Today Mozilla is excited to announce Raffi Krikorian — technologist, innovator and community builder — as our first-ever portfolio wide Chief Technolog
Prior to that, he was the first CTO of the US’s Democratic National Committee, where he used data, technology, and digital security to support the election processes of Democratic candidates up and down the ballot; Director of Uber’s Advanced Technologies Center, where he led the development and rollout of the first passenger-carrying self-driving car fleet; and Vice President of Platform Engineering at Twitter, where he managed and built Twitter’s global infrastructure.
Yeah, that resume is on par with recent Mozilla direction...
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Every day I am overcome with rage and shame at videos like this. When will the depravity end? What else can I do to make it stop? We got our local city to divest from Israel and that was definitely something, but it just feels like no matter what we do it's never enough. We must live with the resilience and steadfastness that the Palestinian people have shown us time and time again. Anything less than that is turning our backs on them I feel.
(23 September - Geneva) As Egypt makes a bid for election to the United Nations Human Rights Council, compelling evidence has emerged that implicates the Egyptian government and its military in the commission of war crimes and potential crimes agai…
By US law Egypt is ineligible to receive any US aid, which they do, and without the US their military would be about completely useless.
Because they overthrew a democracy elected government when they got tacit Western support because the democratically elected leader was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
For Egypt to be given the chair of this seat is just beyond the pale, it is like getting Saudi Arabia the climate change conference. Nothing matters anymore.
Torture, murder, total lack of due process rights for the accused, kangaroo courts, you name it. We have evidence that Egypt has tortured people because we still have the receipt when the US handed them people to torture for us in extraordinary rendition.
The network pulled the show after the Federal Communications Commission chair threatened regulatory action after the host's comments about Charlie Kirk's death.
Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show will return to ABC’s airwaves on Tuesday, nearly a week after it was suspended amid criticism of the host’s remarks about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
But many households across the U.S. still may not see the show. Sinclair, a company that operates more than 35 ABC affiliates across the U.S., said that it would replace Kimmel with news programming.
“Beginning Tuesday night, Sinclair will be preempting 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' across our ABC affiliate stations and replacing it with news programming. Discussions with ABC are ongoing as we evaluate the show’s potential return,” Sinclair said in a statement.
I used to prefer to go to old.programming.dev/ but this frontend is not working anymore (for a few months I believe). As I get a bad gateway response, hopefully, this is something that could be fixed.
But maybe I was the only user of this frontend, in which case, I think this might not be worth to revive it.
In this episode of Fediverse Flows, Matthias Pfefferle chats with Dave Winer about the open web's evolution, emphasizing interoperability, linking, and decentralized publishing through WordPress, while discussing challenges faced by contemporary platforms.
Ultimamente ho scoperto un nuovissimo meme: “immagina che hai la sveglia per prendere l’insulina, perché hai il diabete, ma Android si dimentica e quindi MUORI“… e vabbé, ma neanche a fà così, ho pensato… Però immagina più semplicemente di avere una sveglia perché ti devi svegliare, ma Android si dimentica e quindi ti licenziano a […]
quando Android sta zitto, la morte arriva!!! (strano bug di Android per cui la sveglia non suona)
Ultimamente ho scoperto un nuovissimo meme: “immagina che hai la sveglia per prendere l’insulina, perché hai il diabete, ma Android si dimentica e quindi MUORI“… e vabbé, ma neanche a fà così, ho pensato… Però immagina più semplicemente di avere una sveglia perché ti devi svegliare, ma Android si dimentica e quindi ti licenziano a lavoro, o boh, cose del genere… Se questi scenari non mi facessero sotto sotto ridere malamente, ci sarebbe oggettivamente da piangere, perché la situazione, per quanto ipotetica sembra, in realtà è realissima, e appunto non è buona. 👄
