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NotebookLM Audio Overviews are now available in over 50 languages
Link: https://blog.google/technology/google-labs/notebooklm-audio-overviews-50-languages/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43848325
被吵醒後邊呼嚕邊吸手指，超勾錐
サイゴン陥落/解放から50周年だそうです。BBCでは「サイゴンに戦車が到着した」みたいな表現してたな。
サイゴン陥落 - Wikipedia
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B4%E3%83%B3%E9%99%A5%E8%90%BD
Ford flipped the switch which he saw was now marked "Mode Execute Ready," instead of the now old-fashioned "Access Standby," which had so long ago replaced the appallingly stone-aged "Off". - Douglas Adams, 1984.
Chinese national arrested near voting agency in Manila - Taipei Times
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2025/05/01/2003836120
Has anyone made a 
@penpotPenpot 
template for fedi mobile apps yet? Or god forbid a Figma template I could convert?
@maikekMaike yes, I get that!
BSDCan 2025 is June 13-14, with tutorials 11-12. This year we've got great talks, a great keynote, and great food. Register at https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/05/liberating-out-of-copyright-photos-from-smartframes-drm/
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During the middle of the 20th Century, the UK's Royal Air Force took thousands of photographs of the country from above. Think of it like a primitive Google Earth.
Those photographs are "Crown Copyright". For photographs created before 1st June 1957, the copyright expires after 50 years.
Recently, the organisation "Historic England" started sharing high-resolution copies of these photos on a nifty interactive map.
But there were two problems.
Firstly, they claimed that the photographs were still under copyright. This (no doubt inadvertent) mistake was pointed out to them and was eventually corrected.
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
It seems that, without announcement, @HistoricEngland have dropped the claim that copyright-expired pre-June 1957 RAF images are still in copyright, from their Aerial Photo Explorer pic.x.com/uceK7qzQxd
The second, and to my mind more troubling, problem is that the photos were "protected" using SmartFrame's Digital Restrictions Management.
SmartFrame has some useful features - it allows for high-resolution photos to be loaded "zoomed out" in lower resolution. The user can then zoom in on a portion which then gets loaded as higher resolution. That's it really. SmartFrame's main selling point is that it "brings robust image control". AKA, it uses DRM to prevent users from downloading images.
It also promises "Complete image protection". This is nonsense. If you transmit an image to a user, the user can copy that image.
Here's how easy it is to download the images which SmartFrame claims to protect.
The obvious flaw in SmartFrame is that users can take screenshots of the high-resolution image. Zoom in, screenshot, pan left, another screenshot, repeat.
Of course, stitching together all those images is a bit of a pain. But perfectly possible to automate if you wanted to.
The way SmartFrame works is by loading small "chunks" of the image and then drawing then on a <canvas> element.
In your browser's network inspector, you'll see each 256x256 sub-image loading.
The images are not encrypted, so they can be saved directly. Again, it is a manual and tedious process to scrape them all and then stitch them together.
Inspecting the network requests shows that they all use the same Accept Header of authorization/wndeym9ajvin,*/* - that appears to be common across multiple SmartFrame instances. Bad form of them to reuse that key!
It's fairly easy to download anything drawn onto a <canvas> element by running:
JavaScript
var c = document.getElementsByClassName("stage") c[0].toDataURL()
However, SmartFrame have overloaded the .toDataURL() function - so it produces a warning when you try that. It's simple enough to disable their JS once the image has loaded.
Of course, the <canvas> is smaller than the full resolution image - so you may need to manually increase its size first.
It's also possible to simply right-click on the <canvas> in the inspector and copy the Base64 representation of the image:
I am indebted to Stuart Langridge for connecting all the dots. He has written and fully documented some code which is, essentially:
It looks something like this:
var container = document.querySelector("div.articlePage.container");container.style.width="6000px";container.style.maxWidth="6000px";setTimeout(()=>{ var stage = document.querySelector("canvas.stage"); var url = document.createElement("canvas").toDataURL.call(stage); var a = document.createElement("a"); a.href = url; a.download = "liberated.png"; a.click();}, 3000);
And that's it. A user can paste a dozen lines of Javascript into their browser's console and get a full-resolution PNG.
