Vienna researchers retrieved all WhatsApp numbers. The 3.5 billion profiles represent the largest data leak in history—and it's worse than you might think.
- Copilot was forced to nearly every MS user without their consent - Gemini starts each time an Android user touch their smartphone main button - Whatsapp users suddenly interact with an AI they can’t disable - Firefox will soon have its own AI - Even myself, as a @protonprivacy and @kagihq user, I received access to multiple chatbots I never asked for
But remember: statistics show that "people are using AI tools !"
If you trust those statistics, you are deep into the delusion bubble.
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"If you're not using the stable kernel, your system is insecure. [...] I'll call out Debian: Debian tracks our kernels very well. Debian runs the world. Over 70% of all servers in the world run Debian. Everything else is a rounding error [...] 👉 Debian: really, really good. I work with the Debian developers all the time. I can't recommend them enough. Their systems are good. 👉 RedHat, SUSE: they have their own weird systems -- talk to them, you're paying them."
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@BorrisInABox Dawww, so there's this Mastodon thing. People say touch grass, they touch computers, meaning spend time with or on or whatever. So I extend that to cats.
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When Dave Plummer wrote the original Task Manager for Windows NT, he specifically avoided linking with a CRT to make the binary as small as possible. As such, the first version of Task Manager to ever ship with Windows was an 85 KB executable.
Now cut to today. On Windows 10, the laggy, crappy UIA-heavy Task Manager is around 1.2 MB.
But wait, because it gets worse!
On Windows 11, the new Task Manager using WinUI and admittedly with *slightly* better accessibility and *slightly* less lag, is 5.6 MB, with a nearly 1 MB TaskManager.DataModel.dll next to it.
And when they ask me why I am utterly obsessed with binary size, this is why.
In music, we often think the past was better, because we remember the greatest hits of the past while we constantly hear the merely average or bad stuff in the present. I think it's the same for us nerds and software. Dave Plummer's original Task Manager was one of Windows's greatest hits. I'm sure NT4 also had stuff that was merely functional and inefficient by the standards of its day. And now Microsoft has seen fit to replace Task Manager with the equivalent of filler music.
@matt I was just going to make a drive-by quip about "Task Manager now has... AI!" but then it struck me that this is one of those areas where a bit of predictive analytics could be quite helpful. Oh my! I refuse to check whether Task Manager does in fact now have AI
I agree, but in music, the instruments don't change very much over time, though they do change to some extent. Comparing your 486 to what we have now, what we should be seeing now is excellent speed and performance, no matter how bad the actual code was in the days of NT. What we do see is real degradation. Some of that degraded performance is because of new features that many people do actually like and use. A great deal of it, though, is bloat, very niche features which could be turned on or off if needed, lazy coding... I could go on.
Ich suche für einen Bekannten eine gut gelaunte IT-Erklärbärperson in Berlin, die gegen Honorar einem frustrierten Mac-Anwender vor Ort im direkten Gespräch alle möglichen unklaren Merkwürdigkeiten erklärt und zeigt, wie man es besser einsetzt.
The Canadian government yesterday tabled its Budget Implementation Act. Running at over 600 pages, the bill includes several notable provisions related to digital policy including the repeal of the Digital Services Tax, the restoration of a privacy p…
As a polytheist, I worship gods from a few different pantheons. When the weather turns colder, and I wake up to a world covered in glittering frost every morning, my focus turns to the Norse pantheon.
Their myths were born from a people who were living through the end of the last Ice Age, and so it's easy to see how the Frost Giants were their adversaries.
Here in the Northern forests of the American continent, an average of 39% of days in the year will reach below freezing. I feel like I know what it's like to battle the cold and darkness of winter. It's difficult, depressing, and hard to get out of bed sometimes, but I can take comfort in knowing that my gods are right there with me.
We love the story of 17th century Tulipmania and its financial collapse. How could those people have been so stupid to bet the house on a tulip bulb?
At the end of September, the 8 largest stock holdings in the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) were all AI stocks, amounting to a quarter of the value of the entire pension fund.
