All i've heard at work for the last fortnight is 'iPhone release'. I thought I had escaped it off the job, too. But it seems that even checking out my groceries I am pursued.
Oppo, Honor, Xiaomi, and more are using silicon-carbon batteries to slim phones down without compromising on battery, but the biggest players in the US are yet to catch up.
"Do Universities Investing In Technology Transfer Via Patenting Lose Money?"
This study reaches a conclusion I've believed to be true since seeing how tech transfer offices work. The paper calls for closing tech transfer offices and instead open sourcing all innovations. ttb.sk/clanky/do-universities-…
It's an excellent read, with lots of good advise, including having a public "hello" profile and another unpublished chat profile for private chatting. #deltachat apps have pervasive multi-profile support (and multi-device support) so it's pretty easy to establish such a two-profile setup.
Loops is now ready to self-host, and a few instances have appeared already 🥳 Stay tuned, we have a lot more exciting news to share! joinloops.org #loops
There's two new upgrades in the Bose Quiet Comfort Ultra gen 2 that might be worth it to some: Lossless audio and a 30-hour gbattery with ANC, so a night's sleep or so added. Lossless audio should mean that when you plug your bose into the USB-C port, they'll continue to work and show as a soundcard. In theory. Oh, and they're saying stronger ANC, until Sound Guys does something on them. (interesting read though: soundguys.com/bose-qc-ultra-2-…) I forgot the only single advantage Bose comes with on their cans: Adjustable ANC levels. I don't know why neither Sonos nor Sony see this as a competitive advantage they're getting beat on. With Bose, I can make a "relax" profile which puts ANC at 5 or 6, leaving some sound in. Not so with my other ANC cans. ARGH.
Hey @protonprivacy it would be nice if you could update your website. Given that both of us fight for #privacy and #opensource, we must not use the same marketing tactics like Big Techs do.
»We're consolidating our social media presence due to limited resources and no longer posting on Mastodon. Follow us on Reddit for the latest updates: reddit.com/r/ProtonMail«
I think Google, Apple and all others believe in the power of open source as well and particularly companies like Microsoft or Amazon who profit from open source hugely. To believe in the power of open source does not mean that you do open source.
why don't you create some automatism, how to migrate from proton to you? I sure can do a lot of things manually, but something which supports me would be beneficial because I'm not a techie.
Honestly, you're winning me over more and more I use Proton Mail right now, but seeing how open and active you are - talking with people on the fediverse and replying to comments - really means a lot. Especially since Proton left Mastodon a few months ago
Your strong support for the #FightChatControl campaign and your clear choice to stand up for privacy rights - instead of giving up and leaving the market if the law goes through - says a lot 🔐 I've always liked tools that focus on doing one thing well, not big all-in-one ecosystems, and it looks like your way fits me much better.
Thanks for staying true to your values 🙌 I really hope that never changes.
seriously? Is some AI chat your only source? Don't get me wrong, if this is true it's worth calling it out but you should put a little more effort in it.
This is not expected from proton. It appears, that may have caught the big tech virus. Their revenue has grown a lot, they are launching new products fast.. sigh
"This project is a monorepo hosting the Proton web clients. It includes the web applications, their dependencies & shared modules as well as all tooling surrounding development of the web clients (as well as some additional miscellaneous things)."
proton killed off their fedi account ages ago, after everyone here (justifiably) got mad about the CEO saying some REALLY problematic right wing stuff. I would stay away from their stuff if I were you
I'm a paying customer for both Tuta and Proton. Want to support Tuta hoping they improve. But they're not good enough right now compared to Proton which, while not being perfect, works for me in replacing US software.
Proton on the other hand keep showing up in unflattering stories a bit too often for my liking.
Hoping Tuta improves their UX and adds additional apps to form a "suite": password manager, cloud, VPN. Heck even cryptpad...
I should really start running away from them. Ahhhh...I am still in the Proton bubble. I target to be free of their services by end of 2025. I am subscribed until Dec. 2025.
Unfortunately #Proton chose to leave Mastodon since they got more pushback here than on other platforms whenever they stepped outside of the image they portrayed. Thus they sadly won't see your apt post.
(I'm still a Proton Visionary customer though, but even as such they didn't want to admit to why they left the Fediverse)
I wrote about the murder of Charlie Kirk, political violence in the United States, and the Trumpists’ desire to find a pretext for purges and mass arrests.
The reactions from the Right have been as unsurprising as they have been unhinged. The idea that this is the “American Reichstag fire” quickly made the rounds in rightwing online circles – leading to a call for mass arrests of all Democrats and mass violence against “the Left.”
The Trumpists want to escalate. They are convinced it is the only path to defeating the “enemy within” and imposing their vision. That is one major goal of the militarization of urban centers: Create situations that are likely to result in violent escalation sooner or later.
