The Trump administration is quietly working to fast-track changes to a key disability rights law by circumventing typical procedures, advocates are warning.
If a user’s expectations about how a tool functions don’t match reality, you’ve got yourself a huge user experience and security problem. Humans have built a schema around AI chat bots and do not expect their AI chat bot prompts to show up in a social media style Discover feed — it’s not how other tools function. Because of this, users are inadvertently posting sensitive info to a public feed with their identity linked, including prompts with: - exact medical issues - federal crimes committed - tax evasion - home address - interest in extramarital affairs - sensitive court details - private photos of unclothed children - audio asking personal questions - private upcoming travel plans - questions about the legality of actions - challenges in personal relationships - feeling shame with disabilities
What do I recommend as next steps for Meta and other orgs considering a public AI chat bot prompt feed? 1. Pause the public Discover feed. Your users clearly don’t understand that their AI chat bot prompts have been made public. 2. Ensure all AI chat bot prompts are private by default. This goes for all future AI chat bots as well. Don’t wait for users to accidentally post their secrets publicly. Notice that humans interact with AI chatbots with an expectation of privacy, and meet them where they are at. 3. Alert users who have posted their prompts publicly and that their prompts have been removed for them from the feed to protect their privacy.
If I’m able to watch users inadvertently admitting to federal crimes and posting unclothed pictures of their children to the Meta AI Discover Prompt feed, they clearly don’t understand how it works! Meta: Pause the product, bake in clear strong privacy, and help users fix their accidental prompt posts. It’s time to make it right.
Here is a redacted user asking Meta AI about how to ask a judge to not sentence them to death for the murder of 2 people. Clearly Meta users do not believe their Meta AI prompts are publicly available. This one is tied to the user’s identity with elements of their username which I’ve redacted.
If your family, friends, and coworkers aren’t aware that Meta AI chat bot prompts can be easily and accidentally posted to a social media-like feed, please inform them so they can keep their sensitive questions private. Imagine if Google searches were surprisingly showing up on a new social media feed, this would devastate folks.
Hey y'all, I'm starting an "ALT After Dark" account, inspired by the wonderful @alttexthalloffame! The goal would be to encourage good alt-text on NSFW image posts, as well as showcasing shining examples of spicy alt-text.
What are our goals? - Promote quality adult content that focuses on consent, community, and accessibility (great alt-text, proper CWs & hashtags) ❤️🔥 - Reduce the prevalence of porn-bot and repost accounts that post without subject consent, without alt-text or CWs, engage in hashtag spam, and lower the safety / enjoyment of folx on Fedi 🚫 - Engage positively with the community and generally be wholesome-ish 😉
How will we do it? - With well-vetted human volunteers. - By leading by example. - With the help if the community.
What do we need? - An ideal instance to host us. - An effort to make the Fediverse a better place. - Volunteers (of which we already have several).
#AudioMo Day 12 (because I haven't been bothering to actually label these with the day, for some reason:
On the late afternoon of August 5, 2010, we had quite a thunderstorm, during which, an ice cream van was driving around the neighborhood playing Christmas tunes. Someone didn't get the memo, I guess.
When it played 'Silent Night' during this very not silent thunderstorm, I kind of lost it. I can even be heard in this recording attempting to suppress my having lost it, before running away and closing the door, so I could bust out laughing somewhere else, and not mess up the recording.
This was produced with an Olympus DM-520 connected to an Audio Technica AT-822 single-point stereo microphone hanging out of a bathroom window. As I recall, the positioning of the microphone was not optimal, so I did some re-processing of the stereo image.
So, for Lexi's Audio Shit Fest, part6, i have decided to relive a moment of my childhood! Hear goes nothing! For sum context, i used Talking Typer from the American Printing House For The Blind, growing up as a kid, and going into my early teenage years! This peace of software did really have an impact on my life, dispite me at the time as a middle schooler, not thinking that. I detested this program, and it took me over five years, to realize how important it is for people, no matter what disability they had, at least have typing skills, especially in today's society. I need to say, i made the first few errors on accident, as i did not realize my capslock was on. Sorry guies. Anyways, thanks for enjoying Lexi's Audio Shit Fest!
Oh my, really? That's pretty cool actually, since on um, Windows 7 I think we had at one time, they didn't sound any different. Then again they probably haven't updated the MS WaveTable synth in decades.
It’s funny, was just talking with @gallagher123123 about this the other day. I know several years back, like macOS lion, mountain lion, etc, Apple did have midi playback capability in QuickTime and they used a very similar synth. It’s originally from Roland, and I think they licensed it to both Microsoft and Apple, but they each sound a little different. It’s still in macOS today, but playing back midi files isn’t natively supported anymore.
