A year ago, I saw someone open a book lamp in a bar. It was a pretty expensive product. Since I combine electronics and paper crafting, I had to DIY it and develop an easy-to-use circuit template and instructions for it. This educational project is perfect for libraries. Please #retoot Template and instructions are available on my website: voltpaperscissors.com/diybookl…. Feel free to ask any questions. #papercircuit #papercraft #diy #MINT #STEM
I don’t know who needs to hear this but corporations cannot be “furious.” They also cannot be “happy”, “sad”, or gripped by any other emotion because they are not people. Stop anthropomorphising corporations. mastodon.social/@arstechnica/1…
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Apple and Meta furious at EU over fines totaling €700 million
EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M in first Digital Markets Act penalties.
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It would be awesome if the voters in Carleton fired Pierre PoiLIEvre!
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is at risk of losing Carleton riding as the party scrambles to send in volunteers to save the seat he has held since 2004... theglobeandmail.com/politics/a… #ABC #cdnpoli #polcan #elxn45
Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used in the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v)
She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).
So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!
Meta today announced that it is rolling out a new live translation feature to all Ray-Ban Meta glasses users, providing wide access to functionality...
The Web Applications Working Group published UI Events KeyboardEvent key Values and UI Events KeyboardEvent code Values:as W3C Recommendations.
key Values defines the key attribute values that must be used for KeyboardEvent’s key attribute. The code value contains information about the key event that can be used to identify the physical key being pressed by the user.
Question to people doing electronics and other fields using very small units: do you use the name "thou" or "mil" for the unit representing 1⁄1000 inch?
Considering adding this in unit list in @GIMP. Wikipedia seems to say that Thou is more common globally (but North America) and it looks like @FreeCAD (a good reference!) uses "Thou" too.
Yet a reporter insists that "mil" is more common and that "thou" wouldn't be understood by engineers. So which is it? 😄
The ride is coming to an end. The experiment is done. We tried, but we admit defeat. Four years ago we started adding support for an alternative HTTP backend in curl. It would use a library written in rust, called hyper.
In this new release you'll find a new avatar and banner configuration panel, animated GIF support in the picture proxy and some more improvements in the internal color palette management 🎨
Movim is also now supports the XEP-0392: Consistent Color Generation that allows you to have the same default color for your contacts between all the XMPP clients ☺️!
Before 8.13.0, it was not possible to generate them as it required
calling the compiled binary, but this has been fixed.
Forwarding the patch from https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=...
Whose Streets? Our Streets! Photos of NYC Protests, 1980-2000. Documentation of protests over AIDS, abortion rights, police brutality, housing, race, the environment, education, etc. kottke.org/25/04/whose-streets…
PureOS developer Sebastian Krzyszkowiak tackled major package updates, syncing key components from Debian Bookworm and patching PureOS-specific enhancements for devices like the Librem 5.
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
Going to disagree on this one. Having a project that's both useful and popular can achieve a greater good that outweighs the possibility of it being exploited by megacorps. I hope that my own main open-source project (accesskit.dev/) falls into that category; the more popular it is, the more applications are accessible to more people. _Maybe_ I could make some money selling copyleft exceptions, but I'd rather have more accessible apps, as long as I can make a living.
Not only her, stop quoting posts, they appear as links. Practice what you preach, friend. Quoting sucks big time. Most apps still don't support it, so please spare me the whole minute of loading because my curious self needs to look at the link. LOL
Yeah, they appear with what you wrote when you quoted, but not like on twitter, instead, it's a link to the post, so essentially, to a client that doesn't support quoting, which is a lot of them, even Enafore, although it says that we can quote, well, that's just not properly implemented, and whatever you can read over there to you, is because your app lets you, but I don't think the web will.
What's wrong with people spamming the local timeline today? actually it's not just today. A block of tens of posts from the same person posting or reposting articles isn't fun or something people look forward to seeing.
But also, you could've replied to his post instead of spamming me with links. :P Okay, next time better reply instead of sending links into space, is my advice. That way I can both get you in the conversation, and tell you I absolutely agree, and that this is the reason why I am where I am in terms of an instance. :)
Thanks for the feedback, and we're sorry it was so frustrating to find the related Bugzilla bug for this - and we're thankful to everyone who replied here. We'll get this feedback to our support team to see how we could improve this.
SHA1 is only part of the problem. The bigger part is, that the error messages is so vague. There should be a way to view the certificate so people can at least find out themselves why it might be invalid.