This technique should only be used to download images which are free of copyright restrictions.
Companies should be careful before buying a DRM solution and ensure that it is fit for purpose. SmartFrame really isn't suitable as sold. Despite its grandiose claims of "Super-strong encryption" and "Multi-layered theft-prevention" - it took less than weekend to bypass.
It is possible that SmartFrame will update their systems to defeat this particular flaw. But, thankfully, DRM can never work effectively. You can't give users a locked box and a key - then expect them to only unlock the box under the "right" circumstances.As Bruce Schneier once said:
trying to make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet.
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We need your help, the future of the OSU Open Source Lab is in jeopardy
Royal Mail takeover approved by shareholders
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4v5w1xd80o?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business 
@business-BBCNewsBusiness
special mention to #mitra for having both an openapi spec and a changelog where you can see how it's changed by release version
RE: https://mastodon.social/@reiver/114393060057611899
An update on the short-form documentary series I am working on with 
@Soel79 and 
@ShinComicsShin
Myself, @Soel79 , and @ShinComicsShin are also characters in this animation.
Here is an early sketch of Shin trying to create an anime version of me.
Imagine a publishing house with the mission of making knowledge and insights available to everybody for free, while ensuring high standards.
Well, the three universities of Berlin and the Charité have now joined forces to do just that.
They founded "Berlin Universities Publishing". Neither authors not readers pay. The pdf of books are freely available under a Creative Commons licence.
It's called "Diamond Open Access". They're just starting up. Much more to come.
매춘을 개인의 도덕성 헤이 탓으로 생각하는 분이 있다면, 꼭 읽어보세요. 어떻게 우리 사회가 돈을 위해 여성의 성(性)을 약탈하는지에 관한 책입니다.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gllsqgrfj3lz4mjz3t3gj7wp/post/3lnzzsbptgs2u
Hey Apple. Sort your fucking house out. I just got a notification summary that ‘Dad had another stroke’ when he hadn’t (he’s had a stroke before so there was a small reference in the message).
Naturally I shit my pants and tapped on the message straight away so wasn’t able to get a screen grab.
The missteps that led to a fatal plane crash at Reagan National Airport
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/business/dc-plane-crash-reagan-airport.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43817000
I'm still looking for a general "web development" podcast.
One that talks about new CSS or browser features, touches on PHP and JavaScript and Docker and AWS. Doesn't need to be evergreen, just "what's caught our attention".
Anyone know of one? If not, do I need to start one 🤔?
ジャンキーナイトタウンオーケストラ - ウォルピスカーター (ひとのうた)
#NowPlaying
who wants to go on a date tomorrow?
oh i don't mean with me. i don't wanna
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A bunch of tech CEOs are talking about being “AI-first”, the latest in a series of CEO fads like “return to office”, “founder mode” and “pivot to full fascism”. This one’s weird, though, because it only makes sense if… none of their workers are great at their jobs. https://www.anildash.com//2025/04/19/ai-first-is-the-new-return-to-office/
@anildash I feel that a lot of mangement fads are driven by the fact that most companies simply don't understand how to manage or train workers, and so they love gimmicks that allow them to work around that inability instead of addressing it.
Even the old "10x engineer" thing is a manifestation of this. Tech cos want people who self-manage (because they don't know how to manage) and can take on so much work they don't need to collaborate (because the workplace is bad at enabling collaboration).
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I posted the same thing on both Bluesky and Mastodon where I have 3,578 and 3,404 followers, respectively. The posts were done Apr 28 in the afternoon. The engagement levels were (Bluesky vs. Mastodon):
- 1 vs. 0 comments
- 2 vs. 0 reshares
- 15 vs. 8 likes/favourites
With so many social programs being cut right now, and so many people in need, I'm changing up my sticker program a little.
