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Here’s an interesting tech tip, that literally just came to me this morning as I was playing with Gemini. how to add the current date to your chat, to help keep things organized.
Prompt the model to automatically add the current date to the top of every new chat session. This small tweak makes referencing past discussions much more efficient. No complex settings are needed, just a straightforward instruction. As an example, I told Gemini to remember to put the date as the first line in every chat. Now, when I prompt it for something, it will automatically place today’s date in the very first line, allowing me to truly keep track of when I last updated a chat. Any subsequent prompts in the conversation, are not prefix with today’s date. Only the very first line. even better, you only have to tell it to remember one time. I’m sure you could do this with ChatGPT as well. #AI, #Gemini
#gemini #AI

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Dawn Farrell, the head of the federal government’s Major Projects Office, believes the Trans Mountain oil pipeline helps fight climate change.

Speaking Thursday at the House of Commons environment committee, the former CEO of Trans Mountain who was tapped by Prime Minister Mark Carney to shepherd his major projects agenda, was asked by Bloc Québécois environment critic Patrick Bonin if she believed the pipeline contributes to the fight against climate change.

“The answer is yes,” Farrell said. “Most of the oil is cracked to make naphtha which goes into petrochemicals, which goes into making electric cars, to electrify the grid in Asia.”

Farrell, who told the committee she earns about $700,000 per year in her role at the Major Projects Office, did not offer any estimate for how many emissions she believes are avoided by using oil to help produce electric vehicles.

According to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, by facilitating more oil exports, the Trans Mountain expansion project is expected to add 84 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions every year when taking into account both the emissions from producing and consuming the oil.

“Trans Mountain is a financial drain and an environmental disaster, and it's not reassuring to know that the CEO who finalized the project now heads the Major Projects Office,” Bonin said in a statement.

#cdnpoli

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Software complexity is so out of control. Mobile devices are running type 1 hypervisors now. github.com/quic/gunyah-hypervi… (Learned about this via social.treehouse.systems/@cas/… - about the boot chain for a new MNT Reform processor module based on a Qualcomm SoC; to be clear, MNT is doing good work.) In other words, our most popular and mature operating systems are so big and so insecure that we have to run them on top of another OS. Just now I wish Tanenbaum had won rather than Torvalds.


GitHub - quic/gunyah-hypervisor: Gunyah is a Type-1 hypervisor designed for strong security, performance and modularity.

Gunyah is a Type-1 hypervisor designed for strong security, performance and modularity. - quic/gunyah-hypervisor
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@matt we are booting with U-Boot. It's (roughly) ROM -> xbl_sec (el3) -> sbl1 (uart & hw init) -> tz -> hypervisor (gunyah) -> u-boot

everything before u-boot is proprietary, we are hoping to be able to optionally disable hyp and get EL2 for KVM but work will be needed (probably from the community) to get the DSPs to work in that case so we have audio


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Elijah Massey

I hadn't heard about the MNT Reform laptops before reading this but after looking into them they are extremely interesting. One of the most interesting things about them is that all three laptops they sell allow you to swap out the processor and use the same module, and they've made modules with ARM64 processors from different manufacturers and a Risc-V one as well. It would be really cool if someone made a device with no screen and a Braille keyboard (and possibly a display), built around either these modules or the Reform Pocket motherboard, since that way you could upgrade the CPU and RAM without having to design a new device. If you get around to designing your BT Speak competitor around the RK3588 maybe you should do something like this. I wonder how long it will take before the MNT Reform modules become competitive with high-end Intel/AMD processors in performance, or with Apple Silicon, since ARM processors have been becoming more powerful including those available to build custom boards around.

