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deadparrot, 4 days ago to random

What a week in AI!

• Microsoft releases its biggest invasion of your privacy in decades!
• Sam Altman violates Scarlett Johansson to get her likeness for his digital parrot!
• Google UX legend Scott Jenson declares idea bankruptcy at Google and panic driven AI development because they want to lock you in faster than their competitors!

This shit is going great!

orhun, 5 days ago to rust

I'm so excited to announce the new version of Ratatui — with the brand new forum for Rust & TUI enthusiasts! 🥳

🚀 Join us here: https://forum.ratatui.rs

🦀 Ratatui is a Rust library for cooking up terminal user interfaces (@ratatui_rs)

✨ Release highlights: https://ratatui.rs/highlights/v0263

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/ratatui-org/ratatui

#rustlang #tui #ratatui #library #terminal #forum #release

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matrix, 7 days ago to random

The http://matrix.org homeserver has been struggling with load over the last 24h (thanks perhaps to Slack for driving users our way: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/slack-defends-default-opt-in-for-ai-training-on-chats-amid-user-outrage/) - we're working on fixing performance. Folks on other homeservers are of course unaffected. Apologies for the inconvenience. https://status.matrix.org is tracking the incident.

yosh, 9 days ago to random

Yay! The in-progress wasi:i2c proposal (WASI spec for embedded devices) just moved to phase 2!

This means it's not just something promising anymore, but it seems ready to be implemented in host systems and begin gathering implementation and user feedback from.

I'm legit very excited about this! — But this seems like it has a real shot at improving the embedded development experience. Virtual platform layering, local platform emulation, standard APIs, etc. etc. I'm into it!

jensimmons, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to random

Safari 17.5 is out today! With
• text-wrap: balance and text-wrap: stable
• light-dark()
• @​starting-style
• @​import <url> supports(<feature>);
• AV1 for WebCodecs
• WebGL EXT_conservative_depth and NV_shader_noperspective_interpolation
and more!

https://webkit.org/blog/15383/webkit-features-in-safari-17-5/

biscuitauth, 13 days ago to random French

Work has started on the next biscuit version: https://github.com/orgs/biscuit-auth/projects/4/views/1

Some features are already specified, with a candidate implementation in biscuit-rust, some are specified with no implementation yet, and some are yet to be specified.

Also, there are still v4 features that are not implemented everywhere.

So there's a lot to do for people willing to actually contribute to biscuit 🎉

surma, 16 days ago to random

I really wanted to know which libraries are bloating my WebAssembly binaries, so I wrote a visualizer.

Throw in a .wasm file with DWARF debug symbols, and wasmphobia will generate a flame graph for you, breaking down the module by source file.

https://wasmphobia.surma.technology/

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ClimateNewsNow, 18 days ago to climate

Shell has sold millions of ‘phantom’ carbon credits based on emissions savings that never happened, according to a new investigation.

Shell made more than $200 million dollars selling the credits from its flagship carbon capture facility called 'Quest'.

Canadian taxpayers covered 93% of the costs of building the 'Quest' carbon capture project. #ClimateChange

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/05/07/false-promises-and-phantom-emissions-how-was-shell-able-to-double-its-carbon-credits-in-ca

rust, 23 days ago to random

Rust 1.78.0 is now available! 🦀🌈

This release brings you #[diagnostic::on_unimplemented], more safety assertions in the standard library (in debug mode), LLVM version 18, and more!

Check out the announcement and release notes: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/05/02/Rust-1.78.0.html

ajsadauskas, 1 month ago to random

There was no drone delivery future. There was never going to be a drone delivery future.

Just like there was never going to be self-driving Uber taxis. Or Amazon Go supermarkets on every corner. Or hyperloops. Or earth-to-earth space travel on SpaceX rockets. Or level-five full self driving Teslas.

Just like there will not be a general artificial intelligence ChatGPT in the next couple of years.

They were all scams designed to lure dollars from investors and generate good PR.

It was all bullshit. It was always bullshit.

Nothing more.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/22/24137383/amazon-prime-air-drone-delivery-closing-lockeford-california-phoenix-arizona

janvlug, 1 month ago to opensource

United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC) has selected #Element as its #secure communications platform, following a competitive #tender process.