It's a Sound Canvas sound set. Mostly low quality samples from the SC-55, but it also includes SC-88 and 88Pro samples for some instruments. Roland licensed that particular sound set to a lot of companies in the 90s, including Microsoft and Apple, and Roland's old Virtual Sound Canvas is essentially an updated version of it. From what I remember of Apple's gm.dls, it's smaller than Microsoft's copy by about 2 mb, and also didn't work properly with GS Wavetable for some reason.
I don’t know if any of you have used the app, jacket.FM. But I hear that people are having trouble getting into it today. I have also been hearing that the developer plans to close it down and make a different app.
Join us for our next webinar this coming Tuesday, June 17 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time. Learn about the newest BT Speak update and interact with the Blazie Technologies team to ask questions and provide feedback. The webinar will be recorded and made available on our Web site.
THIS IS NOT AI: Lightning's "jellyfish" sprites come and go in an instant, making photographers wonder if what they saw was real. It is. accuweather.com/en/severe-weat…
The biggest scandal in AI energy usage right now deserves to be the xAI data center running on 35 methane gas turbines that don't need air permits because they are "temporary" and don't have catalytic reduction pollution controls installed because... they just didn't bother? simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/12/…
The biggest environmental scandal in AI right now should be the xAI data center in Memphis, which has been running for nearly a year on 35 methane gas turbines under …
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
Po dotazech na nějaké možnosti předplatného na @oscloud jsme s @archos otevřeli možnost si udělat předplatné na naše super-hyper služby (web.oscloud.cz). Samozřejmě jsme si oba hned předplatili. A já se ptám, nejsme vemena, že si sami sobě platíme předplatné každý z vlastní karty na PayPal účet? 🤣
"After decades as the world’s largest oil importer, the United States has emerged as its leading exporter of oil and gas. Since then, the country has begun to behave less like a liberal hegemon and more like a classic petrostate."
a new thing we're about to launch: a self-service support center where you can get step-by-step interactive troubleshooting guides to solve common problems, or enter the required data for common support issues in a structured way. the engine for this was custom developed by @ailurux. some illustrations by @holo_memory
I think one of the reasons that Windows phones didn't catch on is just the lack of apps. They introduced it too late; everyone was developing for iOS or Android. I remember liking some features of my Windows phone, mainly the launcher itself. It was nice being able to have what was essentially the Windows 8 start menu and picking what size icons I wanted for each app. The UI was kinda a gimmick. I have a love and hate relationship with the metro style. For some apps it absolutely makes sense... for others though? It just felt kinda square and clunky.
#deltachat is secure against server-side group membership changes but for a very different reason than #signal which keeps encrypted group membership data in a central store.
Delta Chat has _no_ central store but implements a rigidly tested #p2p group membership model where servers play no role github.com/chatmail/models/tre…
Both signal and delta chat are safe against recently published attacks against #whatsapp that can add members to chats, breaking end to end encryption. arstechnica.com/security/2025/…
We’ve just released our take on some of the new features presented during the WWDC 2025 Keynote. In addition, we dive into many features not covered in the keynote—things you can expect with the upcoming OS 26 release this fall, including extra accessibility improvements that weren’t mentioned during the GAAD announcements.
We wanted to offer our listeners something fresh since there are so many podcasts already covering WWDC 2025. We hope you enjoy this format, as we explore a lot more than just the keynote highlights.
We’d love to hear your thoughts on this approach and whether you’d like to see it continued for future Apple Keynote coverage.
In this episode of the AppleVis Extra podcast, host David Mason is joined by Thomas Domville, Tyler Stephen, and newcomer Levi Gobin to unpack everything announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).
You can now download an accessible PDF version of our latest BT Speak users' manual which provides full heading navigation. It’s available on our Web site’s Guides and Media page. blazietech.com/guides-and-medi…
According to my parents, my first word was “star”—pointing at the advent light in our window. So when I needed an origin story for the story mages in my fantasy novel, I followed that star. 🌟
Microsoft has released an emergency Windows 11 24H2 update to address an incompatibility issue triggering restarts with blue screen of death (BSOD) errors on systems with Easy Anti-Cheat.
První měsíce s elektroautem: Dojezd, reálné náklady a nabíjení z fotovoltaiky v praxi
Jsou to už dva měsíce, co jsem dovezl naše první elektroauto z Německa. Obligátní test v podobě cesty od Chorvatska jsem s ním neabsolvoval, ale i tak jsem za tu dobu načerpal docela dost poznatků. Jaký je reálný dojezd a stačí v praxi? Jak funguje nabíjení na veřejných nabíječkách a jak naopak doma v kombinaci s fotovoltaikou? Jak se s elektroautem jezdí a jaké jsou jeho skutečné náklady? Na to se pokusím v článku odpovědět.
the charger distribution varies really wildly depending on the area. In Italy it goes from almost no chargers in the entire city where I work, to Val D'Aosta where I found a 100kW fast charger in the mountains at the start of a trekking track (tip: in that case do not charge to 100 or you lose the engine brake and waste money).
