At #Zürich #Zurich airport #ZRH apparently they require a boarding pass OR your passport just to connect to the so called "free WiFi".
Passport data just to use a #WiFi? What is next? ID check to post something on Instagram?
Come on, a WiFi is a commodity like a power socket. The whole useless infrastructure with those kiosks, connection to boarding pass validators and the printer to print out vouchers - and this in 2025.
@hub That doesn't make it better. Boston Logan International: One redirect page with ONE CHECKBOX literally asking you to not do something illegal. That's all. Same at Frankfurt airport.
Do I miss some harsh Swiss regulation which is responsible for it?
many EU countries require authentication for "public" wifi. Similarly many require ID to obtain a SIM card. Germany and France for the one I experienced. Burner phones (SIM) are literally illegal.
They might have GDPR, but they surely have more strings attached.
Yo estudiaba español cuando yo era joven, entonces necistaba buscar la definición de la frasa “lámpara de lupa”. (yo conocía la palabra “lámpara”, por supesto.)
¡Pero, sí, necisito la misma!
También: Claro que necisito estudiar “español por los viejos” ahora.
I got to talk to a packed room of normal (non technical people) at the local library about how important it is to upcycle computers, and how Linux can save the world in this respect.
Thanks to all the people who showed up, supported, donated laptops and listened. We even gave away 9 free laptops at the event.
Library said it was the most well attended event they've had! So will be many more of these in the future. :)
@Mimikama Ⓜ @cptn3m0 Was ist an meiner Frage fordernd? Ich versuche grundsätzlich, zugewandt und klar zu formulieren.
Zu meiner Frage: Wenn das Menü den Text überdeckt, ist das ganz schlecht, weil ich den Inhalt dann nicht lesen kann. Ich finde auch keine Möglichkeit, das Menü einzuklappen.
I read every word of the Gabbard Files so you don’t have to. The arguments — when compared to the evidence, timelines, 3 prior investigations, and 3 prior meta-investigations — indicate either breathtakingly bad faith or astonishingly low reading comprehension. You decide.
A Northwest Detroit woman who runs a front yard food pantry has been overwhelmed with donations after the community learned of her struggle to meet growing c...
Ok, VOLlama 0.6.0 finally supports speech via screen reader on Windows only. I changed to NSSpeechSynthesizer on Mac which means you can use default voice set in the system settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content. github.com/chigkim/VOLlama/rel… @danestange @mcourcel @FreakyFwoof @pixelate
@phnt Basically what I'm learning from this is that people who are most vocal about these AI models not getting things correct with seemingly basic requests have never hired a tradesman to do a task. Talk to any general contractor and they will tell you hilarious stories where they've had to have work ripped out and redone because it wasn't done right.
* New reporting flow * Improved image editor * Support for onion services * Dialog to not lose poll that's being created * New UnifiedPush connector * Technical improvements (16KB page size)
Fixes: * Sometimes wrong thread would open * Layout tweaks * Harder to lose a draft when switching apps
I thought the wrong thread opening was just me not tapping the right spot! I should have checked the bugs to see if it was just me. I will especially enjoy this release!
Cleaning up my home office, and managed to find my old DS in a box of unused/extra cables; don’t even know why it ended up there. I thought I lost it when our house got burglarised nearly ten years ago.
the 2nd hand market for DS games is thriving. Pokémon games, especially, hold their value. We got the eldest kiddo a DS to play GBA and DS era Pokémon games. They are baffled by how much more effort GBA Pokémon games take.
What do you mean only the Pokémon involved in the battle get xp?
Among currently available ARM64 single-board computers, which one has the simplest and most fully open boot process? The Raspberry Pi family has boot handled by the VideoCore, a whole other processor running its own RTOS during and after boot. Other ARM64 boards, like the Rockchip RK3566-based Quartz64 that I own, have a Rockchip version of ARM Trusted Firmware (which IIUC runs continuously at a higher privilege level) as a blob. Is there any ARM64 board that avoids both of these?
