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Noupside, 23 hours ago to random

🧵 I wrote ab the “is Signal secure?” manufactroversy on X. The Guardian wanted an explainer on why Elon & Jack were “concerned” about Signal. The answer, though, has nothing to do w/Signal’s product. It was part of an extended fight over whether woke NPR should be defunded & the CEO fired. Why? Because the CEO of NPR is on the board of Signal; by the Transitive Property of Bad People, Signal is thus compromised.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/18/npr-elon-musk-signal

lauren, 1 day ago to google

Non-techies are really starting to notice the quality drop in #Google Search results, all the AI-generated garbage videos flooding #YouTube, etc.

Until recently I'd mainly hear from techies about these sorts of issues, but now it's gotten so bad that everyone is noticing.

b0rk, 17 hours ago to random

the submission deadline for the last-ever @bangbangcon is next week! (May 29) https://bangbangcon.com/give-a-talk.html

it's a celebration of the joy, excitement, and surprise of computing! Talks are 10 minutes! !!Con can pay for your travel! The only rule is that your talk has to have an exclamation mark in the title!

dbelson, 17 hours ago to random

"For sale: Typewriter shop, often used"
https://archive.is/2jGW6

@mwichary @glennf

vdignum, 1 day ago to ai

🚀 Announcing AIPEX! 🚀

The AI Policy Exchange Forum is now live! A new platform for rapid, citable discussions on AI policy and governance. Join the debate and share your insights.

Submit your contribution: www.aipolicylab.se/aipex
#AI #AIPolicy #AIGovernance #AIPEX #Innovation

leaverou, 2 days ago to random

We’ve always told devs that browsers prioritize what to implement based on dev demand.

There is one exception: #SVG.

SVG is used on >65% of websites. Yet, browsers have been refusing to work on SVG, ignoring pressure and pain points from web devs.

#StateOfHTML showed SVG as the top content pain point: https://2023.stateofhtml.com/en-US/features/content/#content_pain_points

Tons of work (SVG 2, fill & stroke, and more) has sat unimplemented for years. At this point, in standards circles, we know not to touch SVG with a barge pole.

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internetarchive, 2 days ago to random

Why is The Wayback Machine so important for preserving our digital culture? According to new analysis from Pew Research Center:
❌ 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible
❌ 23% of news webpages contain at least one broken link
🔗 https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/

matthewskelton, 2 days ago to random

"Surprisingly, our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless."

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308716997_Gender_bias_in_open_source_Pull_request_acceptance_of_women_versus_men

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mastodonmigration, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

So now SpaceX, with no working spacesuit, and years behind on it's multi-billion dollar moon lander, is lobbying NASA to go to the Hubble Space Telescope.

"A successful private mission could improve Hubble's ability to point at celestial objects and, by boosting its orbit, extend its life by years... however, an accident could leave the multibillion-dollar telescope broken — or, even more tragically, tethered to the dead bodies of the astronauts sent to repair it."

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/16/1250250249/spacex-repair-hubble-space-telescope-nasa-foia

dangillmor, 3 days ago to random

I was honored to meet Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko, aka @Gargron, yesterday afternoon in San Francisco. He's the real deal: committed to doing something good for the world and boasting serious technical skills. He also has genuine humility, a welcome trait in the tech world.

The occasion was a meet-and-greet put together by Flipboard's @mike, whose company has enbraced the fediverse in a big way.

I hope to do more to help make the fediverse succeed.

You're helping, by participating.

ricmac, 3 days ago to random

A media podcast I listened to today said that “the web is old-fashioned”, as part of their analysis of the OpenAI and Google news this week. As if the web will turn into The Well, or something. But I am seeing the fediverse, standards-based web builders like Eleventy, and open newsletter platforms like Ghost and Buttondown (that both support the web), and I just don’t agree that the web is old-fashioned. Quite the opposite, it’s only just getting started (again)!

