LB: SaaS is real! it means it's run at a large enough scale that someone who gives remotely a shit carries a pager and fixes it and remotely maintains it
we live in a society, the problem is abusive tech companies running non commodity services with no data portability or real regulations in general. the solution is not computer prepperism (self hosting)! we live in a society.
hyperindividualism temptations come from society not working properly
For those new Fedizens arriving from #Bluesky, here’s a little introduction to our lord and saviour, John Mastodon.
And remember to always, and I mean always, add #AltText to your images!
John Mastodon (ft. Andre Louis[@Onj])
~ Dgar
“When the darkness fell on blue
In the year of twenty-two
The chanting started to ring true
The call went out to me and you
Join Mastodon
Join Mastodon
How could they have ever known
Their words were forming sacred tones
The ancient forces in the stone
The summoning of flesh and bone
John Mastodon
John Mastodon
John Mastodon, they love their mum
They have alt-text written on
The tattoo on their arm
Of a hairy pachyderm
John Mastodon
John Mastodon
Join Mastodon x8
The chants grew loud as we watched on
The coming of the chosen one
They emerged triumphant from
The ancient portal of Gargron
John Mastodon
John Mastodon
Linking people across the earth
They lead them to the Fediverse
Their admin army show their worth
Shouting loudly in their mirth
Join Mastodon
Join Mastodon
John Mastodon, they’re the one
Who takes the corporate socials on
They give their code to everyone
For every platform you might run
John Mastodon
Join Mastodon
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Sweating blood and guts and tears
And fighting bots and billionaires
An artist and engineer
With indie songs in his ears
John Mastodon
John Mastodon
Ditch the birds and book of faces
Leave behind the corporations.
Tooting old computer cases
Open source on all our bases
Join Mastodon
Join Mastodon
John Mastodon knows all the tricks
Of every distro of Linux
They stay engaged in politics
They fought an army of Fediverse chicks
John Mastodon
John Mastodon”
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NAS, which is short for Network Attached Storage, is pronounced by many as "Nazz". If you're taking that approach, though, wouldn't it be more correct to pronounce it like "Nuss?" The first A sound in attached isn't the short A, and storage doesn't start with a Z.
Maybe I'm just over-complicating things as usual.
I was recently looking at Framework for a new x86 laptop, as I believed the company to be reasonably aligned with my values (e.g. pro-repair, pro-FOSS, pro-humanity). But others have warned me that they are now supporting Hyprland, Omarchy, etc. They support these projects led by people who hold alt-right views, in the name of building a “big tent” coalition.
The problem, however, is that building a “big tent” coalition, by design, requires some form of value alignment.
community.frame.work/t/framewo…
Alpine is a “big tent”, for example, but people who want to harm members of our community aren’t welcome.
This isn’t hard.
Needless to say, I won’t be buying a Framework laptop anytime soon, which makes me sad.
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.Framework Community
A poll, about microwaves!
Assuming you have a microwave oven, does it have a digital display and buttons, or a number of dials only? Just got a new microwave, with dials as I hate the digital beeps, and a friend was surprised that it had dials and not a screen. Over here I think mine is quite normal and common and it's the type I always get! The "microwave is done" sound also comes from a physical bell, which is nice.
Share for science, should you care to.
@miki Oh yeah, that makes sense. I prefer the tactile and simple mechanical things in everything but my phone and computer, and even then I prefer a clacky mechanical keyboard and physical mouse versus touch screen. Even my sewing machine is as old as I am, with nothing but dials!
I figure the speech controlled ones are super nice when they work flawlessly, and exceptionally a hassle to troubleshoot when they don't.
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Yo me he planteado en mis últimos 7 años después de leer este toot porque eso solo ya me ha machacado 😅
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Time for serious questions on #Reform and #Russia
(In March, the New York Times reported that “one of the biggest corporate donors to the #populist #ReformUK party has sold almost $2million worth of transmitters, cockpit equipment, antennas and other sensitive technology to a major supplier of #Moscow’s #blacklisted state weapons agency”.)
heraldscotland.com/politics/vi…
As a former prominent leader of Reform faces jail for taking bribes to make pro-Russian statements, Neil Mackay says we have to ask serious…Neil Mackay (The Herald)
Hunter Biden was Chairman of the World Food Program,... which just won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Eric Trump, Donald J Trump Jr, Ivanka Trump are banned from ever operating a charity again because they stole donations to children with cancer.
Any questions?
I am collecting texts and resources on the "Haitian Revolution" for my Human Rights class and I thought I'd share a few things with you.