(Their website is a database about single-board computers, although from a quick check I couldn't find specifics on open boot processes hackerboards.com/ )
I'm a month late but: Rockchip RK3399 (e.g. Pine64 ROCKPro64) has zero blobs. As in, both DDR init and ATF are open (former in mainline u-boot, latter in mainline ATF).
RK3588 (e.g. Radxa ROCK 5B+) has open mainline ATF, but closed DDR init (runs once at boot) at the moment.
K3576 (e.g. Radxa ROCK 4D) also has open mainline ATF, but closed DDR init.
RK3566 *does* have something in ATF but I've heard it has problems. Closed DDR init as well though.
So far, I have updated: 9 physical machines (including 7 Raspberry Pis running #Debian, not Raspbian), 23 Docker containers running full Debian including cron, systemd, and the usual services (thanks to my salsa.debian.org/jgoerzen/dock… ), and one other VM, for a total of 33 installations upgraded.
Yet to be done: 3 servers in the cloud, 3 laptops, and a Raspberry Pi 400 that's my daughter's computer.
In light of my thread about my response to my niece wanting an iPad, I'm interested to read that your daughter's computer is a Raspberry Pi 400. Has she ever complained that you gave her that rather than an iPad or a laptop? (As I understand it, the Pi 400 is a desktop.)
@matt Not at all! Our rules were going to be using it only at one location anyhow at her age. She is excited to have her very own computer and keyboard. This was an upgrade from an ancient Athlon64 machine she'd been using (my workstation from about 23 years ago; 512MB RAM, PS/2 connectors, and so forth). We try to delay electronics that go everywhere and have all sorts of notifications and such, in general.
New #GNOME app release! Just a tiny one, based on the idea from a few weeks ago ( mastodon.social/@pojntfx/11491… ). A nice skeumorphic Pomodoro timer, except you get to set the session and pause durations yourself (which happens to be the way I use my physical Pomodoro timer).
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Would anyone be interested in a "skeumorphic" Pomodoro timer for GNOME? I have one of those nice physical analog Pomodoro timers and I kind of wish an app version would emulate it (pause button on the top, drag to set your time etc…
How to make a portable coppy of NVDA, if you ever need too. Hope this guide is helpful to new users, or folks who didn't know this was possible. And the good news is, you can make as menny of these as you want! If i want one, i make one. Thats the beauty of this, in my opinion. No lisins, no money involved, just having the ability to run this portably has been an absolute lifesaver for me.
If you're planning on using these as serious reference tools for newbies, I'd make a few changes. Firstly, there's a great nubmer of background sounds from other open apps you have running that sometimes make it difficult to hear what you're saying. There's a lot of background hiss under your voice, which might benefit from being toned down if possible. Mike is quite robotic to modern audiences, so I'd recommend changing him or at least slowing him down.
In terms of this specific recording, writing to the root of the c drive isn't always recommended, and the fact you're doing it in a VM just adds tremendous confusion to anyone learning about these things, and your repeated references to bad crashes don't really enspire confidence adnd talking about your USB's from before only mean something if you're a regular listener. And it's generally bad practice to show something that doesnt work. Like, if you tick the box to keep your config and for whatever reason that didn't work, you probably don't want to show that as typical behaviour. The repeated shitting isn't overly professional, either. I bring these up not to complain, but to query the future. If you're doing it for your regular audience who're already familiar with what you're doing, that's fine. If you're making something for people wanting to learn something new, you might want to adjust your approach slightly.
@cachondo Yeah, i could figure out something. My comp's mic is also garbidge, and maybe Blue shouldn't be running. My issue is, it's like a ruteen to load it up, the second i start my computer. The most natural sounding voices i have are Blastbay, i just need to remember to switch before recording. I am also gonna see if i can get a better mic, as my AC can be heard. Thank you, and i will figure something out.
Oh dear. The wife's birthday on Tuesday and it would of course be the hottest day of the week. She's never liked it above 20, and being heavily pregnant is not helping...
