So my laptop is getting wingy and and old, and I don't know exactly how long I'll be able to keep it.
I would like, in theory, to go back to Linux, but I need text to speech for accessibility reasons. *Really need it.* Is Linux there yet on accessibility?
Today, we’re ready to show you the upcoming quote posts feature in more detail. We’ve put together a blog post with examples of how quote posts will work on Mastodon, ahead of early access on our own servers next week 💬 Full launch to come, in Mastodon v4.5
blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/…
Over the years, we’ve learned just how essential quoting is to many of you. Here's a deep dive on how quote posts will work on Mastodon.Mastodon Blog
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We’ve thought carefully about building this feature, and we hope it broadens your use of Mastodon!
However, you're in control: if you don’t want your content to be quoted, you can find the setting to prevent future quotes of your content under Settings -> Preferences -> Other (in Mastodon 4.4).
There’s documentation available today, along with an FAQ. If you’re a developer, draft documentation is available as well.
Quote posting will be available on mastodon.online and mastodon.social next week! We will be listening to your feedback on our new feature.
docs.joinmastodon.org/user/quo…
All about quoting content (your own posts, or those made by other people).docs.joinmastodon.org
The Live Translation on AirPods feature that Apple announced alongside its new AirPods 3 earlier this week won’t be coming to the EU at launch.Laurent Giret (Thurrott.com)
Yeah. That sums it up.
#Politics #USPOL #USPolitics #CharlieKirk #MAGA #Conservatives #Fascist #Fascism
“You shouldn’t celebrate his death.”
He celebrated the deaths of Black and Brown people daily. He is a nazi. You are a nazi sympathizer.
No celebration. Just watching chickens coming home to roost, like Malcolm said.
Fake virtue signaling and demanding empathy for a man who said “empathy is for the weak” and whose actual last words were violent anti-black and anti-trans dogwhistles is absolutely delusional.
Having pity for a man who would gladly try to kill you for not being white is insane.
po škole som vyčendžoval rajón za bar
edit: 3x zoom portrait mode.. ay Sammy Sammy
Live Translation with AirPods is not going to be available in the EU. This means that it doesn't use on-device AI model and the microphones forward everything to remote servers 🤯
UPDATE: Before this post goes out of control. The DMA can also be a reason why this feature is not available in the EU:
infosec.exchange/@hacksilon/11…
@mysk@mastodon.social @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social I would bet that this isn’t about GDPR but about the digital markets act, in which case on-device or off device doesn’t make a difference.Infosec Exchange
Important polyamory question:
What do y'all call your partner's metamours that don't date you?
Today in slop-or-not, I give you...
I've discovered a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) vulnerability in how `libcurl` handles persistent HTTP/2 connections. During the initial handshake, `libcurl` correctly validates the...HackerOne
> If you comment again in this report I will ban you from this project.
[…]
> curl has locked this report.
I think you missed the opportunity here to ban them :)
TalkBack, a part of the Android accessibility suite, is the screen reader developed by Google and comes pre-installed on most Android phones and tablets.Kareen Kiwan (Accessible Android)
Are you part of an open source project with a community of users, contributors, and/or third party developers?
I want to interview people about their projects with particular attention to how codebases, documentation, project management tooling, and community spaces are constructed.
On these "project tours" we'll go through your project together, on video call, and talk about how the structure of the project influences, and is influenced by, your goals, culture, logistical constraints, etc.
Using images with alt text to represent code is not terribly helpful.
• A typical user would need to know about the alt text to copy it.
• A low-vis user cannot scale it, and it won’t honor their text preferences.
• A blind user has to parse a wall of text they cannot pause.
Just paste code. Maybe a URL to longer code.
Enhance your Toggl time-tracking experience with Timery! Start your most-used timers with one click. Edit your time entries easily. See reports of your time tracked.App Store
Many moons ago, a friend ran an SSH honeypot that had a unique feature: when the attacker gained "access" to the system, he could then send responses to the interactive commands the attackers executed over an IRC channel.
One day, some attacker popped in, and he started to taunt them live. Often, the attackers were just throwing in some copypasta and weren't actually checking the responses. This one time, the attacker realised what was going on and was quite amused, and started to chat back, sending fake commands to see if he would get obvious human responses back (Note: that this was well before generative AI). This went on for some time, and some kind of a connection was formed. The attacker would come back to chat with my friend, logging in over SSH to this honeypot.
