📆 20 May 2026 - tomorrow!

"What's the Deal With Human Rights and Technical Standards?" by @torgo at Open Source Summit North America in Minneapolis, MN, USA 🇺🇸

In this talk Dan Appelquist, Open Source Strategist at Samsung, will seek explore the relationship between technical standards and human rights, and focus on what we're doing in W3C to further the goal of supporting human rights.
#TechnicalStandards #HumanRights #OSSummit #WebStandards
https://www.w3.org/events/talks/2026/whats-the-deal-with-human-rights-and-technical-standards/

Pretty sure this is the handbook given to all MAGA political candidates.

It is *quite* funny that Britain is once again talking about Brexit and rejoining the EU. Don't get me wrong - I am in favour of it - but it's not like we didn't behave appallingly at the EU Christmas party, embarrassing ourselves and everybody else and then loudly proclaiming we're leaving before being sick on the hosts, tripping over and smashing face first into the door, taking a decade to find our way out only to realise we'd soiled ourselves, didn't know where we were, were hungry and didn't have any money and now we're at the window peering in shouting that we might consider coming back into the party if you're lucky, whilst the other guests look on, horrified, as they move to surreptitiously deadbolt the door.

Saved you a click:

1) infinite money
2) asshole

good news: #funk goes #Fediverse mit einer eigenen #Maston Instanz. bald social.funk.net
sagen @mervelous und @remrow auf der #rp26

Today's #Muppets GIF of the Day is...

Colonization of Venus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venus

#HackerNews #Colonization #Venus #Space #Exploration #Future #Technology #Science #Fiction

In this free lesson from JavaScript for Everyone, @Wilto guides us through the intricacies of asynchronous functions, restitching the fabric of time in the process.

https://piccalilli.link/js4e-free-lesson-quote-6

@cstross There's another Laundry file writhing to be free, isn't there?

La démo de Prerolled de @qaqelol est sortie sur Steam !!

Allez l’essayer et mettre le jeu dans votre wishlist please ❤️❤️

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4476380/Prerolled_Demo/

The web is designed to work for all people, whatever their device, language, location, or ability. When the web meets this goal, it is accessible to people with a diverse range of hearing, movement, sight, and cognitive ability.

W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) develops strategies, standards, and resources to make the web accessible to people with disabilities.

Support W3C's work to make the web work — for everyone.
https://www.w3.org/support-us/
#GAAD #GivingTuesday #WebStandards #a11y

"Far, far away, something that looked like a little star was shining."

💫 3, 2, 1...💫

#art #tech #technology #painting

Microsoft’s Legacy MSHTA Utility Tool Abused in Attacks, Exploited to Deliver Malware

Bitdefender has released new research documenting how attackers continue to abuse Microsoft's legacy MSHTA utility to deliver malware through stealthy, multi-stage attack chains. The abuse of MSHTA affects both businesses and consumers who run Windows. Despite Internet Explorer reaching end of support years ago, MSHTA remains enabled by default on Windows systems and continues to be…

https://itnerd.blog/2026/05/19/microsofts-legacy-mshta-utility-tool-abused-in-attacks-exploited-to-deliver-malware/

Apple is realizing real business benefits as it builds a circular manufacturing process across the company. Manufactured using recycled materials and renewable energy, the popular new MacBook Neo illustrates this.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4172401/how-apple-turned-circular-manufacturing-into-a-competitive-edge.html

Yay! I just learned that there's a Speech to Text feature in #HomeAssistant that avoids the need for #LLMs to provide #VoiceControl

And it works on very lightweight hardware, using older technology where you train the system to recognise certain phrases.

This makes it super cheap (£0!) and much easier to setup. Also predictable (it either does that you want or does nothing), and all downsides of an #LLM are avoided.

See: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/02/13/voice-chapter-9-speech-to-phrase/

STREAMERS BEWARE: You might know that Google doxxes your location in the page footer. Turns out the AI Overview can also do it. It just had it randomly tell me where I live.

If you use UBlock to block it, you need to block the footer AND the entire AI box!

Spain has just logged its hottest April on record, with the average temperature reaching 15.1°C, following its wettest January and February in 47 years.

New preprint: "A Framework for Reproducible AI-Assisted Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences"
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/xdtqh_v1
#reproducibility #metascience #openscience

Digitate Recognized as Solutions Partner with Certified Software Designation from Microsoft

Digitate today announced it has received the Solutions Partner* with certified software designation** for Azure within the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program (MAICPP). This designation recognizes software that delivers proven value for enterprise customers, reinforcing Digitate’s ignio platform as a trusted platform for real-world outcomes on Azure and across the Microsoft Cloud…

https://itnerd.blog/2026/05/19/digitate-recognized-as-solutions-partner-with-certified-software-designation-from-microsoft/