Canva ist ein Software Programm, mit dem Flyer o. ä. gestaltet werden können. Bei Interesse bitte bei Alexandra Bosch, alexandra.bosch@drs.de melden. Weiterlesen
Soweit ich erinnere verkauft #Canva, bzw. die Firma dahinter, nicht nur Daten, sondern kauft auch bei Dritten ein um zu verknüpfen.
Und war es nicht auch so, dass man an den erstellten Produkten keine eigenen Rechte mehr hat, auch für den eigenen Content, den man einbringt, oder z.B. in der Gemeindearbeit dann von anderen (Content von Veranstaltungen z.B.)?
Dazu würde mich der aktuelle Stand und eine Einschätzung/ Korrektur meines Verständnisses intetessieren.
A contact just told me that my old "LLMs generate nonsense code" blog post from 2 years ago is now very outdated with GPT5 because it's so awesome and so helpful. So I asked him to give it a test for me, and asked it my favorite test question based on a use-case I had myself recently:
Without adding third-party dependencies, how can I compress a Data stream with zstd in Swift on an iPhone?
Very confident, very bold, even claims "Works on iOS 16+".
Problem with that: Just like any other LLM I've tested that provided similar responses, it is - excuse my language but I need to use it - absolute horseshit. No version of any Apple SDK ever supported or supports ZSTD (see developer.apple.com/documentat… for a real piece of knowledge). It was never there. Not even in private code. Not even as a mention of "things we might do in the future" on some developer event. It fundamentally does not exist. It's completely made up nonsense.
This concludes all the testing for GPT5 I have to do. If a tool is able to actively mislead me this easy, which potentially results in me wasting significant amounts of time in trying to make something work that is guaranteed to never work, it's a useless tool. I don't like collaborating with chronic liars who aren't able to openly point out knowledge gaps, so I'm also not interested in burning resources for a LLM that does the same.
You didn't prompt it correctly. Even ChatGPT 4 gets it right:
"Without adding third-party dependencies, can I compress a Data stream with zstd in Swift on an iPhone?
Do not make up any answers. Use the real iOS developer documentation as your reference."
Then it explains that ZSTD isn't supported and tells you everything that is supported in great detail
It's your job to establish the rules. Your example is like telling a student to write a 500 word essay on George Washington, but not that they have to cite their sources and then getting flabbergasted when they tell you he was 6 foot 8 and weighed a ton
Because it already happened: if you read my post and you feel an urge to respond with something along the lines of "it's just a hallucination", "it's just a bug", "it will be better in ChatGPT 6", or anything even close into that direction, please stop. Read this post and the next post, think about them, and if you have a factual argument to respond to me, only then reply. Focus on my factual claims, not on some inaccuracies in my analogy because of course it's not 100% accurate, that's the nature of analogies.
ChatGPT making up ZSTD compression in the Compression framework is not a bug. It's not even a weird edge-case. ChatGPT is doing exactly what it is designed to do. Let me try to explain.
If we grossly oversimplify what an LLM is, it's "just a statistical model" that generates "language" based on a chain of "what is most likely to follow the previous phrase". "language" can be anything: it can be human language, a fictional language, but it also can be code or even genetic information. Any kind of textual thing that you can feed large amounts of into a model works. "Not having an answer" is not a possibility in this system - there's always "a most likely response", even if that makes no sense.
ChatGPT inventing ZSTD compression in the Compression framework isn't due to a lack of training data. If you request an overview over all compression algorithms supported, it answers correctly with a comprehensive list that does not include ZSTD. So, if you want to anthropomorphize ChatGPT, you could say "it knows that ZSTD isn't supported", but that doesn't matter. LLMs do not possess the ability of logical thinking, deductive reasoning, or anything else. "It knows" that there are a bunch of compression algorithms available, the constants are all called COMPRESSION_[method], so there's a high likelihood of COMPRESSION_ZSTD to be the answer to a user asking for ZSTD compression in Swift. And so it generates that.