Should I have gone with DotPad X over Cadence? For me, I don't think so. Your trade-offs may vary but: Both devices have a refresh noise. There's no way around it. I wish I could hear the DotPad X in action, but very few or practically nobody has posted a demo of this. I would expect it to sound like a Monarch, if the cell tech is the same or similar. Even if we consider Cadence louder, the refresh is near-instant. Not as instant as a classic piezoelectric 40-cell, but let me say, itt's no more than .5 to 1 seconds for the entire 4 lines to refresh. This doesn't get longer when you connect more than one because they refresh together, but you do get slightly louder clicks. So refresh rate itself? Cadence still wins. Then for me the battery is what sealed the deal. Weeks on a charge? DotPad X looks to be 8 hours. A workday's worth, sure, but not much more. And for sure, this is Cadence gen 1. Can you imagine what this little company from Indiana could do with it if more people saw things this way? How the tech could improve, maybe dampening over time the clicks? Joe and the rest of their team have been incredible. For repairs, they told me they send you a new unit and you then send yours back. Very prompt at responses too during the day, you're not left waiting on hold. So if anyoone again asks: "Do you regret Cadence despite its press conference-like noise when refreshing?" My answer is still a resounding no. I love 48-cells in my pocket, sized like an 18-cell.
Když přijdete o řidičák, tak podle toho, jak jste o něj přišli, vás čekají různé cesty k jeho získání zpět. Ty nejdrsnější jsou po odebrání papírů na více než 18 měsíců, kdy musíte projít terapeutickým kurzem za 15k, který trvá 20 hodin. Na druhou stranu u takového vybodování vám bez řečí vrátí papíry po 12 měsících.
Tady asi nejvíc pozor na rychlost >+40 v obci a >+50 mimo obec, to je řidičák pryč na místě. Podobně to je s chybějící nebo zakrytou RZ - to říkejte že se nasedali do auta, které mělo obě RZ v pořádku. A hned poté na nehody se zraněním. Taková nehoda může mít mnoho forem a snadno přijdete o papíry i když si budete myslet, že jste nic špatného neudělali. Příkladem může být řidič autobusu, který prudce zabrzdí kvůli situaci před vozem a někdo uvnitř autobusu se zraní.
V Česku existuje početná skupina lidí, kteří přišli o řidičské oprávnění a nechtějí je zpátky. Podle zjištění redakce iDNES.cz je celkem 37 768 vybodovaných řidičů, jen letos jich následkem bodů přišlo o „papíry“ 4 175.
O papíry můžou lidi přijít i při zkouškách na jinou skupinu. Když jsem dělal zkoušky já, bylo tam dost profesionálních řidičů, kteří si potřebovali jen přidat další skupinu. Zkoušející na začátku řekl, že jim dává poslední možnost odejít, pokud si nevěří, že pokud nedosáhnou bodů, které jsou potřeba pro skupiny, které už mají, musí řidičák odevzdat. Všichni zůstali a někteří na konci museli odevzdat řidičáky. Ne, že by jim to ušlo o pár bodů, ale měli třeba 25/65. 🤯
Takhle rychlé to není. Tím, že odevzdáš kartičku, o oprávnění nepřijdeš. Na to musí proběhnout správní řízení na úřadě, které se dá odkládat dokud ten test neuděláš. Dneska už s kartičkou jezdit nemusíš, takže pokud nejedeš do zahraničí, tak stačí být jen rychlejší než úřad.
Nicméně je to jedna z dalších cest, jak o papíry přijít, když to člověk nechá dojet do konce 🙂
já to dělal ještě v době, kdy nebyla ani plastová kartička, ale zalaminátovaný papírek. :) Tenkrát tam fakt seděl policajt a odebíral řidičáky. Pro ty chlapy to byla osobní tragédie, protože najednou nemohli dělat svoji práci.