That said, I'm now 4 years and 65K kms on an EV and I wouldn't go back to gasoline even if I almost only public charge... I love the silence too much to change. Plus, it carried me to Galicia and Brittany (and next month NL) so it's not limiting either, it just requires some more planning.
it does not have a bank of resistors as diesel electric locos which is used to “waste” generated electricity while breaking. So if there is no place to store generated electricity, it cannot generate anymore
Turns out I was on the right track all along, but it was just *one line* that needed modification, and not many as I of course did by overthinking it. Go figure. nevertheless, Dectalk for NVDA 2025.1 is ready. wormhole.app/z9jkdy#R2DrSeeMIG…
How was the wheel invented? Computer simulations reveal the unlikely birth of a world-changing technology nearly 6,000 years ago "...To begin our investigation, we created a computer program designed to simulate the evolution from a roller to a wheel. " theconversation.com/how-was-th…
People have long assumed that wheels evolved from simple wooden rollers. But how? And why? A new model focused on mechanical advantage and structural strength suggests some answers.
Steven Bonk: “When Canadians provide their personal information to political parties, whether signing up for a newsletter, attending a town hall or simply expressing support, they are placing trust in us. They expect that information to be treated with care, confidentiality and respect. When that expectation is not met, the harm is not just legal or administrative. It is democratic.” #canpoli #privacy
The government is moving to eviscerate political party privacy in Canada as it fast tracks Bill C-4, proposed legislation framed as implementing affordability measures, but which also exempts political parties from the application of privacy protecti…
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The government is moving to eviscerate political party privacy in Canada as it fast tracks Bill C-4, proposed legislation framed as implementing affordability measures, but which also exempts political parties from the application of privacy protecti…
@cachondo @FreakyFwoof Oh, I don’t use it myself. I don’t know if VoiceOver people will be using those.but for the case of losing your voice and being able to type out phrases with your voice this could work very well, but using this with VoiceOver is definitely creepy.
@cachondo @kevinrj @FreakyFwoof Oh really, that’s interesting. Just a bit about how this is working under the hood for people that might be curious. I believe it’s using a language model to synthesize the speech rather than the older neural approaches used by personal voice up until recently. This is the same technology 11 labs, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are using. That’s why it sounds so good and you don’t need to provide as much training data. To my knowledge, this is the first time an LM based TTS system has been deployed for screen reader use, and I’m wondering if later on in the beta cycle they will add the newer Siri voices that are based on the same technology. It sounds really good, and you didn’t mention this during the demonstration, but the voice breathes as well at punctuation marks.
Včera jsem si v HA všiml, že teplota střídače okolo poledne a vyšší dodávce leze celkem vysoko. Večer jsem vytisknul držák a namontoval do něj zkusmo dva 80 mm ventilátory. Ráno jsem to zapnul a rozdíl dnešní teploty oproti včerejší je celkem markantní. Spotřeba hodně podobná, jen ještě víc svítí. Takže to aktivní chlazení dodělám napořád, jen to musím zautomatizovat podle teploty, termostat objednán, zítra budeme bastlit 😋
@sesivany Hele, možná to není problém, pravděpodobně není, ale když jsem chodil do školy, tak nás učili, že pokud udržuješ součástky na nízké teplotě, odmění se ti dlouhou životností. Tak tam ty ventilátory dám 😁
@bycx To je pravda, druhá věc je, že jsem jel tak na 60% výkonu. Až budu časem dobíjet auto, nebo používat jiný spotřebič, který to zatíží na max, tak očekávám, že to ještě poleze nahoru, je to prostě čistý pasiv. @michal
@bycx @michal Nemáš přetoky do sítě, takže ti to po nabití baterek omezuje výkon? Já dnes jel na 85 % instalovaného výkonu, vyrábělo to 7,2 kW a teplota nešla přes 62C.
Even if I didn't share @glyph's ethical concerns, reading your latest follow-up (lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/6/12/age…), plus your post here about generating 12K lines of code in 2 days, is enough to convince me not to jump on the "agentic coding" bandwagon. I still want to do more with less code, through powerful languages and libraries, not use an inscrutable tool to crank out large amounts of rote code, which means more to review and more places for bugs to hide.
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