The only way ChatGPT will stop spreading that nonsense is if there is a significant mass of humans talking online about the lack of ZSTD support. For example a bunch of StackOverflow questions asking "How do I do this?" and people responding "you don't, Apple doesn't support it, you have to use third-party libraries" - or if you have a bunch of white dudes working in tech complaining on social media about Apple not supporting ZSTD in the Compression Framework.
My next post will be an attempt at comparing human thinking and LLMs generating text. As mentioned earlier, it's an analogy - and it's not going to be 100% accurate. If you want to reply, focus on the factual claims. If you only want to nit-pick my analogy, I have to assume you're not interested in productive argumentation.
Let's imagine you're colorblind. The kind of colorblindness that only allows you to see grayscale - no colors at all - but everything else is fine.
You're stressed and need fidget toy - so a friend hands you a ball, roughly filling your hand. It's hard, but somewhat squishy, and has a weird fabric-like, furry texture. You now want to know what color that ball is. But, well, you're colorblind, and your friend already disappeared and isn't reachable - probably riding a Deutsche Bahn train or something.
So you take a picture and post it to a "what color is this?" subreddit. Seems reasonable. You get 200 responses - 198 of them say "it's yellow", two of them say "it's pink". A few people helpfully say it's a "tennis ball". That's helpful, because even the Wikipedia article states that only yellow and white tennis balls are officially approved colors. Sweet.
A few days later, a random person approaches you and says "wow, cool ball - what color is it?" and you say "yellow!". Alright, end of the chat. A LLM would do exactly the same - given the "yellow" responses far outnumbered the "pink" responses, your ball is probably yellow. Ball==yellow is something both you and the LLM "learned". A few weeks after that, another friend asks you "ALice has a ball, too! Do you know which color her ball is?" - and now it gets interesting.
The LLM would immediately say "yellow". Of course it would. It makes sense. Yellow is the most likely response to that question.
But you're not an LLM - you're a human, and your brain is cool. Instead of saying "yellow", you respond "huh I don't actually know that? My ball is yellow, maybe she has a similar ball. But it could also be that she has a completely different ball that might a different color! Also, lol, I'm colorblind, so I can't really answer that anyway - you should ask Alice." And now, your brain is already doing better than any LLM. Your logical thinking engine already realized that you don't actually know something, and you're honest enough to just say that. Your job isn't to be a ball color guesser, you're just a person.
Wait, it's gets more fun! A few weeks after that, you hang out with me. You hand me your ball, and say "hey look at my cool yellow ball!". Oddly enough, my reaction is "huh? this ball isn't yellow, it's a pink tennis ball..." and now things get funky. If you were an LLM, you would either insist that no, your ball is absolutely yellow - or you'd come up with some kind of "oh, sorry for the misunderstanding - it's pink, you're correct", almost implying that my definition of color is different - and the next time someone asks you about the color of your ball, you'd still say "Yellow!!" again. Because of course, there's still only three people claiming it's pink, and still 198 people saying it's yellow.
But you're not an LLM. You're human, and your sexy human brain immediately goes into a "uhhh we have a conflict of information! how exciting! let's figure things out!" You now have to conflicting hypotheses, and you're thinking about ways to experiment on your ball to learn more. And you have an idea! You know your additive color mixing theory, so you realize that your phone camera can take pictures and you can look at the RGB values. If it's yellow, you'd expect to see lots of red and green but no blue - but if it's pink, you'd see lots of red and blue, but no green! You can test that!
So you take a photo, and... rgb(255, 0, 255). Turns out your ball is actually pink! It's still a tennis ball, but a fun one not meant for official tournaments, so it's pink! Wow! You immediately learned something new - and from now on, if someone asks you about the color of your ball, you'll say "pink!" and you'll have a heck of a story to tell alongside. Also, after some self-reflection, you realize that the subreddit your posted your image to wasn't a real "what color is this?" subreddit - it was one of those "false answers only" shitposting subreddits. Whoops.
