Oh look, History Today is taking us on a thrilling ride down the Swahili highway!
Apparently, Swahili didn't just trip and fall into being East Africa's lingua franca—who knew languages didn't grow on trees?
Stay tuned for more groundbreaking revelations only 2 years too late!
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/behind-times/swahili-road #HistoryToday #SwahiliLanguage #EastAfrica #Linguistics #ThrillingRide #HackerNews #ngated
DOJ goes after US citizen for developing anti-ICE app
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/07/07/doj-goes-after-us-citizen-for-developing-anti-ice-app
Poland's clean energy usage overtakes coal for first time
https://www.ft.com/content/ae920241-597e-49d9-a4b9-bfdfa9deabb6
Swedish Campground: "There are too many Apples on the screen!" (1983)
https://www.folklore.org/Swedish_Campground.html
#HackerNews #SwedishCampground #Apples #1983 #TechHistory #RetroComputing #Folklore
Always fun to read #hackerNews and their rather ... let's call it ... qualitatively exceedingly disappointing mentality towards #accessibility (stroopwafel to the dutchies who see what i did there). But some points do make me think to what degree, say, #screenReaders could be innovating more.
One thing that stuck by me was a comment on an article regarding the use of "click here" that basically suggested some kind of heuristic for, say, reading the entire line of text when that's encountered, rather than the link text. Another one could be including the previous sibling's accessible name on unlabeled form fields which I ...think? JAWS might already be doing?
Like obviously these should be toggleable to not screw up audits but I think after 30 years we can safely say people often can't be forked to learn #HTML basics and it might make some things smoother?
https://www.europesays.com/2216591/ Google Ordered to Pay $314M for Misusing Android Users’ Cellular Data Without Permission #ComputerSecurity #CyberAttacks #CyberNews #CyberSecurityNews #CyberSecurityNewsToday #CyberSecurityUpdates #CyberUpdates #Data #DataBreach #HackerNews #HackingNews #HowToHack #InformationSecurity #NetworkSecurity #RansomwareMalware #SoftwareVulnerability #TheHackerNews
https://www.europesays.com/2214207/ Over 40 Malicious Firefox Extensions Target Cryptocurrency Wallets, Stealing User Assets #ComputerSecurity #crypto #cryptocurrency #CyberAttacks #CyberNews #CyberSecurityNews #CyberSecurityNewsToday #CyberSecurityUpdates #CyberUpdates #DataBreach #HackerNews #HackingNews #HowToHack #InformationSecurity #NetworkSecurity #RansomwareMalware #SoftwareVulnerability #TheHackerNews
Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44448868
#hackernews #tech
@Treppenwitz I like to ask it to provide the top ten articles on #HackerNews in the past week with summaries of any interesting information discussed in the comments.
ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44445180
#hackernews #tech
Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews
There Are No New Ideas in AI Only New Datasets - https://blog.jxmo.io/p/there-are-no-new-ideas-in-ai-only
"Ransomware's Kryptonite: A Russian Keyboard!" Because, clearly, the secret to global #cybersecurity was hiding under your language settings all along. Who knew the world's most notorious hackers have a soft spot for Cyrillic characters?
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick-russian-hackers-hate/ #Ransomware #RussianKeyboard #HackerHumor #LanguageSettings #HackerNews #ngated
Many ransomware strains will abort if they detect a Russian keyboard installed
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick-russian-hackers-hate/
Ah yes, because what the world really needs right now is an epic quest to perfect the art of virtual river flow.
Forget climate change or world peace, let's focus on mapping fictional water patterns with the precision of a Swiss watchmaker.
https://undiscoveredworlds.blogspot.com/2025/04/improving-river-simulation.html #virtualriverflow #epicquest #climatechange #watermapping #fictionalpatterns #HackerNews #ngated