@sesivany to se podle mě muselo změnit, dodělával jsem si letos další skupinu, nevyšlo to napoprvé, ale nic jsem neodevzdával. Je fakt, že jsem opakoval jízdy, ne testy.
@aquarius jako je možné, že se od té doby něco změnilo. Třeba to, že se to může poslat do správního řízení. Já to dělal před 23 lety. 😅 Byli jsme poslední várka, kdy ty zkoušky byly na okresní úrovni.
2025 is a strange time to start a newsletter about web technology. The past four editions of WTN have focused on the intersection of the web and AI, because frankly that's where most of the excitement is on today's internet.
With NVDA, why can we navigate HTML tables by cell, but not tables in Windows apps? Foobar2000's key assignments list is a table, but you can find them in first-party apps as well, like Event Viewer. Even Explorer lists are, arguably, tables, but those do allow cell navigation. Sure, Explorer lets you use plain arrows instead of table commands, but it works. Why not use table navigation for all tables?
@miki Why do you need a virtual buffer for table navigation? As long as you can query the rows and columns as well as where the user currently is, I see no problem.
@TheQuinbox FWIW, I can use table navigation commands in Task Manager (as an example) just fine. They even do something on the desktop, albeit only causing NVDA to say "edge of table."
I suspect the foobar2000 keyboard commands list is not a proper list view. @miki @alexhall
@jscholes @TheQuinbox @miki In Task Manager, on the processes tab, I have a data grid of processes. However, it acts more like a tree view, with multi-window processes able to be expanded or collapsed. I don't have any other columns I can move to. If I want to see how much memory Firefox is using, I... Actually, I'm not sure how I'd do that. There are sort options for memory, CPU, and more, but no columns for those data points.
@jscholes @TheQuinbox @miki Ah. One more thing Windows 11 broke then. :) I just opened Event Viewer to check that table commands don't work there, and it keeps locking up and then silently closing. Windows 11 is amazing.
On Windows 11, if you go to the details tab in the task manager, and place yourself on the listview, ctrl-alt left or right arrow indeed go through the table cells.
Privacy may be a human right but it requires the exercise of care to assure it. Just wishing for privacy doesn't mean someone else owes it to you to keep you and your stuff private. You guys are fighting to give privacy to people but they have to understand that they need it and it is worth pursuing at the cost of convenience and sociability.
The Hewlett-Packard Word Generator 8006A has become an unintentional legend of sound lovers, transforming this obscure lab equipment into a kind of instrument.
Oh great, new issue spam attack on @Codeberg. People really have too much time on their hands. This time posting random images from 4chan, etc., as well as AI-generated bogus issues.
Das Verständnis digitaler Souveränität und digitaler Grundrechte, wie es Bundeskanzler Merz und Kommissionspräsidentin von der Leyen zum Ausdruck bringen, ist verkürzt, nicht nachhaltig und aus der Zeit gefallen. Der frühere EU-Kommissar Breton hat recht: Wir machen uns zum nützlichen Idioten derjenigen außerhalb von Europa, die im globalen Spiel der Kräfte europäische Regeln schleifen wollen, um ihre eigenen Firmen zu stärken und eigene Regeln durchzusetzen
Das weder Merz für die Vorbereitung und in der Durchführung des Gipfels gestern, noch von der Leyern in der Entwicklung des digitalen Omnibusgesetzes das Gespräch mit Wissenschaft oder Zivilgesellschaft gesucht haben, ist eine drastische Verkürzung, wie eine Entscheidung in einer gesellschaftlich entwickelten Demokratie entwickelt werden sollte. Nur Manager von Firmen, deren Interesse an kurzfristigen Gewinnen orientiert sind, als Gesprächspartner zu wählen, bleibt unverständlich
2018 wurde die DSGVO und 2022 bis 2024 die anderen Regeln einstimmig im europäischen Rat und mit großen Mehrheiten im Europaparlament beschlossen. Jetzt diese Regeln, die europäische Anbieter genuin einhalten könnte und die us-amerikanischen und chinesischen Anbietern bei konsequenter Durchsetzung Probleme bereiteten, zu verwässern und unkontrollierbar zu machen, wird digitale Innovation in Europa schwächen statt stärken. Eine laissez-faire-Strategie scheitert immer, Opfer sind unsere Werte
I do ironically enjoy it when a company releases a new and improved #LLM, and suddenly some extremely specialized and specific tasks that I use LLMs for perform drastically better. And suddenly they can complete the exact examples I used to provide in my prompt, all by themselves. And seem to perform the task in my exact style, even though I'm not giving them my prompt examples anymore. Hmmm, it couldn't be that they trained on my prompt data, could it? Even though they said they don't do that? Nah, of course not! They'd never!