This process of having assumptions, but being able to question them, to come up with tests for it, and to immediately change your opinion on something when you have good evidence for it is what makes humans awesome. You don't rely on the majority of people screaming "pink!" at you. You don't need to rely on manual weights that give some sources more weight than other sources - you can independently process information and deduct things. Give your brain a pat on the.. uh.. cranium.
LLMs can be a useful tool, maybe. But don't anthropomorphize them. They don't know anything, they don't think, they don't learn, they don't deduct. They generate real-looking text based on what is most likely based on the information it has been trained on. If your prompt is about something that's common and the majority of online-text is right, you'll most likely get a right answer out of the LLM. But if you're asking something that not a lot of real people had interactions on, the LLM will still generate text for you - but it might be complete nonsense. You're just getting whatever text is "statistically most likely".
If you're a coder stuck on something, identify a colleague or friend who is more knowledgeable in that specific area. They'll happily help you out and provide all sorts of fun added context that'll allow you to learn. If you're a nerd on the internet who enjoys ranting on social media, just do it yourself instead of having an LLM generate it, because that'll allow you to insert some bad jokes and a bit of your own personality to it instead of just getting a "default-feeling" text. If you're a manager in charge of something and you need to come up with new directions to push your company towards, go take a walk outside and listen to some cool music and let your ideas roam free - don't ask an LLM to generate the statistically-most-likely direction for your project, because that's by definition the opposite of creative and innovative.
Gonna meet up with friends to celebrate, do some on-the-ground surveying, probably also walk around with a 360° cam to get imagery for @panoramax. And fly a drone, to get some nice aerial imagery while we're at it! 🗺️ 📷
Had a blast at our little #OpenStreetMap birthday celebration. 🍰 🧉
It ended up being too windy to fly drones for long. Instead we recorded street-level images for #panoramax and GPS tracks, in addition to doing a lot of live surveying – using a huge range of tools that allow contributing to OSM!
Three days before the end of the vacation here, I finally figured out how to get the Norwegian kartverket tile maps to display in osmand. Better late than never I guess, but this would have been really useful on a hiking trip a few days ago 🙃.
The details are here but this was somehow really hard to find: cache.kartverket.no/
So, the idea would be to get the tiles from minkarta.lantmateriet.se/ to load in OSMAnd. Not sure if that would work without signing up with them and getting some api key.
osm's iD editor has it as selectable background imagery... but it's broken and only returns "This API has been blocked temporarily. Please try again later or contact the system administrators."
Fun fact: a lot of the legibility problems with Liquid Glass toolbars on macOS go away when you don't have pure white as your background color. Of course, the OS chose pure white as the default window background color, so…
According to the warnings on archive of our own: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Underage Sex
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@FreakyFwoof@SeveraSnape If you click the author, they have...a bunch of weird sex fics that they wrote (one called "Asshole destroyer 5000"), and a complete copy of the first Harry Potter novel, uploaded chapter by chapter. I...admire the determined trolling.
According to the warnings on archive of our own: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Rape/Non-Con, Underage Sex
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I thought that this would have had a better compression ratio, but Epub got it down to just 223 KB. Goes to show how little I know about how that works... @FreakyFwoof @SeveraSnape
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@twynn@SeveraSnape@FreakyFwoof It's because every chapter is different. If they were all like chapter 1, it would have been much smaller. But they're not, because this author is a strangely dedicated human being. Also, I think epub uses the lowest level of zip compression so it works on e-readers and other memory/cpu constrained devices.
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Hubert Figuière
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in reply to Hubert Figuière • • •@hub That doesn't make it better. Boston Logan International: One redirect page with ONE CHECKBOX literally asking you to not do something illegal. That's all.
Same at Frankfurt airport.
Do I miss some harsh Swiss regulation which is responsible for it?
Hubert Figuière
in reply to TheCityDweller • • •many EU countries require authentication for "public" wifi.
Similarly many require ID to obtain a SIM card. Germany and France for the one I experienced. Burner phones (SIM) are literally illegal.
They might have GDPR, but they surely have more strings attached.
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