Eventually, the attacker divulged other means to communicate with him. He told my friend he was a bored Romanian guy who ran a kind of academy for young hacking talent. They'd gain access to some box, install their SSH bruteforcer (random IPv4 addresses and fixed password lists), and rinse and repeat.
Eventually, the attackers seemed to stop and disappear. My friend contacted them and asked what had happened: maybe they had been caught by authorities?
No such luck. Apparently, they had discovered some addictive online game that was more interesting.
Threat actor group defeated by Candy Crush.
"Tuesday night's usually my cartography class, but this evening I have no plans"
"Tuesday nights I'm usually a fashion model, but this evening I have nothing on"
"Tuesday nights I usually get chained up, but this evening I'm free"
Good morning my freinds,
I woke up today to loud gunfire and many explosions. As usual I checked that my family is ok. I succesfully completed the chemistry exam. I'll spend most of my time today preparing for the next exams. Hopefully nothing bad happens to us today.
I'm not a number. I'm human being. I have life details. I have a story. I have a dream. I love my life even if it's too difficult.
Re my last RT:
paying someone to do something they already enjoy can actually make them enjoy it less. I am absolutely living proof of this.
I once got advice as a teenager. Someone said "don't do what you love for a living. You'll hate it later." And, while that's not 100% true, my autistic burnout doesn't agree.
The number one reason for (at least) weekly changes to my site is to update the AI crawler/siphon blockers ... it never stops : there are 97 of them right now 😤
› github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.ro…
#BlockAI #AI #LLM #NightmareOnLLMStreet #Webmaster
A list of AI agents and robots to block. Contribute to ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
My wife to coworkers yesterday: "Do you know how Charlie Kirk is? (no) Do you know who Ben Shapiro is? (no) Good for you"
apparently not everyone is internet-brain-rotted and knows who the political influencers are
Repeat after me.
Carbon capture is a scam conceived by the oil industry.
Carney recommending 5 'nation-building projects' for approval, including LNG expansion: sources
cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-ma…
Everything to subsidise private profit, nothing to benefit the average canadian. No transit, no high-speed rail. Nothing.
All about destroying the planet so the oligrarch can make more bucks.
seems like the next five have more to do with actually good things, but I have a bad feeling anything good is going to perpetually be locked behind "once we complete all these O&G and resource extraction projects for private companies we'll have a look at it".
The HSR on the Windsor-Québec corridor at least hasn't been cancelled (as far as I know), but expediting that would have been a positive sign.
Not feeling super optimistic.
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Archooooooos! Mam to lozbity! ;)
(Podarilo se mi nejak lognout a napsat ze safari na telefenku. Jinde to zlobi. Je chyba neprekvapive u mne, nebo se v tom vrtas?)
@archos
⚡ Google is killing Android freedom by stopping you from side-loading apps. What's your reaction?
Option 1: Stop call it side-loading: Google wants to stop us from INSTALLING apps on our OWN phones.
Option 2: Awesome, now I can hate Google and Apple equally for destroying freedom.
Option 3: I don't care as I'm using a different OS anyway (please comment which one!)
More info: tuta.com/blog/android-side-loa…
Sign the petition to stop Google from limiting APK file usage: change.org/p/stop-google-from-…
Hey people, keep in mind that GrapheneOS is focused on being as privacy focused as possible, which means quite large compromises in terms of usability and comfort.
As an everyday driver for "the normal user" I can recommend LineageOS as one option I really enjoy. It's a degoogled Android, which tries to keep as many comforts as possible.
"Open Source as Europe’s Strategic Advantage" a 46-page report by the Linux Foundation
To what extent do you agree or disagree that OSS is valuable to the future of your organization?
non-C level: 86% agree
C-level: 62% agree
To what extent do you agree or disagree that engaging in open source projects better positions your organization to attract technical talent?
76% agree
For those that answered no, just as a treat, we should ban them from using *any* OSS for a week and see how well that goes.
What’s that, you didn’t realize you’d be writing your own TCP/IP stack? Oops.
Most website are unreadable at 100%
Not sure who decided 12px was an acceptable font size, but it's not.
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