You can still get one of my stickers, but I'm now *requiring* that folks donate to a food bank or similar. I'll still send you one at no cost with proof of donation!
We all need to pitch in if we're going to get through this together.
Anything better price/performance ratio wise for 2TB NVMe's in a T3 enclosure than the 990 Pro or 850x? Haven't been paying attention to what's good these days.
oHo
japanese domain instance name
work with your manager to get promoted
Permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/work-with-manager-promoted/
Så er der 1. Maj i morgen!
I kan få fingre i vores ny optrykte plakater og klistermærker til 
@antifascistisk1maj , i 
@FraelsisfylkingFrælsisfylking Anarkistanna 's bod og muligvis flere boder.
I svendborg kan du få fat i dem til 1. Maj på torvet i Svendborg, 1. Maj i Ulbølle og Socialistisk 1. maj fest hos Enhedslisten.
Se https://dukop.dk for alle 1. Maj events.
God kamp dag!
I'm still looking for a general "web development" podcast.
One that talks about new CSS or browser features, touches on PHP and JavaScript and Docker and AWS. Doesn't need to be evergreen, just "what's caught our attention".
Anyone know of one? If not, do I need to start one 🤔?
Ever wonder what those numbers after command names were, as in cat(1)? It's
the section of the manual the man page is in. "man man" will tell you more.
-- David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com>
Simplest backpropagation explainer without chain rule https://lobste.rs/s/jlk3iz #ai
https://poonai.xyz/posts/simplest-backpropagation-explainer-without-chain-rule/
The 
@osuoslOSU Open Source Lab asked for help with funding to keep services going. They power hundreds of open source projects (
@openstreetmap, CensusReporter, Debian, Sqlite, etc.) by providing free or low-cost co-location, VMs, storage, distributed mirroring, and more. They give experience to students at OSU, who help maintain the hardware and systems we all rely on.
They are a vital piece of the open source world, and need some ideas for funding. If something comes to mind, reach out and I will pass it along.
Ted Cruz has never been what you would call a "looker."
But man oh man
Out of curiosity: Developers, do you have a favourite type provided by the standard library of your preferred language? And if yes, why...? 
🚨 
The work of @osuoslOSU Open Source Lab is at risk as US academic funding faces historic challenges. The Lab hosts infra for over 1000 #FOSS projects, and uses the opportunity to train students in critical #DevOps skills. Nothing comes close to the value that OSL provides the global #OpenSource community.
If you or your employer can help support this critical work, check their website for donation and contact info.
Zerstört Trump die US-Demokratie? Experten ziehen Bilanz
Die Demokratie in den USA ist in Gefahr - das sagt die Mehrheit von Hunderten US-Politologen. Manche sprechen vom Abgleiten in den Autoritarismus. Doch einige bescheinigen Trump nach 100 Tagen im Amt Erfolg. Von Ralf Borchard.
換床單搗亂者
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📝 I find it ironic that the web platform has such a strong ethos of "no breaking changes” but the tools we use to build on top of the web are like "BREAKING CHANGE ALL THE THINGS”
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/backwards-compat-in-web-but-not-its-tools/
The next Conference Chats Discord call is two days from now (Friday, May 2nd at 1:00PM US/Eastern time). Looking to connect with conference, meetup, and other community organizers? Check out the website at https://www.conferencechats.org for more information and the invite link.
@maikekMaike There are a lot of female characters, but the main character is always male, and the primary interactions are main character -> non-player character, so there's not a lot of interaction between NPCs. I think there are a couple of parent-child relationships, but their interactions are largely mediated through the player!
MJ+
Sara Joy 
Glyph
Darius Kazemi
Stefano Marinelli
Olivier Forget
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