Ironicamente, visto quante rogne ho di continuo con Android e quindi lo odio, questa è una delle poche cose con cui io non ho mai avuto problemi… sia sullo Ximi, sia sul tablet, sia sul Huawi vecchio (e sull’S5 Mini non so, perché a 11-13 anni non usavo la sveglia, erano altri tempi), la sveglia è sempre suonata… poi io magari non la sento, ma quello è un problema di skill, non di Android. Invece, cercando online si trovano fin troppe segnalazioni di gente che o dice di vedere personalmente la sveglia che non suona (usando intanto altre sveglie, funzionanti, per svegliarsi), o di non ritrovarsi con la classica notifica di sveglia persa la mattina pur non avendola mai spenta… oppure, il colmo definitivo: nelle notifiche appare che la sveglia non è suonata per “motivi ignoti“! (Per chiarezza, sottinteso in tutti questi casi è che si usi la app Orologio di sistema, su ROM stock.) 💀 Quest’ultimo scenario è così assurdo che, se non ci fossero schermate a documentarlo, faticherei a crederci nonostante le tantissime segnalazioni, e penserei piuttosto sia un’allucinazione collettiva, perché sembra così campato per aria… ma, purtroppo è reale, e in realtà non dovrei sorprendermene, visto che c’è lo zampino di Google; perché questo particolare errore sembra in realtà specifico ai loro Pixel (e le recensioni della app su Google Play sono pesantemente negative anche per questo)… E ora non voglio fare il solito discorso per come lì a Mountain View dovrebbero smettere di produrre dei telefoni venduti come top di gamma che in realtà hanno tremila problemi che nessun cinesone Mediatek preso a caso da Amazon ha, e soprattutto come gli scemi dovrebbero smettere di comprarli, però porca miseria, è imbarazzante! Ma è possibile che che rompono il cazzo con l’IA e il cloud e vattelappesca e poi non funziona il fottuto orologio su sti telefoni schifosi??? 😭
La cosa curiosa, però, è che tutte queste lamentele sembrano di tempi piuttosto recenti. A parte queste con i Google Pixel, che sono notizia fresca di mesi, trovo qualcosa riguardo Samsung (ma sempre solo dalla bocca dei redditor e degli youtuber, quindi prenderei con cautela), ma usando i filtri di Google per cercare in anni già precedenti al 2020 si trova pochissima roba, mentre prima del 2015 non si trova quasi niente. Ci sarebbe a questo punto una teoria interessante da fare, cioè che è il doze di Android che rompe tutto, ma quello è stato introdotto solo una decina di anni fa con Marshmallow (…ricordavo Nougat, mi sbagliavo?), quindi non giustifica un’esplosione di problemi negli ultimissimi anni, specialmente perché chi ha problemi con le sveglie è comunque una minoranza dell’intera base di utenti di Android. Certamente, almeno per Samsung il risparmio energetico dell’OEM potrebbe centrare… 😖
Ho raccolto come sempre milioni di link, ordinati dalle discussioni più recenti alle più vecchie… tra cui anche qualcuna di due decenni fa, che però non fa testo, è giusto per sfizio, che in quei tempi Android era ancora un troiaio rotto tra diversi dispositivi… mica come oggi, che funziona sempre! (Ah ah ah!) memos.octt.eu.org/m/nMCrLjban7…. Boh, resta un mistero, perché per alcuni la soluzione è “pulisci la cache dell’orologio” (che è una frase così distopica che mi sento male solo a scriverla, cazzo se ODIO dove ci ha portati la tecnologia!), per altri non ci sta versi, e da quando su Android ci sono tutte le cose di risparmio energetico forzato io nemmeno mi fiderei ad usare app di sveglia terze, perché pure quelle magari non suonano (c’è una API in Android che le app a tempo possono usare per impostare timer di attivazione eh, ma non è che funzioni perfettamente e ovunque, siamo sempre lì, maremma bona)… un disastro. 💥
Emmanuel Macron has announced France’s official recognition of the State of Palestine, setting out a plan for a UN-mandated international stabilisation force in postwar Gaza that is expected to find support in many countries but not in Israel or the US.
“The time has come to end the war in Gaza, the massacres and the death,” Macron said during a speech opening a special summit in the United Nations general assembly hall on Monday evening. “The time has come to do justice for the Palestinian people and thus to recognise the State of Palestine in Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem.”
The statements drew cheers and standing ovations from some in the hall, with the Palestinian Authority (PA) hailing France’s “historic and courageous” decision, but the session was not attended by the US and Israeli officials dismissed the initiative.
Hello guys, today I wanted to talk about a project I deeply care about and I'm actively contributing to, as I believe its good for everyone, including privacy concerned users
Ladybird Browser
This browser comes from the project "SerenityOS", and has since evolved and separated from it. The founders are Andreas Kling, and Chris Wanstrath. The main goal of this project is to create a browser from scratch, avoiding chromium, gecko, etc. The main keypoints that should be of interest for Privacy Oriented Users are the following:
Ladybird lead (Andreas Kling) states "We're not monetizing users, in any way. This is uncharted territory for browsers. So we're not going to do any default search deals. We're not going to do cryptocurrencies or try to monetize user data, just sponsorships and donations"
While** Ladybird will implement current web standards including cookie handling and tracking mechanisms for compatibility**, the browser's philosophy puts the user in control of these decisions, not the company. The browser won't have built-in incentives to encourage data collection since it doesn't profit from it.
It aims to be "free from advertising's influence" Ladybird, representing a shift away from the current web ecosystem where users like us are the product. This allows the project to implement privacy features without worrying about harming advertising partners or revenue streams.
