my moral feelings about neural networks in general are similar to my moral feelings about explosives
there are a lot of peaceful and beneficial applications like text to speech and closed captioning and ocr, but somehow most of the industry is doing the equivalent of carpet bombing the world
so it was really very fitting when last year we gave the "guy who invented dynamite thinking it would bring peace" award to the neural network people
As a single solution across government, GCtranslate will generate economies of scale and reinforce the use of both official languages within the public service. It demonstrates the government’s commitment to modernizing the public service through secure, efficient and Canadian-based innovative digital tools.
As part of the Government of Canada’s digital transformation, artificial intelligence (AI) is playing a central role in modernizing public service operations.
> An earlier version of the tool was launched at PSPC in June 2025 under the name PSPC Translate. In its first 3 months of operation, it translated more than 60 million words, equivalent to more than 3,000 pages of documents per working day.
What was the error rate? And how much did it cost to fix those errors? If they don't say it's because it's bad.
@bougiewonderland I was not expecting any answer to exist. Because it would probably look very bad so no need to try to look for it. Question was purely rhetorical.
«O día que nós emitamos papel-moeda non estamparemos nel o retrato dos políticos, nin dos sabios, nin dos artistas; estamparíamos, somentes, a figura dunha vaca, como símbolo da nosa economía humanamente distribuída.» Castelao, Sempre en Galiza.
O máis perto diso é o Miss Vaca da TVG, así de lonxe chegamos.
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even more since there not a single tram line left. Sometime the rails they were too lazy to lift reappear under the low quality pavement. But in general it has all disappeared.
Target is putting blind-accessible self-checkout machines in its stores. They were designed with feedback from the blind community. There's braille, headphone jacks (hopefully they also have speakers), tactile controls, voice feedback, and more. corporate.target.com/news-feat…
Target launches a first-of-its-kind accessible self-checkout experience, created with and for people with disabilities. Rolling out in stores now through early 2026.
We’re back with a fresh release, and this one makes following and sharing smoother than ever—plus gives you more control over how your posts can be quoted.
While #chatcontrol poses an existential threat to the Freiburg merlinux GmbH and distributing #deltachat apps from within the EU to all stores worldwide, it would resist any chatcontrol legislation up to the German constitutional and EuGH courts.
If the EU based company would need to fold in a few years, there would likely be forks distributed outside the EU that will *seamlessly* continue to function. Our architecture and FOSS licensing makes sure of it. See also chaos.social/@delta/1134177407…
We consider our efforts aligned: #deltachat #chatmail and #webxdc implement "right to exit" on all levels of our decentralized messaging project.
- deploy your own servers permission free and interoperable with all e-mail servers ("federation mast") - all apps and libraries and server components are 100% Foss - interactive chat-shared web-apps can be used in other messengers
Deep in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, where Maya traditions still pulse through daily life, Aidia Studio has built something special. The Mercado Nicolás Bravo is
Praha - Policie dnes zhruba na hodinu uzavřela Vysočanskou ulici v Praze, která spojuje Prosek a Vysočany. Důvodem byl nález miny. Přivolaný pyrotechnik zjistil, že mina nebyla funkční. Policie to uvedla na síti X.
On this day in 2002, we shipped curl 7.10. The first #curl version that did certificate checks by default when speaking TLS unless specifically asked not to.
Congrats on choosing --insecure back then as argument name which is an exceptionally good choice. I still occasionally read people recommending to use --insecure because it would "just work" but the name is the best possible hint about the consequences👍
When I heard of the digital Pokemon TCG, I was like, "That sounds like all the downsides and none of the positives because I don't get cards with nice art at the end of it." (Ignoring the fact that many Pokemon cards are generic 3D renders that a fan could make anyway.)
Apparently there is a new "collection" in this TCG app that is just a repeat of a bunch of cards from a previous collection, and I found out about it from a YouTube video calling this a "scam". But really, I think fucking up the satisfaction of collecting stuff is a good thing to stop people with gambling impulses.
Collecting stuff is red flag behaviour if the stuff you're collecting was meant to be collected. As in, it's a red flag that you love marketing and I will dislike you. But even a garbage collection like funko-pops or physical cards is eventually cool once the company is gone – a digital TCG collection will stop existing before it ever becomes cool.
I've been thinking (and that's not good for anyone and everyone should be holding their breath) about media consumption patterns over time, and how those shifting patterns in consumer habits have shaped culture.
This might be an Old Man yells at clouds moment, but I think there's likely something to it.
I'll try to coalesce the things I'm thinking into coherent words.
In the upcoming Go version 1.24, there are several improvements related to FIPS 140-3 compliance golang/go#69536. This issue is to track the problems we are encountering when using Go 1.24 with the...
@jameshubbard QUIC itself cannot be FIPS validated. FIPS requires the cryptographic nonce to be inside the FIPS boundary, but the QUIC protocol defines the nonce itself. Which means no FIPS HTTP/3.