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🇩🇪Ab heute MÜSSEN Plattformen dein Browser-Signal #DoNotTrack respektieren: Wer es setzt, darf keine personalisierte politische Werbung mehr sehen – ohne lästige Banner-Rückfragen! Prüft kritisch, ob Meta & Co sich daran halten und meldet Verstöße. patrick-breyer.de/politische-w…

Politische Werbung: EU-Parlament bekämpft Cookie-Banner, nicht aber Wählermanipulation und Microtargeting

Heute beschließen die Abgeordneten des EU-Parlaments neue Regeln zu Transparenz und Targeting politischer Werbung, die im Wesentlichen ab 2025 gelten sollen.
Patrick Breyer
#donottrack
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@citizenserious tut die Katz nicht. Ich bekomme regelmäßig Popups a la "Sie verwenden einen AdBlocker, blabla" (z.B. bei MakeUseOf). Die merken das also durchaus, dass bestimmte Segmente ihrer Seite nicht geladen werden. @xtaran @echo_pbreyer
@Axel ⌨🐧🐪🚴😷 | #WeAreNatenom @Patrick Breyer @snoᴉɹǝsuǝzᴉʇᴉɔ ☑️
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kcxt (casey)

@matt we are booting with U-Boot. It's (roughly) ROM -> xbl_sec (el3) -> sbl1 (uart & hw init) -> tz -> hypervisor (gunyah) -> u-boot

everything before u-boot is proprietary, we are hoping to be able to optionally disable hyp and get EL2 for KVM but work will be needed (probably from the community) to get the DSPs to work in that case so we have audio

@Matt Campbell

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Some of the Arch Linux developers, package maintainers and support staff on Mastodon!

@alerque
@anthraxx
@Antiz
@artafinde
@BlackIkeEagle
@carsme
@dvzrv
@fabiscafe
@felixonmars
@Foxboron
@grawity
@gromit
@heftig
@Integral
@jelly
@klausenbusk
@kpcyrd
@orhun
@pitastrudl
@raffomania
@rgacogne
@sangy
@serebit
@shibumi
@Strit
@svenstaro
@wiktor

#FollowerFriday

#followerfriday @Caleb Maclennan @Dan Johansen @Rafael @Fabian【ファビアン】🏳️‍🌈 @Sangy @Wiktor Kwapisiewicz @pitastrudl @BlackIkeEagle @Morten Linderud @Remi Gacogne @grawity @shibumi @David Runge @Levente Polyak 🚀 @Kristian Klausen @Integral🏳️‍🌈 @Orhun Parmaksız 👾 @Felix Yan 🦊 @kpcyrd 🏴 @jelly @Campbell Jones @Jan Steffens @Christian Heusel @Robin Candau @Sven-Hendrik Haase @carsme @artafinde
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Clemens

speaking of that... the maintainer for the OpenSSL package wouldn't happen to be among them? We'd love to hear from them, and IIRC they were not in the room. See mastodon.social/@RezzaBuh/1153…

Jaroslav "Řezza" Řezník (@RezzaBuh@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image OpenSSL Distributions community meeting at the OpenSSL Conference in Prague. The goal was to establish communications channels and reach out to othe OpenSSL distributors, not only Linux distributions and to make sure the community …
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Shrig

You want to write software that indues the principles of liberation but yourself can't stand for the liberation of all marginalised peoples? What are you doing with your life??? How do you even reconcile that with yourself?
That's not software freedom in the sense of building a movement for the benefit of the world we share, that's having a hobby and humble bragging that you have the spare time and education to do so freely
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Everyone: Rust has great error handling!
Also everyone: *uses anyhow or thiserror whenever a project gets greater than like 100 lines*.
To be clear, I'm not shitting on anyhow or thiserror, they both work great, as does tokio. But this pattern of not providing basic building blocks in the standard library and letting crates do it has some pros and cons. Pros because you can iterate quickly and the standard library stays small, cons because, well, supply chain attacks can now happen simply because you want to make Result more sane or use async.

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We took for granted that at least our tech bubble would understand what the Google Decree means for Android, #FLOSS and freedom. Unfortunately we never saw the uproar we were expecting and people just shrugged it off taking for granted that "nothing changes".

@marcprux great #FDroid post brought the issue into the light, waking up developers, users, media and (we hope) concerned authorities to the immense danger the newly proposed gatekeeping controls Google wants to add.

1/3

#fdroid #floss @Marc Prud'hommeaux

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This has been in the making for a while, and it's coming soon:

An interactive 3D viewer for my virtual reconstruction of Tenochtitlan, right in your browser.

More details to follow. Stay tuned!

#tenochtitlan #blender #threejs

#blender #tenochtitlan #threejs

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Launch: 22nd of October, 18:00, at the Centro de Cultura Digital, CDMX. Don't forget to sign up at the eventbrite on the poster!