As of now, the project has hired several developers with money coming from donations, from partners such as FUTO, Shopify, Cloudflare, among many, and is also seeing lots of volunteer activity on github. So well, if you like the web having more diversity and us having another alternative to google, check them outladybird.org/
Pro-Palestine student activists across the country have struggled to get their universities to respond to pressure for divestment from Israel and its military–industrial complex. So when a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology withdrew from a grant from the Israeli military after hearing feedback from students protesting the ongoing genocide in Gaza, it was especially welcome news.
“This is one of the only cases where we know that student activism and public pressure led directly to an Israeli tie being cut, let alone a collaboration with its genocidal military,” said Mila Halgren, a postdoctoral associate at MIT. (The university did not respond to a request for comment.)
MIT has come under internal and public scrutiny for conducting research on warfare technology sponsored by Israel. In July, the United Nations condemned the school for conducting “weapons and surveillance research funded by the Israeli ministry of defense — the only foreign military financing research at the institute.”
That research included projects on drone swarm control — technology which the Israeli military has used during its siege on Gaza — pursuit algorithms, and underwater surveillance.
Pro-Palestine student activists across the country have struggled to get their universities to respond to pressure for divestment from Israel and its military–industrial complex. So when a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology withdrew from a grant from the Israeli military after hearing feedback from students protesting the ongoing genocide in Gaza, it was especially welcome news.
“This is one of the only cases where we know that student activism and public pressure led directly to an Israeli tie being cut, let alone a collaboration with its genocidal military,” said Mila Halgren, a postdoctoral associate at MIT. (The university did not respond to a request for comment.)
MIT has come under internal and public scrutiny for conducting research on warfare technology sponsored by Israel. In July, the United Nations condemned the school for conducting “weapons and surveillance research funded by the Israeli ministry of defense — the only foreign military financing research at the institute.”
That research included projects on drone swarm control — technology which the Israeli military has used during its siege on Gaza — pursuit algorithms, and underwater surveillance.
Hi, as you can from see from my previous posts I installed Linux in all my machines. Now I have a PC with an I5 6500 (with Mint on it) and I'm upgrading the GPU. So, do I just open it put the new one and connect the cables? Or do I have to do some thing first? Thank you for all your help.
You don't need to change drivers strictly, just add the new ones then remove the old ones later. It's just to avoid having issues with display output on your first boot - although you should pretty much always get some video out even without the correct drivers
Really only depends on how new the new GPU is vs. how old the Kernel is.
example: If you're running Debian Stable and trying to put in an RTX 5090, you'll likely have a bad time, since neither the kernel nor Mesa support blackwell on Trixie without backporting.
If you're using a rolling release distro, just update first but you'll probably be fine already. If you're using a point release distro, make sure that release supports your hardware first.
If you're buying some older (but new to you) hardware, you'll probably be fine.
You'll be fine with anything AMD or Intel even on debian stable, since they're both active in developing their linux support, where nVidia doesn't support FOSS drivers.
If you're buying nVidia that new/powerful, you'll be better served by their proprietary drivers you can install - just keep in mind you won't be able to run very recent (and certainly not bleeding edge) kernels with the proprietary nV drivers.
You’ll be fine with anything AMD or Intel even on debian stable, since they’re both active in developing their linux support, where nVidia doesn’t support FOSS drivers.
Not strictly true any more. There are Nvidia open drivers, but they may not be in Debian yet. In fact, Nvidia recommend using the open drivers for cards it supports, which if I recall correctly, is Turing and newer.
You're thinking of firmware, not drivers. To make a GPU work, you need new enough versions of the kernel, driver and firmware. The open source drivers for Nvidia GPUs are still slower and less featureful than the proprietary ones.
As a double check (or check before buying) you can search for your new GPU on linux-hardware.org/ to see if other users have it working without any issues. The hardware probe is also a handy tool to share your PC's specs if you should ever need to do so!
You didn't say which GPU! If it's all AMD, then just replace. That's what I did and everything worked fine. If you're going from AMD to Nvidia, them install the Nvidia drivers first, turn it off, replace, turn back on
Ti piace la liquirizia? Sai che fa bene alla salute? Ma se eccedi e magari manco te ne accorgi, attenti e in maniera anche seria alla tua stessa vita, come accaduto a un signore goloso di questa radice naturale e dall'aspetto innocuo
I spent much of today trying to get WinApps running on NixOS. The VM performance is meh after following all the setup steps in the documentation, and I can't get the RDP part working. I'm not asking for help, which would probably take lots of back and forth commenting. but if I should even try to continue. The steps don't even mention Nix, only how to install dependencies via package managers.