I have not used it yet, but I would like to eventually do some measurement experiments. Along with some ECH tests.
Last I checked I can't do either without building from feature branches, which was just inconvenient enough for something that wasn't a priority. On my todo list if that feedback helps?
The Android Airplay client DroidPlay (apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.t…) hasn't seen any update for 10 years. We still see regular downloads from F-Droid clients for it. As there are not many alternatives, we'd still keep it in our repo if it's still useful.
Anyone here using it? Does it still work, or should we rather drop it?
EDIT: solved, we'll replace it with a much more recent fork already available in our repo 🥳
was last updated in 2024. Even the screenshots are identical. And the readme says it was forked from the last version, so it's not just a newer compilation of the same code.
It's wild (and unsurprising) to me that journalists act tough when they have ample opportunity to negatively comment on accessibility, but don't ever mention accessibility wins.
Despite all the noise I made with accessibility on GNOME Calendar, no journalist has gone further than "better screen reader support and keyboard navigation", meanwhile most didn't even mention it whatsoever.
Tak alza ... ocekavame 7.10. Tak jsem zvedav jak to dopadne tentokrat! Muj osobni tip je, ze mi nejpozdeji zitra pred obedem zmizi a ukaze "brzy upresnime" :D
Hit a snag: when curl tries to connect to a unix domain socket, linux gives the same ECONNREFUSED when no one listens on it and when the accept queue is full.
I'd like to continue trying in the later case, but failing when no one listens seems more important. meh.
Tried to use #Kagi news yesterday. The settings interface is absolutely unusable with screen readers. I don't know why modern developers, instead of using plain <select> elements, concoct those inaccessible combo boxes. Disappointed. #Accessibility @kagihq
I experienced it as usable, but also recognise that the selection boxes are not standard and it would be cool if they'd be just the typical combo boxes.
@jonathan859 I couldn't change values. With JAWS it's absolutely impossible, plus it says like: "font size, combo box, font size" (no value available). With NVDA it's a bit better but still inconsistent, Escape closes both the menus and the dialog itself. Anyway, as I've said, I'm disappointed.
@jonathan859 Thank you so much for this valuable feedback. We'll perform a full review and implement improvements in this area. If you have any other specific feedback or recommendations, please let us know!
Hi! Thanks for the reply! Please either retest with both NVDA and JAWS, or let's get in touch, I'm here to help. I love your mission actually, so we definitely can arrange it. I can hop on a video call with your devs and/or product managers and explain them what's going on by demonstrating. If an NDA is needed, it's not a problem either. Thanks!
За то оно красивое, навороченное и не требует настройки. Захерачил в шаблон и пусть оно там как-то что-то делает. Другой вопрос, что combo box кроме своей изначальной функции не должен заниматься чем-то другим, но кого это волнует.
@Yinshi Да там пиздец. Какие-то блядь кнопки, дивы, спаны, всё это накручено хрен знает как. В результате с энвидиэйкой, видимо, хоть как-то тестили, поэтому там работает, пусть и через жопу и не всегда.
А, ну я таких подробностей не знаю, сам понимаешь, ты в этом вопросе гораздо больше в теме. Рассказать про уровни изоляции транзакций в Postgres или как управлять этими самыми транзакциями в Спринге например, эт пожалуйста. А для фронтенда нужен второй мозг, желательно с опцией выключения)
PSA, the new Android 16 update will surreptitiously reenable fingerprint device unlock even if you had intentionally disabled it before. Depending on where you live and your threat model, this might not be safe! Americans have little protection against law enforcement compelling biometrics unlock. To make matters worse, the fingerprint unlock settings are found in a different part of the security settings UI than the rest of the device unlock settings. If you update to Android 16, make sure your device unlock settings are what you intended.
The European Commission has issued a survey ✍️ on the Governance and #Sustainability of Critical Open Source #Software. Your input is highly beneficial for identifying best practices, shared needs, and possible pathways for collective efforts 🎯, as well as for translating them into actionable #recommendations for public administrations both at national and EU level. 🤓 It's a relatively short survey, takes maximum 15 min to complete. Deadline: 5 Oct 2025. 👉 ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/F…
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Since I know a lot of iOS developers still read what I have to say:
Don’t use use a third party “metrics” or advertising stack in your application. Ever. The data gathered by such stacks is being sold, and among the buyers are fascists.
Either real-time bidding data or app SDK data is being bought and used by ICE to seize people from the streets. If you didn’t believe that the adtech stack is a human rights concern, I’m not sure what more evidence you need. 404media.co/ice-to-buy-tool-th…
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
If you incorrectly use -H 'Foo=bar' instead of -H 'Foo: bar', #Curl will ignore it and not send the header field. Really unexpected and error inducing, I would expect it to validate the parameter and fail.
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