MichaelCrider, 4 days ago to random

Google search has a new, but somewhat hidden "Web" tab that clears out all the junk and just gives you a list of text-based results. You know, like how Search was before it started sucking.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2334403/google-now-has-a-web-search-button-for-text-only-results-without-the-junk.html

I'm begging, screaming out into the ether: someone give me a Chrome extension that forces this as the default search in the URL bar.

jasonkoebler, 4 days ago to random

Google is experimenting with "showing people links to websites." This revolutionary feature is hidden under the "More" tab as AI search moves closer to becoming the default

https://www.404media.co/google-search-web-filter-ai-overview/

bert_hubert, 5 days ago to random

Yesterday I presented at the NL-NCSC / @SURF / @ACCSS symposium "Cyber Security & Society". According to Donald Tusk we are entering a new pre-war era, and I fear that he is right. I also fear that we do not have anything near a "war-time resilient" level of control over the IT infrastructures that our societies depend on utterly. We are sitting ducks & it is getting worse. Transcribed presentation, with slides, is here:
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cyber-security-pre-war-reality-check/

onepict, 8 days ago to random

There's a massive elephant in the room when it comes to #FossSustainability . How do you recruit folks to help with building?

Just why is your community pipeline limited? Could it per chance be your public behaviour as the BDFL?

I mean you realise your community is more than just the code right?

http://onepict.com/20240512-elephant.html

cdlhamma, 8 days ago to photography

My contribution to the #Aurora #Photography from last night! I hadn't planned on venturing too far but as night drew closer and I saw all the amazing photos I packed up the gear and headed into the mountains!

stshank, 12 days ago to MIjazz

Batteries are growing on the grid to handle evening power use surges when solar peters out. California just hit 7GW out of 10GW capacity. Our house is battery powered from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. and will be part of a virtual power plant soon.

Today batteries help with daily peak shaving; longer gaps in solar/wind production are harder. #FusionEnergy could help with that but is only one part of the overall solution. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/07/climate/battery-electricity-solar-california-texas.html

#Fusion #RenewableEnergy #EnergyTransition #Battery

w7voa, 13 days ago to random

State Department launches the US “International Cyberspace and Digital Policy Strategy: Towards an Innovative, Secure, and Rights-Respecting Digital Future.” https://www.state.gov/united-states-international-cyberspace-and-digital-policy-strategy/

mimsical, 15 days ago to random

Most of history is people living nasty, brutish and short lives and modernity is a paradise by comparison, example 9,328:

Before the introduction in the 1920s of iodized salt, iodine deficiency was so widespread in the northeastern U.S. that it was known as the “goiter belt,” for the painfully enlarged thyroid glands that millions had as a result of this deficiency.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2024/05/01/iodized-salt-100-years-deficiency/

robin, 16 days ago to random

Hey look, we're in The Guardian with @mariafarrell!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/04/the-internet-is-in-decline-it-needs-rewilding

pluralistic, 17 days ago to random

Even Google admits - grudgingly - that it is losing the spam wars. The explosive proliferation of botshit has supercharged the sleazy "search engine optimization" business, such that results to common queries are 50% Google ads to spam sites, and 50% links to spam sites that tricked Google into a high rank (without paying for an ad):

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2024/03/core-update-spam-policies#site-reputation

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eff, 16 days ago to random

The dangerous Kids Online Safety Act #KOSA now has a House version, and some lawmakers are seeking to attach the bill to must-pass legislation. Legislation of this magnitude deserves to pass—or fail—on its own merits. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/us-version-kosa-still-censorship-bill

AnnemarieBridy, 16 days ago to random

I hate airport facial recognition scans and really wish they’d be outlawed.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/3/24148346/tsa-facial-recognition-airports-us-senators-oversight

plaguepoems, 16 days ago to random

Do not panic
we are told we must not panic
but what is panic
if not an appropriate reaction
to a world
that is dying of complacency.

A compendium of the 215th week of plague poems…

https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2024/05/03/plague-poems-the-two-hundred-and-fifteenth-week/

spaceflight, 3 months ago to space

#Space #LaunchCost comparison by ourworldindata.org : https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cost-space-launches-low-earth-orbit?time=1982..latest