I tried finding videos of Photoshop in WinApps but didn't find any, to see what performance actually looks like. Would it even be decent, or should I just suck it up and do GPU passthrough? Ideally I'd like Photoshop a window part of my linux desktop instead of switching back and forth between OSes. Making something work has been a PITA so far.
Winapps do not make passthrough of GPU or there is no hardware acceleration it rendering in software way only basically if u are using even podman or docker or libvirtd in the end it qemu with windows in which u connect by rdp.
About rdp , 1. make sure that OEM scripts was successful executed in windows ,they should appear at C:\oem 2. Do not forget to clean certificate of freerdp on host system there mention about it on github wiki of winapps 3. Preferable use something like tiny11.iso
The only one I'm aware of requires a GPU with 6Gb of vram, which sadly I do not have, I would very much like a background removal utility that is run locally
The only one I'm aware of requires a GPU with 6Gb of vram, which sadly I do not have, I would very much like a background removal utility that is run locally
You seem to be a bit more advanced than I am, I have only ever used kritas version of smart objects, & perspective distort, but I don't know about the others you mentioned.
Winapps is too slow for gpu-heavy apps, like photoshop actually is.
So I went with Gimp 3. It does everything I need. Gimp 2.10 didn't, but the new version, 3, does. Sure it has quirks: e.g. when selecting a layer with bg transparency, it selects the whole layer (including the empty parts) instead of just the parts that aren't empty -- you need to do layers -> alpha to selection to get the contents. Another one: to get transparency when you delete parts of a layer is to add an alpha channel to that layer (otherwise you get a bg color). But if you learn these few quirks, Gimp does everything photoshop does pretty much.
If you have old PSD files that have adjustment layers or smart objects, pass them via Photopea, and export as TIFF. Then load on Gimp3 and move to that for life.
I'm actually a Photoshop and CSP users that regularly report missing features to Krita and GIMP. Even Krita dev often ask community which featuers they want from CSP. Some example that GIMP and Krita does not have that I remember: - 3D environment (available on CSP and PS) - flexible several document views (only on CSP) - adjustable anchor resize (only on CSP)
A pointed message in Simeon Brown's electorate office window has been covered with placards, as senior doctors lament the lack of New Zealand-trained doctors opting to stay here.
En Nepalo post tumultaj protestoj komence de septembro la ĉefministro kaj pluraj aliaj ministroj demisiis kaj fuĝis. La protestantoj grandparte estis studentoj kaj aliaj junuloj. Inter ili estis pluraj esperantistoj, rakontas Bharat Kumar Ghimire, prezidanto de Nepala Esperanto-Asocio, kiu ankaŭ mem estis surstrate dum la manifestacioj.
We’ve seen this movie before. Or at least our grandparents did. Dictators can’t take a joke.On Feb. 4, 1939 — seven months before their invasion of Poland kicked off World War II — the man with oversight responsibility for German media officially for…
Former Vice President Kamala Harris wrote in her upcoming memoir that the ex-transportation secretary “would have been an ideal partner” for the 2024 ticket.
For years, little was known about how Ice uses Palantir’s technology. The company has consistently described itself as a “data processor” and says it does not play an active role in any of its customers’ data collection efforts or what clients do with that information.
Now, a cache of internal Ice documents – including hundreds of pages of emails between Ice and Palantir, as well as training manuals, and reports on the use of Palantir products – offer some of the first real-world examples of how Ice has used Palantir in its investigations and during on-the-ground enforcement operations.
The documents, which were obtained by immigrant legal rights group Just Futures Law through a Freedom of Information Act request and reviewed by the Guardian, largely cover Palantir’s contract with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the investigative arm of Ice that is responsible for stopping the “illegal movement of people, goods, money, contraband, weapons and sensitive technology”.
Palantir recently won a $30m contract to build the government a new platform called ImmigrationOS that will service Ice branches beyond HSI, and aims to “streamline” the identification and deportation of immigrants. While the documents are largely limited to HSI’s operations, it’s easy to see how the tools could be of use to other branches of Ice.
One document showed that agents could use Falcon to search for people’s names, known locations, vehicles or passport information against Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other federal databases like the Enforcement Integrated Database (EID) – a vast database that holds biometric and personal information on anyone who has been encountered or arrested, detained or deported by any DHS agency – on the go.
In addition to collecting and analyzing field interviews, the agents used Falcon for “blueforce tracking”, a military term for tracking someone’s GPS location. Training documents show Ice agents could also use Falcon to track a person’s location, including their “route and movement”, hour by hour using cell phone tower records.
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in reply to BrikoX • • •Yeah, that resume is on par with recent Mozilla direction...