Google Pixel Watch's revised Wear OS 5.1 update skips a key feature "...reverts to the original step count algorithm due to issues with the new algorithm. ..." androidpolice.com/google-pixel…
Intel will reportedly fire fully 20% of its workforce and focus on 'engineering', a plan that sounds all too familiar at this point pcgamer.com/hardware/processor…
Here's what really happens when you don't say 'thank you' to ChatGPT — and why I always do "...while it's essential to be mindful of the resources our digital habits consume, preserving the human touch in our interactions with AI are important...." tomsguide.com/ai/heres-what-re…
This is bullshit from someone who doesn't treat LLMs as tools. If you want them to interpret your asks and respond in a certain way, put that context in the system prompt and stop wasting tokens.
Saying "You act as though I always say please" is just as effective as actually saying it. Saying you want bullet points, or headed paragraphs, or responses without visual references, or whatever is even better. Not valuing politeness from a computer is even better than all of that.
I think the "valuing politeness" comes more from getting a greater effective output through it than otherwise, which isn't changing the core principle of LLMs: Since human data showed them that passages with polite dialog exert greater effort from the participant, it's likely that bias has now largely creeped into the average dataset of the models themselves. It's valid though to consider how this changes when applied to the prompt directly, as it least avoids repetition and can keep the positive sentiment the same rather than varying it across them.
The cool thing about this game is that there's a ton of user-made tilesets for it that have been preserved on old BBS-shovelware CDs. And it's all this lovely amateur pixelart so naturally I gotta collect it.
it turns out they're a 6-byte header and then they're a 48x60 image, but they're vertically planar: The first row is the least significant bit, fourth row is the most significant bit, and so on.
This indexes into the palette, which is stored in PAL.CFG
mass-processing, I found a corrupted one! This is supposed to be "People on TV #2", but it crashes VIEWTILE (and my converter). Works in MJVGA31, but it does crash when you exit.
I noticed a bug in our binutils port that had been generating semi-randomly broken branch relaxation trampolines for decades.
Why did it take so long to notice this code generation bug? The branch has to reach farther than +-32MB for the branch relaxation trampoline generation to kick in. And even then not all branches were affected (the type of relocation affected it, it had to be in a link library in a specific kind of segment and not in the beginning of it). Finally, for it to actually come into play, the branch had to actually be taken, too.
What did it do wrong then? It added the offset to the target function in the link library .text segment twice. So instead of jumping to the intended function it jumped somewhere random after that. Funnily, the jump might end up hitting some code that did not crash, but did something unintended. For you all non-developer peeps: That is very, very bad.
Fun features of this bug: Since whether the trampoline was generated or not depended on the order of object code and from where the affected call was being made, the bug would pop in and out of existence even on the smallest changes to the code or link libraries. If you know a thing about debugging, this is not very conducive to locating bugs.
Needless to say this one took a lot of head scratching to finally figure out. The fix was a change on a single line.
This bug was old enough to get into bars and drink alcohol legally.
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The feeling when you notice a bug in your binutils port that has been generating semi-randomly broken branch relaxation trampolines for decades.
#programming #coding #oops
With Andor s2 about to drop, it's good to keep in mind that in spite of popular assumptions, the Galactic Empire isn't based on the Nazis. George Lucas was very explicit that it's in fact supposed to represent the United States.
LibreOffice had two major updates in 2024 with many improvements and fixes. Learn more from The Document Foundation's Annual Report: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
In 2024, LibreOffice celebrated its fourteenth birthday. Two new major versions of the suite introduced a variety of new features, while minor releases helped to improve stability as well (This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2…
I have a friend that has one because of my influence. I really like it, but I am waiting for the Librem 16. Primarily, because I am hoping for a keyboard with the right shift button that is the right size and in the right spot.
Did you catch the recent ACB Vispero Presentation - Manage Windows 11 notifications with JAWS? In case you missed it, the archive is now available: acb-community.pinecast.co/epis…
A cracked phone screen doesn't mean you need a new phone! Instead, choose #repair or refurbishment—it's better for your wallet, and the planet.
Repairing will refresh your device, but when you do replace it, remember to trade it in to somewhere like Back Market. Instead of ending up in a landfill, it'll find a new home in someone else's pocket (and put some money in yours!). This enables phones to stay in use for 10 years, saving cost and energy.
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