First of all, this Graphic Novel (online), which helps you understand what happened: "The Slave Revolution That Gave Birth to Haiti" thenib.com/haitian-revolution/
And this short article which also gives an overview - both written by historian Laurent Dubois, who is an expert on the field: aeon.co/essays/why-haiti-shoul…
#HumanRights #Haiti #HaitianRevolution #Slavery
Haiti, not the US or France, was where the assertion of human rights reached its defining climax in the Age of RevolutionLaurent Dubois (Aeon Magazine)
Another fun mistake the AI analyzer found:
One of the curl test servers (for SOCKS) had a help text output listing around ten command line options. One of the options it listed was never implemented and thus didn't work. The AI found out and reported.
Kind of cool.
I've been thinking about your post a lot, especially after seeing such tools at my $dayjob. I'm biased due to their ethical impact, but even without it I consider them, on average, harmful. I write code, I make sure it works for my usage, I write tests, I do linters and static analysis, I do a peer review to share the knowledge and get external inputs. And then this thing, supposedly state of the art, goes over my code, mansplains it to me and finds either a false-positive (I wonder who removed false-positives from the lists you've got?), or a nit ("don't forget to add an extra check here!", "The comment is stale!"), or a misguided optimisation possibly introducing new bugs. I spend lots of time thinking over those useless blanket reports that ultimately don't matter because I have empirical evidence that my code works for my use case.
I have seen so called AI tooling generating "helpful reports", but they cannot replace decent tooling and tests. And yet some people replace their LSPs with LLMs :/
@nina_kali_nina all analyzer tools, including compilers, give a certain amount of false positives. I don't think we should expect AI tools to be any different. As long as frequency is manageable and there are decent ways to inhibit them.
The AI tools I've mentioned recently don't seem to have much more false positives than the state of the art static code analyzers we use also do.
I want to move away from YouTube Music.
What open source music player are you using on Android?
Asking in English in hope that it'll reach more people! I'm french, windows user and unfortunately not playing locally. Do you know of some software a deafie could use to game with her pals? One that could transcript what people say in their mics? Not necessarily free, I'm willing to pay for something that works well.
Asking for a me.
Please, boost so a girl can play with her friends 🥰
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The word 'Vrede' jumped out at me from this 'Peace' installation. 'Vrede' is Danish for anger, fury, wrath. I wondered if it was an artistic provocation. But it seemed too confined to chance, that someone who happens to understand Danish happens to see this German artwork. So I looked it up and learned that 'vrede' is Dutch for 'peace'.
Vrede. Peace in Dutch. Wrath in Danish. I wonder if there's a word for words like these, that mean the opposite in different languages.
Thunderbird can easily find emails iOS Mail app can't. Significantly better search
edit: I actually meant MacOS mail but same problem, terrible indexing
I think I'm going to convert my blog posts from Markdown to RST, it's so much better for certain things
Markdown has a lot of drawbacks, especially having no real formal standard for a lot of functionality
Go to log in.
<password is incorrect>
No, it isn't, I double-checked by opening my encrypted pwd file.
<password is incorrect>
<Login with backup email to be sent a verification code.>
Entered backup email, received verification code.
Enter verification code.
<must enter this info you never needed before>
What?!
Entered info, logged in.
It was never about an incorrect pwd.
I did remove the added info, though. We'll see what happens next time I need to log on. :(
Yes, I am grumpy.
On my AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS mini PC, NVDA is a bit sluggish in some cases in Firefox; e.g. cursoring through messages in Gmail folders. For reasons I don't fully understand, setting the processor affinity to a single CPU core and setting the process priority to "above normal" helps significantly, even when the CPU is nearly idle. I don't currently have the time/energy to debug the root cause for this or write a proper add-on, but I wrote an NVDA global plugin to make the change for me automatically when NVDA starts. If it breaks something, you get to keep all the pieces.
```
import ctypes
import globalPluginHandler
class GlobalPlugin(globalPluginHandler.GlobalPlugin):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
p = ctypes.c_void_p(ctypes.windll.kernel32.GetCurrentProcess())
ctypes.windll.kernel32.SetProcessAffinityMask(p, ctypes.c_void_p(1))
ctypes.windll.kernel32.SetPriorityClass(p, ctypes.wintypes.DWORD(0x00008000))
```
#nvdasr
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As if today couldn't get any worse, the bill for the server that runs this instance came out today and it was £1.60 more than expected. I never got any emails saying I'd gone over any limits or anything, but anyway, I'm now £0.02 negative. Some support to help keep this server going and help my other services grow, as well as covering personal costs, would be greatly appreciated.
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