Element stood out as a digitally sovereign platform which offers end-to-end #encryption. Its ability to be #federated to support multiple organisations was also a key factor in the #selection process.

#UNICC will self-host Element through an Element Enterprise subscription.

https://element.io/blog/unicc-selects-element-for-secure-communications/

#UN #OpenSource #FOSS #Matrix

geal, 1 month ago to random

Cette semaine c'est @mixitconf !
J'y serai avec @clementd pour vous parler des tokens Biscuit et des nouvelles architectures d'autorisation qu'ils vous ouvrent
https://www.biscuitsec.org/

MostlyHarmless, 1 month ago to random

thibaultamartin, 1 month ago to random

Completely mind boggling to me that we threw away 5 billion phones in 2022.

Some of those could have been repurposed: smartphones are hardly innovating any more. The most eco-friendly phone is the one you already have.

We need to publicly support communities like @postmarketOS who work on making these phones repurposable, and @gnome that work on making a polished mobile experience that serves people, not creepy corporations.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63245150

kennwhite, 1 month ago to random

Incredible research at BlackHat Asia today by Tong Liu and team from the Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (在iie.ac.cn 的电子邮件经过验证)

A dozen+ RCEs on popular LLM framework libraries like LangChain and LlamaIndex - used in lots of chat-assisted apps including GitHub. These guys got a reverse shell in two prompts, and even managed to exploit SetUID for full root on the underlying VM!

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jasonkoebler, 1 month ago to random

New: Facebook's AI chatbot told a parent in a group asking for advice from other parents that it has a gifted, disabled child who attends school in New York City

https://www.404media.co/facebooks-ai-told-parents-group-it-has-a-disabled-child/

matrix, 1 month ago to random

We are thrilled to welcome @gnome and @kde who, like @EclipseFdn, have joined us as Associate Members 🚀

Associate Members are FOSS foundations, nonprofits, and other communities that share our values, such as: software freedom, open source, open standards, privacy, and decentralization.

Like our other members, we have allocated several seats on our Governing Board for Associate Members, and they get to be part of how Matrix is governed.

Learn more about membership: https://matrix.org/membership/

MastodonEngineering, 1 month ago to mastodon

We are looking for a new member for our #Mastodon core team to work with @Gargron, @renchap and @Claire on building the Mastodon #backend and web app!

This is a #remote #fulltime position and requires an overlap with the CET timezone.

Ideally:

• You are a #Ruby expert
• With prior experience in maintaining #opensource projects
• Prior knowledge of #ActivityPub is a big plus!

For more info and to apply:

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mastodon/de1e4d8a-5639-4b6a-86d7-97bd9c768b02

#FediHire #GetFediHired #hiring

rust, 1 month ago to random

Today, Rust 1.77.2 will be released with a critical security patch to the standard library for those on Windows using the Command API to invoke batch files with untrusted arguments. No other platform or use is affected.

See the announcement for details: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/04/09/cve-2024-24576.html

freddy, 2 months ago to random

Last night, about 21 hours ago, Manfred Paul demonstrated a security exploit targeting Firefox 124 at pwn2own.

In response, we have just published Firefox 124.0.1 (and Firefox ESR 115.9.1) containing the security fix.

Please update your foxes! 🦊

Kudos to all the countless people postponing their sleep and working towards resolving this so quickly! Really impressive teamwork again. Also, kudos to Manfred for pwning Firefox again :)

thibaultamartin, 2 months ago to random

Fediverse, what nonprofits do you donate to, and why did you choose them?

If you don't mind specifying, I'd love to know what region of the world you're from!

🔄 Please boost to help me discover the problems people want to solve and the orgs solving them!

Mara, 2 months ago to rust

🦀 I'm really excited about today's #rustlang release! 🥳

• offset_of!
• stripping release binaries by default!
• IP/socket types available in no_std!
• File::create_new (won't overwrite existing files)!
• more array and slice methods (each_ref, chunk methods)!
• Mutex::clear_poison!

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/03/21/Rust-1.77.0.html

rust, 2 months ago to random

Rust 1.77.0 is now available! 🦀🌈

This release comes with c"" string literals, offset_of!(), recursive async functions, stripping of binaries in release mode, File::create_new, Mutex::clear_poison, and more!

Check out the announcement and release notes: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/03/21/Rust-1.77.0.html