Oh well, at least someone, somewhere, spent several billion dollars to make something I do once a week slightly easier.
Which one? Could be their remembering features/refering to older chats etc just help with that somehow? But never the less, yeah, concerning I guess lol?
@miki dołączam się do fanów Codexa. Osobiście dla mnie najwygodniejszy sposób to odpalanie go w WSL nawet w przypadku pracy na windowsowym kodzie, bo po prostu działa szybciej. Do Claude nic nie mam, ale odniosłem wrażenie, że zwyczajnie częściej gubił się na nawet podstawowych zadaniach. Miałem przez miesiąc, zrezygnowałem.
@midzi Ja w Codexie bardzo lubię politykę sandboxingu. Claude sandboxingu nie ma w ogóle, więc pyta przed każdą komendą. Codex, zwłaszcza jak go dobrze skonfigurować (a to nie jest takie oczywiste), działa praktycznie samodzielnie, pomimo pozostawania w dość jednak restrykcyjnym sandboxie.
@miki Ja ostatnio bardzo doceniam Githuba, chociaż z komend GITa zapamiętałem na razie tylko git pull, resztę ogarnia mi Codex. :) A co w praktyce dają te markery, o których piszesz?
Signal just released a "poll" feature with great fanfare, while all #deltachat apps already integrated a full suite of chat-shared apps, checklists, polls, shopping lists, calendar, editor + tons of games.
Better, anyone can create new apps, eg as github/codeberg forks from existing apps, and post it to their chats for instant deployment. No need to ask for permission, register an account, and no hosting or DNS: actually "server-less" and fully end-to-end encrypted :)
@perry fair point, certainly! webxdc.org/apps are indeed not consistently designed, and not of consistent quality. For now, the app collection has low barrier of entry, but other curations are possible, and we trying to streamline a few apps to guarantee a certain UX quality. Note that Signal and other messengers can integrate these webxdc apps as well. Even w2g.tv integrated it, and Cheogram/Monocles support them. It's a pretty versatile container format for HTML5 apps :)
With Watch2Gether you can watch YouTube together. Services like Vimeo, Netflix, Amazon, Disney & Co are also supported. Create a room and invite friends to your WatchParty.
How is Delta Chat different from Signal? Because of the network effect I already have trouble convincing people to swap WhatsApp for Signal. I'm already fatigued by having to keep up with "what company/service isn't evil and unethical," I don't want to have to go through this every couple years. I guess a solution would be interoperable instant messaging services - is that what Delta offers?
@largo This is also my hurdle. I found it extremely difficult to get everyone on Signal, now I'd have to tell them Oh wait we need to migrate again.. I know that's not something Delta can necessarily solve for but it's the reality.
sure, and we understand. Maybe you can treat delta just as a backup solution, and keep an eye on it, and continue using Signal for now? It's very situational, and people have lots of other worries than which choice of messengers.
The Dulon Von Paradis Project: blog post 2, November 18, 2025 | Patreon, I’m in the thick of thinking and planning for our trip to Europe next March to research the lives of 18th century Blind musicians Maria Theresia Von Paradis and Friedrich Dulon. Experiencing and performing live music in my home city of Toronto gives me lots of chances to reflect on music and our relationship to it. Thank you Canada Counsel for making this all possible! patreon.com/posts/dulon-von-bl…
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