The Trumpists believe they have found their Reichstag fire moment. And if it’s not this one, then how long until something else happens that serves as pretext? When those who are controlling the levers of state power are itching for violence, how long until mass violence follows?
An aggressive, militant political culture has spread. It provides fertile ground for political violence, which has been rising and comes overwhelmingly from the Right. And no one has contributed more to this distinctly dangerous political culture than the leaders of the Right.
We should trust ourselves and those we address to be able hold two thoughts at the same time: That we must forcefully condemn political violence - but also acknowledge that it festers and thrives in a deeply unhealthy political culture that Kirk himself helped create.
The message should not be that political violence is bad because it targeted a good guy who was “practicing politics the right way” (which Kirk definitely was not). Political violence is bad because it inherently corrodes the democratic polity, because it makes democracy impossible.
Es ist wirklich ein Trauerspiel, was sich #BVG und #SBahn da erlauben. Aber ist in Zeiten von #Digitalisierungswahn ja nicht neues, dass #Digitalisierung (v.a. in Kombination mit #Digitalisierungszwang) meist nichts anderes heißt, als Arbeit und Verantwortung auf Nutzer_innen/Kund_innen/Patient_innen etc. abzuwälzen. Und das "Argument" mit der unzumutbaren Ausweiskontrolle für Kontros ist an Lächerlichkeit kaum zu überbieten. Fast 2 Jahrzehnte lang wurden Semestertickets genau so kontrolliert, Papier/Plastikkarte + Lichtbildausweis.
Das alles ließe sich vermeiden (und unterm Strich vermutlich auch 'ne Menge Kosten und Folgekosten sparen), wenn wir den #ÖPNV endlich Schritt für Schritt zu einer kostenfreien echten Alternative aus- und umbauen würden, echte #Daseinsvorsorge halt.
Ein Student wird in der Berliner U-Bahn kontrolliert. Sein Handy hat keinen Empfang, deshalb zeigt er einen Screenshot seines Tickets, später auch das Ticket in der App. Trotzdem wird er bestraft - zurecht, sagt die BVG. Von Klaas-Wilhelm Brandenburg
Není špatného počasí, jen špatně oblečeného běžce. Celou dobu pršelo, ale při běhání to ani nevadí. Nedělní klusík. Tempo nic moc, ale aspoň tepovku se dařilo držet dole. #garmin #sport
Hele asi dobry, kdyz jsi teda tak dobre oblecenej. Ale prozradim ti tajemstvi: kdyz prsi, da se to pohodlneji prezit na gauci. A slysel jsem, ze stary mazaci prej zustavaji i v posteli! ;) Jinak teda kloboucek. 10 km jsem bezel naposledy nekde v sedmy tride.
New germinating idea: Accessibility Excellence. Now, I'm sure people like @JonathanMosen have made approximately 9001 podcast episodes about this, but in the wake of Google's own AI gallery app, which lets people use AI models offline on their phone including image description and audio transcription, released with no accessibility, I think we need to converge as a community on an idea of accessibility excellence. We need to dismiss ads of a company that seeks to prop us up to show how their stuff is accessible, even though there is clearly a systemic issue of inaccessibility in the company. Gemini on iOS is more accessible than Gemini on Android. TalkBack still doesn't have basic screen reader features like a pronunciation dictionary and support for all features on even older Braille displays like the Braille Edge. Google Play Books does not automatically scroll pages while reading a book, like Apple Books, Kindle, and many other book reading apps on iOS do. Even Kindle on Android does this, but Google's own app doesn't. Gmail on Android has no way to navigate between messages in a conversation or thread, while Apple's Mail app can, making reading threads of email on iOS fast and easy. There is no way on Android to have TalkBack suspend touch interaction in apps, so gamers still have to turn off the screen reader to play accessible games. Apple users haven't had to do that in years. Even though there are tags on the Play Store for apps accessible with TalkBack, the idea has fallen by the wayside like so many other accessibility ideas that Google forgot and Apple has just embarked upon with accessibility labels. These aren't vibes, or subjective feelings. Like I said in my most recent Accessible Android article, how can we expect small companies or indie developers to make their apps accessible, when we can't get Google to listen to us and take us seriously? We need to take each others' accessibility concerns seriously, especially for Braille. Many people who are blind use Android, yes. Many people like it. And that's okay. But it could, and should, be so much better. There should be competition between these company's accessibility departments, not a kind of sluggish, aimless ambling around in concentric circles by one while the other presses ahead. Yes, TalkBack's Gemini AI descriptions are great, and when I use my Android phone, it's a very attractive feature. Perhaps next year VoiceOver will get something like it.
