If you build an app that is fighting fascism, anywhere in the world, please reach out. I’d be delighted to offer as much free accessibility consulting as you need. #accessibility
Vaxry once told me, in private, around a year or two ago, that I should not be writing software if my vision impairment prevents me from being unable to understand his code.
This comment was uncalled for, since my eyes were not the reason his code was hard to understand.
jsme všichni lidi, já si politiky neidealizuji. Za mě tam krom bitcoinu nebyl žádný fatální. Navíc vždy když byl nějaký problém, tak ho vyřešili. Navíc pětikoalici nějak zásadně nakonec nespadli preference, jenom prostě tentokrát nepropadlo tolik hlasů. A jak už jsem slyšel, fakt to mohlo dopadnou mnohem hůř.
No tak to je úleva. Jen se bojím, že pro spoustu lidí je sousloví "zpomalil růst" moc složité na pochopení. Úplně stejně jako u růstu emisí CO². Mají z toho takový neurčitý úlevný pocit. Dokud nezjistí, že v nějakou chvíli už všechny ty mandatorní platby domácnosti nedokážou zaplatit, a můžou si vybrat kterou nezaplatí. Ale nakonec, vždycky si můžou vzít půjčku, neasi? A sehnat třetí práci.
Happy birthday to The Crossroads Inn, my little instance here has been going for two years now. The name was based on a suite of melodies I came up with 12+ years ago, and at one point there were 10+ parts, but parts A and B are the core of it all. The name also works for a cosy place where all my interests come together and get shared, of course. 🍻🍾 This was played on my Gypsy Jazz grande bouche bouzouki-guitar (it's a complex beastie!), and yes, that also includes the percussion part. #Music
If you have more or better screenshots, please share! This shot is taken from the ending sequence of the PC version of the game Grand Theft Auto V. 44 minutes in! See the youtube version. Sky HD is a satellite TV box. This is a Philips TV.
akože cvičil som ale potom pive ty vole to je mh náročné ráno. neviem, 15. máme team building a mal by som myslieť na peniaze a na to že sa musím učiť #dobréRáno
Got to hand it to the boys and girls over at @Tutanota for making the sometimes tricky process of setting up a custom domain into an absolute breeze. Their Custom email domains tool in settings basically holds your hand and walks you through the process. Thank you Tuta! ❤️❤️❤️
@Tutanota Just a FYI, the new super low contrast appearance of the website view for email (and presumably the rest, but I only use it for email) is an accessibility issue and just plain harder to read. I have really good vision and it still is unpleasant for me. Reducing contrast to almost nonexistent levels may look better to some people, but overall just is much worse of a view. Sometimes simplest is best and email doesn't have to look fancy.
At least give us something closer to the classic color scheme to choose. Though ideally the more color options the better. (Or even add a custom theme option?)
like there's a bunch of faff in here about security issues (and sure, fair enough, the context here *is* wired's "security" column) and quality problems, but there is a much darker interpretation of what's happening
bluntly, POSIWID: "open source" is a social system for corporations to externalize infrastructure costs, and, materially, not much else. there are of course principles involved and possible future benefits, but *today*, that's mostly what is going on in the "community"
corporations have been reluctant to "give back" because while it can produce good press, if you start "giving back" to the "community" too much, then the cost savings you got from externalizing your complement starts to erode; if you're going to give money to some tech, might as well own it
but the scary part of this article is the bit where vibe coding *reads* to corporate interests as an alternative to open source, in that you can externalize your infrastructure development and maintenance costs onto OpenAI's VC investors instead. slightly higher overhead per developer, but no need to deal with pesky human beings who might start to agitate for more resources, so the reduction in hassle is worth the cost
it doesn't actually work; a vibe-coded framework is never going to help structure your systems anywhere near as well as one that is the result of human judgement and discernment, even one with a hefty pile of legacy junk associated with it. but management is not going to be able to see this; structurally, managers see the benefits and have a much harder time measuring or even perceiving the costs
this is why there is no such thing as "vibe engineering" and it is farcical to imagine a world where it even could exist. even with all the responsible code review and QA and cross-checking (which is like, literally impossible, given the amount of vigilance fatigue that AI systems provoke, and the metrics we have so far all bear that out), the long-term maintenance cost of a workslop infrastructure is going to be *devastating*
the biggest problem we *already have* in open source right now, which we have oversimplified into the term "supply chain security", is the lack of understanding that putting a dependency in your project's dependency set (package.json, pyproject.toml, requirements.txt, cargo.toml, etc) is not just "downloading some code", it is *establishing an ongoing trust relationship with a set of human beings*. this fact is *way* too obscured in all the tools we use.
