally.
👉 Combined with a cleartext device identifier Telegram's protocol requires to be prepended to all encrypted messages, this allows for global surveillance of Telegram users.
Many people who focus on information security, including myself, have
long considered
Telegram suspicious and untrustworthy.
Now, based on findings
published by the investigative journalism outlet ISt
> All Telegram servers are Telegram’s property maintained by Telegram employees. Unauthorized access is not possible. Telegram has neither employees nor servers in Russia. In the entire history of Telegram, it has never handed over private messages to third parties, and its encryption has never been hacked vot-tak.tv/87198696/fsb-chitae…
This answers exactly zero of the crucial points raised by the story.
Российские спецслужбы имеют доступ к переписке сотен миллионов пользователей Telegram — как в России, так и за рубежом. Об этом говорится в расследовании «Важных историй».
> All Telegram servers are Telegram’s property maintained by Telegram employees.
👉 First: the story is not about the servers, it's about whose infrastructure the traffic flows through.
👉 Secondly: Vedeneev, the Russian owner of the infrastructure provider GNM used by Telegram, had signed documents as Telegram's CFO (would that qualify as "employee"?), and presented himself in Florida court as the person authorized to handle Telegram's servers.
Unauthorized access to… what exactly? To the servers, which the story is not about? To data on the servers, which again, the story is not about?
Or do they mean the traffic? Because if they mean the traffic here, then GNM's access to it, as the networking provider, would be totally authorized after all.
So, either they are talking about something irrelevant (servers), or they make a statement that looks good but does not actually contradict the story.
> Telegram has neither employees nor servers in Russia.
There we go with the servers again!
Regarding employees – okay, so was Vedeneev a contractor? In the story he himself says that that the arrangement was "informal".
Telegram tries to pull a "Schrödinger's Vedeneev" here. He's an "employee" when handling the hardware in Florida, but not an "employee" in Russia? I guess?
Regardless, all that is beside the point, which is: traffic analysis and cleartext device identifier.
Ignoring dumb use of the h-word (🙄), Telegram encryption – specifically, the v1 of their homegrown MTProto protocol – had been shown to contain "a most backdoor-looking bug" some people have ever seen: words.filippo.io/dispatches/te…
This has since been fixed, and MTProto 2 has been rolled out. But it still smells funny to a lot of cryptographers.
More importantly though: the story is not about breaking Telegram's encryption
Apparently the Department of Energy is trying to eliminate accessibility/nondiscrimination regulations. If you live in the U.S., please take a few minutes to comment on DOE-HQ-2025-0015 and DOE-HQ-2025-0024: regulations.gov/document/DOE-H… regulations.gov/document/DOE-H…
This is really cool, could you please add alt text to the image you've posted? Really excited about AI in Shortcuts, I have a lot of ideas for things to try. I'm not a heavy Shortcuts user, but have always wanted to explore it more.
Want to test the #macOSTahoe beta but can't risk your main system? Create a second APFS volume in Disk Utility on your Mac so you can use the beta when you want, while keeping your primary system intact. #TipTuesdayapplevis.com/podcasts/experien…
In this episode, Levi Gobin demonstrates how to prepare your Mac for beta testing by creating a second volume on your Mac's internal disk to install and run beta versions of the operating system.
New at America's Voice: Stephen Miller’s brutal obsessions are on full display in workplaces, courthouses, and our neighborhoods.
The mass deportation architect-in-chief's lifelong, maniacal preoccupation w/vilifying immigrants (and non-white people overall) has reached new autocratic heights 👇🏽 americasvoicecnn.substack.com/…
Not only is the Trump regime’s escalation an attack on our values and personal freedoms, Miller wants to instigate disorder, in order to push through the big, ugly budget bill that would turbocharge his nativist fever dreams and make ICE the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the nation.
This is one of the best communicated responses I have ever seen against people trotting out "these are riots, not protests, look at the property destruction."
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