We shouldn't give any of these huge corporations an inch of duct tape accessibility, because once it's done, they'll build upon that poor foundation, and the whole structure will be so much less effective than it needs to be. Accessibility should be solid, no matter what company does it. But if a screen reader comes with a device, and is made by the company that makes the OS, there's no excuse for rickety accessibility.
Hello, Thank you for this exciting work. However, I recently installed the EdgeGallery application, and my Talkback screen reader is unable to correctly recognize the application's functions. Even ...
As #ChatControl marches on, we already know what the European Court of Human Rights has ruled in a similar case against RUSSIA: "The Court concludes that in the present case the [..] obligation to decrypt end-to-end encrypted communications risks amounting to a requirement that providers of such services weaken the encryption mechanism for all users; it is accordingly not proportionate to the legitimate aims pursued". Yet we continue to try just that... For shame. hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-2…
The HUDOC database provides access to the case-law of the Court (Grand Chamber, Chamber and Committee judgments and decisions, communicated cases, advisory opinions and legal summaries from the Case-Law Information Note), the European Commission of H…
## Summary:
During a comprehensive security audit of the cURL codebase, multiple instances of unsafe strcpy() function usage were identified in critical code paths. These implementations violate...
Related, your examples are fodder for my explanations within friends & family on why “AI” isn’t a good idea to use if you don’t know what you’re doing.
@tinylittleenormous no, that would be giving in to stupid and I don't approve of that. Plus the fact of course the detail that if this is "insecure" then what *is* secure?
As it might happen with many other of these "reports", surely he's just running a script against all the code that he can find and then file bug reports in order to get a bounty and the problem is that other enities prefer to pay instead of stand up and tell them to go away hackerone.com/anony_gaku?type=…
My take is possibly too long for social media but let me try. Platforms like h1 allow researchers to streamline supporting. This allows reporters to scale their low hanging fruits findings across many, many targets. They can tolerate their low probability of success through scale. The cost is almost exclusively on the receiving end. 1/n
I like how the LLM included steps for running apt-get update and cloning the git repo on a bug report, the maintainers definitely didn't know how to do that. Also isn't apt-get deprecated now?
Customer runs some security tools. Comes up with hundreds of "vulnerabilities". They aren't interested in your proof that the code path they're worried about can never actually occur, all they care about is clean output from their tools. Which they've been sold by a "security consultant" and quite likely don't understand.
the volumous, unnecessary in-line comments tell me right off the hop this was ai copypasted nonsense. when i use gpt for example, it will straight up slam in inline comments IMMEDIATELY after i tell it not to.
Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states.
“How low can you go?” one advocate asked.
Fall is almost here in the Northern Hemisphere, which means it’s time for another major release of iOS for the public. While some of the information in this article may be new to readers, this year’s changes started being discussed in the spring.
Want to play your PC audio on your Android phone, or the other way around? Want to use your Android phone as a microphone for your PC? Check out AudioRelay. It's pretty darn cool! audiorelay.net/
Do they have a certain dress code? My grandfather went to the nobel prize in sweden once and he told me he had to get a custom suit tailored just to attend
ChatGPT leaked private Gmail data to attackers by Friday. 🤦♂️
Because #promptinjection is not a problem these "PhD level" AI assistants have solved.
Look at that calendar invite. That text is all it took for taking over someone's #ChatGPT connected data. Allowing the attacker to use the same #MCP enabled tools that are supposed to make AI useful at work.
It really is as stupid as @davidgerard keeps telling in Pivot to AI.
@patrick_h_lauke I think Elon musk gets on drugs and spews all this nonsense because he can. If he doesn't even know how many years it is to the next election, that tells you something about how much he really cares about he says. Gosh, why doesn't he just shut up and take care of his failing businesses? :)
I finally have a #pixel10pro. Now it's going in the drawer, and I'll be rooting for the #GrapheneOS developers to finish support for it as soon as possible.
@decathorpe finally because I couldn't wait to check out the hardware, but I never planned to use it before I can get GrapheneOS on it. The main reason why I got it now is that there $250 cashback only until the end of the month. Waiting for GOS would only make the phone more expensive.
@andrew773 yes, I already have a Pixel 6a with it. It's a good entry phone for GrapheneOS because you can get it for ~€120 and it still has 2 years of support. A good way to try GOS out without spending a lot of money.
Nice one! Will probably buy one too when Pixel 11 will come out (I'm buying older Pixels when the new ones come out as there are usually good deals on them). Tbh, I'm interested in the desktop mode a lot - it seems it's really close to the official release now - and Pixel 10 may be a good device to run a Linux VM smoothly enough to be useful in the desktop mode.
@kayla I was thinking about getting Pixel 9 because 10 isn't a major upgrade and I wouldn't have to wait for GOS, but at the moment with the cashback 10 is for the price of 9.
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