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Lanzamiento: 22 de octubre, 18 h, en el Centro de Cultura Digital. Entrada libre. ¡No olvides registrarte en el eventbrite que aparece en el flyer!

#tenochtitlan #b3d

#b3d #tenochtitlan

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Wij hebben beide een OnePlus 8 telefoon met daarop e/os. Beide lopen we tegen hetzelfde probleem op, er komen geen meldingen binnen van de mail Proton en Thunderbird. Ook meldingen van Marktplaats komen niet binnen.

We hebben alle instelling nagelopen en alle machtigingen voor meldingen staan aan. Is er iemand die weet hoe dat komt en hoe dat opgelost kan worden?

Tweede vraag die daaruit voortkomt, hebben mensen met een Fairphone die bij aankoop is voorzien van e/os hier ook last van?

#eOS

#eos

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Calling all testers! We need Windows and Mac users to check for a possible issue with font importing. Check out our newly web-public testing channel: mixxx.zulipchat.com/#narrow/ch…

Builds are linked from the messages for easy download and install. Thanks for your help!


Public view of Mixxx | Zulip team chat

Browse the publicly accessible channels in Mixxx without logging in.
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Saint-Saëns's 5 piano concertos, recorded by Jeanne-Marie Darré, one of his pupils. youtube.com/watch?v=Sqcyu_bAtt…

Saint-Saëns - Piano Concertos No.1,2,3,4,5 + Presentation (Century’s recording : Jeanne-Marie Darré)

Album available // Saint-Säens: The 5 Piano Concertos by Jeanne-Marie DarréListen to our latest mastering update (2021): https://cutt.ly/erv4KXOK🎧 Qobuz htt...
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Calling all braille readers and braille providers! Bookshare is conducting an anonymous survey of both Bookshare members and non-members to learn more about how digital braille is used and how we can better support braille readers through Bookshare improvements.

Complete the survey and help us improve Bookshare: nam02.safelinks.protection.out…

#braille #a11y

#a11y #braille
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Jiří Eischmann

Neber to jako nějakou kritiku. Já jsem taky kromě TikToku asi všude a postuju tam o tom, co napíšu. Akorát se holt držím toho opačného přístupu než POSSE a dávám tam jen odkaz na blogpost. Vím, že je to ze strany těch platforem penalizované a obírám se o dosah, ale zase si říkám, že to lidem aspoň trochu připomíná, že pořád existuje nezávislý web mimo tyto platformy.
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Honza Javorek

@sesivany Ajo takhle. Jasně, to bych dělal taky, ale ty sítě to prostě penalizují a znesnadňují čím dál víc. Kdybych dělal IG, kde mám hodně velkou cílovku, tak tam nedáš odkaz nebo blogpost vůbec, musíš sdělení přizpůsobit médiu a jen doufat, že si k tobě najdou cestu. Stejně jako nedáš odkaz do reklamy v rádiu. Takže tak to beru, adapt or die. POSSE je to, co děláš ty, ale naráží na hradby. Já se je rozhodl překonat.
@Jiří Eischmann

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Die Banken werden bei der Prüfung der Empfängerangaben und der #IBAN strikter.
- Wenn Empfängername und IBAN stimmen, ist das ein Match und die Zahlung geht durch.
- Gibt es Buchstaben- oder Zahlendreher, ist das ein Close Match. Das Prüfergebnis und der Name werden zurückgeliefert.
- Weichen die Angaben ab, ist es ein No Match und die Zahlung wird abgewiesen.

Das ist mir in den letzten Tagen an verschiedenen Stellen begegnet und ich finde, ihr solltet das wissen. 😉

#servicetröt

#iban #servicetrot

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Had an amazing time being trained on using a braille display by @fireborn - if you are in need of assistive tech training reach out to him - fab guy. I'll talk about that today along with my thoughts on my first experience using Braille Access with @payown and Jeff Bishop. we'll also discuss the end of support for Windows 10, why you should consider joining @bitsacb and why Jeff thinks he needs a big battery inside his iPhone! Come join us from 12 noon Eastern in all the usual places!
@aaron @Bits @Michael Babcock
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