It's all a dog whistle for racist. First they came for people not speaking french. Now they come for people not following "Quebec culture"... (that one includes being racist)
Some of the last reasons to stay on Windows have been gaming related. Both the time from installation to in-game and gaming performance on Bazzite are now actually better than Windows on many games, and living room usability is more seamless too.
"Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE, 404 Media has learned. The app, called Eyes Up, differs from other banned apps such as ICEBlock which were designed to report sightings of ICE officials in real-time to warn local communities. Eyes Up, meanwhile, was more of an aggregation service pooling together information to preserve evidence in case the material is needed in the future in court.
The news shows that Apple and Google’s crackdown on ICE-spotting apps, which started after pressure from the Department of Justice against Apple, is broader in scope than apps that report sightings of ICE officials. It has also impacted at least one app that was more about creating a historical record of ICE’s activity during its mass deportation effort."
btw it’s not just the lead hyprland dev who’s toxic, it’s the whole community. Go check out the official project discord and you’ll see it’s full of pepe frogs and the vibe of 4chan boys posting the most repugnant shit you’d expect them to, all the way back to the very beginning. That discord is functionally a radicalisation funnel. If you’ve been around the internet long enough you know exactly the vibe as soon as you see it.
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Here's the draft of an abstract for a colloquium talk I'm giving at Indiana next month. Suggestions for what I should *call* this talk? I was thinking "It's all just interpreters!" or "Interpreters everywhere!", and then @ganshen suggested "Interpreters: the ultimate abstraction" -- am I audacious enough to call it that?
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Look all of us know the type of person vaxry is, he's a buzz lightyear in a toy store. We've all known racists and ''crypto-fascists'' who think they're very clever when they're actually very fucking dumb and easy to catch out if you've met people like this before. There's a reason that they decided to support hyprland and not other compositors. They knew the situation, it's that birds of a feather flock together. and some people in framework do. They're not creating a big tent by financially supporting racists (we all know what these people are about, we've all spoken to them before it's no secret) Where is the financial support for musl? niri? smithay? waydroid? pipewire? all the other fkn libraries and programs that make desktop Linux work and are worked on by a few people with little to no funding? Nope, we'll support the crappy wayland compositor developed by a fascist that has animations as its only selling point☝️
Someone left their bike and helmet unattended outside the Information Technology Faculty building at uni and this little noisy miner bird took advantage of it and built a nest in the helmet. To the delight of all the staff who have been eagerly watching it for the last week or so, Mumma bird has now laid some eggs 😍
Photo credits: William Lay (bird) and Jason Free (eggs)
This is not about Framework, but every other OSS project that sees the current shape of the ongoing polycrisis and says "yeah, the fascists have a point, actually."
This is not about OSS, but about tech in general being a part of how fascism works in 2025, from DRM to AI.
This is not about tech in the current moment, but about the failure of the tech industry to grapple with IBM's role in the Holocaust.
Tech firms when courting public opinion: "our technology is visionary! It has the power to change society, to improve everyone's life! The impact will be huge and a benefit to everyone!"
Tech firms when they pull this shit: "we just think tech shouldn't be political."
I don’t think #Framework understands that they _are_ a political brand. They don’t have the best products, and they don’t have the cheapest products. They have products that appeal to _political positions_. By trying to keep “politics” out of their decisions, what they’re saying is that the **literal only selling point** of their machines is no longer valid.
It’s incredibly sad to see, because I was a fan of Framework until I saw this atrocious response.
We support open source software (and hardware), and partner with developers and maintainers across the ecosystem. We deliberately create a big tent, because we want open source software to win.
The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe (by DENIS STETSKOV) "...We're creating a lost generation of developers who can prompt but can't debug, who can generate but can't architect, who can ship but can't maintain...." techtrenches.substack.com/p/th…
@OttovonWenkoff jj je a k nemu sa viaže táto poznámka v zošite ktorá neviem čo znamená mastodon.arch-linux.cz/@Suspic… a tú druhú mám čítať do školy a znie romanticky až tragicky páči sa mi tak ju prečítam.
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Ritchie
in reply to Ritchie • • •I didn't want to name him publicly at the time but this is a decision I honestly somewhat regret.
Absoluely no one should be deciding whether you're allowed to embark on a hobby based on having a disability (physical or otherwise).
Your ability to write software does not give you the right to dictate others' capability to write software.